Re: [PLUG] XXX?

2010-04-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
the linguists among us flame me if I'm wrong. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: You will be successful in love

Re: [PLUG] Data extraction

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which

Re: [PLUG] Data extraction

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 02:31:47PM -0700, drew wymore wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 12:10:03PM -0700, drew wymore wrote: I have a large data set that is being exported from an Oracle DB, unfortunately I can't

Re: [PLUG] route delete errors

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: You

Re: [PLUG] route delete errors

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:16:44AM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:18:08AM -0700, VY wrote: Thanks for your reply. Yes, it is repeatable and I used this command: sudo route delete $IP 127.0.0.1 Do you really route $IP through 127.0.0.1? Having said

Re: [PLUG] route delete errors

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
if the current host is your router then the iptables rule would be: sudo iptables -I FORWARD -d 98.171.145.0/24 -j DROP Note: my iptables examples are horribly simplified things. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate

Re: [PLUG] Is 1 GB enough memory?

2010-03-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
better, but $36 is better than $72 for now. It really depends on what you're planning to do with the system. Video editing? Not enough. General use? Sure. Especially if you use XFCE and Chrome for your browser. Firefox will chew up that RAM. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] MSQL Cross-Table Query

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to include: where date BETWEEN '2005-01-01' AND '2005-12-31' or whatever dates you deem of interest. See http://www.plus2net.com/sql_tutorial/between-date.php (current #1 return when Googling for mysql date range query) -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms

Re: [PLUG] C question...

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: Q: What do you call a half-dozen Indians with Asian flu? A: Six sick Sikhs (sic

Re: [PLUG] GIMP: Won't Draw Lines

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
text it ceases to be editable text and becomes a graphic entity. So if you want to correct spelling you'll need to redo the text. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us

Re: [PLUG] Postfix issues

2010-02-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:33:23PM -0800, randy.rowle...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas on who to use for a free shell account? In addition to the http://freeshell.org already recommended: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+shell (remember: it's a joke, of sorts) -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] February PLUG meeting topic?

2010-01-30 Thread Michael Rasmussen
? Should they be? I recruited Jeri Ellsworth. As of two weeks ago, she was still a go. I have no idea what she plans to talk about (I'm checking), But I expect it to be good. You mean this woman? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] todays supreme court decision.

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
FYI to non-subscribers: Followup posted to Plug-Talk -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: There is an old time toast which

Re: [PLUG] LInux Clinic and you avg P-town computer user?

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
researching if I could connect my Nokia phone to my Linux box to get photos/files off of it. Blackberry Storms show up as USB mass storage after the SW update last November. It's a major win. Easy to populate with custom ring tones, wall papers, icons... -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] todays supreme court decision.

2010-01-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
just thought I would put this out there to see what happens. Before you move your content offshore, move this thread to plug-talk. Why would there be a need to move offshore? Political speech is now in the market to the highest bidder, no restrictions remain. -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Linux Scanner Recommendations?

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
at around 150-300 DPI. Joe Niski's printer with the paper feeds that don't? Still scans great IIRC. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: There is no hunting like the hunting

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin bug - fixes updates

2010-01-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
of this 2010 bug. edit /etc/cron.d/sa-update and uncomment one line. In Ubuntu, and perhaps other Debian flavors, the cron file is /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin and one needs to change the line that sets CRON=0 to a non-zero value. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin bug

2010-01-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
a restart. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin bug

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to correct this issue you are encouraged to ask for assistance on the Apache SpamAssassin Users' list. Users' mailing list info is here. https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/notice_apache_spamassassin_y2k10_rule -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin bug

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
?revision=895073view=markup -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression

Re: [PLUG] DSL Northwest support - mhcrc survey

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. It ends soon. As surveys go this one is pretty well put together and asks minimal demographic questions. I was especially pleased by the ability to back up at any time and update or modify answers given on a previous page. It worked great. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus sees files, but cp does not

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:56:03PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:34:04 -0800 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:04:45PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: A more interesting question is why a few of the files on the Jaunty disk

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus sees files, but cp does not

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask to begin figuring this out. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning

Re: [PLUG] Font sizes on pixilla (QXGA T60)

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
writing unscalable apps. Someday, their young eyes will get old, they will no longer be able to see their own apps, get fired, and live in the gutter :-/ And they'll curse then someday crop of young programmers repeating their mistakes. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] How many of us write small scripts?

2009-12-13 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-Guide-5.4.zip/26834bc1b6 There you go. We have a textbook. It needs a lot more exercises. And the examples are not well explained - I had no idea how they worked. But that is the purpose of an instructor. Substitute user group for instructor and you have everything you need. -- Michael

Re: [PLUG] It just happened again

2009-12-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. Consider using context diff, the -c option, to be presented with the most human readable diff output. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today

Re: [PLUG] Running ntpdate at boot - email alert

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to you. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: You will always have good luck in your personal affairs. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Running ntpdate at boot

2009-11-29 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. You could set this up with anacron - which is installed by default on Ubuntu systems. In addition to the normally scheduled jobs you could run anacron at boot with the -n and -s options. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http

Re: [PLUG] Linus Torvalds for Nobel Peace Prize

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
of the following areas: University professors of history, political science, philosophy, law and theology, Pity Tannenbaum doesn't fit into one of the professor categories. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us

Re: [PLUG] Network failure - 169.254.xx.xx

2009-11-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
obtain these addresses by auto-configuration, such as when a DHCP server may not be found. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: To be or not to be. -- Shakespeare To do

Re: [PLUG] To bash or not to bash?

