Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread John Crawley
On 28/06/2024 14:00, Erwan DAVID wrote: Le 28 juin 2024 13:12:03 David Wright a écrit : On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. David Wright wrote: Except that The Wan

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread Erwan DAVID
Le 28 juin 2024 13:12:03 David Wright a écrit : On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. > > David Wright wrote: > > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" versi

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > I wrote: > > > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. > > > > David Wright wrote: > > > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" version, M for noon, > > > is out there in so

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 15:52, e...@gmx.us wrote: > When I boot the file server (possibly today but definitely tomorrow) I'll > post my backup script. OK, it's pretty long so I won't post the whole thing, but the important lines are rsyncoptions="--archive --progress --verbose --recursive" "$rsync" $rsyncop

Re: About dash as sh

2024-06-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/06/2024 01:16, Ilya Kazakevich wrote: My intention was to understand if decisions about dash are still valid, not to tell Debian to switch back to bash of course. I am almost sure there are lengthy threads on Ubuntu and Debian mailing lists. Perhaps summaries are deeply buried. I was not

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/06/2024 01:38, Van Snyder wrote: So, back to trying to find a competent PDF -to- ePub or PDF -to- mobi converter (I haven't yet tried texmate to create a mobi or ePub from the LaTeX). If you seek a solution that allows to get result in a single click then the following would not help.

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Jun 2024 at 12:48:03 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is > often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when > I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while, > but that can take a

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 22:22 +0200, Richard wrote: > I didn't miss that. "file" will always tell you something, I doubt > there can be any situation where it will just give you an empty > output. You because it can get specific, it will tell you if > something is a text file or binary format it what

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
In theory it should work, as Stable should have the new connector. Maybe because they adapted to Manifest V3 they had to drop support for ESR. Though they would have written that in the changelog. But you can easily test that, Mozilla has their own Debian repo now. Install the normal Firefox from t

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread CHRIS M
On Thursday 27 June 2024 03:49:03 PM (-05:00), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > This function is applied every week or two to write to a DVD. > > xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ > > -update_r . / \ > > -commit \ > > -toc -check_md5 fai

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This function is applied every week or two to write to a DVD. > xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ > -update_r . / \ > -commit \ > -toc -check_md5 failure -- \ > -eject all ; > > Finding a file as it existed months or years ago c

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 04:06:18PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 27/06/2024 15:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my > > working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup > > system by exploiting these drive

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
I didn't miss that. "file" will always tell you something, I doubt there can be any situation where it will just give you an empty output. You because it can get specific, it will tell you if something is a text file or binary format it whatever. So what's the output? On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 19:33

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, why did you not use something as backup2l ? Best wishes, Jerome On 27/06/2024 20:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Hi, My working data is in a directory we can refer to as A. A is on a removable flash store. "du -hs /home/me/A" reports 3.0G. I want a reliable backup of most files A/*. I c

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread DdB
Am 27.06.2024 um 19:59 schrieb Dan Ritter: > - GNOME doesn't want to support the extensions. > - Firefox doesn't want to support the extensions. > - Debian doesn't want to support the extensions but provides > the package > - the person who wrote the GNOME exte

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 27 Jun 2024 16:06 -0300, from edua...@kalinowski.com.br (Eduardo M KALINOWSKI): >> Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my >> working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup >> system by exploiting these drives. I can imagine a complete copy of A

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 14:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Finding a file as it existed months or years ago can be tedious. For example, find A/MailMessages as it was at 2023.02.07. Otherwise the backup system works well. On one computer I use rsync to do what appear to be complete backups, only files ident

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 27/06/2024 15:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup system by exploiting these drives. I can imagine a complete copy of A onto an external drive for each backup; but

Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread peter
Hi, My working data is in a directory we can refer to as A. A is on a removable flash store. "du -hs /home/me/A" reports 3.0G. I want a reliable backup of most files A/*. I created a directory "Backup" on the HDD and apply this shell function whenever motivated. Backup() { \ if [ $# -gt 1

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 10:02 +0200, Richard wrote: > You could try if Googles ML model "magika" can do a better job > (available via pypi). Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better > "file -i" say? Worst case, you could open the files in a hex editor > and google the first few bits. Chances are

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread Dan Ritter
DdB wrote: > Hello list, > > i am out of luck and into a rabbit hole, please help me out! > > Now, i am lost. I thought, in stable, the Fox-esr would be compatible > with the gnome extensions, but it claims, that would not be case. > > What am i missing? As far as I can tell, this needs two p

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-27 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:48:03PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is > often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when > I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while, > but that can take

How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while, but that can take a while and I'd like to improve this intermediate situation. The /etc/

Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

2024-06-27 Thread DdB
Hello list, i am out of luck and into a rabbit hole, please help me out! While still running old-old-stable, i am in the process of updating my virtual machines (vbox) first. Struggling with a behavioral change in gnome (On start, it does no longer show desktop 1, but begins in overview-mode. Se

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-27, Richard wrote: > > Have you completely lost it? You should leave this and any other mailing > lists before you are being sued and kicked out for what you write. And > trust me, this message of yours is more than enough reason for that. > I'm confident I'll be sued for your rudeness

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
Have you completely lost it? You should leave this and any other mailing lists before you are being sued and kicked out for what you write. And trust me, this message of yours is more than enough reason for that. Am Do., 27. Juni 2024 um 15:56 Uhr schrieb Curt : > On 2024-06-26, Van Snyder wrote

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-26, Van Snyder wrote: > > I downloaded everything with the same base name as I sent -- a file and > a directory. LibreOffice can't read any of it. Calibre can't read any > of it, either in the download or in the mounted Kindle. "file" has no > idea what any of the files are. > This is

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-27 Thread sd
On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 00:26:00 BST George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 [snip] > If you have any grips or difficulties, please mention them. After five years > of using XF

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread eben
On 6/27/24 04:02, Richard wrote: Am Do., 27. Juni 2024 um 06:33 Uhr schrieb Van Snyder < van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>: "file" has no idea what any of the files are. > Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better "file -i" say? I think you missed that.

Problems with the calamares installer. 12.5.0 live dvd

2024-06-27 Thread Stephen White
Having tried gnome, xfce, cinnamon all will not list the usb drives that I wanted to install to. It listed the main nvme drive. The graphical installer had no issues so I am good now. But thought you should know.

Re: ePub or mobi from LaTeX or PDF? (was PDF editors)

2024-06-27 Thread Richard
You could try if Googles ML model "magika" can do a better job (available via pypi). Otherwise, what exactly does "file" or better "file -i" say? Worst case, you could open the files in a hex editor and google the first few bits. Chances are the format uses "magic bits", so the first few bits in he