Linux-Misc Digest #486, Volume #27 Fri, 30 Mar 01 13:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: jetdirect and linux. (Grant Edwards)
Re: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm (Michael Heiming)
Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm ("Jason C. Hill")
Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: c++ keyboard readout (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Linux without a video monitor. (Martin Gregorie)
Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective ("Pantalacci Christophe")
RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Pillonel)
Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point (Martin Kroeker)
Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0 (Matthias Kordell)
install suse 7.1 via ftp server? (mungus)
difference between ext2fs and raiserfs (Goophy)
Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
How to read/write kernel memory in my driver of Linux 2.2/2.4? (Gu Weining)
Re: If you install rpm-4.0.2 on RedHat 6.2 ... ("Chris Coyle")
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (D'Arque Bishop)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Re: difference between ext2fs and raiserfs ("Andy Walker")
KDE's Konqueror auto-refresh (Martin Greco)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: jetdirect and linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:21:31 GMT
In article <mq1x6.4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenny@BUI wrote:
>have any of you worked with hp jetdirect printers being shared
>through linux or samba?
Maybe -- I'm not sure what that last phrase means. I've
printed to HP jetdirect printers from Linux, if that's what
you're asking.
>is it similar to setting up a remote smb printer attached to a
>win98 client. does the jetdirect use netbios names? are the
>jetdirect printers independant of the winNT or win98 computer
>running the jetdirect software?
JetDirect printers impliment the standard BSD lpd interface.
The printer appears to be another Unix system to Linux. The
only trick is you have to find out what "queue name" to be used
as the remote printer name in your printcap file.
I think you can find out the queue names using SNMP, but it's
been a while since I've done it. Once you find out the queue
name (it's usually "raw" if you're sending Postscript to a
Postscript printer), you do something like this in your
printcap file:
tech_hp_raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/tech_hp_raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=tech_hp:\
:rp=raw:
Where "tech_hp" is the hostname mapped to the printer's IP
address. The queue name in this example is "raw".
Most distributions have a printer setup utility. Tell that
program that you want to set up a printer that's on another
unix system the "host" is the printer, (hostname tech_hp in my
example). The remote printer name is the queue name ("raw" in
my example.)
Most configuration utilities will set up a "magic filter" to
convert whatever you give it into Postscript (and then use
GhostScript to convert it into something else if you're not
using a Postscript printer).
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I HIJACKED a 747 to
at get here!! I hope those
visi.com fabulous CONEHEADS are
at HOME!!
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:34:28 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> Normally, when I just need a CLI when running GNOME/Enlightenment, I
> click on the little icon on the panel (task bar) and a "Gnome
> Terminal" comes up. I can customize it by clicking on the menu
> (normally hidden) and set the colors. I prefer very pale yellow on a
> black background.
>
> If I run a plain xterm, it is black on a white background that is hard
> on my eyes. But I do not know how to get a menu with that. Likewise, I
> could not figure out from the help how to change it. It might be in a
> .Xconfig or something, but I could not find it anywhere.
>
> So how do I change it from black on a white background to pale yellow
> on a black background? I would settle for white on a black background.
>
> Note, I do not want the CLI I would get by pressing C-A-PF[1-6]; I
> want a window on the desktop.
Depends IMHO on the type of xterm you use, with plain xterm, I can open a new one
(from kvt):
xterm -bg blue &
Then I can issue "xtermset -bg green" which changes the color.
With kvt (the default on my SuSE box) I can open a new one:
kvt -vt_bg blue
Hope this helps
Michael Heiming
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:35:08 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scrumpy) writes:
> Hi Stefano,
> Your suggested -v option was definitely helpful.
>
> It helped me discover that
> tar --exclude /cdrom -c -z -f /cdrom/slakhdb2ext2.tar /
> did not exclude the nfs mount point /cdrom!
>
> After searching more on the web I had a few more ideas and finally found
> that the '/' infront of 'cdrom' was the culprit. That surprised me!
I should have thought about that, sorry. You must also have seen a
warning like 'removing / from absolutely path name'. This is good, for
it means that when you untar the archive it won't try to write in /
but under the current dir. But it seems that this operation is
performed *before* processing the filename against the --exclude
option... so that no file with /cdrom in the name ever is seen by
--exclude.
