Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread wes
Not one someone else's network, they don't :) -wes On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Groman wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 23:10:04 -0700 > Russell Senior wrote: > > > Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb > > bittorrent blocker, and

Re: [PLUG] WiFi not working. Ubuntu 16.04. Lenovo x200

2018-06-14 Thread wes
is one, and somehow > it got turned off. However, while that did make it possible to change the > wireless condition from Off to On, all the radios listed are still out of > range. Sigh. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > This might be a good time to try a reboot. -wes _

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-06-15 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] What is /exports/users for?

2018-06-15 Thread wes
e an /exports/users folder. > > You may use ssh for file sharing now, but you have had many (mis)adventures with NFS recently. I don't know about /exports specifically, but I do know that NFS terms its file shares as "exports." -wes _

[PLUG] looking for an iptables guru

2018-06-19 Thread wes
will be the hardest part. Let me know what's available. thanks, -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Terminal shortcuts

2018-06-19 Thread wes
t to check yours first to make sure it's not taken. Such an alias would look like so: alias mm='mkvmerge -i' Thereafter, you can simply type mm , and you're off to the races. Bash automagically passes along any arguments you supply to an alias. You can p

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

2018-06-24 Thread wes
hat I'm familiar with this behavioral quirk, I will admit to it. If this is so frustrating to you that you feel the need to become cross about it, I would have to suggest that you decline to reply further. Others are likely to take up the baton in your place. This is a group effort, after a

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

2018-06-24 Thread wes
Zeroconf, that's what I was thinking of. I thought Avahi was standard on Debian these days? Then again, who knows what's actually running out there in the weeds past Estacada... -wes On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Larry Brigman wrote: > The local 169.254 address is part of

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

2018-06-25 Thread wes
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/24/2018 06:48 PM, wes wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> I've just ordered one so I can play with it for a bit myself. Perhaps at >> the next Linux Clinic, if we have time, we can invite Richard to >&g

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

2018-07-03 Thread wes
ate source of the problem. More likely, it will be a simple thing which we can answer quickly and hopefully point to an explanation. -wes On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > My universe is a single laptop. > It has multiple partitions with uniquely configured instances of

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

2018-07-03 Thread wes
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, wes wrote: > > All partitions are automatically readable/writable by all by default. One >> would have to take extraordinary measures to restrict access to a >> partition. >> > > W

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

2018-07-03 Thread wes
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, wes wrote: > > Filesystems have permissions, partitions don't. Files and directories have >> owners, partitions don't. >> > > Wes, > > Yep. I was thinking filesystems, not the p

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
was subscribed with his work email account, and then left that job and his emails were forwarded to the general support address. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:59 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > We seem to have increased presence of spammers on the list either as > registered members or some

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
Oh, I forgot to answer your actual question: Michael Dexter is the primary admin for PLUG. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:09 AM, wes wrote: > The list admins are working on this issue. I was getting the ones from > "Melina Taylor" today. > > I'm pretty sure the custo

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

2018-07-04 Thread wes
this is what you're looking for. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > This Richard is confused ;/ > > Using GParted I created an ext4 partition labeled "owlcommon". > I added the following line to fstab: > LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents

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

2018-07-04 Thread wes
Whoops, apparently umask is not the answer for ext partitions. There are further comments there which do claim to work. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM, wes wrote: > Through a quick google of "fstab world writable" (without quotes) I found > this: > > https://s

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
Everyone please continue reporting occurrences of spam in this thread. Thanks! -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > And now I've received an invite for, "a funny hang out, if you know what I > mean," from "Melina Taylor", too. Sigh. >

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
I doubt it was directed - these things are heavily scripted these days. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Groman wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:09:11 -0700 > wes wrote: > > > The list admins are working on this issue. I was getting the ones from > >

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

2018-07-04 Thread wes
Haha, excellent. If you're not cheating, you're not trying! -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > But gave hint to cheating "fairly: ;/ > Used GParted to reformat to FAT32. > But GParted won't label a FAT partition. > Used "

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread wes
'm looking for are new occurrences, which will be replies to list posts after noon on Wednesday. My suspicion is that there won't be, but there's no way to be sure without waiting some time to see that it doesn't recur. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrot

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread wes
I wish I could say I did something clever. I just looked at the most recent subscribers, picked the one that looked the most suspicious, and set them to not receive emails from the list. I still get spams as replies to earlier posts, but not any new ones since the change. -wes On Thu, Jul 5

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Booth Volunteers?

