Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect
At 2003-02-17T14:11:58Z, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? I'd suggest CUPS. Once you have it running, you'll probably wish you'd done it earlier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31337/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with externalDNSes
At 2003-02-17T16:05:48Z, Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - from my LAN I want that the address xxx.mydomain.com resolves directly
> to our server (192.168.1.2).
Let's see if I have this straight.
For clients on the LAN, `xxx.mydomain.com' should resolve to 192.168.1.2.
For clients on the Internet, `xxx.mydomain.com' should resolve to your
public IP.
Is this correct? Sorry if I'm having a bit of trouble understanding; this
cold medicine is not greatly conducive to lucidity.
If I understood, correctly, you'll probably want to install BIND 9 and
configure seperate `views' for the internal and external networks.
Here are some excerpts from my named.conf that does exactly this:
acl "lan" {
10.0.0.0/8;
};
view "private" {
match-clients { "lan"; };
recursion yes;
zone "honeypot.net" {
type master;
file "internal/db.honeypot.net";
};
};
view "public" {
match-clients { any; };
recursion no;
zone "honeypot.net" {
type master;
file "external/db.honeypot.net";
};
};
The syntax is pretty straightforward. Clients that match the "lan" acl get
results from "internal/db.honeypot.net", but everyone else gets results from
"external/db.honeypot.net". I've used BIND's `$INCLUDE' directive to
simplify those zone files quite a bit. Both start with:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA( )
$INCLUDE common/db.honeypot.net
which includes a file that has records that both internal and external
clients should get. In your case, "common/db.mydomain.com" would have all
of the "shared" records. It would resemble:
$ORIGIN mydomain.com.
www IN A my.isp.public.ip
"internal/db.mydomain.com" would look like:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA( )
$INCLUDE common/db.mydomain.com
xxx IN A 192.168.1.2
and "external/db.mydomain.com" would be similar to:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA( )
$INCLUDE common/db.mydomain.com
xxx IN A aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
I hope this makes sense. If it doesn't, please blame Alka Seltzer Cold &
Flu and don't think too harshly of me.
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Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer
I am using ALSA 0.9.0rc6+2-1 via `alsa-modules-2.4.19-k7' on an Unstable workstation. This worked great until the last day or two, but a recent update seems to have broken my setup (and no, I'm not sure exactly what all I updated - this is an Unstable system in name *and* practice :) ). In a nutshell, ALSA still starts without any error messages, but any sound-playing program falls into an endless cycle of 100% CPU usage as soon as playback starts. However, if I set `startosslayer=true' in /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf and restart via /etc/init.d/alsa, I can play sounds through ALSA's OSS emulation layer without any problems. In fact, I've configured KDE's artsd to use OSS in the mean time, and I'm not having any trouble at all. Has anyone seen anything like this? I'm really puzzled as to why I can't use ALSA directly. Furthermore, I don't know how to get any debugging information to illuminate the matter. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31355/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer
At 2003-02-18T00:58:25Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just last weekend, I finally decided to get ALSA working on my main > workstation, which had been OSS-based until then. I also found that I had > to use the OSS emulation layer to get anything to work; KDE's aRTs would > either complain that it could not open the dsp device, or lock up, when I > tried various other approaches. Thanks for sharing. At least now I know that it's not just me. Anyone else? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31385/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
At 2003-02-21T13:29:45Z, Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Assuming that SpamAssassin is configured to read per-user settings from ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, edit that file to add: > 1. how to i tell spamassassin *not to* process some messages? for > instance, debain mailing list, i understand, is already processed for > spam. no use spamming it again whitelist_from *@lists.debian.org > 2.how do i tell spamassassin *not to* convert all attachments into > inline material? retain the structure, just add the tag in subject line? defang_mime 0 > 3. how do i tell spamassassin, here, if the message is from a certain > sender, it is not spam - irrespctive of what you think and if a message is > from some other sender, it is spam - irrespctive of what you think? whitelist_from blacklist_from Read `man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for more information. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg32134/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Tripwire
At 2003-02-21T12:45:59Z, Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a comparable package available for debian? I've started using AIDE on my production machines. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
At 2003-02-21T17:16:37Z, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It takes about 5-10 seconds per message, so before I started filtering my > debian-user messages before processing, it was prohibitive. I see the same thing on my GHz+ Athlon server. However, the process spends about 99.9% of that time waiting for something such as a DNS request to finish; I can process 15-20 incoming emails simultaneously in the same 5-second window without a detectable load on the machine. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mail server
At 2003-02-25T09:34:37Z, Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, qmail is an I/O hog. We have a (small) list-server at a customer > which was set up with qmail (w/ el-cheapo 20 GB IDE HDDs). Could only send > at ~512 kbit. Then replaced qmail with postfix, now it saturates the > customer's T1 without problems... Have you tried newer versions of Sendmail with multiple queues, and many queue-runners? I helped a friend tune an existing installation a week or so ago, and it really seemed to fly. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: floating point hex calc?
At 2003-03-07T09:48:56Z, "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there something like what I want for debian, or if not is there
> something I can compile from source?
`bc' comes with Debian. Start it with the -l flag (to do float math), set
ibase to 16, and enter A-F in caps. The ">" and ":" show what I typed and
what bc displayed, respectively.
