Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 October 2019 22:21:20 Ken Heard wrote: > In the past week or so some in my computer procedures have become > sluggish, and some others have not worked at all. > > For example the following script works: > > #! /bin/bash > CURPWD=$PWD > cd /home/ken > tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kfinan

Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the past week or so some in my computer procedures have become sluggish, and some others have not worked at all. For example the following script works: #! /bin/bash CURPWD=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kfinancescurrent.tgz --wildc

Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/19/2019 5:54 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, mike, I don't know, but, as soon as I read "Orca", I thought of > > the Debian-Accessibility list: > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/ Thanks, Cindy Sue, I may give that a try. > I am not running Orca,

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread peter
From: Reco , Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:57:52 +0300 > So, does it work? Yes. At present dmix:CARD=Live,DEV=0 produces sound. dmix:CARD=Live,DEV=1 and dmix:CARD=Live,DEV=2 do not produce sound at present. > Try hw:CARD=Set,DEV=1. Will be trying it this week. Thanks. > The reason why dmix fails y

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-20 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > deloptes wrote: >> SQL, Python, PERL, C/C++, JAVA. I wonder why I did not see PHP ... but >> well. > > For about a decade, PHP was the province of people who copied > scripts from Matt's Script Archive and didn't know what security > holes they were creating. > > Sometime in

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
deloptes wrote: > SQL, Python, PERL, C/C++, JAVA. I wonder why I did not see PHP ... but well. For about a decade, PHP was the province of people who copied scripts from Matt's Script Archive and didn't know what security holes they were creating. Sometime in the last five years or so, the PHP c

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
John Hasler wrote: > 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 amusi

Re: Debian 8 how to install and run init.d scripts?

2019-10-20 Thread Peter Wiersig
5.) Instead of init.d scripts create systemd units. https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Creating_or_altering_services https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ About your gitlab-runner.service failure: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Failed_units HINT: Extensive debugging information about sys

Re: Adobe Flash Player on Debian Buster

2019-10-20 Thread didier . gaumet
As Andrew expressed it, using Flash Player is a bad idea but if you really want to use it, take a look there: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-do-i-have-click-activate-plugins

Re: [prov] Oh wow

2019-10-20 Thread Gerard ARNOUX
Vas te faire enculer petit brouteur minable je te conseille de prendre des cours de hacking mais à Abidjan ça va être un peu difficile quant à moi je n’utilise jamais ma web cam pas de bol (elle est masquée depuis longtemps par un ruban adhésif) pour le reste je n’ai pas besoin de « m’amuser » s

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:28:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > AUDIODEV=dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 play MY/m85.WAV > > Good. > > Meanwhile, > peter@joule:/home/peter$ aplay -L | grep dmix:CARD=L > dmix:CARD=Live,DEV=0 > dmix:CARD=Live,DEV=1 > dmix:CARD=Live,DEV=2 So, does it work?

Re: Problem with apt update

2019-10-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/20/2019 10:41 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:25:27AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I know the the command worked because I can access -i386 applications. However, when I run: comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo -s apt update none of the Debian i386 repositories are li

Re: Adobe Flash Player on Debian Buster

2019-10-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 21/10/19 2:36 am, Berkhan Berkdemir wrote: > Yesterday I was looking away to install Flash Player for Firefox on > Debian Buster and followed a Debian Wiki page [0]; however, I > didn't make Flash Player work. I also found this script [1], wh

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread peter
From: Reco , Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:23:08 +0300 > Mail headers are mangled, Yah, sorry. > User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Textual MUAs aren't outside possibility. > AUDIODEV=dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 play MY/m85.WAV Good. Meanwhile, peter@joule:/home/peter$ aplay -L | grep dmix:CARD=L dmix:CARD

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread deloptes
Peter Easthope wrote: > Can an audio device be named similarly?  Eg. given two USB audio > adapters how would they be assigned the names "USBheadset" and > "USBspeakers"? > I think it is important to do the proper indexing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf options snd_hda_intel index=0 options sn

Adobe Flash Player on Debian Buster

2019-10-20 Thread Berkhan Berkdemir
Yesterday I was looking away to install Flash Player for Firefox on Debian Buster and followed a Debian Wiki page [0]; however, I didn't make Flash Player work. I also found this script [1], which is recommended in the Wiki page, but instead downloading it, the script just confirmed that I have alr

Re: Unidentified subject!

2019-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. Mail headers are mangled, but: On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 07:45:26AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > And the problem that you're trying to solve by such "predictable" audio > > devices is? > > AUDIODEV=hw:0,0 play MY/m85.WAV AUDIODEV=dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 play MY/m85.WAV Use "aplay

Unidentified subject!

2019-10-20 Thread peter
In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Persistent names for audio devices. IMHO >> systemd provides a sane means to assign a human-chosen persistent name >> to a network interface. From: Reco , Sun, 20 Oct 2019 14:41:37 +0300 > And the problem that you're trying to solve by such "predictable" audio > dev

Re: Problem with apt update

2019-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:25:27AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I know the the command worked because I can access -i386 applications. > However, when I run: > > > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo -s apt update > > none of the Debian i386 repositories are listed. Why is this the case? I

Problem with apt update

2019-10-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have just reinstalled Buster on my main computer. While I was setting up my desktop I ran: sudo -s dpkg --add-architecture i386 without any warning or error messages. I know the the command worked because I can access -i386 applications. However, when I run: comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo -s

Re: Efficient file copy from USB device under Buster.

2019-10-20 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Should work just fine. If your desktop performance suffers during the file copy, take a look at the bwlimit of rsync. That will allow you tweak how hard rsync hits your disk. Also take a look at the different Linux disk scheduling algorithms available. I mention all this disk related stuff beca

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. Posting HTML mail here is considered bad manners. Please configure your e-mail client appropriately. Also, please refrain from top-posting, this is a maillist, not your typical enterprisey spamfest. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 08:00:13AM -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > I like Virtual Box on

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-20 Thread Wayne Sallee
I appreciate your interest, but wow!  Such disdain for virtual systems. You should learn about the value of virtual systems. I like Virtual Box on my laptop, but then I only have about 2 dozen operating systems in Virtualbox on my laptop. Wayne Salle

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2019-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:45:03PM -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > systemd provides a sane means to assign a human-chosen persistent name > to a network interface. It's a good habit to add IMHO or YMMV to such statements. > Can an audio device be named similarly? . And the problem t

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

2019-10-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 01:43:14AM -0700, didier.gau...@gmail.com wrote: > Le samedi 19 octobre 2019 18:10:05 UTC+2, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > [...] > > Now to read more on apt pinning. Perhaps I've to give sysvinit-core > > a higher prio. > [...] > > When, out of curiosity, I tried to install

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

2019-10-20 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 06:46:34PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de writes: > > >On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:46:38PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > >># apt install sysvinit-core firefox-esr [...] > > > [... it works!] > Hello tomás, > > if I understand the difference between

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

2019-10-20 Thread didier . gaumet
Le samedi 19 octobre 2019 18:10:05 UTC+2, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : [...] > Now to read more on apt pinning. Perhaps I've to give sysvinit-core > a higher prio. [...] When, out of curiosity, I tried to install Debian without systemd in a VM, I blacklisted (negative priority) systemd* or even *sy

Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/19/2019 5:54 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: 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 doe