Re: WAS Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-02 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 3/2/25 04:55, gene heskett wrote: On 3/1/25 17:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+stop+chromium+using+dns+over+http    AI Overview    To stop Chromium from using DNS over HTTPS (DoH), navigate to your    browser settings, go to "Privacy and security" then "Se

Re: Chromium on Trixie -- not coming up?

2025-01-28 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/27/25 23:32, Boyan Penkov wrote: Is anybody else seeing today's Chromium (on Trixie...) not showing the GUI after it's run? No problem here, but I don't use Gnome (but fvwm2) and I use X. Detlef If you're on Gnome and pull up the desktop view, it holds space for a window there and i

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-08 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/8/25 00:43, gene heskett wrote: On 1/7/25 15:12, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative to virtualbox.  While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manag

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/7/25 21:42, George at Clug wrote: # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin # apt install qemu-system libvirt-daemon-system virt-manager # adduser libvirt # adduser kvm I never had any problems without being member of group 'kvm'. But maybe that's because I do everything KVM related through libvirt.

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/7/25 21:15, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating a couple of files a

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-07 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 11/7/24 14:19, Chris Green wrote: I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye within my Debian Bookworm system. I'm looking for something slightly 'lighter weight' than a full-blown virtual machine like virtualbox though I guess I can use virtualbox if I have to. I do

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

2024-10-22 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 10/4/24 15:56, Gary Dale wrote: Thanks everyone. The exact solution was provided by Detlef - change the machine type to pc-i440fx-2.0. Just FYI: I just had to change it to pc-i440fx-2.11. I'm on Sid and some libvirt/qemu upgrade seems to have removed pc-i440fx-2.0. This will probably hit

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

2024-10-03 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 10/3/24 06:35, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: And change it to: hvm I'm using 'pc-i440fx-2.0' on Sid/Trixie and XP runs w/o problems. For Win7 when I did the change it wanted a new activation, but XP was fine with the change... Detlef

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-04 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 8/4/24 19:57, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 05:44:07PM +0100, Mick Ab wrote: I have a Debian Bullseye desktop PC. I am looking for a 2fa authenticator that works on my desktop, without using a smartphone or tablet. I don't know what an "authenticator app" is. If what you

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

2024-07-23 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/23/24 09:45, 타토카 wrote: Does anyone here use Debian Sid for professional work and programming? I do. Are you happy with this? I am. I just want to know your opinions about this experience. I have several old kernels and respective initrds on my machine and I have another machine runn

Re: NetworkManager with dnsmasq caching NXDOMAIN response of router

2024-07-10 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/8/24 11:50, David Ayers wrote: On 8/7/24 11:42, jeremy ardley wrote: I also forgot to mention my usual warning: NetworkManager is *not* stable and if you do anything complex with it you can expect trouble. Personally I use systemd-networkd as that seems much more stable and predictable

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/6/24 06:51, David Christensen wrote: The underlying issue appears to be that my old-school Linux console network administration skills have been rendered obsolete by systemd and NetworkManager. I don't think that these skills are obsolete. I still use /etc/network/interfaces for everythi

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/6/24 06:37, jeremy ardley wrote: As I said in my earlier post, it's not necessary to disable dhcpd and in fact it is likely undesirable. Note that the warning in the wiki talks about dhcpcd, not about dhcpd. Though as a pointed out before, your machine very likely will have NetworkManag

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 7/6/24 04:06, Max Nikulin wrote: On 06/07/2024 08:16, David Christensen wrote: The following sentence: "Make sure to disable all DHCP services, e.g. dhcpcd." Was added at revision 97: From my point of view this warning makes sense. Primary it is a troubleshooting step if an attempt to

Re: This is a testmail!

2024-07-04 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Isn't this the usual DKIM problem with lists? The From: has @loop.de, but the sender and DKIM signature is from lists.debian.org. That's why most lists these days rewrite the From: header. Detlef On 7/4/24 14:24, Hans wrote: Me again, sorry. Now I got my last mail back with the spam tag!

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ It looks nice. But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be careful to run it outside of an isolated VM (which is actually true for most clos

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 6/18/24 04:10, jeremy ardley wrote: On 18/6/24 09:00, Stefan Monnier wrote: Is there a chance to change in next versions i.e. Debain 13 or other versions an assembly specifically for a USB flash drive as primary download?  Do you think the time has come? When do you think this moment will ha

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 5/27/24 20:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll need things like apt install libc-bin/bookworm To install a single backported (or other release) package, a

Dependency meaning

2024-03-21 Thread Detlef Vollmann
This is essentially a follow-up on my question about the 64bit time_t transition. I'm trying to upgrade some packages manually. For this, I'm trying to understand the dependencies. 'apt-cache showpkg libssl3t64' gives me this: Dependencies: 3.1.5-1.1 - libc6 (2 2.34) libssl3 (3 3.1.5-1.1) openss

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Marco Moock wrote: It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. The libs will have a suffix of t64, so you need to use dist-upgrade to upgrade the packages if they depend on the t64 libs. No, only the package names have the 't64' suffix, the libra

How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Detlef Vollmann
Is there a description anywhere how the 64bit time transition works? I'm currently stuck with a hard to maintain Sid system. It currently has "871 not upgraded" and it's nearly impossible to install new packages. I've looked e.g. into gnutls (on amd64), and libgnutls30t64 (3.8.3-1.1) as well as l