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January 5

Using USB digital joystick adapter on VICE?

I built and installed the "hit-atari-retrobit" package that allows me to use a classic digital Atari-type joystick on a modern Linux PC via USB. E-UAE and FS-UAE recognise it and the joystick works. However, VICE shows no sign of recognising the joystick. The joystick configuration menu only shows keyboard and analog joystick options. How do I configure the USB joystick adapter to use on VICE? JIP | Talk

help required from experienced authors for regarding references

hi sir, i just added the page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arowana_Consulting which has been declined due to lack of sources of notability. I added a number of sources but wikipedia accepted only two. kindly help me finding more and please suggest if adding the links to pdf of certifications acquired by the company could be of some help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rachelrini2 (talk • contribs) 06:38, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Most Google hits seem to be self-publicity which is not allowed here. You need to find more mentions of the company in the press to establish notability. Are you an employee of the company? If so, there might be a conflict of interest. Dbfirs 07:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

See WP:SPS, if appied, only. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 11:57, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Seems to me like this article should be deleted. WP:ORG says that we only have articles about companies that have been written about extensively. We require: "verifiable evidence that the organization or product has attracted the notice of reliable sources unrelated to the organization or product. Notability requires only that these necessary sources have been published". The three so-called references in the article are to a review of a movie made by one of the owners of the company (utterly irrelevant), to a mapping company who happen to have an entry for it (they have an entry for my next door neighbor's wife who makes dresses for little girls...please don't tell me that her business is notable because of that!)...and an entry in WikiBusiness.org - which is a place that anyone can create a record for their own business - essentially self-publishing. So there is absolutely ZERO notability here.

Rather than creating an article, then looking for evidence to defend producing it, instead you should hold off from creating the article until you have the evidence you need. For that reason, this article should be (and almost certainly will be) deleted - and only re-created if evidence of notability is found.

SteveBaker (talk) 18:30, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

(FYI: The article has now been deleted, so the question is moot. SteveBaker (talk) 15:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC))

Mount an external drive in Linux such that non-root can write to it

Linux is quite possibly the most broken family of operating systems when it comes permissions and file systems. All I need to do on Windows and Mac OS X is just plug in my hard drive or flash drive and I can edit files/directories, delete them, and move them around with out fuss. On Linux, I need root privileges to mount something. That part isn't too much of a hassle. What I can't figure out how to do is mount a drive such that my user account can write to it. Using root to do this with just screw up the permissions of the files that I create while running as superuser. Is there anyway to accomplish this without using chown or chmod either? — Melab±1 ☎ 21:19, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

To the best of my knowledge, you do need chown or chmod. With chown, you can tell Linux that the drive belongs to your user account to begin with, so you don't need to worry about getting root access any longer. With chmod, you can add write permission for your user account as well. There is a mount option "user" you can add to your /etc/fstab file as root, that will allow you to mount and umount the external drive without root privileges. This won't affect permissions on the actual files on the drive however. JIP | Talk 21:37, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

What distro are you using? In my experience, most newer distros do something very Mac- or Windows-like when a piece of removable media is inserted, automatically mounting it and opening a folder display on it, with permissions set up so that the current user can access it. And even if you're doing things "old school" -- invoking the mount command by hand, perhaps in conjunction with /etc/fstab entries -- as JIP pointed out, the user mount option in fstab should do just what you want. —Steve Summit (talk) 00:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

The minimal installation of Ubuntu 14.10. — Melab±1 ☎ 01:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I use Fedora, which is much less user-friendly than Ubuntu. When I plug in a USB drive, it shows up in my file browser. I click on the USB drive and it mounts so I can read/write to it. This makes me assume that either you are using a very broken version of Ubuntu or you are mounting on the command line as root - meaning that the drive is mounted by root, not by you. If so, make sure you pass the uid of your account to the mount command. Otherwise, it will me mounted as root. 209.149.113.90 (talk) 18:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

It's completely command line, so I have to use root. In any case, the graphical version requires root, too, I think. And do you mean "more user friendly"? — Melab±1 ☎ 01:00, 8 January 2015 (UTC)