Colin Humphreys wrote:
I have a few systems that I need to configure a one way sync of
filesystems. (i.e the filesystem is only modified on one side). The
catch is that the systems are not networked together.
I envisage generating somesort of md5sum database for both sides and
comparing
Brian Martin wrote:
Is there any consensus on brands/models of hard drives to avoid ? or that
are recommended ?
e.g. known lemons or known dependable models, or are they all much the same
in quality dependability ?
Sorry if not strictly linux centred, but a search of the SLUG archives
Mark Munro wrote:
Thanks Matthew
But unfortunately ended up with this:
patching file drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 68.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 126.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 377.
4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c.rej
Matthew Dalton wrote:
- via_print(Driver Version: 3.34);
+ via_print(Driver Version: 3.35);
[cut]
Lines with no '-' or '+' are existing lines that shouldn't be modified.
They are in the diff file to give context. It would
Im trying to setup a linux kernel with via vt8235 support
I can find reference to a patch and a text document claiming to BE a patch but I
dont know how to install it
The patch is from:
http://lwn.net/Articles/8035/
But I am having no success using the patch command with it
Howard Lowndes wrote:
I'm looking for an image of Tux wearing a slouch hat. I've seen once
somewhere but can't find it when I want it.
Did you try the LWN Penguin Gallery?
http://old.lwn.net/Gallery/
Matthew
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David Fitch wrote:
speaking of this, someone told me older PCs have problems
with IDE disks above somewhere around the 60-80Gb mark.
Older being approx pentium2 vintage and earlier (not that
old IMO!). And problems being that the BIOS doesn't
even see the disk therefore it can't be used
Jon Biddell wrote:
[...] and Telstra claim that their PSTN lines are rated at 2400 baud
only !!!)
'baud' and 'bits per second' aren't the same thing.
'baud' means 'number of line state changes per second', but modems
faster than 2400 baud use multiple states, each one representing
different
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Install the first one, and leave space for the second. I'd recommend using
the same /home partition if you can, like this:
Red Hat - / (root)
SuSE - / (root)
/home (personal files for all users)
That means that your personal configurations would be used across
Scott wrote:
A directory has been created of which we can't remove it. The reason
being is we can't see it!
I have found out how to list it in octal, which is: \033[C\033
But, how do I delete it?
Try 'rm -ri *' in the directory above, and answer yes when it askes you
if you want to delete
Colin Humphreys wrote:
I remember having to write a little perl proggie to remove the -R file, as
rm just wasn't going to have a bar of it.
Well, not one bar anyway :). This would have worked:
rm -- -R
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Michael Lake wrote:
Have a look at the printer-HOWTO, is it supported?;
if no; exit 1;
else; continue;
search SLUG archives for users experiences with this model;
Another excellent source of Linux/printer compatibility information is
the linux
henry wrote:
I use ediff to compare files by M-x ediff.
It's OK when these 2 files are under the same directory.
But it' unconvenient to pick up 2 files under different directories.
I list buffer by Ctrl-x Ctrl-b
But I cant pick up 2 files from buffer for input-files of ediff .
Is there
henry wrote:
Dear list :
I enter shell in emacs by
M-x shell .
but I found that I cant get the previous command by press
^ (up-arrow) , or like doskey in DOS
|
Is there
henry wrote:
I started emacs,
Syntax-highlight is workable well under X-windows ,but is not under
text mode ,
(for both cases , I enabled Help-Option-Global-font-lock-mode ) .
If by 'emacs' you mean GNU (FSF) Emacs, versions = 20 don't support
syntax highlighting in the console. Version
henry wrote:
1. I use ct-x ct-f to find file-A ,then ct-x i to insert file-B
then c-x 2 to list 2 files simultaneously in separate windows
horizontally
,but I get file-A,file-A,how do I get file-A,file-B?
Use command 'C-x b' - switch-to-buffer.
2. How do I switch to c-mode
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hey all,
So, this will be a quick one. :-) Is there a relatively standard utility for
finding broken links? Or is 'standard' going to be a combination of find and
a shell script?
I don't know of a specialised utility, but the 'file' program can
identify broken symlinks:
Richard Hayes wrote:
Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies?
To split:
$ split -b 1400k file.deb (or 'cat file.deb | split ... ')
$ mcopy xaa a:
(change floppy)
$ mcopy xab a:
...
