Re: Fin de soporte para Debian 10 (Buster) LTS

2024-06-28 Thread juan pablo demasi
Muchas gracias por su respuesta. El tema es que esta es la 12, pero es raro. De nuevo, gracias. El vie, 28 jun 2024 a la(s) 5:28 a.m., Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com) escribió: > Hola, > > Pues eso. > > A través de las micronews, leo que Debian 10 (Buster) dejará de tener > soporte extendido (LTS)

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread John Hasler
Stefan writes: > The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to > adjust the "initial" time before NTP takes over. hwclock -a can do this. If you use it be sure ntpsec isn't trying to do the same thing. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 10:06:23 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:48:12 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Oh, indeed, thanks. I had computed it manually from > > `journalctl | grep stepped` and it gave close enough results. > > The question remains: how to make use of that

Windows11 + Debian Bookworm + GRUB

2024-06-28 Thread Halbrante
Bonjour, Après avoir cherché en vain une solution sur le Web, je viens ici soumettre le problème que je rencontre. J'ai une machine mini PC HP Prodesk 600 G4 (I5-7500/ 240go disque / 8go mémoire) fourbi de Windows 11 Pro Je souhaite installer une Debian Bookworm sur un 2eme disque Sata III

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:48:12 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Oh, indeed, thanks. I had computed it manually from > `journalctl | grep stepped` and it gave close enough results. > The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to adjust > the "initial" time before NTP takes

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Do you really run ntp? You might already be running ntpsec, > its replacement. I call it ntp but yes, it's ntpsec. >> The /etc/adjtime is supposed to be there for such purposes but it seems >> to be mostly unused: I assume its "UTC" setting is respected but the >> first and second lines

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I think hwclock(8) has the info you need. On my system (yes, one of > those) there is an /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh which seems to take care > of that. No idea how the young'uns do it, though :-) AFAICT this `hwclock.sh` (which I do have) is not used (I'm using systemd) and even less so upon

Re: easyrsa ne tient pas compte du fichier vars (Bulleye) [RESOLU]

2024-06-28 Thread Olivier
1. Désormais, il semble nécessaire de passer à chaque commande easyrsa, le paramètre --vars= 2. De plus, la version courante d'easyrsa utilise la valeur de la variable EASYRSA_DN pour déterminer s'il faut tenir compte des paramètres historiques comme EASYRSA_REQ_COUNTRY. Il faut que la variable

Using packaged Nix

2024-06-28 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. I am trying to use Nix on Debian, with the packaged version. My goal is to have a pristine Debian OS and the ability to install binaries for specific versions of common software independently from the OS. The problem is: none of the commands I find on the web work in this setup. For

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-28 Thread Richard
If that isn't a start, I don't know what is. The JSON file can potentially give an idea about what the other files do. Am Fr., 28. Juni 2024 um 03:33 Uhr schrieb Van Snyder < van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>: > *.kfx, *.yjr and *.yjf are all "data". *.mf is "JSON". >

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-28 Thread Richard
Actually, magika does tell you quite well what you need to know. .yjf could be something comparable to a JPEG, .kfx seems to be very similar to a BMP image. .meta seems to be just a JSON text file. .mf could be too, but at least it will be a text file. The rest is unknown binary data you'll

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-28 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 28/6/24 16:13, John Crawley wrote: Except that midnight is also 0:00, so you still have the am/pm confusion. They should have kept 0:00 just for midnight really. That's the first time I've seen anything to justify calling midnight AM. Thankyou But how can mid-day be after mid-day?

