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
yer, and bought one for myself when I retired (AMD Ryzen 7, > 16GB ram). Get the 15in screen, then you get a full size keyboard and good > resolution. > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 12:58 PM David Fleck dcfl...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > My wife's old ThinkPad is on its la

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: [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

[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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] systemd

2015-11-28 Thread david . fleck
I disagree. I thought Keith's comments were insightful and echo a lot of my concerns and experiences with systemd. IMHO, distributions are far too cavalier about introducing fundamental changes that end up breaking stuff. [top-posting against my better judgment] -- David

Re: [PLUG] egrep syntax correction

2015-07-04 Thread David Fleck
> >> PLUG mailing list > >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > > > > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Try removing the backslashes: egrep -cE "^P[[:digit:]]{5}" That works for me. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Need new Java

2015-04-12 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 15:15 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:40:45 -0700 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > Thanks for all the suggestions. Apparently I have just the Java that > came with Xubuntu: > > jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/usr$ java -version > java version "1.7.0_75" > OpenJDK Ru

Re: [PLUG] Need new Java

2015-04-12 Thread David Fleck
levant to what's on John's machine. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Need new Java

2015-04-12 Thread David Fleck
s slightly newer than the 1.7.0_55 that is installed on my OpenSUSE 13.1 machine. You may have to find and install a newer JRE on your own if you can't wait for the Xubuntu people to update their java. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Scanning for and connecting to wifi networks

2014-11-08 Thread David Fleck
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 23:29 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Xubuntu 14.04.1, fresh install shortly after it was released. > > I know there are commands that can be used to scan for available wifi > networks and to connect to them, but I can't remember what they are and > my google fu is failing

Re: [PLUG] Can't find a file

2014-09-11 Thread David Fleck
e have noted in their examples. The basic pattern for 'find' is find WHERE_DO_I_START WHAT_DO_I_LOOK_FOR WHAT_DO_I_DO_WITH_IT personally, I find -mtime to be generally more useful than the other time specifiers. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Where are the shares?

2014-09-03 Thread David Fleck
3.1.3.2.2 > > But it doesn't seem to be working. > ___ On the server machine, is there anything in /var/log/messages that might indicate why you're getting the authentication error? If

Re: [PLUG] Java and bash

2014-08-19 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 22:22 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > At the moment I can launch it from the command line with java > -jar ./bookbinder3.0.jar. I created a launch menu item for it, but the > launcher fails with "unable to find program java." In other words, it > can't handle the spaces. No

Re: [PLUG] More file copy and sudo issues

2014-08-18 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 18:55 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > So I rename the new cups folder to cups.old and then issue the command: > > sudo cp /media/jjj/Movies/Backups/Full_System_Backup/etc/cups /etc/ > > And I get: > > cp: omitting directory > '/media/jjj/Movies/Backups/Full_System_Backup

Re: [PLUG] a RANT, was Re: Ubuntu Long Term Support?

2014-08-05 Thread David Fleck
e > most of the common distros. What they create for our community is > important, but it is by no means the only creativity, and is > sometimes much more destructive than productive for the larger > community.... > > > Keith > Hear, hear! -- David Fleck (still try

Re: [PLUG] Controlling log rotation

2014-07-12 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 08:57 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, David Fleck wrote: > > > Well, I'm out of ideas then. :) On my OpenSUSE system, the mail log > > rotation appears to be handled by /etc/logrotate.d/syslog. > > David, > >

Re: [PLUG] Controlling log rotation

2014-07-12 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 06:05 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, David Fleck wrote: > > > I'd suggest looking at the man page for logrotate. I've never messed with > > it, myself, but it appears to allow the degree of control you want. > > Hi Davi

Re: [PLUG] Controlling log rotation

2014-07-11 Thread David Fleck
d to retain > mail or message logs for more than 4 days. I'd suggest looking at the man page for logrotate. I've never messed with it, myself, but it appears to allow the degree of control you want. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing lis

Re: [PLUG] Need a new laptop

2014-05-09 Thread David Fleck
il-eraser pointing device also. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to disable the touchpad and use a USB mouse instead. Despite this, on the whole they have been great machines, and everything has Just Worked. -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailin

[PLUG] Scope problem with Evolution Advanced Search

2014-04-11 Thread David Fleck
limits its utility. Any suggestions as to what might be going wrong? -- David Fleck ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Anybody have experience with Linux on a Samsung Series 3 laptop?

2013-11-17 Thread David Fleck
body have any experiences with such? -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Ownerships and permissions mess

2013-08-10 Thread David Fleck
> On 08/08/2013 06:47 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> Is there a way to do a ls command and have it sort by date of creation? Try ls -lrt sorts oldest to newest. Also, you might try \ls or ls --color=never to temporarily strip off the green-on-green text. -- David Fleck

Re: [PLUG] Javascript on Client Side

2013-07-17 Thread David Fleck
I have Firefox on a Windows machine at work, and it's kind of flaky there, also. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Strangely frozen desktop

2013-05-19 Thread David Fleck
Xubuntu with something less cutting edge. For this computer > stability is more important than features. Can the computer function as needed without an X server at all, just console mode? Then you could bypass all graphics-related issues. -- David Fl

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice spreadsheet question...

