On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 06:03 Jonathan Dowland
wrote:
...
I believe popular NAS appliances by manufacturers such as Synology can
> either be "rooted" so you can run your own stuff on them, or support
> running applications via containers on top.
Thanks, Jonathan.
All I want is a small PC able to host multiple drives for redundant
storage. Can a typical NAS appliance be used for that?
Thanks.
-Tom
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:12 Alexander V. Makartsev
wrote:
> On 27.04.2022 20:37, Tom Browder wrote:
> > ...
> > If either of those fail to see it, I’m afraid I toasted it. I don’t
> > think that will qualify for a return.
I finally got it working! I blame lack of atte
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:11 Keith Bainbridge
wrote:
> Tom
>
> Did you remove the old drive and try the SSD using the installer?
>
I removed the old drive, installed the new SSD, then booted off a Debian
live dvd.
It never found the drive, so I may have killed it. I am twiddli
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 8:48 AM Anssi Saari wrote:
> Tom Browder writes:
...
> Looks like the SB800 south bridge supports SATA 3.0 6Gb/s interfaces so
> it doesn't seem like it's the problem here. But I have no idea what the
> problem could be, other than a faulty drive.
Wel
t be written to USB.
>
> --
> http://www.cb-fraggle.de
>
Thank you, Christian!
And for future reference, what brand of SSDs (and memory) do you use?
Blessings,
-Tom
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:08 Alexander V. Makartsev
wrote:
...
The laptop is a Toshiba C655D-S5136 Satellite.
The SSD is a Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5 inch SSD.
Thanks, Alexander.
-Tom
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz wrote:
...
I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there
> might be an ISO image for updating the drive too. What is the exact
> model name?
>
Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5-INCH SOLID STATE DRIVE
Thanks, Christian
-Tom
on a Linux host, but I
got lulled into their "upgrade your computer" site that told me the exact
models that were hardware-compatible.
Of course I may have fried the SSD, but I am fairly confident that the
device is operable.
Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
-Tom
,
-Tom
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 11:07 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:25:46AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I am looking for a commercial grade server (for home use) to replace my
> > remote ones.
...
The HP Microserver is the same sort of beast: HPE Proliant Micro
or not? I would add at least
two 1 Tb SSD from Crucial to it.
Thanks,
-Tom
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 06:40 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 06:37:04AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I have all my apt lists ready for upgrading from Buster to Bullseye
> except
> > the separate one for Google Chrome. It currently says "stable"
before the upgrade, I will put an appropriate note
in the Google file.
Thanks so much for your help.
-Tom
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 19:00 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:53:26PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I've been following the update guide and only have one apt source.list
> left
> > to handle: buster-backports:
Thanks so much, Greg!
-Tom
I've been following the update guide and only have one apt source.list left
to handle: buster-backports:
Do I change it to bullseye-backports or just comment the line out?
Thanks.
-Tom
relatives.
>
Thanks very much, Jeremy!
-Tom
have an iCloud account
with 200 Gb of storage.
Can anyone suggest a good way to get my Linux (or Windows) pictures onto
some site that Apple devices can use?
Thanks,
-Tom
this? For my locale
https://tweakers.net/processors/vergelijken/ comes to mind.
Best,
Tom
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:36 Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Mon Jan 24 08:51:46 2022 max wrote:
…
Amen, brother!
-Tom
e available. That is the case with my systems that were installed
from media, some dating to 2006 (or likely earlier; I only checked three).
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
>> John Doe
>
> Cheers John, Gene Heskett.
>
For Debian, see
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.quotas.html. Man pages for
mkfs.ext4, tune2fs, and edquota (and probably others) have additional relevant
information.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
> -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP:
> 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462
That is correct. When I publish a news item, currently the act of sending
the updated home page to my server also sends out a tweet. I would like to
add an IM to the mix for those with IM-capable phones.
-Tom
On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 12:48 Nicolas George wrote:
> Tom Browder (12021-12-04):
...
> Even if Telegram has a Libre implementation, it still relies on
> centralized servers operated by a private entity hoping to make profit.
> For this kind of use case, I strongly urge to rather u
er familiar with it to see if it's worth buying.
Thanks, Piotr, I will have to do some work with my Buster
laptop--perhaps it's time to upgrade.
Blessings,
-Tom
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 09:29 Tom Browder wrote:
> I just got interested in Telegraph as a possible comm thing to complement
> to (or replacement for) email for my college class.
Telegram, sorry. My dad was a telegraph operator for a railroad in the old
days.
-Tom
I just got interested in Telegraph as a possible comm thing to complement
to (or replacement for) email for my college class.
Does anyone know of a decent tech book or other resource describing it?
Thanks.
-Tom
P.S. I also just noticed Debian has some Telegraph interfaces I will look
into.
found it
generally fairly easy to find good documentation (e. g., Red Hat).
And I expect those who originated it, some still employed at USNSA, also think
well of it, along with the current maintainers and likely enough quite a few
other users.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
>
> ...
> --
> JHHL
>
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 15:04 Tom Browder wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 13:30 Henning Follmann
> wrote:
> …
>
> maybe Scribus?
>
>
> I’ll look closer—a quick look didn’t show anything, and I have used it
> before to rearrange pdf.
>
Looks like a WIP.
-Tom
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 13:30 Henning Follmann
wrote:
…
maybe Scribus?
I’ll look closer—a quick look didn’t show anything, and I have used it
before to rearrange pdf.
Thanks.
-Tom
'psutils' provides a way to generate a prepress layout for multipage
printing, cutting, and binding of booklets and books.
Can anyone recommend a program running on Linux (or other OS) to view it
(or its PDF form) in its prepress layout?
Thanks.
-Tom
0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol0 /usrjfs defaults0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /varjfs defaults0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol2 /tmpjfs defaults 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol3 /optjfs defaults0 2
/dev/vg01/lvo
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 09:17 Tom Browder wrote:
> My Zareason laptop (13-in screen, very lightweight and thin) is running
> Debian 10 natively and wonderfully (with Win10 as a dual boot option), but
> the company has gone out of business and I want to start preparing a
> standby
looked at both
Emperor Linux and System 76 over the years. They always seem a bit pricey,
but I'm willing to bite the bullet now if I have to--I'm getting too old to
waste time on problem installations now.
Thanks,
-Tom
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 20:29 wrote:
…
> I am using a Belkin SOHO 4-Port KVM Switch Box F1DS104J, bought used off
> ebay
>
in January, 2020 for under $20.
Thanks! I forget about ebay—I only used it once many years ago. And the
Belkin products I’ve used in the past have worked fine.
-Tom
KVM users.
Thanks.
-Tom
ependent times by using a
>> mountpoint outside of /home/richard (e.g. /media/richards_downloads)
>> and having `Downloads` as a symbolic link pointing to the mountpoint
>> of choice (`ln -s /media/richards_downloads Downloads`).
>>
>>> 2. How could I have found the answer?
>>
>> By trying it out :)
>
> *BAD* answer.
> Obviously I was asking how could I have found the appropriate
> documentation.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/index.en.html
See 6.3.4.
Regards,
Tom Dial
necessary for a vanilla or nearly vanilla Windows setup. For those
instances where they are, it always is nice to have a bootable CD, DVD,
or USB key with Linux and a set of common tools on it. I generally use a
recent Debian DVD #1 for this and install any missing tools as necessary
once it
le for
> apparmor shipped in. Therefor my problem.
>
The bug, if any, should be for LibreOffice. The behavior is a feature of
Apparmor and other Mandatory Access Control modules like SELinux and
possibly others, for which the default is to deny any access for which
there is no rule allowing it.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Al
S Constitution's
first amendment and the rather extensive derived jurisprudence protects
a lot of opinionated and arguably rude statements that some might
consider defamatory and that in some countries may be legally actionable
as such.
It is much better, and almost always much more productive, to avoid
personal attacks and maintain polite demeanor in discussions.
Regards,
Tom Dial
> Thoughts?
nguage with a huge
problem-solving domain
Best regards,
-Tom
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 23:50 Teemu Likonen wrote:
>
> * 2021-07-26 16:15:01-0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > Can anyone show how to script the above conversion?
> It's not good writing style to refer to a subject or heading.
True, I don't usually do that. I apologize.
> the scrip
creating Type 1 .pfa files using the widget interface,
but would prefer scripting.
Thanks,
-Tom
your day-to-day connection and disconnection
needs, and save wear and tear on your fragile motherboard connectors.
--
Tom Yates - https://www.teaparty.net
e most of my systems are laptops
with everything except /boot on encrypted media.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
fingerprint reader remaining.
Regards,
Tom Dial
ay to get plain text on it like one can from a real
computer. Sometimes I go to my Linux laptop and force plain text, but
normally I try to strip out what I can.
This time i'm replying from my laptop so it **should** be plain text.
Best,
-Tom
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:25 Stella Ashburne wrote:
> My OS is Debian 10.9 and has the kernel version:
How did you get the installation originally? Was it from a fresh install of
Buster or an upgrade from 9 or older version?
