[Dorset] connecting a HP printer to my wi-fi network

2021-02-26 Thread John Palmer
' but thought I should try the Linux community as well. I have been very quiet on this group for many years ! Best wishes, -- John Palmer 4 Horyford Close, Preston, Weymouth DT3 6DJ, UK e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ phone: 01305 835410 -- Next meeting: Online

Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread John Palmer
What about charmap(1), aka gucharmap and gnu-character-map ? Works for me, though tedious and slow, for most varieties of the Latin alphabet; but users who need to write continuous Norwegian (etc) text on English keyboards will not be happy . -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England

Re: [Dorset] Local food suppliers

2020-04-09 Thread John Palmer
still supported. -- John Palmer -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-05-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-10 Thread John Palmer
The enlarged mouse pointer seems to have gone some way towards helping my user's sight problem. Many thanks. John -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK

Re: [Dorset] mouse pointer?

2018-01-01 Thread John Palmer
Sorry : I meant Tim not Terry. -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Backups - what else do I need to do?

2017-06-29 Thread John Palmer
rsync for my own and my wife's backups, following a recommendation long ago by someone on this list. Many thanks to that person, whoever that was. John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk

Re: [Dorset] Manipulating PDF Files in Linux

2014-07-18 Thread John Palmer
itself to fit. If the target language is right-to-left or ideographic it's harder but still within the scope of TeX. I've read about pandoc and I'll be interested to hear from someone who's tried it. I have mixed feelings about markdown. Good luck. John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset

Re: [Dorset] Free Database software

2013-11-02 Thread John Palmer
, and showing with uniq(1) that the keys weren't as unique as they were meant to be ... John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-11-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] External HD - Permission denied

2013-03-17 Thread John Palmer
, for it is used (IIRC) by fsck, the program that occasionally checks the integrity of filesystems. Best wishes for your trip abroad! John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting

[Dorset] Ubuntu spyware?

2012-12-10 Thread John Palmer
referring and to what programs? Does it affect grep or find, for instance? TIA, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing

Re: [Dorset] tab in interactive bash

2012-11-28 Thread John Palmer
grep '^Ctrl-VTab' foo Thanks Ralph ... very handy and preserves other functionality ... sometime (not now) must study readline. John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting

[Dorset] tab in interactive bash

2012-11-26 Thread John Palmer
Can someone please explain why bash in interactive mode doesn't respond to the tab key, and what workaround would they recommend apart from starting an interactive /bin/sh ? (Ubuntu lucid, soon to be precise). TIA, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo

Re: [Dorset] Linux e-petition

2012-04-03 Thread John Palmer
Have just signed, seemingly as no.126. Plenty of time for more signatures. John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list

Re: [Dorset] Mail user agent, recommendation?

2012-03-07 Thread John Palmer
Ralph (and others) Thanks for suggesting mutt. I am very happy with CLI and used to get on well with pine, so mutt being another branch off the old elm tree is likely to suit me. pdftk is also good to know about. Best wishes, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail

[Dorset] Mail user agent, recommendation?

2012-03-06 Thread John Palmer
Can anyone recommend a MUA for Linux which (preferably) uses mbox files and (most important) will ask the user for confirmation before sending any message ? Currently on Evolution, but think it could do better. -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] laptop battery suppliers

2011-11-20 Thread John Palmer
about but it's good to have someone else take the small risk /and/ ask less money ! *Cohort Computers, Dorchester, prop. Trenton Oliver -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting

[Dorset] laptop battery suppliers

2011-10-23 Thread John Palmer
-- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http

[Dorset] OCR [was: Re: dorset Digest, Vol 395, Issue 1]

2011-08-01 Thread John Palmer
and I've not tried it with any language other than English. At the post-editing stage do check numerals carefully. Good luck anyway. Regards, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] Thanks, and a script to convert filenames to lower case

2011-04-06 Thread John Palmer
-substitution feature in bash; it seems to have been added recently, perhaps in the last four years. Have you got one that takes whitespace out of filenames ? (Mine is in unpolished perl.) Regards, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text

Re: [Dorset] [Fwd: Can Anyone help - conky and possibly sed]

2010-06-26 Thread John Palmer
. Sorry, I wish I knew as much about temperature sensors! -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.me.uk/ --- -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset

Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill

2010-03-20 Thread John Palmer
/ innovation; 3 it is impossible in practice to avoid infringing them inadvertently; 4 algorithms are akin to theorems in logic or mathematics. Best wishes, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo...@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.uklinux.net

Re: [Dorset] texlive problem

2010-03-13 Thread John Palmer
), I'd be very interested to hear how you get on. I use LaTeX a lot but not lyx. BTW Chris Dennis did sqrt(A/b), above I did (sqrt A)/b . Of course TeX can print either on one line instead of using \frac. Best wishes anyway, John -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: jo