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NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 5 August 2008 NYLUG Python Workshop
<blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement" edits="added note about books to be given away"> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Python Workshop, (TOMORROW) August 05 ... 5 Aug 2008 03:59

Firefox Flash crash
Like some others posting here I have seen Firefox 2 & 3 suddenly crash and disappear on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. Several people suggested that it was likely the flash plugin, and I found strong evidence in my own case that it was. By chance, I found a web page where it happen to me every time, so I was able to te... 4 Aug 2008 19:48

virtual memory question
I read in the Linux Kernel/Device driver books that the address space of even a single process can be much larger than physical memory. Lets say I have an embedded system with a 128 MB RAM and 256 MB Flash drive. The software has about 10 processes with 100 MB address space in each of them. Here, I dont have enou... 16 Aug 2008 16:40

Very strange thing -- Running X programs owned by another user
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:18:17 -0500, Ignoramus22807 wrote: To get this to work, some sort of magic would need to be done with "xauth" or some such, does anyone know how to get user A to open a window on a terminal owned by user B? Speed is of the essence and using ssh -Y is out of question. http://u... 5 Aug 2008 19:24

Power button does not shut machines down?
For our rackmount servers (proliants), we have one issue, the power button, when pressed, does not cause system shutdown. I am not sure where to start debugging this issue, so, any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks -- Due to extreme spam originating from Google Groups, and their inattention to sp... 4 Aug 2008 17:44

Have you been studying the BALLISTA test suite?
The source file "ballistaRPC.h" declares three structs, they are "one_dim","two_dim",and "three_dim". However, I do not quite understand the meaning of them.If you've learned about the whole testsuite of Ballista, please give some descriptions of that three structs. ... 4 Aug 2008 14:39

Access linux server remotely fails with putty
Hello Guru, Hello Linux Guru I have problems to acces Linux Red Head remotely from my Xp laptop with putty. The problem is when I installed and updated the Perl's packages it bought the the whole system to stop working. I think the main issue because when I running Perl installation "install bundle::cpan" I close... 4 Aug 2008 15:40

ncurses : graphic chars after endwin();
Hi, I am porting several program from IBM AIX to Linux. The programs use curses so i am trying to understand and correct the problems. First of all : after calling endwin() not always the terminal is resetted. If the last operation is to draw some box (ie ACS_HLINE) , all what came from shell are glyphs. ... 13 Aug 2008 05:36

Linux terminal, putty behavior
Dear all: I have been using putty since a long time. Now, for my job, I have to use use linux XWindow and its terminal software. How can i make it behave like putty (selecting text to copy, right click to paste) ? thanks. Anees Haider ... 7 Aug 2008 04:13

Some qmail man pages are designated to non existent section 0
I notice that some of the qmail man pages are designated to section 0. On my system, manual pages are in: /usr/share/man/man1 ... /usr.share/man/man9 Should I create a section 0 or should I place the pages in a different section (Such as section 7 Miscellaneous). Does section 0 have any specific purpose?... 5 Aug 2008 08:04