Linux-Misc Digest #260, Volume #21 Mon, 2 Aug 99 12:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: RAID1 Questions (Jon Bloom)
Re: Perl Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Unmounting Drives During Power Down. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dselect/dpkg corrupting /var/lib/dp6kg/* (Otavio Exel)
Re: currencies (coffee)
Re: What I think of linux. (James Knott)
Re: video editing on linux? ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Contract Bridge anyone? (Jim Jowski)
Re: Installing Netscape 4.61 (Jeff Goodman)
Re: Hauppauge TV/Radio Card ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Java makes Netscape crash (Mike Mckinney)
Re: RH 6.0 and Iomega PP zip driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS? (Anders Linden)
video editing on linux? (John Guillory)
Re: Program to find optimal MTU? (Clifford Kite)
Ntop logging (Sebastien Brault)
Re: Perl Help (gus)
Re: GDP (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: GDP (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Contract Bridge anyone? (Dan Owens)
Re: What I think of linux. (James Knott)
Re: shell command to replace string in text files ? ("Christopher W. Aiken")
Re: brain teaser (Anders Linden)
Re: LUG in LONDON ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NT & Linux - dual boot (Nev)
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From: Jon Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: RAID1 Questions
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:31:32 -0400
"Phil R." wrote:
>
> Thanks again...
>
> I have raid 1 built into the kernel, I'm not using it as a module.
> Maybe it is more reliable as a module???
Not that I'm aware of, nor can I think of any reason why it would be. I
just use the stock (distribution) kernel whenever I can. Makes upgrading
a little easier.
> To avoid all confusion, here
> is what I'm seeing:
>
> [root@atlantis /]# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [3 raid1]
That's odd and probably indicative of some kind of problem, but I don't
know what. Have you tried dropping back to the stock 2.2.5 kernel? Or
are you still using the 2.2.10 kernel you compiled? Seems like I've
heard of RAID problems in some of the later 2.2.x kernels but don't know
the details. May be only rumors.
> read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive
> md1 : inactive
> md2 : inactive
> md3 : inactive
>
> [root@atlantis /]# mkraid /dev/md0
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4096543kB, raid superblock at 4096448kB
> /dev/sdb1 appears to contain an ext2 filesystem -- use -f to override
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
So was there anything in the syslog?
You do have md0 in /dev, right? Like so:
brw------- 1 root root 9, 0 Jul 30 11:31 /dev/md0
> [root@atlantis /]# mkraid --really-force /dev/md0
> DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4096543kB, raid superblock at 4096448kB
> disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4096543kB, raid superblock at 4096448kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
> And my raidtab file:
Looked perfect.
Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Perl Help
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 13:33:00 GMT
try from the command line:
perl -pi -e 's/\n/\r/g' filename
Good luck,
In article <7nvvkc$41k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Scott Galloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to replace every newline in a linux file by a ctrl-M
> (change it to a dos text file). I've tried:
>
> perl -n -e 'print; print "\r";' <file> > <newfile>
>
> but the the first print prints each whole line, including the \n
> which I would like to remove from each line. Does anyone
> know of an easy way to do this? Thanks kindly,
>
> Scott
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unmounting Drives During Power Down.
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:26:45 -0400
Thunderstorm season is here.
And as my 3 year old says: "Big Sparkies!".
While an attempting to beat the lightning to my linux box by powering it down and
diconnecting it
from the wall (power and network) I was beaten to the punch by a power outage. My
machine only made
it part way through the process and did not unmount the drives cleanly. The machine
had been on for
days with no activity. So what is the consequence of this and how do I "reset" the
status of the
drives so they become "normal" again?
Many thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otavio Exel)
Subject: Re: dselect/dpkg corrupting /var/lib/dp6kg/*
Date: 2 Aug 1999 13:36:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Justin B Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Otavio Exel writes:
> > I'm phisically near the box now; indeed the screen was full of ext2
> > error messages; so I did 'e2fsck -fc /dev/hda*' and answered Y to a
> > lot of messages; now I'm getting some segfaults :-(
> This might not be the problem but you really should not run fsck on a
> live filesystem. If possible boot off a floppy and check it.
