Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread kAt
Eike Lantzsch: > it is e.g.: > date -d thursday > or: > date -d next-thursday > or: > date --date='TZ="America/Asuncion" 09:00 next Thu' > or > calendar -w -t 20170406 TZ='London' date | grep "Universal Time"

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread kAt
Curt: > Trouble with you people is you don't get out on some of the other days > of the week. Us people who? >> English is hilarious It must be the only language in the world that you can adequately communicate with a vocabulary of less than 400 words including grammatical forms of the same root

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread kAt
Lisi Reisz: > And let us clear up another misunderstanding while we are at it. The other > side of the pond you appear to be under a delusion that there is such a thing > as British anything, including English. Try telling that to the Welsh, the > Irish and the Scots! There is nevertheless

Re: [OT] Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-30 Thread kAt
Daniel Bareiro: > Next week I'll take the notebook to the supplier for the test with a new > battery. They offered doing tests with a new battery for an entire day. > I think I'm going to suggest them to use a liveCD as System Rescue CD or > something like that, since the disk is encrypted. Althoug

Midori - Stretch amd64 freezing up - weird TB behavior

2017-03-30 Thread kAt
Debian stretch on amd64 Totally freezing up is a new experience with debian ever The only thing I can associate it with is my recent trial with Midori and somehow its association with html files to auto start. It is the most recent thing running when it happens. Has anyone had a similar exprerienc

Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt

2017-03-30 Thread kAt
Lisi Reisz: > On Wednesday 29 March 2017 20:46:00 kAt wrote: >> What do you mean down? You arrogant yankee? > > Don't Yankees come from the United States?? Or is Curt an expat?? In any case, looking "down" on people due to their origin (and other characteristics)

Re: Wan/Lan problem

2017-03-29 Thread kAt
Is ipv6 on/off/capable on this system? Mike McClain: > Howdy, > I have a WAN/LAN challenge I'm hoping for help with. >

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-29 Thread kAt
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > kAt wrote: >> All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced >> with my problem statement as an inspiration. > > Whether it's useful will still have to turn out. :) > Up to now it has one happy user. I think b

Re:Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt

2017-03-29 Thread kAt
Curt: > On 2017-03-28, kAt wrote: > >> All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced >> with my problem statement as an inspiration. > > That's like some befuddled bumpkin down in North Carolina saying he's > proud to find a portrai

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-28 Thread kAt
All I can say is that I feel honored that some useful code was produced with my problem statement as an inspiration. I am doing research on the topic trying to learn all that feels like a huge gap of how disks and data relate. Have a nice day Thomas kAt Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > i wrot

Re: [off topic] Re: Encrypted flash drives

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > tomás wrote: >> Beware of the Sun! > > Says the Oracle ... > >> You often *make* my day, Thomas :-) > > Just wait until you read my alternative facts about the raison d'être > of systemd. I want to read it Except for the last two lines > Have a nice day :) > Thomas

Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
Richard Owlett: > > SEE https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg01167.html > > Where I said "I was not aware that search engines accepted > non-alphanumeric strings as legitimate search terms. Previous experience > had suggested otherwise. > > Thank you, this old dog has learned a new tr

Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
Is there a reason to update the current system and/or reboot with the updated kernel before jumping to a new system, or is everything set up in a way that once updated and upgraded into the target system the reboot will take you "up" there? My experience has only been with various stages of Jessie

Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
Brian: > On Sun 26 Mar 2017 at 14:45:04 -0400, Doug wrote: > >> >> On 03/26/2017 10:55 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> I'm still stuck with my problem, so I'm posting it again hoping for some >>> help: >>> I alone don't manage to have my printer work, a Samsung ML-1915. I >>> installed >>> cups

Re: No sound-inputs but sound recording FMIT

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 07:13:22PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > In other words Back EMF? > > I know a chap who found about that the hard way when he tried to get > something from nothing by charging a battery from a generator which he > turned by having a fan con

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
endor doesn't >offer such, you might need to find a different tool.) Again the question is not so much at the vendor's magic system but why would a 0.6G image rent the rest of the disk useless for copying stuff in and out, which I have done with many live systems. >David Have a nice day kAt

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > kAt wrote: >>> /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> Disk /dev/sdb: 7.2 GiB, 7751073792 bytes, 15138816 sectors > > Is this about the correct size of the stick ? I suppose this is normal for an 8Gb usb stick. 249Mb go to firmware that operates

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-27 Thread kAt
Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > kAt wrote: >>> /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> Disk /dev/sdb: 7.2 GiB, 7751073792 bytes, 15138816 sectors > > Is this about the correct size of the stick ? I suppose this is normal for an 8Gb usb stick. 249Mb go to firmware that operates

Re: DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-26 Thread kAt
kAt: > dd if=/media/--/image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync > > the image works but the format of the drive seems false > gparted when starting says that linux thinks it is a 256k block and not > the 4m it indicates. It shows on an 8G drive an empty space of 28G > > Is i

DD bs=4M option on USB mem-stick creates false format

2017-03-26 Thread kAt
problem. The free space can not be formatted and partitioned. As Gparted tried to claim and format this space as a 6.7G which seemed right it crashed. Any advise would greatly be appreciated kAt-rin

configuring subdomains

1999-06-20 Thread kat
will ask DNS server subdomain1.dummy.com w/c resides in another machine and not my machine ... kat

email redirection

1999-06-15 Thread kat
hi ! our sysad told us we use exim on our server, can someone please tell me what should i do so that all email that i get in this box will all be re-sent to my @usa.net email add w/o its headers beging re-written ? thanks, kathy PS: if its possible, those w/c i can do all by myself w/o "root"