[PLUG] Linux Laptop Reviews

2012-10-19 Thread Tim Wescott
ystem 76 machine, for which it is getting hard to find batteries. Given that this thing has carried me for somewhere in the neighborhood of ten years, I'm mightily tempted to go with another System 76, but I'd like to do at least _some_ research first. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdes

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Webmin?

2012-10-08 Thread Tim
> Did you say you might want to present something on Webmin? Definitely not. You must be thinking of someone else... =P tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] question on ergonometric mice

2012-10-08 Thread Tim
p. I wear it when symptoms are getting worse, and while I usually wake up in the morning with a stiff wrist, I it does help. I also wear it sometimes while at the computer and it adds support that alleviates some pain. That's my story. Hope it helps, tim On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 03:42:59PM

Re: [PLUG] shell script equivalent to #if 0 ... #endif

2012-08-17 Thread Tim
if false; then {commands} fi ?? tim On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:09:21PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: > Hi, > > Is there some sort of Bourne or Bash shell equivalent to #if 0 ... > #endif? I've got a group of commands in my script that take a long > time to exe

Re: [PLUG] Old Ubuntu Iso?

2012-08-08 Thread tim
On 2012-08-08 09:40, Russell Johnson wrote: > On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Tim Wescott > wrote: > >> Does anyone know where to get previous-version Ubuntu iso images? I >> went looking on the Ubuntu website and their "alternate and previous >> version" site

[PLUG] Old Ubuntu Iso?

2012-08-08 Thread Tim Wescott
on 10.04 (on which I know it works, on another machine) before I go and do anything really expensive. TIA. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] System load/utilization monitoring

2012-07-25 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
hing with a little more granularity. I've also looked at Ganglia, and it seemed a lot better in some regards, but I had some issues on a non-flat network (multiple VLANs) that I didn't take a lot of time to investigate. Both have a variety of plug-ins for various things and were f

Re: [PLUG] a LEAN linux using apt-get or yum

2012-07-13 Thread Tim
recommended dependencies automatically". Sometimes recommended ones make a lot of sense. But sometimes they lead to a long chain of bloat that you don't need. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Linux, IPv6, and Comcast

2012-06-07 Thread Tim
, so the wait continues... tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Linux, IPv6, and Comcast

2012-06-07 Thread Tim
t; *never* right. Ah, well I think the date I read was from 2011, not 2012, when the World IPv6 *Test* Day happened. This year, of course, lots of sites turned on v6 and left it on for good instead of just testing it for a day. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Linux, IPv6, and Comcast

2012-06-07 Thread Tim
via DHCPv6 or anything). Do you have an Apple router? Either that or your Mac may be falling back to 6to4 automatically once router discovery fails, which may explain that. I know Apple has been pretty aggressive about adding support for that kind of thing. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Linux, IPv6, and Comcast

2012-06-06 Thread Tim
Hi Russell, > Tim> Howdy all, I recently have switched my home line to Comcast and I > Tim> purchased a cable modem that supposedly supports ipv6. In light > Tim> of world ipv6 day, and the fact that comcast is enabling it for > Tim> some customers, I decided to try real

[PLUG] Linux, IPv6, and Comcast

2012-06-06 Thread Tim
haven't had any luck. I don't even know if Comcast has enabled ipv6 in our area or if you need to opt-in or anything. Has anyone else tried getting native dual-stack v6 working in Linux here in the Portland area? tim ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Computer Security event, UO Eugene, April 20, Free

2012-04-10 Thread Tim
> https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11789 > > If someone goes, invite one of the local speakers to PLUG. I'm interested in this... Anyone in the Portland area interested in car pooling? tim ___ PLUG mai

Re: [PLUG] freewrl .deb dependency error

2012-04-02 Thread Tim
ames. Note that in aptitude, you may search by regular expressions, so "free.*wrl" would match "freewrl" and "freeANYTHINGwrl". Not sure about synaptic. Hope that helps, tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] a bit more information

2012-03-29 Thread Tim
ther turn to RAID (each disk is another channel for parallel operation) or SSD (no seek penalty). HTH, tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] more information

