Linux-Misc Digest #505, Volume #19 Thu, 18 Mar 99 18:13:12 EST
Contents:
URGENT! WINTESLA NEEDED SOFTWARE FOR NOKIA MOBILE PHONES URGENT!
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Newbie Question Re: WindowMaker ("Andrew Summerton")
Alternative web searcher ? (Frederic A. Martinelli)
fusion z100 and x win 3.3.3.1??
Re: How to change date for Unix/Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ICQ (Jeff Shern)
Re: is there a "cd jewel case" insert builder package for linux ? (Jeremiah)
Re: kcore (Damon Warren)
Re: Althought ping is real fast, Telnet is long to accept connection.... (mist)
Re: Public license question (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Check Colour Depth Was: RasMol not working!? (Joe Smith)
Dual Boot with win95 (Ray Ruelan)
A Question to Expose My Ingnorance of Linux ("Hugh")
Re: Problem for Linux Gurus (Paul Kimoto)
ICQ (Paul Richards)
Re: XDM and KDE (Rene Malmgren)
Re: Load Balancing in Linux ("Paul Davies")
Re: Ghostscript and HP 882
LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk) (Vincent Zocca)
DJGPP (Paul Richards)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? ("Lee Sharp")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: URGENT! WINTESLA NEEDED SOFTWARE FOR NOKIA MOBILE PHONES URGENT!
Date: Thursday, 18 Mar 1999 21:57:06 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I'm looking for wintesla the software needed to change the firmware
if you have seen such software please post it to this address or a URL
for it
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanx Wayne
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From: "Andrew Summerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Question Re: WindowMaker
Date: 18 Mar 1999 21:59:34 GMT
I am running the DR3 version of MkLinux on a Power Macintosh 6100 (PPC 601
64-bit).
I have been using the K environment with no worries, however I have been
trying to broaden my (limited) knowledge by installing the WindowMaker
files that come on the DR3 disk (Which by the way contains Red Hat RPMS for
WMaker 0.14).
After having used Kpackage to install the Windowmaker RPMS, running "wmaker
install", and tweaking the .Xclients file (which of course is all totally
new and foreign to me since I have been used to pressing buttons, dragging
icons for the last 10 years!), I am now able to get the WindowMaker desktop
to appear after entering "startx".
No worries? My problem is that the menu (the wmaker control panel thingy)
does not appear on the desktop when I click and hold down the mouse button
anywhere on the desktop. The only thing I get is one dock button, labelled
"Workspace" and an Xterm. I have also slapped an "exec asclock" in the
Xclients file and of course, now I get asclock appear as an appicon.
Now, the documentation I downloaded off of the WM web site, (which might as
well be written in another language) suggests that the file one edits to
tweak what the menu contains is called:- /GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.
I have this file and it contains all the menu items (as far as I can tell),
but I suspect that this file is not being read during the startx startup
process, thereby resulting in no menu available on the desktop.
Could someone please explain to me as explicitly as possible (hold my
hand!) what I need to do to get this file to be read during the startup
process, thereby allowing me to access the menu when I hold down my mouse
button anywhere on the WM desktop
Remember, I have been raised on the Mac GUI, so pathnames, linking, editing
scripts, compiling etc is all new to me, so be as gentle as possible.
Anyone caring to offer their suggestions - your advice would be greatly
appreciated.
Summo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic A. Martinelli)
Subject: Alternative web searcher ?
Date: 18 Mar 1999 22:54:12 +0100
Hi,
I was searching the web for non computer stuff, using altavista,
it's not hard to understand that altavista is owned directly or
indirectly by M$ (the second way should be more their usual way !), i
wanted to talk about that in Linux's NGs with dejanews when just out of
curiosity i hit the 'about the company' links and finally get on the
M$ logo through the 'partners and alliances' link, ok, for this one,
M$ is also there. Knowing M$ attitude to force people to do what M$
think is good for them (! beuark !) ... i tried to use other search
engine ... but i don't have links of that kind in my bookmark.
Anyone have some good web searcher that are not owned by M$ ?
(By good i mean with a pretty good data base)
Note that it's for non computer things, for my pretty Linux
computer, i have the complete ! (me happy)
Any help appreciated, because i do care about the information i
retrieve from the Net,
Fred.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: fusion z100 and x win 3.3.3.1??
