Re: Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]

2012-08-30 Thread Mark Blakeney
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:31:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > This exercise provides the impetus to learn to use a very useful tool, > namely Perl. I would suggest python is a much better choice to a young person just starting out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Blakeney
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:55:54 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can transfer files between my Samsung tablet > with Honeycomb and my Debian boxes with Lenny or Squeeze, using either a > USB or Bluetooth connection between them? I know I can transfer them by > e-mail, but that metho

Re: Unreversable dimmiing of display

2012-07-07 Thread Mark Blakeney
I had an older Dell laptop with i915 video also and suddenly started seeing a similar problem to this from Ubuntu 11.04 onwards. No problems before that. Had the problem for ages. I looked around the forums and found no solution then I updated the bios in my laptop and the problem disappeared. --

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Blakeney
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't like it so immediately just did a "ppa-purge" on that ppa which proceeded to remove *every* X/gui/video based pa