Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jul 18, 2025, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > > OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal > > system is from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but > > not with "10" which would then be "8" in oct

Please, double-check the URLs you post [was: SDD partitioning and allocations]

2025-07-16 Thread tomas
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 04:31:08PM -, Greg wrote: [...] > > https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/5928?utm_source=chatgpt.com ^^^ The above URL works *without* that pesky query string. Why do you have to promote that sleazy or

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 05:10:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen w

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

2025-07-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM wrote: > > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: > > > > > On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: > > [...] > > > Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's into s

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:20:05PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 04:09:25PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > but doesn't it all come down to the whims of the debian gods > > after all it is their's > > not really--anyone can start a forum, they just have to figure

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 04:09:25PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2025, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 03:53:08PM -, Greg wrote: > >> My understanding was that everyone here would be welcome to a more > >> commodious place for the newer generations f

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 02:48:20PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-10, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 19:34:58 +, Andy Smith wrote: > >>> once alternatives are provided and > >>> decently supported, people actively

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: [...] > I don't anything about Discourse's email bridging, if any -- There is. > my possibly naive take is that email users are distinctly second > class, they are, that's my experience. The most acute challenge with mail is that it

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:34:58PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 02:59:33PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I don't think removing email workflows (which implies removing mailing > > lists) is wise. > > > > Debian can support new ways to participate, like Social Medi

Re: sudo-rs (Was Re: Bugs?)

2025-07-10 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 03:48:52PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, [...] > As an aside, sudo-rs is packaged as of Debian 13 (trixie, currently > testing) and I've been using it for a week now without complaints. sudo > fans might like to give it a go. Now, now. Is it Rust -- or Go? [SCNR] -- t

Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

2025-07-10 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 01:41:51PM +0200, hw wrote: > On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 12:55 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > I'd have a look at /var/log/auth.log, or however this is spelt in > > systemd-ese these days. > > The log says nothing new: > > > [...] pure-ftpd: pam_unix(pure-ftpd:auth)

Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

2025-07-10 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:45:22PM +0200, hw wrote: > > Right. Anonymous logins are allowed and I have created a system account > 'ftp', and it still doesn't work. It keeps asking for a password when > trying to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'. > > I have the same on Fedora, and there it does not

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-07 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 09:44:11PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: [...] > The main point is to find out which system was hit. > According to the description it looks like the Linux server itself > wasn't hit, but a different system that can access files on the server > via network... Yes. The gue

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

2025-07-06 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 04:02:26AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to > > that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days > > ago. > > An

Re: Folders from user suddenly in trash

2025-07-06 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 07:33:19PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > On 06.07.2025 19:10 Uhr Charles Curley wrote: > > > That smacks of imminent hard drive failure. > > Run badblocks to test the entire disk. Sorry, folks. This is the totally wrong direction. If anything, there might be file system in

Re: Folders from user suddenly in trash

2025-07-06 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 11:06:42AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:41:47 +0200 > Hans wrote: > > > As I have no access to the computer at the moment, what can I do? > > What might cause this behaviour? > > > > This computer was well running for many years. > > That smacks

Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

2025-07-03 Thread tomas
our package might be missing some interesting functionality, but will work, in general. One example: tomas@caliban:~$ apt show xpdf Package: xpdf Version: 3.04+git20220601-1+b2 [...] Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libpaper1, libpoppler126 (>= 22.12.0), libs

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-03 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:08:27PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [...] > I've re-read original poster's message and now I think we all > mis-interpreted their request. > I think they asked for a suggestion about hardware, like a tablet computer, > or a handheld book reader capable of viewi

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-02 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 05:29:56AM +, Alif Radhitya wrote: > If thou art interested in minimalism, then go with 'Zathura'. Hmmm. tomas@caliban:~$ apt show zathura xpdf Package: zathura [...] Installed-Size: 723 kB Provides: zathura-abi-5 Depends: zathura-pdf-p

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-02 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 08:25:27AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 03.07.2025 04:47, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > i'm looking for a reader for pdf's and other media > > are there any running debian or other linux based distributions > > > "okular", "evince", "viewnior" to name a fe

Re: Using MUAs to bounce mail (was: Please, don't reply to spam ...)

2025-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 10:47:43AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 11:55:56AM +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > I absolutely love bouncing mails in mutt instead of forwarding. I need > > some mail on the address I use on my mobile: Just bounce it. I only do > > this to m

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list

2025-06-28 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 11:52:33AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Am Sa, Jun 28, 2025 at 10:11:09 +0900 schrieb John Crawley: > > > It is not the accepted meaning of the term. > > > https://github.com/mjg59/jargon/blob/master/bounce > > Mutt seems to have its own set of definitions which mutt users

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-27 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 05:04:14PM +0900, John Crawley wrote: [...] > I may be wrong here but my understanding of "bounce" is that the software > responsible for delivering a message (what I referred to as the "server") > decides not to deliver it, and sends it back to the original address. So

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-27 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 10:58:54AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: [...] > I think "bouncing" is something that should really be done on a server, not > by a user email agent, even a "good" one. Why do you think so? At least I gave a reason why bouncing from the MUA makes sense, and another for why

Spam on this list, top-posting and things.

2025-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Frank Weißer wrote: > Wherever you think it's neccessary; > but, first of all: You were informed by tomas, not to quote the original > posting! Why do you repeat doing so? I think because people don't even realise what their MUAs do. I

[subject censored]

2025-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 02:00:45PM +0200, 🦓 wrote: > I was not until now by you — Einstein forbade us to assume synchronicity! Now if you could change the Subject line, that would make the spam slightly less visible. And if you could stop top-posting... Sigh. One is allowed to dream, am I not?

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-25 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 03:18:05PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-06-24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> This like sounds like good and important advice, but how do you "bounce the > >> original message"? > > > > By using the "bounce" feature of your MUA. Only good ones have it. > > > >> Does that me

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-24 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 05:44:11PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 16:33:38 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM wrote: > > > > if you want to do everyone a favour, you bounce the original message

Re: Question

2025-06-24 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:41:09AM -0300, Denise wrote: > Hi, > > Your communication is unclear, what email should I contact then if the > support one is not equipped to handle my requests(which ideally should)? No, I think it was pretty clear: my mail was sent CC to the debian user's mailing lis

Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-24 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 09:45:43AM +0200, 🦓 wrote: > Schick einfach das Geld rüber und verpiss Dich aus geldbefreiten > Kommunistinnenkommunen! Bravo. That must have felt... great for you. Please, don't do that. You amplify the spam and incommodate the ~3k subscribers of this list. Then you top-p

Re: Question

2025-06-24 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 08:52:42PM -0300, Denise wrote: > Hi, hi, your question is better placed in the debian users mailing list (I added it to the CC). Debian-project is more for project coordination stuff. Please be so kind to remove debian-project from the CC when replying here. > I'm new t

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list

2025-06-20 Thread tomas
hat if the package owns sources.list, > > > then you should not edit it. You should allow the package maintainer > > > to edit or replace sources.list. Place your changes in > > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. > > > > tomas@caliban:~$ dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list > &g

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

2025-06-20 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:42:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2025-06-20 at 11:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > >> You will absolutely lose your sshd_config when the package is > >> upgraded and you choose the maintainers v

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

2025-06-20 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:15:47 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > SSH config files are located in /etc, too. But admins are expected to > > > make changes to /etc/ssh/s

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

2025-06-19 Thread tomas
urces.list.d/. tomas@caliban:~$ dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apt/sources.list It seems no package "owns" sources.list. Besides, it's in /etc, so by convention it would be a conffile [1], i.e. Debian expects the sysadmin to chan

Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

2025-06-17 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:21:04PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. > > > > I should precise that the PDF was downloaded. > > Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in > that sense (ignoring Adobe Acro

Re: Run script after package install, update?

