Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:05:41PM -0700, Stephen wrote:
>> When cox finds out you're running a server, they just block your port.
>> As it's my own personal ssh server, not a public server, I don't
>> believe it falls under their rules against running a serve
Southern and Mill, Tempe, 85282
Thing is, I won't actually be there for another month. Oh well, I guess
you can pre-plan for the future in advance.
--
I have to carry this axe.
It's part of my anger management therapy.
--Patrik_Aka_RedX
There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 17:02, after a long battle with technology,
Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> From: Bryan O'Neal
>> How about you guys? Any one know of a live CD I can use to make a
>> few recordings or just to test my capture card without "installing"
>> on my SATA MS MCP box?
> For that matter an
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 15:35, after a long battle with technology, Lynn
David Newton wrote:
>der.hans wrote:
>> in GUI editors one can start copying with the mouse and move either
>> down or up and the editor will scroll allowing one to continue
>> copying. Anyone know how to turn on this 'fea
On Friday 29 June 2007 09:32, after a long battle with technology,
Michael Havens wrote:
> How do you take a screen shot? I thought it was xscreenshot but it
> seems I was wrong.
xwd -out file.xwd
(button-1 click on window you'd like to dump)
convert file.xwd file.png
...use -root to dump the en
Jim wrote:
>Lynn Newton wrote:
>> But I'm sure there are a number of subscribers to this list
>> who can one-up me with "I remember when" stories, by margins
>> of several years at least.
> I don't know if this would be in the one up category, but I remember
> being a high school freshman in 1981
Recent discussion on this mailing list (as well as scuttlebutt from
cow-orkers) has made it obvious that Cox is a terrible choice as far as
ISPs go. So, how does Qwest stack up? Obviously, they use PPPoE, but
that's not a huge deal so long as all it requires is editing rp-pppoe's
config file
On Monday 02 July 2007 15:32, after a long battle with technology, Mike
Schwartz wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Matt Graham wrote:
>> [...] how does Qwest stack up? There was nothing in their FAQ about
>> NNTP/newsgroups/Usenet, which probably means I'll have to obtain
On Monday 02 July 2007 17:21, after a long battle with technology,
Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:48:52PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
>> Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote:
>>> What programmers like to call bugs are defects - defects in
>>> workmanship - defects in quality.
>> Why do you
On Monday 02 July 2007 16:55, after a long battle with technology, Jim
wrote:
> Mark Jarvis wrote:
>> Matt Graham wrote:
>>> Can any Qwest users confirm or deny that they have or don't have an
>>> NNTP server?
>> When we had "Qworst" phone servi
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 09:53, after a long battle with technology,
KevinO wrote:
> Two superior (than Qworst) solutions, if you can get DSL:
> Deru: http://deru.net/
> FastQ: http://fastq.com/
>
> Both great local companies with a long history of excellent service
> and no BS.
You mean there are
Michael Havens:
> I have a keyboard that has a touchpad built into it. I spilled some water
onto
> the touch pad and it no longer works. Any suggestions?
> It appears the water got onto the circuit board.
If the keyboard was powered on while this happened, you may be PWN3D. I did
this
a few year
Michael Havens:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 2:42 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
>> Mike Schwartz... His come through in outrageously small print that gets
>> bigger on each line.
> I still only see one size.
It's a question of whether your MUA is set to display the text portion of a
message in preferenc
Cat Chapman:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:58 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
>> I'll let it sit a week THEN I'll take it somewhere. Where would you
suggest?
>> If I take it in I'll also have them clean the keys. The tops of them are
fine
>> but the sides look gross. Or else how do I put them back
On Thursday 05 July 2007 10:27, after a long battle with technology,
Shawn Badger wrote:
> how do you kill something when kill -9 doesn't work?
You don't, generally. SIGKILL will kill anything that isn't waiting on
a syscall to return. If something is waiting on a syscall to return
for more
On Thursday 05 July 2007 19:22, after a long battle with technology,
Harold Michels wrote:
> I want to be able to access my extra hard drive partitions as [a] user
> so I can back things up, or whatever else I want to [do].
Set the permissions on these partitions appropriately, then, so that the
From: Dazed_75 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The key is not having any electrical source connected while doing this,
> being very sure to avoid any residue (hence the distilled water), and a
> THOROUGH drying.
