Re: Subtle Info Leak of the Year...

2009-11-30 Thread Douglas Royds
The MAC address of the router must be visible on the upstream link, or the router is useless. Isn't that the only information that is being leaked? The router is only trying to prevent pinging of boxes _behind_ the firewall. As a side effect, you can't ping the router. John Carter wrote:

Fun with find - finding the newest files

2009-11-26 Thread Douglas Royds
find . -type f -printf %TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n | sort -r | head Newest files %Ta Day of week as well === This email, including any

Re: Fun with find - finding the newest files

2009-11-26 Thread Douglas Royds
I neglected to give credit ... http://mediakey.dk/~cc/linux-howto-find-the-most-recently-changed-files-recursively/ Douglas Royds wrote: find . -type f -printf %TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n | sort -r | head Newest files

Re: Change gnome mount point

2009-11-23 Thread Douglas Royds
John Carter wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Douglas Royds wrote: Why can't I convince hal to mount by USB drive where I want it to? I need it to mount at /media/Port-Docs (as it used to) so that I can use my old Unison Can I suggest the evil, but very pragmatic... ln -s /wherever/gmount/put

A nice incantation - apt dependencies with descriptions

2009-11-11 Thread Douglas Royds
$ dpkg -l $(apt-cache depends ubuntu-desktop | \ gawk /gnome/{print $2} | sort | uniq) === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be

Re: A nice incantation - apt dependencies with descriptions

2009-11-11 Thread Douglas Royds
Corrected: $ dpkg -l $(apt-cache depends ubuntu-desktop | \ gawk '/gnome/{print $2}' | sort | uniq) === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is

Change gnome mount point

2009-11-11 Thread Douglas Royds
Why can't I convince hal to mount by USB drive where I want it to? I need it to mount at /media/Port-Docs (as it used to) so that I can use my old Unison archives. Everything seems to be right in the following, except that hal cheerfully ignores my gconf mount_point $ gnome-mount

Re: PhotoRec - A story with a happy ending

2009-10-08 Thread Douglas Royds
I believe so: photorec [/log] [/debug] [/d recup_dir] [device|image.dd|image.e01] Andrew Errington wrote: I wonder, would it be possible to 'dd' the contents of the filestore and run PhotoRec on the dd image? This would guard against possible further damage to the filestore, and also

Bash prompt

2009-08-10 Thread Douglas Royds
Limit the length of the displayed path in the Bash prompt. Loosely based on the ideas at: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html#AEN768 Two mechanisms are presented (one of them is commented out): 1. Trim the path to the last 30 characters, and cut off a partial

Re: Bash prompt

2009-08-10 Thread Douglas Royds
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Douglas Roydsdouglas.ro...@tait.co.nz wrote: Limit the length of the displayed path in the Bash prompt. ... 1. Trim the path to the last 30 characters, and cut off a partial leading directory name 2. Just display the last three

Babbage

2009-07-13 Thread Douglas Royds
Enjoy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139075.stm === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or

Re: OT: Search the Christchurch Public Library catalogue usingaFirefoxkeyword

2009-06-24 Thread Douglas Royds
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 22 Jun 2009 14:52:14 NZST +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: Add the following bookmark in Firefox: Name: Public Library catalogue search Location: http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/web2/tramp2.exe/do_keyword_search/guest?setting_key

OT: Search the Christchurch Public Library catalogue using a Firefoxkeyword

2009-06-21 Thread Douglas Royds
Add the following bookmark in Firefox: Name: Public Library catalogue search Location: http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/web2/tramp2.exe/do_keyword_search/guest?setting_key=InternetBranchservers=1homeindex=defaultquery=%s Keyword: public (or whatever you prefer) No need to

Resolved: Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2009-06-16 Thread Douglas Royds
4.4M * PAL 16:9 4.7M * PAL 2.39:1 6.4M Douglas. Many, many moons ago, Douglas Royds wrote: All video programs crash with this error when I play video 640x480 (eg. DVD, DV) - Totem, mplayer, xine, vlc, avidemux, kdenlive, they all crash. This is not a physical limitation of the laptop

Mplayer processor load

2009-06-16 Thread Douglas Royds
Having convinced Totem to play both DVDs and DV-AVI just fine, I find that Mplayer is struggling a bit. Totem DVD 31% idle (worst case) DV-AVI 16% idle (worst case) Mplayer DVD 21% idle (worst case) DV-AVI 0% --- ie. can't play it What's going on? Watching mplayer, Xorg, and

Re: Mplayer processor load

2009-06-16 Thread Douglas Royds
. Douglas. Douglas Royds wrote: Having convinced Totem to play both DVDs and DV-AVI just fine, I find that Mplayer is struggling a bit. Totem DVD 31% idle (worst case) DV-AVI 16% idle (worst case) Mplayer DVD 21% idle (worst case) DV-AVI 0% --- ie. can't play it What's going

Re: Mplayer processor load

2009-06-16 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Kent Fredrickentfred...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Douglas Royds douglas.ro...@tait.co.nz wrote: Oops. Those numbers were a bit adrift. Here is mplayer playing miniDV: mplr 60% Xorg 22% pulse 10

IPython as a system shell

2009-05-06 Thread Douglas Royds
Why do we write Bash scripts? Because we're familiar with Bash. Because we use it as our shell. Why don't we write Python scripts, when we know it's good for us? Because, until now, we weren't using Python as our command-line shell: http://ipython.scipy.org

Re: Unison and FAT32 - solved

2009-04-23 Thread Douglas Royds
. Subsequent synchs succeed in fastchecking. Douglas Royds wrote: I'm successfully synching my (44GB of) photos, videos, etc to my portable HDD, but ... 1. It's taking forever (half an hour to check an already-synchronised tree, or about 24MB/sec) 2. It is copying files when

Re: Unison and FAT32

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas Royds
it in? Effective data rate for USB 2.0 HD is around 40MB/s with nothing else on the bus, including mouse and keyboard. Did you look at rsync? - Euan Clark Douglas Royds wrote: I'm successfully synching my (44GB of) photos, videos, etc to my portable HDD, but ... 1. It's taking forever (half

Unison and FAT32

2009-04-20 Thread Douglas Royds
I'm successfully synching my (44GB of) photos, videos, etc to my portable HDD, but ... 1. It's taking forever (half an hour to check an already-synchronised tree, or about 24MB/sec) 2. It is copying files when the permissions disagree, even though I have perms = 0 In

Unison, FAT32, and filename capitalisation

2009-04-16 Thread Douglas Royds
For the record: A trap for the unwary. Although Unison's behaviour with filename capitalisation is safe while synchronising to/from a FAT32 drive (such as my portable HDD), the error message it gives for a failure is somewhat misleading: Failed: Destination updated during synchronization

Re: IMAP and subscribing

2009-04-13 Thread Douglas Royds
Some directions for Thunderbird in-line below ... Aidan Gauland wrote: I now need to make folders on the server for sorting my mail as before (with POP); In Thunderbird: Right-click on the account, New Folder I came across an option for each mailbox called subscribe... What does this

Re: Subversion web-app

2009-04-01 Thread Douglas Royds
Jim Cheetham wrote: On 4/1/09, Douglas Royds douglas.ro...@tait.co.nz wrote: Anyone have any experience with Subversion web-apps, such as SVN::Web, ViewVC, or WebSVN? Any recommendations or warnings? Possibly not quite what you had in mind, but I use Trac as a read-only web front-end

Subversion web-app

2009-03-31 Thread Douglas Royds
Anyone have any experience with Subversion web-apps, such as SVN::Web, ViewVC, or WebSVN? Any recommendations or warnings? Thanks, Douglas. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee.

Subversion 503 in response to OPTIONS request

2009-02-01 Thread Douglas Royds
Just for the record: We had a problem with a Subversion (svn) client being unable to access the repository: Server sent unexpected return value (503 Service Unavailable) in response to OPTIONS request Deleted (actually just moved) the user's ~/.subversion/ directory and tried again

Re: OT: Google street view live in NZ

2008-12-03 Thread Douglas Royds
-Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 3 December 2008 11:48 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: Google street view live in NZ Numbers 3 and 4 illustrate a privacy concern, but my favourite is number 9: http://mashable.com/2007/05/31

Re: OT: Google street view live in NZ

2008-12-02 Thread Douglas Royds
Numbers 3 and 4 illustrate a privacy concern, but my favourite is number 9: http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/ Christopher Sawtell wrote: _NOT_ cool at all! Damned nosey parkers, aren't we allowed _any_ privacy any more. Three cheers for big

Nautilus scripts in Python

2008-10-09 Thread Douglas Royds
It had long bugged me that I always used Bash for Nautilus scripts, so I have created a boiler-plate Nautilus script in Python (attached), which displays the following in a whizzy little GTK TextView window: 1. Command-line arguments passed in by Nautilus 2. A couple of interesting

.inputrc

2008-10-07 Thread Douglas Royds
Just discovered match-hidden-files, which is On by default. Here're my ~/.inputrc file settings now: set match-hidden-files Off Don't offer file or directory names beginning with a . for tab-completion. If I want to tab-complete a hidden file or directory, I now have to type the .

Re: problems with encrypted dvds

2008-10-05 Thread Douglas Royds
I occasionally get the error that you mention. I suspect that libdvdcss doesn't cope well with the skitters and jitters that happen when the DVD reader changes layers. These jitters are visible on normal set-top players if you're looking for them - playback will freeze for a second or two,

Meld and Subversion

2008-10-01 Thread Douglas Royds
Out of the box, Meld can examine diffs between a local working copy and the latest checked-in revision: $ meld ~/myproject/trunk Any way of getting it to look a wee bit further back in time? Or to compare rev A with rev B within the repository? Douglas.

Re: Flash LSOs

2008-09-21 Thread Douglas Royds
It isn't worse than cookies. I already maintain my cookies on a white-list basis. What I've described means that I now maintain LSOs that way as well. Aidan Gauland wrote: ... how is this any worse than cookies? Douglas Royds wrote: Did you know that Adobe's Flash allows web-sites to store

Re: Run application pop-up

2008-09-18 Thread Douglas Royds
Douglas Royds wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would like is to map Alt-F2 to some tool that: 1. Pops up a micro-Bash command line window 2. I enter some Bash command to launch a GUI app and press Enter 3. The command

Flash LSOs

2008-09-18 Thread Douglas Royds
Did you know that Adobe's Flash allows web-sites to store information on your local HDD? I didn't: http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html Here they are: $ tree ~/.macromedia /home/roydsd/.macromedia `-- Flash_Player |-- #SharedObjects | `-- UED5REU8 | `-- s.ytimg.com

Run application pop-up

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Under GNOME, Alt-F2 pops up a handy-dandy little box that lets you type a command name. It disappears when you're done. All well and good, but it ain't a Bash command-line, which means that I don't get Bash command-line completion. What I would like is to map Alt-F2 to some tool that: 1.

Re: Run application pop-up

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would like is to map Alt-F2 to some tool that: 1. Pops up a micro-Bash command line window 2. I enter some Bash command to launch a GUI app and press Enter 3. The command is launched 4

Re: Run application pop-up

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
completion in the Alt-F2 box? (Is it about to be added to the next version???) 2008/9/18 Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Under GNOME, Alt-F2 pops up a handy-dandy little box that lets you type a command name. It disappears when you're done. All well and good, but it ain't a Bash command-line, which

Re: Run application pop-up

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Vik Olliver wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:33 +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: Tab completion would conflict with normal GTK behaviour: The Tab key (almost) always means move the focus to the next field in the GUI. In short, it ain't a GTK box I'm after. http://mterm.sourceforge.net

Re: Fw: Using One's Browsing History To Guess Gender

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Turns out that this CSS exploit has been known for a very long time (reported on Firefox in 2002), and remains unresolved [1]. It does have serious implications: The more you know about the user, the easier it is to con them [2], or perhaps you'd like to sound out your visitors' political

Re: Run application pop-up

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Wow. This is a pretty amazing toy. I installed gnome-do, gnome-do-plugins, and gnome-do-plugin-rhythmbox on Ubuntu Hardy. Basic usage: 1. Type Super-Space (that's the Windows key) 2. Start typing letters 3. Gnome-do takes a fair crack at the filename, application name, bookmark,

