Would lead even work as RF shielding? I thought that
application required some sort of ferrous metal.
Apropos (barely) this thread, last month I was in
the Nestle cookiecoffee shop in Sedona that didn't
have any signs indicating WIFI availability, but
out of curiosity I cranked up my laptop to
I only know enough about networking to be dangerous,
so out of morbid curiousity (and also to stimulate
discussion) I'd be interested in comments about the
(lack of) security in the following arrangement:
let's say I have a simple home network with a
combination of machines behind a Linux box
I don't know about Macs and it's been a while since I had
to rescue a PeeCee from this situation, but many PeeCees
will forget their BIOS passwords if you disconnect the
battery from the battery-backed RAM and leave it for a
while to allow any residual charge to drain. This also
results in all
I don't have specific info about the laptop in question
but, unfortunately, it seems to be very common these days
for laptop manufacturers (as well as the manufacturers
of the various components) to be just howlingly stupid
about Linux support. It's infuriating!
For example, I have Debian
Once upon a time the guy regarded by some as
Mr. Alpha Linux was a lurker on this channel.
Jay? Are you there?
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Here's a query direct from a German relative when he
heard that I know something about Linux:
[my mother] is dying to be able to use the Internet, but is
very afraid of computers. At home she cannot even correctly
use her cell phone or Funktelefon. Isn't there a simple
little Idiot-proof
The reason for this is rather important, and I would ask that
if any of the many talented folks on this list can provide any
information regarding this, to please email it to me personally.
Can you at least reassure us that you're not involved with somebody
who's trying to patent the notion
Heh. I've heard that gmail invites are
being auctioned for anywhere from $0.99
to $20.00 to the uninformed on Ebay...
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The list of CD/DVD/floppy based Linux distributions at
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
was compiled by somebody with ntfsresize support in
mind but appears to be a generally valuable collection
for other purposes, too.
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Yow! Notified on 29 Oct about a 31 Oct deadline,
and their server is refusing connections. Maybe
they're just trying to weed out the faint of heart...
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Our customers typically buy our Linux server
boxes intending to port their custom apps to it
from some other OS, so during the early stages
of negotiations it's not normally possible for
them to take their own app out for a test drive.
I'd therefore be grateful for any suggestions
regarding
Use wget to snarf the pages and your favorite
HTML-(Postscript|ASCII) converter to convert these to something
printable (look here: http://www.w3.org/Tools/html2things.html).
Print the results and you're done.
Pages can also be rendered as ASCII with lynx -dump
I don't use RPM-based system much and I need to
find some packages to install. I find rpmfind.net
to be sorta lame; it's down half the time and slow
when it's running. Worse, I dared to attempt two
simultaneous package downloads and they've apparently
banned me, as punishment, even though they
http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/10/24/2352234.shtml?tid=172tid=110tid=218tid=106
http://www.redhat.com/security/
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Zip drive is model Z100ATAPI and the Fujitsu
M2511A magneto-optical drive is SCSI.
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OK - it looks like they're claimed by Drew.
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MV's site is up now for me, but I've been experiencing DNS problems
at several clients this morning. This may have nothing to do
with MV, because it is affecting some non-MV clients of mine too.
My employer's IT staff sent out a msg saying that
Level3 had announced a major North American
However, I get those errors with a 2.6.7 kernel, too, and everything
works fine with 2.6.7. But, just for fun, I shut down X, and the problem
seems to go away. Hmm... Strange things are afoot at the Circle K..
Maybe some forwarding or authentication conflict between X and SSH?
How about this?
useradd -c execute reboot
-d /root
-g 0
-p initialPasswd
-s /usr/bin/poweroff
-o
-u 0
poweroff
...all on one line, of course.
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If not for the X part it sounds alot like a duplex mismatch.
Heh. That would be weird. You can query the interfaces
on the various machines with mii-tool.
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useradd -c execute reboot
[...]
-u 0
poweroff
There aren't any security problems here? It seems like there could
be potential issues with having a second root account where the
password was known. I'm not sure where exactly the problem would
come from, but it
You're concerned that somebody might be able to use
the poweroff user's credentials to gain other root
privileges? I've not heard of a scenario where this
would be a problem.
