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Re: question about Linux boxes only running as root

t...@invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 20:09:17 UT

essentially that's what my root console does. There is just no password
challenge.
That's a security hazard I am willing to accept for the convenience. I
don't recommend it, I just state that's my considered preference.
I have another machine that is set up to always ask for a master
password every time I do anything remotely admin. It gets on my tits.

Re: question about Linux boxes only running as root

t...@invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 09:52:03 UT

well its a risk yu dont need to take.
Youy can configure IIRC a no password user login, and put that user in
the root group so privileges needed for admin are granted automatically,
and still run as an unprivileged user..

Re: *.mov to dvd movie?

n...@nospam.net (Philip) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 23:35:13 UT

Todd wrote:
I use mencoder from mplayer web site. It comes with most Linux distributions
[link]
Here is my typical recipe
aspect="4/3" # change to "16/9" for wide screen
vbrate=5000 # for really high quality, cut down to 700 for web quality
mencoder oac lavc -af lavcresample=48000 \

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Gmplayer and black/invisible skins

paduille.4061.mumia.w+nos...@earthlink.net (Mumia W.) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 06:32:59 UT

Hello. I have a problem with gmplayer. It's skin is always displayed in
black--regardless of what skin I choose. How can I get gmplayer back
looking right again? This is the software I'm using:
Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
Kernel 2.6.26 i486
mplayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free
Blue skin
Industrial skin
Plastik skin

Re: Linux jobs outpacing Windows jobs

peter-koehlm...@t-online.de (Peter Köhlmann) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 00:36:01 UT

Well, knowing absolutely nothing about MD5 isn't his only goal, it seems.
Although in that case he has succeeded just fine. He truly knows *nothing*
about MD5
It seems he is now on to new frontiers. Why not botnets? It seems a worthy
cause for MD5-dennis to know absolutely nothing about those, too

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Re: Linux jobs outpacing Windows jobs

ignoramus23...@nospam.23290.invalid (Ignoramus23290) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:14:24 UT

Not as much as some think.
Example: I have a "DVR" at home. This is a video recorder box supplied
to me by a satellite TV company. It is completely proprietary, at
least as far as the video technology is concerned. (that is, they may
have put up some trivial source code like busybox on their website,

Re: Linux jobs outpacing Windows jobs

fuhrer_spam_no_...@yahoo.com (John Fuhrer) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:13:23 UT

It helps if they are on the management side of the shop.
The tech side has little influence and in management's eyes are
"replaceable".

Re: Linux jobs outpacing Windows jobs

not...@nothome.com (notbob) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 14:29:27 UT

Many never were. Don't forget Unix was a major player long before M$
came along. Our company only dabbled in M$ networking when I was
there. Not sure what happened after I left, but know many people who
remained despised M$/Oracle in favor of the HP-UX environment that
existed before the advent of PCs, which adapted quit nicely when they

Re: Semdmail's -f switch

t...@invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 09:43:06 UT

Geir wrote:
Try using the simple mail() function, rather than the class object.

Re: Linux jobs outpacing Windows jobs

m...@themattfella.xxxyyz.com (Matt) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 03:15:25 UT

I strongly agree with your last paragraph above. It generalizes to any
large organization, because they have the economies of scale to learn to
administer Linux efficiently and to finance the migration. Best is
schools, as there is little or no data to migrate.
Advocate to the guy next to you for practice and support.

Re: Searching within large PDF files

peter.n...@m.silmaril.ie (Peter Flynn) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 23:19:53 UT

jka wrote:
I posted a short script in c.t.p to do this last month (see "Re: Can
Results From A Search By Adobe Reader 9 Or Another Software Be
Exported?" message-id <7j9s0lF34o81...@mid.individua l.net>) which can
give you page and paragraph number.
xpdf (and maybe others) can take a page-number argument after the

Re: recommendations on Linux friendly scanners?

unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca (Unruh) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 19:34:47 UT

Probably one of the most important features is teh speed of scanning--
log at the time per line of the scanners. for example, I originally
bought and Epson 1600 and found it horribly slow, but the cheaper 1200
was much faster-- it has worked well for the past 6 years.
Anyway, pay attention to speed or you will be cursing the scanner.