Hi
I have a CUPS server in a mixed Linux/Windows environment. In the past I
have used Samba and cupsaddsmb to have the CUPS/Samba server provide
drivers to Windows clients. In recent years all sorts of weirdness has
crept into this setup (peculiar page sizes in Windows, unable to change
page
Hi Ralph
On 31/10/15 00:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
Setting up a raw queue overcomes this.
Another option I've seen is uncommenting "application/octet-stream" in
CUPS's mime.types and mime.convs. This apparently lets the raw data
from Windows through to the printer?
Yes that's
Hi
Working through CUPS upgrade issues, although like the Edimax printer
server problem this one isn't CUPS' fault.
After upgrading to Debian Jessie, most printing seems fine, but some
pages printed from Iceweasel (thunderbird) produced illegible blocky
fonts (eg cups web admin pages).
Hi Ralph
On 26/09/15 10:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
Yes I could but as I've found a work-around I think I need to move on
to some of the other new CUPS problems this release has thrown up.
I found mention of kernel TCP changes causing problems with Edimax
Ethernet/Centronics
Hi
Recently upgraded a machine from Debian Wheezy (CUPS 1.5.3) to Jessie
(CUPS 1.7.5). After the upgrade, print spooling to an old HP Laserjet 6P
through an Edimax ethernet-Centronics print server stalls
(lpd://printer:lpt1). This setup has been working previously for 10+
years. I can print
Hi Peter
On 09/06/16 15:09, Peter Merchant wrote:
Dorsetforyou have posted a picture of Plessey c 1970. I didn't join
until 1978, but it looks like the shop floor in C block to me.
Any body recognize it?
P.
Fascinating. No computer terminals or Teletypes, however there's an old
Creed 75
Hi Clive
On 11/06/16 22:50, C Wills wrote:
Info for Ralph and others:-
At the last DLUG meeting I asked if anyone was having trouble when
printing a PDF, as every time I print a PDf it produces a blank page
after the last page ( a blank does not show on any print preview).
Ralph had a look but
Hi Peter
On 13/06/16 10:35, Peter Merchant wrote:
Like Tim, I like Thunderbird. I use it with the lightning add-on to my
Google calendar. It sorts incoming mail to the appropriate folder. It
manages three email accounts, all set up as Pop3, with the settings to
delete mail from the server when
Hi Ralph
On 13/06/16 10:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
when it comes to scaling when printing and the comprehensive scaling
options in Evince are completely missing in Okular.
I don't have a good command-line program for that. pdftk(1) does a
bunch of things, but not N-up printing. psnup(1)
Hi Terry
On 12/06/16 12:04, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
Sometimes I wonder why I stick with KMail! This morning I made a minor change
to the settings of the three mail accounts that I use and KMail proceeded to
throw up dozens of errors when I closed the Settings dialog.
As Keith said, try
Hi Terry
On 13/06/16 16:32, Terry Coles wrote:
On Monday, 13 June 2016 14:40:16 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Yes. IMAP is a proper client/server protocol. Your folder structure is
all on the server. Your drafts and sent folders are (if you wish, and no
reason not to) on the server. So
Hi Terry
On 13/06/16 10:26, Terry Coles wrote:
Basically, I have three mailboxes (one for commercial comms, one for personal
(family, friends, etc) and one for the DLUG (so I could respond to the list
from Hotel rooms using only webmail, without the list server barfing at the
address I was
On 13/05/16 10:33, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Hi Ralph
On 13/05/16 00:51, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I'd guess that either Xfce is asking for server fonts that the server
doesn't have, Cygwin apparently has a whole load of fonts in separate
font-... packages now rather than put lots into the
On 11/01/16 13:21, Terry Coles wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 13:08:25 Peter Merchant wrote:
I have always understood that the way to power down the R-Pi is to
unplug it, and I have never heard about problems with the memory cards.
Hmm. I'm fairly sure that the RPi Foundation recommend
Hi
I normally log into my main Debian box via XDMCP either using Xephyr
from another Linux machine or a windows X server. Over the years I've
using Cygwin/X, XMing or MobaxTerm from Windows. By and large it's a
matter of picking the one with the least glitches and lately I've been
using
On 05/05/16 20:52, Peter Merchant wrote:
I guess I am OK to let my wife stick with XP for a little while as
nearly 10% of OS's out there are XP. A smaller proportion are 'other'
which can only be linux.
