Re: [vox-tech] Postfix question: restricting domains

2007-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Wes Hardaker wrote: >> "RSC" == Richard S Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RSC> Is there a quick and dirty way of configuring PostFix so that it can only > RSC> deliver mail to addresses within a particular domain? Our system has a > RSC> number of email addresses in our database, but

Re: [vox-tech] bash scripting question

2007-04-25 Thread Micah Cowan
Cylar Z wrote: Hey programming gurus... I want to write a script which takes a block of text and extracts any numbers which match a 123.456.789.012 pattern. I am not looking for any numbers in particular (so I don't think the grep command will be of much help) but rather, any set of numbers th

Re: [vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-26 Thread Micah Cowan
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:36 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Fri 26 Jan 07, 8:39 AM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > My float.h simply defines DBL_EPSILON to __DBL_EPSILON__. There does not > > appear to be an inclusion of some other file, or a definition of &g

Re: [vox-tech] location of DBL_EPSILON definition

2007-01-26 Thread Micah Cowan
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 08:24 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Where is DBL_EPSILON defined? I thought it was in float.h. But I've looked > at float.h in: > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include >/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include > > and neither one actually defined it.

Re: [vox-tech] C preprocessor - "soft reference"?

2007-01-18 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:20 -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: > #define CHECK_FOR_NULLITITY(var) \ > if ( (var) == NULL ) \ > { \ > printf("%s is null.\n", #var); \ > exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \ > } Forgot to point out, that sinc

Re: [vox-tech] C preprocessor - "soft reference"?

2007-01-18 Thread Micah Cowan
Absolutely! See below :) On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 15:32 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > The variable p and the variable's name "p" need to be passed to the macro > function to test for nullness and then to print some message involving the > variable's name. > > Is there a crafty way of doing this

Re: [vox-tech] strerror deprecated?

2006-12-26 Thread Micah Cowan
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 16:46 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > For the record, strerror_r() isn't implemented in VC++, but it does appear > to be a drop in replacement for strerror_s(). > > BTW, when you say that all the error messages are a line long, are you > speaking pragmatically or from a sta

Re: [vox-tech] strerror deprecated?

2006-12-26 Thread Micah Cowan
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 12:30 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to write portable/correct code between Linux and MS Visual C++. > > The cl.exe compiler is telling me that "strerror() is deprecated". Is that > true? I never heard such a thing. Tried Googling and couldn't find a

Standards sticklership [Re: [vox-tech] Fwd: css: cell width and height]

2006-12-17 Thread Micah Cowan
> From: Peter Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm always amazed that I aced through a year of quantum field theory but CSS > continually baffles me to no end. > > If I have some html tables, and set the height and width CSS property for > each td element, is it guaranteed that each cell in each t

Re: [vox-tech] apache2: NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost

2006-11-18 Thread Micah Cowan
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:05 -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 00:31 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Why is the NameVirtualHost directive necessary and how do I use it? ... > I imagine one might want to add *:443 for virtual hosts on the https > p

Re: [vox-tech] apache2: NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost

2006-11-18 Thread Micah Cowan
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 00:31 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Why is the NameVirtualHost directive necessary and how do I use it? Although I've pretty much always used named virtual hosts, I've not known about this command (or forgot it long ago). It appears to be set up for named hosts by defaul

Re: [vox-tech] adding line numbers to an HTML file

2006-10-26 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 15:13 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:25, Micah Cowan wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 14:23 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > wondering if there is a simple way to add line numb

Re: [vox-tech] adding line numbers to an HTML file

2006-10-26 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 14:23 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > Hi everyone, > > wondering if there is a simple way to add line numbers to every non-html tag > in a webpage: > > here is a dirty hack that does not work very well: > > lynx -source http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/31

Re: [vox-tech] Apache and group permissions

2006-10-06 Thread Micah Cowan
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 14:47 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 14:38 -0700, Rod Roark wrote: > > Replying to myself: > > > > On Friday 06 October 2006 13:35, Rod Roark wrote: > > > I have a very puzzling (to me) problem. I'm working with a Mandr

Re: [vox-tech] Apache and group permissions

2006-10-06 Thread Micah Cowan
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 14:38 -0700, Rod Roark wrote: > Replying to myself: > > On Friday 06 October 2006 13:35, Rod Roark wrote: > > I have a very puzzling (to me) problem. I'm working with a Mandriva > > box running Apache 2.0.54. It runs as user nobody with its group ID > > set to -1 -- i.e. ht

