On Friday 26 January 2001 03:19, you wrote:
xine.sourceforge.net - a DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, DivX ;-), and
ASF 1 player for Linux. Still in beta, but worth testing out.
Mike
--
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C Y B E R S O
On Thursday 25 January 2001 18:07, you wrote:
Prior to now, I used the following to format a disk. Now it
doesn't work. What will work?
setfdprm /dev/fd0 1440/1440 fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkfs /dev/fd0 1440
fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 mkfs -t type /dev/fd0
where type is ext2 or vfat. There
Hello can anyone tell me
i use 1 harddirve to dual boot for both redat / mandrake so can i use the
same swap parttion for both of them if yes
does it implies for other linux/unix flavours ? e.g FreeBSD
Solaris , Slackware .
thanks
Faisal
On Friday 26 January 2001 03:56, you wrote:
In drafting a document over the last few days, I have found that lyx is
incompatible in some way with CUPS. If I try to print directly from lyx
with the lpr command, nothing happens. No print job is sent and nothing is
printed. If, on the other
My question is not related to Mandrake as such, so excuse me for being
a bit OT.
Question: I use Netscape as my standard browser. Do you perhaps know of
utilities designed to edit and maintwain bookmarks? Editing them with
the included "edit bookmarks" faicility is a real pain -- particularly
Slackware yes
Solaris probably (havn't used it so I'm not sure)
FreeBSD I don't think so, The impression I get is BSD slices aren't exactly
partitions (could be wrong)...I never saw any definitive doco either way (and
never got around to looking at the Partition table of an installed BSD
I have a Umax 1200S and a Umax scsi (ISA) card that came with it. Have
any of you had success in getting that card recognized and functioning?
If so, how did you accomplish that feat?
Seve
LM7.2, AMD800 Athlon
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, faisal wrote:
so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux
i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ?
is it that hard ?
It's very hard because most of the companies making winmodems refuse to
release any info about them, largely because they're worried
On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote:
Hi Linuxians,
I need a list of free programming language and scripting language available
for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free
license.
Huh?
If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft
On Friday 26 January 2001 20:44, you wrote:
so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux
i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ?
is it that hard ?
It is when no information is available.
It is when no developers are interested in supporting people who replace $40
worth
Its possible for you Win9X dual-boot to share swap space with linux, as
well. Tho why you'd want to is completely beyond me. Maybe when disks were
smaller and more expensive...
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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[mailto:[EMAIL
He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever) belongs to
YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though,
that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl modules) of course
aren't your own, and may fall under some other license. Just because you
There are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice,
eh?
Silly question maybe, do the same sort of things exist for Tcl/Tk ?
Thanks,
Thomas.
Interesting question for which I have no answer.
Here's the tcl home page. If such a beast exsists, it'll be here:
http://www.scriptics.com/
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas
Let's not forget wget.
I imagine getleft is a lot like it, but wget comes with most every distro
that has come out in the last few years. It can do complete mirrors of
remote pages, but be warned that pages with javascipt to open new pages will
fail. Unless Getleft is superhuman, it might not
So sprach Andrew George am Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:51:34PM +1100:
Solaris probably (havn't used it so I'm not sure)
Hmm, I don't know about Solaris either, but I would not think that it works.
When you create a SWAP file/partition under linux, there's some "signature"
or whatever added to it,
I want to run nautilus which requires the absolute latest gnome stuff. Has
anyone installed helix (ximian) gnome on a 7.2 box? I tried but the
installed crapped out (seg fault).
Darren
Hi everyone,
It seems that sometime yesterday Namezero acted up and somehow redirected my mail to
my old registered email address, which is not in use anymore. This might have caused a
flurry of rejected mail from Namezero to anyone posting to the list, I apologise for
any inconvenience
Try:
http://icemcfd.com/tcl/ice.html
There are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice,
eh?
