Return of the Linux Laundrette
Admins swearing
Possible for "funny things that happen with computers"
cardboard box inventor
More scummy spam for the "Not Linux" column
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cat /dev/input/mouse
SCO vs Linux
ms dos
Funny thing...
.sig standards
Foolish things
Erudition
Re: [TAG] New York Guide to Benefits and Savings
Re: [LG 87] help wanted #4
[TAG-ADMIN] Issue78: WM talkback -- edit out?
New Jersey
Microsoft toilet - where would you like to go today?
RE: [TAG] Saddam dies of panic attack using linux!
Linus interview
Dirty words in the kernel
Re: Puter Types
STS-107
Possible strange things we do with our computers
(no subject)
RE: [TAG] Miller-Daemon
Iraq-related Irony
Fly fishing
A "Microsoft" security update
[Lgang] /sbin/ping -c 1 lgang
[spam] Best offer of the year
Japanese spam
Ginger beer
linux baby clothes?
MS plans competition for Google
2 Cent Tips & Tricks: Optimizing ~/.bash_history
Admins swearing
From Ben
"When your Sysadmin gets angry, he does not stand around blinking nervously - instead he swears at you... in binary."
Heh. Kinda reminds me of something from Asimov's "Foundation" series. It's been a mort of years since I read it, so it's probably misquoted, but -
"...for there is a characteristic of curses pronounced by those who are versed in technology: they work."
Possible for "funny things that happen with computers"
From Kapil
OK. So this is not a "Linux question" but its funny what can happen when people put their trust in that other OS!
Crashed Computer Traps Thai Politician Updated 14 May 2003 https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n051301.shtml
Thailand's Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha had to be rescued today from inside his expensive BMW limousine after the onboard computer crashed, leaving the vehicle immobilized.
Once the computer failed, neither the door locks, power windows nor air conditioning systems would function, leaving the Minister and his driver trapped inside the rapidly heating vehicle.
Despite the pair's best efforts, it took a full ten minutes before they were able to summon the attention of a nearby guard who freed the two men by smashing one of the vehicle's windows with a sledgehammer.
A report (https://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/13May2003_biz12.html) published in the Bangkok Post indicates that the vehicle was Mr Jaovisidha's own BMW 520 which was being used while his state-supplied Mercedes was being repaired.
BMW's more up-market 7-series range uses a computer system called i-drive which has Microsoft's WindowsCE at its core (https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/Mar02/03-04BMWpr.asp).
Did Mr Jaovisidha narrowly miss being killed by the blue windscreen of death?
cardboard box inventor
From Club Golf
Inventor of the Cardboard Box
[Jimmy] This was in issue 52 - https://www.linuxgazette.com/issue52/tag/22.html
Regards,
Bill Godfrey
More scummy spam for the "Not Linux" column
From Ben
It's just like Mike always suspected. The gubmint is after me. Is it time for the suicide pill yet, or can I elude them a little longer?...
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internet! All emails are scanned automatically with Norton Antivirus!
It was a nice thought anyway.
Jason, oh come on -- all of you have to do is "cat this_email > /dev/null" and then use your imagination
~$ display /dev/null
and to my surpise, there he was! A short little man in a blue robe with a long white beard, holding a stick (or a wand perhaps?) pointing at some red letters: "Image Magick". It's amazing!
cat /dev/input/mouse
From IRC, 1st December
* editorgal giggles <editorgal> the effects of: cat /dev/input/mice <jimregan> *groan* <editorgal> [user has to intervene with ^c. this is not news to pet owners.] <jimregan> Yeah. You get shit all over the place if you don't <editorgal> I was thinking mouse bones, but yes.
SCO vs Linux
From Jimmy O'Regan
This is the best take I've seen on this... SCO vs Linux, portrayed by the Dukes of Hazzard https://www.arie.org/doh
ms dos
From Scateboarder2003
i have windows xp how do i delete the entire drive so i can re install it
Nah. Keyboard condoms have been around forever, but a good C|N>K is worth a thousand words.
Funny thing...
From Ben
Maybe it's just my sense of humor, but - I was just reading the documentation for "dns-hijacker" and ran across this:
Inspired by an idea I came up with while sitting on the john I set out to write a program that would sniff
Excuse me???
dns requests and spoof answers. 800 lines of code and 25 hours later I had given birth
Uh-huh. This was still on the john, I guess.
to dnshijacker.
...
Talk about the need to write better documentation... man!
-- from a police report by Constable Cuddy, Ankh-Morpork Night Watch (Terry Pratchett's "Men at Arms")
.sig standards
From mind wings
hello
plz tell me about sendmail in redhat linux. eventhough i visited so many sites,i couldn't understand. u plz tell me fo r what we r using it? tell me any useful web sites.
- https://www.google.com
(What? He said *any*!)
"2B r !2B: tht's d ?: whthr 'tis noblr in d mind 2 suffr d slngs&arrws of outrgs for2n, r 2 tk rms gnst a C of trbls, & by oppsng . m? 2die: 2slp; !mor..." -- "Hmlt", by !Shkspr
Cause, y'know, it's gotta be on it's own line: <EOL>-- jra<EOL> (to use an example near and dear to my heart) doesn't count.
I'm not sure if EOL is specifically defined as the network version (CRLF), or if the native version on your platform is acceptable; the nearest thing to a standard on this particular issue is son-of-1036 (https://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/netnews/son-of-1036.html) and it doesn't say.
(h*)k(7(j**3*}6258v?)?9((j?.1)k9kj}dv2}f4{h(nkjh21}(j3}kr.f}.8{3.*3k){}dvdu
{t9.(r(46u(j?6..8h(*hd3nhe*9j?81}4}9)?{j)*h*d6)**e5(kwk(k}{.{k)))?()()?}tn??(
5{3(*rjh4.?h*??h{{)1jk(}**?(}wu}v*{*?1j(5rn72)...}(?1t6vhf*r*5h.6))k5dn8(0(h}
}1(e*j*(jw((t*2{?rr(0h?nw1}20?(9j{*0{hjk}k3{?2)3j{.*?(5khd(n*e}.}wkj(ht)j?f)(
*.*((v3*5}j(5r0}?w*k**(}3)h}nk8{8{.?t3*hj)2*k4v*?}k)u(f}hn{?.(dkk(e).5t*nh)*k
{.)}0*j1{.1h*6v4*n6?((7n2*r76n2d)t*h}(jj?h}*?f?{**{j*f53*?6k?*628j?(}k?{j9vr}
h*34vnrrnr{2(jh0t({28)({e}k}{d.6*).kjhdn8)(?3.f2v93nd7ev2juehh9(*1j2jkr)*)3d0
)n?v51kr(?j2kfd(01td3dd82*f*v15e9hk0r..5u3*r?k*t2v?tj5.hedv92d2k73dwkw*w2852w
ruun48w3t362?fjrunrfk25?6j*3eddr)*k9670644ejh00)69)46*k8?h5h39nd1j.**jk.j.70f
*6.*nh?*7hk2)*.0u.76(ueh(vrdu6ehj0?ht2r7h2.3.njk63f?jjn1u3te.kvhn8*6(hd5(?d6h
3.5j)0**we5*hu8whkn?**8vkrhh42*n19jk(2j1kw6?h)4t2634..*h6e(7rn2k*333.119dj?rh
hk75*9h3hh(tk2hev5h2(jn3h8dh5n.dkukv9w.(t223n172j(k6*rvhj.3)j657*jefw66h2f1er
4w3(h4kfddh(n2(nttnrt8.)j)e(n?j..h1rfhk*rvjrvjw)uj77wr5k89w56jjh.9w5tt68kh.r
Several key DNS protocols are of that sort: The IETF NOTIFY and IXFR protocols, outgoing AXFR, DNSSEC, TSIG, A6, DNAME, bitstring labels, Dynamic DNS, and IXFR are not yet enshrined in any adopted RFC. However, in DNS as elsewhere in the real world, standards documents most often get abstracted from in-use software; the RFCs merely codify (and thus lag) the implementations that gave rise to them.
Son of RFC 1036 is just such a standard, in that it's widely implemented and relied upon. Not implementing its .signature spec is legitimately considered a bad thing. (Fortunately, consequences are minimal: Recipients whose MUAs auto-snip .signatures may flame you for sabotaging their filters. Otherwise, no big deal.)