2018-07-11 Thread wes
ke imgur.com. You have to click "New Post" and then upload all the images you want into a single page, or "album". Be aware that these will be publicly visible to all users of imgur, not just people you give the link to. -wes ___

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-07-11 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] DHCP with QEMU

2018-07-12 Thread wes
x.php/QEMU#Bridged_networking_using_qemu-bridge-helper Seems to be a lot more complex than it is in other VM host environments. But I haven't tried it, maybe it's easier than it looks -wes On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > While I've got Win7 up and running, the network set

Re: [PLUG] looking for an iptables guru

2018-07-19 Thread wes
I'll reply off-list. -wes On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I was looking though some old email and noticed that you never got a > reply to your iptables request. Did you get your issue sorted out or are > you still looking for help? I have some ipta

Re: [PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

2018-07-20 Thread wes
try running (as root): file -s /dev/sdd file -s /dev/sdd1 and see if they say anything interesting? -wes On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:59 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Xubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 computers, up to date. Same issues on both. > > I recently bought two 256GB USB drives fro

Re: [PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

2018-07-20 Thread wes
't report? I dunno, I don't trust graphical interfaces any farther than I can throw them. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

2018-07-20 Thread wes
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 1:17 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:07:36 -0700 > wes dijo: > > >try running (as root): > > > >file -s /dev/sdd > >file -s /dev/sdd1 > > > >and see if they say anything interesting? > > su

Re: [PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

2018-07-20 Thread wes
t to see what it says. I'm happy enough with them that I just ordered a new set. Here's to hoping they're also real... If you do end up finding a real 256gb drive for a reasonable price, please let us know. I wouldn't mind getting one or two myself. I'm just not will

Re: [PLUG] Changing tmpfs mount point

2018-07-25 Thread wes
as root? > > Rich > tmpfs and /tmp are not the same thing. it looks like in one case you have a /tmp which uses tmpfs, but this is not required for anything to work. /tmp simply needs to be writable. have you tested that? -wes ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Changing tmpfs mount point

2018-07-25 Thread wes
Chromium crashing is more likely somewhere else. What sort of crash are you seeing? Do you get any errors? Have you tried running Chromium from a terminal, to see if there is any interesting console output? -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Changing tmpfs mount point

2018-07-25 Thread wes
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, wes wrote: > > It is weird that fstab shows two entries for the same mount point (/tmp). >> However that in itself doesn't break anything. >> > > Wes, > > That's because tm

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

2018-07-27 Thread wes
Enter. Then type ipconfig /all and press enter. (These steps may vary slightly based on which version of Windows you're running) Windows refers to a MAC address as a "physical address" and uses dashes instead of colons to separate the digits. What happens when you try to access you

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

2018-07-27 Thread wes
that may well be the case. I think Tomas' suggestion of altering your VM config to use a bridged network instead of NAT is more likely to help. At which point, the DHCP reservation you set up in your router will become effective. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-08-16 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. I have a mandatory birthday party to attend at 4, so I will need to leave by 3. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes

Re: [PLUG] Reliable long term, off-line storage

2018-08-27 Thread wes
n if USB backwards compatibility goes away, there will at least be a NewSB -> USB adapter. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Firefox is a pig

2018-09-01 Thread wes
tcuts and that seems to break it. It consistently works on a New Tab page for me. You can also find it under the Settings menu (3 dots in the upper right corner), then under More Tools. This is the only reason I use Chrome. If Firefox had this, I would probably

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-09-12 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. I have a mandatory birthday party to attend at 4, so I will need to leave by 3. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes

Re: [PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-09-12 Thread wes
> > > I have a mandatory birthday party to attend at 4, so I will need to leave > by 3. > Copy/paste failure. I'll be there the whole time. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-25 Thread wes
, you can then burn that to the DVD, which will then allow you to mount and browse those files in the same way as if you had used cp or mv. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] USB flash drive issues

