Brother scanner driver

2016-06-16 Thread Bob via luv-main
Hello all, I have set a box for a friend running Kubuntu 16.04 with a brother MF7680DW multifunction printer/scanner attached via usb. I have installed the latest drivers from the Brother website and the printer works fine but the scanner is not found by any scanning program. Research indicate

Re: Viewing iView and flash

2017-03-26 Thread Bob via luv-main
I was interested in this topic so loaded up youtube-dl on my Kubuntu box to try it. However, obviously doing some thing wrong. Perhaps someone can explain what I am not doing or what is missing from my system? Bob youtube-dl -v http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/bespoke/AC1408T001S00# [debug]

Re: Viewing iView and flash

2017-03-27 Thread Bob via luv-main
Thanks Arjen - that works brilliantly. Bob On 27/03/17 19:04, Arjen Lentz via luv-main wrote: Hi all Easier way is webdl https://bitbucket.org/delx/webdl Handles all of the free to air Australian channels, and can be automated. Regards, Arjen. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Pl

Re: Resizing jpegs, limiting file size

2017-05-15 Thread Bob via luv-main
Hi Mark, Have you considered Digikam ( https://digikam.org) ? It has a Batch Queue Manager with which you can bulk resize as well as lots of photo editing facilities. I use it for almost all of my photography stuff now. Bob On 14/05/17 17:55, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: Hello All,

Re: Accounting software

2018-03-29 Thread bob via luv-main
Hello Mark, I have used Front Accounting.  You may find it worth a look. http://frontaccounting.com/ Bob On 29/03/18 20:19, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: Hello All, I have a friend who has been stuck on Windows because of being tied to being able to hand his accounting data to the accou

Re: NBN Cabling responsibilities and CSG

2018-06-26 Thread bob via luv-main
Perhaps I can add my recent experience. I have had problems with NBN since I signed up in January and have finally had resolution last week. In choosing my ISP I decided that one criteria must be that they provide local telephone support and that my bandwidth should remain as stable as possibl

Raid Disaster

2019-07-18 Thread bob via luv-main
Hello all, I need some advise with regard to rescuing data from a raid disk. History: I gave a friend a Synology two bay NAS set up as a raid array to store their data safely and suggested that it was backed up regularly to another disk as well for safely.  All their family photos for the las

Re: Raid Disaster

2019-07-18 Thread bob via luv-main
Hello again, It has been suggested that I probably should have included the following information: There were 2 hard drives, both WD Caviar Greeen 2.0TB Raid 1 I think Ext4 not btrfs Thanks Bob Hello all, I need some advise with regard to rescuing data from a raid disk. History: I g

re: Raid Disater

2019-07-22 Thread bob via luv-main
Thanks for the help Glenn. On 20/7/19 1:40 pm, Glenn McIntosh via luv-main wrote: On 19/7/19 10:10 am, bob via luv-main wrote: I can access the damaged disk by attaching it to my Kubuntu workstation, reading it with testdisk  and all the partitions and data appears to be still there, but I

Re:Raid Disaster

2019-07-22 Thread bob via luv-main
Thanks to all those who have offered help. I am slowly working through all the suggestions and will post what I find and any further info. No resolution as yet unfortunately. Bob ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.a

Re:Raid Disaster

2019-07-24 Thread bob via luv-main
Thanks again for the help. I am struggling a bit with the intricacies of this but am progressing a little I think. I have not yet tried Russell's suggestion of purchasing two new 4TB drives because of the expense but will go in that direction as a last resort. I have copied the data onto 2TB d

Re: Grub 2 Issues - was Weird Boot

2020-01-15 Thread bob via luv-main
Hi Andrew, Some months ago I had a raid crash on a Synology server. I was unable to rescue the array but was able to get all the photo's (thousands) and videos  using Photorec.  Have you considered using something like this if it is only the photo's you are needing? I made a backup image on a

Kubuntu upgrade problem

2024-09-17 Thread bob via luv-main
Hello, My apologies for the long post. I am a long-term Linux user (more that 25 years) but not an admin and my skills are not at that level. In my eighties age is a bit limiting also, so please be kind :-) Since upgrading to Kubuntu 24.04 I have been having problems with email storage usi

Re: Kubuntu upgrade problem

2024-09-17 Thread bob via luv-main
Thanks for the responses Les and Colin, One thing you might try to see if T'bird is the culprit, is to use the portable app version, either installed on a USB stick or into a folder of your choice. The caveat is that you'd be manually starting it, so that may obviate the suspicion that it's n