Re: [SLUG] Perl Q

f $b so for my case @A = @$refA; Then one can just write: print "A data again\n"; for ($i=0; $i=$#A; $i++) { print $i, "\t", $A[$i]; } Oh Perl, Perl, Perl - so so many ways... Thanks all. Mike -- -------- Micha

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG]another advocacy rant

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Re: [SLUG] Re: Converting from BinHex 4.0

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Re: [SLUG] Converting from BinHex 4.0

the files installed `rpm -V macutils'. Interesting that /usr/man/man1/hexbin.1.bz2 is not listed in the rpm macutils package so what you have may be a compressed man from some other package . Mike -- Michael Lake University

Re: FW: [SLUG] OT: Nerds and geeks

only uses only GNU software ;-) Mike -- -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusias

Re: [SLUG] Re: Religious Wars: The Next Battle?

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Re: [SLUG] Reading a file into variables?

! But it is nice to just wait a bit and support Aussie companies like Cetus and EverythingLinux :-) Makes me feel better. Mike -- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628

Re: [SLUG] named question

or the emotional side of the computers CPU? I can never remember which ;-) Mike -- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au

Re: [SLUG] Religious Wars: The Next Battle?

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Re: Fw: [SLUG] Unisys patent on LZW?

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[SLUG] Update/thanks on 1. HTML refresh 2. Maintaining files on a Novel Server from Linux box.

Experiment for students at the UTS for next semester. It's basically working now and you can see screen shots of it at: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/teaching.html The program runs in any Web browser and consists of several pages - Intro, theory, experiment and Report. Its a collection

Re: [SLUG] Tools for documentation.

://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/cavescript/ Follow "Documentation on-line, then either the DTD link or the svx-XML link. The direct URL to the latter is: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/cavescript/docs/svx-xml.html That HTML doc was done in LaTeX. Advantages is that the text is

Re: [SLUG] Tools for documentation.

wants to document (then can we have a DocBook/LaTeX flame war?). Mike -- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael

Re: [SLUG] Maintaining files on a Novel Server from Linux box.

g like NFS operational or do something for this nwclient package to work? Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mi

[SLUG] Maintaining files on a Novel Server from Linux box.

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Re: [SLUG] Maintaining files on a Novel Server from Linux box.

DaZZa wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Michael Lake wrote: The UTS here has just moved to a Novell Server and although I can ftp my files up telnet is turned off and ssh is not installed. Previously I ftp'ed my tarballed homepages up, telnetted in and unzipped and untarred my files. For small

Re: [SLUG] Terminal Fonts

Jeff Waugh wrote: Does anyone have any favourites they'd like to recommend? -bh-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph

Re: [SLUG] Hardware retailers supplying Linux preinatalled.

with the Nvidia card next week. To sum up; there are good reasons to get a preinstall. For newbies and non-newbies. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL

Re: [SLUG] Printing to a printer on win98 from linux :OT comment on shared printers

. Reason #314159 to use Linux. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver

Re: [SLUG] If someone used email to send propriety stuff ...

is accessable needs to occasionally check their browser cache and know what is on their machine. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http

Re: [SLUG] Tex in Latex

on. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical

Re: [SLUG] Latex and man pages

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Re: [SLUG] A Sydney Uni SLUG chapter?

neccessary provide advice and assistance in security. Its an area where Uni sys admins need to work together and SLUG and a Syd Uni chapter could help. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph

[SLUG] lpr/postscript problem?

be getting Postscript errors to my printer? I have done some upgrades since last time I printed anything but nothing that should affect printing. Confused. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Kbrowser

quot; does this mean that with KBrowser you can click on it and fire off a script? A HREF="nasty_payload_in_attachment.sh"Nice Linux Penguins to look at/A Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMA

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

Michael Lake wrote: chesty wrote: See if anyone has any ideas on the headers-for-images thing, otherwise you might just have to hack in some temp filenames for the time being. I may be forced to go that way! I am trying to get areound my caching prob with some temp filename creation

