Re: [techtalk] uptimes ... ;)

2001-05-28 Thread sara ruohotie
> To answer your question. > There is no way to upgrade a kernel without rebooting the machine. actually, nowadays SUNs are bootable without loosing uptime. it's really weird, but i guess that's a nice feature, but it requires some kind of magic before booting. sara

Re: [techtalk] uptimes ... ;)

2001-05-28 Thread sara ruohotie
> actually, nowadays SUNs are bootable without loosing uptime. it's > really weird, but i guess that's a nice feature, but it requires some > kind of magic before booting. err, something made me hit 'send' before finishing the email. in our tech-section we have this joke about booting suns w

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-28 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Kai MacTane wrote: > At 5/26/01 08:28 PM , Penguina wrote: > > > Viewable by all! Only problem is the privacy issue. She may not be > > > *allowed* to do that. > > > >Just put it in a passworded area (see the .htaccess thread) and only > >give the password to the responsible

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-28 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > (I'm taking out the attribution here, because the debate is about the > ideas, not who said them) Attribution is still relevant, and it's rather rude to anonymise others... > > > Or if I'm working in the same office and offensive material is on display > >

Re: [techtalk] Bad surfing habbits part two

2001-05-28 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Elizabeth wrote: > Liese wrote: > > > > > James wrote : > > "Beware of driving your users to using a webmail service, though; if you > > stop them using your mail system, they could switch to Hotmail or similar." > > I have disabled Hotmail (and others) on our proxy server.

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-28 Thread wny-tc
Whoa!!! Let's not get the legal system present in the US of A confused with he Rest of the World! I realize that the spin in Washington is that 'Everyone Should Work Like US...", but it's just no so. I am hosting an exchange student from Germany this year. When I poked amongst the files in the

[techtalk] NTP and SNTP

2001-05-28 Thread Hans Tegnerud
Despite the fact that my problem involves a couple of SCO OpenServers and an NT4 Workstation I hope someone can give me little more insight into NTP and/or SNTP. My setup: 1 OpenServer which acts as time source 3 OpenServers which synchronize their clocks to the first one. 1 NT4 Workstation which

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-28 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 28 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another case, this one thru a coworker. In the process of trying to > track down an unsolicited advertiser, getting nothing though their EU ISP > he contacted their local Consulate and was rebuffed. UCE isn't a government issue: it's legal. The onl

Re: [techtalk] Well, it doesn't matter anyway

2001-05-28 Thread Ruhiel
"Rebecca J. Walter" wrote: > > you just ran an intermediate step. the regular setup is similiar to the > live eval. the live eval is mainly for testing if hardware works or for > running on systems where you cant install much. Well, I got it right eventually :) I got the full version day befo

[techtalk] Mandrake 8 issues

2001-05-28 Thread James
I just installed Mandrake 8 (I had an itching to try Linux as a desktop again). I run the installer, it looks like it detected my SBLive!, but when I boot into KDE and try to run XMMS, I get no sound (It does look like the MP3 is playing, just no sound). Now I have checked the idiot things (V

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 8 issues

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel Manrique
> > Now I have checked the idiot things (Volume up on speakers, in XMMS, in sound > mixer, is it plugged in etc). I also did "cat /proc/modules" and saw that > emu10k1 was loaded (I think). > > [kath@localhost kath]$ cat /proc/modules > emu10k144384 1 (autoclean) > via82cxxx

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 8 issues

2001-05-28 Thread James
On Monday 28 May 2001 17:52, Daniel Manrique wrote: > > Now I have checked the idiot things (Volume up on speakers, in XMMS, in > > sound mixer, is it plugged in etc). I also did "cat /proc/modules" and > > saw that emu10k1 was loaded (I think). > > > > [kath@localhost kath]$ cat /proc/modules >

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 8 issues

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel Manrique
> emu10k1 = SBLive driver. Yes the via82 is for onboard sound. Hmm, lemme try > something... > > Well that was certainly cute! It isn't using the SBLive as the sound card, > it is using the onboard mobo sound thingy. Hmmph :/ > > Any ideas on how to make the SBLive take over? :D um, sure.

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 about other people. Of > course the employer

[techtalk] Stumped by shell script

2001-05-28 Thread Nancy Corbett
This is off topic, but I'm hoping your sharp eyes will see what I am obviously missing. I'm writing a ksh script which I want to give 3 variables and read them from standard input. To do this, I'm using sed. I want sed to change every instance of DATE to the current date in a given file and re

Re: [techtalk] Stumped by shell script

2001-05-28 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:31:41PM -0700, Nancy Corbett wrote: > > This is off topic, but I'm hoping your sharp eyes will see what I am > obviously missing. > > I'm writing a ksh script which I want to give 3 variables and read them > from standard input. To do this, I'm using sed. I want sed

Re: [techtalk] Stumped by shell script

2001-05-28 Thread Nancy Corbett
You're the best!! Um...it's stil not working perfectly, but I'm further along than I was. The input file is being read and it's substituting the second and third variables perfectly. The first one, however, within the sed statement, is not returning the current date within the output file. It'