Silly question maybe, do the same sort of things exist for Tcl/Tk ?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"They said I was mad; and I said they were mad;
damn them, they outvoted me"
-
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So sprach Andrew George am Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:51:34PM +1100:
Solaris probably (havn't used it so I'm not sure)
Hmm, I don't know about Solaris either, but I would not think that it works.
When you create a SWAP file/partition under linux,
A well written post from Civileme. Might I also add that [even] under
Windows, A windmoden is still enough to turn a 400 Mhz P II with 128 Mb
or RAM into a rather sluggish machine. They really are *incredibly* poor
devices.
Mike
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Mike MacCana
Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I *thought* I knew how to do this, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's
the deal, I have a HD that I use for .mp3. I can't add files to the dir
(I generally rip CDs on my win9x laptop store them on a samba share)
Right now I'm booting win9x to copy them
On Friday 26 January 2001 15:22, you wrote:
I want to run nautilus which requires the absolute latest gnome stuff. Has
anyone installed helix (ximian) gnome on a 7.2 box? I tried but the
installed crapped out (seg fault).
Darren
Yes, I installed it without any problem. I used ximians
why take a chance your links or dot files will be missed with a mv or cp
when tar gets it all and preserves everything 100% with one command
? just curious.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:21:41 -0500
From: Sheldon Lee Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am sending this again seeing that my last post never showed up on the
list.
My efforts to set up a software raid in my "spare" time has progressed a
little from last time around, but it seems that I have run into a rather
significant snag.
That's weird.
I have Mandrake 7.2 on my DELL Latitude CP (233MHz) and it works well
apart from the sound. Windows seems to sugest it is a Crystal PnP Audio
System. Is there a driver available for this in Mandrake?
Thanks,
Nick.
I just got a spam direct:
Received: from localhost (ppp-7-49.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.135.49])
Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
From: Hahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With an attached exe file.
I'm wondering where they got my addr from - did anyone else get this spam?
Use the windows control-panel system icon to find out your IRQ, hex, and DMA
settings. Then use sndconfig to manually set it up. As root, of course.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick
type "sndconfig" in the console and set it up from there.
Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@brwlsrv2.micro.lucent.com on
01/26/2001 10:20:14 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Experts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: [expert] Sound on a DELL
I have received that one as well. Basically, the attached file was a
virus. Though I received it over a month ago.
Pine proved it's worth once again in that the virus did nothing to me.
Good old pine
Cheers
I just got a spam direct:
Received: from localhost
This is a windows virus. both Norton and Mcaffee have info on how to
quarantine it. I think they are calling it a worm.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
I just got a spam direct:
Received: from localhost (ppp-7-49.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.135.49])
Subject: Snowhite and
Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a windows virus. both Norton and Mcaffee have info on how to
quarantine it. I think they are calling it a worm.
Just so everyone knows - yes, I expected it to be a virus or worse.
If YOU got it, throw it away, or run it on a box you don't mind
How is your wine set up? Do you just run apps, or do you use wine to
access an installed win95? Also, which version are you using? I love
wine, and use it for running WinVN. How did you install the media player.
I can't get it to run.
Windows Media Player works fine here. I use Codeweavers
Thanks for the reply.
Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later
when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig
language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or
license fee.
I have bought a commercial development
This is actually a Windows virus that is currently being spread.
Funny that it somehow ended up on a Linux mailing list...
-Chris
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
I just got a spam direct:
Received: from localhost (ppp-7-49.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.135.49])
Subject:
Looking at it, *all* the dirs on /mymusic have those rights. My Music
is at /mymusic/My Music/ . I've tried "chmod 666 ./My\ Music/" and
"chmod a+rw ./My\ Music/" as root, get no error messages, but the
perms don't change. I feel like I'm missing something simple, but even
searching the
Rusty Carruth wrote:
Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a windows virus. both Norton and Mcaffee have info on how to
quarantine it. I think they are calling it a worm.
Just so everyone knows - yes, I expected it to be a virus or worse.
If YOU got it, throw it away, or run
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
I have a Umax 1200S and a Umax scsi (ISA) card that came with it. Have
any of you had success in getting that card recognized and functioning?
