Linux-Misc Digest #407, Volume #19 Thu, 11 Mar 99 00:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Is Red Hat 5.2 worth fifty notes? (Conway Yee)
Re: AOL Instant Messanger for UNIX (Ed Young)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Philip Brown)
Re: How does rpm check dependencies? (Rich Unger)
Re: this aint a brag BUT!!! (Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: ADSL (Mike Lawler)
Re: Profiler for Linux (James Youngman)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Re: Install WordPerfect-6 Help (Ralph Alvy)
Re: Bizarre "find" process running under owner "nobody" ("Bryan H. Lyons")
Re: Ls command (Jim Geiger)
Linux <---- > Win95 (scientific DATA files rd/wrt able by both OS) ?? ("rick")
Re: set textmode (Peter Caffin)
Re: best offline newsreader? (Chris Lee)
Re: Public license question (Geoffrey KEATING)
Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? (Regit Young)
Re: Disk Boot Failure!! After Install (Doug Hall)
Re: "sorry, I don't recognize your terminal" (Rob Clark)
Re: Help me with experiment (Robert Martin)
Re: Open Credit Card Verification System - 19990228 released (Tony Galway)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (brian moore)
Re: Keyboard bug - Linux Mandrake -IBM l380ED laptop (**Nick Brown)
App for reading M$ Access database? (Dave Hinz)
Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix ("No Spam")
Re: best offline newsreader? (Linux) (Michael Fleming)
Re: special characters in UNIX how? ("Mike Harris")
Re: Creative Labs Awe32 (egray7)
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Red Hat 5.2 worth fifty notes?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:23:28 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Orthotrek) writes:
> Definitely the way to go. The documentation that you pay for isn't very good
> and you can get it all online anyway. Don't waste the extra money for it.
That depends on the type of person you are. Students with limited
financial resources would be better served by CheapBytes or whatever.
Others, find the paper documentation worthless and like on line
documentation. Me, I prefer paper documentation as it is FAR faster
for me to skim through a book and grok its contents.
There is also the issue of promoting one of the good guys vs. helping
out the evil empire.
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| TREAD | BIDMC | BALLOT
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL Instant Messanger for UNIX
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:52:39 GMT
eric wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if AOL Instant messanger for unix will work with
> Linux, more specific, Slackware 3.6?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
I use tik. Comes in an rpm for RedHat. I imagine it comes in a tar.gz for
Slackware. Check out www.aol.com perhaps...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:51:29 GMT
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:22:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>.... Final argument, in the form of a diagram for both Executives:
>
> Applications Applications
> / | |
> Win32 | POSIX OS/2 DOS/Win16 |
>------- | ----- ---- ---------- |
> | | User Mode |
>===|=======|=========================================================|=========================
> | | Kernel Mode |
>...
>
>'nough said?
err, no.
You made the mistake of using tabs. which in the world of USENET is a no-no.
Especially when *your* system doesn't seem to have the nice standard
8-char-fixed-width tab to begin with.
SO the diagram is a mess, unfortunately.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Unger)
Subject: Re: How does rpm check dependencies?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:20:51 GMT
On 7 Mar 1999 15:17:19 GMT, r d t@c s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
wrote:
>rpm only checks its own database so if rpm didn't install a file,
>rpm doesn't know about it. You can tell rpm not to care by
>using the --nodeps flag.
Okay, but I have an example where I used rpm to install the library,
and it still does not work.
I installed glibc-2.0.7-29.i386.rpm, which provides libc.so.6.
Then I attempted to install bzip2-0.9.0b-3.i386.rpm, and get the
following error:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by bzip2-0.9.0b-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by bzip2-0.9.0b-3
If I install with the --nodeps flag, the executables in bzip2 do NOT
find the linked symbols.
Huh?
Rich Unger
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: this aint a brag BUT!!!
Date: 10 Mar 1999 01:04:13 GMT
JACK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: howdy all
: just for a laugh i was wondering........
: I have freebsd\sun solaris\ linux \win95\NT\3.11 all on the one machine
: so thats 5 and a half O.S's on one box can any one beat this! (I'm sure
: plenty can )
: jack
Yep. I only have Linux... Why anything else?
--
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Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker running Linux 2.2.1
One thing is to be the most popular, and another is to be the best.
