Re: SSH authentication bypass?

2014-06-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: > There was a neat article in Linux Journal (?) that compared > compression/decompression time, bandwidth, data compressibility and cpu > speed. Thank you very much for the very interesting article. Back when I was playing around with the HPN SSH, I was sort-of guessing that

Re: SSH authentication bypass?

2014-06-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Mark Komarinski writes: > HPN SSH (patches to boost ssh performance) allows for no encryption > of the data stream but IIRC the authentication is encrypted.  That > doesn't bypass authentication so this may not be related The following statement is based on my experience with these patches: I di

Re: Sniffing gigabit ethernet? 1000baseT LAN taps?

2014-04-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > "Michael ODonnell" writes: > > > > I don't know what your situation is but if there's a managed > > switch involved I believe that some of them can be rigged to > > echo traffic to one or more specified ports for analysis/debug. > > Mm. Good point. I don't think I h

Re: Max Wi-Fi connections question

2014-04-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ed lawson writes: > I'm sure someone in the group has a real world answer to this > question. My local school is seeking to have Wi-Fi in every classroom > with each classroom having up to 30 devices using the network > simultaneously. I questioned this and was told the appropriate > commercial

Re: Fifo buffer question

2014-02-06 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Curt Howland writes: > I have a background process running from which I would like, from time > to time, to check the console output. I do not want to dedicate a > console window to it, and since I start it from a script the console > output is usually just lost to the akashic ethers. [...] > S

Re: high school python classes

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
maddog wrote: > The class should always start with "this is why you use this and why > you will want to know it. I do think that you're right about this. However, (1) the class was free (no cost to me) and (2) at the time I was just some guy who didn't know anything about anything [1]. I can't

Re: high school python classes

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lloyd Kvam writes: > * Public Key Encryption I took a class at UNH when I was a high-school senior (wooly mammoths were still wandering around campus back then...). It was a class with a topic of number theory. I liked all of the math proofs in the class -- very cool stuff. I really wasn

Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > Not that I'm objecting, but more for my own edification: are there > actually systems out there that don't set the sticky bit on /tmp? > > That just seems... insane I can't recall a standard, multi-user Unix-flavored system on which /tmp didn't have the sticky-

Re: How can I detect whether an /etc/rc.d/init.d script is being run at boot time versus by hand?

2013-05-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Freeman writes: > I'm trying to figure out whether to force the removal of an almost > certainly stale pid file or not in the service start case. I'm not specifically answering your question here, but, here is some code that I believe to be reasonable and related to the problem you appear t

Re: engineering/geek tours/vacation/sightseeing

2013-04-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
David Rysdam writes: > There used to be a site out there that was like "geektours.com" or > "engineeringvacations.com" or something like that. It had computer > history and science museums, civil engineering projects, factory tours > and all kinds of great stuff listed on it. Does anyone else rem

Re: Printer recommendations

2013-03-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
"David & Tina Ohlemacher" writes: > The Dell one comes with onsite service and individual toner carts. Looks > good... Until I looked for a PPD. Yes the generic PPD will likely work to > print, but the right PPD will make it work much better (toner levels, > color, meaningful errors, scanning

Re: Another posix file system question

2013-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Freeman writes: > Scenario, > > Apache or nginx is serving a file, in response to an AJAX request, because > serving static files is fast. The file contains data to be displayed on a > web page (via jQueryUI bar graphs, among, if that's of interest). > > While I might come up with a scheme

Re: IPMI security article

2013-02-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lloyd Kvam writes: > Should I simply disable IPMI or is it likely to be useful even in my > circumstances? Do you have any need to manage your server remotely using the functionality that IPMI provides? How easy is it for you to physically access your server? I've been giving IPMI some thoug

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Matt Minuti writes: > I believe UNH's CS department was quite linux-centric. The first > programming course for engineers was C++ using GCC and VI, and required > ssh'ing into a server to submit work. That's about all I can speak to, > though. > > That said, I think they've switched over to Java

Re: Two things: anti-spam and per-process *network* I/O.

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ken D'Ambrosio writes: > Per-process I/O accounting. Every now and then, I see a system load > spike through the roof -- but disk I/O is okay, likewise CPU. Which > really pretty much leaves network. But I'm unaware of any tool that > spits out per-process network utilization statistics. O

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Can you send us the kernel .config that goes along with the kernel that you are running on your target machine? Regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E And the Army Ants, they leave nothin' but the bones...

