Linux-Misc Digest #290, Volume #19 Thu, 4 Mar 99 00:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: pop3d acting up? ("Salvatore ILardo")
Re: printing letters with generated addresses from db (Walter Strong)
Re: newbie! Lexmark 5700 printer...HELP! (enemy)
Re: Windows 98 and System Resources (mlw)
Question about ZIP Disks with Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: These newsgroups are riduculous... (Richard Steiner)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Roger Espel Llima)
Re: making an image of a fat partition? (for backup/restore purposes?) (Sitaram
Chamarty)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Craig Kelley)
Re: More bad news for NT (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: linux kernel 2.2.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Which instal to buy (The Graphical Gnome)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Craig Kelley)
Re: More bad news for NT (Sitaram Chamarty)
Compiling STL programs (Thomas Boggs)
newbie questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNOME & WindowMaker [was: KDE? Gnome? ... confused] ("Jeraimee")
Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux (Anatol Quabach)
Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux ("Flying")
Re: irc? icq? newsgroup? e-mail? (Radovan Garabik)
Re: One Linux "system" bootable on two different machines? (Alex Yung)
Partitioning question (Sanjay Rajasekhar)
Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux (bklimas)
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From: "Salvatore ILardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pop3d acting up?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:31:07 -0000
I have this problem too and it seems related to a corruption of the
directory /var/tmp/.pop
I noted that if the user sends particuliar mail, I.e. with attached graphic
files, large files attached to the e-mail, unusual sequence of characters,
this directory became corrupted and I have to delete and create back.
Therefore, in terms of content, this is empty but if you delete it POP3
doesn't work any more.
Cheers.
Salvatore Ilardo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jasper Janssen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi.
>
>I've been using my linux box as a email server, with sendmail, for a
>little over a month now. There appears to be something very odd going
>on with either sendmail or pop3d:
>
>When I try to login to pop3d, after USER & PASS, I get:
>
>-ERR being read already /usr/spool/mail/jasper
>
>After mv'ing to jasper2, I could read it out through pop3d,
>originally, but when I try that now, it doesn't work.
>
>an rm of the spool file gets respite as long as there are no messages.
>
>I tried rebooting, even that didn't work.
>
>There are no extraneous processes that i can find on ps x.
>
>Could anyone suggest why it is doing this?
>
>And if you CC' a copy to my email, I'll be able to read it with cat,
>if not normally, so I'd appreciate that.
>
>Thank you for your help,
>
>Jasper
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: Re: printing letters with generated addresses from db
Date: 3 Mar 1999 14:47:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi
: Is there a program or something, that allows me to write
: a letter once and print it multiple times, each time
: with a different address, and the address coming from
: a db, or a text file.
Yes
: What would you the letter write in? Latex?
Yes and no. You don't actually write anything in latex. You process
what you've written with latex. Don't mean to be pedantic, but if you
put it this way because you've never used latex before then you might
find WP's "merge" function more straightforward.
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From: enemy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie! Lexmark 5700 printer...HELP!
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:38:56 -0500
Someone wrote a driver for it. Follow the following link:
http://www.ultranet.com/~setaylor/papers.htm
If anyone gets the driver to work for a lexmark 3200, let me know. I skimmed
the source, and I didn't see anyting specific to the 5700.
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> I have this same printer and it is not supported under Linux (or any UNIX).
> The problem is that Lexmark has created a proprietary language for this
> printer (not PCL) that only Windows and OS2 drivers have been written for.
> Lexmark refuses (so far) to release the specs. Nobody has really made an
> attempt at creating a filter that will translate postscript to this printer
> language. It would require reverse engineering the language for the traffic
> going through the LPT port, and that is more than it is worth. I have not
> tried setting it up as a really old HP, but I have heard that some Lexmarks
> will understand the old HP language and work. I doubt the 5700 does though.
>
> Tom Veldhouse
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> root wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I have a Lexmark 5700 printer and I'm trying to set it up under Linux. I
> >tried to set it up as a text only printer but it won't print at all. Can
> >anyone tell me how to set this up correctly? (I mean set it up as a good
> >graphics printing printer under Linux)?
> >
> >I've installed RH 5.1 in my Pentium-350. Please help.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Kaushik
> >
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.redhat.misc,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.performance,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 98 and System Resources
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:07:11 +0000
Jorge Padron wrote:
[Snipped for brevity]
Sadly, you do not even know the half of it.
