Linux-Misc Digest #156, Volume #26 Fri, 27 Oct 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Copy CD to hard disk (Frank Reifenstahl)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Da FaNToM")
Re: RedHat 7 and ABIT KT7-RAID ("Alim")
Re: Help: Can Dial in to PPP server, can't get out of it ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Joe Schaefer)
Re: Microsoft Linux? ("David ..")
Re: Need help configuring modem using SuSE (David Hassett)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Tim Haynes)
Re: Netscape sucks: alternatives? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: CPU frequency into my program (Karsten Wutzke)
Encoding Images and audio to MPEG using linux app? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape sucks: alternatives? (Anthony Campbell)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Bjorn Granfeldt)
Re: CPU frequency into my program (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Mutt kills Linus. (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: /opt? (Johan Kullstam)
PHP function error (Rafael - LumesITSupport)
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From: Frank Reifenstahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Copy CD to hard disk
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:13:03 GMT
Hi & Help!,
how can I copy a html-based manual from CD to hard disk without loosing
information of upper/lower cases in file names or setting the filenames
to correct cases respectively? In most cases, after copying to hard disk
the well-liked "file not found" appears. Some time ago I had read
something about setting one of those LANG_XXX environment variables...
Thanx
Frank
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From: "Da FaNToM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:21:17 GMT
My experience with Win2000 was not all that good.
Firstly my soundcard is an older isa Opti16. Windows 2000 does not supprt
old, obscure hardware like Linux does. As it uses its own drivers which are
not compatible with the Win95/98 drivers.
Secondly it was very heavy on the resources as compared to dare I say it
Windows 98. I actually switched back to Windows 98 as everything worked on
it properly (as much as anything could on a Windows based machine) so that I
could actually do my school work. (needed visual basic for parts of my
courses).
Even though it does support DirectX 7 (i think that's right) and allows you
to play games and other graphics related stuff it was just so damn sluggish
that it was useless.
And after about 2 months of running it, it just bogged down so much that I
formatted, recreated the filesystem for those out there that are picky, and
installed 98 to finish out there year. Then its back to linux, which I find
a lot tidier that Windows.
However I can see the side of the argument of how easy windows is to use.
Linux is catching up with distributions such as RedHat 7 and Mandrake etc.
Linux can become a HUGE nightmare. I remember when I had to convert from
libc5 to libc6. That was not an easy feet for a beginner at the time. Then
it came preinstalled on Dists a couple weeks later hehehe ;)
But so can Windows. I've never had so much trouble with setting up a sound
card as I did with my Opti16 in both Windows 98 and 2000. They just wouldn't
detect it properly.
But Linux worked first off.
So its all relative basically. If you hate text and want to marry your mouse
wait a while and Linux will be up to speed in the user friendly department.
But remember Windows is not always easy to use and can be a real pain in the
ass if you get some error windows having no loggin functions for that
saughta thing you dunno if its your computer, windows or the software.
Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > LinkSys betrayed us!
> [snip]
> > LinkSys should have given us a working binary files
>
> For what? Kernel modules? Sod that for a lark.
>
> [snip]
> > Linux has a long way to go before it can become a common platform, if at
> > all.
>
> That's OK. Given the average luser out there, I'd be quite glad of it
> staying of some appeal to those of us who've tried our best to support it
> over the past 7 years rather than just jumping on the bandwagonised works
> of others.
> [snip]
>
> > Too much time/effort is required to use Linux. However,
> > Win2K is just as stable, but easy and user-friendly. How much is my time
> > worth? How much is Win2K? Win2K starts to seem pretty attractive,...
>
> Go ahead, bake my quiche, but I challenge *you* to have a bootable floppy
> that installs 2k with custom options & packages in 5 minutes, ready in
> under a day.
>
> ~Tim
> --
> 8:47am up 73 days, 10:26, 11 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.01
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Bagpuss gave a big yawn,
> http://piglet.is.dreaming.org |and settled down to sleep.
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 7 and ABIT KT7-RAID
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:18:57 +0100
See now I've kind of sorted this out...
I attached the HD to IDE1 and installed normally, then downloaded
kernel-2.4.0test9 and compiled it with built-in support for the HPT366
chipset. This has support for HPT370 integrated within. Then I changed lilo
to work with hde instead of hda (you will need to see how many other devices
are on your ide controllers, but hde should work:
IDE1:1=hda
IDE1:2=hdb
IDE2:1=hdc
IDE2:2=hdd
IDE3:1(HPT370)=hde
etc...)
When the drive was reattached to the HPT370, all was well. Now I just need
to sort out the Soundblaster Live to work for all users all the time. Only
root seems to have the ability to output to it intermittently. Must keep
trying though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: Can Dial in to PPP server, can't get out of it
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:33:39 GMT
Ciao Erik.
Sorry to avoid replying to your mail, but I would
be interested in knowing how you did set up you
mgetty and ppp stuuf to allow Windows 95 to dial
in.
I'm trying since a couple of days but get stuck
in protocol negotiation :-(
Should you have some sample file, could you e-
mail'em at [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Thanks a lot and have a nice day.
Marco ;-)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello-
> I'm setting up a RH6.1 "dialin server" using
mgetty and pppd. I can dial
> in with Windows clients and get things going.
However, I am unable to
> get out of the server to any other machine on
the server's network. I
> cannot resolve host names nor get out to any
known IPs. The dialin
> server runs apache and the client box can
connect to that web using the
> server's IP (but not hostname.)
>
> /etc/ppp/options has the following line:
>
> ms-dns xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> This network is a frame relay and has a
specific gateway at each segment
> (between me and the dns') but I cannot see what
needs doing.
>
> Any ideas of what to try?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please email)
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
From: Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Oct 2000 06:44:09 -0400
Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Go ahead, bake my quiche, but I challenge *you* to have a bootable floppy
> that installs 2k with custom options & packages in 5 minutes, ready in
> under a day.
Hey now, we wouldn't want him to violate his EULA, would we?
--
Joe Schaefer
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:38:14 -0500
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
>
> I am not talking about file systems. In a Microsoft dominated world,
> you may have to access web sites designed to work well only with
> Microsoft products. You may have to read word processing documents
> readable only with Microsoft products. The list is endless. Were
> Microsoft to play fair and abide by open standards, there would be
> a "free market" in which all could compete. But they don't. It
> is as if we had to drive on a tollway where cars made by General
> Motors could breeze through the toll booths because they were
> tuned specially to work for such cars automatically and others
> had to insert the toll in pennies, and even then some toll booths
> would refuse to let your car through. You might have a marvel of
> technology in your car, but you would have a hard time getting
> anywhere on such a road.
So what is the problem??
Microsoft.
Linux isn't proprietary.
--
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: David Hassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.laptops,comp.os.linux.portables
Subject: Re: Need help configuring modem using SuSE
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:47:20 +0100
[[ Follow-ups set to news://comp.os.linux.questions ]]
Collene Pearce wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq Presario 1200XL-119. I have a new
> install of Suse 6.4 on it. Naturally, it did not recognize
> my modem or sound board. They both appear to be PCI devices.
>
> Output from an lspci command shows a Lucent 56k WinModem (rev01)
Normally I would now say forget trying to install the modem at all,
since it is a software 'Winmodem'. But I also see it is made by Lucent
so we should be okay...
> at IRQ 9, Memory at f4000000, I/O Ports at 1838 and at 1400.
> (what kind of a port addr is 1838, anyway)
>
> I've downloaded the lucent driver and tried to install it. However,
> when I try to install it with 'ltinst", it fails on the
> "/sbin/insmod -v -f ltmodem" command, with the error message:
> "insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found"
> However, the /dev/ttyS14 device node is there and the ltmodem.o
> gets delivered to the correct directory.
Open the ltinst script in an editor and change the line:
/sbin/insmod -v -f ltmodem
to:
/sbin/insmod -v -f -o /lib/modules/Your-kernel-here/net/ltmodem.o
i.e. explicitly state the whole path of the module.
Perhaps this will help.
Cheers,
Dave. :-)
P.S. Was it really necessary to cross post to _SEVEN_ newsgroups? Pick
one, wait, if you get no response, choose another. Don't flood the 'net
with multiple copies of your message unnecessarily. :-) Follow-up set.
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 27 Oct 2000 11:52:27 +0100
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Go ahead, bake my quiche, but I challenge *you* to have a bootable
> > floppy that installs 2k with custom options & packages in 5 minutes,
> > ready in under a day.
>
> Hey now, we wouldn't want him to violate his EULA, would we?
*Shrug*. EULA, what's that then? ;) That's so much a SEP(TM), they might
as well write it no pink bogroll...
~Tim
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape sucks: alternatives?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:24:43 -0400
Andrew Purugganan wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> [ user_pref("browser.cache.directory", "/home/jdbeyer/.netscape/cache/");
> [ >>>---------------------------^
>
> [ This final slash is the key: it must be there.
>
> Don't get this the wrong way, but HOW DO YOU FIND OUT ALL THIS STUFF???
I do not take it the wrong way. I got it the same way you did: someone
posted it on this (or a similar) newsgroup, I fixed it in my preferences.js
file, and remembered it (I remember mostly useless stuff, but this time my
memory came through with something useful).
> It sounds so 'X-Files', like Deep THroat talking to you in a parking
> garage in the middle of the night:
>
> The final slash is the key: it must be there. OOoooooh
>
> Us newbies don't stand a chance with secrets like this
> --
> jazz
> Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
> Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
> --- OUT THERE??
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/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
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From: Karsten Wutzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU frequency into my program
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:34:58 +0200
>
> The stderr stream is the standard error output stream, it's a C
> standard thing. I don't know anything about a 'stdaux' (it's not
> mentioned in the C or C++ standards and not in the Single Unix
> Specification).
>
> The function you want is not in the C standard.
