On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 11:36:44AM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to recycle an old desktop. I'm planning to wipe the hard
> drive with this command:
>
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M
>
> Can I just run this from the command line? Or do I have to use a
> flash drive with
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:03:52PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
>
> > Ironically, floppies made longer ago seem to last longer.
> > Floppies (mostly 3.5") seem to have been made more cheaply / lest robust.
>
> Part of it is: Grea
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:47:04PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. But never mind, it works with some diskettes but
> not others. Evidently some floppies do not last 27 years... who knew. :)
Ironically, floppies made longer ago seem to last longer.
Floppies (mostly 3.5") seem to
Someone wrote in: "Can you refer me to a person in my area that can
come to my home and assist in mail archiving and other maintenance
functions of my systems."
Note: I'll be in the process of moving out of state this weekend
and early next week. So please email Tim at s...@lugod.org if
you can
Is this something that can be easily configured in Mailman? :-/
-bill!
Bcc: vox-officers
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:40:00PM -0800, Bill Broadley wrote:
>
> Does it bother anyone else the signed email goes to Lugod's mail server, gets
> modified, and then is sent to all the subscribers with a
A Davis-based company is looking for an expert opinion about the set-up of
their Linux-based website, help accessing the backend of the site, and
thoughts on an integration fo XML data from one of their partners, which
they've been told would be too difficult.
Their site has been operating for
booted, and here I am. Whew!
Thanks very much to my coworkers (and sometimes LUGOD visitors)
Case & Dmitriy.
And also to my wife for putting both kids to bed while I panicked
in here ;)
-bill!
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:36:46AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> So we got a new SSD dr
So we got a new SSD drive for Melissa's laptop, and I've placed a Kubuntu
installer/live demo image onto a USB flash drive.
Melissa was busy working on her laptop, so I decided to just
get the install onto the new SSD, and we can physically migrate
drives between her laptop at our leisure.
So,
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 02:09:14AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
>
> > Well, this wasn't clearing of Mailman's queue, but of my inbox.
> > (Technically, a mailbox that slurps up all of the mailman administrative
> > noise, via a good ol'
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 10:07:33PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> I mention all of the above because I keep finding Mailman admins doing
> 'mind numbing and tedious' manual clearing of queues, unaware that
> automatic expiry would do this work for them without any of that hassle.
Well, this wasn't
This, LUGOD's "vox-tech" technical discussion mailing list, has for a very long
time now had the following administrative options set:
* Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit
action is defined.
(Details for generic_nonmember_action)
+ DISCARD
* Should
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:48:58AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I talked to one our members and he said he didn't get a message
> fromt he vox-tech list that he sent. He has a gmail account.
> I have a mail server I manage that is connected to Comcast business
> and I had to implement dkim on
;
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Bill Kendrick <n...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > We received a second-hand desktop PC (I know, right!?) that
> > we've set up for my older son to use. We recently moved it
> > far, far away from our home office, and
We received a second-hand desktop PC (I know, right!?) that
we've set up for my older son to use. We recently moved it
far, far away from our home office, and I don't want to even
contemplate wiring up Ethernet across the house for it.
It's a Small Form Factor (SFF) Dell Optiplex 745, and IIRC
Dave here emailed me directly at the root@ address, and I offered
to pass his question along to vox-tech list, to see if someone
here might be willing to lend a hand:
Dave here in Citrus Heights. Hoping for help on using
If you're using OpenSSH 5.4 thru 7.1 (check "ssh -V"),
you'll want to disable the "UseRoaming" feature (which was
unused on SSH servers, but left around in SSH clients,
and can be exploited):
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article=20160114142733
--
-bill!
Sent from my computer
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:52:33PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 01:36:53PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> > No. C is a nasty language.
> > Use Eiffel instead!
>
> I thought I was going to start a flame war.
No, but I'm gonna go ahead and unfriend you over on
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:18:45PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
I'm looking to implement an email based ticket tracking system. The
classic email h...@whatever.org, auto-reply with ticket number, etc...
Looking for some open source solutions, or hosted solutions.
For a hosted solution, I really
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:21:17AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
My wife just picked up a used Thinkpad e455 laptop and it's
working fairly well with Kubuntu 14.04 (trusty).
One big problem is: we're unable to get KDE to disable the
touchpad while she types (or, like, at all). The KDE
-0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
My wife just picked up a used Thinkpad e455 laptop and it's
working fairly well with Kubuntu 14.04 (trusty).
