Re: [PLUG] Needed: RS-232 male plug to USB male plug

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, David Barr wrote: It even comes with idiot, er, activity lights. https://www.amazon.com/Gearmo-Adapter-Indicators-Windows-Support/dp/B00AHYJWWG David, Really? It's specific to certain Microsoft OS versions? I thought that hardware adapters were OS-agnostic. Anyway, I don

Re: [PLUG] Needed: RS-232 male plug to USB male plug

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, David Barr wrote: Nah, that's just what it's advertised for. I use it on my OSX laptop. You might need to dig to find a *nix driver for it, but I'm reasonably sure one exists. David, No driver necessary. The kernel supports USB. Carpe weekend, Rich _

[PLUG] Collect calculators?

As long as I'm cleaning out older tools I no long user I'm offering my HP-67 programmable calculator. Comes with a leather case, power wart, user guide and a couple of folders with magnetic program strips Free of course! Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@

Re: [PLUG] Collect calculators?

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, J. Hart wrote: A free HP-67 with mag strips ? I'll take it..Where do I send the postage ? Done. Will send address off the mail list. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plu

Re: [PLUG] Need new mobile phone; Treos no longer supported

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Erik Lane wrote: You might also check out Republic Wireless: https://republicwireless.com/ Anyway, you might want to check them out. They do offer 'bring your own' for devices, but there are some limitations. I don't know if the phone you've ordered meets them or not. E

Re: [PLUG] CCC

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: As for Linux, it looks like KDE includes a simple "kbackup" utility that seems to do the thing. It wraps a given folder up in .tar file and then saves it to the "target" location. Datestamps it and everything. If you have FreeNAS exporting an NFS share you

[PLUG] Wireless access point issues

I want to connect my Nokia 6.1 Plus phone to the LAN's wireless access point. This means connecting to the WAP so I can figure out how to configure it to allow access to it from the phone. The first problem is that I no longer can connect to the WAP with a browser so I can log in as admin. Enteri

Re: [PLUG] Need new mobile phone; Treos no longer supported

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, tom wrote: It is worth keeping in mind the privacy implications of such a service. The company behind the Find My Droid program also has access to everywhere you are or have been with historical archives. That can be extremely sensitive information. Tom, This is important

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I want to connect my Nokia 6.1 Plus phone to the LAN's wireless access point. This means connecting to the WAP so I can figure out how to configure it to allow access to it from the phone. Let me rephrase my request: I cannot log in to the WAP

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote: Have you tried power cycling it? Russell, Yes. This makes no difference. And I should have written that my friend connects through this WAP from her laptop daily with no issues. It's working as the wireless connection between her laptop and the route

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote: So, ping ipaddrs instead. for i in $(seq 2 254) ; do echo $i $(ping -q -c5 192.168.55.$i) ; done There are only three hosts now active on the LAN: this desktop, the router, and the WAP. Running this script from this desktop generated results from on

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Check DHCP leases if your AP took a lease. Other than that nmap is the network scanner. Tomas, DHCP is off on all hosts, including the router and WAP. I'll read about nmap as I've not used it in years. Oh One more idea, are you connecting to AP

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Off to read on using nmap. # nmap -sP 192.168.55.2-200 Starting Nmap 7.12 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-02-26 15:23 PST Nmap scan report for router1.appl-ecosys.com (192.168.55.4) Host is up (0.0023s latency). MAC Address: 00:0F:66:09:8C:BE (Cisco

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Since nmap sees the WAP (line 5 of the results) and it's up what might be preventing me (and root) from pinging it or accessing its admin page using the browser? More information: # nmap -sS 192.168.55.200 Starting Nmap 7.12 ( https://nmap.org

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote: I gave you the next step in my first email: "Or, failing everything else, use whatever facility there is to factory reset it and then reconfigure to your liking." Okay, Russell. I'll do that this coming weekend. Regards, Rich _

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, David wrote: It would probably have everything to do with it if you don't specify the port number when you use you attempt to connect. Try http://192.168.55.200:8080/ dafr, I hoped this was the solution, but it's not. The firefox tab tries to connect and doesn't. This co

