Re: Size of initrd

> Sorry for that. I know it's a sleazy way of learning -- spewing out some > nonsense, being corrected and caching that for the next time. You're describing the scientific method, Stefan

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

> Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every so often, > almost surely to make it difficult for users of Linux to access Windows from > the Linux system. That seems highly unlikely: it's a tiny number of users, and not only they're not a threat but annoying them won't bring

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

> Microsoft has a bad habit of changing things under the hood without > bumping the version number. They could very well have changed NTFS > enough to bollix Linux NTFS libraries and not bothered to tell anyone. Except that `ntfs-3g` can read and write NTFS and hasn't seen the need for updates to

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

> As far as I understand, a USB to VGA adapter is basically just a video > card that just happens to connect via USB (instead of PCI-E or so), It could also be that its "USB-C to VGA" converts the displayport signal to VGA (in which case it will only work with those type C connectors which provid

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

> Finally, competing with the politicians, the scientists have > complicated things with their atomic time and leap seconds. Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? Isn't this info "global" (i.e. not specific to particular time zones)? Stefan "who for some reason presumed

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

> I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > version for intel on the system. > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after > loading the 64bit version or can I in someway just

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

> A word of warning for anyone else who wishes to try this: while running > an amd64 kernel on an i386 architecture installation is supported by > Debian, it may not be supported by whatever third-party applications > you're running. Some applications use the kernel's reported architecture > to de

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

> Wow that's a really nice tool. I am somewhat boggling, though, at the > idea in the Instructions[1] of crossgrading from arm64 to amd64. What > manner of machine can interpret both of those instruction sets?! While the idea of cross-grading was mostly developed in the context of going from i386

Re: Replying

> My mistake; I didn't mean broken in the non-RFC compliant sense, but > broken in the sense of "Not what I want to take place". I set a The problem is that you intend your "Reply-To:" to mean one thing, but other people use "Reply-To:" to mean something else (many use it without knowing what th

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

> I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick. The fine print on the package > says it has SecureAccess software. It is so secure it prevents me from > writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus > infested, scourge of the Earth software. Yuck! > fred@ragnok:/media/usb0

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

>> > Others have suggested reformatting, but maybe a more constructive path >> > forward is to return the bugger, complaining that it doesn't work. > > That seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Presumably > the stick was bought for some purpose. If you never complain&return those p

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

>> If you never complain&return those products broken-by-design, the >> companies will keep bringing them to the market. > Yes, but choose your battles. Agreed. I was just proposing it in to remind people that there is such a choice. > In this case the retailer would chuck it in the bin and ask

Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3

> https://askubuntu.com/questions/889164/use-phone-as-microphone-in-linux This looks interesting, indeed (tho Plumble is not maintained any more AFAICT, you might be able to use Mumla instead, also available from F-Droid). > https://www.bytesin.com/how-to-use-your-phone-as-a-webcam-on-windows-lin

Re: VPN ideas

> I suppose it may depend on where you are. In the UK, public wifi > normally uses no encryption, because there are no local staff who can > help with problems. So any unencrypted protocol you use can be > overheard. Around here we have a mix: - for small businesses (like coffeehouses or family-o

Re: Loadbearing services

> This reminds me of an article from ESR. > He pointed out that there are essential pieces we use everyday > without any afterthought or payment. There are people who maintain > software or services for free on their own time we could not > live without. NTP comes to mind. I thing gnupg is basicall

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

> been implemented by the components in Debian Bullseye. Does seem a > little perverse though if it should be implemented just after Linux > gains an exFAT kernel driver, a filesystem that only really exists for > interoperability between devices (i.e. those that will be removable > media). FWIW,

Re: Guest Samba shares

> Anything on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy > by default. I'm pretty sure that it's not the case. It's a matter of the OS you run on your Pi, not the fact that it's a Raspberry Pi. IIUC what you're saying is that you're not running plain Debian but some other OS and that

Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

> Makes you wonder how long it will be around; I guess a fair while > though. > [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/x_server_lead_maintainer_declares/ I can't see why it'd need to be around for very long, given that it can be replaced by Wayland + Xwayland. So Xorg is only useful to the ex

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

[ Beware: User of Core 2 Duo machines talking here. ] > It might turn out to be pointless. I strongly disagree here: it's by reporting such bugs that you can show there is still interest in supporting such hardware. > Users of older hardware, particularly Southern Islands and Sea Islands > user

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

>> AIUI a journaling filesystem provides a two-step process to achieve atomic >> writes of multiple sectors to disk -- e.g. a process wants to put some data >> into a block here (say, a file), a block there (say, a directory), etc., and >> consistency of the on-disk data structures must be preserve

Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?

> Aside: I usually don't buy (or even consider) things like refurbished disk > drives (what do they do, repolish the disk surfaces? ;-) (I'm being > facetious)) or devices like laptops that include disk drives -- partly because > of what I read once about adding memory and replacing the disk drive

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/01/msg00151.html > Very informative. Yes, I agree with Ted Tso's suggestion. I think the `non-free` repository needs to be significantly improved, so that the user is properly warned/informed when something is installed from there (in both senses: "i

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

> Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to > look at the 'vrms' package. Yes, I use that as well. But that's an "opt-in", and it's rather crude (and operates after the fact). I think Debian would benefit from having this kind of mechanism be much more "in your face"

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

> No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as > /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`. Stefan

Re: What is the command to access the temp sensors in a rpi4?

> ISTR there is a "vcg*" sort of thing to read that stuff, but have lost it > in the fog of time. If the kernel is sane, then I think that the following command should give you this info: sensors it comes from the `lm-sensors` package. Stefan

Re: What is the command to access the temp sensors in a rpi4?

>> > ISTR there is a "vcg*" sort of thing to read that stuff, but have >> > lost it in the fog of time. >> If the kernel is sane, then I think that the following command should >> give you this info: >> sensors > This kernel isn't "sane": 4.19.71-rt24-v7l+ #1 SMP PREEMPT RT This doesn't say wh

Re: What is the command to access the temp sensors in a rpi4?

> Its armhf Stefan, not wintel. Shouldn't make any difference, except for the fact that a lot of development in the ARM world is done in a kind of "cowboy" way: take some version of the kernel and then hack at it until it does what they want (with no regards for what will happen in the longer term

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

>> this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list? Good question. > It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it. It's definitely borderline. It didn't bother me (I happen to like those kinds of little critters, tho I went with a Librem mini instead, to put

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

> What is the purpose of remote power switch ? Probably to turn on the popcorn machine when you're not at home. Stefan

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

> # find /dev -follow -printf "" You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or `/dev/shm`. Stefan

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

> Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : >>> # find /dev -follow -printf "" >>You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or >>`/dev/shm`. > I tried that on / Not a good idea: the `-mount` will then preventi

Re: new harddrive degraded speed

> i bought a new harddrive > western digital red plus 6tb > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Family: Western Digital Red > Device Model: WDC WD60EFRX-68L0BN1 > Serial Number:WD-WX62D60C9L6X > LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 212e6b9ad > Firmware Version: 82.00A82 > User Capacity

Re: Upstream Default (FOSS) DDX Driver for NVidia GPUs is not Nouveau

> https://www.etymonline.com/word/amuse states that this is the "to, at" > prefix from Latin in a sense of "causing to", not the "not, without" one > from Greek. Funnily [oops, I guess I meant "amusingly"] enough, the two end up meaning kind of the same: in that what happens is that attention is d

Re: new harddrive degraded speed

>> Is it an SMR drive?  Interface speed may not be too critical if it is. > > WD says it is a CMR drive, and that they are separating the Red > designations to make it clear to consumers which are SMR and > which are CMR because people don't like buying SMR by accident, > which surprises WD for som

Re: Archivemail

> Also, progressive back-ups get very large very quickly using everything > in one file. FWIW tools like `bup` can do incremental backups of "mailbox" files efficiently. Stefan