Re: Run application pop-up

2008-09-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Douglas Royds wrote: [snip] asdf asdf Oops. Wrong key-sequence. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject

Re: (re)moving the wiki

2008-09-11 Thread Douglas Royds
Jim Cheetham wrote: The generic Linux info pages on the CLUG wiki should be contributed to the WLUG wiki directly (they use a similar license). Great. It has long concerned me that my (meagre) contribution to the wiki has not been hosted on a wider-audience wiki. Douglas.

Re: mediawiki links to documents

2008-09-10 Thread Douglas Royds
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a mediawiki installation working really well. I had the idea to have links to one or 2 documents that reside on some machine on the local network, that could be accessed from a wiki

Re: OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me!

2008-09-10 Thread Douglas Royds
John Carter wrote: State Machines are the embedded development flavour of the month? year? (god forbid) decade? but are nothing more than multi-threaded tangle of computed goto's with a roll your own scheduler in drag. :-)) (Oh dear... I have probably offended about half my colleagues. :-)) So

Nautilus scripts and spaces in filenames

2008-08-14 Thread Douglas Royds
A worked example of a Nautilus script that works with spaces in filenames. Drop the attached script into ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, and make it executable. In Nautilus, select a number of files that contain spaces in their filenames. Right-click, Scripts, Show Nautilus Parameters

The Story of the Little Computer That Could

2008-08-12 Thread Douglas Royds
The crustier engineers among us (myself included) might enjoy this bit of steam computer history: http://www.hp9825.com/ === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to

Re: RMS on National Radio

2008-08-07 Thread Douglas Royds
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just be aware timing is often out on RNZ. If you are setting up to record, I'd record all the way thorough from 8-9. In fact I think I'll just set mythtv to record the whole show from 8-12. Also

Annotating PDFs with Xournal

2008-08-07 Thread Douglas Royds
Just had quite a success with Xournal: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/05/03/how-to-annotate-pdf-files-in-linux-using-xournal/ http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ No one said that annotating PDF files in Linux is an easy task. I have tried many open source tools for that job, but xournal

Re: CherryPal

2008-07-23 Thread Douglas Royds
Don't. Further reading has revealed that this class of device has extremely low throughput (over both SMB and FTP) - in the case of the DI-624S, only about 500k/sec. Newer devices, eg. Asus WL-600g, still deliver less than 2M/sec. About 5min to download a 512Mb card. David Lowe wrote:

Re: CherryPal

2008-07-22 Thread Douglas Royds
Stephen Irons wrote: Gabriella Turek wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/cherrypal/ http://72.51.37.17/ This is EXACTLY what I have been waiting for as my network server: * low power so I can leave it on * no fan, so I can't hear it * small, so I can mount it on the bottom

Re: Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2008-07-11 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All video programs crash with this error when I play video 640x480 (eg. DVD, DV) - Totem, mplayer, xine, vlc, avidemux, kdenlive, they all crash. This is not a physical limitation of the laptop

Re: Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2008-07-11 Thread Douglas Royds
Douglas Royds wrote: I've reattached the xorg.0.log, just in case anyone can spot any trouble in there. Is it OK that it says Using 4096K of framebuffer memory? This time I have. === This email, including any attachments

Re: Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2008-07-09 Thread Douglas Royds
All video programs crash with this error when I play video 640x480 (eg. DVD, DV) - Totem, mplayer, xine, vlc, avidemux, kdenlive, they all crash. This is not a physical limitation of the laptop - these programs all worked fine under Feisty. It fell apart with the Gutsy upgrade, I believe.

