On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 15:03 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I've installed these libraries but that is still not sufficient to
> get vlc to play the blurays, I get the same issue I did under windows
> where I had to manually install a config file that libaacs needs,
> which is not installed in linux
On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Is there a way to do a "cp -r" and have it
> exclude certain directories?
Probably by using mind-bending regular expression rules.
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Boi
Samuel Sieb:
>> There are lots of packages that would be nice to have, but someone
>> has to do the work.
Robin Laing:
> So very true.
>
> One reason so many go to Ubuntu. Seems to have everything.
I've looked at Ubuntu, over many years. I've noticed it's full of
Windows breakaways, who don'
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 18:55 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am a bit concerned I am having problems with the list, or the list
> itself is having problems.
I'd noticed that list traffic had been very minimal the last few days.
I had a look at the list archive (see the address in all the list
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 19:28 +0200, Frédéric wrote:
> it seems simpler than that. We tested another mouse and it worked
> much better. So it's probably the wire that has false contact.
Mice do wear out. The cable, the connections, are subject to metal
fatigue. Fluff getting into optical sensors c
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap.
>
> I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with
> poor performance.
I think I'd consider 4 gig of RAM a bare minimum, these days. As
memory size has
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 16:57 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Use GParted to shrink your swap and expand your normal space. You
> should probably not need more than 4 GiB swap.
There is an advantage to having more swap than RAM: If you use a
hibernate feature that works by dumping RAM to swap, havin
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 21:21 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> VCF files I hoped to be able to display in a more readable form
>
> Here is one f them: /home/bobg/Desktop/Dr. MAISENBACHER.vcf
>
> Fedora wants to display them with Evolution but that comes up in
> black text on white in a separate window
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs
> out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not
> paying attention to my power situation.
I would have thought the ideal way for it to operate is
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 07:18 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I would guess that this was attached with a Content-Type header of
> "text/plain", which says that the attachment is plain text. It
> _should_ have been attached as text/vcard, which says that it is a
> contact. I'm surprised that this w
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 10:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> FWIW, I took the entire message and saved it to the file bob.eml and
> then did "Open-->Saved Message". It displays some information inline
> but not all.
>
> The only choice T-Bird gives you is to import the card into the
> address book. Th
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 20:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I really wasn't going to read RFC's tonight But what the heck.
Well, that's one way of getting to sleep.
I used to read NASA articles to do that (my electronics magazine used
to have one each month). They're full of unfamiliar jargon, i
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 08:26 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I am _constantly_ annoyed by _every_ web site with a "contact
> us" page which doesn't have a tiny download-address-as-vcard link.
> Which seems to be every web site. Such a basic convenience.
I'd never really thought of that. My website
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 09:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Ah, I was looking for a plugin that had pgp in its name.
If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the name.
But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well. Maybe gpg,
too.
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Tim:
>> If you do "dnf search all pgp" the search goes beyond just the
>> name. But you'd still want to do a search for gnupg, as well.
>> Maybe gpg, too.
Ed Greshko:
> Well, sadly
>
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf search all pgp | grep geany
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf sear
On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 16:35 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You could add it to your /etc/hosts file like:
> 127.0.0.2 the.bad.domain
This does seem like a roundabout solution to what has to be a common
problem (wanting to blackban specific repos). For whatever reason
people have wanted to do that,
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:18 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its
> own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've
> copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as
> /var on reboot by creating a
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 19:03 +0200, ??ukasz Posadowski wrote:
> Recently I bought and AMD Radeon 570 card and was eager to test built
> in Linux drivers on Fedora 30. While they work, card is behaving
> really strange. As soon as it hits around 100% GPU usage, even for a
> brief moment (which is exa
On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 11:28 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Yes, /etc/exports is what I have been using. You suggested it should
> be subordinate to something, /home or /home/bobg perhaps. I can't
> find that.
Your exports file is missing the filepath(s) you want to export. You
list the directories t
On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 15:17 +, Fast OS wrote:
> I think needs a clear step by step documentation to enable and
> install third party repo / apps. I didn???t figure out how to do it in
> GS.
You'll have to get it from Google:
https://www.google.com/chrome/
Click the download button, choose the
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 21:07 +, Fast OS wrote:
> I'm talking about gnome software + third party repositories.
It shouldn't really matter what front end you use. If it, gnome-
software, uses yum or dnf behind the scenes, or it uses something else
which uses yum or dnf, then having the google-ch
On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 08:53 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Since I have >7 Fedora installations I setup a squid proxy server
> specifically for the purpose of reducing my download data since many
> of the same packages are going to get downloaded over and over again.
