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Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:20:27 +0800
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<BR>Kamal (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=kamal@eutech.slt.lk">kamal from eutech.slt.lk</a>)
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I have a problem in adding a new file system in to a device called
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mediaEngine. It is a product of brightstareng.com
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There is slot for a Compact Flash. I bought a compact flash and added
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it, but thenit does not recognise the card. it says there isan i/o
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error. the mke2fs does not work properly. I am not able to mount even.
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pleaese help me regarding this.
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thanking you inadvance
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kamalakanth
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Booting x86 from flash using initrd as root device</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 09 Jul 2001 18:50:25 +0530
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<BR>S. Manohar (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=manohar@hclt.com">manohar from hclt.com</a>)
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Hello Everybody,
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I am trying to develop a x86 target which boots from Flash. I have
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taken the BLOB bootloader (taken from LART
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project based on ARM processor.) and am modifying it for X86. So far I
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am able to get the Linux kernel booted. But when it
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comes to the mounting of rootfile system I am stuck. ( The blob
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downloads the kernel image and initrd image into RAM from
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Flash/through serial line).
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1. I am getting the compressed kernel image in RAM at 0x100000 through
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serial line.
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2. I am getting the compressed ramdisk image(initrd) in RAM at
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0x400000 through serial line.
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3. The kernel gets uncompressed and boots correctly till the point of
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displaying the message
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RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0.
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and then hangs.
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4. After debugging I have found that control comes till gunzip function
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inlinux/lib/inflate.c but never comes out of the function.
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5. The parameters I have set at the begining of setup_arch function in
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linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c are as follows
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<blockquote><pre> ORIG_ROOT_DEV = 0x0100
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RAMDISK_FLAGS = 0x4000
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INITRD_START = 0x400000
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INITRD_SIZE = 0xd4800 (size of compressed ram disk image)
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LOADER_TYPE = 1
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Has anyone faced such problem before? If so what needs to be done?
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Are the values for the parameters mentioned above correct? Are they the
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only information to be mentioned to the kernel for
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locating and uncompressing the RAMDISK image and make it boot?
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Is there any bootloader readily available for x86 platform for booting
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from Flash also with serial downloading facility?
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Please help
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With Kind Regards,
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<br>manohar
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><strong>KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#mailbag/2"
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><strong>not happy</strong></a>
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><strong>RE: Linux Gazette Kernel Compile Article.</strong></a>
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><strong>Parrallel processing</strong></a>
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><strong>response to: Yet Another Helpful Email</strong></a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:53:21 -0700
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<BR>badjooda (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">badjooda from yahoo.com</a>)
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Remember when you said :
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM><BLOCKQuote>
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WinPrinter Work-around
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From harmbehrens on Sat, 01 May 1999
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Hello, is there any work-around to get a gdi printer (Star Wintype 4000) to
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work with Linux :-?
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#006633"><EM>
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Harm
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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I presume that these are NOT what you wanted to hear. However, there is no
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way that I know of to support a Winprinter without running drivers that are
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native to MS Windows (and its GDI --- graphics device interface --- APIs).
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P>
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What about using one of the Windows emulators like <A HREF="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</A>
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(<A HREF="http://www.winehq.org"
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>http://www.winehq.org</A>) ? -- Mike
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Actually, a very few GDI- aka "winprinters" are supported - some Lexmarks.
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I saw them first as debian packages but I'm pretty sure Linuxprinting.org
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has more details. The notes said that rumor has it some other GDI printers
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work with those, but it's a bit of effort and luck. Rather like winmodems...
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-- Heather
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I Agree 100% about the GDI printers! (I refer to them as Goll Damn M$
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Imitators). Unfortunately, until the recent developments on the federal
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court case M$ has not been checked at all. Some parts of what they, as
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a Monopoly have done has been good for the IT commmunity, while other
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things have really crapped on people WHO THINK!
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Thank GOD !!!!! Linux is around to be a thorn in their side ...
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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THe other incidious thing printer manufacs have done is stop building
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as many Postscript printers. They are all using the friggin Windows
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drivers to do everything ... . So I have begun to play the stinkin game
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by mounting SMALL 468-DX266 16 Megs Linux Print Servers running SAMBA.
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THe newest ver of SAMBA even does PDC correctly.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Linux has been my savior in many times of need! I have been able to
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use thos stinking 386 boat anchors as LRP routers or firewalls, the
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small 90 Pent to 166 Pent are becoming LTSP Linux Xwindow Terminals. I
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still have stinking problems from time to time, yet I DON'T HAVE TO
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REBOOT EVERY 24 [&^%$!#]* days PER TECHNET(M$ answer to internal
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pay support) FOR NT SERVERS! I have Linux servers with uptimes of 200 +
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days IN PRODUCTION!
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<P><STRONG>
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I'll sign off , enough rambling and ranting for one email. I just
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found your stuff through linuxdoc.org, and I thought you HIT THE NAIL ON
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THE HEAD!
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KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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</STRONG></P>
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The real question is, is it worth spending 50 bucks instead of 200 or more,
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when you're going to spend a bunch of time making sure your driver is wired
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up right? I have an unfair advantage, since I live where these things are
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sold readily, but I get to say no ... I can spend about 80 bucks on a color
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printer which is actually listed as fully supported.
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</P>
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You may be able to mail order a good printer at a decent price. On the other
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hand, if exploring how these things all tie together under the hood is fun,
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then you can improve the state of the art for such printers, and maybe some
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fine day folks will be able to easily use "the GDI printer that came with
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their MS windows" without having to fight with it like this.
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-- Heather
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<FONT COLOR="navy">not happy</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:08:47 -0700
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<BR>32009318 (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">32009318 from snetmp.cpg.com.au</a>)
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:26:35PM +1000, 32009318 wrote:
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<P><STRONG>
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i know how annoyed you guys at the linux gazette must feel as i have
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been reading many back issues of the gazette and finding lots of cool
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tips and trick but the question always comes up
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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CAN YOU SOLVE WINDOWS PROBLEMS
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people just dont get it youre called the linux gazette and you help with
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linux questions
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</STRONG></P>
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Unfortunately, we also have no idea where they find the reference to us that
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gives them the impression we do anything in Windows... more's the pity, since
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we can't beg the webmaster to take the link down.
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</P>
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<P>
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They can certainly trip on us in search engines though, especially the worse
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ones. I can imagine someone frustrated with some Windows networking matter
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tripping over our many notes about Samba, since the point is to link up to
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some MSwin boxes... -- Heather
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Oh thank you, we like to hear that! -- Heather
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The problem is, most people who ask Windows questions found the submission
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address via a search engine, and have no idea the address belongs to Linux
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Gazette or even know what Linux Gazette is. Perhaps we should have used
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an address like linux-questions-only, but we can't stop honoring the old
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addresses since they are published in so many back issues and some are on
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CD-ROMs that we can't change. -- Mike
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<P><STRONG>
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You should clearley state this in youre next issue or be humorous and
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rename yourself The Not Windows Gazette
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</STRONG></P>
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle"> They're not the only odd ones out - we've had IRIX, PC-MOS, and other
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odd OS users crop up before too.
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<FONT COLOR="purple">
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[Ben] Even had someone trying to get root access to their rhubarb, recently...
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Funny you should mention a name change though. We <EM>have</EM> changed the name
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of the Answer Gang mailing list to "<A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com"
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>linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A>" -- Heather
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<P>
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Many TAG threads have humorous comments and/or rants about off-topic
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questions. Heather also tries to guide people in her "Greetings from
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Heather Stern" blurb about how to ask a good question and how not to ask
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a bad question. Finally, I have started making fun of off-topic questions
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on the Back Page of the past few issues. There's now a section on the
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Back Page called "Not The Answer Gang", as well as "Wackiest Topic of the
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Month". -- Mike
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<P><STRONG>
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keep up the good work with linux
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Thanks bunches, we're glad you enjoy the read! -- Heather
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:13:14 -0400
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<BR>David Martinez (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">d_martinez7 from hotmail.com</a>)
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I love reading LG every month, especially TAG, and 2cent tips. But the new
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blinking question and exclamation icons are somwhat annoying. Any chance of
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going back to the old ones?
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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<P><STRONG>
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thanks for all the good work!
