Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-21 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-07-21 08:23, Anders Andersson wrote: It's bad enough with everyone's signature and people who quote them when replying. Your name is already in the header. It used to be possible to add custom headers to email messages but I've forgotten how to do it. mick

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-07-11 14:03, Andrew Makhorin wrote: Sorry, I meant how long do you let the system keep chugging along after it appears to hang? The system itself remains working. The "Files" window gets dark and doesnt  response, and it's impossible to close it. When moving files on the same dis

Re: a bug on moving files with "Files" in Gnome environment

2025-07-11 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-07-11 10:52, Andrew Makhorin wrote: On Jul 11, 2025, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > I encountered a serious bug on moving files from one folder to another > with standard "Files" application in Gnome. Namely, when the number of > files in the distination folder is about 4,500, the "Files" app

Re: evince: link preview: set up size

2025-06-12 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-06-12 14:26, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for the reply. On 12/06/2025 15:12, Greg wrote: On 2025-06-12, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I really appreciate the `link view` offered by evince. However, I find the window too small. Is there a simple way to set the size of the window popped

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-06-01 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-05-31 09:00, rob stone wrote: Hello, if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in /etc/default/keyboard? I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character. TIA, Robert I've a recollection of selecting some

Re: Xsane hangs while acquiring from saned scanner

2025-05-09 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-05-09 15:54, nmanca wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a shared scanner in my home LAN from a Debian Trixie server. So far, I followed the steps reported in [1]. I avoided the ipp-usb protocol and relied on the older implementation based on net sane backed as apparently my Samsung SCX-340

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-05-05 21:01, Rafał Lichwała wrote: Hi, Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware? If so, what "image" should I use? Hardware spec: CPU: Intel Celeron 400MHz RAM: 32MB HDD: 6GB BIOS year: 1998 CD-ROM, FDD 1,4MB, RS-232, 1x USB 2.0 Regards, Rafal It is OT. I insta

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-04-07 15:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: I occasionally have the wireless mouse and the USB keyboard freeze with XFCE/Bookworm when plug in a (powered) external disk to a USB port. I've ordered a powered USB hub and will see if it stops happening. Assuming the external USB disk is indeed u

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-04-06 16:07, Nicolas George wrote: Serkan Kurt (HE12025-04-06): Hello. A USBA (ss) wireless mouse is connected to the laptop. When I connect a WD Element 1 TB or WD Element 4 TB external disk to the other USBA (ss) port, the working distance of the mouse drops to about 0.5 meters. Norm

Re: Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-03 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-04-03 01:57, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:34:35 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: The version of the applet in my taskbar, shows as 1.24.0 (copyrighted to Red Hat,and I believe that I have not used Red hat, since v6.0), from the About item in the menu, running on Mate Synaptic sh

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-01 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-04-01 13:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:42:46PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: [...] the spaces look wrong to me If you mean those: 192.168.71.122 bpi51e5p.coyote.den bpi51 e5p #3dprinter ^^^ ... 192.168.71.121

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-01 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-04-01 09:58, gene heskett wrote: 127.0.0.1   localhost 192.168.71.1    router.coyote.den   router # dd-wrt 192.168.71.2    amanda.coyote.den   amanda # backup under construction 192.168.71.3    coyote.coyote.den   coyote # this big tower 192.168.71.4    sixty40.coyote.d

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-04-01 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-04-01 00:27, David Christensen wrote: On 3/31/25 14:36, 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 deskt

Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread mick.crane
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 the one I want and type or paste it's

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-25 18:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 18:41:29 +, mick.crane wrote: I don't know why I don't seem to be able to replicate what people say they can do with my basic bookworm install, xfce4 and Vivaldi browser. Because Vivaldi is Chromium-based, not G

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-25 17:10, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-25, Max Nikulin wrote: I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. [...] If that doesn't work at all on any given webpage, it will likely have something to do with how the webmaster coded the page. It is broken in the following case

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-25 03:00, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 02:25 +, mick.crane wrote: xfce4 In things that display text you can drag the mouse over to select blocks of text. Is there some way by a combination of key presses/drag mouse to select separated sections of text? eg. alpha

selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread mick.crane
xfce4 In things that display text you can drag the mouse over to select blocks of text. Is there some way by a combination of key presses/drag mouse to select separated sections of text? eg. alpha beta charlie delta select only "alpha" and "charlie" text with mouse drag and copy. mick

