Re: [PLUG] Cloning a mirror raid

dd from the raid Dev to /dev/sd? On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 6:10 AM Scott Howard wrote: > I need to clone a mirror raid on a linux box to one drive. Any software > suggestions other than clonezilla. > > > > Scott Howard > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxl

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

You should look for kiosk configuration or reuse something like Knoppix. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ubuntu+kiosk+distribution www.knopper.net Tomas On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 8:55 AM Mike C. wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with configuring Ubuntu desktop for a > school, library or non-profit for

Re: [PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

I would also encourage you to look for virtual machine - it is easier, the choice is excellent and it is portable - you can move if you need to far easier. About your original question - the price you were quoted looks OK to me. 15U is huge - it would fit pretty sizable setup such as 14x 1U 2xCPU,

Re: [PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

I have heard that security versus physical HW in colo argument so many times. In my opinion, a padlock is way less secure than well implemented crypto. The only security benefit I see from physical HW would be hosting it on premises - if your threat vector is suponea. Both VM or HW in colo can be

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

This is great technical discussion, thanks for keeping it public. Reminds me my journey where implementing SSO/AD/LDAP - the project scope kept expanding beyond my initial expectations. As per your discussion - this, central, management/authentication needs fully configured, reverse and authorita

Re: [PLUG] Terminal shortcuts

I would check for alias Man alias or bash is your friend. That allows you to assign shortcuts to a command and save typing. Another alternative, more flexible, would be to create wrapper scrtipt or function for your long commands. -T On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 10:37 PM Russell Senior wrote: > You

Re: [PLUG] Application hijacks desktop

Try Alt+Tab to switch to different running application. You could also try Alt+F1 for desktop menu or Alt+F2 and start terminal ... On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:50 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I installed kodi, a media player that is designed to turn a computer > into a media center. It has some int

Re: [PLUG] Introduction - from Niagara Falls NY

Thank you for wonderful introduction. You could teach us interesting trick or two. Off topic, you write "raise" not grow plants. That, in my mind, entails education. Do they speak French, play an instrument or play with kids after Sunday's lunch? Tomas On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 10:09 AM J. Hart wro

Re: [PLUG] ls -d does not work as it should

Wow .. so many responses ... I also feel that I should express my outrage about your daring "ls does not do what it should". Pretty confident statement! Well, the problem is that ./ is the directory you are trying to list in your example. There is also ../ present. These dot names are important

Re: [PLUG] SANE not quite easy - Resolution

I would encourage you to scan a few negatives/transparencies, measure the time it takes and extrapolate to cover all your negatives/positives. When I did that years ago, I quickly realized that scanners are just too slow for what I wanted to do in a time given to me by mother nature - by couple of

Re: [PLUG] Roll-your-own VPN server?

OpenVPN does what you need. There are good clients for almost any device. Servers, can be build and configured on any distro or used prebuild. Tomas On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 5:44 AM David Barr wrote: > Good Morning, > > If I were to build a VPN server for transient client connections, like > mobil

[PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

We seem to have increased presence of spammers on the list either as registered members or someone is compromised. Do you get response from customer support like the one mentioned by Rich couple of months ago or Melina Taylor lovelygirl...@lovelynsacusal.pw or ...? I get spam only when I post an

Re: [PLUG] When {[right question] >= (useful answer)} ?

As root: create a directory in your partition. Then set ownership, group and permissions to that directory, allowing users to write into the directory (ies). Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 1:10 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > This Richard is confused ;/ > > Using GParted I created an ext4

Re: [PLUG] gawk switch statement syntax errors

Do not use switch/case - just use NF==35 {print "I see 35 columns on this line"} ... type of a code. If you need more than that you can do something like this: NF==35 && $2<5 {print "I see 35 columns on this line and column 2 is less than 5"} I guess that is what Russell was saying too. Tomas O

Re: [PLUG] gawk switch statement syntax errors

Jul 2018, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Do not use switch/case - just use NF==35 {print "I see 35 columns on this > > line"} > > ... type of a code. > > > > If you need more than that you can do something like this: > > NF==35 && $2<5 {print

Re: [PLUG] gawk switch statement syntax errors

Maybe you can speed things up by pdf2txt and identify the lines of interest in awk. On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 4:43 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Depending on your awk script and/or your data - this can have significant > > runtime im

Re: [PLUG] IP address for a virtual machine?

