Re: [PLUG] Powered USB-A hub

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023, Ben Koenig wrote: Whoops, no AR/VR is Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. As in VR headsets. I've seen a lot of motherboards brag about USB ports that are dedicated to that purpose which just means that it's a more robust implementation. Ben, Oh. I've always found

Re: [PLUG] Powered USB-A hub

On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, Ben Koenig wrote: That's probably fine. My rule of thumb is to not PLUG higher end hubs into lower end ports. e.g. a bunch of USB 3.0 devices in a hub that connects to a USB 2.0 host. Ben, Makes sense to me. But it sounds like your board has some of the fancier new

Re: [PLUG] Powered USB-A hub

On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, MC_Sequoia wrote: I've long been a fan of Tom's Hardware as trustworthy source of good information on pc hardware. Me, too. But I don't understand what the power ratings mean for the hub. Do they power pre-amps, webcams, headphones up to the listed value, or does that

Re: [PLUG] Powered USB-A hub

On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, Ben Koenig wrote: What kind of USB ports does your desktop have? Check version and detected speed. Ben, The Asus PRIME X470-PRO in this desktop has: - 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (up to 5Gbps) at back panel (blue) - 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gbps) front panel connector (yet,

[PLUG] Powered USB-A hub

Hi hardware gurus, I have a couple of low cost, powered USB-A hubs, but they are limited to the input devices they'll support. The front panel of my desktops have 2 USB-A ports. I want to connect a Focusrite microphone pre-amp, a Logitech web cam, and a Panasonic headphone to a powered hub that

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, MC_Sequoia wrote: "Desktop" just refers to a non-file server distribution. Some distros, like Debian, don't have separate file server & desktop distros. That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming. Rich

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, Russell Senior wrote: Ubuntu derived iso's are "live-cd" with an install option. Thanks, Russell. Rich

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, MC_Sequoia wrote: This https link to Ubuntu's official site provides a good intro to Ubuntu, https://ubuntu.com/desktop and here's a link to the many flavors of the Ubuntu Desktop distro, of which there are now 8,https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours Thanks. He uses a

[PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

A friend who still uses Windows asked me today for an open source replacement for Office365 and Acrobat. I followed up by sending him the URLs for LibreOffice.org and several web sites that offer F/OSS replacements for Acrobat on Windows. He's not yet ready to defenestrate, but I'd like to send

Re: [PLUG] Comparing 2 files and printing lines that are different

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: Ha, I knew one of these GNU tools could do it! I nearly gave myself a migraine struggling to remember which command did this. I kept landing on cmp but it works byte-for-byte. I use comm when downloading a permit database as a .csv file and want to

Re: [PLUG] Comparing 2 files and printing lines that are different

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Reid wrote: You could try something like `diff --changed-group-format='%<' --unchanged-group-format=''`, or one of its variants. That example assumes that the first file is the one you want lines from. Check the diff man page under "--GTYPE-group-format=GFMT". diff -y

Re: [PLUG] MS2131i-8 USB Cellular Modem

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, Michael Barnes wrote: Anybody know anything about these? Michael, T'aint much of a user manual, but it is a start: HTH, Rich

Re: [PLUG] ssh pass phrase issue [FIXED]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: I used `ssh-keygen -p -f ~/.ssh/id_ed.` and assumed it generated the pair of private and public keys. For the record I found the above command on <https://computingforgeeks.com/change-or-update-ssh-key-passphrase-on-linux-unix/> Rich

Re: [PLUG] ssh pass phrase issue [FIXED]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Robert Citek wrote: Something sounds suspicious or pieces to the puzzle are missing. Changing the passphrase on a private key shouldn't change anything on the public key side. Could it be that someone slipped a different public key in your authorized_keys file? Robert,

Re: [PLUG] ssh pass phrase issue [FIXED]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: I assume that when I want to log into my web site, and am asked for my pass phrase, it's my local host asking for the pass phrase. Is this correct? Problem solved. Why the original pass phrase stopped working remains unknown. But I changed my pass

