Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

2025-04-10 Thread Joe
installation and I haven't done this myself. Let us know if it doesn't work, and always use Expert Install in future. It's usually a good idea to use the netinstall image, as that allows you to install only what you need, as long as you have an Internet connection. -- Joe

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

2025-04-09 Thread Joe
either the user is given the root password or he isn't, and if he has it, he can do anything. OK for a single owner/user, not so good for a business. -- Joe

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

2025-04-05 Thread Joe
be made visible with VLC or OBS on Computer B. > If it's for RTMP, then the H.26n coding and decoding will cause far more delay than the networking. VLC running on an average desktop PC seems to impose about half a second of extra delay compared to a hardware H.26n decoder. -- Joe

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

2025-03-30 Thread Joe
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:40:07 +0200 Hans wrote: > Hi David, > > > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > > > > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when > using a cable. Maybe I did not use the correct Eng

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

2025-03-29 Thread Joe
auses delay (and I suppose, a > software router is sklower than a hardware device). > Allegedly, Network Manager can make an 'ad-hoc' wifi interface, but this seems to be problematic for some people. It's worth a try, and it can be done without NM. NM can certainly create a 'hotspot', or simple access point, as I have done that without difficulty. -- Joe

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:38:45 + "Gareth Evans" wrote: > On Sun 16/03/2025 at 11:01, Joe wrote: > > > What's the background here? Did you have a working mariadb > > installation before, and is it still working? > > Hi Joe, > > It was wo

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Joe
es > > Has anyone else seen this? > > What's the background here? Did you have a working mariadb installation before, and is it still working? I have mariadb on sid and it certainly has those files. There is a somewhat complicated arrangement, and it looks as if a working configuration file could be in more than one location. It should only be generic anyway, it includes conf.d and mariabd.conf.d where the actual configurations are. -- Joe

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-01 Thread Joe
x27;t package all kernels. I don't know how the choice is made. I presume for Stable it ignore updates which aren't security-related. -- Joe

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-01 Thread Joe
il I rebuild the NVidia 570 driver to go with a new > kernel? > > > It will normally install a new kernel and keep the previous one. I can't remember if it removes earlier ones or whether I do that, as I run apt autoremove regularly. Autoremove certainly leaves the last kernel installed as well as the current one. -- Joe

Re: Modernizing apt sources files

2025-02-08 Thread Joe
e will be an issue, and that will probably be fixed fairly soon. In any case, I think the need to add explicit signing keys is more urgent, either in sources.list or sources.list.d files. Generally when apt starts warning about something, it's time to fix it. It's only warning about signing at the moment, and just recommending modernising the repository list. -- Joe -- Joe

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-06 Thread Joe
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 08:09:37 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:51:17 + > Joe wrote: > > > The long-term fix is a file standard.sources root:root 644 in > > /etc/sources.list.d containing: > > Is there anything that tells one how to make this

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-06 Thread Joe
em somewhere, e.g. the opera key is in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d and the dmo one with the debian ones in /usr/share/keyrings. Check the Vivaldi website either for the key location or there's probably a current key on the site, or if you're lucky it might be in with the debian keys. Yes, I did all this in sid about a week ago. -- Joe

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

2025-02-02 Thread Joe
would seem to be a backward step. There are extremely few reasons for a properly designed Linux installation to need rebooting. Certainly group membership on a server may need alteration with employees joining and leaving, and this would be an extremely trivial reason to need to reboot one. -- Joe

Re: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Joe
ould probably do better making the settings in /etc/interfaces in the old-fashioned way and not bothering with NM. NM is useful on a travelling laptop where wifi is often used and possibly VPNs. Having said that, I run NM on my workstation, but use DHCP with a reservation on the server to provide a static address. It's what Debian defaulted to, and it works, so I'm not fixing it. -- Joe

Re: EFI partition - some questions

2025-01-22 Thread Joe
t (one-off boot, then revert to default boot) and a few other things. I wish there was an easily-accessible equivalent in Windows. I had a fair bit of trouble with a netbook which does *not* have competent firmware and was running dual-boot. -- Joe

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread Joe
a while the BSD folks' network startup scripts issued a query to a > known non-existent domain to see if DNS queries were being tampered > with or DNS was broken. I don't know if they are still doing it. > > When Verizon started doing that, I switched to OpenDNS. I also use > Google's DNS on occasion. > An example: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/barefruit -- Joe

