[eug-lug]Apologies to Dr. Seuss

2004-02-25 Thread Ralph Zeller
Why Computers Crash! If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,

Re: [eug-lug]FARTHER Off topic -- EFN related only

2004-01-26 Thread Ralph Zeller
http://www.bayliner.com/ On 01/26/04 03am, horst wrote: Sorry to bug this list, but this situation is quiet damaging to us(*), and I know there are folks on this list who can fix the problem in no time. (*)us being [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cascade Canoe Club). We have sent out invitations to a

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
That's pi-thon: 3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091

Re: [eug-lug] [msurkan@windows.microsoft.com: RE: Fwd: posting to Linux mail list]

2003-12-19 Thread Ralph Zeller
Let me guess, we need to be using the latest version of IE, with all the safety settings off, and we need to watch a powerpoint(r) show first in order to take the survey... -- But I am being nice! On 12/19/03 01pm, Bob Miller wrote: Michael Surkan at Microsoft would like to find some Linux

Re: [eug-lug]new graphical browser winner for me.

2003-12-18 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 12/18/03 12pm, Wayne Scace wrote: DISCLAIMER: While I do most of my browsing with lynx. IMHO still the fastest browser on the web, bar NONE! I prefer elinks myself, because it does a better job IMO at rendering tables, even though it tests a bit slower than lynx. The fastest browser

Re: [eug-lug]new graphical browser winner for me.

2003-12-18 Thread Ralph Zeller
run at various times during the day and in various order to prove your results? :) I know that if Mozilla is already open and I bring up a new tab I can have euglug.org loaded before I get to blink. Of course if you're counting loading time for the browser too then I'm at a loss. --- Ralph

Re: [eug-lug]power fluctuations

2003-12-12 Thread Ralph Zeller
Here too, in Cottage Grove. On 12/12/03 02pm, Ben Barrett wrote: We're getting some power fluctuations here at work, by the river roughly across from the UO. Anyone else? Ben ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]Miserable Failure

2003-12-10 Thread Ralph Zeller
Don't we have an activist list for stuff like this? On 12/10/03 02pm, Bob Miller wrote: For a good time... 1. Go to Google. http://www.google.com/ 2. Enter two words: miserable failure 3. Click I'm Feeling Lucky Sorry if you've already seen it...

Re: [eug-lug]No clinic this week (Buy Nothing Day)

2003-11-26 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 11/26/03 10am, Bob Miller wrote: Speaking of Buy Nothing Day, anyone have any idea where/who/how BND is being celebrated in Eugene? How America celebrates BND: http://s87271508.onlinehome.us/ ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]cOURSE REQS FOR mATH 60

2003-11-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 11/21/03 10am, Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:06:27PM -0800, Dirk Ouellette wrote: I'm planning to take my Nursing pre-reqs now so when I retire from the Post office in Oct '06, I'll be ready to go. the following is a requirement for my first online Math 60 class.

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Ralph Zeller
Neat idea; I tried it but it didn't work, the status_format command doesn't interpret the %fmt command the same as the index_format command, and even that doesn't update without some keyboard activity as far as I can tell. How about something silly like this: ping -i 840 myisp.net /dev/null

Re: [eug-lug]Firewalls...

2003-10-09 Thread Ralph Zeller
Jamie, Hope your father's ok. I don't know that much about iptables; there seem to be plenty of tutorials about it, though. The main thing is to close everything up, then be very selective about what comes through. Here's a iptables trick I use home. Sometimes the win98 box does dial-up

Re: [eug-lug]Today's KDE Tip

2003-10-08 Thread Ralph Zeller
I changed mine from the default to opening a new tab, entering all this on one line in the preferences: ps x |grep -q '[m]ozilla' mozilla -remote openURL(%s, new-tab) || mozilla %s On 10/08/03 01pm, Bob Miller wrote: I recently discovered something cool in KDE. Some of you already know

