Re: [deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk: Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM Lee wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM David Wright wrote: > > > > My posts are being dropped between my hosting's smarthost and > debian-user. > > this one at least made it to my inbox > > > - Forwarded message from David Wright > - > > > > Date: Su

Re: convert html to xml

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 03:22:58PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: For me it is not uncommon to get PDF files in search results. That is why I suspect that something is wrong with your PDF's. Are they generated to be sent to printer or to be published on a web site? Does "pdftotext FILE.PDF -" is abl

OT: The Computer Errors From Outer Space

I recall the topic of radiation flipping bits came up recently on the list. Here's an article about the subject. The Computer Errors From Outer Space, < https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors>. >From the article: That such a thing can happen has b

Re: Why are these old versions in Trixie?

On September 2, 2025 4:40:32 AM Stefan K wrote: Hey everyone, I just wanted to ask something.I'm a bit confused because I'm not sure why some of the packages aren't in the latest version in Trixie. The following packages are all released before softfreeze 12.03.25 smartmontools 7.5 15.08.24

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On 9/2/25 05:40, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM David Christensen wrote: ... David, thanks so much. I do appreciate this message in particular which is the "looking over my shoulder" guidance I was looking for before I proceed to the next step. Blessings! -Tom YW. I am

Re: Debian 13: Mini Display Port not accessible any more (worked flawlessly with Debian 12)

On 02/09/2025 11:44, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2025-09-02 09:31 (UTC+0700): where are some traces of proprietary nvidia drivers in Johannes's message ("kernel non-free: series: 340.xx"). That language is simply stating which proprietary (non-free) kernel driver is/was applica

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

Hi, On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 12:18:46AM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: >  How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense? By avoiding abusive vendors [works also in other aspects of life]. Fortunately most free markets (with just a few sad exceptions) have a range of vendors. Thanks, Andy

Re: Encrypt replies by default

* 2025-09-01 19:50:29-0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > One datapoint you might find interesting... It is. Thanks. > The biggest pain point came when searching emails. As you probably know, > most encryption schemes break sorting and searching. A half-way solution is probably this: index the plain

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On 9/1/25 15:36, Tom Browder wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 13:19 Tom Browder wrote: ... That info above is old. Since then I've used gparted. Output from "lsblk": NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 3.6T 0 disk `-sda1 8:10 3.6T 0 part sdb 8:16 0

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On 2025-08-31, Tom Browder wrote: > > Does this bash fragment look safe for using bash vars for the first disk: > > SDX=sda > sudo parted /dev/${SDX} mklabel gpt > sudo parted -a opt /dev/${SDX} mkpart primary ext4=0% 100% > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/${SDX} The mkfs step must target the partition, not

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

On 9/2/25 17:41, Dan Ritter wrote: From what I have seen on FreeBSD ZFS, under load ZFS can consume as much memory as it needs. For storage servers, this is exactly what I want -- I paid for that memory, I want ZFS to use it. But, I have little experience with ZFS on workstations; where many p

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

David Christensen wrote: > On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote: > > > > On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: > > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard > > > lin

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 00:18:46 +0200 (CEST) lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within > Linux? There are plenty of other vendors besides HP and Dell. I had been eyeing a new computer for a while now. It had to be Linux friendly. In December I took

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

On 9/2/25 16:48, Dan Ritter wrote: It would be interesting to know the OpenZFS developers' opinion of dedup for backup workloads, including special vdev class vs. dedup vdev class. That is addressed at the end, and, in particular, you should note the bit about reflinks... which for any workload

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On 8/31/25 07:55, Tom Browder wrote: I just added three new SSD and want to prep them for use. I plan to use a script to do that incrementally. Given the disks show the following when running "lsblk -o ..." ('# ' added): # NAME SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT # sda 3.6T # <=

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

On 9/2/25 11:12, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Hello. :-) On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone. This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the authors of the sys

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone. This option eats RAM like candy, so

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

Hi, On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links > > alone. > > This is generally not a good thing

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

David Christensen wrote: > On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > > > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard > > > links > > > alone. > > > > This is gen

Re: Why are these old versions in Trixie?

