Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 aug 20, 16:24:59, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > What do you think might be "technically" going on? Bugs: keyboard firmware, BIOS, Linux, etc. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Apt-get vs Aptitude vs Apt

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 aug 20, 15:33:53, Javier Barroso wrote: > > I swiched from aptitude to apt-get/apt some years ago > > aptitude need love :( > > My problem was mixing 64 and 32 bits packages. Seem aptitude didn't do a > good job > > Reading Planet debian and transitions and apt-listbugs (or how It is

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10:43 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 04 Aug 2020 at 08:38:37 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:52:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > My main router doesn't have the f

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Aug 2020 at 07:39:00 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > $ cat /etc/cron.daily/send-hotmail > > #!/bin/sh > > [ -x /root/.cron/send-hotmail.sh ] || exit 0 > > /root/.cron/send-hotmail.sh > > $ cat /root/.cron/send-hotmail.sh

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Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/08/20 7:05 pm, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > > > Richard Hector (mailto:rich...@walnut.gen.nz>>) > wrote > > I used to be able to use my mouse to select/paste 'normally' (for X), > when using vim in a terminal. More recently (a few years?), it doesn't > seem to work. > > > Yes,

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oh, one other thing I should mention -- on most keyboards (at least the ones > I've cleaned) there are some metal pieces (essentially springs) under many of > the larger (wider) keys. I am pretty sure they are intended to allow > pressing > either end (or the cente

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Doug McGarrett wrote: > > Someone along this thread mentioned key-pullers. I have a couple of IBM > model M > keyboards that haven't been cleaned in years. They work well anyway, but I'd > like to clean > the keys. Where could I get one of those key-puller tools? > (If you ever get a chance to ge

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread rhkramer
Oh, one other thing I should mention -- on most keyboards (at least the ones I've cleaned) there are some metal pieces (essentially springs) under many of the larger (wider) keys. I am pretty sure they are intended to allow pressing either end (or the center) of those long keys (e.g., the space

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/11/20 9:53 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: The way I clean (a non-laptop) keyboard is by disassembling it and putting all the parts in a fresh (i.e., clean) washtub of warm water with dishsoap, let it soak for a few minutes, then rinse with clean water and let dry, often

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 10:28:37 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > That should work as well, but I was never able to disassemble any part > of a keyboard without having the impression that I was breaking it, so > I prefer to refrain from any such thing. I started doing it a long time ago, so have pro

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I could not reproduce the issue outside Linux, but it only happens > occasionally thus not sure if it is that. Well, that would show it is not a hardware issue > Technically, I would think that you are experiencing either a hardware fault > or a driver issue. I know that on my laptop, there is

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The way I clean (a non-laptop) keyboard is by disassembling it and putting > all > the parts in a fresh (i.e., clean) washtub of warm water with dishsoap, let > it > soak for a few minutes, then rinse with clean water and let dry, often > overnight (I almost always have a spare keyboard, but

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > The way I clean (a non-laptop) keyboard is by disassembling it and putting > all > the parts in a fresh (i.e., clean) washtub of warm water with dishsoap, let > it > soak for a few minutes, then rinse with clean water and let dry, often > overnight (I almost always

Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-11 Thread Toni Mas Soler
Open your file using vi -C <> That works fine for me. Then you can alias vi as vi -C using "alias vi='vi -C'" Toni Mas Missatge de Greg Wooledge del dia dt., 11 d’ag. 2020 a les 13:57: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:05:06AM +0200, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > > Richard Hector () wrote > > > > I u

Re: Apt-get vs Aptitude vs Apt

2020-08-11 Thread Javier Barroso
El mar., 11 ago. 2020 13:31, Andrei POPESCU escribió: > On Vi, 07 aug 20, 13:31:53, Default User wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > Recently there was a thread about aptitude dependency resolution > > limitations. > > If you are referring to the limitations of 'aptitude why', this 1) > reverse dependen

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, August 10, 2020 10:34:56 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > IIRC, this is about a keyboard on a laptop -- I would not put any part of > > that in a dishwasher. > > You sure can, tho you'll want to put only the keyboard (many other parts > of a laptop can go safely into the dishwasher, actuall

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Tue 04 Aug 2020 at 08:38:37 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:52:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > My main router doesn't have the facility to run that client. My > cascaded router does (to just those two ser

Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:05:06AM +0200, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > Richard Hector () wrote > > I used to be able to use my mouse to select/paste 'normally' (for X), > > when using vim in a terminal. More recently (a few years?), it doesn't > > seem to work. > > Yes, since a few years(?) you mus

Re: Apt-get vs Aptitude vs Apt

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 aug 20, 13:31:53, Default User wrote: > Hey guys, > > Recently there was a thread about aptitude dependency resolution > limitations. If you are referring to the limitations of 'aptitude why', this 1) reverse dependency and 2) apt / apt-get don't even have (an equivalent for) this.

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > $ cat /etc/cron.daily/send-hotmail > #!/bin/sh > [ -x /root/.cron/send-hotmail.sh ] || exit 0 > /root/.cron/send-hotmail.sh > $ cat /root/.cron/send-hotmail.sh > #!/bin/sh > mailx -s 'ZZZ---ZZZ' myfreeacco...@hotmail.co.uk < /etc/mai

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 aug 20, 14:38:30, Andrew Cater wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure -plow tzdata > > [That's the dpkg-reconfigure command, -plow to force asking low priority > questions rather than taking the default answers, and tzdata being the file > that sets the timezone.] As the manpage states, dpkg-reco

Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?]

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 aug 20, 07:33:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I had done similar search with DuckDuckGo receiving similarly useless hits. [...] > That's why I'm looking for a human's answer. It helps to specify in advance what you tried already and didn't work. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.de

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-11 Thread dickey
On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 7:50:04 AM UTC-4, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, tomas wrote: > > > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window. > > > The property you are look

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Andrew Cater
I've got a similar vintage Thinkpad x130 next to me: firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-misc-nonfree and it all works well. UEFI should then more or less just work. On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:23 AM Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrot

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > It's a AMD CPU-GPU package, I've documented the hardware in > the wiki as I already pointed out earlier: > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy I've updated that page with some more information. For on

Re: How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, so i went back to the original configuration for exactly one kernel build and installation. Full make lasts 70 minutes, a development cycle lasts more than 3 minutes, even after running scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO It builds our universe and a few alternative ones too. So for the tim

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: So is my processor AMD or Atom? The best way to answer this question is to run the command cat /proc/cpuinfo That prints about thirty lines; here are a few: processor: 1 vendor_id:

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > So is my processor AMD or Atom? > > The best way to answer this question is to run the command > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > and perhaps share its output with us here. It's a AMD CPU

Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Richard Hector () wrote I used to be able to use my mouse to select/paste 'normally' (for X), > when using vim in a terminal. More recently (a few years?), it doesn't > seem to work. Yes, since a few years(?) you must use shift and the mouse for copy / paste in vim using Debian's default configu