Re: [SLUG] Crossword compiler on Ubuntu, the errorfile.

2007-10-03 Thread wbennett
Many thanks for the replies. I've run into something else in my quest for a crossword compiler. I ted to the internet and tried sudo apt-get install build essential and attach the log. Some of these libraries etc cannot be verified and I face the shame of having unverified material on my lapto

Re: [SLUG] {Commercial} SafeSquid "SPEED-BOOSTER" 4.2.0 Released

2007-10-03 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 10/4/07, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Entirely spam, a commercial product riding on the squid name and brand. > > Not happy! > I sent them a particularly nasty email last week on behalf of the mailing list mods. I don't think they'll be posting here again. Lindsay -- http://

Re: [SLUG] {Commercial} SafeSquid "SPEED-BOOSTER" 4.2.0 Released

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 05:59 +, Proxy wrote: > Hello All, > > SafeSquid "SPEED-BOOSTER" 4.2.0 for Linux has been released. > Increasing throughout, is the key goals of 4.2.0.The changes made in > the new version are as follows - NOT RELATED TO SQUID AT ALL. Entirely spam, a commercial product

Re: [SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-03 Thread Tony Sceats
what sort of file does 'file' say it is? On 10/3/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ken, > > The Desktop file does seem to be the ex-Desktop directory. Nothing good > in Trash. I'm assuming that my daughter managed to do something in > Gnome Browser or suchlike but I've not been

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:51:11 +1000, "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Looks like it's time to stop avoiding perl. (thanks Gavin). > perl -i -pe 's/1\n/1/' test > > vim does work, and I just realised that it can be scripted - I should > have checked instead of ass-uming. The things you can

Re: [SLUG] Linux Car PC / MP3 Player

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Croft
* Simon Males ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello > > I really want to listen to podcasts in my car. The ideal situation would > be to have the audio system be able to download the podcasts feeds via > WiFi. Avoiding the need for sneakernetting a portable device of some sort. > > So has anyone

[SLUG] Linux Car PC / MP3 Player

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Males
Hello I really want to listen to podcasts in my car. The ideal situation would be to have the audio system be able to download the podcasts feeds via WiFi. Avoiding the need for sneakernetting a portable device of some sort. So has anyone built an old laptop or small form factor PC into t

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread david
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 19:22 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:52 +1000, david wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ cat > test > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ sed s/1\n/1/g test > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ > > > >

Re: [SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Ken, The Desktop file does seem to be the ex-Desktop directory. Nothing good in Trash. I'm assuming that my daughter managed to do something in Gnome Browser or suchlike but I've not been able to repeat the trick of turning it into a file. Which makes it hard to reverse-engineer. Cheers, Kevi

Re: [SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:58 +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > My fault - my 5 year old was playing games using my logon while I had a > terminal window open and somehow now the Desktop directory is an > ordinary file. Any ideas on how to set the directory attribute? I doubt you have lost it, ren

[SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Shackleton
My fault - my 5 year old was playing games using my logon while I had a terminal window open and somehow now the Desktop directory is an ordinary file. Any ideas on how to set the directory attribute? Thanks, Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscript

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Davies
On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line > > In other words, treat \n like any other character, and specifically > doing global find and replace. > > I know there are various hex editors, but they are all pretty clunky as > far as

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 06:52:17PM +1000, david wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:44 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line > > > > > > In other words, treat \n like any other character,

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:52 +1000, david wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ cat > test > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ sed s/1\n/1/g test > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ > > The output I would have liked would be: > > 12 > 3 > > but sed doesn't seem

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 2007.10.03 18:52 david wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:44 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you be more specific of what you are trying to achieve? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ cat > test 1 2 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ sed s/1\n

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Zhasper
A quick google for "sed remove newline" returns, as the very first hit, the page: http://snow.nl/dist/htmlc/ch13s04.html - look for the header "The Pattern Buffer" There's a script there that will get you on your way. On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to edit a multi line

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread david
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:44 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line > > > > In other words, treat \n like any other character, and specifically > > doing global find and replace. > > > > I know

Re: [SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line > > In other words, treat \n like any other character, and specifically > doing global find and replace. > > I know there are various hex editors, but they are all pretty clunky as > far

[SLUG] evince: .. 'undefined symbol' ..

2007-10-03 Thread Adam Bogacki
Can anyone suggest a solution to 'undefined symbol' ? Adam. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evince > evince: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.1: > undefined symbol: _ZN9OutputDev16endMarkedContentEv > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

[SLUG] treating \n like any other character

2007-10-03 Thread david
I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line In other words, treat \n like any other character, and specifically doing global find and replace. I know there are various hex editors, but they are all pretty clunky as far as I can see, and none seem to be able to do that from comman

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-10-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 25/09/2007, at 11:07 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early 90s - is it the right way to go or is there now a better shinier tool/language that I should be learning? There is a pe

[SLUG] Lock failure on "/var/mail/adam.lock"

2007-10-03 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I've had Mutt working for some time but all of a sudden I get the following (below). Trying to change permissions gives me > chmod: changing permissions of `/var/mail/adam.lock': Read-only file > system Can anyone suggest a fix ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2 messages for afb at pop.

Re: [SLUG] httpd load: dos attack ?

2007-10-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> I noticed my web server was kind off slow, and, saw this, is this some >> sort of dos attack ? > > If you are using Apache, there is an Apache Status module that > lets you see what is currently executing inside the serv

Re: [SLUG] httpd load: dos attack ?

2007-10-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: >I noticed my web server was kind off slow, and, saw this, is this some >sort of dos attack ? > >how to control ? > ># service httpd status >httpd (pid 10774 10773 10772 10771 10769 10768 10766 10754 10749 10746 >10742 10741 10740 10739 10738 10737

Re: [SLUG] Crossword compiler on Ubuntu, the errorfile.

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Visser
Bill, To start any development on Ubuntu you should as a minimum install "sudo apt-get install build-essential". This installs a vritual package that drags with it the most commonly used compilers, libraries and other assorted utilities (like automake and autoconf) to build programs. gcc by itsel

Re: [SLUG] Crossword compiler on Ubuntu, the errorfile.

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:05 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > configure > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes > checking for working aclocal... missing > checking for working aut

[SLUG] Crossword compiler on Ubuntu, the errorfile.

2007-10-03 Thread wbennett
Alright, so I made a berk of myself yet again. Herewith the error file. Can anyone offer advice, please? Regards, Bill Bennett. configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build env