If it were me I'd pick a candidate DSP and then go
and find mailing lists and USENET newsgroups oriented
around that processor where folks are discussing projects
similar to mine. I might end up learning that C or C++
support is better or worse than expected, or which of
the available execs is b
Not sure if this is relevant but FYI, on my 2.6.5
kernel the byte sequences obtained as shown below
seem to be nicely random no matter how many times
I read them this way:
modsuse1:~ 274---> dd bs=64 count=1 if=/dev/random | od -x
000 834d df85 ac1a 32a3 15ce fb01 f83e 907a
>> installing anything new on it, so I want to suggest she
>> boot something like a Knoppix CD but then she'll be off
>> the Net because dialup to AOL is how she connects.
>
> Does your mother use AOL purely for IP dialtone or does she use
> AOL's features?
She uses it mostly for email and WWW b
My mother down in FLA gripes constantly about the latest
raft of problems she's suffering with on her XP machine,
and the machine is so unstable that she's phobic about
installing anything new on it, so I want to suggest she
boot something like a Knoppix CD but then she'll be off
the Net because d
I asked the guy in the next office (whose project
currently has him chasing a bug in the SCSI mid-layer
code) and he said he'd not heard of such a reference
document, other than (obviously) the source codes,
and he acknowledged that even with the sources in
front of you the term "cryptic" often s
The signal on this channel is Linux; the more your
transmissions stray from Linux, the more they qualify as
noise. High S/N ratio is good, low is bad. This channel
has historically had relatively high S/N ratio and that
is its primary value, the reason we gather here.
Sadly, that is precisely
( please note and preserve the [OT] )
I recently read about some guy who built himself
a "wallet" (not really small enough to count as
wallet-sized, more like VHS cassette-sized) that
has a card reader built in and will not open until a
card is swiped, so when somebody asks him for his ID
the
>>Oh, yeah - I forgot to mention that I wiped /dev/hde1
>>and rebuilt the filesystem as ReiserFS instead of ext3
>>with the symptoms remaining *entirely* unchanged... (!?!?)
>
>
>Well, I saw this very thing yesterday when I added a new
>disk to a system. Turns out that I needed to run mke2fs
>t
>OK - this is now officially upgraded to a double-WTF.
>I haven't yet had the time to really sit down and do a
>bit-bashing debug session but in spare moments I've been
>trying to gather additional clues and I thought y'all
>might be amused by this one: even though with 2.6.11 I
>can't (directly
OK - this is now officially upgraded to a double-WTF.
I haven't yet had the time to really sit down and do a
bit-bashing debug session but in spare moments I've been
trying to gather additional clues and I thought y'all
might be amused by this one: even though with 2.6.11 I
can't (directly) moun
I'm trying to bring a 2.4.18 based Debian system up to
kernel 2.6.11 and so far it's been painless except for one
problem that's got me stumped. I've got several disks
in the system (hda, hde and hdh) that are each occupied
by single ext3 filesystems, with hda1 being the root.
The 2.4.18 kernel b
Years ago I purchased a "ten-year" registration
for a domain and that arrangement has worked
as expected. Today I spoke with a different
outfit about registering another domain for
ten years and they said that ALL domains are
only ever registered for one year and that a
"ten-year" registration wa
Good source of info re: CD stuff:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html
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Almost (but not quite entirely) OT is this review that
I just happened to be reading when your query came by:
http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/05/04/12/1355208.shtml?tid=73&tid=2
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I'm glad to see this thread as I've also puzzled
over this issue on and off since forever as a ComCast
customer with multiple Linux boxes behind a NAT box.
The more general question in my case is: Given
that ComCast only knows me by the single interface
associated with my cable modem and that int
I've been a member of FreeCycle for some time and
both given and gotten a number of items; it's real
and it works fairly well.
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>I suspect you misunderstand what the "Host" HTTP header does
You're right - I'd thought the Host: value string supplied
info about the requesting machine rather than the server
machine, sorta like the User-Agent: string. So you're
also correct about that info being the lower-hanging fruit,
as
nslookup on Debian cheerfully decoded those URLs with ampersands,
while the SamSpade site did not. We should keep in mind that the
definition of "valid" is not "the behavior of some random app as
coded by some random programmer", but instead (as Ben indicates)
what the RFC says. Unless
> FWIW, as a DNS query is not guaranteed to hit the authoritative
> nameserver every time, spammers are more likely looking at the
> "Host:" header your HTTP/1.0-compliant User Agent is sending to
> their web server when you request the resource.
Since the spammer only "knows" me by my email ad
I'm considering flying PanAm from the Pease
International TradePort to Orlando and I'd be grateful
to receive any comments or war stories from anybody
who's flown out of that airfield near Portsmouth.
Parking? Service? Convenience? etc...
Respond via private email, please, unless it seems
clea
It's normal to receive SPAM containing email addrs and URLs
that are tagged in various ways such that the spammer can
detect which of his victims has actually responded because
info about the victim is somehow encoded in the item. Example:
http://spammers.site.com/obfuscatedVictimsEmailAddr
.
When you say this:
tar --help
...it tells you about --dereference
(and a lot of other stuff, too)
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I know absolutely nothing about PHP and such, but does
that .so extension in the diagnostic msg mean we're talking
about a shared library? If so, which binary wants to
link to it? What happens when you say "ldd thatBinary" ?
Does that .so file show as being properly resolved?
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>> Can anybody provide a clue as to what the proper sequence of
>> steps might be that would result in (A) getting a Windows XP
>> (Home Edition) machine rigged to accept a connection from the
>> Linux rdesktop client
>
>Win XP Home doesn't include Remote Desktop Connection.
>That's one of the th
Can anybody provide a clue as to what the proper
sequence of steps might be that would result in (A)
getting a Windows XP (Home Edition) machine rigged
to accept a connection from the Linux rdesktop
client and then (B) what the command line might be
from Linux to properly invoke rdesktop to connec
Just FYI, speaking of hosed-up Dell laptop adapter HW:
https://www.delladapterprogram.com/Main.aspx
Fire hazard! I have an Inspiron 7500 with one of the
affected units (I always did think it got a little
toasty) so I signed up for a replacement adapter thru
that site in October of 2004 - th
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050325215230540
Speakers:
Scott Peterson, HP Company
Richard Stallman, GNU
Ed Walsh, Wolf Greenfield & Sachs
Peter Moldave, Gesmer Updegrove
Karen Copenhaver, Black Duck Software
Dan Ravicher, Free Software Foundation and Public Pate
> That seems really unlikely; autofs (automounter) and amd are two
> different methods of accomplishing the same thing... It would be
> strange to be using both at the same time. autofs is generally
> considered to be the better of the two, so chances are that's what
> you're using, not amd.
To find out what's installed on a Debian
box, I often define this function:
function dlgrep() {
# dpkg list grep
COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l | tr -s '[:blank:]' ' ' | grep $*
}
...which you could use thus:
dlgrep -i autofs
dlgrep -i amd
If you have NIS installed you should
Try saying "ypcat auto.master"
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More info, please...
For starters, which automounter thingy are
you trying to use? The amd? autofs?
How do you configure automounting in your
environment? NIS? files?
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I'm wondering about the history of the various bits
of network management infrastructure. For example,
sometimes I see ifup mentioned as the way to bring an
interface up and sometimes I see "ip up" mentioned.
Is there a reason to prefer one or the other?
The SCSI towers are claimed.
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> Contact: "Linda"
>
> We have 4 Avid 63GB SCSI Towers used with Avid editors.
> Each contain 7 9GB drives. A few SCSI cables included.
> Very heavy items. Bring some muscle :-)
>
> Pickup in Tewksbury. These will be left outside.
> Trash day Tuesday. Take one or take em' all!
FWIW, below please find a copy of the /usr/lib/libstdc++.la from
a SLES9 machine. I find no such file on my main Debian system,
even though "dpkg -l" indicates libtool is installed there.
Good luck, and allow me to suggest that if you plan on trying
to figure out how to make productive use of l
I don't know the person (contact info below) or the printers
in question, but here's a description, FWIW:
> These printers are now in front of our house 20 Harold Place
> (Rogers and North Billerica Rd) Tewksbury, pink house
>
> Trash is on Tuesday, so they're into the landfill unless
> grabbed
I keep saying we need to take the GNHLUG
public, and this could be a good first step.
I'd follow such a list with interest and
participate as Copious Spare Time allows...
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> >> you can boot to the recovery console and run "fixmbr"; ISTR that you can
[]
>I would have suggested that, but AIUI it does the restore from the saved
Please consider the possibililty that excessive
use of IPAs can lead to DROYP...
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As everybody knows, RMS is an acronym for
Root Mean Square, a.k.a. Donald Rumsfeld...
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I wasn't sure from your description what the actual problem
is that you're dealing with, but I believe it's considered
a security risk to load a kernel module that is either
not owned by root or which is marked writable by somebody
other than root, so if you're having trouble loading a
particular
> Someone gave the idea for listing the directory
> /usr/share/doc and sorting that by date. Every package
> has a folder under /usr/share/doc. That works for me...
> is there some need you have that this doesn't satisfy?
That's probably not a reliable approach since users like me
frequently
I'm still not quite sure what y'all are looking for.
If you want a tool that generates reports like "on this
date you installed this pkg, which touched these files, and
then on this date you deinstalled this pkg, which touched
these files, and then on this date you reinstalled this
pkg but aborte
Cable is claimed.
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Plenum grade, I think. Solid conductor.
One wrap-layer remains on the spool core,
plus aprox another 1/3 of a layer. Since each
wrap seems to yield approx 1 foot of cable I'm
guessing there's 50 to 100 feet of cable left.
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> That idea doesn't work for me anyway, but I'd look at the diff
> between /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old.
> Those represent the status of all packages available and the
> difference between them should be the difference in package lists
> from now and before your last apt-get
This is a small (14" or 15") CRT from HP, model D1182A.
Was working fine when taken out of service.
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This isn't authoritative but I'd wander into
/var/cache/apt/archives
...and say:
ls -lat | head
...which should indicate which package files got hauled most
recently into that directory, which is your local repository.
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> IIRC, the other day I subscribed Gmane to
> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org because that is the address
> that the footer told me to use. So, at the very least,
> let's not completely get rid of this.
It seems clear that gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
is the "official" list address ince it's e
> To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org,
>Greater NH Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aaaiiieee! I ask again: can we please do
something about this? That is, decide what the canonical
posting address is for the GNHLUG discussion list and
then disable (or re-target on the fly) all
> To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org,
>Greater NH Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aaaiiieee! I ask again: can we please do
something about this? That is, decide what the canonical
posting address is for the GNHLUG discussion list and
then disable (or re-target on the fly) all
You probably want to say:
apt-get install openoffice.org-help-en
...as indicated by saying:
apt-cache search openoffice | fgrep help
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I have a number of Enet cards - mostly [E]ISA
but a couple of PCI, mostly 10base2 but a
few 10baseT, plus a bunch of coax cables,
T-connectors and terminators, as well as a 19"
rackmount 10baseT hub (w/MAU and 10base2 access
ports) and a few related miscellaneous items.
All are in working order A
Capabilities: V.32bis/V.32/V.22bis/V.22/V.42bis/G3fax
(whoop-dee-doo!)
Includes all original packaging, accessories and docs.
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> If I'm not mistaken, If #!/bin/sh is used the shell will use
> what is set for the user variable $SHELL when a user logs in.
You're mistaken. The value of your $SHELL variable has
nothing to do with which interpreter handles a given
script when that script is directly "executed" by the
kernel
> rsync
> if ! $? ; then
> echo -e "\nrsync completed successfully!\n"
> else
> echo -e "\nrsync failed!\n!"
> fi
BTW, it's legit (and sometimes clearer) to do it like this:
if rsync
then
echo -e "\nrsync completed successfully!\n"
else
echo -e "\nrsyn
The cooperation described in this
article seems somehow familiar:
http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/magaphone.asp
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> Does the swap area have to be a partition or can it be a file?
> if it can, are there any disadvantage to doing this? I'm on RH9
> and recently added a faster hard drive that's got plenty of space.
I've configured a number of machines this way
because in some ways it makes your swap and disk
> My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically,
> our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup
> shares, we have opened this as a "bug" trouble ticket with the company)
If the people who wrote your backup software show
such poor judgement th
It seems clear that everybody agrees that the
following are true:
- Publicly accessible/searchable archives = GOOD
- Harvestable email addrs = BAD
Given that, our course seems clear: we start
obfuscating email addrs ASAP and nothing else has
to change.
What else is there to discuss? except
> So I repartition the drive, reboot and it detected a "partition
> corruption" and it -FORCED- me, from the BIOS to re-install WinXP
> home from the rescue partition.
(sigh) A middle-finger once again lifted in Linux's general
direction. This sort of dainbramage is still too common...
Well,
A business perspective on general Linux history & culture:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918001_mz001.htm
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I'm glad I use weasel-words like "supposedly" because
it turns out to have only been MOSTLY true...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp
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One smokin' hunka man-flesh:
http://blog.monkeymethods.org/images/billgates01.jpg
http://blog.monkeymethods.org/images/billgates02.jpg
(supposedly from a photo spread circa 1983)
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htt
IIRC there have been complaints that some of the
roll-your-own telephony software (such as was being
discussed in recent weeks/months on this list)
made it easy to peek at the call-setup and other
telephony metadata normally unavailable to civilians.
I think I've heard that some folks were unhapp
> On my Debian boxes, cron jobs send me an email if and
> only if they have any output.
IIRC, it's slightly more subtle than that. I think the user
on whose behalf the script in question is running gets mail if
stdout/stderr haven't been redirected, regardless of whether
any output was actually
Can somebody who's in a position to do so please make a
determination as to which one of these email addresses is
the proper one for the GNHLUG discussion list:
gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and then disable the other? I'm not sure why some people
have been mentioning b
> Or perhaps I should create a political Linux thread
> if there is enough interest.
Well, OF COURSE there's enough interest - I think
that's a great idea! And please allow me to urge you
to create another mailing list (similar to gnhlug-jobs
or gnhlug-announce) on which that thread is to appea
I wrote:
>USB-bootable distributions mentioned here:
>
> http://distrowatch.com/
>
>...as well as being a generally decent site.
Oh. Duh. I wasn't paying attention and only just now
realized that you meant a USB-connected hard drive
rather than one of theose solid-state USB thingies.
As othe
USB-bootable distributions mentioned here:
http://distrowatch.com/
...as well as being a generally decent site.
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> Does anyone have a male HD50 to male HD68 SCSI cable collecting
> dust? If so, I'd be interested in getting it from you .. if the
> price is reasonable. Just built my new box and am trying to
> connect a older HP Scanjet 5p through a PCI SCSI controller ..
> but the problem is that the inter
If your exports file isn't %100 wide open maybe you're
no longer satisfying whatever constraints it expresses?
Maybe some hostname or dmain info got scrogged? Do both
the client and server still think they have the same
hostnames in the same (sub)domains (on the same subnets)
as before? Maybe
>>
>> Enjoy this typo before they fix it:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/newsgroup.mspx
>
>
>
>Slashdotted?
>
>"Newsgroup feeds for Windows Small Business Server 2003 are
>temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience."
>
>
>Or is that itself the chuc
Enjoy this typo before they fix it:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/newsgroup.mspx
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> Hyperthreading uses two execution pipelines, but shares L1/L2 cache.
> So if the apps share some of the same memory and is CPU-bound,
> you'll see a performance benefit, since the two threads can hit
> L1/L2 cache.
>
> So what happens when you run two different apps? One app has a
> cache mis
Ah. I had thought the requirements for MP were more
crisp. But if MP has simply been spec'd a general
hedge against GUI update latencies or other human
interface quality issues, I'll bet you a beer that a
single hyperthreaded core will address most such issues
(assuming there is any MP aspect t
SMP was mentioned as a requirement. Does the hyperthreading
offered by certain Intel CPUs meet that requirement, or will
only two physically distinct CPU packages suffice?
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It sounds like the mini-ITX form factor might be
what you're looking for. Example:
http://www.cappuccinopc.com/mocha7043j.asp
In the latter days of MCLX we had a machine like that for
dog&pony demos at customer sites and I recall that it was
reasonably fast and survived a lot of frantic plane
Would lead even work as RF shielding? I thought that
application required some sort of ferrous metal.
Apropos (barely) this thread, last month I was in
the Nestle cookie&coffee shop in Sedona that didn't
have any signs indicating WIFI availability, but
out of curiosity I cranked up my laptop to
I only know enough about networking to be dangerous,
so out of morbid curiousity (and also to stimulate
discussion) I'd be interested in comments about the
(lack of) security in the following arrangement:
let's say I have a simple home network with a
combination of machines behind a Linux box tha
I thought that at its simplest a wireless access point
could be thought of as just another switch or a hub, ie.
it just connects one or more Enet interfaces into a
network. Everything else (bridging, routing, NATing,
DHCP, etc) should work the same for a wireless connection
as for a wired connec
I don't know about Macs and it's been a while since I had
to rescue a PeeCee from this situation, but many PeeCees
will forget their BIOS passwords if you disconnect the
battery from the battery-backed RAM and leave it for a
while to allow any residual charge to drain. This also
results in all o
I don't have specific info about the laptop in question
but, unfortunately, it seems to be very common these days
for laptop manufacturers (as well as the manufacturers
of the various components) to be just howlingly stupid
about Linux support. It's infuriating!
For example, I have Debian runni
> I am studying bootloaders in embedded system. Generally speaking,
> there are two stages in a bootloader.
>
> The first stage, which is usually written in assembler, does some
> necessary settings.
>
> The second stage, which is usually written in C, provides more
> complex functions,such as s
Here's a query direct from a German relative when he
heard that I know something about Linux:
[my mother] is dying to be able to use the Internet, but is
very afraid of computers. At home she cannot even correctly
use her cell phone or Funktelefon. Isn't there a simple
little Idiot-proof LI
Once upon a time the guy regarded by some as
"Mr. Alpha Linux" was a lurker on this channel.
Jay? Are you there?
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> The reason for this is rather important, and I would ask that
> if any of the many talented folks on this list can provide any
> information regarding this, to please email it to me personally.
Can you at least reassure us that you're not involved with somebody
who's trying to patent the noti
[ Apologoies to GNHLUG readers for this but I can't contact Derek directly ]
Hey, Derek -
I'm getting two copies of each of your msgs because
you're sending one to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and one to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - would you consider
sending to just one or the other, please?
Thanks.
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Heh. I've heard that gmail invites are
being auctioned for anywhere from $0.99
to $20.00 to the uninformed on Ebay...
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The list of CD/DVD/floppy based Linux distributions at
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
was compiled by somebody with ntfsresize support in
mind but appears to be a generally valuable collection
for other purposes, too.
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> http://www.linuxonpower.com
Yow! Notified on 29 Oct about a 31 Oct deadline,
and their server is refusing connections. Maybe
they're just trying to weed out the faint of heart...
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Our customers typically buy our Linux server
boxes intending to port their custom apps to it
from some other OS, so during the early stages
of negotiations it's not normally possible for
them to take their own app out for a test drive.
I'd therefore be grateful for any suggestions
regarding off-t
I don't use RPM-based system much and I need to
find some packages to install. I find rpmfind.net
to be sorta lame; it's down half the time and slow
when it's running. Worse, I dared to attempt two
simultaneous package downloads and they've apparently
"banned" me, as punishment, even though they
>Use wget to snarf the pages and your favorite
>HTML->(Postscript|ASCII) converter to convert these to something
>printable (look here: http://www.w3.org/Tools/html2things.html).
>Print the results and you're done.
Pages can also be rendered as ASCII with "lynx -dump"
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Zip drive is model Z100ATAPI and the Fujitsu
M2511A magneto-optical drive is SCSI.
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http://www.redhat.com/security/
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> MV's site is up now for me, but I've been experiencing DNS problems
> at several clients this morning. This may have nothing to do
> with MV, because it is affecting some non-MV clients of mine too.
My employer's IT staff sent out a msg saying that
Level3 had announced a "major North American
>> You're concerned that somebody might be able to use
>> the "poweroff" user's credentials to gain other root
>> privileges? I've not heard of a scenario where this
>> would be a problem.
>
>The man page for su shows an option for changing the default shell that
>is run, "-s". I assume the risk
> useradd -c "execute reboot"
[...]
> -u 0
> poweroff
> There aren't any security problems here? It seems like there could
> be potential issues with having a "second root" account where the
> password was known. I'm not sure where exactly the problem would
> come fr
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