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Q. Why do you have questions here that clearly aren't Frequently Asked ?
Despite what you may think you read, the F in UA FAQ doesn't stand for Frequently. FNORD
Like isoma said, "possibly because no-one fancies calling the folder Seemingly-Random-Queries-Of-An-Arbitrary-Nature".
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Q. How do I get to UA2 ?
telnet ua2.org
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Q. How do I get to Macclesfield ?
Head out of Manchester on the A6 and follow the signs
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Q. Where's Bowlers where they have the computer fairs ?
See http://www.computermarkets.co.uk/MANCHESTER.html. This
also has the dates and times on, sometimes.
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Q. When are the semester start/end dates ?
http://www.man.ac.uk/welcome/semester.html
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Q. How do I edit my message in UA ?
^B - Back a character ^F - Forwards a character
^H,DEL,BKSP - Delete a character ^W - Delete a word
^A - Start of line ^E - End of line
^P,^U - Previous line ^N - Next line
^K - Kill line ^X - Join lines
Arrow keys
ESCAPE - finish
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Q. How do I set the title of an xterm ?
See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Xterm-Title.html.
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Q. Why aren't I getting syntax highlighting / color PINE / color UA on my terminal ?
Try setting export TERM=xterm-color
Note this is a "hacky" solution that can break other things (like MS telnet).
In vi, you also probably need to add ":syntax on" as well.
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Q. Where can I get POSIX standards info ?
If you're on Linux, the man-pages have detailed standards info (make sure
to get a recent package though). The POSIX standard is available for
free here.
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Q. How do I remove HTML tags from a string in Perl ?
s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs
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Q. Is there a free cddb server ?
I'm sure there's several, but one is cddb.plig.net:888.
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Q. How do I convert LaTeX into a suitable MicroSoft form ?
Take a look at http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html.
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Q. Currency converter, la ?
http://xe.com/ucc/
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Q. Hummm, train timetables !
http://www.railtrack.co.uk/
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Q. Where are all these meta-shopping sites?
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Q. How can I identify what nameserver/version a dns server is (remotely)?
dig @<nameserver> version.bind. txt chaos
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Q. What's the UA development server ?
ua2.org:2020
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Q. What's a suitable .qUAckrc ?
<>
<server="ua2.org"/>
<port=4040/>
<username="user"/>
<password="..."/>
<browse=1/> [Windows users]
<browser="/usr/bin/netscape"/> [Unix users]
<attachmentsize=-1/>
</>
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Q. How do I read in a line in C ?
One reasonable way is shown at readline.c. The
problems with this function are left as an exercise for the reader.
Note that the spd_malloc and spd_realloc routines used there check for NULL themselves.
Basically, don't do it in C. If you are foolish enough to be happy with a fixed-size buffer,
you can use fgets() instead (don't).
If you care naught for portability and are on Linux, use getline(3)
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Q. Which is which string stream header in GNU C++ ?
<strstream> contains the old incompatible string stream interface.
<sstream> contains the new standard-compliant version. You can
use a sstream file with older compilers to remain standards-compliant with
older gcc versions.
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Q. Aren't there any standard specified-width integer types in C ?
There is stdint.h, which I believe is mentioned in the standard. There
you will find uint32_t and lots of other fun things - have a look.
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Q. What's MCC's newsserver called ?
localnews.mcc.ac.uk - and no, you don't get man.cs.* there.
Don't use news.mcc.ac.uk.
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Q. How do I find out what password is set in a Windows application ?
http://www.ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/snitch/ might help.
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Q. What does 'DETAGGED' as the registrant for a domain in whois(1) mean?
That the ISP has given up control of the domain. See
this explanation.
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Q. How about another newsserver ?
news.cis.dfn.de apparently.
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Q. SMS to e-mail gateway ?
+447973577510
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Q. Who are these Agent guys ?
Info here.
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Q. Where's that anagram generator ?
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Q. Is there a multimedia search engine ?
http://multimedia.lycos.com/ or
http://gallery.yahoo.com
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Q. Is there a STD phone number searcharoo thing ?
http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/uk_std_code_search.htm,
http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/stdcodes.csv
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Q. I need the postcode for a street ...
http://www.royalmail.co.uk/paf/
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Q. How do I find out h/w config on a UNIX ?
