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

2018-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
presuming the few machines that I dual-boot will be able to work with whatever printer I have. So, where to look? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
daemon that might try to modify the file, >to make it stop doing so. > > 3) Install the resolvconf package, because by doing so you also install >various hacks that modify the behavior of all known Debian daemons, >stopping them from writing to /etc/resolv.conf. > >

Re: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-04-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
default multi-user.target > > To see a list of your available targets (assuming no major local changes), > use this command: > > $ find /lib/systemd/ -name '*.target' > > Are you sure? On my system, this produces nothing at all. But the directory exists and is populated. -- Ke

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. If you do get sound out of aplay, then sound works. If anything fails to work and does not print any useful error message, try looking at the end of the dmesg output. Good luck. Regards, -- Nicolas George -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, including the daemons that had been running. Ping even suddenly reports no route to that host. Still, this is information and progress of a sort. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in because the keyboard and mouse are being ignored. It's not the hardware

HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
by deleting one of my monitors. That means X configuration, which also affects mouse and keyboard. But I cannot find an xorg.conf file anywhere. Probably I just need to find out where the config settings are kept, and I can reset them from a backup. Does anybody know? -- Kevin O'Gorman #define

Re: Need SATA controller for 4TB internal drives

2015-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:47 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 01/29/2015 06:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There are lots of choices where the info in directed at Windows users, but precious info available if you want to be sure the card will work on Linux. From

Need SATA controller for 4TB internal drives

2015-01-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
with GPT partitions - I can set the mainboard to use AHCI or IDE compatibility - there is not trace of Windows, so it needs to be configurable with just Linux. Mainboard had 6 ports available, but it appears that my fooling with things broke a pair of them. That's why I need the replacement. -- Kevin

How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-- lots of things have been going wrong, and I've been learning how to cope. So I wonder if there's a way to get that partition back, at least in part, without using my backups. Any hints, pointers, tutorials, or opinions welcome. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped. I have xfce4 and lightdm] Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: startx I did sudo startx I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended to be root when you startx. https://lists.debian.org

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Can you launch X after logging in to the console? I don't know how. startx I did sudo startx Hmmm. This should be telling me something, but I don't know exactly

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Can you launch X after logging

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Can you launch X after logging

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. These were taken while

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:47:01PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen There are two basic kinds of backups: 1. File system -- e.g. a copy of the files and directories

An experiment in backup

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
restored these, created /sys and /proc, and tried to boot the resulting partition. It boots, but X does not come up, or even seem to try. I can do a console login to my usual account, and stuff is there. I'm quite clueless as to why this is happening. I could sure use some help. -- Kevin O'Gorman

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 07:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it, but i just tried

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:03 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 08:47 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I was hoping for some details on why this won't work on system drives, or conditions under which it just might. Another user has suggested I read https

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I do want to insulate the one drive from any failures on the other three. That data is not at all temporary, but it is backed up regularly. I want to limit it's failure profile. Using mdadm RAID

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's one remaining question I have, which is fortunately not urgent. It's not clear what I'm going to have to do to bring the RAID online after a reboot. It doesn't seem to be as simple

Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
have another of the same size that's empty, and I could just copy the whole drive to it, but I need a tool that's robust in the presence of errors. I've never had to do this before. Any suggestions? -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider

Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2014-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
by the size of /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, and wonder if the defaults are going to work for me. I'm about to start a backup of the existing system. It will take a while. I wonder if anyone has wisdom they'd like to share. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please

Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine?

2014-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. Thanks ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine?

2014-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 02:58:00PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy. I'd like to run one of the games that's on it, TIC.EXE. It's not in PlayOnLinux's list

Re: Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine? (SOLVED)

2014-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 02:58:00PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy. I'd like

Re: How to print duplex when using lpr

2014-12-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I sometimes use lpr in a pipeline getting postscript from groff. My printer (HP CP2025dn) has a duplexer and I'd like to use it. I could look up the Postscript

How to print duplex when using lpr

2014-12-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I sometimes use lpr in a pipeline getting postscript from groff. My printer (HP CP2025dn) has a duplexer and I'd like to use it. I could look up the Postscript for that, but I'm wondering if there's a way to force either of groff or lpr to do it for me. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
://lists.debian.org/ba47c259-1d40-4203-aace-499d0218f...@googlegroups.com -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: Migrating GTK+ project to windows

2014-11-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Morel Bérenger berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le Mar 18 novembre 2014 16:51, Kevin O'Gorman a écrit : I have a project that I'd like to migrate to Windows. I'll likely be using Windows 8.1. GTK+ is portable, or at least that what was said last time

Migrating GTK+ project to windows

2014-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, but not GTK+, and I've gotten confused by the documentation of how to put GTK+ there too. Too many choices, and some have failed outright, but in cryptic fashion. Has anybody been here before me? BTW: if this is deemed inappropriate, please point me at a better place. -- Kevin O'Gorman

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Sarunas Burdulis saru...@math.dartmouth.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2014 03:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a laptop that came with Windows 8.1, that uses secure boot (EFI) and GPT partitions. Using windows

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On reboot, it went unconditionally to Windows 8.1. No signs of GRUB. It seems I'm still missing something. I wonder what. Kevin, is it worth cross-checking that the boot/BIOS

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Ooops. Ignore that trailing did not work. It was offscreen as I edited. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On reboot, it went

Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: On 28/08/2014 19:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Windows can't be the culprit -- it did not get control between the grub-update and the reboot, and even the first reboot went right to Windows. So there's something that GRUB

Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, and gparted recognizes it as having a VFAT filesystem starting at sector 923648 and extending for 260 MiB It looks normal to me. What am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. That means that on my main desktop machine, my workspaces are 5760 x 1080 pixels, and using workspace-switcher, I have 4 workspaces. The OP should check what hardware runs the monitors. There may be a good solution for you. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a few hundred screen shots I want to put on a web page, but they are all full-screen and I want to crop to the real contents. This is an identical region in all cases. So I want to script it. So, 2 questions

Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
) Is there a script already in existence where I can just change the crop rectangle? I really don't want to learn a new language for a one-time job. -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. Please consider the environment before printing this email

Re: Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Chen Wei weichen...@icloud.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 05:36:19PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm about to tackle GPT partitioned disks, and want to decode the label. The data is little-endian, but I want my code to work on little- or big-endian

Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
want it to be reasonably simple. Any ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Beginner info on Qt

2014-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I dabbled in Qt a *long* time ago. I have a book on Qt3, but I see that what's installed now is Qt5. My book has never been updated. So I'm looking for info on what Qt looks like today, and how to best develop a new app with it. Anybody with ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n

Upgraded apache 2.2 - 2.4 and cannot get passwords to work

2013-12-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
(but apache is apparently ignoring them). I don't have /srv. Authentication is by a simple text file with less than 100 entries. Does anyone have a similar setup in apache 2.4 that works? Care to share how? -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. Please

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1593

2013-12-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-ID: 52bf2837.2050...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 29/12/13 03:52, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/28/2013 11:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My modest-sized web server was recently upgraded. There were problems with access control, fairly

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1593

2013-12-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: So: what can I do to have authentication work again as it did in apache 2.4? Hmm, that was poorly put. Let's try this: So: what can I do to have authentication work in apache 2.4 as it once did in apache 2.2? -- Kevin