Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-08-05 Thread deloptes
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > For the majority of use-cases, I really disagree that RAID is ever more > essential than backup. I can cook up some scenarios where this isn't > true, but they are not common ones. And I disagree with you, because if you do not have RAID, you loose the data instantly

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

2020-07-31 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have and have had no such problems. > I strongly suspect that there's something else at play. > E.g. its VM is performing a lot of disk IO. You mean you can run a VM from USB2.0 smoothly?

Re: Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

2020-06-30 Thread deloptes
Bob McGowan wrote: > Please see thread with subject "Be careful when editing /etc/fstab" for > a bit of background. > > My computer had two swap partitions, on two different disks, when one of > them started to generate CRC errors, seek errors, etc. > > Once I determined which of the two it

Re: Fw: Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-03 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > Nothing seems good enough. Do you want a picture? I'm not typing all of > that in on my tablet. Let's just let it go. I'm working on understanding > grub. I'm going to boot from a USB flash drive. When I want to boot from the USB drive with GPT configured I first make

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-06 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > I can point to several VMs that are running useful things on > buster in just over 256MB of RAM -- 384 would provide a fair > amount of headroom. > > nginx and mail and DNS and NTP and so forth, all at once. > > I note that EBay has lots of used 256 and 512MB DDR RAM

Re: Network services fail on startup

2020-07-14 Thread deloptes
Ross Boylan wrote: > tftpd-hpa is the service that fails most consistently. Fail also on my system without systemd. Everytime I reboot the server, I have to restart manually. I found out for the server it is better for now to not use systemd. I have GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet

Re: external bluetooth keyboard / mouse paired but not used

2020-07-15 Thread deloptes
Andrea Borgia wrote: > Devices are connected and show up in logs, that is where it gets weird. > Next week I'm home and I'll be able to try a physical kbd / touchpad > combo. You may have a look at the X server configuration. I don't use BT inputs, but I recall there could be some additional

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread deloptes
Michael Stone wrote: > If the goal is just to experiment then you could run an older version of > debian. (I think there's not enough memory for the current install > routine.) OpenBSD or NetBSD or a linux distribution oriented toward > small systems would run. Nothing will give you a good

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread deloptes
Davide Lombardo wrote: > Maybe I can just setup this PC as a Tor's Relay Perhaps you did not understand correctly. The old 386 architecture is not likely to be supported by recent kernels. The power consumptioned to processing power ratio is below reasonable value. It is not likely it makes

Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-03 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > The OP has described a problem with a ~2006 laptop which, as far as > I can understand it, involves GPT devices (as well as MBR ones), > and *BIOS* booting. > I am not sure if grub can boot off GPT without UEFI. I honestly never thought of this. For me both go hand in

Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-04 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > But, as said previously, old PC-BIOS does not care for partitions. > GRUB does. Normally it can handle partition tables if the necessary GRUB > modules are loaded. For GPT: insmod part_gpt Thank you Thomas, I now understand this use case.

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread deloptes
Davide Lombardo wrote: > On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote: >> >Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: >> >CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; >> >DRAM: 64 MB SDDR >> >GPU: RIVA TNT-2 >>

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-05 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > I was under the impression that i586 was a Debian invention for > kernels that had been termed i486, in order to prevent the impression > that they would run on 486 hardware (as they had done previously). > > I would expect a 700MHz Pentium III to run a 686 kernel. > My

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-12 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > Sorry, "idling" is probably not the best term—I extracted the line > from a spreadsheet of power consumptions for a multitude of different > electronics and electrical appliances. For this PC, it means switched > on, but with only the NIC waiting for a wakeup call. So the

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2020-07-10 Thread deloptes
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Re: Multiple routing tables

2020-07-09 Thread deloptes
Vincenzo Villa wrote: > It seem a sort of cache, but no effect with ip route flush or ip rule > flush. look at arp

Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-17 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > Now Debian Linux is running on my new hard drive using /dev/sdb1 as the > root partition. I need to set up a separate USB flash drive to do all of > this by default so I don't have to do all of this work every time the > computer boots up. I also need to install Grub2 on

Re: where to find location info of photo?

