Linux-Misc Digest #207, Volume #19 Sat, 27 Feb 99 12:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) ("Christopher J. Mattern")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ("Robert Shepard")
Re: Ls command ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ???? (Robert Billing)
Re: Looking for "tip" communication utility on Linux
Re: Creating PDF files under Linux (Barry Mathieu)
Re: interested in linux... (John Garrison)
Ethernet card (David Burlage)
Re: configure error (John Garrison)
Re: mem=128M hangs system (Chris Menzel)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Linux Screensavers (Matthias Warkus)
Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc - Getting on my tits! (Labussiere)
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From: "Christopher J. Mattern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:21:14 GMT
In comp.unix.questions Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that Microsoft (or any other company of that scale)
> has a far longer breath and you will be financially ruined by paying
> lawyers before the case is even nearly finished. Microsoft is
> spinning and winding like a slick eel in the U.S. DOJ vs. M$ case, do
> you think they'd use less determined lawyers against you?
Actually, I'd kinda hope they'd use the same sort of lawyers, since the
ones they're using in the DOJ case don't seem to be able to find their
asses with guides and a strip map.
Anyone else been absolutely amazed by this? Even in a federal court
case, M$ can't stop rigging the demos...
Chris Mattern
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:07:36 -0800
Some additional information concerning the PIII hack:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990225S0010
"Anthony D. Tribelli" wrote:
>
> Craig Kelley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Meissen) writes:
>
> : > > Pentium III chip with the individual serial number that can
> : > >track your web surfing and buying habits can now have the ID number
> : > >turned on and off by software.
> : >
> : > This is untrue. The fact is, the feature can be disabled with software,
> : > but it can ONLY be turned back on by a full hardware reset.
> :
> : You are mistaken:
> :
> : http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/05/news1/
>
> The article was very vague. Was the processor covertly reset without
> interruption of any currently running software (via deep sleep?), or was
> the boot utility altered so that on the next system startup it would tell
> the user it had disabled the serial number when in fact it did not
> actually do so? The latter sounds more likely since Intel now says a BIOS
> setting is the way to go, the former would defeat BIOS too. The latter
> would not show the earlier poster to be 'mistaken'. The latter is more
> like a virus causing a program do to something other than what it was
> intended to do.
>
> Tony
> --
> ------------------
> Tony Tribelli
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:26:56 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7b6bad$73l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ryan Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Matthias Warkus wrote:
><some deletia>
>
>> > > 3. More Hardware support
>> >
>> > Yes, but oh so crappy drivers...
>>
>> I rather have a Winmodem with crappy drivers than a useless card in Linux
>>
>>
>
<other stuff deleted>
>And if you get stuck with problems while swapping modems, just try to get
>some help from MacroShaft. There's plenty of relevant information in the
>Windows Help files (NOT) and also lots of useful advice on the M$ website
>(double knot). It's almost as if it never occurred to them that someone
might
>want to change their hardware after the initial install.
Ok- my .02 worth: MS doesn't write their stuff for the users who want
to change things (hardware or software)
around. That's not their customer base. Their users are (mostly) the "turn
it on and run the apps" group. And that's fine. Somebody has to look after
that market. I personally don't believe that MS can (or should) be an OS for
the people who want to get their hands dirty. Bottom line though, is you can
do Linux type activities in MS, and vice-versa, but its better to use each
for what its best at. I wouldn't write a thesis in vi, e.g.
cheers-
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ls command
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:19:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sven Ole Skrivervik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Luca Satolli 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 use the alias facility provided by the shell. Alias the ls
> command to ls --color in your .cshrc file $HOME/.cshrc:
>
> alias ls ls --color.
>
> Next time you log in and type ls, the shell will execute ls --color.
>
> Rgds,
>
> - Sven
>
And if you are using bash the file will be .bashrc and the syntax will be:
alias ls='ls --color'
If you want the alias to be global then put it in /etc/bashrc
Jim
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From: Robert Billing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ????
