Linux-Misc Digest #685, Volume #23 Sun, 27 Feb 00 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Old versions of Slackware (Rob Clark)
Re: What are your favorit cron/at applications? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Embedded Linux (Surya P Kommareddy)
Re: Help, I need some linux advice! (Leonard Evens)
Re: Hard disk space expansion for RH Linux ??? (Leonard Evens)
Will my Windows programs run on Linux (Alan Lobo)
Re: What are your favorit cron/at applications? (Bill Unruh)
VMWare questions... (Dave Brown)
Re: Driver for VooDoo 3 3000-2000 (Johan Kullstam)
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Subject: Re: Old versions of Slackware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:14:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Allan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT Artificial *
>* Intelligence Lab. My actions and comments do not reflect *
>* in any way on MIT. Morever, I am nowhere near the Boston *
>* metropolitan area. *
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I'm sorry if this is too personal a question, but your .sig begs the
question: Are you also not an artifical intelligence?
:) Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: What are your favorit cron/at applications?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 12:04:43 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:50:44 +0100, Oliver Gebele
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I already read the manpage and know how cron/at works
>(including the crontab syntax)!
>
>Now I'd like to know some neat applications that
>people are using it for!
Alarm clock:
at 7:30am
at> firecracker A2n
at> mpg123 -y /home/me/mp3archive/angry/Rammstein-Sehnsucht.mp3
at> ^D
(firecracker A2n turns on the X10 Firecracker peripheral, which turns on
the lights...)
Using the phone line to snarf stuff late at night when no one else is
likely to be using the phone:
at 3:00am
at> ppp-on
at> wget http://www.somesite.com/stuff/
at> wget ftp://ftp.othersite.org/pub/linux/otherstuff/
at> ppp-off
at> ^D
If you have a TV-tuner card, I'm sure you could have a cron job that
turned it on to the appropriate channel for watching $TV_SHOW at the right
time every week. Can't report the syntax as I don't have a TV-card...
Use cron + mgetty/hylafax to fax a status report or something to $BOSS at
a certain time every weekday? (Productivity, not "cool", but still...)
Have cron call an Expect script every night at 2am; said Expect script
logs in to a remote system and executes a series of commands that result
in a status update regarding that remote system getting E-mailed to a
group of people. (Productivity again.)
I'm sure there are many more; this is just off the top of my head.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
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From: Surya P Kommareddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Embedded Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:28:47 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look at Mini-RTLinux http://www.thinkingnerds.com/projects/minirtl/minirtl.html
This might be of some help to you.
Surya.
Jim Weller wrote:
> I am looking for a user-group or web resource that can help me build a
> kernel small enough to fit in < 896K flash. This is for an embedded system
> that needs only TCP/IP support, memory management and the real-time
> extensions.
>
> I will also need to store my application in the flash.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Help, I need some linux advice!
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:11:53 -0600
Tandem Guy wrote:
>
> Hello. I'm a C/C++ programmer who's decided it's time to learn UNIX.
> Unfortunately, I don't have access to UNIX at work. Someone suggested I
> give Linux a try at home. This seems reasonable, but I have a lot of
> questions. I'd like to by a PC on which I would run LINUX and LINUX
> only. What would be the minimum system requirements I'd need? I'm not
> looking to do much more than some basic C/C++ development. Also where
> can I get a copy of the OS and does it come with a C/C++ compiler. I
> know these are pretty basic questions and I apologize if there is a FAQ,
> but I didn't see one. Thanks in advance for any replies to this post.
As various people have suggested, you can run Linux on a fairly
minimal machine, and you can get both C and C++. But for
a very minimal configuration, you will have to do without
the typical GUI interfaces that are standard with up to date
releases. You will also have to make sure you include the
packages necessary for writing programs. These are not necessarily
part of a default installation.
I suggest you look carefully at the documentation that is included
on the distribution you choose. Preferably get a CD. In
principle everything you need is on the CD. If you have enough
hard disk space and enough memory, you can use one of the
default workstation installations. If not you will have to
try to figure out just what you can get by with. After you
have studied the documentation and perhaps some Linux newbie
web sites, you might want to come back to us with more specific
questions.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard disk space expansion for RH Linux ???
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:18:11 -0600
Benson Lei wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if I have a existing volume space( say, Vol1) in RH
> Linux V6.1 System already:
>
> 1) Can I add an additional volume space( say, Vol2, 3 .... ) without
> re-install the OS ?? and How ???
>
> 2) Any document support Linear mode for Linux since I do not how to
> implement ???
>
> Thank you for any expert
You are using terms that I at least don't really understand.
If you want to pose your questions in English, try harder to
state clearly what you mean.
'linear' is an option to lilo. This would only be relevant
if you had managed to install RedHat 6.1 and could boot from
a floppy but not from the hard disk. This option is explained
in the lilo.conf manual page. But it is also explained in
the Large-Disk mini HOWTO. This should be on the RH 6.1 CD
and it can also be accessed through the Linux Documentation
Project.
If you are using RedHat 6.1, you should get the Anaconda updates
to the installer. These are available on the RedHat website
under Errata. The original installer had some serious bugs.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Alan Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Will my Windows programs run on Linux
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:30:26 GMT
I am concidering changing my operating system to Linux, and I was
wondering wheather my Windows programs (Word, Excel etc) will run on it.
Thanks
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: What are your favorit cron/at applications?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 17:40:36 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Gebele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am searching for intelligent and/or funny applications
>for cron/at to present at linux-tutorial - so that
>people will remember and will no longer be frightend by
>the cron/at-deamons.
>
I don't know if it make them more frightened rather than less, but you
could always have cron start up xsnow say. To see christmas trees and snow
appearing etc on their screen might of course make them think of viruses
more than of how neat cron is.
You might also have it pop up a large clock on the screen when a meeting
is about to start, to remind them of the time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: VMWare questions...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Feb 2000 11:12:05 -0600
I'm surprised at the lack of discussion of VMWare. It would seem
to be the perfect solution to salvaging a bunch of Windows software
to be able to run it on top of a decent operating system.
That said, I've tried the version 1.1.x demo that can be downloaded.
It was not obvious that it could use an existing Win98 partition, and
I was afraid to use the "raw disk" option for fear that it might
screw up my current Win98 partition. On the other hand, it seems
unreasonable to have to do a new Win98 install and any apps that
you need to run. Has anyone faced this dilemma and come up with the
"right" solution?
Is there any access, when in the virtual machine, to other filesystems?
I could not find a way to copy anything into the "virtual disk" that
was created in the "virtual machine".
VMWare seems to want a ton of resources. I tried to put a DOS 6.22
install in a virtual machine, it seemed to gobble up almost all
free memory (on a 128 MB machine). I then tried to "pkunzip" a
group of files, and the "virtual machine" crashed, and crashed Linux
as well. Has anyone had any success with VMWare and DOS 6.22? (I
have a DOS application that I'd really like to be able to use--DOSEMU
can't do it, and I had high hopes for VMWare, but I couldn't even
extract the necessary files to try it out.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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Subject: Re: Driver for VooDoo 3 3000-2000
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:06:39 GMT
"News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't find this driver on the net. if there is someone that can give me
> some news please do it
get the latest XFree86. version 3.3.5 and the SVGA driver work for me.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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