On 6/28/25 19:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM Eben King wrote:
A while back I wrote a script to take the output of dd and make a graph
of the transfer rate. It worked, but since it scrolls up I wasn't happy
with it.
In a bash script, I'm trying t
A while back I wrote a script to take the output of dd and make a graph
of the transfer rate. It worked, but since it scrolls up I wasn't happy
with it.
In a bash script, I'm trying to use tput commands to delete column 1
(tput cup $row 1 && tput el1), scoot the rest of the line left, then
d
Hi, I have Thunderbird 128.11 on Debian 12.11 (Bookworm). Thunderbird
works fine (well, except for trailing spaces) but when I get mail it
plays the new mail sound twice, a few ms apart. Sometimes it sounds
like a flanger effect, sometimes it sound like the kind of echo you
might get in a hal
On 6/3/25 16:27, gene heskett wrote:
I'm using tbird 139, and it has grown vertically to expect the full
screen of 1040 lines, meaning the bottom 2 tect lines that tbird uses
for advirory msgs of attachment showing, are covered by the pager list
and other such things at the bottom of my work
On 5/26/25 15:20, accipiter wrote:
I updated an old laptop to bookworm - but on reboot the hard-wired
ethernet connection wouldn't work.
Maybe the ethernet hardware is unsupported? Can you see in journalctl
where the module loads? You can find the driver name with
ls -l /sys/class/net//
On 5/14/25 15:02, Van Snyder wrote:
When I start up, my 1920x1200 monitor is in a 1280x1024 mode, no matter
whether I use GDM or SDDM. But the login manager is trying to project a
1920x1200 picture. The result is that the little icon in the lower
right corner is about two inches beyond the ri
On 5/15/25 11:42, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
Hi,
Given this function.
ev () { case $# in
0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
*) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
Can improvements be suggested?
When you refer to a variable you should wrap it i
On 5/12/25 04:03, Anssi Saari wrote:
Arbol One writes:
I'd like to install Debian 12 in a GMKtec NucBox M3 PLUS, but the installation
cannot find the network connection.
Is this box compatible with Linux? anyone!
Network hardware is sometimes newer than what Debian has support for in
th
On 5/11/25 12:05, Felix Miata wrote:
Eben King composed on 2025-05-11 10:02 (UTC-0400):
On 5/11/25 Anssi Saari wrote:
Stefan Monnier wrote:
FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my
old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer
On 5/11/25 08:46, Anssi Saari wrote:
Stefan Monnier writes:
FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my
old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer
battery life, much lighter, much smaller pixels), it wasn't terribly
faster, and it suffe
On 5/7/25 21:37, Van Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 20:47 -0400, Eben King wrote:
On 5/7/25 20:03, Van Snyder wrote:
I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.
The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of scrolling.
That there is what happens if the ctrl
On 5/7/25 20:03, Van Snyder wrote:
I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.
The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of scrolling.
That there is what happens if the ctrl key is down. Maybe yours is
stuck, or the computer lost track of its up-down state? Try ta
On 5/1/25 16:12, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hello
Does somebody know how to turn on the keyboard light of a MacBook Pro mid
2009 running Debian? Please.
Thanks
I have a Dell Inspiron somethingorother. It has a lighted keyboard.
For a long time I thought it didn't work in Linux because the
On 4/30/25 15:24, Eben King wrote:
On 4/30/25 13:36, john doe wrote:
On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote:
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails
to myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or
whatever, just a few wo
On 4/30/25 15:25, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 15:21:26 -0400, Eben King wrote:
I guess I don't currently have an MTA.
eben@cerberus:~$ type sendmail
bash: type: sendmail: not found
1
The sendmail program (or symlink) lives in /usr/sbin which is probably
not in your
On 4/30/25 13:36, john doe wrote:
On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote:
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to
myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or
whatever, just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I c
On 4/30/25 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote:
Eben King wrote:
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to
myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever,
just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to
myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever,
just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to
work reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). What can I use
to replac
On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote:
Hi,
Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I get when
I ping other machine:
ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a
placeholder.
Is [hostname].local in /etc/hosts or
On 4/25/25 13:58, tuxi...@posteo.de wrote:
Hi!
