Linux-Misc Digest #775, Volume #20 Thu, 24 Jun 99 20:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: CPU temp readings? ("Scott Moseman")
Does lilo exist for DOS? (Ken Kwasnicki)
Re: Really? please enumerate, Re: Linux systems- Poor security (ellis)
Apache not serving web pages ("Lord Byron")
Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux (Tom)
Re: Getting current user name (Jon Skeet)
Re: How to pronounce SuSE? (Matthias Benkmann)
Re: Visual Programming Tools for Linux? (james daniels)
Re: Linux systems- Poor security (ellis)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX (Adrian Burd)
Re: Where can I get free Linux CD? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Sym 53c416 (Marc Mutz)
Re: Archiver software wanted (Belgarion)
Re: Children's Software (Robert Heller)
libs all around (Vic Mortelmans)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Karel Jansens)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Anthony Ord)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Anthony Ord)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Anthony Ord)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Anthony Ord)
Re: go back and forward in directory tree (Vic Mortelmans)
partition size not correct (Ryan McGuigan)
Re: Can't Locate ip_masq modules (Belgarion)
routing problem (Benjamin HERZOG)
Strange message error....??!? dl_boot: mmap of /dev/zero failed! (interzone)
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From: "Scott Moseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CPU temp readings?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:32:23 -0500
To answer my own question, I found a utility called KLM.
http://synergy.linuxbox.com/klm_home.html
I have yet to try it, but it looks like what I am needing.
Just fyi in case anyone else had the same question.
Scott Moseman
Scott Moseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I am running a new ASUS P5A motherboard with AMD K6-2 400 CPU. I have
been
> having temperature problems due to case cooling design and the way in
which
> I have my current computers laid out (very close in proximity).
>
> I was wondering if there was a Linux utility that I could read my CPU and
MB
> temperatures without having to reboot to the BIOS? Maybe even a nice X
> program to keep it graphical under my KDE.
>
> Any leads? Thanks.
>
> Scott Moseman
>
>
>
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From: Ken Kwasnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does lilo exist for DOS?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:32:46 -0700
Hi All,
Does anybody know if there's a dos version of lilo, or some way to
modify the lilo configuration in the master boot record from dos?
Thanks,
Ken.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ellis)
Subject: Re: Really? please enumerate, Re: Linux systems- Poor security
Date: 24 Jun 1999 22:07:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would appreciate a summary of the well known security problems in
>the major Linux distros.
Take a look through the bugtraq archives: http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/
>We all know about the problems with Sendmail,
I haven't seen a real sendmail hole in a long time.
--
http://www.fnet.net/~ellis/photo/linux.html
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From: "Lord Byron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Apache not serving web pages
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:59:13 -0500
I recently tried to set up an old computer as a web server, using Linux and
Apache. It has limited hard drive space (1 gig), and I don't plan on using
it for anything besides the web serving, so I don't want a full-blown
installation of Linux (Mandrake 6 is what I use). I tried installing it
with just the base stuff and apache, but that didn't work. httpd is
running, but I'm not able to access the documents from any computer. Can
someone tell me the minimum stuff I need to install to get apache running.
Thanks.
--
Byron
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:41:14 -0700
Hi,
I have a Dell Inspirion 7000 on which I am running RedHat 5.2. I have a
Windows partition as well. When I am running Windows, I can use the
utility which came with it for monitoring my battery power, etc.
However, when I am running Linux, I have no idea of how much power is in
the battery.
Are there power utilities for Linux?
Thanks
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.setup95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
Subject: Re: Getting current user name
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:01:56 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Err, have any of you heard of the command "whoami"?
>
> Try it, it's rather nice and very easy to use.:)
Does it work under Win95 though? I doubt it...
Read the original post in the thread:
: The user logs on into windows 95 by entering his domain password and
: local win95 password. Afterwards, the desktop appears.
: Question:
: Does anybody knows, how I can read the name of the current user in a
: batch file ?
Linux is only present as a server...
