Re: rmdir

That's still too dangerous. What I do is first chown the folder to nobody user. Then sudo to nobody. Then I type out the full path to the folder, and use the arrow keys to move to the beginning of the line. Then I finally type rm - rf and hit enter On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 12:16 PM Matthew Crews

Re: Write on PDFs

I've used GIMP before, but I'm a maniac. Just open the PDF. Each page will be a layer. The trick is to export as pdf again instead of "overwite pdf". This lets you select the options "layers as pages" and also "reverse the pages order". This probably totally loses all the magic dust inside

Re: Installing and Updating Programs from Source

You might want to try checkinstall, which solves a lot of the problems of uninstalling, etc: https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: > Hey all, this is a relatively newbish question. > > I'm comfortable with

Re: Need: 2GB PC 4200 DDR2 533MHz

> > Nothing makes an old machine faster than a nice SSD! > One that looks nice. And not *too *expensive. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Need: 2GB PC 4200 DDR2 533MHz

Have you already replaced the hard drive with a cheap SSD? If not, I would do that first before RAM upgrades. On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Nathan O'Brennan wrote: > > I'm trying to breathe some last breaths into an old computer my kids use. > It has 4 slots which are

Re: darktable rebooting computer

4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I an back to thinking that it is the power supply. How can I verify >>>>> this? >>>>> >>&

Re: wired/wireless

03:06.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5362 PCI 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter 03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) Do you still have the wireless in there? I would remove that firewire card too. When you plug the computer into the

Re: Debian Stable vs Ubuntu LTS vs Others for a NAS

I would just go with Debian Stable. You're already comfortable with this. Why not? Then you'd have all the flexibility you need down the road if you decide to do more with the box. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sure this

Re: darktable rebooting computer

> > I ran glmark around 5 minutes and then stress. that crashed the machine! In another thread you crashed the machine without darktable, right? Stop thinking about darktable! :-) On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Michael wrote: > Well, after I edit with darktable the

Re: seeking 4k curved monitor recommendation

I just picked up a BenQ 27" 2560x1440 (100% sRGB). For the love of color don't get a wide gamut display. Get a 100% sRGB Rec 709 monitor and save yourself from most of the color management hell :-) On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Having dealt

Re: Network gurus

2 is good. 8.8.8.8. And 8.8.4.4 Those are Google servers On Nov 7, 2017 2:58 PM, "Michael" <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > is it better to have more than one? What other should I tell it? > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wro

Re: Network gurus

You probably just need to use your desktop environment (gnome, etc) and go into network settings and change it there to a static DNS server. On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Michael wrote: > :: > /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base > :: > :: >

Re: Network gurus

-manager.service > in: > /etc/rc.local > or is there a better file to put it in? > > What are some other servers I might want to include? would I put: > echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8, , Whatever>, "|sudo tee > /etc/resolv.conf;sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service

Re: computer slow

You have onboard video and a separate graphics card? I would remove the graphics card and use the onboard for a while. If it doesn't crash you know it is related to that card. Have you already ruled out overheating by opening the case and blasting it with a fan? On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 7:45 PM,

Re: computer slow

>> Adapter: PCI adapter >>>> temp1:+50.0°C (high = +70.0°C) >>>>(crit = +72.0°C, hyst = +70.0°C) >>>> >>>> bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sensors >>>> radeon-pci-0100 >>>> Adapter: PCI adapter >>>> temp1:+73.

Re: computer slow

radeon-pci-0100 > Adapter: PCI adapter > temp1:+74.5°C > > k10temp-pci-00c3 > Adapter: PCI adapter > temp1:+51.4°C (high = +70.0°C) >(crit = +72.0°C, hyst = +70.0°C) > > bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sensors > radeon-pci-0100 > Adapte

Re: computer slow

dapter: PCI adapter >>> temp1:+68.0°C >>> >>> k10temp-pci-00c3 >>> Adapter: PCI adapter >>> temp1: +45.1°C (high = +70.0°C) >>>(crit = +72.0°C, hyst = +70.0°C) >>> >>> >>>

Re: computer slow

that with fans and ventilation, etc. On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > if there is a shutoff point you did say disable it? > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, you're on

Re: computer slow

t; >>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> okay >>>> ` >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>

Re: computer slow

t;bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> how long do I let glmark2's pretty horse rotate? >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> okay >>> ` >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Brie

Re: computer slow

I'd wait. If stress alone doesn't crash, run glmark2 by itself. If glmark2 doesn't crash, run them both at the same time. On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > run this now or after stress completes? > ? > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:59 PM, B

Re: computer slow

bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > if it doesn't crash I'll start hounding the darktable forums. > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just started. lets see what happens >> >> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Brien Dieter

Re: computer slow

, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have no sensors running and as for it panicing when warm sometimes it > panics after I run dt 2 minutes after it had been shut down an hour and > doesn't panic even though dt had run10 minutes. > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:

Re: computer slow

Check your bios settings for hardware monitoring and temperature limits. You may have it set with a maximum temperature so the machine panics when it's just warm. Try raising this number or disabling the feature entirely But first check your sensors by installing a temperature monitoring program

Re: computer slow

Sounds more like general overheating apt install stress man stress On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: > You know I'm having trouble running darktable. It seems that after I > start it it runs a few minutes and then reboots the computer. Probably > because I

Re: darktable and gimp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression#Graphics Just use PNG :-D On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > What are the lossless formats? > > On Oct 29, 2017 12:01 PM, "Brien Dieterle" <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>

Re: darktable and gimp

Yeah, even if your original image is jpg you need to save/export to a lossless format after editing unless you are ok with some quality loss On Oct 29, 2017 8:57 AM, "Michael" <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > you mean what I export to in darktable? > > On Oct 29, 2017 11:

Re: darktable and gimp

Use a lossless format, such as png On Oct 29, 2017 7:25 AM, "Michael" wrote: > I was just moding a photo in darktable and zoomed in and found something > that I didn't want visible. so I finished the dt edits and exported to jpg > and opened it in gimp. I zoomed in to blur the

Re: sporadic connectivity

t;>>> b-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb ? >>>>> Will I likely have the same issue? >>>>> I don't really want to spend $76 on two >>>>> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-pc >>>>> i-card-v5-w-full-low-profile-brackets

Re: sporadic connectivity

t; >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Do you think the problem could be the dongle? Would getting a >>>>>>> wireless card resolve the problem? &

Re: Question about APT

; Thanks! > > Mark > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You might have to uninstall and reinstall the client if they changed the >> package names around and stuff. . . >> >> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Br

Re: Question about APT

You might have to uninstall and reinstall the client if they changed the package names around and stuff. . . On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually it looks like it is. Just change your apt line to: > > http://apt.keepsolid.com/debi

Re: Question about APT

Actually it looks like it is. Just change your apt line to: http://apt.keepsolid.com/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Simplex Solutions looks like it was bought by KeepSolid > > Their client is now downloada

Re: Question about APT

Simplex Solutions looks like it was bought by KeepSolid Their client is now downloadable here: https://www.vpnunlimitedapp.com/en/downloads/linux The link itself goes here: http://apt.keepsolid.com/debian/pool/main/v/vpn-unlimited/vpn-unlimited_4.1_amd64.deb So maybe apt.keepsolid.com is the

Re: sporadic connectivity

;> >> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> no I didn't have to do that. this is a private residence with a non >>> business network >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com

Re: sporadic connectivity

Do you have to click agree on a sign in page when using guest? Try going to a url like CNN.com and see if that brings up the captive portal sign on page. On Aug 6, 2017 5:30 PM, "Michael" wrote: > I moved into a new place which offers free wifi (I'm renting a room). I > have

Re: Monitor problem....

no idea > why I didn't notice that but well. Thanks for your help guys! > > On Aug 3, 2017 9:48 PM, "Brien Dieterle" <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Are you sure you are using the right video connection on the back of the >> computer? You might have 2 cards and t

Re: Monitor problem....

gt;>> I did and nothing it didn't help any >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 3, 2017 8:36 PM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptwo...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Also try swapping cables if you can. >>>>>&g

Re: Monitor problem....

Do you mean a startup sound effect or do you just mean a beep noise? On Aug 3, 2017 5:09 PM, "Michael" wrote: I just moved and set my computer up. I get start up sounds and the keyboard lights light but the monitor doesn't work. I put another monitor on the system but it also

Re: Chromebook

Yeah it's a client to help you upload and sync docs to your google drive: https://www.google.com/drive/download/client/ On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > drive client software? > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Brien Dieterle <bri..