The man page for su shows an option for changing the default shell that
is run, -s. I assume the risk here would be
I dogpiled and also checked the excellent FAQ at
http://www.cdrfaq.org/
...and found plenty of info on how to write the
booter image to a bootable CD but nothing on how
to read it back off. Any tips?
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If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write
the bits to disk as-is.
The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically a DOS-type
floppy image that gets booted which then boots the CD-ROM (El
Torito format).
I don't think so. IIRC, El Torito calls for a special
Given the responses so far it sounds like my take on
the situation was correct: you can't burn CDROMs with
the software included in a basic XP Home installation,
but various 3rd-party packages are available.
I thought I'd heard that a basic XP Home setup was able
to burn bootable CDROMs as part
Another few shots in the dark: have you played with
permissions on the mount point?
Yes, but saw no difference in behavior.
Can you mount them as ext2?
No.
Is there any spare space where you can create a small ext3 to
see if ones created by that kernel can be mounted by the kernel?
No
OK - two guys are watching a dog licking its own genitals.
One guy says, I sure wish I were able to do that...
The other guy says, Naaahh! He'd probably bite you.
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One time, when I was eleven years old, I ate
an entire outboard motor.
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I wonder whether there could have been an incompatible format change
in, say, /etc/mtab. If there's a stale copy from the earlier
kernel, and the code in mount that reads it fails because of a
format change, something higher up may not adequately distinguish
that error from already
I'm working with a laptop that has a basic
XP Home installation on it and I'm trying to
create a bootable Debian CDROM. The system
seems generally quite good at copying files
onto its CD drive but offers not even a hint
about how to make that CD bootable, so when I
draggeddropped the Debian ISO
I dogpiled for this and came up empty (tho there
may be some magic combination of search terms that I
failed to try) so I hope those gathered here may have
a clue for me that'll help me avoid turning this into
an in-depth research project.
I have a couple of machines that have been happy
running
Those that know me also know that I do not make wild-ass
predictions loosely, but I will predict that the mating
of voice and digital in one place the way that Asterisk
(or whatever Asterisk becomes) has will create a market
of software generation and integration at least as large
as Linux
There also seems to be the new trend of sending crap emails that
have no content and random words.. I think those are just sent
to verify email addresses, but then there's no product or service
being sold.
sometimes this is just in the text/plain part - the ad is in the
text/html part.
I don't do much IRC but Chatzilla (which you already have if
you did a full install of Mozilla) has always worked for me.
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I have three S020189 and also one S020191, which
is supposedly the corresponding tri-color cartridge.
According to one site:
The following printers use the Epson S020189:
Stylus Color 1160
Stylus Color 740
Stylus Color 740i
Stylus Color 760
Stylus Color 840
Stylus Color 840i
I want to crimp five RJ45 plugs onto some lengths
of cable. Since I don't do this very often I'm
hoping to avoid buying a $30 crimper that'll just
sit in my toolbox afterwards. Anybody got one?
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I think the Linux companies that are into Enterprise class OS's
are feeling some of the pain of supporting larger organizations,
hopefully they will learn and provide better support.
See? If only you'd bought proprietary software you'd have
somebody to hold your hand through these
Some followup discussion on Newsforge:
http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/09/15/213216.shtml?tid=138tid=93tid=147tid=132
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most of the programming was done on windows, but
deployed on Linux for stability and reliability.
Well, sure - why else would it be named Opus?
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I suspect find's symlink dereferencing behavior, so here's a
shot in the dark: try toggling your dereference option, ie.
if you're telling find to dereference symlinks, try the same
search but don't dereference. If you aren't, then do so...
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I suspect find's symlink dereferencing behavior, so here's a
shot in the dark: try toggling your dereference option, ie.
if you're telling find to dereference symlinks, try the same
search but don't dereference. If you aren't, then do so...
Kudos. find -follow works like a charm.