2012-03-28 Thread Tim
ike this could be a kernel bug. Perhaps in a filesystem driver. With more information, we may be able to help you track down known bugs associated with these. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] some additional information

2012-03-28 Thread Tim
would find this unusual. An alternative way to copy large files would be to use dd. I often find it is a bit faster for large files. You would use it something like: dd if=source.file of=dest.file bs=1M tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@

Re: [PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

2012-03-19 Thread Tim
s. Or you could look into the suggestions I made about system start up/shut down. What scripts does your distro run when it enables an ethernet interface? All I'm saying is, give us the context and we may be able to suggest things that both make more sense (from security and usability p

Re: [PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

2012-03-19 Thread Tim
; the first line of /etc/sudoers. Works for me. I use zile, which is hardly a popular editor. Looking at my man page, it says it honors that environment variable if the editor is in a predefined list. Maybe Debian has a predefined list based on installed

Re: [PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

2012-03-19 Thread Tim
messed up the syntax, so maybe this would help you. BTW, if you have a preferred text-mode editor, you should add something like this to your .bashrc: export EDITOR=myfavoriteeditor Then commands like visudo, vipw, svn commit, ... (list goes on) ... will use that editor by default. tim

Re: [PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

2012-03-19 Thread Tim
angerously. Try putting the script in /usr/local/sbin instead. As for debugging your sudo config, have you looked at your system logs to see if sudo is complaining about anything? Are you using visudo to edit the file? I think it's best to use that instead of editing it directly. tim ___

Re: [PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

2012-03-19 Thread Tim
> I am wondering if this really isn't a case of needing to do SUID Scripts. > And if an SUID wrapper would not be the answer? > > http://www.tuxation.com/setuid-on-shell-scripts.html If you're interested at all in security, I'd advise strongly against trying to use SUID to achieve this. There i

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

2012-03-14 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
On Wed, March 14, 2012 11:08, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > Tim Bruce wrote: > >> You should continue to use mailx (or other tool) for the command. ssmtp >> will pick up the email and forward it on (if it's configured correctly). >> >> something like: &g

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

2012-03-13 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
orwards it to the appropriate MTA that is configured (in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf) for delivery to the user(s). mailx should NOT require root/sudo. Neither should ssmtp (it's just running as a background "service" (kinda) and takes what it receives from mailx and forwards it to the M

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

2012-03-13 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
You might also look at SSMTP as an alternative to a full MTA since all you want is outbound email. It's very easy to configure and can authenticate on your behalf against various SMTP servers (to include google, which I use, and probably comcast - but you would need to test that to verify that

Re: [PLUG] Reminder utility

2012-03-13 Thread Tim
Have you tried Mozilla sunbird? Or the equivalent Thunderbird plugin, if you use that... tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Security Vulnerability in Xorg Screen Locking

2012-01-19 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
it didn't work. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and use a "blank screen" for the screen saver. Maybe that's the difference (rather than running an actual screen saver). Tim -- Timothy J. Bruce visit my Website at: http://www.tbruce.com Registered Linux User #325725

Re: [PLUG] Re-establishing ICMP ping Capability

2012-01-16 Thread Tim
functioning network connection. The ability to be ping-ed should not be affected by DNS. It is almost certainly an issue with your Netgear router or with your Linux host's configuration. tcpdump would be useful in detecting whether or not echo request packets are making it through the netgear.

Re: [PLUG] Moving from CP/M to Linux

2012-01-11 Thread tim
Richard has a long commute. He lives out past Estacada, even. (about 2000 miles past Estacada, as a matter of fact). On 11.01.2012 10:11, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:41:03AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm not literally moving in one step from CP/M to Linux. >> BUT, I thin

Re: [PLUG] Grub 2 Question -- *** Resolved

2012-01-09 Thread Tim
el image/header packages as appropriate rather than just deleting files directly. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Unexpected math result

2011-12-21 Thread Tim
issue and makes the "decimal" and "fractions" modules available to do more exact calculations. See: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Unexpected math result

2011-12-21 Thread Tim
y default. If you want exact calculations, you have to use a library specifically designed for them, or use a language which does exact calculations by default. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Upgrade Question

