Comment by Ryan Ward on Where can I find the drivers of a Unix printer? (Arch)
Thank you for your answer. I was sure you were right until I could not get the printer to disable when I was disabling the CUPS service. However, disabling Avahi DID disable the printer.
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on How to make custom zsh script executable automatically?
I learned more here than I have in years of trying to understand this stuff on my own. You should write a book! The last bit about #autoload is the key!
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on pacman - get list of packages installed by user
Try comm -23 <(pacman -Qqett | sort | uniq) <(pacman -Qqg base -g base-devel | sort | uniq) So they are both in the same sorted order
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on How to convert "animated" text in a document to...
@ThomasDickey I think it might be worth leaving up, however, since it's incredibly difficult to describe what's going on to look for answers. I imagine there are other people in the future who would...
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on Intermittent PCIe Bus Errors on startup (Arch Linux)
Thanks for your answer. I was suspecting as much. I have inspected the bit packets sent from the USB root ports and end points, and no matter how many times I restart the computer, the packets never...
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on How can I automatically restart gnome-shell coming...
For some reason this works once, then resuming from suspend a second time kicks to login screen.
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on What does
Very interesting. The case you give does not result in unexpected behavior using zsh.
View ArticleComment by Ryan Ward on Replace pattern in all columns except in specific column
@JeffSchaller Field one is not even referenced in this script, so awk just passes over it.
View ArticleWhere can I find the drivers of a Unix printer? (Arch)
Earlier today I went to the AUR repository and downloaded this driver https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-hll2340dw/ for my printer. It turns out, I didn't even need a driver at all and...
View ArticleHow to make custom zsh script executable automatically?
I must be missing something incredibly simple about how to do this, but I have a simple script: extract () { if [ -f $1 ] ; then case $1 in *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.tar.xz)...
View ArticleHow can I set up Timeshift to use a secondary hard drive for BTRFS backup?
I have been reading through quite a few alternatives including Timeshift and Snapper, and it doesn't seem like any of the BTRFS backup apps offer any ability to store BTRFS snapshots to a secondary or...
View ArticleIntermittent PCIe Bus Errors on startup (Arch Linux)
Since April when I built my computer with Arch Linux OS, I have been getting some errors that seem to point to the ASPM control of some USB 3.1 on my ASUS "ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING" motherboard. I...
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