Re: [SLUG] Help to force install in CentOs (TOR in China)

Hi Robert, I'm not really familiar with installing Tor. What distro are you using? And whats the problem you having installing Tor? Is it that the package cant be downloaded from the pre-configured repository sources because the Great Wall is blocking the download? or that permissions on the VPS

[SLUG] Help to force install in CentOs (TOR in China)

Hej, On a VPS which appears to be truly in Beijing I can't get it to download TOR (not surprising). Does anyone have an idea of how to get Tor going on it or to use it for evading the Great Firewall? Robert -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] help with proxy code...

Ken, > Fantastic response Mark, thank you. You're welcome. In the code provided, the HTTP response code will be a from the proxy f itself or passed through from the origin server. To be safe, if you do not get a 200 success code, then just accept that it's an error. >

Re: [SLUG] help with proxy code...

Fantastic response Mark, thank you. For the record the generic C# connections for Microsoft are apparently: a) restricted to 2 at a time. b) try and resolve the proxy every single time using the complex proxy settings under windows. c) just generally perform badly. I grabbed some code of

Re: [SLUG] help with proxy code...

> I have to code on the dark side and the code from microsoft > is really slow to the point where replacing it with socket > connections directly is about a 1/3 of the time. Are you permitted to share example code? > Does anyone know how a proxy works if I directly call a con

[SLUG] help with proxy code...

I have to code on the dark side and the code from microsoft is really slow to the point where replacing it with socket connections directly is about a 1/3 of the time. Does anyone know how a proxy works if I directly call a connect? Is it the same http codes just connecting to the proxy? Ta

Re: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please

Have you tried putting the HD in another PC and booting it? Check PC BIOS for boot options/swap drive cables etc - will the CDROM boot with the HD detached/unplugged? Have been through similar myself. PS has the BIOS been corrupted? I tried to flash a BIOS on an old PC recently and it failed a

Re: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please

From: edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please Hi, I know a few of you will think I'm off-topic, but I have a customer's Vista box here that won't boot. (ducking now ...) So I tried loading a Ubuntu live CD, then a

Re: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please

Edwin. Could it be the BIOS is set to only boot UEFI OSs? Otherwise I'd say it was a hardware failure. Regars, Peter Barker On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:30:28 PM you wrote: > Hi, > > I know a few of you will think I'm off-topic, but I have a customer's > Vista box here that won't boot. (ducking now ...

RE: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please

bject: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please Hi, I know a few of you will think I'm off-topic, but I have a customer's Vista box here that won't boot. (ducking now ...) So I tried loading a Ubuntu live CD, then a Knoppix LiveCD. then plugging in a USB DVD drive and trying Ubu

[SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please

Hi, I know a few of you will think I'm off-topic, but I have a customer's Vista box here that won't boot. (ducking now ...) So I tried loading a Ubuntu live CD, then a Knoppix LiveCD. then plugging in a USB DVD drive and trying Ubuntu again as well as Puppy - and all had variants of the same

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:50:37AM +1000, Scott Finneran wrote: [ .. ] > this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable > characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. You want ls -b -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

On 13/04/11 08:10, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Scott Finneran wrote: > >> The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, >> this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable >> characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. >> >> A

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

Scott Finneran wrote: The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. Anyone hits with he clue-bat would be appreciated Perhap

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

It could be unicode normalisation. -Rob -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

Hi All, I'm trying to find the cause of a bug, the symptom of which is two copies of a file are created in the same directory with apparently the same filename. The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are

Re: [SLUG] Help

Mark Wrote:mark murray > Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:03:11 +1000 > > I am very new to Ubuntu, am using latest disro. The Cd and/or DVD > devices do not show as part of the computer. Audio software does not > recognise them, they do work. Hi Mark, does this mean "They do NOT work." if you press the pl

[SLUG] Help

I am very new to Ubuntu, am using latest disro. The Cd and/or DVD devices do not show as part of the computer. Audio software does not recognise them, they do work. if you press the play button on the device sound emanates from the speakers but the default installed cd player and rythmbox do not se

[SLUG] Help with a modem installation, please. Next instalment.

