Help with getting bluetooth to work (Jim Smith) and (Colin Law)
Jim Smith
jim at oz.net
Mon Dec 23 00:22:09 UTC 2013
I apologize for not saying that I use a USB Bluetooth dongle to add Bluetooth to my old laptop. Mostly so I can listen to music on a better speaker. Sony VAIO with 12.04LTS.
Sent from Jim's iPad
> On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:24, nikolaigauntiet at estelacm.sld.cu wrote:
>
> Hi Jim and Colin, well my laptop only has one light on it and it
> represents both the bluetooth and the wireless light so its own, just not
> on when I check the bluetooth symbol in ubuntu. For some reason its
> grayed out, I was thinking it might be due to the fact that I might have
> to run a command in terminal to figure out how to turn on bluetooth. What
> are the bluetooth commands in terminal?
>
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>> 1. Re: cpuminer possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR (thufir)
>> 2. Re: cpuminer possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR (Colin Law)
>> 3. Help with getting bluetooth to work
>> (nikolaigauntiet at estelacm.sld.cu)
>> 4. Re: Help with getting bluetooth to work (Colin Law)
>> 5. Re: Ruby and ri(1) ruby information (Kevin O'Gorman)
>> 6. Re: Help with getting bluetooth to work (Jim Smith)
>> 7. Re: Ruby and ri(1) ruby information (Colin Law)
>> 8. Re: Ruby and ri(1) ruby information (Kevin O'Gorman)
>> 9. Re: firefox blocks java (Tommy Trussell)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:03:52 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com>
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Re: cpuminer possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
>> Message-ID: <l8v1so$cp6$2 at ger.gmane.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
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>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:54:29 -0600, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>>
>>
>>> After ./configure runs you also need to run make all install usually.
>>
>>
>> I was running minerd the wrong way:
>>
>> ./minerd
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1syoux/
>> how_to_mine_dogecoin_using_digitalocean_cloud_vps/
>>
>>
>> although it's not likely that my pc will ever mine much, I'll put it in
>> the background and see what happens :)
>>
>>
>>
>> -Thufir
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:38:14 +0000
>> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: cpuminer possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
>> Message-ID:
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
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>>> On 19 December 2013 15:03, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:54:29 -0600, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> After ./configure runs you also need to run make all install usually.
>>>
>>>
>>> I was running minerd the wrong way:
>>>
>>> ./minerd
>>
>> That is what William told you.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:06:22 -0500 (EST)
>> From: nikolaigauntiet at estelacm.sld.cu
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Help with getting bluetooth to work
>> Message-ID: <48f5ee9d8661d14d083edce244901f96.squirrel at server-main>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>> Hi how do I turn on the bluetooth in ubuntu 13.04 or does the kernel not
>> support bluetooth? I have tried to get bluetooth to work for months but
>> the light never comes on its, always grayed.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nikolai Gauntlet Cassanova
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:17:58 +0000
>> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: Help with getting bluetooth to work
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>>> On 19 December 2013 16:06, <nikolaigauntiet at estelacm.sld.cu> wrote:
>>> Hi how do I turn on the bluetooth in ubuntu 13.04 or does the kernel not
>>> support bluetooth? I have tried to get bluetooth to work for months but
>>> the light never comes on its, always grayed.
>>
>> Does you laptop PC have a hot key for switching it on? On mine it is
>> Fn+F12.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:14:59 -0800
>> From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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>> Subject: Re: Ruby and ri(1) ruby information
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>> kevin at treat:~$ apt-cache policy ruby
>> ruby:
>> Installed: 4.9
>> Candidate: 4.9
>> Version table:
>> *** 4.9 0
>> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64
>> Packages
>> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> kevin at treat:~$ ruby -v
>> ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
>> kevin at treat:~$ which ruby
>> /usr/bin/ruby
>> kevin at treat:~$ which ri
>> /usr/bin/ri
>> kevin at treat:~$ ri -v
>> ri 3.9.4
>> kevin at treat:~$
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 17 December 2013 05:49, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I recently would up with a book on Ruby and got curious about it.
>>>> I discovered I have Ruby installed. This was a fresh install of
>>>> xubuntu 13.04, so I assume it came with the distro.
>>>>
>>>> Following the book (The Ruby Programming Language, O'Reilly) in the
>>>> first few pages it talks about things that come with. Including the
>>>> ri command, and it gives examples. None of them work -- they all say
>>>> "Nothing known about x"
>>>>
>>>> Is there something I have done wrong? Is there something I can do to
>>>> put it right? Or is this time to file a bug?
>>>
>>> What do you get for
>>> apt-cache policy ruby
>>>
>>> and
>>> ruby -v
>>>
>>> and
>>> which ruby
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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>> ------------------------------
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>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:16:23 -0800
>> From: Jim Smith <jim at oz.net>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: Help with getting bluetooth to work
>> Message-ID: <362FFFD5-40A7-4B1A-B69E-CC7AEFDD2C1F at oz.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> I have to use a dongle with my old Sony laptop, but it pairs and works
>> fine for me.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Sent from Jim's iPad
>>
>>
>>>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:17, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 19 December 2013 16:06, <nikolaigauntiet at estelacm.sld.cu> wrote:
>>>> Hi how do I turn on the bluetooth in ubuntu 13.04 or does the kernel
>>>> not
>>>> support bluetooth? I have tried to get bluetooth to work for months
>>>> but
>>>> the light never comes on its, always grayed.
