"James H. H. Lampert" wrote:
> On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an
> > optician.
>
> Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an
> ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for
>
Larry Martell wrote:
> What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and
> would love to know about them.
As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or
astigmatism, another reason for not being able to drive at night is
cataracts. If so the [only] solution is
Richard Owlett wrote:
> [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting
> text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by
> fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens
As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different
approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or a
Richard Owlett wrote:
> This started with be exploring "regular expressions".
> I discovered some tutorials that were using Bash in their samples.
> One {lost the reference at the moment} was almost a match for a real
> world problem I have.
>
> But I've not used Bash in eons and have forgotten
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I found:
> 1. https://mate-desktop.org/
>-- no mention of user oriented documentation
> 2. https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/
>Titled "Welcome to the documentation"
>Under the heading "Good Documentation" it explicitly says:
> > Every a
Lee wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 1:31 AM John Conover wrote:
> >
> > What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do
> > with an .iso?
> >
> > Can it be coverted to a USB. How?
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/ch04s03.en.h
pu architecture
> > field doesn't tell you what kind of cpu you're running. Instead, it
> > tells you the architecture of the system on which lscpu is running,
> > and more specifically, what architecture the *kernel* is built
> > for.
>
> DEBIAN docum
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 08/27/2024 08:36 AM, David wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 13:06, Richard Owlett
> > wrote:
> >> I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors
> >> support current Debian release.
> >>
> >> I
Arbol One wrote:
> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed
> 'postgres --version' and got this msg:
> *bash: postgres: command not found*
>
> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :
>
> *psql (
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:56:38AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:58:09 +
> > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > is use dialog to create simple menus
> > > it's always white background and blue text
> > > how can i change the colors
[snip]
> I guess i
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 10:37:12AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> >Yes, that was its main strength.
>
> ReiserFS's main strength was that it reimagined how filesystems
> should be used. It's main drawback was that applications would need
> to be redesigned in order to tak
Andy Smith wrote:
> Personally what I do is silently discard spammy emails from known
> list servers instead of rejecting them at SMTP time (which is
> otherwise and usually desirable). Doing that does require running
> your own mail server though, which almost no one does.
You don't need to run
Michel Verdier wrote:
> On 2024-07-28, Michael Grant wrote:
>
> +1 to all you say.
>
> > Maybe one of you younger folks can teach me how one deals with
> > keeping up with a forum like that.
>
> Once upon a time there was usenet. After a while there was a
> mail-to-news gateway. It ease a lot
Franco Martelli wrote:
> On 25/07/24 at 15:07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Yeah... I have to use a Private window (Firefox) or an Incognito
> > window (Chrome) to duplicate this. If I'm using my regular browser
> > sessions where I'm logged in to the wiki, I don't get that result.
> >
>
> When i
l and
> felt that the front of the school had the perfect classic high school
> look.
(1) You mean the school in Arizona or the one in Illinois or some other?
(2) What does this have to do with Debian?
> Cheers!
> John Rice
with one of their Linux solutions which resulted in end user
> machines having a kernel panic. Debian stable end user machines. So
> there is no practical difference between Crowdstrike+Windows and
> Crowdstrike+Linux.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41005936
>
> So
Johan Sjölin wrote:
> On 7/17/24 23:30, Kent West wrote:
>
> > Try pressing a shift key a couple of times, and then blindly typing
> > your user password. > My guess is that the screensaver/lock is
> > wonky.
>
> Doesn't work. I don't use any screensaver or automatic screen lock.
>
> Whenever
Darac Marjal wrote:
> I'm not saying that what you did was wrong, but systemd provides a
> few shortcuts which can make things a bit more user-friendly.
>
> On 16/07/2024 04:39, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > OK. Let's follow this path a bit.
> > I googled "how to create a systemd user service" and got
Nicolas George wrote:
> Emanuel Berg (12024-07-10):
> > Okay, this is gonna be a challenge to most guys who have been
> > processing text for a long time.
> >
> > So, I would like a command, function or script, 'original',
> > that takes a string STR and a text file TXT and outputs
> > a score, f
Richard Owlett wrote:
> My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group
> for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list.
>
> In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group?
> Others must have the same general problem.
Did you look at https:/
Van Snyder wrote:
> It's not my responsibility to deal with messages the senders aren't
> serious about being read.
It's up to you of course but if that's your opinion then you always
have the option of simply not reading messages that are sent (against
list guidelines) with HTML parts that sug
B wrote:
> It seems crazy that in all the history of Debian, nobody said
> "There's a package I care about and I want to get immediately when a
> new version is released." And if they had, doing an "apt-get update"
> every minute of the day would not have b
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard
> > Owlett):
> >> I need to replace ANY occurrence of
> >>
> >>thru [at most]
> >>
> >> by
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm reformatting a Bible st
ks.
>
> Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" version, M for noon,
> is out there in some pre-2008 documents. We've been here before:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/09/msg00471.html
And I thought it was just me that got confused between 12am and 12pm :(
> Cheers,
> David.
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Here's another test:
>
> hobbit:~$ TZ=Australia/Eucla printf '%(%z %Z)T\n' -1
> +0845 +0845
That seems like a bug. I'd have expected:
+0845 ACWST
Julien Petit wrote:
> How Linux is supposed to be used? That's why i'm here. There wasn't
> until kernel 4.19 an official limit to the number of mounts in the
> documentation. Even though we use mounts a lot, we're still far from
> the official limit. Did we get lucky for 15 years and we should ch
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 01:38:00AM +0100, Gareth Evans wrote:
> >
> > > On 17 Jun 2024, at 20:45, Pranjal Singh
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to modify the Firefox desktop icon so that it opens
> > > an incognito window by default.
> > >
> > > ...
> >
irefox
> > +Exec=gnome-calculator
>
> Did you see Gareth's reply at
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/06/msg00432.html>?
>
> It's supposed to be --private-window with two leading hyphens, not
> one, he said.
He was wrong according to Mozilla's documentation.
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 16/6/24 23:50, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 06:13:36PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>
> It was late afternoon on 16Jun2024 that I wrote this. Possibly
> 18:13:36 when I pressed send. I'd reckon it would likely have been
> 08:13:36 UTC What's wr
Richard wrote:
> Good catch. With the title of this thread and not seeing any proper
> description of what's actually wrong on GitHub, I figured the change
> of the adapter name was meant. Yes, with MAC randomization, that's
> what you'll get. But it's nothing De
Jan Krapivin wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. This topic is not about Debian packages, but
> about a performance of a plugin for browsers, it is not a Debian
> package.
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GnomeShellIntegration?action=show&am
Chris M wrote:
> I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails
> with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning
> letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day.
Claws forwards mails with a text/html part just fine. What's your actual
problem with
David Wright wrote:
> I was under the impression that 3-phase to a private residence
> contravenes building regulations, as that would make 440V available
> for you to electrocute yourself.
No, it's perfectly possible - just look at your local DNO's website.
It's necessary when there's a large p
Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2024 11:31:29 +0100
> "mick.crane" wrote:
>
> Hello mick.crane,
>
> >Is there not some system that runs ethernet over the mains wiring or
> >did I misunderstand it.
>
> Yes, there is. I believe you're thinking of powerline adaptors. They
> do require eve
traditionally used for a fully qualified domain name, not a
> > hostname.
>
> What traditions are you referring to?
>
> Here's Debian's documentation for this whole thing:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution
It's a Debian invention, I believe:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In this particular instance, we've got a person from the second
> culture who seems to have no idea that other cultures exist, or that
> a mailing list might not adhere to their own expectations. This
> person is acting belligerantly, and will not listen to gentle
> remind
David wrote:
> Hullo,
>
> Cindex, the world's premier indexing software, has just gone open
> source. Might be a good project for someone who has the time.
>
> https://www.opencindex.com/
>
> Cheers!
Where is the (open) source?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Desktop
>
> Extensive information. Overwhelming really.
>
> Numerous features, with significance not evident to me. What is the
> difference between "display" and "renderer"?
>
> I need only a lightweight so
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
>
> The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
> The new drive is a Western Digital Red, WF40EFPX (4TB SATA).
According to my searches, there's n
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2024 09:00 -0400, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P.
> Molnar):
> > I downloaded and ran the 512 check sum on a copy of
> > Debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and ran the Graphical Install mode on
> > the
Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Continues to sound like one single perp is destroying the TRUST
> factor that an untold number of future programmers must meet. That's
> heartbreaking.
It has never sounded like a single perp to me. 'Jia Tan' is an obvious
sock puppet as are the other names who pushed L
Curt wrote:
> On 2024-03-28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> > Security, as Bruce Schneier [1] says, is a process. Not a product.
>
> A process that is essentially out of your control.
I would hope it is, given how little I or most people understand about
security.