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:03:12 +0000
Izak Burger wrote:
>
> Have you tried Xesslite yet? You can get it somewhere on sunsite.unc.edu,
> and if I remember correctly it was in rpm format.
I must have a look at this.
--
I am Robert Billing, Christian, inventor, traveller, cook and animal
lover, I live near 0:46W 51:22N. http://www.tnglwood.demon.co.uk/
"Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock
phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Looking for "tip" communication utility on Linux
Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:37:45 GMT
On 25 Feb 1999 00:12:43 +0000, James Youngman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah) writes:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> Would appreciate if someone inform me where I could get the "tip"
>> utility as explained by the following man page I printed from a SUN
>> Solaris machine:
>
>minicom.
>
nope... minicom is more like pcomm... i think the program (with similar
commands) is cu...
(found under the /usr/bin directory in RH5.2, and part of the Taylor UUCP
1.06 distribution)
but i think minicom is a better choice, absolutely..
>
>--
>ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: Barry Mathieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creating PDF files under Linux
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:29:47 -0500
Leonard Evens wrote:
> Current versions of ghostscript have a shell script which will convert
> a postscript file into a pdf file. When we use it, we find that it
> produces
> a file about ten times larger than the Adobe distiller does. More
> seriously,
> when viewed by acroread (and I presume using the web by other Acrobat
> readers under other OSs), the output is essentially unreadable. The pdf
>
> file produced by the Adobe distiller produces easily read output.
>
> I presume this has something to do with the fonts that are being used.
> So it should be possible to produce a workaround which will give legible
>
> output. There is no problem printing the pdf file using acroread,
> but that is not surprising since presumably when acroread prints to
> a postscript printer (as in our case), it first converts back to
> postscript.
>
> As best I can tell, Adobe does not provide a Linux version of its
> distiller, but does provide SunOS, Solaris, and HP Unix versions.
>
> Any comments?
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
Here's my recently learned knowledge, please take it with a "grain of salt"
as I am a Linux newbie.
I definitely agree it is a font situation. You must be starting with a
PostScript file and then issuing "ps2pdf", or using the pdfwrite option is
Ghostview.
You can check the fonts contained within a PDF file by using the document
info tab in Acrobat Reader. For scalable fonts, your looking for Type 1.
Here my understanding - either the PostScript fonts are embedded in the PS
file, or they are referenced in the PS file. If the fonts are embedded in
the file, "distilling" TEXT using Ghostscript will provide pristine output.
I'm not sure about the resulting file size. A Ghostscript generated PDF
file may be larger than an Acrobat version due to propietary compression
algorithms.
If the fonts are referenced by the PS file, then Ghostscript must have
access to those font files.
Type 1 PS fonts are what you are looking for - filetype '*.pfb'.
Ghostscript contains the 35 standard PostScript fonts in the font directory.
Unfortunately this is the limit of my knowledge. Pure speculation follows:
If the PS file you are trying to distill contains referenced fonts that you
don't have font files for then :-(
There may be a way to map the referenced font files to the file names used
by Ghostscript. That is, you would need an alias file, like a font.map
file.
Good luck,
I'm definitely interested in seeing further responses.
Barry Mathieu
ps - being in the Math Dept., are you using Latex? Dvips can be configured
to embed Computer Modern PostScript fonts. This happens to be what I'm in
the process of figuring out.
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: interested in linux...
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:00:43 GMT
If you still have linux installed, download the following packages and
you should be happy.
KDE, desktop environment similar to WinBlows (trust me, once you get
used to the superior mulit-tasking, never crashing linux environment,
mixed with the super intelligence insutlingly easy to use interface of
KDE, you will see why the nickname WinBlows came about.)
Netscape Communicator, in order to use this you will have to switch to a
local ISP, but just about everybody who has ever done so has preferred
it. Netscape is a far more capable web browser than AOL anyway.
