Re: [SLUG] strip email addresses

> I have a bunch of xls files I need to get the email addresses from > anyone have a quick one liner? xls files are proprietary Microsoft Excel files, so you're definitely not going to get a (reasonable number of characters) one liner. There is a new perl module for sucking data out of (and wr

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

> I was under the impression that anything after 2.4.9 was somewhat suspect. Anything after 2.4.9 has the new VM. Anything after 2.4.10 has been borked in one way or another (parallel port issues, etc, etc. Read Kernel Traffic or LWN's kernel page for more info). - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

> > 2.4.10 is the controversial Andrea VM kernel. I've been running the SGI CVS > > Whatever that means in English. :-) > > > tree at this version for some time, and it works very nicely. Jaq has > > mentioned that 2.4.8 is his favourite though (SGI CVS too), which was pre > > 2.4.10-pre10 wit

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > I vaguely recall someone commenting the other day on kernel 2.4.10. > > Could someone re-iterate the gist of these comments? Is 2.4.10 worth > > installing, or is it fubar? > > 2.4.10 is running fine here. On what hardware? > I think the fubar

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Could someone re-iterate the gist of these comments? Is 2.4.10 worth > > installing, or is it fubar? > > 2.4.10 is the controversial Andrea VM kernel. I've been running the SGI CVS Whatever that means in English. :-) > tree at this version for some tim

[SLUG] strip email addresses

I have a bunch of xls files I need to get the email addresses from anyone have a quick one liner? Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

Andre Pang wrote: > Yeah, I'm investigating this as well, and the best thing I can > suggest is just buying some hard drives. I use a 40GB 5400rpm IDE Yes its cheap but its filled once you back up 40GB. Jill and I have a Sony DDS Tape drive which stores 24 GB. Sure at the $ thats more expensiv

Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:09:56PM +1100, Silcock, Stephen wrote: > So I'm looking for recommendations on a place to buy one. I've ordered from http://www.eyo.com.au/ numerous times (numerous probably adding up to over the five-digit-figure mark), and http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/ as well. I'v

Re: [SLUG] Too Many Kernel Developers?

> Is the limited number of kernel developers working in their favour or is > linux sacrificing core issues in favour of supportting a wider hardware > base? The "core issues" are "bloody complicated" and only a limited number of people are going to have the time, smarts and chutzpah to hack on

[SLUG] Too Many Kernel Developers?

Is a problem with linux that there is now too many kernel developers? Once upon a time kernel developers were indeed a hard core bunch of dedicated hackers such as Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds, now it seems that everyone wishes to get their latest patch included. Compare this to the reletively smal

Re: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:22:30PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I want to see if it can be achieved over a web interface > > Remember that you'll get 0 feedback in your browser for this upload. You are > far better off using FTP or SCP (and the many nice frontends to those > protocols) than

Re: [SLUG] www-data unable to write to /tmp when running latex from cgi scrip

Mike Lake wrote: > I can't work out why a cgi script which fires off latex to process a > file in /tmp does not seem to be able to write the dvi file or its log > file. The application creates a file called 192.168.1.4.tex fine. > But latex won't run on it from the cgi script. Someone privately s

Re: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > I want to see if it can be achieved over a web interface > > Remember that you'll get 0 feedback in your browser for this upload. You are > far better off using FTP or SCP (and the many nice frontends to those > protocols) than doing it over http. > or you could use on

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

It really blew my mind when DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Guys. > > I vaguely recall someone commenting the other day on kernel 2.4.10. > > Could someone re-iterate the gist of these comments? Is 2.4.10 worth > installing, or is it fubar? 2.4.10 is running fine here. I think the fubar on

Re: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

> I want to see if it can be achieved over a web interface Remember that you'll get 0 feedback in your browser for this upload. You are far better off using FTP or SCP (and the many nice frontends to those protocols) than doing it over http. - Jeff -- The implementation of any suffici

[SLUG] www-data unable to write to /tmp when running latex from cgi scrip

Hi all, I can't work out why a cgi script which fires off latex to process a file in /tmp does not seem to be able to write the dvi file or its log file. The application creates a file called 192.168.1.4.tex fine. But latex won't run on it from the cgi script. This is the command I am using in p

[SLUG] dwww: and missing documentation.

Hi Debian gurus :-) Have noticed for a while that the http://localhost/dwww page has great docs but two links have no contents: "List of HTML documents" pointing to http://martel.speleonics.com.au/dwww/dwww-short-index.html and "List of HTML documents, with descriptions" pointing to http://marte

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

> Could someone re-iterate the gist of these comments? Is 2.4.10 worth > installing, or is it fubar? 2.4.10 is the controversial Andrea VM kernel. I've been running the SGI CVS tree at this version for some time, and it works very nicely. Jaq has mentioned that 2.4.8 is his favourite though (SG

Re: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

Jill Rowling wrote: > What's wrong with FTP? > That's why it was created... > The problem with using a server-side script is (as was discussed last Friday > night), timeouts. > And if you don't timeout then your sever could get very bogged down. > BTW FTP times out by default around 15 minutes an

[SLUG] kernel 2.4.10 - good or bad?

Guys. I vaguely recall someone commenting the other day on kernel 2.4.10. Could someone re-iterate the gist of these comments? Is 2.4.10 worth installing, or is it fubar? Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/l

Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

On 31 Oct 2001, at 13:09, Silcock, Stephen wrote: > Can anyone recommend a place here in > Sydney where they sell quality "just the basics" systems with whatever I > want in terms of CPU/RAM/HDD sizes? I recently ordered my system from Techbuy and I'm quite happy wit

RE: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

I do something similar to that at work but it's a two step process. The user copies the file first to a specific area they are allowed to use, then they fill in the form which lets them select the uploaded file (and any other fields they need). You just have to make sure that they can't read/write

Re: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

I've had my doubts about it working sucessfully but basically they fill out a page with 20-30 fields and the data is associated with that file in the db I want to see if it can be achieved over a web interface - Original Message - From: "Jill Rowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

What's wrong with FTP? That's why it was created... The problem with using a server-side script is (as was discussed last Friday night), timeouts. And if you don't timeout then your sever could get very bogged down. BTW FTP times out by default around 15 minutes and can be set to whatever you like

[SLUG] Big file uploads through a web pages

Whats the biggest file someone has ever submitted though a web page   more specifically using php4   I'm looking to upload files through an intranet. sizes can range from 1mb up to 1.5 Gb and adverage at about 350Mb   I'm obviously going to test this out for myself Just wandering what peoples

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:35:50PM +1000, James Buchanan wrote: > Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, and is it any good? Yes and yes. Of course, my definition of good is different from yours based on the rant that follows. > I have been sorely > disappointed with the two previous Red Hats, becuz they

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2

on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:35:50PM +1000, James Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, and is it any good? I have been sorely > disappointed with the two previous Red Hats, becuz they shipped with > intermediate versions of GCC, my most important tool. Having an officia

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2

James, > Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, Yes > and is it any good? It's "better". Well it detected my SB16 card which is more than could be said for 7.0 and 7.1. It comes with X 4.1.0 and glibc 2.2.4 > Anyways, does anyone know if 7.2 comes with the proper latest or recent > version of GCC,

Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

John Clarke wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:09:56PM +1100, Silcock, Stephen wrote: > > So I'm looking for recommendations on a place to buy one. > You could try Cetus or Everything Linux: > http://www.cetustech.com.au/ > http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/ I'd second that recommendatio

[SLUG] RedHat 7.2

Hi all, Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, and is it any good? I have been sorely disappointed with the two previous Red Hats, becuz they shipped with intermediate versions of GCC, my most important tool. Having an officially unsupported GCC is bad news for me, since when trying to compile Mach, GRUB,

Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

* This one time, at band camp, Silcock, Stephen said: > > I only recently moved to Sydney and now find myself having to set up a new > home... furniture, whitegoods, curtains, etc... but I've decided I can just > sit on the floor so long as I have a nice new shiny red computer to play > with :) >

Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:09:56PM +1100, Silcock, Stephen wrote: > So I'm looking for recommendations on a place to buy one. You could try Cetus or Everything Linux: http://www.cetustech.com.au/ http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/ Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id:

RE: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

www.tradingpost.com.au the trader ads keeping biting each others heads off in prices and you'll find the best deal there. Must warn you though that prices ain't everything.. thanks, George Vieira Network Engineer Citadel Computer Systems P/L -Original Message- From: Silcock, Stephen

[SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

I only recently moved to Sydney and now find myself having to set up a new home... furniture, whitegoods, curtains, etc... but I've decided I can just sit on the floor so long as I have a nice new shiny red computer to play with :) So I'm looking for recommendations on a place to buy one. To st

[SLUG] From Debian Weekly News - October 30th, 2001

For all the Deb-heads on the list (I know there are a few:) ... this was in todays Debian Weekly News: >Linux Down Under. James Bromberger wrote in to tell us about a Debian >Conference being planned for February 2002 in Australia. The >conference will be February 4th and 5th, two days before th

[SLUG] Problem with Control-c and intr

All, I have written an emergency linux thingo which when placed into any of my linux based machine "immitates" that machine with all daemons running. This required for me to have my own "init", which is just a very long bash based shell script. It works very nicely, but I have one last annoying

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

This one time, at band camp, Jim Hague wrote: >And thus by the lack of a Sender: evade my procmail filtering. At this point we expound the benefits of using the List-ID: field, and direct you to either http://spacepants.org/conf/dot.procmail or http://perkypants.org/dotfiles/procmailrc.html for e

Re: [SLUG] PAT question .. (general)

At Wednesday, 31/10/2001 09:55 AM (+1100), Jean-Francois Dive wrote: >Hi all, > >i was wandering something with PAT: >If you have multiple boxes trying to access the same server on the internet, >going trough the same PAT router, so using the same external ip address: if >the sender stack does Pat

Re: [SLUG] Windoze XP "registration" procedure

> This is exactly what we should NOT do as hacking would increase the number > of people using it and gain momentum. Free Software advocates should *strongly* support the strictest adherence to proprietary software licensing terms. Why? - They hurt now, and are going to hurt even more as loc

[SLUG] PAT question .. (general)

Hi all, i was wandering something with PAT: If you have multiple boxes trying to access the same server on the internet, going trough the same PAT router, so using the same external ip address: if the sender stack does Path MTU discovery (most of the stack does now), and if both hit a smaller MTU

Re: fwd: Re: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation

FWIW, this perl script does the trick. Someone else was asking about pro-ftp @ the slug so may this will also help them. Just wasn't thorough enough in checking links @ www.proftpd.org http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/contrib/ftpasswd Stuart Matt Hope wrote: >Opps, sorry: hit the wrong but

[SLUG] Mail list headers

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jim Hague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : OK, I'm confused. How did this: [snip] : Manage to get sent out with headers [snip] : But not [snip] : And thus by the lack of a Sender: evade my procmail filtering. Could it be because my 'Sender' address is different to my 'Fr

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

OK, I'm confused. How did this: On 30-Oct-2001 Matt Hope wrote: > Thats a good point - it is an internal network card, but it may well be > running from the PCMCIA bus. > > I didn't think this was the case, as "lspci" reports it - I assume that > means it is on the PCI bus. > > How could I con

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoketh... : Is this a PCMCIA network card? If so, do you have the pcmcia software set up : correctly? Thats a good point - it is an internal network card, but it may well be running from the PCMCIA bus. I didn't think this was the case, as "

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > > : I havent had any luck getting the network card to work (sis900) yet, even > : though there is a 'sis900' module, and 'lspci' reports it is sis900. From > : a quick browse of that module's source, it appears it is not possible t

Re: [SLUG] What happened to Sender:

On 30-Oct-2001 Jim Hague wrote: > Is the demise of the Sender: line on SLUG traffic a temporary blip, or is it > .procmailrc hacking time again? Ahem. Given its reappearance on the above, I'll go for blip. -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer

[SLUG] What happened to Sender:

Is the demise of the Sender: line on SLUG traffic a temporary blip, or is it .procmailrc hacking time again? -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift or you don't control. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : I havent had any luck getting the network card to work (sis900) yet, even : though there is a 'sis900' module, and 'lspci' reports it is sis900. From : a quick browse of that module's source, it appears it is not possible to : specify

