Linux-Misc Digest #707, Volume #24 Sun, 4 Jun 00 08:13:02 EDT
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Re: Using Brittanica CD under linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Freewwweb slow ? (fred smith)
Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux? (David Efflandt)
Re: Mounting FAT 32 Win drive (David Efflandt)
Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. mSQL (Derek Colley)
Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Mounting FAT 32 Win drive (Derek Colley)
Re: kppp will now work in user account (Rene v. Staveren)
Re: Yast-Like for RedHat ("Jason Byrne")
Re: ASF Files (John Hong)
Re: Zip for Linux (brian moore)
windows95 DUN/linux samba/tcp problems? (Andy Smart)
Re: Set wallpaper in console? ("Rev. James Cort")
KDE and Num Lock key ("ReBuS")
Re: Linux News (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Something to monitor download speeds ? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: ISDN + Linux = HiSax ???? ("Onnoj")
How do I set sis6326 for 16bpp?? (root)
Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux? ("Dela Lovecraft")
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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 05:30:05 GMT
Config Error: /root/xf86Config: 311
Vertfresh (null)
^^^^^
Vertical Refresh Value Expected
X Convert to :0x0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
desribes the error when i log into Corel linux as root or my
username........... how can i change this or any info is helpful.....luvya
thanks.
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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 05:30:15 GMT
Config Error: /root/xf86Config: 311
Vertfresh (null)
^^^^^
Vertical Refresh Value Expected
X Convert to :0x0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
desribes the error when i log into Corel linux as root or my
username........... how can i change this or any info is helpful.....luvya
thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using Brittanica CD under linux?
Date: 03 Jun 2000 22:55:06 -0700
Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any way to use the above software under
> linux? Thanks for any comments,
>
> Cev.
I got the Britannica CD and have run it under Windows 3.1 (it just barely
supports Windows 3.1, but that was the last peice of Microsoft Software
I ever put on my computer). It's been awhile but as I recall it installed
some special shared libraries (or DLLs as they call them) special drivers
to allow netscape to browse their filesystem. There is an emulator for
windows under linux, WINE, but when I tried it, it couldn't cope with the
exoticisms involved. It's been awhile though, and possibly WINE has
advanced to the point where it would work, though I doubt it. Still, some
day when I've got time on my hands, I may try getting the latest version
of WINE and trying it again.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:48:45 GMT
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Have you recompiled the kernel? If so, make sure you enabled the
:> correct options for ppp. If not, check that any ppp modules are
:> loaded correctly.
: Sorry I wasn't too specific. I can connect with ppp to another ISP.
<snippage>
: I connect with minicom and get a prompt that says something like,
: System Password:
: and nothing else.
That's because FREEWWWEB doesn't use cleartext logins or cleartext
authentication. You have to set up PAP authentication to be able
to use their server. This results not in a shell login, but a PPP connection.
As for what do we want for free, well, to the person who added that
comment to the discussion you've got a point, but OTOH if it's not
usable there's no point in having it at all. Apparently in some regions
it IS usable, but my experience in the Boston area is that it isn't.
My query to support about their system performance didn't elicit any'
*useful* answer and last time I tried it (week or two) it was still
unusable.
Fred
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux?
Date: 4 Jun 2000 07:43:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:52:18 +0200, Bj�rn Griese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Does anyone know how to turn off the automatic build-in "screensaver"
>(blackscreen) of linux?
For the console see: man setterm
Not sure where Linux sets this but you can put a /usr/sbin/setterm
statement in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
For X check its screensaver settings.
>It is important. I use it for a webterminal and everyone thinks it is turned
>off when he looks at the black screen :-(
Then they are not too smart, since most computers with energy saving
features can automatically power down the monitor when idle.
>Any Replys to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please...
>
>Ciao
>Bjoern
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Mounting FAT 32 Win drive
Date: 4 Jun 2000 07:58:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 03:02:09 GMT, Paxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Paxx wrote:
>> >
>> > What is the best way to be able to read the Long Filenames
>> > on a Windows FAT 32 DRive. I've been experimenting with the
>> > setting ins my /etc/fstab file and using msdos as the filetype
>> > won't allow it, but...that didn't surprise me. Using vfat as
>> > the filetype helped some, but..didn't appear to be a cure-all
>> >
>> > Are there any better options or is this it.
>> >
>> > I'm running a Win95/Linux Dual boot.
>> >
>>
>> Once the partition is mounted as type vfat, use a GUI utility such as
>> File Runner, Star Office Explorer, etc. I've never seen a terminal
>> emulator that could handle the long file names properly.
>
>Okay...I'll give that a try. Using 'less' seemed to work on some, but
>not all. I've got a public_html directory in Win95, and that displayed,
>but..the Program Files directory didn't seem to.
What sort of problem are you having viewing long filenames? I don't have
any trouble with 'ls' in Win95 FAT16 or Win98 FAT32 in RedHat 6.1. But in
my main /etc/bashrc I have the following so I can tell the difference
between files and directories in color:
alias ls="ls -F --color=auto"
Maybe you are just not aware that to access a file or directory that
contains spaces you have to escape spaces like: cd Program\ Files
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. mSQL
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 08:11:27 +0100
milanuk wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am interested in learning some basic SQL skills. I have been digging
> around on the web, going thru Deja, etc. looking for info on the merits
> of one SQL program vs. another. Basically, the distilled version of
> what I've seen so far isthis: PostgreSQL is the most feature complete
> and potentially the most reliable for big databases, but kinda slow.
> MySQL is blazingly fast, has most of the features commonly used, works
> especially well w/ web applications, but doesn't have quite the feature
> set of PostgreSQL, and doesn't do huge databases (as) well. mSQL aka
> Mini SQL is also fast (as fast as MySQL?), and is definitely intended
> for small data sets.
>
> Most of the recommendations that I've seen pushed PostgreSQL for
> reliability w/ big mission critical databases, and MySQL for all-out
> speed and web stuff.
>
> I am interested in _learning_ SQL, and as such I don't have a
> particular _need_ for speed, huge database capability, etc. In this
> case, is there one of these three that is best for learning from the
> ground up about SQL? I would be interested in hearing peoples
> impressions of the support and community related to each. That as much
> as anything will play large role in my choice. I don't want to be
> _near_ a group that flames on a whim, but I do accept the concept
> of 'read first, ask second'.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Monte
>
> --
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> the few who learn by observation. The rest just
> have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
>
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> Before you buy.
Just found this reference in my daily news letter from LinuxToday:
http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-05/lw-05-database.html
Rgds,
Derek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 08:08:40 GMT
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:52:18 +0200, Bj�rn Griese wrote:
> Does anyone know how to turn off the automatic build-in "screensaver"
> (blackscreen) of linux?
Yes. :-)
> It is important. I use it for a webterminal and everyone thinks it
> is turned off when he looks at the black screen :-(
Console: 'setterm -blank 0'
X : 'xset s off', 'xset -dpms'
> Any Replys to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please...
Done.
HTH,
Thomas
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting FAT 32 Win drive
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 08:15:10 +0100
> Maybe you are just not aware that to access a file or directory that
> contains spaces you have to escape spaces like: cd Program\ Files
cd "Program Files" will also work
Rgds,
Derek
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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:17:20 +0200
Subject: Re: kppp will now work in user account
From: Rene v. Staveren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.0 Linux. I like to use the program kppp from the kde
> desktop to connect to the internet because it is easy to setup. It wor=
ks
> great when I am logged on as root. Obviously I would prefer to logon a=
s a
> user and access the internet. I have kppp configured the same as on ro=
ot
> but it does not work. I get a message "Sorry, cannot open modem" The =
kppp
> manual says that kppp does not have permission to access the modem and =
I
> need to give kppp setuid rights. It tells me what to type. I type it =
and
> it still does not work. I have had kppp working in a user account unde=
r
> RedHat 6.1 so I know it should be doable. Am I missing something? Is
> there a trick or a permission I need to give to get this to work? Than=
k
> you. JH
chmod o+rx /dev/ttyS1 if your modem is at com2.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yast-Like for RedHat
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:48:00 -0700
News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8hb5vo$2mo2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there!
>
> I have been using SuSE for a long time. Now I installed RedHat 6.2 (only
to
> see how it's like).
> I am missing something like Yast in RedHat. Is there any other Config Tool
> (other than linuxconf) that doesn't run under X? The documentation shipped
> with the Standard Edition is very poor (maybe one of the poorest I've ever
> seen) and doesn't point to any post-install tool.
>
> Some comments:
> At this time I am very disappointed with RedHat and I wonder why so many
> people are using it!? Why does RedHat ship only few packages with the
> standard edition? Standard, Deluxe and Professional Edition kind of
reminds
> me of Microsoft.
SuSE to RedHat... most appropriate to call that regression. I don't blame
you for 'trying' another Linux distribution - or other OS' (I also use IRIX
and Solaris on a daily basis... and have tried Solaris x86 and OS/2 on my
own machines) but your comments are very appropriate. RedHat has more
marketing/brand-name recognition - but is definitely *not* one of the better
distributions...
I've used RedHat 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, and limited 6.2 - and I only
install RedHat 5.1 when given a choice on very old hardware.
Otherwise... I've used SuSE 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4, Caldera 2.3, and
Slackware... and have become a bit of an evangelist among my own friends
about *not* installing RedHat... and recommending SuSE.
> Even the Modem and Internet Access Tools didn't work, which is kind of
> neccesary to access the online documentation, so that I had to configure
it
> manually (with SuSE Kppp or wvdial config worked without problems).
>
> For those who haven't decided yet I highly recommend SuSE
>
> Akubi
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: ASF Files
Date: 4 Jun 2000 09:15:01 GMT
Joseph Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: how can i read files with the asf extension in linux?
: its the best multimedia format, and very common on the web
No it's not. The best multimedia format is the multimedia format
that everyone can read and that is MPEG.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Zip for Linux
Date: 4 Jun 2000 09:28:04 GMT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 21:37:20 -0700,
Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> brian moore wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:54:51 GMT,
> > Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > www.pkware.com
> >
> > Um, no. That's shareware, and at $119 expensive shareware at that.
> >
> > Use the 'INFO-ZIP' version (if you must compile source, you can get it
> > at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/src/zip23.tar.gz and the companion
> > unzip540.tar.gz in the same directory). This is free, both as 'free
> > beer' and 'Free Speech'.
> >
> > It is foolish to install proprietary software when free and Free
> > alternatives exist.
>
> I'm amazed that it costs that much. We bought a legit copy just because
> we'd been using the program under DOS (maybe even cp/m, but that was a LONG
> time ago) for a long time and thought that the right thing to do was send
> them some money.
Info-zip is free for legit copies.
> Doesn't gzip come with most distributions?
Yes, but it doesn't handle multiple-files-in-a-.zip. (It does do a
single file, though.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Smart)
Subject: windows95 DUN/linux samba/tcp problems?
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 09:56:45 GMT
At this stage I'm not asking for solutions to this, just to know if
there is a potential problem here...........
I have 2 boxes, one running Win95 and one running RH linux. I'd like
to think about networking them together, with the RH box as a file
server. I understand that I will need Samba to allow the boxes to
communicate, and that they will use TCP/IP to do it. My plan would
therefore be to use the 192.168.1.xxx scheme for use on internal
networks as each machine will need a fixed IP address.
However my win95 machine has an attached modem and is given a dynamic
IP address by the server when I call my ISP. It seems to me that there
will be a problem here with the fixed IP it will need to network with
the linux machine and this Dyn IP when it needs to dial out.
Is this problem surmountable, or am I trying to solve a problem that
isn't really there? If I've missed the blindingly obvious, please
don't hesitate to tell me :)
Andy Smart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (my 'spam collection' account)
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From: "Rev. James Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Set wallpaper in console?
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:52:38 +0100
Off the top of my head I can't remember but I know I use xv in my
.xinitrc at university (Solaris) to do exactly that.
It is *definitely* in the man pages for xv - type "man xv". Be warned
that the command line options for xv are ridiculous.
>How? I know xv can but I want to know how to do it in the plain text
>barebones console, absolutely No X is involved.
>TIA
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From: "ReBuS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE and Num Lock key
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 10:43:20 GMT
I've a keyboard without a real num pad and must use shift+scroll lock for
commutate some letters of keyboard into a pseudo num pad.
In KDE this keys combination doesn't work (in bash and gnome work well).
Who can help me?
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Subject: Re: Linux News
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 4 Jun 2000 13:06:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Patricia wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, MR-ED wrote:
>> >You can find Linux news at http://212.120.127.178
>> yep he is everywhere
>
>That's SO sick!
Hmmm... I went there, but because I use a squid proxy that strips some
header I was told to
Sorry But youre browser doesn' t support frames.
Visit http://www.microsoft.com/ie to get yourselef
a bether browser.
I bet they ran that through some MS smell shekker.
Oh, of course I had to open the page source to see the message, the
browser window was empty.
:-)
/A
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Something to monitor download speeds ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 4 Jun 2000 13:10:01 +0100
In article <Qjh_4.377$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Secx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a program that will display your bandwith usage, how much you
>downloaded since the beginning of the month, what speed a particular file is
>downloading, etc... ?
>
>Only requirement it must be a console program (not a gui thing that runs
>under X)
>
>Thanks !
>
>
I think IPtraf does some of those things, see
<URL:http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/> (found via Freshmeat).
/A
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Reply-To: "Onnoj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Onnoj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,cz.comp.linux
Subject: Re: ISDN + Linux = HiSax ????
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:13:07 +0200
THx a lot!
I think It works now!
I did:
modprox hisax type=163 io=120 irq=12
first I didn't know what I had to put at TYPE= , but I tried some things,
and becoz I have a Teles Bri 16.3(sux) adapter, I tried:
"Teles"
"ISA"
"16.3"
"163" --> that worked......
But what's next? I tried using Kisdn, but when I press the connect button,
it doesn't connect!
Does anybody recommend a ISDN linux program? I use RedHat....
Thx, again!
Michal Safranek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >Does some1 knows how to use HiSax with a Teles 16.3 ISDN adapter???????
>
> modprobe hisax type=<type> io=<io> irq=<irq>
> (less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax would help you)
>
> Wejn
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> Motto: Linux is an operating system. Windows is a Nintendo with keyboard.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I set sis6326 for 16bpp??
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 23:41:52 +1200
Yo friendly people
I have a SIS 86c326 video card with 8MB which is intergrated on a Pc
chips M747 motherboard and I am using Xfree86 3.3.5 under RH6.1. I am
able to run at 8bpp but when I atempt to run 16bpp I get black bars on
some pages and becase of this some programs such as emacs are unusable.
I have read all the Xfree docs but ther is nothing about what options
and or modifications are necessary to be made to Xf86Config.
I would really appreciate any help in this matter.
Thank You
Gwarf
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From: "Dela Lovecraft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn off the build-in screenblanker of linux?
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 12:47:25 +0000
> Does anyone know how to turn off the automatic build-in "screensaver"
> (blackscreen) of linux?
>
> It is important. I use it for a webterminal and everyone thinks it is
> turned off when he looks at the black screen :-(
You need the command
xset s off
somewhere in a start-up script
> Any Replys to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please...
Newsgroups are for sharing information. You post here, I post
here.... :)
Dela Lovecraft
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