scrcpy: a really cool and very useful utility not in debian repos?

2021-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
# date; apt install scrcpy Tue Apr 6 05:27:12 EDT 2021 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package scrcpy # https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
is the error message I get when I try to start a PC based on an MSI motherboard, with both Debian live an Knoppix (which is a bit more flexible about start up options) How can I get passed that error in order to be able to use and install Debian live or Knoppix? I have tried a number of options

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
> You could then try to boot with the pci=nomsi boot parameter ... if I boot up passing to the kernel the start up option: knoppix64 debug pci=nomsi noapic I would get just two lines further bellow: pci :00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] e

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
> What I suggest would be to investigate if your BIOS or UEFI has particular > settings for PCI and try > to adapt them to the hardware present and the OS installed/to be installed. > As a further measure, you could try to play with the different kernel > parameters to see if there is an > impro

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
Debian doesn't stop to amaze me. I have an "old" 2 GiB RAM MacAirbook1,1 without its hard drive and without internal CMOS timing and with only one USB port (I wonder what those folks were thinking about when they designed those laptops). A Debian live DVD boots fine from a USB hub, then I go "hw

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-23 Thread Albretch Mueller
> What you lose this way (besides time) is having apt calculate > which supporting packages you need. However, > https://packages.debian.org > will happily tell you all the dependencies of any given package, > and then you can get all the dependencies of each of those, and > so on. yes, and "ja

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
> Or toggle "javascript.enabled" to false in "about:config" - no > extensions required. the assumption being that you would use, trust firefox. A well-documented, XML-based open source kind of proxy/gateway through which all requests are sent and received would work with any browser. ~ I think,

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
> What is "alpha-offset format"? we, corpora research kinds of folks, need to process thousand of files as other people process bytes. UTF8 was basically an Americanizierung of alle alphabets. UTF is great to describe an alphabet but not for text files. UTF8 turned all files into streams not go

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I haven't seen anyone mention apt-offline in this thread, so I will > mention it now: > >apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager. >. >apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution >without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to APT. >. >

bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bitz-server bitz-server: ICAP server (RFC 3507) implementation in C++ package is gone: This package is not in any development repository. This probably means that the package has been removed (or has been renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest

Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
... and my main interest would be then connecting it to java using the JNI in order to do the deep content inspection and dynamic customization from events happening in java programs. If I were to collaborate with the maintainers of this package, which "prior art": blogs, books, ... would you re

Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-18 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/18/21, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bitz-server On 5/18/21, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > Hello Albretch, > bitz-server has 4 RC-Bugs[1], which could not be fixed by me. > No fixes came from the upstream either. > Therefore the package had to be removed from testing a

Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-18 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/18/21, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> That implementation could be included as a debian package. > It's in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/c-icap > It's orphaned though. OK, great! What do you need for me to do to officially "adopt" that package at its maintainer? I am currently testi

firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
sudo lshw -class network ... *-network description: Ethernet interface physical id: 1 bus info: usb@1:1.3 logical name: eth1 serial: 00:e0:4c:53:44:58 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 10

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
> That specific kernel module does not require any firmware. Well, I am using: $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 5.3.5-64 #16 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 23 02:08:38 CEST 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux which they say is based on buster. I will have to test the thing with Debian and/or ask directly the knoppix folk

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
// __ rötlich blinkende Router und USB-RJ45-Schnittstelle ... https://forum.vodafone.de/t5/Internet-Geräte/rötlich-blinkende-Router-und-USB-RJ45-Schnittstelle/m-p/2659178/ ~ it was written in German, because I was trying to directly ask on vodafone's fora, but I think based on the linux command

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
> Try executing "/sbin/modinfo dm9601" Well, it seems to be the case. So what might be the problem then? $ /sbin/modinfo dm9601 filename: /lib/modules/5.3.5-64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.ko license:GPL description:Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 ethernet devices author: Pe

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, I found a Debien DVD $ uname -a Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux and tried it to get the same result I was getting while using knoppix. To me it was really about the cable or the connector, because all I had to do was connecting the

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
Are you sure I don't need any extra drivers? $ /sbin/modinfo dm9601 filename: /lib/modules/4.9.0-6-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.ko license:GPL description:Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 ethernet devices author: Peter Korsgaard alias: usb:v0A46p1269d*dc*dsc*d

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 6/26/21, Reco wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 07:22:36PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> Are you sure I don't need any extra drivers? > > Depends on what you mean by here. > > Does dm9601 need a firmware? No, modinfo says it plain and clear. > Does dm9601 need

Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-06-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number <-> gliph for each language. From where can I get them? lbrtchx

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file or directory $ Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? ~ $ file /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc: ASCII text

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me I could find what I wanted at: http://kbdlayout.info/ and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` > There's no such table: it cannot exist. Which unicode number would you > assign to CapsLock, or RightShift. There are several

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/2/21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > you're starting from some MASSIVELY incorrect assumptions, > but up until now, correcting all the background noise was never > important, because you were just poking around out of curiosity. Or so > we thought. I don't understand why "we" think "I was just pok

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
It occurred to me that my use of the term "mapping" may have been a little confusing. I used it in general and as part of my corpora research I am moving away from UTF-8. That is all I am doing. lbrtchx

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me >> I could find what I wanted at: >> >> http://kbdlayout.info/ > > That's for Windows,

"E: Package 'gs' has no installation candidate" ...

2022-03-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux ~ basically I need to extract, merge, ... pages from pdf files and gs was the way to go? Do you know what is going on? Do you know of a way to work around it, probably using an older package? Any alter

Re: "E: Package 'gs' has no installation candidate" ...

2022-03-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'gs' has no installation candidate $ On 3/25/22, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ uname -a > Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) &g

Re: "E: Package 'gs' has no installation candidate" ...

2022-03-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libeatmydata1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. Suggested packages: ghostscript-

Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ and how can I avoid that from happening? lbrtchx

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, David Christensen wrote: > I have a desktop machine (Intel DQ67SW motherboard) with a 2.5" SATA > trayless drive rack that I boot with various OS's on 2.5" SATA SSD's. I > have to remember to enter Setup and adjust the CMOS clock every time I > switch between a FOSS OS and Windows.

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > (3) Hardware clock gets adjusted accordingly. > [which] would be > wrong for a live distro: don't touch persistent state! exactly! will this set up "logic" be fixed for the next live systems? lbrtchx

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 12:08:38PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > (3) Hardware clock gets adjusted accordingly. >> > [which] would be >> > wrong for a live distro: don't tou

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, songbird wrote: > set the bios time to be universal and then set up windows > to use universal time. again, assumptions ... On 3/27/22, David Wright wrote: > It looks as if you're dual-booting. No, I am not. Use case: I keep a DL DVD with me as some sort of cross between defe

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Well, you are. Just not in the normal way. On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Debian Live /is/ a dual boot -- unless the computer in question > has no operating system to begin with :-) > > I think there is some misunderstanding on how songbird and you > th

which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in hindsight which books would you have picked? I am OK with Math and technology of any kind and I am more of a Debian kind of guy. In fact, I am amazed at how Debian Live would pretty much boot any piece of sh!t you would feed to it, b

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I think that at least in the past it was possible to boot Debian Live systems > with `toram` option, too. You should probably just try it out? Well, it seems DL has its own "toram", "fromhd", "bootfrom", ... but not as parameters to be entered right in the first splash screen while it boots up

E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Albretch Mueller
How do you install vlc on Debian BUllseye? these are the relatively weird problems I am having and I couldn't find much about them specifically online: # time apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done real0m0.9

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 4/28/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Run these commands for additional information: > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > apt policy vlc # date; cat /etc/apt/sources.list Fri 29 Apr 2022 09:44:06 PM CDT # deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 lxde 2021-12-18T12:41]/ bullseye main #deb cdrom:[

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
# apt-add-repository -bash: apt-add-repository: command not found #

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
I had just installed Debian 11 onto a pen drive and as soon as I connected my computer to the Internet I started having such problems, which makes me wonder if the original installation disk was OK. lbrtchx

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main deb-src http://deb.debian.or

any good books about the (art?, economics and) science of optimizing IO performance? ...

