On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:17:02AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to convert all my VCR to DVD. I also want to be able to capture
> TV/Cable stuff to file format.
>
> Of course, whatever I buy must be functional under Linux since that's the OS
> I'll be using it with.
>
>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:21:45AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> awstats was a PoE for a system I have occasional use of. You might want
> to Google for / ask about Rick Moen's discovery of global variables in
> PHP. Discussion on the BAD (Bay Area Debian) list.
They've been disabled, and I've
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:27:16AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Widget set sucks, but I hate Qt. Not as much as gtk2, which I think is a
> scourge. But then again, I think MS's widget set (pre XP) is the prettiest
> of all. gtk1 comes a close second. gtk2 is almost, but not quite, as ugly
Alex posted from an address that is not subscribed to vox-tech...
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:20:18 -0800
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Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2
To: lugod's technical discussion forum
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:58:13AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> If they put voice-features into the Linux version of Opera,
> that might also make me switch back. The decision to make debugging
> versions of Opera available might make me come back too.
Heh, Konq's been able to talk for a lon
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:15:13AM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote:
> My current biggest pet peeve about IE's mishandling of things would
> include its broken support for absolute positioning. Should be relative
> to the enclosing box, but instead is relative to the window coords. Awful.
I'm sorry... d
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:43:35AM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote:
> Hopefully it does. Ideally, I'll be able to figure out the kde dcop
> hook for those language options (thx to bill for that idea). I'm
> planning on spending some time in #kde-user on freenode tonight...see if
> I can find any dcop
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:32:55AM -0800, Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez wrote:
> I'd suggest https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and reporting it-and don't
> forget to describe it well and mention it is a crasher.
Heh, if I were them, I'd say "running proprietary, closed-source third party
plugis considered
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:27:19AM -0800, Richard Harke wrote:
> Here is a strange one. I go to www.mambazo.com As soon as the page
> finishes loading, FF aborts without any message. No problem with
> Konqueror.
Hrm, it seems to load okay for me in Mozilla. However, it has a Flash
animation at
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:20:14AM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I think I know the answer to this, but I want to make sure. I believe that
> it
> is more secure to FAX a document than it is to email a document or message,
> right? This assumes that one does not use email encryption.
I t
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:09:06AM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote:
> 1. Change the language settings for the desktop environment.
>
> How do I do this programtically (i.e. without going into the KDE
> language settings in the configuration manager)?
Do it programmatically BY going into the configura
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:09:49PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> I stand corrected.
>
> I didn't realize IE was doing it's own thing.
That, just under security holes, is the top reason to dislike IE. >:^P
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:36:22PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
>
> >3. Rendering is wonderful: pages render more faithfully under FF than
> >Opera.
>
> I've been using FF for a couple of months on both M$ and Linux and
> unfortunately I'd have to say the rendering is not so wonderful when
> comp
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:25:49PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> The syntax for /etc/vimrc (or more accurately, /usr/share/vim/.../vimrc)
> is same as that of ~/etc/.vimrc. So why would one be motivated to search
> for .vimrc when one simply wants to find out the syntax of vimrc files in
> general?
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:57:58PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> I think it would be hilarious if we started a thread on slashdot:
>
>What's broken on Google and how would you fix it?
>
> It would be an interesting thread to read... :)
Dude, go for it!
-bill!
("automatically ignore all
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:46:54PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Thu 13 Jan 05, 12:40 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > A bucket for ".forward", a bucket for "forward.", a bucket for
> > "forward," a bucket for "forwa
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:42:12PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Most dotfile has a corresponding /etc file with same syntax so... should
> Google allow dotfile searches specifically for unix users but not their
> global equivalents? I don't think a generic search engine like Google
> should be that
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:13:23PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Anyone who searches for ".vimrc" means ".vimrc". In this case, the dot is a
> literal, so ".forward" is as distinct from "forward" as "cat is distinct
> from "dog".
These (Unix dotfiles) are good special case that Google should
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:40:49AM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I've always thought it would be really cool if we could search Google
> using regular expressions.
>
I think the problem here is how it's indexed. If it sees ".forward",
it just sticks it in the pile of pages that contain the
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:10:43PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > I used K3B to burn the CD.
>
> Never heard of k3b, but try this:
Never used it, but heard good things about it. When I finally migrate
some bits of Melissa's old desktop into my desktop (or some new PC), I'll
definitely be ch
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote:
> > > You guys are big BT users, right ;)
> >
> > If by "you guys" you mean me, then no. :^)
>
> If I meant you I would say "you", hehe.