>>>
>>> Does you laptop PC have a hot key for switching it on? On mine it is
>>> Fn+F12.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nikolai Gauntlet Cassanova
>>>>
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>> Message: 7
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:26:44 +0000
>> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: Ruby and ri(1) ruby information
>> Message-ID:
>> <CAL=0gLv5-OhVafre-YUcN7jTgzfGYytg+PkmN5--DUWC5qKT3w at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>>> On 19 December 2013 21:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> kevin at treat:~$ apt-cache policy ruby
>>> ruby:
>>> Installed: 4.9
>>> Candidate: 4.9
>>> Version table:
>>> *** 4.9 0
>>> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64
>>> Packages
>>> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>> kevin at treat:~$ ruby -v
>>> ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
>>> kevin at treat:~$ which ruby
>>> /usr/bin/ruby
>>> kevin at treat:~$ which ri
>>> /usr/bin/ri
>>> kevin at treat:~$ ri -v
>>> ri 3.9.4
>>> kevin at treat:~$
>>
>> Kevin, you know better than to top post :)
>> That looks ok, so what do you see for
>> ri String
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 17 December 2013 05:49, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I recently would up with a book on Ruby and got curious about it.
>>>>> I discovered I have Ruby installed. This was a fresh install of
>>>>> xubuntu 13.04, so I assume it came with the distro.
>>>>>
>>>>> Following the book (The Ruby Programming Language, O'Reilly) in the
>>>>> first few pages it talks about things that come with. Including the
>>>>> ri command, and it gives examples. None of them work -- they all say
>>>>> "Nothing known about x"
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something I have done wrong? Is there something I can do to
>>>>> put it right? Or is this time to file a bug?
>>>>
>>>> What do you get for
>>>> apt-cache policy ruby
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>> ruby -v
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>> which ruby
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
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>> Message: 8
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:51:52 -0800
>> From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: Ruby and ri(1) ruby information
>> Message-ID:
>> <CAGVXcSYRVv+24S8kyNi4WBZem4T5EF2szuhrp=7Hto7eXNUE9w at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 19 December 2013 21:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> kevin at treat:~$ apt-cache policy ruby
>>>> ruby:
>>>> Installed: 4.9
>>>> Candidate: 4.9
>>>> Version table:
>>>> *** 4.9 0
>>>> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64
>>>> Packages
>>>> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>>> kevin at treat:~$ ruby -v
>>>> ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
>>>> kevin at treat:~$ which ruby
>>>> /usr/bin/ruby
>>>> kevin at treat:~$ which ri
>>>> /usr/bin/ri
>>>> kevin at treat:~$ ri -v
>>>> ri 3.9.4
>>>> kevin at treat:~$
>>>
>>> Kevin, you know better than to top post :)
>>> That looks ok, so what do you see for
>>> ri String
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 17 December 2013 05:49, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I recently would up with a book on Ruby and got curious about it.
>>>>>> I discovered I have Ruby installed. This was a fresh install of
>>>>>> xubuntu 13.04, so I assume it came with the distro.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Following the book (The Ruby Programming Language, O'Reilly) in the
>>>>>> first few pages it talks about things that come with. Including the
>>>>>> ri command, and it gives examples. None of them work -- they all say
>>>>>> "Nothing known about x"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there something I have done wrong? Is there something I can do to
>>>>>> put it right? Or is this time to file a bug?
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you get for
>>>>> apt-cache policy ruby
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>> ruby -v
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>> which ruby
>>>>>
>>>>> Colin
>>
>> So you chided me on top too? It happens just like typos -- click
>> before thinking. Sorry.
>>
>> Anyway,
>>
>> kevin at treat:~$ ri String
>> Nothing known about String
>> kevin at treat:~$
>>
>> Same for Array, or any of a bunch of others.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin O'Gorman
>>
>> programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
>> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>>
>>
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>> Message: 9
>> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 22:22:33 -0600
>> From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: firefox blocks java
>> Message-ID:
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>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:43 AM, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:59:47 -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> I'm running an old system, and plan a clean-install. In the
>>> meantime,
>>>>> my JVM is so out of date, apparently, I can't play yahoo games.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The title of your message says "Firefox blocks Java." Yes, it does,
>>> EVEN
>>>> IF you have the latest version, because everyone got sick of staying
>>> on
>>>> top the continual serious Java security exploits. Mozilla has just
>>> made
>>>> it a bit harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried unblocking Java in Firefox?
>>>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-enable-java-if-its-been-
>>> blocked
>>>
>>> I tried that earlier, but it didn't seem to work, I don't think. I ran
>>> some updates and was now able to enable it.
>>>
>>> I appreciate the security angle, but I wonder how much of that is
>>> specific
>>> to Windows.
>>
>> The Java vulnerabilities I have heard of are specific to *Java*, which
>> runs
>> on Windows, Mac OS and many cell phones and embedded devices. Java has
>> access to your network, your hard drive, your camera, your microphone...
>> just about everything on your system. That's why folks get antsy about
>> vulnerabilities in it. Some of these are serious vulnerabilities in
>> ADDITION to whatever "holes" exist in your operating system, giving
>> malware
>> authors additional weaknesses they can exploit.
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