Linux-Misc Digest #70, Volume #26 Wed, 18 Oct 00 09:13:01 EDT
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NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 18 October 2000 NYLUG Meeting: Linas Vepstas, head of GNUCash
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Intel 810 chipset problem ("Jonathan G. Campbell")
Re: Which Linux distro most 'generic' *nix ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: StarOffice or Applixware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do you install a NIC under RH 6.2? ("w00d")
How to install php ("Regent Linus")
Re: Try_Catch problem (Ray Fencey)
Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2 (Eric)
Re: Biezacy katalog w Promp'cie (Eric)
Re: extract file from .rpm in Windows? (CDM)
mounting to windows2000 drive?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
rh 7.0 iso files (Carsten Huettl)
Re: Netscape Download ? ("Philo")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Hartmann Schaffer)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Hartmann Schaffer)
Re: Netscape weirdness et al [was: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) (Hartmann
Schaffer)
rh62 & qlogic fc (Pavel Urban)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? ("MH")
Re: Please recommend a DHCP, DDNS & Netbios NameServer ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Sean Clarke)
too little fonts (root)
Re: Stupid Newbie Question (Jimenez Martinez Angel Luis)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 18 October 2000 NYLUG Meeting: Linas Vepstas, head of
GNUCash
Date: 18 Oct 2000 06:12:01 -0400
One the advertising slogans against use of Free OSes on the desktop and in
the home is "There is no Jumbo Office Suite for any Free OS.". This is
false. There is more than one Jumbo Office Suite that runs on Free *n*ces.
Indeed, one of these Jumbo Office Suites is now licensed under the GPL:
http://www.openoffice.org
Another calumny against Free Software runs "But the total costs of Free
Software are higher." This is nonsense, and IBM will generously present a
detailed refutation at this meeting:
A large spread of fine food, all free!
Official NYLUG notice below.
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
*** New York Linux Users Group October Meeting ***
- NYLUG.org -
Linas Vepstas
Prodigious Hacker and Leader of GNUCash
(Personal Finance Software for Linux)
10/18/00
Wednesday
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
Check in at lobby for badge and room number
A prodigious programmer with many credits to his name, Linas Vepstas coded
the original S/390 mainframe port and contributed core pieces to the
OpenGL project before launching full time into GNUcash (www.gnucash.org)
The web site relates that Linas...
"... liked what he saw. The GUI was slick, the code was documented
and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed. And so he re-wrote it-
adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that the combobox and arrows
would make an even slicker GUI, rewrote the X-Accountant internals
to add double-entry, an account hierarchy, split out a transaction
mini-engine, added support for stocks, and spiffed up the help
menus. This was version 1.0 as of January 1998."
Today, GNUcash is an easy-to-use personal finance application and
full-fledged accounting system that allows you to track bank accounts,
stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook
register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure
balanced books and accurate reports. Take a look at these sceeenshots:
http://www.gnucash.org/gnome_screenshots.php3
Linas (www.linas.org) will take us through the business model, the
history, the back end and the front end of GNUcash and has asked that you
ask questions. He's coming all the way from Texas, so let's not dissapoint
him! This talk is an entry level discussion with some advanced sidebars.
__________________________
Special Food Announcement!
IBM is setting us up with a catered smorgasbord table. Thanks IBM!
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Swag Give-Away
GNUCash cdroms and official NYLUG stickers!
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After the Meeting... Stammtisch
Join us around 8:15pm or so at the Typhoon Brewery & Restaurant located
at 22 East 54th Street between Madsion and 5th Aves.
Please Note - we do not have the back room anymore and are currently
reviewing our Stammtisch options. Please give me your suggestions.
What is Stammtisch? http://linuxmafia.com/bale/#stammtisch
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Where & When is the NYLUG.org Meeting?
With the generous support of IBM, all regular NY-LUG meetings are held at
the main IBM building at 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street in mid-town
Manhattan every third Wednesday of the month starting at 6:30pm. All
meetings are free and open to the public.
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Talk Mailing List for people to contribute and resolve each other's
technical problems.
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List Archives
The archives are currently down but should be up soon.