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Benkmann)
Subject: Re: How to pronounce SuSE?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:41:40 GMT
>See:
>
>http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/SuSE-Linux-E-FAQ-2.html
>
>for what SuSE stands for and how to pronounce it.
>
They should rather have written Zoo Ze. I don't believe they want a
sharp 's' as in 'hiss'. Everyone I know here in Munich pronounces it
with a 'Z'. If you're really fond of your SuSE Linux you might want to
pronounce it Zoozee which is a cute German girl's name (spelled
"Susi", of course). MSB
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From: james daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Visual Programming Tools for Linux?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:44:08 GMT
Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> Todd Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of any visual development tools for Linux/X? I have
> > used
> > Delphi and C++ Builder in the past to create simple windows apps and was
> > wondering if there is something similar for linux and X. (C/C++ is
> > preferable)
> > Thanks.
> >
> Although not quite like what you know, the XForms library has an
> application builder. Maybe the KDE and Gnome folk have such in progress?
> Check their web sites...
>
> Marc
Not sure if you are familar with tcl, but ther is a vtcl package
around. I received a copy with rh5.2. Search freshmeat.net and you
should find it.
Jim
--
"Linux is always used here"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ellis)
Subject: Re: Linux systems- Poor security
Date: 24 Jun 1999 22:10:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dr Paul Kinsler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had this problem while at U Sheffield. Prior to my arrival,
>someone had tried to set up a linux box on their net and just
>picked an IP number out of the air, which conflicted with
>one somewhere in the US, causing the usual network problems.
They should have had source filters on their border router.
>On this basis UCS refused permision for me to run linux on
>the uni network; despite the fact that the reason they knew
>I wanted to was because I _asked_ them for the information
>I needed to configure it for their network. I dont believe
>they were MS fans, just thet they didn't want to deal with
>yet another os (even though I wasn't asking them to).
Do they think nobody can set a wrong IP address on an MS box?
--
http://www.fnet.net/~ellis/photo/linux.html
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From: Adrian Burd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: 24 Jun 1999 17:07:22 -0500
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adrian Burd wrote:
> >
> > Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > One should never update SuSE. One should always re-install SuSE
> > > completely.
> >
> > Curious...why is that? I ran the updates from 5.* to 6.0 and 6.0 to 6.1
> > and have not found any problems.
> >
> It started with teTeX not running, then step-by-step tcl/tk, gimp, ...
> gave up running. That was with three different systems.
> I don't know why that is, but I do know that I don't want to know. *If*
> I choose to upgrade a system, it should be smooth. If I'm forced to hack
> around, I'd rather compile my own system starting with a basic Debian.
Odd. I've never had any problem with any of those packages (or any
others) despite upgrading 3 or 4 times. I suppose it's a case of YMMV.
I agree with your philosophy though, which is why I switched to Suse
from Redhat.
--
____________________________________________________________
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Dpt. of Oceanography, | altum videtur.
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for which organisations that use spokespersons
are profoundly grateful.
_____________________________________________________________
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Where can I get free Linux CD?
Date: 24 Jun 1999 21:12:28 GMT
In <7ktrn2$ptf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Can anybody tell me where I can order free, or cheap, Linux CDs on the web?
>I'm a newbie (can't you tell?) who's hungry to get his hands on a disk.
>Please help. Thanks in advance!
Why would someone send you a free CD? The CDs themselves cost a dollar
or so. YOu can download it yourself, or you can order one for say $2
plus shipping from places like www.cheapbytes.com Note some places say
they will sell you ha free CD and then chanrge $10 for shipping.
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:03:25 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sym 53c416
Markus Wippel wrote:
>
> How can I get my ISA PNP Symbios Logic 53C416 SCSI controller work under
> Suse 6.1?
> When I run ISAPNP I get the message that there is a resource conflict,
> although there should not be one, when i try to run INSMOD ...../sym53c416.o
> it says something like "device is busy"
>
I guess you have to give it some command-line parameters. Check the
accompanying Documentation file (try help in make ...config to get a
clue of where it is in /usr/src/linux/Doc..)
