Re: dual boot or windows vm?

2025-05-26 Thread john doe
On 5/26/25 20:42, john doe wrote: On 5/26/25 20:23, Lee wrote: For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot into linux and run windows as a vm? My wife is trying to decide if she wants to keep windows on

Re: dual boot or windows vm?

2025-05-26 Thread john doe
files between host and guest. In a multiboot set up, Windows might not always be happy with linux (booting issues when updating Windows). -- John Doe

Re: EFI system partitionwww

2025-05-24 Thread john doe
hy you are wanting to do this. I concur with Andy. While it can be done it will require some server downtime (assuming that you get it to work). -- John Doe

Re: Restoring fvwm key bindings

2025-05-23 Thread John Hasler
0.2-3 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-21 Thread john doe
please stop this. -- John Doe

Find e-mail address based on first and last name

2025-05-21 Thread john doe
that person. -- John Doe

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-20 Thread John Hasler
a prominent field that specifies what Debian release the page is valid for. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: inadyn client

2025-05-16 Thread john doe
On 5/16/25 19:04, sa...@laurenz.ws wrote: inadyn[1605265]: No IP# change detected for custom, still at 84.165.63.18 As far as I understand it, everything is fine. You should see a different MSG would the IPv4 change. -- John Doe

Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Glenn English writes: > have you looked into the Proton-mail substitute for Gmail? Or Fastmail, which I'm quite happy with. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: speedtest ok from site, fails on command line

2025-05-09 Thread john doe
edtest.net configuration... Testing from Starlink (216.128.23.xxx)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... ERROR: Unable to connect to servers to test latency. I solved this same issue by allowing outgoing ping along with TCP 8080. HTH. -- John Doe

Re: sending short emails

2025-04-30 Thread john doe
my email server (which is not gmail).  What can I use to replace it, or should I just find a way to get a real MUA to send a message for me? I'd say msmtp. -- John Doe

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-26 Thread john doe
t you want to go down the VMs road? Just trying to understand your reasoning! :) -- John Doe

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-25 Thread John Crawley
On 25/04/2025 18:50, Thomas Schmitt wrote: John Crawley wrote: [...] a command to emulate the unplugging and re-plugging of the keyboard would be nice to have. The internet mentions usbreset(1), available from package "usbutils". But the source code in https://sources.debi

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-25 Thread John Crawley
ng of the keyboard would be nice to have. Does anybody know a command that will do that? -- John

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread john doe
nt wiredly connected. -- John Doe

Re: Starting Apache Webserver in bookworm

2025-04-19 Thread john doe
er, if I do not kill the related processes and edit To recap, commands and files. ### Uninstall and Purge Apache Configuration Files sudo apt purge apache2 Note that purging implies that all config files will be deleted permanently. -- John Doe

Re: virt-manager with SSH and 2FA with TOTP?

2025-04-11 Thread john doe
On 4/11/25 14:26, Andreas Haumer wrote: So, finally, my question: Did anyone on this list manage to use virt-manager to connect to a VM console using SSH with 2FA? The Libvirt mailing list comes to mind! ;^) -- John Doe

Re: hardware check

2025-04-10 Thread john doe
fully automated or with a simple ui. For example running clamav from shell commands is beyond his power. You could use some online scanners: - https://www.eset.com/afr/online-scanner/ - https://www.scancircle.com/en Some pointers on where to look but not in anyway a recommendation. -- John Doe

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread John Hasler
g should be under a millisecond. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re:Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Which is to fix the reason for a 30 second all system freeze of the > system when trying to access a file I own, or want to create, in my > /home/me directory. This happens only in that directory and only when you own the file? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: OT: Re: Web server access

2025-04-03 Thread john doe
On 4/3/25 21:43, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2025-04-03 at 15:16 +0200, john doe wrote: On 4/3/25 01:19, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 15:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: I added port 443 only because my router converted the port 80 request to a port 443 request. I eventually worked

OT: Re: Web server access

2025-04-03 Thread john doe
blocked port 80 (and 443). I don't have any interactive pages where I ask for input, so there seems not to be a reason to keep port 443 going on. If I may, why don't you take a free hosting service that has already everything you want? surge.sh comes to mind but you have other alternative

