Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

2003-11-19 Thread Alan Jackson
Ahem. Since I feel certain that many of you are Monty Python fans, I offer the following : http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: code for control+...?

2003-11-15 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:15:10 -0500 Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the probably stupid question, but it's killing me... I need to write a expect script where the pressing of the control key+ Greetings, Get yourself an ascii

Re: newbie kmail filter ques.

2003-11-15 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:50:23 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 9:28 am, someone claiming to be Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; Not being an expert with filters, I ask the assembled experts. This is a kmail (which I use as a mail client) specific question.

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-12 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:09:16 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner? I wonder where SA stores her rules. It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all ignore the cross-correlation. That is, they don't correct for the

Re: Javascript question

2003-11-10 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:36:57 -0500 joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going over some of my html/javascript beasties that I wrote for work. I am still confounded why these don't work properly in netscape or mozilla but do in opera6 and IE 5.5. Have you run it in Mozilla with the

Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Alan Jackson
Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I called our helpdesk. After a good bit of searching his answer was Adobe

Textmaker open for business

2003-11-10 Thread Alan Jackson
If you want to buy textmaker for $11, the site is now open for business... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | |

Re: OT The Grinch who stole Linux

2003-11-09 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:16:59 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very funny parody... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915 I just had a bizarre thought. Parody of a copywritten work is a protected form of expression. What would a parody of copywrite protected

Re: KDE screensaver problem

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Jackson
That fixed it! Thanks!! On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:02:17 -0500 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:15, Tom Wilson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:10, Alan Jackson wrote: I have one of those little nagging problems that mystifies me. I'm running gentoo 2.4.20-r6

KDE screensaver problem

2003-11-06 Thread Alan Jackson
I have one of those little nagging problems that mystifies me. I'm running gentoo 2.4.20-r6 with KDE 3.1.2. The problem? I cannot get the screensaver to work. I set it up, the test works fine, but then it never automatically starts. Has anyone seen this before? --

Linux in Dallas at the SEG

2003-11-01 Thread Alan Jackson
I was in Dallas this week for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists meeting. A few interesting Unix/Linux items to report. I spoke with the guys in the Sun booth about their desktop (Mad Hatter). It is currently certified for Suse, though Redhat is in the works. Curiously, Landmark (one of the

Re: Linux in Dallas at the SEG

2003-11-01 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:21:33 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Alan Jackson: [...] the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things

Re: Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links

2003-10-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:10:29 +0530 Sohel Shaheen Mallik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way that hackers can break into a website is by hunting for private pages that contain the usernames and passwords required to access secure parts of the site. These pages are usually hidden from the casual

Crappy fonts in Redhat

2003-10-19 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:27:22 +0800 Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert E. Raymond wrote: Terence McCarthy wrote: Rehat is too buggy. I'm using Red Hat 9.0 on my laptop. I have to admit that if you're installing Red Hat, it can be a real pain ! The reasons are : 3.

Re: Networking / security problem in gentoo

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Jackson
That did it. Thanks! My son should buy you a beer. 8-) On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:00:54 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:37 pm, someone claiming to be Alan Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:15:12 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Networking / security problem in gentoo

2003-10-02 Thread Alan Jackson
:* Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) - Original Message - From: Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Networking / security problem in gentoo Well, my son is upset because he

Re: fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-28 Thread Alan Jackson
It's a bit more work, but you might be able to do that with the perl module Text::Balanced or Text::Autoformat On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 07:42:48 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130ENTER This doesn't do what I need, however. The

Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons, 4 Gb ram, and an

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:45:32 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care about spam when it concerns their own citizens. My current pounding is coming from Panama. 8-) --

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:16:59 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that nothing can be done if you saturate the pipe. But wouldn't stateful inspection and some rules to say `when x number of connections occur from y host in z time' cause the firewall to drop the

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:44:07 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dep wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is

Re: Gentoo problem compiling modules

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:50:37 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: I installed Gentoo a week ago, and it has mostly been quite smooth. However some, but not all, of my modules missed getting compiled. In particular, usb/printer doesn't seem to want

Re: Gentoo problem compiling modules

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:50:07 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:02:09 -0500 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Gentoo a week ago, and it has mostly been quite smooth. However some, but not all, of my modules missed getting compiled

Gentoo

2003-09-05 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I got the Gentoo CD and did the install over Labor Day. Amazingly smooth. The bootable CD detected all my hardware, found my ISP, just perfect. Better and easier than my Caldera 3.1.1 install. Really. But oh my God it was slow! I recompiled KDE and that took 20 hours on a 1 Ghz AMD machine.

