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Silas Brown · Silas Brown is a legally blind computer scientist based in Cambridge UK. He has been using heavily-customised versions of Debian Linux since 1999.

/dev/sda1       /media/microsd      vfat    rw,user,auto    0       0

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\header {
  title = "Flowers"
  dedication = "Ona wie"
  subtitle = "1 January 2005"
}

\new TabStaff {
  \repeat volta 2 {
  d'4\4 b'8\3 d'\4 a'4.\3
  e'8\4 e'\4 fis'\4 g'\4 e'\4 fis'\4 g'\4 a'4\3
  d'4\4 b'8\3 d'\4 a'4.\3
  e'8\4 a'\3 g'\4 fis'\4 e'\4 d'2\4
  }

  \repeat volta 2 {
  a4\5 e'8\4 fis'\4 g'4.\4
  e'8\4 e'\4 fis'\4 g'\4 e'\4 fis'\4 g'\4 a'4\3
  a4\5 e'8\4 fis'\4 g'4.\4
  e'8\4 g'\4 fis'\4 e'\4 b'\3 a'2\3
  }

  \repeat volta 2 {
  a8\4 d\4 fis\4 g\4
  e\5 a,\5 cis\5 d\5
  d\5 cis\5 b,\6 a,\6
  a,\6 cis\5 e\5 g\4
  a8\4 d\4 fis\4 g\4
  e\5 a,\5 cis\5 d\5
  d\5 cis\5 b,\6 a,\6
  a,2\6
  }
}

$ perl -MMIDI -e 'my
$o=MIDI::Opus->new({"from_file"=>$ARGV[0]});$o->dump({"dump_tracks"=>1});'
flowers-rtmf.mid

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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:13:30 +0000 (UTC)
From: sindi keesan <keesan@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: [TAG] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: lpr works for user not root in

gs -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 filename.pdf

> 
> 
>  Okay, LONG overdue though minor correction:
> 
> 
> ---- Forwarded message from <MAILER-DAEMON@starshine.org> -----
> 
> To: "Smith, Tyler" <tsmith@inphi-corp.com>
> Cc: utyler@gmail.com, editors@linuxgazette.net
> Subject: Re: [Spam: ***]
> From: Jim Dennis <jimd@starshine.org>
> 
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:25:00PM -0700, Smith, Tyler wrote:
> > On the page
> > http://linuxgazette.net/issue18/bash.html
> > should shortest be longest (see below)?
>  
> > ${variable%%pattern} 
> > Trim the shortest match from the end 
>  
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  
> > Thanks for the page.
> > Tyler
> 
>  You're probably right.  That error has probably been there, 
>  and heretofore unreported for years.
> 
>  I'll see if the current editors of LG are inclined to fix their
>  copy of it (but, of course the many mirrors around the world might
>  not pick up the change any time soon.
> 
> --
> Jim Dennis
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

> [...]
> I read through the two articles on use of setkey/racoon in
> linuxgazette/2006.
> The second article describes racoon configuration, but really only in
> terms of two private nets behind gateways.  My goal is to just connect a
> cluster of boxes together, on whatever subnets.

> >From what I get out of the article, I might be able to just modify the
> sainfo block, using the two endpoints for each connection; however that
> does not "seem' to work; tcpdump tells me nothing appears encrypted.
> I've not found online any good peer-to-peer x509 description.

> Do you have any recommendations for an A-B-C peer connection with x509 ?

pcm.default {
        @args [ SLAVE FILE FORMAT ]
        @args.SLAVE {
                type string
                default "hw:0,0"
        }
        @args.FILE {
                type string
                default "/mnt/linux/midi/test.raw"
        }
        @args.FORMAT {
                type string
                default raw
        }
        type file
        slave.pcm $SLAVE
        file $FILE
        format $FORMAT
}

$ sox -V -w -c  2 -s -r 44100 ./copy.raw ./copy.wav

aplay -D tee song.wav

#!/bin/bash
mount /sbin/init.iso /init-mnt -o loop
cd /init-mnt
exec /sbin/init.orig $@

AA:23:respawn:./python myscript.py
if [ -z "$PERL5LIB" ]
then
	# If PERL5LIB wasn't previously defined, set it...
	PERL5LIB=~/myperl/lib
else
	# ...otherwise, extend it.
	PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:~/myperl/lib
fi

