Over time, several recruiters (none of whom have ever actually
found work for me) have asked to be added to my LinkedIn
connections list. I have so far not added them because my
involvement with them has been superficial and I generally try
to mention people on my connections list only if I've
My initial query was largely rhetorical, though I would have
been pleased to learn that there is *any* benefit whatsoever to
including a recruiter in your connections list. To the contrary,
here is an article that uses the term pollution to describe
the presence of recruiters (or anyone else
Not sure what this now-ancient phone was doing in the back of a
closet or why anybody'd want it (except maybe for curiosity) but
I'm offering one new-in-box Motorola analog cellular flip-phone
model:F09HLD8416AG with charger, docs box.
It has a Cellular One sticker on it. No idea if it works -
http://linuxbeard.com/
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Finally I think to say that Linux is powered by beards does not
play well to all the females and beardless youth (of all ages)
who have contributed so much to the project.
Yikes! It didn't occur to me that anybody who views that site or the
related postings on Reddit :
if [catch {open |$command | cat} input] {
Curiosity: why do you pipe it through cat?
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One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html
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First I've heard of this. Wasn't a customer but never heard
anything but good about them. I can't find any online mentions
except these Telgraph pieces:
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/business/913626-192/n.h.s-oldest-internet-firm-is-retrenching.html
First I've heard of this. Wasn't a customer but never heard
anything but good about them.
Oooops - I forgot that we're all customers:
# traceroute gnhlug.org
traceroute to gnhlug.org (199.125.75.42), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 XXX
2 XXX
3 XXX
4
Hats off to PJ - she's folding up the tent and moving
on to other things:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011040916132
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Huh? You saw sessions freeze for as long as a *full minute* and after
disabling compression you're no longer seeing that problem? Hrmmm
Compression can certainly slow things down sometimes but I can't think
how even unnecessary triple redundant compression could all by itself
block traffic
Since the primary complaint is that the connection freezes
for as long as a minute I'm gonna predict that this will turn
out not to be compression-related. Yes, unnecessary/redundant
compression can reduce throughput but the effect would be
(approx) constant rather than intermittent and I can't
A decent writeup about how/why Red Hat changed the way they
distribute kernel patches:
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8414/
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My first question is, does anyone know how nproc is calculated?
I have seen some issues lately where the limits.conf hard limit
is imposed, but the user hasn't exceeded the number of processes.
Don't forget that multithreaded processes (Java, WWW browsers, etc)
might bump you up against your
Went to move it to a different machine, though, and lo! Stopped
dead. Digging deeper, I found that nmap -- which I'm calling
(in large part because it keeps track of vendor MAC associations)
isn't returning MACs. I brought over the executable from machine
A (functioning) to machine B...
We're going to have cash registers on-site -- good ol' RS-232
connections. We're also getting software that can talk to these
computers.
[...]
[Register] - RS-232-to-USB - [Wall Wart] - VPN - [Home office computer]
Trying to read between the lines here: your situation is constrained by
If you don't want to fish through the repos, you will likely find it in
/var/cache/apt/archives/
Alas, no. apt-get won't even download the package because it thinks
there are unsolved dependencies.
You should be able to pull an inventory from any repo mentioned in your
Escaping from Dependency Hell sometimes involves gymnastics that
rival BistroMathics in complexity...
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The BBC radio show Digital Planet is hosted by (the somewhat
fluffy) Gareth Mitchell who interviews our own Jon mattigg
Hall at around 10:20 in this segment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00d73v1/Digital_Planet_01_02_2011
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After seeing them mentioned on Freecycle many months earlier I
contacted an outfit in Dracut this summer to recycle my old TV.
On the phone the guy sounded very straightforward and helpful but
IIRC they were dealing with some issue at the time (relocating?
regulatory?) and it ended up that
(Anyone know why laser printers seem to only run at 600 DPI?
Every one I've checked (and I've l looked at dozens of models)
specifies 600 DPI as the native resolution. I'm guessing it's
something inherent in the technology, but don't actually have
any data.
There's nothing inherent in the
Lower-priced, consumer-grade laser panels use a panel of LEDs to
generate the laser beams, one for each pixel across the page,
Ah! I was only thinking of conventional spinning-mirror technology but,
yes - now that he mentions it I, too, recall hearing of print engines
having one single
I might be invited to join a team of developers on what they're calling a
contract basis (tho it'd actually be a W2 rather than 1099 relationship;
hourly, no benefits) and they've asked me to quote a rate. As it's been
a while since I've had to dance this dance I wonder what other people
are
Some guy with an electron microscope shows what his borken Intel P-III
Coppermine CPU chip looked like after he ripped it from the carrier:
http://www.sciencystuff.com/?p=24
Fascinating, and different from most of the glossy PR promo images I've
seen as provided by the manufacturers.
Happened this evening:
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/377051-video-linus-torvalds-dives-tonight-qif-i-dont-come-ba
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Already have a room booked (driving down Fri) but may attend
that party, if only out of curiosity - thx for the pointer!
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On the slim chance that anybody wants the 7 pieces of perfboard
that I just dredged out of an old box, I'll offer them here.
Five of them are actually old S-100 board format (approx 12
x 5) with card-edge connectors and two are approx 8 x 15.
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On the slim chance that anybody wants the 7 pieces of perfboard
that I just dredged out of an old box, I'll offer them here.
Five of them are actually old S-100 board format (approx 12
x 5) with card-edge connectors and two are approx 8 x 15.
Can they have thru-hole components soldered to
I'm composing this while down in GA dealing w/some family stuff
so I haven't been following the discussion too closely but I
wonder: Did you try that GRUB config file I provided?
It's derived from systems that I've worked with that are rigged
the same as the one you described and utilizes the
Assuming you still have Linux on the first drive and Windows on
the second, I'd try replacing your GRUB config file with this:
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are
Ooops! I cleverly reintroduced that chainloaded typo,
fixed here...
Assuming you still have Linux on the first drive and Windows on
the second, I'd try replacing your GRUB config file with this:
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have
The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics (opening a Manchester
store October 9th) will also be hosting a free eWaste collection
event on the 23rd of October.
Dang! I have a TV carcass that I'd like to bring to them but
I'll be in FLA on the 23rd. shotInTheDark Anybody planning to
go who'd
I wrote:
Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to
wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port?
...and got these responses:
http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html
Sounded very appealing to me (partly because it'd serve as
Just got wind of this via osnews.com:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418
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Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to
wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port?
I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like
parport_pc) via ioctls rather than poking around directly in I/O
or memory space at hardcoded
One possibility might be pyparallel.
Thanks. Forgive me for appearing stoopid; the Installation instructions
on that page say, Extract files from the archive, open a shell/console
in that directory and let Distutils do the rest, which sounds very nice
but I'm not sure what archive they're
http://centerclick.org/temp/lcd.tgz
the part you want is lcdraw.c
it'll take commands from cmdline and do all basic operations to the
parallel port.
Thanks. It compiled without apparent errors and I'll take it
for a test drive tomorrow.
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Bruce Labitt showed us code and demonstrated a slick use of a
generator function: creation with simulation of kinematics of a
synthesized set of moving targets. All done, including an animated
color display, in Python code which fit in a single editor window.
(His simulation showed six
I've sometimes been able to work past video-related problems during
startup by mentioning nomodeset on the kernel command line.
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I've always managed to work past this, but I'm damn curious to
know if it can be avoided entirely, e.g., if one of the vga=ask
options might help out, or somesuch.
The initscripts of modern distros all seem to reset the video mode
and/or font during boot. I suspect it's something to do
At least on my Debian box there's a logkeys package available
that might serve if you can maybe find a way to tail its output
in an on-screen window during your presentation. Here's a fragment
of example output it captured while I was composing this email
with vi as launched from exmh:
Interesting question. There's no notion of UID associated with
an IP packet so once it's in transit it's not straightforward
to know who owns it, unless maybe the network code happens
to be executing (synchronously) on behalf of the restricted
user (outbound only?) or maybe if the packet can
smart enough to look at who owns the associated socket, it should
work. Packets don't have owners, true, but a packet without a
socket is rather like the sound of one hand clapping...