2018-09-26 Thread wes
ame error. You may want to try using the "file" and "fdisk" utilities on the device paths to see what may actually be there. sudo file -s /dev/sdc sudo file -s /dev/sdc1 sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc and so on. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Fix scp issue: Permission denied (publickey)

2018-09-28 Thread wes
ould just copy the authorized_keys file from the old host to the new one. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Indecipherable rsync error message

2018-09-28 Thread wes
s having problems reading something from a disk. The fact that it's not giving you a sensible error message indicates that it's a really unusual problem. "getcwd()" is a function that returns the current working directory, so I'd start there. Do the comman

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

2018-10-04 Thread wes
x27; and find tells me a path > must > preceed the ., then gives the usage summary. > Hopefully someone recognizes this error and can help, it's not one I've seen before. Would you please provide a real-world example, and its complete output? And also the output of find --ve

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

2018-10-04 Thread wes
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:23 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, wes wrote: > > > Hopefully someone recognizes this error and can help, it's not one I've > > seen before. Would you please provide a real-world example, and its > > complete output? And

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

2018-10-04 Thread wes
I'm not sure what *command does (aside from employing Buzz Lightyear), one can skip alias checking by using a backslash as the first character. ie: \find / -name stripes.png -wes On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:26 PM Johnathan Mantey wrote: > Perhaps you have an alias or some such in

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

2018-10-04 Thread wes
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:46 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, wes wrote: > > > For whatever reason, only now did this trigger the memory: didn't you > talk > > about making an alias for find to add some parameter by default? > > > > Yes, here

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

2018-10-04 Thread wes
"which" won't tell us whether there's an alias in the way or not. it will only tell us where an executable file matching the given name exists in the user's defined PATH. -wes On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:37 PM wrote: > what does: which find > returns? > > On

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

2018-10-05 Thread wes
I think you're misunderstanding the message. He wasn't saying "avoid using the backslash" - he was saying "avoid issues with aliases by using a backslash". English can be pretty vague sometimes (ok, all the time). -wes On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:55 AM Johnathan M

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-10-17 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Syllable Operating System, what happened?

2018-10-24 Thread wes
The developers have definitely given up. But there are at least a few people still trying to use it: https://sourceforge.net/p/syllable/mailman/syllable-developer/ -wes On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:29 PM wrote: > I notice that my link to http://www.syllable.org doesn't work these days. &

Re: [PLUG] In the market for a printer/scanner

2018-11-01 Thread wes
My previous employer had 2 of these and I was quite happy with them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004V4HSCE Let us know what you end up with and how it works out for you! -wes On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:44 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > What are people happy with in the area of printer/scann

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

2018-11-12 Thread wes
;Today I tried using rsync again rather than ssh. I don't know where to > look to see the error: > You said "rather than ssh" - did you test ssh again after you started getting this error? What command and parameters do you use to make the ssh connection? -wes _

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

2018-11-13 Thread wes
transfer, yes. If you mean resumeing > working at all, that's what I'm trying to do. > > > If you haven't checked, the perms on the .ssh directory should be 700. > >Yes, ~/.ssh has perms of 700. > Not only that, but the private key file must be mode 600

Re: [PLUG] An apology needed? - was [Re: Wanted: handheld data collection device with Linux OS]

2018-11-13 Thread wes
o try to provide you something that is sorta close which may work for your needs. -wes On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:23 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I know I have *WEIRD* preferences. > > How should I pose questions in a manner that they would be taken > _ *EXTREMELY LITERALLY* _? > > T

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-11-14 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Restoring ssh-agent with passphrase

2018-11-14 Thread wes
phrase, just returns the shell prompt. > > Are you sure your new key has a passphrase? When you use the key directly (without the agent), do you have to enter a passphrase? -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Restoring ssh-agent with passphrase

2018-11-14 Thread wes
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:31 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, wes wrote: > > > Are you sure your new key has a passphrase? When you use the key directly > > (without the agent), do you have to enter a passphrase? > > Wes, > >Good question. When I

Re: [PLUG] Restoring ssh-agent with passphrase

2018-11-14 Thread wes
he contents of ~/.ssh and see if there are multiple id* files. The one you want to supply to ssh-add is the one without the .pub at the end. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Test Post

