Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Try it! If you notice an important performance penalty, *then* come back with the numbers and the details of your setup, so someone c

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Hans writes: > This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Every packet is routed by the kernel. There is no seperate "AP". How much delay matters? Ping should be under a millis

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:40:07 +0200 Hans wrote: > > Then use NGINX with RTMP-module listening on its standard port and > streaming with RTMP from Computer A to Computer B to the standard > port. > > Everything without any AP or router between. > > The stream can then be made visible with VLC

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Hans writes: > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will be then > again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, a software router is > sklower than a hardware device). I haven't tried this, but take a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc https://help.u

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-04 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-30, John Hasler wrote: > Hans writes: >> This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer >> would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and >> routing to the host. > > Every packet is routed by the kernel. There is no seperate "AP". > > How much

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-04 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 30. März 2025, 21:41:30 CEST schrieb debian-u...@howorth.org.uk: > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [snip] > > > If you make the storage server the access point > > What storage server? > I thought this was about live video display from a drone? Oh sorry, maybe I did the wrong expr

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-04 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 29. März 2025, 19:21:39 CEST schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > >> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > > > > > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > > > be then again a new hop, w

Re: OT: Re: Web server access

2025-04-03 Thread john doe
On 4/3/25 21:43, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2025-04-03 at 15:16 +0200, john doe wrote: On 4/3/25 01:19, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 15:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: I added port 443 only because my router converted the port 80 request to a port 443 request. I eventually worked

Re: OT: Re: Web server access

2025-04-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-03 at 15:16 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 4/3/25 01:19, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 15:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > I added port 443 only because my router converted the port 80 > > request > > to a port 443 request. I eventually worked out the reason f

[SOLVED] Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-31 Thread Hans
Hi folks, thank you very much for all your respose! It was so hepfull amnd I have again again a lot. You showed me different ways using software AP, ad-hoc and gave me many informations. I will test all these things now, what will take me some time. All my questions are fully answered and so

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread debian-user
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: [snip] > If you make the storage server the access point What storage server? I thought this was about live video display from a drone?

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 15:40:07 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when using a > cable. Maybe I did not use the correct English idiom... Yes

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread Joe
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:40:07 +0200 Hans wrote: > Hi David, > > > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > > > > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when > using a cable. Maybe I did not use the correct Eng

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread Hans
Hi David, > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when using a cable. Maybe I did not use the correct English idiom... > where E and ∃ are ethernet sockets. (You don't norm

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 29. März 2025, 19:21:39 CEST schrieb Stefan Monnier: > >> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > > > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > > be then again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, > > a software router

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Joe
On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:37:39 +0100 Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore that. > > > > Example at: > > > >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > be then again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, > a software router is sklower than a hardware device). No, if one of the PCs is the AP, then c

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore that. > > > > Example at: > > >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > ignore that. > > Example at: > > http://souktha.github.io/misc/create-ap-linuxpc/ > > Cheers, >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 23:41, Hans wrote: It is not important, if a router is givng the devices an IP-address. So I do not need any dhcp. The IP-addresses can of course be set manually by me. The more problem I see, will be the encryption and passkey-exchange, if needed. However, I do not need encryption,

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
To clarify the access point will typically assign a subset of a class-C > range for DHCP. It will usually be O.K. to assign static addresses in > the same class C but out of the DHCP range > > An alternative depending on the router is to configure the router to > have fixed DHCP addresses based o

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 23:01, jeremy ardley wrote: On 29/3/25 22:53, Hans wrote: But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer B as gateway, and the other way round. Of course I my thinking was wrong (otherwise it would have be

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 22:53, Hans wrote: But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer B as gateway, and the other way round. Of course I my thinking was wrong (otherwise it would have been worked). The WiFi router usually assi

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan > without any router? > > I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. > > But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed

SOLVED (Was: Re: OT what is META_ATTENDEES_DBSPAM1?)

2025-03-17 Thread 황병희
Hellow Hanno, On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 13:28 +0100, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2025, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Looking at e.g. <877c4p5503@thinkpad-e495.home.arpa> which has > > almost no > > words in it, yet has META_ATTENDEES_DBSPAM1=10; can you confirm

Re: OT what is META_ATTENDEES_DBSPAM1?

