Re: [PLUG] 1TB Samsung SSD (Magician), filesystems

2023-09-23 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . SSDs do control sector mapping to their physical flash blocks. So, it does not matter if OS tries to write to the same sectors over and over. The drive will always do wear leveling. If you want to make sure that your partitions maintain their real sizes due to bad flash block/cell tagging

Re: [PLUG] Debian 12 on VirtualBox

2023-09-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 16:02 Nat Taylor wrote: > Another option might be to install Gnome Boxes > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/ > . Well yes ... there are a few genuinely rational needs for vbox on linux - legacy VM which cannot be rebuilt (winXP, Win7, old no longer

Re: [PLUG] Debian 12 on VirtualBox

2023-09-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 13:13 John Jason Jordan wrote: > ... snip ... > Before someone takes the trouble to point out to me that to make shared > folders work you need to have VirtualBox, the Guest Additions, and the > Extensions all installed, and each of the same version. Yes, I do have > all

Re: [PLUG] Mint, Ubuntu, Debian (and Centos and Redhat/IBM)

2023-09-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 05:06 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I spent two hours trying to get Virtualbox to recognize either the > optical drive or a USB drive where I had installed the Live Debian 12 > ISO that I downloaded. I finally succeeded at getting the virtual > machine to use the optical

Re: [PLUG] Zoom error 10?

2023-08-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . +1 for zoon in browser (firefox) I also sometimes use cell phone android - both browser (firefox) and zoom app - phone allows me to move around and do my things or travel better. So, no experience with linux zoom. -T >

Re: [PLUG] SSD swap partition and/or swap file

2023-07-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 19:05 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Snip - looking for the question... > > "Optimum SSD swap? ?? ???" > . My recommendation depends on your filesystem: a. No COW filesystems such as ext*, xfs, ... --> use swap file of pre-allocated size. It is more flexible (you can adjust

Re: [PLUG] Absolute vs. Relative sound level?

2023-07-23 Thread Tomas Kuchta
- pavucontrol - On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 01:03 Dick Steffens wrote: > Is there a way to view and change the sound level in Linux? I'm > interested in knowing what the hardware setting is for playing sound. I > know I can change the level with the + and - keys on my laptop, or also > from the

Re: [PLUG] Question on USB audio drivers in linux and Logitech H390 Headphones

2023-07-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 16:49 Russell Senior wrote: > > Did you find this? > >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776995 > > It suggests a fix using pactl. > > Tomas has wisely suggested in the past that virtually all problems can > be solved with some combination of Sugru and

Re: [PLUG] Question on USB audio drivers in linux and Logitech H390 Headphones

2023-07-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . I have fwup working and updating FW on recently released openSuSE 15.5. Perhaps you could boot to it from USB stick and try if that helps with fwup or/and the sound problem. That said, openSuSE 15.x is staying behind on old (2-ish years) kernels in order stay in sync with their enterprise

Re: [PLUG] Sluggish response

2023-06-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 01:41 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > If it is a magnetic media drive that is older the drive could be suffering > end stage sector failure where the bad sector table is filled up. I've > seen it many times and it always makes the drive get very slow > > Ted. > Bad sectors

Re: [PLUG] Question on a quick CLI program for validating a csv file

2023-05-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
awk -F, '{ print NF }' On Sat, May 20, 2023, 20:37 American Citizen wrote: > Hello all: > > I am using the xsv program for most csv file operations since it is > quite fast. > > There is one command which I wish it had, called "length" which would > give the fields per record (delineated by a

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts?

2023-05-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . > I'd think that Russell's suggestion about backup + reset to factory + update to the latest firmware + reconfigure is the least costly and intrusive option to start with. If you still cannot connect to the wifi hotspot after that - then it would be prudent to start trouble shoot. Let's

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts?

2023-05-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . Before disposing of your hotspot + cell provider and getting someone elses phone replacing the hotspot. I would very carefully study the terms and conditions. I cannot believe that someone here would be promoting any "Unlimited" plan as unlimited in dictionary terms when it comes to telco

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts?