2022-05-23 Thread Albretch Mueller
there is quite a bit of partial and somewhat obviously misconstrued ("buy my great sh!t") information out there about how to combine RAM, NVMe, SSD, SATA and RAID in order to optimize IO performance. You also hear about ZFS licensing and performance issues in Linux. I'd wish I could find a book ex

Re: any good books about the (art?, economics and) science of optimizing IO performance? ...

2022-05-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/23/22, John Conover wrote: > . . . the problem is to write, NOT to the disk, but to the on disk cache > memory . . . and I could imagine depending on the kinds of data loads one expects there are best practices about how to optimally make RAM, SSDs and RAID configurations of mechanically s

problems while using debian's keyring ...

2022-05-31 Thread Albretch Mueller
I think I am following the steps as I should. This is what I got before and after I thought I have verified the webkit2gtk source packages: $ gpg --verify webkit2gtk_2.34.6.orig.tar.xz.asc webkit2gtk_2.34.6-1~deb11u1.debian.tar.xz gpg: Signature made Thu 17 Feb 2022 07:12:45 AM CST gpg:

Re: problems while using debian's keyring ...

2022-06-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ gpg --verbose --recv-key 5AA3BC334FD7E3369E7C77B291C559DBE4C9123B gpg: data source: https://keys.openpgp.org:443 gpg: armor header: Comment: 5AA3 BC33 4FD7 E336 9E7C 77B2 91C5 59DB E4C9 123B gpg: pub dsa1024/91C559DBE4C9123B 2008-06-02 Adrián Pérez de Castro (personal) gpg: key 91C559DBE4C912

Re: problems while using debian's keyring ...

2022-06-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
thank you. that was it: $ ls -l webkit2gtk_2.34.6*.* -rw-r--r-- 1 lbrtchx lbrtchx74172 Feb 19 07:34 webkit2gtk_2.34.6-1~deb11u1.debian.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 lbrtchx lbrtchx 4278 Feb 19 07:34 webkit2gtk_2.34.6-1~deb11u1.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 lbrtchx lbrtchx 24393340 Feb 17 13:08 webkit2gtk_2.34.6

(cmake) Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "" ...

2022-06-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
even though I have installed libsoup or probably I should install it as part of some other package? I couldn't make sense of that problem: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bullseye§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=all&keywords=LibSoup Why would that be happening at all? The error log is al

Re: (cmake) Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "" ...

2022-06-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 6/3/22, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 03 Jun 2022 at 11:01:30 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: >> Albretch Mueller writes: >> >> > ... Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "", > The problem lies between these quotes, it would appear: ↑↑ I don&#x

Re: (cmake) Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "" ...

2022-06-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 6/3/22, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 03/06/2022 14:02, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> Basically, I am trying to compile WebKit2 (on WSL! ;-)) with >> debugging symbols included in order to teach my students how to debug, > > Debian has debug symbols for most (if n

bash: which: command not found? + (E: Unable to locate package which? ...)

2022-07-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
Actually, I just noticed I couldn't run "cat" as regular user but I could as root how could that form a "multiversing" be -technically- happening (other than having forces actively messing with your work)? export _GRAALVM_HOME=.../graalvm-ce-java17-22.1.0 export PATH=${PATH}:${_GRAALVM_HOME}/bin

Re: bash: which: command not found? + (E: Unable to locate package which? ...)

2022-07-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
after reading through all your suggestions and still wondering about what exactly was the mistake that I had made, I realized that it was a simple and stupid "type in a rush and let 'the compiler' (sorry!) find the mistake for you" kind of error: it seemed to have been somehow blanketed by my "unc

ACSM/DRM protected file ...