Wordperfect 8, yes this is FREE for linux. Wordperfect 8 is as full
featured an editor as you could want, it highlights your spelling and
grammer mistakes, fixes some mistakes automatically for you. I can't
say enough good things about it.
As far as programming goes. If you have "Linux for Dummies" then you
know about the GCC compiler I'm sure. If you get KDE also get the KDE
advanced editor, it should be called KWrite, not KEdit (it may come with
the base KDE I don't remember) When you save a file or start a new file
with html, c, cc, cpp extensions it will syntax highlight for you. One
thing that bothers me about the "visual" programming environments is
that they do all the work for you, when somebody learns to code on one
of these, they can't survive without it, and that isn't what programming
is about. There are tons of toolkits, IDE, GUI builders, GUI
toolkits,etc. available for Linux. Just search for them, if you can't
find them I'll find some links for you.
If you have redhat I would suggest getting most of this software in RPM
format. If you have any problem with anything on this list don't
hesitate to ask, I can help you find web pages, ISP's etc. Linux truly
is way better than Windows. I have no intention of every going back to
Windows, and dread the thought of even having to use such a primitive
beast again.
Paul Erdos wrote:
>
> i first heard of linux about a year ago, and it sounded interesting so i
> decided to give it a try. i bought the "linux for dummies" book (since i didn't
> know anything about linux, i figured that was the right book for me), which
> included a cd in the back with redhat 5.0. i got it installed on my computer
> no problem, as a dual-boot between linux and win95. this is probably due to my
> lack of knowledge about linux, but it is not clear to me why linux is
> preferable to windows. as a high school senior whose primary use of the
> computer is: writing papers (ms word), programming (ms visual c++), and going
> online (aol), i didn't know how to do these same things in linux. is linux
> right for me, or is windows preferable for doing those limited tasks?
>
> please don't misunderstand the intent of this message. it comes from a genuine
> interest in linux, and how it might be useful in my use of the computer.
> because i am completely ignorant of what linux can and cannot do, i am asking
> all of you out there.
>
> if you could email me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, that would be appreciated since i
> do not check this newsgroup on a regular basis.
>
> thanx in advance for your response,
> jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Burlage)
Subject: Ethernet card
Date: 27 Feb 1999 15:32:52 GMT
I'm using an ethernet card with both modular and BNC connectors.
I'm not using the BNC, so do I need a terminator on it, or a tee
with 2 terminators, or nothing?
Thanks!!
DB
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configure error
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:02:21 GMT
go to the directory the configure script is in and type:
chmod a+x configure
you can use chmod a+x any time permission is denied, assuming
you are the root user. If not have the root user do it for you.
tim rosen wrote:
>
> This problem applies when I try to install many apps that require "./configure"
> (including TkZip, ksendfax, which is what I'm currently wrestling with) to make
> install.
>
> As root, when I type "./configure" as I'm instructed for install, I get:
>
> "./configure: Permission denied"
>
> What does this mean. So next I type "sh ./configure" and I get:
>
> "configure: error: can not run ./config.sub"
>
> So now how exactly do I go about installing these apps? Any help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> I am running RH5.2 & KDE1.1.
>
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Menzel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mem=128M hangs system
Date: 27 Feb 1999 10:46:26 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:58:03 -0600, Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> We have just upgraded a server to a PC-100 Super7 100MHz board with a
> K6-2/350 and 128MB of RAM. There is one SCSI drive with an Adaptec
> AHA-2940 controller. We are running Redhat 5.2. After booting, we
> noticed that the system was only seeing 64MB of RAM. Accordingly, we
> added append="mem=128M" to lilo.conf, ran lilo, and rebooted. However,
> the system would then hang in the boot process at the point where it is
> reading the RAM disk that (for reasons I haven't bothered to understand,
> being an IDE guy) is needed as part of the boot process with a SCSI
> drive. Removing the append line and rerunning lilo fixes the hang
> problem, but of course Linux once again only sees 64MB. The same
> problem arises if we simply add mem=128M as an option at the LILO
> prompt.
