On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:18:41AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
What format is this, please? gimp doesn't know it nor does file
$ od -c barbara/Lindsay1 | head
000 F S P A 003 \0 \0 \0 037 004 \0 \0 211 003 \0 \0
did you try running the 'file' command on it?
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:39:38PM +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
Anyone know of a program that will tell me the code static data
segment sizes of an executable ?
readelf --segments [executable]
MemSiz gives you the size of the segment in memory.
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:54:20AM +, Dave Airlie wrote:
oops I replied to Andy and no the list..
one word
size
huh?
ianw@mingus:/bin$ readelf --segments ls
Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x10001368
There are 6 program headers, starting at offset 52
Program
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:05:00AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html
or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems.
Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points.
TeX
(./configure --enable-gui=motif) then make. I then tried to make a deb
package with 'dpkg-buildpackage' but it goes and reconfigures it and
makes it again. I have already done that as I wanted it compiled with
the motif gui (thats why I want to replace the default vim).
How do I make a deb
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:18:38AM +1100, Daniel Harper wrote:
I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, however
I am having problems with make menuconfig.
Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and
the selection displays (The
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll
through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get
acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen.
I always use xpdf for presentations:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:21:37AM +1100, Robert Maurency wrote:
(I'm making the tranistion between ASP Access to PHP and MySQL and am
having a tough time with this GUI-less database.)
If you haven't tried phpmyadmin get it. It's brilliant for admining
your mysql databases and just keeps
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:08:55AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux
processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using
dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable speed while being easy to port
on new host
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:54:28AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote:
Hi everyone,
The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith
Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load),
an ok price i guess.
yep, a good little buy. I'm not sure why they even
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Think sick building syndrome. Basically, new office/office works and
factories produce lots of fumes that can deposit on nice new shiny
pins and provide an insulating layer of gunk that causes intermittent
problem.
This reminds me
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:52:04AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Bug or feature:
I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do
not handle spaces in file names and paths.
They do :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ianw]$ basename /this is/a path/with / spaces
spaces
are you quoting
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:57:36AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
drm-trunk-module which I have also done (against a kernel I compiled
myself from ppckernel.org) and I got an 'unresolved symbol' error on
radeon.o and rage128.o (I think?)
which kernel is this? If you used rsync, try back dating to
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:34:30PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
It also does a nice job of destroying the non-existant sender spam
defense, since every non-existant .com and .net apparently now has a
mail server:
http://linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2003-September/016294.html
well i'm not
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:53:39AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
you don't need an MX record.. an A is tried if no MX exists..
True -- i didn't realise this. For those interested, seems to be a
requirement of RFC974. I wonder what prompted the author to give the
'benefit of the doubt' to servers
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:21:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday, the IT support people at my work place informed me that my
local workstation (which is running debian testing/unstable) was
broadcasting windows Randbot worm throughout the internal network and
several win2k
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:17:24AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux support engineer fluent with Versions 7,8 and 9 to become a
I don't want to sound like a pedant, but it's not a great start...
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:32:10AM +1100, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
I have a D-Link router, and a US power supply. Does anyone know of a
supplier of power supplies for Australia?
I got a good one from jaycar, put MF1091 in the keyword search at
www.jaycar.com.au
It's $49.95 -- I don't
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:41:36AM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
After installation is there a way of access the network setup tool or
another similar tool?
I'm not sure about a pointy-clicky thing, but it's very easy to just
edit the networking config file /etc/network/interfaces.
man 5
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote:
Points will go to the first person to make a light weight interface to the gecko
engine, get it into a debian package, and most importantly, doesn't then go
on to make it totally bloated.
epiphany?
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:08:45AM +1100, Alex Sutcliffe wrote:
I am trying to compile and run a c/c++ program on my woody box. It
compiles fine but when I run it, it dies with a floating point error.
Admittedly there are several compiler warnings.
One odditiy of i386 is that an integer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:38:51PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
Just in case anyone reading this actually buys into Paul's comments,
it's not Linux's fault, it's the hardware manufacturer's for not
providing support. There's three ways to get support for your
hardware into any operating
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:05:43PM +1000, David wrote:
What entry should I put in my sources.list for packages that are stored
locally
If it's just one or two debs you need to use dpkg-scanpackages to
greate a Packages.gz file. Explained at
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:04:44PM +1000, bill wrote:
I have 3 pc's networked to an ethernet switch, which is connected to the
'Net via a modem router. All works well.