Fin de soporte para Debian 10 (Buster) LTS

2024-06-28 Thread Camaleón
Hola, Pues eso. A través de las micronews, leo que Debian 10 (Buster) dejará de tener soporte extendido (LTS) el 30-6-2024: Debian 10 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2024/msg1.html Avisados quedáis. 5 años de mantenimiento... madre mía,

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-28 Thread John Crawley
On 28/06/2024 14:00, Erwan DAVID wrote: Le 28 juin 2024 13:12:03 David Wright a écrit : On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. David Wright wrote: Except that The

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread Erwan DAVID
Le 28 juin 2024 13:12:03 David Wright a écrit : On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. > > David Wright wrote: > > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct"

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > I wrote: > > > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. > > > > David Wright wrote: > > > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" version, M for noon, > > > is out there in

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 15:52, e...@gmx.us wrote: > When I boot the file server (possibly today but definitely tomorrow) I'll > post my backup script. OK, it's pretty long so I won't post the whole thing, but the important lines are rsyncoptions="--archive --progress --verbose --recursive" "$rsync"

Re: About dash as sh

2024-06-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/06/2024 01:16, Ilya Kazakevich wrote: My intention was to understand if decisions about dash are still valid, not to tell Debian to switch back to bash of course. I am almost sure there are lengthy threads on Ubuntu and Debian mailing lists. Perhaps summaries are deeply buried. I was

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/06/2024 01:38, Van Snyder wrote: So, back to trying to find a competent PDF -to- ePub or PDF -to- mobi converter (I haven't yet tried texmate to create a mobi or ePub from the LaTeX). If you seek a solution that allows to get result in a single click then the following would not help.

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Jun 2024 at 12:48:03 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is > often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when > I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while, > but that can take

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 22:22 +0200, Richard wrote: > I didn't miss that. "file" will always tell you something, I doubt > there can be any situation where it will just give you an empty > output. You because it can get specific, it will tell you if > something is a text file or binary format it

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
In theory it should work, as Stable should have the new connector. Maybe because they adapted to Manifest V3 they had to drop support for ESR. Though they would have written that in the changelog. But you can easily test that, Mozilla has their own Debian repo now. Install the normal Firefox from

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread CHRIS M
On Thursday 27 June 2024 03:49:03 PM (-05:00), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > This function is applied every week or two to write to a DVD. > > xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ > > -update_r . / \ > > -commit \ > > -toc -check_md5

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This function is applied every week or two to write to a DVD. > xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ > -update_r . / \ > -commit \ > -toc -check_md5 failure -- \ > -eject all ; > > Finding a file as it existed months or years ago

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 04:06:18PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 27/06/2024 15:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my > > working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup > > system by exploiting these

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
I didn't miss that. "file" will always tell you something, I doubt there can be any situation where it will just give you an empty output. You because it can get specific, it will tell you if something is a text file or binary format it whatever. So what's the output? On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 19:33

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, why did you not use something as backup2l ? Best wishes, Jerome On 27/06/2024 20:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, My working data is in a directory we can refer to as A. A is on a removable flash store. "du -hs /home/me/A" reports 3.0G. I want a reliable backup of most files A/*. I

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread DdB
Am 27.06.2024 um 19:59 schrieb Dan Ritter: > - GNOME doesn't want to support the extensions. > - Firefox doesn't want to support the extensions. > - Debian doesn't want to support the extensions but provides > the package > - the person who wrote the GNOME

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 27 Jun 2024 16:06 -0300, from edua...@kalinowski.com.br (Eduardo M KALINOWSKI): >> Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my >> working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup >> system by exploiting these drives. I can imagine a complete copy of

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 14:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Finding a file as it existed months or years ago can be tedious. For example, find A/MailMessages as it was at 2023.02.07. Otherwise the backup system works well. On one computer I use rsync to do what appear to be complete backups, only files

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 27/06/2024 15:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup system by exploiting these drives. I can imagine a complete copy of A onto an external drive for each backup; but

Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread peter
Hi, My working data is in a directory we can refer to as A. A is on a removable flash store. "du -hs /home/me/A" reports 3.0G. I want a reliable backup of most files A/*. I created a directory "Backup" on the HDD and apply this shell function whenever motivated. Backup() { \ if [ $# -gt

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 10:02 +0200, Richard wrote: > You could try if Googles ML model "magika" can do a better job > (available via pypi). Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better > "file -i" say? Worst case, you could open the files in a hex editor > and google the first few bits. Chances

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread Dan Ritter
DdB wrote: > Hello list, > > i am out of luck and into a rabbit hole, please help me out! > > Now, i am lost. I thought, in stable, the Fox-esr would be compatible > with the gnome extensions, but it claims, that would not be case. > > What am i missing? As far as I can tell, this needs two

Re: SD Card 32GB neuve non reconnue

2024-06-27 Thread Th.A.C
J'avais compris que parted/fdisk/cfdisk formataient au niveau le plus bas. Est-ce exact? Aucun des trois ne formate tout court. Ils se contentent de réécrire la table de partition. D'ailleurs si tu effaces la table de partition avec fdisk puis que tu recrées les partitions avec exactement les

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-27 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:48:03PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is > often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when > I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while, > but that can

How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while, but that can take a while and I'd like to improve this intermediate situation. The

Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread DdB
Hello list, i am out of luck and into a rabbit hole, please help me out! While still running old-old-stable, i am in the process of updating my virtual machines (vbox) first. Struggling with a behavioral change in gnome (On start, it does no longer show desktop 1, but begins in overview-mode.

easyrsa ne tient pas compte du fichier vars (Bulleye)

2024-06-27 Thread Olivier
Bonjour, J'utilise le script easyrsa du paquet easy-rsa pour gérer la PKI de différents VPN. Historiquement, le fichier vars qui accompagne ce script me permet de personnaliser quelques paramètres (principalement le sujet du certificat). Sur Bullseye, j'ai l'impression que le contenu de ce

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-27, Richard wrote: > > Have you completely lost it? You should leave this and any other mailing > lists before you are being sued and kicked out for what you write. And > trust me, this message of yours is more than enough reason for that. > I'm confident I'll be sued for your

Re: SD Card 32GB neuve non reconnue

2024-06-27 Thread Alain Vaugham
Le Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:54:33 +0200, "Th.A.C" a écrit : > Le 26/06/2024 à 23:00, Alain Vaugham a écrit : > > > J'ai ensuite créé une partition (gpt) : > > # cfdisk /dev/sdb1 > > > je suppose que c'est une erreur de recopie, mais sinon c'est > >cfdisk /dev/sdb (sans le 1) Exact, c'est

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
Have you completely lost it? You should leave this and any other mailing lists before you are being sued and kicked out for what you write. And trust me, this message of yours is more than enough reason for that. Am Do., 27. Juni 2024 um 15:56 Uhr schrieb Curt : > On 2024-06-26, Van Snyder

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-26, Van Snyder wrote: > > I downloaded everything with the same base name as I sent -- a file and > a directory. LibreOffice can't read any of it. Calibre can't read any > of it, either in the download or in the mounted Kindle. "file" has no > idea what any of the files are. > This is

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-27 Thread sd
On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 00:26:00 BST George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 [snip] > If you have any grips or difficulties, please mention them. After five years > of using

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 04:02, Richard wrote: Am Do., 27. Juni 2024 um 06:33 Uhr schrieb Van Snyder < van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>: "file" has no idea what any of the files are. > Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better "file -i" say? I think you missed that.

Re: App Banco Itau

2024-06-27 Thread Galileu H. Oliveira
Precisamente! O deamon roda permanentemente e, a cada alguns minutos, manda um pacote de dados para um determinado endereço IP, que não me lembro mais qual é, mas certamente é da empresa. Ninguém sabe o que contém o pacote, mas o fato é que você é monitorado o tempo todo. Por isso desinstalei há

Problems with the calamares installer. 12.5.0 live dvd

2024-06-27 Thread Stephen White
Having tried gnome, xfce, cinnamon all will not list the usb drives that I wanted to install to. It listed the main nvme drive. The graphical installer had no issues so I am good now. But thought you should know.

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
You could try if Googles ML model "magika" can do a better job (available via pypi). Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better "file -i" say? Worst case, you could open the files in a hex editor and google the first few bits. Chances are the format uses "magic bits", so the first few bits in

Re: FortiNet SSL VPN on Bookworm - alternative clients?

2024-06-26 Thread Christian Gelinek
On 27/6/24 11:52, Christian Gelinek wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering what options I have to connect as a client to a SSL VPN by Fortinet[0]. Their official client "for Linux" has instructions[1] for CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu, although I found a blog[2] documenting the use of the Ubuntu package

FortiNet SSL VPN on Bookworm - alternative clients?

