Linux Printing Summit - April 10-12 in Atlanta, GA
Dear List, I will be attending this upcoming meeting. http://groups.osdl.org/workgroups/dtl/desktop_architects/desktop_printing. If there is anything anyone from the list would like me to ask while I am there, please let me know. Best Regards, /Paul -- Paul Tykodi Principal Consultant TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC Tel/Fax: 603-343-1820 Mobile: 603-866-0712 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.tykodi.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Keystroke questions.
I run Core 4 at home. When I hit Shift TAB it allows me to change focus to a window in a way that's specified by focus history. Also, when I'm at home I can use emacs editing on the URL window. When I'm at work on a Debian machine, those features don't work. Anyone have an idea how to enable that stuff here? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Compact Flash sector load-balacing?
On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:45, Stephen Ryan wrote: I think you just have to format as JFFS2. FWIW, I'm running jffs2 on a couple dozen WRT54G's and have yet to notice any problems with it. Usage is pretty light. -Bil - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Keystroke questions.
What desktop environment? I know KDE has a whole keyboard shortcuts section in the Control Center (under Regional and Accessibility) that lets you specify all these things. It's plausible that FC4 and Debian are either using different schemes or even more likely different versions of KDE and as such, KDE has changed some default keybindings or something. -Neil On Monday 03 April 2006 11:36 am, Steven W. Orr wrote: I run Core 4 at home. When I hit Shift TAB it allows me to change focus to a window in a way that's specified by focus history. Also, when I'm at home I can use emacs editing on the URL window. When I'm at work on a Debian machine, those features don't work. Anyone have an idea how to enable that stuff here? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Comcast, dynamic DNS service
Anybody here been getting bugged by comcast to change their DNS settings to accept dynamic DNS server assigmment from Comcast? They seem pretty insistent about it. Emails of course, but snail mail and a phone call? Anybody know whats going on? (I stopped using Comcast DNS a while back, waiting for two minuts to get a DNS request back seemed a bit long.) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
Yes, they have sent me several emails and snail mail, I haven't done anything about it yet though.. -- Original message -- From: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody here been getting bugged by comcast to change their DNS settings to accept dynamic DNS server assigmment from Comcast? They seem pretty insistent about it. Emails of course, but snail mail and a phone call? Anybody know whats going on? (I stopped using Comcast DNS a while back, waiting for two minuts to get a DNS request back seemed a bit long.) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On 4/3/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody here been getting bugged by comcast to change their DNS settings to accept dynamic DNS server assigmment from Comcast? From what I've been able to gather via Google Groups for Comcast DNS dynamic, this is a notification that Comcast is taking some of their older full-service resolvers (DNS servers) offline. If you've manually configured your client resolver (network settings) to use those servers, you will need to manually update your configuration as well. The typical customer who uses DHCP to configure their resolver would never notice. Since you state you're not using Comcast's resolvers at all, you shouldn't notice, either. Unless Comcast is planning on blocking UDP port 53. I've encountered ISPs who do that. Never could figure out why. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:20:28PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/3/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody here been getting bugged by comcast to change their DNS settings to accept dynamic DNS server assigmment from Comcast? From what I've been able to gather via Google Groups for Comcast DNS dynamic, this is a notification that Comcast is taking some of their older full-service resolvers (DNS servers) offline. If you've manually configured your client resolver (network settings) to use those servers, you will need to manually update your configuration as well. The typical customer who uses DHCP to configure their resolver would never notice. Since you state you're not using Comcast's resolvers at all, you shouldn't notice, either. Unless Comcast is planning on blocking UDP port 53. I've encountered ISPs who do that. Never could figure out why. Up on dslreports forums some people are claiming that other ISP complained to Comcast that C. customers where dragging down the other ISP DNS severs since so many were using them. They speculated that would be a reason to block or redirect some DNS traffic. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: Up on dslreports forums some people are claiming that other ISP complained to Comcast that C. customers where dragging down the other ISP DNS severs since so many were using them. They speculated that would be a reason to block or redirect some DNS traffic. Am I misunderstanding? Other providers are upset because folks outside their network are using their DNS servers? If this is such a problem, it begs the question, Why don't they just filter out requests that don't come from their own customers? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On 4/3/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless Comcast is planning on blocking UDP port 53.I'veencountered ISPs who do that.Never could figure out why.I've worked places where corporate does that. You can't nslookup www.blockedbyproxy.com and use the IP in your browser instead of the name. It makes it easier to filter most users.I don't think it's very effective as there are ways around it, but if it stops a big chunk it may be worthwhile to corporate. -- A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.- Daniel Webster
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On 4/3/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up on dslreports forums some people are claiming that other ISP complained to Comcast that C. customers where dragging down the other ISP DNS severs since so many were using them. Ummm http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/queries.html#allow-query My experience with the dslreports forums is that they can be useful to get one started looking for something, but ultimately distribute more misinformation than your average Iraqi information minister... They speculated that would be a reason to block or redirect some DNS traffic. The only reason I can think of to block UDP 53 would be some kind of widespread DDoS attack against the root or GTLD servers, and even then, that would likely be a temporary measure. (The root's briefly blocked ping for a little due to that reason.) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On 4/3/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've worked places where corporate does that. Well, sure. Corporate environments are an entirely different animal. Where I work, we don't allow any direct IP connection to the outside world. You have to go through a proxy server that requires user authentication. But we're talking home ISPs here. They're not protecting corporate assets. In theory, they should have *some* reason for blocking something. :) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools
I got some good recommendations here (thanks!) and I meant to follow up on this earlier but I've been scrambling so hard that I've so far only had the time to give one tool (Source Navigator) one hurried try. Source Navigator appeared to be quite polished and I hope to put it to good use some day. It certainly made a valiant effort but the project I'm involved with has such a tangled collection of source codes that it has reportedly defeated every tool that's been tried. :-/ Meanwhile, I'm soldiering on with Cscope, Ctags and Glimpse... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/3/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up on dslreports forums some people are claiming that other ISP complained to Comcast that C. customers where dragging down the other ISP DNS severs since so many were using them. Ummm http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/queries.html#allow-query My experience with the dslreports forums is that they can be useful to get one started looking for something, but ultimately distribute more misinformation than your average Iraqi information minister... That sounds like an accurate assessment. :-) They speculated that would be a reason to block or redirect some DNS traffic. The only reason I can think of to block UDP 53 would be some kind of widespread DDoS attack against the root or GTLD servers, and even then, that would likely be a temporary measure. (The root's briefly blocked ping for a little due to that reason.) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: perl and network addresses
Stephen Ryan writes: Ooh, here's something interesting. I first tried a test with constants, and got the warning: left shift count = width of type out of gcc. Then I rewrote the thing to use a loop, and I got correct results out of it. (This is all on an Athlon64X2.) When you described getting the same results for 0 and 32, I tried it again on my wife's laptop, a Celeron M, and got the same results you did; just out of curiosity, I looked it up, and gcc generates a 'sall' instruction to do the actual bit-shift, which on the 80386, PIII and Celeron M (according to Intel's documentation, your test, and my test, respectively) all ignore everything but the low 5 bits on the shift count. The 64-bit Athlon64 apparently doesn't, though, even though I'm supposedly running in 32-bit compatibility mode. Huh. Yet another demonstration of the dangers of of assuming specific bit-sizes for int, I suppose. Another thing to be aware of (but which hasn't come up...yet...in this thread) is that all of the test code that I see here uses signed integers for the bit operations (~ etc.). The C spec. specifically states that the results of such expressions is system dependent (and hence unportable). That warning message you saw was gcc doing an OK job warning you of a possible problem. When you added the loop you bamboozled the compiler, but the underlying issue (however small) still remained. Just another compiler guy... --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit -- Tom Waits ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Flash as spyware
On Mar 29, 2006, at 09:58, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/29/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, if you're a popular website you could use Flash to store an offsite copy of your enterprise backup in your users' Flash cache! You could do that with HTTP cookies, too. 4K vs 100K; well-known management tools vs. obscure website. Education would definitely help (thanks, Dr. Sconce!). So far, volvokeene.com is the only site to go over the cookie-size convention on my system. They stored 13K of something on my computer. I talked my sister into a Subaru anyway. Flash cookies are limited in size. I'm not sure exactly what the limits are. I don't think you should send *that* much data. Looks like 100K is the default - 'unlimited' is the max. I found it interesting they also have a preference to control when a website can use your microphone and webcam via Flash. Gawsh, I hope that prefs code isn't buggy! See also: thanks, great links ... install spyware. I'm curious about this one. Source? Forget where I read that - maybe SANS. Here's an article which doesn't explicitly state it, but you have to assume spyware attackers will chose not to exploit this vector for it to mean anything else: http://www.securitypipeline.com/181504092?CID=rssfeed_pl_scp I also don't like sensationalizing problems that are really not all that new to the computer world, or unique to Flash. No, but most people think because IE and/or Firefox is auto-updating security patches they're covered for browser security. Something like Flash doesn't really fit into the realm of what, say, Firefox Update can handle. Microsoft Update or Mac Software Update have the necessary tooling but neither are open platforms. Fortunately more enlightened operating systems have this solved already: http://macromedia.mplug.org/ I'm interested in what happens to the SVG/Flash rivalry now that Adobe owns Macromedia. As a guess, I'd say we could expect Adobe to sue people for reverse engineering Flash. :-( SWF is an open standard (as well as SVG). All they can do is change the SWF license and sue us out of existence over patents on future versions. IIRC, SVG is a W3C standard now so they don't have that option on SVG. I don't know who acquired who, politically. I was hoping they'd make Flash render SVG and put the Flash advantages on an SVG 2 track: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/comparison_flash_svg/ -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools
On Monday, Apr 3rd 2006 at 17:27 -0400, quoth Michael ODonnell: =If you want a tool from that class, my fave is idtools. Way superior. = =Never heard of it. I'll try it in my Copious Spare Time. It comes with a tool called mkid which scans a directory hierarchy. It knows about a lot of different languages because it has a different scanner for each language. mkid produces as output a bitmap of all symbols' references and definitions. Then it comes with a a bunch of access tools that each in id. gid (as in grep id) knows what lines and what files to find the refs. eig just lists the files aid produces the filenames with a degree of approximation as to how the arg is spelled, etc... Very useful -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Who should we vote for? http://steveo.syslang.net/electionrec-2006 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Keystroke questions.
On Monday, Apr 3rd 2006 at 12:55 -0400, quoth Neil Schelly: =What desktop environment? I know KDE has a whole keyboard shortcuts section =in the Control Center (under Regional and Accessibility) that lets you =specify all these things. It's plausible that FC4 and Debian are either =using different schemes or even more likely different versions of KDE and as =such, KDE has changed some default keybindings or something. =-Neil = =On Monday 03 April 2006 11:36 am, Steven W. Orr wrote: = I run Core 4 at home. When I hit Shift TAB it allows me to change focus to = a window in a way that's specified by focus history. Also, when I'm at = home I can use emacs editing on the URL window. = = When I'm at work on a Debian machine, those features don't work. Anyone = have an idea how to enable that stuff here? Sorry. It's kde. Also, the above mentioned URL window is in firefox. (Sorry, I should have mentioned that.) -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Who should we vote for? http://steveo.syslang.net/electionrec-2006 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