Re: [vox-tech] Apache and group permissions

2006-10-06 Thread Micah Cowan
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:35 -0700, Rod Roark wrote: > However, as you have probably guessed, the PHP script cannot read them. > If I "chmod o+r /var/spool/fax/doneq/q157" then it can. If I exec the > "whoami" command within the script it reports "nobody", as expected. > I did restart Apache after

Re: [vox-tech] Environment variables in make

2006-10-06 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:42 -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Richard Harke wrote: > > I am trying to modify a makefile to have a few lines > > which are conditional on being on ia64. I found a > > variable in my environment HOSTTYPE=ia64 > > that I thought I could use. In the makefile I have > > ifeq

Re: [vox-tech] date question

2006-09-28 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:31 -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Oh, wait. I think I know. I already have date aliased to > >$ alias | grep date >alias date='date +'\''%a %b %d %l:%M %p'\''' > > So I'll bet if I do this, it'll work: > >$ date +%Y >date: extra operand `+%Y' >Tr

Re: [vox-tech] date question

2006-09-28 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:44 -0700, jim stockford wrote: > which distro and what release? > $ # suggests BASH, generally sh is a link to bash, > # is there a /bin/sh program for real, not just a symlink? Well, it'd be hubris to call a program simply "sh", as if it were /the/ sh... but origina

Re: [vox-tech] GUI mail client recommendation

2005-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Troy Arnold wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:12:20AM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: Perhaps I will try Kmail next, but I think I may go back to mutt as my main e-mail client: I never had any problems with it; it always did what I wanted. It'll be a little clunky to use it in reading HTML mes

Re: [vox-tech] GUI mail client recommendation

2005-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Troy Arnold wrote: At one time I played around a lot with Sylpheed. I liked it. It is highly customizable and fast, but the killer feature for me (at the time I was coding something that parsed and processed email attachments) was that it would let me easily resend/edit a message, attachments and

Re: [vox-tech] GUI mail client recommendation

2005-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Micah, before I take the plunge, I need to ask because I think we have similar tastes in apps -- why doesn't Thunderbird make you happy? There have been some very annoying quirks: There have been occaisions where, for some reason, it doesn't realize that it has already fet

Re: [vox-tech] GUI mail client recommendation

2005-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I'm very particular about the tools I use, but if there are any mutt lovers here who also use a point and click MUA, then whatever makes you happy will prolly also make me happy too. Currently, Thunderbird does not make me happy. I'm planning on switching to something else

Re: [vox-tech] vnc terminal only

2005-04-18 Thread Micah Cowan
tech_dev(Alex Mandel) wrote: Well I was hopeful the solution made sense, but not quite. Now instead of a greenish background and a terminal window I can move, I have a grey background and the terminal window is stuck. Here's what I've got: #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey x-t

Re: [vox-tech] Self-replacing license [was Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed]

2005-04-04 Thread Micah Cowan
Rick Moen wrote: Excuse me, but that's not what the clause in question says: In the absence of an express transfer of the copyright or of any rights under it, the owner of copyright in the collective work is presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and distributing th

Re: [vox-tech] Self-replacing license [was Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed]

2005-04-04 Thread Micah Cowan
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Bill Kendrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I THINK Micah is saying... or, at least, the concern >I< can think of having, as a developer of GPL software, is if I create something under GPL 2 with the "or later" clause, get dozens of contributions by others, and then GPL 3 come

Re: [vox-tech] Self-replacing license [was Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed]

2005-04-04 Thread Micah Cowan
Rick Moen wrote: It's their interpretation of a specific sentence in 17 USC 201 that I find extremely questionable. My point was that it _is_ the way copyright law is applied, as a result of a couple of hundred years of caselaw. Now, I'm sorry if that differs from what a lot of programmers assumed

Re: [vox-tech] Self-replacing license [was Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed]

2005-04-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Micah Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): As an /author/, I elect GPLv2 (no "or later"). As an author, you have no downside from "or later" if FSF issues a proprietary-leaning GPLv3, because (1) your recipients can always reject it and elect GPLv2, and (2

Re: [vox-tech] Self-replacing license [was Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed]

