[luau] NY Times promotes linux

2002-09-18 Thread Roderick Gammon, Ph.D. (AEG, Inc)
Slashdot note: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/2344253 NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/18/opinion/18WED2.html Telling last paragraph: Government units abroad and in the United States and individual computer users should look for ways to support Linux and Linux-based produ

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:25, Ray Strode wrote: > >At first when I heard of Red Carpet, up2date, urpmi, and apt-rpm didn't > >exist. > > > Actually, urpmi was around a _long_ time before Red Carpet. Oh. Thanks for the correction. Was Mandrake using it back then? > > > There were no automatic

Re: [luau] Looking for Debian

2002-09-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:17, Ray Strode wrote: > > > > > > Is anyone either mirroring the latest Debian cd images locally > > > Warren is going to mirror debian on videl.ics.hawaii.edu in the > very near future (I actually started setting it up a few days ago, > but Warren wants to do some maintena

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
At first when I heard of Red Carpet, up2date, urpmi, and apt-rpm didn't exist. Actually, urpmi was around a _long_ time before Red Carpet. There were no automatic RPM dependency tools, so I was excited about Mono. Mono? :-) Ximian has always been in bitter disagreements with Red Hat, an

Re: [luau] Looking for Debian

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
Is anyone either mirroring the latest Debian cd images locally Warren is going to mirror debian on videl.ics.hawaii.edu in the very near future (I actually started setting it up a few days ago, but Warren wants to do some maintenance on the vservers first) --Ray

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:36, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: > Here's a list of > > several: > > > > Red Hat up2date > > Mandrakerpmdrake or urpmi > > SuSEYAST2 > > Debian apt-get > > Conectiva apt-rpm > > Gen

Re: [luau] Looking for Debian

2002-09-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:41 pm, Autumn wrote: > Is anyone either mirroring the latest Debian cd images locally or willing > to loan/burn copies? My most recent installations of debian have been from the mini-iso's http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ These are probably more complete w

[luau] Looking for Debian

2002-09-18 Thread Autumn
Is anyone either mirroring the latest Debian cd images locally or willing to loan/burn copies? If not, does anyone have a favorite distributor for Debian CDs? Network install doesn't seem to be an option for me; I've tried to boot from floppies for a network install; neither of my network ca

RE: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Lockhart, Charles
> Do you really need to check it per iteration? I mean, in your case, > could you move the timing outside > the loop and divide the result by the number of iterations? > If you do > that, then you will get an average > iteration which will minimize the time spent timing. I need to be able to

Re: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
I have some code that loops with some real-time constraints, and I need to check the time per cycle. Do you really need to check it per iteration? I mean, in your case, could you move the timing outside the loop and divide the result by the number of iterations? If you do that, then you wi

RE: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Lockhart, Charles
I have some code that loops with some real-time constraints, and I need to check the time per cycle. The problem I run into is that adding "debug" to log the time is somewhat inaccurate and impacts the loop. The inaccuracy is not such a big deal, within reason (I can still get kind of "worst case

Re: [luau] Apache question

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
One more question.the network is behind a router...so will the linux webserver be accessible from outside the network (this is not desireable)? Does the webserver have an outside accessible IP, or does your router NAT a single internet connection? If the latter, then probably not, unless

Re: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
I'm pretty sure in a C class we once used something like x=time(0). It might require time.h or clock.h or something. But that was a long time ago. time() returns seconds, so i don't think it's precise enough for him. As an aside, time() takes a pointer so (imo) it's better to use NULL instea

Re: [luau] Fuji FinePix 1300

2002-09-18 Thread cpaul
> > I Have the Fine Pix A101, which I believe is the same one. Any luck > getting it to work in PC Camera mode under linux? > Brian What is PC Camera Mode?

