Re: [PLUG] Canonical Mailman page not reachable

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: Go to storm.canonical.com and scroll down to the community section. There are links to the sign on page for their fascist identification system that serves as a gateway to the mailing list. Ben, I keep missing that: "Community "The Storm mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Canonical Mailman page not reachable

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Paul Heinlein wrote: It looks like you need an Ubuntu Single Sign-On (aka Ubuntu One) account to join a Canonical mailing list. Did you sign up for such an account? Paul, Yesterday I discovered that I had one for some reason. Yet, clicking on the link to the Mailman page

[PLUG] Canonical Mailman page not reachable

Canonical provides a python ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that allows python objects and relational database classes to seamlessly exchange data. Every time I try to subscribe to their mailman-hosted mailing list I get a message saying, "OpenID failed Unknown user." The page URL is

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps this will help: <https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/exfat-better-different-fat32/> This site has a more clear explanation: <https://thedigitalrenewal.com/difference-between-exfat-vs-fat32/> But, ... "ExFAT was designed to get aroun

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: Any observations or suggestions? John, Perhaps this will help: Rich

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

On Fri, 28 May 2021, Tom wrote: blackmail them to pay 475CHF (whatever kind of currency that is) even Swiss Francs. Rich

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

On Thu, 27 May 2021, ja...@bertelson.me wrote: Linux users are a resourceful sort but self-hosting email is a cure worse than the disease. Before I gave up and paid a company to host my email ... Interesting. For the alternative perspective, I've run postfix here since about 1997 with no

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

On Wed, 26 May 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: How many people with non-gmail addresses are having this problem with Tom's emails? Anyone? Not me. Is this specific to gmail? ? Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Recommended method for destroying a failed SSDx

On Thu, 20 May 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Fire! Chipper! ... Similar Hammer and chisel. Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

On Tue, 18 May 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Is your experience based on the scenario described above? Tomas, All the DocuSign documents for my PPP loans downloaded as regular PDF files. I don't recall the sources of the ones that were fixed by printing to a different .pdf. If I paid for a

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

On Tue, 18 May 2021, TomasK wrote: Does anyone know of some linuxy way to get rid of this BS and convert the PDFs to normal unicode? Tomas, Try printing the document(s) to file. For example, if you can view them in xpdf do so then click the print icon, select 'print to file', name it and see

Re: [PLUG] Moving program buttons in XFCE panel

On Wed, 12 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: So when you start a program, isn't there some button on your screen that was created by starting the program? No. I use only the panel. It has 6 launchers (with multiple applications on each one) and the shutdown/blank screen applications. I also have

Re: [PLUG] Moving program buttons in XFCE panel

On Wed, 12 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: It's entirely possible I'm using the wrong nomenclature. I'm referring to the buttons (?) that show up at the top of the screen when I start a program. Dick, Ah! Icons. I've never used them so I've no suggestions for working with them. Sorry, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Moving program buttons in XFCE panel

On Wed, 12 May 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: IIRC, move the icons using the mouse as long as there's an empty spot for it. It should work the same as moving open applications from one virtual desktop to another. Better yet, Open Settings -> Panel -> Applications and use the up and down

Re: [PLUG] Moving program buttons in XFCE panel

On Wed, 12 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: This is supposed to just work, but I think I messed something up. When I opened up my laptop, the bar that is usually at the top of the screen was 1/3 of the way down the screen. Searching, I found an instruction to reset the panel that fixed that

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

On Tue, 11 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: My purpose is collecting data so when I go to the wireless folks I'll know about how much we'll be using each month (a 1-1/2 hour meeting twice a week), and know what data plan will make sense when we set one up for the building that has no phone or

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

On Tue, 11 May 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: Is there a recommended too or procedure for logging how much data I use while hosting a Zoom meeting? The meeting typically takes about an hour and 20 minutes. I need to know how much "data" I use during that meeting. Dick, I know that the wireless

Re: [PLUG] Internet providers

On Wed, 5 May 2021, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Anybody have any experience with Ziply? Raises hand. I do. I see no difference from when it was Frontier. Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, wes wrote: I meant a more detailed accounting; exact commands executed, specific options selected, in which order, etc etc. I'm not suggesting you should be able to produce this from memory; instead that we would need you to repeat the procedure and document these details.

