The boss's Compaq Presario 1200Z laptop has gone catatonic:
The LCD doesn't light, and the external monitor sees no video (it used
to always come up displaying on both). Of course, backups haven't
been done quite recently enough. Before sending it in for repairs,
I'd like to copy the har
I've got an old box with RH7.2 on it. It has an ATA CDR on it
that seems to correctly get serviced by, among other things, ide-scsi,
which I presume acts as the (pseudo) host adapter for the connection.
(It works for reading CDs anyway. I haven't tried burning anything
yet, though that's
Is there an easy answer to installing from an RPM file on a
Slackware box? (I have a friend...)
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Specificly, should /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin come first in
one's PATH?
I've seen it both ways. I'm tempted to put local first, on
the grounds that if I've installed a local version, then that's what
I want to use.
I've mostly seen paths set up in the other order. Maybe
Ben Boulanger writes:
...
> Besides the fact that if you're reading email, you're probably already
> connected
...
That's a bad assumption. I read mail off line, so that I don't
spend connect time doing a human speed operation. I don't have flat
rate unlimited access. I'm not the only
Ben Boulanger writes:
...
> Besides that, there are times when the person sending a link simply
> doesn't have the time or desire to summarize.
...
I'm sorry. I hadn't realized that a few moments of your time
are so valuable. I had thought that there was some value to the time
of thos
mike ledoux writes regarding compressing a dump a chunk at a time:
> Oh, I'm not saying that it won't work, I'm sure it works just fine.
> I'm just skeptical that you get enough compression with this method to
> be worth trying to compress the data at all.
While it is almost always(*)
Wasn't there a thread a while back in which folks reported
that they have seen manufacturers reuse MAC addresses (contrary to the
original intent of the design)?
If this is true then you might want to form an ID which
includes "lowest MAC address", but combines it with other sourc
Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International writes:
Some totally correct stuff about the display adaptor not being
able to know what the monitor's vertical and horizontal rate limits
are, and then:
> Lower vsync and hsync rates do not hurt a monitor.
Most of us will inter
The RedHat 7.1 installer says that my old box at home (16Mb)
"doesn't have enough System memory to install RedHat Linux", and only
offerend an "OK" button, rather than letting me say "try anyway".
Yeah, it might swap like an old lady at a yard sale, and X may be no
fun, but shouldn't that
> > > for ($x = 0; $i <= 5000; $x++) {}
I'm not sure how many of you have noticed that the loop
control condition depends on a variable different from that being
updated. Assuming that $i is non-volatile, then this loop either runs
zero times, doesn't compile (if perl checks the declara
Alex Hewitt USG writes:
> ... I would have thought that the system would sense it's own
> temperature and use the fan according to whether cooling was
> needed.
That depends on whether the (operating) system is taken as
part of the overall system. Having software in the way allows for
Derek D. Martin writes:
> ... Laptops tend to have all of the latest and greatest hardware ...
Funny. My laptop (ca. 1996) seems to still have mostly just
the same vintage of hardware that I bought it with (I did upgrade the
hard drive to much bigger, which plays havoc with the suspend
For whoever really wanted it, from the HP PCL-6 manual:
The simplex/duplex selection command is &l#S
where the "" is the escape character, the thing that looks
like a one is the lower case version of L (case is important),
the S is upper case, and you replace the # with the digits
WRT: extra process from using 'env'.
I may be looking at old documentation, but I see nothing about
an extra process in the man or info page. I would not expect env to
need to fork. What it does cost is an extra exec, which is an
overhead for the cgi scenario that Ray worries about. (I
Please forgive me if I've been glazing over during previous
discussions, but I thought that the forced conversion to xinetd didn't
happen until RH7. I just installed a system with RH6.2 (instead of
just upgraded 6.0, my usual stunt), and inetd isn't there (neither is
xinetd). It used to
Jerry Kubeck writes:
> Also, I have lost my Mac hard drive today ...
