Re: [PLUG] How to stop X

2014-08-12 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
will causes the programs to terminate, anyway. The X display acts as a server (and is called one, too), and the GUI applications act as clients to that server. When the server dies, the clients detect that their server is no longer available and terminate. -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 htt

Re: [PLUG] Clear wireless internet on linux

2013-03-18 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
kernel, and I've since canceled my service) without any configuration or voodoo on my part. http://www.clear.com/devices/details/id/devatlas -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlin

[PLUG] Fwd: Partition table: BAD!

2011-12-05 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
1 will become sdb2 (their order on the disk). > > Robert "Tim" Kopp > http://analytic.tripod.com/ > ___________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood

Re: [PLUG] Partition table: BAD!

2011-12-05 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
and 'fix partition order' (press f). I'm not sure, but I suspect it will make sdb2 into sdb1, and sdb1 will become sdb2 (their order on the disk). > > Robert "Tim" Kopp > http://analytic.tripod.com/ > _______ > PLU

Re: [PLUG] Need Virtualization Advice

2011-11-23 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
lease a new update before upgrading my distro. -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Upgrading PHP on CentOS 5.x

2011-08-04 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
HP 5.3 packages. These should count as 'or higher'. -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-02 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
Section 1201 Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems "[...] No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ __

Re: [PLUG] x86 package on Linux

2010-12-19 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
arious Intel and AMD processors.  Is there a way > to find out for each one of them? > Use uname.-m. Odds are that anything made since the late 90s (and 32 bit) will be i686. -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] For httpd Gurus

2010-09-05 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
as nothing, but looks fine under view --> source is because with SGML and XML, items between are processing instructions and thus the web browser doesn't render them. Odds are, the browser is getting Content-Type: text/html in the HTTP headers. -- Vincent L. Damewood

Re: [PLUG] Really bad DELL experience...

2010-07-16 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
ess of equivalence or not, a contract was broken and no amount of searching the web will change that. The only thing that will change that is if Dell installs the advertised software on the system. -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 updates

2010-07-06 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
ewing-1.3.4.20100608-1.fc13.i686 ibus-pinyin-1.3.8-1.fc13.i686 -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
onnections, but it can handle at least a few. The company also offers boards with more memory and faster processors (and thus more connections). -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org htt

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 and vmware mess...

2010-04-28 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
gt; road option. Workstation 7.0 on Fedora 12 works perfectly for me without any sort of modification or patching. The included Player 3.0 still suffers from glitch, though. I've found that Workstation works well with Fedora as long as the Workstation release date is after the Fedora rele

Re: [PLUG] fonts on browser

2010-04-07 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:48 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > OOo has always supported OTF on Windows and Mac versions. It's just > Linux OOo that has been stuck in the previous millennium on OTF. And > I'm sure I read somewhere that OOo 3.2 on Linux can finally use OTF. I > can't verify that because

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 vmware player issues...

2010-03-29 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > I'm on Fedora 12 and have noticed the crashes in 3 seconds problem. > What is the workaround? > cd /usr/lib/vmware/resources mv mozilla-root-certs.crt mozilla-root-certs.crt.bak ___ PLUG ma

Re: [PLUG] Vmware 2 with Ubuntu 9.10

2010-03-24 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > Is anyone running ubuntu 9.1 as a vmware host? I'm noticing in my test > environment that I can't ping or ssh to any of my NAT machines. I have > routes to the correct vmnet interface, but for some reason all the > packets get lost. Have

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 transition...

2010-03-24 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > [...] I need to know how to get the > kernel sources installed so that I can get VirtualBox and VMware Player > going. You will need kernel-devel or kernel-PAE-devel. Install the one that matches your currently installed kernel. You ma

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 vmware player issues...

2010-03-24 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > Does anyone know why Vmware Player 2.5.3 bombs out on Fedora 12 trying > to compile virtual ethernet support?  Another thing, is Workstation 7 > really $135+?  I thought I had 6 on CD or DVD but I can't find it. > Thought I would just i

Re: [PLUG] Linux from scratch...

2010-03-01 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Michael Robinson wrote: > I finished getting a Linux from scratch system working. > > A few things missing, there is no netstat command, no ifconfig command, > and no dns/dhcp commands. There's an extension to LFS called Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS), here are

Re: [PLUG] I bought an iBook

2010-01-12 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Mel Andres wrote: > Still on a bit of a learning curve. Have any of you also partaken of the > forbidden fruit? Yes. Lots of us (maybe not the majority, but still quite a few) like the Unix goodness of OS X. > I have a trial version of Parallels. I was able to in

Re: [PLUG] online CS degree programs

2009-09-24 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:12 AM, linux-yug wrote: > Well, be careful here... > > Accredited means different things to different people. > > ITT is accredited but, their credits DON"T transfer anywhere. > So for example if you received a Bachelors degree from ITT and wanted to > get a Masters  

Re: [PLUG] Internal serial cable IDC 10 to DB9?

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > I believe the proper term for this would be null modem. I.e. crossing > the tx and rx lines. Not in this case. While a null-modem cable is indeed a cable with Tx and Rx crossed, what he's looking for is the cable that runs from his motherbo

Re: [PLUG] Is mac linux/unix-y enough to ask about here?

2009-07-13 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > However, I consider it *U*nixy enough. Macintosh is not merely Unixy or Unix-like. It's completely Unix. As much Unix as AIX and Solaris: http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/19-2-nov07.htm As for whether PLUG is an appropriate forum. The