Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/19/19, Mike Kupfer wrote: > I have a system running bullseye. When I try to log out, or shut down, > from MATE, I invariably get a popup that tells me that > at-spi-dbus-launcher is not responding. I click on "logout anyway", and > the system does eventually log me out, but there's a delay

at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-19 Thread Mike Kupfer
I have a system running bullseye. When I try to log out, or shut down, from MATE, I invariably get a popup that tells me that at-spi-dbus-launcher is not responding. I click on "logout anyway", and the system does eventually log me out, but there's a delay. I tried disabling the AT-SPI daemon an

Re: OT Linux on Android mailing / discussion lists

2019-10-19 Thread Frank Weißer
Have a look at > https://lineageos.org/ they support many devices and often have an Android version the manufacturor dosn't support. So maybe you get Android 5 or higher. readU Frank Paul Sutton: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi All Thanks for all the responses for this,

Re: Slow LAN on daughter’s network using ssh

2019-10-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:41 john doe wrote: > On 10/19/2019 6:07 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > At home I use ssh from my iPad to my local Debian Buster laptop with no > > noticeable delay most of the time. ... > Could be one of the following: > - Network topology > - Network conjestion ... Goo

Re: Slow LAN on daughter’s network using ssh

2019-10-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:23 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Tom Browder (2019-10-19 18:07:51) > > At home I use ssh from my iPad to my local Debian Buster laptop with > > no noticeable delay most of the time. ... > If you don't have control over the gatewat router and don't want to add > an

Re: installing lazpaint (a non-debian package) on a debian system, ideally in a user-level account

2019-10-19 Thread Dan Hitt
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:17 PM John Crawley wrote: > On 2019-10-19 11:24, Dan Hitt wrote: > > There's a piece of software, lazpaint, that i would like to install on > > my debian system. > > The project dates from 2011, so i think it's pretty well established. > > https://sourceforge.net/project

Re: systemd ignoring KillUserProcesses=no

2019-10-19 Thread Alejandro
Option 2) worked. Thank you! P.S rant: systemd is a constant pain, mostly because you are never prepared for the changes. You are always wondering "why my scripts won't work anymore". I am not happy that setsid doesn't work anymore, but what drives me crazy is that nobody care to tell us we could

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 09:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > deloptes writes: > > SQL comes everywhere handy... > > SQL is certainly handy, but I don't consider it a programming language > (likewise HTML). About 20 years ago I wrote and tested a match-merge update program with (as I remember) the then

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread Linux-Fan
to...@tuxteam.de writes: On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:46:38PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > What kind of dependency resolution (attempt) do you get from > your install command, if you try to keep the browser package, > this way for instance: > ># apt install sysvinit-core firefox-e

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-19 08:11, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Have a nice day :) cheers mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: systemd ignoring KillUserProcesses=no

2019-10-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 05:57:37PM +0200, Alejandro wrote: > systemd-cgls shows they are running as part of > gnome-terminal-server.service. I guess it explains how they are killed, but > the main question remains: how do I stop such behavior? Three choices: 1) Make your own user ser

Re: Slow LAN on daughter’s network using ssh

2019-10-19 Thread john doe
On 10/19/2019 6:07 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > At home I use ssh from my iPad to my local Debian Buster laptop with no > noticeable delay most of the time. > > However, at my daughter’s house the same connection is SLOW. > > On both LAN’s ssh access to servers on the WLAN is no problem. > > Does anyon

Re: Slow LAN on daughter's network using ssh

2019-10-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[resend with ASCII headers to please Debian mail servers] Quoting Tom Browder (2019-10-19 18:07:51) > At home I use ssh from my iPad to my local Debian Buster laptop with > no noticeable delay most of the time. > > However, at my daughter’s house the same connection is SLOW. > > On both LAN’s s