Re: Recommendation for a netbook

> I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, and I want a good-ish resolution > (≥1600). Sounds like this might prove to be the main criteria. > And I need it to be not expensive, because that's for taking in > transports daily and sometimes leaving unsupervised in > classrooms. Apart from that, having the

Re: [OT] Wifi AP for Gigabit LAN/WAN

> I mean wifi 802.11n so I get round about 4 MB/s if I would get 30-40 > MB/s its ok. Thanks! I see so few reports of wifi rates with which I can relate, that it's like a breath of fresh air. I have seen 25MB/s actual download rate on my smartphone when connected over wifi in a coffeehouse, but

Re: URL to source file

Emanuel Berg [2021-01-27 10:49:49] wrote: > tomas wrote: > >> https://sources.debian.org/src/units/2.18-1/definitions.units > > It is still in some interface but good enough for a reference. https://sources.debian.org/data/main/u/units/2.18-1/definitions.units gives you the "raw" file.

Re: "Run fsck manually"..?

>> My brother's Debian system suddenly says on attempt to boot, "/dev/sda1: >> UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:Runfsck manually", and, "inodes that were part of >> a corrupted orphan linked list found." >> >> He enters "fsck" or "fsck /dev/sda1", and in a short while gets fsck >> identifying it's version,

Re: "Run fsck manually"..?

> There are no man pages for "grub" or for "grubenv" on my system. > There is a /boot/grub/grubenv file but it consists of one comment line, > ending in a newline, and then enough # characters to make the file size > exactly 1024 bytes. Incomprehensible. This is just a place holder to make sure t

Re: OT: Router behaviour

> I powered the router down again, plugged its WAN port into one of the > LAN ports of the ISP-supplied router, and brought it back up. I you sure you plugged your ISP-router into the WAN port of your (Buffalo) router and not into one of the LAN ports? The behavior you describe would be easy to

Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

> A wireless router made with hostapd/dnsmasq/dhcpcd is fairly easy, and > works well with iptables, with one shortcoming. > > After antagonizing the Google for hours, I can not find any way to add > reserved IPs based on the the MAC address of devices connected on > wlan0, (presumably in dhcpcd.co

Re: Jus thinking - Low level X GUI with shaders

> You have reinvented NeWS with Display PostScript > . Don't get me wrong, it was a great > idea, ahead of its time, and not especially well (or efficiently) > implemented at the time, so it may well be ripe for reinvention. I think nowadays the idea is called H

Re: Security: OpenWRT vs. Debian [Was:] Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

> I think we are really in basic agreement. The reason I use OpenWRT is > that I use a residential all-in-one WAP / switch / router, which Debian > is unsuitable for. If I ever go the separate WAP / switch / router > route, I'll probably use Debian on the router for the reasons you > give: good sup

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

> I don't know how far "some" reaches, but try -Q then > (mnemonics: Q like "quote"). > > Not Emacs-y, but worth a try would be -I You can also try `C-v` instead of `C-q` to quote the next key (not sure where this comes from, but it works in bash and zsh, IIUC), i.e. use `C-v TAB` to insert a TAB

Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

> Therefore, you'll find apretty advanced alternatives system > for client-y stuff in Debian (editor, MUA, what not) but > not for server-y stuff. Hmm... so that's your take on it? Maybe you're right. I was thinking of the display manager as a counter-example (you can install lxdm, gdm, and other

Re: Conflicting alternatives

Dan Ritter [2021-02-16 11:03:14] wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Still, there is to me no good reason not to allow installing both exim >> and postfix at the same time. I think it's just a tradeoff between how >> often this could be useful and how much work it take

Re: Conflicting alternatives

> Of course not. But it'll be the only way to find out which stumbling > blocks lie beyond the package-imposed "conflicts". And then, perhaps, > convince the DDs That Be. W.r.t multiple MTAs, I wouldn't bother to try and convince the DDs, at least not without a solid use-case, which seems quite un