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Did you tell Android which IP address you want to use? Ben, No. When I selected the WiFi icon Android found all the access points in the neighborhood with mine at the top of the list. I selected mine and entered my user password for network hosts as I ne

Re: [PLUG] Determining if a newer version of a Slackpkg is available

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Nvidia + Ryzen has been resulting in some lock ups for people. My uptime has been capped at 4 days with nvidia-418.30 :( Ben/Ed, Take a look at this week's The Econmist . There's an article about Nvidia there you might find in

[PLUG] Android upgrade notices (was: Wireless access point issues)

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: No. When I selected the WiFi icon Android found all the access points in the neighborhood with mine at the top of the list. I selected mine and entered my user password for network hosts as I never set up a user password for me on the WAP. I've

Re: [PLUG] Determining if a newer version of a Slackpkg is available

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Have a direct link? I'm not interested in sifting through the political opinions of lesser creatures. Well, you won't find 'lesser creatures' writing for The Economist and you might learn a lot about what's happening in the world. It's not twitter, facebo

Re: [PLUG] Android upgrade notices (was: Wireless access point issues)

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I've moved this to PLUG-talk as the focus has shifted to Android, not linux. Apologies. I didn't. Will do so now. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Determining if a newer version of a Slackpkg is available

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: But they have links to facebook and twitter at the top of that article :-( Huh! I use adblocker so I don't see ads on any web site. Some chastise me for that but they're not ones I frequently visit. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Android upgrade notices (was: Wireless access point issues)

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Tomas K wrote: Some times these access points have a rule configured whether you can connect to their web interface via WLAN or LAN only? Did you try to access the web interface from both LAN and WLAN sides? Tomas, Yep. Via the desktop to the IP address in /etc/hosts. Th

Re: [PLUG] Android upgrade notices (was: Wireless access point issues)

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: I meant, regardless how it is configured externally, the AP can restrict access to it's web interface from either of the two interfaces - lan and wlan. If it sees wlan as external, you could only see web interface response from wlan or the other way aroun

[PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

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 users group to shutdown the machine I'll modify the

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: The sudoers(5) man page states, Also, the host name “localhost” will only match if that is the actual host name, which is usually only the case for non-networked systems. Paul, Ah, I forgot to look at that man page. You'll want to replace "localhost

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Can I set an alias so when she exits X11 to a console all she needs to type is sudo halt and this will invoke /sbin/shutdown -h now? Gotta' keep in simple here. Saw a web blog post that suggests I if add to her ~/.bash_rc the following alias

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Saw a web blog post that suggests I if add to her ~/.bash_rc the following alias alias halt='alias=`sudo ` halt' all she'd need to type is halt. Does this look workable? Nah. But this: alias "sd=sudo " would allow her to ty

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: My experience is that sudo expects the command line invocation to look like the sudo configuration. So what I'd do is add a function, not an alias, to .bashrc: function halt { /sbin/shutdown -h now } But since "halt" is the name of an actual executabl

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Smith, Cathy wrote: You can just set up an alias in .bashrc or whatever file is used for aliases. That's what I do for folks here. I have a group set up for people needing to use a command. I edit the sudoers file once to set things up. It looks like %hradmin

Re: [PLUG] Right to Repair campaign

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote: There is a bill in the Oregon Legislature right now (HB2688), which would make existing service manuals available to third parties. This is important to organizations like Free Geek, but it's also important to people like us, either directly or indirect

Re: [PLUG] Right to Repair campaign

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote: Gorsek is one of the sponsors. It can't hurt to let the know you support it and are tracking the bill. Done. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] processing csv file to get desired format

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: I've got a need for some sed/awk/perl/python/... hackery. I've scraped some data from a pinout table found in a datasheet pdf and would like to import it into a spreadsheet. The data looks like this: A,SDMMC0_CK,I/O,1 B,QSPI0_SCK,O,1 F,D0,I/O,2 A,SDMMC0_D

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: I find that libGLU is installed. root@ENU-2:~# slackpkg file-search libGLU Looking for libGLU in package list. Please wait... DONE The list below shows the packages that contains "libGLU" file. [ installed ] - glu-9.0.0-x86_64-1 root@ENU-2:~# Dick.

