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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 SRC="../gx/mailbox.gif" ALIGN=MIDDLE ALT=" ">
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The Mailbag!</a> </H2>
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Write the Gazette at <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail37.html#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</font></H3></center>
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:59:49 +0100<BR>
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From: "W.N. Beukers", <A HREF="mailto:beukers@ampcometal.nl">
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beukers@ampcometal.nl</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Set up Linux as server</font>
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I am planning to buy a Linux version to use for a server i am setting
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up.
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The main things I want to have Linux do is ask as a proxy, a mail and a
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fax server.
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Linux will be running on a PC together with windows 95 and handles all
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the outgoing faxes, all e-mail communications (internal and external).
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Also these users have to have the possibility to to on the Internet by
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means of the proxy server.
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Last wish I have is a graphical interface to work with as I am a novice
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but I still want to set up this system and maintain it.
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What Unix version is the best, easiest (red hat, Susie, or Debian)
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Can you tell what I need as a basis and what additional packages I need
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so that I can order it.
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Wilko Beukers
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:17:18 -0500<BR>
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From: DJ FALCIONE, <A HREF="mailto:falcione@bettis.gov">falcione@bettis.gov
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</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Idea for an article</font>
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I have an idea for an article.
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How about a primer on how to set up one's sound card to do true MIDI?
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I have an Ensoniq AudioPCI card and have been successful in getting it
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to play WAV files via the audio out port and also simulated MIDI using
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TIMIDITY.
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But I can't figure out how to get TRUE MIDI rendering like I get with the
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same card in Windows 95.
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Is this a driver issue? Thanks,
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--<BR>
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Dean Falcione
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<blockquote> <font color="maroon">
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(Check out <I>Linux Journal</I> issue58. It has an article on Csound that discusses MIDI
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issues. It's on-line too at <A
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HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue58/3187.html">
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue58/3187.html</A>. --Editor)
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 22:42:11 -0600<BR>
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From: Romulo Rodriguez, <A HREF="mailto:romulorc@earthlink.net">
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romulorc@earthlink.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Celeron</font>
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I would like to know whether Linux will have any problems with the Intel
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Celeron Processor. Thanks,
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--<BR>
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R Rodriguez
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:33:39 -0600<BR>
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From: "MARK -The Great- ZOLTON", <A HREF="mailto:mcz@wheat.ksu.edu">
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mcz@wheat.ksu.edu</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Advanced Linux/Java Concepts</font>
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<P>
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At my university, most new programming courses are taught in Java.
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Because of that, I have become quite apt in programming for such an
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environment. However, when the time comes that I have a great idea
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for and application for Linux, I feel somewhat bad about programming
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it in Java as it is not native to the system. I feel particularly
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left out when it comes to gathering information from the system. For
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instance, I am currently working on a set of Zip disk management tools
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and I have begun coding the core of the application in Java. Since
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Java is the only language where I have any real experience
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programming a GUI, I plan on using the Swing widget set to make a
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slick GUI. Anyway, to manipulate the Zip disks, I make several calls
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to basic system functions like umount, mount, eject. While this is
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fine for simply manipulating the disk, I would also like to gather
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information about the disk... such as, is there a disk in the drive,
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is it already mounted, etc... Can you see where I'm going. Although
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Java can do quite a bit, Its platform independence seems to limit it.
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I would like to know if there is a Java package designed for use with
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Linux that can provide me information about the system. Or, if that
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does not exist, does anyone know of a simple, effective method of
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gathering information from the system? Maybe parsing output from
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other Linux utilities??
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Thanks
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Mark
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:30:12 -0600<BR>
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From: "MARK -The Great- ZOLTON", <A HREF="mailto:mcz@wheat.ksu.edu">
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mcz@wheat.ksu.edu</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Getting started with programming for Linux</font>
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Although I am a somewhat experienced programmer, I find myself wanting
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to know more about programming for Linux. I have a little C under my
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belt as well as C++ and a lot of Java (from university classes) and
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I'm just learning Perl. I am
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very interested in programming for Linux (specifically X), but I
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don't know where to start. I don't know enough C to begin fiddling
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around with other people's source, so I'd like a general introduction
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to programming for Linux (how to interact with the system, how to
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program a GUI using GTK, QT, etc..., and how to write Window Maker
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docklets). However, seeing as how I have only a little knowledge of
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C, if there is an introduction which provides said things along with
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intermediate C programming, that would be the best. Does something
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like this exist and would the O'Reilly X books be of any use at this
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stage in my development?
