Linux-Misc Digest #983, Volume #18 Thu, 11 Feb 99 09:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Icons in KDE ("J�rn Nettingsmeier")
Re: what is linux (Tim Laursen)
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. (Tom Evans)
Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise (Tim Smith)
Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise (Tim Smith)
hacked login (Rafael Marcus)
Need help with hosed rpm database (Dennis Putnam)
Re: compiling kernel 2.2.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where did my memory go? (Rob O'Connell)
Re: Burning MP3s to CD, long file names? (Rob O'Connell)
please help with qvison and xserver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. (Marco Anglesio)
money (click2time)
$KDEDIR and kdm_on (Wojtek Lukaszewicz)
Re: /dev/sequencer,midi help needed! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help with mtools and xcopy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Getting JPEG dimensions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Plain text SQL Scripts -> vi (Miguel De Buf)
Q: X-profile-plotprogr reading data from pipe ? (Tobias Buchal)
Re: What is on this floppy? (Tom Fawcett)
More bad news for NT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "J�rn Nettingsmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Icons in KDE
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:47:19 +0100
dear steve !
not sure, but kde seems to expect .xpm - files /bitmap.
try to convert your icon to bitmap and rename it ending in .xpm !
regards,
jo"rn
Steve D. Perkins wrote:
>
> Someone the other day emailed me a KDE icon for WordPerfect after I
> had asked about it in a newsgroup. I copied it into what I believe is
> the default directory KDE stores its icons in (/opt/kde/share/icons)...
> and tried to change the icon I'm using for WordPerfect over to this new
> one.
>
> However, this icon does not show up at all in the icons-available
> window under the Menu Editor when I go to change it. Just be anal, I
> tried copying it as well to the personal (.kde) directory location in my
> home directory... and it didn't work from there. Is there something
> special you have to do to "register" icons other than just copying them
> into the proper directory, or some other kind of step that I'm missing?
>
> Steve
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From: Tim Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is linux
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:14:09 +0100
yair wrote:
>
> Hello
> I have heard about linux but I have a simple question:
> WHAT IS LINUX ??
Simply put: It is an operating system. More accurately: It is the core
of an operating system. To have a working OS, you need a kernel and a
bunch of utilities and setup files. The utilities (basic commands and
such) commonly used with Linux are provided by GNU (www.gnu.org). Even
though the Linux/GNU combination is not officially Unix(tm), it is in
all practical cases a Unix clone. You can compile and run almost any
program designed for Unix on a Linux machine.
> I will be happy to get info. and web addresses for info. about linux.
The first places to look: www.linux.org and www.redhat.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Evans)
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: 9 Feb 1999 18:31:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <79pgk0$6mp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ya, but KDE is cool. Memory is cheap.
>
> -chad
Thats the Microsoft spirit!!!
So you want Linux to be like Windoze...I think not.
--
Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All disclaimers apply...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise
Date: 28 Jan 1999 23:01:45 -0800
Richard Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The only thing you need a monitor and keyboard for is at the point of initial
>installation. Just leave the stupid video card in the machine. Its not
>hurting anything, it isn't worth anything, and it doesn't even usually eat an
>IRQ.
Hell, just get a motherboard with onboard video, and you don't even need to
futz around finding a cheap video card.
--Tim Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise
Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:56:57 -0800
M Sweger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But what about this scenario. If I make linux a printerver without
>any video card and I do a reboot of that box, I take it from this
>thread that it'll hang. I don't want to put a video, keyboard and
>monitor on it. The same applies to it acting in a network gateway
A video card is $10 or so. That's all you need. Most BIOSes can be
set to ignore keyboard errors (including a lack of a keyboard), and
whether you have a monitor connected to the video card or not doesn't
make a different.
--Tim Smith
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From: Rafael Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: hacked login
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 23:14:22 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Someone probably hacked the login program in my Linux system and it
doesn't record te remote host address for a remote telnet login in the
"wtmp" file. I recompiled the login program but the problem persists.
Any idea what else I should check to solve the problem.
Thanks
Rafael.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Putnam)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Need help with hosed rpm database
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:25:42 GMT
In the process of recovering from an XFree86 debacle. which included
upgrading to version 3.3.3.1, I apparently have hosed up my 'rpm'
database.
I am apparently now missing some X libraries as well as fvwm and
netscape. When I try to install them, 'rpm' tells me they are already
installed. If I try to erase them, 'rpm' tells me they are NOT
installed. I tried --rebuildb to fix this as well a installing with
--force as well as trying upgrade.
Can someone tell me how to clean this mess up and force rpm to
properly reinstall the packages. I also may need help figuring out
which packages to reinstall. Is there a way to get 'rpm' to print a
list of installed packages? I could not find one in the man pages.
TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compiling kernel 2.2.0
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:50:27 GMT
In article <79s67d$ifn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to compile kernel 2.2.0 on my system I am at present running RH
> 5.1 and want to upgrade, I have all thu updated software.
>
> I do make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
>
Did you 'make config' or 'make xconfig' first? And what soundcard are you
using? I compiled 2.2.0 onto RH5.1 with no trouble at all. The sound code
used to be a real pain in 2.0.x if you had an SB AWE64, but even that was
painless.
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From: Rob O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Where did my memory go?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:56:09 -0600
Pat wrote:
> Can someone point me in the direction of something that will show me
> actual memory usage? By that I mean something that would show me where
> the difference between the total memory used figure and the sum of the
> individual process memory usage. Last night I rebooted just before I
> went to bed and started nothing more than X and an xterm, oh and all the
[usual memory worries snipped]
Hi - in general the used memory will go up as buffers are used - if you
write a small c program to allocate more memory than is "free" you will see
the amount of memory in buffers/caches will go down.
in the perfect world there is no free memory - all is used efficiently to
buffer or hold data
linux keeps the unused (free) memory to a minimum all the time
you can use "free", "top" or "vmstat" or "cat /proc/meminfo" to get info on
memory usage
have fun!
Rob
--
Rob O'Connell - "Work is the curse of the drinking class" - Oscar Wilde
lab#: (608) 2659467 mob#: (608) 3473838 home#: (608) 2519918
Work address: Plasma Physics, 1150 University Ave., Madison WI 53706
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From: Rob O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burning MP3s to CD, long file names?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:50:00 -0600
You need the rockridge extensions to the iso9660
so with mkisofs -
mkisofs -o music.raw -R -T /data/musicdir
the -R tells mkisofs to add the rockridge extensions,
the T is a lookup table in case you are on a platform that does not read
iso9660
To be honest I don't know for sure (and I don't care - for sure!) about
windows and iso9660 - but this will work fine under linux and digital
unix, I have done it before...
good luck
Rob
ps you dont need the -T is ssytem handles rockridge - and I think the
trans.tbl makes cd's look ugly.
but then again I also think Elton John is doing the same thing 8-P Red
Hill is good though 8-)
Jason T. Breitweg wrote:
> Anyway the structure of the directory is something like this:
>
> DreamTheater/
> London013195/01 - Elton John Medley.mp3
> 02 - Perfect Strangers.mp3
> 03 - Red Hill Mining Town.mp3
> 04 - Led Zeppelin Medley.mp3
> 05 - Tears.mp3
> 06 - Damage Inc.mp3
>
> So basically I want this file structure replicated exactly on the CD.
> Exactly what flags do I need to pass cdrecord (and/or mkisofs) to do
> this? I tried to burn this stuff under Windows and it didn't preserve
> the capitalization of the file names (I would like to keep that if
> possible).
>
--
Rob O'Connell - "Work is the curse of the drinking class" - Oscar Wilde
lab#: (608) 2659467 mob#: (608) 3473838 home#: (608) 2519918
Work address: Plasma Physics, 1150 University Ave., Madison WI 53706
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aida.physics.wisc.edu/~oconnell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: please help with qvison and xserver
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:19:35 GMT
I tried installing linux on my old compaq deskpro 575 with a mixed bag of
success.
I tried redhat 5.2 and caldera openlinux 1.3
Each of these distros always crap out whenever i tried running the Xserver.
My screen always displays gibberish and blurry lines. Please help on how I can
install and use a GUI on my spanking new Linux Box.
Jelili
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:31:32 GMT
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:27:24 GMT, Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ya, but KDE is cool. Memory is cheap.
That's a sort of lazy attitude towards coding. If you can code something
fast and lean, why wouldn't you code it fast and lean?
That said, given that KDE is several interoperable but separable
applications, one could use one but not the others. Cool does not have to
be fat.
marco
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:50:02 +1030
From: Wojtek Lukaszewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: $KDEDIR and kdm_on
Hello KDE users!
Just installed KDE1.1pre2 on my RH5.2 system, no
sweat...
Following the installation instructions I typed (as root):
[root@Nowy /root]# /opt/kde/bin/kdm_on
..... and that's what I got:
"kdm_on" cannot run because $KDEDIR is not set:
(Log in again as root, and try again)
any ideas?
thanks,
Wojciech
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /dev/sequencer,midi help needed!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:02:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> to delete my /dev/sequencer and /dev/midi entries. Would someone be so
> kind as to ls -l /dev/sequencer and midi on their system and let me know
man MAKEDEV
Specifically, MAKEDEV audio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help with mtools and xcopy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:04:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with the xcopy command from mtools? I am currently working
I've only seen mtools distributed with the 'mcopy' command
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Getting JPEG dimensions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:08:18 GMT
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a tool that reports
> the dimensions of a JPEG. I don't
The 'mogrify' component of ImageMagick reports files thus:
~ $ mogrify -verbose ~/1670-80.jpg
~/1670-80.jpg 589x768 PseudoClass 65536c 93kb JPEG 2s
There are doubtless many other ways though
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From: Miguel De Buf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plain text SQL Scripts -> vi
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:04:48 +0100
Ftp them over from winslows to your Linux box (don't forget to set the type to
ASCII). No ^M problems.
