Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, arne wrote:


https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates/1cm-squared-paper


  hi Arne,
  thank you.
  I made the almost same grid with latex, but this one is also
  interesting

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[tomas]

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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 03:39:58AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Doug wrote:
> 
> > I do not disparage the hard work some devs
> > have put into Linux CAD routines, but I don't
> > think that's the way to go if you're going to
> > do some serious CAD work over the course
> > of time.
> 
> ... why not?

Because that's what Autodesk wants you to believe.

For those of us around a little longer, perhaps you remember that
time when GNU/Linux started to get some traction. At that time,
Microsoft used to say that well, an OS wasn't that hard, but for
something really complex like a web browser... the free software
couldn't really pull that off.

Shortly thereafter Mozilla smashed Internet Explorer into the
ground.

Closed software vendors want you to believe that Professional (TM)
is only possible as proprietary software, and some people (hi,
Doug: no offense intended) swallow this bait, including hook and
sinker (after all, closed software vendors put "some" money into
that, as part of their publicity operation).

This is one of the most damaging mechanisms to free software these
days. Vendors have become much more subtle: watch Microsoft deploying
Linux in their cloud and trumpeting "We love Open Source[1]" --
behind the scenes they are massaging decision makers[2] to fear the
GPL (because this one has teeth).

Pretty disgusting, actually :-(

Cheers

[1] See? They don't want Free Software. They don't want you, the
   user, to be free -- they just want a free ride.
[2] If necessary wining and dining them, to the tune of $$$

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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[tomas]

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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 12:29:06AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:

[...]

> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figures/pic/llc

:-)

Now write an Elisp-to-pic compiler

 (seq
  (circle :radius 0.5 :label "best effort core")
  (arrow :size 0.2)
  ...)

Cheers
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Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[arne]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:56:37 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Jape Person wrote:
> 
> > Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether
> > you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a
> > difference, particularly with respect to the drivers available
> > in CUPS.  
> 
>I was not aware that it was so important. My release is Stretch.
>I did so many tries with all proposed URI (socket://, lpd://,
> ipp:// ...) that it would too long to report all.
>Anyway, I could get an almost working config with
>DeviceURI lpd://BRWF8DA0C80F39D/BINARY_P1
>and
>brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd
>My problem is now that input setting is "Tray1", but
>the printer ignores it, and asks for "manual feed",
>I'll try whether this can be fixed with Windows, unless you have
>an other suggestion.
> 
> best regards,

Hi,

When you care about spending too much ink on printing while testing, 
I can recommend

to install libreoffice writer 

and then download 

1cm-paper.odt ,this one spills minimal ink

You can download it here:

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates/1cm-squared-paper

This one is a good demonstration to compare printing in 600 dpi or 
1200 dpi.

greetings.

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 23/11/17 22:37, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:

Mine works fine with these CUPS settings on my WLAN:
http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Name: Brother_MFC-L2740DW
Description: Brother MFC-L2740DW
Driver: Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)
After configuration, the CUPS page reads:
Description:    Brother MFC-L2740DW
Location: Driver:    Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor 
(recommended) (color, 2-sided printing)

Connection:    http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Defaults:    job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm 
sides=two-sided-long-edge

  hi,
  I don't see any way to configure these settings, either with
  system-config-printer or http://localhost:631/admin/


I use . I see an "Add Printer" and a 
"Manage Printers" button. I can click "Manage Printers" and select the 
printer. I can select "Administration" / "Modify Printer" in the 
dropdown menu, and am prompted for my local username and password. The 
Defaults settings above were added automatically when I added the 
printer; I included them for completeness.


Are you in the cups group?


  Can you tell me how you do that, and what do you mean by "CUPS page"?


The printer information page. In my case:
http://localhost:631/printers/Brother_MFC-L2740DW

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[arne]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:56:37 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Jape Person wrote:
> 
> > Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether
> > you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a
> > difference, particularly with respect to the drivers available
> > in CUPS.  
> 
>I was not aware that it was so important. My release is Stretch.
>I did so many tries with all proposed URI (socket://, lpd://,
> ipp:// ...) that it would too long to report all.
>Anyway, I could get an almost working config with
>DeviceURI lpd://BRWF8DA0C80F39D/BINARY_P1
>and
>brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd
>My problem is now that input setting is "Tray1", but
>the printer ignores it, and asks for "manual feed",
>I'll try whether this can be fixed with Windows, unless you have
>an other suggestion.
> 
> best regards,

I forgot to mention, when logged in: 

http://your-printers-ip-adress/print/print.html

you can switch from 600 (standard) to 1200 dpi :)

Not well documented I guess, but gives nicer printout.