2022-07-18 Thread Albretch Mueller
As I see it, some time ago a cat and mouse gaming around started between people who see as not only their "legal" and "moral", but also "patriotic" "responsibility" controlling people's access to information which is in the public domain anyway. Even archive.org is doing that (imagine what Jon Sch

How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
I googled: "mount solid state drive" Linux, and I got very few hits (like 16?) which were mostly totally irrelevant. I got a laptop with Windows installed on which I installed WSLg. WIndows and WSLg both seem to detect the SSD just fine, but in ways that are not totally clear to me. What I care

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization ~

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-08-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
Sorry, for my late reaction. I'd wish I could dedicate myself to coding and reading only. This is what blkid and hwinfo are telling me and I know that that SSD is not sda or sdb, nor is it the DVD; so, what is it and how do I mount that SSD Isn't it weird that I don't see it on blkid or hwinfo? C

How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

2022-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
not allowing you to boot DL? When you try to get into your boot options you are entangled into a nonsense loop ... I removed the wireless card from that laptop. They want for you to boot into Windows for obvious reasons. Any way out of or around it you would suggest?

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

2022-08-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/22, David Christensen wrote: > When the laptop is off, insert the Debian Live media into a suitable > port. Power up the laptop and press the F12 key repeatedly until a boot > menu is displayed. Select the Debian Live media and boot. If this does > not work, post the messages displayed

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

2022-08-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/22, David Wright wrote: > I typed the text at > the top of the screen in your first image, and got plenty of > suggestions from Dell, reddit, and some Scottish Uni gamers. Basically, what I distilled out of many of those posts is that you should disable "Secure Boot", but I had already d

crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
rsync uses crc for its data integrity checks. Why is it you can't use it like any other OS utility? $ date; which crc Thu Sep 24 07:54:55 CEST 2020 $ date; which rsync Thu Sep 24 07:54:59 CEST 2020 /usr/bin/rsync $ rsync --version rsync version 3.1.2 protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2015

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
>> How do I get all packages to be locally installed using dpkg from a >> public Windows machine? > > I'm not sure I understand this question or how it relates to the > previous one. How do I get the deb files in order to install locally (via dpkg --install) the necessary utilities to run CRC32 a

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/24/20, Sven Hartge wrote: > Why do you think you need to do this? What do you hope to achieve by > doing this? I have losts of (not necessarily all) text files (say in the 10 of thousands) in various directories which I need to process in a batch, but before I do that I want to make sure t

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:58:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 17:50:16 (+0200), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> > >> How do I get all packages to be locally installed using dpkg from a >> > >> public W

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/20, Michael Stone wrote: > Just one would be good enough (pick the sha256sum). What you're doing is > a waste of time. If you want to future proof then use sha3, via the > rhash package. Something that I have noticed is that texts are too close to people's hearts to expect for people to

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/26/20, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: >>On 9/25/20, Michael Stone wrote: >>> Just one would be good enough (pick the sha256sum). What you're doing is >>> a waste of time. If you want to future proof

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/24/20, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:50:16PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> >> How do I get all packages to be locally installed using dpkg from a >> >> public Windows machine? >> > >> > I'm not sure I understand this q

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 9/25/20, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:58:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>I can't believe the answer is as simple as visiting >>https://packages.debian.org/index >>and downloading the packages you want (in binary mode). > > Plus (possibly several) iterations of download

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
ne's own privacy" (as they say) that tacitly means you have no privacy whatsoever! Maybe I am too old, too romantic. It is my understanding of that thing they used to call "privacy", it was something only one could possibly take care of by oneself. The only "private"/"

Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-20 Thread Albretch Mueller
I test a MacBook Air 1,1 with Debian Live DVD $ uname -a Linux debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux and all seems to be fine and dandy, except for the wireless network card. This is what dmidecode and hwinfo tell me about it: Model: "Apple AirPort

