Hi Eyal,
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 05:18:56PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> I should have mentioned that the packages are from
> https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/
> and this is on an old laptop running the 32 bits OS.
You say below that you are running Debi
I should have mentioned that the packages are from
https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/
and this is on an old laptop running the 32 bits OS.
Do they have a separate mailing list???
On 18/12/24 5:06 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
Running Debian 12.6, then upgra
Running Debian 12.6, then upgrading to 12.8, I get an error.
Trying again I still get:
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 04:18:17PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 16:09:09 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I would rewrite the cleanup code like so:
> >
> > void dealloc()
> > {
> > DIGIT *next, *p = head;
> > while( p )
> > next = p->nex
Simply sharing a password method I was taught years ago that works well.
Granted I never allow anything to choose a password for me, not ever.
Instead I create a sentence with aspects of the characters forming the
password.
As an example, I will create one, not in use of course, for the below
On Mon, 27 May 2024 15:41:52 -0500
Tom Browder wrote:
> Has anyone had experience using a KVM setup (at least one HDMI and
> two USB ports) and using cat 5/6/7 between user and the computer? I
> don’t need to handle multiple computers or high-def video movies,
> just programming and office work.
Hello :)
Le 17/12/2024 à 12:20, Anssi Saari a écrit :
Franco Martelli writes:
I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises,
I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to
ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose.
Just curious, whi
On Tue 17 Dec 2024 at 13:44:22 (-0600), John Hasler wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook writes:
> > the nonsense about about not changing them ignores the obvious.
>
> What is that?
>
> > My bank performs security checks by requesting a sub-set of my
> > password. It doesn't take a genius to work out th
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>
> On 17/12/2024 17:44, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> > [...]
> > Under the heading "Should I use a password manager?" the opening is:
> > "Yes. Password managers are a good thing. They give you huge
> > advantages in a world where there's fa
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync
The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surplus.
I rebuilt the USB stick using just /dev/sdj .
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote:
Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 16:09:09 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I would rewrite the cleanup code like so:
>
> void dealloc()
> {
> DIGIT *next, *p = head;
> while( p )
> next = p->next, free( p ), p = next;
> }
The logic looks good, but I'm not a fan of thi
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM Franco Martelli wrote:
>
> On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Here's the problem:
> >
> > void dealloc()
> > {
> > for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next )
> > if ( p->prev != NULL )
> > free( p->prev );
>
Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 17 Dec 2024 06:45 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de:
> >> Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*.
> >
> > Do you have a reference?
> >
> > I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my
> > advice, too). Seeing what Schneier has to sa
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 12:24 PM wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:37:33PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Here's the problem:
void dealloc()
{
for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next )
if ( p->prev != NULL )
free( p->prev );
free( last );
}
You seem to be checking backwards (p->prev) but walking the list
Peter Hillier-Brook writes:
> the nonsense about about not changing them ignores the obvious.
What is that?
> My bank performs security checks by requesting a sub-set of my
> password.
Sounds like a reason to find a new bank, in the meantime changing your
password after every such request. Sure
Michael Kjörling writes:
> Under the heading "Should I use a password manager?" the opening is:
> "Yes. Password managers are a good thing. They give you huge
> advantages in a world where there's far too many passwords for anyone
> to remember."
I use Firefox's built-in manager for "low threat"
On 17/12/2024 17:44, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 17 Dec 2024 06:45 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de:
Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*.
Do you have a reference?
I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:37:33PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > Do you have a reference?
> > > >
> > > >
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> It's an older disk, 2.4 speed.
I know these only from hearsay. My DVD+RW are all 4x.
Oldest from 2006. Some of them are still in regular use here.
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=2295104 | \
>xorriso -as cdrecord -v -nopad dev=/dev/sr1 -eject -
> ...
> Writing to '
On 17 Dec 2024 06:45 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de:
>> Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*.
>
> Do you have a reference?
>
> I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
> too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very interesting.
Not
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > Do you have a reference?
> > >
> > > I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
> > >
I make regular use of an OS that is completely passwordless.
It's called PC-DOS 2000.
(I might also add that I wish that my Meerkat desktop Linux box didn't
make it so easy to sign off by mistake when I'd intended to power down.)
--
James H. H. Lampert
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Do you have a reference?
> >
> > I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
> > too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would b
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM Michael Stone wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >Do you have a reference?
> >
> >I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
> >too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very int
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:27 PM Loris Bennett
wrote:
>keeping them in your wallet can be
> safer than sticking them with a post-it to you monitor.
Just brought back memories.
When I was in college in the 1980s/1990s, in my OS class, the
instructor told of a time when he was walking down a hallw
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 4:12 AM wrote:
> No, this has been from the installation of Debian 12 to this Laptop.
> Before that, I had Xubuntu 20.04 (Ubuntu with XFCE) on another Laptop
> that has crashed (broken mainboard). I also run Xubuntu 18.04 in a
> VirtualBox on a Windows host. Both also con
On 12/17/24 10:35, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=2295104 | \
xorriso -as cdrecord -v -nopad dev=/dev/sr1 -eject -
It's an older disk, 2.4 speed. Before I started the above, there was
a darker area about 3/16 inch wide, the rest was still shiny,
matching your
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Do you have a reference?
I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very interesting.
All of this advice is overly simplistic. The right answer
Hi,
Gene heskett wrote:
> on that same staples dvd+rw disk:
> xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev="$drive" fs=16m -eject "$image" 2>&1 | tee -i
> /tmp/xorriso.log
> apparently xorriso, which I had to install, completed normally but did take
> a long time closing, I'll send the log by PM
Summarizing the
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Roger Price wrote:
To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and
built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command
dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync
The "1" in "/dev/s
Thanks all!
Especially Gutmann's ref looks very interesting!
Cheers
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On 15/12/2024 21:07, Paulo Igor Barra Nascimento wrote:
1.3.5. It seems 1.3.7 is scheduled to be present in Trixie (Debian 13).
[...]
1. So, to compile 1.3.7, I had to make a "build" directory on my
$HOME where I untar fluxbox-1.3.7.tar.xz (got from fluxbox.org) and
get into th
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM tomas wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > songbird writes:
> > > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier
> > > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having
> > > to set ev
Hi,
Roger Price wrote:
> To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and
> built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command
> dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync
The "1" in "/dev/sdj1" is surplus. Normally, the ISO image has to be
copied
On 16/12/2024 15:45, Roger Price wrote:
So I re-inserted the USB installation stick to redo the installation.
This took me to the GRUB command line.
Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB stick?
Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2
instead
On 17/12/24 at 12:20, Anssi Saari wrote:
Franco Martelli writes:
I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises,
I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to
ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose.
Just curious, which handbook is
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > songbird writes:
> > > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier
> > > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having
> > > to set everyth
On 12/17/24 04:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet,
I wrote:
Sounds like
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263
Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath
a text field which
On 12/17/24 04:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet,
I wrote:
Sounds like
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263
Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath
a text field which
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 +
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian
> is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with
> wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online
> help about this issue is
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Roger Price wrote:
I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux' not found
So perhaps:
grub> set root=(hd0)
grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet
grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
grub> boot
The "linux" command st
Hello,
Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian
is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with
wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online
help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly
have to go
> Mike Castle writes:
>
> Out of curiosity, how do you raise windows?
I can raise windows by clicking into the title bar or by clicking the
window while holding the left mouse button.
> Similarly, a copy of your FF prefs.js (sanitized, of course). This
> file would be in your profile directory
Franco Martelli writes:
> I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises,
> I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to
> ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose.
Just curious, which handbook is it?
songbird wrote:
> debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> ...
> > Why does your mother need to memorize all of your dead stepfather's
> > identities? Just let them die with him.
>
> perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it
> is much easier to just continue using the credentials as
>
Hi,
i proposed for booting from the now reluctant USB stick:
> > grub> linux/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet
> > grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
> > grub> boot
Roger Price wrote:
> I got the message error: file '/install.amd/vmlinux' not found
Hm. The internet shows such star
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Does the USB stick yield the proper checksum when inspected on a running
GNU/Linux system ?
Will check.
grub> cat (hd0,msdos2)/efi/debian/grub.cfg
set prefix-($root)/boot/grub
I see "=" instead of "-" in this file when the partition is mounted:
Hi Henning,
Henning Follmann writes:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:08:00AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
>> I try to install this package, but it fails
>> -
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Reading state informati
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > xfburn claims burn mode isn't implemented yet,
I wrote:
> > Sounds like
> >https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1952263#p1952263
> > Proposed remedy is to click at the button with the circular arrow beneath
> > a text field which tells the medium type (in
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