Linux-Misc Digest #663, Volume #21 Fri, 3 Sep 99 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: VMWare Video, Sound and Modem Drivers ? (Luis Ribeiro)
Creating large numbers of user with passwords (Danny Aldham)
Password encrytion on RH6 (Danny Aldham)
Re: POP3 and SMTP for Sendmail/Linux ("Andrew James")
Conversions: PDF, Postscript, etc. ("Steve D. Perkins")
How to start POP3 server on RH6.0?? (Bo Berglund)
Re: any RAMDISK programs out there? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Notepad for Linux? (Gene Wilburn)
Re: Gnome Panel in KDE??? (Walter Francis)
Re: Realplayer G2 install help. (Byron Miller)
Recover deleted files? ("A. N.")
please help on pidhash (Virginie Galtier)
Re: tn3270 questions; need help (J. Otto Tennant)
Re: What approach to take? (Scott Hunter)
Re: bypassing fsck (Byron Miller)
Re: Kernel will not boot. (Byron Miller)
Re: Star Office 5.1: Is it just me ... (Rluby)
Re: where do I learn... (Byron Miller)
Re: password on pine? (Andrew Purugganan)
OSS problem with Sonorus soundcard ("Zheng, Hua (Geoffrey)")
Star Office 5.1 and KDE (John English)
Re: Star Office 5.1: Is it just me ... (Phil Hunt)
Re: Have you heard? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: A REAL Linux for free (Phil Hunt)
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From: Luis Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VMWare Video, Sound and Modem Drivers ?
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:07:44 +0100
Niann Shiang wrote:
> It is so cool to see Lotus Notes and other office suites work
> flawlessly within the win95 box in Linux VMware. So far it is stable
> and boots fast after a two-day trial. The speed penalty is
> noticeable, but tolerable. Basically, you have to build up win95 from
> scratch within Linux. The 3-com 905B network card worked fine, but was
> loaded with a strange driver I have never seen when in stand-alone
> win95 mode. The pnp did not seem to work in VMWare. Could someone
> comment on it ? The win95 audio and modem driver did not work after
> being manually loaded. The only video driver which works is the
> standard VGA. The SVGA driver downloaded from VMWare website can be
> loaded, but win95 complains conflicts when higher resolution is being
> used in SVGA (original video driver did not work due to hardware
> conflicts). Does anyone have better luck to get audio and modem
> driver to work ? and How does VM share device with Linux (or they
> don't) ?
The SVGA VM driver, intalled with VMware tools, works perfectly with any
resolution supported by your linux X. However, you must have X running
with at least the resolution you want to have in Windows, before you start
the virtual machine. For example, I run X at 1280 x 1024, and I run
windows with the same resolution or below (1024 X 768, etc).
I suggest you visit VMware newssite (news.vmware.com), where you will find
a lot of questions answered and where you can learn a lot about this VM
thing. I've been using it for three months and I love it.
Luis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Aldham)
Subject: Creating large numbers of user with passwords
Date: 3 Sep 1999 21:23:56 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
I have a new RH6 linux box, and I need to create over 100 user accounts, and
give them all passwords. I have a script that uses adduser to create the
user accounts, but I cannot figure out how to create passwords. The passwd
command does not lend itself to scripted input. Any thoughts, pointers, help??
As a last resort I am considering a perl script that writes to the /etc/shadow
file, but I cannot figure out what encryption RH6 is using, it is not crypt.
--
Danny Aldham Providing Certified Internetworking Solutions to Business
www.postino.com E-Mail, Web Servers, Mail Lists, Web Databases, SQL & Perl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Aldham)
Subject: Password encrytion on RH6
Date: 3 Sep 1999 21:26:01 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
What encryption method is used for encrypting passwords on RH6?.
It is not crypt, that is all I know for sure.
--
Danny Aldham Providing Certified Internetworking Solutions to Business
www.postino.com E-Mail, Web Servers, Mail Lists, Web Databases, SQL & Perl
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From: "Andrew James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.security.general
Subject: Re: POP3 and SMTP for Sendmail/Linux
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 09:15:45 +1000
I have a similar problem, have uncommented the imap and pop3 lines from
inetd.conf -,, can't telnet 25 , I think sendmail is running
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Conversions: PDF, Postscript, etc.
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:24:39 -0400
This may sound quite dumb... but I was wondering if any
utilities exist in the Linux world for converting documents in
Postscript, PDF, or HTML (particularly Postscript and PDF)
between each other's formats?
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to start POP3 server on RH6.0??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:26:57 GMT
I have two systems, one RH5.2 and the other RH6.0.
On the 5.2 box POP3 started right out of the installation and I have
not fiddled anywhere to get it going.
On my 6.0 system however the POP3 server did not start, whereas the
SMTP service (sendmail) actually is running OK.
I have read here about uncommenting the proper lines in the inetd.conf
file and I have done so. But how do I start up the service after this?
I have to do it from a Telnet login so please give me the exact
command line syntax.
TIA
Bo Berglund
Software developer in Sweden
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP: My public key is available at the following locations:
Idap://certserver.pgp.com
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: any RAMDISK programs out there?
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:15:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards) wrote:
> In article <7qp765$t0a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Does someone know of any programs that set up a ramdisk (i.e. portion
of
> >the memory that is accessed like a filesystem)?
>
> The Linux kernel can do that if you compile in ramdisk support.
But how do I create a filesystem on the kernel-provided ramdisk?
> You really shouldn't use it for the purpose you mention -- it
> wastes memory.
No problem. Dozens of Megs spare.
> >Preferably, the program
> >should take care of copying some files of my choice to the ramdisk
when
> >it starts and move them back to hard disk before the computer shuts
> >down.
> That's what the buffer cache in the file system code does.
> Copies files into RAM as you use them, and then back to disk
> when you're done with them. The existing system is far more
> efficient at that than just locking a handful of files into
> memory. Linux is a Real Operating System(tm).
Nonsense. Some 30 Megs of my memory are never used (and of course,
neither is swap, but that is not important here). If I devote part of
the unused part of my memory to a RAMDISK then the efficiency of the OS
is clearly not impaired. Actually, it is drastically improved, since
normally the hard disk is accessed the first time a file is read, and
RAM is obviously faster than a HD.
Besides, the issue is not performance. I wouldn't mind even if I lost
some. I need a system that can run for a long time without HD access.
--
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does not seem to work for me): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gene Wilburn)
Subject: Re: Notepad for Linux?
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 22:42:53 GMT
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:05:19 -0400, Duy D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Big Daddy wrote:
>
>Eeeeek!
>vi is so ancient, and hard to learn.
>GXedit is very similar to windows notepad. You don't need gnome nor kde,
>just need gtk libs to compile it. Binaries should be avail. for RedHat,
>mandrake, perhaps for other distributions, too.
Ancient? Then heed the wisdom of the ancients, son, and ye shall be free!
- Gerontion
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome Panel in KDE???
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 14:48:06 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
muzh wrote:
>
> There isn't a "gnome" window manager to my knowledge.
> You can start the gnome panel in any window manager by simply typing
> "panel" (no quotes) in any x-term
Why would someone want to do that? The durn Enlightenment panel is a
good part of the reason I STOPPED using Gnome/Enlightenment..
I still hate the desktop border switching in KDE (mouse winds up on
opposite side of the screen, or in the middle) but I've pretty much
gotten used to the other differences. Maybe KDE 2.0 will make the
desktop switching act like other WM's I've seen, such as Enlightenment
and AfterStep.
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat 6.0
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From: Byron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realplayer G2 install help.
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:47:45 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 13:45:39 -0400, Dan Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone been able to install the Realplayer G2 under Caldera 2.2? I
>get an "error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open
>
>shared object file: No such file or directory". libstdc++-2.9.0-4 is
>installed though. Anysuggestions?
>
>Dan Warren
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
You may try creating a symlink from the older module it is looking for
to your current lib module.
I don't know how it will work loading a newer version, but its worth a
shot. Otherwise you may want to install the old module.
-byron
Byron Miller Consulting | http://www.reliabilityfactor.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (717) 397-7020
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From: "A. N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recover deleted files?
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 01:43:26 +0200
Hi!
I have a prob!
I've deleted a big zip file on my Linux System, but I need it, because it's
all my Data in...
Is there a chance to get the file back?
Linux SuSe 6.0,
FS: ext2,
Please help!
Andreas
Sorry for my bad english....
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From: Virginie Galtier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: please help on pidhash
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:58:47 -0400
Hi
<linux/sched.h> is using "pidhash" declared as extern:
extern struct task_struct *pidhash[PIDHASH_SZ];
Where can I find pidhash?
Thank you for your help
Virginie
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: tn3270 questions; need help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 00:14:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Marzen) writes:
>In article <cTmu3.4406$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant) writes:
>>
>> This is a question about tn3270 in general, not about the particular
>> operating system it is running on.
>>
>> There is a central computer and several remote terminals. (They
>> happen to be IBM 3101s, but they could be anything, even an ADM-3a.)
>> The remote terminals are connected to a "terminal server" which
>> has an IP address (192.168.10.2, just to be definite.) The several
>> remote terminals respond to ports 2000, 2001, 2002, and so on as
>> telnet sessions.
>>
>> When I boot up the central computer, I want to treat these remote
>> terminals as 3270s and splash a legacy logon screen to them.
>- Install tcpip on the host
> or
>- Install some hard/software (i.e. Open Connect Software) that
> acts like a IBM 3174 to the host and like a tn3270-server to the
> ip-world.
Yup. We are going to use a 3Com CS2600 server. We're having
troubles making it work, but that is the answer.
Thanks.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: Scott Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: What approach to take?
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:07:42 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I work for a technical services provider on a contract for government
> regulatory agency with some scientific research. There is a possibility
> that we will be provided funding to do a test project involving building
> two Beowulf clusters with Alpha chips running a linux operating system,
> then networking these two together. I have been asked to familarize
> myself with linux and programming in such an environment in order to
> prepare for the task of porting some code running on MPPs to these
> clusters.
>
> I am trying to figure out my plan of attack. I have been asked to start
> with getting myself familar with linux (I guess for the purpose of
> having the flexibility to move me before things really start to another
> part of the project). Are there any good books, websites, courses,
> whatever, for learning about programming in a linux environment? Anyone
> out there programming on a cluster running in linux?
>
> Thanx,
> Mark Winstead
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Linux Applications Development from Addison Westley (sp) gives a pretty
good overview of the common tools used in Linux.
Beowulf clusters use the PVM library. I've found a few books online.
-scott__
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From: Byron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bypassing fsck
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:41:40 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:09:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>By the way, for those partitions that I want checked, can I arrange fsck
>to run at shutdown time instead of boot time?
>
>System is RH5.2, KDE, kernel 2.2.
fsck runs when they're improperly shutdown or have problems.. before
you reboot or turn off issue a
shutdown -h now or halt to cleanly unmount and prepare your
filesystem for a clean boot.
"man shutdown" for more options.
-byron
Byron Miller Consulting | http://www.reliabilityfactor.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (717) 397-7020
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From: Byron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel will not boot.
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:43:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,sbay.linux,umich.linux,com.os.linux.development.apps
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 14:57:25 -0400, Craig Toshack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Next, I editied the /etc/lilo.conf file for the new kernel and ran
>/sbin/lilo -t -v to test the config for lilo. It ther reports back that
>the kernel is too big.
when running configure, disable anything thats not on your system,
and include what you can as modules. This will shrink up your kernel.
-byron
Byron Miller Consulting | http://www.reliabilityfactor.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (717) 397-7020
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rluby)
Subject: Re: Star Office 5.1: Is it just me ...
Date: 03 Sep 1999 23:46:51 GMT
G> Polack wrote:
>My main complaint is the very superficial
>level of online help in the English version (I've been told it's better
>in the German version); I hope that Sun addresses this.
I downloaded the 70mb tar file available
at SUN's Web site, and installed SO -
i.e. It starts under Xwindows. However-
It seems to want web access to do anything, and HELP DOESNT WORK!
If SUN thinks that they add value to a product by removing Help from product
that is supposed to be delivered by download -
they are mistaken. Help is crucial to realizing the product's value. Or to
put it in marketing 101 terms - If the Help is inferior- I will not be a repeat
buyer.