2005-04-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Micah Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rearranged to suit my purposes. > >>The beef I have with the "at your option" part is that you are placing >>the future of your code entirely within the hands of the FSF. Now, maybe >>those are good hands. B

[vox-tech] Self-replacing license [was Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed]

2005-04-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Henry House wrote: Do you have a URL that you could share? The prank seems to have been taken down already. I don't think CNN ever had that prank. I think it was entirely vox-tech's, courtesy of Mr Salzman. :-) Linux is licensed under the GPL, version 2 (i.e., 2 and 2 only, not "version 2 or at y

Re: [vox-tech] Urgent news: Linux may be relicensed

2005-04-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Bob Scofield wrote: I can't find anything about this on the CNN website. And judging from the two replies to this message I don't know if this is serious. It wasn't. I was almost willing to accept it at first, but even then, I knew one simple fact: no matter what Linus' intentions might be, it i

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Micah Cowan
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:58:08AM -0800, Henry House wrote: Otherwise, Linux on a Mac is pretty much indistinguishable from Linux on any other platform. Good luck! I believe Linus has recently switched from Intel-compatible arch to PowerPC (a Mac). I think I read that in Lin

Re: [vox-tech] xhost+: Why you should NEVER DO THAT

2005-03-18 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: However, it should be pointed out that once someone gets access to your LAN, even ssh, sshd and gnupg are all suspects. I disagree. Were this the case, then you could not use ssh or sshd over the internet; or gnupg while connected to the internet. There's little differenc

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Mark K. Kim wrote: BTW, John, you can add a hostname after the '+' sign to allow connections only from that computer. Example: $xhost +remote_host_ip_or_name which would be the next next best thing to ssh -X and MIT magic cookie thingy. This is still fairly insecure on the internet, however, as

Re: [vox-tech] seq command on Mac OS X

2005-03-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Dylan Beaudette wrote: ok... this might be a dumb question... but as my home machine is now an OS X machine, a few little things are driving me nuts... the lack of the "seq" command is one of those things. I have tried searching for the source code for the version that is normally found on mo

Re: [vox-tech] Spyware For Linux?

2005-03-15 Thread Micah Cowan
Bob Scofield wrote: A friend of mine was recently complaining that her Windows computer was too slow. She said it ran much faster after running a spyware program. I have to assume that what your friend meant was spyware-/removing/ program, and that you mis-read the UCSC quote. There is no w

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

2005-03-10 Thread Micah Cowan
Richard S. Crawford wrote: Yeah. Oh, yeah. More than you can imagine. I doubt it: I've had to work with the sucker before. Had to make a living... It's great for doing really simple things. Anything beyond that, and you're better off using practically anything else. Fortunately, we're going to

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

2005-03-10 Thread Micah Cowan
Richard S. Crawford wrote: We've got some .pdf documents on our website that we'd rather people not view by directly typing the URL into the browser; we want them to get there via a link. My boss is convinced that we can do this using the same tricks with the .htaccess file that can be used to prev

Re: [vox-tech] (Moved from [vox]) Errors in software compilation

2005-03-09 Thread Micah Cowan
Dylan Beaudette wrote: After copying the GDAL-specific headers to /usr/include: find . -name "*.h" -exec cp '{}' /usr/include/ \; .. make seems to be chugging along fine... I wouldn't have recommended that. At the very least, a -i option to cp would seem appropriate, to ensure against clobbering e

Re: [vox-tech] Cygwin's Identity Crisis

2005-03-08 Thread Micah Cowan
Richard S. Crawford wrote: I love using Cygwin; it's a great tool, since I find that manipulating files is much easier for me from the CLI than with a GUI. This morning I SSH'ed into a remote box, though, and executed Vi; instead of pulling up the editor, though, I got this message: I don't know wh

Re: [vox-tech] inkscape

2005-03-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Henry House wrote: [Inkscape's] native format is a subset of SVG. [] indicates modificiation of original quote. IIRC, sodipodi, which I found out a few days ago became Inkscape(?), could read in any SVG and would preserve markup it didn't fully understand, even through modifications and changes.