2024-06-26 Thread Christian Gelinek
Hi all, I'm wondering what options I have to connect as a client to a SSL VPN by Fortinet[0]. Their official client "for Linux" has instructions[1] for CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu, although I found a blog[2] documenting the use of the Ubuntu package on Debian 12. Then I also found (and

Re: new laptop: how2 enable suspend / hibernate?

2024-06-26 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 3:34 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 09:47 -0400, Lee wrote: > > My old laptop died - a tiny little pop and it powered off. So I've > lost my implementation reference. > > If you can get the disk drive out of your old laptop, get a USB adapter for > it.

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-26 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 13:26 +, Curt wrote: > On 2024-06-24, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > I composed a book in LaTeX because I wanted the equations to be set > > correctly -- and because I've been using LaTeX for decades and am > > most > > comfortable using it. > > > > All I know is if I send

Re: SD Card 32GB neuve non reconnue

2024-06-26 Thread Th.A.C
Le 26/06/2024 à 23:00, Alain Vaugham a écrit : > J'ai ensuite créé une partition (gpt) : > # cfdisk /dev/sdb1 je suppose que c'est une erreur de recopie, mais sinon c'est cfdisk /dev/sdb (sans le 1) sdb c'est le disque physique sdb1 c'est la partition 1 sur le disque /dev/sdb tu peux

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Richard
qpdf is good for e.g. removing any password protection - given you know the password. But I kinda doubt that's what's meant with editor. And quite frankly, you can do most of what qpdf does more comfortably with tools like PDFSam or PDF Arranger. The latter even lets you crop pages or rename the

SD Card 32GB neuve non reconnue

2024-06-26 Thread Alain Vaugham
Bonjour la liste, fdisk n'affiche plus une SD Card toute neuve que je viens d'acheter pour y installer une image Raspberry Pi. Ce que j'ai fait : # fdisk -l | grep /dev/sd Puis j'ai testé que sur cette nouvelle SD Card je pouvais écrire dessus. Une fois montée : $ touch titi.txt $ echo "test"

Re: About dash as sh

2024-06-26 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, Thank you for your answers. My intention was to understand if decisions about dash are still valid, not to tell Debian to switch back to bash of course. Speaking about "bug or not": This bug was confirmed by author: https://lore.kernel.org/dash/zm5y3du0c2mhd...@gondor.apana.org.au/ And

Re: Passage de exim4-daemon-light à exim4-daemon-heavy sous D12 Bookworm

2024-06-26 Thread François TOURDE
Le 19899ième jour après Epoch, François TOURDE écrivait: > Salut, > > Dans l'optique d'utiliser les fonctions SQL de Exim4, je vais devoir > passer mon serveur de mail du paquet -light au paquet -heavy de Exim. Je me réponds, ça peut éventuellement servir à d'autres: J'ai effectué la migration

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. > > David Wright wrote: > > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" version, M for noon, > > is out there in some pre-2008 documents. > > If you use M for noon you should use either AM

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-26 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. David Wright wrote: > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" version, M for noon, > is out there in some pre-2008 documents. If you use M for noon you should use either AM or PM for midnight. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Franco Martelli
On 24/06/24 at 00:50, Arbol One wrote: Hello. Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? Time ago I used Qpdf to delete some pages in a .pdf, for a quick description: ~$ apt show qpdf in the manual there are some command examples, I used these command to edit a pdf: - To

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-26 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 20:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 23/6/24 23:22, e...@gmx.us wrote: I started using 24 hour time in junior high school with digital watches.  I just thought it made more sense, especially for setting alarms.  Several decades later I've not seen any reason to change, though it

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-26 Thread debian-user
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 17:12:18 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > > The Wanderer writes: > > > (Similar logic could be used for 11:59:59 PM, 12:00 M, and > > > 12:00:01 AM, where the standalone M would stand for "midnight". > > > That does expose one unfortunate weakness of

Re: How to force Hewlett Packard ScanJet 2410c work?

