Linux-Hardware Digest #228, Volume #10 Thu, 13 May 99 19:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP deskjet 710C support (killbill)
Re: Linux dials modem but Browsers can't find it? (gus)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Brad BARCLAY)
Re: PARIDE make failure under RH6.0 (Grant Guenther)
SiS6215C ("Totally Mad")
Re: ext2 not recognized on floppy (Remco van den Berg)
Re: Tyan Thunderbolt 1837 ("Vandemaar")
Re: PCMCIA modem won't work (Frank Riha)
Re: RAIDZONE ("Tony")
Savage4 (tong)
best distribution (octet)
Re: custom 16-bit parallel bus (killbill)
Re: TNT + QUAKE3 + LINUX = NOPE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RAIP (!) - SMP, SCSI sharing etc. (Andrew Daviel)
please recommend an IDE/ATAPI tape drive (Derek Shaw)
Re: How do I use a tape drive???? (Robin Jackson)
Thriller 3D und KDE ? ("Steffen May")
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Richard Birchall)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Richard Birchall)
Re: Linux install on >8.4gb hard disk? Possible? (Flambone)
OKI 4W printer (Paul Mannix)
Re: video camera and driver for linux (Andrew Daviel)
Fujitsu MP3052AT (Markus Maier)
Re: ext2 not recognized on floppy (Thomas Hartmann)
Re: lj1100ase printer/copier/scanner (Chris Beggy)
Redhat 6.0 and IDE Iomega Zip drive (Douglas Ritschel)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Brad BARCLAY)
Re: Linux dials modem but Browsers can't find it? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP deskjet 710C support
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:38:41 GMT
In article <7hf1l0$hvo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is the HP deskjet 710C supported under linux?
> >
> > Pascal Greuter
> > re: I don't know but I'm having the same problem, can't get it to
> work even as a simple text printer. I'm gong to post some messages
and
> hope to find out something if you do please let me know. I will do the
> same if I find anything out.
>
> Brian Hammar
A general rule is to look for the answer before posting the question :)
Looking back in this group, not three days ago there was a thread with
about 7 very good replys answering this very question. There is good
news waiting for you...
Hint: http://www.httptech.com/ppa/
--
Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux dials modem but Browsers can't find it?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:52:17 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > rprescott wrote:
> > >
[snip]
> "If you are experiencing difficulties it is probably because you have
> put a fixed DNS ip address instead of server assigned. If you need a
> fixed IP for some reason make sure primary is 209.119.76.3 and
> secondary is 164.109.1.3."
>
> So what does he mean by "server assigned?" Does this mean that I
> shouldn't need anything in my resolve.conf and my problem is something
> else?
>
> Thanks,
> Chad Dressler
>
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Probably means that he expects you to dial up using dhcp which will
automagically sort out IP addresses, wins servers, and other things.
This is a Microsoft *mostly* concept.
Ignore it and put the two nameserver IP's in resolv.conf
gus
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Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad BARCLAY)
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad BARCLAY)
Date: 13 May 99 20:10:34 GMT
In <7heflt$3n4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Everything you're looking for describes OS/2 to a T - it may be
>worth
>> your while checking it out.
>
>I'll go look at that too, right away. Of course, I am envisaging
>something object oriented at a deeper level than the shell. (I don't
>know enough about OS/2 to know if this is the case or not).
As OS/2 does utilize many concepts forign to other operating systems, if
you feel you need a hand with it or more information on installing and using
OS/2, please feel free ot let me know :).
Brad BARCLAY
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Subject: Re: PARIDE make failure under RH6.0
Date: 11 May 1999 10:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10 May 1999 19:25:51 GMT, John F Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -O2 -c pf.c
>In file included from pf.c:153:
>paride.h:105: macro `__swab16' used with too many (2) args
>paride.h:113: macro `__swab32' used with too many (2) args
>make: *** [pf.o] Error 1
This doesn't make any sense to me - the line numbers don't correspond to
anything remotely relevant. What version of the kernel is this ?
Are by some chance trying to compile an old version of PARIDE ?
Please contact me directly.
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Grant R. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Totally Mad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS6215C
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:06:33 +0530
I have a Redhat 5.2 on my system. I am not able to install my SiS 6215C PCI
VGA card to work. I am not able to get my Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound card to work
either. I had done a previous installation and got my sound card working,
but even that doesn't work now. Can someone help me out with any one of the
problems?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van den Berg)
Subject: Re: ext2 not recognized on floppy
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:39:31 GMT
On Thu, 13 May 1999 21:54:38 +0200, Thomas Hartmann wrote:
>Rob Komar wrote:
>
>>
>> fdformat only does a low-level format on the floppy. You have
>> to create a filesystem on it, as well. Try:
>>
>> fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
>> mke2fs /dev/fd0
>> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob Komar
Looks like you're formatting it twice, first for msdos and then for ext2.
