Since the Scubatoolkit advertised some capability my program didn't
have,
and I am working on some stuff that Scubatoolkit was missing, I thought,
hey... maybe this can be mutually beneficial So I downloaded it and am
now trying to get it to work so I can see if there is anything I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCUBATOOLS]$ java -cp .Scubatoolkit
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: /Scubatoolkit
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:native)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:52)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCUBATOOLS]$
It's been a few semesters since i've done any java
If you want to use OSS from the start, you can use python and
wxWindows and keep some of the modules you write when porting to
Plone.
I definately agree that code reuse is the way to go.
One other option (other than wxWindows) is PyGTK/libglade. It won't
have the exact same look and feel
Charles Lockhart wrote:
An embedded device I'm using has a kind of wierd, junky, hacked up,
piecemeal version of Linux running on it. One of the problems I'm
having is that the rc.local script doesn't seem to be getting called.
Hmmm...well to be honest i have no idea how rc.local normally
Ok, probably nobody cares, but the group I work for/with has pretty
much finished our first iteration of the Redstar3 array controller.
An array in this case is an infrared ccd. The system is the main
controller for imaging for astronomy. I mention it only because it's
running Linux.
That is a good explanation of the iterative lookup. However, it
is my understanding that the client does not normally perform
this.
Oh, could be.
I always thought it was up to the DNS servers configured on
your system to ultimately perform that role.
It certainly makes sense for dns
I cannot explain why dig says things are OK while your own
resolver does not.
I haven't looked into this at all (don't really have time right
now...maybe over the
weekend), so I don't know the answer either, but my guesses are the obvious
ones: either Road Runner's dns doesn't cache, or
For a small company and the right software, you might be able to
get away with running a firewall on a 386.
Note that for most 386's you are constrained to the ISA bus, which means
8 MHz and 16bits ~= 16Mbytes per second theorhetical maximum throughput.
In practice you are going to get
I like being able to LEGALLY run my own servers with fear of
ports being blocked or getting a letter saying that it is
against the AUP.
I've noticed recently that a lot of people think, Road Runner doesn't
allow servers
to be run over residential access.
As long as the servers aren't
Uhm, for those people who program in Java on Linux,
I'm not really qualified to answer, because I haven't used Java in
a while and I haven't ever used a GridBagLayout,
but I'm going to guess, and it probably won't be much help you.
All of my speculation is based on guessed semantics from the
I'm trying to setup my network on Redhat 5.2. My NIC is a PCI Ethernet
D-Link DFE-530TX. It seems as if my NIC is not being recognized by
Linux. People recommended I use the tulip module.
That particular card uses the via-rhine module I believe.
I am sorry that I did not make it to the meeting today. My 15 year old
dog died yesterday.
He has been with me since some of my earliest memories. I had to take
him to the
creamatory and I am not in a very good emotional state right now.
--Ray
Hi Leonard,
At the bottom of every mailing list message is a URL.
Go to that URL and you can unsubscribe from there.
Have a good day,
--Ray
Can someone tell me what packages I need that contains libgcc_s.so.1 and
libpng12.so.1 packages? Also, where can I get them at? I have Suse 8.0
(retail) and looked through the entire list of packages and neither of these
are there.
Well, I don t use SuSE, but on my redhat box they are
Welcome to the list Derrick.
Feel free to ask questions whenever you need help. There is almost
always someone
who can help.
--Ray
Assuming your Windows/VFAT partition is /dev/hda1, and is mounted
on /mnt/hda1, as root, type:
cd /mnt/hda1
find . -type f -name *.eml -exec rm -f {} \;
That should remove all the files under a directory that ends with
the .eml extension.
Just a warning. As Vince said, it will
I noticed that, instead of the usual localhost, the computer was
designated, out of the blue, a name called dhcp-146-41. It was
subsequently concluded that this was the source of all the problems
(including inability to install printer driver, etc.)
Not sure why it's causing so many
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
While we are at it (i.e., discussion about fonts), I seem to vaguely
remember that there was a font installation tool in Red Hat 7.3
(through KDE, I believe). But now I don't seem to be able to find it
in 8.0. Does anyone know how to do that in Red Hat 8.0?
