Re: Gedit/text editor question

You can do this with Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor. On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Paul Mooring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've beening using emacs for java programming the last couple weeks and > like being able to open multiple windows at once. I recently started > using gedit mostly be

Re: Hello

Welcome! Sorry for running into your time slot at the conference (eek!). I'd be interested in a few Inkscape lessons and a friend of mine with an interest in art is just now starting to experiment with Linux. I'm sure she'd love to learn a little about Inkscape, since as far as I know she has no ex

Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

Wow... too much PHPBB... (never mind me) On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Patrick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My advice to you is to apt-get update; apt-get upgrade right away. KDE 4.1 > has a *[i]lot[/i]* of improvements in stability and gener

Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

My advice to you is to apt-get update; apt-get upgrade right away. KDE 4.1 has a [i]lot[/i] of improvements in stability and general usability. On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just installed Kubuntu 8.

Re: Looking for ways to limit access to a Windows Program

You can actually do it online, through Blizzard (assuming you're paying the WoW bills). --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubs

Re: Looking for a good and inexpensive Linux Sys Admin class

Actually, I found out about the mailing list through Mark after taking one of his classes on Unix/Linux a couple of summers ago. :-) On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, der.hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It'd also be good to point out the PLUG meetings to your students :). > >

Re: linux drivers: Nvidia vs ATI

I just bought a new Thinkpad T61p, and it still lives up to IBM's old standards of quality. The video card is an Nvidia Quadro FX 570M, and performs quite well. AFAIK, while ATI's newer graphics chipsets have good Linux support, those chipsets haven't really filtered down to laptop manufacturers/em

Re: Kopete or Pidgin?

What about Pidgin-Encryption? I'm not sure what that uses but it's another encryption plugin for Pidgin. http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/ On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Kurt Granroth < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > They are both very good IM clients with more features tha

Re: Lookin' to trade

If you have a working Linux install, you don't need to burn (or even download) the Gentoo CD to do the Gentoo install. You can do it all using chroot from your existing Linux partition. You can either read about it and attempt it, or contact me off-list so I can give you my IM contact info and walk

Re: Linux as a Server for Games

I have one last update on this topic. The party went very well. In fact, it went even better than I imagined! There's also good news relevant to PLUG. A friend of mine with a brand new computer and no room for his old one gave it to me the day before the party. I did a stock Ubuntu 8.0.4.1 install

Re: Monitor specific, unrelated processes in top? (and more!)

Thanks! I put it into a one-line script. I also made one that's specific to the games I want to check. here's the generic one. #!/bin/sh top -p `pidof $* | sed -e's/ /,/g'` On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > After a long batt

Re: Monitor specific, unrelated processes in top? (and more!)

So back to the thread title, how can I monitor the various processes? I currently use ps and grep to look at them, but I'd really rather have some more information in a self-updating list, like top. Here's the ps/grep line that I use right now. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -ef | egrep '(wesnoth|nexuiz|

Re: Linux as a Server for Games

.141:26000 Servername: Patrickland Nexuiz (should appear in the master list) Player Limit: 24 If you're using Ubuntu/Debian, you won't have the latest version of Nexuiz. Just grab the debs from Intrepid/Lenny; there are no new dependencies. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Patrick C <[

Re: Monitor specific, unrelated processes in top? (and more!)

Okay... sorry for spamming the list, but I figured out a good solution. This is a cool CLI tip for those of you that don't know, but sorry if it is obvious to you. Here are the steps for starting a detached screen session at startup for specific users to access later. 1.) Create a screenrc file co

Re: Monitor specific, unrelated processes in top? (and more!)

Alright, I figured something out about how to do the screen stuff. There is a problem, though. If I want a certain user or set of users to access a given screen, I have to first launch screen and then use the command acladd user1,user2 to allow those users to access the screen. The thing is that I

Monitor specific, unrelated processes in top? (and more!)

