On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote:
> cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a
> CD-audio what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? TIA
> for an advice.
I can't think of a reason why you *wouldn't* want to use cdparanoia. I
have even been able to extract
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Paul Sargent wrote:
> This might not be classed as a debian problem per-se, but I'm
> wondering if anybody here has any suggestions to get me out of this
> hole, a hole which is probably more political than technical. Maybe
> somebody else has been in a similar situation.
It l
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote:
> Obviously you didn't read the message, I had said I had upgraded to
> 2.4.17 to get reiserfs as ext2 cannot handle such large files.
I was only going to flame you once but this message deserves two.
> I cannot split the video data into multi
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Lynette Ludwig wrote:
> Did you read the initial message? For those who have not read it, or
> are unable to read english here is it detailed (I hate having to do
> this for men all the time *sigh*)
Yes, I read it carefully. Nowhere in the message do you say which
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Cassandra Ludwig wrote:
> Now I have tried dumping via NFS (using windows NFS systems
> *shudder*), ftp, and even samba, but all of these drop dead at the 2gb
> limit. Samba refuses to even try sending the file.
I am not entirely sure which system is running which OS. If th
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Eric G.Miller wrote:
> is one of the reasons pointers to char are so common. However, there
> is a little trick that's guaranteed to always work:
>
> struct foo {
> size_t length;
> char str[1];
> };
>
> ...
>
> struct foo * str_to_foo(char *a)
> {
> size_t
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say
> that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety,
> it *has* to have some sort of automatic storage management system.
I don't think that necessarily follows; a
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > | Casting you can't really get away from nor do you really need to. In fact
> > | the more strongly typed the language is, the more casting you have to do.
> >
> > This statement is incorrect.
>
> Agreed.
I suppose I will agree as well, I was not me
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
> consider perl which doesn't have strong types but it's quite
> impossible to make it segfault and C++ on the other side which is
That is true but it doesn't mean that type safety won't prevent it
also. Consider a hypothetical language that doesn't have
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> about C++ (and C) and I don't think I can take it any longer. "Be
> like me, use a language with imperceptible market penetration." I
Why does market penetration matter? It's like saying Windows is superior
because everyone uses it; but if you bel
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Assuming we are against non-free software and would not contaminate or
> machines with closed-source code, what is the panels view on games?
You're pretty well limited in that case to roguelike games, classic Unix
BSDgames, plus original Quake and ear
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, nate wrote:
> i use l3enc for encoding(very slow but good quality), i found a
> serial# for it a few years ago(i can't find a way to buy it) and i use
Although l3enc is the only "legal" encoder I know of that runs on Linux, I
wouldn't necessarily say it has the best quality,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please clear these two doubts of mine :
> 1. When does a deadlock happen on a Unix/Linux system ?
> 2. What is a deadlock ?
Deadlock isn't a Unix/Linux concept, it's a programming concept. It
happens when you have two processes or threads and two re
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. Does this mean , that once I switch my machine that is running a
> TSR , the TSR is gone ? I guess that for all programs , a shutdown or
> poweroff , stops the process.
Correct.
> 2. One of my friends said that if a TSR hits the machine , you mig
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Lambrecht Joris wrote:
> Also, imho the "personality" thing is a grand idea on it's own. When
> will Linux get such a feature. Imagine plugging in an OS personality
It's been in the kernel since at least 2.0, maybe earlier. This is how
Linux and FreeBSD can run each others'
I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my
x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a
Windows system too, but that looks harder).
Do I have a prayer? :}
I've used mtools to read Mac floppies, but as far as I know these are no
use for re
This is quickly departing from the realms of topic :}
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, John Griffiths wrote:
> Cisco are in BIG financial trouble, MS have LOTS of money, don't bank
> on Cisco stopping them. MS could buy Cisco pretty soon (of course that
Cisco's not in as big of trouble as all that. It's not
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Is M$ really thinking about this? That would really be the end of the
> internet.
