Re: [PLUG] 10GBe NICs compatible with arm64 linux?

2021-06-16 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 14:13 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > What's the point of a 10GB connection from my computer if it runs > straight into a 1GB bottleneck? > NFS, distributed computing, network database access, network backup, -T >

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

2021-06-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I got two Tom's emails to my gmail inbox yesterday. Today's Tom's email arrived to Spam again. So, if there were changes, they had an effect on delivery. -Tomas

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

2021-06-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 21:32 Ben Koenig wrote: > What do you mean by "flip flop" I take it to mean that the behavior has > changed. > > Removing the footer didnt affect anything on my end. It also didnt change > anything for Tomas since he mentioned early on that he wasnt seeing the > problem. > .

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

2021-06-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I was giving feedback that it might resolve itself + I was being smart about it. Yes, I feel that the discussion is not moving productively anywhere and we are not learning. But I am not participating, nor feel offended/upset/etc I do not really mind. Tomas On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 20:32

Re: [PLUG] please stop modifying the message body

2021-05-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Some of this can be easily tested/bisected by user simply by creating new account in different domain without reputation, but the same infrastructure. Cloud services are great way of doing this. No need to be messing up with whole list. Doing nothing will inevitably lead to lack of

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

2021-05-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Fire! Chipper! ... Similar On Thu, May 20, 2021, 16:15 Dick Steffens wrote: > We have an SSD that BIOS no longer sees. It is being replace under > warranty. What is the recommended method for destroying the contents of > said drive? In the past, I have drilled holes in failed hard drives. Is >

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

2021-05-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, May 18, 2021, 22:19 Bill Barry wrote: > > I don't know the answer to your question, but you might be able to > skip the print part by uploading it to google drive and using the OCR > there. Not a great solution, but a possible solution. > . As I have said in the initial post - I could

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

2021-05-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, May 18, 2021, 19:25 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

2021-04-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 22:15 King Beowulf wrote: > > Disable wifi. Wifi, even 802.11ac will have a hard time hitting 200Mbps > depending on your router, distance, etc. You really only need one or > the other (wired, wifi) not both and I've seen Network > Mangler...er...Manager get confused. I

Re: [PLUG] Serial dot-matrix printer replacement

2021-04-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 15:40 King Beowulf wrote: > On 4/24/21 10:53 AM, Michael Barnes wrote: > > I have an old piece of equipment that handles monitoring and remote > control > > for a site. It has an old serial dot matrix printer that would print out > > alarms situations and status readings.

Re: [PLUG] Fire the umn.edu IRB?

2021-04-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I tend to think that the subject of this thread is inappropriate, definitely judgemental, threatening, mob like mentality. So far, only one side has spoken. The other one has committed to investigate and report back. So, if we want to be fair, we should wait for facts. If we do not get answers

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

2021-04-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 14:11 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 BETA release

2021-04-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 22:59 Ben Koenig wrote: > be hasty. You can't rush perfection! > > > See it's times like this that I distract myself by parsing the > changelogs for statistics. > > > version | pkg changes during dev cycle > > --- > > 13.37 | 3185 >

[PLUG] Meetings still the

2021-04-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Could someone confirm that there was PLUG meeting last Thursday? Was it at the usual 7pm? What PLUG list sent the meeting URL? For reason not worth to discuss my calendar notification for plug general meeting expired at the end of the last year. At the same time my list subscriptions or some

Re: [PLUG] What Is Sending Email?

2021-03-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 22:58 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:17 PM TomasK > wrote: > > > If you cannot find the variable by: grep -r E4BCD_ config_dir > > .. you can always add a few lines to send yourself email containing the > > variables at the next execution. > > Once you

Re: [PLUG] Auto "Presentation Mode" when watching a video

2021-03-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 23:29 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:33:27 -0700 > TomasK dijo: > > >AFAIK - this in now the duty of window manager (KDE/GNOME) and the > >application-->windowManager communication works through DBUS. > > > >It works pretty reliably for me in vanilla

Re: [PLUG] sed script help needed

2021-03-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Read the usage in the script and use the correct options listed! -T On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 16:52 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

2021-03-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 13:13 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/15/21 9:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > 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, >

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 18:37 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 17:18 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/11/21 10:04 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > Can you ls /run/user/1000/gvfs and see what's inside? Anything juicy? > > rsteff@ENU-1:~$ ls /run/user/1000/gvfs > 'sftp:host=192.168.0.134,user=rsteff' 'sftp:host=192.168.0.204,user=rsteff' > > This

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 17:29 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. > . FWIW I use Firefox + addblock on Linux (Ubuntu, openSuSE, Debian and centOS) exclusively for

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
While it is not easy: Change bank, vote with your $$$. It is not a good idea to demand their or anybody else's service, when they do not want to serve you. Banks are not government, clearly you are not important to them. Just my 2c, -T On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 14:13 Rich Shepard wrote: > Just

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 22:11 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Ctrl-D is EOF - forget about it and use Ctrl-H like any other citizen. > > -T > . > In case, it was not obvious my above post was an attempt for a joke. Obviously, there is no point in trying to explain to me why and what for and

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice6/Writer: delete character

2021-03-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Ctrl-D is EOF - forget about it and use Ctrl-H like any other citizen. -T On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 18:21 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Attempting to document a possible bug

2021-03-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
What is linkzone? On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 19:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/07/2021 06:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Background: > > About a decade ago my ISP decided to terminate their dial-up service. > > I had seen someone connecting their laptop to the web using a device > > with the form

Re: [PLUG] Attempting to document a possible bug

2021-03-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 12:39 Ben Koenig wrote: > I can almost guarantee that if you try and report this bug to debian you > will be asked the following: > > > Can you describe the error in one or two sentences? > > Can you provide a bullet pointed list of steps required to reproduce the > error? >

Re: [PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

2021-02-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 02:53 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:20:29 -0800 > TomasK dijo: > > >I use synology NAS - although I am not sure what is synology assistant. > >I login to the filer(s) using web browser and use it DSM directly. > > > >I would recommend you to do the

Re: [PLUG] I can ping the new Synology NAS, but mounting it fails

2021-02-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Did you allow access to the exported/shared folder from your network? Also check that you have enabled nfs service and that the firewall is set to allow NFS service through on the NAS. Tomas On Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 21:08 John Jason Jordan wrote: > This is the line in fstab that mounts my old

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 02:18 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >There are two ways to cleanly stop raid array: > > 1. Easiest: > > sudo shutdown -h > > 2. If you need to change configuration, add/remove disks, etc. > > Copy > > paste from: > > What does -h reference? How do I

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 19:41 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:55:11 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 17:30 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:05:20 -0800 > >> John Jason Jordan d

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 17:30 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:05:20 -0800 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >This is driving me nuts. > > Before rebooting I tried to umount md127p1, but got the 'busy' error > message, which I solved with the 'lazy' -l option. But although umount >

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

2021-02-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 08:33 Bill Barry wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:41 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > > Every time I try to install or uninstall something from the command > > line I get the following error message: > > > > installed grub-pc package post-installation script

Re: [PLUG] Using curl for file transfer

2021-02-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
, 2021, 22:41 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:28 PM Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 15:41 Ken Stephens > > wrote: > > > > > Single quotes around the email addess? > > > > > > . > > > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Using curl for file transfer

2021-02-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 15:41 Ken Stephens wrote: > Single quotes around the email addess? > > . I think that there may be more to the problem description. Curl is command line tool OP mentions box/window - that would suggest some GUI contraption where escaping or quoting will not work as in

Re: [PLUG] Printer for Linux

2021-02-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
making bad choice. Just that there is an alternative, possibly more economical, one. If there is such a thing as economical choice with printers -T -Denis > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 6:51 PM Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > > I personally switched to laser printer because of low pr

Re: [PLUG] Printer for Linux

2021-02-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I personally switched to laser printer because of low print volume. I was burning through more ink cleaning print heads than printing. Every time I turned the inkjet on it would clean heads. This would take more ink than what ended up on the paper. Laser printer doesn't do that so toner

Re: [PLUG] Next topic: whiteboard software

2021-02-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I think that you are complicating it. It makes sense to follow working path/road taken by others. Slides and notes problem is solved by standard presentation software such as libreoffice impress - you have presentation slides and associated presenter notes together. You present the slides to an

Re: [PLUG] Headset issues [RESOLVED]

2021-02-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, 12:02 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > When you play sound in a web browser: > > a) make sure it is not muted in the player (on the web site) > > b) you should see the web browser output moving in pavucontrol >

Re: [PLUG] Headset issues [RESOLVED]

2021-01-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
When you play sound in a web browser: a) make sure it is not muted in the player (on the web site) b) you should see the web browser output moving in pavucontrol c) when b) is met, select the output soubd device you want that web browser sound to go to - in the same pavucontrol tab as per b) That