$ bc -l
> ibase=16
> A+B
: 21
> 1A.C9E
: 26.788
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Re: How to get PHP4 to work with Apache2
At 2003-03-08T14:18:57Z, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to begin incorporating it into the web based POS environment that I > am developing. In such a database-driven environment, the web server itself will almost certainly not be the bottleneck. Your database and the programming language you choose will probably have much more impact than the web server. > ...there is great interest in Apache2 because of its ease of management > and its SPEED. Thanks! Ease of management? On a POS system? Don't you just set it up and leave it running? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Comments on security, Re: recover lost root password
At 2003-03-09T09:46:03Z, Satish Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To my current understanding security seems to be a major drawback of > gnu/linux systems.(How else can you explain such gaping holes?). Your current understanding is lacking. > I am also inherently suspicious of anything that goes by "free" (Please > try to convince me otherwise). No thanks. There are plenty of Usenet threads and web pages for the Googling that will give you what you need. > As I see it an adminstrator has his task cut out for him to ensure the > security and confidentiality of the organization. This is true of any system. Security is a process, not a destination. >(Gnu/Linux doesn't make things easy in this crucial aspect!). Ummm, sure. > Is there a gnu/linux community concerned with these issues? Hey! You found us on your first try! -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software RAID and drive failures
At 2003-03-10T13:10:02Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ?? RAID1 can only handle 1 failure also!! Depends on how many drives are in the volume, doesn't it? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software RAID and drive failures
At 2003-03-10T16:39:36Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm. By definition, RAID1 is "mirroring". Correct. > Never heard of putting any more than 2 disks in a mirrorset. Mirroring can have a nice boost for read access. I'd imagine that such a setup would be useful for something like ftp.cdrom.com, where many simultaneous read requests (but almost no write requests) are being answered. > Never even thought of it, actually. With more than 2 disks, I'd > automatically go with RAID5. I guess it depends on your needs. Given the money for such a setup, RAID1+0 (or RAID10, whatever you want to call it) would be faster and possibly more robust; as long as at least one drive from each stripe survives, the whole filesystem is still available. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software RAID and drive failures
At 2003-03-10T18:25:06Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bet RAID0 would be even faster. Yes, yes, fragile... Not for concurrent reads. If a file spans more than one physical disk, then at least two drives have to be reading from the same region at the same time. With RAID1, you can have multiple simultaneous reads from different physical locations. > They blaze!!! But, given enough (and that means *lots*) cache, RAID5 is > just as fast. I could see how that could be true, as long as no one process is accessing more than $cache_size of information at once. > And you're right, the likelihood that a specific disk will puke is pretty > darned low. Hence the saying that RAID5 is the poor man's RAID10. :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian spammed
At 2003-03-11T18:14:38Z, Carla Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh frabjous day, my debian-users list address is getting spammed. What a > lovely world we live in. > > $100 cash reward for the inventor of an infallible spammer brain burner. > $500 if I get to pull the switch Noting that you said nothing about *implementing* the corrective instrument, I invent an electric chair and claim my $100. Need my address for the check? :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software RAID and drive failures
At 2003-03-11T18:41:12Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why wouldn't you get parallel reads, especially if you do async IO? I guess a better example would be when two files are accessed, and each has blocks that physically reside on the same two drives. Imagine that both files are accessed randomly and concurrently (think multiple database instances). In this case, it could very well happen that blocks from file1 (f1a, f1b) and file2 (f2a, f2b) are being read simultaneously. In this case, both drives are jumping back and forth between f1a/f2a and f1b/f2b. Imagine, instead, that file1 and file2 are on a mirror. The RAID system could converge on the situation where the first drive is "dedicated" to file1, and the second is "dedicated" to file2. I don't think this is a particularly unlikely scenario. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software RAID and drive failures
At 2003-03-12T07:03:59Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Tagged command queuing should order the reads. Yes, but you still have contention in that a larger-than-normal chunk will be read from file1, alternating with a larger-than-normal chunk from file2. > 2. As a DBA, it seems to me that this possibility is irrelevant, since >the DBMS would have sucked those blocks (and their neighbors) into >it's cache after the 1st 1 or 2 db read requests. Work with me here. :) >> Imagine, instead, that file1 and file2 are on a mirror. The RAID system >> could converge on the situation where the first drive is "dedicated" to >> file1, and the second is "dedicated" to file2. > Are controllers smart in that way? I think, more likely, that they'd be stupid in that way. That is, the first drive's heads will be physically closer to a requested block from file1, and similarly for file2 and the second drive. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: using white noise for cryptography
At 2003-03-14T00:50:17Z, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And do _not_ overestimate the randomness of your noise. That will weaken > your random generator a lot. I'm not sure I follow. How would adding an entropy source weaken the system's randomness? Even if the audio input were a perfect sine wave, would adding that into the mix result in sin()+random? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE 3.1 + Korganizer?
I'm tracking unstable, and have updated much of my KDE installation to 3.1. However, korganizer is nowhere to be found. Does anyone know of a good source for that program? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE 3.1 + Korganizer?
At 2003-03-18T05:44:41Z, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://people.debian.org/~ccheney/kde-3.1.1-1/ Thanks to everybody for the responses! I now have kdepim and korganizer on my KDE 3.1 desktop. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp
At 2003-03-18T16:49:08Z, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some incantation one has to perform to get a Save option? If so, > what is it? And WHY??? Well, you can have a large number of files open at once. If the main "File" menu had a "Save" option, how would you tell it which file(s) to write? A generic "Save All" might work, but would be potentially dangerous if called by accident (what if you specificly did *not* want to write one file, as you don't like the results of some editing and don't want to overwrite your good version), and would always be annoying in the case that you have multiple unnamed images that you'd have to name at that time or skip. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SOLVED]Re: Upgrading to Sid Via Apt-Get
At 2003-03-21T20:44:53Z, Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would suggest that you delete the signature (but the name) of the > original poster when replying to a mailing list like debian-user. In this > case at least the PGP signature. Agreed. > The content of this email is not such that it really need pgp encryption > anyway. I'd disagree on that point, in that the message wasn't encrypted - it was signed. It seems as though more people are using crypto authentication these days, which I can only see as a Good Thing. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?
At 2003-03-22T16:27:16Z, "Sharninder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anybody here has any idea when will Sarge or Sid become stable. AFAIK > when sarge becomes stable, only then will Sid become sarge. Am i right ? No. Sid will always be unstable. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?