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Thanks again,
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Mark
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 01:01:58 -0600b4
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From: Bob Counts, <A HREF="mailto:rcounts@troi.csw.net">
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rcounts@troi.csw.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Gzip and tar files</font>
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<P>
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I am looking forward to reading the gazette but for right now the only
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machine I have is a Windows 98 that is connected to the Internet. I would
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like to download the Gazette but I don't have any way to expand and
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un-archive gzip and tar files in Windows. Is there any software that you
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know of that will do this. I am still in the infancy stage when it comes
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to Linux and I need all the help I can get. I know your magazine will help,
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but until I get PPP going on my Linux machine I am stuck. I think I should
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mention that my Linux and Windows computers are separate boxes.
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Thanks
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Bob Counts
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:58:01 +0100<BR>
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From: Ottar Engstrøm, <A HREF="mailto:Ottar.Engstrom@lfk.mil.no">
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Ottar.Engstrom@lfk.mil.no</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Matrox Productiva G100</font>
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I am trying to configure X on my PC, XF86config asks me for several
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questions I can not answer. Like RAMDAC,Chipset ect on my Productiva
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G100 8MB AGP graphic card? I will be pleased if You could answer me.
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Ottar
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:01:19 +1100<BR>
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From: "deves", <A HREF="mailto:deves@eisa.net.au">
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deves@eisa.net.au</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">EMM 386 Emulator</font>
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I'm trying to find the EMM 386, can you give me any addresses for
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download of this emulator?
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As my computer needs it to play most games including the famed POKEMON
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game
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Do you think I should get this emulator, or wait for the PC game?
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P.S I still want those addys!!!!
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deves
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:53:14 -0500<BR>
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From: GBE, <A HREF="mailto:hawk@valinet.com">hawk@valinet.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">new user</font>
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<P>
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I'm new at Linux(RH5.2) and I've a question. When I download files
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using Netscape4.04 it puts it in my root directory. Now I guess I'm a little
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anal-retentive but I would like it to go in a folder called "download"
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or some other place. When I went to upgrade my XFree86 the install
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directions said that it was suppose to be in /var/tmp ???
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Now I can mkdir for the folder, do I put permission on it? Do I have to
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link it to somewhere?
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Please give me commands to do this, if you can.
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Thanks
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Gene Euvrard
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:32:05 +0200<BR>
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From: "Volkan Kenaroglu", <A HREF="mailto:volkan@sim.net.tr">
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volkan@sim.net.tr</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">FTP Server</font>
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<P>
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I installed Debian 2.3 recently. And I want to build a FTP server. h All
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I need to know is how can do this :)
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But I never tried to do so I don't know even where to start. Please help!
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Any information would be appreciated.
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thanx Linux-mates.
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Volkan
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:28:18 -0800 (PST)<BR>
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From: Shanti Mohan, <A HREF="mailto:kas6719@yahoo.com">
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kas6719@yahoo.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Trouble on Linux</font>
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<P>
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This is regarding CD-record software available on Linux. When a CD is
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doing a actual write to the CDR, and some other user on the server
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tries to remove a very big file using "rm" (the file is about 400MB)
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the CD-record program stops writing. This also happens when a user is
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trying to copy amount of data on the server.
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Is there any solution to this problem as it means that my server is
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locked while write is in progress.
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Could you please help ?
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Thanks
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Shanti Mohan
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:30:57 +0000<BR>
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From: Andreas Neukoetter, <A HREF="mailto:ti95neuk@de.ibm.com">
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ti95neuk@de.ibm.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Idea for an article ...</font>
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<P>
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I'm one of the poor guys in Germany who has to use an Provider for his
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Web server ... instead of hosting it myself.
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The biggest Problem is to keep the "online"-site in sync with the "off-line"-one.
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Since i choose a cheap-provider i have no telnet-access to "my"-server and
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can't use the wget- or mirror-approach.
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<P>
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I've written some scripts to make "crc32"-lists (in fact just sum-up the bytes
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since my crc32.pl just don't works) in Perl
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and execute it "off-line" and "online" (as a cgi ... the only way to run
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programs on the server). These lists are compared
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and different files are synced ... it works... but i don't find it satisfying :(
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has anybody a "better" solution ???
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--<BR>
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Anti
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:26:26 -0000<BR>
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From: "Jonathan Homer", <A HREF="mailto:jhomer@pulsesoftware.demon.co.uk">
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jhomer@pulsesoftware.demon.co.uk</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Re Telnet!</font>
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Need help with the Telnet Daemon. It works perfectly accept when you
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connect via Windows or NT (sorry). It does as far as I can tell a Username
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lookup. Since NT or WIN 95 does not run such a service there is a pause of
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10 seconds or so. I have not yet found the way to switch this lookup off.
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Can anyone help me?
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Thanks
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--<BR>
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Jon
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 06:05:39 -0800 (PST)<BR>
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From: Steve Foster<A HREF="mailto:steve_p_foster@yahoo.com">
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steve_p_foster@yahoo.com</A><BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Xaw3d Documentation</font>
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<P>
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Just a short note, is there any documentation available for the wigit
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set, as I have used the example in LG 2(?), and fancy a crack at some
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other styles.
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--<BR>
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Steve
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:29:55 -0500<BR>
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From: "Jeffrey S. Flowers", <A HREF="mailto:ftn@bellsouth.net">
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ftn@bellsouth.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Linux in ROM</font>
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<P>
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The recent letters about putting Linux on a floppy is interesting to me
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but what I am interested in is putting Linux in ROM. I have a used 486
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and what I would like to do is buy a ISA card that emulates a IDE hard
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drive. I've seen them advertised but to work with Linux wither a custom
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driver would be needed or Linux would have to be set up to use the BIOS
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for all disk accesses.
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<P>
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Does anyone know of anyone doing this kind of thing?
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Thanks
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Jeffrey
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:14:45 -0600 (CST)<BR>
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From: Andy Kraut, <A HREF="mailto:opie4624@wagner.mtco.com">
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opie4624@wagner.mtco.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Help Wanted -- Client 32</font>
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<P>
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My High School uses Novell's Client 32 for all of their Internet
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connections. This means that only the main server has an IP address.
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Does anyone know how to make Linux (Red Hat 5.2) use the Internet over
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this? IPX is the only protocol in the Network settings of the Win 95
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machines here.
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Thanks in advance,
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--<BR>
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Andy Kraut
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:51:22 +030<BR>
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From: "bman", <A
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HREF="mailto:biz_bman@hotmail.com">biz_bman@hotmail.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">A Question Please</font>
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<P>
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First, I like your web site, and second, I have a question.
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<P>
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I have two 3com modems v90's one is internal "3com v90 voice" and the
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other is
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External 3com v90 .... I am using each one with a Linux System and
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have them connected to each others by a telephone line .... my problem is
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that I don't get the 56 speed
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that v90 should have. I get 33 or some thing like that... is there a way
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to tune up the modems in Linux operating systems? Thanks a lot.
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--<BR>
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bman
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:10:18 -0600<BR>
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From: "Aaron Becker", <A HREF="mailto:abecke2@uic.edu">abecke2@uic.edu</A>
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<BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Help with AGP Riva TNT and Linux</font>
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I just installed Red Hat Linux 5.2, and I don't know how to configure
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it to utilize my 16 MB STB Velocity 4400 AGP graphics card. That card
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is not in the card database, unfortunately. I can start the X Window System, but,
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the resolution is only 320 X 200. This resolution renders X
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virtually unusable. I would appreciate any help anyone can give me on
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this subject. Please bear in mind that I am extremely inexperienced
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with Linux when you respond.
