Re: [PLUG] Now who made a smtp server do this???

2019-10-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:26 PM Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > > > > Inconvenient for you, Actally no inconvenience to me, the receiptent is the one that is loosing email and well be doing the head scratch some day when someone can not get a critical email to them ba

[PLUG] Now who made a smtp server do this???

2019-10-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
While group replying to another PLUG message I got this bounce message back. Excuse me, but why should any SMTP server care that it has no route to my RFC1918 pre-natted address as recorded in headers? That is stupidity to its maximus. I know I am leaking a rfc1918 address in my dns, but that

Re: [PLUG] USB 3.x drivers

2019-10-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > On Oct 23, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > ?The Asus Prime X470 motherboard in my desktop has several USB ports. It has > > AMD Ryzen 2nd Generation ... > > 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (up to 5Gbps) ports at back panel (blue), > > > > AMD X470 chipset > > - 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to

Re: [PLUG] Years later - laser toner particle size

2019-10-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, John Meissen wrote: > > > I had an HP2605DN color printer that suffered that problem (and an > > Internet search will show that I wasn't alone). Over time the print > > quality would seriously degrade because toner dust would coat the internal > > mirrors. After messing

Re: [PLUG] Years later - laser toner particle size

2019-10-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > There was more than just "A Ford" that has spark plug nighmares, most of > > the front wheel drive v6 and v8 cars are a nightmare to get to the real > > spark plugs, some require considerable disassmebly t

Re: [PLUG] Years later - laser toner particle size

2019-10-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > I'm reminded of fables about British cars that required hoisting out the > > engine to change the oil. > > Keith, > > In the 1960s, at least, Morgans had wood frames and the bolts needed to be > checked for tightness every few thousant miles.

Re: [PLUG] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

2019-09-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:02:44 -0700 (PDT) > "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:36 AM Michael C Robinson > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since > >

Re: [PLUG] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

2019-09-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Assuming the thermal conditions in the location of torment were > considerably reduced, having the source code would not be enough. A good > proportion (all?) of the MS development infrastructure would also need to > be replicated. I doubt that the source could be run through modern >

Re: [PLUG] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

2019-09-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:36 AM Michael C Robinson > wrote: > > > > Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since > > Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore? > > One would want to get the source code and then open source it of > > course. Even Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 is

Re: [PLUG] PLUG HAS A VENUE PROBLEM

2019-09-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Russell, etc al, Thank you all for making the long standing PSU venue for the PLUG meeting contine its tradition. My Hats off, Rod > So, it looks like the PSU 86-01 problem is resolved. We have the room > reserved through this term, we'll need to request it again in December for > the

Re: [PLUG] Alternate Venue Offer

2019-09-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I'm just one vote, but I find Hawthorne Farms is kind of in the sticks. I > appreciate that cuts both ways. Might be a good thing. > > I do like making as many connections as possible. Idea: What if we > resurrected the Advanced Topics meeting and hosted it there? The advanced topics

Re: [PLUG] Alternate Venue Offer

2019-09-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Fwiw, I just checked google maps. It indicates that the MAX trip from > Pioneer Courthouse Square to the Hawthorne Farms station takes 41 minutes. I would stop attending if it was moved that far west, but then I may be moving so far south this is a moot point. Regards, Rod > On Tue, Sep 24,

Re: [PLUG] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
d ISA memory devices. > Quoting "Rodney W. Grimes" : > > Windows 98SE is poorly supported on a lot of SBC's, nonetheless, we > are trying to work around that. > > We are using a passive PICMG 1.3 backplane in the gui which has PCI slots. Your confusing me when yo

Re: [PLUG] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Microsoft seems to think everyone can buy a new computer frequently, > but the QSP-2 uses an ISA shared memory card that is not compatible > with non ISA systems and Q-Soft 2 seems to require dos based Windows. > > Since Microsoft has graciously decided that $100k+ machines which > depend

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:02:59 -0700 > John Meissen dijo: > > >Do you mean you already looked at that, or that it was enabled? If the > >latter, did you try turning it off? > > I have restarted Firefox with it checked, and with it unchecked. > Neither setting made any difference. I am rather

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:03:18 -0700 > John Meissen dijo: > > >It's possible that it's related to this: > > >Go to *"*about:preferences" > >In the General section, scroll down to the Network Settings panel, and > >press the Settings button. > >In the popup, scroll down and look for "Enable DNS

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:13:15 -0700 > wes dijo: > > >The "problem loading page" usually has more info on it, or a "Details" > >button or link. Yours has none of this? > > Ah, I didn't wait long enough. Eventually the page displays an error > message. Here is one of them: > > Corrupted

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> before relaunching it again. > > Hope it gets you back on track, > Tomas > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019, 22:11 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:34:34 -0700 (PDT) > > "Rodney W. Grimes" dijo: > > > > >This is a

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:34:34 -0700 (PDT) > "Rodney W. Grimes" dijo: > > >This is a long shot, but I am seeing some odd behavior from FireFox > >on FreeBSD after my FreeBSD 12.0 release update, and in normal mode > >firefox does indeed seem to hang o

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Last Sunday at the Clinic I did a dist-update on my Xubuntu 16.04 - an > update, not an upgrade to 18.04. After rebooting everything works > perfectly, except Firefox. The update installed a new version of Firefox > so I now have Firefox Quantum 68.02 64-bit, 'Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu >

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus can't see freenas...

2019-08-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Quoting Ben Koenig : > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:32 AM Michael C Robinson < > > mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > > >> Quoting David : > >> > <-- removed smb.conf --> > >> This config is relevant I believe and shouldn't have been removed! > >> > >> > > No, it is not relevant.

Re: [PLUG] YES!!! - was Re: [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

2019-08-15 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 08/12/2019 04:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 08/12/2019 02:35 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > >> On 8/12/19 11:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> > >>> My post declared SERVER/CLIENT? relationships are [expletives deleted ;] > >> > >> And I bet your desktop is running an X *server*.? Oh, the

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [WORKING]

2019-08-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:47 AM Rich Shepard > wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Robert Citek wrote: > > > > > Sounds like you used Emacs to do the equivalent of this: > > > > > > < hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv \ > > > tr -s '\r\n' '\n' | > > > sed -e 's/, /,/g;s/,$//' \ > > >>

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > dd if=oldfile bs=1 iseek=1 | tr '\r' '\n' >newfile > > Rod, > > The dd version here (from GNU coreutils 8.25, 2016) does not have an iseek > option, but it does have a seek option: seek=N skip N obs-sized block

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > I think od -c does NOT output the \n.. no, looked closely at a hd of the > > file. First byte of the file is 0xa, A LF ok, so thats odd. After that the > > lines do appear to be seperated by 0x0d, which is CR all by itse

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On 8/12/19 4:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > > > >> tr is your friend > > >> tr '\013' '\n' < old_file > new_file > > >> this will probably work also > > >> tr '\r' '\n' < old_file > new_file > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > As I've written,

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 8/12/19 4:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > >> tr is your friend > >> tr '\013' '\n' < old_file > new_file > >> this will probably work also > >> tr '\r' '\n' < old_file > new_file > > > > Michael, > > > > As I've written, it should but doesn't.

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jason Barbier wrote: > > > > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5779/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-characters-to-unix-format-within-gnu-emacs > > > that covers it with emacs > > > > Jason, > > > > I looked at that thread and clicking on emacs' : in the

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein > > > > > Also, you can use "od -c" to verify the C-style character name tr will > > > recognize. > > > > > > od -c inffile | less > > > > Tried this; less showed nothing until the end of the file. > > NOTHING? I think your missing something there, you

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jason Barbier wrote: > > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5779/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-characters-to-unix-format-within-gnu-emacs > > that covers it with emacs > > Jason, > > I looked at that thread and clicking on emacs' : in the status bar

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein > > > Also, you can use "od -c" to verify the C-style character name tr will > > recognize. > > > > od -c inffile | less > > Tried this; less showed nothing until the end of the file. NOTHING? I think your missing something there, you should of seen \r's

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I have large (~111M) .csv data files exported from a Microsoft Access > database. Each file is one large block of text using ^M (carriage return) > embedded as the line separator. Are you sure it is not ^J^M, your probably only seeing the ^M in emacs, this is known as CR LF line termination.