Aye. Worked for me, worked for other people on the list.
> Remember that pure water is basicly
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 11:21, after a long battle with technology, Mike
Garfias wrote:
> You don't need to run a chroot jail to run 32bit apps. install the
> ia32-libs and it'll work with minimal issues.
Note that wmctrl didn't work a few months ago if you tried to compile a
64-bit wmctrl and
On Monday 16 July 2007 01:25, after a long battle with technology, Jerry
Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:14, Jerry Davis wrote:
>> System B does an nfs mount of A:/data on say /mnt/A .
>> Now lets say that I am running out of partition space on A:/data
>> So I add more disk space on anoth
On Monday 16 July 2007 14:11, after a long battle with technology, Jim
wrote:
> Ok, I think I am ready to go with Cox cable.
Hm. A deru.com user who wants Cox instead? Oh well, if you don't mind
only being able to use Cox's outgoing SMTP server on port 25, and you
don't mind not being able to
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:30, after a long battle with technology,
Shawn Badger wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Michael Sammartano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since when?? I have been running sshd on many boxes at home for
> > many years. As far as SMTP service on port 25 and other providers,
> > just se
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:53, after a long battle with technology,
Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:26:59AM -0700, Shawn Badger wrote:
> > BTW, what / who is "PHB"?
> Pointy-Headed Boss (Dilbert)
I thought it was "Pointy-Haired", since the cartoon character has pointy
hair.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:25, after a long battle with technology,
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0
> I don't want my lines automatically wrapped. I don't want it to
> scroll on long lines.
> :set nowrap
> :set sidescroll=0
>
> But once I started appending text to a long line, it
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:27, after a long battle with technology,
Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Jon M. Hanson wrote:
[snippage]
> > When I had Qwest's VDSL service in Gilbert, Arizona incoming port
> > 80 was definitely blocked. Also, the IP address I had showed up in
> > dynamic lists (because it is dy
On Monday 23 July 2007 15:28, after a long battle with technology, Shawn
Badger wrote:
> Based on what the article was saying it looks like PLUG is doing very
> well and has stuck to what works. Most of the LUGs they talked to
> have become more of a [Stammtisch?] type meeting and left it at
> tha
On Monday 23 July 2007 22:10, after a long battle with technology,
Michael Havens wrote:
> I got a memory card for the digital camera and I got a memory card
> reader so I can put files onto the memory card aside from pictures.
> How do I activate it? It is not showing up in media nor does it seem
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 17:44, after a long battle with technology,
der.hans wrote:
> Am 24. Jul, 2007 hawn Badger wrote:
>> The only time I have ever heard of [losing] more than one disk in a
>> day has been due to some type of power surge that usually fried the
>> server [as] well.
> Ah, but a
From: Carlton Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I went there asking for help for installing a raid on my new pc, using
> Ubuntu Server. JT helped me configure it and got me going. I left the
> group and setup the pc to finish running the hard drive sync. It
> completed in about two hours.
>
> JT tol
Carlton Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> softRAID doesn't mirror the bootloader. dd the first 62 sectors of
>> sda to sdb, and then if sda falls over, you can set sdb as the first
>> boot device in the BIOS, and then you'll be able to boot from sdb.
> [Since I am] somewhat new, can you explain the
Mike Bydalek:
> mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test
Not quite. If FJALL belongs to an NT domain, you also need the workgroup=
parameter. Set that to the name of the NT domain. For some reason, a lot
of people forget this. Just groups.google the "workgroup=
From: "Mike Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 7/30/07, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, the syntax for dd is a bit weird. This is because of Hysterical
> > Raisins, AFAICT.
> from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility&
David Bendit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:42 AM, George Toft wrote:
>>> Eben realized that the GUI was the death of language. The
>>> "caveman interface", he called it, since it reduced the
>>> user to pointing and grunting.
To be fair, modern mice allow the caveman to make 5 or
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 09:37, after a long battle with technology,
Dan Lund wrote:
> Ted Gould wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:10 -0700, der.hans wrote:
>>> http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/demos/photos.svg
>>> That works for me as drag-n-drag and rotate.
>> That is a pretty cool link.
