Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:59:25PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: it's /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy. It's probably dependent on distro, actually. Sometimes they symlink for 'friendliness,' for example. -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Odd ncftp bug

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:27:34AM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: snip Actually ESCAPING it (much like you write amp; to get an in HTML) made it work: mypasshasa%sign becomes: mypasshasa%25sign So then... not a bug, right? That's how URLs are supposed to work. Seems to be

Re: [vox-tech] Odd ncftp bug

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:27:34AM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: snip So then... not a bug, right? That's how URLs are supposed to work. One thing that didn't make this apparent right off was that along with a couple of FTP connections that failed due to the % being escaped, there were a couple

Re: [vox-tech] Odd ncftp bug

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Mitch Patenaude wrote: On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 11:55 US/Pacific, Bill Kendrick wrote: 6. strace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:PASSWORD@ftp.server.com Ah-hah! Someone, somewhere, is using % as an escape character! That's part of the URL spec

[vox-tech] ncftpget as a replacement for rsync

2003-09-15 Thread Bill Kendrick
Okay, I've got a server that allows external FTP uploads from various people. I have another server onto which I want to grab any new files from that FTP server. I can use ncftpget to recursively grab EVERYTHING that the users have uploaded, but I want only the NEW stuff. Obviously, rsync is

Re: [vox-tech] ncftpget as a replacement for rsync

2003-09-15 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0700, Ricardo Anguiano wrote: Perhaps wget -m will work with ftp. If it does, and you already have everything, use wget -m ftp://blah/blah to get the new stuff. The old stuff will not be downloaded again. Sadly, the version of wget I'm running (1.8.2)

Re: [vox-tech] ncftpget as a replacement for rsync

2003-09-15 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:35:19AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: Why not use wget? See my reply to Ricardo. ;) Sorry I failed to mention my attempts in my original post. D'oh! :) Ive used it in the past to mirror sites, and it does support FTP urls... Yeah, wget would work like a

[vox-tech] apt-proxy

2003-09-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
I discovered a great use for the large amount of HD space I have sitting on my machine upstairs... apt-proxy! What it does is allow all of my local machines to take advantage of the 100Mbit LAN in the house, when doing apt-get update/upgrades. All four machines run Woody, so any security

Re: [vox-tech] GIMP, best desktop or X/Windows server to use

2003-09-04 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:07:32PM -0700, Marc Hasbrouck wrote: I'm wondering what GUI's or desktops or window managers GIMP works with. My first choices are GNOME and KDE. What other options do LUGODers use? Should work with anything! I believe I used Gimp under FVWM back in the day.

[vox-tech] Reading encyclopedia discs under Linux

2003-09-02 Thread Bill Kendrick
Does anyone have any experience using encyclopedia CDROMs (e.g. for Windows and/or Mac) under Linux? Either using some OSS 'reader' software, or by running the software off the CD under WINE or something? It's a question I see brought up a lot in the K12 arena, and thought I'd pose it here...

Re: [vox-tech] USB Conflict Woes

2003-09-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:09:58PM -0700, Richard S. Crawford wrote: ...Or, at least, I *think* it's some sort of USB conflict. Hrm... I see you're using usb-uhci. I recall there's another module, 'usb-ohci', if I remember correctly. It's been a LONG time since I looked into this kind of

Re: [vox-tech] mailing list trouble

2003-08-27 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:10:32PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Is there trouble with the vox-tech list? I haven't received any of the posts since Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:06:13 (I just looked at the web-archive). I seem to be receiving posts from the other lists... Works fine for me. I

Re: [vox-tech] Optimum memory for a Linux workstation?

2003-07-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:49:58PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote: With redhat-9, mozilla, bunch of gnome-terminals, occasional GIMP use, multiple desktops, etc. I definitely notice a big difference between 256 MB's and 512 MB's. IMO definitely worth the cost of an upgrade. Hehe... Switch from

[vox-tech] [fwd] Re: TiVo Home Media Option

2003-07-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
PROTECTED] Subject: [conspire] Re: TiVo Home Media Option [Bill posted this to LUGOD's vox-tech mailing list. I'll be sending him a copy of this post. Some readers may not be aware that a TiVo PVR is, under the hood, a very nicely hackable Linux computer.] Quoting Bill Kendrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED

[vox-tech] TiVo Home Media Option

2003-07-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
TiVo's advertising this new Home Media Option, which, with the adition of a broadband adapter (ethernet or 802.11b), allows one's TiVo to play MP3 music and display digital photos which get grabbed off of another PC on your LAN. Unfortunately, it looks like the software you use to make the files

[vox-tech] Tip-of-the-day: eject your CF card!

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Kendrick
I stuck my shiny new 256MB CF card which I got for my digital camera into my SanDisk USB-based CF card reader, and while moving photos off of it, started getting Input/output errors, and noticing attempt to access beyond end of device errors in /var/log/messages Everything seemed fine. Mounted

Re: [vox-tech] Asking C compiler to test for #include file

2003-07-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote: I don't think the header guards (the #ifndef/#define/#endif that is supposed to surround every header file) are necessarily portable, but you could try somehting like this: #include somelib.h #ifndef __SOMELIB_Hs_HEADER_GUARD__

Re: [vox-tech] Linux on a low end hardware question

2003-07-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:49:20PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: Personally, I don't use Sawfish. I use FVWM -- it's light, fast, and very customizable in terms of controls. Its memory footprint is less than 4MB even with several FVWM apps running. Unfortunately it doesn't look very good so

Re: [vox-tech] Linux on a low end hardware question

2003-07-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:26:20PM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: Hi, We are planning to put linux on our old systems where our marketting people work extensively on * browsers * $M Word * $M Excel * $M PowerPoint * $M Outlook Express System conf -

[vox-tech] Tip of the day - PCMCIA config-2.4

2003-07-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
I had difficulty getting a Netgear wireless card working under Debian Woody with 2.4.18-686 kernel image package. It turns out I didn't realize that the 2.4 PCMCIA stuff looked at the file /etc/pcmcia/config-2.4, rather than just /etc/pcmica/config (That's what I get for not ls'ing, I guess :^)

Re: [vox-tech] File Permission Issue while downloading files from an ftp location

2003-07-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:29:38PM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: I know that if he can tar and download those files, file permission can be retained somehow he wants another solution. Don't use FTP under Windows / VFAT? :^) Why can't he just download stuff while booted into

Re: [vox-tech] NFS mount RPC: Timed out error

2003-07-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
Okay, well, I've boiled it down to being a /etc/hosts.allow / hosts.deny issue. I removed ALL:ALL from /etc/hosts.deny, and the NFS mount works. I put it back, even though I've allowed the remote box in question access to: nfsd, portmap, lockd, rquotad, mountd and statd (as per the NFS HOWTO,

Re: [vox-tech] NFS mount RPC: Timed out error

2003-07-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
Google google google: http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-config/2000-June/0061.html So I tried adding: rpc.mountd: IP_ADDR_OF_HOST_IN_QUESTION ...to /etc/hosts.allow, and it works now! Whee! -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux

[vox-tech] NFS mount RPC: Timed out error

2003-07-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'm not sure if I broke something, but suddenly the NFS mount I set up recently stopped working. Here's a paraphrase of what the mount line looks like in the mountING system's /etc/fstab: remote_host:/path/to/dir /home/username/mountpoint nfs

Re: [vox-tech] NFS mount RPC: Timed out error

2003-07-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:25:39AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote: --On Monday, July 14, 2003 03:53:20 AM -0700 Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The LAN IP of the mountING system is listed in the mountED system's /etc/hosts.allow, with access to: portmap lockd rquotad mountd

Re: [vox-tech] NFS mount RPC: Timed out error

2003-07-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:06:46PM -0700, Ken Herron wrote: Err, isn't hosts.allow the TCP wrappers config file? NFS usually runs over udp in a lan environment; I don't see how TCP wrappers could be involved. I was just following the HOWTO :^) snip It'd be helpful to to know exactly

Re: [vox-tech] Compiling C into Java bytecode?