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: locate libGLU.so returns nothing. Dick, If you found the package with that library, and that package is installed, the shared library should be there. Unfortunately, I'm out of other ideas now. Rich ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Free server Racks

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Ronald Bynoe wrote: https://post.craigslist.org/manage/6822313862 Ronald, That URL shows: "There appears to be a problem with this posting (6822313862) or the URL you're using to access it. "If you initially posted more than 48 hours ago, your post may have timed out, in

Re: [PLUG] Assigning a name to local machines

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: Is there someplace I can put in the name of my local machines that will let me use those names instead of IP addresses when using ssh or sftp? /etc/hosts There are also /etc/hosts.equiv, /etc/host.conf, /etc/hosts.allow, and /etc/hosts.deny. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: I tried starting GE from the menu. I did not get a request to enter a keyring password, but the rest of the problem described above continues. Dick, I've no answer for you but want to mention that in all the years I've run Slackware with Xfce (since 20

Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, King Beowulf wrote: Instead of messing with sudo, you can configure the KDE and Xfce power manager (and other DEs) to trigger a shutdown command by pressing the power button. The user needs to be in the 'power' group IIRC. Ed, How interesting! I was unaware of this. For n

Re: [PLUG] Xfce gnome-keyring issues in Slackware (WAS: Re: Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau)

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: My list doesn't have anything with GNOME-keyring in it. Dick, The last two items in that tab are: SSH Key Agent (Gnome Keyring: SSH Agent) Secret Storage Gervice (Gnome Keyring: Secret Service) Ensure these are unchecked. On my systems they are unch

Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: I've finished with all the cassette tapes and CDs. Next I'll go back to tackling the LPs. I'm satisfied with the job Audacity is doing recording from the USB output of my Ion turntable. And I just export to .mp3 from Audacity. I learned how to pause at th

Re: [PLUG] Xfce gnome-keyring issues in Slackware (WAS: Re: Google Earth on Slackware 14.2 with Nouveau)

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: Neither of those are in the list I have. Oh! Darn! I wonder ... Here, 'ls /var/log/packages | grep keyring' returns gnome-keyring-3.16.0 libgnome-keyring-3.12.0 I wonder if removing those two would stop GE from asking for a keyring password. Someone (

Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: At this time, nothing. I don't plan to dispose of the LPs, cassettes, or CDs, so if I really want to, I can always find them to read them. Okay. I'd like to sell my vinyl collection after digitizing them but need to find a suitable process to capture th

Re: [PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: There are only two things I can think of, and neither is quick and easy. 1. Scan the liner notes. The biggest problem here is the size of an LP cover. Not too many home or office scanners have a big enough bed for that. You'd probably have to do at lea

Re: [PLUG] Installing Slackware on Jetway

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: I have a Jetway machine. I use it to view stuff on the TV in the living room. It used to have Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on it, but this morning I've begun the installation of Slackware 14.2. The last two Slackware installs I did were in UEFI machines, and so did

Re: [PLUG] Installing Slackware on Jetway

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: product:  Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz width:     64 bits Dick, Oh. The one I had was 32-bits. When you upgrade everything don't forget the kernel and rebuild the initrd, point /etc/lilo.conf to the proper generic and huge kernel versions, an

Re: [PLUG] Installing Slackware on Jetway

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: This is the one you had. Those numbers are what lshw -html reports. Duh! That's right. :-( There was not mention of EFI when I was poking around in the bios. No, there wouldn't be any. So, LILO it is. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Which Log?

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: When I got up this morning, my Jetway computer, the one I most recently installed Slackware on, was powered off. My other machines were powered on. Would one of the logs show something that would give me a hint as to why this machine powered off? Dick,

Re: [PLUG] Controlling resolv.conf...

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: /etc/resolv.conf is not symlinked on every distro, and is not even unique to linux. It is not a symlink on my system, and is being overwritten by NetworkManager. Fun fact:  The decisions of Canonical are not canonical. FWIW, when my portables (all runnin

Re: [PLUG] Controlling resolv.conf...