>
> I seem to be getting some hi
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Hint: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Joe Zeff:
> I took a look using my main email address. I wasn't surprised at all
> to find that it's in several data breaches containing millions of
> email addresses. However, unless there's any evidence that anybody's
> using it, I s
On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 13:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> The bigger problem is that most mirrors default to using https which
> you can't cache with a proxy.
Pick a mirror that doesn't use HTTPS.
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On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 23:58 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> If Windows read Ext4, I'd convert all my flash drives over to it.
Apparently it can be done.
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Hi,
Ed Greshko:
>> Have you put an "exclude" in the dnf config?
the anonymous home user:
> "dnf config"?
> Where is that?
When unsure, you can use the locate command to find likely suspects
(e.g. "dnf" named things) in the usual places for configuration files
(i.e. inside /etc).
locate dnf|gr
On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 03:01 +, None via users wrote:
> We can see
>
> %%Creator: MetaPost
> %%CreationDate: 2019.09.07:0852
> But can we see it the document itself when viewed by gv? Or by
> okular/evince?
Try opening it those program, and see what it shows you in their file
properties.
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On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 22:57 +, sixpack13 wrote:
> ..., but it was a F30 Question *too* !
>
> btw:
> I get somewhat "nervous" about your "don't do this and that on this
> and that list(s)"-shit !
Really, it was a F31 question (since it's about installing F31
packages, and specifically F31 be
On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 12:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> But it actually doesn't do anything. All the old files are still on
> the SD card.
Are you absolutely sure the SD card was /dev/sdb1?
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On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 06:13 +0200, Fr??d??ric wrote:
> My SSD hard drive was corrupted. I bought a new one
> and reinstalled Fedora 30 on it.
Check that the drive actually is faulty before discarding it.
Filesystem corruptions can happen without it being the drive's fault.
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Below I've just pasted a bit of an email:
> On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 06:13 +0200, Fr??d??ric wrote:
It's from my reply to a message. That mangled name is supposed to be
"Frederic" with acute accents above both letter "e"s. It was when I
wrote it, and my mail client *CORRECTLY* sent it as UTF-8, bu
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-)
Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through Yahoo (using
their SMTP servers), and receive from a Yahoo address, international
characters come through unmangled.
I've seen this kind of thing before,
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 9/22/19 10:00 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > So, I would blame yahoo. :-) :-)
> >
> > Ordinarily, I'd agree. But if I post directly through
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 22:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> And it did not.
I noticed the same. On the messages that get corrupted, I've received
them as base64 encoded (they weren't sent that way), though your
messages with Frederic correctly accented was also base64 encodede.
Most other messages co
On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 07:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> For some reason I can't fathom it seems the mailing list software
> turns every Content-Transfer-Encoding to base64
Old fashioned stupidity? Thinking 7-bit email is still necessary?
It should still work as base64, but the encoding is doing i
On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 12:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> It has nothing to do with NetworkManager. If both interfaces are
> active at the same time, NetworkManager will set the ethernet port as
> the default. You can even have both interfaces with the same address
> and everything still works. I
On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 21:22 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Well Control C is one of the first things I try, perhaps I should
> have kept trying longer? When I found no remedy in my notes I was
> beaten and had to reboot.
Sometimes doing something like
killall aplay
A few times will put an end to
On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 12:24 +0300, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> so, anyone any idea what is going on? seriosly, linux cannot do what
> windows can???
On my old laptop there was a dual MMC/SD card reader. The MMC side of
things couldn't be used on Linux, but the SD could.
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Tim:
>> I tried to do that once, with my systems. But my DHCP server won't
>> let me assign the same IP to two different MACs.
Robert G (Doc) Savage:
> Use static IP addressing for both interfaces. Your DHCP server won't
> care.
I had the laptop always on DHCP so it can work anywhere without me
Tim:
>> I tried to do that once, with my systems. But my DHCP server won't
>> let me assign the same IP to two different MACs.
Samuel Sieb:
> I use the standard dhcp server included with Fedora. You can create
> two entries with different identifiers and different macs but with
> the same IP and
On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 19:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> No, that would only kill the aplay and then the shell script would
> immediately start it again.
Of course, I was forgetting it was in the middle of a script. I was
thinking of a command going nuts.
