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by Michael Long

How reliable is the ls -l listing. In other words is it possible to modify a file and leave false timestamp on it. Thanks, -- Michael Long <mlong(a)datalong.com>

May 24, 2003

Interesting reading

by Andy Stewart

http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 20, 2003

Re: [Wlug] http load generators

by Doug Chamberlin

At 5/9/2003 01:32 PM (Friday), twg3(a)attbi.com wrote: >Does anyone have any recommendations of open source tools for generating very >high volume http traffic simulating large numbers of clients form multiple IP >addresses? I did a search on sourceforge and most of the projects have not >released any new code in 18 months or more - so not sure of status on most of >them. > >I need to test an application that uses HTTP as its transport layer (but not >HTML) so open source tools would allow the customizations I need, with out >haveing to write everything from scratch. This looks promising. Free Java-based tool with book to explain how to best use it: >From: Frank Cohen <fcohen(a)pushtotest.com> >Subject: New book: Automating Web Tests with TestMaker >X-BeenThere: newsletter(a)lists.pushtotest.com >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 >Precedence: list >List-Id: PushToTest Newsletter Mailing List <newsletter.lists.pushtotest.com> >List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.pushtotest.com/mailman/listinfo/newsletter>, > <mailto:newsletter-request@lists.pushtotest.com?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://fries.pushtotest.com/pipermail/newsletter> >List-Post: <mailto:newsletter@lists.pushtotest.com> >List-Help: <mailto:newsletter-request@lists.pushtotest.com?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: <http://lists.pushtotest.com/mailman/listinfo/newsletter>, > <mailto:newsletter-request@lists.pushtotest.com?subject=subscribe> > >May, 2003 > >From: Frank Cohen, founder of PushToTest > >I am very happy to announce the immediate availability of my new book: > >"Automating Web Tests with TestMaker" > >Details are at http://www.pushtotest.com/ptt, click on the book icon for a >special discount right now!

May 20, 2003

Re: [Wlug] scanner help

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 19 May 2003 3:50 pm, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > Andy, > > Thanks for the pointers on getting my scanner going. The key was to > get a newer version of xsane. I took the lazy road and upgraded to Red > Hat 9. The version of xsane in the upgrade did the trick. > > BTW, I did have one glitch in the upgrade -- it did a poor job of > modifying modules.conf, so a bunch of stuff (printers, network, etc.) > stopped working until I fixed it. > > Bill Hi Bill, I'm glad to hear that you finally go this to work! I have heard similar RedHat upgrade stories from others. However, I've yet to see a completely successful upgrade from any distribution. Perhaps I'm just hearing the vocal folks. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 20, 2003

Re: [Wlug] scanner help

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Andy Stewart wrote: AS> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 22:31:14 -0400 AS> From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)attbi.com> AS> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org AS> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org AS> Subject: Re: [Wlug] scanner help AS> AS> On Friday 02 May 2003 3:30 pm, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: AS> > I have a new Epson 1660 scanner, and I'm having difficulty getting it AS> > working with the sane drivers. Here's what I have thus far... <snip> Andy, Thanks for the pointers on getting my scanner going. The key was to get a newer version of xsane. I took the lazy road and upgraded to Red Hat 9. The version of xsane in the upgrade did the trick. BTW, I did have one glitch in the upgrade -- it did a poor job of modifying modules.conf, so a bunch of stuff (printers, network, etc.) stopped working until I fixed it. Bill

May 19, 2003

writer problem

by Stéphane Purnelle

I forgot the attached file. And the writer model is 48125S not 18125S. Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev=0,0,0 gracetime=2 fs=2048k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo speed=12 -dao -dummy -eject -pad -data "/rsrv/var/images/download1-01.img" ... scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Driveropts: 'burnfree,noforcespeed' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'LITE-ON ' Identifikation : 'LTR-48125S ' Revision : '1S05' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1422080 = 1388 KB FIFO size : 2097152 = 2048 KB Track 01: data 648 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 745 MB (73:49.85) = 332239 sectors Lout start: 745 MB (73:51/64) = 332239 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4) ATIP start of lead in: -11933 (97:22/67) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 43 Manufacturer: Acer Media Technology, Inc. Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 27610 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 12 in dummy SAO mode for single session. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Sending CUE sheet... Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 05 16 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error (ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.033s timeout 200s Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 write track data: error after 2666496 bytes Writing time: 23.177s Average write speed 191.3x. Min drive buffer fill was 99% Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 0.703s BURN-Free was never needed. cdrecord: fifo had 74 puts and 43 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 33 times full, min fill was 75%.

May 19, 2003

cd-writer problem

by Stéphane Purnelle

Hi I have a problem with my cd-writer. On windows, I have no problem (dommage). But with my redhat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-24.8.0. I cannot burn a CD. maybe it's a bad version of kernel ? writer : liteon 18125s 48x12x48 with burn proof (http://www.liteonit.com) You can read the output of x-cd-roast in the attached file. than you for your futur anwser

May 19, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Xfer mail from Outlook to...

by Bill Smith

On Sun, 19 May 2002 11:54:13 -0700 donald vitkus <devitk(a)comcast.net> wrote: DV> why have i got so many copies of this message WHEW! I was beginning to think the problem was on MY end... if YOU are seeing it, then it's not "just me"... ;) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." -- Sherlock Holmes, in 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery' * TAG! v3.1 *

May 19, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Testing WLUG e-mail list

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, I've just sent e-mail to Chuck and Frank to see if they can help remedy the "echo" situation. Thank you for your patience, and my apologies (in advance) if you get 14 copies of this. :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 18, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Testing WLUG e-mail list

by Brian J. Conway

> I've been getting these emails, as well as anything sent to my > @alum.wpi.edu forwarding address multiple times. Looking at and > comparing I too have been driven to the brink of sanity by this for the past couple days. Rock on. ;-) Brian J. Conway bconway(a)alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

May 18, 2003