Linux-Misc Digest #960, Volume #20 Thu, 8 Jul 99 01:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need help with modem setup! (Michel Catudal)
Backup via rdump linux->solaris slow (Morgan Fletcher)
Re: acroread segfault on startup (Tabman)
edquota can't set quota to more than 4000000 blocks (YEUNG WAI)
Re: TAR - Restore speed problem (Sandor Feher)
ISAPNP error when gamepad is plugged in? (Eric The Half A Bee)
Re: After Diskdruid; no working win95 fdisk/Partition Magic (Aris Cruz)
Re: kpackage won't install on RH 6.0. Help!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
vesafb: Frame Buffer consoles (William Burrow)
Re: TV Card (William Burrow)
Re: G'bye, comp.os.linux.* ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Kernel question (Tabman)
Re: Linux site with 100's of links ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (I R A Aggie)
Re: Lexmark 3200 (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: e-mail program (Michael Powe)
Re: WIN9X vs WINNT vs Linux (John Hind)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote! (Eric The Half A Bee)
Re: WIN9X vs WINNT vs Linux (John Hind)
"uptime" and load averages (Grant Kwok)
Re: SMP enabled apps for linux? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Bob Taylor")
Re: Newbie: aliases? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote! (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Please consider this... ("Galen S. Swint")
Re: CIA assassinations (Michel Catudal)
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with modem setup!
Date: 7 Jul 1999 21:18:03 -0500
"Francisco J. Diaz" wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and I have a SupraExpress 56i sp
>internal modem configured as Com port 2 IRQ 3 (no pnp setting, jumper-configured, I
>disabled COM2 in my bios setup) but it doesn't show under linux at all. I read the
>how-to's but can't configure it! Can anyone help me step by step on how to make this
>modem run under Linux? Thanks very much!
It is not a winmodem, winmodem being a trademark of 3-com
but it ain't much different. I fail to see How you could get it
to work on anything but winblows. Do you a favor and buy a
modem, a real one. CompUSA has a good one called Viking and
it's not very expensive. Get an external modem, they work the best.
By the way you message is just a long line. Quite annoying if we
don't have the news program set to wrap long lines.
--
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use Linux for safe and quick internet access
use Winblows to test the latest viruses
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history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Backup via rdump linux->solaris slow
From: Morgan Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Jul 1999 19:11:43 -0700
My worksite has a backup system where a central solaris 2.5.1 server
rsh-es into various other UNIX boxes (Solaris, HPUX and AIX) and does
an rdump similar to this:
/sbin/rdump -0 -u -b 32 -s 1000000 -f ale:/dev/rmt/1hn /scm
I recently added a linux box to the network (debian 2.1, kernel
2.0.36), and the sysadmin tried adding two of it's ext2 partitions
(taking up most of a 2GB SCSI disk) to the backup routine. Rdump is
much slower on the linux box, to the point of being unusable. We found
storage speeds in the range of 80k/sec across a 10base-t connection. I
can ftp files between the two machines at ~900k/sec, and another
solaris box rdumps at ~690k/sec, so it's not the network. We've tried
playing with the blocksize figure, but we see only minor
changes. We've also seen errors like this in the backup report:
short read error from /dev/sda1: [block -2012730776]: count=1024, got=0
bread: lseek2 fails!
Any idea for a fix or at least a diagnosis? This is enough of a hiccup
that I will have to abandon linux as a platform for the task I have in
mind if I can't solve it. I'm not looking for suggestions of alternate
backup methods - for linux to work it has to fit within the current
backup paradigm.
Thanks in advance!
morgan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tabman)
Subject: Re: acroread segfault on startup
Date: 8 Jul 1999 02:50:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Jul 1999 22:41:17 GMT, W M Brelsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Suddenly the Adobe Acrobat Reader coredumps with a segfault on
>startup on both my Redhat 5.1 machines. (It used to work, and I
>haven't changed anything..) Upgrading (from 3.0 to 4.0) didn't
>help.
>
>Any idea what I might have done to cause this? Or how to fix it?
I had this same problem before. The problem was caused by setting my
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. When I unset it, acroread worked fine. BTW, I was
also getting this same problem with xpdf.
