> Ctl+middleButton in Xterm gives a menu with the pick that you want.
Doh! I didn't read carefully enough to see that
you'd already ruled that out - sorry.
I don't know of any scripty approach to this - let
us know if you find one...
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>> And the mome raths outgrabe!
>>
>
>You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said "youre so grabe" to me.
>To this day, I wonder what s/he meant... *scratches head*
My sincere apologies if I damage any illusions you may have
been cherishing about the intensely profound significance
of that comm
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits...
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I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday
if I had any better (or even comparable) choices -
but I can't say that their DNS sucks any worse than
anybody else's. They do fsck it up occasionally but
(here in Chelmsford) it's working OK at the moment.
_
Related to Rob L's recent presentation:
One of the world's largest computer and consumer electronics
manufacturers will ship a completely open, Linux-based,
GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide,
for $350 or less, in Q1, 2007. First International
Computing's (FIC's) "Neo
>> ...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy
>> to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the
>> kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources
>> and, so far, it's looking pretty stable.
>
>That's great. Now, is this USB for storage devices or for HID
>Follow-up:
>
>Picked up a Seagate 250 Gb drive at Circuit City last night for $135.
...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy
to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the
kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources
and, so far, it's looking pret
> The workstations are run-of-the-mill Dell Dimensions, fairly new,
> so USB 2.0 should be acceptable.
I haven't done much with USB storage devices so all I have
to go on is my current situation, which isn't much fun.
I've just started wrestling with some Dell boxes running RHEL3
(based on 2.4.2
Please Please try try not not to to have have
gnhlug-discuss gnhlug-discuss on on both both the
the To: To: and and Cc: Cc: lines lines in in your
your headers headers since since that that results
results in in duplicate duplicate messages messages
to to the the list list. Thanks! Thanks!
When looking at the output of fsck as it works on a wounded
ext3 filesystem I'm wishing I knew which files are associated
with the duplicate blocks and corrupted inodes it's reporting.
It seems that I recall somebody here recently mentioning a tool
that could figure out that sort of thing but I ca
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=1d&z=l
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FYI, I've done some digging and it appears that since
late 2005 RHAT have been shipping tzdata RPMs which (if
you believe the changelog at the RHN site) will do the
right thing when the DST apocalypse comes in March 2007.
I assume (but have not confirmed) that Debian have been
similarly proactiv
> That would be fairly obnoxious, and has the same problem
> of obscuring the subject line that having the server munge
> the Subject: line does.
I wish there was some sort of standard for email messages that
provided for a special section (maybe near the beginning?)
reserved for information abo
We should also mention the date on the Subject:
line since my mailer doesn't show it clearly
enough, with the unfortunate result that I
sometimes read messages out of sequence.
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Although I think it's unlikely that the Daylight Savings
Time changeover coming in 2007 will yield the 3-ring circus
we enjoyed leading up to Y2K, I assume there will still be
some gotchas.
DST is basically just a schedule for when you adjust your
offset from GMT, but I'm sure I don't know about
http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/10/12/2120204
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Is it possible that the publication of this
article only a few days ago is mere coincidence?
http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/20981
It's about "bus-proofing" your FOSS project, as in
key-contributor-getting-hit-by-one...
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Speaking of tapes: I have a half-dozen 9-track
reels from back around 1993 that I'd love to salvage
the bits from before either the oxide deteriorates
or this type of equipment becomes %100 extinct -
anybody know anybody with a 9-track drive?
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> I've been using Winchester Systems for years with great success.
