Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does one simply print a BEL character?

2014-03-04 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:34:44PM -0500, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:12:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > i'm feeling a bit dense right now, bu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does one simply print a BEL character?

2014-03-04 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:34:44PM -0500, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:12:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i'm feeling a bit dense right now, but all i want to do is > > echo/print/printf/whatever a BEL character to get a beep. i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does one simply print a BEL character?

2014-03-03 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:12:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm feeling a bit dense right now, but all i want to do is > echo/print/printf/whatever a BEL character to get a beep. i've checked > all the standard ways, using '\a' and \007 and so on, but no alleged > variation gives me a be

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fellow suckless entheusiasts

2013-04-10 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:27:29PM -0400, Alex Pilon wrote: > Are there any fellow suckless.org subscribers here? There's a few of us > at Carleton University, though I doubt they're on any OCLUG mailing > lists. Not exactly, but I do use dwm (no display manager). Howard E.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] National Captial Freenet

2012-01-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:54:08PM -0500, Charles MacDonald wrote: > On 12-01-29 09:25 PM, The Linux Doctor wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I'm considering NCF as a possibility for my ISP in the next several > > months. I know some of you are members. Can any of you tell me about > > their service in

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Associating to a recent version Bell ADSL modem / router

2010-11-07 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:12:14PM -0700, Bruce Miller wrote: > They moved in June 2010 and have a new combination ADSL modem/wireless router > supplied by Bell Canada. It is a "2wire Gateway" model 2701HG-G. > > I am using Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 and have brought the system up-to-date > withi

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Difficulty using Rogers Yahoo! WebMail with 3.5.x versions of Firefox

2009-12-04 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:27:46PM -0800, Bruce Miller wrote: > I have recently been having increasing problems with the "rich graphics" > version of the Rogers WebMail client. I am interested to know if anyone else > has also been having problems. I don't have Rogers, but I just tried the new

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can't boot from older PC

2009-03-23 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:08:53PM -0400, Lisa wrote: >> I'm trying to boot a Fedora 10 Live CD from an 'older' PC that I want to >> use as a Linux platform, but it just won't detect the CD after a restart. >> >> I verified that the PC can detect and boot from a Windows installation CD, >> so I

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can't boot from older PC

2009-03-23 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:32:50AM -0400, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:26:19AM -0400, Carl Heyendal wrote: > > > I'm trying to boot a Fedora 10 Live CD from an 'older' PC that I want to > > use as a Linux platform, but it just wo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can't boot from older PC

2009-03-22 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:26:19AM -0400, Carl Heyendal wrote: > I'm trying to boot a Fedora 10 Live CD from an 'older' PC that I want to > use as a Linux platform, but it just won't detect the CD after a restart. > > I verified that the PC can detect and boot from a Windows installation CD, > s

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] DSL Packet Loss

2008-10-28 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:08:51PM +0100, Damian Gerow wrote: > I took a closer look, and found that the problems actually started on > Wednesday. > I'm so glad I finally got cacti up and running, now I just need it to start > graphing retransmits and errors as well... Ian! Allen sent me some i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] DSL Packet Loss

2008-10-27 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:44:41PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: > Out of curiousity, is anyone experiencing any newfound troubles with > their DSL lines as of last Sunday-Monday timeframe? I'm trying to > track down a sudden problem with my connection, and there's enough > going on that makes me t