Cool,
Before I junk this machine I thought I'd offer
it for the taking:
120MHz Pentium 75/200
64Mb RAM (IDE)
1Gb main disk (IDE)
3Gb secondary disk
Adaptek 1592 SCSI adapter
pathetic Trident VGA
CD ROM drive
floppy
keyboard
Enet
It's got 4 PCI slots and 4 EISA slots - the Enet
and SCSI
Unless it's vitally important to preserve some of the
obscure Windows-specific file attributes, tar seems
like a fine solution.
Otherwise, if I were doing this I think I'd create
a partition that's just large enough to hold the
collection of files in question, initialize that raw
partition with
If I were one of the entrenched players in the telecoms
space, or if I were a big-brother type, I think I'd be
angry about VoIP. From a business angle, I'd see stuff
like VoIP as a threat to my legislated monopoly. From a
big brother perspective I'd be unhappy about the enhanced
privacy as
I'm curious about how one constructs a Flash movie
[...]
http://tinyurl.com/4upgd
There ought to be a list rule...
Yah, OK - consider me spanked - I obviously could
have used a search engine to research the generic
part of the question. Sorry about that. I'd still be
interested in
I generally detest Flash since its primary application
seems to be as a tool for constructing the elements
(or even the entirety) of extremely annoying WWW pages.
However, I do also admire some of the very entertaining
and useful things that can be done with it when it's used
as the primary
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7422
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*The Attack*
From what I've uncovered, there is a file called phpexplorer.php (file
management script with upload capability) which appeared in my
OSCommerce catalog directory on May 18th. I verified that this file is
not contained in my local development server, and not in the distributed
Brief, amusing story about a Python-versus-Perl
wager to be satisfied with thrown pies:
http://www.ntk.net/
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Add me to the list of those interested in obtaining
an HDTV card. It would seem advisable for such a
group purchase to seek the highest quality hardware
available (which might oblige us to purchase them
close to the legislated deadline to make sure we got
the latest technology, which in turn
It's no business of mine if a gmail user gets
ads shoved in front of them, but I certainly
don't want gmail's ads being shoved in front
of ME simply because I happen to be on the same
list with a gmail user.
I'd assume the pool of eyeballs available here
on the GNHLUG list to be highly
I'd assume the pool of eyeballs available here
on the GNHLUG list to be highly desirable to an
advertiser, but Google has provided the GNHLUG
with precisely nothing in return for access
to those eyeballs. Of course, the fact that
they're all likely to be obscenely rich after
the imminent
I was in Sarasota FLA last week to meet with the
attorney who's handling my recently deceased father's
estate. The meeting was winding down and we were
getting chatty and I mentioned in passing that I was
an OS developer, which was met with blank stares from
the three others (the venerable
NH to tax chat rooms, IM and WWW mail?
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=40593
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I'm trying to get a clue about the above mentioned DMTF
stuff and can find a mind-numbing pile of mind-numbing
docs specs but no Linux software packages that
will let me see an actual implementation in action,
ie, something like a WBEM application that could
display/modify characteristics of one
http://www.redhatsociety.com/
Excerpt from their FAQ:
Of course, to be a Red Hatter, one should wear a red hat
and a clashing purple ensemble at all meetings to keep
up the spirit and purpose of the (dis)organization.
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These sites are keepers in their own right,
and will very likely have your answers, or
at least point you in the right direction:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html
http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-cdrom.pdf
( http://www.phoenix.com/en/customer+services/white+papers-specs/ )
It's possible that you have something periodically
searching for some IDE device (like a disk or cdrom)
and referring to it as /dev/hd-something-or-other
and your system doesn't have IDE devices so you
have none of the corresponding drivers available
(either statically linked or as modules) so
A fairly cheery article by Matt Asay (Novell biz-dev dude)
describing how he sees FOSS development model as a long term win:
http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/06/10/1932254.shtml
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CFO resigns abruptly:
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/4535/040615redhatcfo/
It might not mean anything, but given the timing (three
days before RHAT is to announce 2005 fiscal first quarter
results) one might at least be excused for wondering...
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I notice on several of our RHAT9 boxes that crond holds
/dev/console open as its stdin - can this be as intended?
