from:"Mark Jarvis"

Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

Foxit Pro
  (www.foxitsoftware.com) does this nicely for Windows
machines. Unfortunately, they do not have a Linux version. Foxit Pro
also has the ability to allow you to mark and copy text if the PDF
was created from a text file.

I suspect that a cleverly formulated Google search could find a
Linux-able PDF reader that can do the same things. 

-mj-



Michael Havens wrote:

I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I
  hat printing them to fill them out and then needing to scan to
  email the form to the person that needs the said form. Is there
  like a program or website I can open a pdf in that will allow me
  to fill it out on my computer?
  :-)~MIKE~(-:
  
  
  
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Re: fill out forms

2012-10-18 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

This site has a link to
  get a Linux version of Foxit Pro.
  
http://maketecheasier.com/8-alternative-pdf-readers-for-your-consideration/2010/11/12
  
  -mj-
  
  

Mark Jarvis wrote:


  
  
  Foxit Pro (www.foxitsoftware.com)
  does this nicely for Windows machines. Unfortunately, they do not
  have a Linux version. Foxit Pro also has the ability to allow you
  to mark and copy text if the PDF was created from a text file.
  
  I suspect that a cleverly formulated Google search could find a
  Linux-able PDF reader that can do the same things. 
  
  -mj-
  
  
  
  Michael Havens wrote:
  
  I frequently get forms I need to fill out in PDFs. I
hat printing them to fill them out and then needing to scan to
email the form to the person that needs the said form. Is there
like a program or website I can open a pdf in that will allow me
to fill it out on my computer?
:-)~MIKE~(-:



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OT USB to PS/2 adapters

2012-10-05 Thread Mark Jarvis



I have a relatively new (1yr) PC without PS/2 keyboard  mouse 
connectors. I've accumulated 4 USB to PS/2 adapters. Three are just 6 
cables with a USB male on one end and a PS/2 female on the other. The 
fourth is similar, but has a large oval-ish thing in the middle of the 
cable. My MS ergonomic keyboard has a PS/2 connector and will not work 
when connected using one of the three plain adapters, but will with the 
fourth.


I'd like to understand a) why, and b) where to buy a couple more of the 
adapters that do work (for another project).


Any help from the incredibly knowledgeable PLUG-ers will be gratefully 
appreciated.


Thanks in advance,
Mark Jarvis

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Re: OT USB to PS/2 adapters

2012-10-05 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

A corollary to RTFM is Look at the Stupid Device. It had Radio Shack
molded into the front and even had a part #. on the back. Duh!

I was setting up my wife's new box and of course had the same issue
there, so I got on my horse  got myself over to Radio Shack.
The durn thing cost $20, but now everything works!

The USB 1 vs USB 2 makes sense. I'm pretty sure that I'd
successfully used those simple adapters sometime in the past, but
everything's USB 2 now, going to 3.

Mark Jarvis

Lisa Kachold wrote:
Hi Guys!
  
  On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, JD
Austin j...@twingeckos.com
wrote:

  I've had that same experience with ps2 to usb adaptors; It
  seems the more expensive ones work better (electronics in the
  middle) but it's hit or miss.  I've gradually phased PS2
  devices out in favor of usb devices.
  

  
  On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:04 AM,
Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net
wrote:

  
  I have a relatively new (1yr) PC without PS/2
  keyboard  mouse connectors. I've accumulated 4
  USB to PS/2 adapters. Three are just 6" cables with a
  USB male on one end and a PS/2 female on the other.
  The fourth is similar, but has a large oval-ish thing
  in the middle of the cable. My MS ergonomic keyboard
  has a PS/2 connector and will not work when connected
  using one of the three plain adapters, but will with
  the fourth.
  
  I'd like to understand a) why, and b) where to buy a
  couple more of the adapters that do work (for another
  project).
  
  Any help from the incredibly knowledgeable PLUG-ers
  will be gratefully appreciated.
  
  Thanks in advance,
  Mark Jarvis
  

  

  

snip 

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  It has to do with the specifications between USB 1.0 and 2.0 which
  require different power where the cables must also contain that
  capacity.
  

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus


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Re: making PDFs workable

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

The Foxitpro PDF reader allows text to be marked and copied.
Unfortunately, it's only available for Windows. I don't know if
there's a Linux PDF reader that has that capability.

-mj-

Michael Havens wrote:

HOw can I make it so I can copy-n-paste the text from
  a pdf into a oo document?
  :-)~MIKE~(-:
  
  
  On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Sam
Kreimeyer skrei...@gmail.com
wrote:

  Here's a pdf of a quick guide to regular expressions
  http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet-v1/pdf/
  
  Basically, it's a format for defining search patterns that
  supports special meanings for certain characters. For
  instance:
  
  a - finds any string like "a"
  a. - finds any string like "a" plus any other character except
  a new line (matches "aa", "ab", "ac", etc)
  a.* - finds any string like "a" plus zero or more characters
  except a new line (matches "aa", "abcdefghijk")
  Other special characters can further modify this behavior.
  
  So here's an explanation of the earlier command.
  
  's/\.JPG$/.jpg/' *.JPG
  
  Basic search and replace format s/[string we search
  for]/[string to replace matches with]/
  
  "\.JPG$" - Because "." is special, we escape it with "\" to
  keep the regex from interpreting it, so the "." will be
  treated literally. "JPG" is what we're looking for. Placing a
  "$" at the end of the string tells the regex to match the
  string only at the end of the strings you're searching. This
  means that you will match "example.JPG" but not "JPG.example".
  
  ".jpg" - This is our replacement string. This is what goes in
  the place of every match we find.
  
  "*.JPG" - while this isn't part of the regex, "*" is a
  wildcard (can be substituted for any number of characters).
  
  Hope that helps!
  
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Re: How can a usb device crash a computer?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

  I had that happen. The problem was the printer. I replaced the
  printer and the problem went away.
  
  

j...@actionline.com wrote:


  
How could plugging in a printer via a usb port crash my computer?

I just got a usb to rs232 connector cable and when I plugged it
in to my computer, the computer instantly quit. So I unplugged
the usb cable immediately, but now I cannot power on the computer.

What in the world could have caused such a drastic failure?

And what can I try to resurrect the computer?

Or, to whom would you recommend I take the computer for repair?



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Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

  Thanks to all who responded. Sounds like no problem.
  
  Thanks again,
  
  Mark
  
  

Mark Jarvis wrote:


  
  
I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few
years ago I was warned off them because Dell did something
different to their disks so that you had to buy
replacement/additional disks only from Dell. Any chance that
it's still true?
   
  
  
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OT: Dell disks

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

  I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few
  years ago I was warned off them because Dell did something
  different to their disks so that you had to buy
  replacement/additional disks only from Dell. Any chance that it's
  still true?

  


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OT--HTML coding question

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Jarvis



I have a web site with a large number of hand coded pages. I have a 
block of code that needs to be inserted into each page. The problem is 
that the block will change occasionally as new material is added. 
Obviously, things would be much simpler if I could make the change in 
one place and have each page attach/include/link to/etc. a file 
containing that piece of code. If there is an HTML construct that allows 
that, I haven't found it.


If there is such a thing and someone could point me to it, It would be 
greatly  appreciated.


Mark Jarvis
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Re: OT--HTML coding question

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Jarvis



Thanks! It sounds like a good solution. If this was a commercial web 
site I'd probably do it. However this is something I'm doing on a 
volunteer basis using donated space and I'm trying to keep everything 
small and simple--especially simple.


Once again, thanks!

Mark

Matt Graham wrote:

From: Mark Jarvism.jar...@cox.net

I have a web site with a large number of hand coded pages. I have a
block of code that needs to be inserted into each page. The problem is
that the block will change occasionally as new material is added.
Obviously, things would be much simpler if I could make the change in
one place and have each page attach/include/link to/etc. a file
containing that piece of code. If there is an HTML construct that allows
that, I haven't found it.

It's called server-side includes, and it's relatively standard if you're
using Apache.  You have to have the directory you want to have server-side
includes enabled in with a config stanza kind of like so:

Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
/Directory
# note that Includes is the option you want to have enabled for this dir.
# that's the docroot of my webhost; modify for your setup
# make sure to restart apache if you change the config file

Once this has been done, all you have to do is to put a construct like so into
foobar.html:

!--#include virtual=/incs/nav.html --

...this tells apache that when it's reading foobar.html, it should read the
file /var/www/localhost/htdocs/incs/nav.html and insert that file's contents
into foobar.html at that point, before sending stuff to the client.[0]  This
is *really* useful.  At work, we basically depend on apache SSI to do 5 tons
of stuff, since many pages use the same stuff across the whole site for
navigation/menu bars/whatever.

If this didn't make any sense, holler.

[0] It can get a bit more complex than that, what with RewriteRules and other
stuff, but that'll get you started.

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Re: OT HDW question update

2012-01-12 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  


  If I understand what I've been reading about the DVI interface,
  without the 4 pins around the horizontal bar, there's no analog
  output in the plug--see diagram. The DVI-D ones--which is what I
  have on one machine--do not have the analog signal.

Quoting: "As well as digital signals, the DVI
connector includes pins providing the same analog signals found
on a VGA connector, allowing an analog VGA monitor to be
connected with a passive plug adapter (or with a converter cable
with VGA at one end, and DVI-A or DVI-I at the other). This
feature was included in order to make DVI universal, as it
allows either type of monitor (analog or digital) to be operated
from the same connector.


The DVI connector on a device is therefore
given one of three names, depending on which signals it
implements:



  DVI-D (digital only, both
  single-link and dual-link)
  DVI-A (analog only)
  DVI-I (integrated  digital and
  analog)"

One machine has both
  DVI-I  VGA ports, the other only the DVI-D,. I'll try
  to find a spare video card and see if that will help.

Mark

Stephen wrote:

  I have dual link DVI output on my graphics card, and it worked fine
with the simple adapter.

I can look and see if i have a spare. 10 bux for that is ridiculous.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote:

  

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I went by Fry's and they
wanted $10 and up for an adapter. The good news is I didn't buy one. I say
good news because I'm now learning a little about DVI  I don't think an
adapter is going to fix the problem. The DVI ports on my new computer are
DVI-D (Dual Link). Since apparently a DVI-D port is digital only, I suspect
that attempting to run that signal through a VGA interface either would
require a non-simple ( non-cheap) adapter or be impossible.

It looks like the KVM box is going back (more bad news)  I buy a more
expensive KVM with DVI ports.

Any advice  comments by someone familiar with video and the DVI interface
will be gratefully accepted.

Thanks,

Mark Jarvis



Stephen wrote:

The simple answer is yes, Most graphics cards come with them now, but
you can probably stop by frys and get one pretty cheap. cant image it
would be more than 5 bux.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote:

I just ordered  received a TRENDnet 2-port USB KVM switch kit. I thought I
was OK on the video because its rated resolution is greater than what I'm
running.

What's the problem? It appears to only have VGA video ports and one of the
computers I be hooking up to it has only DVI. Is there such a thing as a
DVI-to-VGA adapter? Will I have problems using this unit with my computers?

I'm sure that the solution is simple,  I probably should know the answer,
but video is one area I have no expertise in.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Re: (OT HDW question update) update

2012-01-12 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

I dug out my spare video card and it has a
  DVI-I port so I think that I'll try that. 

I still don't know enough about this whole area,
  so if anyone has anything to share, it would be appreciated.
  
  Mark Jarvis


Mark Jarvis wrote:

  
  
  
If I understand what I've been reading about the DVI interface,
without the 4 pins around the horizontal bar, there's no analog
output in the plug--see diagram. The DVI-D ones--which is what I
have on one machine--do not have the analog signal.
  
  Quoting: "As well as digital signals, the
  DVI connector includes pins providing the same analog signals
  found on a VGA connector, allowing an analog VGA monitor to be
  connected with a passive plug adapter (or with a converter
  cable with VGA at one end, and DVI-A or DVI-I at the other).
  This feature was included in order to make DVI universal, as
  it allows either type of monitor (analog or digital) to be
  operated from the same connector.
   
  The DVI connector on a device is therefore
  given one of three names, depending on which signals it
  implements:
   
  
DVI-D (digital only, both
single-link and dual-link)
DVI-A (analog only)
DVI-I (integrated  digital and
analog)"
  
  One machine has both
DVI-I  VGA ports, the other only the DVI-D,. I'll
try to find a spare video card and see if that will help.
  
  Mark
  
  Stephen wrote:
  
I have dual link DVI output on my graphics card, and it worked fine
with the simple adapter.

I can look and see if i have a spare. 10 bux for that is ridiculous.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote:


  I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I went by Fry's and they
wanted $10 and up for an adapter. The good news is I didn't buy one. I say
good news because I'm now learning a little about DVI  I don't think an
adapter is going to fix the problem. The DVI ports on my new computer are
DVI-D (Dual Link). Since apparently a DVI-D port is digital only, I suspect
that attempting to run that signal through a VGA interface either would
require a non-simple ( non-cheap) adapter or be impossible.

It looks like the KVM box is going back (more bad news)  I buy a more
expensive KVM with DVI ports.

Any advice  comments by someone familiar with video and the DVI interface
will be gratefully accepted.

Thanks,

Mark Jarvis



Stephen wrote:

The simple answer is yes, Most graphics cards come with them now, but
you can probably stop by frys and get one pretty cheap. cant image it
would be more than 5 bux.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote:

I just ordered  received a TRENDnet 2-port USB KVM switch kit. I thought I
was OK on the video because its rated resolution is greater than what I'm
running.

What's the problem? It appears to only have VGA video ports and one of the
computers I be hooking up to it has only DVI. Is there such a thing as a
DVI-to-VGA adapter? Will I have problems using this unit with my computers?

I'm sure that the solution is simple,  I probably should know the answer,
but video is one area I have no expertise in.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Re: OT HDW question

2012-01-11 Thread Mark Jarvis



My monitor has a 15 pin VGA port, as does the old computer so it looks 
like an adapter to connect my DVI cable from the new box to the KVM 
switch will make it work. Of course that brings up the question of what 
am I losing by not using DVI?


A quick Google check (which I should have done earlier) showed lots of 
adapters for just a few bucks, so I should be able to pick one up 
locally--which leads back to the what do I lose question.


Comments?

Thanks,

Mark Jarvis


Mark Jarvis wrote:


I just ordered  received a TRENDnet 2-port USB KVM switch kit. I 
thought I was OK on the video because its rated resolution is greater 
than what I'm running.


What's the problem? It appears to only have VGA video ports and one of 
the computers I be hooking up to it has only DVI. Is there such a 
thing as a DVI-to-VGA adapter? Will I have problems using this unit 
with my computers?


I'm sure that the solution is simple,  I probably should know the 
answer, but video is one area I have no expertise in.


Thanks in advance for any advice.


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Re: OT HDW question update

2012-01-11 Thread Mark Jarvis



I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I went by Fry's and 
they wanted $10 and up for an adapter. The good news is I didn't buy 
one. I say good news because I'm now learning a little about DVI  I 
don't think an adapter is going to fix the problem. The DVI ports on my 
new computer are DVI-D (Dual Link). Since apparently a DVI-D port is 
digital only, I suspect that attempting to run that signal through a VGA 
interface either would require a non-simple ( non-cheap) adapter or be 
impossible.


It looks like the KVM box is going back (more bad news)  I buy a more 
expensive KVM with DVI ports.


Any advice  comments by someone familiar with video and the DVI 
interface will be gratefully accepted.


Thanks,

Mark Jarvis



Stephen wrote:

The simple answer is yes, Most graphics cards come with them now, but
you can probably stop by frys and get one pretty cheap. cant image it
would be more than 5 bux.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Mark Jarvism.jar...@cox.net  wrote:

I just ordered  received a TRENDnet 2-port USB KVM switch kit. I thought I
was OK on the video because its rated resolution is greater than what I'm
running.

What's the problem? It appears to only have VGA video ports and one of the
computers I be hooking up to it has only DVI. Is there such a thing as a
DVI-to-VGA adapter? Will I have problems using this unit with my computers?

I'm sure that the solution is simple,  I probably should know the answer,
but video is one area I have no expertise in.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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OT HDW question

2012-01-10 Thread Mark Jarvis



I just ordered  received a TRENDnet 2-port USB KVM switch kit. I 
thought I was OK on the video because its rated resolution is greater 
than what I'm running.


What's the problem? It appears to only have VGA video ports and one of 
the computers I be hooking up to it has only DVI. Is there such a thing 
as a DVI-to-VGA adapter? Will I have problems using this unit with my 
computers?


I'm sure that the solution is simple,  I probably should know the 
answer, but video is one area I have no expertise in.


Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Re: OT--SATA problem

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

  Thanks to all who responded.

  Red face time. 
  
  I just checked Tiger Direct--they have several SATA cards from $20
  to $60. Any particular brand you recommend to a) use or b) stay
  away from?
  
  -mj-


Eric Shubert wrote:
The
  problem I referred to was with software/linux raid and raw drives
  on the promise controller. Just to be clear.
  
  
  As you said they seem to work fine as standalone (no raid) drives.
  
  
  On 09/16/2011 09:27 AM, Stephen wrote:
  
  I have never liked promise raid, too
flaky. but as just raw drives

they are very nice.


On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Eric
Shuberte...@shubes.net wrote:

On 09/15/2011 08:29 PM, Stephen wrote:
  
  

I have a promise sata1 cars with two ports on it.


  
  
  I have a promise pci 4 port sata3 card. These work ok, so long
  as you don't
  
  put a raid-5 array on it. There used to be (2 years or so ago)
  a fairly rare
  
  problem with software raid and these cards. I don't know if
  the problem
  
  applies to other raid types or not, nor whether the problem
  has been fixed.
  
  
  --
  
  -Eric 'shubes'
  
  
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OT: archival storage

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

  I've just recently found out about a company with CD/DVD
  media/drives which don't use dye layer but actually melt a pit in
  the media. Here's the company site http://millenniata.com/ and a
  good article about archival storage in general http://goo.gl/vDwAZ.
The drives aren't ready to ship and I was going to pre-order one,
but decided to let someone else be the early adopter and have the
fun with the low s/n machines.

I also had somehow missed or ignored information about JPEG 2000
files, which I should have been using instead of .jpg for my
personal storage. For a while it looks like .jpg  .tif are
still the lingua franca for image exchange, however.

  


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OT--SATA problem

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Jarvis


  
  

  I have a desktop system which unfortunately has only two SATA
  channels, which are used by my primary and backup HDs. I would
  like to add a particular DVD re-writer which only comes in SATA.
  Is there an add-in card or something similar available which I can
  use to allow a third SATA connection?
  
  Since the backup HD is used only occasionally to make backups
  (yes, I know, I should do it more regularly) I guess that I could
  leave the one device plugged in most of the time and just switch
  plugs when the other is needed, but I really don't want to do
  that. Is there such a thing as a SATA switch?
  
  Thanks for any ideas you may have!
  
  Mark Jarvis

  


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Re: Georgian woman cuts off web access to all of Armenia

2011-04-07 Thread Mark Jarvis






A few years ago I read of a company that went the whole nine yards to
insure net access: dual front ends connecting to two ISPs over two
separate cables. They lost the whole thing when a backhoe cut the
single underground conduit that the redundant cables were in. 

Oops!

Mark Jarvis



Dan Lund wrote:

  That's the lovely part of redundancy :)
It'd be slow, but existent.  Then again, circa 1997 the entire eastern
seaboard was disconnected from the western united states for a (very
small) period of time due to a cable break.  That made me feel real
good about the whole packet detouring thing... or at least the
architects of said network's idea of detouring...
--Dan Lund

"This day will be a great day in our history - the date of a new
revolution, quite as much needed as the old one."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's diary after the hanging of John Smith
in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia) December 2, 1859



On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, S Kreimeyer skrei...@gmail.com wrote:
  
  
I met one of the civil engineers whom helped build Denver international
airport. He said that they had to work around a fiber optic cable, and
that if it were severed the damages were estimated somewhere around
$3M/sec. I don't think there's much appreciation for how vulnerable net
infrastructure is.

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 16:29 -0700, Jordan Aberle wrote:


  Pwned.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com
wrote:

Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75,
slices through cable while scavenging for copper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access





Keith Smith

2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are
called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my
face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

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Re: OT: How to auto-rotate images in a web page window

2011-02-18 Thread Mark Jarvis






It's not as clean  nice, but if you're using Google's Picasaweb to
store images, Picasa will generate slideshow html for you to embed in
your web page.

The following is from the Picasa
helps. Of course, you must be signed in to your Picasaweb page first.


  On the My Photos page, click your album.
  Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
  Click Embed Slideshow.
  Choose your slideshow settings, such as image size, captions, and
autoplay.
  Once you've chosen your settings, mark and copy the resulting
HTML code.
  Paste the HTML in the source code for your site. 

Once the slideshow is embedded in your site, people who click your
slideshow will be taken to view your album in PicasaWeb Albums.

Unfortunately, on some browsers, the complete code to be copied doesn't
always appear in the little box. If it doesn't end with
/embed, try with a different browser.

Mark Jarvis



keith smith wrote:

  

  

I hear ya! Seems I'm on a perpetual learning curve.


Keith Smith

--- On Fri, 2/18/11, j...@actionline.com j...@actionline.com
wrote:

From: j...@actionline.com j...@actionline.com
Subject: Re: OT: How to auto-rotate images in a web page window
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 12:29 PM
  
  
Thanks Keith.
  
Now I just need to find someone who can build what I need
as I don't think I can take on another learning project ;)
  
Joe
  
 Viewing the source for http://www.monkeytreephoto.com/
shows the following
 lines. I suspect they too are using jQuery to rotate their
images. And
 more specifically it look like they are using the jQuery Cycle
plugin.

 !-- include jQuery library --
 script src=""
type="text/_javascript_"/script

 !-- include Cycle plugin --
 script src=""
type="text/_javascript_"/script




 

 Keith Smith

 --- On Fri, 2/18/11, j...@actionline.com j...@actionline.com
wrote:

 From: j...@actionline.com j...@actionline.com
 Subject: OT: How to auto-rotate images in a web page window
 To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
 Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 8:57 AM


 Recently, I have noticed what seems to be a new (and very nice)
feature of
 gradually rotating images in a window on many web pages, but I
can't find
 out how it is done. Here are a couple of examples:

 http://www.monkeytreephoto.com/index.php
(very slow starting)
 http://www.filmmakeraccessories.com
(six second delay between images)

 What do I need to get something like this to work on my web pages?

 I'd like to speed it up a bit and get it to cycle through a
variety of
 images as they are added to a folder starting with the most
recently
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OT: humor

2011-02-15 Thread Mark Jarvis






This was in an article on The Reg, a British e-list whose motto is
"Biting the hand that feeds IT". 

 this video, is
one of my favorites. The portrayals of Mac,
PC, Linux, Google are chillingly true-to-life. Particularly Unix Guy"
... 



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OT: XHTML coding question

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Jarvis






Any web monkeys out there?

I'm using:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"
"http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"

I have the following in my css file:
p.med_web {
 font-size: 150%;
} 

The following works well.
p class="med_web"blah blah blah/p

Why doesn't
span class="med_web"blah blah blah/span

work???

Thanks,

Mark Jarvis



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Re: OT: XHTML coding question

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Jarvis






That did it! Thanks!

-mj-

Eric Cope wrote:

  The p.med_web applies only to p tags with the class = 'med_web'. If
you want to generalize, then change your css to :

.med_web{
...
}

Eric


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote:
  
  

Any web monkeys out there?