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Strange. I made a few minor changes (see attached patch) and when I run your code on my test machine running Linux kernel 2.6.35 I get the following output: $ sudo ./latencytest ./latencytest starting... My original scheduling policy is SCHED_OTHER (0) The original minimum scheduling pri

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Dawson writes: > Does anyone have any experience with this system call? Can you give us some code with your exact setup for sched_setscheduler()? Using this call requires a bit of setup ; there are a quite a few things that could go wrong or not be setup correctly, etc. Being able to loo

Re: grub issue

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > 4: what happens when you type "telinit 5"? > > FYI, Debian and (IIRC) Ubuntu don't use runlevel 5 normally. They > normally boot to runlevel 2, and use a service to start/st

Re: grub issue

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
michael miller writes: > I was happy with ubuntu 10.04, but built a new computer (intel i5, msi > mb) and was having trouble finding drivers for some of the hardware so I > upgraded to 12.04. Everything works fine, except that frequently it > boots to a command line instead of the gui. One to th

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

2012-06-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I've thought about this problem during my commute for a week now, and I haven't been able to come up with a simple solution that satisfies the constraints. I think that a lot of effort could be put into solving this problem with these constraints...or...the problem could be solved simply with a s

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

2012-04-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Freeman writes: > Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons? I've got a Dell Inspirion 1525 that I paid $400 for at the Dell refurbished outlet (online). The machine is 3-4 years old at this point. I use it for a couple of hours most days. It's a $400 laptop. It

Re: EMACS - enabling at spi2 support

2012-04-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Susan Cragin writes: > New problem: What's the best way to learn lisp? Anyone have a > favorite book or on-line site? I always thought that _The Little Lisper_ was pretty good. Unfortunately, this book is out of print. However, it has been replaced with a Scheme variant, and this might not be

Re: EMACS - enabling at spi2 support

2012-04-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Susan Cragin writes: > Does anyone know how to enable at-spi2 support in emacs? Obviously, I think that you are smart enough to find atspi.el here: http://delysid.org/atspi.el ...and of course the comments in the elisp code list some dependencies. After you'll pulled down everything and in

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: > I agree. I don't think my Apple ][ floppies were partitioned. Back in > the day there were a plethora of floppies. You had 8 in., 5 in. There > were a number of Word Processors in the 70s that used floppies. The PC > changed the landscape for both floppies and HDs, and als

Re: Yum errors

2012-01-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
M D L writes: > Attempting to update Fedora 15 I've been having errors: > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: > libibus-1.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by eekboard-1.0.5-1.fc15.x86_64 > libibus-1.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by ibus-hangul-1.4.0-1.fc15.x86_64 > Please report this error in http://yum

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > It's funny what non-hackers notice and appreciate :) The feature that I *cannot* live without is virtual desktops. I prefer to have 16 or 25 of them, in a 4x4 or 5x5 format. I logically separate my work onto these desktops, and I navigate between these with my key

Re: mint

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
> > My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. > > Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu. I couldn't figure out Gnome3 when I upgraded to Fedora 16. It just threw me for a loop. I tried out LXDE and then I found that XFCE suited me better. YMMV. --kevin -- alumni.

Re: Conversations w/ Computing's historical personages (was: Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?)

2011-10-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > This has always been one of my favourite things about the unix world-- > and, to some extent, computing in general: that the founders are > still around, and many of them even *respond to e-mail*. > The analogies for other domains are things like `exchanging > post-c

Re: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

2011-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
We have lost a giant in our industry -- truly a great man. He will be missed. --kevin -- "Believe me on this. The free cocaine was nowhere in evidence, I consumed no cigar-sized hash bombers, the insistent, complaisant lovelies were elsewhere by the time I got back from dinner. Indeed, the

Re: [OT] Adding recruiters to LinkedIn connection list?

2011-07-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell writes: > It seems likely that there is (possibly substantial!) value to > a recruiter in being able to see my connections, but is there > value (or harm) to me? There is a setting in LinkedIn called "Select who can see your connections". One of the reasons why I have set this

Helios Project Director Felled By Stroke; Linux Community Support Sought

2011-06-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/helios-project-director-felled.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: rc script running twice ???

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Drew Van Zandt writes: > /etc/rc2.d/S40init_xuarts start > root 498 0.0 0.8 2808 504 ttyS0S+ 00:00 0:00 \_ > /bin/sh /etc/rc2.d/S40init_xuarts start > root 500 0.1 0.9 1676 576 ttyS0S+ 00:00 0:00 \_ > sed s/ttyname=// . > # Barcode > ln

Re: Novell agrees to be acquired by Attachmate.

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ryan Lee Stanyan writes: > I barely trust people to drive in two dimensions, let alone three! My commute takes me a little while, so I have to drive in four. A physicist that I listened to one even speculated that it was even more complicated than this, but my car does not look like a police bo

Re: Looking for MySQL teaching materials for High School students

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Dan Coutu writes: > My local high school's tech center is looking for learning materials > (e.g. books) that will help students to understand the basics of how to > use MySQL. Ideally some discussion of database normalization and how to > design a database schema for an application would also b

Re: Don't get caught up in the hype - the Zen of "The Unix Philosophy"

2010-10-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lloyd Kvam writes: > I do agree with his basic point. Use the system tools to glue your > processing into a series of simple steps. Shell scripts are very powerful. I don't take anybody seriously who thinks otherwise. I wrote a shell script once that automated an extremely tedious (took days/

Re: cable modem requires reboot because one site falls off DNS?

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg Rundlett writes: > I have a strange problem where one (and only one as far as we know) > particular website becomes inaccessible to our office. So, you are telling us that the site becomes "inaccessible" in the sense that it seems to fall out of the DNS? > Any ideas on what could cause thi

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin D. Clark > > Well, then, you might want to consider replacing every occurence of > > the DOCREADER binary on your system's disk with a script that > > basically does this: > > > >  #!/bin/sh

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Suggestion: suppose you have setup your system with a uid that is protected by some iptables rules (call this UNTRUSTED), and futhermore also suppose that the binary that you really want to protect against is called "DOCREADER". Well, then, you might want to consider replacing every occurence o

Re: Persistent connection to named pipe

2010-07-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell writes: > I'm now working with a cantankerous old app that can't easily be > modified and it'd be handy to have multiple sequential invocations of > that app each spew some logging data into a FIFO (without blocking) > so it could be processed by a single persistent instance of a

Re: Spike in SSH attacks

2010-06-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Roche writes: > Oh, a reminder: a fellow GNHLUGer told a tale not too long ago about > testing ssh changes: always keep an exiting connection open when > you're making changes. This way, when you lock yourself out of making > new connections with the changes, you can use your old connection to

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Gerry Hull writes: > What are your thoughts/recommendations? Fedora 12 (x86_64) works fine for me on both a laptop and a desktop. I installed Sun's Java, the flash plugin (although I don't usually let that run) and VirtualBox (I have to virtualize some 64-bit OS's). Everything works pretty well

Re: Backing up a little - Trying to get LAPACK to work... [SOLVED]

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Labitt writes: > The good news is that I have zgesvd_ from the LAPACK library working. > The bad news is I've wasted a lot of time (the list's and mine) finding > the error. Root cause: did not allocate enough memory for the RWORK > array. For some reason, a small problem worked, wher

Re: Backing up a little - Trying to get LAPACK to work...

2010-05-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
How are you invoking Valgrind? Where is the Valgrind output for the 9x9 run? --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E Wipe him down with gasoline 'til his arms are hard and mean From now on boys this iron boat's yo

Re: Shot in the dark: Anyone ever use CLAPACK routines?

2010-05-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Labitt writes: > Well, I have something to try... If one actually RTFM or in this case > the readme, one finds the following: > > # As a final point, we must stress that there is a difference in the > definition > # of a two-dimensional array in Fortran and C. The difference that you c

Re: Shot in the dark: Anyone ever use CLAPACK routines?

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: > Several years ago, someone at a BLU meeting mentioned he was having a > problem with some code in a phone switch, and his company and Verizon > were pointing fingers, especially because a previous problem was theirs. > He tried a number of different solutions, and after tr

Re: Shot in the dark: Anyone ever use CLAPACK routines?

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: > On 05/19/2010 03:22 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > > > Is there an equivalent tool for the stack? > > Purify. Purify is a commercial product (expensive too) that instruments > every load and store operation whether that be on the heap or the stack. > While valgrind is a great

Re: Shot in the dark: Anyone ever use CLAPACK routines?