Re: Chromebook

The web interface lets you do multiple. Or you can install the drive client software On Jul 28, 2017 7:12 AM, "Michael" <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Each one separately? > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >&

Re: Chromebook

Probably just upload them all to Google drive On Jul 28, 2017 7:04 AM, "Michael" wrote: > Well, my girl's chromebook came yesterday and everything is good. Is there > an easy way to transfer her files into it? > Her files consist of pdf's, microsoft word docs and zip files,

Re: How to make wireless stay connected?

matically. " On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > You probably need the wallet, sorry. > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:47 PM, <j...@actionline.com> wrote: > >> I have several thinkpads with linux mint connected via wireless a

Re: How to make wireless stay connected?

You probably need the wallet, sorry. On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:47 PM, wrote: > I have several thinkpads with linux mint connected via wireless and all > of them automatically connect when turned on and stay connected ... > except on the most recent linux mint 18 installed

Re: New computer.

Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there a way to get them into Linux? >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Are the password saved in internet explorer? Chro

Re: New computer.

Are the password saved in internet explorer? Chrome? Windows credential manager? Take a look at these http://www.nirsoft.net/password_recovery_tools.html If they are saved in chrome or Firefox you can just sync to your gmail or Firefox account to get the passwords over. On Jul 23, 2017 7:22

Re: some pages don't load

Are you sure you refreshed the modem, and not the router? (or are they a combined unit?). It sounds like the DNS server on the router was totally broken and either had some cached records or your computer had some cached records. This is assuming you are using your router for your DNS server.

Re: zip

Yep :) On May 17, 2017 4:38 PM, "Michael" <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gee that is simple. And I suppose 'zip' is the format I should select? > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you use Gnome, j

Re: zip

If you use Gnome, just select some files or folders, and right-click, choose "compress". Choose your format, 7z, zip, etc etc. You didn't specify your desktop environment so I hope this is helpful. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Michael wrote: > I'm looking to get a job

Re: gray card

The grey card you can buy is a known calibrated reference. There's not much point in printing your own unless your printer and computer have already been calibrated with a bunch of grey and other cards and equipment. I suggest you get yourself an 18% grey hat. Then you can just put your hat

Re: (OT) Backup Software Suggestions

Backuppc moved to github and there are regular commits, so maybe it's not dying? The 4.0 beta branch definitely is stale though: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc Yeah, it's not super fancy and the uploading isn't as efficient as it could be for duplicate files, but it is flexible and

Re: fetchmailrc syntax error

Edit the hidden file in your home directory called .fetchmailrc and see what's wrong with the syntax This site has examples https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email/ If you don't know why fetchmail is setup, and you don't have any issues with your email, you

Re: new external drive

by 1. This is a new disk. It shouldn't do that! > I think I should send it back! What do you guys think? > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65349/how-to-interpr >> et-badblocks-output &

Re: new external drive

o lazy to have it detect that you >> supplied the name of the mount point instead".- >> >> How do I discover the device as opposed to the mount point? >> >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Almost looks li

Re: new external drive

me of the mount point instead".- How do I discover the device as opposed to the mount point? On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Almost looks like bad sectors. Might want to try badblocks > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks >

Re: Bitlocker and Linux

I don't see anything there about centrally managed full disk encryption for Linux with bitlocker. There are products out there but no way a shop is going to invest in multiplatform solution just for one person. I would look at doing native Linux encryption (whatever the distro offers during

Re: rsync`

t; /dev/sdb3: UUID="55a828ec-f16b-49ad-846f-8793e6d0ecdb" TYPE="ext4" >> /dev/sdb5: UUID="b45d28c4-edc6-4f9a-a80b-144e20197cf8" TYPE="swap" >> /dev/sdc1: LABEL="KINGSTON64" UUID="3B90-A363" TYPE="vfat" >> &g

Re: rsync`

I don't think your sdcard is even mounted. Try this: http://www.pkill-9.com/mount-usb-micro-sd-card-linux-automount/ Also, until you are confident it is configured correctly, you should really use -n (or --dry-run) for rsync so you don't accidentally... oh, delete everything :-) On Mon, Oct 10,

