Re: Linux Foundation Memberships

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Chris O'Connell wrote: > Guys, > > I've been looking at getting a membership at Linux Foundation.org for a > while now. The benefits don't seem so great that they justify the > membership costs, but maybe I'm missing the overall point? Does anyone in > our organization hav

Re: Upgrade a CVS server to something else?

2010-12-16 Thread Kent Borg
Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > You just described "etckeeper" Except simpler and not as automatic, no extra features beyond git of /etc. -kb, the Kent who also has started manually using hard links to backup his /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb files so he can manually revert an upgrade if ne

Linux Foundation

2010-12-16 Thread Steven L. Kleiman
1. Linux Foundation Memberships (Chris O'Connell) I've been looking at getting a membership at Linux Foundation.org for a while now. The benefits don't seem so great that they justify the membership costs, but maybe I'm missing the overall point? Does anyone in our organization have a Linux F

Re: Linux Foundation

2010-12-16 Thread Kent Borg
Steven L. Kleiman wrote: > Is the membership largely a scam or does the foundation actually > further the use of Linux? I went to their Linuxcon conference this summer and learned useful things, so that's worth something. They seem to put their conference proceedings online, for free. I am pret

Re: Linux Foundation

2010-12-16 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Steven L. Kleiman wrote: > 1. Linux Foundation Memberships (Chris O'Connell) > I've been looking at getting a membership at Linux Foundation.org for a > while now. The benefits don't seem so great that they justify the > membership costs, but maybe I'm missing

Re: Linux Foundation

2010-12-16 Thread Chris O'Connell
Great! Thanks for the advice! I wanted to attend Linux Con last year, but didn't for whatever reason. This year the conference is in Vancouver :( Couldn't be further away. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Steven L. Kleiman >wrote:

sudo preserving X

2010-12-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
Currently, if I want to change my user id and run a X application, things don't work with sudo. Ex: X connection to localhost:14.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). The way we work is that users use putty from Windows to log into the Linux servers. Unfortunately, we have a common user nam

Re: sudo preserving X

2010-12-16 Thread Dan Kressin
This works for me: ssh as myself sudo -H -s -u root xauth merge /home/kressin/.Xauthority You might have to play with permissions on the user's .Xauthority file / homedir. -Dan --- On Thu, 12/16/10, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Currently, if I want to change my > user id and run a X application, >

Re: sudo preserving X

2010-12-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
Thanks. I think the best option for us here is to set up a script. On 12/16/2010 03:42 PM, Dan Kressin wrote: > This works for me: > > ssh as myself > sudo -H -s -u root > xauth merge /home/kressin/.Xauthority > > You might have to play with permissions on the user's .Xauthority file / > homedir.

Since we are in stupid question mode.

2010-12-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have a couple of web sites that I need to manage (because I can't talk anyone else into it). One web site is relatively small, and was created by FrontPage. What I would like to do is to use Kompozer to help me work with the site. There are a few pages on the site that need some maintenance now a

Re: Since we are in stupid question mode.

2010-12-16 Thread Bill Horne
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:06 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I have a couple of web sites that I need to manage (because I can't talk > anyone else into it). One web site is relatively small, and was created > by FrontPage. What I would like to do is to use Kompozer to help me work > with the site. Th

Re: Since we are in stupid question mode.

2010-12-16 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > > That should be an easy fix: just seach-and-replace all > non-breaking space characters with "& nbsp ;" (remove two spaces). > A quick Google suggests: perl -pe 's/\xA0/ /g' infile > outfile Cite: http://www.tech-karma.com/forum/other-oper

Re: Linux Foundation Memberships

2010-12-16 Thread David Miller
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > They are Linux Torvalds employer, and Ted T'so also, so I don't see how > you could call it a scam. > > Except Ted T'so works for Google. I'm not saying that the Linux Foundation doesn't do anything but just wanted to correct that. -- Dav