Re: [PLUG] ssh pass phrase issue

On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Ken Stephens wrote: Have you used the -v option with ssh. This option gives you a lot more information on who is asking what. Ken, Oops! I keep forgetting about that option. But, the new pass phrase works when I push content to github, but not to my web site's host. So

[PLUG] ssh pass phrase issue

I assume that when I want to log into my web site, and am asked for my pass phrase, it's my local host asking for the pass phrase. Is this correct? If so, please help me find why, since yesterday, the pass phrase is rejected three times before the remote site kicks me off. I've use this pass

Re: [PLUG] SSH question

On Wed, 7 Dec 2022, Randy Bush wrote: an ssh key does not specify a host. e.g. ssh-ed25519 C3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5ID9DzOVboz/9daQwQRPkxD/D4PZ4ZVNgMLqd+zc79Gl+ ra...@ryuu.psg.com the ra...@ryuu.psg.com is a comment, no semantics Thanks, Randy. That's what I thought so the confirmation is

[PLUG] SSH question

Does it matter if my ssh public key specifies a LAN host other than that of the host on which I'm working? Rich

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Robert Citek wrote: That doesn't work for me: bash-4.3# installpkg texindy Cannot install texindy: file not found Robert, Do you have TeXLive 2021 installed? Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue [RESOLVED]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, wes wrote: let's see ll /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl wes Yep. That was the problem. The perms there were 544; when I changed them to 755 texindy ran: $ /usr/bin/texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx Opening logfile "/dev/null" (done) Reading

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Robert Citek wrote: What distro are you using? What commands did you use to install the software? Slackware-14.2/x86_64. installpkg Rich

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, wes wrote: what is the output of: which texindy $ which texindy which: no texindy in

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: bash-5.1$ locate texindy /usr/bin/texindy /usr/man/man1/texindy.1.gz /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl /usr/share/texmf-dist/xindy/modules/base/texindy.xdy Here I have: # locate texindy /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: First is to make sure you have all the correct paths. You are linking to /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl but a stock install of the same package puts them in /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl. It could be that something got moved

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: bash-5.1$ locate texindy /usr/bin/texindy /usr/man/man1/texindy.1.gz /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl /usr/share/texmf-dist/xindy/modules/base/texindy.xdy /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl seems to be exactly the same as the

Re: [PLUG] File permissions issue

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: Did you upgrade to a newer version of text than what the distro comes with? I don't have a texindy.pl in /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts Ben, No. The version in 14.2 and 15.0 are the same: texlive-2021.210418. And Herbert Voss sent me a 2011 version of the

[PLUG] File permissions issue

Trying to run texindy to create the index for a book kept failing. The reason was that /usr/bin/texindy was a perl script, not a link to the script in /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl. Permissions of that script are 755. I deleted /usr/bin/texindy and replaced it with a softlink with

Re: [PLUG] Emacs mode issue: Markdown

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Johnathan Mantey wrote: FWIW, I tested the following: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/markdown-mode-20221105.236") (autoload 'markdown-mode "markdown-mode.el" "Major mode for editing Markdown files" t) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode))

Re: [PLUG] Emacs mode issue: Markdown

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Johnathan Mantey wrote: That's why I specifically emphasized "like this". I was not giving a recipe to follow, not a pastable piece of code. Johnathan, I thought so but wasn't certain. So I asked, Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Emacs mode issue: Markdown

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Emacs will search ~/.emacs.d for ELisp source by default.There is no need to add it to the load-path variable. Johnathan, That's why I wondered why this language stanza has the explicit load path. Yet, without that add-to-list I don't get the

[PLUG] Emacs mode issue: Markdown

I've installed Markdown and added it to ~/.emacs.d: - ;; For Markdown ;add the path where all the user modules will be located (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/") (autoload 'markdown-mode "markdown-mode.el" "Major mode for editing Markdown files" t) (setq auto-mode-alist

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm?

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: I've searched documentation on mdadm and I can't figure out if there is a way to just restart the array. Suggestions? John, Perhaps: How do I reactivate my MDADM RAID5 array? - Super User You should try stopping and re-starting the array: mdadm

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: newline moves text above in [FIXED]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: I must have inadvertently hit a key combination that changed emac's behavior while typing a Markdown document. Fixed it by adding markdown-mode.el to ~/.emacs. Wonder why it worked before without that major mode explicitly loaded. Oh, well, it's

[PLUG] Emacs: newline moves text above in

I must have inadvertently hit a key combination that changed emac's behavior while typing a Markdown document. When I press the [Enter] key and the cursor moves to a new line, the above line moves right two spaces. This has never before happened. I've tried searching the web for possible

Re: [PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: I suppose I should be paying closer attention, but when I saw a message about nfs running on port 22, I thought, "what the !#$#, that's the ssh port. nfs uses a completely different port(just looked, it's 2049)" Anyway, abbreviating nearlyfreespeech as

Re: [PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive [RESOLVED]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Bill Barry wrote: The FAQ https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/SSHUsername Sure you need to look at the sites panel on your web interface to get the appropriate user name for the corresponding protocol. The username might be different for each protocol and for each domain you

Re: [PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Many shared hosting providers let people to sftp, but not ssh. This is because there are many users/website on the host and executing stuff could impact them all. NFS allows ssh for members; that's why they tell us to log in via ssh in order to run the

Re: [PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: ssh -p @ Ben, Actually, all that's needed is the -p option (which I missed looking at the ssh options.) Now I need to contact the NFS community because ssh is not accepting the same password I use with sftp and logging into my account on the web.

Re: [PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Randy Bush wrote: -vv I forgot about that! debug2: resolving "ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net" port 14982 So my ssh uses a high number port. NFS uses port 22. Trying: ssh -b 22 ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net also results in no login request. Neither does -D. What ssh option

[PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive

I use ssh to move files among LAN hosts and, when I'm out of the office, to connect to my mail server. Today I'm trying to use ssh to connect to my web site's host and it's not working so I need a clue stick. When I enter the command: $ ssh ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net The cursor moves to the

Re: [PLUG] a question regarding something like nohup or disown

On Tue, 8 Nov 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: Somebody may have a better idea, ... screen? tmux? Rich

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Kevin Williams wrote: Rich, do you use in managed hosting provider such as Go Daddy or Bluehost? Kevin, My web site is hosted by nearlyfreespeech.net. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Bill Barry wrote: You already have this sorted, but if you were to use Let's Encrypt certificates then it is possible, if configured correctly, to have the certificates automatically updated. Bill, If I wanted to pay ZeroSSL for a one-year

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Kevin Williams wrote: I’m glad to see you got it installed successfully. I’m curious what app you used to re-issue the certificate. Certbot? Lego? Kevin, I didn't use an app. I logged into my zerossl.com and followed the long process of having new certificate and private

Re: [PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate [RESOLVED]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: What might have I done incorrectly? Perhaps it was uploading each file in two parts based on what 'less' presented in a virtual terminal. I inserted all three files in an emacs buffer, then copied all 104 lines to the proper text entry widget at my web

[PLUG] Renewing TLS/SSL certificate

ZeroSSL sent an email that my web site's certificates expire in two weeks. I generated new files (ca_bundle.crt, certificate.crt, private.key). Then I logged on my web site host, copied the contents of each file, sequentially, in the appropriate place and clicked the 'Set TLS' button. The server

[PLUG] SMTP issue needs explanation

I'm running postfix here and when I tried to respond to a message I received postfix looked like it was sending it, then halted with the message: "Mail not sent. Sending error 250 2.0.0 Ok". But, 250 is the SMTP code that "“Requested mail action okay completed”: meaning that the server has

Re: [PLUG] Seeking web developer who knows the Hugo framework

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, Kevin Brooks wrote: What are the issues you can’t fix? Kevin, It's 2 steps forward and 1 step back. The latest step back comes from adding the hugo-debug-utils. Jumping into a broken (?) template based on (the old) bootstrap4 might be more difficult than just

Re: [PLUG] Seeking web developer who knows the Hugo framework

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, John Sechrest wrote: Let me suggest that you might find a tool like Gatsby a bit easier to maintain, since it is not based on Go. https://www.gatsbyjs.com/ John, Thanks. I'll look at Gatsby. A markup based static site might get you a long way. Hugo's content is based

