Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Joel Roth
ces are with vanilla filesystems only. LUKS obviously has specific requirements. Perhaps you could try having a root partition that is unencrypted? -- Joel Roth

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Joel Roth
ear the bottom). The > > > > former is so that Grub includes it in any new grub.cfg that you > > > > create. > > > Good to know. > > Edit:, never mind. Tried that, it still booted straight to the UEFI BIOS > > menu after entering my password. At this point, I'm seriously > > considering slapping rEFInd on it and pray that it picks up on > > everything automatically and fix the situation. But so should Grub have, > > besides the fact that I can't even be entirely sure Grub is to blame and > > not something else. -- Joel Roth

Re: Alpine/Gmail/Imap expert needed.

2023-11-27 Thread Joel Roth
d it hard to parse out what she wants/needs from her description. I don't blame her; certainly she writes as clearly as she knows how. Usually someone (in this case Gareth) gets what she wants. At least it's never dull ;-) > > Cheers > > -- Joel Roth

Re: connect two hosts over wifi without router?

2023-11-27 Thread Joel Roth
ble people here than myself, but a naive search for "wifi adapter client host mode linux" brings up this page. https://woshub.com/create-wi-fi-access-point-hotspot-linux/ Most wifi adapters can operate as an access point, which is indicated by AP and AP/VLAN appearing in the output of `iw list`. Hope this helps -- Joel Roth

Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-23 Thread Joel Roth
ts and stuff that you never think >about until the stats tell you! > > What do we have on that area? A basic search finds this web tool: https://www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics/ Otherwise, I think you'll have to write your own -- or hire someone (like me :^) to write one for you. -- Joel Roth

Re: fetchamil / procmail as non root : unable to call script

2023-06-21 Thread Joel Roth
> procmail: Match on "^Message-ID: \/.*" > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= echo "whoami" > test.txt" > Subject: test > Folder: echo "whoami" > test.txt > 1824 > procmail: Executing " echo "whoami" > test.txt" > > but nothung happens. > Am I missing something ? > Regards > Cédric Are you sure that procmail is running the command in a shell? Could it be trying to execute a program named 'echo'. You might try creating a shell script you can call. -- Joel Roth

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-03 Thread Joel Roth
o my attention. As part of developing new perl releases, the entire of CPAN is checked to make sure new features do not break existing code. > - error handling (exceptions?) Of course this can be improved. The basic behaviors are sufficient, tho. > - sometimes too rigid ways of method call

Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-27 Thread Joel Roth
l cpanminus Please note that when installing via cpanminus to a unprivileged directory, such as $HOME/perl5, you must also include it in your environment. see 'man local::lib'. -- Joel Roth

Re: Issues with audio after updating

2022-10-10 Thread Joel Roth
io.service 1. https://askubuntu.com/questions/8425/how-to-temporarily-disable-pulseaudio-while-running-a-game-under-wine I've not tested this myself. cheers, -- Joel Roth

Re: No HDMI Audio

2022-07-27 Thread Joel Roth
target various alsa devices. Once you've found the HDMI device that works, you can set it as the default device. -- Joel Roth

Re: Converting an old Chromebook to pure Debian, was: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-13 Thread Joel Roth
d. cheers > > -- > Ottavio Caruso > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > -- Joel Roth

Re: Suggestions for rm [WAS: Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get]

2022-06-25 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 09:45:58AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 07:42:25PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > I list the files first: > > > > ls some-pattern > > > > then add a pipe to rm: > > > > ls some-pattern | rm > >

Re: Suggestions for rm [WAS: Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get]

2022-06-24 Thread Joel Roth
some-pattern | rm or ls some-pattern | rm -rf I know the OP said they weren't asking advice, but I can't help putting in my two bits :-) cheers, > With every good wish, as ever, > -- Joel Roth

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-15 Thread Joel Roth
ges were needed, etc.? Using magicfilter with lprng lets you print a variety of file types. -- Joel Roth

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-25 Thread Joel Roth
anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > -- Joel Roth

Review of Refind boot manager (was Re: USB UEFI recovery stick)

2022-03-05 Thread Joel Roth
de > -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development -- Joel Roth

Re: Debian-friendly laptop

2021-05-19 Thread Joel Roth
laptops years ago, found that they didn't offer me much over community supported Thinkpads. -- Joel Roth

Re: Putting small web site online

2021-05-12 Thread Joel Roth
han gitlab. You can use PHP, python or perl with a mysql database if you like. And the admin answers emails. Speaking as a satisfied (mostly dormant) user. -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio playback

2021-04-28 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 06:21:27PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Joel Roth writes: > > > I don't think there is a problem with ecasound. > > For comparison, you can try > > > > aplay -D test.wav > > > > You get the device name from aplay -L. &g

Re: Multichannel audio playback

2021-04-28 Thread Joel Roth
Format: s16_le, > ... channels 3, srate 48000, interleaved (locked params). > ERROR: Connecting chainsetup failed: "Enabling chainsetup: AUDIOIO-ALSA: > ... Channel count 2 is out of range!" > Hi Rodolfo, I don't think there is a problem with ecasound. For comparison, you can try aplay -D test.wav You get the device name from aplay -L. Please also show the output from cat /proc/asound/cards With your ecasound examples, the -a argument is not necessary, and selecting channels is not its purpose. cheers > Please help... > > Rodolfo > -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio playback

2021-04-28 Thread Joel Roth
-- --- Begin Message --- On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 07:37:27AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Joel Roth writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:22:11AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> ecasound -i:libsndfile,audiofile -o alsa > > > > that should be -i:

Re: Multichannel audio playback (was: Multichannel audio listening)

2021-04-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:22:11AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > ecasound -i:libsndfile,audiofile -o alsa that should be -i:sndfile -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio playback (was: Multichannel audio listening)

2021-04-27 Thread Joel Roth
If the extension doesn't match the file format, you can specify the file type, e.g. ecasound -i:libsndfile,audiofile,aiff -o alsa cheers -- Joel Roth

Re: Cannot mount DFS shares after upgrade to 10.9

2021-04-06 Thread Joel Davies
g to take me quite a while to test. Joel

Cannot mount DFS shares after upgrade to 10.9

2021-04-03 Thread Joel Davies
quot;. This happened about one in five mount attempts both before and after the kernel update, regardless of whether or not the share mounted. Since it did appear before the update when mounting always worked, I am assuming it is not relevant.) Thanks, Joel Davies

Re: Blind and Low-Vision UNIX Users Group

2021-03-06 Thread Joel Roth
ing started. > > -dsr- Another list for this purpose: Blinux-list mailing list blinux-l...@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Joel Roth

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

2020-12-24 Thread Joel Roth
ping the bug might just get fixed... > > Any suggestions? I looked at the hdajackretask app, but no idea where I > would > even start there. Do you have pulseaudio running on your system? It is a layer above ALSA, and could be related to your issue. > Thanks in advance, > Brendon > > > -- Joel Roth

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Joel Roth
ing multiple perl versions. have fun, > I suppose this could even be a general question when you consider other > things like python, php, nodejs and others, all of which have their own > module systems. Feels like there’s a need for a sort of meta-module system > that works wit

Zoom conferencing

2020-02-29 Thread Joel Rees
(I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users lists.) Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us Anyone using it? Issues? Known reasons they don't put it in the general repositories?

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > > These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make > > complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to > > avoid file duplication in the common

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-04 Thread Joel Roth
it's considered kosher. It takes around 10% of CPU on my i5 system. > Whoever read till the end Im thankful and ready to hear your opinion. > Cheers > Konstantin -- Joel Roth

Re: Programming pointer? -- options to run Python3 from web page (not via Flask/cgi/Django)

2019-07-25 Thread Joel Roth
.. that USED to post to .aspx. > > > > While I would prefer the answer to be python-ish, > it does to Have to be python. > > > Thank you! > > > -- Joel Roth "Welcome to the World Heat Bank, where we store your waste energy and return it with interest."

Re: [OT] send all email from certain From: addresses into a spam

2019-07-04 Thread Joel Roth
hose who are friendly with perl, Email::Filter or Email::Filter::Rules provides a less cryptic alternative to procmail. I use Email::Filter with Net::IMAP::Client so that I run one filter process per mail check, rather than one process per mail when triggering the filter from a .forward file. -- Joe

Re: batch process jpegs

2019-05-01 Thread Joel Roth
ast=0 and brightness=100, the result is totally white. Similarly, when contrast=0 and brightness=-100, the result is totally black. As the range of values for the arguments are -100 to +100, adding the '%' symbol is no different than leaving it off. > > mick > -- > Key ID4BFEBB31 > -- Joel Roth

Re: Setting a USB for multi usages

2019-01-11 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
having uefi seems to go better these days (at least if installing onto recent hardware). Due to varying levels of vendor write as around CSM (compatibility BIOS/system mode) breaking dual BIOS/eufi media installers. -Joel On Sat., 12 Jan. 2019, 09:48 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe Hi, > > My purp

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 08:39:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 11:23:57 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > > > factor!

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Joel Roth
point (and not the intended partition) was when the partition was not mounted. Once an I/O error occurs, at least in my system, no further read or write operations to the mount point will succeed. with regards -- Joel Roth

Re: 100Base-FX (SC) card PCI/PCIe

2018-11-07 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Am not sure recommending 100FX ; the 1000 Base optics are around the same price and likely a better bet; your application isn't looking at throughput, but you do want some of the newer resiliency features on 1000 Base (EAM etc). On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 00:06, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Good day

Re: Previously Bootable: Stretch using Grub with GPT, LUKS, & BTRFS

2018-09-11 Thread Joel Brunetti
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 17:22, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:45 am Joel Brunetti wrote: > >> Hey Team, >> >> I'm having trouble booting a previously bootable system. >> This system has been in use since very shortly before the Stret

Previously Bootable: Stretch using Grub with GPT, LUKS, & BTRFS

2018-09-10 Thread Joel Brunetti
s is despite /etc/default/grub containing "GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y". I tried restoring /boot/grub/grub.cfg from a snapshot that does include those modules and then grub-install to both drives again but to no avail. I'm really at a loss and could really use some help in restoring my system. Thanks, Joel

Re: hammerfall help request

2018-08-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:12:22AM +, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > > Unmute and adjust signal levels > > > > alsamixer -c 2 > > Comes up in curses with the RME selected and a single slider: DDS > Samp.

Re: hammerfall help request

2018-08-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:50:10PM +, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:42 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > root@sbox:~# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0xfb

Re: hammerfall help request

2018-08-15 Thread Joel Roth
ure the 'phones are plugged in. Looks OK, > but I think I remember hearing small clicks when I plugged them in > before. All quiet now. Even if I'm remembering correctly, the lack of > clicks could be due to having something set wrong. > > I really think there's something I haven't done, but I can't figure > out what. Anybody have any ideas? > > -- > Glenn English cat /proc/asound/cards -- Joel Roth

Re: USB2 or 3 WiFi dual band adapters

2018-08-13 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Huh? Intel cards are numerous and cheap - they come in PCIe / NGFF form factors (like the easily available ath) - get a PCIe/USB to MiniPCIe converter card for a few pennies off Aliexpress and you are in business. On 14 August 2018 at 08:33, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 08:12:3

Re: USB2 or 3 WiFi dual band adapters

2018-08-11 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Basically find one that uses the ath9k Chipset. They are easily the best supported Wifi Interface. If you need Wireless AC then ath10k based products are useable too. The Intel ranges are OK as clients, but are not really very Opensource. Ath9k has the best Fully Opensource impementation out of a

