Linux-Development-Sys Digest #215, Volume #8 Sat, 14 Oct 00 14:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Stop CENSORSHIP and SPEED CAPPING! Let the F.C.C. know what you think of the AOL -
TIME WARNER merger! Link to FCC here! 5004 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How does a computer boot? (ratz)
Re: 3c900 full duplex problem (ratz)
Re: Fisakars UPS + Linux (Keith Rhodes)
Re: LILO version 21.6 released (John in SD)
Re: sockets per process (Eclipse mail)
Re: executing applications without using filesystem (The Ghost In The Machine)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Stop CENSORSHIP and SPEED CAPPING! Let the F.C.C. know what you think of the
AOL - TIME WARNER merger! Link to FCC here! 5004
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 07:25:20 GMT
The merger between AOL & Time Warner will be approved -
BUT - the F.C.C. is going to require some form of open access.
The question is - open access for WHOM? Will the conditions
protect ONLY THE CORPORATIONS or will they also protect YOU
the END USER?
This is what AOL and Time Warner have to say about censorship
and speed capping:
IF TIME WARNER DETERMINES THAT THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FAILED TO
COMPLY WITH THE SERVICE'S STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OR LIMITS ON
BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION, TIME WARNER MAY SUSPEND SUBSCRIBER'S
ACCOUNT. TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS SHALL HAVE THE SOLE AND
UNREVIEWABLE RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTENT VIOLATES
THESE STANDARDS.
DID YOU KNOW:
AOL cancelled the account of the President of the Chemically
Disabled Americans - they said it was a commercial usage! The
president ran it from his bedroom. As a public service. His
comment expressing his outrage is contained in the F.C.C. file.
DID YOU KNOW:
These are the things that Colette Lantelme, Security Administrator
of Road Runner, claims are against the Road Runner Acceptable Use
Policy.
1. Posting a message on any "For Sale" message board.
2. Listing a product on any Ebay, Ubid, or similar service. (Boy, is
EBAY gonna be PISSED!)
3. Announcing a job availability.
4. Replying to a job availability.
5. Mentioning that the user had tried any product and found
it satisfactory - or unsatisfactory.
6. Posting a message to any "personals" board.
7. Asking a user for a date.
8. Calling attention to any commercial or non-commercial
website, including personal websites provided as part
of the purchase price of the service sold by Time-Warner.
9. Calling attention to any IRC chat channel.
Want to say that Al Gore can't be elected because he is a democrat?
No problem! Want to say that Leiberman can't be elected because he
is Jewish? BANNED FROM AOL!
A very small effort on your part can well induce the F.C.C. to
outlaw this censorship and Speed Capping, and protect YOU as well
as the corporations. You have some powerful allies; Consumer's Union,
Disney, and many commercial software companies. Even the Attorney
General of the State of Connecticut is on YOUR side - you may read
their petitions at the link below.
But YOU MUST HELP!
You can F.I.L.E YOUR C.O.M.M.E.N.T IN THE O.F.F.I.C.I.A.L C.A.S.E FILE!
---> This is NOT merely a EMAIL message which will be ignored <---
Any response which you file will be an OFFICIAL document included in
the F.C.C. FILINGS!
It will appear in the OFFICIAL CASE FILE as a comment
read by ALL THE ATTORNEYS who are participating in the action, as well
as ALL THE F.C.C. C.O.M.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.E.R.S! It will remain there
FOREVER as part of the O.F.F.I.C.I.A.L R.E.C.O.R.D of the AOL - Time
Warner merger! With YOUR name on it!
Since this internet campaign started, approximately 250 comments have
been received by the F.C.C from individuals. (Some are funny as hell!)
We need twice that!
PLEASE - can you HELP PROTECT IRC and USENET? SEND the SAMPLE COMMENT
to the F.C.C!
The F.C.C. is on the verge of requiring the protections this letter asks
for. Your letter might PUSH THEM OVER THE EDGE and make the internet
a BETTER PLACE for EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOU!
MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO USENET AND IRC! This letter WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
if there are enough of them received by the F.C.C. If at least 500
letters are received, we can probably count on the F.C.C. to take decisive
action to prohibit both censorship and speed capping - and to protect
the users, not merely the corporations.
GET A CHAIN RESPONSE STARTED! I can do only so much. I can only post
to so many newsgroups - I can't do it alone. WE ALL NEED YOUR HELP!
Copy this message and post it to (at least) 3 newsgroups where it does
not appear! Then, Send this message by EMAIL to (at least) 5 friends!
If everyone does that, we can FLOOD THE F.C.C. with comments and THEY
WILL LISTEN!
The major ccorporations and the politicians are coonducting this merger
on their terms, for their benefit, and giving no thought whatsoever to
the users. They are all fighting over our dollars, but do they give any
concern whatsoever to us? Does a fish ride a bicycle?
They believe that the internet, which WE, not them, made great, is now
too valuable to be left the users. Their attitude is, "let them comment,
they don't count, they are not rich corporations, they are merely poor
users. Will YOU let them get away with this?
They can ignore 250 users. They can't ignore thousands of users.
Right now our comments, all 250 of them, are a minor agravation to
the "power structure." They have to wade through them to get to the
important stuff, the corporate, I.E. money, responses.
THOUSANDS OF COMMENTS ARE NOT AN AGRAVATION, THEY ARE A POLITICAL
PHENOMENON! DO YOUR PART!
LET THE F.C.C. know that THE INTERNET DOSEN'T STAND FOR ANY BULL! Tell
the F.C.C. I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
The future of USENET and IRC depends on the F.C.C. forcing all ISP's
starting with Time Warner and AOL to recognize free speech and fair
marketing practices. PLEASE HELP!
TO FILE YOUR COMMENT WITH THE F.C.C:
1. Copy the letter to a file. You can put it on your letterhead
with MS Word or just use a text file. You can make any change to
the letter you want, or add any comment you have. CHANGES ARE GOOD!
They show you READ THE LETTER and REALLY CARE! If you had a bad
experience with AOL or Time Warner PUT IT IN!
2. go to:
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/websql/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.hts
(This is the official F.C.C. page where electronic filing of petitions
is accomplished)
3. Fill out Cover sheet
Put your name, Address, Email address, and all other required
information on the form. (Remember this is an OFFICIAL FILING so
the F.C.C. requires this information. It is not published unless you
put it in the letter as well as the form)
Proceeding is
00 - 30
(Leave out the spaces, they are there to get by the spam filter.
Put in the -)
(this is VERY IMPORTANT, it is the case number of the AOL TIME
WARNER APPLICATION for merger. If you get it wrong, your comment
WILL NOT BE FILED!)
4. Send Cover Sheet.
5. After you send the Cover Sheet, THEN select the filename of the
letter you are sending, and send that.
6. After you send the file, you will receive an official
confirmation of the filing from the F.C.C.
7. You can TYPE a comment instead of sending this sample comment, but
DON'T PASTE THE SAMPLE COMMENT into the Short Comment box - it
DOESN'T FIT!
Comment will appear for all to read in about 4 hours
(but won't appear after business hours or on the weekend.)
8. If you want to see your letter, or read the other submissions,
other letters, the AOL petition, the Disney or Consumer's Union
objections, etc, here is the URL - Its long! Put in the case
number, 00 - 30 (no spaces) and nothing else.
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/websql/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.hts?ws_mode=retrieve_list&id_proceeding=00-30&start=1
IF YOU LIVE N A FOREIGN COUNTRY and wish to make a comment (This is a
world wide problem) the Cover Sheet will not accept your address. You
can do this: Enter your real name and address including country in
the address lines, but in the STATE box put CA and in the ZIP (first
field) put 90001. Ignore the 2nd zip field. Ignore the 2nd form, and
TYPE your SHORT COMMENT in the 3rd form. Please identify the country
you live in the message. Don't use the sample letter supplied
because it isn't appropriate for non-US residents.
***>Remember the FORM INFORMATION will NOT appear, only the letter.
NOTE: There is NO WORD WRAPPING on the letter below, to make it
easy for you to format so it may be hard to read until you copy it,
depending on your news reader.
SAMPLE MESSAGE
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To the FCC Commissioners
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Time Warner has the following Acceptable use policy:
IF TIME WARNER DETERMINES THAT THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE SERVICE'S
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OR LIMITS ON BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION, TIME WARNER MAY SUSPEND
SUBSCRIBER'S ACCOUNT. TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS SHALL HAVE THE SOLE AND UNREVIEWABLE
RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTENT VIOLATES THESE STANDARDS.
Time Warner, and AOL, which has a similar and even more restrictive policy, claims to
have the right to terminate anyone, at any time, for any reason.
At first glance this seems reasonable. After all, they own the system. But do they
acctually OWN the system?
