Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

On 07.02.20 23:53, Long Wind wrote: > i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by masking > other noise) > but when it reach end and restart to play againthere's some interval, which > isn't desirable > any mplayer option or other player i can use so that it plays

Re: Howto?

On 26.01.20 03:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Trying to sort out how to xz compress. But xz is rejecting directories, > like it expects tars output as its input. And the manpage is silent on > redirections. > > I want to compress the directory foo into foo.xz, keeping foo as

Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

On 25.01.20 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote: > My current project is dealing with oddly formatted data. Mostly just plain > ASCII. Progress on another aspect of my project has made this thread moot. For the thread, there's also: $ apt-cache search bvi bvi - binary file

Re: sed question

On 06.12.19 14:40, songbird wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > > Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied variables > > injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe for that kind of > > work. > > sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of >

Re: Is this ALL good advise

On 04.12.19 17:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > My point exactly. That means two accounts at your isp, I think mine > charges only after the 2nd one, and two active fetchmail/procmail > sessions = more trouble than it worth. Me? I got the heck off gmail > years ago for lack of privacy reasons, and I

Re: is it possible run 32-bit app on 64-bit amd system??

On 13.08.19 07:47, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 12, 2019 10:56:22 PM riveravaldez wrote: > > >> btw which option should i add to mplayer command line > > >> so that it play only audio part (not video part) of a file? > > > > $ mplayer -novideo file > > I'm in a strange mood

Re: Error with logrotate.

On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where we > keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that fetchmail, > procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, running as the user can > access /var/log to keep its logs.

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

On 30.07.19 11:34, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Most residential power in the US is created using a single phase transformer > (so called because (1) it only takes power from one of the 3 phases mentioned > above and (2) darn -- it's a bitch getting old. Tell me about it. ;-) I'd offer that (2)

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

On 29.07.19 20:46, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: > > > > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one > > > > phase in an

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

On 29.07.19 14:44, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:34:25 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > In a single-family house, Powerline is about as secure as wired > > ethernet: you need to come in and plug something in to spy on > > it. > > Most people won't have RF blocking filters at their house

Off-topic: Action [Was: Re: Off topic: remaja (teens)

On 22.06.19 12:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > deloptes wrote: > > Please stop! > > You know what happens if you try to issue commands here, do you ? > > > > BTW you are also a carbon dioxide producer ;-) > > Voluntarily i'm only part of the athmospheric carbon cycle, not of the >

Re: Reading pdf files

On 15.06.19 07:51, Curt wrote: > curty@einstein:~$ mupdf > usage: mupdf [options] file.pdf [page] > -p -password > -r -resolution > -A -set anti-aliasing quality in bits (0=off, 8=best) > -C -RRGGBB (tint color in hexadecimal syntax) > -W -

Re: Reading pdf files

On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 > Erik Christiansen wrote: > > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on > > hand. > > I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader. It's just so >

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The > file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. Easier than looking in

Re: Reading pdf files

On 13.06.19 16:29, k. jantzen wrote: > > in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or > documentviewer. Yup, documentviewer will sometimes show faint lines better, I find, but it's easy to set the background colour in xpdf. > But once in a while I get a pdf file

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On 09.06.19 19:11, Brian wrote: > On Mon 10 Jun 2019 at 00:52:21 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > > > On 09.06.19 06:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And what do we call that Erik, thats much bigger than a normal foop, a > > > megafoop maybe? Good gr

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On 09.06.19 06:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > And what do we call that Erik, thats much bigger than a normal foop, a > megafoop maybe? Good grief, Charley Brown. And we're stuck with it. :( Well now, there are folks who have observed that not all progress is forward, and not all code bloat and

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On 08.06.19 11:28, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 08 June 2019 10:20:09 am deloptes wrote: > > Did you try running this without systemd? I recall you mentioned > > somewhere you removed it > > > > regards > > No. And I doubt there would even be a running system left. I don't think > I wrote

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

On 06.06.19 07:14, Gene Heskett wrote: > > # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) > > # > > #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > > #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 > > > Yes, I recall those days. But until now ttyS0 and S1 if it existed,

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

On 28.05.19 08:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2019 08:34:37 am Erik Christiansen wrote: > > That said, one could upgrade just that one package, and try it out. If > > it is fixed, you're on a winner then and there. "Fixed" beats > > "reported&quo

Re: IPV6 hosts file (was: Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?))

