Y was broken by X only in a stupid implementation from the
1990s and all other Libre software have been doing X without breaking Y
for decades.
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g that looks like breaking signatures. Do you mean
dash-dash-space-LF signatures or digital signatures?
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it
still requires running programs: if the issue is that the system does
not want to run programs, chroot will not convince it.
What is needed is to extract manually enough of the shared libraries.
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Greg (HE12025-07-14):
> Sure. All the old hands (Hasler, Wright, tomas, Wooledge et. al.) are
> using Gnome, the default Debian desktop.
Any evidence to support that claim?
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using Gnus to read this mailing list,
> please get real.
So, you would have a webforum with new users asking questions and
experienced users who could give answers still on the mailing-list.
Is it a underhanded plan to have the experienced users quietly by
themselves?
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Greg (HE12025-07-11):
> Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move rather
> than a copy?
The fact that it is on the same disk is not relevant. Apart from that, I
suggest you re-read Dan's mail more carefully, everything was in it.
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of the process it's no longer a "copy."
Indeed. And you might notice it is exactly what Dan said.
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selves in order to attract hypothetical users.
It is bound to fail, and it denotes quite a bit of condescension. That
the condescension is mostly warranted does not make it ok.
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hw (HE12025-07-11):
> (S)FTP is still in use like for cameras, scanners (printers) and phones.
Do you have a few examples of brand and models of cameras and phones
that use FTP?
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r boot.
> That's possibly because the Linux drivers perform some settings on
> the hardware. The boot firmware (EFI ?) and GRUB obviously don't do
> what is needed.
Indeed. The described problem is EXACTLY what we should expect if the
firmware has lost ability to drive USB but the Linux kernel still works.
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Felix Miata (HE12025-07-09):
> This may have nothing to do with Debian or any OS. It could be either
> firmware in
> the motherboard
Nit: the firmware in the motherboard is an operating system.
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scribe is an issue in your system firmware: the devices start
working when Linux takes control, the problem is not Linux.
> Later, after other system updates, the the keyboard and the mouse are
> working again during boot, and so on: the on/off cycle repeats.
That was not clear.
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Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-07-01):
> However, setuid on a script is considered a security
> flaw.
Was. Now it just does not have any effect.
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actice might trigger one of the ineffective anti-spam constraints that
the oligopolistic operators are forcing on every body for other reasons
than fighting spam.
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n
MUA bounces. And MTA forwards are much closer to MUA bounces than MUA
forwards.
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Greg (HE12025-06-27):
> It is not the accepted meaning of the term.
Did you not already tell that? Was not Greg Wooledge precisely replying
to that?
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ords used in different fields?
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ail, then the previous relay has to generate
delivery status notification message.
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seriously wrong here, but I cannot guess if it is in
SpamAssassin's design or in the way it has been set up in this instance.
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sage completely wrong.
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um to the safe place.
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ical damage or theft.
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apis;x86_64" \
-d pixel_7
emulator -avd Pixel_7A_x86_64 -no-boot-anim -gpu off
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rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):
> What lesson is that?
Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.
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put.
There are always good reasons to use zsh.
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on the hard way.
> So I need help in finding out exactly "how" to make it connect in
> recovery mode in order to run apt and restore my laptop to working
> again.
I think it will be less painful for you to backup your data and system
config files to an external device and then r
rewall rules.
What you are trying to achieve looks a lot like VPN software, look it
up.
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he correct way of booting Debian 12 without a graphical interface?
Hi.
You need to look at `systemctl set-default`.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> This seems to be an interesting alternative to compare to xpra also because
> it works even on FreeBSD (the OS that I use everyday) :
>
> https://winswitch.org/dev/
Please tell us if you find it useful once you have tested it throughly.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> Usually I check after that someone gave me some general idea.
Then I suggest you apply the same rule even more strictly to saying.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> I think i can detach an application with ssh and a proper parameter.
Checking is better than thinking without checking.
Be sure to tell us the results of your experiments.
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;>>> even over laggy ADSL links and you can detach the window from the local
>>>> display and reattach it to another.
And once again, partially, when I replied to one of your own suggestions:
>>>> Xpra would bring you the ability to detach apps on a per-VM basis
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een mode, and that would require changing the way I have been
doing things with regard to hot-plugged screens.
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ime. If I run firefox through x2go for example,
will I get (1) one big window with the firefox window in it, and if
firefox opens a save dialog it will be inside the big window, or (2) a
window for firefox, integrated with my local wm, and the save dialog
ditto?
