[PLUG] Knoppix 8.6 is out

2019-10-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you know what is Knoppix and you are a fan - have a lot of fun. :-) Tomas ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Advanced Topics - Oct 15, 2019

2019-10-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Could you stream the meeting for people who cannot physically attend? Thanks, Tomas On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 17:55 wrote: > Advanced Topics is back! > > The next PLUG Advanced Topics meeting will be October 15th, 2019 at 6:30pm > until 8:30pm. > > Location: Intel HF3 Auditorium > 5200 NE

Re: [PLUG] Anyone has experience with the Epson EcoTank all in one printer scanners?

2019-10-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Thanks Bruce, Good to hear that it all works. So, from your response, I can assume that the printer did not work out of the box without getting some stuff from the manufacturer. Correct? May I ask what is your distribution? Thanks again, Tomas On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 14:30 Bruce Kilpatrick

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Advanced Topics - Oct 15, 2019

2019-10-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Thank you, -T On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 14:32 Michael Dexter wrote: > On 10/5/19 4:53 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > >> Could you stream the meeting for people who cannot physically attend? > > I will see what we can do. Should be possible. > > I will get the announcement on the site, Calagator if

Re: [PLUG] REMINDER: PLUG Advanced Topics is Tomorrow October 15th

2019-10-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Hi Alan, Would you be so kind and post link to the stream, if possible? Thanks again, Tomas On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 14:14 wrote: > > PLUG Advanced topics returns this Tuesday! > > Here is the meetup information: > > https://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Technology-Center-PDX/events/265479474 > >

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Glad you got it all sorted out for Christmas. Happy holidays and the new year, Tomas On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 14:43 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > You can absolutely change the password using the web interface without > > runnin

Re: [PLUG] Connecting PoE injector

2019-12-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Your PoE injector should directly feed the device it is powering. Injector's ports should be clearly marked as to which one is upsteam and downstream. -T On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 13:00 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2019, wes wrote: > > > For best results, it should go directly before the

Re: [PLUG] Disney +

2019-12-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
, as those are connected to > decent sized screens, and my computers are not. > > Good luck! > Erik > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 4:15 PM Tomas Kuchta > > wrote: > > > I do not watch TV, so take this with grain of salt I might have mix > up > > unrela

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I would check if you are connected to the router through the correct port. If you are accidentally on wrong port you might not be able to access the configuration service. You mentioned wan+2lan - so I would expect that you end up with wan on one port, lan1 on another port and lan2 on the third

Re: [PLUG] Can't mount Synology NAS

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
The way to say * for Synology is: 192.168.1.1/24 Tomas On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 16:35 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:24:41 -0800 > wes dijo: > > >Short version: it seems that you have your Synology configured to allow > >access based on IP address. Your usual strategy to allow

Re: [PLUG] Can't mount Synology NAS

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Yes, that what it means - all the last 256 numbers of your IPv4. Tomas On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 18:09 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:02:36 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >The way to say * for Synology is: > >192.168.1.1/24 > > If I want it

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
. Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 18:29 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > I would like to point out, for initiated, the wan+2lan thing is a > > configuration wizard. It removes previous configuration and writes clean > > c

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Thanks for going through this systematically and with care Russell, On my part, I admit that I really did not pay attention to 2lan versus 2lan2 difference. I thought it is just a typo. I am sorry if I caused confusion. -T On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 20:35 Russell Senior wrote: > First, restore the

Re: [PLUG] Constant disk activity

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
without reindexing. -T On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 21:28 Ben Koenig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM Tomas Kuchta > > wrote: > > > This is the first thing I obliterate on all my installs for years > together > > with core dump. > > > > Same here, although bal

Re: [PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

2019-12-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > If you create Knoppix USB media with persistent storage, you can install > > new apps from Debian repos or .deb or any other way. > > Tomas, > > I downloaded the .iso and used dd to put it on a thumb drive

Re: [PLUG] Plotting data - was [ RE-introduction to spreadsheets after decades ; /]

2020-02-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Does it work with or without Sheet1 address? On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 07:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/24/2020 04:46 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Warning typo - both columns were intended to be on the same Sheet1 > > > > I only see typos after sending them - proving Mur

Re: [PLUG] Plotting data - was [ RE-introduction to spreadsheets after decades ; /]

2020-02-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Warning typo - both columns were intended to be on the same Sheet1 I only see typos after sending them - proving Murphy's principle dayly On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 17:43 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Select the first Data column then select your other data column while > holding Ct

Re: [PLUG] Plotting data - was [ RE-introduction to spreadsheets after decades ; /]

2020-02-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Select the first Data column then select your other data column while holding Ctrl key. Alternatively, you could describe the selection as: =Sheet1!$A$1:$A$17,Sheet2!$C$1:$C$17 in data sources for your graph. Tomas On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 08:30 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/22/2020 06:38 AM,

Re: [PLUG] How to get rid of this

2020-03-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I believe that you need to remove them by hand and refresh apt to see them gone. Tomas On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 00:18 Chuck Hast wrote: > Yes, here is what is in there and I see both ubnt and mongodb, > here is the list: > kp4djt@kp4djt64:~$ cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ >

Re: [PLUG] More about VirtualBox

2020-01-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Spelling check correction below: ~/.config/VirtualBox On Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 20:03 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I think that it was you mentioning that virtual disks are in ~/.Virtual > box directory. > > Regardless, this is no longer the case for many years. I have a feeling > that

Re: [PLUG] More about VirtualBox

2020-01-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I think that it was you mentioning that virtual disks are in ~/.Virtual box directory. Regardless, this is no longer the case for many years. I have a feeling that it has changed around v5. These days vBox stores all VM related files under: ~/VirtualBox\ VMs directory Configuration files are in:

Re: [PLUG] Mint Spell Check Languages

2020-01-23 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Check what dictionary languages you have installed and install what you need, optionally uninstall what you do not need. Look for aspell, ispell or myspell packages. Hope this helps, Tomas On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 01:17 Michael Barnes wrote: > I have three computers running Mint I got from Free

Re: [PLUG] More about VirtualBox

2020-01-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 20:30 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:03:18 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >I think that it was you mentioning that virtual disks are in > >~/.Virtual box directory. > > Yes, it was me. At the time my Windows 2000 and W

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED Make cron send an e-mail upon completion

2020-01-27 Thread Tomas Kuchta
This, opening a dialog box, may not work unless you are logged in in a GUI desktop. Just curious - will this work as written when that command is issue by Cron by root? I would have thought that it wouldn't, thought I have not tried. Tomas On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 19:47 John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] Saving Impress Presentations

2020-02-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
It is not normal, in my experience with Impress/LibreOffice. I experience similar lock ups, most likely due to Gnome doing some magic in the background - it locks my email client (evolution) or gui file manager every now and then. If I wait long enough it recovers, usually I end up rebooting

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Removing old/new virtual box package will not touch your virtual machines. When you install new vbox, your data/VMs will be there. You know what they say about backups - it is waste of time and disk space - until it is not. Your virtualBox data/backup live in following two directories by

Re: [PLUG] Cannot burn M disc CentOS 7...

2020-01-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Look for drives supporting BD..XL format. Naming patterns are: BD ~ 25GB ..DL ~ 50GB ..XL ~ 100GB -Tomas On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 17:21 wrote: > January 23, 2020 11:09 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: > > > January 23, 2020 10:22 PM, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >> Try k3b > >>

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-23 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Lots of people helping - I lost track. Are the basics understood at this point: 1. is your screen connected to the Nvidia graphics card or the internal Intel graphics output? 2. Are you able to interactively change the resolution once you boot and in desktop environment? -T On Thu, Jan 23,

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED Make cron send an e-mail upon completion

2020-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
ssume that cronjobs are always run as root? I don't actually > know since I don't mess with cron beyond the most basic options. Most of my > cron tasks were made by point-and-click in FreeNAS. > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 3:57 PM Tomas Kuchta > > wrote: > > > The topic t

Re: [PLUG] File is there, but not there?

