Here's a decent comparison of the 2 cameras.
https://cameradecision.com/compare/Canon-EOS-Rebel-T7-vs-Canon-EOS-T6
In general it's really hard to recommend any one camera over another
because everyone's needs are different. In the end you have to just
compare the features and price and decide
Sorry, we had an issue with the data center.
All fixed now.
Brian
On 1/9/24 14:00, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Non of my messages are getting though.
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This particular thread is completely off topic. Everyone is entitled to
their opinions, but this is not the place to discuss them.
As for offensiveness. The plant isn't even built yet and people are
automatically assuming/voicing things that can't be taken any other way
than to know their a
On 2/10/23 17:58, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Second issue, when I search Synaptic for a
program like wine to install, and it lists
many dozens of options; how can one capture
and download the list of optins that displays?
CTRL A does not work for that.
I'd just use apt to capture this
On 2/10/23 17:58, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Now, I need to create a launcher icon on the
panel. How can I do that?
If you are using KDE, just right click on the Launcher icon and select
"Edit Applications" Then just browse to where you want it to appear and
click "New Item" Then simply
On 2/10/23 17:58, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Third question: Where can one find a list of
all programs installed from Synaptic (or apt get)
and the dates of last installation for each?
See if this gets you what you want:
dpkg-query --show -f '${Package}\t${db-fsys:Last-Modified}\n' | awk
webp is awesome, but has the problem that it's relatively new so not
everything supports it by default.
If you want to convert install imagemagic to get the convert command:
apt install imagemagick
then all you have to do is:
convert your_webp_image.webp new_jpeg_image.jpg
That will give you
Looks like the link changed a bit over time so there was an /b/ in the
path. I've corrected the link on the website.
https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx
Brian Cluff
On 12/19/22 07:01, Rob Mike via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Hi guys,
Will there be a meeting tomorrow. If so what is the
In KDE look in the Power Managment -> Energy Saving There should be a
setting on what to do when the lid is closed. You can probably just
uncheck the lid button setting and then it will do nothing.
That being said, I would keep your lid open at least a little bit.
Having the lid closed
It looks like I was finally able to get someone at cloudmark to listen
to me and the PLUG email is now getting through again. For everyone
that hasn't been receiving PLUG email for the last couple of weeks,
welcome back. Please check the PLUG mailing list archive for what
you've missed.
On 9/22/22 12:53, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Another Gimp problem is that its toolbox of tiny icons is actively hostile to
those
of us with lesser visual accuities
Edit -> Preferences
Interface -> Icon Theme
Change"Guess icon theme from resolution" to "Custom icon size" and crank
it
On 9/3/22 19:09, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
I seem to recall you are using some paid for software as of late?
Nope, I'm pretty much using nothing of F/OSS on my computer.
And I think I recall you were using kdenlive at some point in the past?
I still use kdenlive for pretty much
If it's been a while since you tried it, it might be worth a look again,
not that it'll beat Davinci Resolve in features (which I assume you
meant by Black magic design). The kdenlive team did a massive rewrite a
couple of years ago and it was relatively unstable for a bit... but its
had a
What your talking about is a multisession CD.
The amount of data a CD (700MB) or even a DVD (4.7GB) holds is
practically nothing by today's standards, plus a blank CD or DVD is only
about 20 cents. So it's not worth losing data because you tried to get
fancy and save a couple of cents with
Is gimp not an option? It should be good for whatever you are going to
use Photoshop for, and it doesn't require an emulation later to work.
Brian Cluff
On 8/30/22 16:22, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
preferably something I can use to remove flash shadows
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 7:19 PM
Version 3.4 of cairo dock says that it supports wayland.
If you're running KDE, you can load latte dock. I don't know if it
functionally does what you're looking for, but it will give you that OSX
look and feel and integrates nicely with KDE.
Brian Cluff
On 7/15/22 21:59, Michael Butash
Under system setting go to input devices and then keyboard. Under the
keyboard settings click on the advanced tab and then check Configure
keyboard options. Then scroll down to "Position of Compose key" and
expand that. Then just select the key you want to use to access the
special
On 6/29/22 10:22, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Pretty good evidence to refute all the
noise about inflation and shortages.
