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From kellywilliams81 at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 10:18:18 2010 From: kellywilliams81 at gmail.com (Kelly Williams) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:18:18 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] prayer request In-Reply-To: <4C7997C8.6090004@lightlink.com> References: <3203160f8b63450bd03f2921ae120b90.squirrel@trinity.xssl.net> <4C7997C8.6090004@lightlink.com> Message-ID: <4C7E6EBA.3030602@gmail.com> Yesterday morning my grandpa kamstra pasted away. Thank you all for the prayers Kelly Williams On 8/28/2010 6:12 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On 08/27/2010 10:58 PM, Kelly Williams wrote: >> Another prayer request now both of my grandpas are in the hospital >> now. First was my moms Dad and now is my Dads dad is here now. and >> pray that I stay sane. >> >> Thanks for all the prayers > > 'One thing we're here for! > > Fred > -- > "Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it > tougher for sober people to own cars." - Unknown > > > > _______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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First was my moms Dad and now is my Dads dad is here now. and >>> pray that I stay sane. >>> >>> Thanks for all the prayers >> >> 'One thing we're here for! >> >> Fred >> -- >> "Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it >> tougher for sober people to own cars." - Unknown >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list >> Christiansource at ofb.biz >> http://cs.uninetsolutions.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehurst at soulkiln.org Wed Sep 1 11:55:13 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:55:13 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] prayer request In-Reply-To: <4C7E6FB1.6060504@gmail.com> References: <3203160f8b63450bd03f2921ae120b90.squirrel@trinity.xssl.net> <4C7997C8.6090004@lightlink.com> <4C7E6EBA.3030602@gmail.com> <4C7E6FB1.6060504@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4C7E8571.3030806@soulkiln.org> Kelly Williams wrote: > the other grandpa he is doing very well he might be going home in a > couple of days. Thanks for the update. -- Ed Hurst ------------ Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From lists at sombragris.org Wed Sep 1 12:29:05 2010 From: lists at sombragris.org (Eduardo Sanchez) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:29:05 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] prayer request In-Reply-To: <4C7E6EBA.3030602@gmail.com> References: <4C7997C8.6090004@lightlink.com> <4C7E6EBA.3030602@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201009011329.05708.lists@sombragris.org> On Wednesday 01 September 2010 11:18:18 Kelly Williams wrote: > Yesterday morning my grandpa kamstra pasted away. Thank you all for the > prayers > > Kelly Williams > Our sympathies and God's confort to all of your family. I also read about your other grandpa, and we are glad that he is going to be at home soon. Eduardo -- Eduardo Sanchez, B. Th. Traductor P?blico Ingl?s-Espa?ol http://shadow.sombragris.org -------------------------------------------------------------- As then the Tulip for her morning sup Of Heav'nly Vintage from the soil looks up, Do you devoutly do the like, till Heav'n To Earth invert you--like an empty Cup. -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -------------------------------------------------------------- From fmiller at lightlink.com Wed Sep 8 19:53:33 2010 From: fmiller at lightlink.com (Fred A. Miller) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:53:33 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] VMware's Maritz virtually pronounces death of Windows Message-ID: <4C88300D.3030306@lightlink.com> VMware's Maritz virtually pronounces death of Windows It could not have been easy for former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz to pronounce the death of the operating system today.Maritz, who is CEO of VMware, said during his keynote today that... 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URL: From tbutler at ofb.biz Sun Sep 12 15:30:17 2010 From: tbutler at ofb.biz (Timothy Butler) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:30:17 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] OFB: Grace, Love and Fire: On the Burning of Books Message-ID: A little Sunday discussion fodder from my Friday column. > Up until a few short weeks ago, the name Terry Jones would have garnered blank stares from most quarters. Now, his back and forth plans to burn the Qur?an have elevated the obscure pastor into the most talked about clergyman of the season. Whether or not this burning or others like it actually proceed, those of us who claim to follow Christ must grapple with what people like Jones bring to the image of the Church and the Gospel. http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/670.html -Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehurst at soulkiln.org Mon Sep 13 08:50:52 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:50:52 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing Message-ID: I'm familiar with wireless networking in most home uses. What's new to me is wireless printing. A friend bought a Brother laserjet with wireless capability. There is a home network all Windows. The printer is connected to the home DSL router, which includes wifi. However, I understand the printer itself has a wifi capability, apparently not in use right now. Users on this home network often get an error indicating the printer is offline. While there are diagnostics available, nothing seems to offer a way to keep this thing from going offline again. 