anyone done a ubuntu 9.10 upgrade yet?

I have used linux for many years, and I have found that upgrades in place rarely work in the past. Has anyone done a upgrade in place using the Update Manager for ubuntu 9.10? Did it work? Or would it be better to just create a tarball of my home directory, save it off, download and burn the iso,

Re: laptop battery capacity

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:44:10 -0700 Nathan England wrote: yes, take it to batteries plus, and get it rebuilt. i am also guilty of this, but the kind of batteries that are in laptops, need to be almost fully discharged once in a while, as lithium ion batteries need that. periodically, I will unplu

Re: OT: ITIL study material

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:15:39 -0700 "Bryan O'Neal" wrote: > Any one have some recent ITIL study material they are willing to lend? yep. let me see if i can find that crap at work. -- Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 K7AZJ This email's Fortune: Say it with flower

Re: KDE 4.X

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:19:12 -0700 Joseph Sinclair wrote: > The escape sequence works just fine on KDE as well. Any terminal program > that handles the VT100 escapes. One line above the quoted text you stated "I > have now gone over to gnome since the kde 4 debacle." I used Gnome Terminal > as t

Re: KDE 4.X

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:39:35 -0700 Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Jerry Davis wrote: > > I wish the old konsole was back, I had a whole bunch of ssh terminals I went > > into and automatically renamed the terminal tab. now NO ONE seems to know > > how to do it - a LOT of ideas a

Re: KDE 4.X

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:28:08 -0700 wayne wrote: > Is it me, or are others finding this version NON-user friendly too. > > 4 times I have put Kubuntu on my system, and 4 times... I HATE Kde4.x > > > > > What other distro's can I go to that have a look similar to the old KDE3.x? I am not rea

Re: Kmail or Evolution?

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:08:41 -0700 mike Enriquez wrote: > Which of these email clients do you like (Kmail or Evolution); and why? > Please reply so I can see which one of these is the most used. I will > gladly foward the results to the group. > Thanks > Mike Enriquez > I used to use kmail a c

Re: Need help choosing a C++ STL book

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:15:38 -0700 Micah DesJardins wrote: > ASU's 3rd floor of the Noble Science Library also has a pile of C++ > books including several on STL my Son is a student at SMCC, can he get into the ASU library? I am not a student. jerry -- Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Register

Need help choosing a C++ STL book

After about 20 years, I am now doing C++ programming. Never mind the reason. On amazon, there are something like 13 or so books about C++ STL (Standard Template Library) I went to Borders, and they have none. And they won't get any in so I can browse. I want a book that has a lot of examples, an

Re: Best first programming language

BTW, can someone tell me why this happens? $ perl -e 'print "hello world\n"' hello world $ python -c 'print "hello world"' hello world notice that I DID NOT have to put the \n at then end of the python print statement? is it something to do with the -c (i.e. smart enough to know it is a cmd line

Re: Best first programming language

On Tue, 19 May 2009 06:36:01 -0700 Gerald Thurman wrote: > Learn to use a Unix system at the command-line along with a text editor and > start writing BASH program. The command-line provides exposure to the Unix > philosophy, files/directories, options/arguments, variables (environment), > I/O,

Re: List of Command Line Tools

On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:41 -0700 James Mcphee wrote: > Screen is the greatest tool EVER!!! A CLI window manager! I mean, DUDE!!! I work from home 3 days a week. Most of the time, in the morning and in the mid afternoon, i have re-connect my vpn 10 - 15 times in as many minutes! REALLY bother

Re: OT: Most fun in Arizona?

On Sun, 17 May 2009 06:27:57 -0700 "Bryan O'Neal" wrote: > Drive the Apache Trail (Apache Jct. to Roosevelt Dam) > Spend a night at the Shady Dell in Bisbee > Spend a night at the LaPosada in Winslow > Visit Saguaro National Park in Tucson (and Tucson's 4th Ave.) > Visit Canyon de Chelly > Visit

Re: Automation: (Was: List of Command Line Tools) - Hijacked from PGP

On Sun, 17 May 2009 06:54:56 -0700 Matt Graham wrote: > After a long battle with technology, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > > While we are on the subject, excluding writing everything in bash, what is > > the best way for various programs (pick your language) to access command > > line tools and parse the

Re: looking to hire someone at my work

On Sat, 16 May 2009 07:56:09 -0700 Lisa Kachold wrote: > Is this really in Boston, MA? oh. my bad. it can be here too. preferably here. Chandler 101 & Ray Rd. > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry Davis wrote: > > > below is the official resume, and you c

looking to hire someone at my work

below is the official resume, and you can email me if you are interested in it. they WANT a lot of stuff here, but they will take someone who basically is a clone of me. they want someone who can take some nebulous specs and turn them into something that works. bash scripting, perl scripting, c++

