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/

MAC filter

2024-09-01 Thread John Conover
The MAC filter needs a local filter for the two 16 X dual hex, (23 total,) digits. The MAC is router usually aligned internally by the router, and contains unique hex digits. Does any anyone recall how to query the digits to the display? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono

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

2024-08-30 Thread John Conover
What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do with an .iso? Can it be coverted to a USB. How? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source

2024-08-28 Thread John Conover
Is Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source available? Help would appreciated, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Can a standard USB have sub directives?

2024-08-08 Thread John Conover
Can a standard USB have sub directives? I was doing some stress testing, and some sub directives had very long write latency's. (All less than 4GB.) Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Debian LTS

2024-07-29 Thread John Conover
urity bullseye-security main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main Any compatibility advice would greatly appreciated, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

emacs 27.1 from Buster work on Bookworm?

2024-03-15 Thread John Conover
Can emacs 27.1 from Debian 11 Buster be installed on Debian 12 Bookworm? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

logcheck(1) in bookworm 12.5 /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles

2024-03-14 Thread John Conover
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Difference between bookworm installation files?

2024-03-13 Thread John Conover
What is the difference between: debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso And: debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

2024-02-13 Thread John Conover
rn, dash, zsh … > Hi Franco. egrep ALL .bashrc LC_ALL=C set | egrep ALL LC_ALL=C dash set | egrep ALL So, apparently not, (I don't have it set in /etc/profile, which is read when dash is invoked; initializing in ~/.profile would work, too. Probably the same in csh,

Re: normally start new xterms

2024-01-18 Thread John Conover
Thanks Thomas. Have a good one ... John Thomas Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5 linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg > > > wheat -fg black -sl 1

Re: normally start new xterms

2024-01-18 Thread John Conover
ec xterm ...' Maybe John > > This causes a button in the button box which creates a new xterm when > clicked. > -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread John Conover
Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Password managers

2023-11-13 Thread John Conover
bash(1) script, making it expediently configurable, with or without pass(1), as you say. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Password managers

2023-11-09 Thread John Conover
; on the internet (and which is free as in beer)? > > > > Take a look at 'secrets' which is a Gnome native app. It uses a > database and key file compatible with Password Safe. > Pass works well, too. http://www.passwordstore.org/. Uses gpg encryption. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-24 Thread John Conover
l months ago, when the file was erratically truncated to zero bytes, every few days. Does anyone know if there are any recent changes to gcc/libraries for fork(2) and/or system(3)? Be safe, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Bullseye debian security support?

2023-05-31 Thread John Conover
How long will Debian Bullseye have debian security team support after Bookworm is announced? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Fetchmail in Bullseye?

2023-05-08 Thread John Conover
blems? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread John Conover
ailing list friendly. The DKIM signatures are from the list, and does not match the sender domain name, preventing DKIM authentication, even though the Message-ID:, References:, In-Reply-To: SMTP header records are correct. Exactly how the MTA handles this situation is kind of undocumented, and l

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

2023-04-08 Thread John Conover
etrics, what > succeeds in the marketplace of ideas (and indeed, the literal > marketplace) would not be determined by those metrics alone. > Yep. Remember BNF/EBNF/ABNF context free grammars? John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable

2023-02-22 Thread John Conover
resolved… breaks everything using HTTP. Might look at: /etc/network/interfaces.d/setup as explained in "man interfaces". (That file can/might be changed via the network symbol in the window manager's configuration bar/menu system, usually required with root/sudo privileges.) John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

fstrim(8) Recommendation

2023-01-12 Thread John Conover
I'm installing an SSD replacement for an HD in a small 24/7 mail server. I would appreciate suggestions for the most reliable way to do fstrim(8). Reliability is more important than speed, and the machine will require a swap partition. Thanks, John -- John Conover,

Debian security team support for Bullseye?