I have added a few lines to /ets/fstab like this:
//u271407.your-storagebox.de/backup /mnt/hetzner cifs
iocharset=utf8,rw,user=u271407,pass=**,uid=1000,gid=1000,cache=loose 0 3
//192.168.0.4/Root /mnt/rp64-root cifs
iocharset=utf8,rw,user=n
On 4/25/25 12:15, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
menu and the command line program has too many options for me to sort
thr
On 4/24/25 02:58, Roger Price wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote:
On 24/4/25 13:03, Gareth Evans wrote:
I would prefer to buy one off the shelf than build my own, but
that's an option too.
You can go to Dell but when you look into the actual specs you end
up paying a lot more
I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I
only log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't
work, and even then I almost always use a text console. So I very
rarely need X, but still want it there to use if I need it. However it
would be nice if
On 4/23/25 11:01, David Wright wrote:
When I had an IBM clicky keyboard, I think I got the same effect
as a windows key from holding down both Ctrl and Alt.
Does that remove the ability to type ctrl+alt+whatever?
On 4/21/25 18:36, Anders Andersson wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM Eben King wrote:
Hi. I have a 4-disk 5.4 TiB (raw) BTRFS array. It is used pretty much
exclusively for backups. Today I backed up the NAS to it. Since there
had been a lot of changes, the total size of the backup
Hi. I have a 4-disk 5.4 TiB (raw) BTRFS array. It is used pretty much
exclusively for backups. Today I backed up the NAS to it. Since there
had been a lot of changes, the total size of the backup was some 300
GiB. During the backup, the "estimated free space" as reported by
"btrfs filesyst
On 4/16/25 06:27, Lee wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Add a printer manually using the Printers applet.
Where does one find this applet? Or what is it called - I'm
I have a "Print Setting" applet (system-config-printer 1.5.18 "A CUPS
configuration tool")on
On 4/15/25 09:48, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
Hello Eben :)
Le 13/04/2025 à 22:15, Eben King a écrit :
I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).
Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost
never work, and I can't afford to repla
On 4/14/25 04:33, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Sun Apr 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM BST, Eben King wrote:
sudo modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728
then running "sensors" shows
it8728-isa-0a40
Adapter: ISA adapter
<9 voltages>
<5 fans, one of which is 0 RPM>
<3 temps>
intrusion0
On 4/13/25 16:52, Eben King wrote:
On 4/13/25 16:18, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
There might be a driver for a fan controller on the board that you
can use to control them. Try the lm-sensors package to see what it can
discover.
It shows just temps. I assume there are other sensors there
On 4/13/25 16:18, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Sun Apr 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM BST, Eben King wrote:
I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).
Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost
never work, and I can't afford to replace it wit
I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).
Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost
never work, and I can't afford to replace it with one that isn't broken.
Changing the GPU's internal clocks has little to no effect on
temperature (or perf
On 4/10/25 05:26, Roland Mueller wrote:
When starting the terminal with some command from command line one can add
the -H flag to keep the terminal open. This way the window does not close
after completion of the command but it cannot be used for running commands.
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
On 4/4/25 17:00, Eben King wrote:
Also it suspends the OS after a few minutes, so I
gotta find out where that's controlled.
/etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults looks to be a likely candidate, as in
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/748759/disabling-suspend-etc-on-debian-12
I chang
On 4/4/25 18:08, Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400
Eben King wrote:
to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself,
not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like
VNC.
So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not
On 4/4/25 16:41, George at Clug wrote:
Hi,
I believe you are using a terminal from another computer, and not using a remote X or
Wayland client like VNC? (e.g. "I usually access it via ssh")
That is correct, ssh in bash in xfce4-terminal in XFCE in X11 under
kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64.
If so
Hi. I have this machine "alexandria" onto which I installed Debian
yesterday:
eben@alexandria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.10
It has a video card and a keyboard, but to log in there I have to get
down on the floor, so I usually access it via ssh. Right now I'm trying
to
On 4/1/25 14:02, Brad Rogers wrote:
The error message that now displays, is thus;
"
Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked
unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.
