On 10/7/19 8:28 AM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> On 10/7/19 7:28 AM, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
>> I'm guessing the Prolific chip in the converter is a knock off, and has
>> been intentionally disabled by the latest Windoze versions. FTDI and
>> Prolific both have a problem with counterfeit devices. The
Hello pluggers,
My corporate overlord has migrated us to Windows 10 laptops. The
USB-to-serial converter worked on Windows XP and Windows 7 but now has
compatibility issues on Win10. Radioshack is now defunct, and Gigaware
is some OEM phantom brand.
This cable uses the Prolific PL2303 chipset
On 10/6/19 12:02 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> For many years I have used TreeForm, a Java application, to draw syntax
> trees. The latest version I have working is TreeForm 10.3, but the
> current latest version is 1.11, and I can't figure out how to launch it.
>
>
On 9/16/19 4:41 AM, Michael C Robinson wrote:
> 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
On 9/9/19 1:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> whoops. That means whatever GPU you are using isn't that AMD GPU. What
>> does
>
>> # lspci -vn |grep VGA
>> give? It will list all VGA controllers the kernel finds.
>
&g
On 9/9/19 1:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> whoops. That means whatever GPU you are using isn't that AMD GPU. What
>> does
>
>> # lspci -vn |grep VGA
>> give? It will list all VGA controllers the kernel finds.
>
&g
On 9/9/19 9:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu
>> module. VMware above is incorrect.
>
>> As root,
>
>> # lspci -v | less
>
...
>
> Says
On 9/6/19 1:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> $ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
> OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu
module. VMware above is incorrect.
As root,
#
On 7/31/19 10:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> The latest SBo offering for 64-bit Google Earth is installed on the new
> 64-bit desktop and works fine. Except, when I log out a dialog box opens
> asking for which keypass password I want to use.
>
> As I've never before seen this behavior on the
On 7/29/19 11:32 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I'm copying a bunch of music CDs to my hard drive. I plan to use them as
> .wav so rather than using a ripping too I'm just copying the files. The
> environment is Xubuntu 18.04. I put the CD in the drive, wait for the
> audio player to launch, close the
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
>>> between
On 7/26/19 3:16 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 7/26/19 3:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is what search engine they use, but their desire to use
>>> Google Calendar.
>>
>> Dick,
>>
>> Oh. Perhaps:
>>
>> Free Web-based Calendar [Search
On 7/26/19 12:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 7/26/19 12:13 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 7/25/19 10:21 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> Is there a good place to read up on IP tracking by Google? Folks I know
>>> want to use Google Calendar. They are totally unsophistica
On 7/25/19 10:21 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Is there a good place to read up on IP tracking by Google? Folks I know
> want to use Google Calendar. They are totally unsophisticated with
> regards to how Google tracks a user's IP address. I want to find some
> information I can cite to explain it to
On 7/19/19 2:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> As I transition from the old server/workstation I frequently copy files and
> directories using scp. Each time I need to enter my pass phrase and I
> thought that ssh-agent eliminated that need. Apparently not. Since all
> transfers are in the LAN and not
On 7/4/19 1:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Perhaps someone on the xfce mail list has a solution for that. So far
>> only
>> one response, "Well, it just works for me on Fedora." So?
>
> No help on the xfce mail list, but futzing (setting the driver to
On 6/9/19 12:43 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
...
> 802.11n has some
> advantages over 802.11ac, namely the drivers are completely open source.
> All 802.11ac radios have firmware blobs that can limit functionality and
> disrupt the ability for end users to fix bugs. Whether that is something
> you
On 6/8/19 8:15 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I have a Belkin N900 wifi router configured as a wireless access point;
> it's
> been in use for several years. The laptop that uses it to access the 'Net
> frequently cannot. Rebooting the laptop sometimes helps yet more recently
> power-cycling the Belkin
On 6/2/19 6:32 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Well I started the program from the console to see what I got, and yes I
> got an eye full. If this will help here
> it is, it is long and ugly. Who knows what the chinese coders did but, it
> sure is a change from the original
> radio which is almost the
On 5/27/19 5:59 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
> A lot of people seem to favor Ubuntu over all other flavors of Linux.