MANPATH=$MANPATH:~/myperl/man

export PERL5LIB MANPATH

mkdir -p ~/myperl/lib
mkdir -p ~/myperl/man/man{1,3}

perl -wle'print for grep /myperl/, @INC'

perl -MCPAN -we 'shell'

LIB=~/myperl/lib INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR=~/myperl/man/man1 INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR=~/myperl/man/man3

# Invoke the shell
perl -MCPAN -we shell

# Install the Net::FTP module
perl -MCPAN -we 'install "Net::FTP"'

# Update all outdated modules on this system
perl -MCPAN -we 'CPAN::Shell->install(CPAN::Shell->r)'

Debian Etch:
  apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.1 postgresql-8.1
Fedora Core 6:
  yum install postgresql-server postgresql-devel

prompt> select hello( 'World!' );
     hello
---------------
 Hello, World!

#include "postgres.h"
#include "fmgr.h"
#include <string.h>

#ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC
PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
#endif

Datum hello( PG_FUNCTION_ARGS );

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1( hello );
Datum
hello( PG_FUNCTION_ARGS )
{
   // variable declarations
   char greet[] = "Hello, ";
   text *towhom;
   int greetlen;
   int towhomlen;
   text *greeting;

   // Get arguments.  If we declare our function as STRICT, then
   // this check is superfluous.
   if( PG_ARGISNULL(0) ) {
      PG_RETURN_NULL();
   }
   towhom = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0);

   // Calculate string sizes.
   greetlen = strlen(greet);
   towhomlen = VARSIZE(towhom) - VARHDRSZ;

   // Allocate memory and set data structure size.
   greeting = (text *)palloc( greetlen + towhomlen );
   VARATT_SIZEP( greeting ) = greetlen + towhomlen  + VARHDRSZ;

   // Construct greeting string.
   strncpy( VARDATA(greeting), greet, greetlen );
   strncpy( VARDATA(greeting) + greetlen,
            VARDATA(towhom),
            towhomlen );

   PG_RETURN_TEXT_P( greeting );
}

MODULES = example
PGXS := $(shell pg_config --pgxs)
include $(PGXS)

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
  hello( TEXT )
RETURNS
  TEXT
AS
  'example.so', 'hello'
LANGUAGE
  C
STRICT
IMMUTABLE;

prompt> \i example.sql
CREATE FUNCTION

=> CREATE TEMP TABLE test( name ) AS
-> VALUES ('Xavier'), ('Yari'), ('Zack');

=> SELECT hello( name ) FROM test;
    hello     
--------------
 Hello, Xavier
 Hello, Yari
 Hello, Zack
(3 rows)

int32    PG_GETARG_INT32(0)     PG_RETURN_INT32(arg)
bytea *  PG_GETARG_BYTEA_P(0)   PG_RETURN_BYTEA_P(arg)
text *   PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0)    PG_RETURN_TEXT_P(arg)

struct varlena
{
  int32 vl_len;
  char  vl_dat[1];
};

NAME=postgresql
VER=8.2.4
APP=${NAME}-${VER}
SRCDIR=/usr/get/src/${NAME}/${APP}
INSTALLDIR=/local/apps/versioned/$APP
LOGFILE=/local/data/build/${APP}.log

[ -d $INSTALLDIR ] && rm -rf $INSTALLDIR
cd ${SRCDIR}
[ -f config.cache ] && rm -f config.cache
# make clean
./configure \
    --prefix=$INSTALLDIR \
    --with-pgport=5432 \
    --with-pam \
    --with-perl \
    --with-python \
    --with-openssl \
    --with-readline \
    --enable-thread-safety \
    > $LOGFILE 2>&1

RETVAL=$?
[ ! $RETVAL -eq 0 ] &&
make >> $LOGFILE 2>&1

ETVAL=$?
[ ! $RETVAL -eq 0 ] &&
make install >> $LOGFILE 2>&1

RETVAL=$?
exit $RETVAL

#!/bin/sh

VER=8.2
PGACCOUNT=postgres
POSTBIN=/local/bin
PGCTL=${POSTBIN}/pg_ctl
INITDB=${POSTBIN}/initdb
DATADIR=/db/postgres/${VER}
LOGFILE=/var/log/postgres/pg_ctl.log
ENCODING="SQL_ASCII"