2018-12-06 Thread wes
I do see a post from you last night regarding Google Earth. But as you said, it was hijacking an announcement thread so not likely to get a lot of attention. I recommend you attempt again to start a new thread on it. -wes On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:29 PM Michael Barnes wrote: > You say both

Re: [PLUG] Problem with Google Earth Install

2018-12-06 Thread wes
through :) -wes On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:37 PM Michael Barnes wrote: > Once again I shall try to post this to the group. Even if you have no > answer, I'd at least appreciate some acknowledgement that this message > actually went out. > > I am trying to install Google Earth on m

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2018-12-12 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread wes
rocess doesn't exist, I tried ps ax a couple of times in a row. > Each time I get a different process number. > > How do I kill a process like that? > > Many Linux distributions now come with a utility called "killall" which will k

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread wes
orak. > One quick way to determine this is to just type stuff into the login box and see if it looks right. If your password uses any special characters, try those out at some point to make sure they're working properly, you don't have a shift k

Re: [PLUG] Copying all partitions of a drive to single partition/directory?

2019-01-05 Thread wes
-a. If you insist on creating whole images, there are tools like partimage <http://www.partimage.org/> and clonezilla which offer options to satisfy the requirements you've listed. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] TLDR++, a tool to search, study, and practice Linux commands on the fly...

2019-01-05 Thread wes
Related, here is a tool for doing automated sanity checks on shell scripts: https://www.shellcheck.net/ Just paste your whole script in the box and it will pop up all sorts of interesting (occasionally helpful) notes. -wes On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 1:25 PM Mike C. wrote: > I haven't

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-05 Thread wes
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:18 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > Would the > solution there of deleting all .serverauthXXX and .Xauthority files as > root be something I should do here? > Yes, you should try this. Also look for a .ICEauthority file to delete or r

Re: [PLUG] windows launched w/title hidden

2019-01-13 Thread wes
> > > Also, you have described what smart is, but what is smarty? I assume by the > usual conventions > of computer languages changing the name changes the meaning. > > I suspect it is either a typo or a copy/paste error. -wes ___ P

Re: [PLUG] windows launched w/title hidden

2019-01-13 Thread wes
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:54 PM wes wrote: > >> Also, you have described what smart is, but what is smarty? I assume by >> the >> usual conventions >> of computer languages changing the name changes the meaning. >> >> > I suspect it is either a typo or

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-01-16 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

[PLUG] power management question

2019-01-23 Thread wes
ing a relay onto the power circuit... but by the time I got that going, I would have spent more than the cost of a ready-made device that already exists to do what I'm trying to do. ( https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter if you're curious) Ideas? thanks, -wes ___

Re: [PLUG] power management question

2019-01-24 Thread wes
Ah, good point. In fact I do have some of those here. I would sort-of prefer not to rely on any sort of network connection, but if nothing else works out, that may be the best option. -wes On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:20 AM Michael Barnes wrote: > I do know there are power strips with Ether

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-02-15 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes (Someday I will get around to automating the reminder

Re: [PLUG] Thanks Everybody

2019-02-22 Thread wes
rogress. Of course, I am always looking for inspiration for my continuous improvement efforts, but I've found the highest concentration of positive influence to be this group. -wes Some day I might even learn to stop top posting On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 7:33 AM Michael Barnes

Re: [PLUG] USB drive

2019-03-04 Thread wes
and the enclosure to see which one the problem follows. I realize that is not terribly convenient for most home users, but that is the sort of thing we have Clinics for :) -wes On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 12:08 PM Ken Stephens wrote: > I have a USB drive housing with one drive in it. When I plug

Re: [PLUG] Locked up!

2019-03-12 Thread wes
When I struggled with this several weeks ago, one of the things I found I needed to do was to add myself to the "vbox" group. -wes On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:55 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > You have at least these options (from easiest to harder): > 1. Setup USB device filter in v

Re: [PLUG] Controlling resolv.conf...

