Linux-Misc Digest #105, Volume #24 Mon, 10 Apr 00 21:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: adding a directory to the path. (Bastian)
looking for Mailing list software which.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Autofs does not work as expected ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Files just stops downloading at random ("TIM B�KSTR�M LAURSEN")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Ermine Todd")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Andre Kostur)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: how to shrink a Linux partition
Re: rehat6.2 install error "can't find hardware..." (Scott Bishop)
Re: mv directory emptied files ("David ..")
Re: How did the hacker get root access to my system? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How did the hacker get root access to my system? (Hotel Balderdash)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (David Steuber)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (David Steuber)
Re: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Q] Decrypt (John Hasler)
SoundBlaster16 module init (Luc Bergeron)
Re: How did the hacker get root access to my system? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Hal Burgiss)
4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Call for Papers, Final Notice (Moun Chau)
Re: Printing to a Mac Printer (Rod Smith)
Help with bash ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])
PPP dialing ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: adding a directory to the path.
Date: 10 Apr 2000 21:09:11 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:00:31 GMT, bluto wrote:
>RH 6.1
>this is dumb but i forgot.....
>/usr/bin/ is in the path
>/usr/local/bin/ is not how do i add it
>
>I know basic and dumb question . I forgot
>
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: looking for Mailing list software which....
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:56:37 GMT
Hello,
I am looking for a mailng list software which besides being easy to
install, maintain, etc. allows me to create a mailing list of every one
in the /etc/passwd file (15,000+ entries). And other lists of people
who belong to the same groups in the /etc/group (10 groups) file.
Thanks for your input
Wachaca
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Autofs does not work as expected
Date: 10 Apr 2000 21:10:35 GMT
Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> > /zip /etc/auto.zip
:> ^^^^ Here is your problem (misunderstanding). You told autofs to create
:> the (auto)mount point in /zip.
:> > and the following auto.zip file:
:> > ------------------------------------------------
:> > zip -fstype=vfat :/dev/sda4
:> And you told autofs to create a mount point zip (in /zip) .
: How do I configure autofs so I can access anything on my zip drive under
: mountpoint "/zip" ?
link /zip to /-/zip and use /- as the autofs root.
Peter
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From: "TIM B�KSTR�M LAURSEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Files just stops downloading at random
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:18:01 +0200
Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately it didn't work.
I also added "novj", "nobsdcomp" and "debug" to the ppp options as another
person suggested for a similar problem, but still the problem persists. It
seems that during a download suddenly the client on my side stops replying
to the incoming packages (I could very well be wrong though) because
outgoing traffic stops, while incoming goes on for a while.
Any other ideas?
- Tim -
> In <FDkH4.142$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]When ever I dial up the first attempt always fails. Second attempt
usually
> ]goes through just fine. Already here I get a bit suspicious.
>
> This is a redhat bug. Go get the updates from their updates site. While
> you are there pick up at least all ofhte security updates and install
> them.
>
> ]Most web sites downloads just fine, but sometimes, especially if there is
a
> ]lot of data on the page, the activity on the line just dies. If I hit the
> ]reload button, the download stops at exactly the same point again. The
> ]problem is not restricted to http access, most big ftp downloads fail as
> ]well.
>
> You may have a problem with how you setup your modem. Make sure that it
> does not use software flow control. Or, if it does (I do not know how
> those damn winmodems work-- how do you do hardware flow control with
> them) try putting
> asyncmap a0000
> into /etc/ppp/options to make sure that it is not a control-S which is
> stopping the flow. You must use that asyncmap if you use software flow
> control.
>
> ]This is really strange. I've been through the set up several times, and I
> ]can't see what I might have done wrong. Under Windows the TCP/IP set up
is
> ]quite straight forward. The only things I can see is different from the
> ]Linux set up is that Windows uses IP header compression, which I can't
find
> ]any references to in Linux, and that I had to set the DNS to a fixed
address
> ]under Linux.
