Linux-Misc Digest #827, Volume #18 Sat, 30 Jan 99 19:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Reference Manager ("G. Pollack")
Re: [Q] Bogo mips shrinked!? (Andy Mulhearn)
Re: Uninstalling a tarball application? (jamie)
Re: could someone suggest a window manager for me? ("James O. Smith")
Need to change date and time
gcc gives fatal signal 6 - Help! ("Jeremy")
OpenBSD more secure? (was: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)) (Matthias Buelow)
Ethernet vs. Mouse Probs
Red Hat 5.1 : how to resize the dosemu drive (KingFisher)
Kernel 2.2.0 hang (every time) (Heikki Julkunen)
Re: Shutdown (Gary Momarison)
Re: DMA (Norman Jordan)
Re: WHERE IS REDHAT???? (John Thompson)
Compiling APUE source code on Linux (Lakshmi Natarajan)
Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question. (Jim Richardson)
Re: (Symbolic) Links Again (William Burrow)
Re: New to Linux (Taylor Collins)
Problem with pci modem (nitraat)
Re: Can printing from linux permanently change printer settings ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: ps aux oddity (Jim Richardson)
printing problem with hp 670C ("lai choong yin")
Slow transfers between 2.2.1 (Brad Harrell)
Re: Need to change date and time
Re: Corel WP8.0 Personal Edition is Out! (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 30 Jan 1999 21:16:13 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eloquently scribe:
: Course, it could simply have been the USN being dain bramaged. Wasn't
: unkown.
I think it was the US Navy being brain damaged.
(Mostly due to the fact the their navies commander in chief was a total
plonker and an anglophobe...)
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |
| Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
| Finalist in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
| Computer Science | - Father Jack in "Father Ted" |
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|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e>e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: "G. Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reference Manager
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:10:21 -0500
Joseph Fowler wrote:
>
> Like any good Linux user, I'm attempting to convince people they should
> follow
> my example. Pretty much everyone at work is convinced, but just today
> my boss informed
> me that he needs a reference manager. He has tons of scientific
> articles catagorized
> and filed. Presently they use a program called Reference Manager under
> you-know-
> which operating system to keep track of them all and to seach for
> authors, keywords
> etc. Could someone recommend a similar program under Linux?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joseph
winrm7 runs under wine, sort of. I only tried it once (and not too
hard). It came up okay, but insisted that it was in demo mode. I had
meant to try reinstalling it from within wine, but I never got around to
it. If you do try this, I'd be interested to learn whether it works.
--
Gerald Pollack
Dept. of Biology, McGill University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Mulhearn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: [Q] Bogo mips shrinked!?
Date: 30 Jan 1999 00:08:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Hale wrote:
>Andy Mulhearn wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jinhyok Heo wrote:
>> >Hi~ all.
>> >
>> >
>> >And also `dmesg|grep Bogo' shows :
>> > -------------
>> > Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 28.67 BogoMIPS
>>
>> I found that if I turned off BIOS caching - I think that was it
>> but can't check as I'm using it at present - the BogoMIPS value
>> for my 133Mhz Zenith dropped from 53.04 to about what you're
>> seeing. May be worth a look,
>>
>> Andy
>
>Hey I got my PII 266 to 272.79 damn 28.67 sux.
>
And the point you are trying to make is?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling a tarball application?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:18:38 -0600
jdn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tend to like to try out various applications, and often ones that I know I
>probably won't use on a regular basis, but just want to see what they are
>like.
>
>Anyway, suppose I've come to my senses and decide to get rid of some of
>these applications to free up disk space. Is there a basic procedure to do
>this, or is it more of a "hunt down and kill" process? Obviously, with
>RedHat, you just uninstall the RPM. Is there anything similar with tar.gz
>installs?
A lot of tar distributions have a "make uninstall" option. When they
don't, examining or grepping the Makefiles for "install" will lead you
to what was installed where.
Also, since a good deal of packages these days are using "configure," you
can do something like "configure --prefix=/usr/local/test" or wherever
you want to install it, and delete the test dir when you don't want it
any more.
--
jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"There's a seeker born every minute."
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:18:29 -0600
From: "James O. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: could someone suggest a window manager for me?
Eric,
WM's are a matter of need and personal taste. I am responding to you because
I had the same reactions to kde and fvwm that you had. I eventually settled
on WindowMaker. It is quite fast but is nice looking and fairly easy to
customize. When combined with one of the dozens of themes available or
dozens of icon/widget sets, it can look awesome. On a more practical note,
the docking feature allows me to easily add useful apps to the desktop. It
is like NEXT ,however, and not in any way close to the W95 styling of kde.
So if the start button sort of thing is what you're looking
for...windowmaker probably isn't for you.
Do check it out though. I absolutely love it.
WM preferences like editor preferences usually lead to holy wars.(They can
have my vi when they pry it from my cold dead fingers). Let the games
begin:)
good luck
Jim Smith
Eric Wyles wrote:
> I am currently using KDE, which I really like, but it is a memory hog.
> I have 64 MB and if I do a fresh boot and then start X and KDE, my
> memory is completely full. I can start X with fvwm2 and then StarOffice
> and still have about 15-20 meg free. This is ok, but I really don't
> like fvwm2. I would like to find something where I am not forced to
> have more that one virtual desktop. If someone could tell me how to
> turn that feature off in fvwm2 that would be a big help. I never use
> more than one desktop (I just minimize everything), and the placement of
> the desktop selector in fvwm2 is very inconvenient because it cover up
> my scrollbars when I have a window maximized. If anyone could suggest a
> good window manager and where to get it, or tell me how to customize
> fvwm2, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:44:26 -0500
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need to change date and time
How do you change the date and time on the system?
I tried using the command 'date -s 012918151999'
but get the error message 'invalid date '012918151999''.
I've also tried many variations of the above command
with no success. Any help is appreciated.
Greg
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From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux
Subject: gcc gives fatal signal 6 - Help!
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:05:08 -0800
Whenever I try to compile something, gcc gets a fatal signal 6 error. I
have an Intel Celeron @ 374, 128MB SDRAM, a 4gig linux partition, and 110MB
Swap space. What could possibly be causing this error? HELP!
Thanks,
-Jeremy
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From: Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: OpenBSD more secure? (was: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?))
Date: 30 Jan 1999 02:08:33 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Pizzini) writes:
> I'm not prepared to contest your claim that OpenBSD has better
> security that other flavors of *nix, but a lack of bug reports
> is not sufficient evidence to support this position --- a lack
> of reports could just as easily be due to a lack of reporting
> as a lack of things to report.
Well, if you look at bugtraq over a longer period of time, you
may notice that a lot of the security issues that affect BSD
(not third-party stuff that runs on BSD, but software that is
shipped with the systems) have been reported by the OpenBSD
team first (and fixed). They're actively auditing the system
source for security holes and imho are doing a quite good job
at that. That does not mean that the other *BSD projects
(Free/NetBSD) do not actively search for security holes and fix
them aswell, but the OpenBSD project is specifically dedicated
to that issue.
--
- mkb
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From: nonet@chain ()
Subject: Ethernet vs. Mouse Probs
Date: 30 Jan 1999 22:54:04 GMT
Hi,
Well, I've discovered the power of RTFM, and got my
ethernet card working. (I had to set some LILO params
at boot; tricky!)
Now, I'm stuck again. My mouse is not responding in X.
It worked before, so I'm guessing my ethernet card now
has the IRQ. Now, I tried:
cat /proc/interrupts
and didn't see the mouse listed. How should I go about
trouble shooting this one? Any pointers would be greatly
valued.
Cheers,
A *nix Convert
P.S.--Now that I got the ethernet card working, I'd like
to let other computers mount the file system (I've got a
lil LAN and hub going, which I'm slowly converting from
netBIOS to DNS.) Any quick-start suggestions on how to
get this up? I plan to read more on this, but thought it'd
be a treat to just get that part working.
The LAN has: Dual PII, RH5.1, kernel 2.2.1, 10BaseT
P200, Win NT (soon to be FreeBSD!!)
P75, RH5.1, kernel 2.2.1, 10BaseT (the
problem computer right now).
You guys rock,
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From: KingFisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 5.1 : how to resize the dosemu drive
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:14:53 +0800
Hi,
I run dosemu in my Red Hat 5.1, a dos windows came out, and I can access
a new
C: drive, but this C: drive is too small, can I increase the size of
this dos
drive to like 200MB or create another D: or E: drive ? if possible, how
to
configure it ?
Thanks,
KingFisher
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:23:28 -0600
From: Heikki Julkunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel 2.2.0 hang (every time)
Hi.
This hangs kernel 2.2.0 (on my machine at least):
time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=100000 of=t.x
where x=1..as high as you have space.
In my case my machine hung at x=3.
The reason behind creating 100Mb files is to test
what impact write access to a slow UDMA drive
(the Quantum below) has on mp3 playback.
In 2.0.36 the playback skips when doing the above.
