Re: [PLUG] SD cards always mount read-only

2011-10-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:57:04 -0700 Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:58 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: There remain three possibilities: 1) The card reader in the Thinkpad is flaky 2) The adapter is flaky. 3) Linux is flaky.

[PLUG] suPHP -- Any Gotchas?

2011-10-12 Thread Richard C. Steffens
SpiritOne will be replacing PHP with suPHP for their Economy Web Hosting accounts. Are there any gotchas I need to worry about? I will try replacing PHP with suPHP on my home system to test things, but I'd appreciate comments, warnings, etc. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] SD cards always mount read-only

2011-10-12 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:47:11 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:57:04 -0700 Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:58 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, with a built-in SD card

Re: [PLUG] suPHP -- Any Gotchas?

2011-10-12 Thread Ronald Chmara
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net wrote: SpiritOne will be replacing PHP with suPHP for their Economy Web Hosting accounts. Are there any gotchas I need to worry about? 1. No shared code between users. 2. No optimization of shared code between users (think

Re: [PLUG] SD cards always mount read-only

2011-10-12 Thread Russell Senior
Amy == Amy Kelly engagedt...@gmail.com writes: Amy We boot a couple of older eee PCs from SD cards, my dude has a Amy 8gb one that he uses for the filesystem and updates the Ubuntu Amy install on periodically. I have an MSI that quite happily reads Amy SanDisk and other brands in Ubuntu but my

Re: [PLUG] Ban me? Ban yourselves.

2011-10-12 Thread jen montserrat
can someone please provide details on how one can completely filter out any posts from this Robinson guy? Thank you On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Chris Daniel cjdan...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest that everyone apply a jive filter to our favourite troll's messages. I have been entertained

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-TALK] Spreadsheet Comparisons

2011-10-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Cross posted back to the PLUG list - follow up there On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:16:43PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: I've saved copies as LibreOffice .ods files, and deleted the 33 sheets of graphs so I have only the data sheet, but each one is about 280 columns by 200 rows. What I need

Re: [PLUG] Ban me? Ban yourselves.

2011-10-12 Thread Bill Ensley
Hi Jen, You might have missed the post. Administrative action was taken against Michael Robinson and he is no longer on this list. -Bill Ensley www.bearprinting.com On 10/12/2011 1:36 PM, jen montserrat wrote: can someone please provide details on how one can completely filter out any posts

Re: [PLUG] Ban me? Ban yourselves.

2011-10-12 Thread jen montserrat
very good, thank you. I was just about to unsubscribe from this mailing list. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Bill Ensley b...@bearprinting.com wrote: Hi Jen, You might have missed the post. Administrative action was taken against Michael Robinson and he is no longer on this list.

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-TALK] Spreadsheet Comparisons

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Keith Lofstrom wrote: In support of Aaron's excellent reply, I want to add that for large volumes of data, spreadsheets are not the best tool. I haven't used xlrd (or the likely Perl equivalent) but I have exported spreadsheets as CVS and processed them with 10 line Perl

Re: [PLUG] Spreadsheet Comparisons

2011-10-12 Thread Aaron Burt
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:43:32PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Cross posted back to the PLUG list - follow up there Thanks! snip I haven't used xlrd (or the likely Perl equivalent) but I have exported spreadsheets as CVS and processed them with 10 line Perl scripts, even vi sometimes. A

[PLUG] Ubuntu running by default on a Mac

2011-10-12 Thread Isaac Lewis
Hi there. I am wondering if anyone has some tips about running Ubuntu by default on a mac. I have heard that it can be quite tricky, and I wonder if that is true or not. Would the best approach be to install Ubuntu as the base OS and then OSX in a partition? Would that even work with OSX's

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu running by default on a Mac

2011-10-12 Thread Fernando Freire
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Isaac Lewis ikelewis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. I am wondering if anyone has some tips about running Ubuntu by default on a mac. I have heard that it can be quite tricky, and I wonder if that is true or not. Would the best approach be to install Ubuntu as