Re: hmmmm. drive stopped working momentarily

2025-07-04 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
It's worth noting also, this drive should not hold the only copy of anything. As the old saying goes, "two is one and one is none". Every important file should be in at least two, and preferably three or more, places. Also, data on "consumer grade" external USB flash drives should, generally, be

Re: Any good html programmers available for hire?

2025-06-26 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
If you really want to see great examples of CSS styling, the "CSS Zen Garden" (https://www.csszengarden.com) is a great site where every example is the exact same HTML with different CSS. I learned a ton from those designs back when it was new. A few particularly interesting (to me) examples: Co

Re: What happened to libre office?

2024-08-27 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Minor item: The command for libre office calc is "localc", not "libreoffice-calc" (which might explain why the command isn't found). "man -k office" should list a few other options for you. On 8/27/24 14:39, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: sudo apt install libreoffice-calc [sudo] password for

Re: What happened to libre office?

2024-08-27 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
You may wish to try the following to completely re-install libreoffice (just in case something got out of whack): sudo apt install --reinstall libreoffice On 8/27/24 14:39, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: sudo apt install libreoffice-calc [sudo] password for bmike1: Reading package lists... D

Re: linux based hex editor

2023-12-09 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
I've used hexedit ('apt install hexedit' or 'dnf install hexedit'). It works well and is terminal-based keyboard driven. The keymap takes a little getting used to, but once you've used it a while it works quite well. On 2023-12-08 03:56 PM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Hello, Follow u

Re: SD cards

2022-12-01 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Specifications set minimum requirements, rarely does a specification set an actual maximum limit. In this case, the specification requires that compliant hardware support *at least* the rates specified (within the defined optionality of the specification), but does not bar hardware from supporti

Re: Software Portfolio

2022-11-30 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Some thoughts that may help (in addition to the good advice from Keith, Steve, and David). 1. Working on some open source software in Github is a good place to build a "here is what I have done" portfolio. Github has pretty good public analytics showing all your public commits and pull requests

Re: git can't read file

2022-11-24 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Inline responses. On 2022-11-24 01:28 AM, der.hans wrote: > Am 03. Nov, 2022 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss so: > > moin moin, > > Thanks for the response. I ran out of time before SeaGL to work this > issue. > > Finally able to get back to it. >

Re: git can't read file

2022-11-03 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
First step is remove the git.log file, run git gc, and see if the error returns. The missing file issue can be transient, but can also be a case of file corruption; often due to using a remote filesystem that has synchronization issues (e.g. SMB). If the error returns after removing the log fi

Re: Why "no such file" error ??

2022-10-12 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
I know it seems simple, but have you checked permissions to ensure the user ID running the script has both read and execute permission for the executable, and the extended attribute noexec is not set on the executable? I've seen that error when permissions are not quite as expected, or when ex

Re: Invalid Context= error

2022-09-26 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
I've seen things like this after an upgrade. A couple items seem to be happening. 1) The Hebrew language package is missing a file hunspell expects. Ubuntu installs a stack of languages on every upgrade, even if the original install removed them. If you need Hebrew, you might want to manually

Re: Boot up from cold boot no network

2022-09-23 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
I've discovered a similar issue just yesterday. I hunted it down and found that the cause, for me at least, was in the static NetworkManager configuration. NetworkManager configuration now marks *all* interfaces as unmanaged *except* WiFi and Cellular, basically all non-wireless interfaces are p

Re: Gimp

2022-09-22 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Mike, It looks like what you are trying to do is merge three photos with different exposures into a single photo with greater dynamic range. That's usually described as High Dynamic Range, or HDR, exposure. There are tutorials online for how to do that; a search for ["High Dynamic Range" GIMP

plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org

2022-09-14 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Looks like an attempt to create an alternative to the Linux kernel that is single process and has no users (check their github at https://github.com/nanovms/nanos and related https://github.com/nanovms/ops). There may be some value to that, but things like CoreOS and Project Atomic make that val

Re: Domain Registering and Hosting/Website Funny Business

2022-07-22 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
TL;DR Have your friend contact GoDaddy, ideally by logging into their existing account and contacting support from there, and request they delete all content as you no longer control the site and they no longer have any right to continue serving that content. Most likely, the new owner simply

Re: Should an opensource dev know Linux

2022-04-22 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Call me biased, but, in my opinion, all software engineers (and programmers/coders too) should know, or be learning, *at least* enough about Linux to: edit and build their software at the command line configure and script an automated build (using a common tool like jenkins, Github actions,

Re: Scripting/automation method/language

2022-01-07 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
A lot depends on complexity. A few questions: 1) Is this easier to understand, or harder to understand as Bash 2) Is it more or less work to maintain as Bash versus a more general purpose language 3) What options exist for general purpose languages to accomplish the task Depending on answers to t

Re: krita, acer, samsung

2021-10-12 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Some things to note: The NVMe drive in the Acer will significantly improve startup and disk access, it's about 4-5 times faster than an SSD. The extra RAM in the Samsung, as well as the more capable i7 CPU, will make the general "feel" of the machine smoother and faster while in use. The Samsung

Re: Big Blue Button

2021-08-18 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
I would recommend taking a look at podman[1], runc[2], and/or CRI-O[3]. The docker image format is, more or less, compatible with OCI[4], so any given "docker" image should run under any of the OCI runtimes. [1] https://podman.io/ [2] https://runc.io/ [3] https://cri-o.io/ [4] https://opencontain

Re: Why I hate updates ... Thanks Michael ...

2021-03-13 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Joe, I would recommend running a couple simple cleanups to get some space back for now. Keep in mind this will be a temporary fix; you will run out of space again fairly quickly if you cannot remove some programs or otherwise permanently clear some space on the root partition. Empty the trash

Re: C on Linux or all of Java?

2021-01-10 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
C and C++ are mostly used for shrink-wrap applications and libraries. The Linux Kernel is still C and the Windows Kernel is mostly C++. About 90% of business applications are Java. It's the most widely used language and platform for web-based applications and microservices. The Spring platfor

Re: question about Java

2020-05-05 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
s > great in theory, but every practical application I've seen in use in > enterprise ended up a bloody mess. > > Much like Flash now, it's just a zombie that won't die, but should imho. > > -mb > > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:33 PM Joseph Sinclair via

Re: question about Java

2020-05-04 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Mike, You are running Java 11, which is the current Long Term Support version for Java, and preferred for most uses. If you're running software that isn't horribly outdated and badly designed (and there is some of that) it will run on your install just fine. If the ImageJ2 software is still t

Re: question about Java

2020-05-04 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Sorry, Michael, but this is complete bunk. On 2020-05-04 11:29 AM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Again OpenJDK and OracleJRE are totally different - including version > numbers. If someone says "works with Java 8", they 99.9% of the time mean > OracleJRE and their versions, and theirs

Re: zoom test tonight

2020-04-08 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
Tried to connect, but it will not let me because the meeting is scheduled for tomorrow. On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 17:07 der.hans via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > moin moin, > > we're going to test in zoom tonight, drop in if you'd like to help. > > zoom is requiring either