1. Is there likely something in the printer's internal setup doing this? 2. Would it work better to use the printer's own wifi or the home network wifi? 3. Any other suggestions? -- Ed Hurst ------------ Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From sjm.mlists at gmail.com Mon Sep 13 09:34:53 2010 From: sjm.mlists at gmail.com (sjm) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:34:53 -0700 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C8E368D.80206@gmail.com> > 2. Would it work better to use the printer's own wifi or the home > network wifi? As far as I understand it, the printer's wifi is just as a client, not an Access Point. It is just another way to connect the printer to the network, not the other computers to the printer. sjm From jonglass at usa.net Mon Sep 13 10:11:12 2010 From: jonglass at usa.net (Jon Glass) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:11:12 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: > Users on this home network often get an error indicating the printer is > offline. While there are diagnostics available, nothing seems to offer a way > to keep this thing from going offline again. > I wonder if this is because its IP address is being changed. I would recommend finding a way to give this guy a static IP address, or finding a way for zero-config (aka Bonjour) printing to be activated. It may require installing software on the computers. Of course, this could all be true already, and it may be that it goes to sleep, and the router doesn't have the means of waking it back up. But honestly, I have so many problems with so many printers with waking that I'm not surprised at their problems. ;-) -- ?-Jon Glass Krakow, Poland "I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus From sjm.mlists at gmail.com Mon Sep 13 10:24:18 2010 From: sjm.mlists at gmail.com (sjm) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:24:18 -0700 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] OFB: Grace, Love and Fire: On the Burning of Books In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C8E4222.7020603@gmail.com> > A little Sunday discussion fodder.... Discussion point posted in blog comments. From josiah at ritchietribe.net Mon Sep 13 10:56:03 2010 From: josiah at ritchietribe.net (Josiah Ritchie) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:56:03 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Jon Glass wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: > > Users on this home network often get an error indicating the printer is > > offline. While there are diagnostics available, nothing seems to offer a > way > > to keep this thing from going offline again. > > > I wonder if this is because its IP address is being changed. I would > recommend finding a way to give this guy a static IP address, or > finding a way for zero-config (aka Bonjour) printing to be activated. > It may require installing software on the computers. Of course, this > could all be true already, and it may be that it goes to sleep, and > the router doesn't have the means of waking it back up. But honestly, > I have so many problems with so many printers with waking that I'm not > surprised at their problems. ;-) > My own experience suggests that Jon has the right idea. Dynamic IP address is a problem. I've done Bonjour setups for wireless HP printers with this problem. It is very annoying and even then it can be touchy, but can work consistently. JSR/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehurst at soulkiln.org Mon Sep 13 12:03:27 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:03:27 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:56:03 -0500, Josiah Ritchie wrote: > recommend finding a way to give this guy a static IP address, or > finding a way for zero-config (aka Bonjour) printing to be activated. > It may require installing software on the computers. Of course, this > could all be true already, and it may be that it goes to sleep, and > the router doesn't have the means of waking it back up. But honestly, > I have so many problems with so many printers with waking that I'm not > surprised at their problems. ;-) > > My own experience suggests that Jon has the right idea. Dynamic IP > address is a problem. I've done Bonjour setups for wireless HP printers > with this problem. It is very annoying and even then it can be touchy, > but can work consistently. Thanks all of you. I'll be checking those issues when I go back to see them. -- Ed Hurst ------------ Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From davidm at hisfeet.net Mon Sep 13 18:57:33 2010 From: davidm at hisfeet.net (davidm at hisfeet.net) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:57:33 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <719623dcbda67a2fe07abb0f829adf8d.squirrel@trinity.xssl.net> I've never used a Brother, but when my Canon MP430 started with that error, nothing I could do would make it work. We finnaly relegated it to use as a stand alone copier, and got an HP. > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Jon Glass wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: >> > Users on this home network often get an error indicating the printer >> is >> > offline. While there are diagnostics available, nothing seems to offer >> a >> way >> > to keep this thing from going offline again. >> > >> I wonder if this is because its IP address is being changed. I would >> recommend finding a way to give this guy a static IP address, or >> finding a way for zero-config (aka Bonjour) printing to be activated. >> It may require installing software on the computers. Of course, this >> could all be true already, and it may be that it goes to sleep, and >> the router doesn't have the means of waking it back up. But honestly, >> I have so many problems with so many printers with waking that I'm not >> surprised at their problems. ;-) >> > > My own experience suggests that Jon has the right idea. Dynamic IP address > is a problem. I've done Bonjour setups for wireless HP printers with this > problem. It is very annoying and even then it can be touchy, but can work > consistently. > > JSR/ > _______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com From david at dmcentral.net Mon Sep 13 19:49:15 2010 From: david at dmcentral.net (David McGlone) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:49:15 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1284425355.20123.0.camel@buddy> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:50 -0500, Ed Hurst wrote: > I'm familiar with wireless networking in most home uses. What's new to me > is wireless printing. A friend bought a Brother laserjet with wireless > capability. There is a home network all Windows. The printer is connected > to the home DSL router, which includes wifi. However, I understand the > printer itself has a wifi capability, apparently not in use right now. > > Users on this home network often get an error indicating the printer is > offline. While there are diagnostics available, nothing seems to offer a > way to keep this thing from going offline again. > > 1. Is there likely something in the printer's internal setup doing this? > 2. Would it work better to use the printer's own wifi or the home network > wifi? > 3. Any other suggestions? > If it's connected to the router that all the other wireless clients are using also, then it seems to be the setup of the router. I say this because if the printer is using a print server of the router, the router will always have the same IP address. Belkin uses 192.168.2.1 and LinkSys uses IIRC 192.168.1.0 So there will always be static IP access to the printer. Another thing to consider is the printer itself may have a timeout or sleep option or such in it's own settings. On my home network, I have 4 wireless computers running through 1 router. This router has the IP address 192.168.2.1. Then I have a 2nd router that features a print server plugged into the 1st router and it's IP address is 192.168.2.254 and it is set up to only be used as an access point for the printer. (I have it set up this way because my printer isn't wireless and my *better* router doesn't have a print server.) So something tells me the router or the printer are not setup correctly because those are the only 2 things that it could be if the network is correctly setup. -- Blessings, David M. From ehurst at soulkiln.org Mon Sep 13 20:19:22 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:19:22 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Wireless Printing In-Reply-To: <1284425355.20123.0.camel@buddy> References: <1284425355.20123.0.camel@buddy> Message-ID: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:49:15 -0500, David McGlone wrote: > So something tells me the router or the printer are not setup correctly > because those are the only 2 things that it could be if the network is > correctly setup. Well, my tentative conclusion is the printer keeps going into powersave or sleep mode, which makes it offline. It requires some physical touch to wake it up. This seems to be the most likely cause given what I have read on discussions of Brother printers. There isn't much config for the router, since it's one of those 2WIRE rigs used by AT&T DSL. -- Ed Hurst ------------ Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From tbutler at ofb.biz Tue Sep 14 00:25:28 2010 From: tbutler at ofb.biz (Timothy Butler) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:25:28 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] OFB: Grace, Love and Fire: On the Burning of Books In-Reply-To: <4C8E4222.7020603@gmail.com> References: <4C8E4222.7020603@gmail.com> Message-ID: <515342F2-69BE-4D90-9352-FF4E5A462393@ofb.biz> And replied to. :-) Tim Sent from my iPad On Sep 13, 2010, at 10:24 AM, sjm wrote: >> A little Sunday discussion fodder.... > > Discussion point posted in blog comments. > > _______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com From fmiller at lightlink.com Sat Sep 18 15:50:52 2010 From: fmiller at lightlink.com (Fred A. Miller) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:50:52 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Microsoft tea party against open source | ZDNet Message-ID: <4C95262C.8010900@lightlink.com> If you have made your career drinking the corporate Kool-Aid (and Redmond can be pretty isolated from the rest of the computing universe) what's going on in the market these days can seem absolutely maddening. Hence the crazy. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tea-party-against-open-source/7387?tag=nl.e539 -- "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." Thomas Jefferson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonglass at usa.net Sat Sep 18 23:38:50 2010 From: jonglass at usa.net (Jon Glass) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:38:50 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Microsoft tea party against open source | ZDNet In-Reply-To: <4C95262C.8010900@lightlink.com> References: <4C95262C.8010900@lightlink.com> Message-ID: My thought on this person's perspective? Clueless. On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > If you have made your career drinking the corporate Kool-Aid? > (and Redmond can be pretty isolated from the rest of the computing > universe) what?s going on in the market these days can seem absolutely > maddening. > Hence the crazy. > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tea-party-against-open-source/7387?tag=nl.e539 > -- > "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." > Thomas Jefferson > > > > -- -Jon Glass Krakow, Poland "I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus From lists at sombragris.org Wed Sep 22 07:40:02 2010 From: lists at sombragris.org (Eduardo Sanchez) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:40:02 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding? Message-ID: <201009220840.03690.lists@sombragris.org> Dear Listmembers, I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore I ask for your help. Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g., "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such as those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight Commander fails. Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename are ASCII usually solves the problem. Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be too burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it? Thanks in advance, Eduardo -- Eduardo Sanchez, B. Th. Traductor P?blico Ingl?s-Espa?ol http://shadow.sombragris.org -------------------------------------------------------------- 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -------------------------------------------------------------- From sjm.mlists at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 09:58:40 2010 From: sjm.mlists at gmail.com (sjm) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:58:40 -0700 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding? In-Reply-To: <201009220840.03690.lists@sombragris.org> References: <201009220840.03690.lists@sombragris.org> Message-ID: <4C9A19A0.9000009@gmail.com> On 09/22/2010 05:40 AM, Eduardo Sanchez wrote: > Dear Listmembers, > > I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore I > ask for your help. > > Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g., > "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed > packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such as > those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight Commander > fails. > > Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename are > ASCII usually solves the problem. > > Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive > folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be too > burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it? I assume you are on linux. Check out the "convmv" package. It can change the encodings for the filenames. (IIRC, Windows prefers cp850 or ISO8859 codepages while Linux prefers utf-8.) sjm From zerothis23 at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 18:01:54 2010 From: zerothis23 at gmail.com (zerothis baud) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:01:54 -0700 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] . Bulk filename recoding Message-ID: On 9/22/10, christiansource-request at ofb.biz wrote: > Send Christiansource mailing list submissions to > christiansource at ofb.biz > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ofb.biz/mailman/listinfo/christiansource_ofb.biz > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > christiansource-request at ofb.biz > > You can reach the person managing the list at > christiansource-owner at ofb.biz > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Christiansource digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Bulk filename recoding? (Eduardo Sanchez) > 2. Re: Bulk filename recoding? (sjm) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:40:02 -0400 > From: Eduardo Sanchez > To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." > > Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding? > Message-ID: <201009220840.03690.lists at sombragris.org> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Listmembers, > > I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore I > ask for your help. > > Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g., > "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed > packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such as > those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight Commander > fails. > > Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename are > ASCII usually solves the problem. > > Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive > folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be too > burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it? > > Thanks in advance, > > > Eduardo > -- > Eduardo Sanchez, B. Th. > Traductor P?blico Ingl?s-Espa?ol > http://shadow.sombragris.org > -------------------------------------------------------------- > 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days > Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: > Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, > And one by one back in the Closet lays. > > -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:58:40 -0700 > From: sjm > To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." > > Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding? > Message-ID: <4C9A19A0.9000009 at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 09/22/2010 05:40 AM, Eduardo Sanchez wrote: >> Dear Listmembers, >> >> I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore >> I >> ask for your help. >> >> Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g., >> "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed >> packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such >> as >> those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight >> Commander >> fails. >> >> Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename >> are >> ASCII usually solves the problem. >> >> Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive >> folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be >> too >> burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it? > > I assume you are on linux. Check out the "convmv" package. It can > change the encodings for the filenames. (IIRC, Windows prefers cp850 or > ISO8859 codepages while Linux prefers utf-8.) > > sjm > > > > ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://ofb.biz/mailman/listinfo/christiansource_ofb.biz > > End of Christiansource Digest, Vol 79, Issue 8 > ********************************************** > The Thunar file manager comes with an excellent bulk renamer with both simple and advanced ways to rename many files at once. From parrisdc at gmail.com Thu Sep 23 09:27:21 2010 From: parrisdc at gmail.com (Don Parris) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:27:21 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding? In-Reply-To: <201009220840.03690.lists@sombragris.org> References: <201009220840.03690.lists@sombragris.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Eduardo Sanchez wrote: > Dear Listmembers, > > I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore I > ask for your help. > > Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g., > "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed > packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such as > those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight Commander > fails. > > Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename are > ASCII usually solves the problem. > > Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive > folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be too > burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it? > > I use pyRenamer - it's a GUI tool. -- D.C. Parris, FMP LEED AP O+M Minister, Security/FM Coordinator, Free Software Advocate https://www.xing.com/profile/Don_Parris http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcparris http://www.facebook.com/don.parris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehurst at soulkiln.org Tue Sep 28 07:50:24 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:50:24 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application Message-ID: I see a lot of writing about building applications to run in the web browser. Is it possible to create a simple webpage on a Windows machine which allows the user to load the page locally, and have inside the browsers what amounts to a nice plain-text editor? Something that will allow you to save the file back to your harddrive? I've seen some really fine text editors on various websites. I'm wondering how complicated it would have to be, but at the very least the spellchecker is built into most browsers, just as you have with many text input areas on blog sites. Ed Hurst -------- Open for Business - http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Blog - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From enzoaeneas at gmail.com Tue Sep 28 08:46:04 2010 From: enzoaeneas at gmail.com (EnzoAeneas) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:46:04 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes it is. Check out Mozilla Skywriter (https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/), formerly Bespin. I keep up with it on the mailing list and all one would need to do is implement the server side pieces so that one could save and load locally. Or you could roll it into an extension for Chrome or Firefox. I wonder though, why? To have a simple plain text editor while browsing or a simple plain text editor that is rendered using a browser and can take advantage of what that environment can offer? I am (in my spare time) working on an SVG browser for Open Clipart Library ( http://www.openclipart.org/) and I am using Firefox as the basis for it. I originally was going to use Mozilla's XUL, but with Mozilla's HTML and Javascript-based Jetpack maturing slowly and the improvement of Javascript libraries and browser adherence to standards, I have decided to make it a web application that can run in the cloud or locally and use HTML5, canvas, svg, XML, XForms, and Javascript. But for what I am trying to accomplish, this makes sense. What use cases do you envision? --Kevin James On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: > > I see a lot of writing about building applications to run in the web > browser. Is it possible to create a simple webpage on a Windows machine > which allows the user to load the page locally, and have inside the > browsers > what amounts to a nice plain-text editor? Something that will allow you to > save the file back to your harddrive? > > I've seen some really fine text editors on various websites. I'm wondering > how complicated it would have to be, but at the very least the spellchecker > is built into most browsers, just as you have with many text input areas on > blog sites. > > Ed Hurst > -------- > Open for Business - http://ofb.biz/ > Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ > Blog - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehurst at soulkiln.org Tue Sep 28 09:36:56 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:36:56 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> > I wonder though, why? To have a simple plain text editor while