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| 2001/2/7 [Uncategorized] UID:20521 Activity:high |
2/6 Any particular reason why abstruse technical publications (ACM,
Sigmod, what not) are usually in two columns?
\_ it reads better than one column
\_ as above, same reason most large-format books are two-column,
and novels are usually small pages: people lose track if
their eyes have to sweep too far left to right.
\_ CHI is not abstruse and it's also two column. it might also
be because it's more space efficient: equations rarely span
the entire with of the page. -ali |
| 2001/2/7 [Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:20522 Activity:moderate |
2/6 Anyone know a restaurant that accepts PayPal?
\_ paypal is dead
\_ Why do you say PayPal is dead? It appears to be doing quite
well, especially with some of their latest deals with other
companies. |
| 2001/2/7 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20523 Activity:nil |
2/6 A while back someone asked about directory-specific aliases.
Couldn't you accomplish that with aliases?
alias cd 'source ./unaliasrc; cd !*; source ./aliasrc'
\-i was talking about directory-specific history stack. are you
misremembering or is this a different discussion? either way, this
is too klugy. you could probably build something liek this by extending
the tcsh completion mechanism. --psb |
| 2001/2/7 [Uncategorized] UID:20524 Activity:nil |
2/6 Anyone have any experience with the magicolor 2200 color laser
printer? It's under $1,000 after rebates, 20ppm bw 4ppm color.
http://www.minolta-qms.com I know it has no PostScript. |
| 2001/2/7 [Computer/SW/WWW/Server, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:20525 Activity:very high |
2/6 web monkey question: how can I make a webpage include the
contents of one html file from within another html file? for
example, I want my webpage, index.html to include the contents
of a file called title.html whenever it's loaded, so that I
can change titles by just changing title.html without touching
index.html. what's the easiest way to do this?
\_ you need some kind of server-side processing done. the exact
details it will depend on what kind of web server you're using.
Most of the time you'd just add a line like the following to your
page: <!--#include file="foo.html" --> . You may need to
specifically enable SSI on your web server and give your pages
a special extension (e.g. .shtml, .asp, ...)
\_ my webserver is Apache. Do I need to call the file index.shtml?
anything else I need to do?
\_ you might need to modify your .htaccess file. See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_include.html
Note that if the web server you're talking about is soda,
you don't need to do anything special; just add the
<!--#include ... --> line.
\_ can you specify a url for the content of a CSS? -ali
\_ URLs to cascading style-sheets can be given in a <LINK ...>
tag, which will be handled by the client, not the server.
\_ not afaik, but you probably could use a combination of
SSI and <style> ... </style> tags to do what you want. |
| 2001/2/7 [Uncategorized] UID:20526 Activity:nil |
2/6 Lila do you Swing? |
| 2001/2/7 [Recreation/Humor, Recreation/Media] UID:20527 Activity:nil |
2/6 Pretty funny movie:
http://www.adcritic.com/president-clinton-final-days.html |
| 2001/2/7-8 [Computer/SW/Unix, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:20528 Activity:high |
2/7 Something wrong with csua ssh connection?
\_ yes, the version just installed is known to be broken, and root
is ignoring complaints about it. -tom
\_ I think root is just ignoring you.
\_ OpenSSH works fine for me.
\_ maybe root has a tom-filter...
\_ ipchains -A input -s tom -d politburo -j REJECT
\_ if tom was cool and 31337 he could get thru since
ipchains doesn't have state.
\_ Too bad LinSUX doesn't have ipf/ipnat
like REAL OSes!
\_ At some point, when 2.4 is stable, we'll use iptables.
\_ 2.4 is stable. 2.4.1 is out. iptables >> ipchains
Use it:
iptables -A INPUT -s top -d politburo -j DROP
really is more accurate, as he was ignored, not
told to shutup and go away.
\_ Are all these people truly so moronic that
they do not realize that soda is running FreeBSD?
\_ enjoy it while it lasts, monkey boy.
- Penguin Construction, you got boxes, we
pave 'em.
\_ Uh? It's a shell. It runs commands.
As a non-admin user why do you give a
flying rat's ass what the underlying
kernel is?
\_ uh? tcsh and bash are shells. linux
and freebsd are operating systems.
\_ Welcome tasty penguin. - THE DAEMON
\_ What soda is not a 31337 L1NUX B0X!?! I'm
quiting the csua. - B1K3 R1D3R
\_ lemonade.csua already is.
\_ what the hell is "nlogin"? |
| 2001/2/7-8 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:20529 Activity:nil |
2/7 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0205ddos.html No light at the end of the tunnel for preventing/protecting against DDoS attacks. \_ This is not an engineering problem, but a law enforcement problem. |
| 2001/2/7-9 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:20530 Activity:high |
2/7 Any recommendations for tape backup software on solaris? I'm currently
looking at Legato's NetWorker. Is it any good? Can somebody tell me
other packages so that I can compare? Thanks!