Except a good 240G SSD could easily be found for $25 a couple of years
ago, so they have doubled in price. I wish they were cheaper again. I
use them for my Blackmagic
Try:
find . -name Marriage
or
find . | grep Marriage
The first one will only match fines that are exactly names "Marriage"
while the second one will match any files with "Marriage" as part of the
name. Both versions in this case are care sensitive.
See the find man page for for variations
It might be worth giving Kubuntu a second try. It's much much faster,
and much much leaner. It also went though an almost complete rewrite
since you last used it. It's a completely different animal these days
to what you used back them.
Brian Cluff
On 4/17/22 09:53, Keith Smith via
MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV...etc...etc are container formats. Think of them as
specialty file systems that hold the various "files" that make up of the
video. Those parts can include the video, the audio, subtitles,
thumbnail images, meta data... etc...etc.. and often time multiple
versions of any
, including the size of the display changes
(fonts increasing in size) arbitrarily and spuriously in
some applications. So, I have to CTRL - repeatedly to
reduce the contents image size.
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2203-26 Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
It says you have a duplicate entry for your goog
It says you have a duplicate entry for your google chome repository in
your sources.list file, which could be in just /etc/apt/sources.list or
in a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d or any combination of the two.
I'd check it with:
cd /etc/apt; grep -r chrome sources.list*
and see which files
On 3/22/22 16:20, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I was thinking of trying KDE, but do I have to re-install a new
Kubuntu O/S to have KDE or is there a way to install the KDE desktop
on my Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnome) desktop?
Strictly speaking, yes you can install KDE and GNOME at the same time,
This is a place for discussing Linux and subjects surrounding Linux.
This is not the proper place for general political discussions.
No matter where you fall politically, you are going to offend around 1/2
the people on this mailing list.
Please take the Political discussions some place else
The clock will continue to keep time, it will just lose the current set
time if the computer is turned off. You might not even notice the
battery is dead if you are running NTP to set the time since that till
set the clock to the current time every time you boot.
Brian Cluff
On 11/14/21
I've never had that problem. I actually do this for every video I've
made for plug. I just use the export audio function from within
kdenlive and then do whatever processing I need to do on it and then
simply save it back out as a wav again (or more recently a flac file so
save space) and
technology is unable to access libdvdcss outside of it's
sandbox?
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 10:08 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
<mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
Sounds like you are missing libdvdcss available from:
https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdv
Sounds like you are missing libdvdcss available from:
https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
Without that installed the system has no way to decrypt your DVDs so
they will appear pixelated
Brian Cluff
On 8/31/21 8:07 PM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Recently I reinstalled
Please keep the conversion roughly on topic of Linux and the topics
surrounding Linux such as computers, software. We can even talk about
politics as long as it's the politics that directly have something to do
with our common interest.
We've been drifting into topics lately that have
You appear to be making it a lot more complicated than it is. You've for
the -F flag on there which means to force the certain options which
might not name sense. Then you've got "-O ^64bit" to disable the 64bit
feature which means you can only have a partition of around 4 gigs max.
Then
Cluff via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:09:34 -0700
I just use a shell script with a bunch of iptables rules in it not
for everyone, but it works for me.
Brian Cluff
On 7/22/21 9:28 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Do you have a RaspbPI working as a NATting firewall? If so
Power supply ratings are their maximum output they are capable of.
Computer power supplies are going to be oversized (if the computer was
built right) otherwise they wouldn't last for very long and would run
very hot. Computers, especially modern ones, power usage is going to
vary wildly
I think you'll find that server of yours used closer to $500 than $120.
Based on the 600watt number that you gave your usage would look like
this on SRP right now under their normal flat rate plan:
Months Number of Days Kwh Cost Machine Load in Kilo watts Cost per
hour(KWH cost times
I just use a shell script with a bunch of iptables rules in it not
for everyone, but it works for me.
Brian Cluff
On 7/22/21 9:28 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Do you have a RaspbPI working as a NATting firewall? If so, what
software and what techniques did you use? On casual
Get yourself a Raspberry pi 4, which should be more than powerful to
learn on, they only use 3.4 watts which should amount to just slightly
more $2 per year, and when your done with your project you'll have a
Raspberry PI... then you can make an any number of awesome things with
it. I must
Looks like the latest version of PhotoPrint is 11 years old, so they
probably dropped it because it's become difficult to compile on the
latest systems and it appears to be
Try Gwenview.
Select the images you want included and then go to Plugins -> Images ->
Print Assistant
There appears to
:37, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
System Settings -> Window Managment -> Window Rules
Click on New
Set the Description to something like "No Full Screen" and leave
everything else alone, it they should all be set to Unimportant.
Click on the "Size & Position"
System Settings -> Window Managment -> Window Rules
Click on New
Set the Description to something like "No Full Screen" and leave
everything else alone, it they should all be set to Unimportant.
Click on the "Size & Position" tab
Check the box next to "Fullscreen" then change the select box
now I'm
willing to live with that. Gives me motivation to look into John's
suggestion of learning to patch the file.
Also found that my firejail-profile package was corrupted and that is
why I could not get --net= to work. Purged and reinstalled the package
which solved that problem.
On M
t;> wrote:
Thank you. The original goal was to add it to the menu in Pop OS.
I'll look again, but don't recall seeing it after I created it in
~/.local/share/applications. Do I need to use "--register-app" to
add it, or should it just show up?
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021
sktop: command not found
./sandfox.desktop: line 5: --apparmor: command not found
./sandfox.desktop: line 6: Web: command not found
Is my file misconfigured or what do I not have correct?
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 5:47 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxl
./sandfox.desktop: line 1: [Desktop: command not found
./sandfox.desktop: line 5: --apparmor: command not found
./sandfox.desktop: line 6: Web: command not found
Is my file misconfigured or what do I not have correct?
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 5:47 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
<mailto:plug-discuss@l
If your root drive is still almost completely full the print job is
probably not printing because the print system is trying to write a temp
file with the print job in your printers native language which can be
quite large and running out of space to write it.
You're probably seeing small and
How many drives are you talking about using. If you have a bunch of
them, like 6 to 9 drivers, you could combine them into
2 or 3 groups of roughly equal size and then make a each chunk a RAID 0
and then RAID those chunks up with either RAID1 or RAID5/6 depending on
how much redundancy you
Under debian based distros, overriding an overwrite of ANY installed
file is easily done.
There's a really cool tool called dpkg-divert that the system uses to
take whatever files would normally be installed and steer them into a
different place so that you can put your own version of the file
I would mount your nextcloud via webdav and then rm -rf them from from
there. That will take care of the database records for the files.
Brian Cluff
On 11/21/20 1:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
moin moin,
I have an old experiemental Nextcloud install where I saved some files
and
to
use darktable to load raws into gimp so I had to reinstall the apt
version. The gentleman that told me that I needed to reinstall the apt
version then told me otto's version was no longer maintained and he
gave me a ppa that is current..
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:00 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG
Have you had a PPA version installed on this machine in the past. I got
lots of errors like that when the PPA version fell behind of the distro
version but had dependencies that wouldn't allow the distro version to
install all it's dependencies.
I was able to fix is by getting rid of the old
Spectacle works perfectly for me. From what you are describing it
sounds like something in Xorg is broken, and I'm betting that you won't
be able to find any screenshot program that won't crash.
You can probably continue to use spectacle if you can find out what in X
is broken.
Brian Cluff
Can you use?
Edit -> Paste as => New Layer
It seems to do what you want.
