Linux-Misc Digest #255, Volume #21 Mon, 2 Aug 99 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Pls help: RH 6.0 hangs (S.T. Wong)
Contract Bridge anyone? (Philip Charles)
Re: How Do I Unpack This? (Todd Knarr)
Re: CIA assassinations (Michel Catudal)
Re: currencies (Michel Catudal)
ANNOUNCE: KDevelop 1.0 Beta1 released (Sandy Meier - DI)
Re: helping the Third World (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: CD-ROM not playing audio CDs ("John Ryland")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.T. Wong)
Subject: Pls help: RH 6.0 hangs
Date: 2 Aug 1999 03:18:29 GMT
Hi there,
We recently upgraded from RH 5.0 to RH 6.0. Everything works fine except that
the system hangs every 3 to 4 days. All disk/filesystem related commands
hang while commands like login and ps are ok. When the system hangs, the
system load goes up and there're some /bin/sync left on the system. We're
using kernel 2.2.10 with following hardware configuration:
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Memory: 257680k/262080k available (1040k kernel code, 408k reserved, 2916k data, 36k
init)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0720
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST2.1A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX10.2A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: CD-ROM CDU611, ATAPI CDROM drive
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 7c e6 ed, IRQ 10.
eth1: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xd000, 00:60:08:66:b4:7a, IRQ 12
Would anyone please help ?
Thanks a lot !
Regards,
ST Wong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Charles)
Subject: Contract Bridge anyone?
Date: 2 Aug 1999 03:25:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone come accross a Linux version of any Contract Bridge programme?
If so, could you let me know where I can get it. This would be the final
stage of my migration to GNU/Linux.
It would be nice if it could use the Acol bidding system.
(Contract Bridge is the "chess" of card games).
Phil.
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Do I Unpack This?
Date: 2 Aug 1999 02:58:58 GMT
Roy A. McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just downloaded the file KPPP-1.6.14.tar.bz2. Do I unpack this the same way I
> do files that end in .tgz or tar.gz?
That's a bzip2-compressed file. You can uncompress it with
bunzip2 KPPP-1.6.14.tar.bz2
and then un-tar it as normal. Look at 'man bzip2' and 'man bunzip2'
for further details.
--
It may be great to soar with the eagles, but weasels don't get sucked into
jets.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 1 Aug 1999 22:24:06 -0500
Anthony Ord wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >Anthony Ord wrote:
> <snip>
> >> Try the Japanese Yen. Hint: who finances your budget
> >> deficit?
> >
> >The Asian economy has been going down the toilet lately while our
> >economy is strong.
>
> Who owns your economy? For example, name 3 Hollywood studios not owned by
> the Japanese.
>
> Actually, the Japanese economy is a concern to the US government because
> without their money, you cannot finance your budget deficit. This would
> mean your government would only be able to spend what they earned. Name
> one Western government that doesn't break out in a cold sweat at that
> thought...
>
> Regards
>
> Anthony
Japan is fucked without us as customers so what's your point?
And we have a huge budget surplus right now, every read the
financial newspapers?
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: currencies
Date: 1 Aug 1999 22:27:02 -0500
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
<BS removed>
The bottom line is that everyone around the world worship our
money. Your bitching about it ain't gonna change a thing.
And best of all we rule the world, wether you like it or not.
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From: Sandy Meier - DI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: KDevelop 1.0 Beta1 released
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 05:12:14 +0200
KDevelop 1.0 - The KDE Development Environment
The KDevelop Team is proud to announce the availability of the KDevelop
Integrated Development Environment for Unix Systems, version 1.0 Beta 1.
KDevelop can be found at http://www.kdevelop.org and will as well be
included in the next KDE release.
Project description:
1. Introduction
1.1 The Team
The KDevelop Project, started in summer of 1998, aims to provide
developers with a good, stable and useful environment that can compete
with modern graphical software development tools. Since the beginning of
the
development, the team has grown from three members of the core team to
seven code writers and a translation team in which another 12-15 people
contribute their work as well.
1.2 Intention
The first reason why KDevelop was created was the fact that
although Unix systems provide the user with a good and stable
environment, including the X Window System. But it lacks a modern,
competitive solution for application development that will make users of
the dark side of power think it's time to contribute to another world.
Whereas hard-core Unix developers state that Emacs and vi are the
ultimate solution, KDE provides developers a complete application
framework together with the Qt library. The fact that Qt is also
available for commercial development, this release will also get the
interest of commercial developers. Therefore the KDevelop project wants
to:
a) provide a useful code-writing environment.
b) simplify the use of standard development tools such as autoconf and
automake.
c) offer a RAD tool by a graphical dialog editor that reduces GUI design
cycles.
d) give developers direct, simple access to documentation written
by the team as well as by third parties, including the KDE and Qt API.