2024-06-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 12:45:41 CEST Dmitry wrote: > Cannot make this device work. It worked at the Manjaro out of the box, now I > am a Debian User and need to make it run here. See https://fostips.com/setup-hp-printer-scanner-debian12/ HTH

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 25/6/24 07:53, The Wanderer wrote: Although I don't think anything or anyone actually does it this way, I think strictly speaking the correct 12-hour notation for that time would be "12:00 M" - followed by 12:00:01 PM, and preceded by 11:59:59 AM. Sorry to repeat you - well you did it

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 24/6/24 23:41, Erwan David wrote: AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM ... Umm 12Meridian?? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 24/6/24 00:53, Curt wrote: On 2024-06-23, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: I think we are losing sight of the fact that all of timekeeping is an abstraction and over-generalization. Time zones were created to help regularize railroad schedules over wide areas. Timezones are an abstraction that

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 23:22, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/23/24 02:30, gene heskett wrote: A attribute the FCC forced on broadcasters as they like to see transmitter logs kept in 24 hour time. I got so used to it that when I retired in 2002, I'd been on 24 hour time for 40 years and didn't convert back to

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 18:57, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:35:14 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, +14:00?? I've only ever heard of maxima of +/- 12:00. AFAIAC, it was political willy waving, nothing more; To be 'first' into the new millennium. As if that has any cachet

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 18:56, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:01:10 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, Not to mention some cultures change how words are spelt: colour, odour, metres to quote a few. Due, mainly, to the literacy of the people that moved, rather than any deliberate

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 12:48 PM Hans wrote: > > You can easily refotrmat it, either using fdisk or if you want a GUI, use > gparted. I just learned about fdisk today -- thank you! Lee

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > > Lee wrote: > > > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
Entire attribution and quote removed to avoid the mailing list treating this post as spam. I got the impression that Lee used windows in the past (and may still), which is why I didn't suggest the same as Joe. (Lee did write "on Debian"). And by devices, I was thinking more of TVs, printers,

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Heriberto Avelino
Well, The International BIPM writes the time with a colon: https://www.bipm.org/en/ Best Heriberto On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 23:34:45 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: >> On 24/6/24 21:41, Erwan David wrote: >> > Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : > >> >

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 23:34:45 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 24/6/24 21:41, Erwan David wrote: > > Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : > > > When my mom came to visit one time in the nineties she requested I > > > change my alarm clock to AM PM time (it is now 15:25 here in the Gallic > > >

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 17:12:18 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > > (Similar logic could be used for 11:59:59 PM, 12:00 M, and 12:00:01 AM, > > where the standalone M would stand for "midnight". That does expose one > > unfortunate weakness of this system: unless you introduce an

Re: Brother HL-L1210W

2024-06-25 Thread ajh-valmer
On Tuesday 25 June 2024 21:28:22 Haricophile wrote: > Le Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:18:46 +0200, > "ajh-valmer" a écrit : > > > Sans doute à cause du temps nécessaire à l'échauffement du toner. > ... Oui, il faut chauffer pas mal donc il faut chauffer «le four» (en > l'occurrence un rouleau) et c'est

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 15:43, Lee wrote: Whoever came up with scroll bars that play hide & seek should be tarred & feathered. Agree. Most programs that do that crap can be convinced not to. Same with Thunderbird putting the menu bar below that next bit, whatever you call it. Search the net for |

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > Lee wrote: > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > > & I now have a laptop running Debian. > > > > My

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, Hi, I don't know what happened, but your msg _finaly_ showed up in my inbox. Strange how it was delayed for so long.. > Lee wrote: > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > > "normal" flash drive

Re: new laptop: how2 enable suspend / hibernate?

2024-06-25 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 09:47 -0400, Lee wrote: > My old laptop died - a tiny little pop and it powered off.  So I've > lost my implementation reference. If you can get the disk drive out of your old laptop, get a USB adapter for it. Then you can look at your installation logs. > My new laptop is

Re: Brother HL-L1210W

2024-06-25 Thread Haricophile
Le Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:18:46 +0200, "ajh-valmer" a écrit : > Sans doute à cause du temps nécessaire à l'échauffement du toner. Principe général de fonctionnement: On électrise la feuille, on supprimer l'électricité statique les zones a ne pas imprimer avec la lumière, la poudre d'encre est

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 14:25:51 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So I have this digital clock up there in my panel, and in the virtual > machine here running Slackware I also have one. The one under Debian shows > 00:00 when it hits midnight, while the one under Slackware shows 12:00...

