On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Tom Buskey wrote:
There's always the DOD approach: put the network cables in conduit that
has a vibration alarm on it. Use 10base2, token ring, or FDDI;
something that detects a break and stops passing traffic if a splice is
made.
1) Unless I'm mistaken (something I'll
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I heard they stop all incoming SPAM as well.
Hey, do know anyone that needs a bridge? I have a nice one right
between Queens and Brooklyn I'm looking to sell ;) Or, if you
prefer, I another on in the San Fran/Bay area!
Even though I was
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I must now ask:
IS there a bridge which connects Queens and Brooklyn?
The BQE, as it's identified in traffic reports: The Brooklyn Queens
Expressway. See http://www.nycroads.com/roads/brooklyn-queens/
NB: I know almost *nothing*
Yah; works like a charm. Honestly, though, I use cat (eg. cat /dev/source /dev/dest),
-- works great, too, and you don't need to know your source's size, either
-- it just ends when there's no more data. (Also the way I create/write
floppy images.) As for your geometry, all will probably be
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is also one of the reasons it takes Debian 2.5 years to issue a
new release!
Oh, come, come -- it's not really -that- quick, is it? ;-)
Regardless of distribution, you get a lot more bang for your buck
with Linux than you do with any
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Thomas Charron wrote:
The *ONLY* concern I've had with it is ease of subverting security.
Primarily, reseting the admin password is as easy as pushing a little button
with a pencil top, and pushing it again twice, then holding it down. This
resets the admin password..
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[OT comment: gee, Ben, that reply-to sure works well. ;-)]
- Many Linux users like to buy pre-owned equipment, and install Linux
in an after market configuration.
- Many Linux users are both computer-savvy and picky, and thus want to
do
Well, as per the story, the owner doesn't dispute the claim. So the
question becomes: who wants to make the phone call?
(I'm taking my daughter, joy of joys, to the mall, so I'm out. ;-)
-Ken
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Dana S. Tellier wrote:
Heh... of course now Kevin, by mentioning your
Howdy, all. I'm moderately knowledgeable in routing, but I'm banging my
head against the wall in this case: I've got a RH 7.2 box that has two
NICs in it; one goes to our T-1 subnet, and the other to a cable modem --
we've got it set up to act as a backup mail gateway if/when the T1 takes a
hit.
H...
Or, put somewhat more succinctly, Same damn thing happens to me. I have
two of the cards, both the eight-drive variety, and both with latest
firmware. The one that's fully-populated works like a champ; the one with
four
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan Coutu said:
I do recall from my days working on Ultrix, er DEC OSF/1, I mean Digital
UNIX, no make that Tru64 UNIX
Don't you mean HP-UX ? ;)
Ouch! Seriously, though -- even lowly Linux exhibits similar behavior
with the ls command. (It's
Hi, all. Time to revisit a fairly common topic on here. A friend of mine
is moving back to NH (Dublin, to be precise) after a six-year absence.
Six years ago, dialup was Where It's At. This is less true, now...
especially as she hopes to telecommute to Motorola in Austin.
Alas, I've been
I know most all of us are looking for excuses to drink... root beer, and I
guess that this might be one: the Mozilla 1.0 release party. For the heck
of it, I was perusing the list of parties, and saw that one is tentatively
scheduled for NH. It is lacking some subtle items, such as location,
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Kenny Donahue wrote:
lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l
The idea of course is to get the number of our boards in the
system. the funny thing is, if I log in as root I get
2/* Note the 6 blank spaces before the 2 */
if I log in as my self or ssh into the
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
Have a working box
must make duplicates of this box for other customers
Want to make it:
a) easy to duplicate
b) easy to recover from if the customer whacks files
c) cheap to ship
Once upon a time, I did something similar
Here's a (sample) entry:
//host/resource /mount/point smb username=foo,password=bar 0 0
Note that this is -insecure- since /etc/fstab is usually world-readable.
Be vewwy, vewwy careful when passwords are in plaintext.
-Ken
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
Here at my
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jon Hall wrote:
Well, we can assume that it is after the actual wedding (since the groom is
in the presence of the bride in her full regalia), but before they actually
left for the honeymoon.
Well, no, we broke with tradition, and got our pictures taken before the
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
Since I'm a one-man operation, that's not a big issue. If someone else
gets in enough to read fstab, Ive got more to worry about than a windows
password. :)
Regardless, there is no password required. Would the fstab then be:
//host/resource
Just remember what the middle two letters of evil are. Coincidence?
I think not.
-Ken
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Michael Bovee wrote:
Speaking of vi...
Apologies if this has been run into the ground too many times
already, but a sysadmin friend sent the following link my way today:
Hello, all. As previously noted, I just got hitched. I've also got a
bunch of pictures, now (good ones, too!), and I'd like to munge 'em down
small with convert or mogrify or somesuch. However, I've got spaces
in the filenames. While it would be moderately trivial to s/ /_/g; I
would prefer
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Michael Bovee wrote:
The vanilla SuSE 7.3 install on my Mac PowerBook (PPC) contains a
line in /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0.
1) does fd0 strictly mean floppy disks or can that generically be
used for zip disks, too?
/dev/fd0 -generally- means the first real floppy disk.
On Mon, 13 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
http://www.saveinternetradio.org/
http://www.somafm.com/carp/
Even if you don't listen to net radio, call, e-mail, or otherwise
notify your reps that you want this bill stuck down and that you want
to save
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
I'm more interested in the fact that WDC will RMA the drive for two years
longer than Maxtor will. 3-year vs 5-year warranty.
I dunno; a five-year warranty on a hard drive strikes me as being akin to
the warranty on a $5.95 calculator I saw once:
While I agree with Derek, I also agree with whoever it was that said this
was water under the bridge -- I seem to recall seeing first mention of
this some two or even three years ago. I also recall that, at the time,
rms was seriously considering a much more enjoyable transformation of the
name
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
If you're upgrading your motherboard for other (various) reasons, I'm
quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes. They're cheap, they're good. I
will tell you that you need to pay attention to the heatsink. I recently
burned up an older 1.33G of mine
Misc arbitrary size limits:
Filesize on your filesystem (2 GB for FAT and ext2/3 under 2.2, IIRC).
Free space on your filesystem.
Hmmm... I thought I'd thought of one more, but I guess that that's it.
Note that gzipping an already-compressed file (.zip, .jpg, .mp3, etc.)
doesn't gain you a
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
This year, I used an online service, http://www.taxactonline.com, to do my
personal taxes. It worked just fine under Linux, and was quite cheap, too.
(The tax calculations are actually free; they just charge to submit them
electronically.) I do
Ummm... I'll save you some trouble: tomsrtbt, which does require a 1.722
MB formatted floppy, formats for you as part of the install. I believe
it's a shell script in the tomsrtbt directory called setup.sh or
somesuch.
-Ken
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People,
Time for
to have
something to actually *reference*.
Thanks for the pointer!
-Ken
On 10 Apr 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 23:59, Ken Ambrose wrote:
On a note having absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with flat panels, I
just want to pipe up and say that Squirrel Mail (currently
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ken Ambrose said:
- even if it were supported by the hardware, XFree86 would still have
to know about it. Non-trivial.)
Ahhhm, XFree86 knows about my monitor just fine. Or am I missing
your point here?
XFree86 doesn't know about your
I'm using the 1600SW with the #9 TTR-IV card. I didn't realize it
wasn't accellerated, but then again, as long I can switch from an
xterm to an XEmacs window, what kind of acceleration do I need :)
Now, I'm not sure it's *not* acclerated. Maybe I have something
configured wrong.
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote:
http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/SV/sgi1600sw(2).shtml
Now that I look more, they used some kind of SGI breakout box... So that
probably cuts it down to any video card that supports 1600x1024, I would
imagine.
That would be the SGI multilink
On a note having absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with flat panels, I
just want to pipe up and say that Squirrel Mail (currently at v. 1.25)
rocks. If any of you are looking for a powerful web-based interface to
your IMAP (and, with the proper plugin, even your POP) e-mail server, I
strongly
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone install RH7.2, have the X config go smoothly, have it tell you
that GNOME would be your desktop, choose a graphical login, and still
have it present you with a text login?