My Debian box has all of crond's descriptors set to /dev/null,
and it seems like allowing crond to hold /dev/console open
might present the opportunity for it to compete for input
...to just about any less primitive medium. Anybody
have an old 9-track drive and willing to help?
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I've rigged 2.4.18 systems with e1000 in both normal
and bonded modes and it just worked. One of my former
cow-orkers benchmarked some of those systems and, though
I don't recall the numbers, they were good enough that
we weren't ashamed to do dogpony shows with them when
competing for a
There's also the Broadcom (tg3) devices which seem to work okay.
Newer IBM servers are coming with them instead of the e1000.
FWIW, I was installing Debian on a newish HP box
at work last year that had a nice Broadcom gigE on
the motherboard but the normal Broadcom driver
couldn't handle it. I
Maybe this?
http://www.rebateplace.com/detail.cfm?id=17525disp=Networkingsort=1row=1CFID=229587CFTOKEN=15556460
Please be informed that I've never done business with that firm...
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OK, this seems like it should be obvious but I'm
not getting anywhere.
I work in a corporate environment where the
networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP)
is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it
understands very little about DHCP and nothing at
all about Linux, so he's not
It's been a while since I thought about Glimpse/WebGlimpse but
they might be of interest. Once upon a time they were somewhere
near http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ but much has changed since
they began - they alienated part of their audience when they
went from something resembling FOSS to a
It's been a while since I thought about Glimpse/WebGlimpse but
they might be of interest. Once upon a time they were somewhere
near http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ but much has changed since
they began - they alienated part of their audience when they
went from something resembling FOSS to a
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/040603mspatent/
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=/netahtml/srchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6,727,830.WKU.OS=PN/6,727,830RS=PN/6,727,830
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It's possible you could approach the problem more
simply, maybe like this:
starting from every instance of /fh start
gathering all text except anything that looks like
a tag (ie. discard all tags) up until the point
where you find an instance of /location_addr1.
You're then
jesus H!! I can smell that one all the way over here!
Does it smell like lilacs?
I suppose if you had done this, you would have checked the return
value from close and called perror() if -1 was returned. (-:
Sir, I would not presume to improve on this hack -
it is a Hacker's hack - it
Welcome to the world of GNHLUG, where things aren't what they seem. :-)
But we are geeks, and we like it anyway!
Some of us actually appear to like it BECAUSE of that.
And, yes - welcome.
I visited your web site, and noticed your patent. I'm curious,
what is your take on software patents?
for fd in $FDS ; do
echo call close($fd) $GDBX
done
echo detach $GDBX
gdb -batch -x $GDBX
jesus H!! I can smell that one all the way over here!
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Assuming I can get away from work in time to
attend the meeting, I plan to bring a grab-bag of
random freebie junk for the hordes to paw through;
stuff like cables (Enet/parallel/RS232) obscure UPS
paraphenalia, power adapters, PDA cradles, etc...
OK - I figured out how to relay traffic between a serial
port and a network-attached process - I thought it'd be
simple, but didn't figure it'd be THIS simple. On SystemB
(the intermediate system with a serial port connected to the
system being debugged [SystemA] and which is also expected to
Can anybody offer comments about threading on RHAT9,
or even about the general state/politics of threading
in Linux? I gather that there's been some controversy
along the way and the threading model has lurched back
and forth somewhat, from Linux threads to Posix
threads to the NPTL (Native
From what I gathered after following several discussions about
this since Red Hat released their nptl-enabled 2.4 kernel, the
general answer is 'yes'. The glibc developers took great pains
to ensure that if you are not running an nptl kernel, then older
Linux thread model is used.
As far
Anybody have a straightforward HOWTO that explains what's
necessary to mke a Linux box act like a cheap serial-port
concentrator, something like an Annex or Cyclades box?
In other words, I want to rig SystemA such that it has a
serial console with that serial port wired over to SystemB
such that
For the record, I can't speak authoritatively about which
thread model is better or worse. I only know what I know from
reading various places (lwn.net kernel section, kerneltrap.org,
and sometimes lkml itself) what was, is, and is going to be in
various kernel versions.
Given what I'm
CHECKING: lkm
You have17 process hidden for readdir command
You have17 process hidden for ps command
- WARNING!! INFECTED!! Possible LKM Trojan installed
What produced this output?
