Linux-Misc Digest #496, Volume #20 Fri, 4 Jun 99 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Jacek Pliszka)
Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Chris Hedley)
Re: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM (Greg Menke)
Re: Newbie kPPP (modem problem) (Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands)
Success with IP Masquerading ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: How do I insert partitions BEFORE my Debian boot partiton and still get Debian
to boot? (Matthew Ashe)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Reinier Post)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does this OS exist? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does this OS exist? ("Pedro")
Re: SuSE 6.1 module disk ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Gnome slow? (Des Small)
Re: full filesystems not reported by syslog ("David Means")
Re: Problems w/GNOME Panel in RH6 (rob)
Re: Problem with Iomega ZIP. (Roger Atkinson)
Re: Boot still hangs at: Ok booing the kernel (Hans Wolters)
Looking for small business accounting pkg. ("Chris Long")
Re: Radio clock using realplay -- why doesn't it work? (Ding-Jung Han)
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH (zed)
Re: Cable Modems (Mick Costa)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Reinier Post)
Xconfigurator Error, Please Help (Wandile Boya)
Re: Test your knowledge of Linux at new site! (mlw)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:15:12 GMT
On 4 Jun 1999 12:59:19 PST, Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>absolutely. actually, as it turns out, while all Free Software
>>(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) is Open Source
>>(www.opensource.org)
>
>The simple english word "free" has a meaning very different
>than the formalized "Free Software" as defined by RMS and
>his crony, and I suspect the OED will honor that distinction
>for many decades to come.
The english word "free" is far from simple, It has many shades of meaning.
Which meaning is emphasized depends on the cultural context of the discussion.
>If you're saying that folks who post to the linux newsgroups
>don't understand English, who am I to argue with you?
It's not enough to understand English. One must also understand the
cultural context which establishes the shades of meaning.
But the context is not always clear, such as when there is a mixture of poeople
coming from different backgrounds. The term ``freeware'' should be preferred
to ``free software'' because it is a precise jargon specific to the
source code sharing culture.
If some CD-ROM full of binary-only, proprietary software came in the mail
claiming to be ``freeware'', I'd be pretty pissed off. :)
------------------------------
From: Jacek Pliszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:26:26 -0700
On 4 Jun 1999, Harry MF Teasley wrote:
> all happily), but for a Linux newbie (DOS/Windows veteren), Red Hat has
> been great. These setup disasters folks are talking about haven't been an
> issue for me.
I installed RedHat on over 50 desktops and on 4 laptops
and I do not remember any serious problems but
problems with unsupported hardware and with
very bad RH 5.0 glibc upgrade from 4.2.
All the rest worked great so I usually advise RH for a newbie
who wants Linux just to use and Debian for someone who wants
to play with it.
I do not use linuxconf and I do not use control-panel
and I do not use GNOME. The only RH tools I use are netcfg and soundcfg.
And I do feel I have control over the system.
The choice between RH and SUSE doesn't really matter. Both
are good for newbies. One should either select the one he/she
likes after trying both either the one which is used by his local Linux guru.
And let's end this discussion,
Jacek
------------------------------
From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:17:54 +0000
Since upgrading to RedHat 6.0 and now to Window Maker 0.60 I have had
trouble running any of my dockable apps, i.e. wminet, wmmon, wmifs, and
wmtime. I think it's either the DISPLAY variable (I've seen other
comments from people about this) or else Window Maker itself, more
likely. I went back to WM 0.53.0 but to no avail so I've resigned
myself to 0.60.
Has anyone else has problems? Please email me directly.
KJ
--
.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-.
| Kerry J. Cox Vyzynz International Inc. |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator |
| (801) 596-7795 http://www.vii.com |
| ICQ# 37681165 http://quasi.vii.com/linux/ |
`-------------------------------------------------------'
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hedley)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: 4 Jun 1999 00:02:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Knowles) writes:
> I didn't know anybody even tried to bother anymore with anything less
> than UW ot U2W drives.
I do; I chose the SCSI path for the reason that I could reuse various odds'n'
sods I'd accumulated over the years in my newer systems. Okay, my main system
had only one 8-bit HD (although both tape units and the CD are also 8-bit)
but I think you'll find this is quite widespread, particularly if you include
archtectures (oops, nearly wrote artichoke, it's too late for this sort of
posting) such as Suns, where there's a plethora of Sparc-5s and -10s which
probably haven't been fitted (fat?) with the latest'n'greatest wide-scsi-
and-fast-ethernet-in-a-bundle cards.