Re: Web server access

2025-04-01 Thread john doe
are in my Linksys. Something has changed, by the sound of what you are discribing it looks like it was a miracle. ARe you using UPNP? Any ideas? Are you restricting what IPs the httpd is listening on? FW inbetween? -- John Doe

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-24 Thread john doe
use heavy security on that. Once the VPN link is established you can ssh through the VPN to internal systems. This is realy the best way forward. An other MFA alternative is PKI and user/ PWD prompt and optionaly 2FA. -- John Doe

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread John Hasler
Greg writes: > looking at the HTML source with Ctrl-U, it's all one line. Seriously, > who does that? "Website builders" and "content management systems". Modern Web designers never deal with HTML. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-08 Thread John Hasler
By "mail provider" they mean the entity that operates the Internet-facing mail server that your mail comes and goes through. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-08 Thread John Hasler
Richmond writes: > I see also in the build config for debian firefox esr it says: > --enable-official-branding That does not affect end users of Debian's Firefox in any way. It just means that Debian has permission from Mozilla to use the Firefox trademark. -- John Hasler j...@s

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Maureen Thomas writes: > There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is > it safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% > of the drive. Run the command sudo apt-get clean That will remove the contents of that file. -- John

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
nd and putting it in /usr/local/bin. This is all documented on the prusa site and the flathub prusa page. To remove a flathub package type "sudo flathub uninstall ". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
me reason why the version of PrusaSlicer that is in the Debian archive is so unsuitable that you are willing to tolerate the shambling horror that is the flatpak system. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodateamd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
I just now installed PrusaSlicer by installing the Debian flatpak package and following the instructions on the prusa site. The only perquisite I see is "sudo apt install flatpak". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread John Hasler
, potentially incompatible sets of dependencies within the same desktop environment. . This package contains the services and executables needed to install and launch sandboxed applications, and the portal services needed to provide limited access to resources outside the sandbox. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-02-28 Thread John Hasler
ctions apply if you open a Mozilla account and use things like "sync", obviously. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

2025-02-27 Thread John Hasler
the phrase. To them "debian-user" is a "forum". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: no package management tool

2025-02-20 Thread John Hasler
looking for such shenanigans would be much inconvenienced by the absence of some commands. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Try pdftotext. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: no package management tool

2025-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Most likely they simply removed everything not necessary for the thing to run in order to minimize memory requirements and gave it no more thought than that. They would see no reason that any end user would ever need any of those tools. To them it's an appliance, not a computer. -- John H

Re: MariaDB not installing looks like previous error (unresolved bug?)

2025-02-17 Thread john doe
t you have "mariadb" related ("apt-get --autoremove purge mariadb-server") and try again. Note that "purging" will remove all of your config files. -- John Doe

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Evince works for me under FVWM (though I rarely use it). -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Shorewall.

2025-02-13 Thread john doe
enabled shorewall If this is the case, simply "enable"ed via systemd. -- John Doe

Re: internal microphone stops working

2025-02-11 Thread john doe
#x27;ve found to get the microphone working again is to reboot. Do you see anything in the logs (missing driver..)? It can not hurt to update the FW. -- John Doe

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-05 Thread john doe
tab || exit $? chmod 0644 /etc/crypttab || exit $? Note that this e-mail might be folded by my mailer. -- John Doe

google-chrome printer/copier error

2025-02-01 Thread John Conover
: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: About booting... and installing debian from your iso's

2025-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Testing", not "Unstable". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-19 Thread John Crawley
02.en.html#_updates_and_backports deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware -- John

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread John Hasler
In the case of rsync Debian backported a fix. Therefor it gets the old version number with a suffix to indicate that Debian patched it. In the case of chromium upstream patched it and released the patched version with a new version number. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-16 Thread John Hasler
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. writes: > I run [both uBlock-origin and NoScript], here. Noscript being the > most recently added. It does make a nontrivial difference... Likewise. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Virtual network fails to start: SOLVED

2025-01-15 Thread john doe
need Bind9 on this host in the first place! -- John Doe

