Recent content by xaqster

True, I did not think of that. None of it is returnable. <Please insert homer like noise here> Xaqster PS, I seem to have a awol .sig on my parent post... --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

I saw this written on a 1 tonne bag of sand from B&Q: NONE RETURNABLE. It strikes me that this should be "Non Returnable". Am I wrong in thinking this is wrong? Am I crazy? Perhaps history will relate... Xaqster

Meep, Meep! --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

OK, here is a truly terrible one for you: A Chap is off for a drive in the country when his car begins to make a wierd sound. Lots of spluttering and choking later, the car finally grinds to a halt. As is usual in situations like this, the chaps mobile phone has gone flat. Having berated...

Here is one for you: Actually said to my team by the team leaders during a meeting: "Nobody this year is getting a pay rise. This is because of the state of the IT industry in general. If you want to earn more money, good luck trying to get another job, because there aren't any!!" Bare in...

I cannot find a reference except http://www.startwright.com/words1.htm , but I thought BASIC was a bacronym? "Strande things are afoot at the Circle K" --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

Just thought of another one. I know, but I think slow! http://www.wildlist.org/ List of viruses seen in the wild, as reported by many of the top anti-virus vendors. Updated monthly, usually in the middle of the month. --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

KenCunningham: Sorry, My bad. Cat file1 file2 > file2 won't work. I thought I had it working... Must be lack of caffine... --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

Another way of doing this is create a file containing only your header. Then use cat as so: cat myheaderfile mydatafile > mynewdatafile Then you can check it in the morning, and rename as needed. Or you can just cat myheaderfile mydatafile > mydatafile if you are a confident sort... This...

Thinking about it, the Easiest way in Mandrake 10 is to go into Start Menu -> System -> Configuration -> Configure your computer ( under KDE at least! ). Put in your root password. Click on system, Then services. This will bring you up a list of services with the info, start and stop buttons...

Sorry, forgot to mention. How to test for the Windows/Linux LF problem in a script: [root@testmachine /tmp]# ./somescript.sh bash: ./somescript.sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory [root@testmachine /tmp]# sh somescript.sh : command not found : command not found...

I had a similar problem myself. easiest way to sort this out is to use vi as so: vi Somescript.sh :set ff=unix ZZ That will sort them out. Cheers Xaq --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

I have had no end of problems with Belikn KVM boxes, Windows and Linux. I have solved it by using the Belkin for the Keyboard, and a seperate mouse per pc. Not Ideal, but this is the only way I could get it to work :-( --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

It might be worth looking at the program partimage, which I have sucessfully used to move from a 10G to a 40G drive. If you have another pc handy, the latest build can backup a partition accross the network. --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness" http://www.kerbside.net

On Mandrake 10, as root do service httpd start Or httpd2 depending on the version of apache you installed. This will start apache, and from my experience put all the files in the correct place to start up again after boot. Cheers Xaq --- "I'm just here to regulate funkyness"...