Re: [PLUG] Snappy response not so snappy anymore

2016-05-06 Thread Robert Munro
On Thu, 5 May 2016 15:52:04 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/05/2016 10:10 AM, Neal wrote: >>> Do you have a tool that can show how busy the hard drive is >>> during the seconds the system is waking up? (Is there even such a >>> tool?) > I haven't found one, but I got caught up in work. > The packag

Re: [PLUG] websites that seem to take over the machine

2015-10-10 Thread Robert Munro
Thanks to all for suggesting ublock origin, noscript and ghostery, all of which I've just added to Firefox ESR 38.3 and am happy with so far. Other Firefox extensions I've installed are Google Disconnect, Facebook Disconnect and Twitter Disconnect. Those might be redundant now, maybe, but I found

[PLUG] Snowden interview

2014-08-13 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Bamford's article on his interview with Edward Snowden at Wired is well worth reading, in case anyone on the PLUG list hasn't seen it. http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/ "The question is, what are we going to do about it?" Indeed. R

Re: [PLUG] Need a new laptop

2014-05-12 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Mon, 12 May 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 May 2014, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 12 May 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> On Mon, 12 May 2014, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> Not everybody agrees with us. My son types

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives to Firefox & Thunderbird

2014-04-05 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:31:53 -0700 Russell Senior wrote: > > I think this is excellent fodder for plug-talk. Not really for > plug-general. Yes, that's where non-technical discussions like those that address political beliefs belong. However, if mot

Re: [PLUG] resizing log file viewer in Ubuntu 12.04

2014-03-23 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:02:01 -0700 Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > Unity offers a log file viewer. It comes up with a window with a > vertical size larger than my screen. The context menu has a resize > option, but it does not provide access to the botto

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-10 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:36:58 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > > I'm finishing (finally) assembly of a new server/workstation. It > has a 60G SSD drive as /dev/sda and a 750G mechanical hard drive as > /dev/sdb. I'm collecting opinions on what partitio

Re: [PLUG] Can one add an OS on a second drive to GRUB[?]

2013-02-12 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:32:24 Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > > Is it possible to have both drives plugged in at the same time and > have GRUB give me the option of which of the three OS's to boot? > The short answer is, Yes. The slightly longer answ

Re: [PLUG] Chrome vs. Chromium: Which is the Web Browser and Which the OS?

2013-01-01 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 10:33:01 Rich Shepard wrote: > > libflashplayer.so is in ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/ and /usr/lib64/ > but not being seen. Javascript is enabled in firefox. > I'm running Firefox 10.0.11 ESR under 64-bit Mageia now, but used to h

Re: [PLUG] Can't Receive Mail

2012-12-02 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:15:01 Bill Thoen wrote: > On 01-Dec-12 12:30 PM, James Bertelson wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Bill Thoen >>> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm setting up a new CentOS 64-bit machine and have nearly > g

Re: [PLUG] would this laptop work?

2012-10-07 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 11:43:31 -0700 Randy Stapilus wrote: > > I'm looking at getting a new (nearly new in this case) laptop on > which I would dual boot Windows (probably not often) and Linux, > probably either Ubuntu or Mint. > > A friend has a machin

Re: [PLUG] Question on efficiently searching large files for a simple text match

2012-09-30 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:36:36 -0700 Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from website reader on Saturday 29 September 2012: >>> I have a list of about 2 to 5 thousand items ... > If you don't know Perl, I think this is a really good time to read > the `man perlintr

Re: [PLUG] Where a program stores temporary files

2012-08-02 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:05:36 -0700 wes wrote: >>> >>> Or isn't possible that it is still on the disk temporarily? > while this is true, it does not particularly impact the specific > scenario laid out by the original poster. > If the data were extra

Re: [PLUG] UEFI and Secure Boot (was ALERT: July 5th speaker cancellation...)

