Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-31 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens every > 2-3 > > hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause a freeze, > like > > opening Zoom or executing lspci in Terminator. > > I would suggest:

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
cur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:59:19 +0200 > Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz wrote: > > > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens > > every 2-3 hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause > > a freeze, like opening Zoom

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
I tried SysRQ and there is no response when the computer freezes. i tried before freeze to make sure i know how to use it and it worked, i tried b and k and it worked. but when the computer freezes there is nothing, no response. On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:00 PM Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > >

laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
Hello, Sorry for starting a new conversation, the previous one didn't help me and I hope that now I have more details. I don't have any idea how to approach that, its my workstation and the past few days I just couldn't really work. I'm also not experienced with this mailing list and a bit confused

Re: laptop frozen when opening apps, debian testing with gnome

2023-01-29 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
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Re: laptop frozen when opening apps, debian testing with gnome

2023-01-28 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
There is no ssh when its frozen On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:19 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > completely frozen, need to shut down and restart. > > I'd check to see "how" frozen it is: e.g. try to log into it via SSH (or > better yet, keep an `ssh` or `mosh` connection to it with an `atop` or > `to

laptop frozen when opening apps, debian testing with gnome

2023-01-23 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
Hi since the latest full-upgrade three days ago on my laptop the computer gets completely frozen sometimes, yesterday got frozen few times when i tried to open zoom. today few times when i tried to open brave browser. completely frozen, need to shut down and restart. i'm running debian testing for

Re: OpenSSL 3.0 support for Debian11

2023-01-18 Thread Ben Lavender
You are correct, perhaps I shouldn't have recommended that given I'm not sure of the OP's experience with Debian. I personally run it like this with no issues. On 18/01/2023 06:18, David wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 10:24, Ben Lavender wrote: Stable releases don'

Re: OpenSSL 3.0 support for Debian11

2023-01-17 Thread Ben Lavender
Stable releases don't always provide the latest software, generally that isn't always respectively "stable". The latest seems to be available via the repositories Debian testing and unstable of which you can still run on Debian 11 if you configure it so. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openssl

Re: Debian DSA-5095-1 : linux - security update

2022-03-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
headers-5.10.0-11-amd64. So long as you install the metapackage linux-headers-amd64, replacements like this should be upgraded automatically. > libirs-export161_1:9.11.19+dfsg-2.1 This is the only version available in Debian. It is built separately from bind9 and is only used by the ISC DHC

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
or Bad Things May Happen. You will have many Mesa libraries installed as dependencies: dpkg -l "*mesa*" On my system (sid), this removes 100 packages (note "-s" to simulate), including xserver-xorg!: apt-get purge -s -V libglapi-mesa There are likely other direct depend

Re: po...@lists.debian.org

2021-01-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/01/2021 11:33, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: and can i do that in stretch or do i need buster Thanks you so much. This is by far the best contribution to this thread. :-D Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: xfce widget problem

2020-11-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
n the "System Tray" (Xfce Notification Area is an implementation of this concept). As a last resort, you can exit the application or stop it starting in Sessions / Settings and Startup. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: title bar can't show chinese

2020-09-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
es for the three fonts above without --0-0 in their names $ xlsfonts | grep hanzigb hanzigb16fs hanzigb16st hanzigb24st Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/09/2020 13:53, Carl Fink wrote: Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text? Blender. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
rvices. They use the same .kdbx file format. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: recently-used.xbel

2020-08-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 21/08/2020 12:31, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 21/08/2020 14:01, Mike McClain wrote: I took a look at ~/.local/share/.recently-used.xbel and see that not only is it tracking what I do but claims to be the property of freedesktop.org. This file records your most recently used local files

Re: recently-used.xbel

2020-08-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
quot;;> in recently-used.xbel just means that they define the meaning of the enclosed tags. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ermissions and timestamps) on foreign filesystems. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
so disable mount count and interval checking: mkfs.ext4 -J size=4 -m 0 -T largefile4 -O "^resize_inode" /dev/sdb1 tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 -L Backup /dev/sdb1 I have this line in /etc/fstab: LABEL=Backup /media/backup ext4 noatime,noauto,user,errors=remount-ro 0 0 Kind regards, -- Ben Carado

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ject_Jupyter> provides a rich set of tools and supports Python. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
n3 -i -c \"from math import *\"" Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Thank you [was: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct]

2020-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 26/06/2020 02:50, Default User wrote: "Beware the censor, for in his heart, he deems himself your master." main! -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

2020-06-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/06/2020 17:01, Long Wind wrote: oh, i see, it's not free, so it isn't included in debian mainthen i will try evince qpdfview is also nice. Qt application so takes a little fiddling to get consistent theming if you are using Gnome or other GTK-based desktop. Kind regard

Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster: iptables or nftables?

2020-06-20 Thread Ben Lavender
Personally I'd learn nf_tables because that's the way forward and if you stick to it's CLI then the better. I found this on github: https://github.com/larsbs/nftablui but i havn't used it myself so maybe it could be of use to you? Regards Ben Lavender On Sat, 20 Jun 202

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
derstand it, Chinese stock market colour coding is opposite to Western. Red/green is also the most common form of colour-blindness. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
of the Workers' Revolutionary Committee" was once popular, but has not yet, as far as I know, been applied to technology. Some high-availablity clusters vote to elect their leaders so that a defective primary can be deposed. "Associate" is a popular weasel word for lowly-pai

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
e term "master" has a long history. In addition to its racial connotations, it is also gendered. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

inactive uploaders maintainers what to do?

2020-04-19 Thread Ben Tris
Hello, Some package maintainers/uploaders seem inactive and/or email is gone. Can I report this somewhere? And how, if so. Nice Day, signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cannot open Trash in spacefm?

2020-03-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
:/// urls to work. I have updated the title to draw attention from anyone who might be able to help with spacefm. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
e expected gvfs* packages so this is not the problem. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/03/2020 11:39, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I tried purging gvfs-backends and was still able to access Trash via Thunar, so missing this package is not likely to be your issue. But if I purge gvfs itself, Trash vanishes from Thunar and cannot be accessed by manually entering the location

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/03/2020 11:29, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: What gvfs packages do you have installed? See with: dpkg -l "gvfs*" Some gvfs-* packages are optional and one might include the handler for trash: urls. apt-get dist-upgrade on sid recently tried to remove gvfs-backends during the

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
to remove gvfs-backends during the python3.8 transition, but you are on buster so should not have been affected, and I do not think gvfs-backends provides the handler for trash: urls. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-02-23 Thread Ben Lavender
I agree with this deeply. It's surprising the amount of machines I see that have some fancy subscription-based and expensive AV but have the firewalls, SELinux, UAC disabled along with weak filesystem and sharing ACLs. It's fine to get a good AV running on the system but they don't detect all

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
(most recently, a tiny overclock that seemed safe and harmless but caused intermittent corruption). Integrated GPUs are totally reliant on system RAM. There is also gputest, but I have not used it. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
interoperability (and are willing to sacrifice Unix permissions and file size), do not overlook the robustness and ubiquity of ext4. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ers of an organization give disproportionate weight to trivial issues". Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Ben Lavender
Even though RTM always applies, sometimes things do get more complicated with lesser experienced users regardless and sometimes other peoples issues aren't always related to FAQ/DOC/MAN etc This is a users mailing list after all. On 01/02/2020 19:31, mick crane wrote: I probably shouldn't pos

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

2020-01-15 Thread Ben Lavender
Wanderer is correct here, you can attempt to purchase an ESU for it, which depends on version. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4527878/faq-about-extended-security-updates-for-windows- Regards On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, 13:48 The Wanderer, wrote: > On 2020-01-15 at 01:29, Alexander V. Makart

Re: Protecting no longer supported Windows7

2020-01-15 Thread Ben Lavender
entirely. Regards Ben Lavender On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, 05:25 john doe, wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian server serving/doing DHCP/DNS/firewall/..., as of today, > Microsoft stops supporting Windows7. > > Is there anything that I could do to protect those Windows7 hosts that > a

Re: apple mini

2020-01-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ning mechanism which relies on special servo control data (e.g. Gray Code) that is meant to be permanently recorded onto the magnetic media. This servo data is written onto the media a single time at the factory using special-purpose servo writing hardware." -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Direct

Re: apple mini

2020-01-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
more densely and strongly encoded and on multiple platters, so much harder to reliably erase with external magnetic fields such as those generated by a bulk tape eraser. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: apple mini

2020-01-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ut you are at the mercy of the HDD vendor implementation. I also encrypt all my drives. If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD with magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical destruction of the media. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Di

Re: Firefox equivalent of SeaMonkey's pref.js

2019-12-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
fs.js with: find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name prefs.js Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: USB Examiner Package? Special USB Kernel Modules?