\_ Legato works for small and medium scale applications. NetBackup
by Veritas is better, though, and actually works with large
scale installations (which NetWorker does not). -ausman
\_ I second Ausman. Legato worked fine for me with about a dozen
Ultra2s and some DDS-3 tape robots, and 4 E4500s with L280
autoloaders. If you just want fairly simple backup for a small
it works. --dim
network, you might even want to consider not using a commercial
package at all, but instead doing some form of rdist and dump/tar.
Interestingly enough, in a multi-OS environment, we actually
had the most success with IBM ADSTAR... -John
\_ Legato sucks. Veritas sucks less and has its own problems
(trashed the filesystem on a NetApp due to a bug they blame
on Sun and Sun blames on them). Just use dump. It's free and
it works. (By the way, use rsync instead of rdist). --dim
\_ dump works for single machine+single device situations;
it's pretty weak at doing network backup. -tom
\_ If you say so. My experience with *all* network
backup products (and I've used a lot) has been bad.
Dump has a lot of problems. So does AMANDA (based on
dump). Not any more or less than other products, though,
and it's FREE. --dim
\- note: you cant do a file system restore with
\- note: you cant do an OS restore with
legato ... as in it doesnt deal with devices and
such. it is for data backup. --psb
\_ I'm happy to restore my data.
\_ Are you a programmer dim?
\_ dump can't deal with databases. A lot of people need
to do stuff like backup the database while it's
running. dump can't do that for you.
\_ And you know what, it doesn't have to. If you place
your database on a mirrored filesystem, you could
take one mirror off-line, backup the database from
it and then resync with the other part of the mirror
\_ Sheer madness. Don't send your resume here. We
mirror for a reason and we don't want it broken
for several hours a day while backups are going
off and pray that it resyncs properly. Insane.
If your data has value, you'll use a real backup
system that can talk to your db without doing
the sort of whacky kludgey stuff you're talking
about.
\_ So buy a product to back up your DB. Why
backup your whole LAN with that same
product? I have Networker licenses I
don't even use. It sucks that hard. --dim |
| 2001/2/7-9 [Computer/SW/Compilers, Computer/SW/RevisionControl, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:20531 Activity:high |
2/7 Any recommendations for Windoze NT/2000 backup software,
where each user keeps their files on local disk?
\_ Windoze is not recommended.
\_ Yech.... Legato I guess but why would you let users keep local
files? Your issue isn't backup software. It's the way you run
your system.
\_ What strategory would you suggest?
\_ What strategory would you suggest? Obviously I can force
everyone to compile files on a shared file system, but
this would make our programmers feel corporate and they
wouldn't like that.
\_ They can compile anything on anything they like but I
suggest either: store source on remote disk and set up
compiler to write all objects, etc, locally or much better
would be to use a revision control system like perforce
or others that have been discussed previously on the motd
and just backup the perforce server. Anyone stupid enough
to never checkin their code deserves to get fucked.
\_ Wrong. source control systems are meant to store
revisions, not to be used as primary backup systems.
\_ Duh, I didn't say it was a backup system. I said
you're backing up your revision control system
instead of dozens, hundreds, or however many desk
tops. Try reading before posting. Thank you for
playing "sysadmin for a day". Come back next year.
I wouldn't want to be the guy to answer to the VP
of Engineering when he asks why half his code base
went poof and you can't restore it. "It's a
revision control system, not a backup system, so I
didn't back it up". That makes no sense.
\_ Read my post again, hacker. I said they should
not be the PRIMARY backup. They are secondary
to having a PRIMARY backup of people's local
files. What you suggest is the easy way out.
\_ What I suggest makes it more likely the
files will get backed up even when people
turn off their machines at night. |
| 2001/2/7-9 [Uncategorized] UID:20532 Activity:very high |
2/7 Poll-- after you got married, you
had more sex: |*****
\_ bastards. I want to know what you are
drugging your wives with. I'll pay you.
\_ Perhaps they are not having sex
with their spouses.
\_ Yow! Good call on that one.
had less sex: |**
starting having sex: |
sex, what's sex? |*
N/A (gay): |**
turned gay: |*
same as before: |***
\_ being gay doesn't necessarily make this question n/a.
you can rephrase it as "after you made a ceremonial commitment"
\_ "Breeding will be permitted only once every seven years. For
many of me, this will mean much less breeding. For some of us,
many of you, this will mean much less breeding. For some of us,
it will mean much, much more."
\_ When are we going to get to my brocolli program?
\_ What's this line from?
\_ The Simpsons |
| 2001/2/7-9 [Industry/Startup] UID:20533 Activity:low |
2/7 Volunteers wanted! gotCOM is a family computer program providing
equipment, training and mentoring in disadvantaged West Oakland
neighborhoods. We need mentors to be paired, one to one, with the
families to provide a personal, supportive connection while the family
is making an initial adjustment to being computer users. The mentoring
commitment begins in late February and continues until mid-October.
After attendance at initial training sessions in March and April, the
mentoring consists mainly of telephone and e-mail contact. Please see
<DEAD>www.gotcom.org<DEAD> or contact preston@mofo.com for details. --max
\_ cool company. how many stock options, and when is it going IPO?
\_ He said volunteers. no options you troll.
\_ 10k options for each family adopted. IPO sometime in the
next 12-15 months you ignorant wanna-be troll. |
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