I think
Miguel wrote:
I downloaded an E-mail Server software for linux called eXtremail, i've
installed it but i cant get it to start (the daemon) the instructions say to
type smtpd start in the command prompt but it gives me this error
bash: smtpd: command not found ive tried going in to the
hi recently I installed linux mandrake 9 on my computer but something
happend and now i can't boot into linux i was wondering on how you on
install linux. i also have win98se on a seperate partition, i would
really appreciate any help here.
Well, you need to:
1) Delete your linux
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Does anyone know how to duplicate music CDs in either Red Hat or
Mandrake/
I think you should just be able to go cp /dev/cdrom musiccd.iso
and then use your favorite cd recording program to burn the iso to the
the cd.
--Ray
Music CDs are recorded in a different format, that I don't even know
if they can be access via the block device.
Also, since the music is in multiple tracks, this wouldn't work.
D'oh. You're right of course. I suppose my idea would probably blend
all the tracks together into one long
I don't think you can access an audio CD without going through
cdda2wav or cdparanoia or other equivalent programs. Insert an audio
CD, run any CD player program, then do a kdf, and you will find out
that the CDROM is not even mounted.
I've been wanting to get into kernel programming for a
I've not really used monmotha's script, forwarding to him...
--Ray
I've followed Warren's walkthrough of MonMotha's firewall script found at
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/BasicFirewallRouter.
I installed the script on a computer running redhat 7.3. The only change I made
was that I
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I have a bunch of old associates who are very interested in trying
Linux but could never gather
the courage to install a non-Windows system on their machines. Perhaps
a web-based thin client
system will be the easiest way for them to experience KDE/GNOME and
test
Ray: Might want to check your clock :)
Yea i don't know what's up with me and my
clocks. Fixed now.
--Ray
1.open a shell and run PS,I get nothing (two entries)but there is a
GUI utility called sys monitor that seems to replace it
ps by default only shows processes running from the current user/current
terminal
ps -ef
or
ps aux
will do what you want i think.
2.I set up a root and user account;
as if Netfilter and iptables were separate items. Is it possible to have
Netfilter
installed but not have iptables installed?
Yes. iptables is a sort of frontend for netfilter.
--Ray
Has anyone tested you yet??
Did you pass??
I messaged him using the plugin.. using a packet
sniffer I noticed the messages aren't plaintext, so
I guess it works..
--Ray
I assume you mean for applications? This seems to be the consensus. I
don't know why people still use C for large applications, like GNOME.
C++ would be a much better choice.
C offers more portability and better abi compatibility than C++. C++
compilers
tend to be more buggy than C (which
Please keep the free world safe by
telling me how to turn the damn syntax highlighting crap off forever.
Please. I just can't take it anymore.
As Myles said, you can turn syntax off with syntax off (or :syntax
off) in your ~/.vimrc, but
if you have the vim-minimal package installed then
sometimes I like using the line numbering feature in vi, but hate the way
it's implemented in vim. Do you know if the minimal package you speak of
implements line numbering in the standard vi way?
Well, I've really only used vim, but I just tried vi on a SunOS box
(uhunix2)
and line
I've never actually done any kernel programming, so I probably won't be
of much
help (actually probably won't be of any help, i'm just shooting in the
dark),
but...
I am trying to write a kernel module that shares a global variable between
a userland application and the module. In the kernel
This is my proposed list guideline/welcome. I have inserted it into
my message,
and I am including a plain text attachment. Please do with it what
you will.
You don't have to like it. Just help make it better if you don't.
Very nicely written. Thank you for taking the time to do
Hmm, it seems if proc_fops is set, these two have no effect. That's not a
big deal, since I only care about mmap'ing a variable.
I took a quick peek at the code and it seems that it already initializes
proc_fops, so maybe instead of
replacing it, you could just update it.
Warren Togami wrote:
University of Hawaii ITS department is looking for spam blocking solutions,
this article specifically mentions that they are looking at Spam Assassin
among other tools.
Yeah i read about that in the paper this morning. I'm curious tho,
1) spamassassin is pretty
I'm curious how many other people on this list are open source developers,
particularly those living on O'ahu.
I'm a ics major at UH. I've got a couple things in the back burner that
i've worked on at one point or another:
GOALS, eventually going to be something like WebCT/blackboard, but
Im asking for suggestions on how you want the MPLUG shirts to look.
