Re: [Eug-lug] mounting old Mac floppy

2005-01-24 Thread horst
Both worked: direct mount, and via image. The bits on the floppy hadn't flip-flopped yet :-) Still, revisiting the loop device for mount was a good exercise. Thanks Bob, for offering plan B .. Horst Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:55:39 -0800 From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> horst w

[Eug-lug] shut down unneeded ports in Gentoo?

2005-01-24 Thread Rob Hudson
I ran nmap on a server of mine and found a few open that I'd rather not be open (the ones with "filtered" in the list)... How can I shut those down in Gentoo? 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 135/tcp filtered msrpc 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn 445/tcp filte

[Eug-lug] Au Sujet d'Emacs (some guy migrating to VIM)

2005-01-24 Thread larry price
http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/opinions/editors.html A very interesting take from Francois Pinard on his decision to migrate to VIM Contains a fair bit of FSF history, and commentary thereupon Also discusses pymacs -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infr

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time

2005-01-24 Thread Jim Kahn
I point out ed for the original poster who normally used a gui editor. I pointed ed out as a standard and very easy to learn editor. There isn't much there, but it is enough to get you to the point where you can get your gui up and running. Then the user can go back to his gui editor. If you alrea

Re: [Eug-lug] Minicom configuration

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Cherba
Glad to hear it! -Mike On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:15, Allen Brown wrote: > I used your custom version this weekend. Nice time saver. > And since I am working with high-school students who are > also talking to this camera (CMUcam), I don't have to > explain as many times how to set

Re: [Eug-lug] Minicom configuration

2005-01-24 Thread Allen Brown
I used your custom version this weekend. Nice time saver. And since I am working with high-school students who are also talking to this camera (CMUcam), I don't have to explain as many times how to set those options. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~a

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time

2005-01-24 Thread Allen Brown
Bob Miller wrote: The history lesson should make it obvious why emacs doesn't share the unix tools philosophy. Finally a critisism of emacs that has some merit! This is exactly correct. Emacs tries to do everything. OTOH, the micro-emacs clones don't try. As a result they are much smaller and loa

Re: [Eug-lug] crack a Mac

2005-01-24 Thread Mr O
Yes, only one DIMM slot. Accepts up to a 1GB stick. My intent is to grab a 512 in the next day or two and see just how much difference it makes from the 256. Sadly, not a standard miniPCI. Got to be the Apple adapter. Not sure if you can see it in the images of the cover or not but there is a smal

[Eug-lug] Re: Wrapping ta

2005-01-24 Thread walter fry
Y'know Iactually understood that thanks that was good!!! From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Wrapping Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:47:52 -0800 walter fry wrote: > newbe walter here

Re: [Eug-lug] crack a Mac

2005-01-24 Thread Bob Miller
Mr O wrote: I only saw one SIMM slot. Is that correct? Is there a miniPCI slot, or is the optional blootueth board a nonstandard form factor? Thanks... -- Bob Miller K kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Eug-lug] mounting old Mac floppy

2005-01-24 Thread Bob Miller
horst wrote: > I try to extract some files from a Mac floppy that's about 7 years old. The filesystem type should be hfs. I'd copy the floppy contents to a disk file and mount the disk file because old floppies get read errors easily. # cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/fd0.img # mount -o ro,loo

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Wrapping

2005-01-24 Thread Bob Miller
walter fry wrote: > newbe walter here.. > What means wraping ? please tcpwrappers is a way to restrict access to network services running on a machine. You can configure it so that, for example, your FTP service is only accessible from one group of IP addresses, and your ssh daemon is access

Re: [Eug-lug] crack a Mac

2005-01-24 Thread Linux Rocks!
Nice pics, except one thing, your mac doesnt look like its on crack... BTW, I liked the thumbnail part of the website, but the slideshow part was annoying... it didnt like my clicking... had to click many times to get to next pic... Jamie On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:38 pm, Mr O wrote: : Scrat