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World Cup in ASCII
by Adam Thompson 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

...just the thing for the old-timers among us: http://ascii-wm.net/ Watch the World Cup (semi-)live... on your ASCII terminal! Yay! (Want to bet they're using aalib to do it?) -Adam Thompson

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beagle-build-in core 5
by schwartz 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

There is no man file for something called beagle-build-in in Fedora core 5. According to top, this thing takes up 70% of my cpu time when it runs and it runs a long time. Anyone have any idea what beagle-build-in does? It runs the heck out of my hard drive and I don't like that at all, especially since I've just had to replace the hard drive due to that BadCRC problem I wrote about a couple weeks back. Any advice would be most welcome.

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Just installed Fedora 5 - Want to install MPlayer
by Mike Pfaiffer 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Some good things and some not so good things. Over all I'm not impressed, but there aren't enough problems (yet) to justify my going back to Fedora 2. Anyhow... I just recompiled MPlayer and at first it didn't like the compiler. I told it not to check the compiler and there was an error near the end of the "make" step. I did a quick check of the MPlayer site and it seems they've moved over to a new machine (without saying where it is). I still have a copy of Pre-7 from before. Has anybody been able to install/compile it for Fedora 5? If so, how? Is there anything newer than Pre-7? Have the codecs been updated? Is there indeed a new site or was I hallucinating as a result of being up until 4:00am the previous night? Do I have to go and get the binary rpm? I'll ask again at the meeting on Tuesday. Alternatively, if I get it working I'll tell everybody how (if someone reminds me). Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

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Re: [RndTbl] Apache2 modules
by Kevin McGregor 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I got it sorted out -- at least the compile/install process. I haven't tried the module itself yet. It turns out that the compile step (the first call to apxs2) ends up putting the .so module into ./.libs! This is the default for libtool, so that would be fine, except for some reason the next call to apxs2 (and libtool, indirectly) doesn't look there. Weird. So, I ran 'make' once to produce the .so, then moved the file manually from .libs to the current directory, then ran 'make' again, which completed the process. Also, I had to revert to gcc-3.4 from the gcc-4.0, which produced errors in addition to many warnings about signedness mismatches. Thanks to Sean and Stuart for the help! Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Williams <stuartw(a)mts.net> Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 9:34 pm Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Apache2 modules > >>>>> Kevin McGregor writes: > > > I'm trying to compile the mod_ntlm2 module, and it's failing to > > produce the mod_ntlm.so but I can't figure out precisely why. Does > > anyone have any suggestions? > > > user@hostname:~/mod_ntlm# make install > > apxs2 -c -o mod_ntlm.so -Wc,-shared mod_ntlm.c > > apxs2 -i -a -n 'ntlm' mod_ntlm.so > > I ran into a similar problem 9 months ago and according to my > notes of > the problem and its resolution, I worked around it quickly by adding > the installation option(s) in the second apxs2 command to the first > one. It's not obvious to me from the apxs2 code why this workaround > helped. > > Stuart Williams. > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable >

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Apache2 modules
by Kevin McGregor 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I'm trying to compile the mod_ntlm2 module, and it's failing to produce the mod_ntlm.so but I can't figure out precisely why. Does anyone have any suggestions? Here's my output: user@hostname:~/mod_ntlm# make install apxs2 -c -o mod_ntlm.so -Wc,-shared mod_ntlm.c /usr/bin/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -pipe -I/usr/include/xmltok -I/usr/include/openssl -Wall -g -O2 -DAP_HAVE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe -I/usr/include/xmltok -I/usr/include/openssl -Wall -g -O2 -pthread -I/usr/include/apache2 -I/usr/include/apr-0 -I/usr/include/apr-0 -I/usr/include -shared -c -o mod_ntlm.lo mod_ntlm.c && touch mod_ntlm.slo mod_ntlm.c:65: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'log' mod_ntlm.c: In function `get_ntlm_connection': mod_ntlm.c:453: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3) mod_ntlm.c:454: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules mod_ntlm.c: In function `authenticate_ntlm_user': mod_ntlm.c:777: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3) /usr/bin/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -o mod_ntlm.la -rpath /usr/lib/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version mod_ntlm.lo apxs2 -i -a -n 'ntlm' mod_ntlm.so /usr/share/apache2/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL='/usr/bin/libtool' mod_ntlm.so /usr/lib/apache2/modules /usr/bin/libtool --mode=install cp mod_ntlm.so /usr/lib/apache2/modules/ cp mod_ntlm.so /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ntlm.so cp: cannot stat `mod_ntlm.so': No such file or directory apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536 . make: *** [install] Error 1

