Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Also with CVS it is possible to make a diff file and only upload the PART of the file that was changed. How to do that is still beyond me, i just know it is possible. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/t

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-21 Thread BiOFH
Another alternative is DemoLinux. It can be (and is) run completely from CD-ROM. There's some linkage at http://linux.davecentral.com/5916_sysutildist.html Or visit their homepage http://www.demolinux.org Hoping this doesn't post twice again or Cliff will razz me. ;) TheBitch >Date: Wed, 21 Mar

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Mar-101 Re: [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > So your total bandwidth consumption is the cvs commit/update > > > (depending on whether the cvs is remote or local), and however much it >

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Maria G Martinez
t; > thats where i got confused. > > The initial data will be something along the lines > of a file named > 20010321 (and that name may well be generated): > > > Dear diary... > > > > Today I > > > I'll put paragraph tags, links and quotes in mys

Re: [techtalk] CD-ROM crapped out.

2001-03-21 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:02:51PM -0500, A Kozic wrote: > This is a non-linux-specific Q, but hell, I'll give it a shot. > > I got a frantic call from my hunny today... Apparently Starcraft crashed > on him, and when he tried to start it back up, the CD drive wouldn't > respond. > > So I try to

[techtalk] CD-ROM crapped out.

2001-03-21 Thread A Kozic
This is a non-linux-specific Q, but hell, I'll give it a shot. I got a frantic call from my hunny today... Apparently Starcraft crashed on him, and when he tried to start it back up, the CD drive wouldn't respond. So I try to access it in linux, and it acts as if there is no CD in the drive. I t

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Mar-101 Re: [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So your total bandwidth consumption is the cvs commit/update > > (depending on whether the cvs is remote or local), and however much it > > takes ssh to send those commands over. > > Beyond neglible that

Re: [techtalk] Making vi show control characters?

2001-03-21 Thread Amanda Babcock
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:17:07PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Amanda Babcock wrote: > > Does anybody know how to make vi pass control characters through instead > > of showing them as hex numbers? > > IIRC, type ^V before the character. (EG: ^V^C) > > Save before you try this... Actuall

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Kathryn Hogg
Mary Gardiner said: > I'm not seeing terribly much wrong with these ideas yet :) except the > reuploading thing. You're too used to a cable modem now Jenn (Mary's > diary entries are now well over 200K and that used to take some minutes > on a modem, and I'm impatient, and it was costing us a litt

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:08:03PM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > Then do something like: > > ssh you@remotemachine "cd www/src; cvs update -dP" > ssh you@remotemachine "cd www/src; make" > > So your total bandwidth consumption is the cvs commit/update > (depending on whether the cvs is remote or lo

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Mar-101 Re: [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not seeing terribly much wrong with these ideas yet :) except the > reuploading thing. You're too used to a cable modem now Jenn (Mary's > diary entries are now well over 200K and that used to take some

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-21 Thread Magni Onsoien
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The biggest question is whether the BIOS is set up to boot from > zip disks. And if you can change the BIOS to boot from the zip > disk without any hassles - and without 'messing up much' with > the computers. > > I'm not terribly familiar with zip disks (make that 'not at a

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-21 Thread Walt
Wow! Since I don't know, well, anyone on this list very well, I am suprised often by the amount of raw knowledge/experience/info that is present. In response to Caitlyn's (2nd) response, I would note that they _are_ using GroupWise and that is actually their single biggest problem point from an o

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:38:11AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I > > reconsider the dynamic regeneration of pages make will be involved > > too... but I can't see myself using C for a webpage generation script. > > This sentence implies that you think make is only for C. It isn't. > Yo

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > > If I > reconsider the dynamic regeneration of pages make will be involved > too... but I can't see myself using C for a webpage generation script. This sentence implies that you think make is only for C. It isn't. You can use it for anything. Jenn V. -- "Do you

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:09:55AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hm. The make would run a shell script (well, nowadays probably a > perl or python script - this would be where the PHP would come into > it) that takes the newly-committed text file or HTML lump, adds the > desired headers and f

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:01:21AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BiOFH wrote: > OOOPS! You're absolutely right! > > > Hrm. EXPERT? PROG (for programmer)? I prefer PROG actually, since topic-based is probably more useful to competancy based, or we con use them in conjuction. Equating PROG wi

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:45:02PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Unfortunately, there isn't any directory notification on Unix. > > It's not clear whether you're including Linux as Unix, but Linux (2.4) does > have directory notification. See Documentation/dnotify.txt in

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:48:10AM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > A cron job might seem inelegant, but to me, it doesn't look that bad, > especially since I think that people following it through email don't > have to be real-time. Web and email in general have different > latencies; when I want to s

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Laurel Fan wrote: > (Of course, I am probably not the one to ask. Were I to do this, I > would combine make, cvs, and the remote execution feature of ssh, with > a handful of perl/C/bash programs, and probably some "nontraditional" > programming languages such as octave, gnuplot, or the C prepr