Re: [eug-lug]tar oddness

2003-09-24 Thread Ralph Zeller
Works for me using Redhat 7.3: $mkdir blah $touch blah/tmp $tar cvf ./blah blah/ blah/tmp $ls blah* blah.tar blah: tmp $tar t blah.tar blah/ blah/tmp $ls -l `which tar` -rwxr-xr-x2 root root 155240 Apr 9 2002 /bin/tar $ On 09/24/03 03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat 7.3:

Re: [eug-lug]fetchmail

2003-09-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
Tim, If you're just trying now, beware efn just changed the mail server and it might not have propagated to your local DNS server. You should be trying to connect to pop.efn.org, which should resolve to 207.189.190.10 Thanks Larry for helping me understand this! Ralph On 09/20/03 10am,

Re: [eug-lug]using a UPS

2003-09-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 09/13/03 09pm, Mr O wrote: How many are using a UPS on a linux system? What program are you using to monitor? I have a Belkin UPS hooked up to my serial port but haven't quite found software for it yet. Hoping for a little advice before I go about breaking things. I read that if you send

Re: [eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
localhost$ xhost +remotehost remotehost being added to access control list localhost$ ssh remotehost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: x remotehost$ xterm On 08/15/03 03pm, Rob Hudson wrote: Does anyone have tips on SSHing and launching X apps on the remote machine and have

Re: [eug-lug] Caps-lock

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph Zeller
Capslock is useful for SQL; all keys are useful for xmodmap. SELECT message FROM mail WHERE subject LIKE eug-lug; On 08/09/03 11am, Ben Barrett wrote: Yeah that's the worst, when, say caps lock is accidentally enabled while you enter a new password. Isn't caps-lock outdated? Does anyone make

Re: [eug-lug] Caps-lock (vs. SQL)

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph Zeller
statements, but it sure helps the readability thereof Ben PS - do you use a custom script to put your mail in your DB, or is it some nifty package? On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:50:43 -0700 Ralph Zeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Capslock is useful for SQL; all keys are useful for xmodmap

Re: [eug-lug]importing mbox into Mozilla?

2003-08-03 Thread Ralph Zeller
Evolution and Mutt peacefully co-exist using MailDir; that's what I use--Most of the time I use mutt for reading mail. But some of the time, it's nice to use Evolution for email. If you want Mozilla mail as well I think you could set up an IMAP server, which would (theoretically) let you use

Re: [eug-lug]free Lego blocks

2003-07-28 Thread Ralph Zeller
Now it's up to the Lego's to keep my kids busy so I can make it to a eug-lug meeting... On 07/28/03 12pm, Mike O wrote: Ralph has made a call for them since he has children. Sorry :) --- Linux Rocks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hh I love legos! I may have to take you up that! if

Re: [eug-lug]grub

2003-07-18 Thread Ralph Zeller
Rob, You can look for yourself; something like: cd ~ cp /boot/initrd-xxx.img ~/whats_this.img.gz gunzip whats_this.img.gz mkdir mnt mount -o loop,ro whats_this.img mnt ls -laR mnt Ralph On 07/18/03 11am, Rob Hudson wrote: So, since RedHat9 uses ext3, initrd probably has the ext3 module in it

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Ralph Zeller
put a link in your mozilla plug-in directory, something like: cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so . delete any other java plugins in your mozilla plug-in directory. On 06/25/03 02pm, Rob Hudson wrote: Thanks for the replies. It

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Ralph Zeller
Yes. Can you run other java programs? Can you run `java` and `javac` from your shell? On 06/25/03 04pm, Rob Hudson wrote: I've done that. If I check Help-About plugins it doesn't show up there. Should it? On 20030625.1636, Ralph Zeller said ... put a link in your mozilla plug

Re: [eug-lug]BBC with NTFS support?

2003-06-24 Thread Ralph Zeller
This one works for reading at least. I haven't tried writing. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ On 06/24/03 02pm, Mike O wrote: Anyone know of a bootable CD that includes NTFS support? Even read-only would satisfy me since I'm trying to copy off NTFS onto FAT. From

Re: [eug-lug]BBC with NTFS support?

