Running isc-dhcp-server, bind9, and tftpd-hpa I netboot a diskless system,
and entries for it go into DNS. But 30 minutes later they are withdrawn,
presumably by dhcpd.
I've enabled a lot of logging, but am having trouble getting a fix on what
the problem is. Any suggestions? 30 minutes is my dh
> Thank you Thomas. Yes, that's obviously why it was done.So - a quick look
> on Wikipedia suggests that this was a current machine in 2006 and was
> replaced in 2007 / 2008. So - if anyone has one running anywhere, it's
> somewhere between 12-15 years old. If anybody knows of any that they really
On 2020-07-18 02:59, davidson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote:
On Thursday 16 July 2020 4:54:09 AM IST davidson wrote:
[snip]
$ sed 'y/\xc2\xa0/%/' somefile
An off topic question: of sed, awk and perl, if I am to chose one to
learn, which would you suggest. I wanted to do some s
Andrew Cater wrote:
> Separately, we also had a quick think about the numbers of iso images in
> general. A suggestion: For the future, we should produce physical media for
> the netinst.iso, the first DVD image in any set and one larger image to be
> written to a USB stick if wanted - and corresp
Installed Alsa, asound
OS Debian 10
Hi all,
I have standard alsa sound installed in my system and it works fine for
most things. Recently I started using Zoom, have installed a Logitech
C920 webcam with stereo microphones and a Sennheiser HD4.50BTNC
headphones with stereo microphones. I now
Hi,
Andrew Cater wrote:
> If anybody knows of any [Mac Mini] that they really must keep
> running, speak now or forever hold your peace.
It is possible to create an ISO without EFI boot lures from a normal
i386 or amd64 ISO.
Follow
https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO
but leave out the opt
On Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:11:22 -04 Graham Seaman wrote:
> On 18/07/2020 21:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30
> >> (according to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
> >
> > Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate pr
On 2020-07-18 22:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 09:31:29PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
[...]
You see perl one liners and sed mentioned loads more than awk on the
interweb.
Don't know why that is.
ISTR Perl had a bout of onelineritis back in its youth. This tends
to be somew
Thank you Thomas. Yes, that's obviously why it was done.So - a quick look
on Wikipedia suggests that this was a current machine in 2006 and was
replaced in 2007 / 2008. So - if anyone has one running anywhere, it's
somewhere between 12-15 years old. If anybody knows of any that they really
must kee
Graham Seaman wrote:
> > Maybe the CMOS battery empty?
>
> Why would the CMOS battery affect the main battery? (not being sarcastic - I
> really don't know enough about this to know whether it would or not)
That old machine has stored most settings in the BIOS. It's not unlikely,
that a new CMOS
On 18/07/2020 21:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in
the £40-50 range in the UK.
Most of the ones on Amazon ar
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 09:31:29PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
[...]
> You see perl one liners and sed mentioned loads more than awk on the
> interweb.
> Don't know why that is.
ISTR Perl had a bout of onelineritis back in its youth. This tends
to be somewhat detrimental to a language, because peop
On 18/07/2020 21:42, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC
adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu' or 'dell vostro 1520
power supply', but all the results returned are f
> New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
> to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in
the £40-50 range in the UK.
Stefan
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
> Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC
> adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu' or 'dell vostro 1520
> power supply', but all the results returned are for adapters, not power
> supplies - even when
> often for the price of a new battery you are already
> a large part of the way towards just getting a newer
> system (a raspberry pi might work for some people and
> be much better instead).
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
to a quick search for "battery d
On 2020-07-18 14:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 09:59:46AM +, davidson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote:
>On Thursday 16 July 2020 4:54:09 AM IST davidson wrote:
[snip]
>> $ sed 'y/\xc2\xa0/%/' somefile
>
>An off topic question: of sed, awk and perl, if I am t
On 18/07/2020 13:47, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
i
On 18/07/2020 13:39, Dan Ritter wrote:
Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
is com
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 3:40 AM Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> # simple version:
> perl -p -i[.bak] -e 's/xxx/yyy/[g];' $(readlink somefile) # readlink is
> necessary do not clobber symlinks
Speaking as not-an-expert on Raku (née Perl6), you'd write the above
something like:
user@mbook:~$ # One-liner
On 2020-07-18 20:08, deloptes wrote:
When I looked in the Google glass it told me this
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/bluetooth-usb-adapter-not-being-recognized/142636/12
which lead to this
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnnePro/comments/e76ij8/csr_40_bluetooth_dongle_on_linux/
yup looks exactly the
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I guess it's most likely this is a hardware failure, but since I'm
> unlikely to find a viable replacement for the battery I'm hoping there
> might be some firmware or other software change that could account for it.
