Linux-Misc Digest #487, Volume #27 Fri, 30 Mar 01 16:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective (ai4a)
Re: What is the size of Linux 2.4.1 Kernel (Chad Everett)
re. Help! CDRecord - mp3-to-wav Conversion Problem! (Doug Mitton)
Re: ANSI display clobbered - request fix (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: netscape and applets (David Mehringer)
Re: authenticating proxy? (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. ("Sam")
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. ("Sam")
trash talk (Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
printer and kernel 2.4.2 (Andy Rounds)
Re: authenticating proxy? (Steve Bui)
Re: sound problem: /dev/sequencer not found (Mathias Weyland)
Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective (root)
Question about automounter ... (Jayesh Kamdar)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. ("Jeremy Paiz")
reliabe (fast) ftp source for beta redhat linux iso's? (Randy R)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (Noah Roberts)
Re: Pine ignores /etc/mail/gericstable (Bill Unruh)
Re: Linux without a video monitor. ("Greg Foster")
Re: c++ keyboard readout (Noah Roberts)
Re: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm (Drew Roedersheimer)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
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From: ai4a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:13:00 -0500
Pantalacci Christophe wrote:
>
> 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
Hi Christophe:
Does your video card use part of your memory? Try reducing the memory
from 384m to 376m. To be on the safe side, reduce it even more, such as
370m. if this works, slowly increase the memory until it fails and then
back off some.
Charles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: What is the size of Linux 2.4.1 Kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:19:22 GMT
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 04:08:20 GMT, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Po wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> Would you tell me the size of Linux 2.4.1 kernel? Is it very large?
>>
>
>The compressed image is just over 600k -
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 661329 Mar 26 12:57 vmlinuz
>
My compressed 2.4.3pre6 kernel is about 1Meg (as is 2.4.2):
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1016180 Mar 21 17:26 vmlinuz-2.4.3pre6
You obviously have a lot more code farmed out to modules than I do.
I use modules for sound, etc. but I like to keep my network card,
scsi drivers in the kernel itself.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Mitton)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: re. Help! CDRecord - mp3-to-wav Conversion Problem!
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:37:43 GMT
Thanks to all who responded, the -pad option to the cdrecord command
was what I was missing.
=================================================================
Hello All;
I'm using some instructions I found in an earlier post to try to
convert some mp3's to wav and burn them to a CD using cdrecord. I
have come across a problem that was not addressed.
I convert the mp3 files to wave with:
splay -t 1000 -d - file.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 -
file.wav
I issue this command to burn the data:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio *.wav
But, cdrecord responds with:
cdrecord: Bad audio track size 31707648 for track 01.
cdrecord: Audio tracks must be at least 705600 bytes and a multiple of
2352.
I can burn audio CD's normally if I get the data using the cdda2wav
utility.
Any pointer would be appreciated as to how I should change the size of
the resulting wav file, I didn't see an obvious switch in the splay or
sox commands.
Thanks in advance.
PS. I realize I can probably install some other utilities to do this
BUT this solution is supposed to work and until I understand what is
wrong here I'd like to try and make this approach work. Also, using
this method I can batch process files a lot easier.
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ANSI display clobbered - request fix
Date: 30 Mar 2001 18:40:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Steven J. Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> a screen that has been garbaged by printing a binary executable file or
> ^V and then ^O may help
Hey, cool, another addition to the list of tricks. My method
is "echo -e '\17'", which has the added benefit of working on every
Unix variant I've ever tried it on (which isn't that many, admittedly).
You just have to be sure that your version of echo understands escape
sequences. The bash builtin echo does, which makes it a good choice
everywhere. If you want to know why it works, read 'man ascii'; octal
16 and 17 are the Switch In and Switch Out characters. If it happens
to you a lot, you might want to alias '123' to "echo -e '\017'", since
the numbers have the advantage of not changing when your terminal gets
borked.