2019-03-12 Thread wes
I recently struggled with this. It turns out, NetworkManager will only modify /etc/resolv.conf if it is a symlink to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. If it's a regular file, regardless of its permissions, NM will not touch it. Other software probably still will, though, like dhclient. -wes O

[PLUG] Clinic tomorrow

2019-03-16 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is tomorrow, Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-04-17 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-05-15 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Swapping Toshiba Screens

2019-05-16 Thread wes
If the intended use is non-interactive, why not just plug an external monitor in for the duration of the configuration time? -wes On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 5:42 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > I have a pair of Toshiba Satellites, each with a problem. One of them > won't boot at all. The oth

Re: [PLUG] Local (PDX) data recovery from a Dell SSD

2019-05-21 Thread wes
o. I can certainly > suggest that he check in at the clinic, but since this is a probably a > Windows laptop I wasn't certain if the that was appropriate. > > ~~R > > The Clinic would not necessarily turn away a Windows user. However they may be given lower priority if choices ha

Re: [PLUG] printing broken under CentOS 7

2019-05-21 Thread wes
Its a poor craftsman who blames his tools -wes On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 4:31 PM wrote: > 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,

Re: [PLUG] Can geeks defeat scammers? IOT solution needed?

2019-05-24 Thread wes
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:43 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I b way far from "escatada"[sp?] > > In Oregon it's spelled Estacada. > > > And it's pronounced "est uh CAY duh" -wes _

Re: [PLUG] Terminal does not echo typed characters

2019-06-03 Thread wes
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:20 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > > Is there a command that restores keyboard character display on a terminal? > > > This will ultimately depend on the specific reason the characters stopped displaying. Try "clear" and/or "reset&qu

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point failing?

2019-06-08 Thread wes
t a different channel which may work better at that moment. Regarding vertical WAPs: anything can become a vertical device with enough time spent in the woodshop. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Nokia 6.1 Plus turns off quickly

2019-06-11 Thread wes
er-guide/protect-your-phone-with-a-screen-lock/ which suggests to look under Security in the settings area. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-06-12 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here?

2019-06-26 Thread wes
y > error > > to produce an log file, but it makes no sense to me. > > Well, an immediate response to this message came from Elizabeth Warren's > campaign, thanking me for writing to them. However that happened is perhaps > something Michael or Wes can figure out. > &g

Re: [PLUG] Distro suggestions

2019-06-29 Thread wes
his should disqualify them from participating. -wes On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:58 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > I suggest avoiding anything ubuntu-based simply because of their > interactions with microsoft. Which kind of sucks since Mint is decent for > laptops. > > > Feel free to i

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

2019-07-03 Thread wes
I like RT. https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker Might be a little overkill for a small team, but worth a look. -wes On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:04 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > The company owner is getting tired of a help desk app that we are using in > company. I am > tryin

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-07-17 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options?

2019-08-04 Thread wes
nd leaving the drive unmounted) what > command line options should I add to fsck.ext3? > > > fsck does pretty well without parameters. If you wish to dispense with the need to authorize any repairs it suggests, having it just perform them, yo

Re: [PLUG] fsck: recommended options?

2019-08-04 Thread wes
On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:13 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, wes wrote: > > > fsck does pretty well without parameters. If you wish to dispense with > the > > need to authorize any repairs it suggests, having it just perform them, > you > > can supp

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

2019-08-08 Thread wes
When I have challenges like this, I often use a USB ethernet adapter during the install, which uses common enough hardware that drivers are always found in the default kernel module set. -wes On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 7:42 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > looked in the kernel.log and found the follow

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

2019-08-09 Thread wes
SBo? Have never heard of it. Something do do with Java...? > > You have heard of it, Rich mentions it all the time. It's the build > script repo used by most Slackware users. It's like Gentoo's emerge with > less hand-holding. > > > It may be enl

Re: [PLUG] [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

2019-08-12 Thread wes
h client and server depending on which way the data is flowing at any given moment. I would suggest you focus your search on understanding these terms as applied in the larger world. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2019-08-14 Thread wes
The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful direction. Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR 97214 -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread wes
which may be hard to find. pdxlinux.org is one such. If you could post up a screenshot somewhere, that would be quite helpful. You can send it to me individually if that would be easier, and I'll post it up to share with others. I use imgur.com for this type of thing. -wes __

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread wes
ing page" usually has more info on it, or a "Details" button or link. Yours has none of this? What if you try Private Browsing? Use ctrl-shift-P to open such a tab, let us know if that works or not. -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlin

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