Re: [PLUG] No space left on device

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:04:18 -0700, in message 20171025150418.059d1ba7@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:07:59 -0700 > Dale Snell <ddsn...@frontier.com> dijo: > > >> According to ls there are 16 files in /media and 436 files &g

Re: [PLUG] No space left on device

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:57:55 -0700, in message 20171025125755.1e654906@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I found at least part of the problem. During remodeling work > apparently the power plug to the Synology disk station was unplugged. > Thus, when rsync tried to sync the Mediasonic USB

Re: [PLUG] Web pages display no body text [was: Configuring fc-cache search path]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 09:30:23 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.lnx.2.20.1710040928230.7...@salmo.appl-ecosys.com, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Please provide suggestions on tests to run or other diagnostics > > so I can isolate what changed in the past week.

Re: [PLUG] Kewel tool: MasterPDFEditor

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:45:13 -0700, in message 0476ce77-59c2-a99d-87fe-be768ae47...@gmail.com, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > On 09/21/2017 03:20 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > I had great success with evince for filling up forms over the last > > couple of years. > > hmm, I tend to forget about evince

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: removing obsolete assoc.el

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:33:01 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.20.1709070828430.27043@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >Running emacs-24.5 here. This morning when I started emacs I saw > the message that package assoc is obsolete, so I did a web search. > Found that, indeed, it was deprecated

Re: [PLUG] What do you call it? LibreOffice preview screen?

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:54:14 -0700, in message 20170726185414.25f65782@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > OK, the pointer trick didn't work, but I fudged it by taking a > screenshot to the clipboard, opening it in the GIMP, and taking note > of the size of the resulting graphic, which was

Re: [PLUG] Using newly installed emacs mode

On Thu, 11 May 2017 06:35:46 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1705110629370.18732@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >When seeking how to have emacs use a newly installed language mode > (js2-mode) I'm not using the appropriate web search terms. Results > are many instances of writing

Re: [PLUG] emacs: save highlighted text to new file name

On Fri, 5 May 2017 15:22:10 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1705051519020.8235@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >I thought emacs had a keyboard chord to save a block of marked > text to a new file name, but the emacs manual section on saving files > has no entry for this. C-x C-w saves

Re: [PLUG] Problems Turning Off USB Booting

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:28:23 -0700, in message caeqej2oeniodeks5471har0usju0t3wix_tb6fb9uwbce-e...@mail.gmail.com, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have an old laptop running Linux version 4.8.0-1-amd64 (Debian > 5.4.1-3) that I use as a "headless" server for backups and Plex. It > has two USB drives

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: change \n\n to \n

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:04:34 -0800 (PST), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1611101201000.21451@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >Large files have a mix of single and double line spacings. I want > to convert double spaced lines to single space lines but cannot find > the appropriate regex search and

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPad X200 Issues

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1610261559200.9160@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >There are several highly experienced ThinkPad uses here so I'm > confident a couple of issues on my 'new' X200 will quickly be > resolved. > >1. As root and as a user

Re: [PLUG] unexpected perl dependencies

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:07:49 -0700, in message cbd6876d-a771-11b0-c487-b3ffd39ff...@seitzassoc.com, Galen Seitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm encountering dependency problems while trying to install an rpm > package that I built. The program is rsnapshot, which is a perl > program similar to dirvish. >

Re: [PLUG] Bash: pause running script and continue it in background

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 13:31:30 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1610051324060.6157@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >Seems to me that I should be able to pause the running script > (PID: 10952 pts/0 S+ 0:00 sleep 15) or whatever the PID is when I > pause the script, then run bg 10952 to

Re: [PLUG] Setting display colors

On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:52:29 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1609240748060.16601@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >In /etc/DIR_COLORS directories should be displayed in yellow (DIR > 01;33). However, on my laptop they're displayed in blue (color 34). > No file type in DIR_COLORS is

Re: [PLUG] lvm: reclaim and reallocate space

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 12:16:04 -0700, in message CAArW4Zj-j2pEK-6qJOgyuWd193pwUc4wJxG=+3Xn=h6wjvg...@mail.gmail.com, mitch portland wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a Fedora 21 machine on which I configured the 250Gb drive in > the following way: > > hobgoblin:~:{619}lsblk > NAMEMAJ:MIN RM

Re: [PLUG] Rsync user confusion: Who is user 1026?

