Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-03 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 03 May 2021 at 11:23:51 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 01 mai 21, 08:31:04, Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:25:20 -0400 > > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > > > viewing material because it's about ten years old. But when we > > > > > inevitably r

Re: Is there any way to snoop on a USB port?

2021-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a Windows box that has software on it which programs > two-way radios and it would be nice to know what the radio and > computer are saying to each other. > > After trying a Windows application that reportedly can > capture serial port traffic, I find that i

Re: Multichannel audio playback

2021-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 28 Apr 2021 at 18:21:27 (+), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Now it works: > > > > $ ecasound -a:1,2,3 -i:sndfile,3canali.wav -o alsaplugin,2,0 > > ** > > *ecasound v2.9.1 (C) 1997-2014

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-28 Thread Dan Ritter
davidson wrote: > > I would like for Debian to make more official an offline mode for > > using apt probably based on java, so that any machine could be used to > > download packages to be then installed off-line for those of us who > > don't/can't see the Internet as a trusted environment. > > I

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 09:59:09PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > (My days of running multiple ethernet cards are long gone, > > so sed will quit after one match.) > > Sounds like a naive assumption. Some motherboards have dual NICs built in, > don't they? A fair numbe

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Bob Bernstein wrote: > Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. > > Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the > baggage associated with either an "office suite," or a "desktop > environment?" > Sure. treesheets pyspread sc

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > > What you lose this way (besides time) is having apt calculate > > which supporting packages you need. However, > > > https://packages.debian.org > > > will happily tell you all the dependencies of any given package, > > and then you can get all the dependencies of eac

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Richmond wrote: > >> Looks like this bug: > >> > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1798921 > > > > Could be. > > > > In which case, this will be solved in the new St

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > Looks like this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1798921 Could be. In which case, this will be solved in the new Stable, most likely out in May or June. You could try a backports kernel before that. -dsr-

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > > Let's try from the bottom up? > > > > ip link show > > will show you the interfaces recognized by the kernel. If this > > works, it might show you an eth0, an en0, or something like a > > enp22s0 device. Let's call it "SAM". > > Thanks for your reply. > > enp2s0: mtu

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > When I resume from suspend there is no networking. I cannot find a way > to restart it. I tried these various commands. > > systemctl restart network > /etc/init.d/networking restart > systemctl reset-failed > systemctl restart networking.service > systemctl restart network-on

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I would also love to see networking taken out of the Linux kernel, > but this is an entirely different, hellishly "political" issue. You can compile your own kernel with no hardware network drivers. -dsr-

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > You can -almost- always go monkey and do that one way or another, but > I would like for Debian to make more official an offline mode for > using apt probably based on java, so that any machine could be used to > download packages to be then installed off-line for tho

Re: Some services cannot start at boot time because /run is not initialized

2021-04-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Kenneth Parker wrote: > Is Debian using Zram now? (I will need to check my Bullseye system when I > get home). > > So is Debian "sneaking" Zram on us, or do you have to select it yourself? It's an option, not a default. -dsr-

Re: Problem with Wallpaper

2021-04-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Buster/XFCE4 Desktop on an LG Model24EN33 LED Monitor. This > morning, after being shut down over night , when I turned on the monitor it > came up with the black wallpaper that I favor. After closing an application > the portion of the screen that was cove

bullseye upgrade report

2021-04-21 Thread Dan Ritter
New desktop: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 16GB RAM 1 TB NVMe SSD (Crucial P5) MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI (MS-7C95) motherboard RX460 video card Installed from USB stick with latest Buster installer image; tasksel only ssh-server above the base image. After first boot, changed source to bullseye and did a di

Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

2021-04-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I'd like to use the TV as an extra display for my laptop. Basically, > as if it were connected with an HDMI cable, but over the network. And > use both displays, the same way one usually uses two displays. > > Unless there's a usage of x11vnc that I don't understand,

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

2021-04-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Long Wind wrote: > it  changes as sound volume change > i use alsa, not pulseaudioThanks! alsamixer -dsr-

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

2021-04-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Bringing up a new machine on my local network and I've forgotten how, in > buster, to start sshfs at bootup? > /etc/fstab: user@host:/remote/folder /mount/point fuse.sshfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,users,idmap=user,IdentityFile=/home/user/.s

Re: [Solved] Re: localhost web apps and cookie blocking

2021-04-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > Interesting. I thought my usecase was a pretty straightforward one - I > have various typical home user services that I have no intention of > making available on the public internet, so I don't bother with SSL, > but I do want to access them relatively securely across my local >

Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections

2021-04-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Kenneth Parker wrote: > > I use lighttpd for eyeblinkuniverse.com, with nano as my editor. I don't > quite understand the Certificates required for https. I guess it is time > for some lessons. The easiest thing to do here is to install certbot. Assuming that your web root is /var/www and your

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > > Or you could do what I did after fighting with an msi board for several > years a decade back, feed it to the trash can and replace it with an ARK MSI the motherboard manufacturer has nothing to do with the PCI feature we are discussing here. https://www.kernel.org/d

Re: Not Sure Which Package to Submit Bug Against

2021-04-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > The most interesting question to me: > Has doc or first-principles failed so badly that we resort to > experimentation again? Yes, in the sense that there are too many ways for this to legally exist to be able to say: "package foo is causing this, and you can either

Re: hello. Please help this big report go in the correct direction....

2021-04-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Timothy Danielson wrote: > don't read it if you feel huried,) I Respect what you do and I REALLY, > REALLY hate to ask for this level of assistance. I'm using PureOS, which I > guess is a derivative of Debian. I had started with 7.0 (Wheezy) and went > to 8.0. I never had the gonads to use Sid TBH

Re: TDE Bug: what package responsible

2021-04-13 Thread Dan Ritter
John Hunter wrote: > Hi, > > [ 952jmdh ] > > I have just installed q4os-3.14-x64-tde.r4.iso as an upgrade to an existing > laptop. The installation (admin user) account has been estabished OK. When I > try to log into a proper user account (tied to my old work account) > tdestartupconfig complai

Re: Where Does Buster Store Packages with Synaptic Download packages files only Command

2021-04-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I admit that this is probably a silly question, but Google has not been a > friend. > > When I check Download packages only in Synaptic which directory is the > destination? Doesn't matter whether you're using synaptic, aptitude, apt-get or apt: /var/cache/apt/archive

Re: Boot better have mounted on root or /boot ?

2021-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > apt show grml-rescueboot Thanks muchly! -dsr-

Re: Using a remote computer and VGA

2021-04-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Richmond wrote: > > I have a pc next to the television which I use for watching netflix, but > it is in an awkward position to use, I want to use a different PC the > other side of the room to control it. A remote mouse and keyboard i

Re: KVM: GPU passthrough

2021-04-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I want to use the graphics card directly in the virtual machine. IOMMU > seems to be running, but unfortunately it doesn't work when I want to > start the virtual machine. > > > error: > pci,host=:01:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9: vfio > :01:00.0: g

Re: Using a remote computer and VGA

2021-04-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Richmond wrote: > Is it possible to use a local computer (L) to: ssh -Y to a remote > computer (R), run a web browser on R which will then display on > L, choose what to watch on Netflix, and then having started it, move the > displayed browser window back to the X window on R, and then move > it

Re: minimize daemon downtime for apt upgrade

2021-04-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I have a Sid desktop computer that acts as a router for my home network. I have a Stable mini-ITX "desktop" computer that acts as a router for my home network. > If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages get > upgraded. I use apticron to auto

Re: Need to do 'swanctl --load-all' every boot

2021-04-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > Hi all, > > I've set up an IPsec + IKEv2 VPN server ('road warrior' set up) on > Debian 10 with StrongSwan. It was my understanding that > /etc/strongswan.d/swanctl.conf is the modern way to configure it > so that's what I did. > > But now after every boot I have to run

Re: Access to PPA's

2021-04-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Gary L. Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of my most useful software is only available through Ubuntu PPA's . I > can no longer access PPA's since Debian changed their security policies. > When trying to access a PPA I get the following: > >  The repository > 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/elmer-csc-ub

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-07 Thread Dan Ritter
riveravaldez wrote: > On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 11:20:58 +0200, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > > > I had occasion to install Zoom a few weeks ago;'snap install zoom-client'. > > Everything went smoothly and I quite like having this proprietary package > > strictl

Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

2021-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 19:39 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > With experiences like that, you should be already well on your way to > taking care of this: > > https://www.spamhaus.org/css/removal/record/2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe25:c4ae > > Your emails keep

Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

2021-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:51:28 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Okay, but why isn't trying to limit spammers getting hold of an address > > > a logical part of a defense in depth strategy? > > > > Because it doesn't work. If it

Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

2021-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:12:07 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > What's the recommended modern best practice for putting a contact email > > > address on the web while avoiding having it

Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

2021-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > What's the recommended modern best practice for putting a contact email > address on the web while avoiding having it scraped by spam / fraud > bots? Assume that every address will be hit by spammers and scammers. Put in appropriate antispam and antimalware precautions.

Re: Parallel processing unit cluster for single ffmpeg calls?

