Subj : Re: Remmina RDP To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Mon May 20 2024 14:21:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > > Oops! That's what I get for not being overly familiar with the stuff! > KM> I have become painfully familiar. > > That was also part of your job. Same as back in the olden days when I > was selling computers and they were still more of a novelty I resisted > using some utilities even though they were clearly better than what > Windows was providing: I was sort of providing customer support and > figured I'd better be intimately familiar with what the customer's > system had. Tho my clients were all Windows... > > KM> Whine whine whine! > > It's 1700 somewhere! > KM> > > (Hmm: did Ky slide over to the year or did he miss the 24-hour version > of 5 o'clock somewhere?) You need to be specific, otherwise I take the one that's a better fashion statement. > KM> Generally if I'm using linux I'm using linux, and I expect things > KM> to behave like linux. > > The problem I'm finding is some utilties only use Windows, and some And there's my problem... > KM> But yeah, there are some things linux still doesn't do well, and > KM> may never do well, or even at all. > > Agree, and while could be an inconvenience not necessarily a bad thing. > Using my thumbdrive repair example, Linux might "never" be able to > repair/recover and now (time - 2024) it may be cheaper and easier to > toss a failed thumbdrive. OTOH if something really important on it > that needs to be recovered then worth the cost to send to a recovery > service. And given it's a flash drive... unless it's purely a filesystem error, AFAIK it's not recoverable. > > KM> Frex, there is NO dedicated RTF editor for linux. I've looked. > KM> No, LibreOffice is not satisfactory (insert rant about clean > KM> formatting code vs printer-defined formatting and how the latter > KM> needs to be stripped out for publication, and also to avoid > KM> random screwups). So... XP in a VM, and my dedicated RTF editor > KM> to the rescue. > > Haven't fiddle but thinking gedit and mousepad. ... I haven't used a > dot-matrix printer in years so zero experience. Only thing I do with > plain text is fiddle with a little coding. Nope. Gedit and the like are plaintext editors. In that realm I like KATE (KDE Another Text Editor, I assume) and it can do all sorts of programmer formatting.... but the one set of tags it DOES NOT DO is RTF. I expect in the Early Daze this was rejection of a standard from Microsoft (there was a lot of that -- if MSFT does it, we won't, or will do the opposite, even if it's the only sane method) but now it's just... not sexy programming, so no one does it. > KM> It's a nuisance, but... better than fighting with WINE. And XP > KM> will always speak to the whole network, which linux never will. > KM> (Does not like random other linux boxen, never mind random > KM> Windows. And cannot be trusted to write files without fragmenting > KM> them all over the place.) > > Could be. (Not disagreeing with you, just insufficient mackground on my > end.) I do agree it does seem odd Linux doesn't have a defregment > option -- hey: good reason to do a fresh install as that puts the files > back together! The claim is that linux doesn't fragment, because it just keeps moving on out to the largest available single block (which of course wastes a LOT of drive space). I beg to differ. The red blocks are a single file, written by linux; the blue blocks are files of similar (rather large) size written by Windows. http://doomgold.com/images/linux/fragmented.jpg The file was damaged beyond use (fortunately not the only copy). But yes, for ages the only way to defragment linux was the same way we did it in the DOS 5 era and before -- copy everything off, format the drive, copy everything back. And that's still really the typical method, if you're using a HDD. (Not so relevant with SSDs.) Or use huge drives and expect to waste about a third of the space. Well, there's this, but apparently it's not very good and there's debate over whether the drive should be mounted or not. And by default it only does one file. https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-filesystem-defrag/ Read also the comments. btrfs filesystem reportedly has its own stability issues.... > I'll admit to having problems 'seeing' other computers around here but > the correction usually was to fix the ssh connection and then Remmina or > TigerVNC would run correctly. Both of those do have some sort of a I think it must be a more general linux thing. Someone I know sent me a tutorial on how to get Mint to behave on a network and it was a lot of bother, so I haven't tried it yet. Need to look on old system for the email.... þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .