Re: Kevin D. Clark, R.I.P.

2018-08-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 08/23/2018 02:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 08/22/2018 02:46 PM, Jim Sheldon wrote: >> I worked with Kevin for a short time about 10 years ago, this is very >> sad, he was a great person. > Seconded. > > The obituary for the more general audience doesn't necessarily do justice, >

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: Hi folks, I just had to replace my backup drive for my main development system here at the house and I replaced it with a 2 TB WD network drive. Now that all my systems can see it, I'd like to do reasonable backups for all the systems,

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue 14 Feb 2012 05:06:24 PM EST, Alan Johnson wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info mailto:step...@sryanfamily.info wrote: On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: I don't want to take a lot of time studying the problem or fiddling

Re: Gah! (Also known as: anyone able to connect to Exchange 2010?)

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Ryan
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Re: Thinkpad repair?

2011-10-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 10/14/2011 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm hoping

Re: Nokia N900

2010-05-13 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 13:46 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: My N810 takes 15 minutes+ to lock on to the GPS satellites, and usually takes a lot longer than that (a couple of hours, which is the same thing as useless IMO). I don't bother to use

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-30 Thread Stephen Ryan
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Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Ryan
close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB, SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++, assembler, shell} code would be so much better. -- Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:03 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of both MySql and PHP. -- Paul - who

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread Stephen Ryan
, say... Linux? Thanks! -Ken World of Goo, from 2dboy. It's commercial, but reasonably priced ($20) and no DRM, and my 3 year-old loves it. I originally bought it for myself, but he'll play it for hours at a time if we let him. -- Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

2009-11-18 Thread Stephen Ryan
systems out there. I wouldn't know, as I've never actually seen one (that might be because anybody who actually has one wouldn't let the likes of me near it!) -- Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

OT: CMOS batteries and thanks

2009-08-29 Thread Stephen Ryan
last time with a new battery. Success! -- Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Linux-compatible scanner with ADF

2009-06-05 Thread Stephen Ryan
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RE: How many laptops to a wireless AP?

2009-02-28 Thread Stephen Ryan
performance to no more than that. -- Stephen Ryan Software Developer, Dartware, LLC ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Rodents (mice)

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen Ryan
buried or lost on another desktop. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one? I found the configure-index file which gives an example for apt.conf. You probably have /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, which is a directory full

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:35 -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one? I found the configure-index file which gives an example for apt.conf

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! Does Update Manager use apt? Do I need to do something for it? Yes it does, and no, you shouldn't have to do anything else for it. apt-get, aptitude, synaptic and update-manager should all use the same

Re: portable music players

2008-10-03 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:04 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could get an iPod and install RockBox on it. http://www.rockbox.org/ I played with it a few years ago and was actually impressed. I thought it was going to be

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:38 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: Arc Riley wrote: Ubuntu uses the same package manager as Debian (apt) and draws many of it's packages from Debian SID, however it is very much not Debian. Using Debian packages as a base allows Ubuntu to build on work already

Re: Booting NOT-Windows

2008-08-21 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 08:16 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 20:13, Bill McGonigle wrote: So, one thing I like to do is to create a disk image of the damaged disk before trying anything else. That way you can go back if 'recovery' attempts do more damage than

Re: [GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Administrator in a Box - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 8-07

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Ryan
1.5 again :-) On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:51 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: [ please RSVP ASAP if you haven't as Heidi will be making treats and we need a count ] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Ryan
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Re: Stupid FF 3 question

2008-06-18 Thread Stephen Ryan
both firefox 2 and 3 installed, but 3 is the default; the firefox-2 package installs a binary in /usr/bin/firefox-2; the firefox-3.0 package has both /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/firefox-3.0, so it may be that you have to invoke it as firefox-3.0 to make it work. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC

RE: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-13 Thread Stephen Ryan
I looked up the drivers for this last night, because Arc seems so positive that these cards are fully supported, and because the card in my laptop, a FireGL V5250, is basically a Radeon X1600 with some tweaks, so I'd be really happy to get full functionality out of it. What I found is a

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-11 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:07 -0400, Arc Riley wrote: I'm trying to understand why a majority of people on this list find it acceptable to /recommend/ hardware only supported by proprietary drivers You actually did a remarkably good job of explaining it yourself: nVidia 3d acceleration is only

Re: ThinkPad Pointers

2008-01-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:19 -0500, TARogue wrote: HELP I use ThinkPads for a number of reasons, mostly because I prefer the nipple stylle pointer to the touchpad style. My new ThinkPad (R61) has both. I am *not* a good typist; my wrists stay down all the time. This leads to alot of

Re: Photo gallery sw with tagging?