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Thanks
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--<BR>
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Aaron
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:07:17 +0100<BR>
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From: "Oriol Molist", <A HREF="mailto:omsv@mail.cotursa-hotels.com">
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omsv@mail.cotursa-hotels.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Suggestion</font>
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<P>
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I am a Linux user. I have setup several PCs as X-terminals, but it is quite
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boring and takes too much time.
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I want to create a script that allows the easy setup of a X-terminal with
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lpd and ghostscript printer support, sharing the same NFS root for all
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xterminals, these would allow to install a network of xterm-PCs easily.
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Imagine that you can have the same of windows terminal server without having
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to pay anything.
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<P>
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Please if anyone is interested in helping me, send me e-mail.
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thanks
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Oriol Molist
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:18:25 -0500 (EST)<BR>
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From: <A HREF="mailto:jvu001@umaryland.edu">jvu001@umaryland.edu</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Help: Linux, laptop, PCMCIA SCSI</font>
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<P>
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I have a Toshiba 220CDS laptop and it once ran Linux on a 800 MB partition,
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but I deleted the partition because I needed the space. I have a PCMCIA
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SCSI card and am thinking about getting the Iomega Jaz drive (either 1 or
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2GB) and installing a Linux partition on that external drive. My question
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is: Is this possible? Has anyone attempted this and has successfully
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installed Linux on it? I'm thinking that I would have to use DOS to load
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the PCMCIA drivers first and then use loadlin to boot the Linux partition.
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Am I correct in thinking that this will work? Thanks.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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John
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:58:27 -0600<BR>
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From: Pete Nelson, <A HREF="mailto:pete.nelson@ci.stpaul.mn.us">
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pete.nelson@ci.stpaul.mn.us</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Serial Headache</font>
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<P>
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I had been trying to set up a PPP connection from my Red Hat 5.2 box at
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home to various ISPs. It was so problematic, I ended up writing a
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script that would begin dialing and fork an xterm with a 'tail -f
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/var/log/messages' so I could watch it fail.
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<P>
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I ironed out all the bugs in my chat script (Linux would be no fun if
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everything worked perfectly out of the box!), and pppd would connect -
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but it would then bomb out.
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<P>
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The messages were always the same before pppd died :
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<P>
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pppd[xxx]: Serial connection is not 8-bit clean.
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pppd[xxx]: Problem: bit 7 always 0.
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<P>
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So it looks like a serial problem. But I haven't found a fix with
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'setserial' or anything in my BIOS, or in the PPP setup. My guess is
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it's something incredibly simple that I'm just completely overlooking,
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but no one else that I know can figure it out, either.
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<P>
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If anybody knows the answer to this problem, I'd really like to hear it
|
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( and you can even throw in a 'DUH!' if you so desire - I'm almost
|
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positive there's a real easy answer to this! )
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Thanks.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Pete Nelson
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:49:53 +0800 (HKT)<BR>
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From: Romel Flores, <A HREF="mailto:rom@ncc.edu.ph">rom@ncc.edu.ph</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">(newbie question) messed up terminal</font>
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<P>
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tty1 of my Linux box went gaga and can't accept the enter key. It just
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displays the ^M when I press the enter key and ^? when I press backspace.
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<P>
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How do I solve the problem without resetting the machine.
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Thanks.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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R. Flores
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:43:06 -0800<BR>
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From: "Rick Lim", <A HREF="mailto:rick_lim@bctel.com">rick_lim@bctel.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">PPP dialin and out from the same box</font>
|
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<P>
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I can connect to my ISP (PPP) which uses dynamic IP address.
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I can then turn around and configure the same serial port
|
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for a static IP (PPP) for someone to dial into the same box.
|
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<P>
|
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But if I now try to connect to the ISP my box has the same
|
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static IP that was assigned to the port and it will not
|
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let me connect.
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<P>
|
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Is there a way to PPP out dial using a static IP address
|
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and still have a PPP in dial and assign a IP from my LAN?
|
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Thanks for any help.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Rick
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:13:38 -0500<BR>
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From: Dean Maluski, <A HREF="mailto:n0ety@home.com">n0ety@home.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Netscape</font>
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<P>
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I tried using tip to have Netscape use Mail directory.