> Since Seagate Cheetahs can sustain something like
> 20Mbits/sec, it would take only two of them at peak volume to saturate a
> UW bus, and four to saturate a U2W bus.
Peak output is just that, and in many cases you'll see the odd "spikes"
amidst a sea of idleness. If these spikes coincide regularly (like if the
devices are part of software RAID) it could admittedly be a potential arse.
> When you're looking at things like building a dual P3@450Mhz server
> with 1GB RAM and something in the range of 400GB raw disk space, there's
> no sense in thinking small (or slow).
Unless you have 400 1GB drives lying around :) Okay, that's an extreme
and improbable view, but I've no doubts (in fact more experiences) that it
does happen.
Chris.
PS if you want really huge CPU power and ridiculous throughput, IBM's new
G6 processor lump[1] looks extremely interesting. Apparently some maniacs are
porting Linux to the S/390.
[1] An enormous slab of ceramic, 5 inches per side, with around 5,000 pins,
half of which do I/O. The slab is *covered* in silicon, including no less
than 14 S/390s at well over 600Mhz and lots of cache. How they hope to cool
that bugger I've no idea.
------------------------------
From: Greg Menke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM
Date: 04 Jun 1999 16:49:15 -0400
I've seen a little program which does this- you get a drive mapping,
this program creates another one which gives a view of the first as if
it were a CD. But for the life of me I can't remember its name. A
guy I know was using it to get around stupid copy protection stuff.
Gregm
> >
> > Onno Ebbinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I want to mount a CD-ROM (or ISO file, or directory) that
> > > resides on my RH Linux 6.0 server over my network and my
> > > WIN NT 4 machine must report it as a CD-ROM.
> > >
> > > I've posted this question on some NT newsgroups but there
> > > were mostly brain dead people...
> > >
> > > I think I need a NT 4 device driver who can pull this off
> > > but I can't find one. If it's really necessary I can write
> > > the driver (I have the NT 4 DDK stuff) but I prefer a download...
------------------------------
From: Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie kPPP (modem problem)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 16:47:29 -0400
tpage wrote:
>
> I went into kPPP and set up an account (for my ISP). When I go to query my
> modem I get a message "sorry, modem is busy" but my modem is not in use (to
> my knowledge). I've tried all the device settings (/dev/modem,
> /dev/tty...) and none of them seem to work. Any help greatly
> appreciated...
>
> thanks,
>
> TC
Try looking in /var/lock for a modem lock file.
It should look something like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dialout 11 Jun 4 14:02 LCK..ttyS0
If so, just rm that file and your modem should be free to use.
------------------------------
From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Success with IP Masquerading
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:25:37 +0000
I just thought I'd share a small success story with the readers here.
For the longest time I've been trying to get my Linux and Windows boxes
that are all networked at home to share a single modem. That way I
could get on the Internet with my Linux box to read my news, I could
also surf the web on my Windows98 box and my wife could read her email
from HER Windows95 box and my son could go to his pbs.org site using
Netscape. I finally got this running last night. If I had known how
easy it was, I'd have done it long ago. But some of the credit does go
to RedHat 6.0 which made it so much easier using IP Chains.
I outlined exactly how I accomplished this on my own Linux page,
http://quasi.vii.com/linux/tips.html
If anyone needs any help, drop me an email. Just wanted to give a
little back to the community that has helped me so much.
KJ
--
.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-.
| Kerry J. Cox Vyzynz International Inc. |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator |
| (801) 596-7795 http://www.vii.com |
| ICQ# 37681165 http://quasi.vii.com/linux/ |
`-------------------------------------------------------'
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Ashe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: How do I insert partitions BEFORE my Debian boot partiton and still get
Debian to boot?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 19:03:16 GMT
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:51:35 -0700, "LAN Service Group"
<$P@/\/\_lsg_B|0C/<@endovasix.com> wrote:
<>I would have to agree with this since I'm not familiar with System
<>Commander. Also use cfdisk to make your partitions. This is executed as
<>part of the debian install. LILO will make it much easier to manage your
<>boot partitions unless you're running NT... then you're kinda forced to use
<>NT's boot loader... however, at one time, I had NT's boot loader working
<>with LILO. NT's boot loader will appear first. If I select Win98 it'd go
<>through LILO first. If I select NT it'd boot directly to NT without LILO
<>appearing. That was kinda nifty.
