Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Thank you for all the work Wes, If/when you know more about waht was going on, it would be great to learn how you went about solving it. Fighting SPAM is hard, Tomas On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 00:35 -0700, wes wrote: > At this time we are not requesting specific data (since I'm getting > the > same

Re: [PLUG] New desktop: issue with 'find'

2018-10-04 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
true - the alias usage was already answered by 'type find' However - if you reorder PATH variable than one could be picking up find from ~/bin for example which whould also be reported by 'type find' ... so you are right <== which is redundand here ... -T On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 15:38 -0700,

Re: [PLUG] New desktop: issue with 'find'

2018-10-04 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
what does: which find returns? On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 13:06 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > > Have you tried > > /usr/bin/find / -name foo > >Now that's interesting. Explicitly providing the path works. > >I'm having other, more serious,

Re: [PLUG] kdesu question

2018-09-02 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I must admit that I have tried kdesu yast2 for the first time. It seems to work without problems on a few openSuse 15 boxes I have. How do you start that kdesu yast2 command? If you try that from command prompt, do you get any error messages? What is the difference between typing kdesu yast2 and

Re: [PLUG] Using xrandr to address overscan on TV

2019-03-28 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Disclaimer: I cannot remember how I solved this - long time ago - I hope my comentary might give you some ideas. I had similar problem in the past - caused by TV lying about its screen resolution. It was one of the cheap but expensive + early Visio TVs. There was sticker on the back advertising

Re: [PLUG] Installing nVidia driver in Xubuntu

2019-03-27 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
If your distro uses systemd - runlevel 3 equivalent: sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target to get back to runlevel 5 equivalent: sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 17:23 -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > The instructions I've found for installing

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Visually identifying USB flash drives

2019-04-01 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
This looks like great application for colored sugru - wrap it around your usb key, press a number into it, repeat with all usb sticks - and wait intil it vulcanizes. If you intend to keep some/all usb sticks together cou could even embed them together in bigger piece of sugru.

Re: [PLUG] processing csv file to get desired format

2019-02-28 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I tried to make it customizable, understandable and self documenting rather than quick and dirty. I am sure that you will be able to wrap it to nice script (in bash): text="A,SDMMC0_CK,I/O,1B,QSPI0_SCK,O,1F,D0,I/O,2A,SDMMC0_DAT3,I/O,1B,QS

Re: [PLUG] Still trying to communicate between Slackware and Ubuntu

2019-02-20 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I assume that Thunar is some sort of GUI file manager like application - it is mentioned on this list often, but I am oblivious to these things and their exotic/gimpy sounding names meaning nothing remotely descriptive. Anyway, if I am right and you are in fact browsing/playing/editing files

Re: [PLUG] Wanted: simple Linux spreadsheet

2019-02-20 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Gnumeric is pretty pretty too (pun intended) - IMHO. This is rethorical question only, of course - why is pretty a problem/criteria if you just want to have something done? A search for obscure hardly maintained application for simple spreadsheet task does not seem to me like the easiest/fastest

Re: [PLUG] Jetway video hardware issue?

2019-03-16 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I assume that your VGA output is not activated when powering up your PC. I might be wrong. You could try a few things: * check bios that you VGA out is not disabled * when in bios - if there is the option - disable the other outputs * connect and turn on the monitor before powering up the PC

Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience with Proton VPN?

2019-03-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
While this is not the answer to the question you are asking. I used mullvad.net while traveling at public wifi hotspots statewide and abroad last year. It woks great on Linux - their client works well on openSuSE and 16 and 18 LTS Ubuntu. They use openVPN as well as WireGuard on their end.

[PLUG] Restoring system to a state before update - grub and btrfs snapshots

2019-02-06 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
This is losely related to: Subject: Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake No idea about Slackware ... Old kernel versions through GRUB: - Bunch of distributions (openSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora) can boot out of previous kernel version as long as you do not

Re: [PLUG] large format (>=13 x >=20-inches) flatbed scanners?

