Re: Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 03/22/2007 11:41 AM, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/22/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um. I tried a couple of things and just managed to mangle up my shell windows with lines-and-boxes font characters. Sounds like you ended up with binary output on a terminal. To un-fsck the terminal

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-23 Thread Star
On 3/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I admit it! I have no idea what you're talking about! I use Xnest. And I have problems with Xnest, too. But what problems are you having? Maybe you can give an example of one situation which is causing problems for you...

[GNHLUG] MythTV InstallFest - March 31st, NHTI, Concord, New Hampshire

2007-03-23 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
What : MythTV Installation Assistance Where: New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord, NH Day : Saturday 31 March 2007 Time : 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM - Introduction - GNHLUG, in conjunction with NHTI, is pleased to announce the second MythTV InstallFest! Do you want to be able to watch

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Charron
On 3/22/07, Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this one has finally beaten me... any thoughts? And no, Tom, i will not switch to KDE ;-) You need to switch to kd. Oh... GDI! -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

2007-03-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
This also often works: stty sane ...and FYI if you've thoroughly confused the xterm you'll need to hit ^M instead of the Enter key to get it executed. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

2007-03-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 11:53 -0400, quoth Michael ODonnell: =This also often works: = = stty sane = =...and FYI if you've thoroughly confused the xterm you'll need to hit ^M =instead of the Enter key to get it executed. or ^J ;-) -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana.

FYI: spamconf '07

2007-03-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
I've been to this for the last few years and it's always fun and informative. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-23 Thread Ted Roche
On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Recently I was working on a project, and I ran across this article: [Warning: Explicative language involved] Big fan and daily reader of both Tim Bray and Hugh McLeod's Gaping Void - warning, some language there not appropriate for

Re: Simply Amazing and Head Slappers

2007-03-23 Thread Ted Roche
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: I want to thank all the people that sent me email on the F***king Cool email, and anyone that is inspired to send more, it is certainly welcome. Now what I would like to concentrate on is more of the line of Wow, I (or my boss) would really like to see that at

Re: Simply Amazing and Head Slappers

2007-03-23 Thread Python
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, John Abreau wrote: On 3/22/07, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. But if it is like dirvish, one changed record means a whole new mysql.sql in the daily snapshot directory. rdiff would presumably store a delta saving space and allowing finer grained

Re: Simply Amazing and Head Slappers

2007-03-23 Thread Bruce Dawson
Ted Roche wrote: Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: I want to thank all the people that sent me email on the F***king Cool email, and anyone that is inspired to send more, it is certainly welcome. Now what I would like to concentrate on is more of the line of Wow, I (or my boss) would really like to

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-23 Thread Don Leslie
[SHIFT]+[PAGE UP] This does not work . On the boot messages . I get : IP routing cache ... TCP: Hash table ... NET4: Unix domain sockets ... then ds: no socket drivers on the working boot at this point I get RAMDISK compressed image found at block 0

Re: Simply Amazing and Head Slappers

2007-03-23 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I saw not-so-great TWiki performance on a decent box, even... phpwiki ran much much faster with less CPU load. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-23 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:47:40AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Sacha Chua (Cc'ed on this e-mail) who's since become a good friend of mine, introduced me to my current PDA/PIM device of choice: The Hipster PDA. When they make a version that includes alarm functionality for repeating events and

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-23 Thread Don Leslie
Thomas Charron wrote: On 3/22/07, Don Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a RHEL3 system which boots from scsi disk . # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that #

a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Jerry
Hi, The manual of grep command on Red Hat states that: -R, -r, --recursive read all files in each directory, recursively, this is equivalent to -d recurse option --*include*=PATTERN recurse in directories only searching file matching PATTERN --exclude=PATTERN

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Jerry
Scott, Thank you for your solution. But it didn't work on system. :-( Also, doesn't Grep stand for global regular expression print? Zhao On 3/23/07, Scott A. Valcourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zhao- Grep stands for global replace, though it is most often used as a global find of a text

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry writes: Find out all plain text files whose file names contain out and whose contents containing zip (in the form of whole word), and then output these files names to a file called zip.txt. (These plain text files are located in the sub-directories at different levels) Here is how I