On Friday 03 August 2007 10:16, after a long battle with technology,
Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> I am looking for a handheld scanner that works in linux. I have a
> catalog system with barcodes and I want to be able to scan the
> barcode and have the computer read the number associated with it.
> Does
On Friday 03 August 2007 14:43, after a long battle with technology,
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> der.hans spake thusly on 208112408 ::
> > Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
Technically, it's not less, but lesspipe.sh. This bit me once on a
system where LESSOPEN ha
On Friday 03 August 2007 14:35, after a long battle with technology,
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> I may have found someone to help me out. Provided we can coordinate
> our schedules.
Yes. Next week... Monday probably won't work. Tuesday or Wednesday
evening, though, should work OK. There
Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Randy Melder wrote:
>> Sounds like Kurt would be better off with Windows...
>> Whooops! Did I say that?!?
> Kurt may be too modest so I'll post this for him
> http://people.kde.org/kurt.html
Another Yooper in the desert! Who would've thunk it, eh?
(I know MTU
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 13:10, after a long battle with technology,
Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> Do any of you use iTunes? How do you deal with it on linux or what do
> you do?
No. However, gtkpod works very well when dealing with mp3 files,
playlists, and junk on every type of iPod I've had access
On Friday 10 August 2007 09:46, after a long battle with technology,
Daniel P. Stasinski wrote:
> In essence, it is similar to people fleeing California (because
> California sucks?) to come to Arizona, and then they go about trying
> to create the very thing they left by proposing laws, planting
On Thursday 16 August 2007 22:45, after a long battle with technology,
Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:51 -0700, JT Moree wrote:
> > Ted Gould wrote:
> > > In my experience don't question why you need to know this magic
> > > keyword to KDE people, they are unable to talk rationally ab
On Friday 17 August 2007 12:18, after a long battle with technology,
Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> I would like to ask the list if there is anyone that lives near
> Ray/Cooper who would be willing to help me learn about GNU/Linux ( I
> am starting with the two distros in the subject). I would be willin
On Monday 20 August 2007 11:18, after a long battle with technology,
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> There are ways to legally structure such a deal so that this asset
> would be unequivocally under the control of an assignee. What I find
> interesting is how few people realize that this is an option.
From: Dazed_75 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Update: I moved the file to my laptop and find it plays just fine using the
> default "Movie Player" which does not work on the desktop. Both are
running
> Ubuntu 7.04 although it was installed clean from a CD a few months back.
> The desktop machine was upgrad
On Monday 27 August 2007, after a long battle with technology, Tuna
wrote:
> Um... I added memory to my laptop the day before yesterday, and that
> just kind of worked. I just popped it in and it worked.
The old "mem=" kernel parameter became unnecessary with the 2.4 series.
Unless there's some
After a long battle with technology, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> GNUCash does not export to CSV?!?! CSV is the common denominator in the
> accounting world and can be formatted to be imported into just about any
> other app.
GNUcash's native data format is a semi-complex XML structure. While it would
After a long battle with technology, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Notice the change in my /home directory from available 2.5G
> > to 1.4G and back to 2.5G after rebooting again.
> That's commonly the sign of files being deleted but still existing because
> [a] running process has them open. lsof can
After a long battle with technology, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> I just acquired a new keyboard and its got some nice fancy keys on it,
> volume control and whatnot. How to I configure these to work in KDE?
> Its also got a bunch of extra buttons like back,forward,refresh,stop
> mail,mycomputer,home and
After a long battle with technology, Josh Coffman wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:00 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to make compiz or beryl work
>>> with fast user switching?
Or if there's a way to make comp
From: "David Munson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Short version:
> Anyone know of a good Linux book for brand-new users?
> I prefer my references in dead tree format
You can't grep dead trees. That said, if you really want
a dead tree thing, and the "go to website, print out a
bunch of stuff" things tha
After a long battle with technology, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I have come to the point I would like to set up something to watch
> incoming emails[,] pick out key words[,] and forward them on to known
> parties and to email addresses taken from the incoming email.
Keywords where? In the Subject:, o
After a long battle with technology, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:41:18AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > http://www.newsforge.net/feature/119049
> The more important issue is if/how specs are released. If good (real)
> specs are released, then there are enough people out there ca
After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote:
> I'd like to be able to draw on my screen, have that show on the projected
> screen and have the option to save that annotated slide for myself.