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OK now I created all my sub-directories in Mail but they start with Caps so
|
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Inbox is not the same as inbox.
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<P>
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Is there any way to make them the same? Preferably Netscape looking
|
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at inbox & not Inbox.
|
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One cool thing is now when I look at message center I have a choice of
|
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looking in Inbox or inbox, and all directories within /Mail using Netscape.
|
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Dean
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:19:36 EST<BR>
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From: <A HREF="mailto:tomf7@hotmail.com">tomf7@hotmail.com</A> <BR>
|
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Subject: <font color="maroon">Linux</font>
|
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<P>
|
|
So I finally got Red Hat 5.2 installed after 8 tries, now what. It seems like a
|
|
fun game toy, but is it really useful? I can't get Netscape going because the
|
|
server doesn't have a DNS even though I put one in for it. The xplaycd reads
|
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the CD, but no sound. The time I spend on this system doesn't make up for the
|
|
cost. Linux has at least light years to go to catch up with anything that runs
|
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.
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<P>
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--<BR>
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Tom
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<a name="gen"></a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">General Mail</font></H3></center>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 16:43:22 +0100<BR>
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From: Christian Schaller, <A HREF="mailto:frostking@linuxrising.com">
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frostking@linuxrising.com</A> <BR>
|
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Subject: <font color="maroon">RE:Anouncements by Sun & TrollTech</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
After seeing the latest issue of <I>Linux Gazette</I> I have a couple of
|
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comments.
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<P>
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1) I often feel that the stories covered in <I>Linux Gazette</I> and thereafter
|
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<I>Linux Journal</I> are dated,
|
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I mean these license announcements are old and heavily debated and
|
|
Slashdot etc. As a Journal subscriber I for one would appreciate if the
|
|
currentness of the stories covered in the gazette and the journal was
|
|
more close to date of publication than today.
|
|
<P>
|
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2) As for the articles content I have one issue I think should be
|
|
brought up when the "open-source" licenses are discussed. And that is the
|
|
fact that these licenses are a bigger threat to the free software
|
|
community than proprietary software. Most of these licenses makes it
|
|
impossible to reuse code and they undermine the success criteria that
|
|
GPL/LGPL and BSD licenses gives open source software, by enabling
|
|
anybody to modify or include code or complete software packages in their
|
|
own software. If these types of licenses are allowed to be accepted as
|
|
just as good, the best scenario we might hope for is that anybody making
|
|
free software "just" have to include 20 different licenses with the
|
|
software witch have to consist of 15 different patches.
|
|
I hope SSC through their publications takes care not to support such a
|
|
development.
|
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<P>
|
|
Sincerely,<BR>
|
|
Christian Schaller
|
|
<blockquote> <font color="maroon">
|
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(The realities of life are both <I>LG</I> and <I>LJ</I> are monthly magazines. If an
|
|
announcement is made on on the 4th of the month, it won't show up in <I>LG</I>
|
|
until the next month. For <I>LJ</I>, it's even longer because there's the lead
|
|
time needed to get the magazine in print, etc.
|
|
</font> </blockquote>
|
|
<blockquote> <font color="maroon">
|
|
We could, of course, just ignore all news related issues and stick with
|
|
technical articles only, but then we wouldn't be getting our opinions out
|
|
there.
|
|
</font> </blockquote>
|
|
<blockquote> <font color="maroon">
|
|
What would be nice is if these companies would tell us 2 months in advance
|
|
so we could have the stories in print in <I>LJ</I> at the same time the announcement
|
|
is made. But this isn't likely to ever happen--insider information and all
|
|
that.
|
|
</font> </blockquote>
|
|
<blockquote> <font color="maroon">
|
|
One of the reasons that I put the article in <I>LG</I> was to get it out a bit
|
|
quicker than it will appear in <I>LJ</I>.
