POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

I decided to check the auth.log and started freaking out because I saw alot of POSSIBLE BREAK-IN lines. then I saw roon loging in so I was panicking. But as I really reviewed them it seems that the actual root logins were by CRON and the nobody logins were system related. Please look this over and

Re: locale broken

On 2009-02-12T00:16:18, Zach Uram wrote: > running testing, how can i fix my locale? http://pastebin.com/f453bb540 Try set LANG in /etc/environment along these lines: LANG="en.US.UTF-8" /Allan -- Allan Wind Life Integrity, LLC http://lifeintegrity.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

locale broken

running testing, how can i fix my locale? http://pastebin.com/f453bb540 zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

I updated/upgraded both my AMD64 and AMD k6 "Etch" machines between Feb 10-11, 2009 using "Lenny" test. Both picked up a symptom I haven't seen since the lpd exploit of the 1990's. This symptom manifests itself as either a random escalation of the etc directory mode up to 600, or a consistent escal

Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed: linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new motherboard and cpu. However, the machine won't boot. The new cpu is a Core2Duo, but even though the kernel is

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On Wed February 11 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > Looks like it.  Or maybe "exim" is installed.  Also possible, but > unlikely, is "postfix". > > Examine them before installing exim4. is exim4 a placeholder?? I have base, config, and daemon-heavy installed, but NOT exim4.. $ dpkg --list |grep exim r

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed February 11 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >  2nd star to the left, and straight on til.. > > oh.. wait.. wrong story! > > Paul, I've forgotton that reference.  I've always loved it.  Do you > remember (other than Star Trek, of course). > > Doug. that would be Peter Pan.. -- Paul Cartwri

Re: converting ms word files

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:09:27PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > $ abiword --to=txt some_file.doc > > > > Uh... I was hoping to avoid starting the gui... $ DISPLAY= abiword -t txt /tmp/test.doc $ ls -l /tmp/test.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 t

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

"Douglas A. Tutty" said: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:32:12PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > 2nd star to the left, and straight on til.. > > oh.. wait.. wrong story! > > Paul, I've forgotton that reference. I've always loved it. Do you > remember (other than Star Trek, of course). > > Do

Re: converting ms word files

> Ooconvert is a command line utility, converts between > all 183 formats (!) that openoffice recognizes. If ooconvert requires open office, then you may as well have X installed to meet all the requirements. If you have to install X , then you may as well use OOo. --- Kevin K. Systems Administ

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:12:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 08:32 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > >Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:23:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 05:17 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and put the > >whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, too, while > >you're at it. There is absolutely no rea

Re: converting ms word files

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:22:44PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to > plane text? > catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting. > antiword, seems quite good, but it doesn't work on every file... >

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:32:12PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > 2nd star to the left, and straight on til.. > oh.. wait.. wrong story! Paul, I've forgotton that reference. I've always loved it. Do you remember (other than Star Trek, of course). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 10:11 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:29:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: [snip] I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent life

Using a Software Raid array created with newer mdadm

Hi, I am about to setup a new server with Lenny and want to move an existing software RAID array from a box running Arch Linux with Kernel 2.6.28 with Mdadm 2.6.8 to the Lenny box and I'm wondering if there will be any issues as Lenny has an older kernel and Mdadm version than what the array wa

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:29:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > [snip] > >>I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent > >>life exists elsewhere in the universe is th

RE: Wich e-mail server to choose?

Ron and everyone Thanks a lot for your help. Now I know where to start. Time to get reading through documentation. Regards > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:26:57 -0600> From: ron.l.john...@cox.net> To: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?> > > > Looks li

Re: Grep for colums?

Thank you!!! The solution was this: cat text.txt | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' | grep sourceforge | grep nvu 2009/2/11 Michael Iatrou > When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > > > the "text" is here: > > > > http://pastebin.com/f37214a30 > > >

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

Looks like it. Or maybe "exim" is installed. Also possible, but unlikely, is "postfix". Examine them before installing exim4. (But I'd recommend postfix. It's a bit of a religious issue, though.) On 02/11/2009 04:57 PM, Oscar Corte wrote: I got this: exim4: Installed: (none) Candi

RE: Wich e-mail server to choose?

