A bill is about to be passed by congress that will allow corporations to hack into
your computer and delete your
files. You can't sue unless you can prove economic loss. The reason is because they
charge too much for movies
and music, so they are going to destroy innocent people's property so
I don't believe that people are by nature evil but have an existential (being human)
anxiety over their free
choice. People learn to be bad because they accept what they hear without questioning
it.
I thought the Internet was a type of anarchy and would eventually make the government
This sounds too good to be true.
How can you do interactivity with just css and xhtml and without Javascript, JAVA,
Perl, or PHP?
http://www.mozquito.com/html/lang-english/products-mzqfactory15.html
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freeware but not open source
http://www.coffeecup.com/linux/
This one has built in dhtml, cgi, vrml, and php scripts.
http://www.ibiblio.org/linsearch/lsms/dozer-0.7.2b.html
There is also one from IBM - part of Websphere but I had trouble ordering a boxed
version and I heard it uses
WINE.
I have an OpenBSD firewall Jacob set up for EFN dialup.
He entered 192.168.2.81 and it dials up fine.
Ben
7/14/2002 11:41:58 AM, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got gentoo 1.2 backup and running sort of...
I have to have some kind of IP numbers for EFN
to put in /etc/hosts in order to
and don't let them use
anything too toxic.
Ben
7/12/2002 11:08:16 PM, Mike O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly what came flying out? Dust,shrapnel?
Personally I wouldn't really use anything less than
TDK blanks. lowest hazard rate er, um, failure rate.
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Thw following happened to me a few hours ago.
My CD burner was making an unusual sound so I bent over to hear it better and I was
hit in the eye by some flying debris. The idiots put the vent in the front. This
isn't a problem with internal cd burners.
In the future I am going to put the cd
It cut my eye and I had to go to urgent care and it hurts quite a bit.
7/12/2002 10:02:29 PM, Mike O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Come a little closer to my 32x burner. Hahaha...
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In the future I am going to put the cd burner under
my laptop, turn
Could you try xpdf? I haven't had any trouble with Blackbox on Linux Mandarke versions
.5 and .6. I also have
used ps2pdf and it worked fine. I run OpenBSD as a firewall but never thought that it
could do X-Windows.
Sun has its own window manager called Open Windows which I have used before
There seem to be a lot of people who like Macs in EUGLUG, and this made me want to use
the Mac.
Has anyone tried these applications or this disctribution?
http://www.bsdmall.com/unixutils.html
---
This CD contains everything you need to turn your Mac OS X desktop into a
How do IRIX, Solaris, and OS X compare to Linux with Blackbox?
How well do they run free software - Open Office, GIMP, Netscape 6, Emacs?
How do their respective processors compare to Intel processors?
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Does anyone know how well LyX exports to PDF and HTML?
Does it make bookmarks for the headers when it generates PDF files?
I don't have X-windows on my OpenBSD box, so I can't test it.
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He made a lot of good points.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~knigits/articles/switched_back.html
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now I get
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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to
complete your request.
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the error occurred, and
anything you might have done
The permissions are right.
The path is right.
I changed the path to the correct version of perl.
The configuration in the script is right.
The script I got from freecode.com and was updated for several years so I don't think
there is a script error.
What else could I change?
I can give someone
it and it seems to work.
You can see it at
http://www.efn.org/~rhuot/cgi-bin/bbmat.cgi?script=tao
I know my questions seem stupid but I have never had any schooling on computers and am
still only an
intermediate web developer.
Ben
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EFN is going to give access to PHP and MySQL within a week. Ray quoted an undisclosed
source.
Is it possible to install JAVA or Python in an EFN account home directory or on a
virtual host?
When I entered the command
which python
I got
no python in /home/members/r/rhuot
What should my permissions be for the directory, why won't it execute?
The following was the error message
404 Not Found
Not Found
The requested URL /cgi-bin/bbmat.cgi was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.3 Server at www.blessedforest.org Port 80
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chmod 7555 bbmat.cgi
chmod: bbmat.cgi: I/O error
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I get
DATE cow /bsd: pccom0: 1 silo overflow
where DATE is the date and time, although I think the clock is off.
I am running OpenBSD as a firewall.
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Maybe once a day. I do turn off my laptop and modem at night.
Ben
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7/6/2002 2:46:15 PM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 09:42:02AM -0700, Benjamin Huot wrote:
I get
DATE cow /bsd: pccom0: 1 silo overflow
You can read about
http://www.oxide.org/
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gave up on html
editors!
Jamie
Sometime just before Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:58 pm Benjamin Huot Wrote
about:[EUG-LUG:3289] Re: Support IMS's bid to run .ORG
: I put the dot on my website since I'm a .org
: I pasted it in Hot Metal Pro and it worked fine.
: You have to go to html source view
How do I quit vi? My system is stuck in vi and I don't know how to quit.
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I figured it out with a Google search.
7/5/2002 7:39:12 PM, Benjamin Huot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I quit vi? My system is stuck in vi and I don't know how to quit.
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I made a program launcher for OpenBSD with Perl.
Just don't get stuck in vi :-)
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start
Description: Binary data
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/07/02/1247234.shtml?tid=23
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I put the dot on my website since I'm a .org
I pasted it in Hot Metal Pro and it worked fine.
You have to go to html source view to do it.
The URL to the code is http://not.invisible.net/dot/
Ben
blessedforest.org
7/3/2002 10:33:12 PM, Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forwarded several
I'm trying to write some accounting scripts with JavaScript, but it is just appending
one number onto the other
number instead of adding them. Is there some way to specify a number value in the
JavaScript or the form.
http://blessedforest.org/account/total.html
Oh. and my OpenBSD firewall is
the string by 1.
var c = '1234';
d = c * 1;
Since multiplying assumes numbers, JavaScript makes the string a
number, if possible. If that isn't possible, the result is NaN.
-Rob
On 20020703.1154, Benjamin Huot said ...
I'm trying to write some accounting scripts with JavaScript, but it is just
() operator. That should get the numeric value out
of a string. That might be more clean and appropriate.
-Rob
On 20020703.1251, Benjamin Huot said ...
I did what you said and several variants of it and it seems to work.
Thanks,
Ben
7/3/2002 11:55:20 AM, Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED
Secure shell.
7/3/2002 4:00:21 PM, Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Saw this on the openbsd.com main page...
One remote hole in the default install, in nearly 6 years!
What was it?
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Good article on why Mandrake rejects OpenLinux.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2873416,00.html
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I came up with a slogan for the logo. Open Minded. Closed System. - based on the
paradox of being both secure
and open source and also cooperation and integration with other systems.
6/29/2002 10:23:30 PM, Benjamin Huot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This logo has Linux, BSD, and Windows all
Richard Stallman (RMS) wrote EMACS - a text editor that had programmable Elisp (like
BASIC but better) Macros.
It is an interface to do everything with - newgroups, email, text searching, diff,
coding, or any UNIX command.
He was actually the first to start the GNU liscense- the basis for
for several years now
so I'm not as stupid as
you think I am.
Ben
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6/30/2002 2:04:36 PM, Dennis Eberl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 01:56 PM, Benjamin Huot wrote:
Richard Stallman (RMS) wrote EMACS - a text editor that had programmable
Elisp (like BASIC
The ReachDSL costs $413 and take a month to set up.
I could buy a digital camera and double my memory for that price.
How would it work to set up a Linux compatible 56k modem (I already have that) up to
the nix box and route it
through ethernet to my laptop?
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or no configuration changes to your
computers.
External modem. Right?
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The ReachDSL costs $413 and take a month to set up.
I could buy a digital camera and double my memory for that price.
How would it work to set up a Linux compatible 56k modem (I
I'm fine with the UNIX terminal. I can do simple things on it like file management. As
my Pentium only has 48MB
RAM it cannot handle GNOME or KDE or even Blackbox very well. MySQL for example makes
more sense from the
command line.
I am trying to think of what programs I want to use on nix
I looked through the OpenBSD ports and packages list and didn't find anything, so I
think I will use OpenBSD
just for a firewall. SSH is only necessary if I give up my monitor and would only be
from within the firewall.
Ben
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6/29/2002 8:13:48 PM, Benjamin Huot [EMAIL
This logo has Linux, BSD, and Windows all coexisting happily.
It seems that there are a lot of people who don't like one or the other because they
see it as competition, but I
think they all cooperate nicely together, well maybe not Windows ;-0.
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Is there a good distribution for a secure multimedia workstation?
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6/27/2002 4:35:47 PM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:18:27PM -0700, Benjamin Huot wrote:
Is there a good distribution for a secure multimedia workstation?
Perhaps if you define separately secure, or what you don't want to
happen, and multimedia, or what you
Looks like you can write GNOME applications with just Javascript and HTML. Developed
by IBM. I think I finally
founded a way to program that is excessible for me.
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/sashxb/?referer=sashxb.org
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http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html
Scriptus
A GPLed page layout program outputs to pdf with its own built in pdf generator. Uses
Qt. Supports all of
Postscript 2.
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My USB CD-burner works with Linux at least on laptops.
Details for: I/O Magic MagicWriter External USB CD-RW Drive
Status
( External USB CD burner )
( Category: Mass Storage )
ID
Driver
usb-storage
Linux-USB link
Vendor link
http://iomagic.com
Comment
Is Open Office included with GNOME 2?
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unrelated, AFAIK.
Isn't AbiWord the default Gnomish word processor?
I am sure, however, that a number of distro's next releases
will carry both Gnome v2 and OpenOffice v1 for you though!
Ben B
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 06:13, Benjamin Huot wrote:
Is Open Office included with GNOME 2
You can do digital video on Linux and Solaris. This is a pci digital video converter.
http://www.edt.com/pcidv.html
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Does it run all Windows applications? Is it compatible with Sony Clies (Palms)? Does
it work with USB CD-ROM
burners?
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How do I network Mac OS X and Linux so I can use the cd burner on my Linux box.
The Mac superdrive doesn't support older Windows and Mac systems with more than 8
digit file names on the CD-R's.
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Is Lindows any good. Will it really run any Windows application reliably? Will it run
GNU programs made for Windows
or Linux?
6/14/2002 9:27:59 AM, Mike O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of you may have known that Wal-Mart was offer PCs
with no OS but now they come with Lindows
pre-installed.
Any digital camera that I can get that will record 30 seconds of video and will work
with Linux or will in the forseable future or who is at
least helpful to the open source community. I was reading from the usb device driver
pages that Logitech won't open up its code.
Kodak seems to be well
Where can I get this custom computer configuration for Linux from a reputable vendor?
Intel Celeron
512 MB RAM
32 MB video card
sound card
10 GB hard drive
CD-ROM burner
17 inch monitor
black and white laser printer
install Mandrake Linux Power Pack
set up DSL
make sure everything works
90 day
happy with ComputerBase.
Benjamin Huot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
Where can I get this custom computer configuration for Linux from a reputable
vendor?
Intel Celeron
512 MB RAM
32 MB video card
sound card
10 GB hard drive
CD-ROM burner
17 inch monitor
black and white laser printer
install Mandrake
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