Well,I *can* get into the ZTEMODEM file. Found this by blind persistence (family trait). It's located at Desktop /media. I'm still gunshy about going further. These are not the instructions I downloaded. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Sub

Re: [SLUG] Help with a modem installation, please.

Hi, > I've : > 1) downloaded the latest usb_modeswitch file as directed. > 2) clicked and selected "extract here". Which it did. Did you download this one: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/usb-modeswitch-1.1.2.tar.bz2 ? For some reason the stuff you've pasted looks like something else.

[SLUG] Help with a modem installation, please.

I'm trying to follow the instructions for installing the ZTE MF626 modem. I've : 1) downloaded the latest usb_modeswitch file as directed. 2) clicked and selected "extract here". Which it did. The next instruction is what's the matter: 3) Open the terminal,and go to the location of the compresse

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Fixed. It was a chain of things, nothing in particular stood out, but here's my recollection based on the mess I've put into git during this period... 1. Permission of /etc/libnss_ldap.conf was too restrictive (but this did not prohibit the login, just lots of annoying things like "whoami" break,

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Thanks Daniel, I'll see what I can find out, and I'll let you when I resolve it. Nima On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Nima Talebi writes: > > > Here's another clue... > > Sadly, you have hit the limit of my understanding: everything /looks/ > right, > to me. I suspec

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Nima Talebi writes: > Here's another clue... Sadly, you have hit the limit of my understanding: everything /looks/ right, to me. I suspect it is something in the PAM stack. You might find that adding 'debug' options to the relevant modules, then watching /var/log/auth.log sheds some light on w

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Hey Daniel, Here's another clue... I su (from root) to nima... darius:~# su - nima You are required to change your LDAP password immediately. su: Authentication failure (Ignored) * INIT:[]...Done * Waiting on lock...Done * Sourcing OS profile Linux... * Sourcing profile HOME... o Settin

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Hi Again :) On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Nima Talebi writes: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Pittman > wrote: > >> Nima Talebi writes: > > [...] > > >> So, what does 'passwd -S' show for 'darius' on that machine? > Specifically, > >> does it report so

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Nima Talebi writes: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> Nima Talebi writes: [...] >> So, what does 'passwd -S' show for 'darius' on that machine?  Specifically, >> does it report something sensible for the status and age fields? > > Well, depends how I've configured ns

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Hi Daniel, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Nima Talebi writes: > > > Thanks for getting back to me so fast! Well, even if that's the case - I > > don't mind, but here's a little more depth into the problem... > > Ah. A different problem from what I thought, I suspect,

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Nima Talebi writes: > Thanks for getting back to me so fast! Well, even if that's the case - I > don't mind, but here's a little more depth into the problem... Ah. A different problem from what I thought, I suspect, making my answer less relevant. I thought it was a deliberately expired passw

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

I should add - If I place an entry in /etc/shadow, authentication works, but that's what I'm trying to avoid. I've setup the LDAP schema such that I should not need to depend on the local passwd/shadow files. The LDIF of a typical user is... dn: uid=nima,ou=human,dc=world *objectClass: authoriz

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Hi Daniel, Thanks for getting back to me so fast! Well, even if that's the case - I don't mind, but here's a little more depth into the problem... I can bind to the LDAP server as a user, and have that user issue a change of password for themselves - and that works fine. I can do the same via t

Re: [SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Nima Talebi writes: > Following recommendations on IRC, I'm posting my 2-day problem here so a > genius can guide me to salvation Do you want the good news, or the bad news? The good news is that you have not done anything wrong. The bad news is that OpenSSH does not support changing passw

[SLUG] Help with LibPAM, LibNSS, LDAP

Hi List, Following recommendations on IRC, I'm posting my 2-day problem here so a genius can guide me to salvation http://paste.plurk.com/show/98989/ Thanks in advance, Nima -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Help with switch user

> a) The question has been answer before If it has then I apologise - the answer is not in my copy of the conversation thread. Perhaps it was lost in the tubes. Sharif Olorin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Help with switch user

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:00:20 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > We can't help you unless you tell us what you want to do, *to what*. > Is this in GNOME? XFCE? Some other interface? This is just annoying noise a) The question has been answer before b) No matter what sort of session if your w

Re: [SLUG] Help with switch user

We can't help you unless you tell us what you want to do, *to what*. Is this in GNOME? XFCE? Some other interface? Sharif Olorin -- PGP/GPG key ID: 5738DC39 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.htm

Re: [SLUG] Help with switch user

On Monday 09 November 2009 08:12:14 you wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:09:00PM +0800, jam wrote: > > Hi > > on the various distros log-out-switch-user prompts for a password as the > > second user logs out and the first user is exposed again. Tried for weeks > > to disable this anal fettish bu

Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

Scott Waller writes: > .I think your right. I have looked through the syslog and couldn't > find any issues, but now you've got me worried. Anyway I did a backup last > night. Seems to be quite stable at the moment. If you are, just 'touch /forcefsck' as root, reboot, and the distribu

Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

Hi Erik, .I think your right. I have looked through the syslog and couldn't find any issues, but now you've got me worried. Anyway I did a backup last night. Seems to be quite stable at the moment. I wonder if when I passed the: sudo mount -o remount, rw / Then it wrote that to t

Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

Scott Waller wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and > couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I > found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: > > UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 > rela

Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

Hi Jake, Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-r

Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

Scott Waller wrote: Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now wi

[SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems. Thi

Re: [SLUG] Help Please Fedora 10 Video nVidia Driver issue

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 13:03 +1100, Heracles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Daryl, > Don't know if this will help you but when I had a similar problem I was > advised to find and delete the following files: > > /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko > /l

Re: [SLUG] Help Please Fedora 10 Video nVidia Driver issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daryl, Don't know if this will help you but when I had a similar problem I was advised to find and delete the following files: /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/nvidia_legacy.ko /lib/linux-res

[SLUG] Help Please Fedora 10 Video nVidia Driver issue

Hi SLUGers I install Fedora 10 on to my Desktop and Laptop the last few days. No prob with the Laptop went in like a dream total 20min in all. But the Desktop did then i install the nVidia package for my GeForce 7300 GS video card and it went wrong, now i don't have a GUI desktop i have a blank sc

Re: [SLUG] help with bind

to hand-generate key do : rndc-confgen -a -b 128 -t /var/named/chroot -r keyboard if you are in a chroot env, or simply *rndc-confgen* *-a *to allow *rndc* to be used with no manual configuration. or even simpler, to print a sample *rndc.conf* file and corresponding *controls* and *key* statements

Re: [SLUG] help with bind

Hi ! I do speak for my ubuntu dns, but i think isssue is closed to etch. i heard that now rndc (remote domain name server control utility) uses 953 as standard port, instead of old 53. so do a " netstat -an | grep -i 53 ", it should print both 53 (bind daemon) and 953 listening. by checking in yo

[SLUG] help with bind

Hi I'm playing with bind attempting to set up a DNS server. Found a nice how- to that walks through step by step. Only problem is when I attempt to stop bind9, I get the following message: Stopping domain name service...: bindrndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the rem

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

> Out of interest, what is the canonical (vs Canonical) way of giving NM a > kick when you've changed something, apart from logging out/in? In the olde > days when manually editing /etc/network/interfaces I used to do > /etc/init.d/network restart or ifdown eth0; ifup eth0, but NM often > appears

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:39 +1000, Jeremy Visser wrote: > If it still doesn't work, go edit /etc/network/interfaces (I hope your > distro has its config there), and delete every single line _except_ for > the ones containing "auto lo" and "iface lo inet loopback". Log out and > log in to see if it

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:13 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > "Manual Configuration" only gives me the usual "Enable Roaming" option > > for both wireless and wired networks, which doesn't seem to make a > > difference? > >

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:13 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > "Manual Configuration" only gives me the usual "Enable Roaming" option > for both wireless and wired networks, which doesn't seem to make a > difference? The roaming mode is meant to be checked. If Network Manager doesn't pick the change up

[SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

Hello, Yesterday I visited a site where I couldn't make Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop accept the WiFi pass key. During the tweaks I made to try to make it work I also clicked off the "Enable Roaming" and other stuff. Now that I'm back at home nothing I do would convince NetworkManager to connect to my

Re: [SLUG] Help for new Linux users and Linux Reality!

e rest > > > > is Security Now (another useful podcast, not Linux based though) > > > > > > > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:26:01 +1100 > > > > From: andy gee <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SLUG] Help for new Linux users and Linux Reality!