2003-06-24 Thread Ralph Zeller
on the website. Thanks though. I'll check out the other one later for the heck of it. Mr O. --- Ralph Zeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one works for reading at least. I haven't tried writing. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ On 06/24/03 02pm, Mike O wrote

Re: [eug-lug]python2exe

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 06/19/03 01pm, Rob Hudson wrote: I ran into this today and thought it was interesting... http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ There's also a perl2exe. http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm Anyone ever play with these? py2exe works great. Except, the binary files can get

Re: [eug-lug]python2exe

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Zeller
you can use it to quickly create gui forms, menus, toolbars, and grids that work. You can add your own code, and drag it all back into boa to change the gui stuff. On 06/19/03 02pm, Rob Hudson wrote: How is the executable on speed? Does it start up pretty quickly? On 20030619.1439, Ralph

Re: [eug-lug]a stupid Gentoo Sparc question

2003-06-09 Thread Ralph Zeller
Rodney, I hope this is not a dumb answer! $bunzip2 Gentoo-Sparc64.iso.bz2 Ralph On 06/09/03 09am, Rodney Mishima wrote: Hope this does not reveal how dumb I am. I downloaded a Gentoo Sparc file which is a compressed ISO It is not the specific name, but the suffix is

Re: [eug-lug]A RedHat'r responds....

2003-06-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
I use RedHat; I have it installed on about five PC's. It's easy, it works, but my uptimes aren't as good as some because of my cheap hardware and habit of turning off computers when not in use. I use Mandrake on the kids' computer--the menu's were better organized on Mandrake, and it came

Re: [eug-lug]burning MP3 CDs

2003-06-03 Thread Ralph Zeller
Maybe try something like: $x=0; for i in mp3/*; do let x=$x+1; echo $i $xsortlist; done; $less sortlist #does it look sorted right? $mkisofs -r -J --sort sortlist -o mymp3s.img mp3/* On 06/02/03 10am, Dave Wyatt wrote: I have created a single MP3 music CD of a multi-CD set. I have tried

Re: [eug-lug]burning MP3 CDs

2003-06-03 Thread Ralph Zeller
Or use a find statement, `find mp3/* -printf %p %TY%Tm%TH%TM%TS\n` On 06/02/03 01pm, Dave Wyatt wrote: It didn't quite come out correct, but this gets me in the right direction. A little tweaking and all should be good... Thanks. Dave --- Ralph Zeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe

Re: [Eug-lug]KDE 3.1.1 (KDE for workgroups?)

2003-03-26 Thread Ralph Zeller
In prior release of KDE: Control Center -- Look Feel -- Shortcuts -- Navigation -- Walk through Windows On 03/26/03 10am, Rob Hudson wrote: I just installed KDE 3.1.1 via Konstruct (the Garball thing for KDE). It's installed and I'm playing around with it, customizing things. The one

[Eug-lug]Mutt updates for buffer overflow problems

2003-03-23 Thread Ralph Zeller
Lots of us use mutt, looks like it's time to upgrade: http://www.mutt.org Mutt 1.4.1 and 1.5.4 were released on March 19, 2003. These releases both fix a buffer overflow identified by Core Security Technologies. The only differences between 1.4 and 1.4.1 are bug fixes. If you are currently using

Re: [Eug-lug]CIA Processors

2003-03-23 Thread Ralph Zeller
Rather, How come phpgroupware is broken? On 03/24/03 12am, Bob Crandell wrote: How come your messages are empty? Joseph Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: 1024D/20F62261F1857A3E79FC44F98FF7D7A3DCF9DAB3

Re: [Eug-lug]CIA Processors

2003-03-23 Thread Ralph Zeller
Maybe something's wrong with Joseph's gpg encoding? On 03/24/03 02am, Bob Crandell wrote: Broken? Email from Joseph and Klez are about the only ones that show up empty. What's broken? Ralph Zeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rather, How come phpgroupware is broken? On 03/24/03 12am

Re: [Eug-lug]win4lin in gentoo

2003-03-22 Thread Ralph Zeller
John, Nettraverse is usually about three kernel patches behind, so prepare to compile your own kernel if you're running something recent. I doubt they have precompiled kernels for gentoo anyway... It's not that hard to patch a generic kernel for win4lin. Ralph On 03/22/03 01am, john fleming

Re: [Eug-lug]SETI@home news bulletin (fwd)

2003-03-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 03/21/03 11am, Jamie wrote: Dear jamie: This is an exciting time for [EMAIL PROTECTED] On March 18-20 2003 we travel to the Arecibo radio telescope to re-observe the most promising candidates produced by our search so far. There is a chance that these new observations will yield the

Re: [Eug-lug]evolution - group by categories

2003-03-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
Click the Contacts icon. On the grey-bar above the listing of contacts, select Search, Category is, and select the Category. As long as we're talking about Evolution, I can't figure out where the font substitution table is--when I print messages encoded with unusual fonts, Evo prints in a

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Ralph Zeller
If only we had grub. (sorry!) On 03/04/03 11pm, Mike O wrote: How about I boot my roomie and we go back to my place :) If only . --- Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Howe wrote: Is there a meeting this week? Today, tomorrow? This week, the clinic is on Wednesday.

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Ralph Zeller
together? Anyone else? : : TimH : : On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:47:33 -0800 : : Ralph Zeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : If only we had grub. (sorry!) : : On 03/04/03 11pm, Mike O wrote: : How about I boot my roomie and we go back to my place :) If only : . : : --- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug]justifying text

2003-03-04 Thread Ralph Zeller
Neil's suggestion is better, and for clarification I meant to say 'nroff'. On 03/03/03 04pm, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Recall a discussion when Dexter left the list about his last email that was fully left and right justified without additional spaces. Ralph said, How quickly we forget the

Re: [Eug-lug]Multiple pictures to one sheet to be printed

2003-02-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
Tim, I'd use Imagemagick to convert the big pictures so an appropriate sized thumbnail picture. Ralph Something like this (which also converts the files to gif): --- #!/bin/bash for i in myBigPictures/*.jpg do f=`basename $i` f=${f%.jpg} convert -resize 140x140 -colors 16

[Eug-lug]Vim quick-reference

2003-02-01 Thread Ralph Zeller
Here's a link to a 525-page book about Vim: http://www.newriders.com/books/opl/ebooks/0735710015.html And since Vim users are always looking for something a little faster, here are direct links to the book's quick-reference pages:

Re: [Eug-lug]underlining words in text!

2003-01-28 Thread Ralph Zeller
In mutt, you can add a line in your .muttrc like this: color underline brightgreen default which will make Cory's underlined words appear in bright green on a display that supports color. On 01/27/03 08pm, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:29:30PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:

Re: [Eug-lug]underlining words in text!

2003-01-27 Thread Ralph Zeller
Actually, that should be _I On 01/27/03 05pm, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Well for those of you not viewing your mail through a terminal they are characters that tell the tell the terminal to underline the text. I had typed: I^H_ to get I_ or an underlined I. ^H is the backspace character so

[Eug-lug]Unusual num-pad behavior

2003-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
My num-pad has decided to be a mouse today. I must have pressed something that turned my num-pad keys into a mouse driver, which (for example) makes the insertion point or arrow zoom up if I hold my finger down on the eight, and down if I hold my finger down on the two. I want my regular

Re: [Eug-lug]Unusual num-pad behavior

2003-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
if there were accelerators to help get the cursor across the screen quickly. I hope someone posts some good documentation links on this feature, er, bug. Ciao! BenB On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 10:21, Ralph Zeller wrote: My num-pad has decided to be a mouse today. I must have pressed something

Re: [Eug-lug]Unusual num-pad behavior

2003-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
nice when you don't have a mouse. Garl -Original Message- From: Ralph Zeller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]Unusual num-pad behavior It is nice--or, it would be nice, if I knew how to turn

Re: [Eug-lug]Unusual num-pad behavior

2003-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
for it? On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 11:34, Grigsby, Garl wrote: Ralph, You can turn this feature on and off by hitting CTRL-SHIFT-NUMLOCK. Works nice when you don't have a mouse. Garl -Original Message- From: Ralph Zeller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11

[Eug-lug]Idea for ELUG mascot...

