Re: [PLUG] THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show

2011-07-26 Thread Galen Seitz
Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:40:15PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show Sun, July 24, 10am. Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door ... and then leave it completely empty for a year? The

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X me@that

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Ellefson
You could try running the X program with nohup, or do something like: $ evolution disown that should start the process without using your shell as the parent. -- Sean ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] ssh -X me@that

2011-07-26 Thread Matthew Gates
I have never seen this disown thing before - tried to man it and then found it's a bash builtin. I've been shell scripting for ages and today I learned something new and very useful, Thank you! On 26 July 2011 16:03, Sean Ellefson scel...@gmail.com wrote: You could try running the X program

[PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread wes
Does anyone know of a tool that can monitor DNS replies and notify on success/failure? Basically, I want to find out the moment a DNS server (that I do not control) has updated. thanks, -wes ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread nathan w
Why? This query reminds me of an article i read describing the process of dns poisoning by pushing updates to a dns server at the moment it updates... So again... Why do you want this? - Reply message - From: wes p...@the-wes.com To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help,civil and

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread wes
I have a customer that is waiting on a DNS update for his site to start working. He's bugging my guys constantly, so I promised him we'd call him the moment it works. Currently, I'm checking his DNS server every few minutes manually. If I could automate this to alert me when it's updated, we could

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R
wes wrote: I have a customer that is waiting on a DNS update for his site to start working. He's bugging my guys constantly, so I promised him we'd call him the moment it works. Currently, I'm checking his DNS server every few minutes manually. If I could automate this to alert me when it's

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:43, wes p...@the-wes.com wrote: Does anyone know of a tool that can monitor DNS replies and notify on success/failure? Nagios includes the tools you need here. You could either use the whole stack (which I would recommend anyway, if you have this sort of client

Re: [PLUG] THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R
Galen Seitz wrote: Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:40:15PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show Sun, July 24, 10am. Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door ... and then leave it completely empty

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Fred James
wes wrote: I have a customer that is waiting on a DNS update for his site to start working. He's bugging my guys constantly, so I promised him we'd call him the moment it works. Currently, I'm checking his DNS server every few minutes manually. If I could automate this to alert me when it's

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Martin A. Brown
Hello there, : I have a customer that is waiting on a DNS update for his site to : start working. He's bugging my guys constantly, so I promised him : we'd call him the moment it works. Currently, I'm checking his : DNS server every few minutes manually. If I could automate this : to

Re: [PLUG] THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show

2011-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Michael R wrote: Summary: Venture capitalists have heavily invested in patent ownership companies that extort payment for patents they control. Scary because the USPO has issued thousands of patents for software ideas. As in online backup is covered by over 3,000 patents,

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, wes wrote: Does anyone know of a tool that can monitor DNS replies and notify on success/failure? Basically, I want to find out the moment a DNS server (that I do not control) has updated. Assuming the DNS server in question has an IPv4 address of 12.13.14.15 and the

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread wes
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, wes wrote: Does anyone know of a tool that can monitor DNS replies and notify on success/failure? Basically, I want to find out the moment a DNS server (that I do not control) has updated.

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, wes wrote: thanks for doing all my work for me :) The work was done long ago; I too have occasion to check for updates on DNS servers I don't control. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] dns monitor

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:07:03 -0700 nathan w wrote: Why? This query reminds me of an article i read describing the process of dns poisoning by pushing updates to a dns server at the moment it updates... So again... Why do you want this? On Tue,

Re: [PLUG] THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Michael R wrote: Summary: Venture capitalists have heavily invested in patent ownership companies that extort payment for patents they control. Scary because the USPO has issued thousands of patents for software ideas. As in online backup is

Re: [PLUG] THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show

2011-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Michael R wrote: The USPTO didn't allow them to be patented until the court system insisted. Some saw the potential for profit and successfully sued the patent office into granting software and business process patents. Oh. No further comments necessary. Rich

[PLUG] make question

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Cherba
I've got a make question I'm hoping someone can help me with. I have three Makefiles Makefile.a Makefile.b and Makefile Makefile contains all the real targets and the .a and .b files simply export a couple of variables and include Makefile. I want to eliminate Makefile.a and Makefile.b by

Re: [PLUG] [Eug-lug] make question

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Cherba
Thanks Bob. I was thinking about trying something similar but hadn't gotten around to it yet. I'll give that a shot. -Mike On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Bob Miller k...@jogger-egg.com wrote: mytargeta: $(MAKE) -f Makefile.a mytarget mytargetb: $(MAKE) -f

Re: [PLUG] [Eug-lug] make question

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Cherba
Yup. That did the trick. I was getting hung up on trying to remove the need for the Makefile.a and Makefile.b instead of just making their use transparent. -Thanks, -Mike On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Mike Cherba mche...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Bob. I was thinking about

[PLUG] Moved to PLUG-TALK Re: The Patent Show

2011-07-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Michael R wrote: Summary: Venture capitalists have heavily invested in patent ownership On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:45:19AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Which is why some folks have tried to push patents back to things and not Reply on plug-talk, please. This is only