Yah, I had just been imagining the packet in the abstract, in flight,
where such info isn't available. But
Some years back I created a little FIFO-reader utility that can be
used to relay data via a named pipe (FIFO) such that it keeps the
output end of the FIFO open despite multiple opens/closes of the
input end by one or more writers.
This is necessary because the naive approach only works once, as
Ken wrote:
Well... interesting. I wonder why cat acts that way.
IIRC a read() of the FIFO when all data have been consumed and the
writer has closed his end yields -1 with errno EAGAIN and most apps
just call it quits at that point.
Interestingly, I'd played around with FIFOs some time
Interestingly, I'd played around with FIFOs some time ago, and
there's a fine way to cheat: tail -f.
D'oh!!!
It might be coming back to me now, why I didn't use the tail -f
trick Way Back When; although it appears to work as expected with
a FIFO on a CentOS5.4 box I have yet to see any
The devil will be in the details of the agreement, but
for the most point this seems like an agreement to make
some Russian bureaucrat feel good.
Maybe it's retaliation for that spy-ring currently in the news...
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I'm not particularly a fan of Java but this is still funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70
[...]
First time I've tried a YouTube video and gotten please register.
Ouch. Didn't know they'd done that.
Dang! I guess I didn't notice because I was already signed in for
I'm not particularly a fan of Java but this is still funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70
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Blanking can be a builtin function of your desktop, a separate
screensaver app or maybe even your X server. Try connecting via
SSH while the screen is blanked and use ps to see what's running
to get an idea of likely suspects.
Also, have a look in your X config file (probably
Processes can potentially indirectly access more than 4 GiB of RAM
by using memory windowing/bank swapping/etc. This would be similar
to Expanded Memory from the days of the 8086. Reserve some
range of process-addressable memory. A special library/system
call exchanges that block of
32-bit apps run fine in a 64-bit Linux OS, and in many cases better
since the OS can manage memory a bit more efficiently. The downside
is that you need to install the required 32-bit libraries too.
So far, I have not seen a 32-bit application that could not run on
a 64-bit Linux OS. They
The Linux 32-bit kernel supports PAE (the extension that allows
access to more than 3GB RAM).
Actually, PAE is an MMU feature providing an additional 4 bits
of physical address to be specified in the page table entries;
this allows the kernel to rig the page tables such that they can
Hopefully someone soon will put a stake through their heart, cut
their head off, fill their mouth with garlic, put silver coins
on their eyes, then burn them, cover them in holy water, and dump
the ashes into a volcano.
What about H-bombs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2
I started noodling with the second one but haven't ever looked at the
first, yet:
http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/begin/
I'm at level 7 out of 100 and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever make it
to level 8. Quite a few people have
Does anyone know of a site that catalogs or compares Wiki software?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wikis
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While doing the reverse of what you're asking (ie. combining
multiple objects into a single object with mutual references
resolved) is common, the information necessary to uncombine them
is generally lost in the process, so your best bet would (as others
have said) probably be to modify the
ar d to delete modules?
ar x to extract
Gaack! You guys have been saying library right along and my
distracted brain kept translating that to object ie. a monolith.
But you're right, of course - if he's linking against an ar archive
he should be able to pick it apart using ar. And if he's
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
OpenCV appears to require a good C++ background,
which I don't have now. ... Any advice?
Tell your employer you need some C++ training in order to do your
job effectively.
Or if you're afraid they'll terminate you and hire someone else,
seek learning
Is this the one where they execute a man-in-the-middle attack on the economy?
Hello,
Kindest warm greetings and felicitations; you have not
previously been knowing me but I was the personal assistant
of Ben Bernanke and I need your help in extracting a large sum
of money from the Broadband
Try running your compile command with -v so it announces what it's
doing and then use readelf grep to verify that the symbol in
question is defined/resolved in the objects you expect.
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OT but likely amusing to many on this channel:
http://www.globalnerdy.com/2010/05/09/new-programming-jargon/
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We want to monitor (from a central server at HQ) the health and
performance status of multiple machines [mostly Windows -( ] at
each of multiple customer sites despite them being NAT'd/firewalled.