2023-05-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . +1 for checking that there is single network with/in 192.168.1.0/24 If both/all sides use that network range, thing will likely not work. -T >

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts?

2023-05-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, May 10, 2023, 17:47 Michael Barnes wrote: > I have a local network using an Ubiquiti Bullet M2 feeding a Netgear router > that serves my various devices. The Bullet serves as an access point and > pulls from an available wifi source. > I got a hotspot from Verizon for internet access.

Re: [PLUG] What are the permissions for .ssh/authorized_keys?

2023-04-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You can stop the sshd service on the server, then start it interactively with - - then try connecting from the client to see the server response in your server shell. If you find this not helpful - please just ignore it. No comments necessary. -T On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 09:53 Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Venue for next month ...

2023-03-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 13:59 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > IMHO the problem with that is an excessive number of MAX stations. > > When I was in NYC I noticed very few stations downtown on the rail. You > got on at penn station then the train flew out to the bouroghs. And that > thing moved damn

Re: [PLUG] Powered USB-A hub - LSUSB MaxPower

2023-01-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 22:16 MC_Sequoia wrote: > You want to a guess what the MaxPower is listed for the Logitech V20 > portable usb speakers are that are plugged into my pc? > > I'll give you one guess. > > Yep, MaxPower is listed as 590 mA > > "The USB 1.x and 2.0 specifications provide a 5 V

Re: [PLUG] question on how to fix a mysterious DNS address problem

2023-01-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
As you already discovered 10.0.18.1 is not routable private IP. You ISP (Comcast) does not put cable customers behind GNAT, I believe - so, as already mentioned above it is likely openSuse not your ISP "feature". If you run out of ideas, and following the comments in resolv.conf didn't get you

Re: [PLUG] LiFePO4 UPS?

2023-01-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023, 16:22 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I have an ancient Tripplite 700VA UPS, which is briefly > triggered maybe twice a year, and needs a new sealed lead > acid (SLA) battery maybe every two years. Oh boy, more > toxic waste, and shopping trips, and disposal trips. > >

Re: [PLUG] Adding an AppImage to a panel in Xubuntu

2023-01-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try $HOME/ Instead of ~/ On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, 14:29 Dick Steffens wrote: > I am using OpenShot, which is distributed as an AppImage. To run it I > have to double click on it's icon in whatever directory I stash it. I'd > rather have an icon on the panel I have at the bottom of my screen

Re: [PLUG] Restart mdadm? SOLVED

2022-11-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
TB is hot plug interface. As such, I'd sort of expect that HW and SW assumes that it can safely traverse power states and that connection resets may be OK. If that is what is happening, it is of course pretty nasty thing to do to md arrays. Native higher level file systems btrfs/zfs may fare

Re: [PLUG] SSH to external site not responsive

2022-11-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
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. You may need to reach out to admins to enable ssh for you, if they support it or get VM from someone like AWS, linode, etc. Hope that

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

2022-11-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I am curious what distro are you running? I am running openSuSE and usually clock up about half year on the KDE session before some update forces reboot. I keep it running 24/7 to pull emails local, monitor environment (temp/humidity), VPN, remote desktop, other services. I have not

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 11:29 Galen Seitz wrote: > > Huh. I didn't know that the Compose key could be used in that way. I > always use it as a separate keystroke, not as a shift-like modifier. I > just tried it here and it works as you described. I wonder if this > works due to key rollover

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 00:57 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > I also switch the keyboard layout while looking at the appropriate country > key layout print out placed above the keyboard. After a while, I do not > need to look at it much. > > All that said, I admit, I am getting la

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022, 23:57 Ali Corbin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:24 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > . > > > Does anyone on the plug list have experience using multiple > > keyboards and alternate character sets? Suggested vendors > > for those keyboards? Helpful Linux tools for

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
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. -T On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 08:32 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, wes wrote: > > > you're missing the MX record from

Re: [PLUG] apology for 2 post

2022-09-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I did not see anything coming from you today/yesterday. Tomas On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 18:17 American Citizen wrote: > To all: > > For some reason my system went ahead and made two posts to the group, > despite the fact that I was working on the post and finally decided to > cancel it and