Unix: Live free or die! What would yo do without your freedom?
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From: Mike Lawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADSL
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:57:47 -0600
Thank You for the responses. SW Bell should be rolling out the ADSL
lines this month. I'm trying to gather info on what hardware will work
with their system and so far all they know is that the Alcatel external
modem and a nic card is what they use. I would prefer a complete card
like the USR ADSL Modem PCI ,but cannot get confirmation that it will
work. I would like to have the hardware setup when they come to connect.
Once again ,Thanks all for the responses.
Mike Lawler wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Group for ADSL hardware under Linux?
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Profiler for Linux
Date: 10 Mar 1999 00:21:58 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Fleming) writes:
> This may be the wrong place to ask this question, but would anyone
> know where I could find a profiler for Linux (for C development)?
cc -g -pg prog.c -o prog
/prog
gprof ./prog
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:02:28 GMT
Anthony Ord ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote:
: >Saying something is 'part of the OS' and having it run at the kernel's CPU
: >privelage level are two very different things. Are you suggesting that
: >downloaded ActiveX components run at level 0 (most privelaged) rather than
: >level 3 (least privelaged)?
:
: They can download a .vxd which will run next time you reboot. "Oh no!
: IE has just crashed...", guess what that would mean?
As I've mentioned elsewhere, virus precautions are entirely applicable. I
actually expect that 'trojans' that mess with the serial number settings
to be considered just another type of virus.
Tony
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Tony Tribelli
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From: Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install WordPerfect-6 Help
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:53:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bori7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --------------E88D47249CBF7EE301DCA83D
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> I can't install WP6 from CD
> In mc command I see 2 dir: file_id.diz and linuxwp6.zip
> When I click on linuxwp6.zip I can see archive file wp-6.0-1~386.rpm
You first have to unzip linuxwp6.zip. Then, assuming you have rpm
installed on your system, the following will install wp6 (and update any
earlier version that may or may not be installed already):
rpm -Uvh wp-6.0-1~386.rpm
If you don't have rpm installed, I guess you'll have to go find it at the
ftp.redhat.com site. If you have RedHat Linux, rpm is surely installed
already.
However, you might just go get the free download of WordPerfect 8. Here's an
ftp site that I hear has it:
ftp:// ftp.iconz.co.nz/pub/linux/Wordperfect/
Ralph
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From: "Bryan H. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre "find" process running under owner "nobody"
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:30:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi mates!
>
> Few times a day I hear my machine (Linux 5.2 RedHat) working hard without me
> doing anything special.
>
> Running "top" I can se a very heavy "find" process running, consuming a lot of
> cpu and owned by "nobody".
>
> Does anybody knows where is the "trigger" of this process? is it some sort of
> a "cron"?, housekeeping work etc.?? Where can I find the files that
> configure and invoke this process (or others??).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Shay Tochner
> International Systems Support Specialist
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Shay,
I've got systems based on the RedHat 5.0 distribution. That distribution comes
with several preconfigured events which cron runs daily (see /etc/cron.daily/)
and one which matches your 'heavy find' description - updatedb.cron. That script
updates the database which is searched by the 'locate' command to quickly find
files.
Later - Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Geiger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Ls command
Date: 2 Mar 1999 22:13:16 GMT
Luca Satolli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: I've seen the option --color in man pages of 'ls', I think it's very
: usefull, I'd like to know if I could select it by default so that I
: haven't to type it all times.
: Thanks a lot & best regards
: Luca Satolli
You can try setting the environment variable LS_OPTIONS. Mine looks like
LS_OPTIONS=--8bit --color=tty -N -T 0
Jim
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From: "rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux <---- > Win95 (scientific DATA files rd/wrt able by both OS) ??
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:11:56 GMT
Any know how to create a DATA partition that allows both Win95 & Linux to
view RD/wrt fits files ??
I have astronomy fits data to be collected in Win95 but must be analyzed in
Linux (IRAF).
4 GB HD is all FAT, LBA mode, using Partition Magic 4.01, but must be more
to it...?
fits files are about 2MB & will collect 50 to 100 per night so wish to
smoothly & quickly go between Linux & Win95.
thanks
rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Caffin)
Subject: Re: set textmode
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:38:07 +0800
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]SVGATextMode 80x25
`SVGATextMode` is also symlinked to `stm`, so `stm 80x25` will work just
as well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Subject: Re: best offline newsreader?
