with is web based the first thing I'd suggest is that you study the
manpage for the wget command. Very useful for this sort of stuff.
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is not available on the older platforms. I think this is a little
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the features, and I guess you would be free to backport any application
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iPhone and A
days back :(
Best price SIM free that I've seen is MobilePhonesDirect who have them
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sub microsecond timing and it does.
Can you give us any info on the devices you are trying to control ?
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go wrong.
For gentoo users it's "emerge net-dialup/minicom" but since the source
is from http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom I guess there's a
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ce the aging and poorly supported Xandros with
something newer. On the 901 for general use I can recommend Ubuntu Remix
10.4. I don't know if it will fit on a 700.
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and setting the user's supplementary
group IDs.
The fact that a user's primary GID may or may not be in the supplementary
group list is just one of those little pains you have to program around.
If you enjoyed man (5) group you may also like to try man (7) credentials.
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So for hardcore programming and PCB design I use Gentoo, but if I'm lazy or
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d newlib. I've not used m68k in 10 years and have never used newlib,
can you give me a valid Gcc target tuple to use and I'll try it again.
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SPAM://alternativehealthpharmacy.ru/?cid=44_3
SPAM://buy-digitalshop.ru
I'd suggest the mail list drops all meesages from msn.com as the simplest
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web browser that can play Flash and Shockwave.
^
By the time you've got Shockwave running on your linux box you probably
don't need the rest of the course.
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minutes of previously tedious production work.
Avoid minicom, it tries to do it all, and hence does none of it well.
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ay recently and quality is slipping.
I wouldn't use Ubuntu on anything I considered critical.
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d just reach for the soldering iron. Cheap and reusable.
ps. No connection with HT other than I've been a happy customer in the past.
[1] http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/prototyping
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keyboard and mouse that you have
to hand.
HDMI to SVGA is tricky as you are going from digital to analog domains
requiring an active convertor. DVI-D or DVI-I (but not DVI-A) would be
a lot easier, that's just a simple wiring conversion.
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On Fri, Mar 09 at 08:17, Peter Merchant wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 14:28 +0000, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> > HDMI to SVGA is tricky as you are going from digital to analog domains
> > requiring an active convertor. DVI-D or DVI-I (but not DVI-A) would be
> > a lot easier, that&#
ok used for browsing and playing with things used to run Ubuntu
until they broke it with Unity. Now it runs Xubuntu which uses Xfce as
it's interface. All the main Ubuntu apps but with a user interface more
atune with us luddites.
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autonoauto,user 0 0
/dev/sdf/mnt/usbautonoauto,user 0 0
/dev/sdf1 /mnt/usbautonoauto,user 0 0
In the meantime it's safe to guess that it's a FAT filesystem.
Try:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdf /media/phone
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ually what I
> want right now.
This may help.
Left hand column select "More search tools".
Then select "Verbatim".
While it's not documented, as well as turning off spell checking, stem
extension etc, it seems to allow searching for some punctuation. At
least "svc
ch? Click here for help."
That was before the automatic "Buy nuclear reactors on Ebay" links were
added. Happy days.
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What happens in your script or anything it calls if $HOME isn't set ?
To name just one common gotcha.
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vides: vsp-tcp-bridge
# Required-Start: $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:$network $syslog
# Default-Start:2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description:VSP UDP-TCP bridge daemon
### END INIT INFO
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ressing is the implication that every student has an
HDMI equipped TV to use it with.
In my day we had one TV per college. Made you very discriminating about
what you watched.
Punch card card was very good for making roaches if I remember correctly.
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quot; but all of Dash must be suspect.
Can't verify as I havn't installed 12.10 since this was first discussed
in the Beta.
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77 2530695 21% /
devtmpfs 2216671516 2201511% /dev
tmpfs2217591044 2207151% /run
shm 221759 1 2217581% /dev/shm
/dev/md125 27189248 2046982 251422668% /home
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us firewalls and servers.
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egister.co.uk/2013/10/13/dlink_routers_have_admin_backdoor/
[2]
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[3] http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/security
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catch up with Unix common practice.
If you have firewalls or similar in the way just add -X to your ssh
parameters to create an automatic tunnel.
ps. Yes I have run X11 over 64kbps ISDN links. It was not zippy but it
did work.
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context, and it may be a boiler
plate to cover the company against any eventuality, or it may be someone
who plans to fund themselves selling your profile to all and sundry.
Has anyone who really knows looked at this and voiced an opinion ?