Have you looked inside the hole in the bottom of the couch?
That's where my ferrets used to hide.
Bill
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Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International writes:
> After trying every combination of "g" and "q" and "l" and "1" in the URL
> below, I finally got it to work. I must help Norm Blake (WA1IVB) with
> handwriting lessons:
>
> http://www.qsl.net/k1rqg/
But this is a h
Tod Hagan writes:
> and I never worry about security holes.
Famous last words
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Marc Evans writes:
> Thanks for the correction. I took my color codes from the T568A spec,
> whereas you quote the T568B spec. Clearly either will work, though the one
> you quoted is probably more commonly used.
>
> - Marc
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dana S. Tellier wrote:
>
> > Hey, all
Tom Rauschenbach writes:
> In looking for Internet connectivity options I've turned up these.
> Some look pretty expensive, some have other problems. But it's a
> start...
(I'll violate my rule of thumb on this one and include a
smiley.)
Perhaps an Appropriate Solution would
I wrote:
> This sounds to me like I can't install tcsh-6.10-0.6.x.i386.rpm (RH6.0
> system) because I have rpm 3.0-6.0 rather than 3.0.3-1 - any other
> explainations out there?
>
> error: faild dependencies:
> rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by tcsh-6.10-0.6.x
Nevermi
This sounds to me like I can't install tcsh-6.10-0.6.x.i386.rpm (RH6.0
system) because I have rpm 3.0-6.0 rather than 3.0.3-1 - any other
explainations out there?
error: faild dependencies:
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by tcsh-6.10-0.6.x
Just --force it??
Joseph E. Mainusch writes:
> I screwed up and upgraded RPM to a version (4.0-4) that truly disagrees with
> my system (RedHat 7.0 w/ Ximian desktop). Now, everytime I try to run it
> with a -i or a -U, it gives me a seg fault. The real problem is that now I
> can't even back out to where I
Benjamin Scott writes:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Bill Freeman wrote:
> > The network only has about 70GB of disk total.
>
> Unfortunately, that is sufficiently large that you are getting into the
> realm of "expensive".
Having priced media at CompUSA la
I'm getting ready to buy a tape drive to do backups for a
small business. Machines on the network (most of them W98) will be
backed up over the network by a Linux box using a SCSI tape drive.
The network only has about 70GB of disk total. My thought is to
occasionally do full backups, an
Paul Lussier writes:
> In a message dated: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:09:18 EST
> Jeffry Smith said:
>
> >And a nice break from the debian/red hat wars (almost as much fun as vi/emacs
> >;)
>
> Hey! Watch what you say about Emacs there buddy! And make sure you show the
> proper respect for
Steven W. Orr writes:
> Good shot except that the fan gets a *lower* pitch when I turn seti *off*.
> Seti is not the problem of course. I did try a simple C program as well:
> main(){while(1);}
> and the same thing happens.
Yes, thats what I thought that I said would happen. Let me expand.
W
Steven W. Orr writes that a fan in his PC changes pitch depending on whether
he is running setiathome:
My guess is that the fan runs slower because, without
setiathome running, the cpu really does run cooler, because it is
halted most of the time. Linux doesn't just burn cycles when it i
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> This Wednesday is the meeting of the Central NH LUG.
Wow! Are you expecting a really big turn out on Valentines
Day?
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Kenneth E. Lussier writes:
> Does anyone know of a GUI frontend for procmail? ...
Try smearing jam on the keyboard, that should make it gooey.
But, all seriousness aside, while we're at it, how about a
GUI frontend for Windows?
Tom Rauschenbach writes:
> Is there any way to capture ALL of the console messages printed during a boot?
> dmesg get most, but not all.
Serial console and a Teletype? You can probably get my
model-33 working if you can find ribons.
Benjamin Scott writes:
> I still fondly remember playing Duke Nukem and Commander Keen in 16 color
> EGA. :-)
I still fondly remember playing space war on the console
switches of the PDP-1. I was a little late to hear "Anchors Away"
played on a chain printer.