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 18:30 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be > > family joke^2 ... While we had uncle Bob. > > Tomas, > > And what did

Re: [PLUG] Chroma-key green background replacement for Zoom

2021-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:56 Jason Barbier wrote: > cam and bob's your uncle. > > . I miss this British/Irish "Bob's your uncle" saying. It used to be family joke^2 ... While we had uncle Bob. :-) On a related note - those green screen replacement backgrounds look pretty weird in

Re: [PLUG] Yamaha CM500 headset: front microphone unplugged

2021-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 11:21 Michael Barnes wrote: > > I use several CM500 headsets, they are great. If you look very closely, you > will see the plugs have pictures of headsets and microphones and say > "PHONE" and "MIC" on them. Yes, black for ear, gray for mic. The microphone > on these

Re: [PLUG] Yamaha CM500 headset: front microphone unplugged

2021-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 09:33 Rich Shepard wrote: > My Yamaha CM500 headset uses micro phono plugs rather than a USB "A" plug > for connection to the desktop. 'pavucontrol' tells me that the front > microphone is unplugged. > > As there are no instructions with the headset I want to check that I'm

Re: [PLUG] Testing Zoom-linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 20:15 Michael Barnes wrote: > > > > Are there ways I can run tests here to ensure it all works properly? > > > > TIA, > > > > Rich > > > > I'm kind of surprised as security conscious as this group is, that anyone > would use Zoom. Especially when there are so many better

Re: [PLUG] Disk partitioning types

2021-01-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 18:34 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, wes wrote: > > > I added cfdisk to my search terms and put "linux server data" in quotes > and > > found this: > > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Looking for stereo input USB audio adapter

2021-01-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 11:32 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:28 AM Russell Senior > wrote: > > > I recently discovered that most usb-audio adapters have stereo outputs > > but single channel inputs. Does anyone know of devices with stereo > > inputs and/or how to search for

Re: [PLUG] postmarketos experience?

2021-01-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Not related to you question and fresh dose of finest "whataboutism"! To make my manners even worse, of course, I have no clue what is postmarkedos! With that out of the way Isn't Nexus 7 suppose to be able to run the Ubuntu phone/tablet OS? I occasionally stumble on recent update release

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I agreed with Russell - we all know about regular monthly meetings for at least a decade. Thanks to Michael mainly. The covid hiatus was rather unusual in my eyes. Perhaps outcome of endless arguing about what meeting platform to use. So, I am glad that the hiatus is over and the meetings are

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

2021-01-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 13:47 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 > Dick Steffens dijo: > > >I'm pretty sure Gigolo came preinstalled with Xubuntu 18. It's there > >in Xubuntu 20, also. You still need to have SSH client and SSH server > >installed. There are one or two

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

2021-01-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Strange, I just received the meeting announcement - 1.5 day late. Judging by the responses, I am probably unique. Anybody else got this late, so that we can compare notes? Thanks, Tomas On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 19:40 Michael Dexter wrote: > Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement >

Re: [PLUG] Recommend a cheap-when-stopped VM provider?

2021-01-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You delete the linode after you save/backup its disk image. When you need it - you create/restore the vm from the stored image/backup. That is the way to go about it. Another alternative is to use powerful vm instance when needed, change it to the cheapest one when not in use. Tomas On Fri,

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

2021-01-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 00:50 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:23:17 -0800 > Tom dijo: > > >On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:04:56 -0800 > >John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> Yeah, yeah, NFS. Bah. I've tried to get it to work several times over > >> the years, and I've always failed. > >> >

Re: [PLUG] January Chat Thing?

2021-01-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Apologies for ambiguous answer. Yes, I am in, if we have a speaker. It only take few minutes to login, no need to plan a trip. :-) Tomas On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 17:41 Michael Dexter wrote: > On 1/6/21 12:55 AM, Vince Winter wrote: > > I am in, what time tomorrow? Jitsi was interesting and

Re: [PLUG] Desktop case cooling fans

2020-12-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You should be fine with what you have. If it is not enough you the components will either spin up fans producing noise or trottle down to produce less heat. If you observe the noise or throttling - you will know what to do then. Tomas On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 16:18 Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm

Re: [PLUG] Anyone on the list with Verizon Fios service and own router?