I doubt it. There's no real thing that Microsoft can offer that would
make end-users *want* to use their proprietary protocol. On the other
hand, there are a lot of people t
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> This is possibly offtopic, but can someone explain to me what a
> framebuffer is, and why one should care about it? I have seen it
It's the area of RAM on the video card that holds the actual image being
displayed.
The framebuffer device is the interface
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:
> Oh damn... looking at the logs looks like here comes another one...
> "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0"... repeat.
That's usually from a search engine. robots.txt is an (advisory) control
method so that search engines don't try to index, for example, dynamical
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> I have to agree with John ... using a security hole in someone else's
> server for good or evil is probably not a good idea legally. I'd
> advise against it.
In states with "Good Samaritan" laws you are likely to be shielded from
liability as long as
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Paul Haesler wrote:
> Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers
> between clients on the LAN that doesn't work.
I don't think the problem is with the firewall, but with ICQ. ICQ 99 and
earlier used a different protocol from ICQ 2000. When clients
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> If you want to do it as a career (you are a masochist, and not because
> of UNIX) you can look for "junior sysadmin" type job listings.
Heh. I agree. *Most* UNIX sysadmin jobs resemble management more than
they resemble playing with your home Lin
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote:
> Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root
> permission? Or can it?
Like every so-called Linux virus, it requires the user to behave stupidly
- it's really a trojan horse. It has the same permission rules as any
other program, so it
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with
> 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it?
> Maybe one of the embedded one's?
You can make Linux boot in 2MB. However, 1.2 was the last kernel that
would do
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> If you don't want to get down-and-dirty with configuring IP-masg with
> two-NIC's on one box to serve as internet gateway, you can buy a combo
If you're going to have your Linux system online anyway, you may as well
let it do the masquerading. It's n
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jason Majors wrote:
> You could run a box with lots of ip masquerading to emulate a hub, but
> that's like swatting flies with a hammer. Just get a hub. It's
> cheaper, uses less power, and allows your boxes to see each other more
> easily.
Actually in such a case you would w
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, D-Man wrote:
> I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need
> to do it (other than NICs and cable, of course)? What is the
NICs and cable :}
> difference between a hub and switch? Any recommended brands/models?
A switch routes each packet only to
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
> > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form
> > *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given
> > directory. What should I do?
>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Several options:
> >>> - Create a script. This *is
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Alexander Isacson wrote:
> Will I have to recompile all major components in order to get decent
> speed with the p4?
Recompiling won't help; there's no P4-optimizing GCC. The P4 is actually
respectable at the sort of bit shoveling that characterizes "average"
applications -
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote:
> > ls -li vmlinuz while at/ (root)
> > I get the following
> >
> > 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot19 Jan 18 08:05
> > vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
> >
> > To me this means that vmlinuz is a soft l
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> have you really gotten focus back when replugging in a ps2 keyboard?
Yes, I have done it several times. I believe that if you run a ps/2
keyboard through a (physical) switch for connecting multiple systems to
one keyboard/mouse/monitor that this is
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mathieu, Barry wrote:
> My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator
> for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There
If your keyboard has fallen out of the socket then you can plug it back
in. It should work fine. (Well, if you
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote:
> Funny that the behavior of the CD drive is so different in the audio
> mode than in the data mode.
It isn't really. Data CD's contain data headers that help the drive
position itself in arbitrary locations - similar to sector headers on
floppy and ha
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ron Peterson wrote:
> > away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than
> > the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to
...
> Not entirely true. Init can inherit enough zombie processes that it
> hits its process limit (10
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
> > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
> > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
> > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die until
> > you reboot ..
>
> Not quite
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote:
> ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate
> maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've
> heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes
> reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe?
IBM drives are q
On 16 Feb 2001, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > tar -cvzf hda2.tar.gz /
> > ( I don't need to add this ... --exclude hda2.tar.gz do I ??)
>
> Yeah you probably do. You might want to exclude other stuff to, like
> /proc, /mnt, /tmp, and possibly /dev. Normally device files are
> created with /dev/MAKE
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the
> hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might
> be usefull.