On 07/02/17 09:02, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
On 06/02/17 16:19, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed a shiny new Netgear VSDL Router to replace the
never
updated Plusnet supplied one.
The main reasons that I bought it is that the Plusnet router has the
above
mentioned lack of
Hi Terry
I've come into this a bit late I know, but get the impression things are
getting rather involved to read some switches, although I may have got
the wrong end of the stick.
You don't need hysteresis to read input switches. You just need a pullup
resistor and the switch to ground, or
Hi
You can currently get £70 cashback on an HP Microserver (£155 + VAT).
These are regular deals. At the price I think these are great little
machines for general light server duties at home or work. Very neatly
thought out inside with four drive bays (no disks included) and pretty
light on
Hi Terry
On 22/06/17 12:25, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:17:56 BST Terry Coles wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand how this works. Taking the Remote Pi; it
reads the water level and writes the value to a variable. Fine so far, but
how can the Master Pi, then read that
Hi Terry
On 06/06/18 13:53, Terry Coles wrote:
Pros and Cons of I2C and 1-wire Interfaces:
This is to communicate with multiple devices connected to a Raspberry Pi. Two
fundamental elements are relevant. I2C (literally Inter-Integrated Circuit) is
only good for
short distances, but has the
Hi Terry
On 06/06/18 15:44, Terry Coles wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand that. My 1-Wire Temperature Sensors (https://
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HCB8GLU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?
ie=UTF8=1) only have three wires; +3.3 V, 0 V and data. When I connect
them to my Pi I can read the
Hi Ralph
On 22/01/18 14:04, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
`const char *p' means p is a pointer to a char that's const.
Although it's a bit ugly in this case, I prefer to write this as
char const *p
Then you can read right to left:
p is a pointer to a const char.
This makes life
Hi Graeme
On 11/02/18 17:31, Graeme Gemmill wrote:
That was a bit of a rant; in fact, I couldn't be bothered to read it all.
I bought a APC back-up 800 UPS many years ago after 6 power outages in
one day It's sufficient to supply 2 PCs and their monitors, a Buffalo
network backup device and
Hi Terry
On 21/03/18 11:07, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
We've just re-connected our WMT Webserver with the antenna in its new location
at the far end of the site. The server is currently in the old location so
there is about 70 m of armoured Cat 5 cable between the two. The Question is;
do we
Hi Terry
On 03/10/2018 10:25, Terry Coles wrote:
With that in mind we decided to use Power MOSFETs (specifically the IRLZ34NPBF
(https://docs-emea.rs-online.com/webdocs/0791/0900766b807913d5.pdf)) because
their ON Resistance is very low (about 0.05 Ohms in this case). To drive it
we chose the
Hi Terry
On 04/10/2018 14:57, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:42:40 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
There's an internal current source and it's settling at that voltage with no
load to source current into.
That's not at all obvious from the datasheet either. Is there
Hi Ralph
On 25/09/18 17:46, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
On Debian 9, I've been using Adblock-plus (via the
xul-ext-adblock-plus package). On a recent normal upgrade this is no
longer listed in the Firefox extensions. Tried purging and
re-installing xul-ext-adblock-plus, then uninstalled it
Hi
On Debian 9, I've been using Adblock-plus (via the xul-ext-adblock-plus
package). On a recent normal upgrade
this is no longer listed in the Firefox extensions. Tried purging and
re-installing xul-ext-adblock-plus, then uninstalled it and
installed xul-ext-ublock-origin as an alternative,
On 15/01/19 17:52, Paul Tansom wrote:
If you want to play there are plenty of budget routers to experiment with and
some are even easily available through things like Freecycle / Freegle /
Gumtree / etc.. My first one, which admittedly was with DD-WRT not OpenWRT, was
a D-Link DIR615 that I
Hi
I have a puzzling issue here, in that I can't see a laptop on my network from
my own computer (normally I can ssh into the laptop just fine). Both are
connected via Wifi. The laptop has a static IP. However, I can ssh into a third
computer on the network and from there can ping (and ssh
Hi Keith
On 13/01/19 07:56, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:56:35 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
I can't see a laptop on my network from my own computer
What exact commands are you typing, and what exactly is the response?
tda@ux305ca:~$ ping 192.168.2.8
PING
Hi Ralph
On 13/01/19 11:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
I'll just ask lots of questions in the hope it strikes lucky.
I have a puzzling issue here, in that I can't see a laptop on my
network from my own computer (normally I can ssh into the laptop just
fine). Both are connected via Wifi.
Hi Ralph
On 13/01/19 16:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
#ip neigh add 192.168.2.8 lladdr 00:24:d2:94:35:16 dev wlp1s0
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
That suggests there was an (incomplete?) entry already and either
`replace' or `change' should be used.
Yes, looks like something to do with arp
Hi
For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some simple
programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines, so for starters
I installed Windows 10 and VS 2017 under Virtualbox. But it's painfully
slow
Hi Terry
On 13/09/18 07:43, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:43:45 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some simple
programs in vb.net. We don't have any
Hi Patrick
On 13/09/18 00:11, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
Hi Tim,
...my son has been told he needs to download Visual Studio 2017 onto
a Windows PC...
Are there any options other than spending several hundred pounds on
a new PC to run this bloatware for compiling programs.
MonoDevelop is
Hi Ralph
On 13/09/18 17:05, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
For his school computing course, my son has been told he needs to
download Visual Studio 2017 onto a Windows PC, to write some
simple programs in vb.net. We don't have any Windows machines
It used to be Linux users were the odd ones
Hi Tim
On 24/01/19 21:25, Tim wrote:
Evening all
I am considering setting up a password manager for all the family password (all
your eggs in one basket??)
It will need to be cross platform (Windows and Linux), I can not make my mind
up if I want to keep the database on my own NAS or host
Hi Ralph
On 06/03/2019 08:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
Discussion last night included spotting if one's connection to the
Internet suffered problems overnight. The conclusion was a simple
script to log data for later inspection with journalctl(1) was probably
good enough. Attached is such a
Hi Aidan
On 06/03/2019 13:22, aidangcole--- via dorset wrote:
Personally, I tend to use SmokePing for this type of thing
https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
Took a look at this as it looked ideal, but does pull in a bunch of
dependencies including Apache and a mail server.
Cheers
Tim
Hi
Come April all VAT returns to HMRC will need to be through a new digital portal. This is
Making Tax Digital for VAT. Where existing software is not compatible, a option is to use
"bridging software" which takes data from a file (e.g. in CSV format) and
transfers it to the portal. It's only
On 16/03/2019 16:55, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:19:53 +, dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk said:
Until Google retires Keep.
For that reason, I have started using Simplenote. Not as sexy as Keep, but
it does support markup, and runs natively on Linux, OSX and Windows as
well as
Hi Patrick
On 10/03/2019 01:36, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
My experience of RADIUS is limited to being a sometime user of
[eduroam][1], which uses it.
Thanks for explaining how this could work.
If the client can be reliably forced into a particular VLAN or a
particular IP address by the access
Hi Ralph
On 11/03/2019 10:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
I had another idea. Use Quality of Service rules to slow down traffic
to sites CC#2 likes, e.g. YouTube, during verboten hours for the whole
home network on the assumption it won't impact SWMBO. The idea being
that access works, but
Hi Ralph
On 08/03/2019 11:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
then for around 30 minutes in the morning, returning exactly as Cost
Centre #2 left for school.
I was going to mention at the club if it could be your policy rules
interfering. It didn't occur to me it could be them being routed
Hi Stephen
On 08/03/2019 11:17, Stephen Wolff wrote:
Hiya
then for around 30 minutes in the morning, returning exactly as Cost
Centre #2 left for school.
Blimey. Hadn’t considered that CCs could upset networking routing in the house.
I think I’d better try this SmokePing thing
Try
Hi Keith
On 08/03/2019 16:46, Keith Edmunds wrote:
You might want to install arpalert, too.
http://www.arpalert.org/arpalert.html
Thanks, have installed and set this up.
Cheers
Tim
--
Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-04-02 20:00
Check to whom you are replying
Hi Ralph
On 08/03/2019 16:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
There's a fair number of devices (20-30) on the network at any time.
