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(...) Read today's userfriendly? :) James (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Dan: (...) Only four. :-( And none of them from IP numbers I was hit by in the last wave. Jacob (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just curious, anyone else seeing code red hits on their server? :) Peeron.com got 4 since this morning... the server it's on got 470 so far... I still say that whoever runs IIS gets what they deserve... *grin* (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) sure enough, that'll work - I never knew of that :) Of course, it's an suid proggie, so that's always something to be wary of, even when you can't avoid it... Thanks for the tip! (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I know that not all of you are converted yet, so I'm pleased to announce that the newest release of IceBreaker now works very well on Microsoft Win9x (and probably on NT and 2000, although I haven't tested that very much). Of course, there's lots of (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, check out the 'gpasswd' command from the linux shadow-utils suite. This allows non-root users to be defined as group administrators, and these people can add and remove people from their groups. (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I gotta get better hosting for those pics... Ed "Julie Krenz" <dkrenz@mc.net> wrote in message news:GH3I1t.2GM@lugnet.com... (...) all (...) tone (...) another (...) view (...) the (...) on the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Paul, I regularly use both - I prefer NS, but sometimes IE is the only browser I have available. Just to make things difficult, I've been known to use lynx occasionally, Mozilla is starting to become usable, and I'm pretty impressed with (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The new sircam virus is pounding away at Tulane's mail servers too. According to our IS department (URL) virus also looks through your browser cache files for email addresses. Chris (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO mentioned in U-F today. (07/23/01)
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(...) National Sysadmin Day? Who knew? Now it's gone. Er.. maybe it's just third shift.. (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) misunderstanding of some aspect of it? Or is it just because we would all of us obviously need TLC's and Ritvik's permission to post creations comprised of their patented and copyrighted stuff (especially, if it's something like a giant (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I just found this interesting :) (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LEGO mentioned in U-F today. (07/23/01)
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James: (...) Yup! When I left yesterday's edition in the printer room, a colleague of mine commented that it was easy to see that I was back from vacation. :-) Jacob (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I threw all of my Brickbay pictures on Brickshelf. Josh (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ...And again today. (07/26/01) This may become a plotline. :) :) any other UFies out there? James (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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All of my Space, Air, Water, and Land creations have a new home-- at the shortest URL yet! Most of my old stuff and all my stuff is there. Please feel free to use the rating form on anything you look at: (URL) LMKWYT, update your links, and let me (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build, lugnet.boats, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars) !
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(...) So my ears were burning, pain, pain, terrible pain, and...oh, wait. Nobody cares about flaming earwax. But someone said "wet navy," so here I am. The organization of naval classes depends to a certain extent on precisely what era you're (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I'm done creating all the PHP scripts for my "new" website (except a search engine...but that'll come when I have more time) All that remains is to put it all together... and then my website will finally be as easy to update as uploading (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I dunno PHP either, but it's very easy to learn as you go along. (...) Thanks once again, Dan. I should have thought of that myself. And it's easy to translate into just about any language. --Bram (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) hmmm... dunno php, but try this in perl: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $current = shift; $prev = ''; $next = ''; while (<>) { ($name) = split /,/; if ($name eq $current) { $next = <>; ($next) = split /,/, $next; last; } $prev = $name; } this is untested, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, If I have a comma separated text file of the form: filename.ext,thumbnail width,thumbnail height,img width,img height for example: inside3.jpg,100,75,640,480 over.jpg,100,75,640,480 stairs.jpg,100,64,640,410 tower.jpg,78,100,320,410 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I guess I'll risk that. It's still safer than just using mod 777, right? Thanks for all the help, --Bram (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (assuming that the directory is group owned by dlsesign) - yup, that'll work. just don't forget that _anyone_ that has cgi access on that server will be able to read/write to that directory... On a shared box, that may mean 100s of people. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks, Dan! Will adding "nobody" to group "bldesign" make it possible for my php script to write to directories set at mod 775? I'd like to know for sure before I ask support if they'll do that for me. Thanks, --Bram (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) to see who's in a group: grep "groupname" /etc/group to see what groups a user belongs to: id "user" to add users to a group, you have to be able to edit the /etc/group file - which (on any sane system), only root can do. sorry... (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, Is there a way to check which users are members of a grp? Also, can a member of a grp (not root) add other members to the grp? For example, I want to add "nobody" to "bldesign" so that my web scripts can have write access to a directory set (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) probably one of the recent outlook viruses - they send to everyone in your address book... So people reading Lugnet via outlook will have everyone's names... At least they can't post messages with viruses :) FUT off-topic.geek - If you want to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That would help, except that I've already made and ftped data to most of the directory. And I'd rather not FTP 25 MB again over my puny 56.6 connection. I've contacted tech support to see if they'll get my telnet access fixed. --Bram Bram (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, to do a chgrp, you need to have either root access, or be a member of both groups (the current one and the new one). What you can do (assuming you can chmod, and that you have cgi access), is chmod a directory to world writable, and (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes it does! Now how do run chgrp without telnet... --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | LEGO mentioned in U-F today. (07/23/01)
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:) (URL) a lotta Mindstorms! James (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) what you need to do is set either the owner or the group of the directory to the webserver's user (nobody, www, apache, whatever). Once that is done, you can give permissions to the server to write to the directory. In general, no user can (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, I need to be able to write files (for example, thumbnail images) to a directory using a PHP script. The problem is I'd rather not give world write access to the thumbnail directory. Is there a way I can change users inside the PHP script so (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Creating a webpage Was Re: 12 of my favorite pictures of Legoland, CA
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(...) Hey Brendan! I have found one of the best places to start with a webpage is to look at www.webmonkey.com. It has almost everything you need to learn HTML, etc. I just use Windows Notepad for most of my code writing. Pages don't have to be (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <snipped away Brendan's nine excuses> Not to be trite or anything, but "Just do it!" Now while you're on vacation. It won't be absolutely perfect to begin with-- heck, I was tickled to even create a page that only had text! Here was a webpage (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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Hello! (...) I really don't have a clue where to start with a webpage. It just seems like it will take forever and there are so many details to mess with...details that I think will end up forgetting in the long run that will be crucial to the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Creating a webpage Was Re: 12 of my favorite pictures of Legoland, CA
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(...) <pared away a bit here> (...) Speaking as a clueless non-geek type, it isn't really that hard. Presumably you have a place to host your webpage. I would find out all the info they have first. Often they have ways you can create webpages (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you talking about the new UI change? My first impression is that it might actually be useable now. Performance has *vastly* improved. I haven't decided what to think of the new UI, but overall it certainly doesn't seem worse than before. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Ross: (...) Y100P, if you are in a hurry. ;-) Jacob (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Evolution of Earth and moon (was: Couldn't resist)
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(...) I thought that the whole point of a laser is that it doesn't - it's a directed beam of parallel waves of light. The inverse square law is for a diverging beam. As distance from the source increases, the area the beam is spread over increases (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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