getent hosts
Am I missing something, or is this a bug of 'NSS Machine' (1)?
1) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/nss-mymachines.html
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t it extremes as ideologues will and
then the right started using it to poke fun at them. They succeeded in
converting it to a term of derision, and that's what it is today.
> The politically correct are as intolerant as Puritans.
All ideologues are as intolerant as Puritans. The latter
ther hand, is a
euphemism manufactured by liberal whites.
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legal practice[2] and almost extinct as an illegal
one I see no reason not to repurpose the terms.
[1] "Blacklist" has nothing to do with race. It goes back to 17th
century English politics. The term "whitelist" was invented quite
recently to describe the reverse of a blacklist.
[2] I consider military conscription slavery but almost no one agrees
with me so that's irrelevant here.
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If the former perhaps the -c and/or -o options for
apt-cache might be interesting.
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. A device
with leading phase (by some measure: it may have lagging phase by
another) does not necessarily control one with lagging phase.
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>
> > That means I managed to narrow down the issue. It’s firewall with
> > default policy DROP instead of REJECT. It also says something about Xorg
> > doing
> > something on network I have no idea what
>
> OK, It's even weirder - it's not firewall. It's a network. When I
> disconnect RJ45, n
> That means I managed to narrow down the issue. It’s firewall with
> default policy DROP instead of REJECT. It also says something about Xorg doing
> something on network I have no idea what
OK, It's even weirder - it's not firewall. It's a network. When I
disconnect RJ45, no issues, no freez
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 17:23, Marco Möller
> wrote:
> You will need to study the relevant documentation first. You then will
> find why two of the parameters are equal to "0" (it is because others
> are in use..., I mentioned already that there are more parameters
> present and I only mentione
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41, Marco Möller
> wrote:
> sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=
> sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=
> sudo sysctl vm.dirty_background_bytes=
> sudo sysctl vm.dirty_bytes=
Thank you Marco.
I checked my current values
---
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness
# vm.swappiness = 60
sudo s
Hi Everybody ;-),
---
TL;DR: Could you please help me to get logs / trace or debug X (or KDE Plasma 5)
that is freezing when I run (and actively use) X app inside LXC container?
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I'm trying to run GUI apps inside LXC container. I know that there are other
ways (snapd) but I really like the ide
A local member of the LUG here built jitsi from sources and he is not an IT
professional. From that I infer that it is possible.
Sent from TypeApp
Thanks a lot! That gave me a lead to a typo and that has fixed the
problem.
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:27:56 -0400,
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:23:17PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. I am having problems compiling the current linux-source4.19. I
>
);
^
make[2]: ***
[scripts/Makefile.build:309: arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.o] Error 1
Any ideas on how to proceed?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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desperately need your help. Please respond to this Email as soon as
possible. Thank you very much!
It is unclear to me what issue(s) you are having:
- How did you install Debian?
- What release of Debian did you install?
CCing Debian accessibility.
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alongside my daily driver, and use Only for the
Zoom meetings
I would install a Debian VM for Zoom and alike software.
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Richard Owlett writes:
> Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set
> tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ?
Emacs.
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David Wright writes:
> That begs the question of what pristine means, because it has never
> been defined even by the OP.
I thought that we had learned that what he really wanted was to be able
to identify packages that have not been used recently and remove them.
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pendent
options? Maybe some kind of chroot or container?
Qemu preferably with KVM works well with Debian in a VM without a GUI.
Chroot/container/VM are not the same, which one you pick depend on what
you want to do with that Debian.
See also Libvirt to manage your container/VMs.
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er experienced that problem.
> A gentle hint on what is an would be very much
> appreciated at such moments.
How could a package management system possibly know that?
Perhaps what you want is something which will tell you which programs
have gone unused for the longest time.
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Victor writes:
> But *many* people do install productivity tools, office tools, games,
> developer environments separately after the install, and then regret
> it and wish to get rid of them cleanly.
What does
apt remove --purge ; apt autoremove
not do that you want done?
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l be a truly random string such as those generated by pwgen.
Memorizing passwords only makes sense when you only have two or three of
them and use them all frequently.
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org/Cloud#What_is_the_default_login_name_on_the_Debian_AMIs.3F
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e been fixed in mainline by now.
I did a writeup of my experience here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/cvvxvj/success_on_x570_ryzen_2000/
(follow the link to the original post for more details of the issues I
encountered)
Thanks
-John
er 2 are
> > > > on individually unique FTDI adaptors.