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Maria G Martinez wrote: > I am a newbie, and relatively ignorant, but for some > reason, during the summer I will be rquired to do some > UNIX stuff. I decided that if I ran Slackware, I > would be able to go by with that. The problem is that > I literally live at school, where everything is >

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
e lines of a file named 20010321 (and that name may well be generated): Dear diary... Today I I'll put paragraph tags, links and quotes in myself, but I want headers, dates, day of the week, links to archives, links to previous and next entries, link from archive to entry an

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
BiOFH wrote: > Just a thought that occurred to me based on a recent research side-trip... > ADV is the subject header some states are requiring (or attempting to > require) on mass advertising (SPAM) email. OOOPS! You're absolutely right! Hrm. EXPERT? PROG (for programmer)? Jenn V. --

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > I find this quite interesting, but im rather ignorant. > How exactly are you "pretty-fying" it again? i didn't understand that > part. I would imagine: adding headers, adding footers, generally making it into a web page with an actual DESIGN rather than text-that-happ

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..? (long)

2001-03-21 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Eric wrote: > One major disadvantage with Linux (and unix-like OSs in general) is how > file and directory permissions are managed. Unix started out as a research > project, and the simplistic permission settings are indicative of this. > With Netware you can tailor permission settings to suit y

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-21 Thread J B
Netware is an extremely stable and capable OS. I would bet that your friend is using Netware 4.x, which is known as a dog. I have used Netware products from 2.18 up to 6 (still in early beta) and they are very stable and extremely fast. Netware 6, upon its release will add some functionality

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-21 Thread Eric R. Turner
One major disadvantage with Linux (and unix-like OSs in general) is how file and directory permissions are managed. Unix started out as a research project, and the simplistic permission settings are indicative of this. With Netware you can tailor permission settings to suit your needs. In my expe

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-21 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, Walt, Regardless of how NetWare performs it has absolutely no future. Novell announced last year that it was sunsetting the product, and would instead focus on it's eDirectory (formerly NDS) for Windows, UNIX, and Linux. As a result, NetWare's market share has dropped precipitously, and it

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-21 Thread Walt
No! I actually am interested in mentioning to them that a better alternative exists, but since I have virtually no experience with NetWare, I was wondering what, if any, evidence there is to support that. Does Netware offer anything that Linux or even windows does not have or support? Walt >I

[techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-21 Thread Walt
I know NetWare isn't much in the headlines these days, but how does it really perform? I know some people running a system with about 500 users and it constantly seems to be having trouble. Obviously I don't have nearly as many users, but they're pros and I'm a newbie and I have better trouble-fr

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Unfortunately, there isn't any directory notification on Unix. It's not clear whether you're including Linux as Unix, but Linux (2.4) does have directory notification. See Documentation/dnotify.txt in the kernel pool. It has some limitations. Updating a multiply-link

Re: [techtalk] Apache Question

2001-03-21 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Look at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options There it states that "Any options preceded by a + are added to the options currently in force, and any options preceded by a - are removed from the options currently in force." So what you need is something like: Options -Indexe

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-21 Thread Lilly S.
How about CED? L. On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, BiOFH wrote: > Just a thought that occurred to me based on a recent research side-trip... > ADV is the subject header some states are requiring (or attempting to > require) on mass advertising (SPAM) email. I was about to add a > filter to looking for an

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
EXP (as in expert/experienced) would be a reasonable replacement ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Mar-101 [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Now there is one problem with the dynamic pages: the mailing list. Is > there any better way of noticing the addition of a new entry aside from > a cron job (ie directory notification or something)? Unfortunate

[techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-21 Thread Maria G Martinez
Hi. I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience running Linux from a zip disk. I am a newbie, and relatively ignorant, but for some reason, during the summer I will be rquired to do some UNIX stuff. I decided that if I ran Slackware, I would be able to go by with that. The problem is

[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-21 Thread BiOFH
Just a thought that occurred to me based on a recent research side-trip... ADV is the subject header some states are requiring (or attempting to require) on mass advertising (SPAM) email. I was about to add a filter to looking for and corralling posts containing "ADV " in the subject. Perhaps o

Re: [techtalk] Apache Question

2001-03-21 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
are you trying to have it so that at a higher level, you _can_see directories, and then turn the ability off for vhosts? My guess is that the global option where you are allowing Indexes is overriding the vhost optionTry turning it off in the global option, and see what happens. At 11:51

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
but technically... are you running a PHP script that inputs the html codes and outputs a final html file which you then upload or what? thats where i got confused. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tech

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:11:50PM +0100, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > I find this quite interesting, but im rather ignorant. > How exactly are you "pretty-fying" it again? i didn't understand that > part. Well, just however I feel like. This isn't related to the actual code. It's basically if I

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
I find this quite interesting, but im rather ignorant. How exactly are you "pretty-fying" it again? i didn't understand that part. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
For those who aren't subscribed there has been discussion on the issues mailing list about techtalk. The first point is that someone has noted that this list tends to be women asking and men answering. This post isn't about that, but head on over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or achives thereof if you are