2020-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try to give path to that executable file - such as ~/linbpq or ./linbpq or full path It that is not enough - perhaps it is a script with invalid executable shell on its first line ... Tomas On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:57 Stafford Rau wrote: > You might just have an error in your download. This

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED Make cron send an e-mail upon completion

2020-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:57:07 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >The topic to research would be X11 authorization and MIT cookies. > > > >It will require commands to run on both sides of the command line: a) > >your desktop will need to authorize the connection (every t

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED Make cron send an e-mail upon completion

2020-01-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
The topic to research would be X11 authorization and MIT cookies. It will require commands to run on both sides of the command line: a) your desktop will need to authorize the connection (every time you start desktop) b) Cron using that authorization to display the window. The easiest to work

Re: [PLUG] KDE application window resizing

2020-02-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 13:49 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > * I am able to resize the window both horizontally and vertically to be > > larger than minimal * kbibtex - sets min window size: 545x751 (WxH) - you > > cannot make it smaller, but

Re: [PLUG] KDE application window resizing

2020-02-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
icking on mouse. That works most of the time, but maybe not in > this case. > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:14 AM Tomas Kuchta < > tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 13:49 Rich Shepard > wrote: > > > > > O

Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird save attachment issue

2020-02-19 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Did you check the path to the directory you are saving the file into? If, for example, you are trying to save the file to / instead of /home/user - that could explain things. -T On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 14:45 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 2/19/20 11:42 AM, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > Is this for any

Re: [PLUG] Switches anyone... (OT)

2020-02-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Can this thing assign multiple vlans to ports? If so, you cold use that to distribute the DHCP. ?? On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 14:19 Chuck Hast wrote: > Now the only thing I am not getting is forwarding of DHCP request across > the switch. It creates VLAN's > and allows me to assign ports to them

Re: [PLUG] GANDI SAS Won't do something like that

2020-02-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
... only a matter of time before all DNS/name merchants end up being bought by Oracle - before ending up in the same hands stripped out of high margin customers ... - in case this is not obvious - this is meant to be funny - I hope On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 15:12 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [PLUG] Network kaput

2020-02-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
are difficult to debug over email. I would advice you to find hands on help, if you run out of ideas tomorrow/Monday. Tomas On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 01:59 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 01:46:05 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >That is why you should delete the file and rec

Re: [PLUG] Network kaput

2020-02-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
That is why you should delete the file and reconnect using NM as suggested. Hope it helps, Tomas On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 01:31 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:21:07 -0500 > tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com dijo: > > >I assume that you are using network manager (NM) - you do not

Re: [PLUG] Big Data Surplus (Surveillance Capitalism)

2020-01-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
By moderately heroic efforts you mean - writing multi platform email clients for sending exclusively encrypted emails? If yes, and this would really caught on at scale - I wonder what would be the next move from the G corp? Would they cared at this point? The email header would still be plain

Re: [PLUG] Big Data Surplus (Surveillance Capitalism)

2020-01-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I think that it would be appropriate to note that former ownCloud continues as NextCloud at https://nextcloud.org/ Simple analogy to ownCloud-->nextCloud transition 3 years ago would be openOffice-->libreOffice Tomas On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 20:13 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Mike

Re: [PLUG] ProtonMail was: Surveillance Capitalism

2020-01-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I do not think DNS is the correct kitchen sink for user's public key distribution. The infrastructure and service costs would not be scalable. Email servers are the obvious target for this - it is distributed, owner bears costs and does not need middle man. Just my 2c, Tomas On Fri, Jan 10,

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using OwnCloud or NextCloud?

