Re: who wants a career-oriented resource?
I'd may want to get involved in this... What are the specs? Enrique Joshua Zeidner writes: BTW- there are many stated reasons why the PLUG list is not 'strictly business'. ie. see my interview with Alan: http://www.joshuazeidner.com/2008/05/alan-dayley-phoenix-linux-users-group.html I am very interested in building a career-oriented resource for OSS professionals. Who else wants this? -jmz --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Disk wiping recommendations
Resending an email from Nathan that he posted here almost 4 years ago. I used it on a few and afterwards, the system didn't even know any device was attached as I hadn't specified a starting block, it wiped block zero. It is the 'w' that writes. Without the w, it just verifies the blocks. +++ destroying hard drives (intentionally) Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:36 AM From: Nathan England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add sender to Contacts To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us -Inline Attachment Follows- If the hard drive still works, boot knoppix on the machine, then run 'badblocks -svvw /dev/hda1' or whatever the drive is. That will zero everything in the disk. I've not found a recovery utility yet that will find anything after that. nathan 73 Ed/ke7feg Now that Novemeber is here, April can wait! On 2/23/2007 the morse code requirement was dropped for getting a ham license. Now just pass the written exams which are on the web at arrl.org for questions and http://www.kb0mga.net/exams/ --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Josh Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Josh Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disk wiping recommendations To: plug plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:21 PM Hi all, Could anyone please post recommendations on wiping data off of a hard drive? I'm getting rid of my old desktop and want to make sure its clean before the recipient gets it (not that they would have a clue how to retrieve data). It's just a precaution. Thanks, -j --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Gedit/text editor question
On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs (i.e. terminal sessions) Interesting idea. News to me. On my systems, I found that I had to use SHIFT+right or SHIFT+left to switch between terminal sessions. Not sure how I might use this, but it's great to learn about nifty (new to me) features like this. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Gedit/text editor question
Josef Lowder wrote: On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs (i.e. terminal sessions) Interesting idea. News to me. On my systems, I found that I had to use SHIFT+right or SHIFT+left to switch between terminal sessions. Not sure how I might use this, but it's great to learn about nifty (new to me) features like this. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss doh. you're right it *IS* SHIFT-left SHIFT-right, I do it all the time without ever thinking, and told you wrong. anyway the concept is still there. of course, most of my programming is in perl, or bash, with just a tiny bit of c mixed in. so YMMV. jerry -- Happy Trails! Jerry (K7AZJ) Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's random fortune: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Gedit/text editor question
After a long battle with technology, jdawg wrote: Josef Lowder wrote: On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs Interesting idea. News to me. On my systems, I found that I had to use SHIFT+right or SHIFT+left to switch between terminal sessions. doh. you're right it *IS* SHIFT-left SHIFT-right, I do it all the time without ever thinking, and told you wrong. Konsole is konfigurable, so you could make it use Ctrl-Right and Ctrl-Left if you really wanted to with Settings-Configure Shortcuts. Or if you're old-school and hate that menu thing, you could just edit ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc , then do dcop konsole-$PID konsole reparseConfiguration. Or something like that. -- Due to inflation, your 40 acres and a mule have now been reduced to 400 square feet and a guinea pig. My blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: ubuntu 8.04 and firefox 3 woes
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 00:19 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:15 AM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 08. Nov, 2008 schwätzte jdawg so: Joshua Zeidner wrote: FF3 gives me problems with Flash. Test and see if it is a Flash applets that are causing your problem. yeah. i bet it is ... what can be done about that? probably nothing. Adobe flash player is borken in some ways and we can't fix it. Add the flashblock plugin to keep the flashplayer from being used unless you want it. See if gnash is working in Intrepid and either upgrade to Intrepid or see if there's a gnash backport to Gutsy. Ive had good experiences with Ubuntu + Flash + FF2. I think the problem lies in FF3 + Flash, which also has problems in Windows. I would not suggest using the gnash plugin. Projects like Gnash and Blackdown always seem to be borken or out of date. As I understand it, Gnash claims considerable but not complete compatibility with Flash 7 but Adobe now has released Flash 10 plugin for Linux and many web sites are using flash features newer than version 7. It is however, a laudable effort to play flash stuff via open source rather than installing a proprietary blob and Adobe's flash has had a number of security issues. I have found that the 'noscript' addon/extension to Firefox really tames runaway Flash stuff but still there are times when it does seem to bog down on FF3. I also recommend disabling the Acrobat Reader plugin as that really hangs FF (both FF2 and FF3) but I do like the Acrobat Reader program better than the open source alternatives at this point. Thus my recommendation is to stick with FF3, install noscript and maybe flashblock too to tamp down runaway Flash (your pages will load much faster too and you will be spared a lot of junk ads) and you should function reasonably well. I have been able to keep FF3 running for a week or two before I have to close it. Craig --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Disk wiping recommendations
you could also boot some Linux CD and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/DRIVE2WIPE Easy... :) Enrique eculbert writes: Resending an email from Nathan that he posted here almost 4 years ago. I used it on a few and afterwards, the system didn't even know any device was attached as I hadn't specified a starting block, it wiped block zero. It is the 'w' that writes. Without the w, it just verifies the blocks. +++ destroying hard drives (intentionally) Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:36 AM From: Nathan England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add sender to Contacts To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us -Inline Attachment Follows- If the hard drive still works, boot knoppix on the machine, then run 'badblocks -svvw /dev/hda1' or whatever the drive is. That will zero everything in the disk. I've not found a recovery utility yet that will find anything after that. nathan 73 Ed/ke7feg Now that Novemeber is here, April can wait! On 2/23/2007 the morse code requirement was dropped for getting a ham license. Now just pass the written exams which are on the web at arrl.org for questions and http://www.kb0mga.net/exams/ --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Josh Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Josh Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disk wiping recommendations To: plug plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8:21 PM Hi all, Could anyone please post recommendations on wiping data off of a hard drive? I'm getting rid of my old desktop and want to make sure its clean before the recipient gets it (not that they would have a clue how to retrieve data). It's just a precaution. Thanks, -j --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: who wants a career-oriented resource?
