On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Luke Vanderfluit
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> Does anyone know of a site where I can watch the olympics using a linux
> (non-windows) codec?
As much as flash is a Linux codec, you could try the instructions for
viewing on Youtube at [1]
[1] http://valleywag.com/50
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:50:52AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I've never seen IOWAIT for NFS client traffic (ie, traffic from an
> NFS client talking to an NFS server) but who knows, this is linux..
I would say this doesn't count to iowait either; see
fs/nfs/pagelist.c:nfs_wait_on_request() -- i
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:38:15PM +1100, david wrote:
> When I run vmware-config.pl I get the following warning message:
>
> Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.2.3", while you are trying to use
> "/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2.4".
>
> What version am I running? Should I care? vmware-config.p
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:13:42AM +0800, Hongduc Nguyen wrote:
> By any chance has anyone encountered the error message 'A general
> system error occurred - Internal error' during the creation/import
> of a VM via the VMware infastructure client?
This type of question is best asked on the VMware
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:02 AM, tenz...@iinet.net.au
wrote:
> I'm seeking a preferably citeable reference to the amount of error in the
> returned result from a Time() command. I want to be
> able to quote the level of error in timing the execution speed of my project.
A reference that probably
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:12:07PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
> IIRC, ANSI C[1] makes no guaranty as to the lifetime of literal
> strings when their enclosing scope finishes.
I'm fairly sure ANSI C does, C99 definitely does
> And not all literal strings are 'static' as my code demonstrated.
String
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:17:51PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Some might remember that I was looking at getting a new laptop
> recently. Well I ended up with a Dell Latitude X1, installed ubuntu
> Hoary, dist-upgraded to Breezy to get X working properly and I'm now
> running E17
But does
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:56:14PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> This is an unexpected statistic...
>
> Subroutine using massive number of matches:
> strcmp(x,y) 1.87 seconds
> strncmp(x,y,6) 1.63 seconds
> memcmp(x,y,6) 5.85 seconds
>
> Ignoring the other code it is a huge overhead for using mem
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:57:00PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> Enforcing standards with gcc -ansi is a bad idea it looks like :-( This
> draws in the gcc builtins and they do not perform as well.
You are buliding with optimisation on right (-03 or similar)?
If you want fast memcmp() do it on an a
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:34:33PM +1100, Visser, Martin wrote:
> I just "googled" for "benchmark performance linux kernel i386 versus
> i686" and found nothing of any import. I am just wondering if anyone has
> bothered doing this. It would be nice to know what the tradeoff is
> between performanc
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:06:11AM +, Dave Airlie wrote:
> I've heard chat on lkml about using alternatives (the kernel ones) to do
> this.. basically at build time you construct a table of every spinlock
> call and patch them all up at CPU hotplug or kernel boot time...
>
> Sounds like magic
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:43:54AM +1100, Anthony O'Hara wrote:
> Booting Gentoo results in an odd beeping noise coming from the hard
> drive.. It just sits there making a very quiet and subtle morse
> code noise over and over and over again.
I don't think it is your hard drive, there was a perio
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:44:14AM +1100, Raphael Kraus wrote:
> I'm wanting to perform FTP synchronisation (similar to rsync) - i.e. a
> local and remote directory are made up to date at a set schedule.
I use weex for just this; a poor man's rsync
http://weex.sourceforge.net/
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:09:36AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually this is mostly just a waste of effort. Config swap and let
> the system swap out all the bits it does not need.
Ahh, what if you compile your SCSI driver as a module, and the pages
containing its code are put onto a SCSI
Free to good home
* AlphaPC 164
* 433Mhz Alpha 21164 Processor
* 128Mb RAM
* 18Gig Quantum Atlas 10K SCSI drive
* Pioneer SCSI CD
* Archive 4326xx SCSI tape drive (DDS-2?) with a whole bunch of tapes
* Inbuilt IDE controller - takes normal IDE disks.
* IDE hard drive cage (modified slightl
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:12:20PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
> Free to good home
Thanks, it has found a new home :)
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:43:58PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> Okay, how do you layout an answer for something as simple as
> sqrt(175)-17**2 in latex?
I'd do it something like
\begin{eqnarray*}
a & = & \sqrt{175} - 17^2 \\
& = & 13.22 - 289 \\
& = & -275.78. \\
\end{eqnarray*}
signa
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:25:04PM +1100, cmyers wrote:
> Im mounting 5 drives (it takes between 5 - 10 minutes) to mount all the
> drives.