2023-01-07 Thread John Conover
How much longer will Debian security team support Bullseye? The LTS Wiki page is kind of confusing as to when I have to upgrade to Bookworm. Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

2022-12-26 Thread John Conover
but, sooner or later, they wear out too-only delaying the inevitable in the above test. Quality SSDs will continue the mapping of inoperable bits through the life cycle of the device-but requires some sort of ECC to do the real time analysis, (archival grade SDs used to do this, but that market

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

2022-12-26 Thread John Conover
Nicolas George writes: > John Conover (12022-12-26): > > So, the more unused SD space is better, since wear leveling writes to > > a "bit" that has been written to fewer times. > > > > To test, say with a 16 GB SD, fill the SD to all except the last 1 KB, >

Re: Wear levelling on micro-sd cards

2022-12-26 Thread John Conover
usually quoted as in excess of a century, to 3 sigma total recovery of data.) SSDs have related issues, too. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: questions on iptables

2022-12-24 Thread John Conover
John Conover writes: > =?UTF-8?B?UGlwZXLjgb/jgYvjgZM=?= writes: > > > > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -F > > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT > > sudo /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s xx.xx.xx.xx -j ACCEPT # my server > > public IP > >

Re: questions on iptables

2022-12-24 Thread John Conover
tbound connections with a browser. (Note how icmp is handled-it is required.) John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: multiple messages

2022-12-11 Thread John Conover
D: header.) Something like: :0 Wh :msgid.lock | formail -D $idcache_size msgid.cache in ~/.procmailrc will eliminate a duplicate email. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

2022-10-03 Thread John Conover
e to check the executable names for google-chrome and thunderbird. Also, if you are using XFCE: Applications->Settings->Default Applications has to agree with the above settings, too. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

2022-07-22 Thread John Conover
The command: sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave generation, or post generation?) Thanks, John -- John

Re: cups broken

2022-07-13 Thread John Conover
ng installation, (famous last words.) BTW, x86_64-linux-gnu has to be installed on my machines for the the Brother printer drivers to compile. /etc/cups/ppd/* and/or /usr/local/Brother/* and/or /opt/Brother/* may provide some information. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Stop XFCE saving the state?

2022-07-05 Thread John Conover
Cindy Sue Causey writes: > On 7/5/22, Ash Joubert wrote: > > On 06/07/2022 10:53, John Conover wrote: > >> How to stop XFCE saving the state when logging out of Bullseye XFCE? > > > > Uncheck the box "Applications (XFCE X with mouse icon) / Setting / > &

Stop XFCE saving the state?

2022-07-05 Thread John Conover
How to stop XFCE saving the state when logging out of Bullseye XFCE? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: any good books about the (art?, economics and) science of optimizing IO performance? ...

2022-05-23 Thread John Conover
ncy for the spinning media to keep up, so powering down MUST flush the cache-good luck finding disk that will do that.) To pursue further, you might want to look at the way Luster does it, (Luster is the distributed file system under the parallelization used in many super computers using Linux-mpich

Re: Looking for documentation package

2022-05-03 Thread John Conover
might be able to do something with the Calc function in emacs, too, (but it might have limited capability for mathematical type setting.) John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

2022-04-04 Thread John Conover
Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nchez?= writes: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:46:33PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > > > For the past few days, logcheck is sending: > > > > Apr 4 11:40:13 john systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting > > tool... >

logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

2022-04-04 Thread John Conover
"...activity accounting tool ..." messages seem new. Was something updated recently? -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread John Conover
ry footprint, speed, configuration capability, reliability, 24/7/365 stability, intuitive operation, etc. My ~/.emacs is set up like the 'e' editor from PL1, c. '60s with line block moves and indent, 8^). John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Legacy Dell 760 apt-get updates?

2022-03-08 Thread John Conover
I installed Bullseye on an antique Dell 760, and get the following when doing apt-get updates: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin for module i915 The machine seems to run fine, but do I need to add something? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono

Re: Re (2): Archiving on optical media

2022-02-28 Thread John Conover
specific medium, data preservation > comes from a good backup system. =8~) > John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Setting Thunderbird to be the default mailto?

2022-02-13 Thread John Conover
Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

chrome mailto:?

