It may be out of date, and probably won't do much good, but try forwarding
your spam and phishing emails to:
s...@uce.gov
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I was trying to see if ti was possible to get print in reverse order, or
better yet, software print double sided from gedit. Somehow I managed to
get the dpkg into an unstable state where I can neither remove nor install
the lpr package from Brother. So I tried running dselect to see if there
were
On a similar note, my old desktop system, which has several hardrives of
various sizes and ages, has int he last week or two started making on odd
sound that I am guessing is the read/write head being pulled back as if to
power down, then let back out again. It is clearly not affecting the drive
I
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This one is even better! Which seller should I go with? Has anyone heard
of any of
Just a suggestion, but what about dropping the USB stick in the mail and
avoiding the long rides?
Mike
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Subject: Re: Looking for NAS Hardware Recommendations
It's in the firmware zip file[1], something
This is Dave Uhlman, I am a previously active contributor and more recently
a longtime lurker on the list. I own Maker Bench in Tempe which is opening
this weekend on June 11th, we're a makerspace and workshop.
This wouldn't be the same sort of maker space that a half built McWire could
be
I am located in west phoenix at 83rd ave. and indianschool rd.
Maricopa is a long way from here.
And here I live within walking distance of the Ham Radio Store on 43rd Ave
and Peoria!
Mike
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I have been trying unsuccessfully for some time to figure out how to
read the analog axes and digital buttons on one or more USB joysticks
connected to a computer with an open source programming language like C
compiled by gcc. I have no idea what library needs to be added, if any. I
also
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Subject: OT (or is it): Fw: The untold doomsday scenario in the Gulf
Fw: The untold DOOMSDAY Scenario emerging in the Gulf . . .]
Oil Spill
I was having trouble with my system failing to read disk formats, USB
flashdrives, and finally CDROMs, so I built a fresh Kernel from scratch,
getting the source from Kernel.Org and running menuconfig. But afterwards,
my Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT video drivers would not work. When I posted on
Nvidia,
I have been having multiple problems installing the latest (or even several
versions back) Linux X86_64 Nvidia drivers.
I am running Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope on an AMD Athelon 64 with 2GBytes
RAM, and initially my Kernel was 2.6.28-17. When I first tried to install
the kernel modules, I did
My copy of Ubuntu was becoming unstable. First it would not read a CD-ROM,
then it would not read a USB flash drive. In both cases, it claimed the file
system was unknown. So I tried using modprobe to add iso9660 and vfat back
into the OS, only to find that modprobe was missing. So I tried to
I have just discovered that one of my USB 'thumb' drives is no longer
readable. Windows shows it as a removable disk but says 'Please insert a
disk into drive G:'. At first, Linux reported a short MBF or partition read?
Now, after running some demo only mode data recovery programs in Windows, it
Matt, thanks for the great reply. dd if=/dev/sdN of=/dev/null bs=512
count=1 produced no error. Dmesg reported :
[ 842.633468] usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 3
[ 846.956017] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
5
[ 847.093455] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1
I wish I had known about this list last night! I went with Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127412MSI
9400 GT 512MB. it is only about 5 tiers up form my old Radeon X300, but it
was $54 (and I believe a $10 mail in rebate) and it has an HDMI port for
when I retire
My old computer is stating to have trouble running some of the newer
software. In particular, I am getting free training in SolidWorks to use
when Mentoring Highschool teams in First Robotics and also Underwater
Robotics Competition. Unfortunately, SolidWorks only works on Windows, and
my Windoze
Thank. This likes it will help quite a bit.
Mike
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:27:48 -0700
Subject: Re: Serial Port Terminal Emulation problems
Good catch, and sorry I was less clear. The switch/router is running a
stripped down version of Red Hat they call Redhagis. It does not have
room for very much at all, so installing RPMs or even source is
problematical. You normally have to cross compile from another
platform. Only the Desktop
Lisa,
Yes it did. Worked perfectly! Would have saved MUCH frustration if I
had thought of it last week! I think I even tried a single escape
followed by ^O, but did not quite hit the correct sequence.
