2009/7/4-9 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53109 Activity:nil | 7/4 I'm accessing soda by typing ssh -X jhcooper@csua.berkeley.edu
at a Linux prompt. At the soda prompt, I can type "xmessage hello &",
and I get a nice little greeting from myself popping up on my display.
But if I type xterm &, the process runs ok, but nothing appears on
my screen. What am I doing wrong?
\_ Works just fine for me... try turning on SSH debug with -v ?
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2009/5/21-29 [Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager] UID:53028 Activity:nil | 5/21 I would like to implement an auto-logout feature for my gnome users
who happen to not log themselves out, thus causing me, and especially
my supervisor, pain. Please advise, cohorts. I would like the
entire gnome session signed out, not just an individual xterm,
so "export TMOUT=[SECONDS]" in a .bashrc will not work.
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2009/4/22-28 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:52894 Activity:nil | 4/22 ok, here's a little networking puzzler. I haven't been able to access
youtube for a couple weeks. Couldn't figure out why. Happened on all
browsers. traceroute did weird stuff and then timed out. Finally I
got so frustrated I setup firefox to ssh tunnel through soda.csua,
which worked great. Then, I kill the ssh proc, quit FF, and now,
I can access youtube just fine from any browser. wtf? any
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2009/2/20-25 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:52610 Activity:nil | 2/20 I'm using Cygwin/X on XP. All the X indows (xterm, emacs)
seem to have a keyboard repeat rate and a repeat delay that's different
than the one XP uses for other Windows apps. When I do "mode con
rate=xx delay=yy", it only changes Windows apps but not the X apps.
How do I change the keyboard repeat rate and delay for X? Thanks.
\_ man xset
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2008/8/5-10 [Computer/Networking] UID:50788 Activity:nil | 8/5 It looks like my company has started blocking HTTPS tunneling.
I used to do this by tunneling SSH through the HTTP/HTTPS proxy
server, but this seems to have stopped working. Does anyone know
how the implementation of tunneling detection works, and whether
there are widely available implementations? We run a bunch of MS
stuff, so I imagine we're running an MS proxy server or something.
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2007/8/10-13 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:47575 Activity:nil | 8/9 My man pages are displaying incorrectly with \fBupdate\fR
instead of displaying update in bold or whatever. Any ideas why?
It happens on soda as well as other debian boxes I have.
It happend using Terminal and xterm on my MacBook.
\_ export TERM=vt100
\_ I tried that. it doesn't make a difference.
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2006/8/24-28 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi, Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager] UID:44146 Activity:nil | 8/24 When I use "screen", the scrollback bars on my xterm and gnome-term
don't work anymore. Is it possible to make them work under screen?
\_ They'll sort of work, but not really. I mean you may have more than
one window. Just use screen's builtin scrollback; it's better
anyway (you can have one per window, tens of thousands of lines and
best of all it's searchable) Just hit ^A-Escape then pretty much
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2006/7/20-22 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:43747 Activity:low | 7/20 How can I get IMAP over SSL to work (I'm using Mail.app)?
I've set the port to 465, checked SSL, set auth to Password,
and entered my username and password. I don't get an error but my
messages don't get delivered. TIA.
\_ derrr, corrected, I meant SMTP (outbound).
\_ 993/tcp open imaps
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2006/4/18-20 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:42775 Activity:moderate | 4/18 Some thoughts about securing a machine. Feel free to add your
expert opinions. --ricky
* Securing a machine that allows interactive logins by users
is _very_ hard.
* Reduce suid binary to absolute bare minimum.
* Perform automatic _remote_ checksums from a machine that is
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2009/8/19-9/1 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53285 Activity:nil | 8/18 Hi again, new freebsd guy here again, in bash I was able to go
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/foo/lib ./runmyapp
I managed to do this in tcsh by using setenv in a shell script
that setenv's the lib path and then executes $1, just wondering
if there was a way to do it in 1 line from the cmd line as in bash?
Thanks, btw %2c or %3c worked. Freebsd, tcsh and vi forever!
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2009/7/24-29 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:53195 Activity:low | 7/24 Is dos2unix available somewhere? Someone added all those Ctrl-M's to
motd.public.
\_ %s/^V^M//g in vim. What has your editor done for you today?
\_ that works great in vi actually... in vim :set filetype=unix
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2008/12/2-7 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:52143 Activity:nil | 12/2 Article 1, Section 6
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was
elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the
United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof
shall have been encreased during such time
\_ Stop stomping my changes.
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2008/9/22-24 [Science/Electric, Computer/Companies/Google, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:51263 Activity:kinda low | 9/22 Gmail's "conversation feature" drives me nuts! Is there a way to
disable that and make Gmail act like every other e-mail client on the
planet? WTF thought this was a nice thing to have on by default?
\_ Umm, why don't you just use another email service then...
\_ Umm, I do, which is how I have something to compare to. I get
mail in at least 4 places only one of which is Gmail. I
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2008/6/12-13 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:50233 Activity:nil | 6/12 Does emacs or vi include a column paste? I sometimes have a block
text I want to insert horizntally next to another block/column. This
is common for data plotting etc. In Microsoft Word has this, I need
it in a Unix text editor.
\_ Does M-x picture-mode in emacs work for you?
\_ Yes, with the commands below, thanks.
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2008/2/21-25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:49207 Activity:nil | 2/21 Why don't people respect the lock on the motd put on by vi or
emacs? Are they that paranoid about kchang's motd watching program?
Is anyone still using motdedit?
\_ hey I still use it. Some people don't though. some sneaky folks
edit a copy of the motd offline and put it in place, not caring how
much they stomp on others' changes that might have happened in the
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2007/11/13-21 [Computer/Networking] UID:48628 Activity:low | 11/13 If I have a application on machine foo sending data really fast to
an application on machine bar via TCP, and the bar applications job
is write that to disk as fast as possible, what happens if the
network stream is faster than the disk writes?
\_ Look up the differences between TCP/IP flow control and
congestion control. The answer is in front of you.
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