You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is
'hostname'.
You need to
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
> point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless
That isn't really the case any more. Not since the K6, really. The
Pentium 4 has extremely bad floating poin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console.
> (Or just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console
> to use WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to
> get rid of this without rebooting? Than
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have some questions about building a firewall. I currently have a
> cable modem connection which of course gives me a static IP address.
> If I was to build a firewall using a old 486 could I still assign my
> Debian box the static IP address as
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
'reset' will cure this. That's the command 'reset', not reset the system
:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, will trillich wrote:
> how do you establish screen-blanking preferences for text consoles,
> when there's NO x installed at all?
setterm is what you need. setterm -blank (and setterm -powersave) allow
you to control this.
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> $ ./sutest
> does this work?
> /var/log/user.log: Permission denied
>
> Can someone explain what's going on here? Is starting a shell the problem?
The setuid bit doesn't work on shell scripts. You will have to compile a
C program use use perl. Perl s
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> I know what s is, when designated in the permissions of a file, but what
> does a capitol 'S' stand for? ie:
>
> drw-r-Sr--
It means the s bit is set, but the x bit is *not* set.
Not used very much...
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank Rocco wrote:
> Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the
> Windows HyperTerm program?
You probably want Minicom. It resembles the old DOS program Telix; should
be a package for it already.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> i am a non-root user on a debian 2.2 system and i cant write a c program to
> open sockets.
>
> i am a non-root user on a solaris system and i am able to write c programs
> that open sockets.
>
> is there a switch/setting somewhere on a debian sys
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> of. I tried rm, chmod, chown on this file as root: all returned
> "permission denied".
It's possible that the file has got the immutable flag set, somehow. Try
chattr -i
> br-xwx1 282708308 114, 114 Dec 9 2023 991203.c
> ^
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> Nope. We have to use some "C" or "C++" system/function call. Our
> programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being
> available.
Any reasonable Linux system will have the /proc file system. There is no
way to do it in C. If ther
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Is a niced "rm -rf" as safe as I'm going to get, or is it worth
> messing about with "while sleep 1 do stopafter..."?
If your hardware is in good working order you can easily just do rm -rf.
Probably no need even to nice it, nice only affects CPU alloca
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, C. Falconer wrote:
> Yup - allocate 13-24 and you can use "right-alt + F1-12"
Rock on. I will never run out of logins again! :}
So suppose I wanted to have more than 12 virtual consoles on my system,
but I only have 12 F-keys to select them with.
I know the kernel supports up to 255... is there any way to use more than
12?
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> I have a dilemma, and I expect this to end in a flame war, but
> here goes...
Hmmm. Ok, "you're ugly, and your mother dresses you funny."
> I have issues with my employer that cause me to not want to
> merely hand over my work. I have
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Damon Muller wrote:
> Without actually knowing your password, which sudo requires, having
> your account *isn't* equivalent to having root.
It's certainly possible to build a "rootkit" style setup which would be
suitable for converting a privileged account into root.
What if
On 31 Oct 2000, Hubert Chan wrote:
> My sudoers file is basically just
> hubert ALL=(ALL) ALL
This can be extremely convenient. But it also makes the security of the
whole system equal to the security of your user account.
If you are worried about security, and you have a situation like this,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Bud Rogers wrote:
> I think it could be argued that those changes are not necessarily good
> from the standpoint of system security.
In the modern world, sbin really does mean "system" binaries. The
division between "things you need to fix a crashed system" and "things for
o
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote:
> Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the
> boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows
> command?
When lilo comes up you can hit . Then type "linux single" and you
will get a root prompt.
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Matheson wrote:
> I want to make an _exact_ copy of my hard-drive to my friend's
> hard-drive, including partitions, boot-able, etc. Is their a way to
> do this with LInux? I know that I used to use a program with Windoze
> that could
If the disks are the same size exactly,
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:
> but my monitor only has a horizontal frequency range of 30-60. I am
> thinking that perhaps changing it to 30-63 won't hurt, but the XFree86
> Video Timings HOWTO warns about overdriving, so I am hesitant.
