Linux-Misc Digest #178, Volume #21 Tue, 27 Jul 99 02:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: latest netscape (Dave Erickson)
Re: Hot weather causing crashes? (Ed Power)
Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Powering down with RH6.0 (Steve Bourland)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Joe Shaw)
Re: USR modem. Caldera 2.2. (Michel Catudal)
Re: netscape (Michel Catudal)
Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower (Matthew Bafford)
Re: Hot weather causing crashes? (Ed Power)
Re: Third hard drive ("Jon Keating")
Re: Listing Problem? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: limits of ext2 filesystem (Leslie Mikesell)
time-zone ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CIA assassinations (Michel Catudal)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? ("Jeffrey D. Webster")
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? (Joe Cosby)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? ("Jeffrey D. Webster")
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? ("Jeffrey D. Webster")
Re: Need help Setting up filesystem (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot. (Zeger Hendrikse)
Re: Numbering Xterms? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
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From: Dave Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: latest netscape
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 02:50:34 GMT
Joe wrote:
>
> It's probably easiest to go to one of the updates pages from
> www.redhat.com/mirrors.html and download the rpm files.
>
And, as for the Java crashes it is caused by a problem with the font
path in Red Hat 6.0 and not Netscape.
I don't use 6.0, can someone give that info again?
--
Dave Erickson
Remove 'xxx' fromm address to reply
http://linux.com http://linux.org
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From: Ed Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hot weather causing crashes?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:06:54 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Reid wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At home I use a 7 year old 50 MHz 486 which over the last few
> months has started occasionally spontaneously rebooting, usually when
> I'm editing something. It seems to happen on hot nights, so I thought
> split second blackouts from too many air conditioners might be the
> cause, but nothing else (i.e. clocks) seems to be affected, and if I
> try restarting Linux right after one of these crashes, it gets just
> past the fscking before crashing again, making me think that the CPU
> might be too hot, even though all my fans are working (at least when I
> watch them).
>
> Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a cheap solution?
> Running with the case off is undesirable, since we have a cat and baby
> daughter who might poke their noses in when I'm not looking.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Robert I. Reid <reid@ astro . utoronto . ca>
> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
> Remove the spaces to reply.
I had a similar problem. It turned out to be a bad computer power
supply. Touch the cpu to see if it is hot. It if it is, then you
probably have a cooling problem. The power company will rollback the
electricity when it gets hot also, so you may want to invest in a power
line conditioner or UPS.
--
Ed Power
Computer Headaches
Phone:914-228-0827
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.ComputerHeadaches.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower
Date: 26 Jul 1999 23:04:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher B. Browne wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:05:34 -0400, Christopher R. Carlen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>> I have a zipped bunch of files downloaded from a software vendor. All
>> the files have UPPERCASE names. But the program that reads them only
>> accepts lowercase names. Thus, I must either rename them all by hand,
>> one at a time (impossible), or get some command or small script to do
>> it.
> Take the file, let's say, UPPERLIST.txt.
>
> Run the command:
>
> tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' < UPPERLIST.txt > lowerlist.txt
(Then what do you do?)
Have perl? Here is some untested code. (Comment out the "$testing = 0"
line to get it to do something.)
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
$testing = 1;
# $testing = 0;
opendir DIRHANDLE, ".";
while ($filename = readdir DIRHANDLE) {
if ($filename =~ /[a-z]/ or $filename !~ /[A-Z]/) {
print STDERR "Skipping non-uppercased filename $filename\n";
next;
}
if (-l $filename or !(-f $filename)) {
print STDERR "$filename does not seem to be a plain file\n";
next;
}
($newname = $filename) =~ tr [A-Z] [a-z];
if (-e $newname) {
print STDERR "$newname already exists!\n";
next;
}
if ($testing) {
print "rename $filename $newname\n";
}
else {
rename $filename, $newname
or warn "Failure renaming $filename to $newname\n";
}
}
closedir DIRHANDLE;
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Steve Bourland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Powering down with RH6.0
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:01:47 -0500
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Leonard Evens wrote:
> Steven E Bourland wrote:
> >
> > When I first installed RH6.0 and 'shutdown -h now', the machine would
> > actually
> > power down on its own (I didn't have to hit the power switch). Being
> > the lazy boy
> > that I am, when I compiled a new kernel (2.2.10) and it quit powering
> > down on its
> > own, I was quite miffed. I saw earlier posted re: Suse and this problem
> > which said
> > to add '-p' to the final line in rc.halt. Well, I checked my rc.halt
> > and it seems to
> > already have the '-p' in there (along with three other switches, which I
> > don't recall
> > right now as I am at work). The line looked something like:
> >
> > $eval -i -v -p
> >
> > (Not super sure I am remember things correctly).
