If you wish to publish online then use XML/XHTML not PDF. Search google
for why XHTML should be used
over PDF anytime anywhere.
One of the main problems with XHTML is that it is not very well supported by
a lot of browsers that people use. A large number of people I know still use
Win98 with
For completeness' sake. You will still require the appropriate number
of MS Office licences for this scenario.
Well, MS licensing is another issue alltogether. If you are using MS
products, then you should contact ms and get an estimate on the licensing
costs first. If most people stopped using
does anyone knows a pdf writer for GNU/Linux.
i tried writing a document in openoffice and converting it into pdf, but
the links that i had put in my document do not work in pdf.
i'm in urgent need of a pdf writer which allows me to create the
hyperlinks and the page
links for the pdf
You can run MS Office from a MS Windows 2000 Server running terminal
services. You will only need to install the MS terminal services client on
your windows boxes. In fact you can run a large number of windows apps using
terminal services under Windows 2000. The main problem with windows apps is
0. Do we have an IDE for Perl / Python??
I have used a Perl IDE, but I didn't find it of any help. The only popular
languages with good IDE are C, C++ and Java (if you count, then include ASP
via Visual Interdev, VB, C# and all the other .NET languages)
1. Can I have a compiled binary for Perl
big snip
To sum up, I'd recommend Python as a great language for learning OO
programming and Perl for those programmers who want to have the
freedom to be constructive, creative and innovative.
While I do like perl a lot, I have found it's quirks to be too irritating
most of the time when
Supreet Software development has become a complex task. If you
Supreet check out any big enough project, they have a style
Supreet guide, they try to enforce. Which really indicate that
Supreet there is no standard for indentation even when there are
Precisely. And I want an
Ok ours is primarily a web based front end to our business. So the
basically technology in context of a web based application is what I
need to think about.
Do you really find Java/JSP to be tough/complicated for web apps? I found
that except for the smallest web apps, using Java/JSP with a
I would recommend that you learn PHP.
I won't recomend PHP! It is good, it is free, but not much useful for
anything other than web apps!
Ambar
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I have realized interpretor based languages result in
shorter developement cycle than compiled languages. For that reason I
would recommend perl, or python. Unfortunately get skilled people/work
in either in India is non existant.
My experience has been that interpreted languages like perl,
IT publisher Wrox Press is set to close following the collapse into
liquidation of US owners Peer Information last Friday.
This is indeed a sad news! I really like the Wrox Press books. Most of their
books are very well written and thorough. In case anyone on the list hasn't
seen their books,
In AIX,
Call IBM for support, it's a paid-for OS after all.
ROTFL
this is a good one..
add it to the ilugd faq. Include Solaris and Windows in that section too ;)
Ambar
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I would like to get my hands on anything that could
help me do this.
Even makefile..
Does anyone really use makefiles for automatic account creation?? I would
use perl or C to get this done. There has to be some oss project for this
also! Check out sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net for that!
Red hat 7.2 comes with squid that is a proxy server. If you don't find it
installed, then install it from the red hat cds. The Linux kernel has a
firewall that is built into it.
In most cases, setting up RH as a firewall/gateway is a matter of
configuring the Kernel firewall and squid. Search the
- Do not post attachments such as executables or graphics to the
list. Put them up on HTTP or FTP and post a URL.
- Do not post HTML messages to the list.
I don't know what mailserver software is running this list right now, but
didn't the previous server have the ability to strip attachments
please tell em my linux is getting problem at 32 gb
hdd
tell me there is any option to boot it from the 98/
2000
what is this supposed to be?
In case you wan't to start a new post, just send a mail with a proper
subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not that difficult, and there are people
around
OK, let me rephrase: the list is archived and the archives are
searchable at Google and other engines. My basic rule of posting is:
If one day I'm egosurfing for `Raj Mathur' for the benefit of my
mother or my son, I wouldn't want the sort of content that makes me
either blush or quickly
Another important information that you people might be interested in...
Reliance is launching their inet service very soon.