Re: [PLUG] Seeking web developer who knows the Hugo framework

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, Russell Senior wrote: I can honestly say that I have never heard of the Hugo framework. My general advice would be to stick with something widely adopted and understood. But I don't have any particular expertise in web dev. Russell, My searches taught me that Hugo is one

[PLUG] Seeking web developer who knows the Hugo framework

I've been trying to modernize my company web site from plain html5/css3 usint the Hugo static site framework, but the Go templating language is beyond me. I have the content and basic strucure (using the Justice template) but there are issues I cannot fix. Adding a debugging tool generates more,

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: clear cache

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: In Brave 1.44 under Settings --> Privacy and Security --> Clear Browsing Data, there are several checkboxes for what you want to delete, history, cache, cookies, etc. Thanks, Michael. Time for an upgrade. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: clear cache

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022, Dick Steffens wrote: It's under "Clear browsing data" under Privacy and security in Settings on Dick, I thought browsing data was the same as history and not the same as cached pages. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Brave browser: clear cache

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022, Jason Barnett wrote: Settings --> Privacy and Security --> Clear Browsing Data Jason, That's what I did but didn't know if that cleared stored pages or only the history. Rich

[PLUG] Brave browser: clear cache

I want to clear the cache in the Brave browser. Web pages tell me to go to Settings -> Advanced settings -> Privacy and Security ... But, there's no Privacy and Security link available in brave-browser-1.39.122 installed here. Suggestions? Rich

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Why bother with redirect, just define A record for both foo.com and www.foo.com if you want to keep it as Wes suggested. And get rid of @ name if you do not need it. Tomas, It's all corrected. The @ record points to the web site host's IP address,

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, wes wrote: you're missing the MX record from this list. it definitely exists, so the fact that you're not listing it here suggests that your info from your DNS hosting provider is incomplete. Wes, Come to think of it, perhaps before I changed registrars, there was an MX

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: A Record@ 1.2.3.4 A Recordmail1.2.3.4 A Recordwww 3.4.5.6 Could I add: CNAME @ 3.4.5.6? no. that is not legal syntax Randy, Namecheap supports URL Redirect (Unmasked Forwarding), "This record is

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: see my later message using MX foo A 1.2.3.4 foo MX 42 mail.foo mail.foo A 3.4.5.6 www.foo CNAME foo When I look at my DNS records at namecheap I see the record type, host, value (IP address) and the time-to-live.

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: A Record@ 1.2.3.4 A Recordmail1.2.3.4 A Recordwww 3.4.5.6 Could I add: CNAME @ 3.4.5.6? no. that is not legal syntax Thought so. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: Then I lose my mail server, yes? foo A 1.2.3.4 foo MX 42 mail.foo mail.foo A 3.4.5.6 www.foo CNAME foo I'm still not following you. Now I have: A Record@ 1.2.3.4 A Recordmail1.2.3.4 A Record

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: How can I allow web site visitors to access it without the 'www' prefix? foo A 1.2.3.4 www.foo CNAME foo Randy, My reading about CNAME suggests it is used to map multiple host names to the same domain name. As that's not what I

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Bill Barry wrote: Looks like you are pointing appl-ecosys.com at your office, you will have to give that up to point it to your website. Bill, Then I lose my mail server, yes? I suppose that the web site will need to remain as www.appl-ecosys.com because I don't host it

[PLUG] Adding another DNS record

I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access to the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with a namecheap tech didn't provide me with the answer. Here's a summary of the current DNS records (IP

Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Randy Bush wrote: I want to use the Panasonic cordless phone and the call center dial pad/headset with an ATA to VoIP and save $$ on taxes each month. then ata wired as i said That's what I thought. I'll have the Ziply tech wait until the Ubiquiti ATA is here (by next

Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Randy Bush wrote: if they provide sip service, they could be. otoh, there are plenty of sip services on the internet, e.g. callcentric. Randy, Yep, they do. but your question makes me wonder if what you really need/want is merely a phone to plug into ziply's cpe. I

Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Randy Bush wrote: plug an ata into ether on one side and rj telco on the other. configure the ata to the sip privider, and bob's your uncle. Randy, Would Ziply Fiber, my ISP and TelCo be the SIP provider? Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: My apologies for not understanding your requiest for a URL for the device: <https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-UniFi-Analog-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0B36YS4F7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EIKBGDWI0FP4=ubiquiti+unifi+analog+telephone+adapter=1664396

Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Russell Senior wrote: Please provide a link to the product you are considering. Speaking for myself, I have no idea what thing you are talking about or what its particular requirements are, so some explanation from the vendor on what it is would help to understand. I'd

Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Russell Senior wrote: Link? Russell, Please explain. I've asked Ziply Fiber to convert my landline office phone from TDM to VoIP and searching the web for more information I learned that I need an ATA. If I plug both RJ-11 extensions into the Ubiquiti, and a Cat6

[PLUG] Ubiquiti unifi ATA

Can I use the Ubiquiti Unifi analog telephone adapter by connecting it to my Ubiquiti Edge-RX router (or the switch attached to the router?) Or, so I need a Ubiqiti OS or other hardware? Rich

Re: [PLUG] Text color issue

On Sat, 24 Sep 2022, Paul Mullen wrote: You can tell urxvt to use a custom RGB value for any named color via your ~/.Xresources file. Something like: ! Lighten up color34 for readability on a medium blue background: URxvt.color34: #FF urxvt only supports 256 colors, so you can't

[PLUG] Text color issue

My urxvt windows have a medium blue background. Sometimes text is displayed in dark blue (DIR_COLORS #34). I'd like to change that but I don't find 34 as a text color in my version of /etc/DIR_COLORS: # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Sat, 17 Sep 2022, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Consider changing your keyboard to "English (intl, with AltGr dead keys)" The right Alt key (as opposed to the left, not correct) gives you access to é á etc as shifted keys. As easy as getting a capital letter. Michael, I hadn't thought at all

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: Others have mentioned Ctrl-Shift-u, which gives you the opportunity to enter the Unicode value for the character you want. I need a lot of these for linguistics work, so I made up a little table with two columns, one for the character as it appears

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Robert Kopp wrote: You could add the keyboard of a language that has the characters you want. Presumably French would be the appropriate one here. It's easy to switch keyboards while you type.  Thanks, Robert. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Over the years, I've built a table of special characters, digraphs, which I use for cut-and-paste into web pages and libreoffice documents: http://server-sky.com/Digraph Keith, Thank you. I'll use that. Big equations require special composition

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I can assist with Emacs The C-x 8 RET keybind allows you to enter unicode sequences, or the "long name" equivalent. "Insert character (Unicode name or hex):" From : https://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/UTF-8/list.htm I found: LATIN SMALL

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, Dick Steffens wrote: Is diacritical mark the search term you need? Or acute accent? Dick, It depends on the language and word. A comprehensive dictionary would be perfect. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, Richard England wrote: I believe what you are looking for may be the Compose Key. Here are a couple references but a search will turn up more, I'm certain. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en Richard, Thanks.

[PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

My locale is set to LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I write primarily in text-based applications such as emacs and alpine, and I want to learn how to enter accented characters so I can type, for example, Résumé rather than Resume. My web searches have not been productive, probably because I'm not using the

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: Actually, my tesseract is apt and my vobsub2srt is snap. And there is no snap for tesseract and there is no apt for vobsub2srt. There are also a couple of PPAs to install later versions of tesseract, including 5.0, but that doesn't sound like the

Re: [PLUG] Gnumeric users here?

On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: Agreed, the spreadsheet should just work. I was offering an alternative that may give you more functionality. Michael, And I appreciate that. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Gnumeric users here?

On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Michael Ewan wrote: Depending on your programming skill, you might want to use Python, Jupyter-Lab, and Mito instead. https://towardsdatascience.com/the-mito-jupyterlab-extension-a-spreadsheet-that-generates-python-b25d2c447d48 Michael, Why? The spreadsheet should be

[PLUG] Gnumeric users here?

