Linux-Misc Digest #314, Volume #21 Fri, 6 Aug 99 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: why do I lose my entire system at restart, how to minimize loss? (Wine
Development)
Re: Am I damaging my Monitor !! (Tom Georges)
Newbie: canceling a print job ("Drew A. Dunn")
Netscape fuer Linux/Windows (Johann Maas)
Re: APS-UPS for Linux? (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Converting from vfat to fat32 (Harvey Scobie)
syslog memory leak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CIA assassinations (Martin R. Green)
Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Have you heard? ("Snoopy :-))")
Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!? ("Mike O'Brien")
mounting problems ("Dr. Darren M. Crotchett")
Re: Howto check if Port # is block by ISP? ("John Hardin")
localtime trouble (Al Funk)
RedHat 6.0 User quotas (Amir Malik)
Re: why do I lose my entire system at restart, how to minimize loss? (William Cherry)
Re: Traditional tar.gz software building (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!? (David Turley)
A web page: How to set up Oracle 8 on RH Linux 6 (Reuben A. King)
WINE help, please? (Kevin Breit)
nfs server under RedHat 6.0 (Nick Birkett)
Re: Java makes Netscape crash (jamie)
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From: Wine Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why do I lose my entire system at restart, how to minimize loss?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:47:51 +0100
Martin R. Green wrote:
>
> Forgetting, for a moment, that question of what is causing the
> crashes, I just wanted to weigh in on the crash recovery question. As
> a RH6.0 newbie, I have to wonder why Linux seems far more susceptible
> to catastrophic mangling of disk volumes when it is not shut down
> properly than DOS/Windows.
>
[SNIP]
> Why is a Linux volume so screwed up by a bad shutdown while a
> FAT16/FAT32/NTFS volume is hardly ruffled at all?
>
>
[SNIP]
Linux, like OS/2 and NT, uses what is called 'lazy write', that is it
does not
immediately write to disk any write requests from a program but holds
them in a
buffer. This is a performance feature and a consequence of the fact that
the
os designers did not expect it to be shut down frequently.
It also means that before shutting down one needs to flush the os
buffers to disk.
DOS (and DOS-based Windows versions) write away immediately.
--
Keith Matthews Spam trap - my real account at this
node is keith_m
Frequentous Consultants - Linux Services,
Oracle development & database administration
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From: Tom Georges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Am I damaging my Monitor !!
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:19:50 -0400
John Morrison wrote:
>
> I am trying to configure X on my system and none of the "default"
> settings in the install script seem to work well. I saw your post and am
> trying it. But I have one problem, the front and back porch settings I
> have gotten from my monitor manufacture are very small, do I need to
> convert them to some other format?? my settings are at this web address.
>
> http://www.kdsusa.com/text/vs21C.html#sync
Hi, John.
I just purchased a KDS monitor (19" VS-195) and had trouble getting
a decent XFree setup on my linux box. I got great success using a
utility that calculates modelines - it can be found at:
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html
You choose the desired resolution (and update the pixel clock
frequency if the one resulting from your choice is higher than
your video card is capable) and click "Calculate." The page
creates an XFree86 Modeline for you. You can also chose the
horizontal and vertical polarity (not sure what this really
does. I use Positive).
I've done this for three different resolutions with fine success.
Tom
--
Thomas L. Georges, SMTS BellSouth Telecommunications S&T
675 W. Peachtree St. 41B50 Atlanta, GA 30375
Office:(404)332-2178 - F:(404)420-8202 - P:(404)672-2784 #1030090
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can
always count on the support of Paul" - GBS
(ALL OPINIONS ARE MINE and not my employers - but they should be :)
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From: "Drew A. Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: canceling a print job
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:04:06 -0400
Is there a way to purge the print spool?
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From: Johann Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape fuer Linux/Windows
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:26:07 +0200
hi !
Ich suche eine Moeglichkeit die Mail-Ordner von Windows und Linux zu vereinen,
so dass dieselben von beiden Systemen nutzbar sind. Der Hacken ist, dass
normale User nicht auf DOS- Partitionen schreiben duerfen ( nur root)
Hat das schon Jemand gemacht ?
Gruss. Johann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: APS-UPS for Linux?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 20:17:07 GMT
In article <7o84fm$etg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Penguin Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Is there a program that interactes with APC-UPS to shut off the computer
|> during power outages? The software the comes with the UPS is for
|> Windoez.
I use genpower and it works just fine.
Cheers....
--
Kevin.E.Cosgrove AT Tek DOT COM
Change the AT and DOT in my reply-to address to send e-mail.
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harvey Scobie)
Subject: Converting from vfat to fat32
Date: 06 Aug 1999 20:03:16 GMT
I know that Linux supports fat32. What I would like to know is if it possible
to convert an existing windows partitioned drive to fat32 and what effect if
any this would have on the Linux partitions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: syslog memory leak
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 21:15:17 GMT
I am using Redhat 6.0 with sysklogd-1.3.33-7.
I found that syslogd leak memory if I set the parameter
-m 0 -r to allow remote logging.
Is there a fix for the problem?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin R. Green)
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 20:46:15 GMT
Rolling On The Floor, Laughing
CIAO
BTW, cut out the crossposting, OK?
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 19:48:08 GMT, "Mav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey MK,
>
>I hate to sound stupid, but what does:
>
>>ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL
>
>
>mean? (seriously)
>
>Mav
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 20:48:53 GMT
Greetings all. You are my last Court of Appeals.
I just got off the phone with Gateway.net (the ISP side) trying to get
an DNS IP address so that I can fill in the blanks in my resolv.conf
file. What frustration!
I have installed Debian (Hamm), and "pon" will dial Gateway.net, and I
can even log-in. (Gateway doesn't hang up on me, anyway.) But Netscape
can't find it's way outside of my computer because I have no DNS IP's.
Gateway.net says they "no longer use" DNS IP addresses.
I hardly think this is true.
Is there _ANYONE_ out there (Please!) that uses Gateway.net as their
ISP with Linux?!? If so, please e-mail me a usable DNS IP.
Please assist! This is the last hurdle I need to jump before
eliminating Win95 from my hard drive!
Otherwise, (and my absolute LAST choice)
can someone recommend a "Linux Friendly" ISP?
(i.e., Someone who doesn't mind giving out their DNS IP's.)
Thanx--
james carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Snoopy :-))" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.sex.fetish.linux,be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.security,esp.comp.so.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Have you heard?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:02:20 -0400
In order to hack it you have to be able to get to it. In addition your post
is incomplete since you didn't mention anything about the Linux challange.
So Her is the rest of the Story!!!!!!
In an attempt to burnish its tarnished reputation for network security,
Microsoft issued an
open challenge on Tuesday to the hacking community. But potential
testers barely got a chance
to attempt to break Windows 2000?s security system, as the test server
Microsoft offered
crashed and stayed down for most of the week.
Microsoft placed a web server running the latest beta of Windows 2000
and Internet
Information Server (IIS) outside its firewalls, and invited the public
to go after target files
and user accounts it placed there. The company?s reason for doing so?
"We hope that this kind
of open testing will allow us to ship our most secure OS yet," said a
Microsoft spokesperson.
The hacking community is largely unimpressed, however. According to
"Space Rogue" of the
Hacker News Network, "Companies need to realize that these 'Hacker
Challenges' are not
valid testing methods and are nothing more than publicity stunts."
Members of the Linux-enthusiast site Slashdot for the most part
concurred, accusing
Microsoft of using anti-Microsoft sentiment for free auditing. Several
respondents also
asserted that the challenge would not represent a realistic test of the
system's security in
standard use.
Meanwhile, the Linux community created a counter-challenge of its own.
Tuesday afternoon,
LinuxPPC, the developers and distributors of a PowerPC-native version of
Linux,
challenged hackers to crack one of its servers. As of noon on Thursday,
the server had resisted
attacks from 6755 separate machines, and though straining under heavy
traffic, had been up for
two days.
Jeff Carr, the site's administrator, said he is looking forward to
seeing the site cracked: "It'll
be great to see what people come up with. We're having a blast."
Things were not quite so enjoyable back at the ranch in Redmond. As soon
as Microsoft?s site
went online, Microsoft ran into technical difficulties with the test
server. Early visitors
reported problems with the home-page HTML and Javascript, some serious
enough to prevent
them accessing the page at all. Posts to the site's guest book, GET
service, and several other
functions have repeatedly failed. Posted status logs indicate that the
server has been rebooted
at least twice--once because "the System log was full".
Most significantly, the server has been repeatedly forced offline. The
site was only
intermittently available Tuesday and went down for approximately 8 hours
Wednesday. Web
service was restarted at least once Wednesday evening, and the server
was rebooted after a
reconfiguration on Thursday morning. Access continues to be
intermittent, and the site was
unavailable at press time.
Microsoft has offered conflicting reports as to the source of their
problems. A Microsoft
spokesperson attributed the difficulties Tuesday and Wednesday to router
failures and
thunderstorms in Seattle, while the site's status log blames the
Wednesday crash on a "known
bug". Microsoft was unavailable for further comment at press time.