Date: 18 Mar 1999 19:48:48 GMT
Has anyone tried getting the diamond monster fusion z100 towork with release 3.3.3.1?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to change date for Unix/Linux?
Date: 18 Mar 1999 20:30:34 GMT
In article <7cr2tu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I found the best way to fix the date and time was to do it in the BIOS.
>
>Linux has a 'clock' command to do this.
>
>--
>Reinier
Note that there are a couple of clock programs out there. It's the
clock that's described in section 8 of the man pages "man -S 8 clock",
usually executed by full path name /sbin/clock, has to be run as root.
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to Cato the Elder)
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From: Jeff Shern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ICQ
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:02:17 -0700
Ah, ICQ.. yes..
Well, what there is at icq's web site is the java version... It runs on many
platforms, including Linux. Basically, if the OS can run JAVA, it can run
linux..
There are a couple other ICQ clones out there, work over the ICQ network, but
look a lot different.
go to http://www.linuxberg.com and check out what they have.
Paul Richards wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm completely new to linux so what's the story with ICQ in linux? I
> couldn't see anything on the ICQ website about linux...
> --
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> HTTP www.dunvegan1.demon.co.uk/paul/
> ICQ# 14106503
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: is there a "cd jewel case" insert builder package for linux ?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:14:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly:
> is there a software package to make/print inserts for
> cd jewel cases ?
There's a package called 'cdlabel', written by Paul
Coates, who lives somewhere in the UK. You should be able to
find it on the Web; that's how I found it.
Also, there's a set of teTeX templates called 'jt-0.1',
which you can find at Freshmeat.
I personally like the output from jt much better, but
cdlabel does CDDB lookup as well. I'm hoping to merge the
two and add some features of my own, but who knows if it'll
ever see the light of day. :/
There's also a package called 'cdlabelgen' (current version
is 0.70), which generates inserts specifically for backup
data CDs. Check out http://www.red-bean.com/~bwf/software/cdlabelgen/
Brian
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:21:33 +0000
From: Damon Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kcore
That is the system file the represents your RAM. Not sure what would
happen if you delete it. I have never tried. General rule of thumb is to
not touch any of the files in /proc as they are actually special files
that describe perimeters of your hardware.
-Damon
Eric Ho wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In my /proc directory, there is a "kcore" file which is
> over 130Meg, and is growing everyday.
> Can someone tell me what it is ? Can I just delete it ?
> I am running Slackware, kernel 2.0.35, KDE 1.0.
>
> * If it is not too much trouble, please email me a copy
> * of your reply.
>
> Best Regards,
> Eric Ho
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Althought ping is real fast, Telnet is long to accept connection....
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:28:28 +0000
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
DUGRES Hugues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>Hi guys,
>
>I have setup a Linux server with a redhat 5.2 distribution package...
>Everything worked ok for a couple of days, but now, I meet an odd problem !
>
>If a ping the Linux box from the network, it replys within less than 1ms...
>
>If I try a telnet on it, whatever the port (25, 110, telnet,...) it replies
>instantly 'connected' and then I have to way for 10 seconds before I am
>allowed to enter any username...
>
Try adding the IPs and names for the machines on the network to the
/etc/hosts file on the linux box.
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Mist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:57:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 17 Mar 1999 12:11:42 -0600...
..and Richard E. Hawkins Esq. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <7cmo28$1kl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Lynn Winebarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Europe as a whole is under a different regime when it comes to civil
> >matters. I believe, in fact, it's called a "civil law regime". I can't
> >remember what the US's system is called, but it's on different footing.
>
> "Common Law," as in "The Common Law of England," to which all, including
> the King, were subject. While (most of?) the rest of Europe is "Civil
> Code," tracing to the Napoleanic Code, which traces to codes
> published by Roman Emperors,
In Germany, it's even more complicated; the civil law was largely
based on the _Sachsenspiegel_ ("Saxon Mirror"), a codified law from
~1200 (?). Roman law was merged in with the BGB (B�rgerliches
Gesetzbuch, Civil Law Code) around 1890.
mawa
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From: Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Check Colour Depth Was: RasMol not working!?
Date: 18 Mar 1999 17:38:54 -0500
> Is there a simple way to check for the correct colour depth?
Don't think so. The application is supposed to do this and adjust
itself according to what it wants and what's available. You might be
able to use xdpyinfo, but it's really not the thing to do.
