Linux-Misc Digest #744, Volume #18 Sun, 24 Jan 99 09:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Sven Utcke)
Notebook buy without Windooze? (Matthias Kattanek)
Re: How do I read open source code CD Redhat 5.2? ("Stuart Updegrave")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers ("Netnerd")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers ("Jim Ross")
LILO problem with win98 (Redhat) (Felix Lam)
Setup modem on Sony Vaio 505 notebook (Felix Lam)
Setup modem on Sony Vaio 505 notebook (Felix Lam)
Dosemu problem ("INCA Hellas Ltd")
Re: A newbie versus "vi" (David Efflandt)
Re: Is Redhat 5.2 Stable? (Frank Lepore)
Re: Attaching IOMEGA Zip drive after boot? (Mircea)
Re: get your money back for Windows preinstalled ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux as a printer server (Rod Smith)
Re: Mounting FAT32 filesystem, newbie help (David Pace)
Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives. (Thomas Frese)
Re: Adaptec U2W controller AND nVidia TNT: Assistance required ("Barry J.
Grundy")
Re: How do I get started (David Efflandt)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Ilya)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Paul Doherty)
S3V or SVGA (iNoDE)
Basic Home Network Guidance - Please (David Francis)
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From: Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 21:16:37 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
> Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ... I use two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation.
>
> Which is some odd relict that somebody still seems to believe is needed...
Nah. I think it is a fair chance he uses it because it allows a
computer (Emacs in this particular case) to differentiate between
line-endings and abbreviations. And no, to capitalise the beginning of
sentences would not be enough for this.
> ...Putting two spaces between sentences is an old secretary's myth.
> While it won't affect your web pages, it makes your e-mail and
> word-processor documents harder to read.
I personally disagree, but I have never tried to really study the
effect of one versus two spaces, so who knows, maybe he is right.
> One of the first things
> you learn in a good typography class is that a word space should be
> about the width of the letter "i." The extra space breaks the
> natural rhythm of the sentences.
I thought that is the idea...
> You don't do it in your
> handwriting,
Actually, I do. As a matter of fact, up to this second I thought
everybody did.
> we never do it in books and newspapers,
Well, Knuth does (in the TeXbook).
P. A. Darnell and P. E. Margolis do it (in "C --- A Software
Engineering Approach").
Unfortunately I do not have a Newspaper at hand...
> why should it
> be right for your word processor or your e-mail?
So that my word-processor nows whether it is dealing with an
abbreviation or a sentence-ending?
> Since we typographers are very
> picky about such things, if a larger space were helpful, we would
> use it.
But typographers in many countries do! To be honest, I always thought
the United States were one of these countries...
Confused
Sven
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From: Matthias Kattanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Notebook buy without Windooze?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:47:32 -0800
I am on the market for a new notebook. Since I am already running Linux
for 4-5 years
sucessfully on notebooks, sure I plan to use it on the new one too.
Looking around, trying to get a good deal, I only seem to find notebooks
with
Windooze pre-installed. This is how most of the shops stock computers
today.
I called several vendors today and it is always the same story.
I don't care what is in installed on it. I'll wipe it anyway to install
Linux.
What I do not appreciate is that I have to pay for something I am not
going to use at all.
Why do I have put money in Microsofts pocket? So they can finance
another FUD campaign?
On workstations and servers I found my way around, by building the
hardware myself.
Exciting to see that companies like IBM,Dell, Compaq going to sell (and
support) boxes
with Linux.
But where does this leave the notebook?
Does somebody know place where to buy notbooks without windooze?
--
mattes
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Tel: (831) 461-6061 Fax: (831) 461-6056
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From: "Stuart Updegrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I read open source code CD Redhat 5.2?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:58:39 -0800
Kangoroo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:Hello,
:I have a RedHat 5.2 CD #2 for open source code. I try open it in the
:.doc format in Win98, but can't read it. I assume Linux source code
:written in C, so its file has .c extension. Do I need to have C program
:software in Win98 to read it? In Linux OS, after mount CD-ROM, do I
:just type cat filename.c and read it? Thanks for any help.
Any basic text editor in either Windows or Linux should allow you to read .c
files.
-stuart
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From: "Netnerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:38:25 -0500
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Jeremy Crabtree wrote in message ...
>Netnerd allegedly wrote:
>>
>>Julian T. J. Midgley wrote in message
>><78dhlo$ias$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>
>>>Linux has another advantage. If I were to find a bug in the kernel, I
>>>would be allowed to fix it myself and distribute the fix to other
>>>people. If I find a bug in a Microsoft product (an almost weekly
>>>occurence) I cannot fix it, because they will not provide me with the
>>>source, nor let me distribute the fixed version.
>>
>>
>>Thank God.
>
>So...you're saying it's a /GOOD/ thing to be left unable to fix the system
>when you find a bug?
In the hands of the criminally insane, yes.
>
>(Here's a free hint, that's an untenable argument.)
Oh, really.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
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: 24 Jan 1999 04:47:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netnerd allegedly wrote:
>
>Jeremy Crabtree wrote in message ...
>>Netnerd allegedly wrote:
>>>
>>>Julian T. J. Midgley wrote in message
>>><78dhlo$ias$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>>
>>>>Linux has another advantage. If I were to find a bug in the kernel, I
>>>>would be allowed to fix it myself and distribute the fix to other
>>>>people. If I find a bug in a Microsoft product (an almost weekly
>>>>occurence) I cannot fix it, because they will not provide me with the
>>>>source, nor let me distribute the fixed version.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thank God.
>>
>>So...you're saying it's a /GOOD/ thing to be left unable to fix the system
>>when you find a bug?
>
>
>In the hands of the criminally insane, yes.
Why should it matter /WHO/ fixes it? So long as it gets fixed, it's not
relevant who did it.
>>(Here's a free hint, that's an untenable argument.)
>
>Oh, really.
Yes, really.
Oh, btw, this argument is over. If you wish to continue arguing with yourself
over such an untenable position, so be it. I will not have any part of it.
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: "Jim Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:43:20 -0500
Netnerd wrote in message ...
>
>Jeremy Crabtree wrote in message ...
>>Netnerd allegedly wrote:
>>>
>>>Julian T. J. Midgley wrote in message
>>><78dhlo$ias$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>>
>>>>Linux has another advantage. If I were to find a bug in the kernel, I
>>>>would be allowed to fix it myself and distribute the fix to other
>>>>people. If I find a bug in a Microsoft product (an almost weekly
>>>>occurence) I cannot fix it, because they will not provide me with the
>>>>source, nor let me distribute the fixed version.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thank God.
>>
>>So...you're saying it's a /GOOD/ thing to be left unable to fix the system
>>when you find a bug?
>
>
>In the hands of the criminally insane, yes.
I don't see where criminal or insame fits in.
Maybe finding and fixing a bug isn't obvious, but it is obvious if a fix
works. The prove is in the pudding.
Your comment seems criminally insane.
>
>>
>>(Here's a free hint, that's an untenable argument.)
>
>
>Oh, really.
Yes really Netnerd.
Jim
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From: Felix Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: LILO problem with win98 (Redhat)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:09:19 +1100
hi there,
As a newbie in Linux, I tried installing redhat 5.1 on the
Sony Vaio 505 notebook. After days and nights, it finally
installed ... :)
The problem now is with booting my linux kernel. Booting
off disk is fine, but no luck with lilo. When I went thru the
step of setting up lilo during installation, it always reported
"an error has happened ..." and I eventually aborted this step.
I have fiddled with my /etc/lilo.conf file but with no luck.
It always boot straight into win98 instead. When I run /sbin/lilo
, it always return
Added Linux *
Partition entry not found.
Here is a copy of my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=win98
table=/dev/hda
Thanks a lot in advance. It has been bugging me many nights now ... :(
P.S. When I run fdisk in Linux, it reports "unknown" type for my win98
partition, will this have anything with this problem??
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From: Felix Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Setup modem on Sony Vaio 505 notebook
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:17:06 +1100
hi there,
I have been trying to setup the 56K internal modem with
redhat 5.1 and tried to make call using minicom.
ATDTxxxxxxxx
NO DIAL TONE
I have fiddled with the init string (ATZ, AT&FX3 ...etc)
but still no luck. I checked the IRQ and stuff with setserial
and appear fine (com2, i.e. on /dev/cua1).
This modem works fine on my win98 setup.
Thanks a lot in advance. This has been bugging me for
nights now ... :(
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From: Felix Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Setup modem on Sony Vaio 505 notebook
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:20:14 +1100
hi there,
I have been trying to setup the 56K internal modem with
redhat 5.1 and tried to make call using minicom.
ATDTxxxxxxxx
NO DIAL TONE
I have fiddled with the init string (ATZ, AT&FX3 ...etc)
but still no luck. I checked the IRQ and stuff with setserial
and appear fine (com2, i.e. on /dev/cua1).
This modem works fine on my win98 setup.
Thanks a lot in advance. This has been bugging me for
nights now ... :(
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From: "INCA Hellas Ltd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dosemu problem
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:13:14 +0200
Anyone knows what should I do to see the same fonts when I run "dos" with
those I see in the shell? I load a Greek font with setfont, but the greek
DOS programs I run under dosemu don't use this.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: A newbie versus "vi"
Date: 23 Jan 1999 14:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:58:00 +0000,
Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip)
> 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.
Since you butchered your e-mail address, I don't know if you will see
this. But the easiest text editor for a newbie is 'pico' that comes with
the pine emailer package. It's not GUI, but it allows you to do most
things without those extra keystroke or programming and has a menu at the
bottom to tell you what the control keys do.
The only things you need to know are Ctrl-^ to mark, Ctrl-K to cut and
Ctrl-U to uncut (paste). Otherwise you simply use the cursor keys to
where you want to type and start typing. It word wraps by default, but
you can turn that off with -w command line switch. The only thing to
watch for is that it can break extremely long lines (one line paragraphs)
at odd places even if word wrap is turned off (line length limit?).
And pasting from X is even easier by simply highlighting text in any
window with the mouse and using third button (or both buttons in
emulate-3-button) to paste.
But you should still know the basics of vi, because you may get thrown
into it as the default editor for certain programs (like 'crontab -e').
The only problem with pico is that it is too easy, and may spoil you from
learning any of the diehard Unix editors.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: Frank Lepore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Is Redhat 5.2 Stable?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:41:02 -0500
Melvin Toy wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I have had major problems installing RedHat5.2 on to my systems which
> works perfectly fine under RedHat5.0. After I choose the type of
> monitor I have, 5.2 has to blink a few times. On the 2nd blink I get
> vertical white stripes and a black background and my system hangs.
>
> My system is the folllowing:
> Abit IT5H motherboard (HX chipset)
> IIyama Vision Master 350 MF-8515G
> Diamond Stealth 3000XL(4MB)
> Pentium 166
> Fujitsu 3.2 G IDE drive
> 96 MB of EDO memory
>
> Under 5.2, it detect PCI Entry: ViRGE/VX, X Server: SVGA and install
> SVGA 3.3.2.3-25.
>
> Under 5.0, it detects PCI Entry ViRGE/VX, X Server S3V and installs S3V
> 3.3.1.4.
>
> I have tried swapping different video cards and monitors and I have the
> same problems.
> I have tried a ftp install, from a cd I made and an offical version from
> RedHat.
>
> Has anyone had similar problems? It seems the each revision is becoming
> bugger and bugger. Whats going on? I thought only Microsoft did thing
> this way!
>
> Not a happy camper
> Melvin
The SVGA server is the preferred server for S3Virge cards nowadays
because it supports more acceleration features then the S3V server. In
your case I would skip the Xconfigurator step of the install and go back
and run xf86config after the install. Some S3V cards don't like being
probed.
Frank
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Attaching IOMEGA Zip drive after boot?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:38:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See the Zip-mini FAQ. If you don't have it, you can get it from
www.njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
MST
Anders Nilsson wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of getting an external Zip drive (probably the parallel
> port model) and I would like to be able to attach it at any time after
> booting up. Meaning I would like not having to power down and reboot
> every time to attach or detach the Zip drive. Is this possible with
> Linux (RedHat) and should I get any special model of the Zip drive to be
> able to do this?
>
> There is a new 250MB model (I heard). Any reason I shouldn't get that
> one?
>
> /Anders
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: get your money back for Windows preinstalled
Date: 23 Jan 1999 14:25:19 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst chaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eloquently scribe:
: be compatable for Year 2K. which reminds me, Is linux Y2K compliant, if
: not where can we get a patch.
Of course it is...
Y2K+38's another matter though...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux as a printer server
Date: 23 Jan 1999 18:34:58 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm sure that Linux can be used on an existing NT network to drive
> printers and plotters, but I need a pointer to information on how. Hope
> someone can help. The situation we are faced with is a Windows NT
> server connecting to Win95 PC's via a hub. We have some old 486
> computers with limited memory and drive size (16MB and 100 MB
> respecively) and no money left in the budget for more memory, larger
> hard drive and Win95/98.
Linux can do this. It'll use a package called Samba to provide the
printer access services (Samba is included in most modern distributions).
The main (potential) problems I see are:
1) 100MB is awfully skimpy. Granted, you won't be needing X or Emacs
or other such big packages, but you WILL be spooling print jobs, and
in some situations those can become quite large, particularly if a
printer gets several big jobs at once.
2) If the printers in question are so-called "WinPrinters," you may or
may not be able to get them to work. Sometimes (particularly for
inkjets), this will work OK so long as Linux itself doesn't need to
print to them. Other times (particularly for lasers), it won't work
with Linux driving the printer, period. If these are PCL or PostScript
printers, though, you should have no problems.
3) If you intend to set things up so that the remote users print using
PostScript and the host machine translates this to some other format
(e.g., PCL, ESC/2P, etc.), you'll need to install Ghostscript on these
systems. A 486 may be a bit slow for this, particularly if these are
fast and/or color printers. This will also exacerbate problem #1,
since it'll increase the need for temporary disk space. If you'll be
printing using the printers' native drivers, though, this shouldn't be
an issue.
> So Linux may be a good choice as long as:
>
> * It will work as a printer server in an NT/95 environment.
It will.
> * I can use NT to check the status of the printer server and terminate
> jobs that get out of hand.
I don't know about that. My hunch is that this won't work, but there may
be some way to do this that I don't know of. At the worst, you could log
onto the Linux box in question using telnet or an ssh client and use the
Linux command-line tools for this (lpq, lprm, etc.).
> * Installation and configuration are stright forwared and documented.
> Note I didn't say it had to be a snap, just stright forward.
It's documented. Trouble is that the documentation varies with time and
distribution, so if you get ahold of, say, documentation for Slackware of
1996, it may not do you much good with Debian in 1999. Red Hat's got good
GUI tools for printer management, so you don't need much documentation if
you go this route -- but that would also require installing X, which may
be too much for your small hard disks. There's a book on Samba that you
might want to look into (I don't recall the title offhand, though; try a
search on keywords like "Samba" at amazon.com).
FWIW, I put together an emergency Linux rescue Zip disk using Debian Linux
a few months back. It fit nicely in 100MB, including X and various useful
recovery utilities. I was unable to install Red Hat with the tools I need
in the same space -- but I was trying to install X; a more minimal Red Hat
setup might have fit. I don't know how easy it would be to fit Slackware,
SuSE, or other distributions on a 100MB disk. Debian, unfortunately, is
more tedious to install than Red Hat, and requires more knowledge. I
believe there are one or two distributions intended for minimal
installations; you might want to try to track these down.
http://www.linux.org is a good place to start; I think they've got a page
on different distributions.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
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From: David Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Mounting FAT32 filesystem, newbie help
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 10:35:06 -0500
Angus wrote:
>
> Can one just type
>
> mkdir /mnt/wherever
>
> to create the mount point
>
> or do we HAVE to edit the fstab file?
>
> i just learned how to do this today myself (to enable me to download stuff,
> since PPP is not working on Linux yet) so i am curious
>
You do not HAVE to edit the fstab file.
That file does automatic mounting at boot time.
You must do mkdir for the manual mount command
to work and for the automatic mount via fstab to work.
--
David Pace Free Trading software: http://www.daveware.com
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From: Thomas Frese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.abbs,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:50:30 GMT
I'm using the Colorado 8GB under Linux...newer kernels since 2.0.34
or 35 contain the IDE/ATAPI Tape driver. The Colorado works with this.
You don't have to use BRU or any special program, once the drive
works, you can use any tape utility such as tar, cpio. I do use
BRU since it's very good. However, there is a problem with using the
Colorado - BRU sometimes does not rewind correctly to the beginning
of the tape or archive. According to BRU's support, this is a bug
in the current version of the Linux IDE Tape driver. BRU offered
some solution which doesn't work. Right now, I always have to format
the tape in Windows and then make the backup under Linux...that
works fine. Never had a single read or write error. However, scsi
tape should be better supported under Linux.
