Linux-Misc Digest #95, Volume #26 Sat, 21 Oct 00 00:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Making X start with num lock on (Wayne Pollock)
Re: Dialing up a Windows PPP server (John Hasler)
Linux firewall and win98 games (craig)
Install eDesktop 2.4 on Windows ME ("Gordon Berta")
Re: Linux PDA (Christopher Browne)
Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees (Christopher Browne)
Re: Irritating logon screen error. (Fester)
How do I install a new video driver? ("Lamar Thomas")
Re: gnome library dependancy ("David ....")
Re: httpd (David M. Cook)
Re: 56k modem works *only at 14.4*-> IRQ 0? (Jonathan C Busey)
Help me choose the best fileserver OS for a Compaq proliant server. ("dcs")
Re: Which windowing system? X-windows? ("gSe7eN")
Re: Could I ask for some directions? (Jack Daly)
Re: MySQL - User can not access database ("Les Mikesell")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Help me choose the best fileserver OS for a Compaq proliant server. (Martin
Foster)
Re: Chinese ownership of adobe.com name (Rod Smith)
Re: How do I install a new video driver? (sena)
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making X start with num lock on
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:13:34 -0400
It took a long while to fix this when I installed Linux, but
I finally found an answer. Firstly, for the non-GUI virtual
consoles add "setleds" to your rc.local file (see "man setleds").
For X, you need to run a small program that turns this on. No
doubt there is a file somewhere that this command can be placed in,
but I just put it in my .bash_profile.
The command floating around the internet doesn't work (xNumLock),
but there is a very short C program I found on the SUSe web site.
Download that, compile it with:
cc -o numLockOn name_of_downloaded_file.c
and put it where it will be run when X starts.
Sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm not at home now and once
I installed this I promptly forgot all about it.
-Wayne Pollock
Eduardo M Kalinowski wrote:
>
> Is there a way to make X start with Num Lock on? I've been able to
> do this in the console, but when X starts it turns off Num Lock.
>
> Thanks,
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dialing up a Windows PPP server
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:08:50 GMT
Andrew J. Perrin writes:
> My primary ISP is a university office that runs a PPP server under NT.
You need to setup ppp to use mschap authentication. Exactly how you do
this depends on your distribution. You don't need a chat script.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux firewall and win98 games
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:23:58 -0700
Have any of you successfully set up a Linux firewall so that Win98 games
behind it can run through it. Specifically Microsoft gaming Zone.
Redhat 6.2. .
Can you let me know what sequence of commands you used or send me the
rc.local, rc.firewall and rc.portfw
Thanks
craig h
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From: "Gordon Berta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Install eDesktop 2.4 on Windows ME
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:37:38 GMT
Really any one out there no how to do this without loosing windows files or
operating system.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: Linux PDA
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:37:54 GMT
In our last episode (Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:04:50 -0400),
the artist formerly known as David W. Swager said:
>"Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8snb63$s10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> New palm device using Linux Open Source!
>>
>> http://www.agendacomputing.com/
>
>Looks interesting. Very light, but limited to 8mb+8MB. Decent 66Mhz
>processor.
>
>I know Compaq (I hate them!) have a linux build running on the Ipaq 3650
>(206 Mhz) in place of Pocket PC OS. Rumor is it is pretty sweet, but there
>are interoperability problems with both Palm and Pocket PC.
It will be interesting to see the stuff that comes out over about the
next year. There are several vendors "playing" with Linux-based PDAs;
add to the list the Samsung Yopy, which has quite similar specs to the
iPAQ unit, and possibly something called "Palmax."
The problem at this point is that the PDAs are just a bit less
powerful than they need be. Give another year for 256MB CompactFlash
cards to come down to Less Outrageous prices, and for there to be
ready availability of either:
a) CompactFlash Ethernet for Pretty Cheap, or
b) USB-based interfaces for Pretty cheap,
as well as for there to be support for connecting up USB keyboards to
the PDAs and they'll become of greatly more interest.
<http://www.handhelds.org/> is a pretty relevant site, by the way...
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "acm.org")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/pims.html>
"If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services
on the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work."
