Linux-Misc Digest #8, Volume #27 Sat, 3 Feb 01 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: How burn wav files to cd audio ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Calendar Software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sharing a printer (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: emulate linux under a windows server? (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
scanner troubles (Robert Schweikert)
Re: RAM advice (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: scanner troubles (Robert Heller)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How burn wav files to cd audio ?
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 11:57:57 GMT
> I tried cat file1.wav file2.wav > file3.wav before and that did not
> work. It just played the file1.wav I think. I am guessing their must
> be markers so it won't work that easy??
Yes, Wav files are stored in RIFF format, with proper headers and such.
> Also since you are into sound, do you know what format I need to burn
> a wav file onto a cd with so a regular cd player can use it? And do
As an audio track. In Gnometoaster, all you have to do is drag your file
into the Tracklist (the second button to the lower left of the window).
> you know of linux software that will do this? I have used xcdroast
for
> data, but I don't think it will let me do what I need.
It sure will. Just add it to your list of audio tracks to be recorded.
> Last night I tried getting cdrdao/gcdmaster. Cdrdao is obviously
harder
> to use being command line so I tried gcdmaster. But when I tried to
> pick
> a wav file and hit OK it just sat there. It would not let me hit OK.
I
> think
> I then tried 'Import' and clicked on a 217mb wav file and it did
nothing
> and
> in the morning the window was obviously froze up. Actually maybe that
> was
> gtoaster that I killed this morning.
No it wasn't cause with Gnometoaster all you have to do is drag your
file from the builtin filemanager into the tracklist.
You can recognize gcdmaster by it's waveeditor-like look.
You can get Gnometoaster from http://gnometoaster.rulez.org
> I did not try any of the few KDE programs because KDE 2.0(?) was too
> buggy
> and I finally tried to upgrade it to the 2.01 and it complained of
> dependencies
> and I never got it installed all the way.
It's slow but works decently on a fast system.
Imho the standard theme is too loaded, though.I'll stick to Gnome for
that matter.
> Will this work? What should I use to save *.wav to cd audio of
whatever
> format?
You don't need to convert it.
As mentioned, just drag it into Gnometoaster's tracklist and everything
should be ok.
But *please* upgrade to the most recent version of gnometoaster. the
version coming with mandrake is about a year old and can be tricky to
configure at times.
> Should I convert wav to something else first? If I need to use cdrdao
no.
> can someone
> give me an example?
Gnometoaster can use cdrdao as a backend.
If you want to use cdrdao from the commandline, type man cdrdao
to get a description of the toc file format used by cdrdao.
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Calendar Software
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 12:12:56 GMT
I am trying to find server and client software that allows for
scheduling meetings,etc like the way MS Exchange and Outlook.
Naturally I am looking for open-source based stuff. I would like to
setup a calendar system in my home network so that my family can
coordinate their schedules. I have a Linux server and different
flavors of MS Windows clients (Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows ME).
Can anyone give me some pointers?
Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: sharing a printer
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:47:19 +0100
In article <95bqtu$rml$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Xavier Houppertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello,
>
> I would like to know how to share a printer on a subnet.
> I would like to ba able to use lpr -Premoteprinter file.txt where
> remoteprinter is not local but on another computer.
>
> any ideas ?
Lots. Read the Printing-HOWTO, should be all in there.
Cheers,
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: emulate linux under a windows server?
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 12:28:10 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming:
[Snip...]
|> Sure if someone does this he uses it the other way running M$ within Linux
|> (VM-Ware), I've been told it's much more stable
|> this way...
[Snip...]
Apparently, the American NSA agrees:
http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp?mode=news&doc_id=ZD2681205
I love the last line:
In a nod to the open-source community, he said that--for the NSA's
purposes--seeing the source code and testing its security is extremely
important. "You wouldn't want to do it on Windows NT, because you know
nothing about what is going on inside NT," he said.
As if Ballmer didn't have enough headaches already... :)
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scanner troubles
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:53:44 -0500
I just bought a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner and what a surprise it was when
I found out upon opening the box that the SCSI card they shipped is an
ISA card. Of course all my ISA slots are full. I am hoping they will
send me a PCI card. Anyway I have another option by buying a PCI
Ethernet card to replace the ISA card I have., then using this slot for
the Scanner SCSI card. If I were to go this route does anyone have any
idea about drivers for this card, as there is of course no information
in the manual about the card. The controller on the card has the
following ids printed on it.
