Re: [PLUG] Checking external hard drive

2017-11-20 Thread Roderick Anderson
Rich, Did you check your fstab for correct entries? I just had an embarrassing episode with a system I supported and I had physically disconnected a drive but left the fstab entry. This on a server that ran for months (years?) without reboots. Then the last time when the UPS ran down while

Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe

2018-11-02 Thread Roderick Anderson
Rich, It's been years since I wrote procmail scripts but the thing that jumps out at me is the position of the asterisk. Should it go before the period? Rod -- On 11/2/18 1:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:   I've still not corrected procmail's putting messages from one mail list in my inbox.

Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe

2018-11-02 Thread Roderick Anderson
Yup. It's been awhile!  Rod -- On November 2, 2018 16:22:13 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Roderick Anderson wrote: It's been years since I wrote procmail scripts but the thing that jumps out at me is the position of the asterisk. Should it go before the period? Rod

Re: [PLUG] Installing VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19

2018-10-29 Thread Roderick Anderson
Dick, I haven't followed this thread so I may be completely off base. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish you might look at KVM or Wine. Several HAMs and Linux users succeeded getting a Window only HAM radio logging program running on Linux. I had tried several times before but

Re: [PLUG] Postfix Address Verification...

2018-11-15 Thread Roderick Anderson
I should suggest looking at postgrey. Back many years ago (in a previous life/job) I sent up 6 or so MX servers (forwarders) for a small ISP. Once I got postgrey installed and running I saw 90%+ drop in SPAM to just my email address. YMMV, Rod -- On 11/15/18 10:47 AM, Michael Christopher

[PLUG] LibreOffice tutorials?

2018-11-06 Thread Roderick Anderson
Sorry for being off topic but my Google foo is failing me. I'm am trying to create a Writer Form that doesn't need an external database. The form will be a membership application the user can fill out and print. The more common fields are working but when I try to create a list box it

Re: [PLUG] Rsync again

2018-10-06 Thread Roderick Anderson
On 10/06/2018 02:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 12:23:04 -0700 Erik Lane dijo: That would be nice to be able to stop it in that way. I'm not a Linux guru, so I'd also like to hear if there's some way to do that. However, I just wanted to say that I always use -P as one

Re: [PLUG] USB to SCSI?

2018-11-30 Thread Roderick Anderson
On 11/30/18 8:16 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 11/29/18 9:55 PM, Russell Senior wrote: I don't know that I've ever seen a usb-scsi adapter in the flesh. It does seem from an amazon search that they do exist. I saw that, too. But I've been bitten by things like this before, where it works

Re: [PLUG] UPDATED PLUG Meeting: Rapid web application development with Angular

2018-12-06 Thread Roderick Anderson
Michael, You should check your Sent folder. I believe Mailman scrubs the To: of the originator's address. Rod -- On 12/6/18 10:22 AM, Richard England wrote: CC: yourself on your messages, Michael.  Gmail will not send email to you if you are the originator of the message. On 12/6/18 10:13

Re: [PLUG] Color Laser/LED Multifunction Printers?

2019-01-07 Thread Roderick Anderson
=UTF8=1 On Jan 4, 2019, at 12:11 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: I seem to remember at least two threads last year about printers. Didn't follow them then but now I am in the market. :-/ All the 'Best of/for' articles aren't helping. Anyone know of a chart listing features for a lot of the printers

[PLUG] Color Laser/LED Multifunction Printers?

2019-01-04 Thread Roderick Anderson
I seem to remember at least two threads last year about printers. Didn't follow them then but now I am in the market. :-/ All the 'Best of/for' articles aren't helping. Anyone know of a chart listing features for a lot of the printers? Heck I'd take recommendations. LED or laser (not

[PLUG] LibreOffice Base experience?

2019-01-26 Thread Roderick Anderson
Anyone have experience building a non-trival DB application using LibreOffice? My forehead is hurting. Mostly it appears to be issues with using Firebird or SQLite3. I'm currently working on a Linux Mint 18.3 system with LibreOffice 6 installed from a non-Repo .deb. I think I got crazy

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice Base experience?

2019-01-27 Thread Roderick Anderson
version of LO Base. Again thanks for the reply. 73, Rod -- On 1/26/19 4:23 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, Roderick Anderson wrote: Anyone have experience building a non-trival DB application using LibreOffice? Rod, Tried it a couple of times and gave up. I think I got crazy

[PLUG] circuit design and simulation software

2019-03-21 Thread Roderick Anderson
I'm looking into circuit design and simulation ... for the sub-novice and lazy person. I've had one electronic technician class circa 1978, one circuits class circa 1982 and almost no experience in the field. Now I'm interested in playing around with some circuits I've run across for

Re: [PLUG] SSD Advice Needed

2019-05-23 Thread Roderick Anderson
Michael, Chuck; Quick message as I'm heading out the door for a meeting. Am I understanding correctly. You have N3FJP running on a Linux system - the server? Rod - K7ZBE -- On 5/22/19 10:53 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: Ahh, field day, yes I can see now exactly what you are looking for. And yes

Re: [PLUG] Distro suggestions

2019-06-29 Thread Roderick Anderson
My call is Linux Mint. I was a Redhat based user for years starting with Redhat. Used Fedora for classes at the local community college. Shifted to CentOS for servers and desktop. Tried one of the first Ubuntu and hated the user interface. Lots of folks from the local Linux user group

Re: [PLUG] annotate photos

2019-11-17 Thread Roderick Anderson
Perhaps this would work. I haven't followed the thread too closely so I may be way off base in what is needed. Annotating Let’s annotate our image with some text so we know what we’re looking at. We can set the -gravity (where the annotation should occur), a background colour (from a

Re: [PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread Roderick Anderson
xxd? Quick example. xxd SQLite-ODBC.txt : 7375 646f 2061 6464 2d61 7074 2d72 6570 sudo add-apt-rep 0010: 6f73 6974 6f72 7920 2d79 2070 7061 3a6c ository -y ppa:l 0020: 696e 7578 676e 6475 2f73 716c 6974 6562 inuxgndu/sqliteb 0030: 726f 7773 6572 0a73 7564 6f20 6170 742d