Or is it really so that you can low-level format floppies?
Anyway, look in the manual page for the following option:
#> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/fd0
.. saves you some kilobytes! ;-)
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Remco van den Berg Admin DSE http://www.dse.nl/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Certified Systems Engineer
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From: "Vandemaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan
Subject: Re: Tyan Thunderbolt 1837
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:37:28 +0200
Christian Loth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have experiences concerning ...
> ... the Tyan Thunderbolt 1837?
I'd like to ask if anybody but me consider the very little distance between
the two CPU slots to be a problem in regards to cooling issues. Obviously
there's not enough room to put a big heatsink/fan combo on one of the CPUs!
Sincerely,
Vandemaar
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From: Frank Riha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem won't work
Date: 10 May 1999 20:25:03 -0400
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> If you take a look at /var/log/messages you should see a message
> indicating that this card is unsupported. At least that's what I see as I
> have the same modem. I tried upgrading to pcmcia-cs v3.09 and I am still
> getting the message that this card is unsupported. I'm not sure where to
> post to ask to have this card supported.
>
PCMCIA development has some news forums. Check there, recent
announcements and such:
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/forums.html
Good place to start.
frank
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAIDZONE
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:25:16 +1000
I wouldn't like to hot swap an IDE drive
I run compaq raid boxes and the specs are very tight on hot swap gear.
Things like
Will pluging the drive in cause too much of a power drain to the rest of the
drives in the box??
and to the power supply. Also scsi drives don't fire up straight away when
you plug them in
start delay, and other such niceties
IDE doesn't have that.
Might work for a while.....but I wouldn't use it for production machines
without a really good test
Just my thoughts
Tony
John Burton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi!
> I just ran across and advertisement & website for a product called
>RAIDZONE, which claims to provide RAID capability (hot swap and all)
>using Ultra ATA hard disks. Has anybody used this and if so, what were
>your impresssions. How well is it supported under linux?
>
>John
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From: tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Savage4
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:24:19 +0800
any x server support savage4?
tong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (octet)
Subject: best distribution
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:14:35 GMT
I'm pretty new to Linux and would like to get some opinions from you
folks. This is because I'm thinking about rolling out many Linux
workstations to replace Windows workstations.
1. Which distribution is the oldest?
2. Which one is the "technically" best distribution right now?
3. Which one is the best "over-all" distribution right now?
Thanks.
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: custom 16-bit parallel bus
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:30:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pat Kling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am searching for a PCI board that can accept a 16-bit parallel
> channel with a strobe. The board need only read the data (no writing
> is necessary). The data rate on the parallel bus is <12M-bytes/sec
> (~6 MHz). The amount of data received at this rate will exceed
1G-byte
> so some efficient way to get the data off the board is necessary.
>
> Can anyone recommend a board?
I can't recommend a board, but it brings up some interesting
questions... Strobed 12MB per second?
What kind of determinancy do you require? In other words, are you
allowed to drop and skip data if the O.S. is busy elsewhere? Once the
strobe has been strobed, how long is the operating system allowed to
take extracting the data?
You are also going to have some disk throughput problems... getting a
sustained 12 MB per second write to a disk drive is possible, but is a
non-trivial task that will require non-trivial hardware. You are going
to discover all sorts of interesting bottlenecks and quirky behavior.
Unix is a good system for processing queued data quickly and
efficiently, but determinancy has never been it's strong point. Your
requirements make it sound like you might be in the real time operating
system domain.
Anybody know if Linux supports the Posix.4 real time extensions?
--
Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TNT + QUAKE3 + LINUX = NOPE
Date: 13 May 1999 18:04:26 GMT
Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 1. Creative Labs TNT
bad chioce :-) nvidia is not willing to support Linux.
AFAIK, Creative Labs employed somebody to programm
linux-drivers for their sound-device, but not for GFX-Cards.
: Apparently, the game for linux is only running under
: 3DFX Chipsets at present.
That is not apparently - that is well-documented (never read
a README-file: it may harm :-)
: Is there really no way around this?
Yes: choosing a product from a company, that is supporting
linux slightly better (i.e. giving out glide-sources to one
person under NDA)
: How does this relate to linux and
: opengl and tnt chipsets?
: Are they (pause, gasp) the same? =)
OpenGL is a 3D-API (something like M$s' Direct3D, but much better).
Its implementation may be hardware accelerated or not.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Daviel)
Subject: RAIP (!) - SMP, SCSI sharing etc.
Date: 13 May 1999 17:41:49 GMT
Just throwing some ideas out -
How about a RAIP project - redundant array of inexpensive processors ?
Stick a load of Celerons on a board to give 8-way, 16-way SMP.
