Linux-Misc Digest #479, Volume #18 Tue, 5 Jan 99 16:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (Verbal Kent)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Philip Brown)
Re: 2038 and Linux (John)
afterStep with Linux 5.2 (Sanjay Poria)
Re: Apache with ASP (Sam E. Trenholme)
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From: Verbal Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 20:45:54 GMT
Linux rules, Linux Sucks,
Before everyone goes yelping on the Linux Band wagon, and downs
MS Windows, Linux has about as much shot as taking out MS (whatever), as
hell freezing over! I use both win98 and Linux, and I tell you now,
these 2 oses serve 2 distinct purposes, for power users, "hackers",
Linux, is on par with Windows NT, but if you give Linux to My mom she
wouldn't know what the hell to do, cause half of the time I don't know
what the hell to do in Linux!!! Windows 98 is not a bad product it
covers the ins and outs of its market base, very well, I plug in a modem
it works, I plug in a sound card it works, on most occasions! You try
the same thing in Linux, and yeah right, worx my ass! You've got to go
reconfigure this, and that, compile this and that, and worst case
scenario there isn't a driver for your product, in which case you'll
have to go pick a Linux Device Driver book, which I have done, and if
you can write a driver that works, the gods have blessed you!!!!! or
even worse yet pay someone to write it for you, or you might get lucky
and someone has already done so!!! Now I'll take an IRQ conflict in
windows, any day over this, well not really cause I enjoy stuff like
that! On the otherhand, if your writing perl programs, or running a web
server, and such Linux kicks ass! For those of you who need a finally
tuned machine, of course, Linux is the move, but if you want to Play
Games and AOL is your bag, I'd pick Win98 hands down! All, and all, I
see Linux as being a definite threat to NT's server/work station market,
but it has a long way to go to threatening, if ever, MS's consumer
market!
aldev wrote:
>
> Linux Marketing?? Ofcourse here is the web page for it.
>
> Main site is at -
> http://members.spree.com/technology/aldev/
> Mirror sites are at -
> http://aldev.webjump.com
> http://homepages.infoseek.com/~aldev1/index.html
> http://aldev. 8m. com (remove spaces in-between)
>
> Corporations need to read the 'Salient Features of Linux' which tells why
> Linux is better than Windows and other operating systems.
>
> Please visit, bookmark & suggest this site to one and ALL
> Also please webhost it on your intranet, internet and promote/propagate
> everywhere!
>
> al dev
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > I wonder if there is scope for, say, students studying marketing to do with
> > marketing Linux what the Linux community has done with developing Linux. I
> > have in mind a project on the WEB that would help develop the sort of
> > marketing material and expertise needed by companies to sell the system into
> > corporates. A rather vague notion, but I think that the OSS model can
> > actually extend a lot furhter than OSS itself: Collaboration is a very useful
> > learning and development tool. There are many disciplines covering everything
> > from advertising to project management that could perhaps benefit from an
> > online collaboration and it seems to me that Linux is the perfect product to
> > collaborate around.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05 Jan 1999 20:40:56 GMT
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:30:02 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>Find useful URL in text somewhere.
>Select it.
>Wipe URL currently in Netscape's location box by selecting it, and
>pasting the first one on top.
>
>Oops...
>
>OK, there are simple ways round it, and 9 times out of 10, it D exactly
>WIM, but occasionally I'd like a "select without copying" feature. Or is
>there one already?
In theory, if you are using sun's "OpenWindows"/OpenLook or derivative,
there are separate "copy" and "paste" buttons supported. So you could
indeed do this. But you need to have apps that support that protocol.
PERHAPS CDE already does this be default.
At any rate, I just did exactly what you wanted to do with the above netscape
URL example, using solaris 2.6 and my copy/paste keys.
(If you want to use solaris x86 to try this, then xmodmap some keys to be
F16 and F18. You now have Copy and Paste buttons)
--
[trim the no-bots from my address to reply to me by email!]
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"initiating.. 'getting the hell out of here' maneouver" - Lennier, babylon5
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2038 and Linux
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:31:54 -0500
Vince Conaway wrote:
> Does Linux have the 2038 bug that will make Unix machines start to go
> nuts around that time?
>
> -Vince Conaway
Yes, Linux does have that bug, the only Unix machine that doesn't is Sun
Solaris version 6, because they have upgraded to a 64 bit kernel
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From: Sanjay Poria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: afterStep with Linux 5.2
Date: 5 Jan 1999 14:24:06 GMT
afterstep doesn't seem to create a
~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start menu structure when i run it.
It only created a ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/non-configurable
subdirectory which means that I cannot configure it to my preference.
If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.
thanks
sanjay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Apache with ASP
Date: 5 Jan 1999 12:48:38 -0800
>I have Apache-1.3.3 and would like to know how to enable ASP suppport?
Excuse me for asking the obvious, but what can asp do that CGI and SHTML
can't do?
- Sam
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