There is no doubt they own the gate, and it is well-known that both AOL and Time
Warner have no hesitation in closing the gate. Time Warner does this by enforcing
this condition on its subscribers:
IF TIME WARNER DETERMINES THAT THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE SERVICE'S
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OR LIMITS ON BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION, TIME WARNER MAY SUSPEND
SUBSCRIBER'S ACCOUNT. TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS SHALL HAVE THE SOLE AND UNREVIEWABLE
RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTENT VIOLATES THESE STANDARDS.
Don't try to tell me that AOL and Time Warner close that gate only on "bad" speech,
the pornographers, the hate-mongers, the "spammers," and gives the rest of us "nice"
people free reign to post "acceptable" messages. It is well known what these
companies find unacceptable - anything whatsoever that rubs them, or anyone else, the
wrong way.
It has become common knowledge in USENET and IRC Chat that any person can obtain the
canceling of a Road Runner account merely by making complaints to Road Runner abuse.
The complaints do not have to be justified, they don't even have to be true, there
just needs to be made.
Many Road Runner customers have figured this out, and never upload anything to USENET
through Road Runner, or access IRC through Road Runner, but obtain a backup account to
protect their high speed access. Unfortunately, the majority of the people don't find
this out until they have been terminated for "abuse" that never happened. What is
worse, recently Road Runner has terminated some customers who posted material it
considered objectionable which was not even posted through Road Runner, but through
this back-up ISP!
It is beginning to appear that Road Runner is actively trying to get rid of anyone who
regularly posts political, social, or any other comment to USENET or IRC, and that
Road Runner is attempting to convert the internet from a way to express views to a
service where they can sell their other Time Warner offerings. This is not what the
internet is supposed to be.
Regular users of USENET and IRC have become extremely concerned that the merger of AOL
and Time Warner will result in the disappearance of USENET and IRC. The merged
company will not prohibit access entirely, it will just terminate the account of
anyone who posts any message offensive to anyone.... and any message will of course be
offensive to someone. USENET and IRC will become vehicles where the only matter taht
can be discussed without fear of termination will be Road Runner cartoons.
If the merger takes place, the merged company will be in a position where they can
effectively remove both USENET and IRC as viable components of the internet, at least
for users with high-speed access. I would like to see some insurance that this cannot
happen.
Please, for the benefit of internet users who do use the internet for purposes of
speaking out rather than purchasing interactive cartoons or games from Time Warner, if
you approve the merger between Time Warner and AOL merger, include some protection for
USENET and IRC users so that these valuable internet functions cannot be eliminated
from the internet by the new company. Please, in your requirement for open access on
the internet, include open access for the person who actually uses, and pays, for the
internet, the end user, as well as for the corporations.
Thank You for your attention.
----> YOUR NAME <----
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From: ratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How does a computer boot?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:26:59 +0200
Wolfram Faul wrote:
>
> In the O'Reilly Book "Device Drivers", sorry I forgot the authors name,
> is small chapter about booting the linux kernel.
I guess you mean `Linux Device Drivers' by Alessandro Rubini. And you
are probably referring to Chapter 16: `Physical Layout of the Kernel
Source'.
You might check out following link:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/linux-kernel-internals/Linux-Kernel-Internals.txt
He explains in great detail the booting process. Together with Robert's
9 point cook book you should be able to figure it out pretty much ;)
Regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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From: ratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c900 full duplex problem
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:44:56 +0200
Hi Mario,
Mario Klebsch wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a 3Com 3c900 ethernet card and use the 3c59x driver. It worked
> fine for over a year. But recently, I got an ethernet switch and now,
> problems are arising. The switch switches the port to 10 MBit full
> duplex.
Although I can't give you a solution to your problem you could
check out http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ and see if
a newer version of the driver fixes the problems.
I had similar problems with the 3c905C cards, especially when
trying to run multiple NICs. One of the problems I still have
is that the Intel L440GX+ motherboard fails to boot if you
put in more the 4 3com cards. It just hangs. However I can
boot with 3 Quadboards and 3com cards. Does anybody know if
the APIC IRQs are assigned to the network cards if enabled?
Anyways, the BIOS is quite broken and sometimes really magic.
> Has anybody observed problems like this before? Is is a software error
> in my linux system, or is it a bug in the switch? Does anybody know,
> how to disable full duplex with the 3c59x driver?
Download the setup and diagnostic tools from http://www.scyld.com/diag/
and force/freeze the card. However, honestly I only once got it working
properly. Normally I have a DOS bootdisk with the 3com configuration
tool and there you can fix the speed.
HTH,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Fisakars UPS + Linux
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:39:11 +0200
Fiskars makes UPS units??? Last time I looked, it made kitchen knives and
scissors!
So, after making things to cut, it now makes things to avoid cuts...
