On 10/9/24 08:13, Larry Martell wrote:
What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and
would love to know about them.
They are glasses that are set to focus at long distance, so no good for
desk.
They correct for astigmatism, so at night instead of point lights such
as
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM jeremy ardley wrote:
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>
>
> On 9/9/24 06:23, George at Clug wrote:
> > If I required glasses for reading the car's speedometer, then I would
> > definitely be using a bifocal pair of glasses. So far I can easily read
> > the instrument panel, and since most of the t
On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 07:59:58PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> I was kind of hoping that there would be something I could run which
> would say "yes, this MBR has grub v and is set to find its
> grub.cfg on (hdX)", then I might be able to see some difference in
> what the MBR of sda wants to do. I'm
Hi,
I've come into possession of a machine running Debian 10 with two
drives in it; sda and sdb. These have been labelled with a DOS MBR
and partitioned. The first partition starts at sector 2048 of both
drives (512 byte sectors). It appears that GRUB has been installed
on both sda and sdb:
$ sud
On Mon Sep 9 09:07:11 2024
Anssi Saari wrote:
> debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes:
>
>> As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different
>> approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or any other variable focus specs
>> for reading a computer screen. Tell them to get a [very cheap] p
On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 15:32:19 +0200
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 07:17:37AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > I concur with the netinst suggestions.
> >
> > On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:10:15 +1000
> > George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > > Sometimes I download the DVD because, over time, I will install
On 9/9/24 05:20, Karl Vogel wrote:
On Mon 09 Sep 2024 at 04:47:20 (-0400), Anssi Saari wrote:
I've used fixed focus glasses before but I find
close range varifocals a huge upgrade. They're extremely useful for
monitor work *and also* I can see and read things around me that fall
outside the ext
On Sat 07 Sep 2024 at 09:58:32 (-0400), e...@gmx.us wrote:
> Got it. It was in ~/.bash-vars which was sourced from ~/.bash_profile . Is
> that a standard thing, or just some "brilliant" idea I had once upon a time?
If you mean the file itself, you might try stat ~/.bash-vars
and looking at the
On Mon 09 Sep 2024 at 11:52:19 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote:
> David Christensen writes:
>
> > 2. sync(1) is unnecessary.
>
> Does it even do anything wrt device files? sync(2) says "sync() causes
> all pending modifications to filesystem metadata and cached file data to
> be written to the under
>> > options snd_hda_intel id=[HDMI,PCH] index=1,0
>> Might be you need to write with dashes, as the module files is named
>> with dashes.
> Thank you for the reply. However, dashes and underscores can be
> interchanged in these files.
FWIW: That's been my experience for the `modprobe` command arg
On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 07:17:37AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> I concur with the netinst suggestions.
>
> On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:10:15 +1000
> George at Clug wrote:
>
> > Sometimes I download the DVD because, over time, I will install a
> > number of times [...]
> To solve this problem, I us
I concur with the netinst suggestions.
On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:10:15 +1000
George at Clug wrote:
> Sometimes I download the DVD because, over time, I will install a
> number of times (for example, install a number of VMs to compare the
> various GUIs), but I have found that by the time I get to u
On 09.09.24 13:10, George at Clug wrote:
Have I managed to confuse you with my own confusion? Sorry if I did,
but my gut feel is that the netinstall CD makes the most sense if you
have access to the Internet while doing the installation (unless your
will be doing 20 or more installations on the
On 9 Sep 2024 11:08 +0100, from recoverymail123...@gmail.com (Mick Ab):
> I think I have enough RAM and hard drive to accommodate bookworm, but I am
> not sure whether my laptop has the other hardware needed to run bookworm.
I'm not familiar with your particular laptop, but if it runs Windows
7, i
On 09/09/2024 06:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 09/08/2024 12:22 PM, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Missed (deleted) the start of the discussion.
Not sure if it helps but:
I juste made public my toolbox.txt file:
https://ychaouche.github.io/toolbox.txt
it is meant to be open in emacs,
so that you c
On 09/08/2024 12:12 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
On 09/08/2024 12:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
[My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting
text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by
fellow tri-focal we
On 09/08/2024 12:22 PM, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Missed (deleted) the start of the discussion.
Not sure if it helps but:
I juste made public my toolbox.txt file:
https://ychaouche.github.io/toolbox.txt
it is meant to be open in emacs,
so that you can use its outliner mode and read only what you
On Monday, 09-09-2024 at 20:08 Mick Ab wrote:
> I am interested in installing bookworm alongside the current Windows 7 on
> an old HP ProBook 6570b laptop.
>
> I am thinking of downloading the first two DVDs of bookworm from one of the
> Debian mirror sites, then copying that to two DVD-R discs
On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 11:08:29 +0100
Mick Ab wrote:
> I am interested in installing bookworm alongside the current Windows
> 7 on an old HP ProBook 6570b laptop.
>
> I am thinking of downloading the first two DVDs of bookworm from one
> of the Debian mirror sites, then copying that to two DVD-R dis
On Monday, 09-09-2024 at 20:28 basti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i would use debian netinstall: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ rather
> than download the whole DVD.
I have often wondered that question myself.
If you are doing a single installation and have access to the internet while
doing the
Hello,
i would use debian netinstall: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ rather
than download the whole DVD.
Best regards
On 09.09.24 12:08, Mick Ab wrote:
I am interested in installing bookworm alongside the current Windows 7
on an old HP ProBook 6570b laptop.
I am thinking of downloadin
I am interested in installing bookworm alongside the current Windows 7 on
an old HP ProBook 6570b laptop.
I am thinking of downloading the first two DVDs of bookworm from one of the
Debian mirror sites, then copying that to two DVD-R discs and installing
bookworm those two discs.
I think I have e
On Monday, 09-09-2024 at 19:20 Karl Vogel wrote:
> On Mon 09 Sep 2024 at 04:47:20 (-0400), Anssi Saari wrote:
> > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes:
> >
> > > As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different
> > > approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or any other variable focus
On Monday, 09-09-2024 at 18:46 Anssi Saari wrote:
> debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes:
>
> > As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different
> > approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or any other variable focus specs for
> > reading a computer screen. Tell them to get a [very c
On Mon 09 Sep 2024 at 04:47:20 (-0400), Anssi Saari wrote:
> debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes:
>
> > As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different
> > approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or any other variable focus specs for
> > reading a computer screen. Tell them to get a [
David Christensen writes:
> 2. sync(1) is unnecessary.
Does it even do anything wrt device files? sync(2) says "sync() causes
all pending modifications to filesystem metadata and cached file data to
be written to the underlying filesystems."
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes:
> As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different
> approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or any other variable focus specs for
> reading a computer screen. Tell them to get a [very cheap] pair of
> single focus reading glasses made to suit the d
On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 11:04 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Charles Curley writes:
>
> > apt purge linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
> > apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
> >
> > You may want an "apt autopurge" in between.
>
> That should do it although it's apt autoremove
`ap
On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 11:04 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Charles Curley writes:
>
> > apt purge linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
> > apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
> >
> > You may want an "apt autopurge" in between.
>
> That should do it although it's apt autoremove
`ap
Charles Curley writes:
> apt purge linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
> apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
>
> You may want an "apt autopurge" in between.
That should do it although it's apt autoremove I believe but if not you
can explicitly remove the backport kernel image and
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