Date: 11 Mar 1999 03:56:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>On 8 Mar 1999 10:50:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) wrote:
>>
>>To be brutal, Agent is crap. Thank god there's nothing that as badly
thought
>>out as Agent for linux.
>>
>
>I don't really understand why you say this, perhaps we have different
>needs from a newsreader. For the way I work, Agent seems great, and
>handles binary files excellently.
>
>
>>So there can buggy newsreaders like Gravity which crash if you breathe
>>too hard for linux? No thank you very much
>>
>
>As I'm new to Linux, I've not heard of that one.
>
>I'd be interested then to have your thoughts on the very best X
>newsreader currently for Linux, and your comments as to what makes the
>particular app so good.
Don't use "X Newsreaders" under Linux. I use pine,trn,slnr when I'm in the
the mood to read news under X windows on my linux machine.
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
From: Geoffrey KEATING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Mar 1999 14:42:27 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Geoffrey KEATING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz) writes:
> >
> >...
> >> Or, to be obvious, if I take the novel "Snow Crash" and distribute it
> >> as a list of individual words in alphabetic order (non-copyrightable)
> >> and offer a web-page which gives me a list of numbers that say which
> >> word goes were, I _am_ violating copyright, even though the user is
> >> the one that puts the novel together again.
> >
> >Because your list of numbers is a translation of the original novel.
>
> I cannot say I did not see this argument coming. And you are right to
> a certain degree. However, it is not quite as simple as that. Let's
> assumue I use simple XOR encryption, and apply a perfect white noise
> key to the novel. Both the key and the encrypted novel are now white
> noise - I cannot get the novel or any non-random piece of it from
> either the key or the encrypted novel. Moreover, I can use both to
> encrypt other data which I am legaly allowed to distribute, thus both
> of these bit strings have independed uses. Nevertheless, if I
> distribute both, I am in effect distributing "Snow Crash", and am thus
> in violation of copyright, even though it is perfectly legal to
> distibute each individual component, and even though the user has to
> perform a non-trivial operation ("linking") of the two parts to
> actually get the novel.
Your 'white noise' is still a translation of the novel, even though
it's in a language that you can read only with the key. The key,
though, is not, because you generated it independently of the novel.
So you can distribute the key but not the ciphertext.
> >However, if you write a document called "Analysis of the use of the
> >word "snow" in the novel _Snow Crash_", which refers to each page on
> >which the word is used, you can distribute it without violating
> >copyright---not just because it's probably fair use, but because it
> >doesn't actually contain a significant part of the novel.
>
> I am not certain about that - in fact, as far as I know this paste-on
> piece would very likely be considered a derived work, even though you
> wrote every word yourself.
I misspoke. I should have said `substantial part', which is the legal
term, not `significant part'. Copyright law (at least in Australia,
and I think US law is similar) only applies to copies and translations
(etc.) of a `substantial part' of the work.
For a book (unless it contains only one word, or similar), the
locations of a single word are highly unlikely to be a substantial
part of the book. Of course, the locations of _all_ the words
certainly are a substantial part of a book, and presumably there is
a gray area in between.
> This is similar to writing a sequel to a successful novel - as far
> as I know, you are violating the authors copyright, even though you
> are not copying his words.
??? The software version of this rule is that you _are_ allowed to
make a `clone' of an application, within certain vague limits.
Of course, you have to be very careful to be able to _prove_ that you
did not copy, and even after you've negotiated copyright, you might
still get sued for trademark violations (in the case of a novel); but
it is not impossible in principle.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
--
Geoff Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:10:14 +0800
Manfred,
Thanks!!! will try that..
Cheers,
Regit
Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm not with a Linux box now... but I did something like this .... and from
> > personal experience, rw to FreeBSD is OK, but only read with Solaris.... :
>
> Take a look into /var/log/messages; if it's showing something like
>
> ... ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck
>
> the UFS function ufs_read_super somehow decided the fs isn't clean,
> and therefore set the RDONLY bit. Try a
>
> mount -o remount,rw /where/your/solaris/fs/is/mounted
>
> then and you'll succeed in getting write access. The first mount
> (even with an explicit 'rw' option included in /etc/fstab) will
> fail in 95% of the cases. Quite annoying... :-(
>
> > (
> >
> > Rob Fisher wrote:
> >
> > > > If I recalled correctly, the documentation says only FreeBSD's ufs.....
> > >
> > > Where did you read this? I have _no_ documentation. I've even been
> > > trawling through the source!
> > >
> > > Rob
>
> Later,
> manfred
>
> --
> Manfred Hollstein If you have any questions about GNU software:
> Hindenburgstr. 13/1 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 75446 Wiernsheim, FRG <http://www.s-direktnet.de/HomePages/manfred/>
> PGP key: <http://www.s-direktnet.de/HomePages/manfred/manfred.asc>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Hall)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Disk Boot Failure!! After Install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:06:23 GMT
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:14:44 +0000, Cliff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Need some help from y'all
>
>After installing linux on a 6.4 Gig disk (as the only OS), the install
>goes OK and then at the rebooting stage, it commes up with the ff
>message:
>
>Verifying DMI Pool Data .......
>Not found any [active partition] in HDD
>DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
>
Your boot partition is not set to be the active partition. Start up
Linux with your boot floppy, run fdisk, and make the boot partition
active.
Doug
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Subject: Re: "sorry, I don't recognize your terminal"
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:03:58 GMT
In article <7c73pm$6ns$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Walter Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>That's what I get when I try to telnet to my account from the console.
>It also adds that it can't recognized my "linux" console. Now, I have no
>problem telneting in from within an Xterm, so my question is... What kind
>of terminal does Xterm present itself as being, and how can I convince a
linux:~$ echo $TERM
xterm
>console telnet session to present itself as such? VT100 emulation would
>be ideal. I tried changing a terminal setting in /etc/profile, but that
>didn't seem to make a difference.
Try TERM=vt100 and then try telnetting to your account.
The long-term solution would to put a "linux" termcap/terminfo entry on the
other machine.
Good luck!
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Robert Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help me with experiment
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:41:36 -0800
Sorry, I can't be of much help, but I like the idea!
propsync wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have 2 partitions on my harddrive. The first one has the redhat linux
> distribution on it. On the second partition, I want to create a bare
> bones linux system by copying the necessary files from partition 1 to
> partition 2. My goal is to see just how small I can get the operating
> system. The first thing I did was to create the filesystem (ext2) on
> partition 2. My next move was to add this partition to lilo to enable
> it to boot. The third thing I did was to copy vmlinuz to the /boot
> directory that I created. When I attempt to boot from partition 2, the
> system freezes by saying "cannot find the console" or something like
> that. Can anyone help me by specifying what files I need to copy to the
> second partition to get it to boot?
>
> thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Galway)
Subject: Re: Open Credit Card Verification System - 19990228 released
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:24:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greg,
This may be of interest.
-Tony
>OpenCCVS is a suite of documentation and programs to allow merchants to
>process credit cards via a modem. It currently only supports the FDR7
>protocol.
>ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/openccvs/
>To join the OpenCCVS mailing list send mail to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>with
> subscribe openccvs
>in the BODY.
--
Tony Galway
Midrange/Unix Support Specialist
xwave solutions The truth is usually just an excuse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a lack of imagination.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:21:43 GMT
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:00:03 GMT,
Stuart R. Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tomasz Korycki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : "Stuart R. Fuller" wrote:
> : >
> : > brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : > : >
> : > : > Yes. And Your point, as related to "the last holdout from basing their
> : > : > systems on Unix concepts is Microsoft" bit? Mind You, if You look deep
> : > : > enough into NT architecture, You'll see.... VMS!
> : > :
> : > : VMS is based on Unix?
> : > :
> : > : Very interesting news indeed.
> : >
> : > It might be interesting, but it is certainly wrong news. If you read the
> : > paragraph above, it implies that the NT architecture is based on VMS.
> : >
> : > Stu
> :
> : It is. Just look who the main architect was and who he brought with him
> : to create NT.
>
> I'm not disputing the fact that NT looks a lot like VMS. I was disputing the
> "VMS is based on Unix?" comment.