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh - solved!!!! Beer to Matt.

are at the meeting tonight and going to dinner I'll buy you a drink. Thanks. -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mik

Permissions for cgi access. Was: [SLUG] HTML refresh

Robert Loomans wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:32:07PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: I am trying to get areound my caching prob with some temp filename creation but get this apache warning: sh: /home/mikel/public_html/tmp/graph.959315112.gif: Permission denied You need to make

[SLUG] HTML refresh

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Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

Thanks Rick for the suggestions to: On Thu, 25 May 2000, Michael Lake wrote: I have a cgi script which creates a HTML form and I need to do a single forced refresh. 1. script gets called by user submitting form which references a default gif. 2. cgi script runs doing some molecular

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

he gif is old. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested i

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

it will still cache it! Using Netscrape. -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active ca

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

;-) Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

t while clicking the reload button. Have a look at http://www.web-caching.com/mnot_tutorial/ Will do. It definately seems like a caching problem. ie code in Netscape that says "For all situations/users etc CACHE all images" Mike ---

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

ript to the smallest program which still exhibits my caching problem. Just a test page + gif. Then try out some more of those suggestions. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:

Re: [SLUG] HTML refresh

a parameter $Ao to the graph title so I could see if it was the latest or not. Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel

Re: [SLUG] CGI script and Apache

k that the perl script you are using may be a bit old. You will be able to find both CGI.pm and prob cgi-lib.pl on the CPAN site: http://www.cpan.org/ Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [SLUG] eating out with SLUG

luck? Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything

[SLUG] Color maps

don't know the video mem size, prob = 1024k. Gnome apps display 256 colours fine. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http

[SLUG] Slur on Astrophysicists, was: [LINK] More ILY naval gazing

;-) Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything

Re: [SLUG] A Palm V for Free .. no it's not spam :)

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Re: [SLUG] A Palm V for Free .. no it's not spam :) Its a Pyramid system.

intelligence to work out that those details will go to spammers. Good on you Anand. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http

Re: [SLUG] A Palm V for Free .. no it's not spam :)

aware of the nature of this list and its subscribers and will prob contribute much in the future. Hold your horses Dazza :-) Now lets get back to Linux business. Bye from Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email

Re: [SLUG] Apache

from Netscape. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested i

Re: [SLUG] Apache - general good housekeeping.

co on all the Apache directives. Wow. I hadn't come across that yet. On Thu, 4 May 2000, Michael Lake wrote: I have Apache running and can see pages in /home/httpd/html At present it all works if I copy all the HTML files into the above directory and all the cgi ones into the default

Re: [SLUG] Apache - general good housekeeping.

Rick Welykochy wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, Michael Lake wrote: I am getting the folowing arror from Apache. "You don't have permission to access /~mikel/ on this server." when I try "http://localhost/~mikel/" Um ... kinetics has to reside INSIDE your public_html direc

Re: [SLUG] argh!

a lease and want to actually **own** the software its up to them to vote with their $ and buy from places that sell software rather than lease it with. Of course upgrades then might cost more ;-) Mike Michael Lake University

[SLUG] Apache - general good housekeeping.

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Re: [SLUG] Remote displays

hat I get a similar error with the nedit editor. It gives me the hex value of the colour that it was unable to assign. Any ideas on what I can do to get the colours? Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[

Re: [SLUG] Remote displays

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[SLUG] Remote displays

might be the prob. Mike --- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Ph: 9514 1724 Fx: 9514 1628 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel --- -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: Latex Multicol MArgin Spec, was Re: [SLUG] Printing landscape under Latex

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Re: [SLUG] Latex - example of table - tablular stuff

must have two 's per line and a \\ at end of all lines except the last Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au

Re: [SLUG] Cancell My Visit To The WP Office 2000 Pres.

will disappear and all comapnies/orgs etc can have their own WP formats in an XML markup Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http

Re: [SLUG] Endian-ness.

in "Gulliver's Travels". Yes the term was derived from the Little Endians who ate their eggs little ends first vs the Big Endians who ate their eggs big end first. PS. I hope the endianness of my explanation is around the right way. ------

Re: [SLUG] Re: Endian-ness.

Jonathan Swift imagined a never-ending fight between the kingdoms of the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians, whose only difference is in where they crack open a hard-boiled egg. There you go. Mike Michael Lake University

[SLUG] LaTeX -- Word Processors

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Re: [SLUG] Cheap printer?

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Re: [SLUG] Latex Mail Merge and Posters

rry St Sydney\\\\ NSW 2000} \\address{Michael Lake, 5 Imaginary Place, BLABBERVILLE NSW 2120} \\signature{Michael Lake} \\opening{Dear $name[$i],} Please find enclosed an invoice for out services. \\vspace{2\\baselineskip} Regards \\vspace{2cm} Michael Lake \\end{lett

Re: [SLUG] How do you send Tex/Latex to the outside world

of that. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical

Re: [SLUG] Latex How to, guides, etc online

will have the SIAG one. If you have asked about LaTeX I am sure you will be hooked. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http

Re: [SLUG] Latex How to, guides, etc online

with your favorite text editor (vi, gvim, emacs) and churing out beautiful docs. No more slow word processors - just markup the text. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:

Re: [SLUG] Latex How to, guides, etc online

a year ago (I use laTeX directly with gvim). LyX is a very worthy alternative to straight LaTeX (pure markup) and Word (pure WYSIWYG) but there are issues to be aware of. Andrew Reilly wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 06:38:58AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Andrew Reilly wrote: Another

[SLUG] Booting a TG Station with Linux

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Re: [SLUG] Booting a TG Station with Linux

Hi All, On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Michael Lake wrote: Hi All, * A Solaris 2.6 CD will boot it but just asks for country code stuff and Rachel Polanski wrote: Boot a Solaris CDROM from the eeprom prompt like so: ok boot cdrom -s This will boot the Sun into single user mode and you don't need

Re: [SLUG] Corel Linux Breakfast invitation

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Re: [SLUG] A request.

st thought I'd give credit where it is due. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, ac

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Magic Software and SLUG (fwd)

ted, and anyone else they care to invite, would attract those that have a genuine need and interest in their products. I'd so nicely - no. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

and you can't have it :-) Its got a nice LCD built into the keyboard, programmable keys and doesn't crash running DOS. Nice machine. We use it to record minutes during meetings. Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney

Re: [SLUG] [OT} Data backup horror stories -was stolen compter article

; { cat "document changes" document wait short time } Documents grow exponentially. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628

Re: [SLUG] reading windows .hlp files under linux

y want an email rego but it free. Also try searching for others. There are lots on SimTel sites for free Win stuff. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02

Re: [SLUG] Icecast/etc and playing my CDs

Classical: Nocturne in E Minor - Peter Isaac - http://mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=1318 There is also rap, house, acid, beatnix etc if your into that Terry. They send me an email once/week with info on new tracks. Mike Michael Lake

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Banner ads and service provision

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Re: [SLUG] listing

user there will be directories that it does not search. i want to see a list of all files in my system which are setuid or setgid. is there any command for that? Mike Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Banner ads and service provision

Michael Lake wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote (last Sunday): I generally block ads that I see on the Internet by sending ad server requests to localhost, which works quite nicely (albeit confusing Netscape sometimes). How is this done? It seems a simple and neat solution. Mike Sorry guys, I

Re: [SLUG] parsing error

ng. Mike -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything

Re: [SLUG] Re: problem with file name characters

with more, but gives the following in vi: Or there may be an argument to colour-ls to turn off the colours. ls --colors=no -------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 F

Re: [SLUG] slocateRe: [SLUG] slocate

Gregg wrote: Anyone know why slocate might start without my asking? My mp3s sounded like they had the hiccups so I looked at the processes running - two slocates had been running and chewing up about 33% of the cpu each. The amount of time they had been running leads me to belive that I

[SLUG] Recommended ISP for Conservation Organisation

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