I dobt tht I shl 3vr C A poem cryptic as this'un be. Tho seldom does the Muse giv geekz a whirl, Could be worse; at least it's not in Perl.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
$brillig and $toves{slithy};
for $gyre ( @wabe ) {} for $gimble ( @wabe ) {}
map { s/^.*$/mimsy/g } @borogoves
and $mome{raths} = outgrabe;
if(my $son = fork) { warn "Beware the Jabberwock!";
jaws && bite, claws && catch;
warn "Beware the Jubjub bird" and $shun,
$Bandersnatch{frumious} == 1; }else{
$_{hand} = \$sword{vorpal};
seek FOE, $manxome, (4_294_967_296 * time);
sleep ($tree{Tumtum} = $_);
while (study) { stand }
while (study($uffish)) { $_{stand} == 1; }
unless ($Jabberwock = fork) { $Jabberwock{eyes} = flame,
$Jabberwock{movement} = wiffle, $Jabberwock{location} = $wood{tulgey};
while ($coming=1) { burble }}
(1, 2), (1, 2) and through and through;
$sword{vorpal}{blade} = snicker-snack;
(kill 9, $Jabberwock), $head = (chop $Jabberwock);
sub{ return $_, $head }; }
tell $son, "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?".
"Come to my arms, my beamish boy! ".
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! ",
$_{joy} = chortle if $son;
$brillig and $toves{slithy};
for $gyre ( @wabe ) {} for $gimble ( @wabe ) {}
map { s/^.*$/mimsy/g } @borogoves
and $mome{raths} = outgrabe;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Eric Andreychek
$ file /dev/rubbish rubbish: symbolic link to /dev/null
Once had a local LUG member comment that my sigblocks weren't really sigs, since I nearly always select the quote to go with the content (on that list). Thus he defended me against some knucklehead who was running around flaming people who didn't use '--' on a single line ahead of their sigblocks.
This one's longer than usual, but I've got a couple such in there. I passed the RUBBISH comment and the jabberscripty to Mike for the backpage, teehee.
Foolish things
From Jimmy O'Regan
https://linuxgazette.net/109/lg_foolish.html
"I went into the basement where I keep my cave (this is a male shelter from all things female... all men have them somewhere)"
Heh. So we're troglodytes?
(I guess that's why nobody's invited me...)
Heather, care to comment?
[1] As I've mentioned to Mike Orr previously, "irony" does not mean "sort of like iron". Anyone who wants to go into paroxysms of righeous indignation and spasms of political correctness is warned that I possess The Mighty Yawn of Boredom and am not afraid to use it.
Erudition
From Ghanshyam Daga
Hello People
I have one 2 GB hard disk on which i installed
Mandrake 8.0.
Though the whole installation went quite fine but as i
suspected there were few bad blocks and now they are giving me problem is there any way to get rid of these blocks i do realise that these bad blocks are permanent but i also have a logic what if the data is never written on them so even though they are bad i dont have to worry about them.
<Hemingway mode>You. Yes, you. Punctuation. Use it. Now.</Hm>
i love (unix|linux) geeks. i've never found the same level of erudition in the w*ndows world.
Besides, just think of all those "Wind*ws for Dummies" books. Did you think they'd lie about something like that?
Hemingway of the "Great Gatsby" and "For Whom The Bell Tolls", rather than "The Old Man and The Sea" or "Farewell to Arms". I don't know that I could ever accuse him of "run-on" sentences, although he certainly broke out of the short'n'choppy mold a number of times. I understand about "geniuses break rules by redefining them", but some people push the borders a little too much. As to the comma allergy... blechh. That's one of the things that bugs me when I see it in writing. I've always found Hemingway annoying but good enough that I can usually get past the annoyance.
"I want to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God". -- illustrating the power of the serial comma
Speaking of - for run-on sentences, you want Faulkner and Ayn Rand. Counterpointcontrariwise
... uh ... The Great Gatsby was F. Scott Fitzgerald. (or am I missing some other great Gatsby)?
'The Age Demanded'
The age demanded that we sing
And cut away our tongue.
The age demanded that we flow
And hammered in the bung.
The age demanded that we dance
And jammed us into iron pants.
And in the end the age was handed
The sort of shit that it demanded.
-- Ernest Hemingway
(1922)
That kind of talent and craftsmanship, my friends, is something I have to respect.
Re: [TAG] New York Guide to Benefits and Savings
From Huibert Alblas
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:36:43 -0500
"Benefits & Savings" <benefits_savings@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Friend,
We would like to invite you to www.SmartNewYorker.com .