Try:
% unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
% acroread
in a shell ( I'm assuming you're using tcsh. )
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From: YEUNG WAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: edquota can't set quota to more than 4000000 blocks
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 09:26:03 +0800
I try to set a user quota using edquota command. When I set a user
quota to more than 4,000,000 blocks, it always changes to a strange
number after I save it. Is it there any limitation on the user quota, and
any way to change this limitation?
I am running RH 6.0 on Intel PC.
Thanks
David Yeung
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From: Sandor Feher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TAR - Restore speed problem
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:44:06 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hy Wayne and All!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm currently restoring data from a few DLT 35/70
> tapes for our main server. Specs: dual Xeon 500,
> 2GB RAM, RAID array, Adaptec 2944UW differential
> controller and a Quantum 7000 DLT tape drive.
> The tapes were made by another IS staff that said
> they used a basic 'tar cf' to write to the tape.
> On average they put about 10 machines on each
> tape. The problem comes in restoring them, it is
> pathetically sloooow. I have been using 'tar -
Upgrade your initscipts package. That is the root of the problem 8-).
by, Sanya
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric The Half A Bee)
Subject: ISAPNP error when gamepad is plugged in?
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 03:29:02 GMT
I`m curious to find out how to get around this. I happened to boot
Linux earlier today with my gamepad plugged in (after extensive
repairs. It wasn`t plugged in when I installed RH6). IsaPNP froze at
the start, and the boot got stuck on the sound module section. Turned
off, disconnected the pad, rebooted and it was fine.
Does anyone have any idea on how to resolve this problem?
I won't even start on what I have to do to get a PnP modem to install
properly once I install it...
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Something catchy should go here
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From: Aris Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: After Diskdruid; no working win95 fdisk/Partition Magic
Date: 8 Jul 1999 02:30:54 GMT
Try using fdisk in linux. Options are different, but it has more power.
sc0089 wrote:
>
> Hi, i'm running RH6 and Win95 and used diskdruid. When i tried to use
> win95 fdisk or Partition Magic(win95), my 'puter either spins it HD
> (using fdisk) or gives me an error message(PQmagic). How can I get
> both to work, i really miss my PM. thx.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: kpackage won't install on RH 6.0. Help!!
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 02:52:41 GMT
Hi Ed
As you're using Redhat 6.0, the KDE rpms should all be on your CD
Are you sure that they aren't already installed? I think I had to
choose to install KDE.
Boot up, start gnorpm and install the KDE rpm's from your CD
If not on your CD, download them from Redhat or one of its mirror
sites.
I'm still a newbie myself, and, to my embarrassment, am still
downloading linux rpm's and tar files via Win95, where I use the free
version of Gozilla (www.gozilla.com), which lets me continue broken
downloads no problem. I then (from linux) copy the files to my linux
hdd and install them.
Hope this helps
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:58:05 -0400, "Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\""
<*****@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>For some reason I can't get the rmp file for kpackage to open. I issued the
>thee rpm -i <file name> command and it responds can't open file. I tried
>the same file from different sites and got the same message. I am able to
>get other rpms to load. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>Ed
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: vesafb: Frame Buffer consoles
Date: 8 Jul 1999 03:12:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anybody using the VESA FB consoles feature? This works nifty, giving a
graphical boot logo and all, but switching from X back to consoles
breaks the consoles. :( Any tips for doing the switch successfully?
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Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: TV Card
Date: 8 Jul 1999 03:19:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:41:32 GMT,
Ed Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone gotten an Aimslab's Extreme98 to run under rh5.2 ?? I have tried
>using bttv and the patch that says it will enable this particular card, but
>the make doesn't complete. If anyone has any feedback I would really
>appreciate it.
Some people report success with the separate bttv driver, but IMHO if
the card is supported by kernel 2.2, do the upgrade and stop the
suffering.
If you would like a summary mini-HOWTO on getting your card to work,
send me an email.
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William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: G'bye, comp.os.linux.*
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 03:31:31 GMT
"D.J. Birchall" wrote:
>
> Well folks, it looks like I won't be being my usual helpful self
> here in comp.os.linux.* anymore - or at least not from this address.
> As my boss put it in a lengthy memo to me this morning:
>
> When I review your time sheets I find it distressing to see you
> spending hours of time a day with "Mail and News"...
>
> I'm also not allowed to use my Linux laptop for work any more.
