Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-07 Thread Sirius
On lör, 2024/09/07 at 10:50:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > This started with be exploring "regular expressions". > I discovered some tutorials that were using Bash in their samples. > One {lost the reference at the moment} was almost a match for a real > world problem I have. Bash has some nift

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Sirius
On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. I was going to suggest comp.editors, but then I recognised your name. :-D > In general, how does one find a s

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-03 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Fri, 03 May 2024), jeremy ardley thus quoth: > > On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug > > in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting > > when you set up your tests. > > 1970's s

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-02 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Thu, 02 May 2024), Paul Scott thus quoth: > > On 5/1/2024 10:44 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > Paul Scott (12024-05-01): > > > I read that I should try a more complete image which I am downloading > > > (jigdo) now. > > Waste of time. The drivers are either in the kernel image or

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Thu, 02 May 2024), Sirius thus quoth: > Tab-handling is one of the things that kitty does well that I > really like. But when it takes over ten times the memory for a single > instance compared to urxvt - I can forego the tab-handling and have > multiple windows i

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-01 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Paul Scott thus quoth: > > On 5/1/2024 10:57 AM, Sirius wrote: > > I have an Aspire A715-41G and the wireless is an Intel AX200. I am > > currently using iwd and iwctl to manage it, but NetworkManager picked it > > up off the

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Karl Vogel thus quoth: > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 08:32:31AM -0400, Sirius wrote: > > If Debian still packages it, look for rxvt instead, or use xterm. Both > > are well tried and well tested for when you want something.. dated. ;) > > I

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-01 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Paul Scott thus quoth: > Hello, > > I have many installs over many years (only a few per year).. > > I tried a Testing net install pn my new Acer Aspire 315 and it didn't find > an Ethernet driver.  (wireless?). > > I read that I should try a more complete im

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Greg Wooledge thus quoth: > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 02:31:49PM +0200, Sirius wrote: > > zutty is kind of only necessary when you want something *really* > > lightweight and you do not need to worry about UTF-8. Just writing this > > mea

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Richmond thus quoth: > I am puzzled by the zutty terminal emulator. I have tried: > > 1186 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -fontsize 20 > 1187 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -font adobe > 1190 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ -fonts

Re: is security.debian.org broken

2024-04-16 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Wed, 17 Apr 2024), fxkl4...@protonmail.com thus quoth: > have a look at > > https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/updates/ > > is it broken or just me > w.f.m. from here (Sweden). -- Kind regards, /S

Re: e1000e driver Network Card Detected Hardware Unit Hang

2024-04-16 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Tue, 16 Apr 2024), Jamie thus quoth: > Look this is a kernel bug and Debian needs to > fix this! Don't give me any of this crap about upstream > this is a bug with the Debian Kernel! Pay attention, because I am now in Support Mode as a former Principal Technical Account Manager f

Re: e1000e driver Network Card Detected Hardware Unit Hang

2024-04-15 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Tue, 16 Apr 2024), Sirius thus quoth: > In days of yore (Mon, 15 Apr 2024), Jamie thus quoth: > > So  there is a very nasty bug in the e1000e network card > > driver. Doing some reading turned up a Proxmox thread about the issues with these Int

Re: e1000e driver Network Card Detected Hardware Unit Hang

2024-04-15 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Mon, 15 Apr 2024), Jamie thus quoth: > So  there is a very nasty bug in the e1000e network card > driver. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/05480/ethernet-products.html notes that MSI interrupts may be problematic on some systems. Worth digging into whe

Re: filesystem info

2024-03-24 Thread Sirius
In days of yore (Sun, 24 Mar 2024), fxkl4...@protonmail.com thus quoth: > when i type mount i see many different filesystem names > > sysfs, proc, udev, devpts, tmpfs, securityfs, cgroup2, pstore, none, > systemd-1, hugetlbfs, mqueue, debugfs, tracefs, sunrpc, fusectl, configfs > binfmt_misc, por

Re: Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?

2011-09-30 Thread Sirius
I can reproduce this with another (tiling) windowmanager: Debian Sid (upgraded today) with wmii. It works as long as I keep the window on the screen where I started gvim. When I move it to my second screen it freezes, resulting in the error you quoted on the terminal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email