Im taking them down this week and Im getting one small size done for
Elayne Man.
I don't think that it needs to be fancy. I think the big thing is that
everyone wears consistent clothing for the more organized events.
At the CompUSA event, a nice Danish man (I'm sorry, I can't remember his
name), told me about
a program called R http://www.r-project.org/. It's supposed to be a
like S-plus, so i think it's more for
statistics/probabilities/finite math than calculus, but i thought i'd
mention it.
Of course
When I try to edit the wiki it demands a user id and password. There is no link
to a signup page or explanation of the process for getting a user id. How does
one get a user id?
IIRC, you can just make one up...it must be two words tho with each word
starting with a capital letter and
no
Hawai`i Open Source Education Initiative
Foundation For Hawaiian Open Sourced Schools
Hawai`ian Institute for Open Sourced Education
Open Source Technology for Hawai`ian Schools Foundation
Hawai`ian Gnu/Linux Educational Organization
Hawai`ian Institute of Openly Sourced Education Technology
Microsoft Outlook Express supposedly also allows multiple accounts; however,
all the mails from separate accounts are comingled together, making it quite
unpleasant to use.
Actually, with OE you can have multiple profiles and multiple accounts
per profile. If you put the
the separate
Email Lei Wakayama [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Itoga [EMAIL PROTECTED],
or Brian Chee [EMAIL PROTECTED].
They moderate the ics-undergrads and ics-graduate lists at UH. They
often post job openings on these lists.
--Ray Strode
The material was well covered, the instructor was knowledgeable, and the exam
was rough.
Do you remember any of the questions? I'd be interested in knowing the
type of stuff they ask.
(I'm not much for certifications though, so I doubt I would ever take
it... just curious)
--Ray
Anyone know how to change this without knowing how to
change clock lines of an XF86config file
Try add VirtRefresh 76 or something similar to the Monitor section of
your
XF86Config file.
(in other words don't give it a range. just give it one value to use)
--Ray
I hope it's not in the kernel, it sort of breaks NFS to match the SGI bug.
Well actually I briefly looked at the patch, it's not automatic. A
patched kernel still has to turn on the compatibiltiy
mode with a kernel line option.(lh=1 or something like that)
so I tried [mount -t nfs
we have had to purchase and install MSO in each and every one of our
gd'd machines
...
Word, as expensive as it is, has no use for us, except for openning
.doc files.
You might be interested in this link:
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/wd97vwr32.aspx
Much cheaper than buying
I had some trouble starting the nfs daemons, then I found a good page at redhat
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-nfs-export.html
that got me going. But I still cannot share the directory, when I try I get
a message about the remote directory is invalid. I
look at the bottom of /var/log/messages
That's a good idea. tail -f /var/log/messages
on the server box and then try to mount. The
reason why it won't mount will be displayed.
--Ray
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
Hi Gary.
I think you should re-think permitting these commerical announcements on the
mail list no matter how well meaning they may be.
I disagree. These messages are very much ontopic. I think a lot of
open source/free software types
see commericial to be in the same league as
I've never seen anything like this diff format before.
It's called Context format (versus the unified format that most patches
are).
I guess the Sun version of diff can't do unified format.
Look here for a description of those two formats:
Does anyone have, or know anyone who has, experience in operating a
digital camera with
Linux (e.g., downloading images, connecting smartcard/compact flash
adaptors, editting images, etc.)?
http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/ is a good peice of software for getting
images.
--Ray
http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke/photography/articles/gimp/tutorials.shtml
That site is very informative. Have you thought about submitting the
URL to the gimp mailing list,
so they can link to your page from the main site?
--Ray
We use a Sony Cameras that work on a .jpg format floppy disk. Good
Quality and loads directly onto any OS with a floppy drive.
You can get the camera for a good price at the Navy EX.
JPEG isn't really the best format for holding raw image data because
it's lossy.
It's an excellent format
I am introducing a new samba server to our network. It is running
on rhat 7.2. It is version 2.2.1a.
I have a second samba server that I am adding. It is also running
redhat 7.2, but I have upgraded
it to version 2.2.5. My intent is to replace an older samba server on
the network. It is
iptables. It's one of those terms I see tossed around a bunch, occasionally
along with ipchains. I kept hoping that it wasn't another thing I'd need to
learn (learning stuff is getting kind of painful, one day I'd actually like
to *know* something). So much for hoping.
