Linux-Misc Digest #741, Volume #21 Thu, 9 Sep 99 16:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mail options for Linux workstation (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (John Ahrens)
SB Pro (Dan Gelinske)
Re: Windows on SECONDARY Master [hdc]? (Christopher Michael Collins)
Sweep several files into one text file? ("HPK")
Re: NFS problem between AIX and SuSE (banger)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (teknite)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Aram Iskenderian)
Linux, Email, and Pilot (Alexandro Conde Mart�nez)
Does my gcc become an old version? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (K. Bjarnason)
Re: Can't Creat boot disk/install LILO (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Is there a program that returns (guesses) the keyboard type? (rbehm@)
Re: signal 11 (jwk)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Igor Kovalenko)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Aram Iskenderian)
Re: Linux viruses? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape color ("Sascha Appel")
Win98 PC confused by computer name!!?? (Jack Zhu)
Re: Figure Out The MS Source Code Yourself ("Fred Jackson")
Re: Linux+NT dsaster (help wanted) (John Kissell)
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail options for Linux workstation
Date: 09 Sep 1999 14:11:16 -0400
Troy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wondering if anyone had some advice on how to handle mail on a
> linux workstation. I am trying to decide between the following:
>
> (1) running a listener at port 25 (sendmail) and forwarding mail from
> the local mailserver to my box
> (2) running a listener at port 25 .......... and using fetchmail to grab
> mail from the mailserver
> when I am logged in.
> (3) not running sendmail and using a mail client like netscape, balsa,
> etc to grab mail off the mailserver (POP).
> (4) not running sendmail but use some program to grab mail off the
> server and put it in /var/spool/mail
> (like pop-perl5, for instance).
>
> I am almost always the only user on the machine and I am online all the
> time. I am worried about security (is running sendmail all the time a
> good idea in this respect) but also convienence (I would like to be able
> to use pine and have a biff-like application notify me if I have mail --
> I haven't found one that I like that checks POP accounts). Right now I
> am doing a combination of 3 and 4, but had been doing 1 for a long
> time. Anyway any advice would be much appreciated.
if you are worried about security option (2) is fine. just set up a
packet firewall (you should have a firewall if you are concerned about
security - visit eg <URL:http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/>) to reject
anything coming to port 25 from outside. fetchmail talks to localhost
(127.0.0.1). only accept port 25 from localhost.
sendmail cracks seem to have died off considerably lately. however,
there are other MTAs. i use qmail personally.
hope this helps.
--
johan kullstam
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.realtime
From: John Ahrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:40:55 GMT
Check out http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux
for some Linux links at NASA. The Beowulf cluster was invented by=20
NASA,IIRC.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't speak for my employer.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/5/99, 7:47:34 PM, "Casper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: =
Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution:
> "GM" =3D=3D "Guy Macon" writes:
> GM> Linux: Lots of things don't bring down the OS when they crash.
> GM> Some things (like drivers) do.
> GM>
> GM> QNX: More things don't bring down the OS when they crash.
> It should be noted that the AmigaOS is used by NASA in mission
> critical areas, and QNX is also used by NASA. Unless something
> has recently changed, I don't recall ever reading that NASA uses
> Linux in any form. Both links are interesting reading!
> These are both very interesting articles and show just how important
> the Amiga is in every launch, of anykind at NASA.
> Here is some of the proof with pictures as well! :)
> It aslo tells why they were chosen over other machines like PC's and
> MACS.
> Here is some of the proof with pictures as well! :)
> This one is an interview with retired NASA engineer Hal Greenlee.
> http://amiga.eden.it/interviste/green/HalInterview-eng.html
> "The Secret in Hanger AE" by Bob Castro. March 6, 1999
> For more than a dozen years, Amiga computers have been hard at work
> at Cape Canaveral's Hanger AE supporting the launches of every
> American spacecraft including the space shuttle. etc.
> "The Secret in Hanger AE" by Bob Castro. March 6, 1999
> For more than a dozen years, Amiga computers have been hard at work
> at Cape Canaveral's Hanger AE supporting the launches of every
> American spacecraft including the space shuttle. etc.
> http://www.amigaatlanta.org/AEcastro.html
> regards,
> --
>=20
=========================================================================
> Posted with Amiga NewsRog
>=20
=========================================================================
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From: Dan Gelinske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB Pro
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:29:34 -0700
'elo folks...
