Linux-Misc Digest #696, Volume #18 Tue, 19 Jan 99 22:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Mayor Of R'lyeh)
Re: rpm available for Rasmol 2.6?? (Raymond Doetjes)
High Availability Architect for Auspex's ServerGuard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PII Motherboard recommendations & AGP video cards (David Jones)
A newbie versus "vi" (Kelly and Sandy)
Re: AutoPPP and pppd server (Dinesh)
Re: UNIX - Who, What, Where? (Hans van Zijst)
Re: Kernel Panic - Help! (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: SpreadSheets (Michael Perry)
Re: get your money back for Windows preinstalled (Darryl Watson)
Re: mp3 decoder... (Frank Hale)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why Pentium Pro?) (Snoesje)
having no /etc/fstab is not nice! -- please help (Michael Phillips)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (David Fox)
Re: KDE setup problem...! *newbie question* ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 128 bit Netscape 4.08 built against glibc ("Michael.Creasy")
Cannot get past OK on setup of RH 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does Linux support USB modems ? ("Michael.Creasy")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayor Of R'lyeh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:23:11 GMT
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:56:51 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi) chose
to bless us all with this bit of wisdom:
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:01:35 GMT, Mayor Of R'lyeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On 18 Jan 1999 18:24:27 +0100, David Kastrup
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chose to bless us
>>all with this bit of wisdom:
>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayor Of R'lyeh) writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:30:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Stephen)
>>>> chose to bless us all with this bit of wisdom:
>>>>
>>>> >Also, ZDNet's Charles Cooper says Boies is much more effective than
>>>> >his
>>>> >opponents from Sullivan & Cromwell.
>>>>
>>>> And what is it that makes his opinion so important?
>>>>
>>>> > (Of course, they have the
>>>> >disadvantage
>>>> >of having a guilty client. :-)
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't aware that the trial was over. Of course even after Microsoft
>>>> is cleared of all charges you will, doubtless, still consider them
>>>> guilty.
>>>
>>>Anybody that has not by now noticed that they are playing the part of
>>>a real messy, ugly and mean bully using all sorts of dirty tricks in
>>>order to smash their opponents in the software industry with a
>>>vengeance while not just relying on the renowned high quality of their
>>>products should have his head examined.
>>
>>Anybody who hasn't noticed that's how big business is done everywhere
>>needs to get out more. Microsoft wasn't as nice to their competitors
>>as they could have been. BFD! Who is?
>
> That doesn't make Microsoft any less reprehensible.
> It just means that Billy doesn't have nearly as big
> a fin as he thought he did. In the end, he may end
> up taking his more adept colleagues down with him
> as more people become aware of everything ELSE that
> goes on.
Everybody else is aware of it. It seems like only the rabid Microsoft
haters thought that the business world was some kind a big happy
family.
>
>>>
>>>They are clearly guilty of that
>>
>>So is everyone else you can name.
>>
>>>, and the outcome of the trial does not
>>>change it one bit. Whether they are more guilty of it than several of
>>>its important opponents would be a different question. It is my
>>>opinion that they are, but there might be different opinions.
>>>
>>>It is not the purpose of the trial to figure out about either of this.
>>>It *is* the purpose of the trial if their actions have not only been
>>>loathsome, but illegal according to the laws of the United States.
>>>This, of course, is a matter for which opinion polls cannot provide an
>>>answer.
>>
>>Well, except for the loathsome remark, we agree on this much.
>>>
>>>For this reason, Microsoft tries to make up all sorts of fantastic
>>>claims about its ground swell support and is laughing in its fist if
>>>its opponents try focusing on that argumentation. If the trial will
>>>mostly focus about public opinion instead of the law, Microsoft will
>>>have an easy play in the higher courts in order to have the decision
>>>thrown out.
>>
>>They aleady have an easy path to an appeal. Judge Jackson has been
>>overwhelmingly prejudiced against them in the past. That's all it
>>would take if he found them guilty in this trial.
>>
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred, Necronomicon
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm available for Rasmol 2.6??
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:56:10 +0100
Oh try and look for it at ftp.suse.com
I found it on a SuSE distribution. Or use http://ftp.search.com
Raymond
Andrew T. Phillips wrote:
> Does anyone have an rpm for Rasmol 2.6? I can't get it to compile
> with my Redhat 5.2 system.
