Re: [PLUG] Rsync command fail

I am not sure how you got to the backwards behavior, perhaps you have no deleted what you thought you deleted. I would run your rsync command this way though (adjust your options as needed), mind the / rsync -a --progress /media/jjj/Movies /media/jjj/Synology/ Hope it helps, Tomas On Nov

Re: [PLUG] Converting audio files

mp3 patents expired earlier this year, if I am not mistaken and it wasn't in 2016 already. So at this point, it does not matter other than on technical merit such as encoder efficiency, perceived quality, etc. Tomas On Dec 3, 2017 11:21 AM, "Galen Seitz" wrote: > On

Re: [PLUG] Mount cifs share from fstab.

When you put SMB password into root RO file, it is not secure locally, but it is not transmitted over the network in the plain text as far as I know. In my experience, SMB/CIFS is quie painful to use in multi user, multi machine world without domain compatible single sign of. To be fair, same

Re: [PLUG] dsl woes

) use someone else's DNS for example Google's 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 Hope it helps, T On Dec 15, 2017 4:44 PM, "Bob Vinisky" <b...@cherrycreekdaffodils.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > &

Re: [PLUG] dsl woes

ri, Dec 15, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Bob Vinisky <b...@cherrycreekdaffodils.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 15, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Bob, >> >> Russell was asking a few questions and after this long, there is stil

Re: [PLUG] dsl woes

Bob, Russell was asking a few questions and after this long, there is still no clear and definite answer. Could you please try to contain your frustrations and answer that, and only that? There is no help possible without knowing the facts. 1. What is this "dal" - what does that abbreviation

Re: [PLUG] SQLITE 3 C...

You either need to close and reopen the SQL DB or pass around the handle to it, so that you can access it outside the scope of a function - main in your case. Tomas On Dec 19, 2017 10:24 AM, "michael" wrote: > I have no understanding of what the callback function is

Re: [PLUG] incron issue

If I recall incron details correctly, you get multiple entries in your log because you run your script multiple times at different events: IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_NO_LOOP Your other question: You see "create" in your log because that is what your echo command puts there in your script. -Tomas On Nov

Re: [PLUG] cpufreq governor selection

I can give you old, unused 4 core 64b ASRock Q1900DC mini-itx board. It takes 10W from 12-19V power brick, it is 64bit and probably faster to replace than you problematic piece of HW. I do not use it because the battery keeping cmos ram and rtc is not working. So, it needs screen and keyboard to

Re: [PLUG] linux for a Ludite

Wow, so many responses. Wonderful. First - as much as I love vintage stuff - 15 years old computers sucks for many reasons. Keep it as your pet vintage car type of project. Consider something new, perhaps Chuwi 12.3, it looks like iPad, so non PC people are not scared of it, and it is very

Re: [PLUG] incron issue

IN_ACCESS,IN_ISDIR test: IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE,IN_ISDIR time: test: IN_ACCESS,IN_ISDIR time: test: IN_OPEN,IN_ISDIR time: test: IN_OPEN,IN_ISDIR etc. My knowledge of the use of $, (, ", ', and { is lacking, so I expect that is where the trouble lies. Is the problem obvious?

Re: [PLUG] Reality check

Not the original poster - BUT, thank you very much for such positive post Mike. ... more or these please ... and Knipex tools too! On Nov 20, 2017 7:58 PM, "Mke C" wrote: On 11/20/2017 05:54 PM, plug-requ...@pdxlinux.org wrote: > With the mail/phone issues I've had

Re: [PLUG] incron issue

and I get only one entry--the > > > > > first > > > > > one. Apparently the print driver (or the program calling it) > > > > > closes > > > > > the > > > > > file multiple times. I added $% to the incrontab file and %2 to > &

Re: [PLUG] incron issue

this, but I expect that most can > be explained by the rapid multiple invocations. Does that also explain the > missing times? > > -Denis > > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Tomas Kuchta < > tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > $(some command) will

Re: [PLUG] incron issue

o see the result of $1)" >> /home/denis/incronlog.log>, and the question of why no time appears > in the log. Notice that there are many cases in the log where $1 appears > to be a filename. > > -Denis > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Tomas Kuchta < > tomas.

Re: [PLUG] associate *.PLT files with lpr?

Speaking of doing things automagically on a file event. One could put the files to the same directory every time, and setup a trigger on the directory change event. There would be no real delay that way and as soon as a file shows up, it could be sent to a printer. If you are interested in that,

Re: [PLUG] winscp

I would like to reiterate that mount.cifs does not transmitted password in plain text over the network. Unless you use ancient version, which I do not think is possible without extra effort on your side. On Dec 5, 2017 7:26 AM, "michael" wrote: > I'm thinking about

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal magazine is no more

As far as I can say, based on their announcement. Their web presence will last a little longer to accommodate the Linux Journal archive sales, etc. I am not in the position of to know, but based on what they announced, Linux Magazine or a private fund might be helping to stay on-line. I also got

Re: [PLUG] Converting audio files

I wanted to post separately on your continued external disk troubles. Unless you leave external USB resource management to standard hotplug you will continue to have these kind of issues and conflicts. The only way to workaround with your fstab way would be to do all below: a) mount your USB

Re: [PLUG] Converting audio files

lame ffmpeg Should both work from command line given input.wav output.mp3 with optional compression options. ffmpeg in particular is the real "Swiss army knife" type of a tool. -Tomas On Dec 2, 2017 3:48 PM, "Dale Snell" wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:11:45 -0800 (PST),

[PLUG] Linux Journal magazine is no more

For those who remember the experience of actually reading a magazine front to back, rather than just flicking pages full of shiny advertisement - another one bites the dust. So long Linux Journal ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Permissions over house network

Use NFS instead of Samba for ordinary sharing and replicate the user accounts on the NFS server. That is probably the easiest. Alternatively, you could setup a samba/active domain for central authentication, so that you are the same user everywhere. That would take care of it. Tomas On Dec 1,

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

ow from their documentation: > > https://www.freeipa.org/page/Documentation > > > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2018, 20:01 Thomas Groman <tgrom.autom...@nuegia.net> > > wrote: > > > > > Do you have any book or other resource recommendations for setting &

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 18.04 frustrations

You said that: a) you cannot copy files from internal disk. True? b) you are unable to connect to different machine on local network. True? a) how do you mount that internal disk? Can you see it mouted by: mount? b) do you know IP address of both machines? Try: ip address Can you

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

What is Compiz? What is it good for? Can some explain it in a single digestible sentence? I've been resisting to ask as not to provoke something unexpected or show an ignorance; I asked G, as well as compiz.org - but I do not like the BS Bingo answer meaning nothing. Without any rational basis,

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

Thanks. So is it a desktop environment like Gnome/kde/lxde/... ? On Tue, May 8, 2018, 8:23 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2018 02:55:17 +0000 > Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >What is Compiz? > >What is

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

While I might not know what is Compiz, I certainly can recognize familiar smell of major trouble coming - when I hear about upgrading U-buntu for the last 12 releases AND not practicing regular clean installs. Just a word of caution, T On Wed, May 9, 2018, 6:38 PM John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

a while to wrap my head > around this change. > > https://neon.kde.org/ > > > > On 05/10/2018 02:45 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > I use KDE for decades at this point, together with Gnome and other xDEs > du > > jour. I have never noticed this Plasma monick

Re: [PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

I have heard that security versus physical HW in colo argument so many times. In my opinion, a padlock is way less secure than well implemented crypto. The only security benefit I see from physical HW would be hosting it on premises - if your threat vector is suponea. Both VM or HW in colo can

Re: [PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

I would also encourage you to look for virtual machine - it is easier, the choice is excellent and it is portable - you can move if you need to far easier. About your original question - the price you were quoted looks OK to me. 15U is huge - it would fit pretty sizable setup such as 14x 1U