I've not used it, and don't fully understand its operation, but I wonder
if RADIUS is well suited to the `authentication and authorisation'
of clients to the home
Hi Patrick
On 08/03/2019 21:56, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
I have got the impression from these messages that Tim might be quite
enjoying the cat and mouse game, and so going straight for the
'nuclear option' of RADIUS might spoil the fun! Having said that,
perhaps I am underestimating the
Hi Ralph
On 09/03/2019 17:27, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
Come April all VAT returns to HMRC will need to be through a new
digital portal. This is Making Tax Digital for VAT.
Did you get anywhere with this? I did some digging at the time and
still have a bunch of browser tabs open from
Hi Ralph
On 10/03/2019 11:16, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I think https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::HMRC::VAT#SYNOPSIS shows
the use of that Perl library, once `MY-ACCESS-TOKEN' is obtained.
The same author provides a suite of HMRC libraries, including
Hi Ralph
On 11/03/2019 13:49, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
As of today I think I'm actually a few steps behind on all this. I'd blocked
CC#2's phone from connecting to the network (at the MAC level) but this morning
he managed to take the network down for 15 minutes before leaving for
Hi Peter
On 04/02/2019 11:10, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
My Humax 9150T PVR is starting to give problems on playback where it skips and
hesitates and sometimes the sound is out of sync with the video. Yes it is
quite old. I bought a second one recently to use for a replacement hard
On 12/04/2019 12:10, Hamish MB wrote:
Interesting, cos thunderbird does this as well - I'll see if I can find
an option for that in there too.
I select the options to move deleted emails to a Trash folder, and to expunge
this on exit. Gives you the chance to undelete any accidentally-deleted
On 01/05/2019 11:12, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 01/05/2019 11:06, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 11:02:43 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I've read the preview too and looks very good. How do us Linuxers
actually read Kindle books without a Kindle tablet though? It
On 01/05/2019 10:54, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:03:01 BST Keith Edmunds wrote:
Hi everyone! My book, "The Linux Solution", is available on Kindle for 99p
today. All proceeds to Great Ormond Street Children's Charity.
I'd appreciate it if you were able to support both the
On 01/05/2019 11:06, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 11:02:43 BST t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I've read the preview too and looks very good. How do us Linuxers
actually read Kindle books without a Kindle tablet though? It appears that
Linux isn't directly supported, which is
On 03/07/2019 21:01, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
I remember ed. I don't think that I have used it for about 30 years and I can't
remember what OS that was on. I did use ed, but also edlin on DOS boxes.
I remember reading the CP/M ed manual in horror in the early 1980's (on a
home-built
Hi Ralph
On 30/07/2019 12:41, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
I'm compiling a summary of your results.
# avahi-browse -at
+ wlp1s0 IPv6 Brother HL-5270DN series @ golux Internet Printer local
...
As above, AP0 shows only IPv6 entries. I have IPv6 disabled on that AP
(a Draytek 2862),
Hi Ralph
On 29/07/2019 20:30, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
While following on from the fresh install on AP0, and still on AP0:
# avahi-browse -at
+ wlp1s0 IPv6 Brother HL-5270DN series @ golux Internet Printer
local
+ wlp1s0 IPv6 Canon MP230 series @ golux
Hi Ralph
On 31/07/2019 11:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
Basically, it's a toggle setting and toggling the IPv6 resets the
router and I get IPv4 entries in the avahi-browse response (IPv6
enabled or disabled). Switching to one of the other AP's, and back
again, and I just get IPv6 entries
Hi Ralph
On 31/07/2019 22:14, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Couple of things I'll try here. I see the router has a recent firmware update
which I'll flash. And I have a similar Draytek router at work. I'll see if I
get the same issues there.
Updated the router. I do now sometimes see the
Hi
I have a long-standing issue with connecting to a CUPS server on a network
which has 3 Wifi access points. CUPS server is running Debian 9, tests are with
a Debian 10 laptop.
Starting with a fresh re-install of CUPS on the laptop:
# apt-get purge cups cups-common cups-daemon
# apt-get
Hi Ralph
On 29/07/2019 11:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
# apt-get purge cups cups-common cups-daemon
# apt-get install cups cups-common cups-daemon
If I do this while Wifi connected to AP1, then lpstat on laptop:
#lpstat -s
no system default destination
device for
Hi Ralph
On 01/08/2019 11:00, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
At work, where I have a similar Draytek router, I see the printers
with lpstat -s, no problem.
Google found https://www.draytek.co.uk/support/guides/kb-bonjour-setup,
Bonjour being another name for mDNS that's involved in service
Hi Ralph
On 01/08/2019 13:24, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Reading through this and comparing router setups, work is not configured as an
IGMP proxy, but home is. Will do some more tests with that disabled later today.
That appears to fix it. Well, to the extent I was testing. lpstat -s is
Hi
Interesting experience yesterday. I needed to send an email to someone at
Microchip (major semiconductor manufacturer) and she gave me her email address
over the phone (jane@microchip.com). I sent the email, which didn't arrive.
Tried again, same thing, so she sent me an email, from
Hi Peter
On 06/12/2019 09:17, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
The question that has been raised at home is whether it is better to turn off
(Standby) the TV when you leave the room for a short period. The one opinion
that I have found on the Internet is that leaving it on only costs an small
Hi Graeme
On 06/12/2019 16:18, Graeme wrote:
On 06/12/2019 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
Re: OT: Lifetime of TV screens
I have two extension boards: one powers devices that have to be on 24/7 such as
aerial amplifier, HDD recorder. The other powers the TV, DVD player,
Hi Ralph
On 06/02/2020 22:47, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi again Tim,
https://arlimus.github.io/articles/usepam/ is relevant; sshd's ‘UsePAM’
configuration.
Yes, I think that's a pretty good synopsis of the situation.
I believe that setting the account expiry date is the definitive way to
Hi
From the man page:
--disabled-login
Do not run passwd to set the password. The user won't be able to
use her account until the
password is set.
--disabled-password
Like --disabled-login, but logins are still possible (for example
Hi Ralph
On 15/01/2020 17:17, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
A Thunderbird question; I've not used it.
Thunderbird is happily fetching mail from a POP3 account.
The supplier of the account is going to start storing emails sent to the
account on a new server to be accessed at a different domain
Hi Hamish
On 18/01/2020 10:23, Hamish MB wrote:
Hi all,
I've been thinking about switching away from Evernote as there's no native
Linux client, and the upload limit for free accounts is quite restrictive.
Has anyone got any suggestions for replacement note-taking and syncing services?
On 09/04/2020 10:26, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
Here's a link to a list of local food suppliers who are now doing online
delivery for people in Dorset. Thought it might be useful for some of
you.
Hi Hamish
On 17/03/2020 22:35, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
I think a remote meetup would be nice. We could also use something like
Discord potentially. WhatsApp requires that they have your phone number
I believe - I won't be using that.
Count me in. Just need a decision on what to use.
Hi Terry
On 30/03/2020 13:20, Terry Coles wrote:
The discussion about Zoom recently shows how iffy it is to get it going. I've
used Skype on Linux to keep in touch with family for years, but some people
are reluctant to use it because of the fact that it isn't Open Source (neither
is Zoom).
Hi Ralph
On 06/05/2020 14:39, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
Conversation in the virtual meeting late last night turned to
establishing a PBX at home hanging off a single POTS line. Here's some
related resources based on what was said and a bit of searching since.
What are FXO and FXS? A brief
On 06/01/2021 11:02, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 January 2021 10:55:39 GMT Victor Churchill wrote:
in Schlaer's OO Systems Analysis or various other tech titles. I'm
not even sure that a charity shop would welcome them - especially now, of
course - but it seems a shame to just pulp
On 21/01/2021 16:23, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
On 21/01/2021 12:59, Tim Waugh wrote:
Here's the latest about this:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
Tim.
*/
Oh that looks really good, thank you for sharing :) Makes me
Hi Tim
On 09/07/2021 19:51, Tim wrote:
HI Guys
Not Strictly Linux but marginally related.
I currently can not login into my Draytek 2926 Router, I just get bad username
or password.
Now I know roughly when I last logged in and one of the many things I have on
my todo list is to update the
Have you tried moving your kit to a different location? My wife's car jams our
wifi - she has to park it well away. Even though I'm 6ft from the router and
showing 90-100% signal. On 2.4 and 5GHz. We also have an alarm system (in a
different location) which periodically reports RF jamming (at
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