On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:43:55PM -0700, Nicole Carlson wrote:
Hi everyone
Can anyone recommend a tiny-footprint, minimal, feature-free, really
bare-bones web server for Linux? I'm doing research on web servers, and
Apache is way too smart for its own good. :) Can someone help me out?
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:51:30PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Dick Ely using JPS-SMTP POP wrote:
test ignore
using jps-smtp
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This is lugod's technical discussion forum. All Linux and computer related
technical questions and discussions go here...
I dunno...
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:45:31AM -0700, Henry House wrote:
If you are using Debian, then you need the 'gimp-nonfree' package. Other
distros vary, but likely have a similar package for GIF support. Alernately,
save as PNG (or other convenient format) and use the command-line convert
I'm curious, is there any way to make an Apache webserver magically
notice when an IE browser is about to get an error 404 and not actually
send a 404 error code back? (e.g., show whatever error page it would
show, but respond as if it was an ok, versus a file not found)
The point is to
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:49:23PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
I think you can fix this on the browser side by going
into IE's settings and unchecking show friendly HTTP
error messages... or something like that.
That's right, MS thinks that showing what caused an error
is unfriendly.
I can't
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 07:22:28AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
From Apache's default httpd.conf:
# Customizable error response (Apache style)
# these come in three flavors
#
#1) plain text
#ErrorDocument 500 The server made a boo boo.
# n.b. the () marks it as text, it does not get
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:59:54AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Now to track down a Windows box with IE to test with ;)
First get the response code straightened out:
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HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found -* this is the response code
snip
... then worry about finding IE to test
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
Well, I just tried these two URLs on IE 5.0 after booting up
Win98 on my wife's (dual boot) machine. It seems to display
your stuff OK, regardless of the friendly messages setting.
Yes, same here for us, on two different boxen.
It
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:34:45AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
Whenever I visit a site using IE or Mozilla under Windows, I notice some
sites can change the icons that appear on the URL. Everything2.org, for
example. Does anyone know how to set this? I don't see anything in the
stylesheet,
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:26:35PM -0700, David Margolis wrote:
so what tools can be used to create this ico? can you just create a 16x16
gif and convert it with something?
Like I said, it's been a while. I believe KDE comes with an editor or
converter or something.
I also think there's a
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:27:43PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
I noticed a couple weeks ago when I was fiddling with an ICO editor
program on Windows that Windows' ICO file contains several bitmaps for
different colors and sizes (IIRC, 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, BW, 16 colors, 256
colors, in
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:05:18AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
Pressing s alone saves it to a mailbox.
Hmm? Since when?
I save e-mails into files all the time!
[s]filename.txt[Enter]
If I were to save it as something like:
[s]=somebox[Enter]
... then THAT would save it into a mailbox (in
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 05:50:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Just make sure it works by June 26th, for my Zaurus talk at Davis PCUG! ;)
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:49:30AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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any recommendations for php?
If you can wait until July, you can ask the author of PHP himself. ;)
Of course, he's also the author of O'Reilly's Programming PHP,
so he might be just a BIT biased. ;)
-bill!
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:48:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- are you really root? (not inside a fakeroot)
Wait - Wasn't Pete the one who set his prompt to #, even for non-root
users?! :)
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:24:31PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
i've seen this happen before -- but i'm still not sure why it happens.
can you explain just a little bit more why this happens?
You've only got 256 colors on the 8-bit display.
If program A wants 50 of them to be shades of
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:43:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm interested in the delay problem you are having... if you are _not_
restarting the xfstt process you shouldn't have problems.
I'd check to see if xfstt is running. If it is not, I start it, then
I restart X.
The exact
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Usually VNC clients provide scrollbars.
Is it not doing that?
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
ok, i should know this...
this redirects stderr to stdout and pipes the whole thing to grep:
strace lsof 21 | grep System
Try something like:
strace lsof 21 1 /dev/null | grep
(For some reason, the other order
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:26:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Are we using the same font? (below is the md5sum from my TTF file)
15919e2750f38a3988147cd6ad57d22a GARTON__.TTF
It's the same.
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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:38:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xfstt - Handles the Garton font perfectly.
(Gimp was tested, and works)
Enabling xfstt did the trick! Thanks! I guess freetype was more fussy or
buggy...
-bill!
(off to convince Star
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:03:45PM -0700, nbs wrote:
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:38:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xfstt - Handles the Garton font perfectly.
(Gimp was tested, and works)
Enabling xfstt did the trick! Thanks! I guess freetype
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:17:07PM -0700, nbs wrote:
I followed some very nice instructions on the web:
TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems
( http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html )
PS - Here's what I see:
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/xfontsel.gif --- font works
http
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:15:12PM -0700, Steven Peck wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html
From slashdot.org
Psst... Steven :)
(1) Don't reply to an existing message to start a new thread, as that
confuses threaded mail clients :)
209 D May 22
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:24:27PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
what's the difference between an xlib Window, Display and Drawable? as in:
Window win;
Display dpy;
Drawable drw;
I believe a window is a kind of drawable, and both exist on displays.
I bet that doesn't answer your
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:41:49PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
2 days ago i put an 80GB drive into satan. when bios started looking
for drives, it always hung when it tried to autodetect this drive.
snip
In case anyone cares...
I initially had problems installing my 120GB drive into my
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:42:13PM -0700, ME wrote:
snip
ignote torch
The torch having been lit you see:
A large dark room with four obvious exits: N, S, E, and W.
You face 2 Beastly Fidos, 1 RMS, 1 Linus Torvalds, 1 Bill Gates.
snip
Thank goodness this is archived. It'd be ashame to lose
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:26:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Well the sound card now works, under ALSA version 0.9.0rc1.
W00t! Sorry it gave you so much trouble. (Every time this machine gets
wiped and reinstalled, it seems to take one of us a while to get the damned
thing to
(This should really be on VOX, but... whatever :^) )
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:03:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Overview
Major installed packages include:
- X11 4.1, Gnome, KDE,
- Abiword, Gnumeric, Koffice, Openoffice,
- Mozilla, Konqueror, lynx, links
- Most of
Mike said:
Bill said:
The Gimp ( www.gimp.org )
XMMS ( www.xmms.org )
Some XMMS visualization plug-ins ( )
XVNC [*] ( www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/xvnc.html )
And, if you have time,
Also, what servers are installed? (I assume Apache - what's enabled?
OpenSSH, too, I'm presume. Anything else?)
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:58:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
not packaged, or I'm missing it.
No prob.
But when it's not packaged then I'd need to go find the source,
figure out how to compile it and junk, which could take an hour
for each package. ;)
No ... I
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:47:34PM -0700, ME wrote:
The most advanced encryption available is found when you use 2XOR
(double-XOR) with your data and the same key.
Like those ebooks! Wait, no that was ROT13
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:17:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay this message is an overview of the lugod demo computer
Hardware Setup (software details in separate mail). I was
thinking some information about the machine should be included
on the website.
There actually is:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:58:33AM -0700, Rusty Minden wrote:
Dohh! Yes I do I flubbed when doing a search using vim sorry. Still can't use
su to log into root.
You'll probably need to boot into single user mode (err.. if you CAN
with a botched /etc/passwd), or (more likely) use a rescue
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
why did you post /etc/passwd?
it would be more helpful if you posted the contents of /etc/shadow.
Why, so we can all try to crack it for a few weeks? ;)
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Is there a way to force a string to break at a certain length,
regardless as to whether it contains spaces?
In other words, some data being printed into columns of a table
word wrap ok, because it's multiple words:
This is a really long spaced
entry for the column
Others mess up the
I'm trying to port an X-Window-based C++ game to SDL, and am having
problems during linking.
For some reason, event though the variable display is declared
(I simply typedef'd its type, Display, to a plain old int),
and event set to a value (just 0), I'm getting some errors:
castle.o: In
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:06:09AM -0700, nbs wrote:
I'm trying to port an X-Window-based C++ game to SDL, and am having
problems during linking.
snip
Hmm... Well, redeclaring it in one of the .C files as:
#ifdef USE_SDL
Display * display = 0;
#endif
...seemed to do the trick. shrug
I
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:34:27PM -0700, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote:
If you're not doing anything to specifically control fonts, the default is
Computer Modern (the distinct look behind most TeX documents)
for the 3 font families of roman, san serif, and typewriter. The CM fonts
are not
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:51:02PM -0700, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote:
snip
A few things:
* If the generated PDF file is not using Times, it should be obvious looking
at the PDF in Acrobat. One can tell the difference between a doc w/CM
fonts and a doc w/Times. What does a visual
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:15:04PM +0800, Jim Langston wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm a new Linux user,
I don't have time to actually look over the problem,
but I thought I'd welcome you to the community! :)
So... welcome. And good luck!
-bill!
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:52:31AM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
On a seperate but related topic, the wonderful dingus. Way cool, it's
the part of gnome that allows a gnome-term to autorecognize URL's.
So for instance as I read this email in mutt (in a gnome terminal),
when the mouse goes
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:59:15PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
egads! the first thing that makes me want to use a desktop manager.
prolly still won't make me take the cpu hog plunge tho. ;) i'm going
to look into mark's suggestion and if it doesn't pan out i'll experiment
with
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:02:27AM -0800, tfarnall wrote:
Hi!
I am contacting you because I'm looking for someone to provide paid
support to me in the use of Debian.
Hi Tom! Welcome to our list! Pete Salzman had forwarded your message to him
onto this list last night, and we discussed it
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:03:39PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
btw, was the MS/unisys article an april fool's joke or was it real?
Well, unless it's an April Fool being done by Unisys themselves, no!
Registrant:
UNISYS CORPORATION (UEGZDXBIUD)
UNISYS WAY MS E8 152M
BLUE
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:35:05AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
Keywords: getopt, license issues, GPL, BSD, optind
Hey guys,
I mentioned some months ago about how I was using GPL's getopt library
in one of my company programs, and I was wondering about the GPL
distribution issues.[1]
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:13:19AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
The one I tried to link statically on Windows one time said it was GPL,
but according to Micah it's apparently LGPL with misdocumentation. :P
The reason I'm writing my own getopt is because I want static linkage.
Anyway, some
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
DOH!!!
why oh why does man 1 nice have to come before man 2 nice?!? ;-)
thanks, bill!
Yeah. Irritating. Every time I want to man printf, I always end up
with the shell 'printf' program's man page, not the C library
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:28:27PM -0800, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
snip
I didn't like the default install very much, so I went ahead and ditched the
window manager (ios) and installed icewm. I also went thru the graphical
package manager (very excellent) and installed vim and bash (essentials) and
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:52:36PM -0800, Geoffrey Herteg wrote:
To answer Bill's question about the filesystem layout in Familiar,
here's the scoop:
Thanks. :)
/ is a JFFS2 partition mounted RW. RW?! Yeah, but don't worry, it only
gets written to when you make a change to something like
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0800, Foo Lim wrote:
A friend brought this to my attention:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=70u=/cn/20020311/tc_cn/flaw_leaves_linux_computers_vulnerable
Hehe... I don't have time to dig, but it appears a fix is already
available for
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:51:14AM -0800, Henry House wrote:
but that doesn't mean we couldn't host our own!
Let's do it! Bill, what do you say?
Err... Uh. Since the dotfiles site /does/ seem to still exist, I think
it'd just make sense to contribute there.
shrug
-bill!
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:20:00PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
how does one import files of functions into a php document?
?php include(whatever.php); ?
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:55:52PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
although -- wait. isn't there a dotfile.org already?
dotfiles.org. Seem to have gone away and been replaced with a big
'coming soon' page. :(
Domain Name: DOTFILES.ORG
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:22:47PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
Pete et al,
The lugod site looks (and works) nicely.
Thanks! :)
What technologies are you using?
That is, how and who did your graphics.
Marianne Waage using Photoshop and me using The Gimp.
Do you use some sort of a web
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:11:58PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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if anyone here is aware of any distributions that carry 4.2.*, i'd like
to make a list for my own personal knowledge. please post your info.
