Re: [vox-tech] Funny characters in aterm on kubuntu

2006-01-12 Thread Jay Strauss
> > Some people's names, particularly in Debian changelogs, with diacritics > may not show properly. Of course the advantage is that links, links2 and > elinks all look much nicer when you're not in UTF-8 for some reason. > > --Ken Thanks again Ken I did as you said and recompiled my locales. a

Re: [vox-tech] Funny characters in aterm on kubuntu

2006-01-12 Thread Jay Strauss
> Aterm may not support Unicode. xterm does. > > > export LANG=en.ISO-8859-1 in my aterm I run man, and things display > > correctly but I get an error > > > > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > > Reformatting bash(1), please wait... > > This can be reconfigured by r

Re: [vox-tech] Funny characters in aterm on kubuntu

2006-01-12 Thread Jay Strauss
Additional info. Its weird, when I do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env | egrep '^LC|LANG' LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en in my regular xterm, I'm set to UTF-8. But everything works fine. When I go and: export LANG=en.ISO-8859-1 in my aterm I run man, and things display correctly but I get an error

Re: [vox-tech] Funny characters in aterm on kubuntu

2006-01-11 Thread Jay Strauss
> Sounds like probably an encoding problem. > > What character set does aterm expect to be using? UTF-8? > > Most manpages assume ISO-8859-1, I believe. > > What is the output of ( env | egrep '^LC|LANG' )? > > -- > Micah J. Cowan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env | egrep '^LC|LANG' LAN

[vox-tech] Funny characters in aterm on kubuntu

2006-01-11 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi all, I'm running Kubuntu breezy. I've installed aterm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aterm -V aterm version 0.4.2 When I use "man" or "perldoc" I get funny characters in the output. Most (99%) of the output is normal but ever so often there is a funny character embedded in the output. It seems lik

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Pumping a password using Expect

2006-01-05 Thread Jay Strauss
On Thursday 05 January 2006 7:33 pm, timriley wrote: > then capture those SQL statements and send them to sqlplus. Not to change the scope of your project, but why would you do it using sqlplus, as opposed to DBI? You could avoid the whole login issue and probably get better performance. Jay _

Re: [vox-tech] Kmail Question

2005-11-17 Thread Jay Strauss
On Thursday 17 November 2005 1:56 am, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:27:42PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: > > Do you know how to change the font (I see) while composing a letter? > > Under "Settings->Configure KMail"..., go to the "Appearance"

Re: [vox-tech] Kmail Question

2005-11-16 Thread Jay Strauss
On Monday 14 November 2005 4:16 pm, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > It's what I've switched back to. It has its problems, but it's my > favorite thus far. I like the spell checker as you go (plus good dictionary and suggestions). I like the bold red highlighting of misspelled words. good hotkeying, I l

Re: [vox-tech] Kmail Question

2005-11-14 Thread Jay Strauss
You should try Thunderbird.  It kinda sucks too :) JayOn 11/14/05, Micah J. Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:26:21AM -0800, Richard Harke wrote:> On Sun November 13 2005 00:55, Richard Harke wrote:> > Kmail normally expects its mail directory to be the users home> > dire

Re: [vox-tech] replacing firefox 1.0 with firefox 1.06

2005-08-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Chris Horsting wrote: I used a script. Chris, take it from someone who has learned the lesson first hand, provide detail to your questions. Including (but not limited to): Distro and version an accurate description of the steps you took and the results If you do not show that you took th

Re: [vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-22 Thread Jay Strauss
No. The authentication is handled by SSH using the public/private keypair. The system password itself isn't involved in the authentication at all. It's possible to have users whose remote passwords are unknown or disabled by this method. This is the case for a number of remote hosts I access

Re: [vox-tech] WiFi Part II

2005-07-21 Thread Jay Strauss
David Hummel wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:45:59AM -0700, William Andrew wrote: So I have tried lots of places and messed with lots of settings to no avail. That brings up Jonathan's comment : "you may need to get a different card." Now if I were to look for the Ideal WiFi card for a Thin

Re: [vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-18 Thread Jay Strauss
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:43:43AM -0500, Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:43:52AM -0700, Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: P? 2005-07-07, skrev Jay Strauss: Hi, I have a sveasoft box, and in order to

[vox-tech] Fun logic puzzles

2005-07-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, Maybe this is old news, maybe not. An English friend of mine told me of these Japanese number puzzles, called "Sudoku", that everyone in England is hooked on. I've done a couple, pretty fun. Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.

Re: [vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:43:52AM -0700, Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: P? 2005-07-07, skrev Jay Strauss: Hi, I have a sveasoft box, and in order to ssh from the sveasoft to a target box, the target box must have PasswordAuthentication yes in the /etc/ssh

Re: [vox-tech] Matching Contents of Lists

2005-07-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:28:00AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: Micah J. Cowan wrote: First, you will need to create a comparison function, that will return an integer less than, greater than, or equal to zero depending on whether its first argument compares

Re: [vox-tech] Matching Contents of Lists

2005-07-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Of course, this could have been: my (@str) = $str =~ /([a-zA-Z]+)(\d+)([a-zA-Z]+)?/; eliminating the need to refer specifically to the positional variables. Absolutely, though it might be obfuscated to the OP $str[1] =~ s/^0+//; # strip leading 0s from digit portion Per

Re: [vox-tech] Matching Contents of Lists

2005-07-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Lango, Trevor M. wrote: First I apologize for the lame "reply" format - I am forced to use Microsoft Outlook Web Access (shudder) at work and wouldn't you know - it doesn't offer any options for mail format...? Based on your rules above, TALL0047A and TAL0047A do in fact match No, act

Re: [vox-tech] Matching Contents of Lists

2005-07-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Examples of matching: TALL0047ATALL047Amatch TALL0047ATAL0047A not a match TALL0047ATAL0470A not a match The contents will always be one to four alpha characters followed by one to four numeric characters possibly followed by one or two alpha characters. A match wo

Re: [vox-tech] Matching Contents of Lists

2005-07-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Lango, Trevor M. wrote: I have two lists, not necessarily of the same length. List #1 has two columns. List #2 has one column. I would like to do the following: Scan list #1 line by line. If a match for column #1 in list #1 i

Re: [vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-08 Thread Jay Strauss
What's wrong with PasswordAuthentication in a nutshell is, in order to authenticate yourself, both you and the destination host know your password. But, even if I have this set to "no", and I do an interactive login, then both me and the remote box need to know my password. public/private k

Re: [vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-07 Thread Jay Strauss
Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:57:53AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: No, SSH never passes password across the net in cleartext. They are sent to the remote host when using this option, which means that unless you have a different password for each host, a malicious remote

Re: [vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-07 Thread Jay Strauss
No, SSH never passes password across the net in cleartext. They are sent to the remote host when using this option, which means that unless you have a different password for each host, a malicious remote administrator could capture your password and then use if to compromise your other accounts.

[vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

2005-07-07 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I have a sveasoft box, and in order to ssh from the sveasoft to a target box, the target box must have PasswordAuthentication yes in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. I don't understand what that config option actually does. The config file has: # To disable tunneled clear text passwords

Re: [vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-29 Thread Jay Strauss
I'd agree with a larger root partition Jay Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:06:20AM -0700, Shwaine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Jay Strauss wrote: hydrogen:/# du -hxs * 2.7Mbin 8.3Mboot 0 cdrom 88K dev 6.9Metc 1.0Kini

Re: [vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-29 Thread Jay Strauss
hen I repartition (eminently) Jay Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:28:01PM -0500, Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I was trying to install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686, on debian sarge. But I'm getting: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-ima

Re: [vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-28 Thread Jay Strauss
Off the bat a few things popped at me... first double-check the size on /proc. That seems a bit high, particularly given your second email that says the partition is not even that large. I reran and got the same: 0 20 2.7Mbin 13M boot 0 cdrom 88K dev 6.9Metc 1.4G

Re: [vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-27 Thread Jay Strauss
that worked, I deleted some of the old 2.6.8 libs and my /root/.mozilla and was able to install the new kernel. Now I guess I'm going to have to rearrange things to get more space Jay Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm out of space on /. and the

Re: [vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-27 Thread Jay Strauss
Will moving the contents of lib somewhere else, like /usr/mylib and soft linking /lib->/usr/mylib work as a workaround? Will my machine be able to boot correctly? I see no reason why not -- but personally I'd find some other (long-term) solution. Well I can tell you, it sure doesn't work

Re: [vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-27 Thread Jay Strauss
Thanks Rick, unfortunately that's not the prob. I'm not out of space on var (since var is a different filesystem) hydrogen:/# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 133M 107M 19M 86% / tmpfs 189M 4.0K 189M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda8

[vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

2005-06-26 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I was trying to install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686, on debian sarge. But I'm getting: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686_2.6.8-16 _i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/modules/ 2.6.8-2-686/kernel

Re: [vox-tech] Apt-get Error Message

2005-05-29 Thread Jay Strauss
Bob Scofield wrote: I keep getting this error message, and was wondering (1) whether it's something I should try to fix; and (2) how to fix it if I should. Does anybody have any ideas on this? Here's the message: "debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @IN

Re: [vox-tech] $display not set when ssh'ing [solved]

2005-05-26 Thread Jay Strauss
Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, simple question, don't know why it's not working on my machine. On the remote machine in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 set. I've tried ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] But

[vox-tech] $display not set when ssh'ing

2005-05-25 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, simple question, don't know why it's not working on my machine. On the remote machine in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 set. I've tried ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] But my $DISPLAY is never set. I is set

Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise

2005-05-25 Thread Jay Strauss
Or qemu: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html Haven't tried it m'self, plan on looking at it. Bochs too http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-t

Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise

2005-05-23 Thread Jay Strauss
Stanley Price wrote: In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install wi

Re: [vox-tech] Raid 1 - Fresh Install - Drives seem slow

2005-05-20 Thread Jay Strauss
I also ran: hdparm -tT /dev/hda, as described in the windows thread by Karsten, and it came in at 28 MB/s Decent, not great. - Does the processor speed have anything to do with I/O performance? Not directly. Processor speed on blocking tasks (encryption, find/sort, compression, decompression

Re: [vox-tech] Raid 1 - Fresh Install - Drives seem slow

2005-05-19 Thread Jay Strauss
Right, 2.4 vs 2.6 kernels handle I/O differently, I don't consider dd a very good measurement of performance since read/writes to raw disk devices (without caches, buffering, ordering, or filesystem) are pretty rare. Oh, so it very well may be an apples to oranges comparison? So Knoppix is config

Re: [vox-tech] Raid 1 - Fresh Install - Drives seem slow

2005-05-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Bill Broadley wrote: Linux by default does not saturate the disk during rebuilds so that users aren't overly impacted. If you want to speed it up tweak the parameters under /proc/sys/dev/raid. You should be able to get close to whatever the hardware is capable of, at the cost of higher loads and mo

[vox-tech] Raid 1 - Fresh Install - Drives seem slow

2005-05-13 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I just installed Sarge on an old PPro 180Mhz, with / on a RAID1 device and everything else on RAID1/VG/LVGs (which is very easy using the new Debian installer). I'm building this machine to be an offsite backup machine. It took 10hrs to sync my 100GiB partition, the first time, which seems

Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Jay Strauss
What's "links"? I can't find a man page on it. Links is an ncurses based web browser, similar to lynx but different. I could have put any web browser command in there, because the purpose was to demonstrate how one would connect to the server once the tunnel had been established. --Ken Bloom Ah,

Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to port 1433 via 22 on an intermediary

2005-04-20 Thread Jay Strauss
Ken Bloom wrote: $ links localhost:1 and I reached google in Links. What's "links"? I can't find a man page on it. Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Getting KDE 3.4 in Debian Testing

2005-04-04 Thread Jay Strauss
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:24:16PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: Can you dump the userids/passwords to plain text? That's a good question, I haven't looked into it. Worst case scenario would be to use DCOP, I imagine... I'm not sure how you'd do that (havin

Re: [vox-tech] Getting KDE 3.4 in Debian Testing

2005-04-03 Thread Jay Strauss
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:41:18PM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote: Is kwallet a good idea? I've only put one password into it. It seems like a hassle to have to enter two passwords to do something. But as I type these comments I'm starting to understand why that might be a good

Re: [vox-tech] Where did all my output go? Bash shell question

2005-03-25 Thread Jay Strauss
Mitch Patenaude wrote: Any chance the output is going to stderr and not stdout? I don't know for sure, but I could believe that stderr of commands inside functions gets swallowed if not redirected. Try putting a 2>&1 at the end of the svn command in the function. -- Mitch P.S. I think the prob

Re: [vox-tech] Where did all my output go? Bash shell question

2005-03-24 Thread Jay Strauss
Jeff Newmiller wrote: I don't _know_ that this is your problem, but unless you use the "alias" command interactively to determine whether it is or isn't, you won't either. All I meant is I'm running a binary, and I wasn't running a script. The thought of an alias didn't cross my mind, because my

Re: [vox-tech] Where did all my output go? Bash shell question

2005-03-23 Thread Jay Strauss
are you invoking an alias interactively that has verbose option on? add the option to your string if so... svn is an executable, it sits in /usr/bin. It doesn't have a verbose option. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lug

[vox-tech] Where did all my output go? Bash shell question

2005-03-23 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I have a little function in my .bashrc like: function co { cmd="svn co svn+ssh://fe/home/svn/repos/$1 $2" $cmd } Then I run it [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ co . name Password: Password: Checked out revision 59. Normally when I check out a tree, I get a long listing of files getting checked out,

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-18 Thread Jay Strauss
Just to echo everyone else. The new sarge net-install is really easy. From the installer I even created a system where root was on a raid-1 device and the rest of my system is on logical volume groups on top of a raid-1 partition. All from the installer, without any hoops or gymnastics. (I n

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-18 Thread Jay Strauss
- Kurumin. As Ubuntu, but KDE desktop default. Too bad the site is in Spanish (maybe Portugese), I'd like to read about this distro Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-15 Thread Jay Strauss
Josh Parsons wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 08:25 -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: What's "strewth"? Short for "God's truth" as in "Strewth, mate, me sheila's nicked off with all me tinnies this arvo!" Oh, Thanks Jay _

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Jay Strauss
bash ;-) Seriously: there's a lot of webmin modules available, but strewth, Debian emphasizes commandline tools. Ok, so I guess I'm using the proper admin too currently. What's "strewth"? Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lis

[vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-13 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, since wajig was mentioned in the apt-get thread, thought I'd ask. What kind of GUI configuration/administration tools are available for Debian , something like YAST Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org

Re: [vox-tech] Apache question: preventing direct access to files

2005-03-10 Thread Jay Strauss
Jay Strauss wrote: # #SetEnvIf Referer "http://152.79.198.7"; local_referrer=1 #Order Allow, Deny #Deny from all #Allow from env=local_referrer # How about something like: SetEnvIf Referer 152\.79\.198\.7 let_me_in Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from env

Re: [vox-tech] Apache question: preventing direct access to files

2005-03-10 Thread Jay Strauss
# #SetEnvIf Referer "http://152.79.198.7"; local_referrer=1 #Order Allow, Deny #Deny from all #Allow from env=local_referrer # Isn't there a way to use the above regex to do a redirect to a 404 file not found Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@list

Re: [vox-tech] Perl question - How do I use an HTTP header to download a file [SOLVED]?

2005-03-02 Thread Jay Strauss
Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, Using LWP::UserAgent and its pals, I get back the response (below via Data::Dumper). If I use the same $request object and feed it to www::mechanize it does the right thing and the data file is in the ->content. I can't see www::mech does it, or how to do it

[vox-tech] Perl question - How do I use an HTTP header to download a file?

2005-02-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, Using LWP::UserAgent and its pals, I get back the response (below via Data::Dumper). If I use the same $request object and feed it to www::mechanize it does the right thing and the data file is in the ->content. I can't see www::mech does it, or how to do it properly with LWP::UserAgent

Re: [vox-tech] Four week test of Firefox versus Opera

2005-02-01 Thread Jay Strauss
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:36:22PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: 3. Rendering is wonderful: pages render more faithfully under FF than Opera. I've been using FF for a couple of months on both M$ and Linux and unfortunately I'd have to say the rendering is not so wond

Re: [vox-tech] Four week test of Firefox versus Opera

2005-02-01 Thread Jay Strauss
3. Rendering is wonderful: pages render more faithfully under FF than Opera. I've been using FF for a couple of months on both M$ and Linux and unfortunately I'd have to say the rendering is not so wonderful when compared with IE (at least in my experience) for example when I look at: http://ww

[vox-tech] Hard drives on sale at BestBuy

2005-01-23 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, BestBuy has seagate 120GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB cache, 5 yr warranty drives for $50 after rebate Just thought I'd pass it on, I bought 2 Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Re: [LUNI] Debian NIC names

2005-01-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Opps, replyed to the wrong list :) But you're welcome to answer if you want ;) Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

[vox-tech] Re: [LUNI] Debian NIC names

2005-01-08 Thread Jay Strauss
Joe Digilio wrote: I think what you're looking for is /etc/modutils/aliases Adding a couple of lines like this should work... alias eepro100 eth0 alias prism wan0 That's just an example (I have no idea what a real wireless module name is since I've never dealt with 802.11 before, but you get the id

Re: [vox-tech] Installing subversion from sid into a sarge box

2005-01-05 Thread Jay Strauss
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, I'm always surprised at people saying they want to be on the testing track prior to release, but not afterwards. Why is that track desirable today, but not after sarge's relese? I just want the newer stuff, Perl prima

Re: [vox-tech] Installing subversion from sid into a sarge box

2005-01-05 Thread Jay Strauss
However, I'm always surprised at people saying they want to be on the testing track prior to release, but not afterwards. Why is that track desirable today, but not after sarge's relese? I just want the newer stuff, Perl primarily. And since sarge is almost "stable" seems to be the right dist f

Re: [vox-tech] Installing subversion from sid into a sarge box

2005-01-05 Thread Jay Strauss
I'm just a monkey with a wrench here, but I created a file called /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60defaultrelease with contents set to the line you quoted above this summer, and my system is still working. Does the numbering matter? that is, does the 60 in 60defaultrelease mean anything? I can't find any

[vox-tech] Installing subversion from sid into a sarge box

2005-01-04 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I want to install the 1.1.1-2 version of subversion, onto my stock sarge box (sarge contains v1.0.9). After reading the apt manual, I seems like I should be able to add the unstable tree into my sources.list, add an entry into my /etc/apt/apt.conf like: APT::Default-Release "testing"; # to

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Java

2005-01-03 Thread Jay Strauss
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Debian, the best way to install Java is to download the binary installer and then use make-jpkg from java-package to create .debs of Java that do the right thing. For Java2 v. 1.5. If you're content with 1.4 for now, try using this as an

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Java

2004-12-30 Thread Jay Strauss
If you're stuck, read my EBLUG-talk slides on http://linuxmafia.com/presentations/ , and note the lessons drawn from the tcp-wrappers-7.6.tar.gz trojaning in 1999, for one reason. ;-> I'm gonna read it tonight Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-te

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Java

2004-12-30 Thread Jay Strauss
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Debian, the best way to install Java is to download the binary installer and then use make-jpkg from java-package to create .debs of Java that do the right thing. For Java2 v. 1.5. If you're content with 1.4 for now, try using this as an

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Java

2004-12-29 Thread Jay Strauss
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Debian, the best way to install Java is to download the binary installer and then use make-jpkg from java-package to create .debs of Java that do the right thing. For Java2 v. 1.5. If you're content with 1.4 for now, try using this as an

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Java

2004-12-29 Thread Jay Strauss
Ken Bloom wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:11:55PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: On Debian, the best way to install Java is to download the binary installer and then use make-jpkg from java-package to create .debs of Java that do the right thing. Ken, I'm running debian. I don't see a &qu

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Java

2004-12-29 Thread Jay Strauss
On Debian, the best way to install Java is to download the binary installer and then use make-jpkg from java-package to create .debs of Java that do the right thing. Ken, I'm running debian. I don't see a "java-package" when I do a: apt-cache search java. Am I misunderstanding you? Thanks Jay __

[vox-tech] Installing Java

2004-12-29 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, Simple question(s). When you install both the java jdk & jre on the same machine, what do you name the links to the distribution? that is, I did it like: I installed: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0 /usr/local/jre1.5.0 then did links: ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.5.0 /usr/local/java_jdk ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5

Re: [vox-tech] Using Perl to Find and Replace

2004-12-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Trevor M. Lango wrote: I am working on a cdrom 'snapshot' of a website I help maintain for use at demos where there is no network access. Practically every page uses server side includes. I need to scan through an html file for expressions of the following format: and replace the expression:

[vox-tech] Re: question - perl and databases

2004-12-17 Thread Jay Strauss
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Hi Jay, Question about Perl databases. I want to write an application that uses a db. Never played with db before. Ultimately, I want to write something that creates a webpage using the db data. I also want people to be able to simply install my program without worrying

Re: [vox-tech] What address to put my gateway/router

2004-11-30 Thread Jay Strauss
Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, Simple question (probably going to be one of those, "depends"). My linksys router's default address is: 192.168.1.1, when I install Linux (Debian) it's default gateway address: 192.168.1.254. Not that either of them are hard to change but... What

[vox-tech] What address to put my gateway/router

2004-11-30 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, Simple question (probably going to be one of those, "depends"). My linksys router's default address is: 192.168.1.1, when I install Linux (Debian) it's default gateway address: 192.168.1.254. Not that either of them are hard to change but... What address do you guys normally put your router

Re: [vox-tech] computer pretending to be a printer

2004-11-30 Thread Jay Strauss
> The manual suggests that it can be used via windows networking to save its data to a remove windows share over ethernet. It's weird that it says it can save a file to a windows share but not to a local drive But if that's the case, couldn't you set up a Linux box along side of that box runnin

Re: [vox-tech] Using awk or perl to find and replace

2004-11-24 Thread Jay Strauss
Not to beat a dead horse: perl -i.bak -p -e "s/(h)\.(.*?)\.(jpg)/$2.$1.$3/ig" input.txt In a perl one liner, making a backup of original, and saving capitalization ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tec

Re: [vox-tech] yet another SQL question...

2004-11-22 Thread Jay Strauss
Dylan Beaudette wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to accomplish in SQL (the MySQL dialect to be exact), what may only be possible with an integrated approach... but I thought that I would ask: I have a single table, called 'component'. There are records in this table that represent components o

Re: [vox-tech] simple backup and restore

2004-11-01 Thread Jay Strauss
Jonathan Stickel wrote: I use rsync to keep the entire root filesystem of several computers identical. See this post: http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2004-03/msg00252.html You could do similar to backup your entire root. Jonathan Thanks Jonathan. I'll try that, thanks. Looks l

Re: [vox-tech] simple backup and restore

2004-11-01 Thread Jay Strauss
Tim Riley wrote: Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, I just want to do a simple backup, write the backup file to the system disk or an NFS mount. Then restore from that file. I'm not sure what I should backup. I figure I can exclude: /tmp /dev /mnt /proc If I do: cd / tar zcvf backup.tar.gz bin boo

[vox-tech] simple backup and restore

2004-10-31 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I just want to do a simple backup, write the backup file to the system disk or an NFS mount. Then restore from that file. I'm not sure what I should backup. I figure I can exclude: /tmp /dev /mnt /proc If I do: cd / tar zcvf backup.tar.gz bin boot etc home initrd initrd.img lib media opt

Re: [vox-tech] Configuring Multiple Apache Instances

2004-10-16 Thread Jay Strauss
Rod Roark wrote: On Saturday 16 October 2004 05:35 pm, Jay Strauss wrote: ... I just installed from source. But I don't see any way to pass in a different httpd.conf http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/invoking.html Cheers, -- Rod ___ vox-tech ma

Re: [vox-tech] Configuring Multiple Apache Instances

2004-10-16 Thread Jay Strauss
Rod Roark wrote: On Saturday 16 October 2004 04:01 pm, Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, I want to run 2 apache2 instances on a single box, NOT 2 virtual hosts. Why, because they need to have different configurations. Apache is very flexible... different how? Well, I'd like to have 2 apaches runnin

Re: [vox-tech] cordless mouse question

2004-10-16 Thread Jay Strauss
I've run multiple logitech cordless/optical mice on different systems. I get 4-5 months minimum Jay Got a Memorex USB cordless optical mouse. Works great with autops2. The problem is that it appears to be sucking AAA batteries at the rate of 2 every 1.5 - 2 weeks, which is unacceptable to me.