The answer came from a helpful soul almost immediately: SCSI bioses
often load themselves in the last bit of memory, so start lowering
the values of mem to avoid collisions. mem=124 did the trick.
Chris Menzel
Texas A&M University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:09:53 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:10:16 GMT...
..and William Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In our last episode (Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:44:23 -0800),
> the artist formerly known as Ryan Cumming said:
> >Matthias Warkus wrote:
> >
> >> > 1. Better GUI
> >>
> >> Hmph. Depends on how you define a GUI and what kind of GUI you are
> >> using on Linux.
> >
> >I dont't think any UI in Linux even touches Windows ease of use. Some of the new
> >fangled desktop enviroments (Gnome, KDE, etc.) come close, but MS has done a good
> >job of allowing the newbie be able to use the OS right away,
>
> But is that ease of use or is that ease of learning? To me, ease of use
> means being able to accomplish task x in an efficient manner. While you
> only learn a system once, you use it every day, so to me, how effectively a
> skilled person can use the system is a much more important metric than how
> easily a rank novice can get started (though it's true that often people
> don't bother to learn their system and stay at the level of rank novice
> indefinitely; this is a separate problem though). Windows does not allow
> this at all for many cases, and in others requires a knowledge of the
> system similar in sophistication as that needed to use X effectively.
Heh.
Shortly after I began to write an editorial for www.linuxtoday.com
about this, the topic comes up on a newsgroup. Must be magic.
mawa
--
I know a lot less ... than many of the readers ..., so I'm probably
wrong and you shouldn't have read this message at all. Just because
I'm trying to be helpful doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about.
-- Jonathan Kamens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Linux Screensavers
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:10:41 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 26 Feb 1999 20:27:36 GMT...
..and T. Garay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not running X Windows. This machine is simply running as a mail
> server so I haven't bothered with X Windows much except to configure
> it.
>
> Should I be?
Aah! You're looking for a console screensaver! There is one in
Midnight Commander, but running a file manager just for the screen
saver is probably overkill.
mawa
--
It is a common characteristic of all democracies that intelligence is
so highly regarded as to exempt the holder from the cares of office
-- major@pyrmania
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From: Labussiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc - Getting on my tits!
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:44:06 +0100
Frank Bures wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:36:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Hello!
> >
> > I wonder if anyone can help me? I've just got this nice new machine with
> an
> >ATI 3D Rage IIc graphics card (Mach64GT, Internal DAC Type) and can I get
> it
> >to run XFree under RedHat 5.2 (apollo)?
> >
> > Can I heck.
> >
> > Whatever options I try, I get a lovely screen which is fine
> vertically-wise,
> >but there are 4 repeated images horizontally.
> >
> > All I ask is for 1024x768 in 8bpp on my ADI Microscan 5P. My previous
> card
> >(Expercolor DSV) worked fine so I know that it isn't monitor settings that
> are
> >screwy, just the card ones.
> >
> > If anyone has sucessfully got one of these cards running then please
> could
> >you let me know because I'm dammed if I know how. If possible I'd
> appreciate
> >it if you could email me at:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the Z's)
> >
> >since I don't check these newgroups as often as I do my mail.
> >
>
> Make sure your /etc/X11/XF86config file contains something like
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "My Video Card"
> VendorName "ATI"
> BoardName "Rage IIC"
> VideoRam 4096
> ChipID 0x4755
>
> The ChipID is what makes it work.
>
> Frank Bures, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use this address for replies)
> http://frank.chem.utoronto.ca/electronics
> "File not found. Do you want to fake it? (Y/N)
You can also try this:
Section "Device"
...
VideoRam 4096
ChipID 0x4754
ChipRev 0x01
It worked for me.
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