One big problem is: we're unable to get KDE to disable the
touchpad while she types (or, like, at all). The KDE
control center's Touchpad module
My wife just picked up a used Thinkpad e455 laptop and it's
working fairly well with Kubuntu 14.04 (trusty).
One big problem is: we're unable to get KDE to disable the
touchpad while she types (or, like, at all). The KDE
control center's Touchpad module complains that the
Synpatics driver is
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 08:40:34AM -0700, Chris Jenks wrote:
snip
[...] what I see
on the airwaves is that almost everybody assumes that bandwidth has to be
owned. As long as we are so into ownership for its own sake - which I
think is the main motivation for password-locking wifi - we may
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 02:14:05PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote:
We just bought a new desk top PC for my wife, running Win-7.
She normally has lots of USB stuff attached but I started by only
connecting a monitor, keyboard and mouse (wireless). Booted up fine and I
left
it to my wife to set
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 08:19:32PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
Brian came over, I did the song dance to gain access to the
account at domaindiscover aka tierra.net, and we fiddled with things.
How's it looking now?
Would you consider posting
wrote:
Bill Kendrick n...@sonic.net writes:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:24:10AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
On 02/23/2015 11:20 AM, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
Hey, so word is that some can't send email to the lugod lists because the
mailserver the MX record is a CNAME rather than an A record
I received email from a local computer support company that has a
client here in Davis that has an old SCO UNIX server and Windows
workstations, that's having trouble with the dedicated impact printer
for the UNIX server.
Is anyone out here knowledgable in such things, who could lend a
hand?
Erik on SacLUG's mailing list replied to something that was cross-posted
to LUGOD's vox-tech list, but he isn't subscribed to the list so it got
discarded.
Sorry for the delay in passing this along! :(
-bill!
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:24:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erik
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:08:38PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
I further discovered that when you download the source tarball that for
SDL_image 2.0 that it contains a spec file. So, I installed rpmbuild,
and I built it. Still, I had no success. Somehow, I installed libpng
version 1.2. I
Is this KDE 4?
If so, try right-clicking the panel. (If you see Unlock widgets,
click that. Then right-click the panel again.)
Select Add Widget. Scroll until you find Task Manager
(or type task into the search field and it'll filter out everything
but the widgets with task in their name).
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 03:13:14PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote:
I'm at Panera bread using their wi-fi. After I logged in with panera,
I opened another tab. Then a
box-image (badly corrupted) from panera appeared over the second tab.
Even worse this box now appears over all windows based
I think we're due for an 'advanced bash' talk ;)
Stuff like this, as well as adding your own programs' completion
functions (e.g. trying 'tuxpaint --ftabtab' yields
--fancycursors --fullscreen, and 'mplayer tabtab' to shows
playable media in the current directory)
-bill!
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012
David posted this from an address that's not subscribed to the list.
Fwd'ing on his behalf.
-bill!
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:01 -0700
From: Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com
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To: Nick Buxton n...@tni.org
CC: Bill Kendrick n...@sonic.net
Nick,
I would suggest posting on the vox-tech or vox
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:43:44PM -0700, Tony Cratz wrote:
Hello,
I have been working with one of my authors getting ready to
publish another E-book for him.
This time we will be including 6 images at the start of each
chapter. He asked if a person could get any
Stephen posted from an unsubscribed address.
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The attached message has been
I received this, and was given the OK to pass it along to vox-tech.
Please Cc Martin when you reply, as I don't think he's on the list.
Thanks!
-bill!
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:41:49 -0700
From: Martin Huh m...@usc.edu
I am a
My poor old Dell Inspiron 1525 had a nasty fall yesterday. It's mightily
banged up, but fortunately still functions -- mostly. USB seems to be DOA.
The DVD drive popped out and is stuck in that position, due to physical
damage to the case. (The USB on that side is bent, too!) :^( :^( :^(
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:24:02AM -0700, rich...@khanfusion.net wrote:
I've got an external sata case that's not currently in use - but I'm not
sure when I'll be in your area. If you can't find one elsewhere, let me
know.
Two other folks offered me help off-list. But thanks!
-bill!
I think it's moot, but here's a note from Orson from this thread.
(Posted from a non-sub'd email addr, so got discarded by Mailman.
Please remember to post from the addr with which you're subscribed to the
list!)
-bill!
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:40:08AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Gandalf Parker (gand...@community.net):
But I am going to save it. If all a person knows is PHP I can see where it
might be the shortest route.
The PHP interpreter can also be used locally (e.g., via phpsh) without
It's super-funky homebrew php.
Each event, listed in a php file, makes a func call that passes along
the args about the event (title, date, url, descr, etc.)
The func that actually gets called varies dep. on the viewer
(e.g., homepage, calendar page, ical) Very funky backwards, I know.
I
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:45:43AM -0700, David Spencer, Internet Handyman
wrote:
If it's just a weak ftp password, change it to stronger one. If it's a
MySQL injection (I don't see evidence of a database on your website but
that doesn't mean there isn't one there) then you'll need to have
Since this topic has come up, and Rick's is a very thorough post on the
topic... From CABAL mailing list, via SF-LUG mailing list.
-bill!
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 02:42:14 -0700
From: Rick Moen r...@linuxmafia.com
Subject:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:24:51AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
Second tutorial on Hibernate. Many-to-Many
http://brie.com/brian/blog/?p=35
OOC, should I grab / link to this one as well
(over at LUGOD's Presentations page), or does the first
tutorial basically cover what you talked about at the
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:42:25AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
Many of you have probably used HSQLDB without realizing it.
OpenOffice uses it!
Hey that reminds me, can I get your slides/notes/example code from
Monday's talk? Thanks!
-bill!
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:32:36PM -0600, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 20:52 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
... Uh... WTF? How does one get S-Video out to work on an Inspiron
nowadays?
It looks like xorg.conf has been split up into a .d directory.
Any clues? Anyone
, Bill Kendrick wrote:
That was before trying to use S-Video. I also admittedly have not yet
tried other S-Video cables to ensure that it's not a cable issue.
(If that turns out to be the case, I'll be annoyed at the loss of an
S-Video
cable... oh, and embarassed ;) )
snip
Fwd'ing to vox-tech, because Jason's not subscribed (at least not with
this address).
-bill!
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:51:13AM -0800, Bryan Richter wrote:
Unfortunately, it looks like Optimum has a similar policy, depending on what
type of account you have.
From http://www.optimum.net/Terms :
snip
Section 22.B.i: Users [of Optimum Online Boost and Optimum Online Ultra] may
not
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:45:35PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
I was equally confused with the Xorg config file as you have been Bill. Were
you
able to figure out the problem?
I've had extremely limited time to look into this. Someone on #lugod
suggested that 'it should just work,' and to a
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:20:18PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
Actually a few version back xorg became super auto config, where the
rule became basically = do not touch by hand. If you want hand massaged
stuff you put it in a different file and get it pulled in.
This page shows how to deal
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:06:23PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:20:18PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
Actually a few version back xorg became super auto config, where the
rule became basically = do not touch by hand. If you want hand massaged
stuff you put
... Uh... WTF? How does one get S-Video out to work on an Inspiron nowadays?
It looks like xorg.conf has been split up into a .d directory.
Any clues? Anyone done this? THis is seriously pissing me off.
(Google doesn't help by giving me nothing but 5 year old forum pages
with no answers, or
Not sure if James ever got this posted to the list, but here's a copy
that bounced a week+ ago. (Sorry for the delay... I've been innundated
at work.)
PS - Anyone know if mailman can be set up to append the original message's
subject to subject of the Auto-discard notification.
(e.g., below, I
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:41:09AM -0800, jimbo wrote:
Hi Mr. Riley:
Could you please talk more about your project possibly next Sunday over a
beer or 2?
FYI, Tim's also speaking at LUGOD later this year:
http://lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/#2011.07.18
-bill!
Long story shoty. I have a Kubuntu 9.04 install. Finally told it to upgrade,
and it brought itself up to 9.10, and then I initiated an upgrade to 10.04.
It started reporting errors, with the only options being Report Bug (which
did nothing) and Close (dismiss error).
It got through all of the
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:55:40PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do
separate partitions for / and /home.
Cool, thanks. And yeah, lesson learned. :)
Have you tried an apt-get dist-upgrade with a force option from the
command line
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:02:01AM -0800, Nicole Carlson wrote:
Trust me--it is DEAD SEXY. If I could give y'all a talk on it, I
would. (Actually, I'm in Davis on 1/12, if you guys want me.)
Ooh, our January meeting (our 12th anniversary, too!) is on the 17th.
Of course, if you're in Davis
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:13:15PM -0800, Nicole Carlson wrote:
Actually, I might be around then, too. You guys have a speaker
planned? Well. Before I get ahead of myself, let me see if I can get
the idea cleared by the Corporate People In Charge Of Clearing Talks.