It is hard to second guess John's setup - so a few ideas to look into: Perhaps the guest VM is behind host VM NAT - that would require either changing the host VM network to Bridge type or setup port forwarding to NAT VM guest (kind of like you would do on your home router if you want to access th

Re: [PLUG] Casting for an [a|i]spell word

Your words are most likely in a DB or a binary data file --> maybe not the best tool to find them. -T On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 11:13 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > > Have you looked in your home directory or /var? It's very unlikely that > > user alterations w

Re: [PLUG] Returning to SW Portland after 6 Years- Suggestions for Broadband incl Cable , DSL & Fiber Optic.

I do not know all the details, but $115 per month for 75Mb/s internet does not show/prove any ability on your part to negotiate a price. On the contrary. If you think that that is good deal, perhaps because of the 5 IPv4s - I would look into AWS or using IPv6 + DNS + 1Gb/s @ $70/month CenturyLink.

Re: [PLUG] HP Color LaserJet 2500L: no color printing

Can the printer print color test page on it's own? Does it report the new cartridges as full? On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 2:37 PM Rich Shepard wrote: >Asking if anyone now here has expertise with HP Color LaserJet printers > and CUPS drivers. > >My 2500L worked well but I've not used it for

Re: [PLUG] HP Color LaserJet 2500L: no color printing

It looks like your printer doesn't like your cartridges and communicate it to your driver correctly. Perhaps it needs physical service. On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 6:17 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Can the printer print color test page on it&

Re: [PLUG] Three questions - Google Fiber in PDX ? Consider AWS or using IPv6 + DNS + 1Gb/s @ $70/month CenturyLink.? City of Portland & Dark Fiber ?

> services since then ( After the year ~ 2005) using these strands of > Fiber ? > > > Thank you, Mitch Stanley > > > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 12:53:48 -0700 > From: Tomas Kuchta > To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" > Subject: Re:

Re: [PLUG] Favorite Certificate Authorities

Are there any other authorities other let's encrypt with free as in freedom purpose? LetsEncrypt.org Unless of course you need cert for somebody else's web. Tomas On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 12:49 PM Louis Kowolowski wrote: > If you're OK with the added requirement of having to renew the cert every

Re: [PLUG] Comcast/Xfinity experiences?

I was Comcast customer - the initial rate only lasted until the renewal - then they increased my rate 2-3x without any notice or warning. So, I ended out of pocket by significant amount. I was unable to negotiate nor to get out of the contract in any reasonable ways. It was very upsetting experien

Re: [PLUG] Which distribution for new user?

SVG is ordinary Xml vector format description. I generate it as such for my work. You can edit it in text editor and verify in a browser. Tomas On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 5:15 PM Russell Senior wrote: > SVG is scalable vector graphics. You can look at it as text. I don't see > bitmaps. > > On Wed, S

Re: [PLUG] Replace the CPU

This so easy to answer: A) get any nice laptop with Linux - VNC to your desktop for speed. B) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+fastest+killer+laptop+in+the+world+ever All laptops are slow compared to desktop, workstation or a server powered directly from the powerplant. Lol, Tomas Seriously, what you ha

Re: [PLUG] Replace the CPU

I suspected that you will have problem with using DAS when you were looking for that while back. Most people do. That is what NAS are meant to solve. Given what you have - I suggest connecting your DAS permanently to your always on desktop or Synology NAS. Export the storage over NFS or CIFS or bo

Re: [PLUG] What Comes After Unix?