To rebuild:
(copy files from floppies)
Antony Clarke wrote:
I'm trying to find the website of the organisation who run monthly seminars
on linux type subjects and provide audio archives of them on their site. I
use too see them advertise the seminars here. I think they use to hold them
somewhere on Broadway. A search of the
henry wrote:
Dear List:
I have 2 sub-libraries(image.c ,gif.c ) used by a libraries
generic.c
How could I link them as a static library libgeneric.a ,
Could someone shed some light?
gcc -c image.c -o image.o
ar rcs libimage.a image.o
gcc -c gif.c -o gif.o
ar rcs libgif.a
Alex Samad wrote:
Did you have to pay for the bios upgrade ?
Nope. Just downloaded it, that's all.
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Luke McKee wrote:
These 3rd party device vendors should just rack off. It should be free or
not at all. It isn't right to have Linux hardware taxes to replace the
Microsoft OEM tax when it eventually goes. Why do some vendors still need to
guard the API to their hardware?
Let me know what
Jon Biddell wrote:
The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb
Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise
them as 32Gb An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they
are now hde and hdf...:-(
Did you try updating your
Luke McKee wrote:
From what you've written at [1] and [2] below, it doesn't sound
like you had done any research at all before purchased your
hardware.
LMC: True. But sooner or later Linux should stop being a DAYOR (Do at your
own risk) operating system. Many people - especially the
-- First this:
Daniel Stone wrote:
But seriously, I suggest:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc host here 65535
This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable
because that's near an overflow region!
-- Then this:
John Clarke wrote:
Not nearly secure
Ken Foskey wrote:
On a more serious note...
Can someone do a tutorial on GIMP.
I remember we have had a talk on how wonderful it is but I cannot get my
head around the menus, I want to see if I want to play before I put a
lot of time in.
It's not a talk, but the online version of
Veronica Brandt wrote:
This LinuxChix group sounds like something that might have been good
for me while I was at Uni, but now my situation has changed. Night
outs are more complicated with a 6 month old baby. Is there any
interest in day time meetings?
If you can get out that way, the
Ben Donohue wrote:
Blessed thing still chugging away 4 years or so since it was first
built by someone long gone.
[cut]
They are thinking of putting in either Exchange/Notes/Groupwise as
their email solution. Why not Linux!
[cut]
There is still the impression that where do you get
Richard Hayes wrote:
When do you think the KDE packages will be available for Sid?
Personally? I don't know.
A good place to look though, would be on the debian-kde list, which is
where I found these:
- Debs of an old build of KDE 3.0 from CVS, last October
$B%%s%H%K!(B $B%9%F%$%9(B wrote:
Someone else has added a new directory and file(in the new directory). When
I used
cvs update
in my copy of the code I do not get the new directory and file
You need to run 'cvs update -d' to get new directories.
and
cvs diff
in my copy
Andy Eager wrote:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 204 1638598+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 205 217104422+ 82 Linux swap
John Clarke wrote:
You can have more than four:
Well that's news to me.
Thanks,
Matthew
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Terry Collins wrote:
Matthew Dalton wrote:
John Clarke wrote:
You can have more than four:
I suspect that your are thinking about Primary partitions.
Actually, I'd thought for a while that the limitation for both was the
same... can't remember where I picked that up from :/
Anyway
Nick Croft wrote:
When you've finished, type `su henry' and you'll be
yourself again.
That's not the best thing to do, as it leaves you still logged in as
root. All one has to do is type 'exit' and you're back at a root shell
prompt.
You're much better off typing 'exit' to leave the
Richard Hayes wrote:
I want to run unstable packages with Potato.
I need to upgrade a number of important files including libc6 libdb3
How to I query which programmes may break?
Do I just use the --install option?
If all you want to do is install libdb3 (which exists in testing and
Bad news, most Linux installers will not work under 4M of RAM. Things may have
changed with new kernels, but at one point 2-4M was minimum memory
required to boot Linux at all!!
I doubt very much that Michael here has a 100MHz Pentium with only 1Mb
of RAM. Machines have come with more than
henry wrote:
Dears:
1. Any tool to dump memory under linux ?
gdb?
2. Why cant I link lib for readl() ?
#include asm/io.h
int main()
{
return readl(0x4001) ;
}
readl() is a macro defined in asm/io.h
Your program can't find it because it's defined within a
Mike Lake wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:13:26PM +1100, getadog wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:06:24PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
dpkg --purge --force-depends zmailer-ssl apt-get install postfix (or
exim, or whatever).
apt-get install zmailer-ssl- postfix (or exim, or
Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
You can save yourself some effort (this works with vim, I don't know if it's
100% vi) by marking a position with 'a (set mark 'a') in command mode,
then go to the end and just d'a (delete to mark 'a').