> >
> > Is anyone else having this occur? Anyone know how to get it back to the
> > lazy man's
> > situation where I don't have to put all that effort into crawling under
> > my table to find
> > the silly power button?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Steve
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Are you sure you included power management in the kernel you
> made?
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
You know, now that you mention it, I would be willing to bet that no, I
didn't include it because I remember reading it and thinking it only
applied to laptops! Thanks for opening my eyes, I hate it when I do such
stupid things! Thanks a lot!
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Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
From: Joe Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:56:53 -0500
My first installation of Slackware back in 1995 did not have TCPD
installed.
--
Joseph W. Shaw - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freelance Computer Security Consultant and Perl Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hehehe.. Linux already comes with TCPD install.. as far back as
> 1995.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: Re: USR modem. Caldera 2.2.
Date: 26 Jul 1999 22:55:22 -0500
Jim Bo wrote:
>
> My modem works well in Windoze98 on COM2,IRQ3,0x2F8.
> Whats the trick to getting this thing working in Caldera Open Linux 2.2
> I can open kppp but when I try to query my modem (using all the ttyS
> entries{0-3) all I get are two different messages. One says "cannot open
> the modem" and the other says " the modem is busy". I get the "...busy"
> message on ttyS1 which I figure is where it should work.
> When the kernal is booting I can see all four serial ports are loading
> using default values for IRQ and I/O, etc.
> I have run <ln -s ttyS1 /dev/modem> but no difference. I tried setting up
> the rest of kppp with my names server ips, ISP phone number and all but
> still no go.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. TIA
> Jim
>
Check in winblows to see which driver it loads for the modem.
If it says winmodem go to CompUSA and pick a real modem,
an external serial modem will garantee that you have a real modem.
They have good prices for Viking modems, imported from Canada.
--
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use Linux for safe and quick internet access
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: netscape
Date: 26 Jul 1999 22:27:01 -0500
Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
>> > Mine uses midi and after the midi starts I don't seem to be able
> > to stop it. But then it seems to crash as it is trying to load
> > a big font. There is potentially two problems here.
>
> Netscape 4.51 running under Linux 2.0.36 kernel and X 3.3
> (Slackware 3.3 distro upgraded kernel).
>
I use kernel 2.2.10 with SuSE 6.1
With RedHat 6.0 netscape is just flushed.
The problem didn't exist with RedHat 5.2 with the new kernel or
old kernel as you have.
> For me, all this does is play a (loud) version of "Happy Birthday to You"
> and show some badly animated lo-res large-type font messages.
> P'haps you've got another problem?
>
I think it's a problem with the new kernel.
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From: *@dragons.duesouth.net (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower
Reply-To: *@dragons.duesouth.net
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:09:03 GMT
On 26 Jul 1999 23:04:50 -0500, Paul Kimoto) poured coffee onto a
keyboard, producing the following in comp.os.linux.misc:
: Have perl? Here is some untested code.
Here is some tested code.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Stolen from Larry Wall
# Modified to take the eval out of the loop.
# Doing so gained a ~80% increase in speed.
$op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";
chomp(@ARGV = <STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
eval "sub change_it{ $op } 1";
die "$@\n$op\n" if $@;
for ( @ARGV ) {
$was = $_;
change_it();
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}
__END__
Examples:
Have a list of UPPERCASE or MiXeDcAsE filenames?
> <clist rename 'tr[A-Z][a-z]'
Hate using C as an extension for C++ files?
> rename 's{.C$}{.cc}' *.C
Have a list of files with numbers at the end that, though in order, have
some gaps?
> rename 's{\d+$}{$count++}e'
Have files using a potentially dangerous date format?
> rename 's!(\d{6})!`date -d "$1" +"%Y_%h_%d"`!e' *
HTH,
: Paul Kimoto
--Matthew
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From: Ed Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hot weather causing crashes?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:06:45 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Reid wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At home I use a 7 year old 50 MHz 486 which over the last few
> months has started occasionally spontaneously rebooting, usually when
> I'm editing something. It seems to happen on hot nights, so I thought
> split second blackouts from too many air conditioners might be the
> cause, but nothing else (i.e. clocks) seems to be affected, and if I
> try restarting Linux right after one of these crashes, it gets just
> past the fscking before crashing again, making me think that the CPU
> might be too hot, even though all my fans are working (at least when I
> watch them).
>
> Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a cheap solution?
> Running with the case off is undesirable, since we have a cat and baby
> daughter who might poke their noses in when I'm not looking.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Robert I. Reid <reid@ astro . utoronto . ca>
> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
> Remove the spaces to reply.
