Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-06 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:53:41AM -0400, Lee wrote: > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > "normal" flash drive again? Nowadays, people rarely "format" (*) their "drives". They create filesystems on raw devices. For example `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX`, where

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:27 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 2/7/24 16:24, Lee wrote: > > And if I don't want to leave Internet footprints - or if I just want > to give the finger to whoever is watching, I'll use the tor browser. > > > That is probably the worst thing you can do. On my last check *

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread John Hasler
George at Clug writes: > While collecting information about individuals and selling their data > is common practice these days It's common practice because people won't pay for services but will tolerate advertising. > Of course, by the mere fact of visiting a web site (for example, that > has Go

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread jeremy ardley
On 2/7/24 16:24, Lee wrote: And if I don't want to leave Internet footprints - or if I just want to give the finger to whoever is watching, I'll use the tor browser. That is probably the worst thing you can do. On my last check *most* Tor exit points are operated by intelligence or police ag

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread jeremy ardley
On 2/7/24 12:47, George at Clug wrote: Scott McNally’s quip that ‘you have no privacy, get over it’ is sadly true, but I don't think he meant that we have to resign ourselves to this fast, we can but do what we can to reduce the data collected, even while realising our efforts are mostly in

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread Lee
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:13 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 1/7/24 21:05, Lee wrote: > >> Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live > >> Server plugin > >> > >> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer > > Thanks, but no thanks. That see

Telemetry, data hoarding [was: how2 format a flash drive]

2024-07-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 04:09:39AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > > Is telemetry evil? Are guns evil? Philosophical questions? > > > > I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not > > just the causes of the

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Is telemetry evil? Are guns evil? Philosophical questions? > > I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not > just the causes of the "blue screens of death". > > I find it objectionable when people gather pers

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread George at Clug
Is telemetry evil?  Are guns evil?  Philosophical questions? I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not just the causes of the "blue screens of death". I find it objectionable when people gather personal "telemetry" and then on sell that information to others for

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 11:40:56PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself > > considered 'evil'. > > I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Absolutely. Plus (a) I don't trust most vendors to be telling the truth whenever their bottom

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread gene heskett
On 7/1/24 23:41, Stefan Monnier wrote: In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself considered 'evil'. I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Stefan I think that highly depends on what that telemetry is sending. Crash reports, yes, contents of a list of phon

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself > considered 'evil'. I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Stefan

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread jeremy ardley
On 1/7/24 21:05, Lee wrote: Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live Server plugin https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer Thanks, but no thanks. That seems to include the Microsoft spyware licensing: https://code.visualstudio.co

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:05:51AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM jeremy ardley wrote: [...] > > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer > > Thanks, but no thanks. That seems to include the Microsoft spyware > licensing: https://code.visua

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread Lee
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 1/7/24 10:32, Lee wrote: > > Bluefish looks like a possible replacement for notepad++ but it > > doesn't [seem to?] support WYSIWYG editing of html files. > > > Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live > Serv

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George wrote: > > [...] > > If you have any grips or difficulties, please mention them. > > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. [...] > something equivalent to notepad++, You might give Notepadqq a spin. I'v

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-30 Thread jeremy ardley
On 1/7/24 10:32, Lee wrote: Bluefish looks like a possible replacement for notepad++ but it doesn't [seem to?] support WYSIWYG editing of html files. Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live Server plugin https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rit

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Lee wrote: > >[...] > > ... which is the downside of free software. Technically, yes, I'm > > free to build the software with whatever I want enabled, with whatever > > changes I want added/deleted. > > I

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-30 Thread Lee
Hi, On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Lee wrote: > > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image > > viewer like Ifranview, > > `apt search image viewer` suggests: eog, eom, ephoto, photoqt.. > among dozens of others. But start with one of those. Thanks

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Lee wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > > > > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > > > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > > > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat >

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-30 Thread Lee
Hi, On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat > > set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 30/6/24 06:43, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing.  No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany +5 for geany -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com kei

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread George at Clug
On Sunday, 30-06-2024 at 02:46 Lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George 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 > > > > Lee wrote: > > > > > > > > > My old laptop die

Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat > set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-SSLkeys.txt > start C:\"Program Files\Firefox\Firefox.exe" > > @rem wire

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Lee wrote: > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image > viewer like Ifranview, `apt search image viewer` suggests: eog, eom, ephoto, photoqt.. among dozens of others. But start with one of those. > an html editor would be nice -- something along > the lines of the sea

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George 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 > > > Lee wrote: > > > > > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > > driv

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 XF

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 excel

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, scan

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 | scrollba

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 ques

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 agai

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 kee

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 v

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 wa

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 as

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 parti

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 shall

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.. I