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-30 Thread Joel Rees
ple > websites for connectivity, and if none were found, to issue a reboot > command. What Joe says here. I had ten or twenty lines of moderately careful code in a two hundred-line perl script I used to update my dyndns.com domain name back before dyn.com decided they had to kick all the freeloaders like me off. Resolution to *some* domain name really ought to be part of an ISP's basic package, but the Internet got taken over by the poachers. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Re: utf

2018-04-04 Thread Joel Roth
wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox I converted to Maildir for better compatibility with the mu indexing programs (package maildir-utils). cheers, -- Joel Roth

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

2018-03-12 Thread Joel Roth
LaTex document > then try and unfathom LibreOffice methods. I'm a dinosaur, too, but the bar to using LibreOffice calc seems pretty low, basically one 5 minute youtube tutorial. cheers -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio listening

2018-03-07 Thread Joel Roth
or groups of tracks or entire projects. I'm the biased author ;-) For hardware or software questions you cannot answer by reading the docs or doing a web search, I'll refer you to the many experts on the Linux Audio Users mailing list (LAU). cheers, -- Joel Roth

Re: Multichannel audio listening (was: Live recording)

2018-03-06 Thread Joel Roth
vel of abstraction. Hope this helps, > I hope I was clear enough... > Thanks for any help. > > Rodolfo > -- Joel Roth

Re: DTrace GPLed?

2018-02-20 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
eBPF makes dtrace less interesting. On 21 February 2018 at 08:27, Weaver wrote: > Of interest to some? > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_ > sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/ > > Cheers! > > -- > `The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt > ea

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be optimized for size. On 18 January 2018 at 10:33, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 18/01/18 10:15, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > >> **cough** $convert >> imagemagick >> $convert somefile.whatev

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-17 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
**cough** $convert imagemagick $convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf --- On 18 January 2018 at 09:04, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [..

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
The reason Redhat dropped btrfs support is because it currently has no native cryptographic function. And from the various threads I've read on the topic there is no easy answer to the problem. On 1 January 2018 at 06:44, Sven Hartge wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > On 12/30/17 14:38, Matt

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-15 Thread Joel Roth
o sound from the speakers. The system works with the onboard Nvidia > >sound, no problems. > > > >I assume the problem is a missing linux driver for the Xonar but I have > >seen claims that Xonar works out of the box on linux systems. > > > >Does anyone have this working? > > > >I am using Debian Stretch. > > > > > > > -- Joel Roth

Re: Rsync

2017-11-05 Thread Joel Roth
include packages relevant for utility use and I think it's fair that the net installer focus on minimizing its own requirements. Equally, rsync is small, useful, and comprehensible, IMO a good target for teaching the command line literacy. cheers -- Joel Roth

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-08 Thread Joel Roth
I'm dropping in late to say that running 'vimtutor' in a terminal is an easy way to interactively get to know how vim works. -- Joel Roth

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
ed from and what has to be done to make all > the parts form a coherent whole. I wonder if you will now begin to recognize why the forced universal upgrade to systemd was a thoroughly ill-conceived bit of social engineering. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

2017-07-31 Thread Joel Rees
rselves, we end up being able to do less. Getting depressed at the real world is also not going to help us do what we can. And that's the way the world has been for as long as I've been alive, and, near as I can tell, for as far back as we have history. > best > - -- t And I'll echo t

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity.

2017-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
patches. And if the patches are useful, they should be willing to help their customers keep their firewalls and other infrastructure equipment up-to-date. We may not support GRSecurity's questionable methods, but we may well decide we should boycott the companies who induced GRSecurity's stance. If yo

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:40 PM, solitone wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: >> Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? > > I'm using grub to boot debian. > > To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to start up to Apple's

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
, and /etc. But in case I need to > reinstall from scratch I think I need more. > > What's the best approach? > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ > ⠈⠳⣄ > -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-21 Thread Joel Rees
> like that.) > I think there are two things going on here. One is that many devs get huge displays to make it easier to code, and then forget what the ordinary-sized displays are like. So they get careless about the constraints imposed by ordinary-sized screens. Another is that many devs are