2012-07-03 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:54:16 -0700 Michael Dexter wrote: > On 6/28/12 2:47 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> I still want very much to hear about UEFI. Alas, I know nothing >>> about it. > I found this in my inbox today: > > UEFI and Secure Boot No Fre

Re: [PLUG] Video Jitters

2012-04-06 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:17:15 -0700 "Richard C. Steffens" wrote: > > > So, does this sound like a fixable thing? > > Does it sound like a relatively inexpensive fix? > > Any recommended monitor service shops? This comes up here from time to time. A

Re: [PLUG] fat 16 or 32?

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:36:09 -0700 Galen Seitz wrote: > On 03/23/12 08:52, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >> This is very confusing to me. When I insert the stick that the >> Startup Disk Creator wrote, Ubuntu tells me that it is a 4.0 GB >> file system

Re: [PLUG] namebench

2012-02-17 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:59 -0800 Galen Seitz wrote: > > > "Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers > available for your computer to use. > > http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ I was curious so I tried namebench. It's great! A

Re: [PLUG] Linux Clinic Sunday January 25

2012-01-14 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:13:37 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, dfhubb...@freegeek.org wrote: > >>> Is this a hint that more people would come to the Linux Clinic >>> if we tried to follow the example set by Nevada? (at least in >

Re: [PLUG] Mac Cost

2012-01-14 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:24:00 -0800 Russell Johnson wrote: > Part of my requirements for my laptop is that 'it just works'. If > I have to futz with it, ever, then I'm not doing my job nor my > boss any good. OS/X gives me that more than any other OS e

Re: [PLUG] Laptop Locks Up

2012-01-08 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 06:33:03 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Robert Munro wrote: > >>> I definitely recommend that you try Firefox 9.0.1 though. It's >>> much faster than the previous versions of Fire

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu Laptop Locks Up

2012-01-08 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 12:40:21 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > > Any other advice on how to set this up considering that Web access > is where she spends 99% of her time will be greatly accepted. I'm > always open to recommendations from those who k

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:16:32 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Galen Seitz wrote: > >>> Argh!!! This affects me too. Our office in Beaverton has a >>> static IP from Spiritone/Frontier which is used for mail, web, >>> and ssh. An

Re: [PLUG] CD/DVD internal drive recommendations

2011-12-14 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:49:44 -0800 Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Michael Rasmussen > wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:44:01PM -0800, Denis Heidtmann >>> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Tim > >>>

Re: [PLUG] Thankyou Re: Hardware question from "fly-over country"

2011-11-30 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:52:26 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I'm in RURAL SW Missouri. A local used/surplus computer store >>> is offering a Dell Latitude D620 (4GB memory, 80GB hard drive, >>> Intel Core Duo @ 2.4 GHz) for ~

Re: [PLUG] Hardware question from "fly over country"

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:20:35 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm in RURAL SW Missouri. A local used/surplus computer store is > offering a Dell Latitude D620 (4GB memory, 80GB hard drive, Intel > Core Duo @ 2.4 GHz) for ~$500. It reportedly has the ma

Re: [PLUG] 32 vs 64 bit and/or single vs multi-core?

2011-11-25 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:59:30 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > > In the "real world", is there a difference for an average/typical > user[?] Yes, 32-bit is easier, as not all software is built for 64-bit systems. > I'm contemplating the move from Window

Re: [PLUG] Open Office Starts Slow

2011-11-22 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:38:00 -0800 Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > Something has changed on my machine with regards to the amount of > time it takes Open Office to load. I can't put my finger on exactly > when I noticed the change, but I think it was i

Re: [PLUG] chmod Question

2011-11-18 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:24:59 -0800 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:38:17AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> I inadvertently changed permissions on all directories and >>> files in my ~/ to 755 (including the dot files, of course). >>>

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Cookie Management

2011-11-17 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:59:12 -0800 Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > An article in yesterday's USA Today (USA Yesterday?) described > tracking done by various web sites using cookies. It focused on > Facebook in particular and talked about the various wa

Re: [PLUG] Which distribution has the best staying power?

2011-11-16 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:29:02 -0800 chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > ok everyone bust out your longest-running-linux story--this might > get hilarious =) Okay, I'll tell what I have, though it doesn't come close to some long running Linux systems that hav

Re: [PLUG] Is Qwest/Centurylink a good ISP?

