sage completely wrong.
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um to the safe place.
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ical damage or theft.
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apis;x86_64" \
-d pixel_7
emulator -avd Pixel_7A_x86_64 -no-boot-anim -gpu off
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rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):
> What lesson is that?
Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.
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put.
There are always good reasons to use zsh.
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einstall.
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rewall rules.
What you are trying to achieve looks a lot like VPN software, look it
up.
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he correct way of booting Debian 12 without a graphical interface?
Hi.
You need to look at `systemctl set-default`.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> This seems to be an interesting alternative to compare to xpra also because
> it works even on FreeBSD (the OS that I use everyday) :
>
> https://winswitch.org/dev/
Please tell us if you find it useful once you have tested it throughly.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> Usually I check after that someone gave me some general idea.
Then I suggest you apply the same rule even more strictly to saying.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> I think i can detach an application with ssh and a proper parameter.
Checking is better than thinking without checking.
Be sure to tell us the results of your experiments.
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;>>> even over laggy ADSL links and you can detach the window from the local
>>>> display and reattach it to another.
And once again, partially, when I replied to one of your own suggestions:
>>>> Xpra would bring you the ability to detach apps on a per-VM basis
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een mode, and that would require changing the way I have been
doing things with regard to hot-plugged screens.
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ime. If I run firefox through x2go for example,
will I get (1) one big window with the firefox window in it, and if
firefox opens a save dialog it will be inside the big window, or (2) a
window for firefox, integrated with my local wm, and the save dialog
ditto?
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ending bitmaps of
its windows.
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t fast and
detachable.
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window, still responsive.
I am rather fond of Xpra. Before considering installing it from sources,
I wanted to ask:
Do anybody know another tool with the same features, still packages for
Trixie?
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enefit? Will I find a trove of package already
implementing network protocols and standard algorithms, or be able to
run Perl 5 packages somehow? And so on.
Do you know the answer to these questions? Or a place where somebody
wrote them?
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lar-expressions.html
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kwrite/index.html (I presume kwrite does
not support regular expressions)
If I have understood your query (which seems unlikely), is the answer:
Kwrite does not support regular expressions whil eKate and Katepart support the
same regular expre
unning "ls ~/.bash_profile" as root?
To my knowledge root's home directory should be /root, not /home/root.
For me:
# ls ~/.bash_profile
/root/.bash_profile
Did you create a user by the name "root" ?
George.
>
> So the DotFiles page isn't consistent wi
point where average
human eyes start losing alignment.
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ately, that is just
not true.
> Then again, looking at their site, so is everything
> else they do, including their TOU.
What do you think is wrong in their terms of use?
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Oq8mb1L"
(do not worry, this is not the real key).
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Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
> Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem
> solved. Roger
“I did. I am sure my mail is blue. Is it not?” and join a screenshot.
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believe you).
Monochrome is rather stretching it in this day and age. Better evoke the
situation of people with sight disabilities, because it is true that
they might have special needs, including about color, to be able to read
something.
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3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored
> in
> an e-mail message body.
>
> Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Not possible.
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source-files/TFP2021.pdf
> ].
>
> Suggestions?
Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV
delimiters using a powerful editor. The rectangle selection of Vim might
be useful.
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rive. If it did,
it would not cal it unknown-block(0,0).
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nient if you want to run several
> commands as root instead of just one.
Not true: with a root shell, you need to be extra careful at all time.
With sudo in front of the privileged commands, you only need to be
extra careful when you type sudo.
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robably because of
radio interferences.
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ifying it that sudo makes things more complex than su.
Please, when replying to this, double check you do not commit the second
fallacy to assume that one thing is simpler than another when the
difference is you already know the first and not the second.
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That includes the root data structures of
most anything that could already been there, so the rest, the data that
will not have been overwritten, will be mostly unusable without a lot of
effort.
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emote X or Wayland client like VNC.
Apologies if I have misunderstood your question.
George.
On Saturday, 05-04-2025 at 03:07 Eben King wrote:
> Hi. I have this machine "alexandria" onto which I installed Debian
> yesterday:
>
> eben@alexandria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
of LF, as Tomas
mentioned? For that, you would need to hit ctrl-enter and see ^M in the
terminal, each time before you hit enter.
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On 30/3/25 20:50, David wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 05:33, George Kirkham wrote:
'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk
drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer
as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the l
journal
Is my interpretation of the man instructions correct?
Has anyone had the occasion to do this? And if so, does it work well?
George.
PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the
any other good email clients that support email threading and are
packaged in Debian?
I am getting more emails
coming in than I have time to read. I will try to keep my emails to a minimum.
George.
On Friday, 28-03-2025 at 14:14 Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 05:13, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > Max suggested checking with journalctl which may help, but I
reason why I decided to use some option to set
> $HOME.
I strongly suggest you learn to use sudo as sudo is intended to be used
rather than using it as an imitation for su. You would not have had this
problem if you did.
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.
# grep -i "SYSFS" /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules
George.