; > > > Actually, make that the first 1.3 Gb is Linux Reality, the rest is > > Security Now (another useful podcast, not Linux based though) > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:26:01 +1100 > > From: andy gee &

Re: [SLUG] Help for new Linux users and Linux Reality!

Hey Kyle, the ogg podcast is at : http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxreality-ogg and I think the mp3 is at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxreality try them out in your podcast client and see how you go. If you don't want to podcast and just want to download, you can go to http://www.linuxrealit

Fw: [SLUG] Help for new Linux users and Linux Reality!

Actually, make that the first 1.3 Gb is Linux Reality, the rest is Security Now (another useful podcast, not Linux based though) Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:26:01 +1100 From: andy gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Help for new Linux use

[SLUG] Help for new Linux users and Linux Reality!

Hi all, I have only been using Linux as my sole OS for the last 2 years or so, and tomorrow night will be the first SLUG meeting I attend - I'm really looking forward to it! I thought I'd help some new Linux users by providing the first 4 Gb or so of the Linux Reality podcast. "Linux Reality" is

[SLUG] Help required with internet browser problem.

Hi SLUG, RE: Help required with Internet Browser Problem. My Firefox, Opera and Konquerer fail to connect to internet. All browsers have automatically defaulted set to OffLine mode. Even if I untick Offline mode my browsers fail to connect to the internet. A message is displayed failed to fi

Re: [SLUG] Help required with internet browser problem.

Hi Sharon, Maybe these are stupid questions, but have you checked your DNS settings? And if you're connected to the internet (ie, your IP settings are correct)? try running `ping www.google.com` in a terminal - this will tell you if your connected to the internet and if it's a browser problem an

Re: [SLUG] Help required with internet browser problem.

err, just `route` will actually work, where `route -a` is not sensical.. I was thinking of arp, but you shouldn't have to worry about that yet.. ;) On Nov 15, 2007 10:10 PM, Tony Sceats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sharon, > > Maybe these are stupid questions, but have you checked your DNS

Re: [SLUG] HELP - need an ISDN card for our fax line

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:39:31PM +1000, Grant Parnell ELX wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Jon Teh wrote: > > >Hello Grant, > > > >On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:42:04PM +1000, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux > >wrote: > > Umm how do I divert just ONE number out of the hundred group on our ISDN > li

Re: [SLUG] HELP - need an ISDN card for our fax line

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Jon Teh wrote: Hello Grant, On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:42:04PM +1000, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: Been battling with our NetJet ISDN card and whilst it handles everything voice quite well the most I've gotten out of a fax is about 50mm of normal readable page fo

Re: [SLUG] HELP - need an ISDN card for our fax line

Hello Grant, On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:42:04PM +1000, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: > Been battling with our NetJet ISDN card and whilst it handles everything > voice quite well the most I've gotten out of a fax is about 50mm of normal > readable page followed by garbage. That's with m

[SLUG] HELP - need an ISDN card for our fax line

Been battling with our NetJet ISDN card and whilst it handles everything voice quite well the most I've gotten out of a fax is about 50mm of normal readable page followed by garbage. That's with mISDN, chan_misdn, asterisk, iaxmodem, spandsp and hylafax. I couldn't seem to get capi4hylafax work

Re: [SLUG] Help with strace - WinDev HyperFile Server

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:45:08AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > Can anyone shed a glimmer of light on what the strace trace means? > clone(child_stack=0, > flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, > child_tidptr=0xb7da9928) = 19927 > --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0)