2020-01-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you are willing to buy a service - there are number of NextCloud providers in similar, even cheaper, price range. NextCloud has good clients for iOS, Android, Linux, Windows and server plugins for many NAS's. It also supports end to end encryption. So, only the clients can see unencrypted

Re: [PLUG] PSU library scanner, USB thumb drive with no listed files

2020-01-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
After step 1 I would try tool called photoRec. It saved my pictures a few times. Tomas On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 18:57 Russell Senior wrote: > Step 1 is to dd the whole USB drive to a backup image. Then from a copy of > that backup image you can start trying recovery from that. > > On Sun, Jan

Re: [PLUG] USB C hub with ethernet

2020-01-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Hi Galen, I happen to have one: * with nothing connected to it it takes about 1.5W of the USB-C port - base load * with 1Gb/s ethernet link up it takes about 2.5W and it gets warm as result (~38C) * driving 720p hdmi screen it takes about 2.75Wand gets warm as result (~38C) * hdmi port is

Re: [PLUG] HP plotter

2020-01-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
These things print from hp-gl2 plotter language. That should still work fine on Linux as well as parallel ports. This is one of the areas where free/openSource shines. Tomas On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 15:49 John Meissen wrote: > My neighbor, who ran a home-based engineering business for many

Re: [PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

2020-01-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I would recommend to follow Ben's advice and reinstalling both Nvidia as well as virtual box in this order. You seems to be missing correct kernel modules. I have not seen any indication of uefi issues in the information given. Reinstalling package can be done either by removing package and

Re: [PLUG] Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

2020-01-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I cannot really help you with advice for the exact thing you are asking for: side by side hex and ASCII. That being said, you should note that ASCII is not really used for a long time - as in decade or more. These days, characters/text are encoded mostly in UTF-8 with variable character code

[PLUG] Lan loops - follow on PoE injector

2019-12-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Christmas is slow, so I made an exception and read carefully Russell's lan loop warning post. Now, I have conscious, not unconscious (double negative warning to true English speakers), desire to try to create and observe lan loops in action for the first time. The problem I am seeking help with,

Re: [PLUG] Lan loops - follow on PoE injecto

2019-12-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Qualcomm QCA9563 SOC in GL-AR750S package. On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 00:12 Mike C. wrote: > I have a theory about why it didn't work on your device. Its what I > expected would happen and why I didn't suggest what Russell did to just > loop one LAN port to another. I think its due to the

Re: [PLUG] Lan loops - follow on PoE injecto

2019-12-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
-based router. But I don't have yours, so I > don't > > know for sure. > > > > > >> Ping an address in the br-lan network space, and try it again. > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 3:42 PM Tomas Kuchta < > >> tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com>

Re: [PLUG] gnome2-like behavior from gnome3?

2019-12-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I am no particular fan of default Gnome 3, any gnome for that matter, but calling it completely broken seems to me as pretty strong statement. Personal bias in taste is fine, we all like different clothes, drinks, food, etc. Calling some other choice absolutely broken and mixing GUI with init

Re: [PLUG] DNS over HTTPS

2019-12-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Could you explain the details why/how DNS over Https would you "not recommend using it. It's just a way for data-mining companies to suck up more of your private life"? The way I understand it, it is meant to provide privacy from your ISP and traffic observation along the way to the DNS. It

Re: [PLUG] DNS over HTTPS

2019-12-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You were always sending your DNS queries to them DNS service. This time though they are encrypted , so your ISP or a passive observer cannot see them. What is the problem with that? Change you DNS provider back to your ISP is you do not like cloudfare or where ever you are sending it at the

Re: [PLUG] Big Data Surplus (Surveillance Capitalism)

2020-01-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Can you share your source for " France require facial recognition to log onto the internet" ? Thanks, -T On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 13:42 Vedanta Teacher wrote: > And people are wondering why I fired Kaiser for wanting > copies of my DNA to use themselves & share with others > for "research". By

Re: [PLUG] Big Data Surplus (Surveillance Capitalism)

2020-01-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
This has been around for well over decade A.K.A. tagging/tracking. I remember Teradata had pretty public investors drive about decade ago, claiming to have best and market dominant solution for this. I bet the G and F companies were doing that at scale long before them. It is good to talk about

Re: [PLUG] Video meetings interactive

2020-04-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Wacom tablets just work in Linux - better than in windows in my opinion. Wacom tablets in conferences on windows - suck royally - because your conference screen updates are too slow. As result, I use it only in desperation or draw outside the shared screen - then share the result. I have no idea