-Tom
he
usual way to create raid under LVM is to specify it by type when
creating the logical volume. In this case, for (partly made up) example:
vgcreate vg2t /dev/sda /dev/sdb
lvcreate --type raid0 -name lv-stg --size 16700GiB vg2t
This would result in one logical volume, /dev/vg2t/, split between the
tw
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:37 IL Ka wrote
…
Thanks!
-Tom
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:36 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:25:30AM -0500,
…
Thanks, Greg.
-Tom
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:38 Steve Dondley wrote:
> On 2021-05-18 12:23 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:08 Steve Dondley wrote:
>
>> On 2021-05-18 10:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>>
>> I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:25 Tom Browder wrote:
> I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window I can use Emacs and
> can see and enter Unicode chars.
>
...
Thanks all. I looked at my config files (which go back at least 15 years)
and found lots of explicitly setting both
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:08 Steve Dondley wrote:
> On 2021-05-18 10:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window I can use Emacs and
> can see and enter Unicode chars.
>
> But in the same terminal, when I run vim, I have trouble editin
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:25 Tom Browder wrote:
...
>
I show the LANG env var set to 'en-US.UTF-8'. When I execute 'locale' I get:
>
> LANG=en-US.UTF-8
>
Sorry, typo, should be: 'en_US.UTF-8' # underscore, not hyphen
-Tom
:
LANG=en-US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C"
# all intermediate keys: LC_X="C"
LC_ALL=C
My $HOME/.vimrc file is empty.
Note I am a minimalist vim user and use (and rember) very few vim commands.
I appreciate any help.
Best regards,
-Tom
t 8.0+.
2. Install with apt, specifying the full path to the .deb file
sudo apt /tmp/zoom_16775.0418_amd64.deb
This should cause installation of any necessary dependencies. Cindy
Causey's report suggests using dpkg is likely bring problems on occasion.
Regards
-laptop and debian-users since it is not whether this is
exclusively a laptop type problem and apologize if that is inappropriate.
Regards,
Tom Dial
and
/var/log/auth.log for events that correlate with the connection attempt.
Regards,
Tom Dial
and
/var/log/auth.log for events that correlate with the connection attempt.
>>> That would be /var/log/messages and /var/log/auth.log on the 3dprint
machine.
Regards,
Tom Dial
I write Markdown
for Raku modules and other code on my local Debian server accessed via an
xterm on my iPad, so Github functions as my Linux monitor!
Best regards,
-Tom
P.S. Do you know the excellent Perl developer and astronomer Sergey
Krushinsky?
our computer, create or modify Markdown files,
commit them and push them to Github, and view them in a browser.
A repo may be public or private.
Best regards,
-Tom
ed service.
--
Tom Yates - https://www.teaparty.net
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 08:11 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Tom Browder (tom.brow...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > For my LAN hosts as well as my WLAN hosts, I have always used the
> > /etc/hosts file and have never touched the default /etc/resolv.con file.
> >
> > I have never had a
as my WLAN hosts, I have always used the
/etc/hosts file and have never touched the default /etc/resolv.con file.
I have never had any problems with connecting to any of those hosts except
when adding a new host snd needing to get ssh installed.
-Tom
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 19:36 David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 23 Feb 2021 at 20:05:11 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 February 2021 14:29:01 Tom Browder wrote:
...
> > > I also edit /etc/hosts and make the first couple of lines look like
> > > this
TLM
Then reboot and cross your fingers.
Blessings,
-Tom
P.S. Keep your powder dry!
sr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin, or under /opt or some other
installation directory, read the man pages for man and manpath carefully
while studying the file /etc/manpath.config. In them you will find the
information you need to put the manpage wherever you like.
Regards,
Tom Dial
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 17:05 wrote:
> On Monday, January 04, 2021 01:37:19 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Tom Browder writes:
> > > Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing
> > > labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux b
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:57 PM Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I have had good success with a Dymo LabelWriter 450.
USB connection?
.
Regards,
Tom Arnall
ONLY GOD
On 1/2/21, David Christensen wrote:
> On 2021-01-02 01:06, ike wrote:
>> On 01/01/2021 11:42 PM, ike wrote:
>>
>> I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H I have tried to install Debian 10.7 .
>> I
>> have enable Iommu and CS
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:58 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 05:26:15AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 21:12 Russell L. Harris
> wrote:
> >
> >OKI Microline 320 Turbo via USB
> >CUPS ("raw"
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 16:40 Jeremy Ardley wrote:
On 1/1/21 6:12 am, Tom Browder wrote:
> Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing
> labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box?
>
> ...
> I I have a label printer running under cu
and a suitable Linux driver.
Thanks, and Happy New Year to all!
-Tom
Já tive esse mesmo problema e resolvi testando o DNS.
