Linux-Misc Digest #600, Volume #25 Mon, 28 Aug 00 17:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: opengl on sgi linux machines? (Andy Nelson)
Moving a Linux installed distrib to other partitions on same drive (mike)
Re: visual impairment ("Gareth Williams")
Re: Finding files (Bob Tennent)
upgrade to a new version of glib (Hung Ngoc Lai)
Re: Finding files (Phil)
Re: LILO Died - Partition Not Found (Phil)
dump win98 partition ("Volker Kalms")
Re: Restaurant Booking System (Phil)
Re: Moving a Linux installed distrib to other partitions on same drive (Dances With
Crows)
Re: System crash trashed all open files (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux Mail Server ("Richard F. Jr.")
Re: Restaurant Booking System (Edward Lee)
Re: Using gnomeicu (Dances With Crows)
Re: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows ("MindStorm")
Re: LILO Died - Partition Not Found (Brian Smith)
Re: Restaurant Booking System ("CJ Llewellyn")
Re: opengl on sgi linux machines? (Jon Leech)
Re: Restaurant Booking System (Richard Watson)
Re: linux device driver book (Leimy)
Re: imwheel stopped working (quagly)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Nelson)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Re: opengl on sgi linux machines?
Date: 28 Aug 2000 19:14:17 GMT
Dan Stromberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm noticing that even tho intel/amd smokes mips in pure cpu
: performance,
Not on any code I've ever run.
MIPS MHz x 2-3 = Intel MHz
in terms of time to get done with my codes.
--
Andy Nelson Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Koenigstuhl 17, Heidelberg, Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED] D-69117
http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/andy
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving a Linux installed distrib to other partitions on same drive
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:26:29 -0400
Hi
I would like to know if copying all the partitions of an
installed Linux distribution to another set of partitions
on the same drive would be workable. Assuming that you
could boot into it, would it work properly, exactly as if
it was at the other location, if I changed all the partition
references in the fstab file? Or would all the links within
the directories have to be changed to reflect the partition
changes?
Are the links, soft or hard in Linux relative or absolute?
Thanks
Mike
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From: "Gareth Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: visual impairment
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:23:13 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) spake unto the multitude, saying:
>
> Sombody is working on a Linux distro for the visually impaired, but I've
> no idea what state it is in:
>
> http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/
>
SuSE 7.0 apparently has improved facilities (including an installation
routine) for the visually impaired. Haven't seen any reviews yet though.
--
All the best, GH Williams.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Finding files
Date: 28 Aug 2000 19:17:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:50:08 +0100, Dux wrote:
>What is the best way to locate files if you don't know their paths.
locate <filename>
but you must keep an index up-to-date. Your distribution
might have set this up for you already in, say, /etc/cron.daily/
Do man locate for details.
More sophisticated searches are possible using find. To search
on file content, use glimpse.
Bob T.
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: upgrade to a new version of glib
Date: 28 Aug 2000 19:30:07 GMT
I am trying to GTK+; however, GTK+ requires glib versions 1.2.8 or higher.
At the moment, I am running glib version 1.2.5. How do I remove version
1.2.5 and replace it with 1.2.8 so that I can run GTK+? I am a linux
newbie so please gentle with me? Please have your instructions to me
as specific as possible. Thanks.
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Subject: Re: Finding files
Date: 28 Aug 2000 20:42:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dux -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>What is the best way to locate files if you don't know their paths.
>Ta.
There's a couple of ways:
o If the command is located in one of the directories listed in your $PATH
environment variable you can type:
which command
e.g.
which ls
o Most (if not all) Linux systems come with GNU's find utility. man find for
more information but, basic command would be something like
find <path> -name <name>
e.g.
find / -name ls
o Again, a lot of Linux distributions come with locate installed. Typing
updatedb &
Will basically update the database with all the files currently located on
your system (this can be configured).
locate <name>
The above command will locate the command
e.g.
locate ls
The first is handy, second is more cumbersome, since every time you want to
find a file it has to search through the whole filesystem. find definately has
it's uses though, it's other options makes it a more powerful tool.
Locate is probably the command you're looking for and an updatedb should
probably be stuck into cron (no doubt it's there already) to run every night.
It can be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html
Phil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Subject: Re: LILO Died - Partition Not Found
Date: 28 Aug 2000 20:45:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>I've just given Windows the boot. I installed the new Linux Mandrake 7.1
>and decided to repartition my whole IDE drive. (6.5 and Windows
>coexisted well). I now have one Linux partition from 0-760 sectors
>mounted as '/'. When I try to install LILO to the MBR on /dev/hda it
>bombs with the message that the partition isn't found. If I look at the
>partition table with DiskDrake, it shows the partitions I expect, hda1
>is bootable but it notes that it is MS-DOS bootable. What do I have to
>do to finish expunging MS-DOS?
Best thing to do is make the Linux partition bootable.
You can use Linux fdisk to do this
Typing 'a' at the command prompt and then entering the partition number (1 if
it's /dev/hda1), should do it.
Phil.
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From: "Volker Kalms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dump win98 partition
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:53 +0200
Hi all,
since I have linux 6.2 and also win98 on my PC I would like to use linux
to do a full backup of the win98 partition.
How is it possible to do this and how can I restore the backup after
win98 is totaly messed up and the computer cries for a new installation ???
Since I am not working with linux for a long time it would be greate if
anyone
could give me a hint !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many thanks in advance.
Volker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: 28 Aug 2000 20:53:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Watson -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>"Darren Paxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What I would like to know is are there any linux based applications
>> available out there that would allow online bookings, and hopefully would
>> also allow this to be done for multiple locations. Each of the locations
>> would also need access to every other unit's booking sheets so that they
>> could pass bookings on to other sites if they were full for that
>> period.
>
>You just need a central database (MySQL/Postgresql) with all the
>bookings on it.
You're forgetting he's taking online bookings. I presume payment needs to be
made as well. Forgetting for one minute the hassle of having your own
webserver you're also going to have to think about security. Security in the
form of the transmission of the data and also the storage of the data.
In this respect you're going to have to come to a compromise, money or
security. IMHO the first is the best, but I'd still be interested in what kind
of security policy this third party is bringing in.
>IMHO the most sensible course of action would be a web based solution
>with PHP. Chances are something like this has already been written and
>would just need a bit of tarting up. In any case it wouldn't be so
>hard to write from scratch. Just needs reasonable planning and all
>that.
>
>> We
>> are also looking at bringing in a team of dedicated telephone agents to also
>> take bookings over the phone, but this could obviously be done via the web
>> front end.
>
>Yes, you just need a few admin type pages so that your telephone
>people can bugger^H^H^H^H^H^H^H alter things as required.
If you're not taking the credit card numbers over the web, I would advise
going your own or getting someone else to setup the stuff for you. It wouldn't
be that expensive, you can get some people to set it up for you one time and
you probably wouldn't have to touch it again if it was setup well.
If you want something like this give me a shout.
If they're charging you for nothing more than a simple backend to forward on
the bookings it sounds like they're chancers, shop around and find somewhere
else, you can mail me offlist if you want suggestions.
Phil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Moving a Linux installed distrib to other partitions on same drive
Date: 28 Aug 2000 19:52:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:26:29 -0400, mike wrote:
> I would like to know if copying all the partitions of an
>installed Linux distribution to another set of partitions on the same
>drive would be workable. Assuming that you could boot into it, would it
>work properly, exactly as if it was at the other location, if I changed
>all the partition references in the fstab file? Or would all the links
>within the directories have to be changed to reflect the partition
>changes? Are the links, soft or hard in Linux relative or absolute?
There should be no problem in doing what you describe. I don't know
exactly what you mean by "relative or absolute" links here... symbolic
links point directly to filenames; you can have a symbolic link at
/bin/vi that points to /usr/bin/vim, and these links go through the
filesystem and do not depend on absolute sector addresses or anything
like that. It is possible to have a symbolic link point to, say,
../blah, and that could be considered a relative link. So long as you
keep the directory structure consistent (ie, not moving /usr/local into
/usr/opt) then there should be no problems.
Hard links are entries in a directory which basically say, "file1 has
inode #3456" and "file2 also has inode #3456". Hard links cannot cross
filesystem boundaries.
You'll most likely want to boot the changed system with a boot disk and
the command line "linux root=/dev/hdXX", then once the system's up,
re-run LILO after editing /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the changes.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: System crash trashed all open files
Date: 28 Aug 2000 19:58:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:45:23 -0400, Dr Vincent C Jones wrote:
>Linux (Suse 6.3, kernel 2.2.16, IBM ThinkPad 600) crashed while executing
>a suspend. Froze with the disk light on. Required a power cycle to
>restart, at which point, the file system was hosed. It would appear that
>every open file had its directory entry replaced with random noise. Many
>inodes were corrupted beyond recovery.
>
>Question 1: What could cause this obscene mode of behavior? This is a
>laptop, so there was no power failure...it had to be either a HW failure
>or a SW defect.
Suspend does not work properly on all laptops, and seems to be
problematic with Thinkpads. Have you checked the Linux Laptops website,
and/or the Linux-Thinkpad mailing list to see if there's specific
information about problems with the 600?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
http://www.topica.com/lists/linux-thinkpad
>Question 2: How to delete the undeletable garbage left behind by this
>failure, short of reformating the partition?
>NetworkingUnlimited:/usr/bogus # ls -l
>total 1301819983
>b-wSrwsr-x 1 12946 55665 3, 32 Oct 27 1979 bash
"debugfs" can be your friend here, though if things like /bin/bash are
corrupted, it'll be difficult to do anything. man debugfs, and good
luck.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: "Richard F. Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:17:52 -0400
I would point you to QMail - www.qmail.org ...
QMail is currently the most secure MTA around for UNIX / Linux and is very
fast,
and very scalable. LARGE Servers use QMail like :
* " A number of large Internet sites are using qmail: Hotmail's outgoing
mail (although Microsoft thinks they're going to transition to W2K),
USA.net's outgoing email, Yahoo! mail, Network Solutions,
listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (a big listserv hub, using qmail since 1996), Ohio
State (biggest US University), XOOM.com, onelist.com (which has merged with
egroups, another big free mailing list service), Listbot, USWest.net
(Western US ISP), RIPE, Matchlogic, Telenordia, gmx.de (German ISP),
Teleport (biggest ISP in Oregon), NetZero (free ISP), Critical Path (email
outsourcing service w/ 7M mailboxes), PayPal/Confinity, Hypermart.net,
Casema, Rediffmail.co.in, Topica, MyNet.com.tr, FSmail.net, and vuurwerk.nl.
" *
Listed right from the QMail Web Site... !
Rich
"Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8odeu9$k8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
> population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
>
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:06:40 -0700
All you need is a secute VPN between locations and a secute https web server in
one. A dial-up VPN should be sufficient, unless you have a huge restaurant. In
that case, an IPSEC VPN between locations should solve all the problems.
Phil wrote:
> Richard Watson -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
> >"Darren Paxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> What I would like to know is are there any linux based applications
> >> available out there that would allow online bookings, and hopefully would
> >> also allow this to be done for multiple locations. Each of the locations
> >> would also need access to every other unit's booking sheets so that they
> >> could pass bookings on to other sites if they were full for that
> >> period.
> >
> >You just need a central database (MySQL/Postgresql) with all the
> >bookings on it.
>
> You're forgetting he's taking online bookings. I presume payment needs to be
> made as well. Forgetting for one minute the hassle of having your own
> webserver you're also going to have to think about security. Security in the
> form of the transmission of the data and also the storage of the data.
> In this respect you're going to have to come to a compromise, money or
> security. IMHO the first is the best, but I'd still be interested in what kind
> of security policy this third party is bringing in.
>
> >IMHO the most sensible course of action would be a web based solution
> >with PHP. Chances are something like this has already been written and
> >would just need a bit of tarting up. In any case it wouldn't be so
> >hard to write from scratch. Just needs reasonable planning and all
> >that.
> >
> >> We
> >> are also looking at bringing in a team of dedicated telephone agents to also
> >> take bookings over the phone, but this could obviously be done via the web
> >> front end.
> >
> >Yes, you just need a few admin type pages so that your telephone
> >people can bugger^H^H^H^H^H^H^H alter things as required.
>
> If you're not taking the credit card numbers over the web, I would advise
> going your own or getting someone else to setup the stuff for you. It wouldn't
> be that expensive, you can get some people to set it up for you one time and
> you probably wouldn't have to touch it again if it was setup well.
> If you want something like this give me a shout.
>
> If they're charging you for nothing more than a simple backend to forward on
> the bookings it sounds like they're chancers, shop around and find somewhere
> else, you can mail me offlist if you want suggestions.
> Phil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Using gnomeicu
Date: 28 Aug 2000 20:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Andreas Kahari wrote:
>> I have never used GnomeICU and I know that I never will, but I had no
>> problems finding the documentation in the distribution tar-ball (it's
>> HTML formatted for those who don't know how to read plain text files).
>> Did you even try to *start* looking for the docs?
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:01:54 -0700, JCA wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Now how come you will never use it? Is
>anything wrong with it? Do you know of any better ICQ programs
>out there for Linux?
Can't speak for Andreas, but I personally find real-time chat programs
to be annoying since people expect me to talk to them right away and get
annoyed when I don't respond immediately. The asynchronous
communication possible with E-mail and Usenet fits the way I do things
much better, and Andreas may feel the same way.
There are a whopping lot of ICQ programs available; go to
http://freshmeat.net/ and search for "ICQ". Try several out, pick the
one you like the best, and be sure to read the documentation before you
panic. Every tarball comes with a README, and most come with a "doc"
directory.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: "MindStorm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:04:33 +0100
i use a etherlink III 3c509B Combo in pnp mode and it works in both win98
and linux. Mine is complied stright into the kernel so i don't have to faff
with modules. May be worth a try.
"Dave Jepson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Hope this is not too OT but there's probably more chance of someone here
> knowing the answer!
>
> To get my etherlink III 3c509B Combo working in linux I disabled the PnP
> and manually set the IRQ and I/O with the 3c5x9cfg.exe program in
> windows.
>
> This works fine in linux, using isapnptools.
>
> However I just can't get it to work in Windows.
>
> If I use the ISA mode driver, I am allowed to specify I/O port only and
> no IRQ.
>
> If I use the EISA mode driver Control Panel->System->Device
> Manager->Network Adaptors->Properties says that the driver could not be
> loaded, and hence I don't get to specify IRQ & IO at all.
>
> Has anyone had/resolved this problem before?
>
> I went to the 3com site but the blurb on the driver download page states
> that 3c509 is only supported in 'classic' (???) and PnP modes, not ISA
> and EISA.
>
>
> Alternatively............
>
> Seeing as windows can see the NIC in PnP mode fine, can I get linux to
> load it?
> Currently if I set the card in PnP mode, linux hangs when I try to start
> the eth0 interface.
> The card is being loaded in /etc/conf.modules with
>
> alias eth0 3c509
>
> Does anyone know why it hangs and whatI could do about it?
>
> Kind regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
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From: Brian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Died - Partition Not Found
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:15:20 -0700
Phil wrote:
> Best thing to do is make the Linux partition bootable.
> You can use Linux fdisk to do this
> Typing 'a' at the command prompt and then entering the partition number (1 if
> it's /dev/hda1), should do it.
> Phil.
Thanks Phil but after doing that and writing the table, it still looks the same.
fdisk shows /dev/hda1 to be bootable.
If I look at hda1 under Diskdrake, it shows
Mount point: /
Device: hda1
Type: Linux native
Size: 2992 MB(97%)
Formatted
Mounted
Partition booted by default
(for MS-DOS boot, not for lilo)
It's the last line that worries me. Attempting to boot the hard drive gets as
far as LI and stalls.
Do you have any other advice.
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From: "CJ Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:16:34 +0100
"Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
-snip-
> You're forgetting he's taking online bookings. I presume payment needs to
be
> made as well. Forgetting for one minute the hassle of having your own
> webserver you're also going to have to think about security. Security in
the
> form of the transmission of the data and also the storage of the data.
> In this respect you're going to have to come to a compromise, money or
> security. IMHO the first is the best, but I'd still be interested in what
kind
> of security policy this third party is bringing in.
Urm, how many restaurants have you been to lately ? Payment is usually made
after the meal has been consumed.
It does raise an interesting point, that of varifing the person making the
booking is a genuine customer.
-snip-
--
Regards, CJ Llewellyn
PC Plus Linux www.work-smarter.co.uk/pcp.html
It's back see me naked ;-)
Webcam www.north-lincolnshire.com/webcam.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Leech)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Re: opengl on sgi linux machines?
Date: 28 Aug 2000 20:19:28 GMT
In article <8oe3vt$fq7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does SGI sell OpenGL on their linux servers?
The servers (1200/1400/1450) have relatively dumb 2D graphics
hardware integrated on the motherboard, so that wouldn't be particularly
useful. If you have specific need for an OpenGL-capable X server running
on an SGI Linux platform, best to talk to SGI Professional Services.
OTOH, the IA32 Visual Workstation line - SGI 230, 330, 550 - ships
with accelerated OpenGL drivers running on V3/VR3/V5 graphics. We think
this combination delivers the best Linux 3D performance you can get
today.
>I'm noticing that even tho intel/amd smokes mips in pure cpu
>performance, opengl smokes mesa even if opengl is on a much slower
>processor.
Performance depends on the quality of the driver and performance of
the underlying graphics hardware. The only meaningful way to compare
them would be if you had drivers from two different codebases (e.g.
OpenGL Sample Implementation and Mesa) for the same hardware and OS.
>Is it possible SGI's opensourcing of GLX will eventually make mesa
>more competitive with opengl? That is, will free GLX make it so mesa
>can use hardware acceleration in video cards,
SGI's GLX ships as a standard part of XFree86 4.0. There are
hardware drivers derived from the Mesa codebase which use it, and there
are drivers derived from the SI codebase which use it. The overall
quality of 3D support on Linux has been improving rapidly, with
increasing numbers of commercial vendors committing to the platform, as
well as open source drivers available for lower end hardware.
>and if so, will that be
>enough to make mesa a comparable performer?
As with any benchmarking task, you need to define what aspects of
performance are important to you and measure accordingly.
Jon Leech
SGI
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: 28 Aug 2000 22:15:03 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil) writes:
> >You just need a central database (MySQL/Postgresql) with all the
> >bookings on it.
>
> You're forgetting he's taking online bookings. I presume payment needs to be
> made as well.
I doubt it would as I've never paid when I've booked a table at a
restaurant. I usually wait to see if there's a fly in the soup before
I do that.
> Forgetting for one minute the hassle of having your own
> webserver you're also going to have to think about security. Security in the
> form of the transmission of the data and also the storage of the
> data.
You mean like securely stored on a remote web server and encrypted
with PGP - credit card numbers erased after being retrieved by 128bit
secure http?
Strange as it sounds remarkably like my weekend as I've just sorted
something exactly like that out for someone.
> If you're not taking the credit card numbers over the web, I would advise
> going your own or getting someone else to setup the stuff for
> you. It wouldn't be that expensive,
I'm not sure why you say that. Why does it matter where the server
is? Now I'm not against people setting up web servers, in fact I'm all
for it (that's why there's one under my desk) but this sounds like
something that can be handled for low cost by an existing server
operator of which there are plenty. Even a co-location is going to be
better for most people than having the thing on the premises and
sorting out the right internet connectivity.
> If you want something like this give me a shout.
Nothing like a good piece of advertising ;-)
(note smiley)
--
Richard Watson | Pentagon Web Design Ltd | Reading, UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fax: +44(0)870 706 5282 | ICQ: 65274884
http://www.pwdltd.co.uk | Reg. Linux User #183315 | GPG/PGP 0xA6AB8345
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From: Leimy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux device driver book
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:29:47 GMT
Beginning Linux Programming is a good book for general linux programming
and the final chapter is on Device Drivers and is written by a current
driver maintainer <Jens Axboe cdrom maintainer>. It has great charts and
diagrams throughout the book but I have found that chapter to be good
enough to be a small book.
Check Amazon and bn.com since I think it is a difficult book to find.
Second Edition is the one you would want.
Take care and good luck.
Dave
jack_1236 wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the best book I can find on learning to write linux
> device drivers. I am newbie on this and I expect something
> too compicated.
>
> Thanx all.
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> Before you buy.
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From: quagly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: imwheel stopped working
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:32:36 GMT
Anton Suchaneck wrote:
> Since I changed th configuration of imwheel, imwheel stopped working.
> It starts without complaining but my wheel doesnt work. Has anyone have
> a suggestion?
>
> Anton
Get xfree86 4.0 It has wheel support built in!
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