Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

On 3/14/21, songbird wrote: > Ed Redd wrote: >> --62c8ba05bd84aafe >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> Debianized - The package that Ian put together I unlocked it and he had >> me >> asign a package manager. I had 3 options and then I debianized them. I >> started recie

[?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

I return to thank Dr. Stefan Monnier, Mr. John Hasler, Mr. Sven Hartge, Mr. Peter Ehlert and Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z, in addition to The Wanderer, Mr. Roberto C. Sánchez, Mr. Andrei Popescu, Mr. Eduardo M KalinovskI, Mr. Tomas and Mr. songbird, whom i have thanked already (in this case, a second time T

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 mar 21, 17:34:40, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > I'm guessing it's in the GPT somewhere. Did you try removing the entire > > > partition table before switching to ZFS? > > > > There had been no partition table, I just ran "mkfs.btrfs

Re: Google Translate stopped working

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 04:13:59PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > My home desktop (let's call it PC1) has been running Wheezy and firefox-esr > 68.9.0esr-1~deb9u1. I seriously doubt a deb9u* package (stretch-security) is going to work on a wheezy system. > apt-get remove firefox-esr >

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-14 7:19 GMT-04:00, The Wanderer : > On 2021-03-14 at 06:49, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > >> While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? > > Because of the history of the processor microarchitectures involved. > > The x86 processor line (32-bit and older) was, to the best of my > knowledge, origina

Re: Bug: missing package

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 21:20:39 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Why is frobtads missing from debian repositories? Looking at the tracker, the package is held back by "failure to build from source" bugs, which are considered RC critical: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836934 h

Bug: missing package

Why is frobtads missing from debian repositories? The frobtads package makes it possible for those living outside of g.u.i. land to play tads games on the console.

Re: Debian( live version) question

> How can I change my user@debian on terminal to myname@debian. Im using > for my education purpose. > export PS1="myname@debian$ "

Debian( live version) question

Hi Im using the Debian live version non free How can I change my user@debian on terminal to myname@debian. Im using for my education purpose. could you advise? thanks

Re: Google Translate stopped working

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, at 16:13, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > So I'm thinking this is not a problem in firefox. Might it be a Java > problem? Why would it be? Hardly anyone installs Java. The laptop I'm using right now runs Windows, doesn't have any JRE installed, and google translate se

Google Translate stopped working

My home desktop (let's call it PC1) has been running Wheezy and firefox-esr 68.9.0esr-1~deb9u1. (I held back upgrades to firefox-esr for reasons I won't go into.) A month or two ago, translate.google.com stopped working. Normally, if I enter a phrase in the left window, a translation comes up in

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

Ed Redd wrote: > --62c8ba05bd84aafe > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Debianized - The package that Ian put together I unlocked it and he had me > asign a package manager. I had 3 options and then I debianized them. I > started recieving messages from every list in Debian

Re: non-existing interface problem

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 08:41, ghe2001 wrote: > On Saturday, March 13, 2021 2:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > Well, you could try grepping for 'eth' and 'wwan' ;) > > > > Some context might help as well (as in '-C 5' or so). > > Bingo: There might be a bit more useful info to be seen with:

Re: non-existing interface problem

On Sun 14 Mar 2021 at 21:41:11 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Saturday, March 13, 2021 2:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > Well, you could try grepping for 'eth' and 'wwan' ;) > > > > Some context might help as well (as in '-C 5' or so). > > Bingo: > > root@

Re: non-existing interface problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 13, 2021 2:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Well, you could try grepping for 'eth' and 'wwan' ;) > > Some context might help as well (as in '-C 5' or so). Bingo: root@gobook3:~# dmesg | egrep

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 03:06:03PM -0500, Ed Redd wrote: > Debianized - The package that Ian put together I unlocked it and he had me > asign a package manager. I had 3 options and then I debianized them. I > started recieving messages from every list in Debian and I seen Gnu.org > messages and the

Re: Google vs. DDG

deloptes composed on 2021-03-14 14:49 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> https://www.newtube.app/ > Is it a parody? I think not:

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

Debianized - The package that Ian put together I unlocked it and he had me asign a package manager. I had 3 options and then I debianized them. I started recieving messages from every list in Debian and I seen Gnu.org messages and they were erased the package manager is trying to fuck me over and c

[OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

> IA64 (Itanium) was completely incompatible with the installed i386 base. > The first CPUs had a (very slow) compatibility layer, assisted by > software, so you could run your "legacy" 16bit/32bit applications. The original plan/claims was that the support for legacy i386 application would be "ju

[OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

> Well, nearly. Itanium Merced was 2001 [1] (althoug you wouldn't buy > /that/ as a private person), DEC Alpha was even 1992 [2]; FWIW And MIPS was there even a bit earlier with their R4000 (tho the software support for it only appeared some years later: they first wanted to have an installed base

