Anand Kumria wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:34:59AM +, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for broadband access with a permanent IP
address and an AUP which allow the setting up of
servers.
What access speed do you mean by broadband?
Something significan't
Here's a heads up.
Tomorrow night SBS is showing Code Rush a short
documentary about Netscape and the browser war
with Microsoft. This is a must see.
Erik
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the PGP key signing mentioned on the web page is still on. I'm
hoping to become a Debian Developer and need to meet up with a Debian
Developer as part of the induction process.
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the
rgb.txt file and generates a new file to meet the above
requirements. The rgb.txt file works a treat on my laptop.
Anyway, here's the program:
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/Python/rgboptimise
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and
pasting these up over the M$ ones?
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"I've nothing against OO, I do have something against C++. Its a d
Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan
Redmond, WA - Microsoft in a recent all cash deal has purchased evil
from Satan for $2.7 billion. "We've been after Satan for some time,"
said CEO Steve Ballmer. "Negotiations were tough but I think both
Microsoft and the Prince of Darkness are happy with
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Microsoft is finally bringing all of its Windows operating system
families
under one roof. It will combine all of the features of CE, stability and
support of ME and the speed
-10am slot on
Saturday morning but nobody got back to me so I assumed I wasn't
going to be part of this. I then made plans for that Sat. morning.
I ain't going to be there folks. Sorry.
Erik
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:16:09 +1000
Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=peterw
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Peter - it looks like you've replied to the list from Erik's private mail.
That's generally regarded as impolite. :)
Not when I meant to send it to the list its
about windows?
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Don't hate the media. Become the media.
- Jello Biafra
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the G200 and G400 having owned both.
Avoid the G450 like the plague. I had one and simply could not get it to work.
I ended up selling it and getting a GeForce 2.
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The other point raised is that the Linux bugs were patched in a matter
of days while the M$ ones weren't fixed for weeks or months.
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to organise
the next one but I am a beyond-hopeless organiser.
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Traditional capital was stuck in a company's bank
It really blew my mind when Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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Please do! I'll add these to the list of offered talks so we can catch you
out later. ;) Some of these could make good general SLUG talks too, btw
(and we'll need another talk for this month
://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/
Check it out for some clues.
I'm going to keep hacking on this talk until the next codefest. This will
improve it considerably :-).
Cheers,
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Everything that I've learned about computers I have boiled
down into three principles:
PC/Windows: You think it won't work
of a compressor. These are designed
for guitar signal levels. Soothing out the volume level with a compressor
will benefit the recording process immensely.
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the trick.
You need to turn on the micorphone input and that should be about it.
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Microsoft : Yesterday's
://mega-nerd.com/FPcast/
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The worst thing about productivity tools is that there's
always something in them
was 2.4.11
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This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot.
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It really blew my mind when DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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
) and 2.4.12 came out right after
but also had problems.
I have downloaded but not yet compile 2.4.13 which I believe is the latest.
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Moore's Law: hardware speed doubles every 18 months
Gates' Law: software speed halves every 18 months
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Hey People,
The reall meat of my talk last meeting on this subject is now up at:
http://mega-nerd.com/FPcast/
I made a couple of minor factual errors in the talk which have been
corrected on the web page.
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It really blew my mind when Dion Curchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Sol1 ??? okay I'm ignorant, please enlighten me!
Solution First, the company Jeff works form haven't you been
listening??? :-)
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We can build a better product than Linux -- Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin.
One has to wonder why, with their huge resources, they haven't.
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mails a day.
Hope this helps,
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Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux workstation perform like
an 8 MHz 286
I'd like to do this for is a Redhat 7.1 box.
When you're in X windows xset b off
I've got that line in $HOME/.xsession
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Q: How do you stop a Windows NT machine from crashing?
A: Shut it down and switch it off.
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End of rant.
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Don't be fooled by NT/Exchange propaganda. M$ Exchange is
just plain broken and NT cannot
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:55:47 +1100
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I forgot the biggest irony of them all.
10) I cannot pay for the bigpong service over the net, nor via BPay.
I have to go to a bloody post office and pay it with eftpos.
Erik
rumoured DDoS on Telstra recently?
