Linux-Misc Digest #456, Volume #21 Thu, 19 Aug 99 01:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Re: Is there a website for minimalist Linux users? (Dick Repasky)
Loudspeakers ("R.K.Aa")
News reader program (cedric)
Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions) (Russ Allbery)
Re: Accessing windows 98 files from Linux ? ("Richard Hudson")
Re: Comparing HPFS to ext2fs... (Wine Development)
Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions) (Michael Coughlin)
[Q] Upgrading gcc-2.95 on SuSE-6.1 Linux Distro (Young4ert)
Remote message: ^@ (Chriseli de Rama)
Re: Accessing Linux from NT (Vilmos Soti)
Re: looking for a news picture sucker (Vilmos Soti)
Mandrake ("Cliff McCullough")
Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!? (Capt.Boom)
LSB doc browser Java applet? (Dan Kegel)
Re: Linux file-size limit? (Byron A Jeff)
Re: XWindows Emulators (Johan Kullstam)
Caldera 2.2 ("Christopher Lu")
SuSE6.2 X11 Rivat TNT128 Probl. (Per Kistler)
Re: Any free SQL server available? ("WME")
Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions) (Bernhard Reiter)
TIP: Using fonts from Windows partition (Dan Kegel)
Re: accessing windows files under linux (Vilmos Soti)
Re: SuSE6.2 X11 Rivat TNT128 Probl. (Per Kistler)
Re: Any free SQL server available? (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Password in /etc/passwd (See sig for reply)
Re: slocate.cron -- path expansion quesion (Paul Kimoto)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Repasky)
Subject: Re: Is there a website for minimalist Linux users?
Date: 19 Aug 1999 02:49:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:08:16 -0400, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>.... So what do YOU run on
>YOUR box? Did you make it a game server? Gateway router? What?
I use WindowMaker as a windowmanager. It is nice and light and runs
well. I mostly edit text files (code and manuscripts) and use
TeX etc to format docs. Yes, I compile C code, including kernels.
Machine 486DX 20 MB ram
--
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Loudspeakers
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:31:58 GMT
Can anyone recommend some good but not too 'spensive loudspeakers for a
PC?
If they happen to be shaped like penguins that would be added bonus, but
in this case the sound quality is the main important thing.
K.
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From: cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: News reader program
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:45:01 -0700
Is there a news reader program such as Forte Agent for Linux?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions)
Date: 18 Aug 1999 19:59:48 -0700
In gnu.misc.discuss, Rory C-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 7) The development of the free source movement since GNU appears
> to have been helped by a standardisation on the C language,
> promoted by the GCC compiler. Is this assertion true,
> notwithstanding the developments since of Python, Perl etc.? Are
> there important stories connected to Fortran or Lisp or any other
> languages that I need to look at?
C++. I'm seeing a growing percentage of free software written in C++, for
various reasons. (It's an extremely bad OO language, in my personal
opinion, but compatibility of a sort with C counts for quite a bit.)
Other people have said other things about this, but I feel obligated to
point out that Python and Perl are both fairly bad languages for doing
what the GNU Project has largely done with C. Neither of them are systems
programming languages (you wouldn't want to write a kernel in either of
them), so they were unsuitable for writing the core of the operating
system and things like libc or a C compiler (which you need regardless of
your implementation language just due to the already available code).
They're also slower on the average than well-written C, so you want to use
C for frequently used utilities like ls or places where speed matters a
lot to the interactive performance of the system, like X or emacs.
There are also still more C programmers out there than there are
programmers in any other language, at least in the free software
development community. This may eventually change, but it will take a
long time.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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From: "Richard Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing windows 98 files from Linux ?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:24:50 +0800
Thanks for your help Chris - that worked fine. I also discovered mtools for
moving smaller files around by floppy.
Richard
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:dlqu3.4602$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I asked the same question yesterday. Here's the response I got. Thanks
to
> the person who answered, btw :)
>
> ******
>
> You need to have kernel support for FAT or whatever fs you want to
> mount, then just read the man page for the mount command and away you
> go. If you want it automatically mounted as say /win at boot you just
> need to setup an entry in /etc/fstab for it and it will be 'there' at
> boot next go-round.
>
> >1) Is it possible to access files created under windows 98 and stored in
> FAT
> >32 partitions?
> >Would I just have to mount the specific windows partition under linux?
> >
>
>
>
-----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==----------
http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World!
