Re: [PLUG] An emacs shortcut

I, well, er, have done this. It's only a few keystrokes more than doing a fill. On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 9:42 PM Russell Senior wrote: > You could probably set an embarrassingly long line length, and reformat the > paragraph too. > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 21:20 Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > > Ric

Re: [PLUG] a question on "mv" command

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:20 PM, VY wrote: > Thanks again for all the replies. > > I have a further question on this. > > Is doing "mv *" considered "bad coding"? > In a word, yes. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/

Re: [PLUG] Trackball middle button pastes string twice

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >This behavior started over the weekend and is quite annoying. When I > press > the two small buttons on the Logictech Marble trackball (emulating the > middle button on a 3-button mouse in 10-evdev.conf) the highlighted string > is inserted

Re: [PLUG] Diagnosing USB connection problem

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >The issue seems to be that for some reason the phone is now not seen as > an > MTP device. I've no idea why the Media Transport Protocol is involce. How > might I fix this situation? My own phone can connect through either mtp or ptp.

Re: [PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Upstream considers the supplied file (once extracted) to be satisfactory > for a typical user to trivially install tomboy. There are lots of > scripts in top level. But I've no idea of which to run in what order. > > richard@stretch-2nd:/usr/

Re: [PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:23 PM, logical american wrote: > Recently I noticed something odd occurring with 2 file labels, > > make_Home_categories.txt > make_home_categories.txt > > which were 2 separate files, in my ext4 linux file system in the same > partition area, /home/owner/. > >

Re: [PLUG] Install Horde from RPMS...

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson < mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > Anyone have tips on installing Horde Webmail edition on a CentOS 7 > server via yum? A couple of concerns, the version of php that CentOS 7 > uses is old as is the version of apache that CentOS 7 us

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: change word case in CSV file

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: That's the way mine works, too. However, with > 2,400 lines each with > multiple fields doing this manually is impractical. > >What I did (and should have mentioned in the original message) after > creating the macro was C-u 0 C-x e whic

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: change word case in CSV file

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Some agency databases store all words in uppercase and that's how they > are > downloaded to a .csv file. > >I tried creating a macro that would capitalize all uppercase words by > using M-c M-f to capitalize the word under the cursor

Re: [PLUG] Sorting blocks of text

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >I've a few files of names and addresses; each block is separated by two > blank lines. I'd like to sort them alphabetically by the first line. 'sort' > does not seem to do this as I don't see a record separator, only a field > separator. >

Re: [PLUG] Using display for sequence of images

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 10/24/16 08:30, Rich Shepard wrote: > >The 'display' man page tells me that it 'displays an image or image > > sequence on any X server' and suggests looking at the web page or > equivalent > > in /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6/www/displa

Re: [PLUG] unexpected perl dependencies

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Dale Snell wrote: > > I would guess that if the problematic modules aren't available > from the Centos repositories, then you'll have to get them from > the CPAN repository. Again, this is a guess, since I don't run > Centos. > > You may have to grep through the c

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack) unloaded him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find caches of the site. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] how to exit full screen google maps

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:42 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:15:38 -0700 > Denis Heidtmann dijo: > > >In fact, it would be helpful if I > >could turn off the feature that generated the full screen in the first > >place. > > I found a way to turn it off, but that was too lon

Re: [PLUG] Cron advice needed

Another possibility is that the additional 9 characters made your text editor decide to wrap the line, inserting a carriage return. On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Don Buchholz wrote: > Are you sure it's a zero and not the letter 'O'? Are there any spaces to > the left of the '0'? > > On Apri

Re: [PLUG] question on filling in GUI popup windows

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 8:34 PM, logical american wrote: > Just recently, a company that I work with changed their pop-gui login > window which has fields which have to be manually answered. > > I need some linux program which will know how to answer the name box > inside the gui frame, then jump

Re: [PLUG] Emacs Text Editing Question

On Mar 25, 2016 8:07 AM, "Rich Shepard" wrote: > ... > measures are difficult to interpret as suitable for fish and > wildlife. Biological-based standards of water quality are more useful > > The 'd' in "and" is on column 59; when I place "wildlife" on that line the > space after the '.' is in col

Re: [PLUG] File won't stay deleted

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:17:41 -0800 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >Xubuntu 14.04.3, up to date. Files ystem is ext4. > > > >Some time ago I created an ISO image of a movie DVD. I have been > >through with the file for some time so I no lon

Re: [PLUG] Survey: what make/model router do you use at home?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > Galen Seitz and I are working on a project where we encountered a "bug" > in our hardware/software when connecting to certain off-the-shelf wifi > routers, involving the 4way handshake associated with RSN/WPA2. We are > trying to estimate

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT: Git up 'n' go! A Git and GitHub Crash Course

I've thrown something together for tonight. If anyone wants to get a head start, they can look at: https://github.com/alijc/git-practice It contains a few files to edit for practicing commits and merges and the like, and a howto with some basic git and github commands. I'm sure that there are th

Re: [PLUG] Pleaze oh Pleaze: Git/GitHub4beginners talk.

