Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
g it in X because xterms are sort of the same idea. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 (wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
h of a screen user, since I tend to use only mutt remotely and use vim's cut and paste in visual mode to move data between files, but I have used to to combine mutt and slrn remotely, and many people find it useful. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 (wwwkey

Re: [techtalk] ssh woes/mysteries

2001-06-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
will give you a very clear idea of exactly where the connection is crashing. Also, has the host key changed? Are you positive there is no firewall between your machine that wasn't there before or has changed its rules? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 7762

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Mary Gardiner
x27;t encrypt. You could set up IMAP over SSL at the other end. There is also a way to tunnel it over ssh. It looks something like preconnect "ssh -C -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 11110:y.net:110 sleep 10" password "lkajshflkahsflkhafs" in your .fetchmailrc, but I have never tried it, so su

Re: [Techtalk] Sharing an extended partition with Windows (was: Desktop OS?)

2001-06-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
using Linux's and Windows' fdisks? I had a long long argument on IRC as previously mentioned with someone who claimed it was easy but both our boxen were set up some time ago :) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 _

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Desktop OS?

2001-06-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
on-DOS'. Anyone got any better solutions - I got in a terrible IRC flamefest over 'but it's incorrect', 'but it works!', 'but it's incorrect!' Mary. PS Back to techtalk. People should be posting to *both* while we all resubscribe and the DNS moves over. Not

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
that in C.) But the problem was that it might, for instance, buffer overrun, or not catch SIGINT correctly, which requires more C knowledge than: printf("Sorry, you don't live here no more."); Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
ave never really had to write anything that avoids overruns? Or should every admin know C? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
se or /bin/true. Either will block them > from having a shell, yet give them a username and password. Or bin/myshell, where myshell is a script that echoes "You do not have access to shell account on this box." Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 __

Re: [techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
#x27;t like double clicking at all), sawfish on Helix Gnome before that and fvwm2 before that. Here's to PWM and key-bindings. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
eks. I tend not to do much configuration for my tools until I really need it :( Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
that > anyone else in the house uses much more than the "main" computer though. Having had thar experience at both work and uni (although the networks may be 100MB) I don't think you notice the difference, except that large file moves will be slower. Mary. -- Mary Gardine

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
ng large files - it's much slower between partitions on the same drive than between different drives. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] message to all

2001-05-17 Thread Mary Gardiner
ff about yourself, you should post to grrltalk, since its off-topic for techtalk and the amount of off-topicness in the last few days is probably scaring people :) Have fun, Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ t

Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-17 Thread Mary Gardiner
with one sticky title bar and be able to flick through them (as opposed to have xterms floating around :) ) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] message to all

2001-05-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
, really. >From someone who claims that personal attacks weaken an argument too. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
t IE's (and NS6's) seconds. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Linux security suggestions

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
ct The only time I've ever seen one put on a network had a compromise time of under 3 days, yes. Probably through the portmap daemon, and the t0rn rootkit was installed, and not picked up for months. Ugh. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PR

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
ey do talk about 'tunneling' in their FAQ, so perhaps they are avoiding this. Does MindTerm solve these? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] "Developing not Fixing"

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
quot;You have to build your own seat?" Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #454 - 3 msgs

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
nder the rest of the argument invalid. The only reason it may render an argument invalid is being used as a premise in the argument, *if* the attacks are actually false claims. Their mere existence may simply make the arguer *look* rather poor, it implies that the arg

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Question re: Firewalls

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
(as always) and second step is firewalling rules ie ipchains/tables. Hopefullly info provided is all you need to get started. I'm sure there's plenty of ipchains expertise on this list. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Question re: Firewalls

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
best place to find that kind of > information? > > Thanks! > > Kriselda > -- > http://thunderfyre.net http://www.linuxfirewall.com/ has lots of linkage. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870

Re: [techtalk] About prettyphysicslady on the linuxchix techtalk list...

2001-05-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
he configs and web pages, and ssh for access of course. To be covered later in FAQ... Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #449 - 9 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
M, and thus an ability to run programs containing exploits. OK, so that's essentially a Q and A for the FAQ. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #449 - 9 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
le Jenn. There's an implicit implication that you have the right screws there, or that you haven't 'borrowed' screws from all the hard drives and ethernet cards to build a second machine and that's pretty damn unusual, where I live.