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread John Hasler
r extension such as New Tab Suspender. It will unload inactive tabs, freeing memory and preventing JS from running. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-10 Thread John Hasler
Tomas writes: > Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch > the US still on their Imperial measures, Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system. We use both SI ("metric") and US Customary (the latter predates Imperial

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Max Nikulin writes: > Gene, my congratulations. You have managed to derail the discussion > another time. And you have managed to clutter the list with yet another pointless rant against Gene. Please put him in your killfile and move on. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: laptop for debian 12

2025-01-01 Thread john doe
Trixie is around the corner -- John Doe

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread john doe
On 12/29/24 17:26, Eben King wrote: How can I ensure that I'm actually booted using EFI? "/sys/firmware/efi" if present indicates that you are booted in UEFI mode. -- John Doe

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

2024-12-28 Thread John Hasler
=forking Restart=no TimeoutSec=5min IgnoreSIGPIPE=no KillMode=process GuessMainPID=no RemainAfterExit=yes SuccessExitStatus=5 6 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/fetchmail start ExecStop=/etc/init.d/fetchmail stop -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: that's disturbing

2024-12-28 Thread John Boxall
smaller things. > I'll just look one more time > and... it's working. > I didn't do anything, haven't rebooted it. > What could that be? > Browser cache, DNS sorting itself out, some automatic update? > It is disturbing it just started working on its own. > mick > > -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-28 Thread John Hasler
k them. There are several other tab unloaders such as Auto Tab Discard. You can also go to about:config, search for "memory", and adjust things like "browser.cache.memory.capacity" and "browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread John Hasler
As an interim solution consider installing the "New Tab Suspender v2" extension: A very lightweight tab suspender to suspend inactive tabs that reduces an overall memory usage of firefox, uses a firefox native discard api -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: upgrade debian + postfix/dovecot

2024-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Anderson writes: > Almost all the applications I use are non-debian (postfix, dovecot, > apache, mysql, etc..) Why? All of those are in Debian. If you were using the Debian packages upgrading would be easy. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Fwd: Ubuntu 24.10 failing download [Re: fail message dirmanager]

2024-12-24 Thread john doe
Ubuntu. Still on Windows, you could also look at Cygwin. You might want to rethink your strategy as you are not able to get the help that you would like to have. -- John Doe

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-22 Thread john doe
don't really know what > a "normal" system looks like If a service is disabled or masked, this means that the service will not be processed by Systemd when the computer boots up. -- John Doe

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
ot;password recovery secret" give them a random string for that as well. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
e dog's name was Rover. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
JHHL writes: > I *could* share my strategies for coming up with passwords. Mine is pwgen -s 12 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
at the name of the dog they had when they were 12 is an unguessable secret. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread John Hasler
h request. Surely they can't be hashing the passwords properly if that practice is of any use. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread John Hasler
One reason for writing down all your passwords (even if only on a list stored in your safe deposit box) is related to the item that started this thread: not making things difficult for whoever has to deal with your estate. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread John Hasler
songbird writes: > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having > to set everything up all over again for no real gain. Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*. --

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread John Hasler
re sites no one has ever heard of, most of it just because it makes it easier for the web designers to animate their dancing doggies. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Subject: Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-10 Thread John Hasler
Seems like you are going about this in the most difficult and roundabout way possible. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-09 Thread John Hasler
less you ask for it. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-09 Thread John Hasler
em in /usr/bin? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread john doe
look at [1] for "tasksel". [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/example-preseed.txt -- John Doe

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

2024-12-02 Thread John Hasler
It isn't Debian. It's that netblock. Try 191.97.36.54. Also try whois -r 191.96.36.54 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

2024-12-02 Thread John Hasler
. I don't think it's a Debian problem. Have you tested using a different OS? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How can I install yum?