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

>> And signal... with all due respect to Moxie Marlinspike... >> - the centralised server model >> - the fact they don't publish their server code since a while > https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server To the extent that the service is centralized, I don't really care if their code is availa

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

> Federated services have metadata as well. > If a particular communication involves two different servers now *both* > servers will have all the metadata for that communication. Indeed, hiding all the metadata is *hard*. Still, Having the overall metadata divided among a hundred servers or more

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

>> The problem is also the metadata: it still leaves a centralized record >> of who sent what size of message to whom at what time and from which >> IP address. > > It's definitely more than just "dry" IP addresses: I was talking about Signal (I admit I didn't make that clear). Stefan

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

On Sunday 14 March 2021 07:50:37 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:10:42PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -s > > ~/log/mail.log" > > spamd is a system service and it normally (initially) runs as root, > so using a ~

Re: Creating a tap device.

From: deloptes Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:49:24 +0100 > I spent also some time finding a suitable way to configure qemu (for > aarch64), so came to the bridge interface option as this way I can do a > diskless setup. Thanks, ... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479Bcc: peter at east

Re: Creating a tap device.

From: "Alexander V. Makartsev" Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 11:41:47 +0500 > But it wasn't creating a device with chosen name anywhere under "/dev" or > "/dev/net/". > I believe, "/dev/net/tun" device is created when "tun" kernel module is > inserted. Crucial tip. Thanks Alexander. Consequently I m

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

The Wanderer wrote: > It caught on, and became so successful that Intel abandoned its ia64 > approach and started making amd64 CPUs itself. Which was unfortunate as the x86 architecture needed to die. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 13:23:17 +0100 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > in the first place, I'm not the target audience for instant > > > messaging anyway. > > > > Every step towards

Re: Social-media antipathy

On 3/13/21 1:17 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Unfortunately the way Facebook gained it's huge user base was by creepy stalking of people in any way it could, in order to get them to sign up, which is exactly why a privacy respecting social network will have a tough time to compete. Not even remotel

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

Thank you, Mr. Roberto C. Sánchez, Mr. Andrei Popescu, Mr. Eduardo M KalinovskI, Mr. Tomas and Mr. songbird, who posted their replies to educate me. The Wanderer was so superlative in his exposition that my rest teachers were compelled to play a supporting role. This always occurs in any cooperativ

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 02:47:23PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > This is nonsense. "The best" without any context is just meaningless. > > > > Come on, you yourself write below why. [...] > Me too - doing the same - but as you say "more or less as good as > Google's" -

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 mar 21, 07:19:25, The Wanderer wrote: >> When 64-bit came along, rather than extending the x86 line, Intel >> started from scratch and designed an entire new CPU architecture. >> That got called ia64, and it never caught on; it eventually failed in >> the market

Re: Google vs. DDG

Felix Miata wrote: > > https://www.newtube.app/ Is it a parody?

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This is nonsense. "The best" without any context is just meaningless. > Come on, you yourself write below why. > Let me put an example: a friend of mine is doing biological research > (mRNA and that kind of stuff). > > She relies totally on Google to keep the research

[?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On 14/03/2021, The Wanderer wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit > PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit > systems > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 07:19:25 -0400 ... ... [s

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > in the first place, I'm not the target audience for instant > > messaging anyway. > > Every step towards more privacy is good. Let's not let the perfect be > the enemy

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

Susmita/Rajib wrote: > While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? > > For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN > 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), > a 64bit processor. > > It can't be that intellectuals, technocrats and cognitive eli

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Du, 14 mar 21, 12:19:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:03:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > To be clear, far from me to claim Signal is perfect, it's just (in my > > not so humble opinion) the only *feasible* option to compete with > > WhatsApp, Telegra

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

Hello, On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:10:42PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -s ~/log/mail.log" spamd is a system service and it normally (initially) runs as root, so using a ~ there probably isn't what you want. Storing logs from such a daemon

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 04:25:38AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...] > AMD was the first on the market with 64bit hardware. (I was an early > adopter) Well, nearly. Itanium Merced was 2001 [1] (althoug you wouldn't buy /that/ as a private person), DEC Alpha was even 1992 [2]; it was the first 64

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On Du, 14 mar 21, 07:19:25, The Wanderer wrote: > > When 64-bit came along, rather than extending the x86 line, Intel > started from scratch and designed an entire new CPU architecture. That > got called ia64, and it never caught on; it eventually failed in the > marketplace, except possibly in ve

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:16:02PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 mar 21, 11:11:25, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:58:32AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > With DDG I can easily specify whether I want "local" results and for > > > which country. > > > >

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

it's Historical I'm old, I was there I'm old, so I don't remember the details On 3/14/21 3:49 AM, Susmita/Rajib wrote: While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Gr