2003-06-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:43:49AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote: Well then let's consider my comment to refer to C as it was defined by Kernighan and Ritchie. If they don't count any more, I give up. Meh... What did KR ever give _us_?! ;^) -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[vox-tech] Compiling C into Java bytecode?

2003-06-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
Okay, just out of curiosity. Say one wanted to create a 'Java application' (e.g., something that runs in a web browser, cell phone or PDA JVM), but they wanted to write the application using the C /language/. This is possible, is it not? If so, are there some tools for this under Linux? (I

[vox-tech] AVI to MPEG

2003-06-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
So I have a new Canon PowerShot digital camera that can take movies. It saves them in AVI format: $ file *.avi mvi_0054.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI mvi_0056.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI MPlayer reports: VIDEO: [MJPG] 320x240 24bpp 15.00 fps 1670.3 kbps (203.9

Re: [vox-tech] AVI to MPEG

2003-06-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:52:56PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: So I have a new Canon PowerShot digital camera that can take movies. It saves them in AVI format: snip I don't really understand what all that means. :^) My main question is: is there any easy way, under Linux, to convert

Re: [vox-tech] AVI to MPEG

2003-06-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
Actually, this page sums it all up. It's also Debian-geared, so it was a cinche to get everything installed. I just converted my first AVI to MPEG (my petting my cat Malcolm, while he rolled around on the ground; a Malcom trademark move). The MPG played fine with MPlayer and 'plaympeg'

Re: [vox-tech] Linux sound recording

2003-06-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:26:04AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Excellent! Both are to be found at http://www.linuxdj.com.o interesting site. dj == ? the kernel hacker dave jones? I'm guessing DJ as in disc jockey ;) -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids?

Re: [vox-tech] Migration from UNIX to Redhat

2003-06-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:49:49AM -0700, ME wrote: You won't want to copy the *system* usernames/groups and their associated uid/gid though -- just the users on the system. Not that I foresee myself doing something like this any time soon, but I'm curious... What's the best way to determine

Re: [vox-tech] Debian Run Levels

2003-06-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:44:52PM -0700, Ryan Castellucci wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 10:24 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0r1 onto my ancient (5 years old!) Gateway Solo 2500 laptop computer. Now, I like having X

Re: [vox-tech] sound recorder

2003-06-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:18:44PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: hi all, does anyone use a sound recorder on linux? You mean other than cat /dev/audio foo.au ? :^) I like Audacity. -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Gnome Superficiality

2003-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:45:29AM -0800, Ryan wrote: I am trying to tweak my gnome2 panel. Here is what it looks like: http://the45.net/~ryan/gnome-panel.jpg I want to know if there is a way to add another one of those little separator bars (1). I swear I just deleted one on

Re: [vox-tech] Public Access Terminal

2003-03-27 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:57:34PM -0800, Darrick Servis wrote: snip On quit I thought it best to strip the history, cookies and cache and put a sign on the terminal to let people know they can do that when they're done to protect their privacy. Will you be able to keep people from browsing

[vox-tech] Compile C to Java bytecode?

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
It's possible to compile something like C into Java bytecode, right? I keep seeing the acronym J2ME floating around when I see embedded Linux devices, and thought it might be cool if I could build Java software for these doo-hickies (like my Zaurus), without the trouble of learning

Re: [vox-tech] Compile C to Java bytecode?

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:07:02AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:52 am, Bill Kendrick wrote: It's possible to compile something like C into Java bytecode, right? Well, Java is something like C. ;-) Much of the basic syntax is similar or identical. I don't know

[vox-tech] Apache dying: critical_release() failed: Permission denied

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
I upgraded Apache on my colo'd box recently, and since then, it's died hard once every few weeks, it seems. I notice the httpd logs are filled with tons of these: critical_acquire() failed: Permission denied critical_release() failed: Permission denied critical_acquire() failed:

Re: [vox-tech] Apache dying: critical_release() failed: Permission denied

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:25:13AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: fwiw, google groups is usually more useful for this kind of thing than google. 8^{ DUUUH! Yeah... why didn't _I_ think of that!? :^) (Honestly, I've rarely had to resort to google groups... Plain ol' Google has always been

Re: [vox-tech] Apache dying: critical_release() failed: Permission denied

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:25:13AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: bill, looks like it might be a mod_throttle thing: snip Yep, indeed it does. Doesn't seem very well-answered, unfortunately, but at least I have a vague idea of what it is (as you said, mod_throttle; specifically, semaphore

Re: [vox-tech] simple stupid lockfile example?