We do have a talk
So I'm grepping cut'ing a huge log file (6.4 million lines)
and made the mistake of deciding to pipe it through tee to
watch for a while. I forgot to do this from within a screen
session, so I'm kind of stuck staring at it in a terminal. *sigh* :)
I don't want to watch any more, and wish I
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:13:15PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
snip
I wonder, is there any other Linux'y trick I can use in the meantime?
(Maybe fiddling in /proc ? ;) )
Bill Broadley figured it out for me. Yay, thanks Bill!
From another terminal:
$ ps aux | grep tee
username 12345 0.1
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:35:22PM -0800, Kyle Ambroff wrote:
This is an evil, evil hack, but you could just attach to the tee
process with gdb and replace the stdout file descriptor with
/dev/null.
Heh, you and Bill share the prize, for the same, insane idea.
Thanks! :)
-bill!
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 08:40:35PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
snip
(You should be able to just install apt-get install wondershaper, read
the readme, tell it your upload and download speed, and get good
results.)
I second wondershaper. It has worked great for me!
My DSL is assymetric. Uploads slow down everything else (most
notably, my SSH sessions).
This is particularly noticable now that I have a WiFi router that does
more than just 802.11b. (In other words, it's a lot easier for my
laptop to saturate my DSL bandwitdh now ;) )
I find that things
So I'm noticing some stability issues with a website.
* lighttpd 1.4.x
* php 5.3.x
* mysql 5.1.x
The symptoms to the outside world include lagging connections and,
eventually, Error 500s from the webserver.
Internally, I run mytop (basically, a 'top'-like interface that
parses the results of a
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:38:40PM -0800, Tony Cratz wrote:
IF you should decide to download the file, make sure that the
user has a pirate skull and cross-bones. Otherwise don't trust
the torrent. For example sake only, these would be a good ones
to download:
snip
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:05:19PM -0500, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote:
and also
application/octet-stream
This isn't really specific to any kind of data.
It just means a stream of octets (8-bit bytes).
Wikipedia sez:
The Internet media type for an arbitrary byte stream is
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
snip
[*] So far, I've seen:
PS - Sorry for hijacking the thread just so I could vent. ;)
-bill!
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Dylan posted from a non-subscribed address.
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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:57:15
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:14:40PM -0700, Tony Cratz wrote:
On 10/21/2010 11:21 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
That's why I suggested GNU mailutils. It has a sieve command that
looks like it's a standalone filter (procmail replacement).
I'm doing some research now into Sieve. While the rules
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:37:08PM -0700, Tony Cratz wrote:
Not yet for me until after I have been able to fully understand
and get a working version for myself.
I figured. (Of course, if anyone else out here knows much about Sieve
and wants to talk about it, speak up!)
As
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:12:52AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
I read a PERL column that Randal Schwartz wrote a few years back
(maybe 10 years back) about using a gpg signed email and the body with an
image or some content that could be used to update a website. You would
send the message
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:04:30AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
I will have to check out the sugar protocol too. I believe it is what
Abiword uses to give real time collaboration.
Yes. Tux Paint needs some Sugarization.
-bill!
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vox-tech mailing
FYI, we look to be having an Installfest next Saturday (9/25). ;)
http://www.lugod.org/if/
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:39:25AM -0700, Thomas Johnston wrote:
The reason i would doubt that it is the graphics card in my laptop is
that I cannot get an image to project to the external monitor even
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:06:57PM -0700, netuser wrote:
snip
If you need any more info, let me know.
Well, at this point, you should let the IF coordinators know what you're
interested in doing. Either fill out the RSVP form
( http://www.lugod.org/if/rsvp/ ) and/or send a note to
For what it's worth, we've tentatively scheduled an Installfest workshop
for Saturday, September 25th. Once it's confirmed, we'll announce it
on vox-announce mailing list, on the homepage of lugod.org (news), and
on the IF page itself.
For more, and to RSVP, go to: http://www.lugod.org/if/
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:16:47PM -0700, netuser wrote:
i would love to go to an installfest. problem is, transport of computer is
not an option. is it possible to bring an external hard drive and have it
installed on that?
I can't promise, but someone might be willing to help you transport
Fwd from vox. You might want to Cc Bruce in case he's not subscribed
to vox-tech.
-bill!
