Re: Assistance with archival script

2008-11-20 Thread Matt Snell
Thanks everyone, much appreciated. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008 14:21, Matt Snell wrote: > > find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo /usr/bin/7z a -t7z > -mx=0 > {}.7z {} \; >

Assistance with archival script

2008-11-19 Thread Matt Snell
Hi all, I need a little help with find, or if find can't do what I need, a pointer to the right tool for the job. Some background; I've got a base directory where I store multiple sub directories, I will eventually write the subdirs to individual 7z files and archive. I'm trying to automate the

Re: Bookmark sync and other Firefox extensions (was: Firefox Download Day)

2008-06-17 Thread Matt Snell
I always found that the delicious bookmarks plugin did what I needed. As of last week, it works with FF3. Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just wish Google hadn't dropped the ball of Google Sync. I tried GBS once, but couldn't get

Re: IMAP Server

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Snell
ge address and GPG key based upon which folder I'm in is important to me. Thanks to the efforts of the folks over @ Mozilla and some clever plugin writers I have *all* of the functionality I want in both clients (with some config of course). Truly Awesome. Open source fanboy here. Matt

Re: IMAP Server

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Snell
It may just be my own fault, I've done more with Dovecot today than I have with Courier so that's where I'm getting my information. But in my initial playing, I found that both tools want my mail folders (other than INBOX) to have a leading dot in the filename, .Gmail for instance (my don't). I'

Re: IMAP Server

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Snell
8 at 08:49:07AM -0400, Matt Snell (gmail) wrote: > Morning all, > > I'm looking for help choosing an IMAP server for my own simple needs. > I currently store my email in maildir format, I use fetchmail to retrieve it, > procmail to filter it and mutt to read it. If pos

IMAP Server

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Snell
Morning all, I'm looking for help choosing an IMAP server for my own simple needs. I currently store my email in maildir format, I use fetchmail to retrieve it, procmail to filter it and mutt to read it. If possible, I'd still like to use these tools and add Thunderbird (or any IMAP capab

Re: Samba/Filesystem Permissions Help

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Snell
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:54:14PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > Just to clarify: Here, you refer to a Unix group (in the /etc/group > file) called "smbusers", and not an entry in the /etc/samba/smbusers > file. Yes? Correct, my thinking is that since I need a valid Unix user, I might as well use a

Samba/Filesystem Permissions Help

2007-10-02 Thread Matt Snell
Hi all, I'm attempting to set up a samba server at home (Debian Etch if it matters). It will have both Windows and Linux machines accessing the shares for read and write. It seemed to be working perfectly until I attempted to CIFS mount one of the shares at the command line. Below is the setup I

Re: IRC (was: threadjacked a lot)

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Snell
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:30:02PM -0400, Chip Marshall wrote: > Not sure how many other GNHLUGers use IRC, but I'm regularly on EFnet > and can be on freenode if it's preferred. Why not start a channel and > see who shows up? #gnhlug on freenode already exists and was created 2 years 41 weeks 3 d

Re: Configuring Linux firewalls and routers for vsftp on a non-standard port

2007-03-29 Thread Matt Snell
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:28:36PM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > My question: Why did I have to add the passive address and port range to > the ftp server to get it to work? When it was on the standard ftp port, > it worked fine without the passive address and ports specified. http://slacksite.com/oth

Re: Portable audio player (hands down the best one ever)

2007-03-06 Thread Matt Snell
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/ > > they have a wide range of players, but the iAudio g3 was the one i > chose, due to these features: Any idea how well this one handles bookmarking? I primarily listen to netcasts an

Re: Web software for a family web site?

2007-02-08 Thread Matt Snell
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:04:35AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: >I'm debating putting up a family web site. Like most families, ours is > scattered geographically and it's hard to keep track of all the aunts, > uncles, cousins, nieces, etc. I do hope it works out for you, I've been trying to g

Re: Where do you go for help and news?

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Snell
On 1/30/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what sites to people here frequent? What Linux-related RSS feeds, blogs, help sites to people tune into to increase their knowledge? What other suggestions are there for people new to Linux to reach for when they need help understanding so

Re: Gimp and/or Blender tutorials for kids

2007-01-22 Thread Matt Snell
On 1/19/07, Larry Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My 13 year old daughter would like to add things like dragons to her digital photos. She would also like to do some animation. She has no knowledge of what's involved, and neither do I which is why I'm asking. Is anyone aware of tutorials for

Re: The truth about Linux

2006-04-28 Thread Matt Snell
I'm glad I'm a newb, I'm going to take this illegal software off of my computer NOW, then write a thank you to Microsoft for selling me an OS that actively discourages Chinese hackers.  I thank you for bringing this to my attention before I got myself into trouble. Anyway, just saying hi, have been