> I wouldn't call them "low-end" or "cheap" necessarilly. These are
> hardware RAID chassis though, not RAID cards. Probably not what
> you're looking for, but I thought since we're discussing something
> on-topic, I might as we
We're currently using Promise M200p RAID units with mixed
results and wondering if others might care to share war
stories or recommendations. We've had several M200p units
running flawlessly for approx 2yrs in our data center,
so we thought they'd be good a good choice as components
of systems de
>Are you sure that your new regexp does what you want?:
>
>echo 'xyz' | \
> sed -r -e
> '/^[[:space:]]*[^#[:space:]].*[[:space:]]+xyz[[:space:]]*/{s/^.*$/REWRITTEN/}'
>
>You specify "surrounded by whitespace" in your original description,
>but "occurs at the beginning of a line" might be reasona
H. I'd heard that sed's RE parser is a type known as
"greedy" meaning that every expression matches the longest
possible string in the input. I therefore can't understand
how after all the leading whitespace has been matched there
can be any whitespace "left over" to match the not-a-hashmar
I'm trying to use sed to rewrite lines in a config file that
have a target string 'xyz' in them surrounded by whitespace
and which are NOT commented out with a hash sign and which
may or may not have leading whitespace. This expression:
sed -r -e
'/^[[:space:]]*[^#].*[[:space:]]+xyz[[:space:
This article may be of interest:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115698239989350052-UVfk3ol8fkMATSzIQbYJuJ3P9Po_20060929.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
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The case is taken.
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The case is spoken for.
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A classic, free to the first taker: one professional
quality shipping case with metal-reinforced corners
and edges and heavy-duty handles and latches.
Dimensions: approx 27 inches cubical. Heavily padded
and approx the right size to ship a large CRT in.
You could drop it off the back of a truck (
> But I'm not looking to save a clipboard history. I need something
> that I can manually add or remove items. To give you an idea of
> the use I'm looking for... Imagine working in email tech support.
> You have a few hundred emails to answer in a day and many of them
> are the same thing, li
> watch --differences
Also, depending on the command whose output
you're monitoring, you may want to run it thus:
watch "someCommand 2>/dev/null"
...to keep stderr chatter from scribbling
onto the screen and rendering it unreadable,
or at least un-pretty.
_
Well, the problem in this case turned out to be an Enet cable(!)
I finally noticed that one of the NICs had autonegotiated
itself back down to 100MB/S when nobody was looking and it
refused to go faster when instructed to do so via ethtool.
I haven't yet analyzed it thoroughly but I swapped a dif
We're upgrading an installation by bringing an existing config
forward from some older, slower Dell boxes to some spiffy new
Dell 690 boxes with integral Broadcom (BCM5752) NICs and a
Dell PowerConnect 2616 (an unmanaged switch) connecting them,
all supposedly capable of Gbit rates. The (smp) ke
A parody site about (crypto guru) Bruce Schneier
based on a parody site about Chuck Norris:
http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/1
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This "persistent naming" issue gained importance as
interconnect technologies like SCSI, FibreChannel,
USB, PCMCIA and HotPlug PCI (to name a few) made it
possible for physical configurations to change from run
to run or even on the fly. Addressing this issue was
one of the goals of udev. I gue
A network interface can have any name whatsoever; the default
(dainbramaged) approach is to let the kernel pick the names,
with the result that they end up being of the form ethN where
N is the order of registration (which is roughly equivalent to
the order of HW discovery, which is roughly equiv
> It is more useful to explain the semantics of bash initialization
> files then it is to call one "correct".
The authors of the (remarkably complete) man page for bash
apparently agree with you, since they made no arch pronouncements
about what is "right" and "wrong" usage of the files in quest
> He is with a VC firm, still just as "giving" and "open"
> (and technical) as before. He has offered to come and speak
> at the group if people would like tips on how to approach a
> VC for funding, or just to understand more about what a VC
> would be looking for in a company.
I'd be interes
As soon as I get a wireless rig I wanna do this:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
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>>> Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only
>>> remnant of it, for applications that require it.
>>
>> Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what?
>> What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS
>> tool-chain?
>
>
>If gcc supports the
>> Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only
>> remnant of it, for applications that require it.
>
> Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what?
> What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS
> tool-chain?
If gcc supports the processor
> And now we get down to the nitty gritty. Am I crazy?
In the past the amount of SPAM reaching me used to be
fairly constant but in the past year or so it's changed to
being very bursty in nature; I'll go for weeks or months
getting essentially none followed by periods where several
dozens snea
http://xforce.iss.net/
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Followup: in a previous offer similar to this one FON
was definitely offering the WRT54GL versions for $25;
stilll not sure if the current offer is that model...