Is there a way to monitor only a few processes in top? I want to be able to monitor the processes of the server software of the various games that are running on my server box. The processes are all run by different system users. All of their names are in the format $GAMENAME-srv, except for the us

Re: Linux as a Server for Games

I have an update for everyone if anyone's at all interested... The Tremulous and Battle for Wesnoth servers are now up and running. Unfortunately, the main Battle for Wesnoth server online is down at the moment. However, if you want to play online with each other, you can use mine! Here's the serve

Re: Problem with some tunneled X apps and Beryl

The Java redraw problem with Beryl/Compiz is unrelated to remote X. I ran into the same problem a year and something ago on SabayonLinux with Frostwire (a Free Limewire fork) with local X. By now, the issue may be fixed in Compiz/Compiz-Fusion (the result of the Beryl/Compiz re-merge), so that migh

Linux as a Server for Games

a Debian package, it would not be difficult to create an Ubuntu i386 binary with MySQL support for user data. So, is anybody interested in a presentation or documentation on implementing these server setups (simultaneously) and connecting to them from Linux boxes? --Patrick C. -

Re: InstallFest - Saturday July 26, UAT? 10AM to 4PM

I'd like to come, but tomorrow is my birthday. This could mean that I'll be out with people that aren't interested in Linux, or it could mean that I can use my birthday as leverage to get them to give me a ride. We'll see. ;-) On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Josef Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Linux HackFest Planning

I just wanted to drop in to say you can count me in (as long as I can actually *get* there). This sounds fun, interesting, nerdy, and educational. I don't know much at all about security myself, but I'd love to bring in a computer of mine with a different HDD for the hacking. Sounds like a great op

Re: glabels to jpg?

You can skip the overhead of opening the GIMP the second time to save the pdf as a jpg. If you have ImageMagick installed, you can just use ImageMagick's convert command like so: convert pdf_file.pdf -size WxH jpg_file.jpg or for a more specific example convert dog.pdf -size 640x480 dog.jpg If you

Re: Weird X Problem

Sounds like a problem with your video card (not enough video RAM?) or a specific application causing problems. The problem sounds like it would be difficult to diagnose with just this information. Do you use any "desktop effects"? What kind of video card do you have, what driver are you using? Also

Re: LinkedIn group

Do we have (or have enough people for) a Facebook group? On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Shawn Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, one day and already 23 members!! > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Shawn Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> For those who use LinkedIn, I have created

Re: Live USB/Persistent USB Installs

The parted devs are apparently already on it. ( http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2007-June/001754.html) Thanks for the technical explanation, though. I'm not really familiar with the way filesystems work or the significance of block sizes. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Kris

Re: Ubuntu Package Management Issues

For some strange reason, aptitude update didn't change anything. I did get the issue resolved, though. Thanks. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:42 AM, der.hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 24. Feb, 2008 schwätzte Patrick C so: > > moin moin, > > > First, some out

Ubuntu Package Management Issues

First, some output. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall kate Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reinstallation of kate is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. [

Re: Live USB/Persistent USB Installs

> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Patrick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with installing > > Linux-based OSs to USB. A friend of mine is attempting it, but > > understandably struggling (he's

Live USB/Persistent USB Installs

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with installing Linux-based OSs to USB. A friend of mine is attempting it, but understandably struggling (he's not very much a Linux guy, at least not yet) with Ubuntu. As far as I can tell, there's no real standard way of doing it (it varies acros

Re: Gentoo for Business?

I could see Gentoo being useful in business situations where a certain (probably proprietary) application demands a very specific (and largely unchanging) group of settings. You could throw Gentoo onto a virtual and configure it exactly as necessary to run that piece of software, even if you had to

Re: Flamebait

e of communicating effectively with others, I would adjust the way you filter through what you say to agree as much as possible with the audience you're working with without compromising the sense of your points. --Patrick C. On Jan 31, 2008 8:05 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

rom old > hardware. > > P.S. Once you're comfortable with the game, there is an advanced > player map called Superman...which is fun to run around on and > discover even without a game in progress. Check it out. > > > > On Jan 9, 2008 9:33 PM, Patrick C <[EMAIL PR

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

ake)...I'd like to try the newer games, but not enough to guinea > pig their feasibility under reenix. > > What Steam-based games work and what horsepower is needed? What's the > performance hit? > > > On Jan 8, 2008 5:23 PM, Patrick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

into > mounting ISOs as CDROM drives by first mounting them as loop devices > under fstab and then adding them using winecfg. > > :) > > Who needs daemon tools? > > On Jan 8, 2008 3:41 PM, Patrick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just thought I'd throw this

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

I just thought I'd throw this out there, since it's related... I just threw a LAN party on the 31st with about 18 people. One of those people ran Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) for the reason that he couldn't install Windows on his computer. He said that his Windows XP license is an upgrade from a Windows 98

Re: will amarok play .wav files? or how to convert to mp3?

