Re: [uug] dynamic dns

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Michael Halcrow wrote: If you're going to host your own e-mail, web, etc., I really recommend setting up a cheap P-II or something along those lines with Debian stable as the server/firewall. Do security updates with a cron job. Put your DSL modem and the server on a UPS. Have a hosting company i

Re: [uug] Kids and Linux (FSLC forward)

2003-08-14 Thread District Webmaster
Now there's a good "Ask Slashdot" question if ever I saw one. Dave BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list

Re: [uug] Double-Postings

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:57:30PM -0600, District Webmaster wrote: > I know they installed a worthiness filter. Only the righteous receive > single copies . . . have you cleared everything up with your Bishop? :) So, when you receive a double dose of postings from the UUG list, does that constitu

[uug] SQL: non-NULL uniqueness?

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Fugal
Here's another totally unrelated question from that *other* thread. :) Using mysql, is there a way to have a field which is unique when not NULL, but still allow multiple rows to have that value as NULL? eg. insert into myTable (id, myField) values (1, NULL); insert into myTable (id, myField) val

Re: [uug] USB mount problems

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:00, Michael Halcrow wrote: > Then I have no idea why /proc/bus/usb is not there. You have my > deepest sympathies. Try another kernel. /proc/bus/usb is only there if you mount it: mount none /proc/bus/usb -t usbfs > > Mike -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: [uug] Double-Postings

2003-08-14 Thread District Webmaster
I know they installed a worthiness filter. Only the righteous receive single copies . . . have you cleared everything up with your Bishop? :) Dave >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/03 11:43 AM >>> I just subscribed to the list, and everytime somebody posts a message, I receive two copies. It this norm

Re: [uug] Double-Postings

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Brailsford
> So, when you receive a double dose of postings from the UUG list, does > that constitute penance? :-) yes -- Michael GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/

Re: [uug] Kids and Linux (FSLC forward)

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gee, you make me feel OLD. I started with a VIC-20 then a C-64. > My first WORK related PC was running I forget, the second one was > a 64K dual floppy green screen. When we got up to 640K I had > spreadsheets (lotus) that took multiple

Re: [uug] Every OS Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Bryan Murdock wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a pain - I don't think you have to do that under windows do you (haven't tried it but I'm sure most people wouldn't think of downloading it just to hear it - too much junk on the hard drive). If you install gxi

Re: [uug] Samba Configuration

2003-08-14 Thread Kirk Coombs
I'm at work now, and can't give your advice a try at the moment; But for additional information, I'm running SuSe 8.2 with KDE. I would be viewing Win98/XP shares. If I go to konquerer and type smb://workgrouponthenetwork/ I can see the computers, But when clicking on them, I get an error mess

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Albretsen
On Thursday 07 August 2003 04:07 pm, Steve Meyers wrote: > Does OOo 1.1 have an installation option for "American" settings yet? > The main reason I don't recommend it to people is the fact that it > defaults to friggin' centimeters everywhere. Much like Linux is far superior to Windows, the Metri

emacs (Re: [uug] Re: OpenOffice 1.1)

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:51, Sasha Pachev wrote: > :-) Speaking of which, does anybody know of a nice text editor that starts > up fast, can do magic, and does not require one to think VI? I've tried gvim, > it does not quite cut it, I want to be able to relax when I program. xemacs > is the b

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:57, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > Much like Linux is far superior to Windows, the Metric systems is far far far > superior to that blasted "standard" system. What really bothers me, having grown up in metric, is that in the US, physics tends to be a mix of imperial and metric.