Surely just closing the terminal window
On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 15:55 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> If the CMOS battery is going bad, there will be a lot more problems
> than just losing the settings of one drive! If none of the other
> settings are giving trouble, it's not the battery.
I do wonder about that. How many BIOS settings are igno
Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> This has been solved by
>>
>> rpm -e perl-PDL-LAPACK-0.12-1-1.fc30.x86_64
Michael Schwendt:
> The good old "rpm -e perl-PDL-LAPACK" would have been enough for the
> most common use case.
Don't you have to do up to the first dot?
i.e. rpm -q perl-PDL-LAPACK-0
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On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 00:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Please remember to quote context when replying on HyperKitty,
> otherwise your message cannot be understood without firing up a web
> browser.
Or a threading email client...
While I prefer proper quoting, I'd rather have none than th
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 17:28 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Every so often, once every two weeks or so for no apparent
> reason or program, my computer slows down to about 1/5 speed.
CPU overheating?
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On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 10:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement,
> 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer.
>
> I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide
> clock, ticking away.
And on the flipside,
Bob Goodwin:
>> Also what file system should I use from the selection offered by
>> gparted? Today I tried "vfat32". Later changed that to "vfat"
>> with mkfs, but I'm never sure what I should use.
Samuel Sieb:
> FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem.
Don't you still get file size limits with
On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 12:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> That sounds like a likely cause right there. Why are you doing that?
Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Then stop doing that.
But I want to.
Then you'll have to learn put up with the pain.
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On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 16:13 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> How is it that "a picture is worth a thousand words" yet current
> GUI's hide important details. For years we had folders that all
> looked the same even when they reside on very different
> filesystems. Why do icons for disks oft
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 00:13 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> My light night is not set properly.
> i.e., the sunset/sunrise is wrong while the machine has the correct
> time.
>
> I guess that there is a geolocalisation missing.
Did you set your timezone?
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On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 11:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Many years ago I used to always login as root because it was
> "easier". But then I realized it was unnecessary, somewhat
> hazardous, and tended to cause weird issues if I wasn't careful or
> even if I was.
When I first explored Linux, I di
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 11:40 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> If you think the layout is problematic, I'd suggest discussing it on
> the Evo mailing list and eventually filing an RFE.
>
> The icons are determined by the current style dictated by Gnome, not
> by Evolution itself. The same applies
On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 23:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> There is also one other thing I don't understand. If I run dolphin,
> under the Remote Section in the left hand panel it shows the entry
> /mnt/HD/HD_a2:/mnt/nfs on 192.168.1.12 which matches the fstab entry,
> and when I click on that entr
On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 21:25 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> However, I'm told that there's so much static from my mic that the
> host mutes me before I can even say one, single word.
Try recording yourself to a file (e.g. use Audacity). Does it sound
clear? If not, check your mike gain isn't wound up e
On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 00:50 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> This isn't a new laptop; it's at least ten years old. The cheap
> Walmart headphones has a single cord that ends in a jack. That goes
> into a Y connector that lets you plug into both the headphone and the
> mic. It's not important, as I'm not
On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 05:00 -0400, bruce wrote:
> I've got a topic that's way off topic. It's dealing with
> apache/vhost.
> I'm screwing something up. Wondered if I can post it here.
You may as well ask about the problem, then you'll know if people can
help. I use virtual hosting on Apache, I've
On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 09:54 -0400, bruce wrote:
> The TLDR; -- Trying to set up the vhost block to be able to access a
> test site built on an app called "open social" from/basedon Drupal.
> The app is https://github.com/goalgorilla/open_social
Okay, I don't do drupal (or other content management
On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 14:00 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is only used for legacy non-uefi boots which
> also require grub2-install to be used to write the grub menus to the
> legacy mbr. Uefi doesn't require the mbr updates.
I didn't think menus were written to MBR, just the
On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 19:15 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> These regular more or less long threads on "grub.cfg" should be the
> signal that Fedora's setting up grub incorrectly on EFI and should
> adopt the Ubuntu setup with two config files:
>
> 1) /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg : generated by grub2-insta
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 17:56 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> My system disk is a Samsung EVO SSD (2TB) and I'm unaware of any
> problems with it. Smartcontrol shows no errors.
Likewise. And I just bought a new 500 gig Samsung Evo 860 to install
in a server.
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On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 13:50 +0200, Michael J. Baars wrote:
> Since it's awfully quiet on the initscripts-devel mailing list.
There doesn't seem to be a question in your email.
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Tim:
>> And I just bought a new 500 gig Samsung Evo 860 to install
>> in a server.