Rodent of Unusual Size writes about CD failure when ADDING to a backup:
> Benjamin Scott wrote:
> >
> > Time for a public service message: Remember, kiddies, backups
> > are your friends.
>
> What do you think this ^@*&^&*#$%^ CD *was*? Yrgh, backups of
> yer backups.. {sigh}
Gi
It's time for me to decide between purchase of a tape drive,
or to keep backing up to removable hard drives, or to switch to CD-R.
We're about to outgrow our 8 port hub, so I figure that it's past
time to be serious about centralized and automatic backup.
I'd like to hear about me
Greg Kettmann writes:
> In my never ending quest to play with new toys I've decided I want to
> install a web cam. In the Windows world that is fairly simple. There
> are dozens of USB cameras for less than $50. However, I seem to recall
> that Linux doesn't support USB yet. Also, the soft
Jerry Kubeck writes:
> My apologies to anyone who couldn't figure out that I was referring to the
> GNHLUG.org web stie at:
I think that you'll find that the correct spellings for the
singular of styes are sty or stye. Oink.
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And there are those of us who really like kermit. Sadly,
Columbia's licensing scheme makes it a pain to get, even though it is
free and open source, since it can't be included in the typical
distribution, but you can download it from columbia
(kermit.columbia.edu, I think). I've been see
Kurth Bemis writes:
> I'm sure that you all know samba. ( the original samba, not TNG ) ...
Well, I know some of the original samba, though I seem to
have trouble leading the difference between a criss-cross and a
shadow bota fogo.
Kevin Clark writes:
> The biggest issue with customizing emacs is that doing so nearly
> always requires knowledge of Lisp ...
Depending on how new your emacs is you may be able to try:
M-x customize
I'm sure that it doesn't satisfy everyone (I haven't really
us
A coworker has a Sony Vaio, and I'm going to help him set it
up to dual boot with Mandrake 7.0 (single CD that I picked up at the
meeting last night, or I have CDs for RH6.2, TurboLinux Workstation
6.0, Caldera eServer 2.3, or SUSE 6.4 "Evaluation Version", if there's
a good reason to give
Most of my code has been written in C, and like most old C
programmers I'm capable of writing C++ programs like I was writting in
C. I've decided to try to develope a modern C++ mindset, including
using things that weren't in the language when I bought and read the
C++ books that were lyi
Karl,
I'm not sure how to do it, but maybe the best approach is to
run pppd on the machine with the modem, but with firewalling controls
such that that interface (e.g.; "ppp1") can only talk to the intended
firewall machine.
Bill
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Robert describes trials of getting his Apple IIf to work:
First, I think that your serial connection is probably
correct: the flashing light in response to the PostScript makes it
likely that the printer has received something that looks like
something to print. Be sure that the PostScri
This is a switch. I've yet to make the iCue's modem work with
W98 ("the driver doesn't support your hardware..."), despite numerous
driver re-installs.
BUT
Using the driver found on www.amptron.com it WORKS with Linux.
I've already set up PPP and
At Sunday's computer show in Manchester I picked up a "book
PC" labeled "iCue" on the front, for a fixed purpose workstation
at work. I did install TurboLinux on it (and W98, the USB oriented
software for the dedicated hardware we're running it on only comes
for W98 and I don't have time
Michael O'Donnell writes of using X10 as a means to reboot a
wedged computer without having to take a walk down to the lab. He
mentions using the relay modules to emmulate the reset switch, rather
than the "no technical talent required" approach of powering the boxes
through an X10 module
I've grown to hate the touch pad mouse on my laptop because of
the way that my thumb tends to inadvertently brush it while I'm
typing, leaving me typing at the wrong spot in the text, or even at
the wrong window.
Meanwhile my boss is asking me for laptop recommendations.
I'm tempt
Tony Lambiris writes:
> I was just wondering what everyone on this mailing list thinks about
> starting an irc channel dedicated to all the NH Linux User Groups. Just
> basically a place for the locals to hang out, exchange words, and
> possibly help others out?