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-22 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:21:49 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html I hope this means that the demise of SCO will come RSN! I just had a thought. When this case self-destructs, the stockholders, like me, can file a class-action

Spam redux

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Jackson
I came in late to the spam discussion. Just let me add 2 things: - if you are really interested in spam fighting there are 2 e-mail lists I would recommend, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/ and for sys admins : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logon time limits

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Jackson
Attached is a little script I hacked to track my son's time in front of his tube. It only counts time where there is mouse or keyboard activity (I hacked an old script I had written for RSI prevention). I ssh into his system and fire it up. On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:51:28 -0400 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL

Re: gentoo news

2003-07-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:46:09 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo will be joining the ranks of the boxed set of cd's distros on August 5, 2003. For those of you who don't have DSL/Cable or a CD burner, this will be your opportunity to avoid the slow downloads and, if you

Re: Hosed my usb ports...

2003-06-07 Thread Alan Jackson
2003, Alan Jackson wrote: I think I mucked up my usb stuff trying to hook up a scanner. I gave up on the scanner, and rmmod'd the scanner module, but now my printer won't work and I can't attach my camera. And every 1-2 seconds I get this set of messages in the log file. Suggestions

Hosed my usb ports...

2003-06-06 Thread Alan Jackson
I think I mucked up my usb stuff trying to hook up a scanner. I gave up on the scanner, and rmmod'd the scanner module, but now my printer won't work and I can't attach my camera. And every 1-2 seconds I get this set of messages in the log file. Suggestions? Linux version 2.4.2 (Caldera 3.1.1)

Re: Printing web pages

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Jackson
Run a perl script to follow all the links, and dump each page with lynx. You might even be able to coax lynx into following the links, I don't know. On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:39:46 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:39:19 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Satellite Linux

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Jackson
My old college roommate is outside Mancos, Colorado (between Durango and Cortez). He uses satellite, which works okay - although he isn't running Linux (yet). On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:57:49 -0700 Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Day wrote: Andrew What is your locale. I live

Re: Java problem

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Jackson
/whichjava.html I needed Blackdown's JRE for Moz 1.3 under RH 8.0. Blackdown also had 2 versions of 1.4.1, one for gcc-3.2 and one for gcc-2.95 On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:09 pm, someone claiming to be Alan Jackson wrote: Doesn't work at all under Mozilla 1.3 Displays the map

Re: OT We won't back down...

2003-03-29 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:59:56 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Antarctica is getting colder. 2. Greenland is getting colder. 3. The USA weather stations show no temperature increase. 4. Global satellite temperature data shows no temperature increase. This agrees with data from

Re: OT We won't back down...

2003-03-29 Thread Alan Jackson
. http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/index.htm Joel On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:15:36PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:59:56 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Antarctica is getting colder. 2. Greenland is getting colder. 3. The USA weather stations

Re: Java problem

2003-03-29 Thread Alan Jackson
Doesn't work at all under Mozilla 1.3 Displays the map, but the buttons don't work in Netscape 7.0 Both in Col 3.1.1 On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:28:44 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody get this link to work properly in linux? http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/

Re: Problems with ssh solved, but mysterious

2003-03-13 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:39:20 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/03 20:06, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple I'm missing in the config or something. I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. Then I turn

Problems with ssh

2003-03-12 Thread Alan Jackson
I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple I'm missing in the config or something. I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. Then I turn around and try to ssh from his machine back to mine. I have my port set up as 13045 so I can ssh through my router to my

