Linux-Misc Digest #680, Volume #20 Fri, 18 Jun 99 01:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: (Dennis J Perkins)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? (Deryk Barker)
Re: view or delete file using inode? (Dave Brown)
cron output to screen?? (Sparkzz)
Re: turning the modem speaker off ("George Georgakis")
Re: Linux box for computer newbies : suggestions please ! (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: quoted-printable & 8bit, again... (Richard R Urena)
Re: Linux jingle (Brad Corsello)
Re: Problem with Iomega Zip ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Jason O'Rourke)
Linux uid limits! ("Roberto P.Martins Jr.")
Re: Diald - FTP'ing my dynamic IP to my Web Page? (Eric Cartman)
Re: turning the modem speaker off (Colin)
Re: More Teamwork in Anti-Linux Propaganda (was: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New
Mindcraft Benchmark? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Stuart Fox")
Trying to install minicom: get a libncurses.so.3.0 error message ("Mads")
Re: ftape fails on SuSE 6.1 (2.2.7 kernel) (Charles Stroom)
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From: Dennis J Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was:
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:28:01 -0500
I was using DR-DOS when Windows 3.1 came out. I couldn't load Windows.
The computer would lock up with a blacnk screen. MS's helpline blamed
it one DR-DOS. DR said they were aware of the problem and sent me a fix
in a few weeks.
--
Dennis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deryk Barker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
Date: 18 Jun 1999 03:18:48 GMT
David Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) writes:
:
: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 04:49:03 GMT, Gravot wrote:
: > >prefaced with a "win"? I am especially curious about sound cards. Is
: > >there any one card that is more suitable than the rest? If so, what is
: > >the reasoning? Any favorites?
: >
: > Creative labs ISA cards are a snap to set up on linux. And you get to put a
: > useless ISA slot to use (-;
:
: But they don't sound particularly good (music-wise) if that is
: something you are concerned about.
I'm glad you mention that, because I'm looking to get a sound card
that will allow me to digitize analogue signals (e.e. tapes) so that I
can put them onto CD.
Anyone recommend a card with decent sounding *input* facilities too?
--
|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: view or delete file using inode?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Jun 99 03:19:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Thompson wrote:
>Is there some way to view or delete a file using the inode
>number? I have a peculiarly-named file in /usr that I can't
>seem to access in any way to see the contents or remove:
>
> 110773 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66560 Jan 10
>12:30 s????qq???
>
find . -inum 110773 -exec rm {} \;
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sparkzz)
Subject: cron output to screen??
Date: 18 Jun 1999 01:58:48 GMT
Hello,
How can I get a cron job to output to the screen, instead of either
mail or a log??
thanks,
.
.
....Ken
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: turning the modem speaker off
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux.slakware,uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 03:30:57 GMT
Add the command M0 to your modem init string.
George
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Fanni Kolchina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in article <KDia3.32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
>
> Could anyone please tell me how I can turn off the modem speaker?
> I have a Zoltrix 33.6 modem, slackware 3.3 and I use ezppp for
> dialup.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Fanni.
>
>
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux box for computer newbies : suggestions please !
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:35:09 -0700
On 18 Jun 1999, Alain Southiere wrote:
> So, I'm thinking about getting a laptop that's a couple
> of years old (I could have a good price on a P133 Thinkpad,
> 20MB RAM and 1.3 GB HD, which should be sufficient, IMHO).
KDE and Staroffice might be a bit too much for 20MB. I'm using neither but
I saw Staroffice on Solaris recently eating up 40+MB.
I would recommend using a simple lightweight window manager (personally I
use wm2) together with a nice filemanager (I use tkdesk but there are
others). And Applixware might cost a little more than Staroffice but it
doesn't need so much memory. Just my two cents,
Gerald
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:16:17 -0700
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote in message ...
>On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:45:35 -0700, Chad Mulligan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>>If that seems farfetched, this article describes the stealthed,
>>>encrypted code that Microsoft put into beta versions of Windows
>>>3.1 to detect DR-DOS, put up an error message, and fail by
>>>default:
>
>>That was right, hmmm? Seen a doctor lately? Or better, have you been
>>outside of your room lately? I mean in the last year or so. No point
doing
>>it all at once.
>
>
>Well, this is not a theory but has been proven in court. Several articles
>detailed this. Your own company, Microsoft admitted that this code exists!
>
>I think before you insult someone, take a break, look at the
>picture of your employer. Breathe deeply. Think about California. Good it
>rains all the time in Washington, huh?
>
Actually I live in California, that twerp was getting annoying.
