Linux-Misc Digest #837, Volume #19 Tue, 13 Apr 99 18:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? (Joseph T. Adams)
Re: Weirdness with DNS... (Ron Pugh)
Re: Linux is dead (**Nick Brown)
Re: Book Recommendation for Linux Sys/Net Admin (Joern Smock)
Large file creation crashing (Cris Collins)
linux install server for solaris (Olaf Greis)
Re: Linux Modem Recommendation? ("Mark Janssen")
Re: Weirdness with DNS... (Michael Surette)
Re: When did parallel port printing performance go to HELL? (Yan Seiner)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Jerry Gardner)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Jerry Gardner)
Re: Linux Modem Recommendation? (Mark Nielsen)
Re: what's the best browser for linux? (Dennis)
Digital Research's DRVGA3D-8MB 64-Bit video card ("WF, Yee")
Linus interview ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
New RedHat 5.2 install (Marc Hoppins)
Re: Unresolved symbols question ("Walter L. Williams")
Palm Pilot interface for Linux? (Pete)
what software do I need to share different modems? (Jeremy C. Reed)
what does this mean: "getcwd error: Success"? (Jeremy C. Reed)
Re: mount extended partition / logical drive (Shimon)
Re: Linux is dead (Brandon)
Re: Q: Burning SUSE disksets to cdrw ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph T. Adams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Date: 13 Apr 1999 13:30:10 GMT
Erik de Castro Lopo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > My guess would be that MS will find a way to sabotage it. It is *not*
: > to Microsoft's advantage, in any way, shape or form, for its "OS" to
: > coexist on the same machine at the same time with any other.
:
: Who cares if M$ crushes VMWare. A project is underway to make an open
: source, GPL clone of VMWare.
:
: http://www.freemware.org/
But the same thing happens: Microsoft simply "updates" its "OS" and
apps so they will not run if they detect that they are running under
any virtualization, emulation, etc.
This is their standard operating procedure. Control of a
closed-source OS gives them the ability to sabotage any competing
product, or even any older version of their own product for which they
would like to sell an upgrade. Lacking any moral or ethical scruples,
they do it. The average person thinks that it's because these
competing products suck and that Microsoft's offerings are vastly
superior. Those who are even moderately computer-literate know
better, but they're only a minority among those Microsoft is trying to
target (end-users and corporate decisionmakers).
The best solution is to use free (libre) software, but where that is
not feasible, any OS and apps where you can get the source, even if
they are not free, is preferable to any OS and apps where you can't.
The more I think about it the more I realize Stallman is right:
non-free software, and especially non-free operating systems, give
vendors of proprietary software control over not only their own
programs, but programs and data that belong to other people. I will
*not* knowingly use non-free software on my GNU/Linux box, except Star
or Applix (and only until free substitutes exist), and am trying to
phase out Windows and Windows software as completely and quickly as I
can.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Pugh)
Subject: Re: Weirdness with DNS...
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:43:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.protocol.tcpip,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
NT could be having trouble with the server name because it is longer
than 15 characters (Netbios limit). Sounds like NT is truncating the
name to 15 characters and DNS server doesn't have an entry.
Do you have the "Enable DNS for Windows Name Resolution" checkbox
checked under the TCP/IP Properties->WINS Address Tab? If so, uncheck
it.
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 04:09:17 GMT, "testing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could someone explain why it can't resolve the FQDN to the IP, but yet it
>can resolve the IP to the FQDN? Is there some bug in BIND that prevents a
>hostname with a certain number of -'s to be resolved?
>=============
>*** Looking up 216.49.6.68
>-
>*** Resolved 216.49.6.68 to sbn-216-49-six-68.sbusiness.com
>-
>*** Looking up sbn-216-49-six-68.sbusiness.com
>-
>*** Unable to resolve sbn-216-49-six-68.sbusiness.com
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is dead
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:59:20 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Tranchant wrote:
>
> **Nick Brown wrote:
> >
> > I don't think [m]any Linux users would use M$ products for Linux even if
> > (1) they ran on all OSS kernels and (2) they were free.
