Linux-Misc Digest #926, Volume #19 Thu, 22 Apr 99 06:13:12 EDT
Contents:
XFree86 3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm (Jimmy Navarro)
Re: saving program state with core files (Matthias Warkus)
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Gnome Dependencies Problem (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Kernel Tunables (Matthias Warkus)
Re: problems w/ tar (Matthias Warkus)
Re: X-Window theme for MS-Windows (Matthias Warkus)
Re: GNOME, kde and kppp (Matthias Warkus)
X Programming (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: Files larger than 2 GB on Intel/Linux (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: glibc2 - can't umount /usr ! (Mark Tranchant)
Re: Linux and Zip Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
what the hell is up with www.linux.org? (fred anger)
Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet? (Darren Brock)
PDF file sharing and updating ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO with IDE & SCSI ("Remy")
Re: Wanted!!!! TUX (David E. Fox)
Microtek Scanmaker 35t+ (henk van der knaap)
ld fucks up ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I want an OS written ("Rene")
Re: Mounting windows NTFS drive (John Thompson)
Re: Kernel 2.2.5 question (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Wanted: Linux replacements for VAJ and Quicken ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Drake)
Re: Vfat and Redhat 5.2 (Paul Sherwin)
Re: Help choosing distribution (jik-)
Re: Yesterday's Date (David Steuber)
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From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: XFree86 3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:16:42 -0700
I'm using Red Hat 5.2 and would like upgrade to latest XFree86 3.3.3.1.
I have an S3 Virge but unsure which one since install.log has no info
which packages installed for X Window. First, how will I know which of
these below?
XFree86-S3-3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm
XFree86-S3V-3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm
Is there any more file I have to download?
If any info, please e-mail me directly remove extra. Thanks.
Jimmy Navarro
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P.S.: to reply me direct, remove extra.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: saving program state with core files
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:25:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:33:48 +0200...
..and dementen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to save the state of a program (like a game for
> example) during its running and after to be able to load this state to
> continue the process at another time.
>
> I've tried with xxgdb 'name of the program' and then interrupting the
> execution but I don't know how to write the core file when the process
> is interrupted (it's not a beautiful way of doing what I want but it
> should be ok).
Core dumps are huge. I don't know whether all the state of a process
is in one, either. You don't want to create core dumps yourself.
Define your data structures well and write procedures or methods to
dump them into a file.
mawa
--
Look at the community. Look at how fast they turn the crank. They know
how to create a desktop environment out of the middle of nowhere in
less than two years - how could there be a company not scared by this?
-- mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:32:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:36:01 -0400...
..and Bill Frisbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Notepad is just edit for Windows. Use pico, vi, emacs, or any one of the
> > other millions of editors in Linux. Most Linux editors have some features
> > that Notepad doesn't as well.
>
> VI? Come on give me a break I have used it... you cannot tell me VI is
> easier than Notepad.
If you had learned it at school, which you should have, it's easier
for you.
<g,d&r>
[schnibble]
> And linux DOES NOTHING that I need it to. Hell I have been using it since
> Slackware 1.2 (I THINK it was) and keep current running RedHat 5.2 and SuSE
> 6.0 currently. But it STILL is not for me or most people.
Chief signs of c.o.l.* whiners:
- Buy several Linux distributions because they think they all differ
wildly, don't get along with any of them, then bitch about how they
think only one Linux system is install per twenty CDs sold or such
- Make blatant overgeneralisations ("me or most people")
- Post to the wrong newsgroup.
Crosspost and Flup set.
mawa
--
MicroSoft product, BTW. Real dirty programming.
-- Henrik Clausen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Gnome Dependencies Problem
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:15:42 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:49:48 GMT...
..and David Tansley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, just got Linux 5.1 working, after much hardship...beginning to see
> that there is some truth in the saying "Linux: it's a bit odd, and
> terribly complicated"
>
> So now I'm trying to jolly up my X install with Gnome. I've dl'd every
> damn thing that the website recommends, and installed it all, and managed
> to get the list of failed dependencies down to just two items...
>
> libgnome.so.0 is required by ....
> libgnomeui.so.0 is required by .... [can't remember the packages, sorry]
>
> and I have now idea where these libs come from. Can anyone help.
> I'm a beginner...be gentle with me :)
Are you sure you have ran ldconfig after compiling and installing the
gnome-libs package?
mawa
--
And when people are thinking, we may have reason to hope.
-- Dan Mocsny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Kernel Tunables
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:17:59 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:02:08 -0500...
..and Christopher Paluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running RedHat 5.2 and I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) I just upgraded to the 2.5.5 kernel. Now when I try to run the
> Kernel Daemon Configuration from under gnome, I get the error message
> /boot/module-info.2.2.5 not found. How does one get that file created??
