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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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
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