Re: fetchmail problems

2003-02-28 Thread Alan Jackson
To answer my own post... Apparently Caldera's security update for fetchmail included turning on SSL which my ISP doesn't support. I downloaded the latest version, compiled without SSL support, and now everything is working. Sigh. On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:32:27 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Config a laptop network

2003-02-21 Thread Alan Jackson
Here's a sys-admin question for you experts. A fellow at work has 10 Linux laptops he uses for portable training classes for Geophysical software. Right now he and a clerk are configuring and loading each one manually, one at a time. What would be the recommended simple, low-cost solution to both

Re: Buying a box

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Jackson
I bought mine (with Redhat preloaded) from http://www.ebizenterprises.com/ They do a good job. I've been happy. And you are guaranteed to get Linux compatible hardware. At work I just cut an AFE for a high end Dell with Redhat. We've had good luck with them as well. On Sat, 15 Feb 2003

Re: ssh into a home network

2003-02-07 Thread Alan Jackson
Kewl! Thanks to all who replied... On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:45:41 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:33 pm, Net Llama! wrote: On 02/06/03 19:28, Alan Jackson wrote: I have what I hope is a simple problem. My home network is 3 Linux boxes behind

ssh into a home network

2003-02-06 Thread Alan Jackson
I have what I hope is a simple problem. My home network is 3 Linux boxes behind a Netgear router/switch hooked to a DSL modem. In the router I have turned off all the incoming ports except 22, and I have that one pointing at 192.168.0.3 which is my son's machine so he can ssh into his machine

Re: Suggestions Wanted.

2003-02-05 Thread Alan Jackson
If you want to use a web hosting service, I'm very happy with mylinuxisp.com. They also have good pricing, shell access, cgi-bin, etc etc. They are also the local tucows mirror. On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:50:55 -0600 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a customer that is looking at finally

Re: Continuous feed dot matrix printers

2003-01-14 Thread Alan Jackson
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:46:56 -0800 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:14:53PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: I support some software on CPAN that builds mailing labels in PostScript. I just got a query from a fellow who has a continuous-feed tractor printer

Continuous feed dot matrix printers

2003-01-13 Thread Alan Jackson
I support some software on CPAN that builds mailing labels in PostScript. I just got a query from a fellow who has a continuous-feed tractor printer (an Okidata) who wants to print labels on it from Linux. I think I gave away my old dot matrix a few years ago so I can't do any testing. I suspect

Re: Canon S900 printer (again)

2003-01-03 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:54:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, Alan Jackson wrote: % I'm really beginning to get irritated at Canon's total lack of support for % anyone not toeing the Microsoft line. % % I have some Kodak print paper that is not defined in the printer ppd

Canon S900 printer (again)

2003-01-02 Thread Alan Jackson
... Dear Alan Jackson, Thank you for writing to us. Unfortunately, we do not have a copy of the .ppd file for the S900. We only have access to the files for the printer after they are extracted in Windows or Mac. I'm sorry. Jerks. I'm getting very close to returning it for an HP. It's

Re: Gimps question: Selection lines remain visible

2003-01-01 Thread Alan Jackson
Another way to do it might be to create a transparent layer above the picture layer, and after making the selection and inverting it, go to that layer and do a floodfill with the background color of your choice. I like to operate on separate layers when possible to keep the original pristine.

Re: Canon PowerShot G2 USB

2002-12-31 Thread Alan Jackson
on everything but by laptop which I'm convinced has screwed-up USB hardware inside it). I do this with COLW311. begin Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:45:56 -0600) On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:31:57 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after perusing the web

Printing Photos and turboprint

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I hooked my new Canon S900 printer up - that was a minor trial. It is a usb device, and I still don't quite grok usb. I finally realised I needed to add in the usb printer kernel module. I purchased turboprint, a requirement for this printer. Now I'm trying to actually print to it. I've

Re: Printing Photos and turboprint

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:09:43 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/29/02 19:03, Alan Jackson wrote: Now I'm trying to actually print to it. I've had some success, but I can't quite get it to do what I want. I have some very high res jpeg files I want to print at 1200x1200 dpi

Re: Printing Photos and turboprint

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:19:07 -0500 Marvin P. Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it run out of swap? 1.) What is your system configuration: Swap and RAM? 0.5 Gbytes RAM, 1 Gbyte swap (1 Ghz Athlon) this is my beyond the pale system. It ain't got Windows, and it ain't got Intel inside.