Sorry to bug you all, but I have been having an annoying problem with
sound in Linux. I have a Sound Blaster Pro, which works fine in Windows
(except with realplayer movies, which I will get to below). When I try
and play any audio format in Linux (I use KDE if that matters) the sound
cuts into a bizarre shredding, buzzing, beeping, crunching sound. In
Windows, everything works fine, except for the sound in realplayer
movies (but not realplayer audio streams/.ra files). This has only been
happening lately. Yeah, my sound card is old, and I probably should
replace it, but Im strapped for cash, at least until the beginning of
the next month. If anyone can offer any solutions that will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
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Subject: Re: Windows on SECONDARY Master [hdc]?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Michael Collins)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:38:46 GMT
In theory you can use LILO. It re-maps the drives
so when you boot into /dev/hdc Windows thinks it
is really the PRIMARY master EIDE disk.
I almost got it to work. Lots of people e-mailed
and said they got it working. If you are going through
this maybe I should jump back in a try it too.
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From: "HPK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sweep several files into one text file?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:45:41 +0200
Hi!
Is ot possible to sweep several text files into one textfile? ... like
textfile1.txt, textfile2.txt & textfile3.txt is sweeped into maintext.txt
... ?
Thanks in advance
HPK
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From: banger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NFS problem between AIX and SuSE
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:01:39 -0500
Antony Mak wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently setup a NFS server on my SuSE 6.0 box for backup purpose.
> Everything was fine when I exported a FS between two SuSE Box. But when I
> exported a FS to a AIX 4.3.2 Box, it take over one hour to copy a 5MB file
> from the exported filesystem(SuSE) to local filesystem(AIX). It didn't
> provide any logs or messages either in the linux bos nor AIX box. Can anyone
> have any idea on this problem?
> thanks
> antony
Had a similar problem going to/from AIX 4.3.2 stock install. We had to
upgrade to the latest bos.net.* filesets to fix the problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (teknite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:40:20 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:02:58 GMT, Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Ooh! That sounds hard! All I have to do is run dselect and hit "+" next to
>stuff I want. It automatically takes lets me know about dependencies, so I can
>see that it requires a 40Mb browser before I even think of downloading it. The
>I hit install and it even downloads it for me, It then installs and configures
>and I don't even have to think. Wouldn't it be nice if M$ Windows had
>something as easy to use as that? You would think it would, especially as they
>say "ease of use so often".
What is dselect?
Sounds like something I would be interested in.
Thanks,
teknite
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aram Iskenderian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:26:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9 Sep 1999 06:01:53 GMT,
In article <7r7igh$pv2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosby) wrote:
>** To reply in e-mail, remove "tamnif." from address **
>
>"Paul E. Bell" hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
>thunder crashed, "Paul E. Bell" laughed madly, then wrote:
>> "Jeffrey C. Dege" wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Nobody but an idiot enables active desktop.
>>
>> Thanks, I needed to be called an idiot.
>>
>
>I enabled active desktop because I wanted to use a jpg as
>wallpaper and I didn't have time to copy and paste it into
>MSPaint, and I haven't quite figured out how to un-enable it yet.
>Or is it still enabled? I dunno.
>
Right click on your desktop, and choose "Active desktop", and then
uncheck "View as web page", as long as you have it as web page, it is
enabled.
--
Aram Iskenderian.
To email, hit reply, check the email address and add "r" somewhere.
Enjoying the speed of ADSL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexandro Conde Mart�nez)
Subject: Linux, Email, and Pilot
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:48:34 GMT
Hi ...... Iwill change my Win95 to linux, but i want to know witch is
the best e-mail software to use with my linux taht i can sync with my
pilot V.
I'm using Eudora Pro in the Win95, I read that you can use the Eudora
pro in the linux with the emulator, but you can sync it with the pilot
??
thanks !!
Alcon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Does my gcc become an old version?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:54:42 GMT
I followed the instruction at jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/oralinux.htm
and installed Oracle 8.0.5 on Redhat 6.0. What's special is that you
have to install several gcc backward compatibility packages before you
compile Oracle. My question is: After I install Oracle
with the backward compatibility packages, does the gcc compiler change
to its old "state"? I mean, if now I compile/install something else
(say, Apache server), does the gcc compiler run as if it were an old
version gcc? Thanks.
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From: K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:08:08 -0700
[snips]
In article <WLYA3.4574$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> You say this as though it is hard to selectively install the pieces
> of a Linux program.
Nope; just giving an example of the MS approach. Linux *may* do this as
easily, I'm not sure. What I wonder, though, is if *LINUX* does ti this
easily, or if *Debian* does it this easily - note the difference.
