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Looking for some help
by Bennett, Joe 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I had a working Suse 9.0 system until I decided to get Mandrake 10 to try out and see what the proverbial "fuss" was about. Ever since getting Mandrake, my computer life has been hell. It continuously locks up, and when I attempt to download fixes, it constantly complains about missing files and servers that don't respond. Anyway, I'm chalking this one up to a bad experience and am wishing to move on. My problem is like this. I dual booted Suse and Mandrake hoping that lilo would allow me to select the distro I wanted. Well, it allows me to select Mandrake, but the Suse partition is not selectable. I am looking for advice on how to get back to booting up with Suse... -Joe

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Chris Wagner
by Jonathan Hutchins 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Anybody heard from Chris Wagner lately? Used to support the Atchison Chamber of Commerce, often posted as "ismgr".

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MAN pages
by Zscoundrel 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

I have noticed a tendency in the MAN pages to refer people to the system administrator. This ends up as a really nasty catch-22 when I am trying to figure something out because I *AM* the freaking' system administrator. What is the point of looking stuff up in the man pages when it says "you may need to refer to your system administrator for the names of such devices. . . "? If I KNEW the freakin' names I would be using them and doing productive work and not wasting time with the MAN pages - SHEESH I encountered this scenario while trying to get a UMAX1220P scanner working under fedora core2. All the google stuff is really shallow and the MAN and INFO stuff don't give me much to go on. Has anyone got any experience with this and could you throw me a lifeline??? It is an old parallel port connected scanner - but it is all I have available right now. I don't plan to use it much and I would REALLY hate to pop for a USB connected scanner until I see some light at the end of the tunnel. Any suggestions???

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RE: MAN pages
by Brian Densmore 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

See comment about reading the sane documentation. UMAX1220P is a supported device if I recall but, is probably one of the hard to configure ones. Best bet is to stick with USB and SCSI scanners. Parallel port scanners are a notorious b**ch to work with. I know I have one. What man page are you reading? You need to make sure sane sees the device before you got to step 2. > -----Original Message----- > From: Zscoundrel > > > I have noticed a tendency in the MAN pages to refer people to > the system > administrator. This ends up as a really nasty catch-22 when > I am trying > to figure something out because I *AM* the freaking' system > administrator. > > What is the point of looking stuff up in the man pages when > it says "you > may need to refer to your system administrator for the names of such > devices. . . "? If I KNEW the freakin' names I would be > using them and > doing productive work and not wasting time with the MAN pages - SHEESH > > I encountered this scenario while trying to get a UMAX1220P scanner > working under fedora core2. All the google stuff is really > shallow and > the MAN and INFO stuff don't give me much to go on. Has > anyone got any > experience with this and could you throw me a lifeline??? It > is an old > parallel port connected scanner - but it is all I have > available right > now. I don't plan to use it much and I would REALLY hate to > pop for a > USB connected scanner until I see some light at the end of > the tunnel. > > Any suggestions??? > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug >

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RE: OT: generator for ice storm
by Brian Densmore 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

I'd have to say hooking up a generator to your house circuit is a pretty dangerous thing. I'm not electrical expert, but I used to build mainframes and the power systems that went with them. While it is possible to do what you are doing, it can easily burn up your house and fry the electrical worker if you do anything incorrectly. As Duane said you need to make sure your wire is thick enough. Where he gets the crazy Idea to drive your house off of 10 gauge wire is beyond me. While it may be possible, it's (IMO) extremely bad to do. I wouldn't use anything less than 0 cable. Of course it also depends on the length of run from your generator to the circuit. Anything over 3 feet you'll want to use a heavier gauge than 10 or risk burning up your house (depending on what kind of current you draw of course. If you have a 100AMP service and are powering everything from the big screen TV to the dishwasher,hairdryer,vacumm, power saw, oven, microwave, washer, dryer, furnace, water heater, 3 bedrooms, two baths, etc. - then things might get pretty hot. Some generators are designed to do exactly what you are wanting to do. I'd keep usage to a minimum and unplug any device that is always on (TV, VCR, many digital electronics), and be discriminate in the use of power. You'll definitely want do as Duane suggests and check the Hz and voltage coming out. Anything in the range 50-60 Hz is fine and from 110-120V/220-240 (even 100/200 wouldn't be too bad). Be extremely careful and make sure your set up is well grounded and check, double-check and triple-check that the main is open. Bottom line is there are so many variables that if your aren't at least proficient with electricity you should never attempt it. It sounds as if you have some level of competency, but then that can be dangerous in it's own right. Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad > > This is what I thought as well, but if you read posts on the net about > it, people get their heads chewed off by people who obviously > know more > than I do about electricity. I am hoping there is also no danger of > fire or anything at my home. It is looking like I may need to do this > given the looks of things. > > Thanks, > > Brad > > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:51 -0600, Ben Kelley wrote: > > I'm in no way an expert, but I have heard about several people doing > > this w/o any consequences. > > Also From what I understand even if you forgot to throw > the main, it > > shouldn't be a real problem unless a lineman happens to be working > > nearby, this is what is know as feeding the grid, pushing > power back > > to the electrical grid. Lots of off grid solar equipped people are > > doing this, and in most cases get a check from their power > company for > > supplying power back to the grid. Also I heard a story about the > > Sprint being asked to run their generators at the campus during the > > day to generate their own power, and at night connect to > the grid and > > feed power back to the power company. > > But that is all hearsay. > > > > So in my _nonexpert opinion_, as long as you disconnect > the main, you > > shouldnt have any problems powering your home. > > > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug >

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OT: generator for ice storm
by Brad 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

This is way off topic, but related to a recent thread. I have a 5500 watt generator that might see some usage tonight or tomorrow. In the 2002 ice storm I fed the 240 out of the generator and into my ac 2 pole breaker to feed the electrical panel in the house. I threw the main while doing this and had no problems. Now, thinking about the coming storm I was looking at the possibility of doing this again. Everything you read on the the Internet says you are crazy for doing this and risk frying your generator, killing a linesman, or burning down your house. My question for you electrical whizzes is if I absolutely, positively remember to throw the main when doing this, what are the real dangers then. Is it just warned against because someone _might_ forget to throw the main or are there dangers even if the main is thrown. TIA, Brad --

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Re: MSIE slipping further?
by Gerald Combs 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Oren Beck wrote: > HOW does it "look" to the tracking tools if someone is using WINE ? The same as if they were running under Windows. Most web log analyzers parse the contents of the "User-Agent:" string that is passed from the browser to the server for each request. E.g. Firefox on my laptop (when booted to XP) sends Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) \ Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 The format of this string is a de facto standard, AFAIK. > The question that comes to mind is accuracy . Though many > browsers state that they "can" identify as "BrowserX.X" does it > really- show properly to your tool ? Same query as to OS identity . > I do wonder if some misidentification is skewing results in unpredictable > directions . Example being if I am using Opera installed in a Win9X > machine > then use Knoppix to run Opera- too lazy to import bookmarks for example ? I have no idea how accurate these statistics are. They're highly dependent on the notion that the overwhelming majority of users _don't_ fool with their "User-Agent:" settings, and that browsers don't lie about themselves by default. Some web analysis tools use JavaScript tricks to try to ferret out extra information about the user's environment (e.g. screen resolution). You could even use some sort of passive OS fingerprinting to identify the client, but it might not be very useful. I have a feeling that compared to the number of MSIE users, the number of people running Opera under Wine under Knoppix is several digits to the right of any useful rounding error. At any rate, most people who have the need or desire to change their "User-Agent:" string do so in order to make whatever oddball browser they're using look like MSIE. This makes MSIE's drop in numbers doubly-damning, IMO.

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Re: Dynamic signatures
by Brian Kelsay 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Kurt, I looked around the site and found a few references to Linux and Unix use. Perhaps you could use the Java client or compile the C++ client? The FAQ says anything that can run Perl can run it. I'm assuming they're talking about putting the display code into a webpage. The client that grabs the info would be what you are having problems with. Then again, I could be wrong. Brian Kelsay >>> <kurt@verruckt> 01/02/05 10:48PM >>> Does anyone know of a dynamic signature like this one http://sigx.yuriy.net/ For linux? Maybe my search criteria is crap, but I'm not turning anything up.

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RE: Net::RawIP Compile
by Welsh, Ed 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

CPAN fails in the same place. I found that CPAN was one revision older than the tar ball code and I thought it might be repaired in the new code. Such was not the case and they both fail. Really, all CPAN does is download, extract, make, make test, make install and keeps it all organized. EW -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 10:35 AM To: kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: Re: Net::RawIP Compile On Thursday 30 December 2004 04:58 pm, Welsh, Ed wrote: > Net::RawIP Why not just get it with CPAN? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug(a)kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug The information transmitted in this e-mail is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any interception, review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited by law and may subject them to criminal or civil liability. If you received this communication in error, please contact us immediately at 816.421.6611, and delete the communication from any computer or network system.

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Dynamic signatures
by kurt＠verruckt.org 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Does anyone know of a dynamic signature like this one http://sigx.yuriy.net/ For linux? Maybe my search criteria is crap, but I'm not turning anything up. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004

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