Linux-Misc Digest #90, Volume #26 Fri, 20 Oct 00 13:13:01 EDT
Contents:
99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Linux PDA (Steven Shelikoff)
Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees (Bill Ramsey)
recovering data from tape ("mb")
Re: HELP: Old binary not executable on Linux (Paul Kimoto)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP ("Ali")
Re: Chinese ownership of adobe.com name (JosB)
Re: Chinese ownership of adobe.com name (Lew Pitcher)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP (Edward Lee)
Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees (Bill Ramsey)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help to delete file(hosts.allow,hosts.deny ) (Marble Head)
Re: 56k modem works *only at 14.4*-> IRQ 0? ("Larry Krigbaum")
Re: Linux Backup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: file is *really* tough to delete (Frank Ranner)
HP Deskjet 690C Printer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
R: recovering data from tape ("Lodo Nicolino")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:00:41 GMT
99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left
I started out 3 months ago but removing windows from all the computers
in my home and not 3 months later I can do 99% of my work on Redhat
7.0. The following is a list of issues(things) that I am still trying
to find out how to do on Redhat. If you can help me please let me know
I would like to close the book on this!!
1) I use to use QuickBooks Pro on windows for running my bus, Does
anyone use someone good??
2) I am a DJ and I burn alot of music cd. I use to make a master cd
and then burn copies on windows. Now that I am using Redhat.
How do I copy music cd's (no gaps on the track changes)??
One more thing I only have one cd-rom so I have to make a image
and then burn the copies.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:15:47 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:49:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
Smith) wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Bill Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from
>> Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is
>> delivered.
>>
>> I ordered the deluxe boxed set from Stormix:
>> Storm Linux 2000 Deluxe Edition 69.95 1 0.00
>> GST: 4.89
>> Tax Total: 0.00
>> Shipping: Express - USA: 21.99
>> Grand Total: 91.94
>>
>> Imagine my surprise when the UPS guy tells me that I owe him $38 in
>> brokerage fees !! I refused the package and I've canceled my order. I
>> don't need stormix that bad.
>
>How precisely have you reported this? In particular, the phrase "the UPS
>guy tells me that I owe him $38," if interpreted literally, sounds like
>the UPS delivery person was rogue, and was trying to extort extra money
>from package recipients. OTOH, if that $38 appeared on an invoice that
>came with the package, then that's another matter.
I agree. Additionally...
* Stormix is in Canada (Vancouver, BC to be exact),
* the recipient was in the USA,
* Canada and USA have an agreement (called NAFTA) that permits free
(undutied) flow of goods between our two countries. There are still
some restrictions, but (IIRC) software isn't one of them.
In my opinion, UPS was falsly claiming customs brokerage fees; no
customs clearance should have been required.
Lew Pitcher
Canadian Citizen <g>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:17:43 GMT
In article <uQOH5.10147$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> All the people I've worked with spend 90% of their time from
>> the very beginning futzing with fonts and margins and
>> backgrounds and colors and whatnot rather than actually
>> producing content. It would almost be excusable if they ended
>> up with something nice looking but vacuous. But the don't.
>> They end up with something ugly and vacuous.
>
>Word is actually capable of using style sheets where the
>details are provided by the style which can be changed,
>but I don't think many people use them.
Yes, it is possible to use Word the "right" way. Marking
things by content and applying format with style sheets. But
I've never seen anybody actually _do_ that. They always
manually adjust the fonts/margins/whatever until they think it
looks good. Trouble is, they're often wrong. But, I suppose,
that is a matter of taste.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I know things about
at TROY DONAHUE that can't
visi.com even be PRINTED!!
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From: Steven Shelikoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: Linux PDA
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:17:41 -0400
Tumbleweed wrote:
>
> --
> remove spam before replying
> "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8snb63$s10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > New palm device using Linux Open Source!
> >
> > http://www.agendacomputing.com/
> >
> >
>
> Looks nice ata good price, and light. Would be even better if it could
> 'mimic' a palm somehow so that apps that have sync to Palm apps such as
> calendar, todo etc, could continue to work. For example, my employer has a
> Palm sync app to our corporate calendar.
Maybe it will run POSE.
Steve
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From: Bill Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees
Date: 20 Oct 2000 15:40:05 GMT
I'm glad that no custom's fee, etc. was involved. Stormix was using a
company called "New Media" to ship with. "New Media" was the company
invoicing me for an extra $38.
Why would Stormix work with such a company? I've emailed and left
messages with Stormix but they have not replyed.
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) wrote:
>I agree. Additionally...
> * Stormix is in Canada (Vancouver, BC to be exact),
> * the recipient was in the USA,
> * Canada and USA have an agreement (called NAFTA) that permits free
> (undutied) flow of goods between our two countries. There are still
> some restrictions, but (IIRC) software isn't one of them.
>
>In my opinion, UPS was falsly claiming customs brokerage fees; no
>customs clearance should have been required.
>
>Lew Pitcher
>Canadian Citizen
--
Bill Ramsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "mb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: recovering data from tape
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:35:07 +0200
Hello,
After a lot of troubles i've got my tape backup drive (onstream DI30) fully
working :-)
I can write tar files to it without any trouble.
with "tar tvbf 64 /dev/ht0" i can see what is on the tape and all looks very
well. The one problem i have now is that i'm not able to restore the data
from the tar on the tape, back to my hda1.
Any help appreciated.
Martijn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP: Old binary not executable on Linux
Date: 20 Oct 2000 11:43:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[comp.lang.c snipped]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sharon Wang wrote:
> 1. First of all, not sure if the question is well posed.
> I have a binary that works fine on an old Slackware
> Linux box (2.0.1? and older), but can not be executed
> on another box running RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.0.2?)
> What could possibly be the problems and how to
> solve them?
Probably your binary needs libc4 (a.out) and associated dynamic libraries,
or libc5 and associated dynamic libraries, and the other box does not have
them. If it's a.out, the kernel may not include a.out support, which is
optional these days.
> 2. I have a software that requires the user application
> be compiled and linked agaist old a.out libc libraries.
> Can some one point to me references on the a.out libc
> installation HOWTO?
I don't think there is such a thing. As far as I know, no major Linux
distributor includes libc4 these days. You may have to find an old
(4 years?) distribution and pull the files out. Perhaps Debian has an
old enough one (http://archive.debian.org/dists/). David Parsons maintains
an a.out system at http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Mastodon/index.html.
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "Ali" <cracker@$$$$redhotant.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:42:40 +0100
Richard Horton wrote in message ...
>On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:39:44 +0200, Dries van Oosten
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>>
>>> I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
>>> I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
>>> versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
>>> but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
>>> kernels.
>>
>>This chip is my worst nightmare. My gf's computer has this chipset. First
>>it gave here a lot of trouble under Win98 (random hangups, rundll crashes,
>>etc.). Then when I tried to convince here to use Linux, it would work at
>>all and now (after the bimonthly reinstall of windows), the OS hangs when
>>I try to install the driver.
>>
>>Groeten,
>>Dries
>>
>
>Seconded... I would recommend if it is an onboard card disabling it in
>BIOS and buying a cheep soundblaster card and using that instead.
>My Win98 install now works fine with after abit of swearing, but Linux
>detects it, says it will load the driver, then says driver loader...
>try doing anything and I get driver not loaded... lsmod shows the
>sound driver as loaded, rmmod of the soundcard driver kills my system
>with a string of errors... going to rebuild this weekend so will have
>more info later.
>
>--
>All opinions are my own and are not in any way meant to represent those of
my employer.
>
>Richard Horton.
>
>"Users are like bacteria - each one causing a thousand tiny crises until
the host finally dies..."
I spent ages trying to get this card (onboard) to work using sndconfig
which did work whilst in session then disappeared once rebooted. I
eventually bought a SB128pci, massive improvement, should have done it a
while ago.
Ali
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From: JosB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Chinese ownership of adobe.com name
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:40:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It is just a bit scary when a the domain of a program as widely
> distributed as the Acrobat reader suddenly appears to be owned by an
> uncontrollable communist country with unknown intentions. Just think
what
> could happen if they planted a monitor or delayed virus in it.
Planted a monitor: Never looked at the IP-protocol??
It's a perfect way to monitor people.........
Delayed virus: some would say Microsoft....
And, are you absolutely sure the Linux distribution (or just the
programs installed) you use are virus free? Some apps may be written by
Chinese people you know :-)
And have you read all source-code and recompiled all files? There might
be a virus inside. Even if the program is written in America by a non-
communist.
I think you're over-reacting.
Jos Buurman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Chinese ownership of adobe.com name
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:11:40 GMT
Anyway, the OP seems to have misinterpreted the information. The
chinese don't seem to 'own' adobe.com; however, a domain registrar
with a chinese domain name is now the registrar of choice for
adobe.com.
All this means is that in the free-market economy of ICANN domain
registrars, a company which appears to be own from China (but might
not be) has been given a licence to act as a .com registrar. Adobe.com
has selected this registrar to register their name through.
paycenter.com.cn (the registrar) _does not_ "own" the adobe.com domain
name.
The OP is either paranoid or a troll.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:13:25 -0700
Ali wrote:
> Richard Horton wrote in message ...
> >On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:39:44 +0200, Dries van Oosten
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
> >>> I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
> >>> versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
> >>> but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
> >>> kernels.
> >>
> >>This chip is my worst nightmare. My gf's computer has this chipset. First
> >>it gave here a lot of trouble under Win98 (random hangups, rundll crashes,
> >>etc.). Then when I tried to convince here to use Linux, it would work at
> >>all and now (after the bimonthly reinstall of windows), the OS hangs when
> >>I try to install the driver.
> >>
> >>Groeten,
> >>Dries
> >>
> >
> >Seconded... I would recommend if it is an onboard card disabling it in
> >BIOS and buying a cheep soundblaster card and using that instead.
> >My Win98 install now works fine with after abit of swearing, but Linux
> >detects it, says it will load the driver, then says driver loader...
> >try doing anything and I get driver not loaded... lsmod shows the
> >sound driver as loaded, rmmod of the soundcard driver kills my system
> >with a string of errors... going to rebuild this weekend so will have
> >more info later.
> >
> >--
> >All opinions are my own and are not in any way meant to represent those of
> my employer.
> >
> >Richard Horton.
> >
> >"Users are like bacteria - each one causing a thousand tiny crises until
> the host finally dies..."
>
> I spent ages trying to get this card (onboard) to work using sndconfig
> which did work whilst in session then disappeared once rebooted. I
> eventually bought a SB128pci, massive improvement, should have done it a
> while ago.
You can just download the lastest drivers snd2217.tgz and pnp2217.tgz from
http://linnix.com.
You can manually install it with:
1a pnpdump & isapnp ...
1b insmod wss io=XXX irq=XXX ...
1c insmod cmi0001 (PNP ID for 8330)
or
2 setpnp
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From: Bill Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees
Date: 20 Oct 2000 16:18:31 GMT
Stormix called --
they said I should not have been charged anything. They said
they switched "fulfillment houses" and were trying to contact them
about it.
Then the "fulfillment" house called --
they said they have a "issue" with UPS right now and that it
was UPS's fault.
Whatever ....
The bottom line is I had to refuse the shipment and I was really
looking forward to trying it out. I guess I'll wait until cheap bytes
comes out with a cd.
Bill
--
Bill Ramsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:17:16 GMT
> I spent ages trying to get this card (onboard) to work using
sndconfig
> which did work whilst in session then disappeared once rebooted. I
> eventually bought a SB128pci, massive improvement, should have done it
a
> while ago.
>
> Ali
I agree with this post... I went out and bought a SB512PCI and once
again life was good in the Land of Milk and Honey...
--Dave
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From: Marble Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: help to delete file(hosts.allow,hosts.deny )
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:27:01 -0400
(S)he's not talking about the contents of the file. (S)he's talking about file
name, owner, group, etc.
Michael Erskine wrote:
> lckun wrote:
>
> > hosts.allow root ftp 0 ...
> > hosts.deny root ftp 0 ....
>
> Why would those files have that data? Anyone understand what that would do or
> how it got there?
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Lee
>
> --
> Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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From: "Larry Krigbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56k modem works *only at 14.4*-> IRQ 0?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:34:50 -0500
I just went through the same thing, and it's (almost) definitely an
interrupt problem. This exact problem is also addressed specifically in the
ppp How-To in it's own section. There is either an interrupt conflict or as
another responder suggested, setserial is picking up the wrong info.
