Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread jenn
David Merrill wrote: > Hm. > > Mr. and Mrs. Brown are normals. A knight and a knave would not agree. > If Mrs. Smith were a knave, her husband would be a knight and she > would not call him so. And if she were a knight, she would not call > her knave husband a knight! So are they *all* norm

[techtalk] Boolean logic (was: This talk of N-ary trees and other things...)

2001-03-23 Thread jenn
Nancy Corbett wrote: > One time someone told me to study Logic...but not just any logic, some > specific type of logic. I can no longer remember what it's called. Maybe > you know. I can see how it would help me to cover all my bases when > writing programs. It involves mapping out truth tabl

Re: [techtalk] Oddness

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:19:36PM -0500, Kath wrote: > My sysadmin friend, DraX, was able to fix it. Something with my DNS being > b0rked. It's so nice to have sysadmin friends. It's like having a doctor in the family. -- Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net Linu

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:07:47PM -0900, psyche wrote: > > > > Mr. and Mrs. Brown are normals. A knight and a knave would not agree. > > If Mrs. Smith were a knave, her husband would be a knight and she > > would not call him so. And if she were a knight, she would not call > > her knave husband

Re: [techtalk] Oddness

2001-03-23 Thread Kath
My sysadmin friend, DraX, was able to fix it. Something with my DNS being b0rked. - Kath P.S. Hi Gina! - Original Message - From: "Gina Lanik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Oddn

Re: [techtalk] Oddness

2001-03-23 Thread Gina Lanik
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:55:46 EST, Kath writes: >Can anyone still ping www.kathweb.net ? no prob at all, here's the output: PING ns5.kathweb.net (24.186.89.17): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 24.186.89.17: icmp_seq=0 ttl=234 time=162.5 ms 64 bytes from 24.186.89.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=234 time=162.6 ms

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread psyche
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:54:47PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > > > --- > > Knights and Knaves problem. > > > > Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights, > > who always tell the truth, Knaves, who always lie and Nor

[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #375 - 14 msgs

2001-03-23 Thread Anthony Russello
The one book I can truly recommend to anyone interested in learning about it, is Understanding the Linux Kernel,published by O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-2-2 according to the back of the book. If it Windows you want to look at, check for some of the older (now out of date) MCSE book

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:43:24PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:54:47PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > > > --- > > Knights and Knaves problem. > > > > Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights, > > who always tell the truth, Knaves, who

[techtalk] Oddness

2001-03-23 Thread Kath
Can anyone still ping www.kathweb.net ?I can't ping www.kathweb.net from the machine itself.  Odd.   I can ping it from my workstation and from an offsite place (http://visualroute.datametrics.com).   Any ideas?I run my own DNS server, here is the current config file:   @ IN SOA www.kathweb.n

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:54:47PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > --- > Knights and Knaves problem. > > Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights, > who always tell the truth, Knaves, who always lie and Normals who > sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth. It i

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread Nancy Corbett
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Oddly enough, I have some recommendations: > > * study calculus, especially propositional and predicate calculus. > * study the theory of programming languages, get familiar > with the language families, become familiar with the fac

Re: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-23 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Shari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to begin an installation of Redhat 7.0 on my Dell Laptop (Inspiron 3700). > I've attempted this before, unsuccessfully with RH 6.0. Had display problems and > couldn't get my dsl working. But I digress. > > I've been away from Linux for awh

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread jenn
Michelle Murrain wrote: > I have a question for the group. > > I imagine many of you are self taught, as I am. > Do folks have suggestions on how to go about learning some of this stuff- > I've thought about just getting a list of CS textbooks, and going through > them myself, one by one (I

Re: [techtalk] [Fwd: ALERT - A DANGEROUS NEW WORM IS SPREADING ON THE INTERNET]

2001-03-23 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:34:37PM -0600, Melissa Plunkett wrote: > > The t0rn rootkit replaces several binaries on the system in order to > > stealth itself. Here are the binaries that it replaces: > > > > du, find, ifconfig, in.telnetd, in.fingerd, login, ls, mjy, netstat, > > ps, pstree, top

[techtalk] Small request

2001-03-23 Thread Kath
Could you guys ping www.kathweb.net and send a test email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you don't mind?Just testing my web/email server.   - Kath

RE: [techtalk] SCSI and RedHat

2001-03-23 Thread Angela Nash
Go find the list of supported SCSI adapters for each UNIX and match them up. :) Adaptec cards are good, and have good support so start there. Some like the 2940U2 should be supported under about every OS. The KT7A boards work just fine under Linux. I have the KT7 (100MHz bus instead of 133, sa

[techtalk] [Fwd: ALERT - A DANGEROUS NEW WORM IS SPREADING ON THE INTERNET]

2001-03-23 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Hey all, if you are running BIND you might want to take a look at this. Nasty indeed. Melissa > -Original Message- > From: The SANS Institute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:35 PM > Subject: ALERT - A DANGEROUS NEW WORM IS SPREADING ON THE INTERNET > >

RE: [techtalk] Snort - Sensor and Analyst console HW config

2001-03-23 Thread Angela Nash
Snort by itself doesn't seem to use a lot of CPU. What eats up CPU on my Snort system is the snortsnarf tool that takes the log information and outputs it to HTML reports. A "reasonably fast" system like a Pentium II or higher should work just fine. It's not a memory hog either. If you are bui

[techtalk] SCSI and RedHat

2001-03-23 Thread sarah
Hi everyone.. quick question- I'm needing to put together information on my 'dream computer' for my new boss, and I know I want SCSI - the thing I don't know is what's going to work best for me. This box will need to run RedHat7, Windows 2000 and possibly solaris, any of the BSD's, and anything

[techtalk] Snort - Sensor and Analyst console HW config

2001-03-23 Thread Subba Rao
Hello, I have posted the same question to Snort mailing list and did not get a satisfactory answer. I am planning to deploy a Snort IDS for a client of mine. The Internet connection is at 256K to their ISP. What kind of processor and memory would be recommended for a sensor with 4 NICs monitorin

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:32:08AM -0500, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I have a question for the group. > > I imagine many of you are self taught, as I am. Although I've been > programming on and off (on for about 8 years, then off for about 8, then on > for the last 3), and have learned, in that

[techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-23 Thread Michelle Murrain
I have a question for the group. I imagine many of you are self taught, as I am. Although I've been programming on and off (on for about 8 years, then off for about 8, then on for the last 3), and have learned, in that time, BASIC, C, Pascal and Perl, plus SQL and HTML, and smatterings of Jav

Re: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-23 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
i know a lot of gimpers have usb wacoms running. something about a kernel fix to get usb working. sorry i dont know more. im not the vat of unlimited URLs that telsa is. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listin

Re: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-23 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:34:04AM -0600 or thereabouts, Betsy wrote: > i think i remember that RH doesn't support USB... could be wrong tho. > anybody know for sure? It certainly supports -some-. I have a USB trackball on my laptop (I hate the mousepad thing there, I need three buttons :)) an