Re: laptop protection in an office network

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 August 2015 22:20:45 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sat, August 29, 2015 8:33 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2015 21:24:47 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Forgive me; my fingers are dyslexic. So are mine. They don't type what I tell them to lots of the time

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch [OT]

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 August 2015 00:07:44 David Wright wrote: This is quite off topic, and I probably should have just STHU. Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): He may have been, but it wasn't enough that he sent our loaned guns back when the festivities were over in 1945. Instead, they were

Re: laptop protection in an office network

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 August 2015 00:38:49 David Wright wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): I found an ACER keyboard that at first seemed to be ideal for such an environment, but one often picks up the keyboard and takes it to the machine so you can see what you are doing much more

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 August 2015 04:47:10 Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:30:58 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2015 10:39:07 Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:49:55 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: If su goes away

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch [OT]

2015-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 August 2015 14:50:54 David Wright wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): You may well be correct, but to my grandfather they were loaned. I do know that when they left, each was equipt with a good sturdy tag/label bareing the owners name address, well sealed

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 August 2015 10:39:07 Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:49:55 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: If su goes away, IMNSHO, it will be such a PITA that it will encourage far more people to just give up and run their machines as root full time. And I

Re: laptop protection in an office network

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
a substandard DSL connection. And whenever I do a Debian netinst, I always use approx, just in case. So that is why I installed approx on the laptop. RLH Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 August 2015 17:35:28 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2015 14:34:40 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2015 06:19:24 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2015 03:30:18 Gene Heskett wrote: I watched about half of it, but the eu accent made it pretty

Re: laptop protection in an office network

2015-08-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 August 2015 21:24:47 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sat, August 29, 2015 7:35 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: NSF is incorrect, its NFS, aka Network File System. Forgive me; my fingers are dyslexic. RLH So are mine. They don't type what I tell them to lots of the time. Coulnd't

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
to arrive, one learns over the years to keep a store of pares at hand, which is why I am able to send this reply ;-3) This also is good advice. Cheers, Ron. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 August 2015 21:22:04 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:14:00 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Electricity is not magic, it has rules regulations intended to tame it. Here, it works nice. I live in a country where the only rule applying

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
-flash-drives-masquerading-as-keyboard s-mean-more-byod-security-headaches/ So i have few scruples to put a foreign BD into my drives but would not allow a foreign device to be plugged into my USB sockets. Have a nice day :) Thomas Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
, and there is no Network Manager Applet in the panel. How can I determine the address without reinstalling? rlh Try reading cat /etc/network/interfaces. Its a text file. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
o better above where I am either. No wonder its buried about 5 levels out in my TDE menu's, its a total disappointment. I have no clue where the map data is coming from, but IMO its a nukable utility. With the weather map data I can zoom into my neighborhood and find my house & yard bu

Re: quality keyboards

2015-08-31 Thread Gene Heskett
alf a ball point pen spring in the right place makes them a pleasure to use. Most mice have a handy place molded in to put the spring into, so why the heck don't they put it in and raise the price a buck? Boggles my mind. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
bed at the mouse pointer location and drag it to turn the planet until your area of interest is centered, put the mouse there and zoom back in. All of this in very close to real time, easily 100x faster than GE has ever run on one of my machines. Works with iceweazel and chromium, no GE install nee

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 September 2015 09:08:19 Richard Owlett wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 01:41:20 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the > >> telephone of various properties, my

cheese is broken in wheezy as is v4l2ucp

2015-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
up when the cable is plugged in as a root only full access? That, as Jackie Gleason said many times "What a revoltin development that is" If thats the case, how do I fix it so the only user, me, can actually use it? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four b

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 September 2015 07:21:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 26 September 2015 05:19:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 25 September 2015 16:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 September 2015 06:56:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 2

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 September 2015 16:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 24 September 2015 06:56:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all, nfs experts in particular; > > [snip] > > > Ping? > >

Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
be a distracting, even maddening interruption in ones train of thought. Is there such a critter, and I just don't know how to activate it? Thanks for any suggestions to activate this. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2015 09:37:37 Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 09:16:11 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > > One of the things that are a little bit like being nibbled to death > > by ducks, is the lack of a mouse blanker in linux, something that > > was part of and aut

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
as the instability of Amigados, sometimes crashing several times a day. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
ot. Uptime is now 9 days and I usually have to reboot at some point after 20+ days. Thanks Mike. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
op/home: Stale NFS file handle But an ls of /net/shop looks normal, and other directories on "shop" can be listed normally. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amm