[SLUG] Help with strace - WinDev HyperFile Server

Has anyone had any experience with setting up this proprietary database server? http://windev.com/pcsoft/hyperfile.htm Yes, the installation is quite evil with SETUID root daemons even :-( The "server" starts but seems to die straight away without any reason. Can anyone shed a glimmer of ligh

[SLUG] Can SLUG help i386. For Linux.Conf.Au

Hi I'm was wondering if someone could help me. I'm Adam from i386.tv. I run a little Aussie based vodcast/podcast and currently seeking some assistant/help Heres the deal. : - I'm currently keen on covering Linux.conf.au event in January, - But I lack an interviewers/presenters talent to be o

[SLUG] Help with Falcom GSM modem

Hi,   Can you please direct me to someone who can help setting up a PPP dial in server with a Falcom A2D GSM modem.   What I need to come up with eventually is a that can be dialled into remotely over the mobile phone network to allow remote access to some plant equipment.   Regards

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Matthew Hannigan wrote: I was going to mention it as part of saying that the usual fibonacci example of recursion is a spectacularly bad example for recursion (without tail recursion elimination) Perhaps, it will help understand if I supply the following description and C codes of fibonac

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:11:01PM +, Angus Lees wrote: > > I realise I'm a bit behind the times with continuing this thread, but > I'm surprised no-one mentioned that modern compilers are quite capable > of turning tail-recursion into in-place iteration. > [ nice example ] I was going to me

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

At Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:53:24 +1100, Tess Snider wrote: > On 11/27/05, Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a case of recursion. > What's totally crazy is that once you've been programming a while, and > really understand this recursion stuff well, you have to then learn to > stop using

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try writing a qsort() without recursion... I think I once had to do that in my algorithms class, when the earth was without form and void, and darkness hovered over the face of the deep. ;) Tess -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:53:24AM +1100, Tess Snider wrote: > What's totally crazy is that once you've been programming a while, and > really understand this recursion stuff well, you have to then learn to > stop using it. It's very sad, because rec

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 12:40 +1030, Glen Turner wrote: > Tess Snider wrote: > > In C, I guess you > > could return an arbitrary negative value, since the function should > > never be returning a negative value on good input data. > > Hi Tess, > > This is called a "pinball API" since the result to

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/28/05, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is called a "pinball API" since the result to someone > who doesn't recognise that the return value needs to be > tested is essentially random. Much better to make that > requirement explicit in the API. > >bool factorial(unsigned int

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Glen Turner wrote: O Plameras wrote: Another way of saying: factorial 0 = 1 is a "by definition" thing in Mathematics and everybody then accepts it, factorial(0) = 1 makes sense, because factorials are a measure of the number of ways you can combine items. 1! = 1 way to arrange one ite

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

O Plameras wrote: Another way of saying: factorial 0 = 1 is a "by definition" thing in Mathematics and everybody then accepts it, factorial(0) = 1 makes sense, because factorials are a measure of the number of ways you can combine items. 1! = 1 way to arrange one item (a) 2! = 2 ways to

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Tess Snider wrote: In C, I guess you could return an arbitrary negative value, since the function should never be returning a negative value on good input data. Hi Tess, This is called a "pinball API" since the result to someone who doesn't recognise that the return value needs to be tested is

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/28/05, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned that to > understand recursion, first you have to understand > recursion! :-) The old Lippman C++ book had a "recursion" entry in the index that referred back to that same index page. Tess -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:53:24AM +1100, Tess Snider wrote: > On 11/27/05, Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a case of recursion. > > Crossfire (and others) gave you good answers. Now I'm going to give > [ .. ] I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned that to understand recursio

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Beav Petrie wrote: Sluggers, I run these codes I copied from a tutorial book. The print out is 24, correct factorial of 4 (4*3*2*1). But y is 0 (y < 1) finally and return value of 1 so how is it 24 instead of 1 is printed ? Please help me understand. Many thanks. Do not flame me, please. I

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Tess Snider wrote: On 11/27/05, Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a case of recursion. Crossfire (and others) gave you good answers. Now I'm going to give you some extra info. You may not be ready for it yet. But, hopefully, it'll help somebody! What's totally crazy is

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Tess Snider wrote: On 11/28/05, O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another way of saying: factorial 0 = 1 is a "by definition" thing in Mathematics and everybody then accepts it, i.e., there is no logical basis for it. Actually, there is a method to the madness. To quote MathWo

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/28/05, O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another way of saying: factorial 0 = 1 is a "by definition" thing in > Mathematics and everybody then accepts it, > > i.e., there is no logical basis for it. Actually, there is a method to the madness. To quote MathWorld: "The special case 0!