> > options? How about "install on first use" - recover disk space for
> > infrequently used features, by uninstalling them and only reinstalling
> > when you actually need them - if ever?
>
> How much more disk space can be recovered by having the installation files
> somewhere accessable so that I can delete them after I've already installed
> everything I know I am going to use?
Do you know? Must be smarter than most folks. I usually don't install
things such as, oh, clipart - but every now and then I get a request to
use it. No prob, it's auto-installed as soon as I use it.
> Yes, because with DLL's scattered everywhere doing a simple rm -fr
> /path/of/directory/ and doing the same for the executable is no longer
> possible, so having the uninstall option is a good thing.
Which is why I also asked about shared libraries.
> No, I find GUI's to be harder to use for say, configuration tasks.
There are, in fact, many tasks for which GUI-based approaches are
inferior. Note that Win* - like Linux - offers both. The difference is
that Linux offers better CLI support, Windows offers better (in terms of
standardization if nothing else) GUI support.
> > Oh, I see. Linux *doesn't* do this any better than Windows, so you're
> > simply spewing for the sake of making noise. :)
> >
>
> No, he is pointing out a very observable Windows-user mentality. When
> things go wrong the solution most users try first is a reboot. Failing
> that, a reinstall, either of the application at fault or of Windows itself.
> Usually one of these will work. The question is why. How can a production
> (in the sense that it is not marked as Beta or Alpha software) system be so
> erratic that removing a component and putting it back in exactly the way it
> was in the first place solves anything?
The few cases I've had this sort of thing happen, there had indeed been
a sytem crash and a corrupted file, a bad disk sector, or some other
failure which, ultimately, the OS is virtually powerless to control.
Well, that or I'd been fiddling with things again - but self-inflicted
damage is hardly the OS's fault. :)
> We're not talking about updates or
> patches here, I am speaking solely of straight reinstalls. Logically, if
> something works the first time, with no changes to the system in question,
> it should work again the second time as well.
Absolutely. And you know what? If your system itself is reliable,m and
there were *no* changes, then you didn't have that problem, simple as
that.
Soi, do you just have flaky hardware? Or did something change? One of
the two happened - or you wouldn't have that problem. By definitionthe
change from solid system to broken system is a change, and therefore
cannot have occurred without a change.
> With no configuration changes
> initiated by the user, what is it about Windows that it runs one way (i.e.
> with no errors) one time and then the next time you get nothing but crashes?
Don't know; never happened on _any_ machine I've ever seen.
> This experience is completely alien to linux users who run non-beta
> software.
And to me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Can't Creat boot disk/install LILO
Date: 9 Sep 1999 18:47:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael wrote:
>The installation of Mandrake 6.0 seems to go along fine, using their
>latest boot image, up until we get to the "make a boot disk" section.
>Whenever I try to make a boot disk, it pops up with the error that it
>can't make the boot disk, but it never even seems to access the drive.
>No drive activity light comes on, nor do I hear it spin at all, and
>this error pops up very quickly.
Boot your install disk, but instead of letting the installation
proceed, explore the menus and try the other consoles
(alt-F2, alt-F3, etc) and get a shell prompt.
One of the following harmless commands should light up the floppy drive.
cp /dev/fd0 /dev/null
dd count=1 < /dev/fd0 > /dev/null
cat /dev/fd0 > /dev/null
If if does, Mandrake's installer is broken. If it doesn't, your
computer is broken and the error messages will give you a clue
about what's wrong.
Cameron.
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From: rbehm@
Subject: Re: Is there a program that returns (guesses) the keyboard type?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9 Sep 1999 19:30:05 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaus Zeitler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I'm working in a mixed environment with Linux, SUN and HP machines,
>and quite a few different keyboards (101,104 keys, US and unfortunately
>also German layout).
>As long as I used mainly one workstation I simply used xmodmap in my
>..xinitrc for the keyboard attached to this workstation to adjust this
>keyboard to my liking.
>I'm wondering if there's a program that I can use in my .xinitrc that
>makes an (educated) guess of the keyboard type, so that I can
>use the appropriate xmodmap automatically.
>
>Cheers Klaus
>
>--
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>| Klaus Zeitler Lucent Technologies |
>| Department: FLI3 Building: 98b Room: 110b |
>| Telefon: 49 911 526 6344 Fax: 3183 |
>| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> ----------------------------------------------------------
On a PC for different national keyboard layout there is no chance
since there is no identification for this.