Regards.

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[arne]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:56:37 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Jape Person wrote:
> 
> > Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether
> > you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a
> > difference, particularly with respect to the drivers available
> > in CUPS.  
> 
>I was not aware that it was so important. My release is Stretch.
>I did so many tries with all proposed URI (socket://, lpd://,
> ipp:// ...) that it would too long to report all.
>Anyway, I could get an almost working config with
>DeviceURI lpd://BRWF8DA0C80F39D/BINARY_P1
>and
>brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd
>My problem is now that input setting is "Tray1", but
>the printer ignores it, and asks for "manual feed",
>I'll try whether this can be fixed with Windows, unless you have
>an other suggestion.
> 
> best regards,

Hi,

Did you try:
http://your-printers-ip-number/general/status.html

You must log in
Then you are able to switch off manual feed:
http://your-printers-ip-number/print/tray.html

Hope this helps.
Regards.

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Doug wrote:

> I do not disparage the hard work some devs
> have put into Linux CAD routines, but I don't
> think that's the way to go if you're going to
> do some serious CAD work over the course
> of time.

... why not?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Doug]

On 11/23/2017 05:06 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:

Joe wrote:


What you won't be given is a dialog box with
X and Y size and coordinates, and invited to
edit them, it doesn't work that way.
That's how an object-oriented drawing program
would work.

Well, this is certainly a first that I'm an
OO guy by intuition, because yes, that is how
I would expect it to work. But that is drawing,
not CAD?

I wonder if I should get an OO drawing
application instead, and what would that be -
Dia?

Or perhaps learn CAD as that's more powerful in
the long run?

Learning CAD is a hard road, but a worthwhile one, I think, because it 
is so versatile.

Which one you learn will make some difference, depending on what you wind up
wanting to do with it. I learned some AutoCad 25 years ago, and I got 
pretty good

(but not expert) at it, and the advantages are that many other software and
hardware packages work with it. If you need to make PC boards, you can make
a negative directly (or almost directly) but you can also convert to 
professional
pcb manufacture with available software, you can input the files to 
several other
programs, and some other programs can produce files that AutoCad can 
directly

import, so you can add to the images. AutoCad is priced out of the consumer
market altogether, but DraftSight uses all (or almost?) all the same 
commands,

and will import and export in the same file protocols as AutoCad, so all the
advantages of AutoCad are there for you free for home use, or for a very 
reasonable
price if you need to use it professionally.  Then if for some reason you 
really need
AutoCAd, you will have the skills to do so. Any CAD program has a steep 
learning
curve, and I don't think the skills from one transfer all that easily to 
a different

one with different commands and methods of entry of parameters, so whatever
you pick out and learn is going to be the one you stick with. If you 
need interfacing
with other software, then something compatible with AutoCad is what you 
need.
If you can live with ONLY the CAD routine you learned, then it will not 
matter
whether you use a Linux-specific program or not.  I do not disparage the 
hard
work some devs have put into Linux CAD routines, but I don't think 
that's the
way to go if you're going to do some serious CAD work over the course of 
time.

Just my 2¢ worth.
--doug

hp laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

[Jaime T]

Hi all.

I'm running stable (stretch)/xfce on an hp/compaq nx6110 laptop, and
when the screen blanks, I can't get it to wake up again (nothing
appears on the screen when I press the keys on the keyboard and move
the mouse).

The closest debian bug report that I've seen is:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787241

although these other (non-debian) bug reports seem closer:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11627
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12480
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194313

The laptop is currently sitting there, powered on with a blank screen,
but I have a load of unsaved work on the desktop. I can ssh into it
and run commands on it. Does anyone know if there's anything that I
can do to wake the screen up so that I can save my work?

Thank you, Jaime

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

t wrote:

> The more I read your musings the more I think
> you are looking for OpenSCAD.
>
> Here is a snippet out of some random .scad
> file, the things OpenSCAD stores its data in:
>
>   module strip(startpoint=[0, 0, 0]) {
> translate(startpoint)
>   difference() {
> cube([60, 10, 520]);
> translate([30, -50, 45])
>   rotate([-90, 0, 0])
> cylinder($fn = 100, h = 100, r = 10.25, center = false);
> translate([30, -50, 470])
>   rotate([-90, 0, 0])
> cylinder($fn = 100, h = 100, r = 10.25, center = false)
>   }
>   }
>
> OK, OK, it's not Lisp, but close :)

That sounds like a 3D GFX system? OpenGL-ish.

