-04 at 19:10 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
Ah those darn spaces sure cause problems :) Give this a try:
$ cat I-A-files.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs cat | pdftk - output
I-a.pdf verbose
It works for my test case:
$ cat file.txt
file with spaces
some other file
$ cat file with spaces
; pdftk *.pdf cat output ../I-a.pdf
verbose ; unset IFS
Crazy I know... :)
-Charles
Charles Jones wrote:
Hmm pdftk doesn't seem too friendly in regards to the order of the
arguments, it would be much easier if you could specify the input
files last on the command linehow does it tell
is going to
work at all because as the man page states...the '-' option is to
pass only a single file via stdin.
Craig
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:10 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
Ah those darn spaces sure cause problems :) Give this a try:
$ cat I-A-files.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g
mike enriquez wrote:
Guys? I have several new, still in sealed boxes, motherboards and CPUs. I
have only Intel products.
Any details, such as the CPU model? Do any of the boards have SATA
connectors?
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I'm looking for a used 17+ LCD. Doesn't really matter how old it is as
long as it works and doesn't have a dozen dead pixels or something. I
have a PC at home that is/was using a really old touchscreen LCD which
has all but died, and is about a third as bright as it used to be.
I would be
at 11:54 AM, Charles Jones
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I'm looking for a used 17+ LCD. Doesn't really matter how old it
is as
long as it works and doesn't have a dozen dead pixels or something. I
have a PC at home that is/was using a really old touchscreen
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:09 AM, jordi laforge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Found this on the Ubuntu Forums. Looks like they are planning a Conference
in Phoenix for September
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4352335#post4352335
Don't know how far
jordi laforge wrote:
I've got a Sun 420R taking up too much space in my garage. It's gotta
go. Buy, trade or try to beat me up and steal it from me.
If anyone is interested shoot me an email off-list.
Depending on how old it is, it *may* be eligible for a trade-in with
Sun. Back when I
Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:57 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
I'm on a quest to get Hobbit Monitor (
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon ) added to several linux
distros. Someone has already gotten it into Mandriva and Debian. I sort
of volunteered to package
I'm on a quest to get Hobbit Monitor (
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon ) added to several linux
distros. Someone has already gotten it into Mandriva and Debian. I sort
of volunteered to package it for Fedora (hopefully fc9), and CentOS.
Has anyone submitted a package to CentOS
der.hans wrote:
http://samba.org/samba/PFIF/
I wish this meant that soon we could have native support in Sunbird
and other opensource calendar progs that would allow to sync with
Exchange. Maybe I don't make full use of Samba now, but the current
version seems to be doing everything I
Wayne Davis wrote:
Wife tried to start up her Kubuntu system with one 60GB SATA and this is
what's on the screen:
Kernal Panic - Not Syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block
(0,0)
Anyone know what this is and how it could have happened?
TIA :-
Usually caused by booting a
There's also this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar_Accounting
Shawn Badger wrote:
It would appear that Hans isn' t the only person looking for a good
open source accounting package. I just read this article on Linux
Journals website that talks about a package that may fit the bill .
Tuna wrote:
NOTHING is worth ten exclamation marks
I suggest that in addition to using the OT: prefix for off-topic
posts, we also use EP: (excessive punctuation) to warn folks that they
may see a post which exaggerates someones excitement level. (Soon to be
followed by NP: (No Punctuation),
Tuna wrote:
I went to Best Buy
and I can't find a damn thing on there! Finding Notepad in the Start
menu is *easily* a two-minute ordeal.
Don't take this as defending Vista, but just FYI in vista if you don't
know where something is, you can just click the Windows logo (used to be
the
Anthony Boynes wrote:
route print from a cmd prompt to show your routes in Windows. And
yes, its basically all the routes the machine uses to communicate with
other devices on the network
Dazed_75 wrote:
I sort of know what a route table is but barely. In linux I do know
how to
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
On 2/12/08, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
why would you want to use putty on Linux? just use the standard
command line SSH.
putty is useful on Win32 though.
