Linux-Misc Digest #395, Volume #25 Wed, 9 Aug 00 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Card ("Martin Duspiva")
Re: Allowing all users to access and write to a partition ("Stuart D. Gathman")
Re: Linux on AMD ("ne...")
New Version Of Lilo Is Said Not To Have 1024 Cyl Limit. Need Info (mike)
Re: Linux on AMD (David C.)
Linux Installation on Compaq Laptop ("Jaffar Shaikh")
Re: Linux on AMD ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Deleted Linux (Fdisk)! Can't access partition!! (Raviprasad)
Re: Open Games API? (Jaap van Hengstum)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Off topic question about colors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Copyright Complexities ("Ninewands")
Re: SAMBA password problem (D G)
Re: SAMBA password problem (D G)
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From: "Martin Duspiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Card
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:12:51 +0200
The alsa project (www.alsa-project.org) should help you.
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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Allowing all users to access and write to a partition
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:44:39 -0400
Chew GH wrote:
>
> I am running RH6.1 and win98 on my computer. I have set aside a FAT32
> partition (/dev/hda9) for files that can be accessed and modified by all
> users and mounted it at boot time under /mnt/pub with this line in fstab:
>
> /dev/hda9 /mnt/pub vfat defaults,user 0 0
>
> However, not all users are able to create files in that directory other than
> root. Chmod 777 /mnt/pub only changes the permissions of that directory when
> it's unmounted, but not when it is mounted already. It is troublesome, as a
> normal user, to unmount /dev/hda9 and mount it again so that files can be
> written. How do I allow writing of files to /mnt/pub for all users at the
> same time?
If you're really desperate, you could try reading the man page (man
mount), noting especially the section "Mount options for fat" (which
also apply to vfat). But since you're probably just feeling lazy, you
could think to yourself, "Hmmm, FAT filesystems have no user or group id
on the files. The only way a FAT driver could possibly work is to use
the same uid and gid for all files. Apparently, it defaults to having
all files owned by uid=gid=0. It would be really handy if there was an
option to change the default. If there was such an option, what would
the author call it? In fact, wouldn't it be neat if there was an option
to set the default umask for the FAT files as well?"
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:28:06 GMT
On Aug 9, 2000 at 10:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] eloquently wrote:
>He're something in the gee, whizz! department :
>
>I swaped out p2 350, and put in a amd tbird. ( just changed the MB and
>CPU)
>After I got it booting right, I hooked up the hdd, and rebooted. the
>familiar lilo boot prompt greeted me ( rh 6.0, w98 and w2k were on the hdd,
>from when I was using the P2 ). Chose linux, and I was at run level 3, as
>usual, network was up and running. Logged in, and got into X .
>Yup, definitely faster. Enabled dma transfers on the CD, and proceeded to
>play mp3's while I downloaded windows drivers for the video cards.
Questions. What do I go for, Socket A or Slot A?
What mobo would you recommend?
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Version Of Lilo Is Said Not To Have 1024 Cyl Limit. Need Info
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:27:26 -0400
Hi,
I have heard that a new version of Lilo does not have the
1024 cylinder limit. I would like to get it and doc on it.
Where can I get the new version of it?
What version is it?
What kernels will it work with or it it kernel independent?
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 09 Aug 2000 13:30:47 -0400
"ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Questions. What do I go for, Socket A or Slot A? What mobo would you
> recommend?
AMD's new chips are all coming out for Socket A. Slot A is in the
process of being phased out.
In terms of performance, I don't think it will matter much.
If you get a good deal on a Slot-A board/CPU go for it. But don't
expect to be upgrading your CPU on that board. The Thunderbird and
Duron are both Socket-A packages.
-- David
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From: "Jaffar Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Installation on Compaq Laptop
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:31:58 GMT
I need help about Red Hat Linux istallation on a Compaq Laptop. The Laptop
does not have CDROM drive. Is there any way I can install it from the
network?
I know I can install it on another system by using bootable floppy and a
Linux CD. Just wondering is there any other way for the Laptop without CD
ROM?
Thanks
Jaffar
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:34:44 -0500
shook wrote:
> I am thinking of setting up Linux on an AMD machine. Did you have any
> problem with the install or after the install?
1. I changed from a P200 to a K6-3 400 on my old machine. Not a single
problem, lots of extra speed.
2. I took the hard drive over to my new (as of last November) Athlon 600.
No problems, lots of extra speed. Compiled at least two kernel upgrades
over the time, no problems, lots of speed.
Problems with AMD:
1. You'll sit tilted to the right. That's from the thickness of all that
extra money in the wallet in your left hip pocket.
2. You won't be sending an Intel unique CPU identifier to anyone who has
the hack and asks for it.
3. You'll just have to put up with the extra speed. Poor you.
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From: Raviprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleted Linux (Fdisk)! Can't access partition!!
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:29:56 GMT
'Hope this helps' did you say? It did more than that it saved my skin and calmed my
rabid nerves! I ran fdisk /mbr and lo! LILO's gone my 2GB is visible again. Thanks to
you i have everything in perfect order and yes I *wanted* to delete Linux.
It was
'interestingly' informative to read that bit on restoring Linux which sadly I have no
way of trying for i've neither the CD nor the cylinder numbers.
Anyways thankyou for
all the help.
Have a nice day. Bye
Ravi
Dirk Reckmann wrote:
>
>
> Raviprasad
wrote:
>
> >I deleted Linux partition using fdisk. I know nothing of Linux and so
>
>didn't want it.
>
> You didn't want Linux, or you didn't want delete Linux?
>
> If
you *wanted* to delete Linux, you have to invoke "fdisk /mbr" (on a
> DOS Prompt) to
remove LILO. Then you can create a new partition on
> your 2 gigs, again using fdisk,
this time without parameters. I think,
> you have to create first an extended
partition, after that something
> like a "logical drive in the extended partition".
>
> If you didn't want to delete Linux, it's more complicated. You could
> boot from
your installation CD of your distro in rescue mode (most
> distros have this feature,
I suppose). Start _Linux_ fdisk (an
> alternativ is using cfdisk, included in most
distros, means
> "comfortable fdisk" - and that's what it is!), and recreate the
>
partition with exact the same settings, i.e. same entry in the
> partition table, same
size and location (if you know the starting and
> ending cylinders of your ex-Linux
partition, that would be great
> here). Change the partition type to linux (0x83),
and with a little
> bit of luck, everything is visible on your hdd again.
>
> Hope
this helps.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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From: Jaap van Hengstum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Open Games API?
Date: 9 Aug 2000 17:38:44 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Wade Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8mrq53$ncj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre-John Mas
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So, is there such an API in development, or are there any people
>> out there interested in such a solution? Maybe the developers of
>> these OSs could help push such an API?
> Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Different platforms support
> different hardware, have different methods of handling sound, have
> different multitasking models, etc.
Actually, it _is_ that simple. SDL f.e. has all the functions for
handling graphics, sound and threading. With the help of a cross-compiler
I now am able to compile my code in Linux for both the Windows and the
Linux platform without changing even one line of code.
> Such an API would be an enormous undertaking, and would likely be
> quickly discarded by developers because it didn't do things the way they
> wanted it done. That is to say, if it did things in a non-optimal way
> on Windows to allow for Linux and the Mac, then Windows programmers
> would quickly ignore it and write Windows-specific code to do things the
> most optimal way.
Also not true as nowadays most optimalizations are taken care of by the
different hardware abstraction layers. Most compagnies nowadays I think
favour a portable engine over a totally hardware optimized engine. They
hardly use any assembler code anymore and most games can be easily
ported to other platforms (like doom, quake, hexen, the games Loki has
ported).
> Not to the mention the even more enormous task of trying to keep it up
> to date as 3 different operating systems change (4 OS's when MacOS X
> comes out).
When a new operating system is released, you can just grab the newest
version of the libraries and recompile your code.
> Wade
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 05:33:40 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But with many, if not most major corperations. If they do not spend all
> the money in the budget, then, they'll get less money for their
> department on the next round of budgeting.
> So. They have to spend all the money. One way or the other.
> (I'm not talking about small business here. I'm talking about those that
> get tens of million of dollar, or more for IT budget every year.)
But still, it's a very rare occurrance that departments run UNDER budget.
Saving money on software would release that money for a few home comforts or
whatever, like an office redecoration/refit, hardware upgrades, extra staff
traning and incentives, etc...
Or don't these managers have an imagination?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Off topic question about colors
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:58:35 +0100
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I got X server to run 16 bit color. Had been runing 8. My question is I
> : don't know what the 8,16,24 bit translate to. I am used to 256 65k and or
> I think you'd better leave your university then, before you're thrown
> out. An 11 year old would answer that question in an IQ test on sight.
Oh, I don't know... He could be doing Phylosophy and Art...
(The perfect combination for getting a job where you can use the immortal
line "Do you want fries with that?")
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From: "Ninewands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Copyright Complexities
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:52:40 -0500
Reply-To: "Ninewands" <newsgroup>
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when [EMAIL PROTECTED] would
say:
> >In comp.os.linux.misc blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> John Hasler wrote:
> >>>
> >>> blowfish writes:
> >>> > I did have many of my work copyrighted (not computer related, but in
> >>> > arts.)
> >>>
> >>> No. You have _all_ of your works copyrighted. Copyright is
automatic.
> >>>
> >> No. You have to file for copyrights on each piece of work, or as a
> >> batch. It's NOT automatic.
> >
> >Yes it is!
> >You write something, it is YOURS until you pass those rights on to
someone
> >else. If you can PROVE you wrote it, you can prove your copyrights to it!
> >
> >You do NOT have to register it with anyone.
>
> That (automatic copyright) has been true, in the US, since 1978.
>
> Before that, filing was needed in order to put copyright into effect.
Not entirely true. The jurisprudence of the U.S. is absolutely full of case
law regarding the enforcement of *common law* copyright. It is well
established, and always has been, that copyright comes into being when the
work is created. These rules applied even before the PTO was established.
As stated below, registration of the copyright is merely additional evidence
of its existence.
> >> I've been doing this for ages.
Good, but I would have expected a more accurate set of statements from
someone who has as much experience as you claim. As for me, I practiced
law, including litigating patent and trademark cases, for a number of years.
> >Fine, if you like that kind of thing. All that does is add to your
portfolio
> >of "proof" of ownership. Any way of proof is fine, including putting a
copy
> >of your work into the hands of someone trustworthy, like a bank in a
sealed
> >and dated envelope.
>
> In the US, you _do_ have to file copyright with the US Copyright Office
> before you go to court to pursue a case of copyright infringement.
Not so. You can litigate a copyright case in the state courts under a
theory of common law copyright infringement if you desire to do so. If you
can establish a basis for federal jurisdiction, you can do so in the federal
courts. With regard to access to the courts, the only thing registration is
required for is to automatically establish jurisdiction in the federal
courts.
> And there are some statutory penalties for copyright infringement that
> only apply if you filed with the Office fairly soon after producing
> the work. (That means you might get _extra money_ out of infringers.)
This is the nut of the question. Proof of damages is often EXTREMELY
difficult in cases of copyright infringement. Registration of the copyright
IS required in order to obtain entitlement to the statutory remedies, which
require no proof.
> So if you expect copyright on your works to be infringed, it would be
> a very _good_ idea to file early and file often.
File early, yes ... once for each incident of "creation" (meaning reduction
of an *idea* to tangible form (additional note ... techniques are NOT
copyrightable ... they MAY be patentable, but that's another story ... ))
... file often? I don't THINK so ... copyright survives the death of the
copyright owner by seventy years under current U.S. law.
> But if you don't expect infringement, then it may be reasonable to wait
> to do the filing until there _is_ an infringement. At that point, your
> lawyer will likely tell you that you MUST file right away.
> --
Not a really good idea ... unless you have a LOT of proof available that the
infringer INTENTIOANLLY copied your design/work ... waiting MAY lead to the
infringer owning the registered copyright ... then you are left with the
common-law remedies ... as well as a HUGE lawyer bill litigating the case.
Regards,
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA password problem
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:57:15 -0700
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:37:20 +0200, Thorsten G�llner wrote:
> >First you have to log in at your Windows-Client with the same
> >user/password-combination as you would log in on your linux-server (just
> >create a user with yast on SuSE).
>
> Thanks a million! It worked perfectly; I now have access to my home directory
> and my MP3's from my virtual machine. (I still consider it a supreme feat
> that I can play MP3's with WinAmp in a virtual Windoze'98 installation :> ).
What virtual machine are you using?
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA password problem
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:59:04 -0700
"Thorsten G�llner" wrote:
>
> First you have to log in at your Windows-Client with the same
> user/password-combination as you would log in on your linux-server (just
> create a user with yast on SuSE).
>
> Second you have to modify your /etc/smb.conf. There should be an entry for
> your share. In the section for this share there should be a line like
>
> [share xy]
> ...
> VALID USERS={login_name}
> ...
>
> Third you have to enable plain password text on your Win-Client. Just add a
> DWORD in the registry under:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP]
> "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001
Better than this is to create a samba password file on your linux box.
Otherwise, you'll be sending your password in the clear, which is
probably OK for a home-networked system. For anything connected to the
internet or a multi-user intranet, you'll probably want to use the
password file and keep password encryption turned on.
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