Re: [PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Cathy L Smith wrote: Deleting partitions just marks the partition table as deleted. Nothing is removed or erased. Cathy, I didn't know this. Thanks for answering my question. Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, wes wrote: we would need to know all the steps you took to make the changes to see if there are any possible points where something could have gone wrong. Wes, I explained them in the original post: starting with the lowest partition on the list I deleted each one, wrote

Re: [PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Russell Senior wrote: Why do you care? I guarantee after writing zeros or urandom to it, you won't have partitions anymore. Well, there's no OS on it and I doubt anyone will try to recover any data from the drive, of which there was nothing of importance. I care because

Re: [PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: Not answering your question, but my preferred method of scrubbing a drive is to either use DBAN (dban.org) or just write /dev/urandom to the block device ( dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda ). This writes random garbage over the entire drive including

Re: [PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Russell Senior wrote: Live boot from a thumb drive, dd /dev/zero to the whole disk. Russell, But why didn't deleting all partitions work? Regards, Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

Prior to taking an old Sony Vaio laptop for recycling I wanted to scrub the hard drive. First I used cfdisk and deleted each of the three partitions, wrote the changes, then quit. For some reason this didn't work. Tried again, same result. I'd like to understand why. What did work was running

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, King Beowulf wrote: Rich the link above, despite the .ZIP extension points to a web page. on that web page are download links. Ed, Yep. That's what I discovered. the actual link appears to be

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Alternatives for Atril?

On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: Decisions like this are red flags in software projects. I know this doesnt answer your question but youd be happier with a different pdf viewer. Reverting to an issue Dick mentioned, while printing from within the PDF viewer can be convenient it's not

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I'll look for more detailed help on learning wget. Aha! Found it. For the dozens of .pdf files in one subdirectory I used: wget -r -A.pdf http://ph-public-data.com/document/PDI2021B/ and it's chugging away downloading those files. I'll try

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Use: wget -Nc http. If it fails, you run it again - it will continue from where it stopped. Tomas, I was not accurate in my description. Using -Nc makes no difference, what's downloaded is a 4096 byte file name; same size as a directory listing.

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Bill Barry wrote: Looks like 125 Megabytes to me if that is Kilobits. If it is actually Kilobytes then it is just over a Gigabyte Bill, I agree. It's not terabytes and I'm now dowloading a 1.3G file. Don't know why the first one kept failing to transfer. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: Do you have 1.2Tb of space free on your drive and can your file system handle single files of that size? Jason, Thinking about your questiona and my answer, I'll make a larger disk available and download that file to it. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: Do you have 1.2Tb of space free on your drive and can your file system handle single files of that size? Jason, Perhaps and yes. The 1.4T partition has used 145G and there's 1.2T available; the filesystem is ext4. Rich

[PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

I've not before had a problem downloading huge files. But, trying to download http://ph-public-data.com/document/PHRD_2019/Pre-RD_PDI_Appx-A-Chemistry-Data-DVR.zip which the site says is 1,168,591Kb large fails. The 102k PDF error page displayed (from django) can be downloaded here:

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. Which programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? Dick, My two long-time favorites: xpdf and

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 BETA release

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 7:49 AM TomasK wrote: You mentioned "development cycle" - I understood it as - slackaware is and will keep working on developing 15.0. It seemed more likely that is being developed rather than being stuck in maintenance for so long. Perhaps long maintenance period would

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 BETA release

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Ali Corbin wrote: From what I hear, getting DKIM set up correctly is not, er, intuitively obvious. I do know people who have done it, but it took a few tries. If you care, I could connect you and let them tell you what settings to change. Ali, I'll confirm this. I

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 BETA release

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: Real Soon Now (tm) :-) Ah, yes. The standard software release reply. Memories of Byte Magazine. He hasn't started doing release candidates yet so who knows. I would guess that we aren't too far away now. Maybe even by this summer. Well, July will be