Heh, I'll put it this way :)
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:48:14PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote:
> Most nics only light up after they are initialized by drivers.
>
Good to know.
> Check syslog/dmesg for any suspicious messages.
I tried, but didn't see anything notable in there. I am naive, though. ;)
> What does mii-tool report?
Okay, I'm beginning to think the built-in ethernet NIC on this Thinkpad T20
is dying... but, I'm not a very sophisticated debugger, so hopefully not.
We're running Debian Testing. Recently, I did an apt-get upgrade, and
it installed an updated Kernel 2.4.27 package. At that point, ethernet
seem
So I'm using Konversation as my main IRC client these days.
You can completely close the window without disconnecting from any
servers or channels you're in, which is a nice way to clear out screen
(and taskbar) real estate.
It shows a little icon in the sysem tray which flashes if there are any
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:37:32PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Hrm... I see (via strace) that /etc/modules.conf is being read.
>
> It looks like this was generated by 'update-modules', and I see:
>
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-base
>
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:42:28AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Sun 26 Dec 04, 10:27 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:21PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > >
> > > One: Do you see anything interesting
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:16:02PM -0800, Richard Harke wrote:
> My x86 system was installed with Debian and the kernel was 2.4.26 so I still
> have a /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386 directory. (I have since gone to kernel
> 2.6.8) in sub-directory kernel/drivers/sound is a sb.o so I guess that
> would
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:21PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> One: Do you see anything interesting with this:
>
>strace modprobe -a sb 2>&1 | egrep -v 'map|brk'
>
What constitutes "interesting?" ;^)
> Two: Does modprobe -v give any additional information?
Nada. :^(
> Three: sb
Hello, all! Happy Holidays!
I just got back from out of town and did an 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'
on my Debian Testing box. In the process, it apparently installed an
updated version of the Linux kernel 2.4.27-1-686 package, and told me
(using VERY strong words) that I needed to reboo
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:48:44PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> This is probably more vox than vox-tech, but
>
Whoops! Indeed! I hit [R]eply without even noticing it was on the
wrong list, myself. Sorry! :^\
-bill!
(enjoyed ME's point about the pasta salad)
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:41:32PM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote:
[quoting an article...]
> Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on a visit to India in November 2002, wooed
> the federal and state governments in India, offering to sell his company's
> software at prices much lower than market rates.
Whic
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:17:42PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2004 23:00, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think because it's a mount point, you can't really affect its
> > permissions. Can you remind us what the exact fstab
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:39:18PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> So I decided to use chmod to give read and write access to others. But chmod
> doesn't work on /mnt/windows. If I bungle the chmod command, I get an error
> message. But if I issue a correct command like "chmod g+x windows" I
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:00:39PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Heh... I love that. Comment. :^)
Er... "I love that comment."
-bill!
(suddenly... I sound like... William... Shatner)
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:51:37AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
> - retval[i] = g_strdup ("TERM=xterm"); /* FIXME configurable later? */
> + retval[i] = g_strdup ("TERM=scoansi"); /* FIXME configurable later? */
Heh... I love that. Comment. :^)
Perhaps one of us should fix it to make it configura
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:54:50PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> It seems to me that I remember being able to use Open Office in Linux to
> write
> to Windows files. But maybe it's my memory that is failing. Does anybody
> know if it is possible for a mere user to write to Windows files,
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:52:24PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> If you do what Bill suggested by removing the battery, be prepared to wipe
> out the hard drive, because some older systems don't have the ability to
> detect the hard drive capacity automatically so they have manual settings,
> which y
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:06:25AM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> At the moment, this step is moot. Whenever this computer was originally
> set up, the tech enabled the "setup password" in the BIOS screen, so I
> can't set it up to boot from the floppy until I get that password. And
> no one see
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:32:20PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
> For this, I think you can use a null-modem cable with SLIP (Serial Line
> Internet Protocol) or PPP.
Not without PPP on the 8-bit. ;^) Most 8-bits don't support it (easily).
But there are /plenty/ of terminal programs (e.g., for dialin
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:05:49PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
>
> (Now, I'm curious to try emulating a parallel printer using a Linux
> box.)
Somewhat related, I think, but totally off-topic for this situation, is
a project called "tcpser".
It provides computers that connect via a serial port (e.g.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:48:09AM -0800, Trevor M. Lango wrote:
> I use gdm to login to kde.
Just curious, why not use KDM? Any particular features missing, or that
you don't like?
> I modified '/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf' so that gdm starts up on vt7 and vt8.