I got this: exim4: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.63-17 Version table: 4.63-17 0 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 Etch _Etch_ -Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080217-11:50] 500 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu etch/main Packages I guess I really need to install. > Date: Wed, 11 F

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On 02/11/2009 04:42 PM, Oscar Corte wrote: How to make sure? I can't find any traces of exim into the filesystems or documentation. I installed Debian without any graphical interface, and all intallation choices cleared when the tasksel window appeared, this has been helpful for me to learn

RE: Wich e-mail server to choose?

How to make sure? I can't find any traces of exim into the filesystems or documentation. I installed Debian without any graphical interface, and all intallation choices cleared when the tasksel window appeared, this has been helpful for me to learn more about linux. I'm at the prompt only.

Re: XDebug on debian

Sander Marechal wrote: > Jeff Chimene wrote: >> Has anyone managed to get XDebug working on Debian w/ Apache? I'm >> looking for some assistance in getting this to work w/ Eclipse and an >> external browser. > > It's working fine for me using Debian Lenny, Apache and XDebug. I am > using the debug

XDebug on debian

Hi, Has anyone managed to get XDebug working on Debian w/ Apache? I'm looking for some assistance in getting this to work w/ Eclipse and an external browser. tia, jec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 03:27 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 10:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: ... about Smurfs never made it out of the local region. If, of course, what I read is accurate... Where'd you read it? Some science-related web site. Ron

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 10:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: ... > >>> about Smurfs never made it out of the local region. > >> > >> If, of course, what I read is accurate... > > > > Where'd you read it? > > Some science-related web site. Ron, we've told you MANY

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

2009/2/11 Michael Iatrou > When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > > > 2009/2/11 Michael Iatrou > > > > > When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > > > > I"m trying to setup netcat so it serves logs to other systems. When > > > > a client conn

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

You've (I'm pretty sure) already got exim4 as a part of the default install. On 02/11/2009 01:30 PM, Oscar Corte wrote: Thanks a lot for your advice. I didn’t click on the “Mail Server” option at installation, so what would be better: Execute tasksel and activate the option? Or Do it th

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On 02/11/2009 10:43 AM, Oscar Corte wrote: Hi all: I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. This would be my first experience installing and configuring an internal mail server (No e-mail outside the LAN). Only to exchange mails between Windows PC’s inside my department (

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 12:46 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Normally, I'd suggest Postfix - as I've found it the easiest to "wire up" with antivirus and antispam software, but... since the original poster indicated: I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. This would

RE: Wich e-mail server to choose?

Thanks a lot for your advice. I didn’t click on the “Mail Server” option at installation, so what would be better: Execute tasksel and activate the option? OrDo it through apt-get ? Oscar Corte > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:57:59 -0700> From: pecon...@mesanetworks.net> To: > debian-user@li

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On 02/11/2009 12:46 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Normally, I'd suggest Postfix - as I've found it the easiest to "wire up" with antivirus and antispam software, but... since the original poster indicated: I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. This would be my first experie

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 10:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:33 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Hey, the /DoH/ was a great show! Uh, yeah. Right. I forgot who I'm talking to. Sorry to offend you, Mr. Bodine. Sigh. about Smurfs never made

Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0

I'm trying to install and it hangs at the line: Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0 Please help Thank you Alex

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > 2009/2/11 Michael Iatrou > > > When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > > > I"m trying to setup netcat so it serves logs to other systems. When > > > a client connects, the server starts to send some log

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

It should, but it doesn't. It only made diference when there's no connection. When a connection is made, even with -w 5 (for instance), nc waits forever. 2009/2/11 Sudev Barar > 2009/2/12 Paulo Brito : > > Michael, thanks for your reply. But if you read my entire email, you'll > see > > that the

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

* Ron Johnson [2009 Feb 11 09:31 -0600]: > On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > [snip] >>> I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent >>> life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tri

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

Normally, I'd suggest Postfix - as I've found it the easiest to "wire up" with antivirus and antispam software, but... since the original poster indicated: I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. This would be my first experience installing and configuring an internal mai

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

Michael, thanks for your reply. But if you read my entire email, you'll see that the problem is netcat NOT exiting after disconnect. So, your script will not solve the problem, because the nc never exits. Thanks anyway. 2009/2/11 Michael Iatrou > When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Pa

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > I"m trying to setup netcat so it serves logs to other systems. When a > client connects, the server starts to send some logs. > > I run netcat in listem mode like this: > > # nc -l -p 5558 -c "tail -f /var/log/syslog" while :; do

Re: Grep for colums?