======== Over 73,000 Newsgroups = Including Dedicated Binaries Servers =======
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From: Wine Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Comparing HPFS to ext2fs...
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:34:21 +0100
Zephyr Q wrote:
>
> I've been using OS/2 for years, and am switching to Linux
> (don't ask why yet, that is a different post). In the past,
> I have been **very** happy with the rock solid performance
> of HPFS and, seeing several comments about problems with
>
> How does Linux's security at this level compare with HPFS
> (i.e.--if I get a hard drive from a stranger with ext2fs on
> it, and I wipe it, is the info unrecoverable by experts? I
> know it sounds like a strange question, but I occasionally
> find HDs at auctions and clearing houses and like to be able
> to know I can clean them...)?
>
__Nothing__ is that secure. The real specialists can read what you wrote
to a disk
even if you have overwritten it 10 times. The anti-piracy people dig
hard in this
area.
--
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: Michael Coughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:01:48 -0400
Rory C-L wrote:
> My queries:
> 1) Prior to GNU, didn't the MIT lab and similar groups have
> or make its own operating system?
Yes. MIT is a research institution. They are interested in
new and better ways to use and program computers. They developed
many computer languages and operating systems. But these were
made for and by highly educated people who can remember
complicated instructions. Taking the best ideas and selling them
as an easy to use system is not what MIT is supposed to do. Once
a system or programming language works well enough so anybody
can use it, it is no longer an academic research project, and
should be sold by a business that can offer commercial support.
There is a big problem with academic research and commercial
interests. How and when should university research be turned to
making a profit instead of being done for the benefit of
humanity?
> 2) Why did RMS decide to develop a Unix-type system if he came
> from LISP?
While RMS considers Lisp to be a better way to program a
computer than C, he realizes there are many more people who are
able to use C effectivley than those who use Lisp. But the most
important consideration is the availability of source code. You
have to be a programmer to understand how important it is to
have control over the source code. Everything RMS does revolves
around this fact. Unfortunately even many programmers don't seem
to pay attention to this point.
Now there was an interesting historical accident involving
Unix, C and the AT&T Corporation. Because of the monopoly
granted to AT&T to act as the main telephone company of the
United States, the Federal Government did not allow AT&T to
compete in the computer business. But AT&T had a research
operation at Bell Laboratories that took research as seriously
as MIT and they worked on computers. Unix was invented at Bell
Labs. C was invented to write Unix. And AT&T couldn't sell it.
But Unix and C were literary masterpieces. They were to computer
programming as Shakespeare was to English. Since it couldn't
sell it, AT&T allowed the source code to Unix and the C compiler
to be given to computer science departments all over the country
as its contribution to academic research. And the students at
these universities started doing amazing things with it. Unix
and C were just the right stuff to get the best results on the
computers of the day.
Now at the same time, MIT had projects that were doing very
well with Lisp. But instead of continuing to publish their Lisp
code as academic research, most of the Lisp researchers decided
to cash in and form their own computer companies with venture
capital. They made the wrong move. The computer problems they
thought they could solve were not ready to be solved even with
the large amounts of money they threw at them. They kept their
Lisp code a copyrighted trade secret. Meanwhile students all
over were learning to solve their computer assignments with C.
And RMS saw this first hand.
The government changed its mind about AT&T and the computer
business when they broke it up. AT&T tried to market Unix and
flopped. But it was too late. Unix source in C was all over
computer departments.
AT&T couldn't hide it with copyrights and licenses anymore.
> 3) Why did RMS work on Emacs and GCC before the GNU operating
> system - presumably he was developing for Unix? A related
> question: Did Linus Torvalds first develop Linux using Unix?
RMS worked on Emacs early in his career. He learned that
people would pay to get copies of it even when he supplied it in
source code form. He also decided that a good C compiler with
unencumbered source code was the most important project he could
work on. If there was one high quality C compiler on every
computer system, C would be a standard uniform computer language
that would work the same way everywhere. Other languages had
many incompatable varients created by commercial interests who
wanted to beat their competition.
Yes, Linus Torvalds did develop Linux using Unix, but not
directly.
By the time Linus started his work, AT&T had restricted the
distribution of Unix source code. Linus studied C programming
and operating systems by reading Andrew Tannenbaum's book on
"Minix" which is a simplified student version of an operating
system very similar to Unix. It had the complete source code in
C, with ample comments to aid learning. Unfortunately it was
copyrighted. Linus saw all the C code published on the internet
with the GNU license, and knew that one key program was missing
-- a Unix clone kernal. If he could write that last part, he
would have everything needed to have a full industrial strength
clone of Unix on his 80386 home computer. Not a simple student
Minix, but the real thing. This was a very difficult project for
one student to do, so he did it. But he also discovered
something more important. If you publish your source under the
GPL, lots of people on the internet can and will help you. Now
Andrew Tannenbaum could have done the same thing. After all he
is a professor, and the author of the important textbooks that
Linus studied. But he didn't see the importance of the GPL. So
the student beat the professor, and we have Linux instead of
Tannenbaumix.
--
Michael Coughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, MA USA
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: [Q] Upgrading gcc-2.95 on SuSE-6.1 Linux Distro
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:19:10 -0400
Has anyone had a success story upgrading to gcc-2.95 under SuSE-6.1
distro? I managed to compile and split the gcc-2.95 binary into several
rpm packages, i.e.:
gcc-2.95-1.i386.rpm,
gcc-devel-2.95-1.i386.rpm,
gcc-c++-2.95-1.i386.rpm,
gcc-f77-2.95-1.i386.rpm,
gcc-chill-2.95-1.i386.rpm,
gcc-java-2.95-1.i386.rpm, and
gcc-objc-2.95-1.i386.rpm.
However, before I can install these gcc-2.95 binary packages, I would
like to know which development packages from SuSE-6.1 Linux distro need
be removed. Can anyone please shed some light in this matter?
TIA.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: Chriseli de Rama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote message: ^@
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:23:33 -0700
Reply-To: Chriseli de Rama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does anybody here know what Remote message: ^@ mean?
I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and kppp (CHAP) for connecting to the
internet. My connection speed also slows down after a couple of minutes
and I couldn't go to some web sites. It says no route to host.
Thanks!
Chriseli
/etc/ppp/options:
debug
-detach
/dev/ttyS1
57600
crtscts
modem
defaultroute
netmask 255.255.255.0
0.0.0.0:206.191.82.225
asyncmap 0
mtu 552
mru 552
name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/log/messages:
Aug 18 20:12:49 mayumi pppd[6133]: pppd 2.3.7 started by bebe, uid 503
Aug 18 20:12:49 mayumi pppd[6133]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 18 20:12:49 mayumi pppd[6133]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Aug 18 20:12:55 mayumi pppd[6133]: Remote message: ^@
Aug 18 20:12:57 mayumi kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Aug 18 20:12:58 mayumi kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Aug 18 20:13:02 mayumi pppd[6133]: local IP address 142.194.50.147
Aug 18 20:13:02 mayumi pppd[6133]: remote IP address 206.191.82.225
Aug 18 20:13:30 mayumi PAM_pwdb[6115]: (su) session closed for user root
Aug 18 20:14:34 mayumi pppd[6133]: Terminating on signal 15.
Aug 18 20:14:34 mayumi pppd[6133]: Connection terminated.
Aug 18 20:14:34 mayumi pppd[6133]: Connect time 1.8 minutes.
Aug 18 20:14:34 mayumi pppd[6133]: Sent 4149 bytes, received 9459 bytes.
Aug 18 20:14:35 mayumi pppd[6133]: Exit.
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing Linux from NT
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:37:23 GMT
Neil Walters wrote:
>
> prompt more 'Linux User Friendly' i.e. the ls command and the use of the
> Tab key?
NT has an entry for this in the Registry. I don't know it nor I have the
information, but it was in a major computer magazine's (something like
PC Magazine, PC Computing, etc) "answers to user's questions". At that
time (half a year ago) I tried it, and it worked albeit a bit
differently than the [TAB] in bash.
Vilmos
--
Looking for a job in British Columbia.
http://members.home.net/vilmossoti/resume.html
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for a news picture sucker
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:52:04 GMT
Xavier SERPAGGI wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Everything's in the title I guess...
> More precisely I'm looking for a software able to take a newsgroup in
> entry,
> and then download all of the pictures it can find in it. Something like
> picturesucker under Windows9X.
> Thanks
suck is a program which downloads unread articles from a newsgroup.
After it, you have the articles and you can do whatever with them you
want.
Vilmos
--
Looking for a job in British Columbia.
http://members.home.net/vilmossoti/resume.html
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From: "Cliff McCullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:57:35 GMT
What is kernel number of mandrake? Is it a REDHAT kernel?
Cliff McCullough
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Capt.Boom)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:01:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
63.66.78.33
63.66.78.35
These are there listed DNS Address's for Gateway.net
I hope this helps you out
On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 03:04:11 GMT, Steve - RH Linux User
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> 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]
>
>On a Linux machine, you just type "whois gateway.net" to get all
>kinds of good info:
>
>Registrant:
>Gateway 2000, Inc. (GATEWAY16-DOM)
> 610 Gateway Drive Y-04
> North Sioux City, SD 57049-2000
>
> Domain Name: GATEWAY.NET
>
> Administrative Contact:
> Corporate Hostadmin (CH321-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 18008462000
>Fax- 16052322614
> Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
> Corporate Hostmaster (CH322-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 18008462000
>Fax- 16052321315
> Billing Contact:
> Corporate Hostadmin (CH321-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 18008462000
>Fax- 16052322614
>
> Record last updated on 10-Apr-99.
> Record created on 23-Sep-97.
> Database last updated on 6-Aug-99 03:54:49 EDT.
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
>
> DNS1.GATEWAY.COM 63.66.78.33
> DNS2.GATEWAY.COM 63.66.78.35
>
>
> Since you're obviously trying to get a Linux box working, then the
>"universal" solution is to telnet to internic.net and login as whois...
>anyway, you used to be able to do that. I'm not 100% sure you still
>can. I just tried and all I got was "Trying 198.41.0.6..."
>Hmmm...
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From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.misc
Subject: LSB doc browser Java applet?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:07:59 -0700
Hopefully, KDE will come with a unified documentation
browser that really works soon; I'm looking forward to that.
But will anyone do anything like the spiffy Java applet
that Microsoft uses to give a tree outline of MSDN?
(yes, they really do use a Java applet! See it in
action at http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc )
I'd like, for instance, to see the entire standard
Linux API, as defined by the LSB project, available
via the web, using not only a standard flat HTML
and search engine scheme, but also using an MSDN-style
tree pane. If MS can do it with Java, so can we!
- Dan
--
(The above is my opinion alone, and not that of my employer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Byron A Jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linuix.setup
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Date: 18 Aug 1999 23:45:49 -0400
Posted and Mailed to Carlos...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlos Collazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to backup a 5Gig ext2 partition onto another ext2 partition
>on another hard drive. No matter which software I use, BRU, taper, tar,
>TkZip, etc., I get the same outcome--when the growing archive file
>reaches 2147482624 bytes it stops! The smarter backup software such as
>BRU says to (insert the next volume). When I use tar in the following
>manner:
>
> tar cvZX /root/tarexclude.lst -f /mnt/sdc1/rhonibmide.tar.Z .
>
> I get "write error onstdout file too long, broken pipe"
Yes there is a 2G file limit. Yes it's a PITA. No there is no easy way
to exceed that file limit. But the solution to your problem is simple:
Just split the file into smaller chunks.
tar -cvzf - . | (cd /mnt/sdc1 ; split -b2000M - rhonibmide- )
and you'll get 3 files each less than 2G that comprise your archive.
There has been a raging debate on how to resolve the issue. Clearly there is
a need for larger files with the larger disks becoming commonplace. However
there will be some growing pains to get all the file system code to 64 bits
with the distinct possibility of making new kernels incompatible with
existing systems. So I believe that kernel developers are treading carefully
on how to proceed.
BAJ
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Subject: Re: XWindows Emulators
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Aug 1999 00:37:13 -0400
"simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what you are after is termed (no pun intended) an X client for Windows...
> 'cos it isn't an emulator.
> At work we use a piece of software called "RelectionsX" which is probably
> horrendously expensive.
what he is after is known as an X *server* for windows.
xterm and rxvt are X clients. (yes, i know you can run rxvy on NT and
get it to display elsewhere.)
yes, the names are backwards or simply misleading. however, we are
stuck with them and if you want to find what you are looking for it
helps to know what people call them.
> Simon
>
> RA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7pe70r$rq2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Iam looking for XWindows Emulators to run Xwindows from my Linux box on
> NT.
> > If anyone knows of any I would be gratefull of any info / links.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Christopher Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Caldera 2.2
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:44:10 GMT
Anyone know where I can download the iso image file for Caldera OpenLinux
2.2?
Thanks
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From: Per Kistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE6.2 X11 Rivat TNT128 Probl.
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:50:12 +0200
Hi All
On SuSE6.2 (for x86) I have a problem with configuring
for Riva TNT 128, although XF86Setup offers three
choices for TNT (Riva TNT, Riva TNT2, Riva TNT128).
