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configuring PHP
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

'lo All. I'm on my least favoured subject - installing stuff. I've installed PHP-4.0.6 and am trying to run ./configure. Two Q's: 1. error: no acceptable cc path found in $PATH Can anyone tell me what I am missing? 2. I want to include support for postgresql, using - -with-pqsql [=DIR] ..................default dir is /usr/local/pgsql but on debian it is - well, I'm not sure what it is actually! could it be /var/lib/postgres or /usr/lib/postgres or even /etc/postgresql? Can anyone tell me, erm, well, which path to include in the option? 3[apology section] Thanks! jen.

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Re: [Alug] configuring PHP
by MJ Ray 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > ..................default dir is /usr/local/pgsql but on debian it is - Hang on, hang on, hang on... this is Debian? They do the hard part of figuring out these options for you. Isn't the version got by "apt-get install php4 php4-pgsql" good enough for you? Oh well. If you want the absolute latest versions, make sure you have something like deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main in your /etc/apt/sources.list and then make sure you have all the debian build tools around by doing apt-get install task-debian-devel task-devel-common task-c-dev Now, if you're using unstable as your base system, I believe apt-get build-dep php4-pgsql should work. Otherwise, you can try: apt-get source php4 cd <directory it unpacked to> grep Depend debian/control apt-get install <any bits it needs that you haven't got> debuild binary dpkg -i <package it just made that you want> or some slight variation on the above. -- MJR

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alug-announce digest, Vol 1 #2 - 3 msgs
by alug-announce-admin＠stu.uea.ac.uk 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

