Re: OT sigs and trivia [was: wvdial/pppd status...]

2004-01-26 Thread G. M. Bodnar
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:20:48PM NZDT, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:29, Paul William wrote: > > Because old habits die hard they teach students to use i,j,k when coding > > @ canterbury. > True. However, it is often used as a simple index counter in a for > loop. In addi

Re: OT sigs and trivia [was: wvdial/pppd status...]

2004-01-25 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:29, Paul William wrote: > Because old habits die hard they teach students to use i,j,k when coding > @ canterbury. True. However, it is often used as a simple index counter in a for loop. In addition i and j are usually used in mathematics to denote the row and column of

Re: OT sigs and trivia [was: wvdial/pppd status...]

2004-01-25 Thread Paul William
Because old habits die hard they teach students to use i,j,k when coding @ canterbury. On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 15:30, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:20:50 +1300, you wrote: > > >Quoting Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:29:30PM +1300, Hadley Rich

Re: OT sigs and trivia [was: wvdial/pppd status...]

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:20:50 +1300, you wrote: >Quoting Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:29:30PM +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: >> > -- >> > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. >> >> No, you can get by as a teenager with an SMS capable cellular telephone.

Re: wvdial/pppd status...

2004-01-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:12, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:29:30PM +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: > > -- > > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. > > No, you can get by as a teenager with an SMS capable cellular telephone. > > I doubt you'd find computer programmers out ther

Re: OT sigs and trivia [was: wvdial/pppd status...]

2004-01-24 Thread Hadley Rich
Quoting Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:29:30PM +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: > > -- > > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. > > No, you can get by as a teenager with an SMS capable cellular telephone. It wasn't me honest, it was the fortune! > (OT: tr

Re: wvdial/pppd status...

2004-01-24 Thread Mike Beattie
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:29:30PM +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: > -- > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. No, you can get by as a teenager with an SMS capable cellular telephone. I doubt you'd find computer programmers out there that use variables like that... sheesh. it's either i, j

Re: wvdial/pppd status...

2004-01-24 Thread Hadley Rich
Quoting Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What is a reliable method for telling the status of a ppp link, that is > set up using the dial-on-demand functionality in pppd? > > to the default gateway, and dials using wvdial.. > > BTW, the machine is debian woody, and I'm using apache/php for

Re: wvdial/pppd status...

2004-01-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> What is a reliable method for telling the status of a ppp link, that is > set up using the dial-on-demand functionality in pppd? pppd calls scripts each time the link goes up or down (so you can adjust your routing, firewalling, whatnot). Seems like a good place for some touch/rm... Volker --

Re: wvdial/pppd status...

2004-01-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:48, Chris Hellyar wrote: > Hi-ho folks.. > > pppd trivia.. > > What is a reliable method for telling the status of a ppp link, that is > set up using the dial-on-demand functionality in pppd? It's been a wee while since I used dialup and pppd, but isn't the presence or othe

wvdial/pppd status...

2004-01-24 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho folks.. pppd trivia.. What is a reliable method for telling the status of a ppp link, that is set up using the dial-on-demand functionality in pppd? The details: I've got a machine that's set to dial-on-demand, which all works fine.. When you do a pppd call xtra (The provider files are c