Pages

Search

Looking for some linux support contributors... - Forums Linux

Looking for some linux support contributors... - Forums Linux

Looking for some linux support contributors...

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:01 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.misc terryc <com.au> wrote: 

Aye, "all BBS systems were windows software"... Even the prestel based ones
in the early 80s, used by zx spectrum, bbc micro, commodore, etc owners?

Utterly ludicrous. Some of the things he comes out with. M$ had only just
"invented" DOS in 1982. (well, bought it off someone for peanuts before
selling it on, anyway).
 

That's all it is. It's what it stands for. Bulletin Board System.
Usenet's ancestor.
--
| co.uk | Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |

how do you ''see'' an Apple Personal LaserWriter 320 in Linux?

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 01:41 AM PDT

Doug Freyburger wrote: 

I never said it did. Yse Netatalk. That talks apple file share at
least..not sure it does appletalk, which was a nasty high speed serial
thing. That's where the box the OP is talking about comes in. Makes
applatetalk talk appleshare on thernet.

Or use a mac to do the same. Sahre teh printer via CUPS but rtalk to it
using its native applse.

 

Its called netatalk.

I have it. It works well. Its huge and very slow to boot though.
 

Yep Gatorbox. Or use scrap G3/G4 oer best of all, throw the laserwriter
in the bin and get a cheap second hand HP laserjet 4/5/6 at peanut
prices, with postcript and a network interface already.

Using rsync to copy files from an EXT3 source to a FAT32 destination

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:39 AM PDT

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:19:27 +0000, Unruh wrote:
 

I don't normally, but the FAT32 partition allows the photographs to be
also accessed from Windows.
 

So they do!
(I aborted the command when I saw the cartload of error lines).
--
/\/\aurice
(Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)

Fedora 11 no RPM will install

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 01:05 PM PDT

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

Nope not mixing RPM's from future releases


The "problem" is that F-11 now has introduced a policy kit
which requires that RPM's be installed from the command line.

Got them installed once I found that out...
but unfortunately I cannot use Fedora 11


I still have Fedora 10 installed but occasionally I get garbled
printing...and it was suggested that I try Fedora-11 as all the bugs
should have been ironed out


First print job out of Fedora-11 was garbled...
so I went back to Fedora 10


LOL

How does KMAil call a browser when a URL is clicked on?

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 11:21 AM PDT

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:19:21 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
 

Now that's interesting! I have never used that setting (left it on
the one above) and - until recently - had never had the problems
described.

But now - having changed it (still using Firefox) - the problems
have disappeared!

Many thanks, indeed, Dave - much appreciated...

--
/\/\aurice
(Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)

Demystifying Package Managers I

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 02:53 AM PDT

On Aug 16, 4:29pm, André Gillibert <com>
wrote: 

Umm. A bit of wasted space is not such a big deal these days, huge
drives are cheap. What is potentially *nasty* is when slightly newer
libraries reside in the first ld.so.conf.d listed target, and other
components are incompatible with that casually installed similar or
duplicate library. That can be *oh* so bad.
 

Or learn to write a .deb file, or an RPM, and package it up. I did for
commercial use, and still do this for packages I contribute to on a
casual bases for RPMforge publication. The incredible messes possible
when you just casually slap in new tools are exemplified by Perl's
CPAN repository and a lot of careless package naming and overlap there.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Deviceor resource busy.

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 01:26 AM PDT

Thanks to everybody.

I formatted the two partition. everything is fine now excluding label
in the fat partition.
is mtools the only way to change label of a fat partition?

another little question: I googled for permission issues with ext3
partitions and found out that the solution is calling 'sudo chown -R
username /dev/sdc'. I tried this but nothing has changed; to have
write permission to my ext3 partition I had to call also 'sudo chown -
R user /media/Elements'. Is this last command enough to do the trick
or is it necessary to change owner to both the device and the mount
point?


thanks again
Christian

Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:06 PM PDT

Andrew Halliwell wrote:
 

He will continue to ignore that question.

Ubuntu installation questions

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:12 AM PDT

On 2009-08-16 07:34 (-0700), Nick K. wrote:
 

Yes, "type" is a Bash builtin but the commands are not the same. "which"
locates a command in $PATH. It searches only for executable files in the
filesystem. Bash's "type" returns the type of command:

$ type printf
printf is a shell builtin

$ which printf
/usr/bin/printf

If I execute

$ printf "foo\n"

it will use the shell builtin. So, if you need to know "what will be
executed when I run command X without explicit path" then you need to
check "type X". "type" can also tell if command is a shell function:

$ type quote
quote is a function
quote ()
{
echo \'${1//\'/\'\\\'\'}\'
}

For more info: "help type" in Bash.

How to reclaim device name after malfunction?

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 07:12 PM PDT

galapogos wrote: 

I have never gotten anywhere near sdz (using Redhat) but I assume there is
some scheme after that. Why is it you want to recover it? If you have some
mount script look into

mount -L label

and see if that is not a better way to do what you want.

As another shot in the dark I have found it the least frustrating to turn off
all automount procedures for a DVD/CD drive.

--
If a kills a is it a love crime?
-- The Iron Webmaster, 4178
http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/is-seg.phtml a14
Thu Aug 13 23:08:28 EDT 2009