Re: [PLUG] Resolved: LibreOffice Writer Image Question

Better yet, use the LO insert menu. On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 11:58 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > On 7/11/24 06:30, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Did you try any of these methods? > > > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=copy+on+drag=fpas=web > > Most of those are MS oriented. Indeed most searches I've used

Re: [PLUG] Why this sed error?

's' is the substitute, character 24 is the '$', I am not sure why that is giving you an error, but check if $name is weird on that one msg file. On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 9:35 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > I've a short script with this sed statement: > sed "s/NAME_GOES_HERE/$name/" msg | mailx -s ""

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

Talking about WP brings back memories of working in the Scientific Computing Center at Tektronix in the late 80's. Tektronix was not a M$ house so those folks with PC's probably used WP (or whatever word processing worked on Banyan). In the SCC we were 100% UNIX, what documentation we wrote was

Re: [PLUG] Duplicate responses from mail lists

"Please do not ", on the top line of the mail, which of course I did for this message. Simple and polite. On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 7:03 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > Is there a polite way I can ask responders to my post on a mail list to > sent > their response to only the list? Too often the response

[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] FOSSY 2024 Event and Call for Participation (August 1st through 4th)

consider a sponsorship or one by your employer! All the best, Michael Dexter ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG-announce mailing list PLUG-announce@lists.pdxlinux.org https://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce

Re: [PLUG] Li-Po power station as ups

I am probably being naive but there are LiPo 12v car batteries now, full sine wave inverters, and battery management units. Run off the battery, and keep it topped up from the charger (even solar). Buy the pieces, some assembly required. I am sure there is at least one YouTube video on the

Re: [PLUG] An IT question

As someone pointed out earlier, if the common factor for fail/not fail behavior is the OS version, then you are likely dealing with openssl package versions (and TLS version included in that). Many websites will not accept older versions of TLS due to extremely bad vulnerabilities, I would assume

Re: [PLUG] WiFi router recommendation

Why no mesh? Mesh is how you make an environment like that work. On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 5:09 PM mo wrote: > hi, pls recommend the best quality, least cost wifi router to meet my needs > below: > >1. max wifi range in a 2 story (each floor is 1600 sq ft) building w/ >1-2 drywalls

Re: [PLUG] Schools using macbook air computers

You might try organizations other than schools, such as a church, synagogue, or mosque (if you are inclined), they might appreciate the resource or have a congregant that needs something. There are many non-profit orgs that could use a free computer. On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 1:32 PM Jake Bottero

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

As long as you are not using Google's Chrome browser you should be fine. Any of the other major browsers should work for you, including Brave (even though based on Chrome). As previously mentioned, change your default search engine to DuckDuckGo, and do not create an account at the browser vendor

Re: [PLUG] Web browser recommendations

The leading alternative is Opera, highly configurable and stable (but I have not used it all day everyday for some time). I primarily use Brave now. On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 6:10 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > I try to avoid Google as much as I can so I've been using the Brave Browser > for a while

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

As previously noted, "tail -n 1 myfiles*" works. If you still want a Bash command line, here are a couple of options. The benefit of the first one is that tail does not print the names of the files. $ for f in myfiles*; do tail -1 $f; done $ find myfiles* | xargs tail -n 1# but this is

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released

Of course I do not know what you intend with the Docker image, I only present this since I have been using Apptainer lately (specifically a PostgreSQL server to support Airflow). $ apptainer pull docker://ubuntu:latest $ apptainer shell ubuntu_latest.sif Apptainer> cat /etc/os-release

Re: [PLUG] Comcast to Ziply fiber migration, plus Ooma phone

ate for my needs. Michael On Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 19:20 King Beowulf wrote: > On 4/12/24 08:24, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > >> Bottom line: after we cancel Comcast, we will pay $60 per month for > >> very fast internet

Re: [PLUG] Want Low power long duration UPS

Any of the popular power stations from Jackery or ECOflow would work. Not really a UPS but more of a continuous power supply. They run about $1/watt and come in various sizes. On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:15 AM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tuesday, Ziply fiber installed an optical network >

[PLUG] Thank you Jason and Brian

All, Thank you Jason B and Brian M for your donations to refreshments at the 30th Anniversary meeting! Thank you Russell for taking lead on the event! See you in another 10 years! :-) Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: Portland Linux/Unix Group Celebrates 30 years at this month's General Meeting!