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:53:54PM -0800, Henry House wrote: snip There are a bunch of good shell scripting techniques that may yield some purchase on your problem in O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools. (There is a copy in the LUGOD library.) *Ashamed* I have that book. I highly recommend it to

[vox-tech] simple stupid lockfile example?

2003-03-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
ok, i hate it when i run tin, and then forget i have it in the background somewhere and run it again. i want to replace 'tin' with a shell script or alias that will test for a lock file (and call me a moron if it exists), make a lock file, run tin, and then delete the lock file... anyone got a

Re: [vox-tech] simple stupid lockfile example?

2003-03-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:09:53AM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: snip lockfile is part of the procmail package. Cool, thanks! :^) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Re: [vox] Demo today

2003-03-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:29:13AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: When I try alt-sysrq-h (to display magic-sysrq help) in KDE, my cpu runs for awhile but nothing seems to happen. I wanted to avoid testing something more drastic, but since you asked, I entered init level 3 and tried a few

Re: [vox-tech] Public Access Terminals

2003-03-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:09:06PM -0800, Darrick Servis wrote: Hi Just joined the list. I work at DCTV among other things. I'm working on setting up a Public Access terminal for the Food Coop. Richard Lowenberg from DCN said you (LUGOD) were going to install Linux on a couple of

Re: [vox-tech] Public Access Terminals

2003-03-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:17:15PM -0800, Ricardo Anguiano wrote: I don't know that I understand the problem exactly, but what about something like knoppix on a diskless workstation? http://www.knoppix.com/ It seems suited to public terminal life. Well, the boxes have disks,

[vox-tech] pan and scan

2003-03-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
So I decided to write a little program using SMPEG that'll display a video and apply different effects to it, realtime. I've got some trivial ones, like a wind-style blur, black-and-white and 9-color thresholds, sinus wave, and TV RGB pixel effect. I then decided to work on one that's _kind_ of

Re: [vox-tech] pan and scan

2003-03-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
PPPS - Here's some screenshots :^) http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/mpgfx/screenshots/ Specifically regarding the pan-and-scan and difference-between-two-frames bits, check: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/mpgfx/screenshots/pan.jpg and:

Re: [vox-tech] HOWTO: remove trailing spaces when pasting from screen

2003-03-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:00:36PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: This might not apply to all of you... but I've noticed recently that when I select lines from a screen session of things (like mutt, or irssi, or vi) and paste them somewhere else they appear as one big line, with a bunch of space

[vox-tech] Forcing Links to interpret file as HTML?

2003-03-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
So I just added a text/html entry to my ~/.mailcap file, so I can view st00pid HTML attachments I received in my e-mail. (I use Mutt on my ISP's excellent shell server.) Unfortunately, when I do this, Links is given the file /tmp/muttXYXYXYXY (where XYXYXY is some random unique junk). Since

Re: [vox-tech] Forcing Links to interpret file as HTML?

2003-03-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:02:37PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: snip Right now, I have simply: text/html; links %s Ok, this works for me. I just don't know if it's the best way to do it. Comments? text/html; cp %s %s.html\; links %s.html\; rm %s.html -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [vox-tech] Forcing Links to interpret file as HTML?

2003-03-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:11:57PM -0800, Troy Arnold wrote: text/html ; lynx -dump -force_html %s ; copiousoutput Same shell server; works great. Hehe... Lynx is not Links, though. ;^) But thanks -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Hire me!

[vox-tech] How to print an interactive PDF?

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Kendrick
I've just downloaded a PDF form, and apparently it's one of those new-fangled interactive PDFs. (Presumably, using some viewers, you can check and uncheck certain fields before you print.) Unfortunately, when I view it (using Kghostview, for example), ALL of the checkboxes and options are

[vox-tech] Re: How to print an interactive PDF?