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-13 14:44, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-13, mick.crane wrote: On 2025-03-13 14:22, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-12, David Wright wrote: That's the way I normally look for videos, and ytsearch was also news to me. Is ytsearch limited to finding youtube videos, or more wideranging? One o

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-12 14:26, Chris Green wrote: I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal boat. A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they claim to work with a 'PC' as that impli

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-09 02:40, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure Meanwhile, I discovered that HostGator has the Roundcube web interface, and that works

Re: two separate GPUs

2025-02-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-02-23 21:43, e...@gmx.us wrote: However, it's oriented weird. The monitor is physically rotated 90° clockwise, so normally if I select rotation=left it looks correct. Now, rotation=left or right both put the top of the image on my left, and rotation=none or inverted put the top of th

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-02-20 14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. I need only the first and last columns. Can someone point me in a suitable direction? TIA [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thr

Re: Very frustrating help and support on all channels -----------Fwd: fail message dirmanager

2025-02-18 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-12-23 17:43, koffie wrote: Forwarded Message Subject: fail message dirmanager 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. It takes hours to get it but it doesn

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

2025-02-16 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-02-17 01:09, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using CD-ROM eject commandeject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded* I can't ejec

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

2025-01-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-23 22:00, Tom Browder wrote: I'm still trying to solve an awkward office layout and keep control of wiring. I want to keep my main server in the closet but have the monitor, keyboard, and mouse (and speakers if possible) accessed via another cat-5 outlet across the room. Looking fo

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-23 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-23 16:49, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/01/2025 16:42, mick.crane wrote: Selected "OS default DNS ( when available)", as selecting the pfsense pc by address for this DoH was not accepted. I believe pfsense creates a DNS cache and wondered if pfsense can be configured to do

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-23 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-23 03:03, Max Nikulin wrote: Mick, I am confused if you have solved you issue since you mentioned that you found DoH setting in Vivaldi, but asked concerning DNS debugging. I'm still considering a variant that the issue caused by the new router, not by a browser update. I mentione

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-22 13:50, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:26:23PM +, mick.crane wrote: Would traceroute show any DNS queries? That's what tcpdump/wireshark are for. Eeeek!

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-22 13:08, Joe wrote: When Verizon started doing that, I switched to OpenDNS. I also use Google's DNS on occasion. An example: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/barefruit When I selected cloudflair as DNS provider in chrome:settings/security Going to https://chat.openai.com cloudfl

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-21 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-21 21:34, George at Clug wrote: To set a custom DNS server in Vivaldi, you can do the following: Open the Vivaldi menu Select Settings Select Privacy and Security Select Use secure DNS Select Custom Enter the URL of your preferred DNS provider Seems this opt

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-21 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-21 08:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: - is the host name you use internally for your Roundcube in that URL? Or something else? I guess it's the first - if yes: what happens if you ping that host name from exactly the same box your browser runs in? If the ping complains that it can'

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-20 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-19 13:58, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 12:53:20PM +, mick.crane wrote: On 2025-01-19 12:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] OK. I can ping the PC with roundcube on it by name but "host " fails to resolve. Aha. This means that your roundcube (wha

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-19 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-19 21:36, George at Clug wrote: I had forgotten to mention about "DNS over HTTPS", which besides encrypting DNS traffic, usually use a trusted Internet based DNS service, instead of local DNS settings. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https This maybe why your web brow

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-19 Thread mick.crane
If everything you want to do is internal, maybe you can use PFSence's DNS settings? https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/services/dhcp/ipv4.html Server Options DNS Servers: Defines up to four DNS server IP addresses which the server provides to clients. To use custom DNS Servers instead

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-19 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-19 12:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:21:45AM +, mick.crane wrote: Hi, Obviously I don't understand the internet and don't know what I'm doing. Honestly. Who does, these days? The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have

ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-19 Thread mick.crane
Hi, Obviously I don't understand the internet and don't know what I'm doing. The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have fibre connection. I have a PC with apache2 presenting an index.html which is a page of links to various documents and websites. The link to e.g. the BBC works fine but

Re: keyboard repeat

2025-01-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-13 15:46, gene heskett wrote: So while apt says its installed, bash can't find it to run it. I like catfish for finding where a file might be. mick

Re: playstation 4 kernel module

2025-01-13 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-12 14:07, tv.debian wrote: On 12/01/2025 03:54, nsrxnst wrote: does the stock kernel come with this driver? if not, how can I get it? Hello, If you are asking about the controller, Debian kernels are built with "CONFIG_HID_SONY=m", so the "hid-playstation.ko" should be available f

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-12 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-11 14:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 07:01:23 -0700, Fred wrote: On 1/11/25 05:58, Richard Owlett wrote: > However I'm making practical use of mp3 files for the first time > (currently a dozen lectures). I looked for an mp3 player whose GUI took > up a very minimal a

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-10 Thread mick.crane
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 both SI ("metric") and US Customary (the latter predate

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-03 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-03 02:59, gene heskett wrote: On 1/2/25 21:20, mick.crane wrote: On 2025-01-01 21:46, gene heskett wrote: On 1/1/25 13:48, Joe wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:58:25 +0100 poc...@homemail.com wrote: [...] In fact I'm sure you've noticed that help is often offered to users

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-02 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-01 21:46, gene heskett wrote: On 1/1/25 13:48, Joe wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:58:25 +0100 poc...@homemail.com wrote: [...] In fact I'm sure you've noticed that help is often offered to users of other systems, but tentatively and with warnings that it may not work. "Gene is a speci

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computer arrivingsoon]

2025-01-02 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-02 22:16, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Gene, On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 05:01:19PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: On 1/2/25 10:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > sudo apt install sgdisk unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. Can you remind us why you do not ask the Armbian folks h

Re: SMTP servers

2024-12-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-12-29 17:53, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 17:25:40 +, mick.crane wrote: hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? Ar

Re: SMTP servers

2024-12-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-12-29 17:38, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, On 29/12/2024 18:25, mick.crane wrote: hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? You can first place

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

2024-12-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-12-28 19:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: Perhaps there's a cron job that starts it. I use getmail with various getmailrc files started by cron. Perhaps OP did that with fetchmail and forgot. crontab -e would show mick

SMTP servers

2024-12-29 Thread mick.crane
hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? mick

Re: that's disturbing

2024-12-28 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-12-28 17:12, mick.crane wrote: a couple of months ago I updated Debian from Buster to Bookworm and my roundcube/dovecot installation stopped working. Apache just presented a directory listing and my index.html link to the roundcube install displayed a config file. I thought I should

that's disturbing

2024-12-28 Thread mick.crane
a couple of months ago I updated Debian from Buster to Bookworm and my roundcube/dovecot installation stopped working. Apache just presented a directory listing and my index.html link to the roundcube install displayed a config file. I thought I should get around to fixing it but put it off. Jus

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-08 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-10-07 21:06, Dan Ritter wrote: Possibly of interest: Debian package rdfind: Description: find duplicate files utility rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links. It is a command line program written in c

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-10-07 21:52, Roger Price wrote: In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the same thing in Debia

Re: need jigdo help

2024-09-22 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-09-21 20:02, gene heskett wrote: But burning it, I spotted xfburn in the menu's, looks nice but when will it actually be able to burn an iso??? If remembering correctly from a while ago had to click in the boxes for write speed and some other thing for xfburn to show its defaults, the

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-08-26 15:29, gene heskett wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. In Settings>Power Manager I selected "do nothing" or "never" for all the options. If want to blank the monitor I use t

Re: dot internal and mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-08-03 19:57, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 3 Aug 2024 12:59 +, from a...@strugglers.net (Andy Smith): I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they

Re: Tool to store on IMAP server

2024-07-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-29 14:36, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. I am looking for a tool that reads a mail from its input and stores it into an IMAP mailbox: With a new Dovecot install I believe I copied all the old mails into eg. ~/Maidir/cur and they showed up. I was concerned the '1722260402.M755015P70320.x

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-27 23:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: You need to specify *exactly* what you're doing. "exactly" is at mickiwiki.com I can take the ridicule of my coding understanding. Whenever I need to reboot my computer (kernel update or the like), I decide which shells I want to retain history from,