Re: g++ -g and included files

On Thu, 14 May 2009 05:45:29 -0700 Jerry Davis wrote: ok, not sure this was the right way to do it. Seems like swatting a gnat with a sledgehammer, but I brought in the ".C" file that used to be as an include, into my source, and compiled. I was able to debug it with GDB. Maybe ch

Re: g++ -g and included files

On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:13:02 + Ted Gould wrote: > Off topic, but if you're switching version control systems right now I > wouldn't be switching to SVN. Basically it's a generation old in > version control thinking. I'd be switching to something more modern > like a DVCS. yep. just like th

g++ -g and included files

and now for something completely off topic ... other than rules for posting and such. I am just now having to learn c++ : I haven't done any C work since the middle 80's. I am being forced to move from Rational clearcase and clearquest to svn and teamtrack. TeamTrack is UGLY, don't get me started.

Re: Format

On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:28:42 -0700 Craig White wrote: > Most 'top posters' are too lazy to actually clean up the e-mail below to > just retain the pertinent items to which they are responding to, leaving > the challenge to the next reader to figure it out. 1. top posting is the default with Micr

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:03:47 -0700 Mark Phillips wrote: > 4. Lisa picked up on a good point - my daughter is deathly afraid I will get > her a "black box" computer for college. I mean a real black box - square > corners, matte black. We don't agree on shoes, and we don't agree on the > need for a

Re: Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:34:30 -0700 Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > I have an interesting database problem that I think can be solved on > the command line in one shot. But I don't know how :(. > > I have a comma separated values text file. Each line shows a voter ID > numb

Re: Free Linux

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:07:39 -0700 Stephen wrote: > I would take a look at fedora or Ubuntu Fedora will be very much like > what your used to using already with red hat, and Ubuntu is a Debian > rework, but very very well done. sound like you need linux mint it is a ubuntu downstream flavor.

Re: looking for db recommendation

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:29:21 -0700 Mike Schwartz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, mz wrote: > > > I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking > > for a db for simple personal use. > > > > I have a music collection db in M$ Access. There are about 1900 record

tex2xxx tools in ubuntu

I feel pretty dang stupid asking this, but where the heck are the tex2ps, tex2html, tex2pdf, etc kind of tools? I can't find them in synaptic package manager. -- Happy Trails! Jerry (K7AZJ) Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's random fortune: He was part

Re: anyone know of a good USB DVD writer that works well with ubuntu?

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:55:13 -0700 Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > First step, I would try the latest Jaunty alpha and see if that fixes > it. If it does, just wait a bit for that. Right now Jaunty is > sucking if you have an Intel video card but it looks to be a fixable > issue. > >

Re: anyone know of a good USB DVD writer that works well with ubuntu?

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:18:55 -0700 Stephen wrote: > I have an lg and it has been great with linux and windows any specific lg model? there are a few. > > > On 3/5/09, Jerry Davis wrote: > > in my new notebook, my internal DVD drive is crap. It works fine in > >

Re: language problem redux

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:47:50 -0700 Dazed_75 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Jerry Davis wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:12:03 -0700 > > Jerry Davis wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:03:55 -0700 > > > Dazed_75 wrote: > > > &

Re: anyone know of a good USB DVD writer that works well with ubuntu?

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:57:48 -0700 "Matt Graham" wrote: > From: Jerry Davis > > in my new notebook, my internal DVD drive is crap. It works fine in > > Winblows, but not in ubuntu 8.10. > > Post the make and model# of the laptop, so that other people know what

anyone know of a good USB DVD writer that works well with ubuntu?

in my new notebook, my internal DVD drive is crap. It works fine in Winblows, but not in ubuntu 8.10. Since the interal one works fine in windows, I don't even need one that works in both platforms, just in linux. I put a bug into the ubuntu forums many months ago, to no avail. I got another mail

Re: language problem redux

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:12:03 -0700 Jerry Davis wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:03:55 -0700 > Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jerry Davis wrote: > > > > > I generated a file on our RH 4 linux box using a perl program I wrote from > > &g

Re: language problem redux

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:03:55 -0700 Dazed_75 wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jerry Davis wrote: > > > I generated a file on our RH 4 linux box using a perl program I wrote from > > an > > oracle database that is set to utf8. > > > > I run that very

language problem redux

I generated a file on our RH 4 linux box using a perl program I wrote from an oracle database that is set to utf8. I run that very same perl program on my windows box [ using cygwin ] (internally set to WINDOWS-1252). This way, I have a benchmark file to look at. This file is what it is supposed t

Re: language differences between linux and windows

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:40:17 -0700 Donn wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Jerry Davis wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:07:05 -0700 > > Jerry Davis wrote: > > > > ok. I tried a lot of stuff. but the one thing that actually worked, was to > > run

Re: language differences between linux and windows

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:07:05 -0700 Jerry Davis wrote: > I am using Rational ClearQuest, and am using the CQ Import process to import > from a csv file which I produced on a linux box. > > The linux backend database is Oracle, and is a utf8 database. > The windows box I am using t

language differences between linux and windows

I am using Rational ClearQuest, and am using the CQ Import process to import from a csv file which I produced on a linux box. The linux backend database is Oracle, and is a utf8 database. The windows box I am using to do the import (there is no import binary on linux), thinks it is WINDOWS-1252 M

Re: Google Problem 1/31

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:17:30 -0700 James Mcphee wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > > > Someone at the instalfest said he was getting google results that every > > page referenced was bad. Here is the explanation from Google: > > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01

Re: Trying Fedora

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:54:23 -0700 Joshua Zeidner wrote: > try Ubuntu... jmz > ubuntu 8.10 is both good and bad. I have used ubuntu for a couple years now, and had no problems until 8.10 I have bugs in for 2 things: my DVD drive doesn't work - so I am living w/o it I have a usb

Re: OT: Microsoft layoffs

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:41:16 -0700 JD Austin wrote: > If I were Microsoft I'd use OSS as a jump off point, slap a pretty user > interface on it and sell it with support. OS X -- Happy Trails! Jerry (K7AZJ) Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's random fortu

Re: OT: The Barack-Mobile

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:56:41 -0700 "James Finstrom" wrote: > off topic but kinda cool barack's new ride I think I will take 2. > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/cadillac-one_01.jpg > > James Finstrom wow thats somethin. now i wonder what wrangler one would look lik

Re: 2012 and OpenStreetMap party

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:05:27 -0700 "Bob Elzer" wrote: > When the worlds ends, I'm gonna hop a quick flight to San Diego, and have a > whole Hour to party like mad !!! oh yeah? well I'm going to sayulita mexico, and watch the sunami come in with a corona in BOTH my hands -- Happy Trails! Je

Re: 2012

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:29:27 -0800 (PST) Jamie Shackles wrote: > The Aztec calender ends on December 23 2012.  So a lot of people have > predicted this as the end of the world. my son and I were looking at at a couple of the shows this morning. When they said it could not really be used to pred

Re: Which Distro?

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:52:50 -0700 Stephen wrote: > depends on your overall like and dislike of KDE versus Gnome or vice versa. I have used both, and actually I prefer KDE. But I am equally at home in Gnome. I actually always used both. I would install both, and use the the parts I liked in both.

Re: Which Distro?

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:53:39 -0700 "Alan Dayley" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > > I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It > > seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a > > video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading

Re: dvd writer not found

On Saturday 13 December 2008 09:40:55 Dazed_75 wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Jerry Davis wrote: > > blank disc put in. > > /usr/bin/cdrecord is symlinked to wodim > > it was not suid'd (as root), so I did that, and > > ran the command you suggested, &

Re: dvd device found, cannot write to

-joliet-list /tmp/kde-jerry/k3bzOHNBa.tmp -no-cache-inodes -full-iso9660- filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-jerry/k3bvof1Gb.tmp On Thursday 11 December 2008 15:40:27 Jerry Davis wrote: > blank disc put in. > /usr/bin/cdrecord is symlinked to wodim > it was not suid'd (as root),

Re: dvd writer not found

blank disc put in. /usr/bin/cdrecord is symlinked to wodim it was not suid'd (as root), so I did that, and ran the command you suggested, here is the output, all looks fine to me, so I will try to write. je...@frodo:~$ cdrecord -prcap dev=/dev/scd0 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version

dvd writer not found

Yes, I bought a new laptop, and it is a good one too. Not a bad price, and has everything working that needed to be working EXCEPT one that I would never have thought about: the DVD writer doesn't work. Details: installed ubuntu intrepid intel wifi 5100 works flawlessly nvidia (with proprietar

Re: Linux history test

I got 90%, but missed the when did 0.0.1 of linux come out. I thought it was 91, but then I also thought it was January. So I chose Jan 92. Oh well. -- Happy Trails! Jerry KE7JVW Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's random fortune: A kind of Batman of