2003-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
This would have been a great mascot for ELUG, with a Northwest theme, too bad it's already taken: http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/pics/lars.gif ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug] What euglug is about (was: Is there anybody besides..)

2003-01-10 Thread Ralph Zeller
How soon we forget the wonders of troff! This is how all communications had to prepared back in the days before we had troff to make all of our communications and man-pages both left and right-justified, even when printed by teletype or other fixed-character device. On 01/09/03 05pm, Tim

Re: [Eug-lug]The spelling of dammit

2003-01-10 Thread Ralph Zeller
James is right: $ echo dammit|aspell -l $ On 01/10/03 06am, Linux Rocks ! wrote: bubba@bubba:~$ dammit bash: dammit: command not found On Friday 10 January 2003 06:02 am, James wrote: : Not that it matters.. as you have all been so helpful here.. but the : correct spelling is dammit. : :

Re: [Eug-lug]Linux security/presentation topics/Evolution

2003-01-08 Thread Ralph Zeller
Each of the topics Cory mentioned in this recent email would be great topic for a meeting presentation: snmp, certs (in general), vpn, nis, nfs, ldap, and boot disks. Any volunteers? In particular, I'd like to figure out how to setup a shared address book in Evolution. I think you have to

Re: [Eug-lug]] dma errors on dd

2002-12-31 Thread Ralph Zeller
swapoff -a On 12/31/02 09am, Dexter Graphic wrote: I just tried copying my partitions one at a time with DMA support turned on and there were no DMA errors reported. You may recall that when I copied the entire drive at once (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k) with DMA turned on I got DMA

Re: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-24 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 12/24/02 06am, Dexter Graphic wrote: I will try it again tonight before bedtime. I figure it will take several hours to duplicate my 40 GB drive. Which block size do you think I should use to improve the speed? Is bigger better? It should take 1-2 hours, if you have all

Re: [Eug-lug]redhat 8

2002-12-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
The first three are needed for an install. The last two are sources. There is also another iso for extra documentation. You can see which rpm's are on them with `ls /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS` On 12/21/02 09pm, Rob Hudson wrote: I'm downloading the RedHat 8 ISOs for an installation for a friend.

Re: [Eug-lug]Dan's text based computer system

2002-12-17 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 12/17/02 02am, Joseph Carter wrote: You can use whatever editor you prefer for writing your mail. I guess you already have a favorite? I use vim, which works for me but is certainly not for the faint of heart. Debian now uses nano as its default editor because of its onscreen commands

[Eug-lug]Followup to Mutt presentation

2002-11-22 Thread Ralph Zeller
Q: How do you read your .muttrc configuration file from mutt? A: You can enter the command 'source .muttrc' or define a macro to do it, like: macro generic f8 \ enter-command'source .muttrc'enter \ 'Re-read .muttrc' ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug]Linux conversion path.....I need suggestions

2002-11-19 Thread Ralph Zeller
I haven't had problems with tables. If you have, please post a bug report to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi On 11/19/02 11am, Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:40:12AM -0800, Ralph Zeller wrote: Have you tried OpenOffice.org? Or, depending on specifically what

Re: [Eug-lug]Reminder: This Saturday's Presentation

2002-11-18 Thread Ralph Zeller
cat /proc/version On 11/18/02 10am, Bryan Kane wrote: Quick question: What command will state the current kernel version one is using (like 'pwd' tells the current working directory). I saw it at one time, but don't remember. ___ Eug-LUG mailing

Re: [Eug-lug]extract to here

2002-11-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 11/06/02 04pm, Dexter Graphic wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 15:30, Mike O wrote: gunzip filename.gz tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz couldn't resist. The gunzip worked but it deleted the original file.Is there some way to stop it from doing this? Next time, just use: tar xzvf

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
And rdate gets the time from another computer that's setup as a time server. On 11/06/02 05pm, Cory Petkovsek wrote: date prints the os's clock hwclock prints the hardware's clock you can set one from the other with hwclock --hctosys or hwclock --systohc If you want your system in UTC/GMT

Re: [Eug-lug]scary meeting

2002-10-31 Thread Ralph Zeller
Or you could try a really scary costume: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2002/ft021031.gif On 10/31/02 08am, Larry Price wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Mike O wrote: Will there be a meeting tonight? Yes Do we dress up so we're not so ugly? If YOU want to wear a pink tutu and

Re: [Eug-lug]debian testing?

