[SLUG] Temp internet file clean up in Linux

2004-10-17 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Okay, I know this is probably a dumb question... But I use Mandrake 10 and Firefox. In the 'other' O/S, temporary files were kept in the temp folder and could be easily cleaned-up from the pc. Where are these files in Linux and other than going to the location/file, is there any auto

Re: [SLUG] Temp internet file clean up in Linux

2004-10-17 Thread amos
Go to Tools-Options and then to the Privacy tab and press Clean for Cache (the bottom-most in PR1.0). HTH, --Amos Elliott-Brennan wrote: Okay, I know this is probably a dumb question... But I use Mandrake 10 and Firefox. In the 'other' O/S, temporary files were kept in the temp folder and

[SLUG] [Fwd: Free Oracle Seminar]

2004-10-17 Thread Pia Smith
Hi all, FYI Oracle are running a free seminar and I didn't think it was completely off topic to send it to list. Feel free to forward it to any of the LUG/other lists you are on. If people would prefer we didn't forward these kinds of offers, let us know. Cheers, Pia --

[SLUG] K8V SE Deluxe

2004-10-17 Thread Homer Whittaker
Several people seem to have loaded Suse on this jewel, several months ago! I also am a Debian person and would prefer to use it rather than Suse (the price is right). Neither person seemed to get into any detail as to what happened when they tried to load Debian on the 64 bit mobo, they both

Re: [SLUG] K8V SE Deluxe

2004-10-17 Thread James Gray
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:08 am, Homer Whittaker wrote: Several people seem to have loaded Suse on this jewel, several months ago! I also am a Debian person and would prefer to use it rather than Suse (the price is right). Neither person seemed to get into any detail as to what happened when

Re: [SLUG] K8V SE Deluxe

2004-10-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Homer Whittaker Neither person seemed to get into any detail as to what happened when they tried to load Debian on the 64 bit mobo, they both apparently went right into the Suse download. Any reason? Any suggestions? A couple of the Ubuntu developers are using K8V boards with the

[SLUG] suse9 and apache2

2004-10-17 Thread Kevin Saenz
Hi all, How can I get apache2 running and allowing connections using yast2? I have tried to configure apache2 and i have ran netstat -an --inet|grep 80 and have seen the port being used. but when I use another machine I get access is denied from the browser. Can anyone assist? Thanks Kevin --

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 14:37 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 15:33 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: I'm developing a database application that uses the inserting processes pid. Problem is that I'm wondering how big this pid should be? sizeof(pid_t)

Re: [SLUG] c programming - structures

2004-10-17 Thread torquemada
when comparing structures, compare each member. maybe read some good books on c programming too which will explain how c programmers use structures. kr comes to mind using a memcmp or similar as a rule of thumb is useful but not very much as it won't dereference any elements that are pointers.

RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet

2004-10-17 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Okay. Sorry for the delay... It wasn't caused by the XF86Config suggestions :)) Now, I have two suggestions going simultaneously (for which I'm very grateful) - one from Darren and one from James and Ben. 1. James suggestion didn't fskc my X... everything SEEMS okay and it sems to start

FW: [SLUG] Graphic tablet ADDENDUM TO LAST POST

2004-10-17 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Duh, my big... There was NO XF86Config file when I looked (per James's suggestion about deleting it and putting a soft link to XF86Config-4 for any other program). So, the changes I made per James's suggestion were merely to alter the XF86Config-4 file and boot X on that. Sorry for the cross

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day... Whilst this discussion is pretty great - I would like to note that the practical purpose of knowing the size of a PID is so that I can store the current processes' PID in an MySQL database, and the process is a Perl script. Based on the discussion so far, I'm making a pretty safe bet

Re: [SLUG] c programming - structures

2004-10-17 Thread Benno
On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 11:02:46 +1000, torquemada wrote: when comparing structures, compare each member. maybe read some good books on c programming too which will explain how c programmers use structures. kr comes to mind using a memcmp or similar as a rule of thumb is useful but not very much

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Benno
On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 11:06:34 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day... Whilst this discussion is pretty great - I would like to note that the practical purpose of knowing the size of a PID is so that I can store the current processes' PID in an MySQL database, and the process is a Perl script.