Re: Conflicting alternatives

>> I can't see any reason why it should be fundamentally hard to make >> dpkg/apt ignore some conflict/require statements. Maybe it would take >> a fair bit of changes to the existing code if we want to make it work >> seamlessly (or maybe not, I don't know), but if so, it's only because >> the co

Re: Conflicting alternatives

> But if you're seriously figuring out how to have, say, coexisting MTAs, > and fold that back into the Debian project, then I would have thought > that tweaking the Control fields is part of the deliverable. My use-case is when the users (e.g. yours truly) have no intention of folding it back int

Re: Question regarding hardware choices

>> It works but it is only suitable for occasional or lightweight use. I >> wrote a how-to guide for building such a system; it is here: >> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html >> It is a little dated now but still valid. It details some >> optimisations you can do to boost life -- su

Re: question regarding live usb versus installed usb

> A live usb works on almost any machine that it is plugged into > But if you install debian on a usb drive that usb drive works only in the > machine that it was installed in (or maybe a machine that is exactly the > same as the one it was installed in) > > Is this correct? In my experience, no:

Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

> 5) the mirror debian site (ftp.acc.umu.se) had smelly prefixes as > subdomains (apparently Chinese transliterations) {chuangtzu, laotzu} FWIW, when naming machines in a subdomain (e.g. for .acc.umu.se) it's quite common to first decide on a "theme" and then pick names from that theme. E.g. a c

Re: Got a machine name problem

>> Then reboot and cross your fingers. > Arthritis at 86 is beginning to make that painful. :( I don't believe in crossing fingers either FWIW, I pick my nose instead, and I think it works just as well (but be careful not to do that right after chopping some habanero), Stefan

Re: Got a machine name problem

> Tomas, please read posts more carefully :-) FWIW, `man hostname` also mentions /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. Stefan

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

> A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. I think what you're trying to do is quite difficult. It's a bit easier than OCR, but still hard enough that it's not well supported by any tool that I know.

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

> Or, get Internet service that includes a modem/ gateway with an Ethernet > port. This is probably the best answer in the long run. Unless that modem/gateway is under the control of the ISP, in which case you're fundamentally inviting your ISP onto your local network, IOW into your private home.

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

>>> Or, get Internet service that includes a modem/ gateway with an Ethernet >>> port. This is probably the best answer in the long run. >> Unless that modem/gateway is under the control of the ISP, in which case >> you're fundamentally inviting your ISP onto your local network, IOW into >> your p

Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems

> https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf Not sure how this is relevant. This is like talking about the security of locks when the other guy is openly telling you he has a copy of the key. Stefan

Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems]

> The part that I find more interesting is the "emergent evil" thing. > Somehow the techies found that it is OK to do that and they did, > in the best of their intentions. I'm not surprised: it's quite common to want to get some kind of information about how your program performs (i.e. things like

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems]

> The abstract states: > > "In the DDC technique, source code is compiled twice: once with a > second (trusted) compiler (using the source code of the compiler’s > parent), and then the compiler source code is compiled using the > result of the first compilation. If the result is bi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Trusting trust [was: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems]

> AIUI compilers have been studied so extensively that their production is > largely automated. Oh, no. There are some parts we know how to automate, but by and large it's all hand written code. > Create an EBNF specification, feed it through a tool > chain (lex, yacc, cc, as, ld, etc.), and you

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

>> Another important consideration is memory -- non-ECC vs. ECC. Desktop >> stuff has the former, workstation and server stuff done right has the >> latter. STFW "memory error", "bit rot" and related. I prefer computers >> with ECC memory. > it's a really poor choice that that did not becom

Re: buildd and buildbot

> The klystron had one major flaw that proved Einstein was right when he > wrote E=MV2. Hmm... isn't E=MV² the kinetic formula from classical mechanics, whereas Einstein's similarly-sounding formula is E=MC² where speed doesn't enter the picture? > beam. So this beam was moving fast enough that

Re: Ping as normal user

> $ getcap /bin/ping > /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep BTW, if these caps are missing you can recover them with: dpkg-reconfigure iputils-ping -- Stefan

