Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:14:06PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:54:30PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > The Question: Will it be straightforward to convert the Wheezy machine > > > (which > > > has USB ports) to use a US

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

On 1/2/19 4:47 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Background: I currently have two computers connected to my keyboard, mouse, and display via a KVM switch -- the KVM switch uses PS/2 connections for the mouse and keyboard. One of the connected computers (running Jessie) uses a PS/2 to USB cable adapt

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 22:50:10 (-0500), kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:33 AM Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > > With the pdf-files from my Canon scanner, I did shrink them with the help of > > ghostscript: > > > > $ ps2pdf old.pdf new.pdf > > > > This does not help. The fil

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On 2019-01-02 5:51 a.m., Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating the possibility to switch on debian so I hope you will give your experiences about this t

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:54:30PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: The Question: Will it be straightforward to convert the Wheezy machine (which has USB ports) to use a USB port instead of the PS/2 ports to connect the mouse and keyboard (via the KVM switch) -- is it as simp

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:23 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 14:44:14 (+), Brian wrote: > > > > I'm intrigued; I hadn't realised that conversion of the scanned image > > for some vendors' devices took place on the device itself. How do you > > know this happens? It is the front

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:33 AM Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > With the pdf-files from my Canon scanner, I did shrink them with the help of > ghostscript: > > $ ps2pdf old.pdf new.pdf > This does not help. The file sizes are more or less the same (if anything, they are slightly larger). Original

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 19:54:30 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > The Question: Will it be straightforward to convert the Wheezy machine > > (which > > has USB ports) to use a USB port instead of the PS/2 ports to connect the > > mouse and keyboard (via the KVM swi

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 16:54:37 (+), Joe wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:51:47 +0100 wrote: > > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even > > think about how many security holes lurk in there. > > The practical alternatives are to hook the scanner into the SMB sharing >

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 5:51 AM Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Why you choose debian on server? Where for you it is better than centos > and other server distro? Please see this faq https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-basic_defs.en.html#s-difference 1.5 What is the difference between De

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 19:17:00 (+), mick crane wrote: > On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +, Joe wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a ra

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 14:44:14 (+), Brian wrote: > On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 22:41:06 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 1:40 PM wrote: > > > > > > Yep. The one image is encoded as CCITT (aka Group 4, aka fax [1]), which > > > is > > > passable for low res B&W images,

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > The Question: Will it be straightforward to convert the Wheezy machine > (which > has USB ports) to use a USB port instead of the PS/2 ports to connect the > mouse and keyboard (via the KVM switch) -- is it as simple as shutting the > computer down, changing the

Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

Background: I currently have two computers connected to my keyboard, mouse, and display via a KVM switch -- the KVM switch uses PS/2 connections for the mouse and keyboard. One of the connected computers (running Jessie) uses a PS/2 to USB cable adapter to a USB port to interface to the KVM swi

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On 1/2/19 5:16 PM, deloptes wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine with a head. so you are saying you can not ssh -X to the server and run your gimp if that is wha

Re: WSUS - DEBIAN

si en eso estoy. estoy con google. On 1/2/2019 5:38 PM, Victor Padro wrote: Si, pero la mayoría esta en inglés, con google puedes hacer mas. Suerte. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 4:36 PM Eriel Perez wrote: existira algun video o manual que explique como hacer est

Re: WSUS - DEBIAN

Si, pero la mayoría esta en inglés, con google puedes hacer mas. Suerte. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 4:36 PM Eriel Perez existira algun video o manual que explique como hacer esto? > On 1/2/2019 5:35 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > > Puedes crear tu propio mirror local o implementar tu propia herramienta de

Re: WSUS - DEBIAN

existira algun video o manual que explique como hacer esto? On 1/2/2019 5:35 PM, Victor Padro wrote: Puedes crear tu propio mirror local o implementar tu propia herramienta de provisionamiento con foreman. Saludos, On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 3:54 PM Eriel Perez wro

Re: WSUS - DEBIAN

Puedes crear tu propio mirror local o implementar tu propia herramienta de provisionamiento con foreman. Saludos, On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 3:54 PM Eriel Perez Hola Colegas. > > Feliz año nuevo antes que todo. > > Me preguntaba si hay alguna solucion (script o tools) de implementar > WSUS en debian.

Re: Why choose Debian on server

Joe wrote: > I didn't say there would be problems, just that there would not > normally be a need. The overlap between my workstation's software and > that of my server is fairly small, largely because the server doesn't > have a GUI, and most of my workstation software is graphical. > > That's a

Re: Python issue?