2025-03-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon Mar 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM GMT, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: because spammer use some words quite often and we use these words as detection of spammers. Looking at e.g. <877c4p5503@thinkpad-e495.home.arpa> which has almost no words in it, yet has META_ATTENDEES_DBSPAM1=10; can you con

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 17/12/24 at 22:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > There may be one logic error in the code -- if you insert one item, > > then you may double free the node because you free 'p' and then you > > free 'last'. > > > > I would rewrite

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Franco Martelli
On 17/12/24 at 22:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM Franco Martelli wrote: On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Here's the problem: void dealloc() { for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) if ( p->prev != NULL )

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:45:43AM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > 18 Dec 2024 05:03:12 to...@tuxteam.de: > > > I'm all for concise code, but I usually revert some things in a second > > pass when they seem to hurt clarity. After all, you write your code for > > other people to read it. > > As you

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
18 Dec 2024 05:03:12 to...@tuxteam.de: > I'm all for concise code, but I usually revert some things in a second > pass when they seem to hurt clarity. After all, you write your code for > other people to read it. As you wrote the code then uness that second pass is weeks or months later then cla

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Franco Martelli writes: > Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis - "C A Software Engineering Approach": > > https://www.google.it/books/edition/_/1nsS5q9aZOUC?hl=it&gbpv=0 > > Do you have it too? It's pretty old, with some typo, but it looks to > me good. Sorry, no, doesn't look familiar. I rememb

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 04:18:17PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 16:09:09 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I would rewrite the cleanup code like so: > > > > void dealloc() > > { > > DIGIT *next, *p = head; > > while( p ) > > next = p->nex

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 17/12/2024 à 12:20, Anssi Saari a écrit : Franco Martelli writes: I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. Just curious, whi

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 16:09:09 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I would rewrite the cleanup code like so: > > void dealloc() > { > DIGIT *next, *p = head; > while( p ) > next = p->next, free( p ), p = next; > } The logic looks good, but I'm not a fan of thi

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Here's the problem: > > > > void dealloc() > > { > > for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) > > if ( p->prev != NULL ) > > free( p->prev ); >

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Here's the problem: void dealloc() { for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) if ( p->prev != NULL ) free( p->prev ); free( last ); } You seem to be checking backwards (p->prev) but walking the list

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Franco Martelli
On 17/12/24 at 12:20, Anssi Saari wrote: Franco Martelli writes: I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. Just curious, which handbook is

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Franco Martelli writes: > I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, > I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to > ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. Just curious, which handbook is it?

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread songbird
Franco Martelli wrote: ... > I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, I'd > like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to ask him > for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. > Does anybody know a mailing-list for C language questions? comp

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM Franco Martelli wrote: I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available an

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 20:42, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 16 Dec 2024 17:21 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): Put in something to count the number of calls to malloc() and free() respectively. Don't forget calls outside of loops. There isn't calls to malloc() or free() outside loops.

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 17:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 17:34:36 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: void dealloc() { for ( const DIGIT *p = head; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) if ( p->prev != NULL ) free( p->prev ); free( last ); }

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to > check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was > used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available anymore for Bookworm > (does anybody know

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 16 Dec 2024 17:21 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): >> Put in something to count the number of calls to malloc() and free() >> respectively. Don't forget calls outside of loops. > > There isn't calls to malloc() or free() outside loops. What do you mean? >From a quick re-gla

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:05:26 +0100 Franco Martelli wrote: > I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. By all means do the exercises in your handbook as a learning experience. After that, I have found very useful Roger Sessions, Reusable Data Structures For C, Prentice Hall (1989). -- D

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 17:34:36 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > > > void dealloc() > > > { > > > for ( const DIGIT *p = head; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) > > > if ( p->prev != NULL ) > > > free( p->prev ); > > > free( last ); > > > } > > > > I think you might ha

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 16:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 16:05:26 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: void add_element( unsigned int i ) { DIGIT *p; /* If the first element (the head) has not been * created, create it now. */ if ( head == NULL )

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Franco Martelli
On 16/12/24 at 16:43, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 16 Dec 2024 16:05 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): Is there a memory leak? What it sounds strange to me is that Valgrind reports: "total heap usage: 9 allocs, 8 frees, …" when for me the calls to "malloc" should be 8, not 9.