Amarok doesn't have it's own player engine. Instead, it can use a variety, some of which probably already exist on your system. By default, I believe it uses the xine engine, which can play damn near anything, including basic audio like WAV files. Check for your xine-plugins packages (rpm search on

Re: Some External HDD Questions

I got ~25MB/s doing file transfers on it, so 2M/s is definitely not right... and mounting it by label is definitely the way to go (duh!). Thanks! On 10/1/07, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a long battle with technology, Jorge Delacruz wrote: > > --- Patrick C

Some External HDD Questions

too people pulled it from). Thanks in advance! --Patrick C. -- Amarok: Rediscover your music. -- http://amarok.kde.org Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge. -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.p

Re: ATI documentation available

On 9/12/07, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > der.hans wrote: > > moin moin, > > > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/09/12/1747202.shtml > > > > Is the driver being released next week the one from ATI/AMD or is that > > when the X team figures it'll have something ready based on a

Good (printed) USA Linux Magazines?

Does anyone know of any good Linux magazines printed and distributed in the US available for less than the $15-per-issue that imported European ones cost? I really enjoy being able to sit down and read about Free Software in a printed format and read the interviews, try the DVDs I never heard of or

Re: Some KDE/Konqueror questions

Final Update: What I was looking for was a specific part of kdeaddons: konq-plugins. Works great now (does both things!) -- Amarok: Rediscover your music. -- http://amarok.kde.org Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge. -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org ---

Re: Some KDE/Konqueror questions

Update: looks like there's a package called kdeaddons available. I think that might be what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, when I try to install it, I get the nastiest portage blockage I've ever seen. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -ptv kdeaddons These are the packages that would be m

Some KDE/Konqueror questions

Does anybody know if there are any packages or options to enable certain Konqueror context menu actions on Gentoo? I'm looking to add the "extract here, there, ladida" options to the KDE context menu (through ark). I'm also wondering if there's some way to have an actions menu to run imagemagick ag

Re: iTunes

Nathan: Here's Fry's list of mp3 players sorted by price. Some of them are very inexpensive ($20-60) and simple (basically USB flash drives with firmware + a battery case). If y

Re: How about some more PLUG member bio sketches?

> > - Name: Patrick C. > - Nickname(s): Online, "pxc". Sometimes minimum character requirements > keep me from using just "pxc," though. > - Home location: Arizona > - Profession: Student > - Computer(s): Cheap P4 board with some upgrades. 3.2 GHz pro

Re: Explaining T-Shirts

I have a lot of GNU/Linux T-shirts, and people ask me what they mean all the time, but I usually get sick of it after a while. I should wear plain colored shirts or hand out pamphlets or something. The one that people misinterpret the most is the $> man woman segmentation fault: core dumped I thi

Re: iTunes

Amarok wins.:-) On 8/7/07, Nathan Aubrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do any of you use iTunes? How do you deal with it on linux or what do you > do? > > nathan > -- > > > > 01001010 01100101 01110011 01110

Re: Old AGP Video Cards

Alright... the NVidia card is now gone (sorry Anthony!). The ATi card is still available, though. On 6/10/07, Patrick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, everybody. I've been cleaning my room and when I was throwing out old things from my dresser I found a couple of AGP cards that I

Old AGP Video Cards

Hey, everybody. I've been cleaning my room and when I was throwing out old things from my dresser I found a couple of AGP cards that I don't want anymore. Both are several generations old and budget cards, but if you have an older machine with crummy onboard video and you want to try Beryl/Compiz