Re: thunderbird

2021-05-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 5/30/21 4:04 PM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2021 18:29:11 + fxkl47BF wrote: for a few decades i have used pine/alpine. i'm considering a new mail application. there are more out there than you can shake a stick at. what are your thoughts of thunderbird. A bit slow and heavy for my

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 3/9/21 6:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 3/9/21 3:15 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 1:12 PM David Christensen wrote: On 3/7/21 7:09 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM David Christensen < What model mac? It's a mac pro. When posting on a technical

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 3/7/21 7:24 PM, IL Ka wrote: The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically incompatible with one of my computers. hmm, I never heard about such things) Is your electrical grounding configured correctly? In my country some old apartments do not have

Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC

2021-02-25 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/25/21 2:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I was trained on CORC/CUPL Can you say I/O == "026/line printer" I want to prototype a problem. What BASIC in Debian repository most resembles "Dartmouth BASIC"? Your choices are yabasic and python3-pcbasic. Both of them try to

Re: Problems installing from flash drive.

2021-02-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/5/21 9:54 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to do custom Debian install on a machine *WITHOUT*:   1. functional mechanical CD/DVD drive.   2. without internet access. One can purchase a flash drive containing ISO images of all installation DVDs of the desired architecture. It is

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-15 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 1/16/21 1:29 AM, john doe wrote: On 1/16/2021 6:02 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem.  There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/29/20 10:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Michael Stone composed on 2020-12-29 22:37 (UTC-0500): On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 21:42:11 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Boards with 2 M.2 NVME and 6 SATA aren't at all uncommon, but finding one with those and dual eSATA and Firewire and USB-C and Triple

Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3

2020-12-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/8/20 10:37 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: One of the local government agencies that i would like to interact with communicates using Microsoft Team.  The software actually has a debian package, which i have downloaded, but not installed yet. I have a computer running debian 10.3, but it does

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/6/20 8:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2020 16:40:37 Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2 years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 11/29/20 9:42 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: From: Reco Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:09:26 +0300 I'm mildly curious how you managed to obtain a laptop which does not have any kind of wireless connectivity, ... The machine is a Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-M1.

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 11/25/20 2:54 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-11-25 at 12:31, Linux-Fan wrote: Kanito 73 writes: Hello Al the previous issues I published are now solved. Relative to the RTL8821CE, I searched for a module rtl8821ce.ko but the generated module was just 8821ce.ko so when I loaded the

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 11/12/20 4:52 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 11/11/20 7:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if

Re: Please be respectful

2020-10-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
These messages are very unrespectful. I don't need a screen full of this BS! Stop it! On 10/24/20 12:23 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: On 10/24/2020 3:11 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: [...] A couple of decades ago I had to have

Re: make a drawing

2020-08-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/30/20 11:51 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:06:20AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: Anyway, I'd like to make a drawing of it. Any idea what software might be used? sweethome inkscape dia There are a number of Linux-usable CAD programs, but the one I thought was the

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/12/20 5:24 AM, songbird wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Someone along this thread mentioned key-pullers. I have a couple of IBM model M keyboards that haven't been cleaned in years. They work well anyway, but I'd like to clean the keys. Where could I get one of those key

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-11 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/11/20 9:53 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: The way I clean (a non-laptop) keyboard is by disassembling it and putting all the parts in a fresh (i.e., clean) washtub of warm water with dishsoap, let it soak for a few minutes, then rinse with clean water and let dry, often

Re: Some keys on the keyboard do not work

2020-08-10 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/10/20 7:56 AM, Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Latitude 5580 laptop, and have been a happy debian unstable user for 20 years.  I have a very weird problem with its builtin keyboard which slows down my work significantly (ctrl-c, ctrl-x, ENTER etc. do not work): Since several

Re: Enlarging /boot

2020-08-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 8/2/20 4:32 PM, Erwan David wrote: I used the buster installer about 1 year ago,with a fully encrypted disk, thus a /boot/efi partition, a /boot partition then an encrypted lvm. /boot is now not large enough to even have 2 kernels on it, initramfs-tools cannot create the images. I see this

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 7/28/20 11:05 PM, Weaver wrote: On 29-07-2020 09:07, Brian wrote: On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 13:17:33 -0700, Weaver wrote: Ippfind delivers on nothing, also. How about 'ippfind -T 5'? Nothing! Just a return to the prompt. Same thing happens when tried on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. --doug

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-19 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 4/19/20 4:59 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: /snip/ This may be a little off-topic, but it seems to me that any email from a .nl address is spam. Am I wrong? (I just erase from the top!) --doug

Re: Change in plans (was: Re: Another possible device

2020-03-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 3/28/20 8:17 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2020 04:41:57 PM David Christensen wrote: On 2020-03-28 12:18, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I received the Wavlink device, but I'm fairly certain I'm going to return it and give up on it. (I'm not clear on what software /

