Re: [techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandline args?)

2001-07-04 Thread Penguina
"Tokenizing" is the right term. My response was to CD's token defs >CD>So, I can do something like: >CD> >CD>#define FORCE_SWITCH "--force" >CD>#define CONFIG_SWITCH "-C" >CD> >CD>and so on? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >P> No. CD asked "Can I do X" this is P answering "No" to CD. But P (me) w

Re: [techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandlineargs?)

2001-07-04 Thread Penguina
it might make sense to separate out the issues of command-line interface packages hash tables lexical analysers parsers tokens: what they are & the variety of things you can use them for how to initialize function pointers, then invoke

Re: [techtalk] switch function in C (or how to read commandlineargs?)

2001-07-04 Thread Penguina
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:17:58PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Jeff Dike thought: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Now that's interesting. So how do I tokenise the strings? There are a few good references on doing this -- strtok is a good th

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
If you have real trouble, you could always get an IDE drive, connect it to the PCI IDE interface, and use that for your boot & system stuff. 9 GB isn't much for multimedia applications, if that's what you want to use it for (one of the few justifications for SCSI Ultra160) and you'll want dedic

[techtalk] Bettina Gille makes Sourceforge Top Ten

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
Bettina Gille Makes SourceForge Top Ten Users http://sourceforge.net/ http://www.phpgroupware.org/developers.php If only it were in Zope/Python... ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Kelly McQuarrie wrote: > Hi Claudine: > > I've been using pine since I switch to unix so I can't compare it to > anything else. Why do you like mutt better? Maybe I should switch? > > -Kelly I use pine, and I can tell you a few things I really don't like about it. ^X (sen

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 30 May 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > > > At 5/29/01 06:02 AM , James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > >The *US* courts, you mean? I'm talking about *EU* law. That's the whole > > > >point: thi

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-30 Thread Penguina
you want to protect your "privacy" to surf for porn during business hours, go out and build your own business, and then get back to us... if you still think it's such a great idea. Penguina ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-28 Thread Penguina
Penguina wrote: > > I don't think that the person who pays the rent on the office space, > > financed the PCs and pays for the bandwidth every month would feel > > the same way. James Sutherland wrote: > We aren't talking about the EMPLOYER here, but abou

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-27 Thread Penguina
(I'm taking out the attribution here, because the debate is about the ideas, not who said them) > > > > > What I do in private cannot reasonably be held as harassment by anyone: by > > > >definition, they aren't involved. If anyone is offended by the contents of > > > >my PC, the only person li

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Penguina
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:13:53PM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Penguina thought: > > > > Why not write a script to put each users' web access cache list > > (from the squid cache) up on an intranet web sit

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-25 Thread Penguina
ember, the problem went almost all the way to the top. In another place, it DID go all the way to the top. And they can run their own bloody servers as a result. Penguina ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/lis

Re: [techtalk] It's all done... kind of

2001-05-24 Thread Penguina
On Thu, 24 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I can't get my CD rom open. > > If you have a disk on there it is probably mounted. I don't know if SuSe > uses supermount or not. In any case, in KDE, right click on the CD-ROM > icon and you should get a menu with unmount as a choice. *If*

Re: [techtalk] Delurk/Getting started

2001-05-23 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Ruhiel wrote: > helping. At the moment, i'm downloading an ISO of SUsE 7.1, which > seemed to be one of the better distro's for newbies. (Discuss?) I started with RH and moved to SuSE because RH 7.0 had a really bad compiler, cost the earth, and didn't come with as many go

Re: [techtalk] oracle to mysql

2001-05-23 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > Hello all! > > I have a pile of .sql scripts written to drop and then create tables in > oracle. I have to convert them to mysql. I'm finding that the syntax is > just different enough that I keep hitting snags. I have the greatest book > for le

Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-23 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:36:23AM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Penguina thought: > > > > WOW THANKS! > > > > I just recompiled my 2.4.0 kernel with generic dma support > > for the IDE driver on my la

[techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-22 Thread Penguina
WOW THANKS! I just recompiled my 2.4.0 kernel with generic dma support for the IDE driver on my laptop, and it more than quadrupled my disk reads. (We'll see how it handles disk *writes* from my DV camera now...) more explicit directions: If you're using "make xconfig" go to the button labell

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

2001-05-21 Thread Penguina
Mary: >At the same time, some boxes probably do need to have a message to let people >know they can't have shell when they log in. yup. Kai: >> (Probably the "real C programmer" way to do it would be to have just one >> script, with a variety of canned messages, that checked what name it had >

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

2001-05-21 Thread Penguina
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:14:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It seems a pretty > > > straitforward thing to ask...no shell access, but I'm finding it > > > extrememly difficult to find good documentation on it. > > > > Set their 'shell' to

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

2001-05-21 Thread Penguina
Hi Elizabeth! As an also-ignored newcomer, I'll welcome you. On Mon, 21 May 2001, Elizabeth wrote: > Hello. I've been lurking for a bit. I don't remember if I actually > mailed anything to this group yet. I realy wanted to when that one > chick was going on about the security breach. oooh

[techtalk] (no subject)

2001-05-20 Thread penguina
Some other things one might consider are: -turning off ipforwarding entierely and running heavily logged proxies instead -turning off access from TROTW (The Rest Of The World) to things you need through hosts.deny/hosts.access rules -keeping up w