Re: NY Times article on Netscape and free software in general
A URL for the Times article: http://search.nytimes.com/books/search/bin/fastweb?getdoc+cyber-lib+cyber-lib+19330+16+wAAA+Denise%7ECaruso Best Regards, JohnT -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help with mounting particular CD
I've got a CD that won't mount on FreeBSD 2.2.2 (Yes, I'm working on getting them to install Debian ;) ). Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and reading the directory structure. Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could give me the file system type that Debian so sucessfully has mounted? Apparently it's not iso9660, or at least FBSD won't mount it as iso9660. FBSD will mount other CDs as iso9660. The CD is supposedly accessible by Unix, Win 95 NT, and Mac. I have managed to refuse to install Win 95 NT so far, and am not about to start. Any potential help or pointers will be appreciated! Best Regards, JohnT-- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help - CDrom file format
I've got a CD that won't mount under Win31 or FreeBSD 2.2.2 (yeah, I'm working on getting them to install Debian ;) ). Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and reading the directory structure. Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could give me the file system type that Debian so sucessfully has mounted? Apparently it's not iso9660, or at least FBSD won't mount it as iso9660. FBSD will mount other CDs as iso9660. The CD is supposedly accessible by Unix, Win 95 NT, and Mac. I have managed to refuse to install Win 95 NT so far, and am not about to start. Any potential help or pointers will be appreciated! Best Regards, JohnT -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: space, time, matter
Dear Brendan - Matter does exist. However, it has no place to be since space and time have gone away to visit energy. At 16:38 11/12/97 -0800, you wrote: I was wondering if you had any documentation on whether space time and matter really exsist. I am a first year physics student at mcgill university in Montreal Canada. My argument is that they do not exsist, however, i am having trouble formulating my ideas, if you have any information, it would be most helpful. thank you brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
apology to list
In a fit of pique I added to the spam on this list regarding a misplaced question that did not belong here. I immediately realized my reply might result in a further inquiry to the list. I hereby apologise to the list and will not post unappropriate and off-topic replies in the future. Best Regards, JohnT -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lock a pentium for fun!
It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes. In what way is it a bug? If all the codes are assigned, then future extensions become impossible. Unassigned OP codes are properly given no-op execution and are indicated as reserved in the programming documentation. Best Regards, JohnT -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet)
Printing to a HP LaserJet requires that you send an initialization control sequence to the printer that tells the printer to use a CRLF for each LF the printer receives. I created a simple printcap filter to do this, and to allow selection of monospaced font sizes. If you would like I can send you my simple filter. Best Regards, JohnT -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Fw: F**k the script... I want him gone now....
Kevin - If its not too much trouble could you keep the profanity out of the subject line, at the least. Kids are on this list. While I know that it's a real world out there some parents would like to introduce them to it in stages. It also doesn't present the nicest view of Americans. Thanks. JohnT At 17:45 10/30/97 +0100, you wrote: Can anyone tell me what the following permission means? drwx-T 2 bong admin1024 Oct 29 21:27 private Thanks, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The reason that television is called a medium is that it's not rare and very seldom well done. - Ernie Kovaks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: THANKS 4 - WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)
Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list! Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner, it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about real code and what's going on in NT. This I can take to someone and point out why they should be considering Debian. I don't have the time to check out every URL that someone includes in a post. Thank you!!! Please include me in any future mailings of yours. Best Regards, JohnT Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading - 56k speed?
