Linux-Misc Digest #253, Volume #21 Sun, 1 Aug 99 22:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Program to find optimal MTU? (Clifford Kite)
Re: What I think of linux. (Terry Porter)
Re: SCSI Tagged Command Queue? (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Re: Need: Valid color NAMES for WM config files - list preferable ("R.K.Aa")
Re: spin down HDD (xander)
Re: spin down HDD (xander)
Re: What I think of linux. (Terry Porter)
Please Help!!!Problem this Reb Hat 6.0 installation ("Kane Anyanwu")
in response ("Larry Clark")
Re: netscape and newsgroups (Farouk Dindar)
X via telnet from imac to linux/intel? (Robert Link)
emacs and global fonts option (Ramin Sina)
Re: in response (Ray)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Ashley Penney)
Re: netscape and newsgroups (Ramin Sina)
Re: Lilo, I just erased it and I want it back!!! (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: currencies (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: in response ("Larry Clark")
Re: helping the Third World (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Jacque Colbert)
Re: in response ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ICQ and linux client (Justin B Willoughby)
Pentiume III serial number (Y. MOK)
Re: boot without fsck? (William Burrow)
Re: fdformat > 1.44 ?? (Stephen Satchell)
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Program to find optimal MTU?
Date: 1 Aug 1999 19:02:50 -0500
Jeff Workman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: IIRC, if you enable PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY when you compile your kernel, Linux will
: do this for you automatically.
In 2.2.9 there is a CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY in
linux/Documentation/Configure.help and in linux/net/ipv4/Config.in but
no other reference to it in any file in linux or it's subdirectories.
In the Config.in file it's commented out.
This probably means that it's in the kernel permanently since there is an
IP_MTU_DISCOVER defined in linux/net/ipv4/in.h . But that's a guess, I
haven't compared to the PMTU code in the 2.0.x kernels to make sure.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Those who can't write, write manuals. */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 2 Aug 1999 08:03:01 +0800
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:17:28 GMT, Tim Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
>>users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
>>That was a LONG time ago. Right now there are a gazillion Windows users.
>
>51 here. My first was a Radio Shack PC-2 (still around here someplace), then an
>Atari 8-bit. I got rid of my old Byte mags finally, but the first was sometime
>in 1977 (I think).
>
Wow!
I'm 44, and have been doing electronics all my life, due to a burning
*obsession* .
My first digital microprocessor experience was in 1976 with the National "Pace"
16 bit cpu, (cost $270 Australian), paper tape, teletype i/o, and of course
lots of lovely blinky lights and front panel switches.
What fun, just adding 1 and 1 was, after typing the assembler, making the tape,
taking it into the next room, where the "computer" lived.
Then getting it to run thru the high speed paper tape reader, and actually
*work* , answer = 2 :))
Nowdays, I write my code in C, hit makefile in Gvim, it automatically
compiles, assembles and burns into target system, done.
terry
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI Tagged Command Queue?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 02:59:21 +0300
Steve Snyder wrote:
>
> I've been running Linux's (v2.2.x) support for the Adaptec AIC-7895
> SCSI controller without enabling Tagged Command Queues (TCQ) by
> default. Just out of curiosity today, I enabled it and tried to
> detect a change in hard disk performance.
[snip]
> Now I'm even more curious about TCQ. Is rebuilding the kernel a good
> test for this? Is this kernel config option really used by people
> with SCSI hard disks?
Kernel build creates heavy load on CPU but very slight load on I/O. And
parallel compile is a good practice for SMP machines. For parallel I/O
benchmark, parallel fsck might be an idea.
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu [ aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr ]
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need: Valid color NAMES for WM config files - list preferable
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 01:30:56 +0200
What you seem to be missing is an alias. In your XF86Config: see if you
have a line after Section "Files" that reads
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb". Most likely you do, or you would
have had many more error messages.
In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ there's a file called rgb.txt also (as Paul
Kimono wrote.)
This file contain rgb values and their standard colornames. Do a "grep
wheat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt" and see if wheat is mentioned.
Then do a grep for "Wheat" on the same file. The values i have for wheat
in rgb-txt are:
245 222 179 wheat
255 231 186 wheat1
238 216 174 wheat2
205 186 150 wheat3
139 126 102 wheat4
If you own version of the file don't contain these at all you could edit
them in by hand. rgb.txt is "only" a convenient list of "aliases". The
actual rgb values should display in 24bit display mode - if provided. It
used to be common on web-pages to describe color by name instead of
hex-value. What application is it that looks for "Wheat"? Try and add a
line with the same rgb values as "wheat" in rgb.txt, but spelled with a
capital W. It doesn't matter if it's mentioned twice this way.