[uug] Re: OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Sasha Pachev
Now the question is with all those cool features, how long does it take to start up, how much disk I/O will be happening if you have only 256 MB RAM, and how hard does the system swap when you try to run another application on the same box at the same time? The amount of respect I have for the

Re: [uug] Console word processing

2003-08-14 Thread Phillip Hellewell
> The reason I ask (if I must have a reason) is that I'd like to be able > to say that I can do everything in a text box. I can browse the web, > read my email, even watch DVDs, but I can't do the one school invariably > asks me to do eventually: write papers. Thank goodness. I thought I was t

Re: [uug] Kids and Linux (FSLC forward)

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:06, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > I could never get DOSEMU to do graphics. I couldn't get it to wun > wordperfect either. How do you get it to let you play games? The latest version does graphics just fine, as long as you either run dosemu on it's own console, loading the vga

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Albretsen
On Thursday 07 August 2003 04:32 pm, Kirk Coombs wrote: > >My biggest pet peave as well. I also carry around a default >template to > > keep my margins and fonts set to the defaults I >want. > > Maybe we should just all convert over to the metric system. :-> BAH! Someone beat me to it. Guess I

Re: [uug] dynamic dns

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:40:59PM -0500, Glen Wagley wrote: > Ok, so I've moved into a new place and FINALLY got DSL. However, SBC > didn't inform my wife that we would be running PPoE. That's fine I guess > but my IP changes every other day it seems. Having never used dydns or > anything of the s

[uug] apache 2.0 conf file

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jacobs
I just upgraded my to YellowDogLinux (YDL) 3.0 from 2.2. I didn't know that YDL 3.0 comes with Apache 2.0, and have already replaced the new httpd.conf with my older Apache 1.3 version. Does anyone have the default httpd.conf for Apache 2.0 that they could send me? Thanks, Andrew

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Remember now your talking to a novice here. Where would one get > this mplayerplugin and the windows codecs (and what are codecs?)? > > Also, are there any tricks to installing it? For all your mozilla plugins there are pretty good instruc

Re: [uug] Rsync issues - disregard

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:10, Jeremy Browne wrote: > Yeah, it's "rsyncd.conf", not "rsync.conf" I don't know of very many people that run rsync servers, except for anonymous source code purposes. Everyone I know uses rsync over ssh: export RSYNC_RSH=ssh Anyway. Michael > > :] > > -jeremy >

Re: [uug] Rsync issues - disregard

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:34, Jeremy Browne wrote: > That's good advice, but I'm not sure if I need to. I'm just copying, for > redundancy, the www directory from one server to another, and they're both > plugged into the same switch. Also, I declared the receiving IP as the only > host allowed i

[uug] database users/passwords setup

2003-08-14 Thread Casey T. Deccio
I am setting up a database where I want users of different levels (e.g., administrator, director, office assistant) to be able to access/update the database. Each level will have only certain rights for reading or updating tables, etc. I was thinking of two ways to accomplish this, but I wanted t

Re: [uug] Missing Evolution Conduits for Palm

2003-08-14 Thread Byron Clark
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:27:48PM -1000, Kekoa Vincent wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 07:41, Byron Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:44:08PM -1000, Kekoa Vincent wrote: > > > Okay, I installed Evolution 1.4, and I'm having problems syncing my palm > > > to evolution. I've set it to the

Re: [uug] dynamic dns

2003-08-14 Thread Gary Thornock
I've been using dyndns.org ever since AT&T switched from Excite @Home to attbi.com (I don't remember how long that's been), and I've been fairly happy with it. There's a program available called "ddclient" that runs as a daemon on my Linux box and updates dyndns.org anytime my IP address changes (

[uug] Gotta Love the Local Paper

2003-08-14 Thread Byron Clark
According to the Provo Daily Herald it's not just SCO, it's the "Linux software vendor giant SCO Group Inc."[1] [1] http://www.harktheherald.com/article.php?sid=91854&mode=thread&order=0 -- +--- Byron Clark |

Re: [uug] anti-leech script... use cookie instead?

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:11, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > i am currently preventing leeching of PDF downloads for a company's > website by checking the referring URL (with PHP). > > this works beautifully, except that there is an bug in internet > explorer/PDF that causes an error. i have writt

[uug] dynamic dns

2003-08-14 Thread Glen Wagley
Ok, so I've moved into a new place and FINALLY got DSL. However, SBC didn't inform my wife that we would be running PPoE. That's fine I guess but my IP changes every other day it seems. Having never used dydns or anything of the sort, I was wondering how well it works. Will it still be worth it to

gvim - was Re: [uug] Re: OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:20, Glen Wagley wrote: > That's pretty slick. I snagged the winders version just to try it at > work. I do like the fact that the toolbar icons for gvim are gtk2. Now > if I could only figure out how to use those instead of the default > icons... :-) I just want to kno