Setting the IRQ to 0 turns off the interrupts and starts polling, avoiding
the problem but it's not a good way to run. I strongly suggest reading the
How-To.
"Jonathan C Busey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This isn't a typical modem question about getting things to work or
> connecting for the first time. The modem has always worked at 56k in
> my old board and has now decided to slow down.
> Yes, it is a jumpered hard modem, uart 16550A, baud base 115200, as
> always. It is an isa aopen in an abit kt7, which has 1 isa, 6 pci,
> and 1 agp slot. I posted this message under the abit mainboard site
> about 8 days ago and still haven't gotten a response.
> lspci -v yields:
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super]
> (rev 22)
> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0000
> Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
>
> for the isa bridge
> and setserial -ga /dev/ttyS3 (that's where the modem is)
> /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 0
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000
> Flags: spd_normal skip_test auto_irq
> I can control the modem irq in the bios, but it *only works* when it's
> set to 0- and no, no amount of playing with the bios' pnp defaults and
> os settings helps.
> IRQ 10 is the agp card, 15 is my scsi card, 5 is the sound device.
> Here's my /proc/interrups:
> CPU0
> 0: 2393921 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 8812 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 5: 25717 XT-PIC es1371
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 12: 22236 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 15: 20536 XT-PIC aic7xxx
> NMI: 0
>
> The basic problem is that this exact modem was downloading at 10k/sec
> in my old dell workstation (sold, can no longer test) and now runs
> only at 14.4, and the baud is *not set* to 57,600.
> I've read all serial, pnp, and modem howtos, combed through dejanews,
> the debian mailing lists, and all linux guides, but none mention this
> problem.
> Could it be a wrong module or an interrupt problem? What can slow a
> modem down? Anyone ever been faced with this before?
> I'm at my wits' end.
> Any ideas will be eagerly read and immediately tested.
> Thanks a mil,
> Jon
> --
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Backup
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:26:49 GMT
> IMHO, Arkeia is overkill for a stand-alone PC.
A simple shell script with
> tar does the trick, and has the advantage of
easier recovery in case of
> massive disk failure.
>
Hi,
i built a tarball and put it on the tapedrive,
but i wonder how i can get it from the tape
again. Anyone can explain a bit? thanks,
remi
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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: file is *really* tough to delete
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:02:23 +1100
Jim Schlemmer wrote:
>
> Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>
> > To remove a file you must have permission to modify the directory
> > that points to the file. So, check the perms of /usr/bin to see
> > that you can delete from there.
>
> Um, this is being done as root.
>
> -jim
I was able to duplicate your problem. I made a copy of rm calling it
rmm,
made it owned by a non-root user, and set uid. I then touched foo in
/usr/bin and
issued 'rmm -f ffff'. This gave a permission denied.
[root@tardis bin]# ls -l rmm
-r-sr-xr-x 1 franner root 20240 Oct 21 01:50 rmm
[root@tardis bin]# ls -l ffff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 21 01:49 ffff
[root@tardis bin]# ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Oct 21 01:50 .
[root@tardis bin]# ./rmm ffff
./rmm: remove write-protected file `ffff'? y
./rmm: cannot unlink `ffff': Permission denied
Regards, Frank Ranner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP Deskjet 690C Printer
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:38:09 GMT
Hi.
How can i make ghostscript to print at draft (fast) quality with my
"HP Deskjet 690C" printer ?
thanks .
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From: "Lodo Nicolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: R: recovering data from tape
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:54:06 GMT
--
E pensare che ti ho fatta studiare a Detroit
( Jonny Stecchino )
mb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
8spoj3$726$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello,
> After a lot of troubles i've got my tape backup drive (onstream DI30)
fully
> working :-)
>
> I can write tar files to it without any trouble.
> with "tar tvbf 64 /dev/ht0" i can see what is on the tape and all looks
very
> well. The one problem i have now is that i'm not able to restore the data
> from the tar on the tape, back to my hda1.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Martijn
>
>
Which message do you get ?
E pensare che ti ho fatta studiare a Detroit
( Jonny Stecchino )
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