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Daniel Bush wrote: On 11/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I thought by definition y! = y * (y-1) * (y-2) * ... * 1 so the function should be: int factorial(int y) { if ( y

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/27/05, Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a case of recursion. Crossfire (and others) gave you good answers. Now I'm going to give you some extra info. You may not be ready for it yet. But, hopefully, it'll help somebody! What's totally crazy is that once you've been programm

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

yeah silly me ;p   sometimes it just happens my hands (& mouth) work faster than my brain does.   yiz - Original Message - From: Daniel Bush To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Help Me

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought by definition y! = y * (y-1) * (y-2) * ... * 1   so the function should be:   int factorial(int y){    if ( y =1){ return 1;    }    else    {  return

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

        - Original Message - From: Beav Petrie To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 10:37 PM Subject: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes Sluggers,I run these codes I copied from a tutorial book.The print out is 24, correct factorial of 4 (4*3*2*1).But y is 0 (y <

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

On 11/27/05, Beav Petrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sluggers, I run these codes I copied from a tutorial book. The print out is 24, correct factorial of 4 (4*3*2*1). But y is 0 (y < 1) finally and return value of 1 so how is it 24 instead of 1 is printed ?  Please help me understand. Many thank

Re: [SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Beav Petrie was once rumoured to have said: > I run these codes I copied from a tutorial book. > The print out is 24, correct factorial of 4 (4*3*2*1). > > But y is 0 (y < 1) finally and return value of 1 so how is it > 24 instead of 1 is printed ? > > Please help me understand. Many thanks. Thi

[SLUG] Help Me - C codes

Sluggers, I run these codes I copied from a tutorial book. The print out is 24, correct factorial of 4 (4*3*2*1). But y is 0 (y < 1) finally and return value of 1 so how is it 24 instead of 1 is printed ?  Please help me understand. Many thanks. Do not flame me, please. I am a newbie. Beav

Re: [SLUG] Help needed in transhorming a directiveinto or

David Kempe wrote: Michael Lake wrote: The problem is that http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:9090 does not work. It eventually times out but there is no error in the error log to tell me what I have wrong in the httpd config file. Either you just fixed it, or you have an a firewall problem or some

Re: [SLUG] Help needed in transhorming a directive into or

Michael Lake wrote: The problem is that http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:9090 does not work. It eventually times out but there is no error in the error log to tell me what I have wrong in the httpd config file. Either you just fixed it, or you have an a firewall problem or something, because that UR

Re: [SLUG] Help needed in transhorming a directive into or

Hi again I have tried a different tack. I made two extra VirtualHost containers but on different ports to the main one at 80 and put the apache directives that I need for the OPAC and Intranet sites inside those extra containers. The following sites now work: http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au

[SLUG] Help needed in transhorming a directive into or

Hi all I have some Library software which works on my laptop using its recommended virtual host setup like this: Listen 8080 Listen 9090 # KOHA's OPAC Configuration ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/koha/koha/opac/htdocs ServerName nsw.royalsoc.org.au ScriptAlias /cgi-

Re: [SLUG] help help Fedora Core 4 installation trouble

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:36 -0700, pesoy misak wrote: > Hi slugger > > I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora Core 2 into Fedora > Core 4. During the > installation, When it's trying to access the X server > for installation > it only giving me a White Screen of Death nothing > happen. Is there > anyo

[SLUG] help help Fedora Core 4 installation trouble

Hi slugger I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora Core 2 into Fedora Core 4. During the installation, When it's trying to access the X server for installation it only giving me a White Screen of Death nothing happen. Is there anyone with this issue?. PS: specification Athlon 850 Mhz, 256 MB ram, bui

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