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We need *YOU*! (MJ Ray) 2. ALUG Notes -- two weeks to 20 June (MJ Ray) 3. ALUG Notes -- 10 days to 1 July (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Organization: Cat-killingly bad Date: 01 Jul 2001 12:58:17 +0100 Subject: [ALUG-announce] We need *YOU*! ALUG needs people to do the following tasks: - Write for our web site and this newsletter (email me) - Organise the next few meetings (email alug@stu) - Help organise the IRC meetings on Mondays at 8pm (ask online this week) - Be witty and inspiring people (email alug@stu) - Come meet up if you're at LinuxExpo this week (more details in next edition) If you want to do any of the above, please get in touch as listed above. Thanks. -- MJR --__--__-- Message: 2 To: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Organization: Cat-killingly bad Date: 20 Jun 2001 11:00:34 +0100 Subject: [ALUG-announce] ALUG Notes -- two weeks to 20 June Hi, here's a short summary of what's been on the ALUG mailing list in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully, in future, these will be done weekly. Any volunteers for a rota? All that you need is some saved ALUG messages... Where I know IRC nicknames they're included in the write-up somewhere. I hope this is useful for the Monday evening IRC meetings, but if I've fluffed one, please let me know and I'll try not to do it again. [Alug] online services in Norwich question 36 messages Joss Winn will be coming to UEA later this year and asked Norwich members to "advise me on a couple of things regarding networking and accomodation in the area. [...] can anybody tell me about the availability of cable or DSL in the area?" Andrew Savory (ajs) confirmed that the old-fashioned modems are still common in the city: "It isn't available. According to NTL, it will be available in 'early 2001', 'Easter', 'May', 'June', and now 'later this year'. Don't hold your breath." He recommended an unlimited dial-up deal instead until the situation changes, while Jo Mitchell suggested ISDN. Adam Bower took this forwards by asking about using 128k ISDN on these deals, although no-one answered. With ADSL supposed to be coming early next year, Martyn Drake helpfully pointed out that "I'll just bet whoever is offering ADSL services in the area will be using the USB Speedtouch modems. Mandrake 8.0 pretty much supports these straight out of the box" Once again, the "MJR and David Freeman fireworks show" got into action. This time it was about BT's slow roll-out of ADSL with David's initial claim that "BT has the technologie and ability to role out ADSL to everyone, except it costs so much to do. OFTEL wont let us loss lead" getting the intolerant response from MJR that "BT is solely interested in screwing as much money as possible out of the current technologies (eg ISDN) before having to discount them when they introduce the superior DSL systems." From there it became an argument about whether it's the government or corporation's fault and whether the will of the people makes any difference in modern society. Other network technology was explored, including ham radio ("you don't want to go there. [...] 9600 baud is considered fast. [...] Welcome to the twilight zone where valves are the vogue and your circuit looks like it's a particularly tricky plumbing problem." -- Bill Hill (wbh) ) and 802.11b wireless networking ("A group in ipswich considered building the SWAN, Suffok Wireless area network, we just need more people to make it worth while." -- David Freeman). [Alug] basic routing/config prob for mail 26 messages Jen spent a while on the list getting help in trying to figure out how to persuade her Linux box to play nicely with work's network. Once we'd helped her to get the right Debian packages installed (and pointed people at http://www.uk.debian.org/ for future searches), we made some progress in correcting some errors but Jen reported back 'No, I get "a record cannot be found"' before it mysteriously started working. Further investigation suggested that "problem was ignorance about how WINS and DNS work, probably. Did a crash course yesterday. I'll try and do a write-up." The thread continued for a while after this success with points about firewalls and discussion of a newbie list again. John Woodard (BigJohn) summarised past discussions with "I don't think there is too much trafic on the main list to warrant a newbie list quite yet." [Alug] ALUG Librarian stuff 16 messages, +3 in another thread This thread continued with MJR (slef) casting aspersions on UML, while being enlightened by Neill Newman with the confirmation that "in some respects, UML, booch and the like are biased towards OO". UML was still seen as the right way forwards for the library design, as "it is impossible to design a system that is exactly righ the first time round", but to date, no design has been posted. [Alug] ANNOUNCE: ALUG 2001.4 (End Of The Academic Year!) 7 messages, +8 in other threads The final meeting announcement was posted, finally provoking protest that it was on Father's Day and would cause BJ to miss his first meeting ever. Sadly, it was too late to change. Also, more details of the demonstrations planned for the event were given in responses from David Freeman (akula) and others. [Alug] Usage Stats for anglian.lug.org.uk 6 messages http://usage.alug.org.uk/ was announced by Martyn Drake, which was quickly followed by Ashley T Howes spotting "In June 2001 3.3% of visitors were using a BBC Micro" and Steve Fosdick (fozzy) correctly spotting that "The other possibility, of course, is that someone has a browser that lets the user configure the agent header (doesn't opera let you do that?), or a proxy server that can be made to falsify it." Some OT discussion of the feasibility of a BBC Micro web browser followed. [Alug] MS Exchange Server 5 messages Govind Chandra asked "if it is possible to query Exchange Server like POP3 or IMAP servers. Email is the only thing that I have to boot into windows for and use outlook." In general, even though this is possible, Bill Hill confirmed that it was likely to be a local sysadmin's decision not to allow it: "POP/IMAP/anything-useful is disabled by default as being a security risk. I just set it up to have all mail forwarded to somewhere with a more sane server!" -- MJR --__--__-- Message: 3 To: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Organization: Cat-killingly bad Date: 01 Jul 2001 13:34:53 +0100 Subject: [ALUG-announce] ALUG Notes -- 10 days to 1 July OK, so I didn't get this done weekly. Probably something to do with travelling back from Belfast on the day I wanted to do it. Anyone want to do the next one? Well, here we go for our irregular summary of the ALUG list activity... Topics: [Alug] Microsoft FUD [Alug] pppd problem [Alug] Virus on Linux? [Alug] Disappearing messages [Alug] Problems with Mandrake, silly questions and the result. [Alug] linux and USB! Can it be achieved with SuperMicro P6SBA, AmiBios R1.5b? [Alug] Linux Expo... [Alug] A complete beginners view [Alug] Van Eck X config [Alug] Secure FTP Subject: [Alug] Microsoft FUD Adam Bower posted a link to "the document with the worst use of grammer (not that mine is great but then hey I'm not an advertising exec) and the greatest FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) from Microsoft ever." and noted that the document's comments (don't you love Word giving the game away?) described it as "Our latest anti-linux paper.." Steve Fosdick reasoned "why does Microsoft write a document about operating systems to target the end user? For the same reason that Intel advertise the Pentium Processor on the TV - because they want to convince the end users who don't have the technical