Linux-Misc Digest #105, Volume #20 Sat, 8 May 99 00:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Sid Boyce)
Re: Windows '98 refund ?? (hellraiser)
Re: PI in C (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Looking for partitioning advice (Jerome Mrozak)
Re: Help with compiling libraries (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Bob Nelson)
Re: mounting and unmounting cdrom (Peter Rodriguez)
Re: Ugent! Help with xv! (Kenny Zhu)
Re: Linux damaging hardware through kernel patch???? (James Youngman)
Re: A Simple Question (James Youngman)
Re: How can X be so slow? ("Mattias Dahlberg")
Re: GGI and direct buffers (Marcus Sundberg)
Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive. ("Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"")
Re: .inputrc not read in Redhat-6.0 (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive. (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: Don't Have LDCONFIG? (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to ``GNU Communism'') (hellraiser)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Jim
Richardson)
Re: tar (Wlmet)
Re: Problem with GTK & Glib (Hans Wolters)
Re: Another problem (John Holmes)
Re: QT Library Problems (Hans Wolters)
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Wlmet)
Re: Redhat 6.0 (Samba shared printers) + Windows 2000 Professional (beta (Fred Read)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Craig Kelley)
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From: Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:51:54 -0400
Slip Gun wrote:
>
> Tom Payne wrote:
>
> > In a recent interview in IEEE's Computer magazine
> > (http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm), Ken Thompson, the
> > originator of Unix, had the following to say about Linux:
> >
> > Computer: In a sense, Linux is following in this tradition. Any
> > thoughts on this phenomenon?
> >
> > Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft; a
> > backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it
> > will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source
> > and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole
> > bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the
> > quality varies drastically.
> >
> > My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is
> > quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is
> > worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're
> > using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use
> > Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a
> > long way to go.
> >
> > Tom Payne
>
> I've not been using linux very long, but to me there seem to be several
> things wrong with what he's saying:
> 1) Linux is much more reliable than Win 9x. Linux has *never* crashed on
> me; Win98 crashes on my 686-350 64MB 2-3 times/day.
I have used Linux since it first appeared for ftp back in 1991/2 and
it's up and running 24/7 on two machines that I rely on for work. 95 on
the company's laptop has blue-wcreened twice, the experience in offices
and from colleagues is not a happy one, the crashes and viruses are a
constant worry, so most people spend a goodly slice of work time getting
the PC to work correctly.
> 2) A `whole bunch of random people' is actually a good thing. If one
> person makes something no that good, then someone else can improve it.
> Right?
Put them in suits in an office with a management structure he seems to
be advising, give deadlines, threaten them, hound them and they'll
produce, I don't think so.
> 3) Linux is a relatively new OS (only really started going 94-95).
91/92 and it's done wonders. The large corporations that use it or take
an interest in developing for it are not dummies or wasters.
> 4) The pieces of the src that are not good can be improved. See 2).
And will be improved.
> 5) I have heard of several people who have v. successful servers, etc on
> linux. It is cheaper, faster and more reliable than NT 4. Oh, and it
> cant be nuked :-).
> Ed.
It's everywhere and ever growing in stature and range. Perhaps Ken can
contribute his great skills, but critism is OK, it does act as a spur.
The top experts of the day said of Gene Amdahl and his startup company,
"They weren't very bright", "They didn't know what they were doing",
"possible, but not in this century", these were the kinder comments, so
I think the Linux developers are in solid gold company and the experts
of today have ample space reserved for them by their predecessors.
Regards
--
... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(Europe)...44-121 422 0375
Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent
the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation.
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From: hellraiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows '98 refund ??
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:25:14 -0400
linuxmall.com has an entire page containing alot of information on how
to obtain a refund, and the stories of those who succeeded. i'm trying
to get a refund for windows 95 as we speak, and gateway is actually
cooperating somewhat...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: PI in C
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 19:26:37 GMT
If it's of any interest, I have a C program that
computes 'e' (the base of natural logarithms)
to 5000 decimal places.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 07 May 1999 22:03:17 GMT
Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>snip<
:> Most of the Linux world seems to be pushing for a better
:> Windows/desktop replacement and is driven by a strong anti-WinTel
:> motive. Witness KDE developers openly stating that not only are
:> they in no way X or Unix programmers, they don't think they should
:> have to be.
:
: I would love to see where you read that. I have never seen it and I am
: involved with KDE since quite a while.
kde-look and comp.windows.x.kde
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My code is filled with comments! It's just that my comments are
written in Perl.
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Looking for partitioning advice
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:21:24 -0500
I've a laptop with a 2G HD. I'm planning on reserving a .5G and a .2G
partition for Win95, and devote the rest to a Linux distribution which
uses the 2.2+ kernel.
I'm considering the following partition, and am looking for advice on
improving it:
Total available = 2063
hda1 == Windows C: vfat 500 MB
hda2 == Extended partition 1443 MB
hda3 == Linux / ext2 60 MB
hda4 == Linux /home ext2 60 MB
hda5 == Windows D: vfat 200 MB
hda6 == Linux swap swap 60 MB (80 MB physical RAM)
hda7 == Linux /usr ext2 1183 MB
At this point, I think I'm confused -- where does the system put /var,
/tmp, /etc, and so on?
I have these goals in my partitioning:
1) Eat up the entire disk with partitions;
2) protect my /home from Windows FDISK. I used FDISK to remove E: from
an extended partition and FDISK also erased the Linux partitions!
3) Allow Linux to figure out for itself how much space to allocate for
its /etc, /var, and so on, directory trees.
TIA,
Jerome.
--
Jerome Mrozak
- Sun Certified Java Developer & Programmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Help with compiling libraries
Date: 7 May 1999 20:33:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7gus98$81r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi I've been using mandrake 5.3 for about two months. I'm having trouble
> compiling certain programs, I've installed all the libraries, I don't have any
> problems when compiling a new kernel but when I try to compile things like
> ksamba or some of the mp3 encoders I end up having to search for the *.h
> include files because there in the wrong spot or the programs are looking for
> them in the wrong spot I'm not sure which. So I end up with a bunch of
> different folders with the same *.h files. Is this normal?
No. You need to figure out how to coerce the compiler (or some other
appropriate build tool) to look in the appropriate directories. The
compiler uses the "-I/path/to/include/directory" flag for this purpose.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Bob Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: 7 May 1999 20:56:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <7gv627$m9l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Payne wrote:
>>
>>In a recent interview in IEEE's Computer magazine
>>(http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm), Ken Thompson, the
>>originator of Unix, had the following to say about Linux:
> Lots about that on ./
>> Computer: In a sense, Linux is following in this tradition. Any
>> thoughts on this phenomenon?
>>
>> Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft; a
>> backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it
Hrumph. I wonder if Ken Thompson (if and when he does post and/or
scan the web) uses a Windows environment as does Dennis M. Ritchie.
Sad to see that the fathers of the operating system that begat Linux
have, at least partially, bought into the Microsoft mindset.
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Bob Nelson -- Dallas, Texas, USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/open-computing.html
``Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
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Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 14:21:20 +1200
From: Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting and unmounting cdrom
May I suggest that the command you should have
issued was:-
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
--
Peter Rodriguez
136, Kolmar Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny Zhu)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Ugent! Help with xv!
Date: 7 May 1999 07:30:57 GMT
So what's the solution?? How to display PS in xv??? Please let me know.
Kenny
Mark Tranchant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Yeah? My apologies.
: Mark.
: Marc Mutz wrote:
: >
: > Mark Tranchant wrote:
: > >
: > > OK - xv doesn't use Ghostscript, and it can only display and convert
: > > Postscript files if a bitmap preview is included in the file. Even so,
: > > xv only manipulates the (possibly low quality) preview, not the ps file
: > > itself.
: >
: > xv *does* use gs.
: >
: > Marc Mutz
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux damaging hardware through kernel patch????
Date: 06 May 1999 19:43:58 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
> Steve's answer was that the PC's video controller chip could be
> programmed for a range of brightnesses, with values ranging in the
> high end of the scale. However, the PC Jr.'s video controller chip
> would provide the same brightness with a much lower programmed
> value. It was dangerous to program the PC Jr.'s video controller
> using values normally used on the PC, and the game (having
> programmed the video controller as if it were a PC), caused the
> video circuitry to generate an over-voltage on the electron gun of
> the monitor. The electron gun either scanned a weak spot in the
> tube, or was focussed on a single spot for too long, and the
No, you can only do that with vector displays, not raster-scan CRTs.
> heightened voltage on the electron stream turned the electron gun
> into a *real* electron gun, burning a hole in the screen.
> The PC Jr. came with copious warnings not to run PC games on it, and
> the speculation at the time was that this video controller
> incompatability was a factor in this warning.
BIOS and hardware compatibility between the PC and PCjr was pretty
minimal.
Actually the only things you could blow up by misprogramming the 6845
were the 6845 and its votage regulator.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Simple Question
Date: 06 May 1999 19:45:32 +0100
"Wa;t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello-
> After beating my head against the wall for an hour, I'd like to pose a
> very straightforward question to linux users: how can I search a
> filesystem for files meeting a particular patten (e.g. ending with
> "sql"), which contain a particular string ("crdb")?
find / -name '*.sql' -print0 | xargs -0 grep crdb /dev/null
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From: "Mattias Dahlberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can X be so slow?
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 23:46:30 +0200
>How about on the card? How much ram have you got on the cards
>themselves?
The card has 8MB. The slowness is a complete mystery.
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus Sundberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.games.development.programming.misc
Subject: Re: GGI and direct buffers
Date: 7 May 1999 21:51:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm writing a heavy 3D graphics program, and it seems that using
> GGI direct buffer will be a simple yet fast solution. I've managed to make
> some demos work here, but there remains some questions:
>
> a) I just could make them work under X-win, but it seems that you must
> have framebuffer support in your kernel to be able to use them in svgalib.
No, SVGAlib is one thing and framebuffers are another. LibGGI can
draw just fine on both.
> I'd like to know how much experimental is it in the x86 platform.
The framebuffer support? Works quite nicely if you have a supported card.
> b) What about pixels? The demos I managed to work used RGBA order in 32
> bits, RGB in 24, but always in X. Are these orders default? What about 16
> and 8 bits oders, are they chosen by the server or I can choose whatever I
> want, like 5-6-5?
Either use ggiMapColor()/ggiPackPixels() to get pixel values,
or use ggiGetPixelFormat() to found out how pixel values should
be constructed.
> c) how to use double-buffering? is it enough to set ggi_mode->frames = 2
> and use ggiSetDisplayFrame?
Yes, that's all that's needed. But see below about portability.
> d) any comments about portability/speed?
Well, about speed I'd like to quote one of the Clanlib (a Game SDK)
developers on LibGGI: "On X it's faster than our native X
implementation, and on fbdev it's as fast as the native code."
LibGGI is also quite portable (currently the only non-ANSI C features
which are required are basicly dlopen() and select(). The former
requirement will go away when we start using libltdl, and the latter
as LibGGI are ported to platforms which doesn't use filedescriptors
(like win32)), it has been tested on both 32 and 64 bit platforms,
and on big and little endian architectures, and it has been verified
to work on at least Linux, Digital Unix, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris.
For exactly that reason it's important to make applications portable
too. Some basic hints for LibGGI apps:
* Support at least 8/16/24/32 bit modes.
* Don't hardcode mode parameters like virtual size - use GGI_AUTO
wherever possible.
* Try to support as many resolutions as possible. Ideally you should
support all possible resolutions. If your code has special
requirements for resolutions you can always use the next higher
resolution and just center the image.
* If you want to use doublebuffering - good, but don't forget to
also support targets that can only handle one frame.
* Never make any assumptions about what value a color have in a
particular mode (not even for black!) - use ggiMapColor/ggiPackPixels
or ggiGetPixelFormat().
* Use DirectBuffer for speed when it's available, but also support
a fallback for targets which doesn't have direct access to the
framebuffer.
* Switch over to ASYNC mode with ggiSetFlags() right after ggiOpen().
ASYNC mode is faster than SYNC mode, and also works better.
* Don't make _any_ assumptions about the size of char, short, int and
long (except what's stated in the ANSI C spec ofcourse...). If your
code depends on integers of a special size, use [us]int8/16/32.
//Marcus
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From: "Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"" <*****@ix.netcom.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive.
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 17:12:23 -0400
>Ed, you didn't say whether you are trying to install Linux, or trying to
>boot Linux after you have already finished most of the install. You
>also didn't say which version of RedHat you are using -- I will assume
>RedHat 5.2.
>
Sorry, I'm running 5.2. It is already installed and I'm booting from the
floppy. Everything works, but i need to boot from a floppy.
>If you have already installed Linux, but you can't boot from the hard
>drive (only from the diskette), write down any error codes that are
>displayed, and be sure to note exactly which letter it stops on (L, LI,
>LIL, etc.). Then, if you can access the CD-ROM from a DOS machine, read
>\live\usr\doc\lilo-0.20\README, which documents what is causing the
>error.
>
I did this already and I can't seem to make heads or tails out of it.
Thanks
>Typical problems are that your /boot partition is not entirely below the
>1023rd cylinder of your hard drive (it must be); or that you have placed
>the kernel on a drive the BIOS can't access (an IDE drive that is not on
>the primary chain -- IDE0 hda, hdb -- or a SCSI drive that is not SCSI
>ID 0 or 1).
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: .inputrc not read in Redhat-6.0
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:04:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Keightley wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed that ~/.inputrc isn't read by programs that
>use readline, e.g. bash in Readhat-6.0?
>Is this a know bug, or is it just me?
It is just you 8) ... nah, how does it look like ? Settings can be
make application specific and if set up such that only the shell and so on ...
Just an idea, no RH
Juergen
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive.
Date: 07 May 1999 07:50:17 -0700
this has been well documented in the HOWTO's.
-ckm
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Don't Have LDCONFIG?
Date: 07 May 1999 07:47:46 -0700
check your path--ldconfig usually lives in /sbin or /usr/sbin.
-ckm
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
Date: 07 May 1999 07:44:48 -0700
it's libc5 based, but they include runtime glibc libraries. I imagine
their new one is glibc.
-ckm
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From: hellraiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to ``GNU Communism'')
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:44:18 -0400
"Joshua E. Rodd" wrote:
>
> Ed Avis wrote:
> > Joshua E. Rodd wrote:
> > >Big deal. I ran NT 3.51 on a PS/2 Model 65 SX (8560-061) with 8MB
> > >of memory.
> > And I once ran OS/2 Warp version 3 on a PS/2 E (9533) with 4MB of
> > RAM. So there. :-)
>
> As did I. It had the faster 120MB disk, though.
>
> (I ran OS/2 on the aforementioned 65 SX when it had 4MB as well,
> and that was with OS/2 2.0 with the 16-bit GRE, which made
> NT 3.51's video system look fast.)
heheh, it's funny how conversations about some topic degrade into
converations or arguments (sometimes many seperate ones) about things
having nothing to do with the subject. someone will post a message
starting a large thread about something like 'why i use vi over emacs'
(*cough* not that i'm imposing anything *cough*) and 1 month later
you'll see the thread pop up again out of nowhere with a subject along
the lines of 'Re: why Joe Bob is a moron for using vi (Re: why emacs
sucks (returning to 'advantages of vi')) Re: why i use vi over emacs'
and they'll be talking about someone's pet cat or about where to buy
good screwdrivers or something.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 8 May 1999 03:16:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 06 May 1999 15:10:00 GMT,
Marco Anglesio, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>On Wed, 05 May 1999 23:02:49 -0700, jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Boy, you must not read much....." not because literacy is in and of
>>itself an intrinsic good. To an individual, being able to read really
>>isn't,"
>
>I'm not sure. Why don't you open a dictionary, look up "intrinsic", and
>report back to the class.
>
>Sarcasm aside, does the ability to read give you pleasure, or does the
>wide availability of books which you can read give you pleasure? I suspect
>that it's the latter. While it may seem like a trivial distinction, it
>really isn't; books are produced, like any consumer product, to satisfy
>demand.
>
sarcasm aside, I derive far more pleasure from being able to read english,
than from the wide availability of books in french, which I can't read.
>m.
>
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>> | The further I get <
>> Marco Anglesio | from the things I care about <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The less I care <
>> http://www.the-wire.com/~mpa | how much further away I get <
>> | --Robert Smith <
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www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wlmet)
Subject: Re: tar
Date: 8 May 1999 03:28:54 GMT
>Can somebody please tell me how to unzip programs compressed inside
>tar.gz files??
>Please help,
>Ryan
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
$tar xvzf file.tar.gz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: Problem with GTK & Glib
Date: 7 May 1999 23:26:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and wrote the following ....
>I have a Rethad 5.2 system with the following libraries
>installed:
[snap]
>And I am trying to install glib-1.2.1 and gtk+-1.2.1
.................
Hi Jason, get the rpm packages from www.gtk.org (or a miror) and install both
the gtk + glib packages with the rpm -ivh option. This will allow you to run
both the older software as well as the newer ones. Upgrade the dev packages.
Regards Hans Wolters
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From: John Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Another problem
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:15:59 +0900
John van der Zanden wrote:
> Under xwindows the RPM manager was available. I don't know what happened but
> it is gone. Can someone tell me how to get it back under Xwindows that is ??
>
> Thanx
>
> John
The Red Hat package manager (glint) gets replaced by a package called gnorpm.
This is now
your package manager. At first I did not like it but it has grown on me and now
I don't want
to go back to glint. You can launch it from the start button (with the foot) by
choosing
System -> gnorpm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: QT Library Problems
Date: 7 May 1999 23:31:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and wrote the following ....
[snap]
>checking for QT... configure: error: QT-1.3 (headers and libraries) not
>found. Please check your installation!
There are a few things which you will have to configure. If you have a bash
shell the put the following lines in you /etc/profile (system wide solution).
Be sure to get the latest qt version (1.42 as far as I know)
***********************************************************
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt (or whatever path I has)
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$QTDIRT/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH LIBRARY_PATH
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
************************************************************
For the other shells check the docs.
>Thanks kindly once again,
Hope it helps, .... again ;)
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wlmet)
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: 8 May 1999 03:33:32 GMT
>more and no less. I don't think it
>
>H
Ritchie is interested in in Linux. I read a review of his earlier.
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From: Fred Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0 (Samba shared printers) + Windows 2000 Professional (beta
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 03:34:41 GMT
I too have been having a hard time getting printer sharing to work. I had it
working in two minutes in RH5.2, but something's different in 6.0 I guess.
I have a Deskjet 600 on a RH6 box that will print just fine from the local
host, but not from my NT workstation! The file shares are working like a charm
for me. It's using the encrypted passwords and everything. Did you do anything
different to get it up and going when you were still in NT4?
Bleh wrote:
> I have an Epson Stylus COLOR II hooked up to my Linux server. I have it
> shared in Samba, and I was able to add it as a printer in Windows NT
> Workstation before I went to the -released- Windows 2000 Pro Beta 3. Now I
> try and add the shared printer, and it says "unable to connect to shared
> printer...". I have the file shares mounted as drives, so I know Samba
> itself is working. I can also print a testpage fine with Redhat's
> printtool.
>
> What's up with that?
>
> p.s. - It also seems that Samba freezes from time to time (well, according
> to Windows) and won't list files on the shares for like a couple minutes at
> a time.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 May 1999 20:25:02 -0600
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >If software copyrights were abolished the industry would simply and
> >easily take matters into their own hands. They would push hard for
> >copy protection to be rolled into the hardware. They would require
> >downloading of "tokens" from the net to allow software to work etc.
>
> But it would be an easy matter to modify the software so that it
> didn't require such 'tokens'. Even if the software were binary-only,
> a 'crack' would not be too difficult.
Not if your CPU had a unique ID. Give them the ID, they compute a
hash of some sort and the software can verify it all.
[snip]
Let them do it. See how many users jump ship just like rats (both in
terms of buying NON-Intel CPUs and NON-Copyrighted software).
--
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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