You can exceed the bandwidth rating of your mo
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Chad Scott wrote:
> My first problem is that my mouse doesn't work. It's a Logitech serial
> mouse, and I've tried the Logitech, Microsoft and Auto options in
> XF86Setup, but none work. My second problem is that XF86Setup tells me
> I need to have the SVGA server installed. I
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Ken M. Mevand wrote:
> anyone knows what the message "Unable to find swap space
> signature" means during boot? my swap partition is 40Mb on hdd2.
It's actually generated by the 'swapon' command. A swap partition has to
be type 82 and it has to be prepared with 'mkswap'
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Fuad wrote:
> I like to know if it will fit on a 200mb hard disk and if the
> installation supports a SCSI hard disk
Yes to both. But 200mb is not enough for a full install. You have to
pare it down a great deal; if possible, find someone experienced to help
with it.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rudi Borth wrote:
> Q1: Would this make sense for a single user who is not a programmer?
You do not have to be a programmer to use Linux.
> My system has been made Y2K compliant with HOLMFIX, shows the date
> correctly, and includes: CPU 80486, 25 MHz, RAM 8 MB, SuperVGA
It
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I
> > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new
A very few winmodems will more or less work nowadays. Of course they suck
just as much under Linux
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike wrote:
> The drive (from dmesg):
> hda: WDC WD153AA-00BAA0, 14679MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1871/255/63, (U)DMA
>
> So what's up with my box? *Am* I just getting really lucky that this
> works? Am I likely to get bit in the ass by this some day? Or is the
> new lilo reall
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote:
> I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering
> what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be
As we've been discussing lately large hard drives can cause a ruckus with
older disk utilities. In some cases your BI
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a 20 Gb HD. The BIOS has detected it since I installed it from
> the first time.
Once the kernel is booted the BIOS doesn't make any difference. BIOS only
matters if you are trying to boot from the big disk AND your kernel is not
in the first
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Adam Scriven wrote:
> RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (Disks?)
> LVM stands for Logical Volume Management (IIRC).
I've always heard 'Disks' but I suppose, sooner or later someone will come
up with a drive which isn't a disk that is still suitable for RAID
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Brad wrote:
> Also, doesn't perl use a special suid binary to run these scripts,
> because as far as the kernel is concerned it just hands it to
> /usr/bin/perl non-suid. Perl detects that the script is suid, and does
> the security handling and restarts suid with that binary.
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one?
There are a few options.
First, you can mount one disk in the directory tree underneath the other.
This will allow you to have the data written into that subdirectory stored
on one d
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote:
> aren't what I'm after. I'm looking for a function that will take 1.4
> and make it 1, but 1.5 or higher is 2. Know what I mean? Any
> built-in c++ function to do that?
Add 0.5 to the number before you call floor.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
> Can I make a shell script setuid ?
No. Linux doesn't support this since it is insecure. It works with perl
scripts only, because Perl does some extra checks and explicit handling to
make it work.
To get a setuid shell script you have to write a C wr
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Mike Leone wrote:
> @home, the largest cable ISP in the US, *routinely* scans their
> customers, aggressively checking that no one is breaking their service
> agreement by running a server OF ANY KIND.
This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by
region.
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been using deb linux for some 5 years now and am quite happy
> with it. It has been a webserver for me for only 1 of those years and
> that is on a DSL. As it trns out, some of the people I've done some
> contract work with wish to install a
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
> tried modules as well), and the sound card does get picked up and
> "configured", albeit not correctly.
I cannot see what is wrong with the configuration you show here. It seems
that it is finding the card and configuring it. Are the addresse
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David Smock wrote:
> stuff works great. My only problem is hot swapping drives - is there
> any way to get linux to recognize the fact that ive changed block
> devices?
You mean you swap between floppy and CDROM drives?
