Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:37:54 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 22:31:48 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:53:52 -0500 David Wright > > wrote: > > > But what eliminates it for me as a general viewer is the lack of key- > > > binding configuration file. Quoting Ar

Installer issue

2019-06-23 Thread Dominic Wright
Every time I run the debian installer, it said "Get method failed" is there any way to fix this? Or am I forever unable to install debian?

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:34:36PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 23/06/19 12:07 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > andy@debtest1:~$ su - bob > > Password: > > bob@debtest1:~$ whoami > > bob > > bob@debtest1:~$ sudo -i > > [sudo] password for bob: > > Sorry, user bob is not allowed to execute '

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/06/19 12:07 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:44:40PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> Some one mentioned mounting drives, all that and what they need can be >> configured. > > Also note that anyone who can use "mount" as root can trivially become > root. If counte

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I think you're right about the missing drivers, but fixing it has proven challenging. First, my original initrd was created with MODULES=dep. This was somewhat hidden by the fact that in initramfs.conf, MODULES=most. :) Apparently it was overriden by the setting in conf.d/driver-policy, which I h

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 22:31:48 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:53:52 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > > But what eliminates it for me as a general viewer is the lack of key- > > binding configuration file. Quoting Archwiki, > > "Navigation within a document works with standard key

Re: How to make networking dependent on firewall configuration?

2019-06-23 Thread andreimpopescu
On Lu, 13 mai 19, 15:31:45, Martin T wrote: > Hi Reco! > > Thanks for reply! I changed from > /lib/systemd/system/networking.service.d/networking.service.conf to > /etc/systemd/system/networking.service.d/networking.service.conf. It might be easier to do systemctl edit . Kind regards, Andre

Re: Off topic: Carbon.

2019-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe wrote: > "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?" > R A Heinlein Does history record any case in which the opinion of the majority was actually known and recorded correctly and objectively? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Joe
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:00:10 +0300 Georgios wrote: > Personally > Right or wrong are highly subjective. Besides that right or wrong > always has to do with your goal. What accomplish your goal is right. > for example. > Want to be good a math? > Well the right thing to do is study after school. >

Re: How to change init from sysv to systemd

2019-06-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, Bob Bernstein wrote: How should I approach this change with an eye to maximum safety? Again, the wiki proved spot on: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_and_Testing Sorry about the false alarm. Thank you -- These are not the droids you are looking for.

Re: How to change init from sysv to systemd

2019-06-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 14:55:58 -0400 Bob Bernstein wrote: > I encountered an error during the install of a deb which > led me to the discovery that my current init system is > still sysvinit. > > The error was: > > /sbin/init: invalid option -- '-' > Usage: init {-e VAR[=VAL] | [-t SECONDS] >

How to change init from sysv to systemd

2019-06-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
I encountered an error during the install of a deb which led me to the discovery that my current init system is still sysvinit. The error was: /sbin/init: invalid option -- '-' Usage: init {-e VAR[=VAL] | [-t SECONDS] {0|1|2|3|4|5|6|S|s|Q|q|A|a|B|b|C|c|U|u}} Thanks to the wiki: https://wiki.

Interference and attacks

2019-06-23 Thread Pash Afur
I am of the suspicion that there is a section of UK authorities inc ex det sections of the UK police forces all the way up to the intelligence services (tech level is too advanced for the average systems engineer, far advanced of anything I can do which isn't much compared to you lot). Mobile o/s a

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Georgios
Personally Right or wrong are highly subjective. Besides that right or wrong always has to do with your goal. What accomplish your goal is right. for example. Want to be good a math? Well the right thing to do is study after school. Socially You could say that every society based on its values fi

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-06-23 Thread Teemu Likonen
The Wanderer [2019-06-23 11:46:34-04:00] wrote: > On 2019-06-23 at 11:23, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> If you add line "auto-key-retrieve" to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf then >> GnuPG will automatically try to retrieve keys from keyservers when >> you verify a signature made by an unknown key. > An interes

Re: L2TP VPN client

2019-06-23 Thread David Christensen
On 6/23/19 6:16 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-06-23, David Christensen wrote: STFW I see: https://www.bestvpnz.com/tutorials/how-to-set-up-l2tp-ipsec-vpn-on-linux-networkmanager-strongswan/ I have installed: 2019-06-22 19:04:11 root@tinkywinky ~ # dpkg-query --show xl2tpd strongswan network-manag

Re: Off topic: German. Was: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Cool I didn't know it was Marx Bros. In one of their movies Groucho is hugging a tall blonde who keeps saying "Hold me closer". Finally he says, "I get any closer I'll be on the other side of you". :-) On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 11:26 AM Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On

Re: Off topic: German. Was: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, June 23, 2019 09:55:33 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> "If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" >> -same sketch > > Something makes me think / remember that was not original with Monty Python > -- > I think it was

Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-06-23 Thread andreimpopescu
On Lu, 13 mai 19, 11:29:10, Steven Post wrote: > > Recently the numeric keypad stopped working on the Gnome lock screen. More information would be necessary here, e.g. what Debian version you are running, if you upgraded any packages recently, etc. > When booting, the numlock is in the 'off' st

Re: Off topic: German. Was: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, June 23, 2019 09:55:33 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > "If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" > -same sketch Something makes me think / remember that was not original with Monty Python -- I think it was Groucho Marx who said the same thing (or something ver

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-06-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-06-23 at 11:23, Teemu Likonen wrote: > The Wanderer [2019-06-23 10:14:19-04:00] wrote: > >> Some years ago, I got tired of manually importing the key every >> time I saw a signed message through the Debian mailing lists for >> which I didn't already have the necessary public key. > > If

Re: gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-06-23 Thread Teemu Likonen
The Wanderer [2019-06-23 10:14:19-04:00] wrote: > Some years ago, I got tired of manually importing the key every time I > saw a signed message through the Debian mailing lists for which I didn't > already have the necessary public key. If you add line "auto-key-retrieve" to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.con

Re: System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (how can the (Debian) setup make a difference?)