>
> What a silly attitude. I despair at the quality of much MS software,
> especially Windows 95, but if MS released something that was worth the
> money charged to me, I'd buy and use it. This anti-Microsoft attitude
> held by many Linux users can get a bit childish. Yes, political agendas
> for free software are all very well (ESR, RMS); but boycotting Microsoft
> for no reason other than that you don't like the company is pointless.
I agree, to some extent, but the average Linux user at this point (maybe
not the average in 2 years time) is doing it at least 50% because of the
"Anything But Microsoft" argument. And that is, I think, a fairly
natural reaction to MS's attitude of "we know best, just hand over the
money, there are no bugs, we're totally wonderful".
I have to use and deploy MS products at work, and most of them suck, but
one or two features do indeed blow the competition away.
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From: Joern Smock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Book Recommendation for Linux Sys/Net Admin
Date: 13 Apr 1999 01:00:06 GMT
Azfar Kazmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a book aimed for experienced sys/net admins [I
> think I am 7 on the scale of 1-10.]
I'm probably 1-2 (years administering myself). Sorry if you already
considered the books I list. What about:
> Any recommendation? I searched for it on Amazon, Ora, etc but found
> none to my needs.
"Computer Networks" (Tanenbaum)
"Unix System Administration Handbook" (Nemeth and others)
"Essential Unix System Administration" (Frisch)
"The Design of the Unix Operating System" (Bach)
"The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" (McKusick et al.)
"Unix Power Tools" (Peek and others)
"Practical Unix and Internet Security" (Garfinkel/Spafford)
(these should be available at Amazon)
> I am looking for one that emphasize on device drivers, i/o,
> filesystem, ip packeting, etc.
"Linux Device Drivers" (Rubini)
"Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" (Stevens)
"TCP/IP Illustrated", Volumes 1+2 (Stevens)
"Unix Network Programming", Volumes 1+2 (Stevens)
(these too)
> I already have SAMS' Linux Unleashed but it is for Primary-Secondary
> levels.
I don't like Sams (or Sybex, or...) I like PTR, AW, VNR, DH and
O'Reilly better. Just a personal preference...
Joern
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From: Cris Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Large file creation crashing
Date: 13 Apr 1999 13:35:26 GMT
i
I have a Pentuim II 400 Mhz machine with 384 Mb of RAM and a
couple of 47 Gb SCSI Hard Drive running Slakcware 3.5 and kernel
2.0.36. A user on the machine has been usuccessful in modifying
a 3 Gb file using the following routine:
i_test=fwrite(&buffer[first],4,n_buf,fp_out)
if (i_test !=n_buf) {
[Complain]
}
He moves the the data in 2^15 or 32768 blocks. When the output file
reaches 1073741824 or 2^30 the system simply stops writing to the
output file. ANy ideas? The drive is formated at 2048 bytes per Inode.
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From: Olaf Greis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: linux install server for solaris
Date: 13 Apr 1999 07:18:29 GMT
hiho,
i've got a sparc classic around, but unfortunately i haven't got a
solaris compatible cdrom drive. yet there are some linux boxes around
(with cdroms).
is it possible to use a linux box as installserver for the sparc, and
if so, could you explain how or direct me to some dokumentation explaining
the setup?
--
brgds
olaf
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From: "Mark Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Modem Recommendation?
Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:13:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef in artikel <7eu9e7$st9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
<SNIP>
: Win98, what is the most compatible yet most reliable 56k modem to get?
Hayes?
<SNIP>
I would recommend you buy an external modem. Most internal PCI-modems are
so called WinModems and linux has no way of using those. By using an
external modem you should be safe though.
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From: Michael Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.protocol.tcpip,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
Subject: Re: Weirdness with DNS...
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:32:44 +0000
testing wrote:
> Could someone explain why it can't resolve the FQDN to the IP, but yet it
> can resolve the IP to the FQDN? Is there some bug in BIND that prevents a
> hostname with a certain number of -'s to be resolved?
> =============
> *** Looking up 216.49.6.68
> -
> *** Resolved 216.49.6.68 to sbn-216-49-six-68.sbusiness.com
> -
> *** Looking up sbn-216-49-six-68.sbusiness.com
> -
> *** Unable to resolve sbn-216-49-six-68.sbusiness.com
This is not a bug in BIND, just how the DNS has been set up in this case.
