Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 04:46:59PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > writes: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Yes, you can. Try [...] > Thank you. I see the error of my ways, now. I had tried just > about everything ex

Re: Loan companies

2018-07-17 Thread Ben Finney
Matthew Crews writes: > You might try the debian-legal list No, these questions are not appropriate on that forum (the summary of that forum is “Copyright, licensing and patent issues”, as you can see from the forum's website). Please be careful which forum you direct discussions to! -- \

Re: Boot fails after power outage

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
Bill Horton wrote: > Any thoughts on how to fix > the problem so I can put /backup back in FSTAB fsck?

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
70147pers...@telia.com wrote: > Nothing else, I love Firefox, and appreciate really the work all these > volunteers are doing, but if I cannot get sound from that programme the > way I prefer, I feel I am forced to look for another browser. > > Anyone who knows a way to bypass the announced limit

Re: Sane via GIMP.

2018-07-17 Thread Matthew Crews
On 7/17/18 9:35 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Just updated this debian 9 and tried gimp > file > create > XSane > Device > dialogue. > There chose the HP scanner. > > A window entitled "xsane 0.999 C2500A:sg0" opened. There I selected > Window > Show preview. (Previously, for years, the previe

Re: LTE router usage.

2018-07-17 Thread peter
From: Roberto C. Sánchez Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:16:20 -0400 > It sounds like perhaps MTU or clamp MSS might need adjusting. I can > envision a situation where the router sends out packets that are just > slightly larger than what the cell tower will route, causing the tower > to split

Re: LTE router usage.

2018-07-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 07:33:40PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Seems the data measured by the carrier is larger than the data > estimated by the users. The accounting by the carrier might be double > that estimated by the users. They were told or read that the carrier > charges for tr

Re: LTE router usage.

2018-07-17 Thread peter
From: Dan Ritter Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:57:17 -0400 > The relevant details here are the LTE channels that the router's > radio can tune: > > 4G: FDD-LTE Cat4 (800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz) > TDD-LTE (2300/2600MHz) > 3G: DC-HSPA+/HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS (900/2100MHz) > 2G: EDGE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/18

Differences between installs (was: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?])

2018-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I'm of the opinion we're all running different machines with >> different sets of software, and this explains that (could be wrong, >> though). > I was just -so- sure we all had the exact same installs. All joking aside: I've been maintaining about 4-5 Debian machines, all using Debian testing

Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-17 Thread Martin McCormick
writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yes, you can. Try > > sudo mount -oro /dev/ /mnt > > (for a more concrete example, assuming your USB drive comes up as > /dev/sdc and has one partition, say /dev/sdc1): > > sudo mount -oro /dev/sdc1 /mnt > > Now if you are usin

Boot fails after power outage

2018-07-17 Thread Bill Horton
Debian 9.5 on Dell Poweredge T310. After power outage, during boot, got the below messages on the console: Loading Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... /dev/sda3: clean, 279518/18317312 files, 11798527/73242112 blocks 6.912603] ACPI Error: SMBus/IPMI/GenericSerialBus write requires

Targeted Global B2B Companies emails list

2018-07-17 Thread rose . bryan
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Re: [Xen]: Heads UP: kernel from linux-image-4.9.0-7-amd64 might not boot on Xen

2018-07-17 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <9e5cd72f3a49245a58b3263d5976f96e.squir...@swampthing.dk>, Torben Schou Jensen wrote: > Yep, I had same problem last night, lucky me I started by upgrading a test > server before production server. > > I just see a workaround have been posted. > This workaround work here

Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-17 Thread john doe
On 7/17/2018 9:44 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of archives. When searching for information, most of the discussion was from people who had root file systems which had been corrupted so the mount process mounted them read-only.

Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 02:44:02PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of > archives. > > When searching for information, most of the discussion > was from people who had root file syste

Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-17 Thread Martin McCormick
The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of archives. When searching for information, most of the discussion was from people who had root file systems which had been corrupted so the mount process mounted them read-only. In this case, all is well and the drive

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-17 Thread 70147persson
Den 2018-07-12 kl. 00:37, skrev Ric Moore: On 2018-07-11 at 18:38, Kent West wrote:  On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:31 AM, <70147pers...@telia.com wrote: Hi all, I get no sound. After reinstalling Stretch a couple of months ago, the computer is silent.  May be completely unrelated...