> I don't. I have heard that in the Ubuntu world something considered
> important today can disappear tomorrow. Is this a problem? Yes,
> especially if there is a
On 5/25/19 9:03 AM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
> It has been suggested that I go to opensuse. I don't want to, Labview
> works with CentOS 7 and there would be a learning curve to go from
> Redhat style Linux to Suse style Linux. What is the video card in this
> laptop, is it
On 5/6/19 7:22 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 5/6/19 12:12 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 5/5/19 2:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>> On Sun, 5 May 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... you can get the add-ons/extensions back via
>>>> about:co
On 5/5/19 2:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 5 May 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> ... you can get the add-ons/extensions back via
>> about:config
>> search for 'xpinstall.signatures.required'
>> right-click and toggle to "False"
>>
>> Your a
On 5/4/19 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Running firefox-60.6esr here. Since yesterday I've lost ad-block plus,
> ghostery, and a download manager with firefox telling me they're not
> supported in firefox. Yet, when I select the Add-ons item from the Tools
> menu and click the link for more
On 2/27/19 1:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Looking at /etc/sudoers I see the example:
> %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
>
> Will this permit the Sony Vaio user to halt the laptop? I thought I had her
> set up to do this but it did not work today. If the above line allows
> everyone in the
On 3/3/19 3:35 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 3/3/19 3:05 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 3/2/19 8:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> ...
>>> I can launch Google Earth from the menu and I get the dialog:
>>>
>>> Enter password for keyring 'Default keyring'
On 3/2/19 8:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
...
> I can launch Google Earth from the menu and I get the dialog:
>
> Enter password for keyring 'Default keyring' to unlock.
>
> The text part of the GE window loads, the GE splash window shows, and a
> small window shows that says:
>
> Loading
On 2/26/19 10:22 PM, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:40:05 -0800
> King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> PS: use flac. mp3 quality sucks donkey balls.
> FLAC is excellent for lossless compression, however if your looking for
> lossy compression Opus codec offers greater compre
On 3/1/19 10:13 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> This is different from my earlier attempt to run Google Earth. During
> that attempt I got the text part of the GE window, but not the image
> part. This time I don't get anything.
>
> After getting the machine working again with the Nouveau driver I
On 2/25/19 11:40 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I am ripping some CDs and converting the .wav files to .mp3. I can do
> this with the following in Ubuntu 18.04:
>
> for file in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i "${file}" -acodec libmp3lame -ab 220k
> "${file/.wav/.mp3}"; done
>
> When I run that in Slackware
On 2/25/19 10:23 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> How does one determine if there's a newer version of a slackpkg available?
>
> Specifically, I'm trying to determine if there's an upgraded
> nvidia-legacy-390 package for kernel version 4.4.172.
>
Dick
Current versions are listed on Slackbuilds.org.
On 2/22/19 7:31 AM, Michael Barnes wrote:
> I just want to say a collective thanks to this list. I subscribe to a
> couple dozen lists on a variety of subjects. It seems lately any time
> someone asks for help, especially if they are an infrequent poster, new, or
> ask some basic questions, 80% of
On 2/15/19 8:27 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Beware of brand new HP printers. There may not be support for them in
> Linux for awhile. I posted my inability to see the scanner with either
> Ubuntu or Slackware. Today I finally have a response. Not the kind I was
> hoping for. I did get support to
On 2/2/19 7:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> When I unplug or plug the power to my laptop while it's running I get a
> beep. Is there someplace in Xfce or some other tool on Slackware where I
> can turn that off?
>
Dick
Depending on Laptop model, the power beep usually comes from the
motherboard
On 1/2/19 10:01 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I can run ssh -X on my Slackware machine and connect to my Ubuntu 18
> machine. But I can't run caja on that connection. I get this error message:
>
> dick@ENU-1$ caja
> Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:
> dick@ENU-1$
>
> Is there
On 1/4/19 4:25 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 1/4/19 3:38 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
>
> I tried typing my password into the user name line and got the expected
> characters. I copied and pasted it into the password line, but it didn't
> help.
>
> I just tried logging in by ssh and had no
On 1/4/19 3:38 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> If it's the password the usual trick from alternative boot like a USB stick
> is to switch to root "sudo -i" then chroot to the system you need to update
> the password on an run passwd. Can also avoid the boot USB by changing the
In Slackware, sudo is
On 1/5/19 7:52 PM, wes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:18 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Would the
>> solution there of deleting all .serverauthXXX and .Xauthority files as
>> root be something I should do here?
>>
>
> Yes, you should try this. Also look for a .ICEauthority file to delete or
>
On 1/3/19 9:40 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 1/3/19 5:55 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
>> First, which nvidia card do you have? Model #?