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ending bitmaps of
its windows.
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t fast and
detachable.
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window, still responsive.
I am rather fond of Xpra. Before considering installing it from sources,
I wanted to ask:
Do anybody know another tool with the same features, still packages for
Trixie?
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enefit? Will I find a trove of package already
implementing network protocols and standard algorithms, or be able to
run Perl 5 packages somehow? And so on.
Do you know the answer to these questions? Or a place where somebody
wrote them?
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point where average
human eyes start losing alignment.
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ately, that is just
not true.
> Then again, looking at their site, so is everything
> else they do, including their TOU.
What do you think is wrong in their terms of use?
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Oq8mb1L"
(do not worry, this is not the real key).
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Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
> Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem
> solved. Roger
“I did. I am sure my mail is blue. Is it not?” and join a screenshot.
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believe you).
Monochrome is rather stretching it in this day and age. Better evoke the
situation of people with sight disabilities, because it is true that
they might have special needs, including about color, to be able to read
something.
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3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored
> in
> an e-mail message body.
>
> Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Not possible.
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source-files/TFP2021.pdf
> ].
>
> Suggestions?
Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV
delimiters using a powerful editor. The rectangle selection of Vim might
be useful.
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rive. If it did,
it would not cal it unknown-block(0,0).
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nient if you want to run several
> commands as root instead of just one.
Not true: with a root shell, you need to be extra careful at all time.
With sudo in front of the privileged commands, you only need to be
extra careful when you type sudo.
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robably because of
radio interferences.
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ifying it that sudo makes things more complex than su.
Please, when replying to this, double check you do not commit the second
fallacy to assume that one thing is simpler than another when the
difference is you already know the first and not the second.
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That includes the root data structures of
most anything that could already been there, so the rest, the data that
will not have been overwritten, will be mostly unusable without a lot of
effort.
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of LF, as Tomas
mentioned? For that, you would need to hit ctrl-enter and see ^M in the
terminal, each time before you hit enter.
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reason why I decided to use some option to set
> $HOME.
I strongly suggest you learn to use sudo as sudo is intended to be used
rather than using it as an imitation for su. You would not have had this
problem if you did.
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n.
> My recommendation is to create a one-line configuration file:
My recommendation is to learn to use sudo itself rather than trying to
emulate su. Having the privileged commands logged is a good idea. Using
privileges only with commands that need it is a good idea. Having the
same shell history
ot; without really
> understanding how it works.
Must not comment. Must not comment.
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jeremy ardley (HE12025-03-26):
> One reason to choose VPN over ssh is that many ISPs block incoming ports
> including ssh, telnet, RDP, smtp, and smb ports.
And they do not block ports used for VPNs. How convenient.
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binary files with it.
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: if your users might not be able to install port knocking software,
not allowed to run VPN clients, or if an annoying firewall is in the
middle, you have no choice but to let a public access.
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hrough the VPN to internal systems.
> Why do you think SSH is less secure than any other VPN ?
Why do you think Jan says ssh is less secure than a VPN when Jan is
saying that ssh is less secure than VPN+ssh?
I suggest to add port knocking to protect the VPN.
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cess returned error exit status 1
Then read backwards until you find the error message from the
subprocess. I did, it was quite obvious, you only need to read a dozen
lines at the end.
(And I assume somebody will just give you the answer instead of letting
you learn to find it by yourself. Sigh.)
many scenarios where it is useful, you just have to exercise
your imagination.
Maybe client does not and should not have network access to nas.
Maybe alexandria does not have the hardware to plug the disks.
Maybe alexandria implements caching that nas is not capable of doing.
And so on and so on.
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to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-20):
> Sorry if that came across as rude.
Do not be: not reading before replying at least to see if what one is
about to reply has already been addressed and therefore wasting
everybody's time is way ruder than your message might seem.
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equivalent to no full backup after the very first one. And the very
first one can be considered an incremental backup over a full one of no
data at all.
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Hans (HE12025-03-14):
> Depends on, what you prefer: in console, or with GUIn as conjob or whatever
A tool that cannot be automated is not a backup tool.
Corollary: a GUI-only tool is not a backup tool.
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ile you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
backup tool.
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and gdisk telling us the block device has the
wrong size: the issue is absolutely not the filesystem on it.
Also, this is not Windows, please do not use “format” as a verb for a
disk.
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16 2147483647 sdb
>> Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 4294967294 sectors, 2.0 TiB
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.
The point of the test is: if it succeeds, you can reasonably hope that
the device will continue working for some time.
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Yassine Chaouche (HE12025-03-04):
> I see this as a "forum" mode
It is not called “forum mode”, it is called “egoistic mode”, because the
poster expects other people will read their messages and provide help
but is not willing to do the same for others in return.
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to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-04):
> > That is a terrible idea.
> Not if done right.
“Not if done right” has been said of all terrible ideas in the history
of terrible ideas.
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That is a terrible idea.
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u should not give them the privileges to do it
in the first place) and you cannot come do it during the lessons.
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to unexpectedly throw away perfectly
good computers just because they do not have the latest fake-security
chip mandatory for the new release of Windows
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it that the last line gives sudo privileges to
the sudo user, not group?
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the good answers.
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lled a solution.
Those who call it a solution should let the LLMs speak.
The only way to achieve a reliable result is to understand what is going
on. I am flabbergasted that so many people on this list do not start
with that. This is probably the last contribution from me in this
thread.
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Max Nikulin (HE12025-02-12):
> I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented.
At worst, the source code is the documentation.
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a way, but it would be less efficient than installing
Windows or Macos instead of Linux.
If you want a Linux way to solve the issue: first, read the
documentation of xfce-terminal to see how it decides which web browser
to run; then read the documentation of that mechanism to see how to
configure it.
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if you want the keys to be handled without a
desktop environment, you will need to explain the circumstances in more
details.
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/input/event0
and press a few keys. If it prints something, you know the keys work. If
it prints nothing, you break it with ctrl-C and you start again with
event1, then event2, etc., until either you have found the keys work or
you have exhausted the event devices.
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o:
>> - gdm3 uses some kind of windows-like registry for its configuration and
>> the documented way to disable the users list
>>
>> <https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/login-userlist-disable.html.en>
>> has no effect;
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Nicolas George (12025-01-30):
> So, in short, and in reverse order:
>
> With gdm3, users are logged into the kind of session they used last.
>
> With lightdm with users list, same.
>
> With lighdm and the default config of hidden users list, users are
> logged into the k
Debian LightDM setup: if you want the default
> session to be the last, perhaps you can try assigning "last" value to it (I
> don't know, I have tried it)
No effect.
That would have been rather surprising, in fact: why should the behavior
be different if users list is shown or not.
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and lets users choose their session types without forcing
one on them.
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tons like that run on client-side.
The look-and-feel seems a bit basic too, but it can probably be changed.
Thanks for the suggestion, worth considering.
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rkdown”, I
could use DokuWiki.
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kaged project, it is not unlikely. It is more a matter
of whether they will have drawbacks I had not anticipated, like
requiring a permanent daemon for each instance. (My goal is to run
multiple lightly-loaded instances on the same VM.)
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ki, I had not really thought
about it in depth and I did not really want a wiki. I cannot really
blame you, so many people posting here come asking for X when it is
really Z they need.
But in the future, I suggest you keep this kind of assumption for cases
where you have strong clues that it is the case or for when some time
has passed and no satisfactory answer was given.
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d not and now they want to edit each other's page.
Plus, I suspect just like the markdowku plugin, the one that does not
require explicitly saying , the buttons still produce custom
syntax.
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itor in another window.
I might be wrong, but it does not look remotely like a wiki. Would you
explain?
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but the custom
syntax is still there interacting with Markdown and the editor buttons
are still made for the custom syntax.
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but simple and reliable, I can give it a
try too.
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ll not need updating.
Only need to schedule for unexpected software breakage once every two to
five years.
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Andy Smith (12025-01-18):
> Why do you continue to post to this list
Why do you continue replying?
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is how far I am willing to discuss this.
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security control for at least 15 years. This should be no
> surprise to anyone nowadays.
I am not denying that. You made a different statement, that I leave
quoted, and you have nothing to support that statement.
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ten use compression to
> > > minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle.
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Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15):
> Probably better since disk controllers often use compression to
> minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle.
I find that statement highly dubious. Do you have a source?
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does not have to be as soon as the
mantissa is greater than one. Notice that the heights of mountains are
in meters, not in kilometers, even for the Himalaya. It is better to go
to M and only then switch to 9.77 G: more significant digits, not
less readable.
(Also, the people who designed the symbols for the prefixes really
dropped the ball with k instead of K, but that predates memory units by
a long time.)
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uences.
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as the benefit of not being overwritten on the
next upgrade.
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