2021-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Christoph K. wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if I can build a cluster to convert / transcode videos > with ffmpeg. > > There are some workstations standing around here ... and I though maybe > it's possible to combine their computing power? > > To be clear: The task is to work on a singl

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-04 Thread Dan Norton
Alexander V. Makartsev on Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:17:59 +0500 wrote: >On 02.04.2021 22:56, Dan Norton wrote: >> Alexander V. Makartsev wrote Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:16:08 +0500: >> >> "Is "192.168.1.254" an IP address of your DSL modem? >> If you don't n

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-03 Thread Dan Norton
Greg Wooledge on Fri, 2 Apr 2021 23:24:43 -0400 wrote: "On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:48:09PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain attlocal.net > search attlocal.net > nameserver 1.1.1.1 > nameserver 1.0.0.1 > ...and this works very well. I like it becaus

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-03 Thread Dan Norton
On 3/31/21 1:33 PM, David Christensen wrote: "$ host -v -t A www.debian.org 192.168.1.254 Dan -- did you run the above test? This may help isolate if the problem is Debian 10 or your AT&T gateway." $ host -v -t A www.debian.org 192.168.1.254 Trying "www.debian.org" ;;

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-02 Thread Dan Norton
Alexander V. Makartsev on Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:17:59 +0500 wrote: "On 02.04.2021 22:56, Dan Norton wrote: Alexander V. Makartsev wrote Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:16:08 +0500: "Is "192.168.1.254" an IP address of your DSL modem? If you don't need to resolve hostnames from you loc

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-02 Thread Dan Norton
one or more of the public DNS servers. From Google [1]: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 From CloudFlare [2]: 1.1.1.1" I don't know. I did not put that line in /etc/resolv.conf. When I get more time I may remove it and see what happens. - Dan

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-02 Thread Dan Norton
=return] dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc:db files netgroup: nis HTH - Dan

Re: Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimental

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Laura Smith wrote: > On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 18:28, Dan Ritter > wrote: > > > That was the subject line of a message I just received from a > > - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal [...] > > Unless you were a very bad covert agent, you w

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Norton
/etc/resolv.conf ## making it immutable Rebooted and posted this. - Dan

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Norton
again and thanks to everyone who responded. - Dan

Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimental for

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
That was the subject line of a message I just received from a Debian-user member. In case anyone is confused: - I write my point of view because that's the one I have - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal, to the best of my knowledge. - I have no idea what 'trying to subvert someth

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Norton
ww.debian.org Trying "www.debian.org" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Thanks for your detailed help. Let me know if I can dig out more. - Dan

Re: IANA port ups/401

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Roger Price wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > > Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 > > > "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? > > > I'm looking for protoc

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > > The best possible method of learning appears to be minimal > explanation, but exhaustive implementation of code lines in a > console/terminal. While you may think that this is the best way for you to learn about command lines, most people don't do well this way. Most

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > I'm beginning to wonder, though, whether fashions are changing. > Scanners nowadays seem to want to push data to a server, rather > than being commanded to scan by a computer. Is this really > happening? If so, whither (or should that be "wither") xsane? In office envi

Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-30 Thread Dan Norton
stemd-resolved shows it being active and "Processing requests...". Nothing in history.log and term.log is obviously wrong to me FWIW. # journalctl -b0 gives no clue to me. No doubt it is something simple(tm). Where should I look or what should I re-read? - Dan Norton

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7:01 PM Gregory Seidman < gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:02:32PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? > > Yes, I use

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-29 Thread Dan Ritter
David wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 at 06:29, wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 03:05:58PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > >> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I > > > > >>

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > The working code, here: > [?]invoke a screensaver and xset through script > Link: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=149128 > Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition. If you are interested in this as a security device in the slightest rega

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Doug Windle composed on 2021-03-26 15:56 (UTC-0500): > > > The embedded VGA compatible controller is a Matrox G200eW3 102b:0536 rev 04 > > Was package xserver-xorg-video-mga installed before adding those repos? Your > onboard GPU is a special beast, an update of a very very

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can > >> connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. > >> This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can > >> grab the audio from the microphone, but what

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:59:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > To be completely clear, Debian did change sh from Bourne-ish sh > > to dash in Squeeze -- 2006 or so. > > Squeeze was released in 2011. ... > The change from bash to dash as the def

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
George Shuklin wrote: > But it's all software. Debian can't change sh to be 'not sh'. And any > changes in a build stack are touching vast amount of software with extremely > complex use-cases, so it's almost impossible to 'replace'. You can 'add' a > new one, but it just make xkcd #927. To be co

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > It is clearly noticed that wide applications of tricks with wildcards, > regex and redirections aren't simply available in the man pages. > > So is it then not necessary to have a repository of codes, with all > permutations & combinations of possibilities with wildcards/re

Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-25 Thread Dan Hitt
tions for somebody else (and i guess the converse as well, although i'm pretty foggy about sshing into windows). Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers. dan

Re: Replace a failed block device with null PV in an LVM VG

2021-03-24 Thread Dan Ritter
David Pottage wrote: > At work, there is a fileserver with a failed external drive enclosure. I am > attempting to recover some data that is probably not on the failed drives. > > This file server started out with 36 internal drives (in three RAID-6 > arrays) that formed the initial 3 physical vo

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Here's a typical non-libvirtd qemu/kvm invocation: > > > > cd /var/spool/kvm > > export VNAME=virtualmachinename > > export CPUS=2 > > export RAM=4096 > > export MAC=00:15:f1:c1:a2:01 > &

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Victor Sudakov wrote: > Robbi Nespu wrote: > > On 3/23/21 10:20 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > > > What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > > > (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > > > > I don't need any fancy manage

Re: routing problem

2021-03-21 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > There are 2 computers on my LAN. I'll call one Fast and the other Slow. > When I, for example, type ping www.cbs.com, Fast pings right away, Slow > pauses for about 5 seconds ('time' says that). When I ping something in > /etc/hosts, both start right away. On Slow, 'route'

Re: Hardware failure?: Now what?

2021-03-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Charles Curley wrote: > > The board is an ASUS H97M-E, bios date 05/15/2015. Processor is > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790S CPU @ 3.20GHz, with eight processors. > > Now what? 4 cores, 8 threads. As others are pointing out, this could be thermal. Clean the fan, consider replacing the power supply,

Re: [TOTALLY OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 15 mar 21, 17:21:39, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At last report: normal desktop Ryzens (nothing with a G suffix > > unless it also has a PRO marking) > > Do you have a reliable source for the lack of ECC support in G suffix > processo

Re: [TOTALLY OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Anssi Saari wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > As for the ECC support in Ryzen CPUs, as I understand it it's a bit of a > mess. Sure the CPUs support it but if it's not validated by motherboard > manufacturers, how do you know it actually works reliably? ... by trying

Re: [TOTALLY OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Sven Hartge wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > From a purely technical perspective, it's hard to understand how Intel > > managed to pour so much energy into such an obviously bad idea. The > > only explanations seem all to be linked to market strategies. > > This history repeats for Intel o

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > There's already work in progress to port Linux mainline (and > > consequently Debian) to the Apple M1 :) > > Since the M1 implements the ARM instruction set, I don't think there's > much work to do here, indeed (most likely the hardest part is to fight > Apple's opaquen

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > May be, Debian should make a summary of all the information collected > from here and post an article on its page for a pre-emptive > clarification on the flavours that Debian is available in, and not let > the information accumulated here go waste. Wikipedia has quite a g

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
William Torrez Corea wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 5:39 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > We are still not seeing any problems here. What is your computer > > doing or not doing that you think is a problem? > > Execute each program *slowly*. When i turn on the computer the

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
William Torrez Corea wrote: > I get the following result: > __ > ___ > top - 23:49:37 up 3:23, 1 user, load average: 2.90, 1.48, 0.95 > Tasks: 222 total, 2 running,

Re: Debian question

2021-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
jacky cheung wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to debian and trying to learn about its operating system. > > I am trying to learn how processor management techniques utilized and its > functions, quantum, interrupts and multiprocessor. I am confused and trying > to find particular resources related to t

Re: How i can optimize my operating system?

2021-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
William Torrez Corea wrote: > My hard drive use the following amount in space: > > udev 2.0G 0% > tmpfs 381M 6% > /dev/sda1 5.5G 77% > tmpfs 2.0G 2% > tmpfs 5.3M 1% > tmpfs 2.1G 0% > /dev/sda7 1.8G 2% > /dev/sda5 7.4G 21% > /dev/sda8 88G 39% > tmpfs 404M 1% > We don't know what's mounted in t

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > > I like to know at hand what file is on which disk. > > > > That used to work for A: vs C: back in the days of floppys, but what > > part of "E:" tells you which disk it is? At best you get to assume that > > E: and D: are different disks, but the names don't tell

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > To whomever tries that approach, my advice would be to have a long look > at all the botches common destop environments managed to do while trying > to internationalise directories beneath a user's home. > > I mean: those things like "Desktop", which, if you do a Germ