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Contacts
Jim Gleason, President, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Berg, Vice President, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What is Linux?
http://www.nylug.org/about_linux.html
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What is NYLUG.org?
NYLUG (www.nylug.org) is New York's Linux Users Group supporting all
things Linux and Open Source in the New York metro area. Please feel
free to contact me if you have any questions about the NYLUG.org.
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Special Thanks
To everyone who helped to make the July 17th protest in front of the NYC
courthouse a huge success - especially Billy Donahue and Ruben Safir. And
many thanks go to all of the people who travelled down to Washington DC
for the DMCA protest in front of The Library of Congress on May 2nd. Many
thanks also to Rebecca Blake & Lara Kisielewska of Optimum Design (they
co-publish Linux Magazine) for creating our mascot "Tuxi" and to Mark
Andal for the original cabbie idea. Thanks to Ari Jort - core nylugger
whose contributions are too numerous to mention here. Special thanks also
go to Peter Norton and Barry Hughes, NYLUG's lead engineers at LinuxWorld
Expo, and all of the other NYLUGGERS who volunteered. Without you, we
could not have done the show. Good job!
_______________________________________________________________
NYLUG.org: Host LUG Sponsor of LinuxWorld Expo's .Org Pavillion
February 1-4, 2000; Jacob Javits Center, NYC
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Jim Gleason VA Linux Systems
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.valinux.com
phone: 212-858-7684 President, New York Linux Users Group
fax: 212-858-7685 http://www.nylug.org
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From: "Jonathan G. Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel 810 chipset problem
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:14:37 +0100
Jerzy Blaszczynski wrote:
>
> Do you know where may I find linux drivers
> for Intel 810 graphic card?
See:
http://www.proshare.co.uk/support/graphics/intel815/30483.htm
Note: there is a typo in section 3.4.3 of the 'Release Notes' --
installation of the X server -- it swaps the name of the kernel module,
thus inviting you to install the kernel module a second time. (There are
two packages -- the server, and the kernel module).
BTW, I have the display working -- more or less, but setting up
XF86Config has always seemed like black-magic to me, and you can be
assured that Xconfigurator is not knowledgeable about I810.
However, I have _Not_ got my sound system working -- any ideas anyone?
Hope this helps,
Jon C.
--
Jonathan G Campbell, Computer Science, Queen's University
Belfast, BT7 1NN Tel +44 (0)28 90 274623 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~J.Campbell/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Which Linux distro most 'generic' *nix ?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:13:42 GMT
In article <WI4H5.21775$tL4.262249@zonnet-reader-1>,
"J.H.Delaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I was wondering which distro comes closest to a generic commercial
*nix ?
>
> Any and all suggestions are more than welcome.
Most linux distros, like their big brother unices, have their own
little quirks about where to store log / config files etc. One is
pretty much as good or as bad any other.
Having said that, for your purposes you might be better off getting the
free(ish) Intel version of Solaris from Sun. Dunno if you can download
it, but Sun charge in the region of $55 to cover their media and
distribution costs. Solaris is a commercial unix and will probably
serve you better for learning purposes.
JJ
<who reflects he might be in the wrong job as selling blank CDs to Sun
seems to be a lucrative business>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: StarOffice or Applixware
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:15:01 +0100
Lamar Thomas wrote:
> I just installed RH Linux on my system for the first time and now I need an
> office suite. I have read about Applixware and StarOffice but have not
> beeen able to find them. Can someone tell me where I can get them? Are
> they free (i.e. like Linux) or do you have to pay for them? Thanks for your
> help.
>
> Lamar
Given that SO is free (at least in the monetary sense), it's probably worth getting
both.
SO is basically an MS office clone, so if you've used this you'll be at home straight
away.
SO is probably better at importing MS files, but also has a lot of the irritations of
MS
that made you want to try linux in the first place. The ``friendly'' interface often
gets in the way,
insists on giving unwanted advice, and not particularly stable. SO has the advantage
of running under
windoze as well as linux.
Applix has a much simpler interface, that does not try to control the whole machine
for you, and
will therefore appeal to *n*x users. It is more stable than SO, but lacks some of the
bells and whistles,
and is less good (but still OK) at importing MS files. Overall, if used in conjunction
with Gnome
(or presumabl KDE) I don't suppose there is anything much that one will do, but the
other can't.
One nice thing about having both is that as they can import and export overlapping
sets of file
formats, it's possible to get just about any file converted into any other.
Regards,
Mark
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From: "w00d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How do you install a NIC under RH 6.2?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:03:26 GMT
There is good documentation that will walk you through exactly what you have
to do to finish the installation of your network card at
http://www.linuxdocs.org. Depending on what version of Linux you are using,
there should be an administrative utility (i.e. Redhat has linuxconf) that
will make configuration of your network card very easy.
Adam
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6RPG5.325854$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed the following NIC inside my PC, now what do I do?
>
> 3Com EtherLink III 3C509B-TPO ISA 10Mbs card.
>
> I am running Linux as a Server with X Windows. Where do I go to install
and
> configure the card? What are the setup steps? Thanks for your help.
>
> Lamar
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Regent Linus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,japan.www.server.apache,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: How to install php
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:21:10 +0800
Hi,
I just read installation documentation of PHP, It says that it shall
uncompress the apache and php first and then re-compile, but I have
my apache already, what should I do? And my another server got
php3, how should I upgrade to php4 but without modifying my original
apache setting, or to the least, if possible.
Thanks
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From: Ray Fencey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Try_Catch problem
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:04:06 GMT
this is really a programming question and nothing to do with linux...
anyway, looking at the very skeleton code:
1stly, the line that says:
catch() {
is total rubbish - you must specify the type of object you wish to
catch... if you want a catch-all, do
catch (...) { // yep, that really is 3x .
// deal with it
}
now, secondly, the line that does the throw () is also rubbish since you
use that construct to re-throw and exception that you've just caught, do
something and then you want to propogate the execption to a higher
level.
ie
class MyException {};
int main()
{
try {
try {
cerr << "throwing... ";
throw MyException();
}
catch (const MyException& x)
cerr << "rethrowing... ";
throw;
}
}
catch (...) {
cerr << "caught" << endl;
}
return 0;
}
and fyi, sigabrt is the signal that is generated when an uncaught
exception propogates all the way to main() and its still not caught.
you maybe interested in the scott meyers books, "effective c++" and
"more effective c++"
regrds
ray
also, if NT allowed the code you showed us to work, then that compiler
you used is broken :)
In article <nzeH5.37767$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ludwig Stroobant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I implemented a program in NT with some try_catch structures. Now,
when I
> try to port this program to linux, and a throw happens, I get the
signal
> SIGABRT. What could be the cause of this signal?
>
> example:
> {
> ...
> try{
> ReadFromIniFiles();
> }
> catch()
> {
> }
> ...
> }
>
> ReadFromIniFile()
> {
> ERROR = ReadKeyFromIniFile()...
> if (ERROR)
> {
> throw ();
> }
> }
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:51:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
McKarpan wrote:
>
> >This cannot be true.
> >Perhaps I do not understand you completely. Have you reinstalled windows
> >after you were unable to boot it? How do you "move linux back to the
> >windows partition?"
> >
> >There are a few things you should post here if you want my help:
> >1) the result of `fdisk -l /dev/hda` (ie. linux fdisk, NOT dos)
> >2) the content of the file /etc/lilo.conf
> >
> >Eric
>
> I didn't have to reinstall windows, I rebooted the system with Red Hat's
> startup disk and chose to reinstall Linux. On the disk they offer a
> partitionless install where Linux is actually installed on the same partition
> as Windows. You can then start Linux with a special boot disk. Only it runs
> much slower when installed this way.