> So, in the interest of spending more time doing the things that he
> wants me to do (i.e. generating money), I'm going to have to stop
> doing the things I like to do (i.e. being helpful to Linux folks on
> Usenet and thus generating goodwill for the company). I hope
> everyone won't take this the wrong way, and will continue to think
> of DigitalFM as a place where helpful people work. Maybe some
> folks who'd like to do business with helpful people will even
> remember us when the time comes. :)
>
> But for now, I'm dropping off Usenet from this address, and will
> be posting from my personal (home) address instead.
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> _.-.-o-.-._ From the Linux laptop of D. Birchall, V.P. of Technology
> _\-\/:\/-/_ Digital Facilities Management, 132 Kings Hwy E Suite A-1
> ,\/~:~\/. Haddonfield, NJ - 856.4294777 - http://www.digitalfm.com
> ~ '~-:-~` ~ We Work the Web - Design, Hosting, Extranets, E-Commerce
Sorry to see you go Dan. Since you're gonna have some extra
time on your hands how about going up to Big John's on Rt 70
in Cherry Hill and picking up a few cheesesteaks for me - I
need some Jersey soulfood.
Bill
(formerly of Cherry Hill/Collingswood)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tabman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel question
Date: 8 Jul 1999 03:09:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 09:18:16 GMT, Chris Raper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:09:47 +0300, "Alexander"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I am shure that someone has already face the problem like this. I installed
>>RedHat 5.2 from CD, then recompiled the kernel. New kernel boots, but
>>doesn't
>>want to mount root filesystem. Error message looks like:
>>VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
>>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
>
>Hi Alexander
>
>I had this one a few days ago after upgrading to 2.2.9. At the time I
>did extensive tests (aka. clutching at straws!) in 'make menuconfig'
>switching various kernel modules on or off and finally found out that
>my SCSI adapter was being listed as a module (<M>) but when I changed
>to include it in the kernel itself (<*>) it worked fine. Then by just
>switching just this to a module again it brought up the error.
>
>I therefore deduced that the driver that allows access to your
>boot-disk controller should be included in the kernel rather than made
>a module - sounds logical.
>
Hi Chris.
This could explain the problem I'm having mounting a second MSDOS partition.
I keep getting errors about 'bad superblock or too many filesystems
mounted'. This worked when I had RedHat 5.2 installed, and I'm pretty sure
that I had the MSDOS support compiled into the kernel.
But I have another much more serious problem. I working in DOS, writting
to my D: drive ( /dev/hda2 ). When I rebooted into Linux, /usr/bin was
totally screwed up. 'file' said that all files in /usr/bin were data files.
I ran fsck, and there were *tons* of errors. I cleaned it all up, but I
still have the same problem. Everything in /sbin is fine. Here's my
partition table:
/dev/hda1 1 32 FAT16 # DOS C:
/dev/hda2 33 64 FAT16 # DOS d:
/dev/hda3 64 96 Linux # unused for now
/dev/hda4 97 784 Extended
/dev/hda5 97 105 Linux Swap
/dev/hda6 106 306 Linux # /usr/local
/dev/hda7 307 784 Linux # /
What's interesting is that hda1 and hda2 didn't have the same number of
blocks ( /dev/hda1 = 257008+ /dev/hda2 = 257040 ) implying that hda1 (
which was created in DOS ) doesn't end on a cylinder boundry. hda2, was also
created in DOS.
BTW, I can mount /dev/hda1 without any problems.
Any ideas ?
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux site with 100's of links
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 03:38:26 GMT
arty wrote:
>
> Hi
> check out my Linux site. I really put a lot of work into this
>
> Thanks
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Homepage:
> Hundreds of links to Linux software, news, and general sites
> http://nj5.injersey.com/~arty3
> --------------------------------------------------------------
Looks pretty good.
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Park not thy Harley in the darkness of thine garage, that it
may collect dust for want of being oft ridden. Ride thy
Harley
with thy brethren, and rejoice in the spirit of the road.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Aggie)
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?
Date: 7 Jul 1999 20:59:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Jul 1999 18:38:32 GMT, Fredrich P. Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<7m06r8$lgm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ from WWII. As for the USA benefitting from WWII, have you even *read*
+ history concerning the war and just how many US troops died? If I remember
+ the population numbers of England correctly, it was more than your entire
+ country (not just your combat dead, but your whole country).