> > > >
.
.
.
Perhaps:
/dev/serial/by-id
/dev/serial/by-path
may be of some help since they are symbolic links into /dev/ttyUSB*
with additional identification.
John
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I have two Prolific PL2303 devices on a machine. The output of lsusb
is identical for both, including iSerial of 0, for both.
Is there any way of doing udev SYMLINK+ with these devices?
Thanks,
John
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ows is already installed the following should do it:
- Remove all other OS then Windows
- Install Debian
It should be noted that you can have more then two OSes on the same
"computer".
HTH.
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that the BIOS
has been updated to the latest available version.The CPUs (dual CPU)
are Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz.
Thank you for your input.
Best regards,
John
[Wed May 6 14:48:02 2020] general protection fault: [#1] SMP
[Wed May 6 14:48:02 2020] Modules linked in: xt_physdev
y after installation by saying that 'vga=none' is deprecated and
that 'set gfxpayload=text' should be used instead.
What am I missing?
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e
boot prompt
boot: install console=ttys0,115200n8 vga=none
Which OS are you using to prepare your usb stick?
If Debian, 'cp *.iso /dev/sdb' is enough.
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gt; On Tue 12 May 2020 at 15:14:51 (-0400), John Covici wrote:
> > To get back to the topic -- I have unattended updates set supposedly,
> > but they do nothing.
> >
> > Here are the relevant files from my apt.conf.d directory
> >
> > 20-auto-upgrade
r any suggestions.
On Tue, 12 May 2020 11:53:31 -0400,
David Wright wrote:
>
> On Tue 12 May 2020 at 07:48:49 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 02:22:13 AM Keifer Bly wrote:
> > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package
> > > that
> > > needs to be restarted is upgraded? Thx.
> >
> > If there is a comand named "needrestart" (I don't see it on my Wheezy
> > system),
> > then presumably a (bash?) script could be written to automate a restart.
>
> It's in backports.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
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s are logged to
/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
and the package manager (dpkg) output is logged to
/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-up‐grades-dpkg.log
You can arrange to get emails by editing
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Lots other options as well.
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Try this link:
https://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes/2020/04/13
And file a complaint with them about requiring Flash. There is no
excuse for that.
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I'm glad it helped. Any idea which commands helped?
amixer -c 0 set Master 100%
amixer -c 0 set PCM 100%
onnect to that IP
> address through your ISP, there's nothing to stop them performing a
> reverse DNS lookup on it.
What is your threat model?
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Brad writes:
> I /thought/ Discourse was a service similar to, say, google groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)
The company behind it offers such a service. I would be appalled if
Debian made use of it.
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Listen! That helped! Unbelievable!
Thanks a lot!
And why is there no default volume? This is stupid!
d
protocols when talking to their own servers.
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could defeat one of the purposes(1), potentially, of
> moving certain Debian lists to Discourse.
Surely the Discourse server would be under direct Debian control. I was
not aware that Debian's servers were overworked.
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Dan Ritter writes:
>There's this general problem: when you place incentives, even
> {etc.}
Brad writes:
> Despite my relative maturity (read: I'm old), I've fallen prey to this
> myself, on occasion.
Likewise.
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quot; carries no
weight in court.
The clause makes it clear that data will be handed over if and only if
there is a court order.
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I'm blind, without Orca it’s hard for me to read the output. I made a
screen, but there is no audio, or is it on top.
https://i.paste.pics/2502b2f2c2644bb7e19dbc9d7e2e7a8a.png
I'm blind, without Orca it’s hard for me to read the output. I made a
screen, but there is no audio, or is it on top.
https://i.paste.pics/2502b2f2c2644bb7e19dbc9d7e2e7a8a.png
Hello.
I installed Debian 10 on Vmware 15.
And I don't have an audio driver!
I hear system beeps only.
How can i fix this?
Thanks in advance!
Kenneth Parker writes:
> But I want to test Discourse *with* Javascript, so that I understand
> the difference.
I just tried it with JS. Better without.
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ript" could turn into "Requires Javascript"
from one release to the next, though.
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Michael Howard writes:
> Ah, Us & Them, of course.
No not "Us & Them". Two groups of people such that the members of one
interact mostly with other members of their group and not very much with
members of the other. This soon leads to "Us & Them" behavior
rsion back.
I still don't see why the dialog can't offer the choice of importing
some or all of my old profiles right up front. Surely that's what most
people (even Windows users) want. However, I'm too lazy to send in a
patch...
