Re: graphics card recommendation

2019-09-23 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 23/09/2019 23:39, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm building a new machine and I'm looking at graphics cards right now. I want a card that can handle 4k for regular productivity tasks (if it can handle gaming at those resolutions doesn't matter), that is as silent as possible and has

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 9/19/19 12:47 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:30 Jude DaShiell > wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Fred wrote: ... > Do we have our lying idiot, bag of crap, fake President to thank for making > that much worse? Not all agree with

Re: graphics card recommendation

2019-09-23 Thread ghe
On 9/23/19 3:51 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I've heard a lot of people cursing about Radeon graphics card support in > Linux over the years, but my information may be out of date... It's not out of date. Curse! Curse!! -- Glenn English

Re: graphics card recommendation

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 08:09:12PM +0200, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! > > I'm building a new machine and I'm looking at graphics cards right now. I > want a card that can handle 4k for regular productivity tasks (if it can > handle gaming at those resolutions doesn't matter), that is as s

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > Posible Options: > 1. if you use lilo, look for a copy of parttions table. > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. I'm running GRUB not lilo -- used lilo back in the 90's but switched to grub whenever Debian started prescribi

graphics card recommendation

2019-09-23 Thread email . lists81
Hi! I'm building a new machine and I'm looking at graphics cards right now. I want a card that can handle 4k for regular productivity tasks (if it can handle gaming at those resolutions doesn't matter), that is as silent as possible and has good support in debian. Right now I'm considering a

Gnome Terminal beeps and lags

2019-09-23 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, In my new Buster installation, when I switch to the Gnome Terminal and quickly want to write a command, the terminal lags and then beeps (the bell that sounds when you reach an interaction point), when it should not be beeping (becuase I have not typed anything that would elicit a bell), the

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 01:12:14PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:56:47PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Problem is that Richard Owlett expected it to work in the starter program > > of the interpreter (here: /usr/bin/python) when it opens the script file > > for reading

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:56:47PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I'd be rather surprised if there's *no* function in Python that uses > > the PATH variable. > > Problem is that Richard Owlett expected it to work in the starter program > of the interpreter (here: /usr/bin/

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'd be rather surprised if there's *no* function in Python that uses > the PATH variable. Problem is that Richard Owlett expected it to work in the starter program of the interpreter (here: /usr/bin/python) when it opens the script file for reading. I assume Python deve

Re: Mailarchiver

2019-09-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Markus Raps wrote: > Hi Guys, > > a customer wants an mailarchiver with statistics so he can find mailboxes > that no ones using. > Webgui preferred > it need to work with postfix or as an relay of somekind > > also he is willing to pay for it, so commerc

Re: Installation suitability for Dell laptop

2019-09-23 Thread Thanos
Thank you for your responses, I also thought, as Georgi suggested, of first trying to use the live edition before proceeding to the actual installation. I should check more thoroughly the hardware specifications, as Miata suggested Inspiron 5570 is a series of models. You also mentioned of ch

Re: Can't install package in an offline desktop with Debian 9 (Stretch)

2019-09-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:17:18 +0300 dalios wrote: > On 9/21/19 11:50 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 21:50:40 +0300 > > dalios wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have a desktop with Debian 9.9 (Stretch) installed. I have moved it in > >> a house were cable connection is not

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > PATH is a convention of shells like bash or dash, not of Python. > In your examples it lets the shell parser find /usr/bin/python from > "python". It's also used by some of the libc exec wrappers. Specifically, the ones with "p" in

Re: Gnome-software

2019-09-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:51:04 -0600 Philip Moore wrote: > I am using Debian 10 and the package often reports 'no network is > available'. In fact there is a short delay from the time the system > resumes from sleep until the network connects to the router. I see no > setting to allow for that dela

Mailarchiver

2019-09-23 Thread Markus Raps
Hi Guys, a customer wants an mailarchiver with statistics so he can find mailboxes that no ones using. Webgui preferred it need to work with postfix or as an relay of somekind also he is willing to pay for it, so commercial software is okay. any suggestions? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best

Re: New Services in Systemd on Debian

2019-09-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 02:03:27AM +0200, akdeboer wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:15:41 +0300 > Pavel Volkov wrote: > > /etc/systemd/system is the perfect place for it, all user config goes > > there, and system-provided units or "wants" are placed in /lib, > > never in /etc. > > > > If you do

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/23/2019 03:36 AM, Curt wrote: [snip] Honestly, I took the name 'script'.py for a metasyntactic variable. Yes that was my intention. My question was concerning all scripts. Mentioning the specific script would be "noise". I can't see offhand why it couldn't easily be changed if it was

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/22/2019 05:00 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 22 Sep 2019 at 16:31:22 (-), Curt wrote: On 2019-09-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: So to avoid the cd command with absolute path, you would have to give the script address as absolute path: python /path/to/script/script.py I make my loc

Autopkgtest

2019-09-23 Thread Archana Polampalli
Hi all, I am working on opensource project,it is debian based os but it is not a linux distribution.now i have to test all the packges of my OS ,my query is can i test my os packages with autotestpkg command.if it is possible can any one guide me how to test my locally buit image.as per my knowled

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/22/2019 07:59 PM, David wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 00:10, Richard Owlett wrote: May I be pointed to a complete explanation of the use of the PATH$ environmental variable. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html Section 8.3, subheading PATH Thank yo

Re: Stretch Backports Kernel

2019-09-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 9/23/19, Karolis Pabijanskas wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > `stretch-backports` kernel seems to have broken dependencies since a few > days ago. In particular this package: > https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/linux-image-amd64 seems to > have a broken dependency for linux-image-4.19.0-0

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 23.09.2019 3:40, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've > damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible > to recover. > > The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the > disks came fr

Re: Understanding PATH$ variable

2019-09-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-09-22, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 22 Sep 2019 at 16:31:22 (-), Curt wrote: >> On 2019-09-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> > >> > So to avoid the cd command with absolute path, you would have to give >> > the script address as absolute path: >> > >> > python /path/to/script/script.py >

Stretch Backports Kernel

2019-09-23 Thread Karolis Pabijanskas
Hey Everyone! `stretch-backports` kernel seems to have broken dependencies since a few days ago. In particular this package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/linux-image-amd64 seems to have a broken dependency for linux-image-4.19.0-0.bpo.6-amd64, which does not seem to exist in t

Re: Wine configuration and result from "wine ./SETUP.EXE".

2019-09-23 Thread Pavel Volkov
On понедельник, 23 сентября 2019 г. 00:58:35 MSK, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Wine configuration > Graphics > Window settings has a checkbox for "Emulate virtual desktop". Unnecessary for most applications? Graphics window for the application runs within a Debian desktop, analogous to winecfg?