George N. White III:
> Reports of problems using AMD hardware:
> https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Computers-IT/860-EVO-250GB-causing-freezes-on-AMD-system/td-p/575813
>
> > 00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced M
Tim:
>> There doesn't seem to be a question in your email.
Ed Greshko:
> You have to open the attachments to learn what is the issue.
I did, before I wrote that. There still isn't a question, just some
submitted log files. He doesn't ask anything about them. I don't know
if this is some kind
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 16:08 +0200, Michael J. Baars wrote:
> For me, it's not the first time that a server fails to start
> with the configuration files that come with Fedora.
I couldn't tell THAT from your post, you should have said so and not
turned it into a guessing game. It's no wonder some
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 00:40 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I've installed Audacity on my laptop and tried to make a recording.
> I've got the internal mike set at the default setting, and when I
> test it in the Settings of Zoom, it looks like it's working, but I
> can't get any response from Audacity
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 08:57 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> The fetchmail job runs every minute. Does this happen when the
> previous fetchmail cron job hasn't finished yet?
As a simple test, try longer than 1 minute between fetchmail runs.
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On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 15:50 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> That brought up the green bars, and Recording actually worked.
> Consider this thread Solved and Closed!
But you didn't tell us how good/bad it sounded. Enquiring minds want
to know.
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On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 22:19 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> It sounded just fine. However, when I hooked up to Zoom to attend
> my weekly meeting, everybody complained about the static to the point
> that I was forced to leave because it's impossible for me to
> participate. At this point, I'm sure that
Hi,
On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system
(e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap
over, and it'd just work.
Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply?
And do secure boot options throw any spanners in the works, too?
I tried
On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 10:28 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Surely if you're moving to a larger disk, you don't want 'dd', which
> will just clone the exact same partition table and sizes?
I was doing a quick and dirty attempt to get a system running. If it
worked, I would have grown the part
Tim:
>> I tried this last night, and it didn't want to boot. I cloned it
>> using
Qiyu Yan:
> How it didn't want to boot, did you enter the GRUB or just stuck in
> UEFI or something else? I'd guess you stuck at UEFI stage and can't
> enter GRUB.
UEFI gave me its error message about not being a
On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 11:45 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> This proves mainly two things:
>
> 1) I'm an idiot.
>
> 2) Flatpaks are still not a match for native packaged apps. They
> still have a lot of subtle problems which crop up for the novice user
> like me.
I can't see it being your fau
On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 11:08 -0400, bruce wrote:
> I'm looking to copy from sourceDir to targetDir where the entire
> targetDir (parents) doesn't exist. So I'm trying to rsync and create
> the dir path at the same time.
I quick google search for: rsync create parents
produced this:
https://stac
On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 09:47 -0700, PGNet Dev wrote:
> fyi, I find this
>
> https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx
>
>
> to be very useful in removing/modifying the many 'annoying'
> assumptions forced by upstream ...
We'd all be at a lot less risk from malicious websites (or malicious
adve
Samuel Sieb:
>> Are you using some custom css rules to do this? That's entirely at
>> your own risk.
François Patte:
> What is the "risk"?
That they'll redesign the interface, and your custom CSS may need
rewriting to work on the new one. And that /that/ can happen every
time they release a new
On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 16:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> What is this nonsense doing on the list?
In days gone past, retribution would have been coredumps from everyone
who received the spam. Just saying...
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On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 21:33 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Is there a way to cause an insertion event without physically doing
> anything to the dock?
There are USB hubs with power switches on each port.
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On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 19:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I connected a monitor and keyboard and could start it with startx
> and logged in as root, got an xfce desktop and went from there but as
> I said, it has to be as root. It would allow me to create new users
> but they could not do anything .
Tim:
>> There are USB hubs with power switches on each port.
Ed Greshko:
> I think he really wants to do these things without manual
> intervention. :-)
Well it avoids having to unplug and replug. ;-)
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On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 13:01 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> When I return to a locked screen, my usual habit is to press Return
> and then to enter the passphrase. That fails even if unhiding the
> passphrase and verifying that it has been entered correctly. The
> second time I enter the passphras
On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 21:35 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You can either start typing the password right away or press ESC to
> get the shield up and focus the password field.
I'd advise against that (typing passwords straight away), too.
If you can't see what you're typing into, you might not be t
Tim:
>> If you can't see what you're typing into, you might not be typing
>> into what you think you are. It might not be a locked screen, it
>> could simply be a black screen and you're typing your password into
>> something that might steal it.
