Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-04-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying windows system (it's Use of for discontinuous selection seems pretty much ubiquitous. is usually associated with continuo

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-04-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:16:52 -0400 Eben King wrote: Hello Eben, >On 4/1/25 14:02, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >> The error message that now displays, is thus; I wrote none of that. You do Bret Busby, who is far more knowledgeable than I with regard to this matter, a disservice. P

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-04-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:14:18 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, >Yes, but that version does not download from YouTube.  I have yt-dlp, Ah; I have no interest in yt. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immedia

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:23:04 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, >I was looking into Brave the other day, but what stopped me was the >lack of anything to replace Video Download Helper. I've got VDH installed in Brave. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-downloadhelper/lmjnegcaekl

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:07:16 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello Greg, >Only in Microsoft Windows, or in GUI applications that try to emulate >Windows behavior. And even then, the selection you're making isn't I've never used windows for 'standard' domestic computing activities, only at work for

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:38:25 +0100 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >Try with xterm. Try with LO writer. They drop the selection Fair enough. I rarely use either xterm or LO writer. Will give it a try. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The bl

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:45:32 +0100 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >I thought that too, but according to the man page, apt-get update does {snipped} Okay, fair enough. I'm new to apt-file so haven't fully absorbed all required knowledge yet. >Hanlon's Corollary: it's almost never the gremlins

Re: Why installed files of my package doen't show with apt-file

2025-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:59:49 +0200 Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Hello Henrik, >> Why when I run `apt-file show phoenix` nothing happens? >Just to confirm, you ran `apt-get update` before that, correct? apt-*file* update (emphasis is mine), surely? -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {das

Re: Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

2025-03-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:03:32 + Andy Smith wrote: Hello Andy, >You have addressed your email to debian-user. Here we are all just >users of Debian like you. We cannot make changes to the policies of the >Debian project directly. OP also sent the same request to Debian Developers. Whilst ther

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:36:46 - (UTC) Greg wrote: Hello Greg, >What exactly is he after? I was under the impression it was setting the >default browser to Vivaldi. Yes, but as has been explained, there are multiple ways in which a browser can be chosen. Some, most notably, circumventing sys

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:09:38 - (UTC) Greg wrote: Hello Greg, >Simply reversing the installation order of the two browsers seems the >most direct and easiest solution. Still with, of course, no guarantee of successfully achieving exactly what Chris is after. -- Regards _ "Valid si

Re: Non packaged hplip on trixie (testing) ?

2025-01-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:50:41 +0100 Erwan David wrote: Hello Erwan, >I see in https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hplip that hplip has been >removed from testing... That's bad news. It's been gone for ages. There *is* a solution mentioned on the bug tracker, but it assumes knowledge of how to go ab

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:52:34 -0500 songbird wrote: Hello songbird, >warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already >installed by openjdk-9 I've seen similar messages. Certainly about openjdk, maybe others, I can't recall. As everything seems to be working as expected, I don

Re: Non packaged hplip on trixie (testing) ?

2025-01-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:46:01 +0100 Erwan David wrote: Hello Erwan, >Another possibility is that hplip can work with python 3.13 but it was AIUI, that's what people want; Hplip depending on 3.12 is causing the issues. From the bug report at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=10

Re: SMTP servers

2024-12-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:00:24 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >A&A has an excellent reputation, but rather high prices. High prices for what? £25pcm is what I pay for 'net access using A&A. Anyone else wants *at least* £29pcm - (possibly a 6 month budget price to start) with a minimum 18 month cont

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:45:01 + dmthomp...@gmx.com wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >.but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the >components of libreoffice were pulled in - unlike the standard >libreoffice install >- if this make sense to all. Yeah, it does; Sh&t 'appens