2020-12-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Thank you, My question was/is specific to Verizon Fios product. -T On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 06:05 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > > Perhaps ZipWhatever is more accommodating. > > ZiplyFiber? That's the current owner of the FiOS here in Troutdale for me >

Re: [PLUG] THURSDAY! PLUG Online Meeting: UnPLUG: 2020, the Year That Was!

2020-12-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Me too ... Thank you. On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 06:45 Russell Senior wrote: > Yay! Thank you Michael! > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 11:00 AM Michael Dexter > wrote: > > > > > > Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement > > > > Who: You! > > What: UnPLUG: 2020, the Year That Was! > >

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 20?

2020-11-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
20.04 works fine for me. Nothing to complain about. It is noticeably slower on old atom based HW, if you have one of those, thought. I am not picky user ... usually stick with default-ish install. I always reinstall from scratch to avoid issues and to stay current (as educated on changes). Best

Re: [PLUG] VLC won't launch

2020-11-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try: kill -9 320874 Then: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade And reboot. Tomas On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 21:38 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:45:51 -0800 > Jason Barnett dijo: > > >check to see if it is already running in the background > >> > >> ps -A |grep vlc > > > >If so,

Re: [PLUG] RAID0 via GParted

2020-11-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 19:41 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:05:40 -0800 > TomasK dijo: > > >On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 13:39 -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, Russell Senior wrote: > >> > >> I think that the following is what I need to create the RAID: > >> > >>

Re: [PLUG] CMR/PMR hard drive manufacturers and vendors

2020-11-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
More recent q3 2020 hard drive reliability stats: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/ -T On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 14:20 Bill Barry wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 3:38 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > I want to purchase more backup hard drives: > > 3.5 inch SATA, 6 to

Re: [PLUG] OT: Looking for some WiFi Networking Advice

2020-10-14 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
In my opinion - properly configured multiple APs with wired ethernet LAN back haul is the correct answer - for people capable of wiring and setting it up correctly. If you really need mesh solution with all its shortcomings (bandwidth, reliability, latency, ) you should check this series of

Re: [PLUG] "multiple" grep

2020-10-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Pipes and grep would only be useful if the whole email is on single line. Context is needed in this instance. On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 05:38 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > On plug-talk a few years ago, someone suggested a vendor for aftermarket > > laptop

Re: [PLUG] "multiple" grep

2020-10-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Cannot help with reputable battery vendor - there are so many fake sellers of batteries with fake reviews that I gave up. Just the thought of going to google or Amazon for laptop battery makes me dizzy. But - I can recommend Recoll for desktop search - it is the greatest thing since the invention

Re: [PLUG] Power Conditioner

2020-09-24 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 21:04 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > none of the others. Computer PSU's can be noisy also as can any > (Chinese) switching power supply. > > I wonder, without any desire or starting political flame wars, what has "Chinese" to do with any of this stuff? Are there any

Re: [PLUG] Awk script syntax help

2020-09-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
cat inputFile | awk -v FS=, '$7~/Gen12c|Gen12u/ {next; } {print;}' > outFile On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 12:44 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > Using gawk I want to print all lines in a file except those that have > any of > three patterns in field 7. I thought I had the proper syntax but gawk > disagrees

Re: [PLUG] Whether to host one's own email these days?

2020-09-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Interesting interview - hard to watch at first - it sounds like another conspiracy theory - but the point/argument seems solid in the end. -T On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 21:58 -0700, wes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 4:12 PM Tyrell Jentink > wrote: > > > [snip] > > Aren't targeted ads a GOOD

Re: [PLUG] Need new solid state drives

2020-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
:57:32 -0700 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >I came across this interesting Xeon motherboard with 20 native USB > >ports. > > > >This would be absolutely ideal solution for future looking highly > >expandable PC with external DAS as primary design criteria. > >

Re: [PLUG] Need new solid state drives

2020-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I came across this interesting Xeon motherboard with 20 native USB ports. This would be absolutely ideal solution for future looking highly expandable PC with external DAS as primary design criteria. https://portwell.com/products/detail.php?CUSTCHAR1=PEB-9783G2AR I kid you not, -T On Tue, Sep

Re: [PLUG] Recording non-downloadable videos

2020-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 08:11 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Try if you could play the URL with mplayer or mpv. If you can play it, > > then you can use it to dump the stream then convert it to mkv/mp4 with > > HandBrake.. > >

Re: [PLUG] Need new solid state drives

2020-09-21 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
find what you are looking for. Tomas On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 20:50 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:39:08 -0700 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > > My point was - Thunder bolt is maximum of 4 pcie3 lanes. It cannot > > supply enough bandwidth to satu