Try the SANE site and if it doesn't offer an answer their
Mail List group is very helpful.
Nope. It wasn't a spammer. It was an acquaintance that has your email
address in their outlook program. This worm mails a joke to everyone in
the address book.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a windows virus. both Norton and
On Friday 26 January 2001 17:21, you wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later
when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig
language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or
I'm fairly certain that egcs (the GPL gcc included) does not require you to
hand out your source...only source to CHANGES you've made to egcs. While I'm
thinking about it, Debian includes egcs, and if its in Debian, its most
certainly free as in beer. Read the README that comes with it; it'll say
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has been making the rounds. If you go to
http://www.sexyfun.com - not a porno site - you'll
find all the directions to find it and remove it safely.
If you're booted to Linux and running any Linux email app, just delete
with your email app and it's gone.
I
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card.
After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or
"DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source.
It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care
but nVidia's
Yeah.. I saw that d/l everything as well. You don't always have the
luxury.
So, you're basically cutting and pasting?
I'm thinking of something like one of those web cache programs where U can
point to a site and set how many levels (link) deep U want to go and it will
d/l everything for
Is it possible that I can learn how to enable all 45 Gigs on my hard drive
in the next 3.5 hours?
I installed this sucker and followed the directions on fdisking and
formating ext2.. but it only shows up as 7.7 Gigs. I suspect it has
something to do with inodes.
Can anyone point me to some
I have received that one as well. Basically, the attached file was a
virus. Though I received it over a month ago.
Pine proved it's worth once again in that the virus did nothing to me.
Pine had nothing to do with it; that virus is specific to Windows. If you're
not running Windows, you
On Friday 26 January 2001 17:21, you wrote:
How is your wine set up? Do you just run apps, or do you use wine to
access an installed win95? Also, which version are you using? I love
wine, and use it for running WinVN. How did you install the media player.
I can't get it to run.
Windows
Hello all, this may be a newbie question, but I need help!
My modem is there, the serial port is configured, but Linux won't talk
to it? I have a USR Sportster 33.6 modem (ISA) hardwired to Com2 IRQ3.
Onboard serial 2 is disabled in the BIOS. The port, ttyS0 is configured
properly on boot.
This is probably such a basic question I'm almost afraid to ask. :)
Can anyone tell me where Mandrake pulls the information that is shown when
a telnet connection is made? ie: When I telnet I see the following:
Welcome to hostname
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
Kernel 2.4.0 on an
That's the whole reason I was thankful for pine.
Think about it. I use Pine insted of Outlook. Thus I am thankful for
pine. The fact that I use linux for all email is what I am thankful for.
I don't get screwed with all these windows viruses floating around in
email.
I know perfectly well
/etc/motd
anything in that file will be displayed when a connection is made either
through the terminal, ssh, or telnet
This is probably such a basic question I'm almost afraid to ask. :)
Can anyone tell me where Mandrake pulls the information that is shown when
a telnet connection is
Which is better to have, a diald or dial-on-demand with a nameserver,
mail server, all around server, blah, blah, blah?
Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:.
/etc/issue.net
check your rc.local to make sure the file isnt being rewritten at every boot
like on a RedHat box.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spencer
Sent: Friday, January 26,
On 01.26 David Dennis wrote:
why take a chance your links or dot files will be missed with a mv or cp
when tar gets it all and preserves everything 100% with one command
? just curious.
'cp -a' does it all right, I used it to change my drive and cloned all
my system. It works ok with
/etc/motd will only be displayed after you have logged in. it won't post a
message BEFORE you log in.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Russello
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:22
faisal wrote:
so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux
i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ?
is it that hard ?
Winmodems just stink. It's not worth the effort.
There's your answer.
-Stephen-
Anthony,
No, thats not it. The motd is displayed after login. This is before login.
-Chris
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Anthony Russello wrote:
/etc/motd
anything in that file will be displayed when a connection is made either
through the terminal, ssh, or telnet
Ahh...that did it. Thanks!
-Chris
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote:
/etc/issue.net
check your rc.local to make sure the file isnt being rewritten at every boot
like on a RedHat box.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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I'm in the process of migrating all my NT servers to Linux Mandrake 7.2
Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a couple
of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, web
cache, printing, etc.
All my users authenticate against the NT domain. So
I can offer you no advice per se, but I applaud your moxy. Good luck.
Hey...let me think. In bash, maybe try something like this?
for account in users.file
do
$userName = (awk statement)
$passWord = (awk statement)
useradd $userName -s /dev/null
echo $passWord | passwd --stdin $userName
Hey folks!
I've got some problems with my RAID setup. I've created a RAID0 set
containing two partitions: /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. Now I wanted to switch
the /dev/hdb drive to /dev/hdc.
When I do so, I get an error during startup telling me, that RAID cannot be
started. In syslog, there's
Thanks for your support but my real problem is Linux's password policy that
won't allow but only 5% of my users passwords. I need to lower the security
so it doesn't complaint about how terrible they are and rejects them.
Asking the users to change their passwords is really out of the question
Well, there is a 20GB already on there even a 8.5 G partition.
And I
On the original HD: (has more partitions)
blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2
start 51 end 2501
On the new HD:
blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1
start 1 end 16352
Partition 1 does not end on
Perhaps you could remove the pam.d passwd requirement to use cracklib. I
would suggest you make a copy first of passwd entry in the pam.d folder,
then make your change, then try to set the password to some insecure.
After you finish setting the passwords put the cracklib back in place,
then
I have been trying and trying, unsuccessfully, to download Sun's java plugin
for netscape/mozilla. It simply will not download - I got one of those
'missing plugin messages and did I want to get the plugin?' type messages and
selected to download it. It appears to try to download from an ftp
Hi!
I have noticed, that if pppd fails 10 times to establish connection, it
closes itself! I thing it is related to maxfail option.
It should not close totally when "demand" is switched on, since then it
closes itself and connection won't be established any more when the demand
comes!
Should I
Greetings, everyone.
I've just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.0 and am getting an error message
when my pmfirewall script executes.
Kernel: Sorry: masquerading timeouts set 5DAYS/2MINS/60SECS
I've got ip-tables and ip-chains compiled as modules. I don't get any
other errors, and masq-ing is working
This is a good point. I don't think Samba supports pam.d rejection of
passwords and since I'll be using password synchronization this is really
important. I guess I'll just have to live with weak passwords untill a
better solution comes my way.
Has anyone tried to do something like this?
-
What I did to find out that information was just run 'make xconfig' in
/usr/src/linux and look at the configuration. I saved my newly downloaded
kernel in /usr/local/src/linux, ran make xconfig in there, and then just
switched between the two windows making sure that the new kernel had the
same
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Rankin
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:04 PM
To: mandrake
Subject: [expert] Modem at Com 2 0x02fb IRQ3 - BUT IT CAN'T BE FOUND
Check your /dev/modem softlink and make sure it points to /dev/ttyS1
At 03:34 PM 1/26/01 -0600, you wrote:
This is a good point. I don't think Samba supports pam.d rejection of
passwords and since I'll be using password synchronization this is really
important. I guess I'll just have to live with weak passwords untill a
better solution comes my way.
Has anyone
faisal wrote:
so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux
i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ?
is it that hard ?
Hard, yes, but that isn't the real issue. A real modem has a processor
designed precisely for use as a modem. A losemodem requires those
processing
I'm having some problems with Mandrake 7.2's Internet connection sharing
feature. First, I'll say that I upgraded my kernel to 2.4 final (via
latest cooker RPMs) right after I installed 7.2. It might have some
significance. I didn't set up Internet connection sharing until later,
when I
well, I couldn't agree more about wget. it's my favorite for downloading everything.
the only advantage of getleft over wget is that it easily and quickly lets you choose
which other files (pictures, zip files, etc...) that linked in this page you want to
download.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at
We are talking ~900 users... and I finally got it working.
