On 03/11/2006, at 4:15 PM, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
...
Since Expect needs to either spawn a program or access a FH,
Net::SSH::Perl no longer suited my needs. I started to look into
spawning SSH from Net::Telnet, then using Expect on the Net::Telnet
object.
After looking at the man page for Net::
On 07/11/2006, at 10:03 PM, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote:
I've got a couple of tables itmmaster and suppstock. itmmaster
contains products, suppstock contains log-like entries of product
codes and stock availability and a datetime stamp. I want to do a
join to select a bunch of pr
On 23/11/2006, at 7:19 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Michael Chesterton wrote:
I guess grep is detecting whether it's talking to a terminal, and
doesn't
buffer if it is (or probably line buffers).
If you are using
whatever | grep one | grep two
the first grep will detect that i
On 26/11/2006, at 10:16 AM, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
More telling though
Ubuntu vs Mac:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+mac&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Is that a big mac or an apple mac? Or maybe a MAC address?
Ubuntu vs Apple:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+apple&ctab=0
On 13/12/2006, at 8:22 PM, 5h4rk wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to create a script that compare 2 or more
characters, to find
out the largest or the lowest one, for example, I enter each letter
one by
one, like a, b, c, d, e, so the lowest one is a and the largest one
is e.
How can I do that?
W
On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote:
Dear Carmel,
I was quite saddened & extremely disappointed to see the student
portal
relying on proprietary software, when open-source equivalents would
have
been far more secure, maintainable cost-effective & educational. What
"experts" a
On 14/12/2006, at 6:54 PM, Alexander W Stanley wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote:
Dear Carmel,
I was quite saddened & extremely disappointed to see the student
portal
relying on proprietary soft
On 22/12/2006, at 12:00 AM, elliott-brennan wrote:
Hi all,
Okay, I admit it, I had NEVER downloaded music... there... I'm glad
I got that off my chest.
I have a Creative Muvo on which we've copied MP3s from CD we've
bought. Easy as pie.
Now, my five-year-old daughter has started to lis
.
...
I think that is not a key, but a message.
Ascii armoured keys look like:
pub 1024D/32708C59 2003-08-14
Key fingerprint = 1056 2A02 5247 64D4 538D 6975 8851 7134
3270 8C59
uid Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
uid Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL
On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote:
I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to
connect. There are two different machines that I am trying to connect
to, one Ubuntu and one is an Apple iBook running Xubuntu.
1 I have no problem with either machine NOT using ssh
On 28/01/2007, at 5:27 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:54:52 +1100
Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 28/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote:
I have been trying to install x11vnc and then use ssh tunnels to
connect. There are two different machines tha
On 05/02/2007, at 6:20 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:
FWIW I think Novell-Microsoft is a good thing. It lets ME watch,
listen
and play as I want. MS are commercial, I don't need to be a cynic
to watch
for their overtures. But *freedom* lets ME do as I want.
Why is it good that Novell have affi
On 17/02/2007, at 1:27 AM, Alexander Stanley wrote:
G'day guys,
I'm actually doing a similar thing but I' m actually on a Dynamic IP
(iiNet). What you'll find is that there are nasty hacky ways to deal
with that (like DynDNS)... but if your IP cycles fast it goes out
to the
corner and sulk
On 28/02/2007, at 5:54 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I have a laptop with Fedora Core 6 and it is set up such that when
I close the lid it goes into suspend mode.
When I wake it up by opening the lid all is fine until I start
VMware, as soon as I go to start a guest OS under VMware the X
ser
On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a
company or business name.
Is this still the case as I've heard different responses.
Yes, almost you need to 'prove' that you are entitled to register
the name.
To quote the
On 08/03/2007, at 11:37 AM, david wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:37 +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a
company or business name.
Is this still the case as I've heard diff
On 09/03/2007, at 5:08 PM, James Purser wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 16:35 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
"You know, the crunchy, folk-singer part of me wants to
believe that a
performance is a dialogue, but I can't hear a BEEPing thing
you're
saying." - Ani
On 20/03/2007, at 9:03 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Howard Lowndes wrote:
http://www.linuxpersonas.com/
Shiny! But they don't tell their partners what do with people that
have tried both and would only use windows if it was significantly
better (which it isn't).