:)
If possible, it might be useful just to burn a CDROM every couple of months
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:58:10PM -0500, Erik Mullinix wrote:
Hello.
While working on learning PHP. I have been having problems getting the ability to do
php off of apache.
SuSE 7.3, Apache 1.3.20 with php 4.0.6
I get the method POST is not supported.
Is this when submitting a form?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:45:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
turns out that USB hard drives are accessed via scsi device files.
Yep. My CF card reader (which connects via USB) appears as /dev/sda1
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:57:12AM -0800, nbs wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:45:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
turns out that USB hard drives are accessed via scsi device files.
Yep. My CF card reader (which connects via USB) appears as /dev/sda1
PS - Interestingly, the CF cards
I'm trying to set up remote access to the PC on my LAN which has the
Rio MP3 player connected to it. Unfortunately, the command which talks
to it, rio, requires root access.
As an exercise in safety, I'd like to set up password-less access to the
'/usr/bin/rio' command on that system via SSH.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:19:43AM -0800, nbs wrote:
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Looking at these issues, and the fact that one will need to be scp'ing
files back and forth to the host with the Rio connected to it ANYWAY,
I'm thinking ssh or ssh/sudo isn't going to be what I need.
I guess I should look
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:25:42AM -0800, Charles Polisher wrote:
Can you clear the SUID bit and add the device
to fstab with user-mountable permissions? Maybe
even use a chrooted mount-point? Just thinking out
loud...
It doesn't access the rio via a /dev/ device. It accesses it
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:33:32AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
too bad you didn't look in the linux gamers' howto. it would've saved
you from head-pounding and ircing!:)
Actually, I did hit your howto various times (both via Google... even got
the Russian version once :), and while
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:14:02AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
Better way would be with PHP:
...
pre
?php
$fp = fopen(/www/pcgm/bulletins, r);
fpassthru($fp);
?
/pre
...
Or simpler yet:
?php include(file); ?
-bill!
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:13:12PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, nbs wrote:
Or simpler yet:
?php include(file); ?
include does PHP translation, which Peter may not want. It's especially
fatal if you're including a user-posted data. fpassthru is safer from
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:19:40PM -0800, Ryan wrote:
I'd like to be able to processs my PDF or PS files to shrink pages form the
orignal and fit 4 of them on each page of a new document, anyone know how i
miggh pull this off?
Dont have time to give details, but I think psnup is what you
I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on,
and thought I'd poke around and see what I had.
Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive),
I was faced with the following:
# insmod ppa
Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/ppa.o
ppa:
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:20:06PM -0800, ME wrote:
insmod load a module, but does not do deps.
snip
Why do I /always/ forget about modprobe!? :) Thanks! :)
snip
Also, see if you can dd the device and see if the drive comes on.
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=10
Odd... No
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:10:48PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
What do you *want* it to do?
Including numbers will need some math trickery. The place with 'z' and
'a' is where it's picking a letter between 'a' and 'z', but since numbers
aren't in a sequential order in the ASCII system, you
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:35:07AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good for you. A UPS is a nice thing.
Why are APC units to be avoided?
My APC's been working great for the 2+ years I've had it, too.
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:38:03PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
I guess its guaranteed not to get any response either :(
Sorry ;)
Only times I ever use ksh is when logging into Sun servers at work,
and I don't do any shell scripting on them. (I really miss the
tcsh/bash features I got used to,
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:55:56AM -0800, Stephen M. Helms wrote:
nbs wrote:
{snip}
Only times I ever use ksh is when logging into Sun servers at work,
and I don't do any shell scripting on them. (I really miss the
tcsh/bash features I got used to, too...)
Why not just type bash
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:39:45AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
is there a way to define a short cut or macro with gimp?
i use the enhance filter alot, for when i resize pictures. is there a
way to map, say, control-E to this filter?
Open the menu with that command, place the mouse over
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:45:35AM -0800, nbs wrote:
snip
Another thing you can do is pop the menu open into its own window.
Get to the menu you want and then click the little dashed line which
appears at the top of the menu.
snip
BTW, this is a GTK+-ism, as well. Qt has a similar
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