On Nov 30, 2015 10:20 PM, "Michael Dexter" wrote: > > > Hello all, > > Thank you to the person who gave me a suggestion for a possible speaker > for a Git/GitHub crash course. I am trying to reach them. > > Are there any card-carrying members who would like to give such a crash > course this Thurs

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions

I tend to use a LTS Mint at home, and CentOS at work. The advantage of Mint is that it comes with packages that will play DVDs or mp3 files. You can do this for CentOS, but you have to find third-party packages to install. The advantage of CentOS is that it's super stable. Which can also mean t

Re: [PLUG] We have an OSCONtest winner!

I registered for a hall pass and will soon be seen haunting the halls. And will stop by to check out the benefits. However, to avoid confusion, I'm actually not Scott M (the author), but Ali C (the reviewer). Ali On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Dear PLUG Members, > >

Re: [PLUG] Reminder: 2nd Annual Book Review/OSCON Pass Contest!

I grabbed myself a copy of Scott Meyers' Effective Modern C++. (Actually, several copies. One for the computer, one for the tablet, and one for the phone.) My review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1326437454 Ali ___ PLUG mailing list PL

Re: [PLUG] ssh passwordless login

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm stuck with a ssh passwordless login problem. Source machine is a >> solaris 10 box behind a firewall and NAT. The remote machine is Mint 13 >> behind firewall and NAT. > The last time I had an ssh problem that ssh -vvv

Re: [PLUG] Reminder: OSCON Pass Book Review Contest Official Rules

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/956927006 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Dear active PLUG members, > > OSCON is coming and one of you will head there with a full sessions pass > courtesy of O'Reilly Media! > > You'll have to work for it though but it will make y

Re: [PLUG] Are dependences obsolete?

> > I run a Red Hat Enterprise clone, Scientific Linux 6.5 . It is > stodgy (equivalent to Fedora 12, a 4 year old base kernel) - but > it will get security updates until 2023, supported by Fermilabs > even if Red Hat goes away (or worse, gets bought by Larry > Ellison). The problem is, almost al

Re: [PLUG] SD cards that enable wifi

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > I have one for my digital camera Wifi PRO X2 from these guys > http://www.eye.fi/ > > Have not used in a year or so, it is currently in the lost category. > > When I got it there was quite a bit of Linux hacking with it, not sure > where

Re: [PLUG] Setxkbdmap

This explains it pretty well. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_Configuration_in_Xorg I'm not gonna try playing with ancient greek, but I was able to pretty quickly set up a toggle between good ole 'merican English and Portuguese, toggling on the caps lock key, with: setxkbmap us,pt

Re: [PLUG] Android tablets - configurability?

I've used the fdroid app to find open-source apps for my android devices. You can check out the selection from a browser thusly: http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [PLUG] Linus is mad at a kernel maintainer

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > I repeat that I do not know the organizational relationships. Are > this guys paid or are they volunteers? If they are paid, why not > silently fire a guy if he is as incompetent as Linus makes him out to > be? Or is Linus exaggerating

Re: [PLUG] Linus is mad at a kernel maintainer

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:03 AM, MJang wrote: > > Folks, > > > > This message from Linus on the kernel mailing list is interesting > > (warning; language at the link is pretty salty). > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/141

Re: [PLUG] question on ergonometric mice

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, website reader wrote: > > Can anyone who uses an ergo mouse let me know how well they are > working out? Obviously the present mouse I am using had to go. > > I also acquired wrist problems years ago. I switched first to a touchpad, and then to a trackball. I use

Re: [PLUG] Touch screen experience

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > Russell Senior wrote: > >> "Wayne" == Wayne E Van Loon writes: > >> > > > > Wayne> Anybody successfully or unsuccessfully interfaced a touch > > Wayne> screen to a Linux box (non laptop). > > > > I am sure *someone* has, sin

Re: [PLUG] Print Tiling

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > Not sure if tiling is the right term, but I'm looking for a tool to take > a large image (114" x 27") and print it in pieces to be taped together. > Is there such a facility in any of open source tools folks here use? > You could proba

