Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Lee
Joel Hammer wrote: So, the message is clear to Westerners: Keep out of Muslim territory. Joel Would have to disagree. You forgot the Turks. Turkey has been one of the west's most reliable allies. They are even members of NATO. The Turks are probably the only Islamic nation with a desire to

Re: OT Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat
David A. Bandel wrote: If you have a better answer, I'm sure Bush would be happy to hear it. But I don't think Saddam and the terrorists will stop just because you asked them to. History says otherwise. Roosevelt and Churchill are not what sensible civilized folks want as role models, but

Re: RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...

2002-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
n 10/19/02 16:11, tom wrote: Greets List, Andrew, Andrew Mathews wrote: tom wrote: Well, this just sucks. I guess this computer I'm working on has a either as you mentioned, a bad bios, a hardware conflict, or a piece of hardware that does not play nice. RH 8.0 is built using gcc 3.2,

XFS WAS [Re: RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...]

2002-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On 10/19/02 11:44, Andrew Mathews wrote: It provides a bootable cd that is identical to booting off the RH 7.3 disc 1 for installation, but provides an XFS kernel, for doing a complete XFS installation. This eliminates the need for adding XFS later, rebuilding the kernel, moving data, etc. The

Re: OT Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Rick Forrister
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 07:58:33 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 07:56:28 +1000 begin Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: [snip] Radical Muslims (in fact a large portion of the middle east) thinks

Re: ping and suid

2002-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
or -sT maybe others. See the documentation. On 10/20/02 00:03, m.w.chang wrote: is it nmap -sP ? Net Llama! wrote: nmap does *not* require root to run. Some of the options need root, but not all. On -- ~ L.

Re: Slide sorter software

2002-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
n 10/20/02 07:41, Joel Hammer wrote: I am spending too much time on a trivial problem, so its time to look for some ideas. Here is what I want to do: Given a set of TIF slides (photomicrographs, up to 10 megs each) in a directory. They will be numbered in sequence, 01_Blah 02_MoreBlah, etc. I

Re: OT Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Ken Moffat
Rick Forrister wrote: My convictions, for a long time have been to never start trouble - and to end it, when started, with great conviction. I agree, but... - Why are Turkey and Kuwait, 2 strong US allies, firmly in favor of further diplomacy and inspections, not bombing and invasion? - Why

Re: RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...

2002-10-20 Thread Keith Morse
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Collins wrote: Well, you certainly don't need a broadband connection for this!!! Download speed is about 4KB per second. I've got 15% of disc1 downloaded since 10PM last night. In a few weeks, I'll have a complete set. Just to reiterate, try ftp://redhat.newaol.com.

Re: auth smtp and pam.d

2002-10-20 Thread m.w.chang
I am using the latest version (8.12.6) of sendmail, but owning to directory persmission problem, i didn't set it up to start as smmsh. thank you for your reminder. If you're still running sendmail as root then you have an older version of sendmail. The newer ones have changed this to a non

Re: OT Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I'm a bit torn on some of the topics here. First off, I'll turn some of you off by starting out that I agree with Bush, Dep, and Collins, et al. I believe in mercy and grace to a large degree. I also believe that sometimes force is required. While I hardly ever beat up the bully, there are

Re: OT Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I would truly enjoy hearing your opinion on this question On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:41:02-0700Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/02 13:03, ronnie gauthier wrote: Yes, it did. International majority opinion does not have a gun at its head, we do. I think the better

Re: Bash: Variable type confusion

2002-10-20 Thread kwall
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:26:29PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: If I use a variable as an integer, then use as a string, it doesn't go back to being an integer nicely. Oh well. Either I had forgotten about this behavior or I never ran across it before. Almost the same thing at my age. Try

Re: OT Re: we shall remember them

2002-10-20 Thread Richard Thompson
Uh, how about this instead ... You are my asshole neighbor. You throw rocks, you make noises ... I buy you a cup of coffee, we talk ... I make it perfectly clear that I have no intention of changing my family's life to accomodate your grand vision of pan-asshole-unity. I have no intention

Re: Bash: Variable type confusion

2002-10-20 Thread kwall
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:53:00PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: I have always thought that bash does the right thing when it evaluates variables. Until today. This bit of script works as expected: k=0 for i in `dir -1 *jpg` do k=$((k+1)) echo $k done It prints out the numbers from 1 to

Re: Matching user specs for multiple distros

2002-10-20 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:06:30 + begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I keep all my home stuff in a /home partition. Since most of my partitions are versions of gentoo, the userid's match up and I am able to use /home without any

Re: HTML question: Going to an anchor on loading page

2002-10-20 Thread Matthew Carpenter
If you're trying to stick on the same page (not change pages), you can just make an A tag like A HREF=#nexttarget Then, as long as you have A NAME=nexttarget defined somewhere in that page, you're all set! On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:23:28-0400 Joel Hammer[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That