Nathan Neal wrote in message <7oerr4$7ou$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Microsoft challenges hackers to break into Windows 2000
>
>In a controversial move, Microsoft Corporation has made one of its Windows
>2000 Servers on the Internet available to hackers, inviting people to
>attempt to break in. The goal: To make Windows 2000 as industrial strength
>as possible. The company says it is looking for any "magic bullet" attacks
>that can kill it, and has asked hackers to follow some simple rules so that
>they can determine the validity of any attacks. Since the server went
online
>Tuesday morning, it has yet to be hacked.
>
>Feel you've got the right stuff? Head on over to
>http://www.windows2000test.com and find out.
>
>Note: At the time of this writing, the server was unavailable, but its
>expected to be back up soon.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Mike O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:16:43 -0500
You must learn the ways of the darkside.
:-)
Domain servers in listed order:
DNS1.GATEWAY.COM 63.66.78.33
DNS2.GATEWAY.COM 63.66.78.35
(which you can actually find out, assuming you have a working 'net
connection. You do a domain DNS lookup at some site, like domainsearch.com
and then the DNS servers will be listed.)
Let me know how it goes?
Mike O'Brien
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ofhng$pph$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greetings all. You are my last Court of Appeals.
>
> I just got off the phone with Gateway.net (the ISP side) trying to get
> an DNS IP address so that I can fill in the blanks in my resolv.conf
> file. What frustration!
>
> I have installed Debian (Hamm), and "pon" will dial Gateway.net, and I
> can even log-in. (Gateway doesn't hang up on me, anyway.) But Netscape
> can't find it's way outside of my computer because I have no DNS IP's.
>
> Gateway.net says they "no longer use" DNS IP addresses.
> I hardly think this is true.
>
> Is there _ANYONE_ out there (Please!) that uses Gateway.net as their
> ISP with Linux?!? If so, please e-mail me a usable DNS IP.
>
> Please assist! This is the last hurdle I need to jump before
> eliminating Win95 from my hard drive!
>
> Otherwise, (and my absolute LAST choice)
> can someone recommend a "Linux Friendly" ISP?
> (i.e., Someone who doesn't mind giving out their DNS IP's.)
>
> Thanx--
> james carpenter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Dr. Darren M. Crotchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting problems
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:08:21 -0500
I'm running into a problem mounting my Windows disk.
When typing "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win" (no quotes of course). I get
the following error:
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 32, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap]
[me=0xf8, cs=8, #f=2, fs=32, fl=4016, ds=8064, de=0, data=8064, se=0,
ts=4120641, ls=512, rc=2, fc=175844]
Transaction block size=512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many
mounted file systems
When I check to see what's mounted with the "mount" command, it returns the
following:
/dev/hdc1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type /proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw, mode=0622)
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Darren
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From: "John Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Howto check if Port # is block by ISP?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:15:01 -0700
Young4ert wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>1. "telnet mailandnews.com 25" produces the following error message:
>
> telnet mailandnews.com 25
> Trying 199.29.68.160...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable
"traceroute -i ppp0 mailandnews.com"
..and watch for lines with just asterisks (i.e. "no response")
--
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From: Al Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: localtime trouble
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 21:27:33 GMT
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From: Amir Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.networking.general
Subject: RedHat 6.0 User quotas
Date: 6 Aug 1999 21:30:37 GMT
I will be having thousands/millions of visitors and I would like to limit
each user to 5MB of space, this includes homepages and e-mail. This can be
accomplished easily if you use IMAP with mail/ folders in the user's home
directory. All of the users are in the group: users.
Amir
something with?? edquota
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From: William Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why do I lose my entire system at restart, how to minimize loss?
Date: 06 Aug 1999 17:00:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin R. Green) writes:
> I have recently moved into a nicer neighborhood, but the local power
> utility is far worse than at my old address. I often get a few
> momentary power interruptions (<2 seconds) per week, sometimes several
> per day, whereas I got only a few in my entire 8 years at the old
> address. I know... UPS... I'll be getting one soon, but for now it
> still begs the question.
Yes, UPS is the best way to go. If the power interuptions are as
short as two seconds, a cheaper alternative may simply be a good
surge protector or line conditioner. Some of these can hold power
for a second or two.
Another thing you can do is make the kernel flush the disk buffers
more often. Search around for a call to /sbin/update. In Red Hat, this
used to be in /etc/inittab. (I haven't upgraded to 6.0 yet.)