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-17, deloptes wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > >> On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like >> Linux Libertine O look like? > > I was using LyX and it shows the fonts and shapes (how chars would look > like) AFAIR. > Otherwise you may look for a good command to p

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? I was using LyX and it shows the fonts and shapes (how chars would look like) AFAIR. Otherwise you may look for a good command to print the font (in a ghostscript or pdf file)

Sane via GIMP.

2018-07-17 Thread peter
Just updated this debian 9 and tried gimp > file > create > XSane > Device dialogue. There chose the HP scanner. A window entitled "xsane 0.999 C2500A:sg0" opened. There I selected Window > Show preview. (Previously, for years, the preview window opened automatically.) The result is at http:

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Jul 2018 at 11:49:45 (+0200), Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like. gwaterfall was mentioned here only a week ago. AFAIC

Re: Loan companies

2018-07-17 Thread Matthew Crews
You might try the debian-legal list Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com), Swiss-based encrypted email. Original Message On Jul 17, 2018, 06:25, Sheila Parker wrote: > There are several loan companies set up thru Debian that are issuing loans in > my daughter Shaynna

Loan companies

2018-07-17 Thread Sheila Parker
There are several loan companies set up thru Debian that are issuing loans in my daughter Shaynna Parker’s name. Please contact me as soon as possible to discuss assisting the authorities. I can be reached at 901-262-6776, my name is Sheila Parker. Sent from my iPhone

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
People are talking about manually setting the "scale" variable in bc, and using small values like 3 for it. Please note that this the scale variable is NOT just used for rounding of final results for display. It's used for internal precision of storage of ALL intermediate results. Using a small

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks > like. > westk@westkent:~/TOBY/MAC-to-NAME$ aptitude search fo

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: > > Alright, thanks for explaining, now I get it. Yes, okay, 3/9 mismatch. I just > quickly wanted to point out, that it is possible to store scale= in a config > file.. Yes, of course, we all understood that you were showing the example of your own file--th

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 14:08, wrote: > > [fontsmpl] > > Thanks! I did not know about it. Glad to help :) > > Perhaps this is what you're looking for? > > Not exactly, but it helps a

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 14:08, wrote: > There's a TeX file whithin your texlive distribution (Debian's TeX comes as > texlive these days) called fontsmpl.tex: > > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/fontsmpl.tex > > Its documentation is in > > /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/tools/fo

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Curt: > On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: > > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Curt: > >> On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: > >> > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > >> >> bc FTW - so quick, so handy > >> >> > >> >> First line I always run t

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like. The

Re: A Different Naive Question [Re: Naive newbie question]

2018-07-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
quoting. top Stop > On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 21:51 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > Have you looked at lsb-base? On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:57:58AM -0500, Austin LaBerta wrote: > i can neither find the source on salsa (since as far as what i've found > lsb-base is a stripped down version compared to

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Curt: >> On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: >> > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: >> >> bc FTW - so quick, so handy >> >> >> >> First line I always run though is: >> >>  scale=9 >> > >> > When you don't wan

Re: A Different Naive Question [Re: Naive newbie question]

2018-07-17 Thread Austin LaBerta
i can neither find the source on salsa (since as far as what i've found lsb-base is a stripped down version compared to the actual lsb specs?), nor a man entry. It has something to do with logging? I guess thats not very essential, although a breakage could be very annoying for locating other prob

Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Johann, On 17/07/18 13:49, Johann Spies wrote: > On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like > Linux Libertine O look like? This looks as a LaTeX question rather then a Linux one. > > Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like.

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Curt: > On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: > > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > >> bc FTW - so quick, so handy > >> > >> First line I always run though is: > >>  scale=9 > > > > When you don't want to type this every time: > > > > $ cat ~/.bcrc

Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

2018-07-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like Linux Libertine O look like? Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63

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Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: >> bc FTW - so quick, so handy >> >> First line I always run though is: >>  scale=9 > > When you don't want to type this every time: > > $ cat ~/.bcrc > scale=3 Nein? > Regards, > Stefan > > > -- The supe

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-17 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "P" == Piotr writes: P> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 12:57:58 -0400 Ken Heard P> wrote: >> Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of >> the tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire >> calculation. I find such "tapes" essential when for example I am >> addin

Re: Debian got too fat?

2018-07-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 7/16/18 10:45 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: My suggestion is unless you are prepared to adopt and maintain lsb-base, (as Didier has made clear he wants to orphan it), find an alternative tool to achieve what you want. I am already running my private lsb-base package for several months. The b