Re: PDA Suggestions

2003-06-09 Thread Bob Bell
ed on your response. There's a Linux distribution for iPaqs called 'Familiar' (http://familiar.handhelds.org). Or, get a microdrive and use 'Intimate' (http://intimate.handhelds.org). Either way, you

Re: PDA Suggestions

2003-06-06 Thread Bob Bell
but it does what you want for under $100. Supported in Linux starting with version 2.4.20. If you need more memory, a Palm m105 may also do the job and fit your price range, but I don't think it's a "current" product anymore. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: how to copy my *!&^%# log files

2003-06-05 Thread Bob Bell
essfully using ssh-agent to avoid entering a password. I'm not sure which method you are using for ssh-agent (spawning a subcommend or print shell commands to configure the environment), but irrespective/ regardless (that's for Paul) of your choice, your cron job in all likelihood does

Re: Looking for Some Advice

2003-06-04 Thread Bob Bell
nch of > clunky dual-boot setups. A related solution that my college implemented (after I left) is to use VMware to run a number of Windows instances on a machine, and allow for remote connections to those instances. -- Bob Bell

Re: SCO Thread that will never die (was Re: Maddog at work.)

2003-06-04 Thread Bob Bell
up the patent (I'm not going to right now, but somebody else can), you'll find that the RSA mathematical algorithm was actually not the subject of the patent. The patent was for using RSA to encrypt data communication. A subtle point perhaps (what else are you going to use it for?), but

Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-06-04 Thread Bob Bell
ed_keys is documented in the OpenSSH sshd(8) man page. Thanks, this is very useful, including the other documented options as well. I'm off to lock down some of my ssh setup even tighter. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-06-03 Thread Bob Bell
ation of the authorized_keys file? If so, please say more. There's no authorized_keys man page, and it's not immediately obvious from the format of authorized_keys, but I'm interested. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

FYI: Comcast/Attbi users

2003-04-03 Thread Bob Bell
"Don't ask; won't tell", but here's some info for Comcast/Attbi users. Please consider it a heads up and be cautious about contacting Comcast about it -- I don't want to get my source in trouble. CONFIDENTIAL: FOR COMCAST INTERNAL USE ONLY Overview: comcast.net domain migration update (Cov

Re: Dumb networking question...

2003-04-02 Thread Bob Bell
http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch2524-2512/summary.htm -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say &

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread Bob Bell
ay, just a quick comment. I'm not taking sides in this one. :-) Actually, I'm finding the debate quite interesting. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better.&qu

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Bob Bell
w.wklb.com/ -> click on "Music"). I don't know what their ownership is. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "The popularization of the open-source movement continues to pose a s

Re: error with man

2003-02-24 Thread Bob Bell
be. This looks like a legitimate piece of software, just the wrong one! My best guess would be either a system administrator typo error, or a KDE installation gone awry. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Where a calcula

Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI']

2003-02-24 Thread Bob Bell
which is why EFI is a more open and documented interface. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "MSN [the Microsoft Network] has a guy whose full time job is walking around rebooting NT Servers as they crash.&q

Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'

2003-02-21 Thread Bob Bell
ing for this too hard -- after all, if IA-32 PC's are stuck with BIOS, that's one more differentiator for IPF, right? BTW, Intel has infomration on EFI at http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Recognizing touch tones

2003-02-14 Thread Bob Bell
touch tones as input? Obviously, I'm asking because I would expect to use Linux as the OS on which I develop a solution. Does anyone know how to accomplish these things? Perhaps there's an Open Source package that has a number of these features? -- Bob Bell &l

Re: OT: More Spam

2003-01-22 Thread Bob Bell
an guess the initial sequence number for the TCP connection. That's why there's that one site with all those plots illustrating how predictable the sequence number is (somebody else probably has the URL more readily available than I).

Re: Printing on thick paper

2003-01-17 Thread Bob Bell
ite a few possibilities, notably the 2280 business inkjet and the LaserJet 4600n. [0] http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl04568.html [1] Looks like you can get a refurbished one at http://www.cbmart.com/12/146.htm [2] http://search.hp.com/gwuseng/query.html?qt=%2B%22PCL+5c%22&

Re: Newsgroup server

2003-01-13 Thread Bob Bell
groups for NNTP clients at a reasonable price. (I don't know how they tell the difference; perhaps they cap the amount of data transfer per month). -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "If a packet hits a poc

Re: Data conversion

2003-01-08 Thread Bob Bell
y of OpenOffice, there might be an OpenOffice library, or even one dedicating to read/writing file formats that you could use and code against without require an Xlibs. Sounds like a lot of work, though. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: another windoze emulator

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > didn't someone recently mention yet another windows emulator > for linux? not wine, not vmware.. it was new to me, but now > i can't find the message.. Win4Lin? -- B

Re: Moving Files (Again)

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Bell
inion expressed by what seemed like many list members that spaces have no place in filenames (there are EVIL, if I recall correctly). -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "The computer should be doing the hard work.

