Re: [PLUG] Color Laser/LED Multifunction Printers?

2019-01-04 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
On 1/4/19 2:08 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: Been using a Brother MFC-L8850CDW for several years and happy with it. Supported with cups. I haven't tried remote scanning. Does duplex (printing/scanning) and network stuff (ethernet/wifi/airprint/etc). Can

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/4/19 3:38 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: Could be a weird keyboard mapping rather than the password getting scrambled. If you have a graphical login check for something like a localization setting. For example if you see a UK flag instead of a US flag. Or also Dvorak. If it's the password the

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread wes
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:41 PM Daniel Johnson wrote: > Could be a weird keyboard mapping rather than the password getting > scrambled. If you have a graphical login check for something like a > localization setting. For example if you see a UK flag instead of a US > flag. Or also Dvorak. > One

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Daniel Johnson
Could be a weird keyboard mapping rather than the password getting scrambled. If you have a graphical login check for something like a localization setting. For example if you see a UK flag instead of a US flag. Or also Dvorak. If it's the password the usual trick from alternative boot like a USB

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/4/19 3:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, wes wrote: Many Linux distributions now come with a utility called "killall" which will kill all processes matching a given name. Or: reboot.   No need to reboot. As root run #kill -9 As the man page reads, "The command kill sends

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/4/19 3:01 PM, wes wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:29 PM Dick Steffens wrote: While working on getting the correct nVidia driver on my Slackware machine Firefox appeared to hang. It won't respond to attempts to close it via the gui, so I tried kill. I used ps ax | grep firefox to learn

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, wes wrote: Many Linux distributions now come with a utility called "killall" which will kill all processes matching a given name. Or: reboot. No need to reboot. As root run #kill -9 As the man page reads, "The command kill sends the specified signal to the specified

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread wes
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:29 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > While working on getting the correct nVidia driver on my Slackware > machine Firefox appeared to hang. It won't respond to attempts to close > it via the gui, so I tried kill. I used ps ax | grep firefox to learn > the process to kill. But

[PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Dick Steffens
While working on getting the correct nVidia driver on my Slackware machine Firefox appeared to hang. It won't respond to attempts to close it via the gui, so I tried kill. I used ps ax | grep firefox to learn the process to kill. But when I try to kill it, as root, I get an error message

Re: [PLUG] Color Laser/LED Multifunction Printers?

2019-01-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: Been using a Brother MFC-L8850CDW for several years and happy with it. Supported with cups. I haven't tried remote scanning. Does duplex (printing/scanning) and network stuff (ethernet/wifi/airprint/etc). Can scan to a usb stick.

Re: [PLUG] Color Laser/LED Multifunction Printers?

2019-01-04 Thread Louis Kowolowski
Been using a Brother MFC-L8850CDW for several years and happy with it. Supported with cups. I haven't tried remote scanning. Does duplex (printing/scanning) and network stuff (ethernet/wifi/airprint/etc). Can scan to a usb stick.

[PLUG] Color Laser/LED Multifunction Printers?

2019-01-04 Thread Roderick Anderson
I seem to remember at least two threads last year about printers. Didn't follow them then but now I am in the market. :-/ All the 'Best of/for' articles aren't helping. Anyone know of a chart listing features for a lot of the printers? Heck I'd take recommendations. LED or laser (not

[PLUG] Copying all partitions of a drive to single partition/directory?

2019-01-04 Thread Richard Owlett
I wish to do fresh Debian installs to three machines {including repartitioning drives of each machine}. Each drive is nominally 250GB. I have purchased a USB connected 1TB drive to be the target. I like the ease of use of Clonezilla-live. But it intrinsically wipes the target drive