Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu not booting after Kernel update

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 24 Nov 09, 11:01 AM, Rick Moen said: > Quoting Darth Borehd (darth.bor...@gmail.com): > > > Why LILO? I can't think of a single thing LILO can do that Grub can not do > > better. > > 1. Simplicity. > 2. Ability to boot any arbitrary filesystem without the need for the > bootloader

Re: [vox-tech] which offer is better?

2009-11-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Not obvious to me. Depends on the telecommunications platform, I'd suppose. If it's something used around the world like a 5ESS, 4ESS, or DMS-100, then I really don't know. It's a specialized thing, and there can't be too many 4ESS programmers around (on the other hand, these things have been aro

Re: [vox-tech] Strange problem with bash?

2009-10-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Or (I think) if the partition is mounted with the noexec option. On Fri 30 Oct 09, 11:09 PM, Harold Lee said: > Or when it's a "shebang" script, a la > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > or similar where the program isn't in the same location. > > -Harold > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Tim Riley w

Re: [vox-tech] how to handle spaces in a directory path

2009-10-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 14 Oct 09, 12:45 PM, Hai Yi said: > Hi, i know this is a simple one but it's also a haunting ghost. :-) > > This is what I set in my .bashrc: > > export VIM_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Vim/vim72' > export VC_HOME='/cygdrive/c/"Program Files"/"Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0"/VC' > > >

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu - Configuring Printers

2009-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
7;s a really powerful mechanism! On Fri 02 Oct 09, 12:57 PM, Peter Jay Salzman said: > No, it didn't. It's weird because in screenshots on the web I saw something > like "Add local printer" in the Kubuntu system tool thingie, but it didn't > show up for

Re: [vox-tech] sshd not reaping my login shell

2009-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 02 Oct 09, 1:21 PM, Ken Bloom said: > When I ssh from little-cat-a to cat-in-the-hat, exiting the login shell > on cat-in-the-hat doesn't end my ssh connection. After running ps on > cat-in-the-hat, I noticed that the login shell in question was still > sitting around as a zombie process,

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu - Configuring Printers

2009-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
implemented. Argh! I think I might have to resort to stracing svnserve to see what it's doing when I try to commit remotely. Argh^2! On Fri 02 Oct 09, 9:38 AM, Brian Lavender said: > System -> Administration -> Printing -> New > > didn't work? > > On Thu

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu - Configuring Printers

2009-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
7:23 AM, Peter Jay Salzman said: > Firefox fails to connect to that url. > > Netstat reports nothing listening to that port: > >$ netstat | grep 631 >$ > > I'm on completely new territory. Never used cups before. Help! > > > > > > O

Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu - Configuring Printers

2009-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
631 > > Bruce > > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Newly installed Kubuntu 9.04. So far, everything has gone very smoothly. > > Getting my printer to print is the first snag. > > > > I have a parallel port HP LaserJet 6MP. I h

[vox-tech] Ubuntu - Configuring Printers

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, Newly installed Kubuntu 9.04. So far, everything has gone very smoothly. Getting my printer to print is the first snag. I have a parallel port HP LaserJet 6MP. I have the working /etc/printcap file from my previous Debian installation, but I'd like to set up the printer using the Kubunt

[vox-tech] two networks, one app

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, Is it possible to transparently get network connectivity from two network interfaces, say eth1 and wlan1, at the same time? I guess which one is used depends on which one is busy at any given moment. Suppose I had two working interfaces -- how would such a thing be accomplished? If it c

Re: [vox-tech] Most efficient way to wipe hard drives

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 09 Sep 09, 11:11 AM, Ted Deppner said: > use -q. 4 times instead of 34 (or -Q 1 depending on your desires). > > As was already said, dd works fine for this in most all cases. If you > really wanted security you'd destroy the HD with shaped charges or by > grinding to bits. The apparent

[vox-tech] FireFox print - margins and space

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
In FF, when I print a page, sometimes the logical page is pushed far to the right of the printed page. I'm not really knowledgeable about this sort of thing, but I assume this is because there's some CSS that specifies a layout. For example, consider this page: http://treehouse.ofb.net/go/en/

Re: [vox-tech] command to monitor memory usage

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 22 Aug 09, 10:37 PM, Bill Kendrick said: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:37:49PM -0500, Ken Bloom wrote: > > Top is good if you get the filtering and sorting options right so that > > the process you're interested in stays on the list (and doesn't get > > crowded out of the list by more resour

Re: [vox-tech] command to monitor memory usage

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Sat 22 Aug 09,  6:57 AM, Hai Yi said: > >> Hello friends: > >> > >> I was asked in an interview about the command to monitor the memory > >> usage, and my answer was "top"

