[PLUG] yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I run a Redhat clone (Scientific Linux 5). It uses yum for updates. I know how to exclude packages from update, but how do I exclude single files? In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf . I am using the fglrx driver, which although closed source (sigh) is about 20x faster (glxgears) than the open

Re: [PLUG] yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Keith Lofstrom wrote: I run a Redhat clone (Scientific Linux 5). It uses yum for updates. I know how to exclude packages from update, but how do I exclude single files? In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf . I am using the fglrx driver, which although closed source

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting

2011-03-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 21:21:35 -0800 David Mandel dman...@pdxlinux.org dijo:                             MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT                        The Portland Linux/Unix Group                                  will meet                          7 PM Thursday Mar 3, 2011                            

Re: [PLUG] yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:42:17 -0800 Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I run a Redhat clone (Scientific Linux 5). It uses yum for updates. I know how to exclude packages from update, but how do I exclude single files? In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf . I am using the fglrx driver,

Re: [PLUG] Radeon HD5450 PCI-E card broken...

2011-03-02 Thread Dale Snell
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:00:16 -0800 Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: =%- snip! -%= The card has been removed and I am trying to use the motherboard's onboard vga adapter. How do I undo the damage that installing the catalyst driver wreaks on the relevant

Re: [PLUG] yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Hedlund
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 07:42, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf .  I am using the fglrx driver, which although closed source (sigh) is about 20x faster (glxgears) than the open source r500 driver for ATI graphics chips. The update package for x11 wants to

Re: [PLUG] yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 07:42, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: In this case, /etc/X11/xorg.conf .  I am using the fglrx driver, which although closed source (sigh) is about 20x faster (glxgears) than the open source r500 driver for ATI graphics chips. The update package for x11 wants to

Re: [PLUG] Radeon HD5450 PCI-E card broken...

2011-03-02 Thread Pete Lancashire
in the past I extracted the conf file from the rpm -pete On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:00:16 -0800 Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: =%- snip! -%= The card has been removed and I am trying to

Re: [PLUG] New Attic 4G

2011-03-02 Thread Matt McKenzie
Hit by the spelling auto correct feature looks like... http://damnyouautocorrect.com/ (mostly for iPhones, but applies to any smartphone really) So how dost thou likest thine Android goodness? Are you in an ATT 4G coverage area? How fast is it? (Speedtest.net has an app for that) I wonder how

[PLUG] Common as Air

2011-03-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Those of you who still read dead tree documents may enjoy Open As Air by Lewis Hyde, of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Hyde devotes a lot of ink to one of my heros, Benjamin Franklin, who had a prescient attitude towards open technology. I've written about Franklin before,

[PLUG] Digital Personal Property

2011-03-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I won't be at Advanced Topics on Tuesday the 15th, but this presentation instead: Oregon IEEE Communication Society presentation: Emerging Standard for Consumer-ownable Digital Personal Property Paul Sweazey The potential social and economic benefits of enabling consumer ownership are huge. The

[PLUG] Strange error trying to run Eschalon Book I

2011-03-02 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Unable to calculate tex sizeappstub.linux signal handler 11 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Strange error trying to run Eschalon Book I

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Hedlund
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 22:51, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Unable to calculate tex sizeappstub.linux signal handler 11 Doing a search on Google for the exact text in your email returns two results, both for the Eschalon Book I game. One of the two results gives a solution