2025-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 06:08:08PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > Aaah. I guess they mean Perl-y lists, like ["foo", "bar", "baz"]. Gah, no. That'd make an array ref. I wanted to write ("foo", "bar", "baz"). Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Run script after package install, update?

2025-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:33:09AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:07:41 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > So ultimately, my problem is addressed; however, the larger question > > is still open: is there in fact a straightforward way for a user, not > > the package maintainer,

Re: qcow2 maintanance

2025-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 10:59:38AM +0200, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > > How does that "unclean start" looks like? > > hmm let me explain, the Router (cli-based) don't start-up correctly, staring > but, the interfaces will stay still down (not possible to bring up), the used > Protocol not propagate

Re: Run script after package install, update?

2025-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 09:31:45AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM Nicholas Geovanis > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 9:15 PM Boyan Penkov wrote: > >> > >> Hello folks, > >> > >> I'm wiring to ask how to get apt to run a script after a particular > >

Re: qcow2 maintanance

2025-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 07:45:55AM +0200, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > Hello > > Please, do you also have experience with Qcow2 files?` > > > > now that I have about 15-20 qcow2 files, they are becoming more and more > susceptible to an unclean start. How does that "unclean start" looks like? >

Re: Question about letsencrypt certs

2025-06-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 05:01:33PM +0800, Y Peng wrote: > Hello, > > We have a Debian server that can connect to the internet in the test > environment. We installed a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate while > connected to the internet. However, after deploying this server to the > production env

Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?

2025-06-09 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 08:07:37AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 08:03:58AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 01:18:37AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Is the spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable? > > > > I think so. I think the general e

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-06-07 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 05:11:26PM +, Luca Saiu wrote: [...] > On 2025-05-20 at 14:40 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > My hunch is that the "-23" in your package name hints at a version > > number which might be obsolete. But I don't know. > > Now, that is incorrect. They chose to pack

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

2025-05-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:38:38AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-05-21): > > Actually, this makes a lot of sense (well, nearly): keep backup constantly > > synced, unmount/mount only on media rotation, carry freshly unmounted > > medium to safe place. > > It only becomes

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

2025-05-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:05:37AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Jonathan Dowland (HE12025-05-21): > > I'd like /backup permanently > > mounted > > Does it mean you like your backup drive to be permanently plugged to the > computer? That protects you from h

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:04:16PM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can > publish? If this is your reaction, I'll spare you my drivel, too. You won't hear from me further, promised. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:35:14AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM tomas wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > What do y

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:50:50AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The > backup script did the mount/rsync/unmount as part of the execution. > Really, th

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: [...] > > What do you do if you get two USBs containing file systems with > > the same UUID? > > Is that possible? I suppose it is.. so I'd go looking for how to > change the UUID for one of the usb dr

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:30:37AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM BST, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > why not > > > if ! mountpoint /mnt/usb-drive-b ; then ... > > > ? > > > > I'd not heard of either `mountpoint` or `fin

Re: Installing android devenv in Debian 12

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:24:46PM +0300, Roland Mueller wrote: > At least for Ubuntu 22.04 android-sdk-platform-23 is in the list of > available packages. > > $ apt list android-sdk\* > ... > android-sdk-platform-23/jammy,jammy 6.0.1+r72-6 all > ... For Debian, it seems to exist in buster, bulls

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:01:34PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Csányi Pál ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 20., K, 11:13): > > > > Hi, > > > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Androi

Re: Building an Android app using only Android SDK and development tools already available in Debian

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 01:02:35PM +0300, Brieuc Desoutter wrote: > Hum how about installing Jetbrains Android studio (via the jetbrains > toolbox > https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/) It has a funny license, though. Source is free, binaries aren't. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: P

Android development tools on Debian [was: empty subject]

2025-05-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:08:28AM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > on the Debian 12 Bookworm operating system I want to make android apps. > > I would follow the advice on these websites: > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools > and > https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps > >

Re: Recall: Grub struct the OS reboot

2025-05-19 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 05:49:34AM +, Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > renh...@lenovo.com would like to recall the message, "Grub struct the OS > reboot". Hi, I read your first message, and couldn't make much sense of it. Quite possibly, others are in the same situation as me and don't answer fo

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-18 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 09:42:45AM -0400, COMCAST wrote: > What file does in Linux use to the store network address in? Whose network address? And: what do you mean by "store"? Could you please explain what you are trying to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:02:03PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > thanks You are welcome :-) > i understand the no host hash in an industrial setting > but in a home network it seems unnecessary Well -- there are mixed cases. In my

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
ing ssh-keygen(1). Use of this option may break facili‐ ties such as tab-completion that rely on being able to read unhashed host names from ~/.ssh/known_hosts. ...and the default in Debian is: tomas@caliban:~$ grep -i hash /etc/ssh/ssh_config HashKnownHosts yes ...so th

Re: inadyn client

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 07:04:43PM +0200, sa...@laurenz.ws wrote: > Moin, Moin das ist eine englischsprachige Liste. Die wenigsten Menschen hier können Deutsch, möglicherweise willst Du diese hier: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ (Mit inadyn kenne ich mich leider gar nicht aus, s

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 04:09:10PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: [...] > as an aside > in known_hosts there are many key fingerprints with no host identification > is there a way to identify what host the fingerprint is for The file format is described in man 8 sshd. Those with "no host

Re: Re (2): Shell function.

2025-05-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:41:00AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 08:05:50 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Currently have this. > > ev () { /usr/bin/evince "$@" & } > > > > DISPLAY is set in .bashrc now. Not needed in trivial functions. > > Why are you setting the DISP

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-14 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 10:04:11AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/05/2025 11:29, tomas wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > I have noticed that deprecated wireless-tools have some kind of > > > integration > &

Re: Dell wifi switch

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 03:15:16AM +, xuser wrote: > Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side > The wireless card is an Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN > It is supported Hm. I once had a Thinkpad X with a hard switch where that one mechanically failed. That ended up with a m

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 13/05/2025 22:55, tomas wrote: > > > >sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scanning > > To avoid a tool that is claimed to be a deprecated one: > > sudo iw dev wlp2s0 scan > > > (With ifupdown I can h

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:50:34AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/13/25 10:57 AM, David Wright wrote: [...] > > $ /sbin/rfkill > > > > should show what's blocked, and sudo rfkill unblock all > > should unblock it. > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Thank you! > > Just installing rfkill solve

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 08:45:41AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/12/25 10:25 PM, Paul Scott wrote: [...] > I see where it says that the wlp2s0 is DOWN > > I'm not having great luck finding a command to bring it up after looking at > > man ip sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up ...but of course thi

Re: Dell wifi switch

2025-05-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Greg wrote: > On 5/13/25 04:44, xuser wrote: > > I just want it to work > > You need to provide us more details, there are no "universal suggestions". > Is the wifi adapter recognized by the kernel, what version of Debian do you > use, do you know how to t

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:55:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [...] > > The embedded cost in older machines has amortised over a longer > > period. > > What are you even talking about? Longer life: you divvy up the manufacturing (and shipping, and...) over a longer time. > > I don't follow yo

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:44:09AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: [...] > This thread is a waist of time! You seem to like waisting your time. Wait until it is the wrist's turn... Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:26:21AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: [...] > Or maybe just maybe Mental Health Counseling? Grumpy today? Jeez. Go do some sports. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:02:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 10:55:07PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Clearly, there's a limit beyond which it doesn't make any sense any > > more, but it usually makes sense to keep operating old electronic > > devices as long as they

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:38:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > I'm interested in this topic, so I've done a little research > online. Many folks look at energy consumption in terms of CO2 > emissions, as a useful proxy for direct energy use. Thanks for the links! I'm interested in this

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:53:26AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: > This whole thread is INSANE!!! What is this with some people wanting to prescribe others what to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:41:07PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: > > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect > would be the mouse hardware. > > If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the > wireless mouse. Or the b