Re: [PLUG] Video meetings interactive

2020-04-07 Thread Tomas Kuchta
The best way to interactively share drawing - that I know of inwindows - is to point the webcam on the paper and draw that way. This is because the paper feedback and screen are independent. Note: your sides will like be wrong, but my colleagues do adjust. -T On Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 17:09 Tomas

Re: [PLUG] Ripping audio cds and creating duplicates

2020-04-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
+1 for k3b If you need audio CD (as classic CD format) you do not need to rip and encode anything. That being said - think of the copyright Tomas On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 11:53 Jason Barnett wrote: > I know that K3B has an option for "Copy Medium" which will do what you > want. I'm sure other CD

Re: [PLUG] Ripping audio cds and creating duplicates

2020-04-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
ote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > +1 for k3b > > > If you need audio CD (as classic CD format) you do not need to rip and > > encode anything. > > Except that k3b wants .wav files to write to an optical disk. At least, > that's what I rea

Re: [PLUG] nextcloud talk test server

2020-04-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I have good experience with Nextcloud talk, thought I cannot say how it scales with many attendees. I was not able to solicit more than two more guinea pigs. So, if you get to try it with many more, let us know. -T On Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 18:17 Tom wrote: > Hello, > > I have been testing out

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
+1 for OBS +5 for ffmpeg/mplayer/mpv -T On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 17:09 Ben Koenig wrote: > It helps to know what you are looking to accomplish. OBS is interesting > since it can be used to either record or stream. It also mixes audio/video > sources so it's useful for podcasting applications. For

Re: [PLUG] Where are cups website files?

2020-04-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
What Linux distro are you using? On Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 09:39 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:44 AM Ben Koenig wrote: > > > Is this printer the HP Color Laserjet 2600n that started printing washed > > out colors for no reason? > > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:54 AM Michael

Re: [PLUG] Buzzing speakers

2020-03-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you have one of those usb sound cards (even cheap $5 will do) - try to feed the sound through one of them. If that helps, like it helped me - it is probably caused by fluctuating power supply when your cron job runs. In my case, disk or network activity will cause it. On thinkpad, it is also

Re: [PLUG] gawk: escaping parentheses in pattern string

2020-03-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You did not give example of the text you are parsing. So, I assume that you want to replace B(W) literal in column 2 with number 11. Try this: awk '$2 == "B(W)" { $2=11; print $0 }' Or as regexp: awk '$2 ~ /B(W)/ { $2=11; print $0 }' Tomas On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 14:33 Rich Shepard wrote: > The

Re: [PLUG] Unifi AC AP LR Linux...

2020-03-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Ubnt.com Has unifi controller .deb packages to install. I am typing this on my phone, so checking for what is Buster is cumbersome - I assume that Buster means some version of Debian. If that is wrong, they also release .zip which I use successfully on openSuSE. Make sure that you have ancient/

Re: [PLUG] Where are cups website files?

2020-03-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I am afraid that if cups http interface does not respond properly - it will likely not be able to be configured this way - most of the content is active - not in files. In any case - you could always try to navigate to URLs as if they would be on your desktop to list/add printers. Tomas On Tue,

Re: [PLUG] Where are cups website files?

2020-04-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
/admin.tmpl on my system. Tomas On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 23:10 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:35 PM Tomas Kuchta > > wrote: > > > I am afraid that if cups http interface does not respond properly - it > will > > likely not be able to be configured thi

Re: [PLUG] Where are cups website files?

2020-04-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
As I said before, I do not have Chromebook, but in chrome browser-settings-advanced-Printers It brings a dialogue which looks very much like customized cups frontend. There is also Google Cloud Print, which could be helpful. ... -T On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 00:13 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > H

Re: [PLUG] gawk: escaping parentheses in pattern string

2020-03-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Can you just give example of matching line? No way to help you without it. Tomas On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 05:53 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > You did not give example of the text you are parsing. So, I assume that > you > > want to

Re: [PLUG] Where are cups website files?