Ads allow YouTube to be used
On 3/31/25 17:36, mick.crane wrote:
Xfce4
I've loads of Perl scripts dotted about in different directories I'd
like to select them in Thunar and run them in a terminal with a click or
two.
"Open terminal here" in Xfce desktop is very handy but still have to
list the directory contents, find th
On 3/21/25 18:06, Will Mengarini wrote:
* Eben King [25-03/21=Fr 15:32 -0400]:
I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds
a backup. It's starting to become too small, not because it's
shrinking, but because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to
do somethi
I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds a backup.
It's starting to become too small, not because it's shrinking, but
because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to do something that ends up
with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 disks. It'd be nice if it supports
disks of disp
On 3/20/25 13:36, 🦓 wrote:
Eben King :
NAS:/nfs/Movies is mounted on alexandria by NFS as /files/movies. Alex
exports /files by NFS. My computer mounts alexandria:/files and sees
/files/movies/ as empty.
Why don't you
mount alexandria:/files /files &&
mount nas:/nfs/
On 3/20/25 01:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:29:39AM -0400, Eben King wrote:
On 3/19/25 16:19, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:53:51PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NF
On 3/19/25 16:19, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:53:51PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount
point appears empty, even though you can
On 3/19/25 15:05, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 14:53:51 -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount
point appears empty, even though you can ssh to
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount
point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and see everything
there that should be. How do I get it to share the contents of that mount?
On 3/15/25 11:01, halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary AMD64
desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots into the
GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the recommended way make
it
On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote:
This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen
in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text
gets wrapped at column 80 in vim.
I can then tell vim to reflow to get back to 72 character widths but is
there a
On 3/6/25 12:32, songbird wrote:
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
If you're talking about ads, Noscript and Ghostery on FF take care of
them for me.
On 3/11/25 10:19, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro
3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD
for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive.
The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got
st
remember that land mine if and when I want to do forensic work.
> eben@cerberus:/$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
> smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-31-amd64] (local
build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
www.smartmontools.org
>
> ===
On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it.
First, find out where the space is being used. Something like baobab
might be useful. It might the
On 3/6/25 00:21, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and wh
On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use
to ergonomically present installed candidates to apt purge a few gigabytes?
deborphan --show-section --sh
same swap partition and reinitialize it. Eben, have you find a
reliable way to avoid swap reuse?
The environment from which I do the backups is system-rescue.org .
AFAICT it doesn't mount anything automatically. I don't generally mount
a source partition, but this time I needed som
On 3/3/25 05:03, Dan Purgert wrote:
Well, at least those read errors were all corrected ;)
None of the first three bits are absolute proof that the drive is going,
but they're certainly cause for suspicion.
Is there a way of seeing how many spare blocks are left?
The "space at the end of a
On 3/2/25 14:46, Chris Green wrote:
Anssi Saari wrote:
Eben King writes:
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
On 3/2/25 14:23, Anssi Saari wrote:
Eben King writes:
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
with the backup drive,
On 3/2/25 12:03, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500
Eben King wrote:
So what can I do to fix this, while still
keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc?
I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is
failing. I would first boot to a live CD and
I backed up my system on Saturday (yesterday), and pulled a stupid.
I'll explain.
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
wit
On 2/24/25 02:17, Felix Miata wrote:
> e...@gmx.us composed on 2025-02-23 16:43 (UTC-0500):
>
>> OK, I got it to show up by adding /etc/X11/50-onboard.conf which contains
>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Card1"
>> Driver "intel"...