At 2003-03-22T17:07:47Z, Blake Covarrubias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like I was wrong then. :o I'm still somewhat new to Debian and their > releases. My apologizes. None needed. :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] user psychology
At 2003-03-23T22:27:37Z, Raju Kurunkad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For laughs, you can read thru the "Bastard operator from hell" archives at > > http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html That was written as *humor*? I'd thought it was a training manual. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
At 2003-03-23T22:53:54Z, "JOSEPH A NAGY JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am sick and god d* f** TIRED of all the S*** I have to put up > with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A affect, but > x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z WILL NOT BE > INSTALLED NO MATTER WHAT THE GODD* F*** YOU DO!" If you feel that strongly, please accept a refund for the unsatisfactory software. Here it is: --> <-- There. Feel better now? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
At 2003-03-25T15:05:08Z, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically, if someone doesn't know how many keys ones keyboard has, _and_ > he doesn't know how to count them, then I doubt he should be using a > computer at all. Devil's advocate: A new user may not know whether to count every single key. For example, shift doesn't do anything at all by itself, right? What about my Happy Hacking Lite's "Fn" key that's used to build the F1-F10 keys, Home, End, etc. Does it count? Do those keys that don't physically exist, but are generated when you're holding down "Fn" count? Frankly, *I* have to look up my keyboard specs when I install X (which happens, maybe, once every 1.5 years or so), because the answer isn't nearly as straightforward as just counting the physical buttons. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Anybody using 2.6 kernel packages?
Is anyone using the 2.6.0-test* kernel packages -- successfully? I installed the -test4 image to play around, and I immediately noticed three things: 1) I can't log in to a KDE session using KDM. 2) My motherboard's Promise IDE controller is detected, but neither of the drives (one CD-R, one DVD) are found. 3) I can't type the "|" character at a console prompt. I don't really have the time to track these down right now so I rebooted back into 2.4, but I was wondering if anyone has had better luck than I did. Is it worth upgrading at this time? I've head that 2.6 has much better support for IDE CD-Rs; is this true? Thanks, -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list
At 2003-10-16T10:28:07Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm glad you asked. Feel free to make a cron script to grab this handy, > dandy net-lsearch-able list of relays I've found to have virus infected > users behind them and put it in /etc/exim4/infected-hosts.txt Paul, I released this today; you may be interested: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/NewTrino -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list
At 2003-10-17T02:38:58Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's kinda cool. I use mysql for sympa and really don't want to have to > convert that, nor do I have the patience to adapt it right now. It looks > very promising though. Thanks. I've had it running on production systems for several weeks without any problems. > You might be interested to know that vbl.messagelabs.com lasted all of a > week. That's too bad; I think it could've been a valuable service. On a related note, I may be starting a similar service once I can find enough nameservers to help balance the load. I wrote NewTrino with the goal of efficiently hosting a public blackhole list with hundreds of thousands of entries. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: rm -rf .* alternatives
At 2003-10-26T18:46:05Z, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then wouldn't > > rm -r `ls` > > do the trick? No; it wouldn't list files starting with '.'. That whole line of experimentation also fails on any filename with a space in it. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: rm -rf .* alternatives
At 2003-10-26T15:12:18Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could always do: > rm -r `ls -A` If you have good backups, consider the ramifications of: $ touch 'a .. b' $ rm -r `ls -A` -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...
At 2003-10-25T17:07:36Z, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gah, I didn't think of that. So I've still eaten a stupid amount of > traffic this week. Does anyone have any neat scripts for automaticaly > blacklisting Swen-sending ips for a period of time with Postfix? This may or may not be overkill, depending on how many hosts you want to protect: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/NewTrino -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sometimes it Just Works
I just started a new job and am the only non-Windows user (so far as I know). I was given a computer with XP and permission to dual-boot Linux but was more than a little nervous about whether I could make it all work; I know that my new boss wouldn't be happy about me spending a lot of time to get the same functionality I'd have with the setup already prepared for me. So, once I'd done the basic install and set up X, I decided to start tackling the integration issues: 1) Windows shares from Win2K servers. Samba worked out of the box - 'nuff said. 2) Exchange. The sysadmin had already enabled IMAP for another user months ago; I pointed Kmail at the server and it work perfectly the first time I clicked "Check mail". 3) A little proprietary app to track whether employees are in our out of their offices. It's a Windows app that is run directly off the fileserver (no local installation). I installed Wine, but Wine complained that it wasn't configured. I install winesetuptk and tried again, and kept clicking "Next >" to accept the defaults. When that was finished, the app loaded and ran and I was able to log in and out of the system without any further action. I was pretty happy at this point - until I clicked the "minimize" window gadget. When I realized that the program had added an icon in my KDE panel's system tray and that I could right-click the icon to log in or out in *exactly* the same way that I would running Windows, and that the icon was absolutely indentical to that of the other programs in the system tray, I was completely amazed. In short, it looked and behaved exactly like any other program I run. I've been using Linux for quite a while and have been impressed with the advances its made over the years, but I don't think I really appreciated how far it's come until today. Good job, everyone. You just made my job a lot easier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: print command
At 2003-10-31T19:50:17Z, Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. Ooh! My turn: $ yes '*' | head -n 60 | xargs echo | sed 's/ //g' I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: print command
At 2003-11-02T07:17:12Z, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. > yes '*' | head -n 80 | tr -d '\n' Very good. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: galeon 1.3.x fuckwittedness -- 1.2.5 fork, anyone?