2022-01-31 Thread John Conover
;s no longer have handler options. Any idea where the mailto: claws-mail is stored in fvwm? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

2022-01-09 Thread John Conover
Andrew M.A. Cater writes: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:54:43AM -0800, John Conover wrote: > > > > I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD > > configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD. > > > > The swap

Bullseye default swap partition size?

2022-01-08 Thread John Conover
size. Is there a reason for such small default swap partition size on a 1 TB HD in Bullseye that I don't know about? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-01-05 Thread John Conover
, I'm looking at claws-mail. > Yea, and claws-mail is not compatible with Gmail's oauth2, which is now required by Google, (as of this month,) and Thunderbird is compatible, but no longer supports local mbox delivery for a LAN. Kind of a mess. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Lock tab on SD card?

2021-09-18 Thread John Conover
Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only. But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
John Conover writes: > Thomas Schmitt writes: > > > > > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > > > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? > > On Debian 10 Buster, both fvwm and xfce. Odd, root can not access the /run/user/601/ direct

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
Thomas Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? > > John Conover wrote: > > As the user, or as root. > > Then it could be owned by another user id.

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
Thomas Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > John Conover wrote: > > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: > >d? ? ?? ?? doc/ > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > If not: Does it work better if you become that use

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
=?UTF-8?Q?Markus_Sch=c3=b6nhaber?= writes: > 01.06.21, 17:28 +0200, John Conover: > > > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: > > > > d? ? ?? ?? doc/ > > > > and it can not be changed as root. >

Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread John Conover
Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: d? ? ?? ?? doc/ and it can not be changed as root. Logging out, then in, same thing. Any help on fixing it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

2021-05-04 Thread John Conover
>> cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > >> > >>> Greg Wooledge writes: > >>>> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > >>>>> Searching for exim in > >>>>> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

2021-05-04 Thread John Conover
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* > > and /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing. > > > > How do I stop exim from launching across boots? > &

exim update not responding to update-rc.d

2021-05-04 Thread John Conover
How do I stop exim from launching across boots? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

2021-02-07 Thread John Conover
Tixy writes: > On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 11:00 -0800, John Conover wrote: > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > > > A wireless router made with hostapd/dnsmasq/dhcpcd is fairly easy, and > > > > works well with iptables, with one shortcoming. > > > > > >

Re: Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

2021-02-06 Thread John Conover
s based on > MACs by simply putting those in the `/etc/ethers` file. > Thank you, Stefan. Works like a charm. The syntax of /etc/ethers is ':' delimited MAC address, followed by a space delimiter, followed by the IPv4 IP address, per IP reservation. That IP address must

Linux router AP with reserved IPs on wlan0?

2021-02-06 Thread John Conover
.) Seems kind of a simple oversight for a wireless AP. Am I correct in my assumption? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Removing WiFi AP in Buster?

2021-01-31 Thread John Conover
Celejar writes: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:25:45 -0800 > cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > > > How do you remove a WiFi AP in Buster? > > You're going to have to be more specific about what software framework > you're using to manage your WiFi ac

Removing WiFi AP in Buster?

2021-01-31 Thread John Conover
How do you remove a WiFi AP in Buster? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-27 Thread John Conover
nto that particular web mail account (like gmail), click on > > >>> that particular email, etc. to do so. > > >>> Has anyone: 1) ReBoot your machine. 2) login and launch claws-mail with the Dillo plugin, and exit claws-mail 3) lsof -Pni > temp

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread John Conover
reply after editing.) My wife's Thunderbird has nothing in the Content Type section of "Files & Attachments", and does not call chrome for the same email, (and I could not find any way of making changes there, and antagonizing Google didn't yield a way to do it,

Re: Zoom.

2020-10-17 Thread John Conover
led from zoom_amd64.deb obtained from the Zoom site, with standard "apt install zoom_amd64.deb". John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread John Conover
Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Slow SSH over WLAN? How to check?