Anyway if you have a piece of code that will
just draw one 2D box for 5x10m or some other
digits that I can edit in a text file - *and*
a command to actually put it into a file, I'll
consider it. Her damit :)

> There even seem to be (complete? incomplete?
> dunno) Emacs modes for that thing. Let us
> know :-)

Yes, I saw one in MELPA when I searched for
"cad":

scad-mode [...] A major mode for editing OpenSCAD code

There is also "scad-preview".

By the way, here is some pic(1) source I wrote
~7y ago - I even wrote a small tutorial how to
use it - perhaps I can use that now...

http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figures/pic/llc

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

gocryptfs?

[dekks herton]

Hello,

Has anyone used gocryptfs to create an encrypted folder in ones home directory? 
any opinions good or bad?


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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:37:30PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Is there a piece of software that works like
> gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed the program
> a script with instructions and data and then
> the program generates the drawing? That would
> be simpler and more to the point as I'm not
> designing anything, I'm just want a computer
> representation of what already is.

The more I read your musings the more I think you
are looking for OpenSCAD.

Here is a snippet out of some random .scad file,
the things OpenSCAD stores its data in:

  module strip(startpoint=[0, 0, 0]) {
translate(startpoint)
  difference() {
cube([60, 10, 520]);
translate([30, -50, 45])
  rotate([-90, 0, 0])
cylinder($fn = 100, h = 100, r = 10.25, center = false);
translate([30, -50, 470])
  rotate([-90, 0, 0])
cylinder($fn = 100, h = 100, r = 10.25, center = false)
  }
  }

OK, OK, it's not Lisp, but close :)

I haven't used it much (I haven't used any CAD much), but as far
as I have seen, you can freely alternate clicking-and-dragging
and typing functions in this kind of functional-y language.

There even seem to be (complete? incomplete? dunno) Emacs modes
for that thing. Let us know :-)

One data point more.

Cheers
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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Is there a piece of software that works like
gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed the program
a script with instructions and data and then
the program generates the drawing? That would
be simpler and more to the point as I'm not
designing anything, I'm just want a computer
representation of what already is.
 
-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

[solved]Re: Sound with Intel Baytrail device (Lenovo Ideapad 100S)

[Michael Lange]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:25:16 +0100
Michael Lange  wrote:

(...) 
> I also tried to use pulseaudio with the ucm files from
> https://github.com/plbossart/UCM/tree/master/bytcr-rt5640
> that have been reported to do the trick, but still no luck

uh oh, never mind. I somehow managed to accidentally install the UCM
files from  the byt-rt5640 directory of P. L. Bossart's repository instead
of those from bytcr-rt5640. With the correct files pulseaudio finally
works :)

Regards

Michael

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Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Joe wrote:

> What you won't be given is a dialog box with
> X and Y size and coordinates, and invited to
> edit them, it doesn't work that way.
> That's how an object-oriented drawing program
> would work.

Well, this is certainly a first that I'm an
OO guy by intuition, because yes, that is how
I would expect it to work. But that is drawing,
not CAD?

I wonder if I should get an OO drawing
application instead, and what would that be -
Dia?

Or perhaps learn CAD as that's more powerful in
the long run?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[Catalin Soare]

Thanks for the hints, however, I am trying to learn how to setup an iPXE
boot menu with Debian, some utilities (maybe some .ISO) and possibly
windows.
To be honest, I've only setup a simple PXE server which worked before, but
this seems very much uncharted territory for me.
Pretty hard to find all things I need in one place, and in a readable form
for beginners.

Any suggestions are very appreciated.

Best regards,

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:37 AM, deloptes  wrote:

> Catalin Soare wrote:
>
> > However, I can still not test to get a file, even with the tftp-hpa
> client
> > on the machine where I'm hosting the VM.
> > Anyway, thank you guys very much! Maybe with time and experiments I'll
> > figure it out :)
>
> I use few virtual and physical machines diskless and they boot via PXE -
> see
> the links below.
>
> 1. You have to configure at least dhcp and nfs properly.
>
> dhcp
>
>  host vmware3 {
> hardware ethernet 00:50:;
> fixed-address 192.168..;
> option host-name "vmware3";
> filename "pxelinux.0";
> #tftp server
> next-server 192.168.xxx.xxx;
> option
> root-path "192.168.xxx.xxx:/opt/remote/nfsroot/stretch-amd64,retry=3,
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192";
>  }
>
> 2. you need to setup the kernel boot parameters
>
> 3. and of course have a usable initram disk image
>
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_system
> https://www.gadgetdaily.xyz/use-css3-transforms-and-
> transitions-to-create-subtle-image-zooms/
>
>
> good luck
>
>


-- 
Regards,
*Catalin Soare *

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Joe]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:26:12 +0100
Emanuel Berg  wrote:

> Cousin Stanley wrote:
> 
> > You might find useful information at the
> > LibreCAD site [...]  
> 
> OK, thanks Cousin Stanley and Farmer Joe, so
> the short answers to my question "how do I draw
> an approximate rectangle and then set the
> properties to the measured values" is
> 1. don't do it, 

By preference. While you are placing the second corner of the
rectangle, the X and Y size will be shown in the status bar. That is by
far the easiest way to get a rectangle of the size you want. But you can
select a finished rectangle by dragging around it, open Tools, Modify,
Scale and you will be asked to mark a reference point, then enter X and
Y scaling values. It's up to you to know the current size, and the
scaling factors you need.

What you won't be given is a dialog box with X and Y size and
coordinates, and invited to edit them, it doesn't work that way. That's
how an object-oriented drawing program would work. In LibreCAD,
'Properties' and 'Attributes' are just types and colours of lines, and
the layer on which the line sits. These things can be edited. 

You can drag individual rectangle corners after creating it, but you
don't get a reading of overall size, you have to keep track of how much
to enlarge or shrink it. On the other hand, if you're fitting a
rectangle around other existing objects, and you don't know the size in
advance, this is the way to do it.

The Tools, Modify menu contains a large range of transformations, from
duplicating to scaling to moving to another layer to trimming two
intersecting lines so they just meet, and others. You can dock this
menu as a toolbar with icons if you wish. With CAD, there's always a
tradeoff between displaying toolbars and having enough area to work in.

-- 
Joe

Re: HTML5 problem

[Maureen L Thomas]

On 11/23/2017 02:10 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:

On 11/23/2017 12:05 AM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:

I cannot view any HTML 5 video in Firefox.  I have the latest version
from just a few days ago and still no HTML 5.  I am so tired of this
crap.  I have tried various ad ons with no luck.  I have the latest
Debian version and the newest version of Firefox.  What the hell have I
done wrong this time?

Hi,

Firefox supports H.264 and WebM. Just try to install

gstreamer1.0-libav

package.

Kind regards
Georgi


Thank you Georgi.  It is already installed but I re=installed it just in 
case.  It still does not work.

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Cousin Stanley wrote:

> You might find useful information at the
> LibreCAD site [...]

OK, thanks Cousin Stanley and Farmer Joe, so
the short answers to my question "how do I draw
an approximate rectangle and then set the
properties to the measured values" is
1. don't do it, and 2. use the command line.

The command line doesn't look that powerful (a
tiny box in the bottom-right corner) but I'm
glad there is one. More than meets the eye.

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Joe]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:07:54 -0600
David Wright  wrote:

> On Thu 23 Nov 2017 at 09:05:51 (+), Joe wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 02:05:14 +0100
> > Emanuel Berg  wrote:
> >   
> > > Librecad seems good and I got it working
> > > instantly on a Debian box.
> > > 
> > > Only how do I draw a box and then change the
> > > properties to specific side lengths?
> > > 
> > > For example, if I want to picture a building
> > > that is rectangular (from above) with one side
> > > 10m and the other 5m?
> > > 
> > > I managed to make an approximate rectangle with
> > > the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up
> > > properties so that I can assign the
> > > exact values?  
> > 
> > The primitives such as rectangles are not objects as such, but
> > collections of lines. Lines can be extended and shortened, but it is
> > easier to draw the rectangle the right size to start with.  
> 
> Having spent two years watching our architects manipulate our house
> on screen, this doesn't correspond with my experience of CAD.
> We'd still have an empty yard if each rectangle had to be drawn
> the right size.
> 

No, you can do practically anything imaginable, but someone beginning
will be better off taking a few steps at a time. You can certainly
select multiple objects and scale them all together, but much of the
time that's not what you want to do, you want to scale some of it and
move the rest unscaled. You can also bring in complete blocks, or make
blocks out of existing primitives, and then work on the whole thing more
easily, but at the expense of fine control of the parts.