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #449 - 9 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
t is time to do some work. Anyone got any sample Qs and As for me? I'll do some myself and post some drafts. Also, could people send me URLs and books to add for references, it is a pretty well-covered topic. Just one you don't know abo

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #449 - 9 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
d friend, the buffer overrun, and our new friend, the printf exploit. Please include details of every known exploit that affects any Linux system still available on the shelf). etc etc. Yes, if you missed the sarcasm, I agree with Jeff. We Have Been Trolled, We

Re: [techtalk] security problem

2001-05-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
developers). This is great advice for any bug report, since it is much easier to fix if they can step through it, see what's happening. Tell them the code section if you know it. Incidently, if you are a programmer and the patch is trivial (unusual for security holes) you might want to

Re: [techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

2001-05-03 Thread Mary Gardiner
many pages, like Slashdot have a great deal of tables and so on for formatting purposes (they might consititute above a third of the page for example) that very rarely change, whereas the data may change more rapidly. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 __

Re: [techtalk] Write down while you are modifying the system...

2001-05-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:16:43PM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:02PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > [...snip...] > > btw can anyone give me a run down on this situation: > > > > X outside project (say an open source project) has a cv

Re: [techtalk] Not letting me login via ssh

2001-05-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
version is 1.2.1 from memory. That one's a security fix from some weeks ago. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Not letting me login via ssh

2001-05-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
d so on. You should also mention if the problem followed an update of packages or not. I track the testing tree and have three flatmates who track the unstable tree, so I can report things about those trees to you. Mary. [1] potato/woody/sid -- Mary Gardiner

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
would want to commit eventually, but I'm thinking this for either private modifications that aren't either bugfixes or most peoples desired fixes, or for 'playing' with a project. Or for a project that doesn't necessarily give write access to their repository

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:02:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mary Gardiner wrote: > > > > 2) I don't share my private work with others much, so I don't need to revision > > track so carefully. > > Nah.. but CVS acts as a bloody useful backup as well

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
k with any less respect than > your paying work? 1) Because my paying work is not, at present, programming, and hence no need for CVS commits, and 2) I don't share my private work with others much, so I don't need to revision track so carefully. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
this reason though, although cvs up once saved my from hours of rewriting pain), and the other is so I can stop manually keeping tarballs of my own old work around. Recently discovered tagging 'good' versions so I can try things out, although most people considering branches my private

Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
it would be a bastard to parse the arguments. :) Not that the looking up argument isn't a good approach, but at one stage I was using it like it was going out of fashion, and that particular space in my brain is taken up by memorising tar's order of arguments (this can be figured out too actua

Re: [techtalk] mod_rewrite

2001-04-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:50:34PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Currently the config looks like: > RewriteEngine on > RewriteBase/diary/ > RewriteRule ^[^/]+/[^/]+/$ month.php?year=$1&month=$2 > RewriteRule ^[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+//[^/]+/$ coat.php?year=$1&month=$2&am

[techtalk] mod_rewrite

2001-04-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
that is DocumentRoot. I get 403 forbidden in that directory now that the rewrite is there, and the rewrite log tells me that it is applying the rules to /index.php Mary. [1] No this isn't my vaunted diary templating thing, this is a hack. -- Mary Ga

Re: [techtalk] Best programmer's editor for Linux

2001-04-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
alise what it is doing, and now sees both Beta.java and beta.java both with a Beta class in them. It also doesn't implement System.in.read() to actually work. I don't know about version 4, but I'd stay away from JBuilder on Unix. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GP

Re: [techtalk] Best programmer's editor for Linux

2001-04-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
ations will pop up. I'm just a stick-in-the-mud. :) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
hing on the machine. It's not exclusively a SSH client. You choose when connecting whether to use an ssh connection or a telnet connection. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
doesn't. Actually, that's one reason they might object to telnet. They really wouldn't want someone to be using their terminals to gain unauthorised access to other people's machines. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers(try .cx!)

2001-04-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
;ll probably want to contact them anyway, actually, to get the missing details filled in but if you have access to the nameservers, that's the short-term problem fixed. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers

2001-04-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
or *anything* (apparently it's just a bit set or not in the relevant packet), and apparently registrars have bugged people about this. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers

2001-04-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
what > you want, you register it with the authority for that domain. (And > a single DNS can be registered multiple times and be authoritative > for multiple domains.) OK, thanks. I know about unregistered DNS, I've set it up for our house's private network. We have our own

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers

2001-04-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:17:07PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mary Gardiner wrote: > If you're in other domains (.com.au, for instance) you deal with > whoever administers THAT domain, both for registration and for > registering your nameserver. In the .com.au cas

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers

2001-04-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
o register a nameserver without first registering a domain through them, if folllwoing her instructions. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers(try .cx!)

2001-04-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
you have set up. Who did you register it with? Who is it registered with now? Can you update their records? If not, why not? And most importantly, what is the domain name? I could do some poking around with whois queries (although .cx are a pain) but you need to tell me the name. Mary. -

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers

2001-04-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
ieve they check whether or not that server will return authoratative answers for that domain, and won't let you change it it they don't get an answer. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mail

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers

2001-04-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
which must be done though Network Solutions. So can you only run a DNS server if you registered through network solutions, or is there something I'm missing? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: Vim and regular expressions (was Re: [techtalk] Any good HTML editors for Linux?)

