Linux-Misc Digest #135, Volume #21 Fri, 23 Jul 99 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
LaTeX to info ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Re: Marx vs. Nozick ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Re: My Linux box was hacked! ("K.HAIGH-HUTCHINSON")
Re: src.rpm vs rpm ("Youngert")
Re: Root Window Fun. (Alan.J.Thackray)
Linux friendly ISPs (Dhiraj Kacker)
Looking for Mini/HOWTO to Upgrade/Update SuSE-6.1 CD Set ("BunBi")
Re: Good IRC client for Linux? (Mark Howson)
Re: Relicensing code which was licensed ala BSD or X11. (Paul Hughett)
Latest version of CHAT? (Mike Bartman)
Re: text load logging utility
Re: CIA assassinations ("Joseph T. Adams")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Eric Iverson)
Re: Linux only use 1% of my CPU??? (gus)
Re: No email to AOL (Robert Nichols)
Re: settime?! (Gary Momarison)
Re: Oracle 8 DB & Linux 6.0: mount points (Arnold Schommer)
Re: Does anybody know a short technical guide to ext2? ("Groman")
Re: Zipslack vs DosLinux??? (Adam)
Acid sound software (David L. Bilbey)
logging box? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux? ("JANA")
Re: Gnome under SuSE question (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot. (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Undo disk format? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: named question (Errin Watusikac)
linux on toshiba tecra 8000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 04:10:29 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) writes:
> And you better re-read this this thread. A lot of the people who use Linux
> and other OS's aside from than myself thought Kruse's comments concerning
> MS-CHAP was silly.
seems to me thatn linux is capable of MS-CHAP. pppsetup that comes
with slack asks if you need it. I mean, sure its another example of
an MS "enhanced" protocol....but unlike some others, this one we seem
able to communicate through.
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Subject: LaTeX to info
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 04:42:05 -0700
Is there any way to turn LaTeX source into info browsable
files? There are SEVERAL books written in LaTeX which I
want to be able to browse in xemacs info. I have grown
very fond of it as a documentation browsing system.
One of the books, Linux Networking Guide, looked like it had a
make option for it...but was uncompilable...bad source tree apperently.
The other book, Common Lisp the Language, is so damn big that I want to
be sure it will be possible before I go to the trouble of grabbing it.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 04:07:43 -0700
"Robert Voppmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is FUD an example of then ???
A last ditch effort to ruin the competition by making them look bad to
prospective costomers.
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From: "K.HAIGH-HUTCHINSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:57:49 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 13 Jul 1999 01:05:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Long)
> wrote:
>
> >bash_history of the hacker, which shows they attempted to format one of
> >my hard drives. He doesn't seem to understand unix very well (he even
> >tried to use the "format" command!). As that hard drive was mounted and
>
> hehe.. I think "rm -rf /" works much better..
>
> Charlie
My linux box is paranoid. It has ALL:ALL in the /etc/hosts.deny file,
tcp wrappers in the inetd.conf and if you are very, very nice to me, and
you have oodles of reasons, written out in triplicate on a postage
stamp, you can get into my /etc/hosts.allow file.
I have lots of visits from hackers, according to my /var/log/secure
file, but they don't get a connection.
Kathy HH
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From: "Youngert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: src.rpm vs rpm
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:32:23 -0400
Kelley Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:16:32 -0400, Arun Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What is the difference between a src.rpm and rpm? Does a src.rpm just
> > include source code as well as binaries?
>
> You're pretty much on target, there. A source rpm usually contains:
>
> * a spec file
> * pristine sources for a program
> * patches for the source
> * init scripts, default configs, or any other extras
>
> You can (theoretically ;-) install a source rpm and go to the SPECS
directory
> and run rpm -ba foo.spec to rebuild the package from scratch. You
probably
> will only need to worry about it if you are trying to make an RPM for some
> software or you want to see what the package maintainer has done to the
> software.
>
Or, you can also do:
1. rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm to rebuild the binary package.
2. rpm --recompile foo.src.rpm to recompile the source code.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You can find out more information on RPM over at http://www.rpm.org/
>
> Take it easy,
>
>
> --
> Kelley Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sic Semper Tyrannis.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan.J.Thackray)
Subject: Re: Root Window Fun.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:33:50 GMT
Isn't it
xloadimage
or
xsetroot
Try a "man" on these. I'm not on Unix today so I can't check
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:11:40 -0700, Crimson Maw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>I need a command that can display JPGs on the root window for X11R6. Xli
>dosen't work and xpmroot only works for XPM files ARGH!