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 24 June 2024 05:53:00 pm The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-06-24 at 09:41, Erwan David wrote: > > > AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM > > ... > > Although I don't think anything or anyone actually does it this way, I > think strictly speaking the correct

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 08:01:26PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ > > It looks nice. > But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ It looks nice. But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be careful to run it outside of an isolated VM (which is actually true for most

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 10:39, David Wright wrote: Of course, we're not told what "normal" means, what was tried, nor how normality was tested. It's possible that they need to use, say, mkdosfs to get back to the state in which USB sticks are typically bought, so it can be plugged into other devices. I

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Hans
You can easily refotrmat it, either using fdisk or if you want a GUI, use gparted. With fdisk (also you can use cfdisk) I suggest first to delete all partitions, then create new one. Then choose your type (it is 0b for FAT32). Write to disk and quit fdisk. Then format the new partition, for

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > $ sudo mount offset=2291712 /mnt/fat For the archives, this would of course have to be $ sudo mount offset=2291712 debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt/fat The number 2291712 was computed from the partition start block 4476 multiplied by the block size 512. Have a nice day

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > Of course, we're not told what "normal" means, I guess it's a single partition with FAT. Around 2010 i got three USB sticks and kept their compressed original content. For examination of their MBR partition tables it is enough to cut off their heads: $ gunzip what

RE: hpe smart array s100i sp - DRIVER

2024-06-25 Thread Marcelo Olcese (Gmail)
El 2024-05-27 a las 11:22 -0300, Marcelo Olcese (Gmail) escribió: (y ahora me ha entrado este otro, vaya retraso lleva Gmail :-/) > Buenos día gente! > Tengo un server DL380 G10 con un hpe smart array s100i sp que ninguna distro > de Debian detecta. > Por lo que estuve investigando Suse sería

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Joe
On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 Lee wrote: > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > & I now have a laptop running Debian. > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable

Passage de exim4-daemon-light à exim4-daemon-heavy sous D12 Bookworm

2024-06-25 Thread François TOURDE
Salut, Dans l'optique d'utiliser les fonctions SQL de Exim4, je vais devoir passer mon serveur de mail du paquet -light au paquet -heavy de Exim. N'ayant pas trouvé grand chose sur le net au sujet d'une telle "migration", je voudrais savoir si vous avez des conseils, des recommandations, ou

Australia/Eucla timezone abbreviation (was: Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file)

2024-06-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/06/2024 19:25, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: 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 It was an intentional change, "+0845" is the abbreviation. That time it

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 16:23:16 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Lee wrote: > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > > "normal" flash drive again? > > You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with > the ISO. > Then you create one or more

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 18:46:26 (+1000), Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 23/6/24 00:52, David Wright wrote: > > > Excellent. Now how do we get our MUA to do that when replying to mail, > > > which is where I saw what I thought was a system error - but in fact > > > was a misinterpretation. > > I don't

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lee wrote: > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > "normal" flash drive again? You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with the ISO. Then you create one or more partitions. Then you format them to a writable filesystem each. If it

how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent & I now have a laptop running Debian. My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a "normal" flash drive again? Nothing I tried worked..

new laptop: how2 enable suspend / hibernate?

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
My old laptop died - a tiny little pop and it powered off. So I've lost my implementation reference. My new laptop is a Lenovo v15 G3 - installing debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso from a flash drive was trivially easy. Whoever worked on the how to install Debian from flash did an excellent job.

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-24, Van Snyder wrote: > > I composed a book in LaTeX because I wanted the equations to be set > correctly -- and because I've been using LaTeX for decades and am most > comfortable using it. > All I know is if I send a pdf file to my Kindle with the word "convert" in the subject line

Re: marble or marble-qt?

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 07:47, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am a little confused, because I got marble double on my system. There is marble (package marble) and kde-marble (which is marble-qt), which both look the same when started. Question is, which one should be preferly installed and can one be left?

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