understanding to specifically ask for the advertised product when that decision is better left with someone who understands the technology." There were also numerous specific rebuttals. Suffice to say, the group wasn't impressed with the tactics used. George Waring posted a link to "Microsoft: We Use FreeBSD at: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=992921150 ... These guys sure know how to make themselves easy to hate." And Jen implored us to "Just remember, all, - Linux is NOT FREE, your system can be hacked into by ANYONE due to the open source software, and there are NO DRIVERS for ANY of it so it WON'T WORK. The trouble is, of course, that there are a lot of people out there who will read that and believe it." Subject: [Alug] pppd problem New list contributor Andrew Glover complained about "disconnecting straight away with pppd." He answered his own question shortly after "I found out it's a compatibility problem with debian potato and 2.4.x". Welcome to the list Andrew. May we solve all your problems so easily ;-) Subject: [Alug] Virus on Linux? Vanisa Surapipith asked: "Can virus attact a linux system? People with MSWindows are constantly affected and need to update their Norton or McAfee virus scanner. Is there a similar thing in linux world? Neill Newman replied that "installing a virus on a linux box is much more dificult than under windows..." and pointed out that "for Redhat, ther are a fre options for updates.. if you are new to this, and want things to just work smoothly, I suggest looking at the up2date and up2date-gnome programs." Meanwhile, xsprite gave the short answer that "Yes. <http://www.big.net.au/~silvio/> However initial infection can be harder because of the multiuser nature of gnu/linux (and peer review). Worms are far more common. <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5080656,00.html> <http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/01/23/news13.html>" and Steve (brodders) offered a link to http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue65/lg_toc65.html Subject: [Alug] Disappearing messages Adam Bower and numerous others complained of strange happenings with the list. The short answer was some network and electrical maintenance which occurred near the list servers at UEA. Hopefully we're back to normal now. Subject: [Alug] Problems with Mandrake, silly questions and the result. John Seago reported more success with Red Hat than Mandrake, but there were some lingering problems. Owen offered condolences saying that "I still feel a begginer much the time, I think its the nature of linux. Some times I feel like its a "Civalisation" like stratagy game, in that as soon as you master one aspect of the system you find there is another level of technology to explore. Unless this is a hobby or profession I should target your efforts to what you want to do. Sound cards are a little tricky to install. Each sound card is installed slightly differently." John posted a later message: "Having now got over the initial euphoria of actually having a working (?), (see later), set of "Linux", Chris, my daughters fiancee, and I have now come up against several problems, In my case numbers of applications just don't work,and trying them delivers a bug report window> I can't believe that a complete system was sent out with a non working spreadsheet, time manager, and other bits that just don't work. I am of the opinion that I haven't installed or set up the system properly or may have installed something that needs other, installed items to work." Once again, Adam's message summarised many: "Yeah, Linux at the beginning is/can be frustrating. I remember the initial learning curve of How-to X would recommend reading Y that would recommend Z that would recommend X again. Made me say arghhhh more than once, although when you find you have 'got it' on one thing (in my case how init worked and the rc.d directorys) you suddenly find that nothing is a real problem and you can fix things yourself. What distro are you using though as it does sound a little buggy! I found that I had the same experience (installed apps not working etc.) as you until I found Debian, although Debian was more stressful to install and the prior knowledge of other distros was very helpful. Take the time to read and you will find yourself never going back to windows, it can take some dedication but it is really worth it." Subject: [Alug] linux and USB! Can it be achieved with SuperMicro P6SBA, AmiBios R1.5b? Tim Gowing announced: "I am having trouble making USB work under Linux (stand alone Linux only system, SuSE 6.3). ... Does anyone have any suggestions for a remedy?" Adam was swift with his reply: "I just had a look here http://www.supermicro.com/TECHSUPPORT/BIOS/bios.htm and it looks as though your Bios is now at version 3.1 so I would also suggest upgrading this and the kernel." Of course, how do you run these upgrades with a Linux-only system? This is a problem the seasoned Linux hackers have hit before. John Woodard answered: "Use a dos boot floppy you can use freedos if you really don't want to run Redmond code. Plenty of boot floppy images on the net if you look. My Epox mobo has the award awflash utility accessible in the bios!" Sounds like manufacturers are getting Clue. Subject: [Alug] Linux Expo... Many messages flew about, trying to arrange an ALUG meet at this event. So far, it sounds like Earl, Owen and David are there on Wednesday, while Jo, Adam and myself appear to be going on Thursday (Adam: "(damn less freebies!)"). Probably it's time to take up Adam's suggestion of "a big organising session on who is going on which day on Mondays IRC?" Subject: [Alug] Van Eck X config David Freeman "was reading cryptonomicon for the second time and I was wondering how I would go about do what Randy does with X windows. For those who don't know, Randy configures X so that there are no window titles, and the background is a script generating windows which open and close at random. Also I wondered if it was possible to output morse code on the scroll lock LED." The answers (from many): "The window titles bit would be the work of your window manager" ... "I did once have a program that would find a random .jpg from the net and display it in the root window as a background, although I would not reccomend using this program as it could be more than a little embarassing considering some of the content of the net" http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ditdah/ A discussion of Sun 3s broke out. http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref1.html Subject: [Alug] Secure FTP Ashley Howes asked "I was wondering if anyone knows of a secure FTP server. By secure I mean the difference between telnet and SSH (so all traffic is encrypted in transmit). I briefly saw references to scp (part of SSH) on a google search. As anyone used this or could comment on alternatives?" Andrew Savory answered "Yes, I use scp all the time. It's usually available as part of the standard ssh package on linux (debheads do 'apt-get install ssh') and works quite nicely. If you're a windows user, search for putty and grab a copy of pscp." Adam (Ubiquitous?) Bower: "sftp is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp(1), which performs all operations over an encrypted ssh(1) transport." Andi Chandler offered http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1 "This has the man page for sftp client" and http://www.xbill.org/sftp/ "This package contains sftpserv. I haven't tried it yet - when I do I'll email the list." -- MJR --__--__-- _______________________________________________ alug-announce mailing list alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug-announce End of alug-announce Digest