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/17/20 1:52 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2020-02-17 16:29, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:07:59 -0500 Doug McGarrett wrote: (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various stages

Re: *nix

2020-02-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/17/20 10:03 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 17, 2020, Curt wrote: On 2020-02-17, Doug McGarrett wrote: [...] I hope I never have to do so again. (I fell off the stoop after tripping over my dog's tether in the dark on the 4th of July, 1915, and spent most of the summer in various

Re: *nix

2020-02-16 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/16/20 4:30 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:03:05 -0800 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > With touchscreen technology becoming the standard even for laptops > and desktop monitors the demand for keyboard oriented interaction > decreases so the developers must create

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/12/20 6:39 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 23:54:16) Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 3:19 PM: /snip/ is more resource heave in my experience. An area righ in bikeshedding. What on earth is bikeshedding? That's a new one on me! /snip/ Good luck,

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 2/12/20 1:05 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 10:43 AM: Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 18:34:27) I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level is very low. With all the mixer controls and the physical volume control on the speakers turned

Re: Print Settings issue

2020-01-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 1/9/20 12:49 AM, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends, I've given up on using imagescan. I was able to install it, but it just could not detect the wifi printer, so I uninstalled it. The built-in Xsane scanner seemed to work at first, but now when I open it, I get: Error during CMS

Re: Windows install on 4 partitions?

2019-12-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/29/2019 11:05 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 10:30 AM Joe mailto:j...@jretrading.com>> wrote: On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:55:22 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com <mailto:rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, December 28, 2019 03:46:53 PM Doug

Re: INQUIRY

2019-12-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/28/2019 01:54 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:38:56 +0100 (CET) wrote: Hello Debian , I'm getting error while installing grub in Debian. The error is "unable install grub in dummy" My intention is to dual boot debian and windows. Well, I have no idea what "dummy"

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/26/2019 05:55 PM, deloptes wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. I don't know

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/26/2019 02:02 PM, deloptes wrote: Hi, I read some time ago a discussion here about microscope and I am thinking for long time to buy one. I have no idea what I have to look at, so I hope someone would help make the right choice. Here are some of the requirements and questions I have

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/24/2019 02:51 AM, David wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:44, Default User wrote: Guys, [...] Guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure what I will do yet. Hi, I'm sure you don't intend to offend, but in future please try to choose words that cannot accidentally be understood

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/18/2019 09:31 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Subject: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want This is just a quick survey. May I know what programming languages do you know? I am considering being a programmer or developer. How long will it

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-04 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/04/2019 03:26 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: Albretch Mueller, on 2019-10-04: Lately I have been noticing the NTFS partition being slower than usual: telling me I am not allowed to open that partition and/or the OS doing it itself but taking its time (like 5 seconds). The other

Re: why won't ff look at this url?

2019-08-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 08/26/2019 03:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 24 aug 19, 10:21:59, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Two

Re: How good is AI?

2019-08-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 08/24/2019 07:56 PM, bw wrote: In-Reply-To: Larry Martell No programmer is good enough to make a bot like Gene. No human is even good enough to be like Gene. I would have to disagree. I recall back in early 1990's I got ahold of a little freeware bot called 'Chat With Lisa'

Re: 3 phase power (was Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-08-01 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 07/31/2019 09:08 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: An update | correction | recollection ;-) On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 11:34:43 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen diagrams in NEC code books for a different arrangement to get 120 volt 3 phase power, but I don't recall ever actually

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 07/31/2019 02:22 PM, deloptes wrote: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with very good success. Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time spent. For me

Re: FossaMail

2019-06-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Does anyone out there have a copy of FossaMail  they would be willing to share.  I had a catastrophic failure of Stretch, had to reinstall and can't find my copy of FossaMail. Many thanks in advance. I just asked for the rpm--then I found a copy. I don't know how

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

2015-07-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 7/27/2015 2:30 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 27, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27 July 2015 at 18:27, Mark Allums m...@allums.xyz wrote: On 07/27/2015 08:46 AM, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 27. Juli 2015, 08:13:29 schrieb john vera: In

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/06/2013 04:13 PM, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:58 -0500, Doug wrote: On 11/26/2013 03:22 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/27/13, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2013 19:20:47 Doug wrote: On 11/24/2013 12:34 PM, AP wrote: [snip] (i)

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/02/2013 09:14 AM, AP wrote: On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I can't remember what I tested a while ago. Perhaps Claws, maybe Sylpheed. I'll try _both_ again. Have all tried Thunderbird? I am eager to know about it. Is it excellent?

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/02/2013 11:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:27 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:14:17 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:14:27 +0100, AP worldwithoutfen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/02/2013 12:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 11:20 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:56:09 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:27 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:14:17 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 02

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/01/2013 01:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 09:43 +0800, gmail wrote: On 12/01/2013 08:45 AM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: ... I suspect that the good MUAs are all without a GUI, hopefully I'm