2011-12-15 Thread Tim Wescott
t on my work machine! 11 also lost the ability to switch keyboard maps in the login screen. Since I type in Dvorak and I've got people in the household who use QWERTY, this was a nice feature -- I can use a QWERTY keyboard, but I need to look at my fingers to do so, and it really slows me down. I ne

Re: [PLUG] gEDA tools

2011-12-15 Thread Tim Wescott
because of those error messages, and I am not sure > which of the myriad of netlist standards I should use. Anybody here have > some experience with these tools? > > Thanks, > > -Denis > ___ > PLUG mailing list >

Re: [PLUG] CD/DVD internal drive recommendations

2011-12-13 Thread Tim
een a rock solid brand, but I haven't bought a drive from them in a while. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] possible successful probes were detected ?

2011-12-12 Thread Tim
ch as ones provided by index.html), provide a URL parameter like those agove, and see if it gives you a error. You probably won't, since any parameters supplied that aren't used are just going to be ignored. Or maybe I misunderstood what you&#

Re: [PLUG] Default password for phpMyAdmin? was Test.

2011-12-02 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
n short, you can configure MySQL to only allow certain users in from certain IP Addresses, IP Address Ranges or hosts. Also, you may have to specify -p on the end (to prompt you for a password) or it will try to log you in with a blank password (i.e., no password). One of these combinations shou

Re: [PLUG] Apache mime types?

2011-12-01 Thread Tim
> AddType application/x-tar .ova A Content-Type of "application/octet-stream" might be better for preventing IE from fooling around with the file extension. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mai

Re: [PLUG] general list setup whine

2011-11-25 Thread Tim
fine. What mail server do you run? Are you sure it isn't your mail client that is having trouble? tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] A Plug for System 76

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Wescott
ned it for more than seven years, it's gotten knocked around quite a bit, pieces are falling off the case, etc., -- and it still works just fine). So if you want a decent machine that's known to work with Linux, and you're too lazy to build one -- you could do a lot worse than going th

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Asus S62FP Laptop

2011-11-16 Thread Tim Wescott
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 23:11 -0600, Fred James wrote: > Tim Wescott wrote: > > I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I close the lid > > the backlight goes off. > > > > That would be a good thing, except that when I open the lid the backlight > &g

Re: [PLUG] Best GIMP Resource / Corel Draw equivalent

2011-11-16 Thread Tim Wescott
On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:51 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote: > These are two questions, but they're both about graphics programs: > > First: > > I've been using GIMP, gradually getting better at retouching photos with > it and such, but I am nowhere near being able to do t

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Asus S62FP Laptop

2011-11-14 Thread Tim Wescott
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:13 -0800, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > On 11/11/2011 08:56 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > > I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I close the lid > > the backlight goes off. > > > > That would be a good thing, except that when I open the

[PLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Asus S62FP Laptop

2011-11-11 Thread Tim Wescott
x and various other laptops, but the diagnosed root causes seem to be all over the map, and none of the suggested work-arounds seem to work around the problem for me, except for setting 'nomodeset' in grub which messes up my screen aspect ratio. Anyone have any suggestions? -- Tim Wescott Cont

Re: [PLUG] Multnomah County Library Denies Linux Uses access to Download E-Books

2011-11-03 Thread Tim
r system. The Calibre developers apparently don't have much respect for your systems' security: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027/ tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Local server reseller

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Wescott
Richard's out in the far outskirts of Portland, in rural Missouri or something like that. On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 10:27 -0700, Russell Johnson wrote: > On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Tim Wescott wrote: > > > Does that mean that you have a thriving OS2 user's community

Re: [PLUG] Local server reseller

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Wescott
re house > > 503-341-3348 - My cell > > ___ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > ___ > PLUG ma

[PLUG] Best GIMP Resource / Corel Draw equivalent

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Wescott
ical drawings -- not for making pretty logos and decals and whatnot. So -- is there a good "make it pretty" sort of vector-based graphics program that's freely available? Thanks. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communicat

Re: [PLUG] Rxvt/Urxvt

2011-09-26 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
On Mon, September 26, 2011 13:18, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 13:48, Rich Shepard > wrote: >>   Is anyone here familiar with urxvt (rxvt-unicode)specifically? > > yup, i use it exclusively. > > I just >> added that package to my system in hope of resolving the problem of

Re: [PLUG] Open Source project suing a stranger...