A bit off-topic, but a few additional thoughts: 1) Achievable speed is totally dependent upon your telco's outside plant characteristics. For example, I'm 2 1/2 miles from my local telco's switch. My ISP is about 6 miles from the same switch. I cannot get a *reliable* connection over 28.8. Connects at 31200 and up drop after 10 to 45 minutes; *reliably*. 2) Here in Illinois (US), our local telco, Ameritech, only *guarantees* data up to 9600 baud (which covers fax). If you try for any faster you're on your own. 3) As I understand the current situation, not even the manufacturers have gotten full 56k speeds consistently, only low 50's. And this is on the test bench. Regards, JohnT Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 486SX33 -- 486DX2-66
Currently Intel is the only manufacturer selling 5v 486 chips. It *should* be a straight drop-in, no jumper changes required. A *very* old motherboard *could* have a problem supplying enough current for the doubled chip. But I haven't seen that happen yet, and I've upgraded a number of machines. There might be a problem with the motherboard going from SX to DX, depending on the chipset on the motherboard. But, again, unlikely. For the $40 these chips are going for it's worth trying. Cyrix and AMD make 486DX2s but they are 3 volt. This would require changing motherboard jumpers, if your motherboard supports 3v chips. Either way, if you're going to max out an old box you might want to do it reasonably soon; 486 pinout chips and 30 pin SIMMs will soon be history. Best regards, JohnT - Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures' 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need minor dselect help. (with recommends)
Rob Browning wrote: The only gripe I have is that it treats Recommends the way that dpkg treats Depends, so it drops me into conflict resolution *every* time I run it because I have suck installed, but no news-transport-system. Is there any good solution to this. I at least want something like hold for a given package, where I'm essentially saying, I run cron for various housekeeping tasks. I do not currently run any mail service (I use my ISP's). *Every* time I use dselect I have to mark cron's *recommends* as hold, then override with Q to exit the conflict/dependency submenu. I have to do this *every* time I run deselect. One of these days I'm going to be in a hurry and Q override something I shouldn't. And.. Best Regards, JohnT -- Life is non-orthagonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone know of a way to generate PDF without Adobe?
Does anyone know of a program, Debian or not, that will generate PDF files from ASCII, PS or HTML? I remember hearing of one, but I havn't been able to track it down. Thanks in Advance, JohnT Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures' 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux
I'm running a Cyrix 586/120 with essentially no problems. Minor problem: Colorado FC-20 interface for tape backup requires that I turn off turbo system clock and backup slow (~7-8MB/min). Otherwise, system works fine. JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron's insistence on dselect mail stuff
Just a question - Will cron ever relent without being forced? IMHO, cron really doesn't require, recommend or suggest, it demands! I run cron for cleanup and other local jobs. Currently, I don't have *any* mail related programs installed. I'm getting tired of having to override dselect *every* time I want to install/update something else. Anyone else with this problem? Do I have to install as an alternative, and then remove the alternative later when I install mail? Thanks for listening to the rant. Regards, JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem mounting hda3 as root
Thanks to all who responded to my problem to a mountable but non-bootable root partition. The answer is that dselect's aborted install (upgrade) apparently deleted files in /lib before replacements were made. Restoring the /lib directory from tape allowed the system to boot hda3 properly. Best Regards for the New Year to All! JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP! - me recover from 1.2 aborted install
Hi - OK, I give up. I've spent over a day trying to get my root partition to mount. The stupid move - I tried to upgrade to 1.2 selecting multiple items in deselect. Yes, stupid, do it incrementally. The result - lilo loads the kernel, kernel does initial checks, checks partitions, the console displays VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly, then nothing. Init never starts. I can boot with my rescue floppy set, and mount hda3 (my root) on a mount directory (/mnt). Yes, I can e2fsck it, and it passes. A cmp of /sbin/init /mnt/sbin/init shows no differences. Used rdev to check those kernel parameters (after I tried command line params to lilo). Tried single boot. No cigar. Hid fstab and mtab, no help. Of course this is my main machine, the one with man and source. So, I'm stuck. I've another machine with some 1.1 on it, which could help. (I've never figured how to make boot floppies that mount root on a RAM disk, so I only have one root floppy to work with. ;-( Any and all suggestions and opinions will be welcomed! Best Regards for the New Year! JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hda3 won't mount as root - ok on /mnt - ??? HELP!
Ouch! Still same problem. Tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (selecting multiple items in deselect). The install bombed, kernel panic, (probably disk space?). I had to use the reset switch. Now no boot. The partition containing only /var (with deb files of course) was corrupted. All other partitions checked out ok. When trying to boot, lilo loads the kernel ok. Kernel does initial checks. The console displays VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly, then nothing. Keystrokes are echoed to screen, but init never starts. CtlAltDel works to reboot to the same thing. Booting from floppy I can mount hda3 (my root) on /mnt. Yes, I e2fsck'ed it, and it passes. Re-ran lilo (ROOT=/mnt /mnt/sbin/lilo), went ok, but still no hda3 mount as root. So, I'm stuck. I've another machine with some of 1.1 on it, which could help if I knew what to try. I'd just like to recover my 1.1 system (2.0.6) so I can restart upgrading to 1.2. Lots of files in /usr /home I'd like to keep, so re-install is an absolute last try. Any and all suggestions and opinions will be welcomed! Best Regards for the New Year! JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
