Re: wsl
WSL comes with a Wayland implementation called WSLg that provides a rootless display server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps That's probably the easiest way to run GUI apps. I would try that first. Either way, you want a display server that runs outside the VM, on the Windows side. If you don't like WSLg you can try an X11 server for Windows. IIRC I've had success with X410 and VcXsrv, but there's also Cygwin/X and Xming. On Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:19 Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > well, I'm stuck in a world of windows now. but I gots to use linux so I'm > doing wsl. How do I get gui to work: I ran apt update/upgrade/xinit but it > responds with: > > _XSERVTansmkdir: ModeX11-unix should 1777 > _XSERVTransCreateListener: failed... > _XSERVTransUNIX...:failed > _XSERVTransMakeALL... failed... > etc > > So could someone help me get x going until I can get a beloved linux box > again? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?
Installing Chrome silently adds Google's repos to your system and doesn't really offer any advantages over Chromium. On Jun 1, 2015 4:31 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: On my Linux Mint 17 system, the chromium browser was installed by default and it has seemed to work well for most things ... but I've been getting messages from Google that read: This version of Chrome is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. So is it safe and prudent to install the Chrome browser to replace chromium? I seem to remember reading a while back that there were problems with running the Chrome browser on Linux. Please advise what to do. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Fwd: Monitor
How old is the kid and what do they know about their computer and its software? On Feb 14, 2015 6:38 PM, Wayne Davis wayda...@centurylink.net wrote: I want to monitor the screen of a machine remotely *AND* covertly - Both machines on same network, both running Kubuntu 14.10 Child on machine. Suggestions? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: do I understand this correctly?
Yeah. Unstable means just means little or no testing downstream from the maintainers of the software packaged. Software found in Debian unstable is generally not beta software, but considered a 'stable' release upstream. On Jan 4, 2015 1:06 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: is this the correct understanding apt-get's stable/testing/unstable? If I'm wrong could you teach me? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Is it correct that with apt-get unstable refers to the amount of testing done with the system? I do not think it refers the alfa/beta status of the program. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: to the mint forums I go! Thanks for your help Mark. I'll post what I find out there after I hear back from them. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: On Jan 3, 2015 11:14 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: so then, version is just for lower than the version that are in the apt-cache. Actually, the version you want has to be in your sources.list. glad I'm talking to you all about this because I just discovered that after you run package=version you need to run : sudo echo “package hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections Only if you don't want the package upgraded at the next apt-get upgrade. I also discovered that to find the versions in the repository you run: apt-cache showpkg packagename so is there no way to force a version into apt-cache? The sources.list just says where to find a package. Sort of like a big phone book...if you don't have the white pages for Ajo, you can't find your friend's phone number who lives in Ajo. Once you get the Ajo book, you have access to everyone's phone number in Ajo, but you are only interested in your friend's number. Pinning tells apt to only use the 2011 edition of the Ajo phone book to look up your friend's phone number, even though you now subscribe to the latest version of the Ajo phone book. You still have all the latest phone numbers on hand, which does not impact your selection of the 2011 phone number for your friend's phone number. I just tried to force the installation of the unstable version of the package (sudo apt-get install kmymoney/unstable) but it seems as if it isn't called 'unstable' in mint (ubuntu). Am I doing it wrong? What are the Archives called in Mint (ubuntu) Sorry, I have never used mint. Just a long time Debian user who recently switched to Ubuntu for my desktop with my new laptop...It came pre-installed. ;-) Mark :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: help immensely. Thank you Mark. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Michael, If all you have is the stable branch in your sources.list, then you won't have access to any of the testing packages, even if you specify testing on the command line with apt-get. apt-get has to know where to find the package you want to download, which is why sources.list exists. If you want to be able to install both testing and stable packages, then you have to have both stable and testing branches listed in your sources.list. If you want to hold a package to a specific version or branch (stable, testing, experimental), then you can pin that package to that version, and all future updates will only use that version. Take a look at http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html. However, you still have to have the correct repositories listed in sources.list, and you have to run an apt-get upgrade to update the local cache so the OS knows where to find the packages you want. Hope that helps! Mark On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable). source: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest version but can instead do: package=version If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other words PPAs are just a way to make it so that we are always running the latest version of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose what we want to run with: package=version That is very Linuxy of them! :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail
Re: Why have HackFests been Dropped from the PLUG Schedule?