2011-09-08 Thread Tim
ussions with them on various ReactOS forums, mailing lists, and alternative IRC channels. I know you are probably quite frustrated with the ReactOS community, but this is not the right place to vent that frustration. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Tim Wescott
it certainly has in the past). It would certainly be a maximal-force solution to your friend's wedged window manager issue. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Preferred rackmount server brands?

2011-08-15 Thread Tim Wescott
ite. But it's another name to toss in the hat: http://www.system76.com/index.php?cPath=29 -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://

[PLUG] Spreadsheets (was Re: Why Laptop Cannot Find Wireless Networks)

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Wescott
27;re really good for things that can be easily organized in tabular form, you can wedge other problems into them if you hit them with a big enough hammer, and 'everybody' knows how to use them. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & softwa

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X me@that

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Wescott
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 09:36 -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: > Tim Wescott wrote: > > With my latest update (to Ubuntu 11.04), I changed to Evolution from > > Thunderbird. Hopefully this'll end up being a good idea. One of the > > things that indicates that it is is that I ca

[PLUG] ssh -X me@that

2011-07-24 Thread Tim Wescott
my command line back. Is there an easy fix? One that's easier than just hitting control-C every time? TIA... -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] Where does Evolution Keep its Brains?

2011-07-21 Thread Tim Wescott
t or received with that sig, but what I haven't come up with is the original. Help?? -- --- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 11.04 Not Starting

2011-07-19 Thread Tim Wescott
;single' and you should > be good to go. > > Good luck! > > Jason > On Jul 18, 2011 12:31 PM, "Tim Wescott" wrote: >> The scene: >> >> My office, lunchtime. >> >> The props: >> >> My old Dell Inspiron 8300, with a hot

[PLUG] Ubuntu 11.04 Not Starting

2011-07-18 Thread Tim Wescott
come up in safe mode when I log on? They've worked so hard to make it safe for grandma to use that when something they didn't expect happens, it don't work at all! TIA -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com

Re: [PLUG] Using iptables QUEUE...

2011-07-08 Thread Tim
, then whatever you were planning on doing to ensure fairness in userspace can still be done using the LOG rule. Just process the logs with a script, etc. iptables also tracks number of packets matching a given rule, so statistics can be gathered directly from ke

Re: [PLUG] ipv6 router and firewall troubles

2011-07-06 Thread Tim
answer any questions you may have about how to use it if you are interested. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] What opens an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread Tim
won't find it. The work-around there would be copying the directory tree out and fixing the broken references, which is a pain of course. If you look in firefox at the error console, it might tell you what files it wants that aren't found. Just a hyp

Re: [PLUG] What opens an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread Tim
In this case, you should be able to get your browser to interpret the XML for you based on the "instructions" in the xsl file. However, I haven't played with this stuff for a while, so I don't remember how it is supposed to work. tim __

Re: [PLUG] What opens an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread Tim
> Didn't work. Still got pages of code interspersed with snippets of the > text. :( Is there an .xslt file or any other files also on the disk that we might need to know about? tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlin

Re: [PLUG] What opens an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread Tim
ce. The newer the version of OO/LO the better. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure what the free alternatives are... HTH, tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] USB Serial Port Adapters

2011-06-20 Thread Tim Wescott
... and I figured out my terminal program. It doesn't _see_ links, but it can _use_ them (and if I get my serial settings right, things even work! :) ) On 06/20/2011 01:33 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > Thanks. This is exactly the guidance I was looking for. My preferred > terminal prog

Re: [PLUG] USB Serial Port Adapters

2011-06-20 Thread Tim Wescott
rote: >>> Why can't udev rules be applied here? >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Fred James >> wrote: >>>> Tim Wescott wrote: >>>> >>>>> (omissions for brevity) >>>>>I did an experiment: I started with