Those look like msgs generated by chkrootkit. FWIW:
chkrootkit does unfortunately
I wrote:
CHECKING: lkm
You have17 process hidden for readdir command
You have17 process hidden for ps command
- WARNING!! INFECTED!! Possible LKM Trojan installed
What produced this output?
Those look like msgs generated by chkrootkit. FWIW:
chkrootkit does
The Fully Automatic Installer may be one approach:
http://faifaq.andrew.net.au
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This thread makes me ache; last July we were essentially
giving used 1U servers away free while trying to dispose of
the assets of Mission Critical Linux. They had commodity
motherboards in the 400-800MHz range equipped w/commodity
peripherals including CD, floppy, USB, Enet, etc - not
bleeding
Can we also please lose the [gnhlug-announce] clutter
on Subject: lines for that channel?
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The ONLY thing that should be on the Subject: line of
any email msg is information relevant to the subject(s)
of that message. Anything else is noise. There is
more than enough info in the headers (particularly the
lines that are there sepcificially for the purpose)
to identify GNHLUG msgs as
Paul Lussier wrote:
Yet this isn't the first time someone has been nonplussed by a
less-then-instantaneous response.
Can one be 'plussed' ?
Um, isn't that your email address?
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Here's one approach:
sed -e '/^uniqdelimiter$/,/^uniqdelimiter$/p' -e d | sed -e 1d -e '$d'
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I'm partial to Debian but I'm obliged to work with
RHAT boxes so I sat with a cow-orker as he tried apt
on his RHAT box a few days ago and it appears that (at
least during the simple test-drive we gave) it worked
as reliably as I've ever seen it on a Debian box.
This shouldn't have amazed me,
I've rigged Mozilla to remember my passwords
for various accounts (which I believe to be
safe because it's supposedly encrypted under
protection of a Master password - anybody heard
otherwise?) and it somehow manages to detect
most instances where I'm supplying a password
and offers to remember
I could use some help - here's my situation:
SystemG (Good) has GRUB installed on it and everything
works fine.
SystemH (Hosed) has an otherwise good disk (with live
files on it that I want to preserve) that needs to be
have GRUB (re-)installed on it. (Don't ask...)
http://www.go-l.com/monitors/grand_canyon/features/index.htm
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then forwards a copy of that annotated doc to me, and if
I am not aware that its annotations (which are not apparent
when the document is being viewed normally, right?)
ought not be seen by outsiders, I might (incorrectly)
conclude that it's OK to forward a copy to an outsider.
...and our
.
.
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In Word 2000 if I navigate thusly:
Edit - Toolbars - Reviewing
I get a toolbar that allows me to see a reviewer's
comments on a document.
FWIW, when I crank up OpenOffice1.1 on my Debian box
and open the Help window and begin to type the word
review into the search tool I get as far as the
Ah. If you announce that you're Recording changes you're then
able to enter Review comentary in a little dialog box. Clunky.
That commentary is viewable later in the same clunky dialog...
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 08:07, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Ah. If you announce that you're Recording changes you're then
able to enter Review comentary in a little dialog box. Clunky.
That commentary is viewable later in the same clunky dialog...
Clunky or a feature, I guess its how you look
Followup article on ESR's rant, including input from
the CUPS folks and other feedback...
http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/03/01/1453218.shtml
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...and in case you think no interesting packages fall
under the non-free classification, here's what I've
grepped (though I'm sure TMTOWTDI) from the non-free
There's no reason to grep -- Debian includes vrms, the Virtual
Richard M. Stallman program. :-) As you probably guessed, it'll
give
Debian fans may be distressed by the folowing proposal:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200402/msg00106.html
...and in case you think no interesting packages fall
under the non-free classification, here's what I've
grepped (though I'm sure TMTOWTDI) from the non-free
masses. Debianwell...debian won't be a desktop distro.
This leaves SuSE and Mandrake really. Any idea how good they
are as a desktop distribution?
I'm happy to report that, far from being the only
remaining choices, SuSe and Mandrake still have
lots of company:
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