It's the same with anything with a fairly fearsome number of bells and
whistles, such as the GIMP, quite intimidating at first meeting with
that kind of software. Gradually you learn to do more, and to find
easier ways of doing things you're currently doing the hard way.

-- 
Joe

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[David Wright]

On Thu 23 Nov 2017 at 09:05:51 (+), Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 02:05:14 +0100
> Emanuel Berg  wrote:
> 
> > Librecad seems good and I got it working
> > instantly on a Debian box.
> > 
> > Only how do I draw a box and then change the
> > properties to specific side lengths?
> > 
> > For example, if I want to picture a building
> > that is rectangular (from above) with one side
> > 10m and the other 5m?
> > 
> > I managed to make an approximate rectangle with
> > the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up
> > properties so that I can assign the
> > exact values?
> 
> The primitives such as rectangles are not objects as such, but
> collections of lines. Lines can be extended and shortened, but it is
> easier to draw the rectangle the right size to start with.

Having spent two years watching our architects manipulate our house
on screen, this doesn't correspond with my experience of CAD.
We'd still have an empty yard if each rectangle had to be drawn
the right size.

Cheers,
David.

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Cousin Stanley]

Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Librecad seems good and I got it working
> instantly on a Debian box.
> 
> Only how do I draw a box and then change the
> properties to specific side lengths?
>  

  You might find useful information 
  at the LibreCAD site  

http://librecad.org/cms/home.html

http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Main_Page


  The command-line interface could be useful
  for setting particular properties  


http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/A_short_manual_for_use_from_the_command_line


  YouTube videos  

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=librecad&oq=librecad



-- 
Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:46:46PM +0100, hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 2017-11-23 09:08, Weaver wrote:
> 
> > I don't think you'll find LibreCad is `dead'.
> > I think you'll find it just takes a little more than five minutes to get
> > on top of a programme.
> > The traffic on a mailing list is also no indication of usage or how
> > `good' a package is.
> > Traffic may well be low because of ease of use, for example.
> > 
> > Of course, if you're happy paying for your software, why don't you move
> > straight to AutoCad?
> 
> Why the hostility? I didn't say LibreCAD is bad or even that is _was_ dead. I 
> am
> just inclined to think so based on my (admittedly limited) experience with it.

Yes. To be fair, QCad is GPLV3, according to [1] -- I didn't look at
the sources, though. With proprietary plugins.

Now this is the "open core" [2] license model, which does have problems
of its own and has been criticized fot that (among other things, the
parent company has a financial interest in keeping the free core as
uncomfortable as possible to suck users into the proprietary extensions),
but that doesn't mean that *all* companies give in to this temptation.
On the contrary, there are really good examples of this model being put
to good use out there.

So be careful with criticism until you really have looked into how
those folks behave...

(No, I don't know how QCad scores here. Anyone willing to find out?)

All generalizations suck :-)

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QCad
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_core
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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[hdv@gmail]

On 2017-11-23 09:08, Weaver wrote:

> I don't think you'll find LibreCad is `dead'.
> I think you'll find it just takes a little more than five minutes to get
> on top of a programme.
> The traffic on a mailing list is also no indication of usage or how
> `good' a package is.
> Traffic may well be low because of ease of use, for example.
> 
> Of course, if you're happy paying for your software, why don't you move
> straight to AutoCad?

Why the hostility? I didn't say LibreCAD is bad or even that is _was_ dead. I am
just inclined to think so based on my (admittedly limited) experience with it.

And concerning the use of FLOSS: you are barking up at the wrong tree. If been a
focal and active participant of the community since the early nineties. I also
sponsor lots of projects out of my own pocket. Can you say that?

Anyway, why the PM? I sent my answer to the list. Why don't you?

Grx HdV

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Jape Person wrote:


Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether
you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a
difference, particularly with respect to the drivers available
in CUPS.


