gt; already had installed. It worked perfectly.
FWIW, I've been using the following "pdf-concat" script for years:
% cat =pdf-concat
#!/bin/sh
gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sOutputFile=- "$@"
%
- Stefan
ng" so the tools have a hard time
doing "the right thing" (which is often ill-defined).
Stefan
to allow local delivery for local
mail, it would be the most sensible choice (while waiting for "no MTA"
to be an option).
Stefan
d
scheme of things).
So here I am, wondering why Exim4 is favored this way.
Stefan
According to https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/List_of_Mac_minis,
a macmini3,1 can run macOS > 10.8 so its EFI should be 64 bit and Apple
used it in "64bit only". It should work fine with both Debian i386
and Debian amd64.
Stefan
> How come messages are numbered like Message #5, #10, #15, rather than
> Message #1, #2, #3, ...?
You mean like https://bugs.debian.org/1095863 ?
Stefan
> Right, but her laptop is pretty much dead (won't charge any longer and
> has only 4 gb of RAM) and cannot be revived for any sensible amount of
> money, so she must buy a new one.
Side note: the "new" one doesn't have to be literally new, it could be
second-hand as well.
Stefan
uch bridges (some have no such
bridge, while other have such bridges but they don't qualify as
"good&nice").
Stefan
about the choice the FSF
sysadmins make regarding the tools *they* use. ]
The reason they don't use Anubis is not because "Javascript is the
devil", but because it would be hypocritical of them to impose such
a requirement on everyone that wants to access FSF resources.
using it).
But IME most users today are *not* comfortable with mailing-lists (I'd
even say most of them don't know what it is).
Stefan
that lets people escape from them.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the next police-procedural adds "uses
email" to the list of "dark patterns" alongside the use of burner
phones, paying with cash, ...
Stefan "radical extremist by virtue of doing the same things as
everyone was doing 30 years ago"
a lot better aligned with
Free Software than your regular tech company, so buying their products
encourages further development in a more friendly direction.
Stefan
for the panel" which
seems like a possible reason for the behavior you see.
I say "may" because the menu you get with this right-click depends on
exactly where you click. But in several places you should get a menu
that contains a "Panel preferences" entry, or that contains a "Panel"
submenu which does.
Stefan
Hello,
I'm wondering if the smartmontools 7.5 (released 30.04.2025) will be aviable in
Debian trixie?
best regards
Stefan
> Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses
> might help.
I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about
reading glasses. 🙂
Stefan
AMD CPU+GPU has been very good ever since AMD decided
to cooperate with rather than undermine the effort to write Free
Software drivers, starting somewhere around 2007/2008.
Stefan
mat that allows comments).
Stefan
> 4) You want to rewrite not only the WIKI CONTENT, but the WIKI ENGINE too.
I really appreciate your constructive contributions, thank you.
Stefan
Greg Wooledge [2025-05-20 16:49:28] wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 16:38:16 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> In contrast my proposition means that when a new release happens we just
>> get a new set of pages, which start empty (this part can be done fully
>> automatical
Jonathan Dowland [2025-05-20 18:48:27] wrote:
> On Tue May 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM BST, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback.
>> Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian
>> ver
older info is still relevant"),
but most importantly each page should clearly indicate which version
it's for (and include links to the pages for other versions).
Stefan
ten find
the Arch wiki useful.
I wish the Arch wiki and Debian wiki (and others, obviously) could
*share* their effort somehow.
Stefan
> What's the "embedded" CO2 usage of a nuclear reactor, I wonder.
And don't forget the energy that will be needed to dismantle it!
Stefan
ent of how long
each laptop can be used on a single charge.
Improvements over time have been real, but not super fast.
I'd say it's about doubled every 8-10 years?
Stefan
akes perfect sense and doesn't take any more effort than using
brand new hardware.
IMO the "threshold" beyond which machines are too old to be useful
(i.e. they fall into the retrocomputing sport category) is somewhere
around 2007, which is also approximately the end of Dennard scaling.