Re: Moving Files (Again)

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Bell
following is typically more reliable: find blah | while read foo; do # do stuff done -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Parentheses in Perl are like shoes in the Ca

Re: Moving files

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Bell
ixed with "-type f" if you don't want to rename directories; a little trickier if you do (check my example). Oh, and I don't think the parens are needed. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "

Re: Moving files

2003-01-06 Thread Bob Bell
w about this for a non-Perl solution: $ find . | sort -r | while read f; do b=$(basename "$f"); d=$(dirname "$f"); \ [[ $b != ${b/ /} ]] && mv "$f" "$d/${b// /_}" ; done -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Moving files

2003-01-06 Thread Bob Bell
turning another list. Very LISP-like, the more I think about it. If one make a living writing software and is not at least mildly familiar with functional programming, they should learn. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Moving files

2003-01-06 Thread Bob Bell
FWIW, I'm surprised Paul bothered to use @f, instead of just applying map to the results of grep directly ] Also: rather than "substitute all whitespace in that item for an underscore", it is more accurate to say "substitute each occ

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Bell
but > AFAIK it does not allow you to dump an ASCII representation (i.e. it's > interactive only). If you have some other program that can convert > HTML to ASCII, that should work as well as lynx. FWIW, w3m might work for this as well. I used to use it, but I think I switc

Re: IMAP (was: replacement for netscrape mail)

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Bell
onize local files with an IMAP server. It could probably be used to help a non-IMAP-offline MUA work in offline mode, but that's about the extent of my knowledge regarding the tool. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Bell
ou are probably okay. If not, I've found on nice trick when swapping MUAs is to use an IMAP server as a go-between, if both MUAs support IMAP. That is, copy the messages from the old MUA to the IMAP server, and then copy them from the IMAP server to local storage with the new MUA. It h

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Bell
for me for HTML mail. In fact, I even have it configured to view MS Word docs as text. And when viewing HTML or MS Word as text just doesn't suffice, I can easily view the HTML in Netscape or the Word DOC in rdesktop (to a remote Win2K TS) with just a couple keystroke. I'm very ha

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Bell
oy, how i *do* go on, eh? I assume IMAP isn't an option? It would be a much better solution. FWIW, mutt does have POP support. Or you can always use fetchmail with -k. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - &q

Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread Bob Bell
, policy-based routing, and other things are increasingly common exceptions to this rule, but they are rarely active unless you explicitly configure them.) -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "We trained hard to mee

Re: pipe/redirect dumb question

2002-12-11 Thread Bob Bell
#x27;<' shell redirection, you are reading directly from a file, so you wouldn't expect read() to normally take very long to complete, though it may need to block to bring the data into the kernel cache. When read()ing from the output of another program, as is the case with &#

Re: shift() in C std lib

2002-12-11 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:59:30PM -0500, Price, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're not describing shift. You're describing push. > > I thought that push puts it at the end of the array. You're both wrong. :-) You are talking about Perl's

Re: End of the Alpha CPU (was: IBM Buys Rational for $2.1Billion!)

2002-12-06 Thread Bob Bell
t HP has come out with some benchmarks that do show the latest iteration of IA-64 powered machines performing markedly better than their predecessors. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "If a packet hits a pocket on

Re: symbolic link question

2002-12-03 Thread Bob Bell
keeping track of how you got to where you are (your 'logical path'). This is usually also reflected in the PWD environment variable. In bash and ksh, you can use 'pwd -P' to get your real path. Or, you can run /bin/pwd instead of the shell builtin. This is also reflec

Re: symbolic link question

2002-12-03 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:37:00PM -0500, Michael O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While solving a related problem I ended up writing the > following little program that might be of interest to you: What does this do that /bin/pwd or getcwd() don't already do?

Re: Riddle me this Batman! POSIXLY_CORRECT effect on wc

2002-11-20 Thread Bob Bell
LY_CORRECT=1 ~/xxx.sh > There are 195 lines in bldmaster > There are 195 lines in bldmaster > 674 > > > I'm totally mystified. Can someone *please* explain this one to me? :-( Line 5 in xxx.sh is not passing POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 to the sub-shell

Re: Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

2002-11-18 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:01:58AM -0500, Derek D. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At some point hitherto, Bob Bell hath spake thusly: > > It would work with once instance of vim working of multiple buffers. > > I don't think you can complete from any arb

Re: Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

2002-11-18 Thread Bob Bell
vim to another file for completion, such as /usr/dict/*, or another specific file you are working on. See ':help complete' in Vim. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Parentheses in Perl are like shoes

Re: emacs & vi (vim) approaches)

2002-11-15 Thread Bob Bell
out how to do a lot of things in emacs. > > I'm amazed at how many places you find emacs style keystrokes. > Mozilla, exmh's sedit, interleaf, bash, ksh, tcsh. Others? vim. Well, okay, not by default, but open up vim as see ":help emacs-keys" to get emacs-style e

Re: Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

2002-11-15 Thread Bob Bell
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:08:46PM -0500, Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Suppose I decide that this looks horrible, and I want to clean this > > > up. In Emacs I can type a few keys and transmorgify things thusly: > > > > Out of cu

Re: Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

2002-11-15 Thread Bob Bell
(I missed the original email). > > Suppose I have cut and pasted 5 paragraphs from somewhere else, and > > all of the lines are >80 characters in length. I can easily instruct > > Emacs to just "fill" these paragraphs and wrap all of the lines > > properly. > >

Re: making vars in bash script accessible from shell

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Bell
olution has been ported to Windows. It doesn't seem so, though... -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Using today's server requirements, Linux is a credible alternative to commercial developed serve

Re: Linux vs. Solaris file IO performance

2002-10-29 Thread Bob Bell
te the behavior you are describing. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "If you think you are experiencing a memory leak, please be aware that memory leaks may not be what they appear to be. You may discover that

Re: SSH suthentication problems thru (versus to) a given host

2002-10-07 Thread Bob Bell
base files. This option is useful for tunneling ssh connections or if you have multiple servers running on a single host. I anticipate that you would useing this in a "fake" Host section of ~/.ssh/config, and ssh to that "fake" hostname. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PRO

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:40:11PM -0400, Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:36:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got plenty open, but it doesn't seem to be working the way I > > expect it

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Bell
l: normal termination, status 11 You want to connect to port 8110 of taz, not of the "real" POP server. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Duct tape is like

Apache configuration

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Bell
itself, while permitting access to subdirectories. However, it fails to allow access to index.cgi. The site works fine if I remove the "deny" on photo, but then I've allowed access to some contents in photo that I'd rat

Re: bash question

2002-09-23 Thread Bob Bell
e number of days in which 'it' is due, a > negative number representing an over-due 'it', then: > > abs_x=`echo '$x' | sed s/-//` > > ought to do it. Alernatively, to stay within bash: ne

Re: Sniffer detectors for Linux?

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Bell
This is like a broadcast, but different since the traffic was not intended to be broadcast to a subnet, but rather was intended for a specific destination only. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Beware of the above

Re: SOLVED: Advanced shell scripting question :-)

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Bell
seems to be so underpowered that it doesn't have the lines-out-of-order problem), I get an empty 'err' file. Does this work for everybody else? BTW, Steven, you might want to consider changing '

Re: Advanced shell scripting question :-)

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:22:20PM -0400, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Bob Bell wrote: > =>On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =>> What I currently have that gets me closer is as f

Re: Advanced shell scripting question :-)

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Bell
this probably not the only > sort of application where you might want to process the input from > several descriptors in the order it was received. Disclaimer: IANAIOG (I am not an I/O guru) -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: Advanced shell scripting question :-)

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:03:13PM -0400, Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is this: I expect that when data is written to a pipe, that > > the the order is preserved

Re: Advanced shell scripting question :-)

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Bell
h seperate channel. I think what you are see is that p is writing to the pipe to "tee BOTH", and "tee ERR" is writing to the pipe to "tee BOTH". Due to scheduling between the two processes, buffering, etc., ordering is not guaranteed. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Need info on swapping

2002-09-03 Thread Bob Bell
ing *any* of your swap... -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "It [Linux] will certainly drive us to put new stuff into our products." -- John Carpenter, Microsoft manager _

Re: sorting pathnames by basename

2002-08-21 Thread Bob Bell
x27;ll repeat it here: sed -e 's;\(\(.*\)/\)*\(.*\);\3/\1\3;' | sort -fdt/k1 | sed -e 's;[^/]*/\(.*\);\1;' Since this is mildly different, and I've never heard of the Schwartzian Transform, I'm going to propose calling this Bell's Method. :-) -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PR

Re: sorting pathnames by basename

2002-08-21 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:52:14AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sed -e 's;\(\(.*\)/\)*\(.*\);\3/\1\3;' | sort -fdt/k1 | sed -e 's;[^/]*/\(.*\);\1;' > > This doesn't work for

Re: sorting pathnames by basename

2002-08-20 Thread Bob Bell
t welcome. '/' is an illegal character in a filename, right? sed -e 's;\(\(.*\)/\)*\(.*\);\3/\1\3;' | sort -fdt/k1 | sed -e 's;[^/]*/\(.*\);\1;' -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Test to discuss@gnhlug.org

2002-08-20 Thread Bob Bell
This is a test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My previous messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are timing out from the Postfix program zcamail03.zca.compaq.com, and I don't know why. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Interesting idea for fighting SPAM...

2002-08-20 Thread Bob Bell
ilters. There have been at least two such filters on the mutt developer's mailing list so far, including one written by ESR. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Felten, who examined the secret "source co

Test to gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

2002-08-20 Thread Bob Bell
This is a test to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My previous messages are timing out from the Postfix program zcamail03.zca.compaq.com, and I don't know why. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "Suppose I want to tak

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-19 Thread Bob Bell
hat? I'm curious what distinctions he makes to argue for "GNU/Linux" but not "GNU/Solaris"... -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "To understand recur

Test message

2002-08-14 Thread Bob Bell
Sorry to waste bandwidth -- just a quick test to see how mutt handles lists/subscribe combinations. -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

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