Re: Debian 12.8 synaptic refuses, calling for firmware in /media/cdrom

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:51:50 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: Hello Roger, >I checked /etc/apt/sources.list, and the top entry for the cdrom is >uncommented, as are the http entries. In Synaptic, go to Settings/Repositories, and untick (uncheck) the CD/DVD entries, click Done. You'll probably pr

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:38:23 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >OK, times change. {deleted for brevity} That's quite a tale of woes. For full disclosure, I've never used Base or Impress at all. I'm just aware they're available to me. The pendulum swings, I suppose. ;-) -- Regards _ "Va

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:39:21 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or Impress, Really? Because I see Depends: libreoffice-impress and libreoffice-base in testing. >It should certainly have included Writer. Agreed. -- Regards _ "Val

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 + dmthomp...@gmx.com wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed >it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in That makes it sound as though you may not have the package 'lib

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:29:34 + wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all >components of the suite to be installed - right;) No; Why would you install (for example) libreoffice-qt if you don't use KDE/Plasma? A rhetorical questio

Re: Email Problem [Solved]

2024-11-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:03:39 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Solved the problem! I accepted the Certificate and the popup went away >and didn't reappear. Good news. Thx for letting us know. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / )

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:50:33 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Where else might the errant string of DNA or RNA be hiding on my >computer? https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=31786 -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:46:01 -0500 e...@gmx.us wrote: Hello e...@gmx.us, >This is a long line that is more than seventy-two characters that >should end with a space. It is wrapped on my end. > >This is a long line that is more than seventy-two characters that >should end with two spaces. It is al

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:07:07 -0500 e...@gmx.us wrote: Hello e...@gmx.us, >This line has no trailing spaces. >This line has one trailing space. >This line has two trailing spaces. No trailing spaces anywhere. Sorry. :-( -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}"

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:02:59 -0500 e...@gmx.us wrote: Hello e...@gmx.us, >That is what I see in the message to which you replied. See the <1k >attachment. This message also has a space. Is that not what you see? I see what Jonathan sees. Your sig separator arrives here as "--". If it leaves

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:30:46 -0500 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: Hello Cindy, >I haven't researched the others, but it already feels >like ultimately there are only a couple actual search engines, lol. There's Mojeek. Unlike Startpage (and some of the others using google or bing as a back end) Mojee

Re: utelnetd

2024-11-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:31:53 + Andy Smith wrote: Hello Andy, >Just struggling to find the point of utelnetd existing I suppose. The included readme says it's a minimalist telnetd to be run, mostly, on embedded systems. As has been pointed out, it's quite old (2008). Furthermore, the url i

Re: lower CPU speed

2024-10-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:20:45 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: Hello e...@gmx.us, >Is that in the package "linux-cpupower", or where do you get it? No, it's what I called it. However, upon checking, I see that it's not in stable. linux-cpupower, AFAIUI, will also do the job. -- Regards _ "Val

Re: lower CPU speed

2024-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:46:05 -0400 Eben King wrote: Hello Eben, >less heat inside the case, is it possible to cap it at a certain speed? Yes. I use cpupower-gui for that sort of thing. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:26:02 + fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: Hello fxkl4...@protonmail.com, >i've never been able to get speech dispatcher to say anything >understandable I decided to have a play with speech dispatcher, just for fun. After I installed it, and entered the command string Arb

Re: How to load new firmware?

2024-10-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:30:22 +0100 Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >In Synaptic, there is a Repositories menu entry under Settings, where >new entries can be made and existing ones disabled, matching the >commenting in sources.list. Yes there is. Yet I /still/ find it easier to create the repos in a tex

Re: Mozilla's apt repository; was: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

2024-10-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:56:12 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, >if some evil actor gets access to mozilla's >repository and injects some malware into it. A point I missed. Clearly. Thanks for highlighting. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator

Re: Mozilla's apt repository; was: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

2024-10-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:37:03 + Michael Kjörling wrote: Hello Michael, >That sounds like an even better argument for not pinning _everything_ >coming from that repository at priority 1000. Maybe, but; As an experiment, I added the mozilla repo and updated. Everything from their repos was l