Mockery of an individual for transgender identity or ambiguous gender expression IS 'gender bias', and it's not okay. The notion that people ought to be men or women and that certain kinds of men and women are the right kinds to be is the very same one that drives the bias you're decrying. On Dec 2, 2014 12:33 AM, Kaoru Wilbur m.kaoru.wil...@gmail.com wrote: hans, I am sorry you cannot take a joke. Of course, sexual harassment is no joking matter. Accusations of this are quite serious. I never witnessed anything or experienced sexual harassment. Gender bias is quite obvious in your LUG. On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:44 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 01. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Kaoru Wilbur so: Well, this was an interesting thread. I would like to chime in here for a moment. While I have not experienced unwanted sexually advances by anyone at PLUG in recent years, I will state there is a gender bias, definitely. Some people may not experience this gender bias because, well frankly, we are unsure of your gender... That's uncalled for, especially right as you're claiming there is gender bias. All joking aside, as a community, we really could be a little more thoughtful, tactful and less like assholes. Most of us do a good job. Over the years there have only been problems with a few people. Most adjust their behavior when it's pointed out. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/http://www.PhxLinux.org/ # Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning # it. -- George Bernard Shaw --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Mint
Mint is a project with a number of products, including one based directly on Debian sid, called 'Mint Debian Edition'. On Jul 28, 2014 6:00 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: mint is a ubuntu derivative which is a debian derivative. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:17 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: I keep hearing about Mint and some place I heard Mint and Debian in away that made me think maybe Mint is a Debian derivative. Then I visited the website and it looks like Mint is actually Debian. Could that be true? I have not used Debian for years. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: Then vs Now Programming WAS: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement
It seems like this is a good thing. Not bothering with intense hand-optimization means we can get more done and focus on designs that are more flexible and easier to work with. On Jun 13, 2013 12:31 PM, James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote: All of the above. With the resources available, we don't bother programming with limited pages of memory or do much disk caching and other tricks to maximize. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Nathan England nat...@nmecs.com wrote: ** On Thursday, June 13, 2013 07:01:23 AM Lyle Tuttle wrote: In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission designing, building and maintaining computer controlled experiments using radiation from and located on the face of the reactor.our SDS mainframe G ran ALL experiments (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote locations) in real-time..that computer had 16K core memory...and people came from all over the world to see what we were doingnow a watch has more memory. Time flies, and the only constant is change.. Lyle has brought up a question that is interesting to me. I hear stories like this of these amazing things people did with computers 30 and 40 years ago and then the comment always comes up like And we only had xx kb of ram. So my question is, was programming in what ever language they used back then more efficient and today's languages are seriously bloated and require more ram, or do programmers today not know how to program as efficiently? Or what gives? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James McPhee jmc...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: torrent
Well, one difference is that if infringement _is_ committed, it's two different violations under the law for torrents, and one for HTTP downloads. Because torrenters download *and* upload, they can be charged not only with violation by using the content without permission, but also for distributing it (a charge with much higher penalties). And another niggling thing: Linux is copyrighted. BSD is copyrighted. Every creative work made in the US is automatically copyrighted.) So torrenting definitely deals almost exclusively with copyrighted material. But not every copyright belongs to a total dick, so... ;-) Torrents are definitely a faster download for small projects (and often projects hosted on servers which reside far, far away). The Blender Open Movie projects are a good example here. The idea that torrents exist exclusively to facilitate infringement is ridiculous. On Jan 25, 2013 2:03 PM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: Bittorrent is simply a way of efficiently moving large amounts of data from point A to point B. There is nothing about it that promotes copyright infringement, any more than just downloading something off a webpage though HTTP... unless you are saying that doing things efficiently is inherently dishonest. Brian Cluff On 01/25/2013 11:01 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files. -jmz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com mailto:bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location? :-)~MIKE~(-: --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.**phxlinux.orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- http://home.joshuazeidner.com/ (602) 492-5749 --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --**- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**orgPLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
