Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, arne wrote: Did you try: http://your-printers-ip-number/general/status.html yes, it's one of the different methods I tried to get rid of this manual feed, but without success. Anyway, thank you for your help. After fighting a whole day with that damned Brother, I d

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017, at 02:06 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 03:39:58AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Doug wrote: > > > > > I do not disparage the hard work some devs > > > have put into Linux CAD routines, but I don't

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I use . I see an "Add Printer" and a "Manage Printers" button. I can click "Manage Printers" and select the printer. I can select "Administration" / "Modify Printer" in the dropdown menu As I said, I used either th

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 03:16:08AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: [...] > I would think precisely the opposite. Gaining control over the software > you use will prove really useful only when you are planning to use it > for a long time. The question i

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

t wrote: > For those of us around a little longer, > perhaps you remember that time when GNU/Linux > started to get some traction. At that time, > Microsoft used to say that well, an OS wasn't > that hard, but for something really complex > like a web browser... the free software > couldn't really

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:33:18AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > t wrote: > > > For those of us around a little longer, > > perhaps you remember that time when GNU/Linux > > started to get some traction. At that time, > > Microsoft used to say that wel

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

t wrote: > Yeah. But generally, whatever Professional > (TM). Here, does "professional" denote some quality with the software or is it about who uses it and how? Because when I chop firewood, I do it with the most expansive axe in the hardware store. While this doesn't make me a professional, if

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

t wrote: >> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figures/pic/llc > > :-) > > Now write an Elisp-to-pic compiler > > (seq (circle :radius 0.5 :label "best effort > core") (arrow :size 0.2) ...) This is something I wanted for years. But it has to be real-time so the moment you evaluate (plot-pixel 0 0 "

"Professional" [was: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:00:27AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > t wrote: > > > Yeah. But generally, whatever Professional > > (TM). > > Here, does "professional" denote some quality > with the software or is it about who uses it > and how? Neither n

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On qui, 23 nov 2017, Emanuel Berg wrote: Is there a piece of software that works like gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed the program a script with instructions and data and then the program generates the drawing? That would be simpler and more to the point as I'm not designing anything, I'm just

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:16:52AM +, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: [...] > Asymptote, perhaps? > > If you're willing to add a little Latex around your drawing, the Tikz package. TikZ and PGF are absolutely awesome (package is texlive-pictures, B

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On sex, 24 nov 2017, tomas wrote: TikZ and PGF are absolutely awesome (package is texlive-pictures, BTW.). But quite a different kettle of fish: not a CAD program by a long shot. Definitely, but they do fit his new request: Is there a piece of software that works like gnuplot or pic/troff

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> TikZ and PGF are absolutely awesome (package >> is texlive-pictures, BTW.). But quite >> a different kettle of fish: not a CAD >> program by a long shot. > > Definitely, but they do fit his new request: > > Is there a piece of software that works > like gnuplot o

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On Friday 24 November 2017 03:00:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, arne wrote: > > Did you try: > > http://your-printers-ip-number/general/status.html > >yes, it's one of the different methods I tried to get rid of >this manual feed, but without success. >Anyway, thank y

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: Did you even try brothers own drivers for that printer? I am sitting here looking at two brother printers, one a $110 b&w laser, the other a color inkjet/scanner MFJ-6920 that can do 11x17 both print and autofeed scan. Using brothers own drivers, they Jus

Thinkpadt60p/Stretch 9.2 Start up error

Hello Off my latest boots i've found the following errors, googling shows variations of https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/01/msg00361.html for xen based systems & some redhat ones from the recent 6 months. Any ideas what module/hardware is throwing the error? [ cut

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

On 11/24, Jaime T wrote: Hi all. I'm running stable (stretch)/xfce on an hp/compaq nx6110 laptop, and when the screen blanks, I can't get it to wake up again (nothing appears on the screen when I press the keys on the keyboard and move the mouse). The closest debian bug report that I've seen is

Wild cursor, was Re: OT plain text missing from web mail

> Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-22 19:09 (UTC-0500): > ... > > 4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch > > pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and > > suddenly > > it gets a wild hair and relocates the cursor to somewhere else. A

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On sex, 24 nov 2017, Emanuel Berg wrote: If we are talking LaTeX now, does anyone have a "MWE" as they like to say? It absolutely doesn't have to be CAD by any standard other than the ability to draw simple geometrical objects and have them denoted with labels. There are several here: http://w

firefox cannot download after jessie->stretch

firefox/iceweasel has worked just fine for years I just upgraded my home jessie machine to stretch. That went very smoothly, so far only one exception. I can no longer download anything with this browser. I've reinstalled, cleared out my profile, run in 'safe' mode (no add-ons such as no-scrip

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

Emanuel Berg wrote: >> Is there a piece of software that works >> like gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed >> the program a script with instructions and data >> and then the program generates the drawing? >> You might look at the Graphics Layout Engine available under debian stretch

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On 2017-11-25 02:51, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Emanuel Berg wrote: > >>> Is there a piece of software that works >>> like gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed >>> the program a script with instructions and data >>> and then the program generates the drawing? >>> > >You might look at the Grap

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight is fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't tried it yet. --John On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:15 AM dekks herton wrote: > On 11/24, Jaime T wrote: > >Hi all. > > > >I'm running stable (stretch)/xf

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

On 11/24/17, John Cunningham wrote: > FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight > is fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't > tried it yet. > > --John > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:15 AM dekks herton wrote: > >> On 11/24, Jaime T wrote

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On 24/11/17 21:20, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I use . I see an "Add Printer" and a "Manage Printers" button. I can click "Manage Printers" and select the printer. I can select "Administration" / "Modify Printer" in the dro

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Not under "Generic"? I see my driver mentions "foomatic". I have installed: foomatic-db-compressed-ppds thank you for this information, but this thread is now obsolete for me, as I returned the Brother to the seller, and can't then do any furth

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On 11/24/2017 09:23 AM, Weaver wrote: On 2017-11-25 02:51, Cousin Stanley wrote: Emanuel Berg wrote: Is there a piece of software that works like gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed the program a script with instructions and data and then the program generates the drawing? You might

NFS client and untrusted server

All, I want to backup a DMZ-server to an internal backup server. Is it reasonable to setup an NFS-server in the DMZ and mount it from the inside server using the read-only, noexec and nosuid options? Could an attacker gain access to the internal server this way? Does anyone use such a setup? in

Re: firefox cannot download after jessie->stretch

On 11/24, Frank Miles wrote: firefox/iceweasel has worked just fine for years I just upgraded my home jessie machine to stretch. That went very smoothly, so far only one exception. I can no longer download anything with this browser. I've reinstalled, cleared out my profile, run in 'safe' mod

Re: NFS client and untrusted server

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:28:27PM +0100, Chris wrote: > All, > > I want to backup a DMZ-server to an internal backup server. > > Is it reasonable to setup an NFS-server in the DMZ and mount it from > the inside server using the read-only, noexec and nosuid options? Could > an attacker gain acces

Re: NFS client and untrusted server

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:44:56 -0500 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > NFS is a very old protocol that very likely has as yet undiscovered > vulnerabilities. I would expect that the likelihood of there being > even a theoretical vulnerability that would allow a malicous user on > the server to gain acces