2020-04-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
to retrace my steps and figure it out. Apologies, if I caused confusion. Tomas On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 08:42 Michael Barnes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 00:23 Tomas Kuchta > wrote: > > > As I said before, I do not have Chromebook, but in chrome > > browser-settings-advanced-Print

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

2020-04-28 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You have pretty nice spreadsheet - I used Google Hangouts - it works great as well as Jitsi - works well using chrome and on Android. I do not know what is Discord or what is IRC. And I do not have any teletypes - just a good collection of Linux laptops, desktops and servers. Will I be able to

Re: [PLUG] Reinstall of Buster working great!

2020-04-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 14:56 Michael C Robinson wrote: > Diladele Web Safety doesn't show an extra local ip address anymore either. > > I opted out of X Windows and for now I'm not setting up unifi > controller software because of the old > version of MongoDB and because it binds to interfaces I

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your distribution from 18.04.2 to 18.04.3 to 20.04 to Update - refreshes your repository data. Upgrade - upgrades your current distribution to the latest patches/versions. When you update+upgrade from command line, the GUI is

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 07:41 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 4/26/20 1:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your > distribution > > from 18.04.2 to 18.04.3 to 20.04 to > > > > Update - refreshes your re

Re: [PLUG] Setting web meeting mic volume

2020-04-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
30 Apr 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > You can check your local microphone gain settings in pavucontrol. You > > voice should not be saturating the scale. I usually set it so that normal > > voice peaks reach about half the scale. > > > > It is very individual. >

Re: [PLUG] Setting web meeting mic volume

2020-04-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You will need to ask the participants. You can check your local microphone gain settings in pavucontrol. You voice should not be saturating the scale. I usually set it so that normal voice peaks reach about half the scale. It is very individual. -T On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 14:07 Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

2020-04-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
+- 1 for things like FB/whatApp, weechat, FaceTime, etc. They maybe great for families/friends bought to each particular ecosystem/walledGarden. It is probably not the best idea to require iPhone purchase or FB/MS account as a condition of attendance. Tomas On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 15:48 Mike C.

Re: [PLUG] Ambient light screen adjustment

2020-05-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you can find the light sensor in devices, probably/hopefully USB. It could even be exposed in Dbus. You could cludge some daemon together checking it every 10sec or so and adjusting the brightness by sending messages to the screen via Dbus. It is the same idea as pressing the brightness keys

Re: [PLUG] Ambient light screen adjustment

2020-05-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If this is a laptop, you could always take a picture with it's camera using mplayer, then get average brightness using imagemagick or similar instead of trying to get the light sensor working. On Fri, May 1, 2020, 08:39 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > If you can find the light sensor in devices, proba

Re: [PLUG] Audio in/out selector/sound levels

2020-04-30 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Just try to figure out how to use pavucontrol. You are clearly using pulse audio, so it makes perfect sense to use it's native tool. Picking up more and more obscure tools from the past will not make it easier. Also, if this is too hard, consider using mainstream distro such as Ubuntu for

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi component/sub-assembly selection guides

2020-05-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
RaspberryPi foundation sells all what you need - compatibility guaranteed. You can get the computer, screen and power supply. Other components you might need: 1. case for raspberry pi can be ordered from their suppliers. 2. Battery power can come from cellphone USB battery bank. There may be

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I would start on command line: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade And if you still have problems, post the errors you get. Tomas On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 21:57 Dick Steffens wrote: > When I run Software Updater on one of my Ubuntu 18.04 machines (ENU-1). > In April, 2018, I installed Ubuntu MATE

Re: [PLUG] Universal Personal Code

2020-05-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
This is EU wide since at least 2014/2015. I remember getting it issued by the post office a long time ago, probably around 2010 or sooner. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/trust-services-and-eid It allows notary quality document, encryption, transmittal, signing and personal

Re: [PLUG] KDE: silence noise when application closed

2020-05-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Find out the appropriate KDE settings module by: kcmshell4 --list Launch the appropriate settings: Example: kcmshell4 module kcmnotify Tomas On Mon, May 18, 2020, 18:14 Ben Koenig wrote: > If you are using xfce, but launch a kde application then it will load all > of the kde subsystems

Re: [PLUG] KDE: silence noise when application closed

2020-05-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Submerging noisy audio apparatus in liquid or liquid concrete also does the trick. -T On Mon, May 18, 2020, 21:33 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 5/18/20 8:39 PM, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > Brute force find out what audio file is being played, and replace it > > with one that plays "silence"? >

