Best Linux newsgroup?

On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:28 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

The way I operate is that if I have a problem I google (for example) ubuntu this_problem .. Ubuntu has a lot of activity for support (I have Ubuntu on one partition of one laptop).

But let's see, on my newsserver listing all groups wit 'buntu' in it finds only one english one: alt.os.linux.ubuntu is an active english group with recent postings.

But there are many forums for Ubuntu For example to find those type how upgrade xine in ubuntu?

first link is ubuntuguide.net

second link is

third link

etc etc

Usenet is not always the best way to go. Just ask google, be as specific with your question as you can.

Google signal hound spectrum analyzer does not like it's Intel G33 graphics

shows:

google is the greatest thing since 'the invention of the wheel???' same of course for startpage.com and bing.

Joerg, I know nothing of Linux, but maybe a stack-exchange site. so this maybe?

George H.

BTDT, didn't help much.

Thanks, maybe that one works. I'll post there.

My main question is whether the Nvidia NVS 300 card works with Lubuntu

18 LTS for mundane jobs (no gaming or other fancy stuff). Preferably before I buy one. Search engines typically find the same two threads about it but they are really old.

I read that thread a few days ago, doesn't pertain to my problem very well.

They are good but do have their limits. On Usenet you have the chance to meet people who have a similar hardware, never bothered writing how they got it going but then chime in. You won't find that with search engines. Because it ain't there yet. For example, when I had to repair an older model Artemide Tizio designer lamp. I chimed in after I saw a post from someone who could not fix his lamp (not a trivial job). To this day I receive inquiries based on that really old Usenet post of mine where the Italian link in the post has gone dormant.

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On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:50:55 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

No, but the seach engine will find the forums, and in the forums you can ask, are often just like a Usenet group, sometimes with a lot more expertise

for example.

In a way it all depends, if you do not know in depth then you cannot ask the right question (right keyword perhaps).

Sometimes I get weird error codes from some compiler or program, typing those codes in google usually shows others with the same error codes and often what the probem is.

Thanks. If I don't get farther via Usenet I could become a "club member" there. Though Usenet is by far more effecienct than any "modern" forum because of better threading et cetera.

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You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.

I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good medicine.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

• Mint?

It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys leave a very knowlegeable impression.

I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.

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Lubuntu is using the upstream Ubuntu kernel so if the card works with Ubuntu it should work with Lubuntu.

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Chisolm 
Republic of Texas

a refurb lenovo with 8GB ram and a windows license is few $100

I rather not have a laptop at the lab bench. What I have now is really space-saving. A desktop deep under the bench, no chance to even bang up a knee, the monitor hovers 10" above the back of the table on a special "crane" post. The very flat keyboard and mouse slide under the lowest level of an Ikea rack, totally out of the way. There is even space for

2-3 dogs under the bench.

Plus I try not to needlessly throw stuff away. The purchase of a used Nvidia graphics card should fix this once it gets here in a few days. $12 including shipping. Nice thing is, this comes with a splitter cable so I can hook up a 2nd monitor to, for example, watch some slow moving measurements. Or maybe a mountain biking video on Youtube.

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That is my hope, though some problems with it have been reported. But what's the old saying? "Strong timber does not grow in idle places". Or as our drill sergeant said "If it doesn't lead to immediate death it'll make you tough".

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Huh, hire some local smart kid? Labjack came out with a python update to 3.x or something. (That was probably several years ago. :^) George H.

As a linux user for years, I have found the following very helpful:

if you sign up as a member, you get monthly newsletters by email.

Good luck with that. Finding a programmer for a client was already a challenge and the person we found is my age. Meaning close to retirement age ...

I'd rather like something plug-and-play like Azeotech DAQFactory but that's only for Windows.

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not a laptop, something like this:

That would work. Or better yet this one with Windows 10 Home because the Windows 10 would get ditched anyhow:

It has to be able to run Windows 7 so there can't be any hardware in there that doesn't have a driver for it.

However, as I mentioned I am not at all a proponent of a throw-away mentality. If a system is good enough for a certain purpose I do not see a reason to throw it away and replace it with something bigger.

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don't need to replace, just have more systems and skip the hassle of dual booting

Yes, I could add another box. Being around retirement age I'd like not to collect more stuff though. Ideally reduce to less stuff :-)

If Linux behaves then I may need the Windows boot only rarely, for example to run the spectrum analyzer for an EMC pre-compliance job. If Linux doesn't behave I'd be forced to Windows 10 and then I don't need dual-boot.

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