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Or my book 'Branagans Big Book of War'"
> -Zack Branagan
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From: Dhiraj Kacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux friendly ISPs
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:45:09 -0500
Hello everyone,
I was looking for comments on Linux friendly ISPs, i.e.
ISPs that offer support and help with Linux setup OR
"standard" ppp scripts without much tweaking can be used
to connect. In particular, I'd like to know how good the
following ISPs are :
1. Earthlink
2. Att World Net
3. Compuserve
(these are the ones that have local access numbers in my area).
I presently use Prodigy, but their connection speeds are very slow.
Comments about other ISPs are also welcome.
(BTW, I was shocked to learn that MSN does not have a 800 number
tech support. On second thoughts, I should have expected a
900 number !!!).
Thanks in advance for your time.
-dhiraj
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From: "BunBi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for Mini/HOWTO to Upgrade/Update SuSE-6.1 CD Set
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:50:41 -0400
If I have the RedHat distribution CDs on a CD-RW media and are using the
distribution, I can easily upgrade the CD once the RedHat has put out the
upgrade files based on the RedHat CD Mini-HOWTO. However, now that I am
using SuSE-6.1 and the SuSE site also has the upgrade files, how can I
upgrade my SuSE CD set? Is there a similar SuSE CD mini-HOWTO?
I certainly would appreciate if you have some scripts that can be use to
upgrade the SuSE CD set and would like to share it. Thanks.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS. Please remove 4m from the reply address.
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From: Mark Howson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.irc.questions
Subject: Re: Good IRC client for Linux?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:25:19 +0100
root wrote:
> Does anyone know of an X based irc client for Linux that can
> connect through proxy server like WinProxy.
Turn on the 'socks' protocol in your proxy (Winproxy, at least, supports
this) then use something like xchat + socks.
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hughett)
Subject: Re: Relicensing code which was licensed ala BSD or X11.
Date: 23 Jul 1999 14:05:36 GMT
Bryan S. Doyle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[deletia]
: For those overly literal readers that say "as long as I do exactly what
: the license says I must do (keep notices and license copy) the license
: doesn't explicitly prohibit me from imposing my own terms in a new
: license", I say this: If you can, in effect, change the terms of the
: license, you can render the license of no effect, since you merely need
: to make a modification, relicense it, including a term which permits new
: licensees to remove all reference to the original licensors, including
: copyright statements. Surely no court would allow that and I believe
: no court would allow you to impose any terms which would not permit
: licensees to honor the license of any who still owns part of the IP.
: A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION --
: So -- please explain how one can construe an X11 license to mean that
: one must keep the permission notice (the old license), but needn't keep
: the permissions (by imposing a new license). I truly want to know.
Copyright is what is called a negative right--it is the right to
prevent others from copy or modifying the work, or creating derivative
works. If you create a derivate work, as the X11 or BSD licenses permit
you to do, then both you and the original author have a copyright in
the derived work, and the right to prohibit others from copying it.
That is, a third party's rights consist of the _intersection_ of the
rights granted by the orginal license and your license. In effect,
you can only add restrictions, you cannot remove them.
Paul Hughett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Bartman)
Subject: Latest version of CHAT?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:17:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've found a nice dialing script, but the version of CHAT that came
with my Red Hat 5.2 distribution doesn't like it. Man page claims I
have version 1.17, but the script says it needs at least version 1.9.
I've searched the web and so far haven't found anyplace that has CHAT
available for download (although there are dozens of places with IRC
clients called "chat-this" or "that-chat"...). Does anyone know where
I can find the latest ad greatest, or even the maintainer's home?
-- Mike "be nice if CHAT could provide it's version number..." Bartman
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: text load logging utility
Date: 23 Jul 1999 14:30:09 GMT
Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> does anyone know of a utlity I can use to generate a logfile the load on my machine?
>> Just a simple line with cpu and mem usage every few minutes
>> or so, I can't seem to find anythign useful by apropos or in my searches
>> on the web.
> Something like this should do you fine. It gives the load average and
> memory usage on alternate lines. To get at what the memory lines "mean"
> you'll have to do "cat /proc/meminfo" once.
> #!/bin/sh
> echo " " >> load.log
> date >> load.log
> while true
> do
> uptime >> load.log
> grep Mem: /proc/meminfo >> load.log
> uptime
> sleep 60
> done
Even more efficient to remove the while loop and create a crontab
to run the script every x minutes...
Have fun,
Frans.
--
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PGP Key: http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~gumpu/key.txt
Fingerprint: 27B5 7FAA 7DFF 8A91 56DC 1D72 7035 867C C98C 7DBC
GalaxyNG: http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~galaxyng
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 23 Jul 1999 15:02:41 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: You, sir, are an idiot. The only thing I've dictated is that it was obvious
: to the most brain-dead twerp that an extra car is not a necessity. Bravo,
: you've just disproved it.
Suppose my wife cannot get to her medical treatments, without which
she will die, without her car. I cannot get to my job, without which
I cannot afford to pay for those treatments, without mine.
Therefore, our second car is a necessity, even by your ridiculously
twisted definition.
You are an ass.
Joe
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From: Eric Iverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:12:22 -0400
Jerome Jahnke wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Odd H. Sandvik) wrote:
>
> > In article <hHWh3.484$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Woody says...
> > > Odd H. Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > There are many reasons to hate Steve Jobs. Personally I hate
> > > > him for killing CHRP and BeOS PPC.
> >
> > > Killing CHRP and clones makes sense because at this stage
> > > of the game Apple makes it's money selling hardware. There
> > > just wasn't a viable business model to allowing other
> > > hardware manufacturers to eat Apple's lunch without
> > > expanding the market.
Letting CHRP live would've taken the R&D expense off of
Apple's shoulders. Apple also raised the cloner's liscensing
costs considerably, because they wanted make more money (I can't
think of a simpler way to put it).
> > Exactly. Apple couldn't compete, so they pulled the
> > plug rather than do the hard thing, get their hardware
> > up to snuff.
>
> Huh... The clones were killing Apple, the market wasn't expanding (i.e.
> new people weren't buying the cheaper clones) instead they were cutting
> into Apple's profits. The problem was price, not quality.
See my comments above.
So why is Apple making money now? Because of their low prices?
Their high prices? Their Mac hardware monopoly? Because of the iMac?
Because of Steve Jobs presence? Because of Microsoft's presence?
Would Apple make that kind of money with the cloners still around,
and Moto and IBM paying for CHRP R&D, and higher liscensing fees
being paid by the cloners?
>
> > > Nah; Steve Jobs didn't kill BeOS PPC. Be just
> > > decided it wasn't worth supporting, given the lack
> > > of engineering support they were getting from Apple.
> >
> > Sure, but it was an effect of Apple refusing to
> > support Be, so I blame Apple. Had Apple given Be
> > the technical documentation they wanted, I'm sure
> > BeOS PPC wouldn't be in jeopardy now.
>
> If the BeOS guys had any brains they would have figured out what to do by
> now. All the info is out there, they are too lazy to go get it. And you
> are stupid enough to fall for the old "It was Apples Fault" routine.
Of course they can figure it out--BeOS runs on non-Apple G3 upgrade
boards. They are also smart enough to know that without Apple's
blessing, they are open to a lawsuit from the much larger Apple.
Rather than being crushed, they go where they are welcome.
--Eric
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux only use 1% of my CPU???
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:36:38 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Gary Hallock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...] I have heard of cases where Linux will not see all memory by
> > default. There is a way to tell it how much memory you have but I don't
> > recall how you do it.
>
> Add something like `append="mem=128M"' to /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. Have
> a look at the BootPrompt-HOWTO for further info.
>
> Peter
> --
No need for mem=... in 2.2.x kernels. Sorts it out correctly without
help now.
gus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: No email to AOL
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:37:58 GMT
In article <7n89ke$h83$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols) writes:
:
:>I'm not sure of the underlying mechanism, but I found that when I made
:>an SMTP connection to a remote machine for the purpose of sending
:>outgoing mail I sometimes got back traffic intended not for me but for
:>another customer of my ISP, who I presume had previously connected to
:>that system and used the same IP address that I was now assigned.
:>
:Well, SMTP doesn't work that way. Say you want to e-mail me,
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The MTA at the sender's site looks up the MX for
:geeky1.ebtech.net, then contacts the MX directly. Period. Regardless of
:where my last message came from.