I would google up Andrew Tanenbaum versus monolithic kernel and look back at the history of this debate. It goes back to 90s - birth of Linux. I am not going to judge it theoretically on a principle. Just observing the real world as it currently is - microkernel security currently comes primarily

Re: [PLUG] question on system

When looking at the requirements 200-500 users - I cannot imagine any practically useful scenario without single sign on solution al least across the web services and centralized group/access control. With 200-500 users there would be fair amount of user and access management workload. This needs

Re: [PLUG] Set up default gateway in kernel routing table

I'd imagine that Rich is not using DHCP because he would like to be able to identify the hosts on his network and doesn't feel like doing local DNS/DHCP pair. If my hunch is right, I would suggest using centralized DHCP IPv4 and general network configuration for all hosts + let DHCP assign some de

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Quantum 60.2.1.esr lost saved passwords - downgrade

FWIWI, I have seen no Firefox issues whatsoever on both openSuse and 16/18 LTS Ubuntu branches. Release notes would most likely mention settings location change and how to proceed with the upgrade. I'd guess. -T On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 1:37 PM Russell Senior wrote: > In my brief investigation, i

Re: [PLUG] Mount command creates new folders

Mount doesn't make missing mount points. It prints error and fails. It is either hotplug ( not sure if Ubuntu still uses it ) or more likely systemd. I'd start checking systemd and dmesg first. Actually, I'd nevermind. On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 6:09 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oc

Re: [PLUG] Installing VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19

That is 32bit CPU, correct? If yes, you might try searching if the missing packages exist for 32bit CPU. On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 3:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > Is anyone using VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19? > > I followed the instructions at: > > > https://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/linux-mint-h

Re: [PLUG] Installing VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19

If you are installing Oracle VirtualBox version. Do not forget to uninstall the standard version before you start. On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:46 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 10/28/18 11:35 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > That is 32bit CPU, correct? > > The laptop is 64 bit, and that&#

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

I would not think that you want to really set any directory in /opt as 777. So that anything could write or delete stuff there. -T On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 2:17 AM david On 11/11/18 7:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >Yesterday rsync copied ~/ from the current desktop (salmo) to the new > > deskto

Re: [PLUG] Hard drive: size discrepancy

Disks we're not limited to <3 TB on 32b systems. The only limit there ever was old MS FAT. T On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 2:54 AM Rich Shepard On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > How is the disk connected to your system? USB? Perhaps this applies: > >

Re: [PLUG] Hard drive: size discrepancy

eck if it works as intended 3TB disk on Windows box before returning it. Hope it is helpful, Tomas On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 1:30 AM Galen Seitz On 11/11/2018 05:31 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Disks we're not limited to <3 TB on 32b systems. The only limit there > ever > > was

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

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 it out at https://puri.sm/ Maybe that is what

Re: [PLUG] rsync in a cron job

I have found this regular rsync aproach inadequate with constant babysitting sideffects. These are desktops, so network filesystem would resolve this and more. On laptops, I would recommend to use something like NextCloud synchronizing to a master location. Those two options do work better for d

Re: [PLUG] Local network routing mystery [SOLVED]

I am not sure that it is wise to recommend Microtik. Microtik is favourite of massive botnet builders due to their very closed nature and lack of updates. March 2018: https://blog.radware.com/security/2018/03/mikrotik-routeros-based-botnet/ August 2018: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/securit

Re: [PLUG] Play a video from the command line?

While this is not exactly what you are asking - consider installing and using Kodi with wireless mouse/keyboard for playing media. With Kodi - if you can see the screen and have wireless mouse, then you can control the player. Otherwise, wireless mouse/keyboard works well with mplayer from a dist

Re: [PLUG] Local network routing mystery [SOLVED]

+ 1 working openWRT ERX on my desk too. The router works fine with the original firmware and it is getting timely updates from Ubiquti too. It is fantastic value and great HW design, from what I can tell. -T On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 5:25 PM Russell Senior FYI, I've had an ERX running OpenWrt for

[PLUG] Can anyone recommend intligent way to debug not executing CGI scripts on Apache2?

