Re: how do I grep a string of characters from a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Dave G
Dave G wrote: Firstly it may be that grep isn't the way to go here but ... Currently I'm downloading .loc files from Geocaching.com, converting them to .gpx format, rename them to the correct waypoint name and uploading them to the GPS, finally deleting the old .loc file (as they have a generi

PCI TV Cards

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Downie
Any recommendations, first-hand experience or preferred brands. I'm leaning towards a Leadtek WinFast DTV1000T which appears to be well supported (well maybe not the remote). Cheers, Chris

Re: Quote of the day

2007-12-20 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Roy Britten wrote: From http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/20/verity_stob_software_murder/ Python is a programming language of supposedly amazing powers that enables geeks to have fierce, religious arguments about nothing at all, which they call 'significant whitespace'

==> Extra CLUG talk by Mike Culver Mon. 18 Feb 2000 <==

2007-12-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings CLUGgers, We are fortunate to be offered a talk / lecture by Mike Culver, of the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services. This promises to be one of the more interesting talks we have ever had. The venue is still bing organized, but will in all probably be a lecture theatre in

Re: Quote of the day

2007-12-20 Thread Zane Gilmore
I think that this was quite funny too: And I never could get my head around The Gimp’s deeply-nested popup menus. (Apparently they are optimised for viewing through the zippered eyes-holes of a leather mask.) You gotta laugh, it doesn't do to be too precious about these things :-/ Roy Br

Quote of the day

2007-12-20 Thread Roy Britten
>From http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/20/verity_stob_software_murder/ Python is a programming language of supposedly amazing powers that enables geeks to have fierce, religious arguments about nothing at all, which they call 'significant whitespace'.

Re: how do I grep a string of characters from a file?

2007-12-20 Thread David Kirk
Dave, > What I'm wanting to do is grab a string of characters from a GPS (.loc > - xml?) > file and use that string to rename that file from the generic name to > the specific waypoint name, convert it to .gpx & upload it > > I've been doing a power-of-googling tonight but I haven't got it to wor

Re: how do I grep a string of characters from a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Euan Clark
Hi Dave, grep -o and use a regular expression to find bash ${string#substring} to trim off the (treat this as metacode - I've not run it at all and it's probably not syntactically correct) #!/bin/bash wget --whatever-options-you-want http://some.location.com/some/loc/file --output to "/t

Re: How to edit 4 videos in to one...

2007-12-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Dec 20, 2007 11:34 PM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > > Thanks Eliot... that does look like the right direction. > > > > Cheers Don > > > > Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > >> Don Gould wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> See: http://www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/VideoLayout.gi

Re: How to edit 4 videos in to one...

2007-12-20 Thread Nick Rout
Don Gould wrote: Thanks Eliot... that does look like the right direction. Cheers Don Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: Don Gould wrote: Hi, See: http://www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/VideoLayout.gif I want to edit 4 videos in to one. What easy to use tool do people recommend? As nobody else pi

how do I grep a string of characters from a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Dave G
Firstly it may be that grep isn't the way to go here but ... Currently I'm downloading .loc files from Geocaching.com, converting them to .gpx format, rename them to the correct waypoint name and uploading them to the GPS, finally deleting the old .loc file (as they have a generic name - geoca

Re: Linux coverage on Stuff

2007-12-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
While Freeware is gratis, it's usually closed binary, and seldom gives you much in the way of freedom. OpenSouce gives you the source so you can look at it, & usually, but not always, the right to change and share it. Free Software gives you the four freedoms, but is encumbered as to how you may co

Re: Linux coverage on Stuff

2007-12-20 Thread Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
Hi Actually this draft came from a discussion about an article in the Press (and on Stuff). I did a draft response but theres a lot of opinion out there that the paper is unlikely to care (especially true now - 2 weeks later). Once I started writing the thing I found that I actually enjoyed t