2002-10-29 Thread Ralph Zeller
Sid is always unstable. --- FYI, here's a graph posted to debian-users showing how the debian releases are organized. sid--- \ \ \ \ \ === etch \

Re: [Eug-lug]Fwd: [PLUG] Red Hat Road Tour coming to Portland

2002-10-16 Thread Ralph Zeller
Hey, there are a few of us here who haven't figured out how to configure every program ourselves yet. On (10/16/02 05:08), Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:28:08AM -0700, Ralph Zeller wrote: Is it almost time for a road trip, anyone? I wonder how many RH guys we can kill

[Eug-lug]Fwd: [PLUG] Red Hat Road Tour coming to Portland

2002-10-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
Is it almost time for a road trip, anyone? - Forwarded message from Paul Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: plug [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14 Oct 2002 17:27:26 -0700 Subject: [PLUG] Red Hat Road Tour coming to Portland Should I have put free beer in

Re: [Eug-lug]Re: [EUG-LUG:1555] for the logical geeks

2002-10-11 Thread Ralph Zeller
Bob, Elegant solution. The solving concept seems similar to linear programming. You may also be interested in 'pysimplex' at http://www.pythonpros.com/arw/pysimplex/ Pysimplex tries to be an engine to solve this general genre of problems. The tricky part is to figure out how to represent the

Re: [Eug-lug]Re: Tomorrow's meeting

2002-10-10 Thread Ralph Zeller
Horst, I didn't think we needed to encourage cross-posting. ;) Ralph Potential topics: -latex -printing -email clients compared -Linux in a SOHO -conferencing -programming language comparisons -gimp/drawing -mysql/php -interoperability w/other os's -kernel development trends -cvs -apache

Re: [Eug-lug]solution to python puzzle

2002-10-04 Thread Ralph Zeller
There's an analysis of the topic at developerworks: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pycon?t=grl,l=252,p=iterators On (10/04/02 08:41), Bob Miller wrote: Those of you who were at the clinic last night know that I was asking for help on a weird limitation of Python. The

[Eug-lug]Sendmail setup question

2002-10-04 Thread Ralph Zeller
I'm trying to get sendmail setup (under RedHat for now) and I'm having a problem with the X-Authentication warning when I'm sending from a transient host. Is there something in my setup that I can change that prevents the warning from showing up in my emails, or do I have to fix my DNS settings?

Re: [Eug-lug]linux firewall

2002-10-04 Thread Ralph Zeller
iptables On (10/04/02 10:21), Rob Hudson wrote: I'm setting up a firewall/gateway at my house. What should I use? IPchains? What's the other option? Isn't there a standard packet filter for 2.2 and a different one for 2.4? I'm in the kernel config for 2.4.19 right now and don't see

Re: [Eug-lug]linux firewall

2002-10-04 Thread Ralph Zeller
Here's an well-commented example of iptables setup, that includes info about loading modules: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/ipmasq/examples/rc.firewall-2.4 On (10/04/02 10:33), Ralph Zeller wrote: iptables On (10/04/02 10:21), Rob Hudson wrote: I'm setting up a firewall

[Eug-lug]Ten ways to promote communication within a LUG...

2002-09-27 Thread Ralph Zeller
From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: COMMENT: Ten ways to promote communication within a LUG... Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:20:28 GMT Ten ways to promote communication within a LUG: ***

[EUG-LUG:3804] Re: Image viewers

2002-08-27 Thread Ralph Zeller
kuickshow At 07:57 AM 8/27/02 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used xv for 15 years to view images of all sorts. It's very effective at what it does, which is show one picture, step through a bunch of pictures, or do minor editing (cropping, gamma correction, etc). It doesn't add any

[EUG-LUG:3648] Re: Host Woes

2002-07-31 Thread Ralph Zeller
Or you might be running ipchains. On a RedHat system, you would try /etc/init.d/ipchains stop and /etc/init.d/iptables stop, or use the setup command for automated firewall configuration. I think there is a gui tool in Mandrake to change firewall settings. Ralph At 11:22 PM 7/30/02 Bob Miller

