Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Christoph Groth
shawn wilson writes: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 19:02, Christoph Groth wrote: >> Blair Mason writes: >> >>> Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as >>> anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. >> >> Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any dece

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Christoph Groth
"Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes: > Christoph Groth wrote: > >> Blair Mason writes: >> >> > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, >> > as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. >> >> Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern fe

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 19:02, Christoph Groth wrote: > Blair Mason writes: > >> Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as >> anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. > > Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern features, > public s

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:02:57 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > Blair Mason writes: > > > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, > > as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. > > Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern features, >

Re: How to control network speed?

2011-08-25 Thread green
Magicloud Magiclouds wrote at 2011-08-23 22:42 -0500: > For some reason, I have a linux machine that has to have a network > bandwidth limitation for the whole system. So I looked into command > tc. And used this script from the internet. > Well, the script returned successful, but in fact it d

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 18:45, Bob Proulx wrote: > >  for chapternum in $(seq 1 45); do >    wget http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_$chapternum.html >  done > just a minor improvement: curl http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_$chapternum.html | html2text >> $file (define $file and put that

Re: How to distribute IRQs to all cores

2011-08-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/25/2011 5:11 AM, J.Hwan Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > The interrupts of my ixgbevf driver occurs only Core 0 > although the user space "irqbalance" serivce is working. Calling irqbalance a user space service shows a serious lack of understanding of how irqbalance works. > How can I distribu

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Christoph Groth
Blair Mason writes: > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as > anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern features, public specification, nice free implementation, etc.) filesystems which a

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Blair Mason
Can you use the other permission set? Or does it need to be specifically those users only? Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. -- rbmj

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
RiverWind wrote: > You see, the files have a bit of an unconventional extension, to > wit "cookbook3.html#SEC1 or cookbook14.html#SEC2" and so on. You > see, the first number before the ".html" I believe designates the > part, and the number following the "#SEC" indicates the different > sections i

sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Christoph Groth
Hi, I'd like to share the data saved on an external USB drive between different (GNU/Linux) machines, each having different users. Each user should be able to mount the drive and read and write any files as he or she pleases. The users aren't necessary root themselves. Is there a way to impleme

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, When you talk about converting all of the small files from html to txt, and doing the concatenation, you are describing the most desirable course of action, actually the very first method I thought about. However, the file naming protocol doesn't at all lend its self to such a convers

Why some gnome 3.0 program can't work?

2011-08-25 Thread sppmg
(I use debian amd64 testing.and i-bus framework running.) I upgrade debian (testing to testing) by apt yesterday.Some program come to 3.0.for example ,gnome-terminal,epiphany-browser. But they has some problem. 1. gnome-terminal can't type ,it have no responses when I type.It happen in epipha

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
It should be possible to use the contents of index.html to set the order for concatenation too.On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > RiverWind wrote: > > The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to > > text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a > > p

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
I use orca very little but find the command line a better choice. I have to use g.u.i. at work and it's nice to come home and not also have to do that at home too. Linux and Apple so far are the only two alternatives that ever got accessibility mostly right. Windows 3.11 could be installed us

[share] grub error message:symbol not found.....

2011-08-25 Thread sppmg
(I use debian testing , Bootloader is grub2.) I upgrade debian (testing to testing) by apt yesterday. When it done, I reboot,and get this message: symbol not found: 'grub_dirmod64_full' and it goes to "grub rescue>" --- solution: I use other grub (from my usb) to boot HD

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 15:45, Bob Proulx wrote: > RiverWind wrote: >> The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to >> text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a >> pretty viable translation. > > If I were going to do that for myself I would convert each

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
RiverWind wrote: > The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to > text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a > pretty viable translation. If I were going to do that for myself I would convert each individual html file to text first and then concatenate th

Re: [OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-25 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 25 August 2011 17:59:35 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Our concern is the end user experience and how most PCs (probably widely > varies based upon the age) react to them.  Is using them typically as > simple as plugging it in and turning on the computer or are we going to > have a night