>
>
>
>
>--
>Moritz Moeller-Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 3585990 # Not only
>Get my public pgp / gpg key from # Open Source(TM)
>http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/jura/moritz/pubkeymoritz # but also
>KDE forever! Use Linux to impress your friends! # Open Minded!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard R Urena)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: quoted-printable & 8bit, again...
Date: 17 Jun 1999 22:36:12 -0400
Not directly your question, but nonetheless:
> -----_=_NextPart_000_01BEB238.58D6B4B2
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WRONG
>
> Hallo, ich bin h�sslich.
Once you decode the quoted-printable encoding, then
it's no longer quoted-printable. It should be 8bit
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Corsello)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Reply-To: bcorsello[AT]usa[DOT]net
Date: 18 Jun 1999 04:06:30 GMT
On 16 Jun 1999 22:35:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>Is there is a Linux jingle? A catchy little tune?
>
>Has to be "All Right Now" by Free! :)
What's that song that goes,
We've got to get ourselves together /
because the revolution's here /
and you know its right... /
and you know that it's right.
That's the song that goes through my head when I'm thinking Linux. Because
it IS a revolution.
--
Brad Corsello, New York, NY. (Remove #NOSPAM from reply-to address.)
No animals were harmed in the writing of this message.
MY CAT PAGE IS GOING PUBLIC!!!: http://members.xoom.com/bcorsello/cats.html
*** Powered by Linux 2.2.1. It's fun being a revolutionary.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat,linux.scsi
Subject: Re: Problem with Iomega Zip
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think it has to do with "port sharing." You can't use your printer
while your ZIP drive is connected, even though your ZIP drive has a
passthru port on it, and you may not be accessing the drive or even
have it mounted at the time. Yet if you rmmod ppa (which remember you
have probably aliased scsi_hostadapter to) you can print again
(directly to the port, at least... lpd doesn't like it).
You should rmmod ppa before you disconnect your ZIP drive, and insmod
ppa again after you have connected the scanner. I THINK. I'm not
familiar with the operation of scanners under Linux or in general, but
you may wish to try this.
After you have used the scanner, can you use the ZIP drive? Can you
print? Post more info.
Steve Crow
Ashland, Virginia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Luca Satolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've a paraller port Iomega zip.
> It works good with Linux Red Hat 6.0, I've just to do modprobe ppa and
> then to mount the zip disk.
> I also have an AVA1505 used to drive my Scanner (Agfa 1236s). It also
> work fine after 2 days of hard work.
> The problem is that when I exec modprobe ppa the scanner don't work!
> When I exec rmmod ppa the scanner works fine.
> Why happens these? Is possible to make work both scanner and Zip?
> Thanks a lot & Best Regards
> Luca Satolli
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: 17 Jun 1999 20:10:33 -0700
Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Your logic is even worse. You note above that the subroutine was skipped.
>Did they reinstate that routine? I would have thought that a prudent
>manufacturer would have to be sure they could support it. If they didn't,
>that would leave them open to lawsuits in the litigious USA.
The point is that they didn't remove it, and instead left it in a way so
that it could easily be implemented. The issue was not in making it run
on drdos, it was to make sure it wouldn't run.
As for the ridiculous statement about the litigious USA: if that were
true, MS would be out of business by now. Just in the last couple months,
we've seen the Melissa attack, this recent nasty worm, and the knowledge
that anyone could exploit IIS with a single line of code.
That last detail is a particularly relevent one to the linux vs NT battle.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: June 13th, Pescadero Wash Rocks (Carmel), 46 mins at 64ft max
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From: "Roberto P.Martins Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux uid limits!
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:15:28 -0300
Hi!
I've been wondering how many user accounts a single linux box could
support. And taking a look at /usr/include/pwd.h, the header file with
functions and data structures to handle and create user accounts, I
found that uid is defined as unsigned int. Is it true? If true, I could
have "only" 65535 users! How very big sites, offering web space and
email like Geocities and Xoom, handle million user accounts?
--
Roberto P.Martins Jr.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/9636
ICQ #12393737
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Cartman)
Subject: Re: Diald - FTP'ing my dynamic IP to my Web Page?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:47:57 GMT
Hi Lyndon,
Thanks for pointing me to that HOWTO. I never looked in the
unmaintained directory. That was just what I needed.
Cheers,
Eric
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:18:38 +0100, Lyndon Hills
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Eric Cartman wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I would like setup diald so that every time it connects, it FTPs the
>> dynamically assigned IP number to my web space on my ISP account.
>> That way, if I am elsewhere, I can find out where my machine is
>> currently connected.
><snip>
>This is the subject of a mini-HOWTO called I think Dynamic IP hacks.