K.
Ceri Hankey wrote:
>
> Fine, but how do I get these names 'officially' recognized by Linux (RH6.0), I
> have 24 bit colour mode and the system keeps on telling me that Wheat colormap
> is not available.
>
> How do yo get the colormaps to be correct?
[snip]
> Paul Kimoto wrote:
[snip]
> > You want the file "rgb.txt". In the standard XFree86 setup,
> > it seems to be in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.
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From: xander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: spin down HDD
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:35:30 +0200
On 30 Jul 1999, Chris Mahmood wrote:
> Simon Hosie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > xander:
> > Why is it that it does that all the time, even when there is nothing to
> > flush? Why doesn't it check?
hehe. not my line dude.
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From: xander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: spin down HDD
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:43:30 +0200
> xander:
> > You could terminate bdflush at night hours and use hdparm to sleep the
> > drive after a certain amount of inactivity, or kick out bdflush
> > altogether. The last alternative works quite fine.
>
> Well, not at night, that's when I'm home. What might be a good way of
> detecting that the system has been unused for a period?
ehm. you mean .. no one is typing at the keyboard or no harddisk activity
for a time?
harddisk activity:
check the manual pages for hdparm. you can power it down after some
idle time.
keyboard/mouse:
screensaver (X).
I wouldn't recommend suspending your system using apm as your system
would not be reachable by network (perhaps the m/b's WAKE-ON-LAN fixes
this, which mine does not have).
Regards,
xander
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 2 Aug 1999 07:44:41 +0800
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:10:34 GMT, Anthony Ord
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:09:25 -0700, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
><snip>
>>Er, 47 (blush) - although I tried Slackware in '95 when I was 45,
>>but didn't like it. I suppose I had to mature a little to be ready
>>for Linux.
>>
>>I punched my first deck of cards for an IBM 1602 (1620??) in 1968.
>>That's not a PC - it was a mainframe with lots of blinking lights
>>and a typewriter console. I miss those blinking lights.
>
>Why don't you make your own? Attach LEDs to the output lines
>of your printer port. With the appropriate electronics and a
>small daemon, you can make them flash at you.
>
>A project for nostalgia.
Look in sunsite, theres a led driven cpu usage monitor, all you need is
8 leds, 8 resistors, some ribbon cable and a parallel port plug :)
My son has one on his Linux box, its a 7 seg led display, and they glow
as the load increases, and form a square. When the dec point lights last
he knows its maxed out :)
He fitted it into a blank disk drive panel, looks pretty good too.
terry
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From: "Kane Anyanwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help!!!Problem this Reb Hat 6.0 installation
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 16:41:46 -0700
Hi, I am installing Linux onto my 8.4 GB hard drive which contains
Win98. I downloaded all rpm's and exc and it is on my computer.....When I
reboot my PC while the Linux bootable floppy is in, everything goes fine
until the first screen that u see when installing not the welcome sign. It
said I have to press enter to install or upgrade, so I do. It checks and
performs auto-probing. At the end of it test the last thing it said was
Ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0
CR C error VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21
Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount fs on 08:21
I am not sure what that means????? And then It stops and the only way I can
restart is to manually turn of the computer the old fashion way. Please help
I would appreciate it if you help me out :-) thanks please respond ASAP :-)
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From: "Larry Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: in response
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 16:59:30 -0700
the ICQ clients I have had the most luck with but still haven't been able
to get to work are :
micq
xicq
zicq
close but no cigar...can' anyone help me,
thanks larry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Farouk Dindar)
Subject: Re: netscape and newsgroups
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 22:55:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to do all my internet stuff (email, news, web) with
>netscape which came with SuSE6.1. I have managed to configure my ppp to
>get connected to my ISP. I can access email and web; but when I try to
>"Join Discussion Groups..." the window for the list of discussion
>groups opens up and I see at the bottom of it that the list is being
>downloaded, but none of the discussion groups is ever explicitly shown
>in the window.
Hi Ramin
I am trying linux (Mandrake Red Hat 6) and Netscape as an intellectual exercise.
Since installing new programs in linux requires the IQ of a Rocket Scientist
I am also trying to live with Netscape Communicator at this stage.