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<P>
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blinking? They're not supposed to blink. In fact, if they are it's been
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that way for <EM>YEARS</EM> ... since I first provided .gif files with the ! and ?
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in them in blue, instead of with those stupid "!" and "?" that nobody could
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read.
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<P>
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It would mean I accidentally had layers in them. But there's no loop command,
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so even if you see that briefly it should stop. Is that what you are seeing,
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or does it continue to blink? Did you change browsers at all recently? If
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so to which one?
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</P>
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We have been trying to improve browser compatability lately anyway
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle"> Thanks
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for bringing it up.
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</P>
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<P>
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[ turning to my fellow editor ] Mike, did anybody run any scripts against the
|
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graphic images recently that I need to know about?
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</P>
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<P>
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-- Heather
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</P>
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<P>
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No, we haven't changed those images. I've threatened to change all .gif's
|
|
to .png or .jpg and change all the links, but haven't done it yet. I've only
|
|
used blinking text once or twice and that wasn't in the TAG column.
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</P>
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<P>
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Also, LG is probably the only site in the world that requires NON-ANIMATED
|
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logo images from its sponsors. Because I personally have a strong
|
|
intolerance for unnecessary animations.
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</P>
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<P>
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-- Mike
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</P>
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<P>
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The "blinking Icons" are actually three layer gifs with one backround (white
|
|
bubble) and 0ms display time and two layers (question mark and shadow) with
|
|
100ms display time in combine mode (will be overlayed over the previous one).
|
|
</P>
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<P>
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opera5.0/Linux displays them on a strange blue background (seems to have a
|
|
gif problem, also with other gifs not only these little ones).
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|
</P>
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|
<P>
|
|
If you want a scriptable tool (besides gimp) there is a program called
|
|
pngquant which can do the color (and size) reduction on png files which
|
|
convert will not do.
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</P>
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<P>
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-- K.-H.
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</P>
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<P><DL><DT>
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|
Mike didn't find the utility in <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A> but its homepage is:
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<DD><A HREF="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngquant.html"
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>http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngquant.html</A>
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</DL></P>
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<P>
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-- Heather
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</P>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">question</FONT></H3>
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Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:16:24 EDT
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<BR>Mattybiz (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">Mattybiz from aol.com</a>)
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<P><STRONG>
|
|
Everyone I know is having the same problem. Not only is the Telnet completely
|
|
outdated, but it simply does not work for people off campus in most
|
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areas...
|
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</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Hint: putty, one of the ssh clients for Windows that we keep pushing, is also
|
|
a better "normal telnet" client for Windows. -- Heather
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
|
|
And last weekend I discovered that the public library in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
|
|
has putty as the <EM>default</EM> terminal emulator on their public Windows
|
|
terminals!!! Way to go, library! And switching between telnet and ssh in
|
|
putty is easy: just choose one radio button or the other.
|
|
</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
|
|
Unkudos to the Second Cup cybercafe in Halifax. The Start menu has a
|
|
special item for Telnet but when you choose it, you get a dialog saying,
|
|
"this operation is prohibited by the system administrator". -- Mike
|
|
</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
you call yourself the "answer guy" and all you know how to be is a
|
|
sarcastic little bastard..
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
|
|
If you saw the hundreds of messages we receive every month and the high
|
|
percentage of them that are questions totally outside our scope, you
|
|
might become a sarcastic little bastard too. -- Mike
|
|
</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li> He didn't call himself The Answer Guy -- that's what Marjorie named the
|
|
column, and the title clung to him. It's an okay title but there could
|
|
be better ones - none of which stuck long enough to be worth changing the
|
|
column title.
|
|
|
|
<li> It's a whole bunch of people now - has been for months - so it's The
|
|
Answer Gang. Which member of the Gang are you whining about?
|
|
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
|
|
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
|
|
|
|
<br>
|
|
I'll assume Jim Dennis, for the moment.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<li>"all he knows how to be is..." - yeah, that's why he has a well paying
|
|
job in the Silicon Valley, and a published book (from a normal publishing
|
|
house, so yes, it's been spell checked), and speaking engagements at
|
|
conferenees. Because he doesn't know anything.
