Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-24 Thread David Fleck
everybody. -- - David Fleck On Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 at 7:52 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM David Fleck dcfl...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > Using the Ookla speedtest site on a browser, my current laptop gets about > > 40-60 Mbps; the EliteBook get

Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-24 Thread David Fleck
fine. So I wonder if there is some kind of interference going on, at least sometimes. I'm using 2.4GHz for the all the laptops in the house because the 2.4 signal seems to degrade much less with distance from the router than the 5Ghz. -- - David Fleck On Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 at 12

Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-24 Thread David Fleck
0xd0 * AP/VLAN: 0x00 0x20 0x40 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * mesh point: 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * P2P-client: 0x40 0xd0 * P2P-GO: 0x00 0x20 0x40 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * P2P-device: 0x40 0xd0 -- - David Fleck On Monday, Sept

Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-23 Thread David Fleck
I'm charging the battery up now. It's taking an insanely long time, it's been plugged in and turned off for about 24 hours now and the system reports it's 4% charged. -- - David Fleck On Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 7:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/23/202

Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-23 Thread David Fleck
I haven't done that yet, I will look into it more this evening. I'm not sure I'd know what 'proper settings' would look like, but I can see if anything is obviously out of whack. -- - David Fleck On Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 8:54 AM, Johnathan Mantey wrote: &

Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-23 Thread David Fleck
gement:off Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:427 Missed beacon:0 -- - David Fleck On Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 11:09 AM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-23 Thread David Fleck
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-7a-ff-ff-2b-20-10 Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge Kernel modules: bcma -- - David Fleck On

[PLUG] Slow (as in, really, really slow) wifi (was: Re: The neverending laptop recommendation request)

2024-09-23 Thread David Fleck
laptops in the house. Before I pick up a USB wifi adapter, can anyone give me some ideas w.r.t. troubleshooting why the onboard adapter is so slow? It's been many years since I had to mess around with tweaking network interfaces, so I've forgotten most of what is involved. Thanks-

Re: [PLUG] The neverending laptop recommendation request

2024-08-17 Thread David Fleck
She doesn't want to pay more than about $700 for it. It does need to have an HDMI port and at least 2 USB-A ports, and should have a screen around 15 in. diagonally. -- - David Fleck Original Message On 8/17/24 15:23, Russell Senior wrote: > > On 8/17/24 1

[PLUG] The neverending laptop recommendation request

2024-08-17 Thread David Fleck
in advance- -- - David Fleck

Re: [PLUG] asking for the simple bash command for tail

2024-05-05 Thread David Fleck
I suspect he's getting something like this: dcf@pop-os:~$ tail -1 myfiles* tail: option used in invalid context -- 1 -- - David Fleck On Sunday, May 5th, 2024 at 12:52 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > What makes you say "does NOT work" ?

Re: [PLUG] asking for the simple bash command for tail

2024-05-05 Thread David Fleck
tail -n 1 files* works for me. -- - David Fleck On Sunday, May 5th, 2024 at 10:00 AM, American Citizen wrote: > Hi: > > Does anyone know the bash command for getting the tail command to work > correctly for a range of files, using the wild card character? > > tail -1

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

2024-03-25 Thread David Fleck
Try hamburger -> Help -> About -- - David Fleck On Monday, March 25th, 2024 at 12:20 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/23/24 21:59, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > I've just run the latest updates from Ubuntu for my Xubuntu machines, > > which included Brave browser

Re: [PLUG] Entering accented characters from keyboard

2024-01-10 Thread David Fleck
al and hit those keys at the command prompt, I get o, nothing else. If I hold down left Alt while hitting both C and o, I get nothing at all. What am I missing here? -- - David Fleck On Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 at 12:05 PM, Jeffrey Borcean wrote: > GNOME has had built-in support for map

Re: Cron job not running

2023-02-21 Thread David Barr
se? The find could be exiting with 1, or it could be passing the exit code from the rm command. So, let's split that out and see exactly what's failing. David -- David/dafydd PGP Public Key <https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/042BC7A61817FD78AC85DD4ACC0B3F78FDDBD9AC> Read.