>
> pppd uses IP header compression by default (called vj compression). You
> could also use MSs "extention" with the usepeerdns option and then
> getting your ip-up script to write the dns entries found from
> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf to /etc/resolv.conf. Not that it buys you anything.
>
>
>
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From: "Ermine Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:59:05 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
You must really not want to solve the problem. I and I alone supported ALL
the PC's on a major college campus in the late 80's/early 90's and I had
this problem solved. Each time the user logged on they received a
completely new/clean image of the system. The systems had no local
harddrives, and most didn't even have floppy drives. Any student/user could
connect to any system and get all their files and applications - anywhere on
campus. Though it was a bit of work to get going - it really wasn't that
hard and it worked. The only systems that I had problems with BTW were the
Macs that had local harddrives and despite the security software installed,
were always having problems.
--ET--
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:37:08 +0100, Robert Moir
> <<nd3I4.14041$06.64075@wards>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >"fungus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Yep. The TCO of Microsoft operating systems has always been
> >> one of the highest (all those reboots and reinstalls...)
> >
> >Really? I keep hearing this. I had win 98 on my machine for 18 months and
> >never had to reinstall it. I do admit the reboots were annoying though,
in
> >98 and NT, and I am glad that Win2k has solved these problems.
> >But "all those reinstalls" - really? What could you of been doing wrong
to
> >need to do that.
>
> You've never worked in a big NT installation, have you? My current job
> involves working with 3 or 4 other people keeping approx. 130 NT
> workstations running and doing (ack) tech support for students/professors/
> random people who call our phone number. All the machines are reloaded
> from scratch every month, sometimes more often to keep up with the latest
> crap^Wsoftware that the profs insist their students use.
>
> Regarding the Lose98 bits, either you were very lucky, you didn't do very
> much with it, or you're exceptionally good with 98. (tips cap)
>
> [RANT]
> These machines are all locked down fairly well. Most crud disabled,
> C:\Temp the only really visible user-writable directory (and it's cleared
> upon logout), and still important system files get thrashed. Unexplained
> weirdness, like all the clip art vanishing, or "NTOSKRNL.EXE Missing or
> corrupt--reinstall this file"[0], results in a complete reload because
> it's easier/faster to spend 35 minutes Ghosting an image from the central
> server than having someone with a clue figure out what went wrong and fix
> it. Especially when there are ~20 Future Pointy-Haired Bosses screaming
> that printer #4 is broken and the number of clued people is rapidly
> approaching -(Infinity).[-1]
>
> It wouldn't be so bad if we could just tell the bloody thing to reload
> itself automatically, but no, we have to walk over to the machine, boot
> from floppy, watch it to make sure the Ghost process starts OK, hang signs
> threatening instant death to anyone who touches the machine when it's
> going through its fragile self-check routine after Ghost finishes[1], then
> go back, make sure nothing went wrong, and reboot for the 4th time to set
> the BIOS back to booting from the hard disk only. Total waste of time and
> effort.
> [/RANT]
>
> [-1] I'm getting stupider and so is everyone else there.
> [0] This happens to one machine in particular every 4 or 5 days.
> [1] If you click on any "OK" buttons during its self-check (which
> resembles a normal login session and has tempting OK buttons displayed all
> the time), the machine will forget its assigned IP address and be
> completely useless. Gah.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama
critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Kostur)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:20:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:57:56 GMT, fungus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>
>>
>>David Steuber wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't think of a single innovation to come out of Microsoft. Not
>>> one. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to Microsoft's most important
>>> innovation?
>>>
>>
>>Clippie the dancing paper clip, and....
>>
>>.
>Didn't Microsft played an important part in the development and
>deployment of DHCP? I think I have to go back to look up the references,
>but I seemed to recall Microsoft and others in the industry moved away
>from bootp and developed DHCP to the wya it is today.
Let's look at RFC 2131 (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), section 5,
"Acknowledgments"
Hmm.. I see Bucknell University, and the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives, and Sun Microsystems. And the author is connected with
Bucknell University.
