Re: [PLUG] Anybody have a Brother HL-L3270CDW?

Oh no! That's disappointing to hear that they might have started requiring chipped ink in their newer printers! Thanks for letting me know - I'll have to try to remember that the next time I need to buy one and I'll have to do my research extra well about that. On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 6:14 PM

Re: [PLUG] Anybody have a Brother HL-L3270CDW?

I also do not have that specific printer, but I have both a Brother MFC-J470DW duplex inkjet printer/scanner. I sometimes have a failure when scanning, but the second try almost always works. The printer has been great under Window, Linux, and Mac. I also have a HL-2280DW duplex BW laser printer.

Re: [PLUG] Century Link sales at the door

My experience is similar to Tom's. I have had a few problems when dealing with customer service either on the phone or chat, but that has still not always been the case. When I go to my local store and just have a decent talk with them, they've always taken care of me and been reasonable about it,

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu upgrade

I don't think you should be embarrassed about that! That would be one of the hardest things for me to troubleshoot, too. (Mainly because I would fight *everything* else before I even started to suspect the cable. They just work.) Actually it sounded to me like you caught onto it pretty quickly. I

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

I think the biggest benefit to the inspections (for me) is when I move into a house that I know nothing about. Especially for plumbing and electrical, I want to know that the work was at least looked at by a third party that knows their stuff. (Though I guess for roofing and structural it's also

Re: [PLUG] Job running in background

Just a quick note - there is practically no learning curve to screen. You can start it with just 'screen' then run whatever commands you want, and then you can disconnect it with Ctrl-a d. (Ctrl-a pushed together, then release both, then press d by itself.) Then 'screen -r' will reconnect to it

Re: [PLUG] Remote host lost ssh key verification [UPDATED]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Erik Lane wrote: > > > Is there any reason why the public and private keys need to be different > on > > the different computers? > > Erik, > >Nope. &g

Re: [PLUG] Remote host lost ssh key verification [UPDATED]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:33 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/24/2017 06:41 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > snip- > >> > >> > > Is there any reason why the public and private keys need to be different > on > > the differ

Re: [PLUG] Remote host lost ssh key verification [UPDATED]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:53 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 02/24/2017 02:16 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, King Beowulf wrote: > > > >> for ssh or scp (cp over ssh), you only need one pub key for the > >> connection to work. NOT the ones in /etc/ssh. One

Re: [PLUG] Help with v4l2 Video Driver

gt; * capturing the video: > ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0 > video.mkv > * playing captured video: > mplayer video.mkv > Hope this helps you some way, Tomas > On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 00:02 -0800, Erik Lane wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Kin

Re: [PLUG] Help with v4l2 Video Driver

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:54 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 08:25 Erik Lane <erikl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip...] > > > > > > > No one is an expert until you ask questions and fiddle around... > > I h

[PLUG] Help with v4l2 Video Driver

Hello, I'm having a problem even figuring out how to word my question. I've tried many searches, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm trying to record a VHS tape to a video file. I have a Hauppauge internal video card (HVR-1255 it shows up as in dmesg, but the label says 1250.) When I try to

Re: [PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

At least on my laptop, that doesn't seem to have any effect. I'm running Mint, but since it's based on Ubuntu, I assume it's relevant. I probably have 8 or so kernels on mine, according to what I see in /boot. I see that there are manual ways to get rid of them, but I don't know that I'll bother.

Re: [PLUG] my printer is out of ink, recommendations for a new printer?

I ended up also going with a Brother laser. I've got the HL2280DW and I've been very pleased with it. It's easy to refill, and cheap. They don't make you jump through too many hoops. Then I found out that my kids really needed color printing for school. Not very often, but enough that I should

Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

I don't claim to know OpenBSD, but from a quick look at that site, it looks like this might be what you're looking for? http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/install60.iso On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:03 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016

Re: [PLUG] Survey: what make/model router do you use at home?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > Galen Seitz and I are working on a project where we encountered a "bug" > in our hardware/software when connecting to certain off-the-shelf wifi > routers, involving the 4way handshake associated with RSN/WPA2.