2019-01-31 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/hanging-wall-plotter/ You would certainly get a unique output out of this plotter, virtualy unlimited size, everytime! -T On Thu, 2019-01-31 at 16:45 -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > I tried FedEx today with some modest success. They have a large > format HP >

Re: [PLUG] Evince and Oregon Form 40?

2019-04-08 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I use Evince v3.26.0 on openSuSE 15.0 without any issues. I just checked the form 40 and it works like it always does. Knowing that it works for me is probably not much help to you. If you have installed Gnome - try to run it in Gnome - some programs need it. Alternatively, you could try my gnome

Re: [PLUG] Audio goes away

2019-04-08 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
So you are using Pulse Audio - right? When it breaks, try to seek some answers this way: dmesg sudo systemctl status sound.target Also try to fiddle with controls using native pulse audio mixer: pavucontrol Sometimes, pavucontrol is the only way I can get the sound/mic where I need to. Best

Re: [PLUG] Shifting DNS

2019-05-27 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Not to cause confusion - just adding/rephrasing to what was already stated. WAP is really just like ethernet socket in the wall - you connect to it trough it using your Wi-Fi adapter as if by ethernet cable to your LAN. On your LAN (assuming that there is a router between your network and the

Re: [PLUG] Error under Wine

2019-06-02 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I would think that your best chance is on wine mailing list or forum. Looking at he messages - it is asking you to roll up your sleeves and :fixme: seems like partially implemented API in wine. Tomas On Sun, 2019-06-02 at 20:32 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: > Well I started the program from the

Re: [PLUG] Error under Wine

2019-05-28 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
For what it is worth it - I tried to install/run it under wine 4.9 in openSuSE 15.0 from added Emulators:Wine repo: sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/op enSUSE_Leap_15.0/ Emulators:Wine It seems to work OK-ish without errors or crashes. I got same

Re: [PLUG] Error under Wine

2019-05-29 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I have seen some empty dialogs when randomly clicking on stuff in wine 4.9 I attributed their emptiness to the lack of connected HW. So, maybe you need to tell wine about your serial ports somehow - this is totally outside of my Wine-knowledge-abilities. Tomas On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 00:51 -0500,

Re: [PLUG] Error under Wine

2019-06-11 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I noticed that Wine 4.10 is out as of this weekend - you might want to give it a try. Not sure if it changes anything for your application ... Tomas On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 23:10 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: > OK, that gives me more paths to go down. I also submitted it to AppDB, so > may get

Re: [PLUG] Dell apt repos.

2019-05-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I have following repositories enabled: grep -vE '#|^$' /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic universe deb

Re: [PLUG] Odd error web message

2019-05-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
You might be deducing little too much about error message author's origin - based on your English standards. I have selective hearing and seeing - so, I needed to use google to show me the spelling issues - I found one + lazy English - not too bad by any coding standard. I certainly would try at

Re: [PLUG] printing broken under CentOS 7

2019-05-21 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I need to stop reading and responding to emails on the "smart" phone! I would have read your full post and save you of such "smart" response.Pun intended On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 16:28 -0400, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I had similar problem related to different package recently. > Try to force install old

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended

2019-05-20 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I definitely do not need spaces around ~ That being said - I would have written it this way (if I'd chose to skip the spaces): #!/usr/bin/gawk BEGIN { FS=OFS=","; } $5~/'Legal Contact'/ { next; } { print $0; } echo "'fld1','fld2','fld3','fld4','fld5' 'fee','fie','foh','fum','Keep Me'

Re: [PLUG] Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

2019-04-26 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
docker is container service - "like" running a lightweight virtual machine, except it is called containers. Loosely - It is a method of process and its environment isolation. I am sure thera are much better definitions and analogies. What these commands do (after you installed docker): *

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Kensington Orbit Scroll Ring Trackball buttons

2019-07-05 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
The first thing I would try is to check if the system receives events from the buttons/wheel/... whatever that contraptions of yours have: lsusb - should show your device - you can increase verbosity with -v or -vvv or even -vv ls /dev/input/by-id/* - should show your device too Example of

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-08 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I am wondering, based on your description, what kind of modem goes behind another modem! Even without you mentioning Comcast - It smells like wrong end of a fish. It would make sense to understand why and how it is suppose to work. Then, if it does not make sense or add value - get rid of one of

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

2019-04-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I do this following way: 768px x 576px = 442368px To change all images in a directory to this resolution regardless of orientation: mogrify -resize @442368 *.jpg Hope it helps, Tomas On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 12:30 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: > > > It'll

Re: [PLUG] uname question

2019-08-13 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output

Re: [PLUG] Backup software

2019-09-09 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
This maybe not useful to you - if you are not using Btrfs If you use btrfs - I found it great/fast to make and transfer (send/receive) btrfs snapshots. It is way more "incremental" and faster than rsync, can have a lot of snapshots without costing disk space/performance and the snapshots all just

Re: [PLUG] nohup question

2019-09-17 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
This would be the time to bring up - screen or tmux sessions as an alternatives to nohup. If you logout/disconnect from screen/tmux sessions - you can reconnect later to see the progress or how it all finished. Tomas On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 14:05 -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 9/17/19 2:00 PM,

Re: [PLUG] IP tracking

2019-07-28 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I completely second the notion of running not only your calendar, but especially your address book. Not only it keeps those very personal data to yourself, but it also allows you to attach and transfer these services to the device of your choice with ease. I recommend NextCloud for this as well

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

2019-07-17 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
... adding to this ... you can use --exclude dirOrFileName multiple times - it will form a list in this particular case: --exclude data would work too, but it would exclude all other directories and files called data inside your recursive directory. This can be handy, or not, depending on the

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

2019-07-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
What I meant to say about using --exclude ~/data is that - if you would, hypothetically, use '--exclude data' it would exclude ~/data and any other directory or file called data - including the content of any said 'data' directory. BTW: Everybody probably knows, but ~/data will be expanded to

Re: [PLUG] C program build error in Makefile

2019-07-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Did you run .configure with correct --prefix for your system? Does running ./configure gives you a hint? -T On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 07:22 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > It's been more than a dozen years since I last coded in C and built a > Makefile. Depending on project needs I use the GRASS GIS

Re: [PLUG] C program build error in Makefile

2019-07-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Did you execute: ./configure before running make? Did it find all dependencies? Or is it different build system/process ... Tomas On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 08:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Did you run .configure with correct --prefix

Re: [PLUG] C program build error in Makefile

2019-07-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Not the response I expected - maybe just a wording. Just to be sure: My comment was about executing not reading ./configure prior to running make. ./configure command scans your system, reports dependencies and generates config files specific to your build. If you did not run './configure'

[PLUG] Anyone has experience with the Epson EcoTank all in one printer scanners?

2019-09-30 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Hi, As per subject - I am looking for someone with first hand experience with the recent Epson EcoTank all-in-one printer/scanners in general and specifically on Linux. My own experience is limited to HP and Xerox office printers/scanners which just work. AFAIK. Thanks a lot, Tomas

Re: [PLUG] Printer IP address [UPDATE]

2019-11-04 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
If you can ping it from your LAN, you should be able to get web traffic too. Did you try to talk both http://ip and https://ip to the printer? Maybe one of the will work. -T On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 15:48 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Has anyone ideas

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Tom,I'd imagine that John is contempt with the risk - he is using Raid 0 (striping on the array) - so any kind of failure will cost him data. I'd imagine is that the backup is his safety net. Jon,Is your array simply going to powersafe mode?Can you try to diagnose it little with the bag of

Re: [PLUG] [Fwd: FW: Short survey for Clear Linux Project on PLUG PDX]

2019-11-12 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Thank you Mozilla Firefox 68.2.0esr just keeps waiting Google Chrome 78.0.3904.97 cannot connect to server I see - Qualtrics.com tracker black-holed on my side. Whitelisting the tracker - makes the site work. Thanks again, Tomas On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 18:27 -0800, Galen Seitz wrote:

Re: [PLUG] clinic question

2019-12-02 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 13:25 -0800, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > I was afraid that there wasn't a built in CD/DVD player. Yes, a USB > attached DVD player will look the same as a USB thumb drive. No relief > there. > USB DVD drive and USB thumb drive are not quite the same thing when it comes to

Re: [PLUG] Skypeforlinux and CentOS 7...

2019-12-13 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Seems to work just fine on my side with 8.55.0.135 On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 15:50 +, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: > [mrobinson@turion-roch-robinson-west-com yum.repos.d]$ uname -a > Linux turion-roch-robinson-west-com 3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec > 6 15:49:49 UTC 2019 x86_64

Re: [PLUG] Mikrotik CAPsMAN setup

2019-12-13 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I was checking what is CAPsMan and the description mentions: * CAPsMAN works on any RouterOS device from v6.11, wireless interfaces are not required (since it manages the wireless interfaces of CAPs) * CAPsMAN v2 is working starting from RouterOS v6.22rc7. * CAP device should have at least Level4

Re: [PLUG] Network troubleshooting help (urgent)

2019-12-17 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Do tell more - how is it all connected? If it is not private - the dock's model/manufacturer would probably clear that up. If I understand you right two power bricks feed the dock? - The dock feeds the laptop by TB port - that part is obvious. That is how it works for me - except I have single

Re: [PLUG] skypeforlinux alternative...

2019-12-16 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Did you check that you can start any gui application? Try xlogo for example. What do you see when you run: ldd /usr/bin/skypeforlinux - It should be statically linked. -T On Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 15:21 wrote: > No, not even when run from the command line. I'm curious if people are not > applying

Re: [PLUG] WIRE instead of Skypeforlinux...

2019-12-16 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Just checking, based on your comments: Do you need Skype working or are you looking for an alternative? Most of us who need Skype need it to communicate with other people, and they are not going to switch - so that is that for us. Tomas On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 20:35 +,

Re: [PLUG] Kernel changes external hard drive designation

2019-10-21 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I regret my misunderstanding - My assumption was - if you use "partition uuid" to mount the partition - you do not need to care about /dev/sd* because your drive is reliably mounted to the mount point. Naturally - using partition uuid to mount something - implies that you remove any other

Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

2019-10-15 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
As far as I can tell - Windows restore produces blank/new/clean installation. The reason for that - there really is not any installation media other than to create it by this process. On the other hand - you can just download any Linux installation media and typically there is no need to activate

Re: [PLUG] question on using Google Web Speech api to convert wav files to text files

2019-10-16 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Here is how I would go about it. 0. You could do this with Jack, but ... too long instructions 1. start: pavucontrol & select input devices tab show: All Input Devices you should see your monitor device - right? 2. Get everything ready to play your sound file. 3. go to you Google-API

Re: [PLUG] Search entire filesystem except two mounted partitions

2019-12-01 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
On Sun, 2019-12-01 at 16:10 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 15:36:47 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > > How do you know that mount does not follow fstab order? > > If it did /dev/sda1 would be / and /dev/sda2 would be /home. Instead > they are sdc1 and sdc2. > This is not

Re: [PLUG] Mount order on boot

2019-11-27 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Check your disk and partition labels by: sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid Maybe the labels are not unique or are missing. In general - file systems are mounted in the same order as per fstab. If you have duplicate/missing labels on disk partitions - which could happen during your

Re: [PLUG] Audio Recording Problem(s)?

2019-10-29 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
You do not say what distribution you are running on that Thinkpad. So, I am going to guess that you are using pulse audio and have pavucontrol, and pulseaudio-utils installed. If that is the case try this guide: https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-07-21-record-audio-linux If you use pulse audio,

Re: [PLUG] Audio Recording Problem(s)?

2019-10-29 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
In this case pavucontrol should be able to select and control your microphone. If it does not - use alsamixer. Any of the ffmpeg -f alsa should work just fine. Tomas On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 21:24 -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 10/29/19 8:53 PM, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > You do not

Re: [PLUG] [Fwd: FW: Short survey for Clear Linux Project on PLUG PDX]

2019-11-12 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Hi Alan, I have never used Clear linux, so this is probably not for me. Though, I was curious what is the survey about - Embarrassingly, it does not load in current Firefox on SuSE. No private-window or paranoid setup was used. Just out of curiosity - Does it need ClearLinux or Windows or Edge

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

2019-09-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I just googled Jim Karlock - he is apparently famous/infamous in Oregon. Given the wide spread of his activities - and the amount publicity generated - he is either very busy man or "he" must have a helping hands - to pay attention to our little insignificant and mostly apolitical forum. -T On

Re: [PLUG] Is a Linux Distro compromised?

