[Tfug] remove from mailing list

Claude Rubinson rubinson at u.arizona.edu
Thu Dec 6 16:01:54 MST 2007 

I assumed that you made a tidy fortune off of these people.  Doesn't it
still cost $150 to be removed from the list?

C.

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:54:40PM -0700, Jon wrote:
> Requests like this still amaze me...
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> myantispam at comcast.net wrote:
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> >> 1. yasq - how to mount a usb stick - vfat (jblais) 
> >> 2. [OT] Dual-phone bluetooth headsets (Choprboy) 
> >> 3. Re: JON CONTACT ME OFF LIST (Jon) 
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> >> Message: 1 
> >> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:29:16 -0700 
> >> From: "jblais" 
> >> Subject: [Tfug] yasq - how to mount a usb stick - vfat 
> >> To: "Tfug" 
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> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
> >>
> >> Hello 
> >>
> >> more stoopid questions today.. 
> >>
> >> generally when I stick a usb memory stick into the Fedora 5 Linux box, it 
> >> automagically gets done. I looked into fstab, it doesn't mention anything 
> >> about it. Apparently FC5, or gnome, or whatever, does it's magic in a 
> >> Winderseque way. 
> >>
> >> So now I made an application that does the mount, because I used udev to 
> >> always put special device in a known place. When I look at dev, the stick 
> >> may show us as sda, or sdb, or... depending on if it was unmounted 
> >> correctly (who knows what a user may do), or which plug it was pushed into, 
> >> or the phase of the moon (more windersesque). I disabled autobrowse, 
> >> because I want my app to look like an instrument, not a desktop. Anyway, 
> >> without auto browse, I needed a udev rule to put whatever new sd*1 into a 
> >> known place depending on the actual usb port. But doing so, only mounts the 
> >> special device, and my app now needs ot mount the file system. 
> >>
> >> So, without a good example from fstab, or from seeing what the automagic 
> >> mount is really doing (which seems OK), I now need to know what parameters 
> >> are best. I do not want is the automagic renaming of files - that is names 
> >> like HELLO.TXT should not be changed to hello.txt and 
> >> ThisIsAStoopidlyLargeNameThatSomePeopleInsistOn.abc being changed to 
> >> THIS~024.TXT or some other stuff that causes me a headache when I try to 
> >> re-locate a file once written to a stick. 
> >>
> >> Anyway, I'm currently using something like: 
> >> --snip-- 
> >> uid_t tUserID = getuid() ; 
> >> gid_t tGroupID = getgid() ; 
> >> char szUserInfo[128] ; 
> >> sprintf( szUserInfo, "uid=%d,gid=%d,umask=0000,shortname=winnt", 
> >> (int)tUserID, (int)tGroupID ) ; 
> >> if ( mount( "/dev/myPort1, //udev rules do this for me 
> >> "/home/user500/Stick1", //I expect file system here 
> >> "vfat", 
> >> MS_MGC_VAL|MS_NODEV|MS_SYNCHRONOUS, 
> >> szUserInfo ) ) 
> >> --unsnip-- 
> >>
> >> this should be the same as: 
> >> $ mount -t vfat -o uid=500,gid=500,umaks=0000,shortname=winnt 
> >> /dev/myPort1 /home/user500/Stick1 
> >>
> >> It seems to work. the /dev/myPort1 symlink set by udev rules seems to be 
> >> reliable enough. My program always knows to check /home/user500/Stick1 -- 
> >> and it seems to work 
> >> BUT, I've had enough problems getting all this figured out an working, so I 
> >> just thought to ask y'all if anyone knows of or uses some better mount 
> >> params. 
> >>
> >> Thanks 
> >>
> >> Joe 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------ 
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> >> Message: 2 
> >> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:29:47 -0700 
> >> From: Choprboy 
> >> Subject: [Tfug] [OT] Dual-phone bluetooth headsets 
> >> To: Tucson Free Unix Group 
> >> Message-ID: <200712052129.48331.choprboy at dakotacom.net> 
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 
> >>
> >> Anybody know of or happy with a particular bluetooth headset? Specifically I 
> >> am looking for a dual-pairing headset, one that will pair with 2 or more 
> >> phones at the same time and allow you to switch between. 
> >>
> >> Adrian 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------ 
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> >> Message: 3 
> >> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:40:31 -0700 
> >> From: Jon 
> >> Subject: Re: [Tfug] JON CONTACT ME OFF LIST 
> >> To: Tucson Free Unix Group 
> >> Message-ID: <47577D3F.4090308 at flatwan.net> 
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> >>
> >> "nat" is spelled "NAT" since it's an abbreviation. 
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Jon 
> >>
> >>
> >> David Rice wrote: 
> >>     
> >>> My nat is configured properly 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 12/5/07, Jon wrote: 
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> No, he's not as much of a 'net nazi as Grossman. 
> >>>>
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> Jon 
> >>>>
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> >>>> Tyler Kilian wrote: 
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> >>>>         
> >>>>> I bet you block ident too. 
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> Wankers 
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> -- 
> >>>>> Tyler Kilian 
> >>>>> Krispy Kreme - The Edible Linux 
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