2. Overview
The KDevelop IDE offers functionality for the following parts of C/C++
application development:
a) a wizard-based project generator that builds configurable frameworks
for various type of application
b) a coding environment, which includes:
- a syntax-highlighting editor
- a class browser and viewer
- various file viewers
c) a documentation system with direct access to HTML-formatted
documentation including five handbooks for KDE and Qt development,
along with fast search functionalities
d) a dialog editor that allows for rapid construction of user interfaces
embedded into the development environment completely
e) works with the most needed programs automatically to edit files by
mime-type, such as KIconedit or KDbg
f) CVS support for project development
g) support for easy internationalization of projects
h) internationalized into 10 languages (application; documentation only
available in English)
i) many additional features such as auto-saving, command line passing
etc.
This enables programmers to reduce development cycles to a minimum
while at the same time offering the flexibility to work as they would
like.
We would like to mention that although KDevelop requires KDE and Qt to
work, you can as well use it for any other C++ project; it is designed
primarily as a C/C++ development environment. Its origin nevertheless
has been
based on support for KDE/Qt application design.
3. Why using KDevelop IS an effort
The question is - do I want to use KDevelop for my application? Or do
I really want to remain with black and white, text only?
Every developer will ask if KDevelop can be better than Emacs, better
than MS Visual Studio, better than Borland. The fact that it provides a
complete, user friendly interface to simple application development most
often steps back.
But the KDevelop Team does not think we have to step back behind the
long-term development of for example, Emacs. KDevelop actually IS being
developed with beta versions in our own interest. Stability is always
the main goal. You can expect KDevelop to do what you want it to do,
whenever you want to. And it will stay stable, as much as possible with
user reports of bugs during development releases.
The features were designed based on the need of them from our own
experience. The programmer can expect that his environment interacts
with him intuitively, in a fast yet friendly way.
All features are well documented. As well, we provide a whole set of
handbooks that will give those new to KDE development a seamless start
from whatever environment they may come- GNOME, wxWindows or Motif.
We hope that our contribution to the free software market will make more
users and programmers realize that they have another choice.
The KDevelop Team
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:07:17 GMT
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 02:48:10 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>Richard Kulisz wrote:
>> We can work collectively to force redistribution of wealth from
>> the rich to the poor.
>
>In other words, "Let's kill the rich and take their money". Not a new
>idea.
>
>> Socialists can also work collectively to wrest political and economic
>> power away from the rich,
>
>Thereby establishing themselves as the rich and powerful. Not a new idea
>either.
Certainly not new ideas, and not ideas that are clearly "moral;"
similar programs have been implemented by regimes of all sorts of
political colours.
An interesting bit is that Kulisz seems to only consider it
acceptable for actions to be taken by organizations that could be
mistaken for governments.
It is apparently not of any value for individuals to do anything.
The wonderful irony of it all is that in order for the socialists to
work collectively requires that a set of individuals get together to
implement socialist collectives that do not as of yet exist.
This indicates that while individual action has been disparaged as
pointless, individual action is *necessary* to implement collectives.
No contradiction there, right?
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the
question of whether a submarine can swim.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: "John Ryland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM not playing audio CDs
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:26:13 +1000
Justin B Willoughby wrote in message
<7o02nc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Matt Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> On 31 Jul 1999 22:50:23 GMT, Justin B Willoughby
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Matt Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>>> > The CD-ROM in my computer recently refuses to play audio CDs through
>>> > the soundcard. This CD-ROM reads data CDs correctly, i.e. it is
>>> > completely fine with regards to data CDs. When I try to play an audio
>>> > CD, though, it doesn't come through the soundcard. I can plug
>>> > headphones into the CD-ROM itself and hear the audio CD being played.
>>> > I have a cable that I bought a while back that connects the CD-ROM to
>>> > the soundcard. Playing audio CDs through the CD-ROM used to work
>>> > fine, but now just doesn't. It doesn't work under Windows, either, so
>>> > I'm pretty sure it's not a software problem.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Can you play other audio files through your sound card, like wav files
for
>>> example.
>>> ...
>>> It would help to know if you can play any sounds through your sound
card.
>>
>> Sorry, forgot to include, that yes, my soundcard is otherwise
>> functional and working. There are no problems playing wavs, mp3s,
>> even doing full duplex operations with SLab.
>>
>
>You have not been replacing any hardware in the case where you might have
>pulled the cable out that connects the cd-rom to the sound card have you?
>
>There is a separate volume control for cd-rom input that is configurable.
>I don't think I have ever seen it get stuck on off before but if you
>happen to have windows running you might want to double click on the
>little volume control in your task bar and see what the cd-rom volume
>control is set to. Or under Linux use some type of audio mixer app to
>check this, I don't remember which one I use as I am not at my Linux box
>right now.
>
>- Justin
Also it is worth checking the CD volume. The CD's volume can be changed
independently of the master volume for the sound card. The CD could have
been muted.
John
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