>- Is there a Linux (or Linux utility) that lets the user use a tablet
>PC in that manner?
After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The compiz "Annotate" and "Screenshot" plugins provide a way to do this
>> *if* you're running compiz-fusion. Default keybindings:
>&g
From: Harold Michels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have successfully edited the config.php file to enable passwords on
> the site for admin, reading, and editing. [But:]
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in
> /home/content/k/o/d/user/html/pmwiki/local/config.php on line 151
> The first time I e
After a long battle with technology, Harold Michels wrote:
> You made me realize that the last uncommented line was the one I added a
> hundred lines earlier.
> I do not know what the syntax for the configuration files is, but it
> seems to need a semicolon to end the statement or it merrily goes o
After a long battle with technology, JD Austin wrote:
> Cary Mabe wrote:
>> I've been having no luck at all burning an audio cd (any kind of CD,
>> really) with the linux system. I don't think that it is any problem with
>> any of the cd writing tools I'm using (I've tried several) I think the
After a long battle with technology, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> Derek Neighbors wrote:
> > On 9/17/07, der.hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> The Avondale location will likely move next month as they started
> >> hosting an open mic night the same night.
> > I think they should recite Free Software
After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote:
> Has everyone seen the new "EEE" super-portable laptop recently
> announced by ASUS? At only $199, this should shake up the computer world as
> it will be exclusively LINUX with built in wireless and pre-installed
> Firefox and the complete
After a long battle with technology, Brandon Duncan wrote:
> I've been told that DHCP can be tricky to setup and get configured. What
> are some problems I can run into? Are there problems I can run into? What
> causes these problems? How would I fix them?
It's reasonably easy if you're doing simp
After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> CentOS is wanting to install the /boot partition on a primary partition
> and the rest of the partitions on an LVM partition.
Yep. If it were possible to have /boot on LVM, it's probably want to do that
too.
> fdisk -l then only lists two p
After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> Am 21. Sep, 2007 schwzte Craig White so:
> > suit yourself - bear in mind that Red Hat really really likes to use
> > 'File system labels' for mounting (as you noted in /etc/fstab) and
> > therefore, when you manually partition, make sure you u
After a long battle with technology, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > it seems pretty absurd because the whole point of exchanging mail is to
> > use well-known services.
> Yes, it is absurd. The whole situation, were I to tell the entire
> story, is absurd. But, I'm not the IT departm
After a long battle with technology, betty wrote:
> I just moved my linux (RH9) HDD from my old computer and VOILA! it worked
> right away.
Redhat 9's been EOLed for years. It's time to upgrade to something that's not
EOLed and is easier to maintain.
> Now i am going to have still a different
After a long battle with technology, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Mike Garfias wrote:
> > I've been using AFP instead of NFS.
> AFP/Netatalk is also a good choice but it doesn't come with most
> distros AFAICT.
It doesn't? How weird. It's available in Debian and Gentoo, an
From: Eric Shubert
> Has anyone here implemented any clusters?
I've only set one up, but I maintain the ones that my predecessors
set up. It's not rocket science.
> Is any particular distro better or worse at clustering?
Not really. Every distro has heartbeat/DRBD/LVS available.
> Any point
From: Dazed_75
> The issue
Why do people call problems "issues"? I've never seen a coherent
explanation for that.
> I tried to burn a slackware .iso to a dvd in a usual manner and
> after a short time, the Fujifilm DVD+R was ejected wih an error.
Using a frontend to growisofs, I see. Never he
From: Alan Dayley
> History in general is vastly important, despite how it is treated in
> most schools.
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant,
which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly
fools. --Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
> An i
> From: Mark Philips
>> I send an email to someone and get an out of office response. I would
>> like to schedule resending my email when the person is back in the
>> office, particularly when he/she will be out of the office for
>> several days or weeks.
From: "Bob Elzer"
> To me this sounds like
From: Dazed_75
[cheese snippage]
>> Thanks for the info Ted! Sorry I misunderstod.
> So, back to the drawing board. Lordy I do hate silent failures.