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RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #278 - 21 msgs
by Earl Brannigan 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

> Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:09:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> > Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com > Subject: Re: [Alug] RE: Linux Expo... > To: "'alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk'" <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> > > Earl, > > FANTASTIC, I am on a C course here in london ATM and I have shown this > to the people on the course, we all agree that its bloody funny. Glad you liked it.... Started out to be a simple thing, then I thought of using templates, then the whole thing grew.... > > Thank you. Can we get this put on the web site do you think? > Sure, ... > Thanks > > D

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Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by Adam Bower 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

This is the automated ALUG irc meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an irc meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net http://www.epicsol.org/ (for Brett!) Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Writting structures
by David Freeman 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

C wizards, If I write a structure to disk using fwrite(), what happens about pointers to structers? does the pointer or what its pointing at get saved? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] Grub Glorious Grub!
by MJ Ray 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > I have the package installed on Debian but I have not configured it yet, > It appears to not have all the info documentation in unstable :( [...] The package is in debian stable too, but it's not as simple as lilo to install yourself yet. -- MJR

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Grub Glorious Grub!
by terryfilby 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Does anyone know if any distro (apart from Mandrake 7.2/8.0) uses Grub as well, or instead of, Lilo? Thanks Terry

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Re: [Alug] Secure FTP
by MJ Ray 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> writes: > nope, scp is in SSH 1 and 2 of the protocols. Nice. > sftp is a cross between scp and ftp over an SSL tunnel.. the sftp I thought sftp was an ssh invention? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Secure FTP
by MJ Ray 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