I did e2fsck in / from a diskette boot; /dev/hda1 was not mounted! then
I booted normally and went into maintainance mode (shutdown -f) to
e2fsck the other partitions;
> > is there a way to re-install all the packages without reinstalling
> > the system itself?
> I don't see why not, i don't use Debian, I use SlackWare :-\\
er.. I mean an automagic way.. like: 'dpkg --re-install-all-packages' :-)
> - Justin
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: currencies
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:10:36 -0400
Ashley Penney wrote:
>
> On 1 Aug 1999 22:27:02 -0500, Michel Catudal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gabbered:
> :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.
>
> People like you shouldn't be allowed to breed. Ever.
>
> --
> "I'm not lean and mean, I'm surly and anorexic". -- Chris "Saundo" Saunderson
I tried to pull up the offending post from my isp but they had already
deleted it. Therefore, Im qouting this one from Ashley.
My .02 cents worth:
As an American Iam embarassed to read such a posting. First of all, Why
would you really like to own the world? It would only be a big headache
if you did.
America is a great country. But owning the world is very low on the
agenda. Keeping other "Hitlers" out of the world like this poster is
somewhat high on the agenda though. Thats why we have troops setting
"here" and "there".
Lets not forget that we all live on the same planet and need to get
along with each other. Bashing Countries makes no sense and produces
nothing positive. Besides, This post has nothing to do with Linux and
should probably stop right here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:32:19 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashley Penney) wrote:
>The community has changed, since we've come under attack. The world of Linux
>is under attack by scared Windows trolls and newbies, and has gone a little
>more cynical and hostile. People with the right attitude still learn the same
>way I did, and when they mature into skilled users, they tend to help out.
Sounds just like the OS/2 world.
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video editing on linux?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:10:31 +0200
John Guillory wrote:
>
> Is there a video editing software like Premier or Avid for Linux?
An URL i visit now and then is http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
Follow the link to Broadcast2000 - it's an odd story however and the app
itself not available for the moment. It may be again though, and perhaps
you can still find the beta other places.
K.
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 06:38:29 -0700
From: Jim Jowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Contract Bridge anyone?
I'm hoping that StarOffice 5.0 is a 32 bit browser so that I can load the
"zone" (www.zone.com) plug-in and use Bill's game server while running
Linux. With Netscape 4.6, I keep getting condescending messages about
not using a 32 bit browser and how I should try IE or Netscape. Maybe
then I'll be able to "bridge" on-line in Linux instead of having to use
that second rate OS.
Jim
On 2 Aug 1999, Philip Charles wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Philip Charles. I sell GNU/Linux CD-ROMs, see http://www.copyleft.co.nz
> Email me to join my mailing list.
>
>
>
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From: Jeff Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Netscape 4.61
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 07:15:38 -0700
kev wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Netscape 4.61 because I have 4.51 at present and
> crashes whenever it gets within spitting distance of a Java applet. The
> chkfontpath fix did not fix this for me.
> I have downloaded the netscape 4.61 common and communicator RPMs.
> I was advised to rpm -e the old ones, but I don't know where they are on
> my system. A 'find / -name *rpm*' turned up no RPMs.
> So I tried rpm -U, but for common I get this message:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> netscape-common = 4.51 is needed by netscape-communicator-4.51-3
> netscape-common = 4.51 is needed by netscape-navigator-4.51-3
>
> and for the communicator rpm I get this one:
>
> error: /home/kev/tmp/netscape-communicator-4.6-1.i386.rpm cannot be
> installed
>
> I thought RPMs were meant to make installing/upgrading s/w easy. What's
> going on?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Kev
FWIW, I installed 4.61 from netscape.com (I needed the 128 bit
encryption version) and it still often crashes when it encounters Java.