2020-06-21 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > From what I can gather the GPS data is in a separate file on the phone > so if using Exiftool you'd have to first put the GPS data from the log > file into the image file. I don't know, but GPS can be enabled or not - this is why I am saying if it is not enabled it will be

Re: where to find location info of photo?

2020-06-21 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > I don't know anything about GPS > https://exiftool.org/geotag.html > seems to be saying that GPS is in a track log and not the image. Mick, if you have not enabled this feature, it will not be there

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread deloptes
Brad Rogers wrote: > Hello deloptes, > >>I know I know - but no one cares. I > > So very true.  How's the slave trade going? When you look at Saudi Arabia and alike (Israel is not better)- it works just fine. Also in the west - in example all the companies that use child lab

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread deloptes
Eike Lantzsch wrote: > If we change the > language it might change the mind little by little - or not at all. > Depends on which influences on a person or group of persons is stronger. > ("For mere oppression may make a wise one act crazy, ..."[2]) You have obviously no idea of how language

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > In the end, we have to face the fact that there are statements which > have no truth value. And that is what i wanted to emphasize to defute > the argument that either "P" or "not P" must be true for all statements P. Yes, taken out of context, thank you (very helpful)!

Re: How to build GCC for a specific machine using pbuilder?

2020-06-19 Thread deloptes
Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > I've read something about setting flags like: --enable-languages= or > --disable-multilib , which I think would speed the whole process up, but > unfortunately I have no idea which file in the debian/ dir I should change > to build the GCC for my machine only. Any

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-22 Thread deloptes
Miles Fidelman wrote: > It's only a good solution if people actually adopt and use them. > They/them/their has caught on, but it's kind of hard to differentiate > singular/plural when you use them to be gender neutral. No people will not adopt them because it is against the law of economy in

Re: [?]Identify BT Card, enable BT to pair with BT enabled Loudspeaker

2020-06-24 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > I shall have to arrange for means to improve sound quality of the > played sound. > > Any suggestion in this regard would be welcome. I've read some advises to increase latency tolerance or similar in pulse. may be try searching for advises on the internet in this

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2020 18:51:04 deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Doesn't have a card, usb only, and worthless as machine vision if >> > you can't see what the machine is doing in very close to real time. >> >> Do y

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Doesn't have a card, usb only, and worthless as machine vision if you > can't see what the machine is doing in very close to real time. Do you have /dev/video ls -al /dev/video* crw-rw+ 1 root video 81, 0 May 30 10:38 /dev/video0 crw-rw+ 1 root video 81, 1 May 30

Re: new camera

2020-06-27 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > I'll give that a try, but it really has to run on a wheezy install, using > camview, which has the target structure for precision point location > built in. I understand you very well - it might be this one liner is from the time of wheeze as I used back then (wheezy

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > [598961.999017] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device SPCA2650 AV Camera > [(1bcf:284c) 598962.015747] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for > [entity Extension 4 was not initialized! 598962.015756] uvcvideo > [1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 3 was not

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Hi, I can only share what I did when taking similar decision echo test wrote: > So, I want to know if It's a good idea to try using Debian in an > enterprise context, with hardwares like Dell EMC PowerEdge or Lenovo > ThinkCenter which seems to never mention that they support Debian. What > kind

Re: Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-14 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > I'm kind of stuck using the ProtonMail app on my tablet. > > I would like to be able to disconnect the internal hard drive in the > laptop. I'll need to turn off the laptop before moving it so I can look > for that model number. I hope to get to that soon. I can't do

Re: How to build GCC for a specific machine using pbuilder?

2020-06-19 Thread deloptes
Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > I know, but have you ever seen the debian/ dir in the gcc sources? Take a > look here[1]. > Until now I have not, but what is exactly the problem? You have what you need in the beginning include debian/rules.defs include debian/rules.unpack include debian/rules.patch

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I really like "redlist" and "greenlist". Traffic lights abound in every > country and are most probably well understood everywhere. > Have a nice day > Eike I think you deal with symptoms and not with the causes. Obama was 8y in power - what he did? Right - nothing! You

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > Wrong.  "Nigger" (a corruption of negro) was only used by whites and > always had derogatory connotations.  "Black" originated with blacks and > has no derogatory connotations (except as used by racist whites who > would say "nigger" if they could get away with it).  It is

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> I think you deal with symptoms and not with the causes. >> Obama was 8y in power - what he did? Right - nothing! > > I guess opinions on that will vary. I don't know whether this is a > language problem, but I feel you tend to state your opinions as if > they were

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > I have yet to see a use of the term "political correctness" in > modern speech -- say, since 1990 -- that did not mean "people > are being polite and I don't want them to be polite". > > I'm open to correction if you have real-world examples. It is all about dictatorship -

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > That's *probably* not a problem relative to the fact that this is a USB3 > external hard drive, but it certainly can't be helping. I am not sure, but I think there were 686 BIOSes that could not see 4TB disks

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
elvis wrote: > Since the terms have nothing to do with race, then no. Are you proposing > to rename everything with the word black in it? Sometimes a cigar is > just a cigar. > > >> "allowlist" and "rejectlist" >> instead of (for example on disk drives) "master" and "slave" I like to >> propose

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Wait a sec. This is getting really weird now. Logic doesn't care about > your views. > Neither it cares about yours tomas. And regarding filtering out - I really can't tell - so why writing it down? I read yours with pleasure as far as they are of technical nature

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Others have already addressed your logic better than I could. > > Instead I'd like to point out that "normal" is basically just some state > agreed on by a specific majority. > > Or maybe you think that everyone should be running Windows and Linux > doesn't make any

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > i wrote: >> > Kurt Goedel. Incompleteness theorem. > > deloptes wrote: >> If you've been studying logic you would know better, > Exactly you wrote Goedel - the science of logic did not end up with Goedel ... at least not for me ;-) But Thom

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Any system of thought, which follows the principles of classical logic > and which contains the usual math of natural numbers, contains statements > which are neither true nor false. > Kurt Goedel. Incompleteness theorem. >

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > * If you consider white to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., black) is > considered to be not normal. > > * If you consider male to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., female) is > considered to be not normal. > > * If you consider right-handed to be normal, then all the

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread deloptes
Brad Rogers wrote: > {leaving aside that language isn't maths, binary logic doesn't apply to > people, and any other canard you care to take a swing at} > > That's why the term used most often now is LGBTQ+, which includes more > sexualities.  The goalposts are still moving, however. > > Above

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > There have been 16 responses to your post in the past 36+ hours.  You > should reply to at least some of them. > > > David Excellent reading (at least for me) even if OP does not reply, it is not wasted. regards

Re: [?]Last Mile problem enabling Bluetooth Device on Lenovo Laptop

2020-06-28 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Model (India): Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop > (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), Platinum Grey > The OSes are Debian (Stretch) 9.11.0 Lxde and Knoppix 8.6.0, in 64-bit > operation. > > All details/specifications of my used Lenovo

Re: Reminder about the Debian Code of Conduct

2020-06-25 Thread deloptes
davidson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> Dear users, >> >> In the past days we saw multiple emails discussing about non >> Debian-related things and infringing the Code of Conduct[0] of the >> Project in the same time. > > Oh, crap. I think I know what this is about.

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-17 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > My computer cannot see a GPT partition table. I've had to use a dos MBR > partition table on my USB flash drives. I mount my file systems as > read-only first so I can check them after booting before remounting them > read-write. I am sorry to say it, but you are not

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-08 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > USB2 disks are good for about 25MB/s. > Where do you have those numbers? USB 2.0 standard can theoretically transfer data at a very high 480 megabits per second (mbps), or 60 megabytes per second (MBps) [for example in wikipedia). but as you say it is slowing down at some

Re: LaTeX.css

2020-06-03 Thread deloptes
Weaver wrote: > This looks like it might be an interesting little addition, if anybody > was interested: > > https://medium.com/syncedreview/new-latex-css-library-enables-websites-to-look-like-latex-docs-690a36e30f4b > > Cheers! Cool, thanks

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

2020-06-10 Thread deloptes
Michael Stone wrote: > It helps create a positive community. Constantly attacking people > because you think they're in some way wrong does not. Who is giving you the right to judge others? This beeing asked politely! I am honestly fed of this. When I read following: There is no

Re: [OT] How to help the OP? (was: How long will this take?)