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Question was answered, and I'm too tired to explain the role NM plays in a linux distro.. I did not mention in the message to which you've responded that I use wicd rather than network manager on all hosts. Perhaps they work differently. Regards, Rich _

Re: [PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: It took me nearly ten hours, but just now I finally got it working again. I only wish I knew what happened to cause the problem. John, Perhaps if you post the steps you took to fix it on this list the experts can provide insights into the source o

Re: [PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: I started with the GUIs, the one from NVIDIA and the one in the Xfce settings manager. Neither had any way to change the resolution; in fact, after poking at them for half an hour I decided they were useless. John, That's interesting. I run xfce4

Re: [PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: Just now I checked again. The Xfce Display utility had changed the resolution it displays from 640x480 to 1920x1080, but there was still no option to change any of the settings. It appears to be just a reporting tool. Huh! Here it's a combobox and

Re: [PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: When you look at the actual problem, climate change really is a viable explanation :-) Ben/John: A suggestion: consider the kernel to be the climate that changed and caused severe flooding of the video chip's driver. If the ubuntus allow you to select pa

Re: [PLUG] Modem Retrains Every 1/2 hour or so

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Ken Stephens wrote: Talked with a laid back John who seemed to know his stuff. ... The modem just does not know that so it spends its time retraining itself. This would be funny if it were in another situation. Ken, Did John tell you how to get the modem DPOM trained so

Re: [PLUG] Icon positions on Xfce desktop

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: Is there a setting somewhere that turns off the feature of Xfce deciding where icons go? Dick, I use the panel, not icons sprinkled on the background (too windoze-like for me), but this web page might help you:

Re: [PLUG] Icon positions on Xfce desktop

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote: Yep, it had the solution. When I drag an icon somewhere, I have to wait a second before I let go of the mouse button. Then the icon goes where I put it. Takes time for the glue to set, I guess. Carpe weekend, Rich ___

[PLUG] Terminal multiplexers

Just learned about tmux, a terminal multiplexer supposedly similar to screen. The man page tells me what it does and I want to understand when it would be appropriate to use it. If you have used tmux (or another terminal multiplexer) please explain the context. What benefits does it provide and i

Re: [PLUG] Terminal multiplexers

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Russell Senior wrote: "Screen is often used when a network connection to the terminal is unreliable, as a dropped network connection typically terminates all programs the user was running (child processes of the login session), due to the session ending and sending a "hangup

Re: [PLUG] Terminal multiplexers [ANSWERED]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, David Bridges wrote: I think that searching for tmux examples will provide you with the answers you are looking for. The first hit (link below) seemed to explain it to me. I searched for tmux use cases and found excellent examples. Thanks, Rich __

Re: [PLUG] Terminal multiplexers

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: There are lots of options. Its quite flexible. I use it daily, but rarely on my local machine. Louis, That's what I learned looking at use cases: tmux is ideal for network admins supporting multiple remote servers. For what I do, not so much. Than

[PLUG] emacs: counting paragraphs

Built into emacs and invoked using M-= is elisp code to cound characters, words, and lines in the buffer. I have need to count paragraphs, too, and found a working solution on stackexchange. I'm sharing it here in case I'm not the only one who needs this capability and hasn't already obtained a so

Re: [PLUG] emacs: counting paragraphs

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Errata: Built into emacs and invoked using M-= is elisp code to cound characters, count, not cound "Report number of paragraphs in the region (if it's active) or the entire buffer.

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Visually identifying USB flash drives

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: I've 20-30 flash drives dedicated t specific projects. Attempts to attach paper tags with useful information was futile. I'm thinking of using colored gummed labels [to sort by capacity] and write an sequential index number on it. I'll have a file ass

Re: [PLUG] Evince and Oregon Form 40?

