Re: [PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

On Thu, 11 May 2017, logical american wrote: > Recently I noticed something odd occurring with 2 file labels, > > make_Home_categories.txt > make_home_categories.txt Randall, Are the two files identical? Try 'ls -l' to see the sizes and last access dates. If your flash drive is

Re: [PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:32:17PM -0700, Ali Corbin wrote: > What file system does the flash drive use (try fdisk -l). > It might be FAT, which I don't think is case sensitive. ^-- This. FAT file systems are case-insensitive, but case-preserving. It can't tell the difference between

[PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

Recently I noticed something odd occurring with 2 file labels, make_Home_categories.txt make_home_categories.txt which were 2 separate files, in my ext4 linux file system in the same partition area, /home/owner/. However when I went to copy these 2 files to the flash drive, only 1

Re: [PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:23 PM, logical american wrote: > Recently I noticed something odd occurring with 2 file labels, > > make_Home_categories.txt > make_home_categories.txt > > which were 2 separate files, in my ext4 linux file system in the same >

[PLUG] Using newly installed emacs mode

When seeking how to have emacs use a newly installed language mode (js2-mode) I'm not using the appropriate web search terms. Results are many instances of writing emacs extensions to support languages, but not how to get emacs to use the mode when a language file is opened for editing. I

Re: [PLUG] Comcast repeatedly asks for activation

Yesterday the technician asked a colleague for an opinion. He suggested removing cookies, which we did (I thought it was a stupid idea). This morning, Thursday, the connection was functional. But before I credit the stupid idea, I note that I received a message from Comcast saying that our new

Re: [PLUG] Using newly installed emacs mode

On Thu, 11 May 2017, Galen Seitz wrote: > It's probably as simple as M-x js2-mode Galen, This sort of works after I modified ~/.emacs; all text is in an ugly orange color. Not my idea of syntax highlighting. Now I need to fix this. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Using newly installed emacs mode

On Thu, 11 May 2017 06:35:46 -0700 (PDT), in message alpine.LNX.2.11.1705110629370.18732@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote: >When seeking how to have emacs use a newly installed language mode > (js2-mode) I'm not using the appropriate web search terms. Results > are many instances of writing

Re: [PLUG] Using newly installed emacs mode

On 05/11/17 06:35, Rich Shepard wrote: >When seeking how to have emacs use a newly installed language mode > (js2-mode) I'm not using the appropriate web search terms. Results are many > instances of writing emacs extensions to support languages, but not how to > get emacs to use the mode when

[PLUG] Intel new memories ( was WD 4TB failure ...)

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 08:54:41PM -0700, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > A google article suggests that data corruption and not drive  > failure is the greatest issue with SSDs. If the data corrupts,  > that is equally as bad as a drive failure. Intel is working on  > a new technology

Re: [PLUG] SSDs last longer than disk drives

Here is a short article on Google's experience with SSDs. (UBER -> Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate) I quote: "But it isn't all good news. SSD UBER rates are higher than disk rates, which means that *backing up

Re: [PLUG] Using newly installed emacs mode

On Thu, 11 May 2017, Dale Snell wrote: > The simplest thing is probably to add the file type to 'auto-mode-alist'. > The command will look something like > >(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js\\'" . js2-mode) t) Dale, I knew it was something like this but had not before known of