I simply made links called 'rasmol8' and 'rasmol24' to a startup
script which ran the corresponding binary, with the default ('rasmol')
being whichever was appropriate for the setup.
FWIW, here's the script...
#!/bin/sh
# provide default file locations (but honor any existing settings)
RASMOLPATH=${RASMOLPATH:-/usr/local/lib/rasmol}
RASMOLPDBPATH=${RASMOLPDBPATH:-/usr/local/lib/pdb}
export RASMOLPATH RASMOLPDBPATH
TITLE='RasMol Commands'
case "$0" in
*rasmol24|*rasmol32) RASMOL=.rasmol24 OPTS="$OPTS -bg NavyBlue";;
*) RASMOL=.rasmol8 ;;
esac
case "$HOSTTYPE" in
iris4d*|sgi*) XTERM=xwsh; TOPT=-name; OPTS="$OPTS -e $RASMOL" ;;
*) XTERM=xterm; TOPT=-title; OPTS="$OPTS -e $RASMOL" ;;
esac
exec $XTERM $TOPT "$TITLE" -geometry 80x20 $OPTS "$@"
====================>8 snip 8<========================================
I had links named '.rasmol8', etc, which pointed to the desired binary
files to allow for selecting different versions, as there are several
floating around with different (mis)features. Ick. Feel free to
adapt it as you like.
<Joe
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Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 573-2094 (fax)
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From: Ray Ruelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Boot with win95
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:14:22 -0500
Hello,
I've installed Linux on a gig of hard drive space on my second IDE
drive. I am booting from a floppy disk because I normally run win95.
Now, I can't open My Computer or run Explorer because it causes my
system to freeze. I was able to get into Device Manager and I noted that
under the Performance Tab, there is an entry for drive F using MS-DOS
compatibility mode. My partitions for win95 only go so far as D (E is my
CD-ROM). Why is win95 even seeing an F drive, which are strictly Linux
partitions? I think this is what's causing win95 to lock up. Please
help.
P.S.
Running Linux on a P120 Mhz, 32 MB RAM, 1MB video RAM (ArkLogic 200MT),
AmiBios. The second drive is in LBA mode while the first drive is in
Auto Mode (Maxtor 6.8G drive). TIA
Ray
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Subject: A Question to Expose My Ingnorance of Linux
From: "Hugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Mar 99 14:35:42 CST
I see a good bit of talk about emacs. What is it or should I say what are
they?
Hugh Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Problem for Linux Gurus
Date: 18 Mar 1999 16:50:02 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> Yes I compiled KDE and also WM and when i restart them they die. Also I
> was able to compileKDE only if I was loged in like root (su). And thet
> was the same with Enlightenment.
> Any Ideas why ?
>>> fvwm95: can't resolve __register_frame_info
Just to be clear: they die _with this same error_?
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From: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICQ
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:19:48 +0000
Reply-To: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I'm completely new to linux so what's the story with ICQ in linux? I
couldn't see anything on the ICQ website about linux...
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EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP www.dunvegan1.demon.co.uk/paul/
ICQ# 14106503
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From: Rene Malmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XDM and KDE
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:04:28 +0100
root wrote:
> I have Just installed the files for the KDE desktop. I have run into
> one
> problem Tthe desktop works great but, I can only run it using "startx"
> or "xinit". Is there a way that I can start the KDE desktop using
> /etc/inittab, runlevel5? In other words, Is there a way to config XDM
> to
> go to my KDE desktop instead of winmaker? (my default under xdm) If i'm
> not making since here or you need more info please reply to my e-mail
> address below. I will be sure to post my results to this group when i
> have figured it all out.
The thing you nead is a file kalled ".xsession" in your $HOME directory. (on
an standard installed XFree86 XDM reads this file to start your Xsession.
(use man XDM to find out more ;-) ) this file must be executable (chmod
755). In this file
you write what you want XDM to do in your xsession. In your case you want it
to
execute kde (or is it kdm i don't remember) so your file should look
something like this.
#My very own .xsession
kde
nothing more...
If you dont have an .xsession file than XDM will use the system default
/etc/X11/XSession (on an Debian system). This usualy starts a default
windowmanager.
best of luck
/Rene Malmgren
>
> --
> Mike Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Shadow's Web Creations & Computer Consultants
> Running Redhat 5.2 2.0.36
> A day's not complete without getting into a little trouble.
