Linux-Misc Digest #920, Volume #26 Thu, 25 Jan 01 23:13:04 EST
Contents:
Need help with Linux and DSL (Warren Bell)
Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: where to find gettext in Suse distro (Remi Villatel)
Re: how to connect windows workstation (Micah Cowan)
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? (Pete)
Re: linux sound problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PA-RISC? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: zip parallel (Sandy Drobic)
Re: How can I search file at midnight commander? (Marc D. Williams)
unable to use net services from some hosts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help with cable modem...trying hard but nothing with @home. I pasted my
ifconfig and route info...please look (Mark Post)
What way to backup ? (Wong Sai-kee)
Re: Puzzling messages when running dmesg... (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: unable to use net services from some hosts (Paul Kimoto)
Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Good hosting service??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wmweather and Xsnow = perl fun :) (Sol ....................................)
Re: cdrecord unknown SCSI error while fixating disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wmweather and Xsnow = perl fun :) ("Jan Schaumann")
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From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with Linux and DSL
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:39:04 -0800
I'm going to be getting Pac Bell DSL and running it on Mandrake 7.2.
When I signed up they said they don't support Linux but it should work.
They also said you need their software to connect and they don't have
software for Linux.
My questin is, how do you get DSL working on Linux? With my 56k
connection I use ppp0 and the chat script that was created through
linuxconf. They say you need the software but usually with a regular ISP
you can just enter in the DNS numbers and other info yourself and chuck
the software. Can you do the same thing with DSL? It will be an
external modem connected through an ethernet card. I'm just not sure if
it needs a chat script and how I set it up to dial like ppp0.
I'm fairly familliar with Linux but don't know anything about how DSL
works.
Thanks for any info on this.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:34:23 +0100
Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>To day I tried Linux for the first time, first Storm 2000 but as I got som
>>problems I tried Red Hat 6.0 instead but got the same problem.
>>
>>When i start Linux I get an image that's far too big for my screen, that is I
>>only see the top left corner of the Linux "desktop" (if thats what it's
>>called in Linux). Does anybody know what the problem is, and especially how I
>>solve it?
> Forgot to say it's a laptop, resolution 1024*768, if that makes a difference.
No, but telling us the video card would. In any case, it's clear that
your laptop is ultra new, and RG 6.0 is ultra old. It doesn't have a
hope of having come with a driver for your card, since accurate prediction
of the future wasn't yet perfected when RH 6.0 came out a couple of
years ago.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:36:04 +0100
Bhaskar Bose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For some strange reason I cannot write to /var anymore.
> It complains that "No space left on device". However,
> there is plenty of free space left on the device .
> According to df, it says that there is 800Megs free.
Prove it. And also prove that your partition is mounted
read/write (which it plainly isn't ...).
Peter
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From: Remi Villatel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to find gettext in Suse distro
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:50:55 +0100
Andreas Moroder wrote:
> I need the gettext utility. Where can I find it in the Suse distros ?
Simply enter in a console:
% type gettext
My SuSE 7 replies:
gettext is /usr/bin/gettext
When you look for something, just type:
% type what-you're-looking-for
If it's in your $PATH, you'll find it. If it's not in your $PATH, you can try to
'su' yourself, it helps sometimes.
(FYI, 'type' is part of the builtins of BASH. RTFM!) ;-)
See ya,
=====================
Remi Villatel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=====================
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Subject: Re: how to connect windows workstation
From: Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jan 2001 17:00:10 -0800
"thehitman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi
> I am pretty new to linux and am enjoying the experience. But I have a
> problem I want to connect my 2 windows workstations via Linux on my server.
> I triple boot 3 operating systems and have internet connection sharing on
> both win 2k and win me but I have yet to figure out how i can do this with
> Linux. i have heard that you can sort this wiht a program called samba if
> someone could help I would be eternally grateful.
> thankyou
Hopefully, the LDP's SMB-HOWTO, will be of help:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
Micah Cowan
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:49:56 GMT
In article <93l3gv$mcm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running SuSE Linux 6.4, and the KDE 1 and kmail 1.0.28 that came
> with it. kmail (but nothing else) crashes every few days when
fetching
> POP-mail, freezing X(-windows) and requiring a reboot and fsck; none
of
> the escapes to text mode work. It often crashes when fetching spam
> containing Big-5 (Chinese) text, but can be killed and restarted.