On Thursday, 27-03-2025 at 18:34 W. Pepperdine wrote:
> > Here are outputs of a few queries on log entries
> > from one of my XFCE installations. How do they compare
> > with your logs? Can you see any reports on
ailed to call Lookup:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for camera
Mar 27 09:12:17 tugll03 wireplumber[1473]:
Failed to call Lookup:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for camera
On Thursday, 27-03-2025 at 07:26 George at Clug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is any
on for a
reinstall, though I doubt this will help.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm
This was another log check I noticed someone doing:
journalctl | grep -i "broken pipe"
https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/using-journa
for those is convenient.
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ot; without really
> understanding how it works.
Must not comment. Must not comment.
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jeremy ardley (HE12025-03-26):
> One reason to choose VPN over ssh is that many ISPs block incoming ports
> including ssh, telnet, RDP, smtp, and smb ports.
And they do not block ports used for VPNs. How convenient.
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: if your users might not be able to install port knocking software,
not allowed to run VPN clients, or if an annoying firewall is in the
middle, you have no choice but to let a public access.
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hrough the VPN to internal systems.
> Why do you think SSH is less secure than any other VPN ?
Why do you think Jan says ssh is less secure than a VPN when Jan is
saying that ssh is less secure than VPN+ssh?
I suggest to add port knocking to protect the VPN.
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many scenarios where it is useful, you just have to exercise
your imagination.
Maybe client does not and should not have network access to nas.
Maybe alexandria does not have the hardware to plug the disks.
Maybe alexandria implements caching that nas is not capable of doing.
And so on and so on.
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to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-20):
> Sorry if that came across as rude.
Do not be: not reading before replying at least to see if what one is
about to reply has already been addressed and therefore wasting
everybody's time is way ruder than your message might seem.
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equivalent to no full backup after the very first one. And the very
first one can be considered an incremental backup over a full one of no
data at all.
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Hans (HE12025-03-14):
> Depends on, what you prefer: in console, or with GUIn as conjob or whatever
A tool that cannot be automated is not a backup tool.
Corollary: a GUI-only tool is not a backup tool.
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ile you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
backup tool.
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, etc. I often wonder how Linux programs manage to work so
well (most of the time). Well back to gaming...
On Wednesday, 12-03-2025 at 08:17 George at Clug wrote:
> Update:
>
> Launching 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 steam -no-cef-sandbox' from the command
> did not work
5 at 12:12 PM George at Clug wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 23:34 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote:
> > > > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember
> > t
On Wednesday, 12-03-2025 at 05:01 Nils wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 6:52:41 PM GMT+1 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > It might be coming from one of the user's dot files. You can try
> > these:
>
> Thanks! That seems to be it:
>
> $ sudo su -- root -c env | grep LC_TIME
> LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
>
On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 23:34 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote:
> > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember that
> > on the Steam website, the website says that the requirement of the Steam
> > app is 'a xxx version *
Update: Steam runs successfully on Debian Trixie and on Arch Linux. Still
failing on Debian Bookworm.
On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 21:44 George at Clug wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Any use Steam?
>
>
> We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was
> wor
and gdisk telling us the block device has the
wrong size: the issue is absolutely not the filesystem on it.
Also, this is not Windows, please do not use “format” as a verb for a
disk.
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Hi,
Any use Steam?
We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was
working well. Then a member of the family reported that they were
unable to load Steam. We tested on another (third) computer, and as
Steam started, it checks for updates and then never loaded.
I then ex
16 2147483647 sdb
>> Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 4294967294 sectors, 2.0 TiB
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.
The point of the test is: if it succeeds, you can reasonably hope that
the device will continue working for some time.
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Yassine Chaouche (HE12025-03-04):
> I see this as a "forum" mode
It is not called “forum mode”, it is called “egoistic mode”, because the
poster expects other people will read their messages and provide help
but is not willing to do the same for others in return.
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to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-04):
> > That is a terrible idea.
> Not if done right.
“Not if done right” has been said of all terrible ideas in the history
of terrible ideas.
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On Tuesday, 04-03-2025 at 21:05 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sat Mar 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM GMT, Frank Guthausen wrote:
> > If this questions affects the DFSG, Debian must take a position. The
> > obvious elephant in the room is the question whether Firefox can be
> > part of the official distribut
That is a terrible idea.
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u should not give them the privileges to do it
in the first place) and you cannot come do it during the lessons.
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to unexpectedly throw away perfectly
good computers just because they do not have the latest fake-security
chip mandatory for the new release of Windows
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On Monday, 03-03-2025 at 06:46 Chris Green wrote:
> Anssi Saari wrote:
> > Eben King writes:
> >
> > > Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
> > > and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
> > > drive. The idea is if my main drive t
eed for
data to train A.I. Both for the company's benefit, and conceptually for your
(our) benefit too [if you believe that].
George.
