Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Udyant Wig
The aptitude command line I suggested removed such documentation packages as texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-extra-doc apart from the science, pstricks, and pictures doc packages. The language docs had to be handled specially because of the transiti

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 21:19:33 John Hasler wrote: > Gene H writes: > > Having read some of the extra's for that, its no wonder the bid > > estimates are 400% of what the takeoff guy totals up. > > We had an in-house construction operation for small projects of the > sort I designed. They

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 21:07:34 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Try telling that to a couple school bus-loads of 7nth graders. > > I am struggling to understand what possible, unholy, > agglomeration of powers and principalities might ever induce me > eve

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Gene H writes: > Having read some of the extra's for that, its no wonder the bid > estimates are 400% of what the takeoff guy totals up. We had an in-house construction operation for small projects of the sort I designed. They were mostly pretty good but my biggest problems came from their attemp

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-23 at 16:48, Doug wrote: > On 12/23/2015 01:45 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and >> I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future >> i

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Try telling that to a couple school bus-loads of 7nth graders. I am struggling to understand what possible, unholy, agglomeration of powers and principalities might ever induce me even to get that close to a couple of 'em! I'll take a pass on that if

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 20:33:57 John Hasler wrote: > Bob Bernstein writes: > > And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than poopy > > linux stuff! > > I could bore you to tears in 15 minutes with anecdotes about hospital > wiring design. Having read some of the extra's for

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 20:05:14 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, John Hasler wrote: > > John "Permits? We don't need no stinkin permits." Hasler > > Reminds me of "Don't RTFM! Wing that sucker!" > > Haven't heard/seen that in a long time. > > And I have to say, this electrical s

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 19:25:40 John Hasler wrote: > Gene H writes: > > Here in Wv, jumper cables across the meter socket have been a > > problem, so a broken seal on the meters retaining ring is a felony. > > Its also a felony in several other states I have lived and worked > > in. > > Wel

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 17:57:02 Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/22/2015 06:02 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > Gene Heskett writes: > >> In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave > >> source, and I want to know how much charge is transfered for every > >> full cycle of the input squ

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein writes: > And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than poopy > linux stuff! I could bore you to tears in 15 minutes with anecdotes about hospital wiring design. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Steve Kleene wrote: Thank you very much to all of you who posted or wrote with helpful and useful suggestions. I think a little acknowledgement of the contribution of those of us who can no longer be seduced or cajoled into being "helpful and useful" would be in order.

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicolas George wrote: > Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the >> bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness between the >> MBR and the start of the first partition. >> Also this: Sit back kids, Uncl

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, John Hasler wrote: John "Permits? We don't need no stinkin permits." Hasler Reminds me of "Don't RTFM! Wing that sucker!" Haven't heard/seen that in a long time. And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than poopy linux stuff! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Anders Andersson
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ Hope this helps.

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Gary Roach writes: > And assuming the square wave is symetrical about zero. The steady-state net charge transferred per cycle will be zero regardless of waveform. It's a capacitor. No DC component. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Gene H writes: > Here in Wv, jumper cables across the meter socket have been a problem, > so a broken seal on the meters retaining ring is a felony. Its also a > felony in several other states I have lived and worked in. Well, sure. When I rewired the farm with buried cable and put in the new ser

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/22/2015 06:02 PM, John Hasler wrote: Gene Heskett writes: In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave source, and I want to know how much charge is transfered for every full cycle of the input square wave. Zero assuming linear source and load impedence. And assuming the

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Doug
On 12/23/2015 01:45 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLiv

Re: Re: Recovering from Debian Wheezy RAID-1

2015-12-23 Thread Narūnas
> I don't see Debian doing anything wrong. fdisk showing a 2.3T > partition I am assuming comes on your Arch Linux disk and is a result > of it using the wrong block size. I'm not sure if this is due to the > use of a USB adapter. > > mdadm -E /dev/sdb should fail because /dev/sdb is not a RAID de

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 14:33:39 John Hasler wrote: > Gene H writes: > > The only thing I needed an electrician for was to do the drop seal > > break & disconnect, install a heavier drop to the new meterhead, the > > inspector came... > > Electricians, permits and inspectors eh? I guess whe

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-23 Thread Lee
Yay. Cheers for the info. Sorry I missed the original resolution. On 23/12/15 20:45, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:55:54 +, Lee Fuller wrote: > >> Sorry to drag up this old relic, Steve - did your investigation yield >> anything useful? >> >> Mail is a complicated subject so I'

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-23 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:55:54 +, Lee Fuller wrote: > Sorry to drag up this old relic, Steve - did your investigation yield > anything useful? > > Mail is a complicated subject so I'm keen to hear about the conclusion of > issues like this. > > On 15 December 2015 at 23:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: >

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Gene H writes: > The only thing I needed an electrician for was to do the drop seal > break & disconnect, install a heavier drop to the new meterhead, the > inspector came... Electricians, permits and inspectors eh? I guess when you have oppressive government you just have to live with these thin

Re: wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Have you looked at the circuit simulator software in the Debian archive such as geda, ngspice, gnucap, easyspice, fritzing, and octave-ocs? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 13:22:14 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/23/2015 02:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ahh, but its being fed to a voltage-doubler with schottky diodes ... > > The PSU has a quite high > > capacitance input filter, and without this soft start timed power > > up, needs a

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-23 Thread Lee Fuller
Sorry to drag up this old relic, Steve - did your investigation yield anything useful? Mail is a complicated subject so I'm keen to hear about the conclusion of issues like this. On 15 December 2015 at 23:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 December 2015 19:29:50 Brian wrote: > > Pestering us

Re: wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 13:15:16 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a > > comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. > > It's not in wheezy-backports, and Jessie uses a 3.x version. >

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > So, you want to connect a 120 VAC, 30 A CNC milling machine and a 120 > VAC, unknown current vacuum cleaner to a single 120 V 15 A branch > circuit. No. He wants to power a 16A mill. His problem is high inrush on startup of a DC supply. Soft-start is a reasonable way to solve it

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread David Christensen
On 12/23/2015 02:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Don't have [DC current probe]. Lots of bucks for a good one. ... Do have [digital sampling oscilloscope], 2 channel gigasampler How about using a current shunt, and measuring millivolts? I'll look [up Electric charge on Wikipedia], thanks David.