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Belgarion)
Subject: Re: Archiver software wanted
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Jun 1999 14:34:02 PST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Melcher wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I am looking for an archiver software with a special requirement:
>The program should be optimized to fetch single files out of a large
>archive consisting of many files. This should happen very fast. I
>imagine that for this task the archive should contain a header where
>the position of each file within the archive is written. As far as I
>know archiver like ar, tar and cpio just stick the single files one
>ofter another so that the archiver program has to search until the end
>of the archive if the reauired file is just at the end. Any
>suggestions?
I could be wrong, but I believe that the RAR archiver does
this, and I know there is a unix version of this compressor. However,
it's intent isn't to be fast, it's to compress VERY well. Although, I
imagine if you aren't intending to compress and only archive that this
should be a non-issue.
--
Erik Hollensbe/AKA Belgarion
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
remove "admin" and "127.0.0.1" to reply via email
"I'm sick of limiting myself, to meet your definition..." - Incubus, "Redefine"
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Children's Software
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:16:38 GMT
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:09:18 -0700, wrote :
j> Robert Heller wrote:
j> > The roaches can be squished. Toss on a collection of random windows
j> > (say with a simple Tcl/Tk program) that can be moved about to find the
j> > roaches (which 'hide' under windows). All sorts of possibilities...
j>
j> hehehe I had never gave it much of a chance I guess...I hadn't realized
j> there was actually any point to that program :P
Yeah. xroach, like xbill, is a virtual variation of the arcade games
that work for the 4-8 year-old set, but the older kids and adults have no
interest in -- these are the "stomp 'em" games -- there is a table top
where some kind of critters pop up through holes and the object is to
pound the critters back into their holes with some kind of club.
Putting xroach on your X display is interesting for about 5 minutes and
then you go back to what you had before. I serious doubt that any
serious user puts xroach in their .xinitrc or .Xclients file, but I
expect that including in child's .xinitrc or .Xclients would be
something to keep the kid interested. Probably exactly the thing to
have around when the kid hits the 'Print' button and to have something
to do while waiting for the printout of their 'masterpiece'.
j>
j> > Opps. I forgot. Here it is:
j> >
j> > http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller/Workshop/Fish.tcl.gz
j>
j> Yeah, that is pretty good.
j> >
j> >
j> > --
j> > \/
j> > Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
j> > http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
j> > http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
j>
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: libs all around
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:58:10 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have some questions about the linux-library-system. My system has
different directories stuffed with all sorts of librarys. For example,
these files (among other) populate my /usr/X11R6/lib:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83799 Aug 25 1997 libXmu.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 25 1997 libXmu.so.6 ->
libXmu.so.6.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83799 Aug 25 1997 libXmu.so.6.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27875 Aug 25 1997 libXp.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 25 1997 libXp.so.6 ->
libXp.so.6.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27875 Aug 25 1997 libXp.so.6.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82734 Jun 25 00:35 libXpm.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 25 00:36 libXpm.so.4 ->
libXpm.so.4.11*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82734 Jun 25 00:35 libXpm.so.4.11*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82734 Jun 25 00:35 libXpm.so.4.7*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309470 Aug 25 1997 libXt.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 25 1997 libXt.so.6 ->
libXt.so.6.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309470 Aug 25 1997 libXt.so.6.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18640 Aug 25 1997 libXtst.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Aug 25 1997 libXtst.so.6 ->
libXtst.so.6.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18640 Aug 25 1997
libXtst.so.6.1*
Most libs have three files: libXfoo.so, libXfoo.so.v.w and libXfoo.so.v
which is a soft link to the second file.
Question:
What exactly does each of this files, which are needed, etc? What is the
idea behind this constellation?
And in particular:
This libXpm.so.4.7, is it redundant?
--
Groeten,
Vic
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Reply-To: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: 24 Jun 1999 22:24:31 GMT
X-Newsreader: ProNews/2 Version 1.00
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:18:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Carmen) wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:01:31 +0000, yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I changed from NT server to Linux server 6 months ago. I achieved 99.8%
> >uptime in the last 6 months; the one time the system was unavailable
> >(for 3 hours - I was out of town) was due to the fact that I screwed up
> >the hosts file. This on a budget of $0 and a total time of maybe 40
> >hours.
> >
> >The NT installation prior to that would crash regularly. I took to
> >rebooting it every weekend, and sometimes it would not come up. (I
> >blame most of this on R&RAS, which is the worst POS I've ever seen in a
> >production environment. I've seen alpha stuff that is more stable and
> >better documented.)
>
> While it's very easy to bash NT and come up with amazing statistics
> supporting either operating system, I should mention that NT is very
> stable if you do a proper install on certified hardware and don't load
> it up with a bunch of crap.
>
This seems to be a recurring argument re all flaky NT-boxes. And frankly, I
find it completely b*ll*cks. I'm sure that if you don't load anything, even
Windows 3.0 will look like a stable operating environment. I've always
assumed it's the operating system's job to shield us from crap. Linux does
that, OS/2 does that, so why can't NT?
Not that I really care about NT's stability, mind you. It's not very likely
I'll ever bother to use it.
[snip]
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_ibm_dot_net
===============================================================
"I wonder what'll happen if I do this," mused Stibbons.
..
DON'T YOU WISH NOW YOU HADN'T DONE THAT ?
(Terry Pratchett - Apprentomancer - the B-space collection)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:44:44 GMT
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:23:33 -0700, "Chad Mulligan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anthony Ord wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:25:23 -0700, "Chad Mulligan"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Chewbury Gubbins wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>><snip>
>>>>How many servers are required to dual boot?
>>>
>>>Some in testing environments (low budget variety)
>>
>>You have a test machine with real data that you wish to keep
>>on? Brave...
>>
>
>Well, haven't lost any yet. :^p
You will...
Regards
Anthony
--
=========================================
| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:44:49 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:02:54 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) writes:
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Chewbury Gubbins wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>>>>How many servers are required to dual boot?
>>>
>>>Some in testing environments (low budget variety)
>
>>You have a test machine with real data that you wish to keep
>>on? Brave...
>
>Don't forget the "low budget testing environment" Mindcraft had.... They
>dual-booted their Quad-Xeon box (which of course made for a lousy benchmark
>right there and then --- those hard disks are not really behaving the same
>over their whole capacity).
Perhaps they had to borrow it. After all they were on the
Microsoft campus, and www.microsoft.com type boxes are the
most numerous. I'm sure nobody would notice *one* missing.
>Bernie
Regards
Anthony
--
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| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
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: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:44:51 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:41:36 +1200, "Stuart Fox"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> 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!
>> inded!
>>
>Yes, because they couldn't be sure that DR-DOS would support Windows. And I
>believe the code was removed in the final release...
No it wasn't. It's still there. It still unencrypts itself
and runs. It has just been "defanged" so the "error" box
doesn't pop up.
There were concerns in the higher echelons in Microsoft
about what Digital Research would do to them in court if
they tied MS-DOS and Windows together in this way.
They weren't rich enough in those days to buy things like
that.
Ironically Caldera (son of Digital Research) is taking them
to court about them tying MS-DOS and Windows together. I
have heard that Microsoft estimates that it will cost at
least $1.2 billion to settle. Probably more if the evidence
already accumulated is released (again in their estimation).
Regards
Anthony
--
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| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:44:52 GMT
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:15:01 -0700, "Chad Mulligan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Joseph T. Adams wrote in message <7kagpp$lp0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Chad Mulligan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>:
>>: They achieved the 99.8% availability of the site, with a very heavy load.
>>:
>>: But you can draw your own conclusions.
>>
>>I certainly will. :)
>>
>>99.8% availability is abominable, even for a single machine.
>>
>>That means most of a full day of downtime per calendar year (0.73 days
>>to be precise), and this could be all at once or (more likely) spread
>>over time. *Planned* downtime in that quantity may not be bad, but
>>unplanned downtime in any amount is simply not acceptable to those who
>>need to use the system during that downtime.