Stefan
ted to do anything
particularly useful other than provide a sense of achievement, and
opportunities to discuss your experience with like-minded weirdos.
Stefan "just another weirdo"
energy that was necessary to produce the laptop)
is typically higher than all the electricity that the laptop will
consume during its lifetime.
Stefan
er compile your own kernel or wait until
after the next release.
Stefan
ut may repeatedly “crash”, depending on your hardware and
use case".
[ My home router+AP has 128MB of RAM (on a 50Mb/s connection) and lack
of memory seems to be the main source of instability. I suspect the
next version of OpenWRT will move to 128MB as the minimum. ]
Stefan
> Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware?
The answer is "yes", but it depends what you mean by "Debian" and more
importantly it depends what you want to do with it.
Stefan
> What lesson is that?
My guess: don't run code downloaded from random web sites, including (or
especially?) for those sites that belong to large companies which care
only about their bottom line and not their users.
Stefan
other parts
> of systemd user session.
Looks promising, thanks.
Stefan
That's what I meant by "another vty", yes.
Stefan
put into
a chroot jail. It's probably my memory playing tricks on me, tho.
Stefan
that some users want a system that doesn't change very
often, while others want the latest updates of their tools.
So ideally, users could choose which they get just like they can choose
from the GDM login which DE they get.
Stefan
> How would you run both the Debian Stable and Debian Sid kernels at the same
> time without virtualization?
I don't need the kernels to be different (in my experience, Debian
stable works just fine with a Debian sid kernel, and the reverse is
also true most of the time).
Stefan
m?
I don't really want different VMs. I'm thinking more of a setup based
on containers or even just chroot.
Stefan
while the other are reviews (most of them of poor quality, many of
them clearly spam/slop/ads) about a company whose web site seems not to
exist any more.
For the record, I know nothing about that software.
Stefan
that guy so they
can check the headers to find the MUA that the idiot is using,
Stefan
thwhile to make it a valid link that
points to a page explaining how to configure the MUA's text color.
Stefan
bought directly from them or via Amazon. Doh.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can get this device
working? I mean it's Realtek, I remember using Realtek-8029 cards
because they were a) cheap and b) worked always without problems.
Yours faithfully
Stefan Malte Schumacher
Pa
this device, so there's a recent Linux
kernel which supports that hardware.
Stefan
u need cups ports open to print?
I understand you need the cups port to be open on the side of the
printer (or print-server), but not on the side of the machine that sends
the print job.
Am I missing something?
Stefan
wadays is Wikipedia (protected from ads and SEO
madness), and here again it offers one of the best answers to the
question of what is "numpy".
Stefan
> And also check this link:
> https://pi-apps.io/install-app/install-box64-on-linux-arm-device/[1]
You may also want to just `apt install box64` since according to
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/box64 it's in Debian testing.
Stefan
it the whole system that freezes, or is it just the
keyboard and mouse?
If it's the whole system, then it's probably unrelated to the
keyboard/mouse and the way they're connected.
Stefan
presumably the disk)?
Stefan
o someone can help you.
IME when it comes to wifi communication, routing is the least likely of
the performance problems.
Stefan
is the AP, then communication between the two PCs
is direct without "extra hop".
Similarly, if you use a separate AP/router box, any service you run on
the AP/router box (e.g. a WAN connection) itself is available "directly"
without any extra hop.
Stefan
ing to recognize VPNs to block
them for censorship purposes, but I don't expect the local hospital to
be part of such games. Any idea why OpenVPN-on-TCP/443 would be blocked
while other HTTPS connections work just fine?
Stefan
Stefan Monnier [2025-03-19 17:34:07] wrote:
>> In essence, what you are asking is "how can I re-share an NFS share
>> that I'm mounting as a client, to another client".
>> To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible.
>>
>> However, what *is* p
> Exporting a nfs mounted location is possible via nfs-ganesha
Oh nice! Looks like this is a similar tool to unfs3, just more recent
and still actively developed.
Thanks,
Stefan
d then share that via Samba.
I assume it would also work if you use [unfsd](https://github.com/unfs3/unfs3).
