On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 5:44 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> I would expect the current battery, with 12.54v should have at least
> started up, so I'm suspicious that it's not the battery. I can take it
> up to the place I got it, Battery X-Change of Oregon City, and have them
> test it, which I will
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 5:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> On 9/27/23 14:12, Russell Senior wrote:
> > I have a UPS in my basement right now, beeping every 14m53s and the
> > battery is fine. The problem is oxide on the connector. Every 3-4
> > months I ritually disconnect and reconnect the battery
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 2:58 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:26:22 -0500
> Bill Barry dijo:
>
> >> I've been reading up on how to get this to work and I haven't found
> >> the answer yet. Both drives have a separate partitions for / and
&g
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 11:39 AM John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> Xubuntu is on a three-year-old 1TB M.2 card and it has worked well for
> years. I think I want to change to Debian, so I downloaded the Xfce
> flavor of the Debian 12 ISO and burned it to a USB drive. Then I went
> out and bought a new
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:06 AM John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:26:42 -0700
> John Jason Jordan dijo:
>
> >On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:55:57 -0700
> >Keith Lofstrom dijo:
> >
> >Re Debian 12 Hookworm
> >
> >Just for kicks I downloaded the Live Xfce ISO and burned it to a small
>
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:48 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I just installed an Acer SB-220Q monitorn and want to decrease the brighness
> (especially on the browser.
>
> The manual says to press the 'Brightness' button and again when the on
> screen display menu appears. Then the two arrow keys are
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 6:19 PM American Citizen
wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to obtain the Qwest White Pages for Phoenix AZ
> using linux?
>
> Internet lookup only shows Spokeo, Intellius, etc, companies who force
> you to a contract and extract money from your wallet. This is almost a
>
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 3:10 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> On 1/10/23 12:21, Bill Barry wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:03 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> >> I'm trying to run two programs that need JACK, MuseScore and GrandOrgue.
> >>
> >> I start JACK wi
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:03 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run two programs that need JACK, MuseScore and GrandOrgue.
>
> I start JACK with QjackCtl. When I click "Start" I get an error message
> telling me "D-BUS: JACK server could not be started." Searching for that
> error message
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 6:18 PM American Citizen
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I used wget recently to try to download all 26 or 27 pages of my
> website, but it seems to miss about 40% of the pages.
>
> Does anyone have the CLI command line which captures 100% of a website
> URLS ?
>
> I tried the typical
>
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 7:02 PM Bill Barry wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 6:55 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:07:09 -0600
> > Bill Barry dijo:
> >
> > >So reassembling is what was needed, but you don't need to forc
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 6:55 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:07:09 -0600
> Bill Barry dijo:
>
> >So reassembling is what was needed, but you don't need to force it.
> >Now if you just had some way to automate that. Have you connected
> >your
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 3:57 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:49:54 -0800 (PST)
> Rich Shepard dijo:
>
> >On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >> I've searched documentation on mdadm and I can't figure out if there
> >> is a way to just restart the array.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 2:30 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> It's happened again. One of my RAID0 arrays just stopped working. The
> mount command shows it as mounted, but neither the command line nor any
> GUI file managers can see any files, and if I try to open a file that I
> know is there I
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 3:07 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
>
> > Many shared hosting providers let people to sftp, but not ssh. This is
> > because there are many users/website on the host and executing stuff
> could
> > impact them all.
>
> NFS allows ssh for
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 2:15 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > You already have this sorted, but if you were to use Let's Encrypt
> > certificates <https://letsencrypt.org/>then it is possible, if
> configured
> > co
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 12:03 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Kevin Williams wrote:
>
> > I’m glad to see you got it installed successfully. I’m curious what app
> > you used to re-issue the certificate. Certbot? Lego?
>
> Kevin,
>
> I didn't use an app. I logged into my zerossl.com
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 3:21 PM Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> I have some WiFi devices that I am loading code into to convert
> them to something called AREDN, Amateur Radio Emergency
> Data Network. Most of them use tftp to upload the new image
> into the device. After doing several of them I
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:39 PM Simon McGrath
wrote:
> I wonder if a PO box would be similar.
>
> -Simon
>
> On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 18:00 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > For years, I've stored offsite backup hard drives in a
> > safe deposit box at the Beaverton Unitus Credit Union.