At 2003-11-04T11:52:17Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Galeon brain death. ... > This generally hasn't been helped any by libonoboui or gconf, both of > which are brutish f'ups and epitomes of developer hubris. But seriously, Karsten, what do you *really* think? :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setting hardware clock from NIST
At 2003-11-05T02:18:06Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use the ntp and ntp-simple packages. These are the public time servers > I use in /etc/ntp.conf: > > server ntp2.usno.navy.mil > server ntp-1.vt.edu > server ntp-2.vt.edu Don't do that. Besides putting a load on the precious stratum-1 servers and stratum-2 servers on the other side of the Big Pond, look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html to find some servers closer to home. The backbone will be happier and your clock will be more accurate. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setting hardware clock from NIST
At 2003-11-06T02:18:09Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I already consulted that list. My home is in Orlando, FL :-) > > I only got an @yahoo.es account... Gotcha. I saw the ".es" and, well, you can guess. But you still shouldn't use ntp2.usno.navy.mil; every little shareware time utility syncs against those poor machines by default. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: restart / shutdown by normal user
At 2003-01-20T21:05:36Z, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the current (default) settings restarting & shutting down is only > allowed for the root user; How can I change that so normal users can shut > down (restart) ? The safest answer is to install sudo, and give the ability to execute `shutdown' as root to an explicit set of users. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg25197/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Quick spamassassin question
At 2003-01-24T10:54:27Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If spamassassin is installed site-wide, do individual user preferences > still apply? If not, is there any way to make it do so? Yes, based on the settings in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs . -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg25950/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel Recompile
At 2003-01-24T18:17:29Z, "Irish, Jon D MEVATEC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me if there is a HOW-TO, or paper available that covers > recompiling the kernel for Debian? I found the Kernel HOWTO, but it > appears to be slanted more toward RedHat, and I am a 'newbie' so I want to > make sure that I am doing it right. http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg26011/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: if you could have just one dead tree book
At 2003-01-30T17:57:50Z, Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh fellow debian-users, if you could have just one dead tree book what > would you ask for? "Programming Perl, 3rd Ed." by Wall, Christiansen, and Orwant. No question. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg27466/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
At 2003-02-05T15:18:55Z, Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg vorbis audio files to > mp3? Preferably it would retain the info in the new mp3 files, and have a > gnu public license of course. Any MP3 encoder can do that. Out of curiosity, though, why would you want to? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg28766/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
At 2003-02-05T16:07:12Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since it would have an mp3 encoder, it couldn't possibly be under GPL, > since mp3 encoders are patent-encumbered. Not true. LAME is released under the GPL - it was written from scratch: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg28789/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?
At 2003-09-09T19:00:28Z, Joerg Rossdeutscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Whoa, sure it's interesting. Consider a man-in-the-middle SSL attack: now >> somebody else owns everything you have. > I always thought with a SSL-connection the man in the middle just gets > useless "binary trash"? Am I wrong? That was the whole point: Netscape 4 has quite a few known vulnerabilities. It may very well be the case that a MITM could snoop a session from a Netscape 4 browser's broken SSL implementation. -- Kirk Strauser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution + LDAP on unstable?
I'm trying to use Evolution 1.4.4-2 on my unstable system. I'm connecting to an OpenLDAP 2.0 server for shared addressbooks. I'm having a problem; every time I launch Evolution and click on "New/Mail Message", I get a dialog: The addressbook backend for [LDAP URL] has crashed. You will have to restart Evolution in order to use it again. That's all of the debugging information I can coax out of it. Is anyone else having the problem? Is anyone else successfully using Evo+LDAP on an unstable system? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Equation system resolver
At 2003-09-18T10:01:26Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But doesn't that defeat the purpose of being assigned the task of solving > equations (if you're in Mathematics classes, that it)? Oh, I don't know. It depends on whether solving said equations is the whole goal of the section, or if it's just a means to a bigger end. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firebird, the database
At 2003-09-19T02:17:36Z, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any comments on experiences using it? Any crashes, db corruptions on > machine crash, speed? I hated it: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/InterBase It's supposedly gotten much better in the last year or so, but I've already migrated my large installations to PostgreSQL. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
I don't know what's going on, but I've been getting literally hundreds of
virus/worm-looking emails per hour all day today. I grew tired of it and
wrote the following Sieve script to filter my mail on the server.
The pseudo-bounce messages were particularly annoying; they're close enough
to the real bounce messages that I *want* to keep that they justified a
little closer examination. I'll probably tighten the other message type to
also examine the sender, but I doubt I'll be getting any legitimate mails
that look like:
Subject: latest security patch
in the near future. Anyway, enjoy as you see fit.
Virus detection
# 2003-09-18: Something stupid and Microsofty
if anyof(
# This one is super-annoying; it mimics real bounce messages
allof(
header :matches "From" [
"email*",
"internet*",
"microsoft*",
"ms*" ],
header :matches "From" [
"*service",
"*system"
],
header :is "Subject" [
"abort advice",
"abort letter",
"Error Notice",
"mail: user unknown",
"Returned Mail",
"returned message" ]
),
# "Current Security Pack", "New Security Update", etc.
allof(
header :matches "Subject" [
"current*",
"last*",
"latest*",
"microsoft*",
"new*",
"newest*" ],
header :matches "Subject" [
"*upgrade",
"*update",
"*pack",
"*patch" ]
)
)
{
fileinto "INBOX.virus.2003-09-18";
}
--
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group
Open. Solutions. Simple.
http://www.strausergroup.com/
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Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
That was way too simple. I've been growing the script as false negatives
trickle in, and the current results are below. By the way, I've come to the
realization that filtering this with pattern matching is probably an
exercise in futility, but it's still fun to try (and it's blocking several
hundred mails per hour, so that's kind of worthwhile).
Virus detection
# 2003-09-18: Something stupid and Microsofty
if anyof(
# This one is super-annoying; it mimics real bounce messages
allof(
# First, check that the sender matches a pattern
header :matches "From" [
"email *",
"inet *",
"internet *",
"mail *",
"microsoft *",
"ms *",
"net *",
"network *" ],
header :matches "From" [
"* service",
"* system"
],
# Second, look at the subject line
anyof(
# Short phrases
header :is "Subject" [
"advice",
"announcement",
"failure report",
"letter",
"report" ],
# Weird errors
allof(
header :matches "Subject" [
"abort *",
"bug *",
"error *" ],
header :matches "Subject" [
"* advice",
"* letter",
"* message",
"* notice" ]
),
# Faked bounce messages
header :matches "Subject" [
"mail: *",
"message*",
"returned mail*",
"returned message*",
"undeliverable message*",
"undelivered message*" ]
)
),
# "Current Security Pack", "New Security Update", etc.
allof(
header :matches "Subject" [
"current *",
"internet *",
"last *",
"latest *",
"microsoft *",
"net *",
"new *",
"newest *" ],
header :matches "Subject" [
"* upgrade",
"* update",
"* pack",
"* patch" ]
)
)
{
fileinto "INBOX.virus.2003-09-18";
}
--
Kirk Strauser
pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
At 2003-09-19T04:32:50Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Yes, must be some new timed-release gift from the MS world. Seems like > all the messages I'm getting have FROM: (all caps). Rare to see that in > other mail. I'm starting to think a good filter would be to nmap -O the > sending host ;). You know, I'm "this close" to seriously investigating OpenBSD's passive OS fingerprinting (http://www.w4g.org/fingerprinting.html) and filtering appropriately. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: Burned by domain name registrar for $150, suggestions?