[EUG-LUG:3060] Sony Vaio for sale

2002-06-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
Apologies in advance for this commercial message--it's only related to Linux in that I've been thinking about buying a laptop to bring to EugLug meetings... I think I'm going to pass up on buying a laptop from a friend of mine, but it seems like such a good deal that I thought I'd let you know:

[EUG-LUG:3038] Re: change of pace

2002-06-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
I prefer Wednesdays too. I've got a conflict most of the summer on Thursday night. At 02:46 PM 6/20/02 Horst wrote: I prefer Wednesdays, because of conflicts with other activities. In addition, people could walk from the TechBrew (also We.) straight to EFN. EFN is the best location so far. In

[EUG-LUG:2846] Re: fg and bg and jobs

2002-06-05 Thread Ralph Zeller
There is a section in the man-page about remapping keys in your .screenrc file for emacs users. There is also a good summary statement about screen near the end of the man-page: A wierd imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the features. e-- v++ At 09:49 PM 6/4/02 Larry

[EUG-LUG:2830] Re: fg and bg and jobs

2002-06-04 Thread Ralph Zeller
Rob, I think you can use the 'detach' and 'attach' of 'screen' to do what you are trying to do. man screen Ralph At 09:57 AM 6/4/02 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be nice to regain control of a process by using the PID? Not sure if that's possible or not. One

[EUG-LUG:2593] Re: BIG FILES

2002-05-10 Thread Ralph Zeller
Try something like: dd if=/dev/zero of=mybigfile bs=1024k count=300 At 10:03 PM 5/9/02 Grigsby, Garl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, First thanks for the tool. I have been wanting to play around with large files on Linux, but have not wanted to deal with 3 Gb files... Second it would seem

[EUG-LUG:2474] Re: tool to convert links from absolute to relative?

2002-04-29 Thread Ralph Zeller
You can use wget options, like --convert-links, --base-url, and force-html. At 09:54 AM 4/29/02 Mark Bigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 April 2002 09:40, Bob Miller wrote: So, who knows of a tool that will scan a directory of files (or even a single file) and change all href and

[EUG-LUG:2451] Re: multi gnome terminal

2002-04-28 Thread Ralph Zeller
Hey Tim, we have most of those features even on a text-terminal using 'screen'! At 05:17 PM 4/28/02 Timothy Bolz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on freshmeat and thought it was the greatest idea. A terminal with Tabs. Instead of having four terminal windows open you can have one and

[EUG-LUG:2436] Re: Nifty X tricks

2002-04-26 Thread Ralph Zeller
Tim, Other similar tricks-- --With win4lin running, one of the x sessions can be a win98 session--So then you Ctrl + Alt + F9 and you're running windows fullscreen. --You launch vncserver using display :1. Then connect to it fullscreen with vncviewer, locally or from anywhere. Your session

[EUG-LUG:2138] Re: Folding progress

2002-04-01 Thread Ralph Zeller
Team Ranking: 23 At 10:11 PM 3/27/02 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Zeller wrote: I see we moved up a notch to Team #24: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=668 It pays to pick your battles. I bet we wouldn't have done this well in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Miller

[EUG-LUG:2121] Re: dumb terminal and thin clients

2002-03-28 Thread Ralph Zeller
Tim, If performance (speed) is not a factor then here's something to try: There is a single-floppy linux distribution that only runs a vnc-viewer from a floppy. There's no x-server, it just uses vnc and svgalib. I set it up once a long time ago, and it wasn't difficult. It should run just

[EUG-LUG:2090] Folding progress

2002-03-27 Thread Ralph Zeller
I see we moved up a notch to Team #24: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=668

[EUG-LUG:2073] Re: DSL-QWEST

2002-03-23 Thread Ralph Zeller
EFN is a business?? I thought it was a non-profit organization. I'm not knocking efn, I think efn provides a great service to the community. At 01:02 PM 3/23/02 Seth Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: efn's price is slightly higher I believe, but you are supporting local business, getting much

[EUG-LUG:1940] Re: Folding: Python vs. Perl

2002-03-11 Thread Ralph Zeller
Thanks, Larry, that works. a language feature would not be worthy of the name 'class' without supporting inheritance. At 11:49 AM 3/11/02 Larry Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Ralph Zeller wrote: KBob's script works fine in python2.2, but how do you make work

[EUG-LUG:1896] Re: Folding: Team EUGLUG passes ChaosTheory...