Re: [uug] ASP and Access Database

2003-08-14 Thread Adrian Madrid
If you are looking at that kind of size Access itself will die no matter what you are using (php or asp). The problem is performance with that many people concurrently. You'll need something like mysql or firebird. Also if you have to go asp go with aspx (.NET). It compiles and will give you better

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Jan L. Peterson
I would agree with pretty much everything Jason Holt had to say. When I went to college, our first year was learning various programming methods (using Pascal as the target language, but doing a lot of planning and algorithm design in "pseudo code"). Second year was basically how computers wor

Re: [uug] ASP and Access Database

2003-08-14 Thread David Martin
Gary, I expect the database to be a sizeable project. If you log onto tusbe.com you can see what I'm aiming towards. I hope to have 2,000 textbooks posted by the end of the semester. Dave From: Gary Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BYU Unix

Re: [uug] Serial ATA and Anything

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Michael Halcrow wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:21:13PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: Hello fellows, I need help. I have a machine (Dell GX270) that needs Linux, the problem is it's Serial ATA controller. SATA has only been supported since 2.4.21. It's been requested that I install Debian on

[uug] Building GTK apps for win32 and linux simultaneously

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Torrie
I just figured out the coolest stuff today, so I thought I would pass it on. Most of you probably already know that autoconf can do this, (as did I), but I've never used this feature before today. I have a whole mingw32 gcc cross-compiler suite installed that makes win32 exes. I also have all th

Re: [uug] Serial ATA and Anything

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Michael L Torrie wrote: I have a gx270 right now and it just works. Was serial ata a special option? I'm using the redhat 2.4.20-19.9 kernel. I think my drives are normal ata, though. If you buy it with over 80GB HD you have no option but SATA. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signa

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:13, Jason Holt wrote: > > * Don't be afraid of pointers > > To really understand C, you have to understand computer architecture. Good > for CS majors, bad for beginning programmers. Maybe it's just because I'm a hardware guy, but I don't see why that is bad. If you are

Re: [uug] Serial ATA and Anything

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:21, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Hello fellows, I need help. I have a machine (Dell GX270) that needs > Linux, the problem is it's Serial ATA controller. SATA has only been > supported since 2.4.21. It's been requested that I install Debian on it, > but I'd be willing to us

[uug] more help getting Linux on the average user's desktop

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/index.phtml BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list

[uug] Pay SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Sorenson
I hope that everyone has taken the time to pay SCO for using their IP. If you don't have the cash, maybe this will help: http://pel.cs.byu.edu/~sorenson/SCO/ Frank --- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department

[uug] MacOS X, MacPython 2.3, Pyla, and CUPS

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Augustine
Anyone familiar with .app bundles and window server on MacOS 10.2.6? I have an application (pyla, a python HylaFAX client), which opens a UI on the desktop when run from a shell (or double-clicked on). It works wonderfully. What I am trying to do is create a MacOS printer which calls pyla, whic

Re: [uug] hosts.deny and SPAM

2003-08-14 Thread Jan L. Peterson
> If you're blocked by osirusoft themselves, and not by one of the > companies their partnered with you can have your server tests If you are blocked as a relay, this is true. If you are blocked because they don't like you, there is NO way to get unblocked without changing your IP address range

[uug] strange Gentoo / reiserfs problem

2003-08-14 Thread Ryan Erickson
I've got a problem with my laptop's (Sony VAIO PCG-GRX650) Gentoo installation. Every other time I boot, when the boot process gets to "Checking all filesystems...", the following happens: Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x303 of format 3.6 with standard journal Blocks (total/free): 36146/271

Re: [uug] hosts.deny and SPAM

2003-08-14 Thread Matt W.
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've thought about using spamassasin or procmail, but I'd rather the > spammers use as little of my bandwidth as possible. I'd rather reject > their connection than filter out the trash after it arrives. Here [1] is a great "tarpit" setup from the originator of pf (Pack

Re: [uug] hosts.deny and SPAM

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Jan L. Peterson wrote: Probably the best RBL is relays.osirusoft.com In my opinion, osirusoft is one of the WORST blacklists you can use. They don't just block open relays, they block whatever sites the owner doesn't like (for example, osirusoft blocks flipdog.com) and don't provide any mech

Re: [uug] hosts.deny and SPAM

2003-08-14 Thread Jayce^
On Thursday 14 August 2003 12:59 pm, Jan L. Peterson wrote: > I would personally avoid any RBLs that you do not control yourself. You > would be much better served using some type of filtering mechanism such > as SpamAssassin that bases it's decisions on the content of the message, > not it's sourc

Re: [uug] hosts.deny and SPAM

2003-08-14 Thread Jan L. Peterson
> Probably the best RBL is relays.osirusoft.com In my opinion, osirusoft is one of the WORST blacklists you can use. They don't just block open relays, they block whatever sites the owner doesn't like (for example, osirusoft blocks flipdog.com) and don't provide any mechanism for getting off t

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Holt
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stuart Jansen wrote: > An understanding of the hardware is vital for future learning. Avoiding > premature optimization is common knowledge, but until you understand why > > for (i=0; i { > /* Disco will return! */ > } > > is a bad idea, you're doomed to write bad code. Pl

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Holt
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Michael Ryan Byrd wrote: > I have a friend who just got a job teaching, part-time, a C programming > class at a local high school. The previous teacher used a hands-off method > of teaching, if by hands-off I mean that he let them play computer games all > class long. Now my

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:36, Jan L. Peterson wrote: > I would agree with pretty much everything Jason Holt had to say. I don't. I agree that C is a lousy choice for a first language. Use a scripting language instead. Probably Python. But don't spend too long with it. Maybe a month. Once they unde

Re: [uug] open source contact and order manager ideas

2003-08-14 Thread District Webmaster
I don't know any prebuilt packages to recommend (but I haven't looked, either). There was some discussion on the uphpu list recently about starting a project. Perhaps the two goals mesh. . . Dave >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/11/03 7:17 PM >>> Hello all, I'm looking for an open-source (preferably in

Re: [uug] ASP and Access Database

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Fugal
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:04, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:27, David Martin wrote: > > I need a database developed for an online book exchange. My site > > (www.byubookexchange.com) needs updating. I'd like to put on it an > > ASP/Access database like the one on www.tusbe.com.

Re: [uug] [davedap] phpLDAPAdmin - first release, DaveDAP is no more.

2003-08-14 Thread Gary Thornock
Will this be replacing the version of DaveDAP (0.71 I think) that's on Phantom? --- Evan McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This project that Dave started about a year ago has really grown. > It's by far the best web-based LDAP admin tool available. It's nice to > see a local open source success

[uug] open source contact and order manager ideas

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Ryan Byrd
Hello all, I'm looking for an open-source (preferably in PHP) web-based contact and orders/sales management program. A local company is looking for a solution to manage customers and orders. Ideally it would have the ability to group customers by region and have region managers fill the orders

Re: [uug] Rsync issues - disregard

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Browne
That's good advice, but I'm not sure if I need to. I'm just copying, for redundancy, the www directory from one server to another, and they're both plugged into the same switch. Also, I declared the receiving IP as the only host allowed in rsyncd.conf on the server. I'll look into piping it thr

Re: [uug] ascii converter

2003-08-14 Thread Jan L. Peterson
Check out these: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aview/ also http://www.logicallemon.com/projects/cadubi/ There is also a tool in the pbm toolkit, pbmtoascii, that would probably do what you want. Use a pipeline similar to thi

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 17:22, Michael Halcrow wrote: > As in times past, we should be promoting OO first and foremost at the > booth in September. I hate to see students literally throw their > money away by purchasing MSOffice (or throw their ethics away by > bootlegging it or agreeing to its lice

Re: Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Sasha Pachev
>I grew up in the US, and was only exposed to the metric >system in my science/physics classes. I liked what I saw. >Then I served my mission in Canada (Calgary mission, for >those who care). I grew to LOVE the metric system! Now, >ask me to judge kilometers, and I can. I can't with miles. >I

[uug] SQL: Searching in multiple fields

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
In a program I've written I have a search function the currently only searches on the `summary` field of the records. I'd like it to search on the `summary` field and the `description` field in the same query. How can I do this? Eventually I'd like to search on data attached to those records in

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:19, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > Anyway, point was if Brad was using Mandrake, I was going to use it as a > perfect time to post the urpmi article that Bryan and I have been working on > and show people that it is just as good as the mighty apt-get. > > If not, I was still g

Re: [uug] Building GTK apps for win32 and linux simultaneously

2003-08-14 Thread Hyrum Wright
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:16, Michael Torrie wrote: > I just figured out the coolest stuff today, so I thought I would pass it > on. Most of you probably already know that autoconf can do this, (as > did I), but I've never used this feature before today. > > I have a whole mingw32 gcc cross-compil

[uug] Rsync issues

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Browne
Okay, I'm trying to set up an rsync server, with very little success. nmap shows rsync running on 873, but if I try: rsync localhost:: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) Here's my rsync.conf: [jeremy]

Re: gvim - was Re: [uug] Re: OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Glen Wagley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 09:10 -0600, Michael L Torrie scribbled: > I just want to know how to build gvim with gtk2 support. I've heard it > can be done, but I've not yet tried it. Anyone know anything about a > gtk2 version of gvim? I have built rpms for 6.2 on a redhat 9 box. If anyone is interes

Re: [uug] wireless ISP - Digis Networks

2003-08-14 Thread Jan L. Peterson
> Currently the cable connects to the pinhole on the end of an Orinoco > card connected to my PC through a PCMCIA to PCI bridge. Replace the Orinoco card with a wireless bridge (a device that has an antenna jack on one end and an ethernet jack on the other end). Sample devices are: http://www

[uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Ryan Byrd
I have a friend who just got a job teaching, part-time, a C programming class at a local high school. The previous teacher used a hands-off method of teaching, if by hands-off I mean that he let them play computer games all class long. Now my friend has the challenge of developing a C programming c

[uug] [davedap] phpLDAPAdmin - first release, DaveDAP is no more.

2003-08-14 Thread Evan McNabb
This project that Dave started about a year ago has really grown. It's by far the best web-based LDAP admin tool available. It's nice to see a local open source success story... :-) -Evan - Forwarded message from David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: [uug] ASP and Access Database

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:27, David Martin wrote: > I need a database developed for an online book exchange. My site > (www.byubookexchange.com) needs updating. I'd like to put on it an > ASP/Access database like the one on www.tusbe.com. You're asking in the wrong forum. Most of us have only g

Re: [uug] Missing Evolution Conduits for Palm

2003-08-14 Thread Kekoa Vincent
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 07:41, Byron Clark wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:44:08PM -1000, Kekoa Vincent wrote: > > Okay, I installed Evolution 1.4, and I'm having problems syncing my palm > > to evolution. I've set it to the correct port and everything. > > Gnome-pilot-link is communicating wi

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
Dude, you should definitely get your PhD and teach. I think you just summed up the worst of every CS and EE class I ever took (only you need more partial differential equations in there, who cares if you haven't had partial diff. eq. yet). Amazing. Bryan On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:21, Michael Hal

Re: gvim - was Re: [uug] Re: OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:10:48AM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:20, Glen Wagley wrote: > > That's pretty slick. I snagged the winders version just to try it at > > work. I do like the fact that the toolbar icons for gvim are gtk2. Now > > if I could only figure out how

[uug] USB Drive Problem Update

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Fugal
Here's an update on the problems I was/am having with my external USB HDD and my work machine. * Over the weekend I tested the drive with my laptop and it all works dandy under both windows (XP) and linux (Debian). I can plug it in to my coworker's windows box here and it works fine. Conclusion: t

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Gary Thornock wrote: -Original Message- From: Michael L Torrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 16:52 To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1 I'm grew up on the metric system and it's great, except for the fact that our paper (building supplies, e

Re: [uug] Building GTK apps for win32 and linux simultaneously

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:55, Hyrum Wright wrote: > That is way cool. I'd be interested to see how you did it. I've got an > app that I'm working on with GTK that I would like to (eventually) port > to windows, so information on how you are doing it, would be especially > useful. Hmm. Maybe a U

Re: [uug] "bullet time" on a budget.

2003-08-14 Thread Brent Thomson
Boy, if anybody hasn't seen this yet, it's definitely worth checking out. Pretty dang cool. -Brent On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:19, Tucker, David wrote: > kinda cool, who needs a 1024 node cluster for special effects. > > (This is a swf file) > > http://www.astercity.net/~tobik/pingpong.html > >

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread brad . mugleston
Remember now your talking to a novice here. Where would one get this mplayerplugin and the windows codecs (and what are codecs?)? Also, are there any tricks to installing it? Thanks Brad On 8 Aug 2003, Bryan Murdock wrote: > Again, the gxine plugin will play windows media, but I've found >

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Meyers
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:45, District Webmaster wrote: > True -- but the tins of food are all metric, the petrol is sold by the > litre (as is the Ribena, if memory serves). To be fair, they do use a > lot of metric in Britian -- but I think they serve as an example of how > difficult it is to chan

[uug] ascii converter

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Ryan Byrd
Anybody know of a Linux command-line utility for converting jpeg/png/gif to ASCII? I found a couple of programs like that for windows, but none so far for linux. Ideas? BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ __

Re: [uug] Honda commercial

2003-08-14 Thread Arthur Moore
Michael Torrie wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I went to this web page and get the message without Flash6 I can't view it. I'm running RedHat 7.2 and Mozilla 1.0.2 How do I get Flash6 installed and working - I've tried before but it doesn't want to work.

Re: [uug] Every OS Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread brad . mugleston
That's a pain - I don't think you have to do that under windows do you (haven't tried it but I'm sure most people wouldn't think of downloading it just to hear it - too much junk on the hard drive). BTW - that's how I was able to listen to it - then deleted it. Brad On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Andre

Re: [uug] anti-leech script... use cookie instead?

2003-08-14 Thread Soren Harward
Wade Preston Shearer wrote: what-a-ya'll think about using cookies for validating in an anti-leech script? My suggestion would be to use both. That way those people who block cookies (or who use proxies that block them) can still use get the downloads if they supply the proper referring URL. -

Re: [uug] ASP and Access Database

2003-08-14 Thread David Martin
I'm definitely willing to use LAMP and any mixture or non-Bill-Gates-software. I'm just looking for the best system that works. I know a lot of systems run it straight off of php and MySQL. Would anyone be interested in setting up the database? My partner, Steven Coleman, and open to differ

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
Again, the gxine plugin will play windows media, but I've found mplayerplugin better for that. You need mplayer with the windows codecs. That's how I watched this video last night. Bryan On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got the Flash6 working but none of the videos avai

Re: [uug] USB mount problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Fugal
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:39, Jacob Fugal wrote: > # mount none /proc/bus/usb -t usbfs > mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist I forgot to say, I know that normally I'd just have to 'mkdir /path/to/mount/point' when I get that error, but I can't mkdir in the proc tree, can I? Jacob ___

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Albretsen
On Thursday 07 August 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Halcrow wrote: > I can't say that OO will ever draw me away from LaTeX and LyX as my > preferred wordprocessing application, but its presentation software, > spreadsheet, and (now) drawing utilities will be my first choice. Belated question about the s

Re: [uug] Kids and Linux (FSLC forward)

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
My 2 year old can play with tuxpaint all day long. I think he likes the noises it makes more than anything. He also enjoys Tuxracer and "writing his name" (typing random stuff in terminals, or to my sister with gaim). Sometimes I find the computer with all kinds of nautilus windows open and unti

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread brad . mugleston
I got the Flash6 working but none of the videos available on that web site worked for me. RH 7.2 Mozilla On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:00:46PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > OK, got the video working last night but it doesn't like any of > >

