Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-14 Thread Linux-Fan
Loris Bennett writes: Hi, I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. I want to convert this email to a PDF file. [...] Does anyone have a better suggestion? If you can get your e-mail in .eml format, you could use a tool specifically targeted at converting e-

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 2/13/25 03:32, Loris Bennett wrote: Hi, I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. I want to convert this email to a PDF file. If I save the mail to a file I get: $ file einladung.txt einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text Does anyone have a be

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Richmond
On 13/02/2025 10:32, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. > I want to convert this email to a PDF file. > > You can print the file into a pdf from a web browser. Put file:/// into the location bar and navigate to the text file, select it and

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF (addendum)

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
I got this information from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line[1] where are shown other ways, too. Best Hans [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
Hi Loris, you wrote > $ file einladung.txt > einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text So you already have a simple textfile. Did you try the following? enscript einladung.txt -o - | ps2pdf - einladung.pdf Please note, "enscript" is a package which can easily be installed witrh ap

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Loris Bennett
ung.txt >> einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text >> >> I have tried the following approaches to converting to PDF: >> >> 1. a2ps + ps2pdf >> >> This fails because a2ps seemingly can't handle UTF-8. >> >> 2. pandoc >

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Rand Pritelrohm writes: > On 2025-02-13 11:32:09, Loris Bennett wrote: > >> Hi, >> > [snip] >> >> Does anyone have a better suggestion? >> > [snip] > > Hello, > > I use with success 'paps' > https://github.com/dov/paps > > Maybe you can find it in repos. 'paps' is indeed available for bookwo

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Rand Pritelrohm
On 2025-02-13 11:32:09, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > Does anyone have a better suggestion? > [snip] Hello, I use with success 'paps' https://github.com/dov/paps Maybe you can find it in repos. Regards, Rand

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
acs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. > I want to convert this email to a PDF file. > > If I save the mail to a file I get: > > $ file einladung.txt > einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text > > I have tried the following approaches to co

Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. I want to convert this email to a PDF file. If I save the mail to a file I get: $ file einladung.txt einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text I have tried the following approaches to converting to PD

Re: Converting an old Chromebook to pure Debian, was: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-13 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:55:02AM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, inspired by: > > On 11/07/2022 08:32, john doe wrote: > > > I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks), do you > > have any suggestions/ideas? > > > My local Cash-Converter/Generator(s) have plenty of old

Re: Converting an old Chromebook to pure Debian, was: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 11/07/2022 12:20, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > On 11/07/2022 08:32, john doe wrote: > > > > > > > I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks), do you > > > > have any suggestions/ideas? > > > > > > > > > My local Cash-Converter

Re: Converting an old Chromebook to pure Debian, was: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:36 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On 11/07/2022 08:32, john doe wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks), do you > > > have any suggestions/ideas? > > > > > > My local Cash-Converter/Generator(s) have plenty of ol

Re: Converting an old Chromebook to pure Debian, was: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 11/07/2022 08:32, john doe wrote: > > > I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks), do you > > have any suggestions/ideas? > > > My local Cash-Converter/Generator(s) have plenty of old-ish Chromebooks for > £50 or less. > > I know it's possible t

Re: Converting a BIOS (CSM) Debian installation into UEFI

2022-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Feb 2022 at 14:20:55 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-02-15 10:11 (UTC-0600): > > > Is anything else required for B to become a "native EFI" installation? > > > This conversion process will, I think, make the system boot into > > the EFI-ed B by default. If I

Re: Converting a BIOS (CSM) Debian installation into UEFI

2022-02-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2022-02-15 10:11 (UTC-0600): > Is anything else required for B to become a "native EFI" installation? > This conversion process will, I think, make the system boot into > the EFI-ed B by default. If I want to make E boot by default again, > should I boot E and run update-

Converting a BIOS (CSM) Debian installation into UEFI

2022-02-15 Thread David Wright
With the threads on "Stupid question" and "Throw an hard drive" in d-u at the moment, this seems timely: I have a drive which contains two Debian installations, one of which (B) was installed for BIOS booting, and the other (E) was installed with EFI booting. I would like to convert B into a EFI s

Re: converting Python2 to Python3

2022-01-31 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-01-30 at 23:01, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > FWIW, here are my notes from converting a couple small private scripts: > > > > * Note that 2to3 does not change the shebang line. And the actual > > command in Debian10 [and 11] is

Re: converting Python2 to Python3

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
am codebase, ran the >> '2to3' tool (from the package of the same name) against the codebase, >> committed the result, and started doing "build" / run tests of the >> updated code (including comparisons back and forth with the untouched >> Python 2 versio

converting Python2 to Python3 (was: sparse dictionary)