Well, I've never had a problem with it, but then, I usually select
Note that xv isn't free (speech) software; if you care about things like
that, you might consider kview, which also has a slideshow option. It's
GUI, so you don't have as granular control as xv, but it's pretty nice.
$.02
-Ken
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Mansur, Warren wrote:
The XV program will
- the darn application.
-Ken D'Ambrosio (despite whatever the header may say; long story)
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:15:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Ken Ambrose (a/k/a D'Ambrosio) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mansur, Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED
Just doing some late-night (early morning?) surfing, and bumped into a
nugget I'd forgotten about: http://www.io.com/~mccoy/beginning_print.html
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson, of
Cryptonomicon (etc.) fame. It's a fairly lengthy and somewhat
introspective glance at
I have to disagree. I remember 1.0.0, 1.2.0, 2.0.0, and 2.2.0 -- *all*
of them had their share of nay-sayers.
And I have to disagree with you. I've generally found that if you
want your system to actually work well and reliably, you'll want to
wait until at least the point where Linus
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
I've had someone volunteer to do a talk about the Linux Virtual
Server. This person recently delivered this talk at LISA and has
volunteered to present it to the MELBA group (tentatively February).
[...]
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org
Warning, Warning, Will Robinson: I had (eh-hem) some fun in installing RH
on my Vaio: the floppy drive is USB, and I had to install off of network
or CD-ROM, both of which would be accessed via PCMICA. HOWEVER, since the
floppy's USB, while I could boot from it in legacy mode, it wouldn't
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Wayne wrote:
Quit sending us this garbage. Thanks.
I'm sorry, Wayne, but I think you're in the wrong, here. While this is
clearly a Linux list, it's not a list exclusively about Linux, somuch as a
list used by people who use Linux. Folks who use Linux generally have
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, mike ledoux wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:26:21PM -0800, Wayne wrote:
Quit sending us this garbage. Thanks.
Wayne, you need to relax. The message you are complaining about is almost
a month old, and was a helpful reminder for many of us that would have
otherwise
Worked fine for me when I cut-and-pasted yours into my xinetd.d directory,
and re-started xinetd. I'm guessing that we actually have to pay
attention to the error message:
can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Is it possible that your IP(chains|tables) is blocking this?
If you find out, please let me know; I'd be very interested in using PAM
authentication (or even LDAP, if you feel so inclined ;-). As it
currently stands, I'm able to password synchronization when passwords are
changed, but I'm not able to automagically use the MD5 passwords.
Thanks,
-Ken
On
To: DEREK MARTIN (SD544808)
From: Alan for the SANS NewsBites service
Re: December 5 SANS NewsBites
Goner is a dangerous worm that is spreading far too rapidly. However,
it caused no problem at all in those organizations that block
attachments of most malicious types.
[...]
Okay: first things first -- can you telnet to port 110 on
pop.threeofus.com, from her machine? Here's a sample session of how I do
it:
telnet ursa 110
Trying 10.20.1.31...
Connected to ursa.xanoptix.com (10.20.1.31).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK ursa.xanoptix.com Cyrus POP3 v1.5.19 server
Benjamin Scott carefully scribed:
My understanding is that ext3 performance is almost identical to ext2.
The only thing ext3 adds is a journal, which is stored as a special inode in
(i.e., like a file). So unless you have something which interacts badly
with the journal algorithms, it
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Clarification: You do not need to check-and-repair a journaling filesystem
after a crash. The system automatically replays the journal when you mount
the filesystem. You can still run a full check-and-repair on a journaling
filesystem (and indeed,
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Hmmm, this topic of aliases masking the real behavior of commands by
the same name seem vaguely familiar to me. Anyone know where that
might have been recently mentioned? Slashdot, freshmeat, LJ? Nahhh,
that doesn't sound right. Hmmm, maybe it
Ben Scott Scribed:
Aliases are not the problem. The problem is aliasing commands *for
someone else*. If I alias 'ls' to 'rm -rf .', then that is my own business,
and presumably I have a reason. It is things like Unix and Linux distro
vendors setting up default aliases which gets people
Howdy, all -- I'm looking to see if there are any JFSs that support
compression; so far, ReiserFS (the one with which I'm most familiar) has
come up dry, and I believe the same holds true for EXT-3 (since it's
really EXT-2 with journaling, I assume that the bugs and limitations
section of the
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote:
Howdy, all -- I'm looking to see if there are any JFSs that support
compression...
There is a compressing block device somewhere (not sure if it is
mainstream or a patch). You could put your JFS
somewhere,
hidden far, far away...
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote:
I just wish I could get it to compile; I keep getting
make: execvp: /usr/src/linux/scripts/pathdown.sh: Permission denied
when I try to make, and I'm not quite sure what
Having the 1600sw myself, I think you're SOL: the #9 Revolution isn't,
last time I checked, supported by XFree86-4.x. NOTE: IF YOU FIND
OTHERWISE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I'm currently stuck using the damn
converter box sold by SGI for too much money, and a Matrox, and being that
the Matrox wants
Would a VPN using SSH be a viable system for say a school district? Amount
of traffic per day would be relatively low. Several school districts
looking to implement technology plans, a phrase I really hate, which
include VPNs. This is due to need to connect several schools in a secure
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Mansur, Warren wrote:
Of course, if you allow any port through, anyone can use ssh, connect to
their home computer, and do whatever they want. I suppose if they use
packet filtering so that they make sure only a subset of packets go
through, that would screw ssh up.
One
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Michael Bovee wrote:
As a new guy on the block, and a die hard Macintosh (now *improved*
with Linux!) user I'm curious that no one has commented about
QuickTime for live streaming. I suppose because its just another
proprietary format, but in that respect I would guess
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Well, yeah, that's debatable too. I recently sent my resume as a
plain text attachment (maybe I should habe included instead of
attatched it?) and the recipient followed up with a request for a
..doc version, because when the clicked on the
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
Here's a weird question. Where does one go to get a set of kernel
sources ? I'm looking for something distribution neutral. I've done it
once but can't figure out where I got it.
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
Speaking of sentimental FTP sites that are close to the GNH area how
about ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu ? The toplevel welcome there thanks maddog
for the DEC hardware. The response to that machine from my home is so
quick, it seems like it is on my LAN!
I think you're looking for netgroups. Specifically, a list of which NFS
clients are allowed to mount (which?) NFS servers. It's not foolproof (IP
spoofing might be able to get you somewhere), and it's not secure (it's
still unencrypted), but it suddenly goes from I brought my Linux notebook
in
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
There is a planned shutdown for electrical maintenance this weekennd
here at Compaq/Spit Brook/Nashua, and the power will be off on
Saturday. We've been instructed to shutdown and power off all of our
computer eeu^H^Hquipment. The cluster
I've got a runaway NFS process, and I'd *love* to find the culprit... but
I don't know how. tcpdump just spews an almost infinite amount of stuff,
so that doesn't really do the job. I've perused the netstat and procinfo
manpages, and don't see anything pertinent. Is there any way to see who's
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
I've got a runaway NFS process
Please defing the term runaway NFS process.
In what respect is it a runaway. From what perspective, client or
server?
Runaway a-la the server was bogging due to a client hammering it. I
finally found the culprit:
Samba docs have always been vaguelly annoying: the smb.conf file can
certainly be a bit disconcerting at first. Well, I'm glad to report that
the following link is pretty darn nifty:
http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1146
It gives you a generic smb.conf (2.2.x)
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rich Payne wrote:
The only other issue I've come accross is that most PCs can't redirect
their BIOS output to the serial port (I gather some newer ones can finally
do this), so you're waiting until LILO outputs something.