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As my email address reveals, my ISP is Speakeasy. I've been with it for about eight years and during that time it's been bought by Best Buy (!) and then recently merged into Megapath, a national MPLS enabled network. However, twice in the past month M

Re: [PLUG] RIP - Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:02:04 -0500 Fred James wrote: >>> Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: >>> > Pete Lancashire wrote: > >>> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/ >>> >>> > This story may be apocryphal, a

Re: [PLUG] Resolving a DNS/postfix issue

2011-10-11 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:32:29 Rich Shepard wrote: > >>> However, I fixed it by re-installing the bind package from the >>> original distribution, then upgrading with the patch. Now dig >>> and host work. > Well, host now works: > > [rshepard@salmo ~]

Re: [PLUG] List Guidelines

2011-10-04 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:09:32 "Michael R" wrote: > Which brings an alternate solution to mind.? Rather than banning > Robinson from the list have a process [...] append the subject line > of all his messages with "! KNOWN TROLL !" Ever read "The Scar

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Problems in the ReactOS community

2011-09-07 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:51:13 -0700 Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > Windows, especially NT based Windows, is beyond the scope of > Freedos. You knew this wasn't appropriate for PLUG when you posted it, thus the [OT] flag in the subject line. This lead

Re: [PLUG] Article One Partners

2011-09-04 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 22:00:36 -0700 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I recently learned about Article One Partners, a legal research > firm that specializes in finding prior art to bust patents. They > use crowdsourcing to look for articles, existing technolo

Re: [PLUG] Linux vs Unix (was One-liners to empty all files in a directory)

2011-08-19 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:47:56 -0700 Aaron Burt wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:27:59PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz > wrote: >> I'd actually argue that there are far more non-Linux Unix >> installations in commercial space than Linux installations

Re: [PLUG] Confused about multi core

2011-07-29 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri 29 Jul 2011 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT) "Michael C. Robinson" wrote: >> Robert Munro wrote: The easiest way to see if it's single-threaded, >> and whether the CPU is a bottleneck, is to install a visual >> monitor

Re: [PLUG] Confused about multi core processors

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:16:19 -0700 "Michael C. Robinson" wrote: > The trouble obviously is that there are three upgrade paths. I can > increase the memory, I am upgrading the video, and I can change the > processor. So there are two upgrade paths

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:07:03 -0700 nathan w wrote: > > Why? This query reminds me of an article i read describing the > process of dns poisoning by pushing "updates" to a dns server at the > moment it updates... So again... Why do you want this? > >>

Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth

2011-07-24 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: > > Last Monday I upgraded my Aracnet account to the maximum bandwidth > that Frontier reports for my location (3M down, 768K up). The change > was supposed to take no longer than 48 hours.

Re: [PLUG] Odd shutdown behavior

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:00:15 -0700 Paul Johnston wrote: > It is as though the x86 box has a shutdown checklist and does > everything except the last few items. Then, when starting a new > session, it does those last few shutdown items from the previo

Re: [PLUG] HP all-in-one printer issue

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:18:32 -0500 Fred James wrote: > My 7310 seems to want to have something like the alignment page and > clean print heads run every few days no matter what other activity > has occurred. There is good reason why The INQUIRER sta

Re: [PLUG] HP all-in-one printer issue

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 at 11:47:47 -700 PM, wes wrote: > If it's worth a couple hundred dollars to fix (probably less, but be > prepared), there are companies out there specifically to fix your > old printer. The one I use is called Laser Services. worth

Re: [PLUG] System Files in User's Home Directory Trash

2011-06-26 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:50:43 Rich Shepard wrote: > Now I'm reminded why I did not remove these files before. In > /home/pamela/.local/share/Trash/Files/ are what appears to be the > entire system; for example, I see directories for /Xll, /cups, /dbus.