> > They no
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 3:53 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access to
> the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current
> https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with a namecheap tech didn't
> provide me with the
On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 6:14 PM Michael Barnes wrote:
>
> I am running Mint on my main desktop machine. Everything I find on the web
> says that Firefox should automatically update, however, mine is still on
> 88.0 when the current version is 105. Apparently I am missing something
> somewhere. I
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 9:31 PM Chuck Hast wrote:
> I wonder how much of this they keep. She has already
> tried to explain that as executor she cannot leave the
> country until the job is done. I had thought about doing
> that but wonder if someone would then challenge based
> on her previous
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:33 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:57:57 -0400
> Tomas Kuchta dijo:
>
> >The issue is your tesseract is snap and vobsub2srt is not. Snap
> >packages cannot share libraries, that is the point of snaps.
> >
> >You need to:
> >a) find snap version of
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 2:25 AM jim karlock wrote:
>
> I have been using ubuntu 14.04 for online banking with U.S Bank for
> over 5 years.
>
> About a week ago, clicking the sign in button quit producing a log in
> window. Today, U.S>Bank support told me that it was probably the use
> of Ubuntu
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:10 PM Tomas Kuchta
wrote:
>
> FWIW:
>
> There used to be a way to enable insecure applications under google account.
>
> -T
>
They removed that.
Bill
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>
> Grouse, grouse. Google is always trying to be "helpful."
>
> I logged in to Google Mail via a browser, found where to turn on two
> factor authentication, and turned it on. I still can't log in from
> Thunderbird. I tried shutting down
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 10:45 AM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> When I try to log in to my Gmail account via Thunderbird I get the message:
>
> Sending of password for user [my account name]@gmail.com did not
> succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username and password
> not accepted.
>
>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 6:16 PM Russell Senior wrote:
>
> There are some switches supported in OpenWrt. I have, for example,
> some Netgear GS108Tv3, based on a RealTek rtl838x. There are a bunch
> of others supported with the same family of chips.
>
And many of the routers supported by OpenWrt
On Sat, Jun 4, 2022, 12:07 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
> I am using an Alcatel Linkzone sold by T-Mobile.
> It is labeled "4G LTE HotSpot.
> The WiFi has been turned off via the device's setup menu.
>
> Is anyone on this list using that device? ?? ;}
>
>
> I am trying to install Debian 11.3
>
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:19 PM Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>
> Dual booting should not be a problem. I just recently created a dual
> boot of Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 without any issue. If you want to
> do the dual boot, I would suggest installing Windows first or if the
> laptop came with Windows,
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 9:49 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> I use rotated monitors ("tallscreens") for my computers.
>
> How do I configure lightdm for a screen rotated right?
>
>
>
> I've learned how to rotate the framebuffers for grub boot
> and my mostly working Mate-Ubuntu 20.04 desktop
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 4:58 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> On 3/16/22 14:45, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Dick Steffens wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, but it won't let me change it, nor let me uncheck the "check to see
> >> if Firefox is the default browser."
> >
> > Dick,
> >
> > If you open
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 4:08 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
>
> > 2. Start looking/using at man pages, info pages and other on-line
> > up-to-date sources.
>
> >> None have a current update nor describe boot issues appropriate for my
> >> situation.
>
> Rich
>
>
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 2:08 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > So this is on a totally clean install of the newest version of Slackware?
> > That's a major bug. Seems like someone else would have noticed this. Is
> > there a s
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 1:36 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > What kind of major issues installing slackware? I would think the best
> > laptop is the one you have. I don't think they have not improved
> > dramatically ove
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 10:32 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I think it's time to replace my Dell Latitude E5410 since it's giving me
> fits installing Slackware64-15.0. It's run Slackware since about 2010,
> upgraded as new releases became available, but now it has major issues with
> the new
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 4:58 PM VY wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I am testing my Dell laptop with a Linux Mint bootable USB drive.
> Things are all working except HDMI.
> I tried connecting 2 different monitors (using 2 different HDMI cables) but
> it just won't detect the external monitor.
>
> The
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM VY wrote:
>
> Hello all, need some advice on installing Nvidia driver.
>
> I just got a Dell laptop and plan to use Linux Mint on it.
> I saw under "Software Manager" of latest Linux Mint, it has an Nvidia driver
> of version x.x.047. Nvidia website has version
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 1:04 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I could use some suggestions.