"Ashley T. Howes Ph.D." <ashley(a)turton.com> writes: > I was wondering if anyone knows of a secure FTP server. By secure I mean > the difference between telnet and SSH (so all traffic is encrypted in > transmit). I briefly saw references to scp (part of SSH) on a google > search. As anyone used this or could comment on alternatives? scp is version 1 ssh's copy program, I think. sftp is version 2's. ftp over ssl is another thing entirely. -- MJR

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=20
by John Seago 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

Can anyone tell me why my messages to ALUG have =20 at what I presume is the end of each line please? I would also like to know if they appear on all my messages and how to stop it happening. John Seago

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Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config
by MJ Ray 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > The window titles bit would be the work of your window manager [...] Indeed. nawm (Not A Window Manager) could be quite good for this if you can find it. Written by MIT hackers for some mad project a few years back, probably not dissimilar to this. > You can make the keyboard LEDs do lots of fun things! as Neill suggests a > quick look on Freshmeat would probably bring up the correct results. and a Anyone know a modem traffic one which works in X? That would be quite handy (stop me running gkrellm so much, at least). Especially if it flashed all three together for new email. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

The Amiga was a great machine... way better than any PC style hardware for years afterwards. In fact I still have my Amiga in the loft. Still trying to work out how I could get it on the Net. I need a harddisk, a network card and probably a bit more memory than the 1MB it currently has in it. Andi Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> on 29/06/2001 13:16:01 To: neill(a)entora.co.uk cc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI@FTI, alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Neill Newman wrote: > Adam Bower wrote: > > > > > > We have one at work :) well a guy at work brought his in from home, I > > think that the 3/60 existed in the days before the 486 even? > > eerrr... I thought the 3/60 was a 486 ?? or was it a 386 ?? > Sz Nah, just checked with the guys at work it was an 68020 with optional 68881, they also had the tape drive and SCSI box as an external unit! Anyway while we drift more and more off-topic you can look here for more Sun specs http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref1.html according to that FAQ they did make a 386 and 486 workstation. but back in those days I was using Amigas.... mmmm Amiga Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * *********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Yes, you're right there Adam.... ...arrh the old Sun 3/60's... I remember using them way way back in the mists of time!! The days when 486's were fast! Andi Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> on 28/06/2001 18:37:27 To: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI@FTI cc: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Chandler wrote: > There used to be a classic little utility called 'Cylon' that would flash > the 4 keyboard lights back and forth on ye olde SparcStations... The old Suns (3/60s I think) also had a strip of leds on the back of the case that did this Cylon thing to let you know it was running ok. Although this may of just been remembered wrong but it was something like that. Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * *********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Nope.. a Motorola 68k chip... #include<http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~kim/faq/part1> <snip> 3/60 Processor(s): 68020 @ 20MHz, 68881 (stock), Sun-3 MMU, 8 hardware contexts, 3 MIPS CPU: 501-1205/1322/1334/1345 Chassis type: wide pizza box Bus: P4 connector (not same as P4 on 3/80) Memory: 24M physical, 256M virtual, 200ns cycle Notes: VRAM monochome frame buffer for 501-1205/1334. Optional color frame buffer (can run mono and color simultaneously) on P4 connector. Onboard SCSI. SIMM memory (100ns 1M x 9 SIMMs). High (1600 * 1100) or low (1152 * 900) resolution mono selectable by jumper. Thin coax or AUI Ethernet. Code-named "Ferrari". 4M stock on 501-1205/1322, 0M stock on 501-1322/1345. </snip> Andi... wondering if they do a Deep Pan Stuffed Crust version with extra cheese! Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> on 29/06/2001 12:49:57 To: abower(a)thebowery.co.uk cc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI@FTI, alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config Adam Bower wrote: > > > We have one at work :) well a guy at work brought his in from home, I > think that the 3/60 existed in the days before the 486 even? eerrr... I thought the 3/60 was a 486 ?? or was it a 386 ?? Sz -- Open Source Specialists http://www.entora.co.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)701 0723686 Fax: +44 (0)870 3214368 ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * *********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

