That's a problem on DOS or windows, but in Unix/Linux, the output is
piped into the input of the next command one small piece at a time.
-Dale
I think the problem with using a pipe is that it puts te results of the
first command into the input of the second command. My problem is that I
don't
reiser4 obsolescent and it has never had
the reliability of ext3/4. On the other hand, ext4 is a mainstream,
well-supported FS.
Dale Farnsworth
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It sounds to me like you had a stuck key. The bios beeps if you keep
pressing a key after the keyboard input buffer is full. Keyboard
autorepeat causes continual beeping when a key becomes stuck in the
down position.
I think you have a dirty keyboard, causing one or more keys to stick
from time
Have you tried googling the therms Tripp lite G1010USB ubuntu. From
the results, it looks like it is supported and there are utilities for
you to determine status. Disclaimer: I have no personal experience with
this.
-Dale
Yep, that is my experience as well. Back in the day, one needed to
The kernel version is 3.0.0, and the 13th Ubuntu revision of that kernel.
-Dale
don't think it told me what kernel it is running!
bmike1@mikes-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux mikes-laptop 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:25:36 UTC
2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
bmike1@mikes-laptop:~$
Same here. I use a D-Link DSL-2540B for DSL and then a separate wireless
router, currently an early WRT54GS running openwrt.
-Dale
Honestly. Ian a big fan of separateing modem from firewall and wireless. At
home I have my modem. Then I have a smoothwall firewall. And the I have a
wireless
Larry wrote:
I would like to apply a netmask to an arbitrary IP in a bash/dash script
(e.g. apply 255.255.255.0 to 173.10.3.155 to get 173.10.3.0). Is there any
easy way to do that without taking the IP apart, doing 4 operations and
reassembling the results?
I know you said without
My Android WiFi analyzer only shows three channels
- the two in my house (channels 3, 11) and a linksys next door (channel 1).
The linksys next door has a max signal strength of around -90 dbm on a good
day. I will try switching my DL-524 to channel 5 to see if there is any
change. BTW, both
I have finished doing the work but did it manually. For future reference,
I'd like to re-learn what I forgot from 20+ years ago about how to do this
the easy way. Basically, I had a directory full of files that I wanted to
process all the same way and rename them in the process. What I
It looks like no invitation is needed. Just go to plus.google.com.
If you're lucky, you can sign up; if not, leave you email to request
a notification. It took me a half dozen tries before I got lucky. :)
-Dale
So the latest story is the loophole is not closed just google is limiting to
X
Hi,
I keep seeing a reference to what looks like two pre-populated variables
in shell scripts. Actually this one is in a crontab.
Something like this : /home/user-name/directory-name/scriptname.php
/dev/null 21
What is the number 1 and 2? Is there others?
Unix and copycats, like
Keith wrote:
Hi,
I have an old lap top on which I have installed CentOS 5.6 and Qmail
Toaster. I can send and receive email just fine. Qmail Toaster is
working just fine.
Now I want to configure Bind. Currently I am using my registrar's DNS.
I would like to run my own for the
Jason wrote:
On 02/22/2011 09:06 AM, Jim March wrote:
One other thing: on top of the Windows guest issue, I've got *something*
in Linux that's also hitting the wire a lot. Is there something similar
to top that tracks Linux processes by network traffic impact? I'd
like to eliminate
Eric 'shubes' wrote:
On 01/04/2011 12:52 PM, keith smith wrote:
Here is a twist. I set my SSHD to port 2200 but did not change
/etc/services, which lists ici on port 2200 for both tcp and udp. I am
able to shell in using port 2200. Why no conflict?
Keith Smith
I don't know if
Bryan wrote:
This is true - if you change the destination folder you do copy
everything because rsync does not know you copied anything before.
This is true in the general case. However, you can tell rsync about
the files you copied before with the --compare-dest, --copy-dest,
or --link-dest
I don't know who to rotate the image, but to delete your file you need
to use the inode. This is off the top of my head so if the synax is
wrong you can just google it.
ls -il -rotate90
find . -inum 123456 -exec rm -i {} \;
The above suggestion doesn't work because the ls command fails.