>
> From lshw:
>
>
> id:
> display
> description: VGA compatible controller
> product: GF119 [GeForce GT 610]
> vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
> physical
On 12/26/18 1:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 12/26/18 11:25 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> �You should have /etc/lilo.conf, and the upgrade also included the kernel
>> so you need to build a new initial ram disk (mkinitrd); instructions in
>> /boot/README.initrd.
>
> Those instructions assume you
On 12/24/18 9:51 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Over the last few days I've had the laptop in my office plugged in via
> an Ethernet cable. Sometime during that fussing I switched from KDE to
> XFCE. I've got enough working on it that I took it downstairs where I
> connect with WiFi. When I try, I see
On 12/24/18 2:32 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 12/24/18 1:11 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On 12/24/18 1:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
>>> Yes that is correct.
>>>
>>> You will select /dev/sda2 for your "root" partition. The installer will
>>> autodetect your EFI and swap partitions and prompt when it is
On 12/24/18 7:53 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I've run a web server internally for years. I've always started by
> following whatever directions the distro provides for Apache, MySQL, and
> PHP. Heeding the warning that not all Slackware info on the Internet is
> completely accurate, before I start
On 12/22/18 3:42 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 12/22/18 2:48 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> The open source OpenGL drivers are already included in the standard
>> Slackware installation, based on whatever garphic chip (GPU) your system
>> is using. DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR INSTALL
On 12/22/18 2:17 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I tried installing and running Google Earth on my Slackware laptop. The
> build and install worked. Then I ran the symlink as instructed:
>
>---snip---
>
> When I launch google-earth the surrounding window loads, and the splash
> graphic shows up in the
On 12/19/18 7:54 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 12/18/18 10:33 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> Xfce can be a bit cranky with special keys. KDE is pretty smart in
>> comparison. It all depends on the thinkpad vintage.
>
> Lenovo
> Thinkpad X200 Tablet
> (Sticker on the botto
On 12/18/18 7:11 PM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:
> On 12/18/18 4:43 PM, W7DAL wrote:
>> /Try VMWARE instead. It installs USB by default. Linux install
> instructions are on the net. />//>//>//>//
> Please stop.
>
>
> ? Is there a problem with my post ? Have I somehow offended
> the
On 12/18/18 2:55 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Running Win2K in VirtualBox on Slackware. I ran lsusb and saw that
> Slackware sees the foot pedal.
> After installing guest additions I plugged in my USB foot pedal, but
> VirtualBox sees no USB devices. in the USB settings for the virtual
> machine,
On 12/18/18 4:43 PM, W7DAL wrote:
> Try VMWARE instead. It installs USB by default. Linux install instructions
> are on the net.
>
>
>
>
Please stop.
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On 12/17/18 6:13 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> will remove it.
>
> I removed flashplayer, and installed pepperflash. Do you have it working
> with Firefox? Ed talked about using it with Chromium. I haven't
> installed Chromium yet, but on Firefox I still get the error message
> that I need to
On 12/16/18 3:51 PM, Derek Loree wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2018, at 9:24 PM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:
>>
>> /If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit! There's no point
>> in being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields./ I have gone far beyond Fields
>> admonition and the time has come to
On 12/7/18 9:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, Rich
Shepard wrote:
>
>> Perhaps calibre works better for the occassional quickie that does not
>> benefit from typesetting with TeX.
>
> Oops! Apparently that's for e-book management, not writing.
>
> Rich
>
On 12/2/18 6:13 AM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I see all of this and wonder if you have given thought to VMWare Player,
> for personal use it is
> free, I use it all of the time when I cannot get something to run under
> Wine, it sees the USB
> stuff quite well.
>
> I have not had issues with it seeing
On 12/1/18 2:51 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
---snip---
I can successfully scan individual files from the command line.
>
> I also installed clamtk, since that's what I'm used to using.
> From the KDE menu I can find "Run clamtk" from the search menu.
> However, it doesn't run. I suspect I need
On 12/1/18 1:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 12/1/18 1:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>
>>> Once I get to VirtualBox, I note that this is the open source
>>> version. For
>>> the laptop, that's probably okay. But for my "work" machine, I need to
>>> have
On 11/28/18 8:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/28/18 7:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> slackpkg upgrade-all is still running, so I'll report back on the
>> success with Firefox after breakfast.
>
> Slackpkg finished and Firefox works as expected.