2019-11-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
[...] "In April 2019, a 27-year-old Indian former student of the College of Saint Rose, Vishwanath Akuthota, pleaded guilty to destroying 59 computers in his college using a USB killer, resulting in over $50,000 in damages." Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transi

Re: USB Examiner Package? Special USB Kernel Modules?

2019-11-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
, especially those on BadUSB. One or two were enough for me to never want to use a USB thumb drive of unknown provenance. That is all I know. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2019-11-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
prime (Prime95) is useful for stress testing a CPU. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
. What is your background? A great way to learn is to choose an open source project that uses a language of interest to you and contribute bug fixes to it. Proven ability on open source projects is a great way of building your resume. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient

Only boot tty

2019-10-16 Thread ben smith
Hi I was installing Debian and after finishing I was only able to boot into a tty. There was a problem during install where it wouldn't connect to the mirror and I had to go ahead anyway and it said I'd only have basic utilities. I was at the library and I may have had a unreliable connection.

Re: Debian Buster update error

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
e MODULES setting in /etc/initramfs-tools/initrams.conf to MODULES=dep - Run "update-initramfs -u" If you do this, the disk probably won't be bootable if you move it to another computer. * Compress the initramfs harder: - Change the COMPRESS setting in initramfs.conf to CO

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
lock, so I consider it too vulnerable for use. There is a bug report. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Xfce 4.12 to 4.14: high Xorg CPU usage

2019-08-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
setting is ignored for some elements), everything else works for me as well as in 4.12 and performance is satisfactory. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/08/2019 08:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some exceptions, but very few. I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it. Kind regards, -- Ben Ca

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
; it). New Zealand banned pure software patents in 2013: How New Zealand banned software patents without violating international law https://qz.com/119419/how-new-zealand-banned-software-patents-without-violating-international-law/ Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Sof

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-31 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
nters. Restricting the WPA2 passphrase to digits and lowercase letters reduces entropy but makes input more bearable. Seeing the reaction of guests when they are handed a piece of paper with a long random WPA2 passphrase: priceless. It never gets old. :-D Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Dir

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
anyone has an onus to provide more. -- \ “Try to learn something about everything and everything about | `\ something.” —Thomas Henry Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
enough. Can you give an example of what reasonable presentation would be needed to convince you on this matter? -- \“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas | `\ are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” | _o__) —Howard Aiken | Ben Finney

Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

2019-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
d significantly simplifies setting up a sufficiently-isolated standard Debian package build environment. -- \ “Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them | `\ to do unto you. (The twenty-five percent is [to correct] for | _o__)error.)” —Linus Pauling's Golden Rule | Ben Finney

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 05/05/2019 10:52, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian. Seems fixed in firefox 66.0.4-1 on Debian sid

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 05/05/2019 21:30, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 10:52:56AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <ht

Re: System warning that "/var" is almost full

2019-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
“'Tis strange, — but true; for truth is always strange; / | `\Stranger than fiction.” —“Lord” George Gordon Noel Byron, _Don | _o__) Juan_ | Ben Finney

Emacs without knowing any Lisp (was: text editors)

2019-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
sing Emacs https://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html>. -- \ “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not | `\ you believe in it.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2011-02-04 | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: text editors

2019-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
be used against | `\ unintelligible propositions.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1816-07-30 | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Finney
at ‘testdisk’ did the last time I used it successfully). -- \ “Try to learn something about everything and everything about | `\ something.” —Thomas Henry Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Finney
le equals 1 mile’. Last summer, I folded it.” —Steven | _o__) Wright | Ben Finney

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
e, offsite backup is faster than local. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Recover deleted files on LVM volume

2019-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
e.” | _o__) —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney

Re: ssh policy change in new stretch??

2019-03-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
server? Is there a firewall on the server? Try: ssh -vvv zhou@192.168.1.3 to see the full connection attempt. You can also check whether the port is open with (on the client): nmap -p 22 192.168.1.3 Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient

NetworkManager with VPN for internet, not local LAN

2019-02-24 Thread Ben Finney
productive ways.” | _o__) —Paul Z. Myers, 2011-08-31 | Ben Finney

GnuBee: freedom-respecting Network Attached Storage (was: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data)

2019-02-16 Thread Ben Finney
“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for | `\ what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.” | _o__) —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney

Using a VPN to bypass surveillance and censorship (was: how to find out video memory size?)