In a word: Bullshit. The costliest US war, in terms of lives lost was the
US Civil War. Please stop while you're behind.
James
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark 3200
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 22:08:52 +0200
Hi,
thanks for the little difference! But I really didn't know about the
mentioned differences.
Ulrich
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// \______//
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: e-mail program
Date: 07 Jul 1999 20:48:19 -0700
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Ehlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stefan> In article <01bec5a9$e3cf2160$8973adc1@default>, "pico"
Stefan> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is there a user friendly e-mail program for Linux?
Stefan> Perhaps EXMH (http://www.beedub.com/exmh/) is what you are
Stefan> looking for. The following is from the honmepage:
MH is an excellent mail client, the best I've found so far. I tried
setting up exmh just for giggles but it's broken -- it won't do a scan
of my folders. But I'm happy with MH, anyway. It's fast, it's
efficient and I can keep track of my mail without having to run a
separate program. (Of course, it's integrated into emacs, God's Own
Editor (tm).)
However, I think that when someone says "user-friendly," what they
really mean is, "I want a pointy-clicky, lightweight program for
casual usage." The MH motto is, "How to handle 200 mail messages a
day and still get real work done." Not the same thing.
mp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hind)
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.win95
Subject: Re: WIN9X vs WINNT vs Linux
Date: 8 Jul 1999 04:30:28 GMT
There is a windows emulator for LINUX which will allow
you to run EXCEL (and WORD), see http://www.winehq.com/ .
It provides:
Support for loading DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 binaries
Support for Win16 and Win32 function calls
16 and 32 bit x86 code
Large interrupt library for programs using real-mode INTxx
calls
Advanced thunking capabilities
Optional use of external vendor DLLs
In article <7m09ek$25$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>I work at a university and are regularly upgrading PC's in
the departments I
>support. The offices we support the PC's are used by staff
and are not
>student labs. We currently are running Windows 95 on most
PCs, a few with
>Windows 98, and fewer with Windows NT. Most of our users
just require the
>basics; word processing, spread sheets, web browser, and
email. Since we
>use PeopleSoft some of our users need Excel. We are now
trying to decide
>what might be the best path for the future. We had talked
about going,
>eventually, to Windows 2000, but now are looking at Linux
for the basic
>users. If we decide on 2000 should be ordering NT now to
make the upgrade
>easier or is 98 better? Is Linux better than either one
with maybe the
>ones needing Excel staying with Windows? Any suggestions
or insights will
>be welcome.
>Thank you,
>Kayla Kittleson
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric The Half A Bee)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote!
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 03:56:57 GMT
At some point on Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:29:46 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger) put forth the
following:
>Although somewhat insignifigant, this isn't OT :>
My personal opinion is regional dialects dictate how it`s pronounced.
I know the "official" pronunciation rhymes with cynics (at least
according to stuff i`ve read), but everyone I know says LIEnux. Me, I
call it "the piece of software that will soon push Windoze down the
rank of jumped up Gameboy":)
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Something catchy should go here
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hind)
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.win95
Subject: Re: WIN9X vs WINNT vs Linux
Date: 8 Jul 1999 04:40:20 GMT
Actually most of the Microsoft office apps run using
WINE on LINUX. Some LINUX distributions (CALDERA) come
pre-configured with KDE which is a windows 98 like
desktop complete with a file explorer that doubles as
an HTML/FTP client, Star office which is file compatable
with office 97, Netscape Communicator 4.51, and a raft
of other applications (including a 3270 emulator and
a photoshop clone) and servers (web,mail,file/print,..).
In article <OTo2GyLy#GA.259@cppssbbsa05>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Kayla,
>
>The apps that you mention are probably easiest supported
with Microsoft.
>LINUX would be tough to find these apps for, harder still to
share the files
>you create with others in the rest of the Microsoft
dominated world. LINUX
>would be a good solution only if money is a HUGE concern.
>...
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From: Grant Kwok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "uptime" and load averages
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:24:13 -0700
Hi,
Can someone explain what the load averages really mean in real life?
For example, when should I be worrying about the performance of a
server, when the load average hits 10? 20? 50? I rarely see my machine
go over 2. How do these numbers get calculated anyway?
Thanks.
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP enabled apps for linux?
