General Linux

Can I read an smb share without mounting it
Hi All, There is a smb shared file out on my Samba Server that I would like to read from a bash script. Is there a way to do a one time read from my bash script without having to mount the share? Something like: cat smb://server/netlogon/startup.bat \ -u=todd -p=foo | grep -i set > $0.tmp ... 18 Apr 2010 07:33

figuring out the active terminal
Hello, Is there a way to figure out which one is the active virtual terminal? I am not interested which terminal I am on (tty tells me that), but basically I want my program to be able to figure out if it is running on the active terminal and act accordingly. Thanks, Vilmos ... 1 Apr 2010 17:59

NYC LOCAL: Friday 2 April 2010 Student and Startup Hackathon NYC
Hackathon NYC will start 6:00 pm Friday 2 April 2010 in Room 109 Courant Institute of Mathematics, 251 Mercer St Island of the Manahattoes Already over 150 students and 18 startup companies have signed up to take part. This Hackathon will run for a full 26 hours. Food will be provided to keep up... 1 Apr 2010 15:44

newbie question about using interprocess communication
Hi, I have server and client programs that are compiled as separate executables. Their respective behaviors are as follows: server: 1. Launches the 'client' using fork/execve. 2. Waits for the 'client' to send a stream of information and stores it inside its data structures. client: 1. The client h... 5 Apr 2010 13:51

Prank script question
Hello all, about a decade ago I remember coming across a network prank script that inverted all images coming in though a NAT (?). People on the local network would see upside-down images in their browsers. I don't remember the details, there was some hookup into the NAT (or a forced proxy ?), some call to Imag... 30 Mar 2010 05:02

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 30 March 2010 NYLUG Hackfest
<blockquote what="official NYLUG Workshop/Hackfest announcement" edits=""> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:25:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Workshop / Hacking Society (Smalltalk, C++, Python) Tuesday... 30 Mar 2010 02:52

rpm wrapper for a non rpm?
Hi All, I am using CentOS 5.4 (Old-Out-Of-Date) as a workstation. I want to install the latest Firefox and Thunderbird binaries from mozilla.com's web site. Somewhere is my past, I remember that there was a wrapper program you could run when you doing such things that kept your rpm database up to date. I ... 31 Mar 2010 14:20

Kernel+toolchain sources for x86/ia32/en only
Hey folks, After poking around for a fair bit, I am unable to find anyone with a kernel source tree and/or toolchain source tree that has the following properties: -- x86 or ia32 ONLY. -- No Polish, Swahili, Korean, etc files. I am looking into to picking through the kernel, and creating a build environmen... 28 Mar 2010 18:58

andLinux network problems
I get an error message Could not launch 'KWord': could not connect to 192.168.11.150:2081 and similar with everything else in place of 'KWord'. Why can't I use andLinux without connecting to the Internet? -- I can't go on, I'll go on. ... 30 Mar 2010 19:31

Please suggest an upgrade path.
Hi Folks. Since you guys are all so knowledgable, please assume that I am drunk out of my mind and/or woefully ignorant for this post. I am using Mandrake 10.1 on a Shuttle computer w/ 512MB. It has a 2.6GHz Celeron processor and about 75 GB hard drive. I have *dial-up* only at about 26 kbaud so have done *no... 26 Mar 2010 15:34