Re: [PLUG] fstab entry

2015-08-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: 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

[PLUG] Share error?

2015-08-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I clicked on the Floppy Disk in the Files GUI (Nautilus replacement, I believe.) The following window popped up: Unable to access Floppy Disk Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Comand-line 'mount/media/floppy exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-22 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Nat Taylor biob...@gmail.com wrote: The Open Source Edition provided by Ubuntu does not include the extension pack that Oracle provides for USB compatibility. You need to install the Oracle Virtualbox and then install the Extension pack:

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-22 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Nat Taylor biob...@gmail.com wrote: The Open Source Edition provided by Ubuntu does not include the extension pack that Oracle provides for USB compatibility. You need

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:40 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:15:53 -0700 King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com dijo: On 08/20/2015 06:39 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I have successfully migrated to 14.04 on a new 1 T HD from 12.04 on an older 0.5T HD

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On checking all over Google I see that installing an Extension Pack (not the same as Guest Additions) may be needed. Unfortunately Oracle does not have an extension pack for the version of VB that Ubuntu decided to include in their repositories (4.3.10_ubuntu r93012) I tried one for 4.3.28, but

[PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have successfully migrated to 14.04 on a new 1 T HD from 12.04 on an older 0.5T HD. Vbox seems to run fine; all my installed programs are there. A cursory look says that they are functional. But I cannot access my printer. It appears to be that VB does not find any USB devices. Anybody have

[PLUG] Evolution has old folder which won't go away

2015-08-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have an old folder associated with a now non-existent host. When I restored all of Evolution from backup into a new install on the new system, the pw for that old host is asked for. It is lost in the dustbin of history. How do I delete the old folder? Any useful messages in it were captured

[PLUG] dirvish question

2015-08-13 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have been backing up /home/denis locally to a esata hard drive. I am moving to a new system hard drive (ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04; 0.5T to 1.0T). The equivalent new folder is /home/household. Basically this is just a name change; all the folders and files have the same names under household that

Re: [PLUG] Printer help needed

2015-08-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:59 PM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/10/2015 03:11 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: No test page. Before I go through deleting and re-adding, I would like to understand the relation between CUPS and Hplip. -Denis CUPS does all the actual printing

[PLUG] Printer help needed

2015-08-10 Thread Denis Heidtmann
My HP printer seems to have lost some aspects of connection to my ubuntu 12.04 system. Symptoms: No printing from the computer Front panel issued test page looks OK Jobs in queue, status held HPlip trouble shooting says run hp-check -t. Lots of output, but No devices found under DISCOVERED

Re: [PLUG] Printer help needed

2015-08-10 Thread Denis Heidtmann
No test page. Before I go through deleting and re-adding, I would like to understand the relation between CUPS and Hplip. -Denis On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote: My HP printer seems to have lost some

[PLUG] Chrome will not save my password

2015-08-02 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I am attempting to set up Chrome in my new system. I have two gmail addresses. One is associated with my Google account. Chrome saves the password for the non-google account gmail, but will not save the password to the other. I have googled around on this issue, but cannot make sense of the

Re: [PLUG] Chrome will not save my password

2015-08-02 Thread Denis Heidtmann
=419070 I have gotten Chrome to save both pw's, but the easy switch from one to the other is now gone (dialogue in upper right lists only the current one). I unchecked say signed in, and did not log into Chrome. I think Firefox is in my future. -Denis On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Denis Heidtmann

Re: [PLUG] Installing to new disk

2015-07-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:41 AM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/26/2015 09:59 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: ... (I expressed the block count that way for brevity.) Egad, man! please don't! This is the second admonition, so I better explain. The drive is no longer

[PLUG] Installing to new disk

2015-07-26 Thread Denis Heidtmann
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 partitioning. First question: Everything went as expected, except fdisk -l shows: /dev/sda1 .97x10^9 blocks ID 83 Linux /dev/sda2

[PLUG] Messages on shut-down

2015-07-19 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have been prompted to examine my system in detail since getting errors of unknown causes (See Desktop failure thread). A few messages flash on the terminal as I shut down. They go by too fast to read without the assistance of a video camera. A few of the messages are: * Stopping save kernel

[PLUG] ubuntu lts

2015-07-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I expect to move from 12.04 to another LTS release soon. I am a little confused by https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases. What does HWE mean in the end of life date column? Thanks, -Denis ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] ubuntu lts

2015-07-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: Denis == Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com writes: Denis I expect to move from 12.04 to another LTS release soon. I am a Denis little confused by https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases. What does Denis HWE

Re: [PLUG] Desktop failure returned

2015-07-17 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: Denis == Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com writes: Denis That sound like a good idea, but failures at present are days Denis apart. Maybe if it gets consistent I will try that. FWIW, any hint of hard

Re: [PLUG] Desktop failure returned

2015-07-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: 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

Re: [PLUG] Desktop failure returned

2015-07-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:05:26 -0700, in message CAArUT0jKWejUygaOdt0CQVgXa40MVNc1O--MbkvGoPh4h=-6...@mail.gmail.com, Denis Heidtmann

Re: [PLUG] Desktop failure returned

2015-07-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: How definitely does this pin the blame on the hard drive? You could try to do the opposite, exonerate the hard drive. Disconnect

[PLUG] Desktop failure returned

2015-07-15 Thread Denis Heidtmann
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, not on boot. First symptoms were Chrome failed to start 3 times. Then Nautilus did not display properly; it closed when I attempted to view the

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-13 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: For some reason there is a remnant of the old grub hanging around on your system and occasionally your system is trying to boot from it. You might diagnose the problem by running sudo bootinfoscript

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-13 Thread Denis Heidtmann
More below On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure that is what is causing your boot problems

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-13 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Jul 13, 2015 2:04 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Robert Citek robert.ci...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Jim Garrison j...@jhmg.net wrote: On 7/10/2015 8:00 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: This time I used e2fsck -fvp /dev/sda1 from the Ubuntu 12.04 live CD. No errors found. How

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com wrote: On 07/11/15 07:48, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I was planning on running e2fsck on sda2 and sda5 later today. Here are the results of your suggested commands: parents@R2D4:~$ cat /proc/partitions major minor

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: If it is fans, it would have to be slow starting, since the failures have always been on starting from a cold machine. That should

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: Which version of grub are you using? What does grub-probe -V say? It looks like an error message from the old legacy grub. It might be having

Re: [PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-10 Thread Denis Heidtmann
this is going down the wrong path. david On 07/10/2015 06:03 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Well, it is at it again. Second boot of the day I got the same error I got a 6 days ago: Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure. Press any key to continue. A key press gets me to the menu

[PLUG] Desktop machine failures

2015-07-10 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Well, it is at it again. Second boot of the day I got the same error I got a 6 days ago: Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure. Press any key to continue. A key press gets me to the menu of OS versions. On choosing the usual (12.04) I get partway into the Ubuntu startup, then a black

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I searched gnome resize disable. I saw many responses, but am too clueless to know if any help your issue. -Denis On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: I've been to busy to fool with Gnome 3 for a while, but I'm assembling my I really HATE this, how

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-06 Thread Denis Heidtmann
The memory check ran for 12 hours. 4 passes. No errors. -Denis ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-05 Thread Denis Heidtmann
major failures the last two days. What am I missing? -Denis On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: I am running sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 I suppose I could interrupt it (if I knew how) and add the v and p options. Certainly the -v is a no-brainer

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-05 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote: This novice's reading of man e2fsck makes me think that the command e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 does not do anything, unless checking a file system means fixing a file system

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-05 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I agree with all you said, but it does not explain the observation that my machine does not exhibit any issues since running e2fsck -f /dev/sda1. (Lacking the -p means

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-05 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com wrote: You may want to check your disk's health and run some tests using smartctl. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T. galen Galen, I had looked the the SMART data yesterday--healthy. Your link yields no

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-05 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com wrote: You may want to check your disk's health and run some tests using smartctl. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T. galen

[PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as: Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79. Error 16: Inconsistent file system structure press any key to continue... key press presented list of boot options. I selected memtest. I got just a flashing cursor. Power off and restart produced:

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Derek Loree d...@drloree.com wrote: On Jul 4, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean.” Check your partition

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Ah, the man page for e2fsck discloses the -f option--forces the check. Thanks. Check in progress. -Denis On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Ken Stephens wrote: Make that the fsck command. More specifically, e2fsck checks

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I am running sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 I suppose I could interrupt it (if I knew how) and add the v and p options. Certainly the -v is a no-brainer. Denis, Let

Re: [PLUG] desktop machine failures

2015-07-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
fsck from the live CD it completes immediately, with no errors. -Denis On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Ken Stephens k...@cad2cam.com wrote: Denis Heidtmann wrote: Yesterday and today on starting I get errors such as: Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 d7d8b1c0-f79. Error 16: Inconsistent file system

Re: [PLUG] /not/ OK, Google

2015-07-02 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Certainly bad news but not too surprising. Two questions: How/why did Debian permit black-box code? Can a smart phone be turned off (other than removing the battery)? -Denis On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: Google can use a closed source binary

