vpn connection

From: Dennis McClellan pade...@cox.net Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:53:34 -0800 I am trying to install a pptpsetup to use a vpn connection. On the command line I've done this: dad@dad-Satellite-L675D:~$ locate pptpsetup /usr/sbin/pptpsetup /usr/share/man/man8/pptpsetup.8.gz Ya, you got it.

Re: Save me from MythTV.

From: Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:27:55 -0700 [...] The options you are looking for are still in there, they just moved them to be filters, which they were anyway. To get to them, [arcane incantation]. Well hidden! Not so sure about the rationale, as it seems

Re: Save me from MythTV.

From: Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:46:58 -0700 I have been really enjoying plex which is an evolution of xbmc. It has been more stable and offered all the options and features i have been wanting. It does not look like PLEX nor XBMC schedules and

commands

From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:46:23 -0700 I was thinking, I could type in 'sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get upgrade' but what would be a more efficient way? [...] sudo apt-get {update, upgrade} E: Invalid operation {update, This is interesting:

primewire blocked

From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 07:01:40 -0700 I've spent a couple of days now on primewire's support site with no luck. I only got one bit of advice (custom domain: https//primewire.unblocked.pw) but that didn't work. Does anyone here know how to get around

procmail question

From: Sean Roe sean...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:34:11 -0700 Hi All, Im trying to dig up some ancient procmail knowledge and I cant seem to find it.  All I want to do is take a email look at the subject line extract out a variable and use that variable to send the email to an

Recommended laserjet repair.

Anyone care to recommend a (Lexmark) laserjet repair shop? Does anyone DO that anymore? How much would you spend to repair a $540 (now $400!) 5 year old color laserjet? Y'all are laughing, aren't you? I took a 10 year old flat screen to the Geek Squad recently. It did not exist in their

Re: Recommended laserjet repair.

> From: Mark Phillips > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:03:55 -0700 > > When my printer has an issue I do the following - > > 1. Google a repair video [...] > > 2. Donate the printer [...] > > Good luck! Thanks. I took it apart (as much as intended for regular

Re: ... and fingerprint authentication has problems too

> From: Stephen Partington > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 06:01:08 -0700 > > Point being. Passphrase should be combined with biometric. How about one big pronounceable? I've found even large ones (16 letters) surprisingly easy to remember, so I use several. I get them from

Re: new external drive

> From: Bob Holtzman > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:06:29 -0700 > > Take your HTML and. > > My apologies to anyone I've offended with that. It's the ones you've frightened that you should worry about. ;-) I didn't even see the HTML. What damaged email reader are you

Re: Scriptsheets

On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 07:31 +, trent shipley wrote: > > > My understanding is that's a complete programming paradigm. > > > > Fun!  Can you do it with coconuts? > > If you have a very fault tolerant Babbage class computer, you can > probably do it with coconuts. Yeah, physical exertion on

Re: Scriptsheets

On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 17:51 +, trent shipley wrote: > Right, it's not scripting using a classic programming environment, > like VBA, the BASIC that comes with LibreOffice, or  Python.  > > The idea is that you extend the spreadsheet idiom to program the > spreadsheet from a sheet or virtual

Re: 10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 13:36 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > It might be a good idea for you, the Original Poster, to declare this > thread dead, before it REALLY gets out of hand. But what's a kill-thread command for then? The discussion about whether we should be discussing this is icing on the

Re: 10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 16:17 -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: > Ah yes, technical humor! I thought it was "meta humor", but I'll consider it a success. Thanks! > Anyway, here’s a different take on jobs, robots and the rest of us. > > Robots are always going to need periodic updating, maintenance and

Re: HTML5 as JS

Thanks, Herminio, for https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/javascript-trap.ja-en.html in which I was surprised to read the following. It is theoretically possible to program in HTML and CSS, but in practice this capability is limited and inconvenient; merely to make it do something

Re: Debian 9 vs Ubuntu 18

I find myself proselytizing. (Skynet comes!) So if friends and family see something at my house they like I reflexively tell them they can have a similar setup for free(dom). I want them seeing Ubuntu, maybe Mint, because I can't imagine them using anything easier on the non- programmer. And I

Re: Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google?

On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 19:25 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote: > I use Google for the calendar, but make only occasional use of GMail. > > I have this little game of seeing how much I can avoid handing over to Google. > So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google. > I avoided

Re: Let's Encrypt certificates

Hi Nathan, Did you get any help with this, or figure it out yourself by now? I have been doing similar things on a CoxBusiness static IP for years, so maybe I can help. (Also Mike's latest silliness makes me wish for more erudite discussions on PLUG. Smart questions going unanswered only makes

Re: Let's Encrypt certificates

On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 14:47 -0700, Nathan O'Brennan wrote: > On 2018-04-12 11:27, Matt Birkholz wrote: > > Hi Nathan, > > > > Did you get any help with this, or figure it out yourself by now? > > No, to be honest I haven't seen a single response, but I have also

Decentralize the Internet?

I hear tell there is talk of decentralizing the Internet, maybe evenbreaking up the NSA/Google/Facebook duopoly fnord. I am skeptical.It was a journalist, and I had not heard anything like it from acredible source (except maybe the Free Software Foundation, butthey're way fringe). MOST

Re: duplexer

On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 17:39 -0400, Michael wrote: > I got a new printer(HP Envy Photo 7855). It asked me if I had a duplexer. I'm > sure I don't have one but what is it and how would I know if one is installed? It's the dohickey that flips the pages so you can scan or print both sides.

Re: Shutdown and restart issues with Ubuntu 18.04

On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 10:15 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > [...] hit escape at the Ubuntu splash screen [...] as shutdown progresses! Good info. Thanks! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 21:34 +, David Schwartz wrote: > Thanks, but I’m looking for HARDWARE suggestions, not advice on how to > reinvent my work habits. OK, but you heard the part about how your phone, most likely, already *is* this Asus Travelair you speak of (er, of which you speak)? It's

Re: SOLVED: Why I can't 'ssh -fCXY /usr/bin/gnome-terminal' ? Grrrrr....

Hey good to know: --disable-factory. I couldn't get gnome-terminal up after setting LANG=C in ~/.profile. Stderr would get something about a factory timeout. (Moral of this story: LANG=C.UTF-8!) On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 10:08 -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: > I found the solution: > ssh

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

Did those Pi3b+s need, like, Class 10 SDXC boot drives? Do they produce full HD? Do they read from the SD or an external USB hard drive? I tried MATE on a Pi3b but VLC could not keep it moving even when given fullscreen. --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

On Sat, 2018-11-17 at 20:30 +, David Schwartz wrote: > Why is that so damn difficult for people to grasp? The red mist in your eyes and the roaring in your ears is making it difficult for us to "understand". > Rusty, tell your student to keep refining that project, and maybe help turn > it

Re: homewide sound system

PulseAudio can pull/push audio to/from remote servers. They had a decent GUI for setting that up too. This recent(?) post suggests it can (could?) do auto discovery via Avahi.

Re: homewide sound system

On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 12:26 -0700, Ed via PLUG-discuss wrote: > phone call? In extremis. Something that won't bother the NSA during everyday use? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to