Re: [Eug-lug] Free Computer/Electronic Stuff

Bob Miller wrote: EUGLUG is currently seeking donations of a new Ethernet hub. The old hub has gotten flaky. We'd like an 8 port unit. Mr. O generously donated a brand new eight port 10/100 autosensing switch at tonight's clinic. What a guy! Anyway, EUGLUG is no longer seeking a hub

[Eug-lug] test message

This is a test, not a quiz. Please ignore. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman

Re: [Eug-lug] Moving herd to mailman?

to move the think_python mailing list from efn to euglug in the near future, too. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug] bad terms

Rob Hudson wrote: Is it ok what I did? I think so. RedHat, Gentoo, and Debian woody use a permission of crw-rw-rw- for /dev/ptmx. /dev/ptmx is used to allocate ptys, and allocating a pty shouldn't need to be a privileged operation. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft

[Eug-lug] KNOPPIX 3.4

Does anyone have the new KNOPPIX 3.4 ISO yet? I got about half of it through BitTorrent last night, but this morning I can't talk to the tracker. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] Anyone else heading up to the MWVLUG Meeting - Custom Knoppix Live CD?

through Eugene, though, so I'll see you guys there. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] zeroing my pc

the PC is. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Does anyone have an ESCAPE FROM THE MATRIX?

Ben Barrett wrote: And since you want to play the sarcasm game, I'll offer that I post to this list to get away from civilization :)) Uh-oh. Ken and Ben are about to get away from civil... discussion. (-: -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http

Re: [Eug-lug] Geek Book Review Snippets

: it lists every fact, but doesn't give much guidance as to what to do. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo and moving to new hardware

genflags # /usr/sbin/info2flags CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe You can copy the variables into /etc/make.conf and as you update your system, more and more of it will become optimized for your new box. -- Bob

[Eug-lug] freegeek.org (was: thursday meeting!)

of magnitude easier than trying to get concensus from the existing OPN people. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug] thursday meeting!

. So we committed to a date and we committed to a place, and we try to support that for long periods. The time, Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:00, has been stable for longer than I've lived in Eugene. The place has not. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting

Re: [Eug-lug] Country Fair?

that they be returned in the same condition as when they were lent. http://www.jogger-egg.com/photos/index.cgi?mode=imagealbum=/winterFriendsimage=DSCN4448.JPG -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] thursday meeting!

-- we'll see what happens. In any case, next week's meeting is in The Buzz. I even posted a message to the EUGLUG web site. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] EUGLUG Book Review Ratings

, it was suggested that we use distinctive icons and award books zero to N icons. If we want to do that, I suggest ducks as icons. The duck is strongly associated with Eugene and the U of O, and it looks vaguely like a penguin. (-: -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting

[Eug-lug] HDTV in Eugene

Are any of the Eugene TV stations broadcasting in HDTV yet? Is Comcast distributing any HDTV content? Thanks... -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] thursday meeting location/time?

level might be awful, but it might not be. At the Indigo District, we're guaranteed earsplitting sound. I don't know of any alternatives to those two places. I'd invite everyone to our house, but it's a little out of the way. (-: Plus, the bandwidth sucks. -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] meeting tomorrow?

. AGENDA 1. Meeting locations for summer If you want to add any topics to the agenda, let me know... If you want to influence the outcome, be there by 7:00! -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com

[Eug-lug] mail test

mail test, please ignore. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] packet tracing and firefox

. Look at the actual conversation. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Dynamic and third party DNS providers?

://dynip.com http://no-ip.com http://zoneedit.com -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman

Re: Mailman vulnerability //was [Eug-lug] test message

automatically converted all mailman's data to the new format . (But don't forget to restart qrunner like I did. (-: ) -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] Show 'n' Tell at The Strand tonight

Jason wrote: On the topic of potential meeting places though, has anyone thrown Cornucopia in to the mix yet? I've never been, but I know that it has wireless. Selfishly, it's also near home :) Isn't it also very crowded? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software

[Eug-lug] Thursday Clinic Locations

This is the official announcement. Beginning next Thursday, June 17th, EUGLUG clinics will be back at the OPN offices, 43 W. Broadway. This is not a permanent arrangement, but it should hold for several weeks at least. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software

Re: [Eug-lug] Fwd: Linus is moving to Oregon!

and add Maryland. Sorry... -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Show 'n' Tell at The Strand tonight

Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: At tonight's clinic, I will be demonstrating two amusing hacks (they amused *me* at least). One will appeal to traditional Unix users, and the other will appeal to the graphically oriented. Well, what

Re: [Eug-lug] re-install grub menu?

you how to create a working grub configuration from whole cloth. www.gentoo.org. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug] [Fwd: EFN Invoice On Account: 0084897]

it at all? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] re-install grub menu?

mean boot partition? Yes, it wants to know where /boot is. hdb1 would be (hd1,0). I don't know why it isn't seeing your menu.lst. Syntax error in the file, maybe? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug] TV Tuner Card

in xawtv? grab, I think. What do these terms mean? What about GL? GL and DRI generally work. What else is on your display at the same time? A dozen xterms, an emacs, and a KDE desktop. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo and packages

Rob Hudson wrote: Put net-www/apache-2.0 in my /etc/portage/package.mask and that kept me at using apache-1.3.31. Nice. Thanks. I think you also want the USE flag -apache2. That flag doesn't affect Apache itself, but affects lots of packages that are built on apache. -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: New to the area questions.

/ , it's a Eugene/Springfield restaurant review site. * Disclaimer: Willamette.net gives EUGLUG rack space so we'll send customers their way. So do mention EUGLUG when you talk to them. (-: -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com

[Eug-lug] SCO: Pitfalls to Avoid

=articlepid=161530#c161624 -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: New to the area questions.

Day to Columbus Day. (All except Neal.) -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman

Re: [Eug-lug] SCO: Pitfalls to Avoid

Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:22:53PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: Lest we forget what a surreal farce SCO vs IBM is, here is an excerpt from a recent Groklaw posting. Is it over? Not really. None of the five US lawsuits has been resolved. -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] packet decoding?

? __ _ ___ /| /|_) (__ \ \ / |/ E T |_) ___) \__).org -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug] High bandwidth in Portland

a good time to switch). Has he investigated Personal Telco? http://www.personaltelco.net/ Also, several of my friends recommend Speakeasy as a nationwide DSL reseller who's geek-friendly. I don't know of any Portland-local ISPs, but that's just my ignorance. -- Bob Miller

[Eug-lug] MIDI on Gentoo

software MIDI synth, which was a very fun project. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] Mdklinux NWL Flash: French Government Chooses Mandrakesoft to Replace 1500 Windows NT servers (fwd)

parliament last week rescinding their minister's vote in favor of software patents. Have any other countries followed suit? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] trusting md5sums?

/dvdimage -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] August 28th is Software Freedom Day.

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ Has anyone heard of this? Is anyone interested in doing something on that day? It's a Saturday. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] August 28th is Software Freedom Day.

FLOSS even better. (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] Domain name registrar question

IP addresses in an static-oriented DNS server typically takes about 48 hours to take effect globally. Does that clarify things? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Eug-lug] Netraverse Freebie

://www.netraverse.com/LUG/ -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] MyDoom is back.

T. Joseph CARTER wrote: wait, remote root exploit + damaging system files + highly contageous rates a 6!? What do winviruses have to do to get a 9, sheesh? Make your monitor explode, maybe? Infect Unix boxes. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting

Re: [Eug-lug] Reading data to multiple variables

-- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Reading data to multiple variables

do ... done -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] TV Tuner Card

. Unfortunately, there was nothing good on. (-: Thanks for your help! -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug] EDITOR'S NOTE:

. What's W^X? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] External SATA

80% of the CPU. My IDE interface is an Intel ICH5 (i865 chipset). I haven't tried hotplugging it. I also have one USB drive, a Maxtor OneTouch. I've been using it for real work for about four months under both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I've had no problems once I got it sorted out initially. -- Bob

Re: [Eug-lug] Gentoo hardened

will skew a system-level benchmark -- a benchmark that's 15% disk bound on an i486 might be 80% disk bound on a Pentium 4. But, since I'm not able to donate a 3GHz system to the cause... (-: -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com

Re: [Eug-lug] External SATA

interfaces will be more expensive and/or less tested. Are you building an offsite backup system or a commuter disk or what? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] esound and devfs?

this message on Sunday. Check that you've enabled the alsasound startup script. # rc-update show | grep alsa # rc-update add alsasound default If you're using a 2.6 kernel, you should be using ALSA. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http

Re: [Eug-lug] External SATA

like a crap shoot. As to the testing firewire has received, Apple has been using it for a long time. Yes, but Firewire on Intel Linux has seen a lot less use. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Eug-lug] Contacting Jason

Does anybody have a phone number for Jason Dommasch? I have a semi-urgent need to get ahold of him, and he isn't reading mail today. Thanks. (Please reply to me privately. Jason probably doesn't want his phone number archived on the web.) -- Bob Miller Kbob

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo no network install.