The best on the 'net, huh? With no download necessary? Is there some method of getting data from point a to point b other than download that I don't know about? Maybe the TFTP? (Telepathic File Transfer Protocol)
Re: [LG 87] help wanted #4
Wether Mr. Okopnik was merely "doing his duty" is up the investigation, which is allegedly going to start later this week. For LUNX, this is Jason Creightion. Back to the studio, for your weather report.
> I'm here at the scene of the alleged riot. Appearently, a member of the Grammar
> Police, one Mr. Benjamin Okopnik, opened fire on the crowd with his grammer gun.
-> post re grammar joke
You post a humorous description of a joke made by another TAG member.
However, due to the incorrect description of the situation (it was
actually a remark about gratuitous usage of slang rather than grammar),
the weapon allegedly used in the attack slowly turns in your direction.
> To his credit, eye wittnesses report he attach a "smiley-face", but, as he
^ ^ ^
| | |
->run away
As you attempt to leave the scene, you accidentally drop several
grammatical errors in your haste. You hear the sound of a bolt being
raked back, then locking into battery...
> allegedly said, "Some people can't take a joke". Many bystanders sided with Mr.
> Okopnik. One said, "Ending sentences in a prepistion is something up with which
^ ^
| |
->duck, dodge, avoid bullets
You attempt to hide from just retribution, but all is in vain. To your
horror, you realize that the brick wall you've ducked behind is nothing
more than a carboard movie prop, and that there's no effective cover
within hundreds of yards.
> I will not put! Mr.Okopnik was doing his duty".
>
> Wether Mr. Okopnik was merely "doing his duty" is up the investigation, which is
^
|
> allegedly going to start later this week. For LUNX, this is Jason Creightion.
^
|
->Uh...
<RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!!!!!>
As you lie there twitching in your final agony, you hear the slow pace
of the man you've unjustly accused approaching you - a man who would
never (never!) hurt a fly - to administer the /coup de grace/.
<POW!>
> Back to the studio, for your weather report.
Your score is 3 out of a possible 100000000000000000000000000000.
Would you like to play again? <Y/n>
[smiley face elided due to deprecated local usage]
Some of his friends had other feelings. "I get Mr. Okopnik, if it's the last thing I do. [Editors note: The misused tense on 'I' looks similar to Jason's typical mistakes.] Sure, maybe Jason had a few typos here and there, but nothing deserve this! [Editor's note: See deserve. One questions the authorship of these comments.]"
Mr. Okopnik was unavailable for comment.
Jason "ain't got no grammar" Creighton
Of course not. Why would we do that? The rubber band gun is so handy here next to the nerf-arrows collextion; much easier to aim. Mind you the nerf-arrows would be somewhat more useful if one had some Nerf(tm) bows or crossbows to aim them with. But they are yellow, so they're perfect fro drawing smiley faces on the end of
And now, back to your regularly scheduled Answer Gnag.
Perhaps this list should be renamed to linux-questions-only-in-correct-grammar@ssc.com.
linux-questions - only-in-correct-grammar windows-questions - we-don't-care-about-grammar-when-flaming-you-for-asking-silly-questions- about-so-called-operating-systems.
[TAG-ADMIN] Issue78: WM talkback -- edit out?
From Thomas
[ ** The following was found at the following: https://www.linuxgazette.com/cgi-bin/talkback/all.py?site=LG&article=https://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/adam.html **] Subject: oil smell From: dave whitt Date: 14-Dec-2002 09:51 i have a 1996 4runner at times when i park i can smell hot oil there are no leaks nowhere. the motor is excellent clean. where could this be coming from. it doesn't happen all the time. thanks -------------------------------------------------------
Dave,
Please, please do not waste my time with pointless questions!!! This is not Linux specific (or LWM specific).
-- TA
The only problem with the BSOD screensaver is that you have to enter the Micr*s*ft EULA in Linear B (don't forget the breathing marks) as the password...
[1] Let someone else do it. Oh, wait - friends don't let friends sharpen running chainsaws...
New Jersey
From Jose Avalis
Hi guys and thanks in advance fro your time. I'm Joe From Toronto.
(I didn't say "from New Jersey"; I'm not from here, I just live here!)