>
> Is there something else I should be looking at? or doing? to get them to
> mount quicker?
Are you sure you're not loosing packets? I've seen issues wher
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
> does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts
> (for GNU/Linux)?
>
> What I want is the hability to "broadcast" my desktop via GAIM/MSN.
I think you might mean taking your screen and encoding it into some
sor
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:10:10PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> I doubt the key in question is on the keyservers. It's located at
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc
Or just install the debian-archive-keyring package
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Mon Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:51:38AM +1000, Menno Schaaf wrote:
> I helped a friend install Ubuntu (5.10) on her laptop this weekend,
> but couldn't get X to display in the native resolution (1280x800).
> It's using the i810 driver, and defaults back to 1024x768.
If it's anything like my Dell X1, t
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:01:11PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> The make install for the compiled subversion I think will go into
> /usr/local/
> But I need to "remove" the subversion that was put on via apt-get which is
> in /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib etc otherwise there will be clashes and things
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:32:18PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
> My machine has this:
>
> ~$ ls -l /dev/uran*
> cr--r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Jun 20 2002 /dev/urandom
>
> ~$ ls -l /dev/ran*
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Jun 20 2002 /dev/random
> Why is one writable by all and the other not ?
I th
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:07:43AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I have citrix installed and it has grey scroll bars, It uses the motif
> libraries. The problem I am getting is that I can scroll down but not
> back up using the scroll bars. I have seen this problem with another
> program as well, v
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:50:59AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I even tried rebooting and booting on battery and I get the same
> result, it still thinks is on AC power.
>
> This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's.
FWIW, this works fine (i.e. I get the expected behaviour of no fsck on
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:06:50PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Did you install dapper straight up or install breezy and then
> dist-upgrade?
>
> I'm pretty sure I even installed the one before breezy, upgraded it
> to breezy and then upgraded again to dapper.
I'm afraid I'm one of those u
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:23:28PM +, Paul Davies wrote:
> Problem: I can't boot the kernel (2.6.15-1) with modules enabled (using
> DEBIAN)
>
> Reason: My ram disk boot image is not being recognised (not attached to
> an existing device).
Paul,
My suggestion is ditch the RAM disk; if you
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:19:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I think this is caused by the fact that fsck runs from rcS and acpid
> is started from rc0 (i.e. later), and so the acpi modules are not
> loaded in time to tell fsck to hold off. Loading the acpi module
> manually before the on
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:05:09PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> Anyone know how (if) it is possible to do the byte-reordering??
[of a cramfs file system]
$ apt-get install cramfsswap
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:55:16PM +1000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
> I would like to find out how Linux distributes processes in an
> SMP-enabled box with n CPUs. Will the kernel "move" a process from one
> CPU to another if another CPU is idle?
It may do. Keeping processes close to where they last
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:05:43PM +1000, David Hart wrote:
> AMD has taken out some very interesting patents whereby certain process
> scheduling operations are moved from the OS into silicon
>From reading that patent and a related paper [1] it seems that the
speculative execution on another pro
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:58:45AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> In my case, the value of YOUR_ISP_UPSTREAM_MAILSERVER depends on which
> firewall I'm behind, since all the ISPs in question gate client
> connections as being from their own customers' IP addresses, not the
> whole Internet. So one s
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:19:13AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> Can anyone offer any advice on how to force which hardware is eth0?
I think you have two options; firstly is the ifrename package, which
reads /etc/iftab.
The other option is you can give your cards static names with udev,
and then r
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:43:52PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> 2. dpkg-reconfigure xorg-server at any time, if you want to
> semi-manually configure things and answer a lot of
> semi-compehensible questions
Up the priority so you only see things you have to answer, e.g.
dpkg-reconfigur
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:33:33PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> If that still sucks you'll need to swap the axises in X11 as
> the input layer doesn't allow such niceness.
I've found the evtest program (download latest from)
http://linuxconsole.cvs.sourceforge.net/linuxconsole/ruby/utils/evtest.c?
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:22:27PM +1000, Simon Males wrote:
> It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux
> and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware.
It also runs L4 quite nicley; if you're looking for a challenge you
could shadow the advanced oper
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:40:14AM +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> There is also another new one (which is present on a number of
> mailing lists) that commences with an image.
The only ones spamassassin has missed for me lately is a bunch of
stock scam image based ones with random text. I heartil
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:09:34PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> I would like to know how to create a Debian package that consists of one
> file, not generated by source. I have tried using a Makefile that just
> copies files and running it with CheckInstall, but have failed to get it
> to recognis
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:02:07AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I am sure someone has thought about this.
Yes, I know Shehjar (cc'd) has thought about it an implemented a
version; I'm sure he'd love to talk about it :)
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Hi,
A few of the smart cookies at ERTOS/UNSW have designed a great little
add-on board for the Linksys NSLU2 (also known as a Slug --
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/).
It gives you a serial port, a remote reset and allows the device to be
powered over USB -- and it all fits inside the standard case!
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:54:28AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith
> Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load),
> an ok price i guess.
yep, a good little buy. I'm not sure why they even
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Think "sick building syndrome". Basically, new office/office works and
> factories produce lots of "fumes" that can deposit on nice new shiny
> pins and provide an insulating layer of gunk that causes intermittent
> problem.
This rem
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:52:04AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
> Bug or feature:
> I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do
> not handle spaces in file names and paths.
They do :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ianw]$ basename "/this is/a path/with / spaces"
spaces
are you quo
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:57:36AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> drm-trunk-module which I have also done (against a kernel I compiled
> myself from ppckernel.org) and I got an 'unresolved symbol' error on
> radeon.o and rage128.o (I think?)
which kernel is this? If you used rsync, try back dating t
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:34:30PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> It also does a nice job of destroying the "non-existant sender" spam
> defense, since every non-existant .com and .net apparently now has a
> mail server:
> http://linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2003-September/016294.html
well i'm
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:53:39AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> you don't need an MX record.. an A is tried if no MX exists..
True -- i didn't realise this. For those interested, seems to be a
requirement of RFC974. I wonder what prompted the author to give the
'benefit of the doubt' to servers w
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:21:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yesterday, the IT support people at my work place informed me that my
> local workstation (which is running debian testing/unstable) was
> broadcasting windows Randbot worm throughout the internal network and
> several win2k works
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:17:24AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Linux support engineer fluent with Versions 7,8 and 9 to become a
I don't want to sound like a pedant, but it's not a great start...
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:32:10AM +1100, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I have a D-Link router, and a US power supply. Does anyone know of a
> supplier of power supplies for Australia?
I got a good one from jaycar, put MF1091 in the keyword search at
www.jaycar.com.au
It's $49.95 -- I don't thi
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:41:36AM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
> After installation is there a way of access the network setup tool or
> another similar tool?
I'm not sure about a pointy-clicky thing, but it's very easy to just
edit the networking config file /etc/network/interfaces.
man 5 inter
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote:
> Points will go to the first person to make a light weight interface to the gecko
> engine, get it into a debian package, and most importantly, doesn't then go
> on to make it totally bloated.
epiphany?
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:08:45AM +1100, Alex Sutcliffe wrote:
> I am trying to compile and run a c/c++ program on my woody box. It
> compiles fine but when I run it, it dies with a floating point error.
> Admittedly there are several compiler warnings.
One odditiy of i386 is that an integer di
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:38:51PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Just in case anyone reading this actually buys into Paul's comments,
> it's not Linux's fault, it's the hardware manufacturer's for not
> providing support. There's three ways to get support for your
> hardware into any operating s
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:05:43PM +1000, David wrote:
> What entry should I put in my sources.list for packages that are stored
> locally
If it's just one or two debs you need to use dpkg-scanpackages to
greate a Packages.gz file. Explained at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:28:15PM +1000, Rajnish Tiwari wrote:
> Any thoughts, suggestions, weblinks etc will be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
I'm sure you've got answers to the specific questions. But if you
want to learn exactly what is happening, start googling for "stack
overflow phrack"
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:04:44PM +1000, bill wrote:
> I have 3 pc's networked to an ethernet switch, which is connected to the
> 'Net via a modem router. All works well.
Is it a four port switch? Often those things have 5 ports, but only
four can be active at the same time (the extra port can
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:26AM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook and when I go to
> install plugins it just crashes and exits.
Firefox 0.8 has a problem on Power where installing any extension will
just crash. Firefox 0.9 is in unstable now (assu
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:52:19PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> I could of course just disconnect the second HDD until the first is
> re-built, but felt there had to be a more logical method.
Nothing could be *more* logical that removing a drive with sensitive
data during a re-install. Even if you
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:38:22AM +1000, David wrote:
> * --enable-[redhat/suse/gentoo/cobalt/netbsd/fhs]
> This option helps netatalk to determine where to install the start
> scripts.
> Can anyone suggest which option out of these might work for Debian. Or
> any other sugge
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:17:30AM +1000, Robert Tillsley wrote:
> Now I installed xfree68, but there is no X in that folder. Can anyone
> give me an idea of where to start troubleshooting?
Sounds like you missed a package; try apt-get install x-window-system
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application -> version/0.3/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file
> drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 version
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ c
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
> Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink
> as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents
> as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation
> to find ou
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:12:01PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
> I seem to recieve a lot of email from corporate users whos client send
> me text and html version of the email, is there any way to tell mutt
> that the text version is the prefered version, right now I have to go
> through and dele
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:11:12PM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote:
> #apt-get install amsn
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
> kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
Often w
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:47:58AM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote:
> To use msn I need version 0.69 or greater, the only version of gaim I
> can get is 0.58 and I can't run msn on this version as they say on
> http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q66
That looks like the version from Debian stable. You
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:07:20AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> >Michael Lake wrote:
> >>4. Other ways ?
> >>What's the easist way to allow the new user to use windows scp but not
> >>browse the filesystem. Reading up on chroot jails it seems that they
> >>are not trivial to setup.
I deleted the
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:13:11PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> Also one problem with scponly is that to use the chroot features you
> have to make it suid and the authors warns of this.
Which is why I installed it in a separate ssh chroot; but I have the
luxury of having full access and carte-bl
Hi,
I often bounce email from mutt to remote addresses and every now and
then will get back some sort of "too many hops" or "to many forwards"
message (especially from Hotmail).
I want some way to strip the Received: headers when I bounce the
message via mutt. Anyone done that before? My initia
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:05:56AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote:
> I'm yet to find this by RTFM but what produces the log file that MRTG
> makes it's graphs from?
MRTG produces the log file. You would usually have mrtg setup in a
cron job that runs every so often, which polls the devices and
re-writ
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:27:00AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote:
> Sluggers, can somebody point me to a tutorial on the various components
> in software building (newbie-comprehensible) :-
You'll need to understand the general concept of makefiles
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
an
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:18:41PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
> mount -o loop /home/leslie/Desktop/sdb.img /mnt/directory
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
The file system probably starts after the partition table in your dump
of the disk. Try mounting it with an one block offset, e.g.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:24:01PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour?
No, but I bet the strace/ltrace output would give a good clue as to
where the problem was happening.
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:54:08AM +1100, Visser, Martin wrote:
> Having two near equal sized competitors in the CPU market ensures
> that progress is aggressively pursued.
If by size you mean performance, maybe, but IIRC Intel still produces
something close to 80% of the x86 market.
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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)
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:51:24PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Anyone seen a 'tidy/lint' like program similar to tidy [1] for cleaning
> up/indenting Apache httpd.conf files?
Try opening it in emacs apache mode (if it doesn't already, type M-x
apache-mode) then indent all lines with M-C-\
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:47:11PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Is there a way to switch over to amd64 system without re-installing
> the system from scratch?
I'm happy to be proved wrong but I think a re-install would be much
easier.
If I had to do it, I would probably use debootstrap to create
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34:02AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> >No sir! But shell usually wins.
>
> On my 1 GHz / 1 GB powerbook, the python one-liner
> I just submitted runs 5 x faster than the original.
I think C usually wins, the version below is 25 times faster than the
python version (fro
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:51:34PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Here's one in lex; ripped off from the flex info page.
> I'd be interested in its performance compared to straight C.
> No doubt worse, just curious how much worse.
Similar to the Python version
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:22:49PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> I love Ians posts only because he includes L1 and L2 cache hits in every
> one. If only you would share the command that gave you these numbers.
The numbers come from the CPU performance counters. I use the perfmon
tools [1] to g
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:13:41PM +1100, Mark wrote:
> I assume I am missing some iceweasel plug in, but everything seems
> to be there any pointers?
