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?

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 13:25:10 +0100, 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 My guess is the time zone names

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread debian-user
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

marble or marble-qt?

2024-06-25 Thread Hans
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? I am running Plasma (KDE), buz I

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 18:35:00 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 23/6/24 00:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > In mutt, it would be: > > > > set date_format="!It's %a %d%b%Y at %H:%M:%S here, where clocks are > > UTC%z" > > I believe UTC%Z will give the : > > as I get from my text expander.

How to force Hewlett Packard ScanJet 2410c work?

2024-06-25 Thread Dmitry
Hi! Description:Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Scanner: Hewlett Packard ScanJet 2410c $ scanimage --list-devices OUT: device `genesys:libusb:003:012' is a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 2400c flatbed scanner See as 2400c now 2410c. $ scanimage --device-name=genesys:libusb:003:012 --format=png

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
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 see the point. The email has a "Date:" header. Sounds like I'm the only one who

Re: Publishing Formats

2024-06-25 Thread Richard
On 24.06.24 23:28, jeremy ardley wrote: [...]You have your content in a neutral format [...] ooxml is far from "neutral"... What you don't do is use these output formats as your primary content. Obviously not. That's why they are publishing formats, as in you send that in to be

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/6/24 00:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: In mutt, it would be: set date_format="!It's %a %d%b%Y at %H:%M:%S here, where clocks are UTC%z" I believe UTC%Z will give the : as I get from my text expander. Tue 25Jun2024 at 18:34:20 =UTC +10:00 -- All the best Keith Bainbridge

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

2024-06-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 06:21:57PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-06-24 at 18:12, 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 > >>

Re: LLM Local Documents ?

2024-06-25 Thread jeremy ardley
On 25/6/24 13:59, Jeff Peng wrote: does gtp4all have a shell only interface? my debian is remote server, has no desktop. GPT4ALl hosts a webservice on localhost - 127.0.0.1 There are many ways to access that including using haproxy or running a web browser on the server using X

Re: LLM Local Documents ?

2024-06-25 Thread Jeff Peng
On 2024-06-25 11:49, jeremy ardley wrote: I've installed a desktop Large Language Model shell GPT4all does gtp4all have a shell only interface? my debian is remote server, has no desktop. regards.

Re: Publishing Formats

2024-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 22:34:39 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > Someone gave me an old SCEPTRE display with a screen 11.5 inch by 22 > inch. I never before saw the usefulness of a wide screen. > > A reader such as Atril can take advantage of the wide screen, allowing > me to zoom in until the

LLM Local Documents ?

2024-06-24 Thread jeremy ardley
I've installed a desktop Large Language Model shell GPT4all GPT4All provides a gui interface to installed or remote Large Language models. I'm running Nous Hermes 2 Mistral DPO locally and I can also use remote APIs, I think including openai GPT series. I want to get GPT4All to index and use

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

2024-06-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 08:59 +1000, David wrote: > On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 22:42 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > tex4ht may be of use to you.  I love the package. > That's what Texmaker employs to translate LaTeX to HTML. It couldn't find the tfm file for the fonts that Amazon recommended.

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

2024-06-24 Thread David
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 22:42 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > tex4ht may be of use to you.  I love the package. That's what Texmaker employs to translate LaTeX to HTML. Cheers!

Re: Publishing Formats

2024-06-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
Someone gave me an old SCEPTRE display with a screen 11.5 inch by 22 inch. I never before saw the usefulness of a wide screen. A reader such as Atril can take advantage of the wide screen, allowing me to zoom in until the type size is comfortable, without the need to scroll left and right to

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

2024-06-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
tex4ht may be of use to you. I love the package. RLH

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

2024-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-06-24 at 18:12, 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 additional >>

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

2024-06-24 Thread John Hasler
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 additional > layer of complexity, e.g. using "00:00 M", the

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

2024-06-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 04:55 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Why not simply publish it as a PDF file? It's available on Amazon in print-on-demand (paperback or hardback) which I did indeed publish as PDF. But Amazon doesn't let you upload a PDF to be published for Kindle readers. They accept only

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF?

2024-06-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 20:15 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 24 Jun 2024 13:01 -0700, from van.sny...@sbcglobal.net (Van > Snyder): > > How do I create an ePub (or mobi) from LaTeX or PDF? > > Since epub is basically a zip archive of HTML, CSS and image files > plus a small amount of metadata,

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

2024-06-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> - Boot using the Grub on the X30's own HDD, and then ask Grub to boot >>the kernel+initrd found on the USB key (this is my favorite solution). > I think this is the path I should follow. It explicitly handles my immediate > problem and most likely satisfactorily handles issue(s) on other

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

2024-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
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 12-hour notation for that time would be "12:00 M" - followed by

Re: Publishing Formats

2024-06-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/6/24 22:22, Richard wrote: Since it's quite OT, starting a new thread for this. I would most certainly never call formats like ooxml or odf “publishing formats”, they are content creation or editing formats. From a publishing format I expect to be able to show the content as intended

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

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
First weapon of choice when trying to convert document formats would be pandoc. Have a look at it, it can handle quite a lot of formats. Other than that, there are guides like this [1], but it looks to me that you should just stick to LaTeX, as it's the best solution for typesetting, especially

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF?