I have a friend in Reliance comm. From what he has told me its 900/month,
64kbps and 2k for installation.
hmm... the more the merrier.. more competition will surely drive
OOPS! Sorry for troubling the list. This time the root
partition actually filled up because unnecessary files
were copied to /root.
Is there a way to get advance warning on Disk Space
fillup?
you can write a small perl script to parse the output of df, and a corn
script to send u a warning
funny.. i rarely get downtime around 1 day in a month total, but in the last
week they went with mandatory auth, and their auth client sucks big time,
even a brain dead vc/vb programmer comes up with better gui!
Ambar
PS: my bw used to get uncapped magically at times, not any more :(
-
does the file user_test have write permissions for the user/group nobody?
Because apache runs under the user/group nobody when executing perl
scripts..
try to see apache's error log and u will get some info..
put some logging in your script to know where you are getting problems.
Ambar
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Hey Man
edit resolv.conf and add the following line
nameserver 202.54.15.1
...that is the IP of VSNL's name server. Basically your domain names are
not being resolved. This should do the trick. Take care.
I would not recomend using the VSNL 202.54.15.1 comp as your primary name
server.
Guys,
Please give us poor guys a break. Large mails chokes up my mail server
:( Please don't send such big mails.In case you feel that there is something
really intresting, you can always send a url. Also remember that a lot of us
still use text mode mail clients under linux, and html mail
...or even better, considering you're running on Linux, use your own
computer as a caching nameserver. Most distributions come with a
caching-only nameserver already configured, so all you have to do is
enable named at boot up (update-rc.d or chkconfig or whatever) and add
`nameserver
I am knowing about any interesting file diff utility which can ve used
along with cvs so that file changed in cvs vs local file can be found.
as far as I know, any file diff program can be used with cvs. CVS also has a
built in diff program. Under windows with WinCVS I use MS WinDiff. It is not
I know that this is for ppl in east delhi, but here in South Delhi (GK C.R
Park area) We have Hotwire which imho is a very decent ISP for an average
home user. I pay around Rs. 1500 per month for a 64k/16k link with a real ip
that is set as a static IP on my machine. The backend bw was quite good
I use metaproducts download express under windows
for all my downloads. It is free, small and it does the work for me ;) I have
used it to download iso images of red hat and mandrake linux in past. check out
www.metaproducts.com This is a 200kb
download.
I have also used flashget to do iso
1. Where and how do I configure squid to permit connection from the
external browser to the internal host? I have defined the internal IP
address in /etc/hosts on proxy host?
U have to set up a acl to allow anyone to access your squid proxy. This part
is quite simple. Go thru the squid docs. or
I thought the libyahoo2 announcement would be interesting since Philip
Tellis of Mumbai is a significant contributor to it, and hence it's of
local interest. Can always desist if people feel that this is a bad
idea.
IMHO libyahoo2 is the kind of software that most of us won't wan't to know
In fact, when i went to nehru place and asked some people if they will
install linux on the machine instead of windows, they said that they'd
rather gimme a blank disk and linux CDs if im so interested in it.
You were lucky ;) When I was in the hardware business, we used to charge
extra to
Raj,
Do we really need new product announcements in this list? Freshmeat is
good enough for most of us. Security updates in a new version is one thing,
but this way we might end up like /. where in recent times it seemed that
every Linux Kernel version had a story of it's own!
Ambar
Pls. keep posting match scores once in a while.
I suppose that there are enough websites giving you live match feeds. Why
clutter up the list with outdated match scores. Please keep me out of a
mailing list for cricket match scores ;)
Ambar
Govt of India plans to provide IT infrastructure to schools
(excerpt and
link below). India will endup funding MS unless, some of us take a
little
time of and help educate the powers that be about Linux.
The way in which Indian government works, they end up funding some big
Try the find command ;)
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:53
AM
Subject: [ilugd]: LOCATION OF RPM PKGS ON
LINUX CDs
Dear All,
Please let me
Raju,
Please don't send
mails with such big attachments :( My mail server seems to choke at any mail
that is 20kb :((
Ambar
PS: You should at least change your alterego's id
once in a while!