>
> There *is* a 'popen' (and 'pclose' (!)) function in the Single Unix
> Specification (v2) that might interest you (read its manual page), but
> please note that any program that relies on the location of shell
> command binaries are most of the time pretty useless on other systems
> than your own.
>
> /A
>
OK. For now I'll go by redirecting the output of the cat /proc/cpuinfo ...
command into a file and read that. It suffices for what I need right now. When I
have more time, I will look into the BogoMips stuff. One last question: Is there
a good file name which I can use to store the float? Like: "__freq__", which is
not a file from another program by a probability of 99.99999%?
Thanks for your time AND patience!
Karsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Encoding Images and audio to MPEG using linux app?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:20:51 GMT
I have a series of JPG images and an audio track which I have set up to
display withing xanim with some success. I would like to encode the
images to an mpeg or mov file which I could share with my NON-linux
friends. (actually, parents of graduates whos images are the
"graduation presentation")
I have resorted to focusing a video camera on an LCD screen with some
minor success, but would like to do better.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: Netscape sucks: alternatives?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Oct 2000 12:43:22 GMT
On 26 Oct 2000 17:52:17 GMT, Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jean-David Beyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>[ user_pref("browser.cache.directory", "/home/jdbeyer/.netscape/cache/");
>[ >>>---------------------------^
>
>[ This final slash is the key: it must be there.
>
Why doesn't Netscape put this in automatically? Another bug?
Anthony
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Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
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From: Bjorn Granfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:33:42 +0000
> Hey now, we wouldn't want him to violate his EULA, would we?
Speaking about the EULA...
It is impossible (almost) to buy a new computer without a Windows license,
unless you go for a non branded one, and when you try to get rid of the crap,
and get refunded for the unused license of Win whatever, referring to the
terms of the
(in)famous EULA, you end up in a grey zone between the Microsoft and the
computer
manufacturer, since none of the want to fulfill their part of the
EULA agreement - which
is very simple, as stated in the licence. REFUND THE MONEY!!
As i remember it, the Windows Refund day wasn't a big hit, and M$ even called
the police to
get rid of the people wanting refunds for their unused licenses.
I believe that the companies that has begun to ship their machines with Linux
as preinstalled os
is doing the right thing, regardless of which os the end user wants.
They do not charge for the Windows license, since it comes on top of the price
if you want it,
and still, you have a working machine out of the box when it arrives.
If you don't want linux, no loss of yours - just buy the CD (which you will
not get if you
buy preinstalled), and slip it into the drive.
I do not think it is fair to have a product you don't want, forced on you,
especially
when you have to pay for it....
Once, i spoke to a supplier on behalf of a customer, when the supplier
said that there were no warranty on the machine (HW) if he removed the Win
software....
I had to have the manufacturer call him up and tell him the real story, that
he could not
deny HW support once he sold the machine, regardless of the OS, and that it
didn't
matter what he thought about it.
(Compaq, be honoured!)
// BG
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU frequency into my program
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:47:25 -0400
Karsten Wutzke wrote:
> >
> > The stderr stream is the standard error output stream, it's a C
> > standard thing. I don't know anything about a 'stdaux' (it's not
> > mentioned in the C or C++ standards and not in the Single Unix
> > Specification).
> >
> > The function you want is not in the C standard.
> >
> > There *is* a 'popen' (and 'pclose' (!)) function in the Single Unix
> > Specification (v2) that might interest you (read its manual page), but
> > please note that any program that relies on the location of shell
> > command binaries are most of the time pretty useless on other systems
> > than your own.
> >
> > /A
> >
>
> OK. For now I'll go by redirecting the output of the cat /proc/cpuinfo ...
Why do you not just open /proc/cpuinfo and read it into your program?
> command into a file and read that. It suffices for what I need right now. When I
> have more time, I will look into the BogoMips stuff. One last question: Is there
> a good file name which I can use to store the float? Like: "__freq__", which is
> not a file from another program by a probability of 99.99999%?
How about /tmp/currentsystemtime.myprogramid?
>
>
> Thanks for your time AND patience!
>
> Karsten
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mutt kills Linus.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:49:42 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full text of story at:
>
> http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/2829695318CF7837862569
> 82003872CE
>
> --
>
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> Before you buy.
All I get is:
HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Entry not found in index
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Subject: Re: /opt?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:51:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas K�h�ri) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> >I've always looked at the directory structure with an eye to history...
> >
> >/bin was where Unix system binaries went
>
> ...binaries essential enough to be on the same partition as the root
> partition (essential *system* binaries goes into '/sbin').
>
> >/usr/bin was where Unix application binaries went
>
> ...that doesn't need to be on the root partition.
>
> (I'm not quite sure of what the difference between an "application"
> and a "binary" (as in "program") is. I always thought they were the
> same thing. I see e.g. 'ls' as a small application.)
i thought that originally, /usr/bin was the stuff that got added by
people at berkeley.
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From: Rafael - LumesITSupport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PHP function error
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:00:17 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect()
in /home/httpd/html/test.php3 on line 12
How to correct it? Where to look for problem?
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