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all, nfs experts in particular; > > In attempting to achieve a setup where any of my machines can access > all the others with rw privileges, I have been trying to setup an > /etc/exports file on each mac

repo keys fail

2015-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
pdate" does not update anything. sudo apt-get update ends with this: W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'http.debian.org' W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Solution? Thanks. Ch

Re: repo keys fail

2015-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 September 2015 14:09:36 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@shentel.net): > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://http.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg Could not > > resolve 'http.debian.org' > > > > W: Some index files failed to

Re: repo keys fail

2015-09-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 September 2015 16:21:05 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: A head up to the LCNC list. > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > > sudo apt-get update > > ends with this: > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://http.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 September 2015 20:24:39 Mike Kupfer wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And I have permanent mounts of that "shop" machine in my > > > /etc/fstab here this machine "coyote&qu

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 August 2015 13:48:49 Ric Moore wrote: On 08/28/2015 12:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: But why should I be punished because I use static addresss defined in the hosts file? Because that was the OLD way to doit. We can't have old no more. I DO have this dim weak hope that systemd

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
imeout values for stopping a service > (after which systemd gives up and sends fatal signals to all of the > service's processes) are configurable; see the systemd-system.conf(5) > and systemd.service(5) man pages for details. 'scuse me, but shouldn't the errant process be fixed so i

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 December 2015 14:02:50 Jape Person wrote: > On 12/02/2015 01:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 December 2015 06:06:09 Martin Read wrote: > >> On 02/12/15 03:07, James P. Wallen wrote: > >>> Thanks for your response, Sven. It's nice to kn

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 December 2015 21:48:07 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:12:24PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > In the meantime, its hit another 200 users, discouraging them from > > ever touching linux again. In that regard, we are our own worst >

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 December 2015 22:05:10 Neal P. Murphy wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:48:07 +1300 > > Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:12:24PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > In the meantime, its hit another 200

Re: A stop job is running for...

2015-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2015 02:41:57 Nicolas George wrote: > Le duodi 12 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > >But it bugs the heck out of me that the guy/gal > > doing the codeing doesn't watch the user lists, so it all has to > > wait on som

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
s been for quite a few years with zero security issues. Nearly a decade in fact. The downside is the slower up-link speed when you look at a pix or download something. Be my guest as the present traffic is only about 10% of my data cap. The upside is no commercials except the front age pix of me &

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2015 14:38:27 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 04:57:08 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Its not that hard to setup your own server right at home if you have > > a machine running 24/7 which 4 of the 5 on my local net do. &

Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers

2015-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2015 00:25:17 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 7/12/2015 12:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Obviously you don't trust your router. Mine has been reflashed with > > DD-WRT. Nothing comes in that I don't let in. > > Sure, but that is assuming that DD-WRT

Re: no mouse cursor unless manual X config 'Option "HWCursor" "off"' in Jessie

2015-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
not a TDE or hardware problem. Any ideas on how to > > eliminate need for disabling HWCursor? > > Did the pointer work before you added TDE (whatever that is)? Its a fork of KDE-3.5, with a huge list of bugs fixed. Highly recommended by Grandpa Gene. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &quo

Re: /var/log/mail.err log being spammed

2015-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2015 10:50:35 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I am using procmail for my MTA which also attempts to run the incoming > stuff thru some filters, like spamc/spamd. > > In pursuing an attempt to put dovecot to work as a local server, I > find my

/var/log/mail.err log being spammed

2015-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
on ::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused Is there a fix for this, like procmail is miss-configured? First, there aren't any ipv6 addresses on my local network, and that looks like an ipv6 shortcut addy above. Help will be appreciated. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: /var/log/mail.err log being spammed

2015-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 December 2015 11:18:20 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 10:50:35AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I am using procmail for my MTA which also attempts to run the > > incoming stuff thru some filters, like spamc/spamd. >

Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
in the /etc/default/fetchmail file. > Disabled? How? Please relate what you found, and how you fixed it, so that the fix is in the list archive for the next person searching for the answer to the same problem. > Thanks to all who responded. Thanks Bob. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "Th

awffull?

2015-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
s, up till Nov 16th, 2015. Was there an update that could have played with it, in about that time frame? Thanks for any clues. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (A

Re: command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
etchmail "command > > > > not found" came up with nothing. > > > > > > > > Any ideas, pointers or flames appreciated. > > > > > > Which command isn't found? > > > > .fetchmailrc needs to be 0600 permissions then it may work.