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 16:05:26 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > void add_element( unsigned int i ) > { > DIGIT *p; > /* If the first element (the head) has not been > * created, create it now. > */ > if ( head == NULL ) > { > head = last = (DIGIT *

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 16 Dec 2024 16:05 +0100, from martelli...@gmail.com (Franco Martelli): > Is there a memory leak? What it sounds strange to me is that Valgrind > reports: "total heap usage: 9 allocs, 8 frees, …" when for me the calls to > "malloc" should be 8, not 9. Put in something to count the number of call

Re: OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread Bitfox
On 2024-11-25 01:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: For $DEITY's sake, folks. Try to stick to the message, not the person. Everything else makes a mailing list unlivable. Totally agree with you Tomas. Everyone's knowledge background is different, like me who is a beginner. The community should tr

Re: OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread tomas
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:37:03AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 11/24/24 09:51, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:07:57PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:38:56PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Groeten > > Geert Stappers > > > > This person

Re: OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:37:03AM +0100, john doe wrote: > This person is known to try to flame a conversation and is also doing > that kind of trolling on the dnsmasq mailing list. Meanwhile over on debian-devel they are applying cluebats to screen reader users for top posting. Just not a

Re: ot: firefox password manager

2024-11-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/11/24 02:16, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: i'm using the latest release of firefox, 132.0.2 it's very annoying i use the password manager and have a password previously firefox would ask for my password when i start it now it ask for my password every time i encounter a site login screen i

Re: OT: Re: I am about to give up

2024-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 04:27:38AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [29 lines of pointless narrative removed] > Suddenly I have zero write perms to anyplace forever. That is whats > new. Apparently with the update to 12.8. No one will ever be able to explain this for you because as usual you do not sh

Re: OT: Re: I am about to give up

2024-11-11 Thread gene heskett
On 11/11/24 03:32, john doe wrote: On 11/10/24 13:49, gene heskett wrote: I have just spent the better part of the night trying to copy a 37k firmware.bin file to an sd card. file generated on a bananapi-m5 but getting no perms responses. How is this related to Debian, what is the point of a

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread debian-user
"Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > I've already accumulated pretty long list. They all point to > different ISP networks in China. > The only thing I'm certain of is that they use "bttracker.debian.org" > to get peer information. > Maybe this is somehow tied to "webseed peer" of > "debian-12.5.0-

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread debian-user
"Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > On 22.10.2024 08:17, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 22/10/2024 03:21, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > >> If I manually throttle these connections they disconnect after > >> some time and soon after a new connection from another IP from the > >> same subnet or differe

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 22.10.2024 08:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 22/10/2024 03:21, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If I manually throttle these connections they disconnect after some time and soon after a new connection from another IP from the same subnet or different network establishes. May it happen that their i

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 22.10.2024 05:25, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 6:28 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 21.10.2024 16:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:  they actually speaking the BitTorrent protocol? Could this be caused by simply connecting to the host (in some kind of por

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/10/2024 03:21, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If I manually throttle these connections they disconnect after some time and soon after a new connection from another IP from the same subnet or different network establishes. May it happen that their internet providers have NAT and pools of I

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 6:28 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 21.10.2024 16:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > they actually speaking the BitTorrent protocol? Could this be caused by > simply connecting to the host (in some kind of port scan), or perhaps > connecting and probing for some oth

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 21.10.2024 16:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 20/10/2024 15:44, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Hello. I host some Debian ISO images via BitTorrent, among other things and recently I have noticed very high interest in one torrent in particular: "debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso". My torrent

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic_from_China_IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:32:43 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > can we please have a call to order ? Hear, hear! While the subject is fascinating (except for the name-calling), it is well off topic. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/bl