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

This is great technical discussion, thanks for keeping it public. Reminds me my journey where implementing SSO/AD/LDAP - the project scope kept expanding beyond my initial expectations. As per your discussion - this, central, management/authentication needs fully configured, reverse and

Re: [PLUG] Some how my system boots into text mode

Try: systemctl set-default graphical.target On Wed, May 30, 2018, 11:16 AM Ken Stephens wrote: > Johnathan, > > No entry about run levels in grub.cfg. Still searching and scratching > head. > > Thanks, > Ken > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Johnathan Mantey > wrote: > > > Are you sure

Re: [PLUG] Some how my system boots into text mode

And reboot On Wed, May 30, 2018, 11:20 AM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Try: systemctl set-default graphical.target > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018, 11:16 AM Ken Stephens > wrote: > >> Johnathan, >> >> No entry about run levels in grub.cfg. Still searchi

Re: [PLUG] Some how my system boots into text mode

While it is always nice to know why and understand things properly - time has value too. Wouldn't it be faster to reinstall the box and call it a day? If you back up /etc and /usr/lib/...systemd - diff might point to the cause later. -T On Wed, May 30, 2018, 5:01 PM Ken Stephens wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] Cloning a mirror raid

dd from the raid Dev to /dev/sd? On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 6:10 AM Scott Howard wrote: > I need to clone a mirror raid on a linux box to one drive. Any software > suggestions other than clonezilla. > > > > Scott Howard > ___ > PLUG mailing list >

Re: [PLUG] SANE not quite easy - Resolution

I would encourage you to scan a few negatives/transparencies, measure the time it takes and extrapolate to cover all your negatives/positives. When I did that years ago, I quickly realized that scanners are just too slow for what I wanted to do in a time given to me by mother nature - by couple

Re: [PLUG] ls -d does not work as it should

Wow .. so many responses ... I also feel that I should express my outrage about your daring "ls does not do what it should". Pretty confident statement! Well, the problem is that ./ is the directory you are trying to list in your example. There is also ../ present. These dot names are important

Re: [PLUG] Introduction - from Niagara Falls NY

Thank you for wonderful introduction. You could teach us interesting trick or two. Off topic, you write "raise" not grow plants. That, in my mind, entails education. Do they speak French, play an instrument or play with kids after Sunday's lunch? Tomas On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 10:09 AM J. Hart

Re: [PLUG] Terminal shortcuts

I would check for alias Man alias or bash is your friend. That allows you to assign shortcuts to a command and save typing. Another alternative, more flexible, would be to create wrapper scrtipt or function for your long commands. -T On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 10:37 PM Russell Senior wrote: > You

Re: [PLUG] Weird microSD failure

t; > to NAND translation. It is doing something wrong and clearly > > > dysfunctional now, though. I am sure that I did successful block > > > operations on the same microSD previously. > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Tomas Kuchta > > > &l

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

The easiest is to pick LDAP or NIS, both work very well on Linux. With or without Kerberos for local small setup. NIS with NFS for file sharing would be probably the simplest setup, but you will eventually wish you had LDAP for integration with various other services. LDAP + Kerberos + NFS is

Re: [PLUG] serial communication with dmm (was com port in guest to usb in host (virtual box))

I have one of those simple Bitscope scopes/analysers for slow RPi type interface hacking it might be the right tool for the job and it runs on Linux. Would that help? Do you want to borrow it? Check the Bitscope website for details, but it is good enough for serial ports. Perhaps even decoding

Re: [PLUG] LO Calc: text formatting question

You seems to have selected whole column past the cells wit numbers. So this may be the max row number possible. Try to select just the cells with values and repeat the formatting. Use Ctrl+Shift+Arrow to select filled cells. Tomas On Jan 4, 2018 3:15 PM, "Rich Shepard"

Re: [PLUG] January PLUG POLL: Y'all around?