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From:
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
For your kind information, Windows XP CD (software) is never supplied with
any PC. It is Windows XP Recoverable CD which is supplied with the system
in
case the install XP software supplied with the PC get corrupted.
In fact a lot of computer manufacturers don't even give u the cd nowadays!
And
Next thing I will hear is people asking for Windows XP CD's since it
came free with their PC ;).
A similar situation will come when ms stats sending free winxp cds!
Ambar
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I want to boot workstation by Network Server using BOOT ROM. I want to
know what should write in boot rom and how. or i can purchase ready boot
room for this purpose. Or there is any other way for making diskless
workstation in Linux environment.
You seem to be looking for LTSP -- Linux
There was a Linux wristwatch announced by some
japaneese company. I don't remember, maybe casio! I don't know what happened to
that though.
About windows crashing and needing reboots. I would
like to say that modern windows. Windows 2000 or Windows XP with proper drivers
rarely requires
PHP has a function in which the replacement of an RE match can be
handled by the name of a given function. Does Perl have something
similar? Should be. After all PHP calls these lots the PCRE functions.
In other words, I want to do this:
===
thanks a ton. good ideas, but can't say if i can implement them
successfully :-|. though will work on it. users are not sophisticated
enough to change MAC addresses, so that is not a concern. and may not
prefer user authentication.
Just as an afterthought. If you are assigning DHCP based on
now was slightly worried that if 192.168.0.10 machine is switched off,
someone can assign 192.168.0.10 to his/her machine and access net.
my method is not good though, and would appreciate if anyone can provide
something better.
If your network is small, you can probably try scanning the arp
monitor hello all. I have observed that there is a trojan called
monitor The Thing using port number 6000 on one of the linux
monitor machines. can any one give me the removal instructions
monitor and how to block desired ports on linux. im running rhl
monitor 7.2 smp.
but i thought writing at speeds beyond 20x-24x was practically almost
impossible.. well it shows 32x,...40x but the hdd speeds are *not* high
enough to support these speeds .. 150*40=6000Mbps consistent ???
i thought that was quite difficult to get
i mean we do get 16Mbps and so on by
IMHO floppies are a very big pain. I have stopped using them, unless
when nescessary.
Just get to my age, sonny. I have stopped doing *anything*, unless when
necessary.
LOL ;)
u don't sound that old!
Ambar
To
1. Download it.
2. Extract under /usr/local (or whereever you want)
Done with installation.
Only if you have java properly set up ;)
RTFM
The tomcat install guides are quite helpful. One should always go thru the
install guide of any software before posting these kind of questions.
Ambat
If anyone else has some more daredevil tricks for
floppies let me know as I always keep running into bad
floppies.
If possible don'tuse 31/2 floppies for any important data. If you must then
either make multiple copies of your zip file in the floppy or use 2 or more
floppies. Never format your
Once you have seen Microsoft's
source code the ``shared source'' license prevents you from ever
coming out with a product that looks like, acts like or competes with
the MS product whose source code you saw. As Eric Raymond points out
in http://lwn.net/2001/0712/a/esr-viral.php3 , the
Roy ji r u from gurgaon ? how much ur isp charge u ?
Not from gurgaon, but C.R Park I had office in Gurgaon, but not anymore!
My ISP (Hotwire) charges me Rs. 1.5k/month for ethernet based internet. 32k
bw cap (which is cleverly advertized as 1:2 shared 64k) and unlimited
downloads. IMHO Hotwire @
On 13/12/02 01:32 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya thus spake:
Hey. I think you get Hathway at GK2. My experience with Hathway has
been really good. 256kbps for Rs. 300/month, 64kbps for
Rs. 1000/month. Speeds are almost equal to what they promise and
service in general has been
I get hotwire in C R Park! Also I heard there was a spectranet
licensee/cable internet operator @ krishna market.
Who runs hotwire? How good are they?
Primus runs hotwire. I have decent experience!
Ambar
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as a novice to Linux i would like to know the substitute to a package like
visual studio in LINUX environs
Actually there is no substitute for visual studio under linux. But if you
wan't to program under linux, here are a few options:
1. Kylix from borland. If you like visual studio, then you
I am making a mail management software and have been
asked to use sendmail for receiving and dispatching
mails. The application is on C++. Please let me know
if you have any ideas, thoughts and suggestions.
Please let me know how to approach ?
Whatever you do, just make sure that your app
status. I have
seen this being done on a few email lists, and it is extremely effective in
keeping the list well behaved.
One of the things that I would like to see implemented is snipping of the
footers and other irrelevant portions.
Ambar Roy
RTF was chosen since it's easily creatable by everyone,
whether on
Windows, Linux or another platform. The idea behind using
RTF was to
enable students to use familiar tools for creating the
content. The
site will also accept SGML content, hope that satisfies
you :)
Then why don't we just
There is something more interesting than this.
Enter go to hell in Text Box, then press I'm
feeling Lucky button instead of Google Search
button.
Well a lot of people to whom I told this were actually
confused about this, because they could not figure out why
the resulting site was going to
6. - The text format would be rtf, to be converted to
sgml later or
probably directly sgml.
Please don't use rtf as the text format. IMHO it is best to
use XML or some other totally free and open format. RTF is
essentially a microsoft format, and most of the RTF tools
that work are from
Raj,
At least put the commercial tag. I thought this was
going to be another one of your security bulletins :(
Ambar
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PGP is fine for sending the mails.But what about
incoming mails.Users doesn't want the incoming mails
to be seen by Sys Admin(root).
The only solution is to change the users. This is plain not
possible. SMTP is an unencrypted system, and the only way to
get privacy is by using pgp, gpg,
I am running Qmail and my users doesn't want root to
access their Maildir.
Didn't find any thing other than encrypting whole
filesystem which doesn't solve my purpose.Any tool
available in linux ???
With qmail you can apply a filter to each incoming mail. How
about adding a pgp encryption
This looks like a classic case of memory leaks or your
program using an algorithm that takes up a lot of memory as
it processes the file. The symptoms you describe are that of
excessive swapping to/from virtual memory. What does the
memory usage show for your system and your perl program?
Bye,
Search google for go to hell, *including* the quote
marks. Notice the
first hit on the page.
I was showing this to a few coworkers, and there I noticed
the 3rd Link, and an intresting 6th link ;)
Ambar
PS: The links are for populat web sites, so now just figure
out which ones!
As discussed yesterday, we can spend Saturday listening to
the
original Hitch-hikers' Guide BBC radio play and eating
pizza and
drinking b33r (optional). If everyone's OK with the
date/time, I'd
propose Saturday the 14th. We meet at noon and can go on
till
evening. Venue is Munirka, BB/3G
http://www.bbcshop.com/bbc_shop/product.asp?pf%5Fid=05634770
24shop=bbcmscssid=4XTQSXHTQKS92N0C0002U40F6EWP4E37
43 UKP, 8-CD set. Contains all 12 episodes of both radio
series and
`Douglas Adams's Guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy'.
43UKP ... ouch...
so am I invited to hear the
could anybody please help me how to mount usb x drive (the
ultimate storage
device) in linux .
What is the usb x drive? And what makes it the ultimate
storage device?? or is the ultimate storage device a part
of the name of this product.
Bye,
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Should smoking be allowed during the LUGD meetings.
I would vote on non smoking in LUGD meetings.
I also vote for smoking to be not allowed in any closed
room. Smoking should only be allowed in open spaces, and
places where non smokers are not bothered.
Bye,
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PS: I don't
When I run my red hat linux 7.3 many a times it displays a
message saying
application panel crashed can anyone suggest what could be
the reason.
Can this just be an example of buggy software. I know that
red hat normally doesn't tend to ship latest packages, but
application crashes are mostly
I personally am fine with anywhere within 20 KM of South
Delhi. And
unfortunately this remark is going to be taken as a
dictatorial
statement and be the end of all discussion on this topic,
I guess :-(
How about having the meeting in some central location in
Delhi? East delhi is a bit far
PS: Why does the list seem to drop all my messages??