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

2025-01-21 Thread Joe
ould add what I needed. I understand your annoyance, but sid is a testing distribution which may have problems at any time, and the installer can hardly be expected to be better than the OS it installs. I'm sure in the past you have installed sid via Stable, and that is still the most reliable method. -- Joe

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-12 Thread Joe
;t explained why your particular requirement is so unusual. https://www.videolan.org/support/ There are various user forums where you can ask your specific question, and a means of reporting bugs. Bear in mind that this is open source software provided free of charge and you are not likely to find a telephone helpline or visiting consultant available. -- Joe

Re: XFCE and Fuse

2024-12-31 Thread Joe
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:47:50 +1100 George at Clug wrote: > Joe, > > Thanks for your reply which provides me with more information. > > What do you know about Nemo? I noticed it is installed. When running > Nemo, it seems quite similar to Thunar. I've heard of it, I&#

Re: XFCE and Fuse

2024-12-30 Thread Joe
A quick Google does suggest difficulties with Thunar, but then SMB shares are always difficult, especially where Windows is involved. Much sacrificing of chickens needed. These days I have no shares on Windows, but it's hard enough getting Windows to deal properly with Samba shares. -- Joe

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Joe
DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false >> /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub Note that you will need to do this again when grub is upgraded. -- Joe

Re: SMTP servers

2024-12-29 Thread Joe
restaurant chain sends out order acknowledgements 'from' an invalid address, and it is therefore impossible to tell them they're doing it wrong). So a sender really needs a fixed IP address to be reliable, even if he's not receiving to it. -- Joe

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Joe
ebian normally puts just the EFI information on the partition and then mounts it as /boot/efi. This will happen automatically with an installation in UEFI mode (the installer splash screen will contain 'UEFI'). There may be more to your problem, but this will definitely be part of it. -- Joe

Re: SMTP servers

2024-12-29 Thread Joe
sfully to my accountant, who was on AOL, a notoriously picky destination. I'm not aware of anyone who currently refuses mail from me. -- Joe

Re: double-boot laptop with Debian Trixie

2024-12-29 Thread Joe
ven't needed to deal with Windows fixing for a while. and never on 11. -- Joe

Re: new computer arriving soon

2024-12-21 Thread Joe
nselect Debian desktop > environment within tasksel - usually by toggling with spacebar - > and install one of the others. > -- Joe

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

2024-12-18 Thread Joe
debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free contrib maybe with a different URL. Now at a terminal, enter sudo apt update and see what happens. If there's an error, come back here with it. If it churns out many lines of text, you're probably good. There's nothing wrong with using Synaptic, and that should now run OK, it's just easier to see problems using apt. -- Joe

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread Joe
ion. > > Not your fault. > > Have installed Abiword - instantly takes theme, no problem in > opening .odt docs - just have to find a way to have my adaptations set > as default. > Right-click an .odt file, Open With.. > Set Default Application.. -- Joe

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-16 Thread Joe
wretched Windows setup was there. Just to be on the safe side, I copied shim64.efi and renamed it bootmgfw.efi, all in a directory named Microsoft. No problem now. Certainly if the computer firmware is expecting UEFI boot software, the /boot/efi partition must be occupied i.e. the installer must have recognised its environment and started in UEFI mode (the splash screen will say so). It may be possible to force the firmware to legacy mode, but my netbook doesn't have this option. -- Joe

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-04 Thread Joe
a nvme drive > The EFI partition (i.e. partition mounted as /boot/efi or the partition containing /boot, which contains /boot/efi) must have some variety of FAT filesystem, according to the EFI spec. Windows will normally use ntfs and Debian by default ext4, and a FAT partition has no other real use now than for EFI. It may be convenient to put the whole of /boot on FAT, but Debian will normally leave /boot in the main / partition, and just use FAT for /boot/efi. -- Joe -- Joe

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-30 Thread Joe
fetch > > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs10_10.0.0%7edfsg-11%2bdeb12u5_amd64.deb > > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.70.132 80] > > > > > > W: Failed to > > fetch > > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs10-common_10.0.0%7edfsg-11%2bdeb12u5_all.deb > > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.70.132 80] > > I don't know if it helps, but the current ghostscript on my Deb 12 is version 12u6, not 12u5. What happens when you try: apt upgrade ghostscript from a terminal? (as root/sudo, close Synaptic first, apt uses the same database) -- Joe

Re: synaptic search (was: Re: A more fundemental error?)