Re: [PLUG] New laser printer advice needed

I haven't tried to print an envelope, but in my driver, under page setup I can set the two sided option to one sided. Kind of counterintuitive, but not so bad. If you still have problems with that set to one-sided, then it's beyond me... On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM, John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] New laser printer advice needed

, 27 Jun 2015 21:38:57 -0700 Erik Lane erikl...@gmail.com dijo: I've also been very happy with my Brother HL-2280DW. It does everything I need very reliably and the toner is super cheap. I buy generic and refill myself, and last time it was only 5 or 6 dollars for the refill. They have full

Re: [PLUG] New laser printer advice needed

I've also been very happy with my Brother HL-2280DW. It does everything I need very reliably and the toner is super cheap. I buy generic and refill myself, and last time it was only 5 or 6 dollars for the refill. They have full support for Linux, for both printing and scanning. I expect it to

Re: [PLUG] printer advice

My older Epson NX415 had the nozzles as part of the printer. It worked well for a few years, but I print seldom enough, and then in bursts, so that I ended up having nozzles get too clogged to get a good print and ended up giving up on it. I didn't have any troubles with printing, but I don't

Re: [PLUG] Computer loud bleep

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:46 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: It's like some impending doom. The battery is fully charged, everything else seems to be working normally. I need suggestions for what could be causing this. You say The battery is fully charged, which says it's a

Re: [PLUG] The real yellow pages

You've asked a very biased group, and gotten the expected response. While I do think phone books are on the decline, if you had asked random people on the street, I think you would see a little more use than here on an online Linux forum. What really matters is who your intended audience is. I

Re: [PLUG] [Resolved] playing PAL region 2 DVDs with subtitles on Linux

BTW, OT, our movie night two weeks ago was 3 Idiots, a Hindi comedy based on Chetan Bhagat's loosely autobiographical novel 5 Point Someone. This is about college students struggling to survive at the Indian Institute of Technology, and laugh- your-ass-off funny. Geek humor at its best!

Re: [PLUG] USB and Wine

Both my keyboard and mouse are USB, and work well with anything I've tried them with. It's probably been about a year since I needed wine for anything (other than to drink) but when I did use it I don't remember any problems at all. I was impressed with the progress that's been made with that

Re: [PLUG] Natty is here; Update

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Word Wizard word.wiz...@comcast.net wrote: Now that Natty seems to have settled down, apparently it does deliver performance superior to its predecessors. Whether due to the new compiz-based graphics instead of mutter or some other change I can't say but

Re: [PLUG] civ 4 Beyond the Sword on wine 1.2 on ubuntu 10.04

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Victor Soich vso...@gmail.com wrote: I hope someone can help. I upgraded to Wine 1.3.8 using synaptic package manager.  I realized that when I go to Applications menu item, and then wine, then configure wine, I get a dialog box that says wine configuration with

Re: [PLUG] Marine battery safety...

You want to run 200 amp 120V service off of batteries? I hope you have deep pockets! You would need a battery room the size of a good garage to run that for any length of time. A large battery could be rated at 200 amp hours, so that would put out 200 amps for one hour. (Well, if you were trying

Re: [PLUG] (SOLVED) Removing OOo with yum ... or?

At the moment it appears that I am going to have to give up on OOo 3.2.1. The only benefit is being able to use OTF fonts. But it breaks Zotero, and I must have Zotero for citations and references in papers. I found that Open Office 3.2 greatly improved compatibility with the newer MS Office

Re: [PLUG] question on standalone ntp server

It still seems to be readily available: http://www.google.com/products?q=gps+18 Erik On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, logical american website.read...@gmail.com wrote: Russell wrote see:    http://time.qnan.org/ Since the unit is unavailable, I poked around a bit on the Garmin site..

Re: [PLUG] Using a new perl on CentOS...

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Larry Brigman larry.brig...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.org wrote: In my Wierd Things That Happen experience, one should heed Keith's cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python.   Do just as

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 10.04

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:59 PM, someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Has anyone gotten Dungeons of Daggorath 0.4.0 or Micropolis (simcity) working with this release? I just grabbed Micropolis out of the repos and it worked fine. I didn't find Dungeons of Daggorath with just a quick google

Re: [PLUG] Higher speed for hill-country? Your recs?

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: A minor issue is DNS - both Comcast and FIOS intercept DNS port 53, and send ads rather than standard URL not found messages.  Pesky. I have no idea about Verizon, but Comcast at least lets you opt out of that. It is

Re: [PLUG] boot failures

I also received your message, and I've also seen very similar messages on my computer about 'error probing smb2' but I have no ideas to help you. (I'm running 10.04 Ubuntu.) Mine generally runs fine, but about 1 in 10 boots I get a message about init freaking out and I have to reboot. So far

Re: [PLUG] Hauppauge WinTV GO 190...

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Thanks Eric. Will the following card work as well as the one you suggested? http://cgi.ebay.com/Hauppauge-WinTV-Go-Plus-NTSC-44981-LF-Rev-E1B2-/190401573670?cmd=ViewItempt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item2c54d17326 I would

Re: [PLUG] Hauppauge WinTV GO 190...