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Russell Senior wrote: So, I'm just getting around to doing my Oregon Taxes and the fillable form 40 is not displaying or printing correctly in Evince ... Clues please! Russell, I don't use evince or do my own taxes (my accountant does both business and personal taxes),

[PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

I have several hundred .jpg images that are all saved at the camera's maximum resolution. I can use imagemagick's convert tool with the -resize option because I want the reduced images to be 768px high x 576px wide. However, without looking at each image in The GIMP I've no way of knowing which n

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: It'll take human intervention, to look at each individual image and decide whether to rotate it. Ali, This I knew. I usually use the GIMP for this manipulation and am glad to learn that ... Happily, it's not too onerous to do this in imagemagick, using

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: BTW, the identify tool does this. It's part of IM as are a number of other image processing commands. Yep. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick [RESOLVED]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: I do this following way: 768px x 576px = 442368px To change all images in a directory to this resolution regardless of orientation: mogrify -resize @442368 *.jpg Hope it helps. Tomas, Yes, it does. I was not successful using a for loop

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Paul Mullen wrote: Many (most?) digital cameras include an "orientation" tag in the collection of EXIF metadata embedded in the image file. The tag value indicates which way the camera was rotated during exposure (and hence which direction the resulting image should be rotat

[PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

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 add-ons -> ad blockers both show up. Trying to inst

Re: [PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

On Sat, 4 May 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: I've seen workarounds posted for some versions of firefox. Or you could just wait until they fix it. Thanks, Ali. When versions have been upgraded in the past and the current add-on version is no longer supported I'm asked if I want to upgrade it. This ve

Re: [PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

On Sat, 4 May 2019, Richard England wrote: I believe this may be the answer to "what happened" https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be-disabled-or-fail-to-install/39047 Thanks, Richard. This looks like the release first, fix it later coding pattern. FWIW, that

Re: [PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

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 add-ons will now be re-enabled with a warning message. Ed, Thank you very much. That toggle restored the add-

Re: [PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

On Mon, 6 May 2019, King Beowulf wrote: Hot off the presses for Slackware-14.2 (stable): Mon May 6 01:29:24 UTC 2019 patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-60.6.2esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses the issue of add-ons failing to load. For more information, see: https://w

Re: [PLUG] distro suggestions please

On Thu, 9 May 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Slackware still has Seamonkey and I don't think it will be removed anytime soon. If Pat tries to get rid of it people will probably riot and start flipping cars. Or someone will maintain it on SBo. Rich ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] SSD Advice Needed

On Sat, 18 May 2019, Michael Barnes wrote: So, all that to ask, what should I get for an SSD for this thing? This is a low budget project. Michael, I think that I have a couple of laptop SSD drives. If you could use one I'll look for them and give you your choice. Rich __

[PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended

I have a long CSV file with two rows for each entity and I want to print only the first row to the output file. It's so simple that despite my research in using awk I'm not seeing my error. Gawk script: #!/usr/bin/gawk BEGIN { FS=OFS="," } { if ($5 ~/'Legal Contact'/) # double quotes also fail

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Robert Citek wrote: This is what I am getting: $ cat plug.awk #!/usr/bin/awk BEGIN { FS=OFS="," } { if ( $5 ~ /'Legal Contact'/ ) # double quotes also fail Is that what you are looking for? Robert, Ah, ha! I did not realize that the tilde needed a following space, too.

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Reid wrote: Works on my machine. Maybe you've got a Unicode single-quote? Reid, No, but I needed a space following the tilde (while I see that you didn't need one). When I added the space the script worked as intended. Thanks, Rich _

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Reid wrote: It shouldn't... does it work differently for you after you add the space? Reid, It did with the test file, but with the 1084-line data file it didn't. I don't see why it works on some line pairs but not all. With such a simple script there should be no differe

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended [RESOLVED--REALLY!]

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2019, Reid wrote: It shouldn't... does it work differently for you after you add the space? It did with the test file, but with the 1084-line data file it didn't. Found the cause: some strings have commas within the quot

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

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Richard England wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a data recovery service or individual that he can have investigate this? He's expecting to have to pay for it if this affects your suggestion. Richard, Is he certain that the problem is a failed hard drive? If th

Re: [PLUG] Minimal Distribution for Atom 550 Processor

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Michael Barnes wrote: In the meantime, trying to decide on what distribution I want to load. I appreciate your suggestions. Michael, I had a small unit with an Atom processor and ran Slackware on it. Whether this distribution is one you'd be comfortable using is up to yo

