Re: [PLUG] Battery Backup Question

2023-09-29 Thread Denis Heidtmann
For some e-waste, you might have success with Ridwell. On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 8:18 AM Johnathan Mantey wrote: > I have several APS UPS units. I have tried, multiple times, to replace the > battery on a failed unit. > One of the three simply won't power. > The other two, despite my purchasing

[PLUG] October PLUG Soft Announcement

2023-09-29 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello All, I am so glad that this list is active again with so many familiar faces! I have a security talk on tap for the 5th of October but the speaker's been a bit difficult to reach! Hopefully they'll come through! The venue in Hillsdale is confirmed and I will have T-Mobile 5G hotspot

Re: [PLUG] Battery Backup Question

2023-09-29 Thread Johnathan Mantey
I have several APS UPS units. I have tried, multiple times, to replace the battery on a failed unit. One of the three simply won't power. The other two, despite my purchasing brand new batteries, don't work, or don't work long. I don't remember as I wrote them off some time ago. They've been

Re: [PLUG] New CUPS, ancient printers

2023-09-29 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/29/23 11:50, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Does modern CUPS 2.3.3op2 (Debian 11) and contemporary Ubuntu work > with 25yo HP4050n and HP4100n postscript 2 laser (not deskjet) > printers? I'm encountering configuration issues, which may be PEBKAC ... Yep...most likely PEBKAC...either that or

Re: [PLUG] New CUPS, ancient printers

2023-09-29 Thread Michael Ewan
A tiny bit of history for those that may not have been around then. Richard Stallman started the FSF and the whole open source movement because he could not fix printing issues due to closed source drivers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-freeasinfreedom-Chap1-25 On Fri,

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 >wes dijo: > >>On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan >>wrote: >>> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. >>they are kept in /var/spool/cron. >>But, look first at >>these are different from crontab. each has its own strengths and

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: Well, that didn't come out well. In Xubuntu I did 'sudo crontab -e,' John, When you want to only look at the crontab contents use `crontab -l' to list them. Sparky's crontab is empty, so I can paste in the T-Mobile job from Xubuntu, but it

Re: [PLUG] New CUPS, ancient printers

2023-09-29 Thread Russell Senior
On 9/29/23 11:50, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Does modern CUPS 2.3.3op2 (Debian 11) and contemporary Ubuntu work with 25yo HP4050n and HP4100n postscript 2 laser (not deskjet) printers? I'm encountering configuration issues, which may be PEBKAC ... You are probably going to need to describe the

[PLUG] New CUPS, ancient printers

2023-09-29 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Does modern CUPS 2.3.3op2 (Debian 11) and contemporary Ubuntu work with 25yo HP4050n and HP4100n postscript 2 laser (not deskjet) printers? I'm encountering configuration issues, which may be PEBKAC ... ... and may be "printer vendors are in charge of CUPS now, and we don't want you using

Re: [PLUG] New CUPS, ancient printers

2023-09-29 Thread Jake Bottero
I'm probably doing it all wrong, but I've never had much luck with CUPS. I've always wondered why, as far as peripherals go, printers seem to have always been some Black Magic deal to install? Having said that, Brother had fairly recent drivers for my ancient printer, and after I installed them

Re: [PLUG] Battery Backup Question

2023-09-29 Thread Johnathan Mantey
Ridwell is defacto banned in my neck of the woods. How dare there be actual competition to challenge the good old boy network with government friends. On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 8:31 AM Denis Heidtmann wrote: > For some e-waste, you might have success with Ridwell. > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 8:18 

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Well, that didn't come out well. In Xubuntu I did 'sudo crontab -e,' >When you want to only look at the crontab contents use `crontab -l' to >list them. I did that as well, and as