If you compile these drivers as modules you should get
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote:
> egrep -i "failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal
> port|blocked|denied|passwd"\
> /var/log/messages*
There is not much to gain by this. If the information is found in your
logfile, they didn't get in :}
> check the binaries tooo...
> top, ps,
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote:
> obvious one would be http/web stuff). seems very silly to offer that,
> and then shut down your server just to play
> 'how-many-ways-can-regedit-fsck-my-shell*'?
But not everyone can afford to have a second computer to play games on :}
That said, there
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> This is just a guess, but maybe you can't. Maybe the cpu is either
> 100% busy or 0% busy, depending on whether or not linux is running a
> program. After a minute, you can say, OK, a program was running 20% of
It's a good guess. In technical terms th
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Leonardo Dias wrote:
> > was improving. Does anyone know what the state of it is? Is potato's SMP
> > better than slink? I would think it is a function of the kernel, not the
> > distro, but I could be wrong.
>
> You are wrong. SMP is totally written in the kernel. But you
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
> > manpage...
>
> FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
> for). Ext2 isn't.
ext2 does fine with floppies, it has a little more overhead than DOS, but
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote:
> hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB RAM. Any
> chance I can get my system running with only 8MB?
It'll run, but you may have to go through some gyrations. Don't expect X
to be useful, and you might have problems with the installer
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, I. Tura wrote:
> Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the
> CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I
Under DOS there is no ability to idle waiting for an event. Instead the
system must continously poll the keyb
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I
> see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor?
Both. In your case, it's probably the monitor. Your video card is kind
of low-powered too.
The thing that determine
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
> I have a bunch of luser-accounts on one of my boxes, what I want is to
> restrict them to their home-dir, with only very special exceptions.
You probably want to use rsh, the restricted shell (as opposed to rsh the
remote shell).
> Any hints? iirc th
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> windows, reaching the capacity of 115 Kbps (at least, windows say that).
> Take a look at their DOS readme section:
Windows is lying, most likely :} It frequently reports the connection
speed between the computer and the modem, rather than between t
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Spinfire Magenta wrote:
> No one has ever tested the GPL in court, and its difficult to figure
> what the possible outcome of an actual court case would be.
Nobody has been willing to risk it. So apparently most corporate lawyers
feel that the likelihood of it being enforcea
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote:
> Subject: OT: what's the point of mp3's?
>
> > -rw-r--r--1 krzyskrzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3
> > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 1308716 Aug 9 10:05 hip1302mp3.wav
> > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 117718 Aug 9 10:06 hip
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote:
> I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a
> binary file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best
> thing to do is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the
A "better" way is to use the 'reset' command.
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there
> > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ???
>
> I guess you were in home when you did that.
> Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone.
It
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the
> error:
>
> /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
This is actually a linker error - undefined references h
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I
> supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header
> file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is
> there any info on that subject you can
On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian
> and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome.
There are no anti-virus programs because there are no viruses. There are
a variety of security holes that crop u
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Does anyone know what standard Linux/Debian conformes to in regardes
> to IPC? I recently picked up W. Richard Stevens boot: Unix Network
> Programming Volume 2 [Interprocess Communications]. None of the
> programs inclded with the book will compile
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
>
> >> 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr
>
> ... I assumed that the hard links theory of files applies to directories
> in the very same way. That would mean that - if it were possible - there
> are 21 [hard] links to /us
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr
>
> and now I issue:
>
> hp90:/root # find / -inum 108545
> /usr
>
> All I got is /usr! How can that be explained? I must be missing
Well, the inode for /usr is 108545, so when you se
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> I know that the first three are 5, 10, and 15 minute averages, but I'm
> not sure what "load" really is.
It is the average number of processes in the 'R' (running/runnable) state
(or blocked on I/O). Very simple really. Unfortunately interpreting
thes
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote:
> My understanding is (more from windoze than linux) that installing on one
> hrd drv and using it in a diff system is a bad idea, lots of different
It is often a good idea. Sometimes, it is the most efficient way to get a
system installed- say if the r
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> > > since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user
> > > on any other system to connect to your X server as well.
> >
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