> This is the elephant in the
wrote:
> [1] https://xkcd.com/1200/
Here in the UK the most important part of that xkcd for most people
simply isn't true. Anything financial has a separate login procedure
and all that I use time out after a period of inactivity (even some
stupid non-important government things). I expect the s
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:
> For most values of "you", most attackers don't care about _your_
> account, or _your_ system; they care about _any_ account, or _any_
> system. Actually targeted attacks do happen, but very rarely compared
> to what might be thought of as attacker
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Jan Krapivin wrote:
> > I read Debian Administrator's handbook now. And there are such
> > words:
> >
> > The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and
> > impossible to guess.
> ...
>
>
> >
ldn't recognize data in image file "test.jpeg" at
> >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.38/Tk/Image.pm line 21"
> >> I've tried different images/pngs/jpgs with same error.
> >> images load OK in other viewers.
> >> Installed tkpng with apt.
s with same error.
> images load OK in other viewers.
> Installed tkpng with apt.
>
> Anybody successfully used images with Perl/Tk?
You'll likely do better asking perl questions on e.g the perlmonks site.
> Would Tk::JPEG/Tk::PNG from cpan be happy with the Debian Tk and may
> possibl
Stefan K wrote:
> > Run the database on the machine that stores the files and perform
> > database access remotely over the net instead. ?
>
> yes, but this doesn't resolve the performance issue with nfs
But it removes your issue that forces you to use the sync option.
Stefan K wrote:
> > You could try removing the "sync" option, just as an experiment, to
> > see how much it is contributing to the slowdown.
>
> If I don't use sync I got around 300MB/s (tested with 600MB-file) ..
> that's ok (far from great), but since there are database files on the
> nfs it
it has regarding classifying spam. Change it to not
respect the particular header you think is causing problems.
> Important is: The cause is not at debian server (which is fine!) and
> not on my system (which is also fine), but on the provider server.
>
> To know this, I think we c
nsient connection
> > > failures
> >
> > The mark "*SPAM*" does not appear in the archive
> >
>
> This line is set by spamassassin on my own computer, when a spam mail
> is marked as spam. Then it will be filtered out. But I can not see
in
> > to:
> >
> > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
> > contrib non-free
>
> I'm on bookworm. Pasting my current sources below. Is something
> missing?
>
> /e/a/sources.list.d $ for f in *; echo "* $f"; c
Gremlin wrote:
> On 2/27/24 16:08, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > Gremlin wrote:
> >
> >> The provider is raspberry foundation and Raspian has been
> >> dis-continued.
> Nope that is just wrong.
>
> https://www.raspbian.org/
[snip]
&
Gremlin wrote:
> The provider is raspberry foundation and Raspian has been
> dis-continued.
There is such a thing as the Raspberry Pi Foundation but they are an
educational charity. Pis are supplied by Raspberry Pi Ltd. Raspbian has
NOT been discontinued, it has simply been renamed Raspberry Pi
Felix Miata wrote:
> Keith Bainbridge composed on 2024-02-20 17:45 (UTC+1100):
>
> > I just removed 3 snapshots from my daily driver with no change in
> > used space reported by df
>
> df doesn't know how to calculate freespace on btrfs. You need to be
> typing
>
> btrfs filesystem df
David Christensen wrote:
> On 2/18/24 19:20, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > I am convinced that the missing space is used by btrfs snapshot
> > process.
>
>
> Perhaps. But, are you re-balancing your btrfs file systems regularly?
>
> https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/btrfs-progs/btrfs-balance
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> Yes the / partitions are btrfs
So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots.
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> That's all normal and expected.
>
> What's odd is that client *actually has* LC_NUMERIC and so on set in
> its environment. Which... is not a problem if they're all set to the
> correct values. It's weird, but not wrong. The problem for the OP
> was that one of the valu
gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/16/24 15:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>> One of the 1T samsungs in the md raid10 isn't entirely happy but
> >>> mdadm has not fussed about it, and smartctl seems to say its ok
> >>> after testing. Other than that the gui access delay (30+ seconds)
> >>> problems I have d
gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/15/24 15:45, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> > MD RAID isn't the only way to achieve redundancy. You also haven't
> > explained why you need LVM. Depending on your needs, maybe a
> > filesystem with redundancy and volume management features in it
> > would be better. Like btrfs o
Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 08:48:31PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > Please show us the command you used¹ to do that, so we know what
> > > exactly you are talking about, because as previously discussed
> > > there's a lot of different th
The Wanderer wrote:
> It turns out that there is a hard limit of 65000
> hardlinks per on-disk file;
That's a filesystem dependent value. That's the value for ext4.