Re: [vox-tech] PHP Question: Includes and Variables

2005-02-25 Thread Micah Cowan
Richard S. Crawford wrote: Here's the situation. My script, page1.php, calls a script in another directory called config.php via require_once. config.php declares several variables which should be accessible in page1.php. For example: --- http://myphpsite.net/dir1/page1.php require_o

Re: [vox-tech] EPS file size

2005-02-25 Thread Micah Cowan
Dylan Beaudette wrote: quick question: i have heard about possible ways to make an EPS file smaller...but I can't remember where I heard it, and how to do it. Any ideas? Well, since PostScript is a programming language, the ways of compressing an EPS program are virtually infinite; it's much lik

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

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:15:13AM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: My current biggest pet peeve about IE's mishandling of things would include its broken support for absolute positioning. Should be relative to the enclosing box, but instead is relative to the window c

Re: [vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
David Hummel wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:40:21AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Micah Cowan wrote: Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I forgot to list another major annoyance for me: I'm so used to emacs style editing in bash, that ctrl-u is burned into my brain as &

Re: [vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
David Hummel wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:36:06AM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez wrote: Actually, the Mozilla Foundation folks are all fairly geeky-which explains the vi command. On the other hand, this same text search feature is available using Control-F (Or

Re: [vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez wrote: Norm, Actually, the Mozilla Foundation folks are all fairly geeky-which explains the vi command. On the other hand, this same text search feature is available using Control-F (Or Command-F on Macs). Though that doesn't excuse the lack of documentation you mentio

Re: [vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I forgot to list another major annoyance for me: I'm so used to emacs style editing in bash, that ctrl-u is burned into my brain as "clear line". Unfortunately, it displays the page source on FF. I've clicked away more page sources than I care to admit. C-u is not an emacs

Re: [vox-tech] Email vs. FAX Security

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: It would seem easy for an ISP's system administrator to use the root password to read the email of the ISP's customers. ( I know I can log in as root on my Linux system and use the "more" command to read my downloaded email.) Does anybody here believe that ISP system admi

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

2005-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
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 wonderf

Re: [vox-tech] Copyright and license

2005-01-24 Thread Micah Cowan
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Suppose someone writes a useful document. They put a copyright notice onto the document, but no license. They put it on the web, for free, and it stays there for years. This implies the right to download, read, and do the nor

Re: [vox-tech] Copyright and license

2005-01-23 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote (in reply to Richard): Thanks for the two cents! One of the reasons why I didn't think the 2nd question was clear is because I have audio CD's that actually DO say something to the effect of "this is a prerelease, and this CD must be surrendered if we ask for it". But then a

Re: [vox-tech] Copyright and license

2005-01-23 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Suppose someone writes a useful document. They put a copyright notice onto the document, but no license. They put it on the web, for free, and it stays there for years. At some point I download a copy of that document. The *intention* (although not explicitly stated) is

Re: [vox-tech] CVS problem: .cvsignore is being ignored

2005-01-16 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Hi all, I have a file: foo.tex in CVS. I want to modify foo.tex on my local hard drive, but keep the repository copy "as-is". In other words, I don't want my changes to foo.tex to be added to the repository version. If I place 'foo.tex' into .cvsignore (located in the r

[vox-tech] perl: quoting strings with spaces

2003-06-21 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman writes: > sorry for the line length. > > when using a quoting operator like qw and friends, how does one one > quote a string with spaces? in the code snippet below, my code chokes > on "El Dorado". > > i also tried > > foreach my $county (qw/Amador Calaveras q+El Do

[vox-tech] FW: Your Amazon.com Inquiry

2003-02-04 Thread Micah Cowan
> XP. > > The problem appears to be due to the fact that niether the web page > nor the > server are sending information about the character set in use for > this web > page, and MSIE assumes that UTF-8 is being used, rather than probably > Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1. > > A fix for this would be to cause the server to fill in information > about the > character encoding in the HTTP Content-Type field, e.g.: > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > > or to replace 8-bit characters with equivalent HTML character or > entity > references, such as: > > Mary GrandPré > > Hope this helps, > Micah Cowan > > > --- End Message ---

[vox-tech] RE: Your Amazon.com Inquiry

2003-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
t; > The problem appears to be due to the fact that niether the web page > nor the > server are sending information about the character set in use for > this web > page, and MSIE assumes that UTF-8 is being used, rather than probably > Windows-1

Re: [vox-tech] PHP Include File Problem

2002-12-09 Thread Micah Cowan
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 03:04 PM, Alan H. Lake wrote: Your problem doesn't appear to me to be a PHP Include file problem as much as an XML formatting problem. I'm more familiar with PHP than I am with XML. The statement seems to be your problem because the code that follows appears t

Re: [vox-tech] web page constantly reloading

2002-12-04 Thread Micah Cowan
The following code was found in the document: could this be the culprit?