#define HUMOR 1 if ( too_sensitive < 1 ) exit (1);
It's OK, Faber... really! Yes, ten - or even five - years ago, people would have laughed and pointed, but now we have a much more sensitive and open society. Why, some of my best friends are from New Jersey, and I'm not ashamed to admit it in public.
In fact, the entire category was recently removed from DSM-IV [1] as a diagnosis, and a number of states have even opened their borders to Jerseyites. So, stand proud, and speak loudly the motto of your home state:
"HEY, *^$#@^)&$%@$^ - GIVE ME BACK MY %^#&^$^*$@#%#@*$ WALLET!!!"
[1] The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed.
However, in my first couple of weeks of college (some old mock-Gothic place in Mercer County), I got so tired of hearing "Hey, you're from California? Where's your surfboard?" that I started shooting back "You're from New Jersey? Where's your toxic waste dump?" Pretty soon, I fit right in. ;->
Microsoft toilet - where would you like to go today?
From Ben
-------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:53:32 -0700 From: "NewsScan" <newsscan@newsscan.com> Subject: Microsoft toilet project wasn't hoax Microsoft and its public relations firm are now saying that what they themselves thought was a hoax (the development of the iLoo, a portable toilet complete with wireless keyboard and Internet access) actually was a real project of the company's MSN group in the UK. The original press release indicated that the iLoo would offer its users "a unique experience." An MSN product manager now says: " "We jumped the gun basically yesterday in confirming that it was a hoax and in fact it was not," said Lisa Gurry, MSN group product manager. "Definitely we're going to be taking a good look at our communication processes internally. It's definitely not how we like to do PR at Microsoft." In any event, whether really a hoax or really real, the project is now dead -- flushed, as it were. [AP/*USA Today*, 14 May 2003; NewsScan Daily, 14 May 2003] https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-05-14-iloo-hoax-retract_x.htm --------------------------------------------------------------
RE: [TAG] Saddam dies of panic attack using linux!
From John R. Brown Jr.
Hi guys!
i hope the subject header got your attention
ive got an interesting question.
ive been fooling around a lot with linux, i know most the basics i guess
and
now am getting more into the networking/security realm.
i understand how remote computers can attempt to access my computer through telnet, ssh, etc. say, for instance, i have telnet running on port 70. so if a person "telnet myserver 70" can log into my computer. say i get a request like "telnet myserver 78". how could i set up in linux so that my computer would echo with a message like "you cannot access this port fool!". would i have to create a program and then bind it to a port or something? not sure how this would work. i know how there are reserved ports set and stuff, just would like to fool around with these things.
hi, just wanted to give you a followup on this.
check this out: telnet 67.80.115.155
thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Linus interview
From Mike Orr
https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002059632_linus11.html Interview with Linus Torvalds, who has now moved to Portland, Oregon, and works for Open Source Development Labs.
With a quote I pulled when I first saw the article a couple of days ago, it works well as a .sig for me ...
https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=127078&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=106&mode=thread&cid=10624445 Slashdot copy.
Dirty words in the kernel
From Sluggo
https://lwn.net/Articles/99240
A grep of dirty words in Linux 2.6.8.1-mm4
Re: Puter Types
From MMMLioness
If it's an embedded system that you can pick up, it's a labor saving device - probably sold by one of Ronco's competitors on informercials.
If you can pick it up, it's a PC.
What is it if it fits in a purse and is too big to be pushed over?
(Per pTerry, the carrying capacity of an 80-year-old grandmother has never been estimated... or exceeded.)
If you can't pick it up but you can push it over, it's a minicomputer.
(for the record most minicomputers that I recall were about the size of a fridge, but lighter. I still wouldn't want to try pushing one over.)
But when you can't pick it up or knock it over, it's a mainframe.
p.s. I decided to cc the LG Answer Gang. I think it'd make a fun back page item for next month
STS-107
From Benjamin A. Okopnik
[ the day the Shuttle exploded on re-entry ]I know this isn't Linux-related, but... I've been in a kind of daze all day, running on automatic. I watched The Penguin (it was an inside NASA joke: a black and white bird that doesn't fly) take off a couple of weeks back, and... now they're gone.
Never forgotten it.
The loss of Challenger was an important moment to me in my early 20s and it's a real shock to see it happen again, but I can't find words that say what it means, without putting myself into a disaster that doesn't belong to me.