Windows 9x (differentiated from Windows NT) is fundamentally the same
environment as Windows 3.1 in 386 Enhanced mode.
Windows boots DOS.
Windows uses PSP (Program Segment Prefixes) to manage processes.
Windows needs real conventional memory, that's right boys and girls,
that limited 640K number is still there.
Much of Windows is still shared 16 bit DLLs. Resources allocated by one
application are not always freed if the application dies unexpectedly.
Since much of Windows is still 16 bit DLLS, there are harsh limits on
the number of resources that can be allocated. (HWND, HDC, HBITMAP, etc)
There are a finite number of Window handles that can be allocated system
wide in Windows.
Windows is limited to 8192 total selectors system wide. Selectors are
used to keep track of many system constructs as well as 16<>32 thunking.
16 bit applications use selectors for everything.
Do you really wonder why Windows can't get out of its own way?
Windows NT was supposed to be better, and in many respects it is,
however, it is far too little too late.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:14:39 GMT
Does anyone know if and when I finally get my ZIP disk drive to work
with Linux, if I can then access my DOS formatted ZIP disks?
Or will I have to format them with a Unix/Linux Partition thus making
it non-cross platformable?
Ian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: These newsgroups are riduculous...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:56:09 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Jeraimee"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake unto us, saying:
>Fixed...
Ah. Better. :-) Just don't expect to see e-mail responses. :-)
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
So you're a feminist...Isn't that cute!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Espel Llima)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
Date: 3 Mar 1999 16:58:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Espel Llima) writes:
>
>>> As for the OSs, people have put ML on hardware, and have built
>>> webservers in ML from the packet driver up.
[ I didn't write that, it was in the text I was replying to ... ]
>Who, where?
>
>> For most of my programming needs, give me a well-designed,
>> very-high-level, *procedural* language, and I'll be happy. Of those
>> I've tried, Perl is the closest I've found to what my dream language
>> would be. But it's not quite it either.
>
>It seems to me you're looking for Python?
Nope, where Perl and Python differ, I like the Perl approach much
better. I *do* want a language where "there's more than one way to do
it", and where OO is not mandatory. The main problem I have with Perl
is not with the language itself, but with the fact that the existing
implementation is all organized around compiling, then
bytecode-interpreting scripts, which isn't that great for large,
monolithic projects. I wish there was an efficient compiler, and/or a
way to save the result of compilation, and a good virtual machine to run
that on.
Anyway, this is quite off-topic and not really interesting in the
greater debate. Let's cut this particular sub-thread.
--
Roger Espel Llima, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: making an image of a fat partition? (for backup/restore purposes?)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:03:48 GMT
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:24:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, i have a 500 MB partition which i boot from and i was wondering if i made
>an image of that partition (dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/vfat_bakup.img)<please tell
That's how I backup my N(ice) T(oy) (NTFS) partition. It goes via
rsh to an HP-9000 to a 4mm tape.
Once even restored it at a customer site!
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Mar 1999 21:16:29 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Reiter) writes:
> > Seriously, I'd like to see a system that extends itself based
> >> on the stuff (for lack of a better word) the user runs. Where
> >> you'd select the editor across the system, and all editing
> >> activities happen through that editor (like installing Word
> >> and having vi as editor).
> >
> >This is more of a desktop-implementation issue than an OS issue.
>
> But it also is an os issue.
> Ever had a chance to peek at NeXTStep. Especially the services?
Yes, we had a lab full of them. You *do* know that they run a
particularly deranged flavor of BSD, thus showing that the GUI desktop
can be objectified under UNIX.
> I always woundered, why "es" is not useed by more people.
> (extensible shell, see any gnu ftp mirror, derived from the rc shell
> of plan9)
>
> (I also heard of an Scheme shell, which might be running on guile
> and esh a new shell development.)
Me? I want perlsh. :>
$ENV{'DISPLAY'} = "desconocido:0.0"
(it probably wouldn't be that hard to kludge something up with decent
job control and emacs key-bindings)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:03:51 GMT
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:31:48 -0500, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sure, but you can't separate the NT GUI from the rest of the
>> operating system. Why on earth you'd want that for a
>> server, which Microsoft seems to be pushing as an
>> appropriate use for NT, is beyond me.