Re: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

2024-10-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:26:37 + Michael Kjörling wrote: Hello Michael, >Though I would adjust that apt pinning configuration slightly to favor >only firefox and maybe thunderbird packages from their repository, AFAICT, the repo you cited has firefox(1) only. T'Bird direct from mozilla is i

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

2024-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 14:55:24 +0200 emneo wrote: Hello emneo, >While I am thinking about it, is there some documentation to try and >help on Debian (packaging or anything else). https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/index.en.html You might also consider subscribing to the Debian Develo

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100 Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the As does mine. >root password, and it says so explicitly. Here, I get a different result. The requester asks for authentication but does not specify root password. In

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: Hello Roger, >I click on "details" but all I see is "Action: >com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic". PolicyKit is installed: you must use the user's password. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / )

Re: please help app missing ...

2024-09-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:46:56 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: Hello Charles, >The original poster specified Debian 12, not testing. Wherefore the >following is dangerous advice. If they installed 12, gimp is available, unless the install they did left only the install media as repo. If they really

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

2024-09-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 16:25:04 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, >Tell them to get a [very cheap] pair of single focus reading glasses >made to suit the distance their screen is away. Exactly what I did. Sure, one /can/ use [bi|tri|vari]focals, but it's a ri

Re: printer replacement

2024-09-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:04:40 +0100 Steve McIntyre wrote: Hello Steve, >expensive ink and toner lockin thing is a good reason to never give HP >money again. There has been lock in in the past (more than once, IIRC) but I use 3rd party ink carts in my machine without issue. The so-called subscrip

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-31 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:06:55 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: Hello jeremy, >The bigger picture is that personal printing is on the way out because The bigger picture may well be the case(1), but irrelevant to the point I was making: Four trips to the print shop, and I'm out of pocket. In fairness,

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-31 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:23:20 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: Hello jeremy, >I find the cost per page at the >big-box stores is roughly the same as the amortised cost per page of a >personal laser printer. What about the time (and, therefore, cost) of getting to/from the print shop? Time alone (fo

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:28:30 +0200 Gerard ROBIN wrote: Hello Gerard, >thanks for your reply. Sorry for sending this useless email. I had No worries. >forgotten that I was no longer registered on the debian-user list and >when I didn't get One need not be subscribed to this list to post to i

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:27:39 +0200 Gerard ROBIN wrote: Hello Gerard, I suspect this will fall on deaf ears, but hear goes.. >tia. Four people replied to this exact same question when you asked it yesterday. Please read them. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{spac

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:41:45 +0200 Gerard ROBIN wrote: Hello Gerard, >e "HP Smart" for Windows exclusivel HP Smart is available for Android (and probably iOS). With a suitable 'phone you can set up an HP printer. It's how I did it here. Different model, but even so. Once set up, you can

Re: email service providers

2024-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:24:32 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, >So on the off chance that I had done something in my sleep, I changed >my password, and mail is now downloading. :-) Glad you're going again. TBH, it's a bit rubbish of them to claim you need to pay to get POP/IMAP and t

Re: email service providers

2024-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:35:29 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, >I have tried to subscribe to mail.com at their website - to be told mail.com and (incidentally) gmx.com have both 'required' subscription for pop/imap connection for years. I don't pay either of them. I get my mail from

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

2024-07-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 02:44:03 -0400 Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hello Jeffrey, >don't allow search engines to crawl their sites. I hadn't even considered that. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent"

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

2024-07-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:04:30 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: Hello Nate, >Discourse and Discord are two different technologies, AIUI Discourse also does this; Unfortunately, your browser is unsupported. Please switch to a supported browser to view rich content, log in and reply. Whilst it's not i

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 18:15:21 +0100 (GMT+01:00) Ian Molton wrote: Hello Ian, >Which web forum has the commuity moved to then? I should like to join Don't know. Never considered switching. From the web forums I have used, I've ascertained that they offer nothing that can't be done on a mailing

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:35:22 +0100 (GMT+01:00) Ian Molton wrote: Hello Ian, >An alarming decline, with a multitude of reasons. Same for most MLs; People think web forums are better. Passive/aggressive messages don't help, either. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{spa

Re: hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:55:55 +0200 Daniel Schröter wrote: Hello Daniel, >thanks for this information. Sounds more then similar ;-) :-) Thought so. I implemented the fix here, and can confirm hplip is up and running again. Good luck. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{das

Re: hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:01:30 +0200 Daniel Schröter wrote: Hello Daniel, > >I opened a bug report but didn't get an answer. >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076210 > >Someone has a workaround? See; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075760 Which is very simil

Re: Problem with conda

2024-07-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:31:59 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, >I downloaded a new copy of Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x89_64.s You say nothing about where you got this from but, assuming it's https://docs.anaconda.com/miniconda/ your problem may well be that what you downloaded requi

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

2024-07-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 12:24:16 +0200 Lucio Crusca wrote: Hello Lucio, >Am I doing anything wrong or should I file a bug report? Look at the package page, then developer page for gitlab and then for its dependencies. You'll find that ruby-sidekiq has yet to hit sid - it's still in experimental. N

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:35:14 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, >+14:00?? I've only ever heard of maxima of +/- 12:00. AFAIAC, it was political willy waving, nothing more; To be 'first' into the new millennium. As if that has any cachet whatsoever. -- Regards _ "Valid sig

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:01:10 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, >Not to mention some cultures change how words are spelt: colour, odour, >metres to quote a few. Due, mainly, to the literacy of the people that moved, rather than any deliberate choice. That is, spelling was often a 'bes

Re: Modifying Desktop Icons

2024-06-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:55:12 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, >or just try it! It works pefectly well with a single hyphen. Now, yes. However, at some point, that may no longer be the case. When (perhaps) somebody notices that actually behaviour differ

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:45:49 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: Hello Max, >On 08/06/2024 00:48, Hans wrote: >> BUT - grub-efi-amd64-bin conflicts with grub-efi-amd64-bin-signed >No it does not. I have both installed. I think, the latter needs .mod The pedant in me would point out that actually, no, yo

Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 11:47:59 +0200 DdB wrote: Hello DdB, >BTW: the GNOME team did that to me repeatedly In fairness, it's not just Gnome that erodes features. TBH, they *all* do it. I've seen features removed from Plasma, Claws Mail, Tellico, loads of stuff. Worst of all is when the removal g

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 May 2024 14:01:58 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: Hello Paul, >Nope. On a 3 phase system with individual phases at 120V, you will never In the UK, each phase is nominally 240V, not 120V. That's why David mentioned 440V between phases. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 May 2024 18:11:48 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, >I have a powerline adapter (Devolo units). There's no such restriction, >as far as I know. My powerline transmitter and receiver are certainly >on different circuits. Fair enough. Different f

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 May 2024 11:31:29 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: Hello mick.crane, >Is there not some system that runs ethernet over the mains wiring or >did I misunderstand it. Yes, there is. I believe you're thinking of powerline adaptors. They do require everything be on the same circuit, however.

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 May 2024 11:35:25 + Andy Smith wrote: Hello Andy, >people. I don't know that it would add enough value to cover the >cost of doing it, though. Almost certainly not; Social housing where I live is non-existent because, according to the builders, the land costs more than they woul

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 27 May 2024 18:19:10 -0500 David Wright wrote: Hello David, >We didn't meet any lack of understanding. Rather, the problem is which >rooms do you connect, and precisely where do you place the wallplates. That's what I meant, really. Christ, they can't even place power outlets sensibly

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 27 May 2024 17:09:02 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: Hello Paul, >for internet (WHY aren't new houses wired with Cat5/6/7?). The local Cost Lack of understanding (in the building trade) -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obv

Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 27 May 2024 10:57:54 -0400 Eben King wrote: Hello Eben, >Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought >in at one swell foop? Thanks. apt/apt-get autoremove or apt/apt-get autoremove --purge The first removes the packages installed as dependencies, the secon

Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

2024-05-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:02 + André Rodier wrote: Hello André, >Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent >Debian You asked, and were answered, yesterday. It would be preferable to continue in that thread, rather than start a new one. -- Regards _ "Va

Re: no more sound after upgrade (trixie/sid)

2024-05-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 26 May 2024 13:16:28 +0200 Kamil Jońca wrote: Hello Kamil, >About 2 years ago I got new laptop. Sweeping generalisation coming; Laptops can be troublesome for Linux when they're fairly recently released. Largely because the makers play fast and loose with accepted standards and cut c

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 14 May 2024 15:11:16 +0200 Richard wrote: Hello Richard, >"Top posting" (writing the answer above the text that's being replied >to) is literally industry standard behavior. This 'literally' isn't industry. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / )

Re: [off topic] High Sierra, was: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 12 May 2024 22:27:58 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: Hello Thomas, >Hah ! Do they think that ISO 9660 is dead enough so they can highjack >its birth name ? Happens all the time (just saying - not condoning); Solid State Drive - referring to HDs without moving parts. BITD, Solid State re

Re: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 13 May 2024 05:10:13 +1000 David wrote: Hello David, >The best thing to do would be to ask them. Surely this is off-topic here. From the FAQ; What platforms does Cindex run on? Any supported version of Windows, including 10 and 11 macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and up Unless I'

Re: debian bookworm japanese kana input disabled

2024-05-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:06:29 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: Hello Michael, >However, I seem to have had a similar issue even after upgrading to >the first regression-fixed glib2.0 packages on Bookworm. Specifically, >dead keys no longer working with the Swedish keyboard lay

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 03 May 2024 12:11:22 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: Hello mick.crane, >Eeeek "725 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see >them" Quite a few here, too. Although not as many as you had; 46 packages removed 46 packages installed (t64 versions of the packages removed) 309

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 3 May 2024 01:11:31 -0400 songbird wrote: Hello songbird, > mainly i wanted to make sure that anything removed was >being replaced and that my desktop would still be usable >and that seems to have happened. This has been my experience, too. I will also add my thanks to the many, many,

Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-05-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:48:09 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, >Yes but: both gdb and nfs-client installed fine. Moreover, the >nfs-client doesn't appear to be a dependency of any of the massive load >of files updated lately.  The gdb package however is but for some This transition is ongoin

Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:51:01 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, >Not looking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've >encountered lately. As Erwan says, this is 'normal'. Especially ATM due to the t64 transition. As you've found out, paying attention to removals is a Good Ide

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:50:06 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello Greg, >The youtube-dl package in Debian 12 is a transitional package which >brings in yt-dlp (version 2023.03.04-1 currently). v2024.somethingorother is in stable-backports. Let's face it: yt do their level best to stop stuff like

Re: On user expectations (Was Re: *****SPAM***** Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian)

2024-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:35:58 + Andy Smith wrote: Hello Andy, >I suspect that your text above has come out sounding more entitled >than you intended, as English is not your first language. In fairness to Hans, he did go on to explain as much. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {d

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:38:18 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >I only hope, it will not happen the same fate like usermin and webmin >happened to: It was once removed from the repoi with th ereason >"spagehetti code, bad code" and then no one ever took a look again to Which, no doubt, makes it har

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:55:26 +0200 Erwan David wrote: Hello Erwan, >What scares me is seeing part of 18 ongoing transition, and 4 "coming >soon transitions" with "please do not upload if it is not related to >the transition". Several (well, lots of) transitions have landed at pretty the same t

