[PLUG] Text color issue
My urxvt windows have a medium blue background. Sometimes text is displayed in dark blue (DIR_COLORS #34). I'd like to change that but I don't find 34 as a text color in my version of /etc/DIR_COLORS: # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something. FILE 00# normal file # RESET 0# reset to "normal" color DIR 01;33 # directory LINK 01;36 # symbolic link. (If you set this to 'target' instead of a # numerical value, the color is as for the file pointed to.) # HARDLINK 44;37 # regular file with more than one link FIFO 40;33 # pipe SOCK 01;35 # socket DOOR 01;35 # door BLK 40;33;01 # block device driver CHR 40;33;01 # character device driver ORPHAN 40;31;01 # symlink to nonexistent file SETUID 37;41 # file that is setuid (u+s) SETGID 30;43 # file that is setgid (g+s) CAPABILITY 30;41# file with capability STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE 30;42 # dir that is sticky and other-writable (+t,o+w) OTHER_WRITABLE 34;42 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky STICKY 37;44 # dir with the sticky bit set (+t) and not other-writable EXEC 01;32 # This is for files with execute permission: One string that has this color issue is:  (the string in parentheses is dark blue on the medium blue v.t. and not !readable) and I don't know how this string would be classified. I don't see what I could change to get a visual color for strings like this. Ideas? Rich
Re: [PLUG] Off topic but not sure who to ask
Well I am almost most thankful it is almost over, will not be totally happy until I have the new device in my hands and the old one has been confirmed as received by Google. I have done such things with CSR's in the past, one day while I lived in Tampa, I was talking to the cable CSR about and issue, she started out with the usual windows centric script, I told her, STOP there! I am running Linux, she gets quiet than a big happy sigh... And says now I can talk to someone who knows what this is about. And she started asking me to run some of the common linux tools, after a run of MTR she said, "yep... it is the same old router they keep hot potatoing around the Tampa bay area... Who knows where it will pop up next, let me get it reported and out of your signal path". This issue with Google was not about the tech side of it it was about supposed location, i.e. lat/long 35.61152165176741, -97.52505764752804 Our home location vs the place my wife is at while dealing with her dad's estate: lat/long 9.92406585859945, -84.0454868356128. I think that the thing that finally got them was I sent a reference to her purchases through Google Store showing all of them being sent to the same address and also referenced the home address for her Google Fi account. I think that the people initially were not reading the whole emails being sent just that part that she was in Costa Rica taking care of family issues. As executor she cannot leave the country, she would have to give up the position and after large issues with her elder sister, the elder sister has realized that Iliana is doing a better job than she and is now trying to help get things sorted out. But if Iliana leaves the judge will appoint a non-family person to be the executor, none of them want that. So she is kind of stuck down there. At least it appears that things are going to be taken care of regarding her phone that will make a big difference. Again a big THANK YOU to each one of you for your comments and observations. Much of which help temper the last email that was sent to Google prior to them recognizing that she really DOES live in Oklahoma but is away taking care of not very fun stuff. Costa Rica is a bureaucratic nightmare, that is enough. I did not want her to have to deal with this too, she did but I was able to deal with most of it, only when they absolutely needed to talk to her. I did find it interesting that Google Fi does not have Spanish speaking support. Seemed strange for them. On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:38 AM Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > I had to call Comcast once about a connection problem. They started with > > the script, I interrupted and said I was a Senior Systems Programmer at > > Intel Corporation, please just tell me what you want me to test and I > will > > do that. The response was great, "thank goodness, someone intelligent, > > lets start with a trace route." > > I've sometimes had similar, human-scale responses when I let the > support tech know my experience level. > > On those occasions when that's not the case, I usually say -- for the > benefit of anyone listening to a recorded version of the call -- > something like, "It's clear to me that you are not able to solve my > problem. Please escalate my call to someone who can." The tech (in > sane firms) will get a pass because the escalation occurs specifically > at the customer's request. > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960
Re: [PLUG] Music Composing Software
I used to use Rosegarden for writing/playing scores. Like any of these applications, it need some sort of midi sw/hw to render the sounds. I found it much easier to enter scores using keyboard/mouse rather than by midi keyboard. This is because midi input captures precise note length/tempo - requiring significant clean up. Like anything else, it needs time investment to acquire profficiency. Hope it helps, Tomas On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 08:30 Michael Barnes wrote: > I may have asked this before, but forgot. > > Any suggestions on music composing software for Linux? I'm not talking > about an audio editor like Audacity. I want to see a staff and put notes on > it and hopefully play it. I did find some programs maybe a year ago, but > can't remember any of the names. > > Thanks, > Michael >
Re: [PLUG] Off topic but not sure who to ask
On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: I had to call Comcast once about a connection problem. They started with the script, I interrupted and said I was a Senior Systems Programmer at Intel Corporation, please just tell me what you want me to test and I will do that. The response was great, "thank goodness, someone intelligent, lets start with a trace route." I've sometimes had similar, human-scale responses when I let the support tech know my experience level. On those occasions when that's not the case, I usually say -- for the benefit of anyone listening to a recorded version of the call -- something like, "It's clear to me that you are not able to solve my problem. Please escalate my call to someone who can." The tech (in sane firms) will get a pass because the escalation occurs specifically at the customer's request. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W
Re: [PLUG] Off topic but not sure who to ask
I had to call Comcast once about a connection problem. They started with the script, I interrupted and said I was a Senior Systems Programmer at Intel Corporation, please just tell me what you want me to test and I will do that. The response was great, "thank goodness, someone intelligent, lets start with a trace route." On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 9:22 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > Scripted tech support strikes again. > > https://xkcd.com/806/ > > -Ben > Sent from ProtonMail mobile > > Original Message > On Sep 21, 2022, 5:35 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > UPDATE. Google finally relented and told my wife that they were going to > send the device to her home address. Now we are just awaiting the RMA info > page to answer any other questions they may have. I guess someone finally > READ the data and realized that her address was in the USA. Again thank you > for all of the recommendations. On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 9:53 AM Chuck Hast > wrote: > I want to thank all of you for your information, each was a > > nugget to be mined... One thing that I had not thought about > was the FCC. > A good friend of mine had an issue quite similar > to this with another > carrier, they were giving him the same > run around. He got fed up, being a > lawyer he looked at the > options saw that a call to the FCC might take > care of it, sure > enough he made his call gave this information, next day > he > got a call from someone very high up in the carriers org asking > how > that the issue could be resolved, he told the fellow what > he was trying > to get done and it was taken care of in minutes. > So that maybe the route > I will take. > > Daniel, regarding having to use guile to deal with these > people > remember my wife has been paying her Fi account every month > she > has been paying her monthly bill for the phone purchase > every month, and > she has been paying phone insurance every > month. For them to say they > cannot send the phone to her > USA address because it is out of the country > is not only outrageous > but denying her the legal and proper use of the > service she is > paying for. That is I believe in some circles called theft > or theft > of services. Under that situation, you do what you have to > withing > the bounds of decency to recover your lost property. > > I do not > like to lie but I do not like to have things stolen from > me. > > -- Chuck > Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth > me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960
Re: [PLUG] Music Composing Software
I'd suggest Musescore (https://musescore.org/en) although at least for me it is quite a learning curve. It would make things much more simple with a midi keyboard controller. Any hardware midi suggestions would be appreciated. I'm the cheap type and was looking at something like the Arturia MiniLab MkII Mini Hybrid Keyboard Controller. -- David -Original Message- From: Michael Barnes Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: [PLUG] Music Composing Software Date: 09/22/2022 07:30:39 AM I may have asked this before, but forgot. Any suggestions on music composing software for Linux? I'm not talking about an audio editor like Audacity. I want to see a staff and put notes on it and hopefully play it. I did find some programs maybe a year ago, but can't remember any of the names. Thanks, Michael
[PLUG] Music Composing Software
I may have asked this before, but forgot. Any suggestions on music composing software for Linux? I'm not talking about an audio editor like Audacity. I want to see a staff and put notes on it and hopefully play it. I did find some programs maybe a year ago, but can't remember any of the names. Thanks, Michael
