Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-11-05 23:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: 3. An HP LaserJet 5MP printer from 1995 with a parallel-port connector. Pretty sure used used HP Jetdirect in the past with cups. https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c02480766 mick

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Here's a more remedial question. I haven't bought a desktop in 16 years. To > have a custom desktop built with some of the options I've seen recommended > here, where would you go? Would you patronize a local shop, or is there an > online store that is good at discussing and implementing custo

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread hw
On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 17:44 +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On November 5, 2022 7:21 PM, I wrote: > > > > As you might understand, I'd like to replace my desktop, a 2006 Pentium 4 > > > with a 3-GHz processor.  It has always run Debian, and so will the new > > > one. > > > > > > My conc

deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-06 Thread hw
Hi, I discovered that Redhat has VDO[1] to take care of deduplicating file systems. Aptitude didn't find any packages towards that. Is there no VDO in Debian, and what would be good to use for deduplication with Debian? Why isn't VDO in the stardard kernel? Or is it? I'm not looking for dedupli

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread paulf
On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 17:44:58 + "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote: > Here's a more remedial question. I haven't bought a desktop in 16 > years. To have a custom desktop built with some of the options I've > seen recommended here, where would you go? Would you patronize a > local shop, or is

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 11/6/22, Frank wrote: > If all you want to do is make thunderbird put (most of) its data > elsewhere, you could change the profiles.ini file that exists in > ~/.thunderbird. Mine has this: ... > Except for the few files/directories that need to be in ~/.thunderbird, > all thunderbird data ends

shell script interpolation of variables containing spaces [was: afio batch operation]

2022-11-06 Thread David Christensen
sted single double quotes. Shell interpolation of a variable containing shell globbing characters is left as an exercise for the reader (virtual machine clone advised). David 2022-11-06 10:16:42 dpchrist@laalaa ~/sandbox/sh/debian-user/20221106-0501-greg-wooledge $ cat /etc/debian_ver

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On November 5, 2022 7:21 PM, I wrote: >> As you might understand, I'd like to replace my desktop, a 2006 Pentium 4 >> with a 3-GHz processor. It has always run Debian, and so will the new one. >> >> My concern is about support for three ancient peripherals that I like better >> than the modern eq

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Frank
Op 06-11-2022 om 16:38 schreef Albretch Mueller: on debian live: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ I am running: $ thunderbird --version Thunderbird 91.13.0 $ to download all the data in my gmail account via POP3, but Thun

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Curt
On 2022-11-06, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > $ usermod --move-home --home "${_NEW_HOME}" "${_WHMI}" > usermod: user user is currently used by process 1141 Like Greg said (from the man): CAVEATS You must make certain that the named user is not executing any processes when this command is

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 15:38 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: [...] > $ usermod --move-home --home "${_NEW_HOME}" "${_WHMI}" > usermod: user user is currently used by process 1141 > > $ sudo ps -aux | grep 1141 > user1141 0.0 0.1 15600 9144 ?Ss Nov05 0:00 > /lib/systemd/system

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 03:38:56PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ usermod --move-home --home "${_NEW_HOME}" "${_WHMI}" > usermod: user user is currently used by process 1141 > > $ sudo ps -aux | grep 1141 > user1141 0.0 0.1 15600 9144 ?Ss Nov05 0:00 > /lib/systemd/syste

"usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
on debian live: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ I am running: $ thunderbird --version Thunderbird 91.13.0 $ to download all the data in my gmail account via POP3, but Thunderbird seems to be making assumptions about where to p

Re: afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > # afio -ivZ -P bzip2 jeremy ardley wrote: > Corrected: > afio -ivZ -P bzip2 $i Indeed. (Being aware that Greg Wooledge is watching i would have added "$i".) > remarkably slow even on my PCIe NVME drive. DVD reading can be quite slow. bzip2 decompression is said to be s

Re: libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 11:52:02AM +0100, local10 wrote: > Nov 6, 2022, 06:47 by dev@yandex.ru: > > > But if i delete "openoffice.org-unbundled" from libreoffice-common conflict > > string Apache OpenOffice install and work fine! > > > > > > Maybe libreoffice-common not need "openoffice.org-

Re: afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 08:50:16PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 6/11/22 19:38, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Then unpack the archive files: > > > >for i in "$archive_dir"/*.afio.bz2 > >do > > # One of: > > # afio -ivZ -P bzip2 > Corrected: > > afio -ivZ -P bzip2 $i > > >

Re: afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread jeremy ardley
First, Thank you Thomas for taking the effort to document this. It has helped immensely. I fixed one typo in your script noted below and then it all worked flawlessly - though remarkably slow even on my PCIe NVME drive. I also made a mistake, it was two DVDs not a CD so quite a few gigabytes.

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:30:58 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > You can find serial to USB adapters, but it will require some manual > configuration, tho I suspect you already had to do that in Buster, so > it should keep working pretty much the same (except the serial device > will have a differe

Re: support for ancient peripherals

2022-11-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > My concern is about support for three ancient peripherals that I like better > than the modern equivalents: > 1. A Northgate Omnikey 101 keyboard (from 2006) with a 5-pin DIN cable, > currently going via an adapter to a PS/2 port in the desktop; I have one of th

Re: afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I have a CD that was written by mondorescue and it has hundreds of files in > the form > .afio.bz2. They must be quite small if hundreds of them fit on a CD. > Can someone suggest a simple command line to extract the hundreds of files > and write/merge them into a single directory tree?

Re: libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-11-06 at 05:52, local10 wrote: > Nov 6, 2022, 06:47 by dev@yandex.ru: > >> But if i delete "openoffice.org-unbundled" from libreoffice-common >> conflict string Apache OpenOffice install and work fine! >> >> >> Maybe libreoffice-common not need "openoffice.org-unbundled" in >> conf

Re: libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread local10
Nov 6, 2022, 06:47 by dev@yandex.ru: > But if i delete "openoffice.org-unbundled" from libreoffice-common conflict > string Apache OpenOffice install and work fine! > > > Maybe libreoffice-common not need "openoffice.org-unbundled" in conflict > string? > Opening a bug at https://www.debi

afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread jeremy ardley
I have a CD that was written by mondorescue and it has hundreds of files in the form .afio.bz2. I can open individual files using Xarchiver and see they are individually parts of an old system of mine. Can someone suggest a simple command line to extract the hundreds of files and write/merg

libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread dev two
Package: libreoffice-common Version: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3 Hello! I can not install lLbreOffice from repo and Apache OpenOffice from openoffice.org together Package "libreoffice-common" conflict with openoffice deb packages In libreoffice-common package INFO file (debian/control) conflict string