Forward and reverse name resolution are actually two separate databases. In
this case reverse resolution has been set up while forward has not. I can
only guess as to why.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When did parallel port printing performance go to HELL?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:49:45 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, when I tune the lp ports for polling, the fastest printing occurs
with about a 60% load on the CPU. As I have 3 lp devices, that means
that my cpu is running at about 180%; this does not leave many spare
cycles for file service..... ;-) By comparison, my 56K modem (about the
same throughput as an lp port) puts no visible load on the CPU.
When I use irq, my lp performance goes straight down the tubes. I see
about 10% of max throughput on the port. It's a driver problem, as the
printer sits with l..o..n..g idle periods - 30-60 seconds between
batches of data (I've had to increase the printer timeout to prevent
partial jobs from printing). AFAIK, I don't have an IRQ conflict, since
I am using standard lpt irqs and I don't have that many devices on the
system.
The hardware is standard stupid parport stuff; one on the mobo and two
on a PCI card. No intelligence or buffers on the card.
Yan
Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Let me know if you fiugre it out. I turned on IRQs, and a 20MB print
> > job took 8 hours to print. Installing RH 5.2 seems to have improved
> > performance (it's now polled), but it's still far below what it should
> > be.
>
> The fastest printing will usually happen with either well-tuned
> polling frequencies or good parport hardware and interrupts.
>
> Since you are running 2.0, you can use tunelp to adjust the polling
> frequencies and print at the full speed of the printer. man tunelp.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Gardner)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 13 Apr 1999 20:55:31 GMT
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:24:48 GMT, David Dineen wrote:
>I'm not sure about Perl being intuitive. Powerful, useful, omnipotent,
>certainly, but intuitive? I wrote a Perl script a while ago to
>automate a website (produce HTML from text file with meta data). To
>get rid of the newline character from the variable $m I had to do
>this:
>
>$m =~ s/\n$//;
>
>Obvious, isn't it?
No, but what's wrong with
chomp $m;
Just because there is more than one way to do just about anything in
Perl, there's no reason to pick the most difficult to read solution.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Gardner)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: 13 Apr 1999 20:55:32 GMT
On 12 Apr 1999 16:26:41 +0100, Richard Caley wrote:
>
>COming soon, `Building More Bookshelves In A Nutshell'.
How about:
The Compleat Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a
Nutshell in 21 Days, Unleashed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Nielsen)
Subject: Re: Linux Modem Recommendation?
Date: 13 Apr 1999 08:53:06 -0400
In article <7eu9e7$st9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am going to be buying a new modem that will be used with Linux RH5.2 and
>Win98, what is the most compatible yet most reliable 56k modem to get? Hayes?
>Rockwell? USR? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Use jumperable modems that can be set to com1 or com2.
USR robotics, around $80, or some cheaper internal ISA modems are good.
Or if you use an external modem.
Mark
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's the best browser for linux?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:54:37 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This discussion brings up a question I will be facing soon. I will be
using Win95/98, WinNT, and RH 5.2. I use Netscape as browser and for
mail and news because it is all one pkg. (yes, there are disadvantages,
but...). I accept that I will have to install Netscape on all 3 os's,
but I want to keep my mail and news in one place so it doesn't matter
what OS I'm using - all mail and news groups are available. Any
suggestion on how to do this? I assume that the Linux and Win NT
version won't write files (for example) to the folders in the Win95
folder that the Win95 version can read.
Thanks for any help.
Dennis,
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From: "WF, Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digital Research's DRVGA3D-8MB 64-Bit video card
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:09:08 GMT
Hello All,
Is there anyone here who has successfully used Digital Research's
DRVGA3D-8MB with Linux?. I can't find the specific chipset used by this
PCI
card from the printings on the outside of the box. Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linus interview
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:53:41 GMT
There's a new interview with Linus up at TIME Digital (it's part of TIME
magazine): http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,23039,00.html
Nothing earthshaking. He talks about the differences between developing in
Europe and America, and why people think he's "some kind of monk"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Hoppins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: New RedHat 5.2 install
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:01:03 GMT
This is my new config. A purpose built system.
Gigabyte m/board
128Mb SDRAM (100MHz)
Intel PII 350
Maxtor 8Gb drive
Internal ATAPI ZIP
32x CDROM
SB PCI 128
ATI Rage 128/16Mb
I attempted to install redhat using the CD. I restart the system and
it boots from the CD...gets past the IDE probe then hangs...Cannot
figure this one out...any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Marc
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From: "Walter L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,atl.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.
Subject: Re: Unresolved symbols question
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:38:56 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The correct order is : make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make
> zImage;make modules;make modules_install.
> Moreover, tell us what are the "unresolved symbols" more precisely.
>
> Manu
Thanks for responding Manu
The symbols I getting are for stuff I configured "OUT" of my setup. Things
like SCSI card support, sound card support, non-IDE CD support, etc... I
excluded them from my setup because I don't have these things on my
system. I hope to make a nice, small, fast kernel.
Walt In Utah
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete)
Subject: Palm Pilot interface for Linux?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:33:18 GMT
I hate to ask this because I think it will be a 'no', but
is there a PIM or like program that will sync with my
Palm Pilot under Linux?
Regards,
-Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: what software do I need to share different modems?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:17:56 GMT
How can I share different modems to increase bandwidth but they are not
connected to the same ISP?
Thanks
jeremy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: what does this mean: "getcwd error: Success"?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:12:38 GMT
I am trying to run xrmftp on my Debian 2.0 computer and I keep getting this
message: "getcwd error: Success"
The application starts up for a second and I can see two windows and then it
closes.
Does anyone know what this means?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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From: Shimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount extended partition / logical drive
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:27:33 +0300
Christian Hecht wrote:
>
> can i mount logical drives in an extended partition (vfat) and how?
>
> christoph ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
i hope i understood the question correctly...
my Windoze D: drive is a logical drive in an extended partition,
my C: is a primary, and there are 2 other primaries on the disk
so:
C: = /dev/hda1
D: = /dev/hda5
i made 2 directories, which i called /Win95C and /Win95D. to read
my win files i do:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win95C
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /Win95D
the vfat works fine for both of them, primary and logical.
good luck :-)
Shimon
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:54:40 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is dead
Mark Nielsen wrote:
> In article <jywQ2.136$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> *** No Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have been a Linux user/fan for 2+ years now. Recently I heard some bad
> >news from one of my friends. I heard that M$ is working on an M$ Linux and
> >they are going to release their crappy products for Linux, except that the
> >program will only run if you have the M$ Linux kernel. So I think very soon
> >we'll kiss our good old linux goodbye.
>
so what? even IF that happens that doesn't mean you have to buy any of it.
Linux is good enough asit is, its getting better. We dont need a MS linux even
if there ever was one. So why worry?
> Yeah, right.
> Mark
> --
> Mark Nielsen "Where 98 has no meaning."
> www.tcu-inc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Computer Underground, Inc. 614-485-0506
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Q: Burning SUSE disksets to cdrw
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:25:36 GMT
In article <wj79nBsOsnv9-pn2-pUxSjub9gTik@localhost>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi there
>
> i have a bunch of the suse 6.0 disksets from their ftp site , and
> i'm trying to put them on cd for installation, burning in iso mode 1
> with long filename support didnt work , iso9660 mode 1 8.3 filename
> didnt work as didnt dos filename extension, the error i get form the
> bootdidks is disk image not found. ive tried a bootdisk with
> eide01,eide02,scsi01 images on them and get the error .
>
> can someone help? what am i missing here?
Don't know if this is the problem; but YaST expects a certain file structure.
suse--/--[a1 ]--/-- Base system (series a)
|--[images]--/-- root root image
| |
| |--scsi1 Bootkernel image
|--[setup]---/--[descr]--/-- Description files
| |
| |--[du ]--/-- Description of sizes
| |
| |-- loadlin.exe Linux loader (loadlin)
~
|
|--[xap1 ]--/--
|--[xwm1 ]--/--
This, hope no mistakes, shows what must be copied to install a base system
using an MS-DOS HD partition. Here, directories and file structures are
given and cannot be changed.
All directories in series A (a1) are needed as well as the directory 'setup'
including all subdirectories. The directory 'images' has to contain the
kernel that you plan to use.
The above was excerpted from SuSE's manual and entitled "Installation via
HD partition. I suspect that somewhere in your download this information
is spelled out in more detail. If your CD dosen't reflect the correct
structure you can copy the files to your HD.
Hope this is of some utility.
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