Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote: > from 'info sed' -> Examples > > #! /bin/sh > # rename files to lower/upper case... [snip...] > (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the > sed info page ;p ) WOW! I didn't expect so many ways to get this don

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS > > forced > > down our throats. > > I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to > be

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS > > forced down our throats. > > Aaargh! :-@ > > > To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' > > optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Will this do? > > http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php Yes! Thanks, this looks nice. It minimizes into the tray, and opens as window when a message arrives (if configured so). I think I will be using it. I first had a little problem because of a five-second delay with smbc

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hemmann, Volker Armin writes: > On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another > > host in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A > > window should open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Randy Barlow
Alex Schuster wrote: Any ideas? How about Zephyr then? http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=635 -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who cal

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which > unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 > characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT serial port program with a gui interface

2007-07-02 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: Well those are OK but, I was hoping for something with a few simple input boxes, so the user can input, say a floating point varialble or an integer varialble inside the box, then my program would use the 9600 baud serial port to transfer the parameter setting to a specific reg

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus and hal problems

2007-07-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:57:20 +0200 Cahn Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm with thunar and xfce. > I can't bring up cdrom or cdrw when I put in > a cd or dvd. I must do it with a terminal, and then > I get an icone on the desktop and it works well. > > In contrary, the usb-key wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mich writes: > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever > way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS > forced > down our throats. I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to be a one-size-fits-all standard so it would work on all (well

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced > down our throats. Aaargh! :-@ > To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option > under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose 'linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host > in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should > open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. yes. it is known als 'talk

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 2 July 2007 22:59, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a > clever way to change some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Randy Barlow writes: > If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message > service like AIM or Jabber or another? I thought about that, too. But as I wrote I would prefer a window to open, instead of having a little notification in he taskbar that kopete received a message, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which > unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 > characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to > change some of them ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 21:20, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host > in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should > open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. > > The purpose is to

[gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
Hi All, I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Randy Barlow
Alex Schuster wrote: Any ideas? If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message service like AIM or Jabber or another? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming phone

[gentoo-user] xvmc?

2007-07-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, If I build an app like MythTV with the xvmc flag how can I tell when Myth is running whether it is actually using xvmc and, if possible, how much xvmc helps? NVidia card if it matters. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Transparent network compression

2007-07-02 Thread Remy Blank
Florian Philipp wrote: > Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host? > > My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline > adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has > got an option for using lzo but I would like to

[gentoo-user] Transparent network compression

2007-07-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host? My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has got an option for using lzo but I would like to have a solution for NF

[gentoo-user] Re: Gambas interface

2007-07-02 Thread Benjamin Graf
Now I found out the problem : I just had to launch qtconfig and select another theme... Ben 2007/7/2, Benjamin Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I've installed gambas (a programming language/ide a bit like VisualBasic). I'm running fluxbox and the gambas interface is a bit ugly (maybe like a tcl/tk

[gentoo-user] Gambas interface

2007-07-02 Thread Benjamin Graf
Hi, I've installed gambas (a programming language/ide a bit like VisualBasic). I'm running fluxbox and the gambas interface is a bit ugly (maybe like a tcl/tk interface). I think if I were running KDE it would look better. A screenshot is available at http://www.imagehoop.com/view_image/a831f642/g

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

2007-07-02 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 07. 2, hétfő keltezéssel 12.04-kor Jure Varlec ezt írta: > > I think a boot parameter of the form > reserve=0xff48,0x87 > should do the trick. > > Regards, > Jure Thank you very much! reserve seems for io regions, but memmap=nn$ss seems ok. Thank you again, you started me to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

2007-07-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 2 July 2007 11:50, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard. > > There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy. > I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if > the kernel want to access to these reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

2007-07-02 Thread Jure Varlec
On Monday 02 of July 2007 11:50:37 Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard. > > There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy. > I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if the > kernel want to access to thes

[gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

2007-07-02 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard. There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy. I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if the kernel want to access to these region, it crashes. I would like to know, is there a solution to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] luma crashes before starting

2007-07-02 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, today I've updated my system and there was a luma update, version 2.3 and it works! But, I found a very strange thing, it wants to downgrade my luma version when I've never said to install unstable one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep luma /etc/portage/* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ [D] net-nds/luma