Brian Cluff
On 10/20/20 4:02 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I think there is a plugin called layer via copy. how do you instaall
it into ubuntu
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Usage: "zoom launch"
$
On 9/28/20 9:49 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
This looks like it's got the info you need:
https://superuser.com/questions/1563255/start-a-zoom-meeting-from-the-command-line
Brian Cluff
On 9/28/20 9:40 PM, Jim via PLU
This looks like it's got the info you need:
https://superuser.com/questions/1563255/start-a-zoom-meeting-from-the-command-line
Brian Cluff
On 9/28/20 9:40 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I already have the zoom client. What do I enter at the command line
to make zoom launch and connect to a
You could use the mountpoint command to check if there is something
mounted on destination drive like:
if ! mountpoint $DESTINATION_DIR >/dev/null; then
mount -t ntfs PARTUUID=c6040663-9321-4d28-91f0-2f3eb35f72b7
/mnt/Ext3TB_Data1/
fi
if ! mountpoint $DESTINATION_DIR >/dev/null; then
g all this, chrome still opens to
a blank or black screen but with the title bar showing
the page to which it opened.
Everything was working fine before I did the first
regular update/upgrade yesterday. Bummer.
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2009-02 Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
apt upgrade only does a
apt upgrade only does a partial upgrade on your system and if that's all
you do, your system can get into a place where dependencies get out of
wack and the system breaks.
instead do:
apt full-upgrade
or
apt dist-upgrade
They both do the exact same exact thing, except full upgrade is the new
On 8/26/20 8:32 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
My desktop would do this with a dongle converter + hdmi cable, some
6ft, one 10. and the displays not starting would randomly change,
requiring the same hard unplug/plug at the DP port. I was hoping the
combo cable would help this trying with my
That's fairly easy and straight forward.
This will only save one page at a time, so hopefully you don't have very
many pages you need exported.
* Open your PDF in Libreoffice Draw
* Select the page you want to export
* Click on File -> Export
o A save window will come up
* On the
On 8/24/20 10:55 AM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I did look closer at the cheap EDID adapters Brian sent, and looking
at like models a few specifically state "not compatible with DP to
HDMI adapters", which is exactly my scenario. I learned trying to use
dp-to-hdmi adapters with
On 8/22/20 8:30 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
I'm a bit more surprised HDMI still this day doesn't support DPMS-type
functions to some extent, even if "legacy" vs. only CEC. Likewise I'm
surprised companies like samsung don't just include a DP port on their
TV's...
HDMI does support DPMS. It
The problem with your setup is that you're using TVs for multiple
displays. Like you said, TV's don't understand DPMS so it's impossible
to get them to power down on command. Most newer TVs do understand CEC
and it's possible to get a CEC injector (I believe NVIDIA doesn't handle
it in their
I played with it for a while and found that the task manager uses the
"General" font size.
Brian Cluff
On 7/24/20 3:18 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
There's something going on with this install. It's Kubuntu 20.04.
Some text is a reasonable size. Some is very small. The text in
title
to restore them don't work. I'm going to try
installing Kubuntu 20.04 on another partition and try it for a while.
I'm tired of messing with the 18.04 installation. Thanks for your help.
On 7/20/20 3:30 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Breeze is refering to the SDDM theme, not your
the oxygen desktop theme. Also, I suspect something else is
going on besides font size because when the font text is small, the
settings show it being the same size as when it's the normal size.
Thanks for looking into this.
On 7/19/20 6:20 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I looked
config file should I edit?
On 7/19/20 3:06 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Looks like it might be a feature of newer versions of the Plasma
Desktop. I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 on the version that I saw the
setting.
Most likely you can still hand edit the config file on older versions
though
://ibb.co/3snzX6Y
On 7/19/20 10:51 AM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I was just poking around the SDDM theme settings and under the
advanced tab I just noticed there is a settings synchronization
button that will allow you to synchronize your desktop settings to
the SDDM theme. That would
:)
Brian Cluff
On 7/19/20 10:46 AM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
If you are talking about the font sizes on the login screen itself;
those font sizes aren't set by the font settings in your desktop
settings. The login screen is shared between all users of the machine
so it has to have
If you are talking about the font sizes on the login screen itself;
those font sizes aren't set by the font settings in your desktop
settings. The login screen is shared between all users of the machine
so it has to have it's own settings.
