Re: [PLUG] Java .jar problem

2014-03-31 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Joe Shisei Niski joeni...@gmail.comwrote: Rich, feel free to send me the stacktrace, i'd be happy to look at it. Sadly, i've probably spent a half decade of my life reading those, but at least i've gotten paid for it. Likewise... you can probably put the

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

2013-11-07 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:45:50 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: Just as easy to mark a region (keyboard or pointy device), then press ctrl-x w to cut and ctrl-x y to yank it back. That

Re: [PLUG] All applications died

2013-08-09 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:37:29 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: I'm wondering if there is a global kill-9 command that might have been There /is/ such a command, but I don't think that's what happened

Re: [PLUG] Link issue (I think)

2013-08-01 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: Running the above command from within the source directory (sleepyhead-code) I got: bash: ./configure: No such file or directory SleepyHead (which I just built from source successfully) doesn't use a gnu-autoconf

Re: [PLUG] Edit PFD

2013-05-04 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I think I asked this before and can't remember the answer.. I need to edit a PDF document. What application can I use. xournal is my go-to choice for tweaking PDFs. It's nominally a pen-based note taking app, but

Re: [PLUG] Emacs org-mode users?

2013-05-02 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: I just discovered org-mode for emacs and am wondering how versatile and useful it might be for my business marketing needs. Is anyone here using this mode? Please share your experience and hints. Hi Rich, I use

Re: [PLUG] ~/.Xmodmap Cannot Find Commands

2013-04-08 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Dale Snell wrote: The only thing that comes to me is that you no longer have the xmodmap(1) command installed. Dale, That's not the issue. xmodmap is present and accounted for. I can run

Re: [PLUG] ~/.Xmodmap Cannot Find Commands

2013-04-08 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Rogan Creswick wrote: Could you post the content of your .xinitrc, and the specific errors that you're seeing? It would also help to know the path to xmodmap (`which xmodmap` should provide

Re: [PLUG] ~/.Xmodmap Cannot Find Commands

2013-04-08 Thread Rogan Creswick
Thanks! Comments in-line below. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: Here it is: #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $ snip # Start the window manager: exec /usr/bin/wmaker $NOCPP snip There ain't no

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu suspend/wake issue

2013-03-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Daniel Hedlund dan...@digitree.orgwrote: Are you by any chance also running systemd? There's a cross-distro issue involving XFCE and systemd fighting over suspend: I don't /think/ I'm running systemd. It's not showing up in a 'dpkg --list | grep systemd',

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu suspend/wake issue

2013-03-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Daniel Hedlund dan...@digitree.org wrote: Is there a way in XFCE power manager to disable suspend on lid close? If so, and you disable suspend, does closing the lid still trigger a suspend? Great idea! I was able to separately set the behavior for lid events

[PLUG] Ubuntu suspend/wake issue

2013-03-19 Thread Rogan Creswick
My ubuntu-running X201 thinkpad (running the latest Ubuntu), has recently developed a problem after updating. When I wake the machine (by opening the lid) it wakes up just long enough to show the lock screen, then it goes back to sleep. I can then wake it up by pressing the power button and

Re: [PLUG] Permissions problem

2013-03-15 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:59 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: The permissions for all folders and files on the disk are drwxr-xr-x. I could try chown again, but I am wondering if I messed up when I did that on the other computer. I am jjj:jjj on both computers. There is also a

Re: [PLUG] Flickering monitor

2013-02-28 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Feb 28, 2013 8:51 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: At first I thought it was Banshee, because that is what was on the screen at the time. I could not easily terminate Banshee because of the difficulty in clicking on things, so I opened a GUI terminal. When the terminal

Re: [PLUG] Web Browsers Supporting HTML5?

2013-01-05 Thread Rogan Creswick
Hi Rich, http://html5readiness.com/ shows the current (or at least, pretty recent) status of various browsers support for the various aspects of HTML5 and CSS3. Generally speaking, they all support a large portion. Chrome is often ahead of everyone else, but for most things, any recent browser

Re: [PLUG] Please Google, stop trying to be so helpful

2012-10-25 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:18 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: What happened on the day in question is that I had logged in to my PSU Gmail account with Firefox, which I normally do not do (normally I access it with Claws Mail). Once I did so Firefox refused to offer me any

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: replace-regex to Remove Quotes

2012-10-15 Thread Rogan Creswick
Hi Rich, Now I need to do ther reverse: remove quotes around digits to convert a string to a number. I've tried the above adding quotes to the query string and removing them from the replacement string, but that leaves the string unchanged. I've also tried other variants with equal lack of

Re: [PLUG] OT: chrome

2012-09-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Fred James fredj...@fredjame.cnc.net wrote: OT: google chrome (a) Any experience running the chrome browser, good/bad/indifferent? I highly recommend it. It's been my primary browser for close to three years - no significant problems, and I find Firefox

Re: [PLUG] emacs: undo discard-info

2012-06-05 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I'm having difficulty finding the emacs warning library. I use emacs to edit large data files and a global replacement exceeds the undo buffer's size so a small buffer window opens to tell me this happened. The

Re: [PLUG] last Update

2012-02-27 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Feb 27, 2012 12:10 PM, dfhubb...@freegeek.org wrote: However both of your suggestions simply take me back one page, and do not actually refresh the page I'm on. Which particular page (or pages) are you encountering this problem on? Debra Message: 1 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:38:39

Re: [PLUG] Need Explanation of BASH Script Error

2012-02-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
disclaimer I only know enough about bash to know I shouldn't use it for anything important. Others can explain what's going on in greater detail, I'm sure, but this should get you going./disclaimer On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   OK. CURRENTIP

Re: [PLUG] Blog software

2012-02-16 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, plug...@martinconsulting.com wrote: At the risk of unleashing a fire hose of responses, what do people recommend for blogging software? Octopress. It uses github to host very nice-looking blog content, external webservices for things like comments, and all the

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I successfully upgraded the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410 from version A03 to A11. With this newest version the system is supposed to recognize and use all 8G of installed memory. But, it still sees only 4G. By

Re: [PLUG] Best File Format for OOo Writer = MS Word Collaboration?

2012-02-01 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:03 AM, j...@sdf.org wrote: Greetings PLUGers, I'm trying to help out a first-time author using OOo Writer 3.2.0 on Ubuntu 10.4 who needs to collaborate with a book editor using MS Word, probably the 2007 version on Windows 7.  Ideally, the book editor would be using

Re: [PLUG] Has Google taken over browser settings?

2012-01-21 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: It used to be that to go to eBay all I had to type in the URL bar was ebay (Firefox or Opera), and the browser would assume I wanted to add .com to the URL. Of course, if I wanted pdxlinux it would assume I wanted

Re: [PLUG] Has Google taken over browser settings?

2012-01-21 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: Open about:config, click Yes I'll be careful, type keyword.enabled into the search box in the about:config *page*, click on the keyword.enabled line so it is set to false. (That last click should be a double-click

Re: [PLUG] Can't reply or compose in Thunderbird

2011-12-09 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:53 PM, rst...@comcast.net wrote: Any ideas where to start figuring this out? I would start by disabling any add-ons you have installed and restarting tbird. (Tools - Add-Ons) --Rogan ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Virtual Terminal Line Wrapping: A Different Approach

2011-11-25 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I've tried a handful of different terminal emulators (aterm, Eterm, roxterm, rxvt, urxvt, wterm; 6-fingered hand here) and they all shift long lines to the left instead of wrapping them. Ergo, something other than

Re: [PLUG] Emacs regex: quote dates

2011-11-22 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I've looked at the emacs wiki regex page and tried a couple of different ways to put single quotes around dates in a large data file, but I've no succeeded. I'd appreciate some help here.   The dates are in SQL

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-17 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:30 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: And then I discovered that if I let it boot to the GUI, even though X wouldn't start, I could do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console, and having done so the ethernet was working. Why it wasn't working when I booted to

Re: [PLUG] XFCE disappeared!

2011-11-14 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:02 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:45:00 -0800 Daniel Hedlund dan...@digitree.org dijo: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:51, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: And when the login screen came up my only choices were Gnome and

Re: [PLUG] Best GIMP Resource / Corel Draw equivalent

2011-10-28 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote: Tim Wescott wrote circa 11-10-28 09:51 AM: So -- is there a good make it pretty sort of vector-based graphics program that's freely available? I like Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape is one of the best

Re: [PLUG] Patient records on Live CD

2011-10-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: How does this sound?  Would you like your own doctor to do something like this? Would it be simpler to print to a PDF, export to the top N formats for EMR data interchange, write a README for the EMR user's tech to look