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 81, Issue 33

2011-06-26 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:50:32, Rich Shepard wrote: > >On the Toshiba running Xubuntu (10/10?) the trash "folder" in ~/pamela > appears to contain system files and directories. Why might this be? Should I > try to move them elsewhere? I think they'v

Re: [PLUG] monitor aspect ratios (was Natty is here; Update)

2011-05-05 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/2011 08:11 AM, plug-requ...@lists.pdxlinux.org wrote: > I'm not a big fan of the new "landscape" monitors. I use an older 4:3 20 > inch LCD because I like the vertical space for text reading/writing > work. I dread the day it gives out becau

Re: [PLUG] Resolving Local Web Site Access Error

2011-04-04 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: > >My development version of CMS Made Simple is in /var/www/htdocs/cmsms. > When I try to access it firefox displays a 'page not found' error. > /var/log/httpd/error_log has nothing more

Re: [PLUG] Algorithm's (sic) and Compilers PSU...

2011-03-29 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:26:04 -0700 Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > Can anybody here force this off? I concur, although it wouldn't be fair to Michael Robinson to ban him from the list for posting complaints about his experience at PSU that we can't advis

Re: [PLUG] Is there a russian romance scam?

2011-03-26 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:57:22 -0700 Russell Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Jason Barnett wrote: > >> > Personally, I just assume that anyone that I didn't give my address to, and >> > sends me a message is a scammer. >> > >> > Unle

Re: [PLUG] A little something for everyone

2011-03-05 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:05:14 -0800 Alex Young wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Bill Ensley wrote: > >> > Your post is offensive and discriminatory. >> > >> > I don't care what anyone else on this list says. >> > >> > -Bill Ensley >> > www

Re: [PLUG] Broken Sony Vaio PCG-691L

2011-02-28 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:03 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > While visiting with a couple of friends this afternoon they showed me a > Sony Vaio PCG-691L computer that is broken. The problem is that the > power connector is kaput. The battery is

Re: [PLUG] Internet addictions and technology

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This probably belongs on Plug-talk, but I'll reply to you one time here. I don't follow Plug-talk, btw. So if you want to reply please do so via private email. Truer words have never been written than "You can't legislate morality." That also applie

Re: [PLUG] Provider Recommendations Sought

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:04:02 -0800 JM wrote: > > Finally fed up with Speakeasy, which used to be fine, pre-merger with > Megapath. Now I'm looking for solid DSL, with a couple fixed IP addresses > from someone (local or otherwise) that serves the D

Re: [PLUG] firefox, updates, and SSL certificates

2010-12-21 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:06:40 -0800 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > Does firefox retain added SSL certificates through updates? Yes. I used to edit at an obscure website but later fell out with the owner, however I still have the CMS certificate in Fire

Re: [PLUG] memtest86: Help Needed

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 09:32 AM, Galen Seitz wrote: > I feel some sympathy for the memory manufacturers. I'm sure there are > cases where they get blamed when the actual cause is a marginal > motherboard design. I'm not saying that's the case here

Re: [PLUG] Position of swap partition

2010-10-27 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/27/2010 Rich Shepard wrote: > Does it matter what partition is formatted as swap on a drive? On my new > hard drive I've made 3 partitions, and think I should redo it because I made > /dev/sda1 the swap, /dev/sda2 will be /, and /dev/sda3 will

Re: [PLUG] Questioning Mozilla Plugins

2010-10-22 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/2010 10:02:07 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard wrote: > >In ~/.mozilla/plugins I see a bunch of files with an .xpt extension and > shared libraries dating from 2006. Your mplayerplugin files should be replaced every time you install an updated

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-18 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you all for your replies. An IBM T4x Thinkpad is sounding good. Regards, Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky8i5EACgkQ+qYMIUkNJC

[PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-17 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My HP Omnibook 6000 died yesterday. Apparently the hard disk failed as the Setup program shows Hard Disk [None] and pulling it out, staring at it and reseating it didn't help, of course. Salvage resellers are selling some refurbished IBM Thinkpad T41

Re: [PLUG] Where To Install PHP PostgreSQL Driver?

2010-09-26 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2010 08:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: > >Second, I was going to use drupal but it's inappropriate for our needs. > That is a good tool for sites heavy on user contributions, frequent changes > (e.g., news, shopping), and with hun

Re: [PLUG] Centos upgrade trouble...

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2010 06:34 PM, plug-requ...@lists.pdxlinux.org wrote: > Okay folks, how do I stop this? I have NOZEROCONF=yes > in /etc/sysconfig/network. Try adding NOZEROCONF=yes to the ifcfg-ethX file(s) for your network interface(s). HTH, Robert

Re: [PLUG] Can't get Java plugin...

2010-07-20 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/2010 01:18 AM, Someone wrote: > Can't get Java plugin... > > and firefox 3.6.4 on CentOS 5.5 to work together. > > Where is the global plugins directory anyway? > On my system, Firefox installs to /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/ and I just add a

Re: [PLUG] Linux Clinic Sunday Dec 20 1pm

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:08:27 -0800, Tony Rick wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:00:48 -0800 >> > John Jason Jordan dijo: >> > >>> > >On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:19:00 -0800 >>> > >Keith L

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2010

2009-11-09 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:13 PM, David Kaplan wrote: > It seems that nobody here uses Mandriva. The new version 2010 is quite > nice. > It's equal to Ubuntu, which I use as well. > > Give it a try... http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05749 > > The KDE ve

Re: [PLUG] post-partition, after setup question

2009-10-30 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 6:28 PM, Randy Stapilus wrote: > Thanks to those who helped with my partition/mounting question. Now, > with Linux installed, I have another once. > > I got through that process and set up the dual boot. Windows appears >

Re: [PLUG] google docs

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Munro
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, at 02:45 PM, TedKubaska wrote: > > So I thought I'd bring this up on PLUG to see if anyone else has encountered > this issue and has any experience or opinion. And I appreciate the input. > > -ted > On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Larry W wrote: > > TedKubaska wrote: > A

Re: [PLUG] terabyte upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Robert Munro
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 at 12:59:32, Eric Wheeler wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:52 -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote: > > 350W Antec Basiq PSU > > MSI motherboard w/ onboard video > > 1.2 gb ram > > 2 300 gb Drives > > 1 36 GB dirve > > 1 DVD burner > > Power supplies run near optimal at ~80% of s

Re: [PLUG] IPtables internal port forwarding

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Munro
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 11:47 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > As the OP here's the background story. > > At work we manage several thousand switches and routers. > We're replacing our management platform with a new one. > There is an internal requirement to NEVER use clear text protocols. > > So to put

Re: [PLUG] Calling ~/.Xmodmap in Xubuntu

2009-04-19 Thread Robert Munro
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:00 Rich Shepard wrote: >Since the Toshiba boots into runlevel 5 with no login required, > where > should I place a call to .Xmodmap so the key functions are swapped > each time > the system is booted? Does Xubuntu have /etc/rc.d/rc.local? That is meant for such trivi

Re: [PLUG] CSS file name curiosity

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Munro
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:00 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > I was viewing the source to a web page I retrieved and saw > href="/sites/default/files/css/04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css" > /> That's a Drupal website's theme CSS cache that it builds from the CSS inheritance hierarchy. It contains a

Re: [PLUG] PLUG New Mail Log Issue

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Munro
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 06:07, Rich Shepard wrote: > >The past few days the following (with different numbers and IDs) > has shown > up in the logwatch summary: > > - sendmail Begin > > SEVERE ERRORS > - > > System Error Message

Re: [PLUG] AMD motherboard w/HDMI

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Munro
I'd look for a motherboard with an Intel or AMD chipset if I were you. As Charlie Demerjian said at The Inquirer today, "Nvidia chipsets are not only buggier than the mattress of a third-world prostitute, but their Linux drivers are barely functional if you can find them." http://www.theinquirer.

Re: [PLUG] Logs and Reporting ... Again (Rich Shepard)

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Munro
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:04:48 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rich Shepard > Subject: [PLUG] Logs and Reporting ... Again >Something broke here and I've no idea where to look. Not all scripts in > /etc/cron.daily are being run (specifically 1pflogsumm) while 0logwatch, > logrotate, slocate and (presu