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:48:44 -0700, in message 2016074844.0a360442@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:41:30 + > Jason Spohn dijo: > > >Check out this page for some info on mounting NFS on Linux. Also > >shows how to create the proper

Re: [PLUG] Rsync to a NAS drive

On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 11:00:17 -0700, in message 20160709110017.3280e2bf@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I can see I'm going to have to spend a lot of time studying rsync. But > for starters I decided to use cp to see if I know how to specify the > destination. Thunar displays a window with

Re: [PLUG] Kernel panic?

On Sat, 21 May 2016 16:21:00 -0700, in message 20160521162100.3e1bccff@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 'Makemkv.com' in the Firefox URL bar redirects to Showtime website. > Synaptic does not list anything for 'makemkv.' Searching Google for > 'makemkv' turns up a website for the program,

Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

On Fri, 6 May 2016 13:58:32 -0700, in message 572d0578.10...@speakeasy.net, Robert Munro wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2016 15:52:04 Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 05/05/2016 10:10 AM, Neal wrote: > > >>> Do you have a tool that can show how busy the hard drive is > >>> during the seconds the system is

Re: [PLUG] Emacs Text Editing Question

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:04:32 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1603250755300.8249@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >While I regularly use emacs I'm not as expert with it as are many > of you. Perhaps your expertise can explain an emacs paragraph > formatting behavior that seems anomalous

Re: [PLUG] Acroread Changes Typeface [RESOLVED]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 08:34:14 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1603180829460.30163@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >I used to use xpdf, but it's a version or so behind Adobe, so I > switched to mupdf. That does a great job, but sometimes blocked text > cannot be transferred to another

Re: [PLUG] Failure Mode in 20 volt Power Adapters

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:17:46 -0800, in message 20160127181746.4a63daa8@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:17:20 -0800 > Dick Steffens dijo: > > >On 01/27/2016 05:08 PM, wes wrote: > >> the center pin is a "data" line, the computer uses it to

Re: [PLUG] question on sudo umount command

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:36:22 -0800, in message 569717b6.1050...@gmail.com, logical american wrote: > Recently one of my commands > > [linux ~]$ sudo umount /dev/sdd2 > > failed to return back to the command prompt, and all subsequent sudo > commands failed similarly. Only by rebooting the

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive failure?

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 18:33:30 -0800, in message 20160107183330.01ccb158@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Lately programs complain that they can't read the media in the > Bluray drive in my laptop. Dmesg reports hundreds of errors like the > following: > > [551454.265635] end_request: I/O

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:28:23 -0800, in message 20151231112823.7a66eb61@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:53:28 -0800 > David dijo: > > >The device /dev/sr0 is typically the first CD/DVD device found by > >the operating system (and /dev/sr1 would

Re: [PLUG] Need New Video Card Today

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:01:42 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1510231254030.1161@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Rich Shepard wrote: > >The problem has escalated. While I was out getting a video card at > Free Geek the system died. Ouch! >1) I have two

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Dual SSD/spinning HD System

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:21:50 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1510231419540.1161@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >The new system has a 60G SSD drive and a 750G WD Caviar Black > drive. I've read enough to know that the SSD drive needs to be tuned > to work well with linux (and I have a

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Dual SSD/spinning HD System

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:44:42 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1510231541480.1161@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > > Some older mainboards have trouble booting from an SSD when there's > > a tradition HD alongside it. I suspect testing is the

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Dual SSD/spinning HD System

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:05:18 -0700, in message 20151023170518.49d5a772@zothique.localdomain, Dale Snell wrote: --- Blather deleted --- I forgot to mention: As of Fedora 22, I've switched over to the XFS filesystem, from EXT4. It seems to be working just fine. (FWIW, I'm still not convinced

Re: [PLUG] DIR_COLORS not working properly

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:30:06 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1510041528130.23817@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >On a laptop, in /etc/DIR_COLORS I have files set to the same 01;33 > as on other hosts, but files display only in blue (on a blue > background) rather than in yellow. I

