Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 June 2020 02:38:31 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'll give that a try, but it really has to run on a wheezy install, > > using camview, which has the target structure for precision point > > location built in. > > I understand you very well - it might be this one liner i

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > I'll give that a try, but it really has to run on a wheezy install, using > camview, which has the target structure for precision point location > built in. I understand you very well - it might be this one liner is from the time of wheeze as I used back then (wheezy jessie)

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 June 2020 01:46:10 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 26 June 2020 18:51:04 deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Doesn't have a card, usb only, and worthless as machine vision if > >> > you can't see what the machine is doing in very close to real > >> >

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2020 18:51:04 deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Doesn't have a card, usb only, and worthless as machine vision if >> > you can't see what the machine is doing in very close to real time. >> >> Do you have /dev/video >> >> ls -al /dev/video* >> c

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-26 18:25, David Wright wrote: There's still the problem of what one does about sensitive data if one has been rash enough to write it unencrypted onto an SSD. Would shred -n 1 be preferable? Not really, because that doesn't hit the ex-file areas. What then? The best option is to c

Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > xinput will tell you about the I/O devices you have, giving you > > numbers. > > > > xinput list followed by one of those device numbers will give > > you lots of output, so you can be sure you'

Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Jun 2020 at 20:07:46 (-0500), Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in > > KDE. > > > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there > >

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-26 18:25, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Jun 2020 at 15:06:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-06-26 06:07, David Wright wrote: On this slow machine with an oldish PATA disk, I can get about 75% speed from urandom, 15MB/s vs 20MB/s on a 29GiB partition (no encryption). Ther

Re: Newbie

2020-06-26 Thread 황병희
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:00 -0700, Arun Mathai wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I am a total newbie for debian. > > I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask. > > Could anyone please tell me how to proceed. Hi Arun, Yes this is question place. Sincerely, Byung-Hee -- /ho

Echo on Realtek ALC662 soundcard

2020-06-26 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
Thanks for your help. I've looked into alsamixer and nothing I do there has fixed the echo I get on Debian buster with this card.  0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel   HDA Intel at 0xfdefc000 irq 28 I got the  Realtek ALC662 rev1   from Alsamixer Thanks for your co

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/27/20 3:20 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: This (the above) subject line is not very good, but at least it gives a hint that it probably is, or at least could be, computer related. Would you please explain the computer related "hint" in "How long will this take?" For starters, I could en

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Jun 2020 at 15:06:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-06-26 06:07, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Jun 2020 at 14:52:11 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > > Benchmark is one thing. But, from a security viewpoint, writing zeros > > > to an encrypted volume amounts to pr

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Jun 2020 at 15:45:09 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:06:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Agreed. But I wouldn't be writing any sensitive information to an SSD > > in the first place without encrypting it. (Not that I own any yet.) > > SSDs are more common th

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread rhkramer
Quoted lines resequenced for my convenience in responding. On Friday, June 26, 2020 07:37:57 PM Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > I struggle to understand the difference between the two subject lines > that merits their different treatment. > The subject line in this thread is: "How long will this take?

Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in > KDE. > > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there > doesn't > > seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpo

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/8/20 10:22 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: I bought a new 4 terrabyte hard drive that is connected with a USB cable using USB2. It took about 32 hours to read every sector on the drive to look for bad sectors. I started blanking the sectors using /dev/zero last Friday night. It still isn't done

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 June 2020 18:51:04 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Doesn't have a card, usb only, and worthless as machine vision if > > you can't see what the machine is doing in very close to real time. > > Do you have /dev/video > > ls -al /dev/video* > crw-rw+ 1 root video 81, 0 May

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 June 2020 18:26:26 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > [598961.999017] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device SPCA2650 AV Camera > > [(1bcf:284c) 598962.015747] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for > > [entity Extension 4 was not initialized! 598962.015756] uvcvideo > > [1-12.4.4.4

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Doesn't have a card, usb only, and worthless as machine vision if you > can't see what the machine is doing in very close to real time. Do you have /dev/video ls -al /dev/video* crw-rw+ 1 root video 81, 0 May 30 10:38 /dev/video0 crw-rw+ 1 root video 81, 1 May 30 10

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > [598961.999017] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device SPCA2650 AV Camera > [(1bcf:284c) 598962.015747] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for > [entity Extension 4 was not initialized! 598962.015756] uvcvideo > [1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity Extension 3 was not initializ

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Weaver
On 27-06-2020 06:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for machine. > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. > It doesn't have cheese, and vlc do

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread ghe
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, June 26, 2020 12:34 PM, echo test wrote: > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware for this. I tried looking for it on the web in order to

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-26 06:07, David Wright wrote: On Fri 19 Jun 2020 at 14:52:11 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: Benchmark is one thing. But, from a security viewpoint, writing zeros to an encrypted volume amounts to providing blocks of plaintext for corresponding blocks of cyphertext, thereby facil

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-26 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, June 26, 2020 04:33:58 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > And I'm now alone, they finally found a rest home for my missus, but she > is quarantined for 2 weeks. At nearly 8g's a month. Out in the sticks, > at least a 1:20 drive from here. And getting sick of my own cooking, > but I've been doing