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Michael Howard writes:
> In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have more
> channels open than just one where possible.
Not when the channels connect to different pools.
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. It creates two communities that overlap only slightly.
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is constantly
changing, not that it is full of buggy packages. One of the ways in
which it can be unstable is that new versions of packages can be
uploaded to it with out regard to the presence or absence of
dependencies.
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> Interesting - apparently some people get this, but some don't (I
> update regularly from the Sid repos, and I don't generally see this).
How often do you upgrade? I often go for months without doing so: that
may be why it happens to me.
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Liam writes:
> I'm not familiar with bind. Does it work by consulting root name
> servers directly?
It starts with the root servers and builds a database in exactly the
same way your ISP's DNS server does. In fact, it is probably what your
ISP uses.
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Dan writes:
> Thank Cthulhu I'm not email-phobic :)
> I imagine few others who "really want to help out" are either; just
> that they have to be guided.
I think that many of those who Neil McGovern is concerned about are.
It's very common.
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Andrei writes:
> Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server.
You have to trust the root zone but you needn't trust any single server
other than your own with every single query.
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tomás writes:
> But letting an app bypass that, to some Mozilla-blessed DOH service is
> *not nice*.
I assume that Mozilla is only considering Windows users who are going to
use whatever DNS their ISP configured into their router.
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As far as I know Synaptic must be run as root. When I start it as user
I get a dialog warning me that I will not be able to apply any changes
and when I run it anyway "Apply" stays greyed out.
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Brad writes:
> Most web forums don't have email capability though. Only discourse
> and groups.io that I know of have it.
Though described as a mailing list manager Sympa has a full Web
interface that might satisfy email-phobic millennials.
https://www.sympa.org/overview/featur
is a platform à la
> discourse. So this isn't a criterion to decide between both.
> So please: let's take one thing at a time, will we?
The OP brought up moderation by giving the ease of doing it as a major
reason to switch to Discourse. This implies an intent to implement it.
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I note that Discourse is not in the Debian archive.
Not that it matters, but I certainly won't use Discourse and if most
debian-user traffic were to shift to Discourse I would simply stop
subscribing.
"Ease of moderation" is *not* a plus.
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> contributors is of paramount importance to the project.
>
Ease of accessibility is something that you probably don't understand
from the perspective of a screenreader user.
>
> So, thoughts, options?
>
To summerise my thoughts, from an accessibility point of view using
e-mails to interact with a webinterface is ludicrous.
Note that I'm not answering to Reco but to the poster from (1).
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users to interest malware operators. Their interest is
in getting their stuff onto as many machines as possible and the effort
it would take to port it to Linux is more profitably expended on
improving the Windows version.
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Andrei writes:
> How do you upgrade / from where do you get the packages? (apt,
> manually installed deb, etc.)
Apt from Debian/Sid. Just did it a couple of days ago.
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IPs. Now I think
that they just use DHCP. Simplifies provisioning.
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nity because it's hard for one to keep a
secret (harder for some sorts of communities than others).
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profiles feature). It's not clear
to me why importing profiles when upgrading should require any user
input, especially when there is only one profile.
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quot;Firefox account". Not going to happen.
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ch research to
develop fairly reliable databases. Classless routing plus the buying
and selling of small blocks of IPs has destroyed that relationship.
It's also exploding the routing tables.
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of that has been replaced by the
irritation of being required to create a new profile every time I
upgrade Firefox).
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Anil writes:
> Location Services are set to Off
This may mean that requests for location service by a browser or a script
started by a browser will be declined, the intent being to prevent your
location from being given out to Web sites.
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Anil writes:
> Is there any way I could check to see exactly where Gnome Maps is getting
> the location from? What is the default geolocation service installed by
> Gnome or Debian?
I misread Gnome Maps as Google Maps.
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count Google has a lot more to go on than just
the IP, of course.
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I wrote:
> It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually
> puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than
> not.
Anil Felipe Duggirala writes:
> I don't believe this is the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocati
It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually
puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than
not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation_software
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the following line in /etc/sudoers.d/ssh
user ALL=(ALL) ALL
Where 'user' is the name of the SSH user.
If it works, you should restrick the above line.
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en xfce4-terminal,
>> Execute: sudo thunar
>> Type my password.
>>
>> Not a big deal but if there is an easier way I'd like to know.