>
>Microsoft wants to leverage the current Windows installed base and
>it also believes that there's benefit in one look and feel to any
>computer you may use. It's not the first company in the world to
>espouse that belief - remember your company's own SAA?
[Aside: you responded to someone from "ibm.net", which is not the
same as "ibm.com". I believe ibm.net is when you use IBM as an
ISP...could be wrong!]
Anyway, I once read a very interesting article (or series of
articles actually) on the historical reasons for this situation
(GUI on a server that's locked up in a backroom).
Dont have the URL handy but it started with "ncworld.com" and the
title was something like "next 10 minutes" or "last 10 minutes".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux kernel 2.2.1
Date: 3 Mar 1999 15:05:05 GMT
In his obvious haste, APPANAH Ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: I got the kernel v2.2.1
: I have several questions :
: - Can i use RH5.1 with new kernel 2.2.1 ?
: - I make the new kernel and put it on a floppy disk.
: During the boot, i have a kernel panic message... :
: Request_module[block-major-3] : Root fs not mounted
: VFS :Cannot open root device 03:05
: Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
:
: Can't understand ?
I got that one, went back into make menuconfig, and noticed I hadn't added
old IDE HardDisk support. If it can't run your harddisk, it can't mount the
file system, and thus, will panic....
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From: The Graphical Gnome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which instal to buy
Date: 3 Mar 1999 15:58:48 GMT
Hallo All,
Although I'm not really a newbie with Linux, I was using Linux in the 0.XX
series, I haven't used it recently.
I'm buying a new machine and I want to run Linux again. (very interested in
CORBA and what you can do with it)
What is the best to buy. Suse or Redhat.
I want to have ease of initial instalation and then freak around with all
kind of packages.
>From the first look I wanted to buy Suse 6.0. Any reasons why not. Maybey
wait for 6.1 (whenever that might come)
--
The Graphical Gnome ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
============================================
UDDF -> http://www.gnomehome.demon.nl/uddf/index.htm
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Mar 1999 21:22:41 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> [Warning: Possible Misunderstanding gap!]
Yep.
> I think you've changed topics to that of "How should a DBMS be
> implemented?"
>
> Which is a pretty gaping change of topics.
>
> If so, I *don't* agree that "just using a flat file" is going to cut it;
> SQL may be ugly, and there may be decent isomorphisms to get *some*
> queries to map to requesting data from what *look* like flat files.
>
> But flat files *don't* give you O(log_p N) (where N is the number of
> records, and p is the number of records that fit on a page) access time
> like B-Trees do, or O(1) like hash tables provide.
To clarify: By flat-file, I mean a stream of bits (which can contain a
b-tree, isam or whatever you wish).
[snip]
> For instance, if, in Hurd, you have a shell script written in Bash that
> Does Something Important to interface a pseudo-filesystem to the
> filesystem interfaces, then you have to trust all the components
> involved as if they were kernel components. Any bugs in any of 'em
> insinuate themselves into the overall system as if they were kernel
> bugs.
Exactly.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:03:53 GMT
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:02:38 -0500, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Nt's performance is garbage. I have used both Linux and NT and
>there is no comparison. Linux vs. NT is Evander Hollyfield vs. d
>your grandmother.<ilG:so much so that I downgraded to fix it. It wa
>
>NT outperforms Linux on graphically-oriented applications. This d
>is because NT's graphics drivers were moved to kernel mode with d
So a bug in your graphics driver can - and often does - crash your
system. Read
http://www.softwaremag.com/Sept98/sm098cv.htm
Here's the relevant quote:
But Kessell of Southwestern Bell says reliability problems he
had with NT drove him to try Linux. His network monitoring
group tried running PCs with Windows 95 and Windows 98, but
the GUI for their monitoring tools kept locking up. "Because
it was failing, our users never used the graphical interface
which we had paid outrageous amounts of money for," says
Kessell. Linux not only runs the application well, he says,
but it's more secure. When Southwestern Bell's security team
runs their intrusion tests on Linux, Kessell says he knows the
versions they are testing are up-to-date. "Not just with one
company, but the rest of the world."
Speed comes at a price, pal!
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling STL programs
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:06:12 -0500
Do I need to link with a specific library to use STL in an
application or is everything necessary in the STL include files?
I'm getting undefined references at link time but I don't see any
obvious libraries with which to link.
I'm using egcs-c++ 1.1b-2 and libstdc++ 2.8.0-14 on Redhat 5.2.