And on a second note, I finally got the configuration of VLANs,
routing domains, default
I am using Ubuntu at work, were connect to a Linux based Ether
switch/router both by serial port and by telnet. When I use the
default terminal emulation program in Ubuntu, I am able to run nano
(the only editor on the switch), but I can not save the results
because the program traps ^O to use for
cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount point type options dump pass
proc/proc procdefaults0 0
# /dev/sda4
UUID=740d1e44-acaa-47e0-9846-0a4575651cbb / reiserfs
notail,relatime 0 1
#
I recently witched from SuSe to Ubuntu 8.10, and I am having trouble
accessing several of my partitions. When I double click on the 174.3 GB
Media line in the left pane of the file browser window, I get The volume
uses the resierfs file system which is not supported by your system. I have
tried
Thanks Matt, I will check into that. I don't mind going low-level. I used to
do a lot of assembly language programming!
Mike
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I am trying to write a control program for my Underwater Robot. I plan to
use several USB Joysticks to input direction, speed, and robotic arm control
commands. I was planning on writing the control software running on the
laptop in C, with a simple loop to poll the joysticks, convert the values
Thanks for the info, Alan. Pure luck on my part that I bid on a lot of
industrial grade, SLC memory. I could not see that in the photo, I
just grabbed the first lot of inexpensive 128MB Compact Flash cards I
saw. I am looking forward to testing them and see how many are good
before we start to
From the photo on ebay, they look to be Sandisk.
http://tinyurl.com/d9up8f
They have not arrived yet, but the machine I will be testing them on I
just added an Ubuntu partition to, so I do not have to do any testing
in Windoze.
Mike
-svfw /dev/flashdevice will perform a butteryfly test with 4
We maintaining an embedded Linux device performing the routing
functions in an Etherswitch. Up till now, we have sent the boards or
entire boxes back to the vendor (G.E.) for any firmware or hardware
repair. We are now rethinking this, since the most common hardware
failure is the power supply,
I have not yet attempted booting the old SuSe system and uploading the
boot log file to see if anyone can spot the problems yet, but I have
been downloading LiveCD versions of several distros and I have a new
question.
I have tried the Unbuntu LiveCD (desktop) and accept for the fact that
the
Currently 2 Gig of physical memory, and I think a 10 Gig Swap
partition that it finds and uses. I was guessing that something was
hanging up in the CD/DVD-ROM drive. I ran a memory test and found
nothing wrong there. And like I said, both Knoppix 5.4 and Unbuntu
8.10 woudl freeze right after I
As a former guest on the show, and current part time contractor of the
show, it is my privilege to announce that Adam and Jamie will be
speaking in Tucson on the UofA campus at the Centennial Hall on
Saturday, Oct 18th. Here is a link to the basic info and to buy
tickets.
Since the installfest is being moved back a week, I thought I would dig
around and see if I could find any details to jump start the kernel work. I
found a boot.msg in /var/log/. Reading through it I found:
) there are several mentions of Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use
bus_type methods
I have been trying to get PCB and geda-gschema to work together for
some time now. I can make stand alone printed circuit board layouts
with PCB, and for awhile I could enter schematics in gschem, but when
I tried using gsch2pcb to convert the components symbols and net
lists into pcb foot print
Considering who much trouble I am having getting Gschem and PCB
working, along with the annoying new error messages when the SuSe 11.0
kernel boots, I think I better come to the install fest this year and
beg for help and instruction. I have the SuSe 11.0 clean install DVD,
and a lot of crucial
Still having trouble with my SuSe11.0 install. Grub now boots, but it
still fails to find the onboard ethernet, or the NIC card I just put
int. I downloaded a replacement ethernet module for the Marvel
chipset, sk98lin, but now I can not get the Kernel to compile in order
to be able to insert the
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