All the windows in Communicator are very confusing but if you fiddle around enough
you should be able to see your newsgroups.
Farouk Dindar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Link)
Subject: X via telnet from imac to linux/intel?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 17:14:16 -0700
I hope the subject line is clear. I'm on an iMac; I have recently been
given an intel box loaded with RedHat5, no monitor. If I read correctly,
there should be a way for me to have xwindows run on the mac for my telnet
sessions. I think this is described as setting up an xserver on my imac,
and configuring the xclient on the intel machine to send the xwindows
stuff (ever so technical, we newbies) to the imac.
The two machines are already connected via ethernet, and telnet and ftp
and http all work just great. All help appreciated, and Iwon't be
offended by private replies to my email if the question is too basic for
group bandwidth use.
Thanks!
--
Robert Link
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: emacs and global fonts option
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 19:19:53 -0400
How can I make emacs to open with global fonts lock option checked as
default ?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: in response
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 00:35:53 GMT
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 16:59:30 -0700, "Larry Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>the ICQ clients I have had the most luck with but still haven't been able
>to get to work are :
>micq
>xicq
>zicq
>
>close but no cigar...can' anyone help me,
>thanks larry
have you tried licq (http://www.licq.org)? My apologies if you
already stated you tried it (I'm coming into this thread a bit late).
I, too, am on a quest to get a working Linux ICQ client. I'm finding
that installing Linux software can be a bit frustrating. For example,
when I try to install GAIM (an AOL Instant Messenger client) or klicq
(a KDE version of licq) I get messages about how it needs
such-and-such a library first, so I have to figure out where to
download and how to install it, and if I'm *lucky* the additional
thing I need doesn't *also* need additional things for *it* to be
installed (confused yet? I know I am. :-) ) It all becomes quite
complicated.
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashley Penney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: 2 Aug 1999 01:57:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 02:41:45 -0700, Ricky J. Sethi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gabbered:
:
:Ashley Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
:news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:[SNIP]
:> People often say you should treat others as you'd like to be treated
:yourself,
:> and if I was *ever* in the situation I described above, I'd hope someone
:had
:> the courage to kill me, because I wouldn't want to live a life whereby I
:was
:> locked inside my own head.
:>
:[SNIP]
:
:Hmm... I'm just glad Stephen Hawking thought differently. Despite the
:(admittedly) glib answer, this is a tough topic... I do see your point but
:still respectfully disagree. Maybe it's overly simplistic, but I think if
:someone wants to stay alive, we help em stay alive; if someone wants to move
:on, we allow them the dignity to choose their own way out.
Exactly, this is where the problem is. At the moment, for every Stephen
Hawking who goes onto lead a good life, there are a hundred people who
suffer every single day. Most of the time they are unable to communicate
their own wishs, which makes things tricky. If someone wants to live, and
has the means to support theirselfs (or someone who cares about them does)
then they should carry on to lead the life they choose.
However, when someone is unable to communicate at all, even to decide in
their own life, I'm convinced that they should be eased out of life, from
kindness if anything else. Human life isn't sacred, or even a given. Dying
isn't as terrible as it's made out to be.
--
"I'm not lean and mean, I'm surly and anorexic". -- Chris "Saundo" Saunderson
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: netscape and newsgroups
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 19:11:15 -0400
hog wrote:
> How long did you wait. There are many thousands of newsgroups and the
> download can be very long, especially if you connection is at low speed.
>
Well I wait for 10 minutes before I quit. But the indicator at the bottom of
the window suggests that 500K or so was downloaded and I still don't see any
newsgroup names. In my previous system (same modem, same ISP, suse 5.2) it
would take 5 to 10 minutes to get all the list, but it would start shpwing
names immediately.
>
> Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I would like to do all my internet stuff (email, news, web) with
> > netscape which came with SuSE6.1. I have managed to configure my ppp to
> > get connected to my ISP. I can access email and web; but when I try to
> > "Join Discussion Groups..." the window for the list of discussion
> > groups opens up and I see at the bottom of it that the list is being
> > downloaded, but none of the discussion groups is ever explicitly shown
> > in the window. My ISP does not support linux. I have set up the news
> > server (in the preference menu of netscape) as they have suggested for
> > Win95. I have no problem with enail and web browsing. Has anyone had a
> > similar problem? Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ramin Sina
> >
--
===========================================================
Ramin Sina
Institute for Physical Science and Technology
University of Maryland College Park Maryland 20742
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (301) 405 4860 Fax: (301) 314 9363
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Lilo, I just erased it and I want it back!!!