On 28.05.19 14:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:51:41AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > But who or what is the gatekeeper to make sure the address you choose, > > supposedly at random, isn't in use someplace next door or half the > > planet away? There may

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

On 28.05.19 08:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2019 11:18:49 pm Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > Gene Heskett writes: > > Your version (1.14.6-2) of network-manager appears to be out of date. > > The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive: > > experimental: 1.18.0-1

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

On 27.05.19 23:32, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > No, seriously I would like to get some user feedback to the question. > And also why is net-tools being deprecated? It's not. You and I fully approve of it, so it's fine for the use cases in which it gives the desired results. (See ifconfig use on this

Re: IPV6 hosts file (was: Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?))

On 27.05.19 17:06, Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats fine, shows the loop local stuff, but how does one determine the > ipv6 address for picnc.coyote.den for instance. I think it somehow > related to picnc's mac address, but thats just a WAG. On coyote, it'll look something like line 3: $ ifconfig

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 12.05.19 13:45, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems? Most of the > >> devices I mount using pmount are sd cards (ca

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Saturday, 4 May 2019 at 16:43, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > To provide that convenient automation, I use: > > > > $ which lmount > > lmount is a function > > lmount () > > { > > pm

Re: Netiquette [Was: Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 07.05.19 09:05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > So, I'll use "publicly" -- I was going to do that, but it just seemed wrong > at > the time ;-) It seems harder to remember uncommon spelling now than when I was younger, and until the spellchecker disagreed, I'd gone with your spelling - it's more

Netiquette [Was: Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 07.05.19 07:38, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote off-list: > On Tuesday, May 07, 2019 12:01:49 AM Erik Christiansen wrote: > > only the author is dumb enough > > Why use language like that? (It does not contribute to the welcoming > environment that I'd like to see cultivated

Remove nautilus to stop automounts? [Was: Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 04.05.19 13:48, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:43:53) > > There doesn't seem to be an option for pmount to mount at > > /media/label_read_from_the_media ... > I don't personally use pmount since some years, but that sure sounds > l

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 07.05.19 10:12, David wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 23:53, Erik Christiansen > wrote: > > On 06.05.19 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:48:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:4

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

On 06.05.19 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:48:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:43:53) > > > $ which lmount > > > lmount is a function > > > lmount () > > > { > >

Re: apache2 missing a file, won't run.

On 05.05.19 17:16, Gene Heskett wrote: > You have made it very clear not to assign a pw to root, do everything > with sudo. That's just religion, Gene, promulgated to minimise queries and complaints from people getting themselves into trouble. Like vaccination, it only needs 95% coverage to

pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

>From the pmount manpage for stretch: » pmount device [ label ] This will mount device to a directory below /media if policy is met (see below). If label is given, the mount point will be /media/label, otherwise it will be /media/device. « There doesn't seem to be an option for pmount to

Re: which mutt?

On 03.05.19 18:01, Russell L. Harris wrote: > P.S. Would someone kindly tell me how, while in Mutt and reading a > message such as this, to launch a browser to open links such as [1] > and [2] above? A convenient alternative is to just double-click on a link in mutt's display in an xterm, then

Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

On 26.04.19 23:09, mick crane wrote: > I did wonder if was some scheme I was unaware of. > I noticed a couple of weeks ago somebody used these "::" between words to > identify something. > Like in apt you have >

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

On 08.04.19 17:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:33:03PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello all > > > > As I wrote this I began to consider this is slightly OT for this list; > > my apologies for not putting OT in the subject line but mutt won't let > > me go back and

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

On 07.04.19 08:12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Sorry, I should have tried to be more clear -- sort of a digression, but I > came from an environment where anytime someone used the word assume, someone > else would point out what (they thought) that meant (it makes an ass out of > [yo]u and me).

