Linux-Misc Digest #107, Volume #28 Thu, 14 Jun 01 11:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems configuring Network connection Mandrake-8.0 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?=
Gyland)
Re: is WINE super slow? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Gyland)
news-to-file (Laurent Siebenmann)
Re: Debugging option in packages ?! (Colin Watson)
Re: news-to-file (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Nine questions for newusers (set clock , set services ) (Colin Watson)
Re: RH 7.1 and GeForce ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: flushing the buffer in the kernel (Aravindh)
Re: is WINE super slow? (Lee Allen)
Re: localhost.localdomain (David Efflandt)
Re: What to use to write my thesis? (Giuseppe Bilotta)
Re: pause the bootup (David Efflandt)
Re: What to use to write my thesis? (Bora Eryilmaz)
Re: insmod? (David Means)
Re: Writing an OS from scratch ("bowman")
Re: uninstalling software (Matt Poepping)
help!!:MAC ADDRESS ("sss")
Re: uninstalling software (John Hasler)
Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card (Chris Nappin)
Re: ARP proxy - help needed (Roman Fietze)
rc.local part 2. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: vi settings (Dances With Crows)
Re: What to use to write my thesis? (Leonard Evens)
Re: localhost.localdomain (Robert_L)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Gyland)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems configuring Network connection Mandrake-8.0
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:25:16 GMT
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:13:11 -0400, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:
>I have an 3com 3c509 NIC and have to use the DHCP protocol. I haven't
>been to able to get it to work. Tried with Mandrake Control Center then
>did the old linux way.
>
>I ran 'modprobe 3c509' and it didn't give me any message. Then I ran
>'dhcpd -h <name> eth0' and get the following mesg.
Shouldn't you use 'insmod' ?
Donald Becker have written a diagnostic program to your Nic,
might become useful if you can't get the nic to work.
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html#isa-diags
--
�ystein Gyland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Gyland)
Subject: Re: is WINE super slow?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:27:55 GMT
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:44:09 GMT, Bob Hauck wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:30:40 -0400, Marc Ulrich
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My system is a Pentium III 800Mhz running
>> XFree86 4.0.3 on a Matrox G400 dualhead, 32MB.
>
>You've actually got an 800 MHz cpu but only 32 MB of RAM? That could
>be part of the problem right there. Things like image editors tend to
>use a lot of memory. Use "free" to see how much is swapped out.
I think he has 32MB ram on his Matrox card.
--
�ystein Gyland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurent Siebenmann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: news-to-file
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:46:39 +0200
Hi all,
I wish to follow a couple of dejal newsgroups
systematically under linux which I manipulate
remote via modem.
Currently I am doing this painfully
taking material from a screen buffer to a file.
Huge waste of time and connection charges.
What I would like is to quickly directly dump all new articles
to a file on the linux machine, hopefully by a single command line
similar to
rn (thenewsgroup) > (thefile)
Then later process the file with
my own search and editing tools.
I imagine one of the news readers available under linux
had this feature. Who can point me in the right direction?
Laurent S.
--
PS. Please reply also via email. I am account lcs
at topo-dot-math-dot-u-psud-dot-fr. Sorry for the anti
spaam distortion of the address!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Debugging option in packages ?!
Date: 14 Jun 2001 10:42:25 GMT
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Josef Molnar wrote:
>> My question is: if I get a source code of whatever program and want to
>> compile it, I cannot find an otion to turn the "-g" debug flag off.
>>
>> I guess the programs could be smaller (faster?) and in some cases I do
>> not need extra debugging options.
>
>In over 35 years experience, I have found that it NEVER paid to turn
>off the -g flag (or the equivalent with other languages and
>compilers), or to strip symbol tables from programs. I do not know how
>Linux handles the symbol tables, but in older times, the symbol tables
>were not loaded into memory anyway unless they were needed for
>debugging. Even were they loaded, they would probably get paged out
>unless you were debugging, so they would not be wasting memory. (I
>recognize that -g does more than include or exclude the symbol table,
>but the rest is very small.)
>
>I think the reason to purge them is if you are a paranoid provider of
>proprietary closed source code, and you wish to make it more difficult
>to reverse-engineer it.
This was the subject of long flamewars in Debian, and we ended up opting
for stripped binaries. We certainly aren't a paranoid provider of
proprietary closed source code, though ...
IIRC, the most persuasive argument was that, if the symbol table is
useful to you for debugging, your next step is very likely to be
tweaking something in the source and rebuilding anyway. So why make it
harder to install the system in limited space if we don't have to?
Debian opted instead for making it as easy as possible to grab the
source code and rebuild: nowadays, for an increasing number of packages,
you should be able to do something like 'DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug,nostrip
apt-get --build source <package>'.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Thank you, Microsoft, and please get out of the way."
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft.html
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: news-to-file
Date: 14 Jun 2001 12:50:12 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurent Siebenmann) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I wish to follow a couple of dejal newsgroups
> systematically under linux which I manipulate
> remote via modem.
You might want to installa a local news daemon such as leafnode,
search it on freshmeat.net
--
Stefano - Hodie postridie Idus Iunias MMI est
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Nine questions for newusers (set clock , set services )
Date: 14 Jun 2001 10:52:06 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 12 Jun 2001 22:51:21 -0700, Emmett McLean staggered into the Black
>Sun and said:
>>6. Is there a default group, such as staff, that
>> new users should belong to?
>
>? If Turbo uses "user-private-never-to-be-sufficiently-damned-groups"
>then each user has a personal group, named the same as their username,
>which only they belong to. If Turbo lacks this misfeature, then all
>users will belong to group "users" when created.
Go on, I'll bite. Why do people think this is a misfeature? It means you
can safely give users umask 002 by default, which is one less thing to
remember to change when you're working on a shared project in a setgid
directory. With a 'users' group or similar, people can't use umask 002
by default, and you have to remind them to change their umask around all
the time or you end up with group-unwriteable files.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
checking for gethostbyname in -lresolv... yes
checking for a sense of humor... (cashed) Yep!
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E - gnutalk/configure
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 and GeForce
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:19:56 +1000
I chose the same res and I get no desktop icons
and no rmb popup menu and a message that "gmc"
I think, has crashed-segment fault
Something is going on.
--
-
-
Regards
RonN
Maximus Idius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9g7ica$j1k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> it works.
>
> I have Asus CUSL2 and Winfast GeForce 2MX- 32mb.
>
> I choose resolution of 1260x768, with gnome.
>
> Hope this may help.
>
> max idius
>
> --
> "faeychyld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Has anyone installed RH7 with a Geforce 2MX
> > card.
> >
> > I find that the resolution
> > I select determines whether I get icons
> > or a gnome panel,and definately NO desktop
> > popup menus ( rmb).
> >
> > This is with the default install desktop
> > (sawfish I think).
> >
> > Oddly enough, the desktop with icons and gnome
> > panel is intact during the Xconfigurator test,
> > but when X finaly starts, thing go wrong.
> >
> > --
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > Regards F
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aravindh)
Subject: Re: flushing the buffer in the kernel
Date: 14 Jun 2001 05:28:06 -0700
problem with dmesg is that i can run it only if i can boot into linux.
the system crashes way before that and i am unable to see the
messages. that is why i want to flush the buffers after every printk.
so i have to add that code into the kernel, but it looks like there is
no way to flush the buffer that printk is using. even if i can cause
the system to pause and wait for a user input will be good. any clue?
thanks
aravindh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Re: is WINE super slow?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:36:20 GMT
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:30:40 -0400, Marc Ulrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I saw this question in a corel newsgroup w/o an answer so I decided to
>ask the same over here:
>
>I installed Corel's photopaint 9 (b/c I'm used to corel & think it is
>easier than the Gimp) for linux on my Redhat 7.0 / 2.4.2 kernel.
>However, the windowing runs extremely slowly (meaning dialog boxes,
>menus, etc.) Is this a standard problem with the WINE or is it possibly
>something in photopaint? My system is a Pentium III 800Mhz running
>XFree86 4.0.3 on a Matrox G400 dualhead, 32MB.
I have a dual-boot system (Windows98SE and Linux+Wine) and I have
found that Windows apps run just as fast under Linux+Wine as under
native Windows. Exception: When the app is running under Linux+Wine
but accessing application software and/or files on a Windows
partition.
I agree that 32MB is insufficient I would think 128MB for X and Wine
and such a memory intensive application.
-Lee Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: localhost.localdomain
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:39:13 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:23:09 +1000, karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Dave wrote:
>>Can I change these names to something cooler, or will it corrupt the
>>dummy interface in Red Hat Linux?
>>
>>Ta!
>>
>>dave.
> From a terminal as root type
> hostname [your new hostname]
> thats it.
Not quite. That may change it temporarily. But many systems have
initscripts that will change it back when you boot, so you might need to
modify those settings. And if you do any networking, you need an IP for
it in /etc/hosts. It is probably best NOT to change the name of the
127.0.0.1 loopback IP, but you can use the IP of any nic, or any other
loopback IP (like 127.0.0.2) especially if the interface with that name
is not always up (like the internet name for ppp IP).
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: What to use to write my thesis?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:43:30 GMT
Wroot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what software or standars people would recommend for writing
> technical scientific papers and a thesis?
Since everybody on this newsgroup seems to have decided to de-lurke
for the occasion, I see no reason not to add my 50 Lit.
