Re: OT: Hurricane

2017-09-22 Thread doark
First of all, thanks to everyone for your PM'ed messages and prayers. We are alive and well. Though the eye hit our town quite close to us, we were on the lee side. Power has also been restored, though some of the roads remain flooded (anyone for trout fishing? :) BTW: Are you OK Felix? On Sat,

Re: OT?: FAT32(/16?) Question: Max. files in top level

2016-12-28 Thread doark
On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:46:25 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > > As I recall that there is (or used to be?) a limit on the number of > > files in the > > top level directory of a FAT32 (or 16?) partition / drive. If you > > needed to > > have more files in a directory, you had to create a subdirectory

hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-12-02 Thread doark
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:34:03 -0500 Jape Person wrote: > Hi. > > I'm getting ready to replace all of our old equipment that has been > used for well over a decade in our home network. > > I decided to try to do everything with FOSS -- open source Luxul > router, open-source-only drivers for everyt

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-04-02 Thread doark
So far we have read about a conspiracy story, argued over when WW2 started, even questioned the US motivation for joining in the fray. But we have yet to read about the lessons learned, so I've made up a short list. We've learned that if you use all the gunpowder today then your children and you

Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-09-11 Thread doark
Sorry for the delayed response. > Another remedy would be to use DVD+R instead of DVD-R. > > If speed influences the problem, then it is probably rather > due to drive-and-media problems. I bought the discs form Walmart, they only sell DVD-Rs now. I might have gotten some from amazon, but then I

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-03 Thread doark
On 08/30/2015 17:49:31,Doug wrote: > On 08/30/2015 03:33 PM, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > I know this because I have actually built 95% of base Linux from > > source by hand - multiple times - over the last 17 years. In my > > opinion, if you don't want to take the effort to do the work, then > > you

Re: CD DVD drive docs

2015-08-29 Thread doark
Forgive my absence, my internet connection is intermittent. I tried to contact the kernel devs, no luck so far. It was nice of you to recommend using the digests, but then I can't reply. I tried signing up and got the same reply as before "5.7.1 Hello [74.208.4.201], for your MAIL FROM address po

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-17 Thread doark
> BTW: if you're going to watch a long video, you may want to get a > mouse jiggler, so the picture doesn't go away after a few minutes. Why all this technical mumbo jumbo? "Mouse jiggler" indeed! Just use the word "cat" :) I believe that: xset s off is what your looking for. Of course, different