> Next time I'll need to refresh the backup archive with changed files
> only. Finger's crossed!
Look up the --after-date option. I can for instance say
--after-date='1 week ago'.
--
Stefano - Hodie tertio Kalendas Apriles MMI est
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From: "Jason C. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:34:49 -0500
Well you have several options, one is read the man page on xterm.
Ther other is to do this:
In your .login or .bashrc or whatever you use try
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
I use a customized xterm I call jterm (for Jason's Term) And it looks
something like:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -bg black -fg green +cm -T psion -n
psion -j -sb -si -sk -sl 2000 -wf -geometry 80x40 &
Which set the bacground to black and the foreground to green, set's the name
to the name of my machine, icon of my machine, gives it a scroll bar on the
left side with 2000 line buffer and sets the size to 80x40...there are some
more options in there and I to would have to go back to the man pages to
tell you why I chose them to begin with.
-J
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:37:56 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen) writes:
> On 29 Mar 2001 17:52:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scrumpy) wrote:
>
> The simpler way to accomplish your goal is "--one-file-system"
But it's the answer to another question...
He asked: how do I exclude /cdrom, not 'how do I limit operation to
the / filesystem. If / is only a boot partition and /usr, /home and so
on are on other partitions the two things are different.
--
Stefano - Hodie tertio Kalendas Apriles MMI est
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: c++ keyboard readout
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:39:03 +0200
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I assumed he was referring to a UNIX-like OS because he posted to
> comp.os.linux.misc and not to comp.lang.c++.
Lucky him! They would have killed him for posting that question on
c.l.c++ :-)
--
Stefano - Hodie tertio Kalendas Apriles MMI est
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: Linux without a video monitor.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:27:52 GMT
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:23:34 GMT, Bart Friederichs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Gungmas wrote:
>>
>> I am using an old 486 as a firewall and I really don't login on it very
>> often and now the monitor has broken. I don't want to get another one but
>> instead use an old VT100 serial terminal.
>> Can I set up Linux to use the terminal instead of the non existing monitor?
>> Thank's for any help!
>>
>> Gungmas
>check the Terminal-HOWTO to attach a dumb terminzal to your serial line.
>You might need to login to the console to do it, but i guess
>thats no problem.
>
>See also your /etc/inittab. There should be a line like:
>
>s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100
>
>commented out. Comment it in and it should work (that is: I did that
>and I can login using an old XT-laptop with Procomm)
>
You'll also probably need to alter your .profile to set TERM to match
your terminal type or less, vi and friends won't work correctly. The
default setup in Linux assumes that if you're not on the console your
terminal will say what it is when queried; this is true for telnet and
X-term but not for a real terminal or PC-based terminal emulator.
Don't forget to check /etc/termcap and/or terminfo for supported
terminal names that match what you're using.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: "Pantalacci Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:23:59 +0200
Hi,
I've got this kind of problem :
Linux only sees 64M of RAM. When I modify lilo.conf by adding
append="mem=384M" and executing lilo, my whole system crashes at reboot with
segmentation faults everywhere, and i must reinstall.
I've tried several distributions, like RedHat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2, but
nothing changes.
I guess it's a hardware issue, maybe due to the VIA chipset.
The config is the following :
PIII 733 Mhz
3x128Mo RAM (100Mhz)
Chipset VIA Apollo Pro
Thanks for the help
Christophe
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Pillonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:06:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed RedHat 7.0 and then I wanted to upgrade my system with
the Linux 7.0 Errata.
With 7.0, the kernel 2.2.16-22 is installed. With GnoRPM, I've made an
upgrade of my kernel with the package "kernel-2.2.17-14.rpm".
Then I've re-runned lilo and I've rebooted.
When rebooting, the kernel couldn't load the aic7xxx module because of
unresolved symbols and then couldn't mount the partitions (something
about VFS ?!) and was hanging at this point.
What did I wrong ? Should I upgrade others packages too ? Or should I
run a special command after upgrading my kernel ?