At 2003-09-19T05:25:43Z, Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Once my domain is registered again, can it be transfered to a different > registrar without a loss of service. Recommendations? I'd like to go with > a business that thinks you should make a second attempt to contact someone > if an email bounces. I can't help with the first part, but the answer to this is a definite "yes". I've had great luck with Domain Monger (http://www.domainmonger.com/). They have a web interface with instanteous updates, and their support desk is actually helpful. If order to transfer your domain to Domain Monger, you have to pay them for one year of service ($17, I think). However, they *add that year to the end* of your correct registration, so you don't lose any money that you weren't going to spend anyway. I imagine that other registrars have the same deal. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
At 2003-09-19T12:42:31Z, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not just drop everything with a Microsoft executeable attached? Where's the challenge in that? :) -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
At 2003-09-19T03:33:53Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK, last iteration (I promise). Enough people have found this helpful, or
at least amusing, that I'm posting my final script update.
I'm using the "MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE" block in SpamAssassin in junction with
this script. Overnight hit rates look like:
My script : about 4,000 emails
SpamAssasin: another few hundred that snuck through
My inbox : about 15-20
IF YOU DON'T USE MY SCRIPT, THEN YOU MUST BE A WORM AUTHOR.
Virus detection
# 2003-09-18: Something stupid and Microsofty
if anyof(
# This one is super-annoying; it mimics real bounce messages
allof(
# Sender
anyof(
# Check that the sender matches a pattern...
allof(
header :contains "From" [
"email",
"inet",
"internet",
"mail",
"microsoft",
"ms",
"net",
"network"
],
header :contains "From" [
"service",
"section",
"system"
]
),
# ...or is one of several words
header :is "From" [
"administrator",
"admin" ]
),
# Subject
anyof(
# Short phrases
header :is "Subject" [
"advice",
"announcement",
"failure report",
"letter",
"mail",
"notice",
"report" ],
# Weird errors
allof(
header :matches "Subject" [
"abort *",
"bug *",
"error *" ],
header :matches "Subject" [
"* advice",
"* announcement",
"* letter",
"* message",
"* notice" ]
),
# Faked bounce messages
header :matches "Subject" [
"mail: *",
"message*",
"returned mail*",
"returned message*",
"undeliverable message*",
"undelivered message*" ],
# No subject
not exists "Subject"
)
),
# "Current Security Pack", "New Security Update", etc.
allof(
header :matches "Subject" [
"critical *",
"current *",
"internet *",
"last *",
"latest *",
"microsoft *",
"net *",
"network *",
"new *",
"newest *",
"security *"
],
header :matches "Subject" [
"* upgrade",
"* update",
"* pack",
"* patch"
]
)
)
{
fileinto "INBOX.virus.2003-09-18";
}
--
Kirk Strauser
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Description: PGP signature
SpamAssassin, SQL prefs, and Bayes?
At 2003-09-19T17:22:54Z, Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and I put a batch that I received this morning through its bayes > filtering. Its now catching all of them. I've asked before but didn't really get a response. I'm using SA in conjunction with a Cyrus "black box" IMAP server. With my setup, there are many users in the mail server without corresponding system accounts. I'm successfully using an SQL backend to store user preferences for SA, but I don't know how that would work with its Bayesian filtering. Has anyone used a similar setup? As of a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't able to find any good documentation on the subject. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances
At 2003-09-19T16:41:51Z, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ..hmmm, cool. And in .procmailrc'ese it is? No. In Sieve-ese it is. See RFC 3028 for details. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Uppercasing filenames
At 2003-09-20T23:34:37Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > oops that should be: > `mv "$file" "$newname"`; > So that files with spaces won't screw up. That won't work either. Suppose that $file contains a doublequote? If you're in Perl anyway, use: rename $file, $newname; which doesn't care about spaces or punctuation, and calls the appropriate libc functions directly rather than causing an expensive fork/exec. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing
At 2003-09-21T15:49:21Z, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your ISP is being a bitch about it, then switch! Otherwise just relay > via their SMTP smarthost and the problem is solved. Martin, First, I've beaten this to death on Slashdot, so I don't want to go into long-winded detail. Suffice it to say that I know people who: 1) Live in places with only one broadband ISP. They can't switch ISPs unless they want to go to dialup. 2) Have an ISP with a mailserver rewrites all outbound mail so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This is not satisfactory for all applications. It's not so cut and dry as some people would have you believe. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
At 2003-09-23T21:16:02Z, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > perhaps if someone wrote the "don't f*&$ open me"[1] virus and had it go > through a little tutorial about why not to open unknow attachments have > message go something like "I was foolish enough to open the attachment, > and since you are at risk of getting a message from me with a virus, this > attachment has forwarded itsself to you" Indeed. You know, we're going through a lot of effort and hypothesizing do to exactly one problem: Outlook* makes it easy for uneducated users to do stupidly dangerous things. That's it - the whole problem. You don't get junk from Macs or Mozilla users, and those are nice, easy-to-use GUI clients. We're having this entire conversation simply because Microsoft refuses to make it more difficult to execute an attached file than clicking on an attachment icon. Out of curiosity, are there *any* legitimate reasons at all why you'd want to mail an uncompressed executable to someone? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SU shows my password at terminal
At 2003-09-25T23:03:18Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I realized after I asked the question that this is probably a Kernel > issue. This is a P4 1.7 -- I shouldn't be able to outtype it. > > Probably need low-latency kernel. I don't follow. What makes you think that this has anything to do with kernel unresponsiveness? A bogged system wouldn't let you type anything at all, would it? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses
At 2003-09-26T00:52:37Z, "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If thousands of people were personally emailing me virus laiden emails, > that's one thing, but that's not the case here. I'm getting thousands of > emails from copies of a virus that isn't opening O* to send it's mail. Same here, but they're from machines that were infected *by* an Outlook* user opening their mail. > I'm sure someone could pipe up about how it's hard to walk their > grandma/client through installing *zip, which unfortunatly is a valid > point. :( I disagree. I can't think of any reason why I'd be mailing an executable to someone instead of a URL to where they can download it themselves, with the exception of development collaboration among people experienced enough to use *zip. > Lets say all viruses start mailing zipped copies of themselves. They only > have to zip themselves once on the host machine then mail that copy. Now > we have to watch for a zip archive in mime data and unzip all mail to scan > it, or reject zipped files as well. :( I only think that'd be a problem *if* Microsoft built an unzip-then-execute-er into Windows (which is admittedly not implausible). Why? Because the first thing that gets permanently burned into your brain when you work in a tech support position is "people are lazy". I can almost guarantee that requiring an additional couple of clicks before a Trojan installer can be run would drop infection rates by 90%. I think a more solid long-term strategy would be to write mail clients that make it impossible to automatically perform any action on an attachment more advanced than displaying a picture. Want to play an attached MP3? Save it to your drive then load it. Want to open a .zip archive? Save it to your drive first. Refer back to "people are lazy". Removing the "One-Click (TM) Infection" vector would dramatically reduce trojan distribution. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Son of Swen?