browsing or > a simple plain text editor that is rendered using a browser and can take > advantage of what that environment can offer? > > What use cases do you envision? It's all about convenience, my friend. If I can have a simple webpage in my file system capable of giving me a text editor in just about any browser -- from lynx to whatever top-of-the-line graphical browser -- I can carry it in my pocket. Further, when chasing academic information across the Net, it's better and less distracting to have an editor in a browser tab than to open yet another application. Having the option to configure such things as soft-wrap versus static wrap, and reformatting of the latter, are necessities, but more bells and whistles don't hurt. The point is it has to run without a webserver behind it, so I assume it will be lots of Jscript. Ed Hurst -------- Open for Business - http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Blog - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From jonglass at usa.net Tue Sep 28 09:58:18 2010 From: jonglass at usa.net (Jon Glass) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:58:18 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> Message-ID: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: > Having the option to configure such things as soft-wrap versus static wrap, > and reformatting of the latter, are necessities, but more bells and whistles > don't hurt. The point is it has to run without a webserver behind it, so I > assume it will be lots of Jscript. > Don't know if this will do what you want, as it seems to need web serving, but there's always this: http://ckeditor.com/ or this: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ or this: http://www.unverse.net/whizzywig-cross-browser-html-editor.html And there are always GoogleDocs and Evernote, both of which are or can be web-based. I can't imagine that there isn't something out there to do what you want! -- ?-Jon Glass Krakow, Poland "I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus From ehurst at soulkiln.org Tue Sep 28 10:34:51 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:34:51 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> Message-ID: I really appreciate your answers, folks. > Don't know if this will do what you want, as it seems to need web > serving, but there's always this: > http://ckeditor.com/ > > or this: > http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ > > or this: > http://www.unverse.net/whizzywig-cross-browser-html-editor.html I looked at those; they point in the right direction. The last one comes closest, but they all emphasize X/HTML formatted output. If I understand correctly each of them requires some sort of database behind them to capture the output. I'm needing something to drop plain text into a file on the same local system, whatever translates to "~/". > And there are always GoogleDocs and Evernote, both of which are or can > be web-based. I need it to run on the local system, particularly avoiding a login. > I can't imagine that there isn't something out there to do what you want! I don't doubt that for a second. I'm not trying to get someone to write an application just for me, but I was wondering if such a thing already existed. I realize anything with Java can run JEdit, but that's not exactly what I want, since I need it to be in a browser window. Ed Hurst -------- Open for Business - http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Blog - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From enzoaeneas at gmail.com Tue Sep 28 13:49:02 2010 From: enzoaeneas at gmail.com (EnzoAeneas) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:49:02 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> Message-ID: You could always roll a javascript editor into an extension for Firefox or Chrome and then add your own save and load buttons that save/load to/from the local file system. OR - have your webpage open up a separate page and write your output to it as text so that you can use the browser's save mechanism and give it a field that you can type a path into to open using XmlHttpRequest and a file:/// protocol. You may even be able to use a dummy upload input on a form so that you can use the open file dialog and then use javascript to read the path from it and upload it using XmlHttpRequest or by just opening a new window to that path and then read the contents of the window using javascript? Wow that looks complicated when written down, but actually shouldn't be too difficult. --kevin On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: > I really appreciate your answers, folks. > > > Don't know if this will do what you want, as it seems to need web > > serving, but there's always this: > > http://ckeditor.com/ > > > > or this: > > http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ > > > > or this: > > http://www.unverse.net/whizzywig-cross-browser-html-editor.html > > I looked at those; they point in the right direction. The last one comes > closest, but they all emphasize X/HTML formatted output. If I understand > correctly each of them requires some sort of database behind them to > capture > the output. I'm needing something to drop plain text into a file on the > same > local system, whatever translates to "~/". > > > And there are always GoogleDocs and Evernote, both of which are or can > > be web-based. > > I need it to run on the local system, particularly avoiding a login. > > > I can't imagine that there isn't something out there to do what you want! > > I don't doubt that for a second. I'm not trying to get someone to write an > application just for me, but I was