Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: >> [1] (neo)mutt, Sylpheed, Claws Mail, Evolution, KMail, etc. >> > My kmail is TDE's, might not be new enough. Not new enough, but good enough ;-) I use it on a daily bases with GPG - works just fine

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2019-12-04 00:48, Victor wrote: Le 03 Dec 2019, David Christensen a écrit : Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. Thanks for the reply. :-) I’ve been using xfce for the last 3 or 4 years on a latitude E5440 (bought s

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, December 04, 2019 08:42:43 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2019 18:20:11 John Hasler wrote: > > Gene writes: > > > That means two accounts at your isp... > > > > Why? Just to state it clearly, I've never had a need for more than one account at my ISP for multiple

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2019-12-03 22:02, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: Thanks for the reply.  :-) Do you use X?  If so, which display manager or desktop?  What are the hardware specs and how does it hold up with heavy desktop usage? Yes X and TDE former KDE3 as display manager (might be exotic to so

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 December 2019 18:20:11 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > That means two accounts at your isp... > > Why? > > > ...and two active fetchmail/procmail sessions... > > Fetchmail can scan any number of different servers with a single > session. I recall now that I've done as high a

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread ghe
(Please excuse topPost. ) I'm use protonmail. I run a tiny domain. And I use 2 email clients/servers: protonmail and Thunderbird. I'm quite happy with protonmail (PM). On 12/4/19 3:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2019 16:17:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 04 dec 19, 12:4

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 dec 19, 17:33:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2019 16:17:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > What's the point in using something like ProtonMail with a publicly > > archived mailing list? > > > My point exactly. That means two accounts at your isp, I think mine > charges

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 dec 19, 17:17:30, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > The free account is quite restricted (500 MB, 150 messages per day). > > This is more than enough for me for the stuff I don't want on GMail. > > If it's free (as in beer) it's no different than Gmail. The only "advertising" you'

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > That means two accounts at your isp... Why? > ...and two active fetchmail/procmail sessions... Fetchmail can scan any number of different servers with a single session. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:46:23 +0100 Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 02/12/19 01:32, Charles Curley ha scritto: > > > > How do you know this? Granted, upgrades are a likely culprit, but > > don't > > I log all config changes, timestamped and with relevant links to > documentation or supporting evide

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > The free account is quite restricted (500 MB, 150 messages per day). > This is more than enough for me for the stuff I don't want on GMail. If it's free (as in beer) it's no different than Gmail. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > What is not explicitly mentioned there is that you should also somehow > establish that a specific key belongs to the person, e.g. by meeting > in person and comparing key fingerprints (and some photo ID if you > don't know each other). Only if you require identification (a slippe

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 December 2019 16:28:05 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 12:49:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > IMO it needs far more educationally aimed discussion than the lists > > in general have supported so far. Even a pointer to a good tut would > > be appreci

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 December 2019 16:17:46 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 04 dec 19, 12:49:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Which bring me to the table to ask about protonmail. Who pays for > > that supposedly secure service at the end of the month? Simple > > TANSTAAFL, a law that can't be broken and have

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 December 2019 15:44:29 Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 01/12/19 22:29, Kamil Jońca ha scritto: > > I got the same today's morning. > > I found that in /etc/services was only: > > Good catch: it was recently modified and I'm pretty sure I didn't do > it. This file is managed by netbase an

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 12:49:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > IMO it needs far more educationally aimed discussion than the lists in > general have supported so far. Even a pointer to a good tut would be > appreciated at this campsite. A tut that is NOT written as a commercial > for a

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 dec 19, 13:47:36, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > The oldest of our list elders will maybe remember the package lineakd (it > was removed from Debian in 2011). > > Together with a „multimedia” keyboard it could be used to map commands to > keys. > > The big advantage was that it always

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 dec 19, 12:49:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Which bring me to the table to ask about protonmail. Who pays for that > supposedly secure service at the end of the month? Simple TANSTAAFL, a > law that can't be broken and have survivors, John. The free account is quite restricted (500 MB,

Re: hdd partition alignment parted vs fdisk, partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary, parted bug?

2019-12-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/12/2019 à 13:15, Sergey Spiridonov a écrit : Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 82DD924B-BF0E-40FF-9037-1FD4E7307D26 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sd

Re: Lua doesn't load the MySQL driver

2019-12-04 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:16:49PM +0100, Bjoern Schiessle wrote: > Hi, > > I run the XMPP server Prosody on a Debian server which I recently > updated to Buster. Since the update the Prosody server refuses to > connect to the MariaDB database. The log shows following error: > > Nov 30 22:09:15 s

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 02/12/19 01:32, Charles Curley ha scritto: How do you know this? Granted, upgrades are a likely culprit, but don't I log all config changes, timestamped and with relevant links to documentation or supporting evidence for the decision. Is there any reason you are doing production backu

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 01/12/19 22:29, Kamil Jońca ha scritto: I got the same today's morning. I found that in /etc/services was only: Good catch: it was recently modified and I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. This file is managed by netbase and look what I've found: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Re: Installation of OpenFoam