2024-11-30 Thread Joe
> I do not use synaptic, so I have no idea if it is possible to break > search by changing its settings. I would start from inspection of apt > sources > > apt policy > Something I forgot to mention earlier, for anyone who does use Synaptic. There is an additional search available, using Xapian. The package is apt-xapian-index, I find it more useful than the built-in search function. -- Joe

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-29 Thread Joe
aded to versions outside the dependency specification. I have seen that happen, and it was a package I used to use occasionally before the upgrade. Some years ago now. We will have a better idea once some useful error messages have been obtained, such as by trying to upgrade the package using apt. Actually, Synaptic should be able to show the errors, by looking in the Details box during an upgrade attempt. It should display about the same messages as apt would. -- Joe

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

2024-11-27 Thread Joe
> [...] > > Now what programming language was this? > I would guess most of us in engineering started with some variant of Fortran. Mine was on an ICL1907 mainframe, which I never saw. IBM 80 column card punches... -- Joe

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Joe
uch as might run half a dozen Windows VMs, with lots of RAM and disc. If it's fairly lightweight to moderate, I'd use separate Raspberry Pis or similar. The beefier Pis will run a desktop fairly comfortably, for moderate office work. If this is about multi-user gaming, then the OP needs advice from people who do this kind of thing. -- Joe

Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-25 Thread Joe
irmware rather than BIOS. The EFI partition *must* be one of the FAT family, for any OS using UEFI. -- Joe

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:31:18 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote: > > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to > > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP > > address. > > O

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
onfiguration? I've never used it, but I would have thought it did, as it doesn't use root hints. If so, that's the right place to put the nameserver(s) it will relay queries to. -- Joe

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
and it didn't find any. It's mostly looking for USB drives. But you can see it has assigned ttyUSB0 to the device. See my other post, but once you have the right serial parameters set by stty, you can just cat /dev/ttyUSB0 to see if your gadget is sending anything by itself. Or any such text will appear in the CuteCom window, if you run that. Other serial monitors are available... -- Joe -- Joe

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
ose details. All you need then is a list of the commands the Ancel device supports... I haven't dabbled with serial for a while, although I do have a CH340 plugged in permanently to my server, relaying outdoor temperature and humidity though a pair of XBees, but that was all fit-and-forget some years ago. My desktop does have CuteCom installed, so I think I used that for getting it all working. It needs the serial parameters to talk to devices, but it's fairly quick to try various values, probably quicker than stty. -- Joe

Re: Problems with Installing Debian 12 and GRUB

2024-10-21 Thread Joe
were there were any warnings or errors shown in the installer at the grub installation stage, and which choice did you make about where to install it? -- Joe

Re: Male my own gui

2024-10-18 Thread Joe
ll need a lot of text console work to actually operate. So tell us what you have at the moment, what is wrong with it, and what you want to achieve. -- Joe

Re: Debain XFCE login issue

2024-10-14 Thread Joe
`. Can you help me resolve this issue? > > > > Thank you! > > > > Gentle reminder for the below concern. > What happened when you tried what Charles suggested? -- Joe

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

2024-10-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:24:03 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > 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

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

2024-10-06 Thread Joe
l graphical software and then not permit root use of it. One test to try is to open a terminal, issue the su command and give the root password, and if that is accepted, to give the command /usr/sbin/synaptic to see what happens, and what error messages you get. -- Joe

Re: Firefox complaint

2024-10-04 Thread Joe
On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 16:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 15:24:11 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Joe wrote: > >> > >>>>> https://www.bobevan

Re: Firefox complaint

2024-10-04 Thread Joe
(Access denied). > > I am using OpenDNS as DNS. > The same refusal, current Opera and FF 115.15.0esr 64bit. My DNS server uses root hints, so not DNS. It's using a security company for filtering, I'd guess to US customers only. But IP addresses now have only a tenuous link to location... -- Joe