2024-12-01 Thread John Hasler
It appears that you are not subscribed to the list and therefor not seeing the replies. Go to lists.debian.org to subscribe and to see the rplies that have already been made. There is no yum package in Debian. What is it that you are actually trying to do? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com

Re: How can I install yum

2024-12-01 Thread John Hasler
Why do you want to? Yum is the package manager for Redhat-based distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_(software) -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How can I install yum

2024-12-01 Thread john doe
PKG: - `yum4` - `dnf` - `nextgen-yum4` HTH. -- John Doe

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
f and see if I can make it work for me. -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
ome hardwarewith backup drives safely set aside. My experience, __so_far__, is that "-y" has not damaged any systems I've migrated. -- Regards, John Boxall

Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** fwupd.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
On 11/30/24 20:11, john doe wrote: On 11/30/24 20:04, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 01:47:42PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 2:22 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: sudo ip link add name ospf-lo type dummy s

Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
t I imagine that creating a new interface is pretty simple. Not sure what the OP is trying to do here [1]. -- John Doe

Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
NetworkManager. By using NM ([1]) and googling to manage the dummy interface. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/513578/modern-way-to-configure-dummy0-in-etc-network-interfaces-or-similar -- John Doe

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
d try to make it work. When you are stuck on something, just google your way out. -- John Doe

Re: SSL error:FFFFFFFF80000002:system library::No such file or directory: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:67 when I'm trying to sign the nvidia driver on Debian 12.

2024-11-26 Thread john doe
On 11/26/24 12:59, Mario Marietto wrote: 2) # apt install nvidia-detect nvidia-driver You first did an `update`. Also the wiki at [1] suggest to install other PKGs. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1h08w9v/ssl_error8002system_libraryno_such/?rdt=41730 -- John Doe

OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread john doe
of trolling on the dnsmasq mailing list. -- John Doe

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

2024-11-21 Thread John Crawley
ence between setting filters on Local Folders vs for individual mail accounts though. -- John

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

2024-11-20 Thread John Crawley
correctly added and (I've just checked) sent to another account's inbox with the trailing space after -- intact. So nothing here to blame on TB, at least for mail being sent between Thunderbirds. -- John

Re: Smart UPS-communication setup failure against linux cluster

2024-11-18 Thread john doe
HW! -- John Doe

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread John Hasler
and JS that pull in chunks of JS from a dozen or more random sources out on the Net. The designers neither know nor care what that JS does as long as it puts the dancing doggie in right place on your screen. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

OT: Re: I am about to give up

2024-11-11 Thread john doe
possible. Assuming that you realy want help, please try to be mindful of the time and efforts PPLs are putting into answering on this list. Just to be clear, I'm as frustrated as you are. -- John Doe

Re: IP Masquerade failing

2024-10-31 Thread john doe
ed? You are using a virtual bridge, which might implies that the masquerading by Libvirt I am able to ping www.google.com from my virtual machine which is also setup with ip masquerading. How so? Are you doing double masquerading? Can ip masquerading work on two different interfaces at th

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

2024-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Don't, if the one you have does everything you need it to do. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: state of /etc/profile

2024-10-16 Thread John Crawley
his happens with dpkg --install and dpkg --configure), we first update any conffiles and then call: postinst configure most-recently-configured-version " So if $2 is non-empty it means an upgrade. A flow chart is here: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-flowcharts.html -- John

Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread John Cassidy
15-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.0-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.40-3) ... Has anyone experienced this situation before. If I remember correctly, another installlation of REDIS installed correctly on Bookworm. Any pointers/tips much appreciated Regards John Cassidy

OT: Re: Information mise à jour de vos données professionnelles

2024-10-06 Thread john doe
e sender. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam -- John Doe

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-09-28 Thread john doe
nline for some insperation. -- John Doe

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread john doe
On 9/22/24 21:02, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:02:30 +0200 john doe wrote: Even if you upgrade the FW? I tried upgrading the firmware. I have the latest available, 20201215. I also have a HP. After entering credentials it allows me to access the advance capabilities of my

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread john doe
On 9/22/24 17:05, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:54:09 +0200 john doe wrote: On 9/21/24 23:25, Charles Curley wrote: I have an HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw printer. I am getting error messages from CUPS that say something like "cups-pki expired". The certificate on t

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread john doe
use in the printer? There is no mechanism to do so in the printer's firmware. Even if you upgrade the FW? -- John Doe

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