Not really obvious to me either, tho I have to disagree with Pete, the telecom
job could be a ton of fun, at least for awhile.
I'd probably go with the higher salary or if they're equal, probably the device
driver job, if your friend enjoys system programming or the telecom if your
friend doe
I don't know much about clump, but I have used scons to build some things.
http://www.scons.org/
Mike
From: vox-tech-boun...@lists.lugod.org [vox-tech-boun...@lists.lugod.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Jay Salzman [...@dirac.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:44:52PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote:
> Using loopback and cryptsetup (which uses the device mapper)
> I created an encrypted file system about the size of a CDRom. I put
> some files into this file system then I burned a CD using cdrecord.
> No error indications so far. No
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:00:36AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Wed 21 Jul 04, 1:36 AM, David Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:00:39AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> > >
> > > A headcount is not the same as a roster... neither Peter's nor
> > > Michael's ver
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:44:47PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Total newbie here. I know less about SQL than I do about xkb. ;-)
>
> I have two tables, with the same structure. Call them [Fall 2003] and
> [Spring 2004]. They each hold data about enrolled students. One of the
> fields o
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:40:57PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> as for reinstalling, thanks but no thanks. ;)
I would strongly urge a reinstall in this case. In any case where a
system was compromised or even suspected to be compromised, and you
cannot(by use of digital signatures or othe
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:19:55PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Ever have the feeling that you shouldn't have gotten out of bed?
>
> One of my systems, lucifer, is a dual boot (Debian/win2k). The only
> thing I use win2k for is to play Serious Sam, Serious Sam Second
> Encounter, and Syberia
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> C# is a relatively new programming language from Microsoft used to program
> the .NET framework (among others). .NET is for network programming, I
> think. Mono is a Linux implementation of .NET... from the Gnome team, I
> think. I g
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:04:26AM -0700, David Hummel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 07:58:13PM -0700, Michael Wenk wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 28 April 2004 05:29 pm, David Hummel wrote:
> > >
> > > I do agree that the decision should be based on features that you
> > > actually need (and many
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:03:01AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> thanks tim,
>
> i'll give it a try. i have to say, i'm a little disheartened with
> mysql. i just want it to "work" and be secure.
Well, what do you want it to do ? It pretty well works out of the box,
but it requires a bit of
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:58:45AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i see how to create new mysql users and new mysql databases, but how
> does one print all mysql users on a given host? is there something like
> an /etc/shadoow for mysql?
No. MySQL keeps all its password and user information i
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:01:25AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> What is the program/package which provides the 'mail' command that can
> be used to send simple emails from shell? It must be very basic, but my
> gentoo install is missing it.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:47:23AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Fri 21 Nov 03, 9:15 AM, David Margolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
> > > >wi
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:12:08AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> > It is time for me to move away from RedHat. At the moment, I am
> > considering Gentoo and Debian (with the libranet installer).
> >
> > A distribution specific feat
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> It is time for me to move away from RedHat. At the moment, I am
> considering Gentoo and Debian (with the libranet installer).
>
> A distribution specific feature I consider important is the method for
> installing and updating
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:16:51PM -0800, Nicole TWN wrote:
> At 06:06 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote:
> >what the program is about: you may input a decimal number and the program
> >will convert it into a dual number... after this it will determine the
> >length of the dual number (bestimme_laenge() )
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:57:07PM -0800, Jan W wrote:
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > dear jeff, mike and jan,
> >
> > new information. i should mention this, because it's relevent. we have
> > three main computers:
> >
> > satan linux my main system. has printer.
> > navalle li
:
> > Last time I heard 128 pins = 128 pins.
> >
> > But 128 pins, rotated 180 degrees so that the notch-key is in the wrong
> > place, and then forced in with 'Armstrong Torque(tm)' is contra-indicated in
> > the motherboard user manual.
> >
> > >
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:48:29AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2003 07:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > can you use faster DIMMs, say 2100PC, on a machine rated for slower DIMMs?
>
> Yes, as far as I know.
>
Id be careful of voltage requirements. Also, I know this goes wi
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:25:27AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm trying to set up samba to share files between linux (satan) and
> win2k (lucifer).
>
> earlier, when double clicking "computers near me", i'd get both lucifer
> and satan, but double clicking satan gave an error that i can't
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:08:42PM -0800, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very
> > regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS
> > itself was e
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:34:19PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> I've been looking around for a time-saving tool for
> prototyping and/or developing web-based database
> applications, preferably with PostgreSQL support.
>
> Browsing Freshmeat, I found a thing called Gedafe which
> looks really interes
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:49:20AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> DivX's compression is definitely better than MPEG2. And somehow MPEG4 and
> DivX is related but I'm not exactly sure how. They seem to either share
> compression techniques or have the ability to embed one format in the
> other, or i
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:37:51PM -0800, Walther The Writer wrote:
> And if so, probably stupid question, but what are they in MB? Also,
> what size of one cylinder when using fdisk? Any comments are appreciated.
Since the df question has been answered, I'll take a stab at the fdisk
question. Th
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:32:27PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:27:31PM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:16:27PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
> > >
> > > I have something similar, 3 PCI NICs in a p2 450 box.
> &g
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:16:27PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
>
> I have something similar, 3 PCI NICs in a p2 450 box.
>
> NIC 1 handles the DSL line.
> NIC 2 handles the internal network.
