On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:26:15AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
Dean Wilson wrote:
network time syncing (And why NNTP is better than SNTP,
something I could have done with about six months ago.)
What are NNTP and SNTP? I presume that NNTP in this context is not the
NetNews Transfer
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:26:15AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
Dean Wilson wrote:
network time syncing (And why NNTP is better than SNTP,
something I could have done with about six months ago.)
What are NNTP and SNTP? I presume that NNTP
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:37:53PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:26:15AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
Dean Wilson wrote:
network time syncing (And why NNTP is better than SNTP,
something I could have done with
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote something
which I have paraphrased into:
DJB requires you to have the rest of the system set up with
alternative ways of doing things.
You mean like his /services approach, while Evil Dave (whose opinion I
respect in sysadmin matters) seems
After the recent outage on our box I'm left with the output of dumpdb for a
couple of my mailman lists.
I want to reimport the settings from these which appears to be possible
according to this ...
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/mailman-users-0110/328/1.html
Restoring a dumpdb file is
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
My book showed up last night! :)
It seems to be *very* introductory on the Perl side -- actual [tongue in
cheek] bullet points from chapter two:
* What is a computer program?
* What is a programming language?
* What is a computer?
Us
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:22:25PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote something
which I have paraphrased into:
DJB requires you to have the rest of the system set up with
alternative ways of doing things.
You mean like his /services approach,
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:16:40PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:37:53PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[..]
Apparently XNTP doesn't handle leap seconds correctly
You mean
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
.sdrawkcab etirw dna daer su fo emos, yllautcA.
Stsirorret Cibara lla er'uoy naem taht seod?
I'm just waiting for the US Citizens on this list to pounce on you and say
that this is in bad taste.
MBM
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Alex Gough wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
My book showed up last night! :)
It seems to be *very* introductory on the Perl side -- actual [tongue in
cheek] bullet points from chapter two:
* What is a computer program?
* What is
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:28:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Newbie delurking for the first time, trying to get onto the irc channel
#London.pm. Server's refusing my connection, anyone else on at the
moment ( I start hunting on my box then ).
There's always someone in the channel.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi all,
Newbie delurking for the first time, trying to get onto the irc channel
#London.pm. Server's refusing my connection, anyone else on at the
moment ( I start hunting on my box then ).
try
irc.rhizomatic.net
#london.pm
Nope, busted somewhere here then.
Using www.missingU.com/irc/ as a public webchat client ( behind
fireway, so no inhouse chat ), getting the following response
Connecting to london.rhizomatic.net:6667 - have tried irc. too
Waiting for serber to respond
Connection closed
Cannot connect to
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:26:09PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
ftp://oozelum.csi.cam.ac.uk/dist/msntp-1.5.tar.gz
which doesn't ping (looks like an unplugged student's desktop machine
from the domain I would guess)
csi = computing services internal.
not a student. Someone who knows a fuck lot
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:26:09PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:16:40PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
[..]
What's non-portable about djbware? I have had no problems compiling
That it doesn't interoperate sensibly with
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:51:01PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope, busted somewhere here then.
Using www.missingU.com/irc/ as a public webchat client ( behind
fireway, so no inhouse chat ), getting the following response
http://www.chickshardware.com/emb/mouselike/008846881x3.html
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:08:57PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:26:09PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
It's hard to do even simple things properly and securely in computer
programming.
So its best to implement the mimimal amount of code on the basis there
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:38:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I reckon it ought to be fairly easy to identify a web server based
on error messages and details of responses.
It is. That, and it usually tells you.
Is there any software out there that already does this, or evidence
as to
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I reckon it ought to be fairly easy to identify a web server based
on error messages and details of responses.
But that sort of thing can be munged. Can you query $ENV{server_software}?
Even if you could, that can me munged too.
Is there any
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Bully for you!
Remember, arguments are not won on mailing lists[1] with phrases like
the above. Of course, humour is always IMHO welcome, and a smiley goes
a long way to identifying a phrase like the above as humour before it
gets out of
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:38:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I reckon it ought to be fairly easy to identify a web server based
on error messages and details of responses.
Is there any software out there that already does this, or evidence
as to why it would be impractical?
It's
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well they should bloody stop gloating about having Christmas barbecues
on the beach then!
Ummm, it's not that bad, my christmas turkey was done on a barbie last
year, and very yummy it was too.
-Dom
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following bits through the ether:
That doesn't actually *say*, but it sounds like it just uses the
Server: header to work out what web server you're running.
It does. I never got around to releasing the module when I was working
there.
Anyway, I was *convinced*
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thinking of more or less the same functionality as (iirc) queso,
which will guess a machine's OS from looking at responses to various
interesting network packets.
I'd think that, even if they change/remove the Server: header that the
other
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm thinking of more or less the same functionality as (iirc) queso,
which will guess a machine's OS from looking at responses to various
interesting network packets.
There are only a few web servers in common use (Apache, IIS and
iPlanet (formerly Netscape) and
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:13:24PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
XML, I get. Having tight, defined data formats is a good thing. Being
able to transform that data for many different media is also a good
thing but the hoops you have to jump through to get any results at all
seem daunting.
I
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:37:15PM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
In this world there are two kinds of people. Packers and Mappers.
I'd find this whole argument (see http://www.reciprocality.org/ if you
haven't met it before) a great deal more convincing if it weren't so
obvious that every reader
Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So don't worry Dave if you think you don't get it. You do. No really,
you've got it. It's the rest of the World that is fucked up. Honest.
Can I have some money please?
--
David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com
On 3 Dec 2001, Steve Mynott wrote:
Obvious things are is the response 200 or 404 for requests for
default.htm or index.html?
We're going in circles here, but if it's up to me, I like to tell Apache
to map all .htm files to .html, and in the case of home pages I redirect
requests for
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:10PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
Do I have to go KDE?
Can any of the X-Windows based systems do it well these days? It's been a
I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by
the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get it
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:14:28PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
/var is intended for machine specific files (traditionally /usr is
machine common files and often used to exist as an NFS mount). A mail
setup is machine specific and lives on /var.
I'd argue that the binaries belong in /usr/bin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Hmm, Aqua could IMO be greatly improved by simple things like Alt-Tab
switching back to tasks rather than always in one direction, ability to
perform common operations with the keyboard (e.g. launch programs!) and
having the damn
If you're alluding to Reading FC's descent towards the Unibond League,
then that doesn't actually apply to me ... Wimbledon fan, man and boy ...
so .. oh yeah .. right .. OK, point taken.
PC
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Anthony Fisher wrote:
Arrange a football contest with teams of
trained
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching between windows of the
same app - I want to cycle between all my Terminals and my Omniweb windows
At least with Terminal you
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