wondering if such a thing already > existed. I realize anything with Java can run JEdit, but that's not exactly > what I want, since I need it to be in a browser window. > > Ed Hurst > -------- > Open for Business - http://ofb.biz/ > Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ > Blog - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enzoaeneas at gmail.com Tue Sep 28 13:51:04 2010 From: enzoaeneas at gmail.com (EnzoAeneas) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:51:04 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> Message-ID: I used to have an extension in firefox that worked like that, but it saved to your profile. But here is another one that will do what you ask, but is HTML and code oriented: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1002/?id=1002&application=firefox --Kevin On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, EnzoAeneas wrote: > You could always roll a javascript editor into an extension for Firefox or > Chrome and then add your own save and load buttons that save/load to/from > the local file system. > > OR - > have your webpage open up a separate page and write your output to it as > text so that you can use the browser's save mechanism and give it a field > that you can type a path into to open using XmlHttpRequest and a file:/// > protocol. You may even be able to use a dummy upload input on a form so that > you can use the open file dialog and then use javascript to read the path > from it and upload it using XmlHttpRequest or by just opening a new window > to that path and then read the contents of the window using javascript? > > Wow that looks complicated when written down, but actually shouldn't be too > difficult. > > --kevin > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ed Hurst wrote: > >> I really appreciate your answers, folks. >> >> > Don't know if this will do what you want, as it seems to need web >> > serving, but there's always this: >> > http://ckeditor.com/ >> > >> > or this: >> > http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ >> > >> > or this: >> > http://www.unverse.net/whizzywig-cross-browser-html-editor.html >> >> I looked at those; they point in the right direction. The last one comes >> closest, but they all emphasize X/HTML formatted output. If I understand >> correctly each of them requires some sort of database behind them to >> capture >> the output. I'm needing something to drop plain text into a file on the >> same >> local system, whatever translates to "~/". >> >> > And there are always GoogleDocs and Evernote, both of which are or can >> > be web-based. >> >> I need it to run on the local system, particularly avoiding a login. >> >> > I can't imagine that there isn't something out there to do what you >> want! >> >> I don't doubt that for a second. I'm not trying to get someone to write an >> application just for me, but I was wondering if such a thing already >> existed. I realize anything with Java can run JEdit, but that's not >> exactly >> what I want, since I need it to be in a browser window. >> >> Ed Hurst >> -------- >> Open for Business - http://ofb.biz/ >> Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ >> Blog - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list >> Christiansource at ofb.biz >> http://cs.uninetsolutions.com >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehurst at soulkiln.org Tue Sep 28 14:54:41 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:54:41 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1>

Message-ID: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:51:04 -0500, EnzoAeneas wrote: > I used to have an extension in firefox that worked like that, but it > saved to your profile. But here is another one that will do what you > ask, but is HTML and code oriented: > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1002/?id=1002&application=firefox Now that one is really close. Too bad it won't work with the current Firefox. But I'd rather it not be browser specific. Oh, well; I can dream. I'll try to get with someone who has time to code something like this in JScript or whatever. Thanks again, everyone. -- Ed Hurst ------------ Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/ From christiansource at davosmith.co.uk Tue Sep 28 15:16:36 2010 From: christiansource at davosmith.co.uk (Davo Smith) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:16:36 +0100 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Ed Hurst wrote: > > I see a lot of writing about building applications to run in the web > browser. Is it possible to create a simple webpage on a Windows machine > which allows the user to load the page locally, and have inside the browsers > what amounts to a nice plain-text editor? Something that will allow you to > save the file back to your harddrive? > > I've seen some really fine text editors on various websites. I'm wondering > how complicated it would have to be, but at the very least the spellchecker > is built into most browsers, just as you have with many text input areas on > blog sites. I might be getting this wrong, but would tiddlywiki work for you? http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ This is a single html file, with built-in javascript and css, which can save over itself or be saved out to a copy. Good for taking and organising notes and should be portable to any computer with a reasonably up-to-date browser (I think it chokes on IE5). Davo From jonglass at usa.net Tue Sep 28 16:11:52 2010 From: jonglass at usa.net (Jon Glass) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:11:52 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1>