Re: [PLUG] [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 08/12/2019 11:51 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> On 08/12/2019 08:28 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:57 AM Richard Owlett > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 08/11/2019 10:04 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

2019-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 08/12/2019 08:28 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:57 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >> On 08/11/2019 10:04 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > >>> so, you don't want to use the "ip" command to set your network addresses > >>> then use scp to copy files between the machines? > >> > >>

Re: [PLUG] [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

2019-08-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > "Richard" == Richard Owlett writes: > > Richard> On 08/10/2019 02:01 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 8:55 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >>> I have read more and made some progress ;} I am using Debian 9.8 > >>> {Stretch} with MATE desktop on two Lenovo laptops.

Re: [PLUG] does this thing need a heatsink???

2019-08-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I just ordered a few of these: https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy40.html > > It has a 600MHz microcontroller. What is the world coming to? >From the page: When running at 600 MHz, Teensy 4.0 consumes approximately 100 mA current. 3.3V * 0.100A == .330W Thats less than a 1/2w resistor, and

Re: [PLUG] Imaging CF card...

2019-08-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:19 AM Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > > > > > Ditto what Tomas said. For looking at it locally, dd'ing the partition > > > > (/dev/sdb1) is fine, but to make a full backup of the CF card so that > > you > > > > can

Re: [PLUG] Imaging CF card...

2019-08-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Ditto what Tomas said. For looking at it locally, dd'ing the partition > > (/dev/sdb1) is fine, but to make a full backup of the CF card so that you > > can reproduce it, you want an image of /dev/sdb as well. > > That assumes the size of the CF card is the same. I would use fdisk to >

Re: [PLUG] Imaging CF card...

2019-08-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Does linux have some form of virtual block device that could be used to create a /dev/XXb, /dev/XXb1. In freebsd to get to this whole device image I would do (using linux file system paths to make it easier to understand): dd if=/dev/sdb of=imageofdisk.img mdconfig -f imageofdisk.img # This

Re: [PLUG] Imaging CF card...

2019-08-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> The server uses a CF card in place of a hard disk. The server oddly enough is > Windows 98 SE based. I have a CentOS 7 box with a USB CF card reader. > I am trying to image the CF card and write the image to a second CF card. > Kind of a, make a backup to experiment with scenario and use the

Re: [PLUG] ISA shared memory card by Tyco...

2019-08-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Floppy disks are an antiquated technology, but that is how the old Tyco made > system was set up. > > Mass storage is nice to have because networking such an old system is > dangerous and besides this there are many things > like drivers for the NVIDIA 6200 that don't fit on a floppy disk.

Re: [PLUG] ISA shared memory card by Tyco...

2019-08-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Does Linux support the shared memory card in a Quad QSP-2 gui machine? The > card is ISA based. The original OS is Windows 98, but the mass storage > support is poor. Windows ME is giving us major driver problems with NVIDIA > 6200 cards. The story is, many hardware vendors refused to release

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options? [UPDATE]

2019-08-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
I highly suspect much of the confusion, both by the system, and us humans, is that these drives are external USB drives and they get assigned different drive designators at different times what was once /dev/sdb may next be /dev/sdc. I further suspect the error from logwatch is an event in

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options?

2019-08-04 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, wes wrote: > > > fsck does pretty well without parameters. If you wish to dispense with the > > need to authorize any repairs it suggests, having it just perform them, > > you can supply -p and/or -y. > > wes, > > Thank you. That was my recollection but it's been a very

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

2019-07-31 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Well, I'm the only human element involved and I have no problems. > > When > > synchronizing an entire directory there's never been an issue. What I > > want > > to learn is how to exclude a specific subdirectory on the source > > host. > > In an earlier reply I mentioned using a file to

Re: [PLUG] Wireless home LAN - security? WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 7/28/19 11:24 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:18 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> On 07/28/2019 07:11 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> [snip] > >>> I have only a few machines a max of 6' apart. > >>> My usage would typically be peer-to-peer but I want to communicate

Re: [PLUG] Wireless home LAN - security? WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I would ask, if the machines are all within six feet, it sounds like they > are in the same room. What is the problem with Ethernet? I've got 8-12 > devices in my office, all connected via Ethernet. The only things on my > wireless network are TVs, Echo Dots, and cell phones. The wireless

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:44 PM Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm very possibly going about this the wrong way. I've tried all manner > > of > > > search terms that I can think of with variations of what I put in the &g

