Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?

2021-05-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:24:48PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2021 10 May 16:05 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain text, one address per file. There is no

Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?

2021-05-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: Are there other options? Looking about I don't see any. Even the online Google Docs does not appear to have any support for printing envelopes. I understand most people do things online but there is still a reason to use snail mail

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-25 Thread Russell
Weaver wrote: > On 24-04-2021 08:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. >>> Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the >>> baggage associated with either an "office suite," or >>> a "desktop environ

Re: Zoom.

2021-04-25 Thread Russell
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:01:02AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> Installed Zoom in Debian 10. >> [...] >> Ideas welcome. > > Instead of installing the Zoom package, try just using Zoom inside > a web browser. I've used it inside Google Chrome without any problems. > I

Re: scanner recommendation

2021-04-22 Thread Russell
Brian wrote: > As with all of these asking for recommendations type questions, there > is little detail provided. For example, do you want a standalone scanner > or would an MFD suit? > > sane-airscan supports all modern MFDs. Shopping online would allow you > to submit your preferred choice he

screen blank watching Netflix

2021-03-19 Thread Russell Coker
Until recently I could watch Netflix with Chrome on Debian/Testing with no problems. Some recent update (maybe of Chrome, maybe of Debian) broke this, now the screen blanker will enable during play. I don't know which update as I have a long screen lock time (the laptop for Netflix isn't used

Re: Label printer Debian compatible

2020-12-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 04:12:25PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box? I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to be able to print si

Re: make a drawing

2020-08-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:06:20AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: Anyway, I'd like to make a drawing of it. Any idea what software might be used? sweethome inkscape dia

Re: mp3 images on in-dash radio

2020-08-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:08:02AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: What happens if you play your CD in a computer player like rhythmbox or similar? I installed rhythmbox and plugged the USB flash stick into the computer, which was mounted on \media\. Whoever put together rhythmbox made the interf

Re: mp3 images on in-dash radio

2020-08-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 07:31:10PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: What in-dash system are you using? The offending system is that of a 2016 Toyota Tundra; it has a software switch to defeat display of the album cover. While it is possible to embed information in an MP3 file, one has to do so affir

mp3 images on in-dash radio

2020-08-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
I processed several lecture series (analogue voice streams) as follows: (1) record each stream as a WAV file on a TASCAM digital recorder (2) load each WAV file into "Audacity" as a project, for editing and for manual insertion of a number of filename labels, to label sessions within each lectur

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: So is my processor AMD or Atom? The best way to answer this question is to run the command cat /proc/cpuinfo That prints about thirty lines; here are a few: processor: 1 vendor_id

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 09:34:01PM +, Andrew Cater wrote: Aha - it might be one of the strange generation of machines (way back) that had 32 bit UEFI/BIOS and a 64 bit capable Atom processor - maybe back as far as the Sandy Bridge series ... a long time ago anyway. Use, specifically, the Debi

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 05:38:52PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 05:52:10PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: If going back to i386 is an option for you, the department of workarounds has an option. Again, at this point, my only hope for the machine (other than to toss it in

Re: non-smart debian phone

2020-08-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:38:40PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: I plan to get a non-smart phone to replace my smart phone. By non-smart, i mean that it does not have a touch screen. A couple of years back I switched to AT&T. Back then the only flip-phone offered by AT&T was Kyocera. Battery life t

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:04:13PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: so far I can only confirm that the grub installation fails with both stable and testing. It seems something is at odds with writing the efivars. I did not yet get around to try again if I can switch the installation back to using grub-

Lenovo S205 boot

2020-07-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
On an older Lenovo S205 on which I never have managed to get Debian running, I did a netinstall of debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso grub dummy failed, but the boot process terminates with the grub> prompt. I tried the ls command: grub> ls (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,pt1)

Re: wifi bgn identification

2020-07-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 01:19:44AM +, Andy Smith wrote: Possibly you do have "iw" installed but did not find it because "/sbin" is not in your user's PATH. Yes; that was the problem. Thanks.

Re: wifi bgn identification

2020-07-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n? `iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. I do not find that command. I did find "ip show", but it do

wifi bgn identification

2020-07-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?