Re: wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 13:15:16 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a > > comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. > > It's not in wheezy-backports, and Jessie uses a 3.x version. >

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread David Christensen
On 12/23/2015 02:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Ahh, but its being fed to a voltage-doubler with schottky diodes ... The PSU has a quite high capacitance input filter, and without this soft start timed power up, needs a 30 amp breaker in the service in order for the breaker to withstand the power up

Re: wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 01:12:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a > comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. > It's not in wheezy-backports, and Jessie uses a 3.x version. Might be time to build your own. -dsr-

wheezy's bison is too old, need 2.6 before qucs-0.18 will build

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Is it possible to get a later bison than the 2.5 wheezy uses from a comnpatible repo? Qucs needs 2.6. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:27:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > > > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the > >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This fixes error in my previous post. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:27:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > > # To prevent these packages from getting installed later: ... > If that's been changed, or if there's a mechanism which avoids it and > does wo

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and >> I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop futu

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 08:49:34 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Maybe you find something among the software listed here: > > Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Programs - Wikipedia, the free > encyclopedia > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/Progra >ms > > e.g., Qucs

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 06:47:39 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:09:18 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 December 2015 21:02:31 John Hasler wrote: > > > Gene Heskett writes: > > > > In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave > > > > source, and I want to

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Udyant Wig
On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the > entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd > like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of > the same type whenever I Upgrade

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Weber
Yes you can mount the single raid1 disk. Your wheezy system should have recognized your drive as a md device when booted. Run the commend 'cat /proc/mdstat'. It will show you the current md devices and their status. This is what I get after connecting a drive to my system over a usb connection.

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Ron
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:49:36 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Now you might want to try > sudo e2fsck -n /dev/sdi9 Does not like it either: root@ron:/home/ron # e2fsck -n /dev/sdi9 e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backu

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
At the end, if all methods will fail, you could really try testdisk, it's free. You could go for other commercial options too, depending upon the necessity of the data. Regards Himanshu Shekhar

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you find something among the software listed here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Programs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/Programs e.g., Qucs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_Universal_Circuit_Simulator Regards, jvp.

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Ron
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:33:22 +0100 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:49:54AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:11:08 + > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 23 December 2015 10:23:41 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:49:54AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:11:08 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 December 2015 10:23:41 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Ron
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:11:08 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 23 December 2015 10:23:41 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 07:41:00AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array

Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!)

2015-12-23 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 12:39:18 Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:52 AM, David Baron wrote: > > On reboot (to old system or otherwise), the UUID of the target partition > > was CHANGED! > > Unlikely, how do you know? What would change them during a reboot? When I resized

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Joe
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:09:18 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2015 21:02:31 John Hasler wrote: > > > Gene Heskett writes: > > > In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave > > > source, and I want to know how much charge is transfered for every > > > full cy

Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!)

2015-12-23 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:52 AM, David Baron wrote: > On reboot (to old system or otherwise), the UUID of the target partition was > CHANGED! Unlikely, how do you know? What would change them during a reboot? > If the problem was not hidden behind a screenfull of lvm errors, I > would/should ha

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 10:23:41 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 07:41:00AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy > > system. > > > > Is there a way to mount

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 07:41:00AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy > system. > > Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ? > > I have tried to mount

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Felix Miata
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI composed on 2015-12-23 07:41 (UTC-0300): > Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy > system. > Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ? > I have tried to mount it, and get > root@ron:/home/ron # mount -t ext4 /

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 22:33:53 Bob Bernstein wrote: > http://www.wolframalpha.com is fun. Looks like it, thanks Bob. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

2015-12-23 Thread Ron
Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy system. Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ? I have tried to mount it, and get root@ron:/home/ron # mount -t ext4 /dev/sdi9 /media/eSata mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 21:17:47 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/22/2015 05:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave source, and I > > want to know how much charge is transfered for every full cycle of > > the input square wave. > > Use a DC current p

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 20:52:59 John Hasler wrote: > Units may be what you want: > > You have: (.007 coulomb)/(119 volt) > You want: farad > * 5.8823529e-05 > / 17000 > You have: (14 ampere)*(2.3 second) > You want: coulomb > * 32.2 > / 0.031055901 Installed i

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2015 21:02:31 John Hasler wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > In this case, the size of a capacitor hooked to a square wave > > source, and I want to know how much charge is transfered for every > > full cycle of the input square wave. > > Zero assuming linear source and load

Re: Attempt to Move Root

2015-12-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : > And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the > bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness between the > MBR and the start of the first partition. The UEFI boot system is indeed a great improvement, or would b

Re: Attempt to Move Root (SOLVED!!)

2015-12-23 Thread David Baron
On reboot (to old system or otherwise), the UUID of the target partition was CHANGED! If the problem was not hidden behind a screenfull of lvm errors, I would/should have seen that right away, huh?