It seems that the list drops my messages if i send them from
any email id other than the one by which i am subscribed.
Now can't I at least get a failure message in this kinda
case??
Bye,
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Is it possible to get the Linux Delhi mailing list
messages to Google
and other search engines. I believe there are quite a few
people out
there who dont know about LUGD who could
benefit/contribute.
I have seen some of my posts on google earlier, when i did a
search for ambar roy
Hi,
Thawte offers free certificates. You can check it out at www.thawte.com. This cert will have your email
id, but the name will be "Thawte Freemail member" or something
similar.
To seemy new thawte cert that i just created,
u can check out the signature that i have attached to this mail.
I generally use 1600x1200 and upwards myself. The
problem is not the display. I am not sure what wraps
the lines (the server or the client) but most e-mails
will be wrapped at a certain width and if the sender's
client is set to a certain value and the receiver's
client wraps again at
I'm glad this discussion came up, since it enables us to look deeper
into a school's requirements and determine what we can provide to meet
them. There's RHIDE for Linux, which (from the one screenshot I saw)
appears to look and work exactly like Turbo C. Anyone willing to
evaluate that in
This happens mostly when you are replying ;)
Thats probably because everyone here uses Outlook and
so they never notice that anything is wrong. Raju's
messages are wrapped properly and it is really
annoying to see a sentence being broken into 2 lines.
I suggest you reduce the value to 72
I use a high res monitor, and i don't face any of the problems that you are
talking about. Also i use the default line length for outlook express. If
your face any problems due to my mailer, then please tell us what optimal
settings we can use. I have seen this line wrap problems myself, but I
My comments on the sys config:
1. Intel P-4 1.7GHz CPU with 400MHz FSB/ Intel Original 850
Motherboard/ 256MB RDRAM Memory/ P-4 Cabinet with SMPS/
Unless you are doing video editing/compression or some other app that can
eat up lots of cpu, any modern cpu 1ghz shud be good enough. With any
Is an internal modem supported by Linux
check out www.linmodems.org. Many are actually supported under linux
nowadays!
Of course this is for the PCI winmodems. If you have any no winmodem
internal modem (like the older isa card variety) then they will almost
certainly work with linux.
Bye,
Jasmeet OK this cud be offtopic . just cristy sake .. how is an
Jasmeet external modem better than an internal one !!!
Many reasons, apart from the fact that most internal modems available
today are winmodems and probably won't work with Linux.
In fact some of the winmodems don't
While agree with most of what Ambar has written, I'd
differ slightly here. While a CPU with one GHz will
satisfy most users' needs, a major consideration
remains upgradability and serviceability. A P-4 with
1.6/1.7 GHz is now-a-days being vended as minimum
specs and at affordable price. The
1) Well, it does seem to be a good decision to go in for RDRAM with P-IV.
Generally, users have gone in for SDRAM with P-IV, ending up with wasting
their money. P-IV gives the speed advantage only with RDRAM. But it would
be
worthwhile to consider, P-IV with RDRAM should be roughly three
kpresenter is ok, but imho it is quite incomplete.
Also my experience with ppt files is that you shud use powerpoint to open them,
if they are anything but the most basic slides!
Bye,
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From:
Lalit
Bhasin
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My experience with the ppt - html conversion is that it tends to work
properly only inside ie. Also you typically don't wan't to have a slide show
from inside a web browser.
Bye,
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If it is not much of a problem, you can convert ppt
files using powerpoint into html and use
Ambar,
For each service that you want to disable an IDENT lookup for, edit
/etc/xinetd.d/filename, where filename is the name of the service. Change
log_on_success and log_on_faliure from USERID to another method, like PID.
Or just delete these lines [log_on_success, log_on_faliure] to stop
Now, I whole heartedly agree with what you are saying - with both the
points
above. But what I fail to understand is how it anwers the current question
at hand - that of upgrading RPM from 3.x to 4.x on a RedHat 6.x system.
I don't know about you, but anyone who is asking questions about rpm 3
I want to use procomm to connect to a linux machine from windows machine.
Can any body help me in this regard?
Basically u will need a version of getty that allows login thru serial
lines. I remember doing this a long time back, but I do remember that there
was a howto out there that explains
Please everyone, WINEis not Windows Emulator
or WINdows Emulator
WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator", Kinda
like GNU and other similar recursive acronyms!
For more information on wine, go to www.winehq.org
Bye,
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PS: I don't see any mention abt this "wine is not
an
* Is there any similarity between HyperTerminal and procomm?
Lots.. they are both similar kinds of applications.. Think about word word
perfect
* Can i use HyperTerminal to connect to a linux machine from windows?
Yes, and using 2 methods.. one is thru a modem/null modem connection. one is
Also execute the command
ipchains -F to remove any firewall restrictions.
Run command setup
and select firewall option and set to no firewall.
I won't recomend this to anyone, unless the computer is in a closed network
that harbours no malicious users.
Please don't disable your firewall w/o
Hi everyone,
The stock Red Hat 7.2 installation that I have on my home computer
insists on sending an ident query for any connections to that system thru a
LAN for ftp and a few other services. (BTW.. i am using vmware and virtual
networking, and not a real LAN). How do I disable the ident
I won't recomend this to anyone, unless the computer
is in a closed network
that harbours no malicious users.
Please don't disable your firewall w/o knowing why
you need to do that! This
is not something that you shud do if your computer
can have any kind of
internet access.
Hi,
How come there are no more linux meets ?
When is the next meet?? And when was the last meet??
idea A firewall setup demo by amber? /idea
Not a bad idea, but it has been a while since i have used firewalls
under linux. Last time I did use one was when Red Hat 6.2 was still new :(,
so i
Hi Vipul...
Thanks for your comment but I think I realised it just after finishing
that
up.
What I want to know is the remedy of the problem
There is a command /sbin/restore ...
will this be helpful for me..??..
how
Your only hope can be to recover files on your windows
I've installed red hat linux 7.2 on my machine, which is on a network with
other windows 2K and winnt machines.IP addresses r as follows
linux 192.168.1.155 sub net 255.255.255.0
win 2k 192.168.1.100 255.255.255.0
win nt 192.168.1.1255.255.255.0
now the problem is
I have RH6.1 installed on a production server running Kernel 2.2.12-20.
I have RPM version 3.0.3-2 installed and wish to upgrade. I downloaded
rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm from the archives of RH6.2 updates from the Redhat
site.
I did a rpm -UvhF rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm and it says query of
Does anybody have the RedHat 7.3 or 7.2 box set?
I would like to write the entire set of cd's. so if you could lend it to
me for a day or two.
I hav the bin isoz of rh 7.3 in 3 cds. And i shud also be having mandrake
8.2 in 3 isoz. All these are downloaded from the net and not the boxed sets.
Hi,
Try to run FDISK /MBR from within a dos command prompt
Bye,
/\ |\/| |3 /\ r
PS: Pls don't use html when u send your msgs
i am getting problem in removing linux partition from my machine...
my machine is dual boot with windows nt 4.0 and mandrake linux 7.2.
i have inserted cd of
On one of the many lists that I am subscribed to someone had mentioned
that Dishnet forces users to use an USB modem which is not supported on
Linux. This is very disturbing considering the stff initial
non-refundable fee that they charge. So before commiting I would like
others feedback.
Boss, how about writing in English for a change? I must
confess that I skip over all your posts because they're
impossible to read even though you appear to be talking useful
stuff.
Ambar I was under the impression that I was writing in some
Ambar english
By all means.
I am running RH 6.2 on Pentium IV and i am sure RH
7.2 would run too.
BTW are you running the kernel that came with the original RH 6.2 or a
newer kernel? As far as i can remember, the stock RH 6.2 kernel did not
support the P4!
Bye,
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i want to ask here is:
whether RHCE makes getting a good job esaier?
sorry for disheartning comments dear friend, but the law of jungle says
that you get higher salaries to work on expensive equipment only.
RH is free, Intel equipment is cheap so the salaries of a systemadmin
working in
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