Actuall, MonMotha,
How many use Ruby to set up their website?
What are the pros and cons about Ruby?
I haven't actually used Ruby, but I read about it
some time ago. It is completely
Object Oriented--more so than C++ or even Java.
Even primitives and literals are treated as objects.
It lets you assign code
I signed up for the new list then was sent a welcome notice. Now I just
got a rejection that said I am not a member.
Was the welcome notice actually a confirmation mail? If so, you'll
probably have to reply to it
to become subscribed.
--Ray
I did find a way to get samba installed and a way to start it, have
not yet
figured how to edit start up files so it will start on boot.
/sbin/chkconfig smb on
also have figured how to do without the Gnomba and Komba2 utilities by
using
command line options like smbmount; not quite as
I think warren's answer will fix the problem, but I just thought I'd add
that you
probably can access the machines by doing \\ipaddress instead of
\\netbios-name
--Ray
When I do a rpm -ql package1 to see the files installed by the rpm, I
get a message saying the package is not installed.
However when I do rpm -Uvh package1 to install it, it says package is
already installed, which is true, because the package is indeed
installed.
Note that -ql and -Uvh take
rpm -I --justdb --force package-version.arch.rpm
errr
rpm -i --justdb --force package-version.arch.rpm
--Ray
Aug 23 07:10:43 NS2 rpc.statd[752]: gethostbyname error for
^X? ?^X? ?^Z? ?^Z? ?
%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%62716x%hn%51859x%hn\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\
220\
rpc.statd is normally used by nfs to know when the server goes down.
gethostbyname() is a libc function for converting a standard
Florian Hines wrote:
Hi guys,
I've never run into this before so im hoping you guys can help me.
Twice in the last few days i've had to recompile the sendmail.mc
sendmail.cf because of the following errors.
...
Aug 19 22:12:14 NS2 sendmail[2613]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): QueueDirectory
But basically, I want to create an HTML file, with which I can
control/confine each slide
within a screen, use the page-down key to move from one slide/screen
to the next, and
quickly jump from one slide/screen to another. Is this possible?
Well, I think you might have to do some
Thanks Ray. Would you be able to show me how to input and print CJK
characters in vim?
I'm sorry, but I don't really know how. At one point I was playing XIM
(X Input Method), but
I never really learned exactly how to set everything up. I'll tell you
what I do know.
Vim supports XIM, so
And if their patches are not incorporated by Marcelo, the 18-year
Brazilian wonder
kid who is nowin charge of the stable kernel, then there may be some
unknown consequences.
That's a good point. RedHat betas come with libacl and libattr. Red Hat
beta samba comes with
acl support too.
1) Is it worth going out and buying the boxed RH7.3 set, or is it cheaper
to just burn a copy of RH7.3 and buy the yearly subscription? Is there any
difference? The demo software doesn't really interest me that much, and I
the included docs the last time didn't seem that different from the
ryuhei yokokawa wrote:
my comp specs are: P3 866, 256 ram, 2 usb hubs etc. (a typical desktop
machine year and a half old)
my annoying printer spec is: canon pixus bj S300
I am having a fight with my printer to get it to do something. I
downloaded a filter (don't really know how it works) and
dd seems to be file oriented, but I guess you
can just treat two mounted disks as files?
It's not a good idea to do it on mounted disks (at lease read-write mounted
disks), but yes, you can just use the device names as if they were files.
What would that look like, use /dev/hda and
Mililani High School needs a server to run Oracle 9i server for roughly
20 simultaneous users. They had purchased a new Dell server for this
purpose for about $3,300. Unfortunately they were somehow horribly
ripped off by this purchase, getting only a 1GHz P3 with 512MB RAM. I
am advising
A reminder: I would love to see your procmail recipes. I am configuring my
imap server to be my primary repository, and I want fetchmail to get it and
procmail to sort it. The syntax perplexed me at first examination of the
procmail man pages, so I would like to take you up on your offer
Anyone have any experience setting up an LDAP server on RH and getting
Outlook to use it as an address book/contacts list - I could really use
some help, even some one to collaborate with. TIA
I've setup a LDAP server on RedHat before, but I've never used the ldap
server for anything but
Depends on what they're doing. For students who will be running
simple queries on
small databases, probably. As Warren points out, this isn't a
production server.
