Linux-Misc Digest #264, Volume #20 Wed, 19 May 99 19:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Panasonic CD-R 7502 not supported ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: car mp3 player (brian moore)
Re: Help with configuring e-mail? ("Anders Gulden Olstad")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Mark Forsyth)
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Stuart Fox")
New Linux Forum ("SEATTLE")
Re: netscape + java (Daniel Kollar)
Re: GNU has the sweet smell of Freedom of expression (Chris Costello)
Re: creating RH 6.0 CD - Part II (Rod Smith)
Re: Gnus/vim? [was: best offline newsreader?] (Bud Rogers)
Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
(Bob Tennent)
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page (gus)
* * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test (Paul Gregg)
Re: possible to burn Mac Bootable with xcdroast? (Rod Smith)
Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page ("Chris")
Re: imblib - libpng (NF Stevens)
Re: In defence of UNIX man pages (Charles E Taylor IV)
Partition problems ("E B+S Prof. Dr. F. F. Branco-Porto Santo")
Looking for FREE Java IDE builder (Al Dev)
installing new driver on ghostscript (benjamin)
Re: ISDN Modem recommendations (Nick Birkett)
Re: How to grow my dos partition ("muzh")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Panasonic CD-R 7502 not supported ?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:26:49 GMT
Hi all,
I have a pb with a panasonic CD-R. When I enter this command :
cdrecord dev=6,0 -inq, I get this result :
Cdrecord release 1.8a19 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '6,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 6 lun: 0
Device type : Removable unsupported
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 '
Revision : '4.16'
Device seems to be: unknown.
It seems this is a pb of my scsi adapter (AHA 2920). Could someone
confirm me this or tell me how to solve this pb ?
Thanks in advance
Fabien
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: 19 May 1999 20:25:46 GMT
On Wed, 19 May 1999 19:35:51 GMT,
rs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13 May 1999 16:04:06 GMT, David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I'm looking into constructing an mp3 player for my car. I've searched the
> >web, but come up with lots of useless (for me) info. Basically, what I'm
> >looking for is a linux mp3 program that I can use for the playing. It
> >should support keypad control, and ideally, output to an LCD screen. Does
> >anyone have any pointers. If not, where can I get info on writing one
> >myself? Thanks.
> >
> >David Bilbey
> Oh and I almost forgot, I am starting on a new project to use a linux
> kernel on a floppy which expands into a ramdisk to include the MPG123
> player, the sound card module, and the code for the joystick and LCD.
>
> Any help, suggestions, or info for getting started on such an endeavor
> is greatly appreciated
Should be simple. Look on Sunsite, er, Metalab for the various
'cramdisk' kits. I keep a floppy around with a kernel that supports
3c509 and NE2000 nics, a serial port and includes Lynx and Minicom.
Great when you're stuck using someone's broken computer and just want a
proper terminal program. (And, yes, Hyperterm sucks.)
The cramdisk package has all the information you need to make your own
cramdisk, including choosing what files to put on it.
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From: "Anders Gulden Olstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with configuring e-mail?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:55:48 +0200
Anders Gulden Olstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, sendmail should disguise all mail from you as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^^^^^^^
concentric.net I mean, sorry.
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From: Mark Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:55:35 +1000
Hmmm. I think the point is being somewhat missed here.
Seems to me that the benchmark testers haven't told us what the test
consists of. ie. The software in question, thye hardware it is to run on
and any special settings applied to either hardware or software.
Software
includes operating system here. If we knew everything about the test
they could run NT on whiz bang hardware with whiz bang tweaks agains
apache on a 286 with 1 meg of ram and a 10 meg H/D and we could STILL
make valid comparisons. By revealing NOTHING of teh platform specs or
anything else apart from the results the publishers have rendered what
may well have been a usefull comparison totally meaningless.
Just my 2 bobs worth
Mark F...
TRG Software : Tim Greer wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Did any of your guys look at the webbechmark posted by PC
> > magazine?Below is the URL
> > http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2256617,00.html
>
> Did you hear about the "Windows defeats Unix platforms in every test and
> medium!"? Posted in the Feb. issue of 'Windows Monthly'.
>
> > In this, it stated that NT4 and IIS is the best web platform today,
>
> In who's opinion? And for what? ASP applications?
>
> > with "Leading performance, excellent programmability and wideest variety
> > of third party addons".
>
> Add-ons that cost you THOUSANDS! Act today! How much is MySQL on
> Windows? And how much is it for Linux (for example)? Let's see, a few
> hundred dollars, or FREE. How much is Linux? How much is Windows? How
> much are most things for most Unix variants? How much are most things
> for Windows versions?
>
> > Contraray to common belive, it says IIS
> > outperformances other webserver(apache, netscape enterprise server) when
> > load increased!!
>
> With that applications, and tested by whom? And moreover, what was the
> Unix system running, and what was the Windows system running? What was
> each CPU and RAM and how was each set up? I would bet the Windows system
> was tweaked in a wonderful manner, but the Unix? Did they have the top
> Unix systems and sys admins tweak the Unix boxes in the same way they
> got the top Windows sys admins to tweak the Windows box?
>
> > At the end of this article, it goes on to explain that, IIS's leading
> > performance(can you believe it???)
>
> No, I don't. But I do admit with all those "dummy" plug-ins/add-ons,
> etc. (the one's that cost the hundreds and/or thousands of $$$) so all
> the E-commerce servers that have MS Access and other "you don't need to
> teach your employees how to program or think" type interfaces do make a
> difference. That's understandable from a business point of view, saves
> you money for training, but it's made up for in the cost of the addons
> to your business's systems and how much you're paying for things on an
> NT server, as opposed to not paying as much to use similar tools on a
> Unix, but not have a drag-n-drop dummy interface.
>
> > Then how come
> > the crappy IIS outperforms my beloved Apache?
>
> It doesn't. How any ISP's (real one's) run NT, and how many run Unix?
> There's a reason.
>
> > Is it true to some extent
> > or is it just another FUD???
>
> The word for today, is "FUD". :-)
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:25:12 +1200
>
> I was once involved with a project that used IIS as the webserver. It
> took 40 seconds to serve a 2K file over a LAN. The NT sys admins spend
> weeks trying to fix the problem. Eventually they gave up and switched
> to an earlier version of IIS.
Seems to me that it wasn't a fault with the product, it was a fault with the
sysadmins...
My suggestion: Get new admins
Stu
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From: "SEATTLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Linux Forum
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:39:37 -0600
Lockergnome has set up a Linux Forum @
Lockergnome.os.misc
Check the news group listing
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From: Daniel Kollar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape + java
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:04:57 +0200
Ron Olsen wrote:
>
> Change the 'catalogue' section of your /etc/X11/fs/config from this:
>
> to this:
>
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
It works!
I forgot to add the comma after "Speedo".
Thank you very much for solving my problem!!! :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU has the sweet smell of Freedom of expression
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:18:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Costello wrote:
> That wasn't sarcastic. I was asking why FreeBSD (something
> you don't pay for) is invalid.
Whoops. That was stupid. Not only was my sarcasm detector
broken, I missed a word here and there. Great, isn't it?
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Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: creating RH 6.0 CD - Part II
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:33:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7hstni$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bob Cunius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi,
> Earlier i posted a message asking how to make a bootable linux cd from
> files off of the internet from withing Win 98. I was having problems
> getting the linux install program to reckognize the cd. From the responses
> to my posting i was able to get linux to recognize the cd. I created a Rock
> Ridge format iso image file using the windows port of mkisofs. However i
> still cannot get linux to install. It now fails in the second stage of the
> loader. Here is the error code the linux install program gave me: error in
> exec of second stage loader :-(
> error: No such file or directory
Chances are you're missing an important file, or it may have the wrong
filename (note that case *IS* important to Linux). For more
possibilities, and for a more detailed discussion of this issue, see my
web page on the topic:
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/rhjol.html
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnus/vim? [was: best offline newsreader?]
Date: 18 May 1999 05:40:53 -0500
"Joe (theWordy) Philbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hMMMNNN emacs... (can gnus be configured to think like a vi user???)
Hmm. Given that you can program emacs, and so by extension gnus, I suppose
if you wanted it to act like vi you could make it so. On the other hand,
if you really like vi that much, you probably wouldn't want to mess with
emacs to begin with.
> Actualy I can't say I've ever tested emacs, But everything I've heard sounds
> like it expects to be everywhere at all times... which would bother me,
> after all emacs is supposed to be an editor...
A common misconception. Actually, emacs is a lisp development system
disguised as an editor.
> Which is why I ask, can I get this Gnus to use vim for all edititing
> tasks???
Sorry. Gnus is an emacs extension, written in emacs lisp. AFAIK, it only
runs inside [X]emacs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits
?????????????
Date: 19 May 1999 20:10:03 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On 19 May 1999 12:32:10 PDT, Matt O'Toole wrote:
>Has anyone seen Netscape 4.6 rpms or debs yet? Where? I'm too lazy to
>install it otherwise... plus, it's nicer to have it packaged and ready for
>an easy upgrade or uninstall if necessary..
>
rpmfind finds them; or check out rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM
Bob T.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:01:13 +0100
Roland Smith wrote:
>
> "Thomer M. Gil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Please visit the Vi Lovers Home Page.
> > Vi is *the* editor under Unix,
> > Windows 95/98/NT and many other operating systems.
>
> Tijd voor de jaarlijkse emacs - vi flamewar :)
>
> EMACS RULES!
>
> Roland (die nu z'n asbest ondergoed uit de kast haalt ;)
> --
This is a war I can not fight. I have never met a limitation of text
editing in vi so I have never had to try emacs. If I word-process, I use
StarOffice.
vi might suck, but it more than does what I need it for.... ;-)
gus
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From: Paul Gregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: * * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test
Date: 19 May 1999 15:42:20 GMT
According to an email from Microsoft today, Mindcraft have offered to
rerun the NT Server vs Linux benchmarks which were all over the press recently.
As yet the Linux Community (should read RedHat( have failed to respond.
Perhaps someone with contacts can get someone in RedHat to take note.
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OTHER NEWS
======================================================================
UPDATE: MINDCRAFT OFFERS TO RETEST WINDOWS NT(r) SERVER VS. LINUX
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/nt4vLinux.asp
Mindcraft recently published a study comparing the performance capabilities of L
inux to Windows NT Server. The Linux community has voiced several concerns about
the test. Mindcraft has offered to rerun the tests and has met several of the r
equests of the Linux community. As of May 12, the Linux community has not offici
ally accepted Mindcraft's offer.
======================================================================
Paul Gregg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: possible to burn Mac Bootable with xcdroast?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:30:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to burn Mac Bootable CD's with xcdroast/cdrecord?
If you've got an existing image file, yes. X-CD-Roast, however, doesn't
support CREATING such an image file, AFAIK. In theory, you can do this
with the mkhybrid utility, but I've never gotten it to work. (The
documentation makes no promises, either; it just says it MIGHT work.)
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Vi Lovers Home Page
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:41:10 +0100
>
> vi might suck, but it more than does what I need it for.... ;-)
>
Hear here!
A sensible outlook on many things non vi, too. Be it OS or hardware.
I have now developed a disease caused by unnecessary reading/download of
slagmail.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: imblib - libpng
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 22:35:18 GMT
"gunslinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>have a problem on redhat 5.2,
>
>updated the imlib to 1.9.5, get error "libpng 1.0.2 broken ....use 1.0.1".
>
>But i have libpng 1.0.1 !
>
>reinstalling the imlib 1.8xx, everything is ok.
>
>what went wrong? i need the newer imlib for some progs to install.
>
>ideas anyone?
What's the output if you run "imlib-config --version"?
This should tell you which version you have installed.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: In defence of UNIX man pages
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:53:21 -0400
In article <[email protected]>,
Robert Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or do you expect the electrician who is
> working on your car to wade through the instructions of how to tune in
> your radio before he installs that electric sunroof ?