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From: "Paul Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Load Balancing in Linux
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:46:51 -0000
So it's done automatically - i.e. so Linux knows when a server is over
loaded and to feed a task to the other server?
Tom Evans wrote in message ...
>"Paul Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I am running a webserver hosted on two servers running Linux and want to
>> ensure that they are load balanced.
>This is done by having multiple entries in the DNS database
>--
>Tom Evans
>All disclaimers apply...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Ghostscript and HP 882
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:08:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Boisy G. Pitre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> In searching for a ghostscript driver for the 882, I've come up totally
>> short. Is there such a driver available for Ghostscript 5.5.0?
>
> The 882 appears to be a PCL 3 printer, like most of the other
> DeskJets. It should work well with both the hpdj driver or the cdj850
> driver.
It works with the cdj850, and the hpdj, but it doesn't work
particularly well. Both are fine with b&w, but with color... the cdj850
has difficulty reproducing darker tones... the pictures come out noticably
faded. This is a driver limitation that is noted in the driver docs.
The hpdj prints fine at 300 dpi, but doesn't print anything intelligible
at 600 dpi. Nevertheless, the 880C is capable of 600 dpi, and it looks
like the hpdj driver will work quite well, once it's sorted out exactly
how the printer is interpreting the bitplanes sent to it. I've been in
contact with the author of the hpdj driver, and I'm helping him figure
out how it works... stay tuned.
Brian
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 23:05:21 +0100
From: Vincent Zocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk)
Hi,
I have a problem with LILO. I want to have it on /dev/sda6 and let it
boot /dev/sda2 (W98) and /dev/sda3 (NT4).
This doesn't work on my system with ASUS P2B-DS and two SCSI disks.
What happens is that when configuread as meant (/dev/sd6 active, LILO on
/dev/sda6), the system won't boot.
When I install LILO on /dev/sda things look better. Linux boots fine.
NT4 however, starts a boot sequence but the gives me the BSOD with some
message that it coudn't find the boot device. Ok, silly NT4.
I think I have RTFM. But I still don't know what's going on. If you
know, by all means, speak your mind!!
Right now I have NT4's boot manager successfully configured to boot the
three OSes but I feel -say- akward with this situation. I include a
summary of my configuration.
Cheers,
Vincent Zocca
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
###################################
cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda or boot=/dev/sda6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/sda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
read-only
other=/dev/sda2
label=w98
table=/dev/sda
other=/dev/sda3
label=nt4
table=/dev/sda
###################################
fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 70 562243+ ff BBT
/dev/sda2 71 140 562275 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda3 * 141 210 562275 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sda4 211 1106 7197120 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 961 1106 1172745 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 921 950 240943+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 951 960 80325 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
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fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 70 562243+ ff BBT
/dev/sdb2 71 140 562275 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sdb3 141 210 562275 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sdb4 211 1106 7197120 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 961 1106 1172745 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb6 946 960 120487+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb7 921 945 200781 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
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From: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: DJGPP
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:15:06 +0000
Reply-To: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I use DJGPP a lot with Win95 but now I'm using linux.
What do I need to install to get my DJGPP programs to work in linux? Is
there a different version or something? And what about Allegro and
RHIDE?
--
Paul Richards (aka. Pauldoo)
EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP www.dunvegan1.demon.co.uk/paul/
ICQ# 14106503
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:55:17 -0600
Eric Larson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|I was much impressed with SUSE, however I have a Thinkpad 365 Laptop
|on which the X config utils for SUSE failed miserably. To get it
|working I 1) installed RedHat 2) saved the X config files to a floppy,
|3) reinstalled SUSE, copied the files over.
|For a newbie who might have a hardware collection that is off the
|Linux mainstream, I might recommend RedHat. The big disadvantage to
|this is no KDE. From what I have seen Gnome 1.0 isn't ready for prime
|time.
You can use Linux Mandrake. It is Red Hat with KDE, and more, I believe,
but I have little experience. Also Project Independence.
www.independence.seul.org It is a Red Hat with KDE, and many other easy to
use tools, as well as quick start guides and much more GUI help. It also
has a modified cron for systems not on 24/7. :-) <Yes, I am somewhat
connected with this one>
Lee
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