ated.
If you're experimenting, or just need a workstation, there's not
usually a reason for anything other than a separate /home. I don't even
do that, as my /home is just an expendable scratch area, my data lives
on a separate server.
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ineered not to work at all in one. The Pro version should, but costs
a fair bit.
We can't expect MS to respect the GPL and the like if we break their
licence terms.
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implement UEFI
correctly. Mine fortunately honours NextBoot, or I really would have to
eliminate Windows, but frustratingly does not honour DefaultBoot, and
always defaults to a state where it looks for Debian but fails to find
it. If Debian is NextBoot, it is found with no difficulty, so it's not
that the UEFI boot code is in the wrong place or is non-functional.
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past used
Synaptic to do routine upgrades. That simply wouldn't work if it didn't
update first, presumably when it starts up.
If you were to leave Synaptic running on unstable all day and wanted to
fully upgrade at the end of the day, it would be wise to use Reload
first.
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gt; If the OP wants to run a 64-bit OS in the end, they should install a
> 64-bit OS to begin with.
>
I had a go with the etch->lenny upgrade, but the whole thing got well
out of hand and I gave up.
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I'm interested in trying out z-wave, and I'd like to start with a simple
command line utility so I can experiment with a switch, and control it
through cron.
I'm aware of Home Assistant, which is likely to be the direction I go in
the long term. I'd prefer not to try to set it up just to try out
must admit that there's a lot less wear and tear on human bodies
than in war, or even in sport.
Maybe politicians should Learn To Code...
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:39:01 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:57:04 +0300
> > Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> >
> > > Will buy phone zoon, then play with this android for fun & learn.
> > >
> >
> > Please c
On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:57:04 +0300
Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Will buy phone zoon, then play with this android for fun & learn.
Please comment here on your findings. Perhaps it is just me who thinks
they are toys.
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s, because the manufacturer
would have no market for his products otherwise. It is more profitable
to ignore a few percent of the potential customers than to double the
development and testing effort.
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aving any manual configuration mode. NM
on the netbook is far easier to configure, which I believe Google and
Apple see as a drawback. It appears that nobody configures VPNs any
more, people just take a subscription with a commercial one and are sent
fully debugged configuration files.
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nting of USB media was a shambles before
systemd, and naming USB drives in fstab was the only way to ensure that
it happened reliably. Remember usbmount and other bodges?
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of them were placed there by Microsoft for the benefit of
the US government, and can be instantly removed when discovered (and
replaced by an alternative).
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' means power over the real world,
not just within a medium. It is unlikely that Debian can swing an
election result. Debian has rules, but not over what people are
permitted to discuss.
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s', or the bottled Russian Stout, or Bulldog ale.
As for 'targetted advertising', I've never seen any. When I notice the
ads around the sides of web pages, none of them are aimed at me, and
very few are aimed at anyone outside the US. So is this obsession with
collecting personal data on people actually paying off?
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 11:36:05 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote:
> Astonishment:
> ./drivers/media/i2c/bt819.c:
> BUG? Why does turning the chroma comb on fuck up color?
>
Probably the filter coefficients are incorrect, possibly for the wrong
standard (4.43361875MHz/3.579545MHz).
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eally
*was* high-maintenance. I also prefer not to filter on content, as it's
difficult to avoid false positives.
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putation, and many ISPs do not provide them
now. Also, you lose logging of sent mail, which is one of the reasons
for doing it yourself.
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ith any email domain I use, and I've never had mail refused for
that reason, over more than fifteen years. I also use a single HELO, and
that only matches one domain. Again, no problem with the other domains.
My mail server doesn't check for matching anywhere, only that a sending
IP address has complementary PTR and FQDN, and that the FQDN and HELO
are resolvable in public DNS, and I think that's a common setup.
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the receiver for
> greenbone.net (whose name is mail.greenbone.net) is one of them.
>
It's a pretty common requirement, as at one time it was the second best
spam defence (after accepting mail only for named users). Not so good
now that many ISPs are providing some kind of PTR record. But I haven't
deleted the check from my mail server...
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d threading, so I can decide for myself what to read
and what not to waste time on.
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I troubleshoot ', or 'where can I learn about ' rather
than 'how do I fix '.
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t; Can't you have all required applications working on Linux?
> One option would be to have linux on your laptop and Windows as a VM.
>
> I find Qemu with KVM(linux) or haxx (Windows) better than virtualbox.
>
> That would take sometime to set up but would be less time consuming
> then trying to to compile linux stuff on Windows.
>
Most copies of Windows aren't licensed for use in a VM. Professional
and Server versions usually are. We expect MS to respect GPL...
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I did this for a while with a (Linux) netbook,
because the first-generation hardwired SSD was tiny and appallingly
slow, even for reading. It was quite strange to plug in an external
(mechanical) drive and get a massive boost in performance.
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 07:46:58 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> Joe writes:
> > When I'm sufficiently
> > annoyed with the problem I'll do a reinstall but there are over 4000
> > packages...
>
> While I don't upgrade daily it's bad to let it get that
eye height, these are all analogue issues. I once
fixed a fault where a particular simple logic IC had to come from a
particular manufacturer, and someone had fitted one of the same type
number but from a different manufacturer, that had a different input
impedance. Real bleeding-edge, state-of-the-art hardware, that was.
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ally, owning a computer is fine if you have an alternative
computer) but by itself can occasionally mess things up.
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Vincent Lefevre writes:
> On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine:
>
> $ ls -ld /etc/systemd
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd
> $ ls /etc/systemd
> ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory
>
> Any explanation???
snowball:776$ ls -ld /etc/sy
ly.
Then they started providing email, outsourcing to Yahoo. Now they use
Microsoft, as almost everyone seems to do, either as webmail or as a
virtual Exchange.
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nothing.
Another point: buster will install dual-boot to a UEFI Win10, but on my
netbook, will not dual-boot afterwards. It may still be possible to
dual-boot using the startup boot menu key, not GRUB, though it isn't on
my machine.
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:41:37 +0200
wrote:
> "Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from
> stupidity"
>
> (some call that "plausible deniability").
>
>
"People would rather appear stupid than evil".
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:47:16 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 07:09:29AM -0400, songbird wrote:
> > Joe wrote:
> > ...
> > > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour
> > > the EFI DefaultBoot, and
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 07:09:29 -0400
songbird wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> ...
> > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the
> > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry if I change it.
> > Fortunately, it does honour NextBoot, or I'd
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:24:43 -0400
Felix Miata wrote:
> Joe composed on 2021-06-11 20:14 (UTC+0100):
>
> > I have a netbook which booted fine into grub on stretch,
> > but an upgrade to buster killed that, and to boot into buster I
> > have to use a rescue medium a
Boot to the right
entry. Nobody here seems able to help, and I gave Google a good kicking
to no avail. Clearly you don't have this problem.
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nother company's
IP address. Presumably this based on a database of companies and their
products and who had paid them for this service. I'm afraid this rather
offended me, and I switched the client's DNS server to operating from
root hints.
Apparently the service company that did this still exists (this was at
least ten years ago, a lifetime on the Net), and is called bare fruit
(all one word) for anyone wanting to see a company that boasts about DNS
hijacking.
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ave to do this themselves. An entirely new kind of interface
appears with openvpn, and the firewall may be written to reject
anything from previously-unknown interfaces. Some firewall issues may be
Debian-dependent as they are also networky things.
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 19:19:23 +0200
Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 9:26 PM
> > From: "Joe"
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of
> > software/
manual intervention).
>
So who typed the 'sudo apt update' and 'sudo apt upgrade'?
Those are one pair of commands (there are others) to *manually* first
download the list of upgradeable packages and then to download and
install the packages themselves.
If it was you who typed them, what did you expect them to do? If it
wasn't you who typed them, find out who/what did so.
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ng. I used to use it, then switched to
Claws-Mail, which is faster and seems to do what I need.
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ft and right audio,
yellow is composite video. The S-Video connector is normally a four-pin
mini-DIN connector, and also doesn't carry audio.
>
> Input 0 is probably RF-frequency NTSC with a tuner to select
> channels. That's low-quality, but includes audio.
>
> Input 2 is S-Video, which is the best of the available video
> connections if your VCR supports it. (I have one that does... if
> it still powers up.)
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will publicly display.
I'm happy to say that I normally appear no higher than page ten.
You may also be surprised to see how many people also have your name.
At least one will be a clergyman.
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ice after that. A couple of big names
are GoDaddy and TSOhost and there are many websites offering '10
best...' reviews, though they get out of date quickly.
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On Sat, 8 May 2021 12:22:45 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > On Sat, 08 May 2021 11:13:34 +0200
> > deloptes wrote:
> >
> > > Fujitsu ESPRIMO Q520 when opening some sh*tty web sitesin firefox
> > > the fan gets extremly noisy.
> >
>
the metal circlips on the more expensive ones also disappear
easily...
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he WEF are fairly upfront about it:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/the-dirty-secret-of-electric-vehicles/
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On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:44:12 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:14:45PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > ...and buster. It's exim4.service as stated by:
> > systemctl --type=service | grep exim
>
> According to packages.debian.org[1] there is no such file
On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:27:57 +0100
Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2021 13:15:51 -0400
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:03:43AM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> > > That was the question, Greg:
> > >
> > > "Searching
acy /etc/init.d/exim4 which is a big ol' honkin' script.
>
> So, you need to apply sysv-rc methods to work with it. Normally this
> means you cd into /etc/rc2.d and rename the S* symlink so that it
> won't start up.
>
It's a systemd service on stretch and sid.
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"Searching for exim in
> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and
> /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing."
>
> so, it wasn't there. Which service?, (or how to find out?) Or, maybe,
> it is under /etc/init.d/exim4, which failed to work, so, I was looking
> into the systemd control files.
>
Try exim4.service
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on of disabling such a connection,
which will work until the device is deliberately designed not to work
if it can't phone home, or one's government makes it illegal to
disconnect it.
--
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On Sat, 01 May 2021 12:00:30 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > There is nothing 'religious' about assuming that many private
> > businesses will take every opportunity to make money from you in
> > ways that you would not permit if you were given the
On Sat, 01 May 2021 09:28:04 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > I know someone who started to be shown online adverts that could
> > only have been based on a sound-wave conversation within the
> > hearing of his smartphone. I don't know about other simila
but not many. We would want another 32" TV, and today the majority
of those are not 'smart', in fact they're still advertised as 'HD Ready'
i.e. 720 lines, after we've had 1080 line transmissions for many years.
But our current TV may go on another ten years, by which time all TVs
will be spying devices.
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:48:07 +0100
Brian wrote:
> On Fri 30 Apr 2021 at 09:04:03 +0100, Joe wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > We are aware that smartphones and the hypothetical 'smart' TV will
> > listen to conversations occurring in their vicinities, so we go
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:35:03 +0200
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Joe wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Lets admit it ... the goal is to shovel the money to (mostly) US
> > > corporations that do not pay any taxes anywhere, to educate the
>
ten years
ago, and are now under 10GBP from China. The magic search word is
'saleae', whose software is generally used. And you can be fairly
confident that what you see is what you get, where computer software
might do some interpreting.
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--
Joe
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 02:23:25 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > 'No, no,' said the academics, 'the whole world uses Windows 3 so we
> > have to teach that.'
>
> ... because they were payed/bribed/lobbied or just fools
>
> BTW it is sti
eplace it and have no choice about accepting a 'smart' TV,
it still will know nothing about me, because only my wife watches it.
Again, it's of much more use to her than her smartphone.
We are aware that smartphones and the hypothetical 'smart' TV will
listen to conversations occurring in their vicinities, so we go
somewhere else for any private conversation.
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"Martin McCormick" writes:
> 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 tha
o.
A little further thought would have shown that students being taught
at that time (and ever since) would go on to spend their entire lives
adapting to newer and shinier IT systems and learning how to operate
new software every few years, so some diversity at an early age would
have been of more benefit than a monoculture.
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; Google with what I assume is a tiny fraction of its resources.
>
I tend to treat Google as I do Wikipedia: unparalleled for information
which is not the slightest bit politically controversial, a complete
waste of time for anything that is.
Not that there's all that much left in the first category now, but on
things like the sizes of surface-mount electronic components, Wiki is
pretty sound.
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ttention and have higher priority than replacing
> the scanner.
Indeed. I'd like something a bit quicker, but I'm not willing to pay
the current price for standalone scanners, so I'll carry on with this
antique as long as it's willing.
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ever, not capable of any resolution higher than the netbook's LCD,
which is similar to but not the same as 720p. 'Full HD', 1920 x 1080p,
should be OK.
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one (my Synaptic
shows more than 83,000 packages available) by unpaid people and only to
help you, and which will be of no help to most server users. I think
this will not happen.
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Kenneth Parker writes:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:16 PM Celejar wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:57:01 +0100
> piorunz wrote:
>
> > On 14/04/2021 17:19, Celejar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently switched to Firefox's native HTTPS-Only mode from the
> > > HTTPS Everywhere extensi
24/7, it's by far the easiest way to
go. And my feeble little netbook has no trouble running MariaDB and
Apache with PHP7 for out-of-network operation. I wasn't able to persuade
an Android device to do that, even though the ports are available.
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ll it
on a computer I value. I don't have a choice about using government
software.
> Up to now, I've avoided the problem. I think I'd try to go with a VM,
> or, if possible, with a small and nearly-disposable thingy, like a
> Raspberry Pi.
>
Indeed. The Pi4 is quite powerful.
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an important package. Nearly all of sid
works nearly all the time, but it's not a 100% uptime OS.
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ly bad, crashing on about half of all
websites I try. It's so bad, I'm using Chromium or Opera when FF
crashes. Oddly, Epiphany is pretty awful as well, and Konqueror hasn't
worked for me for months.
If you only have one of the two installed, use the appropriate profile.
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 16:10:05 -0400
Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 20:36:39 +0100
> Joe wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:49:15 -0400
> > Celejar wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, but why isn't trying to limit spammers getting hold of an
> >
best method is a new free mailbox, with collection piped
through the anti-spam software of your choice. But I tried spamassassin
some years ago, and decided I couldn't spare the time that staying
ahead in the arms race was costing me. Maybe the maintainers have made
better algorithms since then.
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On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 10:21:08 +0200
wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 08:57:20AM +0100, Joe wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > think even then that most of them had oriental firmware, and my
> > opinion of even Japanese code is that it isn't wonderful. Hardware
> > great,
mall Business Server (early 2000s) there were
a number of routers which claimed to handle PPTP VPNs but didn't. I
think even then that most of them had oriental firmware, and my opinion
of even Japanese code is that it isn't wonderful. Hardware great,
software poor.
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Joe
Dan Ritter writes:
> 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 would
ne. I've left it in router mode, it provides DNS and DHCP to
wireless clients using my bind9 server as DNS source, the latter
working from first principles (root hints). Another spare router...
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retrying
the first. Also, repeated calls to the same URL will normally get their
IP address information from the client's cache, further confusing
attempts at troubleshooting.
It is usually possible to override a poor choice coming from a DHCP
server, client computers have a DHCP client which can be configured to
either accept or refuse the values provided by the server. I'm not sure
how Network Manager deals with this, as I only use it on my mobile
computers, and not on my main network machines. Besides, I control the
DNS and DHCP servers in my network, and they do as they are told,
something that an ISP-supplied router usually doesn't. To be fair, the
ISP is only trying to cut down on finger-trouble service calls.
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'm sure their governments also want them to do so.
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governments are criminal groups.
