Re: [SLUG] Fedora access and securtiy

2007-01-25 Thread O Plameras
Kevin Waterson wrote: Hi gang, I have a fedora machine running a few services httpd, ftpd, sshd rsync dns When I connected to Bigpond cable, I could not access the machine. Access was denied for all the above services. So, I disabled the firewall using system-config-securitylevel-tui as I have

[SLUG] Fedora access and securtiy

2007-01-25 Thread Kevin Waterson
Hi gang, I have a fedora machine running a few services httpd, ftpd, sshd rsync dns When I connected to Bigpond cable, I could not access the machine. Access was denied for all the above services. So, I disabled the firewall using system-config-securitylevel-tui as I have only ssh access to the r

Re: [SLUG] Hosed Ubuntu by apt-get upgrade

2007-01-25 Thread Luke Kendall
On 22 Jan, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 20:22 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 21 Jan, luke wrote: > > > Any advice would be most welcome. > > Dont do 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' - for two reasons: > > Firstly, a failed update is not something you want to upgra

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I should clarrify my needs a bit. There are text strings in this file that > have spaces between words. The whitespace is only at the end of fields, > and all text strings have quotes around them. I also think this whitespace > is between the last character, and the quote in the text string. T

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:13:49PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:36:10AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: > > > sed -e 's/ +"/"/' oldfile > newfile > > > > It seems that changing the + to an * did the trick. Thanks.

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:36:10AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: > > sed -e 's/ +"/"/' oldfile > newfile > > It seems that changing the + to an * did the trick. Thanks. strange the above should work for test " => test" and shouldn't

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:36:10AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: > sed -e 's/ +"/"/' oldfile > newfile It seems that changing the + to an * did the trick. Thanks. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PR

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:33:33AM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:50:11AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > Hi all > > I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, > > for use with a community website I am working on. > > > > I have a nasty problem,

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:58:09AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Luke Yelavich wrote: > >Hi all > >I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, > >for use with a community website I am working on. > > > >I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amount

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:50:11AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > Hi all > I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, > for use with a community website I am working on. > > I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of > whitespace. I am wonder

Re: [SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Luke Yelavich wrote: Hi all I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, for use with a community website I am working on. I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of whitespace. I am wondering whether there is a quick way to remove the w

[SLUG] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

2007-01-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, for use with a community website I am working on. I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of whitespace. I am wondering whether there is a quick way to remove the whitespace, either in the

LDAP Bind and Authorization - WAS: Re: [SLUG] Querying an LDAP database

2007-01-25 Thread O Plameras
Glen Turner wrote: If you just want to check the password then attempt to bind with the name and password provided This method is no guarantee that you are checking what you are intending to check. In this case the password on the LDAP entry. This method will check different passwords depend

[SLUG] Re: ID question

2007-01-25 Thread hav
Yes Bendigo offer this for a one off payment of $20. I think that its only worth it if you have squillions in the bank though; also is it possible to block the user from seeing what OS you're using? Otherwise yes that seems to be one of the few freely available data thats stored in cookies a lot.

[SLUG] Networking problem with Optus Cable.

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Caldwell
My home internet connection via Optus cable has been suffering from intermittent disconnections in recent weeks. The set up here is that the cable modem (a Nortel Cable Modem 100) connects to a Linksys WRT54G router via an ethernet cable and the router in turn feeds this computer and a laser print

Re: [SLUG] ATI Radeon 64 bit drivers

2007-01-25 Thread Ashley
Hi Jeremy, I solved the problem by ditching the ATI card and installing an nvidia GeForve 6200. All works fine now - even 3ddesk. Thanks Heracles Jeremy Visser wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:50 +1100, Ashley wrote: Hi All, Great LCA2007 eh! I have a small problem with my ATI Radeon 9250. I

Re: [SLUG] Lost + found.

2007-01-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/01/07, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No luck, Tony. Just tells me there is no such file. I wonder if I may You mean that "fsck" tells you this? If so then you gave it the wrong device name. What does "cd ; df ." show? --Amos have accidentally reformatted it when I was using

Re: [SLUG] ATI Radeon 64 bit drivers

2007-01-25 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:50 +1100, Ashley wrote: > Hi All, > Great LCA2007 eh! > I have a small problem with my ATI Radeon 9250. I have downloaded the 64 > bit installer but it fails with the message "ati-installer.sh: 165: > syntax error: bad substitution". > Is this a bug in the system or is it