It doesn't seem to be packaged for Debian, tho.
Stefan
hought was defunct but anyway):
>> https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.user/c/Bnt3Mchth5E?pli=1
> Yes, you are correct. The internet does not forget anything, doesn't it? I
> knew, I offended this issue already somewhere, but over the time I forgot it.
Have you reported the bug?
If not, then it's no wonder that it wasn't fixed.
Stefan
my use case at least) Bup performs incremental backups
significantly faster and using less CPU (especially on the server to
which I send my backups) than the rsync system I used before.
OTOH, Bup is much slower than Rsync when it comes to browsing the
resulting backup (done via a read-only `fuse` mount).
Stefan
turning the Windows part
into a VM that you run from within Debian.
Stefan
eas now I do it
daily at random times and don't notice it happening.
Stefan
Jonathan Dowland [2025-03-14 22:03:21] wrote:
> On Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM GMT, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I use Bup, which provides a fairly similar featureset to Borg (tho
>> doesn't support encryption yet). AFAIK the main difference is that
>> instead of its own ar
du | sort -n` (I can't see the benefit
of the `-d2` and I rely on the terminal's scrolling to filter out the
small fry instead of using `-r` and `head`).
But indeed, the `-m` is a good idea, thanks (never bothered to look for
such a thing).
Stefan
> I do have uBlock Origin installed and working in the browsers as well.
> Getting used to this and then using my phone on mobile data is a jarring
> experience!
I don't understand. Why don't you install uBlock Origin on your phone?
Stefan "using uMatrix on his phone"
x27;s still "the best we have", but
it's not a reliable way to answer the question (I'm not even sure the
question is well-defined, to be honest).
Stefan
t to share the fruits of such
efforts without losing too much of the benefits, but it's worth a try.
Stefan
e easier it will be to spot the
relevant (i.e. undesired) changes.
Stefan
>> That was 2+ years ago, and 2T's were brand new.
With a lot of emphasis on the "+" I guess, since I bought my first 2½"
2TB HDD in 2012.
Stefan
rmance (and/or leave more room
for other things), the upside for the company is that they may be able
to use a cheaper flash memory, thus lowering the production costs.
Stefan
> I can only imagine the manufacturer wants the installation to be minimal
Agreed.
> in order to close as many security holes as possible,
Oh, that's a very charitable way to look at it. 🙂
Stefan
completion when I can't remember the VG name, but now you've convinced
me that `/dev//` is evil!
Stefan
its "home" DE is
broken, IMO.
Stefan
e a higher limit than 4GB,
but the idea is to make sure that a single runaway process can't eat up
all the memory and make the whole machine unusable.
[ Firefox is still perfectly usable on my i386 machine, so 4GB per process
*should* not affect normal use. ]
Stefan
il and unless
the remainder of the volume is used up. Thus, space for files and
directories is not allocated from this MFT zone until all other
space is allocated first.
So the size of the "MFT reserve" can impact performance but should never
cause a disk to appear full when it isn't.
Stefan
quot;is
superior").
Stefan
s to guess in which phase
it is, and whether it's making progress), or none of the above
(e.g. because the network connection got stuck).
Stefan
> Why use 3 year old rsync?
If you can't answer this question, then you probably will be better
served with Debian testing, Debian unstable, or even some other
distribution than Debian stable.
Stefan
>>Now I heard of, that a NVME drive will only get to full speed, if UEFI is
>>activated in BIOS. Is this correct?
> No, at least for linux; I can't speak to windows.
+1
Stefan
.
>From what I could find, the MFT (Master File Table) sounds similar to
a table of inodes, and it should grow as needed, so it seems like "no
free mft record" should never occur, but maybe that's not implemented in
ntfs-3g or something?
I suggest you file it as a bug report with the ntfs-3g guys.
Stefan
machine and copy then over network?
Stefan
t's going on. Have you tried to delete one of the files
you just wrote (just to see if other modifications still work,
rather than the system behaving as if it's read-only)?
Any message about your NVMe device (or its filesystem) in dmesg?