2019-10-09 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I think, when you are on this road, that you should start building your chain of trust a UEFI/BIOS - either from some company which has a lot to loose by compromising customers (probably not Huawei) or just get a laptop from Purism. Tomas On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 14:10 -0700, Mike C. wrote: > > >

Re: [PLUG] clinic from dec. 15 named.conf question

2019-12-19 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Hi Vince, There seems to be quite a bit of copy paste artifacts, so it is hard to see possible typo issues. I would take this step by step: 1. start without DNS sec first 2. setup and verify caching and authoritative DNS server config first 3. add DNS sec to your standalone DNS and test. 4.

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I am not discrete graphics card expert - the last time I was helping a friend with similar Nvidia card problem - I did not know what to do, so I booted from live Ubuntu/Knoppix - one of them worked great - so, I checked the installed/used driver and replicated it in his setup. If you chose to try

Re: [PLUG] Cannot burn M disc CentOS 7...

2020-01-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Try k3b You will need the media inserted to the BD-writer for k3b to tell you what formats it can use. Seems to work with my LG drive - though I never burned 100GB media. Tomas On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 02:52 +, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: > January 23, 2020 8:43 PM, "John Jason Jordan"

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I forgot all about the virtualbox problem. The log you attached clearly shows that the kernel module did not compile correctly. You are missing some dependencies - probably newer library. So, you need kernel sources/development package installed, gcc, make, automake, ... it should be part of the

Re: [PLUG] Scanner dependent on USB port [RESOLVED]

2020-02-03 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
On Sun, 2020-02-02 at 18:49 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:47:18 -0500 > tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com dijo: > > > > It was advertised as being USB 2.0. The interesting part is what > > > happens when I plug it into a USB 3.0 port. (None of my computers > > > have USB 2.0

Re: [PLUG] Scanner dependent on USB port [RESOLVED]

2020-02-02 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
On Sun, 2020-02-02 at 13:32 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 13:11:28 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard dijo: > > > I should have known that USB ports have limited power supply > > capabilities. My external optical drive (used for the Dell 2100 and > > ThinkPad X200) has two USB

Re: [PLUG] KDE application window resizing

2020-02-17 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I installed it and my observations are different than yours: * I am able to resize the window both horizontally and vertically to be larger than minimal * kbibtex - sets min window size: 545x751 (WxH) - you cannot make it smaller, but you can make it bigger. This is in line with long standing KDE

Re: [PLUG] HP Laserjet Problems

2020-02-17 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I have seen that before at work - got it serviced - the cause was like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/9gwht7/hp_color_laserjet_2600n_looks_ like_this_looks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/9gwht7/hp_color_laserjet_2600n_looks_ like_this_looks/

Re: [PLUG] Network kaput

2020-02-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I assume that you are using network manager (NM) - you do not say. If yes: * what is in your /etc/resolv.conf? * If you see something else than your router just delete the file as root and reconnect to the network using NM - it will recreate new /etc/resolv.conf Hopefully, things will work as

Re: [PLUG] Lan loops - follow on PoE injecto

2019-12-26 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
It seems that in my case - looping LAN1 with LAN2 and sending/receiving WAN<-->WLAN3 traffic leads to no visible traffic degradation. That probably mean that I failed to create lan loop. The lights were "kind of" busy on LAN1 <--> LAN2, but the wlan3 and upstream WAN are slow enough to observe

Re: [PLUG] evince window size

2020-03-14 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Try matching DPI of your screen with your X settings. I do not experience this in KDE unless under VNC with mismatching DPI between the screen and what VNC-server thinks. Gnome under CentOS at works seems to behave same as KDE - pretty reasonably. Tomas On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 22:27 -0700,