Re: [PLUG] Advice needed

2015-04-12 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Nat Taylor biob...@gmail.com wrote: ... Then there's this: ATI Radeon HD 5450 Cedar PRO/radeon Yes Yes Yes v11.04 Natty Supports compiz and Unity with the default open source driver in Natty. 2011-07-23 Nat, I see that the 5450 has PCI

Re: [PLUG] Advice needed

2015-04-12 Thread Denis Heidtmann
, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Nat Taylor biob...@gmail.com wrote: ... Then there's this: ATI Radeon HD 5450 Cedar PRO/radeon Yes Yes Yes v11.04 Natty Supports compiz and Unity with the default

[PLUG] Advice needed

2015-04-08 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have a desktop machine which seems to be having problems with the on-MB video. One solution is to install a separate video card. Another solution is to replace the MB or even the entire system. The former solution looks preferable as it is less complicated and less disruptive, so my first

[PLUG] video issues

2015-03-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have had lock-up issues with my desk-top four times in the last week. My son was here when it last happened. He used my laptop to log onto the desktop. He concluded that the video was the issue, and thought that it was either a nvidia driver issue or the display hardware (on MB Nvidia GeForce

Re: [PLUG] Rebuilding laptop battery packs

2014-12-30 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: At some point, my venerable laptops (which do my tasks far better than modern crap designed for passive media consumption) Please excuse my ignorance, but can you elaborate on this statement? What, for example,

Re: [PLUG] Desktop Computer Monitor choice

2014-12-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
remove the base and attach the display to a wall mount or swiveling mount arm. Wayne On 12/27/2014 01:27 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I have a suspicion that my current monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 216 BW) is going to quit one of these not-to-distant days. In order to avoid a panic purchase, I

Re: [PLUG] Desktop Computer Monitor choice

2014-12-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reference. From what I can understand from the specs, it should do fine for my use if I can confirm that my video card supports the native resolution. I am not sure how to do that. Reading specs

Re: [PLUG] Desktop Computer Monitor choice

2014-12-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reference. From what I can understand from the specs, it should do fine for my use if I can confirm that my

[PLUG] Desktop Computer Monitor choice

2014-12-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have a suspicion that my current monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 216 BW) is going to quit one of these not-to-distant days. In order to avoid a panic purchase, I am exploring the choices, and looking for recommendations. I use the HDMI input. I can physically accommodate a little bit wider

Re: [PLUG] No ssh cracking attempts?

2014-12-23 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: Last Thursday or Friday the daily log reports showed fewer cracking attempts via ssh. The number (and types) decreased over the weekend and today there's nothing. Historically, there are hundreds to

Re: [PLUG] strange desktop behavior

2014-12-19 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Anthony Thayer t...@tonythayer.com wrote: Did your system time reset recently? I've seen that happen when the ACPI setting gets set to a default value in the BIOS. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu

[PLUG] strange desktop behavior

2014-12-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Twice now I have observed after shutting down my desktop the machine appears to shut down (light off, fan stopped), yet the 'Num' light on the keyboard is on and the mouse light is still on. The first time this happened I started the machine in the usual way, and I believe it behaved normally.

Re: [PLUG] strange desktop behavior

2014-12-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:59 AM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/18/2014 10:01 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Twice now I have observed after shutting down my desktop the machine appears to shut down (light off, fan stopped), yet the 'Num' light on the keyboard

Re: [PLUG] Hiring Open Source Contributors

2014-12-07 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Ishak Micheil isaa...@gmail.com wrote: I think, it really depends on the organization business type. From an information security management prospective, we are always very conservative when hiring developers who contribute to OSS. Not directly related to skill

[PLUG] Networking an HP printer (was AirRouter DHCP lease range)

2014-11-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: Denis == Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com writes: Denis Done. Denis Now the problem is with the printer. It wants a net mask, I Denis enter 255.255.255.000, yet the printer says I gotta be no higher

Re: [PLUG] Networking an HP printer (was AirRouter DHCP lease range)

2014-11-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com Denis Now the problem is with the printer. It wants a net mask, I Denis enter 255.255.255.000, yet the printer says I gotta be no higher Denis than 255. Wha?? Try again tomorrow. This has been a learning experience

Re: [PLUG] AirRouter DHCP lease range

2014-11-23 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Russell Senior seni...@aracnet.com wrote: Denis == Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com writes: Denis I am trying to set up my new printer to connect to the internet Denis for HPInstantInk. I understand the way to insure that the Denis printer has

Re: [PLUG] AirRouter DHCP lease range

2014-11-23 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: Denis == Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com writes: Denis dhcpc.1.devname=eth1 dhcpc.1.fallback=192.168.10.1 Denis dhcpc.1.fallback_netmask=255.255.255.0 dhcpc.1.status=enabled Denis dhcpc.status=enabled

Re: [PLUG] Printer not supported in Windows!

2014-11-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:52 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Over the years I have found that you can get most of the functionality of a non-supported printer by using the driver for a related printer, perhaps an earlier or later model. If it has Postscript (even emulation)

[PLUG] Printer not supported in Windows!

2014-11-19 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I bought an hp officejet 4630, a multifunction printer. I got it installed and working in Ubuntu 12.04 using hplip. It took a while, but went without a hitch. Printing and scanning work very well to the extent I have exercised it. The problem is trying to get it working in Win 2k from

Re: [PLUG] Printer not supported in Windows!

2014-11-19 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, David dafr+p...@dafr.us wrote: On 11/19/2014 10:19 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I bought an hp officejet 4630, a multifunction printer. I got it installed and working in Ubuntu 12.04 using hplip. It took a while, but went without a hitch. Printing

Re: [PLUG] Printer not supported in Windows!

2014-11-19 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Dick Steffens d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: On 11/19/2014 10:19 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I bought an hp officejet 4630, a multifunction printer. I got it installed and working in Ubuntu 12.04 using hplip. It took a while, but went without a hitch. Printing

Re: [PLUG] Line conditioners

2014-11-17 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Looks like propane would be a pain. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] printer advice

2014-11-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:55 AM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/14/2014 03:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I am looking to replace my aged HP 930C inkjet. We do not print very much--cartridges last more than a year. We have no scanner at present. Eyeing HP Envy 4500

Re: [PLUG] Line conditioners

2014-11-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
How much power do you need for all the electronics you want to run during a power outage? I suspect this is much lower than the 7KW produced by the GX 390. Does or will DMC convert a much smaller inverter generator to gas? Have you looked into conversion kits? (I too would be interested in a

Re: [PLUG] Line conditioners

2014-11-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:34 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:29:11 -0800 Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com dijo: How much power do you need for all the electronics you want to run during a power outage? I suspect this is much lower than the 7KW

[PLUG] printer advice

2014-11-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I am looking to replace my aged HP 930C inkjet. We do not print very much--cartridges last more than a year. We have no scanner at present. Eyeing HP Envy 4500 and Epson XP-620 all-in-one. The Epson has better specs, uses separate color cartridges, and has lower per page costs. Questions

Re: [PLUG] printer advice

2014-11-14 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org wrote: The toner in my hp 4350 lasted for 5yrs and it supports both PCL and PS. You can also get an IPv6 enabled JetDirect card if you wish to nerd. On Nov 14, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm

[PLUG] Internet speed discussion on Science Friday

2014-11-07 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Russell, in case you missed it: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/11/07/2014/u-s-high-speed-internet-lags-behind-on-price-cost.html Can we provide this to the mayor and all the Council members? -Denis ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] system response lost

2014-11-02 Thread Denis Heidtmann
My wife was replying to an email when the typing suddenly stopped producing any characters on the screen. She had three windows open in Firefox (gmail). I opened a terminal (using the mouse) and found that the response to the keyboard was the same: nothing. Then it seemed that the response to

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

2014-10-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
showkey -a for the left key of interest: 60 0074 0x3c for the right key of interest: \ 92 0134 0x5c There is also xev: For the left key: KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1, root 0x261, subw 0x0, time 2468220, (18,-5), root:(1517,42), state 0x10, keycode 94

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

2014-10-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: 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

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

2014-10-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: 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

Re: [PLUG] keyboard mapping change

2014-10-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Ronald Bynoe ron...@bynoe.us wrote: What make/model keyboard is it? I'd be interested to see an image of it Online. On Oct 27, 2014 1:08 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct

[PLUG] keyboard mapping change

2014-10-26 Thread Denis Heidtmann
My keyboard gave up so I replaced it with one from FreeGeek. I discovered this new keyboard has a couple of extra keys next to the shift keys, making the shift keys smaller. How can I change the behavior of those keys to shift? I have looked at various man pages and done some Googling, but I

Re: [PLUG] monitor flashing

2014-10-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:56 PM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/2014 12:14 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I am in the habit of powering off everything on my desk when nothing is in use. When I power up after some time with it off my Samsung monitor SyncMaster 216BW flashes

Re: [PLUG] monitor flashing

2014-10-16 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:14:37PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: ... at a rapid rate--maybe 10 Hz. After a number of seconds it becomes steady. ... Does this indicate that a complete failure is in my near future

