On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:30:00PM -0500, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
Is there some way to to compile a C or C++ program that will output a
64bit hex value correctly? This is what I have so far...
[...]
printf(long int N = %16x\n, N); // x8 correct
printf(long long NN =
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:36:58PM +, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
From: Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:47:06 -0500
My question is this:
What did his Administrator do to deserve being put in a box, and was
he (or she) ever let out?
The
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one
machine from F7 - 8 - 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;)
Maybe less trouble than you think, the machine I'm
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:53:22PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8-9 yesterday;
some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher
version numbers than the same packages in the fc9 repositories, which
made things
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0400, Alan Johnson wrote:
device is a Coyote Point E350si Equalizer and the servers are HP Proliant
300 series servers. Turns out, there is a known problem with serial ports
on HP servers with ILO that is causing all my problems:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:14:40PM -0400, Ric Werme wrote:
We used to make comparisons like If the automobile industry had improved
at the same rate as computers It's been a long time since that made
any sense - a car would travel at Mach 10, seat 1,500, get 500 mpg, and fold
up and fit
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:32:43AM -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote:
Here's the things that Ubuntu gets right, at least on the desktop:
[...]
- no need for root. There's almost no need to log in as root. You're
automatically set up with sudo access and everything goes through that.
For a
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:54:27PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
Can one relatively painlessly upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10?
The official upgrade path for Fedora is to download disc images for
the latest release, burn and boot from disc, and follow the prompts to
upgrade.
I've read several
Probably more than you wanted to know, but you asked. :)
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:24:32PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
Looking quickly, I can't seem to find amp-hour ratings from car
battery makers/sellers. Google finds various third-party claims, but
they're all over the map (25 to 100 Ah on
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:48:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and
a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort of
hard linking of the same file name in a different directory... i.e.
~/foo.txt
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:39:07PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(fscking scalix
requires a complete copy of the mail store to extract even a single
message for restore, which is nothing if not a massive PITA)
Wow
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:50:46AM -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
In the endless pursuit of upgrading this machine I have added a hard
drive to my computer. I have used fdisk to create a linux partition to
the whole disk. I made the disk use the ext3 file system.
So now for fstab. What is
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:04:37AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems like it'd be a step forward... maybe an example would help:
Say I'm looking for something called gnhlug, but its URL is
http://www.gnhlug.org/
Typing gnhl in the NEW address bar would get me
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe this item,
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/; that measures power
consumption might have been discussed on the list before but the same
folks now offer a more
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:57:02PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Its been several years (and major kernel versions) since I've played
with iostat, but perhaps my statements here will goad someone with more
recent experience to inject more accurate truths...
* iostat used to not work well on
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:52:21PM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
shotInTheDark
Depending on your versions of kernel and app, iostat
apparently looks in some combination of these:
/etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf
No file called sysstat.ioconf anywhere on my system.
/proc/diskstats
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
A recent review[1] of the Asus Eee PC stated (paraphrased): Power
management on Linux sucks.
I haven't read the review, but I agree with the statement that power
management on Linux sucks.
Turning off the CRT was about it. S3
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
The big problem is that some idiot renamed the 'fvwm2' packages
to 'fvwm' in FC5 or 6 ...
I couldn't even *find* an FVWM (any version) packagein Fedora 5 or 6
(or maybe both; I forget). I think it got removed from the distro,
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
Does anyone know how to determine per-CPU utilization on a
multi-cpu/core system. It's a 2.4 kernel, and top doesn't break
things down per-cpu. Unless I'm running an ancient version of top...
Even ancient versions of top can do
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:17:07PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
If somebody wants to donate sweet new 1U server with dual 500 GB
SATA disks, that's fine too ;-)
Not new, and not really all that sweet, but I have a couple of old
(PIII-era) 1U servers that I'd be willing to donate to the cause.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:47:19PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 10/17/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Additionally please send email either to the listserv or to the poster
you are replying to, but not both.
Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:10:41PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 10/18/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list.
Au contraire contraire, please do not. Abuse of Reply All causes
List Header Cancer!
Here's a solution
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:53:32PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 10/10/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you know the ULTRIX distribution tapes will let you install
ULTRIX on a DECStation?
ULTRIX is amazingly customizable. You have to replace a third of it
to make it usable
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:54:15AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
In fact, we discovered the theoretical possibility of a mail message doing
figure-8s between our sendmail/cyrus server and the Exchange server!
I used to work at UNH. Imagine hundreds of computers, used by
faculty/staff, running
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:45:53PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Now, and this is really rusty, I think there's a way to read the JPEG
DCT matrix and rotate a JPEG without recompressing,
There is, provided the image geometry meets certain sensible
parameters that I don't remember off the top
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:24:40PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 8/8/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've checked the voltage on the battery, and it's less than 2 volts DC.
In that case, there is almost certainly at least one internal short
in the battery, and no amount of charging
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
Off-topic but still techie question: Does anyone know anything about
charging the batteries from a UPS using external equipment (i.e., not
the charger built-in to the UPS)?
Yes.
I've got an APC Smart-UPS 3000 (P/N SU3000RM3U)
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:10:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As part of search to monitor the internet usage of our branch
office, I am looking for a manager-friendly syslog analyzer. The
[...]
Does anyone know a a good, granular syslog analyzer for this
purpose? Open Source is always
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:38:47PM -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math
papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to
Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she
should use for writing her
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:37:44AM -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
On 5/25/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed in the below are the personal opinions of the
author, and do not necessarily represent the views or policy of GNHLUG.
On 5/25/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:15:55PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are also a few dual cores with hyperthreading, Xeon was one
product line I noticed had such models.
Yeah, I just checked one of our new machines which is a dual
dual-core. It reports 4
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have a number of Dell Precision 690 boxes with 4 1Gb DIMMs
installed but our RHAT WS3 kernel ...
RHEL 3 is pretty old. I think it might be old enough that you need
to
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:25:02PM -0400, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
I just watched Battlestar Galactica, which turned out to be the last one for
the season. The next one won't be till 200 8. Ugh! The networks are giving
me less and less reason to watch this stuff when it's aired (or in my case,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
[...]
I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A); these
are questions that would need to be answered for anything like a list
charter to be drawn up.
... (and then ignore them later with the proper subject line).
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:50:56PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
basically, IMHO, the GNHLUG is low volume enough that it probably would
not need to be split into 3 lists, as Maddog suggested, though it would
not be difficult to create the 2 additional lists, and use the main
discuss list as a
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:38:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
Lloyd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s solution works:
find -type f -name '*out*' | xargs grep -wli zip zip.txt
Question: -type f limits to regular file, does the so-called regular
file strictly mean plain text files?
It does not. regular file
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:16:05AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote:
I download each and every show I wish to watch (and I want for
nothing I can't get), getting not only high quality recordings,
but with commercials already removed. Finding new shows is
I'm transition to this solution, but the
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:47:40AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Sacha Chua (Cc'ed on this e-mail) who's since become a good friend of
mine, introduced me to my current PDA/PIM device of choice: The
Hipster PDA.
When they make a version that includes alarm functionality for
repeating events and
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:12:04PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 16:33 -0400, quoth Jerry:
=Also, doesn't Grep stand for global regular expression print?
General Regular Expression Processor
Jerry is correct. The name grep comes from the ed command g/regex/p:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
...oh crap! I replied to a message that came from a list, but when I
was about to click send I see that my reply doesn't go back to where
the message came from. Now off to edit the To: field before I can
click send.
That is a
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:02:40PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote:
mike ledoux writes:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
...oh crap!
...
That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I
recommend switching to a mail reader that doesn't have
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:11:00PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
I'm especially interested in the Sharp Zaurus. I understand that,
while it's nominally not sold in the US, it's pretty easy to find
vendors importing it, and that the manufacturer support picture is
pretty good (for the immediate
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:26:02PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Lots of good stuff going on. Nothing is working exactly the way I'd like
it to. The closest I've gotten is
http://steveo.syslang.net/XF86Config-4
which gives me a display of the desired 1440x900 but is for some
mysterious
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:39:36PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Brian sent me what the sync rates are supposed to be, but I'm not sure
what I'm doing. The manual calls for 1440x900 in either DVI mode or not
(whatever that is). The connector from my puter is the plain old video
connector with
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:04:33PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On 12/20/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious what you mean by painfully lacking modern command line
utilities. What more do you need than various combinations of ...
Someone who works in a more heterogeneous
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:25:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a RHEL4 system (with all updates applied) that is using LVM. Every six
hours, I have script that runs and does an LVM snapshot, mounts the snapshot,
and rsyncs the data over to another system. I was looking through the
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:10:05PM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
/usr/bin/reset should do what you want here.
Nope - that doesn't clear the scrollback history.
It does on every xterm I've ever used. It may not if you are using
some funky xterm replacement, or if you have TERM set
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