Is it a four port switch? Often those things have 5 ports, but only
four can be active at the same time (the extra port can
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:26AM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook and when I go to
install plugins it just crashes and exits.
Firefox 0.8 has a problem on Power where installing any extension will
just crash. Firefox 0.9 is in unstable now
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:52:19PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
I could of course just disconnect the second HDD until the first is
re-built, but felt there had to be a more logical method.
Nothing could be *more* logical that removing a drive with sensitive
data during a re-install. Even if you
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:38:22AM +1000, David wrote:
* --enable-[redhat/suse/gentoo/cobalt/netbsd/fhs]
This option helps netatalk to determine where to install the start
scripts.
Can anyone suggest which option out of these might work for Debian. Or
any other
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:17:30AM +1000, Robert Tillsley wrote:
Now I installed xfree68, but there is no X in that folder. Can anyone
give me an idea of where to start troubleshooting?
Sounds like you missed a package; try apt-get install x-window-system
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file
drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 version
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ cd
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink
as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents
as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation
to find out
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:12:01PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
I seem to recieve a lot of email from corporate users whos client send
me text and html version of the email, is there any way to tell mutt
that the text version is the prefered version, right now I have to go
through and delete
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:11:12PM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote:
#apt-get install amsn
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
Often with
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:47:58AM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote:
To use msn I need version 0.69 or greater, the only version of gaim I
can get is 0.58 and I can't run msn on this version as they say on
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q66
That looks like the version from Debian stable. You
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:07:20AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Michael Lake wrote:
4. Other ways ?
What's the easist way to allow the new user to use windows scp but not
browse the filesystem. Reading up on chroot jails it seems that they
are not trivial to setup.
I deleted the previous
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:13:11PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Also one problem with scponly is that to use the chroot features you
have to make it suid and the authors warns of this.
Which is why I installed it in a separate ssh chroot; but I have the
luxury of having full access and
Hi,
I often bounce email from mutt to remote addresses and every now and
then will get back some sort of too many hops or to many forwards
message (especially from Hotmail).
I want some way to strip the Received: headers when I bounce the
message via mutt. Anyone done that before? My initial
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:05:56AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
I'm yet to find this by RTFM but what produces the log file that MRTG
makes it's graphs from?
MRTG produces the log file. You would usually have mrtg setup in a
cron job that runs every so often, which polls the devices and
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:27:00AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote:
Sluggers, can somebody point me to a tutorial on the various components
in software building (newbie-comprehensible) :-
You'll need to understand the general concept of makefiles
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
and
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:28:51PM +1100, Benno wrote:
It would be convenient for my current project if there was some way
to specify where in VM the dynamic libraries ended up.
You can use prelink to put shared libraries to specific virtual
addresses with the --reloc-only option.
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:40:45AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
COMMAND=$RSYNC -rlptgoD --delete --delete-excluded --exclude .snapshot
--exclude \Temporary Internet Files\ /$d/ $TARGET
if [ $DEBUG == 1 ]; then $ECHO $COMMAND; fi
$COMMAND
Try using eval around this, e.g.
eval $COMMAND
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:37:09AM +1100, Luke Skywalker wrote:
I tried to send a post, but I got a message saying I have suspicious
headers.
This is not the list you are looking for
... this is not the list I'm looking for ...
You will email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with these problems
... I will
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:17:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a standard way for a .so file to find where it was loaded from?
from man dl_iterate_phdr
The info argument is a structure of the following type:
struct dl_phdr_info {
ElfW(Addr)dlpi_addr;
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:50:38AM +1100, Ian Su wrote:
I would like to get automake to install some .h files in
$(top_srcdir)/include prior to compiling the objects for my
project. However, there doesn't appear to be any way to do this
elegantly. If I add the rules to all-local, it gets
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I keep getting the following error message.
Setting up ndtpd (3.1.5-6.3) ...
