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Holy cow - it's been three months, and you haven't gotten that drive mounted on /home? I'm not on Ubuntu forums often, but for heaven's sake, email me if the other guy doesn't get back to you, and we'll get this straightened out.

meanwhile, try this at your failsafe login (based on the fsck output early in the thread):
sudo mount -L /home /home

As an aside, I'm shocked at the low quality of some of the help up there. People just stabbing in the dark, rather than figuring out what's actually going on. It's the blind helping the blind...

I thoroughly read your code before I wrote my own stuff, which is unfortunately so specific to my employers' requirements as to make it useless for anyone else. Your perl was extremely useful to me in the perl-LDAP learning process (I didn't actually cut 'n' paste any of it into my own, but it definitely flavored the way I was looking at our problems).

I was never able to find a PADL-distributed perl chage, though - although I downloaded all their tarballs a year or two ago looking for it - so you might want to change http://www.cloudmaster.com/cloudmaster/projects/fo m-files/cache/72.html
to include a link if PADL's still got it online.

Thanks again!

5 years ago, I wrote command-line compatible replacements for useradd/userdel/passwd. Then I abandoned LDAP and didn't finish the parts of the programs which were unimplemented (things like enabling usermod to work, and writing chage/chsh). :) I seem to recall there being a web-based password changer written around the same time. I'd be surprised if someone didn't have better stuff by now.

Note, that's perl written by someone without a lot of perl experience at the time, so it could well be the stereotypical unreadable stuff. :) I should really look at it again one day and probably clean it up... Add one more thing to my "when spare time comes" list.

My car mp3 player (warning - half-done web site from many years ago) used that interface in 1999, if I'm understanding the patent correctly. If only I'd gotten the software up there for download sooner... Seriously - how *else* would you allow effectively navigating a lot of music in a small display space?

You need DeCSS.

Yeah, it's impossible to add extra database servers.

It's also unlikely that one could find a database server that can cache the results of identical queries when the data hasn't changed, significantly speeding up access to nearly-static data.

It's downright insane to consider using proper cache-control headers and a caching proxy in front of a web server farm.

It's sure too bad that these solutions can't be solved by merely hiring a competent sysadmin who's willing to relocate, 'cause that's be far too convenient. :)

It'd probably be easier to teach everyone in the company good HTML.

I see you didn't check out my web page (it's linked from the page that's atop each one of my posts). I've written several small pieces of software, and it's all available to the public. Lots of it's out of date by now, replaced by more modern and functional stuff (esp. the LDAP integration stuff), but it's all open source. I've only got the one project up on freshmeat, and again, it's pretty simple and somewhat outdated - but I know that several people use it none the less. The stuff I develop for my employer is intended to be open sourced, but I haven't gotten around to getting it online. Similarly, lots of my most current stuff's not up yet, just because I'm bad about keeping my website up to date.

Anyway, I've been contributing to open source darn near as long as you have, though my stuff's considerably less popular than E. Perhaps I was a bit harsh calling E a "stupid, dead project", but then again, most of my crap's stupid, dead, and perpetually unfinished too. :) Kudos for sticking with it.

It turns out, we don't have enough water, but we do have several cans. My wife and I weighed about 5 cans of soup, beans, and Red Gold tomatos at a time (scale only reads up to 7 lbs) until we had 21 lb, 6 oz in a pair of plastic bags (which, coincidentally, was all of our cabinet's canned supplies). Then she recorded while I lifted and held momentarily. The thing only records for a few seconds, leading me to choose a controlled descent over holding onto it for a long time.

So, after getting a crack for my expired mjpeg codec (why in the hell doesn't Canon include one with their camera if it's gonna record in that format!) and tweaking TMPGEnc so the rest of the world can view this feat in mpeg format. It's just a shade over 1 MB, but I don't have a whole ot of bandwidth so it might take a couple minutes to grab (hopefully this thread has died down enough to keep traffic down - I certainly don't need a slashdotting). I've also got video of dropping a 3 lb leg weight in there (actually, just enough to make it 24 lb 3 oz) and that was about all I could do. The grunting wasn't attractive, and I didn't quite get it level anyway, so it's not getting posted. I think the office chair from this afternoon was somewhere in between 21 and 24 lbs, but I can definitively say that I can, in fact, lift over 21 lbs with a straight arm, which surpasses my 18lb claim. :)

BTW, that's about 26 inches from my shoulder, which Google says ends up at 46.3 ft-lbs. Not terribly impressive, but about 5-6 times the torque my pushmower engine puts out... I'm gonna go out and taunt my pushmower now.

Have you been reading my old car mp3 player page or my old usenet posts again? :)

Note that my post about emulating the Kenwood occured about a month before the people at PhatNoise (now makers of the audio Keg) started working on their device. They actually finished theirs, which is more than I did. They're not real keen on sharing their specs, though. At least, they haven't been helpful when I've contacted them. Kenwood's been useless, too. Not that I'm bitter or anything. :)

As far as how the things actually work, no, they use different control signals. Most do put the line-level audio on 3 wires back to the head unit, but they vary on how they detect the presence of a changer and control said changer. It's a good idea, though, and I'd really like to know if anyone ever documents how any of them work. It just *can't* be much more than can be done with a serial port...

I almost wrote my own useradd/userdel/usermod. http://www.cloudmaster.com/~sauer/projects/fom-fil es/cache/8.html

There have been some fixes to those scripts that haven't made it to the downloadable version yet - but they were adequate for my needs at the time (a couple of years ago). Maybe a good start for someone wanting to do their own? I dunno - I was in a hurry...

I'm #108731. I only received mail when I realised that the email I signed up with had gone away years ago, and had to send a few messages back and forth to establish my identity and get the entry corrected. Since I *asked* them to mail me, I guess that was acceptable. Oh, and I got the confirmation mail, too. :)

The image has been on my personal page (http://www.cloudmaster.com/cloudmaster/)
for a long time... Oh, the memories. Sniff. :)

Personally, I like to fix my own car even though I'm not an authorized mechanic; and I like for cops to have to see me break the law if they wanna give me a ticket. But then, I've already got an internet-enabled car, so who am I to mock? :)

My blocklist is available here, and via anonymous rsync at rsync://cloudmaster.com/redir/redir
Assuming you already have squid up and running, you can just

• mkdir /var/squid/blocker
• echo "redirect_program /var/squid/blocker/squid.redir" >> /etc/squid.conf
• rsync -v rsync://cloudmaster.com/redir/* /var/squid/blocker
• cd /var/squid/blocker
• make

Check out Advantech's biscuit PC's. They've got one that takes a socket 7 CPU and has on-board ethernet, sound, IDE, video, everything. It runs somewhere around 600 bucks, but it's a 5.25" form factor and runs off a standard hard-drive power connector (only needs +5 and +12 volts). It's what I was gonna use in my project, but that's more than I wanna spend... BTW, on that page, I'm including most of the plans to do something like this. I haven't gotten it done yet, but hopefully I will this weekend...