RFC 2132 (DHCP Options), the same set of companies, but the author is
associated with Silicon Graphics.
Looking through a few more RFCs, I see the likes of Cisco, Lucent, and
Motorola in there... so far no mention of Microsoft. RFC 1541 and 1531
(earlier versions of 2131) also don't mention Microsoft.
Where's Microsoft's contributions to the DHCP protocol?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 10 Apr 2000 21:25:20 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Ermine Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: You must really not want to solve the problem. I and I alone supported ALL
: the PC's on a major college campus in the late 80's/early 90's and I had
: this problem solved. Each time the user logged on they received a
: completely new/clean image of the system. The systems had no local
This takes too long. Dowloading or remote mounting 2GB of operating
system on each login is prohibitive even on a 100BT switched net.
: harddrives, and most didn't even have floppy drives. Any student/user could
: connect to any system and get all their files and applications - anywhere on
I agree that it can be solved, in principle. Diskless nodes are not
necessarily the way to go, however. You could refresh the user disk
from a RO local system disk, for example.
: campus. Though it was a bit of work to get going - it really wasn't that
: hard and it worked. The only systems that I had problems with BTW were the
: Macs that had local harddrives and despite the security software installed,
: were always having problems.
Peter
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to shrink a Linux partition
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:30:54 GMT
PowerQuest PartitionMagic 5.0 !!! Great program, but you have to buy it.
Yige Zhu wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to shrink a Linux partition to install a Minix OS, is
> there any tools?
>
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From: Scott Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: rehat6.2 install error "can't find hardware..."
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:30:06 -0500
Kirk Wythers wrote:
>
> I'm having a peculiar problem installing RH6.2. I shrunk a 30 gig FAT drive
> and created a 6 gig ext2 partition and a 128 meg swap partition with a
> utility called "partition manager" (couldn't get fips to behave). FDISK
> "sees" all three partitions.
>
> When I boot up the install CD, soon as I chose an installation method (gnome
> workstation... in my case), I get the error, "Can't find hardware on which
> to install file systems". You'd think that I didn't create the new
> partitions or something...
>
> There shouldn't be any problems with the hardware...
> 30 Gig quantum fireball
> ATA 66 controller card
> 256 megs of RAM
>
> Any ideas are appreciated,
>
Hmm... is it a controller CARD, and not on the motherboard itself? If
so, that's probably your problem. AFAIK, ATA66 controller cards aren't
supported by the 2.2.x kernels unless you patch it do so... the location
of said patch eludes me. What you may want to do is use an onboard
controller for installation, install, grab the patch for the kernel,
recompile the kernel, and then go back to the controller card.
Hope this helps... though if anyone has a better way about going about
this, feel free to contradict me. :)
--
--Scott Bishop
WALKER BOLT Manufacturing Co.
(Notice: The opinions stated in this message are not necessarily those
of my employer, nor of any other sane individual for that matter.)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mv directory emptied files
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:36:09 -0500
Stacey wrote:
>
> I copied many files into subdirectories
> /myfiles/products
> /myfiles/customers
> /myfiles/staff
>
> I decided to put the subdirectories under a common directory
>
> mkdir /myfiles/store
> cd /myfiles
> mv products ./store
> mv customer ./store
> mv staff ./store
>
> All the file names moved but now some of the files are empty. There seems no
> rhyme or reason to this. (By the way, I was logged in as root when i did the
> mv commands)
After you cd'd into /myfiles all you needed to use was:
mv products store/
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How did the hacker get root access to my system?
Crossposted-To: alt.2600,alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:50:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> /proc isn't a REAL filesystem. It's a virtual filesystem where all
>> its files are just links to system resources. I imagine kcore is the
>> system memory footprint?
> Hmm, sounds like something that would be in the manpage..
> Well, would you look at that, right there it is under 'man proc'....
Hmmm... When I did that, I got a tcl command...
