On Sunday 23 March 2025 09:02:26 am Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:37:58 +0100
> lina wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Which laptop option is friendly with Debian,
> > The purpose is related to work, not game.
> >
> > Mainly for computation, R and some bioinformatic analysis,
> >
On Sunday 23 March 2025 05:44:57 pm Russell S. wrote:
> Charles Curley writes:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:37:58 +0100
> > lina wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian,
> >> The purpose is related to work, not game.
> >>
> >> Mainly for computation, R a
On Friday 14 March 2025 08:28:30 am debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > I don't want to look at the outside of the hull, I want to look
> > inside right down in the bilges under the engine. This is quite
> > inaccessible and one of the cameras that are advertised mostly
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 04:05:25 am Bret Busby wrote:
> On 11/2/25 09:08, David Wright wrote:
>
>
> > Yes, that is my daily experience, though I almost always start FF
> > with a script that opens the local wunderground 10-day forecast.
> > I close that before pressing Restore.
>
> Whilst I
On Friday 31 January 2025 01:50:52 am George at Clug wrote:
> Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content?
>
> Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is
> loaded?
>
> I did enable DRM once, a long time ago, and I started getting annoying
> ads whenever Fire
On Thursday 30 January 2025 10:13:39 am Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On another, I've switched search-engine defaults from
> > Google to (the HTML-only version of) DuckDuckGo. So far neither is
> > giving me such an obviously superior experience for me to decide to
> > switch the other machine over so
On Thursday 30 January 2025 09:11:16 am Bret Busby wrote:
> One report that was previously cited in previous discussions of zoom on
> this list, that should have been read by people recommending zoom, is
> the report at
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/0/15/software_freedom_conservancy_zoom/
>
On Sunday 19 January 2025 03:37:06 am Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Nearly half a life ago, my own endeavor with ISO 9660 and optical media
> began with creating a tool which does this splitting automatically:
>
> http://scdbackup.webframe.org/main_eng.html
> http://scdbackup.webframe.org/examples.h
On Wednesday 15 January 2025 09:49:15 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
> > btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock
> > origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and
> > javascripts code that have
On Tuesday 07 January 2025 03:42:44 pm George at Clug wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 08-01-2025 at 07:15 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible
> > alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine,
These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative to
virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick search
using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating a couple
of files and installing one other package. These searches
On Thursday 02 January 2025 06:48:20 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> > 24TB drive - WOW - just thinking about that hurts.
>
> Even several models of NVMe are available now at ~61TB with ~122TB
> coming soon. 😀
>
>
> https://www.servethehome.com/the-samsung-bm1743-is-a-61-44tb-today-with-a-122-88tb-d
On Thursday 02 January 2025 06:43:07 pm George at Clug wrote:
> > Maybe as good as your phone...this was probably 30 years ago or more.
>
> LOL - I do recall using 1200 and 2400 baud modems. When 9600 baud modems
> came out, it was like WOW. (ouch the memory cells hurt)
>
Heh. I remember a 3
On Wednesday 01 January 2025 09:35:53 pm hen...@privatembox.com wrote:
> On 02.01.2025 03:07, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:36:15 +0100
> > hen...@privatembox.com wrote:
> >
> >> I am considering to buy a new laptop for debian 12 installed.
> >> Can you suggest one for that purp
On Wednesday 01 January 2025 09:07:40 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:36:15 +0100
> hen...@privatembox.com wrote:
>
> > I am considering to buy a new laptop for debian 12 installed.
> > Can you suggest one for that purpose?
> > Happy new year all debian members.
>
> https://www.
On Monday 30 December 2024 01:15:31 pm Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> 3. With xscan, the scan quality is good enough for most purposes. But when I
> tested some fine engraving (like a dollar bill), it was less sharp than I get
> with my old Epson Perfection 2400 (from 2004). In both cases I
On Monday 30 December 2024 03:34:20 pm George at Clug wrote:
> With the popularity of XFCE, I would have expected that "network
> browsing in the thunar file manager" would be fully supported by
> default by now.
No windows here at all, so I have no use for "windows shares" nor do I see any
need
On Thursday 26 December 2024 05:30:38 pm David Christensen wrote:
> > It's a real PITA to switch which input this monitor is using, taking many
> > button presses on buttons that I can't even see because they're under the
> > front of the monitor.
>
> So, you have two computers, two keyboards,
On Saturday 21 December 2024 08:14:11 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday 21 December 2024 02:20:20 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Set the machine to boot in UEFI mode if this is available rather than
> > legacy MBR / both.
>
> Why is this preferable?
?
>
It arrived yesterday. The installation disc that I found is labeled "12.6
live", apparently downloaded back at the end of July.
Installation went well, and after fiddling with things a bit I fired up
synaptic package manager and started working on what I wanted to add to it and
a few things
On Monday 23 December 2024 08:50:25 am Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/22/24 3:18 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > [snip]
> > That depends. I want to be able to *use* the thing, right off, and not
> > have to fiddle with stuff to get it to work.
> >
> > Co
On Sunday 22 December 2024 11:13:53 am songbird wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So I have a DVD with 12.something on it, not too old. I plan to install
> > that, and then see what's on this workstation that I also might want to
> > install, and then go
On Saturday 21 December 2024 06:29:29 pm George at Clug wrote:
> Roy,
>
> If you do not mind me asking, what is the make and model of the Video card
> (GPU) that will be in the new workstation? Will you be using two GPUs in the
> computer?
It's whatever is on the MB in the machine. The page w
On Saturday 21 December 2024 03:15:54 pm Joe wrote:
> He didn't say if the computer will come with Windows installed,
Nope. I made it a point to get a machine with no OS installed. From these
guys:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
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On Saturday 21 December 2024 02:20:20 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So I have a DVD with 12.something on it, not too old. I plan to install
> > that, and then see what's on this workstation that
So I have a DVD with 12.something on it, not too old. I plan to install that,
and then see what's on this workstation that I also might want to install,
and then go from there. I'm currently using virtualbox on this machine, but
would like to explore some other options for virtualization o
On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote:
> Dear Debian,
>
> We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is
> used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP
> address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php.
> Desp
On Thursday 12 December 2024 03:18:49 am Bret Busby wrote:
> > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400
> > 6-bit characters, not bytes,
>
> Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that?
No, that was an 8-bit code...
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On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > and, some software, including
> > some web browsers (and, the vile javascript) seem to disregard that
> > instruction and its importance, which is kind of like running an internal
> > combustion engine without a governor, or, parkin
On Wednesday 11 December 2024 05:42:41 pm Bret Busby wrote:
> On 12/12/24 06:14, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>
>
> > However, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting
> > increasing memory etc. It's a sad state of affairs we have reached
> > where simple web browsing (and it *should* b
On Wednesday 11 December 2024 05:35:20 pm Bret Busby wrote:
> On 12/12/24 06:01, Van Snyder wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> >>> The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things run a
> >>> lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again.
Been
On Saturday 07 December 2024 04:21:40 pm Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer
> that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and
> sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problem
On Saturday 30 November 2024 08:37:03 am Nicolas George wrote:
> Greg Wooledge (12024-11-29):
> > Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept
> > over human-readable log files. I don't think anyone on debian-user
> > knows the answer to this.
>
> The answer is certainly
On Thursday 28 November 2024 07:15:48 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 08:07:20 +0800, Bitfox wrote:
> > After I installed postifx by apt, I can't find the path to mail.log.
> >
> > the log file in /var/log doesn't exist.
> >
> > do you know where is my mail.log now?
>
> Install
On Thursday 21 November 2024 02:16:48 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 19:55:04 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 06:44:37PM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > If it helps, "sponge" (in the moreutils package) seems to offer the right
> > >
On Sunday 17 November 2024 12:11:37 pm Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 09:47:20 -0600
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Joe writes:
> > > Yep, if a web designer can't put a single character on a screen
> > > without using JS, the rest of his offering is not likely to be worth
> > > making an effort to
On Saturday 16 November 2024 01:03:34 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Debian machines are on the 192.168.1.xxx network. I keep a W10
> > machine on the 192.168.2.x network, primarily to access the chewy.com
> > web site which, since about June, serves my Debian machines a blank
> > white page.
>
> I'
On Thursday 07 November 2024 08:19:55 am Chris Green wrote:
> I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating
> collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I
> suppose) and I'm really not understanding them very well. When you go
> to the home of any partic
On Thursday 24 October 2024 03:26:06 pm to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:21:24PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > > Co
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point
> > there's a menu on its screen.
>
> Start "journalctl -f" as root be
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell,
> > the company does not provide Linux drivers or software.
> >
> > A friend of mine managed to a
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:39:36 am George at Clug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the
> company does not provide Linux drivers or software.
>
> A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS
> emulation and the
On Monday 21 October 2024 07:47:39 am Darac Marjal wrote:
>
> On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT
> > video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual"
I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video,
and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this
device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which
requires you to connect it to a computer by way of a USB cable
On Sunday 06 October 2024 05:28:26 am Michael Kjörling wrote:
> The only other simultaneous package upgrades in my case are the libgsf
> and oath-toolkit security upgrades, which seem unlikely to be relevant
> to this.
>
I just got a notice about libgsf in a security mailing list:
https://securi
On Tuesday 10 September 2024 08:39:59 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> This does leave me wondering however, if the boot code in the mBR of
> sdb is now set to believe that this is "the second drive", I suppose
> (hd1) in grub terms? With the implication that should sda fail or be
> removed, this machine may
On Friday 30 August 2024 06:33:46 pm e...@gmx.us wrote:
> On 8/30/24 09:50, Loris Bennett wrote:
> > Gerard ROBIN writes:
> >
> > However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have
> > always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance rigmarole
> > and use up half
On Friday 30 August 2024 09:50:58 am Loris Bennett wrote:
> However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles have
> always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance rigmarole
> and use up half a dozen sheets just to print a single page :-/
That's a lot of why I don'
On Tuesday 27 August 2024 10:01:07 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> That is the correct way to deal with Debian's ISO images. Whether
> your BIOS supports booting from that is a bit hit and miss. It's
> worth a try as it works a lot of the time.
>
> Also look in the BIOS settings for boot order priority. If
In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's simply
a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting the
appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one,
things get a little weird.
On powerup I see messages referring to PXE
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 impossible to fix.
Yup. I have three laptops over there that I was given, waiting for me to do
something with th
On Sunday 04 August 2024 09:54:07 am George at Clug wrote:
>
>
> I have been traumatised by things changing. Just when I think I know
> something, someone goes and changes it.
>
Yeah, I keep seeing things changed to something new, and wonder why the heck
I need that...
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On Monday 24 June 2024 05:53:00 pm The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-06-24 at 09:41, Erwan David wrote:
>
> > AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM
> > ...
>
> Although I don't think anything or anyone actually does it this way, I
> think strictly speaking the correct 12
On Wednesday 12 June 2024 06:54:54 am Richard wrote:
> But also, just
> searching the web for this topic, you should have come across this
> answering your questions: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
>
Wow. Just wow...
That sort of thing just drives me crazy! :-)
I can see sticki
On Tuesday 28 May 2024 01:49:52 pm Paul M Foster wrote:
> I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Common in commercial/industrial,
> though.
Residential installations (talking in the US here) typically involve *one*
transformer tapping a single phase out of the three that are up there on the
pole.
On Monday 15 April 2024 10:13:06 am Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400
> gene heskett wrote:
>
> > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a
> > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff?
> > Dependencies seem to be protectin
On Saturday 06 April 2024 11:05:52 am Curt wrote:
> On 2024-04-05, John Hasler wrote:
> > Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
> > Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
> > on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 mill
On Sunday 17 March 2024 08:48:29 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:35:33PM +0100, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
> > Well... it seems my brain can't distinguish Bookworm from Bullseye.
>
> It's not just you. The use of three "b" names in a row (buster,
> bullseye, bookworm) was in my
On Thursday 07 March 2024 02:44:42 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > > systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
> >
> > This g
On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
This got me some interesting results:
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabl
On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:42:12 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > How do I get the RTC to agree with the right time?