If - WHEN - we get out there, establish a self-supporting foothold on another planet... no nuclear bombs, no dinosaur-killer meteor will ever destroy us all. Our sons and daughters will expand into the universe, will grow to face much bigger challenges, ask greater questions, reach unimaginably greater heights.
We pay the cost of pioneering with heart-breaking effort, with the best of everything at our disposal... with our very blood and bones. This is the cost of facing the unknown - and we pay it, and keep on paying it, because we must grow or perish. We will mourn these seven brave people - but we will go on. Their deaths are a tragedy - but to even think of stopping, of abandoning the effort in which they died would be a greater tragedy.
Anyway I guess I'll never find the right words, but I'm still thinking of the crew of Challenger and Columbia.
******** STS-51L ********* + Commander Francis R. Scobee + Pilot Michael J. Smith + Mission Specialist Judith A. Resnik + Mission Specialist Ellison S. Onizuka + Mission Specialist Ronald E. McNair + Payload Specialist Gregory B. Jarvis + Payload Specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe ******** STS-107 ******** + Commander Rick D. Husband + Pilot William C. McCool + Payload Specialist Michael P. Anderson + Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla + Mission Specialist David M. Brown + Mission Specialist Laurel B. Clark + Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, Israel Cattle die, Kinsmen die, Cattle die, Kinsmen die, You, yourself, shall likewise die, You, yourself, shall likewise die, But word fame never dies But one thing that shall never die For he who achieves it well. Are the stories of deeds well done. -- The Song of Odin, AD 76-77
The memory of their deeds, their fame, belongs to all of us, as does the right to mourn their passing. There have been many heroes before them... but few who gave their lives for the future of our entire planet.
CNN interviewed June Scobee-Rodgers yesterday; the one comment that stuck with me is "don't give up on the dream".
That sounds like excellent advice to me.
I tried to call the White House Comment Office early that day to pass along my own version thereof... but they aren't staffed on the weekend. Bush got it right, nonetheless...
High Flight Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -- wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God. -- John Gillespie McGee Jr.
May they rest in peace.
Thanks, Ben.
Possible strange things we do with our computers
From Kapil Hari Paranjape
Measuring the size of the earth using the internet.
Have a look at https://arXiv.org/physics/0208087
(no subject)
From W.Pashi
Dear sir , I am researching at University for the above product I will=20 appreciate if you can answer some of question.
Packages can be provided in two ways, what are they?
Gift wrapped, and not gift wrapped. When providing gift wrapped packages, it's generally preferable to remove the price tag
How would you change from a file structure to a stream?
On Solaris 2.6, how would you add a tape drive on the fly?
[Snip about 20 pages of questions]
RE: [TAG] Miller-Daemon
From Weswwallace
On 07-Jun-2003 Weswwallace@aol.com wrote:
> --part1_178.1bb797cd.2c12a535_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
we really need only the text part.... please don't send the html version below with any further posts at least to this mailing-list.
so the whole sentence (question) would be:
How do I get an E-maikl to Miller-Daemon.
After a spell and sense-making check this would be:
How do I get an E-mail to Mailer-Daemon.
Well.... 1) you want E-mails offering you to buy Mailer-Daemons? 2) you want a list of various mailer-daemons suitable for
your LINUX system? 3) you want to know how to send an E-mail to a mailer-daemon?
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Help.
Since you already messed with them I don't think you can be helped. To learn techniques to vanish and get a new identitiy I suggest reading books by Thomas Perry, especially the Jane Whitefield novels (vanishing act, Dance for the dead,..). Hurry up a bit though.....
For learning more about them I would suggest the "Illuminatus!" trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
> --part1_178.1bb797cd.2c12a535_boundary > Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" > FACE= > =3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">How do I get an E-maikl to above subject? They
this stuff is really, really unneccessary. We are perfectly able to read plain ASCII text -- and even strongly prefer it to any other thinkable format.
Oh -- BTW: If it's just about getting mails back from some server try sending them from a different account then your AOL account. AOL has a rather bad reputation and there are probably site blocking AOL. (i.e. mailer daemons were instructed by them to not accept any mails from *@aol.com).
K.-H. -- oops, shouldn't have said that.....
Iraq-related Irony
From Ben Okopnik
OhmuhGawd. Speaks for itself...