We assume all the remote systems will be able to initiate outbound
connections through whatever
Ben wrote:
Here's a direct link to the content of the job listing:
http://www2.autoliv.com/appl_alv/hr_pers/jobpostingus.nsf/lookupjobsid/9EEDD6F9A59CC2338625771400725466
Ah. I was thinking of mentioning that same URL but thought part of
might be session-specific glop.
The page seems to
Synopsis of Position, for official description, please use this link:
(grumble) yet another site that, like YouTube, seems to be unwilling
to load if Firefox's AdBlock extension is active even though I
don't see any actual ads on it...
In any case, no need to apologize - such postings are
An update, FWIW: I created an entry (4265) in the CentOS bug database for
that NFS problem and they pushed back saying I needed to reproduce it with
the latest bits instead of the slightly (6 mo) stale stuff we're using.
Fair enough; unfortunately, I was able to do so and need to update them
I have my GPS on all the time, even when I don't need directions.
I just have a humble little unhacked Mio C320 but was pleased to discover
an unexpected benefit while driving some twisty Appalachian mountain
roads at night in the fog. I usually have it rigged HUD-style (more or
less the view
One thing I don't like about your setup is that you have 2 different
machines serving NFS directories to each other.
Explain, please. The motivation in our situation (at least
historically) is that although all our machines potentially need
access to the entire collection of files used by
Be federal law, anyone competing with the USPS must charge 3x what
their charging, no exceptions.
I can't find anything on the Intertubes to support that assertion
and it has a very Snopes-worthy whiff about it. Can you substantiate?
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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 capture files generated on
the machines at
Are systems A, B, and C all using the same RPM versions for NFS
and RPC?
Yes. All systems start out running bit-for-bit identical system images
(currently based on CentOS5.4) and only differ in which of our apps and
configs are loaded.
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One thing I don't like about your setup is that you have 2 different
machines serving NFS directories to each other.
Explain, please. The motivation in our situation (at least historically)
is that although all our machines potentially need access to the
entire collection of files used by
The client isn't seeing the replies? Blame the router, blame
the router!
Heh. I'd love to, and I just acquired a brand new switch to use as
an experimental replacement for the one currently deployed. I'll be
ecstatic if that fixes thing, though I'm not optimistic.
I don't really trust my
Where/how are you running Wireshark? I would suggest running it
on the NFS client, on the NFS server, and on a third computer
monitoring the link.
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
I've run out of clues (EBRAINTOOSMALL) trying to solve an NFS puzzle
and could use some help getting unstuck. Analysis is awkward because
the customers in question are trying to make what use they can of the
machines even as these problems are ocurring around them, so reboots
and other dramatic
Oops. I wrote:
So, if I'm reading these tea leaves properly it's as
if that lost the ability to recognize the reply to that request. [?!]
...but meant to say, [...]it's as if that client lost the ability[...]
But, then, how could it be that all 3 machines seem to get into this
state at more
It's still overkill to force X11 through the encrypted pipe.
My understanding of X leads me to believe that as long as your clients
can authenticate themselves to the server (and you've rigged your server
such that it's willing to talk to anybody, local or remote, who can open
a socket to it)
And, no, it's unnecessary to open the server to everyone. There are
a number of host or cookie based means to limit who can connect.
Right, I didn't mean that you needed to operate without authentication,
just that if you leave the server's default 'nolisten tcp' behavior in
effect you'll
your /proc weirdness, if triviata of that detail is significant to
your system reproduction, I'd probably break down, blow away the
(non-boot) files on the new server, tar everything over from the
old one, and re-ip/re-hostname.
