Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > As I recall, there used to be a > command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the > screen. [...] > Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor > a package containing it. It is in the package ncal which obviously was newly int

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 26/9/21 1:46 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. Now that I've move

What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Paul M. Foster
Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
So, what is the easiest route to end up with a kernel that has this patch in it? The image for the current kernel is 4.19.0-5-686-pae The Raspberry Pi is an arm-based system and the image version number is probably different but the idea is the same, have a kernel that doesn't cho

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-25 Thread Default User
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 8:04 PM Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 06:24:12 PM, Default User > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > > /home/debian-user > > > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. >

Re: `wget' web site

2021-09-25 Thread Karthik
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 5:18 AM Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Hi all. > > I manage to download an entire website, say www.mysite.com, with simply > > $ wget -r -l 0 www.mysite.com > > After that, I can surf that web site offline with all its internal links. > Perfect. > > Now the problem comes when I

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-09-25 at 20:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 07:43:04 PM rhkra...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> I had to look up the meaning of FAOD. Are you kidding me? What >>> did I do or say to get a respo

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-25 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 06:24:12 PM, Default User wrote: > Hello! > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > /home/debian-user > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. > > But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type > excl

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 07:51:18PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 25, 2021 07:43:04 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, September 25, 2021 06:32:16 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > > FAOD, > > > > I had to look up the meaning of FAOD. Are you kidding me? What did I

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-09-25 at 19:51, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 25, 2021 07:43:04 PM rhkra...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> On Saturday, September 25, 2021 06:32:16 PM The Wanderer wrote: >>> FAOD, >> >> I had to look up the meaning of FAOD. Are you kidding me? What >> did I do or say to

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 25, 2021 07:43:04 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 25, 2021 06:32:16 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > FAOD, > > I had to look up the meaning of FAOD. Are you kidding me? What did I do > or say to get a response like that? > > I may have misunderstood which

`wget' web site

2021-09-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. I manage to download an entire website, say www.mysite.com, with simply $ wget -r -l 0 www.mysite.com After that, I can surf that web site offline with all its internal links. Perfect. Now the problem comes when I want to copy that stuff into my Android tablet and read it offline too.

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 25, 2021 06:32:16 PM The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-09-25 at 09:06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: > >> Based on what I've found in digging earlier, as well as the name > >> mentioned by Andy Smith in his reply, I th

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: [Upgrading from Debian 8.11] > don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that > ancient. I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different machines in the year preceding the 11 release

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
Gene Heskett writes: > You forgot to mention it can get the message thru better because it has a > 12 db advantage over competing noise compared to the original AM, > sometimes called Ancient Mary in our circles. I did forget that but you are correct. another interesting thing about ssb

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > Lots of differences! systemd instead of init, grub instead of LILO, and > probably many more than I'd want to list here. As it turns out, these are just the defaults. > I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to upgrades. Mostly > it's been a matter of r

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-09-25 at 09:06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: > >> Based on what I've found in digging earlier, as well as the name >> mentioned by Andy Smith in his reply, I think it's probably >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-25 Thread Default User
Hello! I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: /home/debian-user I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type exclusions that I can just cut and paste into the Exclude Patterns window in

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread songbird
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: ... > For whatever it's worth, I have no problems with a text-based login screen > and then typing startx once I've logged in, which is pretty typical of my > Slackware installations anyhow. The copy of Slackware that's running my > server machine doesn't even have

Re: Postgresql ODBC driver not found

2021-09-25 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 9/25/21 3:46 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: have you tried to use the odbc lib from unixodbc instead of libiodbc? I think you are right on many other points... But particularly on this one ! I did remove libodbc2-dev and install unixodbc-dev and now it is OK...!! Wow ! Thank you very mu

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Roy, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 05:07:46PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to upgrades. > Mostly it's been a matter of running synaptic package manager from > time to time, and that's about it. Except that lately it doesn't > seem to be finding