They do, it's the "Linux
On 10/05/2007, at 4:05 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 10/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The recommendation of swap == 2x RAM is oldfashoned and may even
be bad.
Googling will give you more than you ever wanted to know ...
IMHO you'd hardly ever want more than 512M of swap
On 14/05/2007, at 2:59 PM, David Lloyd wrote:
Phil,
sudden drop out. I guess another good idea is to protect with a
UPS of some sort - they are relatively cheap (compared to losing
all the data) and only need offer a minute or 2 up time to be able
to unmount the partition correctly and
On 18/05/2007, at 4:01 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:
flyers [sic]
This is the correct spelling of the plural of 'flyer'. You need not
suggest
you avoided a transcription error by quoting it with '[sic]'.
sed -E 's/fl[iy]er(.*|s)/leaflet\1/'
By order of the Ministry of Truth!
;-)
--
SLUG -
Right, but the top posting bastards who quote you back in full might
not use that flag.
On 23/05/2007, at 9:41 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I doubt it because I use X-No-Archive: yes
James Dumay wrote:
We find comfort in the fact that this rant will remain archived on
the
net for years and y
On 22/05/2007, at 6:01 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I've just wasted half the afternoon trying to work out why a tftp
server wasn't delivering a config file to a VoIP phone, and I
finally discover that it's mode of operation has been changed
during an "upgrade" of the tftp server, presumably
On 09/07/2007, at 3:18 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 09/07/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Zhasper> find . -name "" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
>>
>> Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this
version
>> runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm fo
Haha! You suck balls.
On 17/07/2007, at 3:25 PM, Timothy Bolot wrote:
Please remove all wildtechnology.net / wildit.com.au email
addresses from your lists.
Both of these domains are going to my personal hotmail account now
and a previous staff member subscribed to your lists.
If this is not
On 16/09/2007, at 10:33 PM, Luke Kendall wrote:
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Luke Kendall wrote:
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Any relation to perror() ?
http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/3/perror.html?manpath=/
man/man3/perror.3.inc
No, none whatsoever. :-) perror() is a system call for use
On 25/09/2007, at 11:07 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs
that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early 90s - is it the
right
way to go or is there now a better shinier tool/language that I should
be learning?
There is a pe
On 06/10/2007, at 5:42 PM, Minh Van Le wrote:
Hello :)
I have a quad port NIC in a Linux PC and my problem is I cannot get
all
ports to work simultaneously.
For example, if
eth1: 192.168.1.81
eth2: 192.168.1.82
eth3: 192.168.1.83
eth4: 192.168.1.84
then pinging their own interfac
On 06/10/2007, at 7:39 PM, Minh Van Le wrote:
What's the physical configuration of the network? What path do you
It sort of looks like this,
@ @ @ @ @ @
@ Internet @
@ @ @ @ @ @
|
|
++
| 4 port ADSL Router |
++
|
|
On 06/12/2007, at 10:38 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:25:39 +
Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote:
Also, for one that doesn't have the miniPCI thingy blocked. :-(
All this talk about opening the little yellow ta
On 14/01/2008, at 3:52 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:59 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Good will is not coming to a LUG meeting and pushing microsoft's
agenda.
Good will is doing something that costs
On 30/01/2008, at 6:27 PM, Bruce Bruen wrote:
Now, how shall I start, history or interest, disinterest or hosiery,
confounding interest or hijacking ...
Historical details :
Bjorn - sometime in the last century on a small planet called RANRL
located
temporarily near (actually on) Rushcutter
On 30/01/2008, at 11:49 AM, Greg Cockburn wrote:
Hi all,
I want to know if it is possible to share/track TCP/VPN(IPSEC)/NAT
connections between 2 Linux hosts.
At home I have a great Firewall. It runs LEAF Bering uClibc 3.X /
OPENSWAN
/ OPENVPN. It is great.
At work I have 2 Cisco PIX ru
On 01/06/2008, at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
We're trying to deploy a Linux server into an all-Windows company.
Our
client is actually quite happy with this solution, but we were
informed a couple of days ago that they have a Citrix Access
On 02/08/2008, at 11:43 PM, Basic Fraud wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am not sure who is responsible or instrumental in developing this
website,
BUT they should be hailed as National Heroes!