Re: [vox-tech] command to monitor memory usage

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 22 Aug 09, 6:57 AM, Hai Yi said: > Hello friends: > > I was asked in an interview about the command to monitor the memory > usage, and my answer was "top", however, the interviewer intended for > the memory usage for individual process, and shamefully I couldn't > come out with an answer,

Re: [vox-tech] can't remove postgresql

2009-08-17 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 18 Aug 09, 12:07 AM, Hai Yi said: >hello all: > >I noitced that postgresql has been installed on my ubuntu box, i no longer >use it, but there are few entries of postgresql in the application menu >and becomes a eyesore. > >I tried to remove it by launching: > >su

Re: [vox-tech] Perl - reading fixed width formats

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 13 Aug 09, 9:20 AM, Ted Deppner said: > > Hope this is helpful. Sounds like an interesting project. Thanks for the detailed reply! The project is kind of interesting. The files hold financial data from banks around the world. The quants here use SAS and they wrote a SAS program to p

[vox-tech] Perl - reading fixed width formats

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, I need to read in ~25000 files whose lines are in a fixed file format: field 1: line 1, chars 1-4 field 2: line 1, chars 5-6 field 3: line 1, chars 7-11 field 4: line 1, chars 12 to EOL field 5: line 2, chars 1-30 field 6: line 3, chars 1-10 field 7: line 4, chars 1-2

Re: [vox-tech] Net::FTP - filesize difference

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 11 Aug 09, 5:40 PM, Peter Jay Salzman said: > Remote site: > >150 Here comes the directory listing. >-rw-r--r--1 504 507 204942095 Aug 07 19:58 bvd.zip >drwxrwxrwx2 504 0 16384 Aug 05 16:00 lost+found >226 Directory s

[vox-tech] Net::FTP - filesize difference

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Remote site: 150 Here comes the directory listing. -rw-r--r--1 504 507 204942095 Aug 07 19:58 bvd.zip drwxrwxrwx2 504 0 16384 Aug 05 16:00 lost+found 226 Directory send OK. My code: sub downloadFile() { use vars qw( %props ); my $f

Re: [vox-tech] Firefox 3.5

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
http://www.slashgear.com/firefox-3-5-released-faster-javascript-location-aware-new-privacy-features-3048323/ Firefox 3.5 brings with it the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, said to be more than twice as fast as in v3.0 and ten times faster than Firefox 2 But it's hard to gauge these kinds

[vox-tech] [OT] Soundproof paint?!?

2009-06-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, My upstairs neighbors aren't "call the cops" loud, but still pretty loud. The noise is usually either footsteps or a subwoofer. His subwoofer was on the floor but was recently raised on top of something. That made things better, but I still feel his bass. Sometimes it seems like my ceil

Re: [vox-tech] make replacement?

2009-05-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 21 May 09, 11:47 PM, Bryan Richter said: > > Crap, i was gonna name my mud client 'clump'... > > I have nontrivial c++ apps i can throw at it. I might have some downtime at > work tomorrow to check it out. Just to let you know in advance... It didn't seem to recognize .cpp files. S

Re: [vox-tech] make replacement?

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I'll check this out. Thanks for the suggestion! Pete On Thu 21 May 09, 11:32 PM, Michael J Wenk said: > I don't know much about clump, but I have used scons to build some things. > > http://www.scons.org/ > > Mike ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tec

[vox-tech] make replacement?

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
After almost 40 years of development, make still can't sort out dependencies well without help from either the programmer or gcc. Just found clump: http://fexl.com/clump I threw a few non-trivial programs at it, and it seems to do the right thing. Projects with complicated dependencies and mult

Re: [vox-tech] Converting to Kubuntu

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 05 May 09, 8:17 AM, Chris Jenks said: > > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > This summer I plan on building a new workstation and I think I'm going to > > install Kubuntu instead of Debian. > > > >

[vox-tech] Converting to Kubuntu

2009-05-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Dear all, This summer I plan on building a new workstation and I think I'm going to install Kubuntu instead of Debian. Has anyone here made this switch? Any thoughts or comments about whether Kubuntu met/didn't meet your expectations? Thanks, Pete ___

[vox-tech] multi-media center

2009-05-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, I'd like to build a multi-media system attached to a TV and stereo. It'll hold all my audio and video files. I'd like to run mythTV on it. This is probably a good to buy a TV and new stereo/speakers, too. I don't really know much about TVs. Haven't owned one in years. What kinds of f

Re: [vox-tech] Blu-ray: How crazy would I be if...

2009-04-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 22 Apr 09, 12:33 AM, Bill Broadley said: > Not to mention that if you actually burn regularly seems like many of the > burners don't have a particularly long life. I recall a post from someone > running an apple lab that used burners daily and claimed that the drives died > between 100 an

[vox-tech] Blu-ray: How crazy would I be if...

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I *really* want disk storage that's larger than 4.7GB. I've been looking at Blu-ray, and thought maybe it's worth investigating. Let me be clear: I couldn't care less whether there are movies our for it or not. I'm *only* interested in file storage. There appears to be a decent $250 blu-ray burn

[vox-tech] tags with mutt

2009-04-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
FireFox and GMail have sort-of recently (past year) converted me from the directory paradigm to the tag paradigm. Is there a way to use tags with email and mutt? I might be able to roll my own system if there's a convenient way to add a header line to the email (I'd rather not do control-E and ha

[vox-tech] Spanish accents

2007-06-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Gradshteyn and Ryzhik *** 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 *** Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list

[vox-tech] OpenOffice - moving a table

2007-03-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.or

[vox-tech] BLAS on Debian?

2007-02-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
What package provides BLAS on Debian? It doesn't appear on my dpkg listing, but I've seen older references to it. Was it removed from Debian?!? ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Numerical algorithms in C

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
gt; Clapack... > > http://www.netlib.org/clapack/ > > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >Is there something equivalent to LAPACK or NAG in C? Something free (as in > >beer is OK by me). > > > >I need some high powered stuff like SVD factorization, linear solvers that > >specia

Re: [vox-tech] ohms law

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
in the archives. ;-) Pete -- How VBA rounds a number depends on the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own.

[vox-tech] [OT] Numerical algorithms in C

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
les, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _

Re: [vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
d to read IEEE 754 (and accompanying documents...): > > > http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/ > > > Boris > > > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >On Fri 26 Jan 07, 9:04 AM, Boris Jeremic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >>on my machine (fedora c

Re: [vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 26 Jan 07, 11:46 AM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:36 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Fri 26 Jan 07, 8:39 AM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > My float.h simply defines DBL_EPSILON to __DBL_EPSILON__.

Re: [vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 26 Jan 07, 8:39 AM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 08:24 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Where is DBL_EPSILON defined? I thought it was in float.h. But I've looked > > at float.h in: > > > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i4

Re: [vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 26 Jan 07, 9:04 AM, Boris Jeremic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > on my machine (fedora core 5) there are definitions in > > ./usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/include/float.h > >/* Difference between 1.0 and the minimum double greater than 1.0 */ > #undef DBL_EPSILON > #define DBL

[vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Where is DBL_EPSILON defined? I thought it was in float.h. But I've looked at float.h in: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include and neither one actually defined it. Where is the numerical value held? __

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] MS Windows nice

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 22 Jan 07, 11:03 AM, Harold Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >1. Is there a cron for Windows? I would like to run something like: > > > > cd /path/to/application > > ant create.reference.data > > > > bef

Re: [vox-tech] RE: [OT] MS Windows nice

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ete -- How VBA rounds a number depends on the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft

[vox-tech] [OT] MS Windows nice

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
unding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerpr

Re: [Getting OT] Re: [vox-tech] DVD grief

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
t rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _

Re: [vox-tech] C preprocessor - "soft reference"?

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
g function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Nifty macro expansion bug

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
-- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech m

Re: [vox-tech] Nifty macro expansion bug

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF

[vox-tech] C preprocessor - "soft reference"?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
The variable p and the variable's name "p" need to be passed to the macro function to test for nullness and then to print some message involving the variable's name. Is there a crafty way of doing this so that only one thing needs to be passed? Thanks! #include #include #define CHECK_FOR_

Re: [vox-tech] blown power supply = fried MB and HDs

2007-01-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 16 Jan 07, 8:24 PM, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I went to turn on my 3 yr old custom built desktop on Friday, there was > a load "crack" sound, and the computer would not boot. After spinning > the dvd drives, it would immediately reboot; no bios display or > anything,

[vox-tech] size of /var

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
umber depends on the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stoch

[vox-tech] grub2

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I just noticed grub2. It looks impressive to say the least. Is anyone using it yet? Anyone know if it's ready to be used? I noticed a Debian package, so I was just wondering... ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org

Re: [vox-tech] new gaming computer

2007-01-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 07 Jan 07, 12:21 PM, Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just made a gaming rig: > evga 8800glx nvidia chipset gpu (hdmi and dx10 capable) > evga 680i nvidia chipset sli mb > corsair dominator 800 ddr2 2G memory > WD raptor 150GB HD > intel core 2 duo 6700 cpu > silverstone "zeuz" psu 800W (go

