Linux-Misc Digest #965, Volume #19 Tue, 27 Apr 99 19:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Parallel zip support? (David Pendell)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (jik-)
Re: WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel (Bill Unruh)
adns - alternative resolver library 0.1 ALPHA released (Ian Jackson)
Re: Parallel zip support? (jik-)
Re: VFAT FileSystem corrupted by CIH!!! Help ( Expert Only ) (Joachim Feise)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Stefaan A
Eeckels)
Re: Burning playable music CD's (Eric Potter)
/sound command for an irc client? (Turpin Rob)
Re: OK... READ THIS (George Elting)
RST Sequence Number (SYN flood) (Michael Jeffry Donahoo)
Re: Burning playable music CD's (Brandon)
Re: S.u.S.E news group (Nitin Borwankar)
Re: how to dock apps with windowmaker ? ("Svend S. Sorensen")
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Richard E.
Hawkins Esq.)
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:37:15 -0500
From: David Pendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel zip support?
Yes it does. I believe there is a HOWTO for it. Also you need to compile
you kernel to support parallel storage devices.
d.p.
David J. Topper wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm planning on buying a new PC sometime soon and would like to back up
> everything on my little P100. Does the 2.0.30 kernel support zip drives
> attached via paralell port?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> DT
> --
> David Topper
> Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
> Programmer Analyst - School of Arts and Sciences
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
> (804) 924-6887
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:15:21 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
hellraiser wrote:
>
> the reason communism will fail tho, is because every human always wants
> more... humans are greedy beings
>
> in conclusion, all governments suck... so, i'll have to agree with
> anarchy
Nah, anarchy would fail for the same reasons,...but it is the only
absolute.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel
Date: 27 Apr 1999 19:58:31 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Pendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Why should I have to go spend another $50 bucks so that I can upgrade
??? Redhat Linux is free. Download it from www.redhat.com or from the
1000 or so mirror sites or buy a cdrom from places like
www.cheapbytes.com for $2.00.
The $50 is for installation support and the manual.
>something that should be upgradable to begin with. It's all Linux and as
>far as I am concerned I should be able to run any kernel that I want to.
Yes, and when you use a kernel for which the product was not designed,
you can expect to have problems.
>Besides why should I buy a product that comes from a history 'dead
>ends'? As for my reasons for upgrading what difference does it make. I
What dead end? Redhat still supports 4.2 for example-- see all the
updates.
A new kernel is not a trivial change and can break lots of things. Major
kernel changes interact with the rest of the system through different
system calls, etc. Why do you expect it to be trivial?
>have some good reasons for upgrading and that is all that matters.
Well, perhaps, and that is fine. However I have seen too many people
upgrade, just because it is there, and then complain that the upgrade
was not trivial. If you have to upgrade, or if the upgrade has things
you need, that is fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson)
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.announce,gnu.g++.announce,alt.sources.d
Subject: adns - alternative resolver library 0.1 ALPHA released
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:11:41 +0100 (BST)
The first public release of adns, 0.1 ALPHA, is now available.
adns is an advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS stub
resolver library for C (and C++) programs. For a full list of
features and benefits, see the adns www page, listed below.
This release is made available for review and testing.
Unfortunately there is no documentation yet, but experienced
programmers should find the commented public API header file
comprehensible.
For more information, including details of the adns mailing lists,
full documentation on-line and the distribution files, visit
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/
adns is also available via the GNU FTP site and its mirrors, listed
below. 0.1 ALPHA should be available at most mirrors by now.
If you have queries, please join the adns-discuss mailing list in
preference to mailing the author. Thank you.
MD5 checksum:
6494f475485c7444736022f4d38e1257 adns-0.1.tar.gz
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Here are the mirrored ftp sites for the GNU Project, listed by country:
A possibly more up-to-date list is at the URL
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United States:
California - labrea.stanford.edu/pub/gnu, gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU
Hawaii - ftp.hawaii.edu/mirrors/gnu
Illinois - uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/gnu (Internet address 128.174.5.14)
Kentucky - ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/gnu
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New York - ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep
Ohio - ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/mirror/gnu
Tennessee - ftp.skyfire.net/pub/gnu
Virginia - ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu
Washington - ftp.nodomainname.net/pub/mirrors/gnu
Africa:
South Africa - ftp.sun.ac.za/gnu
The Americas:
Brazil - ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu
Canada - ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu
Chile - ftp.inf.utfsm.cl/pub/gnu (Internet address 146.83.198.3)
Costa Rica - sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/GNU
Mexico - ftp.uaem.mx/pub/gnu
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Australia - archie.au/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet)
Australia - ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/gnu
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Czech Republic - ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/gnu/
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Ireland - ftp.ieunet.ie/pub/gnu (Internet address 192.111.39.1)
Netherlands - ftp.eu.net/gnu (Internet address 192.16.202.1)
Netherlands - ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu
Netherlands - ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu (Internet address 131.155.70.19)
Norway - ftp.ntnu.no/pub/gnu (Internet address 129.241.11.142)
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Spain - ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/gnu
Sweden - ftp.isy.liu.se/pub/gnu
Sweden - ftp.stacken.kth.se
Sweden - ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/gnu
Sweden - ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.238.127.3)
Also mirrors the Mailing List Archives.