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-23 Thread Don Leslie
Thomas Charron wrote: But is that where the files are physically located? in / vs /boot? /boot is on /dev/sda1 original grub entry root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.4.21-27-mpt_scsi ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi I tried kernel /vmlinux-2.4.21-27-mpt_scsi ro root=LABEL=/dev/sda1 hda=ide-scsi

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 15:41 -0400, quoth Jerry: =The manual of grep command on Red Hat states that: = =-R, -r, --recursive =read all files in each directory, recursively, this is =equivalent to -d recurse option = = --*include*=PATTERN recurse in directories only

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 16:33 -0400, quoth Jerry: =Also, doesn't Grep stand for global regular expression print? General Regular Expression Processor -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-23 Thread Don Leslie
Thomas Charron wrote: You're misunderstanding what I'm asking. Is the initrd that works IN the root of the drive, in /, or is it in /boot? On 3/23/07, Don Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: But is that where the files are physically located? in / vs /boot? /boot is on

[GNHLUG] CentraLUG_: APril 2nd: Bill Stearns presents Logical Volume Management

2007-03-23 Thread Ted Roche
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus starting at 7 PM. This month, we'll be meeting in our usual location, Room 146 of the

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Charron
You're misunderstanding what I'm asking. Is the initrd that works IN the root of the drive, in /, or is it in /boot? On 3/23/07, Don Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: But is that where the files are physically located? in / vs /boot? /boot is on /dev/sda1 original

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Python
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:41 -0400, Jerry wrote: Hi, The manual of grep command on Red Hat states that: -R, -r, --recursive read all files in each directory, recursively, this is equivalent to -d recurse option --include=PATTERN recurse in directories only

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Shawn K. O'Shea
because my usage/understanding of --include option is wrong. grep -Hwli -r --include=out zip * zip.txt grep -Hwli --include=out zip * zip.txt It seems to be more of a glob pattern. I played around a little on one of my boxes and I believe something more like --include=*out* for the

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Charron
On 3/23/07, Don Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: On 3/22/07, Don Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a RHEL3 system which boots from scsi disk . # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file #

Re: Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To un-fsck the terminal emulator, issue the command: reset I always had this thing about running a command called 'reset', especially if I was root at the time. reset is pretty safe. Now, killall, on the other hand... per the man

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/07, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the --include or --exclude option, what is file matching PATTERN supposed to mean? Typically, it's a shell glob. My testing appears to confirm that. I supposed it means file name match PATTERN, not file content match patten, am I right?

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 23 Mar 2007 17:01:40 -0400, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is how I would do this: find your-dirname1 your-dirname2 -name \*out\* \ -exec perl -e 'undef $/; $filename=$ARGV[0]; $_=; exit(!(-T $filename /\bzip\b/))' \{\}

Urpmi and friends [Was: Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt]

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:05:28 -0400 Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:06 pm, Steven W. Orr wrote: I need to see the list of files in an uninstalled package. The rpm equiv would be rpm -qpl foo.rpm Anyone know how to do this? Is there anything?

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread mike ledoux
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:12:04PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 16:33 -0400, quoth Jerry: =Also, doesn't Grep stand for global regular expression print? General Regular Expression Processor Jerry is correct. The name grep comes from the ed command g/regex/p:

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:21:43 -0400 Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or are you looking for things that don't exist yet (or I/we're not aware of)? A little of both. FOSS products and services (commercial or non-commercial) that exist today that just do something great. Or

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:31:53 -0400 Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, it all works fine, just not the mouse. The mouse cursor appears to track but clicking any of the buttons has no effect unless I click like a bug-mad monkey. If I repeatedly click, eventually the xnest window will

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-23 Thread aluminumsulfate
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:31:53 -0400 From: Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, it all works fine, just not the mouse. The mouse cursor appears to track but clicking any of the buttons has no effect unless I click like a bug-mad monkey. If I repeatedly click,

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: Holy crap! Where's Perl's oft-decried extreme conciseness? ;-) From my perspective, I deal with unix-flavored systems all the time with feature-lacking grep implementations. As recently as three weeks ago, I was working on a system without any fancy GNU grep. This

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Here is another copy of my favorite shell functions, since I kindof sent out garbled versions the first time. I hope others find these to be useful. --kevin # txtfind, dostxtfind, and binfind all use Perl's -B and -T file # test operations. # # Here are some relevant sections from the