True, but if mymachine.interaccess.com connects to geeky1.ebtech.net for
any purpose, and geeky1.ebtech.net has SMTP traffic, perhaps deferred
because of a previous failure to connect, destined for
somebodyelse.interaccess.com, and geeky1.ebtech.net thinks it has a
cached IP address for somebodyelse.interaccess.com and does not realize
that the cached address is now assigned to mymachine.interaccess.com,
then the MTA at geeky1.ebtech.net may discover that it now has a route
to what it believes is somebodyelse.interaccess.com and send its
deferred traffic. Since the version of smail I was running did not have
the option of refusing to relay, it would accept that misdirected
traffic.
That might seem like a fairly improbable set of conditions, but I was
getting hit by it fairly often.
--
Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP public key 1024/9A9C7955
Key fingerprint = 2F E5 82 F8 5D 06 A2 59 20 65 44 68 87 EC A7 D7
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Subject: Re: settime?!
From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 08:27:56 -0700
Knuth Posern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> or what is another good way to set the time each hour or day?
Try "chrony". Quite sophisticated.
Find link in http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/clock.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Arnold Schommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oracle 8 DB & Linux 6.0: mount points
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:03:12 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Has anyone done the mount points? I've created four directories hoping
> to use the command "mount" somehow to make them work, but I don't really
> know what I'm doing so obviously it's not working. I'm using a bash shell,
> by the way.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Raquel
For a first try, just create directories /u001 ... and ignore the words
"mount point". The oracle software should work without seperate volumes.
I myself found the linux version of the oracle installer very unstable -
i more than once experienced it aborting an installation for reasons i
did not understand and running over the same point on my next try with
the same settings. But maybe this is just caused by my hardware
(although i have no further reason to believe it to be broken).
You should also try to follow the installation instructions - they are
hard to follow, but there are several things to be done without
ready-to-use scripts.
Arnold Schommer
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From: "Groman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Does anybody know a short technical guide to ext2?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:12:49 -0700
thanks anyway, but it didn't really help
www.ext2.org is a linux newsletter, and has
nothing on ext2 file system(at least as far as I dug, lol).
well, thanks anyway.
hog wrote in message ...
>http://www.ext2.org/
>
>Groman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> hello.
>> I was wondering, if anybody has or knows an URL of
>> a short(but complete) technical guide to ext2 file system.
>>
>> I just wanted to do an excercise, to write a program for dos
>> in assembly(I am currently learning assembly) that reads a
>> ext2 floppy and gives the file/directory tree.
>> I found several guides out there, but non were technical enough.
>> "File is represented in an inode" is not enough for me, or
>> "Each directory has a several file entry's for each file"
>> Entry's how?
>> Entry's how long?
>> Entry's Where..
>>
>> well, you know what i mean.
>>
>> groman. thanx in advance.
>>
>> p.s. please cc a copy to my e-mail address.
>>
>>
>
>
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From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Zipslack vs DosLinux???
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:31:14 GMT
Ok,
What is ELF? The documentation says the applications
need to be elf?
Which GUI package should I use. I am used to windoz so
I have to have a GUI I need small and simple to start.
Any where do I get a C compiler I need to figure out
how to write a CDRom driver.
Adam
Smed Brookwater wrote:
>
> Dude,
> I highly recommend DOSLINUX by Kent Robotti.
> This guy has done a great job of putting it all together.
> He's got great setup scripts and all the awesome little touches that
makes
> it so easily configurable.
> Trust me.
> It's easy to install....not real buggy and the guy will give you decent
> support if you should need it.
> He's got lots of README's and HOWTO's in all the right sports for you to
be
> up and running in a couple of hours.
> check it out.
> 5 stars in my book.
> Very expandable....even a script to D/L X and the GCC compiler.
> It great!!!!
>
> Smed Brookwater
>
>
>
> Adam wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I had redhat on my system, but I had to remove it cause I needed windoz
> >for work. :(
> >
> >I am still commited to installing Linux
> >And I have D: = 300mg
> >
> >I want to work on writing a cdrom driver(Panasonic KXL-783A)
> >but I like GUI.
> >
> >So I need a fast/small kernel/version that will ride on dos
> >a fast/small desktop environment & c IDE.
> >
> >Which is the best Zipslack or DosLinux???
> >Or am I way off and both are not what I am looking for.
> >Are there other choices?
> >
> >And If I write a CDRom driver for these versions are will it
> >be compatable with regular linux.
