Re: [vox-tech] Anyone munge "From" in Mutt?

2009-09-24 Thread Mike Simons
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:57:32PM -0700, Bill Kendrick nbs-at-sonic.net > |lugod| wrote: > > I'm subscribed to a couple Google Groups, and Google has my virtual > > email address at one of my domain names (which is simply delivered to > > my /real/ address by my ISP). [...] > > Has anyoen set M

Re: [vox-tech] tags with mutt

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Simons
Disclaimer: I don't use any of the methods discussed here. I did some basic proof of concept tests ... you'll want to test and debug. I've whipped them together tonight while avoiding doing work (and waiting for a batch of cocoa-strawberry ice cream to freeze). On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 05:46:2

Re: [vox-tech] 32 vs. 64

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:03:54PM -0700, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: > I just got a new Poweredge 1850 (Dual Xeon 3.8 GHz, 2 MB RAM, SCSI) and > I am planning to install on it Fedora Core 4. The question is: Should I > use the i386 version or the x86_EM64T? [...] > I am wondering if I wil

Re: [vox-tech] FYI: Trick to get around 2.6.8 kernel "mousedev" bug for Wacom use on Thinkpad T20

2005-10-10 Thread Mike Simons
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:12:20PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Googling some more, I then discovered that there's a bug in the > "mousedev" module in the 2.6.8 Kernel (the latest easily-available in > Debian/Testing at the moment... I don't feel like a Kernel recompile ;^) ): Hi Bill, If you ap

Re: [vox-tech] simple file command question

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:57:24PM -0400, Mike Simons wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Ehrhart, Jay wrote: > > how do you use ll or ls to show the year the file was created? > > ls -l --full-time On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:53:20AM -0700, Henry House wrote: >

Re: [vox-tech] simple file command question

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Ehrhart, Jay wrote: > how do you use ll or ls to show the year the file was created? ls -l --full-time ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

[vox-tech] HOWTO: use iptables on Debian/sarge when running a 64-bit amd kernel

2005-04-30 Thread Mike Simons
I figure documenting these steps here may save some else a little time when they do a google search... since this issue may be around for a while. I did these steps once and the result works for me... haven't checked for typos in the steps below, so be cautious. This might not be the "best" way t

Re: [vox-tech] Mini Howto: resize NTFS with PQDisk (from v1.0 Xandros CDs)

2004-03-21 Thread Mike Simons
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:17:15PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: > > v1.0 Xandros CDs come with a problem called PQDisk, which can be used to > > resize NTFS partitions among others types. > > There's a program called QTParted which also does this, and comes with > Knoppix and some other distributions.

[vox-tech] Mini Howto: resize NTFS with PQDisk (from v1.0 Xandros CDs)

2004-03-21 Thread Mike Simons
v1.0 Xandros CDs come with a problem called PQDisk, which can be used to resize NTFS partitions among others types. If you happen to have a Xandros CD then you can boot up your machine using the cd, switch to a command

[vox-tech] Script to push changes to a directory tree...

2004-03-21 Thread Mike Simons
After the last lugod meeting, Tim asked about a way to "sync" a target directory with some source directory. While most everyone suggested rsync was the way to go, Tim didn't like rsync because it would take "too long". In Tim's case the primary way he modifies the source data set is to renam

Re: [vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-07 Thread Mike Simons
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 05:33:49AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sun 07 Mar 04, 4:06 AM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Well I don't know about our archives stinking... > > grepmail on my 30 meg vox-tech archive takes a few seconds. > > well,

Re: [vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-07 Thread Mike Simons
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:28:26PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sun 07 Mar 04, 12:44 AM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/tt/ > > > > (ps: if using the dvi you'll need to say xdvi -paper usr s.dvi) > > > &g

Re: [vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:19:40PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 04 Mar 04, 3:10 PM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:46:13AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > do you know latex? i produce nice slides with latex, and you

Re: [vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-04 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:46:13AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 04 Mar 04, 1:46 PM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm looking for a way to: > > generate good looking Tables, > > from a Text file source, > > which allows easy Co

[vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-04 Thread Mike Simons
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to: generate good looking Tables, from a Text file source, which allows easy Colorization of rows, columns, or single elements that outputs a common image format (PNG) or PDF. For example pretend I have a bunch of tables that look like this: Run |Before