If SO wants to compete with MS Office it seems they have to make a product that
is usable after the slick-looking setup program exits. A complex program such
as SO,without a decent help system ( and 5.0's is minimal) is nearly useless.
Gee... I was suprised when I clicked on help and got.. nothing?
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From: Byron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where do I learn...
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:51:47 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:11:46 -0700, "� The _Veracity �"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>please some one tell me the secret to linux.......or tell me what is a good
>book to read about doing the router thing and proxy thing and stuff like
>that with linux unix or any other *nix system...thanks I need some light
>reading and don't really want to spend the next ten years deciphering thing
>system...thanks..larry
>
I am in the process of developing an book on this, you can read up on
it at http://www.cosource.com its listed right on the front page as a
networking guide for dummies.
-byron
Byron Miller Consulting | http://www.reliabilityfactor.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (717) 397-7020
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: password on pine?
Date: 4 Sep 1999 00:47:59 GMT
kev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I've started to use pine. Wonderful, isn't it? No graphics, no mouse
: needed. Fantastic!
Amazing what it's like, after all the smoke and mirrors have cleared :-)
Now if only I can get my hands on that little less-than-102-keys keyboard...
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: "Zheng, Hua (Geoffrey)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: OSS problem with Sonorus soundcard
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:58:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there. Just got a Sonorus STUDI/O and OSS driver for it, but there're
some weird problems:
- If clock rate is set to 44.1K by "ossmix fpga.clock 44.1K", "play"
reports "Warning: Playback using 41500 Hz (file 44100 Hz);
- If clock rate is set to 48K, the actual playback rate becomes 45200 Hz.
- If clock rate is set to PLL, and fpga.pll is PORTA which is connected to
an ADC running 44.1K internal clock, playback rate is also 41500 Hz.
This happens both in mode 1 and mode 3. We have to use 8-channel audio so
mode 0 is not a choice.
Anybody with any experience with this? Any suggestion/advice/help would be
highly appreciated!!!
Please reply to this account as well as follow up. TKS!
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From: John English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Star Office 5.1 and KDE
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:55:55 +0100
I've just installed Star Office 5.1, and the last thing the installer
does is to say "updating your KDE desktop -- restart the desktop after
this finishes" or words to that effect. When I restart my desktop
there doesn't seem to be any change. No new menu items, no new desktop
icons.
So, can anyone tell me how to make Star Office appear as (a) an icon
on the desktop toolbar, or (b) a menu item? At the moment I have to
open a terminal window and start it from the command line...
And in general, how do you set up KDE menu items and icons?
TIA,
=================================================================
John English | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je
Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS **
University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk
=================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: Star Office 5.1: Is it just me ...
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 99 23:56:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alex Flinsch" writes:
> Steve Gage wrote:
> > Alex Flinsch wrote:
> > > Hopefully someone will fix up the help system. I can deal with the
> occasional odd word
> > > in German, but the direct German --> English syntax can be quite confusing
> sometimes.
> >
> > With the documentation StarOffice of, the problem what is?
>
> Worse even gets it, when paragraph whole there is.
This reminds me of the manuals for older versions of SuSE.
Fortunately, from 5.3 onwords, they appear to have employed a
translator who is fluent in English.
--
Phil Hunt - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Linux will be 8 years old on 17th September! See: -
http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/linuxbirthday.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Have you heard?
Date: 4 Sep 1999 01:03:47 GMT
CJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
<snipped to pretend I didn't see the words 'Kenny G' in THIS newsgroup>
: > J. Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: > : Microsoft? what's is it?
I wouldn't knock M$' stunt. After all, gaming companies release demos for
the gaming fanatics to beta test, and then patch after patch once the
game has shipped.
Don't get me wrong. Windows still suck
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: A REAL Linux for free
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 99 23:53:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** none ** writes:
> Having managed both Solaris and Linux machines, I say that Linux
> wins hands down.
Absolutely. KDE is *much* better than CDE.
--
Phil Hunt - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Linux will be 8 years old on 17th September! See: -
http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/linuxbirthday.html
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