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
like what you're looking for -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: You will be the last person to buy a Chrysler. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] To bash or not to bash?

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:55:18AM -0700, Bill Thoen wrote: Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Bill Thoen wrote: $ ls -1 BLM/* | egrep ':$|\.shp' | grep -v \.xml (list everything under the BLM directory but include only those lines that end in a colon

Re: [PLUG] shifting email address to gmail

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 03:25:16PM -0800, EDWARD LI wrote: Hi, please have my email address updated as manleun...@gmail.com with immediate effect. Thanks for your kind attention. that's a self serve operation: http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Getting a list of installed programs

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Rasmussen
system that aren't dependencies of another package. That's a pretty nice command set. on my systems it yeilds ~130 packages, a very manageable number. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie

Re: [PLUG] Mobile broadband experiences?

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Rasmussen
useability a Blackberry with data service, ~$30 a month per line, from Verizon would be viable. [1] For some reason bandwidth and connectivity would become very unreliable in Italy mid-morning on Sunday. Late Sunday night service would be restored to the normal fine feed. -- Michael

Re: [PLUG] KDE Reset - Real Solution

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:56:45PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Michael Rasmussen # on Wednesday 26 August 2009 20:25: I'd like to reset KDE so it doesn't start up any applications on startup.  Where is the clean place to do that? I think it's ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc

Re: [PLUG] KDE Reset

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:28:25PM -0700, drew wymore wrote: /home/~/.kde and possibly some stuff in /tmp ~/.kde has 1905 files in the tree. That's a mite too few to go through - and I've already tried the obvious ones. There's also a tree in /var/tmp worth investigating -- Michael

Re: [PLUG] KDE Reset - ah ha

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Unplugging the Wacom Bamboo tablet allowed booting to complete. We be good. Thanks for the thoughts. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: If one cannot enjoy reading a book over

Re: [PLUG] Compatible Fax Modems

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-function printer? Use it instead. Snag one on its way in to Free Geek and use it for scanning/faxing only. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: Is this really happening

Re: [PLUG] classroom space

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:30:56AM -0700, David Kaplan wrote: Richard mentioned contacting a local public school to rent a classroom. I'll give that a try. Parochial or private schools may be available with less red tape. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate

[PLUG] Jauntysuckiness - laptop screens going black and staying that way

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
was just my first encounter with the issue. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: Welcome to another helping of Kenny Zuke's delicious spam. We make it ourselves. You ordered it, so

[PLUG] perl survey

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi Ubuntu Gibbon This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi Solaris v? This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris-64int -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http

[PLUG] Jaunty-licious

2009-05-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. -- Alan Perlis

Re: [PLUG] Content Management System

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] forum software with email bridge/gateway - summary

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 02:41:45PM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: A group I'm involved with recently decided to move its communications from email lists to an online forum. Some of the members are not too happy. ... Checking http://www.forummatrix.org/ I don't even find an option to look

[PLUG] CSS file name curiosity

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to some regular file name like non-ie-browsers.css or perhaps it's an auto-generated css based on a mix of parameters. But why, as in what's the point? Ideas? The site is http://www.mercycorps.org/ and I suspect it is Drupal driven. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] CSS file name curiosity

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
was looking at the source to begin with was an email from them saying Mercycorps.org is all new! ... Cleaner, brighter design ... Open-source platform leverages latest technology at minimal cost and I wondered which open-source platform they are using. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] need help with backups/restores and grub - dump

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part6/section-2.html Or about 1975. Which really is the dawn of time (epoch being o' dark thirty, pre-dawn) in this context. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie

[PLUG] Extended/wide desktop on Thinkpad

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
I was just gifted an analog NEC LCD display and wanted to use it on my T42 laptop for a wide/extended display. Unfortunately, all I can achive so far is cloned display. Does anyone here have a working Xorg conf for a ATI Radeon based thinkpad they could share? -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Bug confirmation help needed

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
are: Host system Kubuntu 8.10 OpenOffice - displays fine KWord - displays fine Abiword - displays garbage KMail - displays fine (internal editor) Odd response on Abiword. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity

Re: [PLUG] intrustion detection software

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=linux+netflowbtnG=Google+Searchaq=foq= -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: He'd been a professional wrestler and his face had been stepped on a couple of times

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
/recipes.rc # Catch SPAM :0 * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\* spam #EOF And here's an example of a message from linkedin.com: Note: INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/recipes.rc You didn't post your recipes.rc - we're seeing only a sliver of your .procmailrc -- Michael

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