2013-05-11 Thread David Fleck
the last. Yes, this works great! Thanks to you and Bill for the suggestions. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] LibreOffice spreadsheet question...

2013-05-11 Thread David Fleck
n this be done? If so, can someone explain how? Thanks in advance. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] An equivelent for a Mac utility

2013-03-16 Thread David Fleck
tp://duplicity.nongnu.org/ You might want to check it out. Caveats: I don't use it, know next to nothing about it, use at own risk, etc. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] question on creating new udev rules

2013-03-02 Thread David Fleck
/mnt/lexar" ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="05dc", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="a732", RUN+="/bin/umount /mnt/lexar" ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="05dc", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="a7

Re: [PLUG] Shutdown interrupted

2013-02-23 Thread David Fleck
if that's a totally safe way under the circumstances. >> >> Any thoughts, suggestions? >> >> Randy Stapilus >> www.ridenbaugh.com >> Northwest politics and public affairs >> WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings >> 503-852-0010 >> ___

Re: [PLUG] sorting by filename, when there's stuff before and after

2013-01-21 Thread david . fleck
MJang wrote: > > Examples in my target list: > > "/path/to/file/abc.jsp"; > some java declarative VARIABLE = "something.jsp"; > * other/path/whatever.jsp > = "/path/to/file/other.jsp"; > "/messy/path/abTestRest.jsp?metasomething=" + > > Ideally, from whatever I run, I'd get the following output: >

Re: [PLUG] Live by the GUI, die by the GUI

2012-11-29 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Fred James wrote: > David Fleck wrote: >> >> Any suggestions on how to get a usable user interface back!? > At the risk of sounding (fill-in-the-blank) ... reboot! Unfortunately > some software is just as flaky as M$ could make it. Ah, but that woul

Re: [PLUG] Live by the GUI, die by the GUI

2012-11-29 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, King Beowulf wrote: > On 11/28/2012 05:33 PM, David Fleck wrote: >> OK, now I've done it. I'm trying to import some new pictures from my >> digital camera to digikam, only to discover that somehow I have horked up >> my digikam (1.2.0) UI su

Re: [PLUG] Live by the GUI, die by the GUI

2012-11-28 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, David Fleck wrote: > OK, now I've done it. I'm trying to import some new pictures from my > digital camera to digikam, only to discover that somehow I have horked up > my digikam (1.2.0) UI such that I can no longer get any toolbars - > including the

[PLUG] Live by the GUI, die by the GUI

2012-11-28 Thread David Fleck
ss the top of the window. I can manipulate the existing albums and pictures no problem - but the toolbars appear to be irrevokably lost. Any suggestions on how to get a usable user interface back!? -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] What to do when it freezes

2012-07-25 Thread David Fleck
back from the X server. But that's what I've used for the past 15 years or so on SuSE and Slackware. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Hardware problem: pink line on Samsung 712n monitor

2012-05-03 Thread David Fleck
reasonable solutions? The problem is becoming more frequent, and as such it seems like time to do something about it. Thanks in advance- -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

2012-03-14 Thread David Fleck
ails, and the like, get sent? Or do they simply not get sent at all? -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] A dumb move, so how do I avoid it in the future?

2012-01-08 Thread David Fleck
nk, the rm would have just removed the symbolic link, and not the files in the dir the link points to (cd /backup; rm -r *). Or, you could test that the entity you want to cd into is a real directory, rather than a link, before doing the cd and remove step (man test). -- David Fleck david.fl...

Re: [PLUG] A dumb move, so how do I avoid it in the future?

2012-01-07 Thread David Fleck
ong in the deleting step. Can you post the *exact* commands you ran, in the order you ran them, and what directory you were in at the time, and what user you were running as? -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@list

Re: [PLUG] env COLORTERM

2011-12-17 Thread David Fleck
em with the old-fashioned, but portable, 'find /etc -type f | xargs grep COLORTERM'). -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Lost root password

2011-11-20 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Russell Johnson wrote: > I don't believe sudo has a 'default' user it runs things at. I believe it does: -u user The -u (user) option causes sudo to run the specified command as a user other than root. -- David Fleck dav

Re: [PLUG] Which distribution has the best staying power?

2011-11-17 Thread David Fleck
22 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p22 #0: Sun Sep 25 11:49:20 CDT 2005 but what impresses me more is that the hardware is an ancient HP Pavilion bought in 1996. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlin

Re: [PLUG] Trying to switch from Gnome to KDE

2011-11-09 Thread David Fleck
7;. I think KDE hit its peak of actual usability around version 3.5 or so -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] List Guidelines

2011-10-04 Thread David Fleck
n the disease. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] What opens an .xml file?