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-25 Thread D G Teed
On a re-read of what I wrote earlier, it might be a little confusing where I say you need static network set up and then instruct on how to do DHCP. Perhaps I can just make an assumption or two and give you some simple steps. Assuming your ISP does use PPPoE, and you are using the router device t

Re: [OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-25 Thread Joe
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:35 -0400 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > Hello, all. This is off-topic because I'm not asking how to create a > Debian boot stick. There seem to be good how-to documents for that. > However, we are thinking of creating a large number of Debian boot > sticks and neither

opreport reports 0 Mhz processor speed

2011-08-25 Thread Tomas Kral
Hello List, I would like to learn to use a profiler. It seems Squeeze kernel supports it. I have installed oprofile package. But it reports 0 Mhz processor speed. Why? $ opreport --global-percent | head -22 Overflow stats not available CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated) Profi

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread RiverWind
Hi, The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a pretty viable translation. Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellwor

Re: Using three monitors

2011-08-25 Thread Wayne Topa
On 08/24/2011 05:36 PM, Joao Roscoe wrote: Does anyone knows if it is possible to use three cheap 1440x900 displays in portrait position (thus, 900x1440), side by side, to compose a 2700x1440 desktop? I have been looking at some adapters, and it seems that all of them require that the displays re

Re: [OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:35 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. This is off-topic because I'm not asking how to create a > Debian boot stick. There seem to be good how-to documents for that. > However, we are thinking of creating a large number of Debian boot > sticks and neither I

[OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. This is off-topic because I'm not asking how to create a Debian boot stick. There seem to be good how-to documents for that. However, we are thinking of creating a large number of Debian boot sticks and neither I nor may staff have any experience using them and we have a limited numbe

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 25 August 2011 11:01:54 Jude DaShiell wrote: > pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and > me are both screen reader users. There are quite a few visually challenged people on this list. If someone has sight problems, as you and River have, it is worth in

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Curt
On 2011-08-25, Jude DaShiell wrote: > pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and I missed the part about screen reading, if it was included in the OP. I found the following for Gnome, with Orca: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Acroread#details I admit I don't understan

USB Headphones Sound problem

2011-08-25 Thread Bill.M
Hi folks, I have sound working on my laptop - both the speakers and the RCA jack output to powered speakers. Great. But my USB headphones don't work. USB is enabled in the bios and there are a lot of USB and audio modules installed. But perhaps there's one missing or the connection to the head

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/08/11 20:01, Jude DaShiell wrote: > pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users Some pdfs have issues. Some of the pdf issues are accessibility. :-) Some html files also have accessibility issues... > and riverwind and me are both screen reader users. And you are not alone. > The

Re: Cron script output redirection not working

2011-08-25 Thread David
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >        I guess that it may be related to the recent switch from Bash to >        Dash as /bin/sh, which doesn't seem to support &>. > >        If that's true, then changing it to, e. g., > ./test.log 2>&1 >        will probably solve the pr

How to distribute IRQs to all cores

2011-08-25 Thread J.Hwan Kim
Hi, everyone The interrupts of my ixgbevf driver occurs only Core 0 although the user space "irqbalance" serivce is working. How can I distribute the interrupt of RX in ixgbevf to all cores? cat /proc/interrupts | grep "isv" 97: 8 0 0 0 0

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and me are both screen reader users. The best we can attempt is a text extraction from pdf files if we're going to read what's in them. If what was left in the file was a scanned image, maybe that can be scanned on Windows I d

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-25 Thread Curt
On 2011-08-24, RiverWind wrote: > > I have downloaded the linux cookbook, which consists of over five- > hundred html files. I am wanting to concatenate them all into one > big neat file, with all of the smaller files in perfect order. Now > I know that "cat" can do this, but the file naming proto