No, but they let their techos into the machine room last Friday morning for
a 1 hour scheduled outage. It took them till midday to get it runinng again.
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/xgmixer.png
The 'R' buttons along the bottom specify the recording source.
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Linux: generous programmers from
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:19:22 +0800
henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dears:
How to use Bios call in GCC(Linux)?
Its not possible to make calls into the BIOS from linux.
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to this list?
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Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't
imagine something that could be worse than
Anyone know where I can get it fixed? Its a 19 inch Mitsubishi
Diamondtron so I'm hoping it can be fixed.
Anybody have any experience with this?
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is being picked up on Monday and will be repaired and
returned. Cool!
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Percussive Maintenance: The fine
is information on quality
of service, pricing plans etc etc.
www.zip.com.au is really good. I used them for years until switching
to Bigpong cable. From a service and support point of view I often
wish I was back on zip.
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().
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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:32:20 +1100
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I know its a bit unlikely but is anyone here running SMP Sparc64 Linux
on Sun hardware? I've working on a dual CPU E220R. I can compile a
uni
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:50:43 +1100
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:32:20 +1100
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I know its a bit unlikely but is anyone here running SMP Sparc64
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on that. You might find however that when you have Linux running
the show, your reliability may go up.
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Linux
overclocking?
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This is like creating laws against blasphemy and then complaining that
unbelievers can't come up
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There is no satisfactory substitute for excellence.
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and they seem reliable enough. Never had any toruble with
mine.
Erik
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Python addresses true pseudocode's two major failings
On Sun, 5 May 2002 08:56:46 +1000 (EST)
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
On Fri, 3 May 2002 10:39:14 +1000 (EST)
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to use a Jazz 1Gb for back up and it was hopelessly unreliable..
the removable
for a short time but Galeon is a much better
browser.
Now all I need is a decent GUI (yes, I prefer it that way) newsreader
and I can delete netscrape all together. Any recommendations?
Cheers,
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The National Multiple Sclerosis Society of America recently started an
advertising campaign with the slogan MS: It's not a software company
On Sun, 12 May 2002 19:46:59 +1000
Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Now all I need is a decent GUI (yes, I prefer it that way) newsreader
and I can delete netscrape all together. Any recommendations?
How about Pan?
http://pan.rebelbase.com
On Sun, 12 May 2002 18:20:30 +1000
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:57:02PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
It's far too easy to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a
real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful
(or possibly a
phsae locked loop) and the chance of both crystals being exactly in synch
is exactly zero.
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to figure out what the warning
means and fix the code.
Your other option is to ignore the warning. There is AFAIK no way of turning
warnings off, only turning more warnings on.
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,__FUNCTION__) ;
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Running MS-Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche
but only being able to drive
with reducing the sync rate?
Whatever happened to Tux FS (from Daniel Phillips I think) which was
previewed last year at Linux.conf.au here in Sydney?
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it available.
If you don't make it available, you are in breach of the GPL.
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Having a firewall that allows
.
That at least is correct.
Erik (who finds this license stuff really boring but does like to see
incorrect information propagated)
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thinking of maybe a search/query tool in maybe console and or X
format.
apt-cache search X
Where is a keyword.
Erik
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Moore's Law: hardware speed doubles every 18 months
Gates' Law: software speed halves every 18 months
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is their jumping through hoops
to avoid putting metainfo in the name. It has to make it far more
complex to do porting and navigating files under the different
subsystems.
Err, sorry, whats all this about?
Erik
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:57:31 +1000
Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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This was in a configure script.
Wow. It would never have even occurred to me to not use quotes.
Well it work on Linux so I went with it :-). In hindsight I'm a little
surprised
(fly back in on Sat morning :-().
How do I go about voting by proxy?
(Sent this to the list because there may be others wishing to vote by
proxy).
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of times. This timing is repeatable.
So it looks like this machine will be running Linux for the majority of
its life, switching to OSX only to test compiling for OSX or play with OSX
only software.
Erik
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Even in the area of anticompetitive conduct, Microsoft is mainly an
imitator. -- Ralph Nader (1998/11/11
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Hiesenbugs - The bugs that go away when you turn on debugging.