2001-04-07 Thread Mary Gardiner
here n and m are positive integers (>0) Of course I should have done this earlier... and I did... but until that particular search I hadn't discovered the glories of Vim Regular Expressions 101 at http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~orycc/vim-regex.html Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTE

Vim and regular expressions (was Re: [techtalk] Any good HTML editors for Linux?)

2001-04-03 Thread Mary Gardiner
sion in vim, perl and blah. You may want non-greedy expressions, in which case, try blah in Perl!" and -perl will turn up the same page with perl5, and so on. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 __

[techtalk] Yet another specific question.

2001-04-03 Thread Mary Gardiner
s 64M @ 0xd000 Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

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

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
this as a role you kind of prove yourself into, via years as a programmer in these kind of projects. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

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

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
ised that, and I'm also not sure what a lie means. Does it mean that the entire compound statement is a lie, or that at least one component is? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL P

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

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
7;ve only been looking at Prolog for a few days though and got very frustrated at the step of defining Y true, from knight says Y. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

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

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
knight If normal(Mr Smith): Mrs Smith is a normal, which is consistant with her lying. So normal(Mr Smith) (I sould have put in a rule about X having to be something!) normal(Mr Smith): normal(Mrs Smith) Now Mr Brown *and* Mrs Brown are lying too. So everyone's a norma

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

2001-03-23 Thread Mary Gardiner
dress, you should have learnt about securing a box - shutting down processes and closing ports. If none of those words are familiar to you, and neither are the words portmap, nfs, or BIND you very probably have a vulnerable box. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
bly a bit easier. Anyway, I don't make huge diary entries so overhead == negligible. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
al), and however much it > > > takes ssh to send those commands over. > > > > Beyond neglible that is :) > > How negligible do you want? Don't worry the changed file is negligible enough. I don't want deltas. I was just smiling at mysel;f for being anal about

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
depending on whether the cvs is remote or local), and however much it > takes ssh to send those commands over. Beyond neglible that is :) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
make is only for C. It isn't. > You can use it for anything. Oh I know that. (In fact, I'm assured make is Turing complete, but I'm not sure it has I/O capabilities...) But Laurel specifically mentioned C. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
'd, for some reason, forgotten how easy make makes making things (sorry) and it is now getting tempting... Mary, -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

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

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
ction. Equating PROG with EXP is going to scare off 'It doesn't compie' posts, and maybe we want to help nascent programmers (or EXP programmers learning a new language...) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
n. See Documentation/dnotify.txt in the kernel pool. I'll definitely have a look, since I have 2.4.2 on my own box and this could be useful in other contexts, but although I'll be developing in Linux, the webserver is FreeBSD :) Mary. -- Mary Gardin

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
entire setup will be mirrored on my own box anyway. 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. Incidently, how do you do cvs notification scripts (pointer to manual page find, I know

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
s of extra work, Hence the need to only have very basic incomplete HTML which is then generated programmatically. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
ual code. It's basically if I want to change the page layout, or add a default grahpic or something, it is autogenerated, rather than needing to be added to each page. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ tech

[techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
a new entry aside from a cron job (ie directory notification or something)? I would like to be able to write this in Python since it is fairly trivial to get it to talk to Mailman, which I'll use for the list. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

Re: [techtalk] Dual boot machine

2001-03-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
having Tab complete, and then wait for it to reboot into Linux. Lilo is actually one less boot. Unless I had an old versin of loadlin. The graphical loadlin wrapper Winux used to be OK, but the site has gone down. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 _

Re: [techtalk] Characters to avoid in passwords

2001-03-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
m are little password-nazis ('Sorry that's too short... is a reverse word... should contain at least one digit'). Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] New Linux Kernel

2001-03-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
erwritten your library files... others may have suggestions :( Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] A Very Odd Bug...

2001-03-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
lem. Most likely candiates are detonator, XFree4 and gpm. XFree4 is fairly unlikely, since the reboot to 2.2.12 didn't start X. Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas where to look next? Now that the cold reboot has 'fixed' stuff, I may not be able to reproduce the problem. If I ca

Re: [techtalk] Debian

2001-03-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
t week, for instance, to fix buffer overrun remote root exploits (which is pretty bad behaviour in a *newsreader*). Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] mozilla problems

2001-03-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
o old. I know that Mozilla 0.8 (the latest release) has https support, I'm not sure about 0.7 Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Debian

2001-03-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:11:51AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe that woody is now in the stable tree. No, potato is still the stable tree. Woody is the (all new shiny) testing tree (which I track). Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID:

Re: [techtalk] Tightening Security

2001-02-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
ll know the IP address again, it will need to be tight. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Sorta OT, but still Linux related: Consulting

2001-01-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
25% of his residents fees in lieu of payment, which was pretty good at the time.) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] How to point whatever.domain.com to ip?

