Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-05-09 Thread Tomas K
Thanks all for trying, I really appreciate it. I am now confused, on the top of just not knowing. I guess, I was naive to seek simple functional description after seeing all those mountains of buzzwords on compiz.org.  It gets even worse with more unknown stuff such as Aero and Mac OS - GPU and

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 18.04 frustrations

2018-05-17 Thread Tomas K
I'd be rather careful with modifying users on existing system - unless you know exactly what you are doing. It can have pretty nasty side effects appearing/re-appearing and entertaining you for long time to come, at the 'best' possible times. Local users and file ownership in Linux is established

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 18.04 frustrations

2018-05-16 Thread Tomas K
Great to hear that the file copy problem is out of the way.If you keep that rsync command in your toolbox, it works incrementally. The next time you run it, it will only copy new files on the other way. If you change the source and destination, it will copy new files to the other machine. To see

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-05-19 Thread Tomas K
be good UI element - not in the way of anything, not distracting me from writing this. If I remember, I will ask you some day to point finger at it and show me. :-) Tomas On Sat, 2018-05-19 at 12:04 -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 05/09/2018 02:18 AM, Tomas K wrote: > > Thanks all for

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 18.04 frustrations

2018-05-17 Thread Tomas K
should, you can do it this way: sudo chown -R $USER /media/dick/a857c2f6-6e1a-4afe-9d6e- 8109105a740/someDirOrFile Then, you can try if your access to the disk is any better. Hope it helps,Tomas On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 09:00 -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/16/2018 01:48 AM, Tomas K wrote: > &

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

2018-06-18 Thread Tomas K
On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 20:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/17/2018 05:50 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote: > > Oh... I guess I only answered one question... > > > > > > > To the second question: When you want to do something that no one > > else has ever done, FTFY: or nobody seems to be

Re: [PLUG] Quick question on linux man page coverage

2018-06-18 Thread Tomas K
Did you check if you could install some of the missing man/manuals you care about? Not all man pages are selected for default install. on my opensuse 42.3: installed: sudo zypper search man | awk '$1 !~ /^i/ && $2 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print} $1 ~ /^i/ && $3 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print}' |

Re: [PLUG] New computer

2018-02-21 Thread Tomas K
For what it is wort it 42.2 will not boot your new HW, you either install 42.3 or do not waste your time. I know, I have tried that on the same CPU and chipset before. I am not trying to start any flame wars, I just do not know much about this deep into Ubuntu - 42.3 has backported your CPU and

Re: [PLUG] Gaming graphics cards?

2018-02-19 Thread Tomas K
I think that you are against the physics here, not against any particular piece of a software. Normal RGB pixel is 3*8b=24b 1920*1080*24b*30fps=1,492,992,000 Yes, that is 1.5Gb/s just in raw pixels no image frame or network overhead. Gamers typically prefer 60fps to feel fast shooters and need to

[PLUG] Found unopened WinXP install disk + license - any takers?

2018-04-15 Thread Tomas K
I am trying to rid of some old junk - and found unopened, unused, shrink wrapped WinXP SP1 installation disk with the installation guide, etc. books Anybody needs/wants it? This proposition is/sounds pretty bad, particularly on this email list - but there seems to be some old stuff collectors

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-15 Thread Tomas K
It seems that it would be safer to have the DAS array attached permanently to your NAS and access it over the network. That is if your NAS has eSATA port. That way it would be permanently attached like internal drives and that should avoid these type of synchronization errors - Especially when

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-16 Thread Tomas K
t cup-a-tea. --- Storage is slow, and who likes politics or taxes. Hope it helps, Tomas On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 08:39 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:27:31 -0700 > Tomas K dijo: > > > It seems that it would be safer to have the DAS array attached > >

Re: [PLUG] Indecipherable rsync error message SOLVED

2018-09-29 Thread Tomas K
It appears that you either did not have the directory mounted or it was in power saving mode (disks spun down, etc.) I would recommend that you to either manually make sure that the source and destinations are both available or setup some wait loop in your script to allow and trigger mounting.

Re: [PLUG] Indecipherable rsync error message SOLVED

2018-09-29 Thread Tomas K
settings to set disk sleep timer. It is a great way to prolong disk life and reduce heat and noise. By default it is off. Tomas On Sat, 2018-09-29 at 16:16 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:28:43 -0700 > Tomas K dijo: > > > It appears that you eith

Re: [PLUG] Rsync again

2018-10-06 Thread Tomas K
The answer is - Do not start rsync until your NAS is mounted and working. Simple if statement in your backup script should take care of it. You can do it number of ways - here is one - checking that there is any content in the directory before starting rsync (in bash): #!/bin/bash

Re: [PLUG] NO JANUARY PLUG GENERAL MEETING

2019-01-02 Thread Tomas K
I am be interested :-) On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 19:40 -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > Excellent! Moar days to procrastinate! > > If people want to hear about my temperature sensor array re- > engineering > project, an update to the talk I did in 2013, including zeromq and > software > defined radio,

Re: [PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

2018-12-02 Thread Tomas K
This is turning into general discussion - still I see the original point of this email tread in a need to reuse existing VirtualBox virtual machine image/installation. So it makes little sense to try do anything but VirtualBox. Often, the decision to use vBox was made decade or even longer ago.

Re: [PLUG] Problem with Google Earth Install

2018-12-08 Thread Tomas K
I was kind of curious what is Google Earth. So I tried GEarth on bunch of Ubuntu installs both 16.04 and 18.04 I experienced no problems with GoogleEarth after doing following: 1. Download: wget -Nc https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth- pro-stable_current_amd64.deb

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice Writer: delete character

2018-12-06 Thread Tomas K
Ctrl-d is EOF - I'd be careful here. On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 09:29 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: >    In LibreOffice-6.1.2, Tools -> Configure -> Keyboard allows user- > assigned > actions to Ctrl-D for deleting everything but a single character. Is > there a > way to assign the same function as the

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

2018-11-24 Thread Tomas K
Are you running it as root or using sudo? just checking ... On Sat, 2018-11-24 at 18:48 -0800, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 11/24/18 6:40 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Skip the second argument then, just run "chroot /mnt/hd" > > Always make sure you are root and check for spaces and whatnot. > >

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

2018-11-24 Thread Tomas K
in/bash (checking binary links for the bash program on > your > internal drive to see if it behaves like an executable file) > uname -m (checking the arch that you are currently running in case of > a > 32/64bit mixup) > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 7:01 PM Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

2018-11-24 Thread Tomas K
: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 7:10 PM Tomas K > > wrote: > > > If I'd to make a bet - I'd be betting on some /lib versus /lib64 > > snafu > > while running from live cd/dvd/usb > > > > If that is so perhaps binding the missing lib or fixing br

Re: [PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

2018-11-24 Thread Tomas K
chroot command simply sets different root directory for a command - thus that command: a) sees different root directory b) cannot access anything outside that directory (aka chroot jail) Example: 1. Imagine you just mounted: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/hd 2. Executing: sudo chroot

Re: [PLUG] Slackware Install, 2nd try

2018-11-25 Thread Tomas K
Beware - this is intended to be funny, but factual post, I cannot help it! This post is based on my speculation, not factual observation. Difficulties with creating bootable disk, especially when using GUIs, are often caused by a defective mouse operator. When USB is plugged in, GUI tends to

Re: [PLUG] how to distribute binary

2018-11-22 Thread Tomas K
Unless you feel the need to resolve your issues: - You might need to distribute in appimage or inside a container for docker. Tomas On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 09:18 -0800, VY wrote: > Dear All > > I am facing an issue and want to get some ideas how to move forward. > > I have developed a Python

Re: [PLUG] Android upgrade notices (was: Wireless access point issues)

2019-02-27 Thread Tomas K
Some times these access points have a rule configured whether you can connect to their web interface via WLAN or LAN only? Did you try to access the web interface from both LAN and WLAN sides? Tomas On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 07:45 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Open read-only partition read-write

2019-02-23 Thread Tomas K
Here is my advice: 1. go outside, away from your computer - panic 2. when you calm down do back and send output of: mount 3. If you notice that something is mounted more than once - and without remount option - wait for other people to respond with ideas 4. If 3. is the case rub your lucky

Re: [PLUG] FYI - ROSEBURG , Oregon HAS FIBER IN ~50% OF COUNTY PER Douglas Fast Net (DFN)

2019-02-03 Thread Tomas K
There has been many replies - I've been diligently removing them because they were all hopeless and/or desperate, despite finding some truth in all them. As you can see, I could not let this go - it is symptomatic to how the society organizes and clusters into incoherent/clan based groups with