Hm. Did you do "make modules" and "make modules_install" when you
upgraded the kernel?
> 2) I've installed Informix on my linux box. Informix's release notes
> make recommendations about system tunables for semaphores and shared
> memory. How does one check the current values and modify them under
> Linux?
"make menuconfig" in /usr/src/linux. Then rebuild the kernel.
But always remember: you can tune a kernel, but you can't tunafish.
mawa
--
And when people are thinking, we may have reason to hope.
-- Dan Mocsny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: problems w/ tar
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:23:17 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Tue, 20 Apr 1999 05:31:20 -0500...
..and Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a file that has the extension tar.gz. So i ungzipped it but every
> time I try to get the files out of the archive (tar -x foo.tar .) it
> just sits there. Can somebody help?
You need to give it the filename with an -f argument.
tar -xf foo.tar
Otherwise, it will assume you want to have it read from standard
input.
mawa
--
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Gently down the feed
Merrily, merrily troll along
A life is what you need...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: X-Window theme for MS-Windows
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:35:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:07:37 GMT...
..and Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there are any good X-Window (KDE, Gnome,
> etc..) themes for MS-Windows to make it look more like X? ("x"
> pointer instead of an arrow, wristwatch instead of an hourglass, etc)
There is XMouse.exe, which gives you sloppy focus and auto-raise (?)
on Win32.
mawa
--
There's nobody here to see our show? I thought they all just came
dressed as empty seats!
-- Sedge Thompson, West Coast Weekend, NPR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GNOME, kde and kppp
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:15:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:13:04 -0400...
..and David T. McKEe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> "M.V. Ramana" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed GNOME 1.0 on my laptop (RH 5.2). Gnome seems to be an
> > awesome desktop (http://www.gnome.org). I am now considering unistalling
> > kde 1.0, ...
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't have an answer to your question, but I would really like to know
> your opinion on which of the two desktops you like the best and why. I have
> looked at both and they both look really good. I really like the fact that
> KDE utilizes standards such as corba, but gnome looks more polished. I may
> just get both, but any info you have would definitely help...
It's the other way around: Gnome makes heavy use of standards such as
CORBA, while KDE is more polished. Where does KDE use CORBA at the
moment?
Nowhere, AFAICS.
mawa
--
"They're expending enough energy just taking in oxygen on a daily
basis, you think they have any synaptic activity left over to devote
to Intelligent Thought?"
-- Synth F. Oberheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve D. Perkins)
Subject: X Programming
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:26:24 GMT
I know that this might sound like a very vague and GENERAL
question... but I'm interested in taking up X-window programming (or
at least exploring it on a hobby-basis... I'm aware that this kind of
thing takes years.).
However, all of my C/C++ experience has been with command-line
programs... the only GUI experience I have is with Java and it's AWT
(and even that experience wasn't too extensive).
Can anyone recommend some good "starting points" on the web
for learning about X-window application development?
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve D. Perkins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Files larger than 2 GB on Intel/Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:27:54 GMT
Arghh... why does the time-stamp on your message have to be
the year 2018?!? Does this mean that this message will remain at the
end of the queue here for the next 19 years?
Steve
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glibc2 - can't umount /usr !
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:28:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Moller wrote:
>
> Ever since upgrading my system for glibc2 I've been unable to umount
> the /usr partition - with the result that a check is forced every time
> I reboot (which does not happen very often).
>
> I've upgraded init to SysVinit-2.74 and mount to 2.8a , both linked
> against glibc2. Bash is still linked against libc.so.5.
Something you need is on the /usr partition. Make sure the new umount
binary is on /, and that the old one is either deleted or renamed (e.g.
to umount.libc5). Also ensure that libc.so.6 and glibc-2.*.so are in
/lib. My guess is that your recompiled umount ended up in
/usr/local/bin.
Mark.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux and Zip Drive
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:57:41 GMT
In article <7fjj5n$9is$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jonathan Wiens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am considering picking up a Iomega Zip 250 drive for my Linux box
(Red Hat
> 5.1, kernel 2.0.35). I would like to get the parallel port type. Is
any
> one currently using such I drive with Linux? I would like to know
before I
> go out to buy one whether or not the are very difficult to set up
under
> Linux, and whether or not I can still use my printer off the same
parallel
> port. I am relatively new to Linux and I don't know much about
> reconfiguring the kernel and the like. If anyone has any suggestions,
could
> you let me know. Thanks.
>
> Jonathan Wiens
>
>
I think I remember a howto on redhat's web page at
(http://www.redhat.com) that covers the use of the zip 250 The external
is easyer to setup than the internal I know I have the internal and
havent figured it out yet.
