Re: A new toy

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Alasdair Tennant wrote: Today, I downloaded puppy Linux (50 megs) and gemu (IIRC) (2 megs) and in ne3xt to no time got Puppy running happily in a Windows window. It goes like this: gemu installs in Windows - actually AFAIK just unpacks into a folder. You run a config batch file which asks a fe

Re: Run process at startup

2005-02-11 Thread Alasdair Tennant
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:57:13 +1300 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan to migrate to Postgres, then I'll be able to store all the data > all the time and get graphs of any subset. Right now I'm just getting > all the bits working. There may be very good reason to learn and use p

Re: Win4Lin (inc. Noteworthy)

2005-02-11 Thread Alasdair Tennant
You could also have a look at tabledit. It is an excellent Windows program for guitar TAB, but includes MIDI, stave & TAB notation, transposition, chord recognition and heaps more. I had some success running it under wine a while ago, though I didn't have MIDI to try with it. -- Alasdair Ten

Re: Run process at startup

2005-02-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Alasdair Tennant wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:57:13 +1300 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I plan to migrate to Postgres, then I'll be able to store all the data all the time and get graphs of any subset. Right now I'm just getting all the bits working. There may be very good r

Re: Run process at startup

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew Errington
> > Personally, I'd stick with a well supported database with an SQL > interface. MySQL's getting a bit silly with licensing, so the obvious > choice to me is Postgres. Alternatlively, I've got a copy of Oracle 10g > - but that may be a bit of overkill (: I believe Postgres to be a 'real' database

Re: Run process at startup

2005-02-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Andrew Errington wrote: Personally, I'd stick with a well supported database with an SQL interface. MySQL's getting a bit silly with licensing, so the obvious choice to me is Postgres. Alternatlively, I've got a copy of Oracle 10g - but that may be a bit of overkill (: I believe Postgres to be

Re: SATA disks

2005-02-11 Thread linuxguy
1. The top end disks are re-jigged SCSI disks, and can act more asynchronously given the right drivers ( getting further away from IDE), as Delio said. They also tend to spin faster - up to 15,000rpm. The only commonly sold SATA disks I see are 7200rpm, not having checked many suppliers. Would

Re: TRON

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Wesley Parish wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:15, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:15, you wrote: Lat night I mentioned in passing the operating system TRON (not to be confused with the movie, Tron). About 2.6 billion systems are

Windows software on Linux

2005-02-11 Thread Lindsay
Informed by a friend, there is/are programs that allow Linux users to use some Windows based software on thier systems. I have produced software in Visual Basic that I would like to be able to run on Linux if I can. Does Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty) have such software somewhere on it please?

Re: Windows software on Linux

2005-02-11 Thread Gareth Williams
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:09:18 +1300, Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Informed by a friend, there is/are programs that allow Linux users to > use some Windows based software on thier systems. I have produced > software in Visual Basic that I would like to be able to run on Linux if > I can. >

Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I am developing a FTP-server in Java. When I try to start ot as a normal user I get "java.net.BindException: Permission denied". As root it runs perfectly. Is there any way to allow users to start servers (if possible only on one port)? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Lee Begg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:08, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > I am developing a FTP-server in Java. When I try to start ot as a normal > user I get "java.net.BindException: Permission denied". As root it runs > perfectly. Is there any way to allow users to start servers (if possible > only on one port)? N

More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I make a lot of use of using text-sessions with C-M-F<1-6>. I use one for emacs with a python program I am just writing, one for testing it, one with the python-interpreter, one as root, one with another emacs... Unfortunately there are only five of these sessions (Session 1 is used by the star

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Lee Begg wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:08, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I am developing a FTP-server in Java. When I try to start ot as a normal user I get "java.net.BindException: Permission denied". As root it runs perfectly. Is there any way to allow users to start servers (if possible only on on

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Gareth Williams
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:27:57 +1300, Robert Himmelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to set graphical sessions to 10-12 and the rest > to text-sessions? take a look in /etc/inittab :)

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Nick Rout
Take a look in the /etc/inittab file, it defines the number of consoles that get started up. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:27 +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > I make a lot of use of using text-sessions with C-M-F<1-6>. I use one > for emacs with a python program I am just writing, one for testing it,

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Is there a way (s/expect/apart/ from suid) to allow normal users to run > a server that listens on port 21? No, that's the whole point of the protected ports ( 1 - 1023 ). -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:35 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > > Is there a way (s/expect/apart/ from suid) to allow normal users to run > > a server that listens on port 21? > No, that's the whole point of the protected ports ( 1 - 1023 ). >

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:40, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:35 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > > > Is there a way (s/expect/apart/ from suid) to allow normal users to > > > run a server that listens on port 21? > > > > No, that

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:40, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:35 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Is there a way (s/expect/apart/ from suid) to allow normal users to run a server that listens on p

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: Take a look in the /etc/inittab file, it defines the number of consoles that get started up. I found that but I also found this: "Note: Do not use tty7 in runlevel 3, this virtual line is occupied by the programm xdm." Is there a way to redifine what xdm occupies or can I use

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Lee Begg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:26, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Is there a way to redifine what xdm occupies or can I use tty8-12? I > also didn't find anything about tty10. Have a look in /etc/syslog.conf and look for a line with /dev/tty10. Syslog might be writing (some of) it's logs there. Later Lee B

Re: Wiki - please contribute to the campaign to get Jim to change the theme

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: :-) http://clug.net.nz/index.php/DefaultTheme Crao looks better than wikipedia or creativecommons. The icons in the bar with the search button and the ones in the layer on the bottom of the page could use some descriptions or tooltips. Expect from that it's perfect! I tried