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

As a direct response to your subject, I quote "Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems?" Because the currently successful Intel architecture (core, etc) is (more or less) a copy of AMD's. The history goes rough

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 07:19:25AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-14 at 06:49, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > > While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? > > Because of the history of the processor microarchitectures involved. > > The x86 processor line (32-bit and older) was, to the best of

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On 14/03/2021 07:49, Susmita/Rajib wrote: While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), a 64bit processor. It can't be that intellectuals, technocrats and co

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On Du, 14 mar 21, 16:19:45, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? > > For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN > 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), > a 64bit processor. > > It can't be that intellectuals,

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

On 2021-03-14 at 06:49, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? Because of the history of the processor microarchitectures involved. The x86 processor line (32-bit and older) was, to the best of my knowledge, originally an Intel thing. Before i386 (where the 'i' may sta

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:03:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > To be clear, far from me to claim Signal is perfect, it's just (in my > not so humble opinion) the only *feasible* option to compete with > WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, etc. Dunno. What's wrong with mail/pgp-gpg

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

On Du, 14 mar 21, 11:11:25, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:58:32AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > With DDG I can easily specify whether I want "local" results and for > > which country. > > Ruoghly yes, but what I was aiming at is slightly more subtle. And I was addi

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

On Du, 14 mar 21, 17:34:40, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I'm guessing it's in the GPT somewhere. Did you try removing the entire > > partition table before switching to ZFS? > > There had been no partition table, I just ran "mkfs.btrfs /dev/nvme1n1" > on the whole raw vo

[?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), a 64bit processor. It can't be that intellectuals, technocrats and cognitive elites involved in the development o

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Du, 14 mar 21, 09:44:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:42:01PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > > >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > > >> > secure/private". > > >> I gu

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > > The problem is that /dev/nvme1n1 is being used for ZFS now, and there is > > > > currently no btrfs thereon. However, there is a btrfs label or something > > > > stuck somewhere, how can I clear it? > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > It's somewhere on disk, bu

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:58:32AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 mar 21, 10:03:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > I think by now every avid reader will have an idea of what's going on. > > The whole fuzzball of metadata you share with Google (your IP address, > > your browser version,

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Du, 14 mar 21, 05:58:42, Tom Yates wrote: > > an excellent point. furthermore, you can be summarily thrown off a central > service, by the provider; it is *much* more difficult to eject someone from > a federated service. That can easily backfire: https://xkcd.com/1357/ Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

On Du, 14 mar 21, 10:03:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I think by now every avid reader will have an idea of what's going on. > The whole fuzzball of metadata you share with Google (your IP address, > your browser version, the whole compost heap of cookies, browser metrics > prior search history

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

On Du, 14 mar 21, 10:58:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:21:59, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > > > The problem is that /dev/nvme1n1 is being used for ZFS now, and there is > > > currently no btrfs thereon. However, there is a btrfs label or something > > >

Re: Google vs. DDG

deloptes composed on 2021-03-14 09:59 (UTC+0100): > Absolutely true - they also changed Youtube few years ago and now it > suppresses information. > It became hard to find things that were popping up before, because you have > viewed similar before. They slipped into USSR v2.0 game. I'm sure they'

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:47:27PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Interestingly, for my searches recently I've seldom got really better > > hits on Google. > > I'm trying DuckDuckGo for 2 weeks now - it's not bad, but Google is (still) > the best This is nonsense. "The best

Re: Google vs. DDG

Jeremy Ardley wrote: > I find that Google has bias and censorhip in some topics, particularly > those where Google has a certain point of view, or the US government > does (and this is in areas unrelated to current medical topics). > > When I suspect I'm not getting the full results I also check

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Now what this entails is to be guided to run some prescribed tests on > my laptop, particularly for the package pulseaudio, and file the > outputs of those tests as a Bug Report. > No one will pay attention as you are far behind the current stable version. As mentioned I r

Re: Google vs. DDG

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:51:09AM +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > On 3/14/21 1:41 AM, Weaver wrote: > >>russian search-engine  helpful > >Yes, I use that for it's local focus, especially, and a few others. > >One doesn't cover it all. > >I just don't use Google. > >Cheers! > > >  - believe that can

Re: Creating a tap device.

pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > My previous message was meant for another list. Apology for the > disturbance. > > I've set aside the instructions for qemu. Trying to understand how a > tap device is created. "man ip" has minimal explanation of "ip tuntap". > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:42:01PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > >> > secure/private". > >> I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you c

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:55:24PM +0100, grumpy wrote: [...] > How can "sheer luck" be a factor? My non-participation in Facebook > is due to a conscious decision. Good for you if you think that all you have and are is due to your own hard work. In my case, it's different. Cheers - t signat