DTCT-436P
9746
002-D436P-001
Anybody ever heard of/used the SCSI card that comes with this scanner?
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM advice
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:52:26 -0500
Xavier Houppertz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is just for an advice. Do you think I'm 'easy' with this config or
> should i add more memory ?
>
> 12:29pm up 72 days, 22:19, 11 users, load average: 0.25, 0.22, 0.16
> 109 processes: 96 sleeping, 2 running, 11 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 11.5% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 87.4% idle
> Mem: 257088K av, 252764K used, 4324K free, 95864K shrd, 14028K buff
> Swap: 130748K av, 8184K used, 122564K free 100220K cached
>
You seem to have lots of memory. Recall that you have about 114
megabytes of memory devoted to cache and buffers and this space can be
used for programs when needed.
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 31052 dir 10 0 17580 17M 2196 S 0 7.4 6.8 0:41 java
> 30890 dir 6 0 17864 17M 2204 R 0 3.5 6.9 0:53 java
> 31307 root 6 0 748 748 564 R 0 1.5 0.2 0:02 top
> 31377 root 5 0 276 276 232 S 0 0.1 0.1 0:00 sleep
> 24946 dir 0 0 1296 1296 844 S 0 0.1 0.5 0:08 fvwm2
> 1 root 0 0 336 296 276 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:01 init
> 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:05 kflushd
> 3 root -12 -12 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
> 30880 root 0 0 10856 10M 1772 S 0 0.0 4.2 0:19 X
> 444 root 0 0 832 768 640 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 bash
> 270 sybase 0 0 5864 4628 780 S 0 0.0 1.8 1:10
> backupserver
> 29 root 0 0 292 256 240 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kerneld
> 211 bin 0 0 320 300 244 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap
> 225 root 0 0 400 372 320 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:09 syslogd
> 234 root 0 0 516 344 304 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 klogd
> 245 daemon 0 0 356 320 280 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 atd
> 256 root 0 0 440 400 360 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 crond
> 31511 root 5 0 736 736 540 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:13
> printstock2
> 264 sybase 2 0 29076 21M 22072 S 0 0.0 8.6 608:15 dataserver
> 263 sybase 0 0 624 520 516 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 RUN_SYBASE
> 290 root 0 0 1092 688 504 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 named
> 268 sybase 0 0 612 508 504 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00
> RUN_SYB_BACK
> 23638 root 0 0 1500 1492 1152 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 xdm
> 315 root 0 0 540 520 428 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 rpc.mountd
> 324 root 0 0 556 528 428 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:08 rpc.nfsd
> 349 root 0 0 1060 1060 968 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:01 httpd
> 338 root 0 0 284 268 236 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:01 gpm
I am a little surprised by this list. Here is the top of mine:
7:47am up 5 days, 16:17, 3 users, load average: 2.05, 2.12, 2.09
72 processes: 69 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 91.1% user, 8.1% system, 89.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 92.1% user, 7.1% system, 90.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 516672K av, 444408K used, 72264K free, 57640K shrd, 41932K
buff
Swap: 273088K av, 16084K used, 257004K free 278796K
cached
PID USER PRI NI PAGEIN SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM CTIME
COMMAND
31621 seti 20 19 943 14876 14M 796 R N 45.3 2.8 619:13
setiathome
31963 seti2 19 19 910 14864 14M 796 R N 44.4 2.8 585:55
setiathome
32355 root 1 0 815 41044 40M 2080 S 5.0 7.9 4:40 X
945 jdbeyer 5 5 836 3504 3504 2736 S N 1.9 0.6 4:47
cpumemusage_app
920 jdbeyer 10 8 369 916 916 700 R N 1.6 0.1 1:04 top
918 jdbeyer 0 0 393 1220 1220 1012 S 0.9 0.2 0:32
xosview
885 jdbeyer 0 0 13805 3408 3408 1948 S 0.4 0.6 0:24
enlightenment
1 root 0 0 403 284 268 208 S 0.0 0.0 14254m
init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04
kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:16
kupdate
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00
kpiod
5 root 0 0 4657 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:05
kswapd
6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00
mdrecoveryd
I guess your distribution is very different from mine. I do not remember
kerneld since Red Hat Linux 5.0 days. Where are your kpiod and kswapd
processes? I suppose your distribution does not require them, but it is
a surprise to see them missing.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:45am up 5 days, 16:14, 3 users, load average: 2.19, 2.16, 2.10
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scanner troubles
Date: 3 Feb 2001 07:49:16 -0600
Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:53:44 -0500, wrote :
RS> I just bought a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner and what a surprise it was when
RS> I found out upon opening the box that the SCSI card they shipped is an
RS> ISA card. Of course all my ISA slots are full. I am hoping they will
RS> send me a PCI card. Anyway I have another option by buying a PCI
RS> Ethernet card to replace the ISA card I have., then using this slot for
RS> the Scanner SCSI card. If I were to go this route does anyone have any
RS> idea about drivers for this card, as there is of course no information
RS> in the manual about the card. The controller on the card has the
RS> following ids printed on it.