Timothy Bolz wrote: This time I won't emerg sync until I'm online via dialup. How did you sync without dialup? Sync pulls the latest files off Gentoo's servers, and you need a net connection to do that. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http

[Eug-lug] Announcement: EUGLUG presentation THIS SATURDAY

in Corvallis in September. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] Re: [linux] Announcement: EUGLUG presentation THIS SATURDAY

Hal's presentation is tomorrow. Don't forget. Bob Miller wrote: Sorry for the short notice, but we're delighted to have a presentation for this Saturday. Hal Pomeranz is back, and he's talking about hackers. Topic: How They Do It: Unix Hacking 101 Speaker: Hal Pomeranz

Re: [Eug-lug] Setting up DNS

Garl Grigsby wrote: DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. That's too short. Try 10-20 seconds. (Sorry, I don't know how to tune that using BIND.) -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] batch convert

to arithmetic imprecision You can obviously embed that line in scripts in myriad ways. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug] Gentoo - what use flags did a package compile with?

check what USE flags Portage would use now to install a package like this. emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 -vp Also, it looks like this file lists the USE flags xorg-x11 was built with. /var/db/pkg/x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1/USE -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft

Re: [Eug-lug] e-mail test

before? I'm reasonably happy with my own mail setup, but I'm concerned that there may be areas of functionality that I've never even thought of. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] Dell Service?

onto the drive.) -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Dell Service?

/hda2 # ro means readonly # mount /dev/hdd2 /mnt/hdd2 # (cd /mnt/hda2; tar cf - .) | (cd /mnt/hdd2; tar xfp -) -- or -- # cp -a /mnt/hda2/. /mnt/hdd # instead of tar | tar For swap, just create new swap partitions. # mkswap /dev/hd(whatever) -- Bob

Re: [Eug-lug] Flash Plugin for Mozilla 1.3

directory back, either pick the most likely one or copy the .so files to all of them. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] Dell Service?

Ken Barber wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 6:09 pm, Bob Miller wrote: No. dd only works if the new filesystem is exactly the same size as the old. Which means that it would always work, since dd always makes the new filesystem the same size as the old one. I wonder if you

[Eug-lug] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [linux] InstallFest + GregKH]

:: http://alex.polvi.net/ ___ linux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lug.osuosl.org/ - End forwarded message - -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Eug-lug] TCP problem in kernel 2.6.8

better. Any ideas? The kernel has the gentoo patches (gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3). The hardware is a P4 with a 3com 3c904 gigabit Ethernet chip on the motherboard. I'm using the sk98lin driver, built into the kernel (not a module). -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft

Re: [Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

care of all that crap. Use Bugzilla. Plan on one person becoming a bugzilla expert. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug] TCP problem in kernel 2.6.8

Thanks, Jake. That was the problem. Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: Last night I built and installed a 2.6.8 kernel. This morning, I tried to use the network, and all my TCP connections hung. They'd receive some data, then they'd lock up

Re: [Eug-lug] gigabit network card

large frames? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Subject: Copying, moving, whatever... using wildcards in destination : wc2fn.py

. On my Gentoo box, it's part of the sys-apps/util-linux package. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug] Subject: Copying, moving, whatever... using wildcards in destination : wc2fn.py

Allen Brown wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Bob Miller wrote: horst wrote: Let's say I want to make my digital images all lowercase: mv *.JPJ *.jpg /usr/bin/rename .JPG .jpg *.JPG I didn't know of rename. That's really nice. But according to the man page your

Re: [Eug-lug] grub problems on Debian Sarge

load it. Ensure that your initrd image is on the /boot partition and that your grub.conf gives the right path relative to /boot. Also make sure it's the RIGHT initrd image -- it's full of drivers and other closely-kernel-coupled things. Of course, it could be something else entirely. -- Bob

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [lug] Compiling 2.6 kernel with Debian

drive xconfig completely from the keyboard -- no need to touch the rodent, if that bothers you. I don't believe that GUI interfaces are always better than text-based, and I can think of plenty of cases where they aren't. In this case, though, xconfig wins the usability contest. -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [lug] Compiling 2.6 kernel with Debian

