Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

2023-08-24 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:56:11 +0200 wrote: >On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 03:19:19PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Hans wrote: >> >> > find .mozilla -name favicons.sqlite -ls >> >  1512492   2144 -rw-r--r--   1 myusername myusernama  2195456 Aug >> > 21 13:29 .mozilla/firefox/gs0gkg

Re: Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-07 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 06:05:18 +0200 wrote: >On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 05:59:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >[...] > >> The only case I can see in which such offloading would >> be unethical is where the website operator is somehow engaging in >> deceptive behavior, but assuming it is not [...] > >A p

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-07 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sun, 07 May 2023 21:36:32 +0200 Michel Verdier wrote: >And beside the fact we are on a debian forum, and that debian is much >better than fedora and arch linux, all this don't answer the main >problem : there is no package called neodim. If this is this neodim : > >https://github.com/zbirenbau

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

2023-04-02 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 22:42:14 +0200 Michel Verdier wrote: >IMO style is perhaps important for development. But libs et regex are >more important for sysadmin. I use python if a library is there or if I >need to interface another python program. In example mutagen for >covering mp3 files. And I u

Re: Flatpak memory usage

2023-02-14 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:35:34 -0500 wrote: >Am I correct in assuming that package formats like Flatpak, Snap and >Appimage, because they package up everything with the executable, would >consume more system memory? One of the reasons to use these formats is >to avoid library version mismatches, an

Re: Choosing neovim over vim as default

2022-11-05 Thread Oliver Schoede
Hello! On Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:30:51 +0530 Bharatvaj P H wrote: >vimscript9 > feels like a bad decision, it is incompatible with vimscript2 and > does not match performance with lua. Probably not many scripting languages do. But then I'm not sure performance is the be-all and end-all when it com

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

2022-08-21 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:26:14 +0100 Brian wrote: >Reasons for the perceived "ignored" status might be: > > * The maintainer judges that the bug affects very few users. > * The maintainer does not have the resources to deal with the bug. > * A solution is already in hand and awaiting upload to unst

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-21 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:31:11 +0100 Joe wrote: > >Yes, I was using it a few years ago, and a new Debian kernel made the >guest additions unusable. I forget what I needed them for, but gave up >on VB then. I dare say a later version of the VB additions fixed the >problem, but there was no knowing h

Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

2022-05-08 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sun, 8 May 2022 09:20:25 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Rick Thomas [2022-05-07 19:47:57] wrote: > > > According to the ISC webpage: > > >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early > > >> 2022. This client implementation is no longer maintained and > >

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

2021-09-05 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:50:06 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > >Version 91 is only in experimental. > Probably blocked by some Rust stuff again. Anyone who's waiting and if possible please get a flatpak and get on with your life. Debian is providing that for a reason, too. We've been at the same point

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-24 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:04:00 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > >Looking for recommendations for a lightweight email client that will >handle HTML as well as plain text to replace Claws-Mail. Have been >using Claws-Mail for years and before it Sylpheed. Claws used to have >a basic HTML plugin render

Re: Question on dpkg -l output.

2018-12-21 Thread Oliver Schoede
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:10:34 +0200 aprekates wrote: > In my case both: > > $ dpkg -l w* > > and > > $ dpkg -l 'w*' > > will report the same list > Hi! I'm getting the same sort of output and it seems to me these are packages, dpkg knows about providing some virtual packages, that something