[techtalk] HP surestore 24i

2000-09-27 Thread James Peterson
where can I get the HP surestore 24i driver? james ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-27 Thread Olivier Tharan
Le 27 septembre 2000, Samuel Lavenz écrivait : > There is a niftycool program called 'screen' that allows me to detatch a > My question is this: Does there exist such a beast for X apps? You sure could take a look at VNC : http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ Just launch a VNC server on a machine

[techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-27 Thread Samuel Lavenz
Okay, in comparison to my last post, this will look puny. ::chuckle:: I am preparing to set up a network on a 384 synchronous DSL (YAY!)...as that approaches, I am curious of something. There is a niftycool program called 'screen' that allows me to detatch a console program from the current t

[techtalk] Announcement: German list for linux/unix women

2000-09-27 Thread Patricia Jung
Hi everyone, as a couple of native German speakers have been subscribed to this list, I hope you don't mind me announcing a fairly new tech list aimed for German speaking linux/unix women. It is called lynn and is not intended to be competitive with linuxchix. However, as the native English spe

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> find . -type f -print | xargs grep /dev/null > > I don't get it. I doubt it hurts, but why the /dev/null? To prevent grep from reading stdin (and just sitting there) if is empty. Jeff ___

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-27 Thread Julie
- Original Message - From: Andrew Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lotta Loytonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 06:41 Subject: Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep? > >> find . -type f -print | xargs grep /dev/null > > I don't get it. I doubt it h

Re: [techtalk] strange unknown...

2000-09-27 Thread Brian Sweeney
WARNING: EMAIL OF PURE COMMENTARY AHEAD. NO ACTUAL HELP PROVIDED. SORRY. ;) Sam- A doozy, perhaps, but a good one...I KNEW most of the physics that went into that and still found it interesting. Thank you! Steph- Simplistic response be damned. Anyone not interested in war stories can skip

[techtalk] X, port 6000 and how to stop it all.

2000-09-27 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi, As a random exercise in port-closing, I'm trying to stop X opening 6000. There was an article on rootprompt.org that suggested passing '-nolisten tcp' to the incantation to start X. Setup: /etc/rc.d/xdm starts X, since I'm using Helix Gnome I assume from this section of that script: case "$

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-27 Thread Andrew Wendt
>> find . -type f -print | xargs grep /dev/null I don't get it. I doubt it hurts, but why the /dev/null? >I have a similar problem to Subba's but with an additional twist. It's >this directory with at worst ~5 text files that are all called >some number.letter, for example 1056.a or 5785.l.

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-27 Thread Julie
From: Lotta Loytonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 06:59:49AM -0500, Julie wrote: > > You're exceeding the longest argument list which can be passed > > to a command via the exec() call. This is NCARGS_MAX. > > > > > What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the g