Hi, I am having difficulty to debug why CGI scripts are not executed by Apache2, again. Can someone recommend some iteligent, algorithmical and converging way to debug this? There is nothing visible in the logs with CGIs, no error messages, no config errors, no obvious file ownership, permission

Re: [PLUG] Can anyone recommend intligent way to debug not executing CGI scripts on Apache2?

Jan 7, 2019 at 7:12 PM Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having difficulty to debug why CGI scripts are not executed by > > Apache2, again. > > > > Can someone recommend some iteligent, algorithmical and converging way to > > debug this? &

Re: [PLUG] Can anyone recommend intligent way to debug not executing CGI scripts on Apache2?

messages, no hints. Web is full of similar (Apache does not execute my code) issues with no suggestion how to go after it other than eye balling the configs. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 1:31 PM Paul Heinlein On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Yes, the file serving part works, and is o

Re: [PLUG] Need new mobile phone; Treos no longer supported

I am pretty happy with Google Fi as a service. If you get one of their fully supported phones - I have Moto G6 for $199 - $100 credit, unlocked - you get to be using T-MOBILE + Sprint + USCelular networks. The coverage and service is decent. Google Fi does not bother me with Spam/marketing and the

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

That seems fine - meaning no disaster in sight. Just reboot the thing and try to use the SD card then. Tomas On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 10:03 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > >Before I do it I want to make a full backup of /dev/sdb, which is a > >512GB mSATA drive holding / and ~/. It is five and a h

Re: [PLUG] CCC

I use rsync to backup data + btrfs snapshots to keep rolling backup history for a few months. I do not backup OS because I build it using Ansible, so I can reliably and quickly reinstall computers including accounts and configuration. That way, I can easily upgrade or migrate to different HW. Lik

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point issues

Check DHCP leases if your AP took a lease. Other than that nmap is the network scanner. I know, you said static IPs... You are debugging unknown problem, so it is usually worth it to verify all your assumptions. Oh One more idea, are you connecting to AP using http or https? Would the other o

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

I meant, regardless how it is configured externally, the AP can restrict access to it's web interface from either of the two interfaces - lan and wlan. If it sees wlan as external, you could only see web interface response from wlan or the other way around. No problem if you think it is not worth

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

Apologies for spell checker changing the first lan to wlan. On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:53 AM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I meant, regardless how it is configured externally, the AP can restrict > access to it's web interface from either of the two interfaces - lan and > wlan. If i

Re: [PLUG] Assigning a name to local machines

If your router can answer dns request ( many routers run dnsmasq service ) then you could have local name resolution working on all machines just by pointing to your router for Dns. If your router does that - just configure it that it hand out its own IP as Dns during DHCP. You should also configu

Re: [PLUG] USB drive

I think that the drive should be asleep before being plugged in. Unless, it is one of those 3.5" with its own power. Perhaps we need to know little more about what kind of drive this is, beside how slow is a slow? Tomas On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 7:41 PM Bill Barry wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:

Re: [PLUG] Locked up!

You have at least these options (from easiest to harder): 1. Setup USB device filter in vBox GUI. Windows should detect it when connected. 2. Copy USB content to a directory, share it with guest and map it as a drive in Windows. 3. Make proper copy of your USB, setup a raw disk vdi and attach it to

Re: [PLUG] Determining if a newer version of a Slackpkg is available

I have first hand experience in the CPU/computing industry. It takes a lot of effort and activities to bring new product architecture to the market. Many of these activities are sequential and just cannot be done faster. This is especially true when the resources are limited. Remember, AMD is rel

Re: [PLUG] Jetway video hardware issue?

Uh-Oh, my ... Dear In that case - something is wrong with your HW - pc, power supply, vide cable or monitor. Can you login to the PC from the network or otherwise confirm that it actually boots? -T On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 9:44 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/16/19 8:16 PM, tomas.kuchta.li...@gma

Re: [PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

I was thinking about the video driver and vBox module interdependencies. It makes me think your Nvidia closed source driver may be why we could not compile the Oracle vBox module as part of apt install. I cannot see how it would break the video module the other way around. Especially since the mo

Re: [PLUG] List of problems Debian 9.8.0 server...

