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Wrote on the subject of Interest in an AIX 6.1 shell server? at May 19, 2010, 2:08 p.m...

ritchan wrote: Unfortunately it seems time_t won't accept hex values for a value, it only holds decimal.

It holds neither decimal or hex, it holds a binary integer.

try


time_t t=0x4A0C65C8;

At least I know what project I'll be testing around July 23rd.

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Wrote on the subject of Interest in an AIX 6.1 shell server? at May 20, 2010, 10:16 a.m...

Regarding the ELF/XCOFF thing. The original post was refering to XLC10 on Linux, hence the ELF library. On AIX with XLC9 it's an 'ar' library with a single XCOFF 'shr.o' shared object.

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Wrote on the subject of Recovering from error? was: Resetting root password? at May 23, 2010, 3:14 p.m...

set LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Alternatively, can you not simply do a "chroot" to the root of your real file system and run passwd from there?

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Wrote on the subject of Recovering from error? was: Resetting root password? at May 23, 2010, 6:51 p.m...

I'm suggesting something like

(assuming your real harddisk is mounted as /root)

Code:

chroot /root /bin/sh

cat /etc/passwd

passwd root

exit

cat /root/etc/passwd

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Wrote on the subject of Recovering from error? was: Resetting root password? at May 23, 2010, 10:40 p.m...

Baphijmm wrote:

This occurred immediately after changing the DNS server information in the system and nothing else (I rebooted after each change just to make sure I didn't do something like this). Any thoughts?

Perhaps your changes to DNS information affected the boot up!

Seriously though, check that you have no remote NFS mounts.

Check that you are not using yellow pages (NIS) for user accounts or anything else.

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Wrote on the subject of Sun Ultra 10 at June 1, 2010, 10:18 a.m...

ChristTrekker wrote:

Almost got a free E250 this weekend, but couldn't get to pick it up quick enough.

I don't think anyone could pick up an E250 quickly, you'll do yourself an injury.

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Wrote on the subject of Is there something I'm missing about PDF files? at June 2, 2010, 1:29 a.m...

Two seconds with Wikipedia tells you the answer

Quote:

Each Adobe PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents.

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Wrote on the subject of Disk clone OS 7.5 at June 3, 2010, 10:08 a.m...

Have you considered Basilisk II?

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Wrote on the subject of Oracle/Solaris at June 3, 2010, 2:48 p.m...

SAQ wrote:

Used sparingly by authors who know what they're doing single-word sentences are OK.

To be a sentence that word would have to be a verb.

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Wrote on the subject of April 3rd, Launch day! at June 7, 2010, 6:22 p.m...

bri3d wrote:

..... your app wouldn't get approved.

All hail the glorious leader and let him bless our desires with his approval.

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Wrote on the subject of Securing client access via SSH at June 9, 2010, 11:40 a.m...

Hi,

I have a server ( happens to be AIX but I don't consider that too important to the topic ) that clients have access to by:

(a) sftp
(b) an custom server setup using .ssh/authorized_keys

I want to deny those clients general shell access but still permit sftp access and any custom server defined in authorized_keys?

Thoughts? If I set the client's shell to "nologin" or "false" will that prevent all access?

And I still want to run as that user ( mainly to configure and test ) using some form of "su".

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Wrote on the subject of What did I do?! at June 9, 2010, 7:47 p.m...

By 12v plug you mean the entire DC power to the Qube?

Short-tolerant is different to being 240v tolerant....

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Wrote on the subject of SFTP Server setup? at June 10, 2010, 10:56 p.m...

Surely you just need sshd installed?

SFTP sits ontop of ssh.

I'm a PuTTY fan myself.

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Wrote on the subject of Soccer world-championship at June 20, 2010, 5:49 p.m...

maxsleg wrote:

Go New Zealand :-)

What, with a 1:1 draw against Italy?

I've just returned from Seoul, it seemed like entire population watched the 4:1 defeat on the big screens in the city streets.

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Wrote on the subject of Securing client access via SSH at June 21, 2010, 10:06 a.m...

Cool, I will give that one a go....

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Wrote on the subject of Backup from a PC-XT to a recent media. at June 24, 2010, 1:24 a.m...

Kermit!

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Wrote on the subject of Slow Spheres at June 25, 2010, 1:40 p.m...

I would like to discount some of the cabling issues, ethernet frames are covered by CRC so a packet should only be received by the protocol stack if the CRC is correct, the IP checksum only covers the IP header part of the IP datagram. I would suggest that if a checksum is wrong it is because it was incorrectly calculated at source, or incorrectly modified ( or failed to be modified ) en-route when the TTL was decremented, or incorrectly validated.

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Wrote on the subject of ONScripter-EN 20080823 ported to AIX 6.1 at June 28, 2010, 1:26 a.m...

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?p=7276720#p7276720

MCA again....

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Wrote on the subject of Oh AdBot, why you so kwazee~? at July 10, 2010, 10:33 p.m...

Hollywood Accounting

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Wrote on the subject of What is a PowerPC 760? at July 21, 2010, 4:25 a.m...

AIX 5.1 for 7043-140

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Wrote on the subject of Intel wants to charge you extra to unlock features at Sept. 20, 2010, 1:04 a.m...

GL1zdA wrote: .... I guess *THIS* is the target - Intel haven't got its share when people bought used CPUs).

Why a company should think it should be able to profit from an item twice? Oh, yeah, the entire recording industry.

Perhaps instead of selling CPUs as hardware they could be treated as something you never own, but merely license to use...... Given the amount of microcode in the beasts I'm sure somebody could claim they are more software than hardware.