>
> To get the info you asked for I'll have to reinstall Linux to where it is
> giving me trouble. I have work and school tomorrow, so I'll probably post
> again on Thursday.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to help
This is very odd. You claim that you cannot boot windows when you
installed linux, but once you reinstalled linux, (and only god knows
where?) windows is up again? (probably just the MBR restored)I think
that the only problem you have is a badly configured lilo.conf, so I
guess I'll just wait for your posting (I will need both things a
mentioned before)
You will have a faster response if you bcc to me directly at
eric-dot-moors-at-philips-dot-com
(I'm in europe, so we may have a time difference though)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Biezacy katalog w Promp'cie
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:53:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gallileo wrote:
>
> Wiem ze to moze prymitywny problem ale czy ktos
> moglby mi wyjasnic jak ma wygladac
> zmienna prompt abym wlasnie w owym prompcie mial zawsze
> biezaca kartoteke? typu /home/user1 ?
> korzystam z Red Hat'a tak na marginiesie.
> Odp. prosze na priva ponizej.
> Dziekuje i pozdrawiam.
> Gallileo.
>
> _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
>
> for lazy ones: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-)
> --------------------------------
very well said, but since this is an english NG and my polish is very
bad, repost in english to get a better respons
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: extract file from .rpm in Windows?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:39:26 +0200
http://www.davecentral.com/13464.html
and do you know why there are search engines....
just went to http://www.google.com and types 'extract rpm windows'
"Danny Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8sif4d$b9e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi -
>
> What tool can I use to extract file from rpm in Windows2K? I have a cd
> of SRPMS of RedHat 7.0, but my OS is RedHat 6.2, which cannot use the
> textutils-2.0e-8.src.rpm from Redhat 7.0, and the error message looks
> like:
>
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> RPM
> error: textutils-2.0e-8.src.rpm cannot be installed
>
>
>
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> Before you buy.
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mounting to windows2000 drive??
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:48:00 GMT
mounting to windows2000 drive??
Does anyone know how to mount to a windows2000 drive??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carsten Huettl)
Subject: rh 7.0 iso files
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:57:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I am going to download the rh 7.0 iso files for cd image.
But I found there are
7.0-i386-disc1.iso
in the current dir
and
7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso
in the rh70 dir
What are the right image files the discs?
What is the right filesize (kb)?
TIA
C.
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Download ?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:09:31 -0500
Thanks!!!!
--
Philo
website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: 17 Oct 2000 22:13:29 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>The trouble is, people did not always do word processing. In the nearly
>pre-computer days, when I did a project at my employers, I wrote a technical
>memorandum (in ball-point pen or pencil), handed it to the secretary, and she
>took care of it at a far lower salary that I got. Except for one time when I
>wrote a 300-page book, it typically took only a day or two to write such a thing,
>and the secretary typically took about half a day to type it up. Photo-offset
the problem i had with this approach was that it took me another few
days to proofread and correct it. i find that overall i spend less
time on a document when i do it in latex (i do revisions only to fix
up contents; usually i am quite happy with latex' formatting job, and
if it isn't quite right i can live with it)
> ...
hs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: 17 Oct 2000 22:22:17 -0400
In article <8shiq2$3fc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>Like it or not, the standard is Office. Spreading lies and FUD does not help
>Linux's cause. If you had said simply that "SO can open many standard office
this statement coming from an ms junkie must be the usenet joke of the
year
> ...
hs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Subject: Re: Netscape weirdness et al [was: Is there a MS Word (or substitute)
Date: 17 Oct 2000 22:28:49 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>All very well, but which mailbox? The one at my ISP that I use most of the time,
>or the one at /var/spool/mail/jdbeyer? Even the bash shell can look at the
>/var/spool... one, but I would need something fancy to look at the more important
>one, the one at my ISP.
set up a cron job that runs fetchmail frequently enough, and all you
have to check is /var/spool/...
> ...
hs
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From: Pavel Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rh62 & qlogic fc
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:04:45 +0200
Hello,
I've tried to submit this problem to RedHat's Bugzilla, but got no
response yet, so I'm trying to get some information this way.
I've recompiled 2.2.16-3 to support QLogic fibre channel card (reported
as 'scsi0 : QLogic ISP2100 SCSI on PCI bus 01 device 38 irq 36 base
0x2000' by 2.2.14-5 with the same compile options). While booting, I
get these messages:
...
scsi: unknown type 31
Vendor: Model: 0 <ASCII chaos>
Type: Unknown
<repeated several times>
...
kernel panic
Panic is probably caused by confused kernel which tries to find root
filesystem on sdb and there is no second scsi drive present.
