Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-11 Thread Ben Breslauer
Ken Heard wrote: 1. On the P3 desktop only, the panel displays the taskbar three times. Once is surely enough. I tried to fix it by purging KDE and reinstalling it, to no avail. Any ideas on what I can do to remove this redundancy? Right-click on the panel, move your mouse over Remove

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Breslauer
Oleg Verych wrote: 30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight savings time in the US? Which branch are you running? I'm sure, but that seem to be an e-mail with some kind of virus. Assuming

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Ben Breslauer
Justin Gallardo wrote: Hey All, I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good source of information. ... Also, if you can think of any

Re: iTunes Linux (Debian)

2006-12-26 Thread Ben Breslauer
Baz wrote: So, it appears the only way to play music purchased from Apple (mp4 audio files) on Linux is to burn a CD, then rip them - or, use CrossOver Office. Yes? I haven't purchased any music from Apple, but you should be able to play mp4 files with MPlayer. If Apple uses DRM, which I'm

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ben Breslauer
Nate Bargmann wrote: I have a directory of files that are created daily using filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz to filename-20061203.tar.gz and so on. Based on the date in the filename,

Re: mouse freaks out

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Breslauer
Jason Dunsmore wrote: My Logitech usb mouse (model M-BT96a) has a tendancy to freak out a couple of times per hour. When this happens, the mouse cursor suddenly goes to one of the screen corners. When I try to reorient myself by moving the mouse to see where it went, the mouse moves rapidly

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-21 Thread Ben Breslauer
Chris wrote: Hello, How can I list all hidden files or directories with ls? ls .* does not give the desired result. Id like to archive all the hidden files in my home folder. Thanks, Chris ls -a | grep ^[.] This will, however, still give you the . and .. directories. --Ben -- To

Re: ls sort order again

2006-10-16 Thread Ben Breslauer
T wrote: Hi I am using Debian testing, I read that the ls is able to sort alphabetically, but mixes uppercase and lowercase together i.e. 'Pearl' comes before 'pearl' but after 'otter'. otter Pearl pearl I want that behavior. How can I do that, instead of the traditional order? I'm using

Re: SQL insert dupe prevention problem

2006-09-23 Thread Ben Breslauer
Dirk wrote: I have a SQL problem INSERT INTO table (a, b, c, d, e, f) VALUES ( 72fa545b9cc60c3b0af851c155128a9d, a, b, c, 1158935640, f ) IF NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM table WHERE ( table.a = 72fa545b9cc60c3b0af851c155128a9d ) ) ; what I'm doing wrong? I want to check table.a to prevent

Re: Wierd script treatment of asterisk in a line

2006-09-02 Thread Ben Breslauer
Quoting the echo should do it: --script.sh--- !/bin/bash while read LINE; do echo $LINE done -- --Ben José Alburquerque wrote: Hello list! I've got a simple shell question that I can't figure out. I wrote a simple 3 line bash script