> My default session is 'KDE'. I can
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:53:47PM -0800, wild bill wrote:
> after modprobe parport_pc and modprobe lp,
> echo hello>/dev/lp0
> turns the lights on on the printer, page advance gives me a
> sheet with hello printed o PROGRESS IS BEING MADE!
Awesome! :)
-bill!
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:25:19PM -0800, Brian Yates wrote:
> When you send these emails do you think your not going to have your humor
> addressed some day.
>
> You will!
Umm... I'm not sure what, or who, this is in response to, but you didn't
really adhere to the mailing list netiquette. :^)
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:24:38PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> After I saw it referred to here, and a stats grad student recommended it,
> I have been using R quite a bit recently... but I am pretty sure I have
> barely scratched the surface. It is kind of a cross between Perl and
> Octave with
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:52:40AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Thought this was interesting enough to forward.
Heh... Mozilla (whatever I'm using) on Windows XP (ugh, unstable as it is!)
crashed with the first "mozilla_die" file. First it seemed to be working
REALLY hard. Then I hit stop.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:19:31AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> I guess Gentoo is much like Debian in many respects, aside
> from the compile-from-source focus. Anyway I wanted to
> comment that I've been generally pleased with the up-to-
> dateness of the Gentoo's "stable" tree,
So WHEN are we goi
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:59:47PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
> You are the webmaster? Is this supposed to work:
> http://www.lugod.org/meeting/past/?
Eep, sorry. PHP syntax error. ("http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:25:16PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Bill Broadley wrote:
>
> > Anyone find the mentioned $109 gumstix (mentioned at the talk and on
> > their website). I found it mentioned at http://gumstix.com/products.html
>
> http://gumstix.com/spexboards.htm
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
>
> Hey, what did people think of the gumstix talk?
I just called Emily and heard that the talk was good, and tons of people
went. In fact, even Bill Broadley! That's _always_ a good sign! ;^) ;^)
I seriously regret missing it. Bu
Eureka!
Okay, I'm making MPEG4 (Bill Broadley suggested that's suitable, rather
than needing to use MPEG2), and got them 1/2 size and running at the
original 'real life' speed. (xvidcap only seemed to capture about 5-6fps)
$ mencoder foo.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop scale=320:240
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Finally got around to trying this, and it does work directly in "simple"
> windows managers (tested in openbox). However, it doesn't quite work in
> KDE. Rather than the window coming to the top, the window's entry in
> the ta
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:06:13AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote:
> On top of that, if you're using KDE then you're probably running klipper.
> Klipper takes over some of the clipboard operation, so depending on how
> that's configured, things may work differently for you.
Unless you disabled it, like
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:14:34AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> It's like there are 2 clipboards or something. Can't I do cut and paste
> without mousing? The menu->edit->copy doesn't have a keyboard shortcut.
It IS a little bizarre sometimes. :^/
You can add a copy keyboard shortcut to Konsole
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:06AM -0700, Henry House wrote:
>
> Actually it is worse than that: the exported PDF looks and prints like the
> poor on-screen representation in OOWriter, i.e., with very poor quality.
Are you clicking the little PDF icon in OOo, or actually doing
"File->Export as PD
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:42:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> KDE, bless its cold-hearted soul, picked a set of apps and stuck with
> 'em.
They just get cease and desists (or something) and need to rename themselves.
Heard of 'Krita?' Yeah, me neither. Oh! It's just 'Krayon's new name!
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:27:18PM -0700, Richard S. Crawford (ww) wrote:
> It seems to be working. The cronjob is running every five minutes, and
> the e-mails are being sent. The problem now is that they're being sent
> about half an hour after they're supposed to be sent, which puzzles me.
Th
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:48:41AM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote:
>
> No, but have you tried using -ofps on the mencoder command line yet?
>
I tried -fps (trying to say 'this is the fps of the original'),
-ofps, and combining the two. :)
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:10:30AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> I'm guessing that, some time during your installation ordeal ;-> , you
> enabled KDE sound support, which is apparently via something called the
> "arts" daemon. Thus, your currently-configured sound support is
> KDE-dependent, which i
I'm tired, and having difficulty coming up with an mencoder recipe
to take a ~640x480 MPEG that plays too fast (seems to have been captured
at ~25fps, but is played back at 60fps) and turn it into a 320x240 MPEG
that plays at the original speed. (I created a video using xvidcap, but
want it small
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:06:12AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> - WinXP local login is 21 seconds to show desktop, and 40 seconds
> before login-time processes have all launched.
Tell me about it. Many a morning, I walk into the office, hit the power
button, and then hit the restroom or
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:45:35PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Anyhow, on to the question. I'm going to be given access to a VPN. I know
> nothing about VPNs.
I think you seek FreeS/WAN. I played with it when I was at WCOM, but
never /actually/ got it working.
Good luck!
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:19:53PM -0700, Josh Parsons wrote:
> Actually, this is not necessary to detect screen edges - that type of
> information is available to every X client. The only special thing about
> the window manager is that it has selected SubstructureRedirect events on
> the root wi
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:53:03PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> I'm not sure if that's true. I'm sure at least a window can *request* to
> be placed a certain way to the window manager. As an example, try
> grabbing a window screen shot using Gimp or XV -- I think those apps bring
> the window to
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:21:43AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> (You may be fully aware of the above, but I thought sketching out the
> boot process might help some others understand what's going on.)
It reminded me why I hate computers ;)
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:24:21AM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Is there a command I can run from commandline, say from an xterm
> (actually konsole), to select a certain window in an X-session (actually
> KDE) and push it to the top? I'm doing some scripting and have a
> command which esse
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:20:22AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 1. rsync uses as default network transport whatever is /usr/bin/rsh on
> your system. Because ssh/scp were designed to be a drop-in
> replacement for rsh/rcp, it's exactly the sort of thing you can specify
> as a substitute "remote shel
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:08:28AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Where do I change that value to 85? Its not in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> file, and I can't think of anywhere else to look.
You can also run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver' (or, err, something similar)
to go through the same setup wizard
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:39:15AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> The effect on LUGOD would be:
>
> (1) Virtually no spam. Mostly this is of interest to the
> officers, as the mailing lists already require
> registration in order to post; however spammers might
> easily forge the FROM head
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:37:18PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> > 'Course now I'm "out" of the web business.
> > *Whew!*)
>
> Too bad. ;-)
Bah, I don't feel "pioneering" like I used to, back in the mid/late 90s.
Plus, I'm not really caught up on all the newfangled stuff people use,
like those "data
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:05:21PM -0700, Lewis Perdue wrote:
> I need a web form that writes to a file in comma-delimited ascii with a
> time/date stamp ...I know a lot of the perl scripts out there have holes
> CGI exploit holes. Does anyone have a secure recommendation?
The kind of Perl-scrip
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:12:20PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> Well I was going to try getting to the meeting last night
> but didn't make it. Might there be any online notes from
> the CSS presentation?
Seth said he's hoping to get the stuff to me tonight, so they'll
probably be up on LUGOD.org so
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 07:50:21PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> All this makes me think that my problem is buried somewhere in X or KDE.
One quick test... don't boot into X-Window and see if the keyboard continues
working after the kernel has come up (you said it worked in LILO), but
before X11 comes up (
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:57:26PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote:
> So much for Greenspan's assertion that education is the solution to our
> employment woes.
I realize Pete posted this to vox-tech to get a wider audience, but can
we move this thread over to vox? It's not really appropriate here.
(note, fwd'ing this for Hans, who posted from a non-sub'd address...
then I sub'd it :^) )
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Hans W. Uhlig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Inspiron 8100 Backlight problems
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone know how to force a backlight
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:31:34AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote:
> Bill noted the entry in the /proc filesystem. For systems without /proc
> there's no simple way to get this.
Yeah, I was wondering... ;)
> The program can examine argv[0], but
> that may contain only the program name without the dir
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:28:27AM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
> Is there a way to identify the directory that contains the currently
> running executable, so that I can programmatically refer to it?
> i.e. if I am running /usr/bin/myprog, but pwd is /home/bloom, how can
> I programmatically get either
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:35:51PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> I'm sorry to not have anything useful to say about Ashleigh's situation,
> but concur that relevant clues may be findable in the logs.
Quite off-topic from this issue, but my dad's Linux box became
un-log-into-able recently. KDM loaded,
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:28:49AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote:
> (1) The browser used by probably 90% of all web surfers doesn't support
> tabs, or even something like middle-click to open in a new window.
Wow, sucks to be them. :)
> (2) Javascript's window.open() function gives you more control o
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:19:49AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote:
> The link in question isn't a normal href; it launches some javascript
> which explicitly opens the document in a new window. FF doesn't yet have
> a feature to convert windows opened from javascript into tabs,
> unfortunately.