|
|
</ol>
|
|
<P>
|
|
We all have our good days, and our sarcastic days, and the point of our
|
|
column is that we're real people, answering in just the same way we would
|
|
if you asked us at the mall while we were buying a box of the latest
|
|
Linux distro.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
A particular thing to note is very few of us are Windows people. Most of
|
|
us not at all - and others have had bad real-life experiences with the OS
|
|
you presently favor. So not everyone will be cheer and light towards things
|
|
we consider to be poor sysadmin practices. Especially things which would
|
|
be poor sysadmin practices even in an all Microsoft corporate netcenter.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
At least two of us have enough WIndows experience to attempt answers in
|
|
that direction -- but this is the LINUX Gazette. If your questions are
|
|
not about LINUX at least partially, then we really didn't want to hear
|
|
from you... so you should be glad you got any answer at all...
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
... and curiously enough, some Windows people have gotten real answers
|
|
for themselves in Linux documents once we point them the right way.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
The practice of running an open service needs more care than just "clicking
|
|
Yes" on the NT service daemon, and some of these services only make sense
|
|
in a locked up environment.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Many but not all of The Answer Gang feel that telnet is now one such service.
|
|
By mailing us you ask our opinion, and that opinion is real, so we say it.
|
|
You do not have to like our opinions. We don't have to like yours. We
|
|
can still share computing power.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P align="center">
|
|
<em>A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.</em>
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
you make yourself seem very unintelligent to me and
|
|
have you ever heard of "If you can't say anything nice.don't say it at all?"
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
As if calling us a bastard is nice, yet you bothered to say <EM>that</EM>. You know
|
|
absolutely nothing of the parentage of any member of this group unless you
|
|
read our Bios (<A HREF="../issue67/tag/bios.html"
|
|
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/tag/bios.html</A>) ...
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
... and we know that you have not because you only speak to one person.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Parentage (or lack of one) doesn't necessarily lead to being technologically
|
|
clued, but having technical or scientifically inclined parents seems to help.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Apparently not. The question Nellie asked was a valid one. Too bad she does
|
|
now all the mumbo jumbo computer jargon...maybe the next time you should self
|
|
proclaim yourself as the "Smart-ass Guy" instead.
|
|
Miriam Brown
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I believe "curmudgeon" is the term you're looking for, and yes, Jim Dennis
|
|
labels himself to be one. Proudly.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Interestingly, a querent this month has asked where to read up on the techy
|
|
mumbo jumbo words so they can learn more about Linux and speak more freely
|
|
with their geeky friends. Our answers to that will actually be useful to
|
|
many readers.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Poor english is tolerated to a fair degree on the querent's side.
|
|
(that is, if we can't figure out what querents are saying, it's hard to
|
|
even <EM>try</EM> to answer them). Each Answerer's personal style is mostly
|
|
kept - so some are cheerful, some are grumpy.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
PS...Don't answer guys usually use spell check?
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
It is not required to know how to use a spell checker, in order to know how
|
|
to rebuild a kernel. You have delusions of us being some glossy print
|
|
magazine like <EM>Linux Journal</EM>. (ps. Our host, SSC publishes that. It
|
|
does get spell checked and all those nice things. Go subscribe to it if
|
|
you like. End of cheap plug.)
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Nobody here is paid a dime for working on the <EM>Gazette</EM> specifically, so
|
|
our editorial time is better spent on link checking and finding correct
|
|
answers... er, well, we try... than spellos. We have occasionally had
|
|
people complain about this point very clearly and loudly, but there is
|
|
not room in the publishing schedule for them to squish themselves in
|
|
between and still meet deadline. We suggested that they make their own
|
|
site carry the past issue after fixes (our copyright allows this) but
|
|
the people have then always backed down and gone away. We'd almost
|
|
certainly merge their repairs if they made some, but nobody has taken
|
|
up on that offer yet. Oh well. Let us know if you want to start the
|
|
Excellent Speller's Site - we'll cheer for you. Maybe some other docs
|
|
in the <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">Linux Documentation Project</A> (LDP) could stand a typo scrub too.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Oddly, many people read <EM>LG</EM> religiously because it's written in
|
|
person to
|
|
person mode and doesn't spray gloss all over the articles and columns that
|
|
way. You will get ecstatic excitement at successes and growling at bad
|
|
ways to do things and every emotion in between.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
No, many of the querents don't spell check either, but we still answer
|
|
<EM>them</EM>.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I hope you enjoyed your time flaming, but we have people asking questions
|
|
about Linux to get back to.
|
|
</P>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">"Those were the days"</FONT></H3>
|
|
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:20:42 -0500
|
|
<BR>Pete Nelson (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">pete.nelson from serversolved.com</a>)
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
I have this dream of contributing something wonderfully useful to the
|
|
Gazette, but it ain't going to happen today. . .
