Hello,
I have managed to obtain a working configuration to boot Linux on a
MacBook via grub-efi. I have documented that project here:
http://nosemaj.org/dual-boot-mac-linux .
Next, I would like to remove grub-efi all together, and directly boot
the kernel as an EFI stub.
Has anyone had
On 01/28/2013 05:35 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
On 01/28/2013 05:11 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
Your name is only a mapping to a number (which the filesystem uses),
the UID (likewise the group: GID). It sounds like you have different
UID/GID's on the two systems. Look in /etc/passwd on each
+1 to the linux-flavor.osuosl.org repos; I have been using them since I
moved to Oregon, never with any hickup and usually with high throughput.
I hadn't been aware that Portland State had a mirror!
On 10/03/2011 12:57 PM, Fernando Freire wrote:
I too, lost access to cat.pdx.edu, although I
What is preventing our list administrators from removing the offending party
from the subscribers list, and adding a regex for the offending domain to
the ban list? The years of repeated violation of publicly stated list rules
would justify this - and to do so could greatly benefit the quality of
That is a large amount. I too have about ~13k in /usr with 11.04. (Using
my favorite command, find:find /usr -xtype l) .
It looks like almost all of them are in /usr/share/, and a very large
number are related to language packs. For whatever reason, it seems
popular for a package to install
On 08/26/2011 09:16 AM, Daniel Herrington 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.
I'm seeing the value you want in the nmap fingerprint output via:
nmap -A -vvv hostname
...
On 08/26/2011 01:23 PM, Jameson Williams wrote:
On 08/26/2011 09:16 AM, Daniel Herrington 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.
I'm seeing the value you want in the nmap fingerprint
On 08/24/2011 02:20 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niskijoeni...@easystreet.net
wrote:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? i use
aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature:
On 08/18/2011 12:38 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:33:09AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
If you're on google-plus, this particular rant of mine inspired one of
the longest threads I've seen on G+:
https://plus.google.com/105487854388646525021/posts/JCRge81VRS8
Jameson In as far as I can tell, Randal doesn't like GNU because it
Jameson breaks interoperability with UNIX/POSIX, e.g. GNU Make vs. BSD
Jameson Make? Seems a silly flame war to me, but my +1 for GNU are
Jameson several fold: (1) GPL/copy-left; (2) larger % of user
Jameson
On 08/17/2011 08:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Find is overkill if you're not descending directories.
perl -e 'open F, $_ for @ARGV' *
Agreed. /var/log definitely has some nesting, though (below). But that's
no excuse for me not to learn Perl. :-)
jameson@orange:/var/log$ sudo find
On 08/17/2011 06:52 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Jameson I haven't been able to get this one yet.
Jameson Challenge: A one-line statement (pipes okay, but explicit loops not)
Jameson that empties all found files (as for debugging with /var/log,
Jameson perse).
Randal In a single
On 08/17/2011 08:51 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Daniel truncate -s0 *
man truncate
Not found.
You're using some weird OS.
Hm, I'll be damned. Truncate is part of coreutils, but /is/ relatively
new (2008)! Here's where it got merged:
I haven't been able to get this one yet.
Challenge: A one-line statement (pipes okay, but explicit loops not)
that empties all found files (as for debugging with /var/log, perse).
This is close, but has a loop:
find -type f | while read file; do :$file; done
This seems like it might
On 08/15/2011 03:47 PM, Sam Hart wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Jameson Williams
jameson.h.willi...@intel.com wrote:
I haven't been able to get this one yet.
Challenge: A one-line statement (pipes okay, but explicit loops not)
that empties all found files (as for debugging
That one doesn't work on my end. It echos (literally) lines like
filename
instead of executing the above in bash.
On 08/15/2011 04:15 PM, wes wrote:
My solution would have been:
find -type f -exec echo \ {} \;
-wes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Jameson Williams
jameson.h.willi
Hi there,
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(I apologize if this is spam to you -- I'm not a recruiter, just some guy on
the list.)
Thanks,
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the only way to go about this?
Thank you,
Jameson Williams
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote:
BTW, SC09 is jawdropping awesome. Thanks to Michael Dexter
and the Linux Fund folks for the exhibitor guest badges. The
show fills the entire A-B-C-D-E exhibit area at the convention
center, as well as some of the
While I am generally onboard with the idea that a prominent figure of the
Open Source community might be recognized as a leader of world peace (or
simply as having had a large humanitarian impact), it is unclear to me that
Linus Torvalds is the correct recipient. Linux is a cool piece of software.
