Re: Klipper Re: emacs and mozilla copying and pasting

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
AFAIK, yes, but it requires the kde libs I think. Try it and let us know!! Cheers Jason Paul wrote: Can klipper run outside of KDE? On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 11:33 am, Jason wrote: I think (assuming Klipper is running) it's as simple as rubbing over it and then pasting it or copying and pasting i

Klipper Re: emacs and mozilla copying and pasting

2003-03-09 Thread Paul
Can klipper run outside of KDE? On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 11:33 am, Jason wrote: > I think (assuming Klipper is running) it's as simple as rubbing over it > and then pasting it or copying and pasting it. > > Cheers > > Jason > > PS, Klipper is great at bridging the cut/paste gap in Linux IMHO. > > Pau

Re: Combo DVD/CDRW Drive

2003-03-09 Thread Col
Peter Glassenbury wrote: C Falconer wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 09:04, Col wrote: I am considering buying one. Good idea or bad? Also what are the things to watch out for with DVD drives. Do you have any other drives already? If so, reusing them will probably be cheaper. How many spare drive

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Nick Rout
Its ok people rpm --checksig package.rpm checks the size, md5sum and gpg signature. For gpg to work you need to install gpg and do: gpg --import signingkeyfile signingkeyfile is on the redhat or mandrake cd's if you can't ge bothered with gpg then rpm --nogpg --checksig package.rpm checks

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Darrell Olsen
If you want to go through the install to see what it would do, but without actually installing any files, then include the option '--test', e.g. rpm --install --test package_file. Cheers, Darrell. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:08, you wrote: > how do i check individual rpms are ok? I know they are

Re: Perl to C translation

2003-03-09 Thread Joff
At 15:15 10/03/2003, you wrote: Hi all I've got a teacher making games using Flash MX, and he asked me if I had any code for generating an array with the numbers 1 thru 4 in a random order. It's used to place Flash objects in random locations when the student loads the game. As it turns out, I ha

Re: Perl to C translation

2003-03-09 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:24:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the pseudo-random number generator should be initialized with a seed > (this at least prevents it from generating the same sequence all the > times (as long as you change the seed value ;) )) indeed... > use the srand call to in

Re: Perl to C translation

2003-03-09 Thread nordkyn
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:07:54 +1300 Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WARNING: rand() sucks, and will return the same numbers for each > invocation of this program. I dont have time to go find the better > method :P (supposed to be working) the pseudo-random number generator should be init

Re: Perl to C translation

2003-03-09 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:15:17PM +1300, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > @array=(1,2,3,4); > > $times=int(rand 49)+1; > > while ($times<50){ > > > $a=int(rand 3); > > $b=$array[$a]; > > splice(@array, $a, 1); > > unshift(@array,$

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> how do i check individual rpms are ok? I know they are signed, but how > does one check them against the signatures? rpm -Kv any number of package files Obviously, you need to set up your gpg (or pgp if very old) with the correct key first. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possib

Perl to C translation

2003-03-09 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Hi all I've got a teacher making games using Flash MX, and he asked me if I had any code for generating an array with the numbers 1 thru 4 in a random order. It's used to place Flash objects in random locations when the student loads the game. As it turns out, I had exactly the code he needs, but

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Nick Rout
ahhh got it rpm --checksig --nogpg *.rpm checks filesize & md5, must be embedded in there somewhere. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:20:44 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > h, good question then... =) > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >I don't want to install them, i want to check them onl

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
h, good question then... =) Nick Rout wrote: I don't want to install them, i want to check them only. they are the rpm's for the installfest network install server. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:11:06 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I check the exact byte size vs.

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Nick Rout
I don't want to install them, i want to check them only. they are the rpm's for the installfest network install server. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:11:06 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I check the exact byte size vs. the remote file size. Once I try and > install it, if the sig i

Re: checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
I check the exact byte size vs. the remote file size. Once I try and install it, if the sig is wrong it tells me and asks if I want to continue...in ML anyway. Cheers Jason Nick Rout wrote: how do i check individual rpms are ok? I know they are signed, but how does one check them against the

checking rpms

2003-03-09 Thread Nick Rout
how do i check individual rpms are ok? I know they are signed, but how does one check them against the signatures? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sites to add to handout!!

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
I can think of a few that need to be added too, like: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php#third for Mandrake URMPI users. Also: http://www.urpmi.org/en/ For a FULL site re URPMI and how it works from the CLI. It "explains" URPMI full stop. Since we are tending towards being Mandrake specific

Re: Out of the mouths of babes...

2003-03-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Miles (aged 7) has Redhat 7.3. I installed KDE and set it as the default, > and he has always logged in as default and got KDE. Yesterday he was > fiddling and chose gnome from the dropdown box. It just went back to the > login screen and waited for another login. I figured out that gnome was > n

Re: Out of the mouths of babes...