On 10/27/2010 01:02 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
From: Eric Shuberte...@shubes.net
On 10/27/2010 12:30 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
and I don't believe you can write a script named .. without
a lot of fooling around
What happens though when you
Okay, this one seems like a no-brainer question to me but I haven't
dealt with one before. A wireless access point like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833180035 should
get better reception with that antenna than one of those little stubby
USB adapters like
Sed seems to have the same problem. Anyone have any ideas on how I
can get this to work? And yes, unfortunately, I need to use the
variables.
Try something like
$ sed -e s|$line|$newline| file
Yes, this is a common solution to this problem. I've often seen, and
have occasionally
If I run tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
from the command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with the
exception of the one message that says tar: Removing leading `/' from
member names, which I am not sure exactly what that means.
If filenames are stored in a
I'm working on a perl script, and I have a lot more experience in ruby
than I do in perl. As far as I can tell there is no way to explicitly
define arguments for a subroutine in perl, for example
sub addNums(number1, number2) {
sum = number1 + number2;
return sum;
}
rather than
Joe wrote:
While the example commands below work to change permission for either a
complete system or for a complete directory and all sub-directories, what
would the syntax be for a similar command to 'chown' (change the owner)
globally or for a designated directory and and the files and
In article 4be8edc8.9030...@cox.net you write:
I would like to hear what every one thinks about 64 bit computers. What
makes a 64bit computer? Is it just the OS and or does a 64bit computer
need a specific kind of motherboard and cpu? Any thing else I have left out?
I am assuming that
kitepilot wrote:
[ some code showing that null pointer dereference on Linux results in
a seg fault, while it just returns 0 on AIX.]
Yes, that is indeed the way it works. On the PDP-11, where much of
the early (not earliest) UNIX code was written, there was no hardware
support for separate
Whenever I maximize Firefox in Ubuntu, it takes up my whole desktop.
Its really irritating because I have to press Alt-F9 to minimize it,
as the window controls are gone (it super maximizes it, the header on
the window is not visible nor is the other Gnome desktop controls).
Any ideas on
I recently hit the kernel.org website looking to see what the latest stable
kernel version number is, and I noticed they have listed 5 stable kernels
1. 2.6.32.3
2. 2.6.31.11
3. 2.6.30.10
4. 2.6.27.43
5. 2.4.37.7
I won't comment on 2.4 because I don't do development there. The current
Man, people still using FTP?
Are you aware of the FTP vulnerabilities?
Do you use email? Are you aware of email vulnerabilities?
Do you use the web? Are you aware of the vulnerabilities?
FTP is no more vulnerable than other protocols.
-Dale
My Dell Latitude just died...a subject for a different post. I just
received an advertisement from Dell for a Studio 1555 on sale for $699
(Windows 7). The Dell sales rep said it is also Linux compatible. I want
to install Debian testing on it. It has a dual core 64 bit processor. I
have
Does anybody know what happens when you stash a huge number of tiny
files in Ext4? Does it store them efficiently the way ReiserFS does?
No. Neither ext3 nor ext4 efficiently stores sub-block sized files.
The minimum files size granularity is the block size. The internal
fragmentation can
opinion, BTRFS development has now surpassed it. BTRFS hasn't
yet reached the level where I can trust it as much as ext3/ext4, but I have
high hopes for it. For more info, see http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/.
-Dale
-mb
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
Does
Same result with and without the -1 :(
I believe it is a L (but lowercase) not a 1
It should be the number 1, meaning list one file per line.
-Dale
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I couldn't resist jumping into this religious discussion.
Disclaimer: I think the world would be better with more Free Software
and more Open Source Software. However, I use windows when it's useful.
I also think that it's likely that Google is doing evil, although they
likely don't see it as
Tuna wrote:
I'm sure you are all aware of the UNIX epoch, and how it will be
1234567890 on the night of Friday the 13th, 23:31:30. I suggest that we
have a PLUG party on this night to go down in history. We will all watch
the clocks on our laptops (we'll sync times of course) until that one
Jim wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote:
You can have both repos but it won't do you much good as anything that has
changed in Sid will get overwritten and anything that hasn't changed since
Stable will be the same version in both places.
Sure,
Jim wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Dale Farnsworth d...@farnsworth.org wrote:
I'd recommend that you use testing, unless you have a specific reason
for using unstable (sid). With testing, there is less churn and less
likelihood of packages needing manual fixups or not installing
Enrique wrote:
OK, I've reached that (long postponed) point of my life where I *HAVE* to
ditch /etc/passwd and /etc/group in favor of storing my users in a database.
Any database...
[...]
Furthermore, I want to login with my trusted /etc/passwd - /etc/group
combination when I SSH into
Nathan wrote:
I am looking for a pre-paid cell phone rather than another contract.
The three available in my area are
Tracfone
Net10
Verizon InPulse
Have any of you used any of these, what is your opinion of it? Please
only these as that is all that is available in my area.
I
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
if it shows up in a PS then its running ;-)
however kacpid is just the type of acpi daemon k probably the KDE
implementation of it if took a guess.
In this case, the k stands for kernel. It's the kernel ACPI daemon.
-Dale
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at
Really? So why when I am logged in as user1 and I run date -u and
request the time I get UTC, but when I then su - and ask for the time I
get MST and if I date -u as root and login as user2 I still get MST and
on reboot everything is back as MST? I can literally use date to set a
different
The date command only changes the time for the user, I was hoping for a
global alteration.
??
The date command sets the system time. No per-user time is
maintained in Unix/Linux.
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Bryan wrote:
This is a sad statement... Or a really good one... I have never had to
install a Linux diver in my entire Linux life. The if_tun.h file was
It just means that you've been using Linux distributions which
automatically installed the drivers for you. That's what most
desktop
Ed wrote:
I don't have 'doze! And am not a serious linux guru. What my question is
is the recent wine or just straight linux distro able to take a
preloaded WINDOWS file in C-language (link to follow) and shove it down
a serial port to 're-program' a atmel avr butterfly device? The orginal
Michael wrote:
I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that
things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can
do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it?
Most likely it's firefox that is growing and using up
If you don't have valid forward and reverse DNS for the IP you're sending
from, a fair number of places will give you a 500-series error. There are
good reasons for doing that, since mail from a place that has invalid DNS is
much more likely to be spam. Get a domain name of some type; go
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:04:19PM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote:
Dale Farnsworth wrote:
[snip]
I tried to do this about 18 months ago when I got qwest dsl, and gave
up. If you solved it, please share the solution with us (or at least
with me. :))
Thanks,
-Dale
I have an actiontec DSL
Chris wrote:
I'll make a real effort not to respond to stuff I find provocative.
Bless you.
-Dale
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Micah DesJardins wrote:
I don't need an ISP for email, hosting or any other service other
than the connection itself. It looks like FastQ will cost me more
than the data only option from Qwest. What's the benefit that I'm
missing on going with FastQ over Qwest if they're using the same line?
Keith Smith wrote:
If you have business DSL with Qwest you can get IP's also. Why would
you want to though.
They want too much money.
If you are really serious about your server it should be co-located.
True. For me, it's a hobby, so I do it on the cheap. For about
$50/month, the family
The biggest issue is that all your pointers are twice as big. The
next issue is that while it was possible to never use int and always
use something like int32 and define that to be int in a header file,
I've only seen one place where everybody coded this way consistently.
So as a practical
Keith Smith wrote:
Do you mean free utilities on top of their OS to increase sales and to
kill off businesses in vertical markets?
Such as adding networking to the OS where to network prior one would buy
a third party product.
I'm pretty sure JT means that Microsoft will give away windows
,135463-pg,1/article.html
-Dale
Dale Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Smith wrote:
Do you mean free utilities on top of their OS to increase sales and to
kill off businesses in vertical markets?
Such as adding networking to the OS where to network prior one would buy
a third
Joe wrote:
What is the best way to set up a newsletter mailing list
so I can send the same email message once a month to all
of the email addresses (about 100) in my mailing list
without using Cc: or Bcc:? This would *not* be spam
as these are email addresses of my own clients.
Nathan wrote:
I have a set of files that are lists of files in my filesystem. I run backups
against these scripts doing something like this...
#!/bin/bash
copy_contents() {
(tar -cpf - $i | tar -f - -xpC /tmp/filearchive.1)
}
while read i ; do
if ! [ -d $i -a -e $i ]; then
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
My script breaks if the file names have spaces...
#!/bin/sh
#
BASE=/home/storage/users/craig/Desktop/dw
IN=in
OUT=out
for f in *.flv; do ffmpeg -i $f `basename $f.mp4 .flv`; done
I don't think the above basename args do what you want.
mv *flv
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