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MUUG Meeting, June 13, 7:30pm -- Agile Software Development Env.
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Agile Software Development Environment Specialized and robust tools for Java development are available to the Open Source community for everything from source code control, to document management, to running your finished application. Weaving all these components together on a central development server for team of developers can be a challenge. These frequently overlooked components in the development environment can make or break your project. Where do you keep the information everyone needs to see? Who is responsible for maintaining it? How do you know if code you just committed to the repository has impacted someone else's? You are writing JUnit tests, but how much of your project's code is actually being tested? With the focus on developer productivity, how can you address all of these questions without adding to the burden of just getting code written? In this presentation, Steve Moffat will show us how one project is doing it. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $3.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Core 5 DMA errors
by schwartz 31 May '06

31 May '06

I'm getting weird DMA errors on my Fedora Core 5 computer. The motherboard is an ASRock P4VM800 with 512MB DDR Celeron 2533 MHz Model 4 hard drive is a Hitachi 7K80 7200 rpm parallel-ATA 80 Gig. Fedora is installed on /dev/hda7 9.4 Gig partition ext3 The DMA error message shows up during big file, or multiple file, copying from one directory to another, and during bootup. dmesg shows this message: cd ..hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriverStatus Error BadCCR } ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sometimes the error message shows up at one point in the boot process, sometimes in another. During really big copies, the DMA error message is quite frequent. I also have XP, 98SE, and Slackware on the machine but so far none of them have this error, or maybe they're not telling. Can anyone tell me how to deal with this problem?

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Core 5 DMA errors
by schwartz 31 May '06

31 May '06

Thanks very much for the help. I read the article and checked the IDE cables as instructed, and found a loose connection. I've booted Fedora a couple times with no error messages showing, so maybe it was the loose IDE cable connection. I hope so because I can't remember where I bought the hard drive and I can't find any sales slips for it. Bad Moon is Rising. Yuk! That was the first tune I had to learn on guitar over 30 years ago and I still can't listen to it without cringing. Yuk.

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Fwd: UG News--Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides
by Sean Walberg 30 May '06

30 May '06

Some of these might be of interest to the list members... Sean ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marsee Henon <marsee(a)oreilly.com> Date: May 30, 2006 1:07 PM Subject: UG News--Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides As part of O'Reilly Media's commitment to delivering vital technology information to people who need it, when they need it, O'Reilly is launching an ongoing series of PDF publications to address cutting edge technologies. O'Reilly's PDF guides are in-depth, immediate, timely, and authoritative. Readers can purchase and download the PDFs through the O'Reilly online store, with no restrictions on the ability to save, copy, or print them. The advantages to readers are numerous. O'Reilly authors can disseminate crucial information as the need arises, without having to wait for enough material to fill an entire book. Production time is reduced dramatically, giving IT professionals and others immediate access to the knowledge they want. Plus, readers can easily search the text, copy and paste handy bits of code into their applications, and take the PDF with them even when they're offline. But most importantly, readers won't have to compromise in their pursuit of timely information--these PDFs provide the high-quality content for which O'Reilly has come to be known. This month's PDF offerings are available now: "Build Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP" by Jim Bumgardner First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us, these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of web sites as visual evidence of their membership in the elite corps of "Web 2.0." This PDF analyzes what is and isn't a tag cloud, offers design tips for using them effectively, and then shows how to collect tags and display them in the tag cloud format. Scripts are provided in Perl and PHP. ISBN: 0-596-52794-2, 46 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tagclouds/ "Web Services on Rails" by Kevin Marshall In recent years, web services have become increasingly useful to smaller web site developers. Thanks to standards like SOAP and XML-RPC as well as frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, developers can easily create web service clients and servers with fewer errors. This guide looks at how Ruby on Rails makes building web service clients and servers simple and fun, with plenty of working examples and code details so you can see just how everything works. ISBN: 0-596-52796-9, 32 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/websor/ "Atlas UpdatePanel Control" by Bertrand Le Roy and Matt Gibbs The key to making ASP.NET applications more responsive to user input is the UpdatePanel control. In this tutorial, you'll learn from the experts: Bertrand Le Roy, UpdatePanel control's architect and developer, and Matt Gibbs, Atlas dev team manager. This PDF document contains all you need to get started implementing AJAX functionality in existing ASP.NET applications. ISBN: 0-596-52747-0, 56 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlasupc/ "Search Engine Optimization" by Harold Davis SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites. Whether your web site depends on broad, general traffic, or high-quality, targeted traffic, this PDF has the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to your site, and build your bottom line. You'll learn how to effectively use PageRank and Google itself--effective use of SEO means understanding how Google works: how to boost placement in Google search results, how not to offend Google, and how best to use paid Google programs. You'll also learn how to best organize your web pages and web sites, apply SEO analysis tools, establish effective SEO best practices, and much more. ISBN: 0-596-52786-1, 41 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seo/ Other PDFs from O'Reilly can be found in the O'Reilly Store at: http://pdfs.oreilly.com ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ -- Sean Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://ertw.com/

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Census now available to Linux users
by John Lange 20 May '06

20 May '06

For those of you not also subscribed to the PLUG mailing list, Syd Weidman points out that the census web site is now open to Linux: http://www12.statcan.ca/IRC/english/advisory_e.htm -- John Lange OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872 VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location

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