Em ter., 22 de dez. de 2020 às 17:41, Moksha Tux
escreveu:
> O curioso pessoal é que um outro servidor ligado na mesma rede com a mesma
> versão do Debian não acontece isso. Muito obrigado Paulo pela dica mas nada
> mudou
>
> Em ter., 22 de
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 4:36 PM Tom Browder wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 16:06 David Warring wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> Yes quite right. As The Wanderer points out the CreationDate and ModDate
>> differ, as do the uuid in the Catalog Metadatas and the trailer ID.
...
> D
chars being input. Are they significant?
-Tom
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 16:06 David Warring wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> Yes quite right. As The Wanderer points out the CreationDate and ModDate
> differ, as do the uuid in the Catalog Metadatas and the trailer ID.
>
...
>
David, thanks! I knew you could do some fancy PDF hackery.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:03 The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-12-13 at 11:40, Tom Browder wrote:
> > personalized calendar for my wife. This year I have been cleaning up
> > my old Perl generating code (in preparation for converting it to Raku
> > [https://raku.org]) and
Blessings,
-Tom
hor/WARRINGD>):
<mailto:david.warr...@gmail.com>
Good luck.
Blessings,
-Tom
ng by default on
Debian 10 has no apparent problem with it.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
> Because zoom is not trusted software, I did this in a separate primary
> partition where I made a clean minimal install of Debian with LXDE,
> used only for zoom.
>
> That install has no LUKS tools inst
rong) ideas
> like "you need NAT to be secure".
+2
I use NAT for convenience, and a firewall (and other measures) for security.
And thank you for stating the distinction clearly; I sort of knew it,
but clarity always is a good thing.
Tom Dial
for what that's worth. As an
owner of a few Seagate disks and an almost exclusive user of Linux for
more than 25 years, I find this frank and honest exchange interesting
and informative, both technically and in what it says about Seagate's
customer support quality and policy.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
> --
> John Doe
ommon recommendation of
unique and unrelated authentication secrets per account is incorporated.
I have, overall, more than a hundred distinct accounts on systems and
with vendors, nearly all of them unique; I find a password manager
(KeepassX) a much easier way to generate and manage the authenti
On 8/13/20 13:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
>> Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at
>>
>> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B
>> u
ng a
file system package from main, except for the notice the GPL
incompatibility notice that will pop up during installation.
I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current
openzfs release which includes improvements (notably native encryption)
as well as fixes.
Tom Dial
>
>
> David
On 8/1/20 11:09, Graham Seaman wrote:
> On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote:
>>>> I have a laptop that became unbootable because
>>>> the ini
On 8/1/20 05:23, Graham Seaman wrote:
> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote:
>> I have a laptop that became unbootable because
>> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked.
>> Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot
dated or were updated with slightly incompatible data.
One fix appears to be to reinstall grub using a rescue CD or another
system. That worked for me.
Tom Dial
>
> > I couldn't find documentation that addressed either issue, though
> I think
> > the answer to 2)
an hour or so longer than a conventional install. Good
instructions are found at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Buster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
ZFS is my current default for new installations and I am gradually
upgrading existing installations to it. For a ZFS based NAS, you almost
certainly would be rewarded by increasing memory to the 16 GiB max cited
in the original post.
Regards,
Tom Dial
>
>> Not "built on two-releases-ago Debian". Current, stable Debian.
>
<<< Snip >>>
> B
>
ative almost certainly is rubbish; it is, at
worst, only slightly more, and the benefits are substantially more.
Regards,
Tom Dial
,
Tom Arnall
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:54 AM tom arnall wrote:
> is there any?
>
> the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
> i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,
>
is there any?
the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,
g regexes and grapheme
introspection.
Cheers!
-Tom
t; that they provide an Expert Text
> Mode Install for Mint, like Debian does. Yes, I needed help with the
> Ubiquity System Mint uses for its Install).
>
> [Humor]
> There have been discussions about not creating a FrankenDebian System. How
> about FrankenMint or FrankenUbuntu one?
> [/Humor]
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kenneth Parker
>
Regards,
Tom Dial
On 7/4/20 15:38, Tom Dial wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
> wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in
> Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not
> support Enigmai
On 7/4/20 16:43, Weaver wrote:
> On 05-07-2020 07:38, Tom Dial wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
>> wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in
>> Thunderbird 78,
rs since I used them (fetchmail +
mutt, IIRC).
I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature,
if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from Thunderbird.
Thanks,
Tom Dial
On 6/20/20 13:17, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 20 iun 20, 18:37:31, Brian wrote:
>> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 17:53:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>>> On Vi, 19 iun 20, 15:12:27, Tom Dial wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I notice that tasksel (= /usr/bin/tas
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