Re: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread cpaul
> Another goofy programmer question, what's the fastest and most accurate > way of getting the current time in milisecs within a program? I've been > calling gettimeofday, but was wondering if there's any better/faster way > of doing it? I know of ftime() -- but I think that ftime() is depreca

Re: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
Another goofy programmer question, what's the fastest and most accurate way of getting the current time in milisecs within a program? I've been calling gettimeofday, but was wondering if there's any better/faster way of doing it? As far as I know gettimeofday() is the best way. Remembe

Re: [luau] Fuji FinePix 1300

2002-09-18 Thread Brian Farnell
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 14:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > CompUSA is having a sale on the Fuji FinePix 1300 -- $99 > > Here's the tech specs: > > 1.3 MegaPixels (1.31 million pixels) > 1280x960 at 24bits > 8MB SmartMedia card included > Lens is equivalent to a 36mm (wide angle) > Flash > 1.6" LCD m

Re: [luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Eric Hattemer
I'm pretty sure in a C class we once used something like x=time(0). It might require time.h or clock.h or something. But that was a long time ago. -Eric Hattemer - Original Message - From: "Charles Lockhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Re: [luau] Apache question

2002-09-18 Thread Rodney Kanno
One more question.the network is behind a router...so will the linux webserver be accessible from outside the network (this is not desireable)? Rodney

Re: [luau] Apache question

2002-09-18 Thread Rodney Kanno
- Original Message - From: "Ray Strode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [luau] Apache question > 1) Add an entry to every machine's > %SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file for your > webserver. It has the same f

Re: [luau] Linux AV

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
Do you guys know of a good commercial grade antivirus for Linux? There was a thread about antivirus software earlier this year that might be of interest to you: http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2002-March/007012.html --Ray

[luau] getting system time in milisecs

2002-09-18 Thread Charles Lockhart
Another goofy programmer question, what's the fastest and most accurate way of getting the current time in milisecs within a program? I've been calling gettimeofday, but was wondering if there's any better/faster way of doing it? Thanks, Charles

Re: [luau] Apache question

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
Rodney Kanno wrote: I am trying to set-up a Linux workstation as a intranet web server on a NT network, but I cannot figure out how to make the web server accessible through a virtual host name. Actually, for future reference "virtual" isn't correct in this context. Apache is installed and is

Re: [luau] Linux AV

2002-09-18 Thread Ben Beeson
Julio, I use the McAfee Anti Virus. There is a *nix version available that will scan all kinds of goodies, even mail attachments in case you are serving mail to a mixed environment. Go here: http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/products/virusscan-cl/default-virusscan-cl.asp for details and se

[luau] Apache question

2002-09-18 Thread Rodney Kanno
I am trying to set-up a Linux workstation as a intranet web server on a NT network, but I cannot figure out how to make the web server accessible through a virtual host name. Apache is installed and is accessible by entering in the IP address as the URL, but I would like to make it accessible by ty

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread MonMotha
Warren Togami wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:59, Ronnie T Livingston wrote: snip In general there are tremendous time management benefits in sticking to packages. When these security alerts are released, protecting yourself is a trivial amount of effort. Alternatively you can keep around

Re: [luau] Linux AV

2002-09-18 Thread MonMotha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you guys know of a good commercial grade antivirus for Linux? any recommendations? this doesn't have to be free just reliable and overall good. TIA Julio The question always arises as to the reason. Most of the AV products are scanners for things like mail servers

[luau] Linux AV

2002-09-18 Thread gutierrej001
Do you guys know of a good commercial grade antivirus for Linux? any recommendations? this doesn't have to be free just reliable and overall good. TIA Julio

Re: [luau] RH7.3 Sendmail probs

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Ballon
Under the section local info (line80 or so) you may have to make some changes if sendmail can't figure out your hostname. ## # local info # ## #Cwlocalhost Cwtiger (your hostname) #Dj$w.Foo.COM Dj$w.websharx.com Also maybe line 141 #DM DMwebsharx.com For dns

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: Here's a list of > several: > > Red Hat up2date > Mandrake rpmdrake or urpmi > SuSE YAST2 > Debianapt-get > Conectiva apt-rpm > Gentooemerge > Would you also recommend using the xi

[luau] Automated Updating tools

2002-09-18 Thread Autumn
I agree, there's no excuse for not applying patches and updates. Of course, it's worth noting that if you're going to use these convenient automated updating tools, you should ensure you're making comprehensive backups prior to running them. I've been burned by up2date one too many times where

[luau] RH7.3 Sendmail probs

2002-09-18 Thread Erich Schrottke
Hi Guys, Thanks for all the advice on my post a couple weeks ago regarding redoing a new box. I've made the plunge and installed RH7.3, and managed to successfully install a 'custom' setup. I let RH installer do mysql and PHP although my instinct was nagging me to hand install those. I have ye