Re: text editors

On 30.03.19 01:29, deloptes wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > > I'm not trying to persuade anyone to use Emacs.  I am trying to convince > > people not to be deterred from trying it because of myths such as "You > > can't use Emacs if you can't program in Lisp". > > Sorry John, but all of this is

Re: text editors

On 29.03.19 10:50, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > >>>>> "EC" == Erik Christiansen writes: > > EC> Yes, yes, reflexive combativeness is jolly good fun, but > EC> understanding is more useful in the long term. > > In my experience, if the langua

Re: text editors

On 29.03.19 10:44, deloptes wrote: > One can live and do everything without Emacs. Can't resist paraphrasing that in light of Emacs' OS-like reputation: One can live and do everything within Emacs ... or without. I would be tempted to have a look at ne, except that my fingers would just

Re: text editors

On 29.03.19 08:47, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > >>>>> "EC" == Erik Christiansen writes: > > EC> On 28.03.19 21:32, Matyáš Bobek wrote: > >> I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How > >> is it done? > > EC

Re: text editors

On 29.03.19 17:26, Erik Christiansen wrote: > " Toggle relative line numbering. > function! NList_toggle() > if == 1 > set nornu" For absolute, elide the 'r'. > else > set rnu " For absolute, elide the 'r'. >

Re: text editors

On 27.03.19 11:07, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-26 19:27, Wayne Sallee wrote: > > I use vim. > > > > Log in as user that will use vim, and run the following command: > > > > cat > .vimrc << "EOF" > > set nosi noai > > set number > > > I have line numbers as the default but copy/paste with the

Re: text editors

On 28.03.19 21:32, Matyáš Bobek wrote: > I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How is it > done? It's not. They are written in vimscript, analogous to elisp. There is a large landscape of add-ons written in the language, and a choice of managers to automate the minor

Re: text editors

On 28.03.19 12:34, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Once you start using Emacs macros and see the benefit, you likely shall find > yourself creating and using numerous macros within each editing session. > You demonstrate once to the robot, and the robot faithfully mimics you, > without error. The

Re: text editors

On 26.03.19 11:52, John Hasler wrote: > mick crane wrote: > > there it is then, although I've so far managed to avoid Emacs since > > heard it is more of an operating system than an editor. > > Teemu Likonen writes: > > There are those who know Emacs, and there are those who know decades > > old

Re: text editors

On 25.03.19 07:53, mick crane wrote: > not heard about folding. It can be very handy. I have around 420 pages of notes in one file. They present as a one-page contents table with section page counts. While cursoring down and then across opens a chosen fold, there are several folding levels to the

Re: text editors

On 25.03.19 04:38, mick crane wrote: > Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to > protect lines in the document, not the document itself ? > I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the wrong > one and then it doesn't work. The only thing

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

On 17.02.19 12:07, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 17/02/2019 11.58, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: > >> On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >>> Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not > >>&

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not > > care > > about binaries. All I want to follow several Linux usenet newsgroups. Plain > > text reading. > > For text-only groups I

Re: backintime

On 17.01.19 18:35, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/16/19 2:15 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > I second the suggestion to learn version control... > > +1 > > I started with RCS. The concepts and commands are straight-forward, but the > granularity is per-file. It works great for managing key /etc/*

Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading

On 11.12.18 09:44, Dan Ritter wrote: > mick crane wrote: > > On 2018-12-10 20:02, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > For the purpose of sr_drive_status(), the loop is really inappropriate. > > > This function shall obtain the drive status and not wait until the > > > status of the medium is decided. > >

Re: Non-GUI Arduino IDE ?

On 07.12.18 16:42, Jason wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 05:05:30PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Jason wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is a console based Arduino IDE available for > > > Debian? I am interested in making a portable programmer that could be > > > taken out on a job to

Re: librecad

On 07.12.18 09:17, John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Thats a huge part of the problem, but theres another fence to > > jump. most of these so-called cad programs cannot generate even the > > most basic gcode. > > I can see not wanting to learn even a small part of a CAD program if all > you

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

On 26.11.18 21:12, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500 > Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old > > Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage > for old emails? There are various values for

Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

On 26.11.18 17:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > Get on the horn and ask your isp if they run a mailserver. Mine does, and > I use it, but when I first started, I had to call their network guy and > have him whitelist all the mailing lists I an on. Here, down under, that's the norm - I've never heard

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

On 29.10.18 10:58, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 09:19:15 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > > I made the mistake of printing out man bash once. It's really, really long > > Some of the longer man pages (eg bash, fvwm, video programs) are > rather unmanageable when just presented as flat

Re: Help me Linux

On 31.10.18 11:49, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote: > > Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic > > and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is. > > You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

On 26.10.18 22:39, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s > > to be exactly like the man page! > > Please give an example. Anyone who has tried info a number of times, in the hope of finding a bit

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

On 26.10.18 19:17, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 13:20:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Agreed, a good man page is the best. I've no clue why there seems to be > > an aversion to a man page that has to be scrolled to read it all. All of > > us have up/down arrows on our keyboards, and

