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

2025-05-22 Thread Jan Claeys
7) > in my opinion should be at or near the Header The last modified date doesn’t say much about what release the update was for. Someone might want to edit info about oldstable today (it is still commonly used on servers after all). -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

2025-05-22 Thread Jan Claeys
having a properly configured postmaster address is not spec-compliant (and probably deserves to be blacklisted). https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321.html#section-4.5.1 (That doesn’t mean the people behind the address have to forward random mail, of course.) -- Jan Claeys (please don

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-16 Thread Jan Claeys
On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 20:47 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Jan Claeys wrote: > > On Sun, 2025-04-06 at 17:42 +0300, Serkan Kurt wrote: > > > Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. > > > When I connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-15 Thread Jan Claeys
devices) can cause electromagnetic interference to wireless devices that operate in the 2.4 GHz frequency bands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#Radio_frequency_interference The solution is to move the wireless receiver away from the USB ports that the external disk is connected to. -- Jan Cla

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

2025-03-25 Thread Jan Claeys
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 17:12 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Jan Claeys (HE12025-03-25): > > > I should mention that having an internet facing ssh service is > > > usually a very bad idea. The 'better' approach is to have only a > > > VPN exposed and use heav

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

2025-03-25 Thread Jan Claeys
an ssh through the VPN to internal systems. Why do you think SSH is less secure than any other VPN ? -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: how to prevent evolution from archiving mails?

2025-02-19 Thread Jan Claeys
former). BTW: mail archiving is disabled by default in Evolution, and has always been AFAIK, so either you changed something or something else is doing the archiving. Maybe something on your mail server or another mail client (e.g. on mobile)? -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-13 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 13:54 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 16:54 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > > I've seen cases where force-reloading (Ctrl+F5) or closing one page > > that had been loaded in a tab for a while, and then waiting a > > couple minutes to gi

Re: Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

2024-12-13 Thread Jan Claeys
iest to use some sort of "lock" that is set by the backup process itself (or that you wrap around it). Otherwise there probably isn't any good, error-free way to determine what "load" should inhibit sleep or not... -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-13 Thread Jan Claeys
where force-reloading (Ctrl+F5) or closing one page that had been loaded in a tab for a while, and then waiting a couple minutes to give the JavaScript engine's garbage collector time to do its job, freed about 8 GiB (!) of RAM afterwards... -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: Audacious media player - help using GUI

2024-12-13 Thread Jan Claeys
links to certain fragments of the audio instead? -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 09:56 +, Curt wrote: > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. Some on-board audio chips are wired up so that they can emulate old school IBM PC compatible motherboard speakers/buzzers. -- Jan

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
x27;t been involved with the PulseAudio project for almost 10 years). -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 00:42 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:34:30AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > > Why not use a dynamic DNS provider? > > > > > Primarily because it wouldn't solve my problem. IIUC it would allow > me to map a domain name

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Jan Claeys
the IP address has changed. What I'd like to do now is make a > means for the LFS box to be able to notify me of the fact that the > external-facing IP address has changed. Why not use a dynamic DNS provider? -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 15:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Apr 2019 at 21:34:15 (+0200), Jan Claeys wrote: > > Another well-known one is GParted, which doesn't really have an > > alternative for people to use instead... > > Does parted not do the same things?

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Jan Claeys
the “right” xhost setting (requires a small shell script to start Synaptic that way). -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Another well-known one is GParted, which doesn't really have an alternative for people to use instead... -- Jan Claeys

Re: free software to paid work

2019-03-30 Thread Jan Claeys
where university educations are expensive, of course, but I don't know if there exist any such scholarships right now. Maybe someone else knows more about this? -- Jan Claeys