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From: fred anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc.advocacy
Subject: what the hell is up with www.linux.org?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:18:28 GMT
Pardon my frustration, but why is it, 8 times out of 10 I go to
http://www.linux.org/ the damn site is horribly slow or isn't even
responding? I realize it's a .org, but this is the only one I have this many
problems with. It's to the point where I don't even give that URL out to
people interested in Linux for fear that they'll lose interst or faith
waiting for the damned site.
--
anger
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From: Darren Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:47:12 -0600
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I'm talking about the free one that I signed up for on OTN. As for the linux
version I haven't heard from anyone that has received one yet.
Darren
jmsalvo wrote:
> Are you talking here about 8i that you have paid for with the technology
> tracks? Or free 8i that were available to the first 50,000 (or 5,000??)
> registrants via technet?
>
> If you're talking about 8i for the first 50,000 registrants, when exactly did
> you receive it? I registered for both NT and Linux, but have not gotten either
> one of the two, not even the NT version which came out earlier than then Linux
> version.
>
> John Salvo
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Darren Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Actually I have received 8i for our spark box and my NT machine. I received
> the one
> > for the spark about a month ago and just got the one for NT.
> > Darren
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PDF file sharing and updating
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:17:37 GMT
Greetings,
I have a linux server that has a directory of PDF formated documents. users
can browse open and read the documents just fine, here comes the BUT. These
documents are updated daily some times more than once and if a users has a
document open it can't be updated. And updates can't wait til at night when
users are not logged in, users have to see the data as it changes. any
suggestions for updating PDF documents that are open by a user ?
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From: "Remy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO with IDE & SCSI
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:40:11 +0200
See other reply...
Remy
Kissandrakis S. Gewrgios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I have an IDE with linux and a SCSI with NT4
> In the bios there is a selection for booting from IDE bus or SCSI bus
> if i install lilo on IDE MRB (and IDE bus seletion in bios) and choose
> lilo in hangs on "loading winnt" (linux boots normally)
> if i install lilo on SCSI MRB (and SCSI bus selection in bios) lilo
> hangs on LI
>
> any suggestions?
> thnx in advance
>
> Kissandrakis Georg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Subject: Re: Wanted!!!! TUX
Date: 22 Apr 1999 05:04:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
^^^^^^
> I'm surprised you found any penguins at all in the arctic. They are
> exclusively a southern hemisphere bird.
I concur. Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the
Antarctic.
David "Burma! ... why'd you say Burma? I panicked" Fox
> David Vrabel
> Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] churches on your hard disk.
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From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microtek Scanmaker 35t+
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:22:50 +1200
Dear Readers,
I have been trying to use Microtek Scanmaker 35 plus under Linux with the
Sane software package. My Microtek Scanmaker II works without any problems
whatsoever, when I use scanimage or xscanimage with Gimp.
The kernel reports the following when booting up:
*************************************************************************
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled,
parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: Microtek Model: ScanMaker 35t+ Rev: 1.40
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
*****************************************************************************
find-scanner gives the following message:
******************************************************************************
find-scanner: searching for scanners:
find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... open ok
find-scanner: found scanner "Microtek ScanMaker 35t+ 1.40" at device
/dev/scanner
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg0... open ok
find-scanner: found scanner "Microtek ScanMaker 35t+ 1.40" at device /dev/sg0
******************************************************************************
This means that the scanner is present and somehow recognised.
However scanimage gives the following error message:
*****************************************************************************
scanimage -d microtek /dev/scanner
Scanimage: open of device microtek failed: Invalid argument.
******************************************************************************
Does anybody have any idea what is going on here, or what I am doing wrong?
Does anybody have the same experience?
Any help would be much appreciated. Also many thanks to the people who answered my
query about laser printers.
Henk van der Knaap,
92 Halswell Junction Road,
Christchurch, New Zealand.
Phone/fax 64 3 3229185
Operating system is Linux Debian 2.1
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My e-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ld fucks up
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:31:26 GMT
hi,
I recently installed RedHat linux on my home computer. when i try to
use ld to link something it says it can't find the file crt0.o; any
ideas anyone?
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From: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: I want an OS written
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:17:28 +0200
Stefan Lingdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For something similiar, check out Qnx's demo disk at
> http://www.qnx.com/iat/index.html. It includes suport for dial-up
> Internet connection, web browsing, and even includes a web server
> (and a lot more)! Pretty amazing IMHO.
>
> /Stefan
Tried it. Did not recognize my mouse (Ligiteh bus mouse), nor my ethernet
card (ISA Ethernet Ultra).
Rene.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting windows NTFS drive
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:17:45 -0600
Donovan Young wrote:
> Running redhat 5.1, when I try to mount my 2 gig drive with a single
> 2 gig NTFS partition on it from windows NT 4.0 I get a segmentation
> fault. I use "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mountpoint". Anybody know
> anything on this?
Your mount statement is telling the mount command to mount
the partition as an "msdos" filesystem but your description
states it is an NTFS filesystem. Is this perhaps the source
of the problem?