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
No, I noticed the ravings on The Back Page of issue 67, and had to send
|
|
you the lyrics of "Those were the days":
|
|
</P>
|
|
<h4>For the way Glen Miller Played</h4>
|
|
<p>. . .
|
|
<br>(It looks like the rest was pretty good up til the last verse)
|
|
<br> . . .
|
|
<br>Didn't need no welfare state
|
|
<br>Everybody pulled his weight
|
|
<br>Gee, our old LaSalle ran great
|
|
<br>Those were the days.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
But better yet, is the Simpsonized version --
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
For the way the BeeGees played
|
|
<br>Films that John Travolta made
|
|
<br>Guessing how much Elvis weighed
|
|
<br>Those were the days
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
And you knew where you were then
|
|
<br>watching shows like Gentile Ben
|
|
<br>Mister we could use a man like Sheriff Lobo again
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Disco Duck and Fleetwood Mac
|
|
<br>Coming out of my eight-track
|
|
<br>Micheal Jackson still was black,
|
|
<br>Those were the days
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Maybe next time I write in, I'll have something more useful.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
--
|
|
Pete Nelson
|
|
</P>
|
|
<p><em>Thanks, Pete, glad we could amuse. I think we need a linux version,
|
|
or maybe a BSD one... -- Heather</em></p>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/6"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">RE: Linux Gazette Kernel Compile Article.</FONT></H3>
|
|
Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:06:40 +0200
|
|
<BR>Zwane Mwaikambo (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">zwane from linux.realnet.co.sz</a>)
|
|
|
|
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
Hi,
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
First i must commend you on providing a service to all the Linux users
|
|
out there trying to get started on rolling their own kernel. I would just
|
|
like to point out a few things i found somewhat confusing about your
|
|
article.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
You compiled in "math emulation" support even though you have a CPU with a
|
|
built in maths co-processor, in this case the math emulation will never be
|
|
used and essentially wastes memory. secondly, you selected SMP support for
|
|
your uniprocessor (UP) system. This on some occasion can cause problems with
|
|
specific UP motherboards causing them not to boot or certain kernel modules
|
|
not loading, in addition to being slower and taking up more memory than a
|
|
non-SMP kernel. Also as you might want to break apart your build procedure
|
|
by using double ampersands. i.e. "make dep && make bzImage && make modules
|
|
&& make modules install ....."
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
That aside, it's great that you're willing to share your experiences and
|
|
knowledge with the rest of the Linux community.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Regards,
|
|
<br>Zwane
|
|
</P>
|
|
|
|
<!-- end 6 -->
|
|
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|
|
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/7"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">Parrallel processing</FONT></H3>
|
|
Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:22:08 -0700
|
|
<BR>UCT Student - stvchu001 (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">stvchu001 from mail.uct.ac.za</a>)
|
|
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
I would like to contact the uuthor of the above article which appeared
|
|
in the april 2001 edition of your magazine .
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
The author's name in all our articles is a hyperlink to his e-mail
|
|
address. Rahul Joshi's is <A HREF="mailto:jurahul@hotmail.com"
|
|
>jurahul@hotmail.com</A> -- Mike
|
|
</P>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/8"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">response to: Yet Another Helpful Email</FONT></H3>
|
|
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:39:19 -0700
|
|
<BR>Bryan Henderson (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">bryanh from giraffe-data.com </a>)
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
I was pleased to see a letter by Benjamin D Smith that compares
|
|
learning Windows to learning Unix by drawing a mental graph of the
|
|
respective learning curves, because I thought it would set straight
|
|
a lot of people who misuse the term "steep learning curve."
