Re: Fw: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Ellen Venable
here's an example: I made a program called test.cc: #include main(){ char * ptr; while(1){ // we'll print out whatever ptr points to (garbage) // and then we'll increment ptr to move to the // next memory location to be sure we eventually // g

Re: Fw: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Ellen Venable
The message is an error message from g++ letting you know that the program you are trying to compile is attempting to access memory that does not belong to that program. (You are probably running off the end of an array or dereferencing a pointer that points to memory outside of that allocated t

Re: [techtalk] Cable modem compatibility

2000-05-04 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 02:03:26AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our cable company is starting to offer cable-connection to the net in > our area. Does anyone know if a Nortel CM 100 cable-modem is compatible > with Linux? > > Do any Aussies have experience with Optus' cable connections to t

Fw: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Deepa Karnad
-Original Message- From: Deepa Karnad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:03 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem >Oh, perhaps I should have been clearer. The program is one coded by us >students for our undergraduate pro

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Annette Stroud
Darren wrote: > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stephanie Alarcon wrote: > > >This is possibly a stupid question, but > >http://www.drsolomons.com/home/vbslove.htm talks about this: > > > >-- > >This worm also has another trick up it's sleeve in that it tries to > >

[techtalk] Cable modem compatibility

2000-05-04 Thread jenn
Our cable company is starting to offer cable-connection to the net in our area. Does anyone know if a Nortel CM 100 cable-modem is compatible with Linux? Do any Aussies have experience with Optus' cable connections to the net? Jenn V. -- "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of

Re: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread jenn
Michelle Konzack wrote: > I think, the use of Outlook is irresponsible. If you like Linux an > you know how to use it, administer it, > > GO TO YOUR BOSS AND TELL HIM THE ALTERNATIVES WITH LINUX !!! Unfortunately, sometimes there aren't alternatives. EG: there's a new tax system being implemen

RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Amy
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:36:24 +0100 > From: Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds. > > Hello and good evening. > > Why do you do not disable this vb-script

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Darren
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stephanie Alarcon wrote: >This is possibly a stupid question, but >http://www.drsolomons.com/home/vbslove.htm talks about this: > >-- >This worm also has another trick up it's sleeve in that it tries to >download >and install an executab

Re: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
At 10:37 04.05.2000 -0400, Dianna Gregory you wrote > This was the original Message: >Someone here at the office received it already. Fortunately, I don't see the >virus propagating through here, considering the only Windows box is in the demo >room, not hooked up to anything. :) > >Dia

[techtalk] warm/fuzzy alternatives to outlook?

2000-05-04 Thread Stephanie Alarcon
> And if you can not disable, why do you use a mail system which is a > security problem ??? There are many Shareware and Commercialware > products which are Better as Outlook. actually, convincing our users to stop using outlook is an Ongoing Project at the office, and if you have suggestions

RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and good evening. Why do you do not disable this vb-script crap ??? And if you can not disable, why do you use a mail system which is a security problem ??? There are many Shareware and Commercialware products which are Better as Outlook. Sorry, I have no Win32 Workstation any more only

RE: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Kathryn A. Rauss
this seems to be hitting everyone... i just got a message from my university computer center (University of Connecticut) telling the entire university population that the School of Business server has been affected and is down until further notice...but not before the worm managed to send itself

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Stephanie Alarcon
This is possibly a stupid question, but http://www.drsolomons.com/home/vbslove.htm talks about this: -- This worm also has another trick up it's sleeve in that it tries to download and install an executable file called WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE from the Internet. Thi

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Lilly S.
Yet another reason for companies to migrate to Linux. M$:0 Linux:1! (i know the count is much higher than 0-1, but it's a figure of speech). Lilly On Thu, 4 May 2000, alissa bader wrote: > It's also hit the Pentagon. And the National > Institutes of Health. And the British House of > Commons

[techtalk] RE: [grrltalk] intro and modem problem

2000-05-04 Thread Stacie Turner
Actually, Brian's "real" job is an actor -- he fell into VB programming to make money between shows. He gets bored of day jobs pretty fast, so I don't waste time worrying about them. Sooner or later he'll be doing something else to make money, and the windows partition will go away. And I know

Re: [techtalk] help

2000-05-04 Thread Beverly Guillermo
At what point does it give the termination signals? When it is installing software or at some other configuration point? Beverly On Tue, 2 May 2000, Chris R. wrote: > I have been trying to reinstall Linux after it crashed on me. I have > Mandrake version 6.1 & 7.0. Both have not worked corre

Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-04 Thread Sean McAfee
Amanda Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 May 2000, Sean McAfee wrote: >>Allow me to suggest a much shorter alternative: >>perl -i -pe 'tr/\015//d' file1 file2 ... >Actually, the key part of Christian's script is even shorter: >>> then cat $1 | tr -d "\015" > $1 >In other words, cat

Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Beverly Guillermo
g++ is the gnu c/c++ compiler. ;) On Thu, 4 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G++? Do you mean C++, or is there Yet Another Language I Don't Know? > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.com/bguill/ _

Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Beverly Guillermo
What's the name of the program? Are you sure it's the latest version? Beverly On Thu, 4 May 2000, Deepa Karnad wrote: > Hi. > A g++ program is encountering problems during execution. There are no error >messages as it gets linked and compiled. The executable file does not run though. >Thes

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread alissa bader
It's also hit the Pentagon. And the National Institutes of Health. And the British House of Commons. And our parent company's Exchange server in Texas. well, tee hee on them for using M$ products! anyway links to possible fixes: http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,88754-421758,00.h

Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread bobtfish
At 19:32 04/05/00 +0530, Deepa Karnad wrote: >Hi. >A g++ program is encountering problems during execution. There are no >error messages as it gets linked and compiled. The executable file does >not run though. These are the error messages observed: >'Program received a signal SIGSEGV, segmenta

Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Jeff Dike
> A g++ program is encountering problems during execution. There are no > error messages as it gets linked and compiled. The executable file > does not run though. These are the error messages observed: 'Program > received a signal SIGSEGV, segmentation fault' OR 'Segmentation fault > (core dumpe

Re: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread J B
We were not that lucky. It has propagated, and now the Texas DOT is infected. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___ techtalk mailing list

Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread jenn
> Deepa Karnad wrote: > > Hi. > A g++ program is encountering problems during execution. There are no > error messages as it gets linked and compiled. The executable file > does not run though. These are the error messages observed: > 'Program received a signal SIGSEGV, segmentation fault' > OR

Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-04 Thread Amanda Babcock
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Sean McAfee wrote: >Allow me to suggest a much shorter alternative: > >perl -i -pe 'tr/\015//d' file1 file2 ... Actually, the key part of Christian's script is even shorter: >> then cat $1 | tr -d "\015" > $1 In other words, cat file1 | tr -d "\015" > file2. I think this

Re: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Dianna Gregory
Someone here at the office received it already. Fortunately, I don't see the virus propagating through here, considering the only Windows box is in the demo room, not hooked up to anything. :) Dianna Dianna E Gregory Systems Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. Columb

RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Stacie Turner
Unfortunately some of us are not so lucky to work in a place that considers non-MS products. Where I am the IT decisions seem to be made on the basis of "name recognition". Right now I am preaching the values of the OpenBSD firewall, but I live in fear of the MSProxy server that is coming my w

[techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread Deepa Karnad
Hi. A  g++ program is encountering problems during execution. There are no error messages as it gets linked and compiled. The executable file does not run though. These are the error messages observed: 'Program received a signal SIGSEGV, segmentation fault' OR 'Segmentation fault (core dump

Re: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
I give it a tired smile... I am using popmail (dos), pine (dos, wfw, linux) and eudora (wfw). Who need 32 Bit from Micros~1 if there is Linux availlable. Michelle At 09:18 04.05.2000 -0400, Andrew Plumb you wrote > This was the original Message: >Hi All, > >Just a quick heads-up to any

Re: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Just a quick heads-up to anyone out there that might actually be doing > e-mail on a Windows machine, or maintaining Windows machines that > receive e-mail. There's a new virus making the rounds with the > subject "I LOVE YOU"; it has a vbs script attached to that does,

Re: [techtalk] floppy based routers

2000-05-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Shelly, why not LRP 2.9.4 I am using LRP 2.9.4 since june 1999 without any problems. Now I have created a LRP294-Web-Site at http://212.198.252.88:/lrp294/ , but it is still under development because I am sick and must go every day for some hours in hospital for the dialysis. No time to

[techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Andrew Plumb
Hi All, Just a quick heads-up to anyone out there that might actually be doing e-mail on a Windows machine, or maintaining Windows machines that receive e-mail. There's a new virus making the rounds with the subject "I LOVE YOU"; it has a vbs script attached to that does, among other things, sel

[techtalk] help

2000-05-04 Thread Chris R.
I have been trying to reinstall Linux after it crashed on me. I have Mandrake version 6.1 & 7.0. Both have not worked correctly. I have even gone as far as low level formating the hard drive to make sure it was not the problem. After reformatting the hard drive I did install Win98 sucessfully

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-04 Thread jenn
Jeff Dike wrote: > > > What does signal 11 mean? > > Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. It means that the process accessed (tried to, anyway) > memory that it had no access to, either because the address didn't exist in > its address space or because it didn't have the right permissions. > > The question y