Re: df shows wrong disk size

> If the filesystem and the volume manager both agree on 4GB, I don't > know where df is getting the notion that it's 3GB. It seems very Sure looks like a bug. I think reporting it as a bug to the ext234 people is The Right Thing to do. Stefan

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

> I was finally able to find an app which does what I want > (https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/) Any chance this can be packaged for Debian? Stefan

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

> For good description of the problem (unpredictable names) and the logic > behind the chosen solution: >> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ The one thing I can't understand is why we still don't have "network interface aliases" (equivalent to syml

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

>>The one thing I can't understand is why we still don't have "network >>interface aliases" (equivalent to symlinks), so that systemd can name my >>interface enp2s0 *and* eth0 instead of having to choose between those >>two, just like it has no problem naming my SSD /dev/sda and >>/dev/disk/by-id/a

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

> /sbin/ifquery --list | grep ^en # or grep ^wl Of course, this fails when for some reason (either local configuration or lack or necessary info for "predictable" naming) the interface is called ... eth0! Stefan

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

>> I'm partial to VirtualBox. Is that on any of the Debian DVD'S? > No, because it isn't free software. > See for details. I believe what you wrote is slightly misleading: the base VirtualBox software seems to satisfy the definition of Free Software just fine

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

> I have an innate desire to help people, but more importantly I give > people the benefit of the doubt. Besides I self-taught myself a few > things along the way, so I consider it a win. Yes, please (and please remind me of that as well when I fail to follow it ;-) >> Now, which one of you is go

Re: How to have password shown?

> For the use his old father might do with a computer I think that cheap > board could do. Cheap or not, new hardware implies more garbage to dispose of, (a lot) more carbon emissions to produce the new hardware, ... BTW, for all I know, the OP might already be running Raspbian on a PI ;-)

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

> Because the hardware features to permit efficient virtualization weren't > available on i386-only CPUs. (And there's really no good reason to run a VM > host [vs guest] in i386 mode if it can run in amd64 mode.) By "there's really no good ..." I think you mean "I can't think of any good ...". F

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

> If it had been done 10 years ago it wouldn't need to be done now. :) [ The initial install was in 2003, FWIW. ] I do use 64bit Debian on another machine, but to tell you the truth, I don't notice any difference at all (other than bigger hex numbers in GDB which take up more screen real estate a

Attributing (was: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?)

>> (General observation: it's really quite annoying that you remove all >> attribution when you quote previous emails in your replies.) > It really is very annoying, primarily because it's intentional, and so > intentionally annoying, which is really, really annoying. Interesting. I never read a

Re: Attributing

> Attribute quotes accurately. Oh, right, another reason why I prefer not to put attributions is to make sure they're not inaccurate. > You've been told this before, BTW, at least once (it's in the archives) as > you appear to be expressing an element of "surprise" or something. Yes, I've often

Re: nXML "No completions available"

> I seek to edit a DocBook XML file in emacs23. Any chance you could try something more recent than Emacs-23? [ FWIW, on my emacs25 tests, the two lines you gave weren't sufficient: it decided to use docbook only based on the subsequent ... element. ] Stefan

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

> 3) It spurs me to ask: So, if not via LSB, what is the canonical way to > programatically determine the version of an installed Debian setup? Why would a program want to know? That won't give it very much information, since the system may very well have a mix of packages from different Debian r

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

> Solved the wpa_supplicant "No Such Device" problem on my system. > Change "allow-hotplug" to "auto" of wireless device stanza > in /etc/network/interfaces. But now wpa_supplicant fails to > authenticate. However, wireless dongle (Rosewill RNX-N180UBEv3) will > connect with security turned off o

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

> In my initial trials and tribulations with this thing, the driver was > the first thing I checked. No, got the correct one. The issue is not whether you got the correct one or not. The issue is whether the one you're using is good enough. > Just had to install the non-free Realtek firmware pac

