[PLUG] USB and Wine

2011-10-19 Thread Richard C. Steffens
Is anyone using a USB device with Wine? In my search for a solution to my transcription software problem I finally found the instructions for correctly installing Express Scribe with Wine. I got the program running this time and successfully loaded an audio file and can play it. The next step i

[PLUG] Test

2011-10-19 Thread T-Mobile Contacts
Testing new Galaxy S2 phone. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Test

2011-10-19 Thread T-Mobile Contacts
Testing new phone. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Russell Senior wrote: > Reed ought to host it then! FreeGeek is a nice last resort, and bless > them for being there, but Reed should get a chance to host more nerdy > stuff! Hell, they've got a freaking nuclear reactor. What better place > for nerds to Generate Ideas.

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Uptime

2011-10-19 Thread Ronald Chmara
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:26:32AM -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote: >> What's the recommended reboot cycle for Sun Solaris servers? > > There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a Sun server that had been > running for as long as anyone cou

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Russell Senior
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard writes: Russell> It seems like just the group for PSU. You don't list Russell> food/alcohol as requirements, and I'd guess that you wouldn't Russell> have a hard time finding a faculty sponsor at PSU. I Russell> originally learned about R (actually S-plus, although

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Russell Senior wrote: > It seems like just the group for PSU. You don't list food/alcohol as > requirements, and I'd guess that you wouldn't have a hard time finding a > faculty sponsor at PSU. I originally learned about R (actually S-plus, > although he knew about R and tha

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Uptime

2011-10-19 Thread Russell Johnson
On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a Sun server that had been > running for as long as anyone could remember, but could not be found > within the building. Eventually, it was found behind the drywall, > covered with dust, in a space t

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Uptime

2011-10-19 Thread Pete Lancashire
In a past life (Solaris vs AIX admin) I had a couple servers with over 1,000 days uptime and no issues. I would now but one has to keep the uSofties happy, I reboot most every 100-150 days. -pete On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > All, > > We're working an issue with e

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Uptime

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:26:32AM -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote: > What's the recommended reboot cycle for Sun Solaris servers? There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a Sun server that had been running for as long as anyone could remember, but could not be found within the building. Eventu

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Pete Lancashire
Give this place a call Round Table Pizza 10150 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Beaverton, OR 97005-3203 phone: 503-646-6168 Some of the TERAC http://terac.org/?page_id=2 members has a Friday night get together. They have a walled in meeting room. Don't think they charge. They also use a couple places f

Re: [PLUG] urxvt/rxvt-unicode issue

2011-10-19 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Dale Snell wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, does autowrap work in other contexts, or is > > it just the shell prompt? What happens if you expand the > > terminal's window out to, say, 132 columns? > >I get fu

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Russell Senior
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard writes: Rich>The local R users group is seeking a venue for our monthly Rich> meetings (up to a dozen or so people) that is available for no Rich> cost, has projector capabilities, and good acoustics. I know the Rich> advanced topics group has gone through this ex

[PLUG] Choosing an nVidia card

2011-10-19 Thread Richard C. Steffens
My desktop machine croaked on Sunday. On Tuesday I visited that fine emporium of well priced, used equipment -- The Free Geek Thrift Store -- and acquired a "new" machine. It has most of what I wanted, and I upgraded most of the rest. The Sony VAIO box includes: Intel D915GRO motherboard Pentiu

Re: [PLUG] urxvt/rxvt-unicode issue

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Dale Snell wrote: > Hrm... If your prompt works correctly with other terminal programs (i.e., > using urxvt is the only difference), I'd say you've hit a bug in urxvt. Dale, I've used xterm, aterm, eterm, and rxvt (my standard the past few years) and did not have this pr

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > The PLUG Advanced Topics, Perl Mongers, and Postgresql groups all meet at > Free Geek. D'oh! I completely forgot about that. > The acoustics are not noteworthy, since the meeting room is only about > 20'x30' and gets crowded with more than 20 people.

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Michael Dexter wrote: > Have you talked to Puppet Labs? Michael, Nope, but I'll pass on the information to the group leaders (the principal components? :-) ). > They've been open to hosting several groups but I don't know the terms. > Free Geek has the challenge of needi

[PLUG] PLUG AT Follow-up

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Dexter
Thank you all who came to the short-notice Android Developer Bridge talk. Eight showed up and most with guinea pig phones. If you didn't see it, Google released Android 4.0 today. A search of "ice cream sandwich" will find it and a number of delicious deserts. The coolest revelation appears to

Re: [PLUG] urxvt/rxvt-unicode issue

2011-10-19 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: >In /usr/share/terminfo/r/ are rxvt-unicode and > rxvt-unicode-256colors. In /etc/DIR_COLORS I added 'TERM > rxvt-unicode' after learning that 'TERM urxvt' meant nothing to > the system. > >I just added '-tn rxvt-unicode' to th

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Dexter
On 10/19/11 6:06 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > The local R users group is seeking a venue for our monthly meetings (up to > a dozen or so people) that is available for no cost, has projector > capabilities, and good acoustics. I know the advanced topics group has gone > through this exercise and wo

[PLUG] duplicating window in X?

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I assume it is possible to duplicate the same identical graphic window from the same client on two different X displays ("servers"). Can this be done, how is it done, and what is the process called? The tricky part is that each X display has a keyboard and a mouse. When the operator of each disp

Re: [PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Rich Shepard # on Wednesday 19 October 2011 06:06: >   The local R users group is seeking a venue for our monthly meetings > (up to a dozen or so people) that is available for no cost, has > projector capabilities, and good acoustics. I know the advanced > topics group has gone through this

Re: [PLUG] urxvt/rxvt-unicode issue

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Dale Snell wrote: > If there isn't a command line switch for autowrap (aka linewrap, aka > wraparound, etc.), ... Dale, I didn't see such a switch in the man pages. > ... it's normally handled by an escape sequence that is sent when the > terminal is initialized. This i

Re: [PLUG] urxvt/rxvt-unicode issue

2011-10-19 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: >If anyone here is using urxvt please point me to a source of > help in resolving an annoying issue. When I cd to a > subdirectory several levels below where I start, the display of > any command is truncated at the left edge of the

[PLUG] urxvt/rxvt-unicode issue

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
If anyone here is using urxvt please point me to a source of help in resolving an annoying issue. When I cd to a subdirectory several levels below where I start, the display of any command is truncated at the left edge of the virtual terminal instead of wrapping to a second line. This did no

[PLUG] Adobe-flash-plugin crashing after update to CentOS 5.7

2011-10-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I updated my workstation to CentOS 5.7 yesterday with a few issues. None of them Firefox related but today when I went work an online class with video lectures the adobe-flash-plugin crashes. Anyone else run into this? Searches via Google only address installing flash and the version that is a

Re: [PLUG] Temp directory weirdness

2011-10-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Russell" == Russell Johnson writes: Russell> open (NEWFILE, ">/tmp/$0.count") or die $!; This will fail if $0 is "/the/full/path/to/the/script" instead of just "script". Bad idea to use $0 like that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 ht

[PLUG] Group Meeting Sites?

2011-10-19 Thread Rich Shepard
The local R users group is seeking a venue for our monthly meetings (up to a dozen or so people) that is available for no cost, has projector capabilities, and good acoustics. I know the advanced topics group has gone through this exercise and would like to learn from your experiences. Thanks,