Linux-Misc Digest #806, Volume #26 Sun, 14 Jan 01 12:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Can you recommend a good Linux book? (H Dziardziel)
Regular Expression Question (Bob Simon)
Re: Regular Expression Question (Roy Smith)
Re: Limit of swap size? (Eric Ho)
Re: Q: Altering wav file speed (Matt Haley)
Re: Regular Expression Question (Bob Simon)
Dual-OS, Xfree screen is off.. need to adjust everytime. - help help. (John Smith)
Re: linux books, etc. (John Thompson)
Red Hat Linux 7.1 ("rick")
Where can I find more information of git and FileRunner? (Carfield Yim)
Soundblaster live on corel linux 1.2 (Houng)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Subject: Re: Can you recommend a good Linux book?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:27:45 GMT
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:18:33 -0800, "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>If you were on a desert island with your linux box, and were able to take
>only one reference / teaching book on Linux, what would it be???
>
>What do you think of O'Reilly's "Running Linux" and "Linux in a Nutshell"?
>
>I'm can't seem to find Linux tutorials that don't assume either, 1). I've
>never seen a computer before, or 2). I am an old kernel hacker who is
>reading the manual out of boredom.
>
>I am looking for resources, both in print and online that don't assume too
>much either way.
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Greg.
>
>
"LINUX Installation Configuration Use" Michael Kofler, Addison Wesley.
the English translation and the original German to really put my brain
to work.
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From: Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:30:11 GMT
I'm teaching myself unix (RH7) and am grappling with regular
expressions. Since * matches zero or more occurrences of the
preceding character, and since a regular expression matches
the LONGEST string of characters that match the pattern, why
are the following two expressions NOT equivalent?
[A-Za-z]*
[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
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From: Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:54:34 -0500
Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm teaching myself unix (RH7) and am grappling with regular
> expressions. Since * matches zero or more occurrences of the
> preceding character, and since a regular expression matches
> the LONGEST string of characters that match the pattern, why
> are the following two expressions NOT equivalent?
> [A-Za-z]*
> [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
The first RE will match zero or more letters, the second RE will match one
letter followed by zero or more letters, i.e. one or more letters. What that
boils down to is that the first RE will match the empty string, but the
second one won't.
Some RE libraries will let you write the second one as [A-Za-z]+
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Limit of swap size?
Date: 14 Jan 2001 15:05:27 GMT
Just curious ... 8 Gig of swap space ? What kind of applications do
you run ?
If your system can actually use that much of swap space, would it be
TOO SLOW because swapping occurs almost continously ?
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
> "Yuan-Sen Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:36:43 +0800, wrote :
> "Y> Hi everyone,
> "Y>
> "Y> I need a large swap space (about 8 GB) but don't know how to set it up
> "Y> (using RedHat 6.2).
> "Y>
> "Y> It seems the largest size of each swap partition is 2GB. Therefore, I
> "Y> 'swapon' 4 swap partitions. But the monitor program 'top' shows that there
> "Y> are only 4 GB of swap space is available.
> "Y>
> "Y> Is 4 GB the limitation of swap size using Linux RedHat? If not, how can
> "Y> I swapon swap space more than 4 GB?
> "Y>
> "Y> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: Q: Altering wav file speed
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:37:08 -0000
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:08:28 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. Alter the wav file to play at some
> arbitrary percentage of normal speed,
> say 80% of normal (?????)
> 4. Write the slower version to disk as a
> wav file (??????)
>Are there any tools that can help me with
>steps 3 and 4?
You might check:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/x11/sound.html
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From: Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:31:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm teaching myself unix (RH7) and am grappling with regular
> > expressions. Since * matches zero or more occurrences of the
> > preceding character, and since a regular expression matches
> > the LONGEST string of characters that match the pattern, why
> > are the following two expressions NOT equivalent?
> > [A-Za-z]*
> > [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
>
> The first RE will match zero or more letters, the second RE
> will match one letter followed by zero or more letters, i.e.
> one or more letters. What that boils down to is that the
> first RE will match the empty string, but the second one won't.
OK. But "one or more" is a subset of "zero or more" so it seems
to me that the first RE should act the same as the second (except
when there are no characters to match). It doesn't. Why?
> Some RE libraries will let you write the second one as [A-Za-z]+
Thanks.
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From: John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual-OS, Xfree screen is off.. need to adjust everytime. - help help.
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:41:57 +0800
Hi there,
I have both Windows and Linux and have been using a while quite ok.
Recently I upgrade to Mandrake7.2 which comes with XFree4.01.
I get everything working and TNT2 recognise working ok. However, the screen
for XFree is slightly off. Previously using Xfree3.36 is perfectly ok and I
know in Xfree3.36, I could use XF86Setup to 'softset' the screen after
configuring the X-server. (Was it call vidtune? the utility).
XFree4.01 does seems to have a utility like this.. so, I have to manually
set the digital monitor on my control when using different OS.
Any solve?
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux books, etc.
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 06:32:07 -0600
Adam J BC wrote:
> > You've multi-posted this message to at least two newsgroups. In the
> > future, please don't do this. If a message is really on-topic and
> > appropriate for multiple newsgroups, cross-post it by listing both
> > newsgroups on the Newsgroups line, separated by commas. This conserves
> > bandwidth and reduces wasted time as people read the post twice and
> > perhaps give multiple substantially-similar answers in both groups. It
> > also ensures that people who read just one group get the benefit of
> > answers posted by people who read just the other group. You should not,
> > however, cross-post to more than two or three groups, except under
> > truly extraordinary circumstances.
> Just curious, but what would you call "truly extraordinary circumstances"?
You know, stuff like "This is not a scam!" "Natural Viagra
alternative" &etc...
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 07:03:48 -0900
Any estimated release date for rh 7.1?
thx
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I find more information of git and FileRunner?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:21:01 +0800
As title, I find that gnu git file manager and FileRunner seen good the
use, but I can't find any information of these 2 tools, can anybody tell
me more information?
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From: Houng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster live on corel linux 1.2
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:30:03 -0000
i just installed corel linux on my computer, it is supposed to support
soundblaster live on it but right now im not getting any sound. i
downloaded the emu10k1 file from creative and tried compiling it but i get
an error that says "run make dep in my kernel source tree modversions.h is
missing". i ran make dep in my /usr/src/linux directory already and have no
idea what to do. any help would be appreciated.
thank you.
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