2007-12-29 Thread Stephen Ryan
in a simple sqlite3 database, which makes it quite easy to get photos matching a specific tag out for use in a shell script or other application. You can also add tags from a script by inserting entries into the sqlite3 database as well. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Stephen Ryan
. If you want to know inside some other application, inotify is the low-level set of kernel functions that will give you more information than you wanted to know. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: which and PATH

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen Ryan
that bash caches the PATH location where it last found each binary; run 'hash -r' to make it clear the cache. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

Re: Getting file sizes

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen Ryan
| tail -1 (That's -(one), not -(ell), meaning, you only want the last line of output from du.) du prints out the sizes of each of the matching files; '-c' means you want a total, too; piping the output through tail -1 picks out just the last line with the total. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC

Re: GOTCHA in Ubuntu - broken shell

2007-10-01 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:30 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: Thank goodness environments have converged a bit. /bin/perl, /bin/bash exist in Solaris, Linux, Cygwin, xBSD and (I think) MacOSX. /bin/bash is present in OSX, but not in the default FreeBSD install or the default DragonFly BSD install.

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Stephen Ryan
the cdrtools from berlios.de and will see if that makes a difference. I just need to be careful about fouling up my fedora 7 stuff. What about going the other way around? Try the GUI CD burner - you should be able to right-click on the .iso and select Write to Disc -- Stephen Ryan

Re: Ubuntu/Debian package question

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:33 -0400, Ed Robbins wrote: I'm new to Ubuntu and haven't had a chance to dig into the Debian package system in detail. I've got a system configured exactly the way I want it and now want to configure a second system with the same packages. Is there a way to dump

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: On 6/15/07, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that gives the IP address of this machine, not the IP address of the router, which, given that it's IP address might change, is quite likely doing address translation before

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
(sorry, meant to send this to the list) On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:42:28 -0400 From: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been using zonedit and a cronjob script to check if my router's IP changed. It's got some old cruft in it.

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 18:38 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her Math

Re: Private in-house domain

2007-05-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 16:47 -0400, Tech Writer wrote: I am trying to create a small domain within my house, strictly for the purpose of getting more familiar with setting up DNS and Sendmail. Before any of my changes, I started with the following configuration: * Linksys router

Re: Private in-house domain

2007-05-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:10 -0400, Tech Writer wrote: Thanks for all of the suggestions, so far. I'm going to look at them more carefully, and see if I can fix this by changing my routing table. Both replies suggested that I change my internal domain to a 192.168.1.x IP range (to match

Re: IPv6 and IPv4 - how to shut off IPv6?

2007-04-02 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 10:19 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: David A. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 20:06 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: The 'search localdomain' doesn't look right to me. What is acting as your DHCP server? I think that's just the default domainname

Re: Name service behind a firewall/NAT router

2007-01-05 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:53 -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: I live in a couple of instances of a private (192.168...) LAN behind a firewall/NAT/router appliance (Linksys, Netgear). There are several machines on each of these LANs, at least one of which is an (almost) always on linux box. We

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-24 Thread Stephen Ryan
That doesn't look much like a crash; it looks more like a cron job. 'logrotate' restarts apache periodically. Is that it? On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:16 -0400, Kjel Anderson wrote: Hey list, I'm trying to debug a problem with Apache2, and I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 13:11 -0400, John Abreau wrote: Fred wrote: Thanks to both you and John. It is definitely using the mbox format. I'll have to switch it to using Maildir, but wonder about converting the mbox to Maildir in the many existing folders across many existing accounts.

Re: Kubuntu on Mac - printers, gnucash

2006-06-28 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:36 -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: A friend of mine has a Mac G4 something or other. She had been running Yellow Dog on it, but we couldn't figure out how to get a new printer working. While reformatting everything anyway, we decided to try kubuntu. ... (sorry, I'm no

Re: Linux on old laptop - still trying...