At 2003-09-27T05:16:41Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and the parents who bore and raised such obvious hyper-cephalics. s/hyper/hydro/ would've worked equally well. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Executing a Script every hour
At 2003-09-30T20:47:44Z, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 00,15,30,45 * ... > >would be executed every 15 minutes "*/15" is a handy shortcut for the same thing. That's particularly handy for jobs that need to run, say, every 3 minutes. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Doubts about quota
At 2003-10-01T14:03:24Z, Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Which is the exact difference between "hard limit" and "soft limit", can > I impose both limits to an account, simultaneously? A user isn't allowed to exceed the "soft limit" for longer than the "grace" time. They may not exceed the "hard limit" ever. This is handy for users that may *briefly* exceed their quota by a little bit (i.e. when downloading a large email, putting a file on their web space to let a friend download it and then deleting it, compiling a program then deleting the source). -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Licensing requirements ???
At 2003-10-09T17:06:02Z, Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, the MySQL licensing model seems to indicate that a licensing fee > is due them; and, I wonder about others. Suggestion: consider one of the BSDs, and use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. Yep, I really said that on a Linux-oriented mailing list. Why? Because the BSD license explicitly allows the sort of distribution you are planning. I use and love Linux but it *may* not be the appropriate solution for you. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Weather Stations
At 2003-10-11T11:07:10Z, Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (a piece of equipment, not an online "station") > The old fashioned way - use wget, curl or perl to rip any data you want > off the numerous weather info sites on the net. Erm, that's not what he wants. He wants to interface with a set of probes outside his home / office / whatever to record whether at his exact location. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Licensing requirements ???
At 2003-10-11T15:56:08Z, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The situation you describe would mean that mysql would be non-free, and > thus not part of Debian. > > The license of mysql 4.0.14 is a mixture of the GPL, LGPL and BSD > licenses, with nothing prohibiting commercial use. I see nothing in the > license to call for purchase of a special mysql license for this use. I have no strong opinion on the matter; IANAL and don't hang out on -legal. However, this is from MySQL's licensing description at http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html: 3. Commercial use for everyone else If your application is not licensed under GPL or compatible OSI license approved by MySQL AB and you intend to distribute MySQL software (be that internally or externally), you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL software in question. You may in fact be correct that it is free to use, but MySQL AB's position on the matter seems pretty clear to my untrained eyes. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Licensing requirements ???
At 2003-10-11T16:57:51Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just looked at the page and it seems as though they just elaborate on > the GPL. Basically, you use MySQL in a GPL app, and you are OK. But what does that mean? Clearly, if I embed the MySQL engine into an application, then I'd have to follow the terms of the GPL. Their page makes it sounds as if I'm obligated to purchase a license if my application only connects to a MySQL server that I'm distributing along with it. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Licensing requirements ???
At 2003-10-11T18:15:32Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe it is all about how it is distrubited. But, IANAL. That would be contrary to my understanding; I believe that distribution doesn't matter, but linking does. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?
I'm pretty sure that the answer to this is "no", but: Is there any relationship between the address returned by malloc(3) and the physical address of the block of RAM? I'm almost positive that there isn't - after all, there's not much chance of a block being swapped out and back in to the same location - but I'm curious. If I'm correct and there is no correlation, then my next question is: If a identical programs (same data, different files) are launched at the same time so that each copy in memory is identical, and they all call malloc(some_constant), do they all get the same return address from malloc() or do they get different answers? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?
At 2003-10-13T08:01:55Z, Harald Gutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> generally, when using virtual memory, all programs have their own adress
> space, which means they all start at the same memory adresses for program,
> data, stack etc. So identical programs should run in identical virtual
> memory addresses.
That's what I was expecting from my classes on operating systems. In fact,
we had to write a malloc() where each program's virtual allocations (that
is, the value that the program received from malloc()) began at 0x0, but the
physical address was completely different and mapped via the MMU.
> I never tried in reality, but...
I did before asking, but wanted an outside opinion. Here's my test program
that returns the same value every time:
#include
#include
int main()
{
void *newmem = malloc(1024);
printf("newmem address: %p\n", newmem);
return 0;
}
A similar Python program is:
$ python
Python 2.3.2 (#2, Oct 6 2003, 08:02:06)
[GCC 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def foo():
... pass
...
>>> foo
>>>
I liked that example because I could trivially test it in several shells at
the same time.
> Why do you want to know?
Well, I'm reading the sequel to "Applied Cryptography", namely "Practical
Cryptography". It has a discussion on hardware information leaks, including
the case where RAM can begin to remember values stored in it for long
periods of time. It mentioned several ways to work around this problem, but
some of them involved working with memory location's physical address. I'm
not sure that I agree with the author on some of the details because I don't
believe a userspace program has access to that information (although kernel
module implementers should probably follow the advice).
--
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?
At 2003-10-13T08:19:51Z, Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Very improbable. You might every once in a while get a return tht matches > the physical memory, but in a virtual memory architecture this isn't very > likely. Kind of what I thought - any similarities would be purely coincidental. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?
At 2003-10-13T08:10:47Z, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kinda tangential, but if you run multiple copies of the same program (== > from the same file on disk), they share memory for the actual code. I wasn't very clear when I wrote that. I was think of a case like: $ gcc -o alloctest alloctest.c $ cp alloctest program1 $ cp alloctest program2 $ cp alloctest program3 where the three programs were identical but came from different files (specifically to keep the VM system from optimizing away the interesting parts). Anyway, thanks to everyone who responded. I thought that's the way it would work, but I don't know anything about the Linux implementation details to feel speek confidently about it. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why is apt trying to install packages from Sarge ?
At 2002-10-10T15:17:06Z, Pat Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is getting stranger. I have simplified my preferences so it looks > like this: > > Package: * > Pin:release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 900 I'm having the same problem, except that I tried to pin testing with /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "testing"; FWIW, I get identical results with: apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Happy Hacking + Emacs keybindings have changed in the last week
I use a Happy Hacking Lite keyboard with my Debian/sid system. In the last week, Emacs 21 quit responding to the left and right diamond keys as meta and started treating them as super. From my ~/.Xmodmap, which hasn't changed in over two years: keycode 131 = Meta_L keycode 129 = Meta_R I have not touched a config file on my system recently, although I've dist-upgrade'd several times recently. Anyone know of any changes that would have caused this to happen, and/or how to get my old Emacs bindings back? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy Hacking + Emacs keybindings have changed in the last week
At 2002-10-10T17:20:16Z, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sounds like the X 4.2 ate my meta key problem. See the X changelog. > Search for 'meta'. Thanks for the pointer. For others with the same problem, I changed XF86Config-4 as follows, restarted my X session, and had my old settings back: - Option "XkbLayout" "us" + Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win" -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The only thing I miss about Windows
At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly > normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrate a piece of text that you're concurrently working on? That seems like a reasonable thing to do. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project organizer and time-tracking software?
I'm looking for some software to keep track of open projects, and the time I've spent working on each. I need to be able to track multiple clients and multiple projects per client, and easily search for projects that are not completed, have been invoiced but haven't paid yet, etc. I tried using PHPGroupware, but it just wasn't quite up to par as of a month or so ago (although certainly far better than nothing). I don't care if the app is Gnome, KDE, PHP/mod_perl, or Emacs based, as long as it works. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?
At 2002-10-15T17:54:49Z, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't used it (yet) but onshore-timesheet looks promising. Unfortunately, the Debian package completely avoids the necessary Apache configuration, and I can't figure out how to set the thing up. I might file a bug report and check back later. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?
At 2002-10-15T17:54:02Z, Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me too. I especially want to see a GANTT chart and resource usage summary > that combines multiple projects. Those would be nice, but I'm particularly interested in something that would simplify my invoicing. Right now, the procedure is to hand-copy information from a company's flat-text work record into a LaTeX invoice template and then mark all of the related projects as "invoiced". This grows annoying when $num_projects * $num_clients > 6 or so. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?
At 2002-10-16T13:06:35Z, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have not used it yet but you may look at mrproject: It seems reasonable for its purpose, which seems to be planning exactly one project. I'm still in shock that no open source program seems to exist to plan many projects for many clients. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?
At 2002-10-15T21:42:35Z, "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Take a look at Tutos <http://tutos.sf.net> it handles projects, resources, > and invoicing. Might take a bit to get used to though. Thanks for the tip - I'll give it a look. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?
At 2002-10-18T07:40:48Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the same information I'm collecting/documenting at TWikIWeThey: That's a pretty good source of information - thanks. > MrProject seems to be the lightweight option of choice. Indeed. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Simpsons Trivia answers
At 2002-10-22T03:36:16Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Groening named Springfield after Springfield, Oregon even though > Springfield in The Simpsons is closer in layout to that of Portland. I think that part of the appeal of the show was that every resident of a city named Springfield (and there are a *lot* of them) would occasionally see a reference to their own home town. I lived in Springfield, Missouri when the Simpsons decided to visit Branson, MO, which was only about 30 miles away. I assure you that Branson, MO is much closer to Springfield, MO (35 miles) than Springfield, OR. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis
At 2002-10-24T20:53:54Z, Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - What software to use (ripping, coding) I use Grip. If you have 500 CDs, you probably like your music, so you'll probably want to specify a higher -q value (I use 5.5). > - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) Grip is pre-configured for it. > - What hardware to use (I have a cdda capable cdrecorder) That'll work. > - How to store the files (on disk I guess, but in some kind of > hierarchy with category etc?) I use: /usr/share/media/music/$artist - $album/$artist - $album - $track - $name.ogg I like having the album information in the track name (I have several CDs with similarly named songs with significant differences), and including the track number means that your songs are naturally sorted into the same order as the original CD (very important for classical, theme albums, etc.). > I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on this? Perhaps > undertaken such a task yourself? I am going to do this to about 500 CDs > and want to do it right from the start. ;) Have fun, and good luck! -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting router from W2K to Debian
At 2002-11-01T23:12:21Z, "Alex Malinovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) Get DNS set up. I used to have two zones. theloveshack.local for my > internal DNS, and the-love-shack.net for my external DNS. I'd like to > consolidate these into one. However, since my NS is the registered NS for > my domain, I don't want all of these Class... C? (192.168.0.*, I can never > remember which one's which) IPs showing up in there. Is there a way around > this without creating two completely different zones? Actually, is having two zones *that* bad? I currently use `honeypot.net' and `lan.honeypot.net' for external and internal DNS, and it avoids a whole host (heh!) of problems. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which ICQ Client is better?
At 2002-11-12T18:52:30Z, Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've checked out > gaim, licq & kicq2. I like GAIM, mainly for its ability to support many different IM systems. I have one ICQ, two AIM, and one Jabber account logged in simultaneously from the same client which is tremendously handier than running 3 different programs. > Is there any better ones, with closer resemblance the original windows > client? Thank God, no, none seem to resemble the Windows ICQ client in the slightest. I consider that to be a Good Thing. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?
At 2002-11-18T00:48:20Z, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...Moore's Law will kill off this whole horrid, horrid, horrid > lossy-audio-compression idea before it gets to the point of being > impossible to buy... Actually, Moore's "Law" has nothing to do with storage space or bandwidth, more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bind8 vs bind9
At 2002-11-18T18:12:13Z, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...if security is *the* major concern in a DNS installation it's probably > a good idea to stay away from BIND altogether. I'd disagree for one main reason: BIND is Open Source, and tinydns is not. More security compromises have been found in the former, but it has perhaps 100 times the number of users testing it and programmers examining it. Frankly, as a programmer, I would not waste my time auditing tinydns when I could make a bigger contribution to BIND. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bind8 vs bind9
At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps > you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ? No more than Microsoft's "shared source" is open source. I can't redistribute either of them, regardless of what bugs I patch or features I add. > Good for you. Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Love you guys
At 2002-11-20T22:23:56Z, "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you mean especailly with a Compaq? I personally think that the > Proliant servers are some of the best PC-based servers out there. Yes, but they're also the most chock-full of weird hardware. I haven't touched a Compaq since I installed on a DL380 two years ago, but it was a major pain in my neck to get that thing running. Once the install was finished, though, it ran very well. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Love you guys
At 2002-11-20T22:45:08Z, "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's funny, all of you are saying "I don't like Compaq", "I wouldn't use > Compaq", etc yet all of you state that after it was up and running, they > run well!? I, for one, never said that I don't like Compaq, or even that I wouldn't recommend Compaq. I do believe, though, that they're some of the more difficult machines on which to install Debian, which may be of some importance to a new would-be Debian sysadmin. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Love you guys
At 2002-11-20T22:56:13Z, Gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > great, i'm glad i know this now, I'm about to get about 5 DL380/dual > processor and ML540 next week to install linux... any pointers or > problems that I'm going to have? The biggest hurdle turned out to be that the standard Debian boot floppies did not support the Compaq's "Smart Array" (IIRC) hardware RAID system. Once I switched to the "compact" boot floppies which included the appropriate driver, the rest of the installation was fairly typical. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Politics of Java
At 2002-11-21T05:06:49Z, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, not just > tinkerer-wanna-be's like myself) have a similar problem with Java, or have > I just been channeling too much RMS lately? You're not alone. I've never felt good about Java for the same reason that I don't like dealing with proprietary software: if the vendor decides to EOL the software, I'm stuck with a glob of quickly-obsoleting mess. Sun may very well develop and maintain Java for decades to come, but they could also drop the project tomorrow and start reigning in usage of their trademark. It probably won't happen, but it *could*, and that kind of bothers me. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Politics of Java
At 2002-11-21T17:42:27Z, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shaleh was the one to plug python first. But what dman says here gets my > attention. Do others concur that python is more cross-platform and more OO > than java? Both are available for pretty much every major platform. Python is available on more non-mainstream systems: http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/java-ports.cgi http://www.python.org/download/ http://www.python.org/download/download_other.html Of interest, Perl and Python are moving toward a common virtual machine (Parrot), although it may take a while. I'd be a full-time Python programmer if I knew I could transparently access my Perl codebase. > What are the disadvantages with python as opposed to java? It seems like there should be *something*, but I can't think of a single drawback except that there are probably more development environments for Java than Python. I use Emacs, so both languages are pretty equally easy for me to use, but Windows users may not be in the same boat. > Why would someone pick java over python then? Is it only because of > marketing, as dman says? Actually, since you mention it, that's the only reason I can think of. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sync root passwords?
At 2002-12-04T21:57:27Z, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different > root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure > alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself > memorizing them all, by (for example) using the second letter of the > hostname as one of the characters of the root password or something along > those lines. Given the number of machines, I'd say he's in a corporate environment. In that case, I'd much rather have one password that could be immediately revoked if needed than 100 disparate passwords that have to be stored in a database somewhere. At any rate, I'd absolutely positively *never* algorithmically generate them based on the host environment. In the one-password scenario, there's no need to. In the many-password case, it'd be far too easy for the wrong person to get your password-generating algorithm and then have a program to calculate every password you will ever use from now on. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why make-kpkg? What and Where is apt-src?
At 2002-12-06T07:39:36Z, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > make-kpkg is kin of idiot proof. I make sure you don't forget to do > stuff. Also having a .deb of your kernel and using dpkg to install it also > makes sure you don't forget to do things like run lilo. Beyond that, it also provides the package management system with proof that you actually have a kernel installed so that said management system doesn't say, "Oh, he needs a kernel!" and install one of its choosing for you. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?
At 2002-12-09T15:09:13Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All you really accomplish is pissing off legitimately misguided users, and > detouring the incompetant cracker that wouldn't get in anyway. That's not quite true. Older (and newer, misused) port-scanners can get pretty bogged down when faced with a host dropping packets. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?
At 2002-12-11T05:41:36Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just today, I received 3 512MB SDRAMS for the grand sum of US$94. > That's 24,576x more RAM that was in my KayPro2, and 2,458x as much > RAM as in my first PC/AT. The 768MB in my workstation is 786432x more than in my little Timex Sinclair (100[0]?). My first "programming environment" was an Atari 2600 with the BASIC module. It had 63 bytes (yes, you read that correctly) of RAM. > So. So what if programs are biggers now than they were back then? > They do a *heck* of a lot more Sure. My C64 didn't have to deal with multiprocessing, various and sundry device drivers, user-configurable resolutions, multiple isolated users, networking, etc. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