Re: [PLUG] xterm font losing pixels

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:27:38 -0700, in message 20150924192738.ga22...@gate.kl-ic.com, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > >Sometimes one of the characters in my gnome-terminal instances > > >(I typically run about 20) loses a few black pixels - on every > > >instance of that

Re: [PLUG] fstab entry

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:33:37 -0700, in message CAArUT0h_tuKhpq653m=3loyjdomwwcpqjoctgyqmexehgrf...@mail.gmail.com, Denis Heidtmann wrote: With regard to the ancient system, how might I clone the HD so that in case the HD fails we will still have a functional system? We do not have the

Re: [PLUG] fstab entry

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:20:47 -0700, in message caarut0gzxdj5xqdnlkjax8e+vxpbbztrbvxxrvpwxpd4vnl...@mail.gmail.com, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I needed to use the floppy disk on my ubuntu 14.04 system (why is a separate story). I found that the default setup had the floppy owned by root. Even when

Re: [PLUG] Installing to new disk

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:59:09 -0700, in message caarut0intrcvck-pru4pdcmh1u3ksjujtyutummovcjjckw...@mail.gmail.com, Denis Heidtmann wrote: To install Ubuntu 14.04 on a new 1T drive I moved the cables from the current internal drive to the new drive. I installed from a DVD. I chose the default

Re: [PLUG] Desktop failure returned

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:05:26 -0700, in message CAArUT0jKWejUygaOdt0CQVgXa40MVNc1O--MbkvGoPh4h=-6...@mail.gmail.com, Denis Heidtmann wrote: After upgrading to Grub2 on the 13th the hope was that would fix things. Not so. This time the failure happened after it was running for 5-10 minutes,

Re: [PLUG] Firefox again

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:01:59 -0700, in message 20150711200159.5d8b5d83@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 38.0 on Xubuntu 14.04.1, up to date. I used to have an URL bar and a smaller search bar in the same toolbar. Suddenly my URL bar is missing; that is, what was the URL bar

Re: [PLUG] /not/ OK, Google

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 07:59:37 -0700, in message caarut0hznoh1dlc4au_vyytmtz7xega+3vprbrl8mstgkv+...@mail.gmail.com, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Certainly bad news but not too surprising. Two questions: How/why did Debian permit black-box code? I don't know. I have to wonder the same thing about

Re: [PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 07:11:48 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1506200708210.8143@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Dale Snell wrote: If memory and my interpretation of the man page are correct (and neither may be, I've not had my morning caffeine yet), rsync

Re: [PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 05:44:24 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1506200539350.8143@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: A question for you professional admins: what situation might result in the command, 'rsync -avz host:directory/subdirctory/ .' reporting that the directory/subdirectory

Re: [PLUG] Sound works for root, not for user

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:42:51 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1506181037530.5863@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote: make sure /dev/snd are root:root and perms 755; contents are root:audio with perms 660 and suid on execution. Ed, Yes,

Re: [PLUG] Mount FFS file system

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:03:29 -0700, in message cadzojqjdork6n5jymjmqrqcky4jcaohesrvd30hqgozh8ua...@mail.gmail.com, Jonathan Drews wrote: OS: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Hi Folks: I have an external hard drive that has information stored on an OpenBSD (FFS) file system. Is there anyway to

Re: [PLUG] useradd issue

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:50:57 -0700, in message 557cb3d1.5000...@gmail.com, King Beowulf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2015 03:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: For some reason I've not been able to discern, when I add me as a user to the netbook it looks OK until

Re: [PLUG] Restore /etc

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:31:09 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1506131129420.22964@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: Setting up a netbook and accidently removed /etc/ rather than a local etc/. Is there any way to restore that directory, e.g., from the Slackware distribution DVD, without

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: Uneven Tab Spacing

On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:21:15 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1504220614230.26983@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: When working with text files in emacs separating strings with tabs results in highly uneven spacing. Sometimes pressing the [Tab] key produces two line continuation arrors

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: Uneven Tab Spacing

On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:54:39 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1504221146380.26983@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Dale Snell wrote: Nani? ? dying-backwards-accordion Yes. :-) Actually, nani is a Japanese word; it means what. (I actually heard it used