RS>
RS> DTCT-436P
RS> 9746
RS> 002-D436P-001
RS>
RS> Anybody ever heard of/used the SCSI card that comes with this scanner?
You have a couple of choices:
1) Get the PCI Ethernet (a 3C905 is my recommendation) and then get
a Adaptec 154x ISA SCSI card (these should be cheap). (UMAX should be
happy with the Adaptec 154x card).
2) Get an Adaptec 2940AU card (this is SCSI-II, *narrow* card).
This is a PCI card and should also be cheap (since SCSI-III / wide is
all the rage these days). The UMAX should be happy with this card as
well.
Linux will be happy with either Adaptec card. Warning: make sure your
BIOS is set to reserve the IRQ the Adaptec 154x ISA wants. Don't get
an Adaptec 154xP (plug-and-play version) -- these work, but are a minor
pain -- your need to turn off plug-and-play.
RS>
RS> Thanks,
RS> Robert
RS>
RS> --
RS> Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
RS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
RS>
RS>
RS>
RS>
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 09:05:14 -0500
Steve Mading wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Steve Mading wrote:
> :>
> :> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> : Ian Davey wrote:
> :> :>
> :> :> You've still not managed to convince me. But perhaps it's just a matter of
> :> :> semantics, Atheism is a lack of *religious* beliefs (theism), but not a lack
> :> :> of belief. Does that work better for you? So an Atheist believes something
> :> :> other than religion.
> :>
> :> : There's an old law of military command:
> :>
> :> : Failure to come to a decision is a decision in itself.
> :>
> :> : Do the math.
> :>
> :> "Failure to come to a decision is a decision" is self
> :> contradictory. It fits the patern: X == not(X).
>
> : Stop being pedantic, and try understanding the MEANING of the statement.
>
> I do understand the meaning of the words you used. If you meant them
> to mean something totally different, that's not my miscommunication,
> it's yours. Implicit metaphor has no place in a logical discussion.
you're using semantics to avoid the idea being communicated.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 09:06:23 -0500
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Nick Condon wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron R. Kulkis) wrote in
> > > > >
> > > > > >However, this has NOTHING to do with Microsoft. They have NEVER been
> > > > > >*granted* a government-sanctioned monopoly.
> > > > >
> > > > > All copyrights and patents are government granted monopolies. Microsoft
> > > > > holds many.
> > > >
> > > > And how many of them read "THE desktop operating system for office and
> > > > home users"?
> > >
> > > well, for one, the US DoD requires all documentation in "ms-word 6.0
> > > for windows" format.
> >
> > Strange...I'm in the Army, and I've never heard of it.
>
> the military contractors have been living with it for about five years.
>
> > And that's STILL not a monopoly...that's a contract provision.
>
> ok, how about this?
>
> i'd love to take a windows NT disk and replicate it with my cd-r and
> sell copies for $10. however, if i did it on a large enough scale,
> the government would kick down my door and throw me into prison. it
> seems no one else but microsoft are allowed to sell NT in this
> country. that is a monopoly. and, in addition, one enforced by
> threats of violence against you from your own government.
NONE of which prevents anybody from marketing their own desktop OS.
>
> i am sure that back in the day of the match monopoly (in sweden)
> people objected and said, that's not a monopoly, you can still rub two
> sticks together if you need a fire.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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