> If I understand correctly, the main options are MS Word and LaTeX. If I
> choose the former, I'll have to find a Windows machine or a Mac (I prefer
> Linux and FreeBSD). OTOH, LaTeX requires considerable learning.
The program you'll choose to use heavily depends on various factors.
Factor 1: philosophy.
First of all, you must decide if you want to use a wordprocessor (and
this does not mean necessarily Word) or a typesetting program. The
difference in quality between a wordprocessor output and a typesetter
output is enormous.
Factor 2: ease of use.
It is not true that LaTeX requires "considreable" learning. Actually,
most "high-level" TeX formats (LaTeX, eplain, ConTeXt) allow much
better control on your work, with considerable *less* efforts than MS
Word. Also, the knowledge you get from any "problem" you meet along
the way is likely to be re-usable later for similar problems. One more
point is the "universality" of TeX: the system is available on most
platform, and surely for the one you're more comfortable with
(whatever that is). Finally, there is this great support group :-)
Factor 3: current usage.
If you need to do a "heavily" scientific thesis (lots of formulas and
things like that), TeX is THE choice: good quality output with small
efforts. Also, the scientific community tends to accept TeX as well as
(if not more than) Word.
And TeX is good for non-scientific works too (I'm using ConTeXt for
novels, poetry etc).
Factor 4: future usage.
What are you going to do next? If you plan to move in an environment
where Word is THE choice, then you'd better start to learn it now. If
OTOH you are "on your own", choose what you believe is better.
If you want to stay on the wordprocessor side, know that Word is not
the only choice. In Linux there are free choices like AbiWord and
KWord, and in both Linux and MS environments there are free choices
like OpenOffice (the GPL version of StarOffice), or non-free choices
like ApplixWare and Corel WordPerfect Office.
--
Giuseppe Bilotta
Axiom I of the Giuseppe Bilotta
theory of IT:
Anything is better than MS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: pause the bootup
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:43:29 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 Jun 2001 14:29:03 -0700, Aravindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i want to pause the bootup process by inserting "gets or scanf" inside
> the kernel code. how do i go about doing this. for example, i know
> that printk() is used to display messages. Is there some command I can
> add to the printk function that will wait for the user to press a key
> before continuing with the boot?
If you are just trying to see the boot messages, you can often just type
'demesg' (or dmesg | less), or check the logs in /var/log/
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Bora Eryilmaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: What to use to write my thesis?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:50:08 -0400
On a related note regarding the size of documents produced with LaTeX,
my whole masters thesis (150 pages) took only an astonishingly small
900KB in postscript. In MS Word, my girlfriend's 20 pages papers already
takes couple MBs.
Bora
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From: David Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:13:32 -0400
Tom Edelbrok wrote:
{ snip }
> Secondly, if I run netcfg I get the following error:
>
> TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable.
>
DISPLAY=:0.0
or
DISPLAY={hostname}:0.0
export DISPLAY
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Writing an OS from scratch
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:13:18 -0600
"Steven J. Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> But what a time-consuming venture when PCs were hobyist-hacker
> tools. (Before Apple, Before Microsoft).
Yeah, but it was fun. I got more satisfaction from that sort of noodling
around that using the latest greatest development tools on a 1 ghz box to
get the tab order on some damn Motif widget to come out right or trying to
clobber up bitmap for a toolbar button that doesn't look like Kindergarten
Krayon Koloring 101.
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From: Matt Poepping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstalling software
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:37:58 -0600
yup, try using this
http://www.encap.org/
Ben wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was just wondering if there is a way to uninstall software under
> Linux. I know hiow to do it for rpm packages but I don't know how to
> uninstall software that is installed from binary files. Also I don't
> have the log for the installation path... Is there a way?
>
> Thanks
> Ben
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From: "sss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help!!:MAC ADDRESS
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:44:32 +0200
how is this possible???????
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:10.0.233.2 Bcast:10.0.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff90
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstalling software
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:28:16 GMT
Steve Hathaway writes:
> Software uninstall is not fully functional with the public software
> distributions, unless the packages are for a commercial Linux
> distribution,...
This is not true. 'dpkg --purge' works just fine under Debian.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Nappin)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card
Date: 14 Jun 2001 07:13:28 -0700
Thanks for the various suggestions, I've managed to fix the problem
now.
For the future benefit of anyone else with similar hardware, I'll
detail the solution below. I'm using an IBM Aptiva 2170 26G, which has
an SiS 530 graphics card (uses 8MB of system RAM) and IBM C51 monitor.
The solution was to set the following combination of device options
within the "sis" device section of my XF86Config-4:
Option "NoAccel"
Option "FastVram"
(This is wierd, because the card doesn't have any on-board Video RAM,
but there you go...)