I'm using:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"
"http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"

I have the following in my css file:
p.med_web {
 font-size: 150%;
}

The following works well.
p class="med_web"blah blah blah/p

Why doesn't
span class="med_web"blah blah blah/span

work???

Thanks,

Mark Jarvis

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OT: Fwd: [Wftl-lug] This man need help with his Blackberry

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Jarvis







 Original Message 

  

  Subject: 
  [Wftl-lug] This man need help with his Blackberry


  Date: 
  Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:04:15 -0500


  From: 
  John Kerr johneddie.k...@gmail.com


  Reply-To: 
  The WFTL LUG wftl-...@salmar.com


  To: 
  wftl-...@salmar.com

  



Blackberry
problem

Cheers

John

-- 
In the fifties they only wanted scientists. Any artsy fartsy people
were spies, they still are in society. -- John Lennon



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Nostalgia, anyone?

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Jarvis






I'm doing some house cleaning and throwing out old diskettes, etc.
Among them are eight 5.25 floppies containing Tannenbaum's Minux
system. In the '90s I bought his Operating Systems book  talked my
dept. into springing for the Minux floppies using the coupon in the
back of the book (I think that they cost $80). Minux, of course is the
system that started Linus Torvald on his epic journey that ended with
Linux.

Does anyone want this piece of history?

Mark Jarvis




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OT: DVD problem

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Jarvis






Why would a DVD player purchased locally refuse to play a DVD I burned?
It played OK on my combo tape/DVD box but wouldn't on the other player,
citing "wrong country code" or something like that.




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Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Jarvis






Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an
image embedded in a PDF file, they will convert it and email the
resulting word file back to you. The resulting file can be edited in
Open Office or whatever.

BTW, every so often someone sends me a scanned document embedded in a
PDF file instead of just sending a JPEG or TIFF file. Why do they do
that? I have to use Photoshop to convert it to a standard image format
so that I can run it through OCR.

Mark

Tim Bogart wrote:

  
  
  All,
  
  
  I have been asked to provide information as part of a job
application. In the first part of the process, this was done on the
web. Now in this next phase, I have been asked to provide information
by filling out forms. They would prefer to have an electronic version
of this data. Unfortunately, they have sent me a document in .PDF file
format. As we all have known for 20 years or more, these files are
normally set to disallow editing, as this one is. I'm familiar with
pdf2txt and the rest of the manual tools. I could go to the local
service bureau and print out twenty of them, but I don't want to spend
three days doing this.Open office doesn't seem to be able to open a
pdf formatted file. Does anybody know of a free (as in beer or
freedom) application that runs on windoze that will allow me to edit
this file? I tried something called "Foxit" but it doesn't work as
advertised. You can't edit text with it. It acts simply as a viewer.
Does anybody have personal experience with something that's free that
actually works?
  
  
  TIA,
  
  
  -- Tim B.
  
  
  

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Re: Tarballs

2010-08-14 Thread Mark Jarvis






Maybe this will help.

Eric - A wrote:

  Hi all, I'm trying to learn how to use tarballs but I'm running into a dead-end with the commands I found on a couple of "how-to" pages. The commands I executed are attached and show the commands I used. Any help will do.


.
Eric - A
.


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Re:

2010-02-21 Thread Mark Jarvis






Make that two votes. (especially for math/science geeks) Notice: first
programming language. Having picked up the basics, you can then go on
in whatever language seems best for the area you're working (or want to
be working) in. Plan on learning at least a half-dozen or a dozen
languages during your career.

Mark Jarvis



Eric Cope wrote:
One vote for Fortran!
  
  On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Alan Dayley
  ala...@consultpros.com
wrote:
  
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Vaughn Treude vltre...@deru.com
wrote:
 On 02/20/2010 08:01 PM, keith smith wrote:
 I'm old school and would suggest learning plain old C.  Then
you can branch out to other languages.

 
 Keith Smith

 I second that. C is simple and versatile, and spawned off a whole
family
 of other language such as C++ and Java.
 Vaughn Treude


I would not describe C as simple.  It is a small language (low number
of reserved words and operators) but it's highly versatile nature and
closeness to the hardware makes it very capable and dangerous.  And so
not simple, in my mind.

It has been my bread and butter for 20+ years so I do love it.

Alan


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OT: funny

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Jarvis






(Copied from the Puns of the Day mail list) 

Maybe not new, but I liked it . . .

Kimberly-Clark, makers of the popular Scott brand of bathroom tissue, today announced its new "HTTP//" brand of bathroom tissue targeted directly to the "digerati" market. Scott Tissue is the world's oldest and best-selling bathroom tissue, available in more countries than any other brand of tissue. Introduced in 1913, Scott Tissue is soft, strong and long lasting with 1,000-sheet rolls. The new "HTTP://" (pronounced "H, T,T, P Colon Slash Slash") tissue will be available in one kilosheet (1024 sheet) rolls instead of the traditional 1000-sheet rolls. "If our test markets are any indicator, the 1K rolls should be a big hit with not only the geeks on the go, but also geeks who've got to go!" Each sheet of the 1K-sheet rolls of "HTTP://" Tissue will feature a different image from a popular web page. The web page images are provided by a number of sponsors, most notably Microsoft Corp., the lead sponsor with over 256 sheets displaying different screen shots from the company's various web sites. In a bold marketing move, Microsoft and Kimberly-Clark agreed to co-market the "HTTP://" Tissue with the slogan, "When Do You Want to Go Today?"




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OT: DVD RW media ?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Jarvis






When my VCR died I was forced to join the 21st century and get a
DVD/VCR combo recorder. I would like to start putting some things on
DVDs and also to start recording to rewritable DVDs. I've made a few
DVDs, but not many. My recollection is that the DVD-R discs tend to
work better in ordinary DVD players. Is this a general consensus? Does
the same thing hold for DVD RWs? Is there a brand that is known for
particularly good (or bad) results or as a good value for the $? Also
advice on where to get them  save a $.

This group is such an eclectic collection of experts that I'm sure that
someone is in a position to give some good advice here.