>It's on RH CD's (may well be unmaintained). It has scripts that run in
>ip-up/ip-down or ppp-up/down. They don't I think do _exactly_ what you
>are after but they are easy enough to read and amend. (Includes stuff
>like mailing your dynamic ip to an address and so on). I once did put
>the ip on a web page and this howto was my starting point.
>
>HTH
>Lyndon
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux.slakware,uk.comp.os.linux
From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: turning the modem speaker off
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:25:36 -0400
Easiest way I have found is to use atmdt (or p for pulse)
as the dialing string.
--
Why gain the world but lose your soul?
Wisdom is much better than silver and gold.
}Hi,
}
}Could anyone please tell me how I can turn off the modem speaker?
}I have a Zoltrix 33.6 modem, slackware 3.3 and I use ezppp for
}dialup.
}
}Thank you very much,
}
}Fanni.
}
}
}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: More Teamwork in Anti-Linux Propaganda (was: Could Microsoft Cheat On The
New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: 18 Jun 1999 04:10:47 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 03:08:12 GMT, Otto wrote:
>
>Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>Isn't linuxconf for remote control of the Linux box? I do remember seeing
linuxconf is a global configuration tool.
> it's for changing the network
>settings on the Linux box to move it between sites, with different IP's, DNS
>servers, gateway, etc...
I see what you mean. You want to plug the laptop into different
internets.
Do you have bootp servers on your networks ? this might make it easier
to get IP addresses autoconfigured.
The Redhat control panel allows you to configure the
global settings, which is what you need to make your network interface work
properly.
If there are two or three IP addresses that you use regularly, you can
use this tool ( netcfg , I thinkit's called. It's part of the control
panel you get in RH when you start X as root ) to configure a few
interfaces ( say, eth0, eth1, eth2 ... ).
Of course , if you want to run services, some of the standalone servers
need config tweaks to change the address. The traditional inetd services
shouldn't require changes ( unless you want different hosts.allow/deny
files for the different setups. )
--
Donovan
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:04:41 +1200
Jason O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7kcdb9$e6d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Your logic is even worse. You note above that the subroutine was
skipped.
> >Did they reinstate that routine? I would have thought that a prudent
> >manufacturer would have to be sure they could support it. If they
didn't,
> >that would leave them open to lawsuits in the litigious USA.
>
> The point is that they didn't remove it, and instead left it in a way so
> that it could easily be implemented. The issue was not in making it run
> on drdos, it was to make sure it wouldn't run.
You seem to be taking a rather sinister view of all this. Do you think that
it might be possible that MS programmers are just lazy? Maybe they just
didn't remove it because they didn't get around to it. Maybe it wasn't a
high priority.
>
> As for the ridiculous statement about the litigious USA: if that were
> true, MS would be out of business by now. Just in the last couple months,
> we've seen the Melissa attack, this recent nasty worm,
It isn't MS's problem if someone exploits the tools provided in an Office
app. However it might be if a product didn't work as advertised - win 3.1
on DR-DOS for instance.
Does this mean that if I wrote a virus in VB that MS would be responsible?
>and the knowledge
> that anyone could exploit IIS with a single line of code.
Are you suggesting that *nix has no bugs? Or requires no patches to get
running securely? ALL operating systems have bugs that must be patched, I
don't care if it's linux, NT, Solaris etc. And why has no-one found this
bug until now - IIS 4.0 has been out for quite a while now...
Stu
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From: "Mads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trying to install minicom: get a libncurses.so.3.0 error message
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:31:32 -0400
When I try to install the minicom RPM I get an error message that says that
I need libncurses.so.3.0. Where do I get the libncurses.so.3.0, or newer,
RPM.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Stroom)
Subject: Re: ftape fails on SuSE 6.1 (2.2.7 kernel)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 04:05:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17 Jun 1999 12:46:30 GMT, Allen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recompiled the kernel enabling ftape QIC-80 support and
>my system does not recognize any mt commands or direct operations
>on /dev/rft0. The boot messages indicate that ftape is installed
>and initialized, but I get the error message "Operation not
>supported by device" when I try to access /dev/rft0.
>
>I tried compiling the kernel with and without zftape and
>the results were not changed.
>
>Not a good sign about SuSE support: I registered my purchase
>and sent this question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This morning I
>got a message back that said my email was undeliverable
>after four hours.
>
I did the same at 17 Jun 1999 00:40:24 +0200 (sending a support
question to SuSE) and it also came back with "Warning: could not
send message for past 4 hours". It was actually returned by suse,
but nevertheless this morning I got confirmation from suse (automatic
reply email) that it actually arrived.
There must have been a hick-up in their mailer.
--
Charles Stroom
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
url: http://www.stroom-schreurs.demon.nl/
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