[PLUG] monitor flashing

2014-10-15 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I am in the habit of powering off everything on my desk when nothing is in use. When I power up after some time with it off my Samsung monitor SyncMaster 216BW flashes the little box it the upper left which displays Analog-Digital alternately. The alternation between Analog and Digital is at the

Re: [PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

2014-10-13 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 06:21:45PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I have two Ubuntu 12.04 systems: a desktop and the netbook(notebook?) The desktop has a kernel 3.2.0-36-generic; the netbook has 3.13.0-36-generic. Strange

Re: [PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

2014-10-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Ken Stephens k...@cad2cam.com wrote: Denis Heidtmann wrote: asus_wmi: Error removing rfkill notify handler /_sb.pcio.pop5 repeat ...pop6 repeat ...pop7 could not write bytes: Broken Pipe I have kernel 3.13.0 Ubuntu 12.04 Various function buttons fail

Re: [PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

2014-10-11 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:37:32AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Thanks for looking into this. But there are other symptoms which googling tells me are associated with the error(s): Some of the function controls no longer

[PLUG] eee pc error msg on boot

2014-10-10 Thread Denis Heidtmann
asus_wmi: Error removing rfkill notify handler /_sb.pcio.pop5 repeat ...pop6 repeat ...pop7 could not write bytes: Broken Pipe I have kernel 3.13.0 Ubuntu 12.04 Various function buttons fail to work Googling gave me lots of very technical stuff that was way beyond my pay grade. Does anybody

[PLUG] Fwd: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] Looking for speakers on C, assembly, and C++

2014-10-06 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Forwarded in case there is interest here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Johnson tekno...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:39 PM Subject: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] Looking for speakers on C, assembly, and C++ To: A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx (portland, or)

[PLUG] adding desktop config. file in Unity

2014-09-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Ubuntu 12.04 does not have a context menu for this. I copied an existing one in the Dash, edited it, and got something that works on the desktop, but it is filled with stuff the meaning of which I do not know, and launches slowly. I copied a very simple desktop configuration file from my other

Re: [PLUG] adding desktop config. file in Unity

2014-09-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Update: I repeated my first method but chose a much simpler launcher to edit. Now I have something which works satisfactorily from the desktop. The question remains: how do I get it into the Dash? -Denis On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu

Re: [PLUG] adding desktop config. file in Unity

2014-09-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: Update: I repeated my first method but chose a much simpler launcher to edit. Now I have something which works satisfactorily from the desktop. The question remains: how do I get

[PLUG] Stuff in /home/parents/.bin/arduino-1.0.1/

2014-09-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Success after fussing around trying to get a newer version of Arduino IDE, I discover a bunch(25) of arduino-1.0.1 files. I must have created those during my older attempts. The GUI package manager knows nothing of those. What is the safe way to purge them from my system? Can I just delete

Re: [PLUG] To complain is to volunteer (Was: AK-47?)

2014-08-08 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.com wrote: I will say this once and only once: To complain about free of charge conference-quality events that have included several $1,000 worth of free books, promotional items and event passes to date plus the

Re: [PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:29 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: I have a 2GB SD card that a medical device writes data to daily. I view the data periodically myself to keep tabs on things. To do so I just insert the card in the card reader slot in my laptop, whereupon it appears

[PLUG] Standby 5V issues

2014-07-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I reported earlier that my desktop fails to bring up the standby 5V supply after all power being off for a while, i.e., no AC to the box. I have various data points on this: AC off overnight, AC off for 1.5Hr, AC off for a few minutes. The corresponding times for the standby 5V to come up were

[PLUG] computer will not start (2X)

2014-07-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Narrowed down to a problem with the standby 5V. The MB has an LED which indicates that the standby 5 volt supply is on. This LED flashes when the problem occurs, indicating overcurrent, shutdown, repeat. The two times this has occurred it went away spontaneously (Nothing I was doing can be said

Re: [PLUG] computer will not start (2X)

2014-07-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:32 PM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/18/2014 12:37 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Narrowed down to a problem with the standby 5V. The MB has an LED which indicates that the standby 5 volt supply is on. This LED flashes when the problem occurs

Re: [PLUG] computer will not start (2X)

2014-07-18 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:33 PM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/18/2014 03:59 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:32 PM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/18/2014 12:37 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Narrowed down to a problem with the standby 5V

[PLUG] log message

2014-07-10 Thread Denis Heidtmann
A message went by too fast to read during boot so I looked in dmsg. I found nothing which has meaning to me. But I did see the following snippet that I am curious about. What does Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup mean? What is an aperture? Memory hole? Thanks, -Denis [

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