On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:19:20PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Certainly - you're best best for parsing a webpage for "stuff" is Perl, but
the trouble is, the site will always change, forcing you to rewrite the
code.
Actually, I dont think the "data" pages on the BOM website havent changed
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:55:01PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
(and I'm still trying to work out what dew-point means)
Dew-point is the temperate at which condensation (or fog) will occur, and is
related to the humidity.
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 07:38:45PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Why doesn't this do what I think it should do, which is substritute
"'get'" with "'post'":
sed -e "s/\'get\'/\'post\'/" infile outfile
Works for me.
milliways:~$ sed -e "s/\'get\'/\'post\'/"
'get'
'post'
milliways:~$
(I
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 09:47:39AM +1000, Marty wrote:
What command(s) can I use to return a specific line within a data file.
i.e: I need to return Line 2 of a file to a shell variable for further
processing.
you're gonna start another war ;)
Only because you asked for it :)
head -2
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 06:32:02PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
Does anyone know if Unisys holds a patent on the LZW algorithm in
Australia?
IANAL, but...
I very seriously doubt it. Australian Patent law does not allow for
an algorithm to be patented, only a particular implementation of an
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:50:11PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Does anyone know of a linux distro that will provide an apache server
and nfs and fit onto 500Mb of hard disk (swap included)? {:-^).
MCC or SLS should do this fine (You do remember MCC and SLS, dont you?? :)
Scott.
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 08:32:38PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
since its SSL, you probably want to install fortify or the latest
netscape in order to get some strong crypto
Banks have long had the ability to do 128 bit encryption to people using
40 bit "Export" browsers - no fortify required.
Or even better, dont run it as the user slug (it'll just lead to problems).
Or at least, have a look at what MAILTO in cron does.
Scott.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:50:53PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
Opps, apologies. Forgot the `-Q' option.
Anand
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 08:14:10PM +, Minh Van wrote:
where would i be able to obtain a hub that does 10baset 10base2 ?
Many hubs have 10Base2 connections, normally on the back. Just try your
local computer shop until you find one.
Scott
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:55:08PM +1000, Richard Blackburn wrote:
Sluggers,
I'm going to send a letter to the head of consumer affairs at the NAB
complaining that I have to use Windows to do Internet Banking. Since I
know it will get passed down to their IT department, I want to able to
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:26:56AM +1000, Chuck Dale wrote:
Hullo,
Has anyone set up a mirror of mirror.aarnet? Any idea of the bandwidth
it would use? mirror.aarnet has about 40gigs disk space I believe but
I'd be interested as to how much bandwidth would be used per day in
updates.
In a
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:10:13AM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
So, to get around this what people do on Apache and AOLserver is to tell
the server that anything beneath a particular URL, say /blah/, it should
actually run a script and not look for something in the file space. So
if you
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:27:48PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
Erm, didn't Citrix get bought by Microsoft and the product turned into
No.
Windows Terminal Server? ie, what you suggest above isn't going to happen
while Hell remains 0 Kelvin.
The Solaris version was released a few months
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:36:33AM +1200, Del wrote:
Anthony Rumble wrote:
Win4Lin does use the X-Protocol, and it does run quite well remotely.
(Not so great over modem) But quite usable over 10Meg Ethernet, and
VERY fast under 100).
I probably should have mentioned that VMware will
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:50:25AM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
Is it just me, or is something screwy with either dns or apache aliasing for
slug.org.au
http://www.slug.org.au goes to the page
http://slug.org.au goes to a hunterlink default page?
Oops! I've removed the slug.org.au record
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:55:01PM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
So I need to change brokers. What I'd like to know is which
brokers specifically work with Linux and Linux browsers? I was attracted
to Quicken by their cheap brokerages but they all seem to have come down
to the
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:33:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody know of an open-source RDP Client for Linux ?
(ie - A Windows Terminal Server Client)
I believe not. However, there is an ICA client, which generally works better
anyway. Unfortunately you'll need to pay extra for
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:25:00PM -0500, Matt wrote:
Yeh me and some friends were actually thinking about that, since Optus often
has free SMS (last three months on my plan) I was wondering if I could send
The free SMS only lasts until the end of the month.
SMS from my Linux box, oh ..
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:55:52PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
Actually, now that we have cable ( and hence a spare phone line ), I've been
thinking of setting up the modem to phone to all three networks and do it
that way...
Except that Optus dont have a dialin number...
The other option is
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:22:44PM +1000, Charlie Brady wrote:
A nice item from Tom Worthington from "link"..
I wonder how long ago Tom wrote this...
Umm.. from the bit you cut :
} Monday, 15 May 2000, Melbourne - Tom Worthington, Visiting Fellow at the
} Australian National University
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 11:04:20PM +1000, Ian Ward wrote:
Has anybody setup succesfully the delaying parameter for squid? I'm trying
to limit the bandwidth on browsing and download from the internet but I
can't figure out the /etc/squid/squid.conf settings to use?
You can't really
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 03:34:38PM +1000, Jarrod MacFarlane wrote:
Are there any limitations on the number of records for a domain?
As others have said - it would be server dependant. The client (or "DNS"
as a whole) would never have any idea how many hosts you had. Dont forget
that any
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:16:08PM +1000, John Francis wrote:
Ian Tester wrote:
Really? All the reports I've read say that all the user has to do is click
on the subject and the code gets executed by some "preview window". I've
only seen LookOut(tm) a couple of times, and have certainly
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 09:04:14PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Minh Van wrote:
OK - your basic types of SCSI are pretty much like this {some of the
fiures might be wrong - but you'll bet the idea}.
SCSI - also known as SCSI1 - up to 7 drives, 50 pin connector, 5 Mb/s
transfer
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/05/03/www.apache.org/
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And 3 - we can actually do something about the situation by blocking
the messages if/where they pass through a Linux box.
Scott.
From sendmail.cf for Sendmail = 8.9 :
HSubject: $local_check_header
D{MelissaMessage}"553 Your message may contain the Melissa/ILOVEYOU virus. Plea
se
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:00:22PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi,
The following code was posted this morning as a way of having sendmail
reject some known virus infected emails.
HSubject: $local_check_header
D{MelissaMessage}"553 Your message may contain the
Melissa/ILOVEYOU
He's a complete looney - it's the only explanation.
I don't really care if he is or he isn't, but when he's spreading
unconfirmed rumours like this, I care - thus the reason for the challenge.
The challenge has now been modified - Adam now have full, unrestricted
access to the box in question
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:30:12PM +1000, Brad Thomson wrote:
I don't know how widely known the "white van" speaker scam is known, but I
was approached yesterday afternoon by a couple of blokes in a white van
who were trying to sell me some big speakers. I knew something wasn't
right, but
At a guess, http://linuxiso.org
Scott.
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 03:38:26PM +1000, Doug Stalker wrote:
Where can I find an ISO image of Debian? I can find the files on
aarnet.edu.au, but no ISO.
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:52:16PM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
Try Hotline (Chatswood), Bookware (North Sydney) or one of the Co-op
bookshops, one of these should have stock. Hotline and Bookware both give
discounts to Co-op members too.
Unless I'm mistaken, Hotline also give discounts for
A few observations...
1. It's in a regional paper, so I'm going to presume it's at a regional
location (confirmed in a SLUG email - it's at Charles Stuart Uni). Regional
IT jobs are (almost) always going to pay less than a similar job in the
city.
2. Given the odd numbers in salary range, I'd
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:06:58AM +1000, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
Unfortunately as far as I know they have done nothing illegal. I seem to
remember there be no law against selling peoples details. As far as I
remember having it described to me, they are allowed to possess, sell and
use
You need to setup "Policy routing", where the routing is carried
out based on more than just the destination address - in your case
you need it to be based on the source address (which will be either the
address of either eth0 or the address of eth1).
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:45:55AM +1000, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
And us Sun heads to whom USB is not even a glimmer in the eyes of the
engineers.
It's a little more than a glimmer...
Sun already make USB keyboards and mice, and have boxes which use them
(ie, the SunRays).
From memory
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:31:38PM +1100, Carlo wrote:
OPTUS state in this Acceptable Use Policy that you dont run any servers and
that they have the right to port scan your system to find servers. They sent
dave a message saying how he had 3 services in breech of the policy (they
where
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:36:00PM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote:
I tried downloading Netscape from their website server using
Communicator. It chugs away for an hour then stops with the ftp dialog
saying "100% of 19Mb" and just sits there. There is a 19MB file on
disk, but it is not complete.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:45:25PM +1100, DaZZa wrote:
I'll certainly be there - with bells optional. :-)
Erm - could someone post the address, for the noisy bugger who hasn't ever
managed to show up at a real live meeting before?
http://www.slug.org.au/
OK, so maybe thats not the address
Due to mail server problems at the ISP who hosts part of the SLUG mailing
list this list is currently unavailable.
To quote the ISP :
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There is presently an outage on all HunterLink mail services. Customers
will be unable to send or receive email until the problem is resolved. We
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:30:44AM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
That is a good point.. I went and checked the whois stuff my self.. this is
from netregistry's whois page (which incidently are the controllers of
au.com - ozemail controls aust.com i recall.)
Both of which are nothing more than
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:24:12PM +1100, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:00:25 +1100
From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [LINK] Storm over MS bid to bounce MSCEs into Win2k
The
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:50:31AM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote:
I read a web site the other day, but can't remember where. Oh,
well. It had an interesting alternative to speeding up an otherwise
dynamic web server:
Install squid as a transparent proxy of the site itself, in "front"
of the
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 12:56:37PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
slug-general . A general discussion group for all things
linux
slug-hardware. A discussion list for hardware related issues
[...]
I, of course, would end up subscribing to them all anyway... :)
Unfortunately this is one of
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:31:40AM +1100, Andrew Macks wrote:
Does one have the option of handling Virtual Domains easily in Sendmail?
Or should I change (for ease of use) to qmail?
http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html
Scott.
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 06:54:22PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
Does anyone have any references to why Linux is now setting the RTC to
GMT, rather than local time. I've not been able to find and
explanation/rationale.
It will work with either, but GMT/UTC is prefered. Why? Two words -
There were a few problems with the SLUG list earlier today (ie, it broke!)
This has now been fixed, and everything appears to be working properly now.
The fix may take up to about another 30 mins to propogate, so if you try
to send something to the list and it bounces, wait a few mins and try
Are you sure your provider is routing these addresses to you?
If you're not seeing anything with a TCP dump then this most likely means
the routing is wrong at your ISPs end and the packets aren't getting to you.
Scott.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 06:41:21PM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote:
I am not
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 07:45:04AM +, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Any socket programmers out there?
A (simple) question, C++ code:
1. create a socket
int const sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
2. bind to it
unsigned int const port = 1234;
unsigned long const
There was a problem earlier today with the list which would have caused
messages sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to bounce.
However, there has definitely been traffic on the list in the last few
days - including mail sent yesterday (and possible even this morning).
Scott.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 08:02:21PM +1100, Danny Yee wrote:
I have an Apache (1.3.3) that is behaving oddly.
A request for /index.html/JUNK/MOREJUNK returns the contents of
/index.html. And ditto for any other file, e.g.
/about/two.html/BLAH/MOREBLAH/BLAHBLAHBLAH
returns the contents
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 08:42:10PM +1300, Del wrote:
The MS does it through combination of passing around access tokens and
caching the password (in hashes). This is done at SMB level. The reason why
MS Proxy can work in that way is because it requires you to install the
client program on
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:19:00PM +1100, Dave Fitch wrote:
"Marty" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netcomm modems generally suck (imho), these were no exception. All bar 1
worked (one was dead out of the box). Nothing different required to set them
up, what problems are you having?
the older
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 06:24:17AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991012/wa_amazon__1.html
Old news, but :
1) Yes, it does. Amazon has already sued someone over breach of patent.
2) No, US patents are not valid in Australia, so as long as you run your
site here,
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:07:45PM +1100, Andrew Macks wrote:
On a similar, and more serious note, it seems there is a big browser
issue with the Year 2000.
Netscape and IE can return the date as 2 digits in javascript. A lot of
sites use this to display the date on their site.
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:07:45PM +1100, Andrew Macks wrote:
On a similar, and more serious note, it seems there is a big browser
issue with the Year 2000.
Netscape and IE can return the date as 2 digits in javascript. A lot of
sites use this to display the date on their site.
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