Re: System freeze using web browsers

Ben Caradoc-Davies composed on 2018-05-10 17:13 (UTC+1200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> It's a 7 year old budget notebook. Likely either 7 years of heat has taken a >> toll on some heat sensitive component, or dust accumulation is _causing_ >> overheating that might be overcome by a cleaning. Maybe i

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

Still an xpdf user after all these years. But... since I now have a laptop that has a touchscreen, is there one that supports a swipe interface (as in, I swipe left on the page I'm currently looking at and it goes to the next page)?

Re: System freeze using web browsers

On 10/05/18 15:40, Felix Miata wrote: You could have looked it up: https://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-v5-121-0430-11-6-c-70-4-gb-ram-320-gb-hdd/specs/ This would not have answered my question: "What video drivers and version?" It's a 7 year old budget notebook. Likely either 7 years of

Re: System freeze using web browsers

Ben Caradoc-Davies composed on 2018-05-10 15:17 (UTC+1200): > Alexander Beerhoff wrote: ... >> I’ve found increasing heavier problems using web browser. In earlier stage >> the “system” freeze (no ctrl-alt-function-key response) when watching long >> video online (say at least 30 min, say on you t

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 09/05/18 06:37 PM, Long Wind wrote: > >> i download a lot of books in pdf form from archive.org >> >> as an example and for test purpose:introductiontomo00plet.pdf >> >> but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slowin displaying them

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

On 10/05/18 13:37, Long Wind wrote: i download a lot of books in pdf form from archive.org as an example and for test purpose: introductiontomo00plet.pdf but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying them which program can you recommend? Thanks! I use and recommend qpdfview.

Re: System freeze using web browsers

On 10/05/18 09:17, Alexander Beerhoff wrote: Dear Debian Team, I’ve found increasing heavier problems using web browser. In earlier stage the “system” freeze (no ctrl-alt-function-key response) when watching long video online (say at least 30 min, say on you tube.com), now (as consequence of syst

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

On 2018-05-09 at 16:20, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 08 May 2018 at 22:39:55 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: >> What method are you using to delete it? >> >> If you haven't already, I'd recommend trying 'rm -r', *very* >> carefully, from a command prompt. (Unless you have an extremely >> unusual se

(solved) Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

Thank Gene Heskett, Celejar, Celejar and Ben Finney i've just installed evince but i won't abandon acrobat reader because i don't need advanced and latest feature Thank Charlie Gibbs but i'm afraid xpdf is too old On Thursday, May 10, 2018, 10:17:49 AM GMT+8, Gene Heskett wrote: On

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

On 09/05/18 06:37 PM, Long Wind wrote: i download a lot of books in pdf form from archive.org as an example and for test purpose:introductiontomo00plet.pdf but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slowin displaying them which program can you recommend? Thanks! If all else fails, there'

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

On Wednesday 09 May 2018 21:58:12 Ben Finney wrote: > Long Wind writes: > > but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying > > them > > Acrobat Reader is non-free software, which means the GNU+Linux > community cannot do anything to improve that software. > > What's more, even A

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

On Thu, 10 May 2018 01:37:19 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > i download a lot of books in pdf form from archive.org > as an example and for test purpose: introductiontomo00plet.pdf > > but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying them > > which program can you recommend? Than

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

Long Wind writes: > but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying them Acrobat Reader is non-free software, which means the GNU+Linux community cannot do anything to improve that software. What's more, even Adobe is no longer supporting that program on GNU+Linux https://forum

which program do you recommend to read pdf file

i download a lot of books in pdf form from archive.org as an example and for test purpose: introductiontomo00plet.pdf but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying them which program can you recommend? Thanks!

Re: System freeze using web browsers

On 05/09/2018 05:17 PM, Alexander Beerhoff wrote: Dear Debian Team, I’ve found increasing heavier problems using web browser. In earlier stage the “system” freeze (no ctrl-alt-function-key response) when watching long video online (say at least 30 min, say on you tube.com ), n

Re: System freeze using web browsers

On 5/9/18 5:17 PM, Alexander Beerhoff wrote: Dear Debian Team, I’ve found increasing heavier problems using web browser. In earlier stage the “system” freeze (no ctrl-alt-function-key response) when watching long video online (say at least 30 min, say on you tube.com ), now (as

Re: Emails

On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 17:22 +0100, David wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 21:16 +0900, likcoras wrote: > > On 05/09/2018 09:01 PM, David wrote: > > > I currently use Evolution for my emails with Debian 8. > > > > > > The version in the repository is very old, I'm currently using > > > V3.12. > > >

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

On 2018-05-09, Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 May 2018 at 12:50:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote: >> > > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> > > >> > > > On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote:

System freeze using web browsers

Dear Debian Team, I’ve found increasing heavier problems using web browser. In earlier stage the “system” freeze (no ctrl-alt-function-key response) when watching long video online (say at least 30 min, say on you tube.com), now (as consequence of system update??) cannot use any browser: tried chro

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 03:20:06PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > remove-empties () > { > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage: $FUNCNAME directories ... > removes any empty directories under the directories given after > prompting." 1>&2 && return 1; > local IFS=" > "; > fin

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

On Tue 08 May 2018 at 22:39:55 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-05-08 at 13:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 05/08/2018 10:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > >> Have you tried > >> > >> stat /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/grub2 > >> problem-2018-02-13/ > >> > >> and/or

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

On Wed 09 May 2018 at 13:01:09 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/08/2018 02:09 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 07:27:17 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I'm running Debian 9 with MATE. > > > My observed symptoms were initially observed related to what choices given > > > when

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

On Wed 09 May 2018 at 12:50:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > > > > On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:0

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

On 05/08/2018 02:09 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 06 May 2018 at 07:27:17 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 9 with MATE. My observed symptoms were initially observed related to what choices given when right clicking on the icon associated with a partition. Are you at liberty to talk a

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

On 05/06/2018 09:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/06/2018 09:26 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 06 May 2018 at 15:53:05 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote: On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:06:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely R

Re: Emails

On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 21:16 +0900, likcoras wrote: > On 05/09/2018 09:01 PM, David wrote: > > I currently use Evolution for my emails with Debian 8. > > > > The version in the repository is very old, I'm currently using V3.12. > > > > Is there a method for me to access a repository with a newer v

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"]

Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/ > └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 > ... > Goes on for 161 directories The name is 24 bytes long. Plus one slash yields 25. 161 times 25 = 4025 bytes for the problem directories. Plus 53 for "/home/...40/" = 4078. So

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

On 10/05/18 00:28, Richard Owlett wrote: >> /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/ >> └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13 >>     └── grub2 problem-2018-02-13

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

On 2018-05-09 at 08:28, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/08/2018 09:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> If you haven't already, I'd recommend trying 'rm -r', *very* >> carefully, from a command prompt. (Unless you have an extremely >> unusual setup, that should avoid any possibility of an intermediary >>

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

On 05/08/2018 09:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-05-08 at 13:48, Richard Owlett wrote: [massive SNIP] What method are you using to delete it? Moving directory to trash and then emptying the trash with MATE's graphical tools. If you haven't already, I'd recommend trying 'rm -r', *very* c

Re: Emails

On 05/09/2018 09:01 PM, David wrote: > I currently use Evolution for my emails with Debian 8. > > The version in the repository is very old, I'm currently using V3.12. > > Is there a method for me to access a repository with a newer version? > > regards, > > David. > > It is generally not re

Emails

I currently use Evolution for my emails with Debian 8. The version in the repository is very old, I'm currently using V3.12. Is there a method for me to access a repository with a newer version? regards, David.

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"]

On 05/08/2018 03:22 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: I couldn't interpret what I was seeing so below are excerpts of what was captured by script command. It is hard to understand what "script" wants to tell us. "less" would have been more useful for our purpose of displayin

Re: [linux.debian.user] question about exim.

On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 09:52 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: > > [...] > > > > Hmm. Good point. There are two options: > > 1. onet (my isp) is broken > > 2. fetchmail is broken > > Well, quick look into fetchmail manual and we have: > --8<---cut

Re: Chinese file name problem in xterm

On 09-05-18, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Ben! > > i use twm, don't you realize it when you see screen shot attached in my 2nd > mail of thread? twm is simple, i won't try xfce or gnome,they are complex, > they may display Chinese correctly, but they likely have other problem,  even > small proble

Re: Chinese file name problem in xterm

Thank Ben! i use twm, don't you realize it when you see screen shot attached in my 2nd mail of thread? twm is simple, i won't try xfce or gnome,they are complex, they may display Chinese correctly, but they likely have other problem,  even small problem like ugly font is unacceptable to me, yo

Re: iptables geoip not working after update to jessie

Hi. On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:37:52AM +0200, mj wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I upgraded a server from wheezy to jessie. Went fine, with one > exception: my geoip iptables rules no longer work: > > > root@jessie:~# iptables -A INPUT -m geoip --src-cc RU -j DROP > > iptables: No chain/targe

Re: [linux.debian.user] question about exim.

kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: [...] > > Hmm. Good point. There are two options: > 1. onet (my isp) is broken > 2. fetchmail is broken Well, quick look into fetchmail manual and we have: --8<---cut here---start->8--- -n | --norewrite

iptables geoip not working after update to jessie

Hi, Yesterday I upgraded a server from wheezy to jessie. Went fine, with one exception: my geoip iptables rules no longer work: root@jessie:~# iptables -A INPUT -m geoip --src-cc RU -j DROP iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. This machine was originaly wheezy, and at that time, I