Re: [SLUG] K8V SE Deluxe

2004-10-17 Thread James Gray
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:40 am, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Homer Whittaker Neither person seemed to get into any detail as to what happened when they tried to load Debian on the 64 bit mobo, they both apparently went right into the Suse download. Any reason? Any suggestions? A couple of

Re: [SLUG] c programming - structures

2004-10-17 Thread torquemada
understanding structures and a knowledge beforehand of what each element is, is essential. dereferencing any pointers might be needed to determine if the structures are identical or not. refer to the data-dictionary for the structure or documentation in that case. one could even hypothetically

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 11:06 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day... Whilst this discussion is pretty great - I would like to note that the practical purpose of knowing the size of a PID is so that I can store the current processes' PID in an MySQL database, and the process is a Perl script.

Re: [SLUG] suse9 and apache2

2004-10-17 Thread James Gray
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:44 am, Kevin Saenz wrote: Hi all, How can I get apache2 running and allowing connections using yast2? I have tried to configure apache2 and i have ran netstat -an --inet|grep 80 and have seen the port being used. but when I use another machine I get access is denied

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day... Not necessarily, MEDIUMINT is probably (I don't know I haven't checked the code) stored as its own defined type, and may be stored differently on disk and in memory than an INT value (which is 2^32). I expect that MySQL has either implemented some difference and hence that is why they

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day again... Actually, I want the PID for neither of the reasons you've said. Rather, I'm using the PID and the date/time as a unique identifier to a database row. The main contents of the row could occur more than once in the table I'm working with - however we want to link this exact row

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 11:57 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day again... Actually, I want the PID for neither of the reasons you've said. Rather, I'm using the PID and the date/time as a unique identifier to a database row. The main contents of the row could occur more than once in the table

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Benno
On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 11:56:02 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day... Not necessarily, MEDIUMINT is probably (I don't know I haven't checked the code) stored as its own defined type, and may be stored differently on disk and in memory than an INT value (which is 2^32). Well, I'm sure it is stored

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
Err, how is there a race condition? (Is there something I'm missing?) From my reasoning - every process running at a particular point in time has a unique process ID (i.e. no two processes running at the same time will have the same PID), therefore a time/date stamp coupled with a PID gives a

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Glen Turner
Michael Kraus wrote: G'day again... Actually, I want the PID for neither of the reasons you've said. Rather, I'm using the PID and the date/time as a unique identifier to a database row. The main contents of the row could occur more than once in the table I'm working with - however we want to

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
I already have that covered. Now consider how in embedded SQL you are going to know the value of id when executing INSERT INTO tablename VALUES(null, ...), where the table structure is (id INT UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, ...) Hence I need an identifier that the inserting process knows

[SLUG] DNS records

2004-10-17 Thread Indelible
Hello, I've got a static ip with some provider. I'd like to run my own mail server. So now I have to register a DNS name including MX records. Do I have to register the name with the current provider or can I do this with anybody (like anchor,...)? Thanks, i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread torquemada
OID's, (object-ID's) are made exactly for this purpose. if your database vendor does not provide this feature, lobby for it. ie PostgreSQL supports OID's and they are pretty much guaranteed to be unique cordially, Torquemada On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day again... Actually,

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day, Yes - but that isn't for me as a user of MySQL to have to worry about - the developers are the ones concerned about the internals. I only need to use x amount of space, and so I only choose to use x about of space not x+y amount if I can help it. Hrmm... Ask a simple question - get

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
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Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Benno
On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 12:58:42 +1000, torquemada wrote: OID's, (object-ID's) are made exactly for this purpose. if your database vendor does not provide this feature, lobby for it. ie PostgreSQL supports OID's and they are pretty much guaranteed to be unique Well, the better idea is to start a