-- Chairman of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Beware of Stormix Brokerage Fees
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:38:02 GMT
In our last episode (20 Oct 2000 15:40:05 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Bill Ramsey said:
>Why would Stormix work with such a company? I've emailed and left
>messages with Stormix but they have not replyed.
They probably didn't know that this was an issue.
<public-announcement>
Remember, children, _never_ use UPS for anything that crosses a
national border unless you are buying a major lot of stuff where
paying an extra $40 can disappear as noise...
</public-announcement>
[...As Chris remembers back to ordering an Atari acoustic modem for
$12, to which UPS appended a "brokerage fee" of $35, back in the days
when both $12 _and_ $35 was really worth something...]
By all means, let Stormix know of your displeasure with their shipper
of choice; after a few reports of this sort, they _will_ figure out
that it is a matter of importance to what they want to be a customer
base.
I'd spend the $0.25 on a phone call, or $0.50 on a stamp to send a
letter; it's all too easy for email to get stuck in a queue somewhere.
Automation means that drafting up a letter doesn't need to take much
time...
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "ntlug.org")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linux.html>
"Windows NT was designed to be administered by an idiot and usually
is..." -- Chris Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: Irritating logon screen error.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:05:43 GMT
I saw Victor Dods rant about the following:
>Hi,
>
> I have a very strange problem with my logon screen (graphical X Windows
>logon). It displays like normal, I enter my username and password, and
>then it goes back to the logon screen without any sort of error message
>or anything. I run KDE 1, on Corel Linux second edition. This error
>happens after I install QT version 1.44. Unfortunately, in order to
>install some programs I need, exactly version 1.44 is required. Could
>this be a simple problem like I'm not running ldconfig, or something
>similar? I would very much appreciate help. Thank you.
I had this problem after I installed RH7. The problem was that
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession had been renamed. Make sure yours is there.
Could be an entirely different problem, though.
--
-- Fester
"And Dream dreams of the future. Progress dreams of clean.
And Stress only dreams about stress, all over everything."
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: How do I install a new video driver?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:10:03 GMT
I just downloaded a new Linux video driver for my NVidia TNT2 M64 video card
but I don't know how to install it. Can anyone help? I am running RH 6.2
and the GNome interface. The name of the file that I downloaded is:
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm. I am new to Linux and thanks for any
help.
Regards,
Lamar
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gnome library dependancy
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:07:45 -0400
Eric B Powell wrote:
>
> I am trying to install the pspell RPM and the Balsa 1.0pre2 packages but
> RPM keeps throwing a dependacy problem about the file
>
> libltdl.so
>
> Any clues what or where this critter lives?
It is included in the "libtool" package.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: httpd
Date: 21 Oct 2000 03:19:47 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:53:18 -0700, Chris Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>- cannot determine local host name -
Check the format of /etc/hosts. It should be something like
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.1 foobar.baz.com foobar
You can also set the ServerName in httpd.conf.
Dave Cook
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From: Jonathan C Busey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56k modem works *only at 14.4*-> IRQ 0?
Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:23:01 -0400
That's unbelievable. It worked.
I just ran the test (logon and "lynx freshmeat.net", which usually
shows me ... at 0k ...) and saw the blazing 11k reached.
I could *not* get setserial to do it directly, but changed
/etc/rcS.d/S40setserial which on debian is link to
/etc/init.d/setserial, so that the last line read
setserial ... irq 3 ...
and changed all other devices that previously had 3 to 4. Doing this
by hand didn't work-I had to reboot, I guess to get all irq systemwide
setup at once-and I'm off again.
Thanks for the advice, now it's the ethernet card!
Jon
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From: "dcs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Help me choose the best fileserver OS for a Compaq proliant server.
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:12:20 GMT
Hi,
I am not trying to start a religious war here. I am simply trying to decide
on the best platform to choose for my particular application. I come from a
Windows NT background, so I can't say I know much about Unix. Last time I
touched Unix, it was SunOS 4.x (if that qualifies as unix :). I played with
Linux a bit, but not enough to appreciate what it has to offer.
Anyway, I want to build the highest throughput file server I can manage. I
don't care about web capabilities, I don't care about database performance.
