Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Ahem. Since I feel certain that many of you are Monty Python fans, I offer the following : http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: code for control+...?
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:15:10 -0500 Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the probably stupid question, but it's killing me... I need to write a expect script where the pressing of the control key+ Greetings, Get yourself an ascii table. Here's a pretty one but you can google for others if you like. man ascii -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: newbie kmail filter ques.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:50:23 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 9:28 am, someone claiming to be Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; Not being an expert with filters, I ask the assembled experts. This is a kmail (which I use as a mail client) specific question. I wish to set up a POP filter so that MS executables and scripts in I think you need imap to do that sort of filtering... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: spamassassin's sa-learn
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:09:16 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner? I wonder where SA stores her rules. It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all ignore the cross-correlation. That is, they don't correct for the fact that enlarge and p...s frequently occur together, and sum the probabilities. To do it right is hard. I used to run a Bayesian filter at work, until they disabled Unix e-mail at the end of October, and it worked fairly well. At home I run a homebrew. First I run a whitelist of known good addresses, then I look for e-mail lists, then spamassassin, and then I run my UniqIP filter. I keep a little database of every IP I have seen in the handoff to my ISPs, and if I have never seen it before, I drop it into a special folder. I also note spam IP's in the database as well. About 95% of my spam currently comes from unique IP's. Apparently the blacklists are effective enough that the big time spammers now use a Hedy Lamar style multiplexing technology, and blast small loads from many compromised systems. I'm also working on a spam detector utilizing DNA sequencing technology. Seriously! -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Javascript question
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:36:57 -0500 joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going over some of my html/javascript beasties that I wrote for work. I am still confounded why these don't work properly in netscape or mozilla but do in opera6 and IE 5.5. Have you run it in Mozilla with the Javascript debugger open? I had one last week that worked in Netscape, Konqueror, and Mozilla, but failed in IE. Turned out that IE has a limit of 1012 characters in a function call. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Braindead Windows
Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I called our helpdesk. After a good bit of searching his answer was Adobe Distiller. I thanked him, googled, saw that ghostview/ghostscript was the recommended path, downloaded and installed and in 3 minutes was printing. Gad I detest Microsoft. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Textmaker open for business
If you want to buy textmaker for $11, the site is now open for business... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT The Grinch who stole Linux
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:16:59 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very funny parody... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915 I just had a bizarre thought. Parody of a copywritten work is a protected form of expression. What would a parody of copywrite protected code be? 8-) Or music, or videos? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: KDE screensaver problem
That fixed it! Thanks!! On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:02:17 -0500 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:15, Tom Wilson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:10, Alan Jackson wrote: I have one of those little nagging problems that mystifies me. I'm running gentoo 2.4.20-r6 with KDE 3.1.2. The problem? I cannot get the screensaver to work. I set it up, the test works fine, but then it never automatically starts. Has anyone seen this before? I have a similar problem. Sometimes the screensave kicks in, sometimes it doesn't. If the screensaver hasn't started after the set time, open a terminal and do a ps -ef. Look for a process that has something like kdedesktop_lock or desktop_lock or something like that. I can't remember exactly what it is but it has the lock at the end. Kill that process and the screensaver should kick on. I just had the problem and here is the exact name of the process. It is '/usr/bin/kdesktop_lock'. Kill that process and the screensaver will come on next time. Tom Wilson McSwain Carpets 513.771.1400 x124 - It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Henry Allen ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
KDE screensaver problem
I have one of those little nagging problems that mystifies me. I'm running gentoo 2.4.20-r6 with KDE 3.1.2. The problem? I cannot get the screensaver to work. I set it up, the test works fine, but then it never automatically starts. Has anyone seen this before? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Linux in Dallas at the SEG
I was in Dallas this week for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists meeting. A few interesting Unix/Linux items to report. I spoke with the guys in the Sun booth about their desktop (Mad Hatter). It is currently certified for Suse, though Redhat is in the works. Curiously, Landmark (one of the two big geophysical workstation software houses - part of Halliburton) requires Redhat 7.3, if you can imagine. A lot of version and distro issues in this space. High end 3D graphics apps are pretty sensitive to version and hardware, and I predict that will slow Linux in displacing Sun in this space. I also spoke with a Schlumberger subsidiary, Petrel, that sells a very popular Windows reservoir modeling front end. I asked if it would run under Wine, and they told me that they were finishing up their Linux port. Everyone had nice Beowulf or LSF clusters : Sun, IBM, and a bunch of new Linux startups. I got a clear impression that people are becoming quite disenchanted with the Itanium 64 bit chip, and are moving to the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things are continuing to progress. Old news perhaps, but Linux was very much in evidence. Companies that had been trying to port to Windows have dropped that and gone to Linux instead. The basic reasoning is If I want cheap hardware, why not do the easy port to Linux instead of the hard port to Windows?. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Linux in Dallas at the SEG
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:21:33 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Alan Jackson: [...] the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things are continuing to progress. Stupid question: What exactly is a blade server? Don't know *exactly*, but I think it's basically a sort of rack-mount chassis into which you can plug many (dozens) of self-contained cpus (blades) IBM's blades were about the size of a paperback - each one had dual cpus, a lot of memory, and plug into a high-speed bus. People worry about floor-space, power consumption, cooling, price, and capability. Trick is to find the right balance of all those for your application. Ahh... google is my friend... http://search390.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid10_gci770169,00.html A blade server is a thin, modular electronic circuit board, containing one, two, or more microprocessors and memory, that is intended for a single, dedicated application (such as serving Web pages) and that can be easily inserted into a space-saving rack with many similar servers. One product offering, for example, makes it possible to install up to 280 blade server modules vertically in multiple racks or rows of a single floor-standing cabinet. Blade servers, which share a common high-speed bus, are designed to create less heat and thus save energy costs as well as space. Large data centers and Internet service providers (ISPs) that host Web sites are among companies most likely to buy blade servers. A blade server is sometimes referred to as a high-density server and is typically used in a clustering of servers that are dedicated to a single task, such as: * file sharing * Web page serving and caching * SSL encrypting of Web communication * transcoding of Web page content for smaller displays * Streaming audio and video content Like most clustering applications, blade servers can also be managed to include load balancing and failover capabilities. A blade server usually comes with an operating system and the application program to which it is dedicated already on the board. Individual blade servers are usually hot-pluggable and come in various heights, including 5.25 inches (the 3U model), 1.75 inches (1U), and possibly sub-U sizes. (A U is a standard measure of vertical height in an equipment cabinet and is equal to 1.75 inches.) Also see brick server and pizza box server. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:10:29 +0530 Sohel Shaheen Mallik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way that hackers can break into a website is by hunting for private pages that contain the usernames and passwords required to access secure parts of the site. These pages are usually hidden from the casual browser because there are no hyperlinks to them on the web. So lets blame google instead of the webmaster who was too lazy to install a robots.txt file? I have those set up even for pages that *do* have hyperlinks. That's like that lawsuit about a year ago where someone claimed a reporter had hacked their website because he was able to guess the URL and type it in. Try http://www.stupiduser.com/admin.php and see how often you can get into the admin pages for a site. I stumbled on this one trying to profile a spammer's site. (not literally stupiduser) -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Crappy fonts in Redhat
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:27:22 +0800 Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert E. Raymond wrote: Terence McCarthy wrote: Rehat is too buggy. I'm using Red Hat 9.0 on my laptop. I have to admit that if you're installing Red Hat, it can be a real pain ! The reasons are : 3. Fonts -- yeah, it looks really crappy when you first install Red Hat. Better get the Subpixel font positioning thing working, or reduce the size till Anti-Alising doesn't kick in, but it fonts don't look jaggy or blurry. Ahhh... crappy fonts. Yes, the box I'm piloting at work has an HP-patched Redhat 7.3 (don't ask, it's required by our brain-dead vendors), and the fonts in Mozilla are really quite astonishingly awful. I've been working with our sys admin to try to fix them based on what we can find on the net, but so far, no joy. Anyone have a sure-fire way to repair the fonts on RH 7.3? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Networking / security problem in gentoo
That did it. Thanks! My son should buy you a beer. 8-) On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:00:54 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:37 pm, someone claiming to be Alan Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:15:12 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it xinetd? Does it use tcpwrappers of any sort? (more specifically, are you being blocked by /etc/hosts.deny or /etc/hosts.allow) What do your logs tell you? (/var/log/messages, /var/log/xxx) Nothing in /var/log/messages There was no /etc/hosts.allow or deny (*those* I understand!) Running CUPS - don't know which port it should be using... bash-2.05b$ netstat -an Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:60000.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:13045 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN snip 631 is cups check /etc/cups/cupsd.conf You probly have to edit that file to allow the local network to get access, something like: Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.168.* /Location and further down, for admin access... Location /admin # # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.168.* #Encryption Required /Location HTH, Tim -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-20.8, KDE 3.1.3, Xfree86 4.2.1 10:55pm up 5 days, 15:18, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.07 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Networking / security problem in gentoo
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:15:12 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it xinetd? Does it use tcpwrappers of any sort? (more specifically, are you being blocked by /etc/hosts.deny or /etc/hosts.allow) What do your logs tell you? (/var/log/messages, /var/log/xxx) Nothing in /var/log/messages There was no /etc/hosts.allow or deny (*those* I understand!) Running CUPS - don't know which port it should be using... bash-2.05b$ netstat -an Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:60000.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:13045 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 192.168.0.2:1023192.168.0.4:513 ESTABLISHED udp0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 0.0.0.0:797 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 0.0.0.0:798 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 0.0.0.0:799 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 0.0.0.0:800 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 192.168.0.2:123 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) - Original Message - From: Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Networking / security problem in gentoo Well, my son is upset because he can't print to my printer since I went to gentoo. He gets a message : lp: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable When I try it from a different system, I get : connection to 'earthman' failed - Connection refused job 'cfA845starman.oplnk.net' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Thinking about this, I realized that I don't understand the gentoo security model. Apparently they don't use inetd, but reading through the docs it wasn't clear what they *do* use. I suspect that I have over-secured stuff by accident, but I don't know where to start. Can anyone give me a clue? (yes, I admit it, I am clueless... sigh) -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: fmt: How to skip some text?
It's a bit more work, but you might be able to do that with the perl module Text::Balanced or Text::Autoformat On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 07:42:48 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130ENTER This doesn't do what I need, however. The newly formatted document will only contain lines which didn't begin with a blank. Lines beginning with a blank are deleted. I did try a sed solution with fmt, though. Please see my post: Bug in fmt? elsewhere on this list. Joel On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg: :1,$ ! fmt -w 130 Without vi, this command would look like: cat file ! fmt -w 130 I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least two blanks, like this: Extend your command to pipe it through sed first: This will format the entire document Go to the top of the document (1G); !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130ENTER Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tulius Ciceroca (42 BD) ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Linux in the workplace, on the desk.
Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons, 4 Gb ram, and an Nvidia Quadro4 380XGL. It has Redhat 7.3 on it. And dual 21 inch flat screen monitors. Nice! I shoved my Ultra-80 to the back of the desk, and slipped the monitors in front. I'll be using it for high-end 3D visualization, high throughput data processing (filtering many Gbytes) and at night our developers will run their builds on it. Should be fun... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: The spammers are winning
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:45:32 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care about spam when it concerns their own citizens. My current pounding is coming from Panama. 8-) -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: The spammers are winning
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:16:59 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that nothing can be done if you saturate the pipe. But wouldn't stateful inspection and some rules to say `when x number of connections occur from y host in z time' cause the firewall to drop the attacking hosts packet and at least try for partial service over none? It's a DDoS attack. Distributed. From an anti-spam list... This kind of spread the targets tactic has been tried in the past to protect IRC servers/websites and admins, but fails dramatically in the face of 20-50,000 cable-connected zombies being used for DDoS - they can spread the targetting around or simply bring another 10,000 machines into the attack. Yes, they really do have botnets this large. :-( Soon everyone except the script kiddies will hate Microsoft. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: it just gets weirder
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:44:07 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dep wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is the right choice for their businesses, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is announcing that it will indemnify its Linux customers against any future legal action from The SCO Group Inc. . . . I presume HP wouldn't even consider doing this if they thought SCO had any chance to prevail. If HP were wrong, this could be quite expensive. They must be pretty certain SCO is toast. SCO's stock plummeted today. Most investors figured it out too, even after SCO had a press release putting a sickeningly positive spin on it. Sickening like you feel after a chilidog and the roller coaster. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Gentoo problem compiling modules
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:50:37 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: I installed Gentoo a week ago, and it has mostly been quite smooth. However some, but not all, of my modules missed getting compiled. In particular, usb/printer doesn't seem to want to compile. I ran make modules_install and it didn't help. I get no errors, I just don't get a printer.o file created. Any suggestions? Did you run make modules first? Yes. I'm closer to the problem, though. For some reason, in my /etc/kernels/default_config the usb printer is disabled. I tried editing this file and recompiling, but that doesn't do it. What command does gentoo expect for me to update whatever file knows which modules to compile? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Gentoo problem compiling modules
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:50:07 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:02:09 -0500 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Gentoo a week ago, and it has mostly been quite smooth. However some, but not all, of my modules missed getting compiled. In particular, usb/printer doesn't seem to want to compile. I ran make modules_install and it didn't help. I get no errors, I just don't get a printer.o file created. Any suggestions? This is making it hard for me to print! Never heard of this. Which of the many kernel offerings on gentoo are you using? Have you tried with the plain vanilla kernel? You mentioned make modules_install. Did you do make modules first? I got the gentoo CD and followed the directions for a stage 3 install with a vanilla kernel. Nothing fancy. Going through make config I see that, curiously, the default for usb printers is no. I'm pretty sure the standard install never gave me an opportunity to tell it to compile that module. Or maybe I just missed it. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Gentoo
Well I got the Gentoo CD and did the install over Labor Day. Amazingly smooth. The bootable CD detected all my hardware, found my ISP, just perfect. Better and easier than my Caldera 3.1.1 install. Really. But oh my God it was slow! I recompiled KDE and that took 20 hours on a 1 Ghz AMD machine. Open office took about 12 hours. But everything else is going pretty quick. I realized that I never like to use rpm's anyway - I always compile code by choice, so this fits my style quite nicely. I'm still getting set up, but it's *real close now*. Got my e-mail working (I have a rat's nest of filters), and I'm working on turboprint right now. Already did pysol - gotta get the essentials first. Anyway, I give it a big thumbs up! -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SCO fizzles
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:21:49 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html I hope this means that the demise of SCO will come RSN! I just had a thought. When this case self-destructs, the stockholders, like me, can file a class-action against the deep pockets behind the curtain, Billy boy. Mmmm... that could be sweet. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Spam redux
I came in late to the spam discussion. Just let me add 2 things: - if you are really interested in spam fighting there are 2 e-mail lists I would recommend, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/ and for sys admins : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] send subscribe spamtools e-mail addy - I got a mention in the newspaper about 3 months ago when I sent a copy of my spam statistics to the local computer columnist. I also got slashdotted a day later, with a mention in slashdot and a huge spike on my web accesses. Go here to see what it was all about. http://ajackson.org/spamcount.gif (like my plot? xmgrace on *nix.) -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Logon time limits
Attached is a little script I hacked to track my son's time in front of his tube. It only counts time where there is mouse or keyboard activity (I hacked an old script I had written for RSI prevention). I ssh into his system and fire it up. On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:51:28 -0400 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is short discussion about tracking the time of logged in users at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/05/2/58613 I would think you could record the time logged in and the time logged out for each user the time using login and logout scripts. The difference for each session would be the time spent logged in and this could kept in a file on your box. When someone logs in the login script Checks the file and accepts/rejects the login based on the time accumulated. A simple cron job would reset the information every week. I sorry I cannot be more specific, but alas, I do not do a lot of scripting myself. Maybe someone on the list proficient in this area could help you out. Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager Lynch Digital Media Inc 416-744-7949 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-866-314-4678 416-744-0406 FAX www.LynchDigital.com -Original Message- From: ronnie gauthier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go look at ISP accounting packages or maybe cafe software, you will probably want to run some type of raduis server for authentication. On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:09:02 -0500 - Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Logon time limits Is there a way to set logon time limits for up to a set number of hours in an arbitrary time period (like a week)? The goal is to limit logon time for the kids over a week to cut down on fighting over the computers on the network. I really don't want to confine them to a set time period each day because that will not help them learn to budget their own time. TIA -- Alma ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- usage.pl Description: Binary data ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: gentoo news
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:46:09 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo will be joining the ranks of the boxed set of cd's distros on August 5, 2003. For those of you who don't have DSL/Cable or a CD burner, this will be your opportunity to avoid the slow downloads and, if you choose, much of the delays due to compiles that are associated with a gentoo install. Details at http://www.gentoo.org/. I've been putting off downloading it - now this I like! But I have one question. My system is an Athlon 1-Ghz machine. Which version of Gentoo would be appropriate? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Hosed my usb ports...
Well, as it turned out I went to a website trying to track some spam that spawned so many windows that the X-server crashed, so I ended up rebooting. As expected that fixed it, but I'll remember the hotplug suggestion if it happens again... On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:24:15 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: k...2461 times?? What's the load like? Is the hotplug daemon going bezerk? You might want to try stopping restarting the hotplug daemon for starters. Of couse you're runing that ancient, buggy 2.4.2 kernel, which isn't doing you any favors either. On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Alan Jackson wrote: I think I mucked up my usb stuff trying to hook up a scanner. I gave up on the scanner, and rmmod'd the scanner module, but now my printer won't work and I can't attach my camera. And every 1-2 seconds I get this set of messages in the log file. Suggestions? Linux version 2.4.2 (Caldera 3.1.1) # lsmod Module Size Used by nls_iso8859-1 2848 1 (autoclean) isofs 16656 1 (autoclean) r128 79520 1 nfs70784 2 (autoclean) lockd 43488 1 (autoclean) [nfs] sunrpc 58656 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd] sr_mod 12544 1 cdrom 25440 0 [sr_mod] sg 26784 0 usb-storage41232 0 (unused) printer 5472 1 vfat9072 0 fat28608 0 [vfat] usb-uhci 21088 0 (unused) usbcore46272 1 [usb-storage printer usb-uhci] 3c59x 23520 1 agpgart27680 3 parport_pc 17280 0 parport22464 0 [parport_pc] cmpci 30496 4 serial 43888 0 isa-pnp26256 0 [serial] ide-scsi7056 1 scsi_mod 82400 3 [sr_mod sg usb-storage ide-scsi] ide-floppy 10432 0 keybdev 1664 0 (unused) mousedev3840 0 (unused) input 3104 0 [keybdev mousedev] sound 52000 0 soundcore 3376 6 [cmpci sound] Jun 6 11:58:29 earthman last message repeated 2461 times Jun 6 11:58:29 earthman kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1016 Jun 6 11:58:29 earthman kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -84 reading printer status -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMohttp://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Hosed my usb ports...