2020-06-11 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> Now the superior moral leftists came here to judge what is polite and >> what > ^^^ > > Again, your idea of polite differs from mine by a wide margin. With all respect to you tomas this is perfectly OK. Deviations should be acceptable both right

Re: Need commands

2020-06-13 Thread deloptes
ROHIT SONI wrote: > I need full commands for 2020.2 gnu/linux rolling kali tty1 I need 100,- €

Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > I booted the Debian netinst disc and installed Linux on /dev/sdb1 as the > root partition. My computer is old. The system BIOS does not see this hard > drive, nor does Grub, but the Linux kernel does. I'm running the > 4.19.0-9-686-pae kernel, #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2

Re: bluetooth keyboard

2020-07-17 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > added myself to input group but no joy. > keyboard has sticker "Generic Bluetooth Apple keyboard". > I use wireless mouse which Just Works. > Bluetooth Dongle I think was described as for Apple. > keyboard and dongle worked on macmini. > I'd have thought that Blueman would see

Re: Bluetooth audio periodic disconnect

2020-07-28 Thread deloptes
Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > I am on bullseye. > I have tried and tested this with many headphones > > When on bluetooth the audio gets periodically disconnected and > re-connects > to audio after 5 seconds. > During the time the bluetooth per-say does not get disconnected but just >

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

2020-07-30 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > Other then increasing the size of my internal storage, can I do > something about it? Some boards have SATA or eSATA port that would match external USB-drive with SATA/eSATA. My one did not have it on board, but I added a 2 Port card with SATA and connect a rather old usb2 box

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

2020-07-30 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > What makes you think so?  Does it overheat?  Is the "load average" too > high? Where is the CPU time spent (i.e. e.g. what does `top` say, is it > mostly in "wait"?  "kernel"?  "user"?)? > > Have you tried to install a similar (tho probably smaller) VM on your > internal

Re: Swappiness in Buster

2020-07-06 Thread deloptes
Martin Reissner wrote: > Yeah, only talking about server and mostly database applications. I > usually set it to 1, but even tried 0 which disabled swap completely on > Stretch but on Buster it didn't make a difference at all, the setting > seems to be ignored while using default swappiness (60?)

Re: Does anyone else use Bibus

2021-01-12 Thread deloptes
Rob Hurle wrote: > *Bibus* > I'm using Debian Stretch and have been for some time.  For bibliographic > work, I want to use Bibus.  If anyone else out there is using this useful > bit of software I'd like to know, or if anyone knows of a mailing list to > discuss issues, I'd also like to know.  

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-29 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > >> Maybe I just need two drives, and just do a cron job to rysnc to backup >> once a week or something. > > RAID is not a substitute for a backup. Backup is not a substitute for > mirroring. One does not exclude another, so use both. I find borg backup worth looking in,

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-06 Thread deloptes
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > [18820.144438] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated Camera > [(5986:0299) 18820.147743] uvcvideo 2-4:1.0: Entity type for entity > [Processing 2 was > not initialized! > [18820.147758] uvcvideo 2-4:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not > initialized! >

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Some of us do need the webcam for video calls / conferences ;) > (family, friends or work) > Andrei, forgive me the the joke, but I doubt you are a model or movie star, I would insist looking at :D - same for me :D. I understand this but do not understand completely why

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-06 Thread deloptes
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > In this case, what's the oldest kernel I can install on Stretch? you mean the most recent? I don't know - it looks like there is no solution though as even in later 5.6 similar issues are reported. The latest stable kernel is 5.10.5 https://www.kernel.org/ Better think

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > No, I mean the opposite. The oldest that can be installed on Stretch > Because I didn't have a problem with older kernels. I must have > uninstalled some of the oldest kernel I had. At the moment I have: > from what I read you need a 3.x kernel to be sure it works. Last