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
But then Smith went ahead and misused the term himself, in a way
|
|
wholly inconsistent with the picture he drew.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
To set the record straight, allow me to explain what a learning
|
|
curve is, and in particular what a steep one is all about.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
The learning curve is a graph of productivity versus time. As time
|
|
passes, you learn stuff and your productivity increases (except in
|
|
weird cases).
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Windows has a steep learning curve. You start out useless, but with
|
|
just a little instruction and messing around, you're already writing
|
|
and printing documents. The curve rises quickly.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Unix has a very shallow learning curve. You start out useless, and
|
|
after a day of study, you can still do just a little bit. After
|
|
another day, you can do a little bit more. It may be weeks before
|
|
you're as productive as a Windows user is after an hour.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Smith's point, to recall, was that the Windows learning curve, while
|
|
steep, reaches a saturation point and levels off. The Unix curve,
|
|
on the other hand, keeps rising gradually almost without bound. In
|
|
time, it overtakes the Windows curve.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
--
|
|
Bryan Henderson
|
|
</P>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/9"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">anser guy</FONT></H3>
|
|
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:57:36 -0700 (PDT)
|
|
<BR>Heather (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">star from betelgeuse.starshine.org</a>)
|
|
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Are you still the answer guy, and do you still answer questions? If so, I
|
|
have one that's been bugging me for a year now. Just let me know,
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Thanks!
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
It's an Answer Gang now. Jim Dennis is still one of us.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
We answer <EM>some</EM> of the hundred of linux questions we get every month.
|
|
Questions which are not about Linux get laughed about, but have a much lower
|
|
chance of ever geeteting an answer. They <EM>might</EM> be answered in a linux
|
|
specific way.
|
|
</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
So if you've a linux question, send it our way
|
|
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
|
|
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
|
|
</P>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
<a name="gaz"></a>
|
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
|
<center><H3><font color="maroon">GAZETTE MATTERS</font></H3></center>
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
<UL>
|
|
<!-- index_text begins -->
|
|
<li><A HREF="#gaz/1"
|
|
><strong>Mistake</strong></a>
|
|
<li><A HREF="#gaz/2"
|
|
><strong>An lgbase question</strong></a>
|
|
<li><A HREF="#gaz/3"
|
|
><strong>About which list is which</strong></a>
|
|
<li><A HREF="#gaz/5"
|
|
><strong>Re: email distribution of the Gazette?</strong></a>
|
|
<!-- index_text ends -->
|
|
</UL>
|
|
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|
|
<P> <A NAME="gaz/1"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Mistake</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:16:59 +0100
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<BR>Xavier (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">Xavier from aemiaif.lip6.fr</a>)
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I just look at your issue 41 (I know that is not really recent ...) but
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in the article of Christopher Lopes which is talking about CUP, there is
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a mistake...
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</P>
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<P>
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I tested it and I see that it didn't walk correctly for all the cases. In
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fact it is necessary to put a greater priority to the operator ' - ' if not,
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we have 8-6+9 = -7 because your parsor realizes initially (6+9 = 15) and
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after (8-15= -7). To solve this problem it is enough to create a state
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between expr and factor which will represent the fact that the
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operator - has priority than it +.
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</P>
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<P>
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Cordially.
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</P>
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<P>
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Xavier Prat.
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MIAIF2.
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<p>See attached <a href="misc/mailbag/issue41-fix.CUP.txt">misc/mailbag/issue41-fix.CUP.txt</a></p>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">An lgbase question</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:10:20 -0500
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<BR>Chris Gianakopoulos (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">pilolla from gateway.net</a>)
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<P><STRONG>
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I want to install all of the newest Linux Gazette issues on one of our
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Linux machines at work. Sounds easy enough.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Consider that I have approximately 12 month's worth of Linux Gazette
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issues AND each lgbase that I download with each issue. Is the lgbase
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file cumulative? In other words, can I install the latest and greatest
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lgbase, and then install (you know -- copy them to the LDP/LG directory
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tree) all of the Linux Gazette issues.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P>
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Yes. There's only one lg-base.tar.gz, which contains shared files for all
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the issues. So you always want the latest lg-base.tar.gz.
