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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H2><a NAME="mail"><IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE SRC="../gx/mail.gif" ALT=" ">The
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Write the Gazette at <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:34:05 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
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<b>Subject: Re: Linux Gazette Suggestion <BR>
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From: kaehny@execpc.com (Mark Kaehny)</b> <BR>
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Hi,
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Like the Linux Gazette but would you please (for us linear thinkers)
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put some navigation aid so we can go to next and previous pages?
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I don't like clicking back to the menu, I like flipping through
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things...
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Thanks for the work, appreciated. <BR>
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Mark Kaehny
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<I>(Done -- good suggestion. --Editor)</I>
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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 13:22:23 -0700 <BR>
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<B>Subject: Linux trademark issues. <BR>
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From: Earl Stutes estutes@palladium.corp.sgi.com </B> <BR>
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Yet again, it appears someone is attempting to make a buck on something
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that most of the rest of us feel should be a free or at least public
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domain thing. In this case the word Linux. I don't have any
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suggestions as to how "we" deal directly with this issue, but I
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certainly hope that all of you folks that are a part of the growing
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Linux commercial community will take the lead in fighting this yo-yo.
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Of course part of my contribution to support you is the fact that I buy
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the magazine from the newstand(fatbrain.com, actually) every month.
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I have enjoyed your magazine right from the beginning, and will continue
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to be a supporter over the long term.
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Thanks for listening
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=eas=
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<I>(Since the Gazette is strictly on-line, I'm assuming you are talking
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about the Linux Journal when you refer to buying the magazine. Latest
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news about the trademark can be found by clicking the Hot Linux News
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button on the Front Page. There are also couple of items in the current
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News Bytes section. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 08:58:23 +0100 (BST) <BR>
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<b>Subject: LG Issue #9 <BR>
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From: Dave Pearson davep@hagbard.demon.co.uk </B> <BR>
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Hi.
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First, I'd like to say congrats on taking over support of the LG, it's
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a very handy resource and it's nice to see it getting continued
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support.
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However, I've got a question about how you are going to handle it. In
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the past I've always downloaded a copy of the latest issue of LG and
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installed it on my own machine so that I could read it at my
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leisure. IIRC, each issue included a new top level index file that
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would list the TOCs of all issues, this ment it was simple and easy to
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install and to quickly search for a specific article.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but issue 9 does not appear to follow this
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install style. Was there a reason for this?
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Thanks for your time.
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--
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Take a look in Hagbard's World: | w3ng - The WWW Norton Guide reader.
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http://www.acemake.com/hagbard | ng2html - The NG to HTML converter.
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Resist UK Internet Censorship: | eg - Norton Guide reader for OS/2.
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http://babylon.ivision.co.uk | dgscan - DGROUP scanner for Clipper.
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<blockquote><I>
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(You are not wrong. I did change it, not realizing what a hassle it
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was going to cause some people.
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The reason for part of the change that will most likely
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remain, is that I wanted to be able to keep issues 1-8 exactly as
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they were when John put them out -- i.e. not changing the front
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page, etc. The way it works now should not be that different.</i>
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<i>The front page offers a spot to click for the TOC of issues 1-8 and
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a spot for TOC 9. When 10 comes out next month, it will be on top of
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TOC 9. I personally thought that having each TOC in a separate file
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would make it easier -- perhaps I was wrong, it's been known to happen.
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I'm considering a search program, when I have time to set it up, and
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in the meantime, I will add an index containing all TOCs. --Editor)</I>
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:30:39 -0500 (CDT) <BR>
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<B> Subject: new LG issue <BR>
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From: Larry Ayers layers@vax2.rain.gen.mo.us </B> <BR>
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Last night I saw the new LG issue on the SSC website. So
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evidently in the last week of August writers came through for you.
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There are some great articles in issue 9; an auspicious beginning
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for SSC's sponsorship (and your editing duties).
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By the way, I got an email the other day from another LG reader,
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complaining that the graphics from the TkDesk article I wrote in LG
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#8 were not accessible to a web-browser. I loaded the article into
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Netscape (from the SSC website) and found this to be true. Perhaps
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the directory structure was changed somehow when LG #8 was put on
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the site, rendering a link inactive? I just checked issue 8 again,
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and found that most of the inline images in my pieces won't display.
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I think the problem is that the directory which John Fisk used was
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./gx/ayers, whereas it looks like SSC's gazette graphics all go in
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./gx.
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Regards, Larry Ayers
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<I>(Thanks. Yes, authors did come through for me, including you, and I
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thank you all.</i>
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<i>Sorry, I know about the problem with the links, and it is now fixed.
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The directories were set up correctly; there were just a lot of missing
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files. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:25:43 -0700 (PDT) <BR>
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<B>Subject: Re: Linux Gazette Issue #9 <BR>
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From: schuld@btv.ibm.com (David W. Schuler) </B> <BR>
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I just tried to take a look at the Linux Gazette Issue #9.
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Unfortunately, I did not find the "I'll read it myself" button at the
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top of the index that would allow me to see the whole thing at one
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time and print it out for later reading at home. I would appreciate
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if you could add this option back, rather than causing me to have to
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go into each section to print it out so that I can read it later at
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home.
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Thanks.
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David W. Schuler - Advisory Engineer <BR>
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Semiconductor Contract Manufacturing <BR>
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IBM Microelectronics Internet: schuld@btv.ibm.com <BR>
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B/863-2 Z/863D AOL: schuld@aol.com <BR>
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(Personal Mail) <BR>
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1000 River Street Phone: (802) 769-7636 <BR>
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Essex Junction, VT 05452-4299 FAX: (802) 769-6800 <BR>
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For IBM Microelectronics information: http://www.chips.ibm.com <BR>
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Yes, I took that out -- didn't realize how popular it was. I've gotten
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lots of mail about this change, so am planning to put it out there both
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ways beginning this month. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 14:02:08 +-200 <BR>
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<B>Subject: LOCAL:(Belgium,Antwerp) Linux day on 2 november 1996 <BR>
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From: POE poe@glo.be </B> <BR>
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Hello,
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we are the recently started Antwerp Linux Users Club. We invite you all
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to come to our Linux day meeting on 2 November 1996 in the CC'De Schorren'
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at Hoboken-Polder Graspolderlaan from 10h till 18h.
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We are demonstrating the Linuxkernel 2.0 with a lot of working
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applications including a Webserver and if you become a member You can
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join our Intranet.
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You can reach us at our homepage http://user.glo.be/~poe/alug.htm
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Be carefull : it can get you a while before you get in but once you are
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in it's pretty fast!
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Patrick & Armand <BR>
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<blockquote> <I>
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(All right, Antwerp! Get out there and support Linux. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:57:17 -0700 (PDT) <BR>
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<B>Subject: Re: Linux Gazette <BR>
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From: tinus@betterthan.northstar.k12.ak.us (Sunit Das) </B> <BR>
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Hello! I was wondering if you have an archive with the past issues of the Linux
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Gazette(tar-ed and gzip-ed) so that us (the readers) can download and browse
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at our leisure? If not, would it be too much trouble to do so? I hope I'm not
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imposing too much, but I am on a shared phone line, and much as I would like to
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stay on the net all day (it's tempting), I can't. Thanks for *any* help!
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--Sunit Das
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<blockquote> <I>
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(No problem. tar files are available, I've just been having technical difficulties
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-- they were unreadable. At any rate John Fisk sent us new files that are
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now up at ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/. Also, our issue 10 file,
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lg_issue10.tar.gzp and all issues (1-10) file, LinuxGazette_oct96.tar.gzp are
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located at that site. --Editor) </I>
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</blockquote>
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:05:36 +0200 <BR>
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<B>Subject: Suggestion: Search Engine <BR>
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From: "Johannes Norinder" dante@inferno.skurup.se </B> <BR>
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My suggestion is that you ought to have some kind of simple search engine
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so that you easily can search for phrases within one or all of the issues
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of LG. As is it's hard to know if you've covered Iomegas Zipdrive, for
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example.
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Otherwise thanks for a great service.
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Johannes Norinder
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<blockquote> <I>
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(I agree. In fact it's something that I have already thought about.
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There is a search engine for Linux Journal, and I will
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probably use the same one for the Gazette. However, it means doing a lot
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of front end work to get it set up. When I'll have time to do this is
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not certain, but it is definitely on the list. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:32:27 -0400 <BR>
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<B>Subject: my 2 cents <BR>
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From: "Aaron L. Hastings" alhastin@mtu.edu </B> <BR>
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hey there <BR>
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im just gettin into linux <BR>
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i got it to help me learn unix <BR>
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which it has helped a lot on <BR>
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but i have found it to be totally awesome in its own right <BR>
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it is almost cliche but nothing in any commercial sense has <BR>
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managed to pull together in a near utopian ( except for bugs ) <BR>
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environment a cooperative effort of people worldwide <BR>
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it just shows what people can do when they work together <BR>
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( like i said cliche but rarely achieved )<BR>
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well this site is just another example of this cooperation <BR>
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YEAH
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<blockquote> <I>
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(shades of e e cummings --editor) </I>
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 12:36:54 -0400 <BR>
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<B>Subject: Linux Gazette <BR>
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From: Bill Cronk bcronk@nvl.army.mil </B> <BR>
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I am very glad to see a new issue put out. I was sad thinking that it had
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gone by the wayside.