Re: Printing Photos and turboprint

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:27:13 -0500 Marvin P. Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to sylpheed 0.8.7. I haven't upgraded this program in well over a year. And there it is: A manual in English Imagine. I plan to hold off for about a week to see if any nasty bugs turn up. Test

Re: Canon PowerShot G2 USB

2002-12-26 Thread Alan Jackson
Well, after perusing the web, it looks like this camera is a little dicey on this kernel, so I took the easy way out and got a CF card reader. But I can't quite get that going either... I plug it in and see, in /var/log/messages, Dec 26 11:22:25 earthman kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on

Re: Canon PowerShot G2 USB

2002-12-26 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:31:57 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after perusing the web, it looks like this camera is a little dicey on this kernel, so I took the easy way out and got a CF card reader. But I can't quite get that going either... Never mind For reasons I

USB and SCSI (again)

2002-12-26 Thread Alan Jackson
Okay, I've got a little CF card reader attached to a USB port. When I attach it, /var/log/messages says : Dec 26 21:48:33 earthman kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 20 and in dmesg I see : hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 20

Canon PowerShot G2 USB

2002-12-25 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:34:14 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I use to load the correct usb, fs modules and ends with a mount: modprobe usbcore modprobe usb-uhci modprobe usb-storage modprobe fat modprobe vfat echo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera Well I

xterm/tty problems

2002-12-16 Thread Alan Jackson
A colleague at work asked me the following, and I couldn't quite remember how to fix it. She logs into a Linux frontend for our beowolf cluster, using rlogin, and when she runs man, it leaves the xterm in a state such that everything is underlined after that. If she uses more, then everything is

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:58:49 -0600 RBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 November 2002 12:29 pm, Alan Jackson wrote: You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!! After

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Jackson
No. I guess I could On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:04:48 -0600 RBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried umount /dev/hdb1 and running fsck on it? On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:21 pm, Alan Jackson wrote: I did. (I'm the only user). But that's

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:48:46 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Jackson
PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/02 18:56, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Jackson
PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/02 10:29, Alan Jackson wrote: You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!! After reading everything, I decided I probably needed to fsck at minimum, so I just rebooted. Turned out the fsck ran

Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-26 Thread Alan Jackson
I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from different tools as well : df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes,

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-26 Thread Alan Jackson
assume that it filled up the diskspace of the user $HOME that was running it. So, why not run 'du -m' on that user's $HOME? On 11/26/02 18:56, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago

Linux is winning...

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I was in Salt Lake City last week for the annual Society of Exploration Geophysicists meeting. The news this year? Pretty nearly every software vendor who normally had Solaris offerings now also offered Linux versions of their code. These are $100,000 plus packages. Many are high-end 3D

Re: solitaire?

2002-07-13 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:11:09 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: try pysol. has a few hundred solitaire games and is quite configurable. What she must have is the Vegas rule type solitaire, which charges $52 for a deck and gives back a buck for each card

Curious log entry

2002-06-29 Thread Alan Jackson
I got several of these in my logfile yesterday - is this innocent or is it something I should pursue? Jun 28 11:18:22 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. Jun 28 11:18:27

Re: Telephone Answer Machine for Linux

2002-06-22 Thread Alan Jackson
) || die Can't open $archive, $!\n; print ARCHIVE $gotit; close ARCHIVE; } =head1 kill -SIGUSR1 pid : this will flush the buffer and exit the program Set the sticky bit so this will run as other than root chown root callerid.pl chmod u+s callerid.pl Alan Jackson, Copyright 2000

Re: Anti-Spam

2002-06-21 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:42 -0400 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Spamassassin. Me too... 8-) If you are a perl programmer it is especially nice, since you can easily hack it. I use it in conjunction with my hacked version of Mail::Agent - I do a lot of stuff with my

Re: Telephone Answer Machine for Linux

2002-06-21 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:23:18 -0300 Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an old ZyXEL U1496E voice+fax+modem and I want to use it as a TAM with Linux. I'd like to be able to do some scripting with it (convert messages to mp3 and send them via email, multiple mailboxes,

Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:21:28 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:45:00 -0500 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory, it is supposed to auto-suspend after 5 seconds of idle time, but I haven't seen this happen. Are you using aRts in Full

Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
do artsd appname (i.e artsd realplayer) for the command to start the app. I may have the artsd command name wrong as I'm going from memory. Alan Jackson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:49 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Here are my personal

Re: Mail clients

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
has the proper address? Alan Jackson wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:06:37 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's exmh? It's a Tcl/Tk front-end to mh (or nmh). It is the follow-on to the old Xmh, which was an X-windows front-end to mh. Xmh may have been part

Re: Mail clients

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
for a kmail replacement. I ran Sylpheed very briefly - does it handle mail lists like KMail does where if you define a folder as containing a mail list you can enter the reply to address and any mail sent while you are in that folder has the proper address? Alan Jackson wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun

Mail clients

2002-06-18 Thread Alan Jackson
I just moved from exmh to Sylpheed as my e-mail client, and I got curious about what people use, so I ran some stats on my mail boxes. Totally unscientific, of course, and heavily biased by the sort of people I would deal with (Linux geeks). But interesting, none the less...

Re: Mail clients

2002-06-18 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:06:37 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's exmh? It's a Tcl/Tk front-end to mh (or nmh). It is the follow-on to the old Xmh, which was an X-windows front-end to mh. Xmh may have been part of the old Athena toolkit - I don't recall. Nice thing about

Reading Windoze CD's on Linux/Unix

2002-06-10 Thread Alan Jackson
Fellow at work asked me this, and I don't know the answer, offhand. He receives CD's written on Windoze, and when he reads them on his Solaris box, he gets the 8.3 filenames instead of the long Windows filenames. How can he recover the long filenames on Unix?

I need a clue - having a network problem

2002-06-08 Thread Alan Jackson
Well our power went away last night for several hours, and that's when I discovered that I forgot to put my router/switch on the UPS - whoops! So I couldn't rlog into one of my systems to shut it down. And that system is causing me problems today. I can communicate on my LAN, no problem. My

Re: I need a clue - having a network problem

2002-06-08 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 11:47:16 -0600 Andrew Mathews wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Well our power went away last night for several hours, and that's when I discovered that I forgot to put my router/switch on the UPS - whoops! So I couldn't rlog into one of my systems to shut it down

Mozilla Party

2002-06-07 Thread Alan Jackson
I just discovered what I'm certain many of you know already, there are parties being held to celebrate the release of Mozilla 1.0 http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/ Party on! -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a

Re: Screenshot captures

2002-06-01 Thread Alan Jackson
My favorite screen capture is xv. It has very nice options for capturing a particular window unmolested. On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:40:25 -0600 Collins wrote: I understand that gimp (and other packages can do this), but how does one go about doing this? For example, I have several desktops. How

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I have negative spare time, but I'm willing to donate a few positive spikes where I can. I'm really a perl guy, but I've used Unix for about 13 years now, and I once worked up our company Unix file structure and logon sequence. --

Mozilla memory leak

2002-05-30 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I missed (just) getting 100 days uptime because of Mozilla. I have the latest build loaded, 1.0.0+, and I left a few window open for a few days. When I got home this evening, my system was totally locked up. I couldn't get the monitor to respond, no rlogin, no telnet. And I could hear the

Re: Gramofile problems - can't record anything

2002-05-29 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 29 May 2002 00:06:58 -0400 Tim Wunder wrote: Yep. For kicks, what's different on your eW3.1 setup than mine? I'm running kernel 2.4.18 with the pre-empt kernel patch and glibc 2.2.4. Those are what I've updated since having a working krecord to having a non-working krecord. I'm