If Opera's JavaScript implementation doesn't do what they expect - i.e., self != top is alw

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

2002-11-25 Thread Micah Cowan
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Bill Kendrick wrote: That 'do...while' loop will get slower and slower and slower until its painful, once you're down to the last few elements. But, on fast machines with a small array, it ain't so bad. :^) If it's possible for your scheme, I'd prob

Re: [vox-tech] mysql and linux - tech help

2002-11-19 Thread Micah Cowan
On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Andrew Stein wrote: hi, I am looking for some tech help with mysql on my linux computers. basicly, I am getting the following error ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) What I want to do is

Re: [vox-tech] Omsoft transparent HTTP proxy

2002-11-18 Thread Micah Cowan
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 02:17 PM, Ken Bloom wrote: ---ORIGINAL MESSAGE--- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:43:20 -0800 From: Samuel Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Omsoft transparent HTTP proxy Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:4

[vox-tech] dyanamic memory panacea

2002-07-16 Thread Micah Cowan
Micah Cowan writes: > If you're curious, the one conformant C99 implementation is available > on Linux. It is not Free, however - either as in beer or speech. I > don't own it, but have a good deal of respect for the developer, and > have often considered it. Also, th

[vox-tech] dyanamic memory panacea

2002-07-16 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman writes: > ok, not a panacea, but pretty cool nevertheless... > > i was doing some reading and found a function alloca() which allocates > dynamic memory like malloc() and friends, but it gets memory from the > current stack frame instead of the heap. > > the obvious adva

Re: [vox-tech] Question: mod_dav.1.0.3 + apache.1.3.26 and CR/LFissues w/ MacOS+MSWin

2002-07-06 Thread Micah Cowan
ME writes: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, ME wrote: > > I did not want to have it adjust all text/* files because some (uu, hqx, > > etc) may be better off not modified. This allows me to specify which > > text/? to map over to alter. I may change to text/* over the long term, > > but for now, extenti

Re: [vox-tech] Question: mod_dav.1.0.3 + apache.1.3.26 and CR/LFissues w/ MacOS+MSWin

2002-07-06 Thread Micah Cowan
ME writes: > > You shouldn't use extensions at all - you should be basing it on the > > MIME type, no? (for receiving, that is - not sending, where the MIME > > type will be based on the extension anyway). > > I did not want to have it adjust all text/* files because some (uu, hqx, > etc)

Re: [vox-tech] html question

2002-07-05 Thread Micah Cowan
Jim Angstadt writes: > > Table rows may be grouped into a table head, table > foot, and one or more table body sections, using the > THEAD, TFOOT and TBODY elements, respectively. This > division enables user agents to support scrolling of > table bodies independently of the table head and

Re: [vox-tech] Question: mod_dav.1.0.3 + apache.1.3.26 and CR/LFissues w/ MacOS+MSWin

2002-07-05 Thread Micah Cowan
ME writes: > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: > > HTTP (RFC 2616) specifically excludes "text/*" media types from having > > to be in canonical form, in sect. 3.7.1. Therefore, your arguments are > > unfortunately incorrect; a server is 100% within its rig

Re: [vox-tech] Question: mod_dav.1.0.3 + apache.1.3.26 and CR/LFissues w/ MacOS+MSWin

2002-07-04 Thread Micah Cowan
Jeff Newmiller writes: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, ME wrote: > > > Attempts to copy *.txt files created on the server (from scratch in emacs, > > or vi or jov) lead to files when copied through WebDAV "MS Internet > > Folders" to the windows desktop lead to files (when opened with > > notepad) th

[vox-tech] advanced gdb question

2002-06-14 Thread Micah Cowan
Peter Jay Salzman writes: > hey there, > > every tutorial on gdb says "compile with -g" within the first few lines. > but what if you don't? or rather, what if you can't compile with -g? > > but how do you inspect arguments, local variables, etc. in a given frame > if you don't know the

Re: [vox-tech] Which cipher to use?

2002-06-05 Thread Micah Cowan
Mark K. Kim writes: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: > > > Bill Broadley writes: > > > Xor is 100% secure if your key is as long as your data, otherwise known > > > as the otp = one time pad. If it's less, it is indeed rather easy to break

Re: [vox-tech] Which cipher to use?

