Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-03 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Amen! (Praise Bob) My first Slackware system required a bunch of floppy disks, maybe 1996?. Business partners and myself at the time thought Debian was a better choice and we never did any projects with that Slackware. Later on and working as a sole proprietor, I needed pretty firm real-time

Re: [PLUG] printing to scale part of a pdf document

2021-04-10 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Have you tried cropping the drawings out of their pages and then printing them? On Apr 10, 2021, 8:31 AM, at 8:31 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >I have a 150 MB pdf file (66 pages) which has some scaled drawings >(1/4"/ft). I want to print a portion of a couple of these drawings. I >think the port

Re: [PLUG] Video Editing Software

2020-07-04 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Open Shot works pretty well for me. apt can install it. Wayne On 7/4/20 1:10 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: Looking for suggestions on video editing software for Linux. I'm running Mint 18.3. I have a bunch of small mp4 cell phone videos. I need to stitch them together into a single video. I will al

Re: [PLUG] xsane cannot find device, diagnoistic help needed

2020-03-17 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Different distribution, similar problem. My wife's LinuxMint distribution started being unable to open the USB scanner with either xsane of simple scan some years ago. With later updates, the problem got worse and the work-around would not work. So we plug in the old disk, do the work-around, s

Re: [PLUG] SSD drives (Was: Re: Another Seagate drive died)

2018-01-31 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
I may have shared this link the past regarding SSD failure rates. It is a couple years old now, any comments? http://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-world-googles-experience/ Wayne On 01/31/2018 12:03 PM, John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com wrote: Kingston SSDs did not last

Re: [PLUG] Closing sockets using atexit C code.

2017-11-15 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
What signal is you program getting, SIGTERM? Wayne On 11/14/2017 10:26 AM, michael wrote: In C there is an atexit function that takes no arguments. Because of this, you can't pass in the file descriptors for your sockets. Uge! Short of making these integers global, how can I close these so