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

On 26.10.18 13:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2018 10:41:54 Richard Owlett wrote: > > 1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find out whether > > or not the package might be useful. > > 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser acceptable format > >

Re: versioning file system

On 26.10.18 13:05, David Christensen wrote: > When programming, I tend to do check-in's when I make some kind of progress > (ideally, the code builds and the test suite passes). Yup, the smaller edits of bugfixes aren't going to threaten code stability. > > The trap is when I work for a while,

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

On 14.10.18 12:36, Patrick Bartek wrote: > FYI: Testing Devuan ascii now for future consideration. No problems so > far. Still like runit though. And it's easy to convert the > default sysvinit to it. +1 (Running pre-systemd debian on laptop and one old desktop, devuan ascii on the new

Re: any program that search for same files?

On 14.10.18 22:06, Long Wind wrote: > given two directories, the program can print files that are in both > directories > > to make it easy, if file name and size are same, then they are same > > i've to admit my memory is poor, if good, who need such program? > > i'm about to write it in

OT: The vagaries of English [Was: Re: calibre ebook project?

On 25.09.18 20:19, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:08:23 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness > > will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension > > in the mind > > > > That also works with

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

On 14.09.18 16:10, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I just find it amazing that the kernel has grown to be so big as to be > > comparable to a complete unix distribution on a workstation of some > > years ago (with GUI, compilers, ...). >

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

On 11.09.18 13:52, Pétùr wrote: > I have some files, with weird permissions: > > # ls -la > d-wS--S--T 2 1061270772 2605320832 4096 oct. 7 2412 index.html OK, you have the suid, sgid, and sticky bits set, and it's a directory. Execute (directory navigate) permission is off. > Cannot delete,

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

On 29.08.18 11:57, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > However both sendmail and update-inetd are orphaned at the moment (no > regular maintainers, although Andreas Beckmann has done a lot of work > via the QA team) After favouring sendmail for a decade and a half, I thought I was slow to switch to postfix

Re: df -h shows insufficient precision

On 26.08.18 12:25, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > A regular itchy annoyance for years now: > > df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a > 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision > is insufficient. For more than 3 decades I've just used "df -k". OK,

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On 14.08.18 06:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/14/2018 01:43 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The whole thing is just a plain text file, edited and read with Vim, > > using multi-level folding, so it all presents as a one-page TOC. My > > version is probably of limit

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On 13.08.18 06:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > PREAMBLE: > I've downloaded a .deb file. > I've recently done such an install but don't remember how. > Looking at the man pages for apt, apt-get, aptitude didn't help. > Couldn't come up with useful search term for wiki. > Eventually recalled "dpkg -i"

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

On 10.08.18 11:46, Dan Purgert wrote: > Rich Kulawiec wrote: > To expand on that with my own personal prejudice -- the people using > these "sub-par" tools are also the ones who're the cause of some of the > existent (modern?) problems with mailing lists. > > Namely: > > - HTML Messages > -

Re: Please help with error message

On 07.08.18 09:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable > dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable > dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable > Note: root's PATH should usually contain

Re: Cross-Platform Assembly Language Compilers?

On 05.08.18 18:59, Erik Christiansen wrote: > If you make it as far as tweaking linker scripts, then the info page is > infinitely more informative than the manpage. s/the info page/the info page for ld

Re: Cross-Platform Assembly Language Compilers?

On 30.07.18 08:11, cyaiplexys wrote: > On 07/27/2018 12:31 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote: > > > I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something > > > I > > > could compile for Arduino (here

Re: Cross-Platform Assembly Language Compilers?

On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote: > I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something I > could compile for Arduino (here we go again) and ARM and other CPUs as well. $ apt-cache search avr | more arduino - AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries

Re: If not "newbie" then ????

On 23.07.18 10:28, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 22 Jul 2018 at 05:39, Tom Browder wrote: > > Sounds like there are a lot of fellow travelers here. If you lean > > more towards loving programming as I do (started in FORTRAN IV in > > 1961), you might check out the new world of Perl 6

Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

On 22.07.18 10:29, cyaiplexys wrote: > I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the WowWee > RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully > programmable computer and robot all in one. Then the full arduino environment will be more comfortable than raw C

Survival Notes [Was: Re: If not "newbie" then ????