Re: Reading an old HDD

2024-10-04 Thread Joe
replug it. That looks to be a USB problem. The log should show first a USB connection, then the recognition of a mass storage device, then a device designation. If none of that happens, a hardware USB problem is suggested. Plug in a random USB stick to see what should happen. -- Joe

Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread Joe
not done this. Look in the archive for a > thread this month (9/2024) entitled "hibernate area". > https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_Partition Basically create a swap file and configure it not to swap. -- Joe

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

2024-09-26 Thread Joe
on't make any difference to the environment once the session has started. -- Joe

Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience

2024-09-24 Thread Joe
manufacturers who pretty much require a Windows installation with booting to Windows Boot Manager. I have an Acer netbook, which can boot to grub only by renaming the boot file to the name used by MS, and putting it in a directory called Microsoft. I'm not kidding. -- Joe

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Joe
machines using UEFI? If so, the installer should see that and the opening screen should actually say 'UEFI installer'. There will be a small additional FAT partition required if so. -- Joe

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

2024-09-16 Thread Joe
get a coherent picture you can at least enable USB booting, and you will probably need a BIOS screen in the future, so you need to know how to see it. Your system will almost certainly be UEFI, and you may need the UEFI boot menu from time to time. -- Joe

Re: Installing bookworm on an old HP laptop

2024-09-09 Thread Joe
nal upgrades. The installer should handle making the dual boot and repartitioning the drive. -- Joe

CIFS problem in sid

2024-09-01 Thread Joe
work'. What I'm looking for here is suggestions about what to look for to provide some useful bug information. There's nothing in any log, of course, either on client or server. Is there anything I can restart which is likely to wake things up? Rebooting isn't a great problem, but it just seems like a Windows way of fixing things. -- Joe

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-08-31 Thread Joe B
thing the DVD and regular iso has. You have to be connected to the Internet during the whole install Burn it to USB and boot the usb Thanks Joe

Re: Is anybody maintaining nedit?

2024-08-27 Thread Joe B
debian.org/media/packages/n/nedit/changelog-15.7-5 Stable https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/n/nedit/changelog-15.7-3 Also https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nedit/news/ Hope i'm doing this right as i'm still new to debian learning everything Joe

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-27 Thread Joe B
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 7:16 AM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 25/08/24 at 19:37, Joe B wrote: > > root@debian:~# sensors > > pch_skylake-virtual-0 > > I've heard that Intel has instability issue for some of his processors: > > https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/e

Re: Is anybody maintaining nedit?

2024-08-27 Thread Joe B
ny Directory: pool/main/n/nedit Priority: source Section: editors Thanks Joe

Re: Which tool for upgrade in commandline?

2024-08-27 Thread Joe
improved performance at the expense of speed and simplicity. If you run Unstable, especially, and leave upgrading too long, aptitude can be overwhelmed by several hundred packages to organise, and will apparently just hang. Aptitude should be fine on Stable, which should never have more than about a dozen packages upgradable, unless you leave it for many months. I'd still use apt. -- Joe

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-26 Thread Joe B
- How do we set this up? How much is postage ? Email me the information. Can't wait. Joe

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

2024-08-26 Thread Joe
t; eventually, but only the hardware-compatibility > stuff before making the hardware purchase. > You'll be lucky. By the time things get on the list, they're usually unavailable. Avoid the very latest hardware, it takes a while for drivers to appear. If at all possible, download and burn the latest Debian Live and ask for it to be booted on the chosen machine. Knoppix used to be the preferred distro for that, but the latest is now over two years old and the project seems to be stopped. Best of luck, and I might suggest getting hold of a very cheap few-year-old ex-corporate computer for backup. It's amazing how much easier life is with more than one computer. I wouldn't dare run sid if I only had one. -- Joe

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-26 Thread Joe B
kmarks now and i will keep going till i'm good at it and can answer questions that people have Thanks Joe B

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-26 Thread Joe B
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 1:19 AM Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:07:59 -0700 > Joe B wrote: > > > On August 25, 2024 5:37:05 PM PDT, "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." > > wrote: > > > >The last laptop I used, left it plugged in all the time and > &

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-26 Thread Joe
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:07:59 -0700 Joe B wrote: > On August 25, 2024 5:37:05 PM PDT, "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." > wrote: > >The last laptop I used, left it plugged in all the time and > >eventually the battery deteriorated, something went wrong and it > >would