2002-06-05 Thread Micah Cowan
Ryan writes: > > Correct, a passphrase would violate the xor sequence longer then the data > > rule. Passing PID or time as a seed to random would also be a very > > bad idea. Md5 checksums of random noise (transistors, radio reception > > of static, radioactive decay etc) is the level of r

Re: [vox-tech] Which cipher to use?

2002-06-04 Thread Micah Cowan
Bill Broadley writes: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:39:32PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > > This is really picky of course, but the other criteria for "secure use > > of Xor", in addition to having a key at least as long as your data, > > is: > > > >

Re: [vox-tech] Which cipher to use?

2002-06-04 Thread Micah Cowan
Bill Broadley writes: > Xor is 100% secure if your key is as long as your data, otherwise known > as the otp = one time pad. If it's less, it is indeed rather easy to break. This is really picky of course, but the other criteria for "secure use of Xor", in addition to having a key at least as

[vox-tech] External IDE Drive Converter

2002-05-31 Thread Micah Cowan
David Margolis writes: > Has anybody had any success using a USB or parallel IDE drive converter. > I've got both an extra hard drive and an extra 4x2x24 CD-RW I'd love to > do something creative and portable with. One or both > of those would go nicely in one of several available external dr

Re: [vox-tech] xlib question

2002-05-21 Thread Micah Cowan
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:24, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > what's the difference between an xlib Window, Display and Drawable? as in: > > Window win; > Display dpy; > Drawable drw; > > pete I'm quite far from an xlib expert; but I do have volume 1 of the O'reilly series handy... Drawables consis

Re: [vox-tech] Linux's Vulnerability to E-mail Viruses

2002-04-24 Thread Micah Cowan
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 21:21, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I'm operating under the assumption that while viruses for Linux that > spread like Windows viruses are very rare, there are still some out > there. > > So, given that, what level of vigilance is necessary against incoming > viruses in a Li

Re: [vox-tech] writing free getopt, ran into a dilemma...

2002-04-01 Thread Micah Cowan
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 00:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I checked my copy of source which I got via "apt-get source glibc" > with timestamps shown [way] below. Both my header and source files have > references to the 'GNU Lesser General Public License': > > glibc-2.2.5/posix/getopt.c > #Th

Re: [vox-tech] writing free getopt, ran into a dilemma...

2002-03-31 Thread Micah Cowan
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 04:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I often had find alot of interesting (to me) material while digging > around on things like this. I would be fabulous if someone could > point me at a online source for the ANSI C or ISO C standards. It would > be cool to be able to site

Re: [vox-tech] writing free getopt, ran into a dilemma...

2002-03-31 Thread Micah Cowan
> > Intermixing options with arguments is a GNU > > extension, and GNU pulls some mildly dirty tricks to get it (such as > > permuting argv, despite the fact that it's elements are declared const). > > Micah, > > I am slightly confused, "it's elements are declared const", I've been > having a

Re: [vox-tech] writing free getopt, ran into a dilemma...

2002-03-28 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 00:35, Mark K. Kim wrote: > Keywords: getopt, license issues, GPL, BSD, optind > I implemented everything. optarg, opterr, and optopt work exactly > identical to GNU's getopt. However, optind is a little different because > my library doesn't reshuffle argv[] like GNU's ge

Re: [vox-tech] Where setjmp/longjmp went after C

2002-03-16 Thread Micah Cowan
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 13:25, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > The attached two files demonstrate a rudimentary "structured > setjmp/longjmp" that mimics the "exceptions" of Ada and C++ (and other > languages). I wrote an article about this in spring 1991 for C User's > Journal, and my bad luck was that tw

Re: [vox-tech] help with signals and C

2002-03-14 Thread Micah Cowan
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:52, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > looking through the man pages, i found that signal returns a type > sighandler_t: > >sighandler_t signal(int signum, sighandler_t handler); Actually, no it doesn't. If you look more carefully, the manpage only uses sighandler_t (an ar

Re: [vox-tech] quality of Docbook -> HTML conversion?