Re: [PLUG] Program fails to start

2011-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:14 PM, chris (fool) mccraw gen...@gmail.com wrote: another nifty tool which would have worked even better (had the utility you started out looking for been part of any of my repos) is apt-file (which searches in the list of filenames that could get installed with

Re: [PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Johnson tekno...@gmail.com wrote: It pains me to just throw this all away. Is there any way we could digitize it? (does anyone have a bulk scanner + table saw to cut the bindings off?) --Rogan That's the kind of stuff I really like to read. If I had

Re: [PLUG] Program fails to start

2011-10-17 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net wrote: As mentioned yesterday my desktop croaked. Fortunately I had copied a number of things from it to my recently upgraded laptop which is now running Ubuntu 10.04, too. This is a fairly old version of Ubuntu - it's

Re: [PLUG] Android Tablets, Kindle Fire? and other uses

2011-10-03 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Michael R mich...@jamhome.us wrote: I'd love one of these as an Xserver or VNC client.  The touch screen would be a great interface into Gimp or other graphics program. I think you will want a stylus - Lenovo has an android tablet with one (and it's pressure

Re: [PLUG] Android Tablets, Kindle Fire? and other uses

2011-10-03 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:39 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Don't the tablets use the same kind of screen as the phones? If so, you can get a pack of four styluses on eBay for $5-6. I use one with my Android phone, and it helps a lot when trying to hit small icons. Yes, as

Re: [PLUG] config error message interpretation help, please

2011-09-26 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sep 26, 2011 9:53 AM, Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net wrote: I've got Ubuntu 10.04 running on my laptop. Now I'm trying to add things that I have on my desktop to the laptop. One of those is the Buoh Comics Reader. I downloaded the source and am attempting to compile the program. I

Re: [PLUG] Whiite Linux missing name resolution...

2011-07-12 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: No name resolution, no apt-get, aptitude, etcetera. I'm trying to figure out how to get the dns tools debian package, but I'm having absolutely no luck. Wiite appears to have dpkg, and the wiki page

Re: [PLUG] Looking for a Simple Way to Send SMS to a Group

2011-06-06 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: I have a club softball team, and we are going to nationals at the end of June. We communicate very well using an email list, but when we are on the road not everyone has access to email. I am looking for a simple

Re: [PLUG] Natty is here; Update

2011-05-05 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Alexander Case alexander.c...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure HP still makes those. I don't know if there are Linux drivers for their monitors (the rotation part, that is.) xrandr handles rotations just fine (as does at least one of the gnome xrandr font-ends).

Re: [PLUG] Emacs Speedbar Question

2011-05-03 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I've used speedbar when editing .py and .c files, but it does not display .sql or .txt files in the same directory as that of the active buffer. I'd appreciate a clue stick on what I'm missing. The right-click menu

Re: [PLUG] Emacs Speedbar Question

2011-05-03 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2011, Rogan Creswick wrote:   I added the two extensions. Most of these customization options are totally opaque to me, but I don't live in emacs all day. :-) Sometimes I think I live in emacs simply

Re: [PLUG] Emacs regex: Replace W/Original String

2011-04-26 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   Mea culpa! I cannot recall the metacharacter for use in an emacs search-and-replace regex to replace the original search string. My Google searches find everything but this.   Example: I want to search for ABCD

Re: [PLUG] Emacs regex: Replace W/Original String

2011-04-26 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   The built-in emacs info page on regex replacement shows that \ replaces the entire search string. Unfortunately, when I try \$ or \ $ I don't get a \newline but the dollar sign. Any thoughts on why? I believe that

Re: [PLUG] Mass Removal of White Space in File Names

2011-04-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: Will take the spaces out (destructively, so be careful.  I don't know how it handles filename conflicts that may arise, I suspect not gracefully.). Combined with find and xargs, you can apply it to a whole directory

Re: [PLUG] Regression Testing and library versions

2011-03-26 Thread Rogan Creswick
Applies for top posting, the device I'm using limits my options :( NixOs does much of what you describe, retaining multiple versions of a library, but I have not yet tried it. -Rogan On Mar 26, 2011 11:13 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I am vaguely familiar with the regression

Re: [PLUG] Regression Testing and library versions

2011-03-26 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: On Mar 26, 2011 11:13 AM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: ... using multiple library versions simultaneously On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 01:04:59PM -0700, Rogan Creswick wrote: NixOs does much of what you describe

Re: [PLUG] Emacs Regex Question

2011-01-28 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I want to globally replace a digit followed by a single quotation mark by the digit alone. Using emacs's regex I set the search term as [0-9]' and the replace term as \. The replace term replaces the single quote,

Re: [PLUG] Anyone Using Google Voice with T-Mobile?

