Re: [solved!!!] Multichannel audio playback

2021-05-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:39:19AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > After learning, some months ago, thanks to listers' help, how to live record into a multi channel audio file, I was wondering about the reverse problem: now I have

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 mai 21, 22:42:28, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, sorry if this is not the place to ask (and in that case please > point me in the proper direction). It's definitely on topic here ;) > I'm trying to distinguish when a system reboot is an absolute need > and when it is absolutely safe to keep

Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities?

2021-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 mai 21, 10:49:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 01 May 2021 08:57:28 Marco Möller wrote: > > > Hello, > > Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies, > > institutions, universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing > > to Debian, i.e. as package maintainers,

Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities?

2021-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 mai 21, 14:57:28, Marco Möller wrote: > Hello, > Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies, institutions, > universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing to Debian, i.e. as > package maintainers, admins, maybe Debian specific code programmers, and > alike? I fou

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
I use the following little script. If it produces output, then a reboot is desirable. #!/bin/bash -p set -x PATH=/usr/bin:/bin lsof +c0 -w | grep ' DEL *REG *[^0 ]' | egrep -v \ '(/var/lib/gdm3|/usr/share/mime|/home/[^/]*)/(.cache|.config|.local)' What it does is look for library (and ot

Re: combined cpu frequency stats with 2 policies in place

2021-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 mai 21, 14:41:07, Tuxo wrote: > Hi list > > My octa core cpu does offer 2 frequency governors: > > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/affected_cpus > 0 1 2 3 > > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy4/affected_cpus > 4 5 6 7 > > cpufreq-info --stats --human does only dis

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 mai 21, 03:17:39, Weaver wrote: > > `This is a fairly busy mailing list' - Oh no, it isn't! > It used to be. > I can recall days when I'd get 300 mails or more, but that was when the > attitude was it was a list for Debian users, and not just a list for > Debian issues. > At times, there

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-02 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, May 2, 2021, 9:42 PM riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, sorry if this is not the place to ask (and in that case please > point me in the proper direction). > > I'm trying to distinguish when a system reboot is an absolute need > and when it is absolutely safe to keep the system running/working > a

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-02 Thread David
On Mon, 3 May 2021 at 11:42, riveravaldez wrote: > PS: `apt-get dist-upgrade` output is translated to English Please don't do this, because it introduces unreliable and unreproducible communication and wastes your time. What helps everyone is to share the reproducible *copy/paste* output. > sys

When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-02 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, sorry if this is not the place to ask (and in that case please point me in the proper direction). I'm trying to distinguish when a system reboot is an absolute need and when it is absolutely safe to keep the system running/working after a `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`, onc

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-02 Thread Ángel
On 2021-05-01 at 09:28 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Some state their brainwaves are being influenced by whatever (video, > tv, wireless) It could be true, but there is no evidence and the > probability of this being true is very low. Looks like the goal of every advertisement to me.

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2021 13:29:47 -04 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor > >> is a>> > >> powerpc64 Big Indian, not a power

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
deloptes [2021-05-02 17:44:42] wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> For these kinds of searches, I tend to go to Wikipedia first. >> One of the reasons is that I can do that via the Wikipedia app which is >> much more snappy than my browser on my smartphone. >> Another is that I have much more confide

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/05/2021 à 19:29, didier gaumet a écrit : (I have  almost wrote "inglish") sorry : "written" There: absent-minded ;-)

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] That's "Endian", not "Indian". https://en.wikipedia.

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, May 2, 2021, 11:51 AM Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > > > >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor > >> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc

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

2021-05-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 05:54:05PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > As others say in this thread, you have to use your brain a bit more > > to be happy with DDG. > > > > Don't try to insult. Me? How so? > If you speak/use 1-2 languages it might be OK Always so competitiv

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

2021-05-02 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > As others say in this thread, you have to use your brain a bit more > to be happy with DDG. > Don't try to insult. If you speak/use 1-2 languages it might be OK > To me, honestly, this is a feature, not a bug. > I don't care - it does not delivery good search results

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor >> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] > > That's "Endian", not "Indian". 8080