I think I mucked up my usb stuff trying to hook up a scanner. I gave up on the scanner, and rmmod'd the scanner module, but now my printer won't work and I can't attach my camera. And every 1-2 seconds I get this set of messages in the log file. Suggestions? Linux version 2.4.2 (Caldera 3.1.1) # lsmod Module Size Used by nls_iso8859-1 2848 1 (autoclean) isofs 16656 1 (autoclean) r128 79520 1 nfs70784 2 (autoclean) lockd 43488 1 (autoclean) [nfs] sunrpc 58656 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd] sr_mod 12544 1 cdrom 25440 0 [sr_mod] sg 26784 0 usb-storage41232 0 (unused) printer 5472 1 vfat9072 0 fat28608 0 [vfat] usb-uhci 21088 0 (unused) usbcore46272 1 [usb-storage printer usb-uhci] 3c59x 23520 1 agpgart27680 3 parport_pc 17280 0 parport22464 0 [parport_pc] cmpci 30496 4 serial 43888 0 isa-pnp26256 0 [serial] ide-scsi7056 1 scsi_mod 82400 3 [sr_mod sg usb-storage ide-scsi] ide-floppy 10432 0 keybdev 1664 0 (unused) mousedev3840 0 (unused) input 3104 0 [keybdev mousedev] sound 52000 0 soundcore 3376 6 [cmpci sound] Jun 6 11:58:29 earthman last message repeated 2461 times Jun 6 11:58:29 earthman kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1016 Jun 6 11:58:29 earthman kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -84 reading printer status -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Printing web pages
Run a perl script to follow all the links, and dump each page with lynx. You might even be able to coax lynx into following the links, I don't know. On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:39:46 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:39:19 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/04/03 17:35, Collins Richey wrote: Are there any generalized utility programs that will grap a web page, extract the text, convert to a text (or fill-in-the-blanks) file for printing? I'm getting ready to work on some python code to do that for printing the Slackware users' manual, but it would be nice to have a real tool. html2jpeg creates jpegs (basically screenshots) of webpages: http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2jpg/ html2ps converts html to postscript http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2ps/ html2pdf http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2pdf/ Thanks, Now that I've looked at the problem a little more closely, I probably need more that this. The root of what I want to retrieve is www.slackware.com/book which is a php beast. What I'm looking to do is 1. Retrieve the base page and follow all Next links, strip out all the extra crap on each page, retain and format the text, and store the result for printing. 2. I could do this with simple python tools for a normal html site, but the [EMAIL PROTECTED] slackware site doesn't respond to simple http requests; even the links are php commands. A browser, of course, can wade through this with ease, but I don't want to have to save each individual page as html just to format it. 3. All this work because the Slack folks don't provide a printable version. Any thoughts? -- Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Satellite Linux
My old college roommate is outside Mancos, Colorado (between Durango and Cortez). He uses satellite, which works okay - although he isn't running Linux (yet). On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:57:49 -0700 Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Day wrote: Andrew What is your locale. I live in a rural, on easter side of Illinois, area approx 6 miles from town and have a 'broadband' wireless similiar to a lowend dsl for $49 a month install was $100 Included a wire mesh dish, the cable to the house(max. 100') and their modem. Average speeds are about 500 down and 128 up with absolutely no delay as in satellite... Of course this type of option may not be available to you, but there is also one called PrairieInet or somethign or other located in the midwest.. Just a comment.. Bill Day snip Jemez Mountains, 45 miles west of Santa Fe NM. No chance of any line of sight to any provider unless it's at least 45 degrees elevation in the sky. g I had a wireless connection in Taos, but had to sacrifice it to move to a beautiful area. Even the phone service is from a microwave repeater on the top of the mountains. I'm from IL myself, only on the western edge where we had a farm. I know that line of sight is much easier to get on the plains than it is here. Where are you from Hwy. 136? -- Andrew Mathews - 10:27am up 13 days, 19:50, 12 users, load average: 1.78, 1.68, 1.51 - For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Java problem
$ java -version java version 1.4.0_03 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0_03-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0_03-b04, mixed mode) On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:22:59 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which JRE? According to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/whichjava.html I needed Blackdown's JRE for Moz 1.3 under RH 8.0. Blackdown also had 2 versions of 1.4.1, one for gcc-3.2 and one for gcc-2.95 On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:09 pm, someone claiming to be Alan Jackson wrote: Doesn't work at all under Mozilla 1.3 Displays the map, but the buttons don't work in Netscape 7.0 Both in Col 3.1.1 On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:28:44 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody get this link to work properly in linux? http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/ Even with my new lindows box and netscape, this link performs poorly. I would like to know if anybody using linux can navigate this page properly. It displays almost OK in XP, but some buttons don't seem too work well and overall this page is a bit of a pain to navigate in any OS for me. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86 4.2.1 11:15pm up 3 days, 16:24, 3 users, load average: 0.75, 0.84, 0.92 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT We won't back down...
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:59:56 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Antarctica is getting colder. 2. Greenland is getting colder. 3. The USA weather stations show no temperature increase. 4. Global satellite temperature data shows no temperature increase. This agrees with data from weather balloons. All four of these facts are incorrect. In fact, there is basically a consensus amongst climate researchers that indeed global warming is taking place, and has been measured. The ice cover in both Antartica and Greenland is shrinking, worldwide in all continents glaciers are receeding at an accelerated rate, satellite data do in fact show a temperature increase, and US weather stations show the same. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT We won't back down...
measurement systems and/or the effects of natural internal climate variability. However, we find that both effects may make substantial contributions to the observed trend difference. We also discuss a recent model result that suggests that the observed warming of the surface relative to the lower troposphere may be a response to combined forcing by well-mixed greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, stratospheric ozone, and the effects of the Pinatubo eruption in June 1991 (12). - Science Volume 295, Number 5553, Issue of 11 Jan 2002, p. 275. Global Warming Continues The second warmest global surface temperature in more than a century of instrumental data (1) was recorded in the 2001 meteorological year (December 2000 through November 2001) (see panel A). The calendar year 2001 will also be the second warmest year on record, as the 11-month temperature anomaly exceeds that in the next warmest years (1990 and 1995) by almost 0.1°C. For our analysis, we used recently documented procedures for data over land (1) and for sea surface temperatures (2). The global warmth in 2001 is particularly meaningful because it occurs at a phase of the Southern Oscillation in which the tropical Pacific Ocean is cool (see panel B). The record warmth of 1998, in contrast, was bolstered by a strong El Niño that raised global temperature 0.2°C above the trend line (see panel A). Global surface air warming over the past 25 years is ~0.5°C, and in the past century is ~0.75°C (1). The recent surface warming contrasts with warming of only ~0.1°C in the troposphere over the past 22 years (3); however, surface and tropospheric warmings are similar over the past 50 years (4). The greatest warm anomalies in 2001 were in Alaska-Canada, in a band from North Africa to Central Asia, and in the Antarctic peninsula (Palmer Land). The Indian and Western Pacific oceans were unusually warm, continuing a trend of recent decades (1). The North Atlantic Ocean is notably warmer than the 1951-1980 climatology. Unusually cool conditions of recent decades, which were centered in Baffin Bay and extended south and southeast of Greenland (1), have given way to warm anomalies in the past 5 years. Overall, the 2001 temperature extends the unusual global warming of recent decades. This warming is considered to be a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (5), and thus the high 2001 temperature will likely invigorate discussions about how to slow global warming. J. Hansen,* R. Ruedy, M. Sato, K. Lo NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA There is more available online, from reputable sources. For a double-barrel load of anti-global warming information, this link can't be beat, although the maintainer of this site is more of a gadfly than a big name scientist. http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/index.htm Joel On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:15:36PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:59:56 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Antarctica is getting colder. 2. Greenland is getting colder. 3. The USA weather stations show no temperature increase. 4. Global satellite temperature data shows no temperature increase. This agrees with data from weather balloons. All four of these facts are incorrect. In fact, there is basically a consensus amongst climate researchers that indeed global warming is taking place, and has been measured. The ice cover in both Antartica and Greenland is shrinking, worldwide in all continents glaciers are receeding at an accelerated rate, satellite data do in fact show a temperature increase, and US weather stations show the same. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL
Re: Java problem
Doesn't work at all under Mozilla 1.3 Displays the map, but the buttons don't work in Netscape 7.0 Both in Col 3.1.1 On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:28:44 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody get this link to work properly in linux? http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/ Even with my new lindows box and netscape, this link performs poorly. I would like to know if anybody using linux can navigate this page properly. It displays almost OK in XP, but some buttons don't seem too work well and overall this page is a bit of a pain to navigate in any OS for me. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Problems with ssh solved, but mysterious
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:39:20 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/03 20:06, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple I'm missing in the config or something. I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. Then I turn around and try to ssh from his machine back to mine. I have my port set up as 13045 so I can ssh through my router to my machine : $ ssh -l ajackson -p 13045 -v earthman It just doesn't like my password. I can't imagine why not. i've seen this happen on systems where openssl got horked, or pam support was messed up in the sshd binary. try starting sshd with the -d switch, which puts it into debug mode so that you'll get verbose messaging on the server side of what is going on. Thank you!! PAM was complaining about authentication, so I looked at the /etc/shadow file and to my surprise, my account had no password. I looked in /etc/passwd, same thing. I have to use a password to log on, but I don't know where it is kept. I changed my password to itself, that put it into /etc/shadow, and now it works. I'm running Col 3.1.1. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Problems with ssh