Date: 2 Aug 1999 00:58:40 GMT
Tag, you're it! Now you have to answer somebody's question in a newsgroup.
In article <7o2gju$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"
wrote:
>Cameron, that did the trick.
>
>
>Spotillius Maximus aka "Spot" <*****@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
>news:7o1cas$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Thanks Cameron, I will try it and let you know how it works. I forgot to
>> mention that I was using RedHat 6.0.
>> Cameron L. Spitzer wrote in message ...
>> >In article <7o0bof$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Spotillius Maximus
>aka
>> \"Spot\" wrote:
>> >>Well, I did something stupid, I accidentally erased Lilo from my main
>SCSI
>> >>drive when I was trying to erase Lilo on another removable drive. I
>tried
>> >>booting from my floppy with the boot disk with no luck.
>> >
>> >There are many different boot disks. [...
get a shell, run ]
>> > fdisk -l
[to remind yourself where your root FS was, then, at the loader prompt,
linux root=/dev/hda-whatever
]
I guess this belongs in that poor, forgotten HOWTO I said I was revising.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: currencies
Date: 1 Aug 1999 21:22:20 -0400
On 1 Aug 1999 23:13:34 GMT, Richard Kulisz wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Actually, the Japanese economy is a concern to the US government because
>>without their money, you cannot finance your budget deficit. This would
>
>This isn't correct. The USA is the only nation that can print as much
>money as it wants to without any repercusions to itself because the US
>dollar is the de facto international currency.
Let's get this straight ... from the above, we can infer the following:
* if everyone else's currency gos *down* relative to the US dollar,
this will not have any effect on exports, or the competitiveness
of the US's products overseas, because the US dollar is the
"de-facto international currency"
* if everyone else's currency gos *up* against the US dollar, it
will not have any impact on the price of imported goods in the US.
* in fact the US currency can do what it likes, and it has no
bearing on the US economy, because everybod uses US dollars since
it's the "defacto international currency".
Are you serious ???? What you are saying would only be true if the US
economy existed in a vacuum ( which would make any foreign deficit
impossible ... )
--
Donovan
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From: "Larry Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: in response
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 18:07:02 -0700
yes I too have had such adventures with linux,,,I started in the computer
world about 21 years ago and took a detour, dud, now its all catchup from
here....thanks I will try that link.....larry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: 1 Aug 1999 21:40:25 -0400
On 1 Aug 1999 21:59:36 GMT, Richard Kulisz wrote:
>We can work collectively to force redistribution of wealth from
>the rich to the poor.
Ah, it's there in a nutshell. In other words, you want to
force *other people* to give their money away, rather than
do so yourself.
> Socialists can also work collectively to
>wrest political and economic power away from the rich, though
>this might take decades.
They could give to worthy causes now, and it wouldn't take
decades. I am not saying that this constitutes a complete
and comprehensive answer, but I severely question the people
who are so zealous in their quest to take money from others
for redistribution, but are not even moderately willing to
voluntarily redistribute any of what they own.
>>No, they expect the loopy left to put their money where their mouths are.
>>ie don't pretend to be altruistic if you're not.
>
>They expect the left to do the utterly futile. And it seems you do too.
I just expect to see the left to *lead by example* , as opposed to
leading by extortion. I am not saying that it will solve the worlds
problems if you lift a finger to make the world a better place.
However, it will put you in a much better position to take the
"moral high ground" without being laughed off stage.
--
Donovan
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From: Jacque Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 01:36:55 GMT
Do any of you have any interest in helping the poor guy whose machine is getting
broken into?
Matt Curtin wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:42:01 -0600,
> Kenneth P Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Kenneth> As far as network security is concerned, a hacker is someone
> Kenneth> who breaks into systems (sometimes his/her own) to either
> Kenneth> help, learn, or prove it can be done,
>
> Stop perpetuating this ridiculous myth. We hackers are tired of this
> nonsense.
>
> Those who lack the prowess well beyond that of their "normal" (read:
> "merely competent") peers to create and to innovate have no basis to
> claim to be hackers. Your usage of the word is incorrect and performs
> a disservice to a community to which you should be showing a great
> deal of veneration.