[PLUG] Getting help with CUPS filter issue

The cups.org web site doesn't reveal support options such as a maillist or web forum. If you know which LQ forum or other potential help source might have an answer to a cups pstoraster filter failure please point me to it. TIA, Rich ___ PLUG:

Re: [PLUG] printing to scale part of a pdf document

On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, VY wrote: Adobe document cloud (https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/) allows you to create a free account and give you some amount of MB free storage. I think it let's you do cropping and manipulation of PDFs. pdfjam is also a good tool: "pdfjam provides a front end to

Re: [PLUG] Printer permissions

On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, King Beowulf wrote: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/xerox-phaser-6000b-dell-labeled-driver-permissions-4175692822/#post6235679 Ed, I saw that mentioned elsewhere but didn't think it relevant. There's no libcups installed here. Will see if it's

Re: [PLUG] Printer permissions

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I deleted and reinstalled the printer. Same results. Yesterday's last attempts to print are in the cups error log: E [29/Mar/2021:10:58:17 -0700] colorp: File \"/usr/lib/cups/filter/Xerox_Phaser_6000_6010/XRM_MF\" has insecure permissions

Re: [PLUG] Printer permissions

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Then I changed the perms to 500 and tried to have the printer print a self-test with this result: Idle - "File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/Xerox_Phaser_6000_6010/XRM_MF" has insecure permissions (0100500/uid=1000/gid=100)." I del

[PLUG] Printer permissions

I had to reinstall the driver for my Dell color laser printer (a rebranded Xerox Phaser 6000B). When I tried to send a job to it CUPS responded: Idle - "File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/Xerox_Phaser_6000_6010/XRM_MF" has insecure permissions (0100744/uid=1000/gid=100)." which I reduced from the

Re: [PLUG] Another problem [Re: Guiding friends away from Windows]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Richard Owlett wrote: How does the computer know the printer is available? What should I be reading? Is CUPS installed? If so, the printers page allows you to set up printers. Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Guiding friends away from Windows

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, Michael Rasmussen wrote: LibreOffice fits my bill. +1 for LO. Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] What Is Sending Email?

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Michael Barnes wrote: I did move the exim4-base script out of the cron.daily folder which, I hope, should stop the outgoing emails. I do need to get this mailserver working again. Is exim4 still a good choice? Anybody recommend a good tutorial on it? I haven't worked with

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Read the usage in the script and use the correct options listed! T, Sigh. You're correct of course. I just ran the script rather than passing it to sed. Yes, it works when run properly. Thanks, Rich ___

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, David Fleck wrote: what's going wrong? I tried that sed command out on your test lines and got: David, Why it's not working here is what I need to learn. I tried the test file and the entire file, with output to the screen and redirected to a file. Outputs are still

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I don't know SED. You opened the door by mentioning Emacs and I know elisp. Johnathan, While I've used emacs for more than a couple of decades I don't know elisp. You could emacs -q --eval (progn (while (not (eobp)) (capitalize-dwim 1))

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Reid wrote: Your script works for me. What issue are you observing? Reid, I see no changes: $ ~/shell-scripts/sed/all-caps-to-mixed.sed < test-file.dat '1983-074','AQ Permitting','CR','MID-OREGON CRUSHING CO., INC.','','Notice of Civil Penalty

[PLUG] sed script help needed

I have a sed script (all-caps-to-mixed.sed) that apparently worked some years ago but isn't working today. I'd appreciate learning how to fix it. The script: #!/usr/bin/sed # # usage: sed -rf all-caps-to-mixed.sed < inputfile > outputfile # Change from all uppercase words to mixed case. #

Re: [PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1' requested by ':1.27' (uid=1000 pid=1277 comm="Thunar --daemon " label="unconfined") Hokay, let's look at this. It appears that the requester is the local host (127.0.0.1) which makes

Re: [PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: I do find syslog, syslog.1 syslog.2.gz ... syslog.7. gz. In syslog I find a bunch of lines talking about thumbnails: Mar 14 22:09:08 ENU-1 dbus-daemon[1074]: [session uid=1000 pid=1074] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1'

Re: [PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: Is there something I should be looking for on one of the logs (which one or ones?) that could shed light on the problem? Dick, There are two generic logs: messages and syslog, at least on Slackware. I'd look there, first. Depending on how log

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: The most vulnerable point in any system is the user. If you were told to use mozilla-firefox instead of firefox then the only flaw here is in the bureaucracy. Ben, Their IT department leaves much to be desired. Most likely explanation is that they are

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, carl day wrote: You could do a user-agent switch, then firefox could tell their server, i'm windows-ie or ms-windows chrome. i have done that for some banks. Carl, I'll just use chromium until they regain some sanity. The worst part was suggesing I use mozilla-firefox

[PLUG] Firefox security issue?

Just tried to log on to my bank and they said because of security issues they no longer allow use of firefox. They offered three alternatives: M$ edge, Chrome, or ... mozilla-firefox. A) As far as I recall it's always been mozilla-firefox (but they wouldn't let me long in using it) and 2)

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Michael Barnes wrote: What's wrong with simply hitting the Delete Key? Wouldn't that be a lot easier? Michael, No. My hands are on the middle row of the keyboard and ctrl-d is the left pinky and middle finger. The delete key is on the bottom row at the right, next to the

[PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

I want to assign to Ctrl-d the action of deleting the character immediately to the right of the cursor's position (the 'point' in Emacs-speak). The dialog box for assigning actions to key chords has a fixed list of choices, none of which is 'delete one character' (or it's there but called

Re: [PLUG] OBS studio: using scenes

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Mark Allyn wrote: If I am not mistaken, there have been some weird bugs with OBS on Ubuntu that can result in blank screens. My own problems were with capture of the X terminal windows. I read somewhere that it may have to do with the GPU drivers. Mark, That's true. I

Re: [PLUG] OBS studio: using scenes

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: While I'm brand new to OBS Studio I believe there are some eperienced users here who could help me resolve a recording issue. I have defined two scenes: 1. The webcam (Video Capture Device) 2. Slide show (Window Capture Xcomposite) Scene 2 is a PDF

[PLUG] OBS studio: using scenes

While I'm brand new to OBS Studio I believe there are some eperienced users here who could help me resolve a recording issue. I have defined two scenes: 1. The webcam (Video Capture Device) 2. Slide show (Window Capture Xcomposit) Scene 2 is a PDF slide show displayed using xpdf. When scene 1

Re: [PLUG] OT: Looking for FOSS Recommendations for Telephone Speech to Text Devices for the Hard of Hearing

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: ones. Would it be practical to replace here phone with a VoIP one running sed s/here/her/g Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PLUG] OT: Looking for FOSS Recommendations for Telephone Speech to Text Devices for the Hard of Hearing

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Mark Phillips wrote: I was wondering if there are any FOSS solutions for converting speech from a phone call to text so that we can communicate with her on the phone. She does not have a cell phone and does not want to learn how to use one, so texting is not an option. She

Re: [PLUG] Disable firefox 'mailto' link

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Brian Stanaland wrote: It should be under >Preferences ->Applications. I don't think it can be disabled but it can be set to "always ask" which should stop it from locking up on you. Brian, 'mailto' there has been set to 'Use alpine' but ignored. I'll change it to

[PLUG] Disable firefox 'mailto' link

If I mistakenly click with the cursor on a mailto link on a firefox web page it locks up the host and I need to reboot. At one time I found where it was and changed the link from kmail to alpine. Apparently that didn't stick and I'd like to turn it off. My searches in the Preference menus and on

Re: [PLUG] Postfix question

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Linh Pham wrote: This is what I have in my main.cf: Linh, I, too, have an extensive main.cf. I've always had mapped files for access, cidr, etc. and have it wouldn't pick up new entries until I updated the respective .db files by running `postmap` on them. That's

Re: [PLUG] Postfix question

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Linh Pham wrote: Postfix doesn't look at the CIDR file directly. Instead, you need to convert the file into a lookup table file by running `postmap` against the plain-text file. See: http://www.postfix.org/cidr_table.5.html Linh, What that says is, "The Postfix mail

[PLUG] Postfix question

In /etc/postfix/cidr/ are files with IP address blocks I reject. When postfix scans such lists does it do so sequentially so the addresses should be in numeric order? I've not found how postfix searches lists such as these and header_checks and am curious to learn. TIA, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Can an ssh session steal/use /dev/tty1?

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Eric House wrote: Once I've done that, I'd love to have my ssh session take over, or share, the monitor while I continue to interact over ssh. Eric, Would 'ForwardX11 yes' in /etc/ssh/ssh_config (or your equivalent) do the job for you? Rich

Re: [PLUG] adding network name alias

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: They are trying to make sure that ethernet ports are predictably labeled. This means they want to look at the back of the hardware and identify eth0 without the use of software. Most devices are assigned labels in linux as they are found and the order in

Re: [PLUG] adding network name alias

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: Problem remains unsolved. Whoever funded the development of this feature should probably ask for their money back. Unless of course their goal was to destabilize the Linux platform, in which case, Good Job! Ben, As a curious non-computer professional I

Re: [PLUG] Audio issue: no sound from local source [UPDATE]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Where to look? How to diagnose? Of course, I found what I think is the problem immediately after sending this message. At least with audacity. Audacity has a drop down combobox with output options. The default is, "HD-Audio Generic: ALC1220 di

[PLUG] Audio issue: no sound from local source

I'm looking for suggestions on identifying why I can no longer play sound files (.wav, generally) produced with the AudioTechnia AT2500USB condenser microphone and Focusrite Scarlett Solo pre-amp. Regardless of tool used to produce the audio file (pacat -r, audacity, vokoscreenNG) playback

Re: [PLUG] Interpreting strace output: application doesn't load

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I'd like your help learning how to read and interpret strace output. While I would like to learn strace interpretation I now know the reason why vokoscreenNG-3.0.8 won't load. It needs a patch which the new SBo package maintainer modified from the one

[PLUG] Interpreting strace output: application doesn't load

I'd like your help learning how to read and interpret strace output. This morning I upgraded a year-old vokoscreenNG-3.0.4 to the brand new vokoscreenNG-3.0.8. It built without error so I upgraded the installed package. When I tried to test it the application would not load. Strange. I found

Re: [PLUG] Microphones for audio recording

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: What might be the reason for this? My understanding is that the Yamaha has a condenser mic as does the AudioTechnica. Enough futzing; I need to record some videos for my business so I'll save the headsets for virtual meetings (jitsi and zoom) and use

[PLUG] Microphones for audio recording

Since OBS studio needs a newer version than will build on the current Slackware-14.2 (no, I'm not going to change distributions) I want to use vokoscreenNG to record videos. This software does a great job using a defined window displaying a PDF slide show and a window displaying what my Logitech

Re: [PLUG] Web site access issues

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Do you have a Twitter account? Nope. I don't know why, but whenever I have run into a problem with a company, I tweet about it. Direct to their Twitter account. I get results. I've had good experiences (except for the conglomerate owning Mr

Re: [PLUG] Web site access issues

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Russell Senior wrote: Have you tried contacting your bank by phone to inquire? Russell, Yep. My banker will be back in today. The problem is that for this program corporate changed the previous procedures and I've been trying to work with someone in Bellingham, WA,

Re: [PLUG] Web site access issues

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Ken Stephens wrote: Dick, Rich, and Jason, Try clearing your cache, cookies, etc. If that does not work, then maybe snail mail?:-) Ken, Everything's cleared when I log out. Must be done online. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG:

Re: [PLUG] Web site access issues

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: In Firefox, did you try, from the menu, [ File > New Private Window Ctrl+Shift+P ]? Dick, No. Never noticed that the few times I looked at the File menu. Just now I tried it and still no joy at that web site. Thanks for the lesson, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Web site access issues

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: I think it is called a 'private' window in Chromium based browsers. Hit [Ctrl + Shft + n] when in chromium (might work in firefox too). It'll open a new window that tells you it is in private/incognito mode. Jason, On firefox that brings up a PayPal

Re: [PLUG] Web site access issues

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, John Sechrest wrote: I have had problems with cookies messing things up. I have found that I can get into my Credit union using incognito mode, which does not share all the cookies. John, That's interesting. How to you set 'incognito mode' with firefox or chromium for