XFS has a much larger limit I believe. As well as some other helpful
properties for large filesystems.
btrfs has different limits
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Shred will determine the size of the file, then write data to the
> file, rewind, write data again, etc. On a traditional hard drive,
> that will overwrite the original private information. On modern
> devices, it may not.
Thanks for the excellent explanation :)
One nit
David Christensen wrote:
> On 2/10/24 16:10, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:05:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> >> 2024-02-10 16:03:50 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> >> $ shred -s 1K - | wc -c
> >> shred: -: invalid file type
> >> 0
> >>
> >>
> >> It looks like a shred(1) needs a
Felix Miata wrote:
> hw composed on 2024-02-09 12:07 (UTC+0100):
>
> > What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from?
>
> I bought my first APC just last year, because it was what I found on
> the shelf in WalMart, only 450VA, with "Best-in-class Service and
> Support", more to protect bedro
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it
> > is more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of
> > having worked for decades, C-Ins S-Ins S-Del existed way before the
> > C-C C-V C-X tryptich, and still working today in most cont
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:28:53PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > Continuing from above in Vim in Insert mode, if I then
> > simultaneously press the Ctrl, Shift, and v keys, and then release
> > all keys, Vim inserts the contents of the clipboard; as confirmed
> > by:
Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on one of my server machines, suddenly many systemd units (e.g. cron,
> autofs) do not start any more, neither at boot nor when trying to
> start manually with "systemctl start ", this hangs till I abort
> with Ctrl-C - though the commands defined in ExecStart
Brian Sammon wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:06:30 +0100
> hw wrote:
>
> > Yes, it's a misunderstanding: How can we change the keyboard
> > layout?
>
> I recently dug into this because I am running Debian on a Chromebook,
> and I wanted to map the Google-ke
hw wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 14:34 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > [...]
> > "The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in
> > four major ways:
>
> It's missing out on yet another major way: Umlaute.
If you reread the wikipedia page, you'll see that umlaut keys are
ghe2001 wrote:
> Take a look at Tripp Lite:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripp_Lite
>
> I used them for years to back up a small domain -- they make
> sine-wave electricity.
One of the references in the wikipedia article looked interesting:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2472189/a
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> I won, and you lost
There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in
the closely related expression "I won, you lost."
> I really don't think I'd try this with shell scripts. The tools just
> aren't designed for this. You really want tools that are c
Tixy wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Tixy writes:
> > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from? It's
> > > the same IP address shown in your output when you used the
> > > incorrect address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that
> > > does
hw wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 11:27 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> > I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse
> > English :-)
> >
> > Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw:
> > ...
> > > The messages in the journal are actually weird:
> > >
> > >
> > > rtkit-daemon[132284]:
phoebus phoebus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> >> Clearly we don't know of any terminal
> >> emulators that do what you want. (I assume you've already looked
> >> at kermit, and found it lacking... yes? OK then.)
>
> I want to express my sincere gratitude for pointing me to this
> project. I wasn't fam
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:59:48 -0500
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > The real problem here is that we're all blind men trying to grasp
> > the elephant.
>
> A good summary of what we know so far. I suspect that the OP should
> question whether it's time to scrap the elephan
phoebus phoebus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> >> > Currently, PuTTY is an option but its current version has
> >> > limitations that make it insufficient for our operational use.
> >>
> >>
> >> Commission the PuTTY authors to add the missing features or pay
> >> someone else to do it if they aren't inter
Curt wrote:
> On 2024-01-12, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk
> wrote:
> > Curt wrote:
> >> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote:
> >> >
> >> > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not
> >> > be really safe (
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:08 AM Curt wrote:
> >
> > On 2024-01-12, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk
> > wrote:
> > > Curt wrote:
> > >> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Ther
Curt wrote:
> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote:
> >
> > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not be
> > really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved domain is
> > "home.arpa" so e.g. to have "thinkpad", the /etc/hosts entry should
> > be
> >
> > 127.0.1.1 t
noah poulton wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
>
> I was wondering, is there a way to donate to Debian via direct debit?
> I want to to donate but I don't have a paypal account (and I don't
> really want to create one).
>
> I live in the UK (if that makes a difference).
C
Marco Moock wrote:
> Am 04.01.2024 um 18:19:57 Uhr schrieb Pocket:
>
> > Where can I find information on how to configure NFS to use ipv6
> > addresses both server and client.
>
> Does IPv6 work basically on your machine, including name resolution?