Competing with openWRT? On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:03 PM Russell Senior wrote: > Why are you using wireless on a server? > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:16 AM Michael Christopher Robinson < > mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > > 7 port USB2 hub not detecting at all. > > > > iptables rules are not

[PLUG] How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux

Couple of weeks ago somebody asked resolve.conf question. I hesitated to comment because it used to be simple, but now it is "complicated" topic. Today, I came across very informative article explaining most of the complexities better than I could. Enjoy: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/resolvconf-t

Re: [PLUG] Has google outsmarted the linux text browsers?

If you check the page source, it explains it all. The link doesn't point to the original page, it points to Google, with a reference for the actual page. Google then redirects you. So, you never request the page directly, you are always redirected by Google. That way they are in full control of yo

Re: [PLUG] Dell apt repos.

I have identical XPS 13 in default config - will check it for you when I get home. AFAIK - I run 18.04 update this weekend without any repo issues. That said, I do not remember the repo setup, without looking at it. -T -T On Tue, May 14, 2019, 14:48 Russell Johnson wrote: > Thank for the info

Re: [PLUG] Minimal Distribution for Atom 550 Processor

Atom 550 is basic 2010-ish 64-bit x86-64 low end CPU. As such it should work with any mainstream modern distribution. Be it Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, openSuSE, In no particular order. It is probably going to be very sluggish by any contemporary measure. And, it does not support modern virtualiz

Re: [PLUG] printing broken under CentOS 7

I had similar problem related to different package recently. Try to force install old version. If it resolves the issue, lock the package version in yum, so that you can update, and report a bug. See: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/98873 -Tom On Tue, May 21, 2019, 14:21 Galen Seitz wrote:

Re: [PLUG] SSD Advice Needed

Look for "pico PSU" for your 12V power supply needs. Like this one: http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-160-XT Also available on Amazon ... Also from alternative sellers. That is how I power standard mini-itx systems since AsRock discontinued their mini-itx DC line two years ago. With this power su

Re: [PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

less -N fileName Will display the line numbers too. Vim and emacs have some ways of doing it too. -T On Thu, May 23, 2019, 01:57 Russell Senior wrote: > I've used the -n option to cat recently to get line numbers. E.g.: > > cat -n README.txt > > I don't remember using nl before. > > On Wed,

Re: [PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

Christopher, What is this about? Are you honestly asking question about someone elses opinion? Are you willing to accept the answers? What ever they may be? Obviously, the answer to your question - what is the best Linux distro - is 42. 42 - Because it depends on what is the the question and who

Re: [PLUG] wireless problem after software update

I think that your key store in desktop environment (GNOME?) maybe broken/ corrupt. I assume you're using Network Manager to connect to WiFi. Correct? If yes. Try removing/forgetting your WiFi in Network Manager, then trying to connect again - should ask and store your WiFi password anew. Tomas

Re: [PLUG] Hard disk rotation axis

Hard drives use fluid dynamic bearings. They do not experience wear as long as the fluid is there in fluid state. So, changing disk orientation while the disk is not spinning is fine. - Tomas On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 15:52 Fred James wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 06/21/2019 02:05 PM, Rich

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here? [RESOLVED]

What was your mogrify command line when you expected 6xx, but got 5xx? On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 13:12 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Trying to shrink large size pdf page to letter size sometimes fails, > telling > > me, "The call to 'pdflatex' resulted in an e

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here? [RESOLVED]

Hope it helps, Tomas On Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 08:39 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > What was your mogrify command line when you expected 6xx, but got 5xx? > > Tomas, > > mogrify -resize 612x792 .pdf > > When I ran pdfinfo on the chan

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

Please feel free to say something funny. What exactly is motivating you to go through this ordeal instead of just using USB for your new trackball/trackthing? USB is pretty well established at this point, the first appearing in PC's in around 2000-ish. -Tomas On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 12:58 Rich Sh

Re: [PLUG] xubuntu version ?