Ydpkg: error processing ndtpd (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:22:22AM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Ian Wienand wrote:
Try running /var/lib/dpkg/ntpd.post with bash -x and see where it's
failing.
Thanks, but my /var/lib/dpkg does not include 'ntpd.post'
Wow, I suck; two errors in the one line. What I really meant was
/var/lib
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:27:44PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Anyway, the general concept is to find the script that is being run
and trace it.
Thanks again but I can't find the ntp daemon (presumably ntpd) in
/var/lib/dpkg
Alright, I just reread your message and noticed that you're
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:42:00PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
I've poked around and am still a bit confused. I've attached it to
see if you can spot anything.
Inspection isn't really going to help in this case. You need to run
it (as root, since that's what dpkg does) on your machine with the
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:30:48AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
xmessage -nearmouse $message
Now, running this script with bash compresses $message to a single line,
while zsh keeps the newlines intact. So I'm wondering how to achieve the
same thing with bash.
Quote $message, as in
$ xmessage
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:39:03PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Trying 'apt-get -f install gnome-panel' as root gives me a long
string of unmet dependencies which won't cut'n paste from
gnome-terminal.
Is this something affecting other Debian unstable users at the
moment, or just me ?
There
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:17:16AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
Actually, if the initial spec had said all HTML pages MUST be valid XML
or the browser MUST give an error and make no attempt at rendering it
and this had been honoured by NCSA and Nutscrape, the web would be in a
much better
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:49:11AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
I've googled, man tunefs others, read the HOWTOs but I am none the
wiser as to how I can increase the umber of available inodes in a
partition.
You can't. From mke2fs
-i bytes-per-inode
Specify the bytes/inode ratio.
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:00:49PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The $J substitution into the last command works fine but the $R bit, which
attempts to redirect the output to a file, does not. Bash seems to
interpret the bit as part of the command rather than a redirection
instruction.
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:48:09AM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote:
I know there are connectors that will do it but I am trying to do it
with software to reduce the need for hardware.
I'm not sure exactly what you are after; it might just require netcat
and a pipe to /dev/ttyS0.
If it's for
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:55:45PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
oh well
just thought i would reply on my ibook running only debian linux
connected via aiport card.
*shrug*
You, like myself, probably hit the sweet spot with Apple laptops where
we have the Ornico wireless (just Airport,
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:22:06PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote:
I need to do a demo of signal graphing, so I though I would use MRTG.
...
What non-SNMP / MIB2 data sources are available?
It's very easy to plug an arbitrary non SNMP data source into MRTG.
The output just needs to be in the
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:55:06PM +1000, Benno wrote:
On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
IMHO.[1]
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:42:49PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
Firefox keeps randomly going back. It seems to be some kind of mouse
gesture triggered by my trackpad. I'd like to disable gestures in FF
completely.
Do you have horizontal scrolling on your trackpad? The same thing
happened to me
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:39:51PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
With C on 64-bit your number will not be a problem as an integer. C
integer is size 8 bytes = 64 bits. So 2 exponent 64 less 1 can be
handled.
This isn't correct; there are two main models for 64 bit computing.
LP64 where longs and
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:42:41PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
This should be 8 bytes = 64 bits.
So 2 exponent (64-1) - 1 = max int size in 64 bit machine.
I think you missed my point. An int is still only 32 bits on a 64 bit
machine. On a 64 bit machine running Linux a long will be 64 bits,
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:59:26PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
It is easy to check if one has a 64-bit machine. I'm curious to
know.
Have a look at the AMD64 ABI, for example
http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf
Figure 3.1 gives you the size of types.
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:40:47PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
The only change from 32-bit to 64-bit machine as far as
data type sizes are concerned is 'long'. Changed from 4 to 8 bytes.
This resolves the argument comprehensively.
This means that there is going to be minimal improvements from
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:01:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, just checking one 64 bit machine would not be enough.
If you stick to Linux and gcc then you get fairly consistent results
but C is bigger than gcc (only slightly).
I'd suggest it is the other way around; gcc
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:22:33AM +1000, Benno wrote:
(Of course using printf then becomes a real bitch...)
What's wrong with the PRI macros in inttypes.h?
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:45:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've got it running on AMD64, PIII, PIV and P-M all tuned and boy
does it make a difference. Distros I've compared are Ubuntu on a PIV
and Debian on AMD64. It is faster than both standard installs if
compiled for the platform.
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:53:39AM +0800, James wrote:
Program_ 3(ABC TV Sydney AC3 , 545, 512, A660, 256)
Totally unrelated to Linux, but ...
I've never noticed these channels before. Does that AC3 refer to
Dobly Digital, and does this mean those channels are actually
broadcasting
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:54:05AM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1114879816 109103408 0 100% /mnt/seagate
I can copy files onto the disk and the Used number goes up, but the
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:37:07PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
I'm writing a template for an invoice that we will send to the customer.
It's in landscape format and has a lefthand section (with all the
details fo the order and price etc - which the customer keeps) and a
righthand section (which
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:04:40PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
only now the column-widths are not controlled in th way they were for the
tabular environment :(
yes, multicol doesn't do column widths.
any other ideas?
Looking back at your original example, Latex is assuming you are using
a
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:08:27PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
Or redwoodvirtual.com?
I've *heard* that things can get a bit slow as the machines are loaded
pretty high; however they certainly have good low end prices. When I
looked into them around a month ago they were not accepting new
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:11:18PM +1100, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote:
Not sure if anyone else has used SuSE 9.3 or SuSE 10 on a Via EPIA MII
with 1.2GHZ CPU but we have a machine here that's segfaulting when running
ssh-keygen for example but runs fine otherwise. We have tried
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:01:05PM +1100, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Ian Wienand wrote:
Try running with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0 and that would
bump you back to non-optimised libraries which might help.
No change.
Oh well. Run it under gdb and find out
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:12:07PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
IIRC, ANSI C[1] makes no guaranty as to the lifetime of literal
strings when their enclosing scope finishes.
I'm fairly sure ANSI C does, C99 definitely does
And not all literal strings are 'static' as my code demonstrated.
String
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:17:51PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Some might remember that I was looking at getting a new laptop
recently. Well I ended up with a Dell Latitude X1, installed ubuntu
Hoary, dist-upgraded to Breezy to get X working properly and I'm now
running E17
But does it
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:56:14PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
This is an unexpected statistic...
Subroutine using massive number of matches:
strcmp(x,y) 1.87 seconds
strncmp(x,y,6) 1.63 seconds
memcmp(x,y,6) 5.85 seconds
Ignoring the other code it is a huge overhead for using memcmp on
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:57:00PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
Enforcing standards with gcc -ansi is a bad idea it looks like :-( This
draws in the gcc builtins and they do not perform as well.
You are buliding with optimisation on right (-03 or similar)?
If you want fast memcmp() do it on an
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:34:33PM +1100, Visser, Martin wrote:
I just googled for benchmark performance linux kernel i386 versus
i686 and found nothing of any import. I am just wondering if anyone has
bothered doing this. It would be nice to know what the tradeoff is
between performance and
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:06:11AM +, Dave Airlie wrote:
I've heard chat on lkml about using alternatives (the kernel ones) to do
this.. basically at build time you construct a table of every spinlock
call and patch them all up at CPU hotplug or kernel boot time...
Sounds like magic to
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:43:54AM +1100, Anthony O'Hara wrote:
Booting Gentoo results in an odd beeping noise coming from the hard
drive.. It just sits there making a very quiet and subtle morse
code noise over and over and over again.
I don't think it is your hard drive, there was a period
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:44:14AM +1100, Raphael Kraus wrote:
I'm wanting to perform FTP synchronisation (similar to rsync) - i.e. a
local and remote directory are made up to date at a set schedule.
I use weex for just this; a poor man's rsync
http://weex.sourceforge.net/
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:09:36AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually this is mostly just a waste of effort. Config swap and let
the system swap out all the bits it does not need.
Ahh, what if you compile your SCSI driver as a module, and the pages
containing its code are put onto a SCSI
Free to good home
* AlphaPC 164
* 433Mhz Alpha 21164 Processor
* 128Mb RAM
* 18Gig Quantum Atlas 10K SCSI drive
* Pioneer SCSI CD
* Archive 4326xx SCSI tape drive (DDS-2?) with a whole bunch of tapes
* Inbuilt IDE controller - takes normal IDE disks.