2022-01-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
the same name) against the codebase, > committed the result, and started doing "build" / run tests of the > updated code (including comparisons back and forth with the untouched > Python 2 version of the codebase). FWIW, here are my notes from converting a couple small private sc

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Paul M Foster writes: On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:46:09PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] > pdflatex is provided by package texlive-latex-base. > > Some hints about which packages might be needed can be seen in pandoc's > "Suggests": > > ~$ aptitude show pandoc [snip] Thanks. When I used "-t

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On April 1, 2021 4:45:03 PM CDT, Paul M Foster wrote: >On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:46:09PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > >> Paul M Foster writes: >> >> > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when >I try, >> > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Apr 2021 at 17:22:31 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:41:30PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > > try, > > > pandoc dumps out with an erro

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:46:09PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Paul M Foster writes: > > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I try, > > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other > > similar converter to do its job. No such "pdflatex" pac

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:12:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:41:30 +0100 > Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > > try, > > > pandoc dumps out with an error th

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:41:30PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > try, > > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other > > similar converter to do i

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:41:30 +0100 Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > try, > > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other > > similar converter to do its job

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Linux-Fan
Paul M Foster writes: I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I try, pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other similar converter to do its job. No such "pdflatex" package exists in the Buster stable archives. I'm sure something does this, b

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > try, > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other > similar converter to do its job. No such "pdflatex" package exists in > the > Buster stabl

Converting markdown to PDF

2021-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I try, pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other similar converter to do its job. No such "pdflatex" package exists in the Buster stable archives. I'm sure something does this, but I don't know what it i

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. I think what you're trying to do is quite difficult. It's a bit easier than OCR, but still hard enough that it's not well supported by any tool that I know.

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 01 Mar 06:55 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > A suggested tool? > > I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", > > will solve your problems. > > It can chan

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:58 AM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on ma

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With that in mind I had already posted to a list fo

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? -dsr-

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. > > pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining > format of original. I

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\bookmarks and text search. For me reading documents in

Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining format of original. Its rigidity results in a fixed number of *characters* per line irr

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > > missing. This seems to be no good except with DVDs. Besides

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:10:49 +0100 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-06-24 11:32, Michael Lange wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 > > mick crane wrote: > > > > (...) > >> > which seems to work well here). > >> > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, ob

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-24 11:32, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 mick crane wrote: (...) > which seems to work well here). > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, obviously > it's far superior to similar programs that come with debian. And it > can create >

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was finally able to find an app which does what I want > (https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/) Any chance this can be packaged for Debian? Stefan

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 mick crane wrote: (...) > > which seems to work well here). > > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, obviously > > it's far superior to similar programs that come with debian. And it > > can create > > good looking vobsub subtitles in le

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-23 15:31, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > missing. This seems to

[solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > > missing. This seems to be no good except with DVDs. Besides

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > > missing. This seems to be no good except with DVDs. Besides

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:51:51 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > > Well, maybe I will not and maybe I would be able to cut down the > > computing time to three quarters of an hour. Still not an entirely > > convincing solution if one has to recode the video only to c

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-22 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually not > true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is missing. This > seems to be no good except with DVDs. Besides, there seems only to be the > choice between 25.0 and 29,97 fps framera

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-22 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > Well, maybe I will not and maybe I would be able to cut down the > computing time to three quarters of an hour. Still not an entirely > convincing solution if one has to recode the video only to convert the > subtitles. On the other hand, that means you can enjoy the

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:30:13 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > > is there a program (command line preferred) that is able to convert > > text subtitles (.srt or .ass etc.) into vobsub "image" subtitles? (...) > spumux can do that, and is indeed the only took I know

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 21:16:02 +0300 Reco wrote: > You need something like this: > > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i /tmp/input.srt -c:v copy -c:a copy \ > -c:s mov_text output.mp4 > > Or this: > > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i /tmp/input.srt -c:v copy -c:a copy \ > -c:s dvd_subtitle output.mp4

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:47:46 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > > sure, that's what I tried first. The player ignores the .ass style > > options happily. > > Are you sure the player will be able to use the vobsubs? Yes. > > > > ffmpeg -i original.mp4 -map 0:

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Nicolas George
Reco (12019-06-21): > > is there a program (command line preferred) that is able to convert text > > subtitles (.srt or .ass etc.) into vobsub "image" subtitles? > > You need something like this: > > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i /tmp/input.srt -c:v copy -c:a copy \ > -c:s mov_text output.mp4 mov