Jeff
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppauge TV/Radio Card
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 15:49:42 +0200
Berco van Gool wrote:
> first I say thanks to everyone, who send me information about the
> problems I had with te full screen mode.
> Now I can watch TV on my Linux system, but I can't listen to the radio.
>
> Questions:
> * Can I listen to the radio with the BT848 module or I have to install a
> special module for the Radio?
> * Maybe if you have a Hauppauge TV/Radio Card send me your
> "conf.modules" file and tell me wat kind of Radio program you use.?
there are many versions of the bttv driver and Hauppauge cards out
there, but you could.. (apart from reading the documentation ;)try to
insmod the bttv.o driver with a parameter: radio=1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Mckinney)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Java makes Netscape crash
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:39:00 GMT
kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just upgraded to Netscape 4.6 cos 4.5 crashed every time it hit a
>Java applet. 4.6 does exactly the same thing.
>
>I had been told previously that to fix the crashing problem I should do:
>
>chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
>This just gives me the message:
>
>chkfontpath: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi already in list
>
>for both 4.5 and 4.6, and fixes no problems in neither. I _need_ to be
>able to view Java applets in a browser. Does anyone know how to fix this
>problem.
If you manage to get this problem fixed, could you let me know also ?
I have also checked my fonts, and still it crashes. And sometimes, Netscape
just "wigs out" and starts making my disk thrash so badly that the only thing
I can do is warm boot using the reset button, which of course results more
often than not in my filesystem getting somewhat trashed.
The site that I have the most problems with is :
www.uproar.com/picthis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 and Iomega PP zip driver
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 13:49:54 GMT
How can I automate "modprobe ppa" during Linux boot?
=====================================================
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"G-man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had success using 'modprobe ppa' instead of 'insmod'. Give it a
try.
> Good luck.
>
> Dan Bizuneh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > During the installation of RH 5.2 a while back, I chose Iomega PP
zip
> > drive from the scsi list, redhat recognized my parallel port zip
drive
> > and everything went well. But when I try to upgrade to RH 6.0,
redhat
> > was unable to auto probe my parallel port zip drive. Does anyone
know
> > how I can make my parallel port zip drive work on RH 6.0?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dan Bizuneh
> >
> >
>
>
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:44:42 +0200
From: Anders Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS?
Lindoze 2000 wrote:
>
> Youngert wrote:
> >
> > I have an AMD K6-2 400MHz, 128M RAM running SuSE-6.1 with Linux-2.2.10
> > kernel. The computer's setup is a basic one with X11 + KDE. Everytime I
> > compile the kernel, the system starts swapping at some point and never
> > releases the memory even after finishing the kernel compilation. Is there a
> > way to force the kernel to release the un-used memory?
> >
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > PS. Please remove 4 from the reply address should you decide to reply.
>
> what do you mean by swapping?
> Linux will use all the mem. type free and you will see that
> linux uses some of the mem for progs, some for buffers and the rest is
> used for hdd caching. nothing is left free.just load another prog and
> see the cache part beiing lowered. and why would you not want linux to
> use all 128 MB of RAM? imagine if you got you self a brand spanking new
> 128MB of 100MHz SDRAM and only 10.5MB is used and the rest stays idle
> like windoze does? wouldnt you feel you wasted your money?
>
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From: John Guillory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video editing on linux?
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 08:52:33 -0500
Is there a video editing software like Premier or Avid for Linux?
Thanks, John
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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: 2 Aug 1999 08:36:57 -0500
Floyd Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Steve Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Is there a program to identify the optimal MTU for a given interface
: >under Linux v2.2.x? If so, where might I find it?
: That would be impossible, because it depends on what you use the
: link for as well as how fast it is and what the latency is.
Yes, if "optimal" is defined that way. He may have meant Path MTU which
is defined as the largest MTU that doesn't fragment packets on any host
on the path. This is found through the Path MTU Discovery mentioned in
other replies.