I configured with both, XF86Setup and Sax, but when
testing the X-server it sais something like cannot
transconnet to X-server. I'll write down the exact
message, if it fails again today. But maybe there is
still some Bug with XF86_SVGA concering TNT. Oder
it needs some special options....
Thanks, for a hint, Per.
PS: I have no access the hardware linux news group.
--
Per Kistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
============================================================
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any free SQL server available?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:41:27 -0400
> To learn to use PostgreSQL, I found 3 sources of information were
> helpful. First, it comes with a lot of documentation, in both HTML and
I have gone through some of the tutorials, but found that they just scratch
the surface.
I have noticed that postgre is capable of producing results in HTML which is
very interesting. The tutorials don't go that far.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Reiter)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions)
Date: 19 Aug 1999 03:56:04 GMT
On 18 Aug 1999 19:59:48 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In gnu.misc.discuss, Rory C-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm seeing a growing percentage of free software written in C++, for
>various reasons. (It's an extremely bad OO language, in my personal
>opinion, but compatibility of a sort with C counts for quite a bit.)
People don't know Objective-C enough.
Easier to learn and NeXTStep was written in it.
The story how the GNU C-Compiler got Objetive-C Support is well worth
a look, too. AFAIK it was as close as it got to testing the GNU GPL in court.
*sigh* we should edcuate more people in Objective-C and help the
gnustep people. Because NeXTStep still beats GNOME and KDE, IMHO.
(Hmmm where was that inofficial gnustep webpage again....)
Bernhard
--
Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)
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From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: TIP: Using fonts from Windows partition
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:01:51 -0700
Here's a page on how to tell Red Hat Linux 5.2 or 6.0
to use fonts from your Windows partition:
http://www.kegel.com/linux/tt.html
--
(The above is my opinion alone, and not that of my employer)
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,athome.users-unix,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: accessing windows files under linux
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:58:29 GMT
Bob Nixon wrote:
>
> and 32 , right out of the box. Ignore advise about recompiling your
> kernel for Fat, Vfat or NTFS support. Come to think of it, as a
> newbee, ignore ALL advise about recompiling your kernel until you have
> a good understanding as to whether it makes any sense, at all. Most
>
> >Would I just have to mount the specific windows partition under linux?
>
> Initially with something like mount -t /dev/hdax /win--or whatever,
> then you can add the multi boot mounts in the /etc/fstab file for boot
> time mounting. Note that NTFS requires root (SU) to access and the
> ntfs module loaded.
Good. If you recommend someone to ignore other's suggestions, at least
get yours right. What filesystem /dev/hdax is? What is a multi boot
mount?
Vilmos
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From: Per Kistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE6.2 X11 Rivat TNT128 Probl.
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:23:45 +0200
Problem solved:
Configuring with Sax and XF86Setup failed, but with
xf86config it worked.
Per.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Any free SQL server available?
Date: 18 Aug 1999 23:11:02 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>
>> > Not too mention the fact that PostgreSQL is more full-featured, supporting
>> a
>> > whole bunch of goodies that MySQL doesn't (like transactions). It is also
>Last time I look at both PostgreSQL and MySQL, it was the opposite.
>See http://www.tcx.se/crash-me.html
>Its a big chart and will take sometime to load but compares all the
>databases, not just the free ones.
Note that it is out of date with respect to postgresql features.
Les Mikesell
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From: See sig for reply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Password in /etc/passwd
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:57:34 GMT
X-No-Archive: yes
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Jimmy Lio wrote:
> I'm using Mandrake... when I look at the file /etc/passwd, I note that all
> the password fields are marked "x" instead of the corresponding encrypted
> password. Where are the passwords actually located?
... in /etc/shadow.
This is done to improve security.
Both files can be set to different permissions, protecting the passwords
against brute force hack-attacks.
Cheers,
Detlef.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slocate.cron -- path expansion quesion
Date: 19 Aug 1999 00:58:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ding-Jung Han wrote:
> Hi just want to know how to exclude all Netscape cache directories from
> being searched by slocate. I'd like to modify
> /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron and add such directories after '-e' option.
> However I'm not sure how to properly specify *all* the Netscape cache
> directories -- */.netscape/cache surely won't work.
Hmm, you could get a list of .netscape directories by running something
like
$ find /home -name .netscape -type d -print
then append "/cache" to each.
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