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Ryan
systems would be a whole lot better. HTH, -- Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Educational Outcomes ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:34 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially frowned on (being plaintext and all). So I'd like to use ssh or scp or what-have-you, but,

Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:44 -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: Well, I finally got around to installing the Wintendo side of the system last night and guess what? DVI works just fine there. I'm thinking more and more that this might be a Twinview issue. The Windows system (well, the Nvidia app

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-31 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 20:35 -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: Paul Lussier wrote: Yes, more or less. Between you and Jason I've been able to come up with exactly what I need. Thanks a lot for all your help. Why I couldn't see this for myself is beyond me. Of course, this week has been

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-31 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 21:00 -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: Stephen Ryan wrote: hostmask = (1 (32 - n)) - 1 netmask = ~ hostmask Doh! That's so obvious, so obviously, I overlooked it. ;) Well, yes, of course :-) 1 (32 - n) in binary is (n-1) '0' bits, a '1', then (32 - n) '0

Re: Compact Flash sector load-balacing?

2006-03-29 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:36 -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote: Well, CF shows up as Just Another IDE Drive (provided it's connected with an IDE adapter... not sure what drivers are used when it's on a USB adapter etc., but I thik even then it doesn't get a special driver. No wear leveling is done

Re: Do-Over a mangled sudo password?

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 11:54 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: Simple question, I expect, but haven't been able to locate the answer. I'm working in an environment where I have to sudo a number of commands when logged into a remote machine via ssh. The password is a doozy, with upper-, lower-

Re: Ink jet refill kit experiences?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephen Ryan
Nashua, NH 03063-1783 Phone: (603) 579-3637 I've talked mostly to Bill, and to Micah, who read mail at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and whom I've CC'd on this post. -- Stephen Ryan Digital Rights Management is bad for all of us: http://www.bricklin.com

Re: Tracking Internet Computers

2005-03-05 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 13:02 -0500, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Greetings, An article today on CNET says A doctoral student at the University of California has conclusively fingerprinted computer hardware remotely, allowing it to be tracked wherever it is on the Internet.

Re: cron job verification

2005-01-11 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:16, Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:44:07 -0500 Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 'otherwise check' there's /var/log/cron. For whatever reason my Debian boxes do not have that file or directory. Maybe nothing is working. On my Debian

Re: DLSLUG: Monthly Meeting - January 13th

2005-01-11 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:10, Bill McGonigle wrote: Please RSVP if you haven't already. We need a headcount for refreshments. I'm planning on attending this meeting. Thanks, -- Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College

Re: Any Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area folks on this list?

2004-07-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:56, Bill McGonigle wrote: Hi, Folks, If anyone on this list is in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area and is interested in participating in a reconstituted DLSLUG, please get in touch. I'd like to perhaps have a meeting this month. I'd be interested; I can't

Re: printing a file from cron using cups and/or lpd

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Ryan
-compatible lpr. The CUPS documentation claims one is included, but on Debian (at least), it's in a separate package named cupsys-bsd. -- Stephen Ryan Digital Rights Management is bad for all of us: http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Video cards, Xinerama, and IC design tools.

2004-02-13 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:12, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Hi, all. Through no fault of my own, I've suddenly had the title CAD tools manager appanded to my name. This makes me sad. But, regardless of my feelings on the matter, I've got some Linux-based challenges, and am running into some

Re: Novell to acquire Suse

2003-11-04 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:44, Dan Coutu wrote: I tried Cole's suggestion of installing xbase-clients but that didn't do it. I had been thinking that perhaps I needed to start with a remote environment that already had a valid DISPLAY defined because it was a workstation. Can anyone verify or

Re: apt-get errors

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen Ryan
when you have a lot in sources.list - like, say, when using pinning to have access to stable, testing and unstable. Here's the official fix: $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT { Cache-Limit 16777216; }; -- Stephen RyanDebian Linux 3.0 Technology Coordinator Center

Re: DVD writer on Linux?

2003-08-22 Thread Stephen Ryan
works for me. -- Stephen RyanDebian Linux 3.0 Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

Re: Perl help

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 16:36, Erik Price wrote: Cole Tuininga wrote: Got a perl question for y'all. I rarely have to do anything with perl, and I'm sure perl has a good reason for behaving like the following, but heck if I can figure it out. The perl cookbook suggestions using sprintf

Re: Perl help

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 16:41, Stephen Ryan wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 16:36, Erik Price wrote: Cole Tuininga wrote: Got a perl question for y'all. I rarely have to do anything with perl, and I'm sure perl has a good reason for behaving like the following, but heck if I can figure

Re: DVDs and Debian.

2002-10-02 Thread Stephen Ryan
mplayer on Debian. I don't think I've tried an encrypted DVD yet, but it did work nicely with the DVD of our wedding video (which I'm assuming is not encrypted). -- Stephen RyanDebian Linux 3.0 Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes