Re: [PLUG] Looking for a paid POP/IMAP email provider

I would suggest a (paid) gmail account. You can access it using IMAP: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892?hl=en It's inexpensive (I think I pay $6 a month). No ads, built-in spam and virus, awesome webmail intereface (if you ever need it), lots of storage. FYI: Microsoft and G

Re: [PLUG] Seeking web developer who knows the Hugo framework

What are the issues you can’t fix? Adding search and images isn’t too difficult. Jumping into a broken (?) template based on (the old) bootstrap4 might be more difficult than just developing the site from scratch. I’ve built a couple of Hugo based sites and of all the static site generators I’ve

Re: [PLUG] Website Visitor/Download Counter

What software are you using as your web server? On Sat, 26 Feb 2022, Michael Barnes wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 8:22 AM Timothy Scoppetta wrote: I may be speaking from the bias of my comfort zone but hosting the pdf on any modern cloud storage (gs, s3, etc) should give you this for "fre

Re: [PLUG] Website Visitor/Download Counter

It’s like it’s 1995 again :-). Here’s a resource for scripts but to use them your hosting server will need to have CGI capabilities: http://www.scriptarchive.com For a lot of reasons I would recommend not adding counters to your page and instead glean stats

Re: [PLUG] No Route To Host

Try: ip link on ENU-1. If it doesn't see any interfaces, other than the looback, try rebooting it. On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: On 11/30/21 3:02 PM, bro...@netgate.net wrote: Try looking at the output from: ip route for clues. On ENU-2: rsteff@ENU-2:~$ ip route defa

Re: [PLUG] No Route To Host

Try looking at the output from: ip route for clues.

Re: [PLUG] Samsung SSD QVO/EVO/PRO - most reliable?

The Chia (blockchain project based on proof of time and space) project has done some excellent research on SSDs: https://chiadecentral.com/chia-blockchain-ssd-buying-guide/ It' worth a quick read. But for your use case just about any consumer SSD is going to do the job. It really just dep

Re: [PLUG] How long to display video title

derstood) thing that's happened to (some) distros in recent years. 25 years of video production experience is good knowledge. Especially to a group of (mostly) engineers. On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Daniel Ortiz wrote: The rule Brooks brought could be sufficient for your problem, but while a video

Re: [PLUG] How long to display video title

s of video production experience is good knowledge. Especially to a group of (mostly) engineers. On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Daniel Ortiz wrote: The rule Brooks brought could be sufficient for your problem, but while a video editor is certainly more qualified than me in dealing with your problem; the r

Re: [PLUG] How long to display video title

y the most exciting (misunderstood) thing that's happened to (some) distros in recent years. 25 years of video production experience is good knowledge. Especially to a group of (mostly) engineers. On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Daniel Ortiz wrote: The rule Brooks brought could be sufficient for your p

Re: [PLUG] How long to display video title

d replacing init is probably the most exciting (misunderstood) thing that's happened to (some) distros in recent years. 25 years of video production experience is good knowledge. Especially to a group of (mostly) engineers. On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Daniel Ortiz wrote: The rule Brooks br

Re: [PLUG] How long to display video title

From my wife (video editor at KGW): General rule of thumb, long enough to read it thru 2 times, minimum 5 sec Kevin On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I've a .jpg of the video title that I'll record using vokoscreenNG. Using pitivi I'll edit that short file in front of the video con

Re: [PLUG] Your first PLUG talk!

I used to be a member of a local fly fishing club. We had the same issue. Fresh new speakers were difficult to find and anyone worth listening to wanted to be compensated. We had guys we wanted to invite to talk but between travel and expenses it was just to expensive. We also had members wh

Re: [PLUG] Symlink syntax refresher

You want to let ldconfig manage those files. Instead of messing with your system libraries you might try telling grass it's okay use libgeos-3.7.2. If it's not happy with that you might have mess around with configure options, or worst. On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Found the

Re: [PLUG] web search post filtering

The big difference between the 2 is that Google will displays ads (they tell you to monetize it with AdSense) and M$, thus far anyway, is ad free. On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: I like when Microsoft copy/pastes ideas from other companies. It reeks of desperation and incompetence.

Re: [PLUG] web search post filtering

I usually don't like recommending Microsoft technology but Bing custom search allows you (if you have the time) to build ad free custom search instances: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bing-custom-search/ It allows for a LOT of customization including voting up an

Re: [PLUG] web search post filtering

I couldn't agree more. But other than raising some cash to start yet another search engine I'm not sure how to solve the problem. And it's not just the search engines, it's Amazon, FB, Walmart and the rest of the holders of user profile data. Search is simple, the web as a data set isn't. If

Re: [PLUG] web search post filtering

It's not the solution you're seeking (I know of no such plugin) but maybe a switch to duckduckgo instead of Google or Bing might make things a little better. They don't collect or use tracking data to mung your search results with crap. https://duckduckgo.com/ Kevin On Tue, 9 Jul

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

We use a product called Cerb: https://cerb.ai We’ve been using it for years and have been happy with everything it does. It is open source (available on github) but only allows for 1 seat without a license. Here are bunch more you might want to look at: https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/cerb6-alt

Re: [PLUG] Help with email scripts...

Take a look at RFC 1342: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1342 From that: - An "encoded-word" is a sequence of printable ASCII characters that begins with "=?", ends with "?=", and has two "?"s in between.

Re: [PLUG] Terminal does not echo typed characters

Rich, Have you tried "tset"? Kevin On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Now and then when I exit from a root session in a terminal key strokes are not displayed on the command line. Commands can be entered and acted upon, but the cursor remains at the prompt. I've not found a command to

Re: [PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

If you use vi, a simple ":set nu" will also provide line numbers. How many other (simple) ways are there to number lines in a file? You'd think UNIX tool designers were BASIC programmers :-). BASIC... 10 print "hello world" 20 goto 10 Those were simpler times. But I digress. Getting ba

Re: [PLUG] Latest openproject not working...

Can you query any package successfully? On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, michael wrote: Your query is erroneous and could not be processed. An internal error has occured. Google isn't helping me figure this out. [michael@www ~]$ rpm -qi openproject Name: openproject Version : 7.4.2 Release

Re: [PLUG] Learning programming

Check out Go. It's from Google. Is one of the latest "cool" languages. And, it is "cool". On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com wrote: To the esteemed members of the PLUG list: I have determined I must learn programming, and would prefer to do so in the 'back end', i.

Re: [PLUG] Another SpiritOne Question

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, Dick Steffens wrote: Does anyone have experience with Century Link as an ISP? Their customer service is worse than terrible. Congestion at major peering points in Seattle are common during peak times. My only other choice is Comcast. I opted for DSL over cable for a va

Re: [PLUG] Moving from HDD to SSD

If possible I always recommend a fresh install. Copy over your home dir and you should be good. On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Chuck Hast wrote: I looked at Clonezilla, I was looking a bit more at SSD installs and saw some indications that it might be better just to do a new install and drop my home d

Re: [PLUG] Moving from HDD to SSD

Take a look a clonezilla. http://clonezilla.org/ Kevin On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Chuck Hast wrote: Folks, I just got a EVO 850 500G SSD I am going to replace a 500G HD on my laptop. I have been looking at how to move the disk image from the HD to the SSD. My first look was at dd, as that