Re: [vox-tech] Clock drift bad, HULK SMASH!

2002-02-20 Thread Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, February 19 2002 11:42 pm, Bill Broadley wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:02:52PM -0800, Ryan wrote: Um, anyhow, anyone know what I can do about clock drift? NTP is not an option sadly, Why? Never connect to the net? Can't get

Re: [vox-tech] Clock drift bad, HULK SMASH!

2002-02-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, February 19 2002 11:42 pm, Bill Broadley wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:02:52PM -0800, Ryan wrote: Um, anyhow, anyone know what I can do about clock drift? NTP is not an option sadly, Why?

Re: [vox-tech] Clock drift bad, HULK SMASH!

2002-02-20 Thread Henry House
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:20:40AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] ryan, you tell the firewall what services you want to run...the firewall isn't supposed to tell you! He may be referring to the facist firewall at the high school, using his notebook. Ryan: if this is a home firewall,

Re: [vox-tech] Need help securing a simple perl CGI

2002-02-20 Thread Henry House
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:26:28PM -0800, Ryan wrote: This is a perl cgi script I wrote to allow me to have large html files on my web host without exceeding my storage quota. I'd like it looked at, _I_ can no longer abuse it to run random commands or go where I shouldn't, but that

Re: [vox-tech] Clock drift bad, HULK SMASH!

2002-02-20 Thread speck
There was at one time a bug on one of the IBM desktop systems. When the system went to power save, the clock would slowly lose count over time. This was why I sugested a BIOS flash. It affected the way power was sent to chips on the mother board, which affected cycles performed

Re: [vox-tech] Need help securing a simple perl CGI

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Lavender
I highly recommend the CGI perl module. You can do all of what you want to do in one line. #!/usr/local/bin/perl -Tw use strict use CGI qw(:standard); my $query = new CGI; # Class method to instantiate object # Black magic all occurs in background print header,

[vox-tech] attention installfest attendees: X woes on laptops

2002-02-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
the past 2 installfests have been plagued by people who haven't been able to get X working just right or at all. *particularly* with newish laptops. a common problem is when X, try as you might play with xvidtune or mode timings, can't seem to cover the entire laptop screen. we've seen this a

Re: [vox-tech] attention installfest attendees: X woes on laptops

2002-02-20 Thread nbs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:11:58PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: snip if anyone here is aware of any distributions that carry 4.2.*, i'd like to make a list for my own personal knowledge. please post your info. :) If possible, it might be useful just to burn a CDROM every couple of months

[vox-tech] php wonders. (was on vox)

2002-02-20 Thread nbs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:58:10PM -0500, Erik Mullinix wrote: Hello. While working on learning PHP. I have been having problems getting the ability to do php off of apache. SuSE 7.3, Apache 1.3.20 with php 4.0.6 I get the method POST is not supported. Is this when submitting a form?

Re: [vox-tech] attention installfest attendees: X woes on laptops

2002-02-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin nbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:11:58PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: snip if anyone here is aware of any distributions that carry 4.2.*, i'd like to make a list for my own personal knowledge. please post your info. :) If possible, it might be useful just to

Re: [vox-tech] attention installfest attendees: X woes on laptops

2002-02-20 Thread Roland (Rusty) Minden
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ Rusty On Wednesday 20 February 2002 15:27, you wrote: begin nbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:11:58PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: snip if anyone here is aware of any distributions that carry 4.2.*, i'd like to

Re: [vox-tech] attention installfest attendees: X woes on laptops

2002-02-20 Thread Rod Roark
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 15:27, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: unfortunately, afaics, debian sid still uses 4.1.0. if anyone knows of someone packaging a more recent X for debian, i'd like to know about it. ... Look up the CheckInstall project on freshmeat. I expect you can install X

Re: [vox-tech] attention installfest attendees: X woes on laptops

2002-02-20 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: also, if anyone knows where redhat, suse, mandrake, etc keep a copy of X 4.2.* rpm's (if they exist), please save me from hunting for them all by emailing urls directly to me (rather than the list). i keep my own installfest disk that i bring.

Re: [vox-tech] Need help securing a simple perl CGI

2002-02-20 Thread Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have re-writen this script so that it does not take in the file name directly, but instead reads in a number and gets the file name from an external config file. I still need to figure out how to get it to work with non-html mime types.

Re: [vox-tech] Clock drift bad, HULK SMASH!

2002-02-20 Thread Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I actually know that Linux ignores the HW clock (oddly enough), UNLESS you tell it to go off the HW clock which is an option on Mandrake's install I think. -sp I have checked, my HW clock is fine.

Re: [vox-tech] Need help securing a simple perl CGI

2002-02-20 Thread Mark K. Kim
Isn't it the browser that does that? -Mark On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Brian Lavender wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:16:42PM -0800, Ryan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have re-writen this script so that it does not take in the file name directly, but instead reads