2002-03-09 Thread Ralph Zeller
I'm glad you're the president of this organization and not the treasurer. ; On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Bob Miller wrote: * 28th by the Folding@home server's numbering, in which the top team is #2 and the We are all individuals team is #1. We're 27th by Chris Allen's numbering, which discounts

[EUG-LUG:1865] Re: Folding: Python vs. Perl

2002-03-07 Thread Ralph Zeller
Bob, I'm new to Python, too. I was wondering if there is a way to inherit some of the list properties like min, max, len, etc rather than redefine them? If it's possible it could save 25 lines of code at least. Another newbie question--rather than parse the date/time yourself, would it

[EUG-LUG:1773] Re: FoxTrot

2002-02-26 Thread Ralph Zeller
ifruit-of-the-loom? At 11:36 PM 2/25/02 Sean Reifschneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:53:57PM -0800, Tim Howe wrote: Tim is amused. Sean wants to know where HE can get some. :-) Sean -- Why would I want to be a Doctor, when I could be a MASTER? Sean Reifschneider,

[EUG-LUG:1660] Re: forever folding

2002-02-14 Thread Ralph Zeller
I just started folding. It's fun to see who's participating at http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=668 My feeble 486/100 ran all night and completed 1/100 of a work unit. At 02:41 PM 2/14/02 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got my little p200 laptop folding, and finally

[EUG-LUG:1509] RE: Word Processors Considered Harmful

2002-02-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
Great links! By the way, did anyone send a message to RMS telling him that he should refer to Word as Microsoft/Word ? At 12:19 PM 2/6/02 Dexter Graphic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great references, Bob! Thanks, I really enjoyed them. Here are two more word-processor related links I found.

[EUG-LUG:1259] Re: BSD on the laptop...

2002-01-25 Thread Ralph Zeller
Jamie, OpenBSD must support some kind of compressed filesystem (remember Stacker?) Ralph At 03:16 PM 1/25/2002 Jamie wrote: All in all OpenBSD seems ok I wish I had a bigger disk so I could do more stuff though I may write some scripts to pkg_add apps and pgk_del apps for different

[EUG-LUG:1216] Re: Jukebox woes

2002-01-23 Thread Ralph Zeller
You need to build your game room farther from your office. Try it at about 800 feet. If that doesn't work, try building it 900 feet away or so. By altering the environment around the acoustic characteristics of your current hardware and icecast's buffer settings, you should be able to adjust

[EUG-LUG:898] Genius is an Abnormality

2002-01-08 Thread Ralph Zeller
Here's an interesting article by Temple Grandin that talks briefly about Linux and educating gifted kids in use of computers. Temple Grandin has a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and has designed one third of all of the livestock handling facilities in the United States

[EUG-LUG:681] Re: Samba

2001-12-21 Thread Ralph Zeller
Something is very wrong, like conflicting DNS or inability to satisfy samba's name resolution, or a problem with authentication. Samba should be just about as fast as ftp. There are a couple of different ways to solve the resolution and authentication problems depending on the size (and

[EUG-LUG:645] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
It might be useful to run lsof to see which files are causing the problem, or if someone is opening a bunch of really big files? At 05:12 PM 12/20/2001 Bob Crandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client with a Linux server running Samba. Something is filling up memory and the swap space.

[EUG-LUG:656] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
could tell, this time, Samba 2.2.2 is the bad guy. I copied a directory with about 7,000 files worth maybe 100M. The server ran out of memory before the copy was done. I had to cancel it and reboot the server in order to finish. Now I'm off to research Samba problems. Thanks Ralph Zeller ([EMAIL

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