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http://news.com.com/2102-7351_3-6087680.html?tag=st.util.print
Not sure whether the Linksys model in question is the Linux-
capable one. Anyway, here's the first part of the article:
> FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi
> connections into wireless "hotspots" fo
Although there may be exceptions it does unfortunately
appear that BroadCom's attitude (toward Linux users WRT
drivers and such) is "best characterized by a middle finger
lifted in our general direction". At least, I've heard
that said of the drivers for their gbit enet cards and
it seems clearl
> Anybody know if there's a practical limit to the size of an
> initrd today? I think it was 2.88MB floppy size at one point.
You might be thinking of the restrictions on the booter image
used with bootable CDs. I believe the only restriction on the
size of an initrd is how much RAM you're wil
>> Could somebody maybe temporarily unsubscribe this guy
>> if his email system is going to SPAM the list every
>> time a message is posted?
>>
>How is a vacation message spam? Annoying, yes: spam, no.
Agreed: not SPAM, and shame on me for being imprecise,
though I assume the point was taken...
"Dan Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I will be out of the office starting 06/08/2006 and will not return until
>06/12/2006.
Uh, o.
Could somebody maybe temporarily unsubscribe this guy
if his email system is going to SPAM the list every
time a message is posted?
> I will probably get around to playing with this on one of my
> personal V4 WRT54GSs, but I'm disinclined to give one of these
> to the company, given how hard it has been for me to find them.
> (I'd really like to own a V3, the last max memory model, but I
> haven't seen one.)
I'm interested t
Somebody on this channel (maybe even me) can probably
provide you with some additional RAM if we can figure
out what sort you need. For example, I have a couple
of 64Mb SODIMMs available now that I've replaced them
with 256Mb versions in my little laptop...
Last place I worked we had some kernels that
(counterintuitively) needed to be booted with
both of these:
noacpi acpi=off
...and "Didn't you mean noapic?" was definitely
an FAQ.
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>> % timeStamp="`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`"
>
> FYI, "date -I" is much easier to type. Make it "date -Is"
> if you need it down to the seconds.
I never type it; it's enshrined in my scripts and functions.
> The "-I" switch is short for ISO-8601, which apparently specifies
>dates as "all numeri
% timeStamp="`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`"
% echo timeStamp is $timeStamp
% myFile=test.$timeStamp
% echo 'Hi, Mom!' > $myFile
% cat $myFile
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You can also (usually) connect to the CUPS management
service on your computer by visiting this URL:
http://localhost:631/
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Detecting leaks by observing total system memory usage seems
backwards; wouldn't it be more direct to track the various VM
statistics for the suspect processes? Maybe something like:
watch "ps -eaflw | fgrep -e SZ -e PIDofInterest -e otherPIDofInterest -e
yetAnotherPID"
...and then just wat
>How DID you get the State of NH to put an ® on the license plate? ;)
It's an optimization for when the cop asks
you for your license and registration...
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If that notebook memory will work in an Inspiron 7500 I am
definitely interested.
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Mount that remote filesystem on a second, different
local mount point like, say, /tmp/fooHack
ls -la /tmp/fooHack
ls -la /mnt/foo
umount /tmp/fooHack
umount /mnt/foo
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Having just begged for a drive on this channel it's only karma
that I offer you one; assuming I can find it you are welcome
to a 1Gb drive that I believe is hiding in amongst my junk...
Also, it happens that today's Woot might be worth considering:
http://www.woot.com/
_
It looks like an extremely busy day (or three)
coming up at work so I won't have time to attend
to this matter properly until mid-week or so,
but I just wanted to acknowledge y'all and to
say that I was pleasantly surprised to get so
many positive responses, so soon. Thanks...
I have system on my home network that is basically
just cobbled together from skanky old spare parts.
It's configured with an old 9Gb SCSI drive as the
system disk and a couple of 120Gb IDE drives as a RAID.