Can anyone say definitively that they have played Play Station II through a capture card successfully and exactly which capture card that is?  Will Play Station II designed for SDTV work on a flat panel LCD or plasma HDTV? I can say that a capture card will definitely work on my Wii

Re: [PLUG] Hauppauge WinTV GO 190...

Yes, but which WinTV GO card?  Another option I've discovered is a Linux\Windows compatible PS/2 emulator, but it is only beta quality software.  Still, maybe I should be looking for an adapter for the PS/2 game pads so I can plug them into standard USB on a PC directly.  There are many WinTV

Re: [PLUG] on line TV service?

I must be doing something wrong, because flash doesn't seem to work too well for me unless I use the firefox under Wine. What flash plugin do you have? With a search for Flash under synaptic I see: kipi-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla ubuntu-restricted-extras

Re: [PLUG] on line TV service?

64 bit plugin from Adobe. You will have to google for it, I don't have the URL handy. I know it solved many flash issues I was having, even though it was in beta. Russell Johnson 503-807-9019 -Original Message- From: Erik Lane erikl...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:50:32

Re: [PLUG] on line TV service?

I know it might not be as clean as you like, but with something like that I use the Windows version of Firefox under Wine and it works just fine. This is on a year old computer, though. I'm not sure if it needs very much processor power to do that. If you need I can install it on my slower

Re: [PLUG] Wrong tv tuner card...

I use a WinTV Go PCI card in my old computer to play my Wii, watch videos on the VCR, and for the occasional show we watch through our cable box. It works flawlessly in all of those applications. I got it because they're dirt cheap. You can find them for around $5 on Ebay. There's no lag for me

Re: [PLUG] XXX?

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: dfhubb...@freegeek.org wrote: I'm on the Free Geek Grant group.  One group wants to be able to stop the access to porn on their grant computers.  

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

At least Windows and Linux will very reliably read/write to ext2/3 file systems. I've never tried with OSX, but in looking on the internet, it looks like it might be able to handle it as well. There's a system driver that you can download to support ext2/3 under windows. That's the way I go if I

Re: [PLUG] C++ pointer freeing problem

const char* charSequence = rawInput.c_str(); - tony I will try this advice. How different C/C++ is from other languages. Implementation details are something to learn about and deal with. Keeps the mind sharp. Thanks a million! I believe that that might not work as you expect. you

Re: [PLUG] Need to make a graph in OO Calc...

Having the natural log of 0 might be an issue. I'm pretty sure that the natural log of 0 would be negative infinity. That would likely not produce a straight line graph Just have two extra rows where you do your computations. ( =LN(A1) and =1/B1 ) for example. Then just copy and paste and it

Re: [PLUG] How about this video card...

My system is in the same ballpark as yours, as far as processor and ram. The processor is an AMD Geode NX 1750, and it has ~600 MB ram. It handles mpeg off of a DVD without a hiccup and will also display XVID compressed video fullscreen with no problems. I think that takes more processing power

Re: [PLUG] HDhomerun and P4s... (MPEG2 Testing)

2. Download this file: http://www.w6rz.net/parkrun1920_18mbps.ts (141MB) It is an MPEG2 Transport stream test file, which is recorded at the bit-rate that would normally broadcast as an HD 1080 channel (just shy of 18Mbps). (This is a good test file IMO as, in practice, the HD 1080

Re: [PLUG] Want to build a Linux based PVR...

It isn't the playback that consumes the CPU it is recording analog to disk. It has to encode it to MPEG2 before it sticks it on the disk. This is simply wrong. There is no requirement to compress the video to MPEG of any variety before recording to disk. Both of my old analog cards would just

Re: [PLUG] Want to build a Linux based PVR...

To expand on Larry's explanation, your PC has to convert the incoming analog signal from your Playstation to a compatible digital signal the PC understands, and then pipe it through your video card, before it can be displayed on your monitor. This is expensive processor-wise if an encoder is

Re: [PLUG] VGA projector to lend?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   That's a good solution. Using Scribus or Inkscape will work because they use stroked fonts which are scalable (PostScript). Any commercial Kinko's or equivalent should be able to print a submitted .pdf to the

Re: [PLUG] Want to build a Linux based PVR...

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I'm having a hard time figuring out what the market is like right now. I'm looking for a PCI card or I suppose a USB based tuner will also work.  Of course, I want a card that works with Linux.  I have a Play

Re: [PLUG] todays supreme court decision.