>
> "hwclock -w" to copy the system clock to the hardware clock (RTC). This
> should also be done during shutdown, but it doesn't hurt to do it now.
That seemed to do what I needed
On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:37:09 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2024-03-06 02:47:06+0800, hlyg wrote:
>
> > my newly-installed deb11 for amd64 shows wrong time, it lags behind
> > correct time by 8 hours though difference between universal and local
> > is ok.
>
> It seems that you have solved t
On Sunday 25 February 2024 06:33:26 pm gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/25/24 14:19, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> >> I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states,
> >> 10,000+ probably.
On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states,
> 10,000+ probably. There are only around 130 CET's.
More than that. My certificate number is PA-230...
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On Friday 16 February 2024 04:42:12 pm Gremlin wrote:
> On 2/16/24 13:56, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 16 February 2024 04:52:22 am David Christensen wrote:
> >> I think the Raspberry Pi, etc., users on this list live with USB storage
> >> and have found i
On Friday 16 February 2024 04:52:22 am David Christensen wrote:
> I think the Raspberry Pi, etc., users on this list live with USB storage
> and have found it to be reliable enough for personal and SOHO network use.
I have one, haven't done much with it. Are there any alternative ways to
inte
On Friday 09 February 2024 04:41:37 pm hw wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 11:34 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2024 06:07:16 am hw wrote:
> > > What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from?
> >
> > I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next t
On Friday 09 February 2024 06:07:16 am hw wrote:
> What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from?
I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next to me here that replaced an APC and has 2-1/2
times the capabiliity. Been in service several weeks and so far I'm pretty
happy with it...
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On Thursday 25 January 2024 09:03:36 am Anssi Saari wrote:
> Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking
> problem with helium and since they've been making those drives for over
> a decade, I think it's solved.
Your source for this?
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On Saturday 20 January 2024 07:56:16 pm gene heskett wrote:
> We may even already
> have a POS system you could use. I know for a fact one of the local
> grocery stores here in this village of around 6000 is running something
> on linux in the checkout lanes, I saw it boot up after a power failu
On Friday 19 January 2024 09:48:01 pm Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:07 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> > .
>
> (Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not
> > kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.)
> >
>
> OK I'll mention that to my psy
On Monday 08 January 2024 03:49:17 pm Haines Brown wrote:
> where can find an inexpensive drive to hold about 1000 cds and find
> the time do all the converting? ㋡
The 4TB drive in my server has about 77GB roughly holding a similar amount of
stuff. The time was over a rather lengthy period of
On Tuesday 26 December 2023 09:34:00 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Living offline is not really feasible anymore - there are too many security
> updates needed.
(snip)
> Linux distributions do update and you should ideally be running the latest
> most up to date security patches.
I must be missin
On Tuesday 19 December 2023 09:40:19 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> I suspect few if any regulars here spend much time with Slackware.
I, for one, have been running Slackware since 1999. It's what's running in
this virtualbox where I do my email, and it's also what's running on my file
server...
On Monday 20 November 2023 11:15:56 am Mike McClain wrote:
> Seeing several messages complaining about fetching messages from
> gmail.com I'd like to point out that gmail can be set to forward all
> messages to a gmail account to another account on a different server.
That's exactly what I'm doin
On Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:32:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> so locate isn't working as I think it should.
> try find but it finds the whole my whole local net:
> gene@coyote:~$ find .scad . |wc -l
> find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory
Try putting a * before the period in that find command?
On Saturday 28 October 2023 07:25:39 am gene heskett wrote:
> On 10/28/23 00:14, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 28/10/2023 01:39, Greg wrote:
> >> I just noticed that there is no rrdcollect in Bookworm. What is the
> >> "proper" way of collecting sensors readings?
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b
On Tuesday 01 August 2023 05:33:55 am gene heskett wrote:
> Google seems to have high jacked port 80, I cannot use it as a browser
> to run klipper as a google search intercepts port 80, so localhost:80
> cannot be used for troubleshooting or for running a 3d printer with
> klipper..