>
> Let me know what you all
Derek Martin writes:
> Today, Paul Lussier gleaned this insight:
...
> > > And while I'm asking, how does the "startx" command know which to
> > >start ? I looked and didn't see anything.
> >
> > 'startx' runs xinit, which looks for a file in the user's homedir
> > called either .xinit or .xsess
Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> effectivly asks why to bother to
distribute sections of the file system across multiple partitions and
drives, and what schemes are desireable:
One reason to carve up the file system is to divide partitions
among separate drives to enhance performance
> >> CAR and CDR refer to a register in the IBM 704.
>
> Specifically, contents of the A register, contents of the D register.
> IBM hardware of that vintage were single accumulator machines. The
> A register was the accumulator; D was an extension register for
> double length products and div
> > ... use tab stops every 8 characters ... as Python interprets them.
>
> Does Python count a tab as eight spaces, or does it simply count a tab as
> one whitespace character?
>
> In other words, is a sequence of eight spaces the same as one tab, or the
> same as eight tabs?
Neith
Lots of people are saying that they think that the use of
whitespace in Python is a show stopper, implying that it makes it hard
to understand, maintain, spot logic problems, etc., or some
combination thereof. I say that you can't hold that opinion if you
have given the language a fair t
> > > 2. How can you copy and paste a URL into Netscape?
> >
> > I've done it by highlighting the URL whereever it is, then center
> > mouse clicking in the Netscape location bar (XDND?).
>
> If you middle-click in the location bar, then you either have to
> delete the old URL after the two
Has anyone of you configured PLIP on a stock kernel Red Hat
6.0 system? I would appreciate any information that will help me
avoid re-reading myriad HOWTOs and source code (and probably still
failing).
linuxconf is willing to try, but fails. I've tried a few
things from the root
> My company's MIS folks didn't pick on ILOVEYOU until I
> took it upon myself to broadcast a warning internally;
> they didn't followup until hours later and when they did
> issue the "official" warning it said:
>
> >Please do not open any attachments from anyone that
> >you do not know with the
Bob wants to know how to set a 2" page length in PostScript:
I'm not positive, but try:
<< /PageSize [612 144] >> setpagedevice
All of the funny characters are literal. This is a "dictionary"
having one key "PageSize" whose value is the array of two numbers
which are 8.5" and 2" (i
Can anyone out there provide me with significant details about
the electrical interface between an 84 key keyboard or later and a
PC/AT or later? I'm looking for timing data, details of recovery when
both the keyboard and computer decide to send at the same time, and
the sequence required
Steven Orr writes:
> Hold on there Buffalo Bob! There is no big difference between a strlen and
> a strcmp.
Actually, there usually is. Most C compilers (possibly even the pre-
processor) evaluate strlen of a constant string at compile time.
[Discussion of increasing past subnet size and the possibility that
the address-wise adjacent subnet isn't available, and that subnet
masks must be continuous elided.]
Can any of the truly IP.aware comment on the scheme below?
IIUC, it is perfectly possible to have two separate s
> ... Emacs (emacs-nox) does some strange stuff with the
> delete and backspace keys when run in an xterm (works fine in virtual
> terminal) So basicly I have to use the delete key to edit text while the
> backspace key sends ctrl-h ...
Best solution:
Don't run it in an xterm. And d
Chris writes of not having a good way to look at more than a screen
worth of interactive program output.
While I'm sure that we'll hear many other interesting
approaches, let me plug EMACS. The stuff below works under X
or at the linux consoles.
First, for the general case, rath
> Anybody care to guess why my X10 software (heyu in this case) works under gdb
> but not otherwise ?
The DOS X10 software that came way back when with my X10 interface
box (connects to a serial port and a wall socket) stopped working
when my computers got faster. It turns out that the box doesn
Dana,
Please post a copy of /etc/fstab (or mail it privately), so
that we can see where the install put your linux system.