I had to do man 5 proc to get the pseudo-filesysten up.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hotel Balderdash)
Crossposted-To: alt.2600,alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How did the hacker get root access to my system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:52:52 GMT
>> > Why are all the files dated *tomorrow* ????
>>
>> I don't know. Mine are dated correctly. Is your system clock correct?
>
>Actually, yes. In the *morning* the dates shown for proc are
>correct. In the evening, they show *tomorrow*. I have not nailed
>down what time of the evening that switches over. Guess there's a
>little cron job for me, eh? :-)
Perhaps you have your system time set to GMT. Check to see if the
file times are off from local time by the same amount as your GMT
offset.
HB
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:00:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707) writes:
' It turned out the reason the
' PCs and macs were always crashing was because people who were using
' the machines were constantly altering the system configurations to do
' what they wanted to do and installing/deinstalling their softwares. Under
' conditions like that, it's no wonder macs and pcs, whose file systems that
' do not have sophisticated access controls, were always crashing.
' I hardly think it's the fault of the OS to fail under conditions like
' that.
You mean that because the PCs and Macs allowed unprivileged users to
install any old software and write to system directories, it is _not_
the fault of the OS that it subsequently became unstable?
If that is what you are saying, then you may want to reconsider that
opinion.
--
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NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
Personifiers Unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity!
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Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:00:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
' and since Microsoft has not been able to kill linux, nor mandate it's
' pricing, it follows that they do not have a monopoly.
No, it doesn't. The monopoly is having such a huge share of the
desktop OS market. Microsoft does indeed have a monopoly.
It is not the monopoly that is bad. It is the fact that Microsoft
leverages their monopoly power to gain a monopoly in other product
categories. They do this by denying entry of competitive products, or
makeing the cost of entry much higher than it should be. That is
restraint of trade.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
"Of course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with a
fake?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
Date: 10 Apr 2000 17:53:40 -0400
I had a similiar problem, try typing sync at the prompt to flush the
buffers. If that fails, ie. the prompt doesn't return then try reinstalling.
Sorry I can't help more, I never found out what was wrong, but after
reinstalling the system works (it only locks up if I leave it on overnight,
but I'll save my rant about that annoyance for later!)
I suspect that something got corrupted, probably the kernel during the
install and so the buffer system was gagging on itself.
-John
In article <8ct7jn$h2k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hi,
>
>When i mount CD the system always halts and not responds. After that i
>can only press Reset button, nothing else helps. During startup the CD
>drive detects correctly. Please give me any hits. Thanks.
>
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
>hda: IBM-DJAA-31700, ATA DISK drive
>hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, ATA DISK drive
>hdc: BCD E520C, ATAPI CDROM drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>hda: IBM-DJAA-31700, 1628MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=827/64/63, DMA
>hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, 4110MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA
>hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
>
>
>
>
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>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] Decrypt
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:21:14 GMT
Robie writes:
> You can't decrypt a UNIX 'crypt'ed plaintext;
He means the old Unix crypt encryption program, not the password hashing
function.
> ...it's one way (unless you have massive computing power at your
> disposal).
No amount of computing power will reverse the hash. There's information
lost.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Luc Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SoundBlaster16 module init
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:43:21 -0400
Slackware 7
I'm trying to load the SoundBlaster VIBRA16 module but
I'm not able !
Processing :
insmod soundcore
insmod soundlow
insmod sound
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3
or :
modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3
gives me that error : sb.o : init_module : Device or Ressource busy
I just don't understand ! I did a "lsmod" and does not show
the module loaded. What do I do ?
thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.2600,alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How did the hacker get root access to my system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:53:41 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:34:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <8cosus$pg2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[...]
>Okay, so I can say from experience RedHat 6.1 out of the box is not
>secure.
>
>Yes, I can hear you all chuckling. YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY! :-)
And that there is a well known BIND exploit floating around for a while.
Anyone not running the updated version is vulnerable. Check RH support,
and/or subscribe to redhat-watch list, which announces these fixes. The
sendmail with RH6.1 is OK.