Re: [PLUG] Music Composing Software

2022-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I used to use Rosegarden for writing/playing scores. Like any of these applications, it need some sort of midi sw/hw to render the sounds. I found it much easier to enter scores using keyboard/mouse rather than by midi keyboard. This is because midi input captures precise note length/tempo -

Re: [PLUG] Off topic but not sure who to ask

2022-09-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 02:04 wes wrote: > they don't care in the slightest. they're just following a script. > > if it was me, I would troll them a little. "I had to break the law to get > my phone fixed because you wouldn't help me." but that's probably farther > than most would want to go. > .

Re: [PLUG] Typing accented characters in text files

2022-09-16 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . I used to just switch the keyboard to appropriate language and print the keyboard layout on a piece of paper. After a while, I'd get used to the layout. Much faster than entering key codes, even if you remember them. It probably would not be so easy in arabic or Japanese That is

Re: [PLUG] Whitespace in Ubuntu 22.04 rsyslog.conf

2022-09-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 13:34 Paul Heinlein wrote: > Just an FYI: > > At work, we use a puppet template to generate /etc/rsyslog.conf on all > our *nix machines. That template was failing on the first Ubuntu 22.04 > host we tried to integrate with our puppet configs. > > In short, certain

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

2022-09-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 15:49 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

2022-09-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 14:30 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:54:06 -0400 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >Try creating link with the name to your current tesseract lib file in > >the lib directory. > > Thanks for the suggestion. However, the erro

Re: [PLUG] Vobsub2srt

2022-09-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try creating link with the name to your current tesseract lib file in the lib directory. Tomas On Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 22:41 John Jason Jordan wrote: > Vobsub2srt has been around for a long time to convert bitmap subtitles > to srt (text) subtitles. It uses tesseract for the OCR work. I have >

Re: [PLUG] IPv6 TCP connect timeout puzzler

2022-09-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Could the issue be that the ssh response is on ipv4, not on ipv6 as expected? -T On Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 10:34 Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Russell Senior wrote: > > > I'm seeing bizarre behavior: host A initiates an ssh -6 to host B; host B > > is a qemu-kvm guest of a kvm host, C.

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 20:30 American Citizen wrote: > Hi all: > > . I use openSuSE for decades by now and I have no clue. I once had similar trouble, over and over fighting with Nvidia. In the end I swore, no more, and kept it by using Intel graphics and now AMD. That kept me out of the trouble

Re: [PLUG] memory and swap not recovered after program kill - some questions

2022-08-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 01:31 Cy wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:23:08 -0700 > Russell Senior wrote: > > > Uh, I'd take issue with "poorly designed". Maybe misunderstood. > > I don't mean the page cache is a bad idea. I mean that "MemFree" should be > called > something like "MemInactive" and

Re: [PLUG] Does an Open Source Thermostat exist?

2022-07-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 17:04 Russell Senior wrote: > I have used a bunch of these: > > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T0K8NXC/ > and > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G7BE9WK/ > > with https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433 and an rtlsdr (like this: >

Re: [PLUG] Need help backing up my data

2022-07-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
> > . How many files/average file size? If you are copying millions of small files, it would be pretty slow to slow SMR disk. That said, you have tone of unnecessary options there. I will not comment on options, you know what you need. Definitely get rid of the print, that slows stuff a lot. If

Re: [PLUG] Formating microSD card for VFAT

2022-07-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 12:19 Rich Shepard wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations: KVM switch

2022-07-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022, 17:56 Joseph Carter wrote: > > > I'll re-learn how to set up network file system (NFS) and use that to > mount > > the secondary desktop on the primary desktop. > > > > Thanks for sharing! > > These days it seems like SMB is the most standard solution for that. I > know

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations: KVM switch

2022-07-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Just a comment about all the ssh/vnc/synergy/whatever solutions - they obviously do not work with BIOS or with full disk encryption (before boot). This is limitation not a bug. So, do not burry your the computers in real hard to reach places. -T

