Linux-Misc Digest #840, Volume #21 Thu, 16 Sep 99 21:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!! (Ilya)
Re: Need X-Windows help (resolution size) (Ilya)
Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!! (Ilya)
Re: Screen resolution (Ilya)
2 More Newbie Questions ("Jill")
Re: Kernel 2.2.5-15 ppa module (Zip Disk) data corruption? (Taura)
Re: Unix & linux (Guennoun Ilyas)
Re: PostScript to Word? (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Re: Exceed & Linux: Configuration Problem ("Jack Aubert")
Re: A REALLY Dumb Question (Ilya)
Java Console equivalent in Star Office 5.1 (Adrian Warman)
Redhat Upgrade (5.1 -> 6.0) (William Schwartz)
Re: Linux newbie installation help (Gerald Willmann)
Re: The Incredible Shrinking / ! Help! (Ilya)
xEMACS and AML ("Jos�as Galv�n Reyes")
Scroll with arrow keys? ("Matt O'Toole")
Emacs Auto-Compression/bzip2 question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Scroll with arrow keys? ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Absurd Linux mentality ! (Erik van Bronkhorst)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Ilya)
LICQ: Gnome+Enlightment+Swallowing? (rh6.0) (Jan Houtsma)
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!!
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:24:27 GMT
In comp.os.linux.questions Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * Adobe Photoshop
> Take a look at gimp (www.gimp.org). This is quite comparable to Photoshop.
> It has some advantages over Photoshop and some disadvantages. The main
> disadvantage is that fewer inkjet printers are supported. It is of course
> free and constantly being improved by an active group of enthusiasts.
Yes, and the point is that it will get a lot better in 2-3 years. A lot
better. Linux still needs time to mature. Come up with more software for it,
have clustering, Logical Volume Manager, etc. It really needs to compete with
the Enterprise environment.
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need X-Windows help (resolution size)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:51:00 GMT
MoHoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's interesting that nobody has mentioned to be sure and use the "+/-"
> keys on the numeric keypad. I was using the ones on the row of number
> keys above the letters (in vain!) for days before I read that somewhere...
That does not work either! RH 6.0/gnome.
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!!
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:22:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.questions Azzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am getting ever-closer to that point of no-return where one completely
> removes Windoze and goes 100% Linux. However, I need a little help. A
> lot of the services and conveniences of Wintel has pretty much become
> ingrained in my life, and I'm not sure what (if any) alternatives are
> available yet in Linux. If you fine fellows could edumicate me on the
> following, it would be most helpful:
I don't know what the problem is. I never used Windows on a personal machine
and have always had Unix workstations as personal computers. They have always
been more than sufficient for my purposes. They have so much more to offer
than a PC.. The standard Unix utilities like shell, and perl, and grep and
awk, and zsh, and emacs, and etc, etc. I simply could not work in another
environment. Recently I upgraded to a Linux workstation that is 100% Linux.
> 1) Software. Certain applications are critical to my job and life. I
> need to know if there are Linux versions or adequate replacements for
> these in Linux--
> * Quicken 98
> * Cold Fusion Studio (aka Homesite.. the best HTML editor I have seen)
> * Microsoft Outlook 2000 or Symantec ACT
> * A good Java IDE (Visual Cafe Pro or VisualAge for Java are among my
> favs)
> * Visio Professional
> * Adobe Illustrator
> * Adobe Photoshop
I am sure someone can give you a qualified answer regarding those details.
There are tons of freeware for Unix, not just Linux. You get it, compile it,
install it, play with it, delete it. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is
buggy.
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Screen resolution
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:51:08 GMT
Henry Luk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During installation, I have set my screen resolution to 1024x768. How can
> I change it to 800x600 in RH Linux 6.0?
Xconfigurator is the program that should handle that.
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From: "Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 More Newbie Questions
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:35:08 -0700
We went to the computer store tonight and found a box that said Mandrake
linux, which seemed to be claiming it was RedHat 6, but for only $29, versus
the $49 for RH 6 (minus rebate). Can someone tell me the difference?
That's question 1.
Question 2 is: which GUI do people in this newgroup prefer, KDE or GNU? I'd
like to hear some opinions.
Thank you very much.
Jill Cohen
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From: Taura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5-15 ppa module (Zip Disk) data corruption?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 13:23:06 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anita Lewis wrote:
> >[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3686418 Sep 15 23:50 nebula
> Zip drives store in either DOS or FAT format. That means only one dot per
> file name. What you probably had was nebula.tar.gz to start with. When
> you stored it on zip it became just nebula.gz. Just move it back to a
> Linux formatted area on your computer changing the name back to
> nebula.tar.gz. mv /mnt/zip/nebula.gz /home/myname/nebula.tar.gz
>
> I think that will do it. I had that happen to me using a download into
> windows. I had such trouble trying to use that little gzipped file after
> that, but changing the name back fixed it for me. I hope it will for you
> too.
>
> Anita
No, please look at the first line, the fine name was just `nebula' there was
no `.' in the name.
I tried this on ten other files with different names and sizes, they all had
some form of corruption.
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From: Guennoun Ilyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unix & linux
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:03:10 +0000
I am not sure it will work, because each program is already compiled to
work ona specific platform
you should have sources files witha make file to compile it again on linux.
usually it works
Squiddy a �crit :
> How do you make Unix programs run on a linux box.
> If so how do you know wich librarys you need and how do yo install them
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PostScript to Word?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 13:50:07 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (T.P Harte) writes:
>
> Don't quite know where to post this one...
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to convert .ps documents
> created by, say LaTeX and dvips, into MS Word 6.0 .doc files?
>
> Pardon the naive question...shot in the dark...
>
>
There is not inherently much more information in a .ps file than there
is on the printed page. Converting a .ps file to a word processor
file is almost as hard as converting printed hardcopy.
You'd do much better starting with the LaTeX source, if you have it.
Collin
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From: "Jack Aubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Exceed & Linux: Configuration Problem
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:08:28 GMT
I hope somebody can answer this one, I came here with precisely the same
problem (except that I have Win NT rather than 98). And I couldn't find
anything under any of the Exceed menus that show any promise. We should be
able to send the window to do Linux configuration chores to the remote
window, no? Startx just seems to run on the Linux box without sending
anything to the NT window. But other programs do.
Chris wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi All
>
>I have been stuck on this problem for months!
>
>I got two PCs one running linux, other win98.
>
>On the win98 pc, I got exceed installed and I want to run e.g. xf86 or the
>CDE from the win pc. I start exceed Xstart with command parameter:
>
>xterm -display 192.168.0.1:0.0
>
>I get the xterminal on the win machine with no problems. When I start
>netscape/ghostview etc.. (any application the output is ok and it appears
on
>the win98 monitor).
>
>when I type startx, it starts on the Linux PC.
>
>Could someone PLEASE PLEASE help me out with this. I am not sure if the
>problem is from exporting DISPLAY (shouldnt because it works ok with other
>progs). I dont know if its an exceed configuration problem.
>
>Thanks
>Chris
>
>
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A REALLY Dumb Question
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:35:22 GMT
Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>>"Jeremy Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I have to apologise, but all the discussions I have seen about Linux have
>>> been in written form, so I don't know how it is generally pronounced!
>>>
>>> Is it:
>>> 1. LINE-UCKS, or
>>> 2. LYNN-OOKS
>>
>>neither. linus pronounces it LEE-nucks.
Interesting.
I used to hear it pronounced Leenux, rhyming with TEE (i.e. tee-shirt) and now
I hear it more and more as LINux, rhyming with "Ivy".
The second one is more Americanized, I think.
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From: Adrian Warman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Java Console equivalent in Star Office 5.1
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:31:20 GMT
Hello,
The subject line says it all really. Is there an equivalent to the Netscape
Java Console, when running Star Office 5.1 (from Sun CD) under Red Hat 6.0?
Many thanks,
Adrian
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From: William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat Upgrade (5.1 -> 6.0)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:45:04 GMT
I'd like to upgrade my redhat 5.1 (with 5.2 kernal and libs) system to
RedHat 6.0 but there's a lot of stuff on the disk so I'd rather not
rebuild from scratch.
Does the Upgrade option work at all? what problems might it give me.
thanks,
Bill
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie installation help
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:19 -0700
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Blacka wrote:
> Ok, I just bought a Pentium 90 with the intent of installing linux on it. I
> am trying to learn linux on this box. It doesnt have a cd rom however, but
> it has a network card. I was planning installing it via NFS, using my other
> machine which has a cdrom drive. Problem :The network card won't load in DOS
> (it's running a slim version of DOS 6.22).
> My question is : Since DOS won't load the driver, when I try installing
> Linux via NFS, will linux recognise the Network card and start the
> installation or will it fail?? The network card works fine, its just that
> the driver won't load in DOS.
you could simply try and see whether it works :) If the other machine is
also a PC you could perhaps move over the CD drive only for the install or
you could install Debian from floppies.