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</P>
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<P>
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However, once you've installed it, you don't have to download it again
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every month. Instead, you can download the much smaller lg-base-new.tar.gz,
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which contains only the files that are new or changed since the previous
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issue. But if you miss a month, you'll need to download the full
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lg-base.tar.gz again to get all the accumulated changes.
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</P>
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<P>
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Always untar lg-*.tar.gz files in the same directory each month. They will
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unpack into a subdirectory lg/ with everything in the correct location.
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</P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Thanks Mike,
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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You've saved me a lot of time. The system (<A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</A> 7.0 distribution) had an
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up-to-date base up until March last year. Your answer saved me lots of
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untarring operations. And yes, I do put the stuff in the same directory
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each month on my home system.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Thanks for our fine magazine, and again keep up the good work (all of
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you),
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Chris G.
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</STRONG></P>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">About which list is which</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:52:00 -0700
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<BR>Hylton Conacher (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">hylton from global.co.za</a>)
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<P>
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[Resent because Majordomo thought it was a command. You have to watch that
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word s-u-b-s-c-r-i-b-e near the top of messages. -- Mike]
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</P>
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<P>
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----- Forwarded ------
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</P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Hi Heather,
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Sorry, just another dumb newbie question. I have recently signed up to
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the tag-admin list but not the tag list. I want to be subbed to the Tag
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list and as a result I have just tried to subscribe to tag by sending
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the following to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@ssc.com"
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>majordomo@ssc.com</A>:
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><BLOCKQuote>
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subscribe tag <A HREF="mailto:hylton@global.co.za"
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>hylton@global.co.za</A>
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</BLOCKQuote></STRONG></P>
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<P>
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Given the pattern for the other one, I'm guessing that sending the word
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</P>
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<P>
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subscribe
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</P>
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<P>
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to the address
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</P>
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<P>
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<A HREF="mailto:tag-request@ssc.com"
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>tag-request@ssc.com</A>
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...should work too.
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</P>
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<P><STRONG>
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I, as yet, haven't recd any notifications that a new Linux Gazette has
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been added to the files area.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P>
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For that, you don't want tag nor tag-admin, you want to send a note to
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<A HREF="mailto:lg-announce-request@ssc.com"
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>lg-announce-request@ssc.com</A> and subscribe to lg-announce. That doesn't
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say much except that the gazette is posted.
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</P>
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<P>
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What you will find here on tag-admin are precursor discussions; talk about
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what should or shouldn't get published, need to tweak deadlines, and some
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other things that are either water-cooler talk or "infrastucture" matters.
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</P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Do the announcements of the new Linux Gazettes come out on the TAG-Admin
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list or only on Tag?
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</STRONG></P>
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<P>
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Neither.
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</P>
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<P>
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If you join the TAG list, you will be inundated with a large number of newbie
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and occasional non-newbie computing questions, not all linux-related... and
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a certain amount of spam that slips the filters, not all of it in English...
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and a certain number of utterly dumb questions with no relation at all to
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computing (apparently a side effect of the word "homework" being used so
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often here). I'd dare say most of the spam is not in English. Since we
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sometimes get linux queries in non-English languages we can't just chop
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them off by character set from the list server, but they're easy to spot and
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delete.
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</P>
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<P>
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You will also see the answers flow by from members of the Gang, and efforts
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to correct each other. If you only visit the magazine once a month, you see
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less answers, some of them get posted in 2c Tips, and they have been cleaned
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up for readability.
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</P>
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<P>
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So I can see reasons why someone who doesn't feel like answering questions
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might want to join the TAG list and lurk, but I'm not sure which of these
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you wanted.
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</P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Puzzled.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Hylton
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</STRONG></P>
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<P> <A NAME="gaz/4"><HR WIDTH="40%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Thank you Heather,
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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You as a member of TAG have certainly answered my questions.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P>
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":D"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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</P>
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<P><STRONG>
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There has been a message sent to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@ssc.com"
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>majordomo@ssc.com</A> to unsub/scribe from
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both the TAG and TAG-Admin lists as I do not want to receive idle
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watercooler chat as I cannot reply immediately, in a watercooler
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fashion, due to my countries telecoms monopolistic provider.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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ob TagAdmin: if Mylton has no objection, this message will go in the mailbag
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this month.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Hylton has no objection so please FW to the necessary people provided
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some idea is given of how to ascertain when a new Linux Gazette is
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published.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P>
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Send an email, with the subject containing a magic word which mailing list
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software enjoys.... please take the slash out though... my sysadmin warns
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me if I utter this word in too short a mail, the mail goes to majordomo's
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owner and not to you.