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations: KVM switch

2022-06-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I find kvm switches to be nothing, but a frustration with modern desktop. Most kvm will keep one of the computers disconnected at all times. This results in not activating graphics card output or some desktop size issues. Keith discussed it in older thread. As result - I keep my multimedia PC

Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird Login Issue

2022-06-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
FWIW: There used to be a way to enable insecure applications under google account. -T On Sun, Jun 12, 2022, 13:08 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I use on-line accounts in gnome and/or kde. They are so called "secure > authentication apps". They in turn provide authentication v

Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird Login Issue

2022-06-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I use on-line accounts in gnome and/or kde. They are so called "secure authentication apps". They in turn provide authentication via gnome/kde key wallets to my emai client - in my case evolution. Tomas On Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 23:58 Russell Senior wrote: > And, there are other authenticator apps

Re: [PLUG] Package Name Lengths in different distros

2022-06-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 16:44 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > When you encounter one of > the twits who creates ridiculously long package names, > corner them and blabber about your vacation in Thailand, > mentioning the official Thai (20 second to pronounce) > capital city name frequently. Watch the

Re: [PLUG] Package Name Lengths in different distros

2022-06-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Suse can also have long names. I'd keep the name column text or equivalent. You can always use index or compute name's sha1/256 hash column if you need to speed up searches/joins over millions of rows. Tomas On Thu, Jun 9, 2022, 22:47 Ben Koenig wrote: > --- Original Message --- > On

Re: [PLUG] Alcatel Linkzone sold by T-Mobile, labeled "4G LTE HotSpot

2022-06-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
This thread grows longer and I am still not any wiser how is the whole thing connected and expected to work. My advice is to try to describe how you connect whole setup, in simple words. Please do not assume that we know what is terminal or host in 19xx context, just avoid assuming that we

Re: [PLUG] Wifi not working

2022-05-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, May 2, 2022, 13:23 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I also question why I must be root to fly in an airplane. I do not need to be root to do this - because I am using network manager to manage networks on laptops. Maybe, you also use network manage - in which case you could install + start

Re: [PLUG] Can I enable trickle charging of my USB-C laptop?

2022-04-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You need charger (or battery bank) with the appropriate USB PD version. Most cheap phone charger do not talk USB PD - but - you could get one of those and it should work with everything. USB PD 2 or 3 typically come as 45W or more. 60W ones are pretty small and you could charge laptop, phone,

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS upgrade timing

2022-04-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 13:47 Nat Taylor wrote: > Of some relevance may be Rolling Rhino coming up, and another > alternative that has kept my 20 year old Lenovo x220 chugging along, is > plain old vanilla Arch Linux, with its rolling release. > . I understand what you are saying, BUT, as former

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Calibration

2022-04-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Look for how to rotate the original raspberry pi screen. It is done via transform matrix. If that works for your screen, using custom values in the matrix allow for any transform, including offset, multiplication, rotation and mirror. -Tomas On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 01:29 Michael Barnes wrote: > I

Re: [PLUG] New perspectives Re: Mate, T60, hacks

2022-03-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 17:54 Randy Bush wrote: > i also indulge crowdfunded projects, and partially for the reasons you > state. > > it appears that xue hopes to ship essentially a street rod version of > the classic T60/61 (incl case, display, etc) for about USD 1,500, to > which one would add

Re: [PLUG] Understanding backup rsync error

2022-03-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 09:16 Rich Shepard wrote: > Last night's incremental backup for /home has an error: > Rsync-Errors (/media/backup/salmo-home/20220322-0030/tree/../rsync_error): > = > RSYNC_ERR: > RSYNC_ERR: >

Re: [PLUG] multi-boot linux and multiple windows revs same machine

2022-03-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
It won't work as easily as grub menus used to work, win10 needs UEFI winXP has no idea what it is. Additionally, XP and Win 7 may refuse to boot on anything newer than Haswell CPU. Good luck, T On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 15:01 Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > I need to setup a machine that has Linux,