If exact (warts and all) reproduction of the existing system
I executed commands as they would have been during the cron.weekly run and
I can now see why our simple monitor script would conclude the RAID had
a problem based on the resultant contents of /proc/mdstat. During the
check operation the RAID state is described as clean, resyncing
by mdadm and I
In finest NIH form we could deal with the scrubber/patrol terminology
question by inventing a new acronym. How about GRIDLEBYRF for
Gratuitous Reads Intended to Detect Latent Errors Before You're Royally
Fscked ? FWIW, back around 2003 I wrote such logic for an early release
of MD on Red Hat 9
Anybody else running CentOS5.x (or RHAT equiv?) care to share the
results from this command:
grep -i sync /var/log/* | fgrep -i raid
It looks like the RAIDs on at least seven of our (mostly stock) CentOS5.4
systems are routinely getting broken and going through a resync operation
on a
Ruh-rohhh
/var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing
RAID array md0
/var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing
RAID array md3
/var/log/messages.1: Feb 14 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing
RAID array md2
From the horse's mouth:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405919#41
I think I posted that same link (the incorrect Beatles quote looks
familiar) when this thread was last active and IIRC we agreed that
although it was somewhat comforting that the author believed there was
no
After refreshing my memory here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname
...which references (what appear to be) the relevant RFCs, I recall
that underscores are definitely not legal, but the corner cases (and
instances of blatant [cough]Microsoft[cough] disregard) are interesting...
(I detest FUD, even if it's aimed at a target I also dislike.)
(sigh) You're right. I could swear that just before I posted my comment I
had read (parts of) a rant (with examples) about how Microsoft disregards
the DNS hostname rules on the Internet, but maybe I was hallucinating - I
now
Well, there's another way that anyone really interested could find
out: you could just *ask the people at Dreamhost* :)
As I've said, the domain in question has already been set up in a way
that satisfies requirements for the moment, so we don't have a problem
needing a solution. This is
I purchased a domain name registration from GoDaddy as a gift for a
friend. His kid (who already has a domain registered at dreamhost.com)
agreed to work with me to initialize things such that the new domain
points at the family's page on shutterfly.com. So I asked the kid to
tell me what to
[...] You're basically relinquishing all control of the domain to
DreamHost, until and unless you change the delegation to nameservers
you control. Your involvement -- and control -- is now nil.
Presumably you're okay with that, or you wouldn't have done it.
Right. As you say, I have
I just unearthed my WRT54GL that was working fine until earlier this
year when it suddenly lost the ability to communicate via the Enet
port used for the WAN connection. AFAIK the unit is still otherwise in
working order and if reflashed appropriately could probably be put back
into service
Item is spoken for. And here's hoping that next time I'll remember to
mention up front that I'm in Chelmsford so you folks in the Great White
North can know that I'm not really in your neighborhood...
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I ended up pulling out a SATA USB 3.5 hard drive enclosure,
booting Knoppix 6.01. Several 'fdisk -l' and 'dd if=/dev/baddisk
of=/dev/gooddisk' I was able to copy partition information, a
working boot sector, and the HP recovery partition. The first whole
disk copy was not successful as it
It is a La Crosse WS-3610.
Looks like it's OEM'ed by these people:
http://www.heavyweather.info/new_english_us/3610set.html
The software spec sheet claims it only works with Win 98 or later,
and needs 128 MB RAM. If that's true, and that software is the same
software you have (and not
Here's an article from somebody who's discouraged about LaCrosse
Technology's gear and their attitude toward Linux compatibility:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/hows-weather
...but then immediately after that I noticed these more encouraging notes:
The customer support person at the weather station manufacturer was
pretty insistent that USB dongles don't work. I suspect that their
internal micro doesn't have a UART. It doesn't even connect to RxD.
Can you reveal the make and model of this weather station?
I finally got around to the task of re-archiving the data in my mongrel
collection of tapes (QIC2 format 1/4 Streaming Cartridge) that's been
nicely stored in its two copier-paper boxes since forever. I figured
I could reduce the physical space required down to a handful of DVDs
while
Nice how the 9-track serpentine
layout makes it possible for a single medium flaw to trash the bit stream
in 9 different places at once... -/
Unfortunately, I think most tape systems are multi-track --
everything from ancient reel-to-reel stuff to the latest LTO.
Right, but formats like
Saw the warning in question today on a CentOS5.4 box so I STFW and found these:
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,16699
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405919
...with a plausible (and somewhat comforting) nutsbolts level explanation
toward
the bottom of the latter.
As I understand it, the explanation in question applies to swap
partitions only. (Swap is somewhat unique in that the kernel can
know a given block on disk will never be read again.)
Yah, you're referring to the case where a page that's just been written
out is immediately dirtied again so
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