Try: cat /etc/*-release -T On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 16:38 Dick Steffens wrote: > What do I type to see which version of xubuntu I have loaded? > > When I type cat /etc/issue I get Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS \n \l > > I know xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, but how can I confirm I have xubuntu > installed? I'm p

Re: [PLUG] Brother 9840CDW Fedora 30...

Did you try to install the driver from Brother? https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc9840cdw_all It claims to emulate PostScript 3 and PCL 6. So, it should perhaps work with generic driver, even with some older basic HP driver. I'd give it a try. -T On Mon, Jul

Re: [PLUG] web search post filtering

I, on the other hand celebrate aligning APIs, interfaces, network protocols, hard drives, memories, etc. It shows focus on customer/consumer rather than not invented here, we can do better sentiment. Obligatory car analogy - Imagine car companies not learning/copying each other and designing "bet

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Expo Plus pass

Or disabled cookies ... On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 16:46 Bill Ensley wrote: > On 7/11/2019 10:06 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:57:01 -0700 > > Galen Seitz dijo: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> It appears that the discount code for a free Expo Hall pass is > >> EPPFREE. I was able to

Re: [PLUG] Laptop Screen Swap at Clinic

You might need some tools for prying apart plastic parts without damaging them with metal tools. Something like sharp edges guitar pick, old swipe/access/bank card, etc. I have seen cheap toolkits with suitable plastic tools in Amazon/iFix-it/Walmart for a few $$, I think. Sometimes, things hold

Re: [PLUG] Error while copying .wav files from CD

Audio CD do not normally contain files you could just copy. Your GUI application is launching the ripping tool for you in the background. That is probably what is failing. I think that you should just use your favorite CD ripping tool directly to get the job done. -T On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 14:32

Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

You need to quote the remote host:'*' like this to prevent your local shell expanding it locally instead of remotely. Hope this helps, Tomas On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 14:01 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > you can use --exclude dirOrFileName multi

Re: [PLUG] Useful links - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - security? WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

I wonder it Russell was not thinking about continuous, full duplex IP over punch tape: * Each PC with punch writer/reader pair * Two endless tapes, each in opposite direction between the PCs. * Switch or router would have multiple pairs * Totally doable over 6-8 feet distance. That's what I would

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options? [UPDATE]

You guys are running distro I am not familiar with, but I do not think that there is such a thing like ext3 kernel module/driver anymore for couple of years. I believe that the ext4 driver/module is used for both ext3 and ext4. So, you may be chasing ghost with focussing on 3/4 discrepancy. Warni

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options? [UPDATE]

I presume that this is the patch removing ext3 kernel driver. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/15/438 -T On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 17:11 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > You guys are running distro I am not familiar with, but I do not think > that there is such a thing like ext3 kernel module/driver anymo

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options? [UPDATE]

True. What I was hoping to suggest is, that the messages from the ext4 diver, are labeled as ext4, not necessarily ext3; regardless of the filesystem being operated on. Of course, that has little to address his fschk errors and USB mount point confusion. I will not speculate on that part. -T ___

Re: [PLUG] Imaging CF card...

If you dd sdb1, you will still need the boot sector and partition table from sdb to be able to use the new CF card. -T On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 12:25 wrote: > That's the secret sauce! /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb. Thank you ;-) > > August 8, 2019 11:19 AM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > > > On you

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

Openjdk 8 should not depend on open jdk 7. Given that the current openJdk version is 11, it looks like somewhat misconfigured system. What is SBo? Have never heard of it. Something do do with Java...? Good luck, Tomas On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 19:40 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, Rich S

Re: [PLUG] Something like Skype, but hosted on my web server?