Gerald
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: The Incredible Shrinking / ! Help!
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:58:15 GMT
In comp.os.linux.questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>>
>> I'm finding something very odd on my SuSE 6.1 Linux system. Every day
>> that I log in, I lose another 2% of my root ( / ) directory! Two days
Find all the new files that have been created with the find command.
find / -mtime
find / -newer
etc. You have to create a file with the touch command that and then use it
with the -newer option. i.e. all files newer than a file 6 hours old.
-mtime stands for modification time, that might help also, but it can only do
say 1 day and is not granular enough.
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From: "Jos�as Galv�n Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: xEMACS and AML
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:25:59 -0600
Hello, i a new with Linux.
I have not installed Linux on my computer jet, but i will work with AML
(Adaptive Modeling Laguaje) it works with xemacs command in a Solaris
release V , it work with linux?
Please, send me a e-mail
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From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scroll with arrow keys?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 14:48:03 PDT
I can't scroll up and down a web page with my arrow keys in Linux like I can
in Windows. Should I be able to, and if something's wrong, how do I fix it?
I'm tired of reaching for the mouse...
Matt O.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Emacs Auto-Compression/bzip2 question
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:32:58 +0059
Has anyone out there gotten auto-compression working with bzip2?
Whenever I try it, it gets about halfway through, then complains about needing
an input file, leaving an uncompressed jka-comp* file in /tmp.
I've checked the jka-compression settings, & everything *seems* to be in order.
That said, does anyone have any advice?
(gnu-emacs 20.3.1)
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scroll with arrow keys?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:08:10 GMT
Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't scroll up and down a web page with my arrow keys in Linux like I can
> in Windows. Should I be able to, and if something's wrong, how do I fix it?
> I'm tired of reaching for the mouse...
...works for me (did you mean netscape or lynx?)
The current version of lynx is 2.8.2 (2.8.3 in development)
It's available at
http://lynx.browser.org
http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/release
ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx-2.8.2
(netscape "works" too ;-)
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From: Erik van Bronkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Absurd Linux mentality !
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:57:05 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Actually cat is both somewhat mnemonic, and an abbreviation
for catenate. cat accepts standard input or filename arguments
and copies them, in order, to the standard output.
Main Entry: cat�e�nate
Pronunciation: 'ka-t&-"nAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -nat�ed; -nat�ing
Etymology: Latin catenatus, past participle of catenare, from catena
Date: circa 1623
: to connect in a series : LINK
- cat�e�na�tion /"ka-t&-'nA-sh&n/ noun
I do not know what "tac" is, do you suggest that it copies
stdout to stdin? ;-)
Johannes Nix wrote:
>
> Now, the most used commands are the shortest so that your don't loose
> time to type "list" fifty times a day or "remove". It is clear that
> this is fine for people which use the commands a lot and not so fine
> for people which don't.
>
> The least mnemonic is "cat" but guess what does "tac" ?
>
> Johannes
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:51:27 GMT
Excellent post! Thanks for sharing.
In comp.os.linux.questions Oystein Viggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Christopher Lu" wrote:
>> I'm taking a class on operating systems. During the last class, the
>> instructor mentioned that *nices are less reliable and less secure than
>> Microsoft OS's. His reasoning is that because *nices (espeically linux) is
>> free and everyone has access to it, it's less secure. Random people can
>> hack into a *nix system easier because they can figure out the interrupts
>> and stuff, since it's a free OS.
> Your instructor is totally bullshitting you. The type of "security"
> that he seems to prefer is known as "Security through obscurity". It
> means that the programmers figure that nobody will ever be able to
> reverse engineer their code, so it doesn't really have to be that
> secure.
> Open source programs have to implement real security meaning that even
> though one has access to the code, one cannot use that to circumvent
> the system, because the security is made that way. (I'm no expert
> either... :)
....
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From: Jan Houtsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LICQ: Gnome+Enlightment+Swallowing? (rh6.0)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:33:10 +0200
Licq 0.70
Qt GUI plugin 0.66.1
Hi!
Is it possible to have licq in the Gnome Panel, like GnomeICU
does, and being notified with changing icons and sound when
new messages arrive? This without licq running in the
foreground on my desktop but in the panel???
If in licq Options i enable "dock icon" then all i get is one
extra little status window. But its a normal window and i
cant get that into the panel?
Can somebody explain to me what "docking" and "swallowing"
means? Does that have to do with the above?
Thanks very much,
Jan Houtsma
Netherlands
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