On 3/29/24 7:57 PM, Russell Senior wrote: I feel like there should be cake. I wonder if there are any volunteers that can help make that happen? There is a place in Tigard that does printed toppers and those on a Costco cake make for great bang for the buck. Michael

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser Video Issue

I followed these steps when Brave on Mint was telling me to update but Mint said that it was the latest version. sudo apt install curl sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg echo

Re: [PLUG] Partitioning new HDD; installing file system

I can highly recommend that book. I used it as a textbook when teaching college courses in Linux Administration. I also knew Evi personally, a truly wonderful person and a great loss to our corner of the universe. On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 4:29 PM MC_Sequoia wrote: > "It's always good to have a

Re: [PLUG] RIP JJJ

ere great. JJJ kindly printed PLUG fliers. Rest in peace dear friends. Michael

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPad T430 RAM replacement

This video shows the clips being pressed outward. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/videos/pd027009-memory-modules-removal-movie-thinkpad-t430 On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 2:09 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > I do not have direct experience w

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPad T430 RAM replacement

I do not have direct experience with the T430, but the clips should move out away from the DIMM (not up or down), and then the DIMM should pop up a bit. On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 1:51 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm upgrading the memory on my ThinkPad T430; the new modules should be > here >

Re: [PLUG] Interest in high availability clustering talk?

All, The Center is available as a venue. u want to announce? Should we encouarge BYO food and libations? Michael On 2/14/24 9:59 PM, Russell Senior wrote: On 2/14/24 12:44, Michael Dexter wrote: On 2/14/24 12:04 AM, Russell Senior wrote: I have a talk idea. Or possibly two ideas

Re: [PLUG] Interest in high availability clustering talk?

On 2/14/24 12:04 AM, Russell Senior wrote: I have a talk idea. Or possibly two ideas. If no one pre-empts me, I'll do March. Do tell! Michael

Re: [PLUG] Interest in high availability clustering talk?

Russell, You have someone also wanting to skip March for April Michael On 2/13/24 9:53 PM, Reid wrote: On Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 at 3:26 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: Reid, Sounds great! Does March work for you? Whoops, I thought I responded. It's going to have to wait until

Re: [PLUG] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

community standard or do you picture something fancier? Michael PLUG V

Re: [PLUG] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

On 2/3/24 10:21 AM, mo wrote: Yes to free form discussion! What formats do you consider effective? How moderated? "UnPLUG" meetings were inspired by UnConferences and this is a strategy I am happy to draw upon: https://www.youtube.com/@callfortesting Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer

Re: [PLUG] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

Have food there? I brought a platter of sandwiches and a small keg of beer to two or so PLUG AT meetings and Intel had snacks. The Center has kitchen, for what it's worth. All previous PLUG food was before DoorDash etc. 3. THANKS AGAIN! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer On 2/1/24 12:4

[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Ted, Michael, YOU... What: New Year Show and Tell Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland When: Thursday, February 1st, 2024 at 7pm (Help with chairs a few minutes early is always appreciated) Why: The pursuit of technology freedom Ted

[PLUG] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Ted, Michael, YOU... What: New Year Show and Tell Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland When: Thursday, February 1st, 2024 at 7pm (Help with chairs a few minutes early is always appreciated) Why: The pursuit of technology freedom Ted

[PLUG] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement (Site update delayed by technical difficulties) Who: Ted, Michael, YOU... What: New Year Show and Tell Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland When: Thursday, February 1st, 2024 at 7pm (Help with chairs a few minutes early is always appreciated

[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] February in-person PLUG meeting: New Year Show and Tell

Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement (Site update delayed by technical difficulties) Who: Ted, Michael, YOU... What: New Year Show and Tell Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland When: Thursday, February 1st, 2024 at 7pm (Help with chairs a few minutes early is always appreciated

Re: [PLUG] Interest in high availability clustering talk?

Reid, Sounds great! Does March work for you? Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer On 1/29/24 10:46 PM, Reid wrote: Would there be any interest in a talk, demo, or workshop/troubleshooting session on high availability clustering? The format and content would be flexible depending on what people

Re: [PLUG] February PLUG?

this path. :-) My first 15 minutes would be a tirade, then some mitigations... then you could take it from there. What say y'all? Michael

[PLUG] February PLUG?

check this mail. I swear. Michael Dexter Kinda Sorta PLUG and Stuff

Re: [PLUG] Cable tester

I do not have a specific recommendation, other than do not go cheap. On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 9:21 AM mo wrote: > Hi. I need to buy a cat5 cable tester aka tone detector. There are so many! > How should I choose one? What features, brands, etc do you recommend? > > My bldg has up to 100' of

Re: [PLUG] Puzzle with ssh

Defaulting to IPV6 still burns me sometimes, I had a similar problem that made me crazy until I saw the addresses. How are you doing Ken? On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM Ken Stephens wrote: > SOLVED: SSH is using IPV6 from laptop to server while server to laptop is > using IPV4. Successfully

Re: [PLUG] Extract only first line in each paragraph

You can send mail directly from Python. Check https://realpython.com/python-send-email/ On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:55 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > I write a lot of Python, feel free to run your script by me for a code > > review or

Re: [PLUG] Extract only first line in each paragraph

I write a lot of Python, feel free to run your script by me for a code review or whatever. Send it direct email, michael.e...@acm.org On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:21 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > Perl for the win. > > Michael, > >

Re: [PLUG] Extract only first line in each paragraph

Perl for the win. #!/usr/bin/perl -w $first = 1; while (<>) { chomp; if ($first) { print "$_\n"; $first = 0; } $first = 1 if (/^$/); } Then perl test.pl test.txt On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 7:29 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > I have a file with two-line paragraphs and want to

Re: [PLUG] Untangling partitions in external drive [UNTANGLED]

I have an LVM2 RAID5 array running as my tertiary in house backup, it has been running on old reclamed 1TB drives for a couple of months now. I will report back if I see any problems. On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:40 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > >

Re: [PLUG] mailx questions

Just make sure you do error checking. Nothing says professional like getting an email that has Hello On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 12:38 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > Adding a salutation could be done with sed in your pipeline and a > >

Re: [PLUG] Untangling partitions in external drive [UNTANGLED]

Curious. I have never had an LVM2 failure that was not caused by an underlying hardware issue. Did you try creating a mirrored LV? On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 12:37 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > This is why I use LVM2 for everything relate

Re: [PLUG] Untangling partitions in external drive [UNTANGLED]

This is why I use LVM2 for everything related to mounted drives and file systems. Physical volumes (PV) have a UUID (customizable), but unnecessary in normal use since PV's are contained in Volume Groups (VG) and file systems are created on Logical Volumes (LV), both of which have arbitrary names,

Re: [PLUG] mailx questions

Adding a salutation could be done with sed in your pipeline and a placeholder token in the mail message. On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:40 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > Use -a twice. > > Thanks, Michael. > > Any thought

Re: [PLUG] Replacing filesystem on partitioned/formatted hdd

In my experience cp(1) is fragile, which is why I use rsync(1) for anything more than one or two files. The following should work, rsync -av /media/bkup1/* /mnt/usb1tb This will create all the subdirectories from /media/bkup1 and copy all the files onto the mounted USB drive. Rsync is

Re: [PLUG] mailx questions

Use -a twice. On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > I've used mailx to send newsletters to clients and prospects using this > script: > #!/bin/sh > > cd /home/rshepard/marketing/notifications/ > > for ADR in $(cat mailing-addr.list) > do >cat msg | mailx -s "subject_name"

Re: [PLUG] NON-ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT: PLUG vs UnPLUG this month?

All, I have asked about the Center and was hoping to hear back by now. I'll try to announce tonight if it's a GO. Michael On 1/2/24 2:15 PM, Russell Senior wrote: Michael and I were talking about what was going to happen this month. Last month, I had threatened to give a talk about my

Re: [PLUG] UPS shopping

A related question for rolling your own UPS, I have two 12V sealed lead acid batteries that I recently replaced ($200) in my mother-in-laws scooter which she is no longer able to use. The battery unit for the scooter is removable and is 24V (the two batteries in series) with a trickle charger,

Re: [PLUG] Looking for some WiFi AP Security Advice

circuit powering the igniter should only be hardwired under manual control with appropriate safeties in place. Anything else is a disaster waiting to happen and potential for injury and lawsuits. Been doing model rockets since 1963. Michael On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 3:23 PM MC_Sequoia wrote

Re: [PLUG] HP Laserjet 4M+ with duplexer free to good home

It seems there are a lot of sources for the #48 toner, is "decent" the problem? On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:40 AM Galen Seitz wrote: > Hi, > > As it has become difficult to find decent toner cartridges, I have > decided to retire my HP Laserjet 4M+ and duplexer. The printer also has > an

Re: [PLUG] Wikipedia math markup rendering Re: ... mediawiki progress

An answer to your unstated second question, check this page https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/backup-methods.html On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 6:39 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:44:53PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > It would be great to work with collaborators who

Re: [PLUG] 168 pin SD-RAM

Free Geek may have some old hardware like that, or maybe an entire old working box. On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM Timothy Scoppetta wrote: > Happy Sunday friends, > > I'm trying to repair an absolutely ancient machine for a friend that's > necessary (ISA to serial for an industrial mat cutter,

Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird gripe - support page doesn't match my version

with F8. You can adjust the size of the message pane, which determines how many messages are shown in the list simply by putting your mouse over the division between the message list and the Message Pane and dragging it up or down as desired. As far as changing the over all layout options, View>Layout gives you a variety of options to choose from. HTH, Michael

Re: [PLUG] Moving 15 GB ... in 1970

Which is why, ages ago, we had the saying, "never underestimate the throughput of a station wagon full of tapes." Much more recently, in the early 2000's, after benchmarking a connection to South East Asia, we found that a daily transfer of large amounts of data was faster on DVD's and FedEx. On

Re: [PLUG] Using wget to download all files from a web site

I have used this command string successfully in the past to download complete websites. $ wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --restrict-file-names=windows --domains website.com --no-parent website.com HTH, Michael

Re: [PLUG] Using wget to download all files from a web site

You may be getting caught by robots.txt, try setting the user agent header, i.e. -U agent-string On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2023, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > I need to download ~15G of data from a web site. Using a PLUG mail list > > thread from 2008 I

Re: [PLUG] Launching zoom-linux

which also may help. On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 3:55 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 4 Nov 2023, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > What OS are you using? I have Zoom on Mint/Xfce4 and it is installed as > > /usr/bin/zoom. I installed it with 'apt install zoom'. > > Michael, >

Re: [PLUG] Launching zoom-linux

What OS are you using? I have Zoom on Mint/Xfce4 and it is installed as /usr/bin/zoom. I installed it with 'apt install zoom'. On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 1:43 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I just upgraded zoom-linux; the executable is /usr/bin/zoom-linux, which > points to /opt/zoom/Zoomlauncher*.