Re: mpv interface

2020-06-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:00:30AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: The answer to that would depend on whatever "desktop environment" you have. XFCE in Debian 10. Typically you'd have some kind of file manager, where you can visually browse your file system. Files there are represented by small

mpv interface

2020-06-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
In Debian 10, I need to view a mp4 video which I downloaded. Using the menu: APPLICATIONS -> Multimedia -> mpv Media Player menu I end up with a window labeled MPV with a black screen on which is what appears to be a START icon (an arrow) and the line: Drop files or URLs to play here. Wo

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 03:56:17PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: Yeah, but that's not building Jitsi; that's installing a prebuilt Jitsi, as shipped in those packages. Presumably, as those packages are for download from the authors' Website, the authors are the ones who built them. Thus, this doesn

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: to...@tuxteam.de (12020-06-07): Yes, the server is free software. As is Jitsi's. So you can get the source, build yourself or download pre-built thingies. Do you have evidence of somebody other than the authors themselves having m

Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: What are best practices to create a remote terminal? I see two ways: Do not overlook the marvelous package "screen".

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:09:54AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Russell L. Harris (12020-04-27): > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KR0AhDZF2A As to "...opening access to [your] computer...", what do you mean? The tutorial shows how to install jitsi from a Debian package. I

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:53:39PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Russell L. Harris (12020-04-27): I do not have the URL, but Jitsi has a YouTube video which takes you step-by-step through a server installation on Debian. It is a nice presentation; I have used it with success. Is it the one

Re: Jitsi (was Re: Please help me find a good Debian compatible video card).

2020-04-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:54:46PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Dan Purgert (12020-04-27): I tried it locally (with a LOCAL instance running) and it worked quite nicely for half a dozen PCs / laptops around the house. Oh, interesting. Have you found a good set of instructions to set it up on

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 04:15:00PM -0500, David Wright wrote: In addition, if the original email contained a malicious gotcha, you expose the recipient of the bounced email to the same risk that you presumably have just avoided. I am no expert on the matter. However, my approach has been to te

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:53:47AM -0500, David Wright wrote: Oh, this was explicitly about Thunderbird's ":exec bounce-message"? I missed that bit, sorry for that. Will re-read. If this is so, then : must be an active character in order to introduce the string "exec". I see no mention of : in

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:43:40AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Thunderbird provides the command ":exec bounce-message". Oh, wow. Thanks for the hint. Does anyone know what that command does? Someone provided a detailed explaination of bounce a few messages earlier in this thread. But brie

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:55:07PM +1000, elvis wrote: On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Any idea how to do this in Thunderbird? Thunderbird provides the command ":exec bounce-message".

Re: javascript (roundup)

2020-04-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:50:24PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: https://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes/2020/04/13 And file a complaint with them about requiring Flash. There is no excuse for that. John Hasler: I am glad you found that URL; it works, and I shall bookmark it.

javascript

2020-04-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
When attempting to listen to a recorded pipe organ broadcast posted on a web site of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), I am taken to a page which has the message,"To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed." The page with the links to the broadcast is ti

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-04-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:19:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Have you examined the timestamps in the email header of such emails in order to see where the holdup is occurring. It may or may not be in the last hop. You embarrass me, David! It did not occur to me that the header would contain t

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-04-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 09:51:38AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I suppose I need to reduce the limit of the number of messages downloaded in a sesson, so as to enable more frequent checks for incoming messages. What benefit would this bring? Perhaps once a month or once every other month, I a

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-04-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Jason wrote: As another option, both getmail and thunderbird can be configured to leave messages on the server and then delete them a certain number of days after retrieval. Using that feature in getmail, you could access the same messages in thunderbird

Re: apache 2.4 configuration

2020-04-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 12:43:58PM +0100, Joe wrote: Localhost is the machine running Apache. The normal IP address for it is 127.0.0.1, though there are others. It isn't an Apache thing, it's a networking thing. It's referred to in network configuration as 'lo'. If you install Apache2.X on Debi

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 07:49:32PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: And I need to locate a working microphone. One of the best tools for such a need is the Shure X2U. It is a single-channel broadcast-grade XLR-to-USB (1.0) converter with integrated stereo headphone amplifier (1/8-inch T

Re: using Webex from Stretch

2020-04-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:52:41PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some of which I should at least listen to. Unfortunately, they are doing the conferences with Cisco Webex. Webex uses an app that's not available for Debian Linu

apache 2.4 configuration

2020-04-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am searching for a guide for configuration of Apache 2.4 on Debian 10. Thus far, my web searches have found guides for Debian 9 and guides for Apache 2.2. I am aware of "https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/"; and am digesting it as rapidly as I can. I have been working my way through the Chapte