Re: command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
issions. Not so. > > > > Thanx to all that replied. > > Not .fetchmailrc - fetchmail. The executable: /usr/bin/fetchmail > > Richard -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 May 3 2012 /usr/bin/fetchmail I don't even own it, runs perfectly for me. Its my understanding that fetchmai

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 13:14:39 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:57:54 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:37:06 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > >> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:02:59 -0500 > >> > &g

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
install script > you run via sudo) > > The other thing I'm doing is using the latest version of firefox and > not icew. But this comes to personal preference. > I do not like chrome, though it is not bad. I do not like it because > it comes from google. > > regards Cheers,

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 18:33:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 22:43:36 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 05:21:17PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 03 January 2016 15:02:59 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > So I installed googl

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 16:31:41 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/03/2016 01:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 03 January 2016 15:43:51 David Christensen wrote: > >> browser-plugin-gnash > > > > This has been installed for quite some time, seve

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 16:54:28 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-01-03 10:02 (UTC-0500): > > Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. > > With so many giving trouble, have you considered creating a new login > user to test with? I find it hard

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
ll the gnash and lightspark stuff, then reinstalled iceweasel. Some of the flash interference is still there, but when I click on the allow, every site but one worked. I am still getting the request entity too big errors from cbsnews, but the rest seems to be working generally better. Cheers, Gene

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 15:43:51 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/03/2016 07:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel > > has been so emasculated that it asks about flash everytime, bringing > > up a requester that

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 21:56:46 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/03/2016 02:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Well, slashdot can crash chrome just sitting there on the front > > page, presumably when an attempt is made to load some off-my-screen > > bit of slashdot. > >

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 06:03:14 Joel Rees wrote: > I don't believe I did this. > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> A paste of what

vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
gister chromium which I assume turns it into chrome? Comments please, and what browser are you all using that doesn't hassle the user to death, it Just Works, like firefox did 3 years ago. Thanks all; Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:13:31 Ric Moore wrote: > On 01/03/2016 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel > > has been so emasculated that it asks about flash everytime, bringing

gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
up mine. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 January 2016 14:16:16 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 01/09/2016 06:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I > > need several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc &g

Re: gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 January 2016 15:18:38 Joe wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 12:39:35 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I > > need several copies of as

Re: gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 January 2016 13:47:58 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/9/2016 11:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I > > need several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc >

Re: gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 January 2016 19:39:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 10 January 2016 00:24:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I can see all that in synaptic to prove its there, and mc agree's, > > but its in html and iceweasel has lost the ability to open a file on > > a local fil

Re: gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 January 2016 21:42:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 January 2016 19:39:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 10 January 2016 00:24:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I can see all that in synaptic to prove its there, and mc agree's, > > > but its in

Re: gschem only partially works

2016-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 January 2016 21:53:08 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 January 2016 21:42:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 09 January 2016 19:39:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 January 2016 00:24:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I can see all

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:37:06 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:02:59 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >Greetings all; > > > >Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel has > >been so emascul

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:55:29 Ric Moore wrote: > On 01/03/2016 10:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:13:31 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 01/03/2016 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>>

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 January 2016 12:21:17 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 15:02:59 Gene Heskett wrote: > > So I installed googles chromium, > > Which? Google Chrome or chromium (debian package). The latter. From its about screen: Version 37.0.2062.120 Built on Debi

Re: wget log from Jigdo

2015-12-30 Thread Gene Heskett
and someone else with the same problem, reading the list archives, can learn how to fix his problem if he see's a msg that says its fixed, preferably with the how intact. Then we don't use up our energy repeatedly replying to folks with the same problem. The fix is in the list archives. Thanks

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Being a long term DM-II diabetic, I'd like to see any images of pasta, which I should not eat, excised from all of these image packages, thereby removing the temptation. :-]> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Ple

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 20:31:50 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, December 22, 2015 7:09 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs > > Look for "Weber" as well as for "Coulumb". > > Russ That too is a new term to

Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Do we have such a beast? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Some mill pix are at: Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/GO704-pix>

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 20:17:58 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 12/22/2015 05:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Do we have such a beast? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Free on the web: http://www.endmemo

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 21:02:31 John Hasler wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave > > source, and I want to know how much charge is transfered for every > > full cycle of the input square wave. > > Zero assu

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 06:47:39 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:09:18 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 December 2015 21:02:31 John Hasler wrote: > > > Gene Heskett writes: > > > > In this case, the s