Re: Apache PHP 7 PHP-FPM not working

Do you need to a2enmod php7? On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm configuring Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache 2.4, PHP 7 PHP-FPM and MariaDB. > > If I go to the IP I see the default HTML page. I added a file info.php > with download the

Re: GTK3 v 3.10

You might need to install build dependencies. For debian/ubuntu run something like apt-get build-dep darktable On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Michael wrote: > > Well, darktable has a bug fix release and there is something concerning my > camera in the fix so I figured I

Re: MacBook

Enough said. "Natural" scroll is an abomination. On Aug 25, 2016 6:16 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > > Scroll. > > On 2016-08-24 21:14, Victor D Odhner wrote: > >> I retired from my *nix work early 2013 and have left technical >> projects for people activities. I have

Re: removal of previous entries

I think he means Form History. If using Firefox, go to Tools--Addons--Extensions. Search for something like "form history" and there are a variety of tools to allow selective editing, such as this one: http://formhistory.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Michael

Re: other drive

You can use a graphical tool to find what is using space: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ You probably already have Baobab On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Michael wrote: > I set my computer up with home on it's own drive. I

Re: Movie editing:

Try kdenlive and openshot. On Aug 17, 2016 12:07 PM, "Michael" wrote: > If everything goes as planned I will soon be taking people on virtual > tours of the homes I am photographing. Unfortunately that means I need to > learn the art of editing them. What program do you

Re: exposure

2 or more photos are required, the more photos at different exposures, the more range is captured. Each photo only capture a certain range of values, or details. So your EV+2 will get shadow details and your EV-2 will get details in the bright areas, like clouds. Your EV+0 will get the best

Re: Network question/problem

Try disabling dhcp server on the action tec http://screenshots.portforward.com/routers/Actiontec/PK5000_-_Qwest/DHCP_Settings.jpg On Jun 13, 2016 6:28 PM, "Michael" wrote: > it is a dsl modem model pk5000 > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Michael wrote:

Re: Preferred loop structure not working in bash 4.2

Are you running with sh or with bash? This post might be relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13085253/writing-a-for-loop-in-bash-using-a-variable On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > In centos7, bash 4.2, I am rejected when I

Re: remote ssh commands

You probably have a blank line in your serverlist.txt, resulting in $server being null: ping .localdomain PING .localdomain(localhost (::1%1)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from localhost (::1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.017 ms 64 bytes from localhost (::1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms On Tue, May

Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

Try clicking the help ? Button then troubleshooting information. Then try the refresh Firefox button. If that doesn't help you could rename the hidden Firefox folder in you home directory. Might be .mozilla Maybe you could create a new user and see if that user has issues, then you know it is

Re: rsync problem

Well it is formatted for Windows vfat but it is mounted RW so there was probably an error that caused it to remount read only. I'd backup any data you need off that drive and run sudo umount /dev/sdd1 sudo fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdd1 to check and repair filesystem errors. On May 10, 2016 3:39 AM,

Re: rsync problem

Your file system is mounted read only. Is it NTFS? You need to mount it RW. NTFS might require additional tools On May 9, 2016 7:21 PM, "Michael" wrote: > what about this: > "read only file system" thing? > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Sesso wrote:

Re: Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

My guess is you are looking at the meta package that installs everything for libreoffice. Go ahead and select it and it should install base too. On Apr 21, 2016 5:19 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running Mint 17 KDE and want to use Libre Office Base to

Re: 32-bit Flash?

PepperFreshplayer might work; it downloads chrome and extracts the flash plugin. I have no idea if it will download the 64bit chrome and if that will work for 32bit FF, though. https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer/Installing Mind you, the update script broke recently, but there is a patch

Re: add-apt-repository

ed. > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The "do" will execute the command without a /r, but it didn't break the >> command either. It looks like one of your ppa does not support the version >> of your Ubuntu

Re: add-apt-repository

n Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> DUH! I should have looked at it and figured it out. Thanks for that buddy. >> >> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brien Dieterle <bri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Put the sudo in front of

Re: add-apt-repository

Put the sudo in front of the add add repo command, or see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10889072/using-sudo-with-for-loop On Mar 25, 2016 8:00 PM, "Michael" wrote: > not quite: > > sudo for rep in ppa:dhor/myway ppa:hugin/hugin-builds > ppa:mc3man/trusty-media