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Linux everywhere pretty much eliminates the need for Java everywhere
-- Bruce Ide in letter to LWN editors
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a bad boy? ;-).
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Microsoft owns Hotmail. Hotmail runs Sun Solaris on their
servers, not Windows NT. Does NT
? Squid has a number of rules for not caching
files larger than a certain size. Is it possible that your squid cache is full
and not caching as much as you think it is?
You may want to look into apt-proxy instead.
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bunch of
error messages.
Does anybody have another solution?
Erik
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The word Windows is a word out of an old dialect
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:41:12 +1000
Andrew Bennetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:34:25PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle
PDF documents and I'll have to find a way to convert my
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:57:36 +1000
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahh, latex2png :-), then in Abiword import the image files. Nice!!!
Bummer! Standard resolution for latex2png looks like crap and increasing
the resolution to 300dpi and the converter gets killed by the OOM
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:34:25 +1000
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
It look like the recruiter parasite absolutely refuse to handle
PDF documents
Well it looks like the recruiter parasite has agreed to live with my
PDF document :-). I rang the guy (more than a week
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:48:45 +1000
David Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good. Give the turd Postscript next time.
Postscript is too hard to display on windows. I'll send them PDF.
Erik
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We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5
seconds. -- Linus Torvalds
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network programming are veru
much unappreciated in comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.
For network programming I suggest comp.unix.programmer and
comp.os.linux.development.apps
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programming book available and I
highly recommend it. His pair of network programming books are also
excellent.
Cheers,
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is.
Does Linux have anything similar. I had a look on freshmeat but couldn't
find anything.
Cheers,
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And MS
to be up for big updates
like this on a regular basis?
No, the updates are usually less than 5Meg and in any one month would rarely
be more than 10Meg.
Erik
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' it said '0 pkgs to upgrade'
- is it a problem mixing stable and unstable pkgs ?
After chening distros, you need to do
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
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.
At the moment the rabbit code is known to compile on Linux and
MacOSX. Win32 and Solaris support is coming RealSoonNow (tm).
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Enjoy,
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of it. Flawfinder is
also a really nice little tool which can help a code reviewer zero
in on the potential problems which can then been examined more closely.
Cheers,
Erik
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?
Don't know about Mozilla, but Galeon has this and it works really well.
Erik
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Windows NT : An evolutionary dead end
it is released.
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Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux workstation perform like
an 8 MHz 286 -- Christopher B
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Even in the area of anticompetitive conduct, Microsoft is mainly an
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an
introductory talk on Aegis at a SLUG meeting? I'm sure I'm not
the only person who would find this useful. If Peter is not able
to do this, then I may volunteer when and if I get around to
setting it up myself :-).
Cheers,
Erik
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:-))
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indication of anything in the logs? Probably won't be if the logs
are on the same drive as swap.
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I've nothing
. People
are therefore using your server as an web proxy.
Looks like you need to look at the access control configuration of Apache.
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USB options and a couple of specific cards
do seem to be supported but the ones that are, I can't find in
Australia.
Thanks in advance,
Erik
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I once worked for a company where as part of the BS5750 Quality
process I attended a meeting where I was informed
)
Once all of that stuff is loaded, the CF card just appears as a disk. Very
cool indeed.
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IDIOT, n.
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's
activity
mgdiff
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
lead all customers out
the resistance,
decrease the power consumption which and by doing that, help clean up the signals.
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Microsoft
- Ordinary members: Tony Green, Jan Schmidt, Mary Gardiner
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The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding
by Erik de Castro Lopo, seconded Theo
Julienne)
Vice-president:
Jan Schmidt (nominated by Craige McWhirter, no second)
I'll second that. Jan has done done a great job this year.
Erik
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
day they start making vacuum cleaners. -- Ernst Jan Plugge
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and even the
stuff available for windows is rather limited.
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:38:07 +1000
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:34:18 +0800
Edward Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am desperately seeking the ability to record my modem data
transmissions (from phone line recording made w/sound board
businesses
use Linux as the operating system for their Web servers.
From the article it looks like its not self propagating.
Keep your machine patches and you shouldn't have problems.
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