: For rough idea of what differences you might find, think in
: terms of efficiency and timing for PPP packets. A PPP packet
: has 40 bytes of overhead (addressing, etc.), so whatever the mtu
: is set to, that amount minus 40 bytes is the actual payload.
Actually it's the TCP-IP headers in IP packets riding on PPP that occupy
the 40 bytes.
: For example, if you set the mtu to 128 there will be almost 1/3
: of each packet that is overhead and does not contribute to data
: transfer. If you do only large ftp transfers, that would cause a serious
: increase in the time it takes to transfer each file.
But if the other side accepts Van Jacobson header compression as a PPP
link option then the header information can be reduced to as few as
3 bytes.
--
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* citizens. */
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From: Sebastien Brault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Ntop logging
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 15:44:38 +0200
Hi,
I downloaded ntop, compiled and installed it on Linux.
All works fine except the logging feature.
I tried to launch ntop with "ntop -r 1 -l 1" or "ntop -l 1". But the
nlog log
file keep empty or just with this line :
"# date totalPkts broadcastPkts multicastPkts ethernetBytes ipBytes
nonIpBytes
peakThroughput (Kbps) ".
Is it a know bug or ????
Thanks for your help.
Best regards.
S�bastien Brault.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Perl Help
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 15:10:38 +0100
Scott Galloway wrote:
>
> I'm trying to replace every newline in a linux file by a ctrl-M
> (change it to a dos text file). I've tried:
>
> perl -n -e 'print; print "\r";' <file> > <newfile>
>
> but the the first print prints each whole line, including the \n
> which I would like to remove from each line. Does anyone
> know of an easy way to do this? Thanks kindly,
>
> Scott
The general assumption is that you are writing this program to do only
the conversion, then I have to comment .... Use the already available
tools ..... (unless this is for academic purposes ... ;-)
unixtodos <filename>
Have a look in your aliases (alias), and do a "man recode".
gus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GDP
Date: 2 Aug 1999 03:52:23 -0400
On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 05:55:00 GMT, Christopher B. Browne wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:56:26 GMT, witra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>>When the government encourages trade, sometimes this is what happens.
>>Many more middlemen gets into the supply chain but they do not really
>>add any value.
>
>This, of course, is another reason why GDP is a measurement that isn't
>of much value.
I beg to differ. It's usually a good indicator of employment/unemployment
trends, eg GDP growth usually points to good employment, while a fall
in GDP usually leaves many unemployed. The middlemen might not add
any value, but they are not unemployed.
>I suspect that the economists charged with GDP measurements have
>*some* intent to reduce the double-counting; it's not a trivial task,
>however.
This depends on what they are trying to measure with the GDP. I doubt
that many economists take it seriously as an estimate of living
standards. There are just too many problems with this ( for example,
the prices of some goods spiralling down, while the price of other
goods spiral upwards ). IMO, it's more valuable as an (un)?employment
indicator.
>Net result is that if you estimate GDP via the ratio
>
> GDP = (GST Collected) / (GST rate of 7%)
Of course, the reality is somewhat more complex than this because
you have different types of GDP getting taxed, and counted in different
ways. For example, exports are counted in the GDP, but receive different
taxation ( possibly tariffs, as well as possible oversees GST/sales tax )
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GDP
Date: 2 Aug 1999 04:11:28 -0400
On 1 Aug 1999 22:37:11 GMT, Richard Kulisz wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Christopher B. Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ snip: claim: GDP is relatively useless ]
Your comments are interesting. I'd agree that GDP is not extremely
useful for measuring living standards. However, it's not completely
useless.
>GDP measures only how much people slave away,
IOW, trends in the GDP correlate with trends in unemployment.
>much actual *wealth* is generated by the economy. Under the GDP, leisure,
>health, the environment all have exactly zero value.
Leisure, health and the environment are very hard to measure.
This is why an isolated "number" will never measure progress
on these issues.
The mistake that the conservatives ( or at least the "economic
rationalists" ) seem guilty of is a tendency to simply ignore
these things and concentrate on getting "good numbers".
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Donovan
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From: Dan Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Contract Bridge anyone?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 08:25:25 -0600
Philip Charles wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Take a look at http://www.gibware.com/. This is one of the best Bridge
programs out there and comes in a Linux and Windows version on the same
disk. Pretty expensive, but worth the money.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:22:07 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc 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.
>
>32. First computer man-handled by me? TRS-80 Model 2.
>First computer owned by me... ZX SPectrum.
Age 45.
First computer owned by me, and IMSAI 8080 in 1976
First computer maintained by me was an ancient "computer" in the
Toronto Stock Exchange. It was made by a company called Teleregister.
It was older than I was and was made with tubes, relays and had a
memory drum. It was "hard wired" programmed, which means that it
could only do one thing, which was to send stock prices from the TSE
to brokers offices. It had two motor generator sets, to convert the
incoming AC to +/- 130V DC. The first thing I had to do when I came
in for work in the morning, was to slowly bring up the filament
voltage, using a Variac transformer. Then after the tubes had time to
warm up, I would then start up one of the M/G sets to provide DC to
run the computer. During the day, I'd have to monitor the DC voltages
and adjust them to keep them in the proper range. This old beast had
hundreds of vacuum tubes, which were nice for warming your hands on a
winter morning. :-)
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell command to replace string in text files ?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:16:05 -0400
Try the "sed" command ( stream editor).
Use man sed for docs.
...cwa
Stefan Hetzl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is a possibility to search a list of textfiles
> (for example all *.c in the current directory) for a string (for example
> "myvariable") and to replace this string with another (for example
> "mynewvariable") from the shell prompt. I don't want to use a text
> editor, because this would mean that I had to open each file. There must
> be something like "grep and replace".
>
> Thanks
>
> Stefan
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:41:18 +0200
From: Anders Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: brain teaser
Alex Abreu wrote:
>
> >What is the most commonly used MS-DOS command? Hint it's still used in
> >Windows NT and does not work at the Netware server console. Hint 2: This
> >command is also available in Linux, the command does a different
> >function in NT as it does in DOS or Linux and this command can be
> >disabled in Linux.
>
> The command is "dir"
>
> The listings in NT and MS-DOS are different, so they make different things.
> In Linux it's an alias, so it can be disabled, right?
>
> Alex
dir?
/Anders
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LUG in LONDON
Date: 2 Aug 1999 14:57:44 GMT
The web site is http://www.lonix.lug.org.uk/
The next meeting is
Date : Thursday August 5th 1999 6.00pm to 6.15pm
Place : Piccadilly Circus Station. Meet outside Tower Records basement
level. Tower records has two entraces to the store. One is directly
inside the underground station and one is on street level. We will
meet outside the basement level entrance. Look for the lonix sign.
Give me an email if you want more details, or check the web site out.
See you Thursday
Ken
> Is there a Linux Users Group in London , UK ?
>A sedentary life, as I have already said elsewhere, is the real sin
against the Holy Ghost.
>-Nietzsche
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From: Nev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: NT & Linux - dual boot
Date: 2 Aug 1999 15:30:33 GMT
I am a newcomer to Linux (SUSE 6.1) and I have the following question.
I wish to install NT on my primary master IDE (IDE0 - hda) and Linux on the
secondary master (IDE1 - hdc). I have got NT running OK on IDE0 and Linux
can only be booted from floppy. I have tried the "copy 512 bytes and save
as bootsek.lin to the root directory of NT etc" but this didn't work.
I cannot boot from Linux by swapping boot order in the BIOS getting error
message "LIL-" to both attempts. My hdc is structured as follows -
hdc1=boot, hdc2=swap & hdc3=root as per standard install. The LILO I
believe is in the hdc1.
Are there any suggestions as to what procedure I can follow to achieve the
"dual boot" of NT & Linux?
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