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Installs;
by Ted Pomeroy 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

NMGLugers, is anyone wanting an Asus EEE? Atom processor, 1 Gb ram, 160 Gb hdd (wiped). Can take 32 bit OS. It is from 2010, has signs of wear, but it works. Might be good to practice install technique. Runs slow compared to newer hardware. Thanks, Ted P.

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I still need help with installing a video editor
by LeRoy Diener 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Hi NMGLUG folks, I've been trying to find or install a basic video editor. History: leopoldo suggested Kdenlive. I was unable to install it from the repository. leopolodo sent me a link. Now: I'm following instructions on https://launchpad.net/~kdenlive/+archive/ubuntu/kdenlive-stable I pasted into my CLI sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable and got this error gpg: keybox '/tmp/tmpg5sipbtx/pubring.gpg' created gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/tmp/tmpg5sipbtx/S.dirmngr' failed: No such file or directory gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr Any ideas? LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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Help, please, with installing from repository
by LeRoy Diener 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi NMGLUG folks, I could use some help with installing programs from the repository. Ideally, I'd like to learn how to do this from the CLI. It would be good to be able to do it also from the GUI "Software". In this GUI, I found, for example, Kdenlive and Openshot. I looked for Avidemux, but did not find it. For Kdenlive and Openshot, when I clicked on "Install", I got a box saying that debian-oldstable-main needed to be enabled. I clicked OK. I was prompted for my password. I entered it. Then I got a box saying E: Could not find the repository. Any ideas? LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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Basic video editing, which software?
by LeRoy Diener 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

Hi NMGLUG folks, I need to do some basic video editing. Which software would you recommend? Here are the types of tasks I want to do. - Record a voice-over soundtrack to replace original sound from a video which I've recorded on my phone (or other) after I transfer the video to my laptop. - Combine two separate videos side-by-side, like split screen (without sound). - Maybe cut out a segment at the beginning or end or middle of video. - Maybe eliminate some of the edges of the screen. - Maybe splice two videos to add an intro or outro. - Maybe superimpose text or other doodles. Other details: File format will probably be mp4, unless someone has a better suggestion. I'll want to upload the videos to youtube. Can I do this editing in youtube? Is this advisable? Any suggestions for alternatives? I already have a few video playback programs on my Debian laptop. It's possible that one of these will be the best option. I can easily download a different program, too. I will need to learn how to use whatever program is best. Thanks for your help. LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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To swap or not to swap;
by Ted Pomeroy 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

NMGLugers, I have been helping with a new install on a laptop with an SSD replacing the dynamic hard drive. I am wondering what the best practice is on the swap space. I have heard that the SSD has a limited, if large, number of re-writes in its lifetime. Like a usb thumbdrive it can wear out. So, if a computer is heavily used would it make sense to add 'noswap' to the Grub default file? This would eliminate the many re-writes to swap and preserve the SSD for a longer life. Is this reasonable? Thank you, Ted P.

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[ABQLUG] November meetup will be on 11/05/2019
by ABQLUG 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Fellow NMGLUGers, ABQLUG will have it's November meetup on November 5th at 6:00 pm. All is welcome to come, ask questions, and bring some hardware to hack on. If you are interested in attending, please visit this link: https://www.abqlug.com/attendee/ I didn't get enough time to create any topic, so if you have any issues with your Linux machine, now would be a good time to show up. Or if you know someone that wants help converting over to Linux, invite them! I can give advice on switching workflows under Linux as well. If there is something thing that is challenging to do under Linux, feel free to ask me now, or at the meetup. Hope to see some Burqueños at the next meetup! ~ Jared [PS] If you know anyone that wants to try out Linux, but is skeptical about running it on their only machine. I have acquired some older laptops and desktops that might be handy for someone to try out Linux on a second machine. Most of these machines don't have hard drives, one might want to consider getting a SSD. They could be setup at the meetup, if they can find homes. Most of these machine are pretty bottom of the barrel. But at least better than not having a second machine...

