Re: [PLUG] Connecting to PSU wifi with linux

2016-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:48:36 -0800 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >I was surprised to learn last night that most Linux users >have problems connecting to PSU wifi, not just me. >I figured out a procedure to connect: > >1) Connect your laptop to the SSID "PSU Guest" >2) Fill out the form

[PLUG] A Linux Tool To Compare Files of Different Sizes

2016-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
Thought I had found such a tool once but I no longer remember its name. Here's the situation: Two files: one with 474 lines, the other with 203 lines. I want to test whether all 203 lines of the second file are included in the first file. If not, I want a list of those second file lines not

[PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

2016-02-05 Thread Vedanta Teacher
Everyone, I was thinking of picking up a solid state lap top with no physical HD and installing KDE/Plasma. From what I've read and heard KDE is a bit resource hungry but its been around a long time and the support seems stable. I don't know if there are issues installing KDE on a solid state.

Re: [PLUG] Connecting to PSU wifi with linux

2016-02-05 Thread Russell Senior
> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom writes: Keith> I was surprised to learn last night that most Linux users have Keith> problems connecting to PSU wifi, not just me. I figured out a Keith> procedure to connect: Keith> 1) Connect your laptop to the SSID "PSU Guest" 2) Fill out

Re: [PLUG] Renaming files at the command line

2016-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, hewiak wrote: > Some file managers have a 'bulk rename' plugin, Thunar (standard for > XFCE desktop) is one There's also the rename tool. Read the man page, 'man rename'. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] Connecting to PSU wifi with linux

2016-02-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I was surprised to learn last night that most Linux users have problems connecting to PSU wifi, not just me. I figured out a procedure to connect: 1) Connect your laptop to the SSID "PSU Guest" 2) Fill out the form with your gmail address, connect by email 3) Turn OFF wifi on your laptop 4) as

Re: [PLUG] Renaming files at the command line

2016-02-05 Thread hewiak
Some file managers have a 'bulk rename' plugin, Thunar (standard for XFCE desktop) is one On 02/03/2016 03:05 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I frequently have a dozen or so screenshots taken with VLC. The files >> are in the format like this: >> >>

Re: [PLUG] A Linux Tool To Compare Files of Different Sizes

2016-02-05 Thread John Sechrest
I think you want to look at the "diff" http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udiff.htm which is different than "cmp" http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucmp.htm which is more for hunting for missing bits and bytes than for looking at lines. On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

2016-02-05 Thread Louis Kowolowski
If you’ve thought about BSD, check out PC-BSD. Its desktop ready and has a pointy-clicky installer. http://www.pcbsd.org/ You shouldn’t have any issues with SSD. Trim support was added about 2yrs ago. > On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Vedanta Teacher

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

2016-02-05 Thread Vedanta Teacher
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Re: [PLUG] A Linux Tool To Compare Files of Different Sizes

2016-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Jim Lewinson wrote: > If the files are sorted, you can use the "comm" command to show you lines > that are present in one file but not the other. (Or in both files.) Jim, That's the command I found and used and whose name I forgot. Thanks very much for the reminder! Rich

[PLUG] Gmail: Re: Connecting to PSU wifi with linux

2016-02-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 02:34:56PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > What about those without a gmail account? Try something else. But things will go much faster if you can get at that particular email and click the link in a browser. Since PSU also uses gmail for their campus mail provider, my

Re: [PLUG] A Linux Tool To Compare Files of Different Sizes

2016-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, John Sechrest wrote: > I think you want to look at the "diff" John, diff -y puts the two files side-by-side but requires a manual comparison. As Jim reminded me the tool I want is comm (to compare two sorted files). Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] A Linux Tool To Compare Files of Different Sizes

2016-02-05 Thread alan
> I think you want to look at the "diff" > > http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udiff.htm > > which is different than "cmp" > > http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucmp.htm > > which is more for hunting for missing bits and bytes than for looking at > lines. uniq also might work. > > > > On Fri, Feb

Re: [PLUG] Connecting to PSU wifi with linux

2016-02-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
> PSU Guest wifi access: http://wiki.keithl.com/Mordac On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:38:46PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > FWIW, PSU Guest also doesn't work on OSX, so it is not just a Linux thing. The hurtdesk folk told me they did support Mac. Perhaps I should find someone with a windoze

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

2016-02-05 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon
Paul: I recently installed Slackware 14.1 KDE on a SanDisk Extreme Pro 2.5" 240GB SATA III SSD. Works fine, just like a magnetic drive. Wayne On 02/05/2016 10:02 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Everyone, > >I was thinking of picking up a solid state lap top with no physical HD > and installing