I'm cu
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:54:03PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> to full-own software development
Correction: "to full-on software development under Linux"
~~ ~~~
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:24:14AM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote:
> Linux Skills in High Demand as IT Jobs Pick Up
They mention 'conversion' and 'sysadmin', but otherwise, I'm kind of
curious what exactly "Linux skills" are? :^)
They could range from general Unix-y knowledge, to full-own software
dev
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Heh. Yeah, my brain was elsewhere. I'm using 775.
Okay. ;) Well, consider what I wrote reference for Google searchers
learning about chmod. ;^) Hehehe...
> I'm still curious as to why the permissions were mysteriously change
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> A user came to me today and told me that he was unable to open or edit a
> couple of his files. I went in to look and saw that the permissions on
> the files in question were set to 000, so that the directory entry looked
> like t
So, I discovered Melissa has a copy of The Klingon Dictionary, so I
translated some of the most basic strings in Tux Paint to romanized
Klingon. (e.g., everyone's favorite: "Qapla'")
I discovered that there's even an 'official' locale for Klingon, "tlh"
(it used to be "i-klingon", but that's been
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:39:25AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> How do I _move_ this piece of text? I tried:
>
> 1. Selecting a region with "select rectangle"
> 2. Click and drag the selection
> 3. Click on the background to anchor the text.
> 4. The text disappears.
That simply moves the t
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 09:18:55AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> I'm talking about real DVD authoring.
Doug Barbieri :)
Why, got some tornado clips you want to burn? ;)
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:28:50PM -0700, Karalius, Joseph wrote:
> Yes, that workaround certainly becomes more and more appealing. Sending it
> back to Dell for replacement would be even more hassle than it's worth. I've
> already put myself behind schedule f***ing around with it already.
I know
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:47:50PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Theo de Raadt would probably say that the GPL has freedom issues. Some
> might say that requiring a business to release modifications it made to
> software it's distributing is tantamount to restricting commercial
> usage. Very
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:24:59AM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> Every author of significant open source should provide a convenient
> means to accept donations (Bill has this).
For those curious, I simply use the Amazon.com "Honor System" dontation
setup. I also tell people they can send checks
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:16:32AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> people here love to answer questions. and we have a very supportive
> environment. not too many questions go unanswered on this list.
>
Hehe, I just had a funny thought: go through the vox-tech archives and
look for unanswered
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0700, ME wrote:
> Search for all sites which have links to the defcon home page which are
> not from defcon.org but mention defcon:
> Google search:
> link:http://www.defcon.org/ -site:defcon.org defcon
>
> Yes. The "-site" is a subtraction of all hits that are
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:21:12PM -0700, ME wrote:
> Yep. It is called google. Go there, and enter the keyword "define:" and
> then place the term or word right after it. It does a pretty good job of
> providing defs.
Holy moley. How did I not know about that! Time to buy
"Google: The mIssing M
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote:
> Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining
> through, I guess. Really, I had no idea.
Heh - No prob.
> I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to
> research it.
It's a really nice mai
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:47:29PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Also, please do not start a new thread by replying to an old one and
> changing the subject line. Many of us use threaded mailers like mutt.
> It's kinda annoying. Thanks.
(Plus, the mail archives have a threaded display mode,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:24:57PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can't remember the config file(s) that I need to adjust
> manually to allow SSH access, can anyone help?
Check /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny
Just stabbin in the dark ;)
-bill!
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:00:39PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote:
> Thanks for the alternate approach. It is a little
> different that we had tried, ie, finishing the first
> page before checking links.
>
> I'll try that approach with my friend.
Also see if you can map an alternate mouse button to o
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:10:15PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote:
> With FF he is returned to the *top* of the first page.
> With IE he is returned to the *current* item of
> interest.
I could not replicate this with a quick Google search
using Moz 1.6 on XP.
Perhaps the search result page is 'expir
Ok, so I'm on Melissa's not-very-often-used Debian Woody desktop box here
in Davis, and logged into the guest account. When I fired up Mozilla,
the fonts (for the menu and toolbars) were HUGE! Like, 1/3rd as tall
as the screen huge!
I briefly looked in the Gnome 1.x settings, in case it was a G
I recall Mike Simons showing me a Debian trick a few years ago, where
one could make a directory in thier homedir, place scripts or executables
in it, and they would be executed at boot-time.
Kind of like /etc/rc.boot, but on a per-user basis.
Am I hallucinating this memory, or is there somethin
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:12:09PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
> /etc/resolv.conf is a PITA when working with DHCP daemons. Install the
> resolvconf package.
What branch of debian is it in? I don't see it in woody :(
(I guess it's time to check apt-get.org for a backport ;) )
-bill!
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