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-04-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:58:16AM -0400, Celejar wrote: I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by Debian - I almost always install stuff from the repos, and I tend to assume (probably somewhat unreasonably) that if something isn't there, there's a good reason for it

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-03-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 07:09:35PM -0400, Celejar wrote: Actually, *no* official Debian repository currently contains Jitsi. It was removed in 2017, apparently due to QA issues, although I don't know the whole story: Perhaps the problem was nothing more than a conflict with another package in t

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

2020-03-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:27:59PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:09:47PM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: I second Zoom. You can install it via flatpak, which might make you feel better. I tried jitsi some time ago, I think that will require a bit more setup for

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with ??urubelni????)

2020-03-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: I think we can agree that the Romans spoke Latin! Actually, Latin was the official, legal language of Rome. The previous conquests of Alexander the Great established the Koine dialect of Greek as the "lingua franca" of the Ancient World. Koin

[solved] Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:03:55AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an auxiliary mail client with GUI (such as Thunderbird) with which I could open such ... One approach would be to get a mail account strictly for this purpose, and set up a

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:20:15AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 03:03:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. Picking out and viewing the

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 06:47:55AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: As I have my own domain, it was trivial to create a mailbox on the mail host and use Mutt/Neomutt's bounce command (b) to 'bounce' the mail in question to that mailbox and then retrieve it with Evolution. It's an extra step but means

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:44:14AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: =?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?= This is not a PDF (it would be a very short one, mind you :) I misspoke; I should have said "string" rather than "PDF". But I did not discover how to get mutt to point me to the PDF file

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:24:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Opening pdfs in a reader is trivial with mutt. Just press 'v' and then 'Return' on the pdf attachment. It should be opened in your default pdf viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your default browser. I u

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:51:51PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: If you configure all your e-mail clients to leave the messages on the server, you should be able to access the same e-mail server account from multiple clients. Current clients using IMAP seem to work this way (Thunderbird, App

HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, and sometimes is rather difficult. Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an

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Re: Zoom conferencing

2020-03-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 12:46:24PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 02:08:27PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: If you are interested in a free video/ voice conference tool look at jitsi. Jitsi (or perhaps it is "jitsi-meet" has a free web-accessible service which does not require

Re: buster: low audio level

2020-02-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:28:17PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: No, I said it was new to me. It worked fine under Windows -- basically a gaming machine -- but now it has brand new disks with a clean install of buster. I suggest you purchase a USB audio interface (look for one of the "plug-and-play

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:10:25AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:59:55AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: I receive the following error message when attempting to enable a virtual host (apache2 in Debian 10): root@penelope:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:42:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: Does calling it as: # /usr/sbin/a2ensite ??? work? root@penelope:/usr/sbin# /usr/sbin/a2ensite Your choices are: 000-default default-ssl domain1.com domain2.com Which site(s) do you want to enable (wildcards ok)? domain1.com Enabling

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 08:29:30AM +0100, john doe wrote: What is the content of your 'PATH' env? $ printf "%s\n" "$PATH" root@penelope:/usr/sbin# printf "%s\n" "$PATH" /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games I really must turn in for the night, and resume this on the morrow.

Re: apache2 virtual host

2020-02-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:05:11AM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Russell, On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:59:55AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: I receive the following error message when attempting to enable a virtual host (apache2 in Debian 10): root@penelope:/etc/apache2/sites-available

apache2 virtual host

2020-02-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
I receive the following error message when attempting to enable a virtual host (apache2 in Debian 10): root@penelope:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite domain1.com.conf bash: a2ensite: command not found The configuration file domain1.com.conf is owned by root:root and has permissions i

localhost

2020-02-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am attempting to configure Apache2 (in Debian 10) as a local server for web site development. I see on the "Apache2 Debian Default Page" the Debian logo; the browser reports the image location as: http://localhost/icons/openlogo-75.png But when I use midnight commander to snoop around \var

[SOLVED] Re: configure asus amd uefi bios for netinst

2020-02-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 06:58:32AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not yet managed to figure out the proper BIOS configuration to get an AsusPRO (desktop computer) to boot from a USB flash stick for netinstall of Debian 10. A work-around is to burn the ISO image to CD, which booted

configure asus amd uefi bios for netinst

2020-02-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have not yet managed to figure out the proper BIOS configuration to get an AsusPRO (desktop computer) to boot from a USB flash stick for netinstall of Debian 10. The USB flash stick has Debian 10.2; I used it about a week ago for a netinstall on another machine. The machine was shipped from th