[SOLVED] Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:06:14PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] Thanks, Étienne. You were right. OK, for the record: firefox-esr does *not* depend on systemd. I was misled, because (sysv system here, freshly upgraded to Buster) sudo apt install firefox-esr wants to install systemd (an

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 October 2019 08:38:15 John Hasler wrote: > Joe quotes: > > "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully > > understand your application." > > Right. There isn't anything you can't do with bignum. > > I wrote software for control systems using cpus such as the RCA 1

Re: systemd ignoring KillUserProcesses=no

2019-10-19 Thread Alejandro
systemd-cgls shows they are running as part of gnome-terminal-server.service. I guess it explains how they are killed, but the main question remains: how do I stop such behavior? On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:48 AM Ansgar wrote: > Camilo Alejandro Arboleda writes: > > I'm running Debian testing wit

Slow LAN on daughter’s network using ssh

2019-10-19 Thread Tom Browder
At home I use ssh from my iPad to my local Debian Buster laptop with no noticeable delay most of the time. However, at my daughter’s house the same connection is SLOW. On both LAN’s ssh access to servers on the WLAN is no problem. Does anyone have a suggestion for fixing that? She uses ATT’s DS

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:46:38PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > Hi tomás, Hi, Étienne > After applying upgrades, while switching my Buster test machine > to sysvinit-core, several things go away, but firefox-esr ain't > one of those. The machine was installed from Debian 10 ISO, so >

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:34:06 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > And it's not so much fundamental languages as the buzzwords, the > > frameworks, 'agile' programming, AJAX, and things like proprietary > > CMS (C for both content and customer) systems. Nobody ever asks for > > basic programm

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Thomas D Dial writes: > FORTRAN is somewhat similar, but has a smaller, more stable, and mors > specialized application space and often, I think, is maintained by the > successors of the program users who wrote it originally. A good deal > of it may, by now, have been replaced by C, C++, Python, or

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 09:48 +0200, deloptes wrote: > James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > The OP wanted this treated as a survey, and so . . . > > > > Many dialects and derivatives of BASIC, including (but not limited > > to) > > IBM VS-BASIC (ran on 370 and compatible mainframes), TRS-80 Level 1, >

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread John Hasler
deloptes writes: > SQL comes everywhere handy... SQL is certainly handy, but I don't consider it a programming language (likewise HTML). If you *do* consider HTML a programming language the crawling horrors that most Web sites send out make the worst BASIC spaghetti balls look like something out

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/19/2019 08:26 AM, deloptes wrote: [SNIP] SQL comes everywhere handy, because you have to store the data somewhere - but still there is difference between Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB or sqlite. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages - and SQL for the one is likely not compatible with SQL fo

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > And it's not so much fundamental languages as the buzzwords, the > frameworks, 'agile' programming, AJAX, and things like proprietary CMS > (C for both content and customer) systems. Nobody ever asks for basic > programming skills. You are sooo right, but one must understand the lang

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings? It was 45 years ago, but > I still remember... Indeed - I have the feeling here only people from the home for the elderly (Seniorenheim) are posting - BASIC, COBOL, PASCAL ... OMG Though I must admit there were some good posts around -

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 19/10/2019 14.46, Étienne Mollier wrote: > # apt install sysvinit-core firefox-esr > > I don't exclude to have done things the wrong way myself, in my > test though... ... for instance, I could have appended at least the "--dry-run" option, and also triggered uninstallation of "systemd" (

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 19/10/2019 11.42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hi, > > just upgraded to buster. Things went (mostly) smoothly -- thanks to > all the kind souls at Debian! > > Just realized that firefox-esr seems (perhaps I'm wrong?) to depend on > systemd now. > > - am I holding it wrong? > - is there an al

Efficient file copy from USB device under Buster.

2019-10-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Due to low data cap and doing very customized installs I've generally purchased DVD sets {now available on a single flash drive}. The one I purchased has ISO's of both install and live versions on a single partition. I wish to copy only the install DVDs to a single partition of: 1. the laptop

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Joe quotes: > "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully > understand your application." Right. There isn't anything you can't do with bignum. I wrote software for control systems using cpus such as the RCA 1802. You can do a lot more with 8 bit integers than seems possible at

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > Spend an hour or two with the job advertisements (which is what the OP > needs to do) to see the enormous range of what employers *think* they > want, and this is what the young ladies in HR will definitely require > of an applicant. Especially amusing are the ads that demand five ye

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 01:25:51PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] > Hi, > > I am running Debian Buster here as well (with systemd), but how do you get > the impression that Browsers depend on it? Is it in some way a transitive > dependencey? Because when querying directly, I see nothing: Yes, I

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread Linux-Fan
to...@tuxteam.de writes: Hi, just upgraded to buster. Things went (mostly) smoothly -- thanks to all the kind souls at Debian! Just realized that firefox-esr seems (perhaps I'm wrong?) to depend on systemd now. - am I holding it wrong? - is there an alternative? BTW. midori seems to de

Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread tomas
Hi, just upgraded to buster. Things went (mostly) smoothly -- thanks to all the kind souls at Debian! Just realized that firefox-esr seems (perhaps I'm wrong?) to depend on systemd now. - am I holding it wrong? - is there an alternative? BTW. midori seems to depend on systemd too. Thanks f

Re: systemd ignoring KillUserProcesses=no

2019-10-19 Thread Ansgar
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda writes: > I'm running Debian testing with Linux 5.2, Gnome 3.34.1 and systemd 242. At > some point the last month systemd stopped honoring the > "KillUserProcesses=no" setting in /etc/systemd/logind.conf. Now all > processes get killed and googling shows nothing. > > Not s

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joe wrote: > "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully > understand your application." +0.9 Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:09:06 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > John Hasler wrote: > > > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s, > > Joe wrote: > > Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings? > > 212H Of course you don't do string processing in FORTRAN. It's for > problems which you can solve b

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Hasler wrote: > > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s, Joe wrote: > Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings? 212H Of course you don't do string processing in FORTRAN. It's for problems which you can solve by representing everything as homogeneous coordinates and then computing the result by

systemd ignoring KillUserProcesses=no

2019-10-19 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hello, I'm running Debian testing with Linux 5.2, Gnome 3.34.1 and systemd 242. At some point the last month systemd stopped honoring the "KillUserProcesses=no" setting in /etc/systemd/logind.conf. Now all processes get killed and googling shows nothing. Not sure if it is a bug in debian, upstrea

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Joe
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:34:57 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > I guess some people who started with BASIC do eventually recover. > And then you say: > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s, Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings? It was 45 years ago, but I still remember... -- Joe

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Joe
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:50:29 +0100 Brian wrote: > > > Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want > > Nobody has answered the question yet. > Because there isn't an answer. Spend an hour or two with the job advertisements (which is what the OP needs to do) to see the enormous

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > You, and everybody else, may as well have skipped the whole post and > saved the List from wasting bandwidth. I ask you > > > This is just a quick survey. > > Really? > > > I am considering being a programmer > > Wowee. > > > Turritopsis Dohrnii > > Jellyfish. Hard to gras

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > The OP wanted this treated as a survey, and so . . . > > Many dialects and derivatives of BASIC, including (but not limited to) > IBM VS-BASIC (ran on 370 and compatible mainframes), TRS-80 Level 1, > Level 2, and Mod I Disk BASIC, GWBASIC, and the various QBASICs > (

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Never did much Perl, but I think anything (well, not sure about obfuscated > C) is more readable than APL. I am not sure if it makes sense to compare a modern car engine with one constructed 150y ago.

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > The overall design paradigm is object oriented but without fancy stuff > > like overloading or inheritance. Encapsulation and aggregation must > > suffice. mick crane wrote: > This is interesting topic for me but don't know what these words > "overloading or inheritance. Encapsul