Before you move your content offshore, move this thread to plug-talk. Why would there be a need to move offshore? Political speech is now in the market to the highest bidder, no restrictions remain. But what if the highest bidder disapproves of what you have to say? What if they use their

Re: [PLUG] VLC remote control

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Larry Williams lar...@holbrookmasons.orgwrote: Larry Williams wrote: cvlc --ffullscreen --xvideo-display :0 One f: --fullscreen. From reading the docs, -f is the same as --fullscreen I think. But either way, that command still doesn't work for me. It

[PLUG] VLC remote control

Just for fun I was trying to remotely control my computer that acts as our movie player. I wanted to just tell it to switch from one movie to another, which I thought would be a fairly simple task. I failed pretty miserably. I know that it is possible, because when I was searching I kept coming

Re: [PLUG] VLC remote control

VNC might do the trick. But if you think of the laptop as a remote control, and in general terms how the average video device works, menu and control reaction are observed on the main display. I would think along the lines of a remote control program on the laptop and the complimentary

Re: [PLUG] VLC remote control

It appears VLC has some remote control options, including a telnet-like option. I'm playing with the HTML option, controlling video playback via web interface. Yes, it looks like it would work if you start the command by sitting at the computer and allowing the alternate interfaces, but I

Re: [PLUG] What is POE?

In addition, they can't be connected to surge suppressors, as the signal used over the power line is filtered by such. However, I have a pair of 200MBps PoEs at home, and it doesn't matter that they're connected to different circuit breakers. Though as I understand it, 85MBps PoE connections

Re: [PLUG] We need more Linux in this town...

P.S. I don't mean to bad mouth HR departments. They do valuable work; but they aren't where new jobs are created - especially interesting jobs. Well, to some people those HR jobs *are* the interesting ones. People who love working with people and figuring out the puzzle that is human

Re: [PLUG] Dell Zino

You may have to call them to get it. -wes Out of curiosity I did the online chat with them. I was told that they aren't shipping it with Ubuntu on it yet, but that they had all the drivers available. I was told that there wasn't a set price for a discount for not purchasing Windows, but that

Re: [PLUG] Testing Linux on Portables

Thank you, Rich. I'll have to take a look at them when I'm in town. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Erik Lane wrote: On that note, does anyone know where to get a drive for a decent (cheap) price? Erik,   I've had

Re: [PLUG] Minitab dilemna...

for me, now. Erik On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Erik Lane erikl...@gmail.com wrote: Look at Sage math ( http://www.sagemath.org/) for a general mathematics package. It has R, numpy, octave, etc. etc. I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know a huge amount about it, but I have been checking

Re: [PLUG] Minitab dilemna...

And here is a small presentation about statistics in sage: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~citro/ucla-stat-colloq.pdf On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Erik Lane erikl...@gmail.com wrote: I am on their mailing list, and it was a virtual server that crashed hard and they have had no luck getting it up

Re: [PLUG] Minitab dilemna...

Look at Sage math ( http://www.sagemath.org/) for a general mathematics package. It has R, numpy, octave, etc. etc. I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know a huge amount about it, but I have been checking it out as I am an engineering student and mathematica was recommended to me. This is a

Re: [PLUG] Bringing up network on xubuntu

I and many others have had problems when trying to upgrade Ubuntu. I think 3-4 different upgrades for me personally have failed with all kinds of weird different symptoms that proved very hard to track down. On all of them I finally gave up and wiped the disk clean and did a fresh install of the

Re: [PLUG] RESOLVED motherboard repairs

If you all remember, I've been fighting my laptop for the past few months. I finally seem to have found the culprit. After playing around swapping parts I found that if I used a different hard drive it worked perfect. But I also found that the hard drive worked perfect if it was in another

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

You are correct, that is what I'm talking about. If price is a concern, you can feel free to buy one, use it, and bring it to me, and I will buy it from you. It'll be just like if I loaned it to you. :) I realized that my dad has an IR thermometer gun thing, so I can borrow it from him next

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

will work for you d) CPU That is expensive and you probably get new laptop better Hope that helps, Isaac On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Erik Lane erikl...@gmail.com wrote: Not to totally hijack this thread, but I have a laptop with somewhat similar symptoms that's driving me nuts

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

to check around and play with it some more. Thank you! Erik On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Larry Wlar...@holbrookmasons.org wrote: Erik Lane wrote: Thanks for the ideas! It definitely could be something heat related. It sure sounds like it.  Back when I troubleshot at the device level I'd

Re: [PLUG] POVray on Ubuntu Hardy

Isn't there an apt command you can use to list the files in a package? Someone else will have to jump in here.  Or synaptic will let you click your way to it. I don't find anything about where files were installed when I look at Synaptic, just that the package is installed. You should be