I wanted all my attachments saved in a separate folder when receiveing them, so I could easily access them ... in windows I found it trhough IncrediMail .. trying around different mail programs .. in linux after quite a bit of work I did it via procmai & a perl script I found on the web.One of my hardest things to do was achieve in linux the 'email attachments in a separate folder', like I had in windows ..huh? saved in a separate folder? loaded from a separate folder? what email client?
unfortunatelly my kernel doesn't support 'fmask' .. so I couldn't set all the files to non executables.took me a couple of days :P ... and I've yet got unsolved problems (like a perfectly tuned file manager, being able to treat .mp3/.avi/./jpg from a windows partition as what they are not as binaries) ...That depends on how the windows partition is loaded or mounted as it's termed in the unix world. Look at your /etc/fstab file.
which switch .. the one now, or the other times?I've been flirting with movign to linux for a long time ... had a long collection of linuxes ... but always wound up back using windows .. thisWhat caused the switch, the above?
the other times it was for various reasons like:
no movies, no lots of games, no Visual C++, no DirectX, no modem suport in linux ...
I meant I'd rather use OpenOffice & get newer hardware than pay for MS Office.yep .. that's nice .. gettting up-to-date hardware is hard enough as it is :PHuh?
but that assumes you've got good hardware drivers. And unfortunatelly not every hardware manufacturer thinks of linux .. and certanly not too seriously:windows users generally complain about linux speed, or what?No, windows users moving in slow motion. Linux generally has better control over hardware than windows does, resulting in overall speed improvements.
it's a bitch in linux with my sb-live card compared to windows, nobody made the nice software I had for windows for my palm (like documents-to-go, or Palm Acrobat Reader) .. and I wouldn't recomend linux to anybody using a telephone modem from personal experiences ... still .. my wishes are with linux.
oh, I just love advertisements .. don't you? In fact I love them soo much that I love the Mozilla feature of simply cutting them out of the websites :Pbut Opera is not free, right? :PIt is, but you get to see all the wonderful advertisements.
that's what I'm using.Geforce (1), I don't know the version of X .. prolly 4. soemthign .. got it with Mandrake 9.1 .. which is relativelly fresh, afaik.Get ahold of some of the binary drivers from nvidia.com. They work well.
actually I once burned a cd with a done installation, then an install was just something like this:no .. i just treated it like: time to re-install :P ...Good, you're better than some. ;-)
reboot in linux & copy that cd on the windows partition
reboot from floppy and 'sys c:' :P
got the idea from a friend, I think
yes, and after setting a modern skin on it & configuring it (very easily configurable extension handleing) .. it's pretty nice, imo. loads almost instantly tooo.XNC is pretty nice. Got it working last night. Seems pretty instantaneous on my P2-266 sys with 160 MB of RAM.
I didn't hold much with it .. because of slow loading & stuff .. and because I'm not much of a mouse person and thus only found fast enough for me the type of 2 panneled file managers ... but recently someone showed me konqueror can be pretty much configured to act like that too ... too bad it's pretty slow ... I like the icons for extensions stuff though.
konqueror is very much like Internet Explorer in that it can browse and launch local stuff as well as remote things like webpages.
you work with stuff like that?I udnerstant nothing of the proteins stuff.Proteins interact because of chemistry. There is an ongoing project to model their behavior and use this data to develop new drugs.
yes .. but that's my question: if I do 'su' it asks for password .. but say I want to do something (like running nice as root) in a single command line ... can something like that be done?/bin/su will allow you to become any user. With no arguments it allows you to become the root, after you give the right password of course.
somebody with Windows 2003 explained to me it has some settings to be more responsive to background tasks (server behaviour) or user tasks ... isn't there some easy way to get linux to do this too?The scheduler is built into the kernel. It's one of the kernel's primary functions. This determines what data the CPU sees and works on at any one time.
I was originally thinking of WxWindows ... I wish I knew of some cross platform lib to handle ogg/mp3 .. & maybe jpg & stuff...thanks a lot for the willingness to help. Many many thanks .. I don't know how I will ever repay the linux community for the friendliness .. hopefully with games & 3d graphics for linux, that's what I'm into (given up DirectX, MFC & stuff just to try linux seriously... ). ...Mesa GL, www.libsdl.org and others are out there
ok the ps output...
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init system initiation daemon, good
to keep
he he he .. I love this explanation :P
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd monitors "events", primarily for
USB device plugins and plugouts
3 ? 00:00:00 kapmd power management daemon, kernel
side
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 soft irq for the primary CPU,
good to have, look it up
5 ? 00:00:08 kswapd runs your swap partitions
6 ? 00:00:01 bdflush buffer control, good
7 ? 00:00:00 kupdated used with the journal daemon
below
8 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd I forget
12 ? 00:00:01 kjournald runs your journalling file
systems, which enables you to recover from crashes (however rare) and power
outages quicker than otherwise. Look into journaled file systems in general.
115 ? 00:00:00 devfsd device file system daemon,
looks like Mandrake uses the devfs system
210 ? 00:00:00 khubd USB hub daemon
825 ? 00:00:00 eth0 huh? eth0 is the first ethernet
interface, but I haven't seen a process by that name yet.
901 ? 00:00:00 portmap I would say don't use this,
unless you know you have to. This is a security hole. It has to do with the rpc
stuffs which are like taking shotguns to your box.
I've got no idea what you're talking about ... and how would I stop it
from running? won't that affect other programs? any way to find out
which?same question as above917 ? 00:00:00 syslogd logs messags to /var/log/messages and other places 925 ? 00:00:00 klogd same idea, for kernel stuffs 972 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd mentioned with the portmap daemon. Don't run this if you don't have to.
yes1235 ? 00:00:02 xfs X Font Server 1589 ? 00:00:00 apmd userland power managment daemon, allows you to force your system into sleep mode 1638 ? 00:00:00 mdkkdm mandrake something, not really sure, I think it's the login for your system. I am assuming you have X running when you first boot, right?
cool!1640 ? 00:00:00 atd runs programs "at" a certain time 1660 ? 00:45:09 X X windows 1663 ? 00:00:00 mdkkdm again? 1668 ? 00:00:00 saslauthd I have no idea 1680 ? 00:00:00 saslauthd wait just looked up 1681 ? 00:00:00 saslauthd has to do with OpenLDAP, 1682 ? 00:00:00 saslauthd directory stuff. 1687 ? 00:00:00 saslauthd you probably don't need it 1705 ? 00:00:00 ntpd network time protocol daemon, keeps your system time syncronized to a standardized time server somewhere on the intranet or internet. These servers are usually divided up into various strata. Somehow they're connected to either the atomic clock in colorado(?) greenwich. AFAIK
what's PNP?1724 ? 00:00:00 tmdns apart of the zeroconf project, I think. zeroconf's goal is to enable PNP,
again .. how do I get rid of the ones I wouldn't want?but have it be internet devices and interfaces. It has it's place along with Rendezvous from Apple, but I don't think I would like it. You could probably kill it and not have to worry.
wooow .. this explanation is soooo coool!!!1757 ? 00:00:00 xinetd Redhat and clones switched to xinetd from inetd a while ago. This daemon controls what ports go to what services/deamons. For instance: if someone sends connection requests to your port 21, xinetd recognizes that as FTP and links a ftp daemon to that request. (then it bumps that connection up to the unlisted port range, but that's beyond scope here). It is configurable and holds it files in /etc/xinetd.d ? I think.