Thanks, 

Mark Jarvis



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Re: OT: DVD RW media ?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Jarvis






Apparently the wording on my original post was poor. I'm looking for
media recommendations for use in the DVD combo I just hooked up to my
TV:
    1) DVD-R vs DVD+R
    2) DVD-RW vs DVD+RW
    3) Brand recommendation (good)
    4) Brand recommendation (avoid)
    5) Good local source (if any)
    6) Good internet order source.

Comments on any of the above will be appreciated.

Thanks,
-mj-
    

Mark Jarvis wrote:

When my VCR died I was forced to join the 21st century and get a
DVD/VCR combo recorder. I would like to start putting some things on
DVDs and also to start recording to rewritable DVDs. I've made a few
DVDs, but not many. My recollection is that the DVD-R discs tend to
work better in ordinary DVD players. Is this a general consensus? Does
the same thing hold for DVD RWs? Is there a brand that is known for
particularly good (or bad) results or as a good value for the $? Also
advice on where to get them  save a $.
  
This group is such an eclectic collection of experts that I'm sure that
someone is in a position to give some good advice here.
  
Thanks, 
  
Mark Jarvis
  
  

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Re: OT (sort of): Hardware ?

2010-01-22 Thread Mark Jarvis






I'm somewhat disappointed that this motherboard has only two memory
slots. They are different colors, whatever that means with only two
slots.


Eric Shubert wrote:

  Mark Jarvis wrote:
  
  
With the holiday season over, I decided to upgrade my system from 1GB to 
2GB RAM. The memory I had was DDR2-800 Memory Expert from Adata. The 
place I'd originally bought the motherboard  memory from no longer 
carried that brand, but their tech guy said that other brands, for 
example Kingston, should work with it with no problem. (Yeah, Right!) I 
had a gift card from Fry's burning a hole in my pocket, so I got a 1GB 
DDR2-800 Kingston stick at Fry's.

Now the problem. Either stick alone shows as DDR2-800 in POST. Both 
together show as DDR2-667. GR!

I can :
1) Live with it. It's only a 16-17% drop in speed.

2) Take it back, get another Kingston or another brand (Patriot?), 
cross my fingers  hope.

3) Take it back and order a matching Adata stick online.

4) Buy another Kingston 1GB to make a pair and try to sell the old 
Adata for $10 or $15.

Any suggestions?

  
  
I'm not an expert on memory, but I'll chime in anyhow. ;)

Is this a dual channel MB? If so, I would try putting them on separate 
channels (different colored slots). My understanding is that matching 
memory sticks for dual channel mode (cards in samed colored slots) is 
hit and miss, even w/in the same brand.

That being said, if you decide to try to get back to 800, I would go the 
Kingston route. I recently received a 1G Kingston stick in a trade 
transaction that was bad. Kingston customer service was very good. The 
stick had a lifetime warranty, and they replaced it with no problem (I 
only had to pay shipping). I asked at the time about pairing it up for 
dual channel use, and they said that if I had 2 Kingston sticks that 
didn't work together in dual channel mode, that they would replace them 
with 2 that were paired. Again, I would only need to pay shipping.

If you want that kind of service, make sure your ram has a lifetime 
warranty. Some does, some doesn't.

  



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Re: OT: hardware

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Jarvis






Good points. Either could have been the problem and I was hoping that
one of them was--much simpler/cheaper to fix. I didn't mention in the
original post, but I did pull the memory sticks one at a time (it had
two 512MB sticks). Barring a sudden failure of both, that wasn't the
problem. I also wondered about a PSU failure and checked voltages--they
were good, even if the color coding on the wires was weird. AAMOF it's
running the new mobo just fine.

Technomage wrote:

  I noticed one thing missing in that check: the ram. some of the newer 
machines won't post or even report
an error code anymore (series of beeps or blinking lights). have you 
checked to see if the ram is still good?
was the beep a short single or a long single? was there more than one?

also, the simplest thing that can go wrong is usually a PSU failure (and 
depending on how it goes it *can*
tank the motherboard or the cpu or any peripherals you have connected).


Mark Jarvis wrote:
  
  
My wife's computer suddenly decided to quit displaying ANYTHING--POST included, 
even after replacing the video card, video cable, and monitor with known good 
ones from my box. I even disconnected ALL peripherals. I ended up with the 
conclusion that the motherboard had gone to the great bit bucket in the sky.

I suspect that it was the motherboard that went, not the processor, but don't 
know for certain. FWIW, while I was checking things out I could hear the initial 
"beep" and the HDs start up.

The CPU was a 2.x Ghz  AMD Athlon 64. If anyone wants the CPU--with or without 
motherboard attached, they're welcome to it. Just come by  get it. I live near 
Central  Glendale in Phoenix, email me off list if interested.

Mark Jarvis
m.jar...@cox.net
  


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OT: hardware

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Jarvis






My wife's computer suddenly decided to quit displaying ANYTHING--POST
included, even after replacing the video card, video cable, and monitor
with known good ones from my box. I even disconnected ALL peripherals.
I ended up with the conclusion that the motherboard had gone to the
great bit bucket in the sky.

I suspect that it was the motherboard that went, not the processor, but
don't know for certain. FWIW, while I was checking things out I could
hear the initial "beep" and the HDs start up. 

The CPU was a 2.x Ghz AMD Athlon 64. If anyone wants the CPU--with or
without motherboard attached, they're welcome to it. Just come by 
get it. I live near Central  Glendale in Phoenix, email me off
list if interested.

Mark Jarvis
m.jar...@cox.net



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Re: OT: hardware

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Jarvis






I forgot to mention that after a motherboard transplant my wife now has
a hot 3GHz system with 2GB memory. I also finally installed the two 250
GB SATA drives that had been sitting around for months waiting for a
good time to put them in.

-mj-

Mark Jarvis wrote:

My wife's computer suddenly decided to quit displaying ANYTHING--POST
included, even after replacing the video card, video cable, and monitor
with known good ones from my box. I even disconnected ALL peripherals.
I ended up with the conclusion that the motherboard had gone to the
great bit bucket in the sky.
  
