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LINUX EXPO BIRMINGHAM
by David Freeman 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Neill (I think) mentioned taking a tent upto Linux expo in september, I quite like the idea, I need a holiday, I already have that week booked as leave, so, who else is interested in a) Coming to the expo for the day? b) Staying up there and having a bloody good laugh? Perhaps we could go as the ALUG, maybe with the alug T-shirts which we discussed recently on the list and at the meets? And I wont come back without a 3ft TUX! Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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linux expo..
by Neill Newman 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

lo all!!! just a quick note to say that the alug/linux expo outing was good fun... I finally got to put names/email addresses to faces, which was nice ;).. I have to say that I am jealous of David Freeman, how the hell he managed to aquire a foot high fluffy pengiun I have no idea!! all I managed was an IBM football! anyway.. back to the daily grind.. Sz -- Open Source Specialists http://www.entora.co.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)701 0723686 Fax: +44 (0)870 3214368

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Re: [Alug] Perl arcanities
by Alexis Lee 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

perl -e 'print map chop, sort split shift, reverse shift ' 'j_' 'e._jP;_jr/_je=3D_jk{_jn*_j &_j :_j @_jr}_ja)_js$_j ~_jh]_jt,_jo+_jJ"_jr>_ju#_jt%_jl?_ja^_jc`_jh-_je|' -rjk- I actually executed this (more fool me, not knowing what the hell it did). What I find very interesting is that it printed: Just another Prl ehacker The problem is that 'quoted printable' thing again; an '=' got converted to '=3D'. Upon removing the 3D, it prints: Just another Perl hacker How's that for a resilient language! (my guess is it turned up in a regex and the regex just didn't match, but I can't be bothered to read that code). Incidentally, my $.02 on the write-only language bit; this is how I'd write the above, and I think many people would agree this bit o' Perl is a clear, well structured and elegant solution to the problem: perl -e 'print "Just another Perl hacker\n"' Show me a language clearer than that... Alexis (taking all the fun out of Perl-baiting)

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Help with Mulinux, please
by Ruleng＠aol.com 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Hello, I first want to thank those members of alug who are already trying to help me with my problems with Mulinux. I was interested to find that markj@cloa has had the same kind of problem that I am having. However, I think that the cause is something that I do not understand and am doing wrong. I do not think that the cause is the fact that the distribution is not being updated as he suggests. Going to the Mulinux homesite and looking at /mulinux/mu/current one finds that there have been eight versions of the kernel this year, 2001, from mulinux-11r6 last modified 18 Jan 2001 to mulinux-12r0 on 14 Jun 2001. Similarly, of the eleven addons,the five earliest were last modified on 23 Dec 2000, and the three latest on 14 Jun 2001. I suspect that some of those writing about Linux, especially if English is not their native language, for DOS users do not appreciate the "ignorance" of the latter on things Linux. Some writers to the Mulinux homesite have asked how one can make a 1.722 Mb floppy. The answer, as I remember, was not satisfactory. Best wishes, Norman Rule

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More C coding Woes
by David Freeman 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

I have some code which when compiled gives this error In file included from file1.c:4, from file2.c:6: llist.h:14: redefinition of `Node_ptr' llist.h:14: `Node_ptr' previously declared here llist.h:17: redefinition of `struct Node` Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong. I know its something todo with #includes and where they are in which files etc... Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] Encrypting disks...
by Andrew J Glover 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

> That is correct, it was me, I had no problems with the kerneli patch.. > now, getting encrypted file systems set up was a different story!! it> took me ages to get it working!!! Hrm :) > My buisness partner has recently pointed out to me that SuSE 7.2 comes > with encrypted files systems out of the box!!! yes that's right, no > configuration necessary!!!... I've been a redhat luser for a long while, > but I may change my mind in the near future ;).. > if you are looking to play around with it, then I was using PPDD (it was > over 2 years ago now though)... but if you want something that just > works then I suggest looking into SuSE's offering.. as I am sure it has > been tested well... I cant afford to loose it, so PPDD isnt really an option. I dont have a suse disk, so I'll just figure kerneli out. Thanks, Andrew

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Re: [Alug] Encrypting disks...
by Andrew J Glover 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

> Yes... and CFS <ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/disk/cfs/> > > The later basically didn't work. kerneli works very nicely :) > just remember to chmod 600 /dev/loop* so you can't lose a layer of crypto > unless root.. Thanks for the tip! Andrew

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Re: [Alug] Some help with Mulinux, please.
by MJ Ray 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Ruleng(a)aol.com writes: > Italian small offering called Mulinux. I have been able to start this > system either from my hard drive, or from a Boot+Root+Usr 1.772 Mb > floppy. My problem is that there are several add-ons that one should > be able to introduce with such titles as X11, GCC, VNC, TEX, etc. I I tried to use this some time ago. Like you, I can get the first disk to boot, but not any of the others. I don't think it seems to be updated much any more? So, other than the "bootable business cards" (who can get them?) and the infernal Peanut ( ;-) ), what are people using for small distributions? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Delaying tactics
by MJ Ray 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

linux user stuff <linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> writes: > [mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad with the line being repeated with > different line numbers for each of the drives. Erm, are you sure the lines are formatted correctly? Did you see my "noauto" comment? Of course, then you need to mount them after you have whatever it is you wanted up and running (samba?). -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] 3 Button mouse
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Jul '01

04 Jul '01

John Seago writes: >I have installed Red hat 7.1, when I made the install I had, (and still have >a two button mouse), which the install regarded as emulating a three button >mouse. If I buy a three button mouse and plug it in will the system recognise >as a three button mouse or have I got to do something arcane to get it to >work? Hi John: I'm always pretty hesitant about offering advice as i am more or less usually completely wrong, but if you want to try a few things whilst waiting for an expert to comment on this, i would have said to take a look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file - "pointers" section, or rerun XF86Config from a cli. Jen. (Jen ducks as barrage of contradictions pours her way....)(Ah, no, I'm safe, they are all at the linux expo)

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