>>
>> Get the screen up before you start typing pas
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 07:57 -0500, David wrote:
> Today, I downloaded the very latest development version of Chromium
> as an appimage, and tried unsuccessfully to run it.
>
> Is that feasible ?
>
> My understanding is that if the app is marked executable, then you
> just click on run in
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 17:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I didn't want to get specific as it's not a use case for many others
> outside of ham radio. Digital communications with ham radio is done
> with a sound card and the audio is sent to the radio and transmitted
> over the air where it is then
On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 16:37 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> The trailing slash only matters for the source directory.
>
> I think of the trailing slash for "cp" on *BSD (and macOS) and
> "rsync" as meaning "/*"...
Does it matter anywhere? I've always put one on the end of directory
filepaths, just for my
On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 07:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> There should be no reason to connect to a server
> called smb by the GUI as the share is already mounted.
Personally, I wouldn't be naming things that way. You end up using
names where you expect options, that have the same spelling, etc. It
Re: Tim's comment about not naming a server "smb"
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I am open to suggestions, can change to whatever common practice
> might suggest it ought to be ...
Generally speaking, give a device a hostname that's *unique* and useful
for you to know what it is. You could call it fred, s
On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 22:21 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> What I meant was what was wrong with /mnt that made the Fedora devs
> decide to create /media to do the same job?
It's not quite the same job.
/mnt was considered a place where you might mount one thing (such as
temporarily connecting another h
Ed Greshko:
>> I hate to say this, but in your situation and the need to satisfy
>> your Apple using family members it may be worth the extra few $ to
>> invest in a NAS that supports NFS, SMB, and AFP. It may help you
>> avoid headaches and keep everyone happier. :-) :-)
Bob Goodwin:
> Yes I aw
On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 08:36 -0500, SternData wrote:
> According to Thunderbird.net, "Thunderbird version 78.0 is only
> offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade
> from Thunderbird version 68 or earlier."
>
> -- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/release
Tim:
>> Didn't you read the page on link you quoted?
>>
>> "Thunderbird version 78.0 is only offered as direct download from
>> thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 68 or
>> earlier. A future release will provide updates from earlier
>> versions."
SternData:
> Yes, I read
On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 12:19 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> does not work due to Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities
I'm completely unfamiliar with Python. But, has anyone made a 2 to 3
scripting converter?
I would have thought there'd be a need for that. And *it's* the
computer, *it* should do the har
On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 09:18 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I suspect that one reason top posting is strongly discouraged
> is that it correlates strongly with failure to trim.
to which questions.
what's being asked and answered, and which answers apply
order that the words need to be read to qui
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 21:58 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> I recently started using a 4k TV as a monitor. The video is natively
> 4k from the on-board Intel i7.
>
> I noticed that I often get difficult to read text. This is even worse
> when I use reverse video (black bg).
>
> Looking closer I c
Tim:
>> You may want to play with aliasing controls for font rendering.
Eyal Lebedinsky:
> I need to look into this (fonts) but hoped the problem is elsewhere.
>> Perhaps your monitor doesn't have the traditional RGB (red green
>> blue) pixel grouping? It might be in BGR sequence (your photo
>>
On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 11:15 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> However, changing the DPI from the default(96) to 98 makes
> the effect almost unnoticeable. It has no effect on xterm or
> thunderbird.
Some programs (thunderbird, firefox) have their own rendering engines.
Monitors only have one DPI, t
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 13:30 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> It would be great if we had the ability to use a client (like pidgin
> for the case of IM) which would be able to interface with Zoom,
> WebEx, Teams, etc, but perhaps those are designed to not allow this
> to happen.
I seem to remember th
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 11:51 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have a request from the VA to do a video interview rather than the
> usual secure text messages.
>
> "Do you have the ability to do a video appointment (you would need a
> computer with a camera or a tablet or a smartphone)."
Considering
On Sun, 2020-08-02 at 18:41 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Here is a trick I use when I can't tell who is plugged
> into what on the back of a computer:
>
> Networking: blink the Ethernet jack's lights
>
> # ethtool --identify eth1
> # ethtool --identify eno1
> # ethtool --identify eno2
On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 19:48 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>> BTW this is what the pixels look like:
>>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~eyaleb/attachments/20200801/dsc08774-part1.jpg
>>> Looks like BGR left-to-right? Should that matter?
>> It's kind of hard to tell, but looking at the grouping, with
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