2011-07-01 Thread David Fleck
ses a default file system type (HFS+) that is not case sensitive. However, Mac OS X also supports UFS volumes, which are case sensitive just as on any Unix. (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html) -- David Fleck david.fl

Re: [PLUG] cinelerra on SuSE (or any video editing software)

2011-06-15 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Sam Hart wrote: > That being said, have you heard of Kdenlive? > http://www.kdenlive.org/ Thanks, that seems to be working much better. Still haven't figured out most of the bells and whistles, but it runs, loads my files, and produces usable output. Yay! --

[PLUG] cinelerra on SuSE (or any video editing software)

2011-06-13 Thread David Fleck
ng software would be considered also. Thanks in advance- -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Mass Removal of White Space in File Names

2011-04-18 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, mhew...@comcast.net wrote: > Be careful, rename on Ubuntu is different that that on OpenSuSE. The > command line above with an expression is an OpenSuSE style command. Could you clarify that? I didn't see anything that struck me as distro- specific. --

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera problem, encountered and resolved (I think) and more carping about udev

2010-12-26 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, David Fleck wrote: >> I suspect the udev rules are good for the people working on the udev >> project. > > Isn't this called job security? Yeah, must be nice, writing indecipherable, undocumented softwar

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera problem, encountered and resolved (I think) and more carping about udev

2010-12-26 Thread David Fleck
ct. Some days I get the feeling that Linux systems developers write software to work the way they think it ought to, without regard to anything so piddling as 'use cases' or 'ease of use'. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com _

[PLUG] USB Camera problem, encountered and resolved (I think)

2010-12-26 Thread David Fleck
48 Dec 26 11:06 /dev/bus/usb/002/021 <-- camera mounted here crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 189, 128 Dec 24 07:50 /dev/bus/usb/002/001 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 60 Dec 24 07:50 /dev/bus/usb/001 crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 189, 0 Dec 24 07:50 /dev/bus/usb/001/001 ...and digikam

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 75, Issue 40

2010-12-20 Thread David Fleck
s was like and the feeling eventually > goes away Wireless networking is the part of the Linux experience where newbies can get a taste of what it was like running Linux back in the '90s. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Cannot Install Perl Module

2010-12-19 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, David Fleck wrote: >> Are there, in fact, any permissions oddities regarding libpq.so.5? > > David, > > Nope. /usr/lib/libpq.so.5 and /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5 are both > soft links to /usr/local/pgs

Re: [PLUG] Cannot Install Perl Module

2010-12-19 Thread David Fleck
red object file: Permission > denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i486-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line > 200., referer: http://localhost/sql-ledger/login.pl I would not dream of calling myself a 'perl expert', but that bit looks suspicious. Are there, in fact, any permissions odd

Re: [PLUG] Installing DWA 160 wireless adapter

2010-12-19 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Mark Jones wrote: From: David Fleck What does Yast2 -> Network Devices -> Network Settings tell you about the new adapter?  Does it show up there? No, it doesn't. I've tried adding it, but whenever I open the Network Settings again, it's gone (I as

Re: [PLUG] Installing DWA 160 wireless adapter

2010-12-18 Thread David Fleck
isn't being detected). Take a look at http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/wireless/451520-installing-dwa160-wireless-adapter.html and see if that helps. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Installing DWA160 wireless adapter (was Cisco Valet)

2010-12-18 Thread David Fleck
t show up there? -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Installing a Cisco Valet wireless USB adapter

2010-12-15 Thread David Fleck
at you not use 'ndisinstall'. It is not required, and apparently a buggy POS based on your experience (I'd never heard of it before your e-mail). This page ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/NdisWrapper_The_Ultimate_Guide ) has a pretty c

Re: [PLUG] Any CUPS Experts Here?

2010-12-07 Thread David Fleck
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On my laptop I defined the HP LaserJet 5 with connection > socket://lj5:9100. I can send jobs to the printer from this host. How do your machines resolve the 'lj5' part of that address? /etc/hosts or something else? -- Davi

Re: [PLUG] bash question

2010-04-03 Thread David Fleck
$called" ]; then echo "I am sourced: $@" else echo "I am executed: $@" fi ]$ sh script2.sh I am sourced: full I am sourced: relative I am executed: exec Your problem sounds like a bug in dash. -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com _

[PLUG] OpenSuSE 11.2 busted my wireless

2010-03-07 Thread David Fleck
y thoughts as to how I would further debug this problem? (I'm not sure I will, at least not soon - the box in question is my wife's, and she's just happy to have a working OpenSuse 11.0 installed.) -- David Fleck david.fl...@mchsi.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] xorg.conf does not listen to rgb.txt?

2010-01-06 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, wes wrote: > then the question becomes, does it still say that, even if the file doesn't > exist? As a matter of fact, it does. Well, now that I have the answer ("xterm -bg \#3f") I no longer care what happened to rgb.txt. Thanks to everyone who rep

Re: [PLUG] xorg.conf does not listen to rgb.txt?

2010-01-06 Thread David Fleck
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Joe Pruett wrote: > you should be able to just use numeric values. something like #3f > should work just fine. i just tested: > > xterm -bg \#3f > > the backslash is just to make the shell not see it as a comment. Yes! It works! Thank you! -- Da

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