Re: [vox-tech] Upgrading Perl in Debian

2004-03-04 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:23:28AM -0800, Matt Roper wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:10:35AM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > ... > > If you want to do this, edit the sources.list change all "stable" or > > "woody" words to "testing"... comment out s

Re: [vox-tech] Upgrading Perl in Debian

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:07:43PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > My Debian installation has Perl version 5.6; I'd like to upgrade to > 5.8. Is there a super-easy way to do that (apt-get doesn't seem to be > doing it)? Or a less than thoroughly painful way, at least? It depends on what your

Re: [vox-tech] XFree86 4.4.0 non-GPL compatible

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:33:03AM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote: > On Monday 01 March 2004 06:28, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > the fact of the matter is, nobody was really happy with xfree86 before > > this happened. they were extremely slow, secretive, and seemingly > > rejected patches in a p

Re: [vox-tech] Very slow TCP transfer over loopback

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Simons
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:43:31PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:56:42PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > > pps: if you move the RCVBUF setting to change the "accept_sock" > > instead of the "file", then the problem goes away regardless

[vox-tech] XFree86 4.4.0 non-GPL compatible

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Simons
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:35:23PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On 2004.02.29 18:32, Mike Simons wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:18:38PM -0800, Jim Lowman wrote: > >Xfree86 4.4.0 does have support for the Radeon 9800 video card... > >however it seems that XFree86 recentl

Re: [vox-tech] Very slow TCP transfer over loopback

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Simons
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:54:25PM -0800, Ken Herron wrote: > --On Sunday, February 29, 2004 08:56:42 PM -0500 Mike Simons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- Anyone have a place to look in the RFCs or such that would explain > > why it's waiting, for wha

Re: [vox-tech] Can't get RedHat Enterprise AS to Install (XFree 4.3.0 doesn't support Radeon 9800)

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:18:38PM -0800, Jim Lowman wrote: > I've been attempting to install RH AS 3 on my Dell 8200 after having > done some significant upgrades: [...] > -- installed an ATI Radeon 9800 XT Pro video card > > I suspect that the 9800 is the problem, since the archives show that

[vox-tech] Howto: prune unwanted packages from a Debain system

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:34:13AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > My /home stuff is secure, and I get to install Debian again (yay! practice!) > and hopefully not end up with THREE versions of Python, and tons of games > and other apps I never use, like I saw I had when I was backing up my old > "/"

[vox-tech] Very slow TCP transfer over loopback

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Simons
Hello All, Got a mystery here... transferring data over the loopback interface on a old RHAS 2.1 kernel (2.4.9-e.25enterprise) even a modern 2.6.1 kernel, is _very_ slow. When the SO_RCVBUF is set low. As you can see from the tcpdump below after the session gets going, only one data packet is

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: [vox-tech] Shell Scripting Question: Getting adirectory name from a 'find' result

2003-06-24 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:01:30AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w > > use strict; great! > # traverse the directory tree > find(\&process, $start_dir); > > # change the files in the directory tree > sub process { > > # Only alter files called wwwboard.html >

Re: [vox-tech] ps2 mouse not working

2003-06-24 Thread Mike Simons
--4fNq9Po2wJlmxAaR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:33:48AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Mike Simons wrote: > > Please send output from: > > =3D=

Re: [vox-tech] ps2 mouse not working

2003-06-24 Thread Mike Simons
--IQvoI1rdlCKiYEYW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:24:33AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > My k6-450 died a couple of weeks ago, so I ordered an Athlon 2400+/ASUS > A7S333 mobo/box/power s

Re: [vox-tech] Shell Scripting Question: Getting a directory name froma 'find' result

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Simons
le =3D $file, directory =3D $dir" done Richard, The more complex you make things the more you should look into doing this with perl. Also "print" is not a portable shell command... use "echo" instead when writing shell scripts. Hope this helps, Mike Simons

Re: [vox-tech] perl: quoting strings with spaces

2003-06-21 Thread Mike Simons
--o99acAvKqrTZeiCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:22:17PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > when using a quoting operator like qw and friends, how does one one > quote a string with spac

[vox-tech] How to Break and Join Threads in mutt

2003-06-20 Thread Mike Simons
--JQ29orswtRjjfiJM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:31:10PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > many of use threaded mail readers, and starting a new thread by replying > to an existing thre

Re: [vox-tech] ARRGHHH! (I think I can't use rsync on windows)

2003-06-20 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:26:11AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > I just realized that I got the setup wrong. Server I is actually a > Windows NT server, and Server II is the Solaris server (there is a third > server, another Solaris server, which is our development server, and rsync > will be u

Re: [vox-tech] Getting quotes from yahoo

2003-06-20 Thread Mike Simons
--w6U88vdWm8UqIXvc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:31:33PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > Using perl, I wanted to get some data from yahoo finance (specifically bid > size & ask size). Ther

Re: [vox-tech] Moving parts of directory trees between machines

2003-06-20 Thread Mike Simons
--IoFIGPN1N3g1Ryqz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:22:47PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > Let's say I have 2 servers with identical directory structures like this: /A/1 /A/2/2a /A/2/2b

Re: [vox-tech] Using cdrecord with remote devices?

2003-06-17 Thread Mike Simons
is used to access the remote machine, then the "rscsi" command is invoked. Documentation is a little sparse on this method of access but it *appears* to be supported. In the source packages check out cdrtools-2.0+a15/librscg/scsi-remote.c for more information. Later, Mike Simo

Re: [vox-tech] Linux sound recording

2003-06-17 Thread Mike Simons
--08ATZu8fEq0x2T3M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:59:34AM -0700, Henry House wrote: > I think I need a sound card. Criteria: >=20 > * high quality analog-to-digital converter in stereo >

Re: [vox-tech] Signing email

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Simons
--liqSWPDvh3eyfZ9k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:20:01PM -0400, Subba Rao wrote: > I have installed GNU Privacy Guard on my Slackware system. > How do I sign with my key for all the ema

Re: [vox-tech] Perl CGgi scripts not executing -- RESOLVED

2003-06-13 Thread Mike Simons
--qLni7iB6Dl8qUSwk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:57:32PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > Turns out it was the stupid HTML files that were pointing at the perl > scripts that were at fa

Re: [vox-tech] readline questions (in bash)

2003-06-13 Thread Mike Simons
--gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pete, I'm interested in seeing what you have for .inputrc On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:12:25PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > I had just gotten through reading thos

Re: [vox-tech] readline questions (in bash)

2003-06-13 Thread Mike Simons
--+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:42:23AM -0700, Adrian Kalaveshi wrote: > >Is there another way to search thru and execute a command in the history >=20 > Enter vi mode

Re: [vox-tech] readline questions (in bash)

2003-06-13 Thread Mike Simons
--eNMatiwYGLtwo1cJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:28:07AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > 1. I know ctr-a, ctr-e move me from front to back, how do I make my home = and > end keys do that?

Re: [vox-tech] Linux Block Layer is Lame (it retries too much)

2003-06-12 Thread Mike Simons
--6Vw0j8UKbyX0bfpA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:09:21PM -0400, Mike Simons wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:31:56AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 2

Re: [vox-tech] Problem wth init 5

2003-06-12 Thread Mike Simons
--rqzD5py0kzyFAOWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:06:45AM -0700, joel pinto wrote: > I have installed linux redhat 7.3 on a machine with 64 > MB RAM. The machine was bootng into graphics

Re: [vox-tech] Parsing Html

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Simons
--sHrvAb52M6C8blB9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:41:00PM -0700, Michael Wenk wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:54 pm, Mike Simons wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 0

Re: [vox-tech] Parsing Html

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:23:29PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > Why do you have to use "\00" and then split on only "\0"? I understand that > they are just markers to split by, but I'm missing something about the > escaping. oh... I don't know if that is required or habit. Inside a sed search a

Re: [vox-tech] Parsing Html

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Simons
--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:00:06PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > Found HTML::TableContentParser which does some of the heavy lifting for = me > playing with it now

Re: [vox-tech] Parsing Html

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Simons
--7ohyzAr2DuZRs7WU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:08:27PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > I have the mongo piece of html I read from an online source. I want to > parse it, particularly I'm

Re: [vox-tech] Centeraly saving only some syslog messages?

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Simons
like (to encrypt syslog messages on wire). Good Luck, Mike Simons --=20 GPG key: http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/gpg/msimons.asc Fingerprint: 524D A726 77CB 62C9 4D56 8109 E10C 249F B7FA ACBE --4mUolEm2oNas7DxE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -

Re: [vox-tech] pc/104 board

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:55:31AM -0700, MB wrote: > I am looking for anyone with working knowledge of pc/104 boards. I have > a 486 board with no apparent video output, but with 10MB network, and 2 > pcmcia card slots ( with wireless cards currently ). [...] > The board I have is VERY similar

Re: [vox-tech] what happened to debian reportbug? (and vim's hebrewp)

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:23:56AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i just sent in a bug report, with a patch, to debian using reportbug. > > i've always remembered reportbug asking for special tags, like "patch > included" or "security related", but it didn't ask me this time around. [...] > doe

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Simons
rg.au/~sfr/ S: Supported === It looks like it would be possible to copy the code from grub into the kernel so they are doing the *exact* same instructions in realmode poweroff... but I don't really like messing with assembly code so I would be wanting some sort of pay to figure

Re: [vox-tech] Shell Scripting Question

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Simons
enry's find. This script takes a list of directories to look in on the command line, defaults to '/' if none are given. Switch the comments on the change_file function if you want to see what it would do without doing it. TTFN, Mike Simons =3D=3D=3D=20

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
--1PHmS26pdpOR3Xc0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:13:18AM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > --- Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - Run "shutdown -h now", three t

Re: [vox-tech] broken mozilla

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
--mgIE+9cwyCTt+85Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:36:34AM -0700, Charles McLaughlin wrote: > If I have Mozilla up and running and open a new window (ctrl+n), the new > window starts up a

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
log into the machine when X is disabled run 'lsmod', and verify that your running kernel is not tainted. If the lsmod says your machine is still tainted send the output from lsmod here. On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:11:23AM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > --- Mike Simons <[EMAIL P

[vox-tech] "correct" way to enable run-time configuration of Linux?

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
--S66JdqtemGhvbcZP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There are a few methods in place for run-time configuration of Linux: - /proc bunch of files (like as in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/*, writing a integer number into=20

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
--HAv5+T9jbwMPl6Kw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:04:24PM -0400, Mike Simons wrote: > > > - using magic sysrq you can trigger the power off kernel function > > > to

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
--s2lX4GznBIrto1wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:14:13AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i haven't been following this thread for a few days, but are we sure > it's not a hardware iss

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:57:42PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > --- Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - using magic sysrq you can trigger the power off kernel function > > to see if the kernel method works correctly on a given box. With > > 'q',

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Simons
--NAmHCRPXNp23hR9r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For a few more rounds I'm going to try to see if we can get his=20 existing kernel to power off his machine. I'll try to look at the other problems like flaky

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:43:12PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > --- Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:05:21PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > > > msimons wrote: > > > > I still think that the reason your machine does not pow

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Simons
--NZtAI5QFBF0GmLcW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:05:21PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > msimons wrote: > > I still think that the reason your machine does not power itself > > off is rela

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Simons
--+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:33:51PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > --- Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:

Re: [vox-tech] debian login

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Simons
--yr6OvWOSyJed8q4v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:17:16PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > I'm sure everyone will say this is not the way to do it, but... > to avoid this (at least until you

Re: [vox-tech] Redhat 8.0 shutdown does not power off.

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Simons
around in /etc/init.d/ for a script named "sendsigs" or run grep "TERM signal" /etc/init.d/* to figure out which script there does the TERM... if the working part of the script varies much from what is above paste your script here. If they are the same we need to

Re: [vox-tech] debian login

2003-06-04 Thread Mike Simons
--o7gdRJTuwFmWapyH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:03:46PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I try to login to Debian right after I power up the login screen > disappears for a secon

Re: [vox-tech] Unwanted ReBoot

2003-06-04 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:15:51AM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote: > Until recently I was able to 'poweroff' a Red Hat > 8.0 box. > > Now the poweroff results in a reboot. [...] > As processes are shut down, the machine hangs > after issuing the message >'Sending all processes the TERM signal' >

Re: [vox-tech] recovering /usr with dpkg

2003-06-02 Thread Mike Simons
--7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:47:53PM -0700, Henry House wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:19:58PM -0700, Nick Donnelly wrote: > > I still have an intact /var/lib/d