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > For these kinds of searches, I tend to go to Wikipedia first. > One of the reasons is that I can do that via the Wikipedia app which is > much more snappy than my browser on my smartphone. > Another is that I have much more confidence in the Wikimedia foundation > when it c

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the > 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ [..] > I was > able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem. Possibly you want Debian for "ppc64" or "powerpc". At least the boot equipment

Trying to debug alsa xruns

2021-05-02 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, I have been experiencing audio xruns when playing back audio or video files for a while now and thought I might try to get some debugging information to find out what's wrong (hardware fault? driver bug? something else?). According to https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/XRUN_Debug this requires

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a > powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] That's "Endian", not "Indian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian and nowadays the rare Linux ditros that still propose a powerpc64 portage do it for Litte Indian (ppc64el) as Debian do. So Debian is not compatible with your h

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 5/2/21 3:21 PM, Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the > 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ image to CD on a newer iMac (2017). > When I boot the iMac G5 holding the ‘Option’ key down with the CD > inserted, the G5 doesn’t recognise the CD

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

2021-05-02 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-02, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Google on the other hand knows where i am and that i understand german > and english language. Ich spreche kein deutsch. Here in France I got mainly Alfred from both search engines, with a few birds peeping through further down. > Have a nice day :) > >

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> when I just try to search for "language:en stieglitz" (without the >> quotes) > YES! That's what I was looking for. I wasn't sure DDG had this > feature (although I hoped for it). Sadly, it doesn't work when combined with `!w`. [ and I think it'd make sense to allow the shorter `lang:de`. ] A

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:05:18AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > For example I wanted to know what is Stieglitz in German - it is kind > > of bird, but I wanted to know how it looks like. DDG results did not > > even come close to a bird. > > For these kinds of searches, I tend to go to Wikipe

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

2021-05-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:47:17PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2 May 2021 14:29:06 +0200 > wrote: > > (...) > > If you set your browser's primary "web page" language it works, > > too. That's probably what goes into the "Accept-Language" HTTP > > request header. Would be nice i

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> For example I wanted to know what is Stieglitz in German - it is kind > of bird, but I wanted to know how it looks like. DDG results did not > even come close to a bird. For these kinds of searches, I tend to go to Wikipedia first. One of the reasons is that I can do that via the Wikipedia app

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

2021-05-02 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 2 May 2021 14:29:06 +0200 wrote: (...) > If you set your browser's primary "web page" language it works, > too. That's probably what goes into the "Accept-Language" HTTP > request header. Would be nice if there were a way to set that > per-request... when I just try to search for "l

Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Pat Pathmanathan
I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ image to CD on a newer iMac (2017). When I boot the iMac G5 holding the ‘Option’ key down with the CD inserted, the G5 doesn’t recognise the CD as a bootable CD. I then did the same with the 'deb

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

2021-05-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:20:25PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > Searching for "Stieglitz" DDG shows > > With Javascript off: > 1st try: Alfred Stieglitz > 2nd try: Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz > 3rd try: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Stiegli

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

2021-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Searching for "Stieglitz" DDG shows With Javascript off: 1st try: Alfred Stieglitz 2nd try: Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz 3rd try: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Stieglitz Snyder Architecture, Christine Stieglitz Quite random choice, but no

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

2021-05-02 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 01:20:03PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 02 May 2021 12:57:59 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > > (...) > > I'm sorry guys, but DDG is another joke. For example I wanted to know > > what is Stieglitz in German - it is kind of bird, but I wanted to know > > how it

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

2021-05-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2021 07:20:03 -04 Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 02 May 2021 12:57:59 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > > (...) > > > I'm sorry guys, but DDG is another joke. For example I wanted to > > know > > what is Stieglitz in German - it is kind of bird, but I wanted to > > know how it l

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

2021-05-02 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 02 May 2021 12:57:59 +0200 deloptes wrote: (...) > I'm sorry guys, but DDG is another joke. For example I wanted to know > what is Stieglitz in German - it is kind of bird, but I wanted to know > how it looks like. DDG results did not even come close to a bird. this I cannot reprodu