Tom
"Patrick D. Rockwell" wrote:
>
> I'm planning to set up a multi platform system with Dos 6.22, Windows
> 95, OS2 Warp, and Linux. I
> have a T1000 tape drive, but I'm planning to get a Colorado 4/8 Gb tape
> drive (part number C4386B). I
> know that Dos and Windows 95 work with it. What about Linux? Is there a
> Linux driver which will
> work with the tape drive that I'm planning to get? Is there a drive
> which will work with all four OS's?
>
> In particular, I'm planning to get Redhat Linux, but if there is another
> better Linux out there which will
> work with the Colorado 4/8 Gb tape drive, please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Patrick D. Rockwell
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Barry J. Grundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.act.scsi,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec U2W controller AND nVidia TNT: Assistance required
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:08:19 -0500
A Nourai wrote:
>
> *Are the U2W adaptec controllers (AIC 7890) supported by redhat?
>
> *Is there any (unofficial i guess) support for TNT vid cards for x?
Support for the TNT is in the SVGA server of XFree86 3.3.3.1 The RH
rpm's are at updates.redhat.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: How do I get started
Date: 23 Jan 1999 16:27:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:04:44 -0800, anon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am finally ready to try Linux, where do I download it from, how do I begin
>the installation, do I need anything besides what I download. thanks for the
>help.
>
>Please email responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The last time I downloaded Linux (Slackware 95) it took 12 hrs @ 26.4K and
Linux has grown since then. I only got cut off once, and forturnately
woke up within an hour to resume. I have a phone pak that does not charge
per minute for local calls.
There are also places like www.cheapbytes.com where I bought Slackware,
RedHat and Debian versions and all the sunsite archives for $12
US + $5 shipping.
For a first time installation, it may help to get something with a book.
My local BestBuy has RedHat 5.2. But I first started with Linux Unleashed
book, which came with a Slackware CD.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Date: 23 Jan 1999 08:41:03 +0800
In comp.editors Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | But, if this does not persudade you, let's take a poll:
> |
> | [ ] I find sentences that begin with capitalized words easier to read.
> | [ ] I do NOT find sentences that begin with capitalized words easier to read.
> |
> | (If the latter item is checked, then why do you write according to
> | grammatical rules?)
> is this the kind of unscientific crap that supports your position?
I suppose I should not even address this crudely rhetorical question, but
your resorting to insults and vulgarities just underlines how weak your case
is. For someone who accuses other people of posting "unscientific crap", you
hardly come across as a debate expert.
(Hint: Sometimes complex questions have very simple solutions. Think of
taking an informal poll as cutting the proberbial Gordian knot).
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From: Paul Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:37:51 -0600
Charles H. Chapman wrote:
> *chuckles* Well, it just goes to show that one person's "stupid" is
> another person's "well-informed". No less authorities than the
> National Weather Service:
>
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/trwbro.htm
>
> and the American Red Cross:
>
> http://www.crossnet.org/disaster/safety/thunder.html
>
> say that cars ARE safe places to seek protection from lightning during
> a thunderstorm. Protection against floods or a tornado are another
> story though.
Not sure what you're saying here... cars *are* the safest place to be in
a lightning storm. What point were you making?
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From: iNoDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3V or SVGA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:59:08 -0600
I have an STB Velocity 3D Video Card 4MB. I am running the S3V server
right now fine... However I have read/heard that the SVGA server is
faster... I installed it and didn't notice much of a difference... my
question is... if I can run either one... which one should I keep? why?
Thanks....
--
o My Computer talkz about Linux: "BriNg iT On!!!"
o After the fact: "I'm a LeAn and mEAn Linux machine!"
o Chickz dig Linux...
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Basic Home Network Guidance - Please
From: david@no-spam,dcf.net (David Francis)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:52:27 GMT
Hello:
I have just torn down a dedicated PPP internet connection with a block of
assigned IP addresses and moved the server to my office. Now, back at the
homefront, I have set up a brand-new RedHat 5.2 LINUX system...
My only Internet access now is a dynamicaly assigned IP address through a
dial-up connection. I want to set-up my LINUX box to dial-out on demand from my
Win9* boxes on the home LAN.
LINUX Box= 192.168.0.1
Win9* Box= 192.168.0.2
I don't need to be "spoon fed" the steps. I'd just like to get others input on
how they handle this routing scenario, security considerations, various
options, etc...
Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
David
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