Re: commands

2014-12-23 Thread Kevin Fries
The brackets expand in place. It does not expand your command, but instead the parameters. Let's say I wanted to create a list of direcrories. I could do something like this $ mkdir -p a/{b,c/{d,e,f}} This expands to $ mkdir -p a/b a/c/d a/c/e a/c/f Sidenote... what if you wanted a director

Re: commands

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Havens
I understand! thank you. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > The brackets expand in place. It does not expand your command, but > instead the parameters. Let's say I wanted to create a list of > direcrories. I could do something like this > > $ mkdir -p a/{b,c

Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Mark Phillips
My daughter's Dell D620 seems to be dying. I think the screen is dead...the splash screen at boot time does not appear even though the HD light is on. It has Ubuntu on it now. I tried running the Dell Diag diak, but the screen remained dark as well. She has one more semester in high school, then o

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Bob Wallace
On 12/23/2014 09:30 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: My daughter's Dell D620 seems to be dying. I think the screen is dead...the splash screen at boot time does not appear even though the HD light is on. It has Ubuntu on it now. I tried running the Dell Diag diak, but the screen remained dark as well.

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread JD Austin
Plug an external monitor into it to confirm it is just the screen. -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) j...@twingeckos.com On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > My daughter's Dell D620 seems to be dying. I think the screen is > dead...the splash screen at boot ti

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Keith Smith
This is the best time to buy new. You can find great deals at both Staples and ofc max / depot. I would think you can find something comparable for about $229 this time of year. On 2014-12-23 11:17, Bob Wallace wrote: On 12/23/2014 09:30 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: My daughter's Dell D620 see

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Partington
I have a D620 that is in pretty good shape. The batteries are just dead. It also has a fresh ubuntu install on it but i would guess you just will swap the drive and move on. It is the Core duo with 2GB ram. Let me know if you want it. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > My d

How to use locate and exclude certain strings?

2014-12-23 Thread joe
I use the following command to locate all files that contain a specified string (i.e. $FILE) within a specified directory: locate $FILE | fgrep -ya "/home/joe/mydata" How can I modify that command to do the same thing, except exclude all paths that contain another specified string?

Re: How to use locate and exclude certain strings?

2014-12-23 Thread James Mcphee
locate itself can have regexes and has quite a great load of switches to sort on. However, for a quick and dirty solution, | grep -v $EXCLUDESTRING On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > > I use the following command to locate all files that contain a specified > string (i.e. $FILE) within a

Re: How to use locate and exclude certain strings?

2014-12-23 Thread Brian Cluff
Perhaps you can do what you want by limiting your locate search more and possibly putting more than one search on the line. Your locate line would be written better as: locate /home/joe/mydata/*$file* you can put more than one search pattern on the same command so if you really just want to lo

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-12-23 Thread James Dugger
" I tie the vhost and user together so there is an sftp path to upload content." "How would you upload content if you have multiple vhosts and only one user?" Depends on the architecture of the file structure. By one user I assume only one user is managing the system and needs access to all of

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-12-23 Thread Nathan England
On 2014-12-23 16:43, James Dugger wrote: Just a note regarding Ubuntu. It is a server centric install.  It is replacing/outpacing RHEL CentOS and Debian on forward facing sites at a rate of 500 per day. Personally, I'm not a big fan of any of the debian versions including any of the *buntu

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Eric Oyen
sounds like the screen lamp assembly died. I have that same problem with my dell laptop (although, being blind, it hasn't exactly affected me much). depending on the model, etc, it might either be cheaper getting the thing repaired, or cheaper just getting a new one. -eric On Dec 23, 2014, at

Re: Laptop Woes

2014-12-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks to everyone who responded! I tried attaching an external monitor, and I could not get that to work either. There is a function key that switches the displays, but that did not work. So, there may be more wrong that I originally thought. I also could not get an Ubuntu CD to do more than exer

mint install need internet during install?

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Havens
I just heard that during the installation process of ubuntu the uefi key is downloaded off of the internet.Does the same thing happen during an installation of Mint? Is there anyway to get around that if this is so? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss maili

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-12-23 Thread James Dugger
http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_ubuntu_extend_the_dominance_in_the_linux_web_server_market_at_the_expense_of_red_hat_centos . Here is the reference. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Nathan England wrote: > On 2014-12-23 16:43, James Dugger wrote: > > >> Just a note regarding Ubuntu. It is

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-12-23 Thread Keith Smith
Would be interesting to know why the migration. On 2014-12-23 20:32, James Dugger wrote: http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_ubuntu_extend_the_dominance_in_the_linux_web_server_market_at_the_expense_of_red_hat_centos [2]. Here is the reference. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Nathan Englan

Re: mint install need internet during install?

2014-12-23 Thread Todd Millecam
Yes there is, you can make a self-signed certificate for EFI. http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html Here's about the best guide you'll find on the subject and how to do this should you need to. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I just heard that during

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-12-23 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 15:34 -0600, Keith Smith wrote: > I was not able to shell into the server and found SSH had not been > installed. I was surprised. I installed SSHD and now I can access the > box via the shell. The default policy for Ubuntu is "no ports open" which basically is a means

Re: mint install need internet during install?

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Havens
Than's. WHen are you going to be in Arizona? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > Yes there is, you can make a self-signed certificate for EFI. > http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html Here's about > the best guide you'll find on the subject an