  I was not aware that it was so important. My release is Stretch.
  I did so many tries with all proposed URI (socket://, lpd://, ipp:// ...)
  that it would too long to report all.
  Anyway, I could get an almost working config with
  DeviceURI lpd://BRWF8DA0C80F39D/BINARY_P1
  and
  brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd
  My problem is now that input setting is "Tray1", but
  the printer ignores it, and asks for "manual feed",
  I'll try whether this can be fixed with Windows, unless you have
  an other suggestion.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:


Mine works fine with these CUPS settings on my WLAN:

http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Name: Brother_MFC-L2740DW
Description: Brother MFC-L2740DW
Driver: Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)

After configuration, the CUPS page reads:

Description:Brother MFC-L2740DW
Location: 
Driver:	Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended) (color, 
2-sided printing)

Connection: http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Defaults:	job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm 
sides=two-sided-long-edge


 hi,
 I don't see any way to configure these settings, either with
 system-config-printer or http://localhost:631/admin/
 Can you tell me how you do that, and what do you mean by "CUPS page"?

 With my present config, the only problem is that the printer always
 asks for "manual feed", although the input is set everywhere as "Tray1"

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Joe]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 02:05:14 +0100
Emanuel Berg  wrote:

> Librecad seems good and I got it working
> instantly on a Debian box.
> 
> Only how do I draw a box and then change the
> properties to specific side lengths?
> 
> For example, if I want to picture a building
> that is rectangular (from above) with one side
> 10m and the other 5m?
> 
> I managed to make an approximate rectangle with
> the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up
> properties so that I can assign the
> exact values?

The primitives such as rectangles are not objects as such, but
collections of lines. Lines can be extended and shortened, but it is
easier to draw the rectangle the right size to start with.

Watch the status bar for distances and angles from the last plotted
point. There is a toolbar icon to move the reference point without
drawing anything. There are scaling settings, which I never use as I
work to real sizes, but you will presumably need.

I use the snap selection toolbar heavily, which allows the kind of
snapping to be chosen: to ends of lines, gridlines and several others.
There are also switches to constrain movement to the vertical or the
horizontal. I normally use a guide layer, where I add useful lines to
make later constructions easier, this layer can be turned off except
when actually in use, and while visible, the snap tools work with
things on it.
> 
> I made a search on Gmane (news.gmane.org) for
> "librecad" but apparently no mailing list is
> registered there. Also, on aioe (nntp.aioe.org)
> there seems to be no Usenet group dedicated to
> librecad. Now this speaks volumes.
> Aren't people using it?
> 

Yes, though occasionally, not professionally. Any CAD is a bit
difficult to pick up, familiarity comes with time. I find this useful:
http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Main_Page

There's plenty of this kind of thing about:
https://flurry.dg.fmph.uniba.sk/webog/SuboryOG/bohdal/Librecad-%20by%20Jasleen_Kaur.pdf

Mr Google will answer many questions, and there's the odd YouTube
tutorial.

-- 
Joe

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Anil Duggirala]

> > For example, if I want to picture a building
> > that is rectangular (from above) with one side
> > 10m and the other 5m?
> > 
> > I managed to make an approximate rectangle with
> > the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up
> > properties so that I can assign the
> > exact values?
> > 
> > I made a search on Gmane (news.gmane.org) for
> > "librecad" but apparently no mailing list is
> > registered there. Also, on aioe (nntp.aioe.org)
> > there seems to be no Usenet group dedicated to
> > librecad. Now this speaks volumes.
> > Aren't people using it?
> > 
> 
> This was one of the reasons I decided to change to QCAD. If even choose
> to pay
> the € 33 for the Pro version. It works like a charm, has good
> documentation (I
> can recommend the official e-book that can be bought separately), and in
> many
> subtle ways is more user-friendly. My experience with their customer
> support and
> the forum is very good as well. (No I don't have shares, I am just a
> happy
> customer. ;-) )
> 
> If you think this type of software is what you need, then I would try out
> QCAD
> instead of LibreCAD. I've been subscribed to their mailing list for
> almost a
> year now and I don't think I've seen more than 3 messages on it. I might
> be
> missing things, but I am inclined to think that LibreCAD is "dead".
> 
> Grx HdV
> 


Yes. QCad will provide more forthcoming help. 
Keep in mind the command line is your friend when modifying existing
objects.

Re: HTML5 problem

[Jeroen Mathon]

Do you have the required codecs installed?


On 11/22/2017 11:05 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I cannot view any HTML 5 video in Firefox.  I have the latest version
> from just a few days ago and still no HTML 5.  I am so tired of this
> crap.  I have tried various ad ons with no luck.  I have the latest
> Debian version and the newest version of Firefox.  What the hell have
> I done wrong this time?
>
> Maureen
>




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