On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, David generated:
Oh no! not the recalcitrant apostrophe. It's misuse is so bad
its a blight on English.
"Bob's Quick Guide To The Apostrophe, You Idiots" is the best
tutorial on apostrophes I've seen.
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Cantanker generated:
(G)eek is (G)ood
(N)erd is (N)ot good. :)
The funny thing is, in my experience, 'geek' is the derogatory term and
'nerd' is the term of praise. I get called 'nerdy' by my non-computer
literate friends, and amongst my comp-literate friends we call each
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, DaZZa generated:
And the continual confusion between your and you're. There's nothing that
peeves me off more.
Whilst we're off the topic, someone on this list uses 'alot' when they
should be separating these two words. You know who you are... ;)
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jamesw
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, David generated:
Pygmies, because I've been to their web site."
BTW, should it be "site" or "sight" ??
site = location
sight = look
You don't get companys advertising: "visit our web look!"
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jamesw
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On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Rev Simon Rumble generated:
Is Reiser ready for the mainstream yet? ie, I'm about to build a new
server and should I use Reiser?
Don't know about mainstream, but i'm using it happily for mp3stereo
storage on a 28.5G ide disk -- fsck'ing an ext2 partition that big takes
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Steve Kowalik generated:
Utter nonsense...I had a trusty 486 DX 4/100 (1 Gig hard drive)
with no modifications running a 10MBit-56Kbit, running Apache,
ipchains, Wu-ftpd, everything but the kitchen sink (and no emacs :) with a
load average of about 0.03. I could get
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrew Macks generated:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
I forgot to add - if you correct someones grammar, you lose points.
someone's :)
"Well, that's almost a sentence." -- Mr Burns.
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jamesw
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SLUG -
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, DaZZa generated:
data from 50 million visitors a day to umpteen sites, collected using
WebSideStory's HitBox analysis technology.
How many is 'umpteen' again? Less than 20?
And what is the HitBox analysis technology? grepping access.logs and
piping thru wc -l?
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jill Rowling generated:
I can't offer comments about reliability; my machine hasn't been completely
"broken in" and I'm still fiddling with the system.
Over 3 months using the reiserfs patch to 2.2.14 on a 28.5G disk. It's
stable and reliable (well, I haven't experienced
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Angus Lees generated:
(the square brackets on the grep regex is an amusing trick i once saw
to avoid matching the grep process itself - better would be to use
pidof(8) or similar)
Hey, thanks for this! Up 'til now I've been adding a '| grep -v grep'
to do the same, which
Hi,
The other day our main server (running Debian potato) had a fit when syslog and klogd
decided to chew almost all CPU, forcing the kernel to kill off various daemons.
/var/messages/syslog.? shows the following:
Jun 8 09:51:06 holly squid[32049]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #0
(CLEAN)
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Tony Cook generated:
perl -F: -anle 'print $F[0]' /etc/passwd
but I like the cut solution best.
just because it hasn't been mentioned yet:
sed 's/\:.*$//'
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jamesw
Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then
they'd be algorithms.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ben Donohue generated:
how do i re-link the /boot partition to the / partition? or how do you
get the /boot partition to find the / partition?
i've edited the lilo.conf but no go as lilo.conf is in the / partition
which *i guess* can't be found by the kernel from /boot.
i
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jill Rowling generated:
Whatever you do, it's gotta be better than the thing I saw on an old display
at the Powerhouse Museum that was forlornly sitting asking for someone to
"Insert boot disk"
:)
Cheers to everyone who gave advice, it's looking promising.
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jamesw
Hi,
I've been asked to set up something similar to a web kiosk at my place
of work. What I've got is a machine running X and a special user that
automatically runs netscape when they log in. Netscape automagically
has the website to browse as the home/default page, it goes through a
squid
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Peter Rundle generated:
Hi Sluggers,
I'm getting an error in /var/log/messages with my pppd deamon
when I use diald. (pppd works fine from command line).
Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem
Peer is not authorized to use remote address 203.x.x.x
No doubt your daemon is being
On Fri, 19 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
What is more the point - I would like to see the root DNS server that can
handle BILLIONS of queries. As it is the DNS servers merely provide a
pointer to the next server up the chain. (ie root - .au - .com.au).
However the root servers also
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jill Rowling generated:
Sometimes I think it would be a lot easier if the filters were set up the
opposite way, ie
"All sites are disabled" but
"Allow these sites only"
followed by a list of suitable sites.