Hi, On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 10:20:53 -0300 riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I use phwmon [1] to have some system monitors on the taskbar. > > Since last system update I have this message (and phwmon tries to > launch but fails): > (...) > raise ValueError("not sure how to interpret line %r" % line) >

Re: Why choose Debian on server

Miles Fidelman wrote: > I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly > if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine > with a head. so you are saying you can not ssh -X to the server and run your gimp if that is what you want? I bet you can and I b

WSUS - DEBIAN

Hola Colegas. Feliz año nuevo antes que todo. Me preguntaba si hay alguna solucion (script o tools) de implementar WSUS en debian. O sea, como hacer un mirror en debian y ponerlo en https para los clientes de window$ Slds y gracias.

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:41:41 +0100 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > Indeed. I'm currently working on getting Debian onto a small Acer > > laptop, which is not trivial. I've run it on a netbook for several > > years. But laptops and servers are solutions to different problems, > > and don't gen

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On 1/2/19 1:41 PM, deloptes wrote: Joe wrote: Indeed. I'm currently working on getting Debian onto a small Acer laptop, which is not trivial. I've run it on a netbook for several years. But laptops and servers are solutions to different problems, and don't generally need the same hardware and

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On 1/2/19 2:51 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating the possibility to switch on debian so I hope you will give your experiences about this topi

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 19:17:00 +, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +, Joe wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 > > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And next time, try to find a scanner w

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 22:51:02 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:04 PM Brian wrote: > > > > On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 12:34:38 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > > A scanned document from Canon pixma mx870 printer is significantly > > > larger compared to the same do

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +, Joe wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a raw > image. Wrapping images in PDFs is... not elegant. They do this t

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 16:14:10 +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even think > > about how many security holes lurk in there. > > > > There's no limit to the amount of stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hnonsense vendors are > > cap

Re: Why choose Debian on server

Joe wrote: > Indeed. I'm currently working on getting Debian onto a small Acer > laptop, which is not trivial. I've run it on a netbook for several > years. But laptops and servers are solutions to different problems, and > don't generally need the same hardware and software. I wouldn't run > Gimp

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On 1/2/19 2:51 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating the possibility to switch on debian so I hope you will give your experiences about this topic.

Re: Sources list, was Re: Gparted error report

On 1/2/19, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/01/2019 07:59 PM, David Wright wrote: >> On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 13:45:48 (-0500), Lee wrote: >>> On 1/1/19, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/01/2019 08:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 06:07:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:51:47 +0100 wrote: > > > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even > think about how many security holes lurk in there. The practical alternatives are to hook the scanner into the SMB sharing system, or use sneakernet. Which of those has fewer pote

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:20:16 +0100 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > Poor support for new hardware is a general problem for Linux, as > > hardware is always designed for Windows, and drivers often have to > > be reverse engineered for Linux. Red Hat is in a somewhat better > > position than Deb

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 05:18:19PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I used to believe that, too. But nowadays I think users can be (and get!) > > nudged into asking for whatever vendors want them to want. [...] > I think companies are triggering the features as companies pa

Re: Gparted error report

Richard Owlett composed on 2019-01-01 06:07 (UTC-0600): > I am trying to modify the partitioning of a 240GB USB connected SSD. > It was originally created on a laptop running Debian 9.1 which is in the > shop for cooling problems. > I attempted to repartition it on a laptop running Debian 8.6 an

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I used to believe that, too. But nowadays I think users can be (and get!) > nudged into asking for whatever vendors want them to want. > Lets not talk about the users, because what I am seeing in the minds of the millenia is fearing. So I do not expect it to get better

Re: Gparted error report

On 01/01/2019 04:07 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I am trying to modify the partitioning of a 240GB USB connected SSD. It was originally created on a laptop running Debian 9.1 which is in the shop for cooling problems. I attempted to repartition it on a laptop running Debian 8.6 and received an e

Re: Python issue?

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 10:20:53AM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I use phwmon [1] to have some system monitors on the taskbar. Snipping entire report here. Why do you call this a Python issue? Have you tried just running phwmon with a different Python version to see if that solves the problem?

[SOLVED] Re: almost no audio in buster/sid

I've found the problem, the solution is here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/11/msg00370.html

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 04:14:10PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even think > > about how many security holes lurk in there. > > > > There's no limit to the amount of stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hnonsense vendors are > >

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even think > about how many security holes lurk in there. > > There's no limit to the amount of stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hnonsense vendors are > capable of when enough computing power is put in their hands. When user

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

to...@tuxteam.de (2019-01-02): > Some scanners mail things around, these days. I don't want to even think > about how many security holes lurk in there. > > There's no limit to the amount of stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hnonsense vendors are > capable of when enough computing power is put in their hands. Som

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 03:56:27PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning? =:-o I just skimmed that but... it's exquisite, for a very strange value of "exquisite". Thanks -- tomás signature.

Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Il 02/01/19 14:35, Reco ha scritto: So udev is not to blame here. It's shell-based config parsing library. Possibly an upstream issue for hdparm, then. Nice :( Whitelist it. A file should be called /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.thunderbird. Thanks for the tip, saving for later. echo 1

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:44:14PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 22:41:06 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [...] > > The scanner itself makes the pdf files. > > I'm intrigued; I hadn't realised that conversion of the scanned image > for some vendors' devices took place on the devi

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 22:41:06 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 1:40 PM wrote: > > > > Yep. The one image is encoded as CCITT (aka Group 4, aka fax [1]), which is > > passable for low res B&W images, but not that much for hi-res or color (or > > gray scale). It compresse

Re: Why choose Debian on server

Joe wrote: > Poor support for new hardware is a general problem for Linux, as > hardware is always designed for Windows, and drivers often have to be > reverse engineered for Linux. Red Hat is in a somewhat better position > than Debian, but no manufacturer is going to optimise their hardware > fo

Re: Why choose Debian on server

On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 11:51:25 +0100 Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Why you choose debian on server? Where for you it is better than > centos and other server distro? Possibly the main selling point is that Debian has always been continuously upgradeable from one version to the next. Building a serv

Re: Python issue?

> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psutil/_pslinux.py", line > 1088, in read_procfs > raise ValueError("not sure how to interpret line %r" % line) > > Any hint/clue? > _pslinux.py opens /proc/diskstats, and tries to parse the contents. It finds a line "8 0 sda ..." which it do

Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 01:34:14PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 02/01/19 12:15, Reco ha scritto: > > > What about this: > > DEVNAME=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384E2024242DBNGWJ_ \ > > sh -x /lib/udev/hdparm >> /tmp/hdparm.log 2>&1 > > I had tried it, too, and it

Python issue?

Hi, I use phwmon [1] to have some system monitors on the taskbar. Since last system update I have this message (and phwmon tries to launch but fails): $ phwmon.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "Software/phwmon-master-b162e53dccc4adf8f11f49408d05fd85d9c6c909/phwmon.py", line 341, in

Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Il 02/01/19 12:15, Reco ha scritto: What about this: DEVNAME=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384E2024242DBNGWJ_ \ sh -x /lib/udev/hdparm >> /tmp/hdparm.log 2>&1 I had tried it, too, and it looks in line with the results: + set -e + [ -n /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A38

Re: Sources list, was Re: Gparted error report

On 01/01/2019 07:59 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 01 Jan 2019 at 13:45:48 (-0500), Lee wrote: On 1/1/19, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/01/2019 08:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 06:07:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I am trying to modify the partitioning of a 240GB US

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

With the pdf-files from my Canon scanner, I did shrink them with the help of ghostscript: $ ps2pdf old.pdf new.pdf Documentation can be found in ghostscript-doc. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:04:07AM +, Chris Ramsden wrote: > On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > My scanner just transfers the raw image. The scan program is responsible > > for the transformation to the target format, which I can choose. This is > > how /I/ want to be treated, as

Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Hi. On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 08:39:13PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > My PC has two disks, a NVME for Debian/testing and an old 2.5 drive for an OS > that shall remain nameless :) > > Since the 2.5 disc isn't at all used by Linux, I figured I might as well set > a very aggressive spindow

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I get this, and offering that option seems to make sense. But forcing > it (and forcing an image format like JPEG) doesn't make sense. So either > provide the knobs or let the host software do it. > > My scanner just transfers the raw image. The scan program is responsib

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > My scanner just transfers the raw image. The scan program is responsible > for the transformation to the target format, which I can choose. This is > how /I/ want to be treated, as a paying customer. > > Cheers > -- tomás Would you mind sharing with u

Why choose Debian on server

Hi list, I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating the possibility to switch on debian so I hope you will give your experiences about this topic. At the moment I'm using CentOS 7 on server

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a raw > > image. Wrapping images in PDFs is... not elegant. > > They do this to cater for multiple pages, w

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a raw > image. Wrapping images in PDFs is... not elegant. They do this to cater for multiple pages, whereas in my experience, most scanning is single-sheet. Even the Simple

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:41:06PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 1:40 PM wrote: [...] > > OTOH, CCITT is lossless and JPEG lossy ;-) > > > ok, thanks. But note that Anders observed that the larger files are actually the JPEGs (somewhat to my surprise). A possible ex