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
> apt install firmware-b43-installer > will be needed, I think. Thank you for all the leads and I was installing firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all dependencies firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the Internet to some lwfinder? Resolving http://www.lwfing

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
I got that tar ball and I think i am doing the right thing, but something is not going well: $ _IFL="broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2" $ ls -l "${_IFL}" -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13514651 Aug 13 2011 broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 $ file --brief "${_IFL}" bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k $ s

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I suggest using firmware-b43-installer ... Once again, I am using dpkg and installing the deb packages locally because I am trying to troubleshoot, make a wireless card work. Why would a package used to make a wireless card come to live, have to connect to the Internet to do its things? Isn't

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, after installing lspci (again, via dpkg and I write up in kind of a step by step way because other people may have the same problems, run into this thread) $ sudo dpkg --install pciutils_3.5.2-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package pciutils. (Reading database ... 232551 files and

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, I followed the instructions on Dan Ritter's link and everything seems to be fine and dandy, but I used a windows computer with access to the Internet to download and gpg test the downloaded data and used Debian Live (running it from the DVD) to run "make" and "make install" on the target compu

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
> sudo modprobe b43 Doesn't show to me anything. and > ip l displays a sequence of 0:0:0:0:0: ... chars which don't look like a MAC address or any of such things lbrtchx

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
> "ip l" (for "ip link") lists the network links the kernel is aware of. $ ip l 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 $ sudo iwconfig lono wireless extensions. > And to keep it simple, doe

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
and I run dmesg before and after the installation. This is what I got as diff: $ _IFL00="demsg_Wed Nov 4 13:36:51 UTC 2020.log" $ _IFL02="dmesg_Wed Nov 4 12:51:11 UTC 2020.log" $ diff "${_IFL00}" "${_IFL02}" 1365,1386d1364 < [ 592.364045] fuse init (API version 7.26) < [ 597.114432] perf: i

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, here is the whole log of the script I ran to install the b43 drivers. It is a bit long, but you will certainly be able to quickly visually scan it and see where teh error is/might be. Yes, I am descending onto init 2 after I used a live DVD. I am OK with doing that every time. I can't conn

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
> - use a USB wireless dongle instead of your integrated wireless card. OK, I will try that and I will let you know how it went I have no other option, so I will have to offer myself as some sort of guinea pig and waste time/effort exploring such territories Thank you very much, lbrtchx >

Re: [Kiwix-developer] Any preferrably java libraries, tutorials, ... about working with zim files? ...

2021-01-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
where which could be installed locally? Thanks On 12/12/20, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > On 12.12.20 10:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> based on what I have read on: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format) >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_U

shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-21 Thread Albretch Mueller
as I tried to download debian, I noticed that the download was being redirected real time (which in itself doesn't necessarily have to mean bad), what I found a worrying was that: 1) as I used a known public hotspot connection, there was a new hotspot advertising itself as "Wifi4EU" (of course,

Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
>> 7) the md5 and sha1 hashes that I computed could not be found online >> >> 0296cfbeaf3823055901d7ad2077a077 >> 0b742d83d23207db9a24553100d4155eb8c701bf debian >> 10.8.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso >> 37baf26293b8132fe95b4bd19262ca6b >> 122a2612ed63ff89db56eec0765e87268bf72318 debian >> 10.8.0-amd64-DVD-3.i

Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
sorry, bad wording typing fast. what I meant is that I use the wget setting "--server-response" and keep my logs, but all I could see in the logs was: WARNING: certificate common name `ftp.acc.umu.se' doesn't match requested host name `chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se'. 2021-02-17 11:14:47 URL:https://ch

Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/14/19, David Wright wrote: > Assuming you're not browsing as root ... Again, anything that is syntactically expressed can be, -is- hacked, even the idea of a "root" account is a silly Illusion in my kind of reallity which is not that different from yours ;-). Sorry, but not stating that w

trying to use an RG003-E antenna socket with my Lenovo Thinkpad running Debian Linux . . .

