Linux-Misc Digest #829, Volume #18 Sat, 30 Jan 99 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: "For a good time..." Fortune cookie (N. Richard Caldwell)
Re: dial-up web server? (steve mcadams)
Re: How big is a tar file? (Matthew Hunter)
Re: encrypted file system (Martin Dickopp)
Re: Porting WinNT applications to Linux (Mark Grosberg)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Tim Smith)
Best speech recognition software to control Linux? (Raja Vallee-Rai)
Re: COM for Linux? (Nathan Myers)
Re: Fonts, can hardly read anything ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: Fonts, can hardly read anything ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: WHERE IS REDHAT???? (Mark Grosberg)
Re: Please HELP!!! PPPD is driving me mad!!!! ("Nguyen dao")
MASM under DOSEMU? (David M. Cook)
Re: Porting WinNT applications to Linux (Ja)
Re: IntelliMouse problem with XFree86 (=?iso-8859-1?B?d9XVZw==?=)
Re: making linux avoid bad disk sectors??? (Gary Momarison)
Re: WHERE IS REDHAT???? (Matthias Warkus)
How to check free disk space available ("Juan Riera")
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Thomas Zajic)
Printing to a Canon BJ-30 (Matthew Willcock)
Re: Help with Creative PCI64 soundcard please? (Scott Alfter)
got an awk question (Dave Brown)
Re: newbie GCC problem (Frank Hale)
Re: New to Linux ("Mark Peoples")
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Stewart Stremler)
Re: How to check if someone is logged on from the console? (Glen Turner)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Andy Wendel)
Re: soundblaster card on redhat 5.1 (Neil Zanella)
Re: Linux and the K6-2, any problems? ("Richard Latimer")
edquota and vi on RH5.2 ("Tim Pitman")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (N. Richard Caldwell)
Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: "For a good time..." Fortune cookie
Date: 31 Jan 1999 01:01:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yesterday, I got a fortune cookie I had never seen before.
>
>For a good time call, <number omitted for privacy>
>
>Well, being that it was in a fortune program, I just had to try it out.
>Half expecting it to be a Bell Labs order dept, or maybe a 300bps modem,
>I was quite suprised when a man picked up the phone and said "hello?".
>So how many of you people have called this poor guy before??
>Why on Earth is his phone number in the fortune file??
I remember reading an explanation for this a long time ago, but
I forget the story. Maybe someone over in alt.folklore.computers
can help.
--
N. Richard Caldwell
Lucent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: Re: dial-up web server?
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:16:38 GMT
[Snipped for brevity, quoted material marked with ">"]
On 30 Jan 1999 15:51:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashok Aiyar)
wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:34:25 GMT,
> steve mcadams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>Is there a way that I can set up my Linux box (currently running SuSE
>>5.3) so that it will somehow call up my ISP, and "register" itself as
>>a web-server that supports my InterNIC domain?
>
>If you get a static IP address each time you dial-up, the solution is
>simple. You simply need to have your ISP (or someone else) serve
>as your primary DNS so that "www.your.domain" resolves to that static
>IP address.
Is this something that my ISP determines? ie, can I ask/pay them for
a static ip-address? I would assume the answer to be yes, but know
very little of the mechanisms involved. -steve
========================================================
so what? - http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Hunter)
Subject: Re: How big is a tar file?
Date: 30 Jan 1999 00:39:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:19:50 -0500, in comp.os.linux.misc,
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The drive does not have compression, so I need to use some form of software
>compression to get everything packed on the tape.
>
>I always thought that each file was compressed separately (in other words, the
>pipe was something like cat file | gzip | tar, rather than cat file | tar | gzip.
>If each file in the tar is compressed individually, I would only lose 1 file, no?
>
>Am I missing something in the way tar cfz works?
Yes. It works the other way around -- it tars the files (no
compressed) and then compresses the tar as a single file. This allows
marginally better compression, since meta-information is also
compressed, but means that losing the stream is disastrous.
--
Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Dickopp)
Subject: Re: encrypted file system
Date: 31 Jan 1999 01:15:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie) wrote:
> linux's zip can make passworded zip files, just as pkzip does.
> This might not be as convenient as a passworded file system,
> but it might do the job.