2001-01-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
reate subdomains of subdomain.whatever.com... this continues up to a certain character limit. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] RE: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #308 - 1 msg

2001-01-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:21:42PM -0500, Brian Sweeney wrote: > Mary- > > what version of Linux are you running? > > -Brian Umm... FreeBSD :) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtal

Re: [techtalk] RE: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #308 - 1 msg

2001-01-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
her why I can't change. It's certainly not a high volume mail server, but several people do use it as a primary email address, and breaking it trying to install tcpserver would be a Bad Thing. :) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

[techtalk] Qmail and inetd

2001-01-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
know how to convince qmail controlled by inetd (not by tcpserver, which is what the FAQs are all about) to relay for 127.0.0.1? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

[techtalk] Apache/CGI and directory indices.

2001-01-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
man/cgi-bin" AddHandler cgi-script * Options +ExecCGI and so on, but this dies very badly with a rather garbled warning about Mailman expecting a different gid, although it does find the index.html So how can I keep the ScriptAlias line and still convince apache to read index.h

Re: [techtalk] Woes :\

2001-01-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
If you have a Linux box handy maybe also try fetchmail. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Testing (Was: Re: Technical issues)

2000-11-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
*grr* I hate agreeing to exploitation (we're underpaid) just because my current life situation doesn't give me heaps of power. Unfortunately I need a job where I can work relatively few hours, and take time out for exams and so on, and better pay might mean worse conditions as far as uni g

Re: [techtalk] Re: Technical issues (was Re: [grrltalk] "Confrontational" postings)

2000-11-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
nto 2.5.x and maybe be ported back to > 2.4.x. > > Jeff > Yeah, that was the impression I got. I didn't think 2.4 was going to be a known bug-free release... Anyway, thanks for the quick summary, Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870

Re: [techtalk] Testing (Was: Re: Technical issues)

2000-11-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
an immediate superior who is a non-techie (especially when your pay is low, your top priority is uni or other reasons why you don't want to be a defacto project manager)? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Re: Technical issues (was Re: [grrltalk] "Confrontational" postings)

2000-11-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
f the bugs they know about now, say? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Testing (Was: Re: Technical issues)

2000-11-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
e programmers are still feature-bloating (at management request) and hunting out old and new bugs. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Re: Technical issues (was Re: [grrltalk] "Confrontational" postings)

2000-11-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
to be buggy on release, but this can be ascribed to a hardware thing - they can't do extensive QA on hundreds of thousands of different hardware configurations. Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___

[techtalk] Re: Technical issues (was Re: [grrltalk] "Confrontational" postings)

2000-11-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
Bugtested to what extent though, is the question: free of what are called "showstoppers" in linux kernel? free of all known bugs? Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

[techtalk] Technical issues (was Re: [grrltalk] "Confrontational" postings)

2000-11-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
me please' list is also good. Could both discussions occur on the same list or should there be separate lists? Mary. Cross-posted to techtalk, but I have no idea if the thread belongs on techtalk - make your own call when replying. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 7762

Re: [techtalk] How do I ... ? (share directories) (make Eterm themes work)

2000-11-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:28:31AM -0600, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > Issue 1: I am on a LAN. I want to set up, on my multi-gig HD, a shared > place for everyone to put their .mp3 files. > > I expect there are two parts to this -- what I do on my box to share the > stuff and what other folks' do on

Re: [techtalk] C++ Reference Manual?

2000-10-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 11:02:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I checked with Dancer: > Try Bjarne Stroustrup (sp?) 'The C++ Programming Language'. We have both > books - one for teaching, one for reference. > There is also 'The C++ Master Reference', except that it's more an > alphabetical

[techtalk] C++ Reference Manual?

2000-10-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good C++ reference manual? I have O'Rielly's 'Practical C++ Programming' and its index is driving me mad - it doesn't feature the word inheritence. (It's under 'derived classes'.) Mary/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

[techtalk] .fetchmailrc problems

2000-10-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, I've decided to give up on passing commandline options to fetchmail and write a .fetchmailrc. I don't have anything listening on port 25 so my fetchmail commandline was: "fetchmail -K -a -u [username] -d 600 -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d mary" [server] This worked fine. my .fetchmailrc

Re: [techtalk] Disk utilities under Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:05:58PM -0400, Andrew Wendt wrote: > I don't think fsck really does anything to combat fragmentation does it? > > I think it just checks for and repairs filesystem damage, like Scandisk does. Yeah, I was under the impression that it's actually the ext2 filesystem that

[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 "$

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