<>
Do you have any idea how you did this. I have 5 hard drives total
ling approximately 37 GB of space. I am interested in trying out a
couple of different flavors of Linux. I have been running RedHat for
the last few months, but since I added a new drive (13G) I figure I'll
go the route and set up various partitions to play with. I remember
reading a message that someone used dd to copy the boot sector and
saved it as bootxxx.lin. I really can't remember exactly, i've been
in Linux so much lately. I read in my NT book that came with the CD
(about 25 pages:{) that NT looks for bootxxx.dos when you boot to the
partition other than NT. I need to know how to tell NT to look for
bootsect.lin when I tell it to boot disk 2, partition 3, etc. I am
searching the newsgroups now and will look in the Linux FAQs of
course. Still any help would be appreciated.
Anyone can pass judgement, condemnation is easy......it's a little harder trying to
understand.
------------------------------
From: Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 14:36:17 +0200
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is this preponderance with which package is best eventually lead Linux down
>the Unix path of fragmentation and senseless inter-camp bickering.
No, senseless inter-camp bickering is only promoted by postings like yours,
without any useful information whatsoever,
--
Reinier
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 19:56:58 GMT
Dan Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Didn't SUSE put YAST under the GPL?
AFAIK they didn't, at least not until 01/99 (the Linux Snapshot CD-ROM set
from January 1999). But as I've said before, it looks like an OpenSource
(tm) Licence to me.
Peter
--
Peter Gritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
`... so I'd rather you didn't try any last-minute stuff.'
I *AM* LAST-MINUTE STUFF, said Death, standing up.
[Terry Pratchett, Hogfather]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.minix,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Does this OS exist?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 11:50:27 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Pedro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eloquently scribe:
: Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
:> I don't see that. What if you are calling lots of sub-programs. Each one
: runs
:> one at a time. But you don't want a subprogram to crash, AND take out
:> the main program. You just want the calling program to get control back.
: If the subprogram goes into an infinite loop (locks up), who's going to
: notice? You'd would need a pre-emptive multitasking system where the main
: program can 'monitor' the subprograms behaviour. If the subprogram 'times
: out', the main program could then kill on the task.
But we're talking about a single user/single tasking OS, which means there
*IS* no pre-emptive multitasking to manage these things.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]| |
| Andrew Halliwell | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
| Finallist in:- | suck is probably the day they start making |
| Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e>e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
==============================================================================
------------------------------
From: "Pedro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.minix,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Does this OS exist?
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:47:26 +0100
Reply-To: "Pedro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> But we're talking about a single user/single tasking OS, which means there
> *IS* no pre-emptive multitasking to manage these things.
The original poster wanted to ensure that in event of an error "the calling
program can get control back". I was just saying that you can't guarantee
this without some sort of pre-emptive multitasking.
If the first line of the child program reads "while(1);" your screwed.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.1 module disk ?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 11:26:51 GMT
In his obvious haste, Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: It also holds that the disk is not unformatted, or at least empty.
: Don't mess with it, because you might have a future install that needs
: it.
If he has deleted it, he can make another one from the disk image on one of
the CDROMS. (In the /disks directory).
--
| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack|
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you|
| |can't move, with no hope of rescue. |
| Andrew Halliwell |Consider how lucky you are that life has been |
| Finalist in:- |good to you so far... |
| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
=============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++|
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e>e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire|
------------------------------
From: Des Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Gnome slow?
Date: 04 Jun 1999 14:27:16 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters) writes:
> Gnome is nice but uses a lot of memory. I have a P120 with 48 mb of ram and
> it's still slow. I changed back to Window Maker which runs fine.
I have a P100, formerly with 16Mb. I never ran gnome on it, until I
upgraded recently to 64Mb. When this happened I tried gnome, and
performance was fine. I've switched back to fvwm (version 1; a big
improvement on v.2) because:
a) GNOME and Enlightenment between them ate all my colours. (I have a
1 Mb graphics card, so I run in 8bit colour).
b) I couldn't see the point of GNOME. I don't really understand what
a "desktop" is, nor why I should want one.
c) I like fvwm.
Cheers,
Des.
------------------------------
From: "David Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: full filesystems not reported by syslog
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:33:00 -0700
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7j8uc4$h3s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Under solaris when a filesystem hits 100% an
> error is recored by syslog (messages log).
>
> I am now run a number of redhat 6.0 linux servers and during test
> I was unable to get the filesystem to send and error to
> syslog when it is full.
>
Umm, I haven't looked at the source, but if the filesystem is full,
where do you think the message is going to be stored ? Of course,
the syslog daemon *could* check whether it is logging locally or
remotely, and send a message iff it is logging remotely, but this does
not sound like the way to bet.
------------------------------
From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems w/GNOME Panel in RH6
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:52:45 -0400
Hmmmm ... any responses to this? I'm having the same problem ... I try
firing it off from the Xterm with "panel &" and an error pops up telling
it is already running, of all things. I press okay or no and the panel
appears. However, everytime I restart X/Gnome I have to go through
this. Fairly frustrating, that's for sure.
:rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's my problem:
>
> After logging in as a user (not root), the GNOME
> Panel appears at the bottom of the screen (like it
> should). However, after a few minutes of use, it
> disappears entirely (i.e., it doesn't minimize to
> one side or the other, the Panel just goes away).
>
> I'm assuming this isn't normal because it doesn't
> happen when I login as root. Can anyone shed some
> light on this? Is there something that I can do to
> keep the GNOME Panel from disappearing? And when
> it does go away, is there a way to get it back?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
------------------------------
From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,flashnet.it.hobby.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with Iomega ZIP.
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:39:24 -0700
It doesn't matter if it's SCSI or PPA as far as the mount is concerned.
SCSI and PPA are just the transports used to get commands and data to /
from the Zip drive. What matters is the way the disks are formatted.
If the Zip disk is a stock PC format it will always be /dev/sdX4 (where
the "X" denotes the first, second, third, etc. SCSI device) and
filesystem type vfat.
I have a SCSI Zip at home and it is mounted as /dev/sdb4.
I have a PPA Zip at work and it is mounted as /dev/sdc4.
Of course the partition number and type file system could be changed if
you formatted the Zip as an ext2 filesystem.
One way you can tell what device to use to mount is check dmesg or
/var/log/messages. If you have the PPA drivers built in to your kernel
and a Zip disk in place when you boot there will be a report and it will
tell you what device the Zip disk was found on.
Hope this helps, Roger Atkinson Unix Sys Admin
James Gray wrote:
>
> I just kept trying the mount command from /dev/sda0 through to /dev/sda6.
> Turned out that my Zip100 SCSI connected to my Ultra SCSI adapter was
> /dev/sda4. So the final mount command was:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
>
> Good Luck (BTW I don't have a clue about ppa Zip drives)
>
> James
>
> Tim Kubista wrote:
> > How do i figure out which scsi device to mount? could someone give me an
> > example mount command so i can see what it should look like
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: Boot still hangs at: Ok booing the kernel
Date: 4 Jun 1999 22:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Rowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and wrote the following ....
>make dep;make clean;make;make modules;make modules_install;make install;
>lilo
use make bzImage and copy the kernel (bzImage :) and the system.map to the
boot location. Change lilo, run lilo and it should work.
>This is the best most efficient compile I've ever done.
If it was then I'm wondering how you ran you're other compiled kernels :)
........
Good luck, Hans
--
22 Linux Search Engines in one applet
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
------------------------------
From: "Chris Long" <"remove"[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for small business accounting pkg.
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 08:21:53 -0500
I am looking for a small business accounting package for Linux. Need GL, AR,
AP. Payroll and inventory not necessary. Something similar to our current
Peachtree (Windoze) in functionality.
Thank you,
Chris
------------------------------
From: Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Radio clock using realplay -- why doesn't it work?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 17:41:28 -0400
Shaun Beech wrote:
>
> Why not try and get it run through cron ?
Simple -- because I don't want to get up at 7:30am every morning! ;-P
Ben
> Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've tried to be creative -- using realplay to wake me up every morning.
> > Here is what I tried (but failed):
> >
> > 1. write a small script called radio:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > realplay http://www.realaudio.com/products/ra3.0/kingfmMI.ram&
> >
> > 2. Issue an at command:
> >
> > at -f /home/ben/bin/radio 7:30am
> >
> > But realplay didn't show up and play nice music for me. I can tell the
> > script was actually executed, but no error message, no nothing. If I
> > dropped the trailing '&' out then an error message was emailed to me
> > saying that realplay caused a segmentation fault (!) and I did run the
> > script by hand it's working. Any ideas? TIA!
> >
> >
> > Ben
------------------------------
From: zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:22:47 +0000
Steve Browne wrote:
>You better check their "shipping charge" ($8+) before you call it a
> good deal. When you add the shipping charge, CheapBytes.com has a
> better deal.
>
> And I am not affiliated with CheapBytes.
If you buy many copies it is a pretty good deal. I ordered 30 copies
and with $10.00 shipping it come out to be $38.50., where as cheap bytes
is 68.50 for the same. You might wanna check my math though, as I've
just gotten up and not had my coffee.