me either ... I do have a perl script that might have been running: mimescript.pl .. is run by procmail when new mail arives & attachments need to be stripped to a separate folder.1911 ? 00:00:00 master "yes master" Young Frankenstein ref for all of you... I have no idea what this does. 1922 ? 00:00:01 nqmgr email server queue manager, probably a good thing 1958 ? 00:00:00 crond allows you to schedule programs. Often updatedb is scheduled to run at 4 in the morning with this capability. 1996 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-bridge VMware bridge? this is like having a toll bridge instead of a barge (if you get the analogy as the river is what separates you from the outside world) The bridge allows for more than one IP address on the internal network. 2022 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-natd VMware Network Address Translation? NAT boxes take private classes of IP addrsss (ie. 192.168.0.1 etc) and maps it to a single outside visible IP address. The internal boxes "hide" behind a NAT box. 2286 ? 00:00:00 miniserv.pl why would anyone want a perl script running continuously? I have no idea what this does.
aaaa ... so that's what these were !!!2302 ? 00:03:07 fetchmail pulls email from remote servers and delivers it to the local server as if it were originally intended for the local server. 2328 ? 00:00:00 lisa allows you to browse SAMBA/windows shares through konqueror 2470 vc/1 00:00:00 mingetty controls your console devices 2471 vc/2 00:00:00 mingetty if you're in X, do a Ctrl+F1 2472 vc/3 00:00:00 mingetty through F6 (usually) and you 2473 vc/4 00:00:00 mingetty will see another login console 2474 vc/5 00:00:00 mingetty this is how linux was before X 2480 vc/6 00:00:00 mingetty login:
double yay!!2489 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-netifup VMware network device up? 2497 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-netifup 2521 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd dhcp server for VMware? 2522 ? 00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd 2526 ? 00:00:00 vmware-nmbd Windows shares for VMware? 2528 ? 00:00:00 vmware-smbd Windows shares for VMware? 2617 ? 00:00:05 blackbox Yay!
I don't get the <homer> stuff .. plz explain .. must be a fun joke :P2676 ? 00:00:02 bbkeys nice 2689 ? 00:00:17 xnc good deal 2692 pts/0 00:00:00 bash <homer>mmmm, bash</homer>
:P18273 ? 00:07:23 mozilla-bin memory hog 18280 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin memory pig 18282 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin memory swine 18284 ? 00:00:01 mozilla-bin memory porcine 18318 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin memory chauvanist ;-)
you know ... I've yesterday moved to Thunderbird .. and it seems to me to be faster & clearner than Mozilla-Mail .. & Firebird instead of Mozilla browser too.
one thing that's pretty bad in linux about my sound card (among other missing/malformed features) is that if I turn the volume down for say xmms it will also go down for say mplayer ... not separate control :(18320 ? 00:00:00 esd Esound Daemon, allows more than one program to send waveforms to the sound card, resulting mixed sound events
my favorite console .. finally a nice looking one :P ...18344 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin might as well roll around in the mud 18353 ? 00:00:00 Eterm schveett!
my goal is to make my linux as cool looking as some movies portray computers ... well .. it looked more like that when I was playin around with enlightenment ... but hey .. blackbox is fast too :P
xnc-s way of handleing file-viewing & extensions & stuff, I think18356 pts/1 00:00:00 bash I'm assuming the bash associated with the above 18417 ? 00:00:00 ives I don't know what this is
don't know.18422 ? 00:00:00 Eterm two eterms 18425 pts/2 00:00:00 bash 18518 ? 00:00:00 Eterm three eterms 18521 pts/3 00:00:00 bash 18646 ? 00:00:00 pickup don't know what this is 18658 ? 00:00:00 smtpd simple mail transfer procol daemon 18659 ? 00:00:00 proxymap are you running squid
(-: (-:18660 ? 00:00:00 cleanup cleanliness is next to... don't know why there's a daemon for that though
yes ... weird fun :P18661 ? 00:00:00 trivial-rewrite huh? I thought that the journal daemons took care of this 18682 pts/2 00:00:00 ps linux is so thorough that it lists the process that is listing all the processes.