2020-09-03 Thread John Conover
Advanced-N 6205 > [Taylor Peak] (rev 34) > > Both machines run Debian testing (updated). > > What could I do to check/test the health/performance of the connection > in order to diagnose if there's effectively a problem? > > Thanks a lot! > > > >

Correct syntax of sound devices, rules.d and/or modprobe.d

2020-08-18 Thread John Conover
In /etc/udev/rules.d/*, and, /lib/modprobe.d/aliases.conf, is the correct name for sound devices "snd-usb-audio" or "snd_usb_audio"? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Logitech C310 rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/25-webcam.rules?

2020-07-10 Thread John Conover
\ ATTRS{idProduct}=="081b", \ SYMLINK+="video-webcam" erratically fails, with /dev/video-webcam ln -s to /dev/video0, and the camera on /dev/video1, (after PNP.) Is "SUBSYSTEMS=="usb"" the issue in the rule? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: udev alzheimers

2020-05-21 Thread John Conover
er 2 are > > > > on individually unique FTDI adaptors. > > > > . . . Perhaps: /dev/serial/by-id /dev/serial/by-path may be of some help since they are symbolic links into /dev/ttyUSB* with additional identification. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Dual Prolific PL2303 Serial Port USB devices have iSerial of 0?

2020-05-17 Thread John Conover
I have two Prolific PL2303 devices on a machine. The output of lsusb is identical for both, including iSerial of 0, for both. Is there any way of doing udev SYMLINK+ with these devices? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Digtal microscope

2019-12-22 Thread John Conover
the calibration slide, (its a small sheet of plastic with 0.1mm, or so, calibration marks,) that goes over your work for measuring. They are available separately, but pricy for a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp. -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Upgrading from Debian 9 to Debian 10, binary format confusion

2019-10-22 Thread John Conover
appreciated, Thanks, John [1] The Debian 9 machine was Amd64, Muli-Arch for legacy print driver support. "dpkg --add-architecture i386" was run on the machine, and the appropriate libraries were installed. -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: audio recorder

2019-09-21 Thread John Conover
frequently, and automatically updated with the apt-get(1) utility. Maintaining programs scattered around the net is time consuming, and usually doesn't get done. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: gzip and old files Partly Solved

2019-08-19 Thread John Conover
le on it > without so much as a single error. > > There is enough of this that is enough different from > today's world that I thought things were much worse than they > turned out to be. I am amazed that the corrupted disk worked at > all. > > Thanks for clearing up the confusion. > > Martin McCormick -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread John Conover
(1) is run periodically. Hardly possible with commodity timing components. Sven Joachim writes: > > Or systemd-timesyncd, which is shipped with systemd since version 213 > and enabled by default in Debian since version 219-1. > -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Raspian ntp manual invocation?

2019-08-08 Thread John Conover
Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock periodically? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread John Conover
support > PulseAudio only. > > Why don't you want to use PulseAudio, any problems? > > Kind regards > Georgi -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?

2019-01-03 Thread John Conover
hat its correct? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Non-GUI Arduino IDE ?

2018-12-07 Thread John Conover
nd upload Arduino programs on site, without > messing with a mouse. > -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

xoscope, Debian 9 Stretch

2018-06-06 Thread John Conover
There are several articles on how to get xoscope(1) to work in Ubuntu. I tried them on Debian 9 Stretch, and could not make them work. Does anyone know how to get xoscope to work on Debian 9? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-24 Thread John Conover
ing for is > > inet addr: for IPV4. Its about the second line from the top. > > > > ifconfig would only work if you are directly assigned the public, > external IP. If you are behind eg. a router that does NAT, you would > only see the private IP internal to the local netw

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-23 Thread John Conover
cond line from the top. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: AI spam filter

2018-05-14 Thread John Conover
metadata, (i.e., Received: records, etc.,) and, importantly, handle whitelists, etc. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

hdmi from cable box in a Linux window?