I had a similar problem. It turned out to be a bad computer power
supply. Touch the cpu to see if it is hot. It if it is, then you
probably have a cooling problem. The power company will rollback the
electricity when it gets hot also, so you may want to invest in a power
line conditioner or UPS.
--
Ed Power
Computer Headaches
Phone:914-228-0827
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.ComputerHeadaches.com
------------------------------
From: "Jon Keating" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Third hard drive
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:54:50 -0500
When you had to put the /boot directory on /dev/hda... was it because it
wasn't booting up at all? Or that it was booting up, but not loading your
map file?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Listing Problem?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 04:14:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Thompson wrote:
>Alok R Saboo wrote:
>
>> Is there any command in Linux similar to "dir/s" option in DOS?
>> Suppose we want to list all files with extension .EXE we could give "dir
>> *.exe/s" in DOS, what is the substitute command for Linux?
>
>Try "ls -R"
The MS-DOS "dir" command does things you'd need unix' find(1)
to do. Find all files whose names end in .EXE or .exe :
find / -name '*.exe' -o -name '*.EXE' -print 2>&1 | grep -v 'Permission denied'
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: limits of ext2 filesystem
Date: 26 Jul 1999 23:18:36 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Carol Bosshart - KVG Internet Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Does anybody know if it is possible to build an ext2-partition
>with a size of 35 Gig. ?
>
>On this partition I need a directory with about 50000 files in it.
>
>Does ext2 support this?
Yes, but remember that when you add one more file it will do a
linear scan of the 50000 directory entries first to determine
if the name already exists.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: time-zone
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:04:28 GMT
how can I change the time-zone my box thinks it is in?
Thanks!
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 26 Jul 1999 22:46:01 -0500
Michael Powe wrote:
>
> > Everyone in my family who chose to complete their college
> > education did very well. Even the ones who did not pursue
> > high education did fairly well for themselves and no one
> > ever had to live on public assistance. When you want to
> > work there is a job somewhere.
>
> "Wanting to work" and getting a job do not guarantee success. You
> completely ignored what I wrote.
>
If you chose basket weaving in school don't blame this on society.
There is a limited number of opening for that kind of stuff.
> > After one of my young brothers got killed by a drunk
> > driver I dropped out of college and went to work as a
> > transient worker and always had something to eat. Life was
> > hard for that period of my life but I saved my pennies and
> > went back to college some 5 years later and I graduated in
> > engineering.
>
> > No it was not luck, at least not for me. It was hard work
> > all the way. And my wife comes for an even poorer
> > background, as the natives are the poorest people in this
> > country.
>
> You're confused. Hard work + luck == success. To say that no one
> ever gave you a break along the way is just foolish pride.
>
If you spend your life bitching that you don't get a job that
pays more than minimum wage and never bothered getting a degree
at college or university don't blame us for your screw up.
If you think that your commie world would get you that dream
job think again. Unless you're one the communist leaders you're
not likely to have a better standard of living on such a ridiculous
system.
> > One thing about the USA is that anyone who put his mind to
> > it can succeed. Sometime it can be very very hard but it
>
> This is not true and it's just arrogant for you to think so. By
> claiming all the credit for your success, you show ingratitude toward
> all the people who helped you along the way.
>
No one but my wife helped along the way. She provided encouragement
to pursue the studies. As for the society, why should I be considered
ingrate for stating the reality
> > This country is the land of opportunities where everyone
> > has a chance to make it good. The catch is that you must
> > do it on your own and you can't expect the society or the
> > government to do it for you.
>
> Right. So, you went to a private university -- one with no public
> funding. And that was after you graduated from a private school --
> one with no public funding. And you used no gov't-sponsored loans to
> help you along the way. Well, that's a tough row to hoe.
>
I studied at the Universit� du Qu�bec � Trois-Rivi�res. I borrowed
money at 14% interest at the caisse pop and Soci�t� St-Jean Baptiste.
It took me 10 years to pay. My parents paid taxes all their life.
What is your point anyway?
If you love communism so much why not try to immigrate to one
of those commie paradises : Cuba or North Korea
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------------------------------
From: "Jeffrey D. Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:03:31 GMT
Floyd Davidson wrote:
> Casper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Oh yeah, i've tried PPPD on a linux machine and frankly it is
> >PATHETIC compared to miami Deluxe. The question is that have you
> >tried Miami Deluxe on an Amiga? I seriously doubt it, otherwish you
> >would not continue to make a fool out of yourslelf!
>
> In what way was pppd pathetic compared to maimi deluxe?