[vox-tech] new gaming computer

2007-01-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [E

[vox-tech] Sound pitch slightly higher after video upgrade

2007-01-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
not always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [vox-tech] spam greylisting (was: [vox] Posting to the lists)

2007-01-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 24 Dec 06, 1:05 PM, Troy Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:23:37AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > I can only imagine how many spams per day I'm getting today. I'm too afraid > > to turn all the anti-spam measures

Re: [vox-tech] wireless networking

2006-12-31 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 31 Dec 06, 3:44 AM, Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 09:33 pm, Mark K. Kim lugod3MAPS-at-cbreak.org > |lugod| wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:59:37PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > Is there such a thing as a consumer

[vox-tech] wireless networking

2006-12-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, Is there such a thing as a consumer wireless network card that reaches wired ethernet speed? Thanks! ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] strerror deprecated?

2006-12-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 26 Dec 06, 11:49 AM, Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I would try the strerror_r() on MS just in case there is a doc error. > As far as buffer length -- I believe all the standard error messages > are less than a line long, i.e. less than 80 chars. Of course, if you expect > to us

Re: [vox-tech] strerror deprecated?

2006-12-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 26 Dec 06, 10:37 AM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 12:30 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Trying to write portable/correct code between Linux and MS Visual C++. > > > > The cl.exe compiler is te

[vox-tech] strerror deprecated?

2006-12-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.or

[vox-tech] Re: spam greylisting (was: [vox] Posting to the lists)

2006-12-23 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 22 Dec 06, 11:23 AM, p said: > On Fri 22 Dec 06, 8:04 AM, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi all, > > > > I just wanted to mention that due to recent major increases in spam > > activity, last night I've increased my mail server's greylisting delay > > from 15 seconds to 45 minute

[vox-tech] spam greylisting (was: [vox] Posting to the lists)

2006-12-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
redict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman

Re: [vox-tech] Speeding up FF

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 17 Dec 06, 12:26 PM, Jeffrey J. Nonken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:50:45 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_f > or > > _internet_explorer_and_firefox/ > > > > I can

Re: [vox-tech] Speeding up FF

2006-12-17 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 17 Dec 06, 11:48 AM, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/ > > > >I can't watch this video. It simply says I need to

[vox-tech] Speeding up FF

2006-12-17 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ds on the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rou

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
> nviadia's driver, it complained about conflict with a nv-related > module already loaded in the kernel. In this case, I want to remove it > at runtime. > > thanks, > Hai > > On 12/17/06, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hola Hai, > &

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
usb port has problem - I couldn't make the mouse > work. I guess it's a bout the configuration. But how come this was not > the problem for my old kernel? I used the same configuration, I think. > > Basically, I followed this link to compile the new kernel: > http://www.howtoforge.c

Re: [vox-tech] Postfix + SMTP-AUTH: 1, Me: 0

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 16 Dec 06, 4:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > > I've read that verizon.net blocks all outgoing mail that doesn't carry a > "verizon.net" address. Most of what I read came from marginally technical > Windows and Mac users, and it's unclear if this means the "F

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 16 Dec 06, 4:26 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hello, there: > >I start a process to create a new kernel, 2.6.13. When I came to the step >of creating a ramdisk, I had a problem. I used the command: >mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.3-default1 2.6.18.3-defau

Re: [vox-tech] OT: gzip support on windows/mac

2006-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 29 Nov 06, 11:22 AM, Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have a question for those of you who use non-unix operating systems > regularly. How good is support for gzip-format archives? If I were to > e-mail a gzip-compressed file to a typical windows user, would they > likely be able de

[vox-tech] Handspring Visor sync problem

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I've lost the ability to sync my Visor with jpilot and kpilot. Setup is: * kernel 2.6.16 * jpilot 0.99.9.2 * Debian testing * Handspring Visor prism Here's my analysis of the situation: 0. visor.o is built into the kernel. From /proc/config.gz: CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=y 1

[vox-tech] apache2: NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost

2006-11-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I'm trying to understand NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost. Suppose I have a server with hostname "satan", IP address "192.168.0.2" that serves two sites: www.dirac.org with DocumentRoot /www/ www.foo.orgwith DocumentRoot /www/foo And I have the following entry in /etc

Re: [vox-tech] Audio Card Recomendation

2006-11-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ording to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] connecting to DSL modem

2006-10-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 28 Oct 06, 4:12 PM, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat 28 Oct 06, 3:46 PM, p said: > > > > This computer *used* to be 192.168.1.1, but I thought I removed any > > reference to that IP address. > > No, that's wrong. This computer