Re: [uug] teaching C programming at a high school level

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:39, Someone wrote: > I get it! (maybe) > > The loop in question should look like: > > > for (i=0; i > { > > /* Disco will return! */ > > } > > and your point was that because there are no executable statements in the loop, > the loop does nothing but waste time. > > A

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
I've got a copy of the DVD. Yes, the Honda Cog video can be had on DVD. It's in DVD format as well as QuickTime. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the Flash6 working but none of the videos available on that web site worked for me. RH 7.2 Mozilla On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Michael Halcrow wrote: On Thu

Re: [uug] Samba Configuration

2003-08-14 Thread Arthur Moore
Kirk Coombs wrote: I always have trouble getting SAMBA to work properly. All I really want out of it is to act like windows -- browse and mount other people's shares, and share directories of my own. What are the key configuration options that need to be set, and what services need to be running (

Re: [uug] Double-Postings

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:57:30PM -0600, District Webmaster wrote: > I know they installed a worthiness filter. Only the righteous receive > single copies . . . have you cleared everything up with your Bishop? :) So, when you receive a double dose of postings from the UUG list, does that constitu

Re: [uug] SQL: non-NULL uniqueness?

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Fugal
really? I thought I tried unique. Guess I didn't do something right. Thx. Jacob BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list

Re: [uug] database users/passwords setup

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:42, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I am setting up a database where I want users of different levels (e.g., > administrator, director, office assistant) to be able to access/update > the database. Each level will have only certain rights for reading or > updating tables, etc. I

Re: [uug] Gotta Love the Local Paper

2003-08-14 Thread Jacob Albretsen
I AM a software giant! I am I am I am! On Wednesday 13 August 2003 08:46 am, Byron Clark wrote: > According to the Provo Daily Herald it's not just SCO, it's the "Linux > software vendor giant SCO Group Inc."[1] > > [1] > http://www.harktheherald.com/article.php?sid=91854&mode=thread&order=

Re: [uug] Kids and Linux (FSLC forward)

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Michael L Torrie wrote: Anyway, the world of DOS is alive and well. I'm playing my old games. It's fun! DOSEMU on linux is cool, too. I could never get DOSEMU to do graphics. I couldn't get it to wun wordperfect either. How do you get it to let you play games? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cr

Re: [uug] Great viedo about Novell/Ximian/SCO

2003-08-14 Thread brad . mugleston
Red Hat 7.2 Mozila 1.02 On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Remember now your talking to a novice here. Where would one get > > this mplayerplugin and the windows codecs (and what are codecs?)? > > > > Also, are there an

[uug] [Fwd: [sllug-members]: GUBUG]

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Jansen
-- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix --- Begin Message --- I am proud to announce that The Greater Utah BSD User's Group mailing list is now open for public subscription. If you are interested, please point y

Re: [uug] Double-Postings

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Brailsford
> So, when you receive a double dose of postings from the UUG list, does > that constitute penance? :-) yes -- Michael GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/

Re: [uug] apt problem

2003-08-14 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:13, Andrew Jacobs wrote: > I just finished doing a custom install of YDL, which installed a > version of apt. The first thing I did was an apt-get update and then an > apt-get dist-upgrade, but I get errors that look like this example for > every package I installed: >

Re: [uug] Kids and Linux (FSLC forward)

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Brailsford
> We hear a lot about how younger and younger age brackets are more and > more familiar with computers. Largely those are PC's running Windows. > But what about those kids that grow up in a Linux-based household? I > imagine that Byron and Annie's kids are going to be comfortable with > "emerge k

[uug] anti-leech script... use cookie instead?

2003-08-14 Thread Wade Preston Shearer
i am currently preventing leeching of PDF downloads for a company's website by checking the referring URL (with PHP). this works beautifully, except that there is an bug in internet explorer/PDF that causes an error. i have written a little 'detect the browser' code in there that generally fixe

Re: [uug] USB mount problems

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
Jacob Fugal wrote: more info: I just emerged the usbutils package, and ran lsusb and it pointed out that /proc/bus/usb isn't really there anymore. I assume it should be and this is the real root of my problems. How do I get this back? I know this might be off in left field, but have you checked th

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