[PLUG] Web site access issues

There's a financial institution web site that I cannot access using either firefox or chromium. A different web site for the same institution has no problems with either browser. When I try to log in the problem site I get an error message that either my username or password is incorrect. When I

[PLUG] Strange mv behavior

I found where OBS studio puts the logs (~/.config/obs-studio/logs/) where they are listed with a space between the date and the time. When I try to mv the spacey one to one without spaces I cannot: $ mv 2021-02-09 06-56-46.txt 2021-02-09-06-56-46.txt mv: target '2021-02-09-06-56-46.txt' is not a

Re: [PLUG] OBS recording: PDFs, slide show, two monitors [UPDATE]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I have an alternative but don't know how to include or use it: a slide show with all 6 pdf files and 3 png files. I'm seeking suggestions from those who've done this before. Found the right approach, but hit a very common OBS 'Window capture (Xcomposite

[PLUG] OBS recording: PDFs, slide show, two monitors

I'm starting to learn OBS studio to record videos with both webcam and image/document scenes displayed when appropriate. I defined a second scene as an image and was able to select a .png file. But I also have .pdf files that I want to display. I cannot find a scource type for a PDF. I have an

Re: [PLUG] Printer for Linux

On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Maybe a separate scanner is worth considering. Denis, I have a Canon that I don't need and am willing to sell for a very good price. Rich ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] USB headphones issue fixed

The issue was my not understanding 'unmarked dropdown box' to select the playback device in pavucontrol. I'm so used to seeing a little down-pointing triangle on the right end of a combobox/dropdown box that I missed the significance of it being 'unmarked.' Sure enough, when I clicked on the

Re: [PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, King Beowulf wrote: Looks like jitsi changed how they set up meetings and passcodes. If I enter 'Slackware' on the website https://meet.jit.si/ I get a warning Ed, I noticed this, oo. But 'SlackwareRulez!' no such warning. Once you set up a meeting and join, there is a

Re: [PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: I really do deserve an apology for the crap you and Rich both pulled, but I don't expect either of you to do the right thing. Ben, I apologize for finding your explanation ambiguous. Nobody likes having their words twisted so just apologize, shut up,

Re: [PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: To quote myself - "I'm a huge fan of setting the meeting password BASED ON THE OUTPUT OF THE GUEST SPEAKER'S NAME PIPED TO MD5SUM" It was intended as a linux commandline joke, but in order to see the joke you must read the ENTIRE sentence. Cutting the

Re: [PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: I'm a huge fan of setting the meeting password ... Ben, I used to set a password but yesterday when I went to meet.jit.si I could not find the button to do so. All I saw was a place for the meeting name and the button to start it. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Michael Dexter wrote: My thinking was to trust it without a password until a problem. Michael, That seems to now be the default. From what I understand, the first arrival is in charge. I have made a point of arriving early to "hold" it, and my secret is out! That's

Re: [PLUG] Testing Zoom-linux

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Jitsi had a 'set password' link on the home page when a meeting was set up. I don't know where it went. But, with the password meeting crashers couldn't get in because they were not sent the password. Michael, A quick web search found a description

Re: [PLUG] Testing Zoom-linux

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Michael Dexter wrote: For the December meeting I had a Zoom meeting standing by as Plan B. Would this be wise should Jitsi be a problem? Attacked by squatters, etc? Michael, Jitsi had a 'set password' link on the home page when a meeting was set up. I don't know where it

[PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

A while ago when I pointed the browser to https://meet.jit.si/ and entered a unique meeting name there was a button to set a password for it. Today there wasn't any password option. The site told me the meeting name was insecure but offered no option to secure it. What have I missed? Rich

Re: [PLUG] Testing Zoom-linux

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: The only way I've been able to know that audio is working is to log in to the meeting on a second machine. There I can hear myself speaking on the other machine, albeit with a delay. It's enough to verify the mic on the first machine is working. It also

Re: [PLUG] Testing Zoom-linux

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Ali Corbin wrote: https://zoom.us/test It'll show you your video, so that'll prove that your camera is working. The microphone is harder. You can change it and test it, and see the bars moving to prove that it's getting input. But I haven't found a way to play back the

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