Linux-Misc Digest #334, Volume #25 Thu, 3 Aug 00 21:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: rsh and password (Pete Zaitcev)
Re: terminals (Pjtg0707)
Re: guest ftp user can't see files? (Ulrich Roth)
Problem with 'mount' in kernel 2.4.0-test5 (softrat`)
Re: Netscape popups ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: PHP3 mailbomber , who is helping me out?!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Zebee Johnstone)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
when will we see RH6.3? 7.0? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: How to install new hardware in Linux? (sideband)
dummy terminal ("J Smith")
Re: Unexpected daily disk activity... (sideband)
Re: terminals (Peter Mitchell)
Re: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: rsh and password ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: rsh and password ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Anyone reccommend some good books for newbie ("Scott Thompson")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: rsh and password (Brian V. Smith)
Re: dummy terminal (Peter Mitchell)
Re: Should we get Mandrake or SuSe? (Albert Wagner)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Johan Kullstam)
Re: gzip / zip / compress : 2 gig limit? (Dances With Crows)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Christopher Browne)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Zaitcev)
Subject: Re: rsh and password
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:58:35 GMT
> Icky... Remove the suid bit from ssh. You don't need it.
suid bit is needed to perform authenticated logins because
in that case ssh uses your host keys instead of user keys.
If you do not need that, you may remove suid bit.
However I do not see how that can help the original poster
with the authentication failure.
> My guess is that your build of ssh is using tcp wrappers (or libwrap,
> the library version of the same) and hanging up on you when you connect.
That was my guess too, but typically ssh prints something like
"error code: success" when it conflicts with TCP wrappers
(because read() returns zero). So... who knows what that guy
is hitting.
--Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707)
Subject: Re: terminals
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:00:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:28:19 -0700, Peter Mitchell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to set up a Linux box (running redhat 5.2) to be
>controlled through a DOS box (currently using Telix)
>attached as a serial terminal on ttyS1 (COM2).
>
>It is working partly - the two machines communicate at
>38400. The terminal screen looks nice (colours etc) and I
>can get the LILO prompt onto the terminal. My problems are
>as follows.
>
>1. I would like to see the Linux bootup messages on the
>terminal, but I can't. I only get the LILO messages and the
>login prompt.
I think Linux console defaults to a local tty if you have a video card.
I recalled reading in the Linux dist documentation that you might have to
rebuild the kernel to allow a serial device device as the console.
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From: Ulrich Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: guest ftp user can't see files?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 01:07:15 +0200
Hello Devon,
> I created a guest ftp user, but upon login, no files or dirs are shown. I
> created the bin,etc,lib dir with associated files in the /home/guest dir.
> When I use a normal user, I can see all files.
Such a bug was in SuSE 6.1. You had also to have a dev directory and
in this a device. But I don't remember which one it was, maybe tty. I
found the solution for this problem in the SuSE support database (sdb),
which you can find somewhere under www.suse.de.
Bye
Uli
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From: softrat` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with 'mount' in kernel 2.4.0-test5
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:13:03 -0700
When kernel 2.4.0-test5 initializes, I get the message:
"starting amd: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel"
but everything seems to work okay.
I downloaded the source for mount-2.20f-1 and installed the package (so
I thought). Now I can't find the source code. An rpm query doesn't
report the source package loaded either. But the package load went on
without complaint.
Please help.
--
the softrat
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Uncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the
calculation.
- Blaise Pascal
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape popups
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:14:13 -0400
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:39:34 -0700, JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This is not strictly Linux, but maybe somebody here knows
> the answer.
>
> How does one get rid of popup windows in Netscape? It
> annoys me big time when visiting (or leaving) a site I get an obnoxious,
> unsolicited popup window.
>
> Is there a way to configure the navigator (or something else)
> so that popup windows don't appear at all?
>
disable JavaScript.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Win98 is called Win98 because 98% of the code is untested
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PHP3 mailbomber , who is helping me out?!!!
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:11:05 GMT
Help?! � Can anyone send me an PHP script linked to a HTML code/page. I
recently had it on my own website but accidently deleted it and I can't find
it anywhere else. So I need a PHP "mailbomb" script that is being started by
a HTML page(where you can fill in subject,from,NUMBER of emails to send etc.)
It then sends the number of emails you defined in the form to the victim. �
And if possible a PHP "mailbomber" script which I can run on a shell account.
� Please share and send your "knowledge" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] � Who's helping
me out?! � thanxx!! in advance, � Neo077
p.s. or a link where I can get this all...
�
This is the HTML code I had for the script:
�
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center>
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from----<INPUT TYPE="text"size=20 NAME="from"VALUE="from"><br>
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subject--<INPUTTYPE="text"size=20 NAME="subject"VALUE="subject"><br>
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number---<INPUT TYPE="text" size=10 NAME="number" VALUE="number"><br>
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<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="start de mailbomb">
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 3 Aug 2000 22:37:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on 03 Aug 2000 18:08:02 -0400
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Note that RMS specifically rejects as "free" any license that
>restricts the right to sell the work (therefore, the Aladdin license
>is not regarded as "free"). One can argue about how relevant the
>right to sell is in the absence of a right to keep secret, although
>it's certainly not irrelevant (Red Hat, Cygnus before they were bought
>by Red Hat, SuSE, and others all make money selling GPL software).
Isn't it more accurate to say they make money packaging GPL software
in a usable form and writing manuals to go with it?
Although they are also giving the manuals and the package away, they
seem to be making the money solely on the tangible hardcopies, CDROM
and dead tree.
And how much money are they really making from that?
Zebee
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:50:27 GMT
I wrote:
> This of course is not capitalism but plutocracy.
Phillip Lord writes:
> And the difference being...?
Capitalism describes the way that economies tend to operate in the absence
of government intervention. Plutocracy is the type of government Marxists
are referring to when they say capitalism.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0?
Date: 3 Aug 2000 23:27:03 GMT
When is the next release of RedHat due, anyone know?
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install new hardware in Linux?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:42:27 -0400
"David M. Cook" wrote:
> Tape devices are not mounted.
>
> Dave Cook
You haven't read the geek code, have you? ::grin:: I've mounted tapes as
filesystems several times... Of course, it was quite a few years ago....
-SSB
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From: "J Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dummy terminal
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:50:58 -0700
I have seen a lot of dummy terminals for sale on ebay and other auction
places for about $30 to $50 each sans monitor
How can you use these to access the internet from DSL or cable modem
connection?
Can it be used independently if there is a browser built-in, and if the
browser is not built in, how would a Linux box be set up to allow the use of
these dummy terminals?
Just wondering
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unexpected daily disk activity...
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:58:50 -0400
I know the feeling...
I had to put my DECstation 5000/200 in the bedroom on the dresser because I ran out
of room in the other "bedroom" (read NOC/Geek Paradise/computer room/entertainment
center) 9 machines... and only me to play with them.. Muuuahahahhahaaa!
Sorry, got a little carried away there...
-SSB
MH wrote:
> Martin Brown wrote:
> >
> > It's nice to know that I am not the only one who is up regularly at
> > 0400. :)
> > --
> > - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
> > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
> >
> > NEW!! PGP Public Key ID: 0xCED9BD8A Key Server: http://www.keyserver.net/en/
>
> Just to keep the record straight, I'm not really "up" at that hour
> EVER. I just don't sleep very soundly and my server is in my bedroom.
> It's not loud, it doesn't wake me up--I'm already awake when I notice
> the disk activity.
>
> I just ordered a small LAN station that will accommodate my server,
> workstation, and firewall boxes all in one compact unit. Once I get it,
> the server will be moved out of my bedroom. Unfortunately, to
> accommodate the LAN station, I'll need to move my file cabinet into my
> bedroom (I live in an apartment)! Still, it will be nice to have all my
> computer gear in a single location--and no more cabling running amok!
> :-)
>
> --
> "For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not
> true.
> In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the
> true;
> it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false."
>
> -- H. L. Mencken
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From: Peter Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: terminals
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:39:58 -0700
I suspected I might need to rebuild the kernal. But in the
config scripts (menuconfig etc) I have seen no options for
doing a terminal. What do you change, and how?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:03:08 GMT
On 3 Aug 2000 23:27:03 GMT, Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When is the next release of RedHat due, anyone know?
It's in beta now (6.9). 3 to 4 weeks maybe? 6 weeks?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rsh and password
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:02:38 -0500
On 3 Aug 2000, David Steuber quoth:
$$ The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
$$ that has been posted to comp.os.linux.misc as well.
$$
$$ "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
$$
$$ ' To expound on that, use ssh, preferably, openssh. The syntax is the
$$ ' same as it is for rsh, but everything is encrypted. That last statement
$$ ' is probably over-simplified, but it should suffice. :-)
$$
$$ I've been trying to get openssh to work on my systems. I have it
$$ compiled without errors, but I can't authenticate:
$$
$$ david@solo:> ssh apostrophe -v
$$ SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
$$ Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
$$ debug: Reading configuration data /usr/local/etc/ssh_config
$$ debug: Applying options for *
$$ debug: Seeding random number generator
$$ debug: ssh_connect: getuid 500 geteuid 0 anon 0
$$ debug: Connecting to apostrophe.david-steuber.com [::ffff:10.7.7.11] port 22.
$$ rresvport: af=10 Invalid argument
$$ debug: Connecting to apostrophe.david-steuber.com [10.7.7.11] port 22.
$$ debug: Seeding random number generator
$$ debug: Allocated local port 870.
$$ debug: Connection established.
$$ ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
$$ debug: Calling cleanup 0x805cbb0(0x0)
$$ david@solo:>
$$
$$ I've posted, begging for help, but I have received none :-(. I would
$$ love to be doing systme configruation of apostrophe with ssh as I plan
$$ to move that machine to my ISP and will want to use ssh to administer
$$ it remotely. This includes file transferes.
$$
$$ I probably need to post more information, but I don't know what. I
$$ could sure use some help with this.
Try using the RPM's, and see if your problem persists. I am using
them on Mandrake 7.1 with no problems. I have not compiled openssh
as of yet, so I can't tell you of what tweaks are available. I will
play with it though and see what I can find out.
anm
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rsh and password
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:05:18 -0500
On 3 Aug 2000, Brian V. Smith quoth:
$$ In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Nobels)
writes:
$$
$$ |> does rsh send a password over the network?
$$
$$ No, you must have the hostname and user name of the source machine
$$ in the .rhosts file on the destination machine for rsh and rcp to work.
$$ Thus, no password is necessary or passed.
That is not true, AFIAK!
anm
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From: "Scott Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone reccommend some good books for newbie
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 20:12:15 -0500
In article <8m50ek$v3i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vernon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guys, I have mandrake 7.1, it is a bit of a pig to setup, so I figure
> maybe a bit of reading wouldn't go amiss, anyone point me in the
> direction of some good books, and or websites?
The websites recommended so are are my choices. For newbie books I'd
suggest.....
Linux in a Nutshell (a fave among newbies and oldbies).
AND one that just came out. It's called "Practical Linux" (from Que).
I read the latter all the time. I've found it great because it tells you
more than you need to know without the overkill of some books, yet
most of the stuff is indeed for "practical" application.
And if you're a *real* newbie the "dummies" or "idiot's" books are pretty
good.
Also like others have mentioned a book to get that's not newbie oriented but
you'll want later on is the proverbial "Running Linux", by Matt Welsh.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ScottGA2k
"Good health, is merely the slowest rate
at which one can die." -Wanda
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:24:43 GMT
blowfish writes:
> Is the GNU-GPL just created by some geek, but not by lawyers?
The GPL was created by Richard Stallman with considerable assistance from
some very competent copyright attorneys.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 17:21:38 -0700
Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
> > I take particular offense at this, as I consider myself a Southerner. Once
> > again, you ignore basic facts and human rights, just as with your leftist
> > gun-grabbing position: selling your children into slavery harms them, but
> > the original software is now, and will forever be, free, NO MATTER WHAT
> > ANYONE ELSE DOES WITH IT. You seek to deny me the right to control my own
> > work merely because it is an improvement on your work. This is not freedom.
> > It is communism.
>
> It's every bit as communistic as the fact that you are not allowed to
> control a work that you write that is a derivative of e. g. a Star
> Trek episode.
>
> Now, as it happens I do believe that copyright is anti-free-market in
> the sense that the government intervenes to protect a private monopoly
> from competition (that's not usually called "communism"; it's more
> like mercantilism). I would personally be quite happy to give up the
> GPL in exchange for the complete abolition of copyright.
>
No. You're incorrect.
Copyright does not interfers with free market. In fact, copy rights
support free market. Because the copyrights owner can sell his/her work
any which ways s/he wants.
But copyright is anti *free loaders*
Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
-snipped-
k/
>
> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
>
> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
> --Eric Crampton
--
- Alex / blowfish.
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will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian V. Smith)
Subject: Re: rsh and password
Date: 4 Aug 2000 00:18:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew N.
McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> On 3 Aug 2000, Brian V. Smith quoth:
|>
|> $$ In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Nobels)
|writes:
|> $$
|> $$ |> does rsh send a password over the network?
|> $$
|> $$ No, you must have the hostname and user name of the source machine
|> $$ in the .rhosts file on the destination machine for rsh and rcp to work.
|> $$ Thus, no password is necessary or passed.
|>
|> That is not true, AFIAK!
Of course it is true. What evidence do you have that says otherwise?
Unless RedHat or some other Linux vendor screwed up rsh and rcp, it has always
been true that no password is passed because you must set up the .rhosts file
for trusted hosts.
The only case where rsh will ask for a password is if you don't give it a command
to do on the remote machine. In that case it will do an "rlogin" which may ask
for a password. But this is not rsh, per se.
--
===============================================================
Brian V. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www-epb.lbl.gov/BVSmith
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Check out the xfig site at http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
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glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big
as it needs to be.
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From: Peter Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dummy terminal
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 17:02:46 -0700
A dumb terminal is effectively a keyboard and screen
connected through a serial port to a computer. If you have a
Linux box running and connected to the Internet you can
connect the box to the internet and access data on the
terminal, although you won't be able to use Netscape or
another graphic-based thing on a dumb text terminal. An
X-terminal is also possible, but this is probably not what
you see for $30.
Presumably 'dummy terminal' is a typo. Otherwise it might
mean
1. the computer pretending it has a terminal that does
nothing
2. a cardboard mockup (dear at $30)
3. a terminal small enough to suck and spit out
regards - Peter
3.
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From: Albert Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should we get Mandrake or SuSe?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:24:58 -0600
Mike Styne wrote:
>
> Mitchell Timin wrote:
> >
> <snipped, blah>
> >
<snipped>
> Personally, I prefer Slackware
> because I got sick of all the hand-holding those distributions provide.
> I felt like a sissy. Also, the suggestion to pay for Linux sickens me.
> No one with even a fairly mediocre internet connection should EVER have
> to pay for Linux.
I think that I'll have to try Slackware too. Even though I AM a sissy,
and would gladly take the easiest path. I too have Mandrake and Redhat
and am tired of the bloat in their "generic" installs: a full gig of
crap I never use. Even when I select to NOT install a package, they
both insist on installing it anyway.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> --
> "You know, how is The Force like duct tape? Answer: it has a light side,
> a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
>
> -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:24:14 GMT
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wrote:
> > This of course is not capitalism but plutocracy.
>
> Phillip Lord writes:
> > And the difference being...?
>
> Capitalism describes the way that economies tend to operate in the absence
> of government intervention. Plutocracy is the type of government Marxists
> are referring to when they say capitalism.
notice that copyrights *require* strong government intervention.
copyright and patents are artificial creations of the government.
is it capitalism, plutocracy or mercantilism?
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: gzip / zip / compress : 2 gig limit?
Date: 4 Aug 2000 00:40:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:38:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>No, I was TARring directly to a file on the ext2 filesystem. I guess
>ext2 DOES have a 2 gig limit eh? So I'm just out of luck!
Well, not quite. The 2G limit is an artifact of the Intel architecture,
and does not exist on a 64-bit Sparc or Alpha. ext2 itself is 64-bit by
design, it's just the VFS for Intel that's 32-bit.
Even this has been fixed recently. RedHat 6.2 shipped with a patched
kernel and a patched glibc that together could handle files > 2G. The
problem is that not every application takes advantage of this relatively
new feature. Do a Deja search on this NG for "2G file size limit" and
see what you come up with; someone posted a guide to upgrading
everything a while ago....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:40:06 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John Hasler would say:
>Bernd Paysan writes:
>> In fact, anarchy often means the contrary of freedom.
>
>No, but it is frequently misunderstood (sometimes deliberately) as meaning
>that.
One of the more "anarchistic" places, loosely speaking, these days,
appears to be Somalia. There is no central government there. Instead,
some combination of warlords, tribes, and other "communities" have sprung
up to fight over what power they can get at.
Unfortunately, the "powers" that spring up as replacements for a "real
government" tend to have even _more_ despotic power over individuals
than the "big government" could ever have.
>> You may do what you want, but in fact, you are at war with your
>> neighbours (or some boons who want to make the best out of this "freedom"
>> by enslaving poor suckers that can't defend themselves).
>
>Anarchy seems to be impossible: some bastard will always jump up and crown
>himself king. The results when several try to do so at once and fight it
>out is not anarchy: it's polyarchy.
Somalia apparently being a case in point.
>> And being at war isn't exactly "freedom".
>
>And it isn't even approximately anarchy.
Indeed.
>> Drugs do impact others.
>
>Then so does everything anyone does. Arguments for drug control are
>arguments for complete government control of every detail of our lives.
One of the main results of Prohibition may be seen in the fact that
Edgar Bronfman has so much power in the RIAA _today_. Bronfman is the
latest inheritor of "influence" from the Seagram's liquor "empire" that
grew up in Canada as a direct result of Prohibition. His ancestors grew
exceedingly wealthy, from whence he inherits one of the Great Fortunes
of the world, and has the money to have influence over a whole lot of
copyrighted materials.
I expect that:
a) Many of the Asian trading houses that are powerful, if not universally
prominent, have a similar inheritance of power from the former
Asian opium trade, and that
b) In 2100, some of the former "drug lords" will have _substantial_
personal empires that have _grown_ since now, where the wealth
basically arose due to the inflation-due-to-illegality of drug prices.
The whole "war on drugs" is a whole lot profitable to anyone involved in
the drug industry, whether as a seller, due to the resultant increases in
pricing that results from the need to smuggle, or as an "anti drug czar,"
due to the funding extracted largely from US taxpayers to "fight the war."
>> The FSF wants to get to a more free society, where there is no
>> proprietary software anymore.
>
>An admirable goal, and one which I support.
I am less ambitious; I think it is useful enough to look to replace
_some_ proprietary software with non-proprietary software when that
improves utility to both individuals and society. There are enough
cases of that, I think, for there to be substantial increases in the
quantity of free software.
>> This is like saying (in the south states, 150 years ago): "If you give
>> your niggers...
>
>Nothing about software licensing or copyright is in any way analogous to
>slavery. This just flame bait.
Like comparisons to Marxism or Nazi Germany, while there _may_ be some
useful analogies to be drawn, they are so incredibly overpowered by the
legitimately powerful emotional reactions people have as to make the
useful analogy nigh unto disappear.
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