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:53:12PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: snip Should I bite the bullet and install Adobe Acrobat to get 'past' this feature? Strike that. xpdf came to save the day, apparently. Sorry for not checking all of my options before posting. (I'm quite sleepy :^) ) -bill

[vox-tech] Re: Gimp Question

2003-02-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
Replying to vox-tech, since it's an interesting question and others might find the answers useful :^) On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:16:03PM -0800, I was asked: Hey Bill, a quick question. How do you work with transparent GIFs in the Gimp? I'm not finding any way to identify or set the color

Re: [vox-tech] Using Convert to Resize Images

2003-02-19 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:47:54PM -0800, Foo Lim wrote: snip Please post an example run where you see otherwise. Comparing versions might be good. You can query it with: convert -help | head -2 On my box here at work, for example, I get: Version: @(#)ImageMagick 5.4.4 04/05/02 Q:16

Re: [vox-tech] Seeking Monitor Color Test program...

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:43:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a program that will help test the system, by just displaying a screen full of colors... I'm thinking if I can cycle through and find certain colors that cause this it will be able to test other components.

Re: [vox-tech] Seeking Monitor Color Test program...

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:33:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (basically a delay before screen changes of 1/4 of a second, and the ability to control how many pixels wide each rect is... defaulting to 1 pixel each, default to a fullscreen mode not window'd app, ability to pick the

[vox-tech] USB keyboard can't control lilo?

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
Is there anything I need to do to get a USB keyboard working when the LILO menu comes up at boot? (Right now, we're stuck simply waiting for the timer to count down to 0.) The BIOS ('hit F2 for setup') recognized it perfectly fine... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Was I useful? Rate

Re: [vox-tech] USB keyboard can't control lilo?

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:40:33PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Is there anything I need to do to get a USB keyboard working when the LILO menu comes up at boot? (Right now, we're stuck simply waiting for the timer to count down to 0.) The BIOS ('hit F2 for setup') recognized it perfectly

Re: [vox-tech] USB keyboard can't control lilo?

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:29PM -0800, Ryan Castellucci wrote: The option is probably USB Keyboard support Set it on BIOS instead of OS Actually, it's something to do with legacy USB support. Linux didn't care much for it. I also apparently need to NOT enable that if I want the mouse to

Re: [vox-tech] baby steps

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:39:48AM -0800, Jim wrote: I don't have access to certain files even when trying to access these files using shell konsole. I su to root but still have the error message bash: /etc/samba/smb.conf: Permission denied. You can end up with a Permission denied on a file

[vox-tech] Can a username be changed?

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
Is there a way to change a user's login name under Unix? Is it safe enough to simply rename their home directory and edit their entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? Or am I dealing with dangerous powers, and would be safe enough creating a brand new user and deleting the old one? -- [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] Can a username be changed?

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:35:41PM -0800, Foo Lim wrote: Hi Bill, I've never had to change someone's login, but you might look into usermod(8). It worked like a charm. Thanks, Foo! -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Was I useful? Rate this message!

Re: [vox-tech] Can a username be changed?

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:44:22PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: snip I would also make sure to rename their mail spool file, This user doesn't get mail. :^) This user doesn't even get to run a shell or see files in their home directory. (I'm working on the kiosk box for Newsbeat, now that KDE

Re: [vox-tech] Can a username be changed?

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:58:58PM -0800, ME wrote: snip (Hey kids, dont try this at home) # cd /home # for i in * ; do chown ${i}.${i} $i ; done Actually, just changing the old username to the new one in /etc/group seemed to fix the group ownership problems. File ownership changed magically

Re: [vox-tech] testing kmail send

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:11:01PM -0800, Jim wrote: snip BWA HA HA HA I did it! I have been having problems configuring my send parameters in kmail but now I think I have it licked! Congrats! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Was I useful? Rate this message!