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2020 16:44:32 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > On 6/26/20 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > initialized! [598962.015987] input: SPCA2650 AV Camera as > > > /devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb1/1-12/1-12.4/1-12.4.4/1-12.4.4. > > >4/1-12.4.4.4:1.0/input/inpu

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 June 2020 16:44:32 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 6/26/20 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for > > machine. > > > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > > > But this stretch machine can't fi

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:43:15PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. > > > > Anything that's made by LSI if you need a hardware RAID controller. > > Mdraid if whatever they sold you is not made by LSI. > > Counterpoint: mdadm on LSI con

Re: I can't figure it out

2020-06-26 Thread Anders Andersson
1. Don't top-post. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:39 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > 1. use a Subject that indicates your actual Question. > > 2. add comments to that original post > > 3. give some actual details about the Hardware and Software you are using. > > *if I was not really bored this morning I w

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 6/26/20 11:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for machine. > > Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. > It doesn't have cheese, and vlc do

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 08:34:07PM +0200, echo test wrote: > > So, I want to know if It's a good idea to try using Debian in an enterprise > > context, with hardwares like Dell EMC PowerEdge or Lenovo ThinkCenter which > > seems to never mention that they support Debia

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 June 2020 16:31:28 James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 6/26/20 1:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb > > stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. > > . . . > > > Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 June 2020 15:46:15 davidson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: > >> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, G

Re: new camera

2020-06-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 6/26/20 1:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. . . . Anybody have an idea of what driver this camera needs? Would transferring images on memory cards be a workable solution?

new camera

2020-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Just got a new camera, fawcny endoscope, I intend to use for machine. Moderately high priced, 5 Megapixel, autofocus. But this stretch machine can't find it amongst all the other usb stuff. It doesn't have cheese, and vlc doesn't recognize it. From dmesg: [598961.717093] usb 1-12

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, June 26, 2020 12:34 PM, echo test wrote: > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web > app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware for

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 08:34:07PM +0200, echo test wrote: > So, I want to know if It's a good idea to try using Debian in an enterprise > context, with hardwares like Dell EMC PowerEdge or Lenovo ThinkCenter which > seems to never mention that they support Debian. I'll be original he

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 2:41 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > echo test wrote: > > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a > web > > app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware > > for this. I tried looking for it on the web in order to compare the

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread deloptes
Hi, I can only share what I did when taking similar decision echo test wrote: > So, I want to know if It's a good idea to try using Debian in an > enterprise context, with hardwares like Dell EMC PowerEdge or Lenovo > ThinkCenter which seems to never mention that they support Debian. What > kind

Re: dpms control?

2020-06-26 Thread davidson
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrot

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:06:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Agreed. But I wouldn't be writing any sensitive information to an SSD in the first place without encrypting it. (Not that I own any yet.) SSDs are more common than not in new computers so it's probably best to assume that people rea

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
echo test wrote: > Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web > app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware > for this. I tried looking for it on the web in order to compare them but it > seems that hardware vendors never want to talk a

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Jun 2020 at 11:47:34 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 08:25:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > If encrypting an entire disk, scramble the disk first, then partition. > > If only encrypting a partition, partition the disk first. > > Alignments should be at least 2M

Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-26 Thread echo test
Hello, First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't want to use aws or gcp. Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting a web app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy some hardware for this. I tried looking for it on the web in order to compare

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 08:25:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: If encrypting an entire disk, scramble the disk first, then partition. If only encrypting a partition, partition the disk first. Alignments should be at least 2M (4096 x 512B sectors). Scramble any sensitive pre-existing contents: # d

Re: I can't figure it out

2020-06-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
please Read and absorb this: https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct On 6/26/20 8:20 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: 1. use a Subject that indicates your actual Question. 2. add comments to that original post 3. give some actual details about the Hardware and Software you are using. *if I was not re

Re: I can't figure it out

2020-06-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
1. use a Subject that indicates your actual Question. 2. add comments to that original post 3. give some actual details about the Hardware and Software you are using. *if I was not really bored this morning I would completely ignore some wild "I can't figure it out" post. I Suggest you start

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread rhkramer
Thanks -- very helpful! I mayb have some more questions as I triy to digest this, but can't spend time on it today. Nothing new below this line. On Friday, June 26, 2020 09:25:49 AM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 25 Jun 2020 at 07:40:43 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 24

Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in KDE. > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there doesn't > seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpoint and the > touchpad just exists to get in the way. If your

Disable touchpad completely in KDE

2020-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in KDE. I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpoint and the touchpad just exists to get in the way. Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10

Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem

2020-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Thu 25 Jun 2020 at 07:40:43 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10:20:55 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Jun 2020 at 21:28:38 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On my Wheezy system, I used cryptsetup to set up a LUKs encrypted file > > > system on a dedic

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Jun 2020 at 14:52:11 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-06-18 19:13, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 07:51:30 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 08:52:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > The only unaddressed point in my use case is