Re: audio pain

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > gzip does not extract files from a gzipped file. It simply > decompresses the file. These files are all tar.gz files, which means > that you must first decompress them, then un-archive

Re: audio pain

2002-08-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:16:06 EDT "Matthew S. Sacks" said: >> ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/OuterSpace/willem/ >> >I have downloaded several .gz files from this site. gunzip will not >unzip any of them. Yes, I did -d. Ahm, are you sure? They all unzip for me just fine. Are y

Re: audio pain

2002-08-15 Thread Matthew S. Sacks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, at 4:06pm, Matthew S. Sacks wrote: > >>The lspci command identifies the Multimedia audio controller as an Intel >>Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 (rev 05) (This may make sense if ADI chip has been >>integrated onto a motherboard made by Intel) >> > > FY

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:45:09 EDT "Jerry Feldman" said: >And SuSE: >gaf@gaf-lap:~> uname -a >Linux gaf-lap 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown That's the old version of uname. You need to upgrade to 2.0.12 of sh-utils. -- Seeya, Paul -- It may loo

Re: Reverse DNS

2002-08-15 Thread Bill Studley
Brenda you might want to look at: http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/ it's a neat site that has some simple amswers to DNS questions. for in-addr.arpa delegation of domains smaller than a class "C", try a search on "classless in-addr.arpa delegation" HTH, Bill Brenda A. Bell wrote: >Can someo

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > > In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:56:20 EDT > "Derek D. Martin" said: > > >The uname command is part of the sh-utils package, not util-linux. :) > > Unless your on Debian, in w

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
And SuSE: gaf@gaf-lap:~> uname -a Linux gaf-lap 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown On 15 Aug 2002 at 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:54:16 EDT > "Derek D. Martin" said: > > >While I very much agree with you, I'm a bit surprised t

Re: Verizon and Linux

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
One of our members (BLU) is a former Verizon employee. He once arranged an Installfest at Verizon (formerly Bell Titanic formerly Nynex formerly New England Telephone). He tells me that up here they are all mainframe oriented, and a PC is nothing more than a 3270 terminal emulator. On 15 Aug 2

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:56:20 EDT "Derek D. Martin" said: >The uname command is part of the sh-utils package, not util-linux. :) Unless your on Debian, in which case it's shellutils :) -- Seeya, Paul -- It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:54:16 EDT "Derek D. Martin" said: >While I very much agree with you, I'm a bit surprised to hear you >argue this. The GNU Project seems to be giving you what you've always >wanted: a way for uname to identify what distribution you're using, >distinct from

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Michael O'Donnell
...and from my very current Debian "testing" box we get: > shrapnel:~/.mail/inbox 744---> uname --version > uname (sh-utils) 2.0.12 > Written by David MacKenzie. > > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. Ther

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] kindly pointed out how stupid I am - I mean, I knew I was ignorant, but didn't realize I was that bad... FWIW, SuSE 8.0 has sh-utils-2.0-219 and SuSE 7.3 has sh-utils-2.0-106 and I don't believe that there have been any recent updates. But, then, I could be w

Verizon and Linux

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GAF posted this on BLU; thought the members here might appreciate it too. :) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949913.html - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail encrypted wi

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Bayard R. Coolidge hath spake thusly: > Depending on what distro you have, you might want to check > its history to see what version of util-linux stuff you have Er, > # uname --version > uname (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 > Written b

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > Now, last I checked, Stallman wanted to call the "entire system" GNU/Linux > because so much of the environment is built upon GNU software. > However, in the context of 'uname' would "oper

Re: Reverse DNS

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Brenda A. Bell hath spake thusly: > A dig against my ISP's nameserver for my reverse IP address gives an > authoritative answer -- makes sense since it does own the address and it > has the PTR record. A dig against ns1.zoneed

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>> FWIW, I agree with you, Paul. But, I'd aleo like to gently remind you that you prolly can get your hands on the sources and edit them appropriately :-). Depending on what distro you have, you might want to check its history to see what version of util-linux stuff y

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:55:20 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, at 1:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Does anyone know what happened between the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels >> that changed the output of 'uname': >> >> client:/usr/src/linux# uname --version >

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread bscott
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, at 1:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know what happened between the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels > that changed the output of 'uname': > > client:/usr/src/linux# uname --version > uname (sh-utils) 2.0.12 > > pll@tater:~$ uname --version >

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread bscott
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, at 10:57am, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > I've used parted ... Use caution when using GNU parted on systems which must interoperate with non-Linux OSes, such as MS-Windows. GNU parted sometimes creates invalid partition tables which work on Linux but other OSes choke on. > T

uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread pll
Hi all, Does anyone know what happened between the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels that changed the output of 'uname': client:/usr/src/linux# uname --version uname (sh-utils) 2.0.12 pll@tater:~$ uname --version uname (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 yet: Linux client

Re: Reverse DNS

2002-08-15 Thread Matthew J. Brodeur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Brenda A. Bell wrote: > Can someone point me to a good resource for getting a better > understanding of reverse DNS and the role it plays in the big picture? If you really care enough to spend the money and time, resources fo

Re: Reverse DNS

2002-08-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:54:44 EDT "Brenda A. Bell" said: >Some good references or opinions on the subject would be most appreciated. I highly recommend you pick up the O'Reilly book, "DNS & BIND". It's probably far more than you'll ever need to know about either, but it's con

Re: Reverse DNS

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
I've been fighting the reverse DNS battle for months for blu.org. The problem was that I was never able to communicate to NDEV (who owns the IP address block) exactly what I wanted. Eventually, I asked them to create a PTR record. But we did set up a zone on our internal DNS server. We have 5

Reverse DNS

2002-08-15 Thread Brenda A. Bell
Can someone point me to a good resource for getting a better understanding of reverse DNS and the role it plays in the big picture? I understand dig and use it frequently, but I'm trying to get a better understanding of my current DNS setup, why things work the way they do and whether my config is

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
Good point. Partition Magic 7.0 has been updated to support Windows XP NTFS partitions. But, 5.0 should work fine with FAT, FAT32, EXT2 and Linux swap partitions. On 15 Aug 2002 at 11:33, Hewitt Tech wrote: > Although Partition Magic is mostly well behaved, be careful using something > like t

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
Although Partition Magic is mostly well behaved, be careful using something like the Partition manager that's included with Mandrake. That partition manager doesn't play well with Windows as I found out the hard way. It marks extended partitions incorrectly and when Windows tries to access it, sha

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
I've been using 6.0, but it should work fine. Linux now has a partition resizer, but I have not used it yet, On 15 Aug 2002 at 11:11, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > > I've used Partition Magic successfully for years. > > Okey, I've got that (5.0). I just wasn't s

Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete?

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
Good post. Ivy Lee is credited as being the father of modern day public relations. On 15 Aug 2002 at 10:44, Erik Price wrote: > The public response to this act inspired Rockefeller to hire the first > public relations manager -- Ivy Lee. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Direct

Re: .forward for Postfix

2002-08-15 Thread pll
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, "Rodent" == Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Rodent> One of my packages (an email autoresponder; any of you who Rodent> have sent me private mail have seen it ;-) is designed to be Rodent> set up as a piped recipient in a .qmail or .forward file. > On Thu, 15 A

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I've used Partition Magic successfully for years. Okey, I've got that (5.0). I just wasn't sure it'd play well with the root partition. :-) -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Serve

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Michael O'Donnell
I've used parted to move/resize partitions and it's generally worked quite well, though it sometimes refuses to do things that seem reasonable to me, like move a partition such that the new boundaries overlap the old boundaries. I don't know why but it'll apparently refuse to move a partition th

Re: .forward for Postfix

2002-08-15 Thread Marc Evans
If your postfix service is setup to use it, the .forward should work just like sendmail's. By default I do believe that .forward is enabled. - Marc On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > One of my packages (an email autoresponder; any of you who have > sent me private mail have se

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
I've used Partition Magic successfully for years. While it is a Windows product, I create a couple of rescure floppies. On 15 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > > That's very easy. Just use fdisk to change the file type of /dev/sda2. > > I am anticip

.forward for Postfix

2002-08-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
One of my packages (an email autoresponder; any of you who have sent me private mail have seen it ;-) is designed to be set up as a piped recipient in a .qmail or .forward file. E.g., | /usr/local/bin/autoresponder Do any Postfix users here know the equivalent mechanism for Postfix? Is there o

Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete?

2002-08-15 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 02:32 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Look at what > some of the stuff John D. Rockefeller did and compare to Bill Gates. For clarification: Rockefeller is infamous for having sent a militia to the on-strike mining town of Ludlow, Colorado. When the strikers ref

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jerry Feldman wrote: > > That's very easy. Just use fdisk to change the file type of /dev/sda2. I am anticipating having to do something similar; I need to enlarge my / partition. However, it's a sole-boot RH 7.2 system, so I need to juggle the partitions already in use. -- #kenP-)} Ken C

Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete?

2002-08-15 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:36 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Open source is a good thing, but there is room for both proprietary and > open source products. I think one can look at the drug companies for an > analogy. > The cost of development of a product is high, and that business needs

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Ganesan M
Hi, I am extremely sorry about sending crapy HTML format. I just got a winblows machine from my colleague who used all the HTML format in his mail. I did not look at the settings. I use more linux at home and I love pine which is easy, fast and reliable mail client. G. - Original Message

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
That's very easy. Just use fdisk to change the file type of /dev/sda2. Use the mkfs(8) command to format that partition. Once you have done that mount /dev/sda2 on a convenient mount point, you can simply copy the contents of /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sda1 (cp -R will work just fine). Then update /et

moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Ganesan M
Hi,     I have installed SCO, Windows 2000 and Linux in my machine.  I want to get rid of windows2000 (sounds great?) and want to move linux partition there and keep the second hard disk usable by both SCO and linux(is this possible??).   Can anyone give me an easiest solution please?  

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, August 21, 2002 (MacOSX)

2002-08-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: Wednesday,August 21, 2002 7:00 PM (6:30 for general Q&A) Topic: A discussion of MacOS X and Linux on the Macintosh Joint meeting with the MacWoburn group. Presented by:Peter R. Wood, - prw at prwdot dot org and P.A.M. Borys - trainer at mac dot com Location: MIT Building 4-370 As o