Re: [Linux-users] Software discoveries

2012-07-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 03 Jul 2012 16:21:13 NZST +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: shutter: screen capture program captures windows, part of windows, selected regions, whole screen. I hit prtscn, the tool that comes up does all that. I think it's ksnapshot. evince: pdf viewer that works nicely okular does

Re: [Linux-users] slow write speed to USB ports

2012-07-03 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Since we know that the stick does copy quite quickly on a different box, we know the stick is good. Note that write speeds are invariably slower than read speeds for usb flash sticks. However, the listing on the usb devices is the giveaway. Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux

Re: [Linux-users] slow write speed to USB ports

2012-07-03 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, thanks for the reply and suggestions. lsusb shows 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 root hubs, more tests (ssh to box, use cp command) on all the USB ports give similar times, between 5:00 and 5:45, giving me speeds approaching 20mbps. The motherboard specs say all rear ports and headers (for front

[Linux-users] Control-O

2012-07-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'm sitting here watching pages of verbose messages on an ssh session in the US. Probably because of the fact that they're all on holiday, the bandwidth is miniscule. Put me in mind of the good old days* of VMS, where you could Ctrl-O, and the display wasn't written to any more. This was actually

Re: [Linux-users] Control-O

2012-07-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: I'm sitting here watching pages of verbose messages on an ssh session in the US. Probably because of the fact that they're all on holiday, the bandwidth is miniscule. Put me in mind of the good old days* of VMS,

Re: [Linux-users] Control-O

2012-07-03 Thread Peter Glassenbury(UoC)
On 04/07/12 16:34, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: I'm sitting here watching pages of verbose messages on an ssh session in the US. Probably because of the fact that they're all on holiday, the bandwidth is miniscule. Put me in mind

Re: [Linux-users] Control-O

2012-07-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 16:34 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote: I'm sitting here watching pages of verbose messages on an ssh session in the US. Probably because of the fact that they're all on holiday, the bandwidth is