BTW, refresh rate probing is working fine for me. Take a look at
/var/log/XFree86.0.log to see what rates are being calculated (and any
other XFree86 problems).
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From: Roman Fietze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ARP proxy - help needed
Date: 14 Jun 2001 14:22:21 +0200
Stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
> This works fine for me, with the exception that I can't figure out how
> to make the arp cache entries permanent so they stay this way every time
> I boot up.
Depending on your distribution you add a script with any name you like
(e.g arpset or arp) to /etc/rc.d or /sbin/init.d (mostly, SuSE, linked
together somehow), take one of the other scripts as a template so you
have some nice commands for this script, mainly start, stop and
e.g. status. Then create a link from $PWD/rcX.d to your script as the
others do it (where X is your run state where you want to have that
script run and where the 'S'-links call your script with "start" and
the 'K'-links call your script with "stop".
The description above should be a sufficient take off speed for you,
if you crash anyway do some more RTFM or just come back.
Roman
--
Roman Fietze (Mail Code 6) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heidelberg Digital Finishing GmbH, Germany DDF-T SWEC ESW
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: rc.local part 2.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:17:00 -0400
hello,
i put this line at the bottom of rc.local.
cp /etc/termcap /home/cpu1/filename
when i rebooted it did not do the copy.
this is rh7.0.
thank you.
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:24:59 -0400
yup i can ping the linux box and telnet to it.
thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: vi settings
Date: 14 Jun 2001 14:54:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:56:27 GMT, Federico Bravo staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>p8r wrote:
>> OK, this is driving me crazy ... since *when* did vi become an html
>> editor??? How can I disable this (disgusting) feature? I suppose I
>> could just adapt and just ":!vim (filename)" instead of bang-vi, but
>> decades-old habits are tough to kill, sometimes. :) aTdHvAaNnKcSe
>I actually don't understand what you mean. I use vi on my RedHat 7.0
>and it is perfectly equal to the one I used 15 years ago. Nevertheless
>I'm getting to enjoying vi.
The original vi is closed-source, therefore not available in a
standard RedHat distro. In every RedHat distro that I've seen, "vi" and
"vim" are the same program; they just act differently depending on how
they are called. Calling vim with "vi" turns off all the extremely
useful and nifty features that vim has, and tries to make vim act like
the original vi.
IMHO, syntax highlighting is a very good thing--it breaks up the
monotony and can alert you to certain boneheaded typos like mismatched
parentheses/angle brackets.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: What to use to write my thesis?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:24:45 -0500
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> Wroot wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering what software or standars people would recommend for writing
> > technical scientific papers and a thesis?
> >
> > If I understand correctly, the main options are MS Word and LaTeX. If I
> > choose the former, I'll have to find a Windows machine or a Mac (I prefer
> > Linux and FreeBSD). OTOH, LaTeX requires considerable learning.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Wroot
>
> My son started at a Sun workstation, knowing very little about
> how to use it and nothing about LaTeX, and six weeks later
> (or maybe it was three weeks later) he had a complete thesis
> done. It was a mathematics thesis which is generally harder
> than theses in other disciplines because of the complicated
> LaTeX formatting of mathematics that is often necessary.
> So if you put your mind to it, you should be able to do it
> and then you will know LaTeX. If you use Word, you won't
> end up knowing much more than when you started.
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
Let me also add that it is incumbent on us Linux users to fight
sprawl. I have written a couple of several hundred page books,
the tex source for each fitting on a one floppy disk. On the
other hand my wife regularly gets papers of some 40 pages or
so from her students written in MS Word which are one-two
megabytes in size.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Robert_L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: localhost.localdomain
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:01:35 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Efflandt wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:23:09 +1000, karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Dave wrote:
>>>Can I change these names to something cooler, or will it corrupt the
>>>dummy interface in Red Hat Linux?
>>>
>>>Ta!
>>>
>>>dave.
>> From a terminal as root type
>> hostname [your new hostname]
>> thats it.
>
> Not quite. That may change it temporarily. But many systems have
> initscripts that will change it back when you boot, so you might need to
> modify those settings. And if you do any networking, you need an IP for
> it in /etc/hosts. It is probably best NOT to change the name of the
> 127.0.0.1 loopback IP, but you can use the IP of any nic, or any other
> loopback IP (like 127.0.0.2) especially if the interface with that name
> is not always up (like the internet name for ppp IP).
>
> --
> David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
>
Hi,
When I tried this tip none of my apps would launch so I had to change it back.
Sorry, don't remember the error messages, something about not being able to
connect to the (server?). I used the format somename.somename. Obviously on
my system localhost.localdomain is important and running host newhostname
screws things up. How would I change the hostname without this happening?
Thanks,
Robert_L
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