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will not occur, and another 'debian' entry will be added to the EFI
table. The BIOS will continue to try to boot from the unbootable drive,
and will add another EFI entry each time it does so.
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for praising
> China.
>
>
The Chinese government knows that it is the government of China, and
not a participant in some kind of international PC-willy-waving contest
with no prizes. The same with Russia and a few other non-western
countries.
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w ownership will mine the maximum possible
amount of data.
If anyone doubts the lengths that some people will go to in order to
steal, look up Superfish, actually installed by Lenovo on new laptops a
few years ago. This is software designed and made to break https.
--
Joe
e vendors are ranked or even excluded according
to their virtue-signalling activities rather than their products.
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ould have been awesome. No stupid memory
> segmentation, 32bit instructions and internal address size, 24bit
> external address size.
>
> Imagine a PC with 4GB adressable memory space in 1980.
>
>
I can. It would have cost as much as a mainframe to make full use of it.
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anyway.
> >
> > Every step towards more privacy is good. Let's not let the perfect
> > be the enemy of the good.
>
> Mp doubt. Still, that wouldn't convince me to start instant messaging.
> I'm more of an asynchronous type ;-)
>
If you need 'now!', pick up the phone.
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n a terminal but I do see this warning:'. If you can use gdb and
generate a backtrace, it's better still.
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er work, today called system
software. A computer as delivered contained both hardware and software,
and it was up to the owner to write the applications. OK, that's going
back a bit...
--
Joe
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:54:49 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 09 mar 21, 13:35:18, Joe wrote:
> >
> > As an anecdote, I recall a BT service/router which literally would
> > not work if it detected another NAT on the LAN. It was in a client's
> > network, an
rk without the Debian
server acting as a firewall. If it had been my network, the wretched
thing would have gone back instantly, my network runs through two NATs
and that isn't negotiable.
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ply it's later.
>
Yes, it's fairly common. My desktop (Gigabyte MB, mumble-mumble years
old) does it. Only with some things: it won't try to boot from a
Kindle or mobile phone, but it will try from a USB stick. Depends on
the filesystem/protocol, I suppose. What it won't do is give up after a
time and try the next device, it will just hang permanently.
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and I don't think systemd needs it. A long
time since I used a mobile dongle.
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non-free firmware for network interfaces, that is
the state of manufacturing today: we're back to Winmodems and you're
stuck with it. I have one of the last netbooks to come with an Ethernet
port. A USB-Ethernet widget is quite useful to have around these days.
--
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 23:25:30 +0800
kaye n wrote:
> UPDATE:
> I also cannot boot into Windows 7. I get the start normally or safe
> mode window.
>
That's deliberate. You'll probably have to reactivate Windows, possibly
by phone.
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r written by well-known people like Simon Tatham.
--
Joe
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 08:10:45 -0500
Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 09:41:13 +
> Joe wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Undoubtedly. But there is also no doubt that gcc and every other
> > serious compiler in the West has been compromised. Why would they
> > *not* be
course. Any externally-supplied network device is inherently
untrusted. It is unwise to give any IoT device access to your network,
it is fail-safe to assume that every such device reports back as much
as possible to some Chinese company. But most people do unwise things
frequently, as most of us are unwise in many areas. We just happen to
know a bit about networking.
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t if he was able to acquire good Internet
connectivity, the cost would be far outweighed by the saving in IT
unpleasantness, and he would do so, and that therefore there is some
impediment.
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(e.g. a mail server). Most changing files are temporary, so it
is often possible to get away with an online backup without a snapshot,
particularly if you only ever need to restore single files or
directories. Cloning a full working OS is generally best done offline,
unless you have LVM plus space for the buffer.
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set it up during the OS
installation. To be honest, I've had it installed for many years, and
only occasionally used it. Drives are now large enough that I don't
outgrow them in the lifetime of the hardware. In addition to adding
and removing drives, LVM does allow online backups, if you've left
enough unused space. Read about snapshots.
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hat
each needed to be created before the other, or something similar. But
there was a slightly iffy way around it.
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