>
> Does it work if you enter the address d
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > > https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wpasupplicant
> > >
> > The main heading of that web page is Package: wpasupplicant
> > (2:2.10-12)
> >
> > Immediately below it is the sub-heading that states
>
gene heskett wrote:
> On 12/30/23 16:43, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:25:27PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> >> Sorry, did I impress myself so wrong?
> >>
> >> What I meant, were the packages for the driver, which Brother
> >> provide.
> >>
> >> If you want to know, take a look at s
Hans wrote:
> Am Samstag, 30. Dezember 2023, 18:06:43 CET schrieb debian-
> u...@howorth.org.uk:
> > Hans wrote:
> One is a Brother DCP-125j (connected via USB-cable), the other a
> Brother MFC- L3750CDW (coonnected via LAN to thze router).
>
> The Notebook is c
Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am looking for an explanation of a strange effect.
>
> The issue:
> I have a customer, who is using debian and has connected two printers
> (one of them with an integrated scanner and LAN, the other via
> USB-cable).
You'll probably
Mike McClain wrote:
> You are correct Tixy and my apologies.
> Raspberry Pi advertises itself as Debian ...
That's true and maybe somebody should request them to change the sig-on
message when you log in to something more accurate?
Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
>
> > Use a firewall and set it up correctly.
>
> That I have done.
>
> The issue is broadband usage - ie before it hits the firewall.
IIUC you have a residential system with an ISP connection with a
download
Hi,
please ignore the previous message
It seems that upgrading from 6-0-1 to 6-0-5 fix the problem (that or
autoremove)
regards,
Laurent
Le dim. 17 déc. 2023 à 10:44, Laurent Debian a
écrit :
> Dear All,
> I am running debian Testing,
> I did two things recently, upgrading the d
gene heskett wrote:
[snip]
> I use nano a lot, but it could use a larger font for these ancient
> eyeballs.
nano runs in a terminal so it doesn't control the font - the terminal
does. How you change the font size in a terminal depends on which
terminal program you are using. I expect $ man xter
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> echo "abc123" > file.txt
> ftype=$(file --brief file.txt)
> echo "// __ \$ftype: |${ftype}|"
> ftypelen=${#ftype}
> echo "// __ \$ftypelen: |${ftypelen}|"
>
> # removing spaces ...
> ftype2=$(echo "${ftype}" | tr --complement --squeeze-repeats
> '[A-Za-z0-9.]' '_');
> ec
songbird wrote:
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 01:28:20PM -0500, songbird wrote:
> >> wrote:
>
> there is rarely a need to e-mail me directly.
>
> >> ...
> >> > That's why I cringe when people name executables "foo.sh". What
> >> > do you do when you decide to rewrite the thing i
piorunz wrote:
> On 06/12/2023 07:45, Andre Rodier wrote:
> > If you also know a small phone supporting Debian, it could be fine
> > as well. **I don't need phone functions like, bluetooth, wifi,
> > etc.**
>
> Pinephone tick this box. It works quite well, for
y...@vienna.at wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 12:17:35 +0700
> Max Nikulin wrote:
> >
> > On 08/12/2023 08:49, gene heskett wrote:
> >> I've now set a root pw, about 34 chars, so they'll be a couple
> >> eons
> >>guessing it AND (horrors) have written it down.
> >
> > Consider pass phrases.
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> on a page in firefox use tools -> page info -> permissions
> i notice override keyboard shortcuts is set to allow
> where can i change the defaults for this
Defaults are built-in; you can't change them (except by modifying the
source and recompiling).
You can turn
Karl Vogel wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:04:36AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:42:32AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> >
> > > I have discovered a magic bullet for solving running out of memory
> > > sudo sync; sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
gene heskett wrote:
> On 12/4/23 05:22, Anssi Saari wrote:
> > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes:
> >
> >>> I concur, and would add that even on an isolated network one
> >>> should prefer ssh. First, to be in the right habit. Second
> >>>
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 14:01:38 -0500
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > The question is whether anyone should be running a telnetd *server*.
> > On an isolated network, it might be acceptable. But it's really a
> > bad habit that should be stomped out aggressively, as machines
>
Pocket wrote:
> Anyone one else having trouble with the mailing list?
>
> Have received any messages since Nov 30
>
> I can not tell if I am still subscribed
>
> I get
>
> Error: Overload
>
> On the https://lists.debian.org/users.html page
Your message made it to the list. Various people c
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 03:57:28PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386
> > Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a
> > router/gateway computer.
> >
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