I've heard that on some systems at least (SGI), SCSI can
be set up with more than one bus master. So, fill a box
with multiple inexpensive motherboards, bus all the SCSI
together and maybe use a local 100Bt Ethernet for boot and
control (processes could send data to each other quicker via files on
the SCSI, but tcp/ip is easier to get going). Beowolf in a box!
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF
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From: Derek Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: please recommend an IDE/ATAPI tape drive
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:55:30 GMT
has anyone a recommendation for an IDE/ATAPI tape drive. IOW,
one that they have used successfully.
I've had good success with AIWA BOLT 10 GB drive in windows 9x,
if anyone has any experience with that in Linux, I'd appreciate
hearing about it.
TIA!
d.
--
Derek Shaw
Business Information Systems
Victoria, BC.
voice: 250-885-2021 fax: 250-386-4060
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Subject: Re: How do I use a tape drive????
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:59:22 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subject: Re: How do I use a tape drive????
>From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 12 May 1999 09:40:37 +0200
>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson) writes:
>
>> I can now use my tape drive but probably really need to look in to buying a
>> backup program.
>
>Before you buy anything, you might want to check out the free
>alternatives, such as tob and taper.
Any URL's for info and availability on these please?
Robin
Someone else mentioned Amanda but this appears to be a network backup
solution, I just want to backup my Linux box easily.
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From: "Steffen May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thriller 3D und KDE ?
Date: 13 May 1999 21:15:00 GMT
HI,
OK Linux ist echt geil - vorallem hat es mir die KDE angetan. Nun m�chte ich
Linunx auch auf meinem gro�en Rechner installieren. Ich kann nur leider
keinen anst�ndig funzenden XServer f�r meine Hercules Thriller 3D mit
Endition 2200 Chip einstellen, da meine beiden Distributionen (Rea Head 5.1
und SusE 5.2) diese Grafikkarte nicht kennen. Wer kann mir sagen, wie ich
die KDE mit meiner Karte zum laufen bekomme ? Finde ich was im WEB ?
Hilfe und
D A N K E
SM
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From: Richard Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:08:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"dpc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upgraded to RH 6.0 from 5.9.7 - Everything seemed to go well. I
> logged in, started X and was in Gnome. After a few minutes of using
> it (had some terminals open, netscape had been open/closed, etc) I
> tried to start another terminal, and it wouldn't work...Tried to
> start netscape, no go. Tried to start anything else....nothing. OK,
> so let's logout - can't do that either. Finally have to do a
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to get out.
Did you make a PPP connection, and then things stopped working? This
is caused if you don't give your PC a host name.
Use linuxconfig (or edit /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network) to
change your host name to mypc.mydomain (or anything other than
localhost.localdomain) and this problem goes away.
Suggestion: Red Hat should add a host name entry step during the
install, even if only dial-up PPP is being used.
Richard
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From: Richard Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:17:55 GMT
In article <7gmu2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DHCP will not work with my Cable modem. My workstations DHCP fine to
> my Linux DHCP server though. This one really hurts and prevents me
> from upgrading my firewall until it's fixed. I'm told that Redhat
> now uses a program called pump instead of dhcpcd.
Luckily, the dhcpcd client is in the RPMS directory on the CD.
Install it with rpm, then edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
Change:
if /sbin/pump -i $DEVICE; then
to:
if /sbin/dhcpcd -h yourhostname $DEVICE; then
Check that eth0 is set as dhcp
Richard
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From: Flambone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux install on >8.4gb hard disk? Possible?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:33:56 GMT
Hi,
I had success using linload.. didn't have the option to put lilo in the
MBR.. it works perfectly
--Matt
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From: Paul Mannix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OKI 4W printer
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:25:12 +0100
Has anyone got any idea whether this printer can be persuaded to work
under Linux? So far I can't persuade it to do so. I have tried various
things with the /etc/printcap and it isn't having any of them.
--
Paul Mannix
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Daviel)
Subject: Re: video camera and driver for linux
Date: 13 May 1999 21:40:31 GMT
Jason Puchalla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
: I am looking for a video camera (security camera)and linux driver to
: monitor activity in a large room (75x75ft). Anyone have a suggestion?
Linux supports various Brooktree Bt848, 878 chip based video
boards for composite video input. One can get plastic fixed-focus cameras
from e.g. digikey for about $150 - the monochrome have better low-light
performance. Professional cameras with exchangeable "C" ("SC" ?) mount
lenses are rather more. Canon makes a videoconference camera for about $1800
with pan/tilt/zoom RS232 controlled.
Home Sentinel or some such make a mono camera with power supply, FM modulator,
IR alarm for about $140.