> The intel display driver has been unofficially de
On 2/23/25 17:29, Felix Miata wrote:
> Graphics:
> Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor
> Device-2: NVIDIA GF119 [NVS 310] vendor
OK, so two video cards and
> Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: top-left model: NEC EA243WM
> Monitor-2: DP-3 mapped: DP-1-3 pos: primary,bottom-l model: Acer K272HUL
>
On 2/23/25 13:42, Eben King wrote:
> I want to put one monitor (L, HDMI) on the onboard card (the one provided by
> the i5) and two more (M, DVI; and R, DP) on a graphics card (GTX 970). The
> card works as well as it ever did, and its two work fine. The onboard one
> is rot
On 2/23/25 15:37, Felix Miata wrote:
> Eben King composed on 2025-02-23 13:42 (UTC-0500):
>
>> I want to put one monitor (L, HDMI) on the onboard card (the one provided by
>> the i5) and two more (M, DVI; and R, DP) on a graphics card (GTX 970). The
>> card works as well
I want to put one monitor (L, HDMI) on the onboard card (the one provided by
the i5) and two more (M, DVI; and R, DP) on a graphics card (GTX 970). The
card works as well as it ever did, and its two work fine. The onboard one
is rotated. It is connected, but when I run "startx" it retains the
si
On 2/10/25 05:04, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> Le 2/10/25 à 04:18, William Torrez Corea a écrit :
>> Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory:
>
> Hello William.
> I recommend installing the Great Suspender / Tab Suspender extension.
> It will save you a few gigs of RAM by putting unused tab
On 2/10/25 23:17, Gregory Forster wrote:
> I've been looking on Amazon. Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug into my
> desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux 12.8? Everything I
> find specify s for Windows.
I have one of these:
Bus 001 Device 025: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Sili
On 2/10/25 05:16, Ceppo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:36:28AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
>> Thermal compound (if there is any) dried out?
>
> There's none. At least not visible, or replaceable.
>
>> If you can trigger a failure by heating the device with say a hair
>> dryer, that's supporting
On 2/6/25 06:06, Ceppo wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:17:40PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
>> On 2/5/25 10:16, Ceppo wrote:
>>
>> Also, is this USB or a card? If USB, does it have a case you can
>> remove?
>
> It's USB, and I think I can't remove the outer plastic case without
> breaking it. See
On 2/5/25 10:16, Ceppo wrote:
> At first I didn't bother to even look for a solution, since this
> happened only once in a few days. However, now it happens several times
> a day, and most often when I reach high download speeds. Anything around
> 2 MiB/s for more than a handful of seconds seems t
On 1/28/25 03:50, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Eben King writes:
>
> I don't know if there's more history to this issue but a couple of
> things come to mind.
>
>> Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)
>> Your card is supported by all
Hi. I have one of these:
eben@cerberus:~$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce
GTX 970] [10de:13c2] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver
On 1/24/25 17:46, Roger Price wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote:
>
>>> That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary
>>> personal
>>> cron job with crontab -e which sets
>>>
>>> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"
>>>
>>> and runs
>>>
>>> M H * * * aplay /u
On 1/24/25 16:58, Roger Price wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
>>> Maybe a difference in some software? I ran
>>> eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay
>>> /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav
>&
ME_DIR .
>
> I found that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is necessary but not sufficient. I added
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" to my personal crontab, but this did not
> solve the problem. I added
>
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"
>
>
On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 2) At least one of my environment variables is required:
>
> hobbit:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav
> Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
> Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
> hobbit:~$ env - aplay /usr/share/
On 1/20/25 22:58, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 18:18:19 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
>> ii hfsplus 1.0.4-17amd64Tools to
>> access HFS+ formatted volumes
>> ii hfsutils 3.2.6-15amd64Tools for
>> readin
On 1/20/25 11:15, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> Also:
>
> sudo mount -t exfat /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/nvme0n1
> mount: /mnt/nvme0n1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/
> nvme0n1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
>
> makes no difference.
If it thinks exfat is the wrong type,
On 1/18/25 22:21, Default User wrote:
> Hi, Eben!
>
> I hate to sound stupid, but how would I do that. I have never used mkfs
> before.
I've never used LUKS before, so we're even. With a non-encrypted
filesystem, you would
unmount the partition
mkfs -t whatever /d
On 1/18/25 21:50, Default User wrote:
> Hi Andy!
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I may just delete everything on DRIVE2 overnight,
Might be faster to mkfs than to rm *.
When I run xfce-terminal, I don't get the aliases defined in .profile but I
do get the ones from .bashrc. I run X as "startx" from a console login, so
somewhere along the line someone's dropping the ball.