Re: [PLUG] Seeking eSATA PCIe add-on card

2022-03-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Don't you have free sata port for this adapter? https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-18in-eSATA-Plate-Adapter/dp/B00MOENVOW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=esata+adapter=1647552156=8-4 That shouldn't need additional linux driver. -T On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 16:29 Rich Shepard wrote: > Looking for a PCIe

Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds

2022-03-16 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 14:52 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > esata are standard cables like usb 1, 2, 3, 4. You can just buy them for > a > > few $$ in your local AMZN store. > > Tomas, > > It's SATA, not eSATA. on the

Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds

2022-03-16 Thread Tomas Kuchta
esata are standard cables like usb 1, 2, 3, 4. You can just buy them for a few $$ in your local AMZN store. You keep repeating that your cable is white - Are you expecting someone else to chip in and comment beside earlier advice from to connect some USB 3 device with the cable and see what speed

Re: [PLUG] Website Visitor/Download Counter

2022-02-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 11:22 Timothy Scoppetta wrote: > I may be speaking from the bias of my comfort zone but hosting the pdf on > any modern cloud storage (gs, s3, etc) should give you this for "free." > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 08:19 wrote: > > > > > It’s like it’s 1995 again :-). Here’s a

Re: [PLUG] 22:22:22 UTC 2022 at 2pm Pacific time Tuesday

2022-02-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
When does the Mayan countdown calendar reaches all ? Is there timezone for that? -T On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 23:24 Steve Dum wrote: > You (and OPB) set me thinking about 2/22/22 > Today OPB has talked about today being a palindrome. > Well it is, but that's not why it's so significant. >

Re: [PLUG] HDMI output

2022-02-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 17:58 VY wrote: > Hi All > > I am testing my Dell laptop with a Linux Mint bootable USB drive. > Things are all working except HDMI. > I tried connecting 2 different monitors (using 2 different HDMI cables) but > it just won't detect the external monitor. > > The Window 11

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Such is life with desktop/server these days. It is pretty annoying that the security zealots who implemented authentication for just about anything (filesystem, video, sound, usb, applications, etc.) on your system did not think/care of this. Anyway, the desktop login dialog unlocks keyring for

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I have no intention to judge other people choices - just my opinion + this is pLUG. No usb issues with Virtual Box here for about decade now - using Oracle repo + virtualBox Additions. I have no issues using usb with KVM either. I feel KVM is better and more performant than VirtualBox these

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 08:39 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > Using UUIDs should prevent much of this grief. For example, here's a line > > from mdadm.conf on one my my machines: > > Galen/Tomas: > > Okay. I've six mdadm.conf files here, including

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 18:55 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: > > > I don't know how far into setting this up, but you might want to > > consider a ZFS mirror instead of the mdadm raid1. > > Bill, > > The 'create' function's been running about 2 hours so far. Now that

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
My first X on PC was XFree86 on fairly recent SuSE, think they just switched from Slackware then. Before PC - I used some X looking/feeling thing on sunOS, VMS and HPUX, if i recall these abbreviations correctly. -T On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 17:23 Russell Senior wrote: > My first distro was SLS in

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
ith a needed permission > > > > > > > > > > level but never seen something change without shutting > > > > > > > > > > it down and restarting. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 10:58 AM Chuck Hast wch...

Re: [PLUG] Using crosh shell on a Chromebook ( was: Chromebooks and Linux )

2022-01-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 10:32 Robert Citek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:09 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > * If you have the laptop folded over, in 2-in-1 mode, how can you hold > > it up in the air (like you were reading a book sitting in a > > recliner), without your fingers

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-01-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Like with all other "smart things" you are the product, that thing is just the bait to connect to you I had the same thing with environment sensors this summer. I returned them and got bunch of half price 433MHz sensors + SDR to receive their signals. There are still 433MHz remote controlled

Re: [PLUG] Computer hanging again when loading figure in lyx

2021-12-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Perhaps you run update on some of the shared libraries used by your application and did not reboot. Just a guess, -T On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 17:19 Rich Shepard wrote: > Rebooting the desktop cleared the problem with a CPU core consuming 100% of > its capacity without allowing me to select a