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: newbie questions
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 03:38:14 GMT
I installed red hat 5.0 (i know 5.2 is the current version, but 5.0 came with
the book i bought), using the default values for monitor rates and such.
Everything seems ok, but in x-window; the desktop/workarea seems like twice
what is visible on my monitor. For example, I have to scroll way down to see
the start menu bar. Likewise, I can scroll left or right to off-monitor
desktop space. I presume I set something wrong. Can someone please help?
Also, how does one exit a "man" page? Sorry for the newbie questions. Thanks
and regards.
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From: "Jeraimee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: GNOME & WindowMaker [was: KDE? Gnome? ... confused]
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:11:54 -0500
Wha! Ah ha... Now I get it...
Now the question though... How do you terminate e? (I'm not at my box now) I
don't remember seeing the option "switch to..." like in WindowMaker, fvwm,
etc...
Jeraimee
btw - THANKS! That was the thing I was looking for!
Matthias Warkus wrote in message ...
>It was the Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:17:43 -0500...
>..and Jeraimee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> yup... that's great... I know... got the CVS of e and GNOME compiling now
>> (hopefully).
>>
>> Still - is there a site or HOWTO (other than just adding the panel & to
your
>> ..x(whatever)) that'll talk more about GNOME and working with OTHER (than
e)
>> WMs?
>>
>> I like e, but until it's more stable I'll use WindowMaker for day-to-day
>> stuff...
>
>To run Gnome with a different window manager:
>
>1. Use gnome-session to start Gnome up.
>2. Terminate the window manager without terminating Gnome.
>3. Start another window manager.
>4. Terminate Gnome gracefully (i.e. via the panel logout button).
>5. Restart Gnome.
>6. The session management will now run the other WM.
>
>Note that the Gnome session manager remembers which applications were
>running when you last terminated Gnome.
>
>mawa
>--
>[...] there was no region where American capital did not support local
>labour. Moreover the American press, gramophone, radio, cinematograph
>and televisor ceaselessly drenched the planet with American thought.
> -- W. Olaf Stapledon, _Last_and_First_Men, 1931
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From: Anatol Quabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 23:22:51 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if and when I finally get my ZIP disk drive to work
> with Linux, if I can then access my DOS formatted ZIP disks?
>
> Or will I have to format them with a Unix/Linux Partition thus making
> it non-cross platformable?
No. Linux reads fat/vfat, no matter wether on a harddrive, a
floppy or a zip disk. When compiling your kernel, include
dos/vfat support or build is as a module.
--
Anatol Quabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Flying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux
Date: 4 Mar 1999 04:27:18 GMT
Hi,
No you will be able to access them in both Linux & msdos.
Or even vfat.
What kind of trouble are you having setting it up?
Im a novice too but my zip drive setup went very easy.
I used linuxconf
set it as dev/hdc4 if I remember right < at least on my puter>
Then set the mount point as /mnt/zip
then set the dos options to .....dont mount at boot < unless you want too>
and.... allow user access.
Good Luck,
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Does anyone know if and when I finally get my ZIP disk drive to work
> with Linux, if I can then access my DOS formatted ZIP disks?
>
> Or will I have to format them with a Unix/Linux Partition thus making
> it non-cross platformable?
>
> Ian
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radovan Garabik)
Subject: Re: irc? icq? newsgroup? e-mail?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 15:48:00 GMT
Paul 'Tok' Kiela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Night Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>I was wondering if any one would be kindly enough to recommend to me
:>some cool programs for linux:
:>1) IRC
: I definitely recommend BitchX, or ircii, but if you are coming
epic4 in favour of ircII... it has a bit more features (though as
an ordinary user you will probably not notice a difference), two main
reasons I dropped ircII are lack of support for ANSI colours and 8-bit
characters (this one probably does not apply for english-only-mono-lingual
people :-))
: from the realm of that... other.. windows-based.. irc client, then you may
: feel more at home with X-Chat. I don't have the URL on me right now,
zircon is really nice for those raised on mirc... eats a lot of memory, too
:-)
: but you can easily find it via a search for IRC at
: http://news.freshmeat.net (hint: its a great place to go for linux
: applications). I'm not a big fan of KDE applications, so I'm not going to
: recommend any, but they are available.