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-25 Thread Joe B
On August 25, 2024 5:37:05 PM PDT, "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: >On Saturday 24 August 2024 03:36:28 pm Joe wrote: >> Not trivial, >> laptops don't come apart easily, but actual component failure is going >> to be very difficult to diagnose and maybe impo

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-25 Thread Joe B
On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 25/08/2024 13:16, Joe B wrote: > > > > root@debian:~# upower --dump > [...] > > energy-full: 57.0714 Wh > > energy-full-design: 61.32 Wh > > So the battery has degraded a bit but capacity is sti

RE: Cups problems adding printer Epson in new Debian install

2024-08-25 Thread Joe B
able to find the driver in the list and it should work. https://packages.debian.org/source/trixie/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr Hope this helps Joe B

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-24 Thread Joe B
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 25/08/2024 02:31, Joe B wrote: > > I will take the power cable off probably tomorrow or later on tonight. > > When it happens i will run those commands and will report back to this > > list > > You can ru

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

2024-08-24 Thread Joe B
On August 24, 2024 7:10:08 PM PDT, Max Nikulin wrote: >On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: >> >> IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of >> the conversation? > >If you are using gmail web UI and replying to a message from a mailbox then i

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

2024-08-24 Thread Joe B
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 4:31 PM DdB wrote: > > Am 24.08.2024 um 23:36 schrieb Joe B: > > Hello, > > > > IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of > > the conversation? as of right now i'm just putting the debian-user > > l

Replying to a conversation (Thread)

2024-08-24 Thread Joe B
o the email so the chain just keeps going ? Thanks Joe B

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-24 Thread Joe B
Hi James, Did you ever resolve your issue? Did you do the suggestions that Felix pointed out? > You may not need one. What CPU do you have? >lscpu >inxi -S Run these above commands and paste each one here, then report back Joe B

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-24 Thread Joe
On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:50:23 +0200 wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 06:22:40PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > Am Samstag, 24. August 2024, 18:08:00 CEST schrieb Max Nikulin: > > > On 24/08/2024 05:11, Joe B wrote: > > > > i've been having an issue where my laptop p

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-24 Thread Joe B
Thanks for the reply. I will take the power cable off probably tomorrow or later on tonight. When it happens i will run those commands and will report back to this list Thanks On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 9:08 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 24/08/2024 05:11, Joe B wrote: > > > > i

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-23 Thread Joe B
, 24-08-2024 at 08:11 Joe B wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i've been having an issue where my laptop powers off randomly when > > not connected to power. This has been happening since stable and > > currently i'm on unstable. I would like to use my laptop wi

Laptop keeps powering off

2024-08-23 Thread Joe B
Hello, i've been having an issue where my laptop powers off randomly when not connected to power. This has been happening since stable and currently i'm on unstable. I would like to use my laptop without power. Please advise on what logs you might need System Information Manufacturer: Ace

Laptop randomly powering off when unplugged from power source

2024-08-23 Thread Joe B
Hello, i've been having an issue where my laptop powers off randomly when not connected to power. This has been happening since stable and currently i'm on unstable. I would like to use my laptop without power. Please advise on what logs you might need System Information Manufacturer: Ac

Re: UEFI multiboot

2024-08-21 Thread Joe
erridden by a USB stick. It does honour NextBoot, so I have a script which sets NextBoot to grub on each Linux boot, and I carry a Debian rescue USB for the odd occasion when I have to use Windows. -- Joe

Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]

2024-08-19 Thread Joe
from fstab itself, you'll need the man pages for the mount commands for whatever filesystem types are named in fstab e.g. mount.cifs, as many parameters are specific to the filesystem type. -- Joe

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-06 Thread Joe
ings have improved, but only by increasing the complexity and versatility of the frontend, which is something opposed to the concept of the frontend. -- Joe

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-04 Thread Joe
already-allocated TLD let alone a possible > future one. We should just accept what the standard is and consider > it next time we set things up. > > Exactly. I've run a DHCP server since about 2010, and used one of my own domain names in my network since 2006. I know what to do about external resources on the same domain, not that I have any at the moment. I've never had any kind of networking trouble that is associated with using that internal domain name. -- Joe