2019-12-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi John After a lot of fooling around, I finally settled on Salome. It was easy to install if you ignore all of the junk in the README file. It took a .step file from FreeCAD and turned out a 3D hexahedral .unv file with little trouble. The mesh may not be very optimized but I don't care. I a

Lua doesn't load the MySQL driver

2019-12-04 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi, I run the XMPP server Prosody on a Debian server which I recently updated to Buster. Since the update the Prosody server refuses to connect to the MariaDB database. The log shows following error: Nov 30 22:09:15 sql debug Connecting to [MySQL] prosody... Nov 30 22:09:15 sql debug Database

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 December 2019 11:17:27 John Hasler wrote: > Brad Rogers writes: > > And as has been mentioned, people continue to use the > > google/yahoo/whoever surveillance webmail systems. And let's face > > it, they're not going to offer encryption that does not, at the very > > least, have

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Brad Rogers writes: > And as has been mentioned, people continue to use the > google/yahoo/whoever surveillance webmail systems. And let's face it, > they're not going to offer encryption that does not, at the very > least, have a backdoor in it. Not cynical. Given that they must be able to sca

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

2019-12-04 Thread Christoph Groth
Andrea Borgia wrote on 14 Sep 2019: > On two systens with fairly different hardware (a 6yr old laptop I am > using now on holiday and my new home desktop), with kernel 5.2.0 (and > possibly as low as 5.0.11) the following happens: boot, login X, > hibernate (ok), resume (also ok), unlock xfce4, st

Re: Best/Proper way to dist-upgrade Debian Testing except the kernel?

2019-12-04 Thread songbird
Sven Hartge wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: > >> Because updating the kernel requires to reboot the system -AFAIK- in >> many cases I would prefer to 'dist-upgrade' (all packages) except the >> kernel -until a moment in which I can reboot the system-, so: > >> 1. Is this something right/viable/accept

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Renato Gallo
apt-file search xbindkeys root@azrael:~# Renato Gallo - Original Message - From: "The Wanderer" To: "debian-user" Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 3:14:03 PM Subject: Re: Replacement for lineakd? On 2019-12-04 at 09:03, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mi, Dez 0

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Renato Gallo
apt-cache policy xbindkeys xbindkeys: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: Renato Gallo - Original Message - From: "renato" To: "The Wanderer" Cc: "debian-user" Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 3:15:41 PM Subject: Re: Replacement for lineakd? apt-file search x

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Dez 04, 2019 at 09:14:03 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: Looks like xbindkeys is available in stable, but not in testing (though it is still in sid). Ah, that explains it. I’m using testing. ;-) Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- |If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 03:03:56PM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mi, Dez 04, 2019 at 01:06:56 +, Steve Kemp wrote: > > I personally use `xbindkeys`. Configure it to be launched as > > Hm: > [stse@osgiliath]: apt-file search xbindkeys > :-( > [04.12.19 15:01] ~ > > Which package? > You m

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-12-04 at 09:03, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mi, Dez 04, 2019 at 01:06:56 +, Steve Kemp wrote: > >> I personally use `xbindkeys`. Configure it to be launched as > > Hm: > [stse@osgiliath]: apt-file search xbindkeys > :-( > [04.12.19 15:01] ~ > > Which package? $ apt-file search xbin

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Dez 04, 2019 at 01:06:56 +, Steve Kemp wrote: I personally use `xbindkeys`. Configure it to be launched as Hm: [stse@osgiliath]: apt-file search xbindkeys :-( [04.12.19 15:01] ~ Which package? Stephan -- |If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.|

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Steve Kemp
> Well, it’s long gone, and while I have it still installed, I’m wondering > what kind of replacement is used today for this functionality? I personally use `xbindkeys`. Configure it to be launched as part of your desktop-session and you can make it toggle music, etc, via multimedia keys

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread John Hasler
tomás writes: > So what I do is... sign my messages. I'll soon add something to my > signature recommending encryption (and offering help in setting that > up). Good idea. I did that years ago and should start again. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! The oldest of our list elders will maybe remember the package lineakd (it was removed from Debian in 2011). Together with a „multimedia” keyboard it could be used to map commands to keys. The big advantage was that it always worked not matter if you would run XFCE or FVWM. Well, it’s

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread Victor
Le 03 Dec 2019, David Christensen a écrit : debian-user: Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. I’ve been using xfce for the last 3 or 4 years on a latitude E5440 (bought seconhand). - Worked seamingless right after

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:03:42 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hello Andrei, >In my opinion "never" is too strong here, especially with free services I take your point.. ...however.. (you just *knew* that was coming, didn't you? :-D) .not everyone uses serves such as ProtonMail.

Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-04 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 09:34:48AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: [...] > Several have commented on the usefulness of encryption. The people I > will be a addressing will mainly fall under the group that wont > bother trying. That's my situation to: venturing a rough estimate, 95% to 99% of thos

Re: Best/Proper way to dist-upgrade Debian Testing except the kernel?

2019-12-04 Thread Sven Hartge
riveravaldez wrote: > Because updating the kernel requires to reboot the system -AFAIK- in > many cases I would prefer to 'dist-upgrade' (all packages) except the > kernel -until a moment in which I can reboot the system-, so: > 1. Is this something right/viable/acceptable to do? You don't *nee