> >
> >
> >------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> > http://www.searchlinux.com
>
>
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http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Acid sound software
Date: 23 Jul 1999 15:53:02 GMT
A friend of mine is buying a computer, mostly for doing sound work. He
uses a program called Acid under Win9x. He seems interested in Linux when
I tell him about it, and he asks me if there are any programs like Acid for
Linux. I have checked out Dave Phillips' page and some others. The
problem is that I don't really know what kind of program Acid is.... Does
anyone know of a program like Acid for Linux? Or does anyone know exactly
what Acid is? Is it a wav editor or a mod tracker or a real-time mixer or
something else or a combination of these? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
David Bilbey
--
"If you're ever giving a speech, when you start out, act nervous and get
mixed up a little bit. Then, as you go along, get better and better.
Then, at the end, give off a white, glowing light and have rays shoot out
of you." --Jack Handey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: logging box?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:52:32 GMT
hi,
i am interested in setting up a computer separate from my main box for
the sole purpose of acting as a semi-transparent gateway (to filter
various IPs, but mostly for packet-logging). are there any good places
on the web to look for this? IP masquerading is an option, but i'd
rather not lose the functionality that IP masquerading removes (SSL
connections).
jon
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "JANA" <nest(nospam)@cts.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:37:35 -0700
> I'm an MCSE so I needed to get multi-OS experience, so I picked up a
> copy of Caldera OpenLinux 2.2. It's a great alternative to Windows. I
> predict it to be the next great OS, once there becomes more apps
> available.
>
> -Jason
>
I agree wholeheartedly. With a little more polish around the edges and more
X-based apps Linux will be a real alternative to Windoze, even for the
non-technical general public. At the very least it may force M$ to better
its product line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Gnome under SuSE question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:34:37 GMT
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:52:10 -0700, Jeff Goodman wrote:
>I might be able to figure out how to remove all the wm buttons, but I'm
>thinking that I did something wrong to get to show in the first place.
>Any info on this? Thanks.
Actually - a friend of mine was trying to get rid of the dock in WMaker while
running Gnome. We found the config file for the dock, and tried such things as
emptying it out, deleting it, etc.. but WMaker kept re-creating it!
Does anyone here know how to perma-zap the WMaker dock?
Also - how to get WMaker and Gnome co-operating with the libjpeg library?
(WindowMaker wants .61 and Gnome wants .62).
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:38:40 GMT
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:31:46 -0400, Mykool wrote:
>I have the exact same problem. It occurs when the sound module is
>loaded.
I run the AWE64 ISA PnPray card, but don't have that problem.
I installed it via the instructions contained within
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE32
Haven't had a single problem. (Except trying to balance my Line, CD, and
Wave volumes - my WAV is much quieter than my radio card (line in), so after
listening to MP3's I have to remember to turn down the volume before switching
on the radio card otherwise I'll be blasted out of my chair. One day I'll hit
the right settings in the mixer :> ).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Undo disk format?
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:36:09 GMT
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:03:38 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
>> I just formated my root partition ... :(
>>
>> Is there some chance to undo a 'quick format'?
>> (quick format option from slackware setup tool)
>>
>> Any help REALLY APPRECIATED !!
>
>You mean "other than restoring from your latest backups?"
>
>I don't think so. Otherwise, it wouldn't be much of a
>"format" would it?
Actually - I seem to recall a DOS utility "unformat" that would work as
long as you didn't write anything to the drive afterwards, and didn't
use the unconditional format switch.
Never tried it myself, but it exists nevertheless.
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Subject: Re: named question
From: Errin Watusikac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 08:22:32 -0700
That's a good question -- for c.o.l.networking.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: linux on toshiba tecra 8000
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:00:46 GMT
Hi, all,
I have installed Redhat 6.0 on my laptop, tecra 8000. Most components
are fine. I do seem to have one major problem -- not able to communicate
using either the modem that is built in or through any PCMCIA
network card (I have tried three different ones: Xircom, 3com and
D-Link DFE 10/100, another borrowed one that is purely 10Mbps one).
No luck :-(
Modem I heard is a winmodem -- so I have not even made any efforts to
get it to work.
More seriously, I seem to have a problem with PCMCIA altogether!
Any one aware of the situation with PCMCIA and tecra let me know what
the prognosis is? Gleaning from the info on the web, because of ToPic97
or some such problem, this appears to be a dead end? (I hope people in
the market for a new laptop are reading my post!)
Am I right in my conclusions?
Ramki Thurimella
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