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Joe wrote: > There was a time when 'software' and 'applications' were two different > and distinct things, when applications were user programs and software > was the set of programs that made the computer work, today called system > software. A computer as delivered contained both hardware and so

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > if you want to see an example of what it takes to > > make changes to this sort of layout google "Debian > > merged /usr" and read those threads. :) > > I just read this: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > It seems as a g

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > But why do we have to use a system designed for such old computers > when the now old computers are much more capable than that. > I think it needs a redesign. You're not only allowed to think that, you're allowed to get people together and do it. All the code in Deb

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:50 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/9/21 3:15 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 1:12 PM David Christensen wrote: > >> On 3/7/21 7:09 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > >>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM David Christensen < > >

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 1:12 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 7:09 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM David Christensen < > dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On 3/7/21 4:45 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > >>&g

Re: A suggestion to multiply your users

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Brett Pierce wrote: > Really looking forward to trying out this tool. Only... even though I've > been on computers since late 1980s but I'm not a geek - but not entirely > stupid either. Your website is really intimidating and confusing. It's > very geeky to me, which means to many others as well

Re: How to set Upstream and Downstream Bandwidth in load balance router if the speed varies?

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Markos wrote: > I'm a Debian user and have already configured a router TL-R470T+ to connect > with 2 providers (by PPPoE and dynamic link). And I'm using the TL-WR841ND > V10 router only as an access point. > > Now I'm in doubt as to how I will set the Upstream and Downstream Bandwidth > for each

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 09 mar 21, 09:54:22, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > There's something curious about that, especially considering that the > PRO version (4350GE) is *not* OEM only!? I don't think that's the case. > It's almo

Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Each monitor will only use the GPU that it is connected to. > > FWIW, I find the terminology used in the graphics card PC industry very > confusing. In my view, there are 4 different kinds of components to > a graphic system: > > - Memory: this can be dedicated "video

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 07 mar 21, 13:56:03, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> Another important consideration is memory -- non-ECC vs. ECC. Desktop > > The motherboard needs support for it as well, e.g. I'm eying the ASRock > B550M Steel Legend for a fan-less build (unfortunately the Ryzen

Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s

2021-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I???ll be using multiple monitors but my original doubt was this. If I am > not connecting a monitor to GPU output, will I not be utilizing its > power for (this) display? Assuming, I have configured X to utilize all > the GPUs for number crunching. Should it make any diffe

Re: MATE/Compiz

2021-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Glenn Holmer wrote: > I'm getting fed up with effects crashes in KDE Plasma, so I just did a test > install of Bullseye with MATE and added the Compiz packages. I've got > everything working (even windows folding up into a paper airplane and > flying away when they close), but my question is how t

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > I built homebrew desktops using Antec tower cases and Intel desktop boards > for many years. The last was based on a Sonata chassis with an included 500 > W PSU. It's very easy to add/ remove drives and has low noise features -- > the four internal 3.5" drive bays feat

Re: power limiting via system controls (was: on the verge of ...

2021-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
songbird wrote: > i'm probably the only person that would ask this but can > i underclock it to reduce power draw? Possibly. However, the kernel is pretty good at asking the CPU to reduce power draw when things are idle, and you should check the existing CPU stats -- it is quite likely that you

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
The Wanderer wrote: > Any power-related advice for SSDs? > > In the system I'm planning to build, I'm expecting to have something > along the lines of two M.2 SSDs (RAID-1), presumably in the NVMe 2280 > form factor you specify, and eight or more SATA SSDs in a 2.5" form > factor (RAID-6), along

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-08 Thread Dan Ritter
John Boxall wrote: > On 2021-03-07 12:47 p.m., Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:34:59 + > > Brian wrote: > > > > Hello Brian, > > > > > put it there because I tend to forget changes I make in /etc! In this > > > > You're using a computer; you don't /need/ to remember those chan

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 4:45 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:27 PM David Christensen < > dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > >>> T

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
_ip] > $ arp -a > > you should see a list of all your ethernet neighbours along with their ip > and mac addresses. > > > Awesome, thanks IL! So now i also know my modem-router's mac addr. :) dan

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
list of them due to various adventures in trying to get the networking functional :) :) [Although, i guess i do not know the mac addr of the modem-router --- is there a user-level move i can make on my debian box to see what the mac addr of my modem-router is?] dan > > > On Mon, Mar

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:27 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM David Christensen wrote: > > > >> On 3/7/21 9:55 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: > >> > >>> I indeed use ethernet-over-usb currently,

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
through a switch was enough to make it malfunction. :( dan > > You can connect your modem-router to the ethernet switch, and connect all > PCs to this switch. It may help. >

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