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 07:28:39PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:27:21 -0600 Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:40 AM Patrick Bartek wrote: I'm curious for more on this perspective. Security is not so much one or two big things, but a lot of little things y

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:50:37AM -0700, Harold Hartley wrote: I installed 10.2... Good. Yes, I created a root password and a user account. Good; that is all you need. Unless others have access to the machine and you have unusual concerns regarding security, forget about sudo. ... when

Re: Sudo

2020-01-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 09:39:28AM -0700, Harold Hartley wrote: The only problem I'm having is when I want to check for updates or install a file, it tells me that I'm not in the sudoers file. ... I'm the only one on the system and should have admin access anyways. What is this "admin" access

[SOLVED] Re: use find to generate print list

2020-01-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 09:23:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 07:43:40AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: In the "find" man page is an example which uses (1) "-prune" to exclude a directory and (2) "! -name '*~'" to exclude both

use find to generate print list

2020-01-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
In the "find" man page is an example which uses (1) "-prune" to exclude a directory and (2) "! -name '*~'" to exclude both files and directories the name of which end in "~": find . -name .snapshot -prune -o \( \! -name '*~' -print0 \)| cpio -pmd0 /dest-dir I have tried without success to

Re: web server for development

2020-01-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 07:21:43PM +0100, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I scp the files to a temp directory in my home directory on the server then ssh into the server, su to root, change the permissions and ownerships of the files then move them to /var/www/html/ for testing I usually con

Re: xdvi

2020-01-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:28:02PM -0600, David Wright wrote: As soon as I switched to pdflatex, I started using a blink comparator technique (between two fvwm viewports) which depends on one of the PDF renderings remaining unchanged while the other (same PDF) is updated (with r) each time the so

moose

2020-01-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
In-reply-to: <20200115001744.ga20...@wren.corp> David Wright wrote: Have you tried either of Ctrl-r or R? Thanks, David; Ctrl-r does provide refresh without touching the rodent, but something has changed, because heretofore refresh has been automatic upon execution of latex.

xdvi refresh

2020-01-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Debian 10 (Buster), running latex does not cause refresh of xdvi, as I seem to recall that it does on Debian 8 and 9. Instead, I must click on the screen for refresh. Having read the xdvi man page, I think this could be corrected by invoking: xdvi -watchfile 1 & when starting xdvi; but tha

Re: web server for development

2020-01-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:56:41PM +0530, rajudev wrote: This is what I use when I am testing something on my local machine $ python3 -m http.server Thanks. Someone previously mentioned a phython server built into hugo, but did not give details. This serves my need, and saves time by circumve

Re: web server for development

2020-01-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
There's also sftp. It's in the openssh-client package. Thanks; I see that it is loaded, and I just printed out the man page. ... a Windows person Them's fighting words... Or mounting the directory using sshfs (which is an SFTP client) and then using your local file management tools. sshf

Re: web server for development

2020-01-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:54:34AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: ... whether rsync is an option. Sure, as long as you run it over ssh. The default in Debian is to run rsync over ssh, but it can also be explicitly invoked that way: rsync -av --rsh=ssh host::module /dest rsync -av -e "ssh -l ssh-user"

Re: web server for development

2020-01-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
In this message, I respond to several suggestions: On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Greg Wooledge & others wrote: One way would be: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html I thank you for the link. More as an alternative to apache on an another host: - using the buil

Re: web server for development

2020-01-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:40:49PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: If a web/storage provider doesn't offer at *least* SFTP access in 2020, it's time to find a new provider. https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/secure-ftp-sftp-and-ftps TL;DR: they support SFTP, which is appropr

web server for development

2020-01-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to the web server and view the pages from the development machine. But the installation of Apache2 on Buster serves documents from /var/www/html/, which is ow

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Why can't you just "apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics"? Is the machine lacking a network connection? You don't have to reinstall from scratch for this. Thanks. I have been using synaptic for so long that I forgot about apt-ge

[solved] Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:58:06PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Why can't you just "apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics"? Is the machine lacking a network connection? You don't have to reinstall f

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:11:52PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Based on this, it sounds like the X server is starting and then dying quickly. The next step would be to find its log file -- either ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log depending on stuff. (EE) open /dev/dri/card

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:12:45PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Sounds like you need to install firmware-amd-graphics. It's in the non-free section, so make sure you've enabled non-free and contrib. I did that when setting up the mirror (which is debian.org via my approx server). Again, I have

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:48:24PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Why be imprecise like this? Why not type out the exact error message? Here is a transcript from the screen of about a half of the lines displayed (offhand, I do

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:42:46AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 4:18 AM ghe wrote: > On Jan 6, 2020, at 01:37 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified > xfce. The system boots but no login scre

buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified xfce. The system boots but no login screen or GUI appears. Alt-F4 allows me to log in and reboot or shutdown.