Make sure to keep the databases down to a reasonable size and you
should be fine.
Remember, people have run SQL servers
I just have a couple comments that you might like to know...
[...]
:0:
The trailing : isn't required if you aren't specifying a local lock file
(or so the man page says...).
* ^List-Id:.*bugtraq*
/var/spool/mail/yuser
[...]
* ^(To|Cc):.*luau*
I notice you do ^(To|Cc) a lot. You may
I think you might find ttmkfdir useful. It's like mkfontdir for
truetype fonts. I have used an older version, and I don't know how
well it's being maintained. It's now available at
http://freshmeat.net/redir/ttmkfdir/10789/url_tgz/ttmkfdir.tar.gz .
I believe ttmkfdir comes with freetype2,
I think I missed part of this thread, but i'll see if I can help.
install came with gcc 2.96
So I copied the gcc 2.95.3 files from another RH computer and put them
under /usr/local/ on my computer. I also put the
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3 path in PATH. However
now I get an
I do not appreciate overbroad comments along the lines of Because card
X doesn't work in distro Y, distro Y is negligent to desktop Linux.
Red Hat is negligent toward desktop Linux for other reasons. =)
Easy now You misread what he said. He said something along the
lines of.:
Well,
1) I there a way to create a SQL database in linux and import the Access2000
Database?
Yes, there are many ways. You could transfer it through ODBC, or export
it to some text format. I don't if there are any utilities to fully
automate it (Maybe gnome-db?), but it should be a pretty small
I have installed Oracle Pro C/C++ 8.1.7 on RH 7.3. However I cannot
compile even sample programs that come with the download.
I've never used or even heard of that particular compiler, but it's
conceivable to me that it
isn't compatible with gcc's header files. If the full install of the
Cannot open /path/to/list: Group writable directory, could anybody point
me in the right direction, I have been trying to figure this out for
hours...
chmod g-w /path/to/list
--Ray
I'll be glad to try Mandrake 9.0 but I need the instructions as to how
to download the floppy from the source either the Luau Mirror or the
MAndrake site. Where do I find the floppy image to download?
Download the appropriate image (network.img if you want to install
off network, cdrom.img if
Um, cp?
Won't that blow away your device node and make a file named /dev/fd0
containing the data in network.img?
no.
If anything, I'd think youd need cat network.img /dev/fd0 or dd
if=network.img of=/dev/fd0
Those methods will work, too.
Or am I wrong?
Yes, in part.
--Ray
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
This morning,
How early :-)? These things are usually setup to run at like 4am.
What are the rpmv and slocate commands?
rpmv is a helper program for rpm, which compares files installed to what
files
the rpm database says should be installed.
slocate is a program
Would you mind passing my email address on there through rot13 just to
make a lame
attempt to keep the spambots away?
You know this mailing list is archived and i'm sure your email address
pops up quite a lot.
Spam is inevitable, just use spamassassin and then you don't have to
worry
or [...] I can put it on my videl space.
That's the type of thing videl is for!
--Ray
You may want to forward these messages to Lei Wakayama,
so she can post to the various ics lists.
--Ray
Do you know her email?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] i believe.
--Ray
How do I get the NetLoad monitor applet (from GNOME) to run at KDE
tool bar?
Unfortunately, you can't...
But a protocol is in the works (XEmbed if you wanna google) that will
allow that
sort of thing.
For now your best bet is to just use a small gnome corner panel or
floating panel
with
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
When I first installed RH 7.3, I chose GNOME as default desktop.
During my second installation, I chose KDE and I got a different login
screen. How can I get back to my GNOME login screen?
type as root:
echo 'DESKTOP=GNOME' /etc/sysconfig/desktop
then switch to init
Unfortunately, when you delete everything in /lib, the libc goes with
it and nothing can run as the linker can't find the libc.
The linker is in /lib, too, i believe :-)
He still had his telnet session up, and the FTP server was standalone
and accepting logins.
An interesting irony is,
Just installed Red Hat 7.3 last night. This is the only distro that
does not
detect my mouse wheel. Can anyone help?
In the future, when you install it, make sure you set the mouse to the
Intellimouse option.
For now, you can just go into your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and change
the
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