January 4th is my favourite day for such great topic. On Dec 21, 2017 3:30 PM, "Russell Senior" wrote: > That's January 4th. I'll be around and attending. > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Michael Dexter > wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > >

Re: [PLUG] How do I get rid of this command line environment?

Here is how to kill something you can click on: 1. Open a teminal 2. Type: xkill 3. Click on the window you want to kill (notice the changed mouse cursor) Tomas On Dec 21, 2017 3:40 PM, "Russell Senior" wrote: > "both screens" ... you didn't mention that before.

Re: [PLUG] serial communication with dmm

Someone here, probably Wes, thought me embarrassing lesson: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+crash+course Put one/two day into learning basic python data types and syntax. It will be worth it, I guarantee it. T On Jan 15, 2018 6:57 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" wrote: > Well,

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

8 02:22:22 -0800 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: >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? No, I did not. try creating a soft

Re: [PLUG] [OT?] Internet privacy? ?? ???

That separate accounts will work only until someone who knows him will email him or view his FB page. Real privacy online is probably possible for a limited time, but extraordinarily difficult. It is definitely beyond keeping the private time useful. T On Feb 2, 2018 6:06 PM, "Michael Barnes"

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

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 On Jan 27, 2018 9:39 AM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: > Xubuntu 14.04.5, all updates applied. > > I have

Re: [PLUG] Do any of you have a contact at Fibersphere?

They have customer support phones published on their website. I am sure that there will be the usual phone gateway menu with tones of of option for reporting all sorts of things. On Feb 1, 2018 1:56 PM, "Bill Weiss" wrote: > I have a private question for someone with

Re: [PLUG] CPU info needed

If I would be building PC now, for similar usage patterns. I would definitely go AMD Ryzen route + fanless low end MSI Nvidia GT 1030 cards for about $70. AMD just dropped their Ryzen CPU prices, so that should help If you chose go the Intel CPU route, you will not need to buy graphics card.

Re: [PLUG] Alea jacta est*

I have similar setup to what JJ picked. I chose a Corsair 650W PSU for only reason - the PSU fan is off below 200W. I have yet to hear it turning on, even at full load. I am not a gamer, internal Gfx is plenty fast for me. Unless one need add on Gfx., 300W is plenty. 4x 3.5" hdd RAID is less

Re: [PLUG] bash; anacron; wmctrl question

I do not believe that you will be able to open graphical window using cron. The best you can hope for is sending notifications or emails. If you have the strength to continue with random experiments. Try: export DISPLAY :1 In your script before launching the window. Although that will likely be

Re: [PLUG] bash; anacron; wmctrl question

if random users can display stuff on your desktop. Beside annoyances, I can imagine fake terminals, browsers, etc. and windows covering whole screen without the closing button. Tomas On Feb 6, 2018 1:57 PM, "Tomas Kuchta" <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do n

Re: [PLUG] Parts shopping for new desktop

I love your suggestion Dennis, priceless! On Feb 6, 2018 9:26 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" wrote: > My previous desktop did not have front USB, so I had a short extension > cable bringing USB to the front. Now that was 2.0, so I do not know if > something running at

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

With snap you can have more than one version to coexist unlike with apt. If you are bothered about the message. Try removing the snap version too. Apt update and install the snap again. I would trust what VLC says internally though. On Feb 9, 2018 8:49 PM, "John Jason Jordan"

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 6 to 7 migration

While you are at it - automate the setup/config - it will be great asset to you when you need to repeat or extend it. I second - systemd was the biggest change when I moved on a few years ago. While I do not necessarily like its monolith architecture - I find it pretty easy to work with. Systend

[PLUG] Linux Journal is back with subscriptions and new magazine next month

Couple of people expressed sorrow about Linux Journal demise last month. Well, if someone likes the idea of reading monthly old fashioned magazine about Linux in pdf. They are back thanks to UK based sponsor - Now accepting subscriptions for brand new issue next month. At:

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT PLUG Advanced Topics: Linux as a security camera monitoring platform

