Linux-Misc Digest #221, Volume #25 Sun, 23 Jul 00 20:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I get numbers from /dev/random? (Bill Unruh)
Printer driver (Trevor Brown)
Re: Favorites and Outlook address book migration from Windows to Linux (Andy Kinsey)
Re: removing LILO BOOT?? (Fester)
debian and new software ergh! (Paul Eisenberg)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: can't mount external cd-writer (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: Can't find installed (Alex Chudnovsky)
minicom (Trevor Brown)
Re: CFLAGS: optimize for i586 (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Karl B)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: esd is a bitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
backpack CD-rewriter (elaine chan)
Re: backpack CD-rewriter (Dances With Crows)
Re: debian and new software ergh! (William Burrow)
Re: Favorites and Outlook address book migration from Windows to Linux (Mike)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How do I get numbers from /dev/random?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 22:18:22 GMT
In <8lcsot$ifu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geoffrey Steeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>I'm trying to pull random numbers into a C program from /dev/random. I've
>never accessed a device file before and wondered if anyone out ther could
>let me know how to do this. Also, what will the return type be, long int?
>Thanks for all the help!
Just open the file and keep reading characters from it. (although I
thought it was urandom which was the real random number generator (ie
generated by physically random things) The characters will be random.
You can string them together into whatever form you wish-- integers,
floats,...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Brown)
Subject: Printer driver
Date: 23 Jul 2000 22:27:05 GMT
Hi:
I have a Canon BJC-4300 printer. When I go to configure a printer, the
closest match I have is BJC-4000... and it tells me that support for more
than that is only experimental. Is there a driver for the Canon BJC-4300,
and if so how do I get it, and how do I set up? I've never done anything
quite like it before.
Thanks,
Trevor
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Favorites and Outlook address book migration from Windows to Linux
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:44:08 -0400
"Prasanth A. Kumar" wrote:
> Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know of a way to migrate the following from Windows to
> > Linux?
> >
> > Internet Explorer's Favorites folder
> > Microsoft Outlook 98's address book
> >
> > I could type all of this stuff in, but it sure would be a lot easier if
> > I could convert it. Maybe mtools...?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In IE, under file/exports, it can convert your favorites folder into a
> bookmarks.html file suitable for Netscape. Also, the KDE browser can
> understand IE favorites but cannot convert them though.
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the reply. Any idea if there is anything to convert the Outlook
address book?
Thanks.
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: removing LILO BOOT??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:43:32 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:05:49 +0000, Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Even if you have removed windoze, you still need lilo to boot linux.
Well, you *could* set the lilo delay to 0, and you wouldn't get the lilo
prompt, it would just load Linux automatically.
But this isn't reccomended, because if something goes wrong, you won't
have a chance to enter a different runlevel/kernel image to boot into in
order to fix the problem.
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-- Fester
White Text on Black since 1999.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eisenberg)
Subject: debian and new software ergh!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:45:41 GMT
Hello, I am in the process of trying to install software for Corel
Linux butI run into problems it seems every time I try. My main goal
at this momentis trying to install GAIM which is a Instant Messenger
for AOL made for Linux (http://www.marko.net/gaim/). I think the main
problem at this pointis it relies on GTK which I need to install the
GTK AIM won't install well, it is the GTK (Gimp ToolKit)
http://www.gtk.org So after I get the GTK in a .rpm format I try
to convert it to .deb , which seems to go succesful, but when I try to
install the .deb file I get a failed installation. So I tried
installing the .tar version, and here it tells me errors that revolve
around the glib script and so I tried downloading a newer version of
the glib which also failed to install(this was converting .rpm to
deb). So basically I just need some detailed technical help on
what to download, how to install it, etc, etc, etc. I'd really love
to get the GTK AIM working since I use it often with Windows. Thanks
for all the help. Please give detailed technical respones if
possible. Take Care. Paul
P.S Anyone who has had success with GAIM or GTK, I'd love to hear the
stories too.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,rec.autos.simulators
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:54:54 -0500
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Kirk Lane quoth:
][ Gordon McLachlan wrote:
][ >
][ > Linux is not an acceptable desktop operating system. It is useful as a web
][ > server OS, but other than that it is an oddity, much like those who hype it
][ > excessively.
][
][ So to you an acceptable OS is one that tries to do too much for you (Let
][ ME choose the drivers once in a while!!!!!!), that necessitates
][ rebooting every few hours of use, piles up loads and loads of useless
][ and system-slowing crap files, and never really has been close to
][ stable??? You don't expect to have to restart your car after a few
][ hours of driving, or for the car to decide it wants to take a longer
][ slower way when you know a faster one, or the car to slow down
][ dramatically after a few months of use...why do people accept that in
][ their computers???
Amen brother. Don't know how many times I've used that analogy myslef.
I think if cars were powered by MS Windows, and they had to give thier
auto the ole three finger salute, you'd hear a lotta bitchin real quick.
anm
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't mount external cd-writer
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:47:46 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mox wrote:
> Help!
> Does anybody know if there is a problem with the Panasonic KXL-RW10A? I
> managed to get the pcmcia-scsi adapter
> work. At boot-up I get the messages (not exactly like I write it here):
> cardmanager:
> socket1: Workbit Ninja SCSI3
> executing: insmod ....nin_cs.o
> executing scsi start scd0
> [..]
> With these messages the cd-writer makes some noise, lights flash, all this
> stuff...
>
> The modules seem to be there in the running system
> # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> ppp_deflate 40300 1 (autoclean)
> bsd_comp 4020 0 (autoclean)
> ppp 20908 2 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
> slhc 4440 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
> adlib_card 900 0 (autoclean)
> opl3 11304 0 (autoclean) [adlib_card]
> sb 34580 0 (autoclean)
> uart401 6320 0 (autoclean) [sb]
> sound 57432 0 (autoclean) [adlib_card opl3 sb uart401]
> soundlow 344 0 (autoclean) [sound]
> soundcore 2564 6 (autoclean) [sb sound]
> nin_cs 13144 0
> ds 6568 2 [nin_cs]
> i82365 22128 2
> pcmcia_core 45184 0 [nin_cs ds i82365]
> serial 42612 2 (autoclean)
> memstat 1476 0 (unused)
> nls_iso8859-1 2268 1 (autoclean)
>
> The filesystems should be no problem:
>
> # cat /proc/filesystems
> ext2
> minix
> reiserfs
> umsdos
> msdos
> vfat
> nodev proc
> nodev nfs
> iso9660
> nodev devpts
>
> If I let communicate the kernel with the drive, it looks like this:
>
> # dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
Is the command line real ? This indicates some problem - the kernel sees
only one "sector" of the disk, and therefore the disk can't be mounted
>
> cdrecord finds the drive:
>
> # cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> scsibus1:
> 1,0,0 100) *
> 1,1,0 101) *
> 1,2,0 102) *
> 1,3,0 103) *
> 1,4,0 104) 'MATSHITA' 'CDRRW01 ' '1.34' Removable CD-ROM
> 1,5,0 105) *
> 1,6,0 106) *
> 1,7,0 107) *
>
> But if I try to mount the drive under the mountpoint which I have created,
> then it doesn't work:
>
> # mount /dev/scd0 -t iso9660 -r /cdwriter
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
> or too many mounted file systems
> # mount /dev/scd0 -t auto -r /cdwriter
> /dev/scd0: Success
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> The disk in the drive is OK (iso9660). Everything works just fine under
> Windoze9x.
>
> What could be the problem here? Anybody with ideas?
>
> system infos:
> kernel 2.2.14 , Suse6.4 , Notebook Siemens PCD-5ND 75Mhz, 64MB
>
>
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Regards,
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't find installed
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:39:25 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A. B. wrote:
> I have linux mandrake 7.0, just installed realplayer for linux on my
> computer. thier is no icon on the desktop for it. And nothing on the KDE
> for it. can you tell how to find the new installed program. and how to
put
> a icon for it on the desktop or a intree on the KDE. I have tried to uses
> the KAppletfinder but nothing happed.
Nothing should actually happen - KAppFinder finds only the applications
it knows about. Which version of RealPlayer did you install ? RealPlayer 7
beta is supposed to auto-configure itself and to add itself to the KDE
menu, if you install it via RPM. At least, this is what it did on this
very computer.
>
>
> Thank you,for your help.
>
> A. H. Bey
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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> http://www.help.com/
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ICQ : 35559910
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Brown)
Subject: minicom
Date: 23 Jul 2000 23:00:31 GMT
Hi:
Just to let you in on what I've learned (the hard way) about setting up
minicom in Red Hat 6.2. The modem device is a symbolic link to a tty
device (in my case, ttyS2). You change the group attributes of tty to
+rw, and then you add your users to the group tty.
Do not change the other attribute of ttyS2 to +rw... because if you do,
then it gives permission to "the world" when you are connected to the
Internet to access through your modem to your computer. Things got really
strange over here until I had to reinstall RH just to fix this.
Trevor
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From: A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CFLAGS: optimize for i586
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:12:30 GMT
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David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Herrman wrote:
>>
>> Dear reader,
>>
>> I'm building a wine rpm and in the spec file I can easily add some CFLAGS. Now
>> it says:"-03 -WALL". But I also want the rpm to be optimized for i586 CPU's.
>> Which option should I add?
> This is for an i586 it will most likely not run on a i386.
> CFLAGS= -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O3 -march=pentium -mcpu=pentium
> -ffast-math -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-mem -fforce-addr
> -malign-double -fno-exceptions
This will work, but also take into account, that this is also
COMPILER dependent. the latest gcc (2.95.*) will handle this, as well as
pgcc. egcs, and gcc-2.7.2.* will not understand the -march and -mcpu
flags, IIRC. So before using this, check to see which compiler you have
installed.
BL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl B)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:16:57 +0200
Steve Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Lets start the nominations for computer of the year: the G4 Cube....
> >
>
> It is a pretty case. Now if we could just get the case with an AMD cpu
> running LINUX it would be worth buying. Or better yet, a smaller version
> with EPOC or embedded DOS. :-)
You could install linux on it, no prob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,rec.autos.simulators
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:59:06 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc FDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If they do not, they should not run Linux as well. I have always
> been surprised to see my disk drives lights go wild for many
> minutes, while the console was terribly slowed down, when
> I was not doing anything special.
That was because the computer was doing something special...
It's called a cron job... If you don't want it to do these housekeeping
things when you're using the machine, set the cron jobs for the middle of
the night.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: esd is a bitch
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:11:34 +0100
shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> greetings...
> my question is this:
> why oh why does esd keep starting up and killing whatever music i have
> playing. run alone it makes some shitty little space noises which i
> presume are supposed to serve as a test of some sorts, but whenever i
> start xmms and play an mp3, at some random spot it will freeze, thus
> crashing xmms as well, and sure enough a "ps ax" shows an esd where
> before there was none.
Have a look through your xmms preferences... There's one in there (probably
output) that allows it to pipe its output through esd.
The main point of esd is to allow the use of the different sound card
channels simultaniously, and thus play multiple sound files simultaniously.
If you don't want that, there's probably and esd script in /etc/initd or
/sbin/initd (or wherever it is they put it in red hat. Another file to look
at is rc.config...)
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Subject: backpack CD-rewriter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elaine chan)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:38:29 GMT
Does anyone know if the backpack cd-rewriter by microsolutions
(uses the parallel port) is supported under linux? Do you have
any recommendations for/against any brands of parallel port
CD rewriter for linux? Thank you. er-chan at scn.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: backpack CD-rewriter
Date: 23 Jul 2000 23:46:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:38:29 GMT, elaine chan wrote:
>Does anyone know if the backpack cd-rewriter by microsolutions
>(uses the parallel port) is supported under linux? Do you have
>any recommendations for/against any brands of parallel port
>CD rewriter for linux? Thank you. er-chan at scn.org
When you compile a kernel, there are options for various parallel-port
devices. One of those options is for the "Backpack" protocol, so I
think you'll be OK with a drive that uses that protocol. The stock
kernels that most distros ship come with all the relevant modules
compiled in; you'd just have to plug the drive in and do:
modprobe lp
modprobe bpck
modprobe paride
modprobe pcd
modprobe pg
Then you could read CDs in that drive through /dev/pcd0 and write (using
cdrecord or one of the frontends like Xcdroast) to /dev/pg0 . You can
also fiddle with /etc/conf.modules to make it do all the modprobes
automagically when you try to access /dev/pcd0 or /dev/pg0--I did that
by adding the lines
post-install paride insmod bpck
pre-remove paride rmmod bpck
to that file.
Don't know for sure about good parallel-port CD-RWs using that
protocol... I suppose you could check http://linhardware.com/ for info?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: debian and new software ergh!
Date: 23 Jul 2000 23:55:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:45:41 GMT,
Paul Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>what to download, how to install it, etc, etc, etc. I'd really love
>to get the GTK AIM working since I use it often with Windows. Thanks
>for all the help. Please give detailed technical respones if
>possible. Take Care. Paul
>
>P.S Anyone who has had success with GAIM or GTK, I'd love to hear the
>stories too.
Many things depend on GTK nowadays. You will find the GTK libs in the
distro for Debian. Point apt to Debian servers (edit /etc/apt/sources.list)
and snarf the all you need from there.
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Copyright 2000 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: Favorites and Outlook address book migration from Windows to Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Jul 2000 17:52:47 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Kinsey):
> "Prasanth A. Kumar" wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply. Any idea if there is anything to convert the Outlook
> address book?
Not really a conversion, but it offers a couple suggestions.. [look at the
bottom of page ]
http://www.interguru.com/msieall.htm
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