Shannon C. Dealy wrote: Perhaps xconfig is better these days, I haven't used it in probably 3-4+ years That explains it. make xconfig was completely redesigned and rewritten somewhere in the 2.5 series. It's nothing like the 2.4 program of the same name. -- Bob Miller

[Eug-lug] Borrow a Pyrometer?

and measure its temperature with the pyrometer as a proxy for case air temperature. Does anyone know why that wouldn't work? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Eug-lug] Gentoo Virtual Consoles

. Kernel 2.6.7 or 2.6.9. X.org 6.8.0-r3 -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman

Re: [Eug-lug] size of files from a shell script, portably

for the file, and others print the number of bytes. Which did you want? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug] size of files from a shell script, portably

horst wrote: I have no idea how universal wc is (though not efficient), but wc -c *.mp3 does the math for you. Good idea. wc (including the -c flag) is largely unchanged since at least 6th Edition Unix, circa 1975. Probably longer. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft

Re: [Eug-lug] size of files from a shell script, portably

Jacob Meuser wrote: well, I didn't know about wc -c, thanks. however, the output, at least on my system, is not easily parsable, as it is oddly aligned, with varying amounts of space. If you use wc -c file instead of wc -c file then wc doesn't print the file name. -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] Borrow a Pyrometer? // and yes?

thermometer, meant to return it long ago. )-: -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

-- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

in the end I didn't use a modified initrd file. I don't understand this. What exactly do you have in grub.conf now? Thanks... -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

, depending on how fast your link is and whether it's currently idle. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http

Re: [Eug-lug] Name server for a ppp connection

be necessary. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Name server for a ppp connection

don't have nscd, you're probably fine. If you want to make sure, do this. # strace ping -c1 www.google.com and grovel through the output to see what actually happens. If you WANT nscd, apt-get it. The package is called nscd on woody. -- Bob Miller Kbob

Re: [Eug-lug] receiving email on Debian

one de facto standard way to enqueue mail locally is to pipe it to sendmail's standard input. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list

Re: [Eug-lug] Concurrency, (free lunch is over article)

requires stress testing. I think better tools are coming. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http

Re: [Eug-lug] Concurrency, (free lunch is over article)

the CS colloquia at the UofO. They're irregularly scheduled technical talks about all kinds of topics. Send mail to Cheri Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to be put on the colloquia mailing list. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com

Re: [Eug-lug] Concurrency, (free lunch is over article)

walter fry wrote: from the SMP DISCUSSION I gather that the primary concepts of John von Neumann are still the problem, called the acumulator bottle neck in the 8080 and Z8000 days, or am I old fashioned? No, it's still a bottleneck. -- Bob Miller Kbob

Re: [Eug-lug] LP64

) { ... }. And that's wrong too. Zero is a valid file descriptor, but not a valid pointer. Never mind that if you never pass the descriptor to close(), you have a descriptor leak. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com

Re: [Eug-lug] Connection Teaming

. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/eql.txt -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman

[Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

if anybody wants to see...) I had two WiFi cards, too, the Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 (aka Centrino) built into the laptop and an Orinoco (Hermes) card. No joy with either. Anyway, my question: What's in your WiFi troubleshooting toolkit? When it doesn't work, what do you do? Thanks... -- Bob

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

machines but not for the rest of the world)? No, it was a Cisco. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

that's the access point's MAC. But is it? Anyway, I used ifconfig, iwconfig (frustratingly), and kismet. What else should I be using when the wireless doesn't work? Take your laptop and yell out: Can a brother get a ip address? Uh, yeah. That's what I tried to do. (-: -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] Debian fubaria question

security updates, so IMHO, that's out. Another approach is to go with a distro like RedHat -- erm, Fedora -- and plan on a day of downtime every six to nine months when a new release comes out. In any case, do stay on top of the security updates, as rebuilding a cracked box is no fun. -- Bob

[Eug-lug] Xandros

too. What's up with that? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Ubuntu CDs

party formatting software was lost in the noise. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] Knoppix 3.7

T. Joseph CARTER wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:10:58AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: BTW, the current KNOPPIX (v3.7, 12/8/2004) still defaults to a 2.4 kernel and XFree86 too. What's up with that? Defaults? As in, you can choose 2.6 and X.org? You can choose 2.6. It is marked

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