Zed, up too early for my own good, Child
------------------------------
From: Mick Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modems
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:09:49 -0400
I went from dial-up ISP access to cable modem. Since I didn't have a
LAN, I wasn't using a network interface card (NIC). All it took was:
1. Purchase and install the NIC
2. Recompile the kernel to support the card
3. Get DHCP (only the client part - dhcpcd I think)
4. Compile / install dhcpcd and follow setup directions (e.g.,
initialize through startup script)
5. Reboot the machine
Note: My machine is currently dual boot between Win95 and Slackware.
For some reason, my NIC is not detected if I do a soft reboot. I
actually have to power down and then power back up to get the NIC
detected. Other than that, it was pretty straightforward.
Note 2: With a cable modem, your machine may be on-line more often abd
much more accessible to intruders. You should look into the available
filtering / firewall / monitoring utilities to protect your machine.
Also, once you get this machine up and running, you can use it to
front-end an entire home LAN (e.g., 2 NICs in the linux box, 1 ethernet
hub, and a NIC in any other computer you might have). Then every
computer can have Internet access.
Jason Abate wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:04:41 -0400, Anthony DeLuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Does LINUX have support for cable modems? If not will it?
>
> Yes, it does. Most (if not all) cable modems connect to a machine
> via ethernet, so they look like any other ethernet network. I've
> been using Time Warner's RoadRunner with my Linux box for about
> three months without much trouble. There is a cable modem HOWTO
> on sunsite that might be of interest...
>
> -jason
>
> --
> ====================================================================
> Jason Abate [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ticam.utexas.edu/~abate
> Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
> 304 SHC, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
> Work: 512-471-6947 Home: 512-912-1012 Fax: 512-471-8694
------------------------------
From: Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 14:42:49 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>For one thing, where does SuSe stash my *mail*???? It
>sure ain't /var/pool/mail, unless I screwed something up...
It's in /var/spool/mail, as expected.
--
Reinier
------------------------------
From: Wandile Boya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xconfigurator Error, Please Help
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:58:39 +0200
Hi Guys
We are trying to install a driver for a video card(ASUS AGP-V3200 series
) using Xconfigurator. After we select a driver the
Xconfigurator bombs-out with the following message :
"Server doesn't exist, can't
continue, tried to use ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3"
Could you please help us, as we're stuck.
Thanks a million
Wandile
------------------------------
From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Test your knowledge of Linux at new site!
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:05:29 +0000
Michael Littman wrote:
Your test is a bit bogus.
I started the programmer analyst test, but got interrupted by a few
phone calls.
Anyway...
The pearl question is a bit ambiguous. The diver can get x pearls in an
hour. Can the diver get 1/2 x pearls in 1/2 hour? That is how a good
developer would think, but, your test does not account for that. You
need to add, it takes n minutes to perform a pearl dive.
In essence, I have little faith that the majority of the questions
asked, have anything to do with software development aptitude. Some were
pretty good, but most were too general. Abstract questions are all well
and good, but, sometimes (particularly dyslexic) people function poorly
in abstracts but well in more realistic situations.
Personally, I do not like abstract tests in general because they end up
testing how well an individual conforms to a narrow view of what is
important.
I didn't finish the test, as I said I was interrupted and after a few
phone calls it failed to hold my interest. If, however, you asked
important questions like:
(1) Using the language of your choice, write a non recursive Bezier
curve algorithm. You have 1 hour.
(2) Using the language of your choice, write an algorithm that receives
an array of coordinates defining a 2 dimensional shape of an arbitrary
number of sides and calculates the area. You have 1 day.
(3) Using the language of your choice, write an algorithm that receives
a two dimensional array of coordinates defining a 3 dimensional object
of an arbitrary number of sides and calculates the volume. You have 3
days.
(4) Using the language of your choice, write an algorithm that receives
an array of coordinates and meta information that represents a street
map. (Meta information contains one-way attributes, speed limit, and
probability of traffic congestion based on time of day.) The algorithm
also receives a starting coordinate (A), an end coordinate (B), and time
of day when travel begins. Return an array of coordinates that represent
the fastest way to get from point A to point B. You have 1 week.
These are how you test if someone can develop software. If I were hiring
people, and I got a guy that could produce the answer to these 4
questions, I would hire him (or her) on the spot. Answering just one of
these questions shows aptitude.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Take a look at the Mohawk Software Mascot at www.mohawksoft.com
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
