Hiya,
Editing PDF:
OpenOffice.org prolly ain't the solution.
Here's an excerpted display of .pdf created in MS Office (by Maricopa County
Public Records)
"Non_Comm_PRR Form.pdf"
downloaded from maricopa.gov and opened with OpenOffice.org Writer 2.3.0 Build
2.3.0.1.2
-
Hiya,
I'm gonna fourth (or fifth) it for the WDC hard drives.
The best recommendation is the "Raptor" line. They are 10,000 rpm discs.
For crazy fun I got two of these, back when 70Gb was the biggest size.
I used mobo-based firmware and made them into a single RAID-Zero stripe set.
Perfor
Hiya,
Top down makes more sense to me.
Remember the era of Win 98 with IE 5.0? That's when
the U.S. Army choose Apple gear for their .mil website servers.
Still in place, too. Didn't take me too long to "get it".
Google has tried very hard to satisfy their Win/Intel fans.
AOL used to do
Hiya,
Ya, I'm late to this party, I have one question.
I noticed in the screen capture;
http://upquick.com/linux/xpdiskmgmt.jpg
that ALL the toolbar buttons are grayed out.
New, Delete, Resize/Move, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Apply
None will work as shown there.
I think this is because the SE
Hiya,
Don't feel like the lone ranger. I spent (wasted) four or five solid days
failing to get 9.10 Karmic Koala to dial out.
I even used help from the Ubuntu forums board.
I downloaded extra utilities (setserial wasn't installed) and network-manager
was not usable for modems 'cause they had a
Joe,
I hate to be negative, but it's only a proposal.
I don't see much traction to this U.K. proposal although, I am totally FOR it.
For example, the Brazilian government successfully banned "proprietary"
software.
Down there, the MS product line has a much smaller installed base.
Their fut
Hiya,
menu.lst and menu.conf are lower priority than
/boot/grub/system.map
It is used by grub on every restart and MUST match the current parameters
installed into CMOS by the HDD controller during P.O.S.T.
It can go out of sync during a hot-swap.
It will go out of sync if you trade drive 0 fo
This certainly IS like herding cats, or ducks or, or...
A thread starts with a subject created by the first author and his/her question.
I was offhand wondering why so MANY replies are NOT made to the original post.
Nor even to the topic's author. Dialog for it's own sake. Reminds me of FOX
Hiya,
Okay, I'm baffled. What in the Ubuntu 9.07 is going on here?
# uname -a
Linux BlueBeast.localhost 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59
UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Logged in as root I've edited /etc/fstab.
I want the /Meta vfat partition completely open (unlocked).
#
roup ownership.
>
> The error message is not worded very well. It should say something
> like "Cannot set group ownership in vfat (FAT32) file system"
>
> Alan
>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Okay, I&#
ystem):
UUID=45F2-140B /Meta vfat
utf8,users,noauto,gid=100,uid=0,fmask=117,dmask=007 0 1
The noexec is not part of your issue, it's a flag that's set by default (unless
you explicitly reverse the option in the mount command) for removable drives to
reduce the probab
Hiya,
Working with vfat partitions is a pain. Access denied, access denied. . .
But I learn best when learning the hard way, so here's my solution.
The nagging problem is:
Only root has access to mounted vfat partitions.
These are always part of my multi-boot boxes. I go back to DOS 3.1 and
i
Hiya,
I first read something about Adobe Publisher (full install) using a part
of track zero. They directly write there, outside of O.S. processes, to
lock in their copy protection to a one machine installation. Nice guys.
Later, I read that GRUB 2.0 is trying to use the same bytes.
Last wri
"Status for the PLUG -- any volunteers to do that for us?"
I hereby volunteer the subject title. :-)
You [ ya'll ] discuss Pros & Cons:
<>---
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.
it depends on what the goals are.
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > "Status for the PLUG -- any volunteers to do that for us?"
> >
> > I he
statement are required.
Who has these skills?
Also the costs along the way with the city and state (without legal fees doing
it ourselves) are estimated at $900.00.
Of course it's definately worth it as a one time measure.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote:
&
Hiya,
I just want to verify location and time of the next
Westside Avondale/Goodyear informal "Stammtisch" meet.
"Sal's Tusan Grill" on McDowell at 7:00 pm this Thursday the 18th?
Or is that "Tuscan"... Or is that Wednesday the 17th?
The PLUG website needs work. It's calendar thinks today is t
Yah, I know 8Dec2010 is the exception to Fourth Wednesdays:
> Presenter: Mr. John Pringle -- Specific agenda topics coming soon!
> Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to
> administrator.
> When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
> Where: DeVry University / K
http://www.linux.fm/
How disappointing. eSpeak is silent in my browser.
You'd think they'd at least broadcast in stereo...
(-: Chas.M. :-)
> Subject: Re: Kernel source spoken aloud
> From: technomage.ha...@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:41:33 -0700
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.pho
Hiya,
There's a pretty cool Windows tool in "SpeedFan" that uses S.M.A.R.T. data.
S.M.A.R.T. enabled drives can report to the O.S. tons of run-time conditions.
These get compared to statistics in SpeedFan's tables to predict and chart
failures.
The tables are stats amassed by the drive manufact
Hiya,
Found a passel of S.M.A.R.T. stuff for Linux/Unix/Mac.
I think Bonnie++ is best for file systems (soft errors).
- http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
In this article, I explain how to use smartmontools' smartctl utility and
smartd dæmon to monitor the health of a system's disks
Uhhh,
I think your calendar is running a day slow.
HackFest was scheduled for last night, Wednesday.
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/event
(-: Chas.M. :-)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:48:42 -0700
Subject: HackFest at Gangplankhq.com Tonight! 18:00 - 21:00
From: lisakach...@obnosis.com
To: plug-se
Hiya Eric,
I read your comment and just made a post over there too.
My mistake was to include a "DEL" tag.
Although my post had no ending tag,
the remainder of my post was in unfiltered strikeout font.
What's worse is, the tag itself was filtered, and disappeared.
What? No post preview? I'm o
I don't yet know enough about HTML 5 to mention any problems.
But specifically, I really do like the inclusion of Math ML.
The posting trouble I mentioned is generic.
Submitted posts are usually not filtered for any HTML code.
Then, when presented as part of a forum page, the browser
just run
Lisa,
I don't know Dennis Kibbe.
If he's a Monty Python fan then,
I fart in your general direction.
"Don't sweat the petty things,
and don't pet the sweaty things."
(-: Chas.M. :-)
P.S. But you really should fix that sig spelling error.
Surveillence Spelling
Spelling Surveillance
Date: Wed
Hiya,
Lemmie talk about "HIPAA". Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act
Linux gurus really should be more aware of privacy ethics.
First off:
The medical industry happens to be pretty good at self-policing.
It's not common knowledge, but prosecutions under this law are very ra
Hiya,
I've had good luck with Mint 7 (almost Ubuntu 9.04) using XFCE.
Quite peppy, pretty simple installed applications. No widgets.
I know KDE is heading into problems. The last one I installed
not only had no Widget documentation (user warnings?) AND the new
"mouse gestures" were enabled.
also by now
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote:
Hiya,
I've had good luck with Mint 7 (almost Ubuntu 9.04) using XFCE.
Quite peppy, pretty simple installed applications. No widgets.
I know KDE is heading into problems. The last one I installed
not only had no W
Jim,
ProcMon is a great tool, but if you suspect hardware/firmware attacks:
Google "RootKitUnhooker"
I used RkU3.8.388.590.rar and am really impressed.
Found an infected Dell system that showed BIOS fan-speed errors on POST
until the virus was un-hooked and then cleaned (using Malwarebyte
Change your fstab parameters from
"...loop 0 0" to "...loop 0 1"
(might work, might not)
It looks to me like a race condition caused by parallel mount tasks.
The second zero allows non-sequential (multiple ) mount processes. A one
disables it.
The missing commas seem wrong, but not an issu
Hiya,
I've had lots of fun installing distro after distro,
some of which have had severe limitations,
some of which are really well-thought-out systems.
The window manager seems to contain my main Linux issue.
In ignorance of Unity, the one question I have for
experienced Linux folks only conce
@ Brian:
> If you want to put different stuff, including backgrounds on each
> virtual desktop, just go to System Setting -> Workspace Behavior and
> pick the Virtual Desktops section from the left. Then just check off
> "Different widgets for each desktop"
I got this far, but this is where 3.x
@ James
Yeah! But this is not a native Gnome ability...
Wallpapoz Excerpt:
> The most important feature is
> you could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when you change workspace.
> It means you could group your wallpapers into specific workspace.
> It offers quick orientation cues...
My
Jordan,
Thank you for the link.
Computer science has a growing history and is rooted in these
obsolete text-based systems. It's good to know there are
people willing to preserve code and data from those bygone days.
Computers didn't use to be an easy-to-use commodity.
Kinda makes my eyes g
Hiya Carlton,
> Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
> Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sdb1
> I have no idea why 2 Windows.
I think GRUB v.2 is finding the MS special file "ntldr" twice.
Both are installed as the first file in a first non-extended partition.
This makes each of them (alone) a
Wow!
This is the first I've seen here that ANYONE is using a seperate /boot
partition.
I've been using one since about 2.2 kernels.
I started out using 50Mb but, with Ubuntu and GRUB 2.0
it needs around 300Mb to 500Mb. A Fedora 15 install didn't
complain using a little as 150Mb. The minimum i
Local Phoenix broadcast TV news on Wednesday has mentioned:
1.> Mitt Romney's Hotmail account got HACKED! So, Microsoft is/was under
attack.
2.> 06/06/2012 is a serious IPv6 upgrade day. Who knows what might break?
(-: Chas.M. :-)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:47:11 -0700
Subject: Re: OT: Micros
Hiya,
XBMC (X Box Media Center) is a big part of the Sabayon 5.6 distro.
I have no cable to connect to, so I don't know if this is a solution.
-
> Subject: Cox Cable TV
> From: doc_me...@yahoo.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:42:44 -0700
>
> I thi
"Dallas" ... "fiber with Internet/TV/Phone all" I'd bet that is Verizon.
Sounds like their biz model.
My nearby neighbors say that when they ask CL for DSL service, a business
license is required.
Along with a huge start-up deposit.
(-: Chas.M. :-)
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.
Linux users should try vi in a terminal;
$ vi(now type in the vi command ":help 42")
:
h
e
l
p
4
2
(And you may need to know how to gracefully quit)
:
q
$
The escape-colon sequence is a toggle between command line mode and edit mode.
Personally I've always felt that
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