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > I'm very possibly going about this the wrong way. I've tried all manner of > search terms that I can think of with variations of what I put in the > subject line. > > Basically, for a long time it worked very well to just open an SSH > tunneling command to connect to the network at

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Flash Drive went through the wash

2019-07-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 7/6/19 2:27 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > > On 7/6/19 2:17 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> I put a flash drive in a shirt pocket and forgot about it. The shirt > >> and the drive went through the washer and dryer. I just tried it and > >> it works. (I had already downloaded the contents, so I

Re: [PLUG] Nokia 6.1 Plus turns off quickly [RESOLVED]

2019-06-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: > > > Or possibly: > > Settings > Display > Advanced > Sleep > > Ali, > > Aha! I didn't look at the Display menu. Yes, the sleep option is set to 30 > seconds by default. I bumped that up to 2 minutes and now know how to change > it. > > I was thining

Re: [PLUG] Terminal does not echo typed characters

2019-06-03 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, wes wrote: > > > This will ultimately depend on the specific reason the characters stopped > > displaying. Try "clear" and/or "reset" and see if it comes back. > > Wes, > > 'clear' does nothing; didn't try 'reset.' Next time I'll use 'tset'. fyi, reset is actuall tset,

Re: [PLUG] Can geeks defeat scammers? IOT solution needed?

2019-05-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:43 PM Rich Shepard > wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 May 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I b way far from "escatada"[sp?] > > > > In Oregon it's spelled Estacada. > > > > > > > And it's pronounced "est uh CAY duh" Well, I always pronounced it "the sticks", but ok,

Re: [PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

2019-05-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I've used the -n option to cat recently to get line numbers. E.g.: > > cat -n README.txt > > I don't remember using nl before. cat -n was probably added by someone who could not find nl(1), as nl is a unix filter in the truest since of the word, it does one thing and it does it very well,

Re: [PLUG] Local (PDX) data recovery from a Dell SSD

2019-05-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 5/21/19 5:46 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 20 May 2019, Richard England wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have any suggestions for a data recovery service or > >> individual > >> that he can have investigate this? He's expecting to have to pay for > >> it if > >> this affects your

Re: [PLUG] Local (PDX) data recovery from a Dell SSD

2019-05-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, 20 May 2019, Richard England wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for a data recovery service or individual > > that he can have investigate this? He's expecting to have to pay for it if > > this affects your suggestion. > > Richard, > > Is he certain that the problem is a

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Booth Confirmed

2019-05-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > All, > > Not taking anything for granted... I am pleased to report that the PLUG > booth was approved for OSCON 2019. Yea! Way to go Michael! > Please drop me a line if you want to join the booth crew. Thank you > everyone who as already reached out. I draw my line - here

Re: [PLUG] Firefox defaulting to german...

2019-04-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I am running CentOS 7 in Virtualbox with Windows 10 as the host system. > Oddly, firefox inside virtualbox defaults to german when I google National > Instruments Labview Linux. Tried firefox host side on Windows 10, english. I > tried installing Chrome to CentOS 7, still german. I think

Re: [PLUG] Audio goes away

2019-04-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Thank you I will do so. > I guess I am going to have to see if I can set it out. When I reboot the > thing it seems to stay operational until > sometime at night, then the next day I find the audio gone. > Tonight was fiddling with another favorite thing of mine... Lasers... There > is a 1500ft

Re: [PLUG] National Instruments Labview for Linux...

2019-04-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Does anyone know about this software? It is proprietary and I bet it's > expensive. Yes, I used it long ago, before windows 7 even existed. And yes, it is expensive, but not relative to the equipment it is usually controlling. > The software allows connection to a network analyzer which > is

Re: [PLUG] Extracting Error Messages

2019-04-03 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 4/3/19 9:54 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> On 4/3/19 9:37 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > >>> I have a theme in xfce on my laptop that doesn't exist on my desktop. > >>> I'm trying to copy the theme from the laptop to the desktop. I > >>> c

Re: [PLUG] Extracting Error Messages

2019-04-03 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 4/3/19 9:37 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > I have a theme in xfce on my laptop that doesn't exist on my desktop. > > I'm trying to copy the theme from the laptop to the desktop. I > > compressed the directory Numix, used sftp to copy the .tar.gz file, > > and am trying to extract the