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-06 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:41:05AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon May 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM BST, Bret Busby wrote: > > What is Potato? Is that about 3.0, or 3.1? > > It was my first Debian version: release in August 2000. > > > > Would it still be supported with security patches? > > No,

Re: Request for Snapdragon X Plus Support and Development for ASUS Q5507QA-S15 Laptop

2025-05-06 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:53:54AM +0330, Reza Bojnordi wrote: > Dear Debian > > I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to inquire about the > possibility of enhanced support and development for the Snapdragon X Plus > processor, specifically for my laptop model, the ASUS Q5507QA-S1

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:06:05AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/04/2025 20:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, > > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > At some point, it'd been in

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 10:32:26AM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > > How do we know that? Has the OP sent you a private message showing > the mdns requests going out to the network? > If no then I would say we don't know if their machine is trying to do > mdns or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de > wrote: > > > > > > > That was my guess. By now I think it is irrelevant, since we > > advanced to the mDNS issue. At some point, it'd been interesting > > whether y

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 12:40:54PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > While it is a good idea to have tshark, we already know that > > the OP's machine > > > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > > - that part is failing.

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:36:17PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: [...] > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Not particularly. > > > > Try this: > > > > sudo apt install tshark > > sudo tshark -f 'port 53

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:56:26PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > Hi, > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. Thanks for those. Another one which might be of interest (I suggest you don't obfuscate the IP addresses; otherwise it's on yo

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 01:32:45PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when > I use it, > nothing is retured: > > $ which tlmgr > /usr/bin/tlmgr > > $ locate tlmgr > [nothing returnsd] > >

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:30:43AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > 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

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-23 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a > > dedicated structure to explicitly mark tables? It would be the best > > source for data extraction. > > > ISO 14

Re: Self compiling entire Bookworm DVD-1

2025-04-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 01:26:44PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:58:52 + > Nils wrote: > > > Hey! > > > > I'd like to compile all of DVD-1 myself but using `-Oz` to optimize > > for binary size rather than speed. How do I do that? Where do I > > start? I could only find infos on

Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

2025-04-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 04:19:43PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21): > > $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; if > > ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘ > > I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the > symmetrical ASCII one; t

Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

2025-04-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 07:34:13AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 08:04:44 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] quite possibly Perl's engine has been refined (it definitely has > > been extended) since then. [...] > It still has the issue. > > hobbit:~$ time perl -e '$

Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 12:08:53AM +, David wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 17:42, wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:58:31PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > Err, did you notice the bit in that reference that says: "It documents > > > regular expressions in the form availa

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:58:31PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > wrote: [...] > > Note that regular expressions come in slightly different flavours. > > Going by Kate's documentation [1] on this topic they seem to be > > PCRE or a variant thereof. > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] > > ht

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:45:58AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using > > > "regular > > > expressions". > > > > >

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using "regular > expressions". > > I had stated using Kate for the project. > > I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be > helpful if I coul

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 11:13:19PM +0200, Paul Duncan wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 12:10, Richmond wrote: > > > Roger Price writes: > > > > > > > > Some people will try it on though, like saying your posts have to wrap > > at 72 characters or their email client can't cope. > > > > Is that be

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 05:35:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] > Hi Gene, > > This is probably off topic for the subject of the thread above but - > > You always claim that stuff is grossly broken: in this instance, CUPS > is probably *not* broken. The problem is that the free drivers

Re: Do you have a list of people who work on home computers?

2025-04-19 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 11:06:48AM +, Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello, > > I know of the index at https://www.debian.org/consultants/, but the first > person I reached out to says they only work for businesses, not individuals. Depending on your whereabouts there might be a local free software,

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 01:35:19PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 18/4/25 13:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and > > > ask > > > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. > > After this, I'd double-check each indivi

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 11:09:52AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: [...] > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and ask > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. After this, I'd double-check each individual number. You'll never know if they are being made up,

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > > ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their > audio part : > > « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 » (H264 > - MPEG-

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