>>
What is the issue?:
- Entering pwd when prompted
- Opening XFCE for terminal
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t
> "http://localhost/index.html";.
If you don't specify 'index.html', do you get it?
Looking in apache's log should give a clue of what's going rong.
> I think that, to begin with, I need to find a good explanation of the
> concept of "localhost". Hopefully that is somewhere in the Apache 2.4
localhost is simply a name to specify 127.0.0.1 or ::1.
> official documentation.
>
> RLH
>
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> testing this with a loop back cable and the command "minicom
> --baudrate=9600 --device=/dev/ttyXX". I also have a laptop and desktop
Why are you not using '115200n8'?
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;corrections" to the documentation such as
replacement of all mentions of Linux with GNU/Linux.
I have no objection to their terminology but imposing a (retroactive!)
requirement of ideologically correct language on hosted projects seemed
a bit too intrusive to me.
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y anything at all but they are also
proposing payed services.
I'm not affiliated with Gitlab in any way.
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I wrote:
> look at screen.
Martin McCormick wrote:
> I use screen all the time and maybe I am missing
> something but what you get with screen is a new shell in each
> window, very useful but nothing to do with RS-232 ports.
Read the man page section titled WINDOW TYPES.
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Look at gkermit. It's evidently a GPL rewrite of ckermit. Also take a
look at screen.
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ails.
>
> - Does someone has the same issue?
> - I am using this to unlock a LUKS encrypted drive over SSH.
>
Try converting your key to the old openssh format:
ssh-keygen -p -m pem -f
then retry dropbearconvert
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Dave writes:
> I am trying to submit a bug report - but as a novice, I do not know
> what "package" to report in the ReportBug program.
Bluez (but send the bug report to Raspbian, not Debian). The
maintainers will sort it out if it's actually one of the libraries.
On 3/29/2020 2:37 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 29 mar 20, 13:48:52, john doe wrote:
>> On 3/29/2020 1:09 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>>
>>> This will involve finding a supported SBC, installing Debian, installing
>>> supporting apps on the smartp
On 3/29/2020 1:09 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 29 mar 20, 12:28:07, john doe wrote:
>> Debians,
>>
>> I would like to cast the sound and image of my smartphone and alike
>> devices to my old TV.
>>
>> My wireless cellphones and tablets are connected in
e any recommendation on what fanless hardware and software I
could use to do that?
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o he encontrado alternativas a OpenVPN,
> desconozco si hay más posibilidades.
>
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/
As an alternative to Openvpn, ipsec is one option, that is if my Spanish
understanding is correct.
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On 3/17/2020 11:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:47:00 john doe wrote:
>
>> On 3/17/2020 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote:
>>>> On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>
On 3/17/2020 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 05:23:24 john doe wrote:
>
>> On 3/17/2020 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 02:50:47 David Christensen wrote:
>>>> On 2020-03-16 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>&g
;
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and
>> -settings
>>
> Unfortunately, nothing happens when I click the refresh firefox buttons,
> they are dead. The button reacts. but nothing happens like the
> description says.
>>
> Thanks David
>
>
TL;TR, is it working if you use a new profile?
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as to repurpose a desktop pc to do everything.
My lathe and my mill don't need to have their clocks synchronized,
though, as long all the servos on the mill agree with the central
controller[1]. Only the latter needs a display, and it need not know
what time it really is.
[1] Hypo
ython. I haven't used it yet but I'm about to. Looks very
interesting.
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Install Chrony.
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complexity comes from attempts at social
engineering followed by attempts to *close* the loopholes opened
thereby. Look at the bit of insanity called "the alternative minimum
tax", for example.
"Online filing" has killed the tax simplification movement.
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David Wright writes:
> Obviously I'm not giving advice on either (which would probably be
> illegal)
It's never illegal to give *free* advice.
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5401240d365799e2b7768e009c8dec8
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> So can anybody enlighten me why it is set like this and if it is possible to
> do anything with it (fill a bug? against which package?), please?
>
>
Have a go with the DVD.
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r in the
sudoers file or in a file in /etc/sudoers.d or to the sudo group.
Try 'su --login' to log in as root to set your sudoers file.
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On 2020-02-29 20:20, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 27 Feb 2020 at 17:13:26 (-0500), John Kaufmann wrote:
On 2020-02-27 09:41, Lee wrote:
[The free/non-free distinction] ... is well-explained, and in fuzzy principle I
like the explanation. In functional terms, it only became an issue for me when
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