Re: [PLUG] USB Serial Port Adapters

2011-06-17 Thread Tim Wescott
On 06/17/2011 04:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Tim Wescott wrote: > >> Is there a way to map specific USB serial port adapters to specific device >> names? > Tim, > > Yep. > >> As far as I know, as I plug USB serial port adapters into the

[PLUG] USB Serial Port Adapters

2011-06-17 Thread Tim Wescott
rial number. Is there a configuration file that I can use to associate hardware serial numbers with specific devices in my /dev directory? Thanks. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com ___

Re: [PLUG] LAN broadcast?

2011-06-02 Thread Tim
u might just be best off using broadcast if you don't expect you'll have to send data between subnets. You could always switch to multicast later with relatively few additional code changes. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] LAN broadcast?

2011-06-02 Thread Tim
et admins to support it. A lot of online music streaming services could benefit from it a great deal. It would also help ISPs to minimize traffic associated with this and other live streaming apps, including MMORPGs, etc. tim ___ PLUG mailing li

Re: [PLUG] LAN broadcast?

2011-06-02 Thread Tim
etdaemon.com/tutorials/internet/igmp/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Multicast-HOWTO.html#ss6.4 http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/4514-B99/samples/multicast.c tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] LAN broadcast?

2011-06-01 Thread Tim
instead leveraging the massively parallel processor you probably have in your system (a.k.a. your video card). See OpenCL. HTH, tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Evince and Fonts

2011-06-01 Thread Tim Wescott
nt. Presumably this is because the font used isn't stored in the pdf, and whatever is default on Ubuntu 10.04 is different from whatever is default on Windows. Has anyone else seen this effect? Is there a way to fix or work around it? -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631

Re: [PLUG] Good PDF Editor

2011-06-01 Thread Tim Wescott
On 06/01/2011 08:27 AM, Tim Wescott wrote: > On 05/31/2011 10:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:20:18 -0700 >> Tim Wescott dijo: >> >>> On 05/26/2011 04:53 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>>> On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:41:47 -0700 >

Re: [PLUG] Good PDF Editor

2011-06-01 Thread Tim Wescott
On 05/31/2011 10:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:20:18 -0700 > Tim Wescott dijo: > >> On 05/26/2011 04:53 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:41:47 -0700 >>> Mark Phillips dijo: >>> >>>> I have fo

Re: [PLUG] Good PDF Editor

2011-05-31 Thread Tim Wescott
it as an xournal file, or as a new PDF. And > xournal pays little attention to restrictions in the original PDF file. > It's just a simple little light applet that works perfectly for filling > out PDF forms, whether the PDF was created to be editable or not. You add objects as in graphics?

Re: [PLUG] Good PDF Editor

2011-05-31 Thread Tim Wescott
I took a look, and it's nice but it doesn't let me drop graphics into the pdf, at least as far as I could tell. On 05/26/2011 03:23 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:10:57 -0700 > Tim Wescott dijo: > >> Subject says most of it: I'm looking

[PLUG] Good PDF Editor

2011-05-26 Thread Tim Wescott
scanning, etc., I'd rather just drop my signature and the date into the contract. I haven't tried printing to PDF yet to see if the blockage is stripped -- short of that, are there better open-source PDF editors than PDFEdit? -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631

[PLUG] Job-ish

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Wescott
consulting gig, drop me a line and I'll forward your info. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Need DLL help to get a Windows program working with WINE

2011-04-22 Thread Tim
the program under a debugger in windows (free/easy: ollydbg) you should be able to see all of the executable modules (dlls, exes) loaded. I'm sure there are easier ways in Windows, but I haven't done serious Win dev in a long time. tim _

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Tim
is similar to VMWare's RemoteDisplay.vnc.* configuration to give you simple remote access to the VM console. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Request for Suggestions: Configuration file templating?