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:23:32PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > is there a program (command line preferred) that is able to convert text > subtitles (.srt or .ass etc.) into vobsub "image" subtitles? You need something like this: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i /tmp/input.srt -c:v copy -c:a

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > sure, that's what I tried first. The player ignores the .ass style options > happily. Are you sure the player will be able to use the vobsubs? > > ffmpeg -i original.mp4 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 \ > > -vf subtitles=filename=subtitles.ass \ > > -c:v

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:08:16 +0300 Teemu Likonen wrote: > Michael Lange [2019-06-21 17:44:08+02:00] wrote: > > > sure, because I want to be able to control the subtitle's appearance. > > The player in question displays text subtitles, however with a tiny, > > almost unreadable font and does

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Teemu Likonen
Michael Lange [2019-06-21 17:44:08+02:00] wrote: > sure, because I want to be able to control the subtitle's appearance. The > player in question displays text subtitles, however with a tiny, almost > unreadable font and doesn't have any option to change this. The "ass" subtitle format contains d

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:30:13 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > > is there a program (command line preferred) that is able to convert > > text subtitles (.srt or .ass etc.) into vobsub "image" subtitles? > > Can you explain why exactly you want to do that? sure, b

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Lange (12019-06-21): > is there a program (command line preferred) that is able to convert text > subtitles (.srt or .ass etc.) into vobsub "image" subtitles? Can you explain why exactly you want to do that? Often, when people ask for a very unusual task, or a task that looks useless, the

Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, is there a program (command line preferred) that is able to convert text subtitles (.srt or .ass etc.) into vobsub "image" subtitles? I think there must be something, since dvd authoring programs obviously can do it, but find it surprisingly hard to find. ffmpeg apparently fails at this; ther

Re: Converting from iscsitarget to targetcli-fb

2018-07-30 Thread francis picabia
In case anyone else runs into this catch-22 which is really not clearly documented in terms of what this will do with your iSCSI target data (no way to recover data), here is what I did as a temporary workaround: jessie was added back to sources.list while keeping stretch in there. grub set set t

Re: Converting from iscsitarget to targetcli-fb

2018-07-30 Thread francis picabia
Of the packages you mention tgt is the only one which is iscsi target related. I am looking at targetcli because my situation matches that of this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865632 That tells me what to migrate to, but the examples for usage of targetcli do not

Converting from iscsitarget to targetcli-fb

2018-07-30 Thread francis picabia
This is with Debian 9 system which had been upgraded from Debian 8 a month or so ago. I have an existing iscsi target blockio device with /dev/md1 Somehow it continued working under Debian 9 until a recent reboot introduced a kernel update and then the module wasn't found: FATAL: Module iscsi_trg

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/30/2017 09:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: than my site traffic is. So once I've restored normal http operations, I'll come back and see if I can find some help converting it to https. Thank you david...@freevolt.org. If you were running wordpress, there are plugins to au

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:31:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 03 May 2017 05:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > I'm too old for that shit). > > At 82 & long retired, so am I. But I'm still carving xml right now, > prettying up

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 May 2017 05:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I've been looking at nginx myself, and wondering if it was any > > easier to setup. Apache2 can be a mutant bear with 6 sore paws. > > This is a nice descriptio

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I've been looking at nginx myself, and wondering if it was any easier to > setup. Apache2 can be a mutant bear with 6 sore paws. This is a nice description ;-) Remember that in

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 17:18:13 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:42:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on > > this machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it > > via the NAT menu. > > You will ne

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 17:13:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I don't understand that: do you find Apache's config worse, or > > lighttpd's or nginx's? > > Sorry I was unclear: I meant I find Apache's config the worst. It was > the

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:42:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on this > machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it via the > NAT menu. You will need to open another port up for HTTPS, yes, and 443 is the default.

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I don't understand that: do you find Apache's config worse, or > lighttpd's or nginx's? Sorry I was unclear: I meant I find Apache's config the worst. It was the first HTTPD I used, and I spent many years supporting it professiona

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 06:35:19 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty > > tight sandbox, but not running https. > > > > Where can I find a tut that is a com

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:35:19AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [...] > one of the instruction sets you were following was suggesting to use > mod_rewrite. Personally, I think that's overkill [...] Good advice. Debugging Apache's mod_rewrite turns

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty tight > sandbox, but not running https. > > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it do > an auto-redirect to itself, b

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread davidson
firefox says it will not look at a plain http site, and I was trying to make robots.txt kick googlebot in the gonads and out of my site, its eating more #$%& bandwidth than my site traffic is. So once I've restored normal http operations, I'll come back and see if I can find some help converting it to https. It'll be interesting to follow along.

