Re: Just a simple question.

2024-09-10 Thread Ash Joubert
On 2024-09-11 12:18, Maureen L Thomas wrote: My old HP is not working right and it is very old.  I am looking at laser printers and have always favored HP.  But, in saying that I am open to any brand.  I always get an all in one model since it does come in handy.  Any advice is welcome.  Thanks

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/11/24 01:04, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 11.09.2024 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: It probably would.  I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive with all those short writes.  Do SSDs fail by going read-only, or do they just vanish and take your data with them? ... In mean

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.09.2024 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: It probably would.  I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive with all those short writes.  Do SSDs fail by going read-only, or do they just vanish and take your data with them? Yes, usually they do just vanish and take your data with them,

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 14:53, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? Of course. Just tell your hibernation about

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:34:46PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 9/10/24 13:40, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:24:00 -0400 > > Eben King wrote: > > > > > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap > > > on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the h

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

2024-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 12:45:46AM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > The partition table indeed starts at offset 446 (decimal), however I'd > still rather run grub-install or “dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc” than copy > the first 446 bytes from one drive to another drive. The reason is that, > AFAIUI,

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 13:40, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:24:00 -0400 Eben King wrote: I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on a

Just a simple question.

2024-09-10 Thread Maureen L Thomas
My old HP is not working right and it is very old.  I am looking at laser printers and have always favored HP.  But, in saying that I am open to any brand.  I always get an all in one model since it does come in handy.  Any advice is welcome.  Thanks in advance. Maureen

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

2024-09-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 10/09/2024, Andy Smith a écrit: > Good point. I understand the bootloader is actually the first 446 > bytes so maybe I should only be looking at these. > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/254668/36243 The partition table indeed starts at offset 446 (decimal), however I'd still rather run

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 11:56:25 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > 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() cause

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 19:14:54 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 02:53:01PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on > > > the > > > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. I

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 12:22, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:21 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Hello James and Larry, Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. In the UK, Opticians businesses typically have on Optometrist on the

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 02:53:01PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the > > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that > > possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? > > Of

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that > possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? Of course. Just tell your hibernation about the partition you want to use for it

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 09:24:00AM -0400, Eben King wrote: > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the > spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that > possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? Kind of. You can

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:24:00 -0400 Eben King wrote: > I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap > on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the > NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? From what I understand, hibe

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread debian-user
"James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > > One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an > > optician. > > Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an > ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for >

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

2024-09-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 03:58:58PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > Le 09/09/2024, Andy Smith a écrit: > > Can I simply copy the first 512 bytes of sdb to the start of sda? > > I would not do this, one of the reasons being that AFAICT, the start > offsets of the (up to 4) primary partitions of

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:21 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Hello James and Larry, >Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an >ophthalmologist or an optometrist. In the UK, Opticians businesses typically have on Optometrist on the premises. Consequently, the term Opt

Re: I am currently facing a bug but unsure what is causing it

2024-09-10 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 07:58:28PM +0530, Nalini Prasad Dash wrote: > Hello, > I have recently installed debian with KDE desktop environment.But > occasionally, after doing shut down, the power button of the light stays on > and except that,everything looks like the laptop has been shut down.After

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote: One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an optician. Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for eye care, and your own particular needs, you m

I am currently facing a bug but unsure what is causing it

2024-09-10 Thread Nalini Prasad Dash
Hello, I have recently installed debian with KDE desktop environment.But occasionally, after doing shut down, the power button of the light stays on and except that,everything looks like the laptop has been shut down.After that, I tried to off that button by pressing the button for 6-7 seconds but

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 5:38 AM wrote: > > Larry Martell wrote: > > What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and > > would love to know about them. > > As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or > astigmatism, another reason for not being able to driv

Re: Matching grub data in the MBR with the installed grub-pc package

2024-09-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Not an expert on this matter, so take this with a grain of salt. Le 09/09/2024, Andy Smith a écrit: > Can I simply copy the first 512 bytes of sdb to the start of sda? I would not do this, one of the reasons being that AFAICT, the start offsets of the (up to 4) primary partitions of each d

hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Eben King
I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another? -- My parents went to a planet where the inhabitants have no bilateral symmetry, and

OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread debian-user
Larry Martell wrote: > What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and > would love to know about them. As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or astigmatism, another reason for not being able to drive at night is cataracts. If so the [only] solution is

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-10 Thread Lee
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 5:05 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > > Karl Vogel writes: > > > Have you tried some different fonts? My eyesight is poor, and a good > > font made all the difference. > > > > https://bezoar.org/posts/2023/0214/font-screenshots/ > > Fonts on what? I mostly can't control fonts on doc

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-10 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 10-09-2024 at 18:59 Anssi Saari wrote: > George at Clug writes: > > > Have you tried 100 Hz or greater monitors? All my monitors are 60Hz. I > > wonder if these help with prolonged computer use? > > In my home setup one monitor does 75 Hz and the other 144 but I can't > see much

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Karl Vogel writes: > Have you tried some different fonts? My eyesight is poor, and a good > font made all the difference. > > https://bezoar.org/posts/2023/0214/font-screenshots/ Fonts on what? I mostly can't control fonts on documents I edit or create, for work at least. A little hard to do on

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-10 Thread Anssi Saari
George at Clug writes: > Have you tried 100 Hz or greater monitors? All my monitors are 60Hz. I > wonder if these help with prolonged computer use? In my home setup one monitor does 75 Hz and the other 144 but I can't see much, if any, difference in clarity compared to 60 Hz. Also I have no id

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-10 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > 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 da