The security of the PKZIP encryption is not very great [1], and
what's more, the plaintext may still be on the hard disc after
encryption. Remember that when a file is deleted, only the inode
and the directory entry are deallocated, but the actual data is
not changed. With a good encrypted file system, only ciphertext
goes to disc, but never plaintext.
Regards,
Martin
[1] Bruce Schneider, Applied Cryptography (2nd ed.), p. 394.
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From: Mark Grosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Porting WinNT applications to Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 05:08:52 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone taken an application written in C++ (Builder perhaps) and
> ported to the Linux operating system with a GUI? If so, what were the
> biggest problems you had doing this, and would you offer any
> suggestions?
Well, a lot of that depends on how portable you wrote your code. Assuming
it is Win32 code, it will be a similar environment to Linux. You might
discover some bugs in your code. This is normal *ANYTIME* you port
something. Chances are some bugs sliped through because of some
assumptions made. Thankfully, most "modern" operating systems support
interfaces that are quite similar, especially in the areas of memory
management and files.
Your major problems will be in the following areas:
(1) Threads. Semantics, IPC mechanisms, creation/destruction are all
different. Furthermore, unless you are good about proving code
on paper, any subtle races/deadlocks might come alive because
of different scheduling behavior.
(2) File locking. File locking under UNIX is different than under
Win32. Also, NFS may complicate things for you.
(3) Specific hardware control. Any device drivers you may have are
probably not going to be very easy to port. Especially if they
do DMA or any sort of heavy duty User <--> Kernel memory
movement. This is a lot easier under Linux than NT.
(4) Console I/O. I don't know what NT did, but they sure make Console
I/O a pain. Especially if you want to do something like
console control handlers. Thankfully, NT's ConsoleControlHandler
is pretty easy to emulate with POSIX signals.
Thats about the major hurtles you will overcome. Of course, any
third-party code may cause you problems. Especially if you don't have the
source or the source is heavily Windows specific.
L8r,
Mark G.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 29 Jan 1999 20:59:31 -0800
In article <36a55eea.0@calwebnnrp>, Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I truly appreciate your suggestions, but I'd rather get a real workstation
>keyboard like the ones that Sun, HP, DEC and the rest of them sell, and not
>mess with re-mapping.
The Key Tronic model KB101plus has a switch on the bottom that swaps the
functions of caps lock and control. It's a nice keyboard.
I've found that, believe it or not, the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard works
well as far as placement of the control key goes. Yes, control is in the
same stupid place mode PC keyboards place it, and there is an annoying
caps lock key next to the A, but because of the shape of the keyboard, the
misplaced control key is actually pretty easy to hit. You can easily just
roll your hand a little to the left, and hit control with the side of your
palm. (You might hit shift at the same time, but that doesn't hurt for
control characters). I picked on of these up last weekend, mainly because it
has a dual USB/PS2 interface, and I wanted to buy a USB device to see how well
USB actually works on PCs, but found that the shape really does make typing a
lot less tiring and painful, so replaced my KB101plus, and also went out and
got a second one for use at work.
--Tim Smith
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From: Raja Vallee-Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best speech recognition software to control Linux?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:28:08 -0500
Hi,
Does anyone here have any experience with speech recognition software,
and how it can be used to control a Linux workstation?
I heard of a product called DragonDictate which actually can do this,
but you need to be logged in remotely from a Windows running PC, and the
Unix machine needs to be running a2x.
Does any one have any experience with this? Does it actually work
well? Is DragonDictate the only piece of software that can be used with
this, or can the other Dragon products be used too? (like the
continuous speech recognition software?)
(I looked at some of the FAQs on this matter but couldn't find any
satisfactory answers)
Thanks,
Raja Vallee-Rai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: COM for Linux?
Date: 30 Jan 1999 14:06:13 -0800
Aaron Perrin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know if a Component Object Model (COM) port is available
>for linux?
A final note: http://www.quoininc.com/quoininc/COM_CORBA.html
--
Nathan Myers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cantrip.org/
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fonts, can hardly read anything
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:18:15 +1100
Kaustav Bhattacharya wrote:
> Since I installed RH5.2, I have not changed anything much. I find the
> fonts really badly unreadable. e.g. in Netscape the KDE site or the Red
> Hat site is practically unreadable. I though the Mac had bad fonts but
Ok... Under X or in Netscape per se.