The SCSI system disk has developed thermal problems where
it runs perfectly for several ho
Not quite what you're asking for, but in a past life I wrote
a fairly straightforward user space program that accomplished
something like you described. IIRC it setup some named pipes
and then allowed read/writes via those pipes to query/set the
levels of the modem control lines (i.e. RTS/CTS an
>> Yow! We had an Alpha at MCLX running Linux and it truly was an
>> astonishingly fast machine. I hope they all find good homes...
>
>Ooh! What distribution?
In our case it was Debian:
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/ftplist
http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/
Yow! We had an Alpha at MCLX running Linux and it truly was an
astonishingly fast machine. I hope they all find good homes...
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I have a collection of stuff (inherited from a failed startup)
that I wish would go to a good home (hell, as long as it
doesn't end up in a landfill I don't even care if it goes to
a profoundly abusive, dysfunctional home) and I'm asking that
somebody drag it all up to Hosstraders, since I can't a
IIRC that sit0 thing is related to something like IPV6 tunneling
and not a physical device at all. That laptop reportedly has
a 3c905 Enet so theoretically most Linux distributions should
"just work". Are there any cries for help mentioned in the
output of dmesg?
_
"Unlike Windows, which is a mature commercial product which is
normally included with every new computer, Linux is given away.
Now it may not sound like much of a problem, after all there
is very little profit in merely giving a product away.
This would be certainly true were in not for the L
>> aviancarrier writes "Verizon DSL has turned on a very aggressive
>> spam filter that is blocking lots of long-time legitimate emails
>
> Telco's suck. Film at 11.
Well, at least we'll never have to worry about Congress selling
us out to the telcos such that they're allowed to set up a m
>=>Meanwhile, I'm soldiering on with Cscope, Ctags and Glimpse...
>
>As long as you understand that none of those are C++ analysis tools.
Um, yes - I am painfully aware of that. Still, it's amazing how
useful those tools actually are, all things considered.
>Cscope is for C and doesn't know a
I got some good recommendations here (thanks!) and I meant
to follow up on this earlier but I've been scrambling so hard
that I've so far only had the time to give one tool (Source
Navigator) one hurried try. Source Navigator appeared to be
quite polished and I hope to put it to good use some da
[ While this question is not about a Linux problem,
strictly speaking, it *is* about a Windows problem
that arises as a direct result of me trying to make
the Windows2000 machine on my desktop a bearable
platform from which to do Linux development... ] :-/
I had the IT gang in
> $ sudo /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 del 10.107.33.189
[...]
>I ask to delete a non-existent interface, and instead, I get
>a totally new one I didn't ask for :)
Though the results aren't what you wanted this might
possibly be a case of RTFM; my man page says,
"To delete an alias interfac
FWIW...
http://kbase.redhat.com/
(seen on osnews.com)
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> What was the name of the tool from Red Hat that did code
> inspections? It was supposed to be the best of them all. It was
> commercial for a while and then RH released it as open src. Anyone?
I just installed Source Navigator and it's got RHAT logos in
all the strategic locations, so I'm
I've joined an established project and I'm trying to come up to
speed with their (complex!) C++ code and could use some help
in divining how all the pieces fit together. I'm doing all the
usual WWW searches but also wanted to get recommendations from
the GNHLUG; anybody know of good sourcecode an
> To capture FTP control traffic, one would do something like this:
>
>tethereal -i eth0 -f 'port 21'
It can also sometimes be useful to run your program using strace.
The sequence of syscalls can be excellent clues about the progress
(or lack thereof) your program is making. Many time
I struggled my way through what looks like the same problem
a while back, having been forced to do so when Yahoo started
rejecting all my emails because of that "misconfigured sender"
in the headers, thereby preventing me from communicating with
several family members. Unfortunately, I can't rem
> It depends upon the minds you're citing. Google cites 290 million
> hits on Python versus 365 million on Perl, so you could argue
> that's an edge or around a 4:5 ratio.
