Re: OT: What can take out a switch *and* an ethernet card?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:40:27PM +0100, Ian Northeast wrote: 
> So it appears that something took the switch *and* my ethernet card out 
> at the same time. But nothing else. I didn't think it was possible for 
> ethernet devices to take each other out. It's all low voltage isn't it?
> 
> Can anyone explain this? Also, can anyone recommend the best place 
> nowadays to get another 16 port 10/100 (I have a number of 10Mb devices 
> which matter, like my firewall and my printer) switch?

My instinct is that the card took out the switch,

maybe the switch had some buggy firmware and couldnt deal with the mess your
broken card was sending out, try the switch in a day or two when its dried out
 (sounds wierd but ive had similar with cheap switches)

Ian
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Re: RMS hurt in fatal road accident?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 05:04:52PM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I express our deepest sympathy 
> for Hans Bakker and his friends and family.

A fair comment, but what a shame RMS is still around...

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Re: make xconfig

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:16:02PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> /bin/sh: g++: command not found

A naive assumption would be that g++ is not installed...

What if you do "apt-get install g++"?

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Re: RMS hurt in fatal road accident?

Russell Howe writes:

>A fair comment, but what a shame RMS is still around...

You may not like his apoproach, btu it's worth remembering that without
him, we wouldn't be here. As the saying goes, you can't make an omelette
without breaking a few eggs...

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Re: OT: What can take out a switch *and* an ethernet card?

On Thu 30 Sep, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 

> 
> Can anyone explain this? Also, can anyone recommend the best place 
> nowadays to get another 16 port 10/100 (I have a number of 10Mb devices 
> which matter, like my firewall and my printer) switch?
> 
> Regards, Ian
> 
> 
   I have not checked, but I suspect that the ethernet is not isolated from
machine earth at either end, so could be affected by a floating earth
connection. Many small hubs are supplied with a cheap external power adapter
which is probably isolated, and only finds an earth as the mean of all its
interconnections, but you should check that your workstation is well-earthed
through its own mains cable. It may not be convenient, but it is a good idea
to keep all the technical bits connected to the same earth point and
unaffected by other more powerful equipment and inductive loads. The
majority of my kit is even fed through the same spike filter.

   If you are near North Acton, 3A Distribution Ltd sell standard "no-name"
switches

http://www.3adl.com

or you can mail-order through NetShop

http://www.NetShop.co.uk

Strange Mac file

Would anyone like to hazard a guess at what this file is, sent to me
by a Mac weenie:

http://annexia.org/tmp/Gertcha_Gig

$ file Gertcha_Gig 
Gertcha_Gig: MacBinary III data with surprising version number

Rich.

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Re: make xconfig

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:56:30AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:16:02PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> > /bin/sh: g++: command not found
> 
> A naive assumption would be that g++ is not installed...
> 
> What if you do "apt-get install g++"?

if you werent such a careless pric* you would notice that he has
installed g++-3.2.

congratulations russel, my contempt for you has made to into another thread
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Re: RMS hurt in fatal road accident?

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:54:58AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 05:04:52PM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> > I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I express our deepest sympathy 
> > for Hans Bakker and his friends and family.
> 
> A fair comment, but what a shame RMS is still around...

did you forget to grow up this morning or are you always such an
asshole? 

you amaze me with your impression of a fuc*wit.

Ian

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RE: Strange Mac file

Opening the file in a hex editor or text editor reveals the string
"Adobe Photoshop 7.0 2004:10:01 09:30:03" so I would presume it is a
photoshop document.  It also may be stored in MacBinary format which (if
I remember correctly) is a format that includes both the resource fork
and the data fork in a single file.  If this is greek to you, don't
worry about it and try opening it in Photoshop or other application that
understands Photoshop files.

Andrew Farnsworth

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Subject: [Gllug] Strange Mac file

Would anyone like to hazard a guess at what this file is, sent to me by
a Mac weenie:

http://annexia.org/tmp/Gertcha_Gig

$ file Gertcha_Gig 
Gertcha_Gig: MacBinary III data with surprising version number

Rich.

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Re: Strange Mac file

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:25:35AM +0100, farnsaw <at> stonedoor.com wrote:
> Opening the file in a hex editor or text editor reveals the string
> "Adobe Photoshop 7.0 2004:10:01 09:30:03" so I would presume it is a
> photoshop document.  It also may be stored in MacBinary format which (if
> I remember correctly) is a format that includes both the resource fork
> and the data fork in a single file.  If this is greek to you, don't
> worry about it and try opening it in Photoshop or other application that
> understands Photoshop files.

GIMP can't make any sense of it ...

Rich.

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