Re: Gramofile problems - can't record anything

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 28 May 2002 14:21:57 -0400 Tim Wunder wrote: Anyone on list using Gramofile? I have gramofile-1.6 installed under a slightly modified Caldera eW3.1 system (KDE 3.0.1, X-4.1.0, kernel 2.4.18-with preempt patch) and I can't get it to record from my sound card. I can use it to play a

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 28 May 2002 17:17:38 -0400 Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 28 May 2002 15:52:14 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: 1 Mac Classic running OS5 OS5? Whoa. I've never even *seen* anything older than 6.0.8. Whippersnapper! I didn't count my original Mac sitting on the shelf in the garage. I seem to recall an OS version of 4.x!

Re: 75 days and still perking...

2002-05-27 Thread Alan Jackson
Packard Bell 133 Mhz Pentium, 80 Mb ram. Up since I took it down to install an ethernet card. It collects data off my weather station and posts it to the web, and traps my callerid data. Also runs seti@home. It runs Caldera 2.4. $ uptime 1:01pm up 93 days, 19:39 On Sun, 26 May 2002 20:48:31

Re: OT: Domain Registrars

2002-05-27 Thread Alan Jackson
On Mon, 27 May 2002 10:44:01 -0400 Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 25, Alan Jackson managed to emit: I've had a terrible experience with Network Solutions trying to get my domain host changed - I submitted the change last Saturday. They said 24-72 hours. I phoned today

Re: OT unix math function: norm

2002-05-27 Thread Alan Jackson
When I have done that I have calculated the mean and standard deviation, and then used those to create a gaussian curve. You also need to normalize the curve to fit the data, since a normal gaussian distribution is normed to 1, but that is just a scale factor. On Sun, 26 May 2002 18:07:45

Re: OT postscript question: Justify text

2002-05-18 Thread Alan Jackson
What are you actually trying to do? I know a bit about text formatting and PostScript, but I'm not clear on what your real goal is. On Sat, 18 May 2002 18:57:57 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's nothing very simple about using Postscript directly; it's not actually designed for that, it

New virtual hosting firm

2002-05-18 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I got ticked at my old domain hosting firm (I used icom.com, which sold off hosting to interland.net) when they broke my cgi scripts, so I have started moving my stuff to a new outfit that is actually local to me, named mylinuxisp.com . Check out their website, I think you'll like it. Their

Re: OT postscript question: Justify text

2002-05-18 Thread Alan Jackson
an easy way to do it. Any help appreciated, Joel On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:35:21PM -0500, Alan Jackson wrote: What are you actually trying to do? I know a bit about text formatting and PostScript, but I'm not clear on what your real goal is. On Sat, 18 May 2002 18:57:57 -0700 Kevin

Re: ASCII editor

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 15 May 2002 18:55:16 -0400 Harry G wrote: I am in need of a editor that will edit ascii files with no changes being made. Most editors tend to add things. This is to be used for transcripts of court cases, and can not change them in ANY way when opened or saved. vim can be

Re: 2 dumb questions

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 17 May 2002 16:43:16 -0600 Bonez wrote: Net Llama: I knew you'd set me straight. I guess my computing attitude is still over toward redmond while my fingers are pulling more toward Sweden. I didn't ^^

Re: adsl modem directly connected to hub

2002-04-25 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:20:26 +0800 m.w.Chang wrote: I have seen people claiming that one could share the internet link that way. internet | adsl/cable modem | hub -- workstations | server Mine was almost trivial to set up. I have a static IP on adsl, and bought a

Re: Asta La Vista Outlook!

2002-04-03 Thread Alan Jackson
mh and exmh - easier to hack! 8-) Tyler Regas wrote: Well folks, I've gone and done it now :) I've stopped using Outlook for mail and am back to using Becky! 2. Fantastic standards compliant Windows mail client (www.rimarts.co.jp). Worth every penny. --

Re: OT Soon to look for Laptop

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Jackson
List I know some of you have laptops or have researched them. I am starting to need one for school. I can at this time get the following: I almost bought some for work from emperor linux, http://www.emperorlinux.com/ you might want to check them out. --

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