The only way you'll know for sure that you get rid of every last backdoor
possibility is to reinstall. And of course, read up on ipchains in the
meantime.
Sample script and links:
http://personal.bellsouth.net/~hburgiss/linux/ipchains.html
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:02:55 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:27:22 +1000, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>
>> Nonsense. People give it away all the time. The local LUG has gotten
>> many free copies of SuSE, Turbolinux and others. And they give them
>> out at events too. Anybody who wants a free copy here, can call the
>> LUG. They still have to pay for the bus ticket though (I mention
>> this before you do). Go to a trade and give away copies of MS and see
>> who comes knocking on your door.
>
>I'm sure, but we're talking about commercial entities, as I understand
>it, and most of them will be purchasing Linux from a commercial vendor,
>along with (hopefully) some support.
They will buy one copy, maybe a few, and do a network install. No
license required. No one would buy a boxed set for each node.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moun Chau)
Subject: 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Call for Papers, Final Notice
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:49:12 GMT
4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta
October 10 - 14, 2000
Cobb Galleria
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://www.linuxshowcase.org
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, and the
Atlanta Linux Showcase, in cooperation with Linux International
LINUX ENTHUSIASTS AND PROFESSIONALS: The highlight of this year's Linux
community calendar is undoubtably the Annual Linux Showcase and
Conference. Now in its fourth year, ALS is specifically designed for
the Linux enthusiast, with an emphasis on high-caliber technical
knowledge. This conference is developed by a volunteer community of
computing professionals and by USENIX, a not-for-profit technical
association respected for its tradition of in-depth technical
conferences.
ALS 2000 promises to be the biggest event in ALS history, expanding its
technical program to include more tutorials, refereed papers, invited
talks, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, hothouses, and opportunities for
informal discussions with Linux experts, professionals, and vendors. The
conference includes a three-day vendor exhibition in which more than 80
companies will showcase their latest products and services.
We are currently seeking submissions for Technical White Papers,
Works-In-Progress Reports, Talks/Panel Session proposals, and Tutorial
presentation proposals for this event. Suggested topics include
discussions on the development of Linux and Open Source platforms,
applications and tools as well as the implementation, maintenance and
growth of Linux systems in small and large environments. Detailed topic
suggestions and submission guidelines can be found on our website:
http://www.linuxshowcase.org.
===============================================================
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due:
Extreme Linux Workshop: April 17, 2000
Hack Linux/Use Linux Tracks: May 1, 2000
Notification to authors:
Extreme Linux Workshop: June 16, 2000
Hack Linux/Use Linux Tracks: June 30, 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Printing to a Mac Printer
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:11:23 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8ct720$2qt9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> A friend of mine gave me a GCC Technologies postscipt printer that was made
> for use with an Apple Mac. The model is a BLP Elite 8ppm laser printer.
> With adapters, I can connect it to my serial port, but does anyone know
> how to get it working?
I don't know about this printer in particular, but if it's a PostScript
printer, as you say, it should work pretty directly with Linux. I'd try
sending a simple PostScript file straight to the serial port for
starters. It's conceivable that the thing only talks through AppleTalk
protocols. If so, you might do better to find an Ethernet-to-LocalTalk
converter, hook it up to your network (if you've got one; if not, install
an Ethernet card), and use the tools that come with Netatalk to get it
working.
You might also try GCC's web site, http://www.gcctech.com. I did a search
on "BLP Elite" that turned up several hits, including something about
printing from Windows. That might give you some critical clue you need to
get it working.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: <Bryan Hoyt> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with bash
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:12:22 GMT
Is there anyone out there who can help me or lead me to someplace to get help
on the bash script?
- Thanks
--
Bryan Hoyt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.crosswinds.net/~artmusic
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From: <Bryan Hoyt> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PPP dialing
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:14:51 GMT
What program should I use to dial up to my ISP from the command line in Linux?
Where can I get this program and how do I use it?
- Thanks
--
Bryan Hoyt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.crosswinds.net/~artmusic
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