Another question: when upgrading my kernel, the old one has been
deleted. I would like to keep the old one and the new one and then to be
able to choose which one to boot with lilo. Which files should I backup
before upgrading the kernel ?
thank you very much!!
C�dric Pillonel
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From: Martin Kroeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:38:45 GMT
Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He asked: how do I exclude /cdrom, not 'how do I limit operation to
> the / filesystem. If / is only a boot partition and /usr, /home and so
> on are on other partitions the two things are different.
On the other hand, the '--exclude' option has the drawback that at least
on some versions of tar it excludes 'everything that contains this path
component somewhere', which e.g. in the case of '--exclude=proc' will
also omit things like /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/*
Martin
--
Dr. Martin Kroeker, daVeg GmbH Darmstadt CAD/CAM/CAQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precision Powered by Penguins
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From: Matthias Kordell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:11:02 +0200
Keith Marjerison wrote:
> Hello Again;
> I have an IDE burner ( HP CDWriter+ ) and would like to use it in
> Linux. I have gone through the directions in the SuSE Linux 7.0 Personal
> edition 'Configuration' manual on page 122, and adjusted the item 'Append
> line for hardware parameter' in 'LILO' and altered the file
> '/etc/modules.conf'/ , but the emulation does not work. All I have done is
> removed my CD burner as a CDRom.
> My CD Burner is on ide1 slave with a CDRom as master.
> I added 'hdd=ide-scsi' to 'Apend line for hardware parameter' and
> saved my changes and exited 'YaST'.
> I changed the line 'alias scsi_hostadapter off' to 'alias
> scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' in the file/etc/modules.conf'.
> Thats all the manual says to do, but when I try to 'Configure'
> 'X-CD-Roast' it does not see the 'ide-scsi' drive emulation.
> What have I missed?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> />Keith Marjerison
> />[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
I had the same problem with SuSE 7.1 and a HP 8100i.
I configurated LILO and /etc/modules.conf a few times, and after a few days
it worked. MAybe you must just run LILO to install the new configuration.
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From: mungus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install suse 7.1 via ftp server?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:30:07 -0000
so far i manage to logon to suse ftp server(s)(i tried couple of mirror
sites)but when it ask me for suse directory (eg. /systems/linux/suse)it
can't initialize the setup (it can't find setup files for some reason). I
also tried all subdirectories but it didn't work. I don't have problems
accessing(copying) those directories trough a windows based ftp program.
I guess you been ask this question 1000x before but...
what am i doing wrong?
truly (and pissed off at himself),
mungus
PS: now i thought of something (but i'm not near by my computer so i can't
test it). maybe i was using the wrong 'slash' -> / \ f@ck!!!!
--
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http://www.help.com/
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Subject: difference between ext2fs and raiserfs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goophy)
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:30:53 GMT
Hi
whats the difference between ext2fs and raiserfs.
and how do these to filesystems work?
J�rgen
--
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !?
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:37:14 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Cedric Pillonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What did I wrong ? Should I upgrade others packages too ? Or should I
> run a special command after upgrading my kernel ?
> Another question: when upgrading my kernel, the old one has been
> deleted. I would like to keep the old one and the new one and then to be
> able to choose which one to boot with lilo. Which files should I backup
> before upgrading the kernel ?
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Gu Weining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to read/write kernel memory in my driver of Linux 2.2/2.4?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:40:20 -0600
My driver works perfectly in 2.0 version. However, when I
ported my code to 2.2 version(to 2.4 later after I succeed in 2.2),
I always got wrong info.
Would you please help me ASAP? Thanks a lot.
Weining Gu
1. My char driver code works perfectly in 2.0 as follows:
(I can read/write any kernel symbols /boot/System.map by address)
static int abc_ioctl (struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
unsigned long address;
unsigned long tmp;
unsigned long value;
...
switch(cmd) {
case MEMDS_BAR:
if (verify_area(VERIFY_WRITE, (void *)arg, sizeof(int *))) {
return -EINVAL;
}
address = get_user((int *)arg);
tmp = virt_to_phys((void *)address);
memcpy_tofs( (void *)arg, (void *)tmp, sizeof(int)); /*send to user
space*/
(value) = (*(int *)tmp)^16;
(*(int *)tmp) = value;
printk("<1> 0x%08x -> tmp=0x%08x(modified=0x%08x)\n",
(int)address, *(int *)tmp, value);
break;
default: /* redundant, as cmd was checked against MAXNR */
return -EINVAL;
}
return 0;
}
2. My char driver code does NOT work in Linux 2.2.12 version as follows:
(I cannot access any memory from 0 to cxxxxxxx)
(I got either segmentation fault or copy_to_user(..) return 1)
static int xyz_ioctl (struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
unsigned long address;
int tmp;
unsigned long value;
...
switch(cmd) {
case MEMDS_BAR:
if( get_user(address, (int *)arg) ) return -1;
tmp = virt_to_phys((void *)address);
value = (*(int *)tmp)^16;
(*(int *)tmp) = value;
if ( copy_to_user ((void *)arg, (void *)&tmp, sizeof(int)) )
return -1;
break;
default:
return -1;
}
return 0;
}
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From: "Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: If you install rpm-4.0.2 on RedHat 6.2 ...
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:42:18 -0500
"Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Alex wrote:
> >
> > Chris Coyle wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > To fix this I had to install the gnorpm source rpm (I found
> > > gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.src.rpm)
> > > apply a couple of patches (included), fix a line of source code
> > > (strange) and then recompile.
> > > After that it works fine.
> > >
> > > Chris.
> >
> > I tried to compile the source code (gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.src.rpm).
> > I got this:
> >
> > RPM build errors:
> > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97472 (%build)
> >
> > Can you tell me what you have done to make it work? What did you modify
> > in the source file? (patches?)
> >
>
> I think I got it solved. I did it differently though...
> I download two packages from rpmfind.
> bzip2-1.0.1-3.i386.rpm
> gnorpm-0.96-1.i386.rpm
>
> I did the following:
> rpm -ivh --force bzip2-1.0.1-3.i386.rpm
> rpm -Uvh gnorpm-0.96-1.i386.rpm
>
> And gnorpm works fine.
> Hopefully I did not break other stuff.
> ;-)
>
>
> Alex.
>
> <snip>
Alex (and anyone else who cares),
RedHat has made a fix for this, released yesterday I think.
Look for it on your favorite mirror shortly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arque Bishop)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows-me,alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:27:49 GMT
In article <9a27bg$h95$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Forsythe wrote:
>Actually, I was replying to a post deploring the security of Windows
>compared to Linux. The post was comparing apples to oranges. Windows can be
>very secure, much more so than Linux, as long as increased management is
>taken into consideration. There are secure operating systems and less secure
>operating systems. Windows 9x was never intended to be secure from the
>outset. Windows 2000, on the other hand, with EFS, IpSec, L2TP, and a host
>of other security measures, can be configured to be quite secure.
I'm just kinda curious... where do you get this info that a Windows 2K
machine can be made "much more" secure than Linux? What would make this
secure Windows box more secure than a secure Linux box?
The thing that gets me about this whole thing... people here seem to be
comparing what they know to what they've heard. For example, much of what
we hear about Linux boxes being compromised and whatnot is due to machines
that have not been secured, nor the necessary updates performed. For
example, the vulnerability that the Ramen worm exploits was fixed months
ago... but people just have not been applying the necessary security
updates. Same with Windows 2000 and the like... the recent hack of sites
and credit card numbers stolen have been due to necessary updates not being
performed on the server.
If Windows 2000 works for you, use it. If Linux works for you, use it. I
have several Linux boxes out on the net, and all are ones I would like to
think are fairly secure (there's no such thing as absolutely secure on the
net)... running the minimum of services, security updates installed, and
running firewall scripts. I'm more comfortable with Linux in that regard.
Others could probably do the same thing on a Windows 2000 box, and if that
works for them, more power to them. Do us all a favor, though... if you're
going to slag an operating system (or anything, for that matter), research
it first, so you know whether or not you'll look like an ass posting first.
:)
Just my $.02...
--
D'Arque Bishop -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ravenloft.net/~drkbish
"For a dark man shall come unto the House of God, and the darkness shall be
upon him, yea, even within him."
