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is there a good alternative to fortune? in addition to stupid formatting and crappy jokes, now i'm getting klingon proverbs quote:You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between lunix
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2007 18:57 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:08 |
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dfn_doe posted:Read the man page for fortune... Bellieve it or not, most programs actually have good documentation.... Take your RTFM and stick it up your arse: I know that man page better than your mother and nothing there addresses the problems I mention. I assume your next trick will be to tell me to write my own database of aphorisms.
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2007 00:57 |
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fuseiso isn't being terribly nice:code:
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# ¿ May 7, 2007 13:48 |
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ok, this is kind of unusual. On Ubuntu 7.04, I suddenly can't sudo. code:
running synaptic: quote:Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root. what the heck happened
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# ¿ May 7, 2007 18:04 |
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teapot posted:Are you running as root after sudo -s ? No, sudo does nothing in any form. Same goes for sudo -K ; sudo whatever.
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# ¿ May 7, 2007 18:56 |
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I have much confusion with unmounting with thunar on a new memory device. i already have run chmod u+s `which mount` `which umount` etc to give user permissions. An older device, IPOD, mounts and unmounts fine via thunar as user. but the new device, KODAK_PC, cannot unmount well via thunar: quote:"Cannot unmount the volume 'KODAK_PC', Details: Cannot remove directory" Permissions for devices and mount points are identical across the board, and IPOD has not had to be listed in fstab or anything else like that. However, in /media/: quote:drwx------ 4 me root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 IPOD
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2007 15:20 |
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It seems that Ubuntu has changed how it handles fonts since Dapper, and after an upgrade, /etc/fonts/local.conf no longer works. Just being there should be enough as /etc/fonts/fonts.conf points to this. I don't have the resources to run gnome well, so gnome-control-center is out of the question for this as a fix. edit: This is strange. I moved /etc/fonts/local.conf somewhere safe, and ran dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config. This yielded a change in subpixel hinting style - except that I had selected 'never' for subpixel rendering. I moved local.conf back into /etc/fonts/ and hinting was turned back on full for all fonts, despite there being explicit instructions in local.conf to change hinting style/turn hinting off. Its confusing ------------------- ok, seems like it only gives a poo poo for ~/.fonts.conf - as your local user settings. I'm using a crappy hack to turn off all antialiasing: code:
DEAD MAN'S SHOE fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Nov 5, 2007 |
# ¿ Nov 4, 2007 22:59 |
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I really should have permission.. what happened?code:
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2007 14:14 |
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covener posted:It's not executable. Thanks! Funny how that happens to a fresh install..
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2007 14:41 |
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Why does every network monitor I find return its values in kilobytes? Isn't it rather arbitrary after rounding and so forth? In an attempt to get a precise figure I am parsing /proc/net/dev but I am uncertain how correct my math is, or how proper using sleep between readings is, either. code:
DEAD MAN'S SHOE fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Dec 2, 2007 |
# ¿ Dec 2, 2007 18:03 |
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whats the simplest way of finding an mp3 files bitrate on the commandline?
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2008 02:28 |
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thanks guys, seems that both are hit and miss, particularly with VBR bitrates (mpg321 will return the bitrate detected in blockN and file won't return anything). tempted to try perl.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2008 06:34 |
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I want to be able to run `mount -t cifs` as a user, on the fly. I don't want to have to specify the share in /etc/fstab (which is a stupid idea anyway). code:
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2008 20:40 |
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Grey Area posted:You can use sudo to run a command as root. Thanks, that's some useful info on /etc/sudoers but basically I was looking for a way to mount without requiring a password. Alowishus posted:Are you saying it's stupid to put it in fstab due to the password info? If so, then there is a way to tell smbmount to reference a password in another file which can be restricted to root readable, though I'm not sure whether that will work in concert with the user option. Not only the password issue but having to specify it prior in a root-only config file defeats the idea of being able to mount random shares on the fly. I should clarify that I'm trying to mount network shares on the fly without root permission using cifs (because smbfs is awful in comparison). The mount point is (of course) owned by the user. chmod'ding the bins used to work for me, but no longer :|
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2008 20:22 |
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Alowishus posted:Second, are you *sure* that you changed the right binary files with the right chmod command? Straight from the 'mount.cifs' manpage - "It is possible to set the mode for mount.cifs to setuid root to allow non-root users to mount shares to directories for which they have write permission." That sounds like exactly what you want. Yeah, I thought I had. quote:sudo chmod u+s `which mount` `which umount` `which mount.cifs` `which umount.cifs` I'm not certain of my switches here but I'm sure this worked on the previous Ubuntu release
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2008 01:09 |
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Wow, thanks! That's quite odd behaviour...
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2008 19:11 |
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More Ubuntu permission fun: xsane won't detect my scanner unless I am root. Naturally this is a pain in the arse. How do I allow user access to this device?
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2008 02:01 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:08 |
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I am trying to find how much space my flac files are taking up, but du returns "too many arguments" ( du -sch `find . -name *.flac` ) are there alternatives?
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2008 23:12 |