Re: [PLUG] Root cannot delete file

ls -l reports the number of blocks allocated to the directory. On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 9:54 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, Bill Barry wrote: > > > get the inode number from the first field returned by > > ls -li > > then delete based on that inode number > > find . -inum 123488

Re: [PLUG] Root cannot delete file

The other approach is to avoid the shell. Try this, perl -e 'unlink $ARGV[0] or warn;' On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 8:39 AM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > If the file name is the actual problem and not filesystem lock or similar: > I deal with these files asking find to delete it for me this way: > find

Re: [PLUG] Root cannot delete file

An eight bit character has been inserted into the file name indicated by ?, you should be able to see it with 'ls -b'. You can remove the file with a wildcard such as *. Or as Reid suggested, remove the whole directory with 'rm -rf'. On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 2:32 PM Reid wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [PLUG] how to make folders/files read only

The best way to make something read only (even by root) is using the chattr immutable (i) flag, i.e. sudo chattr +i file This will prevent casual changes by every user including root. Change it back with the -i flag. Any attempt to change the file or directory will get an operation not permitted

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-TALK] How do web servers identify visitor devices?

sorry, wrong Wikipedia link in my previous email. Use this one instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint -- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-TALK] How do web servers identify visitor devices?

* Silverlight data * List of mime-types For more information you can check out the description of it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint * Timestamp * -- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity

Re: Greetings and update

nt. Not mailman, it is SmarterMail (from > smartertools.com, as in OUCH, some weird windows based commercial > exchange substitute, ick). > > We (Wes, Michael and I) are working on getting hosted at OSUOSL. It seems > that is going to happen, but we don't have the keys to the car ye

Re: [PLUG] Hard drive issues

Ext4 is not known for being a robust file system and can cause corruption, plus as others have pointed out USB is fine for making a quick copy and then disconnecting, it is not suitable for RAID storage. Would it be possible to get an external eSATA enclosure? As for the file system, XFS is

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

Hello all, Here is my updated list of ThinkPads before I go to Craigslist hell. Don't make me go to Craigslist hell. :) Michael Like New ThinkPad T510 i7-620 8GB RAM, Seagate ST95005620AS 500GB, DVD Drive Webcam, Light, Low-profile battery OEM Power Adapter $150 Like new X220 i5-2540M

[PLUG] TONIGHT: Great Developer Experiences (DX) Through Great API Documentation

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[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT: Great Developer Experiences (DX) Through Great API Documentation

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Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird loggy

eing similar things on her winders version of T-bird. I have had it slow down with long messages. Also note that you can compact mailboxes to save space, which may also help with speed. Michael ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.

[PLUG] THURSDAY PLUG: I will be there!

Hello all, I experienced some copy and paste fail with the announcement, including my saying I will no be there. I plan to! Michael ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] THURSDAY: Great Developer Experiences (DX) Through Great API Documentation

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Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

In my perfect world, the keyboard change would have come after the '30 Ivy Bridge models but such is life. Tragically, the "X25" anniversary model does nothing for me short of the keyboard. Bah. Michael ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

s one can search serial numbers and see the service parts. I will do this. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/partslookup Michael ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] No space left on device

descend the directory tree as needed. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

elling if a system has an IPS screen. In theory my latest one is IPS but it is indistinguishable from one that does not claim to be IPS. You are welcome to see them. Michael ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/m

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

ing you both directly when I know if I am available tomorrow. Thanks! Michael ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

On 10/20/17 9:24 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: > Thanks for the list. Should anyone else be interested: Lenovo ThinkCentre M91P Desktop PC Quad Core i5 2.5GHz i5-2400S 2.5GHz 8GB RAM External power supply DVD Drive 1 Internal 3.5" bay If I recall correctly, an Intel DQ67EP motherboard I

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

Thanks for the list. I think I'll pass. Michael On Oct 20, 2017 14:57, "King Beowulf" <kingbeow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/20/2017 12:41 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > i5 Quad Core ThinkCenter desktop > > i5 Quad Core 1/2 U wide, 2U tall desktop > >

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

Michael, Vernon, Louis and to whom ever else it may concern: First come first serve and you three responded first if that order. I inventoried everything and here goes: Light wear T420 i7-2640M 8GB RAM Seagate ST9500324AS 500GB Webcam, light Low-profile battery AND Extended battery OEM Power