I've used it before because putty can ssh through a SOCKS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use a home-brew backup script that basically loops through some
directories, grabbing a wad of files, tar/gzip them up, and FTP the
result to a distant server. To minimize space footprint, it deletes
the file after FTP finishes, but it's a very primitive setup--
Mike Bydalek wrote:
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
On 2/12/08, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
why would you want to use putty on Linux? just use the standard
command line SSH.
putty is useful on Win32 though.
I've used it before because putty can
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
why would you want to use putty on Linux? just use the standard
command line SSH.
putty is useful on Win32 though.
I've used it before because putty can ssh through a SOCKS proxy
connection, and the standard ssh cannot.
-Charles
Ted Gould wrote:
So I'm getting ready to start the fun ol' taxes. Anyone tried TurboTax
2007 in Wine yet? Wine seems to be getting better and better, and so
I'm kinda curious if it can do TurboTax this year.
I've found the online version of turbotax (at turbotax.com) to work just
as well
I used TurboTax.com, and here's what it cost me:
Order Date: February 10 2008
Quantity Item Price
1 TURBOTAX ONLINE STATE AZ TY2007
PREP $29.95
1 TURBOTAX ONLINE STATE AZ TY2007
E-FILE$0.00
1 TURBOTAX ONLINE
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
Good info, but we have to add OT to the thread so that people can
filter this convo if they like.
You're absolutely right, and I meant to do that, but I totally dropped
the ball, thanks for correcting me...sorry folks!
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
On 2/7/08, keith smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A weaker dollar is not always a bad thing. With a weaker dollar our goods
and services are more globally affordable.
actually for folks like us a weak dollar is the greatest news we can
get. Weak Dollar =
Josef Lowder wrote:
I don't think there is any need for a separate plug off-topic
list. Imho, all that is needed is to encourage everyone to make
sure that there is an OT: in the subject line for off topic
discussions. Then it is easy to just create a filter that sends
all items with
I am also unsubscribing. Goodbye ...
You'll be missed.
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I've seen similar to below when someone embeds a picture in an MS-Word
or PowerPoint document. I'm not sure how it happens, but sometimes when
they drag the picture in from a web page, it gets hotlinked to the URL,
so when someone opens the document, MS-Office fetches the image instead
of
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 8:55 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there is zero doubt that those submarine cables are being
intentionally severed.
How can it be proved and why isn't anyone covering this in the media?
They verified via satellite that
JD Austin wrote:
Who wants a job :)
I wonder who the client is? Sounds exactly like a position at
Ebay/Paypal that I interviewed for once. They weren't located in
Scottsdale at the time though.
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Personally I find it interesting that Britney Spears doctor visits make
headline news, but not a peep from the media about the apparent
deliberate cutoff of entire countries communications.
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Craig White wrote:
But Richard...you don't have to be a weasel about it...if you had just
asked, I would have given you my boss's e-mail address.
He's seen the picture though...you're going to have to come up with
something more creative. In the meantime, I wish you could find the
courage to
http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.shtml
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Nathan Aubrey wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 02:42:46 pm you wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:19 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
Howdy Pluggers,
After 15 years of linux, today is my last day. Though I plan to continue
linux use on my personal laptop, my professional computer career is
keith smith wrote:
So if the employee has all these connections what happens when they
need to leave their cube for a bathroom break or lunch... ETC.
Funny thing is employers will find out we are all the same. We have
good days and bad days. Our productivity is not what they think it is
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/01/13/dancing-spychief-wants-to-tap-into-cyberspace/
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I've heard lots of people over the years complain about Sprint, Verizon,
ATT/Cingular/MCI. Some I have agreed with and witnessed personally, some
I have not. I recently stumbled upon the worst I have seen so far.
Quick background story, I was helping a friend who lives in Canada setup
a
I recently pre-ordered the newer model of this
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/4100sh.aspx
I'll post a review once I get it (week or two).
My minimum requirements were:
* 1080P playback
* Video playback of h.264 .mkv files w/subtitles
* Video playback of DIVX and h.264 .avi files
* Audio
There are 3 HD channels you can get on cox without using their HD box.
The channels are 12-1, 12-2, and 15-1. One of them is just a weather
channel but I have seen some decent HD shows on the others.
Technomage-hawke wrote:
On Monday 07 January 2008 12:21, Erich Newell wrote:
Just a
You could try -c blowfish, which uses a lighter encryption so there is
less overhead.
Also, depending on the type of data and the speed of the connection, you
may have luck with the compression -C option.
-Charles
Bryan O'Neal wrote:
I am working on remote machines a lot lately, and while I
Couple of thoughts:
cron jobs usually have a slightly different shell environment ($PATH,
etc)...I suspect what was going wrong was it could not find the full
path to dpkg or something like that.
I would suggest additionally using the -p flag for your cp command, so
that you preserve the file
What about something like:
$ cat file
KIDS:
Mother : Amanda
Father : Scott
$ cat file | sed 's/:.*/: bob/g'
KIDS: bob
Mother : bob
Father : bob
Not sure what you are trying to do, but the point is that using .* is
probably what you want (it matches even if there is nothing in the
Consider yourself lucky. At my old house, there was something funky
with the power, because I went through about 8 power supplies, even good
expensive ones. At the end I was buying cheapo $29 cases from Frys just
to get the power supply out of them (and then recycled the case).
My new house
I had 3 PCs running 24/7, one of them was on a UPS, and the other 2 had
surge protectors. They all equally failed. I think the house just hated
technology. :-)
Kevin Brown wrote:
Consider yourself lucky. At my old house, there was something funky
with the power, because I went through about
http://www.rsnapshot.org/
gm5729 wrote:
Hey all I'm looking for a backup proggie that is relatively easy to
use. I don't want to set up a cron job because the drive I am backing
up to is not powered up all the time. I have looked at rsync,
rdiff-backup (which looks the easiest so far) and am
JT Moree wrote:
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Craig White wrote:
there are yum plugins such as the download plugin that permits download
but not install.
cool. Where can I get this plugin? In particular for Centos 5. If I
go to install later is it going to
Craig White wrote:
Next week I am going to evaluate whether it's worth upgrading a system
from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8.
Just for fun I will do an upgrade of my desktop from FC7 to FC8
today...I will let you know how it goes :)
-Charles
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I like yum but I do have some gripes about it:
1. It would be nice if it would ping all of the mirrors and use the
fastest one (or if RH would use some BGP magic or something to route you
to the closest mirror (official
Just thought I would post that I successfully upgraded my FC7 to FC8 via
YUM, and it went pretty smoothly. I first manually downloaded the
fedora-release* packages from an FC8 repo mirror, and installed them via
rpm -Uvh fedora*. Then I did a yum clean all followed by yum
upgrade. After
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:22 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
Just thought I would post that I successfully upgraded my FC7 to FC8 via
YUM, and it went pretty smoothly. I first manually downloaded the
fedora-release* packages from an FC8 repo mirror, and installed them via
rpm
I think I would hang on to the Adobe repo. The libflashsupport I think
is to extend flashplayer support for Pulse Audio since it probably isn't
part of libflashplayer.so - make sense?
Ah, yes.
changing hda devices to sda devices wasn't a fedora thing...it was a
kernel thing. (2.6.22-18 I
Anyone know of any decent POS (Point of Sale) solutions that preferably
run on LAMP? A friend is looking for something pretty simple that can
handle daily POS, inventory, and of course control a simple cash drawer.
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der.hans wrote:
Am 04. Nov, 2007 schwätzte Charles Jones so:
moin moin Charles,
Anyone know of any decent POS (Point of Sale) solutions that preferably
run on LAMP? A friend is looking for something pretty simple that can
handle daily POS, inventory, and of course control a simple cash
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