Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

Max Nikulin wrote: > > Isn't the issue that XFCE does not provide character map application out > of the box (at least as it is packaged for Debian)? > > I have a VM very close to default XFCE install configuration. I have not > found gucharmap in menus. On the host I have tried > > apt i

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On Sun 13 Jul 2025 at 09:06:19 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 23:47:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > You can write your own sequences, so that they are meaningful to you. > > For example: > > : "𝄫" U1d12b # MUSICAL SYMBOL > > DOUBLE FLAT > > :

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On 13/07/2025 23:06, Greg (curtyshoo) wrote: On 2025-07-13, Greg Wooledge wrote: This is what I originally wrote on [...] The OP was specifically about Debian 12 with XFCE, for which the character selection tool is gucharmap (GNOME Character Map). Greg (cu

XCompose wiki article (was: Re: Where did my character selection tool go?)

On 13/07/2025 20:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: This is what I originally wrote on (except that I suggested using include "%L" at the top, instead of hard-coding en_US.UTF-8). Later, some people thought they were "improving" the page by adding all kinds of Desktop En

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On 7/13/25 13:23, David Christensen wrote: `dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M /dev/sdX` I apologize -- that command is wrong, in more than one way. Here is an console session from when I zeroed a 1 TB HDD: 1. Find the number of sectors: 2024-11-28 13:59:57 root@bullseye-bios ~ # parted /dev/disk/by-i

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On 7/13/25 09:29, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: ... I would expect a new SSD to be securely erased by the factory, but would check this assumption (and do an informal sequential read benchmark): 2025-07-12 12:13:02 root@laalaa ~ # time dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1M | hexdump -C 00 0

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On 7/13/25 04:37, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: ... Yes, things get very bad when bad people control the SSD firmware. I can only hope the firmware in my SSD's is legitimate, and updates are cryptographically signed. When using d-i to initialize a physical volume for encryption, I

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

David Christensen wrote: ... > I would expect a new SSD to be securely erased by the factory, but would > check this assumption (and do an informal sequential read benchmark): > > 2025-07-12 12:13:02 root@laalaa ~ > # time dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1M | hexdump -C > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On 2025-07-13, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > This is what I originally wrote on > (except that I suggested using include "%L" at the top, instead of > hard-coding en_US.UTF-8). > > Later, some people thought they were "improving" the page by adding > all kinds of Desk

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

ghe2001 wrote: > > A few suggestions on getting rid of garbage (yours, some hacker's, or > Microsoft's): > > https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/secure-erase-ssd-or-hard-drive all good to know thanks. songbird

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

David Christensen wrote: ... > Yes, things get very bad when bad people control the SSD firmware. I > can only hope the firmware in my SSD's is legitimate, and updates are > cryptographically signed. > > > When using d-i to initialize a physical volume for encryption, I have > seen the option t

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On 2025-07-11, Chris Green wrote: > I'm running Debian 12 with XFCE on two systems. There used to be a > 'character' selection program in 'Accessories' on the menu but it > seems to have disappeared. How can I select the odd wierd character I > need now? Probably 'gucharmap'. Description-en:

Re: netinst amd64 or i386 for Dell Vostro 200?

Hi, On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 08:39:32AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Does Debian amd64 run on the Vostro 200, or must I use i386? If you install Debian 12 i386 you will be stuck at that version forever as Debian 13 (which will be released in a month or two) will not support i386 kernel or ins

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On 7/13/25 8:33 AM, Greg wrote: On 2025-07-11, The Wanderer wrote: I am not aware of any potential solution for this that has seemed to me as if it would actually be viable. If I'm missing any that would, or if I'm wrong and some of the ones I've dismissed as non-viable actually would be viab

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

On 2025-07-11, The Wanderer wrote: > > I am not aware of any potential solution for this that has seemed to me > as if it would actually be viable. > > If I'm missing any that would, or if I'm wrong and some of the ones I've > dismissed as non-viable actually would be viable, I would be *actively

Re: Where did my character selection tool go?

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 23:47:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > You can write your own sequences, so that they are meaningful to you. > For example: > : "𝄫" U1d12b # MUSICAL SYMBOL > DOUBLE FLAT > : "𝄪" U1d12a # MUSICAL SYMBOL > DOUBLE SHARP >

Re: netinst amd64 or i386 for Dell Vostro 200?

On 13.07.2025 10:50 Uhr Russell L. Harris wrote: > Does Debian amd64 run on the Vostro 200, or must I use i386? All Core 2 are amd64 capable. If they weren't, you couldn't even boot the amd64 setup image. Some Intel Core without 2 existed (e.g. Core Solo and Core Duo), but you will notice if you

Re: netinst amd64 or i386 for Dell Vostro 200?

Russell L. Harris composed on 2025-07-13 08:39 (UTC): > I plan to use netinst to install Debian stable on a Dell Vostro 200 > (with a Intel Core 2 sticker) to devote exclusively to a weather > server running "weewx" (which is written in python) 24/7. > weewx downloads data from a Davis Instrument

netinst amd64 or i386 for Dell Vostro 200?

I plan to use netinst to install Debian stable on a Dell Vostro 200 (with a Intel Core 2 sticker) to devote exclusively to a weather server running "weewx" (which is written in python) 24/7. weewx downloads data from a Davis Instruments console, creates web pages with graphical displays, and uplo

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On 7/12/25 21:46, songbird wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them to my existing setup, Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

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Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

On 7/12/25 20:33, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/07/2025 09:41, David Christensen wrote: AIUI SSD over-provisioning combined with setting the discard flag in fstab(5) provides maximum performance for write intensive workloads. Is it better than fstrim.timer mentioned in this thread? Some years ago