Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > output from "ls -l"? Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions Bryn. --

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > > introduction

Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l"

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:58 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > that's ok, it was only an issue because of the incredibly hacky way > that a numeric mode was being reproduced from an existing file -- by > grabbing the current symbolic mode, then running it through sed to get > the numeric mode back.

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 03:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I bought a new gadget, a "USB2 Universal Drive Adapter" which does > essentially what an external drive box does but it is not limited to > SATA drives, > > On the F-12 computer it shows up in lsusb and I can see a drive at > /dev

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 03:28 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 10/12/09 10:19, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >> blkid /dev/sdc1 >> > Ok, thank you, that gives me a bit more information: > > [r...@box6 bob]# file -s /dev/sdc1 > /dev/sdc1: LVM2 (Linux

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 12:57 AM, Craig White wrote: problems typically occur because Fedora always names the LVM groups/partitions with the same naming scheme and when you want to This is a posibility here with older releases (although F12 doesn't do this (thank you! thank you!); it now includes the ho

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 09:18 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Yes, I posted the question and found the response interesting and helpful. I spent a couple of hours reading man pages and experimenting with the lvm commands on various drives. But I have not been able to open a volume and list the directories and file

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 02:37 PM, jarmo wrote: > In gnome screensaver found somekind worm, are Fedora/redhat pakages infected > also? > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678 > > Jarmo > A user with root privileges (or who has configured the necessary authorizations for their user account via

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 03:02 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: > On 11/12/09 14:55, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On 12/11/2009 02:37 PM, jarmo wrote: >>> In gnome screensaver found somekind worm, are Fedora/redhat pakages infected >>> also? >>> >>> htt

Re: linux as router

2009-12-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 22:59 +0100, paul van der meij wrote: > I don't think that it makes sense to configure a router with one > physical network card. If another PC on the same cable segment tries > to reach something it needs a router that has connection with more > than the same network cable.

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:48 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > bash-4.0$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov > pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc > arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:44 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 17/12/09 07:50, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I'm sorry, I missed the "grep." So all I did was cat the /proc/info and > didn't know what to look for? > > This F-11 box yields: > > [b...@box9 ~]$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo > "nothing returne

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:07 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > > >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:44 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: > > > > http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- > > linux/ > > I'm not sure I understand the term "reco

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've read lots of online postings about people > who are apparently watching TV on their computers, > but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. > > I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned > the traditional TV set in fa

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:32 PM, Edward S.P. Leong wrote: > Dear All, > > Happy New Year ! > As the title... > Would you mind to help ( suggestion ) ? > > Thanks ! > > Edward. > -ENOTENOUGHINFO What sort of RAID card? How much do you want to spend? What capacities are you looking for? What features do

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 08:22 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Thanks for your response. > I guess iPlayer is exactly what I'm looking for, > but unfortunately it is restricted to UK residents. > > I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, > to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? > Could I

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