2019-06-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-06-23 15:42:05) > On 6/23/19 8:40 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> If random IO speed most likely is the real bottle neck, do you know > >> of any particular brand/label/kind/category of MicroSD card that is > >> significantly better than others in that regard? > > ht

[solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > > missing. This seems to be no good except with DVDs. Besides

gnupg / enigmail excessive processing times

2019-06-23 Thread The Wanderer
The short version of this is that I think I need to clear out a lot of irrelevant keys / signatures, et cetera, from my gnupg configuration - but I don't want to do anything which risks losing my private key(s), or any related information. Just in case I'm wrong about that solution, however, I wan

Re: Off topic: German. Was: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
"If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" -same sketch On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 3:45 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > deloptes wrote: > > https://deutsch.lingolia.com/de/grammatik/verben/imperativ > > Reminds me somewhat of > "The Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch" > htt

Re: System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (how can the (Debian) setup make a difference?)

2019-06-23 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 6/23/19 8:40 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Is it meaningful to test the SD cards with an USB-adapter? (the MicroSD slot would be occupied by the SD card the machine is running from/on) Testing SD cards on a different controller may help understand _potential_ features of cards, but not_actual

Re: L2TP VPN client

2019-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-23, David Christensen wrote: > > STFW I see: > > https://www.bestvpnz.com/tutorials/how-to-set-up-l2tp-ipsec-vpn-on-linux-networkmanager-strongswan/ > > I have installed: > > 2019-06-22 19:04:11 root@tinkywinky ~ > # dpkg-query --show xl2tpd strongswan network-manager-strongswan > netwo

Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-23 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 01:27:08PM +0200, arne wrote: > > > That's right. "Modern" desktop environments (Gnome and derivatives, > > most probably also KDE) depend these days on systemd. I don't know > > how hard those dependencies are -- you'd want to look at Devuan [2] > > [3] to see how far they

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-23 Thread songbird
Ross Boylan wrote: > In brief: moved all the 3.5" disks from an old system to a new one, > and now I can't boot into buster. In the initrd environment no disks > appear in /dev; the disks are all connected through an LSI Host Bus > Adapter card (only on the new system). I can boot into Ubuntu on

Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-23 Thread arne
> That's right. "Modern" desktop environments (Gnome and derivatives, > most probably also KDE) depend these days on systemd. I don't know > how hard those dependencies are -- you'd want to look at Devuan [2] > [3] to see how far they went, if at all, into fixing this. The Devuan default desktop

Re: Testing netinstall, but use stable release?

2019-06-23 Thread andreimpopescu
On Jo, 09 mai 19, 07:29:49, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Are you referring to "It is not possible to install sid from a netinst > or full CD. Please use the netboot installation method". I certainly > missed that. My apologies. > > Setting up a tftp server in a remote data centre rack is someth

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Joe
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:57:26 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 01:45:25AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > [...] > > too much wrong thinking - there are two fraction in science- > > mainstream supports CO2 lie. Look at arguments on both sides from > > real scientists (Not the face Potsdamer Insti

Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-23 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Purely out of curiosity, I'd like to see what's involved in > switching a Debian buster system from systemd to sysv init. The short version [1]: apt-get install -y sysvinit-core > Please, I don't want to restart or get involved

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/06/2019 à 08:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Saturday 22 June 2019 22:49:36 John Hasler wrote: Gene writes: Well, I'd expect there is a registration fee... ...particularly since it may take a whole cluster of servers to cover locally, the whole ipv6 address space. I don't know what you m

Re: Privacy policy of packages/softwares installed in Debian

2019-06-23 Thread npdflr
Hello, Any final inputs whether there is any need for specifying privacy policy somewhere for packages from only Offical Debian main repositories? What I am looking at (and maybe even some other users too) is simply to have a secure 'core' which can be utilised further to add more packages via o

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/06/2019 à 04:06, Ross Boylan a écrit : My leading suspect for why the hard disks aren't recognized is that they are all attached through 02:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2116 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Meteor] (rev 02) whereas before they were vanill

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-23 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:07:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:44:40PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > Some one mentioned mounting drives, all that and what they need can be > > configured. > > Also note that anyone who can use "mount" as root can trivially be

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 01:45:25AM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > too much wrong thinking - there are two fraction in science- mainstream > supports CO2 lie. Look at arguments on both sides from real scientists (Not > the face Potsdamer Institut für Klimaforschung <- these are fake). Mainstream a

Off topic: German. Was: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > https://deutsch.lingolia.com/de/grammatik/verben/imperativ Reminds me somewhat of "The Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch" http://www.montypython.net/scripts/phrasebk.php (There is a lengthy link list before the sketch text begins.) "Publisher: I wish to plead incompetence."

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread Elmo
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, deloptes wrote: Elmo wrote: and you can say, "take me to the train-station" as peremptorily in English as in German. part of the error in the quotation is the implication that Germans are curt because they need fewer words to say things. first, "take me to the train-stat