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

On Tue, 21 May 2019, Richard England wrote: At this time I only have the information passed on to me regarding what he was told in Colombo. I can certainly suggest that he check in at the clinic, but since this is a probably a Windows laptop I wasn't certain if the that was appropriate. 'Twas

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

Those of you who are professional system/network admins probably know about the little tool, 'nl,' that numbers lines in text files . For non-professionals like me it's a great find as I work regularly with text files and it solved a problem more quickly than by usin

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

On Wed, 22 May 2019, Russell Senior wrote: I've used the -n option to cat recently to get line numbers. E.g.: cat -n README.txt Russell, That's another new one for me. What nl allows is setting the starting number (among other options) which was needed in my case. The source files were form

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

On Thu, 23 May 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Now, the suggestion, all people new to "unix" in any since of that word should read the AT&T V7 manual sections 1 and 8, those commands are pretty much still here, and that set of options is also pretty much every place. You may find some real nuggets

[PLUG] LibreOffice consumed CPU cycles

I have libreoffice-6.2.3 installed and this morning saw disturbing behavior that I've not before seen with this application: it was consuming 99.7-100.0% of the CPU and raising the processor's temperature near 80C while sitting idle. It was opened to print a very small spreadsheet (about 20 rows

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

On Thu, 23 May 2019, bro...@netgate.net wrote: And here are a couple of more goods ways of finding a line number using sed or grep and a pattern: Finding and inserting are two different operations. Regardless, one of the features of linux (and end-user applications) is that almost always ther

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

On Fri, 24 May 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: I b way far from "escatada"[sp?] In Oregon it's spelled Estacada. In the last hour I've received 3 calls from/to myself [snicker] When you answer do you have an intelligent conversation? I suspect an IOT Answering Machine may be goal. I think wh

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

On Fri, 24 May 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Well, I always pronounced it "the sticks", but ok, correciton noted :-). Rodney, Then you'll also like Crane, Wagontire, and Riley. Especially the Crane Diner. They serve an excellent lunch for very reasonable prices. Carpe holiday weekend, Rich

[PLUG] Shifting DNS

This morning the Sony Vaio laptop (model PCG-61A14L) refused to connect to the 'Net. This unit is configured to connect to the Belkin WAP; it's not on the LAN but connects to the 'Net via the WAP and router. Checking everything related to "network not reachable" and restarting the internet daemon

Re: [PLUG] Shifting DNS

On Sun, 26 May 2019, Ken Stephens wrote: Is this the laptop with a physical network switch? Ken, Not as far as I know. Before today there was no DNS issue so why the WAP now changes the DNS server to itself is the question. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG m

Re: [PLUG] Shifting DNS

On Sun, 26 May 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Not as far as I know. Before today there was no DNS issue so why the WAP now changes the DNS server to itself is the question. Ken, Perhaps I mis-understood. There is a small physical switch for the radio but that's been on and not changed w

Re: [PLUG] Shifting DNS

On Sun, 26 May 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: You keep saying you have a WAP and a router - is this 2 devices? We should only care about 1. The Wireless Access Point (WAP) is the device to ... - which of these devices does your laptop connect to? and, as the name suggests the laptop and WAP connec

Re: [PLUG] Shifting DNS

On Mon, 27 May 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: If wicd reconnects the network at any point after then it will not re-run your workaround, so you will need to reboot the computer to fix your DNS. What you did is called a "work-around" and is not even close to qualifying as a solution. Ben, As far as I

[PLUG] Terminal does not echo typed characters

Now and then when I exit from a root session in a terminal key strokes are not displayed on the command line. Commands can be entered and acted upon, but the cursor remains at the prompt. I've not found a command to restore normal behavior, only killing that process and invoking a new terminal has

Re: [PLUG] Terminal does not echo typed characters

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, bro...@netgate.net wrote: Have you tried "tset"? Kevin, Nope. Did not know about it. Next time I'll use it. Many thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Terminal does not echo typed characters

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, wes wrote: This will ultimately depend on the specific reason the characters stopped displaying. Try "clear" and/or "reset" and see if it comes back. Wes, 'clear' does nothing; didn't try 'reset.' Next time I'll use 'tset'. Thanks, Rich __

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