Re: [PLUG] No space left on device

2017-10-25 Thread David Bridges
IIRC early in the thread it was said that no partition seems to be out of space using du / file manager. I find it unlikely on a desktop system but it is possible that a file system is out of inodes. You can use the following to check for inode usage df -i -- David On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 06

Re: [PLUG] Skype for Linux

2017-10-16 Thread David Barr
The data of my birth was within weeks of the Unix Epoch. I generally use that date when I don't feel my actual birthdate would be relevant or useful. Just another option... David > On Oct 16, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > I've had some spare time lately and h

Re: [PLUG] Skype for Linux

2017-10-16 Thread david
Debian Stretch is running the beta version well enough. I do have a minor issue with microphone that requires a USB headset (wired or bluetooth) be connected, then fire up the application, and on the first call, I have to manually configure the audio to use the USB instead of "auto detect." da

Re: [PLUG] WPA2 vulnerability

2017-10-16 Thread David Bridges
Using Debian (sid) here, wpasupplicant was upgraded this morning and from the changelog it appears that it addresses the vulnerabilities. wpa (2:2.4-1.1) unstable; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team. * Fix multiple issues in WPA protocol (CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017- 130

Re: [PLUG] Email back up at Aracnet/Spiritone.

2017-10-08 Thread David Fleck
th 10-ish employee, 5 of which are > technical and 3 phones and no account data on-line? See comment above.  Lack of service is very, very bad -- lack of information is *inexcusable*. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Email back up at Aracnet/Spiritone.

2017-10-08 Thread David Fleck
etting a new one. Not sure that I want to, anyway. Given this occurrence of this severe a user support debacle, I'm not very inclined to continue business with them (after 16 years...) --  David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@li

Re: [PLUG] SpiritOne issue

2017-10-06 Thread David Fleck
uld connect but didn't recognize my password) https://webmail.spiritone.com/roundcube/  (connects, doesn't recognize password - previously browser would refuse connection because of misconfiguration) My wife says calling support has degraded from getting a recording acknowledging a very serio

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread David Fleck
t machine do you use for your shell account? From here, the website is "up" in the sense that it returns a formatted configuration error page rather than timing out. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.p

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread David Fleck
#x27;t successfully ping *any* IP address related to spiritone.com from where I am. --  David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread David Fleck
level of service we've been used to over the past decade... -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure

2017-09-29 Thread david
On 09/29/2017 06:08 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Ken Stephens wrote: > >> Check dmesg to see if the drives show up as to individuals. If so, then a >> software mirror could be created. If not, then the drives may be mirrored >> inside the enclosure. > > Ken, > > I don't wan

Re: [PLUG] Transferring ssh public keys [DONE]

2017-09-24 Thread David
On 09/24/2017 10:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, King Beowulf wrote: > >> Check the permissions or /home/rshepard/authorized_keys on the server. > > Ed, > > They're all 644 except for my private key which is 600. You may also need to check / modify the permissions on ~/.ss

[PLUG] Semi-OT: Apache reverse proxy URL resolution question

2017-09-23 Thread David Fleck
ut a trailing slash; but if the local path element does not match the last element of the remote path, I *must* provide the trailing slash for the URL to resolve.   Does anybody know why this is? Is there a way to get apache to treat the URLs consistently? What's a good resource for this? -- David Fleck  ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Sluggish machine

2017-09-22 Thread David
On 09/22/2017 02:14 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 09/22/2017 02:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Dick Steffens wrote: >> What does 'top' show? >>> rsteff@Enu-1:~$ top -n 1 -b > top.out >>> I notice that running top with a limit to one iteration doesn't show >>> what I u

Re: [PLUG] Sluggish machine

2017-09-22 Thread David
On 09/22/2017 01:24 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > My machine opens programs slowly. It used to be that I'd double click on > a spreadsheet icon and LibreOffice would open it in at most a couple of > seconds. Now it takes several. What steps should I take to figure out > what's causing this slow down?