The latest list of the five-hundred most powerful computers in the world was
released today. Linux powers Oak Ridge's Cray XT5 system Jaguar, which is
back in the #1 slot. (Not to say that almost all of the others on the list
don't run Linux, too.)
http://www.top500.org/lists/2009/11
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EE code:
if (fapml) goto dovx23;
while( bxx ) ;
for( foovar ) dofun();
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Russell Senior seni...@aracnet.comwrote:
Eric == Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com writes:
Eric # from Rich Shepard # on Saturday 10 October 2009 10:27:
A friend that worked at the
My apologies. you are correct. There should also be a line that reads:
MyEXTVAL ~= 0x0133344;
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Russell Senior seni...@aracnet.comwrote:
Jameson == Jameson Williams jame...@jamesonwilliams.com writes:
Russell I could kiss electrical engineer programmers
. Sometimes
it fails to sort. I believe this is likely do to a race condition involving
my qs_arg object, but I'm not all together sure; my attempts to mutex it did
no further good. Can someone with a keen eye spot the race condition and
propose a solution?
Thank you!
Jameson Williams
#include
I thought I'd hosed one of those back in the day... are you able to tftp /
telnet to it at all? I forget where, but someone had posted a good howto on
the matter. some of this networking firmware lives separately from that
which you'd flash via the GUI. Good for fubars.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.comwrote:
CentOS sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go.
Indeed.
People who run CentOS want something that just plain works and they
don't expect to reinstall their operating system every 6 months or
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Russell Johnson ru...@dimstar.net wrote:
On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jameson Williams wrote:
The kernels that CentOS uses stock are quite old as far as the 2.6
branch goes. I am using 2.6.18 and the current kernel is like 2.6.27
or something. In CentOS
I agree with David -- a new look could be quite fashionable. (Rich, your
reply here reminds me of this thread
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2009-July/064513.html) Keeping a
website up to date is a tedious and often thankless job. I imagine that
whomever is maintaining it would
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
mer...@stonehenge.comwrote:
Andrew find . -empty -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \;
Beware. -empty is a stupid GNUism because the GNU people were
too lazy to type -size 0.
The *real* find is documented in:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
mer...@stonehenge.comwrote:
For example, MAC OSX 10.5 *is* Unix. Officially.
Well, I can see that -- Mac OSX is more like UNIX than Linux is, from a user
experience. Both are broken and kind of suck. Hoho.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Andrew Brookins a.m.brook...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey, list,
This is kind of a pedestrian request, but hey, it's like 104 degrees
outside.
I wanted to remove all empty files in a directory today, so I typed
this command:
ls -s | grep -e '^ 0' | sed 's/^...//'
Or how about find . -empty -maxdepth 1 -delete
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jameson Williams
jame...@jamesonwilliams.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Andrew Brookins
a.m.brook...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey, list,
This is kind of a pedestrian request, but hey, it's like 104
Yum also fetches something if you don't have it, and it resolves
dependencies.
Thus I don't know if having it run on each line is a good way to do it.
Assuredly not. Yum package list updates alone are painful; the overhead of
invoking yum is kind of a bore, imhe. Not sure what the op's
It is getting a little more stable, but I am always careful to upgrade
kernels only when I have time to troubleshoot the suspend mode.
Bill,
Just to satisfy my curiosity, why upgrade kernels if everything on the
unit works with the existing kernel?
Rich
Why have a child if the
The commodity Intel abg wireless chips have worked fine for me. I would
download the latest kernel source, look what is in the wireless modules
source folder, and see if one of those will suit the chip in the laptop you
want to buy. I got a Dell Vostro 1310 last year which has been quite Linux
MSIE? JavaScript? I recently joined this list, but have seen a lot of things
that rightly belong in PLUG-talk or a forum. Use Debian and enjoy the GNU
libraries.
Jameson
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Eric Wilhelm scratchcomput...@gmail.comwrote:
# from Keith Lofstrom
# on Tuesday 14 July
Personally, I would just do sudo chmod 777 directory name. But
there may be better settings in your case.
*Don't* do this! 777 is an exception to the rule, probably only for things
like /tmp.
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The best way that I've found to learn any language is to embark on making
a
compiler or interpreter for the language, preferably in the language.
Doesn't this require that you know assembly language???
Compile to what...??
Interpret to what..???
This is not a bad idea, but linux-yug
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