Re: [PLUG] cat 5E patch cable

2020-03-22 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I literally stumbled on internally broken wire - 13mm (1/2" for readers in Zimbabwe) from the cable end. Somehow it connected when clamping the ends together to measure them. Thankfully, there was enough difference when measuring wire pair capacitance from the broken end. The wire strand got cut

Re: [PLUG] OT -- Chromebook will/will not print

2020-03-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Could this be caused by a localle or location setup on the Chromebook? I do not have Chromebook, but can imagine someone deciding that English or time zone selects all sorts of things, including metric paper size. If this theory is valid US-english and/or US timezone could make the difference.

Re: [PLUG] OT -- Chromebook will/will not print

2020-03-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On my linux's it is under http://localhost:631/ -T On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 15:40 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Cups have config for things like default paper size, trays, duplex. > > Perhaps it is even service, like in Linux, you could connect to with > browser on the Chromebook and change w

Re: [PLUG] OT -- Chromebook will/will not print

2020-03-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Cups have config for things like default paper size, trays, duplex. Perhaps it is even service, like in Linux, you could connect to with browser on the Chromebook and change what you need. Tomas On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 14:15 Chuck Hast wrote: > When I look at the Locale data is is all US... I

Re: [PLUG] GUI sudo prompt

2020-09-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Point taken - I am lazy on isolated machines when mounting attack by su on the localhost myself. I appreciate the 109% valid comment, stil it feels little bit like in primary school - not offering solution - letting me to come back and write one. So - For better safety, if needed to use xhost.

Re: [PLUG] Stress-testing a hard disk (2)

2020-09-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If the disk is SMR (it probably is), then it will have 100GB-200GB CMR write cache. When you write, that is where the data goes. Later, the disk moves it to the SMR part. So, each write is followed by the disk FW activity/clean up. If you write more data than the cache size, without given the

Re: [PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

2020-08-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
rver goo > > Did not think that would matter for a server that has no > > graphics but I guess there is always the possibility that > > someone would install it, so I guess that is why it is left > > that way? > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tomas Kuchta

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

2020-09-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
OPB reports a lot of smoke at least through the weekend. Temperature in 80s. Looking through the window and checking the thermometer - check! Remind me, through the mailing list to post update on Saturday or Sunday. You are welcome, Tomas On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 18:54 Chuck Hast wrote: > OK,

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

2020-09-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try external html2txt. -T On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 09:01 Rich Shepard wrote: > My web search found many hits on exporting emacs buffers to html but not > how > to remove all tags in one fell swoop. > > I tried using regex search-and-replace (ctrl-shift-alt-%) but that > highlighted everything and

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: remove html tags

2020-09-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Typo on my side - it is called html2text On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 09:12 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Try external html2txt. > > Tomas, > > Sigh. I didn't think to look for an external to

Re: [PLUG] Recording non-downloadable videos

2020-09-14 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try if you could play the URL with mplayer or mpv. If you can play it, then you can use it to dump the stream then convert it to mkv/mp4 with HandBrake.. Tomas On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 11:16 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Randy Stapilus wrote: > > > For some years I've used one called

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

2020-09-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You know what, I have spent considerable amount time to disable all these, essentially, tracking applications. There is one, so essential to tracking, on Android home screen, that there is no way to disable it. So, one obvious solution is to just pick up your smart phone and look at it to see

Re: [PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

2020-08-31 Thread Tomas Kuchta
There is no tty7 because that is reserved for graphics/X/Wayland terminal. So, tty6 is typically the last terminal available to user. Tomas On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 10:45 Chuck Hast wrote: > had to move it to tty6 for some reason tty7 did not stick. I think > there must be somewhere that defines

Re: [PLUG] "multiple" grep

2020-10-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Cannot help with reputable battery vendor - there are so many fake sellers of batteries with fake reviews that I gave up. Just the thought of going to google or Amazon for laptop battery makes me dizzy. But - I can recommend Recoll for desktop search - it is the greatest thing since the invention

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