2018-04-09 Thread John Conover
Is there a good way of getting hdmi from a cable TV box into a window on the Linux screen? Anyone done it? Thanks, John BTW, my NTSC->xawtv and an old Hauppauge card works fine, but the NTSC is being discontinued by my provider. I need a replacement. -- John Conover, c

Re: Debian 9 Image Magick/display xwd(1) format

2018-02-28 Thread John Conover
tor writes: > On 23/02/18 12:40, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 13:35:20 -0800, John Conover wrote: > > > >> > >> xwd > myfile > >> display myfile > >> > >> gives: > >> > >> "display-

Re: Debian 9 Image Magick/display xwd(1) format

2018-02-22 Thread John Conover
as Schmitt writes: > Hi, > > John Conover wrote: > > xwd > myfile > > display myfile > > "display-im6.q16: no decode delegate for this image format > > This works for me in Debian 8. Even old xv can read the file, albeit with > wrong background color. >

Debian 9 Image Magick/display xwd(1) format

2018-02-22 Thread John Conover
xwd > myfile display myfile gives: "display-im6.q16: no decode delegate for this image format `' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/504." Anything else read the file and do file conversions? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Xoscope(1) on Debian 9?

2018-01-28 Thread John Conover
Has anyone got Xoscope(1) on Debian 9 amd64 to work? It looks as if it does not connect to the audio system, (alsa or pulseaudio,) and there is no option for a device in /dev. There is no trace on the display. Any help would be appreciated, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http

Re: EDA software.

2017-12-06 Thread John Conover
orting a design back-and-forth between the two systems is tricky, at best. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Debian 9 static IP [Failed:] messages at boot?

2017-09-11 Thread John Conover
s that a problem? Can the message be suppressed? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

mailx(1) core dump, Debian 8, amd64

2017-09-05 Thread John Conover
Anytime mailx is envoked, it does a core dump: mail: mu_wordsplit failed: missing closing quote Segmentation fault Any suggestions? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: WinTV, xawtv, mplayer

2017-08-25 Thread John Conover
Sorry, the command is "v4lctl volume mute off". John John Conover writes: > > In a system that was upgraded, (new install,) from Debian 7 to 8 with > a WinTV model 109, (external 1/8" audio connector on the WinTV card to > Line In of the PC.): > > x

WinTV, xawtv, mplayer

2017-08-25 Thread John Conover
to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated ... Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

i386 executables on amd64?

2017-08-19 Thread John Conover
, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: xfig(1) in Debian 8/Jessie

2017-08-06 Thread John Conover
s the core dump created by dot-dash-dot lines being in a file, or being drawn by a user. It is suggested that Debian 8/Jessie's repo be upgraded replacing the vulnerable version. John John Conover writes: > > Hi Henrique. The problem was created by the Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 5b to >

Re: xfig(1) in Debian 8/Jessie

2017-08-06 Thread John Conover
doesn't effect Debian 7/Wheezy, or before, just Jessie and perhaps Stretch.) Thanks, John Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Sun, 06 Aug 2017, John Conover wrote: > > On Debian 8/Jessie, i386, do: > > > > xfig xxx.fig > > > > Then, (d

Re: xfig(1) in Debian 8/Jessie

2017-08-06 Thread John Conover
procedure, resulting in a core dump. The reason that Debian 8/Jessie could not read the legacy files is that they had hole axis (dash-dot-dash-dot ...) lines. Anyhow, it replicates on my systems. John Zenaan Harkness writes: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 02:13:39AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > &g

xfig(1) in Debian 8/Jessie

2017-08-06 Thread John Conover
ideas? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: need help on running mplayer to watch tv

2017-08-01 Thread John Conover
hn BTW, for a WinTV card, 38101, lspci(1): Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: hacker tracking

2017-06-18 Thread John Conover
the size down. I'm getting from 20,000 to > over a million hits a day on a computer that's only online 3-4 hours a > day and often much less. > . . . > > I suspect I'm not the only one who is interested in this exploration > and hope some of you can share tips

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-05 Thread John Conover
rable for a long period of time,) saving the MD5/SHA* hash values of files in "source/" is advisable for verification that a file is not corrupt sometime in the future. John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

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