Possibly. Of course, those stats might also be an indication
that Perl is (or "many Perl programs are") so much more
confu
> s/death/slow, painful, debilitating, excruciating, grotesque death/
A "debilitating" death? As opposed to what?;->
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> What I find most interesting is that Perl and Python were both
> started at roughly the same time in the late 1980s. So why is
> Python just *now* becoming popular?
That Tour de Babel essay I recently mentioned here:
http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html
...touche
Firefox 1.5.0.1 on my Debian "testing" system
loaded that image and did not complain or crash but
(apparently) also did not render anything useful;
at least I didn't see anything on the screen.
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dia claims to be able to export in EPS format so it's possible
that you could feed that to epstopdf, or maybe some combination
of eps2eps and ps2pdf if that don't work.
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VCG can be used to generate some fairly complex graphs.
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> For what it's worth the default traceroute on Unix-ish systems
> uses UDP, not ICMP. traceroute -I (capital "eye") would use ICMP.
Que? How does that work? I only know about that bump-the-TTL-after-
every-hop trick.
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> UDP packets also have TTL settings. The response from the
> particular router that hits that TTL is still ICMP (time-exceeded),
> but the outgoing traffic is UDP.
>
> man traceroute
You're right - I should have RTFM before posting...
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>> 2 weeks ago, I'm certain I had this interface configured *and*
>> working just fine.
>
>Nevertheless, if it were me I'd connect the cable in question
>to some other known working system as a basic sanity test...
I was going to add that I mentioned that because I've recently
been victimized by
> 2 weeks ago, I'm certain I had this interface configured *and*
> working just fine.
Nevertheless, if it were me I'd connect the cable in question
to some other known working system as a basic sanity test...
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>> http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/09/233227.shtml
>
>You should mention that this is fixed in release 1.4.2.2.
OK - I'll have Jerry Feldman handle that.
>Also, I run SuSE 10.0, and SuSE has already updated to 1.4.2.2.
Cool. Similarly, I had done this:
apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upg
FYI, info re: newly discovered flaw in GPG:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/09/233227.shtml
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I've found this USENET group to be a good resource in the past:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.project-management
Their FAQ was particularly good, though I haven't looked at that
group in approx 3 years.
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I found this guy's outburst about computer languages entertaining:
http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html
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Even if you are completely blameless and all of your actions
have been so completely inside all legal and practical limits
that nobody bringing suit against you could possibly prevail,
the mere act of filing suit against you causes you real,
measurable harm. It will cost you some combination of
Let's remember to reference these graphics the
next time we're "debating" which editor is best:;->
http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/curves.jpg
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I was housecleaning a collection of moldy old URLs and
was befuddled when, after asking my browser to fetch
http://www.peertech.org/
...I was presented with the default page from the WWW
server on my own machine. WTF? But then I notice that
the DNS is in fact resolving that address to 127.0
Not that using "make" won't work, but I don't see the advantage
of the approaches being discussed versus a simple shell script.
make is cool because it allows you to describe arbitrarily
complex dependency relationships between various objects so
that it can analyze those relationships to determ
> > This will almost always work, especially with zombie processes.
> > What you are doing is transitioning into single-user mode.
>
> Any idea what the underlying mechanism is that makes this work?
The kernel has no notions such as "run level" and "single-user
mode" - that's all state that's m
Dang! I just stumbled across this in the list of
available packages on my Debian box while looking for
something else - `wish I'd known about this the last time
I was trying to salvage data from some zorched platters...
DDRESCUE(1)DDRESC
> I believe this is by design, the host command is specifically
> intended to query DNS.
The following quick test tends to confirm what MWL is saying
and apparently shows the "host" tool using only libresolv while
another tool ("ping, in this example) then proceeds to libnss:
% strace host bog
Seems to be a decent tutorial/summary; I particularly
like the way they present the subject matter using only
small words and plenty of pictures & diagrams... ;->
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html
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> different users have a different PATH
Many factors come into play when trying to answer this
(somewhat inexact) question. For example, the program
files (and components of the directory paths by which
they're reached) may be such that they're accessible/
executable by one user but not another
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