|
|
You are not the only one that has made this particular complaint. However,
|
|
I ask that you all cut us a bit of slack--we are not a daily newspaper.
|
|
</font> </blockquote>
|
|
<blockquote> <font color="maroon">
|
|
As to your second point, I noted that these licenses were not the same as
|
|
GPL--only a step in the right direction.
|
|
Thanks for writing, --Editor)
|
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</font> </blockquote>
|
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 23:07:49 +0100 (CET)<BR>
|
|
From: <A HREF="mailto:jfm2@club-internet.fr">jfm2@club-internet.fr</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">Destroying the Kernel Compiling Myth</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Once again we find an
|
|
article propagating the myth of kernel compiling (the one written by a guy from
|
|
India). Problem is that since 1996 benefits of this are nearly nil in a well
|
|
designed distribution.
|
|
<P>
|
|
I think this myth is very harmful to Linux: as long as there will be people
|
|
claiming
|
|
"Thou hast to recompile thee kernel" it will be impossible to attract
|
|
non-hackers to Linux. That means confining Linux into a _small_ programmer's
|
|
ghetto.
|
|
<P>
|
|
The MIME attachment is an <A HREF="./martinez.html">analysis</A> of the benefits of compiling a 2.0 kernel. It
|
|
is based on performance measures, simple maths and source reading.
|
|
Quantitative analysis shows there are ways far more effective for optimizing a
|
|
Linux box. I talk about them but that should be developed. The text will be
|
|
part of the Independence distribution. If you think it is not acceptable
|
|
for <I>LJ</I> to
|
|
publish something that will be on a web site in a few days then publish on
|
|
<I>Linux Gazette</I>.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Jean Francois Martinez <BR>
|
|
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses,
|
|
http://www.independence.seul.org
|
|
|
|
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:30:20 -0500<BR>
|
|
From: Jim Heyssel, <A HREF="mailto:jheyssel@bellatlantic.net">
|
|
jheyssel@bellatlantic.net</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">Make Linux Better, Yet!</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I am happy with your site. I am suggesting some improvements to Linux
|
|
itself which would make it the enterprise software of the next decade.
|
|
<P>
|
|
1. Give Linux full journaling, unlimited file-size, and scalable
|
|
multiprocessor support.
|
|
Whether using ext2 with new 64-bit fs, or writing an integrated driver
|
|
for making ufs, or xfs, or ntfs, it does not matter.
|
|
<P>
|
|
2. Incorporate full IPV6 support. Incorporate complete networking
|
|
interfaces with NT, Novell, Mac, other UNIX systems. A lot of support is
|
|
already there, but I am particularly interested in Network Directory
|
|
Service type support and Domain control support with one login.
|
|
<P>
|
|
3. Fully integrated KDE desktop environment - when you install
|
|
application software, it should be on the desktop and automated for
|
|
dummies. Not everyone is a hacker. But everyone who uses computers for
|
|
the sake of interests other than the computer itself (unlike many of us
|
|
Linux geeks), should be able to download and install any application
|
|
without having to read an inordinate amount of documentation or worry
|
|
about configuration files (unless, of course, we enjoy that sort of
|
|
thing).
|
|
<P>
|
|
4. Multi configuration automation for distinct uses - e.g. an
|
|
enhancement like Red Hat's for various types of use: server, router,
|
|
desktop workstation, database server, etc.
|
|
<P>
|
|
5. Software that deliberately aims at inter-operability with file
|
|
formats generated by Microsoft, Apple, and other popular software
|
|
applications.
|
|
<P>
|
|
6. These goals can easily be achieved in the next year and make Linux
|
|
number one, with a combination of features to entice the most innovative
|
|
of hackers, and most mundane of end-users.
|
|
<P>
|
|
7. Tell me where to begin. If anyone else is interested in any one of
|
|
the above, I would like to collaborate.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Jim
|
|
|
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|
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:58:47 -0600<BR>
|
|
From: Brian Bray, <A HREF="mailto:ixnay@wws.net">ixnay@wws.net</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">Jan, 99 article Xwindows vs. w95/98/NT</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
first let me say that I love you :-)~ secondly in your article from Jan 199
|
|
entitled X Windows versus Windows 95/98/NT: No Contest, by Paul Gregory Cooper.
|
|
he states that that...