2024-06-24 Thread David
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 20:15 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 24 Jun 2024 13:01 -0700, from [van.sny...@sbcglobal.net](mailto:van.sny...@sbcglobal.net) (Van Snyder): > > > How do I create an ePub (or mobi) from LaTeX or PDF? > > > Since epub is basically a zip archive of HTML, CSS and image

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

2024-06-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/6/24 04:01, 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. How do I create an ePub (or mobi) from LaTeX or PDF? I tried latex2ebook, which is based on

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF?

2024-06-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 24 Jun 2024 13:01 -0700, from van.sny...@sbcglobal.net (Van Snyder): > How do I create an ePub (or mobi) from LaTeX or PDF? Since epub is basically a zip archive of HTML, CSS and image files plus a small amount of metadata, I would start by looking for something to convert LaTeX to modern

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

2024-06-24 Thread Van Snyder
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. How do I create an ePub (or mobi) from LaTeX or PDF? I tried latex2ebook, which is based on latex2html. It crashes a few pages in. I

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
I wouldn't say PDFs are bad for visually impaired users. In fact, as bitmap fonts are thankfully a thing of the past for almost everywhere, you can zoom any document to your hearts desire. Though sometimes you need some tricks, e.g. Evince is configured to only use 50 MB of storage by default for

Re: Brother HL-L1210W

2024-06-24 Thread Erwann Le Bras
bonsoir jamais eu de problème avec FranceToner, je m'approvisionne chez eux depuis plusieurs années. Erwann Le 23/06/2024 à 17:01, Daniel SAUVARD a écrit : Bonjour. Une rapide recherche sur Internet indique qu'on pourrait trouver des cartouches compatibles avec cette imprimante, notamment

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Nicolas George
Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): > Good afternoon. > I am providing another option that might help here. > robobraille, > > www.robobraille.org > Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number > of different formats, including .html > They provide audio, mobi, and

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress. As a

Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote: Hello, this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. ... Second sentence should read: ... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL*

info Eclipse STS et Wayland

2024-06-24 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Bonjour, Pour info, si ça peut servir à quelqu'un, un jour. J'ai cherché un bon moment ce qui pouvait avoir annulé le rendu de la javadoc dans Eclipse STS. La solution est là : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75836319/sts-eclipse-does-not-render-the-javadoc-preview-at-javadoc-view

Re: System time/timezone

2024-06-24 Thread Felix Miata
Bret Busby composed on 2024-06-24 23:42 (UTC+0800): > The USA is a few hundred years behind the rest of the > world, and, cannot comprehend ISO standards - > the ISO standard for date, is > 2024-06-24 > -MM-DD > which is the most efficient way of expressing a date, using the > components

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

2024-06-24 Thread eben
On 6/24/24 11:42, Bret Busby wrote: On 24/6/24 21:38, Curt wrote: You can become confused, though, when filling out US forms where the birth date is written M/D/Y instead of D/M/Y, and sometimes you have to be careful not commit the silly mistake that will entrain months of delay in intricate

Re: Fail2ban testing

2024-06-24 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Olivier a écrit : > Quelques pistes: > - soit n'arrive pas à accéder à une ressources parce qu'une autre > instance de fail2ban ou d'un service, a déjà l'accès exclusif à cette > ressource > - soit un simple problème de droits d'accès sur cette ressource > (droits sur le fichier, son répertoire,

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

2024-06-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/6/24 21:38, Curt wrote: You can become confused, though, when filling out US forms where the birth date is written M/D/Y instead of D/M/Y, and sometimes you have to be careful not commit the silly mistake that will entrain months of delay in intricate *dédales* of the administration.

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

2024-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/23/2024 11:35 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Relevant laptop is so old I don't know if it can boot from a physical USB device. I was suspecting that simplest thing would be copying suitable image to hard drive and let GRUB earn its keep ;} Indeed my trusty old Thinkpad X30 doesn't boot from

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

2024-06-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/6/24 21:41, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : On 2024-06-23, 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

Publishing Formats (was: PDF Editor for Debian)

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
Since it's quite OT, starting a new thread for this. I would most certainly never call formats like ooxml or odf “publishing formats”, they are content creation or editing formats. From a publishing format I expect to be able to show the content as intended — which actually neither of them can

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

2024-06-24 Thread Erwan David
Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : On 2024-06-23, 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 two

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