Punching IRC DCC connections through a nat/conntrack firewall

2002-11-15 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
this subject, but my searches turn up nothing useful. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith Hacking Free Software for fun and profit Mead error: Connection reset by beer. -- seen on IRC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fork() failing on athlon system

2002-05-31 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
eded? (I've checked ulimit -a, and the only one that looks like a possible problem is stack size, set at 8192. But exceeding that shouldn't cause fork() to fail like that should it?) I've browsed through /proc/sys, but I don't see anything obviously relevant. Any ideas what els

Re: Capturing install screenshots

2001-11-02 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
o figure out a way to decode the data later. You'll want to run the snapshot files through fold to split them into lines, because /dev/vcs* doesn't emit newlines between screen lines. Oh, and you might need to create /dev/vcs1 if it doesn't exist in the install system. -- Charle

Re: X, Matrox G450 and Matrox-Driver

2001-05-21 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
version 4.1.x. According to <http://xfree86.org/>: The next full release will be 4.1.0, scheduled for mid-late May 2001. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith Hacking Free Software for Alcove PGP/GPG: 1024R/B35EE811 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 I sign these

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-21 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
odes.doc", in which Eric Raymond describes exactly how modelines work. Cheers, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-27 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
ug in two monitors, but >pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the moment, IMO. Apparently GGI can handle two keyboards if you have both a PS/2 keyboard and a [whatever-the-other-sort's-called] keyboard plugged in at once. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP k

Re: FW: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-18 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
ge states? I have been utterly = >unsuccessful in reading my mail under Linux, resorting to windows for = >that purpose. I also am still struggly to get sendmail properly = >configured. I had the same problem. I think it's a bug in mailx. Want to report it as a bug? Cheers, -- Charles

Re: Diff window managers for diff users

1998-02-16 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
ere if they all fail, but fvwm is installed, try starting fvwm if all else fails, run twm So, a useful .xsession file could just be: #! /bin/sh exec afterstep ...although some would undoubtedly add a "xterm -ls &" between those two lines. Remember to

Re: HELP: FATAL SERVER ERROR

1998-02-16 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
ure you do not use your computer as root as a matter of course; use a different user ID for day-to-day usage, and become root only when necessary to do system administration. That will help avoid accidents like the one you described. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-09 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
es bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

Re: Two Monitors

1998-02-05 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
have libc6 installed, you'll have to get the source code from hamm and recompile it. I'm afraid I don't have a Debian 1.3 machine left to do this on. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
east, it interacts badly with sysvinit, making shutdown hang. Has anyone else had this problem? When virtual-dev goes into unstable, it'll be called devices-in-ram instead, BTW. virtual-dev was a supremely bad choice of name on my part. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
east, it interacts badly with sysvinit, making shutdown hang. Has anyone else had this problem? When virtual-dev goes into unstable, it'll be called devices-in-ram instead, BTW. virtual-dev was a supremely bad choice of name on my part. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP

Re: XDM seem to hang until I reboot.

1997-12-10 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
hen you type "xterm"? Do you get your prompt back, or do you have to press control-C to get a prompt? Cheers, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UN

Re: XDM seem to hang until I reboot.

1997-12-10 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
hen you type "xterm"? Do you get your prompt back, or do you have to press control-C to get a prompt? Cheers, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UN

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-28 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Kendall P. Bullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Curiously, rebooting (which I did for other reasons ;) appears to have >fixed the problem with EMACS displaying things incorrectly (though it >always appeared to know where things really were ;). At least, one of >the more reproducible weirdnesses hasn