Worst
> of all (in addition to a few more failure modes) it sometimes deletes
> mail on its own initiative. I'd upgrade kmail to its latest version,
> but, according to the kmail website, to do that I'd also have to
> upgrade to KDE 2, which I'd rather not take the time for at the
moment.
>
> I'm seeking recommendations for a POP-mail client that has the
features
> of kmail -- multiple mbox files ("folders") into which I can move a
set
> of selected messages from inbox with only a few key- or mouse-strokes,
> address book, spam filters, multiple sort modes, attachment and MIME
> capability, and compatibility with KDE 1. It doesn't need a builtin
> editor -- I'd be happy to use the one in Midnight Commander. Most of
> all I want it to handle my mail safely, not discarding anything I
don't
> tell it to (and even having a "trashcan" where it puts mail I do tell
it
> to discard, so I can change my mind). I'd like one that can check at
> least one POP-mail account automatically every few minutes (without
> crashing, of course).
>
> I'm very leery of kmail at this point, but I guess I'd be ok with a
later
> version that's known to have fixed these problems, and works with KDE
1.
> Eudora or Pegasus Mail would be great, but they've not been ported to
> Linux. I used to use Elm with Unix, but it doesn't have the features
> and convenience of kmail or Eudora. I don't care whether it's X- or
> curses-based (I still use lynx when I don't need the features of
> Netscape), but I'd rather, e.g., select a destination mbox file from a
> menu than type in its name each time.
>
> I could spend a week trying every MUA in linux.davecentral, but
reliability
Just done that.....
> would still be a question. So I'm asking for recommendations from
folks
> who've been using a program for at least a couple of months and who
know
> that it fulfills the above (admittedly long and picky) wishlist.
>
> Heartfelt thanks in advance!
>
> Mark S Bilk, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
>
I came up with Mahogany in the end; they're a few bit's that need fixing
but very minor ('don't ask me this again' boxs that gets ignored). I've
not managed to crash it yet (3 weeks now). It does have a waste basket
that you get asked if you want to empty when you exit.
Tip -download the rpms you need rather than the source, unless you've
got a lot of patience... I spent about 2 hours downloading various bits
and getting nowhere - I couldn't get wxWindows (which you need) to
compile at all, despite having installed everything asked for.. The rpms
work just fine though. You'll get both from http://www.sourceforge.net
Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: linux sound problem
Date: 26 Jan 2001 01:26:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:36:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I've installed xcdroast and stuff on a linux box (redhat 6.2) with
>internal ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive using ide-scsi emulation
>modules. The xcdroast seems to be working fine but I'm no longer able
>to play the musical CD any more (works before installing xcdroast). It
>doesn't do anything when clicking play button, and generate the lines in
>message log:
>
>Jan 24 15:09:02 pokemon modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
>sound-slot-0
>
>I've seen these messages before (mostly when running netscape, I think)
>and don't know whether they are the reason for musical CD not working.
Does the timer on the CD-player app count the seconds properly, and does
the light on the drive indicate that the audio CD is being read? If so,
then it's most likely a sound problem. If not, is /dev/cdrom pointing
at the right place (/dev/scd0 most likely) or the wrong place
(/dev/hdX)? fix that if that's the case.
"sound-service-0-3" is snd-pcm-oss if you're using ALSA, or just the
soundcard module name if you're using the standard kernel drivers. If
you can play sounds via xmms or wavplay, then you can ignore this
message or put a line into /etc/modules.conf to make it go away forever.
Check permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer (probably 666 for both). I
noticed when I switched my CD-RW from IDE to ide-scsi emulation, the
volume control got wonky, but I could still play audio CDs without
problems. Also make sure the CD slider on your mixer isn't set to 0.
>Thanks for any info, please reply to email addr.
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http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:36:51 GMT
>>>>> "Lloyd" == Lloyd Llewellyn
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lloyd> < etc etc > A fascinating and entirely predictable rant against
Lloyd> WYSIWYG HTML editors - but I'm looking for a decent WYSIWYG
Lloyd> HTML editor for Linux.
What is your metric for "decent"?
- _NO_ WYSIWYG HTML editor is likely to produce HTML that qualifies as
"decent" from a structural perspective.
- It is highly unlikely that there's anything that produces HTML that
is "decent" in providing good support for modern stuff like CSS, as
that cuts across the grain, essentially _preventing_ WYSIWYG.
The best you're likely to get is to look to a "wordprocessor" package
like WordPerfect, StarOffice, or ApplixWare, and use the output
converter that produces HTML.
It'll be crummy HTML underneath, but the output probably will look OK
on the web browsers you likely care about.
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/html.html
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991
is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You
would not get a high grade for such a design :-)" -- Andrew Tanenbaum
to Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PA-RISC?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:36:52 GMT
>>>>> "timjarland" == timjarland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
timjarland> Is there a Linux OS ported to PA-RISC? I'm looking for
timjarland> something to run on an HP 712/80 workstation.
See:
<http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/>
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "ac.notelrac.teneerf@" "454aa"))
http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxkernel.html
"Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the
Ferengi. Combine the Borg marketing with Ferengi networking..."
-- Andre Beck in dcouln
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Drobic)
Subject: Re: zip parallel
Date: 26 Jan 2001 01:10:00 +0100
> I have attached a parallel zip drive to my Gateway (has only one parallel
> port). In fstab, how do i add this drive? The mount point will be
> /mnt/zip (already taken care of) but which dev do I need to use?
The kernel needs general scsi support because the zip is mounted as a
pseudo scsi.
You need to load the modules for the parallel port and the zip first.
do a lsmod and look if the modules parport and ppa (or imm) have already
been loaded. If not: insmod parport; insmod imm;
Then you can mount the zip as /dev/sda4.
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
Sandy
--
Life is a sexually transmitted disease
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: How can I search file at midnight commander?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:50:39 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Jan 2001 11:58:37 GMT, Manni Heumann wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams) wrote on 23 Jan 2001:
>
>
>>The [alt]+[letter] thing works fine for me.
>>What you might want to do is test your keys. I'm assuming
>>you're using the console version of MC.
>>
>
>Alt-letter works for you? I have tor press Alt-S first.
>
>Manni
Oops. Yeah, that's what I was thinking when he said alt-letter.
I uh, blame it on late-night news reading. :-)
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: unable to use net services from some hosts
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:38:56 GMT
hello,
i upgraded to linux 2.4.0 and from then i cant access the net services
from some servers like hotmail.com or micronpc.com, i can
access all the services of other servers.
The rare thing is that i have windows running inside linux thanks to
VMWare, and from windows i can access hotmail.com and micronpc.com
without problems!!
any ideas on how to solve this?
thanks
Regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: help with cable modem...trying hard but nothing with @home. I pasted my
ifconfig and route info...please look
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:55:02 GMT
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:06:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NoClue) wrote:
>Ok here is what I get when I type route and then isconfig not in that
>order. and at the bottom is some errors that come up when starting.
>also when booting up it hangs at system log setup: for about 4 min
>then is hangs at a blank screen where the gui login should be for
>about 5 min.
-snip-
Ok, the first question is, are you sure the network card works? Have you
tried it in another system, or different operating system?
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:00:08:3E:BA
> inet addr:24.183.16.97 Bcast:24.183.16.255
>Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:128 errors:108 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:108
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x1040
>
-snip-
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
>Use Iface
>c985833-a.chmpg * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
>0 eth0
>24.183.16.0 24.183.16.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0
>0 eth0
>24.183.16.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
>0 eth0
>127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
>0 lo
>default 24.183.16.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
>0 eth0
My routing table only has three entries in it. The equivalent for you would
be:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
24.183.16.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 24.183.16.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
> modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than
>/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep
Do a 'depmod -a' command to fix this.
> httpd: httpd: cannot determine local host name.
> httpd: Use the ServerName directive to set it manually.
> httpd startup failed
Once you get your network running, this will probably take care of itself,
since the DNS lookup will then work. If not, then do what the message says,
and add a ServerName directive to your httpd.conf file.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Wong Sai-kee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What way to backup ?
Date: 26 Jan 2001 01:52:16 GMT
Currently, I'm using tar. I tried dump, and studied cpio, etc. But it
seems using tar with tape device is simple and serve the purpose.
But the tar basically doesn't support incremental backup, so I have
to do total backup every time. Even the r and u keys need to go
through the whole tape from the beginning, so its time consuming.
Any better approach for incremental backup / synchronization across
archive / file systems ?
SK
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Puzzling messages when running dmesg...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:15:01 -0500
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> Steve Ackman wrote:
> >
> > >I do notice when I run xosview, that IRQ14 blinks about once a second,
> > >and IRQ14 does claim to be for IDE0. When running R.H.L.6.0, I never
> > >noticed IRQ blinking in xosview. But for whatever reason it blinks, it
> > >is surely not writing on the CD-ROM.
> >
> > IIRC, automount, or something to that effect is checking
> > every second to see if it needs to mount or unmount a CDROM.
> > Disabling that feature (and thereby going back to manually
> > mounting and unmounting) should get rid of your excessive
> > log entries.
> >
> I sort-of figured that out, but it does not seem to help. I went to
> /etc/rc.d/init.d and did /sbin/chkconfig autofs off, and it did, in
> fact, turn everyting off in the rc?.d directories. I then did ./autofs
> off and it turned off the daemon. But it makes no difference. I even
> rebooted, just in case, and that did not help either.
>
> I actually prefer to mount and dismount stuff like floppies and CD-ROMs.
>
[snip]
> For completeness, here is what is running for me:
>
> PID USER PRI NI PAGEIN SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM CTIME
> COMMAND
[snip]
> 855 jdbeyer 0 0 831 3140 3140 2420 S 0.2 0.6 0:10
> magicdev
[snip]
>
> Most of this is related to GNOME/Enlightenment. I do not remember
> magicdev before, and cannot find it in the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts.
> Could that be it?
It turns out that magicdev is it. It seems to be a GNOME thing to
automount things. It is not in an init.d script, because it seems that
it is started at login (at least, at a login when you are running
GNOME/Enlightenment.
One reason why I switched from Windows to Linux was to get away from
dunderheads second-guessing me and doing what they thought was for my
own good, and not even telling me about it.
I am quite prepared to mount and dismount devices. The only things I
want mounted automatically I put into /etc/fstab. Otherwise they should
let them alone. Linux is, after all, a multi-user system, and it cannot
go mounting things and dismounting things automatically as though it
were a single-user system. Someone in another room, or across the globe
somewhere, might need the device mounted or dismounted. There really has
to be an operator to do that. And magicdev is not it.
The way to turn off magicdev is to discover file magicdev in secret
directory ~/.gnome. It looks like this, as distributed:
valinux:jdbeyer[~/.gnome]$ cat magicdev.dist
[Options]
do_automount=true
do_autorun=true
do_fileman_window=true
do_cd_play=true
cd_play_command=gtcd --play --device %d
so I changed it to this:
valinux:jdbeyer[~/.gnome]$ cat magicdev
[Options]
do_automount=false
do_autorun=false
do_fileman_window=true
do_cd_play=false
cd_play_command=gtcd --play --device %d
valinux:jdbeyer[~/.gnome]$
and the damned magicdev process disappeared.
I think this should have been in the documentation. I wish they would
not put these "features" in in the point releases. Put the new features
in the major releases (for Red Hat, between the 5.last and the 6.0
release, and include extensive documentation on what the changes were,
and what must be done when installing or upgrading, so if you do not
want the new features, you can avoid them. Also document just what the
features do and how to configure them. Do not just drop them in and hope
for the best. If I wanted to run Windows, I would run Windows.
Furthermore, each time it made that message, it said:
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,0)
and this is wrong, too, since nothing has changed on the CD-ROM drive in
a few days. There is no disk in the drive, and hasn't been for a few
days.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:50pm up 3:17, 3 users, load average: 1.26, 1.15, 1.31
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: unable to use net services from some hosts
Date: 25 Jan 2001 21:26:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <94qkfg$jn1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i upgraded to linux 2.4.0 and from then i cant access the net services
> from some servers like hotmail.com or micronpc.com, i can
> access all the services of other servers.