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-21 Thread Joel Rees
27;s sure indication that everything is getting too big -- the companies, of course, but also the projects, the software, ... ... and the egos. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to lea

Re: Free software

2017-07-20 Thread Joel Rees
n look it up on the Internet. Just put Sam's Photofact into > your browser! > > (I remember it as Photofacts, just like rhkramer, but the 'net > has it as singular.) Well, a couple of filing cabinets full would be plural, wouldn't it? -- Joel Rees One of these days I'

Re: Free software

2017-07-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Doug wrote: > > On 07/19/2017 05:44 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> >> This is another aspect of "closed source" gratis technology that is >> often swept under the rug. >> >> It used to be, for instance, that a TV in

Re: Free software

2017-07-19 Thread Joel Rees
tions". A society must be able to survive having > alternatives past capitalism. > > [...] Again, just for the record, politics itself may be off topic, but we have to give each other a little leeway where politics intersects with the license which allows us to cooperate peacefully

Re: so much for your ascii only emails and 80 char lines :)

2017-07-18 Thread Joel Rees
ust misses paralleling a thread on misc@openbsd: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149984510728808&w=2 -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a

Re: perl system integrity?

2017-07-18 Thread Joel Roth
a problem upgrading system perl, it's a bug. If reported, the Debian perl team will investigate it thoroughly. Problems are most likely with an unintended mix of system perl, perl installed by root in /usr/local, or unprivileged perl installed in $HOME. Which perl is picked up by a sheba

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Joel Rees
ead has erupted on >> a Debian Mailing List -- to let everyone know that Conservancy also >> organizes a GPL copyright aggregation project for Debian contributors as >> well, see: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#debian and >> https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/aug/17/de

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-07-14 Thread Joel Rees
I am willing to name and shame Intel here. If our civilization survives the next two decades, our children will remember Intel's processors with the same phrase that Ralph Nader made popular relative to the auto industry. Who can compete when Intel refuses to pay the price of making CPUs tha

Re: FYI: systemd session logging - no solution

2017-07-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Václav Ovsík wrote: > Lately I found this: > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1291 > so no nice solution unfortunately :(. > -- > Zito > I want to show that to Poettering's manager. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get

Re: N’hésites pas de commencer une conversation avec moi Jade

2017-07-10 Thread JOEL BOSCHERON
J attend ton appel Envoyé de mon iPhone > Le 4 juil. 2017 à 12:15, Jade Sovansi a écrit : > > Je ne mords pas tu sais. Bon, sauf si t le demande… > http://bit.ly/2sHRIiy

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
backup of your /home partition? I usually find myself using cp -p or tar to copy the files from the old /home to the new one, instead of keeping an old /home around.) -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
tandard bit of circuit, package it in a standard-looking package, and label it with the name and package numbering of any company of choice. This has been easy for a long time. > So keep your eyes open and think twice before you buy something and use it - > this is my advise -- Joel Rees On

Re: shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > Joel Rees wrote: >> (1) These messages may be a sort of generator for phishing targets. > > You mean that those who hit the "Smack Sender" button of their mail > app show up as flot

shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
ssume something like the second possibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, ru

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

2017-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
roid build environment first. I've been looking at this page for a while, https://www.linux.com/learn/how-get-open-source-android But the information there is old and getting older. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best o

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Joel Rees
ate fizzled. Check the date again, check who owns doas, check the last change to the source tree. What is missing? -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with

Re: Installing Debian on an android device

2017-07-04 Thread Joel Rees
n't. No root no logins > no user. Exactly. Installing a real debian will require first jailbreaking the device, then getting access to the drivers that the manufacturer provides and customizing them for Debian, then cross-compiling a lot of stuff ... It isn't easy, and that's w

Re: How to deploy custom set of configuration files?