>
> The Worst Firefox Update Ever
> https://youtu.be/E4JOnQY_qbo
>
> Info from Mozilla:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/fire
it that the last line gives sudo privileges to
the sudo user, not group?
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the libvirtd.service is enabled and
running (I presume it is)
# systemctl status libvirtd.service
● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service;
enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-02-15 07:14:34 AEDT;
17s ago
Hoping some of this may help you.
George.
>
>
the good answers.
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icolas George
Max Nikulin (HE12025-02-12):
> I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented.
At worst, the source code is the documentation.
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a way, but it would be less efficient than installing
Windows or Macos instead of Linux.
If you want a Linux way to solve the issue: first, read the
documentation of xfce-terminal to see how it decides which web browser
to run; then read the documentation of that mechanism to see how to
configure it.
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et is also usual to upgrade from an older version to a new
version.
I could explain how I do version upgrades, once I know whether your PC has
Internet or not.
George.
> Am I missing a step? Is it
> possible for you to give me step by step instructions? Would greatly
> appreciate it
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
if you want the keys to be handled without a
desktop environment, you will need to explain the circumstances in more
details.
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/input/event0
and press a few keys. If it prints something, you know the keys work. If
it prints nothing, you break it with ctrl-C and you start again with
event1, then event2, etc., until either you have found the keys work or
you have exhausted the event devices.
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.
Thomas George
On Saturday, 08-02-2025 at 01:35 Boyan Penkov wrote:
> Hello George,
>
> No problem -- and to be clear, as Joe pointed out, it's not clear that
> there's actually an issue that would warrant *not* running
> modernize-sources; synaptic does work fine, just won't s
know of any method to "undo" this modernization?
Thanks for alerting me to this issue, as I will be sure not to run
modernize-sources until this issue is resolved.
George
>
> However, in Synaptic, clicking on Settings -> Repositories shows a
> blank list, presumably re
Do you mean /etc/apt/sources.list ?
Which version of Debian?
And what do you mean "modernized ones" ? (where did you see these documented?
I may have missed something?)
My Synaptic works great, but then, I do not think I am using any "modernised
ones".
George.
>
>
space that can be used by users for data files.
George.
On Tuesday, 04-02-2025 at 07:45 George at Clug wrote:
> I love three letter acronyms ! So meaningful (of course, context helps)
>
> I am going to guess with large capacity drives, and large SAN environments,
> Master Fil
I love three letter acronyms ! So meaningful (of course, context helps)
I am going to guess with large capacity drives, and large SAN environments,
Master File Table (MFT) management and scalability is critical ?
I am curious: Are you storing many small files? What is the size of the NTFS
pa
understanding networking, I learn what I need to
[hopefully] make it work.
George.
On Monday, 03-02-2025 at 01:01 Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I am trying to bringup the wifi network with an ipv4 address on a Cubox-i
> automatically after boot.
>
> Manually
-v5-15-58-2023-0801-backport-issue/td-p/474900#.
https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041436
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053345
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/5a55d325.60...@broadcom.com/
George.
On Monday, 03-02-2025 at 01
ified the sources. I
am pleased you worked that out. I appreciate it when others give me full and
clear instructions, so I should do the same.
George.
>
>
but it
is not necessary)
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports
Copy the repository below, then hit the "Add Source" button:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
George.
>
> to /etc/apt/sources.list, ran apt update and got the error messa
On Saturday, 01-02-2025 at 03:57 Roger Price wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> > > The same (now that I am using backports):
> > > $ yt-dlp --version
> > > 2025.01.15
>
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 21:42 Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/1/25 18:19, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 20:41 Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 19:24 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> >>> I have two answers (whic
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 21:30 Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/1/25 16:24, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 18:57 Bret Busby wrote:
> >> On 31/1/25 14:50, George at Clug wrote:
> >>> Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected V
re, 2) Any content locked by DRM is
obviously not meant to be watched [by me].
Unless I am convinced the DRM is not able to be maliciously modified I doubt I
will be reinstalling it.
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 20:32 Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 17:50 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 20:41 Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 19:24 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> > I have two answers (which might not be good answers, if so someone may be
> > able to correct me)
> >
> > 1) For some time now yt-dlp has been unable
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 18:57 Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/1/25 14:50, George at Clug wrote:
> > Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content?
> >
> > Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is loaded?
> >
> > I did enable
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 18:02 D MacDougall wrote:
> On 1/29/25 05:39, Gregory Forster wrote:
> > Hi, I've been using Debian for about 3 months, still a newbie. I'm
> > trying to get totally off of Windows.One program I'm not sure about is
> > Zoom.If you go to their web site, they detect you're
e Add-ons Manager prevents it from
running on your computer and prevents future updates from downloading.
Please reply if you have had any such experiences.
George.
en use it."
As people make replies, they often trim the original message so this message
could have been lost in later posts.
You may be able to find the original comment in the archive list?
I wonder if the suggestion " firefox-esr --ProfileManager" may have loaded a
working
On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 12:35 Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM Maureen Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the
> > > updated firefox I can not use it as it free
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