I'd expect him to use the index. Funny you mention this example,
though. In the service manual for my television, on page 8 are
details on how to turn on and tune the television. Note that this is
the service manual (with schematics, etc.), not the user's guide.
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From: "E B+S Prof. Dr. F. F. Branco-Porto Santo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux
Subject: Partition problems
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:39:41 +0100
Hi
Here's my problem:
computer with one 2.6GB hard drive. Linux RH 5.2.
After several attempts trying to fix the ATI card problem to work with
XWindow, I gave up - but only for now (I wanted to get much more
information to try it again). For the moment, just using Windows 98
-which, by the way, was already installed on that machine
The problem is that I wanted (for the moment) to uninstall Linux and
recover that partition it was on.
I did fdisk/mbr in order to recover the original partition table. No
message error.
When using once again fdisk (DOS/Windows one) to see what partitions
there where and their size - surprise: The system didn't recongnize any
other partition (although it reported the correct size of the drive)
and, worst than that, didn't let me erase the extende DOS partition.
Please, anyone can tell me what to do?
ALL sugestions are obviously welcome
Thanks JPC
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From: Al Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.softwaretools,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Looking for FREE Java IDE builder
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:49:15 -0500
Which is the most popular GNU/GPLed "free" IDE builder for Java on
LINUX platform??
something using JDK 1.2?? I saw one called FreeBuilder
http://www.freebuilder.org
But is there a better/more popular one?? Or FreeBuilder is the ONLY
ONE?
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From: benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing new driver on ghostscript
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 02:40:51 +0200
Hello ,
How do i add a driver to ghostscript ?
I downloaded the files :
cdj850.dev
devs.mak
gdevcd8.c
gedvcd8.h
then, what shall i do ?
Thanx for helping
Benjamin
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nick Birkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ISDN Modem recommendations
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:10:03 +0100
Carl Waring wrote:
> We are finally switching over to ISDN for our dial-up email
> connections. Can anyone suggest a suitable modem. The system is a Dell
> Poweredge 2300 with Red Hat running on it. From what I can remember I
> have to steer away from win-modems. I would also like an external modem
> because I can then see what is going on.
>
> cw
>
> email to me or prefer to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are are currently trying out the Elsa Quickstep 1000Pro PCI (bought from
Simply). This even comes with (a dusty) Linux driver
(which we didn't use) on the install cdrom (as well as DOS, Win9.x, WinNT
and OS/2 drivers). It is penguin approved (if you believe the Elsa web
site).
The advantage of the PCI card is that you don't have to mess with IRQ's or
ISA PnP. So far I managed to get a 64Kbit
connection to our dialup server via X.75 protocol (using modem emulation ,
standard PPP and the /dev/ttyI0 device). i.e you
just pretend it is an ordinary modem and use the device /dev/ttyI0. You
need to compile the kernel for isdn and Elsa support
and compile and install the isdn4linux stuff . For modem emulation you have
to add an exta &E123456 to the modem initialisation
eg
ATZ&E123457
The 1234567 is supposed to be you own (ISDN) telephone number but t is not
important.
see:
ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/
and
man ttyI
after installing isdn4linux.
I am having more difficulty using SyncPPP to my regular ISP. This may be
because regional calls from the ISDN line have been
disabled (our admin claims they aren't ).
I wouldn't go so far as to recommend this card just yet, but it looks
promising.
Nick
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From: "muzh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to grow my dos partition
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:19:57 +1200
2 solutions:
1) Back up everything on the windows partition, and delete and recreate it
with fdisk, then restore the backed-up files, or
2) Use a programme like Partition Magic which can non-destructively resize
partitions.
Even if you use Partition Magic you should still back up, in case something
goes wrong --
Michael Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I shrunk my windows partition to get a starting cylinder lower than 1024
> for my linux partitions.
>
> I then ended up with 3G of space between my windows and linux partition
> since I was thinking I could just grow my windows partition to pick up
> the slack.
>
> Now I am not sure how to grow my windows partition backup.
>
> The windows partition is FAT32 if that matters.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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