Do you have CONFIG_INET_ECN set? Documentation/Changes says:
: CONFIG_INET_ECN
: Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows routers to notify
: clients about network congestion, resulting in fewer dropped packets
: and increased network performance. This option adds ECN support to the
: Linux kernel, as well as a sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn) which
: allows ECN support to be disabled at runtime.
:
: Note that, on the Internet, there are many broken firewalls which
: refuse connections from ECN-enabled machines, and it may be a while
: before these firewalls are fixed. Until then, to access a site behind
: such a firewall (some of which are major sites, at the time of this
: writing) you will have to disable this option, either by saying N now
: or by using the sysctl.
:
: If in doubt, say N.
--
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and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem
Date: 25 Jan 2001 21:27:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <94qeii$96i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bhaskar Bose wrote:
> According to df, it says that there is 800Megs free.
What's the output of "df -i"?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Good hosting service???
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:37:56 GMT
Julio C Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do any of you know of a good (and cheap enough) hosting service? It would
> be nice if the host run linux/unix. :)
I switched one of my sites [1] to EZ Publishing a bit before Christmas. So
far I have been *very* happy. The machine my site is on runs RedHat
Linux.
Their URL is:
http://www.ezpublishing.com/
[1] Not buchanan1.net, that's on Virtual Avenue, a free ad-supported
service, recommended if your site is commercial in some way and you
don't mind featuring their ads. They don't do purely non-commercial
sites.
--
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"Cthulhu -When you're tired of picking the _lesser_ of two evils."
================= Visit: http://www.thehungersite.com ==================
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From: Sol .................................... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wmweather and Xsnow = perl fun :)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:00:01 GMT
wind speed controls the snow speed and temp controls the snow colour :)
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
######################################################################
$basedir = "/home/httpd/www/cgibin/software";
&weather();
sub weather {
open (FILE, "$basedir/kiad.txt");
for ($i =0; $i < 5; $i++) {
$temper = <FILE>;
}
close (FILE);
open (FILE, "$basedir/kiad.txt");
for ($i =0; $i < 11; $i++) {
$windspeed = <FILE>;
}
close (FILE);
# Round off speed
$wind = sprintf("%.0f",$windspeed);
# round off temp
$temp = sprintf("%.0f",$temper);
# multiply for effect ;P
$wind2 = "$wind" * 10;
print "Windspeed is '$wind2' and Temp is '$temp'\n\r";
$colour = "white";
if ($temp > 30) {$colour = "blue";}
if ($temp > 45) {$colour = "yellow";}
if ($temp > 60) {$colour = "orange";}
if ($temp > 80) {$colour = "red";}
# Kill old process
$xsnowkill = qx(kill -9 `ps ax | grep xsnow | grep -v grep | awk '{
print $1; }'`);
# print "$xsnowkill\n\n";
$xsnower = qx(xsnow -nosanta -notrees -norudolf -nokeepsnowonwindows
-nokeepsnowonscreen -sc $colour -yspeed $wind2 -xspeed $wind2);
# print "$xsnower\n";
}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord unknown SCSI error while fixating disk
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:17:35 GMT
pascal gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi to all,
: I have a Mitsumi ATAPI CR-4802TE witch worked well on a P/133 with kernel
: 2.2.12.
: But since I have upgraded my machine to a K6-2/400 with kernel 2.2.18 I
: always have a SCSI error while it is fixating the new disk. The device is
: on is own IDE port and everything else work (the burning), but theres alot
: of SCSI error like :
[snip]
Same problem here!
Kernel 2.2.14, AMD K6II/400.
However this seems to be only a cosmetic problem.
The disks are fine! :-)
Blanking an cdrw also seems to fail. After an error message
and a timeout cdrecord exits.
But: It still works! After about 40 minutes or so, the light at
the burner goes back from red to yellow, and your cdrw is
blanked.
Regards,
Friedhelm
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wmweather and Xsnow = perl fun :)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:20:59 -0500
* "Sol ...................................." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> wind speed controls the snow speed and temp controls the snow colour :)
>
Neat. :)
-Jan
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