I suspect that it was the motherboard that went, not the processor, but
don't know for certain. FWIW, while I was checking things out I could
hear the initial "beep" and the HDs start up. 
  
The CPU was a 2.x Ghz AMD Athlon 64. If anyone wants the CPU--with or
without motherboard attached, they're welcome to it. Just come by 
get it. I live near Central  Glendale in Phoenix, email me off
list if interested.
  
Mark Jarvis
  m.jar...@cox.net
  
  

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Two Questions

2009-11-26 Thread Mark Jarvis






1) My daughter left her SanDisk iPod-type mp3 player plugged into a USB
port on my machine. When I tried to boot, the machine would not even do
a normal memory check and stopped short. Multiple times. When I finally
noticed the dern mp3 player and unplugged it, everything was fine. On
occasion I have also seen that a plugged in flash drive has messed up
the boot. Just curious--why would this happen?

2) A friend has a Canon Pixma IP 1500 printer that he's trying to get
working on his Ubuntu 9.04 installation. Although the IP 2000 is
supported, the 1500 is not. He's managed to find, download, and install
drivers for it (quite impressive for someone that is very new to Linux)
but is now stumped by a "missing filter" message. I've never had to
jump through the hoops that he's already done and don't really know
what sort of a filter could be missing. Any suggestions?

>From the specs, the (unsupported) IP 1500 seem to be the same basic
engine as the (supported) IP 2000, just degraded slightly in speed
 memory. I've faked out systems before by telling the add printer
wizard that I really had a similar--but supported--printer, but that
was with an LPT connection. How does one do something similar with a
USB connection? (I'm hampered here in that I'm trying to help via phone
and haven't actually seen his box or the choices on his screen.) This
should be the easiest way to get him up  running. 

We'll both greatly appreciate any help.

Mark Jarvis



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Re: USB Thumb Drive Issues?

2009-10-29 Thread Mark Jarvis

Mike,

I had something similar happen to me several years ago when flash
drives were new. I went to the maker's web site and got the solution. I
really don't remember any details, like whether the solution was in a
FAQ or whether I had to email them. but it did work. I sort of remember
downloading and running something. Sorry, but it was a long time ago.
Still, try and see what PNY has to say.

I have used Linux partitioning tools to repartition a 512MB flash drive
into a 64MB ext3 partition and a 448MB FAT32 (aka vfat) partition. That
suggests that another possibility (after first copying your files off the drive to a safe place)
is to delete and then re-create the FAT32
partition on the drive. Of course, if the write protect switch is some
sort of sneaky, low level, semi-firmware type switch, the partitioner
may not be able to touch it either.

Good Luck,

Mark jarvis

unixprgrm...@gmail.com wrote:
Mike,

Don't know if you have solved the problem yet but there are a few of
ways to view what is ACTUALLY on the drive. These all take advantage
of the fact that in UNIX all devices are treated like files and all
files 'can' in most circumstances... be treated like devices.

mount the drive and then do:

cat [full drive path] /tmp/foo Then do vi /tmp/foo

strings [full drive path] | more

OR for a MORE detailed view

od -c [full drive path] | more

There are still other methods but these are 3 of the simplest and give
various degrees of detail. All require some time commitment depending
on the number files that are hidden etc. etc. Familiarity with
directory and file delimiting control/escape chars and the "FILE"
structure is helpful.

Good luck!
Lynn

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:16 PM, mike Enriquez myli...@cox.net
wrote:
I
have a 4GB PNY thumb drive that has issues? It has become "Write
Protected". It is an Optima pro Attache. I searched the net and nothing
that I have found has helped me out.
Has any one in the group had this happen to them and how did you remove
the write protection.
I cannot see any special files on it except 2 of my own.
Any suggestions out there?
Thanks

Mike Enriquez
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Re: OT: Cheapy Mc Cheap Cheap cell phone?

2009-10-19 Thread Mark Jarvis






Four or five years ago, my wife  I got a pair of really low end
cell phones (no camera, no pictures) that came with T-Mobile pre-paid
capability. I primed each with $100 for a year's service and 1000
minutes. At the end of the first year I re-upped for a second year
($100 for me, $25 for her because she seldom uses hers). The minutes
that she hadn't used carried over to the new year. Other renewals have
been similar (except for the time I didn't renew before the year ran
out, but we won't talk about that). That's $0.10 per minute and $8+ per
month if you use most of the 1000 minutes in a year.

Obviously the cell phones are primarily for emergencies or for calling
someone when you're out  need something, like the time I called
the Dr's office to say "We're at the address that the phone book gave,
but...).

No complaints about T-Mobile's service.

Mark Jarvis

Ryan Rix wrote:

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Hey guys,

So, my dad had his cell phone service through Qwest for quiet a while now... 
A 15$/month 30 minute plan with the cheapest phone they had available, 
basically just to use in emergencies or to call me when he is driving to 
pick me up from somewhere.

A little while ago, my dad got a letter from Qwest saying they were 
discontinuing their cellular service and he'd have to go elsewhere for 
cellular.

Basically, he wants to pay as little as humanly possible to use his 
cellphone. I think last month he racked up a whopping four minutes of 
cellular usage, so having a plan with OVER 9000 minutes a month is simply 
unnecessary. We looked at a few pre-paid plans, specifically verizon's 
plans, but after doing the math, it seemed that there was no way to simply 
say 'I want to only pay .25$ for every minute I use' without preloading, at 
minimum, 400 minutes. Which expire every 30 days. 

I also suggested that he just get one of those cheap-o phones they sell at 
drug stores and grocery stores, but we kind of worry what the cellular 
service would be like. He travels up north fairly often (show low, pinetop, 
etc) and often is in areas where his Qwest phone did not get a signal, 
whereas my Verizon phone did. 

Where could he get a working cell phone, preferably free or less than 100$ 
with a pay per minute plan with minutes that either don't expire or can be 
loaded (or billed automatically!) in tiny increments? 