Re: [vox-tech] connecting to DSL modem

2006-10-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 28 Oct 06, 3:46 PM, p said: > > This computer *used* to be 192.168.1.1, but I thought I removed any > reference to that IP address. No, that's wrong. This computer used to be 192.168.0.1, so this isn't even an issue. Pete ___ vox-tech mailing

Re: [vox-tech] connecting to DSL modem

2006-10-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 15 Oct 06, 11:56 PM, Foo Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 10/15/06, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Supposedly, I should be able to connect to the webserver on my Westell 6100 >> DSL modem via: >> >> http://192.168.1.1

[vox-tech] connecting to DSL modem

2006-10-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8

Re: [vox-tech] date question

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 28 Sep 06, 8:31 AM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:07:35AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Yet, "/bin/date" is the thing I'm running when using an unqualified path: > > > >$ which date > >/bi

[vox-tech] user defined variables in mutt

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I'd like to do something like: # These are user defined set myDate = `date +"%Y-%m"` set history = "$HOME/Mail/zetc/history" # This is a mutt variable set record = $HOME/sent-$myDate Does mutt support user defined variables? Is this kind of thing possible? Thanks, Pete ___

[vox-tech] date question

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
This works: $ /bin/date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M' 2006-09-28-11-05 This doesn't: $ date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M' date: extra operand `+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M' Try `date --help' for more information. Yet, "/bin/date" is the thing I'm running when using an unqualified path: $ which date /bin/date

[vox-tech] jpilot restore and rechargable batteries

2006-09-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
uld write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___

Re: [vox-tech] spam current events

2006-09-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
n the number's internal representation. You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5. If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding fu

Re: [vox-tech] audio - soundcard to stereo

2006-09-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
-- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

[vox-tech] [OT] Cellphone + PalmOS

2006-09-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
-- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list

Re: [vox-tech] audio - soundcard to stereo

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Sep 06, 8:59 PM, Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:39:30PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > i recently hooked up the speaker output on my soundcard to my livingroom > > stereo amplifier. the result, as they say in french,

[vox-tech] audio - soundcard to stereo

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
g function that rounds according to predictable rules, you should write your own. -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint:

Re: [vox-tech] wifi

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
f a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha, which is to demean oneself. -- Robert M. Pirsig Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4

Re: [vox-tech] Battery Problem?

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha, which is to demean oneself. -- Robert M. Pirsig Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] spam current events

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 01 Sep 06, 3:02 AM, Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Quoting Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > You'd be shocked at the effectiveness of rejecting email that says it comes > > from "dirac.org" or email that doesn't have a vali

Re: [vox-tech] spam current events

2006-08-31 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 31 Aug 06, 2:47 PM, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:51, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i'm getting hammered with email containing text designed to trick bayesian > > filters > > I think content filtering is alm

[vox-tech] spam current events

2006-08-31 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
gs? i'm getting them a few times a day now. pete -- The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Bud

Re: [vox-tech] linux boot failed

2006-08-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
t; are just complaint about my random hitting, which doesn't help. :-) > > Hai > > > On 8/24/06, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed 23 Aug 06, 8:58 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hello, > >> > >>

Re: [vox-tech] linux boot failed

2006-08-23 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
he Buddha, which is to demean oneself. -- Robert M. Pirsig Peter Jay Salzman, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dirac.org/p PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

[vox-tech] webpage element positioning via coordinates

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I'd like to position text links in an ellipse, like: a h b g c f d e I may be adding more links, so it behooves me to use a general equation for the coordinates. To keep the discussion simple, let'

[vox-tech] vim: change characters, then dumping in insert mode.

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
In Vim, ncw deletes n words and puts you in insert mode. Is there a similar construct for deleting n characters and leaving you in insert mode? I'm using the Vim plugin for the Eclipse IDE. Unfortunately, it doesn't support visual mode, and something like "ncx" (which doesn't work) along wi

Re: [vox-tech] var is full - missing disk space?

2006-07-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 30 Jul 06, 3:47 PM, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 15:00, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > I thought half a GB was enough for /var, but yet it's full: > > > >/dev/hdb2 581M 540M 11M 99% /var > > > >

[vox-tech] var is full - missing disk space?

2006-07-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I thought half a GB was enough for /var, but yet it's full: /dev/hdb2 581M 540M 11M 99% /var At the top level: 19K backups 43M cache 3.0Kgames 207Mlib 1.0Klocal 2.0Klock 12M log <-- deleted old logs. 12MB is reasonable an

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