In vim, you can go into 'visual' mode by pressing 'v' while in
Nick Croft wrote:
The Ixla 640 isn't listed in gPhoto's camera index. Has anyone had any
success getting this model to work?
(I've googled a bit. Now I'm slugging)
The best place to ask would be on either the gphoto or gphoto-devel
mailing list. You should be able to find out how to subscribe
Tony Green wrote:
* This one time, at band camp, Doug Stalker said:
I cant use make menuconfig, because it complains curses is not installed
(but it is!)
[cut]
Or you could install ncurses.
The problem is more likely that he doesn't have ncurses-dev installed.
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Andrew Foster wrote:
So, I have a list of random filenames in a text file:
thing.mp3
pants.txt
yer.rtf
others.html
These files do exist on my system, except they're scattered throughout a
directory tree hierachy, and there's no path info in my text file
Matt Hyne wrote:
Unfortunately this then treats the entire 'ls' as a single element and prints that
when I print FILE.
ie the whole of the ls output is printed between the xxx quotes.
Well yeah, because the for statement is only seeing one argument - `ls
-l`. Remove the quotes around this
Simon Wong wrote:
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 23:55, Jeff Waugh wrote:
find -type d -exec chmod a+x {} ;
Cool but you need to escape the ;
Not sure why that is?
The semicolon marks the end of the chmod command. You have to escape it
so bash doesn't interpret it as the end of the find
Michael Lake wrote:
So what I want is a unix command to tell me the current
user of that script ie who invoked it.
An apropos uid showed there were functions like getuid but
they arent suitable for calling up in a sh script.
Does 'whoami' do the job?
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Peter Rundle wrote:
ldd xsnow should give you the answer to that
On Rh7.1
$ ldd `which xsnow`
/usr/bin/ldd: /usr/X11R6/bin/xsnow: No such file or directory
This output is strange. Usually ldd will report all of the libraries
required, with a (not found) appended if a library is
Craige McWhirter wrote:
Thanks Steven and Gus.
Will Angus and/or Steven be making notes on their talks available
somewhere? I wouldn't mind taking a look...
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Peter McCarthy wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has heard of any sound recording tools available for
Linux that will enable you to save them in the M$ wav format
There are quite a few. This is a good place to start:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
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Steven downing wrote:
Having moved all my mp3s, I need to update my XMMS playlists,
BUT there are a couple which have been updated already.
So, I want to match /usr/local/mp3/whatever
BUT NOT /usr/local/mp3/mp3/whatever
Yes, I've moved them all from /usr/local/mp3 to
/usr/local/mp3/mp3
Andre Pang wrote:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:20:24 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
XFS is certainly new to Linux, but it's a very stable filesystem that has
been in use for yonkles. A lot of the mess has already been sorted out...
i know XFS has been in use for a long time, and it's
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:09:36PM +1000, Matthew Dalton
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Plip (and probably slip) is easier to setup than ppp for a direct link.
Plip was my preference because data transfer over a parallel cable is
much faster than over a serial
Peter Hardy wrote:
Basically, we've come across a 486 laptop that we'd like to get linux onto,
and use as a terminal. The machine has no CD-ROM, and won't have any
ethernet until I can afford a PCMCIA network card.
The current plan is to either hack up a debian install disk with PPP, or
Jeffrey Borg wrote:
And, a thought occurs. Won't Terry have to compile and install ecore,
evas, eke(magic|point) every time, since it's a CD?
You could always rebuild the cd with what you want on it, The BBC cd's are
an excellent starting point for doing that.
Yeah... the BBC is based
Michael Lake wrote:
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:27:34PM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Looks like BSD wins in the reliability stakes ...
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
Oh, and that *other* O/S didn't even show.
We must be fair here. If you read the FAQ there it mentions
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Question 2: does any one have a simple rules file suitable for a home
network where I am connected via ppp0.
Knowing that you've got Debian on at least one of your machines, I'd
recommend installing the package and pillaging the configuration files. I
do the same for
Michael Lake wrote:
apt-cache show cflow
[snip]
whats the connection with a set of rules for snort ?
Nothing. I was merely demonstrating the extraction of a debian package
on a non debian system. cflow happened to be the package I had on hand
at the time.
un-
now confused :-)
^
Jeff Waugh wrote:
* Error reporting like an autistic mute sucking a ChupaChup.
You're just trying to get yourself quoted in someone's signature
again...
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Andrew Reilly wrote:
I dug out the source for this the other day, and have translated
the guts (the bits that determine which pixels should be on, and
in what colour) into C, but can't figure out how to produce the
output.
Even though it wasn't one of Crossfire's recommendations, check out
Adam Armstrong wrote:
When I go into Netscape or Lynx, type in a web site, it just sits
there and hangs. If I connect the box to another ISP via modem, it
browses OK.
Do you have proxy settings left over from your ISP/modem connection in
your Netscape/Lynx settings?
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DaZZa wrote:
But in my init.d directory the file is called "networks" and it does
nothing like the above. It sets up anti spoofing, ip_chains, ipfw etc
and the route command or even ifconfig is not in this directory.
I suspect that the page on debian.org is somewhat out of date. The
Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
any suggestion to remove the entire content of that directory?
try 'find . -name "*.1" | xargs rm'
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Bernhard Lder wrote:
I am getting an error when I try to update rpm one my RH6.2 machine:
only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM
What can I do to get RPM4 onto that machine. Do I force it? Will that work?
Scott Howard wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:07:51PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
I didn't, actually. I was forwarding a message I received via the
debian-user mailing list. That information was in my original post.
Because root can break out of a chroot().
Yes, but _only_ root can
James Morris wrote:
Looks like the Perl vs. Python issue that has plagued mankind for
centuries will soon be resolved :-)
Don't you just *love* April Fools day?
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Martin wrote:
chdir( MY_JAIL_PATH );
so if i didn't put a chroot in /whatever/you/want or it's
subdirectories, you can't chroot again... until, of course you download
your own chroot binary and run that instead!
That's a nice try, but the example is a C program that is calling the
Martin wrote:
That's a nice try, but the example is a C program that is calling the
chroot() system call, not the binary in /usr/sbin.
rainbws! ;)
... and here I was expecting you to say "but how do you compile a C
program in a chrooted environment", and I was going to say "well
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts on what process I should take on getting it all working :)
This is just the tip of the iceberg, as I will then work on getting the
onboard sound going, but for now, 1 problem at a time.
Look here:
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
Michael Covi wrote:
Looks like a wonderfull camera. A bit out of my price range. I should have
said i was after one of the ones that you just plug straight into the pc
for only a $100-$300
In other words, you want a web camera, right?
There's a supported device list at
David Kempe wrote:
On Thursday 15 March 2001 23:01, Adam Bogacki wrote:
By this stage I had the feeling I was getting the runaround ..
You are getting the run around :-(
At this point I would probably just download the statically compiled
version and be done with it:
Adam Bogacki wrote:
I'll have to try to work out how www.abisource.com achieved that first
screen-shot theme. It looks like
a combination of red frame with the sandy-desert theme under KDE.
If you're referring to the first screenshot on this page -
http://www.abisource.com/dev_dumps.phtml
DaZZa wrote:
{shrugs} As always when it comes down to distribution wars, YMMV. There is
no One True Way {despite the debianites telling us otherwise!}
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-02/lw-02-penguin_4.html
"Make Debian the base standard
apt-get beats RPM
Summary
Nick
Paul Cameron wrote:
I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
own crazt abiword or man crap. It cant generate proper .doc files, so
where is the point? I tried to make for them for application documentate
software, but i can't appease those freakes.
A portion of
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who="Matthew Dalton"
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:44:37PM +1100
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
I'm speechless! I am without speech!
What, you think Paul == Rick?
No, dude! I was speech
Terry Collins wrote:
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])110;$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]48){$h
Steven downing wrote:
The Eterm RPM that comes with Mandrake has a bunch
of nice tiles and backgrounds, which my Debian system
sadly lacks... so is it possible to rip individual or
selected files out of an RPM and then manually
shuffle them to the correct directory??
If so, how would
Alexander Else wrote:
i registered a while ago for linuxexpo and got an email about it today. it
had a single line saying it was from info salons, and a word attachment with
about 6 lines of text with no magical formatting or anything.
I got one this morning as well, but I haven't bothered
Shaun Cloherty wrote:
Storing a password in clear text in /etc/lilo.conf seems like the worst
possible solution. Even if I 'chmod 0600 /etc/lilo.conf' I have complete
faith in the ability of a determined undergraduate student, with copious
amounts of spare time, to find a way to subvert the
Jeff Waugh wrote:
http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html
That's uncanny...
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Steven downing wrote:
'Apt-get update' updates the list of available packages yeah?
And I was thinking that the packages cache file
(/var/cache/apt/packages.bin??), was an index of files which had
been downloaded from a network source (and possibly not
yet installed on the system)
Read
David Kempe wrote:
I dunno what you have already, but I would suggest things like "the unix
way" of doing things, the different file systems and the ideas behind it.
If they are windows users you can relate it to their existing knowledge.
Compare the registry and the config file idea.
This
Dionysus wrote:
however, when running Xconfig, by the
time I got to 'filesystem support', ResierFS (which my machine
uses) was greyed out
Did you try turning on the experimental features?
Matthew
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Alexander Else wrote:
reiserfs isn't available in the 2.4 kernel. i had the same problem
when i tried to move to 2.4 (only i didn't notice til the machine wouldn't
boot with the new kernel :)
Reiserfs isn't in 2.4.0, but is in 2.4.1. I'm using it.
Matthew
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James Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
Erm, frei? freisoftware?
Don't know too much German...
'Zimmer frei' literally translates as 'free room' -- I think some
hackers will take offence at their software being labelled as 'empty' :)
And free as in 'no cost'
Simon Bryan wrote:
I have deleted a number of old gz, tar and rpm files today but still I
have no space available, should have freed up close to 70Mb
Why the difference? What is the difference? Is it pre-allocated disk space
for them?
When ext2 partitions are created, 5% of the space is
CaT wrote:
tune2fs is your friend.
Oooh, cool. Learnt something new today.
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Tom Massey wrote:
5 REM With the recent talk about BASIC being useless
6 REM I just had to demonstrate the utility of BASIC
7 REM in the modern Linux community.
[cut]
50050 REM (Yes, I am seeking counselling)
Rick Welykochy wrote:
[cut]
#!/bin/bash
STOPTHISTHANG=1
James Wilkinson wrote:
Dammit, the binary still comes out to be 3k after stripping.
Then obviously you need to read this:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
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Subject: Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2001
Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:59:09 + (UTC)
Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:37:41 -0800
From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Morrissey wrote:
Was this a deliberate effort to infect people on the list who happen to be
using windoze?
Consider..
Mr Innes appears to be inside a well setup linux network.
There have not been ANY postings from Mr Innes during the last year.
You can call me cynical.
Huiyong Liu wrote:
When after installing internal modem( conexant softk56
Data,Fax,RTAM PCI Modem)
It's a software modem (aka winmodem).
ie. it's not a modem at all - the cpu does all the hard work in software
instead.
It used to be impossible to use one of these under anything but
Martin wrote:
The lag in producing a
stable distro is too long, as almost everyone in the project would
accept, and needs to be reduced a little
I would've thought this less of an issue these days, now that package
pools have been implemented and the 'testing' branch created.
For those not
Interesting message received on our internal linux mailing list here at
Canon...
Strange, no?
Original Message
Subject: those who live in glasshouses ..
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 01 15:05:50 +1100
linuxjournal were crowing about microsoft's dnses running linux :
Crossfire wrote:
proposal
If you're posting socially, then make sure you have a [social] in your
subject. etc.
[snip]
/proposal
better proposal
Make a slug-social or slug-chat mail address that shares a common
subscriber's list with [EMAIL PROTECTED], so the same people get sent the
Danny Yee wrote:
A colleague - Patrick Taylor/SYD/CEtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] - is
looking for a copy of the Hamm dist of Slackware (preferably an ISO).
Er... Hamm is Debian 2.0
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Sorry about the OT post...
Does anyone know where I can get a battery for an (aging) Toshiba Tecra
700CT laptop?
Thanks,
Matthew
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Jill Rowling wrote:
Use colon, not '.', ie
find /some/starting/directory -group 503 -user 503 \
-exec chown 690:750 {}\;
What's the difference? I can't see any in the man page - the colon and
dot seem to be interchangeable.
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DaZZa wrote:
you, the user, are solely responsible for
monitoring your useage, and ensuring you stay within the floating limit at
all times.
s/floating limit/(downward) floating limit/
... because as the high-bandwidth users are removed from the system, the
average load decreases.
Which is
Scott Ragen wrote:
But also I wish to tackle the USB
Network card problem *IF* its not too difficult, just wondering if anyone
had the SMC EZ CONNECT network adapter and able to get it working under
linux, smc have no info on their site, that I can see.
Google. Is friend. Is good.
Peter Hardy wrote:
Apparently there's a Western Sydney Linux Users Group that meets at Richmond
once a month. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As far as I know, this group never made it past November 1999. They were
unable to continue holding meetings at the Richmond UWS campus.
Up until then,
Pete Black wrote:
Debian's woody distribution is using a version of Modutils that doesn't satisfy
2.4.0 software prerequisites.
You need the version from unstable (2.3.23).
Note that since the introduction of package pools and the 'testing'
tree, unstable != woody. (rather, woody == testing)
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