Re: [SLUG] DNS records

2004-10-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Indelible wrote: Hello, I've got a static ip with some provider. I'd like to run my own mail server. So now I have to register a DNS name including MX records. Do I have to register the name with the current provider or can I do this with anybody (like anchor,...)? Thanks, i anybody. If you

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Glen Turner
Michael Kraus wrote: I already have that covered. Now consider how in embedded SQL you are going to know the value of id when executing INSERT INTO tablename VALUES(null, ...), where the table structure is (id INT UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, ...) Hence I need an identifier that the

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Benno
On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 13:06:30 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day, Yes - but that isn't for me as a user of MySQL to have to worry about - the developers are the ones concerned about the internals. I only need to use x amount of space, and so I only choose to use x about of space not x+y amount

RE: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Michael Kraus
No, this definetly opens up race conditions and lots of rollbacks and reprocessing. Eg (in pseudocode). id = execute(SELECT MAX(id) FROM tablename) + 1; ... result = execute(INSERT INTO tablename VALUE(id, )); if (!result) { rollback(); repeat(); } Either that or it would cause the

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Benno
On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 13:12:59 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: No, this definetly opens up race conditions and lots of rollbacks and reprocessing. Eg (in pseudocode). id =3D execute(SELECT MAX(id) FROM tablename) + 1; ... result =3D execute(INSERT INTO tablename VALUE(id, )); if (!result) {

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael Kraus wrote: No, this definetly opens up race conditions and lots of rollbacks and reprocessing. Eg (in pseudocode). id = execute(SELECT MAX(id) FROM tablename) + 1; ... result = execute(INSERT INTO tablename VALUE(id, )); if (!result) { rollback();

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael Kraus wrote: I already have that covered. Now consider how in embedded SQL you are going to know the value of id when executing INSERT INTO tablename VALUES(null, ...), where the table structure is (id INT UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, ...) Hence I need

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Sydney PostgreSQL Users Group Meeting, intro note

2004-10-17 Thread Julian Grodzicky
Dear Garry ors, Short note to keep in touch. Haven't been able to get time to access public internet/email terminals in my area for last 3-4 weeks. No direct connection yet - parents don't allow. Doing 'due diligence' on wireless so-called broadband svs - but cash-burn flagged for other

Re: [SLUG] DNS records

2004-10-17 Thread David
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Indelible wrote: Hello, I've got a static ip with some provider. I'd like to run my own mail server. So now I have to register a DNS name including MX records. Do I have to register the name with the current provider or can I do this with anybody (like anchor,...)?

Re: [SLUG] K8V SE Deluxe

2004-10-17 Thread mlh
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:35:22AM +1000, James Gray wrote: RedHat Enterprise Linux is (AFAIK) the only other distro that has pre-compiled AMD64/x86_64 binaries, but is significantly more expensive than SuSE Pro. Fedora 2 and 3test2 have x86_64 support. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-17 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:19:35PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Kraus wrote: No, this definetly opens up race conditions and lots of rollbacks and reprocessing. Eg (in pseudocode). id = execute(SELECT MAX(id) FROM tablename) + 1; ... result =

RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet

2004-10-17 Thread Visser, Martin
I didn't catch the original messages, but how does one determine definitively which device to use for USB peripherals? I have been delaying trying out my Acecad Flair graphics tablet until I managed to get a Xfree with it all built in. (I had tried some earlier patches that included the acecad

RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet

2004-10-17 Thread Visser, Martin
Of course I have found most of my *specific* answers at http://acecad.sourceforge.net/README . But it stills doesn't help me with the *generic* issue of mapping physical device, how they are seen through facilities such as dmesg and /var/log/messages, and even usbview, and how one *knows* which

Re: [SLUG] DNS records

2004-10-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Indelible wrote: Hello, I've got a static ip with some provider. I'd like to run my own mail server. So now I have to register a DNS name including MX records. Do I have to register the name with the current provider or can I do this with anybody (like anchor,...)?