DLSLUG meeting, 4 January 2006

2007-01-07 Thread Ted Roche
The first GNHLUG meeting of 2007 was hosted by the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group as an informal dinner and chat at the Salt Hill Pub adjacent to Colburn Park in the center of Lebanon. A good time was had by all. Discussions were freeform and far-ranging, including Google job

Re: can't foreground job (Suspended (tty input))

2007-01-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/5/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a strange job control problem. I don't understand what the root cause was. The original command was: sudo emacs -nw /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo Everyone else already explained what is going on, and better than I could have. I

Re: can't foreground job (Suspended (tty input))

2007-01-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everyone else already explained what is going on, and better than I could have. I do have one question, though. Why does it work for me? $ sudo emacs -nw /etc/hosts [1]+ Stopped sudo emacs -nw /etc/hosts $ fg

Re: can't foreground job (Suspended (tty input))

2007-01-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
I was actually surpised by the original post, since I've never seen that behavior before... Paul, if you re-read the original post: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/2007-January/017578.html ...you'll see that you're not talking about the same behavior described by

Re: can't foreground job (Suspended (tty input))

2007-01-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/7/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the Subject: line the OP's examples never illustrated any inability to foreground his Emacs process. Hmmm, but he did imply that he was unable to foreground it. You suppose it was just a brain fart, and the OP never actually tried

Leftover tech stuff - Incl. IBM ThinkPad parts

2007-01-07 Thread Ben Scott
I've finished sorting through the box o' misfit toys that I picked up from Brian Karas. There are a few extra things he threw in which I don't have a reason to keep. If anyone wants any of this, mail me off-list to arrange pick-up. In decreasing order of approximate expected value: