Linux-Misc Digest #3, Volume #25 Fri, 30 Jun 00 21:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: RealPlayer for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Programming help needed (Kari Pahula)
Re: Host your own site (or email) at home (Scott Alfter)
Re: No space left on device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to use tar with mulitple files... (Scott Alfter)
Re: DNS problem(I think) (valja)
Can't get paralell ZIP to work!! (David Topper)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Rich Teer)
Internet explorer for linux? ("Lars-Gunnar Hartveit")
Re: Realaudio/vsound (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux (blowfish)
redhat 6.2 and abit be6-2 ("Al Brunelli")
How To Set Group and Owner Permissions When Untarring? ("Robert L. Cochran Jr.")
cannot setup environment variables (Ferdinand Badescu)
Re: Solaris:/etc/system :: Linux:??? (U.V. Ravindra)
Re: How to use tar with mulitple files... (Robert Heller)
X-server unable to get started - but it's set to start on boot! ("white blood cells")
Re: cannot setup environment variables (Homer Jay)
Re: and the web was silent . . . . . (Buck Rogers)
Corel PhotoPaint ("John G. Sandell")
Re: Does Anyone Use GnuCash? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Compact Flash Mem for mp3 player (RCA Lyra) (Christopher Browne)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RealPlayer for Linux
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Date: 30 Jun 2000 16:47:08 -0400
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Philippe Cote) wrote in
>>
>>
>>Does anybody know where I could download a recent
>>Linux-compatible version of the RealAudio/Video
>>player. Apparently, Real.com have made big changes
>>to their site recently ( I have found various links
>>to this site but they're all broken) and Linux
>>products are nowhere to be found now.
Hmmm ... if you know the magazine Maximum PC ... well, now there is
Maximum Linux (June/July issue: $8.00). It has a CD. I haven't even opened
mine yet, but it says it has Macromedia Flash Player, Real Player,
Star Office, WordPerfect 8, etc.
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From: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Programming help needed
Date: 30 Jun 2000 20:50:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>hello all,
>I am developing a webmail system on linux. I need to add a user into the
>system by cgi(written in GNU C), of course, I executed useradd program
>and passwd, the problem occurred when I tried to send the password to
>passwd using a pipe. my program goes like this
> pipe_out = popen ("passwd username", "w");
> fprintf (pipe_out, "password\npassword\n");
> pclose(pipe_out);
>but passwd said "conversation error". anoy way it doesn't work. So
>anyone know how to handle this kind of problem? or in an alternative
>way to work the task out.
passwd doesn't read passwords from stdin, but /dev/tty
See man crypt. Basically you get login name, search /etc/passwd or
/etc/shadow for that entry, get the salt and compare the hashes in the
password file and the one given by the user.
There might be some other things to consider, since passwords tend to
be implemented differently on different distributions. PAM might
cause this to work somehow differently, I'm not familiar with such
things. YMMV.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Host your own site (or email) at home
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:29:09 GMT
In article <8ji70l$6bj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Each time you connect to the Internet (including dial-up, cable-modem,
>ADSL, ISDN, wireless or LAN connections) our software will link you up
>with our server...
>The service will cost $4.95 a month.
Why would I want to do that when I can set up a hostname at dyndns.org?
Their service is free, and they don't spam Usenet. The specs for
communicating with their system are provided so you can roll your own
client, or you can use the clients they've collected for a wide variety of
OSen.
(Yes, I should know better than to be trolled by a spammer, but I figure the
info could be useful to somebody.)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No space left on device
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:18:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> On or about Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:53:18 GMT, Anthony Tekatch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>scrivened:
>> Thank you for your help.
>> I used fsck.ext2 on /dev/hda5 and there were many problems that it
>> reported including "deleted inode xxxxxx has zero dtime".
> You should generally be able to fix these with:
> $ fdisk -y
fsck -y you mean?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to use tar with mulitple files...
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:40:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Let's say that I have a whole directory full of tarballs that I want to
>untar/gunzip with one recursive command... I tried doing something
>like the 'tar xzf *.tar.gz', but tar isn't recursive in that effect...
You can do what you're looking to do in bash (maybe in csh too, but I'm
kinda vague on how to do this with csh):
for i in *.tar.gz; do tar xzf $i; done
You could set this up as a shell script, but why bother?
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Subject: Re: DNS problem(I think)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (valja)
Date: 30 Jun 2000 21:41:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:44:07 +0200,
>Joris Maes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> When I connect to the internet (ISP=freegates, Belgium), I can see all
>>the sites from my ISP, I mean that I can browse the sites from the domain,
>>freegates.be (actually they changed it to Tiscally), but any other sites are
>>unavailable. I can't even ping them, but I can perform an nslookup, and get
>>some IP's, but I can't ping them, I keep getting "Network unreachable".
>
>"Network unreachable" implies a problem with the networking. DNS lookups
>don't have anything to do with that, they are just a way to figure out the
>network address given a domain name.
>
>My guess is that you don't have a default route set.
>
Probably default route is OK, because sites in domain fregates.be are
accesible. I think problem is in ISP: acces to sites (excluded ISP-s own sites)
is blocked (until registration or whatever they need).
I have seen just the same with our ISP-s: after some free test time, accesible
was only ISP-s domain until user was registerd on ISP-s site.
So I suggest to connect with your ISP.
Regards,
Valja
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From: David Topper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get paralell ZIP to work!!
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:30:53 -0400
Hi folks,
I've read the mini-HOWTO which is unfortunately out of date. Regardless
the steps for loading modules do not work.
I'm using a Slackware 7.0 system with a 2.2.16 kernel. I've tried all
sorts of combinations of scsi and scsi-ide and whatnot. Even trying to
modprobe ppa or imm (without any other scsi modules loaded) tells me
device or resource busy.
Can anyone help me out here?
Thanks,
DT
--
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Virginia Center for Computer Music
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
(804) 924-7355
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:03:16 GMT
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The focus on CPU comparison is a bit pointless since a CPU
> is only one component among many. Most applications are much more
> likely to be I/O bound than CPU bound, so memory, buses, hard
> drives, and volume administration are key. With the SPARC
This is very true; unfortunately, most peecee weenies don't understand
this - or are even aware of it.
--
Rich Teer
NT tries to do almost everything UNIX does, but fails - miserably.
The use of Windoze cripples the mind; its use should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence. (With apologies to Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-online.net
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From: "Lars-Gunnar Hartveit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internet explorer for linux?
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:11:15 +0200
Saw a linux magazine today (don't remember which) with a CD promising 12
web-browsers for Linux. One of them was Internet Explorer ver 5. I've never
heard of Iexplorer for Linux. Have I missed something?????
LarsG
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realaudio/vsound
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:25:07 +0000
Ben van Mol wrote:
>
> I am trying to convert a realaudio-stream to a wav-file with vsound.
> Therefor I entered the following command:
>
> vsound -f output.wav rvplayer http://url_to_ram-file
>
> Normally this should work, but I get this error
>
> /usr/local/bin/vsound: /tmp/vsound18446.ioctl: Unknown file or directory
> sox:Can't open input file '/tmp/vsound18446.raw':Unknown file or
> directory
>
> Does anybody have an idea what those ioctl files do, or how I can get
> rid of this error?
I'm the current maintainer of vsound so I'm probably the person
most qualified to answer this :-).
The way vsound works is the capture all open/ioctl and write calls
to /dev/dsp. The ioctl calls do things like setting the sample rate,
number of channels and number of bits per sample (ie 8 or 16). Vsound
captures these ioctl calls and saves them to a file /tmp/vsoundXXX.ioctl.
The data that is written to /dev/dsp gets captured in a file called
/tmp/vsoundXXX.raw.
When the real player finishes, the vsound program uses the sox
program to construct a WAV file from the raw data, using the
information in /tmp/vsoundXXX.ioctl to set sample rate etc in the
WAV file.
Now to your problem. It looks like the .raw and the .ioctl files
are not be created. Is it possible that your /tmp partition is full
and hence these files cannot be created?
I'd also be interested in knowing what version of vsound you are
running (vsound --version).
Finally, you should have a look at my vsound page:
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/
Cheers,
Erik
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else gets to complain" -- Linus Torvalds
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From: blowfish <"here,there"@everywhere.org>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:45:54 -0700
Martin Herrman wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:07:38 -0700, blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hey, I'm very lazy. I want something that is easy to
> > install, set up, maintain and stable.
>
> it should be that way, although it is nice to keep on playing with
> your system until it works fine ;-)
>
Up to a point. Yes.
I see no reason why you need to patch/upgrade to "kennel of
the week."
This isn't some 'soup de jour' in a restaurant thingy. No?
:P
Spending a few days, like a week or so, to fine tune the
system is quite normal and acceptable. But if you have to
mess with it every few days/weeks is crazy... I believe once
you fine tune the system to the point that you want, then,
it should be able to stay up properly until *you* decide
that it's time for an upgrade, either with hardware upgrade,
or a *MAJOR* release upgrade.
<asbestos suit on>
I see all the kernel 2.4.100-pre-100,000,000 releases every
other day is rather pointless. Why not just say 2.4-alpha?
</asbestos suit on>
> >
> > Once set up, I can just leave it along, until I want to
> > upgrade something.
> >
> > If I want to make my life more difficult, I'd use Windoz, or
> > Red Hat-Linux... :-|
>
> hihi ;-)
>
I think Red Hat is in more trouble than many realize. IBM
just filed for dumping tons of Red Hat stocks (the number is
large enough to require an FTC filing for approval.) And
Compaq just signed a deal with a Japanese Linux distro to
develop the Alpha version.
Insprite of all the hoolas Red Hat has been making... buying
this and that... It doesn't look too bright for Red Hat's
future without some major reorganising and planning, and
some *REAL* product development and full testing before
releasing anything; some people that I know in the financial
circle would not even look at anything Red Hat, or VA now,
even they did not get burn with their initial IPOs.
Red Hat's distro is like the bad old days of Detroit Irons.
Just hyped it up, then rush the half baked goods to the
market, and let the consumers do the real development!
Remember the craps like the Ford Pintos and AMC Pacers?
Why would anybody with a sane mind wants a Ford Escort GT
when you can have a Mercedes Benz 500-S, or a Porsche
Carerra-4 for the same price or less!? :P
> > Yes, you'll notice from boot up till you run out of
> > resources completely. Hotmail.com, www.cdrom.com, Intel
> > (heard that one of the Intel's server running FreeBSD stayed
> > up for 75,000 hours-then it crashed because of hardware
> > failure.) etc won't use FreeBSD without good reasons. ;-)
>
> Well, some other tell me other stories, so I think I should just
> give it a try and get my own opinion. Right?
>
That's the only way. Never just believe some "hear says."
;-)
> > Get the kernel source. I'm not sure about your card, but
> > I've found some supported items inside the kernel source
> > that isn't listed in the database yet. :)
>
> Well, I found a freebsd-xirom mailing list by searching at www.freebsd.org
> and they told me that my card is supported, so: no problems! ;-)
>
Good.
> >
> > And building the kernel with FreeBSD is *VERY* simple and
> > easy. Piece of cake.
> >
> > You can also try NetBSD, OpenBSD.:)
>
> well, i want speed, reliability and easyness (is that english? ;-).
> Furthermore, FreeBSD was designed for the i386 processor family, so
> why shouldn't I use it? I don't need the same OS on different platforms
> and I don't need the best security.
>
For a personal workstation, you don't really need the best
security. My web surfing box only have some very basic IDS
stuffs activated. All the important data are on CDs, and I
just wipe everything clean whenever I think the box might
have been hacked. No big deal. Just copy everything back
from the CDs.
In fact. You can install all the GnuPG, OpenSSL, etc. in
FreeBSD to harden it up if you want. It's not that
difficult to do.
> > The hardware detection with FreeBSD put most Linux distros
> > (other than SuSE 6.4) to shame...
>
> Well, mandrake detects a lot of hardware..
>
I believe so, too. actually, both SuSE (who has a slight
edge over Mandrake), and Mandrake are the most user
friendly, and Slackware has the best security for Linux.
Most other distros, other than those who are in the niche
market, like TurboLinux, are just another "also-ran."
blowfish.
> Martin
>
> --
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> Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
> 1:10pm up 15 days, 19:09, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
> Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: "Al Brunelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat 6.2 and abit be6-2
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:32:21 -0400
Hi all-
I just put together a system using an ABIT BE6-2 motherboard and a
Maxtor 30G hard drive which uses ATA/66.
The install cannot find the hard drive ( DOS can). Is there a special
driver I need or must I revert to NT 4.0 ?
TIA,
Al
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From: "Robert L. Cochran Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How To Set Group and Owner Permissions When Untarring?
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:51:59 -0400
I have a tarball gnucash-1.4.1.tar.gz
I want to untar it so that if I'm logged in as root, all the group and
owner permissions are given to root as well.
Last night I untarred this and ended up with all the files given the
permissions for owner 'Bob' even though I was logged in as root. This
really confused me -- I don't understand why tar didn't set file
permissions to those for root.
Also if tar assigns owner permissions for 'Bob' to all the files it
untarred, will this prevent me from compiling, installing, or executing
the program (this is a tarball for GnuCash.)
Does it really matter what permissions tar assigns when it untars source
code?
Enjoy the weekend! Thanks for your help.
Bob Cochran
Beltsville, MD
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From: Ferdinand Badescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cannot setup environment variables
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:55:27 -0700
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I try to set some environment variables by using
setenv MY_VARIABLE_HERE /usr/lib/my_variable_directory
and the shell gives me the error message:
"bash: setenv: command not found"
I would really appreciate any response that would help me to solve the
problem.
Thank you.
Ferdi.
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-Development technician-
-Lecturer-
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
U.C. Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
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<p>I would really appreciate any response that would help me to solve the
problem.
<p>Thank you.
<br>Ferdi.
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-Lecturer-
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From: U.V. Ravindra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Solaris:/etc/system :: Linux:???
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:05:52 GMT
Thanks! That helped.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:05:43 GMT, U.V. Ravindra
> <<8jg6lp$oa2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I want to modify the SHMMAX, SHMMIN and other associated
> >things on my Linux machine. On Solaris, I would do this
> >by placing strings like
> > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=<value>
> > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=<value>
> >in the /etc/system file.
> >
> >How can I do this on Linux?
>
> In /sbin/init.d/boot.local (/etc/rc.d/rc.local for RedHat and
> derived) you'd put something like:
> echo 750000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> ...but there doesn't seem to be an entry for shmmin.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at
the face
> \----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children
and still
> \There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell
"So did
> But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or
Usenetters?" --/me
>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use tar with mulitple files...
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:31:01 GMT
Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:58:30 -0230, wrote :
H> Hi there,
H>
H> Let's say that I have a whole directory full of tarballs that I want to
H> untar/gunzip with one recursive command... I tried doing something
H> like the 'tar xzf *.tar.gz', but tar isn't recursive in that effect...
H> I wish tar would except wildcards...!!! I was also gonna try and write
H> a script with a 'while' loop in it that would continue to feed filenames
H> to 'tar' until it got to the end of the directory... My problem there
H> is that I don't know how to sequenctially feed files to 'tar' in this
H> fashion... Could someone please help me in this time of grave
H> speculation...*smile*
H>
H> I basically would like to implement a shell script that follows the
H> following algorithm:
H>
H> read first file
H>
H> loop until lastfile {
H>
H> tar xzf file
H>
H> read next file }
H>
H>
H> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated...!!! Thanks...
Have a good long look at the find command. Of partitular interest is
the -exec option.
for example:
find . -name "*.tar.gz" -exec tar xzvf {} \;
or
find . -name "*.tar" -exec tar xvf {} \;
or
find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar xzvf {} \;
H> --
H> Trevor Penney,
H> A+, Network+ Certified
H> ----------------------
H> "That's alright, I still got my guitar"...
H> -James Marshall Hendrix (11/27/1942-09/18/1970)
H>
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From: "white blood cells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X-server unable to get started - but it's set to start on boot!
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:35:44 +1200
Hello
I have a problem in that I edited my XF86Config file after configuring the
X-server, but now when I boot into Linux the screen never comes up. I did
set it so that the X-server starts on boot, and now key combinations such as
Ctrl-Alt- F1-F6, Backspace don't work. The only thing I can do is
Ctrl-Alt-Del. Can anyone suggest another key combination, or how to prevent
the X-server from starting?
Specs:
Redhat 6.1
XFree 4.0
GeForce graphics card
KDE desktop
TIA
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From: Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot setup environment variables
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:30:39 GMT
> I try to set some environment variables by using
>
> setenv MY_VARIABLE_HERE /usr/lib/my_variable_directory
>
> and the shell gives me the error message:
> "bash: setenv: command not found"
You are using csh syntax in bash, a sh derivative. Try:
variable="whatever"
Read the man page for bash, check out in particular about exporting
variables, etc.
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From: Buck Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,redhat.general,netscape.public.general
Subject: Re: and the web was silent . . . . .
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 08:40:16 -0700
Maybe you need the netscape plug-in to hear sound from websites.
Jesse Drogin wrote:
> I do not get any web sounds and I need the audio to complete my total
> web experience that I so desparately long for.
>
> I am running RedHat Linux 6.2 with Netscape Navigator 4.7
> The sound card is installed, and I do indeed hear sounds from desktop
> events. I have to admit the sound quality is very poor and the volume
> is extreemly low, but I do hear some sounds. Unfortunately, I do not
> hear any sounds on the web. Mostly I have been listening for sounds
> from java applets (like yahoo Chess) with no fullfillment.
> I am very new to Linux (I just installed the OS 2 days ago) so any idea
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Jesse Drogin
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel PhotoPaint
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:47:45 GMT
Has anyone succeeded in downloading Corel PhotoPaint? My download bombed
toward the end - now when I try to download again, I get a message
"Incorrect Password" ???
John Sandell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Does Anyone Use GnuCash?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:53:10 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
>"Robert L. Cochran Jr." wrote:
>> I'm a new Linux user and would like to know how to install GnuCash. I'd
>> like advice from someone who uses this software. I am running Red Hat
>> 6.2 with kernel version 2.2.16-3, all bug fix and security updates
>> applied. I downloaded gnucash-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm from the ftp site at
>> ftp://ftp.gnucash.org picking the rpm from the Red Hat 6.x directory.
>> How do I install it?
>>
>> Also there is what looks like a brand new GnuCash forum at
>> http://www.gnucash.org and the Linux user's group at
>> http://www.lugod.org had a presentation on using it on June 19, but it
>> does not look like they posted the notes for that topic yet.
>
>Better get the tar ball, or the .src.rpm instead of the Bug
>Hat's .rpm.
"Bug Hat" didn't create the RPM, so blaming anything about it on them,
or attributing any RHAT-related qualities to it, would be fairly
foolish.
Some of the developers are actively maintaining RPMs for various
RPM-based distributions; I would suggest trying them out, and
reporting problems to the developers.
That is, after all, how problems tend to get fixed, and contrary to
whatever impressions might come out of the term "Bug Hat," the
developers for _GnuCash_, who do not include _anyone_ from that
company, _are_ fairly responsive.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Compact Flash Mem for mp3 player (RCA Lyra)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:53:21 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Dave Brown would say:
>Can anyone give me a pointer toward info about Linux support for
>writing to Compact Flash memory modules, particularly as used in
>RCA Lyra player. The player comes with Windows software and a
>cable set that connects to the parallel port for transferring
>data to the memory modules.
>
>Since I thought I'd finally gotten rid of Windows, it bugs me to have
>to resurrect the beast to load up an mp3 player.
There's a PCMCIA card that I've used to "mount" a CF module on my
laptop; this allows treating the CF as if it were an extra disk drive.
_Presumably_ the Lyra writes data onto the CF module as if it were
some form of filesystem; I'd kind of expect it to use DOS FAT as the
filesystem format, as implementations of that are pretty ubiquitous
(if iniquitous!) as well as being fairly well-understood.
The SANDisk "ImageMate CompactFlash USB / Compact Flash Reader
SDDR-31" is, according to the <http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/>
USB-for-Linux site, now supported, treating the CF as a SCSI device.
There's certainly some fiddling there, but there are a couple of ways
of getting at the CF modules. No guarantees on what the data format
will be...
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