Re: [vox-tech] graphics card suggestion for 1920x1200

2003-05-31 Thread Mike Simons
--4Epv4kl9IRBfg3rk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:14:53PM -0700, Troy Arnold wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:02:55PM -0400, Mike Simons wrote: > > Not being very into

Re: [vox-tech] graphics card suggestion for 1920x1200

2003-05-30 Thread Mike Simons
--J5MfuwkIyy7RmF4Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:21:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just got a SONY sdm-P232W LCD monitor and was wondering if anyone can > suggest a graphics c

Re: [vox-tech] Linux Block Layer is Lame (it retries too much)

2003-05-29 Thread Mike Simons
--xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:58:30PM -0700, Michael Wenk wrote: > In this link you have the following proc settings:=20 >=20 > echo file_readahead:0 > /proc/ide/hdc/

Re: [vox-tech] Linux Block Layer is Lame (it retries too much)

2003-05-29 Thread Mike Simons
--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:31:56AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Mike Simons wrote: > > Last week I was having problems with the

[vox-tech] Linux Block Layer is Lame (it retries too much)

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Simons
ceable effect. I want to be more ready next time... - How does a 1 sector read is expanded to an 8 sector chunk? - How this chunk reading behavior can be turned off=20 (via command line or custom kernel patch)? - Any other ideas on how to pull the disk blocks? Thanks, Mike Simons

Re: [vox-tech] Re: Logitech mouseman and XF86Config-4

2003-04-05 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:53:49PM -0800, Robin Snyder wrote: > > From: Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Re: Logitech mouseman and XF86Config-4 > > > Okay so the ideal situation is we find a mouse protocol that "gpm" > >

Re: [vox-tech] Building Apache Mod_Perl Mod_SSL

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Simons
his compiling the modules is recommended since it will link against whatever version of oracle you have installed. When I need DBD::Oracle I just build it too... > From: "Mike Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Two cpan calls are straight forward: > > HTTP::Date

Re: [vox-tech] Building Apache Mod_Perl Mod_SSL

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Simons
es up the bundle statements, but I'm certain that the contents are available as debian packages... Bundle::libnet libnet-perl? Bundle::DBI libdbd-mysql-perl? Bundle::Apache some things from `apt-cache search libapache perl` Later, Mike Simons _

Re: [vox-tech] mod_ssl (was: Mod_perl)

2003-04-03 Thread Mike Simons
is in the google archive, and so could be found by people far away from our group having a similar problem. TTFN, Mike Simons ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Mod_perl

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Simons
something that can be loaded and unloaded on demand... > I'd prefer to use apt and have a standard install. > Could I use these prepacked things in some way to get a > apache/mod_perl/mod_ssl (and maybe) mod_dav? yes: apt-get install apache libapache-mod-perl libapache-mod-ssl libapac

Re: [vox-tech] Howto: run Mozilla 1.3 on Debian woody

2003-03-31 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:51:20PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:00:38PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > > Warning the 1.3 source changes browser binary name from 'mozilla' > > to 'mozilla-1.3', so you may want to create a link like: >

[vox-tech] Howto: run Mozilla 1.3 on Debian woody

2003-03-31 Thread Mike Simons
ant to create a link like: === ln -s /usr/bin/mozilla-1.3 /usr/local/bin/mozilla === The 1.2.1 site below does not have this problem. I didn't test the 1.1 site. Later, Mike Simons If you want a slightly older Mozilla 1.1 add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: [vox-tech] Re: Logitech mouseman and XF86Config-4

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:43:48AM -0800, Robin Snyder wrote: > > - Can you try the RemotePoint on the console and tell me if motion works? > > - If motion works, does pasting? > > Motion for the RemotePoint mouse does not work on the console. > Moving the mouse on the console causes lines of text

Re: [vox-tech] debian questions - packages under testing / unstable

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:00:02PM -0800, Ted Deppner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:23:32PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > anybody know of an approximate ETA for when... > > 1. i can upgrade libc6 on testing so that php4 doesn't get uninstalled? > > Ack! Be careful of this... the libc6

Re: [vox-tech] Re: Logitech mouseman and XF86Config-4

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:24:18PM -0800, Robin Snyder wrote: > > Okay so you didn't explain the current state of what works and what > > does not work. > > RemotePoint: > movement does not work > didn't try pasting > > I meant don't even try the steps below if the conditions above were

Re: [vox-tech] Perl Net::HTTP Content-encoding/gzip support broken...