>
> Now on to making the computer look like
On 11/28/18 7:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/27/18 11:03 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
---snip---
>
> Thanks. I have a little time this morning, and will continue working on
> getting things to look like I'd like, and making sure stuff works. I've
> got some stuff I want to move
On 11/27/18 7:37 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/27/18 6:29 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 11/27/18 5:48 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> On 11/27/18 12:21 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> ...snip
>>>> Odd. if you are up to date you should see from package
On 11/27/18 5:48 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/27/18 12:21 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
...snip
>> Odd. if you are up to date you should see from package
>> zlib-1.2.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2
>>
>> ls -l /usr/lib64 |grep libz.so
>> ... libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.1
On 11/26/18 9:53 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 6:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> <...>
>>> I clicked on the Firefox icon in KDE and saw the little red firefox
>>> bouncing on the screen. After about a minute or less, the bouncing
>>> stopped, but Fi
On 11/26/18 5:01 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 3:41 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... Firefox shouldn't try to sync or do anything on the network when
>> launching. The version installed is old. You should update to the
>> newest one via slackpkg.
>
>
On 11/26/18 1:30 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 11:43 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> I switched from KDE to xfce to try it out. Then I started looking into
>> how to install the programs I use. First I started up Firefox. I
>> checked the box that makes Firefox my default browser. The mouse
On 11/26/18 7:11 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>
>>> Install completed successfully.
>>> Logged in as root.
>>> Ran halt.
>>> Machine powered down.
>>> Will start again tomorrow.
>>
>> Dick,
>>
>> Glad it all
On 11/25/18 6:03 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> bash-4.4# chroot /mnt/hd
>> chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
>>
>> I don't know if this means anything, but
>> basn-4.4# which bash
>> /usr/bin/bash
>
> Dick,
>
> You
On 11/18/18 5:09 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/17/18 5:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On 11/17/18 1:01 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>>> Dick,
>>>
>>> You have to first boot the Slackware Live USB/ISO to be able to use
>>> 'setup2hd'. Be sure y
On 11/17/18 1:37 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> By way of preface, I am not directing this at anyone in particular,
> but I just want to say that I have noticed a pervasive practice of
> shortening my name by a letter, and I find this (perhaps irrationally)
> irritating, and I don't really understand
On 11/17/18 11:58 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> At: https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak it says there is a
> script, setup2hd, that can be run to use the live USB stick to install
> Slackware to the hard drive. When I try to run setup2hd it says it can't
> be found. My searches for
On 11/4/18 8:37 PM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Well, doing a df I see that / is the 9.1G partition and the other one is
> /home.
>
> Prior to cleaning, the partition was 9.05G full, after doing the cleanup it
> is now down to 8.7G.
> so I have got to see what all is in it. Or I will have to make it
On 10/29/18 9:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:14:10 -0700
> King Beowulf dijo:
>
>> On 10/29/18 6:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:31:47 -0700
>>> Jason Barnett dijo:
>>>
..snip...
>
> S
On 10/28/18 6:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/27/2018 02:29 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 10/26/18 8:48 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> [snip]
>> Also check your local drive. Depending on how XYZ was packaged to
>> install onto you linux disribution, you s
On 10/29/18 6:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:31:47 -0700
> Jason Barnett dijo:
>
>> In my experience, this type of problem has always been either a low
>> battery in the mouse, or RF interference.
>> Try a wired mouse. If it still jerks then it is a computer/software
>>
On 10/26/18 8:48 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> *Are online copies of textinfo content available?*
>
> Many man pages end with:
>> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
>> the info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the
>> command
>>
>> info XYZ
On 10/1/18 1:31 PM, Michael Dexter wrote:
> On 10/1/18 1:14 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> Are the talks on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday of the month? I'm out of town
>> this week and would hate to miss this talk.
>
> It would be the 1st Thursday. They are (mostly) streamed for those
On 10/1/18 11:37 AM, Michael Dexter wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I am ready to give a talk on Open Source and POSIX environments on
> Windows, plus a surprise on Windows.
>
> Please +1 this if you would be interested in this topic or propose your
> own talk if you want the slot.
>
> Lemme know.
>
>
On 9/25/18 3:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I need to make space in ~/ for a large computation (48G free space is
> insufficient). I can add an additional 95G by moving ~/data to a new DVD.
> And I can copy it back when the process completes.