This gives a high level summary of what keyring does.
https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-keyring/
For your purposes it gives the suggestion that has already been
proposed here. Give the keyring an empty password and
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 5:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> On 2/14/22 15:07, King Beowulf wrote:
> > On 2/14/22 14:49, Dick Steffens wrote:
> >> Is anybody using the Brave browser?
> >>
> >> Good? Bad? Indifferent?
> >>
> > Brave browser is a bit of an odd derivative of chromium. It is focused
> >
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:50 AM Tomas Kuchta
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 08:39 Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote:
> >
> > > Using UUIDs should prevent much of this grief. For example, here's a line
> > > from mdadm.conf on one my my machines:
> >
> >
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:18 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > A clue is needed so I can rebuild the RAID1 and rebuild my backup bank.
>
> I turned off the Probox, waited a bit, turned it back on. Then rebooted the
> desktop. Once again the four drives in
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM Russell Senior wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 19:38 Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, King Beowulf wrote:
> >
> > > 1. as started, you do NOT mount the optical drive to burn. It is not a
> > > mass storage device in this case.
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > I've
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 6:11 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > fstab is not the source of information for whether something is mounted or
> > not. fstab is read by mount at boot time to know which drives to mount and
> > how and wh
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:33 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> > You shouldn't need to reboot.
> > ls -l /dev/sr0
> > Mine looks like:
> >
> > $ ls -al /dev/sr0
> > brw-rw+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 1 17:07 /dev/sr0
>
> Russell,
>
> ll /dev/sr0
>
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 6:36 PM Michael Barnes wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 7:51 AM Bill Barry wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 1:48 AM Russell Senior
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Your computers will, of course, be in different locations, but I
>&
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 1:48 AM Russell Senior
wrote:
> Your computers will, of course, be in different locations, but I
> concur on gpsd as probably the right tools for what you describe.
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:06 PM Michael Barnes
> wrote:
> >
> > I know about time (ntp) servers I can
it off from internal and
external access. You can then create a separate SSID on the access point
that is associated with that interface.
Bill Barry.
Are you having trouble with all podcasts or do some have clear audio?
Bill
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 1:17 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> I have a pair of small speakers that work really well with music but lack
> clarity for voice reproduction. Alsamixer can control volume but not
> frequency response.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 1:11 AM Robert Citek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 1:45 PM Eric House wrote:
>
> > > With screen you can resize the terminal size to fit using ctrl-a F -
> > > that's your screen's control command followed by a capital F.
> >
> > That works! If I have two different
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:45 PM Eric House wrote:
> > With screen you can resize the terminal size to fit using ctrl-a F -
> > that's your screen's control command followed by a capital F.
>
> That works! If I have two different terminals ssh'd into the same screen
> session and resize one then
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 3:05 PM Robert Citek wrote:
> User-Agent Switcher
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
>
> Good luck and let us know how things go.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 1:51 PM Dick Steffens
> wrote:
>
> > I recall someone
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:36 PM Eric House wrote:
> > Your idea should work. I sort of tested it with the equipment at hand. I
>
> > > first configured the Pi to boot to console using raspi-config. I added
> a
> > > line to the .profile on the Pi to start screen
> > > screen -S raScreen
> > >
>
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:51 AM Bill Barry wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:04 AM Eric House wrote:
>
>> Looking to build a portable linux environment that'll run on
>> airplane's USB power I'm playing with a Raspberry Pi, an iPad and a
>> bluetooth k
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:04 AM Eric House wrote:
> Looking to build a portable linux environment that'll run on
> airplane's USB power I'm playing with a Raspberry Pi, an iPad and a
> bluetooth keyboard. I run a Bluetooth PAN network on the Pi, ssh into
> it from the iPad using a terminal app,
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 3:33 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Step away from the command prompt and look at your enclosure as someone
> > who will be using it every single day.
> >
> > - How many bays does your enclosure have?
> > -How many ports does it use to
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 2:09 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > I want to setup sde and sdf using raid1 for backups. I assume that since
> > each is partitioned (sde1 and adf1) I can run mdadm and set up the raid1.
>
> mdadm set up /dev/sde and /dev/sdf as RAID1
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 9:51 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> > Mkfs comes last, you don't do that before either mdadm or lvm.
>
> Russell,
>
> Thanks for the reminder; I don't prepare hard (or solid state) drives that
> often.
>
> Now mke2fs is installing ext4
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 3:45 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > Are you using LVM as the final filesystem? This seems like a needless
> > complication unless you really plan on expanding things in the future. It
> > is easier just to for
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, 4:34 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
> The Mediasonic Probox has four disks installed, two Seagate 2T and two WD
> Blue 1T; fdisk -l sees them as:
> Disk /dev/sdc: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 9:27 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > I would think that depends on budget and how critical the backup is. A
> > remote backup is a very good idea to protect against fire etc. SSDs are
> > really fast and reliab
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 9:05 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > You should first confirm that it is not the cable or the USB port.
>
> Bill,
>
> Good point, but I don't have another cable. The enclosure end is
> square-ish,
> not a
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:43 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> Today's logs reported that dirvish could not find the config files on the
> external USB backup drive. Trying to mount it, root cannot find it:
> # mount /mnt/backup
> mount: can't find UUID=6e95864b-6291-4148-acd3-627542c8318f
>
> Is there any
some things that I didn't
> previously. In particular /home/$USER/.cache looks dispensible
> (true/not-true?). And more generally, do people have favorite exclusions
> from backups?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Russell Senior
> russ...@personaltelco.net
Browser caches are good to exclude.
Bill Barry
>
>
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 3:02 PM Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2021, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> > Is anybody using ABC Plus to typeset music?
> >
> > http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/
>
> I used ABC a long, long time ago. I'm glad to see it's still being
> developed.
>
> Unfortunately, I
Is there a tool that will provide x-y coordinates at the cursor location on
> a PDF page?
>
> Rich
>
When you import a pdf into Gimp the square selection tool will give you
coordinates of the place you are pointing to.
Bill Barry
the job done.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Michael
>
I am very happy with the Epson V600 Photo. It scans prints and negatives.
If you still have the negatives from your photos then scanning them can
give much better results than scanning in the prints.
Bill Barry
>
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 3:08 PM c wrote:
> I have a printer connected to the same unmanaged switch as one of my ubuntu
> boxes, but I cannot get the device manager to see the printer, even if I
> manually add the ip address, both are getting 192.168.0.x addresses.
>
> I've tried changing the
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 7:18 PM Russell Senior
wrote:
>
> The subject requesting the advice has a HP PhotoSmart 7520. I
> inherited a Brother 3-in-1 MFC-J497DW, but scanning doesn't (seem to)
> work on Linux. Also, the printer-ink lockdown pandemic has spread to
> Brother. The PhotoSmart has
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 9:52 AM Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 7/21/21 7:47 AM, Bill Barry wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 9:38 AM Dick Steffens
> wrote:
> >
> >> I need to set up a computer that less techie folk can turn on and walk
> >> away, and a script wil
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 9:38 AM Dick Steffens wrote:
> I need to set up a computer that less techie folk can turn on and walk
> away, and a script will start up Zoom, log in, and set all the
> parameters to values we want, which will always be the same. This is for
> a one-way Zoom meeting, and
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 6:08 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> On 07/12/2021 07:13 PM, Bill Barry wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> > I see a Debian package that might work
> > python3-pcbasic - cross-platform emulator for the GW-BASIC family of
> > interpreters (Python2)
&g
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:02 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> A 20+ y.o. astronomy book included a 3.5 inch floppy
> disk with a .BAS program in the back, executable with
> IBM Advanced Basic or GW Basic. And a time machine ...
>
> I was able to read the floppy and extract the file.
>
> I've "tried"
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 5:01 PM Tomas Kuchta
wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 00:09 John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe I need some utility on my phone to get it to read/write to ext4.
> > Does anyone have any clues?
> >
>
> This has been discussed here before. Still maybe worth of a
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 5:27 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 7/5/21 2:56 PM, Daniel Ortiz wrote:
> > The following link is specifically for Ubuntu, but it could help you.
> >
> >
> https://blog.opstree.com/2019/04/02/resolving-segmentation-fault-core-dumped-in-ubuntu/
>
> I followed the command line
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:07 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> This is ridiculous. The keyboard on my laptop is mostly not working. I
> click somewhere to enter text and the cursor appears where I clicked,
> but when I type something nothing appears. If I leave it sit, about
> fifteen minutes later
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, 5:40 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I'm attempting to add freetype support to libgd for debian
> buster. What's the best way to replace or add a recompiled
> library in debian? I can figure out the specifics, but I
> do not yet understand "The Debian Way".
>
>
>
> I've
On Thu, May 20, 2021, 3:15 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> We have an SSD that BIOS no longer sees. It is being replace under
> warranty. What is the recommended method for destroying the contents of
> said drive? In the past, I have drilled holes in failed hard drives. Is
> this still a good approach
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:17 PM TomasK wrote:
>
> I have some PDFs (contracts) from docusign and/or similar cloud service
> - I can read and print them, but I cannot copy or search their content.
>
> The zealots have encoded every paragraph/page with some hash and
> included custom fonts to make
On Tue, May 11, 2021, 4:24 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 5/11/21 2:17 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a recommended too or procedure for logging how much data I
> >> use while hosting a Zoom meeting? The meeting typically takes about
> >> an
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:10 PM King Beowulf wrote:
>
> On 4/28/21 11:14 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
One quick thing to try is just plug the laptop into the cable that
goes to the desktop.
Bill
___
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:11 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I've not before had a problem downloading huge files. But, trying to
> download
> http://ph-public-data.com/document/PHRD_2019/Pre-RD_PDI_Appx-A-Chemistry-Data-DVR.zip
> which the site says is 1,168,591Kb large fails.
Looks like 125
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:31 AM Denis Heidtmann
wrote:
> I have a 150 MB pdf file (66 pages) which has some scaled drawings
> (1/4"/ft). I want to print a portion of a couple of these drawings. I
> think the portion of the drawings I want will fit on a 8 1/2 x 11 page.
> What programs might I
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> On 3/8/21 5:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I think that was the critical step. You had removed the user display
configurations but not the global configuration.
Bill
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:57 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> From Ben's comment and looking at the log I'm thinking it's got
> something to do with left over nVidia stuff. I should be able to do
> something to clear that out and go with the Nouveau driver, right?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
I
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
> On 3/8/21 5:07 PM, Bill Barry wrote:
> > Did this happen after an update of the video driver?
>
> No. This morning I was using ENU-2 as my main desktop machine. After
> lunch I shut down both ENU-2 and ENU-1 a
That should probably be ctrl-alt-F1
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:07 PM Bill Barry wrote:
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:49 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
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> On 3/8/21 4:18 PM, Bill Barry wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:40 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> >> As mentioned in my most recent post, I've swapped desktop machines. I'm
> >> mostly successfully using the "
get the Display settings set correctly for the two screen
configuration.
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:41 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
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> Every time I try to install or uninstall something from the command
> line I get the following error message:
>
> installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 1
>
> I've
experts out there can help me put the @ in the username?
>
Not a curl expert, but this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32122586/curl-escape-single-quote/39802572
suggests you also have to escape the \ also as in '\'@
ymmv
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 5:49 PM Denis Heidtmann
wrote:
> My HP 4630 all-in-one ink-jet printer appears to have died. See details
> below. Looking for a replacement.
>
> The last time I took count, we printed less than 10 pages/ week, majority
> color. We want the scanner, but do not use the
; closure and make the notification. I'm just not sure of the software
> mechanism to do so.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Michael
A Raspberry Pi, a Google Fi data only sim card and a compatible 4G USB
modem could work. If you are already using Fi for your phone serv
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021, 11:05 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Yeah, yeah, NFS. Bah. I've tried to get it to work several times over
> the years, and I've always failed.
>
> What would be really cool would be a GUI application that would do this
> for me. No list of half a dozen scripts that probably
; Thanks,
>
I have used Digital Ocean, Linode, Google Cloud and AWS, none of them
charge when your VM is not running, but as far as I know all of them
charge to store the image.
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ged in) section is still there. BTW, I also tried powering up the
> turntable, but it had no effect.
>
> Now my question is, is there a way to change the behavior?
>
What happens in the Configuration tab of PulseAudio control when you
connect and disconnect
rol and go to configuration and choose off for
that HDMI audio device. The same thing might be happening with your
USB turntable. PulseAudio might think it is an output device.
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:29 PM Michael Barnes wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:26 PM Bill Barry wrote:
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> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:19 PM Michael Barnes
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Update. I got a USB-Ethernet adapter and am at least c
the
driver from here
https://github.com/heri16/r8125
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:39 PM Michael Barnes wrote:
> First, the computer I had was too old. Now, it is too new. I have to use
> CentOS7 for the application I am running, which uses qt4. CentOS8 only has
> qt5, which is not backwards compatible. And, so far, everything I have seen
> says
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