When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > the "text" is here: > > http://pastebin.com/f37214a30 > > and I only want this string: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/nvu_portable_1.0_rev_5_en-u >s.paf.exe?download It seems to me that you only want to grab url

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On 2009-02-11_11:22:01, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:18 AM > > Subject: Re: Wich e-mail server to choose? > > > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:03:13 Paul E Condon wrote: > > > One of them is to let the > >

Re: crontab command and permissions problem

When the date was Tuesday 10 February 2009, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote: > I'm having a problem trying to execute the "crontab" command from a perl > script. > > When i call this command from the SNMP system, i get this: > > "must be privileged to use -u" > > the procedure is... > > 1. i create a cro

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed February 11 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > I *remember* him saying "billions and billions" back on /Cosmos/. > > Going to IMDB, I see that what he really said was the quite similar > "billions upon billions". do I need to get out my boxed set of Cosmos VHS tapes for you?? yes, I remember that

netcat in listen mode don't exit

I"m trying to setup netcat so it serves logs to other systems. When a client connects, the server starts to send some logs. I run netcat in listem mode like this: # nc -l -p 5558 -c "tail -f /var/log/syslog" the client I run like this: # nc 5558 The problem is that the server keeps running w

RE: Wich e-mail server to choose?

> From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:18 AM > Subject: Re: Wich e-mail server to choose? > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:03:13 Paul E Condon wrote: > > One of them is to let the > > Debian installer software choose for you. I suggest that you

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:03:13 Paul E Condon wrote: > One of them is to let the > Debian installer software choose for you. I suggest that you let the > installer choose. I think it makes a good choice. How? TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Grep for colums?

Nagy Daniel wrote: > > the "text" is here: > > http://pastebin.com/f37214a30 > > and I only want this string: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/nvu_portable_1.0_rev_5_en-us.paf.exe?download > > so I want to search like: > | grep downloads.sourceforge.net

Re: apache2 vhost error

When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Zach Uram wrote: > I'm trying to add a name-based virtual host in apache2 on my debian > etch system. > > Here is my vhost config: > > /etc/apache2/sites-available/darcs > > - + -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On 2009-02-11_16:43:28, Oscar Corte wrote: > > Hi all: > > I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. This would be my > first experience installing and configuring an internal mail server (No > e-mail outside the LAN). Only to exchange mails between Windows PC?s inside > my

RE: Wich e-mail server to choose?

>From: Oscar Corte [mailto:oect_1...@hotmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:43 AM >Subject: Wich e-mail server to choose? > >Hi all: > >I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. >This would be my first experience installing and configuring an >internal mail serve

Wich e-mail server to choose?

Hi all: I would appreciate any advice on what mail Server to choose. This would be my first experience installing and configuring an internal mail server (No e-mail outside the LAN). Only to exchange mails between Windows PC’s inside my department (IP segment or subnet). This is a small int

Re: Grep for colums?

On 2009-02-11_12:09:20, Nagy Daniel wrote: > Is there a methodfor searching in colums just like grep does in rows, but i > don't know how many colums I will have, so: awk is not good, beacuse awk > {print $1$2$3} it's not a good soultion:S i have too many colums Yes, and its call SQL. If you only

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 09:33 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > >> > >> [snip] > >> > I think

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:16:49 + Avi Greenbury wrote: Hello Avi, > What's the name of that law that states that any post pointing out > someone's mistake will always include a typo of its own? It one of the applications of Murphy's (Sod's) Law, I reckon. -- Regards _ / )

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 09:16 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Jack Schneider wrote: We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. How bazaar! Or, "how bizarre." "Bazaar" goes with 'The Cathedral and the."

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 09:33 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: [snip] I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhe

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 09:30 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:10 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ro

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > [snip] > > >> I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that > >> intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that i

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 09:10 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > >>> > >>> Ron Johnson wrote: > >

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: [snip] I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." How far out would broadcasts of

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 09:10 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We are probably the o

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:12:21 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 08:32 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> We are probably the only entities in the universe who spen

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 08:54 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:23:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 05:17 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Extremes are, by definition, outliers. Like all outliers, they'll have to m

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > >> > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>> [snip] > >>> > >>

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

Marc Shapiro wrote: Jack Schneider wrote: We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. How bazaar! Or, "how bizarre." "Bazaar" goes with 'The Cathedral and the." Sorry to nitpick, but I could resist. Wha

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:05:10 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much > > energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. > > How bazaar! > > Or, "how bizarre." "Bazaar" goes with 'The Cathedral and t

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 08:32 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. How bazaar

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the n

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > We are probably the only entitie

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

Jack Schneider wrote: We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. How bazaar! Or, "how bizarre." "Bazaar" goes with 'The Cathedral and the." Sorry to nitpick, but I could resist. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro..