PPPD is pathetic compared to MiamiDx in many ways. For one, PPPD is
JUST PPPD. MiamiDx is TCP/IP, Firewall, IP-NAT, inetd, several built-in
services, all TCP/IP configs, AND PPPD, SLIP, CSLIP, ARP, RARP, DHCP,
etc. It's like all of the TCP/IP from Linux, PLUS the various
protocols.
MiamiDx is like Winsock done the right way... the only way.
> It appears to me that you are blowing more smoke in the same
> direction as those who claimed that MS-CHAP was being used by
> "everyone", and was required by a whole list of ISP's (who all
> used regular CHAP and are quite compatible with Linux).
No one ever stated that MS-CHAP, or CHAP was incompatible with
Linux. And when Holger stated that "everyone" was using MS-CHAP it was
merely a figurative reference. He clarified that in a post that
followed that one. Of course, you would have to have read the entire
thread to realize the context.
Regards,
Jeffrey D. Webster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosby)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 04:36:06 GMT
** To reply in e-mail, remove "kajhep." from address **
Chris Lee hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, Chris Lee laughed madly, then wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> >"CL" == "Chris Lee" writes:
> >
> >CL> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >CL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >CL> >
> >CL> >"CL" == "Chris Lee" writes:
> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >CL> >CL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >"CL" == "Chris Lee" writes:
> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >CL> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >CL> >CL> >CL> says...
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >Chris Lee wrote:
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >>
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >CL> >CL> >CL> >> >
> >CL> >CL> >CL
> >CL> >CL>
> >CL> >CL> Miami is better and more powerful than PPPD? Sure it is
> >CL> >CL> dude. Suuure it is....NOT.
> >CL> >Give it up DUDE! You know NOTHING about Miami, and I've seen
> >CL> >from your previous post that you are completely CLUELESS, and
> >CL> >you continue to make an ass out of yourself.
> >CL> >
> >CL> >Just stop....you're embarassing yourself.
> >CL>
> >CL> I tried Miami out on my A3000. I wasn't impressed by it. Have you
> >CL> tried using PPPD on a linux machine? Didn't think so....
> >CL>
> >
> >Dude miami and miam Deluxe are two completnly differnt things. It is
>
> Now it's Miami Deluxe instead of Miami now is it?
>
They're two different programs. Miami Deluxe includes some
networking stuff, etc.
But you know all about this already.
--
Joe Cosby
Amiga Fanatic
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From: "Jeffrey D. Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:42:00 GMT
Anthony Ord wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 04:48:01 GMT, "Jeffrey D. Webster"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Chris Lee wrote:
> >> In article <7n46iq$cjj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> <snip>
> >> >Frankly, this is getting ridiculuos. Obviously you don't KNOW
> >> >that MS-CHAP is a problem. Fine, so you have been lucky enough
> >> >to never run across it. That does not mean that the problem
> >> >does not exist. It DOES exist, as thousands of users can testify.
> >> >Denying a problem just because you have been lucky enough to
> >> >never encounter it is just a sign of arrogance.
> >>
> >> It isn't me dude. A hell of a lot of people in the newsgroups I mentioned
> >> are using pppd on linux and other OS's to connect to NT 4.0 servers using
> >> PAP and not MS-CHAP. This blows your stupid comment that everybody is using
> >> MS-CHAP out of the water.
> >
> > I didn't see him state that "everybody" is using it.
>
> --- START INSERT ---
>
> On 18 Jul 1999 18:00:18 GMT, Holger Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >But it does work. MS-CHAP was extremely unpopular, broke
> >some PPP implementations, has major security flaws (even in
> >V2), yet Microsoft pushed it through by implementing it
> >in 95/98/NT, and now everybody is using it. Even third parties
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >were forced to implement it, or they would have lost market
> >share.
>
> ---END INSERT ---
>
> >Making this stuff up
> >as we go a long, are we?
>
> Obviously Chris Lee isn't making it up is he?
>
> I believe you have an apology to make to him.
No, I don't believe I do. Note the quotes around "everybody".
In other words, for those less familiar with english, there is a literal
context, and the figurative (exaggerated) context.
"Everybody smokes Marlboros!" -- I think we know what this means.
"Everybody loves Bill Clinton!" -- Said quite often, yet we know it's only a
figurative statement with regards to the majority (72% approval ratings, at one
time).
Hence, my statement stands: he did not say "everybody" as in "none excluded"
Regards,
Jeffrey D. Webster
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From: "Jeffrey D. Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:47:26 GMT
Chris Lee wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> >"CL" == "Chris Lee" writes:
> >
> >CL> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >CL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >CL> >
> >CL> >"CL" == "Chris Lee" writes:
> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >CL> >CL> says...
> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >
> >CL> >CL> >Chris Lee wrote:
> >CL> >CL> >>
> >CL> >CL> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >CL> >CL> >> says...
> >CL> >CL> >> >
> >CL> >CL
> >CL> >CL> Who says it's the best? Amiga users? Give me a break....
> >CL> >CL>
> >CL> >No I say it is and I've used many platforms. You know nothing
> >CL> >about miami or its ease of use and connection, nor any of it
> >CL> >power. So you are again speaking out of ignorance, and making a
> >CL> >complete fool out of yourself..
> >CL>
> >CL> Miami is better and more powerful than PPPD? Sure it is dude.
> >CL> Suuure it is....NOT.
> >Give it up DUDE! You know NOTHING about Miami, and I've seen from
> >your previous post that you are completely CLUELESS, and you continue
> >to make an ass out of yourself.
> >
> >Just stop....you're embarassing yourself.
>
> I tried Miami out on my A3000. I wasn't impressed by it. Have you tried
> using PPPD on a linux machine? Didn't think so....
Uh. Wow, you are really reaching now. What in the hell does PPPD have to
do with ANYTHING? Miami is PPPD, SLIP, CSLIP, ethernet, etc. etc. etc. --
It's like all of the linux TCP/IP stuff bundled into one product.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
Regards,
Jeffrey D. Webster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Need help Setting up filesystem
Date: 27 Jul 1999 04:42:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wine wrote:
>LLoyd wrote:
>>
>> Could someone please advise me how to setup the linux filesystem.
>> I am using a 3.2 gig h/d as my master drive and I intend to ONLY useRedHat
>> linux 5.2 on this drive.
It's July 1999. The current Red Hat product is 6.1. If you install
5.2 you'll be upgrading libraries and compilers for a while.
If this is to be a set-and-forget system, use the disk you have.
If you're going to have to live with it for a while, get a current
distribution and save your self a lot of work.
>> I get an FDisk error if I try and use DiskDruid.
Don't use Disk Druid. Use cfdisk or fdisk. Cfdisk seems to be the
least problematic of the lot, these days.
>> Drive Geom [c/h/s] Total used >> free
>> hda [ 781/128/63 ] 3075m 3075m 0m
3.2 GB is big enough for a nice install. Do something like this:
/dev/hda1 60 MB / (root)
/dev/hda2 600 MB /usr
/dev/hda3 120 MB swap
/dev/hda4 extended
/dev/hda5 120 MB spare
/dev/hda6 2300 MB /var
Put your user accounts in /var. The spare is a second swap in
case you find you need it. In this setup, the stuff you need
to recover from a sudden powr failure is on partitions you don't
write to much. This makes it very unlikely you'll ever lose
anything.
Cameron
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From: Zeger Hendrikse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot.
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:19:59 +0200
> runlevel 2 where I load midi with modprobe. You can tell that because
> gom will be run after the sound modules are loaded. Right when the sound
> modules are loaded you can hear a very low white noise from the
> speakers. This is gone when gom initializes the sound levels of the
> mixer to mute. I think it should then be safe to load midi without the
> blast. We can then at login time set our mixer desired levels using
> .bash_login. I haven't tested this configuration thoroughly yet but I
> think it is going to work.
In my /etc/conf.modules I do a post install of the volume program, with
a very low volume, just after loading the sound modules (modprobe sb).
Indeed, you sometimes hear a very faint white noise from the speakers,
which is very innocent. I think it is basically the same procedure as
you have proposed above.
Kind regards,
Zeger Hendrikse.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Numbering Xterms?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 05:12:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Brown wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:52:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Is there a way to have you xterm title show a different number for each
>>new xterm? Like 'xterm[1], xterm[2]'. I have the string to put the
>>hostname and current directory on the title but numbering them would
>>work better for me.
>>
>>I know KDE does this with it's terms, I just don't know the variable or
>>whatever it is.
>
>some window managers notice that you have duplicate windows with the same
>name, and give you numbered subscripts to differentiate between them.
If you are using Bash, put something like this in the startup file .bashrc :
TTYP=`tty`
TTY=`basename tty`
title=()
{
echo -ne \\033]2\;$1\\a
}
tbar=()
{
case "$TERM" in
*xterm*)
title "+ $TTY +"
;;
vt100)
:
;;
esac
}
export PROMPT_COMMAND=tbar
The functions use nothing but shell builtins. If you don't care
about performance and you always use xterms, you could just say
PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -ne \033]2;+ `tty` +\a"
and skip the functions altogether.
Cameron
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