2011-04-19 Thread Tim
ut it is a general, simple templating language with conditionals, loops, file includes, and of course variable replacement. HTH, tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] New System Setup

2011-04-15 Thread Tim
27;re looking to enable/disable the external interface entirely for all services, then you shouldn't need to bother with the firewall. Just disable the interface when it isn't needed. This could be done with network manager or whatever other GUI the distro provides for tha

Re: [PLUG] Setting up ftp for access through port 80

2011-04-13 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
kload Automation r11.3 is now GA. Contact us if you have any > questions about the new release or want to discuss your company’s upgrade > path. > Have you looked at WebDav and configured your own Apache server to support it? I've seen a few articles on that and could probably forward o

Re: [PLUG] Web site

2011-04-07 Thread Tim
start Apache after making the configuration changes, right? apachectl restart or /etc/init.d/apache restart or similar tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Web site

2011-04-07 Thread Tim
sts and if its settings have changed. In addition, .htaccess files can be a source of security issues. Marvin, once you get things working, consider moving those .htaccess settings back into the vhost config, and then disable AllowOverride (the setting which allows .htaccess files to wor

Re: [PLUG] Upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, and now my machine won't boot....

2011-03-28 Thread Tim
d so we can see what succesfully mounted. thanks, tim On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:04:50PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have made some progress When I use these parameters at the grub > prompt, the machine boots. X is dead, and so is mysql...not sure why, yet. > However, I cannot c

Re: [PLUG] Upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, and now my machine won't boot....

2011-03-28 Thread Tim
> Sorry, that was a typo in the email. When typing at grub I used completion > to make sure I had the same versions. Ok, no problem. Was "root =/dev/sda5" also an email-only typo? That is, there is a space between root and = which may create problems for you

Re: [PLUG] Upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, and now my machine won't boot....

2011-03-28 Thread Tim
sounds like grub is finding your root partition fine, but the kernel isn't. I see above that you indicated you are specifying a 2.6.21 kernel and a 2.6.26 initrd image. That is most likely not going to work. Have you tried setting those version numbers the

Re: [PLUG] Upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, and now my machine won't boot....

2011-03-28 Thread Tim
hink the bootloader did get upgraded, you could try using a boot disk to drop back to grub 1.x. Just the first thought that comes to mind. HTH, tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Regression Testing and library versions

2011-03-28 Thread Tim
ish that this stuff isn't better standardized. Surely this clipboard complexity comes along with weird library dependencies, according to what apps support what methods. Overall this is just a sign of bad design though, rather than a fault of the distribution's maintainers do keep

Re: [PLUG] Regression Testing and library versions

2011-03-27 Thread Tim
. Over time, legacy apps are updated and linked to libfoo2 and libfoo1 goes away. I think this is just the nature of distributed software development and the rapid speed that open source software is advancing. Some programmers are better at it than others... tim __

Re: [PLUG] A little something for everyone

2011-03-05 Thread Tim
I think this is clearly something that should be posted to plug-jobs, not this list. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] How to Troubleshoot a Dead Machine

2011-03-01 Thread Tim
istros have swiched to using UUIDs in /etc/fstab to uniquely identify drives even when they don't have the same device files. However, I suspect based on the age of Bill's system, it was probably built in the transition period. Just one hypothesis for the lack o

Re: [PLUG] another reason or two why IPv6 rocks

2011-02-22 Thread Tim
public key in the last bits of the IPv6 address to help clients automatically look up your IPSEC/other key. (Something like this is used in some proposed protocols that I'm not intimately familiar with.) tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Internet addictions and technology

2011-02-16 Thread Tim
w much effort is reasonable to keep honest people honest most of the time. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Internet addictions and technology.

2011-02-15 Thread Tim
d just prefer you left the Christian rhetoric out of the discussion, since it could make non-Christians feel out of place on a mailing list that should be as welcoming as possible. tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Internet addictions and technology.

2011-02-14 Thread Tim
Can you explain to me how this is on-topic? tim On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:33:49PM -0800, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > I'm not sure the fifties were as clean as people think. > > I don't have cable television, don't want it. > > DSL modem is bridged, can'

Re: [PLUG] Extracting From .img File

2011-02-06 Thread Tim
programs normally use it? - How do programs normally use it? Are you expected to burn it it to a DVD first and then have some program read it directly? tim ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

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