Maybe Daryl can tell us!
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscrip
On 17/04/2006, at 9:08 AM, Charles Myers wrote:
Guys, I have searched google etc but failed to find an answer to this
(im pretty sure though I have seen somewhere that it can be done...)
I have a heap of photos (sorted by iPhoto) and it does it in multiple
directories of year, month,date etc.
On 18/04/2006, at 1:45 PM, Alexander Samad wrote:
Hi
I have been trying to google for this, but to no success, I have
FC5 on
a machine and running Xorg X server, now when I double click on a word
in a xterm or rxvt term the word selection is different to what I am
used to. for example if I
On 18/04/2006, at 5:00 PM, Ben Stringer wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:20 +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:
find /photos -name '*.jpg' -exec mv '{}' /newphotos \;
Beware with this method, if any photos have the same filename, the
first
ones moved will be clobbered by the
On 16/05/2006, at 10:21 PM, Steve Lindsay wrote:
On 5/16/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
looking at config.log I see this:
-
configure:42977: checking for JPEG support
configure:42979: result:
configure:42993: checking jconfig.h usability
configure:43005: gcc -c -g -O2 -Wa
On 22/05/2006, at 7:51 PM, Charles Myers wrote:
Mary Cudmore wrote:
Hi SLUG and Linux Chix people,
In response to Sridhar's questions:
* getting people to attend a meeting in the first place
* encouraging people to continue to participate afterwards
I've wanted to attend a SLUG meeting
On 26/05/2006, at 6:50 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote:
On 2006.05.26 18:37 john hedge wrote:
I've been hitting my head all day over awk and
sed (grep?)!
My challenge is to search a directory of text files
for a string which I want to replace wherever it
occurs with a new string and save the file wit
On 26/05/2006, at 10:14 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote:
On 2006.05.26 21:47 Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 26/05/2006, at 6:50 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote:
cd /path/to/directory/
for FILE in
do
if grep -q "text to be replaced" "$FILE"
then
sed -i
On 26/05/2006, at 10:43 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote:
On 2006.05.26 22:34 Sam Lawrance wrote:
The argument for "-i" is optional; if supplied sed provides a
backup; if not supplied sed amends the input file. See "man sed"
That is ridiculous. Unless you know in advance what
On 27/05/2006, at 10:38 PM, Luke wrote:
Has anyone had any luck using syncml to synchronise calendar
information
on Linux?
I have my mobile syncing its calendar/phonebook etc with a free syncml
server (mobical.net) over GPRS - and what I need now is a way to sync
some calander-app on Linux w
On 29/05/2006, at 2:43 PM, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
Whilst I know that this subject has been vocally debated in the
past I think it is time to re-visit the issue of how the slug
mailing list works.
Well, how _does_ it work? :-)
Does SLUG have a postmaster? What sort of spam contro
On 29/05/2006, at 4:18 PM, O Plameras wrote:
Scott Sinclair wrote:
On Mon 29 May, 2006 at 15:41:01 +1000, O Plameras wrote:
A simple solution:
Just add one activity for the poster to do, i.e., to every
posting SLUG-list
server will elicit a confirmation from the poster whereby this
con
On 07/06/2006, at 6:04 PM, john hedge wrote:
Hi List,
I'm afraid my wifi (lan is running fine) experience with Dapper is
the same as this fellows. http://www.technologyevangelist.com/
2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html
Has anyone had better luck?
I've got a 5212 based card. It works a
On 08/06/2006, at 10:20 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 07/06/2006, at 6:04 PM, john hedge wrote:
Hi List,
I'm afraid my wifi (lan is running fine) experience with Dapper is
the same as this fellows. http://www.technologyevangelist.com/
2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html
Has anyon
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
I applied for a job advertised by these recruit-scum. Turns out they're
flogging training, not jobs. I didn't hear from them, and saw the same
ads getting posted day after day so I assumed there was something odd
about them.
Just now I had a call from them trying to
On 20/03/2009, at 11:47 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
Ben Donohue writes:
Doesn't anyone know that VMware ESX3.5i is now free?
Sure, as in beer. That fails the "FOSS highly desired" bullet point
on
the original posters list of features. Point one, in fact.
Is the requirement driven by t
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