/etc/lilo.conf would also be good.
Ken Lussier writes:
> I would guess that you need to edit your /etc/lilo.conf and add something
> like:
>
> other = /dev/hda
> l
Bryan writes:
> after swapping boards I had to use a boot floppy to boot the machines.
> after running lilo both machines still failed to boot from the hard disk
Did you use -r when you ran lilo? From the lilo man page:
-r root-directory
Before doing anything else,
About three weeks ago I reported that the Zoom 2975 V.90
PCMCIA modem works with Linux. While that is still true, strictly
speaking, I now have some caveats to report.
I've been experiencing some strangeness lately, such as
fetchmail or netscape getting wedged trying to read some
Ken Coar wrote:
> Bill Freeman wrote:
> >
> > Ken Coar writes:
> > > All it will mean to me is that after about the second reply that
> > > I post that goes only to the sender, I won't reply to *any* GNHLUG
> > > list messages any more. I get multi
Benjamin Scott says that those of us who don't want to reply to the
list by default ought to configure our MUA's to ignore Reply-To
headers.
I suppose for me that's true. I'm comfortable enough with
elisp to arrange for rmail in emacs to only ignore the Reply-To header
if it specifies [E
Ken Coar writes:
> All it will mean to me is that after about the second reply that
> I post that goes only to the sender, I won't reply to *any* GNHLUG
> list messages any more. I get multi-MB of mail every single
> blessed day, and there's far too much of it to which I *can't*
> 'reply-to-all'
As long as we seem to be voting, I'd like the reply to go to the
individual by default:
1. It would be more convenient for me because I send private
replies at least as often as I post (and at that my posts *still*
usually aren't well enough thought out).
2. It would be m
Paul Lussier wrote:
...
> Besides, attachments are, in general, a Bad Idea (TM) :) E-mail is supposed
> to be short, sweet, and to the point :)
> --
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
>
> Doing something stupid always costs less (up front) than doing
> something intelligent.
>
Ken Lussier asks for command line tool that allows sending mail using
files to get list of recipients, body, etc. (Sounds like he's going
to become a spammer.)
You can do this with any of sh, bash, csh, ksh, perl, python,
maybe even awk or a shell alias. Sendmail accepts the headers and
The UIDL feature of RFC1725 may be capable of this (syncing
multiple clients to a POP server. I don't know the details: I only
know what I infer from the fetchmail man page. It describes it, in
combination with -keep, as a way "to use a mailbox as a baby news drop
for a group of users".
Paul Lussier wrote:
> I'm about to get a new system here at home (that only brings me up to 3, 4 if
> you cound my wifes :) However, the concession I had to make was to agree to
^
That's terrible!! First of all, it's spelled "wives". Second, poligamy is
illegal here. Thir
Does anyone happen to know:
I've built a 2.2.14 kernel for my RH6.0 system. Things are pretty good,
but ppp fails. Upgrading ppp to 2.3.10 doesn't help. Looking at tail
of /var/log/messages shows that chat is failing because it can't get
terminal somethings (I think parameters). Sounds like t
At least on RedHat 6.0, there is a file:
/boot/module-info-
linked to by symbolic link /boot/module-info. During boot, sysinit
adjusts the link (along with that for System.map) based on uname -r if
it contains no "-", and in a more complicated fashion on /proc/version
ot
> for the second it is:
> find /foo -name \*.html -exec rm {}\;
Except the request was to move these files, not delete them:
find dir -name \*.html -exec mv {} /absolute/path/to/target/dir \;
(where dir, or /foo in Dave's examples, is the directory that
you want to start from, which need not
I've pretty much moved to my laptop, so that I don't have to
remember which machine I was using when I saved an interesting GNHLUG
posting to an RMAIL file. That led me to want to upgrade from the
28.8Kbps PCMCIA (no, I won't relinquish the original meaning of "PC
card") modem that I had
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