Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-24 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Robert Citek wrote: >> I have a number of questions, but foremost is, how can I tell if the >> browser is using the proxy or not? > > Would whatismyip.com distinguish them? That worked perfectly. Thanks, Bill.

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 05:37 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:00:56 -0800 > David dijo: > >>> But I continued to get the same error message even after I renamed >>> the file. Thus, the file and directory name were different. And >>> Catfish said that no file with the same name as the f

Re: [PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-24 Thread Bill Barry
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have created a SOCKS proxy on a remote server that listens on port > :5150 and have manually configured my browsers (Chrome, Firefox) to > use it. > > As the next step, I would like to create a proxy.pac file to > automati

[PLUG] proxy.pac

2016-02-24 Thread Robert Citek
Greetings all, I have created a SOCKS proxy on a remote server that listens on port :5150 and have manually configured my browsers (Chrome, Firefox) to use it. As the next step, I would like to create a proxy.pac file to automatically configure my web browsers to use the SOCKS proxy. I have crea

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:00:56 -0800 David dijo: >> But I continued to get the same error message even after I renamed >> the file. Thus, the file and directory name were different. And >> Catfish said that no file with the same name as the folder existed. > >Having no experience with Catfish, I ca

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 02:14 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:32:40 -0800 > David dijo: > >> On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. >>> >>> Denis, >>> >>> Inter

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread wes
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:14 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:32:40 -0800 > David dijo: > > >On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > >> > >>> I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. > >> > >> Denis, >

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:32:40 -0800 David dijo: >On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >>> I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. >> >> Denis, >> >> Interesting. I didn't know it could be done. > >The directory and fil

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread wes
> > > mkdir 8½\ 1963 > > Which resulted in the same error message as Thunar: > > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘8½ 1963’: File exists > > ... I just renamed 8½ 1963.mkv to 8½ 1963-.mkv ... > > ... search for 8½ 1963.mkv, and it said there were no such files ... > > you did not sp

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 01:28 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 02/24/2016 01:18 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Rich Shepard >> wrote: >>> In linux and other unices everything is a file. Ergo, you cannot have >>> directories and individual files with the same name. >>> >>>

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread David
On 02/24/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > >> I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. > > Denis, > > Interesting. I didn't know it could be done. The directory and file may not be at the same level, but they may be nested wit

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I just created a file named Desktop in the folder Desktop. Denis, Interesting. I didn't know it could be done. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listin

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 02/24/2016 01:18 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Rich Shepard > wrote: >> In linux and other unices everything is a file. Ergo, you cannot have >> directories and individual files with the same name. >> >> "...cannot have ... individual files with the same n

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >In linux and other unices everything is a file. Ergo, you cannot have > directories and individual files with the same name. > > "...cannot have ... individual files with the same name." in the same directory. But what directory is the

Re: [PLUG] Cascadia IT Conference (apologize for the html)

2016-02-24 Thread Michael Dexter
Atom, You are still sending it in HTML format. Michael On 2/22/16 3:07 PM, Atom Powers wrote: > Good morning Portland Linux GroupOnce more with > feeling. I apologize for the HTML garbage in the previous message. (The > mail client I tested with is a bit too accommodating.)This is your > friend

Re: [PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > From the command line: > >mkdir 8½ 1963 Linux doesn't like spaces in file/directory names. Consider naming your directory 8.5-1963/ and put the file (preferably with out spaces in the name) under that. In linux and other unices ev

[PLUG] Folder creation/renaming quandary

2016-02-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
Xubuntu 14.04.3 up to date. Normally I do all my file manipulations in the GUI (Thunar), but this time it is failing me. Oddly, I get the same strange results from the command line as well. I have ripped and encoded a DVD that I own of the movie '8½ 1963' (arguably Fellini's crowning achievement)