On 10/10/2011 3:01 AM, Jim Karlock wrote:
> Please don't leave. The disruptive person will get tired fairly soon
> and things can return to normal.
Setting Robinson's messages as junk has served me for for the time I've
been in this list.
And now it isn't just one person disrupting the on-topic
On 10/03/2011 07:39 PM, Mike Connors wrote:
> I agree with all of that. But allow me to play devil's advocate for a
> bit. Is it fair to new people coming on to the list to have to deal
> with this and just learn to deal with it their own way?
We deal with people like that in every circle, Mike. A
On 09/13/2011 11:41 AM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>
> dmidecode says "Current Speed: Unknown" for both of those.
When I run dmidecode I get speeds for my modules, showing as DMI type 17
(also as type 6, showing current speed in ns). Just a guess, perhaps the
sticks or the MB don't support spee
On 06/01/2011 08:43 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> I'm looking at a data sheet for a transistor with Evince, and it's
> rendering Greek letters incorrectly. Lower case mu is rendering as an
> infinity symbol, and upper case omega as a vertical line. Fortunately
> there aren't any others in there to con
On 05/14/2011 07:55 AM, Fred James wrote:
> Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>> (omissions for brevity)
>> Here are the results.
>>
>>
>> file jan.eml
>> jan.eml: smtp mail text
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marvin
>>
> Marvin Kosmal
> And so there you have it ... it is a text file ... not something that
> could be pl
On 05/13/2011 08:41 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> On 5/13/11, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 May 2011 07:57:23 -0700
>> Marvin Kosmal dijo:
>>
>>> I am having a problem getting .eml file to run...
>>>
>>> I have both rhythm box and VLC and neither will play this.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to co
On 05/05/2011 09:17 PM, website reader wrote:
> (2) if test -e `ls m* | head -1` ; then echo "found"; fi
Michael's solution does work, and you can put it all on a single line:
FILE_THERE=`ls m* 2>/dev/null | head -1` ; [ -e $FILE_THERE ] && echo
"found"
If it finds one then it reports and exits
On 04/01/2011 03:58 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Latitude E-5410
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5410/pd#TechSpec
Looks like it maxes out at 4GB
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On 03/10/2011 12:25 PM, Mike Connors wrote:
> Is anyone running a fairly current Linux kernel (2.6.26 or close) and using
> a Logitech or Creative web cam?
I use a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX with Unbuntu 10.04, 2.6.32. It
uses V4L1 and reports as a UVC camera on /dev/video0. I use it with
On 06/12/2010 04:39 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I suspect this will be a much harder project since I have yet to find
> a way to keep track of all the things that I install, and how I
> installed them.
Aptitude helps in a small way. In /var/log/apt, at least on my 10.04
machine, are two f
I have Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) running without issue on a Dell D610 and a
Gateway NX570X.
The Dell isn't widescreen, but the resolution is classified HD in some
circles (1400x1050). It also has a 1.86GHz CPU and up to 2GB RAM.
Wireless and IR are supported out-of-the-box, as is bluetooth and every
b kielhorn wrote:
> dmesg | grep -i SAM
It's possible that the drive doesn't include the brand name in its
output, so grepping for SAM wouldn't work. Try grepping instead for
scsi, sr or CD-ROM. Try also:
lshal | grep -A 10 cdrom
sudo lshw | grep -A 10 cdrom
Larry.
Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> I need a new computer
>
> I am on a very limited budget...
Have you checked freegeek? They have some for sale, but for a few hours
of your time they will give you one.
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I can't test this, but wouldn't wipe do the job? I would think something
along the lines of
wipe -Da /dev/st0
would work, although it could take a long time (35 passes by default,
use -q to do four passes). In the same time and with less mechanical
wear and tear you could sit a few rare earth
wes wrote:
> Or any authorized distributor of APC products. This place claims to sell it:
>
> http://www.partstore.com/
I've done business with them. I wasn't dissatisfied.
Larry
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Rich Shepard wrote:
>Apparently part of the seamonkey problem here (or all of the problem) is
> that xubuntu-9.10 installs seamonkey-1.1.17 and there's a -2.x version
> available that fixes a bunch of problems.
>
>When I look in the synaptic package manager on the laptop I see that
> seamon
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> The only observation I can report is
> that when the network is up ethtool eth0 has an entry "1000baseT/Full"
> under "Advertised link modes" that is absent when the network is down.
>
Have you tried a different computer, or at least a different NIC?
Sean Whitney wrote:
> 3. I am looking for a fully functional MFC printer (fax, copy, scan,
> memory card reader, color print (photo's too)) Is there any models I
> should stay away from?
I would stay away from Brother MFC until after you have thoroughly
researched them. I had one and just af
Erik Lane wrote:
> It didn't start it up with the extra interfaces for remotely
> controlling stopping/starting, etc.
Starting it with cvlc enables the dummy interface. For your terminal
window,
vlc -f --xvideo-display :0 -I rc
will give you a text-based control panel. Then all you need to
Larry Williams wrote:
> cvlc --ffullscreen --xvideo-display :0
>
One f: --fullscreen.
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Erik Lane wrote:
> With the HTML option, can you start VLC using that, or do you have to start
> VLC from the local keyboard, with HTTP as an alternate interface?
Unfortunately, VLC contains the http server, so it must be running. I
suppose you could enable some other listener and then send a tr
Erik Lane wrote:
> Nope, not at all what I wanted when I said remote. I simply want to SSH into
> the box and tell it to play the file off of its disk onto its screen. I
> naively thought that a simple command or two and I'd be done without having
> to get up from cuddling with my wife and sons, si
Erik Lane wrote:
> (Though server
> is a bit of a misnomer, since the screen is also attached to it, and that's
> where I want the video/audio stream displayed.)