Re: [PLUG] Need new solid state drives

2020-09-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
. ... Not my money or choice ... still it should be reasonable advice just saying ... On Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 15:24 Bill Barry wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:16 PM Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > > > If you are using full bells and whistles 40Gb TB3 you are limited to 4 > >

Re: [PLUG] Need new solid state drives

2020-09-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you are using full bells and whistles 40Gb TB3 you are limited to 4 shared PCI lanes for all the NVMe's in the enclosure. Given the price and the purpose of these PCIe storage arrays, it seems to make sense to have them on PCIe 16x cards otherwise you cannot access them at their native speeds

Re: [PLUG] Suddenly getting extra linefeeds

2020-09-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Time to boot to live OS to check whether you could replicate the problem there. -T On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 22:33 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:24:29 -0700 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >Plus I have a > >problem with the mouse - it freezes when it hasn't been moved for a >

Re: [PLUG] Recording non-downloadable videos

2020-09-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try if you could play the URL with mplayer or mpv. If you can play it, then you can use it to dump the stream then convert it to mkv/mp4 with HandBrake.. Tomas On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 11:16 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Randy Stapilus wrote: > > > For some years I've used one called

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

2020-09-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You know what, I have spent considerable amount time to disable all these, essentially, tracking applications. There is one, so essential to tracking, on Android home screen, that there is no way to disable it. So, one obvious solution is to just pick up your smart phone and look at it to see

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

2020-09-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
OPB reports a lot of smoke at least through the weekend. Temperature in 80s. Looking through the window and checking the thermometer - check! Remind me, through the mailing list to post update on Saturday or Sunday. You are welcome, Tomas On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 18:54 Chuck Hast wrote: > OK,

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

2020-09-08 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
What is SBo? You probably should not need to dodnload it? I see html2text in standard repositories in Ubunt/openSuSE/fedora/epel. Tomas On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 10:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Typo on my side - it is called html2text

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

2020-09-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Typo on my side - it is called html2text On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 09:12 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Try external html2txt. > > Tomas, > > Sigh. I didn't think to look for an external to

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

2020-09-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try external html2txt. -T On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 09:01 Rich Shepard wrote: > My web search found many hits on exporting emacs buffers to html but not > how > to remove all tags in one fell swoop. > > I tried using regex search-and-replace (ctrl-shift-alt-%) but that > highlighted everything and

Re: [PLUG] 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-07 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I would argue that access to more than 3.7GB RAM per process, access to btrfs and many other 64b only features is not only useful to scientists as well as performance and other improvements. Though I generally agree - that 16b CPUs and 64k RAM out to be enough for everyone. -T On Mon,

Re: [PLUG] GUI sudo prompt

2020-09-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Point taken - I am lazy on isolated machines when mounting attack by su on the localhost myself. I appreciate the 109% valid comment, stil it feels little bit like in primary school - not offering solution - letting me to come back and write one. So - For better safety, if needed to use xhost.

Re: [PLUG] Stress-testing a hard disk (2)

2020-09-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If the disk is SMR (it probably is), then it will have 100GB-200GB CMR write cache. When you write, that is where the data goes. Later, the disk moves it to the SMR part. So, each write is followed by the disk FW activity/clean up. If you write more data than the cache size, without given the

Re: [PLUG] GUI sudo prompt

2020-09-03 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I still use X, so I use: su command & when it does not work, usualy duoing: xhost + before: su works Tomas On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 11:31 -0700, Vince Winter wrote: > Ed > neither of those work with the program in question. I get the prompt > then > nothing happens afterwards. > > Tom > I

Re: [PLUG] Stress-testing a hard disk

2020-09-03 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I guess that you are hoping to find SATA drive inside the enclosure. If true - you might be disapointed as a lot of these drives have native USB interface under the hood - unless you already know otherwise. Additionally - the drive is most likely SMR - so your test should take that into account

Re: [PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

2020-08-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
rver goo > > Did not think that would matter for a server that has no > > graphics but I guess there is always the possibility that > > someone would install it, so I guess that is why it is left > > that way? > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tomas Kuchta

Re: [PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

2020-08-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
There is no tty7 because that is reserved for graphics/X/Wayland terminal. So, tty6 is typically the last terminal available to user. Tomas On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 10:45 Chuck Hast wrote: > had to move it to tty6 for some reason tty7 did not stick. I think > there must be somewhere that defines