> What else could it be and how to fix it?
Have you tried unmount+remount? 🙁
Stefan
in the Linux NTFS driver (single file size, total capacity,
who knows).
yes, format with ext4 or btrfs or ...
you know parted`?
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Greets
Stefan
in large part the Javascript code downloaded from
random sites. 🙁
Stefan
to go back to my code and find all those places
where I displayed k/M/G units by dividing by 1024 and change it to 1000.
Thank you, people, for this discussion.
Stefan
use the "1024" multiplier, you get a funny
quirk when the current speed is, say 1003 kB/s, because "1003 kB/s" uses
one char too many, yet we haven't reached "1.0 MB/s" either.
Stefan
> That would be for KB, but Tera is the third power of that. So it's about
> three times 2.35%, if you throw away the higher order terms (we physicists
> are cheap, like that ;-)
I think you meant 4th power, but what's a factor 1024 between friends.
Stefan
working programmers when the
> scrooges point to the International System of Units as justification for
> giving us only a single-digit power of 0xA rather than a double-digit
> power of 0x2.
>
> I hope to have made my case sufficiently enough to get programmer's Teras
> next time i buy a disk.
Thanks Thomas! 🙂
Stefan
d by
directories and metadata.
Stefan
of the time?).
Also, percentage of time spent waiting (and if so, waiting for what
kind of resource, ...)?
`strace` gives enough data to compute at least part of the above info,
so it seems doable, but I haven't seen any reference to such a tool pass
by my desk over the years. What am I missing?
Stefan
;t find much use for sizes between 250GB and
2TB: I'm quite happy (with ample room to spare) with 250GB except on
those machines where I store "large files" (music/video/photo/..) where
I need at least 2TB, so 250GB might still be the better choice. ]
Stefan
ful to use in 5-10 years.
Stefan
> "Your card is only supported by the 340 legacy drivers series, which
> is only available up to buster."
For such old hardware you're probably better off *not* using the
proprietary driver.
Stefan
system, and other times I used
Debootstrap running from one of the "images" provided by the board maker
(all those images suck, IMO: they're never designed with updates in mind).
Stefan
Anssi Saari [2024-12-30 18:16:25] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
>> FWIW, I've been using ARM-based SBCs for more than 10 years (4 different
>> boards, I'm ashamed to say) and have used Debian on all of them. So no:
>> you don't need Armbian to make use o
s to treat the arm64's a toy.
FWIW, I've been using ARM-based SBCs for more than 10 years (4 different
boards, I'm ashamed to say) and have used Debian on all of them. So no:
you don't need Armbian to make use of that kind of hardware.
Stefan
Hello all,
I m sorry but I have to test to generate a log entry
sorry Stefan
> File /proc/mdstat indicates a dying RAID device with an output section such
> as
>
> md3 : active raid1 sdg6[0]
>871885632 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
>bitmap: 4/7 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> Note the [U-].
I can't see a "[U-]", only a "[U_]"
Stefan
> Ahem, well, it is of course no SSD, just a harddrive with SATA port.
> And I got this one from a heritage.
Oohhh. big disappointment!
Stefan
> No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5" SSD.
Really? A 3½" SSD? Where did you find such a beast?
I'm curious to know the make/model.
Also curious what made you choose to buy such a thing instead of the
more common 2½" SSDs.
Stefan
's code. It can also be
a leak in the Javascript code that the user (well: the remote sites
that the user visits) asks the browser to run.
Stefan
> Yes .cache/doc is a mountpoint for steam
Wow, that sounds philosophically quite wrong.
Stefan
#x27;s not necessarily in the hands of the browser: nowadays
browsers are basically virtual machines running downloaded programs, so
in many cases the CPU and memory use mostly depend on those programs
rather than on the browser you use to run those programs.
Stefan
output.
[ and it does serve connections on port 3128. ]
Stefan
e SSD can support either SATA,
or NVMe, or both (depending on the slot), but I have not yet seen any
M.2 SSD drive which works with both SATA and NVMe.
Stefan
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