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> slured... : ;) I'll keep an eye out, and ask around. Keep in mind that with many hosts : you can use sftp on the command line (no dragging stuff around though, it's : just like command line ftp). Shouldn't you be able to tell one of the tk-ftp

Re: [SLUG] automounters

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> slured... : Gus (and others), which was the automounter you said you preferred on : Friday? amd or autofs? I dunno about Gus, but autofs has been much nicer to me than amd. I've been able to get amd to lock, gradually bringing down the system

fwd: Re: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation

Opps, sorry: hit the wrong button in reply. - Forwarded message from Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Re: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation From: Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:35:37 +1100 On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Stuart

[SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

I'm seeing some strange behavour on a laptop that I'm trying to get linux working on. So far I've installed a stock debian 2.2r3 on it. I havent had any luck getting the network card to work (sis900) yet, even though there is a 'sis900' module, and 'lspci' reports it is sis900. From a quick brow

RE: [SLUG] mounting remote home directories

On 30-Oct-2001 Simon Bryan wrote: > Hi all, > Here is a scenario: > > I have two Linux boxes, one is a server and holds the usernam/password > file, however it's HDDs are full and so are the available slots, ie I > cannot just add another drive I would have to replace one. The other Linux > b

RE: [SLUG] mounting remote home directories

> I have two Linux boxes, one is a server and holds the usernam/password > file, however it's HDDs are full and so are the available slots, ie I > cannot just add another drive I would have to replace one. The > other Linux > box can be a server or workstation but it does have a very large HDD. >

Re: [SLUG] mounting remote home directories

> What do I need to install to do this? Will NFS do it for me? Probably, try setting up NFS (as described in the HOWTO on linuxdoc.org), and mounting /home on the server to /home on the client. You can add this mount to /etc/fstab as you would any other filesystem, but using 'nfs' as the filesy

[SLUG] terminfo and setting termcap or something

Gday people, trying to use Ton Gun ssh on Palm OS. This page: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:02I3BeZTTZo:online.offshore.com.ai/~ian g/TGssh/+palm+ssh+client&hl=en (a google cache of the real page) seems to suggest that I need to set the terminfo to this: pi|pilot|tgtelnet:am:xn:bs:co#39:

[SLUG] mounting remote home directories

Hi all, Here is a scenario: I have two Linux boxes, one is a server and holds the usernam/password file, however it's HDDs are full and so are the available slots, ie I cannot just add another drive I would have to replace one. The other Linux box can be a server or workstation but it does hav

Re: [SLUG] Booting using GRUB off "high" disks

*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 30/10/2001 at 6:23 PM Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/slug] wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm having some problems with setting up GRUB as a bootloader for my >machine. Just as a side note, not related to your problem, I have found GAG to be an ex

Re: [SLUG] Windoze XP "registration" procedure

> but if you "need" to run XP, buy the product and hack the registration > process ! It's been a while. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | __ )| | | | | _ \ | | | | | | | | / | / | | _ \| _| | _| | _| | _| | |_) | | | | |

[SLUG] Windoze XP "registration" procedure

Apart from the incredible gall of M$ in including this, and its' dubious legality (to slug-chat to discuss this if you like), the process laster less than 2 hours after the official launch. Patches are out there which, IMHO, is a good thing. Not that I am advocating pirating the XP CDs themsel

Re: [SLUG] URL's for installing Linux on Compaq hardware

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:14:50PM +1100, Steve Downing wrote: > I can remember, some of the older ones (like your?) possibly put > parts of the BIOS on this partition, and therefore wiping it IS BAD! The "diag" partition is for doing things like disk and memory diags, bios updates, changing bi

Re: [SLUG] Fixed! [Was: mgetty dial-in, same ptp address]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:54:10AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > > > inet addr:10.0.0.1 P-t-P:10.0.0.120 Mask:255.255.255.255 > > > > What does 10.0.0.120 resolve to? Is that ppp01? > > Yeah. So, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets had t

Re: [SLUG] cron running some scheduled jobs twice

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:06:04PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think crond likes having the system time changed like that. You're probably right, but given that the time is changed almost 50 minutes before the next cron.hourly is run, I wouldn't expect it to matter. Since crond wa