I was thinking of using it for syncronizing my palm books without rebooting ... but it's way to expensive .. to buy .. and don't want to try it and become addicted ... but see ... I don't understand how the linux uninstall idea is implemented .. now vmWare is installed .. and don't know how to uninstall it.I would say that your memory hogs are mozilla and the vmware stuff. At least I think it's vmware. VMware allows you to run a virtual computer inside your current running OS. Most people run a version of Windows inside it.
umm .. I don't understand the question at all .. one of the reasons that Mandrake was so right for me was that I didn't have a lot of questions to answer during install :P"0 SRC="" DST=81.196.89.209 LEN=90 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=32331 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=32785 LEN=70 " the DST thing.Looks like you've got some packet logging going on. What did you chose when you were installing Mandrake? Multicasting Router with full logging?
wooow .. coool stuff. Finally some fresh insight into packages .. I can already imagine a package dieing on some server in Himalaya :P not reaching it's destination in time :PSRC (source) ip address DST (destination) ip address LEN packet length TOS umm, time of service? PREC ? TTL time to live, determines when the packet dies on the internet.
cool! so all the packages die in a while?It is the solution to the fact that packets might never die and just get bounced around the world if they hadn't developed this concept.
happily enough there are no 'EE' s in there.ID packet id? PROTO protocol UDP user datagram protocol SPT ? source something? DPT ? destination something? LEN again? dmesg gets alot, if not all of your kernel message outputThere is also a file called /var/log/XFree86.0.log which might be of some use eventually.ummm ... that's a long file .. din't know what to look for .. I meant to attach it .. but don't want to be causing trouble on the list :PProbably, but this email is plenty long as it is. Take a look at the file and note any errors you see.
hmm?Yeah, redirecting output of programs is one of the many powerful featurs of a contemporary shell. Especially like bash. It's something I only toy with, while other can do amazing things. Just as a note, STDIN is often a keyboard and STDOUT is often the console or terminal. If you take the output destined for the STDOUT of one program and direct it to the STDIN of another program you can do some cool things.
koool!!ls -alh|less redirects the output of the list files program through the less program so you can smoothly look at the entire listing with either the arrow keys or the h-j-k-l (of vim fame) keys.
I got my parents to use the beast .. it was hard .. epecially the double clicking and the way to hold it ... :)Like any tool, it has it's place. Linux, in it's current state would not work for an absolute computer newbie. Though it may work better than one thinks, because they haven't been jaded by windows. My Grandma would fail at any computer system. (I don't think she would get past the mouse... ;-)).
hmmm ... this is interesting ...Alsa and it's accompanying (sp?) libraries (jack, etc). Feel like having two or more sound cards in your system and having the computer see them as one? Entirely possible. This is useful if you want to build a juke-box for your entire house.
unfortunatelly right now my sound card has a lot of features very poorly suported in linux )-:
(like nicelly changing the surround sound & putting on different effects that the sound card can do)
(-:I can tell the system which drivers I want loaded and when (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, depmod, etc). I don't have to worry about whether or not this particular driver is "signed" or has been tested in the Microsoft HTL. I don't freaking care if Microsoft hasn't looked at it, I want to use it!
ahaaa..(I had to deal with that just today, sorry...) If you really want to and have skill enough, you can write your own drivers!
from what I see at least the guy emacs is just a terminal with some buttons around it )-:Free top quality text editors with syntax highlighting: vim and emacs. Both terminal and GUI versions of both.
ummm .. sounds complicated ... hope it can be done via OpenOffice too ...Feel like making some good looking PDFs (with graphics) fire up the old editor and punch the output through LaTeX (pdflatex).
really?? hmmm .. this is interesting ...PDF is a published standard as compared to the proprietary windo$e word. Have a postscript file you want to save as a PDF? ps2pdf14 will output adobe acrobat version 1.4 PDFs for you.
you noticed that too :PFull office suite? OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice (GNOME has something?). The default, again, for OO and SO are compressed XML. No longer do files magically double in size in your word documents.