2011-01-26 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Wifi calling on my android phone with T-mobile is not very reliable. Some wifi points connect, some don't, those that connect drop calls, etc. I think google voice is VoIP, so it sounds as if it would be a

Re: [PLUG] Where Are Suspend/Hibernate Controled? [SOLVED]

2011-01-23 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I bet setting the time to zero means never. Denis,   Could be. Or, it could mean to suspend between keystrokes. :-) However, the machine is not left on and unused for

Re: [PLUG] Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies in PDX?

2011-01-22 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:36 PM, David Mandel dman...@pdxlinux.org wrote: Two different groups in two different states have recently ask: Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies in PDX? Galois is a local Linux shop (primarily) that has made a lot of OSS

[PLUG] HomeRunHD / encrypted cable and media boxes

2011-01-11 Thread Rogan Creswick
, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:13 AM Subject: HomeRunHD To: Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com Rogan, I was looking at the HomeRunHD that you linked to.  It says it doesn't work with encrypted cable channels.  I'm not sure what that means, but I suspect it only supports basic cable.  Although, it may mean

Re: [PLUG] XKCD for Jan 7

2011-01-07 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that.. I looked and couldn't/didn't find a way to subscribe? There are rss and atom feeds for the comic: http://xkcd.com/rss.xml http://xkcd.com/atom.xml --Rogan Did I miss it? TIA Marvin On 1/7/11,

Re: [PLUG] Screenshots with Gimp 2.6.8

2010-12-11 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: I seldom need just a full screen shot, unadulterated.  I almost always want to select a portion of the screen, often a portion of a window.  Then I want to adjust the quality of the jpg, based upon the resulting

Re: [PLUG] photo stitching SW?

2010-11-30 Thread Rogan Creswick
Mark, My experience with hugin matches what Denis reported, so I'll take a stab at your questions. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: What version of Hugin? I'm not sure -- I've just installed hugin with apt/aptitude. I'm trying version

Re: [PLUG] Untrusted web sites

2010-11-30 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:11 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: The site in question is a Department of Defense site. That's why it surprised me. This is pretty common, in my experience. It was surprising the first few times, for sure :) I don't understand how the default set of

Re: [PLUG] External monitor remains black

2010-11-29 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:40 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Working around other people's bugs is a PITA. I'm almost afraid to ask this at this point, but is there *any* chance that the neuveau driver actually worked correctly, and the screen was just displaying a solid black

Re: [PLUG] Help Emacs Find ipython

2010-11-29 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   When I start emacs it tells me that it cannot find ipython. In ~/.emacs' python section I have: (setq load-path (cons ~/development/python/python-mode-1.0 load-path)) (autoload 'python-mode python-mode Python

Re: [PLUG] Locate v. find

2010-11-28 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:47:54 -0800 Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com dijo: Locate uses a database to answer the question.. Find does a search to answer the question.. Find is also A LOT move flexible..    Takes more

Re: [PLUG] Lambda Calculus and Linux...

2010-11-24 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Hugs seems to be for Windows.  I thought there were some Linux releases, but is there another route? Hugs runs on quite a few platforms, it's certainly available for Linux, however, most current Haskell work

Re: [PLUG] Xrandr

2010-11-17 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:42 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:33:25 -0800 Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo: There is nothing special about testing it with a projector. You could just test it with any external monitor as long as it can handle the same

Re: [PLUG] photo stitching SW?

2010-11-14 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com wrote: What photo stitching software do people recommend? Pandora plug-in for GIMP, Hugin, enblend, and photoxx are listed in Synaptic.  Anybody have experience with any of these?  I have a few pix I took as panoramas,

Re: [PLUG] Dict

2010-10-23 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: I can get it to work this way dict -h dict.tu-chemnitz.de word but, I haven't had to use the -h option in the past. dict.org appears to be down -- it's been this way for at least a day or two (I noticed it wasn't working

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Version Matters After OS Upgradep

2010-10-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM, wes p...@the-wes.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote:   Why's firefox looking in wx and grass6.4 directories for libraries it needs? Something's screwy here. It will look in lots of places, depending on