Re: vpn

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:41, Mike Garfias wrote: > If you're doing that, I recommend looking at OpenVPN. Compared to > something like FreeS/WAN its a freaking cake walk to setup. It still > takes time + effort + reading, but its not THAT bad. And it works on > windows, mac, and linux. at

Re: Microsoft Autopilot

On Saturday 05 January 2008 23:24, Alan Dayley wrote: > Tuna wrote: > > Chris Gehlker wrote: > >> > > > > Please, PLEASE tell me that is fake. > > Absolutely fake. Have you seen the commercials lately for Sync powered by Micro$oft? They are integra

Re: Common bash aliases

my favorite alias gh='history | grep -i' On Thursday 03 January 2008 20:43, Matt Graham wrote: > From: "Jared Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 1/3/08, Stephen P Rufle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > alias ls='ls -aF --color=always' > > > alias ll='ls -l' > > > alias ..='cd ..' > > > ali

Re: NIC card in Tucson

On Thursday 27 December 2007 08:33, Kevin Faulkner wrote: > I thought that NIC was Network Interface Card. so does that make it Network Interface Card Card? aka -- Network Interface Card**2 ?? > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:45:14 -0700 > > "Joshua Zeidner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello, > > >

Re: NIC card in Tucson

On Thursday 27 December 2007 08:33, Kevin Faulkner wrote: > I thought that NIC was Network Interface Card. so -- does that make it Network Interface Card Card? aka Network Interface Card**2 > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:45:14 -0700 > > "Joshua Zeidner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello, > > > >

Re: Samsung 712N and xorg.conf

On Sunday 09 December 2007 10:35, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Jerry Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Sunday 09 December 2007 08:48, Matt Graham wrote: > > > From: Jerry Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >>> I am trying to get my Dad's c

Re: Samsung 712N and xorg.conf

On Sunday 09 December 2007 08:48, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Jerry Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I am trying to get my Dad's computer working with his Samsung SyncMaster > > 712N, and am having some trouble. I am 2000 miles away which doesn't help > > wit

Samsung 712N and xorg.conf

I am trying to get my Dad's computer working with his Samsung SyncMaster 712N, and am having some trouble. I am 2000 miles away which doesn't help with the debug either. He says that he can't get to the bottom of his screen at all to get to the menus, etc. Which tells me that he may be in a low

Re: generating man pages

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:03, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Technomage-hawke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > does anyone on the list here happen to know what tool or tools are used > > to generate man pages from sources (even to creating them from scratch if > > need > > > > be)? > > man pages are te

Re: ****Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

I saw this on a Tshirt: Homeland Security: since 1624 and a bunch of Native Americans with guns were in the picture!! On Thursday 22 November 2007 12:06, keith smith wrote: > I second the commend made by Josef. > > We have our problems and some are rather large. Still we are the greatest > co

Re: link

yup that would do it. you could also write a script that is fired off every minute via cron that would do a dir of 1 to the other, and any missing files you could do a ln -s of it, and vice versa for the other directory. or create 2 named pipes and write to them, and have a job read from each a

Re: I just bought the Dell Inspiron 1420

it has been a while, but I think I did: sudo su - password: x # passwd root Enter new pwd for root. jerry On Friday 31 August 2007 19:59, Phillip Waclawski wrote: > I called Dell to see if there was a way to avoid the "Vista Tax" on one > of the 1520's, but no go. So, using the educational

Re: will this work?

Sorry ... I wasn't finished. see below: On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:14, Jerry Davis wrote: > I have an export on system A -- lets call it /data > System B does an nfs mount of A:/data on say /mnt/A > All is well. > > Now lets say that I am running out of partition space on A:/

will this work?

I have an export on system A -- lets call it /data System B does an nfs mount of A:/data on say /mnt/A All is well. Now lets say that I am running out of partition space on A:/data So I add more disk space on another device, lets call it A:/data1 But I want to be able to access it under A:/data as

Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?]

On Sunday 01 July 2007 21:18, George Toft wrote: > http://georgetoft.com/georgeslaw.shtml > From my college days . . . > > "Hey, Grampa, tell us the story about 80 column punch cards, and why a > good rubber band was your best friend. You mean you couldn't just talk > to the computer?" > > "Well,

Re: iMac

On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I know this is a Linux newsgroup (Mint 3.0 is fantastic, IMHO), but I > did ask about an iMac a few months ago. I think I'm ready to purchase > the iMac. I love linux, I use it at home on my laptop, and I use it at work on our s