I've re-started using gnumeric and have a couple of questions. I joined the mail list and haven't seen responses to a couple of questions I posted. (One's not so important, the other one is important.) I've a spreadsheet with 13k+ rows and 10 columns and want to sort all rows based on the (text)

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Russell Senior wrote: I tend to let the device (your camera in this case) do the formatting for maximum compatibility. Devices tend not to follow the Robustness Principle[1], but Linux does. Linux isn't going to know what quirks the limited implementation on the camera

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: So it is formated fat32 for win95. Do I need to reformat it for vfat? I found a stack exchange thread suggesting that win95 relaxed FAT file name restrictions so the microSD is properly formatted. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Robert Citek wrote: That's odd. For comparison, this is what lsblk outputs before and after I insert a USB stick: Here, with the microSD in a USB adapter, and looking at the disk size I find: sdg 8:96 1 29.7G 0 disk └─sdg1 8:97 1 29.7G 0 part and cfdisk

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: What does fdisk -l and/or lsblk tells you? Tomas, fdisk -l didn't see it at all. You should be able to format the thing in the camera anyway. It does not have that capability. The camera is a cube about 2.3 cm per side. See

[PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

I've not before needed to format an SD card (of any size) in the computer. Now I have a couple of SunDisk 32G microSD cards for the Sir Gawain mini-camera that need formatting. I put the microSD card in an SD adapter, and the latter in a USB holder inserted in a desktop USB port. Running 'tail

Re: [PLUG] DuckDuckGo: settings lost when logged out

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022, Jason Barnett wrote: I think the settings don't get saved until the tabs (or Brave) are closed properly. When Brave is not explicitly closed before shutting down, then the settings get lost. Jason, When I kill Xfce4 Brave is not seen by the settings so it's not

Re: [PLUG] DuckDuckGo: settings lost when logged out

On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Jason Barnett wrote: Try enabling cookies for DDG, in brave. Jason, They're enabled by default. With firefox I had both browsing history and cookies deleted when I logged out. Perhaps I need to manually remove cookies in Brave. Thanks for the suggestion, Rich

[PLUG] DuckDuckGo: settings lost when logged out

I've not had duckduckgo settings change when firefox was my default browser, but this has changed using brave as my default browser. When I shut down xfce4 to log out my duckduckgo settings are apparently reset to some default. So not only doesn't brave automatically load when startx is run, but

Re: [PLUG] Another brave-browser question: loading automatically

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: That's strange, but I guess it explains why Brave doesn't pop back up the way Firefox does. Firefox has some really fancy session management so that if it crashes, it can immediately restore all previous tabs. Most browsers have this kind of functionality

Re: [PLUG] Another brave-browser question: loading automatically

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: That depends on how you configured everything to autostart. Firefox doesn't have an autostart feature so you probably added it to the list in XFCE and will need to do the same for Brave. Ben, However Xfce4 is set was done many years ago. Or, you use

[PLUG] Another brave-browser question: loading automatically

When I logged in this morning and started X the brave browser did not load in its assigned virtual desktop. All other applications do load, as did firefox. I looked at the brave settings and found nothing relative to loading when xfce4 is started. Anyone know how to have brave load

Re: [PLUG] Brave web browser: sidebar

On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, Ali Corbin wrote: On mine, 1.40.113, it's on the Appearance page, but closer to the top. Ali, Dick: I've installed brave-browser-1.39.122-x86_64-1_SBo which allowed me to activate the sidebar. It's now set up as was the firefox sidebar: all regular web sites' icons

Re: [PLUG] On line banking with Ubuntu & U.S.Bank

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, jim karlock wrote: About a week ago, clicking the sign in button quit producing a log in window. Today, U.S>Bank support told me that it was probably the use of Ubuntu instead of Windows or MacOS. Jim, Feh! I doubt that. I don't use any *buntu but had a similar situation

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations: KVM switch

On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: NFS or SMB/CIFS have nothing to do with KVM sharing. Perhaps, Rich thought that VNC is misspelled NFS, no idea. No, NFS mounts all partitions on the remote host on the local host. I used it a long time ago when I last had two desktops up and running.

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