What kind of resource? Skill building or career building . Keith Smith --- On Sat, 11/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: who wants a career-oriented resource? To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:23 AM I'd may want to get involved in this... What are the specs? Enrique Joshua Zeidner writes: BTW- there are many stated reasons why the PLUG list is not 'strictly business'. ie. see my interview with Alan: http://www.joshuazeidner.com/2008/05/alan-dayley-phoenix-linux-users-group.html I am very interested in building a career-oriented resource for OSS professionals. Who else wants this? -jmz --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Upgrading Kubuntu
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:20:43PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Linux for a long time and recently I've been playing around with Kubuntu. I'm currently running 8.04 with the KDE 4 Remix and wanted to do the online upgrade to 8.10. From the instructions on the website it says to do: kdesudo adept_manager --dist-upgrade I expect to get the package installer coming up with the Version Upgrade button. The package manager starts but there is no Version Upgrade button. The instructions on the website are pretty straightforward so I don't think I've missed anything but it's not behaving as expected. What am I doing wrong? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss 8.04 is an LTS version and as such has updates to normal releases turned off. Just go into your software sources, assuming it is called that in KDE land, and on the update tab go to the list box at the bottom and change it from LTS only to Normal. That said, I have no clue whether the remix upgrades normally. This is what I have on the Updates tab in Software Sources: - Important security updates (checked) - Recommended updates (checked) - Pre-released updates (unchecked) - Unsupported updates (unchecked) - Check for Updates: Daily (checked) There isn't something exactly like you describe (changing something from LTS to Normal). The closest thing would be the Unsupported updates but that doesn't seem really right either. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss I don't have the KDE 4 remix loaded anywhere to check this. Perhaps someone else does. I doubt the KDE folks removed this safeguard from the LTS version unless they, quite possibly, removed its LTS status by doing the remix. So you might look further for the list box I mentioned and if you still do not find it I would assume they did remove the LTS status. The web page you referred to probably told you tyo do two things before issuing kdesudo adept_manager --dist-upgrade and perhaps you did them. But since you did not say so, I suggest you go back to that page and be sure that you do two things first: 1. Get 8.04 completely updated, and 2. change your listed repositories from Hardy to Intrepid before doing the dist-upgrade If that is not the problem I am stumped for now without a system to look at -- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Fullscreen bug in firefox
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Mike Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and then my firefox browser window goes to full screen. I just push F11 and it goes away. I've seen some stuff on the web for work arounds on this, but none of it was current. For example the settings they suggested I fix weren't there under EditPrefs. Anyway, anybody having this problem at all. Running Ubuntu Hardy here. -- Mike Hoy --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss It may be a feature rather than a bug. If your window manager is set to maximize a window as a result of a click or double click on the title bar of a window. Some such settings can result in an accidental invocation. One system I have worked on caused the window to roll up like a window shade if you just pause the cursor too long over the title bar. May be cool to some folks, it is a PITA to me. -- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Disk wiping recommendations
please be careful if you really want a secure wipe. Use a real multipass tool (such as DBAN and others) for doing a secure wipe. Those single pass simple techniques like dd prevent common utilities from being able to see the old data but are really not secure from better forensic techniques. Adequate if the data is not really critical, but inadequate for important stuff. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Fullscreen bug in firefox
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be cool to some folks, it is a PITA to me. hey! wATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! :D :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
That picture has a secret.....
I came across an article while stumbling around the interweb Basically concatenation of a jpeg followed by a zip makes a handy way to conceal your files. http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/tip-hiding-files-inside-an-image-in-linux James Finstrom --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Disk wiping recommendations
I went with dban, which is probably overkill in my case, but at least I have confidence someone wont be able to retrieve my invoices or whatever. I started it last night, and its almost halfway done. I've got decently large disks and running 3 passes on them. thanks, -j --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
feisty to hardy
der Hans wrote: If you're running LTS ( long term support ), then you can go from LTS to LTS without the non-LTS updates. more stupid questions; how do i know i am running LTS? since i am on DIAL UP (agl) but i do have a CD (or DVD) for Hardy can i use that? assuming i have completed all the updates available. btw, i really like ubuntu much more than i did redhat, very newbie/older person friendly. -- betty i. www.webcanine.com information for people who care for dogs. -- betty i. www.webcanine.com information for people who care for dogs. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