So what's the proper fix to this? Telling xfce-terminal to spawn a login
shell works, but c
On 1/14/25 10:30, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> On 14/01/2025 15:14, Hans wrote:
>>
>> It looks like Adam wants to copy a Windows system to another drive. Maybe he
>> could delete hyberfile.sys, pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys before rsyncing.
>>
>> These are not necessary and will be recreated at boot fro
On 1/11/25 09:01, Fred wrote:
> On 1/11/25 05:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> I looked for an mp3 player whose GUI took up
>> a very minimal amount of screen real estate. I was referred to several
>> overpowered complex candidates and chose VLC as most straight forward.
>>
> Hi,
> mpg123 is a comma
On 1/10/25 15:30, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote:
>> Tomas writes:
>>> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch
>>> the US still on their Imperial measures,
>>
>> Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system.
>> We use bo
abled
lets it keep up by passive radiation. Is there an easy fix to this ("don't
use Nvidia" is probably not easy at this point)? Thanks.
eben@cerberus:~$ nvidia-smi -q
==NVSMI LOG==
Timestamp : Wed Jan 8 13:17:50
On 1/7/25 11:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:05:01AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
>> On 1/7/25 10:44, Dan Purgert wrote:
>>> On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name
> only though! After fromating
On 1/7/25 10:44, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name
>>> only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable
>>> space.
>>
>> 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if yo
On 12/31/24 12:32, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2024, e...@gmx.us wrote:
>> On 12/31/24 07:44, Dan Purgert wrote:
>>> On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
2. I have a virtualbox Windows XP machine. With the HP printer, it
worked through CUPS and needed to find /dev/lp0.
On 12/31/24 07:44, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
>> On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote:
>>
>> I would typically print with something like "cat file > /dev/usb/lp1".
>> Now, though, with the new laser and a straight USB connection (no
>> wireless), I see th
On 12/29/24 13:17, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
>
> Good luck with yours. FINALLY fixing this a couple years ago was so
> empowering. Without boot, we got no computers. :)
Wow, thanks. I've heard that switching an existing system to EFI can be
disruptive and error-prone, so I'll probably try again whe
On 12/29/24 12:51, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
>> My motherboard is a Gigabyte H170
>
> That doesn't seem to be precise enough. They make multiple boards with
> that general name and all but one support UEFI. But the GA-H170TN does
> not me
On 12/29/24 11:38, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 11:26:38AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> The boot device is currently /dev/sdb which has a GPT partition table, and
>> its first few partitions are
>>
>> number size mount point
...
>
I think I've done everything reasonable in my firmware to ensure booting by
EFI. I have:
Storage boot option control UEFI only
Other PCI device ROM priorityUEFI only
(other options for both are "Legacy only" and "Disabled")
The boot device is currently /dev/sdb which has a GPT partition
On 12/27/24 12:21, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 11:27:18 (-0500), eben wrote:
>> On 12/27/24 11:18, David Wright wrote:
>>> On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 01:16:31 (-0500), Alex Wahl wrote:
>>>> Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disab
lib/systemd or /usr/lib/systemd.
Hmm. Maybe that applies to certain versions? I don't think I've touched
that directory.
eben@cerberus:~$ ls -l /etc/systemd/
total 44K
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K Sep 20 2023 journald.conf
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K Sep 20 2023 logind.co
; Shows how much about Linux I know, I had never previously heard about the
> command called command.
>
> An Internet search was not great since "command" is such a common term,
> however I managed to find some info using the usual Linux 'get help' options.
>
On 12/23/24 12:43, koffie wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:38:24 +0100
> From: koffie
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Ubuntu / Oracular
> Hello,
>
> It is not possible to download an iso file.
From where? How
On 12/21/24 08:35, 郭 灵贤 wrote:
> Who can give me some network streaming URL that play movie ?
yt-dlp can, but it'll be ugly.
On 12/14/24 15:02, Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was unaware, that a native installed linux is capable from booting at
> the USB-port!
>
> I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native
> means, the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from
> it. This was nice!
On 12/12/24 14:25, David Christensen wrote:
> On 12/12/24 10:15, gene heskett wrote:
>> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
>> Device Descriptor:
>
> I would remove the USB receiver, the wireless keyboard, and the wireless
> mouse. Connect a known good wired USB keybo
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