:>2) ICQ
definitely micq (if you are console based)
I have written a simple 5-line script, which runs micq as proces from epic4,
and I communicate using irc-like commands (tabkey switching, etc...)
If you do not do irc and icq at the same time, zicq is probably better.
: GTK-icq (also grab the url from freshmeat). Alternately, try licq,
: which may have more features, and is a dockable windowmaker applet, should
: you have a need for such a feature.
licq has more features right now... but they are close
:>3) newsgroup
: trn. it comes with just about every, if not all, linux
tin :-)
it is more user friendly than trn, and has everything a news reader should
have - and even more :-)
: distribution. Its text based, but its extremely easy to use once you get
: the hang of it. I definitely recommend reading the man page :>.. If GUI
is
: more your style, try Netscape's Communicator suite. It has a fully
: featured graphical news reader, though booting up Communicator may be a
: tad much bloat just to read usenet. For alternatives, just search for
: usenet or news readers on freshmeat.
:>4) e-mail
: Mutt, definitely.
Agreed. :-)
: .. pine is pretty standard, and will probably be recommended by
: 98% of the people you ask, but i thought i'd throw mutt in just to toss
: things up :>
:>Thanks a lot!!
:>
: No problem. When in doubt, you can always do a keyword search on
: http://news.freshmeat.net, or http://www.linuxapps.com. Both are excellent
: resources for software applications, and if you want to keep informed, you
: might also want to check out http://webslashdot.org and
: http://www.linuxgames.com.
: Regards,
: Paul.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: One Linux "system" bootable on two different machines?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 16:06:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norm Dresner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I need to create a Jaz disk that can be booted to linux on two different
: machines with two different motherboards, video cards, ... The only
: constancy I can count on is that the SCSI Jaz drive will be the boot drive
: for both machines.
: I assume I can create two different kernels and choose which one to boot
: thru LILO -- an alternate would be to boot to DOS with a floppy which then
: uses the OS loader to load the right kernel. Has anyone done this before?
: As for the video, I need to run X-window on both computers. Can I reliably
: write a program which would look at the hardware and then copy/rename the
: right set of configuration and server files for the appropriate computer?
: Thanks for any hints, suggestions, etc.
Are your SCSI controllers identical in both machines? I have the same
setup as yours but the SCSI controllers are not the same. You may want
to check out your "/proc" directory to see the subtle difference among
your machines. In my case:
$ ls -l /proc/scsi/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Wed Mar 03 09:37:28 1999 BusLogic/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Wed Mar 03 09:37:28 1999 scsi
I have a startup script to check the existence of directory by SCSI
controller to determine what files I need to rename. I am not sure why
you would need different kernel unless you don't use modules at all.
Your X setup may be straight forward depending on your distribution. I
am using Debian. Everything is in "/etc/X11".
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From: Sanjay Rajasekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Partitioning question
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:59:56 -0600
Configuration:
Hard Disk 2 (Matrox 8.4Gig):
Start Cyl End Cyl Size Partition# OS
==================================================
hdb1 1 262 ~2G 1 Win95
hdb2 263 524 ~2G 2 Win95
hdb3 525 1027 ~4G 3 Linux
==================================================
Logical Partitions within Partition 3 (Linux):
Start Cyl End Cyl Size Mount point
=============================================
hdb5 525 533 ~64M swap
hdb6 534 597 ~0.5G /
hdb7 597 859 ~2.0G /usr
hdb8 860 1027 ~1.4G /home
==============================================
Linux installed fine.
Problem:
=======
Windows sees hdb1 and hdb2 as D: and E: drives,
respectively. It shows D:'s space as fully available
but shows 5Meg of E:'s space as used even after
formatting (with no system files on it). Why is this?
could this be because of some block boundary problems?
Any remedy?
Please copy your suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks!
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From: bklimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:26:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know if and when I finally get my ZIP disk drive to work
> with Linux, if I can then access my DOS formatted ZIP disks?
>
> Or will I have to format them with a Unix/Linux Partition thus making
> it non-cross platformable?
>
> Ian
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux reads fine the vfat format in which the zip disks are
preformatted. My zip drive (external parallel port scsi emulation)
has worked "automagically" since my first RH5.2 installation.
During the setup, I just answered yes to the question if I had
any scsi devices and then chose the "parallel port zip" from
the list. Your kilometrage may vary, depending on what
kind of zip drive you got.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
b.k.
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