2003-03-09 Thread C Falconer
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:35, Nick Rout wrote: > Miles (aged 7) has Redhat 7.3. I installed KDE and set it as the default, > and he has always logged in as default and got KDE. Yesterday he was > fiddling and chose gnome from the dropdown box. It just went back to the ... Damn - and I thought Danie

Out of the mouths of babes...

2003-03-09 Thread Nick Rout
Miles (aged 7) has Redhat 7.3. I installed KDE and set it as the default, and he has always logged in as default and got KDE. Yesterday he was fiddling and chose gnome from the dropdown box. It just went back to the login screen and waited for another login. I figured out that gnome was not install

Re: Combo DVD/CDRW Drive

2003-03-09 Thread Peter Glassenbury
C Falconer wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 09:04, Col wrote: I am considering buying one. Good idea or bad? Also what are the things to watch out for with DVD drives. Do you have any other drives already? If so, reusing them will probably be cheaper. How many spare drive bays/power connecters/IDE

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
I see. I also may use the cat command that CS suggested... Cheers Jason Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jason wrote: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=91CD2.iso [...] AFAIK dd doesn't do error correction or retries. So it would be wi

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
With your and Mike's help, I should be able to sort it, though as I said in my other post...gotta get my system up again tonight!! =) Cheers Jason Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 23:48, you wrote: Ok, I did a lot of research and the whole rtfm thing. I am still ge

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
That was a great help... Shall test tonight at home. THOUGH my latest cooker upgrade lastnight B0rked my system and I may have to install 9.0 (stable) on another partition as when I'm booting it can't read the partition table (think it's a kernel problem). Cheers 4 the help, Jason Mike Bea

Re: Combo DVD/CDRW Drive

2003-03-09 Thread C Falconer
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 09:04, Col wrote: > I am considering buying one. Good idea or bad? > Also what are the things to watch out for with DVD drives. Do you have any other drives already? If so, reusing them will probably be cheaper. CDROM drives ~$60 CDRW drive ~$120 DVD drive ~$100 Combo drive

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 23:48, you wrote: > Ok, I did a lot of research and the whole rtfm thing. I am still getting [ ... ] > Sorry to be so verbose but I am still learning my way round the CLI (and > doing a piss poor job might I add). You need to come to a few sessions about the UNIX shells at th

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Mike Beattie
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:48:50PM +1300, Jason wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=91CD2.iso > dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error > 1330624+0 records in > 1330624+0 records out Good. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count= 332640 of=91CD2.iso > dd

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jason wrote: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=91CD2.iso [...] AFAIK dd doesn't do error correction or retries. So it would be wise to use the readcd or isodump instead (cdrecord package) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
Aha, I see, thanks for the help... =) Martin Baehr wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:47:04AM +1300, Jason wrote: of=91CD2.iso is your modifier, so in this case the output gets written to the file 91CD2.iso and not to stdout. Not on my Mandrake system. That modifier just changes the file name of

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:47:04AM +1300, Jason wrote: > >of=91CD2.iso is your modifier, > >so in this case the output gets written to the file 91CD2.iso and not to > >stdout. > Not on my Mandrake system. That modifier just changes the file name of > the output ISO. that's what i said. > The st

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
Thanks for the help. I have done a bit more research too. Martin Baehr wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:48:50PM +1300, Jason wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=91CD2.iso Also, with dd, how do you specify where the of goes once copied. The info says it goes to stdout without a

Re: Sites with hdlist's?

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
Depends on what version you are running but for example: urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://plf.time4t.net/pub/plf/9.0 with hdlist.cz See: http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php for more info. Cheers Jason Paul wrote: How do you add plf.zarb.net to urpmi ? On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 4:50 pm, Chris Wilkinson

Re: Sites with hdlist's?

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
Agree'd, that site is pretty complete and the beauty is that it provides the EXACT command to add the sources you want. Cheers Jason Chad wrote: Heres a list of most of the major ones. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php Hi there, I'm looking on the net for sites that can be added to

Re: KaZaA lite

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
I've had it running fine under WINE before. Cheers Jason Slosh wrote: I was wondering if anyone had tried... or preferentially... succeeded in setting up KaZaA Lite under linux. I tried a while ago but it blew up quite impressively. --Slosh

Re: emacs and mozilla copying and pasting

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
I think (assuming Klipper is running) it's as simple as rubbing over it and then pasting it or copying and pasting it. Cheers Jason PS, Klipper is great at bridging the cut/paste gap in Linux IMHO. Paul wrote: Hey, I want to be able to copy text in emacs and past into mozilla. Anyone know how

Re: dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Martin Baehr
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:48:50PM +1300, Jason wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=91CD2.iso > Also, with dd, how do you specify where the of goes once copied. The > info says it goes to stdout without a modifier. of=91CD2.iso is your modifier, so in this case the output gets

dd help PLEASE

2003-03-09 Thread Jason
Ok, I did a lot of research and the whole rtfm thing. I am still getting problems when trying to copy you and Nick's cd's to ISO files. I am sure it is partially my syntax but I get IO errors when using the CLI OR K3B. eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom CD-ROM is in ISO 9660