[vox-tech] Configuring Multiple Apache Instances

2004-10-16 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I want to run 2 apache2 instances on a single box, NOT 2 virtual hosts. Why, because they need to have different configurations. Do I have to install apache2 twice (or copy one install to another directory)? Can't I just do a apachectl and pass in a different httpd.conf file? I can't fi

Re: [vox-tech] alsa configuration

2004-10-03 Thread Jay Strauss
Nick Schmalenberger wrote: list, I have been trying to get the sound to work in my computer. At boot when the ALSA mixer settings would be loaded, it fails and says to manually use "alsactl restore". When I do that, it says "alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...". When I google on that,

Re: [vox-tech] Cut and paste

2004-10-03 Thread Jay Strauss
Ken Herron wrote: --On Saturday, October 02, 2004 11:14:34 AM -0500 Jay Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I want to cut and paste, I have to go to the menu->edit->copy then I can paste to FireFox. It's like there are 2 clipboards or something. Can't I do cut and paste

Re: [vox-tech] Cut and paste

2004-10-03 Thread Jay Strauss
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:14:34AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: It's like there are 2 clipboards or something. Can't I do cut and paste without mousing? The menu->edit->copy doesn't have a keyboard shortcut. It IS a little bizarre sometimes. :

Re: [vox-tech] Cut and paste

2004-10-02 Thread Jay Strauss
Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, I sorta remember a thread like this, but couldn't find it in the archives. When I run konsole, when I highlight some text, I can middle click and paste it into another (or same) xterm, but I can't paste it into a GUI program like FireFox. If I want to cut an

[vox-tech] BTW Thanks

2004-10-02 Thread Jay Strauss
BTW, Thanks to everyone who helped me get my laptop up and running. I'm wireless, and sound capable now. I haven't really worked on anything else, since I don't really need anything else right now Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

[vox-tech] Cut and paste

2004-10-02 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I sorta remember a thread like this, but couldn't find it in the archives. When I run konsole, when I highlight some text, I can middle click and paste it into another (or same) xterm, but I can't paste it into a GUI program like FireFox. If I want to cut and paste, I have to go to the menu-

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-28 Thread Jay Strauss
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I find when I install Sarge, and pick the desktop option is: 1) It installs a ton of stuff, that I just don't need now. For example, I don't need 10 different console and terminal apps, 5 different web browsers, sound

[vox-tech] Using Knoppix to configure another distribution

2004-09-28 Thread Jay Strauss
Hi, I'm taking Karsten's advice. Under a Knoppix system, what files should I look at/copy, to learn the commands/modules/drivers, that I can then use for configuring a Debian system? Specifically: Wireless Card Infared Port Modem DVD drive PCI (credit card) Slots Thanks Jay __

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-28 Thread Jay Strauss
> > Especially when it comes to situations like: "it installed more than I needed" > 'apt-get install debfoster' and run it, and you can fairly easily cull your > system. (Just have another window open to do 'apt-cache show [packagename]' > to double-check what unrecognized packages are :^) ) I m

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-25 Thread Jay Strauss
> Perhaps you'd like to try Yoper, especially as it focuses on > speed and compactness. Here's a starting point: > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/2232238 > > I have no experience with it myself, but would love to hear > from anyone who tries it. > > -- Rod Downloaded and installed

Re: [vox-tech] Sound on the thinkpad [not solved]

2004-09-25 Thread Jay Strauss
> You don't understand. The init script is invoked on > shutdown to save the mixer settings to a configuration file, > and on bootup to restore them. So to see it work, you have > to run a mixer to enable sound, make sure the init script > will run on shutdown and bootup, and then reboot. > > If

Re: [vox-tech] Sound on the thinkpad [not solved]

2004-09-25 Thread Jay Strauss
> With ALSA you need an init script to restore saved mixer > settings on bootup. On my Gentoo systems it's called > "alsasound" - perhaps you already have one and just need to > enable it. > > Solved yet? :-) > > -- Rod I have a bunch of snd-* in my lsmod, so I guess I'm using ALSA. I have a "a

Re: [vox-tech] Sound on the thinkpad [not solved]

2004-09-25 Thread Jay Strauss
> > I installed alsa-base, alsa-oss, aumix > > I adjusted aumix volume and got sound. I don't know if I needed the > alsa stuff or not. How would I know if I'm using ALSA or not? > Spoke too soon. After rebooting my sound is gone. Something like a sound driver or something must not be getting

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