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

2024-07-29 Thread Joe
er than its own drive. A real drive would also be more reliable than a USB stick. For repair purposes, if you can see the problem and know how to fix it, a Debian installation image will also work as a rescue system, making chroot into the failed system easy. -- Joe

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

2024-07-29 Thread Joe
ing to do with "modern". > A lot of people confuse the words 'modern' and 'new' with the word 'better'. Old people are largely more 'set in their ways' because they have seen a great many new ways tried and found wanting. -- Joe

Re: info

2024-07-22 Thread Joe
at is the text you see? There are many possibilities at the moment, and we first need to know if the computer booted correctly or not. -- Joe

Re: Detecting change in running kernel version between reboots

2024-07-21 Thread Joe
oldest. apt autoremove will remove all but the current and last kernels, so when it finds a kernel which can be removed, a new one will have been installed since its last invocation. -- Joe

Re: sendmail without DNS

2024-07-21 Thread Joe
up this company https://uk.linkedin.com/company/barefruit (one of many such) in logs. Advertising is easy to ignore, but the idea of tampering with DNS does not impress me. -- Joe

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-21 Thread Joe
in their habits. We've already seen this to some extent with Ubuntu. I don't think it's any more difficult to write a virus for Linux than for Windows, but the R number for such a virus, as epidemiologists would put it, would be very much less than one, so there's no point. No propagation. I think this would change, but this is of course just an opinion. -- Joe

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread Joe
become a target for data harvesting, from which Debian, at least, is refreshingly free. I have no doubt that MS makes more money from user data sales than it does from sales of domestic versions of Windows. -- Joe

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Joe
or NTFS. Microsoft pretends not to know about things Not Invented Here. It's possible to have MS and Linux partitions on the same drive. I have one like that, FAT for interchange and ext4 for files that Linux software insists must have certain permissions. -- Joe

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-06-01 Thread Joe
re: https://www.grover.com/blog/en/7-ways-android-data-transfer https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph3ea029318/17.0/ios/17.0 -- Joe

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

2024-05-24 Thread Joe
7.0.0.1, which is what most people would try to ping to check localhost, and what appeared in /etc/hosts. There is some subtle reason, which I used to know but have now long forgotten, why Debian started using 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts instead. As far as I'm aware, any 127. address will resolve to localhost. -- Joe

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Joe
On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:50:22 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > I think this was amply demonstrated by Heartbleed, where the > > offending code was examined by *one* other pair of eyes, before > > approval was granted for inclusion in OpenSSL. > > The &q

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Joe
other pair of eyes, before approval was granted for inclusion in OpenSSL. -- Joe

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-29 Thread Joe
ompromised. I'm not sure what can be done about that: maybe make some kind of, you know, law, about storing sensitive data, and prosecuting people who are responsible for failure to keep it secure... nothing like accountability for discouraging negligence. -- Joe

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-22 Thread Joe
then be appropriately secured. The main security issues, of course, come from connections you have invited into your computer, malicious email and web pages. All you can do to mitigate those threats is to be sensible and careful. -- Joe

indi Debian Astro

2024-03-03 Thread Joe
hi, I'm using debiain on a rock64 for astrophotography and noticed all the indi packages except indi-eqmod are from 2022.  I was hoping for some updates to the drivers and some new drivers added like the svbony drivers and zwo am5 driver. How does one go about moving this forward? Astro Berry is

Re: Serious problem with debian 12 bookworm

2024-02-29 Thread Joe
ant to back to > windows anymore. Thank you so much  > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone You've had a couple of suggestions. Did neither of them work? Have you found anything in the logs at the time of the attempted wake-up? -- Joe

Re: permissions on /dev/tty

2024-02-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer writes: > I have a laptop with a recent Debian install, which seems to have > incorrect permissions on /dev/tty > > crw--w 1 root tty 5, 0 Feb 16 08:51 /dev/tty Ah, found it. I somehow had a /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty.service file. Foun

permissions on /dev/tty

2024-02-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I have a laptop with a recent Debian install, which seems to have incorrect permissions on /dev/tty crw--w 1 root tty 5, 0 Feb 16 08:51 /dev/tty /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules contains the usual SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666" More strangely, udevadm info

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