* IDE hard drive cage (modified
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:12:20PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
Free to good home
Thanks, it has found a new home :)
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:43:58PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
Okay, how do you layout an answer for something as simple as
sqrt(175)-17**2 in latex?
I'd do it something like
\begin{eqnarray*}
a = \sqrt{175} - 17^2 \\
= 13.22 - 289 \\
= -275.78. \\
\end{eqnarray*}
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:25:04PM +1100, cmyers wrote:
Im mounting 5 drives (it takes between 5 - 10 minutes) to mount all the
drives.
Is there something else I should be looking at? or doing? to get them to
mount quicker?
Are you sure you're not loosing packets? I've seen issues where
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts
(for GNU/Linux)?
What I want is the hability to broadcast my desktop via GAIM/MSN.
I think you might mean taking your screen and encoding it into some
sort of
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:10:10PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
I doubt the key in question is on the keyservers. It's located at
http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc
Or just install the debian-archive-keyring package
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Mon Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:51:38AM +1000, Menno Schaaf wrote:
I helped a friend install Ubuntu (5.10) on her laptop this weekend,
but couldn't get X to display in the native resolution (1280x800).
It's using the i810 driver, and defaults back to 1024x768.
If it's anything like my Dell X1, try
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:01:11PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
The make install for the compiled subversion I think will go into
/usr/local/
But I need to remove the subversion that was put on via apt-get which is
in /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib etc otherwise there will be clashes and things
will
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:32:18PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
My machine has this:
~$ ls -l /dev/uran*
cr--r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Jun 20 2002 /dev/urandom
~$ ls -l /dev/ran*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Jun 20 2002 /dev/random
Why is one writable by all and the other not ?
I think
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:07:43AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
I have citrix installed and it has grey scroll bars, It uses the motif
libraries. The problem I am getting is that I can scroll down but not
back up using the scroll bars. I have seen this problem with another
program as well, vnc
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:50:59AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I even tried rebooting and booting on battery and I get the same
result, it still thinks is on AC power.
This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's.
FWIW, this works fine (i.e. I get the expected behaviour of no fsck on
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:06:50PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Did you install dapper straight up or install breezy and then
dist-upgrade?
I'm pretty sure I even installed the one before breezy, upgraded it
to breezy and then upgraded again to dapper.
I'm afraid I'm one of those
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:23:28PM +, Paul Davies wrote:
Problem: I can't boot the kernel (2.6.15-1) with modules enabled (using
DEBIAN)
Reason: My ram disk boot image is not being recognised (not attached to
an existing device).
Paul,
My suggestion is ditch the RAM disk; if you
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:19:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
I think this is caused by the fact that fsck runs from rcS and acpid
is started from rc0 (i.e. later), and so the acpi modules are not
loaded in time to tell fsck to hold off. Loading the acpi module
manually before the
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:05:09PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
Anyone know how (if) it is possible to do the byte-reordering??
[of a cramfs file system]
$ apt-get install cramfsswap
-i
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:55:16PM +1000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
I would like to find out how Linux distributes processes in an
SMP-enabled box with n CPUs. Will the kernel move a process from one
CPU to another if another CPU is idle?
It may do. Keeping processes close to where they last run
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:05:43PM +1000, David Hart wrote:
AMD has taken out some very interesting patents whereby certain process
scheduling operations are moved from the OS into silicon
From reading that patent and a related paper [1] it seems that the
speculative execution on another
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:58:45AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
In my case, the value of YOUR_ISP_UPSTREAM_MAILSERVER depends on which
firewall I'm behind, since all the ISPs in question gate client
connections as being from their own customers' IP addresses, not the
whole Internet. So one size
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:19:13AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
Can anyone offer any advice on how to force which hardware is eth0?
I think you have two options; firstly is the ifrename package, which
reads /etc/iftab.
The other option is you can give your cards static names with udev,
and then
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:43:52PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
2. dpkg-reconfigure xorg-server at any time, if you want to
semi-manually configure things and answer a lot of
semi-compehensible questions
Up the priority so you only see things you have to answer, e.g.
dpkg-reconfigure
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