Look at http://perso.club-internet.fr/sgarnaud/unixtools/index.html for some shell scripts with the answer.
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Q. How do I convert from a DOS ASCII file to a UNIX one (i.e. remove the trailing ^M's) ?
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perl -pli~ -e 's/^V^M//' <files>
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or TMUVCITWE :%s/^V^M//
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or
tr -d \\r <infile >outfile
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Q. Is there a shell variable holding the return code of a process ?
Yes. For sh-like shells, the variable is $? and for csh-like shells, its $status.
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Q. What is this randomfile.rxq ?
You can track down the meaning by extension (assuming file randomfile.rxq isn't helpful)
at http://kresch.com/exts/ext.htm. Another good
one is http://www.wotsit.org/
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Q. Where can I get a list of the country TLDs ?
http://linz1.net/TLDs.html
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Q. What does s/something/something else/g mean ?
Substitute (implictly, in the above text) every occurence of "something" with
"something else". As in UNIX utility sed.
s/implictly/implicitly/g
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Q. How do I play Mornington Crescent ?
What a great game ! The website
http://www.thurible.co.uk/crescent.html has everything you need to know.
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Q. But what about Mornington Croissant ?
Ah, the continental variation. This fell into disrepute some
time ago and is not played any more, except by a few lone
herders.
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Q. Where's the damned TV guides ?
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Q. Where's Beej's guide to network programming ?
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/
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Q. Where can I get the capon sample ?
Here.
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Q. How do I change all occurences of a string in vi
For one line :
:s/oldstring/newstring/g
For all lines :
:%s/oldstring/newstring/g
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Q. How do I change all filenames to lowercase, recursively, from the current directory ?
Try this :
#!/bin/sh
# usage: lowerise <files/dirs>
# unbelievable programming brilliance by movement
for i in "$@"
do
if [ -d "$i" ]
then
(cd "$i"; lowerise *;)
NEW="`echo \"$i\" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"
if [ ! -e "$NEW" ]
then
mv -f "$i" "$NEW"
fi
fi
if [ -f "$i" ]
then
NEW="`echo \"$i\" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"
if [ ! -e "$NEW" ]
then
mv -f "$i" "$NEW"
fi
fi
done
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Q. How do I use screen with UA ?
exec screen telnet ua2.org
And : "Well, ^A d to detach, and "screen -r" to reattach."
Scrolling in screen : ^A then Esc, then vi-like keys (or arrow/pageup/pagedown/etc) to move. Then Esc to abort.
^A:scrollback <lines> to set the number of lines in the scrollback.
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Q. How can I start putty with the settings of a saved session ?
putty @sessionname
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Q. How can I run a process when I have logged out ?
If you want to run it at some particular time, you can set up a regular
execution with cron, or a one-shot execution with at. If you want to start it immediately,
you can use the nohup command to set the job as background, and it seems the standard
^Z then "bg" command pair seems to also work.
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Q. Why doesn't pow(),sqrt(),log() ... work in my C program ?
You need to add -lm to the compile line. This will then dynamically link the standard
maths library, where all these functions are stored. As a general rule anything that needs to include math.h
will need to link with the maths library.
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Q. I wrote a test program, but when I run it, nothing gets ouput !
Short answer: don't call your program test
Long answer: 'test' is a utility used in shell scripts. The shell will search along
your PATH variable looking for the command you typed in unless you specify a directory as well.
So you can either add . to the front of $PATH (not recommended), or you can invoke your program as
./test
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Q. Why does screen keep telling me about collapsing dungeons and scrolls of logging ?
It's been compiled with nethack support.
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Q. What's with all these "X-Topper" ratings ?
Let the esteemed Topper explain himself :
Topper Scale for URL sexual content rating v1.0(a)
0. Fully clothed.
1. Very slight nudity - bikinis, underwear, etc
or
'Artistic' nudity, such as that used in perfume ads - you know she's
naked, but they're not showing any of the /good/ bits.
2. Frontal nudity. Breasts on full view.
3. Full frontal nudity (British jazz-mag stylee). Breasts and genitalia
(unstimulated) on view.
4. Full frontal nudity (Merkin jazz-mag stylee). Breasts and genitalia
(stimulated by the hand, but nothing else) on view.