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: No Route To Host

2021-12-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 17:17 Chuck Hast wrote: > RJ-45 connectors are kind of like the Tasmanian devil character with teeth > showing > all directions... Expect to get bit by them all of the time. > . This is approximately the third decade I am wondering about those RJ-x's. Why are they still

Re: [PLUG] No Route To Host

2021-11-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 18:33 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/30/21 3:22 PM, bro...@netgate.net wrote: > > > > Try: > > > > ip link > > > > on ENU-1. > > > > If it doesn't see any interfaces, other than the looback, try > > rebooting it. > > It saw loopback, and one other. I tried copying it to an

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
My X13-1 thinkpad with Ryzen 7 4750U has not crashed in the year I have it either. I suspend it a lot, have run out battery a few times, rarely reboot post update When it was new, it needed newer kernel than in Ubuntu 20.04 at the time though. One of the point releases upgraded the kernel a

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop

2021-11-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Formally only thinkpad line is supports linux and allows hw upgrades. I am not sure if that excludes customer electronics models such as idea pad. There are rumors, not sure if true - I have exclusively enterprise thinkpad experience, that upgrades may be somewhat restricted in bios for

Re: [PLUG] Gawk: skipping first line

2021-11-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Great resource, I use it frequently. On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 14:34 Russell Senior wrote: > Did you look at this at all? > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html > > It is similar to the original book, which I have on my shelf. > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:54 AM Rich Shepard >

Re: [PLUG] Gawk: skipping first line

2021-11-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I answered the same a while back, with similar response. Time to try it! -T On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 13:54 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: > > > So you want ‘NR > 1’ to be a pattern, but you have it as an action. > > Your code needs to look more like this … > >

Re: [PLUG] Presentation mode in Linux Mint Mate

2021-11-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
These days, screensaver is disabled through dBus, so individual applications can, and do, disable it as appropriate. Firefox does that when you play video, libreOffice in presentation mode, etc. Hope that is the case in whatever distro you use. Tomas On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 14:57 Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you really believe that it is caused by the lack of wide screen. You could start vncserver -geometry 1920x1080 Then vncviewer :1 In it open the browser in full screen, load the page, print the page, Get off vncviewer, vncserver -kill :1 Or you could try different browser, such as google

Re: [PLUG] Problem with hplip/hp device manager not seeing printer on same unmanaged switch

2021-11-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021, 16:08 c wrote: > I have a printer connected to the same unmanaged switch as one of my ubuntu > boxes, but I cannot get the device manager to see the printer, even if I > manually add the ip address, both are getting 192.168.0.x addresses. > > I've tried changing the

Re: [PLUG] DNS Provider

2021-11-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021, 11:06 Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Wes is correct + it makes sense - IP owner is the entity which can create > > reverse DNS record for the IP. > > Right. I think DNS has a built-in assumption that domain owners

Re: [PLUG] DNS Provider

2021-11-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 21:28 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:16 PM wes wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:05 PM Michael Barnes > > wrote: > > > > > What an ordeal. I have a security camera system that sends email > alerts. > > I > > > used to send via Google, but they

Re: [PLUG] awk: is field blank?

2021-10-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Awk variable NF contains number of fieds. So: awk 'NF==8 { print }' Will print lines with 8 fields. Best, Tomas On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 11:31 Rich Shepard wrote: > I've a 351K line file with 8 fields. About 50K of those lines has $8 blank. > I want awk to print only rows with values in all 8

Re: [PLUG] Window expansion

2021-10-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 12:16 Chuck Hast wrote: > I will do more looking. I have already gone through the > settings and so far no joy, in Compiz there are Snapping > Windows which is disabled. Under Mate tweak > Window > Behaviour > Do not auto-maximize new windows is ticked. > . I do not use

Re: [PLUG] System D for Dinosaurs

2021-10-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 03:10 Russell Senior wrote: > I've gotten pretty far with: systemctl status, systemctl status name>, systemctl restart , and journalctl -u . > . To add a few basic and useful commands: systemctl enable|disable serviceName journalctl to see boot/service output. The

