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Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Bill Smith

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:44:52 -0400 Theo Van Dinter <felicity(a)kluge.net> wrote: TVD> I believe the chucksize would be one, even if they're different. TVD> It's like one of my WPI roommates who was always exactly one Pete TVD> tall. I guess that's a benefit of being the standard for a unit of TVD> measurement. Even if you change relative to everything else, you're TVD> still exactly one of your measurement unit in size. ...which is not to be confused with the Candy Bar Scale.... <evil grin> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Therapy is expensive. Popping bubblewrap is cheap. You choose. * TAG! v3.0 *

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Bill Smith

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:39:49 -0400 Brad Noyes <maitre(a)ccs.neu.edu> wrote: BN> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:39:48PM -0400, doug waud wrote: BN> > Brad Noyes wrote: BN> > > BN> > > 512 byte chucks. BN> > BN> > How do you get the byte size of a chuck? BN> just a guess. For some reason 512 bytes stuck in my head as a block BN> size so i tried it and it worked. BN> BN> i did some more looking and i found some info on how tar handles BN> things http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_130.html BN> BN> And this site give some good information on block sizes and tapes, BN> under the"BLOCK SIZES" section BN> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part2/section-1.html BN> BN> also in mt's man page, there is an option to set the block size BN> (setblk), which only works for scsi tapes. BN> BN> > BN> > For example, if we pipe Homic and/or Anderson to chucksize BN> > what would the output be? BN> > BN> i don't understand what your asking here. re-read what you said, then take a look at the man page. what you're referring to was BLOCK size, but you said "chuck".... <g> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. -- ESR * TAG! v3.0 *

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Bill Smith

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:40:29 -0400 Theo Van Dinter <felicity(a)kluge.net> wrote: TVD> > BBQ host) has a 60" projection screen TV that he could connect to TVD> > his laptop. TVD> TVD> I do have S-Video out from the laptop ... ;) <drool> TVD> I hope no one minds that my laptop doesn't run Linux. It is TVD> running a version of BSD though. ;) the more i think of it, the more i'm convinced that OSX is the only thing that would convince me jump off the Linux bandwagon. for a while, anyway. ;) TVD> Randomly Generated Tagline: TVD> "Thinking of using NT for your critical apps? TVD> Isn't there enough suffering in the world?" - Sun Microsystems TVD> Ad i have a picture of this ad that i used to have on my cube wall when i worked at Cabletron. like a dolt, i forgot to grab the advert, and a former co-worker was kind enough to take a snapshot of it and email it to me.... <g> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human. * TAG! v3.0 *

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Charles R. Anderson

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:34:02AM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: felicity> It works very nicely on OS X as well. Tell the OS to use wireless, felicity> give it the WEP key, now I'm on the network. :) Oh, so that's what you meant by a "version of BSD" I guess we can forgive you :) -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Theo Van Dinter

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:39:49AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: > > > 512 byte chucks. > > > > For example, if we pipe Homic and/or Anderson to chucksize > > what would the output be? > > > i don't understand what your asking here. I believe the chucksize would be one, even if they're different. It's like one of my WPI roommates who was always exactly one Pete tall. I guess that's a benefit of being the standard for a unit of measurement. Even if you change relative to everything else, you're still exactly one of your measurement unit in size. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Any similarity to person/persons now living to anyone or thing, dead or undead, is entirely accidental and just one more irrefutable proof of the paranormal." - From the 7th Guest

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Theo Van Dinter

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:04:14AM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: > Although I haven't asked Theo directly (but he's out there somewhere!), this Yeah, I lurk around a lot. Dark shifty characters tend to like shadow. ;) > question did arise A few wireless laptops running VNC sessions from a host > which has Theo's slides (if he makes any) might do the trick. Well, to be honest I haven't quite figured out what to do for a presentation yet. I figured I'd be talking about what I do to deal with spam, and I was planning on slides and perhaps a "live" demo (or perhaps a local laptop demo would be sufficient...) > BBQ host) has a 60" projection screen TV that he could connect to his laptop. I do have S-Video out from the laptop ... ;) I hope no one minds that my laptop doesn't run Linux. It is running a version of BSD though. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Thinking of using NT for your critical apps? Isn't there enough suffering in the world?" - Sun Microsystems Ad

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Brad Noyes

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:39:48PM -0400, doug waud wrote: > Brad Noyes wrote: > > > > 512 byte chucks. > > How do you get the byte size of a chuck? just a guess. For some reason 512 bytes stuck in my head as a block size so i tried it and it worked. i did some more looking and i found some info on how tar handles things http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_130.html And this site give some good information on block sizes and tapes, under the "BLOCK SIZES" section http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part2/section-1.html also in mt's man page, there is an option to set the block size (setblk), which only works for scsi tapes. > > For example, if we pipe Homic and/or Anderson to chucksize > what would the output be? > i don't understand what your asking here. --brad

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Theo Van Dinter

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:28:18AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > Yeah, a friend of mine who uses Windows told me how much of a pain in > the ass it was to set up wireless...For me it was quite simple (well, > except for the ipsec setup) It works very nicely on OS X as well. Tell the OS to use wireless, give it the WEP key, now I'm on the network. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium)

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Josh Huber

Wesley Allen <wallen(a)charter.net> writes: > Did you guys set up WEP? I know it's "encryption-lite" but right > now I've only my wlan setup with mac address locking only because I > can't get wep to work at all. I really recommend setting up IPsec. If you're using Linux, Free S/WAN works well. Personally, it took me a few tries to get things working, but once I did it turned out very well... > I actually had less trouble setting up wireless in linux than in > windows! Yeah, a friend of mine who uses Windows told me how much of a pain in the ass it was to set up wireless...For me it was quite simple (well, except for the ipsec setup) -- Josh Huber

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] How to set "-dpi 100" for X with kdm

by Aaron Haviland

Andy Stewart said: > > HI all, > > When I start my SuSE 8.0 system in run level 3, it comes up in textmode. I > log in and issue the startx command and KDE comes up. In my ~/.xserverrc > file, I have put "-dpi 100" and the X server comes up in 100 dpi mode and I > am a happy camper. > > Now, I think I'd like to have the graphical login from run level 5. kdm comes > up with a nice screen, but the X server is only running at 75 dpi. I cannot > figure out where to put the 100 dpi setting for this situation. It appears > not to read the same files for the xdm/kdm method of starting the X server as > it does when one types startx. > > So, how do I properly setup 100 dpi for kdm/xdm? Perhaps /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc (or wherever your distro puts it)? I don't know if *dms use it, but i'd think they probably would. mine says: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net "Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall. I'm not quite right at all, am I?" -Bowie.

July 19, 2002