If so, I suspect you may need to build in NTFS support for
your linux system, which, IIRC is still in an "experimental"
read-only stage and may require a newer kernel than the
2.0.34 kernel your message header indicates you're using.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5 question
Date: 22 Apr 1999 00:15:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Bryant wrote:
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> What is it that keeps causing this, do I have too many drivers
> configured in config?
Yes. (Of course, modularized ones don't count.)
> Is there any way that I can get zImage to compile?
Even if you could, it wouldn't boot. What good would that be?
> Or do I have to resort to using bzImage?
Why not try it? Treat it like "zImage"; see if it works.
> If I have to stay with bzImage,
> how do I add the module(s) for my sound card?
Figure out which module your system needs. Put
alias char-major-14 MY_SOUND_MODULE
options MY_SOUND_MODULE io=MY_IO irq=MY_IRQ dma=MY_DMA
into /etc/modules.conf, where MY_SOUND_MODULE is "sb" or
"cs4232" or whatever, and the options are whatever you
would input when configuring unmodularized sound support.
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Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Wanted: Linux replacements for VAJ and Quicken
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:54:37 -0400
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2) Quicken (On-Line account management using TOnline/BTX)
search for cbb, can handle basic checking/creditcard type accounts,
graphing etc, but no online account mgmt.
--
Tom Evans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drake)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:54:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>Windows 95/98 is a perfect example of the push for consistency at the
>expense of efficiency.
I'd have to add the word 'maximum' in front of efficiency there. Windows
is designed for the average user, and the interface is quite successful at
bringing an average individual up to something close to his peak
efficiency fairly quickly.
Most people have no interest in hitting absolute peak efficiency.
They just want to get something done.
>It makes far more sense to me to allow people
>to choose designs that work best for them. I use emacs and not vi
>because I like the emacs operational design and I don't like the vi
>operational design. In the WinDOS environment, I have almost no
>choice among editors because they're all designed to work the same way
I have to see that as a failure of the editor designers. Windows does
have recommended standardization, and makes it easier to design
a standard app than one that works differently, but it in no way
enforces this. An interface could be designed in any way desired
under Windows, and many apps do use alternative methods
(mostly alternative GUI interfaces, but anything is possible)
There are VI clones for Windows as well (can't recommend one;
VI is not my idea of a good editor. But to each his own).
>- -- the fact that it's a crappy & inefficient way of working was not
>allowed to get in the way of the push for `consistency.' So, you can
>do your work the same inefficient way in about 14 different programs.
>Whoopee.
It does tend to focus applications into certain behaviors; so does the
Mac interface. There is a certain value (for most people) in commonality.
>mp
>
>powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997
>- --
>Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
> "Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
Steve the Baptist? Nahh!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sherwin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Vfat and Redhat 5.2
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:06:17 GMT
Sorry guys, you're right. I knew vfat fat16 support was in kernel
2.0.36 but I wasn't sure if fat32 was. In fact I now think it was
introduced in 2.0.35.
Best regards, Paul
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:06:47 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Help choosing distribution
Chris Costello wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jik- wrote:
> > David M. Cook wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:04:04 -0400, Nathan Ranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >For me, however, a 15 year UNIX veteran, Slakware Rulez. RedHat and
> > > >Debian do to much for me. *I* want to write those rc.local files. *I*
> > > >can do *MY OWN* kill -9s and kill -1s!!!
> > >
> > > How does Redhat or Debian prevent you from doing this?
> >
> >
> > Well, why install all the extra crap if you don't want to use it?
> > Besides, both RedHat and Debian use that idiotic SysV style (or
> > whatever) rc setup with those insideous start/stop scripts which are 10
> > times slower then simple runlevel files like Slackware has.
>
> If you want to use a BSD-style system, why not go all the way
> and use FreeBSD? Its general organization is the best I've seen
> out of any OS ever. It doesn't mix local packages with system
> packages, it has the ports system (http://www.freebsd.org/ports),
> which is, IMO, one of the neatest things since writable media.
>
> Flame all you want...
I never really got past the install procedure in FreeBSD. It was just a
little to large and messy for my tastes, sort of like I find Debian. I
would try out one of the other *BSD systems but I don't understand their
fdisk program so I would really be out of my league...maybe when I get a
larger harddrive I will try them again, but for now I really like
Slackware and don't see why I should have to switch.
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yesterday's Date
Date: 21 Apr 1999 17:51:01 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig MacDonald) writes:
-> Is it possible to get yesterday's date on linux? Subtracting 1 from
-> today's date is OK unless today is the 1st of the month.
david@solo:~ > date -d yesterday
Tue Apr 20 17:48:50 EDT 1999
man date
date --help
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| mailers, aka spammers.
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An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
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