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 September 2021 14:11:30 Martin McCormick wrote: > Charles Curley writes: > > Possibly a known kernel bug. > > > > https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538695-USB-driver-Zero-Le > >ngth-Descriptor > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1507709452-31260-1-git-send-email-msala > >

upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
I've been running Slackware since 1999 or so, Debian somewhat less than that. I figured I'd give it a try because I was interested in handling dependencies easier (which it surely does well) and because in looking at so many distros I see a great many of them are "debian-based"... Lots of dif

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
Charles Curley writes: > Possibly a known kernel bug. > > https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538695-USB-driver-Zero-Length-Descriptor > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1507709452-31260-1-git-send-email-msa...@iotecha.com/ > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charl

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
Chuck, I’ve been following this email thread. I’m a nobody here but: you can’t change the past but you control the future. People make mistakes in how things are handled. But you can avoid them in the future. I say this as an extrovert in a senior IT position and I've been known to be “animated”

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/25/2021 10:02 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:06:34AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994899 - specifically. the first reply (comment 10). […] I've r

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread David Christensen
On 9/25/21 2:08 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Please help with this: # aptitude update Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] E: Repository 'http://ftp.d

Re: USB sticks & Debian

2021-09-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand what you are trying to do. Do you want to: This one: * create a bootable USB on another OS to boot (the USB) and install Linux on some other system, or -- ...a society must incorporate the rationalizing power symbolized b

KSig for Debian 11/bullseye

2021-09-25 Thread Intense Red
KSig is a graphical editor for e-mail signature lines with a handy random function that can be plugged into KMail and other programs. For some reason it was dropped from Debian way back when. Someone recompiled it, made a *.deb and it ran fine in buster. But that binary *.deb requires KDE

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:06:34AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994899 - specifically. > > the first reply (comment 10). […] > I've read over message #5, and without b

Re: Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:16:37 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > This is an embedded usb serial port in a radio receiver which > works in MS Windows10 and I was hoping to write some control > routines for a Raspberry Pi running buster and it does the > following: Possibly a known kernel bug. http

Re: Postgresql ODBC driver not found

2021-09-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > > On 9/24/21 5:31 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > and I see you do not do any error checking. > > This would be a first step to find out where it fails. > > > > I added some code... > > > > You hare fully right, I have corre

Proprietary USB Drivers; Ya Gotta' Love'em.

2021-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
This is an embedded usb serial port in a radio receiver which works in MS Windows10 and I was hoping to write some control routines for a Raspberry Pi running buster and it does the following: Sep 22 20:17:15 rpi2 kernel: [551843.541477] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: > Based on what I've found in digging earlier, as well as the name > mentioned by Andy Smith in his reply, I think it's probably > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994899 - specifically. > the first reply (comment 10).

Re: USB sticks & Debian

2021-09-25 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:38:38 PM Bob Bernstein wrote: > Is there a favored HOW-To or wiki page describing the care and > feeding of USB sticks intended to boot a linux system into some > other OS? I don't understand what you are trying to do. Do you want to: * create a bootable USB

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 25, 2021 08:32:26 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > When you're ready to upgrade to a newer stable release, you can read > through the release notes, and take the time to perform the upgrade > properly. All replies I've seen so far mention this (reading (and following) the release

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:08:55AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Please help with this: Andrew already covered some or most of this, but I think it bears repeating. > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb-src htt

Re: `aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:08:55AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Please help with this: > > # aptitude update > Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease > Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] > Get: 2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113

Re: Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days

2021-09-25 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Roger Price wrote: Nvidia drivers -- Card Quadro 4000, GF100GL. 390.144. Freezes with blank monitors after 15 minutes. Card temperature 85C. Card NVS 310. 390.144. Freezes with monitors lit after 15 mins - 3 hours. Card Quadro P400, GP107GL. 460.91.

`aptitude update' won't update

2021-09-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Please help with this: # aptitude update Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [113 kB] E: Repository 'http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' changed i

Re: Postgresql ODBC driver not found

2021-09-25 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 9/24/21 5:31 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: and I see you do not do any error checking. This would be a first step to find out where it fails. I added some code... You hare fully right, I have corrected, but I have the same result and no more idea.. : nous@pcouderc:~/projets//build$