This is probably a hopeless cause given how MaBell-ish cell phone companies 
have become lately... :

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Re: SATA drive problem

2009-10-03 Thread Mark Jarvis

EIDE drives can connect to the primary channel (POST calls it channel
0), master slave and to the secondary channel (channel 1) master
slave for a possible total of 4 devices. Before one of my disks
started dying all this started I had three HDs and a DVD. My
motherboard also has two SATA connectors--which POST calls channels 2 3.
I've added one SATA drive to the system on channel 2. At the moment,
the second SATA connector--channel 3--is unused. I'll add a second SATA
drive once I'm sure that everything is working.

Although I didn't lose any data, that dying drive has cost me at least
12 very uncomfortable hours.

-mj-

Bob Elzer wrote:

Silly question, but if it's a
SATA drive, how did you install it on an IDE slot ?

From:
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[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Mark Jarvis
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 12:49 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: SATA drive problem

Final result:

Here's a better statement of what I thought were my problems with the new
SATA drive on Linux:
Booting into Ubuntu 9.04, Gnome's File
Browser showed ghosts of the old channel 0 Master--complete with the labels of the old partitions,
and did not show the new drive. When I brought up Gnome's gparted, it
saw the new drive just fine--but as sda! I had expected almost
anything--except sda. (POST identifies it as Channel 2 Master.)

Solutions:
I found out that starting at least one major kernel revision ago, drives
are enumerated in the order that they are discovered during the boot
process. So the SATA drive was the first drive found. Then, when I
re-booted after updating my system, Gnome's file browser dropped the
ghosts and found the new SATA drive OK, so that problem went away.
Problems solved, I learned a few things, and I didn't have to
re-install. Except for installing updates and re-booting, I didn't have
to do anything to Linux for it to use the SATA drive.

Also, apparently I'm not the only person to have found that if sda is
also the Setup boot drive, then a linux installation on sdb will alter
sda's MBR. I still don't understand all I know on this, but I'm going
to continue to be a pragmatist: "If it works, use it."

Again, Thanks to all who responded,

Mark Jarvis

Eric Shubert wrote:

So would you care to fill us in a bit?

Mark Jarvis wrote:

Thanks to all those who have responded. I think that I now have a pretty
fair idea of the way Linux today assigns device labels. Also, when I
re-booted after updating my system, the file browser dropped the ghosts
and found the new SATA drive OK, so that problem went away.

Once again, thanks to all who responded.

-mj-

Mark Jarvis wrote:

Up until a couple of days ago, I had 3 EIDE drives and POST reported
my hard drives:

IDE Channel 0 Master a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 0 Slave a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Master a 160 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Slavea DVD
IDE Channel 2 Master None
IDE Channel 3 Master None

Simplifying things, channel 0 Master has my Windows Installation,
Channel 0 Slave my Linux stuff, and Channel 1 Master is a backup/clone
of Channel 0 Master. Ubuntu sees the three drives as sda, sdb, and sdc.

Monday I picked up a couple of 1.0 TB SATA drives. Starting slowly, I
added one to Channel 2. I cloned the Windows drive (Channel 0 Master)
to it, pulled the power plug on Channel 0 Master, and changed the boot
sequence in Setup. I also changed the label on one of the partitions
on the new drive. POST reports:

IDE Channel 0 Master None
IDE Channel 0 Slave a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Master a 160 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave a DVD
IDE Channel 2 Master a SATA 1 TB drive
IDE Channel 3 Master None

Windows works pretty much OK. Booting into Ubuntu 9.04, I was
surprised that Gnome's File Browser shows ghosts of the old channel 0
Master--complete with the labels of the old partitions, and does not
show the new drive. I brought up Gnome's gparted. It saw the new drive
just fine--as sda! I had expected almost anything--except sda. This is
not a "real work" Linux installation and besides, /home is in a
different partition, so I could just re-install and that would
probably fix things, but I'd rather make what's there work correctly.

Questions:
1) Why did a SATA drive on Channel 3 show up as sda?
2) How can I kick Gnome's File Browser into dropping the ghosts
and showing the contents of the new drive?

I guess that all of my admin/reference books are out of date, because
I can't find anything in them that helps. The MAN pages would probably
help, but I don't know where to start.

Any help, pointers to where I can find explanations, etc. will be much
appreciated.

Re: SATA drive problem

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Jarvis

Thanks to all those who have responded. I think that I now have a
pretty fair idea of the way Linux today assigns device labels. Also,
when I re-booted after updating my system, the file browser dropped the
ghosts and found the new SATA drive OK, so that problem went away.

Once again, thanks to all who responded.

-mj-

Mark Jarvis wrote:

Up until a couple of days ago, I had 3 EIDE drives and POST reported my
hard drives:

IDE Channel 0 Master a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 0 Slave a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Master a 160 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave a DVD
IDE Channel 2 Master None
IDE Channel 3
Master None

Simplifying things, channel 0 Master has my Windows Installation,
Channel 0 Slave my Linux stuff, and Channel 1 Master is a backup/clone
of
Channel 0 Master. Ubuntu sees the three drives as sda, sdb, and sdc.

IDE Channel 0 Master None
IDE Channel 0 Slave a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Master a 160 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave a DVD
IDE Channel 2 Master a SATA 1 TB drive
IDE Channel 3
Master None

Windows works pretty much OK. Booting into Ubuntu 9.04, I was surprised
that Gnome's File Browser shows ghosts of the old channel 0
Master--complete with the labels of the old partitions, and does not show the new drive. I
brought up Gnome's gparted. It saw the new drive just fine--as sda! I
had expected almost anything--except sda. This is not a "real work"
Linux installation and besides, /home is in a different partition, so I
could just re-install and that would probably fix things, but I'd
rather make what's there work correctly.

Questions:
1) Why did a SATA drive on Channel 3 show up as sda?
2) How can I kick Gnome's File Browser into dropping the ghosts and
showing the contents of the new drive?

I guess that all of my admin/reference books are out of date, because I
can't find anything in them that helps. The MAN pages would probably
help, but I don't know where to start.

Any help, pointers to where I can find explanations, etc. will be much
appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark Jarvis

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SATA drive problem

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Jarvis