Miguel
Gert Ormel wrote:
> I've got a bunch of SQL scripts for creating tables, indexes etc
> for an Oracle database running on Windows95.
> I plan to migrate to Oracle on Linux and my question is:
>
> how to copy/import the SQL scrips (which are in plain text format) into my
> vi editor? I'm not really looking forward to type
> all these scripts again.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gert
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Buchal)
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Q: X-profile-plotprogr reading data from pipe ?
Date: 11 Feb 1999 13:10:34 GMT
Q: X-profile-plotprogr reading data from pipe ?
Hi !
I am looking for a plotprogram with the following
features to monitor some reference values of a
running application program.
-) simple command language
to define some parameters at startup
(like gnuplot; logarithmic scaling for example )
-) output to X11-window
-) some X11 menues to rescale etc
-) reading data continuosly from pipe
and add them continuosly to the figure
-) menu buttom to print present picture
(in postscript)
-) running under linux
( sources available )
Does a program with these features (or some of them) exist ?
All hints welcome
Thanks
Tobias
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- Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Buchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Inst. f. Hydromechnics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is on this floppy?
Date: 10 Feb 1999 15:13:18 -0500
Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. Does anyone know of a program that will look at a floppy and
> make some guesses as to whether or what file system is on it? One
> can cat the device and see what it looks like, or try to untar and
> see if it works, but I guess this could be automated.
If it's a real filesystem, mount can usually figure it out.
If it isn't, try:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/header count=1 bs=1k
file /tmp/header
This can identify a tarfile, a filesystem, a kernel image, gzipped data and
various other things it might be. IIRC, file(1) doesn't look at more than the
first block.
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: More bad news for NT
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 19:38:03 GMT
>From the Oracle website:
InternetWeek February 08, 1999, Issue: 751 Section: Intranet Applications
=============================================================================
--- Database Appliance Leaves The Gate Ellis Booker
Just three days after announcing that Hewlett-Packard would be the first
hardware maker to manufacture his company's "database appliance," Oracle chief
executive Larry Ellison demonstrated a working model.
Last year at Comdex, Ellison revealed plans for a database server composed of
a minimized operating system tightly integrated with Oracle's database
software. The architecture, then code-named Raw Iron, is now known as the
Oracle Database Appliances. Oracle subsequently chose a scaled-down version
of the Solaris operating system from Sun Microsystems.
To demonstrate the advantages of the platform, the demo last week showed the
appliance running nearly three times faster than a server with Oracle8i
running atop Windows NT on identical HP hardware.
Current Oracle customers seem eager to try the database appliance, which will
be available first from HP this summer. An introductory single-processor
server will sell for $7,500.
"I would believe easily it could be two times faster," said Eugene Weinstein,
database development manager at SegaSoft Networks Inc., an online game
provider. "I'm excited about this."
Weinstein hopes the device will save him money by obviating the need to
license a general-purpose operating system-and make the server easier to
manage.
And Weinstein figures Oracle's database appliances will minimize or even
eliminate the finger-pointing that now goes on among Oracle, the server
hardware maker and the operating system vendor when there is a problem.
Analyst Merv Adrian of the Giga Information Group agreed that customers are
looking to simplify administration of their database servers, and noted that
more than half of Oracle's customers already dedicate their servers to the
database alone.
"When you think about a four-way box running a database on top of NT, there is
a lot of stuff [related to NT] you don't really want to worry about," Adrian
said. Even if the appliances do not do away with all these OS-specific
administrative tasks, they will be handled via the Oracle database interface
rather than the OS interface, Adrian said.
Dell Computer also will produce a database appliance. And Oracle's Ellison
confirmed last week that Oracle8i, which was expected at the end of last year,
will not ship until March 1.
Oracle Database Appliances
Chief feature: Tight integration between Oracle8i and a scaled-down version of
the Solaris operating system
developers: Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard
Price: $7,500 for a single-processor HP server (due this summer)
Copyright � 1999 CMP Media Inc.
===============
Pretty cool eh? What OS do you think Dell will use for their appliance? How
long do you think it'll be before we see a database appliance running on
Linux? Not long I bet, since Oracle already supports Linux!
NT, your days are numbered.
-Dave
DB Development Consultant
http://www.dpulaski.net
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