2017-07-04 Thread Joel Roth
ot to overwrite them during an upgrade. hth > I’m aware of chef, puppet, and other configuration managment programs, > but I thought for simple cases it is too much overhead. > > > [Debian GNU/Linux FAQ] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq > > [section 11.7] > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-customizing.en.html#s-interconffiles > -- Joel Roth

Re: Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means

2017-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
Ale > A quick look on the web doesn't tell me one way or the other, but it seems to be one of those NIH additions to the project. Here's the opendesktop manpage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-resolved.service.html My memory of the history of the thing is

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

2017-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
d/10periodic ;; >> *) echo -e "\n\t\"$@\" Unknown\n\tUsage: $0 \n\t\tWhere: e >> = Enable\n\t\t\td = Disable\n\t\t\ts = Status" >&2 && exit 1 >> esac >> >> =

Re: Wired and Wireless with Etables

2017-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
ote that the log messages were confusing. Even now, the bootup messages say eth0 is not configured and isn't coming up, but the bridge is functioning. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

2017-06-30 Thread Joel Rees
> Personally would leave it on, because I like to have it in case that I > become lazy with my daily routine and because I like to look at various > things and understand how they work. But if OP does not need it, it is > safe to remove/purge it. > > > -- Joel Rees One

Re: OT: SQL database - some questions

2017-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
conflict, with help from the people on the wordpress list. And if you have questions they can't answer, we may be able to help you here. Or we may send you to the mysql list. (I personally have found that shying away from signing onto new mailing lists has caused me more trouble than keeping t

Re: Wheezy to Stretch upgrade failure

2017-06-24 Thread Joel Roth
se to first > upgrade into Jessie. Or, depending on your settings, configurations, > services your computer provides even do a full install of stretch. You can also segment an upgrade into two, more digestible pieces. apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade -- Joel Roth

Re: No live CD ISOs without GUI desktops?

2017-06-24 Thread Joel Roth
alking rescue CD, based on debian testing, that includes only command line stuff, AFAIK. http://iavit.org/~bats/ (You may easily find and remove the speech module from the kernel.) I don't see the package list, but the author writes that he is open to additional suggestions. hth -- Joel Roth

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:40:49AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> (Now that I'm awake...) >> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >&

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-13 Thread Joel Rees
(Now that I'm awake...) On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:55:11AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >>> > On Mo

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:55:11AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:50:00AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> (famous last words) >> &

Re: slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-12 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:50:00AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> (famous last words) >> >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> > I now have connection for both the wireless and the netbook that is

slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
(famous last words) On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I now have connection for both the wireless and the netbook that is acting > as the AP. I took out the bridge entirely, quit trying to play with > port forwarding, > just used dead simple setup. dnsmasq was the

Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:57:47 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the >> arguments for ifconfig. >> >> Reading the manual, it would appear that the ar

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
have debugged network problems on a UNIX computer that spoke Japanese, > knowing none myself and reading even less. AND I succeeded. I felt very > proud not just of myself but of UNIX. (Japanese Macbook withMac-OSX) > > Lisi > I like Macs, too. -- Joel Rees One of these days I&#x

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Joel, > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:55:50AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> # If the address to be assigned is given first, which I think everyone >> # pretty much does: >> >> myadm@mycomp:~$ env LANG=en_U

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
erk On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > [...] > Which is confusing to my middle-aged brain. So I could suggest editing > the man page, something along the lines of the following > > - > [...] > {add} > NOTES >

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
with unintended results which affect the security state of the host. {...} - -- Joel Rees randomly ranting: http://reiisi.blogspot.com

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
Sorry, again, On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg > wrote: >> Le 10/06/2017 à 12:13, Joel Rees a écrit : >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg >>> wrote: >>>

Re: ifconfig network resolution

2017-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 10/06/2017 à 12:13, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg >> wrote: >>> >>> Le 10/06/2017 à 03:57, Joel Rees a écrit : >>>> >>

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