Re: [PLUG] Mailing List Archives Search Engine

2021-09-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
+2 for google: a) no additional traffic to the mailing list. This could be significant for trivial search engines. b) speed - google responds in miliseconds c) google's NLP is state of the art. No way <1k people team effort could come close to what you get for free. Just my 2c, -T On Wed, Sep

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Constituent Poll 2021

2021-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I love technical topics, even when it is outside of my core experience. They are great for discovering new knowledge and tech. If I could have a wish it would be more of hyperscale/cloud infrastructure talks. What are the trends and useful mainstream tech, how to practically and easily maintain

Re: [PLUG] Audacity .aup3

2021-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Here is fairly unbiased description of what is going on with Audacity. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/audacitys-new-owner-is-in-another-fight-with-the-open-source-community/ -Tomas On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 19:06 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 9/22/21 3:52 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > > On

Re: [PLUG] Terabyte paper tape

2021-09-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You did not miss much. The old tech sucked. I was (un) fortunate enough to experience it, both at home and work. About the only good thing about it was its simplicity and openness. Most of the ancient computers came with awesome manuals for both HW and SW. It was so easy to learn and understand.

Re: [PLUG] Constant Contact html and w3m

2021-08-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 17:24 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Many mailing lists use Constant Contact. The mails arrive > as an ascii version and an html version. The unformatted > ascii version is unreadable. The html version is readable, > but I don't use complex web browsers on random content sent >

Re: [PLUG] Startup Applications Re: two rotated screens with xrandr

2021-08-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You could do even better adding it to login manager. It would apply to login screen as well as all other users Tomas On Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 23:34 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > In the August 9 email below, I called my xrandr script > using .bashrc . > > Wrong, that also adds cruft to an ssh login from

Re: [PLUG] PDF-1.5 docs not searchable

2021-07-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
They are not searchable because they do not contain text to search. Typically, they contain image only. The way I deal with it - I OCR the image, generate text document and place that text into a layer under the image in the output PDF. Having the text under the image layer preserves the

Re: [PLUG] Android Filesystems

2021-07-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 00:09 John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Maybe I need some utility on my phone to get it to read/write to ext4. > Does anyone have any clues? > This has been discussed here before. Still maybe worth of a reminder. I use TotalCommander + its sftp plugin to connect to my computer

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 09:16 Chuck Hast wrote: > For a desktop network manager does the magic. It sets things > up for netplan, the yaml file is the netplan config file. > > But server does not use network manager because it is > CLI only and NM is gui. It does us something called Subiquity > to

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: appending columns

2021-07-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Are you seriously publishing other people SSNs for everyone on the net? If they are real SSNs - good luck getting them off the mailing list and search engine caches. So, so irresponsible. Tomas On Thu, Jul 1, 2021, 17:48 Rich Shepard wrote: > I know how to define and manipulate rectangular

Re: [PLUG] CentOS7 Mounting Remote NFS Share on Reboot

2021-06-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Your mount does not work because yor network/nfs is not up at the time /etc/fstab is evaluated. Also NOTE: you mount external /var/snd to local /var/snd which is definitely bad idea. Both locations exist and are used. Traditionally mounting network storage can be solved by autofs. You could also

Re: [PLUG] *NOT* "how to ask ..." *BUT* "triggering useful ..."

2021-06-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Many of your answers are too elaborate to be comprehended by average human. Especially those of us with strongly developed selective hearing/reading skills. See if you can focus longer: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-technology-attention-span-shorter-goldfish.html The point is the question and

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you would not be hell set against totalComander - it has sftp plugin which allows me to copy files on/off my phone. It is probably faster than USB and definitely without the days of trouble you like going through. Ssh works on most Linux computers, so it is pretty easy to use for non windows

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you are running ubuntu LTS not the latest incarnation - download the latest ISO boot from it to liveOS (they call it Try Ubuntu) - use that to format with exFat - hopefully that is new enough to support exFat without hassle. -T On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 14:41 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue,

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