(I'm using ALSA, but all other drivers skip as well).
2.2.0 doesn't seem to skip, but hangs instead!! ;)
System: K6-2@333Mhz, Fic VA503+mb, 128Mb mem
>From /var/log/messages:
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6400-0x6407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6408-0x640f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: WDC AC31600H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 91020D6, ATA DISK drive
hdc: WDC AC310100B, ATA DISK drive
hdd: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC31600H
hda: DMA disabled
hda: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=787/64/63
hdb: Maxtor 91020D6, 9728MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=19765/16/63, UDMA
hdc: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=19650/16/63, UDMA
hdd: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT, 11497MB w/69kB Cache, CHS=23361/16/63, UDMA
The three large drives are used as /dev/md0 (linear mode).
Ideas ?
/ Heikki
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shutdown
Date: 29 Jan 1999 17:24:42 -0800
Cory Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I shutdown my system without logging into root each time?
What do you mean by "logging into"?
Are you aware that you only need to do this in a shell as a normal user?
su
[enter password]
shutdown -h now
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Norman Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: DMA
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:35:42 GMT
Chris Leahy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have recently compiled and installed the 2.2.1 kernel.
> I get several messages from the kernel at boot that I cant find an
> answer for.
>
> ( excerpt )
>
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
>
> I have an ASUS P5A-B motherboard with the Ali 1541 AGP chip and Ali 1543
> super I/O controller chip.
> I see that the kernel obviously does not support this chipset.
> The closest it comes in the configuration is under "other ide chipsets"
> with
> Ali 14xx
> I tried this but the kernel says
> Ali14xx not found.
> Not surprising since its the wrong chipset but I thought I'd try it
> anyway.
>
> The question is....
>
> Has anyone else found this problem and is there a soloution
> and does anyone know if support for this chipset will be in kernel
> releases in the near future?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Chris
> --
> Chris Leahy | 2151 Daniel St
> Real World Computer Services | Trail, B.C.
> 1-250-364-9965 | V1R 4H1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Canada
I have had the same problem with the 2.2.0 kernel and my ASUS P5A
motherboard. Aside from this message however, I haven't noticed any
problems running the new kernel. I have recently had trouble installing
Solaris 7 however and I think that this because anytime Solaris tries to
write to the hard drive, it times out because it can't have DMA access to
the hard drive. Have you noticed any other problems?
--
Norman Jordan -- Electrical Engineering Student
The Linux Resource Center
http://members.home.net/2817628153/
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WHERE IS REDHAT????
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:19:57 -0600
Kevin A. wrote:
> Been trying to connect to www.redhat.com for some time now. Anyone know
> where it went? For the last day or two...
>
> Could it be traffic from people trying to get the new kernel?
There was an announcement on linux.redhat.announce a couple days ago:
----[clip]----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Newsgroups: linux.redhat.announce
>Subject: Notice: Red Hat will be off the 'net!
>Followup-To: poster
>Date: 28 Jan 1999 18:53:02 +0100
>Organization: IAE newsgate
>Lines: 23
>Approved: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iaehv.nl
>
>
>Red Hat Software is moving to new offices. The part of that move that
>involves our internet connection and servers will happen this afternoon
>and early evening, EST. We hope to be back to life quickly, but with
>these things you never know.
>
>We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We should be running
>normally by late evening or tomorrow at the latest.
>
>
>--Donnie
>
----[clip]----
Looks like it's taking them a little longer than they anticipated.
-John
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From: Lakshmi Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.questions,
Subject: Compiling APUE source code on Linux
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:36:34 -0500
Hi,
Has anyone compiled the source code from Richard Stevens' "Advanced
Programming in the Unix Environment" on Linux? I am trying to do it on
my RedHat Linux 3.0.30 system, but cannot.
If I include the Make.defines for svr4 in the Make file, it complains it
can't find stropts.h (which I believe is STREAM operations -- perhaps
svr4 specific). If I use either sun or bsd Make.defines, the error is
that there is no "sun_len" member in the sockaddr_un structure.
Could anybody help?
Thanks,
Lakshmi Natarajan
(replies to my email also would be appreciated -- [EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
####################################################
# Not by bread alone, nor by music nor by science, #
# but through all of them. #
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question.
Date: 30 Jan 1999 01:25:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:15:17 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On 28 Jan 1999 01:55:42 +0100,
>> David Kastrup, in the persona of
>> >Yes somebody better should do that. Perhaps something that looks like
>> >the kickstart installation options of RedHat Linux or S.u.S.E Linux.
>> >If anybody were to develop a Linux distribution that would offer
>> >something like those two Windows vendors do, Linux would be off to a
>> >raging success.
>> >
>> >As it is, we have to just grit the teeth and wait. And suffer
>> >computers like the Cobalt Qube and the Corel Netwinder to come
>> >preinstalled only with Windows.
>>
>> maybe I am missing something here, but both the Cube and Netwinder are
>> linux _only_, they are not even available with Windows, presinstalled or
>> no.
>
>You read too quickly over the part where RedHat and SuSE are called "those two
>Windows vendors", otherwise the sarcasm would have been obvious.
>
doh!
:)
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: (Symbolic) Links Again
Date: 30 Jan 1999 01:25:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29 Jan 1999 19:41:11 GMT,
Steve Peltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>An example would be a shadow directory; if I hardlink the files, and
>someone replaces one of the files in the shadowed directory, I'll still
>have (the original, and now only) link to the file. With a soft link,
>I'll still be referencing the same file as I'd get in the original
>directory.
About the only good application. It also turns out, that hard links are
great for creating NFS-Root directories. Symlinks just won't do.
>Why shadow directories? For one thing, so you can combine the
>contents of multiple directories into one (such as a directory searched
>by a path variable, for instance).
I believe that in this specific application, a symlink would be desirable.
The reason being, that when you unlink the ``original'' file, you want to
really erase it. The hard link would preserve the inode and consume space
-- you would have to hunt down the other link to remove the file.
The symlink allows the file to disappear immediately.
Perhaps your shadow directory system is doing something else, but it seems
to me that unless you are NFS mounting only one of the direcories, a sym link
would have more desirable behaviour. Feel free to enlighten me.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: Taylor Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:01:03 GMT
> Hi everyone,
Hi!
> I'm about to install RedHat 5.2 on my p2 450 computer. Is there anything I
> need to know before I install it? I have a 14.4GB HD and I'm going to put
> Linux on a seprate partion. I would also like to know how do I boot between
> 2 Operating Systems. Can Windows 98 and Linux coexist?
I'm currently running Linux on a 8.4GB HD (Win95 gets my 4.3GB). I do recommend
creating seperate partitions. For example, I have Linux on the 1st partition,
user files on the second, multimedia on the third, etc. Its good incase
something happens to one partition making it corrupt or unusable - you haven't
lost ALL you data. Yes, your harddrive WILL crash one day. Make another
partition a Linux swap. Important note. lilo warns you about partitions sizes
greater than 1024 cylinders. You may also have to add a 'append' and/or
'linear' line to your /etc/lilo.conf file (see attachment)
Every OS has a learning curve. Unix, in general, will grow with you. If you
know MSDOS or some other command line OS, you have a head start:
cd -change directory
mkdir - make directory
type - to display contents of text files
dir (or ls) to get a directory listing
etc etc etc
There are many books one can buy. There's even a 'Linux for Dummies' book. The
basics are relatively easy and won't take long to figure your way around.
Anything else, you know where to find help: comp.os.linux.help
Taylor Collins
>
> BTW, Is this OS easy to learn?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Linda
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From: nitraat <"nitraat "@hda.hydro.com>
Subject: Problem with pci modem
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 03:18:40 +0100
Reply-To: thuis
I have a pci modem 56k6
When I start mij internet connection, I get the error message
"modem not found".
What to do ?
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can printing from linux permanently change printer settings
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:14:23 -0500
I have (or had) a problem which is probably related. I have an HP4000
Laserjet
connected to my Win98/Linux PC. With the standard Parallel Port
bidirectional
configuration, if I print anything under Linux then reboot into Win 98 the
printer
won't print at all unless I power it down then up again. My bios allows me
to
optionally configure the PP also as EPP or ECP. With ECP I don't have the
problem. I don't know why and HP doesn't know why.
Chetan Ahuja wrote in message <78rpuq$a20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
> I (possibly) have a strange problem. I have a fujitsu 10PPV printer
which is
>connected to a Win95 machine on my little home network. On my main linux
machine,
>I am running samba and am printing to the laser printer through samba. So
far I
>have printed a few postscript pages and text pages. I have also had to turn
on
>the "send EOF" option to get the pages out of the printer. But all that is
Ok now.
>
> Now here's the strangenes... My wife who uses the Win95 machine to type
stuff
>and print from Microsoft Word. These days she is working on her thesis
which
>involves a lot of repeated printing of drafts. Suddenly she finds that in
her
>print-outs, some numbers ( which were in bold BTW) are being printed a
little higher
>than the rest of the test ... e.g. if she has the ( pseudo marked up)
text:
>
> fig <b>3</b>
>
> the bold '3' prints sort of half way to the superscript position
keeping the same
>font size ). This did not happen in the previous printouts of the same
text.