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[please don't top-post] Bruce Labitt writes: > Is there an equivalent tool for the stack? I don't know of a reliable one. --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E Wipe him down with gasoline 'til his arms are ha

Re: Shot in the dark: Anyone ever use CLAPACK routines?

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Labitt writes: > If anyone has a few spare moments, I'd appreciate a quick look and any > helpful comments you may have. FWIW, I used valgrind and saw that even > when I got the correct answer, there were tons of warnings and errors > reported. (These errors were DEEP inside of the CLA

Re: Firewall (iptables) rule to limit Apache connections

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg Rundlett (freephile) writes: > Occasionally we'll get a bunch of web requests from a single source (example > user agent of HTTrack or Opera or IE5 will all give a user the ability to > make a huge number of web requests). This ties up our Apache server as all > available workers are sendin

Re: du(1) for FTP sites

2010-05-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > Kevin's wget-based implementation worked (thanks again, Kevin!), but > was slow due to repeated invocations of wget. Yeah, the big design principal behind my implementation was that I was trying to get it done in less than ~30 minutes...before I had to get going home.

Re: du(1) for FTP sites

2010-04-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I wrote: > [attached] gives a big skeleton of what you are looking for. The code > itself could definitely be improved. Oh yeah, invoke it thusly: remote-du --url 'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/Manuals/bfd-2.9.1/' --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ GnuPG: D87F DA

Re: du(1) for FTP sites

2010-04-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E Wipe him down with gasoline 'til his arms are hard and mean From now on boys this iron boat's your home So heave away, boys. -- Tom Waits #!/usr/bin/perl # author: kevin d. clark (alumni.unh.edu!kdc) use warnings; use strict; use

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

2010-04-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > (we're a Debian household) I found this phrase to be entertaining...it just rolled off Joshua's tongue with the same ease that somebody might say: "we're a vegetarian household" "we're a kosher household" "we have cats in our household" "we watch the Boston Brui

Re: [GNHLUG] NHRuby, 19 April: MongoDB

2010-04-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > Stumbled across this today, seemed to be rather more useful than > most of the content-free hype I got when I tried looking up what > "NoSQL" meant. > > http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems This is a very interesting link! > I mean, I thought key-val

Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Mark Komarinski writes: > Maybe I'm not understanding the issue, but isn't the above why queuing > systems were made? We're using a dirt-old version of Platform LSF and > it already solves the 'running on heterogeneous systems distributed > across an arbitrary number of nodes' problem. While re

Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > The problem that I had was that I frequently had to deal with the > > situation of "this particular problem only really efficiently runs on > > 1, 4, or 16 nodes in the cluster&quo

Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > I remember a shared login script at UNH which defined various names, > so you could do things like: > > for H in $DWARVES ; do ... ; done > > Makes sense to put something like that in /etc/profile or whatever, > if you're doing to use the fancy name strategy.

Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: > Because we can't keep track of 100 systems & what they do in our head. But > using a naming scheme means you can script it. We don't really care about > the names otherwise. Oh, and only one name because if there's another name, > we'll get a ticket to fix it by the name w

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > >>   Is there anything like a "diff" utility for pcap captures? > > > > I'm still giving some thought into how I'd actually do this in general. > > Hmmm. &

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Atkins writes: > Will you share the results once your analysis is done? It's hard for me to go into many specifics, but maybe this will satisfy your request: the network I was dealing with was a fairly high-security network (really...) and through some investigation I learned that one of t

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell writes: > Kevin Clark wrote: > > One thing that I've done to help me understand what is going on > > is to rigorously go through each packet (sent and received) and > > verify that what got sent is the same as what got received > > Do you mean that you're working with two captur

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Kevin D. Clark > > One thing that I've done to help me understand what is going on is to > > rigorously go through each packet (sent and received) and verify that > > what got sent is the same as what got recei

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell writes: > I'm capturing dumps of Enet traffic on the client and server boxes at > a remote customer site thus: > >dumpcap -i eth0 -w /tmp/`hostname`.pcap > > ...and then copying them back to HQ where I feed them to Wireshark. > I am not (yet?) rigged up so I can sniff traff