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM Stefan K wrote: > Hey everyone, > I just wanted to ask something. > I'm a bit confused because I'm not sure why some of the packages aren't in > the latest version in Trixie. > > The following packages are all released before softfreeze > 12.03.25 smartmontools 7.5

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

On Sep 03, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > >  I got a DELL laptopwhich started getting problematic and manifesting > "a mind of itsown" right on arrival (remove the battery, WiFi card and > let it sit for more than 24 hours for it to start trying to call home > by itself). It came with what DE

Re: OT: The Computer Errors From Outer Space

On 02/09/2025 20:00, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I recall the topic of radiation >Page 16 of this presentation lists some radiation-hardened processors used by NASA: . According to the slide deck, rad-hardened processors lag commercial processors by

HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

 I got a DELL laptopwhich started getting problematic and manifesting "a mind of itsown" right on arrival (remove the battery, WiFi card and let it sit for more than 24 hours for it to start trying to call home by itself). It came with what DELL calls "secureBIOS" (you don't have access to) and

Re: [deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk: Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM David Wright wrote: > > My posts are being dropped between my hosting's smarthost and debian-user. this one at least made it to my inbox > - Forwarded message from David Wright - > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:39:43 -0500 > From: David Wright > Subject: Re:

Re: Minor Mystery - phpmyadmin and mysql.user

On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 08:10:28 -0500 Kent West wrote: > On 9/1/25 11:33 AM, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 07:04:17 -0500 > > Kent West wrote: > > > >> I'm just toying around, learning a lot, with Apache2, phpmyadmin, > >> mariadb, SQL in general ... absolutely don't know what I'm doing. > >>

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: ... > Hi Tom, > > Do you have a copy of debian-handbook? If not, apt install it. I completely forgot about that. Thanks so much, Andrew! -Tom

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

David Christensen wrote: > > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links > alone. This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the authors of the system wrote a good article which

Re: Minor Mystery - phpmyadmin and mysql.user

On 9/1/25 11:33 AM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 07:04:17 -0500 Kent West wrote: I'm just toying around, learning a lot, with Apache2, phpmyadmin, mariadb, SQL in general ... absolutely don't know what I'm doing. But I've gotten some basics accomplished; I've created a 'pma' user in mariad

Re: Minor Mystery - phpmyadmin and mysql.user

On 9/1/25 11:33 AM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 07:04:17 -0500 Kent West wrote: I'm just toying around, learning a lot, with Apache2, phpmyadmin, mariadb, SQL in general ... absolutely don't know what I'm doing. But I've gotten some basics accomplished; I've created a 'pma' user in mariad

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM David Christensen wrote: ... David, thanks so much. I do appreciate this message in particular which is the "looking over my shoulder" guidance I was looking for before I proceed to the next step. Blessings! -Tom

Re: Why are these old versions in Trixie?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 11:40:05 +, Stefan K wrote: >I'm a bit confused because I'm not sure why some of the packages aren't in >the latest version in Trixie. >I thought the process would be something like: new version is downloaded, >then compiled and a deb package is created

Why are these old versions in Trixie?

Hey everyone,I just wanted to ask something. I'm a bit confused because I'm not sure why some of the packages aren't in the latest version in Trixie.   The following packages are all released before softfreeze  12.03.25 smartmontools 7.5 15.08.24 cupsfilter 2.0.1 08.04.25 cups 2.4.12   I thought th

Re: Encrypt replies by default

Mailer: aerc (aerc 0.20.1-64-g7cb8e0e7ce24) Attempting to reply-with-quote from the message list results in an error "message is encrypted. can only include reply from the message viewer" From a message view, it decrypts and quotes the mail into the editor. After closing the editor, I can see

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 08:48:03PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 9/1/25 04:47, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > Thanks to all who have answered. > > Hi Tom, You do have a copy of debian-handbook? If not, apt install it. Written by Raphael Hertzog and Roland Mas - my hardback is somewhere else

Re: convert html to xml

On 01/09/2025 11:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: I do not see in dvipdfm a way to add metadata. It seems, you have found a recipe how to add metadata. In addition, the hyperref manual may be used as a reference. I am unaware if XMP PDF/A metadata may give additional benefits related to rank a