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:23:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 05:17 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Extremes are, by definition, outliers. Like all outliers, they'll > have to make do with something designed for the majo

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much > > > energy keeping track of t

Re: Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

On Feb 10, 12:10 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:53:59AM -0800, Dancing Fingers wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy.  One thing that I miss from > > the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. > > set alias in shell > > -- >

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 05:17 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Days beginning (near) daybreak, and years beginning on a seasonal boundary and having 13 each 28 day months are also good ideas that won't get implemented. Too much inertia. How would "

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > [snip] > > > > We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much > > energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. > > How bazaar! > > How can you make such

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 07:59 AM, Christopher Judd wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/10/2009 02:34 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] problem? No. Nobody runs a computer connected to the internet without connecting to an NTP server regularly. These servers simply change Except

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. How bazaar! How can you make such a comment when you have *no clue* as to what any other entity does? -- Ron

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 02:34 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > problem? No. Nobody runs a computer connected to the internet > > without connecting to an NTP server regularly. These servers simply > > change > > Except 95% of Windows users. >

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:29:37 + David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:17:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > [...] > > No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and > > put the whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, > > too, while you're at it

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

> Would, cp -Rs do the job? > > It would be nice if rsync had an option of transferring as symlinks > then you could use --delete to remove links you have removed in the > source file system. > Thank you, Adrian. This is exactly the conclusion that I had come to later in the thread. -- Dotan Co

Re: Grep for colums?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:26:07PM +0100, Nagy Daniel wrote: > the "text" is here: > > http://pastebin.com/f37214a30 I have copied that into a file /tmp/w > > and I only want this string: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/ > nvu_portable_1.0_rev_5_en-us.paf.exe?download % gre

Re: getting debian to talk to windows

Goran Dobosevic wrote: > Hi, > I'm also new to Linux but I'm did it with Samba. > Now mu Debian Lenny read and wright to Win. XPP. > I'm installed Samba with Synaptic package manager. After installation > just follow step by step configuration (its really easy). Also you need > NTFS-3G (Synaptic

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > and porting latex to dos would be ... well too > much. > There have been DOS versions of TeX and friends since the late 1980's, possibly even earlier, such as emTeX. -- I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. --

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:17:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > [...] > No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and put the > whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, too, while > you're at it. There is absolutely no real benefit to having the clock > say "7a

Re: Grep for colums?

the "text" is here: http://pastebin.com/f37214a30 and I only want this string: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/nvu_portable_1.0_rev_5_en-us.paf.exe?download so I want to search like: | grep downloads.sourceforge.net | grep nvu but the text isn't separated with enters, and I want to

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Days beginning (near) daybreak, and years beginning on a seasonal > boundary and having 13 each 28 day months are also good ideas that > won't get implemented. Too much inertia. How would "days beginning (near) daybreak" cope with e

Re: Grep for colums?

Nagy Daniel wrote: Is there a methodfor searching in colums just like grep does in rows, but i don't know how many colums I will have, so: awk is not good, beacuse awk {print $1$2$3} it's not a good soultion:S i have too many colums There is always perl! If you send an example of what yo

Grep for colums?

Is there a methodfor searching in colums just like grep does in rows, but i don't know how many colums I will have, so: awk is not good, beacuse awk {print $1$2$3} it's not a good soultion:S i have too many colums

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009/2/10 Dotan Cohen : > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on > any particular machine that is not present at the moment. Woul

Re: converting ms word files

On 02/11/2009 02:09 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to plane text? catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot o

Re: snownews

> BTW, you can customize the behavior in ~/.snownews/keybindings Yep, I saw that in the man page, thanks. > > > > One other thing: is it possible to download the stories with rss to > > > local files so I can read when I'm not online? > > Use "snownews -u" when online, "snownews" when offline.

Re: getting debian to talk to windows

Larry Dick wrote: I'm using debian 2.6.18-6-amd64 and Window XP Sp2. My network is a Windows workgroup. I've fiddled about and now can get windows to see into the debian box , it can read and write to the file system. I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked

Re: converting ms word files

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to >> plane text? >> catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting. > > Well, sure you

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:33:41 +0100 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom: > >> > >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I