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> Afaik it's advised to copy files to SSDs and not copy blockwise (dd) because > layouts can differ very much and performance would suffer. As long as the filesystem is properly aligned on a 4KB boundary, I don't think there'll be any noticeable difference. I highly doubt this explains the 2 minu

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> What is the proportional size between RAM and swap? There's no such thing. They're both sized depending on your particular needs. Stefan

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

>> > Just had to install the non-free Realtek firmware package which I did BTW, the "rtlwifi" family of drivers in Linux kernel (which includes things like rtl8192cu and various others, and which used to live in the "staging" part because it was not a well-enough behaved citizen) has been remove

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> I attached a screen shot of read write speed. > The 2 min hibernation time is when there is little or no contents > present. If I have many things opened, it would take more. Also, if the problem is in the time it takes to write the hibernation data, then those 2 minutes should mostly be spent w

Re: A followup on github discussion

> It now seems to be established that putting Open Source software up on > a public server is protected speech. Exporting copies of closed source > proprietary software, however, is not. This means that Microsoft has to > avoid knowingly exporting restricted material to certain countries. My und

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's unsafe, but just that it has downsides). I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically something that clueless Windows users worry about (a left over fro

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

> Btrfs is not my thing, but I looked at the reference that was posted, > and the Gotchas referred to within, and they mention log files having > tens of thousands of extents. Doesn't sound very good. Maybe it doesn't sound very good, but except for very specific circumstances, it makes no visible

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the > most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive > servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text > when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that > powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the ghost

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> How do I search for answer to my inadequately phrased question below. > 1. I assume that sector size is a _TERM_ reserved for something fixed >when the disk is manufactured. > 2. What is the proper search term to use for something whose dimensions >would be "megabytes/inode"? {I'll use "b

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes. > > Since the default inode size is 256 bytes, that tells us the inodes > take about 1.5% of the space

Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application

When I select a file and: - double-click - hit RET - hit C-o - select "Open with " in the menu Nautilus only refreshes the current window, placing the selected file at the top and nothing else (where I expect that it should launch the application, passing to it the selected file name). The only

Re: Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application

> Regression? Does this look familiar? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874003 It does: I removed /home//.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and the problem seems to have disappeared! Thanks, Stefan

Re: 24-hour vs. 12-hour time, ambiguity, and abbreviations (was Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster)

>> >> It seems intuitively obvious to me that between 11:59 Ante-Meridiem and >> >> 12:01 Post-Meridiem must lie 12:00 Meridiem. (Though 12:00:01 - one >> >> second later - would be Post-Meridiem again.) In my interpretation of this part of the world, it's never exactly noon nor exactly midnight:

Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster

> And the only solution to Zeno's Paradox that I've been able to identify > relies on the notion that space and time are not infinitely > subdivisible. Really? I thought the solution is that while the distance is divided at each step, the time between each step is also divided, so you end up perf

Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

> Do you have any problem with my statement: >> Today Linux is being used by an individual who is the _only_ >> user of a standalone system (e.g. laptop). Permission issues >> are much more intuitive in the Unix world than for a single >> user/owner of a laptop. I do: "Linux" is many different thi

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

> Donald Trump will go down in history as the greatest President in the > last 100 years, maybe more. I guess I could live with that, but only if he goes down quickly. Stefan

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

>     logger "Setting spindown on disk drive: $DISK_DEV" >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set SCT=4000 $DISK_DEV >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set STANDBY=1 $DISK_DEV I found sdparm inscrutable so far so I'm really curious how you came up with the above incantation (`sdparm -al /dev/sdb` do

Re: problem with slow network transmission

> What I have been trying a lot is Webex teleconferencing for my job. Those > all work great, including voice and slideshows, but seem to crash miserably > (including a loss of sound) if even a single attendant puts up live webcam > video. Very large conferences that disallow that work fine. We'

Re: psu or firmware?

> often for the price of a new battery you are already > a large part of the way towards just getting a newer > system (a raspberry pi might work for some people and > be much better instead). New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according to a quick search for "battery d

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