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Compatibility from MS Word 2007 to LibreOffice Writer
by LeRoy Diener 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Hi NMGLUG folks, How can a file from MS Word 2007 retain formatting while editing in LibreOffice Writer? DETAILS I have a .docx file which is a short book which I wrote in MS Word 2007. Most of the doc is in a 2-column layout. I have a Table of Contents, which uses the "Styles" feature. I opened the file in LibreOffice Writer and saved as .odt. Now, when I update the Table of Contents, I lose some formatting, and it's all a mess. Any ideas? I'm using LibreOffice 5.2.7.2 I found this article https://office-watch.com/2017/libreoffice-5-4-ms-office-document-compatibil… Thoughts? (By the way, I want to express my gratitude to everyone who contributes to help novices like me.) -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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user agent
by Brian O'Keefe 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

Thanks Mars. I tried it and it failed. > $ curl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; > rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0" https://www.liveauctioneers.com > curl: (35) error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 > alert protocol version > My wife can get to the "classic" liveauctioneers page but if she clicks sign in or sign up the next page is the 403 error. I tried changing the domain name as there is a "classic" site that I can access and so can she until she tries signing in. Tried several variants and most worked in a terminal but none of the commands opened a web page. Sorry for sending all of this output. Thanks and here goes. Now it's just an experiment as the MB Air is going to Dotfoil (wife is fed up). There are many thousands of lines of code beyond this but I wanted to show that at least in a terminal the site was reached. $ curl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0"https://classic.liveauctioneers.com <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN""http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"> <head> <title>Bid in Online Auctions - Live Auctioneers</title> <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://classic.liveauctioneers.com"> <link rel="next" href="https://classic.liveauctioneers.com/browse/page2"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.liveauctioneers.com"> <meta name="description" content="Get in on the auction -- bid LIVE online on art, antiques, jewelry and collectibles. Find online auctions from around the world at Live Auctioneers." /> <meta name="google-site-verification" content="cV8cXXQi_UWIpJ6vc9a0DhF4AJD4HElapx9KBROkGCk" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/live_styles/v2171852186/live_styles.css" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://classic.liveauctioneers.com/live_design/images/favicon.png"> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:700,300,400&subset=latin,…" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/v2171852186/la.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/v2171852186/facebox/facebox.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/jquery.placeholder.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/scripts.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/v2171852186/lib/pv2/lib.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/v2171852186/lib/pv2/main.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://snapabug.appspot.com/snapabug.js" async></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/lib/jquery.dotdotdot.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> DEFAULT_HOST = 'classic.liveauctioneers.com'; DEFAULT_PROTOCOL = 'https'; DEFAULT_SSL_PROTOCOL = 'https'; RESOURCE_HOST = 'classic.liveauctioneers.com'; RESOURCE_PROTOCOL = 'https://'; if( typeof bidderID == 'undefined' ){ var bidderID = null; } dataLayer = []; GTM_userInfo = []; function loadAuctionDate(date){ var hVal=''; var cVal = ''; var hId = document.getElementById('auctHouseId') == null ? 'None' : document.getElementById('auctHouseId').value; var cId = document.getElementById('auctCId') == null ? 'None' : document.getElementById('auctCId').value; if(hId!='None'){ hVal='/seller/'+hId }else{ if(cId!='None') cVal = '/auctions-in-'+cId } if( date == 'All' ){ newurl = '/browse'+hVal+cVal; querydata = getQueryData(document.location.href); if (querydata['view'] == 'list') { newurl = appendQueryPair(newurl, 'view', 'list'); } window.location = newurl; return true; } var dashorslash = ( hVal=='' && cVal == '' ) ? '/' : '-'; newurl = '/browse'+hVal+cVal+dashorslash+date; querydata = getQueryData(document.location.href); if (querydata['view'] == 'list') { newurl = appendQueryPair(newurl, 'view', 'list'); } goToUrl(newurl); } </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/jquery.vticker.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/slickcustomscroll.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/live_scripts/v2171852186/jquery.jcarousel.