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

2019-11-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 08:50:33PM -0500, Optimus Primus wrote: Could you send me a list or a link to a list of compatible USB WIFI Adapters? I have no experience with AC, but for N and below the Asus USB-56 has "just worked" flawlessly with several generations (7, 8, 9) of Debian; also the Asu

Re: convert english+greek emacs file to pdf - mutt configuration

2019-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 07:44:48PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Sat 16 Nov 2019 at 20:07:42 (+0100), deloptes wrote: You don't say how the problem manifested itself. My buster/mutt displays the post as I assume the writer desired it to appear. The email was in UTF-8 despite not declaring itself

Re: convert english+greek emacs file to pdf - SOLVED

2019-11-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
On StackExchange I found two solutions. The first, which was the recommended, did not work. The second did work, and is simple: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} \usepackage{alphabeta} \begin{document} ?? ?? ??

convert english+greek emacs file to pdf

2019-11-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am running Debian 9.11 with a HP Laserjet P3015 Postscript. By means of rodent-cut-and-paste from a web page, I have on the emacs screen a file with a combination of English and Greek characters. But I need a paper copy. FILE -> PRINT POSTSCRIPT BUFFER renders the Greek characters as quest

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:31:35AM +, mick crane wrote: I've settled on Roundcube, Dovecot, Sieve, getmail Roundcube is what my old ISP was using for the webmail interface, and I used it for almost a year. But I never thought of it as a package for my desktop. And it is in the Debian arch

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:43:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just to throw one more suggestion into the ring, I'm sure older versions of kmail can do what you want, like the one in KDE 4.8.4 / Debian Wheezy (kmail 1.13.7). The few times I have used KDE stuff it has been impressive. But

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:13:10PM +, ? wrote: How about Gnus? Below is example: https://gitlab.com/soyeomul/Gnus/blob/master/ss/IMG_20191106_215916_resized_20191106_100052740.jpg I did consider Gnus. My editor is Emacs, and ten or more years ago I did run Gnus, for about a year.

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:30:10AM +, Mark Rousell wrote: Before I go on, I should say that this is now an area with which I am not overly familiar in detail. I know Thunderbird very well but I am not familiar in detail with getmail, Dovecot or maildir structures. No problem; I know getmail

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 04:10:17AM +, Mark Rousell wrote: Set up a local IMAP server instead? :-) I found a HOWTO: https://www.linux.com/news/how-build-local-imap-server/ but I have not read though it. Is it necessary to route all my mail through the local IMAP server? Mail with getmail an

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:46:14PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: urlscan and a macro to bring urlscan up once a link got highlighted would help if you still want to use mutt or neomutt. I am using urlscan. I would be happy to forward to you one or two sample messages; each has a dozen links, and

auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) seems not to be a good solution for such messages. What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can point at my maildir structure to read such messages and b

Re: Nodejs and Harp static website generator

2019-10-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 03:51:30PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: Has anyone on this list had any experience with Harp (https://harpjs.com)? I am having trouble getting it re-installed and not getting much help from the developer. Alternatively, can anyone recommend a suitable substitute for it. T

Re: hp 3762

2019-10-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 05:34:36PM +0200, steef wrote: Is somebody out there who has some experience with HP-printers?? For several years I have been running a HP LaserJet P3015, purchased used for under $200USD from an outfit which does laser printer maintenance. The machines feed paper relia

Re: audio recorder

2019-09-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 09:06:56AM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote: Wanted a utility for snipping youtube clips, recording skype, etc. ... audacity is simple to use and allows editing. Install also "pavucontrol" (pulse audio volume control), which is a simple graphical utility which allows you to se

Re: pdftk

2019-08-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 09:41:39AM +0200, steef wrote: is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains with 'input-errors'. An example f

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