5. Full frontal nudity (European jazz-mag stylee). Breats and genitalia
(stimulated by, or receiving insertion of, fingers or dildo).
6. Softcore pornographic. Faked/simulated penetration or oral sex.
7. Hardcore pornographic. Actual penetration (vaginal, oral or anal).
8. Mildly perverse. Insertion or penetration of foodstuffs, kitchen utensils,
hardware, writing implements, sporting equipment, etc. Infliction of
slight injury for sexual pleasure
9. Perverse. Involving live animals, really old people, inflicting /very/
nasty injuries for sexual pleasure, watersports.
10. Highly perverse. Involving oral consumption of faeces, urine or vomitus;
infliction of fatal or near-fatal injury for sexual pleasure; use of
corpses (human or otherwise).
The rating given to a URL is to be the highest relevant one. For example, if
a fully-clothed couple are simulating sexual intercourse, it would receive a
6, rather than a 0.
If the content of the URL is entirely non-sexual it is to be given an 'n/a'
rating. Other potentially offensive URLs will fall under another, as yet
unnamed, rating scheme (the Phil, maybe? ;).
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Q. I'm debugging with printf, but nothing gets printed !
You need to add a \n to flush the buffer. Depending on circumstances,
you may also need to do fflush(stdout) or fflush(stderr) after
the printf().
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Q. Where are compsoc's web server access and error logs ?
Cunningly hidden in /usr/local/var/log/
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Q. I get wrong System.map version warnings in Linux - does it matter ?
Short answer is : not really. System.map is a text file consisting of kernel symbol
names and associated addresses. It is useful for debugging kernel errors (oops messages),
though these are hopefully very rare. No harm will come to a running system if
you use the wrong version of this file (i.e. from a kernel different to the one
running). However, things like ps axl may display wrong info (possibly ?)
for the WCHAN field.
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Q. How do I create a static library (lib.a) ?
cc -c file.c
ar -r file.a file.o
ranlib file.a
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Q. What is a compressor ?
A compressor does not "make the quiet parts of a signal louder, and the loud bits
quieter." Read
the SOS article.
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Q. How do I turn keyboard click off on the Suns ?
click -n
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Q. how do i run exceed on the PCs to run Xwindows apps ?
first, telnet to a UNIX machine you are running the app from :
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Q. URLs:
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Q. what does ... mean ?
| OTIOSOTAAISATYSEPDNNCTIHBSSWIEOWIASBRMPISAWATMISE |
"Okay, this is other side of the argument, and I still
acknowledge that your side exists. Please do not now
claim that I have blindly said something way in excess
of what I actually said, by rephrasing my point in such
a way as to make it sound extremist."
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| NSVBBB |
New Server Version Blah Blah Blah (response to bug reports or feature requests) |
| ROTFL |
rolls on the floor laughing |
| LOL |
lots of laughter / laughs out loud |
| BTDT |
been there, done that |
| if you swim |
if you see what i mean |
| SORN |
song of right now
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| IOW |
in other words |
| HTH, HAND |
hope this helps, have a nice day |
| TIA |
thanks in advance |
| PITA |
pain in the arse |
| AFAIK |
as far as i know |
| AFAICR |
as far as i can remember |
| IIRC |
if i remember correctly |
| ISTR |
i seem to remember |
| FFS |
for fuck's sake |
| WTF |
what/why the fuck |
| BOFH |
bastard operator from hell |
| TYVM |
thank you very much |
| UA |
UnAxcess |
| UnAxcess |
pun on unix access, apparently |
| LAM |
look at me ! |
| monce |
not gash |
| gash |
not monce |
| AIUI |
as I understand it |
| YA$personAICM$amount |
You are $person, And I Claim My $amount |
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Q. WTF is LIMBO?
There's a conference called LIMBO, where editors/witnesses are supposed to move
messages that are irrelevant to the conference they were posted in, ready for
the editor of a more suitable conference to grab it for theirs. The time when
the message is invisible to normal users is when the message is in LIMBO, in 2
senses of the word, therefore.
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Q. Why is this page such a mess ?
Because I'm lazy.
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if you want to talk, Big Brother always there for you.) ? Then tell me all
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