Re: [PLUG] srt files and movies on linux

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Fred James wrote: > Looking for any experience or advice concerning adding subtitles to > downloaded movies, ON LINUX ... no windows or mac here ... thanks > Regards > Fred James > > If you're looking to write the subtitles yourself, then subtitleeditor will scroll

Re: [PLUG] Directory Mode Keeps Changing

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > All the tools and applications I build locally are in /opt. Because > top-level directories are owned by root.root I change the mode of /opt to > 777 so I can download files to it, move files to it, etc. > > For some reason beyond my under

Re: [PLUG] chmod Question

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > I assume you have no backups, you naughty boy. We should spank you, and > > if we need to wear the black high-heeled boots, it will cost you extra. > > Keith, > > You assume incorrectly. What

Re: [PLUG] Which Distribution has best staying power?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:29 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > ok everyone bust out your longest-running-linux story--this might get > hilarious =) > > Centos5* on an older desktop for 4 years. Until the hardware bit the dust. Ali ___ PLUG mailing list P

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu release party Sat night.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:40 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I have used Gnome all my Linux life, originally on Ubuntu and now on > Fedora. I have KDE installed, but every time I try it I find it not to > my taste. However, Fedora 15 came out with Gnome 3, and from what I > have seen on the live

Re: [PLUG] CentOS/RHEL multimedia setup

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > Has anyone here configured CentOS for multimedia playback as per these > instructions? > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS > > If so, did you install the priorities plugin? Did you configure a > particular priority for RP

Re: [PLUG] determine OS bitness for remote servers

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Herrington < dherring...@robertmarktech.com> wrote: > Does anyone know a way to do a scan of a remote server to get the bitness? > > I tried nmap -O but the output does not say if it's 64 or 32 bit. > > A linux server? I always grep /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'

Re: [PLUG] Spamcannibal MakeMaker mess...

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Michael C. Robinson < plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > ... > True that perl is a dependency for many things, but Redhat is so slow to > upgrade perl and so many bugs are getting squashed that it is downright > scary to stick with the stock 5.8.8. > ... If you wer

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I run Scientific Linux, "SL", a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. > The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be > troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a > day from CentOS showing up on our mailing l

Re: [PLUG] What's missing from my Firefox?

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Firefox 3.6.17 on Fedora 14 x86_64, everything up to date. > > I am finding that Firefox cannot find pages on certain links. It > appears that the link that Firefox cannot find is a link that ends > in .asp, not that I have any ken what .a

Re: [PLUG] Qwest the Qwerst.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Pete Lancashire wrote: > > looks ok from here did a telnet from withing qwest to gmail > > > > -pete > > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > > > >> Looks like Qwest has blocked outgoing port 25 so if you are not sendin

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Question

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, nat...@nathanewilliams.com wrote: > >> not a direct answer to the question, but a suggestion for maybe a better >> way of doing it. F6 will select the address bar, and then you just type >> desired destination to replace the

Re: [PLUG] Fedora, K6-2, and LFS...

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > 4: Is there a way to get compiles to optimize for a K6-2 without >   compiling on a K6-2?  I have a quad core AMD Phenom II handy. Yes, just set it in make menuconfig │ Symbol: MK6 [=n] │ Prompt: K6/K6-II/K6-III │ Defined at

Re: [PLUG] Resolve.conf issue

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, William Morita wrote: > Group > > I am running CentOS 5, with current updates > I changed ISPs and have not been able to change the name servers using > system-control-network. > Currently I must manually update resolv.conf to get things working. > > I have shutdo

Re: [PLUG] First quad core system...

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > There is a way to run 32 bit software on a 64 bit platform??? > Your fedora 64bit distro should have come with a selection of 32bit libraries, enough to support the 32bit apps that they think you might want to run. If they missed som

Re: [PLUG] changing aspect

Or use ImageMagick's convert. I'll bet that you could use -geometry to stretch it out in one direction only. Ali On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:38 PM, David Kaplan wrote: > check here... > http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM, wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] CentOS upgrade trouble...

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > I'm having trouble getting spamcannibal working, so I decided to upgrade > from 4.6 Final to 5.5 Final.  A strange issue has popped up.  When I go > to restart the network interfaces I get a SIOCADDRT network is > unreachable error.  Wha

Re: [PLUG] autohotkey equivalent in Linux

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:42 AM, VY wrote: > Hi, > I have been using autohotkey in Windows to automate sending mouse clicks and > it is very helpful. > > Is there an equivalent package on Linux?   I cannot seem to find one. > I'm not sure what autohotkey does. But in KDE, you can create all sorts

Re: [PLUG] Local Linux/Unix Groups/Businesses

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Nathan, > >   It looks very good. However, I urge you to change the text color to black > (or a very dark grey) to increase the contrast against the white background. > What you have might be perfectly clear and readable to young eyes, but no

Re: [PLUG] KDE apps on Gnome

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Fedora 11 x86_64, up to date, with Gnome desktop. > > Everything works, including the KDE apps that I have installed. > However, the window menu font in the KDE apps is too large - nearly > twice the size of the window menu font in other

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone in the group doing cross-development?