>
> Thanks!
> Andy Phillips
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: High Availability Architect for Auspex's ServerGuard
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:50:34 GMT
I'm searching for a high availability architect to join/lead our group here
at Auspex. I've put together an overview of the job below. This is a new
area to me (personally) so any help, advice, direction, leads, etc. you can
offer that would assist me in finding qualified people would be greatly
appreciated....
HIGH AVAILABILITY ARCHITECT
Position: The candidate will participate in the design and implementation of
a second generation enterprise class high availability solution
(ServerGuard). ServerGuard provides continuous data access to network clients
through the use of sophisticated replication, failover and re synchronization
technology. This senior engineer will drive the team providing a UNIX based
solution supporting both CIFS and NFS file services.
The team is defining the protocol for managing redundant file servers and
designing the system software for maintaining backup resources, detecting
system failure, and effecting failover to backup resources at the appropriate
time. The team is responsible for designing unit and system verification
tools to assure that the mirrored server implementation performs true to
design and properly handles a broad range of exception conditions and failure
scenarios.
Qualifications: the ideal candidate will be a strong senior
engineer/architect with high availability or mission critical product
experience, and strong UNIX kernel/OS background with distributed systems. A
good knowledge of NFS and networking background, especially TCP.IP multicast,
WAN or VLAN is desired, as is experience with NT file servers including
SMB/CIFS and clustering.
OO analysis, design and development experience is highly desirable.
This individual must be a senior technical leader who can provide guidance
and technical direction to other members of a small team, and work
cooperatively and effectively with other senior engineers outside the
immediate team. 10 yrs design experience. BSEE minimum.
***************
Shereen Weiser
R&D Employment
Auspex Systems, Inc.
PH 408.566.2224
***************
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Jones)
Subject: Re: PII Motherboard recommendations & AGP video cards
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:52:27 +0100
In article <PA1p2.615$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : * Asus P2B
>
> I run linux on the asus P2b/333 clocked to 350 with the ATI all-in-one AGP
> with no problems. Get the 333 and oc it as it runs faster than a straight
> 350 (quicker cache).
Could you explain in more detail why the 333 runs faster than the 350. How
do you 'overclock' it? Is the reason something to do with the multiplying
factor and the bus speed of the RAM??
TIA,
David
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From: Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: A newbie versus "vi"
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:58:00 +0000
Dear Linux Users, A newbie versus "vi"
--------------------
I am a newbie again. Unix, this time.
I am writing from my minimal emergency NT installation. (I have
recently decided to once an for all jettison MS, and in the process have
started to get interested in Linux.)
I installed Red Hat 5.2 on my x86 PC last week. I logged in as
root, typed startx, and lo, verily, XWindows started up. Wonderful.
Now, the last Unix I used was at college, at Middlesex University to
be precise. (We had no time there to learn anything about Unix or
anything else -- we were too busy handing in assignments and getting our
names ticked off registers.)
I used Silicon Graphics' Unix there, to edit C code for an OpenGL
project to visualize three-body problems. (Sounds fancy, but really it
was getting vast asteroid fields to attack the Earth at 20 kilometres a
second. It was quite amazing to watch, and our moon is a mysterious
influence. I have the strongest hunch we'll only find life on planets
with an Earth-moon setup like ours. But I digress!)
What made me able to hand in the assignment on time was the Silicon
Graphics' beautiful "vi" editor. I think it was called "vi". Anyway,
it was fully GUI with pull-down menus with all sorts of menu-items
goodies. Like "auto-indent" toggle and "pretty-print" and "code
completion...". It was really lovely.
Well, of course, I was expecting the same level of wonderment when I
typed "vi" in Linux. But instead I got this white-on-black VDU-type
editor, no help, no menus, no indication of being in command mode ...
and had to spend half an hour "finding the light switch" by reading
through "Linux in a Nutshell" (by Jessica Perry Hekman, O'Reilly ISBN
1-56592-167-4) Chapter 8, The vi Editor.
An unpleasant newbie experience.
"And what was a newbie doing trying to use vi?" you may be
wondering. Well, I was trying to edit .bashrc, to make "ls" listing
come up in colours and set the defaults. This was to give me _some_
sense of achievement and control, after the initial installation, in
other words. Now, from the "Official Red Hat Linux Operating System
Installation Guide" (that's in the blue and red-hatted startup box)
under the Red Hat Linux Installation Support FAQ chapter, page 326:
E.7.3 Getting colors with ls
-----------------------------
Question
How come I don't see colors when I run ls? When I am using my
old Linux, the file names all have different colors.
Answer
In order to allow the color option you must edit .bashrc. This
line must be placed in the file:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
So the first time I tried "vi" then, I created five "vi" processes,
which took another half hour to kill off. More Linux in a Nutshell,
this time the ps (list processes) [p 87] and kill (processes) [p 63]
commands. All this was quite a shock, discovering how dangerously
primitive and "VDU"-ish the standard editor is in Linux. Configuring
everything (not least internet access) and getting it all to work for me
is too important and delicate a job to start using an editor that's it's
_own_problem_ on top of everything else!
Therefore I made a mental note to write off a letter, as I am doing
now, to the Linux newsgroups to find out about using an alternative
easy-to-use pull-down-menu editor somehow.
So, reiterating: can I get a GUI editor by invoking some other
command, or the right vi -switches or is it something I have to download
off the web?
With Kind Regards,
Sandy
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From: Dinesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux.isp
Subject: Re: AutoPPP and pppd server
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:14:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm having the same problem ! Help would be greatly appreciated since I have
been banging my head over this issue for the last 4 days. The modem just hangs
after a while without any errors. (i.e "modem hangup") I'm dialing in to my
linux machine from a Win95 machine. Please help before I give up on Linux !!
Dinesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
************
Alan Baker wrote:
> I've installed Redhat 5.1 for use as a small dialup PPP server. Dialout
> PPP works fine, but inbound /AutoPPP/ calls will not stay connected. A
> Win95/Win98 caller can connect and log in, but immediately gets the
> dreaded "cannot negotiate a set of protocols" message. An OS/2 dialer
> gets similar results without the message.
>
> On the dialer side, TCP/IP is the only protocol requested. On the Linux
> side, mgetty takes the call and PAP validates the user successfully, but
> then the caller drops the session almost immediately. The Linux box is a
> standalone, not networked to anything else currently.
>
> /var/logs/messages isn't very revealing even with debug and kdebug 7. How
> can I determine what's going on here and why the negotiation fails?
> --
> Alan Baker
> San Jose
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From: Hans van Zijst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.unix,comp.os.unix.misc,comp.unix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: UNIX - Who, What, Where?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:29:11 +0100
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, StressedOut wrote:
> I have been reading about UNIX and Linux recently and have set up a practice
> RHL machine. I see many suggestions that I should obtain Linux (or another
> variant) because it's free, it's easy, etc., etc., etc. I just came across
> another article saying, "Linux is great because its free and it uses similar
> command and directory structures as other flavors ...". Similar to what,
> exactly?
Well, there are quite some flavors around. HP-UX, Irix, Xenix, Solaris,
SunOS, BSD and so forth. The similarity is like the one in the different
DOSses (M$-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS and so) and BASICs: some difference, but
globally the same idea.
> I am wondering what the heck "UNIX" is. I mean _real_, unadulterated,
> up-to-date, commercial grade, UNIX - THE Operating System.
See above. There is no such thing as "The UNIX" (some will probably want
to flame me about this), UNIX is more a huge collection of similar
operating systems. The most "pure" UNIX is probably BSD, for as far as I
know, Berkely Software Distribution was the first one.
> Is there any advantage to using UNIX vs Linux?
Linux is just one of the UNICes, but it happens to be a free one where the
other ones tend to cost a fortune. FreeBSD is also free, BTW. But there
are more advantages: Linux is ver popular and growing more popular every
day, so there are more and more companies making software for it. Not to
mention the awful lot of hobbyists who produce all kinds of programs and
patches. Don't think you'll have a bug in your kernel fixed in a few days
when you use a commercial UNIX.
> How much is it on average, and how and where might one "get" it?
On average? If you have to pay for your Internet connection, it can become
rather expensive to download it all by yourself. I'd advise to get
yourself a decent CD-ROM. Check www.redhat.com for one of the most popular
distributions. Another option would be to buy the Developers Resource
Toolkit, a set of 6 CD's with several distributions on it and some extra
software (saves the searching and downloading). You can find this on
www.infomagic.com (most decent bookstores sell it too, though).
> What machines will it run on?
Hmm, on what machines doesn't it run...? :)
> Can I get an x86 version?
Sure. The x86 version is -for obvious reasons- the most popular one. If
I'm not mistaken, Red Hat ships with an Alpha release as well. Versions
for other platforms can also be downloaded, but since I've never looked
for it, I don't know where. Probably on the CD's I mentioned earlier BTW.
> Thanks.
You're welcome.
--
Hans "Woefdram" van Zijst
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#: 14212495
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic - Help!
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:09:53 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan,
Are you running RH? Which version? Also, what is the exact
text? I could not find "swapper task" or "not syncing" as
strings
in my RH 5.2 source but I've just setup my environment and may
not
have everything setup correctly yet. If you have these exact
strings
out of RH 5.2 then I will assume I still do not have my
environment
correct yet and will give it another shot.
d
Dan Warren wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me the severity of this message and possibly what
> caused it:
>
> Kernel panic: skput:over 001a5818:110
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan Warren
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: SpreadSheets
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:55:26 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:30:04 GMT, Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are there any Spreadsheet programs out there for Linux?
>
I use applix and xslite4.
--
Michael E. Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:14:18 -0700
From: Darryl Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: get your money back for Windows preinstalled
Arthur wrote:
>
> You're right that copyright law seems to take a lot of the
> fun out of it, unless you could argue that the breach of
> contract now makes it a work made for hire, or somehow gives
> you ownership rights that supercede the copyright. Seems
> quite a stretch though. Still, you probably could do a few
> things, like reverse engineer, benchmark, or maybe run
> multiple instances over a network.
>
I doubt that such activity as making multiple copies for your own
amusement, and potentual damage to Microsoft, would be
tolerated by the courts, even in a legally ambiguous case as
this.
I would bet that the courts would look at the intent of the
license agreement, and also at agreements between Microsoft
and Toshiba as their agent. Looking through copyright rose-
colored glasses, clearly (!) Microsoft prohibits you from using
their software without first giving up your right of Free Speech
to benchmark it, or creating your own 'compatible' version.
It would be an interesting court case for someone to challenge
the licensing clause that says you can't publish performance
information about a given software product without written
authorization from the vendor. Maybe someone like Larry
Ellison will get a bug up his butt to challenge this issue in court.
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mp3 decoder...
Date: 20 Jan 1999 02:12:07 GMT
giangy wrote:
>
> I'm looking for an mp3 decoder... to make wav files out fo mp3s...
> command line would ge great!! so I can make scripts
> thanx
> gianluca
Go to www.linuxapps.com and see what they got. They maintain a big
database with links to linux software similar to freshmeat.net but not
as popular. Its probably the clunky interface and the lack of colors but
thats just my opinion. They really need an updated interface. :0)
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Website: http://www.franksstuff.com/
"Excuse my english I went to a US public school"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Snoesje)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why Pentium Pro?)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:13:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Sampson) wrote:
>On 13 Jan 1999 19:13:34 GMT, Robert Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>: > Have you tried the K6 kernel patches? The last I found would only work
>>: > against 2.0.36, and I'm still running 2.0.34...
>>Have you tried FreeBSD? We don't have to spend time tracking
>>down patches :-).
>
>No; I'm a GPL fan. ;-) I also like Quake 2, and I don't know if it would
>work under IBCS.
QUake II runs fine under FreeBSD. I tested it on a Dual PPRO 200 Compaq
Proliant 5000R.
>Plus, every time I've gone to download FreeBSD the sites have always been too
>slow to be useful. Linux I can get cheaply on CD in the UK.
I live in the Netherlands, and ftp.uk.freebsd.org is fast, even for me.
>Anyway, I doubt that there's anything that FreeBSD can do that Linux can't for
>me. I'm running a home proxy server, not a big company webserver.
You don't know until you try :)
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From: Michael Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: having no /etc/fstab is not nice! -- please help
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:59:07 -0600
I am trying to boot to a floppy disk so I can remount my root hard drive
as rw.
I can only get in to it as read-only right now. So, how can I create a
boot disk from this computer of mine which will allow me to make a new
fstab file?
The BootDisk HOWTO seems to think everyone makes their boot disk before
problems set in. Not me.
When I boot from a disk I have created, I get the option to use linux or
rescue from lilo. When I choose rescue it asks for a rescue disk. This
is what I do not have.
