Re: [PLUG] Multi-page TIFF

2014-04-23 Thread Chuck Hast
Folks I got some info on some of the sources of the TIFF files that I have to deal with regarding the inspection machines here in the plant. My source told me he was not sure what the source of some of them was, but that many of them were exported directly from AutoCAD and or ProE. I am not sure

Re: [PLUG] Multi-page TIFF

2014-04-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Chuck Hast wrote: My source told me he was not sure what the source of some of them was, but that many of them were exported directly from AutoCAD and or ProE. Chuck, ProE is 3D modelling software aimed at the mechanical engineering market; I've no idea what export

[PLUG] Just a question about defragmenting a windows NT SSD

2014-04-23 Thread Ken Stephens
This is not Linux or UNIX, but the system is sitting next to two Linux systems. Just wondering if it is a good idea to defragment an SSD. Ken ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Just a question about defragmenting a windows NT SSD

2014-04-23 Thread Darren Couch
According to superuser, the answer seems to be NAWP! https://superuser.com/questions/601129/should-i-defrag-an-ssd-drive On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Ken Stephens k...@cad2cam.com wrote: This is not Linux or UNIX, but the system is sitting next to two Linux systems. Just wondering if it

Re: [PLUG] Just a question about defragmenting a windows NT SSD

2014-04-23 Thread Mike Cherba
Shudder! The idea of defragging an SSD is just painful. It would just disregard all that work that went into handling wear levelling and such. Plus, WHY? We defrag hard drives to make them more efficient. Properly aligned data requires less head movement to read a file. In a Solid state

[PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
An hour ago I applied a number of updates to my Xubunu 13.10 laptop, but deferred rebooting until I finished typing something in Greek. Having done so I shut down LO Writer and rebooted. When the login screen came back up it would not take my password, presumably because the keyboard was still in

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread alan
An hour ago I applied a number of updates to my Xubunu 13.10 laptop, but deferred rebooting until I finished typing something in Greek. Having done so I shut down LO Writer and rebooted. When the login screen came back up it would not take my password, presumably because the keyboard was

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread Atom Powers
I had this problem with my Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade. I wish I could what I did to fix it ... You can get to a console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, from there you can login and poke around looking for errors in logs etc., especially the X11 log. Get back to your X session by pressing CTRL+ALT+F7 I'll try

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:29:38 -0700 (PDT) a...@clueserver.org dijo: If you have a Live System DVD you can boot off of that and then mount the file system. Take the password hash out of /etc/shadow, then reboot. You should have no password and you can just re-add it. Even easier than using the

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread Atom Powers
Heh, that is because '*' will never match a password hash. Now, if you can't get in with another account, you /must/ boot from a live CD and change the password to something. Note that after you boot from the live CD you will probably have to first remount your root with '-o rw' or you won't be

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: Once logged in I opened /etc/shadow as root (using nano) and added * in front of the JJJ line. Then I rebooted. Sadly, I should not have done that, because now I can't log in, even at the command line. Whatever I enter for the password (including

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread David
On 04/23/2014 04:05 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: clip Once logged in I opened /etc/shadow as root (using nano) and added * in front of the JJJ line. Then I rebooted. Sadly, I should not have done that, because now I can't log in, even at the command line. Whatever I enter for the password

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread alan
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:29:38 -0700 (PDT) a...@clueserver.org dijo: If you have a Live System DVD you can boot off of that and then mount the file system. Take the password hash out of /etc/shadow, then reboot. You should have no password and you can just re-add it. Even easier than using the

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:11:24 -0700 David dafr+p...@dafr.us dijo: Once logged in I opened /etc/shadow as root (using nano) and added * in front of the JJJ line. Then I rebooted. Sadly, I should not have done that, because now I can't log in, even at the command line. Whatever I enter for the

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread David
On 04/23/2014 05:45 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:11:24 -0700 David dafr+p...@dafr.us dijo: Once logged in I opened /etc/shadow as root (using nano) and added * in front of the JJJ line. Then I rebooted. Sadly, I should not have done that, because now I can't log in,

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:01:23 -0700 David dafr+p...@dafr.us dijo: No, you *must* have the proper number of fields in the shadow file entry to have things work properly. An example of an account that never has login access would be this: www-data:*:15754:0:9:7::: Now, if you wanted to make

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:52:36 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: Does this mean that X can't run unless it is authorized by jjj, using his old password? I'm back in! I did sudo mv .Xauthority .Xauthority.old, then used Ctrl-F7 to get back to the login screen. It worked! I am back

Re: [PLUG] Help! Can't log in!

2014-04-23 Thread David
On 04/23/2014 06:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: clip So now I am logged at the command line as jjj. I tried startx, but ran into yet another problem. For about five minutes I stared at a black screen. Then finally I got: No protocol specified (a full screen full) xinit: giving up xinit: