Re: Grayscale Xorg output

.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/Xserver.1.html (linked from the other page), you may be able to do something like "startx -- -render gray" (if I recall the syntax correctly) when your display manager (xdm, gdm, kdm) isn't running, or "startx -- -render gray :1" if it is. -

Open sysadmin/junior engineer position

even if your resume isn't top-notch. Starting pay would be around low to mid 40's, depending on experience. The location is off of I-10 in Phoenix, not far from Tempe. Email me off-list if you're interested. I can send you our official job description and put you in touch with wh

Re: DSL Speed

connection, or maybe your ISP is routing your traffic differently now. This is just conjecture, though. -- Bill Jonas*b...@billjonas.com*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don'

Re: Limit logins on a group of machines?

the right direction. Thanks! (BTW, sorry for the private replies... I've lurked for a while and not posted, and while I like Mutt's "set ignore_list_reply_to", I've hit 'r' and not 'L' a couple times.) -- Bill Jonas*b...@billjonas.com*

Re: Limit logins on a group of machines?

.3 thrown in the mix, just for fun). -- Bill Jonas*b...@billjonas.com*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing whe

Re: Limit logins on a group of machines?

ine, and authentication happens locally (that whole "single point of failure" thing being undesirable). I'm currently trying to figure out the best way to approach this, be it LDAP, NIS+, Hesiod, NSS-MySQL, or whatever. -- Bill Jonas*b...@billjonas.com*http://www.bi

Re: Limit logins on a group of machines?

ar/chroot/var/log (the users in question are chrooted) on a network share to get wtmp and utmp in common (for a group of virtual machines), but that doesn't strike me as such a great idea due to locking, etc. (Maybe NFS, maybe Lustre, maybe something different.) -- Bill Jonas*b...

Limit logins on a group of machines?

er with finger, rwho, and/or a custom PAM module? :) Thanks! -- Bill Jonas*b...@billjonas.com*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing

Re: URL paste in firefox 3

3 and keeping the meaning of "stable" meaningful (as in, binary and config-file compatibility), their decision seems more reasonable. -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into t

Video card recommendations?

ch ATI cards seem to work well (or at least acceptably) for both 2D and 3D, since motherboards with an AGP slot are getting rarer. ;-) Or if anybody can suggest better terms on which to further search the web, I'd appreciate that, too. Thanks! -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*

Re: How to remove invisible character?

27;d be able to get rid of them by doing ":%s///g".) -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet,

Re: easy way to create a daemon

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:09:02PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote: > 3. "disown %1" (detaches the process from the pty...same effect as nohup) Well played, sir. I was looking at the thread and wondering why this hadn't been brought up yet. :-) -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Red Seven official kubuntu dealer

used laptops (one model of an older Inspiron) seemed a little pricey for what you got. I'll probably check out another location, though (different stock). -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your fr

Re: Dpkg

can run "apt-get dselect-upgrade" to have it install and deinstall the right packages. Note, as der.hans said, that it doesn't preserve versions, but if it's all the latest versions anyway, then that won't make much of a difference. Don't forget to back up

OT: Linux Sysadmin positions

%3a25%3a00&pg=1&seq=5 I'd appreciate you mentioning my name as the referring employee, as there is a small referral bonus. :-) If you have any questions, drop me a line. -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Fro

Re: Free Software ATI drivers?

t that I'm a big gamer anyway, but it's nice to play every once in a while. -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, th

Re: the old spaces in file names thingy in shell scripts

n *.flv; do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f//flv/mp4}" mv "$f" "$BASE/$IN" mv "${f//flv/mp4}" "$BASE/$OUT" done It saves a process or two each time through the loop at the expense of some portability. See the "Parameter Expansion"

Re: qmail WAS How difficult is it to run your own email server?

ke it. On my personal server, I just switched to Postfix from Sendmail, and I really wouldn't mind switching our work systems to Postfix. :-) -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You ste

Re: forwatfing e-mail with CLI clients (MUA)

7; to display the full headers, and then 'f' to forward. I just confirmed that Pine works exactly the same way. -- Bill Jonas*[EMAIL PROTECTED]*http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and i