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function initTicker(){ var $scroller = $("#scroller"); $scroller.vTicker('init', {height: 40, showItems: 1}); $(".next").click(function(event){ event.preventDefault(); $scroller.vTicker('next', {animate:true}); }); } $(function(){ setTimeout(initTicker,1000); }); </script> <meta property="fb:app_id" content="143214215739939"/> <script> function loadAuction(){ var hId = document.getElementById('auctHouseId').value; var cId = document.getElementById('auctCId').value; var date = document.getElementById('dateSelect').innerHTML; var da = date.split('-'); var dVal='/dateSel'+da[2]+'-'+da[1]+'-'+da[0]; var hVal=''; var cVal = ''; var firstDate = document.getElementById('firstDate').innerHTML; var fDate = firstDate.split('-'); var fVal='/fDate'+fDate[2]+'-'+fDate[1]+'-'+fDate[0]; if(hId!='None') hVal='/hId'+hId if(cId!='None') cVal = '/cId-'+cId window.location='/browse'+hVal+cVal+dVal+fVal; } function highlight_current(obj, li, index, state){ if(index<0 || index>(0+6) || 0){ $('#highlight_sel, #highlight_sel_dragger').css('display', 'none'); } else { highlight(0) var delay = ( state=='init' ) ? 0 : 400; setTimeout(function(){$('#highlight_sel, #highlight_sel_dragger').css('display', 'block');}, delay); } } function highlight(sel_date){ var no_days = 7; var mod=sel_date%no_days; var xpos = 0; switch (mod) { case 0: xpos= -10; break; case 1: xpos= 60; break; case 2: xpos= 125; break; case 3: xpos= 190; break; case 4: xpos= 255; break; case 5: xpos= 320; break; case 6: xpos= 385; break; } document.getElementById('highlight_sel').style.left= xpos + 'px'; document.getElementById('highlight_sel_dragger').style.left= xpos + 'px'; } function loadHouseAuctions(){ var hId = document.getElementById('auctHouseId').value; switch (hId) { case 'showall': case 'None': case 'none': newurl = '/'; break; default: newurl = '/browse/seller/'+hId; } querydata = getQueryData(document.location.href); if (querydata['view'] == 'list') { newurl = appendQueryPair(newurl, 'view', 'list'); } goToUrl(newurl); } function loadCountryAuctions(){ var cId = document.getElementById('auctCId').value; switch (cId) { case 'showall': case 'None': case 'none': newurl = '/'; break; default: newurl = '/browse/auctions-in-'+cId; } querydata = getQueryData(document.location.href); if (querydata['view'] == 'list') { newurl = appendQueryPair(newurl, 'view', 'list'); } goToUrl(newurl); } function prevNextDate(val){ var firstDate = document.getElementById('firstDate').innerHTML; var fDate = firstDate.split('-'); var hVal=''; var cVal = ''; var hId = document.getElementById('auctHouseId').value; var cId = document.getElementById('auctCId').value; if(hId!='None') hVal='/hId'+hId if(cId!='None') cVal = '/cId-'+cId window.location='/browse/fDate'+fDate[2]+'-'+fDate[1]+'-'+fDate[0]+hVal+cVal+'/'+val; } function pageNavigate(pageNum,archiveflg){ var date = document.getElementById('dateSelect').innerHTML; var hId = document.getElementById('auctHouseId').value; var cId = document.getElementById('auctCId').value; var da = date.split('-'); var hVal=''; var cVal = ''; if(hId!='None') hVal='/hId'+hId if(cId!='None') cVal = '/cId-'+cId var dVal='/'+date; if(archiveflg == 0){ window.location='/browse/page'+pageNum+hVal+cVal; }else if (archiveflg == 1){ window.location='/browse/page'+pageNum+hVal+cVal+dVal; } } function initJcarousel(){ try{ if( 1 ) $('#highlight_sel').css('display', 'block'); $('#mycarousel').css('display', 'block'); jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel({ start: 0, itemVisibleInCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: highlight_current } }); }catch(e){} } jQuery(document).ready(function() { initJcarousel(); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ jQuery(document).ready(function($) { if (window.location.hash == '#signup-1' || window.location.hash == '#setup') window.location.hash = ''; if( location.search.indexOf('openlogin=1') > -1 ) { $('#loginid').trigger('click'); } /*if ($('.placeholder').length > 0) { $('.placeholder').css('color', '#009ddb'); }*/ if (1 == 2) { window.location.hash = 'setup'; jQuery.facebox({ ajax: '//classic.liveauctioneers.com/sign-up/?url=/&signup_step=1' });

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Mac air
by Brian O'Keefe 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

Hello all, My wife has a 7 year old macbook air. She does all her business on it which is using Firefox for research purposes, email and report writing with LibreOffice. Recently she is getting a 403 Forbidden error for a specific website, liveauctioneers.com. Live auctioneers has suggested a cache or cookie issue so we cleared all those out. They suggested another browser so we tried Safari with the same error. I have searched the forums and nothing there is helpful, at least on my level. Can anyone figure why a specific website and only that website does not play well with the Mac Air? I have reset the router, as suggested by liveauctioneers. So there is something configured in the laptop that is pervasive. I just don't know what to fix. The one website with detailed instructions was specific to wordpress but on the laptop, not in a browser. Can anyone help? Many thanks Brian --

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Twitter blocking access
by a 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

Hi This morning morning when attempting to access various web sites "Twitter" would intervene and prevent access with offers to join. With some shot in the dark "fiddling" in Preferences and a second attempt could access nmglug. Can anyone explain and offer the remedy.Thanks a

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