I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple I'm missing in the config or something. I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. Then I turn around and try to ssh from his machine back to mine. I have my port set up as 13045 so I can ssh through my router to my machine : $ ssh -l ajackson -p 13045 -v earthman OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090600f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Applying options for earthman debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: restore_uid debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 501 geteuid 0 anon 1 debug1: Connecting to earthman [192.168.0.2] port 13045. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 501/100 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 501/100 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: Connection established. debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: identity file /home/ajackson/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/ajackson/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/ajackson/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software version OpenSSH_3.2.3p1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.2.3p1 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_3.1p1 debug1: Waiting for server public key. debug1: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). debug1: Host 'earthman' is known and matches the RSA1 host key. debug1: Found key in /home/ajackson/.ssh/known_hosts:2 debug1: Encryption type: 3des debug1: Sent encrypted session key. debug1: cipher_init: set keylen (16 - 32) debug1: cipher_init: set keylen (16 - 32) debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector. debug1: Received encrypted confirmation. debug1: Doing challenge response authentication. debug1: No challenge. debug1: Doing password authentication. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied. debug1: Calling cleanup 0x8063570(0x0) It just doesn't like my password. I can't imagine why not. My sshd_config looks like this : Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server IgnoreRhosts yes RhostsRSAAuthentication no RhostsAuthentication no IgnoreUserKnownHosts no PrintMotd yes StrictModes yes RSAAuthentication yes PermitRootLogin no PermitEmptyPasswords no PasswordAuthentication yes CheckMail no X11Forwarding yes DenyGroups majordom AllowGroups ajackson users ReverseMappingCheck no GatewayPorts yes AllowTcpForwarding yes KeepAlive yes Protocol 1 Port 13045 Any ideas? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: fetchmail problems
To answer my own post... Apparently Caldera's security update for fetchmail included turning on SSL which my ISP doesn't support. I downloaded the latest version, compiled without SSL support, and now everything is working. Sigh. On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:32:27 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an e-mail problem. I have DSL, and Col 3.1.1. I've been running successfully for a long time, and now things are beginning to fail. Early this week I lost phone service for a few days, and during that time, I had to reboot my system because it got hung (for unknown reasons). I had used the Caldera updater to get a new version of fetchmail back in January - but I don't think I restarted it until the reboot. Yesterday I could download e-mail from my ISP, today I can't. The fetchmail log looks like this : $ fetchmail -v -v -f .fetchmailmylinux fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying 216.39.194.16 (protocol POP3) at Fri 28 Feb 2003 12:19:26 PM CST: poll started fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 www.mylinuxisp.com v2001.78rh server ready fetchmail: POP3 CAPA fetchmail: POP3 +OK Capability list follows: fetchmail: POP3 TOP fetchmail: POP3 LOGIN-DELAY 180 fetchmail: POP3 UIDL fetchmail: POP3 STLS fetchmail: POP3 USER fetchmail: POP3 SASL LOGIN fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 STLS fetchmail: POP3 +OK STLS completed fetchmail: SSL connection failed. fetchmail: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying 216.39.194.16 (protocol POP3) at Fri 28 Feb 2003 12:19:26 PM CST: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. fetchmail: normal termination, status 3 fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. What is this SSL thing, and why am I suddenly getting this? I'm completely mystified, don't even know where to look. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Config a laptop network
Here's a sys-admin question for you experts. A fellow at work has 10 Linux laptops he uses for portable training classes for Geophysical software. Right now he and a clerk are configuring and loading each one manually, one at a time. What would be the recommended simple, low-cost solution to both network them and then to image them down the wire? We'd like them all to be identical. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Buying a box
I bought mine (with Redhat preloaded) from http://www.ebizenterprises.com/ They do a good job. I've been happy. And you are guaranteed to get Linux compatible hardware. At work I just cut an AFE for a high end Dell with Redhat. We've had good luck with them as well. On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 22:12:46 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to just buy a box with a motherboard, cpu, ram, video card, mouse and keyboard. I am not looking to buy cheap. I want quality material. For example, besides a good motherboard, I want a good box with a quiet but powerful fan, and a good cpu fan, as well. And, I don't want a cheapo keyboard, either. I haven't bought any hardware for quite a while, maybe two years since my last purchase of any significance, but, now that the children are mostly out of college, I actually have some spare money. I would like to get the names of some good online vendors. Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ssh into a home network
Kewl! Thanks to all who replied... On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:45:41 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:33 pm, Net Llama! wrote: On 02/06/03 19:28, Alan Jackson wrote: I have what I hope is a simple problem. My home network is 3 Linux boxes behind a Netgear router/switch hooked to a DSL modem. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
ssh into a home network
I have what I hope is a simple problem. My home network is 3 Linux boxes behind a Netgear router/switch hooked to a DSL modem. In the router I have turned off all the incoming ports except 22, and I have that one pointing at 192.168.0.3 which is my son's machine so he can ssh into his machine remotely. I would *also* like to ssh into *my* machine. How do I set that up? I have a very rudimentary understanding of networking (does it show?). -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Suggestions Wanted.
If you want to use a web hosting service, I'm very happy with mylinuxisp.com. They also have good pricing, shell access, cgi-bin, etc etc. They are also the local tucows mirror. On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:50:55 -0600 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a customer that is looking at finally doing a web page. They have 3 domains and about 30 users. We have a public /27 range of IP's and are in the process of switching over to a 6/6MB DSL connection and keeping the public IP's. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Continuous feed dot matrix printers
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:46:56 -0800 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:14:53PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: I support some software on CPAN that builds mailing labels in PostScript. I just got a query from a fellow who has a continuous-feed tractor printer (an Okidata) who wants to print labels on it from Linux. I think I gave away my old dot matrix a few years ago so I can't do any testing. I suspect that creating a postscript file is probably not the way to handle a continous feed printer - probably just want to send it raw printing commands and text. Does anyone have experience with continuous feed on Linux? How does it work? What sort of drivers do you need? Am I making this too complicated? Yup. I don't know about CUPS and the other fancy stuff, but printing text under normal *ix is just a matter of a filter that basically sends the input directly to the printer without massaging it at all. Typically pages are 66 lines of ascii text, and most of the Okidata printers can also set other page lengths so you can use the FF (form feed, ctrl-L) character to jump to the top of form. Printing labels is just a matter of formatting ascii text into columns with the right number of lines in each label. The default setting on the Oki is most like 6lpi (lines per inch). Thanks! Hopefully we've helped yet another fugitive from Gates world move to Linux. I tried this on my inkjet, and it worked like a champ. Just sent the text to /dev/lp0. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Continuous feed dot matrix printers
I support some software on CPAN that builds mailing labels in PostScript. I just got a query from a fellow who has a continuous-feed tractor printer (an Okidata) who wants to print labels on it from Linux. I think I gave away my old dot matrix a few years ago so I can't do any testing. I suspect that creating a postscript file is probably not the way to handle a continous feed printer - probably just want to send it raw printing commands and text. Does anyone have experience with continuous feed on Linux? How does it work? What sort of drivers do you need? Am I making this too complicated? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Canon S900 printer (again)
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:54:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, Alan Jackson wrote: % I'm really beginning to get irritated at Canon's total lack of support for % anyone not toeing the Microsoft line. % % I have some Kodak print paper that is not defined in the printer ppd file % I got from Turboprint. So I sent a request to Canon for the ppd file for % their printer. And here is the reply... % % Would anyone out there have a Canon S900 PPD file that contains Kodak % Ultima paper definitions? Can you start with the S800? That might help. I hacked the definition in yesterday, and it *almost* works. I'm rather baffled since the gimp preview shows what looks like a correct page and image size, but then the printer stretches it way out vertically, and gets the horizontal correct. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Canon S900 printer (again)
I'm really beginning to get irritated at Canon's total lack of support for anyone not toeing the Microsoft line. I have some Kodak print paper that is not defined in the printer ppd file I got from Turboprint. So I sent a request to Canon for the ppd file for their printer. And here is the reply... Dear Alan Jackson, Thank you for writing to us. Unfortunately, we do not have a copy of the .ppd file for the S900. We only have access to the files for the printer after they are extracted in Windows or Mac. I'm sorry. Jerks. I'm getting very close to returning it for an HP. It's a shame. I think it's a very nice printer, and it has some nice features, but I'm not sure I can live with the aggravation. Would anyone out there have a Canon S900 PPD file that contains Kodak Ultima paper definitions? Of course Kodak is so pitiful they haven't even *answered* my query. I think I actually now how to hack the file to add the paper, but it looks moderately painful. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Gimps question: Selection lines remain visible
Another way to do it might be to create a transparent layer above the picture layer, and after making the selection and inverting it, go to that layer and do a floodfill with the background color of your choice. I like to operate on separate layers when possible to keep the original pristine. On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 02:28:35 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I found a solution of sorts. The additional step I was taking was to convert the foreground from white to black, after making the cut. I have found that if I start with a black foreground, the white line is a black line and doesn't show up in my black background. Oh well, Joel On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:54:23AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: I have an odd problem. Here is how it comes about: I use the free hand selection tool to outline an object. I invert the selection and hit cut. This is supposed to removed garbage from the picture background while keeping the object in the picture. After the cut command, I am left with the fine white line which outlines the object. I can erase it, but, is there a way to avoid this problem. Is this a feature? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Canon PowerShot G2 USB
Well, magically gphoto2 knows where to find it - /dev/bus/usb/001/xx But I can't figure out how to get a mountable filesystem out of it. Although, gphoto2 works so well, I'm almost not caring - except I'd just like to know how to do it. On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:11:08 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did you get it to work in gphoto2? Does this camera not act as a USB Storage device? For instance, my Mustek does not. I use it with gphoto2 and set it up to use the Mustek driver (gphoto's) and the path /dev/usb/mdc800 and everything works fine (well, fine on everything but by laptop which I'm convinced has screwed-up USB hardware inside it). I do this with COLW311. begin Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:45:56 -0600) On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:31:57 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after perusing the web, it looks like this camera is a little dicey on this kernel, so I took the easy way out and got a CF card reader. But I can't quite get that going either... Never mind For reasons I don't fathom, I can now access the camera fine with gphoto2. I think that it may have been upset because I had cd'd into the /proc/bus/usb directory. Go figure. I'd still like to know how to mount the card reader though... and to understand why I keep incrementing the device number... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems *Network Consulting, Integration Support *Web Development and E-Business ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Printing Photos and turboprint
Well I hooked my new Canon S900 printer up - that was a minor trial. It is a usb device, and I still don't quite grok usb. I finally realised I needed to add in the usb printer kernel module. I purchased turboprint, a requirement for this printer. Now I'm trying to actually print to it. I've had some success, but I can't quite get it to do what I want. I have some very high res jpeg files I want to print at 1200x1200 dpi. What is the preferred way to do this? When I try to do it through gimp, it barfs - I suspect it uses up too much memory or something trying to generate an absurdly large postscript file. One side issue that drove me nuts - I discovered that the file command, of all things, did not recognize jpeg files. I edited the /usr/share/misc/magic file to add the entries for jpeg, and that fixed it, but I am still amazed that they weren't already there. I'm running Caldera 3.1.1. I can see that when I'm done, there may be an SxS come out of this. I also discovered a new way to admin CUPS, point a browser at http://localhost:631/. Pretty cool. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Printing Photos and turboprint
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:09:43 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/29/02 19:03, Alan Jackson wrote: Now I'm trying to actually print to it. I've had some success, but I can't quite get it to do what I want. I have some very high res jpeg files I want to print at 1200x1200 dpi. What is the preferred way to do this? When I try to do it through gimp, it barfs - I suspect it uses up too much memory or something trying to generate an absurdly large postscript file. define barfs Failed to print. I did find one problem - I wasn't giving gimp the ppd file, so that helped a lot. But still with the 1200 dpi file I get : GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. pixmap_class::open: can't read magic header ERROR: main: Could not read input file Report at end of pdrivecontrol_class::release_printer I can get it to work at 600 dpi... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Printing Photos and turboprint
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:19:07 -0500 Marvin P. Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it run out of swap? 1.) What is your system configuration: Swap and RAM? 0.5 Gbytes RAM, 1 Gbyte swap (1 Ghz Athlon) this is my beyond the pale system. It ain't got Windows, and it ain't got Intel inside. 8-) Watching the system load, it doesn't even approach running out of swap. Also, 2.) What printing system are you using in GIMP Gimp Print, CUPS or what? CUPS/turboprint -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Printing Photos and turboprint
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:27:13 -0500 Marvin P. Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to sylpheed 0.8.7. I haven't upgraded this program in well over a year. And there it is: A manual in English Imagine. I plan to hold off for about a week to see if any nasty bugs turn up. Test it well for me! Take a look at actions. That is the best thing they have added in the past year. You can define your own commands. I have 10 that I have added. Spam analysis, burst digest, uudecode, explode mime, view html, ... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Canon PowerShot G2 USB
Well, after perusing the web, it looks like this camera is a little dicey on this kernel, so I took the easy way out and got a CF card reader. But I can't quite get that going either... I plug it in and see, in /var/log/messages, Dec 26 11:22:25 earthman kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 9 but I don't know how to mount it as a filesystem. It also bothers me that the device number keeps incrementing each time I attach a usb device. Is there something I need to do to more cleanly detach the devices? Here's some more info... # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 12X8X32 ' '9.AB' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Also the /proc/bus/usb/device and driver files look okay. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Canon PowerShot G2 USB
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:31:57 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after perusing the web, it looks like this camera is a little dicey on this kernel, so I took the easy way out and got a CF card reader. But I can't quite get that going either... Never mind For reasons I don't fathom, I can now access the camera fine with gphoto2. I think that it may have been upset because I had cd'd into the /proc/bus/usb directory. Go figure. I'd still like to know how to mount the card reader though... and to understand why I keep incrementing the device number... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
USB and SCSI (again)
Okay, I've got a little CF card reader attached to a USB port. When I attach it, /var/log/messages says : Dec 26 21:48:33 earthman kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 20 and in dmesg I see : hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 20 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 20 $ /sbin/lsmod | grep -i usb usb-storage41232 0 usb-uhci 21088 0 (unused) usbcore46272 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] scsi_mod 82400 4 [usb-storage sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi] $ /sbin/lsmod | grep -i scsi ide-scsi7056 0 scsi_mod 82400 4 [usb-storage sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi] and # cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d800 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d400 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 20 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=05e3 ProdID=0700 Rev= 1.13 S: Product=USB Storage Device C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 96mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms but, # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATAPIModel: CD-R/RW 12X8X32 Rev: 9.AB Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 No USB filesystem. And when I try to mount to /dev/sda1, I get mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device I don't see the problem, although I suspect something with my SCSI setup. The only scsi stuff I normally do is my CDRW. Any ideas? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Canon PowerShot G2 USB
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:34:14 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I use to load the correct usb, fs modules and ends with a mount: modprobe usbcore modprobe usb-uhci modprobe usb-storage modprobe fat modprobe vfat echo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera Well I got a new camera myself for Christmas, a Canon PowerShot G2. After I finally realised that the usb ports were disabled in the BIOS (sigh), and fixed that, I tried the above, and it *almost* worked. root]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device However, in /proc/bus/usb I see the camera, and the kernel sees it... Dec 25 22:26:52 earthman kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 5 Dec 25 22:26:52 earthman kernel: usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x3055) is not claimed by any active driver. So if it isn't /dev/sda1 I want what would it be? I'm running Caldera 3.1.1 -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
xterm/tty problems
A colleague at work asked me the following, and I couldn't quite remember how to fix it. She logs into a Linux frontend for our beowolf cluster, using rlogin, and when she runs man, it leaves the xterm in a state such that everything is underlined after that. If she uses more, then everything is reverse video. Where do you go to stop this from happening, and what do you put there? This is a tty thing, isn't it. I understood those things, sort of, years ago, but I've forgotten almost all of it... The front end (and the clusters too) are running some version of Redhat. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Where did my diskspace go?
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:58:49 -0600 RBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 November 2002 12:29 pm, Alan Jackson wrote: You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!! After reading everything, I decided I probably needed to fsck at minimum, so I just rebooted. Turned out the fsck ran automatically, the disk was corrupted, and now, instead of 100% full at 36 Gb, I get (Ta da!) Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 5776132 30734304 16% /home Thanks again. It's just a shame I had to reset my uptime, I hadn't booted since May. Curse you, Masked Man!!! I have to shutdown every time there's a thunderstorm. $100 for an UPS. Best investment I've made. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Where did my diskspace go?
No. I guess I could On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:04:48 -0600 RBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried umount /dev/hdb1 and running fsck on it? On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:21 pm, Alan Jackson wrote: I did. (I'm the only user). But that's where I can't find where the space went. I even ran a find . -type f -ls and summed up the numbers in perl. Still only get 6 Gbytes of files on a full 36 Gbyte disk... On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:04:53 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i'd assume that it filled up the diskspace of the user $HOME that was running it. So, why not run 'du -m' on that user's $HOME? On 11/26/02 18:56, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from different tools as well : df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120194316 100% /home But when I try to find where it has gone with du, du -k /home yields : 5708312. total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30? - -- Robert Black Eagle The more I understand, the less I know. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95G6RtjSYKkYJrmcRAvsuAJ9MDY12FwUKmcJVnILQhvquI/UTHQCgjflI L+4MIJiklvNKp0VD4BDOewU= =V2xy -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Where did my diskspace go?
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:48:46 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from different tools as well : df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120194316 100% /home But when I try to find where it has gone with du, du -k /home yields : 5708312 . total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30? Try # du -k /home | sort -nr Maybe you've run out of inodes on /home? WHat does df -i show?? FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hda7 308224 119592 188632 39% / none 64164 1 641631% /dev/shm /dev/hdb14889248 258351 46308976% /home /dev/hda6 307648 103054 204594 34% /redhat /dev/hda8 307648 92747 214901 31% /col2 /dev/hda93826368 10407 38159611% /archive starman:/ 0 0 0- /server Nope. Good idea though! -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Where did my diskspace go?
You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!! After reading everything, I decided I probably needed to fsck at minimum, so I just rebooted. Turned out the fsck ran automatically, the disk was corrupted, and now, instead of 100% full at 36 Gb, I get (Ta da!) Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 5776132 30734304 16% /home Thanks again. It's just a shame I had to reset my uptime, I hadn't booted since May. On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:49:43 -0600 Jack Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/02 18:56, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from different tools as well : df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120194316 100% /home But when I try to find where it has gone with du, du -k /home yields : 5708312 . total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30? Here's some info on du/df from Sun support site - sunsolve. While it is from Sun, I believe the explanations are applicable. This is supposed to be an open link on sunsolve. Contact me if it's not. WHITE PAPER ID: 26928 SYNOPSIS: du and df Differences (originally published 8/91) DETAIL DESCRIPTION: http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/private-cgi/retrieve.pl?type=0doc=fwpaper%2F26928display=plain -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Where did my diskspace go?
Simpler than doing it by itself. That and in case the offending process was still hanging out - which it may have been. The system had trouble unmounting /home as it was. It probably cleaned up a few stray zombies and other trash as well. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:52:20 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/02 10:29, Alan Jackson wrote: You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!! After reading everything, I decided I probably needed to fsck at minimum, so I just rebooted. Turned out the fsck ran automatically, the disk was corrupted, and now, instead of 100% full at 36 Gb, I get (Ta da!) Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 5776132 30734304 16% /home Thanks again. It's just a shame I had to reset my uptime, I hadn't booted since May. I'm confused about why you felt the need to reboot just to run a fsck on /home?? -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:50pm up 46 days, 6:04, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.27, 0.35 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Where did my diskspace go?
I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from different tools as well : df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120194316 100% /home But when I try to find where it has gone with du, du -k /home yields : 5708312. total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Where did my diskspace go?
I did. (I'm the only user). But that's where I can't find where the space went. I even ran a find . -type f -ls and summed up the numbers in perl. Still only get 6 Gbytes of files on a full 36 Gbyte disk... On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:04:53 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i'd assume that it filled up the diskspace of the user $HOME that was running it. So, why not run 'du -m' on that user's $HOME? On 11/26/02 18:56, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different answers from different tools as well : df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38464340 36316120194316 100% /home But when I try to find where it has gone with du, du -k /home yields : 5708312. total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30? -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 7:00pm up 45 days, 8:14, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Linux is winning...
Well I was in Salt Lake City last week for the annual Society of Exploration Geophysicists meeting. The news this year? Pretty nearly every software vendor who normally had Solaris offerings now also offered Linux versions of their code. These are $100,000 plus packages. Many are high-end 3D graphics and visualization packages. Some of these vendors used to offer NT versions. 8-) There were also about a half-dozen outfits offering Linux clusters, some quite large. Intel was giving away large stuffed penguins, as was IBM. Sun showed off some of their Linux workstations as well. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: solitaire?
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:11:09 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: try pysol. has a few hundred solitaire games and is quite configurable. What she must have is the Vegas rule type solitaire, which charges $52 for a deck and gives back a buck for each card played. Haven't been able to find that. Why not e-mail the pysol maintainer? I have a feeling he would love to add one more game, especially if it could score a victory for Linux. Pysol is wonderful, by the way. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Curious log entry
I got several of these in my logfile yesterday - is this innocent or is it something I should pursue? Jun 28 11:18:22 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. Jun 28 11:18:27 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. Jun 28 11:23:07 earthman login[13673]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR (null), Error in service module -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Telephone Answer Machine for Linux
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:16:03 +0200
Oliver Ob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well why not exchange some scripts?
I am new to that, too (got Zyxel 1496e+)
#!/bin/perl -w
# Monitor callerid
use Carp;
use strict;
use Device::SerialPort 0.06;
my $port = /dev/modem;
my $PortObj;
$PortObj = Device::SerialPort-new ($port) or die Can't start $port\n;
$PortObj-baudrate(9600);
$PortObj-parity(odd);
$PortObj-databits(8);
$PortObj-stopbits(1);
$PortObj-parity_enable(0);
$PortObj-handshake(dtr);
my $print = 0;
if (defined @ARGV $ARGV[0] eq '-p') {$print = 1;}
my $gotit = ;
my @gotit;
my $count_in;
my $sleep = 1;
my $logfile = '/home2/archive/callerid/log';
my $archive = '/home2/archive/callerid/archive';
$SIG{'USR1'} = sub {$PortObj-write(ATZ\r); sleep 3; die usr1 kill signal
recieved\n;};
# Initialize modem
print --- Starting Callerid -\n;
sleep 1;
$PortObj-write(ATZ\r);
sleep 1;
$PortObj-write(ATE1 S0=0 V1Q0#CID=1\r);
# main read loop --
while (1) {
($count_in, $gotit) = $PortObj-read(500);
sleep $sleep;
next if $count_in == 0;
process;
($count_in, $gotit) = $PortObj-read(500);
sleep 1;
process;
}
# end main read loop --
sub process {
my @t = localtime(time);
my $datetime = ($t[5]+1900) . - . ($t[4]+1) . - . $t[3] . . $t[2] .
: . $t[1] . : . $t[0];
$gotit =~ s/\r//g;
open (ARCHIVE,$archive) || die Can't open $archive, $!\n;
print ARCHIVE $gotit;
close ARCHIVE;
}
=head1
kill -SIGUSR1 pid : this will flush the buffer and exit the program
Set the sticky bit so this will run as other than root
chown root callerid.pl
chmod u+s callerid.pl
Alan Jackson, Copyright 2000, released under the same conditions as perl.
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Re: Anti-Spam
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:42 -0400 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Spamassassin. Me too... 8-) If you are a perl programmer it is especially nice, since you can easily hack it. I use it in conjunction with my hacked version of Mail::Agent - I do a lot of stuff with my mail. I've used a lot of filters and anti-spam software, and Spamassassin is the best. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Telephone Answer Machine for Linux
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:23:18 -0300 Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an old ZyXEL U1496E voice+fax+modem and I want to use it as a TAM with Linux. I'd like to be able to do some scripting with it (convert messages to mp3 and send them via email, multiple mailboxes, msg retrieval, etc, etc). But I'll be happy with basic functionality. I'm reading vgetty docs right now. Any recomendation besides vgetty?? I have a little perl script I wrote to capture do stuff with the callerid data, similar sort of problem I suppose. I used the Device::SerialPort package. I believe that Misterhouse has some of that functionality built into it as well. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:21:28 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:45:00 -0500 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory, it is supposed to auto-suspend after 5 seconds of idle time, but I haven't seen this happen. Are you using aRts in Full Duplex mode (KControl setting)? If so, auto-suspend doesn't work. Nope. I think it's just a bit cantankerous. Reading the Google results, it's had a bit of a rough start, although it seems to be settling down. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd
Yeah - in theory anyway. Actually it does seem to work, but I'll need to find all the places that is needed and put it in - I probably make some aliases as well. We'll see if it works with pysol... 8-) On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:07:23 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't you also do artsd appname (i.e artsd realplayer) for the command to start the app. I may have the artsd command name wrong as I'm going from memory. Alan Jackson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:49 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Here are my personal notes for posterity - this is getting close to being an SxS... artsd will not let go of the /dev/dsp device. This is why play, gramofile, mpg123, and flite will not work. There are several solutions : - disable artsd - % artsshell suspend - % artsdsp mpg123 myfile.mp3 - % artsplay myfile.wav Other tools available are : artsshell suspend artsshell terminate artsshell status artscontrol In theory, it is supposed to auto-suspend after 5 seconds of idle time, but I haven't seen this happen. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Mail clients
I don't think so, although the development team seems to be very active. If someone suggested that to them , they might go ahead and implement it. The other thing I like about it is I can also run it under Solaris at work. On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:16:42 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. Thanks. I'm moving to xfce and am looking for a kmail replacement. I ran Sylpheed very briefly - does it handle mail lists like KMail does where if you define a folder as containing a mail list you can enter the reply to address and any mail sent while you are in that folder has the proper address? Alan Jackson wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:06:37 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's exmh? It's a Tcl/Tk front-end to mh (or nmh). It is the follow-on to the old Xmh, which was an X-windows front-end to mh. Xmh may have been part of the old Athena toolkit - I don't recall. Nice thing about exmh is that it is fairly hackable. I like Sylpheed for the threading and speed, plus the way it handles those d*^$#* html infested e-mails. I want to patch it to allow user exits, though. I have a spam analyzer I want to add a button for. I also use native mh - I'm a sicky. 8-) Actually, knowing mh commands is really nice when all you have is a telnet connection. You can still do e-mail. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Mail clients
Spoke too soon. Looks like it's coming/here. There is a page of patches, http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed/ and one of the patches available is : Mailing list support This patch improves mailing list support to 0.6.5claws25: a Mailing-List menu is added and contains, if applicable, menus to post/ask for help/subscribe/unsubscribe/view archive/contact ml owner if the selected message complies with rfc 2368 i.e. contains List- headers (feature switchable in configuration/interface) changes the reply behaviour to first available adress from: the Reply-To header, the mailing list post address, and finally the From header I should add, one other thing I *really* like is that it reads my palm-pilot addressbook from jpilot. On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:16:42 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. Thanks. I'm moving to xfce and am looking for a kmail replacement. I ran Sylpheed very briefly - does it handle mail lists like KMail does where if you define a folder as containing a mail list you can enter the reply to address and any mail sent while you are in that folder has the proper address? Alan Jackson wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:06:37 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's exmh? It's a Tcl/Tk front-end to mh (or nmh). It is the follow-on to the old Xmh, which was an X-windows front-end to mh. Xmh may have been part of the old Athena toolkit - I don't recall. Nice thing about exmh is that it is fairly hackable. I like Sylpheed for the threading and speed, plus the way it handles those d*^$#* html infested e-mails. I want to patch it to allow user exits, though. I have a spam analyzer I want to add a button for. I also use native mh - I'm a sicky. 8-) Actually, knowing mh commands is really nice when all you have is a telnet connection. You can still do e-mail. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Mail clients
I just moved from exmh to Sylpheed as my e-mail client, and I got curious about what people use, so I ran some stats on my mail boxes. Totally unscientific, of course, and heavily biased by the sort of people I would deal with (Linux geeks). But interesting, none the less... exmh : 2573 Mozilla : 1709 Microsoft_Outlook_Express : 1202 AOL : 437 KMail : 392 Internet : 351 Microsoft_Outlook_IMO : 301 Mutt : 243 Windows : 225 Sylpheed : 221 Microsoft_Outlook : 179 Juno : 142 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_P : 127 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_V : 107 Microsoft_Internet_Mail : 93 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_V : 85 Lotus : 75 Pegasus : 72 ELM : 71 Microsoft_Outlook_CWS : 62 PMMail : 52 XFMail : 47 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_P : 43 eGroups : 37 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_L : 33 Novell : 33 Apple : 32 Yahoo : 32 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_P : 32 Z-Mail : 30 CompuServe : 30 Microsoft_CDO_for_Windows : 28 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_V : 28 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_P : 27 Forte : 25 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_P : 23 QUALCOMM_Windows_Eudora_V : 23 Gnus : 22 Microsoft_Exchange_Server : 21 Unknown : 20 -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Mail clients
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:06:37 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's exmh? It's a Tcl/Tk front-end to mh (or nmh). It is the follow-on to the old Xmh, which was an X-windows front-end to mh. Xmh may have been part of the old Athena toolkit - I don't recall. Nice thing about exmh is that it is fairly hackable. I like Sylpheed for the threading and speed, plus the way it handles those d*^$#* html infested e-mails. I want to patch it to allow user exits, though. I have a spam analyzer I want to add a button for. I also use native mh - I'm a sicky. 8-) Actually, knowing mh commands is really nice when all you have is a telnet connection. You can still do e-mail. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Reading Windoze CD's on Linux/Unix
Fellow at work asked me this, and I don't know the answer, offhand. He receives CD's written on Windoze, and when he reads them on his Solaris box, he gets the 8.3 filenames instead of the long Windows filenames. How can he recover the long filenames on Unix? --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
I need a clue - having a network problem
Well our power went away last night for several hours, and that's when I discovered that I forgot to put my router/switch on the UPS - whoops! So I couldn't rlog into one of my systems to shut it down. And that system is causing me problems today. I can communicate on my LAN, no problem. My good system is earthman, the sick puppy is starman. I can ping the sick system from my good one (and vice versa) [ajackson@earthman ajackson]$ ping starman PING starman.oplnk.net (192.168.0.4): 56 octets data 64 octets from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms 64 octets from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.3 ms 64 octets from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.3 ms --- starman.oplnk.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss I can ping my ISP from my good system... [ajackson@earthman ajackson]$ ping www.oplnk.net PING www.oplnk.net (216.90.3.141): 56 octets data 64 octets from 216.90.3.141: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=29.5 ms 64 octets from 216.90.3.141: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=29.0 ms 64 octets from 216.90.3.141: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=30.3 ms --- www.oplnk.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 29.0/29.6/30.3 ms But when I try to ping my ISP from my sick system... [ajackson@starman ajackson]$ ping www.oplnk.net PING www.oplnk.net (216.90.3.141): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote www.oplnk.net 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote www.oplnk.net 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote www.oplnk.net 64 chars, ret=-1 --- www.oplnk.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Now, it's able to get DNS, since it figured out the IP address of the server I pinged. So what has broken - where do I need to look? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: I need a clue - having a network problem
On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 11:47:16 -0600 Andrew Mathews wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Well our power went away last night for several hours, and that's when I discovered that I forgot to put my router/switch on the UPS - whoops! So I couldn't rlog into one of my systems to shut it down. And that system is causing me problems today. snip Does the sick system have a default route set? route -n or netstat -r should list the default route if it's set, otherwise use the route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx command to set it. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo so I did route add default gw router.oplnk.net and that fixed it! Thank you!! I still have no idea why it broke. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Mozilla Party
I just discovered what I'm certain many of you know already, there are parties being held to celebrate the release of Mozilla 1.0 http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/ Party on! -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Screenshot captures
My favorite screen capture is xv. It has very nice options for capturing a particular window unmolested. On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:40:25 -0600 Collins wrote: I understand that gimp (and other packages can do this), but how does one go about doing this? For example, I have several desktops. How do I identify what to capture to gimp (or pick a package) without messing up the display I want to capture? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: SxS Distro?
Well I have negative spare time, but I'm willing to donate a few positive spikes where I can. I'm really a perl guy, but I've used Unix for about 13 years now, and I once worked up our company Unix file structure and logon sequence. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Mozilla memory leak
Well I missed (just) getting 100 days uptime because of Mozilla. I have the latest build loaded, 1.0.0+, and I left a few window open for a few days. When I got home this evening, my system was totally locked up. I couldn't get the monitor to respond, no rlogin, no telnet. And I could hear the disk reading writing, so I assumed that whatever was happening, the disk was thrashing. So I hit the reset, and after all the fsck's hit the logs and found that I had run out of memory ( I have half a Gig!), because of Mozilla. So be careful - don't leave any loose Mozillas open. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Gramofile problems - can't record anything
On Wed, 29 May 2002 00:06:58 -0400 Tim Wunder wrote: Yep. For kicks, what's different on your eW3.1 setup than mine? I'm running kernel 2.4.18 with the pre-empt kernel patch and glibc 2.2.4. Those are what I've updated since having a working krecord to having a non-working krecord. I'm only trying to use gramofile because krecord appears to be broken for me. Perhaps my krecord and gramofile problems are related. krecord exits with an immediate segfault. gramofile just won't record anything. I have the stock kernel. 2.4.2 Sounds like the same problem - whatever it is - to me. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Gramofile problems - can't record anything
On Tue, 28 May 2002 14:21:57 -0400 Tim Wunder wrote: Anyone on list using Gramofile? I have gramofile-1.6 installed under a slightly modified Caldera eW3.1 system (KDE 3.0.1, X-4.1.0, kernel 2.4.18-with preempt patch) and I can't get it to record from my sound card. I can use it to play a WAV file, but it won't record. I can navigate the record menu until I get to where I start the recording, but when I tell it to start, it just kicks me back to the main menu. No error output or anything. I'm quite puzzled by it. I have used it a lot (wrote an SxS on it), and had no problems. I run it on eW3.1 also. I don't remember doing anything special to set it up. Can you listen to sound piped into your soundcard from your speakers without gramofile in the loop? -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: OT How many Boxen?
On Tue, 28 May 2002 17:17:38 -0400 Kurt Wall wrote: I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a Pentium III running an equally heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, and a Sparc5 running Solaris 2.8. Packard Bell, 133 Mhz Pentium, 80 Mb mem, Caldera 2.4 uptime 95 days Terian (from Jones Business systems, now Ebiz), 1 Ghz Athlon, 500 Mb mem, 2x40Gb disks, Redhat 7.2 (pre-loaded), Caldera eW3.1 uptime 97 days No brand (my high school freshman built it 3 years ago), 333 Mhz Pentium, 250 Mb mem, Redhat 7.2, Win 98 (he always runs Linux. and not networked yet because I still have to run the cat5 downstairs somehow, my wife's HP 750 Mhz Pentium, 250 Mb mem, Windows-Me (and boy does it suck. BSOD every 20 minutes). Also not networked, my 7 year-old's PB 66 Mhz 586, Win 3.11, my mother-in-law's old PB 66 Mhz 586, Caldera 2.4, and my first IBM-compat PC, PB 33 Mhz, Win 3.1 The first two share an UPS. 8-) -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: OT How many Boxen?
On Tue, 28 May 2002 15:52:14 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: 1 Mac Classic running OS5 OS5? Whoa. I've never even *seen* anything older than 6.0.8. Whippersnapper! I didn't count my original Mac sitting on the shelf in the garage. I seem to recall an OS version of 4.x! Aww heck! I gave away my old Apple ][+ a few years ago. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: 75 days and still perking...
Packard Bell 133 Mhz Pentium, 80 Mb ram. Up since I took it down to install an ethernet card. It collects data off my weather station and posts it to the web, and traps my callerid data. Also runs seti@home. It runs Caldera 2.4. $ uptime 1:01pm up 93 days, 19:39 On Sun, 26 May 2002 20:48:31 -0600 Tyler Regas wrote: With the esxception of 31.5 logged and planned downtime hours, 1.5 unplanned downtime hours, and a single software-related crash, my Packard-Bell 366MHz Celeron with 18GBs of HDD and 256MBs of RAM has been running for 3 years, 5 months, and 11 days. Other than the NICs, HDDs, and RAM, the machine is stock. Probably the only good machine P-B ever made :) On Sun, 26 May 2002 22:23:16 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I'd brag a bit... My home server has been up and running for 75 days now. How's everyone else doing? :') -- * * Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux 10:18pm up 75 days, 3:30, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.07, 0.01 ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Tyler Regas PHM Editor-in-Chief [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: OT: Domain Registrars
On Mon, 27 May 2002 10:44:01 -0400 Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 25, Alan Jackson managed to emit: I've had a terrible experience with Network Solutions trying to get my domain host changed - I submitted the change last Saturday. They said 24-72 hours. I phoned today and they manually forced the change. Awful. Who do other people use? Wow. I have had no problems with Network Solutions in terms of timely updates. Indeed, it has always Just Worked (tm). I don't like the games they play with whois and so forth, but I've chalked that up to a childish response to losing their monopoly. And I sent in two status requests guaranteed to be answered in 24 hours that never came back. Not to mention their periodic spam. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: OT unix math function: norm
When I have done that I have calculated the mean and standard deviation, and then used
those
to create a gaussian curve. You also need to normalize the curve to fit the data,
since a
normal gaussian distribution is normed to 1, but that is just a scale factor.
On Sun, 26 May 2002 18:07:45 -0400 Joel Hammer wrote:
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Thanks for the answer. It is helpful.
What I would like to do is make a Gaussian normal curve that will
superimpose itself over bar graphs showing a population distribution.
The idea is to give an immediate visual impression of how far from
normal the population data is given the population mean and std dev.
I haven't had success with this. I can't seen to get it right. What I
see is a much higher peak of my normal curve than what I see in my
data. I have attached a plot in fact. Here is the plot file for this.
(I use a big bash script to see this stuff up for gnuplot.)
set key left Left
u=13.3500
var=.47548245614035087719
display_v=.475
display_u=13.350
set label 1 mean = 13.350 at 15.2,.13205 right
set label 2 std dev = .689 at 15.2,.13205*.95 right
set label 3 std error mean = .052 at 15.2 ,.13205*.90 right
set label 4 count = 172 at 15.2,.13205*.85 right
std=.68955235924500387223
count=172
stderrormean=.0027
set ylabel Result Result Frequency
set xlabel
f(x)=exp(-((x-u)**2/(2*var)))/(sqrt(2*pi*var))
plot /tmp/plot_data_bar using 2:1 notitle with boxes , f(x)
Note: My graph labels get squashed when I add the Normal curve. That's on my todo
list after I understand what these normal curves really mean.
BTW, gnuplot is lots of fun and it seems to work for my simple needs.
Joel
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Re: OT postscript question: Justify text
What are you actually trying to do? I know a bit about text formatting and
PostScript, but I'm not clear on what your real goal is.
On Sat, 18 May 2002 18:57:57 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
There's nothing very simple about using Postscript directly; it's not
actually designed for that, it seems.
You can indeed stretch the line with ashow, but be aware that this method
only looks acceptable for VERY small amounts of added space. As the
added amount gets bigger, you lose visual track of where the real spaces are.
You're much better off with widthshow, but you'd have to count the
space characters yourself.
If you're going to stick with ashow, you can use the stringwidth operator
to count characters, and divide the extra space among them. You might
have to use the length-1; I've never tried it. If you want to count
space characters, you probably want the forall operator.
To count, try this:
/countspace {32 eq {1 add} if} bind def
/countspaces {0 exch {countspace} for} bind def
(a b c) countspaces
This should leave the integer 2 on the stack. But then I haven't tested
it, so YMMV.
++ kevin
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:49:36PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
I want to justify simple text files, such as are output by vi. It is
hard to believe it is so hard to do.
When you say keep adding spaces until the line if filled, do you mean
actually adding spaces to the string itself. Wouldn't that get you
words on the same line which were unevenly spaced?
If there were some way for the stringwidth command to return the lenght
of a string that x y ashow or widthshow would put out in the current metric, then
you could just write a loop to keep increasing x until the line were
filled, however; I was unable to figure out how to get the width of a string
put out by ashow, without actually ashowing it.
Or, if there were a quick and easy way to increase the width of
the glyph for space in the current metric, the same trick might be used.
That is what I am going to be fooling with, I guess, fonts.
Seems like it should be simple, to an amateur.
Joel
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:53:44PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
That is a laborious process in Postscript proper. The primitives are there
to support it, but the real work is usually done by the application program
that emits the postscript file. This makes sense, because the application
knows how it wants it done, and there are a remarkable number of different
ways to do it, when you take kerning and such into account.
The relevant primitves are (besides knowing the font metrics for the font
you're using) are the 'width' and 'moveto' operators. You find out how
wide a given string will be when printed, then add space until the size is
just right, then emit the line. Usually an application will precompute all
this, then just emit the 'moveto' and 'show' operators. All the operators
I put in 'primes' have several variants.
My advice: don't try to do it in Postscript unless you're really ready
for a steep learning curve. You'd be a bit better off modifying enscript,
especially if you're outputting a constant-width font like Courier.
++ kevin
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:44:38PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
Does anyone know how to produce justified text in a postscript document?
It sounds simple, but there is no reference to this option in enscript, and
the two postscript manuals I downloaded from the internet don't have the
word justify in them.
Any insight appreciated,
Joel
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Re: OT postscript question: Justify text
Two comments :
In vim, you can use
gqG
on your file to reformat it into nice paragraphs eliminating the sed.
There is a rather nice perl module, Text::Autoformat, which will
do a lot of stuff, one of which is full justification, done
intelligently. It's not that hard to do full justification, it is
tricky to do it intelligently. Just look at what happens occasionally
in your newspaper when their algorithm fails!
The example from the man page :
Input :
R3 Now is the Winter of our discontent made
R3 glorious Summer by this son of York. And all
R3 the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the
R3 deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Output :
R3 Now is the Winter of our discontent made
R3 glorious Summer by this son of York. And all
R3 the clouds that lour'd upon our house In
R3 the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
For generating Postscript, I think I would look at running StarOffice
or some other word processor in batch mode to handle it.
On Sat, 18 May 2002 23:09:32 -0400 Joel Hammer wrote:
Here is what I am doing.
I create a text file with vi. Its structure is a bunch of lines, ending
with nl's. The paragraphs are demarcated by empty lines. This is the
same format as this letter you are reading.
To get a better looking postscript document, I feed the text file through
a sed script which strips out all the nl's except for those which are on
empty lines (paragraph makers). This makes each paragraph one long line,
which enscript will wrap for you, thus making a very nice postscript
document, even if the original text document had irregular or short
lines in some paragraphs. The idea is to make it hard to have a badly
formatted document.
I have gotten just about everything to look like what I want using vi,
sed and enscript, except for justification of the lines of text. The
ragged right margins look bad, especially when you have two or more
columns on a page.
I am new to postscript, and, although justifying text seems simple,
I haven't found an easy way to do it.
Any help appreciated,
Joel
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:35:21PM -0500, Alan Jackson wrote:
What are you actually trying to do? I know a bit about text formatting and
PostScript, but I'm not clear on what your real goal is.
On Sat, 18 May 2002 18:57:57 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
There's nothing very simple about using Postscript directly; it's not
actually designed for that, it seems.
You can indeed stretch the line with ashow, but be aware that this method
only looks acceptable for VERY small amounts of added space. As the
added amount gets bigger, you lose visual track of where the real spaces are.
You're much better off with widthshow, but you'd have to count the
space characters yourself.
If you're going to stick with ashow, you can use the stringwidth operator
to count characters, and divide the extra space among them. You might
have to use the length-1; I've never tried it. If you want to count
space characters, you probably want the forall operator.
To count, try this:
/countspace {32 eq {1 add} if} bind def
/countspaces {0 exch {countspace} for} bind def
(a b c) countspaces
This should leave the integer 2 on the stack. But then I haven't tested
it, so YMMV.
++ kevin
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:49:36PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
I want to justify simple text files, such as are output by vi. It is
hard to believe it is so hard to do.
When you say keep adding spaces until the line if filled, do you mean
actually adding spaces to the string itself. Wouldn't that get you
words on the same line which were unevenly spaced?
If there were some way for the stringwidth command to return the lenght
of a string that x y ashow or widthshow would put out in the current metric,
then
you could just write a loop to keep increasing x until the line were
filled, however; I was unable to figure out how to get the width of a string
put out by ashow, without actually ashowing it.
Or, if there were a quick and easy way to increase the width of
the glyph for space in the current metric, the same trick might be used.
That is what I am going to be fooling with, I guess, fonts.
Seems like it should be simple, to an amateur.
Joel
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:53:44PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
That is a laborious process in Postscript proper. The primitives are there
to support it, but the real work is usually done by the application program
that emits the postscript file. This makes sense, because the application
knows how it wants it done, and there are a remarkable number of different
ways to do it, when you take kerning and such into account.
The relevant primitves are (besides knowing the font
Re: ASCII editor
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