Re: [PLUG] Neo900

2018-11-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/12/2018 11:36 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: 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

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

2018-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Smith, Cathy wrote: I apologize for intruding. Cathy, Apologies not necessary. I've been following this conversation and now I'm confused. Is the issue the use of keys to lock down access, or the use of rsync in general? The issue is that I set up ssh on the new

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

2018-11-13 Thread Smith, Cathy
I apologize for intruding. I've been following this conversation and now I'm confused. Is the issue the use of keys to lock down access, or the use of rsync in general? Have you tried to run the rsync without the use of keys? Are you aware that rsync can be resumed? If you haven't

Re: [PLUG] Hard drive: size discrepancy

2018-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Galen Seitz wrote: No, you can't change the sector size. If you have the disk directly connected to your system using SATA, I can't explain why you are having this problem. Galen, It's a naked, internal drive but the adapter I've been using to connect drives to hosts

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

2018-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, wes wrote: You said "rather than ssh" - did you test ssh again after you started getting this error? What command and parameters do you use to make the ssh connection? wes, When rsync failed to connect Sunday I used 'ssh -vv ...' to test since adding the verbose

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS

2018-11-13 Thread Larry Brigman
I think these requirements are about 20+ years too late. Even when there were PDA devices to they didn't have standard USB connections as the connector was too large. The retail market is Android or iPhone these days. To get something close you would probably need to start searching in the

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

2018-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday rsync copied ~/ from the current desktop (salmo) to the new desktop (baetis) using this command from ~/ on the new desktop: rsync -av salmo: . I gave up trying to find a reason for this behavior and re-ran ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, and

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-13 Thread Russell Senior
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:26 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > > I know I have *WEIRD* preferences. > > How should I pose questions in a manner that they would be taken > _ *EXTREMELY LITERALLY* _? You should pose it knowing that you may get answers that don't fit perfectly. You are responsible for

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

2018-11-13 Thread David
On 11/13/18 2:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday rsync copied ~/ from the current desktop (salmo) to the new desktop (baetis) using this command from ~/ on the new desktop: rsync -av salmo: .   I gave up trying to find a reason for this behavior

Re: [PLUG] Neo900

2018-11-13 Thread Denis Heidtmann
A cell phone without a sim card has no cell network connectivity. On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 4:18 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/12/2018 11:36 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > It was probably mentioned her before - Purism is working on their Librem > 5 > > smartphone. That one should be pretty open

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-13 Thread Bill Barry
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:20 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I know I have *WEIRD* preferences. > > How should I pose questions in a manner that they would be taken > _ *EXTREMELY LITERALLY* _? > > TIA > > I think that is not possible. If your questions are so well posed that they need no

Re: [PLUG] Neo 900

2018-11-13 Thread John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com
E911 works without a SIM card. 73 & best regards de K7AAY °|||° j...@503bartley.com 503-227-8539 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-13 Thread wes
If I were in your shoes, I would preface all my requests with a disclaimer along the lines of "I realize I may be the only person in the world looking to meet this particular set of requirements." It doesn't hurt to ask. Helpful people don't like to give up, they want to try to provide you

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-13 Thread Larry Brigman
No offense taken. I have worked as a test engineer in multiple areas and as a software engineer including doing some embedded development. I typically get requirements for the task to be accomplished and some idea of budget. With that information I craft a design or select hardware for a

[PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-13 Thread Richard Owlett
I know I have *WEIRD* preferences. How should I pose questions in a manner that they would be taken _ *EXTREMELY LITERALLY* _? TIA On 11/13/2018 12:04 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/13/2018 11:25 AM, Larry Brigman wrote: The retail market is Android or iPhone these days. So what?

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

2018-11-13 Thread Johnathan Mantey
I have not watched any of these vids, so I can't say how apropos the contents are to your search. I do know that one of the devices is kaput (PocketChip). 5 hand held linux computers under 200 compared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXNllO79_68 Noodle Pi - Linux powered modular PDA:

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS

2018-11-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/13/2018 11:25 AM, Larry Brigman wrote: The retail market is Android or iPhone these days. So what? Consumers are sheep herded by Madison Ave. I can not be the only one looking for something very similar. Other wise there would not be so many crowdfunding projects that only failure

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

2018-11-13 Thread wes
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:56 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Smith, Cathy wrote: > > > I apologize for intruding. > > Cathy, > >Apologies not necessary. > +1 to this: we just jump in whenever we feel we can be helpful. Occasionally this leads to confusion and chaos, but it's