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-04-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: > I usually set emacs up to close to full screen, with many more than 25 > lines. I certainly like to see entire blocks of code. I still like to > keep individual lines of code and comments to under 80 columns. Again -- me too! Regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / ht

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-04-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > Well, there's an alternative to wide-screen monitors allowing for > wider windows: wide-screen monitors allowing for *more numerous* > 80-column windows. :) Me too. Speaking for myself, as a programmer, if I am given a wide-screened monitor to work on, I use the ext

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

2010-03-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Freeman writes: > Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used > to have a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or > IP address of a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell > or optionally specified command, with the DISPLAY environment >

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

2010-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: > On 03/23/2010 06:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > This is not possible with any SSH implementation that I am familiar > > with. > > Ah, found it: > >http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ Oh, that. Yes, now I remember that.

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

2010-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: > 2a) possibly run ssh with the null cipher, so you just get session > setup. Then you're only talking about stream > encapsulation/multiplexing time as a resource drag, and that can be > incredibly efficient code (OS's do this all day long, layer upon > layer). This is n

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg writes: > I have a problem and not sure the best approach to isolate and resolve > it. My home network seems to have momentary (1-15 seconds) lapses in > response time or connectivity. The network setup is pretty standard. > Broadband connection, Linksys router running Tomato, a couple

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lori Nagel writes: > 1) User interfaces tend to be poor and over compilcated, with a > bunch of skills and stats taking up the whole screen in a way you > can't close as opposed to the whole screen being immersed in the > game. This is a valid complaint. The reason for this is probably because

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Drew Van Zandt writes: > My first thought on seeing them was "Oh good, rotate them and they're > perfect." > > Now the question is this: > Do I want a 1680x1050 rotated to 1050x1680, or a 1600x1200 rotated to > 1200x1600? That's close enough on height that the increased total real > estate of

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Drew Van Zandt writes: > code-editing screen, here I come! (late response due to no power) Hurray! Another person who understands that all of these wide-screen monitors aren't entirely optimal for programmingunless you rotate them, of course Regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc

Re: Introduction and Advice

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jake Tingley writes: > My name is Jake and I live in Warner.  I am a high school math > teacher in Lebanon and I am interested in working with Linux and > doing some programming. > > What is the best way to get started? > Is there a particular distribution I should be looking at? > What is a good

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Arc Riley writes: > @Kevin ah but this is email, not microblogging Yes, I know. Kind regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdcGod, I loved that Pontiac. http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ -- Tom Waits GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > I guess this means that I have to figure out a different reason to > curmudge on microblogging as a whole, now Thanks a lot, Arc... ;) {curmudgeon-mode=on} You could start by pointing out that the body of Arc's email took up at least 383 characters... (-: {curm

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > While still true, there are cases where it's less cut-and-dry: In > other protocols, I've seen clients do the equivalent of "repeated > malloc without free". Of course, the server should place limits on > resources a client can allocate, but some people consider that kind o

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier writes: > Openfire docs don't seem to have a lot of information on performance > tuning, does anyone here have any experience with tuning this thing for > use in large environments with lots of users ? I don't have too many helpful things to say here except: 1: It sounds like you'r

Re: wanted to borrow: power supply for Mac G4 cube

2010-01-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: > On 12/28/2009 04:22 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > In fact, my relative is interested in just > > retrieving a few files from this machine. > > Assuming you haven't found the rare part yet ... if you're going > inside anyway, just pull

wanted to borrow: power supply for Mac G4 cube

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I have a relative who has a Power Mac G4 Cube, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube My relative suspects that the power supply might be br0ken. The power supply looks like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370291683436&rvr_id=&crlp=1_263602_263622&

Re: Update, was: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

2009-12-01 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: > The DOS version of Kermit is still out there at Columbia. C-Kermit > is also there for Unix. It's an excellent VT100 emulator as well if > you want to turn a PC into a VT100 terminal. > > The syntax is more VMS like, but once you learn it, it works well. This reminds me of

Re: Does the on-disk image of an executable ever change?

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell writes: > I'm looking at some supposedly identical CentOS5.3 systems that are > behaving strangely and while grasping at straws I generated lists of > the MD5 sums of all the files on the root partitions and I'm seeing > differences in the on-disk images of things like /sbin/moun

Re: A story of cron, svn, and STDERR.