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United Kingdom - ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.88.203.12)
United Kingdom - unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/gnu
United Kingdom - ftp.warwick.ac.uk (Internet address 137.205.192.14)
United Kingdom - SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu (Internet address 193.63.255.4)
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:26:20 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel zip support?
David J. Topper wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm planning on buying a new PC sometime soon and would like to back up
> everything on my little P100. Does the 2.0.30 kernel support zip drives
> attached via paralell port?
Read the zip howtos.
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: VFAT FileSystem corrupted by CIH!!! Help ( Expert Only )
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:34:50 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My company PC with M$ OS was infected by CIH virus on 26th, I still trying
> to recover all those harddisk which lossing partition.
First, you have to expect this when running Windoze.
>
> I successfully recover a harddisk which 3 partitions with using fdisk (
> linux ) & ndd ( norton ) and get back the 3 partitions. but problem was
> happen on the first partition which have been recovered, I can see the
> directories and files inside this partition, and I try to copy all this
> files to other partition or floppy, I will get the all the files with
> 32,768k in size ( all the files with less than 32,768k was fine ), I did try
> using linux to copy ( cp ), the error " input/output error " appear.
>
> Firstly, I recover partition 2 & 3 with ndd or ndd /rebuild, and that time I
> couldn't get the first partition until I using linux fdisk to force created
> and new "dos >=32M" partition then I managed to recover it by using ndd to
> corrected the partition, but then the problem I mension above happen.
>
> Anybody, know how can it be recover ? because it really important for us.
Second, if you got to the point where ndd does not help anymore, you probably
have to inspect each file with the disk editor and determine which files belong
together. You get the 32k file size because that is the cluster size on your FAT
partition.
Third, if your data is really important, you should probably contact one of the
data recovery houses. They are very expensive, but sometimes the data is worth
it. Your call.
Fourth, if your data is important, you should have made backups.
Fifth, run a virus checker in the background, if you need to run Windoze at all.
Sixth, this is a Linux news group.
-Joe
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As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: 26 Apr 1999 13:33:34 GMT
In article <7g1mt5$i1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows) writes:
> There is one other difference - a higher rate of miscarriage since YY
> is not genetically viable IIRC. This might not be noticeable though,
> since I think the failure would happen at a very early stage.
I believe an ovum cannot have a Y chromosome (but I know nothing
about human gametes, so salt liberally). What is a fact though
is that nature is pretty good at diagnosing genetic anomalies, and
most non-viable combinations/mutations are aborted in early
pregnancy. Most often the woman only notices a late period.
--
Stefaan
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Saint-Exup�ry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Subject: Re: Burning playable music CD's
Date: 27 Apr 1999 16:52:34 GMT
Alan Burns enlightened this group thus:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Robear wrote:
>
>>When you record the Audio CD, 99% of the time it should be recorded at 1X. I
>>haven't had a problem with recording at 2X, but it is not advisable.
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but........ hogwash. :-) That's just an
> old Internet myth. The bits are exactly the same no matter whether they're
> written at 1x or 2x. I've been burning at least a disc one day for the last 2
> years, and not a single one has ever demonstrated any problems from being
> recorded at more than 1x.
>
> The vast majority of those problems are caused by something besides the
> recording speed.
This is indeed true. From my experience, most clicks and other noises occur
during the audio extraction. This is caused by extracting the audio files at
too great a speed on flakey hardware, and can be alleviated to a great degree
by extracting the audio files at a lower speed.
--
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*^ / \ \ | \
/ \/ \ \__| \
/ / ^ \ \
/ \ \ Eric Potter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Turpin Rob)
Subject: /sound command for an irc client?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 17:47:54 GMT
I've recently been using the /sound command with mirc quite a bit. I was wondering if
any irc
client for linux supports this command. Thanks for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Elting)
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.sybase,comp.forsale.computers,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.sys.su
Subject: Re: OK... READ THIS
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:01:25 GMT
Here's one...
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:12:38 GMT, "ASH"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you can read this post a reply to the news group please...