Date: 06 Jul 1999 13:20:10 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
compile your kernel with 'make -j'. Otherwise, there are lots of
threaded apps.
-ckm
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bob Taylor")
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:31:30 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) writes:
> On 06 Jul 1999 12:33:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul
> D. Smith) wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>Maybe you guys should let go of your knee-jerk prejudices WRT the
>>intelligence and attitudes of U.S. posters, and try to think more
>>carefully about what you read before reacting to it.
>>
>>Quite obviously the original comment meant that it wasn't a _world_
>>war until the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany declared war on the
>>U.S. Before that, it was mainly a European war.
>
> So let me see - excluding Europe and going for the bigger
> countries I can think of from the top of my head...
>
> Canada was involved, India was involved, Japan was involved,
> China was involved, the Soviet Union was involved, South
> Africa was involved, Australia / New Zealand were involved -
> and it was a mainly European war...
Let's see:
1. Canada belonged to Britain.
2. India belonged to Britain.
3. South Africa belonged to Britain.
4. Australia belonged to Britain.
5. New Zealand belonged to Britain.
> What was this about the intelligence of US posters?
What was this about the intelligence of the British? :-)
> And of course it only became a World War when the United
> States of America (with no other country) became involved.
It became a World War whenever it is *defined* to be one.
> What was this about the attitude of US posters?
What was this about the attitude of UK posters?
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: aliases?
Date: 07 Jul 1999 20:41:24 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the default shell in linux is bash, not csh like you're probably used
to. The bash equiv. of a csh
alias newcmd 'oldcmd options'
is
alias newcmd='oldcmd options'
Of course, you could just make csh your default...but why?
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote!
Date: 07 Jul 1999 20:55:35 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Benkmann) writes:
> Since this thread is obviously OT, I thought I'd take the opportunity
> to ask how you pronounce the names of other Unices (or is it Unixes).
> Irix: Eye Rix, Irrix or even Iris (is it named after some special
> girl?)
Eye-Ricks
> HP-UX: eytsh pee ucks ??
HP You-Ex
> Solaris: Solaahris or Solerris (and which syllable to pronounce)
Solaahris is a West Coast thing I think (meaning, I pronounce it that way)
> Xenix (does this one still exist?): Zee Nix or Zennix
Crap
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce
Date: 07 Jul 1999 20:49:46 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for you...
-ckm
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From: "Galen S. Swint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please consider this...
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:32:24 -0500
Believe it or not, my first experience was porting Solar System
simulation from Digital Unix to Linux. That was 2 years ago. Since x86
boxes are getting fast and SMP, it is getting reasonable to do that.
(As a matter of fact I am waiting on a power supply so I can set up
Linux and do more simulations.)
Our physics department is also contemplating putting Linux on some
research Suns and Alphas.
Galen Swint
"Christopher R. Carlen" wrote:
>
> FYI,
>
> At the following website, Intusoft requests people to comment on whether
> Intusoft should develop a Linux version of their software (SPICE
> electrical simulation software).
>
> Lets get more scientific and engineering computer users into the Linux
> world!
>
> Check out:
>
> <http://www.intusoft.com/>
>
> --
> _____________________________
> Christopher R. Carlen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My OS is Linux 2.0.29
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 7 Jul 1999 20:57:04 -0500
Richard Kulisz wrote:
>
> In article <7lutit$t5g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>It's hysterical when people defend the CIA from actions it's already
> >>admitted its guilt to!
> >
> >No: Allende was killed in his palace by an ariel bombardment ordered by
> >Pinochet. How
> >did the CIA manage to assasinate him then? CNN in a recent series
> >showed the film of
> >the bombardment.
>
> And we all know what *MAGNIFICENT* reporting CNN does!! Did they show
> Allende's broken body? Cause even then I'd suspect they lie. The CIA
> already admitted it killed him, dozens of books have been written on
> the subject, what more do you want?
Indeed CNN does great reporting, one of the best in the world.
As for the commies in Chile it was an infortunate event but
then what kind of atrocities would have been had the commies
stayed in power we'll never know.
Now that the Pinochet regime and commies regimes are out of the
way people should concentrate on the future of Chile instead
of trying to put blame on someone else than the parties involved
in that conflict.
In conclusion :
I fail to see what the heck this has to do with Linux ...
Let's stick to some interesting subject concerning what most
of us are here for.
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