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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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! :}
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 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 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 Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
> That should work, but what I usually do is:
>
> xhost +localhost
>
> 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.
Actually, you will be allowing any user on system 'root
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John wrote:
> Not wanting to put Debian at risk, I tried to boot Windows - no go and
> I could not use safe mode. I re-studied the M/Board Manual and checked
On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You
can download a patch from Microsoft that wil
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.
> >
> &
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 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 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 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 Tue, 1 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ch1quiz /usr/local/bin/updatehw 2>>&
> $HOME/tmp.quizlog
>
> in /etc/crontab, and every ten minutes user ch1quiz will run
> /usr/local/bin/updatehw with the output and errors appended to
> tmp.quizlog in its home directory.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dean Struss wrote:
> Brian Butler wrote:
>
> > Now, we need advice on the best way to get this found partition information
> > into the table on the disk. Is it even slightly smart to just fire up fdisk
> > or cfdisk and go to town?
If you know exactly what the partition inf
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote:
> What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have?
'free' will do it. The kernel publishes the information in /proc/meminfo.
> My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux
> thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding t
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, aphro wrote:
> its probably best to leave 1MB free when using the append option for most
> boards, so tell linux u got 127MB instead of 128 sometimes allocating
> every last bit of ram can cause problems(sometimes minor sometimes major).
Only if your motherboard is broken. Te
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote:
> Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab?
fstab is used by the mount command to know what filesystems go on what
mount points, mostly for mounting them at startup. mtab is used to keep
track of what filesystems are mounted, right now.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> Is there a built in command, or shell command to retrieve the process
> name from a pid?
ps ax | awk '$1 == {print $5}'
There's no builtin command to do this. I don't know if Perl can do it or
not. I doubt it, though.
> The best I could come up wit
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> Correct. "at" is an addition to cron, that makes sure that cron jobs
> get run regardless of whether the machine was off during the time it
> was supposed to excute the given job. If your box is up 24/7, all you
> need is cron.
You're overlooking at's abi
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> Is it just me or does traceroute need to be suid root?
Traceroute needs to be setuid so it can write IP packets directly rather
than using the socket interface. Without that ability, it could not set
the time-to-live on the packet and thus wouldn't work.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, john smith wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way to execute a bash shell or
> whatever shell during "booting or bootstrapping" of the kernel. i.e.
No, it's not. You'll have to boot off a floppy, and go fix whatever you
broke.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
> As a rule I'm very happy reading my mail in Pine through a shell
> account. However occasionally I receive an attachment that I need to
> use another program to view. Can somebody recommend a good mail
> program similar to pine that can handle attachm
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Brian G. Neal wrote:
> I assume I need to include some library that has sin/cos.
> I found the -l switch to pass libraries to the linker but
> I have no idea what library to use. Am I missing something
You need to use -lm (link libm, the math library).
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
> Ask them if they support Windows 3.1. They will say words that can be
> mapped to something similar on Linux, you have to know what they are
> saying. PAP and CHAP are key words.
Another alternative is to inspect the Windows 95 support. If their setu
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:
> I'm wondering is there any HOWTO on routing or maybe someone can
> explain me how does it works. I must mension that i'm do not planning
> to use RIP or OSPF routing protocols i want to know everything that is
> interconnected with static routing tabl
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Nagilum wrote:
> So, I tried changing a user's login shell to '*/bin/bash' to no avail.
> When I attempt to login, I am asked for the username.. and then I am
> asked for the password twice and booted out.
Giving a user a chrooted home won't be an easy task. You need to have
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> That is what I thought. Is there a way to keep a cracker from doing this?
You need to keep them out in the first place. My personal favorite is to
just keep tabs on security of standalone daemons (apache, sendmail) and
then put "ALL: ALL" in hosts.deny. W
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> I posted a message to linux-kernel to help me in a small paper
> that I have to do for tomorrow and dont see an answer. It is a few
> related questions about Linux + SMP. If there is a Linux kernel guru
> in this list that can
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Dave Erickson wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with
> my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux?
When I got a Umax SCSI scanner two years ago, the SCSI card didn't work
and there were no plans to add support for it. It's similar to an Ad
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> > > So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection?
> >
> > Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth)
>
> My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25.
But the DB25 is functionally the same as 50-pin SCSI, and conversion
between the two is straightforwar
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> I need to add a second superuser.
No you don't.
If you want someone else to have root access, then just give them the root
password.
If you want someone else to be able to do some root tasks but not really
be root, you have two choices.
1) Make the prog
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, ktb wrote:
> processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere
> that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your
> computer if there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand
Ancient problem. Only afflicts Pentiums under about 200
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote:
> 1. It seems there's a VGA controller built into the motherboard with an
> accompanying serial cable to attach to a monitor. Does this mean I no
> longer need a video card like in older 486/386 models?
Probably, yes. However, you may have to set jump
I am in need of a networking solution that fulfills the following
requirements. Keep in mind I know next to nothing about wireless
networking.
1) Must be able to function over a distance of 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30
meters) indoors (this means transmitting through walls and one or two
floors).
2)
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote:
> Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar xzvf datstore
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
Maybe you transferred it in ASCII mode. Hopefully you didn't transfer i
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> During shutdown process, I SOMETIME obtain the following error message :
>
> (A) "can't umount /dev/hda3, '/' is busy".
I'm not sure what would cause this, but it can happen if the init scripts
try to close down the root partition before all the p
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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
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
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
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'
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 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 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, 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 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, 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
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