Re: [PLUG] git: remove all deleted files from status report

2020-03-25 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Same as with git add, you will need to git commit after git rm Until you commit your changes all files will show up. Tomas On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:36 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I switched widget toolkits on a project and deleted all files for the former > approach. But, when I run 'git

Re: [PLUG] sort option for 'natural' sequence

2020-03-30 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Everyone has different toolbox and regexp logic wired in their brains. I prefer to break things down somewhat step by step - and think ahead - mostly it is worth it. The following is more complex at first, but, in my experience, as soon as you sort by the first column - I would probably need to

Re: [PLUG] Unifi AC AP LR Linux...

2020-03-30 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
+1 The release notes - where you downloaded .deb from - provide installation instruction, including link describing where/how to get the mongoDB. Google can find it too, but reading the installation instructions is probably faster. Tomas On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 22:41 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] KDE: silence noise when application closed

2020-05-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
You mention KDE - cannot help you there - I know nothing about xfce4 - probably have never seen it. On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 14:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2020, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > KDE Desktop Settings --> Notifications --> Disable Sounds For All of These >

Re: [PLUG] KDE: silence noise when application closed

2020-05-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
KDE Desktop Settings --> Notifications --> Disable Sounds For All of These Events Tomas On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 13:53 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I use kronometer to time recorded tutorials. When I shut down the > application a loud BONG! comes out of the computer's speakers. Reminds me of >

Re: [PLUG] KDE: silence noise when application closed

2020-05-18 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
not sure what KDE version you have installed - probably 5 - kde 5 is current - consult your package manager or just try it. If KDE 5: start KDE notification settings by: kcmshell5 module kcmnotify then disable your KDE sounds as I suggested earlier. I cannot remember how notification sounds

[PLUG] cat 5E patch cable

2020-03-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I have this very special cat5e patch cable - which I am now really attached to. The cable has good end to end continuity test, but only works at 100Mb/s. Any ideas what this could be caused by - realistically verifiable ideas only please? Story for long days: The cable worked at normal 1Gbs, I

Re: [PLUG] cat 5E patch cable

2020-03-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Thanks for the response Rich, Reading your suggestion, I realized that I might not check for shorts on the final product. I fave rechecked it - no opens, no shorts. Multimeter is a device for two point measuring voltage, current, resistance, etc. Mine also has a beeper that is what I used. So,

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT! PLUG Meeting: UnPLUG: Home Lab Show and Tell!

2020-03-07 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Thank you for sharing it on-line Michael Tomas On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 17:55 -0800, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 3/5/20 9:07 AM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement > > > > Who: You! > > What: UnPLUG: Home Lab Show and Tell! > > Thank you everyone who

Re: [PLUG] GUI sudo prompt

2020-09-03 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I still use X, so I use: su command & when it does not work, usualy duoing: xhost + before: su works Tomas On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 11:31 -0700, Vince Winter wrote: > Ed > neither of those work with the program in question. I get the prompt > then > nothing happens afterwards. > > Tom > I

Re: [PLUG] 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-07 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I would argue that access to more than 3.7GB RAM per process, access to btrfs and many other 64b only features is not only useful to scientists as well as performance and other improvements. Though I generally agree - that 16b CPUs and 64k RAM out to be enough for everyone. -T On Mon,

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

2020-09-08 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
What is SBo? You probably should not need to dodnload it? I see html2text in standard repositories in Ubunt/openSuSE/fedora/epel. Tomas On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 10:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Typo on my side - it is called html2text > > Thanks,

Re: [PLUG] Stress-testing a hard disk

2020-09-03 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I guess that you are hoping to find SATA drive inside the enclosure. If true - you might be disapointed as a lot of these drives have native USB interface under the hood - unless you already know otherwise. Additionally - the drive is most likely SMR - so your test should take that into account

Re: [PLUG] OT: Looking for some WiFi Networking Advice

2020-10-14 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
In my opinion - properly configured multiple APs with wired ethernet LAN back haul is the correct answer - for people capable of wiring and setting it up correctly. If you really need mesh solution with all its shortcomings (bandwidth, reliability, latency, ) you should check this series of