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
gra >ms > > e.g., Qucs > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_Universal_Circuit_Simulator > > Regards, > jvp. Sounds like exactly what might be useful here. But no qucs exists in the wheezy repos. Dowloaded src, will see if it will build on wheezy. Thank you Jörg-Volker Peetz. Chee

Re: wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 13:15:16 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a > > comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. > > It's not in wheezy-backports, and Jess

wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Gene

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 13:22:14 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/23/2015 02:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ahh, but its being fed to a voltage-doubler with schottky diodes ... > > The PSU has a quite high > > capacitance input filter, and without this soft start time

Re: wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 13:15:16 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a > > comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. > > It's not in wheezy-backports, and Jess

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
uot;install this list of stuff" then configure this "stuff" so, and that "stuff" so, giving an educational background reason for each. I've not found such a tome. And folks seem to think I'm out of my mind to even try. That attitude on the part of what is supposed to

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
em, and has been adequately proved so at my location, so until I run out of entry's in the directory, I will stick with a file per message format. YMMV, and I could be wrong. But that is AIUI. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury,

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19:46 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:45 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Friday 18 December 2015 05:32:01 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Having just by implication been told by someone t

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
need access 24/7 worldwide to all my > emails. And frankly, leaving (some of my personal) emails on a server > I have no control over is asking for trouble. Thats one of the reasons fetchmail runs a 3 minute sleep cycle here. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be use

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19:46 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:45 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Friday 18 December 2015 05:32:01 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Having just by implication been told by someone t

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2015 12:23:25 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:07:57 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19:46 Petter Adsen wrote: > > > If you want to try setting up a Dovecot server, there ar

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2015 14:02:52 Martin Read wrote: > On 18/12/15 18:14, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ok, I have constructed a recursive pull ~/.wgetrc, but all I get are > > syntax errors. The file: (which kmail cannit insert, so copy-paste) > > gene@coyote:~/Documents/doveco

Re: AP support for wl driver

2015-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
ad page. No support email. > They have 64 bit driver for Linux available for download. I tried, > following the README file, and compilation failed with errors. > Bad experience with Broadcom. > Exactly that caused me to blacklist & leave it on the shelf or pegboard, anthing with

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
tries, I just let it go ahead and do its own partitioning and formatting to ext4. The system has actually worked well, on a drive that is said to be too big for MBR. So I would like to be enlightened as to the real differences between the systems. URL's to the proponents sites would be fine. Ch

Re: KTorrent: Turn off computer when finished

2015-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
that it needs until it has every piece of the file and gets the same crc check value as the source had, on a per 64k packet. Any missing pieces can be requested, and whoever has it will send it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 December 2015 01:59:44 Gener Badenas wrote: Back on the list where this belongs. > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Do we have such a beast? > > > > Thanks. > > The

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 December 2015 04:30:06 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 12/23/15 16:12: > > On Wednesday 23 December 2015 08:49:34 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> e.g., Qucs > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_Universal_Circuit_Simulator > >> &g

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
or, which could slow the response, but this job can tolerate a seconds lag if it has to. > And here's an application note: > http://www.wrcakron.com/catalog/10b_SSR_Applications.pdf I'll grab that, it could be educational. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1449

2015-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
BUT you must send a reply (click reply, then click send) to the confirmation message the server will send you. IOW you must prove you are you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed How

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
e. > > And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than > poopy linux stuff! Try telling that to a couple school bus-loads of 7nth graders. They thought that was the best standup comedy they'd heard in ages. Its no wonder that people like me get accused of walking on w

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
those flashlight things they put a plastic cup over to look into an ear, that could be lethal so far. All maintained by some contractor & the Doc his self was powerless to do anything about it. Scary, tain't it? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defens

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
the back of my hand against it very gently. If it feels like it is vibrating as the back of your hand slides against it, its too hot to get between it and a grounded object. The back of ones hand is amazingly sensitive to that sort of thing, and it might save your life to remember that, everybody readi

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
er from across my > farm to along the road. Breaking the seal is not, in and of itself, a > crime here, though. Jumpering the meter is theft, of course. Which all boils down to "when in Rome..." ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of l

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 17:57:02 Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/22/2015 06:02 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > Gene Heskett writes: > >> In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave > >> source, and I want to know how much charge is transfered for every &

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 21:07:34 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Try telling that to a couple school bus-loads of 7nth graders. > > I am struggling to understand what possible, unholy, > agglomeration of powers and principalities mi

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