Anyway, if your UPS has a serial port output that keeps one line high while the
mains power is on, and lets this line fall low when the mains cuts out and the
UPS kicks in, you should have no difficulty in modifying the UPS daemon. Look in
the UPS HowTo.
KR.
James Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed a nice big Fiskars UPS on our home network. We're
> running Redhat 6.2 as our proxy and I want to hook the ups to it so it will
> shut down gracefully when the power goes (80 gigs and ext2 = a long time of
> fsck).
>
> Does anyone know of any Linux Fiskars compatible UPS programs ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
--
==
I don't like spammers. So take the warning
out of my address before you reply.
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO version 21.6 released
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:39:22 GMT
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:02:12 GMT, Rudi Sluijtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> LILO release 21.6 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21.
>
>Could you please provide us with, or point to, some documentation about
>the usage of the "- Completely new menu-driven user interface."
Usage information on what keys to press is contained in the menu itself.
Customization information is provided in the 'man' pages for 'lilo.conf'.
--John
LILO version 21.6 (04-Oct-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:03:38 -0400
From: Eclipse mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sockets per process
How did you do this test ? I have a process that has around 240 tcp/ip
connections( plus some file handles) and when i start a new tcp/ip
connection to this server app - it never even gets a connect - but the
"connecting client app" is getting disconnected immediately -
apparently from the kernel
Any more info on this will be highly appreciated !
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Eclipse mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >i have realized that we can have only 255 file descriptors open per
> >process ( including sockets).
>
> That's not true. I just can a quick test (kernel=2.2.16) and got
> 1024.
>
> --
> http://eeek.borgchat.net/linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: executing applications without using filesystem
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:56:18 GMT
Cross-posted to comp.os.linux.development.system, for what I hope
are obvious reasons.
In comp.os.linux.development.apps, Daniel Goergen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:49:01 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Lew Pitcher wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:14:04 +0200, Daniel Goergen
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> >> It depends on what you mean. In a network-file-system environment, I
>> >> can execute programs that aren't stored in a physical filesystem on my
>> >> machine. The OS downloads them (via NOS operations) and executes them
>> >> directly, but the facility 'looks like' a local physical filesystem to
>> >> the local machine (even though it's just data on a wire). Is this what
>> >> you mean?
>> >
>> >No. The executable is downloaded by an application all at once and lies
>> >completely in the Memory after that. Now i want to execute it and i have
>> >no filesystem to store it temporarily and dont want to use a ramdisk.
>>
>> This doesn't require the use of _any_ local disk or ramdisk. Diskless
>> Unix workstations use this technique all the time. All it requires is
>> the usual APIs on the workstation, a network connection to a machine
>> that will supply the executable over the network, and a NOS
>> file-sharing tool like NFS or SMB. The workstation can be exclusively
>> ram based, with no ramdisk or local disks; all 'disk' activity will
>> actually be network packets exchanged between the workstation and the
>> server.
>>
>
>We don't want to use such network filesystem techniques. The
>applications _must_ have been dowloaded completely before execution,
>they should not use the network any more. (no loading on demand)
>The box boots over bootp, downloads a mini linux over NFS and than puts
>all this stuff in a tiny ramdisk (i'm not so firm with that). After
>that the NFS connection is dropped and my application downloads all user
>applications and starts them.
If one does want to completely load an executable prior to actual
execution, the simplest method would be to copy/load it into a temporary
file on a ramdisk somewhere, then execute it from there. However,
this option requires a mountable block device (ramdisk being one) -- and
Linux's ramdisk (AFAIK) has the problem that it must allocate all memory
pertinent thereto at the start of kernel execution and, once it runs out,
it can't allocate any more. Sucks!
Even worse, ramdisk memory isn't available for caching (again, AFAIK).
Someone may have hacked something up a la Amiga's ramdisk (which dynamically
allocates more RAM as required), but I don't know much about it. It
would be a nice capability, though, if a bit esoteric (Linux uses RAM
as a file cache, so ramdisks aren't usually necessary on
disk-based workstations). Or perhaps Linux's ramdisk does indeed
allocate as it goes to a certain fixed size, so a big ramdisk wouldn't
necessarily suck memory from applications.
In my opinion, an extensible ramdisk like the foregoing would be ideal
for your application, assuming sufficient RAM. One might even be able
to make the files on the extensible ramdisk non-RAM-cacheable
(there's not much point, obviously).
I'm curious as to that, too, if only because the Amiga's ramdisk
device didn't have a fixed size and I kinda liked that. :-)
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