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
"Windows95/98/NT on the other hand is a different kettle of fish.
|
|
Here the OS, GUI, WM, and desktop aren't clearly
|
|
separated (as in UNIX) but are all rolled into one. Thus you have
|
|
whatever choice Microsoft happen to give you, i.e.
|
|
windows themes.
|
|
</blockquote> <blockquote>
|
|
For Microsoft this is an advantage - it stops people butting in and
|
|
rewriting parts of their OS which could potentially lose
|
|
them money. For instance they realized that with the old windows 2/3.1
|
|
you could simply replace MS DOS with another
|
|
compatible DOS such as DR DOS from Caldera. In an ongoing court case
|
|
Caldera allege that MS added code to windows
|
|
to make it seem like there was a bug in DR DOS. With 9*/NT being all
|
|
rolled in one there is no need to resort to such tactics. "
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
While I agree that everything that this article states I would like to point
|
|
out that users of Windows 95/8/NT can indeed change there shell to a Afterstep
|
|
like interface called Litestep.
|
|
<P>
|
|
http://www.multimania.com/jdubois/litestep/index.htm
|
|
<P>
|
|
I have not personally ever used but know ppl who have. And it doesn't look to
|
|
bad.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Thanks for your time,
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Brian Bray
|
|
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|
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 05:55:47 -0800 (PST)<BR>
|
|
From: Casper Boden-Cummins, <A HREF="mailto:casperbc@yahoo.com">
|
|
casperbc@yahoo.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">X</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Here's a top tip: the popular X Window System is _not_ called `X
|
|
Windows'. There is no such product. Instead, the man page on X says:
|
|
<P>
|
|
The X Consortium requests that the following names be used
|
|
when referring to this software:
|
|
<P>
|
|
X<BR>
|
|
X Window System<BR>
|
|
X Version 11<BR>
|
|
X Window System, Version 11<BR>
|
|
X11<BR>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I'd be overjoyed if we could ditch this M$-inspired mistake! ;-)
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Casper Boden-Cummins
|
|
|
|
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:33:35 -0500<P>
|
|
From: Michael Bright, <A HREF="mailto:mabright@us.ibm.com">
|
|
mabright@us.ibm.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">How about a cross platform section?</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
This is to the <I>Gazette</I> as well as <I>Linux Journal</I>. From what I've seen
|
|
in the industry, most businesses are using Linux in a heterogeneous
|
|
environment. They are doing this because they don't want to jump into
|
|
Linux with both feet. A lot of these are NT/Linux houses which leverage
|
|
the abilities of both platforms to get the job done. This could be
|
|
anything from a collection of tips to entire articles. I see NT/Linux
|
|
related questions and tips in almost every issue. Maybe its time they
|
|
were put in the same section. I even have an Idea for a logo or symbol,
|
|
Take a Yin Yang and put a Windows emblem in the space for the white dot
|
|
and a penguin for the black. The black background could be made to
|
|
resemble the NT workstation package with the "edge of space" graphic and
|
|
perhaps the penguin could be in an arctic scene.
|
|
<P>
|
|
This idea does not have to be limited to just Linux and NT, there
|
|
are connectivity issues for Apple, OS/2/Aurora, Novell and others.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Thanks for your time.
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Michael
|
|
|
|
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:25:02 +0000<BR>
|
|
From: Me, <A HREF="mailto:deltax@pragma.net">deltax@pragma.net</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="maroon">Quark Xpress on WinDos?</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Quark Xpress was originally a Mac product.
|
|
<P>
|
|
I was unaware that it was ported to winferior systems.... Indeed it
|
|
would be very nice to have Quark under UNIX. From what I remember using
|
|
it (long time ago, old version!) it was a very nice, efficient and
|
|
powerful page design software.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Eric
|
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<center>Published in <i>Linux Gazette</i> Issue 37, February 1999</center>
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<A HREF="mailto: gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A><BR>
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