>>
>
>A point that in MS's design is invisible to the customer.
>
>>A busy, important, commercial Web site should have no single point of
>>failure and hence no downtime at all, and therefore 100.0000%
>>availability. Unplanned downtime should be measured in parts per
>>million (i.e., seconds per year). All unplanned downtime, no matter
>>how slight, should be diagnosed, and those responsible for repeated
>>incidents of the same kind should be directed toward a more suitable
>>career, one in which they are not grossly incompetent.
>>
>
>Try this, MS has a large site (for our purposes site == server) built of a
>large collection of machines. These machines achieve a 99.8% uptime, the
>site is there all the time because the machine's are analogous to a raid
>array with mirrored hot swap options. A drive can go down but your server
>doesn't, in our purposes here a machine can go down the server (== site )
>doesn't.
I believe at this point, you may have confused yourself. You
actually got it right at the top of the message (The very
first line). These machines do not achieve 99.8% uptime. The
*site as a whole* does. This 99.8% is *with* all the
mirroring. This means that the site is unavailable for 0.2%
of the time. Any customer trying to use the site during this
time will see the downtime. It doesn't sound much, but it
more than half a day per year.
>>Maybe Microsoft's customers, who tend to be technically illiterate
>>anyway, are wowed by these kinds of stats. Professional Webmasters
>>are not. They know that even PC-class hardware can easily achieve
>>orders of magnitude better performance than this, although Microsoft's
>>site is big enough that it should be using better than PC-class
>>harware and operating systems, and would be both more reliable and
>>more cost-effective if it did.
>>
>That's a fairly obtuse statement. Given eBay's recent dependence on such a
>"better machine" implementation.
The alternative is for Microsoft to contract to IBM who
offer a 99.9% service, or money off your next renewal.
>>Joe
Regards
Anthony
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From: Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: go back and forward in directory tree
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:06:45 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot, guys.
It's this sort of simple things that makes life easy! I wonder why this
isn't in the 'help cd'...
--
Groeten,
Vic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan McGuigan)
Subject: partition size not correct
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:24:22 GMT
Hi, I seem to be having a weird problem. I partitioned my drive so that
my ext2 partition is 5.5 gigs. I even specified +5500M when I partitioned
it, so I didn't fsck up the size... After formatting it, df says that the
partition is 11 gigs... What would cause this? Other than that it's
working fine, but I'm worried about what it will do when it runs out of
space but thinks it still has space left...
thanks,
Ryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Belgarion)
Subject: Re: Can't Locate ip_masq modules
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Jun 1999 16:12:09 PST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Horst Simon wrote:
>I had to re-install my linux do to disk failure, now I am getting for
>all my ip_masq_ftp, etc. modules the error :
>can't locate module ip_masq_ftp.
>
>It worked previously. I am running RH6.0 with Kernel 2.2.9.
>How can I get the modules back. Everything else is working
>ok.
>
If you have IP masquerading configured properly in your kernel
config dialogs, you should just be able to "make modules
modules_install" in the 2.2.9 kernel dir and that should work.
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: routing problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:10:11 +0200
Hello,
I have a little network :
(Win98)eth -- eth1(Linux)eth0 -- ISP
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0
00 eth1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0
00 eth1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
00 eth1
212.198.139.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
00 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0
00 lo
default gw.paris-139.cy 0.0.0.0 UG 0
00 eth0
But, when i try to ping the Linux box from the Win98, i get a ping
timeout.
I wonder whats wrong ?
Thanks for helping
Benjamin
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From: interzone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange message error....??!? dl_boot: mmap of /dev/zero failed!
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 01:10:08 +0200
Some programs on my Redhat5.2 (kernel2.3.6+kde) , don't work anymore
WordPerfect8 , acrobat Reader 3 et 4, Eagle (pcb design) before they
were working perfectly , but now when I launch one of them , I have
always the same error message:
dl_boot: mmap of /dev/zero failed!
What is it???
If someone can explain me from where it comes, it will be cool, because
I can't work anymore with all those programs....
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