I wish there was some video conversion/cut/fix tool, like Virtualdub in windows ... also some wave editing would be cool in linux too ...If you look at Excel's file format it's just ASCII with tons of whitespace (for pure text). Video? mplayer, need I say more. You can also export to mpeg with mplayer.
is that a kernel number?Multiple simultaneous users? sure, no prob. There is a limit, but you can change it and it is well over 200 by default and can be over 2000. They intend to increase it even more in 2.6.
what's Appletalk?Want to talk to old macs? Appletalk over Ethernet (or otherwise) can be built into the kernel.
cool :PMy "great claim to fame" is that I had Windows 2000 clients printing to a Appletalk 360 laser printer through a linux machine.
yeah .. I love custom solutions :PWindows --> SAMBA -> linux printing system -> NETATALK -> printer
I felt something similar with my attachments wish ..
wowit worked and worked well. The system had to be rebooted once in the 10-11? months it was in service. Oh and do you feel like setting up a company wide printing server with more than one printer so you can do load balancing? Look into LPRng.
There are no "hidden" things in linux. If you have root access to the machine
you can see every directory every file, etc. There is no such thing as a
registry to get corrupted. Configuration is maintained at a system level (/etc)
as well as a user level (.* directories and .*rc files). One the funny things
was that programs that took advantage of the registry for enforcing shareware
trial runs ("try this for 30 days," etc) could be convinced they were on a new
install if you deleted their . directories in the current users /home. It worked
with Photodex's Compupic (is that right?) software way back in the day.
are you talking about windows now?cool ... one of the fishiest things in linux a while back was that no fonts looked right in web brosers ... seems to be working now though ...Feel like having a transparent terminal? Eterm supports it with double buffering, aterm with some sweet tinting and konsole has trans also. Feel like loading ant-aliased fonts into your terms? xterm can be loaded with support for the Xft. (look into freetype)
I used it under windows too :PFeel like having sub-pixel rendering of text for your LCD monitor. Look up the many help pages on the internet, especially under truetype and anti-aliasing. GIMP: short for the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. One of the primary reasons for using Linux (maybe).
I've got like 4 cd writing programs installed ... none worked quite right except K3b ... I once even tried to configure my linux for cd writing .. gave up finally ... I never did understand what was with all the 'scsi' stuff for writers when I have an ide writer ... anyway .. with k3b it fixed everything it needed for me so I didn't have to do anything else.I don't know what the file format list is but it is numerous including PPDs from photoshop. It supports layers, transparency, filters, renders, plugins. You can write your own plugins (they're in Scheme I think...) You can write CDs with cdrecord (xcdrecord). You can digitally rip data from audio cds with cdparanoia.
cool.Feel like using arguably the best MP3 encoder on the planet? Look no further than lame. Feel like encoding in the new OGG audio format? There are rpms and source code for you to download.
I have a friend who setup linux to use 486 machines with no hdds and they all run from the server nicely configured Xs with all the flashy stuff.Do you want to setup an array of thin clients (computers without hard drives that pull their OS and programs from a master server), there is a school system (elementary through high) that has effectively done that. I'm blanking on which and where right now.
hmmm .. interesting ... but my question would be: I don't know much about hardware .. but say if I bought a dual processord motherboard .. would linux detect & use it ... or would there be some hard configuring involved?I don't even know the beginning about Linux's multi-CPU and multi-node capabilities. It features SMP and NUMA upto an amazing amount of CPUs, but that's as much as I know right now. You can build your own supercomputer with the Beowolf (sp? seen in many a post on Slashdot regarding some new hardware) project. I seem to remember that a government contracted company was going to build a massive supercomputer from a bunch of AMD chips noded together...
really?If you have a scroll wheel (setup correctly of course): move the cursor to the trough of the scroll bar of a horziontally big window (spreadsheet or what have you) and scroll wheel up or down. You will move the contents sideways...