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-08 Thread Douglas Royds
Francis White wrote: On 8/07/2008, at 2:24 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes an iPhone at $199 seem cheap LOL (albeit on a 24 month contract, not sure how much that will cost) The monthly contract for

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-08 Thread Douglas Royds
Douglas Royds wrote: Francis White wrote: On 8/07/2008, at 2:24 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes an iPhone at $199 seem cheap LOL (albeit on a 24 month contract, not sure how much that will cost

ID3 tags

2008-07-07 Thread Douglas Royds
I have ripped a talking book (Roald Dahl, highly recommended for keeping children happy on long car-trips) into MP3 using Rhythmbox, and want to juggle the tags to get a sensible display on my cell-phone. Rhythmbox reports the titles as Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc., and the artist as Roald

Re: ID3 tags

2008-07-07 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ripped a talking book (Roald Dahl, highly recommended for keeping children happy on long car-trips) into MP3 using Rhythmbox, and want to juggle the tags to get a sensible display on my cell-phone

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-07 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:33 +1200 (NZST) John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question 1 to the Group: Do we need to have the 900Mhz version here or is the 850 preferable because in the longer

Re: from the weird basket - where are the rest of my debs?

2008-07-01 Thread Douglas Royds
Christopher Sawtell wrote: I set mine thus:- APT::Archives::MaxAge 180; APT::Archives::MinAge 2; APT::Archives::MaxSize 700; My reasoning being that I want to keep .deb files around until the next version of 'buntu comes out, and I'm happy to allow for up to a CD sized .iso file being

Dot - Strike-out through a node?

2008-06-30 Thread Douglas Royds
I'd like to put a diagonal strike-out line through a node [shape=box] in a dot graph. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Douglas. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is

Re: Dot - Strike-out through a node?

2008-06-30 Thread Douglas Royds
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to put a diagonal strike-out line through a node [shape=box] in a dot graph. Sounds like you'd need a custom shape for this. http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/html/shapehowto.html

Re: from the weird basket - where are the rest of my debs?

2008-06-30 Thread Douglas Royds
Very likely deleted by /etc/cron.daily/apt: # This file understands the following apt configuration variables: # [snip] # # APT::Archives::MaxAge, # - Set maximum allowed age of a cache package file. If a cache #package file is older it is deleted (0=disable) # #

Re: OT: Top Posting.

2008-06-26 Thread Douglas Royds
I recommend the Thunderbird extension QuoteCollapse: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/347 Largely dispenses with the entire problem. Don, that was inspired ... Don Gould wrote: It Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:07:39 +1200 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gnome keyboard preferences

2008-06-18 Thread Douglas Royds
I had long wondered where Gnome was storing its keyboard shortcut settings. These can be set through the GUI tool gnome-keybinding-properties (System - Preferences - Keyboard shortcuts), but where in the gconf database does Gnome store the result? I have wanted to know on occasions that I was

Re: Gnome keyboard preferences

2008-06-18 Thread Douglas Royds
This from Bug #8146 in control-center (Ubuntu): “Cannot use Windows key (Super_L) as part of a keyboard shortcut” https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/8146 Douglas Royds wrote: I had long wondered where Gnome was storing its keyboard shortcut settings. These can be set

Multipage tiff

2008-06-11 Thread Douglas Royds
This story has a happy ending. I was sent a multi-page tiff. eog would display only the first page (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132276), and the eog project has no intention of adding this ability. This is slightly annoying, as eog is the default viewer for tifs in Ubuntu.

Re: Which, really?

2008-06-10 Thread Douglas Royds
Jim Cheetham wrote: ls -lh --time-style + $candidate | cut -d' ' -f9 Cut seems to be vulnerable to the number of spaces: $ echo One two three One two three One two three One two three --- There's an extra space in here $ echo One two three One two three | cut -d' ' -f3

Re: Which, really?

2008-06-10 Thread Douglas Royds
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ls -lh --time-style + $candidate | cut -d' ' -f9 Cut seems to be vulnerable to the number of spaces: Yes, it is, as the space is the field separator, and fields may be null -- which

Re: Openmoko

2008-06-09 Thread Douglas Royds
Um, you could just subscribe to the RSS feed, no FF extension required ... http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangesfeed=rss John Carter wrote: I use the firefox updatescanner addon to poll every couple of days... http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates

Re: Mixed-mode CD

2008-06-08 Thread Douglas Royds
Douglas Royds wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Fri 16 May 2008 17:05:37 NZST +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: I tried burning an audio + data CD with the following command: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/cdrw -audio -pad *.wav -data filename.iso I see on http://linux.about.com/od/nwb_guide

51 gvfsd-trash processes

2008-05-28 Thread Douglas Royds
Ubuntu Hardy. No automount. They're taking 23Mb of virtual memory each, according to top! Why might this have happened? $ ps -A | grep gvfsd 7949 ?00:00:00 gvfsd 7955 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-burn 7959 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-trash 18986 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-trash 18988 ?

Re: Mixed-mode CD

2008-05-18 Thread Douglas Royds
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Fri 16 May 2008 17:05:37 NZST +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: I tried burning an audio + data CD with the following command: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/cdrw -audio -pad *.wav -data filename.iso I see on http://linux.about.com/od/nwb_guide/a/gdenwb01t82_3

Mixed-mode CD

2008-05-15 Thread Douglas Royds
I tried burning an audio + data CD with the following command: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/cdrw -audio -pad *.wav -data filename.iso The audio seems to be OK (it plays OK in Rhythymbox, in any case), but neither Win2K nor Ubuntu Hardy seem to be able to see the data session. I had checked

Re: Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas Royds
Yes it does! Hoo-by-ray! What does this mean? Nick Rout wrote: It is IIRC an xv problem, does the video play in mplayer with -vo x11? On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:34:08 +1200 Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas Royds
Totem-xine and Mplayer both play videos fine up to 640x480, but won't play DVD or DV, being higher resolution: Totem: The program 'totem' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

Re: Totem, Mplayer crash on X error insufficient resources

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas Royds
Sent the wrong xorg.conf. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived

What's hammering my HDD?

2008-04-29 Thread Douglas Royds
How do I find out? top has showed the CPU waiting for 90-95% of the time, for the last 10 minutes or so. I brutally killed off trackerd, but this had no visible effect. As I type this email, whatever it was has finished, but I'd like to know whether there's a way of finding out next time.

Re: What's hammering my HDD?

2008-04-29 Thread Douglas Royds
Roy Britten wrote: 2008/4/30 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://guichaz.free.fr/misc/#iotop Hadn't seen that before. Just tried it out -- it's really cool. I'm getting excited about a system diagnostic tool: what a geek... Thanks, Roy. Brilliant! Thanks, Chris.

Re: jpg to avi

2008-04-17 Thread Douglas Royds
True, but they are terribly slow to load photos from modern digital cameras (in the order of 20s per frame - useless). I assume the DVD-drive in a set-top box is not very fast, and modern cameras are dropping 2Mb files onto disk. Christopher Sawtell wrote: Also, please be aware that many

Re: DMCA now law in NZ

2008-04-09 Thread Douglas Royds
Thanks for that clarification. It is great that ISPs and web-server providers have been spared liability for caching or serving copyright material. It is bad that, unlike Canada, this law enacts notice and take-down (rather than notice and notice, ie. we complain, you decide whether to take

Re: Program to extract attachments

2008-04-02 Thread Douglas Royds
This fails your does not create random files on disk requirement, but you can use munpack to expand a multi-part MIME email into (ahem) multiple files on disk: munpack -tC randomFilesOnDisk/ ~/multipart.eml -t Give me the text part of the email as well -C Change into this

Multiple hardcopies from Vim?

2008-03-30 Thread Douglas Royds
Can Vim tell the printer to generate multiple copies (from the :hardcopy command)? Thanks, Douglas. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is

Re: Listing user installed packages in Debian....

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas Royds
deborphan -an dpkg -l `deborphan -an --no-show-section` | less List all orphaned libraries (that I didn't --purge), and use dpkg to provide a description of each one -a

Bash completion - don't expand ~

2007-12-06 Thread Douglas Royds
It has irritated me for some time that Bash was expanding ~ (my home directory path). For instance, if I type: $ ls ~/Doc Tab Bash would expand the path to: $ ls /home/roydsd/Documents This is a matter of personal taste, but I'd prefer the tilde to remain, thanks. I've found the

Re: Bash completion - don't expand ~

2007-12-06 Thread Douglas Royds
that the ~ symbol don't work. I would have thought that using \~ will get most circumstances. Derek. == On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Douglas Royds wrote: It has irritated me for some time that Bash was expanding ~ (my home

Re: A possible heads-up for those using Linux on laptops ?

