Ok, I tried it. It screwed up my extensions, looked for updates, didn't find any, said to hell with it, went back to my previous versions. Extensions need to...
I think there's a bug in the updater because if you manually check most extensions have an update or are compatible with 1.5 Just search and download them over...
Dev Jurai
DJurai@...
Dec 1, 2005 1:53 pm
14993
General Advice for a new subscriber We are all just normal folks, and we talk mainly about Linux and the Trinidad and Tobago Linux Users Group. The list will...
TTLUG@yahoogroups.com
Dec 2, 2005 1:36 am
14994
Here's a tool I like to encourage developers and end users to start using. If Autopackage in sucessfull in it's goals one major problem about Linux usability...
I'd like to boot xp, ubuntu and suse on a fairly old machine so suse and ubuntu would share /home and swap. with xp installed, I'd install ubuntu and...
First: Install Windows XP. ALWAYS your first step in setting up multiboot goodness. Then do a custom install of SuSe or Ubuntu, but don't use all the...
Richard Jobity
RichardJ@...
Dec 2, 2005 7:59 pm
14997
Dwev pointed me to this app (Linux AND Windows) Any use? Any comments? Any opinion? http://www.grisbi.org/...
You're in luck! I've done this several times. As Jobity says, first partition and install XP. Assuming a 20GB drive, break it into 4 main partitions, as...
Richard Hamel-Smith
Richardhamelsmith@...
Dec 3, 2005 1:00 pm
14999
As always, a post well worth the read. ... From: TTLUG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TTLUG@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Hamel-Smith Sent: Friday, December...
I do indeed have Slackware, and I tried it once. Will give it a go again, for sure. My next questions will probably involve that. ... drive, break ... Linuxes,...
Hot off /. http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page This is bug stuff. OpenLDAP was always great to use but hard to install/ config unless you set...
I have been using openldap for some time now. it is a pretty basic ldap server.. I am more interested in seeing the apache directory server. It is a lot more ...
http://ocsid.spaghettilinux.org/indexen.html One for the Slackers...
Richard Jobity
RichardJ@...
Dec 5, 2005 4:24 pm
15006
Hey guys, I have a text file in Linux, I need to automate the process of opening this text file everyday and change 2 dates in the file to today minus 4 days...
To get a script to run once a day you can put the script in /etc/cron.daily . /etc/crontab specifies when this runs - normally at 4am in the morning. Otherwise...
A perl script is best for this sort of thing. Perl will read each line of the file into an element of an array. Make changes to the lines with the dates then...
http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=155 OSV (Open Source Victoria) has prepared the following report for the primary and secondary education sector. Within it,...
Dev Anand Teelucksingh
dave@...
Dec 6, 2005 4:40 am
15010
My nod on this approach. It'll be a lot easier to tweak as your needs change over time and will be more accesible to others. `sed' and `date' are well ...
Generally speaking, the nice thing about Perl scripts is that they can be run on Linux, Windows and MAC OS. Perl is also very well documented. ... needs change...
My approach is to use common, existing tools as far as possible; using bash or batch files. If I need to do something totally unique (the exception) or more...
Thanx allot guys. I have decided to use php to do it. but I have been trying to come up with a proper reg expression to put in the ereg_replace() function so...
Interesting, I hadn't even thought of using PHP . the simplest regexp that will match NN-NN-NN is '[0-9-]{8}' but it matches lots of other strings A more...
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be having a tech meeting on Saturday 10th December 2005 from 1 to 4pm at Engineering Consultants, 112A...
Dev Anand Teelucksingh
dave@...
Dec 7, 2005 5:16 am
15016
Thanx Ravi, php was actually suggested by a friend of mine. I will try that repexp today ('[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}') and see if I can get that to work. ...
... Hash: SHA1 I'm off to Barbados on some personal business. Responses to email may be sporadic until early next week, the deity(ies) (of your choice, or not...
... Hash: SHA1 Interesting weekend, all things considered. In Trinidad and Tobago, you buy a cellphone and get $40 worth of calls. In Barbados (under Cingular)...
Just came back from a focus group, something Dev Teelucksingh invited me to. Basically, every couple of years the government likes to keep in touch with the...