You could try NextCloud. Beside many things, one of their plugins supports WebRtc video calls and conferences. -T On Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 19:50 Michael Barnes wrote: > I have used Free Conference Call where you can show your desktop. I don't > know if it allows others to interact with your deskto

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

Try: ping www.google.com To check that you DNS resolution works as it should. If it pings try to put their IP to Firefox as an address to check if Firefox is not stuck on DNS. Better be sure about this before wasting a lot more time. You could also try to reinstall Firefox and remove it's configu

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Server on HP ProLiant DL380 G5

Chuck, I do not know much about ZoneMinder, but its video processing is done using ffmpeg. ffmpeg can be (is) accelerated using graphics card. I'd imagine that you might not even need to compile your own to enable it. I would recommend checking that out. Tomas On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 12:46 Chuc

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Server on HP ProLiant DL380 G5

> > now I just need to go in and remove all of the stuff I do not need to > use, > > and probably make it boot to a console > > rather than a desktop. > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 8:38 PM Tomas Kuchta < > tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote

Re: [PLUG] VLC Media Player -- jump to specific time

I chip in with yet another, possibly useless, indirect solution. I do this sort of thing in ffmpeg or kdenlive for editing. In mplayer for viewing - need to learn/remember the control keys. Not quite straight answer, still better than window/mac solutions, I'd hope. -T On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 22:

Re: [PLUG] IP tracking

Rich, How do you know that Ghostery does good job in terms of privacy? Is that from the first hand experience watching traffic and asking Ghostery commercial outfit what they do with your browsing data? Just asking - they are a company like any other, they do get to see your web destinations, th

Re: [PLUG] IP tracking

ed by 15 different trucks, cars, trains the second you would put the light on in your garage. Just calling spade a spade, Tomas On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 08:59 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > How do you know that Ghostery does good job in terms of p

Re: [PLUG] How we treat the homeless...

Thanks John, For once in my life, I did not butcher a language! Miracle! LOL -T On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 12:37 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:04:11 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard dijo: > > >> I just googled ... > > > >Eschew noun verbification!! > > Nonsense. English can verb anyt

Re: [PLUG] PLUG HAS A VENUE PROBLEM

I personally feel that the best option, if possible, would be to rope PSU into this as previously suggested. Building community and educating is PSU's as well as PLUG's mission. That would surely grease up the wheels not only with the access issue, but also bringing new presenters and audience to

Re: [PLUG] IP Tracking

I tried to make a point about with whom and how we delegate and spread trust. I tried to dress it somewhat, so that I did not come as a...le. That being said, I find it extremely dangerous to a healthy discourse to be spreading unverified opinions - especially about privacy and security. People c

Re: [PLUG] urxvt shell path display differences

I thought that the file permission string was a typo. In that case I have no idea. -T On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 15:46 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > What terminal are you using? > > Xterm, konsole or gnome-terminal? > > Tomas, >

Re: [PLUG] urxvt shell path display differences

urxvt - kind of looks like a file attribute string On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 20:31 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > I thought that the file permission string was a typo. > > Tomas, > > Which fi

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Advanced Topics

That is great news, thank you. I am currently out of PDX area on contract - I would love to attend when back. Even in HF. Tomas On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 12:19 wrote: > > I am willing to take over Advanced Topics (again). It would be out at the > Intel Hawthorne Farms campus if things works out. I

Re: [PLUG] PLUG HAS A VENUE PROBLEM

Thank you Russell On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 15:01 Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Russell, etc al, > Thank you all for making the long standing PSU venue > for the PLUG meeting contine its tradition. > > My Hats off, > Rod > > > So, it looks like the PSU 86-01 problem is resolved. We have the

Re: [PLUG] USB 3.1 Gen 2

USB 3.1 gen 2 is supported by Linux kernel, thus by mainstream Linux distributions such as recent Ubuntu, openSuSE, Fedora. Writing to NTFS formatted disk also works fine, in my experience with the above distributions, if you install required software. Does it work at full speed? Probably not bec

[PLUG] Knoppix 8.6 is out

If you know what is Knoppix and you are a fan - have a lot of fun. :-) Tomas ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

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