I was thinking that's how FreeOnline works (or whatever it's
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Doug Stalker generated:
I'm about to set up a system to monitor an internet connection, and I
want it to send an SMS message to me if it's access to the internet goes
down.
The paging will be handled through vodafones modem to SMS service; it
should be easy to write a
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
Lastly (less importantly), whilst pursuing this test, an interesting thought
occured to Chuck and myself - how fun would it be to hack a soundcard
network? Mic-Spk, Spk-Mic and SQUEAL! ;) Has anyone done this already?
Sure, it would be more processor
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Alex generated:
Wayne wrote:
void log_msg(char *fmt, ...)
{
FILE *fd = fopen("/tmp/mylog", "a");
va_list arglist;
va_start(arglist, fmt);
vfprintf(fd, fmt, arglist);
fclose(fd);
}
I'm not familiar with vs_list and
On Thu, 11 May 2000, DaZZa generated:
I just downloaded a Quake clone for my palm pilot.
You don't have an url for that, do you?
And the damn thing works. :-)
Colour me impressed. I think I'll be investing in more batteries. :-)
Not a Quake clone, more like a Wolfenstein clone, there is
On Tue, 09 May 2000, Jarrod MacFarlane generated:
Are there any limitations on the number of records for a domain?
ie. Could I set up blah01.domain.com through to blah10.domain.com?
(100,000 hosts)
IMHO, there aren't.. I've seen examples of bind configs for setups like
this, but not as
On Tue, 09 May 2000, Rick Welykochy generated:
Or, for better security, can X be configured to use a domain
socket?
It already uses a domained socket -- the internet domain. what you mean
is UNIX domain :)
/pedantic
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jamesw
Hoju Keyboard solo!
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Paul Robinson generated:
One thing I noticed from looking at the pics of it was that there are no f
keys, but instead, a Fn button.. Changing terminals would then be a case of
alt + fn + 1 -6. ouchies. and imagine breaking out of X to a terminal for a
moment would be a
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Graeme Merrall generated:
This had probably been asked before but a quick net search didn't turn up
too much and I'm feelign lazy :)
Are the Logitech cordless mouse/keyboard combos supported by Linux? I've
toyed with getting one so I can relax even more/face the TV while
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Matt generated:
a) the new extra button keyboards (Chuck :)
I have a friend who has mapped one of her windows keys to "Smite"... it
kills off the active window in X... she keeps bumping it while on IRC
;)
b) the old heavy *CLICKING* keyboards, I heard these are darn
On Tue, 09 May 2000, Woy Woy High School generated:
I don't want it to automatically dial the net as soon as it starts up. I
want it to wait for a request from someone on the network before dialling.
You might find that it's pppd who is connecting you on boot... check
/etc/ppp/ for a file named
On Sat, 06 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
Linux _is_ susceptible to the virus in a different way... if your
mailserver is a linux machine, and you don't take measures to prevent
the offending mail go through it, and the rare possibility that it clogs
with many word macro virus
On Sat, 06 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
A Linux user in a mostly Outlook site might be flooded with lots of
mail from her colleagues, and suffer inconvenience from the servers
being taken offline but would lose no local files.
OK, I think I've sorted it now... you're arguing from a
On Sun, 07 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
A very good idea, it would seem the _only_ OS vulnerable to
melissa/ILOVEYOU et al "virus" is microsoft.
Linux _is_ susceptible to the virus in a different way... if your
mailserver is a linux machine, and you don't take measures to prevent
On Thu, 04 May 2000, James Morris generated:
A quick way to get started is to use a floppy disk as a raw device, which
you would set up with something like:
# raw /dev/raw0 /dev/fd0
Floppies are slow, tho... so couldn't you use a loopback device too?
Mount a file on one filesystem as a block
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Peter Rundle generated:
It needs to allow users to share their calendars, invite others
to meetings, accept or decline an invitation, create an event
and search the participants calendars to find a place where
all are free to attend. Oh and preferably it should support
On Thu, 04 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
know what the file does. I have been informed that Norton is developing an
antivirus update and it should be ready by approx 2am.
For anyone who has to support doze boxen and needs a fix sooner, there
is a link off slashdot to here:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Barrie Hall generated:
W2 tells the modem to report the *real* connect speed to the DCE (your Linux
box)
Thanks, Barrie, I found that quite useful (/me always loving more tweaks
to add)
On a similar vein, a good one to add to the init string is 'S2=255'.
This sets the
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Richard Lane generated:
How about Amanda? http://www.amanda.org
That was I was about to try, it's a client / server
open source backup solution. Wasn't much good 3 years
ago when I last tried it, but it has suposedly improved
a lot since then.
Does anyone on the list have
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Tom Massey generated:
the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486
DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02?
AFAIK the key sequence for Phoenix BIOSs is Ctrl-Alt-Esc.. you have to
guess when to press this, because it doesn't prompt you to
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Aussie generated:
aside
How feasible is it to run TWO networks through the one cableone
pair on 1/2 3/6, the other on 4/5 7/8? How about pulling off the
pairs to a separate plug for a new NIC?
/aside
IIRC there are some splitter cables out there that do almost the
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Dean Hamstead generated:
im sure someone remembers that Imac Anime pic?
anyone got an url here. Thanks
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/
down in the 'lets abuse apple' section
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jamesw
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of
assembly
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Terry Collins generated:
Ken Yap wrote:
snip...
If you don't want to receive junk mail, give a bogus address.
Can anyone remember any of the funny names for people that look okay
at first saying, but really mean something else when the brain clicks
in.
Handy Tux
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
Do a "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage"... this compresses it
even further. I haven't compiled a kernel with "make zImage" in
yonks. :)
AFAIK, a make bzImage or make bzlilo doesn't compress the kernel more,
it adds some extra boot code to allow a
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Minh Van generated:
in the 'nice' man page, it says a process -20 to 19 has highest to lowest
priorities respectively.
now 'swapon -s' doesn't seem to adhere to this scale because "-1"
priority swap files are used before -2 or -3 and so on.
is this "high to low" system
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
Play with it if you like, but beware that your IP etc
may be logged for future reference.
The hostname mentioned on the site, hackme.2bitunix.org, doesn't seem to
exist -- as in telnet hackme.2bitunix.org returns Unknown host, and a
nslookup on
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Matthew Dalton generated:
When Optus says 'no servers', does this mean 'no servers for use by the
outside world' or does it mean 'no servers for use by your internal lan'
(ie masquerading)... or perhaps both?
Another question: what about apps like icq, irc, that obviously
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Minh Van generated:
i later found out the next morning that ifconfig didn't have a local
loopback interface, and the default 127.0.0.0 route was missing. eth0 was
still up.
What distribution are you using? I had this exact same problem with
Debian frozen only two days
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Matthias Oertli generated:
Hi all,
I need to copy the contents of a linux partition onto a bigger
partition on a replacement harddisk. I'd like an exact copy with all
the permissions intact, etc.
Would a simple cp -a /oldhd/* /newhd/* do the trick is there a
better way?
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Aussie generated:
Who uses Linux and doesn't use either Doom or Quake? :-)
Nothing better after a hard day's bugsquishing and sysadminning than to
give your workmates a good fragging. ;)
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jamesw
Fortunatley, not all of the world lives in the United States.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Oliver Damir Trako generated:
Which card would give me the fastest frame rates and performance in different
games due to its support in linux and considering that xfree86 4.0 (*if it
makes any difference*)i s out, between the geeforce and VooDoo 3. Which is
better
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Jason Rennie generated:
Have you installed the latest XFree86 rpms? 3.3.5 has a SiS server, the
SVGA server doesn't support SiS very well -- so try the SiS specific
server.
I have the 3.3.5 rpm's that come with RedHat 6.1, but there isn't an SiS
specific server that i
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Jason Rennie generated:
But X is giving me problems with any "terminal" style programs becase it
wont display the fonts for them.
I eventaully got an X Term to work by changing the fonts it uses, but
other apps are still having problems.
Had this problem on 3 putrs at work
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Ken Caldwell generated:
invalid compressed format (err=2)5VFS:insert root floppy and press
enter.
I am not sure about mulinux, but I know for a fact that tomsrtbt uses a
1.7M format for the floppies. New floppy drives can handle this, but
really old floppy drives can't.
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Ryan McBride generated:
Has anyone had anyproblem with cdrom drives?? i mount my drive with a cd in
it, but i cant change the cd with out rebooting the drive, once i mount the
drive you cant open the door?? any ideas?? I cant unmount the drive as it
says the resource is busy
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Del generated:
I'm with Terry, Charlie, DaZZa, Andypoo and the rest on this.
This sort of thing shouldn't be allowed on a SLUG mailing list.
I'd be happy if eveyone used the de-facto usenet sig marker: '-- \n'
That's two hyphens, a space and a newline.
Netscape and mutt
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Aussie generated:
True, but I don't post exclusively post to this mailing list.
Short plug again: mutt allows you to specify a sig depending on the
email address you are sending to.
Did I mention that I like mutt? :)
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jamesw
http://www.mutt.org
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SLUG - Sydney
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Peter Samuel generated:
No it doesn't! Hotmail runs some proprietary SMTP daemon that probably
stuffs the incoming messages through filters and into databases etc
etc etc. The sending side of hotmail is powered by qmail.
The MUA/webpage side of Hotmail is a proprietary
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Peter McCarthy generated:
Can Box 1 be configured so that when it receives mail for Box 2 it know to
route it to Box2 via the private network? Box 2 would have it's own domain
name.
If so how would this be best achieved ?
I currently run RH 6.1 and use sendmail. I have
Ok, netscape has crashed again, this time hitting d-state, and refusing
to die. I tried restarting it twice before doing a 'ps ax', and
realising what it was doing.
now, kill -9 `ps ax | grep netscape | cut -f 1 -d ' '` isn't killing
them, they seem to change pids when given a SIGKILL.
If
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Heracles generated:
James Wilkinson wrote:
Ok, netscape has crashed again, this time hitting d-state, and refusing
to die. I tried restarting it twice before doing a 'ps ax', and
realising what it was doing.
When Netscape crashes do you use the right mouse button
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Charlie Brady generated:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Conor Ryan wrote:
Thanks a million Charlie,
I have an aha-2940, the modules are not on my system so i will have to
download it.
This is right isn't it?
I think that the aic7xxx module is correct for Adaptec 2940. You have
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Paul Robinson generated:
Hi guys,
I'm runnin slackware 3.5. How do I turn of the "hardware set to gmt"
option for the time/date ?
I tried going through the setup again to no avail. is there some conf
file there which I can modify?
Check out the manpage for
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Alex generated:
tailf /var/log/messages
is it hard to make the computer auto login on that terninal leaviing
F1,2,3,4 etc normal..
i asume i would want to make this user only be able to run this program how
is that achieved???
What you might want to do instead is insert
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Peter Rundle mashed on the keyboard:
What advantages does that arrangement give you over an X11 login
or xproxy session?
VNC is actually workable over a 33K dial-up where as X just don't.
(well ok xeyes works but that doesn't really count)
I am regularly ssh'ing into
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, David Murphy mashed on the keyboard:
[root@Lisa net]# modprobe plip
warning: alias loop resolving "plip"
/lib/modules/2.2.5-22/net/plip.o: invalid parameter io
Your module dependencies might be fscked. Try running `depmod -a' and
then modprobing again. I guarantee
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mashed on the keyboard:
http://www.gamestop.com/product-detail.jsp?origin=searchsku=624129
Ooh, I see Linux is a Developer, too.
--
jamesw
"Ooh, they have the Internet on computer now!"
-- Homer Simpson
--
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Howard Lowndes mashed on the keyboard:
Doesn't do anything for me in lynx (8-(
No, there's a few lines of text on the third or fourth screen, after all
the 'click here's.
--
jamesw
"A 32 bit extension and graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit
operating
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Dean Hamstead mashed on the keyboard:
i dont think your average user can make that many files
As an extension to the shell programming talk at last night's meeting:
user@somebox$ for i in `seq -w 1 2147483648`; do touch file$i; done
should quickly fill up your inodes :)
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jeff Waugh mashed on the keyboard:
Now, I think James should get the SLUG Award for Most Outrageous
Use of Linux in the Pursuit of Geek Gurudom.
Gee, thanks, and I haven't even got a speech prepared :)
--
jamesw
"A 32 bit extension and graphical shell for a 16 bit
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, DaZZa wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
And rule 5: NO SERVERS. sigh
Comes down to what they define as servers, really.
IIRC, a friend of mine who called up Optus, and talked to a strangely
cluey tech support guy, said that they only monitor your
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 05:19:22PM +1000, Jim Donovan wrote:
I've got a network card with the tulip chip.
It works under kernel 2.2.5, using the supplied tulip.o
However, when I updated to 2.2.12, the new kernel summariliy
refused to work with the 2.2.5 module. It tried to work with
the 2.2.12
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