Re: NY Times article on Netscape and free software in general

A URL for the Times article: http://search.nytimes.com/books/search/bin/fastweb?getdoc+cyber-lib+cyber-lib+19330+16+wAAA+Denise%7ECaruso Best Regards, JohnT -- Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been

help with mounting particular CD

I've got a CD that won't mount on FreeBSD 2.2.2 (Yes, I'm working on getting them to install Debian ;) ). Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and reading the directory structure. Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could give me the file system type that

help - CDrom file format

I've got a CD that won't mount under Win31 or FreeBSD 2.2.2 (yeah, I'm working on getting them to install Debian ;) ). Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and reading the directory structure. Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could give me the file system

Re: space, time, matter

Dear Brendan - Matter does exist. However, it has no place to be since space and time have gone away to visit energy. At 16:38 11/12/97 -0800, you wrote: I was wondering if you had any documentation on whether space time and matter really exsist. I am a first year physics student at mcgill

apology to list

In a fit of pique I added to the spam on this list regarding a misplaced question that did not belong here. I immediately realized my reply might result in a further inquiry to the list. I hereby apologise to the list and will not post unappropriate and off-topic replies in the future. Best

Re: lock a pentium for fun!

It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes. In what way is it a bug? If all the codes are assigned, then future extensions become impossible. Unassigned OP codes are properly given no-op execution and are indicated as reserved in the programming documentation. Best Regards,

Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet)

Printing to a HP LaserJet requires that you send an initialization control sequence to the printer that tells the printer to use a CRLF for each LF the printer receives. I created a simple printcap filter to do this, and to allow selection of monospaced font sizes. If you would like I can

Re: Fw: F**k the script... I want him gone now....

Kevin - If its not too much trouble could you keep the profanity out of the subject line, at the least. Kids are on this list. While I know that it's a real world out there some parents would like to introduce them to it in stages. It also doesn't present the nicest view of Americans. Thanks.

Re: THANKS 4 - WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)

Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list! Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner, it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about real code and what's going on in NT. This I can take to

Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading - 56k speed?

A bit off-topic, but a few additional thoughts: 1) Achievable speed is totally dependent upon your telco's outside plant characteristics. For example, I'm 2 1/2 miles from my local telco's switch. My ISP is about 6 miles from the same switch. I cannot get a *reliable* connection over 28.8.

Re: 486SX33 -- 486DX2-66

Currently Intel is the only manufacturer selling 5v 486 chips. It *should* be a straight drop-in, no jumper changes required. A *very* old motherboard *could* have a problem supplying enough current for the doubled chip. But I haven't seen that happen yet, and I've upgraded a number of

Re: Need minor dselect help. (with recommends)

Rob Browning wrote: The only gripe I have is that it treats Recommends the way that dpkg treats Depends, so it drops me into conflict resolution *every* time I run it because I have suck installed, but no news-transport-system. Is there any good solution to this. I at least want something

Anyone know of a way to generate PDF without Adobe?

Does anyone know of a program, Debian or not, that will generate PDF files from ASCII, PS or HTML? I remember hearing of one, but I havn't been able to track it down. Thanks in Advance, JohnT Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux

I'm running a Cyrix 586/120 with essentially no problems. Minor problem: Colorado FC-20 interface for tape backup requires that I turn off turbo system clock and backup slow (~7-8MB/min). Otherwise, system works fine. JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

cron's insistence on dselect mail stuff

Just a question - Will cron ever relent without being forced? IMHO, cron really doesn't require, recommend or suggest, it demands! I run cron for cleanup and other local jobs. Currently, I don't have *any* mail related programs installed. I'm getting tired of having to override dselect

Re: problem mounting hda3 as root

Thanks to all who responded to my problem to a mountable but non-bootable root partition. The answer is that dselect's aborted install (upgrade) apparently deleted files in /lib before replacements were made. Restoring the /lib directory from tape allowed the system to boot hda3 properly.

HELP! - me recover from 1.2 aborted install

Hi - OK, I give up. I've spent over a day trying to get my root partition to mount. The stupid move - I tried to upgrade to 1.2 selecting multiple items in deselect. Yes, stupid, do it incrementally. The result - lilo loads the kernel, kernel does initial checks, checks partitions, the

hda3 won't mount as root - ok on /mnt - ??? HELP!

Ouch! Still same problem. Tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (selecting multiple items in deselect). The install bombed, kernel panic, (probably disk space?). I had to use the reset switch. Now no boot. The partition containing only /var (with deb files of course) was corrupted. All other