Don't forget some of the open-BIOS projects that
I seem to recall that someone was working on NetApp-like snapshot
functionality for the 2.4(.5?) kernel series. These aren't LVM-like; this
is an actual heirarchy of logical files that are actually the original
file, with subsequent deltas (thus preserving disk space quite nicely). I
would
I, myself, haven't used Opera, but I've only heard rave reviews from those
who have. If you decide to give it a spin, please give us a review after
you've used it a while: Enquiring minds want to know.
-Ken
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Taylor, Chris wrote:
Has anyone here used Opera for their
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
The 6200 (two port) version goes for well under $150, IIRC. They have
four and eight port versions as well. They support RAID-0 (striping),
RAID-1 (mirroring), and RAID-5 (on models with more than two ports).
http://www.3ware.com
Unhappy
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who else out there has Adelphia for cable service? Are you seeing this
type of service across the board?!?!
I have them for cable TV. They suck at that, too. Their Internet is not
even available
FYI: My laptop has Mandrake 8.0 installed. Kernel 2.4. I will have to
try 2.2. (I should have thought of that; everything else in 2.4 is broken,
why not power management as well?)
I haven't kept up with the thread, but, if you're talking the 2.4.2 that
comes with RH 7.1, no, it doesn't
Okay -- something must've gone FUBAR while using RPM to rpm
-e something. If I do to rpm -i foo, it tells me that bar is
installed. If I go to rpm -e bar, I'm informed that bar is *not*
installed. I did an rpm --rebuilddb to no effect.
How do I get rid of the incorrect dependency?
Thanks,
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
I was wondering what kernel people are using or recommending for
production systems these days. I have been using 2.4.3 for a while on
my home systems, and it seems stable enough, but I am certainly no
expert. Are there speed benefits for say, a
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Also, for generic Unix things like printing, modem connection, etc.
I HIGHLY recommend The UNIX System Admistrator Handbook by Evi
Nemeth, et. al. This is perhaps the single most useful book I've
ever read, and 99% of it applies to Linux as well as
xcdroast = good front-end (as in has much functionality, especially
current releases), but horrible lack of intuition in design. It's my
favorite tool, but it still requires you to figure out the bizarre
thinking of its designer. The current release is better, but still has
two truly
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Steven W. Orr wrote:
For the last year my system with 256Meg and 256 swap was barely adequate.
Now I'm not even touching swap at all. Tres' cool.
I do recall that they found that they were flushing aged pages *W-A-Y* too
fast to disk; I guess that they've fixed that now,
I had a fairly similar experience with the Linksys and SMC cards (which
apparently both use the same chipset). See
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/ for their drivers, and then follow
Thomas' directions, below.
-Ken
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
OK, I got the wireless
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
I finally got around to reading the sunday comics today, and when I saw
Foxtrot I knew I had to spread the word.
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/viewft.cfm?uc_fn=1uc_full_date=20010923uc_daction=Xuc_comic=ft
That's the problem with Amend: he's
So, any suggestions to get dual boot working? I've read a bunch of
howto's. The best, and most common, answer seems to be to use Window's
dual boot capabilities. I actually ran a command dd if=/dev/hda2
of=bootsect.inx bs=512 count=1 to start bringing required boot files
over but I
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Derek Martin wrote:
According to reports, there were typically 4 men involved in each
plane hijacking. These men were armed with knives with smaller than
4 blades. With roughly 100 or more other people on board each of
these planes, I'm almost embarrased for our
If you find yourself on a plane being hijacked, is it better to assume
that you will land safely and be rescued by law enforcement, or that
your attackers will kill you and everyone else on the plane if you
don't stop them?
Given past data, yes, it would have been better to assume.
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:
We should not gloat over Microsoft's security lapses. While there are
many many security holes in Windows and related products, the sheer
number of installed product makes them by far a prime target. As the
Linux (and BSD) market shares grow, we will
After upgrading my system to RH 7.1.93 (Roswell), for misc. reasons, I
needed to u/g my kernel for other reasons. Now, again, I'm unable to log
in in multi-user mode. Nothing seems to crop up in /var/log/messages, and
I don't (seem to) get any console error messages when I try... it just
fails,
Well, the good news is that my sound now works. It's amazing what a full
install of RH 7.1 does -- always assuming, of course, that one is required
because your (now former) root drive has just decided that SCSI IDs are a
myth.
