Re: [PLUG] Need New Computer

2019-02-25 Thread Rigel Hope
The additional $90 was for the service they performed in removing windows and installing linux? On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:20 PM Michael Barnes wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:37 PM Michael Barnes > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:55 PM Michael Barnes > > wrote: > > > >> > >>

Re: [PLUG] CCC

2019-02-24 Thread Rigel Hope
"For this use case it probably wouldn't even work since it can't do network transfers." pipe to tar, pipe to netcat. sha256sum afterwards. some people will only need their memories jogged with commandline tools. some will require more extensive hand holding. some people will be able to

Re: [PLUG] Scanning with HP Laserjet Pro M148dw

2019-01-25 Thread Rigel Hope
i have an older laserjet AIO device, and there is an arcane process for setting up the device to work as a scanner. I had to use command line tools, installed, i believe, from the HPLIP website rather than from the debian or ubuntu package manager. Since I did it a few years ago, and have not had

Re: [PLUG] Wireless keyboards

2018-03-20 Thread Rigel Hope
I suspect there are relatively few different types of devices in this pool, because there are relatively few types of wireless keyboards/mice. Markings are important. Logitech uses a 2.4Ghz-but-not-BT protocol ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Unifying_receiver). They have their own

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

2018-03-04 Thread Rigel Hope
Lots of factors to weigh here, and not a ton of detail. In the abstract (and I'm sure loads of other PLUG folks have more experience running email servers than i do), contracting with an existing provider of bulk email (e.g. mailchimp) so that they can provide features like rate limiting,

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Rigel Hope
per the VB website (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads), see "What to do when experiencing *The following signatures were invalid*..." I would say you might want to reinstall the repo, apt clean, and then apt update again, but some years back I wound up in apt-get hell when dealing

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-27 Thread Rigel Hope
Sorry, I somehow missed that you already checked apt logs. On Feb 27, 2018 5:18 PM, "Rigel Hope" <g...@rigelhope.org> wrote: By way of actually trying to help out, I would check the apt and dpkg logs (in /var/log) to try and make sense of it first. Unless you've done that and ha

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-27 Thread Rigel Hope
By way of actually trying to help out, I would check the apt and dpkg logs (in /var/log) to try and make sense of it first. Unless you've done that and have an impression already, in which case I'd invite you to share. Maybe in a pastebin? Less helpfully, when mint was the only source for the

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-02-11 Thread Rigel Hope
(Hopefully this is not a repeat) Avi and mkv are not formats, exactly. They are container standards. An avi can be encoded with any number of algorithms, from mpeg2 to indeo to h264. Same with mkv, but mkv has a lot more payload options, is my impression - so that you can have multiple audio

Re: [PLUG] [OT?] Internet privacy? ?? ???

2018-02-03 Thread Rigel Hope
without knowing more about what makes him think his email is being given out, it's hard to say what caused it, because theres lots of levels this, or phenomena similar enough to be confused with actual distribution, can happen on. it could be someone licensing a third party mailing list, like a