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Wrote on the subject of What HP/DEC/Compaq do we have. at Nov. 8, 2010, 11:34 p.m...

Is that a threat or promise?

HP-9000 D370 and DEC AS-400. Plus various HP PCs.

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Wrote on the subject of Fake obama certificate online at April 29, 2011, 7:52 a.m...

One day governments will join the digital age. That is when we should worry.

Reminds me of the UK government release of documents complete with edit history that flatly contradicted ministers denials of involvement.

I predict this thread will shortly get locked under the "no politics rule".

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Wrote on the subject of thoughts on RS/6000 43p 150? at May 12, 2011, 11:18 a.m...

I have a couple of 43p-140 and run AIX 4.3.2 and 5.1 on them. That is the closest I can compare. I like them, they just run bog standard 68pin SCSI disks. I must admit I don't max out every machine just for the sake of it, if it's an old machine I accept it's limitations.

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Wrote on the subject of thoughts on RS/6000 43p 150? at May 14, 2011, 1:51 a.m...

I was surprised about the claims for the 150 running 5.3. My 7043-260 does though, that wasn't a case of beer machine, I got it for a couple of boxes of chocolates.

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Wrote on the subject of Unknown Apple II / 6502 mainboard update: Unitron APII at June 29, 2011, 7:08 p.m...

I remember reading a Byte article many years back where the Russians had cloned the Apple II.

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Wrote on the subject of Make "Notify me on new private messages:" default to yes at July 6, 2011, 8:14 p.m...

How about the "make people read and reply to my messages even when nowhere near a computer" setting?

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Wrote on the subject of Missing Silicon Graphics at July 12, 2011, 10:41 p.m...

Think of the irony, Windows won the desktop, UNIX won the phone.

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Wrote on the subject of Changing User Name at July 26, 2011, 9:19 a.m...

I hope you haven't set your password the same on all sites, identity theft candidate number 452.

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Wrote on the subject of Lion - the slippery slope for OS installations at Aug. 3, 2011, 9:12 p.m...

I must admit I am not impressed by the Lion OS installation strategy, unless I am mistaken, there is no image for either USB or DVD.

If you trash your new machine you do a network boot from one of Apple's servers.

So imagine 5 years down the track, Lion has been deprecated, and the latest release of Cougar won't run on your recently defined as inferior machine. Which will probably only run on 64bit ARM. Your now new Intel Mac will be looked on with the same disdain as a PPC model is now.

I see this as a deliberate attempt to kill the 2nd hand Mac market and turn Macs into high-priced, high-turnover commodity machines.

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Wrote on the subject of Lion - the slippery slope for OS installations at Aug. 3, 2011, 9:42 p.m...

Cool, thanks.

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Wrote on the subject of Lion - the slippery slope for OS installations at Aug. 6, 2011, 1:28 p.m...

Perhaps natural selection will mean that all machines will either end up in the dumpster or be running Linux when the vendor deems their useful life has passed.

I have bought only two new computers in the last twenty years!

So tend to want to keep older machines working as I deliberately stay off the bleeding edge when it my own money. Work is another matter.

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Wrote on the subject of Lion - the slippery slope for OS installations at Aug. 8, 2011, 4 p.m...

guardian452 wrote: maybe there is good reason for not upgrading your crappy 5 year old computer to a shiny new OS; grandma's 5 year old macbook still runs tiger just fine.

I was looking at the situation where you buy a new machine now, and can't get a copy of the media for the OS. So in five years time when you want to rebuild it from scratch due to the crap and cruft it has accumulated or the disk crapping out, then you can't.

Fortunately for the moment there look like ways and means of getting the media for Lion.

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Wrote on the subject of LCD repair at Aug. 24, 2011, 11:21 a.m...

Have you tried taking it to a windscreen repairer?

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Wrote on the subject of Gentoo/Prefix on IRIX at Sept. 8, 2011, 1:19 p.m...

Call me biased, but I associate gentoo with spending a long time installing, chrooting, and building trying to get to the same state that a single CD for other distributions would get you to in one click.

I also associate gentoo with people downloading the source and building themselves rather than a binary distribution, and seeing as few have access to MIPSpro I see that as a problem.

I like the centralised development approach when the repository disk crashes. Good plan.

I'm happy with the nekoware approach, people do what they want when they can with what they can, when they can.

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Wrote on the subject of Just went mad and got a DL560 from eBay... at Sept. 23, 2011, 1:10 p.m...

1. Move to a true compiled language, C, C++ even Pascal or COBOL.

2. Are you using SAX or DOM? Each has pros and cons. SAX means you don't have to load it all up first and processing may be done in parallel with reading, but you are dependent on the element orderings. DOM you have to read everything, but it's all there.

3. Split the XML parsing from the business logic, ideally with a sensibile intermediate so you can have the two in separate processes in a pipeline.

4. Did I mention use a decent language?

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Wrote on the subject of Steve Jobs dead. at Oct. 5, 2011, 3:56 p.m...

Nor BBC.

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Wrote on the subject of Steve Jobs dead. at Oct. 5, 2011, 4:01 p.m...

It is on Wikipedia, but not if you are Italian.

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Wrote on the subject of Dennis Ritchie has passed away at Oct. 13, 2011, 4:26 a.m...

Code: Select all


main() { printf("Goodbye World\n"); }

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Wrote on the subject of Dennis Ritchie has passed away at Oct. 14, 2011, 4:13 p.m...

There are a respectful number of obituaries:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13 ... assed-away
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/20 ... and-on.ars

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