When I started at Uni they were just changed from user workstations into X terms hanging off Sparc ELC's. I remember using some a few years before I went to Uni though and they seemed fast at the time!! Oh how times change!!! The 3/60's have 68000 chips in AFAIK. So yeah, they do pre-date ye olde 80486 chips. Sun used to do a 386 file server at one point. Andi Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> on 29/06/2001 11:11:02 To: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI@FTI cc: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Andrew Chandler wrote: > Yes, you're right there Adam.... > > ...arrh the old Sun 3/60's... I remember using them way way back in the mists > of time!! > The days when 486's were fast! We have one at work :) well a guy at work brought his in from home, I think that the 3/60 existed in the days before the 486 even? Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * *********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Secure FTP
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Ashley, This is one thing I've started to look into recently for my employer. Here's a couple of links.... http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1 This has the man page for sftp client http://www.xbill.org/sftp/ This package contains sftpserv. I haven't tried it yet - when I do I'll email the list. Andi "Ashley T. Howes Ph.D." <ashley(a)turton.com> on 29/06/2001 11:58:50 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [Alug] Secure FTP I was wondering if anyone knows of a secure FTP server. By secure I mean the difference between telnet and SSH (so all traffic is encrypted in transmit). I briefly saw references to scp (part of SSH) on a google search. As anyone used this or could comment on alternatives? Ashley Dr Ashley T. Howes Ph.D. ashley(a)turton.com Lead Internet Developer http://www.turton.com Turton Creative Marketing Solutions 23-27 St. Andrews Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4TP, UK Tel:+44 (0)1603 766888 Fax:+44 (0)1603 767070 _______________________________________________ alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * *********************************************************************

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Anyone bored?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ Let's see if any open source followers are in the same quadrant as Ann Widder-shins.

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Trains
by David Freeman 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *c[] = { "two", "enter", "hell","harold" }; char **cp[] = { c + 3, c, c + 2, c + 1 }; char ***cpp = cp; printf("%s", *cpp[2]); printf("%s ", **++cpp + 2); printf("%s", **cpp + 1); printf("%s", *cpp[2] + 4); printf("%s\n", cpp[1][1] + 4); printf("I will be going down by train on the wednesday" "for Linux Expo. Anybody else who wants to " "coordinate trains as go down as a group?"); return 0; } __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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RE: Linux Expo...
by Earl Brannigan 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