VNC might do the trick. But if you think of the laptop as a remote
control, and in general terms how the average video device works, me
John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux
> kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make$
>
Have you actually installed the kernel source files? What is in /usr/src?
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Tim Wescott wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with VirtualBox? How'd it go? Any
> gotchas? Anything I should know before I just start happily installing
> software? Is there a way to import an already-working hard drive image,
> or do I just have to install Windows fresh in a new virt
logical american wrote:
>> Well said Keith! Sage advice. Stepping out of the zombie worker assembly
>> line and cutting my own path is exactly what I need to do...;-)
>>
>>
> It's not as easy as the postings suggest...
>
> I am part of a team with 21st century technology. Last week I walk
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Larry Williams
> wrote:
>
>> Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>>
>>> NTPSERVERS="ntp.ubuntu.com". When I google, I get a lot of
>>>
>>>
>> Seems to me that you don'
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> NTPSERVERS="ntp.ubuntu.com". When I google, I get a lot of
>
Seems to me that you don't need to do anything because your time server
is defined. I use pool.ntp.org.
Larry
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On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 12:56 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I created the PS print file
> by printing the original PDF to file from Okular.
Can you print to PDF using the cups-PDF package? That might help clean
up the file a bit.
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On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 20:42, Kirk Goins wrote:
> I'm on Verizon FIOS and as of Sept 30 they no longer support any
> newsgroups. What are people using these days? Any really bad ones? Any
> really Good ones?
There are a couple, not free, that I've used. news.individual.net is
about $15.00 per ye
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:36, Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
>
> I have been trying to figure out the best (easiest) way to sync
> Thunderbird on both machines.
What I've done is to point ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to some server that
both machines can access. I've used SMB to host a directory and it's
wor
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:55, wrote:
> I would also consider mint, as it is ubuntu without the hassle of hunting
> down proprietary
> codecs, etc. I have used their live cd and it works well. It is yet another
> flavor but well done and
> set up a bit more like a windows machine would be.
Su
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 07:19, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I thought I'd
> ask for recommendations on where to find a list of live cds.
My first stop usually is http://www.distrowatch.com, then I search for livecd:
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Live+CD#distrosearch
I have tried live
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:40, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>The synaptic window was closed. However, even when it was open the same
> locked file message was presented.
>
Does the error message look like this when you run apt-get install anything?
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (1
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 17:27, Tony Rick wrote:
>
> You might check your xorg.conf for the
> keyboard entry. If it says the driver is 'evdev', you might try
> changing it to 'kbd', which was one of the simpler suggestions
> floating around.
>
Thanks for the suggestions. Nothing in BIOS that se
Has anyone been able to get all the keys on a multimedia keyboard to produce
scancodes or events? I have an HP 5187-7583 with five destination keys
(search, HP club, Internet, Info, Email), two eject buttons, a Burn CD/DVD
button, multimedia controls and volume controls. Three of the destination
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:27, Tim wrote:
>
> In my grad school crypto class, we cracked the Excel hashes used to
> enforce this exact type of protection (though I don't know if it is
> the same for .doc files). I reversed the weak hash using pen and
> paper, so not only is the protection pointl
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 13:44, Robert Citek wrote:
> Oh, what's that? You don't know how to create and edit YouTube videos
> with linux. Yeah, me neither.
>
I wouldn't know how to do it in Windows, but a synaptic search returns three
packages that claim to be video editors. Just attach your
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 16:56, Carlos
Konstanski wrote:
> Assuming I have a 1/4" guitar cord type
> plug
Assuming you have a 1/8" line in socket on your sound card, you need
an adapter to convert both size and channels. I wouldn't doubt that
Guitar World or Radio Slack might have what you need.
A
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 20:41, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Could not resolve 'kheb.homelinux.org'
This is the problem. kheb.homelinux.org does not resolve.
homelinux.org takes you to dynamicnetworkservices.com.
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:22, Fred James wrote:
> To avoid MSW
What about RTF? OO.o does remark that it's converting the document,
but there may be less of an issue with that than any DOC format.
Most of the documents I send are a one-way communication, meaning the
recipient is not expected to m
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 13:22, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I used to print directly from FF, and all my other apps print directly to
> the printer so I assume that's where the problem is located.
I agree, all indicators point that way. I'm just giving you a data
point. Can you print to the cups PDF
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 09:05, Rich Shepard wrote:
> This is apparently a new issue with firefox-3.0.13 here. While I don't
> often print web pages directly to the printer, I wanted to do just that but
> I cannot.
>
> When I invoke the print dialog box (menu, clickable link, ctrl-p) the
> Print bu
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 19:03, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> Even on non-Compiz computers the screen update is horrible in OOo
> Writer. Click on a graphic and the whole window jumps. Click back on
> some text and the window jumps again. That's just lame. And it has
> always been that way, since I fi
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:52, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> While doing testing I discovered that typing anything in a Google box
> in Firefox will bring down Firefox or the entire computer very quickly.
I thought for a moment that this might indicate a RAM problem since FF
does tend to use a lot of
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:14, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> my problem. Google cannot tell me what "X" actually consists of. It's
> probably more than one package, but which ones?
In Synaptic I found a large number of files matching a search for
xorg, including a metapackage simply titled Xorg. I w
Plug-talk gets very little traffic. Prefixing the subject with For Sale or
FS will let readers filter as they see fit.
Just my $0.02
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:33 AM, linux-yug wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 10:25 -0700, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> > i would find it useful as well. As long it was
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