You'll either need to tweak the SDDM theme, or change
2020 at 4:21 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
> It's a good idea, however I don't think a NUC will have a
big enough
> power supply to support that many hard drives. If you could
ge
Yes, you'll be looking at doing a software raid.
Just curious, what are you needing to get out of a RAID that makes you
want to do it? More space, more speed, or redundancy?
You can get certain combinations of all 3 of those but it depends on
which raid you pick and what settings it has.
Of
scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
maxpower=100mA speed=480Mbit/s
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 4:21 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
> It's a good idea, however I don't think a NUC w
Brian. The hard drive is actually only 5yo with 2 years of use.
What is a NVMe? What do you think about what I';m thinking about doing
with the NUC?
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 3:29 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
You'll need RAM too... didn't see that in the list.
I would also make sure
You'll need RAM too... didn't see that in the list.
I would also make sure that you get a motherboard that has a place for
at least 1 NVMe. Then I would recommend that you get at least one
NVMe. It doesn't have to be huge, but if you can put at least your OS
on the NVMe, it will make your
, and stress ng the temp
was like
68. I don't think that is too bad.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:19 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
> Looks like your drive probably isn't the problem.
Looks like your drive probably isn't the problem.
Brian Cluff
On 7/16/20 11:54 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:37 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
Also check the health of your hard drive with smartctl. I've hard
systems freeze on me because my hard drive
On 7/15/20 9:13 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
the computer gal told me to run it until it dies and then get a new computer.
That's repair person speak for "This is an old computer, and not worth
repairing."
BTW have you tried running tests with a bootable CD? If you can get it
to
ael wrote:
that was it under stress.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
If that's your idle temperature, that is terrible. I'll bet if you run
stress while monitoring your temperature you'll see it shoot up even
higher than that.
(I cook chicken sous vide at 6
On 7/13/20 8:41 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
inxi tells me this about my fans:
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-1: 3139 fan-3: 0
Look at the fan while it's on... does it look like it's spinning? It
possible that it IS spinning and the CPU fan is fimply plugged into the
wrong fan connector
If that's your idle temperature, that is terrible. I'll bet if you run
stress while monitoring your temperature you'll see it shoot up even
higher than that.
(I cook chicken sous vide at 60C)
Brian Cluff
On 7/13/20 10:05 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Do 80 is bad? Mine was at 89 when
Are you sure all your fans are running, including in your power supply?
If you CPU fan secured properly and has good (Not dried out) thermal
paste on it. If you took your CPU fan off and it had some of that
thermal waxy stuff on it and you just put it back on, it's probably not
conducting
Run on the command line:
hostname
Brian Cluff
On 7/10/20 3:07 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I'm on nomachine and I just reinstalled my system which means my host
name changed. How do I see what it is?
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You probably have clogged nozzles in one or more of your color print
heads, but not your black print head.
Have you tried running your printer though a cleaning cycle. You might
need to do it more than once if the heads are badly clogged.
Brian Cluff
On 7/1/20 11:34 AM, Michael via
I believe that muon uses polkit. You should be able to create your own
rules to allow muon to install packages without having root access.
Brian Cluff
On 6/6/20 2:58 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
moin moin,
Is there a way to allow users to install and uninstall packages from the
GUI?
The answer is almost certainly yes, but my biggest piece of advice for
you on that would be not to store anything on it that you don't have
very well backed up. The Seagate 2tb drives are terrible. I have a
100% failure rate on them after about 2 years give or take, and I've
been through a
I believe this page has a well worded answer to your question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18246053/how-can-i-create-a-link-to-a-local-file-on-a-locally-run-web-page/18246357
Brian Cluff
On 5/8/20 11:14 PM, Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss wrote:
How can I get the simple html menu
(example
Short answer, Hugin.
Most programs that process stacked images will offer an option to align
then, which just uses hugin. If your program doesn't offer alignment,
you can just use hugin to align them. When you go to stitch the images
check off under "remapped images" No Exposure correction,
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