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
>> "M.2 => NVMe" (the implication is currently true in the other
>> direction, tho, AFAIK).
> Not at all. We have many servers with U.2 and U.3 format disks,
> which look like classic 2.5" SSDs but use NVMe PCIe connections.
Aha! Thanks for setting me straight!
Stefan
y experience as well.
> Is one kind more long-lived than the other?
As a general rule, no, tho you could argue that by virtue of imposing
slower writes, the SATA interface can lead to a longer lifetime just
because it takes longer to reach the "TBW" limit. 🙂
Stefan
they
first have to wake up).
Note that I have no idea what's actually going on in your specific case.
Stefan
e Linux kernel rather than by
the machine's firmware (BIOS/UEFI/...)?
That would indeed explain how it knows whether it's encrypted. 🙂
Stefan
w does UEFI know about Debian's swap and how does it know whether
it's encrypted?
Stefan
rd
scaling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling) around 2007, we
don't know how to make CPUs faster, really. Progress is *very* slow.
That's why the number of cores has gone up, since we still know how to
do that. Sadly, for many tasks, additional cores make no difference.
Stefan
> a CPU that is less than the performance of an i5.
Side note: such a description is not very useful because a 10 year old
i7 can be significantly less powerful than a recent i3.
Stefan
to do it
on my 1GB Banana Pi, but not without trouble).
Not sure what this has to do with the RAM requirements of Debian, OTOH,
since the above problem would occur just as well under any other OS.
Stefan
MB should work as well.
If the RAM requirements are too tight for Debian (e.g. 128MB might be
impractical for Debian), OpenWRT may be a better option than an
old Debian.
Stefan
bian, it so
happens that Nextcloud is important enough that FreedomBox made a very
special exception for Nextcloud.
So, I don't know why you have the impression that it's not included:
it is. It's a recentish addition, so maybe the problem is simply that
you need to update your FreedomBox?
Stefan
AFAICT it can be moved to another partition, indeed, but all the images
still have to be stored in the same partition (on a file system which
Grub can read). IIUC in your case, they can each use their
own partitions.
Stefan
e `grub-imageboot` package for that.
AFAICT it requires you put the `.iso` files in `/boot/images/` which is
impractical for large ISOs, so maybe you could try and contribute your
code to that package.
Stefan
n your description of
the bug.
Stefan
tions.
Presumably encryption is not needed for localhost (tho I'm not
completely sure to what extent there could be non-root processes which
could listen on the connection via the loopback device), but as long as
you're not transferring large amounts of data the overhead of encryption
should be lost in the noise.
Stefan
e connected to the same
graphics card, but if you want to use them in a "multi-seat" setup,
they each want to run a separate Xorg server yet those servers need
to share the graphics card, as you mentioned. ]
Stefan
>>> On 05/11/2024 11:08, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> default browser: how would you get it to open a new tab in an existing
>>>> window when, e.g. `xdg-open` needs it?
Max Nikulin [2024-11-05 23:51:21] wrote:
> Is your problem that new window is opened instead o
Max Nikulin [2024-11-05 23:04:16] wrote:
> On 05/11/2024 11:08, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> But I'd like to be able to send URLs to NetSurf and can't figure out how
>> to do it. Am I missing something? Say you'd like to install it as your
>> default browser: ho
use `C-z` for that.
Stefan
ng? Say you'd like to install it as your
default browser: how would you get it to open a new tab in an existing
window when, e.g. `xdg-open` needs it?
Stefan
it used fairly frequently for
>> captchas and online credit card payment elements.
> That probably includes iframes (inline frames). I was talking about
> the HTML pre-5 and related tags.
Ah, thanks, makes sense!
Stefan
> process that would allow me to do this.
That's why I said "manually".
Stefan
has and online credit card payment elements.
Stefan
ub-efi, then reboot into my EFI config to "activate" the
right `.efi` installed into the EFI partition.
I started with the first choice, and then a few months later went
through the trouble of the third which required more fiddling and
reboots than I care to admit.
Stefan
works for people printing from
Android/ChromeOS devices (which may(?) be more numerous than GNU/Linux users).
Stefan
>> NVIDIA is a major pain in the ass with Linux. Which is why I do not
>> use them.
> Actually this is more Linux being a major pain in the ass to Nvidia.
Hmm... I haven't seen any sign that Nvidia suffers much, so I think it's
more clearly a pain inflicted on Linux.
Stefan
> Yep, after thinking a bit and poking the interwebs for good measure, I'm
> convinced now that you are right.
Miscreant!
Stefan
we want to get valuable
output, I suspect. IOW, I think it's not "just an abstraction layer".
Stefan
wadays I basically never print to paper from anything else than
my favorite PDF viewer (which does offer me to print any selected
subset of the pages). For everything else, I "print to PDF" (and then
use my PDF viewer to print to paper the parts I need, if that's
what I want).
Stefan
evice
> into its "Silicon Motion" state.
My guess is that the boot code (BIOS? Grub?) doesn't support USB3 (it
doesn't have a driver for the xHCI controller, only for the EHCI
controller).
Stefan
> (I do use less, FWIW).
FWIW, I do use less more as well, but I also use more, tho less so.
Stefan
> Not much of a film director but here a short video of the phenomenon.
Ah, that doesn't looks like a software problem, indeed.
Stefan
n it reminds me of a thing I've seen
on some laptops when the driver fails to initialize the
display properly (i.e. a software problem). Does it happen right away
at boot, or only later on (say, when the DRM driver is loaded, or when
X11 or Wayland is launched)?
Stefan
.
But of course, there's still the issue that "noone was fired for buying
", so any human-scale company offering support contracts
will tend to be overlooked, even if its bid is competitive.
Stefan "whose employer (Université de Montréal) spends >$10M
yearly on an Oracle support contract 🙁"
old system is still running (via `deboostrap`
and then `chroot`). It's more fiddly than using the normal Debian
installer, but that's my second favorite choice (my first choice is to
just clone some existing install, e.g. via `dd`).
Stefan
as a way to
detect unexpected changes in this size, but that is now impractical).
Stefan
ves me the impression you were not
using nvidia's proprietary drivers, which which case you don't/didn't
need `nvidia-settings` because `xrandr` (and the various front-ends for
it) should have worked fine.
Am I missing something?
Stefan
case it should be easy to diagnose simply by
listening to the drive.
Stefan
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