Message-ID: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Ed Hurst wrote: > But I'd rather it not be browser specific. Oh, well; I can dream. I'll try > to get with someone who has time to code something like this in JScript or > whatever. > As I did some reading on this topic, I discovered that the problem may actually be the one thing you want--saving to the hard drive. It turns out that Java has to run in a sandbox in the browser, and you need certified extensions, etc. in order to access the file system. Since these are all controlled by a centralized agency, and, apparently, must be paid for, it probably isn't going to happen via a local java or javascript app. :-( And yes, my understanding is likely wrong. I was going to suggest Tiddlywiki, having played with it in the past, but since plain text file saving is what is wanted, it doesn't really fit the bill, but may be an acceptable alternative. -- ?-Jon Glass Krakow, Poland "I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus From fbax at sympatico.ca Tue Sep 28 16:26:20 2010 From: fbax at sympatico.ca (Frank Bax) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:26:20 -0400 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1>

Message-ID: Jon Glass wrote: > As I did some reading on this topic, I discovered that the problem may > actually be the one thing you want--saving to the hard drive. It turns > out that Java has to run in a sandbox in the browser, and you need > certified extensions, etc. in order to access the file system. Since > these are all controlled by a centralized agency, and, apparently, > must be paid for, it probably isn't going to happen via a local java > or javascript app. :-( And yes, my understanding is likely wrong. As I was catching up on this thread; I'm thinking ... How is this request even possible to implement? I always thought that for a website to be "safe" to visit there must be no risk that any webpage from the site is ever able to write to your hard disk. Therefore, these appear to me to be conflicting requirements. Since security never seems to stop some coders from writing some types of code; I suppose someone will find a way to do it; but I was under the impression that the browser should prevent this. It could be argued that loading the page from hard disk should allow writing to the hard disk; but I'm thinking that will open another can of worms. An application simply needs to confuse the browser into thinking the page was loaded locally instead of from "outside". From jonglass at usa.net Tue Sep 28 16:36:25 2010 From: jonglass at usa.net (Jon Glass) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:36:25 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1>

Message-ID: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Frank Bax wrote: > It could be argued that loading the page from hard disk should allow writing > to the hard disk; but I'm thinking that will open another can of worms. ?An > application simply needs to confuse the browser into thinking the page was > loaded locally instead of from "outside". modifying the file that was opened is one thing. That seems to be common, but opening a "file save" dialog or "file open" dialog is another matter entirely, as is saving to other files. Oddly, my web browser of choice has a built-in source editor, which makes moneylog.html a nifty tool--too bad it's too under-featured for me. But in any case, if browsers could open and save text files themselves, like mine (Omniweb for Mac OSX), this wouldn't even be an issue for Ed. ;-) -- ?-Jon Glass Krakow, Poland "I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus From ciamarie at my180.net Tue Sep 28 13:18:12 2010 From: ciamarie at my180.net (Cia Watson) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:18:12 +0000 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> Message-ID: <4CA23164.7050401@my180.net> On 09/28/2010 03:34 PM, Ed Hurst wrote: > I really appreciate your answers, folks. > And now I'm going to weigh in with a reply, too. One thing you might want to try is Zim Wiki. I use it on Fedora and I just installed it on Linux Mint Debian, also. It's not browser based, it's a stand-alone app that I use basically for desktop notes and reminders, etc. Here's a description: Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to your desktop. For example every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing page. Pages are ordered in a hierarchical structure that gives it the look and feel of an outliner. This tool can be used to keep track of TODO lists or ideas, to take notes during a meeting or to draft any other kind of text (blog entries, important mails, etc.). From ehurst at soulkiln.org Tue Sep 28 21:41:24 2010 From: ehurst at soulkiln.org (Ed Hurst) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:41:24 -0500 Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application In-Reply-To: <4CA23164.7050401@my180.net> References: <2C66896B44674AF5B535460698BD6C40@user1> <4CA23164.7050401@my180.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:18:12 -0500, Cia Watson wrote: > And now I'm going to weigh in with a reply, too. One thing you might > want to try is Zim Wiki. My, this has been very educational. As some of you suggested, I doubt it's possible now that we've discussed it. Again, I appreciate the help in talking through this. I will probably just keep a copy of JEdit and forget about the browser-based. Ed Hurst ------------ Associate Editor, Open for Business: http://ofb.biz/ Applied Bible - http://soulkiln.org/ Kiln of the Soul - http://soulkiln.blogspot.com/

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