January 2004 - main

Graphical 'diff' with proper X cut and paste
by Chris Green 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

I'm looking for a graphical (GUI/X) diff command which allows proper X cut and paste. I've found xdiff (well, one of them, there are a couple) and mgdiff but neither allows one to select lines from the display and to paste them elsewhere. They both expect you're trying to merge the diff'ed files into an output file so the select actions only decide whether what you have selected goes into the output file or not. What I need to do is to be able to see differences between two files and paste them into a third file which is (probably) open in a different window. I can't find a diff utility which allows me to do this. Does anyone have any recommendations? It needs to be fairly 'generic unix' as I want it to run on a Solaris box. I'm quite happy to compile stuff but I'm not happy if the program needs lots of specialist libraries. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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Logo idea
by MJ Ray 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

As you may know, the original logo artwork went missing a while ago and we've been using a hasty mockup since. Keith has produced some redesigns which have been used on stickers etc. I've just had an idea for a cool logo: Tux, wearing armour, riding an armoured GNU, carrying a pennant that says GNU/Linux. Sort of like http://thetvroom.com/p-itv-1-anglia-past-a.shtml Can anyone produce this? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Debian apt-get upgrade question
by Nick Heppleston 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Morning all, Hope you can help. Started playing with Debian after deciding it was time I got upto speed with it. I've just gone for an 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' and received the following warning (see below). Could anyone help decipher it for me. As far as I can see i'm running kernel 2.4.18-1-386 already, so how come the apt-get upgrade command wants to upgrade my kernel to the current version? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nick <snip> You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.4.18-1-386) However, the directory /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386 still exists. If this directory belongs to a previous kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 package, and if you have deselected some modules, or installed standalone modules packages, this could be bad. However, if this directory exists because you are also installing some stand alone modules right now, and they got unpacked before I did, then this is pretty benign. Unfortunately, I can't tell the difference. If /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386 belongs to a old install of kenel-image-2.4.18-1-386, this is your last chance to abort the installation of this kernel image (nothing has been changed yet). If this directory is because of stand alone modules being installed right now, or if it does belong to an older kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 package but you know what you are doing, and if you feel that this image should be installed despite this anomaly, Please answer n to the question. Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386 out of the way, perhaps to /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. </snip> -- Nick Heppleston 07989 581766 | nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk

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Microsoft Addresses Security Concerns....
by Robert Tillyard 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

...with these posters. http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=SecurityPosters It's cheaper than fixing the problem. Regards, Rob.

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Does anyone recognise themselves here?
by Kirsten Naylor 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

I just received what is probably a copy of MyDoom. It looks like it might be somebody on Alug: Received: from cpc1-norw2-3-0-cust125.pete.cable.ntl.com (HELO mdmbill.com) (81.100.212.125) by tuschin.blackcatnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 31 Jan 2004 10:43:42 -0000 Note that mdmbill.com is not work-safe. If you recognise yourself as the sender, you probably want to clean up your computer and install some anti-virus software :) /Kirsten

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wi-fi smugness :-)
by Syd Hancock 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Finally, after a lot of faffing about [1] - sending from Norwich station using the BTOpenzone free trial. It's great when things finally work, isn't it! [1] mainly because the username and password that was sent to me a few days ago proved not to work... ho hum. Good ol' BT... Fortunately I was able to connect to the BTOpenzone site and re-register to get a new trial ID online. Bit faster than Home Highway, too - pity the battery is running out - oh the joys of mobile computing:-) Syd

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a wi-fi question
by Syd Hancock 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Is 'Managed' mode the same as 'infrastructure' ? Syd

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Freeserve
by beneboy 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Has anyone been having problems with freeserve recently? For the last week or so, some mail sent to me from another list has been bouncing with the message... The SMTP Server program > <mail(a)psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk>: site destination queue overflow Which google suggests is due to FS's spool being full up. Some of my outgoing mail hasn't turned up either, could that be the same problem? Tech support's first guess was that it was the other servers spam filter, so I've now replied explaining that it was incoming mail not outgoing...ho hum BenE (a rumour has sprung up that freeserve has implimented a swearing filter which has caused one person I know to send a nasty e-mail and cancel her acount. How I laughed)

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Hardware Modem problem
by Richard Lewis 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Hello List, Ages ago I started a thread saying that I was trying to get a modem for an MDK machine; well I bought one off eBay the other day but I'm having problems setting it up and wondered whether anyone might be able to help. I've got a Lucent Venus 56KFlex Hardware PCI modem in a low spec (P166, 64Mb RAM) machine running MDK9.2 (kernel 2.4.22-10mdk). I called: # less /proc/pci and got: 00:0f.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics Venus Modem (V90, 56KFlex) Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0480 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 Memory at ffbeb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] I/O ports at f800 [size=256] I/O ports at f400 [size=256] I/O ports at fff0 [size=8] Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2 and called: # lspci -nv and got: 00:0f.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0480 Subsystem: 1668:0480 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 Memory at ffbeb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] I/O ports at f800 [size=256] I/O ports at f400 [size=256] I/O ports at fff0 [size=8] Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2 So I took this information and called: # setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A port 0xf400 irq 9 and # setserial /dev/ttyS0 and got: /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xf400, IRQ: 2 This all looked quite hopeful so I fired up KPPP (pppd version 2.4.1) and asked it to query the modem. It just said that the modem would not respond. Any ideas what might be going on? Cheers, Richard

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Norwich evening meet: thursday 12th February 2004
by Syd Hancock 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

The next 'second thursday' Norwich evening social meet will be on Thursday 12th February from 8pm. The venue is still being decided - more news soon with the next reminder. Syd

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