Re: [PLUG] Power Conditioner

2020-09-24 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 21:04 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > none of the others. Computer PSU's can be noisy also as can any > (Chinese) switching power supply. > > I wonder, without any desire or starting political flame wars, what has "Chinese" to do with any of this stuff? Are there any

Re: [PLUG] Need new solid state drives

2020-09-21 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Disclosure - In principle, I do not think DAS is good solution to general bulk storage - especially in Linux. I think that using NAS would be more appropriate for bulk storage in your case - unless you need to host multiple fast/local storage VMs on your laptop or fast SQL DB, or similar. I

Re: [PLUG] Awk script syntax help

2020-09-23 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
cat inputFile | awk -v FS=, '$7~/Gen12c|Gen12u/ {next; } {print;}' > outFile On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 12:44 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > Using gawk I want to print all lines in a file except those that have > any of > three patterns in field 7. I thought I had the proper syntax but gawk > disagrees

Re: [PLUG] Whether to host one's own email these days?

2020-09-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Interesting interview - hard to watch at first - it sounds like another conspiracy theory - but the point/argument seems solid in the end. -T On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 21:58 -0700, wes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 4:12 PM Tyrell Jentink > wrote: > > > [snip] > > Aren't targeted ads a GOOD

Re: [PLUG] Linux chemistry software

2020-08-11 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Try Avogadro, BKChem, gromacs, RasMol, PyMOL, Jmol ... GChemPaint, Ghemical, ... I read about them in these places: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gabedit-portal-chemistry https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/study-elements-kdes-kalzium

Re: [PLUG] question on converting ext3/ext4 file systems to btrfs

2020-08-12 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
I will, reluctantly, try to answer - This is how ZFS or systemd flame wars starts - it brings the worst of the people. To be honest, I am truly alarmed by you bringing zfs and FUD into this - it seems that one hand you are asking because of no experience with btrfs and ZFS - then in the same

Re: [PLUG] question on converting ext3/ext4 file systems to btrfs

2020-08-10 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Maybe 6 years ago I converted couple of hundred partitions to btrfs on SLES/SLED - Motivation: OS/update snapshots significantly simplified staged testing and deployment with supper simple and fast roll back. I had no problems with ext3/4- ->btrfs conversion back then. That said, I have not

Re: [PLUG] Ancient Thinkpad T61 BIOS

2020-06-22 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Can you find some error messages from previous boot by sudo journalctl? If not - try older distro - say 16.04 - if that is stable - perhaps it is not related to your BIOS work. if that helps - would 18.4 run without crashes? It kind of feels like graphics driver issue rather than SATA - it would

[PLUG] Anyone can still remember Grub2 insides?

2020-06-15 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Hi, I have forgotten grub2 internals since I needed them 5 years ago - Grub documentation is not great outside normal usage. Can anyone give me a hand here. I want to modify Grub2 menu in a linux installation media - under mounted /boot/grub.cfg The installation media does not have /etc/grub.d

[PLUG] The Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference

2020-06-15 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
The Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference - Virtual Conference 4 days of incredible opportunities to network, learn, and share - all available from the comfort and safety of your own home and for only US$50. June 29 – July 2 on the US Central Time Zone.

Re: [PLUG] Anyone can still remember Grub2 insides?

2020-06-15 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Thanks Bill, No, I did not try /boot/grub/custom.cfg - in my case - that would not help. I did not say this in my original post - the changes I need to make are trivial, but involve changing current menu rather than adding to it: * changing default menu item and adding a few kernel boot options

Re: [PLUG] Anyone can still remember Grub2 insides?

2020-06-16 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
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Re: [PLUG] Anyone can still remember Grub2 insides?

2020-06-16 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Thanks Don, Bill Strange evolution ate my email - will try again: I completely missed grub2-set-default - I probable was not root when hitting tab to list all grub2-* commands. Using it would probably made me realize that my edits to /boot/grub/grub.cfg are not the issue. I have since