Re: [PLUG] What to do when perl module installation fails

2017-09-13 Thread David Fleck
or that portion of the test suite looks like this: t/08-IPv4.t ... 81/91 # non-existent \ 'bogus.example.com.' resolved: 198.105.254.63 198.105.244.63 t/08-IPv4.t ... ok      Sorry I can't be of more help here. Testing is great and all that, but failin

Re: [PLUG] What to do when perl module installation fails

2017-09-13 Thread David Fleck
orce on the CPAN command line:  force  CMDtry hard to do command    fforce CMDtry harder  notest CMDskip testing so, either 'force install', 'fforce install', or 'notest install' in this case, I think. No guarantees that this won't result in comp

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 156, Issue 17

2017-09-09 Thread David Phillips
Why not use rsync to dupe the data? > On Sep 9, 2017, at 12:00 PM, plug-requ...@lists.pdxlinux.org wrote: > > Send PLUG mailing list submissions to > plug@lists.pdxlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pl

Re: [PLUG] Cheap printer for Raspberry Pi idea

2017-08-22 Thread David
Be careful drawing that much power out of a cigarette lighter. The connection will get hotter than a pistol! It is not meant to handle that much current for more than a minute or so at time. 3 or 4 amps is a good long term maximum, which is still 40 or 50 watts. Been there ... done that. -Dave.

[PLUG] DataCenter Systems

2017-08-16 Thread David Phillips
. Hoping to get 2k Also Have 18 * 3tb Seagate 7200 SAS drives, 50 each or make an offer. ping me if interested. David Phillips 503-544-5631 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] /tmp/pgp-*

2017-08-01 Thread David Barr
> On Aug 1, 2017, at 10:29 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, David Barr wrote: > >> I usually see a gpg-agent automatically launched when someone does a shell >> login to a host. At that point, gpg-agent is launched through >> .bash-profile or .bash

Re: [PLUG] /tmp/pgp-*

2017-08-01 Thread David Barr
I believe that's the socket the PGP agent listens on for other PGP work. David > On Aug 1, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > My /tmp/ directory accumulates directories for pgp, one per day. Each > subdirectory contains only a socket and appears to be created when I

Re: [PLUG] Upgrading rooted Samsung Android phone

2017-07-08 Thread David Bridges
you mentioned does appear to be supported and from looking over the information at the following page for the Galaxy Note 3 (T-Mobile)(hltetmo) the installation of 14.1 (based on Nougat) should be fairly straightforward. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hltetmo -- David On Fri, 2017-07-07 at

Re: [PLUG] ssh vs vpn

2017-06-21 Thread david
On 06/21/2017 04:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >For a sole practitioner away from the office does a vpn offer benefits > greater than ssh for communicating with the office network? > >My question is prompted by upgrading openvpn here. The biggest decision that you need to assess is what your

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

2017-05-26 Thread David Fleck
oy.spec > > m4 AUTHORS config.rpath  depcomp   ltmain.sh > > NEWS  tomboy.spec.in > > po ChangeLog   config.subinstall-shMakefile.am > > pot-update.in > > > > Me, the first thing I'd do would be to read the README file

[PLUG] Issues with Spam Filters

2017-04-24 Thread david
All, I am requesting the help from this list to come up with a viable solution for a problem that has now been plaguing me for several weeks now. My hosting provider has been blacklisted and they seem to be having issues with removing their interface off of the blacklists for several providers

Re: [PLUG] Tool to identify applications requiring python

2017-04-16 Thread David Fleck
o $i >> output.txt Replace /usr/bin/* as needed. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Tarnished chromium

2017-04-10 Thread David Barr
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017, David Barr wrote: > >> Did you make a note of the specific error message? > > David, > > "Your connection is not private > > "Attackers might be trying to steal yo

Re: [PLUG] Tarnished chromium

2017-04-10 Thread David Barr
nd other things. Here's one report: https://www.scmagazineuk.com/google-creates-list-of-untrusted-certificate-authorities/article/530574/ Did you make a note of the specific error message? David -- David - Offbeat http://pgp.mit.edu/ dafydd - Online 0xda3f18449337d6b5 5--

Re: [PLUG] Movie fan needs storage space

2017-03-31 Thread david
On 03/31/2017 02:59 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I know that the 8TB WD in my Synology has a five year warranty, but > I'll be damned if I can remember which color it is or which model > number. I just spent the last half hour looking everywhere for the > purchase details, but all I can determ

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 7 iso too big to burn...

2017-03-31 Thread David Bridges
correctly can trash your system so proceed at your own risk. -- David ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] USB to ethernet adapters

2017-03-20 Thread David
On 03/20/2017 12:59 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/19/2017 08:25 AM, David wrote: >> On 03/19/2017 05:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> The recent thread about the Lantronix XPort caught my attention. >>> A quick search found a variety of USB to ethernet adapters. &

Re: [PLUG] USB to ethernet adapters

2017-03-19 Thread David
On 03/19/2017 05:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > The recent thread about the Lantronix XPort caught my attention. > A quick search found a variety of USB to ethernet adapters. > > I will be visiting a local Staples next week. Their website lists several. > What should I look for? > A better question

Re: [PLUG] boot filled

2017-02-24 Thread David Barr
> On Feb 24, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Tony Schlemmer wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 09:36 -0800, David wrote: >> On 02/24/2017 07:57 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> >>> The last time this happened Tomas told me what to do, but I did not >>> write >&g

Re: [PLUG] boot filled

2017-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2017 07:57 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > The last time this happened Tomas told me what to do, but I did not write > it down and my mind is a sieve. What is the solution? There are 9 > archived images. How do I safely throw out the older ones? > > Thanks, > -Denis Howdy. You don't prov

Re: [PLUG] recommended hardware question on VPN router

2016-12-19 Thread david
ons for OpenVPN service that is installed there, and works well enough for me and all my mobile devices. david [1] <http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/> ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Scripts vs GUI

2016-12-11 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 07:57 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, David Fleck wrote: > > > I'll just step in here and say that I have never, ever found this to be > > the case. Your mileage varies, obviously. > > David, > >Compare writing LaTe

Re: [PLUG] Scripts vs GUI

2016-12-11 Thread David Fleck
. Your mileage varies, obviously. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Firefox: remove incorrect 'place'

2016-12-06 Thread David
On 12/06/2016 03:09 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> Hover over the offending entry and hit instead of clicking on it. > >Nothing happens. A right-click on the URL line brings up a menu but the > 'Delete' entry is greyed out. What I have to do (on a Mac

Re: [PLUG] laptop message during boot

2016-12-05 Thread David
On 12/05/2016 11:26 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Just before the sign-in dialog I get a brief message which I used a video > to capture. Googling points me to some discussion but no explanation of > meaning that I can understand. The message is something like: > > lvmetad is not active yet using

Re: [PLUG] Sorting blocks of text

2016-11-22 Thread David Fleck
#x27;s/^$/x/' | tr '\n' '+' | tr 'x' '\n' | sed '/^+$/d' | sort | tr '+' '\n' No guarantees of any kind, etc. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-07 Thread David
On 11/07/2016 11:53 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, David wrote: > >> I don't recall which OS, but this link has the two main streams: >> <http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1204829> > > dafr, > >And everyone agrees that when ss

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-07 Thread David
On 11/07/2016 11:25 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> On the server/workstation and a portable ~/.ssh has 700 perms while the >> authorized_keys, known_hosts, and *.pub key files in that directory have 644 >> perms; the others are 600. > >I've identified t