>Now it could very well be a Word wierdness but I would like to know whether
>it is possible to permanently change the printer settings using the PCL
drivers of
>ghostscript or in any other way, printing from linux. And if so, what can I
do
>to make sure that every time I print from my machine, it resets the
original settings
>after printing is finished.... Any hints or pointers will be
appreciated...
>
> Thanks
> Chetan
>
>
>
>
>--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: ps aux oddity
Date: 30 Jan 1999 01:25:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:37:49 -0800,
David Wall, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>I'm running RedHat 5.1 on Intel.
>
>If I run the command 'ps aux' by itself, I get a full list of processes
>running including the user account it is running under, including a list of
>httpd processes (as I'd expect), with the process file listed as
>/usr/local/apache133/sbin/httpd.
>
>If I run the command 'ps aux | grep httpd' I get nothing.
>
>If I run the command 'ps aux | grep -v httpd' I see that the process file is
>listed only as /usr/local/apache133/ and has truncated the 'sbin/httpd'
>part, which is why grep can't find it.
>
>The same will happen if I redirect 'ps aux > TT' the file will contain
>truncated output. It seems that ps is doing something odd and using a
>shorter "record length" (80 characters!) when it's being redirected.
>
>Any ideas on how to resolve this?
>
ps auxw
For each w added, you will get an extra line for each process. If the line is
not needed, it is not used. You can have >=100 w .
See the man page for the details.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: "lai choong yin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing problem with hp 670C
Date: 30 Jan 1999 00:50:11 GMT
i installed a linux red hat v5.0 and configured my printer via the control
panel, and tested printing ok.
however, when i instruct it to print KDE help file, the printing words
always gets overlapped.
comments, hinders, advise appreciated, and thanks in advance.
rgds,
lai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Harrell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Slow transfers between 2.2.1
Date: 30 Jan 1999 19:00:22 GMT
Anyone know why I would be getting slow transfer rates between
2.2.1 systems? I have one system on subnet A (2.2.1) and two systems
on subnet B (2.0.36 & 2.2.1). Transfers from A to the 2.0.36 run
at full speed (ISDN 15Kps). Transfers from A to the 2.2.1 run around 5x
slower (2-3Kps). Both machines on B have the same 10MB card and are
connected to the same switch. There are no differences between the two
systems processor or HD wise. All three systems run RH5.2 hand
upgraded to either the 2.0.36 or 2.2.1 kernel. The kernel configs
are pretty much the same for all systems.
I've also noticed this slowness to another 2.2.1 system on the same
network but different subnet.
I'm noticing this mainly on ftp and scp transfers, but those are
just the utils that report stats. Ssh does seems slower under
the conditions above. This all seemed to have started a few days
ago when I upgraded the revelant systems to 2.2.0/1.
Any ideas what might be going on?
Thanks,
-Brad
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Brad D. Harrell <http://flash.gatech.edu/~bharrell/>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Georgia Institute of Technology
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From: nonet@chain ()
Subject: Re: Need to change date and time
Date: 30 Jan 1999 23:52:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: How do you change the date and time on the system?
: I tried using the command 'date -s 012918151999'
: but get the error message 'invalid date '012918151999''.
: I've also tried many variations of the above command
: with no success. Any help is appreciated.
Protect your date argument with little quotes: '
chain# date -s 'January 1, 1998'
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 EST 1998
chain# date -s 'January 30, 1999'
Sat Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 1999
chain# date -s '19:00 January 30, 1999'
Sat Jan 30 19:00:00 EST 1999
Do a 'man date' to read more about this timely utility.
(Har! Timely utility. Get it? Hehehe... )
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel WP8.0 Personal Edition is Out!
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:04:24 -0600
Yesterday, I received my copy from Linux System Labs (lsl.com). The
grand total: $57.90
Larry Mintz wrote:
>
> Christopher Browne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : There are three assumptions that may be incorrect:
> : a) That the $47 LinuxMall price included shipping.
>
> It does not. The shipping drove the price up to roughly US$56.
>
> : b) That the US/Canadian exchange rate is "close enough" to 1.35. I
> : think that's close enough.
> : c) That the QST rate is 8%. I think it may be a very little bit less.
>
> : Note that Corel, the company that *produces* WordPerfect, is
> : headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. That means that the same exchange rate
> : indeed *does* apply for the product.
>
> Larry
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