-- from Noctropolis: Night Visions
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows-me,alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:45:56 GMT
In <9a27bg$h95$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Forsythe:
[Apologies: much embedded snippage...]
>Windows can be very secure, much more so than Linux,
Objection: reference to facts not actually in evidence.
Which "Windows" and after how many thumbs in a leaky expensive dike?
http://www.sans.org/newlook/alerts/NTE-bank.htm
>as long as increased management is taken into consideration.
How profound. Pray: what isn't asymptomtically secure "as long as increased
management is taken into consideration" from screen doors to bank vaults? I
find nothing exceptionally newsworthy in restating the obvious.
> There are secure operating systems and less secure operating systems.
...and more expensive, and less so. Like Linux: $0.00 or so, GPL license.
Again, I'm startled into an unmanageable "duh!" reflex.
> Windows 9x was never intended to be secure from the outset.
Wait. This is an excuse, not a reason. It wasn't *designed* from gitgo as a
multitasking, multiuser, networked OS like *nix. Does a Gates dumpster dive
pedigree measure up to Nobel Prizes at Bell Labs, in the *intent* area?
I mean, we can go on forever about intentions, good and not so good. It was
never extraordinarily useful to me. Spilled milk and all that; YMMV. Stevie
Jobs might fret over this useless bygone baiting, but not me.
>Windows 2000, on the other hand, with EFS, IpSec, L2TP, and a host
>of other security measures, can be configured to be quite secure.
See above (Re: "increased management"). Again, a "can be configured" escape
hatch; how convenient. I'm sure it was oh so comforting to a few million or
so credit card holders during the NT banking debacle mentioned above.
I myself have done the analogous thing for years in 30 minutes or less, for
every outta the box Linux installation I have. What's the magic here and is
it not a reflection of the usual MSBob-class afterthought market markup? It
is like waiting for planes to fall out of the sky to worry about putting up
traytables before landing.
>There's nothing wrong with hammers, both physical and metaphorical.
Eureka sets in. Where did I say there was anything "wrong" with hammers?
>They're also very good at whacking obtuse people.
Talk about topic drift...physical violence, the last refuge of the mentally
disarmed and/or unstable.
>Perhaps next time you could actually follow the complete thread of
>conversation,
Au contraire. Been with it all along, including the juvenile dismissal of a
rudimentary set of courteous post formatting rules. Y'all new to Usenet? It
is just basic rules of the road outside Redmond Gulch, so get over it.
>Picking one statement, out of context, without taking into
>consideration the background behind it, is indicative of your edification.
Au contraire, reprise. Let me explain it to you writing more slowly now, so
hopefully it doesn't escape your apparently diminished capacities.
As Linux takes over the world, you're gonna have to get used to seeing this
other hammer that in fact is the proverbial better mousetrap. Might as well
make it as easy on yourself as possible about the DarkSide, Luke.
>Whack, whack.
Sleep well, microsmurfs. Tux is on his way, and you can't stop him.
--
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Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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From: "Andy Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: difference between ext2fs and raiserfs
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:51:30 -0000
Goophy wrote in message ...
>Hi
>whats the difference between ext2fs and raiserfs.
>and how do these to filesystems work?
>
>J�rgen
>
>--
>*** email: make double 'l' single ***
Reiserfs is a journalising file system. This roughly translates as a
filesystem that is much less succeptable to corruption than ext2. One of the
main things it does in difference to ext2 is when saving a file it verifies
that it is saved before deleting the old file. In the event of a power
failure during saving, the filesystem can then restore the reference to the
old file if the new one hadn't successfully saved. You may loose your
updated file but at least the original will still be intact. What ext2 does
is just write over the top of the old file, so any interrupted save will
probably result in a lost file. This isn't the only difference but reiser is
probably destined to become, at least in part, the next standard Linux
filesystem.
Most common distributions such as RedHat, SuSe and Mandrake already allow
reiserfs even though it is still in it's beta testing stage.
It's only shortcoming is that I don't believe it is bootable hence you will
still need an ext2 boot partition.
Hope this sheds some light on the subject.
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From: Martin Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE's Konqueror auto-refresh
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:12:35 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI people!
I would like to know if konqueror has autorefresh.
I'm running KDE 2.1.
thanks!
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