I have replaced batteries after 5y or so. Recently one on
mick crane wrote:
> On 2020-07-18 01:11, deloptes wrote:
>> mick crane wrote:
>>
>>> added myself to input group but no joy.
>>> keyboard has sticker "Generic Bluetooth Apple keyboard".
>>> I use wireless mouse which Just Works.
>>> Bluetooth Dongle I think was described as for Apple.
>>> keyboar
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 18 iul 20, 09:59:46, davidson wrote:
>>=20
>> But first of all, I should reiterate that I lack expertise.
>>=20
>> I lack expertise.
>>=20
>> Second, I have no useful knowledge about real programming languages
>> (such as perl) to declare.
>
> Same disclaimers apply t
Andrew Cater wrote:
...
> As folk will be aware: we're building and releasing the final release of
> Stretch before transition to LTS support. Testing is going well - there are
> a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the testers
> have no hardware.
>
> One set is an old M
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has
> been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is
> genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power
> cable attached the laptop is completely dead.
>
> I guess it's m
Hi,
Andrew Cater wrote:
> [...] here are
> a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the testers
> have no hardware.
> One set is an old Mac on Intel media,
Do you mean these ?
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-mac-10.4.0-i386-netinst.iso
As folk will be aware: we're building and releasing the final release of
Stretch before transition to LTS support. Testing is going well - there are
a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the testers
have no hardware.
One set is an old Mac on Intel media, the other is boo
On 7/18/20 4:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 16 iul 20, 09:20:00, Peter Ehlert wrote:
don't know much, but from my notes:
I installed, for Buster, with Synaptic:
nvidia-detect
nvidia-driver
Now on another machine, setting up Bullseye, I get not found!
Did you enable 'non-free'?
no
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 09:59:46AM +, davidson wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote:
> >On Thursday 16 July 2020 4:54:09 AM IST davidson wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >> $ sed 'y/\xc2\xa0/%/' somefile
> >
> >An off topic question: of sed, awk and perl, if I am to chose one to
> >learn, which wou
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
> working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
> if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
> is completely dead.
Maybe the CMOS batter
On 2020-07-18 01:11, deloptes wrote:
mick crane wrote:
added myself to input group but no joy.
keyboard has sticker "Generic Bluetooth Apple keyboard".
I use wireless mouse which Just Works.
Bluetooth Dongle I think was described as for Apple.
keyboard and dongle worked on macmini.
I'd have tho
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
> working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
> if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
> is completely dead.
>
> I guess it's mos
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has
been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is
genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power
cable attached the laptop is completely dead.
I guess it's most likely this is a hardware fa
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:45:33 +
rbraun204 wrote:
> Hey all, i'm installing stretch onto a HP Z4G4 workstation via
> netboot and in uefi mode. The only video hardware in the box is a
> NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P620]. The install goes as
> expected. Only installed standard utils
On Jo, 16 iul 20, 09:20:00, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> don't know much, but from my notes:
> I installed, for Buster, with Synaptic:
> nvidia-detect
> nvidia-driver
>
> Now on another machine, setting up Bullseye, I get not found!
Did you enable 'non-free'?
Kind regards,
Andrei
--
http://wiki.d
On Mi, 15 iul 20, 19:01:30, hobie of RMN wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote:
> >
> > If you install libreoffice-gtk3 then LibreOffice will respect the font
> > settings used by XFCE4.
>
> Thanks, Liam - that does help with LibreOffice. :) alsamixer and probably
On Sb, 18 iul 20, 09:59:46, davidson wrote:
>
> But first of all, I should reiterate that I lack expertise.
>
> I lack expertise.
>
> Second, I have no useful knowledge about real programming languages
> (such as perl) to declare.
Same disclaimers apply to me.
> But as a peer, albeit a thick
I use perl as a "slightly better sed", in particular the following commands I
just cut and paste and modify for use, for many years now, to do (multi-)file
search and replace:
```
# simple version:
perl -p -i[.bak] -e 's/xxx/yyy/[g];' $(readlink somefile) # readlink is
necessary do not clobber
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote:
On Thursday 16 July 2020 4:54:09 AM IST davidson wrote:
[snip]
$ sed 'y/\xc2\xa0/%/' somefile
An off topic question: of sed, awk and perl, if I am to chose one to
learn, which would you suggest. I wanted to do some substitutions. I
read about them and de
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 02:25:22PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> As far as the tmpfs stuff in RAM, it basically disappears when the power
> decays
> (after a not too long delay) and barring some kind of NSA techniques to
> capture it?
Unless (parts of) it have been swapped to disk.
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 davidson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 Ajith R wrote:
On Thursday 16 July 2020 4:54:09 AM IST davidson wrote:
[snip]
I recommend two references I found helpful, though I didn't read
either one especially carefully. I mostly just stared at the templates
(the UTF-8 fighters bel
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