Re: [PLUG] Ids 0.82

2020-08-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Whatever it is, I you rely on it and the license permits - fork it on github. That would make it redundant. Tomas On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 21:35 Tom wrote: > > What is "ids"? Is it a project or something that might be found on > > another mirror? If it's something that is commonly included in >

Re: [PLUG] 9 Tb only allocated 200 Gb

2020-08-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Could you boot Knoppix on the box and expand the partition with gparted? Btw: output from: fdisk -l + /etc/fstab would be more useful than df -T On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 06:22 Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > I just setup a Zoneminder server the machine has 9 Tb of > drive but when I did the Ubuntu

Re: [PLUG] Serious linux malware

2020-08-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 20:45 Russell Senior wrote: > Fwiw, my take when I saw the report was along the lines of "Oh, that's > interesting, what was the infection vector, how do I discover if a box is > infected, etc" and the supposed "technical details" were a bunch of > handwaving and then a

Re: [PLUG] Simple display of jpg

2020-08-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try xv - it used to display image in window without menu bar. Image magic viewer used to be equally basic too. In any case, you could also display it in web browser as file://...jpg Tomas On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 07:54 Dick Steffens wrote: > As part of a Zoom meeting I share an image. While not

Re: [PLUG] question on converting ext3/ext4 file systems to btrfs

2020-08-12 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I will, reluctantly, try to answer - This is how ZFS or systemd flame wars starts - it brings the worst of the people. To be honest, I am truly alarmed by you bringing zfs and FUD into this - it seems that one hand you are asking because of no experience with btrfs and ZFS - then in the same

Re: [PLUG] Linux chemistry software

2020-08-11 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Try Avogadro, BKChem, gromacs, RasMol, PyMOL, Jmol ... GChemPaint, Ghemical, ... I read about them in these places: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gabedit-portal-chemistry https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/study-elements-kdes-kalzium

Re: [PLUG] Date format Raspberry Pi

2020-08-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try /etc/locale.gen If it does not exist - create it. Lxde time format is in: ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel Variable: ClockFmt Tomas On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 22:19 Chuck Hast wrote: > looked for a locale.conf but no joy. I can see that LOCALE_Time > sets the date command to give 12

Re: [PLUG] question on converting ext3/ext4 file systems to btrfs

2020-08-10 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Maybe 6 years ago I converted couple of hundred partitions to btrfs on SLES/SLED - Motivation: OS/update snapshots significantly simplified staged testing and deployment with supper simple and fast roll back. I had no problems with ext3/4- ->btrfs conversion back then. That said, I have not

Re: [PLUG] Question on copying ntfs files and directories under linux

2020-08-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
What is the intended purpose of your backup? If it is restore and boot the old setup - rsync is not the right tool - you should use dd to backup the full disk. Tomas On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 10:35 logical american wrote: > Hi: > > I booted up knoppix 8.6 as a standalone OS, in order to copy both

Re: [PLUG] monitoring camera

2020-07-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I researched this a while back and came to the conclusion that bunch of raspberry-pies with their basic camera + cheap plastic case combined with millions of free usb chargers laying around is the way to go. It all costs less than $70 per camera and you can manage them, without any cloud spying

Re: [PLUG] Devise a remote log

2020-07-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You could write output of date to a file every minute with bash loop or Cron. It that stops the PC from crashing you could log to different machine to avoid local disk access. Maybe it did not crash - suspend or hibernate after some time? -T On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 15:36 Dick Steffens wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] HTML Visited link highlighting - not the usual change

2020-07-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
it needs refresh. That could of course generate unnecessary traffic on static page. Tomas On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 14:50 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 7/9/20 1:07 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > That color of visited/cached links typically comes with the page. It > > probably can be influenced l

Re: [PLUG] HTML Visited link highlighting - not the usual change

2020-07-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
That color of visited/cached links typically comes with the page. It probably can be influenced locally, thought with privacy/tracking implications. Tomas On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 09:33 Dick Steffens wrote: > It used to be, when I clicked on a link that opens in a new tab, Firefox > left some kind

Re: [PLUG] Determining video play duration

2020-07-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
In mplayer press o couple of times when playing. It is described in the man page - that is where I found it. Tomas On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 14:56 Rich Shepard wrote: > I've looked at the man pages for mplayer, vlc, and ffmpeg without seeing an > option that tells me how long an .mp4 video runs.

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