the opensolaris users group is having its first meeting tonight at 6pm
at the sun offices on parmer. a blog entry about the meeting is here:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sarad?entry=austin_opensolaris_user_group_meeting
this is somewhat off topic, but after chatting with simon phipps[1], he
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:33:27PM -0500, Doug McLaren wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:33:05PM -0500, chris wrote:
>
> | > tar has multiple volume support as well, though I suspect that rar
> | > would be better all around.
> |
> | easier, sure, but i used multip
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:42:01PM -0500, Doug McLaren wrote:
> way #3:
>
> Buy a DVD burner. They're cheap now, and so is the media. They'll
> hold 4.5 GB, and your data will fit fine, for now.
my recommendation as well. if you have easy access to a private but
staff managed CS linux machi
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:31:04PM -0500, Zain Yousafzai wrote:
> Hello,
> My Dell PE system hangs at first boot after a fresh install of SUSE
> Linux 8 Ent on the message that states that "freeing unused kernel
> memory". Any ideas? I googled a little bit but found everything to be
> too Redhat
first off, i am a total linux lover, user, and advocate. but i am also
a software developer and i am frankly embarassed at the apparent quality
of our industry. though it is not my "fault" that software breaks so
often, i am ashamed of the reality that software and computers are tools
whose usage
After trying 'groups', it says i'm in the groups "wheel audio users". I
have logged in and rebooted many times since it broke. It is very weird
because it used to work fine.
Chris
Daniel Brown wrote:
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:13:37AM -0600, Chris Speir wrote:
it and
stopped using pam, I don't believe this broke anything else, and I am
not shure if this would be a factor anyways. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Chris
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Organization: Pogo Linux
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I have an APC UPS running successfully with apcupsd
(www2.apcupsd.com) on Gentoo (2.4).
It appears more than one Belkin model is supported by Nut
(www.networkupstools.org). Check there.
Has anyone here successfully used / configured a Belkin?
-- Chris
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:54:59 -0500 (CDT
There's going to be a "Linucon" October 8-10, 2004, which is "a
combination science fiction convention and Linux/Open Source Expo." Eric
Raymond and Steve Jackson are two of the featured guests who will be
attending the convention. http://www.linucon.org/hotel/
According to the
http://www.mail-arc
Looks like you guys are getting some competition...
.ck
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To: Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: [COMSOC-ANNOUNCE:49] FWD: New campus-wide Linux mailing l
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:10:04PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
>
> I am logged into a Mac at the SMF lab. I amd ssh'd to
> thor.cs.utexas.edu. I used ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] to attempt
> to ensure that the correct display stuff would happen. Then I did...u
>
> thor.cs.utexas.edu$xdvi foo
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Joe Corneli wrote:
>http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html
>
> Cool... but $139 for an adapter seems somewhat steep! More than
> half as expensive as my keyboard ;). Maybe they can be found
> used... I'll keep a look out.
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:51:16AM -0500, Joe Corneli wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a handheld computer that runs a free operating
> system and into which I could plug a USB keyboard (or even PS/2) for
> typing?
>
> Preferably the thing would have a pretty large screen -- a 3x5 inch
> body and a scr
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:12:53AM -0600, Patrick Lang wrote:
> For cd's, we still need 3 or 4 sets of the following burned:
> Mandrake 10
it looks like joe blow cannot download the full version?
does anyone have "silver and above" Mandrake club membership
that can get us the nvidia/real/adobe-i
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:04:41PM -0600, Patrick Lang wrote:
> I have posted two threads on the forum about burning cd's and putting
> up flyers. We need all the help we can get with these tasks and
> supplies are available. Check the forum to see what needs to be done
> and what's already be
(please start a new thread with a new subject when you post about
unrelated topics..)
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0600, Kenneth Koym wrote:
> Recommend what you'd do with a laptop Dell Inspiron 7000 that went down
> 3.5 weeks back. A dell tech said, "You have a shorted motherboard video
hi folks,
i see so little traffic on the list these days and i don't
read the forum, so i would have missed the meeting next
weekend if it weren't in the ACM mailout. is everyone
just talking on the forum now, or has nothing been going
down and the lack of meeting announcement to this list was
j
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:05:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Gardner wrote:
> Okay, so I put Solaris 8 on this dinosaur and everything is fine.
so, if it works with solaris, the below is inaccurate? did you
try with binary emulation (i haven't kept current with sparclinux
but it used to be the case that ev
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:00:18AM -0600, Big Mike Forsberg wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. I think it'd be great in the labs
> since all the computers are so close.
i was going to suggest screen too since i think it comes closest to
shared buffer/keyboard of any apps i'm aware of, b
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:41:45AM -0600, Mark wrote:
> This is just an example, this happens with things other than ls.
>
> I'm guessing that this is some TTY thing. That is, there is some "flow
> control" setting or something that is futzed. But, I nothing looks like an
> obvious solution. I v
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:09:01PM -0600, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> I recently started using the wondeful gnu-emacs outline commands
> m-x hide-body, m-x show-all. What happened? They aren't working
> anymore. I think I last used 'em about 1 week ago. I think I saw a note
> about a kernel u
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:13:11PM -0600, Joe Knize wrote:
> I couldn't find anything in /etc/man.config that seemed applicable,
> either. After making a copy and gunzipping
> /usr/share/man/man3/CGI.3pm.gz, then viewing with less, the single quotes
> are there. But then viewing man ./CGI.3pm,
Is anyone interested in this?
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:21:34 -0600
From: Ryan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Acm] Invitation: Defcon style CTF game
ACM -
First for the
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:10:35AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> SIGLinux, I would like to know how difficult it would be to write the USB
> driver modules for the pedals
i suspect you will not have to do that. most game input devices such as
joysticks, steering wheels, lightguns, and presum
hi folks,
i'm a brand new gentoo user and i have to say this system
is pretty nifty. i wouldn't have believed it possible to
build a usable system from source in http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:12:43PM -0500, bushk wrote:
> Anybody on this list runnin' their favorite linux distro on an apple
> ibook or powerbook?
i used to run linuxppc (i think that was the name of the distro--it wasn't
anything i'd heard of before, or since such as yellowdog) on my lombard
(3
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:30:46PM -0500, bushk wrote:
> I'm attempting to run redhat linux 9.0. i've got a set of 5.1DD
> logitech z680 speakers that take a digital coaxial input from the S/PDIF
> output of my computer. back in the microsoft-day, i just turned on
> advanced options under the vol
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:00:50AM -0500, jeff strunk wrote:
> The ACM meetings are not meant to be anything for SIGLinux at all. I
> like the idea of a monthly(or more often) meeting. The time a few of us
> went to Spiderhouse was lots of fun. Mojo's is also a good place. I
> don't know about Spid
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:45:56PM -0500, Phil Carinhas wrote:
> Is there anything interesting going on in CS or EE involving
> Linux? I wonder if we could get some of the researchers to present
> at a Siglinux meeting or a joint colloquia ? Just an idea.
does anyone know if the guy who ran t
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:45:58PM -0500, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> I'm in the process of backing up my laptop and i've come to a little
> problem. i want to backup the entire drive, not just a partition. i've
> tried dump/restore, but it only backs up partitions and doesnt seem
> fat32 friendly (i d
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:14:54PM -0500, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea where I should be looking? Does anyone know some
> IMAP commands I could try manually through telnet to see what is happening.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2060.txt knows all the imap commands =)
when in dou
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:50:31PM -0500, Mark wrote:
> I need one so I can scroll real-time messages to, i.e. I cannot connect to
> it, write a message, then walk away. I envision some sort of serial
> port/lpt/usb type connection. Wireless would be ideal.
>
> These are pretty simple devices, s
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:12:06AM -0700, Doc Shipley wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 07:12, Victor Pelt wrote:
> > after having looked at a dozen different mailers, i havn't found one
> > which didn't have (at least) these features
>
> "mailx" doesn't have any buttons at all. :)
while you hav
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:46:17PM -0500, Jean-Philippe Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I vaguely remember that there exists some environment variable that, if
> set, will cause gcc (or the linker?) to add range checks to detect buffer
> overflows and the like. I tried googling for it, but didn't come
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:01:01AM -0500, Daniel Brown wrote:
> i like text irc clients. i like libreadline (for the vi bindings, of
> course). is there any way to mix the two?
>
> i dug a little around the irssi source (my current client), and
> concluded that its event handling system is too com
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:43:23PM -0600, Erin Teachman wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I am new to the list and semi-new to linux, so please pardon my ignorance
> if I am asking a stupid question.
no stupid questions, only stupid answers...
> I have been trying to burn a mix of songs onto a cd. I turned th
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:47:04PM -0600, Kaushik E. Lakshmanan wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to invoke an executable/batch file that exists in machine B
> from another machine A.
>
> machine A is a Linux machine , but machine B is a windows 2000.
>
> Has anyone done something like this bef
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:25:32PM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote:
> I don't really get how to do this.
so, read the man page for ssh/sshd?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
(suggested reading for everyone, actually. how to ask smart questions to
smart people in such a w
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:16:51AM -0600, Victor Pelt wrote:
>
> Eterm with transparent background does
>
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:19, Omar El-Domeiri wrote:
> > nothing beats xterm.
such religious-war-fodder. why is your favorite term better other than
'i think it's cool'? (this challenge dir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:36:30AM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote:
>
(tabs in email kind of suck--presumably you had your tabstop set at <8 chars
but mine are standard inside of mutt and thus your lines are >80 characters
and wrap yuckily...just fyi)
> ssh machine 'nohup startx
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:08:43PM -0600, Neeraj Desai wrote:
> I see. Well I also want to the ability to take a peek at how many users are
> currently browsing the site and how many have etc etc. a gui would be pretty
> helpful for the eh?
i think you may be looking for something like webalizer,
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:49:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyone know how to export your display for Remote X Windows via the export
> DISPLAY command... if you're behind a router? Must you open ports?
to answer your question, yes, you must open ports if you desire to have
normal X11
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:01:05AM -0600, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> Seems like a good solution, I will give it a try.
>
> If Linux does not honor the setuid bit, then how come there are perl man
> pages about how to write safe setuid scripts in perl? like perldoc
> perlsec.
possibly because ther
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 06:57:08PM +0600, Alexander Boulgakov wrote:
> Hello. Sometimes, I use split to hack files into smaller pieces. I want
> to know how it is possible in windows to join them again, i.e. what is
> the equivalent of "$cat file.2 >> file.1" ? Is there a join command GUI,
> or
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:04:26PM -0600, Chris Heintzelman wrote:
> I recently was taking pictures with a digital camera. During one of
> these picture-takings, the camera said "cf error" (compact flash). So
> I take this compact flash and attach it via ide-cf adapter to
ure I could break it into 1k blocks and look for some that start with
a jpeg header or something but that seems painful.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:48:50PM -0600, Matthew Seeds wrote:
> mpg123 --list <(find /home/mtseeds/Music/ -name '*.mp3')
somehow i doubt this scales. how large is your playlist? i've got ~5k songs
in mine and i've yet to find a shell/OS that would allow me to pass them all
in argv[] without
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:21, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote:
> I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME.
> When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get
> shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; also files created from
> Linux sometimes get converted to upper-case on Windo
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:27:21AM -0500, Andrew Gaul wrote:
> I suspect that Mike is running GNOME or KDE as well as X, which is
> causing his system to thrash. The effects are exaggerated by the slow
> laptop hard drive. Can you launch X and send the output of "ps au" to
> the list? You will
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:08:01PM -0800, Mike Strickland wrote:
> This might be a dumb question...but I want a text-based javascript-enabled web
>browser. My dilemma is: 150mhz 16mb laptop with Debian 3.0. I recently installed X
>so I would be able to use a regular browser and hence have
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:34:23AM -0500, Chien-Yu Chen wrote:
> Hi!
>I am trying to set up a raid 1 configuration...
> I have 2 identical disk, both on primary IDE without any slave device..
> After I set up raid 1, I am having some performance issue..
>
> when I write a big file (maybe 20M),
hey kids,
the first couple pages are probably of more interest to you than all of
oreilly's new book announcements. still, a 20% discount and free(?) copies
for review both sounded pretty neat...this came over the list for the
boulder lug.
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:09:15PM -0500, Big Mike Forsberg wrote:
> Your right, i recieved the 1000 bytes/s from the CS lab in painter. Damn disk
>quota.
isn't that what /tmp is for? =)
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:18:07AM -0500, Big Mike Forsberg wrote:
> I was planning on waiting until I finished pulling the images down, but
>ftp.utexas.edu does have 8.0 images.
>
> I think they are throttling the bandwidth, since I get messages saying "limited to
>5 bytes/s".
they proba
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:02:58AM -0500, cp16net wrote:
> anyone have the rh 8.0 locally yet.
> i am downloading it and its going at a mear 2k/s
> and i havnt even gotten the first cd yet...
> Or does anyone know when the ftp.utexas.edu
> mirror will be updated.
this from a poster at the cu-boul
Well, since NFSv3 in the 2.4.18 is buggy as hell anyway, you might as
well, use NFSv4. The NFS mailing list sees a lot of traffic for nfs 4
but almost all of it is patches. I wish I could say go for it as
version 3 is so horrid in general, but it seems to be the lesser of the
evils.
Chris
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:41:02PM -0600, chris wrote:
> i'm having a slightly odd problem with my X setup. perhaps someone has
> been here before and can enlighten me as to what exactly i'm doing wrong..
thanks to mr [EMAIL PROTECTED], my i
hi folks,
i'm having a slightly odd problem with my X setup. perhaps someone has
been here before and can enlighten me as to what exactly i'm doing wrong..
i just added a bunch of low-res modelines to my XF86Config file (intended
for use in DGA mode with xmame), verified that config file as th
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:16:34PM -0500, Matt Bradbury wrote:
> Is there anyway I can move the display on let's say a running Emacs
> program from one display to another. I'd love it if I could come to
> campus and just grab some programs running on my home machine and display
> them locally, es
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:47:11AM -0500, Michael Yuan wrote:
> I hope that my images are still on that card and only the super block is
> broken.
sounds that way if the camera can still display the images...
first off, is there some direct transfer method from the camera? since it
can still
server response
broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER
then dhcpcd says it times out waiting for server response; (I also get
DHCP_NAK responses from the server).
I've tried using pump instead but with no success. I'm using the latest
dhcpcd.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris H.
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On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 23:17, John Tucker wrote:
> I was wondering how to exit a man page. I have tried ctrl-C, esc, and
> ctrl-q and a couple others I think and it doesn't seem to be exiting for me.
>
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> > with full uploads running (cable, 40-50k/s), my ping rests anywhere
> > between 700 and 1200 ms. QoS might be the ticket that i heard on irc (as
> > opposed to the aforementioned fair queueing)
> >
>
> QoS RULES the school..
agreed. and to tie this into linux...i use not QoS but cbq (cla
ms, so I don't think unstable would be any worse.
Anyway, thanks for the quick help guys.
-Chris
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Paul David Sack wrote:
> Yesterday at 10:28pm, Chris Kennedy expounded:
>
> ++ NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> ++ eth0: transmit timed out, statu
compiled into a 2.4.19 kernel
ReiserFS partitions (except /boot, which is ext2)
Thanks,
Chris
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dle booting the two OSes. But in these cases, one of the OSes won't
work without both drives being installed.
Of course, If I've stated further misconceptions, let us know. I believe this should
be somewhat of an accurate generalization of options.
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:31:29 -0500
Doc
Important thing to remember is that there is usually only one MBR on a machine.
If you have a SCSI and IDE mix, it'll setup to the IDE before SCSI
Currently, I have a SCSI drive for Linux and an IDE drive for Windows98
I've been bitten by this in the past.
This is what i've done and haven't had
You can enable/disable languages using the following configure param:
--enable-languages=c,c++,$(other_languages)
Robert Giles wrote:
> Since the list is archived/indexed on some web site, thought I'd post
> that my C library upgrade was successful on my slack 4 box... couple
> of things the H
Interesting. Could you post a code snippet?
>d Doug McLaren on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:58:52AM -0500,
>
>
>>As others have suggested, basically you'll just do this --
>>
>> open input
>> open output
>> malloc a small buffer (1 KB is good but might be slow, 1 MB might
>> be perfect,
does anyone know why
ioctl(SIOCGIFADDR)
would give me an error along the lines of "Cannot assign requested address"?
Thanks,
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does anyone know of a minimalist ftp server (daemon)?
By minimalist, I mean, no security, no password/user checking, no /proc
access
just the basics - ftp to it, give it meaningless user/pass, and get files.
Thanks, Chris
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not be better to allocate a nice, fixed buffer size, then
>copy the file in chunks right up to the end?
>
> eg,
>
> size_t BUFSIZE=1024*1024*1024;
> buf = (char *) malloc (BUFSIZE);
> if fread()
> fwrite();
>
>
>
try this
int copy(const char* srcfn, const char* dstfn)
{
struct stat stats;
unsigned size;
FILE* srcfd;
FILE* dstfd;
int ret;
char* buf;
ret = stat(srcfn,&stats);
if(ret<0) { printf("Error getting file size: %s\n",strerror(errno));
return errno; }
size =
ce to have one right around when school starts.
>
>
>(p.s. what wm do you people use? lately i've been switching between kde3 and
>fluxbox, still unhappy with both and not liking gnome2 anymore)
>
>--
>Vivek g.
>
>
>
>On Monday 22 July 2002 07:44 pm, Chris wro
LOL, I usually just troll this mailing list, but this cracked me up!
Sounded like an X-rated inquiry.
On 22 Jul 2002 18:23:26 -0500
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> Does this group physically? If so, when and where?
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pport).
Does anybody know of any programs that have this capability and are
small? (on the order of 50k, buildable against uclibc).
Thanks,
-Chris
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I've heard numerous things about how connecting optical drives and hard
disks to the same ide controller can be a bad idea, due to it causing
a) the hard drive and cdrom to operate in the same mode, where the cdrom
usually operates in a slower mode b) data corruption. I don't know how
substan
It's obviously a joke, but there isn't anything sick about it
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To: "SIGLinux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Siglinux] Microsoft to base next generation OS on
OpenBSD (fwd)
> Is thi
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