>just a couple will do.....
>Thanks
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Jeffry Donahoo)
Subject: RST Sequence Number (SYN flood)
Date: 27 Apr 1999 17:47:37 -0400
Hi! I am playing with SYN flood under Linux. I want to send a TCP RST to
the half-open connections in the SYN_RECV state to free them up. Unfortunately,
it appears that I must have the correct sequence number for RST TCP packet;
otherwise, it is ignored. How do I get this information from the kernel?
It would be nice if netstat could return sequence # information.
Any and all help is appreciated,
Jeff
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Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0280
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: GCATT, 2nd Floor
Work: (404) 894-6735 Lab: (404) 876-3209 x124
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:37:13 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burning playable music CD's
So far no one (although one person came close) has established the real
problem here for not being able to play cdrws in a cd player. CDRs work
b/c they reflect more light. CDRWs don't reflect as much light which
since any CD device uses a laser the drive/player can't read the
difference between pits and mountains b/c the amount of light they
reflect isn't great enough for a drive/player to tell the difference
between them. Most of the time, if not all the time, you will notice
that the player doesn't even recognize that a CDRW is in the tray so
therefore it wouldn't , and it couldn't, read/play the cd.
You can play the CDRW in the CDRW drive b/c the CDRW drive has a laser
made to read the little amount of light that CDRWs reflect. Most audio
cd players weren't designed to play CDRWs b/c most weren't made when
people used CDRWs to put audio on. Some CDROM drives can't read them
either b/c of the same reason: they weren't made with CDRW
compatibility in mind.
So the reason why the original poster couldn't get any sound from a CDRW
in an audio cd player is b/c the player couldn't detect the little
amount of light that the cd was reflecting. The other reasons could
come into play of course but obviously not in this case b/c he said it
plays fine in his CDRW drive. Also if anyone cares CDRWs dont' work in
a Playstation either b/c the Playstation doesn't have a sensitive enough
laser.
Brandon
jik- wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I'm using Sony's so far with success, and I've also
> > heard bad things about Imation from an acquaintance of mine.
> >
> > >On that subject,....I think the CD-Writing HOWTO needs to be updated, I
> > >could help.....would be nice if it had a list of good vs. bad brands of
> > >media for both kinds of disk.
> >
> > Well...those sorts of things can be hard to measure accurately;
> > maybe Imation is bad, but maybe a couple people got a bad batch,
> > etc. I think the HOWTOs should stick to the facts.
>
> Imation disks seem to function ok, but I think that maybe being able to
> chip off the data in your CD-R is a bad thing.....a simple scratch to an
> Imation CD and all your data will simply flake right off the disk.
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: Nitin Borwankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: S.u.S.E news group
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:37:50 -0700
There is also a linux.* hierarchy
and there's a linux.debian.* one under it.
linux.suse.* makes sense.
Nitin
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> It was the Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:16:55 GMT...
> ..and graffito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well is seems that their is a newsgroup out there for every distribution
> > except S.u.S.E., unless I'm wrong. If this is the case than who would be
> > interest in make a case for a newsgroup for SuSE users.
> >
> > I've never done this so it their are some experience newsgroup types who
> > know how to get a new newsgroup started that would be helpful.
>
> It should be easy to have such a newsgroup created in the alt.*
> hierarchy. If you manage to get that one through, maybe one could try
> to create a comp.* group for it.
>
> mawa
> --
> GIF's a toy, and a dangerous one. Document your image or get out of
> GIF.
> -- Allen Braunsdorf in comp.graphics
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From: "Svend S. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: how to dock apps with windowmaker ?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:39:35 -0700
Most windowmaker dock apps are ready to dock as soon as they are run.
Some, like wmcdplay and wmmixer, require a command line option to be
dockable. For wmcdplay and wmmixer that option is -w (for withdrawn).
The command would be "wmcdplay -w". For other programs I have seen
-withdrawn. You can check the command line options with -h, -help, or
--help. After docking the app, remember to right click on its border
and set it to run when windowmaker starts.
Hope this helps.
marc* wrote:
>
> when i try to dock them they fly back at the bottom of the screen. when i
> disable the automatic arrangement of icons, they don't dock either (they
> remain where i drop them but not docked). i mean when you get this white
> shadow
>
> anybody help ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Hawkins Esq.)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: 27 Apr 1999 13:45:47 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil de Carteret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You'd have someone that looked male, but with certain female-typical
>characteristics - e.g. the various sex-linked genetic disorders like colour
>blindness would be as rare in XX males as in females.
It should be the same as in regular males--the two X are the same,
so if the defect is there, it is there twice; the rarity in females
comes from the second *independent* X.
rick
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