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-28 02:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 02:01:04 +0100, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-07-27 23:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You need to specify *exactly* what you're doing. Sometimes I forget where I was after closing a virtual terminal and it would be handy to

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-27 23:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: You need to specify *exactly* what you're doing. My project management skills are non-existent. If I have a script that is working I'll copy to eg. script2 and make changes to that. Sometimes, depending, I'll have similar things in other directories t

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-27 23:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 22:50:17 +0100, mick.crane wrote: In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual terminals ? As your subject says, this is &qu

bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual terminals ? Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between virtual terminals? mick

Re: combine two commands via pipe

2024-07-25 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-26 00:44, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 07:29:10AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: this could work indeed. but it requires me to input a long path. so I am asking for a easier way. Try this: $ sudo find /tmp -user apache2 I've recently been using catfish to sea

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marv

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install

Re: info is not dead

2024-07-23 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-23 13:03, songbird wrote: i run debian testing most of the time with bits of unstable (firefox). once in a while i want more detail than man pages supply and so i reach for info pages instead. if you've never explored info pages in general you can just start with the command "inf

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-18 Thread mick.crane
getting elderly is brilliant. After getting everything just nice, experienced several system crashes. "I'll install the nvidia driver and see if that fixes it." Then I remember why I tried to remove the nvidia driver. an upgrade caused X to refuse to start. Install No3 and halfway through making i

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-18 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-18 04:00, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 22:17 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 7/17/24 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 > over X > desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It > frequently happens w

systemd errors

2024-07-16 Thread mick.crane
I installed on a fresh disk the nightly build of Trixie and it works a treat and it configured the monitor to it's highest resolution using the nouveau module thing. Unfortunately I broke my previous Trixie installation trying to get rid of the nvidia module. It still works with "startx" but th

Re: change video driver

2024-07-09 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-07 09:36, mick.crane wrote: On [cough] Trixie, just how do I change the video driver. I'm using driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on older kernel There must have been a reason, likely the available resolution. With kernel 6.9.7-amd64 have to "startx" and the

change video driver

2024-07-07 Thread mick.crane
On [cough] Trixie, just how do I change the video driver. I'm using driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on older kernel There must have been a reason, likely the available resolution. With kernel 6.9.7-amd64 have to "startx" and then the available displays in Xfce are low. "modprobe nvid

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-30 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-30 14:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:32:15 +0100, mick.crane wrote: got it thanks. I don't know what you're trying to do, but ERE [0-7]{1,2} matches one- or two-digit *octal* numbers (e.g. 5, 07, 72, 77) but not numbers that contains the dig

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-30 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: Oh, I see what the question was. There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany I'm not very good at regular expressions. I'd probably do it

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: Oh, I see what the question was. There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany I'm not very good at regular expressions. I'd probably do it

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 16:09, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 04:52, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:48:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x"). You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp" And to get help for this function C-h f query-replace-regexp RET To open user m

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-06-12 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-05-29 16:08, gene heskett wrote: Except at the service. Properly wired, the neutral and static grounds are bonded ONLY in the service box. I am constantly amazed at the people who call themselves electricians, who think the static ground and the neutral are interchangeable just because t

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-07 12:32, gene heskett wrote: Where did you get that beta trixie installer? bookworm does not allow that removal of orca without also removing gnome. brltty yes, but not orca. I don't think I've got any gnome stuff. here probably. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-07 06:14, gene heskett wrote: So I took orca out, which took gnome out. But now gnomes dependencies will put orca back in. So now I can't run autoremove. So one more time this broken damned bookworm install has bit me in a rear. I delayed logging in after starting the PC some time ag

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-31 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-05-31 13:58, gene heskett wrote: On 5/30/24 20:09, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-30 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective problems. I don't know if sshfs would have issues wit

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-05-28 09:57, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 27 May 2024 18:19:10 -0500 David Wright wrote: Hello David, We didn't meet any lack of understanding. Rather, the problem is which rooms do you connect, and precisely where do you place the wallplates. That's what I meant, really. Christ, th