----- Forwarded message from Gene Spafford <spaf@cerias.purdue.edu> ----- >It appears that the US navy spokesman put up to answer journalists' >questions about the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is one >Lieutenant Mike Kafka. > >As the article on The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) observes: "Yes, >you're reading that correctly. A man named Kafka has been deployed to field >questions about a prison where the criminals are only vaguely charged with >crimes, can't speak to lawyers and likely will never get out." Any >resemblance this reality bears to an actual fiction is entirely >coincidental. ----- End forwarded message -----
Fly fishing
From Sluggo
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:04:56AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> Christoph, it would help if you give us some examples of exactly what
> messages you are saying. That would help us narrow down which modules
^^^^^^
seeing
Gosh, am I writing with an Irish accent today?
"Eat me Lucky Charrms, bitch, or I'll pop a cahp in yer arse!"
He's a bad, BAD man, possibly with a secure future in the world of comedy.
He says "maybe I'll just go out in disguise. 'Faith and begorra, motherf$%^&r...'."
Naw; just thought I'd missed you more permanently than that. Alan's in need of some cross country time again; we'll put something together. Got an airport handy?
[wink] Life's treating me awf'ly well these days.
Oh Fly-By......
A "Microsoft" security update
From Ben
----- Forwarded message from Microsoft Corporation Internet Security Division <exlwuvkdjtxjoqngufce@NjRuCgPAR.net> ----- From: "Microsoft Corporation Internet Security Division" <exlwuvkdjtxjoqngufce@NjRuCgPAR.net> To: "MS Customer" <> SUBJECT: Security Update Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:00:31 -0500 (EST) MS Customer this is the latest version of security update, the "March 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run executable on your system. This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches. System requirements Win 9x/Me/2000/NT/XP This update applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 4.01 and later Microsoft Outlook, version 8.00 and later Microsoft Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the earliest opportunity. How to install Run attached file. Click Yes on displayed dialog box. How to use You don't need to do anything after installing this item. Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base articles can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support web site. For security-related information about Microsoft products, please visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web site, or Contact us. Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any replies. Thank you for using Microsoft products. With friendly greetings, Microsoft Corporation Internet Security Division ╘2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The names of the actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. ----- End forwarded message -----
[Lgang] /sbin/ping -c 1 lgang
From Ben
21:12:21.615638 ben > lgang_mailing_list: icmp: echo request (DF)
PING localhost (jimd@starshine.org): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from jimd@starshine.org: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.1 ms --- localhost ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.1 ms
It was probably mostly a matter of processor latency. Specifically I think this processor was either sleeping or in a different context (work) when the packet arrived in the buffer. Under this particular workload this particular system is not interrupt driven
[spam] Best offer of the year
From Sluggo
----- Forwarded message from "Pins U. Merle" <gardnerj@nytimes.com> ----- Subject: Read:_Best offer of this year ;) >Clarence Morton Esmeralda Clarence Jacques Freida Ericka Percy Hello dear friend! I have to tell you about this incredible site - this is totally unbelivable - it is made to make life easye. Only imagine - all world best software collected in ONE place and all for low prices with 80 -90% off. This lo price is because of O-E M licenses - that mean that you do not get a nice box - just CD. hurry to check it up - 10 - 20 programs are added daily. You get CD and also a donload link so u can have your goods instantly. ----- End forwarded message -----
Just what I need, a "donload" link.
Japanese spam
From Ben
You gotta love these folks. Even if they're sending you spam, they make it pretty - and use Unicode to do it.
https://okopnik.freeshell.org/stuff/spam.png
Unless, of course, somebody's submitted an article - it was sent to articles@, after all - that's short, has lots of exclamation points, and happens to mention 5000 yen...
Ginger beer
From Sluggo
You could always wimp out and use it in an ice cream float.
Cock and Bull is better.
I found it
in a fancy supermarket on Bainbridge Island (you know that, Ben?),
a woodsy suburb an hour outside town. So I'll see if the Whole
Foods markets and their ilk on this side carry it. Stewart's also
makes a pretty good brand of root beer.
linux baby clothes?
From J.Cooper
gday - how'd it go with the inquiry about Linux baby clothes?
( https://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/lg_mail67.html )
HTH
Robos
ITYM "DB". HTH, HAND.
<https://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/5011/acronyms.html#ITYM>; <https://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/5011/acronyms.html#HTH>; <https://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/5011/acronyms.html#HAND>; <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22D+B+Cooper%22&btnG=Google+Search>
Is that short for extended TLA?
https://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/5011/acronyms.html#ETLA
I missed it because "J" was just "J" - first, last, and middle, and J. actually came to us with a last name. So, he's not likely to pull out a Noisy Cricket anytime soon.
A number of years ago, I saw a mailbox in Brooklyn, NY that was mounted on a 40-foot or so pole with "DB Cooper" conspicuously painted on it.
MS plans competition for Google
From Sluggo
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939273.stm
"At its annual analyst meeting Microsoft unveiled a prototype of an MSN toolbar that works with the Internet Explorer browser.
As well as letting people search the net, it also lets them query the documents, images, e-mails or spreadsheets stored on their PC."
(Actually I just saw this and haven't installed or used it so I don't know if it is smart!)
Package: imgseek Description: Image viewer and manager with content based query
ImgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content based search and many other features.
The search query for an image is expressed either as a rough sketch or as another image you supply. The searching algorithm makes use of multiresolution wavelet decomposition of the query and database images.
https://imgseek.sourceforge.net
A search based on a rough sketch---now that would be something.
Oh goody. Now you don't have to install Cygwin and grep (or use the
Find in Files thing in the Start menu), you can just type into the IE toolbar.
How revolutionary.
Just for the record: say the name of your universe, again? I didn't quite get it the first time.
Buying a new car instead of continuously fixing the old junker (in which each problem triggers several others, and fixing one thing breaks three) can be a very sound policy. Unfortunately, many people continue to buy the same model that produced that junker in the first place...
So I'm thinking it's not just a simple grep. They'll have hacks into Outlook's file format in order to look at emails. Hacks for all of Microsoft's special formats. Maybe even a kludge of a plugin system that allows Windows to search third-party formats. Something like that is what I expect from Microsoft.
Jason Creighton
[1] On thursdays. When the wind is blowing at greater than 10 MPH from the south-east. And it has trouble with metric, so if the wind isn't blowing fast enough, if you change the i18n settings, you can get it work when the wind is only blowing at 10 KPH.
([laugh] I actually wrote that before clicking on the URL. The writer there can see the obvious as well as I can, it seems.)
Micr0s0ft is patenting everything WRT software nowadays; it doesn't mean a whole lot in this case, but could in a number of other situations. I understand that the next version of the MSWord doc format is supposed to be so tightly "protected" by these legal shenanigans that you won't be able to write a reader or a converter for it without MS's permission. [shrug] I guess they haven't lost enough business yet to this kind of tactics to learn better. Sui sponte, as the US Army Rangers say.
2 Cent Tips & Tricks: Optimizing ~/.bash_history
From Thomas
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:07:44PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
"Cor - blimey, Mate. Hows the ol' Trouble and Strife?"
Now that is a vernacular.
Anyone like to take a
guess (no -- not those from the UK) as to what
"Trouble and Strife" is???
Cockney "rhyming" slang; 'life'.
Do I win a Cornish pasty?
LOL, nope -- nice try, but not close.
Keep guessing
Lol. I should say that these "rhyming slangs" are
rarely used nowadays. "Trouble and Strife" == "wife".
Whoever said that it meant "life" must have been a
Wanker
Have you even had a Cornish pasty before, Ben?
I love them. I could eat them all of the time. The
"drop'em down the mineshaft" recipe isn't that good
though, Ben. They get covered in coal.
Congratulations, David
How about some more???
"frog and toad"
"apples and pears"
"barnet fair"
On a whim I did a search for rhyming slang. There's a site for it:
https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk
which is even collecting new coinages.
My favorite: "Becks and Posh", which I think is brilliant.
[It should be noted that most Cockney Rhyming Slang is given abbreviated. You don't say 'barnet fair', which could be guessed; instead you say 'barnet'.
Brahms = Brahms and Liszt = pissed (drunk)
Jockeys = Jockeys whips = chips (french fries/freedom fries/whatever
Jimmy has been using computers from the tender age of seven, when his father
inherited an Amstrad PCW8256. After a few brief flirtations with an Atari ST
and numerous versions of DOS and Windows, Jimmy was introduced to Linux in 1998
and hasn't looked back.
In his spare time, Jimmy likes to play guitar and read: not at the same time,
but the picks make handy bookmarks.
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Jimmy is a single father of one, who enjoys long walks... Oh, right.