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html
>
> I cannot help but wonder if my words will have any effect on your
> usage, since the one paragraph I quoted includes at least two
> additional counts of insufficient English mastery:
>
> o The correct possessive personal pronoun to use for a person whose
> gender is undetermined is "his". "His/her" is a politically-
> inspired, grammatically incorrect abomination of a language quite
> lacking in need for still more special cases of grammar.
>
> o "To either help" is a split infinitive, which is also grammatically
> incorrect.
>
> Only if English is not your native language will I refrain from
> generalizing your grammatical mistakes and incorrect use of "hacker"
> into the single offense of "underdeveloped language skills".
>
> Irrespective of what your native language is, you seem ill-qualified
> to tell us the meaning of "hacker". I respectfully and vehemently
> request that you and all misusers of "hacker" immediately stop marring
> our good name.
>
> --
> Matt Curtin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: in response
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 01:29:32 GMT
In article <7o2mv5$rcv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Larry Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the ICQ clients I have had the most luck with but still haven't been
able
> to get to work are :
> micq
> xicq
> zicq
>
> close but no cigar...can' anyone help me,
> thanks larry
>
>
Have you tried KXicq? I have been using it for a long time. Also Licq
(its a little buggy though). Here is a URL for a ICQ listings page, I
dont know if you have been here or not.
http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/index.html
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: ICQ and linux client
Date: 2 Aug 1999 00:38:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
"Larry Clark" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> man I tell you I have spent the WHOLE day triing to get a client for ICQ
> that will work...not a dam***** thing...nothing,.....what a drag...think I
> will sleep now....help!!!!!!!
Which Client are you trying to install? The Java one from Mirabilis? If so
don't use it, its not stable.
There are a bunch of icq clones for Linux. I am using gtkicq (which is now
gnomeicq I think) I have heard licq is good.
Do a search for icq at freshmeat.net
I know there is a page just for icq clones but I don't have it on me right
now.
- Justin
--
_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ RULES!! * LINUX RULES *
_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Y. MOK)
Subject: Pentiume III serial number
Date: 2 Aug 1999 01:43:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry if this question has been asked/answered before, but I don't
find it in the FAQ. As I understand, each P III has a unique
serial number that can be obtained by a remote web site, which
raises concern on privacy. How does this affect Linux users, or
is this a problem affecting only Windoze/whatever ?
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DISCLAIMER: I don't even speak for myself, what makes
you think I speak for anyone else ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: boot without fsck?
Date: 2 Aug 1999 00:51:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 13:27:18 -0700,
Randall Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you mount a hard drive read-only then could you put tmp and other
>things that need to be writeable on a different partition?
Absolutely. Be sure /etc is on a writeable partition, or mtab won't get
updated.
>What would be clever would be to make all the temporary writeable files
>(eg swap file) go on a partition that was writeable. Then put the OS on a
>read only partition. Then have the OS on boot-up go and even reformat the
>writeable partition if it had gotten corrupted.
Linux router disks boot from a diskette and create a ramdisk from files
stored on the floppy. If the server crashes, a complete recovery can be
made by just power cycling.
>Could one even use this sort of strategy on a normal Linux server that
>you needed to have always be rebootable after an OS crash or power
>failure.
Yep. Most distros need to be cleaned up some, since they write to the
root filesystem, /usr and other places that should really be read only
by default. Only /var, /tmp and /home need be writeable -- /etc
sometimes for administrative purposes.
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William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: fdformat > 1.44 ??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Satchell)
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 00:42:04 GMT
Check your /dev/ directory as follows:
ls /dev/fd0*
and see what comes out. On my slackware system I get a number of entries
of the form fd0h*, where the suffix of the file name is 1200, 1330, 1476,
1494, and 1600. (There are a number of three-digit names as well.) You
can then use the devices
Don't have the devices you want? Read the manual page, "man 4 fd" and then
have fun learning how to create character devices using mknod(1). You
shouldn't have to resort to setfdprm(8).
Typing "apropos floppy" might prove interesting.
simonet at bhnet dot com dot br (Alex Abreu) wrote in
<7nvtal$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have been trying to format a floppy disk with 1.68, 1.72 or even 1.83
>Mb. I was under the impression that I could easily do it using fdformat,
>but I haven't been able to do so.
>
>I also haven't been able to use setfdprm to create the new parameters.
>There's this tool, superformat, which was supposed to be installed on my
>system, but it isnt, and I can't find it anywhere.
>
>So, here're my questions:
>how do I format a disk w/ more than 1.44 Mb ?
>Where do I get superformat?
>
>Thanks a lot.
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