Re: [PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

2016-11-02 Thread David
On 11/02/2016 10:28 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote: > >> I think 600 will also work on the .ssh directory. > > Cathy, > >As there are no executable files or sub-directories there I thought 600 > was the most restrictive. No, 0600 is too restrictive for .ssh. Y

Re: [PLUG] Invoking ssh-agent in Slackware

2016-10-30 Thread David
On 10/30/2016 12:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Robert Citek wrote: > >> Good luck and let us know what works for you. > >Still seeking this goal. :-) > >After modifying ~/.bash_profile to invoke ssh-agent I sourced the file, > then tried ssh-add which did not work: > > $

Re: [PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

2016-10-26 Thread David
On 10/26/2016 03:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Having new installations of Slackware-14.2 on three hosts now (two more to >> go after I get these three fully functional), I want to change my ssh >> private and public keys using a new passphrase and type.

Re: [PLUG] Which linuxquestions.org forum most appropriate?

2016-10-23 Thread David Barr
my portables are currently down and I need to get them all back in working > order. > > Rich > > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- David - Offbeat

Re: [PLUG] Bash: pause running script and continue it in background

2016-10-05 Thread David
On 10/05/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Starting a script to run in the background is simple: append '&' to the > command line. When the script runs for a few hours and I forget to start it > in the background (as I did today) I'd like to pause it (using ctrl-z) and > continue running it i

Re: [PLUG] Joy++

2016-09-14 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 16:01 -0700, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > lest we forget, today's editor wars are nothing like as fun as they used to > be back in the 90's: > Thanks for that... best laugh I've had all day. -- David Fleck

Re: [PLUG] sed regex corrections

2016-08-13 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 17:12 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >So, I tried writing a sed script, but my syntax is off: > > /s/\([A-Z]\)\([A-Z]+\)/[A-Z]\L\2/g > > and sed tells me: "sed: file uptomixed.sc line 1: unknown command: '\'" > >Please show me what I've done incorrectly. Are we the onl

Re: [PLUG] Help needed installing abandoned OSS application

2016-08-13 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 10:32 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > and when I try http://localhost/opt/xrms/install/install.php firefox tells > > me that the file is not found. > >Forgot to include that I wrote /etc/httpd/xrms-httpd.conf: > > Alias /xrms/

Re: [PLUG] RPi "UPS"

2016-07-23 Thread David
On 07/23/2016 11:45 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: > I have been trying to find one of the back up battery packs that are charged > through USB to keep a RPi alive when the power goes out, so far they all > have a flaw, these packs all will power the RPi, but as soon as power is > applied to the charge port

Re: [PLUG] Rsync user confusion: Who is user 1026?

2016-07-11 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 18:07 -0700, Don Buchholz wrote: showmount -e 192.168.0.101 Yes. Running this command (it may be /usr/sbin/showmount on your machine) and posting the output will be helpful. It looks to me as though the NAS isn't configured quite right. You need to know what it thinks it'

Re: [PLUG] Rsync user confusion: Who is user 1026?

2016-07-11 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 12:30 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj$ mount -t nfs > synology.local:/synology /media/jjj/Synology > mount: only root can do that > jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj$ sudo su > root@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj# mount -t nfs > synology.l

Re: [PLUG] Rsync to a NAS drive

2016-07-09 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 11:59 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2016, John Meissen wrote: > > > That's because 'cp' doesn't understand URL-style paths. 'cp' only deals > > with local filesystems. If you want to use 'cp' you'll have to mount the > > remote filesystem locally. > >Doesn't

Re: [PLUG] Rsync to a NAS drive

2016-07-09 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 11:00 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > cp smb://synology.local/synology/ > cp: cannot create regular file ‘smb://synology.local/synology/’: No > such file or directory > > I also tried it without the trailing slash and again with a slash > in front and got the same results.

Re: [PLUG] Cannot get to printer

2016-07-03 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2016-07-03 at 11:03 -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > ~$ sudo systemctl enable cups.service > cups.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install > Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable cups > > Still not connected. Tried: > ~$ sudo systemctl restart

Re: [PLUG] NAS System suggestions

2016-06-22 Thread David Gibbons
I've been very happy with my Synology, replaced a home built Freenas and lost none of the features/functionality I was using in freenas. Less management overhead, lower power usage. A+++ Would buy again. On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:03 AM, r...@dimstar.net wrote: > Synology runs Linux under the ho

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: lockup

2016-06-17 Thread David
On 06/17/2016 04:45 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I have had about 3 lockups on my new (used) Lenovo L420. The symptoms are > that the system freezes with no responses to either the mouse or the > keyboard. I have an aging T61 that exhibited random lockup / reboot cycles as well. I found that r

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 14.04 -- Nautilus treats network folders as videos

2016-06-10 Thread David
On 06/09/2016 11:04 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > When I connect from my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop to my Linux Mint laptop, the > two shared items are displayed in a Nautilus window. When I double click > on the Public folder, instead of opening the folder in Nautilus, it > tries to play it with Video and,

Re: [PLUG] Recommended Card Reader for Ubuntu 14

2016-05-18 Thread David
On 05/18/2016 07:46 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/17/2016 10:06 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> On 05/17/2016 06:56 PM, David wrote: >> While an obnoxious step most of the time, this is hook related and the >> kernel may not respond well (in rare instances) when packages ar

Re: [PLUG] Recommended Card Reader for Ubuntu 14

2016-05-17 Thread David
On 05/17/2016 05:50 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/17/2016 04:21 PM, David wrote: >> On 05/17/2016 04:10 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >> <...> >> >> Try checking out this resolution from 2014: >> >> <http://askubuntu.com/questions/499856/ubunt

Re: [PLUG] Recommended Card Reader for Ubuntu 14

2016-05-17 Thread David
On 05/17/2016 04:10 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/17/2016 03:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2016, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >>> Doesn't work is the opposite of, "It just works," which is what most of >>> my Linux experience is. More specifically in this case, I plug the >>> reader wi

Re: [PLUG] painfully slow Fedora 23 Workstation Live boot

2016-05-12 Thread David
On 05/12/2016 12:53 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > Hi, > > I booted 64 bit Fedora 23 Workstation Live off of a 2 GB USB flash drive > on an AMD Sempron system (cpuid 020fc2). It took at least 10 minutes to > get to the screen that allows selecting between Live and Install. > Knoppix boots in one tenth t

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

2016-05-12 Thread David
On 05/11/2016 09:57 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:59:27 -0700 > Vedanta Teacher dijo: > >> Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use >> and/or a >Live CD set? > > In anticipation of seeing you at the Clinic I decided to download the > latest OpenBSD,

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

2016-05-11 Thread David
On 05/11/2016 06:59 PM, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Greetings, > >Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use and/or a > Live CD set? > > I have a relatively new Dell Insperon lap top W/6 gigs RAM and 1 TB HDD . > 3000 series, > model 3558., Intel i3-5051U so, I'm 99.9%+ sure i

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

2016-04-26 Thread David
On 04/26/2016 04:05 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:53:52 -0700 > Paul Mullen dijo: > >> This is a job for rsync, anyhow. The following command should do >> exactly what you want: >> >> rsync -avx /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail >> >> Don't remove the trailing slash o

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

2016-04-26 Thread David
On 04/26/2016 10:45 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:36:31 -0700 > Galen Seitz dijo: > >> On 04/23/16 09:22, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> Using Russel's advice and yours above I created the crontab (using >>> nano) and added the following command: >>> >>> 0 3 * * * cp -auf

Re: [PLUG] Handling 'mailto:' Response in Firefox

2016-02-26 Thread David
On 02/26/2016 08:02 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > When I want to send a message to an e-mail address presented on a Web page > I try to copy the text into alpine. Invariably, that text is a link and more > often than not my attempts to block it with the pointer for copying results > in link activat

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-25 Thread David
On 02/25/2016 08:25 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Louis Kowolowski > wrote: >> I don’t know if browsers support a local file for a proxy.pac or not. That >> would be the first thing I would investigate. > > That's what I was not (and still am not) sure of. However, t

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 05:37 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:00:56 -0800 > David dijo: > >>> But I continued to get the same error message even after I renamed >>> the file. Thus, the file and directory name were different. And >>> Catfish said th

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 02:14 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:32:40 -0800 > David dijo: > >> On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> >>>> I just created a file named

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 01:28 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 02/24/2016 01:18 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Rich Shepard >> wrote: >>> In linux and other unices everything is a file. Ergo, you cannot have >>> directories and individual files with the same name. >>> >>>

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > >> I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. > > Denis, > > Interesting. I didn't know it could be done. The directory and file may not be at the same level, but they may be nested wit

Re: [PLUG] Tool to test internet speed

2016-02-16 Thread David
On 02/16/2016 08:18 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:53:30 -0800 > Jim Garrison dijo: > >> But you should disable all other bandwidth-consuming processes >> in order to get an actual performance figure. Also remember the >> speed of any connection depends not on your speed bu

Re: [PLUG] Automating mailings at intervals of 1 hour

2016-02-12 Thread David Fleck
gt; the script would delete (or move) the file at the end. > > -wes I think that would work best. The logic could look like: if [ mailfile ]; then while [ addresses ]; do send mail to top addresslist remove top addresslist done remove mail fi Then it's just

Re: [PLUG] File won't stay deleted

2016-02-09 Thread David Gibbons
> I tried lsof, but unless I can figure out a way to grep or filter the >results it is useless - pages and pages of incomprehensible stuff. You mean like piping it through grep or specify the file & path directly. On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:42 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:

Re: [PLUG] Question on mktime() results

2016-01-26 Thread David Barr
I will quite happily play the straight man, here: why are `gmtoff` and `zone` different in `first_tm` vs `second_tm`? David > On Jan 25, 2016, at 20:57, Galen Seitz wrote: > > On 01/25/16 17:23, logical american wrote: >> To C geeks: >> >> Could someone who has fre

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2015-12-30 Thread David
On 12/30/2015 09:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 > Russell Senior dijo: > >>> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: >> >> John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I >> John> tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on the driv

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2015-12-29 Thread David
On 12/29/2015 12:15 PM, Russell Senior wrote: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > > John> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:06:29 -0800 Russell Senior > John> dijo: > "johnxj" == johnxj writes: >>> > johnxj> The computer is otherwise running fine. From past experience the > johnxj> only w

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

2015-12-24 Thread David Fleck
On 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. We are > trying to estimat

Re: [PLUG] [OT?] Do functional cell phones exist?

2015-12-23 Thread David Fleck
___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Just a cautionary note -- my spouse and I had basic no-contract Motorola flip-phones until quite recently. However we have heard (and have anecdotal data to back it up) that the no-contract phones tend to have significantly worse connectivity. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Cannot delete files in .Trash

2015-12-18 Thread David Fleck
__ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Can you rm -rf the .Trash-1000 directory? -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] OpenSuse confusion

2015-12-18 Thread david . fleck
o The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy." Apologies for the top-posting. -- -David Fleck - Original Message - From: "Ronald Bynoe" To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:34:50 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] OpenSuse confusion Or rather, pay more a

Re: [PLUG] Pleaze oh Pleaze: Git/GitHub4beginners talk.

2015-12-01 Thread David Gibbons
I've found people often struggle with when and how to rebase in various forms. It could probably use a good portion of time. On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > > > On Nov 30, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Michael Dexter > wrote: > > > > On 11/30/15 10:52 PM, Ali Corbin wrote: > >>

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