>
> FF has
On Monday 31 July 2023 07:47:14 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> Replacement batteries from APC are expensive compared to buying
> elsewhere, but they come with return shipping for the exhausted battery
> so they can recycle it.
OTOH local recycling places give me cash for exhausted lead-acid batteries
On Wednesday 21 June 2023 08:54:46 am Maurice Heskett wrote:
> mc for a file manager since my original
> install from floppies of redhat 5.0 in the late '90's. I am well aware
> of what it CAN do. There is no gui file manager that can touch it for
> utility, and it pisses me off that F10 has bee
On Friday 02 June 2023 04:03:48 pm gene heskett wrote:
> And I'll repeat, I am a CET, something that probably less than 5% of the
> working EE's could pass that test. CET's are a bit rare, I've yet to
> meet another on the net.
Uh, yes you have...
(Certificate PA-230 issued in 1981.)
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On Tuesday 18 April 2023 12:47:44 am David Wright wrote:
> > I have never seen a document that completely and accurately explains,
> > in computer engineering and science terms, the design and
> > implementation of the boot processes for Debian (or FreeBSD, or
> > Windows, or macOS) for all the pos
On Friday 24 February 2023 10:03:31 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
> >> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> >>> So this got me curious, and I
On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote:
> >> echo "$DISPLAY"
> >
> > So this got me curious, and I tried it out.
On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote:
> echo "$DISPLAY"
So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running
inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with:
:0
But in a terminal which is running on the host Debian syst
On Sunday 05 February 2023 06:29:12 pm local10 wrote:
> 5 Feb 2023, 20:28 by y...@masson-informatique.fr:
> > Does anybody knows trusted manufacturers / brands I could find on the
> > Internet? I am really disappointed by this battery (brand "vhbw") partially
> > broken after only two years…
> >
On Sunday 05 February 2023 12:30:42 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> RJ45 is a physical connector with 8 pairs of twisted wires.
Eight wires, _four_ twisted pairs.
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On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote:
> That DOS was not the least bit
> entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from
> amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got
> my fill of it as the CE at a tv station back in the day.
On Sunday 11 December 2022 09:51:05 am gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Nov 22 is the last time that about half my filters stopped working. I
> have recreated 3 or 4, putting them at the top of filter list displayed,
> but they don't work either.
>
> Is it time to learn a new to me but
On Thursday 13 October 2022 11:13:49 am Maude Summerside wrote:
> I've found out that WWIV got ported to POSIX compatible OS and now runs
> completely under Linux, same goes for Synchronet BBS.
>
> There's Mystic BBS but didn't find source code.
> And there's the closed source BBBS (made in Finla
On Thursday 16 June 2022 09:45:21 pm gene heskett wrote:
> > I must be missing something here...
> >
> > When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, at
> > which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move stuff to
> > wherever, using mc or whatever utility
On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but
> when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera,
> going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as
> usual, but when I h
On Saturday 11 June 2022 08:17:26 pm gene heskett wrote:
> I tried to do that in gimp before I sent it, but all the menu's are
> changed from what I am used to, I could select and save what I wanted,
> clear the frame and paste what I'd outlined and saved, but I got the
> whole thing back when I
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote:
> As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk
> thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things
> working one at a time afterwards.
Were I running into these kinds of hassles, that would
On Saturday 09 April 2022 05:11:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 04:59:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:35:26 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > grep daily /etc/crontab
> >
> > Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's going
On Saturday 09 April 2022 01:22:08 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:04:18 -0500
> "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote:
>
> > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it?
>
> You may not want to get rid of it. That's the process
On Saturday 09 April 2022 12:39:45 pm Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes
> > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Look
So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes interferes
with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking at the process
list, I see the above-referenced come and go. I didn't want this, and it's
not apparent to me how to deal with it.
How do I find out wh
On Saturday 12 February 2022 09:21:00 am rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates
> (typically mutlitple) files named "Web Content". I don't know how Firefox
> decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many tabs)
On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote:
> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the
> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing.
>
> This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid,
> running Xfce4. Typical
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