HW: Dell PowerEdge 8450, PowerVault 650F array, 2 Xeons/450, 2g ram,
8.5g scsi disc.
If anybody knows what to do or met something similar, please let me
know. Thanks!
sorry to those who read this post in comp.os.linux.security... offline
readers have their pitfalls :-/
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MLP system disaster
Mestska knihovna v Praze - Marianske nam. 1, 115 72 Praha 1, Ceska
republika, http://www.mlp.cz
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From: "MH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:39:44 -0400
Funny that you should call me a "ms junkie"
I use Linux on a daily basis and enjoy doing so.
I don't, however, enjoy anything related to the internet experience provided
by Linux.
MS's offerings are far superior in my opinion, and for that reason and that
reason alone, I use MS products for web browsing, email, and usenet.
What the individual stated was pure FUD. I call them as I see them.
I don't approve of it when MS does it anymore than when it's done in here.
Please try and find a clue.
"Hartmann Schaffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8sj1gp$evt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8shiq2$3fc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...
> >Like it or not, the standard is Office. Spreading lies and FUD does not
help
> >Linux's cause. If you had said simply that "SO can open many standard
office
>
> this statement coming from an ms junkie must be the usenet joke of the
> year
>
> > ...
>
> hs
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:47:03 +0200
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please recommend a DHCP, DDNS & Netbios NameServer
hi, imho redhat is not the best choice for this, try the new suse or slackware,
the software you need is included and is called dhcp, really easy to install
and easier to setup, if you like i can send you an example file that works in a
small network
good luck Bert
Paul wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am the Unix administrator for a Council that uses Windows NT4 servers for
> File and Print services to around 5000 PCs across a WAN.
>
> We are looking to setup a number of DHCP servers (which all talk to each
> other and share reservations and also lease details), we would like to have
> these DHCP servers talking to a Dynamic DNS (Bind 8). A friend of mine
> suggested using Linux to do this, however I need someone to let me know what
> products would do this for me.
>
> NT4 servers commonly find each other by means of a WINS server which is just
> a NetBios nameserver that Microsoft have corrupted. Is it possible to find
> a Linux product that does this?? I think Samba may offer this but I would
> like that confirmed.
>
> I am currently using RedHat Linux mainly becuase I had a copy of the
> distribution, is this the best Linux to use??
>
> Thanks, Paul.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Clarke)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: 18 Oct 2000 12:48:15 GMT
jazz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <e1qG5.3420$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jan
: Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >
: > > I really need a powerful word processor with templates, styles, etc.
: > >
: >
: > Learn LaTeX (or LyX) - you'll be much more efficient in no time.
: >
: > > What is available for Linux? How about for Powerpoint and Excel?
: >
: > I use gnumeric for spreadsheets.
: > If you need something like powerpoint... *shrug*.
: > But with LaTeX you canproduce some nice slides...
: >
: >
: > Cheers,
: > -Jan
: Unfortunately the world uses Word, and since I coauthor papers, I have to
: use it or something compatible.
: Thanks
: Jim
Which journal doesn't accept Latex files then?
Sean
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: too little fonts
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:52:54 +0200
Hi, wanna change standard size fonts for linux RH 6.2 that show me
netscape and other application in a
very little way.
How do I do?
Thanks in advince for any help.
Evaristo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimenez Martinez Angel Luis)
Subject: Re: Stupid Newbie Question
Date: 18 Oct 2000 11:41:12 GMT
Dean P ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Forgive me, oh wise Linux users.
> Though I have entertained myself with linux for the last 2 years, I know
> next to nothing about it and I am trying to learn by reading all the HowTo's
> etc.
> Here is the stupid question: RH 6.2, user folder has a yellow "bomb" with a
> sad face that is called "Core". What the heck is that. I fear that opening
> it could be evil!
> Thanks in advance for your input.
> Dean
If don't want to have more cores on your linux just add this line
ulimit -c 0
to the end of your /etc/profile
If you want to know more -> man ulimit
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