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 20/10/2024 15:44, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Hello. I host some Debian ISO images via BitTorrent, among other things and recently I have noticed very high interest in one torrent in particular: "debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso". My torrent client shows multiple connections from various ne

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic_from_China_IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, can we please have a call to order ? David wrote: > In fact, the only thing you have shown here is the effect American > control over German media has managed to turn Germany into the shithole > it currently finds itself in. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: OT: Re: Information mise à jour de vos données professionnelles

2024-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 6:39 AM john doe wrote: > > On 10/5/24 19:38, Roger Price wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, err...@free.fr wrote: > > [...] > > > > Could a moderator or administrator remove and BAN Espacebusiness from > > the Debian list? Their commercial messages have no relation to Debian,

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-13 Thread Peter Ehlert
my personal experience: On 9/10/24 05:37, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Larry Martell wrote: What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and would love to know about them. As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or astigmatism, another reason for

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread eben
On 9/10/24 12:22, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:21 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Hello James and Larry, Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. In the UK, Opticians businesses typically have on Optometrist on the

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread debian-user
"James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > > One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an > > optician. > > Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an > ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for >

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:21 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Hello James and Larry, >Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an >ophthalmologist or an optometrist. In the UK, Opticians businesses typically have on Optometrist on the premises. Consequently, the term Opt

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 9/10/24 7:42 AM, Larry Martell wrote: One would be better to see an ophthalmologist as opposed to an optician. Correct. An optician can only fill a prescription written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And depending on where you go for eye care, and your own particular needs, you m

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-10 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 5:38 AM wrote: > > Larry Martell wrote: > > What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and > > would love to know about them. > > As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or > astigmatism, another reason for not being able to driv

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > What I am exactly want to do: > > I have 5 live-build directories. In each I am starting my own script, which > is > setting variables and so on for the individual build and does some other > things (rennamin and copying the resulted ISO and so on). So you're asking how to do a

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Hans
What I am exactly want to do: I have 5 live-build directories. In each I am starting my own script, which is setting variables and so on for the individual build and does some other things (rennamin and copying the resulted ISO and so on). As each build must be started within the live-build dir

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread DdB
Am 06.09.2024 um 12:25 schrieb Hans: > Dear list, > > I am stuck with a little problem and know no one, whom I can ask. So I allow > me to ask here. > > I have several directories, and in each directory there is a shell script, > which MUST be started within and from its path. > > Now I wan

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 07:32:41AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 11:10:16 +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Is there a reason not to just make these scripts cd to their own > > directory so the caller doesn't have to care? > > > > cd "$(dirname "$0")" > > https://mywiki.wo

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Nicolas George
Andy Smith (12024-09-06): > cd "$(dirname "$0")" … || exit Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 11:10:16 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is there a reason not to just make these scripts cd to their own > directory so the caller doesn't have to care? > > cd "$(dirname "$0")" https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/028

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 12:25:11 +0200, Hans wrote: > I have several directories, and in each directory there is a shell script, > which MUST be started within and from its path. I'm not clear on what "within and from its path" means here, but let's suppose you mean "I have to cd there first, an

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 12:25:11PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I have several directories, and in each directory there is a shell script, > which MUST be started within and from its path. Is there a reason not to just make these scripts cd to their own directory so the caller doesn't have to care?

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

2024-08-04 Thread fxkl47BF
On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, Dan Ritter wrote: > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: >> i have a asrock q1900 pro3 >> 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' >> i have debian 11 running with no problems >> the board has vga and hdmi >> i am only able to get a display via vga >> any suggestions on how to

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

2024-08-03 Thread fxkl47BF
On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, Dan Ritter wrote: > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: >> i have a asrock q1900 pro3 >> 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' >> i have debian 11 running with no problems >> the board has vga and hdmi >> i am only able to get a display via vga >> any suggestions on how to

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

2024-08-03 Thread Felix Miata
fxkl47BF@ composed on 2024-08-04 00:28 (UTC): > i have a asrock q1900 pro3 > 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' > i have debian 11 running with no problems > the board has vga and hdmi > i am only able to get a display via vga > any suggestions on how to enable the hdmi > i see nothing