> > just a quick note, which day is everybody planning on going ?? knowing > my luck I'll turn up on the wrong day !!! > > Sz > Hi All, I'm going down on Wednesday. I thought a mass meetup would be good, Could we all 'do lunch' or something (that isn't how it probably sounds - <cringes>). A good chance to compare freebies and get some suggestions of stands to visit and that sort of thing. Have set out below a functional C++ code framework. Feel Free to edit to include yourself ... I have commented where to do this, a simple copy and paste replacing details with your own should suffice /* File : ExpoMeet.h Author : earl brannigan Purpose: Linux Expo ALUG Meetup Version : 0.1 date : 28th June 2001 */ typedef struct _food { ong Baguette; short Coffee; void eat() { Baguette --; //poss result in -ve value of one item, relies on sense of alugite to avoid consuming self or food container Coffee --; } //a boolean to tell if there is still Food bool operator == (bool){ return (Baguette || Coffee);} }FoodType; //some externals for buying lunch extern long buycoffee(); extern long buysarnie(); class MeetUp { private : FoodType* food; protected : public : MeetUp():food(new FoodType()) {} long lunch() { food.coffee = buycoffee(); food.Baguette = buysarmie(); long Time(0); while(food == true) { food->eat(); Time++; } return Time; } }; //singleton alug member (only one instance of each - thankfully) template <const string N, const int max_goodies> class Alugite{ private : static Alugite* INSTANCE; string name; bool satisfied; std::list<string> goodies; MeetUp* Meet; //private constr ... well you wouldn't want it to be public now Alugite():name(N),Meet(new MeetUp()), satisfied(false), goodies(){} void GetGoodies () { cin >> goodies;} void ShowGoodies() { cout << goodies << endl; } public : static Alugite* GetInstance(){return INSTANCE = (NULL ? new Alugite() : INSTANCE);} void mingle() { while (!satisfied) { GetGoodies(); satisfied = (goodies.size() >= max_goodies); //finish when we can't carry any more } } void DoMeet() { Meet->lunch(); ShowGoodies(); //generate envy satisfied = false; //reset satisfied for afternoon session } }; //add yourself to this list of typedefs, specify your name and the max_goodies you can get in a session to complete the template typedef Alugite <"Earl", 100> Earl; typedef Alugite <"Jo", 100> Jo; typedef Alugite <"Neill", 100> Neill; typedef Alugite <"Martyn", 100> Martyn; typedef Alugite <"Adam", 100> Adam; typedef Alugite <"David", 100> David; //declare yourself a member of _alug typedef struct _alug{ { Earl* earl; Jo* jo; Neill* neill; Martyn* martyn; Adam* adam; //constructor ... add yourself here or you don't exist _alug(){ //retrieve the static INSTANCE of each member earl = Earl::GetInstance(); jo = Jo::GetInstance(); neill = Neill::GetInstance(); martyn = Martyn::GetInstance(); adam = Adam::GetInstance(); } }alug; /*main .cc */ //Make sure you mingle and meet by adding yourself to main void main(void) { //TODO : thread Alugite mingles and meet for true concurrency alug* ALUG = new alug(); //Morning Mingles ALUG->earl->Mingle(); ALUG->jo->Mingle(); ALUG->neill->Mingle(); ALUG->martyn->Mingle(); ALUG->adam->Mingle(); //Dinner ALUG->earl->DoMeet(); ALUG->jo->DoMeet(); ALUG->neill->DoMeet(); ALUG->martyn->DoMeet(); ALUG->adam->DoMeet(); //Afternoon Mingles ALUG->earl->Mingle(); ALUG->jo->Mingle(); ALUG->neill->Mingle(); ALUG->martyn->Mingle(); ALUG->adam->Mingle(); //eveyone done and going home delete ALUG; } Cheers Earl > > -- > Open Source Specialists http://www.entora.co.uk/ > Tel: +44 (0)701 0723686 Fax: +44 (0)870 3214368 > >

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Congrates Ashley
by David Freeman 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Ashley, you replied first, therefore the T-shirt is yours. You can either collect from me, collect at the next meet, or collect at the linux expo on the wednesday. Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] RE: Linux Expo...
by MJ Ray 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> writes: > > What's more, Alugites, being lovers of freedom could well suffer terrible > > repercussions should they one day discover "(c) Sun Microsystems" stamped > > all over their little worlds.... > true, but Sun hath give Java to the ISO commitee (afaik) so it may well > become a standard in a few years ;).. [...] I thought that was all called off, then Sun tried to pass it to ECMA, then they took it back to themselves and are going to do Whatever They Damn Well Please. > > And finally, C++ makes it much easier to code overflowable buffers into [...] > all the more reason to go for a well thought out, sandboxed, bufferover > run proof, stacksmashing proof, secure alternative ;).. Why are you bringing the Lisp family of languages into this? ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Free T-shirt
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

David F wrote: >I have an XL O'rielly T-shirt which is going free to a good home. I'll have if no-one else wants....? Why not put the Alug members names' in a hat and pick one out, though ? Everyone could always do with a tee shirt. (specially with the running horse on.... Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Van Eck X config
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

There used to be a classic little utility called 'Cylon' that would flash the 4 keyboard lights back and forth on ye olde SparcStations... ...in fact a bit like the Cylon's in Battlestar Galactica!!! :-) Bing > Also I wondered if it was possible to output morse code on the scroll > lock LED. You can make the keyboard LEDs do lots of fun things! as Neill suggests a quick look on Freshmeat would probably bring up the correct results. and a quick google search says look here http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/ and here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ditdah/ Adam ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * *********************************************************************

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Van Eck X config
by David Freeman 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

I was reading cryptonomicon for the second time and I was wondering how I would go about do what Randy does with X windows. For those who don't know, Randy configures X so that there are no window titles, and the background is a script generating windows which open and close at random. Also I wondered if it was possible to output morse code on the scroll lock LED. Any suggestions? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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