I just want to be able to receive and spit out files fast. I don't even care
if it runs DOOM. :)
So here is my question:
In view of my hardware (Compaq Proliant 4-way or 8-way Xeon server, gigabit
NICs, about 1 GB of ram, Compaq disk array controller (possibly
fibrechannel).. which OS would support this hardware the best? Since I don't
see drivers for any of the BSD* OSs on the Compaq web site, do I need to
rule out BSD? Also, what about SMP support?
As a background, the current implementation uses Windows NT 4.0. The gigabit
NICs have only had a 10% usage max, so I believe that the current bottlenect
is the server and not the network. The average client load is about 40
clients, with peaks of about 150 clients. The server serves various sized
files, from 1 byte to 500 MB.
Some of our guys have done some preliminary tests which indicated that with
one or two clients, a redhat linux distribution outperformed Windows NT4 at
throughput (reading the file and sending it through a TCP socket to the
client) by 80% (I'm being conservative.. some claimed 150% peformance
improvement). However, I am concerned about some things I saw on the net,
specifically bad performance of Linux under high client load.
I would appreciate any input anyone can offer. I don't have the bandwidth to
benchmark all these OSs, so I hope the net.community can help me narrow down
my choices. Here are my choices:
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Linux (RedHat or TurboLinux Server 6.x)
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 is the expensive option, given that I'd need to buy about 200
licenses, but I was told money was no object. :)
If you wish to reply by mail, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or remove
the NOSPAM_ in front of my email address.
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From: "gSe7eN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which windowing system? X-windows?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:57:18 GMT
I'm sorry to tell you, but there's no such thing as X-windows.
Bill Kocynjski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to write a program using graphics to display data, using OpenGL.
> I can develop under Linux, Mac OS X, Unix on SGI. My primary requirement
> is portability. I am a post doc, and will be moving to a new position soon
> and
> don't know what hardware will be available there. This will be a program
under
> perpetual development for use by me and perhaps a few others.
>
> Should I use X-windows? Are there other GUIs more popular in the
> Linux/Unix/Mac OS X world? If I develop for one of them, will I be able to
> move my application to the other unix platforms easily?
>
> Thanks
> Bill
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From: Jack Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Could I ask for some directions?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:38:02 -0400
Try "Running Linux" pub. by O'Reilly & assoc. Mid $30, but way more
valuable for a newbie than the big fat $50 handbooks for the various
distros you'll see, (though if you can pick up one of those cheap then do
so), but the "Running Linux" is a great intro, especially for Windows
users going to a dual boot scenario.
And searching from www.google.com/linux will turn up a wealth of free
info.
> Yeah, I'm what some would call a 'newbie' to Linux. Could some of you
> 'gurus' point me someplace that has some good Linux fundamentals? I've seen
> a lot of places that profess to help the newbie, but they explain things
> without explaining them. Know what I mean?
>
> They'll give a big speech on loading drivers or something, but then they'll
> mention all of these obscure config files and .so files. What the heck are
> those?
>
> Any good books or URLs that you can suggest would be great!
>
> Also, I've got a question about Gnome. I'm trying to make the jump from
> Fascisoft Windows to Linux but I'm tripping over some things. Here's the
> question:
>
> I've got RedHat 7 installed with Sawfish running Gnome. I want to install a
> cool theme for Gnome that I downloaded, but when I choose "install new
> theme" and select the file it doesn't show up in the window of choices. I
> think it installed because it created a .themes folder in my home directory
> and copied a bunch of junk in there, but I can't seem to get it installed.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> MM
>
>
>
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From: "Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MySQL - User can not access database
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:50:01 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8sq794$mjl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> MySQL - User can not access database
>
> I login as root and did the following
> Command->mysqladmin create testDB
> Command->mysql
> then I did the following
> use testDB
> create table t_table (id int, note text);
> insert into t_table ('1','this note');
> insert into user values ("localhost","jsmith",password
> ('xxxx'),'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y');
> quit;
>
> Then I did the following
> command-> mysql -u jsmith
> use testDB
>
> I get the following error
> ERROR: 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'testDB'
>
Did you:
mysqladmin flush privileges
after changing the user database?
