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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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LinuxCare,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">http://www.linuxcare.com/</A>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Linux 'read'</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>File with Device Information</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>10BaseT Connection</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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><strong>shell script</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Telnet to linux box from NT workstation in NT LAN --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><strong>Connection Refused</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>connecting red hat workstation to nt server --or--
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><strong>Linux in a Windows NT Domain (under a PDC)</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>ACLs on Linux</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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Well, folks, it's another month, and yet another hefty mailbag. We've
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got more people asking strange hardware questions (though you won't see
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them here) and a few more interesting Windows questions than we usually
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get. Like, what about that new version, 2000ME. Is the "Millenium
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Edition" really Win2K Lite (a bunch of "server" features stripped off)
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or win98 with a Win2K GUI tacked on and the ability to reach the command
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line ripped out? Estimates are pointing more toward the latter, but
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really, we can't tell for certain except by behavioral analysis --
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there's no source, not even a "non free" source view like the Sun
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Community License.
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Honestly, what are you gonna do if you're stuck in the Windows way?
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The slashdotters think it's pretty easy - "If your system works, don't
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upgrade". Hmmm. Once upon a time rsh worked great. It's not even
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that it's broken - as an application, as a server, the "r" tools still
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run like they always did. But, the environment around them has changed;
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they are so inherently unsafe that I know few sysadmins who don't use
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ssh and the analogous family of tools instead, <em>even</em> if they
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have a captive lab such as the environment the "r" tools grew up in.
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Besides, I took a fresh look at the licenses as posted at MS.
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<blockquote>
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Let's say you don't want to upgrade, but you just hired 12 people, and you
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want windows95 sp 2 for all their systems. For the purposes of argument let
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us also say that you are not in the Silicon Valley, so you cannot simply
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run down to the leftover software shop and pick up one from last year --
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they're long gone, even w98 are hard to come by, all you might buy are
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win2k in one of its forms.
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You should read your EULA on the package of Win2k you'd like to get. Oh
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yeah. Forgot, you have to buy one to get far enough into the package to
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read that. Doh! One copy can't hurt the ol' pocket too much right? Maybe.
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So, you read it with a magnifying lens and maybe it says it's a license to
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this or any older version of Microsoft Windows (tm). Better check your
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lotto ticket at the same time, they have about an equal chance of being
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a winner.
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Probably no mention whatsoever of older versions. Okay. You visit Microsoft's
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website. The EULA posted there:
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<blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/PERMISSION/copyrgt/cop-soft.htm"
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>http://www.microsoft.com/PERMISSION/copyrgt/cop-soft.htm</a>
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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...says basically, if and only if you bought
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it in a store (you did! wow! full pop was worth something!) then you can
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write to them for permission to downgrade it. One copy at a time.
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</p><p>
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Hoo boy. "Permission to downgrade" and they'll probably blow you off.
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You're not one of their "Select Customers" by a long shot. Even if they
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say yes, you'll have to figure out how to get copies from the media you
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already have to cooperate with the idea of having multiple instances in
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the office.
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</p><p>
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You hardly have a choice, you think. It's an OS learning curve for the
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new version's differences, or a technical doan-and-dirty to make the old
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dog play new tricks.
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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They've certainly come a long way from when I wanted to upgrade a useless
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copy of Windows to one of their more helpful products like a mouse, a
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joystick, or a book.
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</p><p>
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You might be right. You have no choice about some things in this world.
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But the choice you lack is control over your external environment --
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you can still control your own response. You are Mr. Bill's external
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environment. He has fairly little power over you.
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</p><p>
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So, if you're about to go through this headache, it should make Linux,
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FreeBSD, and BeOS look a lot friendlier. Sure, it will be different,
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but perhaps not as amazingly different as you'd expect. If you have
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anyone technical enough to take Microsoft on as a challenge, Linux with
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its source and a lot of people trying to make it easy might not be
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such a bad thing to try.
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</p><p>
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Ooo, owie, no UNIX experience here! you cry. Ah, but there's this.
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There are a world of people - not all of them programmers - out there
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contributing something to make life easier. Not necessarily for you.
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Chances are they've never heard of your 40 person startup. But, they're
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trying to make it easier for <em>themselves</em>... and then posting
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it for others.
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</p><p>
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Now I'm not just talking about companies that make their living serving
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a niche specialty. I mean, sure, I even work for one
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(<a href="http://www.tuxtops.com/">Tuxtops</a>, selling laptops) and
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don't get me wrong, I think it's <strong>great</strong> that people can
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consult or sell products to meet specialty needs. But the companies
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that are doing the best, are the ones whose confidence in their solution
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is so strong, that they have no problem giving at least parts of it
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back to the community.
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</p><p>
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It's plain folks and small groups that make the difference here.
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The more likely that you are similar to any of these other folks that might
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be working on something, the more likely that something that will work very well
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for you already exists in Linux. Or, the more likely that you'll see
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a bit of fame and friendship, if you post your solution to that very
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same everyday problem, first.
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</p><p>
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Between this and more active local user groups, your chances of doing well
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with Linux really have improved quite dramatically in the last couple of
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years, It's possible to find Installfests with local gurus in a lot of
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places. It's our way of paying back those early days when we got some
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help after we realized we were lost. We all had to start somewhere.
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</p><p>
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I'm still lost sometimes. That's why I love going to the trade shows, so
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I can meet all the cool folks with different specialties than my own. And
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if I can give a little back by being a local guru at the Installfests, I
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like that. A lot.
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</p><p>
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(By the way, Tuxtops will be doing an Installfest for Laptop Users at
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the <a href="http://www.linuxshowcase.org/">Atlanta Linux Showcase</a>.
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If you want to meet me sometime, that's your best chance. I think it will
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be a lot of fun.)
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</p><p>
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But that's what I'm really doing here, anyway. A few hours of my time
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every month can make a lot of people around the world happy, because
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we've're "<em>Making Linux a Little More Fun!</em>"
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See you next time, everyone.
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>Copyright ©</a> 2000, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in the <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 57 September 2000</H5>
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<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML transformation by
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<A HREF="mailto:star@tuxtops.com">Heather Stern</a> of
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Tuxtops, Inc.,
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