Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice Calc External Reference Problem

2015-02-12 Thread Dick Steffens
One recommendation was that I upgrade to a newer LibreOffice and see if that fixes the problem. I have Ubuntu 14.04 as dual boot on this machine, so I booted into it and ran upgrade, which I hadn't done for some months. After about an hour all the upgrades were done and I tried LO. I set up

Re: [PLUG] Gandi Curious?

2015-02-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
From: Michael Rasmussen Hey, funny seeing you here, Michael. ☺ /me dings his bike bell As a long term customer of gandi.net I've just been handed a batch of promo codes good for 40% off a new .com or .net domain registation. If you have a new domain to register and want one of these let me

[PLUG] Processors for Clinic, Sunday Feb 15

2015-02-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
At the January Linux clinic, I upgraded processors for a bunch of laptops, from Intel Socket M T2xxx 32 bit to Intel Core Duo T7200 64 bit 2GHz 4MB cache. The latest distros are optimized for (or require) 64 bit processors. At this Sunday's clinic, I will focus on the software problems people

Re: [PLUG] Gandi Curious?

2015-02-12 Thread King Beowulf
Sorry, gandi.net seems pretty pricey overall, even with discounts. Also, I'm not an UBuntu user (UGH, I say, to Walter L.). www.nearlyfreespeech.net doesn't have the same TLD variety, but overall standard pricing is more reasonable. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] How to find the executables

2015-02-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:01:25PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: In the present instance I am trying to find the executable for Ristretto image viewer. From a command line: which ristretto which will print out the full path to the program. Provided it is in your path. Alternatively

[PLUG] How to find the executables

2015-02-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
Today I tried to open a PNG file by clicking on a link in a web page with Firefox. Firefox offered to save it or open it with Gedit. The Gedit option has a drop-down Other, but when I select it I get a file manager pop-up, not a pop-up with a list of installed applications. After much effort I

Re: [PLUG] How to find the executables

2015-02-12 Thread Dale Snell
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:01:25 -0800, in message 20150212200125.1237cef9@Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote: Living with the problem would be trivial if I knew the names and locations of the executables on my computer, but I don't have that information. I think it can be found from the

Re: [PLUG] Installing NetGear WN111v2 USB wireless card

2015-02-12 Thread King Beowulf
On Saturday, January 31, 2015, Kirk Wah Yick wahyi...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello everyone! Kind of new to Linux and am trying to install the USB network adapter onto a Kali x32 VM using Virtual Box. Have been researching this but have not been successful in my attempts to get this working. These

Re: [PLUG] How to find the executables

2015-02-12 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
I don't know if all distributions have this feature, but from the command line, as root, run: updatedb Then from the command line: locate filename or even just part of the file's name. You may want to pipe the output into a read only editor like more or less. Wayne On 02/12/2015 08:09 PM,