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</P>
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<Pre>
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subject: sub/scribe
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to: <A HREF="mailto:lg-announce-request@ssc.com">lg-announce-request@ssc.com</A>
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(body text)
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sub/scribe
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--
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(optionally your sig file)
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</Pre>
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<P>
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...mentioning it in the body text should be unnecessary. That -- keeps
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it from trying your sig as a command too.
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</P>
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<P>
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The result will be your membership on a list which sees mail about once a
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month, saying when the Gazette is posted.
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</P>
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<P>
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Because you are in another country you might want to look at the Gazette
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Mirrors listing and find a site which is closer to you. Your bandwidth
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cost might be the same but hopefully your download time won't cost as much.
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<A HREF="../mirrors.html"
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>http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html</A>
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</P>
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<P>
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Thx for your permission to publish
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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</P>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Re: email distribution of the Gazette?</FONT></H3>
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Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:28:31 -0700
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<BR>Hylton Conacher (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">hylton from global.co.za</a>)
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Please direct me towards a place where I can sign up to receive the
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Linux Gazette on a monthly or weekly basis when they become available.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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I would like this to be a free service.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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You don't "receive" Linux Gazette. You read it on the web or download
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the FTP files. LG is published monthly on the first of the month, although
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occasionally we have mid-month extra issues. -- Mike
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</STRONG></P>
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<P>
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We do have an announce list, though. Write to <A HREF="mailto:lg-announce-request@ssc.com"
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>lg-announce-request@ssc.com</A>
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</P>
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<P>
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I suppose you could use the Netmind service (<A HREF="http://mindit.netmind.com"
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>http://mindit.netmind.com</A>) if
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you don't like ours
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/unsmily.gif" ALT=":("
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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</P>
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<P>
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Sending large files via email, regularly, is really, really-really, an
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incredibly bad idea. Just come get it via ftp when it's ready! Our ftp
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site is free: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg"
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>ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg</A>
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</P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Heather,
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Thank you for the response regarding my query.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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May I suggest that the service of email distribution of the gazettes be
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investigated and provided to those people who sign up for them.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P>
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Please read our FAQ: we have considered it, and the answer is No.
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</P>
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<P>
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Sending huge email attachments around is an undesirable burden on our own
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mail servers as well as major MX relay points;
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</P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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I personally have made note of the ftp site but here in South Africa I
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can only afford a dial-up connection the site has therefore been added
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into a list to visit in the future. The problem comes in when I want to
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know if there are any new tutorials on the ftp space since my last
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visit. It would therefore be much more handy for me, and possibly
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others, if they were allowed to request and start receiving the gazettes
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via email.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P>
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You may subscribe to the announce list. When you get the announcement,
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visit the FTP site... or a local mirror.
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</P>
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<P><DL><DT>
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There are many mirror sites in South Africa - please use one:
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<DD><A HREF="../mirrors.html#south_africa"
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>http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html#south_africa</A>
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</DL></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Not everyone needs to receive it, just the ppl signed up to the
|
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distribution list.
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Please?
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</EM></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P>
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Please use the internet's resources wisely. The whole thing is clogged
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up enough, without help from us.
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</P>
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<STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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<P>
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Hi Heather,
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</P>
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<P>
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OK, OK, I give up. It was just a suggestion.
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</P>
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<P>
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The Internet is so slow already what with video clips going via email
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that I do not feel anything in using a little of it to increase my
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knowledge.
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</P>
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<P>
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I have signed up to the announcement list and will use a mirror closest
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to me.
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</P>
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<P>
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Is it possibly possible to use Linux wget feature to retrieve all the
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bulletins if I so wanted?
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</P>
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<P>
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Hylton
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</P>
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</EM></FONT></STRONG>
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<p>Yes! That's the spirit! -- Heather</p>
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