For X edit your .Xdefaults file appropriately. (RH5.2 comes with some X
fonts installed, although you may wish to install more off the CD.)
For Netscape, select Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts and modify
appropriately.
All the best...
Michael.
P.s. Please don't whinge in your frustration... ;) =)
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fonts, can hardly read anything
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:19:27 +1100
Kaustav Bhattacharya wrote:
> Since I installed RH5.2, I have not changed anything much. I find the
> fonts really badly unreadable. e.g. in Netscape the KDE site or the Red
> Hat site is practically unreadable. I though the Mac had bad fonts but
Ok... Under X or in Netscape per se.
For X edit your .Xdefaults file appropriately. (RH5.2 comes with some X
fonts installed, although you may wish to install more off the CD.)
For Netscape, select Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts and modify
appropriately.
All the best...
Michael.
.hta
P.s. Please don't whinge in your frustration... ;) =)
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From: Mark Grosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WHERE IS REDHAT????
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:35:58 GMT
N. Richard Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When your web page is your primary support channel and you're starting
> to make noises about "Enterprise support" just turning your web site
> off for a couple of days while you move your office doesn't seem like
They are probably having trouble moving their connection. They should have
setup a frame-relay and then slowly relocated servers until they know they
have an established link to them at the new location.
This is pretty common in networking land. Somebody over there made a bad
mistake. They should probably hire a new sysadmin.
> a good approach to me. Obviously there are ways they could have gotten
> around this but just shutting down for two days looks amateurish.
Agreed.
L8r,
Mark G.
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From: "Nguyen dao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Please HELP!!! PPPD is driving me mad!!!!
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:38:55 -1000
I need a copy too.
Edward M. wrote in message <78m521$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>
>>I will mail you my short paper on setting up ppp
>
>Could you send me a copy as well please? Would really appreciate it.
>
>Thnx.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: MASM under DOSEMU?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:30:18 GMT
Has anyone gotten MASM to run under DOSEMU? If so, do you have any setup
tips?
Thanks,
Dave Cook
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From: Ja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Porting WinNT applications to Linux
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:34:42 GMT
Run Away...don't even attempt this psychotic piece of work...Run for the
hills...yelling "The gods are angry! Bring out your children for the
Char-you tree!"
Dennis wrote:
>
> Has anyone taken an application written in C++ (Builder perhaps) and
> ported to the Linux operating system with a GUI? If so, what were the
> biggest problems you had doing this, and would you offer any
> suggestions?
>
> Thank you for any helpful information.
>
> Dennis,
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From: =?iso-8859-1?B?d9XVZw==?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IntelliMouse problem with XFree86
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:20:58 -0600
Hope this helps!
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Regards.
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|Hi!
|I have a problem with configuring my serial MS IntelliMouse with X =
under Linux.
|I have Slackware 3.3 (2.0.30 kernel, XFree86 3.3). When configuring X =
(XF86Setup, xf86config or directly editing XF86Config), I
|tried each possible setup, but the mouse cursor didn't want to move =
anyway.
|With XF86Setup (VGA16 server) I was able to use to mouse as =
IntelliMouse, but just until I started the final X server.
|It doesn't work neither with VGA16, SVGA nor S3 X servers.
|Can anyone help me?
|Should I download a newer XFree86?
|Please send e-mail to:
|
|Peter Csontos
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|Thanx a lot!
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: making linux avoid bad disk sectors???
Date: 29 Jan 1999 23:42:26 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Lane) writes:
> Is there a reliable way to make the kernel avoid known bad sectors on a hard
> disk? I've been trying to use e2fsck -c but it seems to have no effect
> under my 2.0.30 kernel.
>
> If I could just create an unused/unusable file over the area i would be
> happy :-)
>
> Thanks,
I'm no expert, but you might try "e2fsck -c".
Or maybe the "badblocks" program which has its own man page.
The BUGS section has this interesting tidbit:
I had no chance to make reals tests of this program since
I use IDE drives which remap bad blocks. I only made some
tests on floppies.
Maybe the answer to your question is NO for IDE disks. (?)
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: WHERE IS REDHAT????
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:17:23 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 30 Jan 1999 16:18:38 -0500...
..and Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (N. Richard Caldwell) writes:
> > When your web page is your primary support channel and you're starting
> > to make noises about "Enterprise support" just turning your web site
> > off for a couple of days while you move your office doesn't seem like
> > a good approach to me. Obviously there are ways they could have gotten
> > around this but just shutting down for two days looks amateurish.
>
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Notice: Red Hat will be off the 'net!
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:46:17 -0500
>
> 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.
Their problem is that something went wrong. The machines were down longer
than expected.
mawa
--
Matthias Warkus | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dyson Spheres for sale!
My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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From: "Juan Riera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to check free disk space available
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:38:57 +0100
Silly newbie question :
How can I see free disk space available across all my Linux partitions?
(someting as chkdsk collecting info from all disks)
Thanks,
Juan
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:49:19 GMT
John Doe wrote:
> I heard he had a daughter. the clone must have had a sex-change
> operation before being born.
Oh well, once you got the hang of cloning, changing sex is a breeze.
;-)
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Willcock)
Subject: Printing to a Canon BJ-30
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:43:20 GMT
I have selected the BJ-10e ghostscript filter for my BJ-30, but I only
get garbage out of the printer when I send a postscript file. I have
ghostscript that came with my RH5.2 system. Is there any way to make
the printer work?
I tried to install the latest ghostscript (5.10) but rpm says it cant
install it (with rpm -hiv <package>)
Any ideas?
Matthew
Matthew Willcock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mwillc.free-online.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Help with Creative PCI64 soundcard please?
Date: 29 Jan 1999 20:40:09 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I bought the useless darn thing at the local shop owner's
>recomendation - he's usually pretty good, but a complete Windoze head
>and as such completely oblivious to concerns like "Does it work in
>Linux?"
It's nothing more than a relabeled Ensoniq AudioPCI. Compile in support for
ES1370-based sound cards and it'll work. You'll get two digital outputs to
play with since the card has no synthesizer of its own. The Win9x driver
and the DOS TSR are software-based wavetable synthesizers; similar software
is available for Linux (Timidity comes to mind as an example).
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://people.delphi.com/salfter
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Subject: got an awk question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31 Jan 99 01:54:21 GMT
I'm trying to process a file which has lines which
are somewhat "field-oriented", but... The first
5 fields are consistent from line to line. But
after that, I'd like to dump everything into a "6th
field", even though it contains multiple words.
So I'd like to use a print statement:
{ print $2, $6<the multiple word field>, $3 }
Is there any way to specify "everything from $6 to $NF"?
I hate to ask, but please e-mail, as I'll be away from my
news server for several days.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie GCC problem
Date: 31 Jan 1999 01:10:06 GMT
Gary Helbig wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a little problem with gcc (RedHat 5.2 install)
>
> If I try to compile a program that ends in '.c', all is OK.
>
> If I try to compile a program that ends in '.C', I get an error:
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
>
> I found this while trying to "configure" a Makefile for a
> program I downloaded.
>
> Any clues?
>
> TIA,
> Gary.
Yeah I had this problem before infact today when I downloaded WM2 window
manager so I changed in the makefile where it says cc=gcc to cc=g++ and
it worked fine.
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Website: http://www.franksstuff.com/
"I say line-ux you say lynn-ux,
whats the difference? Its still better than windows"
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From: "Mark Peoples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:54:54 -0700
They can co-exist on separate partitions. I just did this two days ago.
You use LILO (the Linux equal to IBM's Boot Manager) to choose which OS at
startup.
Mark
Gaea wrote in message <78slor$kf9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi everyone,
>
>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?
>
>BTW, Is this OS easy to learn?
>
>Thanks
>
>-Linda
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Stremler)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 30 Jan 1999 08:42:44 GMT
Jeff Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[snip]
> run Linux because I want to. I'm an old coder by heart and see Linux as an
> opportunity to be the only OS. Yes, that's a dream way-off, but remember
> that Linux IS developed by the "world", we can make it do more that MS does,
> but do it right!
I think it's this implicit belief that there _should_ be only ONE OS that
will do Linux the most damage.
Why should there be only one? Doesn't that presume that everyone is
the same, thinks the same, solves problems the same, handles abstraction
the same?
> Bill is a great businessman, or how could he have sold us all SHIT for
> years. Better yet, why did we buy it. My answer is that it was the best that
True.
> was out there at the time.
I'd contest that. There were alternatives that were better... but the idea
that there should be only _one_ meant that people stopped thinking and
tried to second-guess the future.
> Linux is finally taking off...who knows, with
> corp. backing ( IBM, Compaq and the like) and "No one Person" responsible
> for it, it could be the only OS to use -- Time will tell.
I hope not. I want Linux to succeed, but I don't want it to be the ONLY
operating system. There's an arrogance that comes from that perception,
and much of the benefit of Linux is that it doesn't think of itself as
the *only* OS, so applications take some effort to be clean & portable.
I *like* knowing that in addition to Linux there's FreeBSD and other BSD
variants, OS/2, PIOS, BeOS, MacOS, AmigaOS, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, OSF/1,
and so forth. The OS shapes the way a programmer interacts with the system,
and that interaction influences problem-solving.
With many OSs, everyone benefits from the hybrid vigor and cross-pollenization
that results from disparate solutions to common problems.
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:21:43 +1030
From: Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to check if someone is logged on from the console?
A nice way would be to attempt a meaningless console ioctl()
on the file descriptor. If it fails, then it's not the
console.
Use an ioctl that will work across all Linuxen no matter
how odd the hardware, like KDGKBTYPE.
Pluses: you don't care for the length of tty names, etc.
Minuses: non-POSIX (although I can't see a Posix way of
doing this).
Why do you want to do this? You are buying a lot of
support problems: 2.2 allows serial consoles; you
can be on a console but have a pseudo-tty; some machines
have multiple screens, keyboards and mice; ...
If you need the console for a particular API call,
then just make the call and recover from the error
gracefully.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Wendel)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:53:01 GMT
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:40:12 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias
Warkus) wrote:
>It was the 26 Jan 1999 13:32:02 GMT...
>..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Matthias Warkus
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
>> : <snicker> At least, they tell you the shape of your country in Germany, and
>> : they give you a free copy of the Constitution. And you don't need to pledge
>> : allegiance to a stupid *flag* - we ditched that kind of silliness after 1945.
>>
>> And we never had that kind of silliness in the first place...
>
>You never had *flags*?
>That's news to me.
>
>mawa
No, you did the world one better... God save the _whatever gender
specific appellation qualifies_
Of course, I guess there needs to be that sort of thing to keep People
Magazine in business....
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundblaster card on redhat 5.1
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:58:21 -0330
Try upgrading the kernel to 2.0.36 first.
My SB16PnP works with that kernel.
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, mm5087 wrote:
> S.O.S
>
> actually i'm using linux redhat 5.1 (newbie) on 486dx50, my only problem
> is i can't get any sound from my pc. before i shifted from NT4.0 to
> linux, my sound card works well with configuration,
> irq=5, dma=1,5 add=220
> my cdrom is AZTECH 4X type IDE
> i try to cnfigure tru kernel by doing the following steps
> a. make config ----> choose sb16 with the same configuration when i was
> using NT
> make dep ; make clean
> but still can't get any sound,
> b. i try to use 'sndconfig' but i got error when modprobe try to 'probe'
> my card.
> am i doing wrong, please help me on this matters..
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Richard Latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and the K6-2, any problems?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:40:20 -0800
Bruce Stephens wrote in message ...
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Smith) writes:
>
>> Are there any problems running Linux on the AMD K6-2 processors?
>
None here. You choose Pentium as the CPU when you compile the kernel.
>I've been unable to get Linux to power off the machine. That's the
>BIOS, and lack of support for it, however.
Do you mean you can't enable APM (Advanced Power Management) in the kernel
because your BIOS doesn't support it? That seems odd if you have a K6
processor.
richard
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From: "Tim Pitman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: edquota and vi on RH5.2
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:18:12 -0600
when attempting to use '/usr/sbin/edquota -u username', I get the message
"/usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory". My vi editor exist in /bin
directory. What do I need to change so that edquota will find vi in the
correct location and run it.
Tim
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