I've worked with quite a lot of printers .. but never understood what a 'postscript' printer is (lots of hearing about it in linux, though)Most programs will allow you to print directly to postscript files
how could I do this? At one time I've reconfigured my Visual C++ 6.0 to have ctrl-i be equivalent to up key ... and similarly for all cursor keys and page up-downs ... anyway .. I liked it a LOT ... no more moving my hands from the typing position to navigated .. then I became addicted ... and wished for that system wide (in any other editor) ... no more moving my fingers from they keyboard (the part with the letters) ... could this be done in linux ??? (having pressed ctrl-J the system to treat it as left arrow across the whole system) ... how???(instead of the useless "prn" files in windows), and using the pdf generator above (actually apart of the ghostscript package) you and save anything to PDF. This is useful to save shots of webpages. Screen shots are achieved primarily through gimp, but X windows has a utility. Then you can again convert that into PDF. Want to remap your keyboard? Want to program your system to respond in funny ways to the stupid windows keys? You can load most any mapping, from Dvorak to the french. (You can do this in windows, I know.)
hmmm .. Mac is still doing well?As far as I know ILM is now using Linux machines for their 3D rendering software. Pixar, to my knowledge, has also, but they look like they're moving over to the new dual G5 systems and Mac OSX.
I'm surprised MS isn't trying hard to conquer servicing somethign like CIA something.The NSA looked at the system thought it sufficed in many areas and those they didn't like they released paches for. If your're really worried about security look into OpenBSD. Note anyone who considers windows a "trustworthy" interface ought to have their head examined (read Bill Gates). Windows has not even made it to the minors (baseball ref), while linux and its BSD conterparts have been playing in the majors for a long while. Though that's pure banter on my part.
is that an OS?In any case, I'd look at the TrinityOS documents for hardening techniques.
is it working? I've got it installed, tried some windows program and it said something about missic C drive ... or not there .. and teh cofiguration files are there though ...Don't like what daemons are started at boot time? Go into the run control files and comment out all that you don't want. Especially those who are running Redhat. Don't like what shell you start with be it BASH or what ever (ZSH, tcsh, sh, csh) you can change that with chsh. Want to run windows software? Look into wine at winehq.com
yep )-=Into games? There are alot of new titles coming with full linux support. id software has been nice to us as of late too. But this, honestly, is where we're hurting.
I'm hoping that at least with WineX though .. even if it is payed .. don't know how expensive though ... people will have an option in Linux too .. don't know ..
I want to become a game/graphics developer ... the solution I'm trying in the hopes of still being able to use Linux is looking for cross platform stuff so the same code can compile in both Windows & Linux (like wxWindows, or SDL)Game devels don't often code for linux, `cause everyone runs windows so why waste the time. Though we do have many of the game servers out on the internet.
hmm .. didn't know this page ...Good website to help out for a lot of this is www.tldp.org
I liked Gnome + Enlightenment like 3-4 years ago :P ... was excited about being able to creat buttons & drawers in drawers in drawers :PI think it would have been very difficult if I had to jump right into the linux world if it had not been for KDE. That first install I made way back 4 or 5 years ago, I thought that the KDE (2 something) interface was linux. Not so much now, but it certainly helped to get me started. Then I realized that it was just an interface to a deeper world...
so it's a text only?For email I use mutt. It supports PGP, threaded discussions etc. As well as remote IMAP folder browsing. It is terminal based and therefore I can check my email anywhere in the world (with an ssh install).
my problem is this: yes .. a lot of the code is free & stuff ... which is really cool .. if you're just looking into programming Linux .. but say I want to sell something .. a screensaver, or a game ... then afaik lgpl/gpl will prevent me from using a lot of the code I'd want .. I don't really understand very well the legal stuff .. to be honest.Look to squid if you want transparent web caching and proxying. Piping and redirection of data streams. Just the sheer fact that you can program anything you want to on this system and the tools are free for you to do it. Plus it is encouraged.
greets ... thank you VERY much for the long & cool explanations!
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