> Unfortunately, it is all too common to not convey any useful
> information to the poor user!
strace and strace -ff can be your friends if the p
From: Alex Dean
> 09:24:29 ata3.00: status: { Busy }
> 09:24:29 ata3.00: error: { ICRC UNC IDNF }
> 09:24:29 ata3: hard resetting link
> 09:24:35 ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps
> 09:24:35 ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
> Jul 14 09:24:35 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 58604927
This
From: Dazed_75
> Matt Graham wrote:
>> strace and strace -ff can be your friends if the process
>> that's failing silently is dying because of a missing file,
>> or a file that's not where it's supposed to be.
>> The main problem is that this appr
From: tship...@deru.com
> I was very happy with Kmail for a long time. However, Kmail stores
> messages in its own format, so if you ever want to change clients
> its extra hassle.
I use kmail, mostly because it's really customizable. And the main
feature of evolution, the ability to get mail fr
From: Alan Dayley
[snip]
> http://gangplankhq.com - A co-working space and group of tech
> companies that sponsor lots of events. Great place to meet other
> developers. Channel 3 had a segment about Gangplank on the news
> Wednesday night. It gives a good flavor of what the place is about:
> h
From: Michael Butash
> Meh, I've had too many ati cards die and freak out my systems,
> which is what drove me to NV. I haven't had one NV die, but
> obviously comes with other issues...
The problem may not be with the nVidia card, but with the Ubuntu
kernel itself. Debian and Debian-derived di
From: Eric Shubert
> IIRC, ext3 has a limit of 32k or so files in a folder.
Not quite. There is a hard upper limit of 32768 subdirectories in a
directory. If you're using a hashed dir index (which has been the
default for a long time), you can have 100,000 to 1,000,000 files in
one directory wi
From: Trent Shipley
> I have an HP LaserJet.
Model#? They only made about 300 different models of those things.
It's probably not important here, but may be later.
> The three Macs find it and print to it, when I boot my Mac into
> windows it prints fine. Unfortunately the Ubuntu 9.04.x box can
From: Mark Phillips
> laptop (P4)/Debian testing machine does not have a built-in webcam,
> so I am looking for some recommendations for webcams that work with
> Debian and Skype out of the box.
FWIW, the the Logitech webcam I bought from Fried Hardware for $50
works perfectly with Skype with any
From: Mark Phillips
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>> FWIW, the the Logitech webcam I bought from Fried Hardware for $50
>> works perfectly with Skype with any kernel recent enough to have the
>> uvcvideo module. Teh Almighty Google says it was a Qu
After a long battle with technology, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> OK, I have a system that had XP on it; I loaded Ubuntu on it in the
> dual-boot method, and now, when I boot the system, I can't move the
> selection to start it in XP...it is set on Ubuntu, and that's it..
>
> What am I missing? I just
After a long battle with technology, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 23:06 -0700, unixprgrm...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Ability to influence in a matrix environment
That's a bit of a red flag there. The only experience I've had with "matrix
management" went like this: http://crow202.
> Bob Elzer wrote:
>> The best way to upgrade an OS is to do a fresh install.
How extraordinarily annoying. I have installed Gentoo once on my
laptop, when I got it, 3 years ago, and have kept it up to date with
the portage system. In most cases, that approach Just Works from
what I can see. I'
From: Nadim Hoque
> Josef Lowder wrote:
>> 3. Failure to totally eliminate the "caps-lock" key
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM SHOUTHING???!!1! No, lots of people like to
type in all caps, so they retain this. Like the QWERTY keyboard
itself, it's a Panda's Thumb of technology.
>> 4. The absolutely ridicu
From: Trent Shipley
> I actually doubt many people are really competent at managing a LAMP
> stack all by themselves.
? I have several co-workers who can do that. Heck, I can do that,
for the most part, though the more weird corners of Apache configs
make me need to RTFM because they don't come
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:49 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
>> Now the partition table of the mirrored 1TB drives still only has
>> partitions to use up to the old 250GBs.
>> # fdisk -l
>> Disk /dev/sda: 248.9 GB
>> Am I on the right track, to use "parted" and expand the partition
>> definition before
From: Michael Butash
>> Or just fdisk the thing, expand the last partition and reboot. No
>> need to make things more complex than necessary.