2019-07-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
I am currently running: # uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (AMD E-450, 4GB RAM): http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ThinkPad_X131e_WE.pdf https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Lenovo

trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
Hi *: I have to ask after trying to do it in many ways, checking all kinds of posts, searching and following guidelines. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Videograbbing/ I am running: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+de

Re: trying to grab video of screen on a Thinkpad x130e netbook . . .

2019-08-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/24/19, Pétùr wrote: > ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x720 -r 25 -i :0.0 screencast.mp4 but where did the audio go? it worked but not always. base on its logs ffmpeg seems to be making a video, but vlc doesn't show to me the actual video even though the file is there. Why is it that the video

State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
I got a: _OFL="hwinfo_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_hwinfo_printer.log" hwinfo --printer --log "${_OFL}" 2>&1 17: USB 00.0: 10900 Printer [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: L0iK.+dt1oXx0UKE Old Unique ID: vxkL.pGWWNSDBYN7 Parent ID: 2UT6.DFkaVl_rzX0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci:00/:00:12.2/usb

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
I see on the error logs after making sure the printer is ready to receive print jobs (based on its own menu) http://localhost:631/admin/log/error_log ... D [06/Apr/2020:01:19:35 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state=3(idle) D [06/Apr/2020:01:19:35 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state-message="Filter failed" D [06/

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 4/6/20, Brian wrote: > A complete error_log is needed. The Printing section of the wiki should > help you get one. following the documentation on in the case of a USB connected printer: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems * usb kernel modules loaded for the line printer (usb

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
Perhaps you will be able to see something I don't. If not let me know how could do whatever you need with the debug levels or log file in a better way >Maybe you've to enable Loglevel "info" or "debug" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf # date; cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | grep LogLevel Mo 6. Apr 22:37:44 CE

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 4/6/20, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > Two filters are executed: > 1. pstops > Is CUPS internal and included in Debian package "cups-core-drivers" at my > side (running Debian buster). # date; time apt-get install cups-core-drivers Di 7. Apr 06:58:26 CEST 2020 Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Ab

trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ mount /dev/sdc1 mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab $ umount /dev/sdc1 $ mount --types vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 mount: only root can use "--types" option $ mount /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 mount: only root can do that $ mount /dev/sdc1 mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /et

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/12/20, Eric S Fraga wrote: > If pmount is installed/available, 'pmount sdc1' will mount the disk onto > /media/sdc1. I don't think pmount is installed, but I will check anyway. My options seems hopeless. I can't even understand why they would mount a drive as root. Isn't that more problem

How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with the same kinds of issues. lbrtchx

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > The question was not how to find the files, the formulation of the > question indicates that Albretch has that covered. Yeah, my problem is not finding the files per se. I have them or could have them easily listed. The thing is that when you work on copora

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
What documentation, books, videos, ... would you suggest for me to read up if I were to investigate what exactly is "find" 's magic to hook other processes and keep a running instance for multiple "found" files? lbrtchx

Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
HDDs have their internal caching mechanism and I have heard that the Linux kernel uses RAM very effitiently, but to my understanding RAM being only 3-4 times faster doesn't make much sense, so I may be doing or understanding something not entirely right. does dd actually hit the bare metal drive

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
also, if in order to use RAID 10 you need 4 drives (but the dollar per Gb is approaching $0.02) and you get 1.5 faster performance, what is the economy of "bying more RAM" if it is so much more expensive? Any comparison on HDD, SSD and RAM including pros and cons which is worth reading? lbrtch

Re: Could RAM possibly be just 3-4 times faster than bare hdd writes and reads? or, is the Linux kernel doing its 'magic' in the bg? or, ...

2020-06-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
t; not to disk. . . . Oh, well, yes. I knew that I was "seeing" something that wasn't quite right. Your answers grounded me on such issues. Thank you und Entschuldigung! lbrtchx On 6/17/20, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:15 PM Albretch Mueller > wrote:

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