[vox-tech] mod_throttle

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
Has anyone here ever used the Apache module mod_throttle? I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to shape my outgoing traffic while not being unreasonable about providing access to my site. (e.g., I'm fine with the site being a bit slower, but not with it jumping out at you with Request

Re: [vox-tech] mod_throttle

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:50:06AM -0800, Ryan Castellucci wrote: snip Also look into mod_gzip. It's supported by almost all modern browsers. I've asked about it for my other website (which is not on a colo'd box, so my ISP would need to install it globally for me :^) ) The problem with

Re: kmail problem (was [vox-tech] linux or bust)

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:07:07AM -0800, Jim wrote: snip P.s.: I tried to a linux editor (kword?) but I was unable to open it under windows. Is there some other program that I could have used or could I have simply have saved it as a .txt file? This is one of my complaints about GUIs.

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Electrical Engineering Question

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:28:26AM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Rod Roark wrote: snip Anyway, this was EXACTLY the kind of help I was looking for. Jeff, it's because of people like you that LUGOD rocks! Well, thanks for the compliment, but it's because of people like

Re: [vox-tech] archiving library in C

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:47:59PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: is there a library that will allow me to combine all that different stuff into a single file and then let me transparently access any individual element using an API in C? Look into PhysFS or maybe some runtime ZIP library.

Re: [vox-tech] KDE 3.1 update trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:15:05AM -0800, Rusty Minden wrote: I am having some trouble with an update I have done to KDE 3.1. Below is the error list I am not sure were to begin either to remove all of KDE and start fresh or to fix the trouble. I hope this is not to long a message. snip that

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:05:31AM -0800, Katie wrote: snip I entered and saved the info in vi, changed the permissions using chmod a+x filename, tried to run it and nothing happened. I'm pretty sure it's in the search path. When in doubt, go into the directory where the shell script is, and

[vox-tech] test, please ignore

2003-01-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
or, if you feel like it, feel free to pay all the attention you want to me o/~ i'm just a test, i'm only a test, and i'm sitting here on capital S o/~ -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

[vox-tech] One more test

2003-01-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
Sorry about this! I'm done making noise, I think. -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:04:25PM -0800, Katie wrote: #!bin/bash echo qy | lynx https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?;; http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html;; -force_secure -accept_all_cookies -auth=login:password /dev/null That's what's in my first attempt at

[vox-tech] Anacron says file not found... but it's there!

2003-01-27 Thread Bill Kendrick
Does anyone know anything about anacron? I created the following anacrontab file (/home/foo/.anacrontab): SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin 1 65 test echo hello I tried running it with: anacrontab -f -n -d -t /home/foo/.anacrontab ...but I get this ridiculous

Re: [vox-tech] Re: newbie now having trouble with pico

2003-01-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:07:33PM -0800, Matthew Holland wrote: For example, searching for pico doesn't get you the Mandrake rpm, but if you search for /usr/bin/pico you'll find that it's provided by the pine package for Mandrake. Oy! :^( Yeah... THAT's intuitive. I need program XYZ

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:30:10AM -0800, Katie wrote: I tried the tin -r, got a cannot connect to server message. So I tried creating /var/lib/news/active. That didn't work either. 2am is a bad time to be dealing with this, maybe I just made a sloppy mistake. What do I do? :-( On my

Re: [vox-tech] gimp question: layers and resizing

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:33:32AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: snip i've got an image that i created (saved as xcf format. is that correct if i want to keep the layers intact?) Yes. XCF is Gimp's native format. It stores all layers, alpha levels, selections (did you know you can have

Re: [vox-tech] gimp question: layers and resizing

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:06:08AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Create a new layer. Make it white. Merge with your existing transparent layer (that's what the checkerboard represents), or delete the transparent layer. Or leave it... There's no transparent layer. Every single one of

Re: [vox-tech] bash question

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:48:38AM -0800, Matt Holland wrote: Hey all, I'm trying to automate some grunt work, and for the life of me, I can't figure out where I'm going wrong. Here's a simplified version of what I'm trying to do: - #!/bin/bash # testrun.sh -- run the simulations