[1] http://info.vivaldi.rocks/privacy-policy/
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but it should get you
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and directly in the if structure.
if rdate -v 192.168.0.2 ; then
exit 0
else
exit 1
fi
The return code of the last command is available in the variable $? so
you could simplify this to.
rdate -v 192.168.0.2
exit $?
Or even simpler as this is the last command.
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 17 at 07:18, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 19:09:27 BST Bob Dunlop wrote:
> > exec rdate -v 192.168.0.2
>
> This only occurred to me last night. When I put the command into my script
> without preceding it with 'exec' it ap
f the line speed to 10Mbps, often works in dodgy
situations. Users who don't check the specs, cables crushed by water
pressure, let's try it any way etc.
ethtool -s $DEVICE speed 10 duplex full
Also "ethtool $DEVICE" will show you the current line settings.
$DEVICE is prob
Ethernet signalling for covering long distances. Good ones cost more
that the rest of your kit combined. We normally convert to twin fiber optic
for longhaul.
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install in a USB cradle.
It is kept separate from the main machine when I am not performing a
backup. Avoids the possibilty of formating the wrong drive when doing
something tricky. New backup regime two drives on alternate weeks.
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Don't be tempted to buy "old stock"
SSDs, they wear out just sitting on the shelf.
Oh if anyone is using SSDs out there, make sure your distro is doing
a weekly fstrim or equivalent. Most do.
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. Great for when you
eventually come up with a firmware combo that doesn't run. Exact details
of debug and debricking varies from router to router.
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the command "em file" and "rm file" yet
they are just one key position apart.
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On Fri, Jul 05 at 12:14, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:37:35 +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> > nvi
> >textdata bss dec hex filename
> > 270612048 256 2936572b5 /usr/bin/nvi
> > 442019 18688 144 460851
t; bigger programs couldn't. IIRC vi or its predecessor caused performance
My wife has just reminded me of a couple more reasons for using ed rather
than vi. Vi is in /usr/bin so not available until /usr is mounted.
Ed would run without a /tmp directory, vi won't.
Both are non-problem
to remember to bring along a hard disk from my PVR.
> it is formatted in a manner that I can't read except with the Humaxrw utility
> in windows. If someone has a SATA connection device?? I'll be interested to
> see if there is any way you guys can devise to read it.
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> look into this. He was a hardware engineer before he became a company
> director.
Hey you can be a company director and still keep your day job if you want.
I kept up my software work although I did back pedal on the
s programming manuals ? Eight volumes 1-7
(6 was in two parts) plus several suppliments.
Hah just spotted "Best of Byte Vol 1" (1977) I'm keeping that one.
On Wed, Jan 06 at 10:21, PeterMerchant wrote:
> If anybody wants them, I will keep them aside, otherwise it's recycling
om/2021/01/20/blue-pill-vs-black-pill-transitioning-from-stm32f103-to-stm32f411/#more-454155
I suspect the RPi Pico will soon win out just on popular labeling.
All have IDEs available that allow you to program them in C these days,
although my personal method is Vi + gcc + make.
Oh and it&#
y related. Try to
work with smaller sets like the configuration sub directories.
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ace off. When it wakes in the morning as the solar voltage rises
it consumes no more than 10W for the few minutes before it fires up the
inverter. 57W sounds very wrong.
And yeah solar has paid back the investment over the years even if SSE
has defaulted on the FITS payments this year. I gu
related note I've just about finished converting the house (inside
and out) to LED/CFL lighting. Can anyone think of a use for all the old
incandescent bulbs or even how they can be recycled?
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in scanner.
[1] https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/laptop-series/14/
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/media/nas nfs
> users,rw,_netdev 0 0
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ed on.
The PiHut [2] resell some of the PIMORONI adaptors as well as Argon
cases with adapters for NVMe with Pi5 and Pi4. The latter via a USB
bridge which is ugly.
[1] https://shop.pimoroni.com/search?q=NVMe
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g an upgrade and if so,
> accept it. There's news of a flaw and distros are making a fix
> available. https://www.qualys.com/regresshion-cve-2024-6387/
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> I have now changed it to
>
> 192.168.18.150:volume1/Data /media/nas nfs defaults 0 0
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noticed the missing
> "/" but it would still mount manually without it and respond correctly
> to the other commands I passed against the NFS. Unfortunately adding
> the missing forward slash has made no difference to the non-mounting, it
> still does not auto moun
if you insist try adding the "shebang" header to the start of your
script.
#!/bin/sh
Regular shells have a default action if the shebang line is missing from
a text file you try to execute. sudo requires the line to be present.
Also you did remember to "chmod +x deletefile.sh&q
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