Les Mikesell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:54:45 GMT
In our last episode (Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:54:52 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Matt Garman said:
>If the scientist's job is scientific *work* and the editor's job is
>*typesetting*, why does the scientist need to bother with anything but a
>text editor (and something separate for graphs or illustrations, of
>course)?
True enough.
>If the scientist submits something that's going to be re-typeset by the
>editor anyway, it's foolish to use Word or LaTeX. It seems that in this
>case, the journals should *only* accept in plain text format. What are
>the chances that a scientist is going to submit his article in *exactly*
>the format required by the journal? So, clearly the editor is going to
>spend some time formatting the article to meet the needs of the journal.
>I don't think the editor is going to lose any more time if the article was
>submitted in plain text.
Actually, I would think this an argument in favor of the _wisdom_ of
using LaTeX.
The scientist, having some mathematical equations in the report,
obviously needs to represent them somehow. LaTeX provides that.
The major alternative would be TeX, which leads you down the road
towards the more intimate control that I'd think we were trying
to get away from, so as to leave layout in the hands of the editor.
Further, the other _major_ thing that one does in LaTeX, namely
indicating paragraph structure, section structure, and such, can
be nicely accomplished using the default LaTeX macros such as
\section{Whatever}. This does not determine layout; the layout
editor is free to define \section to provide whatever layout she
desires.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/document.html>
Where do you want to Tell Microsoft To Go Today?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:54:57 GMT
In our last episode (Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:03:03 -0700),
the artist formerly known as Matt O'Toole said:
>
>"Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In our last episode (Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:28:19 +0400),
>> the artist formerly known as Jan Schaumann said:
>> >"Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> >>>Garry Knight wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>>Most of the word processors I've come across can import and export RTF
>> >>>>pretty well.
>> >>>
>> >>>The most portable document format is PDF (Portable Document FOrmat -
>> >>>D'uh). RTF is not half as portable.
>> >>
>> >> Great. Let's see you "port" a PDF document into Word 97.
>> >
>> >See <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> further below.
>> >
>> >Opening one document-type with an application that is not intended to
>> >handle that type can not produce the correct output.
>> >
>> >*You* try opening a word-document with xv.
>>
>> The point, which should be underlined by virtue of the Subject: line
>> above that asks
>> "Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?"
>> is whether there is something sufficiently analagous to MS Word.
>>
>> One of the properties of MS Word is that it is used to read, view,
>> _AND MODIFY_ documents prepared using the formats that it accepts.
>
>There are plenty of "analagous" programs. That you're not aware of
>Wordperfect and Staroffice for Linux is amazing. Either will open and edit
>Word files, though perhaps not the very latest version of Word. OTOH,
>neither will older versions of Word.
_Of course_ I'm aware of their existence. The point in this part of
the thread was not to deal with what software might read Word "*.DOC"
documents, but rather to respond to the suggestion that Adobe's
PDF format was somehow relevant.
>BTW, I've found RTF files to be no more reliable than Word files, or
>any other word processor file format. For this reason, I have all the
>major word processing programs installed on my machine. Sometimes I'll
>get a .wp or .lwp or .rtf or even .ps file that can't be opened by one
>program, but for some inexplicable reason can be opened by another. So,
>true cross platform, or even multi program compatibility is a myth.
>Except for ASCII. So stick with that unless it's absolutely necessary.
I can't disagree with that; I've seen all sorts of data formats "crash"
all sorts of programs.
>I've found that of all the major programs, that Staroffice for either
>Windows or Linux is the best at opening "foreign" file formats. Lotus
>Wordpro is pretty good, too. Wordperfect is probably the most finicky.
>YMMV, depending on which .dlls are broken in your Windows system. ;-)
You should take a look at a document on my laptop that has Lotus
WordPro installed; the document is in the "native" WordPro format, and
makes WordPro crash. And it's just a simple 2 page report. I'll have
to go with "flakey, flakey..."