2002-03-06 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 16:39, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Keywords: LaTeX, Docbook, HTML, converters, conversion Is it enough to leave the above line in, or do I have to reiterate it? (Or, is it enough that I'm responding to it?) > > I was > > wondering

Re: [vox-tech] reading files into a web page

2002-02-03 Thread Micah Cowan
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 23:44, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > jim, just out of curiosity, in my hypothetical webpage: > > >Bulletin Board > > >`cat /www/pcgm/bulletins` > > > > > where would the perl code go? (i am a total newbie in dynamic webpage > content). sorry

Re: [vox-tech] reading files into a web page

2002-02-02 Thread Micah Cowan
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 03:14, Mark K. Kim wrote: > SSI can do that, like this: > >... > > > >... > > I *think* that's the right syntax. It's been eons since I've used SSI. > Depending on the host, you may need to name your file with a special > extension, like ".phtml" or

Re: [vox-tech] C question: global vs local const

2002-01-18 Thread Micah Cowan
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:42:11AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > You're initializing K with a variable. Because globals are calculated at > > > > c

Re: [vox-tech] complex C question

2002-01-18 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:25:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm not sure if anyone here has been playing around with tgmath.h, but > here it goes: > >#include >int main(void) >{ > long double complex a; > a = 4.0L + I*2.0L; > return 0; >} > > does gdb

Re: [vox-tech] DocBook

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:33:33PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > MOn Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:31:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 January 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: > > > > In conclusion: If

Re: [vox-tech] C question: global vs local const

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:04:38PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > when ratio and K are defined externally, gcc complains about a > non-constant initializer: > >const double ratio = 2.0L; >const double K = ratio; > >int main(void) >{ > return 0; >} > > however, wh

Re: [vox-tech] DocBook

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
MOn Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:31:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 17 January 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: > > > As to Office - I haven't used a Word Processor in a couple years. Not > > nearly enough power to 'em. Sure, the interface is convenient, but >

Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my own box

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:20:50PM -0800, ME wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: > > I disagree. Leave it in, as I suspect it will be clear from the final > > resulting thread what happens to these sorts of offenders - let it be > > a warning to futu

Re: building Mozilla (was RE: [vox-tech] stable web browser?!?)

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:28:36PM -0800, Holland, Matt wrote: > OK, so now I'm interested in building Mozilla... a non-debug, optimized > version as Gabe suggested. I downloaded the source for 0.9.5, read the Unix > build docs on mozilla.org, and still find myself a bit at a loss. Any > chance

Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my own box

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:09:43PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: > Preface: I'm not starting a war, but > > I have my linux (HP, Sun et al) machines where I run Oracle, write my perl > scripts, monkey with DBI/DBD/Mod_perl stuff, but I like the M$ Office suite, > IE, and outlook. > > I don't lov

Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my own box

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:45:06PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i sent some rather strong words to takashi about this email. hopefully, > he won't send any more drivel like this again. > > this kind of email should be deleted from the archives. > > pete I disagree. Leave it in, as I susp

Re: [p@dirac.org: Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my own box]

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:53:15AM -0800, Gabriel Rosa wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ajay wrote: > > > * Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020116 21:13], about > > > > :mentioned sending to him. This is, in my opinion, a very serious breach > > :of standard internet protocol. > > > > Please

Re: [p@dirac.org: Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my own box]

2002-01-17 Thread Micah Cowan
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:49:10PM -0800, Ajay wrote: > briefly.. Hola.. > > * Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020116 21:13], about > > :mentioned sending to him. This is, in my opinion, a very serious breach > :of standard internet protocol. > > Please go ahead and read laws on email

Re: [vox-tech] stable web browser?!?

2002-01-16 Thread Micah Cowan
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:29:07PM -0800, Holland, Matt wrote: > Hey all, > > After spending the last hour killing and restarting Netscape, then Mozilla, > I find myself longing for a stable web browser. Does such an animal exist? > If so, I'd like to know about it. Even a version of Netscape o

Re: [vox-tech] docbook question

2002-01-16 Thread Micah Cowan
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:52:48PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > how do i reference a previous section in a docbook document? > > > A lesson in logic > >ish bibleo outen doten baba ba deeten datten. hin dickey > wah-wah. > > > > > > How to apply logic > >In sec

Re: [vox-tech] totally confused about C promotion

2002-01-14 Thread Micah Cowan
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:46:59PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's not sqrt that is producing nonsense, but rather printf. Printf > > accepts any types in its arguments, and it's your responsibility to make > > sure that the data types match up wi

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