Teamviewer and Wyland on Debian Buster Gnome desktop

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
Hi, after upgrading one machine from Stretch to Buster Teamviewer told me that it does not support remote control with Wyland. What should I use to get remote control (occasionally) in this configuration? thank in advance

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Typically a Debian release should run with the kernel from the previous > release (makes dist-upgrade easier), specific exceptions are mentioned > in the Release Notes. > > If possible you should stick with kernels from the LTS project (as far > as I know stretch is still

Re: Teamviewer and Wyland on Debian Buster Gnome desktop

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Either run GNOME in an X11 session, or run someting other than GNOME. Thank you - how do I let Gnome run in X11 session? I am afraid the user would stick to Gnome.

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-06 Thread deloptes
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Thanks. This is the dmesg log while giving the 2 commands as above: > > After `sudo rmmod uvcvideo`: > [15630.304614] usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo > > After `sudo modprobe -v uvcvideo`: > > [15651.636552] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated

Re: Teamviewer and Wayland on Debian Buster Gnome desktop

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > I'm unconvinced with the Noob explanation. My search engine corrects > wyland→wayland itself, whether I prefix the search with teamviewer, > gnome, or x11. Searching for 'buster wyland' suggests 'buster wiand', > but the first hit is still 'Wayland - Debian Wiki', and there

Re: Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch

2021-01-07 Thread deloptes
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Thanks. So, this is the list of all linux-image-amd64: > https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/linux-image-amd64/ > > Which one should I install? Which was the first kernel that came with > Stretch? Otavio, come on, does google not work on your PC?

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-20 Thread deloptes
Flo wrote: > I installed dovecot but it didn't really work. Actually only with one > specific account, the one which produces this big mbox file. And I > couldn't figure out the reason. > > So I recompiled popa3d and it seems to work now. Anyway - consider migrating from the mbox format to

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-21 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > I can't understand how anyone would want to have a live INBOX > file containing 2GB of emails. Apart from the risks, it just > seems so disorganised. I don't even try - there are all kinds of people out there - and everybody is free. And surprisingly the OP recompiles the

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-09 Thread deloptes
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Hmm. When I put a new flash device into service, at the very least, I > wipe all bundled content from it, and may completely reformat it, > depending on my needs, just as a matter of course. I was buying recently many (about 10 SanDisk drives in the past 2-3y). All

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-08 Thread deloptes
Tixy wrote: > I never use hibernate and my disk is > encrypted hibernation works with encryption just fine. I have a problem though with hibernation+NFS

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread deloptes
Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my > server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server > by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not > from my workstation. When I try to print anything from my

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-08 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > If you never complain those products broken-by-design, the > companies will keep bringing them to the market. > Your idea is not bad but only in theory of a dreamer. Nobody cares if you return 1 or even 1000 of 6,- US$ end user price product. It costs perhaps 1$ to

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

2020-11-28 Thread deloptes
Kanito 73 wrote: > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for > LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time ago and it was slow as a turtle. Is > there another networking service available that runs faster only for > LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for everything_

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

2020-11-30 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > This is completely inaccurate.  Time zones were not devised by drawing > equally-spaced meridian lines along the globe.  They were invented > by political entities.  They aren't static, either -- they change > from time to time, as political regimes change. > > Time zones

Re: Debian 10 Buster - difficulty setting up mariaDB 10.3.27 users for use with Debian mediawiki 1.31 package

2020-12-14 Thread deloptes
Keith Christian wrote: > Next, I logged in with this: > mysql -u root -p > > But as I remembered, (it's been awhile) one cannot create any users in > this mode due to --skip-grant-tables. When installed in Debian it does not have password (AFAIR). It is sufficient to execute "mysql -u root -p"

Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-15 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here, > assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following > debian-devel. > this is true - thank you I became aware of the i386 issue on the geode dev news list (AFAIR) some time ago (may

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread deloptes
Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. > But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root > partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? yes, it is - more problematic is the password of the encrypted drive - you

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread deloptes
Paul M Foster wrote: > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > used these anymore. I'll have to figure out how to even read/post there. > It's been decades since I had anything to do with newsgroups. > > Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. > you are