If you see the video then you've got the flash plugin installed OK.
You might like to try installing the pulseaudio sound server (if it's
not alre
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Linux filesystem which allows online
> fsck on a disk that is currently mounted read/write?
I remember ChunkFS talking about this:
http://www.valhenson.org/chunkfs/
Maybe you could take a LVM
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:18:41AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> What format is this, please? gimp doesn't know it nor does file
> $ od -c barbara/Lindsay1 | head
> 000 F S P A 003 \0 \0 \0 037 004 \0 \0 211 003 \0 \0
did you try running the 'file' command on it?
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:39:38PM +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
> Anyone know of a program that will tell me the code & static data
> segment sizes of an executable ?
readelf --segments [executable]
MemSiz gives you the size of the segment in memory.
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:54:20AM +, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> oops I replied to Andy and no the list..
>
> one word
>
> size
huh?
ianw@mingus:/bin$ readelf --segments ls
Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x10001368
There are 6 program headers, starting at offset 52
Progr
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:05:00AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>
> > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html
> >
> > or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems.
>
> Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points.
> (./configure --enable-gui=motif) then make. I then tried to make a deb
> package with 'dpkg-buildpackage' but it goes and reconfigures it and
> makes it again. I have already done that as I wanted it compiled with
> the motif gui (thats why I want to replace the default vim).
>
> How do I make a
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:18:38AM +1100, Daniel Harper wrote:
>
> I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, however
> I am having problems with make menuconfig.
>
> Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and
> the selection displays (Th
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll
> > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get
> > acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen.
>
> I always use xpdf for presentation
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:21:37AM +1100, Robert Maurency wrote:
> (I'm making the tranistion between ASP & Access to PHP and MySQL and am
> having a tough time with this GUI-less database.)
If you haven't tried phpmyadmin get it. It's brilliant for admining
your mysql databases and just keeps ge
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:08:55AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> "QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux
> processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using
> dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable speed while being easy to port
> on new host
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:28:51PM +1100, Benno wrote:
> It would be convenient for my current project if there was some way
> to specify where in VM the dynamic libraries ended up.
You can use prelink to put shared libraries to specific virtual
addresses with the --reloc-only option.
-i
[EMAIL
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:40:45AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> COMMAND="$RSYNC -rlptgoD --delete --delete-excluded --exclude .snapshot
> --exclude \"Temporary Internet Files\" /$d/ $TARGET"
> if [ $DEBUG == 1 ]; then $ECHO $COMMAND; fi
> $COMMAND
Try using eval around this, e.g.
eval $COM
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:14:48PM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> I dont quite understand why (maybe I am to much thinking of perls
> and phps eval stuff) especially if I read bash's man page which
> does not mention anything about what you suggested.
True, it is pretty obscure. Bash thi
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:37:09AM +1100, Luke Skywalker wrote:
> I tried to send a post, but I got a message saying I have suspicious
> headers.
This is not the list you are looking for
... this is not the list I'm looking for ...
You will email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with these problems
... I wil
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:17:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a standard way for a .so file to find where it was loaded from?
from man dl_iterate_phdr
The info argument is a structure of the following type:
struct dl_phdr_info {
ElfW(Addr)dlpi_addr;
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:50:38AM +1100, Ian Su wrote:
> I would like to get automake to install some .h files in
> $(top_srcdir)/include prior to compiling the objects for my
> project. However, there doesn't appear to be any way to do this
> elegantly. If I add the rules to all-local, it gets ex
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Hi, I keep getting the following error message.
>
> > Setting up ndtpd (3.1.5-6.3) ...
> > Ydpkg: error processing ndtpd (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:22:22AM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Ian Wienand wrote:
>> Try running /var/lib/dpkg/ntpd.post with bash -x and see where it's
>> failing.
> Thanks, but my /var/lib/dpkg does not include 'ntpd.post'
Wow, I suck; two errors in the one li
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:27:44PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> >Anyway, the general concept is to find the script that is being run
> >and trace it.
> Thanks again but I can't find the ntp daemon (presumably ntpd) in
> /var/lib/dpkg
Alright, I just reread your message and noticed that you're ins
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:42:00PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> I've poked around and am still a bit confused. I've attached it to
> see if you can spot anything.
Inspection isn't really going to help in this case. You need to run
it (as root, since that's what dpkg does) on your machine with the
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