So, on to my current question-du-jour: I've got a server with a
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
As Jerry Pournelle once said: You can never have enough documentation.
Indeed. Look on the CD/disks included with the modem. They prolly have
electronic documentation on their somewhere.
While I rarely agree with JP, this is one case where I
Have some friends visiting this weekend, and so I figured I'd hit Google
for suggestions of what to do with them. Eventually wound up at
www.visitnh.gov, which is really quite informative. Naturally, though, I
tried to play with the URL to get it to show me more info instead of the
ol'
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Karl Hergenrother wrote:
This is interesting reading on a subject which is a common thread on this
list. Be sure to read some of the TalkBack messages included at the bottom
of the reference. I don't expect many to agree with the conclusions, but I
think that there are
A few days ago there were a bunch of Web pages about Stallman's rebuttal to
Craig Mundie. One of them I saw mentioned that the questions MS was
distributing to the crowd were available as a self extracting archive ( a .exe
file). RMS said that gunzip knew how to extract these.
Does
Hi, Larry (thanks for the job tip!). Bad news: no. What you can do is
try to cheat, and use the VirtualHost function of Apache (discussed on
this same bat channel just yesterday) to allow different hostnames to
resolve to different URLs. Aside from that, there's no way to have
multiple hosts
I recently upgraded my 6.2 box to X 4.x. And now my keyboard repeat
rate is s-l-o-w. I don't *think* it's 'cause of anything I did in the
BIOS, as they're all set to the absolute fastest values the BIOS has
(which are none too fast, alas). Any idea where I should change this? Is
it a function
You can't just re-direct a hostname to a full-blown URL. What you can
do is find someone who offers DNS services (and has a web server) to do it
for you. What happens behind the scenes is that a request comes in to the
web server at www.bgibson.com, and the web server looks at it, and says,
I
Okay, I'm stuck on something really dumb. I've got Cyrus' IMAP working
just fine, *but* when I try to create an IMAP folder (via Netscape or
Outlook Express), I'm told permission denied. I've read the (very, very
short) imapd.conf manpage about a zillion times, and don't see anything
that
Why would anyone dare to offer to talk about alternative software in
person, when mere mention of it on the list causes irrational and hostile
outbursts from proponents of the status quo?
Listen -- maybe you haven't been paying attention, but exactly what
you're purporting to argue *for* is
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Bill Sconce wrote:
Instead of sneering at developments such as Linux being sold at
Wal-Mart (*3), perhaps we should be looking for potential advantage.
We might, for instance, ask Wal-Mart to display a GNHLUG poster near
the Linux shelf. Or we might provide a leaflet to
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Tony Lambiris wrote:
Id rather not start a thread about this. In short, Darren's license
conflicted with OpenBSD's license, so they took it out of the core OS.
IMHO, Darren's being a schnook. Yes, you write the software, you get to
define the license. BUT, he went and
I just switched over to my new DSL account (thank you, MV Communications!),
and now my incoming e-mail doesn't work. I switched my DNS, and modified
all my /var/named/* stuff to look right -- my mx records, etc., but now
I'm told:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: relaying denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: user
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
Programmers giveth, and the DMCA taketh away. It's illegal. DeCSS was
designed for completely legal compatibility reasons, but it was
outlawed because it threatened the license revenue of the MPAA.
Does a similar problem exist with the mp3
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
Hey, all -- I'm trying to find a way to figure out what the temperature in
my data center is. Preferably, I'd like a device that could be queried
via TCP, though serial would be acceptable. Any suggestions?
[...]
I always wanted to get one of
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote:
I've seen this if you're using IMAP. Back up and blow away the ns_imap
directory. If you're using POP, there may be some index file for the mail
boxes that is corrupted.
Or one other thing: it could be a r-e-a-l-l-y big e-mail. You might
telnet
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
Seriously - this is why all these various copy-protection schemes fail -
at some point, an unencrypted stream is required to display / play the
data. Once it's unencrypted, someone can snarf it. End of story (and
digression).
So I used to think.
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