> That's the thing, I don't think that'll work.
Which is why I wrote (in the part you failed to quote):
---
Use fdisk to make it larger, reboot, the
From: Josef Lowder
> Recently, I found a way to put my IBM Thinkpad T40 running PCLinuxOS
> to sleep rather than turning it off by using: apm -s
APM has been deprecated for years and years. I'm surprised that
worked at all. You're supposed to do
echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
...or something
From: Eric Shubert
> Josef Lowder wrote:
>> Wireless works "out of the box" with the built-in wireless card
>> (without needing an ndsi wrapper) ... display works at the optimum
>> resolution ... dvd burner works ... usb ports work ... built in web
>> cam works... everything works ***without*** re
From: GK
> Try ddrescue since the partition wasn't journalized you have a
> higher margin of success in recovering it.
What? ddrescue is for getting around problems with failing hardware,
not for undeleting files on an ext2fs. It won't help with the OP's
problem unless they've significantly cha
From: "Bob Elzer"
> If you needed to and another partition, then you had some poor
> planning.
Or your situation has changed. What if you want to install another
distro on the bare metal? Installing $DISTRO in a VM will tell you
a lot, but it won't tell you how well $DISTRO deals with real
gra
From: Kirk Bauer
> I'm thinking about picking up the Lenovo W700: anybody have any
> experience with Linux on this laptop? I was thinking about Ubuntu
http://www.tesuji.org/thinkpad_w700.html was the only hit on
tuxmobil.org for that laptop. Looks like most stuff works.
> Specifically, the vid
From: Paul Mooring
> This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match
> everything up to a character not including that character with regex?
> For example:
> per...@email.tld => person
> m...@here.com => me
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$a="pers...@mail.com";
$a=~m/^(.*)\@/;
$b=$1;
print "a=
From: "Bob Elzer"
> We we're talking about fire destroying servers a while back.
> Well check out this video from a datacenter in Istanbul.
> http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1555252
/me digs through old archive:
Rob Adams in ASR May 15 2002:
>> "during the Katherine Floods of Au
From: Lisa Kachold
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>> and it still beeps.
It's a crapshoot whether there's a volume control on the old speaker
on some machines. If you know you're not going to use the old
speaker support, you can just rmmod the pcspkr module and then
move
After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Alex Dean wrote:
>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:28 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>> ifserver kernel: [9.611230] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to
>>> eth1
>>>I assume that it was originally known as eth0. But when a
After a long battle with technology, mike Enriquez wrote:
> Does anyone have a good recommendation for data recovery software to
> recover data on dead systems but where the hard drive is still working?
Your question is not well-defined. What did you mean? If the disk is still
working, but the
From: Josef Lowder
> Is there a digital sticky notes utility for Linux?
>
> Ideally, it should allow quickly typing a short note on the command
> line to be displayed as a *very small* note (about 2" wide by 1" tall)
> in a pre-defined spot on one of the multiple desktop/workspaces ...
> with no
> name=`dcop knotes KNotesIface newNote "title" "new note contents"`
> dcop knotes KNotesIface resize $name WIDTH HEIGHT
> dcop knotes KNotesIface showNote $name
> (moving it to a specific virtual desktop probably requires using
> wmctrl, but that's pretty easy.)
Gah. What I think you want is mor
From: Wayne Davis
>>> Kubuntu 8.04.2
>>> This happens fairly frequently and the only thing (I) know to do
>>> is a reboot. Is there a way to re-init the sound system without
>>> rebooting? Any idea WHY this is happening?
> Pulseaudio is not in use on this system.
> I wonder if "alsa resume" is wha
From: Josef Lowder
> I don't know the difference between "virtual dedicated" and regular
> web hosting, but I recently switched my web hosting to BlueHost.com
> and it has been excellent. unlimited *everything* band-width, file
> space, etc. for $142 for 3 years.
This sounds fishy. Look in the
From: Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com>
> two WD 320gig IDE drives but oops, I only have a "caddy" (little
> metal tray) for one drive. I can get another but it'll be here in
> two weeks. I put one brand new drive in the one caddy I have
> available, load Linux (say, Ubuntu Karmic beta), get it a
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