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:18:23 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, >Actually, if I understand correctly, LibreOffice will really be >removed on some architectures (armhf ppc64el s390x mips64el riscv64). >Fortunately, I am not concerned by this removal (only by the fact >that my bug reports

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:35:57 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, >If this is not permanent, why have all the bugs been closed? That I have no answer for. I was basing my "this is not permanent" on the fact that there are a large number of auto-transitions currently ongoing, and many pa

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:12:39 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, >Is there any reason why LibreOffice has been removed from Debian??? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libreoffice Has all the info you need, and more. Expect it to be removed from testing, too. This is not permanent. --

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:46:04 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Hello Pierre-Elliott, >You have a rather bad cybersecurity approach. I use password generators and vaults for all my passwords. Nothing wrong with my cyber-security. Also note that I put 'written down' in single quotes - it was me

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Hello Pierre-Elliott, >Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea. Not in your own home. And in any event, it depends where one keeps that 'written down' password. And if it *does* become an issue at home, you've

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:22:16 +0100 Detlef Vollmann wrote: Hello Detlef, >Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? I'm far from an expert, but from what I've read, this transition is *huge*. Possibly the largest that has ever occurred in Debian. It's going to take t

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:36:25 +0100 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >I do not believe, it is a training problem. Why? Well, your formerly >mail was marked as spam. So I marked it as ham. Now, your second mail >again is marked as spam. Spam/ham training is not, IME, a single shot affair. However, as yo

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:53:49 +0100 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >It should be well trained Spam training is an ongoing process >But until then suddenly the false positives increased from one day to >another, although I had changed nothing. because the spam changes. What's coming now is ne

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:19:27 +0100 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >Does one see any reason, why this is considered as spam??? Further to what Thomas says; You haven't told your spam filtering that it's ham. If you don't train your spam filters, it's never going to get any better at detecting what yo

Re: Problem with sleeping mode ( debian 12 ) please help

2024-03-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 15:09:34 +0100 Mansour Nasri wrote: Hello Mansour, >Hi I'm using debian 12 in Lenovo yoga legion core i5 12th-gen with >Nvidia {cut} You asked this, or a very similar question, on 29 Feb. You had two responses that I saw. I suggest you review those replies and respond accor

Re: missing development package?

2024-03-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 11:56:54 + debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Hello debian-u...@howorth.org.uk, >Does the # character at the start of the deb-src line matter? Yes; It comments out deb-src as a repo, so it can't/won't be used. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{spa

Re: “Secure Connection Failed” Error in Firefox

2024-03-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 12:26:20 -0300 Marcelo Laia wrote: Hello Marcelo, >website https://gontijoonibus.gontijo.com.br/ on I get the same results as Greg - in several browsers. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious is never im

Re: packages.debian.org seems to be down

2024-03-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 09:14:14 +0100 Harald Dunkel wrote: Hello Harald, >is it just me, or is https://packages.debian.org/ down? I had a >similar problem yesterday morning. Home page loads, but clicking on "View Packages..." links result in a 503 error. Other links are working (probably because t

Re: Data and hardware protection measures; was: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:19:55 +0100 hw wrote: Hello hw, >How do you know in advance when the battery will have failed? Even my very basic UPS (APC Backup 1400) has a light on the front labelled "Replace Battery". That, combined with a very annoying high pitch scream, are pretty good motivators

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

2024-01-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 10:07:26 -0600 David Wright wrote: Hello David, >The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16. >Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still. Create >subdirectories and the problem goes away. Yes, this is exactly what I experienced. So not the FAT at fa

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 16:15:27 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Hello Nicolas, >Pictures or it did not happen. Didn't bother because it appeared to be a well-understood phenomenon, based on my limited research. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The b

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 13:25:52 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Hello Nicolas, >What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long >filenames. Seen it happen; Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of a session of copying multiple files would be lost because the FA

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