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/wp.html>
Where do you want to Tell Microsoft To Go Today?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:55:03 GMT
In our last episode (Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:02:55 -0400),
the artist formerly known as Jean-David Beyer said:
>I typed a little letter, using the letter template, with several paragraphs in
>it. It displays nicely on the screen. I set it up to indent the first line of
>each paragraph, and it appears just like that on the screen. But when I print
>it, the paragraphs are all unindented. Am I missing something, or is there a
>bug?
Hmmmm... This sounds like default LaTeX behaviour whereby there _isn't_ an
indentation in the output using the default \documentclass{letter}
I haven't fiddled with it in a while; I don't have a good _answer_ to
this...
>Its print quality is good; a little nicer than Applix words, I think.
It should be pretty good; it's using TeX to render the results...
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"Never make any mistaeks." (Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a
kernel bug report.)
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From: Martin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help me choose the best fileserver OS for a Compaq proliant server.
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:59:55 GMT
dcs wrote:
>
>
> FreeBSD
> NetBSD
> OpenBSD
> Linux (RedHat or TurboLinux Server 6.x)
> Windows 2000
>
> Windows 2000 is the expensive option, given that I'd need to buy about 200
> licenses, but I was told money was no object. :)
>
> If you wish to reply by mail, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or remove
> the NOSPAM_ in front of my email address.
OpenBSD does not have SMP support as yet, so you may wish to rule out
OpenBSD for that as of yet. Though, I can attest at having reduced
complaints and increased speed when we switched the file server from NT
4.0 Server (PIII 550e, 384Meg) to a OpenBSD box running on reduced
hardware (PIII 500 64Meg). The current load is increasing and we have
roughly twenty five concurrent clients at peak.
As for choices you forget a few. You can take a look at Sun Solaris 8
which if the hardware is supported is known to handle itself quite well
(multi-processor, memory handling et cetera). Though, I believe there
is a cost to the software, (free version for non commercial use) it is
probably less then Windows 2000 either way. There is also SCO Unixware
and OpenServer. I have no experience with it in any way shape or
form.
If you can choose the file system, I would recommend a good journalling
file system. Linux has quite a few in prototype stages, not sure on the
other Unix like operating system around. Anyone care to comment?
Linux is not known to handle multiple processors very well. In fact, I
believe anything above two carries with it a performance hit. This has
apparently been improved in the 2.4.0 kernel series as soon as it is
released. Linux really shines on lower end hardware (not implying that
the *BSD's do not), but can take a hit on opposite spectrum specially if
the drivers have yet to mature.
Martin Foster
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Chinese ownership of adobe.com name
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:03:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
> 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.
Actually, it does seem to go further than that:
$ whois -h whois.paycenter.com.cn adobe.com
...
Registrant:
Adobe Systems Inc
345 Park Avenue, E7
CA Fujian 000000
China
[Several specific contacts in China omitted.]
Try this (with the appropriate whois server) for other domains, and you
get the address of the company that owns the domain, not the registrar.
For instance:
$ whois -h whois.opensrs.net linux.com
Registrant:
VA Linux Systems
1382 Bordeaux Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
US
[specific contacts in the U.S. omitted.]
My first guess about this is that, for whatever reason, Adobe chose to
register using a Chinese registrar and listed their Chinese offices with
that registration. Unfortunately for this hypothesis, there's no Chinese
office listed at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html, although
of course that page could be incomplete. It's also possible that Adobe
chose to use a Chinese registrar and that the registrar bungled the
address, listing their own instead of Adobe's. Still, it doesn't look
like anything sinister to me at this point.
BTW, what does any of this have to do with Linux? Maybe it belongs on
alt.conspiracy or
alt.conspiracy.im-taking.over-the.world.starting.with-usenet. Followups
set appropriately.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sena)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do I install a new video driver?
Date: 21 Oct 2000 03:18:07 GMT
I heard Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saying:
>I just downloaded a new Linux video driver for my NVidia TNT2 M64 video card
>but I don't know how to install it. Can anyone help? I am running RH 6.2
>and the GNome interface. The name of the file that I downloaded is:
>NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm. I am new to Linux and thanks for any
>help.
>
To install RPM files, do this on the console (or on an xterm):
"rpm -i package_name-version.proc.rpm"
or, in your case:
"rpm -i NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm"
Regards, sena...
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