How about stopping by with your camera at the Linux clinic this Sunday? On Feb 16, 2018 5:29 PM, "Lou Chang" wrote: > Years ago I wanted to participate in this meeting, but I missed it. Any > chance it could be re-visited? > > > Also, I wonder if Dexter or someone else

Re: [PLUG] Username for network device

. -T On Feb 21, 2018 10:06 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:43:24 -0800 > Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >I do not think that you will be able to break into the NAS without > >either

Re: [PLUG] Username for network device

One more thing comes to my mind, if you run out of ideas. Try to keep domain names same between the NAS and hosts, if you set them up. If you didn't, check them, new distros can have different defaults. On Feb 22, 2018 1:55 AM, "Tomas Kuchta" <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [PLUG] Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

chard Owlett" <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > On 02/17/2018 11:07 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > >> I use mainly KDE/Gnome so things are probably different with Mate, >> depending on your login manager. You could change that, I guess. >> > > I don't understan

Re: [PLUG] Gaming graphics cards?

Thanks Bill On Feb 24, 2018 1:24 PM, "Bill Weiss" wrote: > First of all, in pedant mode, that's not open source :) It's free though. > > You could look into a Steam Link, which is a set-top box that acts as a > remote console for a powerful machine running the Steam

Re: [PLUG] Username for network device

If you are ok with this, trust hosts on your network, you could enable NFS mount for all IPs on your private network this way: 192.168.1.1/24 instead of listing individual hosts. That would save you from configuring it the next time you add a host or change host's IP. I'd keep the root host to

Re: [PLUG] New computer

We connected to the TV at FreeGeek through it's existing HDMI cable. It all worked fine, without any kind of trouble. Every recent enough TV probably has HDMI these days. I prefer Display Port over HDMI. It has historically been trouble free experience. Though my bad taste for DVI and HDMI is

Re: [PLUG] Application hijacks desktop

Try Alt+Tab to switch to different running application. You could also try Alt+F1 for desktop menu or Alt+F2 and start terminal ... On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:50 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I installed kodi, a media player that is designed to turn a computer > into a media center. It has some

Re: [PLUG] Three questions - Google Fiber in PDX ? Consider AWS or using IPv6 + DNS + 1Gb/s @ $70/month CenturyLink.? City of Portland & Dark Fiber ?

> services since then ( After the year ~ 2005) using these strands of > Fiber ? > > > Thank you, Mitch Stanley > > > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 12:53:48 -0700 > From: Tomas Kuchta > To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" > Subject: Re:

Re: [PLUG] IP address for a virtual machine?

It is hard to second guess John's setup - so a few ideas to look into: Perhaps the guest VM is behind host VM NAT - that would require either changing the host VM network to Bridge type or setup port forwarding to NAT VM guest (kind of like you would do on your home router if you want to access

Re: [PLUG] gawk switch statement syntax errors

Jul 2018, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Do not use switch/case - just use NF==35 {print "I see 35 columns on this > > line"} > > ... type of a code. > > > > If you need more than that you can do something like this: > > NF==35 && $2<5 {print

Re: [PLUG] gawk switch statement syntax errors

Do not use switch/case - just use NF==35 {print "I see 35 columns on this line"} ... type of a code. If you need more than that you can do something like this: NF==35 && $2<5 {print "I see 35 columns on this line and column 2 is less than 5"} I guess that is what Russell was saying too. Tomas

Re: [PLUG] gawk switch statement syntax errors

Maybe you can speed things up by pdf2txt and identify the lines of interest in awk. On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 4:43 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Depending on your awk script and/or your data - this can have significant > > runtime im

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

Are there any other authorities other let's encrypt with free as in freedom purpose? LetsEncrypt.org Unless of course you need cert for somebody else's web. Tomas On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 12:49 PM Louis Kowolowski wrote: > If you're OK with the added requirement of having to renew the cert every

Re: [PLUG] When {[right question] >= (useful answer)} ?