On 21.07.18 10:42, Richard Owlett wrote: > P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been trying > to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA rather than a > FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently Asked" ;/ There are so many paths that people

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

On 10.07.18 12:53, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a

SOLVED, mostly. [Was: Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

On 24.06.18 10:04, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test > > page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other > > print jobs not at all. Again, pr

Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended. The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued: $ lpq

Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

After a fresh update of CUPS, and a fresh "Add Printer", selecting the first (gutenberg) model option, printing a pdf page from xpdf caused display of GUI message boxes indicating "printing started" and "printing completed", but no printer output. At localhost:631 -> Job Management, "Show all

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13.03.18 10:48, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 21:31:00 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Too true. After a couple of hours of failing to get any GUI drawing > > package, not least LibreOffice, to do anything useful, I used Vim to > > textually produce

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13.03.18 09:59, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100 > Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > An sc description: "Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and > > it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13.03.18 08:59, Joe wrote: > I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of > application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc, which I > know nothing about, but the description doesn't look compatible with > 'simple', unless the user interface is similar to

Re: Does bash have a tool ?

On 05.03.18 03:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > > As to "manpages not a tutorial" *ROFL* > I'll admit content is there, but ... > I've been referred to vim. Although awk and cousins are probably under the > surface, vim.org is fascinating and accessible to end users such as myself. A good

Re: Does bash have a tool ?

On 04.03.18 10:28, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I don't have any background in Perl and the last formal course in > programming was in the 60's. > > However awk and/or sed may be what I'm looking for and are well documented. > Your description of nedit is interesting. I'll investigate. I'm on my

Re: Firefox too slow when opening new window or typing in the URL

On 17.02.18 10:00, deloptes wrote: > Since couple of months firefox is taking too long to open a new window or > new page. Whenever that happens here, I just clear the cookies & cache with CTRL+SHIFT+DEL. That puts a spring in its step again. Admittedly, my old mobo is too slow for video

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 08.02.18 08:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:36:41PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > [...] > > > [...] Fastidious fusspotting on minor terminology matters [...] > > Yikes :-) > > May I steal this one when I need it badly? It's es

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 07.02.18 12:13, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:58:55PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Michelle, that netmask is 0b1001 , which is > > the first I have ever seen with a hole in it. > > No, that would be

Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

On 07.02.18 09:33, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Good morning, > > Am 2018-02-07 hackte Gene Heskett in die Tasten: > > On Tuesday 06 February 2018 14:07:55 Brian wrote: > >> 1. auto enp0s25 > >> iface enp0s25 inet > >> static address

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 06.02.18 19:16, Richard Hector wrote: > On 06/02/18 18:38, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Perl is the quintessential write-only language, which with a bit of luck > > will die out before it catches on > > Now you're getting to fighting talk ... :-) Whoops, forgot the

Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 05.02.18 10:02, Michael Stone wrote: > IIRC it started out as a YACC function in the late 80s, and is now a Bison > (YACC+GNU extensions) library. In that case it has a precise grammar, expressed in BNF (Backus Naur Form), though the lexer (I've always used lex together with yacc/bison) could

[Was: Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag

On 05.02.18 09:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 04:04:34PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > All you describe is convenience for programmatic use. As I explained, > > this parser is meant for interactive use. > > What on EARTH made you think THAT? The fuzzy grammar of the date

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

On 09.01.18 15:04, Christian Groessler wrote: > I just edited the password file directly, "vipw" and "vipw -s", and renamed > the pi user. When doing that, there is merit in running pwck before any powerdown/reboot, as any illegality in a line stopped processing of all following when I last

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 07.01.18 13:26, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > This may be more delicate?: https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/ Hmmm ... and if ps2pdf isn't yet installed at your end, then an apt-get fixes that. It produces sterling pdf from ps for me - big prints come out perfectly at the local printer. Erik

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 07.01.18 00:19, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:02:15 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > > unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > do it. A sledgehammer to crack a nut. This may be

Re: EDA software.

On 06.12.17 08:57, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > At https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker/Desktop#EDA is a list of > packages for electronics design automation. According to various > documents, Electric, Fritzing and gEDA, at least, can help to create > schematics. I use librecad but

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

On 28.11.17 21:41, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > After trying to get various GUI drawing > > packages to function at the most basic level, > > and failing to produce anything, I'm just > > finishing the 8 drawings for my new house > > bui

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