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:41:02AM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > Trying to use Net::HTTP to pull compressed web content but it appears > to be broken. [...] > - Know of any perl HTTP modules that really handles compressed content? Bleh... I patched up the HTTP module to request a

Re: [vox-tech] Re: Logitech mouseman and XF86Config-4

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Simons
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:26:04PM -0800, Robin Snyder wrote: > > Now wiggle the mouse around and verify that you can use it on the > > console. You should be able to highlight things with the left button > > and paste them with the middle button. > > My usual mouse (the RemotePoint mouse) is a

[vox-tech] Perl Net::HTTP Content-encoding/gzip support broken...

2003-03-23 Thread Mike Simons
Contect-encoding' data flow over HTTP? Thanks a bunch, Mike Simons ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Squirrel Mail Authentication Problems

2003-03-23 Thread Mike Simons
right of the '->' will be the files that the process has open... it should be obvious which are log files. TTFN, Mike Simons If you get some problems with 'pgrep' not being installed on your system... just replace that part of the command with a list of process

Re: [vox-tech] Squirrel Mail Authentication Problems

2003-03-22 Thread Mike Simons
ng things in /var/log/messages and such) to make sure that's fine. If that doesn't work, fix it first. Once that works then try squirrelmail, checking things in /var/log/apache/ error.log or access.log (or where ever your apache logs go) to

Re: [vox-tech] cvs questions - replacement

2003-03-22 Thread Mike Simons
ersion in that order... then Bitkeeper... Let me know what you find, Mike Simons ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] makefile question - auto dependencies

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:23:48PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I used to use a nasty sed expression to make the .d files, but for > > some reason decided that they were not needed. > > yes again. :) and use

Re: [vox-tech] makefile question - auto dependencies

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Simons
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:18:21AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i was playing around with auto-dependencies with makefiles the other > day. here's a hello world example of the technique: > >OBJS = $(patsubst %.c, %.o, $(wildcard *.c)) >SRCS = $(wildcard *.c) should use SRCS in

Re: [vox-tech] Logitech mouseman and XF86Config-4

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Simons
le button should paste. - If the above is not correct, report back and stop here. If you reach here, you should be able to stop X, exit out of the console, and you should be able to use whichever mouse you want. TTFN, Mike Simons ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Re: unfound ethernet card

2003-03-19 Thread Mike Simons
river compiled in, and the modules directory which should contain the run-time loadable drivers appears to have been damaged or never correctly installed. I would like to see if you have a config file for the kernel you are running around, and if

Re: [vox-tech] ethernet card still not found

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
- Is there really a space in the "/lib/modules/2.4.20 debian" directory? ("2.4.20 debian2" not "2.4.20-debian2) - Tell me if you see a bunch of stuff from: find /lib/modules/2.4.20* (if it's just a few lines paste them here) - Send output from the following: grep CONFIG_EEPRO100 /usr/src/li

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

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:45:23PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote: > alias tin="screen -D -R -S tinsess tin" That is an excellent suggestion! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] magic sysreq key

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:33:38PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Keep in mind sysrq works form inside X too... [...] > > X can not trap or block those key sequences... > > that is what it looks like when i type &

Re: [vox-tech] magic sysreq key

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
failure may require some advanced preparation to safe the video state from before X is started). Later, Mike Simons ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Re: unfound ethernet card

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:09:09PM +, Bryce Kuklok wrote: > >- What things were done to your machine? > > (kernel compile?, pcmcia utils update? etc) > it was a debian testing update as of 3pm sunday Okay this means they could have installed a new kernel or not. - which kernel version i

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

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
> > Can I just delete it or comment it out? find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l sysrq 2> /dev/null | less If you find any lines that appear to be doing the echo you can comment them out, if you don't find a line you can put your own "

Re: [vox-tech] Recovering data

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
you value the information greatly, doing a lowlevel partition backup (like 'dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/big_place/hdb1.img' style) then contacting some people doing ext2/3 filesystem development is your best chance. Good Luck, Mike Simons ___

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

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:58:01AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > 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... = #! /bin/bash LOCK=$HOME/.tin.lock lockfil

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