# Set postgresql options in postgresql.conf

[ -f ${PGCTL} ] || exit 0

init () {
    echo -n "Initializing PostgreSQL database"
    echo
    su - postgres -c "${INITDB} -D ${DATADIR} -E $ENCODING"
    echo
}

start () {
    echo -n "Starting PostgreSQL..."
    echo
    su - postgres -c "${PGCTL} start -D ${DATADIR} -l ${LOGFILE}"
    echo
}

stop () {
    echo -n "Stopping PostgreSQL..."
    echo
    su - postgres -c "${PGCTL} stop -D ${DATADIR} -m smart"
    echo
}

restart () {
    echo -n "Restarting PostgreSQL..."
    echo
    stop
    sleep 5
    start
}

reload () {
    echo -n "Reloading PostgreSQL configuration..."
    echo
    su - postgres -c "${PGCTL} reload -D ${DATADIR}"
    echo
}

status () {
    echo -n "Checking PostgreSQL status..."
    echo
    su - postgres -c "${PGCTL} status -D ${DATADIR}"
}

case "$1" in
  init)
    init
    ;;
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  restart)
    restart
    ;;
  reload)
    reload
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {init|start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
    exit 1
esac

exit 0

amap          myusername          iddb
amap          myusername          myusername
amap          myusername          postgres
amap          postgres            postgres
amap          root                postgres

local all all ident amap

< (sql-get-login 'database 'server)
> (sql-get-login 'database 'user 'server)

> (if (not (string= "" sql-user))
>   (setq params (append (list "-U" sql-user) params)))

Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:08:55 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
To: evals@lists.merlins.org
Subject: [Evals] Microsoft buys aQuantive (was: New blood)

> Quoting the most recent press release on the VA $WHATEVER Web site:
> 
>   VA Software Corporation (Nasdaq: LNUX), the online media, software, 
>   and e-commence leader in community-driven Open Source innovation, 
>   today announced that Scott E. Howe has joined the company's Board 
>   of Directors effective March 7, 2007. Howe brings more than eight
>   years of experience in the areas of internet media, technology, and
>   advertising.
>   [...]
>   Howe is President for DRIVE Performance Media, a division of
>   aQuantive, Inc. aQuantive is a global digital marketing company and the
>   parent company of interactive agencies, performance media and behavioral
>   targeting businesses, and providers of integrated digital marketing
>   technologies throughout the world. [...]
> [...] 
> In other words, one of the many firms quietly making money off
> "metrics", i.e., spying on the user, data-mining / data sales,
> consequent targeted advertising, etc., "integrated digital marketing
> technologies" being one of the standard corporate euphemisms for spying.

-- 
Cheers,                   "Of course, NIMBYism is perfectly fine for other
Rick Moen                 places, but we certainly shouldn't allow it in
rick@linuxmafia.com       our town."   -- Rick M., going meta on his $SPOUSE

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Subject: [SPAM] New 0day Exploit.
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:27:09 -0500

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June 2007 (#139):

Mailbag

This month's answers created by:

Still Searching

How to assign static device node with devfs ?

Our Mailbag

Doing Everything at the Console

FTP Client suppporting SSL/TLS

Time Solaris sync to Windows time server

Installing user written Daemons

Dumping MIDI as a series of events

C programming - when to use pointers

specifying trusted devices other than eth0

about linux

Switching VT Remotely?

Followup: lpr works for user not root in Basiclinux 2.1

perl fork: How to keep restarting a child till timeout?

Talkback

Talkback:124/smith.html

Talkback:128/ramanathan.html

Talkback:18/bash.html

Talkback:126/pfeiffer.html

2-Cent Tips

Recording ALSA PCM output as RAW data

Creating an Unkillable Process

Read-only filesystem

Patching init

Closing remarks

dotProject

What is dotProject?

What are the Core Features of dotProject?

Core Features in Detail

Why dotProject is the Right PMA for You

Installing Perl Modules as a Non-Root User

Introduction

Configuring the Environment

Installing the Modules

Conclusion

Writing PostgreSQL Functions in C

Introduction

Prerequisites

Hello, World!

What We Did

Our SQL Function Definition

Wrapping Up

Hasty PostgreSQL Installation HOWTO

Emacs Errata

Resources

HelpDex

Ecol

The Geekword Puzzle

The Linux Launderette

Car auction scam

[Evals] Microsoft buys aQuantive (was: New blood)

SPAM: New 0day Exploit.

Hi

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