2019-02-15 Thread Ben Finney
security-tools/blockedinchina/duckduckgo/>. -- \ “Natural catastrophes are rare, but they come often enough. We | `\ need not force the hand of nature.” —Carl Sagan, _Cosmos_, 1980 | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
mas Carlyle, 1830 | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
on for people we | `\ despise, we don't believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky, | _o__) 1992-11-25 | Ben Finney

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
using the alpha release of the installer for Debian 10 "buster". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-27 Thread Ben Finney
reedoms already granted to a person in a specific past release of the work. -- \“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” —Upton Sinclair | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-27 Thread Ben Finney
reedoms already granted to a person in a specific past release of the work. -- \“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” —Upton Sinclair | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney

Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-27 Thread Ben Finney
to their fellows, because it always coincides with their | _o__) own desires.” —Susan Brownell Anthony, 1896 | Ben Finney

Re: Why popular sites are looking ugly

2019-01-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
physically about 82 dpi (27" 1080p)), the old interpreter might be worth a try. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Log in details

2019-01-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
l and use use "sudo -i". For installed Debian, login and password are set at install time. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
or batch symmetric encryption, if you do not mind your passphrase being in plain text on your filesystem. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: ot: of a sort, alternative news collection sources?

2018-12-17 Thread Ben Finney
ws.org/> -- \ “As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it | `\ that was very pleasurable — until I realized it wasn't a | _o__) nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney

Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-16 Thread Ben Finney
rteous, efficient | `\self-service.” —supermarket, Hong Kong | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: do you find old firefox is better than new one?

2018-12-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: question about usb socket on front panel

2018-12-11 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
speed device, unless the mouse adapter just will not work with a hub at using a particular specification. The hub is internal and typically on the motherboard. The front USB ports I have seen are connected to the same hub so I would expect both to work or neither. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-D

Re: Interphone with SIP-Protocol

2018-11-29 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-29 05:48:03, Dan Ritter wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Because my Portal is in a distance of 60m from the Serverbunker and I do not like to install a seperated earth cable, I am now searching for an IP/SIP based Interphone. Best would be with Video. Has someone experience with it and

Re: Interphone with SIP-Protocol

2018-11-29 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-29 10:27:49, Michelle Konzack wrote: Note 1: We have currently -10°C on the Farm and it can go down until -30°C (some years ago it was for one day -39°C), which increase the requirements on the Interphone. Quite an interesting issue. I would probably go down the route of

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

2018-11-27 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-26 21:12:19, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500 Mark Neidorff wrote: ... Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage for old emails? My suggestion [0] (a 'small' pla

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

2018-11-26 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-26 09:37:21, Mark Neidorff wrote: If you know of an e-mail service that allows me POP3 and SMTP connections would you please post it in a reply. I recommend and use https://www.migadu.com/ They do have a webmail but they focus mainly on providing a simple email service. They have go

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-12 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-10 06:11:34, mick crane wrote: Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Are they ATRAC or s

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

2018-11-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ipt Single Page Applications (SPA) are a plague on the internet. I prefer RESTful architectures. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

2018-11-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
edia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_Debian#Iceweasel>. In June 2016, the iceweasel package was replaced with the firefox-esr package. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Help me Linux

2018-10-30 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
in a virtual machine and have the best of both worlds. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: www-data

2018-10-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ion. The specific case of webmail likely requires read-write access to user mailboxes. I do not know how privilege separation is handled in this case. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: www-data

2018-10-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
nt. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: www-data

2018-10-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ges cannot automatically regain them. Postgres and Tomcat do the same thing with their own dedicated users. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: basilisk-browser

2018-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
with the Firefox trademark restrictions. -- \ “The best is the enemy of the good.” —Voltaire, _Dictionnaire | `\Philosophique_ | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: basilisk-browser

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
ipated your wish to know, and provided a concrete example of the hostility. Did you read the discussion at that URL? -- \“[T]he great menace to progress is not ignorance but the | `\ illusion of knowledge.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, | _o__)

Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
good platform for Java development. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

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