It's called sarcasm.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard bug - Linux Mandrake -IBM l380ED laptop
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:03:22 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On laptops, O sometimes doubles as 6, and similarly for nearby keys -
it's an emulation of the numeric pad on bigger KB's, for people who do a
lot of numeric entry. Something has got stuck, either physically (try
jiggling the Alt/AltGr/etc keys), or logically - maybe some or other Num
ock-type function is on.
Marivi Magat wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I've installed Redhat 5.2 successfully on my IBM Thinkpad 380 ED. I want to
> use KDE, so, I used Linux-Mandrake 5.3. The installation goes fine till I
> have to log in. "root" becomes "r66t" - I cannot even find another
> keystroke for the letter "o"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hinz)
Subject: App for reading M$ Access database?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 11:17:03 -0600
I've been asked to come up with a web server to take data
from a Micro$loth Access database, massage it a bit, and
put it onto the web. I'd like to do it with Linux
(RedHat 5.2 in this case). Can someone suggest a good
app I can use for this purpose?
Thanks,
Dave Hinz
Software Development Support
GE Medical Systems
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From: "No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:48:16 -0000
Why not just simply break the 8 character barrier on unix login commands for
a start.
Please help
Norm Dresner wrote in message
+ADw-01be6b02+ACQ-57011d30+ACQ-8aea689b+AEA-w784749+AD4-...
+AD4-All I'd have to do is to write a program to translate even a simple word
+AD4-processing file into a manpage. I'm sure that I could sell thousands.
+AD4-Alternately, even a simple X-Window based editor would rake in the dough.
+AD4-
+AD4-Why doesn't someone else do it?
+AD4-
+AD4- Norm
+AD4-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fleming)
Crossposted-To: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: best offline newsreader? (Linux)
Date: 11 Mar 1999 03:41:02 GMT
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I'm glad Paul-S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said this and not me..
> On 09 Mar 1999 17:01:57 -0800, Michael Powe
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >Agent is a toy application compared to slrn or Gnus. It's more
> >complicated and less useful than either of these.
> >
>
> Can you please clarify what you mean by this ?
> Agent seems to offer me all I currently want from a newsreader
> (actually lots more than I need) and displays it well on-screen.
Have a look at slrn or Gnus for real - the latter in particular has more
features than you can poke a stick at. (NoCem handling? Yep.)
With some good hooks, you can do a heck of a lot with slrn too - I have
s-lang hooks that sign / check PGP signatures on posts, change signatures on
a per-group basis (as Agent does) or real names on a similar basis.
> Can slrn and Gnus cope with everything that can be found in the Usenet
> Newsgroups, and can copy with the normal text groups and well as the
> binary groups with similar ease ?
Yes - you'll need a bit of filtering to pick the binaries (check for
"content-types" like multipart/mixed, "1/3" or extensions) but for text
filtering it cannot be beaten IMO.
It uses a scorefile, where the syntax looks like
#stuff I want to see
[news.group,other.news.group.hierarchy.*]
Score: 9999
From: regular@expression\.goes\.here
You can use any available header, but for speed it's generally a good idea
to stick with XOVER headers.
> Being new to Linux, I'm unaware of these packages.
I've been at it a little while now, and have used both of the mentioned
packages plus knews (not bad, X based) and tin (not to my liking).
I'm an ex-Agent user too, BTW.
> Thank's
> Paul.
Michael Fleming.
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From: "Mike Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: special characters in UNIX how?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:24:06 -0800
I don't have an answer to the question, but would like to offer a word of
caution lest the original author do something inappropriate. The character
circled "R" indicates registered trademark, not copyright. The circled "C"
does mean copyright. The two symbols have very different meanings and are
not interchangeable regardless of how you choose to represent them.
Joe (theWordy) Philbrook wrote in message ...
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Mark Tranchant wrote:
> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook wrote:
> > �How does one get the copyright character? � you know it's not really
(c) �
> It's the 9th character in the above list here (Win95 (sorry - I'm at
> work!)).
Hmmmnnn well that's not what I see with pine, or vim (or less) when I view
this... Though it might have something to do with using ascii rather than
some ISO font... Ah well, I guess (c) will do... <g>
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From: egray7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Creative Labs Awe32
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:55:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You can put this command in your boot.local file to
> automatically turn sound on at boot time.
Don't have a boot.local, is it safe for me to put it in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local?
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