Re: [PLUG] POTS setup under Linux

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:45:04 -0700, in message camf_wkqd74t_bk3jaow7baarz1osq6yq5w8nnfpqbgillsr...@mail.gmail.com, Mark Townsley wrote: Hello All: I have a need to go back to 1990s technology :) ...and wanting to turn my Linux box into a phone dialer, using something like this:

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: Setting Line Length for .txt Files

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:23:26 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1503111521470.9435@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Rich Shepard wrote: My emacs wraps lines of .txt files at column 72. However, sometimes (and all too often) it will wrap a line at column 46 or so

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: Setting Line Length for .txt Files

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:06:18 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1503111604270.9435@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Dale Snell wrote: I have the following in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file: (add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (setq-default fill-column 66))) Hope

Re: [PLUG] How to find the executables

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:01:25 -0800, in message 20150212200125.1237cef9@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: Living with the problem would be trivial if I knew the names and locations of the executables on my computer, but I don't have that information. I think it can be found from the

Re: [PLUG] Line lengths for emails

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:32:27 -0800 Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: This may be a religious question, but here goes. I tend to write my emails and other documents with a target line length approaching but less than 68 characters - I trained in an era of 80 column terminals, and

Re: [PLUG] External drive enclosures?

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 13:05:40 -0800 Tyrell Jentink tyr...@jentink.net wrote: Like many Linux users, I use older desktops as my servers. The practical upshot is obvious: I'm not using it anymore, and it's still very powerful, so I might as well put it to work. But desktops just aren't built

Re: [PLUG] Interesting question came up on the way to fixing a Windows system

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:19:53 -0800 Roderick Anderson raander...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to determine which 'program' on a Linux box is creating network traffic. I'm sure I knew once upon a time but I seem to be suffering from CRS now. There is a program called nethogs(8) that will

Re: [PLUG] Agentx - what is it?

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:00:56 -0800 website reader website.read...@gmail.com wrote: I just now discovered a symbolic link in my /var folder area called agentx which links to the /run/agentx executable (which is not there) Should I be concerned about this? Just a quick glance seems to reveal

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 07:43:18 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: The Slackware devs released an upgrade for Firefox from 28.n to 31.n. There are two display changes in the new version that I would like to have work as they did in earlier versions but I cannot find a way

Re: [PLUG] system response lost

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 15:56:42 -0800 Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: My wife was replying to an email when the typing suddenly stopped producing any characters on the screen. She had three

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: showkey Ken, Wasn't sure if that showed the key name as used in .Xmodmap or the scan code for the key. Didn't look at the man page. showkey(1) [and its

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:31:48 -0700 Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: showkey -a for the left key of interest: 60 0074 0x3c for the right key of interest: \ 92 0134 0x5c This is showing the ASCII values for the characters in decimal, octal, and hexadecimal. is 60

Re: [PLUG] TUESDAY: October PLUG Advanced Topics: Living Desktop Environment-Free

On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:31:34 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: I can use a minimal desktop like Xfce, but I'm trying to imagine how I could function without any desktop at all, even if I was a master at shell scripts, which I most definitely am not. I started my day by

Re: [PLUG] Such a thing as a single user Linux?

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:34:47 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps because we don't have a clear understanding of your problem we cannot offer a solution. I've not read anything that makes a multiuser linux system/network unsuitable for you.

Re: [PLUG] Rpcdebug commands

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:42:19 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: I'm reading the manpage for rpcdebug and entering commands as the manpage says, but always get an unintelligible error message. The manpage is hopelessly unclear, and offers no examples of commands. Does anyone

Re: [PLUG] Repairing a dead MacBook Pro

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:30:18 -0700 Loren M. Lang lor...@north-winds.org wrote: I'm assuming the power supply voltages are out of spec so I pulled out my voltmeter. Measuring the SATA power connector with the dead hard drive attached and Mac powered on, I found 5V on the 5V supply lines and no

Re: [PLUG] Identifying Why One Web Site Will Not Load

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:55:24 -0700 Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, wes wrote: The fact that your browser can load http://140.211.15.75 but not http://grass.osgeo.org pretty much

Re: [PLUG] Can't find a file

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:43:30 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: However, although I found the file, I still get: find: `./.cache/dconf': Permission denied As well as the file I was looking for. Why does it do that? You don't have permission to enter the directory

Re: [PLUG] Determining Why Perl Script Fails

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: After changing logwatch.pl to send its reports by mail the script worked for a few days. Today it failed completely. That is, running from the command line produces no output in the virtual terminal so

Re: [PLUG] Determining Why Perl Script Fails

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Dale Snell wrote: Try running the strace output file through grep, looking for the string ERR or ENO. It's a long shot, but it can't hurt to try. Dale, No errors, but some

Re: [PLUG] Trying to avoid the ls limit

On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:33:43 -0700 website reader website.read...@gmail.com wrote: To bash gurus: I just now ran into the wall while processing files in a long simulation run, there are over 50,000 files in one directory and now the bash shell expansion wild card character * is expanding

Re: [PLUG] Computer hell

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:54:54 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday, just before shutting down my System76 Bonobo Extreme laptop (Sager NP9380) to go to the Clinic I applied a number of updates to my Xubuntu 13.10 x86_64. When I restarted it at the Clinic I noticed that

Re: [PLUG] ntpd and subnet

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Larry Brigman wrote: I just looked at adjtimex. This is a c call that is used to adjust the kernel clock not the hwclock. It is what ntpd uses. Larry, I've not had need, nor

Re: [PLUG] Compile error

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:54:09 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi, John, Just to satisfy my 'satiable curiosity I looked into the SleepyHead program. Apparently the make command uses stuff found in a text file called sleepyhead.pro. No, make reads the file Makefile. The

Re: [PLUG] ntpd and subnet

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: The ethernet-connected hosts here have static IP addresses. The wireless access point serves dynamic IP addresses on a different subnet. Only two portables use the WAP and both have a time keeping issue:

Re: [PLUG] NFS again

On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:28:26 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: It's hard for me to remember anything in all my years of using computers that is as big a PITA as NFS. It was working fine yesterday. Today, without touching anything, suddenly the client can't see the files on

Re: [PLUG] Slackware-14.1/x86_64: Need to install kmod to boot

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: At the logo screen, I tried all 12 function keys to reach the BIOS settings, but none worked. Rich, Try the DELETE key. That works for some motherboards. Hope this helps. --Dale -- Penn's aunts made

Re: [PLUG] OS not responding to laptop touchpad

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:47:37 -0700 Dick Steffens d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: I'm guessing this is because I had a mouse plugged in when I did the install, but my laptop does not respond to the touch pad or its associated buttons. How do I figure this one out? The hardware is an Acer

Re: [PLUG] Network is unreachable

On Sat, 17 May 2014 10:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: And evidently the cat managed to dislodge the connection between the extension cord and the wall wart, so one of the switches had lost its power connection.

Re: [PLUG] Firefox 24.x: Automatically Clear Download History

On Thu, 1 May 2014 17:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: Prior versions of firefox had a preferences option to clear the download history after each download; version 24.x apparently does not. I've looked through all preferences and searched the Web without

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives to Firefox Thunderbird

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 07:22:05 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 06:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo: There's Opera, Google Chromium, and the text-based lynx and linx as browsers and Google Mail for ... well, mail. Unless you

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:21:33 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:04:23 -0800 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35:30AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I wish to access files stored on CDs. I place the CD in the drive

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:49:45 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Everywhere on this computer I find references to sr0, so I'm pretty sure it's /dev/sr0. But: $ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/sr0: can't

Re: [PLUG] Stupid NFS question - Progress!

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:28:34 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: %-- SNIP! --% Then I did sudo chmod 777 -R /media, which produced error messages: chmod: changing permissions of /media/jjj/Devil-Bonobo: Operation not permitted

Re: [PLUG] Clonezilla 'n stuff

On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:48:56 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:21:38 -0800 David dafr+p...@dafr.us dijo: Lastly, what does the BIOS/EFI say is the order of the two drives? If one is the master and the other the slave, that might also be stomping on

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:27:23 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: When I have a large data file I want to save blocks of lines to separate files without saving the entire buffer with a new name. My Web search foo is not working this morning: I cannot write a search

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:16:14 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Dale Snell wrote: The following command will do what you want: M-x write-region Thanks, Dale. I was looking for a key stoke chord, but this will certainly do the job. I need

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:45:50 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: Just as easy to mark a region (keyboard or pointy device), then press ctrl-x w to cut and ctrl-x y to yank it back. That procedure works fine, except that it marks the buffer as modified. That can be

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:18:48 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Dale Snell wrote: That procedure works fine, except that it marks the buffer as modified. Well, it is modified if I delete content. So, being terminally lazy, I created a macro

Re: [PLUG] I killed my desktop

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:02:51 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Having discovered that I could hot-plug the other 320 GB drive I tried it with the 1 TB drive. But the result was not what I hoped for. The disk light came on and stayed on continuously and Xubuntu did not mount

Re: [PLUG] odd date command behavior for the starting Daylight time in a year

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:06:33 -0700 website reader website.read...@gmail.com wrote: To the KPLUG community: KPLUG? PLUGH! I got invalid data warnings for all the March dates on the shell script file, but changing the time to 03:00:00 fixed this problem. Is something wrong with the tzfile

Re: [PLUG] Looking for the grub-emu info page

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:11:25 -0700 Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.com wrote: I am looking for the grub-emu info (not man!) page referenced in the man page: http://manned.org/grub-emu/9e965fe3 The full documentation for grub-emu is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and

Re: [PLUG] Trackball ball movement not smooth

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:45:48 -0700 Dick Steffens d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: I decided to try out a trackball a friend gave me. It was pretty dirty, so I cleaned the ball and the socket with isopropyl alcohol. Before cleaning the cursor response to the movement of the ball was jerky. Now

Re: [PLUG] Flash Drive Recommendations?

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:37:58 -0700 Dick Steffens d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: Any horror stories related to flash drives? Those $20 Lenovo machines Kieth mentioned that are available at Eco Binary don't have an optical media drive. So installing an OS would need to be done with a flash

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Flash Drive Recommendations?

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:39:58 -0700 Dick Steffens d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: I think I'll still look into using a USB flash drive for the install media, though, even though the box I install on might have an optical drive. Saves burning a DVD and can be reused. My desktop system doesn't

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Flash Drive Recommendations?

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:35:18 -0700 Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:18:58AM -0700, Dale Snell wrote: My desktop system doesn't like booting to random USB devices. I have to reset the BIOS for every drive (but only one at a time!), and it loses that setting

Re: [PLUG] Belkin N900 Not Seen at 192.168.2.1

On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: After many months I'm finally setting up the Belkin Advance N900 wireless router. It's connected via a cat5 cable directly to my laptop. The default IP address for the Belkin is 192.168.2.1. When I enter

Re: [PLUG] Tuning Setup of Belkin N900

On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On the Linksys and Asus wireless routers I could add static IP addresses, host names, and MAC addresses for the two portables here and restrict use of the wireless access to only those two. On the Belkin

Re: [PLUG] Need 32-bit Debian based user

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:04:11 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltc/?source=recommended The file is ltc-3.0.4-1.fc13.i386.rpm. My Xubuntu did not come with alien installed, but sudo apt-get install alien will take care of it if your computer

Re: [PLUG] Laptop video

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 12:02:05 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: 1) I see laptops at the Clinic that seem to have two video chips, like Intel and nVidia. And one of the laptops that I am seriously considering* has Intel and nVidia. Why? 2) In the past Intel had a reputation of

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:31:11 -0700 Mike C. mconno...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding my last post about the interface config files. After modifying them, you'll want to either reboot or restart networking services. I'd say reboot and hope that the interface config file is read before NM is invoked.

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:51:41 -0700 Daniel Hedlund dan...@digitree.org wrote: I sat down a played on John's laptop directly for a few minutes. When he upgraded to Fedora 17 it only partially upgraded his system and then bailed for an unknown reason, but likely due to unresolved conflicts or

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 19:48:38 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 19:34:24 -0700 Mike C. mconno...@gmail.com dijo: Creating object for path '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/17' failed in libnm-glib. A possible solution might be to disable

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:18:27 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:03:52 -0700 Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo: Try this: $ sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service Fedora 17 has switched over to systemd almost totally. Thanks. That seems

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 11:01:36 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Now I've done it.. I decided to upgrade my Fedora 15 laptop to Fedora 17 using the DVD. The upgrade went without error, and when I rebooted things came up as before, but I have no network connection. If I try

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