The system is RedHat 5.2 BTW.
Please help, TIA
Michael Phillips
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 19 Jan 1999 18:33:56 -0800
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am interested in a "soft-touch" keyboard for a Linux workstation that has
> > one Control key on the home row - by the "A" key or "Caps lock" key, instead
> > of 2 Control keys on the bottom like on Windows keyboards. I would like to
> > hear someone recommend a keyboard with these specifications.
>
> Add
>
> XkbOptions "ctrl:nocaps"
>
> to the "Keyboard" section of your XF86Config file, and Caps Lock will
> become an additional control key.
Ooh, I like that. If you really want a keyboard that has the control
key to the left of the "A" you can get a Keytronics KB-101 PLUS-C. It
has a switch on the bottom to perform the swap. $84 from www.mcglen.com.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KDE setup problem...! *newbie question*
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:38:11 GMT
You need to install QT (version 1.33 or higher) in order to install KDE. QT
is a toolkit upon which KDE is dependent, hence the 'QT' errors you see when
you try ti install.
Chances are, QT is on the same disc; otherwise, you can download it from
www.troll.no, or from the ftp.kde.org site. Try to find the package system
for your version of Linux (rpm, deb, etc.) - this will make life easier.
ftp.kde.org should have all of these.
--Philip
In article <77hm7f$bnh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> use package manager and try to install it i get this:
>
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdegames-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdegames-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdenetwork-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdenetwork-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdegraphics-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdegraphics-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdeutils-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdeutils-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdelibs-@VERSION@-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdeadmin-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdeadmin-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdemultimedia-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdemultimedia-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.40 is needed by korganizer-0.9.9-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by korganizer-0.9.9-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdebase-1.0-1
> libqt.so.1 is needed by kdebase-1.0-1
> qt >= 1.33 is needed by kdesupport-1.0-1
>
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From: "Michael.Creasy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 128 bit Netscape 4.08 built against glibc
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:37:38 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Believe when I see it. Yet to find a version of Netscape than can
access http://www.michael.creasy.com without dying!!
David Martin wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Michael.Creasy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Netscape - buggy ? Only very slightly :-) Just try anything with Java
> > and watch it die.
>
> I just click on a mailto: url to close down. WOrks every time (grr).
>
> Waiting for gekko which is supposed to be fantastic.
>
> ..d
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cannot get past OK on setup of RH 5.2
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:34:59 GMT
I am helping a friend install RH5.2 on an old Packard Bell 2050 (486 DX 75)
and after the kernel loads, the keyboard does not work. Details are below.
He will be using this machine to run ONLY Linux as a gateway server. After
booting using the boot disk (that comes with the distribution) and getting
the lilo prompt (RedHat's colorful one, where you can choose 'expert' mode,
etc), we hit enter to do an install. It loads the kernel, etc, and then
shows the blue screen welcoming us to the installation and giving some
information. There is one option on this screen, "OK", that is chosen by
hitting the space bar (since it is already selected). There are also some
other F key choices, etc. Also, of cours, by this time there should be at
least 4 virtual terminals open. At this point, the keyboard does NOTHING.
No switching VTs, no F keys, no space, no ENTER, Nothing! We downloaded the
updated image files from updates.redhat.com, made new disks, and tried it to
no avail. Used these disks on another machine, and this problem did not rear
its ugly head, so it must be specific to this machine. The problem machine
uses a ps2 connector keyboard, and we tried multiple keyboards. Besides, the
keyboard works in the bios and at startup, just not after the kernel has been
loaded.
I have installed some version of RedHat/Linux about 100 times, and have never
seen this happen. If anybody has any experience with something like this or
any info that might help, I would very much appreciate knowing about it. I
realize that it is probably Packard Hell specific, so I mentioned the brand in
this post.
Thanks in advance,
Bill~
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From: "Michael.Creasy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Does Linux support USB modems ?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:42:47 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB - work in progress, going to be a while before thinks like modems
are supported, they having enough trouble with mice and keyboards.
Michael
Michael Schlenstedt wrote:
>
> Am Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:59:35 +0800, schrieb Y W Wong:
> >If Linux support USB modems, how many modems support
> >simultaneously ?
> >
> >Y W Wong
> >
>
> AFAIK Linux does not support USB yet.
>
> CU
> Schlenn
>
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