Reinhardt Behm, Nauheim, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,be.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: signal 11
Date: 9 Sep 1999 18:29:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:26:21 -0400, Ryan Richard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to install Red Hat 6.0
>
>Every time I get to the screen where it asks me if I would like to
>create a boot disk, the install crashes. Regardless of if I choose yes
>or no, I get an "signal 11, the install exited abnormally error"
>message.
>
>I have taken this to two different machines. One is a rather new Dell
>P233 and the other a P166 clone. I have been told by Red Hat that this
>is a Hardware error. I am starting to be a little suspicious of that
>response. Is it possible that the media might be defective? Any one
>have ideas how I can proceed?
>
fyi, there is a sig11-howto. I'm including (a piece of) it here:
Signal 11 while compiling the kernel
This FAQ describes what the possible causes are for an effect that bothers
lots of people lately. Namely that a linux(*)-kernel (or any other large
package for that matter) compile crashes with a "signal 11". The cause can
be software or (most likely) hardware. Read on to find out more.
(*) Of course nothing is Linux specific. If your hardware is flaky, Linux,
Windows 3.1, FreeBSD, Windows NT and NextStep will all crash.
If you are not reading this at http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/, that's where
you can find the most recent version.
For those of you who prefer reading this in French, the French translation
can be found at http://www.linux-france.com/article/sig11fr/.
Good luck,
Jurriaan
--
Am I indecisive? Can I get back to you on that?
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From: Igor Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:01:17 -0500
It looks like most people comment Ballista results reading mostly QSSL's
comments and not the results ;) While in general I agree with QNX
approach to kill an offending application, there is another issue as
well. Greg & Dan talked about stray pointers a lot but look at test
cases published by Ballista. Some of them (e.g., calloc() with negative
arguments) have NOTHING to do with stray pointers and still get killed.
That basically means QNX libc does not do a particularly good job of
argument checking. That saves some overhead but indeed sacrifies
robustness for some extent. You have to program range checking for all
input in your applications instead of relying on libc. I ran into
problems due to that many times, because some QNX functions may return
undocumented values when you feed them with inappropriate data.
- Igor
Guy Macon wrote:
>
> I have two problems with what the Ballista project is doing here.
>
> [1] They fail to differentiate between an OS failing to handle one
> of the test cases and an OS purposefully handling the test case
> in a different way than their assumption of what the Only Valid
>
> Way To Handle Errors is.
>
> [2] They printed posters and put up web pages containing bar charts
> showing "Robustness Failure Rate" for various Operating Systems,
> despite the fact that what they are measuring is not robustness.
>
> I believe that the Ballista project should measure the ability of
> each OS to exhibit whatever error-response behavior is documented
> for that OS. That's what most programmers would expect of a test
> of "operating system robustness".
>
> I also believe that a process failure which prevents the failing
> process alone from completing it's task should be listed differently
> from a process failure which prevents unrelated processes or the
> operating system itself from completing their tasks. In the real
> world of high reliability systems, the ability of a critical module
> to continue despite the failure of a non critical module is an
> important reliability issue.
>
> What the Ballista Project is testing for is very useful and I am glad
> to see them do it. I just wish that they wouldn't call what they are
> testing for "Robustness Failure Rate", and that they would realize that
> they are not in charge of deciding what the proper response to a bad
> input is for all operating systems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aram Iskenderian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:31:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 14:02:42 GMT,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
<Snip>
>>>Nobody but an idiot enables active desktop.
>>
>>What a technical insight, I'm overwhelmed.
>>
>>perhaps the honorable gentleman would explain why?
>>I think that you're confusing ActiveX with Active desktop.
>>Two entirely different things.
>
>Well, perhaps it's because the first four machines we installed
>IE 4 on with Active Desktop enabled had to be reformatted and
>rebuilt before we could get them to work.
Hmmm?
What has enabling Active Desktop with reformatting?
Please expand on this.
>And perhaps it's because Active Desktop slows the response time
>of desktop actions by half or more.
Not in my experience, and I'm not an M$ fan.
>And perhaps it's because Active Desktop wastes precious screen
>real estate on meaningless glitz.
I beg to differ, it adds functionality and features to Windows.
>Or perhaps it's just because I'm an old curmudgeon who had a
>hard enough time learning to live with Microsoft's old set
>of bad UI decisions to want to waste time learning a whole
>new set of bad UI decisions.
I'm not saying it's not a new UI, nor it is perfect, but I'm saying it
is one of the few good thing M$ ever did, perhaps it was
unintentional.:-)
--
Aram Iskenderian.
To email, hit reply, check the email address and add "r" somewhere.
Enjoying the speed of ADSL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux viruses?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 19:02:42 GMT
Trend Micro's InterScan should be shipping on Linux next week. You can
read about it at:
http://www.antivirus.com/products/beta_programs/linuxisvw/default.htm
In article <7q1qro$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jonathan Penalber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't come across any antivirus programs for Linux. Are viruses
not a
> problem on this platform?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
--
Dan Schrader
Trend Micro
http://www.antivirus.com
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From: "Sascha Appel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape color
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 13:52:31 +0200
Your X-Server has to use use more colors.....
You seem to run in 8bpp mode.
Bye,
Sascha
ORRIN wrote in message ...
>I noticed that the copy of Netscape (4.5.1) that came with my copy of
>SuSE 6.1, has a black & white heading and icons rather than color like
>my old Windows version. It that the way it is, or is there a way to
>fix it. I didn't see anything in the options.
>
>-----------------------------
>Orrin - Long Island, New York
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>Syosset Camera Club - http://www.orrin.org/syocc/
>HS Class Reunion - http://www.orrin.org/wphs/
>Our e-mail address is at http://www.orrin.org/email.html
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From: Jack Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Win98 PC confused by computer name!!??
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 14:30:20 -0400
The name of my RedHat 6.0 machine is "jacklinux.jackdomain.com", ip is
192.168.0.1, alias is "jacklinux",
The name of Win98 machine is "winpc.jackdomain.com", ip is 192.168.0.2,
alias is "winpc".
TCP/IP communication between the two PCs have no problem at all. I can
ping each other by using ip address. Since I setup 'Samba' in the linux
PC, I also can access linux pc from win98 pc side.
The very strange thing is:
1. From win98 PC, I do 'ping jacklinux', it should ping the linux pc,
but it ping the win98 pc itself instead.
2. But also from win98 pc side, I can do 'net use z: \\jacklinux\test'
to access some resource of linux pc. This time, win98 pc recognize
'jacklinux' as correct machine.
3. From win98 pc, I can never do 'telnet jacklinux' and 'ftp jacklinux',
only can do 'telnet 192.168.0.1' and 'ftp 192.168.0.1'. This time the
win98 pc is confused by names again.
4. From linux pc side, everything related to the win98 pc name is fine,
such as 'telnet', 'ftp'.
I also check out the '/etc/hosts' file of linux pc and
'\windows\lmhosts',\windows\hosts' of win98 pc, they're absolutely
correct.
Could anyone give me some idea?
Thanks a lot!!! Please also email me a copy.
Jack
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From: "Fred Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Figure Out The MS Source Code Yourself
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:56:08 -0400
I hear you, but IMHO any prohibition on reverse engineering is horse
manure. Reverse engineering is a natural right. All reverse
engineering means is "figuring out how things work". You might as
well tell me to turn off my brain and watch network TV as try to
tell me I can't reverse engineer anything I feel like.
I'd rather "forward engineer", though :-) It's usually more satisfying.
Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The problem with reverse engineering something like Windows is two-fold.
First,
>it is illegal; the Windows license agreement prohibits it. Second, Windows
is
>just too big. Windows 2000 consists of something like 20 million lines of
>source code.
>
>--
>- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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From: John Kissell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux+NT dsaster (help wanted)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 12:34:20 -0400
Assuming the schematic below represents the physical layout of drive 0,
this does not appear to support NT's boot process, check out:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q224/5/26.asp
"D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon" wrote:
>
> A colleague has an NT Dell Latitude CPt and according to NT's
> disk manager this is how the partitions look like:
>
> +-------------+---------------+---------------+------------+
> | FAT | NTFS C: | NTFS D: | Free |
> +-------------+---------------+---------------+------------+
>
> Now since the install was done when you try to boot the laptop
> you get a black screen with "Invalid partition table" and nothing
> else. The only way to get the machine to boot is with the NT
> boot disk which then boots NT. We copied the boot.ini etc
> from the boot disk into C: but still the same results (it says
> to boot from partition 2).
>
> I think that during installation the MBR got overwritten by
> LILO and somehow it cannot find itself. We have been thinking
> about doing "fdisk /mbr" from NT but are worried that perhaps
> that will screw up the whole thing. Will that restore the
> ability to boot NT from HD? or what? We can install Linux again
> but NT install/reconfigure would be a nightmare, so is there
> a way to first make this thing boot NT from HD? any plans on
> how to proceed? any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Emilio
>
> --
> D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon Compuware Europe B.V. (Uniface Lab)
> Software Engineer Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +31 (0)20 3126 516
> *** The opinions expressed hereby are mine and not my employer's ***
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