JDW
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From: David Mehringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape and applets
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:51:08 -0600
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:51:01 -0500
> From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Subject: Re: netscape and applets
>
> It looks to me (I run Netscape 4.76 on VA Linux Systems 6.2.3) as
> though Netscape does this when a news server just goes dead. Netscape
> cannot deal rationally with a query to which it gets no reply, at
> least sometimes. I find this happens almost entirely when reading from
> my ISP's news server.
>
Thanks. I never read news with netscape (I use pine for that), so your
problem may be unrelated (or the same problem showing itself in another
situation). I just use netscape for browsing web sites, and the only time
it hangs for me is when Java applets are being displayed. It really does
suck; I can't believe they didn't test this piece of shit software
any better. Not to mention that it is an insatiable memory hog; it eats up
memory and never returns it. I have tried downloading NS 6, but what a pain
in the ass! 4 times out of five the download stopped and hung about 10
minutes into the procedure. Netscape is really going downhill. I installed
6 under windoze last night and the damn thing hung my entire machine when I
went to a page with an applet. I hate to say it, but IE for windoze is
looking better and better.
Anyone have a suggestion for an alternate, Java enabled browser for Linux
(and for Windoze for that matter)?
Thanks for the responses.
Dave
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: authenticating proxy?
Date: 30 Mar 2001 18:51:39 GMT
Steve Bui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a software package which will authenticate an incoming
> connection (via telnet or http) then, once authenticated proxy/route
> those packets to another machine? Thanks.
It really depends on whether you're talking about telnet or http,
since they work rather differently. How do you want connections to be
authenticated? By IP? By username/password? Something else? Things to
look into would include tcpwrappers, NAT, firewalls, web proxies, and
htpasswd-type authentication. It's kind of difficult to be more specific
unless you're more specific about what you want and why you want it.
JDW
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From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:53:51 -0600
I am canceling all pending contracts, and will no longer do business with
Raytheon.
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"Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:oD3x6.90$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <9a27bg$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.
>
> --
>
> Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
> Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
> Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
> Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
>
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From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:56:07 -0600
The slagging started when some Linux idiot came into an ME newsgroup and
trashed ME.
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"D'Arque Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <9a27bg$h95$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Forsythe wrote:
> 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...
>
> --
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> 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]
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: trash talk (Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: 30 Mar 2001 19:17:04 GMT
> Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
> From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The slagging started when some Linux idiot came into an ME newsgroup and
>trashed ME.
Why would anyone want to trash YOU?
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From: Andy Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer and kernel 2.4.2
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:22:01 +0100
I'm running mdk7.2 with kernel 2.4.2 and I can't get my printer, a deskjet
640c, working. It worked on an older 2.2 kernel (using CUPS). I assume that
there is some kernel configuration that I haven't got right, but after lots
of fiddling and recompiling, I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
>lpq
lp is not ready
no entries
>lsmod gives....
lp 4688 0 (unused)
parport_pc 13120 2 (autoclean)
ppa 10032 0 (unused)
parport 27456 2 [lp parport_pc ppa]
(I'm running a 100mb parallel port zip drive with the printer connected to
the zip, and the zip works fine)
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From: Steve Bui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: authenticating proxy?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:56:49 -0800
Well,
We have a firewall but it can't do any sort of authentication. It can
only allow/deny based in IP address. We have remote users who use
various ISPs, and as such as dynamic IP addresses. I want to create a
linux box which will authenticate a user, then proxy their traffic on to
the firewall. Then I can open a hole in the firewall for the linux box.
Whether they authenticate via telnet or http would not really matter,
but I suppose http would be easier for the end users. Does this make
sense? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks.
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner wrote:
>
> Steve Bui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there a software package which will authenticate an incoming
> > connection (via telnet or http) then, once authenticated proxy/route
> > those packets to another machine? Thanks.
>
> It really depends on whether you're talking about telnet or http,
> since they work rather differently. How do you want connections to be
> authenticated? By IP? By username/password? Something else? Things to
> look into would include tcpwrappers, NAT, firewalls, web proxies, and
> htpasswd-type authentication. It's kind of difficult to be more specific
> unless you're more specific about what you want and why you want it.
>
> JDW
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From: Mathias Weyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound problem: /dev/sequencer not found
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:14:19 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Relevant kernel output (at boot):
> <snip>
> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
> <snip>
Hi
Maybe you've forgotten to load the midi-module? :)
CU
Mathias Weyland
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:18:51 +0200
I found that if i specify the exact amount of ram in MB my system crashes in an
ugly way. I had
no problems when I used the KB figure the BIOS counted to. "mem=262144k"
worked for my 256mb.
Mack
Pantalacci Christophe wrote:
> 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: Jayesh Kamdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.misc
Subject: Question about automounter ...
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:29:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
We have several Red Hat 6.2 machines and automounter is working in most
of the cases except when I try to access /net/<hostname>. I can access
other auto mounted file systems but not /net/<hostname>.
Here is my auto.master looks like ...
=====================================
# Master map for automounter
#
+auto.master
/net -hosts -nosuid
/auto /etc/auto.indirect -grpid
/users /etc/auto.home -grpid
/tools /etc/auto.tools -rw,soft,intr,wsize=1024,rsize=1024,timeo=15
/vex /etc/auto.vex -grpid
Here is what /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs status brings ...
=======================================================
Configured Mount Points:
========================
/usr/sbin/automount /auto file /etc/auto.indirect grpid
/usr/sbin/automount /users file /etc/auto.home grpid
/usr/sbin/automount /tools file /etc/auto.tools
rw,soft,intr,wsize=1024,rsize=1
024,timeo=15
/usr/sbin/automount /vex file /etc/auto.vex grpid
Active Mount Points:
====================
/usr/sbin/automount /auto file /etc/auto.indirect grpid
/usr/sbin/automount /users file /etc/auto.home grpid
/usr/sbin/automount /tools file /etc/auto.tools
rw,soft,intr,wsize=1024,rsize=10
24,timeo=15
/usr/sbin/automount /vex file /etc/auto.vex grpid
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Jayesh
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From: "Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:32:40 -0500
"Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:jF4x6.3105$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> The slagging started when some Linux idiot came into an ME newsgroup and
> trashed ME.
>
> --
> Sam
>
> http://personal.mem.bellsouth.net/mem/s/o/soffer/
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>
wrong again, sam. the original query was cross-posted across linux and
windows newsgroups. i should know because i was the one who originally
replied to the query. i read the thread from within a linux newsgroup, and
the reply was sent to every newsgroup the poster posted to.
i offered some suggestions based on personal knowledge and experience:
windows has upset me and failed me; linux has not; windows machines have
been susceptible to virus infection at my place of work; non-windows
machines have not; i have found windows-me to be extremely buggy, and it
crashes more than is typical for windows; i have yet to see my linux box
crash. i felt it would be unwise to add windows-me to a system that already
had windows98, not only because i don't like windows os's, but because
doesn't it seem a little ridiculous to have 2 os's that are so similar on
the same machine? to each his or her own, but why not keep one or the other
and free up 15gb of drive space?
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From: Randy R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: reliabe (fast) ftp source for beta redhat linux iso's?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:44:56 GMT
I tried installing Redhat Fisher, but I am having problems with it, so
I guess I should install Wolverine instead since that is the version
that's listed at
http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/beta/rhl.html
Does anyone know of a reliable ftp mirror that has the ISO's?
I got Fisher from Linuxberg, but they do not have the iso's for
Wolverine. Valinux has the RPMs but not the ISO's
The redhat ftp site is way too slow of course...
Thanks,
Randy
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:47:25 -0800
From: Noah Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Sam wrote:
> The slagging started when some Linux idiot came into an ME newsgroup and
> trashed ME.
That must have been hard :P
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Pine ignores /etc/mail/gericstable
Date: 30 Mar 2001 20:49:52 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alex Fitterling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Pine uses sendmail as mailer... as preconfigured,
>and leaving the smtp-server option blank it is default I guess... it is
>also somewhere stated in pine help.
As far as I know pine uses sendmail for mail to another system. For
local delivery it would be silly to use sendmail. It uses procmail or
something like that for local delivery I believe (or maybe it has its
own local delivery agent). It is like walking down to the mailbox to
have US post office deliver your letter to your roommate who lives in
the same apartment as you. You might do it, but usually you would just
hand it to him directly.
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From: "Greg Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux without a video monitor.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:46:33 -0500
Don't forget to modify '/etc/securetty' to specify your local serial port.
This will allow 'root' to login via your console.. Otherwise, you won't have
much luck.
See Charles' LRP Serial doc.
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Documentation/LRP-Serial-HOWTO.txt
"Martin Gregorie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ac4b2dd.27745211@news...
> 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!
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:56:54 -0800
From: Noah Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: c++ keyboard readout
Experimental Data wrote:
> Hi!
> In a c++ programme I wish to read the keyboard. More precisely I
> want to make a command in a loop, that does like std::cin>>, but instead
> of stopping and waiting for a line and [return] I want the loop to be
> continued unaffected until sombody presses, say "s".
> I was told it really was a cuestion about the os
Right. You have to read stdin one char at a time....most OSs buffer input
so this is not possible in a *standard* way. You must use whatever
approach works for a given system....I think in Unix the standard approach
is to use poll or select combined with read.
And do read the C++ FAQ.....I am sure this is answered in them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:04:02 GMT
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:24:34 -0500, 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.
>
>--
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
>/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
>^^-^^ 8:15am up 1 day, 22:28, 3 users, load average: 2.18, 2.16, 2.16
You can certainly change the color from the commandline switches to xterm,
but if you want to make it permanent, add the following to .Xdefaults:
(I believe you need to restart X afterwards)
XTerm*Background: Grey63
XTerm*Foreground: Black
Check out /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt for all the available colors - and, even
better, try the utility gcolor for GUI access to the color database.
HTH
-DR
--
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:07:13 GMT
In <5D4x6.3104$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam:
>I am canceling all pending contracts, and will no longer do business with
>Raytheon.
>
>--
>Sam
[Snip...AN ENTIRE ARTICLE redundantly quoted without one counterpoint...]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, you ARE serious?
Oh, now there's a fearsome threat, in the MyDadCanWhupYourDad genre. So what
will you accomplish by this? Bankrupt Raytheon AND silence critics, with one
fell swoop? A stroke of blazing genius; Bill Gates musta thought of it. Holy
Lady of Our Ignition and Full Moon Friday, you are unbelievably juvenile. Do
you comprehend just how silly this appears? It is SOOOO like, bullying.
I'm terrorized. Maybe this play in one act can partially express my awe:
<GUNTOHEAD>
Don't make me quit this job. I mean it; don't make me quit, or he gets it!
</GUNTOHEAD>
Wasn't that clever?
Get a grip. And why did you gratuitously quote AN ENTIRE ARTICLE redundantly
without a single intervening independent idea? Have you any consideration? I
suppose you cannot muster a single reponse to it, outside a vague threat? It
was nothing short of pathetic, like Allchin's whining to the US Congress for
protection from Open Source vandals at the gates of Intellectual Property. I
suppose that's customary with the Lords of Redmond now, isn't it?
There is yet hope; redeem yourself! Take your tantrum to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and we'll all get back as soon as the coffee clears our nasal passages, and
we recover working keyboards.
(PS: X-Complaints-To. Headers, if you knew one iota about Usenet.)
(PPS: Before acts humiliating, check out the last line of my sig.)
--
Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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