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread deloptes
Paul M Foster wrote: > Any idea why contents are not showing up, and what can be done to remedy > this? could be permissions on /media/pi/music ? I use it here as domain controller - only dedicated users - not sure about the guest settings, but the mount point is strange. Somewhere it said

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread deloptes
Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Mick, > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:55:58AM +, mick crane wrote: >> I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have >> gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. > > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-24 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > Yes. And that's probably why google searches so often land on Arch > wiki pages—I assume that google is still ranking on the basis of > links to pages. Links to pages?! Clicks on links and profiling

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-18 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: >> Does someone run desktop with 4k screen and high frame rate (150 fps+)? >> What monitor and gpu are you using? Are you having any issues? > > > There are no 4K 150Hz monitors currently commercially available. OP is asking about 150+FPS and you are talking about 150Hz. I am

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-18 Thread deloptes
Jerry Mellon wrote: > I am the only user on my laptop, an ASUS gaming machine Core i7. I gave > up on Windows 10 after one of the so called updates corrupted the system > so bad I could even boot. So I switched to Linux and I am learning a > lot, mostly from the Debian-user list. It is good to

Re: Mysterious Clementine dependency on libgcrypt.so.11

2020-12-19 Thread deloptes
Anssi Saari wrote: > Never mind, old libmtp in /usr/local was the problem. Note to self, > these should be cleaned up sometimes... One good advise is to isolate custom builds and follow the rule 1. if possible build debian package 2. if not possible isolate in dedicated "prefix" for example

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-19 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > In what way does it rock? It hasn't any focus on Debian. Examples > welcome. Not on Debian, but it explains programs, subsystems and configurations much better. AFAIR it was discussed once here. What I was reading there, because the info I found on debian was confusing, outdated

Re: Query regarding Debian 9.9 (stretch)

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
didier gaumet wrote: > By default Stretch seems too ancient to support your chip and you would > need is install both the kernel and the firmware from Backports to support > it In any case the OP is asking also if this is on the installer, which it is obviously not. So th answer to actually both

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Ok, what about permissions for the /media and /media/pi directories? > > > This is likely my last attempt to help with your troubleshooting as I > have only limited and less than recent experience with Samba. +1 and also is important to know what the exact issue is,

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > It is perfectly feasible to run your Raspberry Pi on (relatively) stock > Debian - https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi with a bit of luck. I heard it would work with some 5+ kernel from debian. My experience with the RPi4B was negative, because of the kernel (4.19) in

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> >> There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read >> already: >> >> 1. it is RaspberryPI OS (based on debian but there is also dedicated list >> wher

Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-15 Thread deloptes
Hi Andrei, thank you for posting on this very important topic. I want to share my experience and view hoping that you draw some useful conclusions and we can keep i386 in some way available. Andrei POPESCU wrote: [snip] > > My intuition is also that i386, although becoming less popular, was

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-20 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > I'll want to make an extended partition of the whole disk first with > fdisk. > but not sure the order I need to do things in after that. > Can see what VG is called with "vgdisplay" > will "vgextend my_VG /dev/sdx1" > sort out making the Physical Volume and the Logical Volume

Re: NULL pointer dereference

2020-12-20 Thread deloptes
Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > btw I think it started after installing HPE Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331T > Adapter. This is server adapter end requires PCIe pin B5 and B6 covering > to disconnect SMBus come on, this is important and you did not mention it! Shame on you :) now try removing the card and see

Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why?

2020-12-20 Thread deloptes
Gregor Zattler wrote: > This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports, > pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports). > > Any ideas how to re-enable pinentry-qt (which displays most > info about the key in question)? why would you install gpg from backports? If

Re: How to write in Chinese

2020-11-19 Thread deloptes
Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > GNU Emacs comes with did someone asked about Emacs and I missed it? The Emacs religion followers never sleep :)

Re: No Bluetooth adapter found

2020-11-21 Thread deloptes
Edgar Villanueva Jr wrote: > Asus laptop x453s https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1713290 here are some good ideas. most people do not know they have to enable the wireless and the BT. 1. check if driver etc is working and you have hci device visible (rfkill, hcitool) 2.

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