https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-12T10:05:52+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2008-06-16T16:31:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/bandwidth?rev=1213633890&do=diff bandwitdh test This link will download a 178 meg file: [systemrescuecd-x86-1.0.0.iso] text/html 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text?rev=1239026436&do=diff Tikkun Passover 2009 Supplement in Plain Text Some folks have had problems with the font size on the 2009 Passover Supplement.  The original is from <http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/seder_2009>.  Below is a version converted to plain text with acroread and then reformatted in emacs.  Use it if you find it useful. text/html 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/multihome_dokuwiki_hacks?rev=1203628033&do=diff Multihome Dokuwiki Hacks I use the article by Lukas Ruf on setting up dokuwiki on a mutihomed web server to allow multiple separate wikis to run on one machine. The article is available at <http://wiki.lpr.ch/doku.php/multihomed>. These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article. text/html 2008-11-14T15:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/nasm_and_gdb?rev=1226676630&do=diff nasm and gdb problem with nasm version 0.99 It looks like this was fixed in nasm version 2.01, but if you are running version 0.99 you may find that you no longer have debugging information for gdb. The fix is easy, replace ``-f elf`` with ``-f elf32`` or ```` text/html 2008-02-20T19:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/z80asm_in_emacs?rev=1203534166&do=diff Using emacs with z80asm First off, I want to state I am not a lisp podgammer OK, now that that is out of the way, this is what I added to my .emacs when I started using z80asm to work with z80 assembly code.  It adds ASM to the list of extensions that will put you into asm-mode for editing assembly code and defines the compile command the way I wanted it.  If there is a better way to do these tasks please let me know. text/html 2008-12-16T16:36:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/blackbox?rev=1229445404&do=diff Using a ServeSwitch Ultra with a 1U server I have been using a Black Box ServeSwitch Ultra for well over 10 years.  At the time it was the perfect choice for our needs as it worked well with the 4 kinds of machines we were connecting to it.  It has never given me a moment of trouble in all this time, so when I needed to attach some new servers to it, I called Black Box and ordered the cables.  However, when they arrived, the hood on the vga connector end of the cable was too large to fit into t… text/html 2010-01-25T16:16:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/losetup?rev=1264436200&do=diff out of loopback devices As a result of a power related issue our Xen server crashed. When it came back up it could not create its full complement of loop back devices. I saw errors like: Error: Device 770 (vbd) could not be connected. Backend device not found```` text/html 2010-07-09T05:25:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/top?rev=1278653149&do=diff Odds and Ends * a few tips on installing qemu in ubuntu 7.10 (well xubuntu in my case) * multihome dokuwiki hacks * an intermediate fix for nasm 0.99 * blackbox * Dokuwiki local Style Test * Using emacs with z80asm * tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text * Some links to help the indexing text/html 2009-09-11T18:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/vnc_inetd_gdm?rev=1252693878&do=diff VNC over inetd with gdm - number of session limitation There are a lot of pages about setting up vnc over inetd.  I had been running such a setup for years with 10 - 20 simultaneous sessions being commonplace, but an upgrade of the server to ubuntu 9.4 broke my configuration.  Eventually all but one problem had been worked out by poking around the changelogs, reading a few man pages and using the standard net searches.  That problem was that only 2 simultaneous sessions were supported.  The fix…