Re: [PLUG] Communicating with digital camera via USB

2020-06-30 Thread King Beowulf
On 6/23/20 8:21 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I have a Canon EOS Rebel T3 digital camera and just purchased a USB cable > that is supposed to work with this model. When I connect the camera to a > USB > port on the desktop /var/log/messages reports: > > Jun 23 08:05:32 salmo kernel: [1090432.979576]

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 09:37 AM, David Bridges wrote: There is a difference between the installer and installing packages on an installed system. That is the *CRUX* of the situation. I already have absolute control over adding new packages to an existing system. I want that level of control during

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 12:22 PM, Mike C. wrote: When you start the installer if you choose the Expert installation (I believe under advanced section) or if you press the Escape key and type expert at the boot prompt you can get a very minimal system installed although there will be a few more questions

Re: [PLUG] Accountability OSS...

2020-06-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:52:57 -0700 "Mike C." wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Bill Barry > wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020, 11:43 AM wrote: > > > > > I want to bring open source high quality accountability software > > > to Linux and I want the software to be supported for an

[PLUG] Debian live-tools

2020-06-30 Thread Russell Senior
I happened to log into one of my VMs, a debian buster, and tried to run uptime. I got a message about a missing library, and searching the web, discovered an old bug report about something not being cleaned up properly on a dist upgrade (this started out as a Debian 7, now Debian 10. The package

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm going to look for a preamp for this dynamic microphone or an adapter for the audio cable to USB. There are multiple XLR-USB adapters with built-in preamps/gain boosters. The AT2005USB comes with an XLR cable so that's the solution. However, some

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Dick Steffens wrote: Here's an interesting Wikipedia article on the subject of balanced audio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_audio And here's another one with pretty pictures: http://www.aviom.com/blog/balanced-vs-unbalanced/ Thanks, Dick. Since the AT2005USB

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Dick Steffens wrote: At any rate, you should be able to tell if your mic is balanced by the kind of connector it has. XLR connectors are balanced. Here's an interesting Wikipedia article on the subject of balanced audio: Dick, The AT2005USB has both USB-C and XLR ports

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/30/2020 12:47 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: antiX is a small footprint live CD based on Debian. I know it has an installer, but think it kind of keeps running a static filesystem on your hard drive then and runs like a live cd that has been installed. Not sure if there is a regular installer.

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

2020-06-30 Thread David Bridges
On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 05:57 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 09:37 AM, David Bridges wrote: > > There is a difference between the installer and installing packages > > on > > an installed system. > > That is the *CRUX* of the situation. I already have absolute control > over adding

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Dick Steffens
On 6/30/20 7:01 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm going to look for a preamp for this dynamic microphone or an adapter for the audio cable to USB. There are multiple XLR-USB adapters with built-in preamps/gain boosters. The AT2005USB comes with an XLR

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: You have said earlier that the microphone is connected by USB to your computer. That USB connection is the audio card for the microphone. No matter what you other card you add to your PC, the microphone will still work through the build in USB sound

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Someone probably mentioned here already - the fastest and cheapest way to go about this is to get cheapest headset for cellphone in a local store and use that to compare the results. Perhaps the whole issue is with SW. There is no point in getting XLR gear until you know that you need it. Maybe

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

2020-06-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Someone probably mentioned here already - the fastest and cheapest way to go about this is to get cheapest headset for cellphone in a local store and use that to compare the results. Cheap does not always equal quality. What passes for good enough on a

[PLUG] HSTS youtube and Firefox...

2020-06-30 Thread michael
I"m trying to do https through a squid proxy. Firefox is too strict about the fact that squid is there and bombs out with a hypertext strict transport security error. Chrome meanwhile has no such error and seems to work without skipping the proxy server. Franz 5.5.0 beta 4 doesn't work