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

2024-08-03 Thread Dan Ritter
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i have a asrock q1900 pro3 > 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' > i have debian 11 running with no problems > the board has vga and hdmi > i am only able to get a display via vga > any suggestions on how to enable the hdmi > i see nothing related in the

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
> Here is the AI script! > > It is all CLI/TUI, all FOSS, and all local execution/storage > as well. [...] I have stored it here: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ai/ori I'm very happy with this solution and would like to thank everyone for helping me out and making me aware of new concepts and t

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
Here is the AI script! It is all CLI/TUI, all FOSS, and all local execution/storage as well. #! /bin/zsh # # Find the most original sentence in a text file. # # uses: # mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2.Q5_K_M.llamafile # llamafile v0.8.5 # # usage: # $ ori input.txt # outputs to input-ori.txt src=

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
> Anyway, the context is big enough to play around with for > now then. Yes, this method works, I think? I used it again with CONTEXT / QUERY and, as context, had the 5 first parts of this: http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/starship_troopers.txt then query: What sentence is the most origina

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
jeremy ardley wrote: > Ask ChatGPT4 . Explain what you are trying to do and get it > to give you a suitable context and prompt I don't know what to ask exactly, maybe I can ask ChatGPT4 ... > localdocs contains text you trust that can be used in > responses in preference to something synthesised

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/7/24 13:52, Emanuel Berg wrote: jeremy ardley wrote: Then create a prompt/context with the search text and instructions to generate a similarity index and report any that meet some threshold. You will have to get the results in some format such as json and post process You may want t

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
jeremy ardley wrote: > Then create a prompt/context with the search text and > instructions to generate a similarity index and report any > that meet some threshold. > > You will have to get the results in some format such as json > and post process > > You may want to get ChatGPT 4 to help you cr

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
> The answer is 1. "Here, in this thread, the context thing > with respect to AI, anyone having any luck knowing what to > do with that?" > > This sentence is original because it starts the discussion > about context in the thread. Ah, there we have the next project: The 'origin' string function!

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
jeremy ardley wrote: > the 2048 is tokens which is approximately the number of > words in a prompt, so not character count. Ah, right. > The context explains how you want it to respond and the > prompt is the actual question. See the other mail, I don't know if the labels should look in a certa

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
So I used a text file mail.txt and fed it to the AI. Well, well! What do you say? I'll let you read the whole file to find out who won - and why! Here is what the mail.txt file looked like: Here is the context: >> Here, in this thread, the context thing with respect to AI, >> anyone having any

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/7/24 12:56, Emanuel Berg wrote: You can, but how much? So this is the context? You mean include it in the prompt? Then it is more easy to find in the llamafile(1) man page, it is probably this -c N, --ctx-size N Set the size of the prompt context. A larger

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
jeremy ardley wrote: >> Here, in this thread, the context thing with respect to AI, >> anyone having any luck knowing what to do with that? It is >> mentioned 14 times in llamafile(1) but not how to actually >> set it up with your own data? > > One way to set context is via the http api which is o

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread jeremy ardley
On 14/7/24 11:41, Emanuel Berg wrote: I've made several improvements, including adding the `string-distance-percentage' that was mentioned. But let's forget about that branch [1] or visit that URL for the latest source on that. Here, in this thread, the context thing with respect to AI, anyon

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
> Okay, let's do it like this, here is the file, maybe > I'm blind. Here is it for download as well if you want to use your own pager: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/tmp/llamafile.1 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
> I yank the source last [...] I've made several improvements, including adding the `string-distance-percentage' that was mentioned. But let's forget about that branch [1] or visit that URL for the latest source on that. Here, in this thread, the context thing with respect to AI, anyone having a

Re: [OT] Re: the 'original' string function?

2024-07-13 Thread Emanuel Berg
tomas wrote: > If you are doing this in Emacs Lisp, after all, there /is/ > a Levenshtein distance function in there. Finding its name > is left as an exercise to the reader, though... (I know of course, `string-distance'.) I thought I was just going to experiment some in Elisp but now I've done

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