Re: Archiving on SD cards (was: Re: Archiving on optical media; was Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.)

2022-02-28 Thread Chris Ramsden
Monday, February 28, 2022, 2:52:35 PM, rhkramer wrote: > On Monday, February 28, 2022 12:37:49 AM pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> Backing data in a 4 or 16 GB SD card is a modest requirement. >> PC Galore might have a drive in stock.  http://www.pcgalore.com/ > What has been your experience with

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

2021-10-31 Thread Chris Ramsden
On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 12:58 -0500, Intense Red wrote: > > Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the > > error you're getting? > >VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading > the file (a video from a security camera). > >I'm

Re: OT: Interpreting math markup

2021-09-29 Thread Chris Ramsden
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 11:11:49 PM, Rh Kramer wrote: > I'm reading various things lately (e.g., some Quora articles) in which, in  > Firefox, I see things like (that's a simple one): > [math]R_0[/math] > I'm trying to find out what that markup is named, and then how to interpret > it.  

Re: Fingerprint recognition (on power button)

2020-10-05 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 2020-10-05 15:00, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I am thinking about buying a: KUU-K2 14.1" IPS Screen All Metal Shell Champagne Gold Office Notebook Intel Celeron Processor J4115 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB SSD Windows 10 Laptop Computer with Fingerprint Unlock Backlit Keyboard

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

2020-04-19 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 19/04/2020 10:11, elvis wrote: On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: * DO report spam only by bouncing it to report-lists...@lists.debian.org https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#posting-spam Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clients and is *not*

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-02 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > My scanner just transfers the raw image. The scan program is responsible > for the transformation to the target format, which I can choose. This is > how /I/ want to be treated, as a paying customer. > > Cheers > -- tomás Would you mind sharing with

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-14 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 2018-05-14 14:55, David Wright wrote: > Would I be correct in thinking that the BIOS POST boot screen is > what you get when you hit F12 sufficiently quickly after switch-on? > So are you choosing between UEFI and Legacy (compatibility) mode. > (I would like to know how Dell handles what I've

Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-14 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 2018-05-14 01:21, songbird wrote: > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ... >> I agree with the author. If you want to keep the existing EFI Windows >> installation and have a convenient dual boot with GRUB, you'll have to >> set up your favourite distribution to boot in EFI mode. If you want to >>

Re: looking for drawing program to inscribe a square in a circle and label items

2018-01-20 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 20/01/18 03:50, Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm looking for a gui drawing program that will let me, for example, > draw a circle, inscribe a square in the circle, connect the opposite > edges of the square with line segments, draw the diagonals of the > square, and label the vertices, edges, and regions

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

2018-01-17 Thread Chris Ramsden
On 17/01/18 21:42, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 18/01/18 10:37, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: >> Works fine for txt, although as it rasterizes things it's not going to be >> optimized for size. > > Yes, typically, but for large fonts and low resolution outputs with few > pages, rasterised pages