As root: create a directory in your partition. Then set ownership, group and permissions to that directory, allowing users to write into the directory (ies). Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 1:10 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > This Richard is confused ;/ > > Using GParted I created an

Re: [PLUG] Roll-your-own VPN server?

OpenVPN does what you need. There are good clients for almost any device. Servers, can be build and configured on any distro or used prebuild. Tomas On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 5:44 AM David Barr wrote: > Good Morning, > > If I were to build a VPN server for transient client connections, like >

[PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

We seem to have increased presence of spammers on the list either as registered members or someone is compromised. Do you get response from customer support like the one mentioned by Rich couple of months ago or Melina Taylor lovelygirl...@lovelynsacusal.pw or ...? I get spam only when I post

Re: [PLUG] Weird microSD failure

..@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't you need a "count=#" option to dd as well? Not at a computer right > now otherwise I'd be able to check if that's the case... > > On Mar 6, 2018 5:02 PM, "Richard England" <rlengl...@frontier.com> wrote: > > > On 03/06/2018 04

Re: [PLUG] Weird microSD failure

Try to delete the original files first. Then create empty file using /dev/zero and copy it to the card. I bet that it will be there on the card and some of your original data will disappear as result. My guess is that the card controller is deduplicating your /dev/zero blocks trying to protect

Re: [PLUG] Weird microSD failure

> > -wes > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:08 PM, Tim Garton <garton@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Don't you need a "count=#" option to dd as well? Not at a computer right > > now otherwise I'd be able to check if that's the case... > > > > On Mar 6, 20

Re: [PLUG] MS-DFS a no go.

You have a few options here: 1. You could provide Linux file access on the back of your enterprise filer. Filers can speak NFS and Kerberos. Bypassing the windows hassle altogether. Although, probably not AD, these days. 2. Your Linux joins the AD, then you manage users via AD as you would on

Re: [PLUG] How to confirm my router is safe

Every time I hear about MAC address filter - I wonder who are we trying to secure the network from. It can make things difficult for friends who we not only need to tell your password, but also go to the office, turn on the PC, figure out their MAC and white list it. Quit a bit of a hassle for

Re: [PLUG] Found unopened WinXP install disk + license - any takers?

The XP pack is taken. Thank you for all the responses, I would have never expected so much interest. -T On Apr 15, 2018 4:16 PM, "Tomas K" wrote: I am trying to rid of some old junk - and found unopened, unused, shrink wrapped WinXP SP1 installation disk with the

Re: [PLUG] Cannot access cell from USB (Chuck Hast)

While this is not direct answer to your question about fixing the USB access on the phones. I too, run into the same problems, especially with newer phoneOS versions. I could not solve it reliably myself by USB, PTP or the other nasty protocols phone makers implement to push people to their

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

I'd imagine that Rich is not using DHCP because he would like to be able to identify the hosts on his network and doesn't feel like doing local DNS/DHCP pair. If my hunch is right, I would suggest using centralized DHCP IPv4 and general network configuration for all hosts + let DHCP assign some

Re: [PLUG] Mount command creates new folders

Mount doesn't make missing mount points. It prints error and fails. It is either hotplug ( not sure if Ubuntu still uses it ) or more likely systemd. I'd start checking systemd and dmesg first. Actually, I'd nevermind. On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 6:09 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 17

Re: [PLUG] Installing VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19

If you are installing Oracle VirtualBox version. Do not forget to uninstall the standard version before you start. On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:46 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 10/28/18 11:35 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > That is 32bit CPU, correct? > > The laptop is 64 bit, and tha

Re: [PLUG] Installing VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19

That is 32bit CPU, correct? If yes, you might try searching if the missing packages exist for 32bit CPU. On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 3:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > Is anyone using VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19? > > I followed the instructions at: > > >

Re: [PLUG] Neo900 (was: handheld data collection)

It was probably mentioned her before - Purism is working on their Librem 5 smartphone. That one should be pretty open and free out of the box. That is perhaps the easiest and the only free user serving smartphone since the failed Ubuntu phones. Check it out at https://puri.sm/ Maybe that is

Re: [PLUG] rsync: worked once now perms error

I would not think that you want to really set any directory in /opt as 777. So that anything could write or delete stuff there. -T On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 2:17 AM david On 11/11/18 7:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >Yesterday rsync copied ~/ from the current desktop (salmo) to the new > >

Re: [PLUG] Hard drive: size discrepancy

Disks we're not limited to <3 TB on 32b systems. The only limit there ever was old MS FAT. T On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 2:54 AM Rich Shepard On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > How is the disk connected to your system? USB? Perhaps this applies: > >

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

I have found this regular rsync aproach inadequate with constant babysitting sideffects. These are desktops, so network filesystem would resolve this and more. On laptops, I would recommend to use something like NextCloud synchronizing to a master location. Those two options do work better for

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Quantum 60.2.1.esr lost saved passwords - downgrade

FWIWI, I have seen no Firefox issues whatsoever on both openSuse and 16/18 LTS Ubuntu branches. Release notes would most likely mention settings location change and how to proceed with the upgrade. I'd guess. -T On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 1:37 PM Russell Senior wrote: > In my brief investigation,

Re: [PLUG] question on system

When looking at the requirements 200-500 users - I cannot imagine any practically useful scenario without single sign on solution al least across the web services and centralized group/access control. With 200-500 users there would be fair amount of user and access management workload. This needs

Re: [PLUG] Play a video from the command line?

While this is not exactly what you are asking - consider installing and using Kodi with wireless mouse/keyboard for playing media. With Kodi - if you can see the screen and have wireless mouse, then you can control the player. Otherwise, wireless mouse/keyboard works well with mplayer from a

Re: [PLUG] Local network routing mystery [SOLVED]

+ 1 working openWRT ERX on my desk too. The router works fine with the original firmware and it is getting timely updates from Ubiquti too. It is fantastic value and great HW design, from what I can tell. -T On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 5:25 PM Russell Senior FYI, I've had an ERX running OpenWrt for

Re: [PLUG] Can anyone recommend intligent way to debug not executing CGI scripts on Apache2?

, 2019 at 7:12 PM Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having difficulty to debug why CGI scripts are not executed by > > Apache2, again. > > > > Can someone recommend some iteligent, algorithmical and converging way to > > debug this? > &

Re: [PLUG] Can anyone recommend intligent way to debug not executing CGI scripts on Apache2?

, no messages, no hints. Web is full of similar (Apache does not execute my code) issues with no suggestion how to go after it other than eye balling the configs. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 1:31 PM Paul Heinlein On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Yes, the file serving part works, and is o

Re: [PLUG] Comcast/Xfinity experiences?

I was Comcast customer - the initial rate only lasted until the renewal - then they increased my rate 2-3x without any notice or warning. So, I ended out of pocket by significant amount. I was unable to negotiate nor to get out of the contract in any reasonable ways. It was very upsetting

Re: [PLUG] Which distribution for new user?

SVG is ordinary Xml vector format description. I generate it as such for my work. You can edit it in text editor and verify in a browser. Tomas On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 5:15 PM Russell Senior wrote: > SVG is scalable vector graphics. You can look at it as text. I don't see > bitmaps. > > On Wed,

Re: [PLUG] Replace the CPU

This so easy to answer: A) get any nice laptop with Linux - VNC to your desktop for speed. B) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+fastest+killer+laptop+in+the+world+ever All laptops are slow compared to desktop, workstation or a server powered directly from the powerplant. Lol, Tomas Seriously, what you

Re: [PLUG] What Comes After Unix?

I would google up Andrew Tanenbaum versus monolithic kernel and look back at the history of this debate. It goes back to 90s - birth of Linux. I am not going to judge it theoretically on a principle. Just observing the real world as it currently is - microkernel security currently comes primarily

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