Re: [nlug] anyone else here using/tried/considered Xen Cloud Platform?

2012-12-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
I spent a few hours with XCP yesterday. All in all, I'd say that it is the slickest and easiest Xen implementation I've ever worked on. I was able to get it up and running and get a few VM's installed within just a couple hours. I ran into a few show-stopper issues, where XCP just doesn't have t

RE: [nlug] anyone else here using/tried/considered Xen Cloud Platform?

2012-12-11 Thread Mark J. Bailey
My only knowing exposure to Xen prior to taking XCP for a drive was seeing in the yum package lists. :) But XCP does seem to offer a viable platform, but you are right in that in the end what you need it may not provide. But for free, it is nice to see what the Xen guys are trying to do with XCP

[nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread Howard White
Okay guys, here's a hot one. By whatever circumstance, I now have a file named "-b" in a directory. I've tried to backslash to move it: mv \-b whatisthis I've tried double quotes mv "-b" whatisthis I've tried single quotes mv '-b' whatisthis I've tried combinations of

Re: [nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread John F. Eldredge
Howard White wrote: > Okay guys, here's a hot one. > > By whatever circumstance, I now have a file named "-b" in a directory. > > I've tried to backslash to move it: > mv \-b whatisthis > > I've tried double quotes > mv "-b" whatisthis > > I've tried single quotes > mv '-b'

Re: [nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread Howard White
On 12/11/2012 01:35 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Howard White wrote: Try mv ./-b xyx ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding TNX, John Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.c

Re: [nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Howard White wrote: > On 12/11/2012 01:35 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> >> Howard White wrote: >> >> >> Try mv ./-b xyx >> > ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding > > TNX, John Another solution is to use the '--' argument, which turns off further command line optio

Re: [nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread CindyYoho
does your rm prompt you for confirmation? You could try rm *b and see if it shows up in the list. - Original Message - From: "Howard White" To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 1:32:13 PM Subject: [nlug] Don't know how this happened Okay guys, here's a

Re: [nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread Curt Lundgren
At the risk of conflagration, emacs does a fine job of deleting bizarre files. Just edit the directory. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html I can see the flames already. Curt On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM, CindyYoho wrote: > does your rm prompt you for confir

Re: [nlug] Don't know how this happened

2012-12-11 Thread Howard White
On 12/11/2012 02:17 PM, Curt Lundgren wrote: At the risk of conflagration, emacs does a fine job of deleting bizarre files. Just edit the directory. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html I can see the flames already. Curt emacs is not the only way to edit direct

Re: [nlug] Moderator's spam report for nlug-talk@googlegroups.com

2012-12-11 Thread Kevin Eldridge
Post On Dec 11, 2012 5:57 PM, wrote: > This message is being sent to you because you are a moderator of the group > nlug-talk. > > The following suspicious messages were sent to your group, but are being > held in your moderation queue because they are classified as likely spam > messages. > > If

Re: [nlug] House Inspection

2012-12-11 Thread Michael Chaney
> Subject: House Inspection > From: "Perkins, Jerry" > Date: Dec 11 07:26AM -0600 > > I have a friend who wants to put together a house inspection > database. The old one he used was Microsoft's Access, which he does > not have access to any more. > I was thinking of using web access with My