Re: time_t transitions in testing

2024-05-03 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-05-03 06:11, songbird wrote: songbird wrote: ... the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted. i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are many Mate packages that would be removed. i decided

Re: images in Perl/Tk

2024-03-19 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-03-19 13:29, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: There's a bug in your program above, when used for PNG or JPEG. It's a perl error and I expect you would have got an answer on perlmonks as I suggested. The error is described on https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl3/tk/ch17_01.htm Look fo

Re: images in Perl/Tk

2024-03-19 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-03-19 00:42, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:23:39 + "mick.crane" wrote: I try to load images with Perl/Tk but there is message, "couldn't recognize data in image file "test.jpeg" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.38/Tk/Image.pm

images in Perl/Tk

2024-03-18 Thread mick.crane
I try to load images with Perl/Tk but there is message, "couldn't recognize data in image file "test.jpeg" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.38/Tk/Image.pm line 21" I've tried different images/pngs/jpgs with same error. images load OK in other viewers. Installed tkpng with apt. Anybody succe

Re: call me puzzled.

2024-01-14 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-01-12 13:31, gene heskett wrote: I'm using tbird as an email agent, but it just did something both strange and scary. Its filters have been working very spotty, only when the phase of the moon was right. And it missed moving a msg from the nut list to the local nut sbbdir, so I went to t

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the entire screen -- borders and all -- moves with resp

Re: Image handling in mutt

2023-12-08 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-12-08 22:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 04:50:04PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Greg writes: > cc(1) and make(1) would like to have a talk with you. Those are applications and can do whatever they want. The OS does not care about extensions. What do you consider "the O

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-02 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-11-30 19:06, gene heskett wrote: On 11/30/23 09:14, John Hasler wrote: Gene writes: I want to put it at 192.168.71.100/24. How do I do that in /etc/dhcpcd.conf? You don't. That file tells the client how to get an ip (among other things) from the server. The default configuration sho

Re: locate question

2023-11-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-11-07 16:32, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I dunno if I've forgot how to use it, or it broken by the same bug that killing me with the lagging access to my home raid10. Fact: there are probably over 100 files in my /home/gene directory and all its subs with assorted names ending in

Re: [Bookworm] collecting sensors data

2023-10-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-10-28 18:31, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: 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 readi

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-10-26 09:16, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 25 Oct 2023 21:23 -0400, from monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier): If you go with the domain name home.arpa and an IPv4 subnet sliced out of one of 192.168.0.0/16, 172.12.0.0/12 or 10.0.0.0/8, you can be _almost certain_ that nothing will br

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

2023-10-22 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-10-22 13:22, Pocket wrote: I would normally not use NetworkManager on a server system either, but in this case NetworkManager is installed on all the bookworm installation so in this case I choose to work with it instead of removing it. It maybe comes with the desktop thing. With Bookw

Trixie upgrade

2023-09-27 Thread mick.crane
I only changed "bookworm" to "trixie in sources.list. "apt update" "apt upgrade" "apt autoremove" coinor-libcoinmplv5 was held back but "apt full-upgrade" upgraded it. Don't know what that was about but all seems painless. mick

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-28 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-08-28 08:29, gene heskett wrote: Greetings; odd request: Somewhere, for some unk reason, there is a sound file file that plays at max volume, usually around 2 AM or slightly later, that is very similar to the 40 yo doorbell in this house. A bing-bong sound that differs from the real doo

Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"

2023-08-21 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-08-21 17:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 02:50:07PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 21 Aug 2023 15:56 +0200, from to...@tuxteam.de: >> For me command "locate" is easier to use than "find": > > They do different things. Locate is much faster, but it only looks > into

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

2023-07-16 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-07-16 10:53, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2023, mick.crane wrote: did you try to ssh to the ip address? I vaguely remember something to do with the keys where I could ssh by number but not name. I ssh from Debian 11 to Debian 9 : rprice@titan ~ ssh rprice@192.168.1.13 ssh

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

2023-07-16 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-07-16 09:28, Roger Price wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2023, mick.crane wrote: Can you ping the problem machine by name? rprice@titan ~ ping -c2 kananga PING kananga (192.168.1.16) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from kananga (192.168.1.16): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.38 ms 64 bytes from

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