Re: [vox-tech] Mozilla and quitting

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:49:52AM -0800, Gabriel Rosa wrote: If Moz is using GTK, you can hover your mouse over a menu item, hit the shortcut you want for it, and it'll bind. IIRC, it's the standard procedure for GTK. If it _is_ using GTK, it's certainly not making the program look like

[vox-tech] Mozilla and quitting

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
Ok, I've gotten used to a kind of dumb thing in Konqueror. Ctrl-Q closes a window. In Mozilla, though, Ctrl-Q quits entirely (without asking!), while Ctrl-W closes a window. Is there a way to convince one or the other browser to act differently? Or better yet, get Mozilla to pop up a you have

Re: [vox-tech] Mozilla and quitting

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:00:15PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: it *ought* to reassign shortcuts. if it matters a lot, you might want to try to reassign a shortcut while running mozilla with strace -s 999 -o mozilla-strace.log It didn't seem to even TRY to reassing a shortcut. If I

Re: [vox-tech] Mozilla and quitting

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:58:03AM -0800, Gabriel Rosa wrote: Try Galeon :) It's more lightweight, has niftier features and uses GTK. The rendering engine is great, but I can't understand why people actually use the mozilla browser. apt-get installing ;) -bill!

[vox-tech] img align=right weirdness in mozilla

2003-01-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
all the way, either! # Tux Paint demos in Northern California - Dec. 29, 2002 Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux

Re: [vox-tech] img align=right weirdness in mozilla

2003-01-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:49:50PM -0800, andy wergedal wrote: This is a bug in mozilla. There are many google references to it. (images not 'aligning' correctly) As far as the hr... You could try to change the hr size=1 noshade to hr size=1 width='100%' noshade. This would ensure

[vox-tech] Hack around Mozilla alignment bug

2003-01-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
I just threw the little chunks of content within a table width=100% ...trtd ... /td/tr/table ...and it worked around Mozilla's alignment bug I was complaining about earlier. :^) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] img align=right weirdness in mozilla

2003-01-06 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:15:29PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: It works for me. Did you somehow figure out how to fix it, or is it still screwed up in your browser? When did you look at it? See my later post, where I 'fixed' it for Mozilla by sticking them in tables. Maybe that's what you're

Re: [vox-tech] Segmentation Fault with RPM --rebuilddb

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: Trying to get my system ready for upgrading to RH8, I decided to run rpm --rebuilddb on my system. I got Segmentation fault. What does this mean? How can I repair the fault? Ouch! That sucks. I've not got a RedHat box

Re: [vox-tech] Red Hat apache problem (was: [lugod lert] Help, please)

2002-12-05 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:25:32AM -0800, Henry House wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:56:39PM -0800, Janet Meizel wrote: Hi- I 've upgraded from Redhat 6.5 to 8.0 server at Davis High School and included Apache in the install. Everything is set up to go, but when I try to access

Re: [vox-tech] Red Hat apache problem (was: [lugod lert] Help, please)

2002-12-05 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:42:01PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Hi Janet. Can you tell, when looking at the error message you see on the other computer's web browser, whether the 'denial' message is coming from the Apache webserver, or simply from your browser? Oh - Whoops, and my point here

Re: [vox-tech] CDR annoyance (and tuxpaint)

2002-11-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:10:44PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: btw, just got home. would you want me to write some disks for you or is dave going to? Crud! I missed this. Well. Dave, think you can do it for me? ;) -bill! ___ vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] CDR annoyance (and tuxpaint)

2002-11-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:15:47AM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: Sure, no problem. Thanks! When can I swing by to pick them up? (I'll need a reminder as to where you live, and stuff :) ) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] shuffling arrays in C?

2002-11-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Alexandra Thorn wrote: const int selection_size = ELEMS_IN_ARY(your_array) - (i + 1); int selected_card = (i + 1) /* don't include the already selected cards, or the card to swap with */

Re: [vox-tech] CDR annoyance

2002-11-24 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:24:11PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: CD burners frequently go bad. I did have one that would not recognize that a disc was in the drive, which looks similar to your problem here. You might try seeing if it will _read_ a CD. Well, it definitely plays audio CDs well.

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