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

Michael, Vernon and Louis, I will bundle them up and document them. I may have more to add to the list. Michael On 10/19/17 9:40 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: > I might be interested in a couple for some tactical deployment kits I'm > putting together. Can you give me some more d

Re: [PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

I might be interested in a couple for some tactical deployment kits I'm putting together. Can you give me some more details? Michael On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wish I was still living there I would certainly be interested. Love > Th

[PLUG] ThinkPads for sale

Hey. I may clean out my ThinkPad X220's, three i5's, one Celeron. Most 4GB RAM, one 2GB. Misc drives. Someone need the lot of them to outfit the whole family? Michael Dexter ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Skype for Linux

On 2017-10-16 19:36, David Barr wrote: > 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... Nice idea. I'll be using the launch of Sputnik. -- Michael

[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! PLUG Meeting: Securing Network Connections

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[PLUG] TONIGHT! PLUG Meeting: Securing Network Connections

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[PLUG] THURSDAY PLUG Meeting: Network Privacy Options

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[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] THURSDAY PLUG Meeting: Network Privacy Options

not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings. PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/ Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux I wish I could be there! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer

Re: [PLUG] ISP near Gresham

I was just looking at who advertised service in the area. You will typically only find one provider per medium in a given area. As a rule, you will find one telephone system (DSL), possibly one cable TV system, and in some areas one fiber optic system. These may be under one or more companies. So,

[PLUG] Yes, there will be PLUG

Thursday's meeting announcement to come. Topic: Privacy options for HTTP Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] ISP near Gresham

ouse, there is no point in asking about them. You indicated you are in 97230, which is Parkrose. Makes no difference what ISPs are in Gresham. It looks like your choices are CenturyLink DSL, XFinity cable, and possibly Frontier fiber (if they have it to your house). Michael __

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

I found some references that they suffered a pretty bad attack in August that affected their email services. They were trying to migrate to a new server a couple days ago that looks like it went sideways on them. Might have some bearing on your issues today. Michael On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 10:48

Re: [PLUG] Tweaking PDFs, font size and color

My fastest and easiest solution in cases like this is to simply select and copy the text and paste it into a LibreOffice document and tweak as necessary. As long as there are not a lot of images or tables, it usually works quite well. Crude, but effective. Michael On Sep 26, 2017 12:04, "

[PLUG] Xlib and displaying same image twice.

I have a simple Xlib program that displays a PNG file without a border or title bar on the X display. I need to display the image dead center on the screen and about 50-100 pixels to the right. How do I display the image twice and how do I control the location of the two images? This is a

Re: [PLUG] Is there a DNS cache in the Comcast modem?

This documents about 36 wasted minutes of your life you will never get back. Sorry for your loss. On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Answered by Comcast chat: > > I asked the question in my opening statement. Here is the dialog. Your > task

Re: [PLUG] Free Geek volunteers

il.com >> wrote: > >> On Sep 16, 2017 5:32 PM, "Michael Rasmussen" <mich...@michaelsnet.us> >> wrote: >> >> If you've volunteered at Free Geek I'd like to hear about your >> experiences with them. >> >> >> -- >

[PLUG] Free Geek volunteers

If you've volunteered at Free Geek I'd like to hear about your experiences with them. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxl

[PLUG] Xlib.

Hello pluggers, I need to take a demo program that displays a PNG file via Xlib and modify the output. It is a C program, not C# or C++. Has xlib been replaced by xcb? I'm developing this for an HDMI projector hooked to a Raspberry Pi 3 model B. Preferably, I don't want to pull out cairo or

Re: [PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

Great description Paul On 2017-09-12 08:46, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Michael wrote: > >> Paul, Russel, >> >> Both of you have used relative terms in describing sizes. >> >> What is small-ish? >> What is VERY LARGE? >> >&g

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