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tim Wescott wrote: > Is anyone doing cross-development for embedded microprocessors using > Linux on the host?  Specifically, I'm reviving a project that uses an > Arm Cortex M3 with an OpenOCD debug pod.  I'd _like_ to do the > development all under Linux, withou

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi... > > I have this new computer and Fedora 12... > > Just tried to use my camera... > > The computer/OS does not recognize it > > I used to plugging it in and having the box/OS recognize it.. > > NOT so.. > > Where do I start looking?

Re: [PLUG] Open SSH - Signing on at root

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > In using Open SSH to a linux box, I get the user directory.  I can move > up to the root but cannot transfer files or work.  How do I become the > root user. > Have you tried ssh r...@thehostname? _

Re: [PLUG] Crossover Linux Standard and MS Word 2003...

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > I have a doc file from > > http://www.mth.pdx.edu/%7Emara/Stat%20451%20%20Solutions%205%20F% > 202009.doc > > that looks like garbage on my CentOS 5.x system in MS Word 2003 run > through Crossover Linux Standard, possibly version 7.1.0. >

Re: [PLUG] CentOS kernel update puzzle regard grub.conf default kernel

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > I have two CentOS 5 machines that I just updated to 5.4.  On both > machines the new kernel was inserted into the top of the list in > grub.conf.  However, on one machine the default line in grub.conf was > changed such that the old kernel woul

Re: [PLUG] Forcing module use

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM, drew wymore wrote: > Hi Plug, > I'm working with moblin which is fedora/ubuntu like so I figure this might > be the best place to ask. I have an atheros chipset which is causing the > system to lock up, it's reproduceable with a few moves in the moblin UI. I > have

Re: [PLUG] Web file transfer site recommendations

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... > > As a workaround, I am looking for web-based file storage sites. All I > have found so far are unacceptable. > > Does anyone know of such a site (free) that does not require an e-mail > address so they can spam me forever with reques

Re: [PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > Very, very nice. Now if there were a shortcut for going to the next > page of results... > > -- I used to use the NextPlease extension to provide just such a shortcut. But now, being even lazier, I use AutoPager. Merely scrolling down tow

Re: [PLUG] fire fox

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM, linux-yug wrote: > Hi > > I am using FireFox > > There used to be a setting somewhere so I could make Firefox become IE6 > to the site it was visiting.. > > I can't find that setting now??? > The user agent switcher extension will let you masquerade as different br

Re: [PLUG] CentOS and RHEL 5

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > Next question is, does anyone know of a SUSE SLES  comparable/ > Nope. At least there wasn't a de-branded distro of SLES when I was looking for one a year ago. Ali ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@li

Re: [PLUG] Red Alert C&C I...

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Heath Morrison wrote: > If you really need to get a fresher package into CentOS, the easiest thing > to do is to grab the package from the Fedora repository. > > -Heath There is also EPEL ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ), who repackage fedora packages for rh

Re: [PLUG] A challenge...

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > I think you guys are missing the whole point of the challenge.  The > challenge is to replace TurboTax with a Linux based tax preparation > program.  Talking about whether or not TurboTax online works and > how to do your taxes with a ston

Re: [PLUG] A challenge...

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > FWIW, I used a pencil and occasionally added and subtracted and > multiplied using my preferred calculator, GNU CLISP.  When I had > pencilled everything in, I filled in the forms with the fillable PDF's > provided by the various taxing age

Re: [PLUG] Going back to Hardy

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Samples of the Chevy/Jaguar choice are easy to come by in the digital > world: > >   Chevy            Jaguar >   --- >   nano             emacs > Funny, but I've ne

Re: [PLUG] Linux Box For Old Lady?

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Chaz Sliger wrote: > I need to set up a system for my 88 year old mother-in-law. > When my 80-something year old mother's windows box died, my brother got her a new box and put Suse on it, running (I think) KDE. Probably any combination of distro and window manag

Re: [PLUG] Linux question - Device of the CWD

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:23 PM, William A Morita wrote: > > Does anyone know how to determine which device the Current Working Directory > is on? > Would 'df .' help? Ali ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/li