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From: Bruce Duncan hat...@calweb.com
Subject: [vox] Setting up Network DSL on SuSe 11.3
To:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:37:14PM -0700, Troy Arnold wrote:
Wow. That seems like an atrocious amount of storage for contacts. If your
contact app has the capability to import/export to .vcf, try that.
That helped, thanks. It turns out that I've got, like, 4 different
export/import
So I've got a T-Mobile 3G MyTouch Slide (an HTC phone w/ Google HTC Sense
stuff preinstalled).
It's almost perpetually telling me it's almost out of space (internal storage).
If I tap that warning in the notifications, it launches Manage applications,
which allows me to sort by storage use.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:43:42PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
On 08/19/2010 03:00 PM, David Spencer, Internet Handyman wrote:
So how do I figure this out guys? If I do directory of /dev I see four
usbdev stubs (or whatever they're called) so I know that something USB
was installed. Where
I've come across some documents that are formatted in
such a way that, when converted to HTML, they come out
something like this:
font face=ArialAnd/font font face=Arialthen/font
font face=Arialthey/font font face=Ariallooked/font
or even worse:
font face=ArialA/fontfont
I've found that this can be extremely handy in a large mailbox:
[L]imit ~t recipient ~s subject ~b sometext
However, the messages I'm trying to search or limit contain
some text inside ATTACHMENTS (tab-delimited or XML text files),
and neither ~b (match in body) or ~B (match in whole email)
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:29:14PM -0500, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
Consider writing a SAX filter that just drops the offending font and
/font.
Well, we want the style info to remain... there's just no reason in
the world for the document to specify it over and over again on
a per-word or
Quick question. My wife wants to get some new Android phones
to replace our current ones, and it sounds like we can at the
same time drop the Sprint cell modem that I've got right now
for telecommuting purposes.
HOWEVER, the guy at the store who was telling her about
Android 2.2's hotspot
Dylan posted from a non-sub'd addr.
-bill!
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And again
-bill!
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:19:00PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Unless you have the full source code and are familiar enough with it
to insure that it doesn't have hidden dependencies on those constants,
and are recompiling the full source code, you should still be wary of
changing read-only
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:01:13PM -0700, David Spencer, Internet Handyman
wrote:
Guys, I'm sorry about asking this on the list; but I seem to have a mental
block when it comes to regular expressions. Here's what I'm trying to do:
That's what this list is here for! ;)
I have a lot of
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:53:11PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
snip
Does anyone here have any suggestions on a tool that can handle
this for me? (Again, this will be running on a server as part
Do you have a jpeg that is in grey?
Me as in personally? Not off-hand, but easily created
in
So I've got a system that receives images from users
We then ship those out to a 3rd party. This 3rd party
requires that they be JPEGs (easy to convert to) of a
certain size (easy to check) and in RGB colorspace
(vs CMYK or Grey).
I had a great bit of difficulty, and simply threw my hands up,
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:38:45PM -0700, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I am running Kubuntu 10.04 and I am no longer able to boot up as
normal. I make it to the login screen without any indication of a
problem. After typing in my user name and password, it continues to
boot.
Just to be pedantic
Orson posted from a non-subscribed address, so passing along
to the list on his behalf:
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:27:04PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
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What are you using to determine the type of image? From what I have been
reading, imagemagick tells you about the contents of the image, not the
actual format it is saved in.
$ convert grey.jpg -type TrueColor converted.jpg
Matthew posted from a non-sub'd address. This got discarded over
the weekend; apologies for fwd'ing it along so long after
(and/or if it's a duplicate; I'm a bit email-backlogged!)
-bill!
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:32:21AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
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In short: I've been really impressed with Qt. I've used WxWidgets in
the past, and it's programming model is one I understand and have
written applications for. I've done a bit of work with GTK+
applications and though I can
I do, e.g.,
$ gdb ./tuxpaint
...
(gdb) run --windowed --nosound
IIRC...
-bill!
(via touchscreen phone, chasing toddler at a park ;) )
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:56:58PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
How do I add arguments to a program I am debugging with gdb?
The following doesn't seem to
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Tom Ghormley wrote:
Marc;
Why would you send me an ad for Viagra?
Per a message I posted to 'vox', I'm guessing Marc's
email account or computer were compromised. :(
-bill!
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:48:49PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
I recently met a guy at SacJUG who lived next door to Bertrand Meyer! He
said he might be able to convince him to come and speak here in the
Sacramento Area. Would that be cool or what?!!!
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