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread davidson
On Mon, 1 May 2017, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 01 May 2017 01:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: Development of lynx continues unabated: http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html The most recent reference seems to be to 2015: "Finally (as of 2015) " I linked to that page b

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, May 01, 2017 02:54:05 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, May 01, 2017 12:57:58 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2017 11:18:21 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I hadn't heard anything about this, so I tried Googling. The only > > > thing I've found so far is reference to

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread rhkramer
("HTTPS Everywhere", iiuc) that would allow the browser to look only > > at ssl (https) pages. Am I missing something? > > That refers to ones browser, zip to do with a web server. Well, Firefox is a browser, I thought that was what was being talked about? > Its converting my legacy web site that I am attempting to do. Understood

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
view non-SSL pages.) > > (Not to say that SSL everywhere wouldn't be a good idea, but, until > "legacy" websites are converted, we may be missing a lot of the web.) Its converting my legacy web site that I am attempting to do. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are f

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 09:32:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > All this got started because > the next firefox says it will not look at a plain http site, and I was I hadn't heard anything about this, so I tried Googling. The only thing I've found so far is reference to an optional add-on / plugin

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 09:28:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:32:33PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/ > > > > > > makes a sensible default. > > > > except I am then trapped in my home dir. > > *boggle* > > You can press 'g' and then paste (or typ

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:32:33PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/ > > > > makes a sensible default. > > except I am then trapped in my home dir. *boggle* You can press 'g' and then paste (or type) whatever URL you want into the terminal. You are not "trapped" any

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 April 2017 20:51:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2017 01:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: > > Development of lynx continues unabated: > > > > http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html > > The most recent reference seems to be to 2015: > "Finally (as of 2015)

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
a > couple web pages? > > Development of lynx continues unabated: > > http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html Sorta seems to me that ought to be kept uptodate in re that by the debian folks. > Good luck with your project. I have atm, the darnest collection of

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 01 May 2017 01:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: > Development of lynx continues unabated: > > http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html The most recent reference seems to be to 2015: "Finally (as of 2015) " Lisi

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread davidson
On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: Gene Heskett: On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: Gene Heskett writes: Where can I find a tut that is a complete in

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:07:47 -04 Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] > > I don't have 2.4, 2.2 here on wheezy. > > Looking in the docs/2.2/envvars reference and trying some of the commands > I find I apparently must specify the port # somehow. apache2ctl cannot > connect on port 80. It apparently us

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 30-04-17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > Gene Heskett: > > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > > > >> Gene Heskett writes: > > > >>> Where can I find a

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Gene Heskett: > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > > >> Gene Heskett writes: > > >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to > > >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Gene Heskett: > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > >> Gene Heskett writes: > >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have > >>> it do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Gene Heskett: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: >> Gene Heskett writes: >> >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it >>> do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of >>> the accessing client as long as the client can

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it > > do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of > > the accessing client as long as the client can handle the https > >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Felix Dietrich
Gene Heskett writes: > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it do > an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of the > accessing client as long as the client can handle the https stuff this > conversion will return to the client? For the apach

converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty tight sandbox, but not running https. Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of the accessing client as long as the cl

Re: Converting to Maildir

2016-03-05 Thread Joel Roth
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/03/2016 6:12 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > > What is interesting, is that mb2md prepends a '.' to all of > > the existing mbox folder names it converts. Also, dots in > > existing folder names are converted to underscore. > > > > Is there something magical about th

Re: Converting to Maildir

2016-03-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 5/03/2016 6:12 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > What is interesting, is that mb2md prepends a '.' to all of > the existing mbox folder names it converts. Also, dots in > existing folder names are converted to underscore. > > Is there something magical about the dot in the Maildir format? Yes, it is

Re: Converting to Maildir (was: Re: Using an SSD with strictatime mount option)

2016-03-04 Thread Joe
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 09:12:47 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > > Also is there any special meaning for the new, cur, other, > queue and tmp folders that mb2md created? > Not sure about the others, cur, new and tmp are created in all subdirectories by Courier IMAP, so presumably are relevant to it. New

Converting to Maildir (was: Re: Using an SSD with strictatime mount option)

2016-03-04 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Andrew, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 4/03/2016 12:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:53:11PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Joel Roth: > >>> > >>> mount -o remount,strictatime / > >>> > >>> Fixes it. > >> > >> Great! But wouldn't that still be a good idea to switch to

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