[Ashwin N] I am fine. I stay in Bangalore which is very far from the
     coast.

     This truly has turned into a catastrophe of immense proportion. Entire
     fishing communities have been washed away in some places :-(

   Rajith is OK; by extension, Maxin B. John (whom I missed due to the name...)
   must be OK as well - they co-authored an article last month, so I figure
   they're in close touch. 

     [Rajith R] Thanks for checking in. I am ok and I live in Trivandrum. Even
     tough it is near sea here there were no problems.

     As of press time there our very few of our Indian authors and TAG members
     who have not checked in - Raghu J Menon, and Krishna G Pai. Raghu lives in
     Kerala, and somehow it seems like everyone knows Pramode (hey Pramode,
     check in on 'em will ya? Thanks buddy). If you have news of our friends,
     please let us know.

     May this New Year be better than our last, and whatever troubles we suffer
     draw us closer rather than tear us apart. With love to you all -- Heather
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   Published in Issue 110 of Linux Gazette, January 2005

More 2 Cent Tips!

 See also: The Answer Gang's [64]Knowledge Base and the LG [65]Search Engine
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     * [66]Firewall
     * [67]Cygwin from a CD
     * [68]Tip of the Day: regular expressions
     * [69]Adding custom headers in Thunderbird
     * [70]Counting braces
     * [71]JPEG to PS
     * [72]Setting the Clock on Linux
     * [73]SMTP-time despamming
     * [74]starting X automatically without [gkx]dm
     * [75]whois.sc
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Firewall

   Hugo Mills ([76]darksatanic, #hants on irc.blitzed.org)
   13:04 <@darksatanic> I usually use it for debugging firewalls.
   13:04 <@darksatanic> watch -n1 iptables -nvL \| sed -ne /^Chain INPUT/,/^$/p
   13:05 <@darksatanic> There's a 2¢ tip for you...
   13:07 <@darksatanic> The sed bit prints out just the chain you want.
   13:08 <@darksatanic> My rules for the firewall are just a tad too big to fit
   on the screen,
   13:09 <@darksatanic> so I use that (and things like it) to show only the
   chains I want.
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Cygwin from a CD

   Jimmy O'Regan ([77]The LG Answer Gang)

     (!) [Jimmy] This is a follow-up to
     [78]http://linuxgazette.net/109/lg_tips.html#tips.2

   Whoops. Having just looked back over the .reg file, I see that I have the
   path for X's fonts entered differently to the rest of the file: this /is
   not/ the reason why X doesn't work from a CD.

   Saw this on [79]Slashdot today: XliveCD ([80]http://xlivecd.indiana.edu) is
   a CD image that autoruns an X session when put into a Windows machine (it's
   based on Cygwin).
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Tip of the Day: regular expressions

   Dave Whitinger ([81]dave from lxer.com)

   Forwarding to you a good tip by Robert Whitinger. If you ever run dry and
   need fresh tips for upcoming LGs let me know - we've got a ton of these fun
   ones. 

     [Ben] Thanks, Dave - we're always looking for 2-cent tips like these! I
     believe Heather has mentioned this in the Mailbag recently.

   (And please keep up the great work!) 

     [Ben] [grin] Much appreciated; we'll do our best. Keep on reading, and let
     your friends know about us; the more folks read (and write for) us, the
     better we get.

   best, dave 
                              ...............

   I don't know about you, but I've spent a lot of time learning all the
   intricacies of the preg_... pcre functions. But whenever I go to the shell
   environment, the rules are different and so are the results.