2007-10-30 Thread Douglas Royds
Specifically Ubuntu. A summary has been placed on the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695 david merriman wrote: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1742258 David === This email,

Re: How to rename a user

2007-10-11 Thread Douglas Royds
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Make sure the user to be renamed is not logged in. Use mv /home/olduser /home/newuser. Didn't work for me. The cp -a approach that I suggested worked fine, so I'm guessing that some symlinks were broken by the conventional move. Using cp -a also means that you can

How to rename a user

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas Royds
Make a new home directory: sudo mkdir /home/fred This new directory will be owned by root:root. Change its ownership to the user, under their old name and old groupname: sudo chown douglas:douglas /home/fred Just moving the home directory doesn't work, as there are (very likely)

Re: MP4

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas Royds
What make and model is the phone? We can probably find out from there. Nick Rout wrote: you need to know what codec you want to encode to.Know your phone wants mp4 is unhelpful unless you know the audio codec to put inside the mp4 container. So find that out and then we will be able to get

Re: Rebuilding debian boxes from package list...

2007-09-12 Thread Douglas Royds
Simon Lyall wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Chris Hellyar wrote: dpkg --get-selections a_file.txt Does anyone know of a simple way to take the --get-selections list and stuff it into apt-get automagically? I'm sure I could sed and awk my way to this, but I'm not a sed or awk expert.

Package dependency graph using apt-rdepends

2007-08-15 Thread Douglas Royds
On Debian-based systems, apt-rdepends performs recursive dependency listings similar to apt-cache: http://www.debianadmin.com/manpages/aptrdependsmanpage.htm apt-rdepends packagename | less Shows package dependencies recursively, the whole way down. Tends to be pretty

Re: Package dependency graph using apt-rdepends

2007-08-15 Thread Douglas Royds
If you only want to see dependencies up or down one level, you don't need to install apt-rdepends. Use apt-cache: apt-cache depends packagename Lists dependencies, recommenations, and conflicts apt-cache showpkg packagename Lists dependencies up and down one level Douglas Royds wrote

Fun with find - md5sum for a CD

2007-07-05 Thread Douglas Royds
md5sum lacks a -r (recurse) option, so we have to use find and xargs to create an md5sum file suitable for burning to CD: find . -type f -print0 | xargs --null md5sum | grep -v md5sums.txt md5sums.txt -type f = Files only (md5sum doesn't want directories) -print0 = Null

Nvu, Kompozer, and Composer

2007-05-16 Thread Douglas Royds
Robert Fisher wrote: nVu is defunct. Google KompoZer I'll bet you got this from the Ubuntu site. nVu still works and is available from the Mepis repositories. Ubuntu says what you said but Komposer is not yet available from their repositories as far as I can tell. Rob From the

Metric equivalent of Microsoft fonts for Linux

2007-05-13 Thread Douglas Royds
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Re: AAC licence

2007-03-15 Thread Douglas Royds
Brenda wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 16:56, Nick Rout wrote: Writing source code does not qualify as developing a codec? Am I missing something? Distributing the source code doesn't give you any protection against patent law whatsoever, does it? I don't know how it is presumed

AAC licence

2007-03-14 Thread Douglas Royds
On the Last nights meeting thread, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, March 15, 2007 1:52 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2007 10:50:33 NZDT +1300, Johnno wrote: Or use ACC+ Format, Are good-quality open source coecs available for this? However, a patent license is

Re: Dell and Linux

2007-02-26 Thread Douglas Royds
- finding anything on that site is a bit of a mission. On 26/02/07, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comes with FreeDOS installed. Install your own Linux. I couldn't find the equivalent offering in NZ http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=uscs=555l=ens=biz

Dell and Linux

2007-02-25 Thread Douglas Royds
Comes with FreeDOS installed. Install your own Linux. I couldn't find the equivalent offering in NZ http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=uscs=555l=ens=biz D420, 520, 620, or 820 laptops, and n-series desktops.

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