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ken D'Ambrosio writes: > Hey, all. I ran into an interesting problem that drove me outright > bonkers and thought I'd share the insights for those who might run into > similar issues. Most of my Subversion repositories I just back up via > straight flat file; one, however, being sent off-site,

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) > wrote: > > So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a > > interesting and recurring task.  How do you 'remember' your solution? > > They get saved in a file under $HOME/bin under an appropriate n

Re: Fairpoint files for Chapter 11

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ed lawson writes: > Of course hindsight is more perceptive than foresight, (but I am responding to nobody in particular) Remember, there was even some sentiment on *this very list* that it would be better if Fairpoint was running all of this rural telco gear. The fact of the matter is tha

Re: ldap info sought

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > FWIW, I know rather more than I want to about Active Directory, > Windows systems admin, and Linux/Samba/AD integration, so if there's > anything I can do to help on that front, post and I might be able to. Thank you for the kind offer. Like I said, I am interested in lear

Re: ldap info sought

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Mark Komarinski writes: > Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > So, my request is this: what resources (books, websites, etc.) do > > people recommend to learn more about this subject? > > > Honestly? Trial and error. [...] I'm getting this impression as well. At least I

ldap info sought

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Suppose that I know enough about LDAP to be dangerous, but I want to know more. Suppose I want to more fully understand: 1: the mindset of people who use LDAP for solutions 2: the information schema in Active Directory 3: the information schema in eDirectory I've observed some very knowle

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > I was tempted to do something goofy, like reverse all the characters > in your text, just to get you going, but I'm too tired to go to the > effort right now. ;-) perl -0777 -ne 'print join "", reverse split //' Regards, --kevin (who sends all of his email using technolo

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Roche writes: > For folks just tuning in, the Canon Hack Development Kit is an add-on to > the firmware for the Canon Powershot series of cameras that offers lots > of extensions to the functionality. Sadly, my Powershot passed away a > while ago, or I'd have fun testing this stuff. I hav

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Roche writes: > I think I saw this written up in one of ACM's magazines, but those don't > get a lot of traffic. NPR did a story on a group at Stanford doing > "computational photography" - camera hardware with a Linux backend. Another interesting thing is CHDK: http://chdk.wikia.com/

Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lori Nagel writes: > It took me half a year just to figure out how to add the math > library into the compiler so I could compile some basic C programs > from one of the C programing books I have. Sorry, I must politely disagree that a situation like this relates in any way to any of the negativ

Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ken D'Ambrosio writes: > He's clearly been a force for good. But there's been an awful lot of > baggage he's dragged around with him, and it seems to seep into most all > his writings to some extent or another. Ken has expressed here, more elegantly than I could have, my main objections to this

Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > I've very often also found that while framing up a question in a > "smart" fashion, I'll realize what I haven't done but should, or > that I don't understand the situation as well as I should. In the > process of then filling in those gaps, I find the problem and get > thing

Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lori Nagel writes: > For no particular reason, I will say I do not think very highly of > that document. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. In fact, I do not agree with every aspect of that document. But overall I like it. Kind regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24EGod,

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
For no particular reason, I will mention that I think that this is a really good document. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I hope that others enjoy it as well. Kind regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24EGod, I loved that Pontiac. alumni.unh.edu!kdc

Re: I want my KDiff3

2009-10-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg Rundlett (freephile) writes: > Yes, I can use Meld, but like the song says: I > want my MTV I want my KDiff3 Hmm. I don't know if Meld does what you want here, but I am a big fan of Meldit's the prettiest diff too I've ever used. I'm also a big fan of ediff mode in X?Emacs. Regards

Re: Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

2009-09-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: > You can number and name VLAN's. The range is 1-4092, but I read only 64 > simultaneous are available. Yes, this is because each VLAN on the switch is modeled as being its own seperate instantation of a bridge, and each instance takes up system resources. [...] > There

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Arc Riley writes: > The sandisk is a much better deal. > > 2gigs flash for just $30 *and* has a microSDHC slot. Mounts as a standard > USB drive. Small, bright OLED screen, and you can dual purpose it to play > all your .ogg and .flac files. > > "downside" is voice recording only works to .wa

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes: > Kevin Clark wrote: > > bruce.labitt writes: > > > > > I've not seen this type of code before. I wonder why all of my > > > previous code even works. Surely it is a way to do it. Is there a > > > simpler way? (Not that the above is hard by any means.) > > >

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