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I would like to see a section of tips and tricks devoted towards the novice
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user who needs to learn the tricks to setting up hardware, software and all
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the other things that come along. I remember when the first Byte magazine
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came out and for the longest time there were articles on hardware and software
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for the novices. After a while that ended as people grew up and demanded
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more in depth articles. I would think that most people would have a hard time
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finding those back issues. In the case of the Gazette all the back issues
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will most likely be archived and if a basic index was published once or twice
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a year many new people to the world of Linux would have all kinds of useful
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tips and tricks to read through.
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Either way I enjoy reading the Gazette and will look forward to new issues.
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I wish you success in publishing the Gazette.
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In the future, maybe the far future, I will be able to provide an article
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now and then on some hardware and software items related to laboratory
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instrumentation interfacing and controlling of automated test equipment.
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Best wishes,<BR>
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Bill
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--
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Bill Cronk Phone: (703) 704-3692
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E-OIR Measurements, Inc Fax: (703) 704-1821
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P.O. Box 1240 E-mail: bcronk@nvl.army.mil
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Spotsylvania, VA 22553 Amateur Radio: WB2LUU
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<blockquote> <I>
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(I agree that this is a good idea and will put it out there in the next
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issue and see if anyone responds.
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I'll look forward to the time when you send me an article. New contributors
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are always welcome. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:51:41 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
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<B>Subject: Gazette on a DOS machine <BR>
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From: gv.livingston@brokersys.com (G.V.Livingston II) </B> <BR>
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Wondering if there are any copies of the Gazette in HTML format with
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DOS filenames? I would like to set up a personal mirror of all issues on
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a DOS machine that I use regularly but unTARring the files from the FTP
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site is fruitless because the filenames are made DOS compliant and the
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links no longer match what is in the directory.
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I basically want my "site" to exactly mirror the SSC pages.
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Thanks for any help you can provide.
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GVL II
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Sorry, but no. Frankly, this is quite an unusual request, since most of
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our readers do use Linux boxes. Love to have you mirror us, but this is
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more work than I have time for. Tried to e-mail you, but it kept coming
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back to me. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:36:40 -0700 (PDT) <BR>
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<B>Subject: COOL it works with LINUX <BR>
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From: Paul Bingman <paul@edgewood.net> </B> <BR>
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I suspect many/most of you have seen the new logo promoted by Linux
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Journal, that can be licensed for $1 a year, to show that your software or
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hardware product works with Linux. See: <BR>
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<a href="http://www.ssc.com/lj/cool.html">
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/cool.html</a> <BR>
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What is a very pleasant surprise is to see that logo starting to appear in
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the mainstream trade press. On page 41 of the September 16, 1996,
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InfoWorld, is a half-page Equinox ad for their multiport serial cards.
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The COOL logo is the first one displayed, before Windoze, Novell, or SCO.
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Paul Bingman paul@edgewood.net Voice +1 503 222 3846
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Edgewood Engineering http://www.edgewood.net FAX +1 503 223 3071
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WWW/CGI, Internet, Linux, application software, firmware, device drivers
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</pre>
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Cool. --Editor) </I>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:00:12 +0000 <BR>
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<B>Subject: LG : french translation + mirroring ? <BR>
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From: Patrick Mevzek <Patrick.Mevzek@Babbage.espci.fr> </B> <BR>
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To: fiskjm@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu <BR>
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Hi,
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I discovered your Linux Gazette some months ago, and it's great and
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very interesting. I've discovered Linux a little before, because I
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will need to install here at my school (you know I'm only a student
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like you ;-) !!) a small LAN of computers for students, with PC (Win
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95) and one LINUX-PC (which will be a firewall-mailhost-webserver,
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etc...). So I'm quite interested with everything in relation with
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Linux.
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In fact, I can propose you to translate the LG in French.
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I would be very pleased to do that.
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But I can promise you I will always have enough time to do it quickly,
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because first I'm a student, and therefore I've exams, (you know
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that...), and second, like I said before, I have to work a lot to
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install students'LAN.
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So, let me know if I can help you that way !!
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BTW, because I will be the maintainer of the web server of the
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students too, it could be possible, somewhat in January or February 97
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to start mirroring the LG, here at the ESPCI. I can't promise you big
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things, because mainly in 3 years I won't be in that school anymore,
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and I can't say that the next webserver maintainer will keep mirroring
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LG !!
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I hope to hear from you soon
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Regards,<BR>
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~ Patrick Mevzek Patrick.Mevzek@Info.Escpi.fr ~
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~ HomePage (co-developer): http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4206 ~
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~ 'I like these calm little moments before the storm...' ~
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<P>
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Glad you like the magazine. John Fisk forwarded your letter to me as SSC is
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now handling the Linux Gazette.
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I think it would be wonderful if you were to translate the LG into French,
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whenever you have time. It would certainly give the Gazette a
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