There's also a Connectix driver for Linux, but they are slow and limited to
a few metres of the parallel port
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:19:07 +0200
From: Markus Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Fujitsu MP3052AT
I'm trying to install SuSe Linux (Vers. 6.0) on my computer. LINUX
recognizes my hard disk (Fujitsu MP3052AT), but with only 2014 MB
instead of 5025 MB. That's why I can't create new partitions during the
installation process. I tried the disk in another computer, but with the
same result (So I think the EIDE-controller is not the problem. My
mainboard is ASUS P55/T2P4). I also tried the different EIDE-Kernels of
the SuSe system, but it was all the same. I don't want to delete my
windows-partitions on this drive.
My partitions are:
1 GB primary for win95
4 GB ext
1 GB FAT
1 GB FAT
1,5 GB free (for LINUX)
0,5 GB FAT
Can't I install LINUX on a logical drive?
But why doesn't LINUX recognize the correct size?
Can anybody help me?
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From: Thomas Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ext2 not recognized on floppy
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:54:38 +0200
Rob Komar wrote:
>
> fdformat only does a low-level format on the floppy. You have
> to create a filesystem on it, as well. Try:
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
> mke2fs /dev/fd0
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> Cheers,
> Rob Komar
Thanks a lot, this was the missing info!
Thomas
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:57:02 -0400
From: Chris Beggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lj1100ase printer/copier/scanner
Chris Beggy wrote:
>
> I know the lj1100 works under ghostscript.
> Does the scanner work with sane? I am concerned
> because the hp scanner drivers for sane are
> scsi drivers.
>
> Any ideas or experience with this all-in-one
> device?
>
My bad. The LJ1100A appears on Grant Taylor's
printer database pages. The link is:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=HP
This printer is rated a "perfectly," the highest rating.
I presume the LJ1100A and the LJ1100ASE are essentially
the same.
Chris
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From: Douglas Ritschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Redhat 6.0 and IDE Iomega Zip drive
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:47:18 -0400
I just installed Redhat 6.0 on a machine that has an IDE Iomega Zip
drive. Prior to the 6.0 installation, the machine had Redhat 5.2 and the
Zip drive appeared as another IDE drive. Now it does not show up. Does
anyone know if this can be fixed?
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Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad BARCLAY)
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad BARCLAY)
Date: 13 May 99 20:09:16 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>This is OK but I think the use of os/2 among desktop users is on the
>decline (it certainly isn't increasing). Don't get me wrong, I've used os/2
>since 1.3 and I still have it on one of my machines and I like it but I
>find that, as the months pass, I use it less and less.
This may be true for you - but that isn't a reflection on the OS, but
instead your usage patterns.
There isn't a single thing that I can't do under OS/2. If some OS/2
users (and I'm not saying your one of them) want to pity themselves because
IBM isn't lambasting them with OS/2 billboard ads every two blocks as they
drive down the street, then that's there problem.
Much like Marshal McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message", in this case
"The Users are the OS". You make your OS whatever you want it to be within
its technical constraints. If you wish to move from an OS with less
constraints to one with more simply because other people are, then that's fine
with me - but don't try to use it to make your previous OS somehow look like
it's lacking.
I run three client machines and one server machine, all running OS/2 WARP
v4 - and this set of machines does everything from unattended
Web/Proxy/FTPd/Telnet/REXEC (the server machine has been locked in a closet,
and hasn't been touched since I set it up back in August of '98) services to
X-10 device control, to PalmPilot data synchronization, to CD burning, to
high-end Java development, to MIDI work, and word processing, spreadsheets,
etc. Heck, I even run XFree86 using the Enlightenment desktop from within
OS/2 for running X-Windows apps remotely.
To put it basically, your choice of OS is entirely your business - I
don't fault you for picking what OS is best for you. But to say that OS/2 has
a fault because your perceptions of it is quite incorrect - I'll venture to go
as far as to say that I can do more on my OS/2 box than you can on your Linux
box.
Brad BARCLAY
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>From the OS/2 WARP v4 Desktop of Brad BARCLAY.
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://yaztromo.idirect.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux dials modem but Browsers can't find it?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:57:24 GMT
In article <7hepne$b4e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been having the same problem, and I assume the solution will be
> adding the DNS to resolve.conf. I have a suspicion my ISP changed the
> DNS address without telling anyone. However, I emailed him the other
> day about my lookup failures and here's his response:
>
> "If you are experiencing difficulties it is probably because you have
> put a fixed DNS ip address instead of server assigned. If you need a
> fixed IP for some reason make sure primary is 209.119.76.3 and
> secondary is 164.109.1.3."
>
> So what does he mean by "server assigned?" Does this mean that I
> shouldn't need anything in my resolve.conf and my problem is something
> else?
>
> Thanks,
> Chad Dressler
>
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Your ISP is misinterpreting your question. Most ISP's assign your PC an
address after login and authentification(dynamic addressing). The data
that needs to go into your resolv.conf is the two or three IP addresses
belonging to your ISP. These then become the name server for your
browser(s).
Onward!
Mark
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