Thanks a lot to all of you who shared your thoughts on this matter.
When everything is in place and working smoothly I'll setup a web page with
detailed instructions for all those interested in migrating their server
infraestructure from
just notince something else about menudrake.
If i run it as root from a shell, it doesn't work.
If i run it from DrakeConf (as a user), and enter the root password,
then run menudrake, it works?!?!?!
Ken
At 05:10 PM 1/26/01 -0600, you wrote:
We are talking ~900 users... and I finally got it working.
Thanks a lot to all of you who shared your thoughts on this matter.
When everything is in place and working smoothly I'll setup a web page with
detailed instructions for all those interested in
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 10:31 am, you wrote:
For those of you who don't have extensve edits to try to merge, I omitted
the following lines from my earlier post inadvertantly.
In a terminal
# menudrake --ecit-system-menu
should do what you want, but it does it for all users.
Welcome to hostname
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
Kernel 2.4.0 on an i686
login:
This message comes from /etc/issue.net.
After login is successful you see /etc/motd.
amit
_
Get your FREE download of MSN
Hi there...
Just wondering whether there might be LInux-Mandrake RPMs made available for
the new versions of kups and qtcups. Anything that will make CUPS printing
better would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
M.
--
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
On Friday 26 January 2001 12:06, you wrote:
If you have done little programming and want one that is simple to
start with but has a lot of power, I would recommend Python. It has
inherently clean code and oject-oriented features, and with the aid of
its extensive libraries and bindings,
what do you mean by that ???
i have several winmodems in my windows workstation no problem there !
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen F. Bosch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] winmodems
faisal wrote:
so many
with all do respect to your opinion i have seen most
people turn linux down cause they dont have a linux supported modem they
dont want to spen extra buck external modem for linux so they stick to
windows ...
if linux is aiming for people homes then maybe people sholud think diffrent.
i
Ah forgot to ask - whats PDC and SDC oris tha M$ terminolgy for
file/application servers
BillK
Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a couple
of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, web
cache, printing, etc.
That's the keyword. Cheap. When I buy a system the first thing I do is
remove the winmodem and throw it away. Then I install a reall modem. Just my
2cents worth.
Lyndon Lininger Sr.
- Original Message -
From: "faisal" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 27,
I've been using IMAP for a couple of years now, either with Outlook Express
or Eudora Pro, but since I'm committed to move on to Linux I thought that
Netscape Communicator would be my first choice, a one stop solution for web
browsing and mail. To my surprise, I've found that it can't
I've never had this experience, though I have limited experience accessing IMAP
mailboxes. I might suggest that you try Netscape 6.0 (or the latest build of
Mozilla). It can handle multiple POP and IMAP mailboxes simultaneously. If you do
try that out, I'd recommend that you have a fast
Thanks a lot.
I'll check with the distro disks.
Joe
RLU# 186063
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language
On Friday 26
Go to /etc/pam.d/passwd and comment out the line:
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
This should stop the checking against cracklib.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jorge Ramrez Llaca wrote:
- Thanks for your support but my real problem is Linux's password policy that
- won't
Very, Very, cheap.
VERY VERY tied to MS Windows...
And Very Very Proprietary.
They are so cheap that the manufacturers are paranoid that others will
employ their "technology", meaning software to create their own Winmodems.
As a result no one wishes to reveal programming specifications.
This
Thanks in advance for any help.
The problem:
My HP710c prints fine locally, is visible on the LAN
to my W98 box but printing from W98 to the printer
does nothing.
The printer installs works OK from M7.2 ( from W98
on LPT1).
It can be found on the lan by W98 (off the Linux
server) by
Buy external modems.
They are much faster than winmodem for the same stated bitrate.
winmodems use HSP but external modems use DSP.
HSP uses your CPU to process modem data... think when there's lot of
programs running, won't it slows down your modem data processing? at the end
you don't get full
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