>
> When I try to mount the optical drive using
On 9/30/18 2:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I want to exclude /proc from being examined by 'find' when searching for
> a file from /. I did not see an option in the man page to exclude specific
> partitions. Is there a way to have find ignore /proc?
>
> Rich
If you are just looking for regular
On 09/03/2018 02:53 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Xerox Phaser 6000B
Rich
You may want to poke around gutenprint (included in Slackware) first to
locate printers with CUPS ppd drivers already built in to save time
wrestling with .deb/.rpm driver files:
On 08/27/2018 08:31 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I still have a bunch of unused writable CDROMs and no writable DVDs. I
> want to buy a small spool for a) Slackware distribution upgrades as they
> are
> released and b) storing large data files not needed on a regular basis.
> Knowing nothing about
On 07/12/2018 10:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> While I've got Win7 up and running, the network setting are screwy. I
> have my router set to be a DHCP server, with 192.168.0.1 as the default
> gateway. I also assigned 192.168.0.104 as a static lease for the virtual
> machine. However, the IPv4
On 06/25/2018 05:08 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On 2018-06-25 16:18, Steve Christiansen wrote:
>> On 6/25/2018 3:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>>> According to 'man ls' the -d option should 'list directories
>>> themselves, not their
>>> contents'. But, here it doesn't work. For example from
On 06/23/2018 07:06 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I've always been able to connect various Ubuntu machines here at home
> using either Nautilus or Caja. We're back from our trip, and I want to
> move my Thunderbird profile from my laptop back to my desktop. However,
> when I try to connect to the
On 06/15/2018 04:32 PM, logical american wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I've been quoted $263/month for a small locked cabinet (15U) space with
> 1 power plug 110v AC and a business class internet connection.
>
> Is this price typical?
>
> I am looking for Vancouver WA first, then Portland OR second.
On 05/10/2018 09:06 PM, elcaseti wrote:
> The fact that Slackware is still using KDE4 is very appealing to me. My
> command line skills are not at the Slackware level, but I bet I can find a
> Slackware-based distro that is more to my liking that's still using KDE4.
>
> Too bad Slax moved away
On 04/28/2018 05:50 AM, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I have Boingo through AMEX. It has been a long time since I had to log into
> it, indeed when I run into it I get logged on automagicly AFTER I try to
> reach
> some site that is not running secure web pages.
>
> I use foo.com as the target to elicit
On 04/16/2018 10:16 PM, logical american wrote:
> Does anyone know of linux software which has the same functionality as
> Google groups?
>
> Is it possible to host the users on a server? I would like to move a
> Google group off Google.
>
> Does anyone know how to successfully do this?
>
>
On 03/18/2018 10:59 AM, Ken Stephens wrote:
> Rich,
>
> I find the if an install does not say a particular library is installrf,
> but find that it is installed in my package manager, I have to install the
> development library. The development library (in Fedora, it usually is the
>
On 02/24/2018 03:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> You don't need a macro to do this (Sorry, Richard E.). In writer, go to
>> Tools -> Customize, Keyboard tab. In the Window that pops up, select
>> "Edit"
On 02/23/2018 10:16 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Hey, LibreOffice users, here's a question for which I've yet to find the
> answer: How do I set Ctrl-d to delete the character immediately to the
> right
> of the cursor (the point in emacs speak)?
>
> I find nothing appropriate in Customize ->
On 02/07/2018 02:29 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> It should all be here in 4-5 days, plenty of time for assembling during
> the February 18 Clinic.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117726
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233859
>
>
On 02/03/2018 09:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/02/2018 05:48 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Called my brother to wish him a "Happy Birthday".
>> As I'm the geek sibling, he asked a geek type question.
>> He has been viewing youtube(sp?) videos.
>> He suspects they have been publishing his
On 01/29/2018 02:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same
> problem with 16.04.
>
> Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try that?
>
> Tomas
>
IIRC, /dev/sg* are character devices, /dev/sr* are block
On 12/03/2017 11:55 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Audacity translated the file from .wav to .mp3. I'll look to see if it
>> supports the ogg flavors (I suspect so). If not, ffmpeg will do the job.
>
> Yes, audacity-2.1.3 exports to ogg vorbis.
>
> Rich
On 11/11/2017 09:19 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Trying to build a couple of packages here on my 32-bit, 2-core i686 AMD
> Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor causes a CPU overheat shutdown of the
> system.
> Building one large package, ATLAS (a linear algebra library), is
> recommended
> to set cpufreq
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