Change the call to /sbin/update -s 1 -f 1 to make it do all disk writes
within one second of changes. Maybe you can even up 0's here, but
I'm not sure and have never tried that. This will of course probably
result in a performance hit, but should make a successful recovery
after a crash more likely. See the man page for update
(sometimes called bdflush) and the mini-howto on Battery-Powered for a
little more info.
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Traditional tar.gz software building
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 07:58:05 +1000
Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> While usually able to get software built in the traditional manner,
> I'm still somewhat mystified by the process and how it really works.
>
> When errors do comeup, I'm usually lost as to how to track them down.
>
> The INSTALL and README files that come whith GNU software usually
> contain enough to do the job, but not enough to learn trouble
> shooting too. ( not the place for that, of course)
>
> I'm hoping there is a HOWTO devoted to this or at least sections of
> HOWTOS but the titles don't look too promising.
>
> Where would one get a thorough description of how to build software
> from sources and how to trouble shoot that process?
Basically depends on the specific problem. If the compiler can't
find the correct header files you have to find them. If its a
compile error, it may be related to changes in some API or
library.
Posting a brief desciption of the problem and the error messages
to comp.os.linux.development.apps will usually get you an answer.
It would be sensible to aim for about a ten line post (longer
posts are harder to answer and hence easier to ignore) with a
obvious subject line (ie Problem compiling foo-X.X.X package).
Erik
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+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+-------------------------------------------------+
Linux: generous programmers from around the world all join
forces to help you shoot yourself in the foot for free.
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 21:33:05 GMT
In article <7ofhng$pph$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Please assist! This is the last hurdle I need to jump before
> eliminating Win95 from my hard drive!
>
> Otherwise, (and my absolute LAST choice)
> can someone recommend a "Linux Friendly" ISP?
> (i.e., Someone who doesn't mind giving out their DNS IP's.)
>
Go to tp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/
there are scripts in there that show how to configure for dynamically
assigned dns
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.binary.net/dturley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reuben A. King)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: A web page: How to set up Oracle 8 on RH Linux 6
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:08:19 -0500
Howdy ya'll..
I just went through several days of brain damage getting Oracle 8 working
properly on RH Linux 6. I found the Oracle docs to be error-ridden and
missing critical information.. The installer is total crap and just ends
up making the process even harder than it normally is.. etc..
But, I finally did figure everything out. So, I decided to compile
exactly how I did it into a web page and pass around the URL so anyone
who might be trying to do a similar thing won't have to go through the
same pain I did:
http://amoeba.sagemediagroup.com/oracle_linux_howto/
Thanks,
-RK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Breit)
Subject: WINE help, please?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 21:46:55 GMT
Hey,
I am trying to setup WINE to run Photoshop in Linux. Well, whenever
I try to run WINE, I get this error:
Could not stat c:, ignoring drive C:
Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working
directory /fat-c/Adobe/Photoshop 5.0; starting in windows directory.
Warning: /fat-c/windows not accessible from a DOS drive
Invalid path '/fat-c/windows' for windows directory
Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
This is either /usr/local/etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc
or it is determined by the -config option or from
the WINE_INI environment variable.
Wine has used /home/kbreit/.winerc as configuration file.
I can't seem to figure out how to setup my C:\. What is the proper syntax?
Kevin
--
"Why do I feel the pain everyday?"
-Godsmack
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From: Nick Birkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nfs server under RedHat 6.0
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 23:18:23 +0100
Hi I am having problems gettting SGI IRIX hosts to mount nfs files from
my Linux box since I upgraded to RH6. It worked fine under RedHat 5.2
(but then again so did a lot of things !!).
Other Linux boxes can mount the files fine. I have a custom 2.2.5 kernel
with nfs compiled in.
Any help appreciated.
--
Nick Birkett
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Java makes Netscape crash
Date: 6 Aug 1999 21:32:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Actually, if you are running RedHat 6.0 (which I willing to guess you
>are) Netscape is not at fault. One of the installation RPM's is buggy
>and it doesn't a necessary font path to /etc/X11/fs/config.
(I'm not running RedHat, and neither is Mike, we're running Slackware,
which doesn't have that fonthpath problem.)
Obviously you didn't read the previous parts of this thread. We've
already confirmed the fontpath, and all that RedHat fix apparently
does is take care of some font redrawing problems that hang Netscape
when minimizing or switching windows. It does nothing for the problems
of Netscape freezing, closing itself, or spawning several dozen error
windows when running java.
--
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"There's a seeker born every minute."
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