Re: [PLUG] Firefox Version Matters After OS Upgradep

2010-10-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   Done. Strace showed a symbol error in what I assume is a javascript script, so I downloaded another copy of 3.6.10, removed the existing 3.5.2 and 3.6.10 and re-installed the latter. Still get this error:

Re: [PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-19 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: I have a video of a talk that is spattered with very loud, ear-wrenching, bursts of static at random intervals.  There are quite a few of these bursts (on average, probably one every 20-30 seconds), and they are at least

[PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
I apologize for the tangential nature of this post, but I am hoping for a linux-based solution and I don't know where else to ask right now. I have a video of a talk that is spattered with very loud, ear-wrenching, bursts of static at random intervals. There are quite a few of these bursts (on

Re: [PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Aaron Burt aa...@bavariati.org wrote: Before you go too much further, I've had the same symptom due to the player not being able to keep up with the framerate.  Is it any better if you disable video output and/or use mplayer from the commandline?  How did you

Re: [PLUG] what simple linux command does this?

2010-09-29 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, logical american website.read...@gmail.com wrote: So there really isn't one single command, is there? I don't believe there is, but I think it's an easy script to write. Something like this should do: --Rogan #!/bin/bash # # this has only been *very*

[PLUG] Could anyone use a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250?

2010-08-07 Thread Rogan Creswick
I don't have television service, and have no intentions of getting cable again, so I have no use for this card. It's in good (read: like new. 10h use) condition and it is well supported under Linux. It does *not* do HD, but it works fine for standard def. Comes with an IR receiver cable and

Re: [PLUG] Calling all editors; final site draft

2010-07-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net wrote: I only recently learned that there are two schools of thought on links to other sites: open in a new window, or open in the current window. I've always been a fan of open in a new window. I bow to the collective

Re: [PLUG] Dirvish-compatible NAS suggestions (will consider other backup tech. if necessary..)

2010-07-19 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Aaron Burt aa...@bavariati.org wrote: You're right, you want RSync and/or NFS to do Dirvish backups, and most NASes don't come with those enabled by default. After pricing out some SATA drives, I think the best solution (for me, at least) is to just drop a

[PLUG] Dirvish-compatible NAS suggestions (will consider other backup tech. if necessary..)

2010-07-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
I'm looking for a NAS, but I would really like to use dirvish (see below) and I'm skeptical that most NASes will support dirvish properly. My priority, however, is to find an off-the-shelf solution that just works. I like dirvish for the following reasons: * it's relatively easy to set up (eg:

Re: [PLUG] Calling all editors; final site draft

2010-07-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:07 PM, nat...@nathanewilliams.com wrote: At this point, a semi-final review is requested for the proposed new PLUG website; i'm taking all critiques, be it spelling, technique, aesthetics, broken links, etc. Overall I think it looks great! I do have a few minor

Re: [PLUG] Bash Script Error

2010-07-08 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Dan Young wrote: Where's Randal when you need him for calling out a UUOC?   Probably trying to herd cats. While we're prettifying, how about: for x in $(cat list); do mailx -s Test Message $x

Re: [PLUG] two column xterm?

2010-06-11 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: No, I want a general purpose text terminal.  The vim capability is OK, but ls -l, email, less, man pages, command line error output, and many other text apps can run on for pages.  Yes, I can capture the session to a file

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo T410?

2010-06-10 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:01 PM, m0gely m0g...@gmail.com wrote: Keith Lofstrom wrote: Actually, people have been doing this for years now: http://z.about.com/d/compreviews/1/5/3/6/Dell2005FPW-Rotate.jpg A word of caution -- don't go buying a bunch of monitors assuming this will work for you.

Re: [PLUG] DSL options in Portland

2010-05-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, alan a...@clueserver.org wrote: Depending on where you live you may be able to get DSL/Fiber with faster speeds. I have been told it is possible to get just DSL without land line, but I think it depends on the carrier. I'm using Qwest for two naked (or

Re: [PLUG] Commercial Linux games

2010-05-17 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:21 PM, VY vyau5...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I am looking for a few good commercial (non open source) game titles on Linux.   Does anyone have any good recommendation? The humble indie bundle is a great deal (these games are just now going OSS, they were commercial):

Re: [PLUG] Grub Gripe

2010-05-07 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, WAYNE VAN LOON SR w...@pacifier.com wrote: Now what is it that is so bad about LILO? I personally switched to grub because it provided a shell that you could use at boot time to crawl the filesystem looking for kernels, initrds, etc. and construct a bootline that

Re: [PLUG] Emacs Speedbar for SQL

2010-04-22 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   Does anyone know a way to have emac's speedbar recogznize .sql files? I know the tool works great with C and Python files, but now I am editing a few SQL files and it would be nice to quickly switch among them in

Re: [PLUG] P2V of MS Win on VirtualBox?

2010-03-07 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't researched this much yet, but I'm curious to know if anyone has recently taken a running MS Win box and converted it to a virtual machine w. VirtualBox? I'm about to try this. I found the following

Re: [PLUG] New Computer

2010-02-24 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote: If you just love Ubuntu to pieces, going from Ubuntu to Xbuntu will make for a big drop in resource utilization. It's worth noting that this switch doesn't require a new OS install, just aptitude install

Re: [PLUG] Top is lying

2010-02-12 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: [...@devil8 ~]$ ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10 %CPU   PID USER     COMMAND 99.0 25327 root     top remainder deleted So I killed top, then re-ran the command. It still listed top as 99%. WTH?

Re: [PLUG] Top is lying

2010-02-12 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw gen...@gmail.com wrote: be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs

Re: [PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Randy Stapilus stapi...@ridenbaugh.com wrote: Writer, and tried saving a short text document. Got the message: OpenOffice.org could not save important internal formation due to insufficient free disk space at the following location: /home/[my home

Re: [PLUG] Flash audio corruption?

2009-12-16 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, chris (fool) mccraw gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:18, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Debian Sid. I'm thinking the problem lies in the flashplayer plugin. Has anyone else experienced this? yup.  for the past couple of

Re: [PLUG] It just happened again (Resolved)

2009-12-06 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I have no idea what rogue process created this file. If it were me, I would create a script to notify me via email and text message as soon as the file is created. that should give a hint as to what's creating it, as I can

Re: [PLUG] It just happened again

2009-12-04 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:20 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Yup. Rebooted. Logged in. No metacity. I don't remember if anyone asked this before -- what happens if you run metacity from a terminal in X when you don't have a window manager? You *may* need to find the metacity

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu to Debian Second Attempt - Day 2

2009-11-22 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: OK, now I know what the problem is. Running ./xaralx tries to launch it, but spews a page of wrong elf class errors, then aborts. I know that error - xaralx is a 32-bit app and I have 64-bit Linux. Still, I had it

Re: [PLUG] Now I've done it

2009-11-22 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: If I startx as jjj I get a window without metacity or gnome panel, but the USB mouse and keyboard work. Great choices, eh? This *really* sounds like something related to gnome-session is not working. I'm assuming

Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs

2009-11-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I thought that I had saved the instructions for this from several years ago, but apparently I did not.   I need to remove double quotes from a specific column for all 3200 lines in a file. I know that I can do a

Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs

2009-11-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote:   I need to remove double quotes from a specific column for all 3200 lines in a file. I know that I can do a regex search and replace for the beginning of each line, but the quotes I need to remove are in the interior

[PLUG] DisplayPort

2009-11-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
Forking another thread... On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Aaron Burt aa...@bavariati.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:04:46PM -0800, Eric House wrote: I'm looking closely at Dell's Optiplex 760 system.  It's available in two smallish form-factors, one ultra small that'll fit on a

Re: [PLUG] Reinstall, yet save everything

2009-10-24 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: I'm also considering going to straight Debian instead of Karmic. I endorse this approach :). I've gone back to Debian after four years of Ubuntu, and I am much happier running Debian testing than I was with Ubuntu.

Re: [PLUG] Mobile broadband experiences?

2009-10-07 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: Has anyone in PLUGland purchased and used a mobile broadband account? In a nutshell: I would not recommend the Clearwire mobile broadband, based on my experience with their non-mobile service. I did had a Clearwire account

Re: [PLUG] More OO.o Writer Faults

2009-09-03 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Larry Williamslar...@holbrookmasons.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:22, Fred Jamesfredj...@fredjame.cnc.net 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

Re: [PLUG] More OO.o Writer Faults

2009-09-03 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Michael Robinsonplu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I find that crossover Linux standard runs MS Office 2003 student teacher edition nicely on CentOS 5.  Apparently, the current version of Quicken works with the latest version of crossover Linux standard as well.

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