> NIC 3 handles the wireless network
>
> there isn't anything all that complicated about it. i use iptable
Here's a networking question. I have a linux server(AMD Athlon 900)
with 2 NICs in it now. It is currently used as a network firewall/NAT
server. I have a spare hub(it may even be a switch) laying around, and
I am thinking of segmenting my network. I have several game systems I
want to put up
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:04:44AM -0700, Marc Elliot Hall wrote:
> As expected (and reported in my unresponded-to-post to this list on
> 09/15/2003), the hard disk I keep my media collection on has failed.
> Since this disk was the first one physically installed in my Mandrake
> box, it was /de
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:58:13PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:17:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Thu 25 Sep 03, 10:46 AM, Rob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:22:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu 25 Sep 03, 12:09 PM, Donald Childs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Has this been submitted to Citibank or the
>
> it's been reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've been toying around with
> reporting it to FBI since i'm fairly s
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> I think what you've described is the URI. URL is supposed to be a subset
> of URI, whatever that means. I personally don't care but I wouldn't mind
> knowing what that means if anyone else knows.
I referred to an RFC that desribes U
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:23:11AM -0700, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:30:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >http://
> >www.citibank.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3/
> >?IYTEw
> >4eVTtbH1w6CpDrT
>
> Maybe a way for places like Citibank, Paypal and other fraud prone sites
> to
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:17:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu 25 Sep 03, 10:46 AM, Rob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:24:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > i didn't know this. so, an URL is of the form:
> > >
> > > URL = user:[EMAIL PR
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:49:21AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:36 am, Michael J Wenk wrote:
> ...
> > It is bad to have root's homedirectory on /. What I do is move it to
> > /home/root and symlink /root to it.
>
> This would be a pro
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:14:06AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Your root is taking up too much space. My primary system uses only 125MB
> in root, even though I don't have a separate /tmp. I'd look into why it's
> so big.
>
> Some ideas:
>1. Unmount everything but root (easier yet, run in si
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:05:41AM -0700, Tim Riley wrote:
> I'm not a Sys-admin -- just a long-time user -- but I like this partition
> mapping
> because /usr, /tmp, and /var are on their own partitions. I see there's plenty
> of
> room in /usr, but / (root) is filled up (yuck).
As a long time
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:57:18AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 08:48 am, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Java onto my server at home so that I can start
> > mucking around with JSP and Tomcat. Unfortunately, the Java SDK refuses
> > to install, telling
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:03:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue 16 Sep 03, 3:15 PM, Jan W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I have done a bit of burning of DVD+R and +RW media for work here.
> >
> > I use cdrecord-prodvd and xcdroast for the GUI.
> >
> > I have successfully recorded 4.7
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:21:43AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> I'm noticing an apparent bug in NcFTP (3.1.3; Mar 27, 2002)
>
> This works:
>
> $ ftp ftp.server.com
> Name: USERNAME
> 331 User USERNAME okay, need password.
> Password: PASSWORD
> 230 Logged in
>
> And this works:
>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:37:42AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 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! :)
>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:22:06AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> 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 th
Ive not heard of this, and I have been programming C(with malloc) since
1992. I don't see a problem with malloc, in fact the only problem I've seen
is the programmers abusing the poor pointers and never using free. :P
Mike
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with mc on this problem was that it hung. I don't know why, but it
did hang.
Mike
- Original Message -
From: "eric nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Recovering data
> I love mc. It is an editor,
lly supported for ext2 under
> mc. :-/
> (To make matters worse, i think that mc uses the same effective procedure
> as debugfs for "undelete.")
>
> Sorry, hope the news gets better,
> -ME
>
> Michael J Wenk said:
>
> > Okay more details.
> >
> >
s involved in
> doing the backup and the test restore (Samba?).
>
> --
> Rod Roark, Sunset Systems http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> Offering preconfigured Linux computers, custom software and
> remote system administration services.
> Public Key: http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
Hey,
I have a problem where I seem to have lost around
10GB of data from a backup of a PC I have. The file was not rm'd. I
suspect that the program that wrote it trashed it(I admit Im not totally
sure.) What happened was I ran a backup under XP to a netdrive that
resides on my linux sys
What sort of burner do you have? Is it SCSI, or is it IDE, or USB?
Personally, I have a IDE, and the procedure I follow is(as root)
modprobe ide-scsi
modprobe sg
modprobe sr_mod
cdrecord -scanbus
And then it shows my drive. To burn data, you have to first create an iso
with mkisofs, but the gen
In such a vanilla environment, I doubt there would be problems, however in
more mature installations, it can be tricky and sometimes dangerous to
change usernames. I inherited a system that had several apps that were
hardcoded to have a certain user, and then political considerations required
me t
rta tedious.
Ill check out that book sometime soon, thanks for the suggestion.
>
> When I reference an address out side of the above
> range, the packet is routed to the gateway (in this
> case, 192.168.100.1). Otherwise, the packet should
> never cross the gateway.
>
> Marc
I have a question that has cropped up
recently. I have a gamesystem with an ethernet card in it. My old
setup had everything going thru my linux system to the internet. The linux
box has a DHCP and caching DNS server running and it all seemed to work
great. I have had this setup since De
Does VNC have a Mac client? If so, Id go that route...
Mike
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] apple and X forwarding
> i'm stuck for 4 hours at work with hardly anything
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