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<FONT COLOR="navy">LWN links</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:00:51 -0700
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<BR>Mike Orr (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%231"><em>LG</em> Editor</a>)
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<A HREF="http://www.lwn.net/">Linux Weekly News</A> needs fresh sponsorship soon.
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See our <A HREF="lg_bytes72.html#general"
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>News Bytes</A> for details (there's a mailing list).
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Your Editor would be greatly saddened to see LWN disappear.
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-Mike
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Many of the Gang use it; Jim and I would sorely miss it... We do have
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a <A HREF="tips72.html"
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>2c Tip</A> this month pointing at LWN, too.
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- Heather
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Linux support call handling</FONT></H3>
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Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:55:14 -0400
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<BR> (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=darlenefield@mindspring.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%232">darlenefield from mindspring.com</a>)
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Hi,
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I have been searching through the Linux Gazette website for anyting on the industry average of call handling times for Linux support. So far I have not found anything.
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I was wondering if you had done an article or come across this. I was wondering if there were any industry documents that measured the average time it would take a customer to call in for support till the time that their problem was resolved.
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Any information that you may have would be very helpful.
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Thanks,
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Darlene
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">I don't think we've ever covered that topic.
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-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">If anyone has enough information that isn't under some sort of NDA, to
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write such an article, it'd be interesting to see. Unfortunately statistics
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about how long an Answer Gang member takes to answer a querent are a bit fuzzy;
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we don't get docked for answering late, nor promise we'll answer at all; some
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"answers" are really requests for more data and touched with tidbits in the
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hopes it will help <EM>somehow</EM> -- and we may or may not ever learn if our
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reader got the answer they needed. (Well, that last part's no different from
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phone support, anyway.)
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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BTW.. I tried sending this message to linux-questions-only@ssc.com
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(documented on your website)
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and my mail was returned.
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">That address was changed because of the large
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number of off-topic questions we received. The address was
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posted widely on web pages with no explanation that it was for Linux
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questions or that querents are supposed to do their own research first. The
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current address is <A
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HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com"
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>linux-questions-only at ssc.com</A>.
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Where did you see
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linux-questions-only@ssc.com documented? We changed the home page
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and the current issue, although we haven't changed the back issues.
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-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><em><font color="#000033"><br>...but our readers are helpful souls. Thanks, Darlene! ...
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</font></em></blockquote>
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<P>
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I found
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linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A> refrenced twice on the FAQ page under # 4 Guidelines for answering questions.
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</P>
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">OK, thanks. We used to have a mailback running after we turned the
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tag address off. Then the mailback got into a mail loop with one
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address and we turned it off, but didn't think about updating the FAQ.
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-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">DSL Drivers</FONT></H3>
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:37:48 -0400
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<BR>Douglas M (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=douglas@diocorner.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%233">douglas from diocorner.com</a>)
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Hello eveyone at the gazette I've been all over the net trying to find
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out the answer about problem im having I have an Efficient Networks 4060
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USB Modem . I want to run Mandrake 8.1 but dont know if there any
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drivers or if they even exist.maybe you guys can help me with any info
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</P>
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Lots of people have been caught with DSL USB modems without Linux
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drivers. So there may be a driver, but it's not too likely. Your
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best bet may be to return it for an external modem that connects to
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an Ethernet card. These are much more Linux-friendly.
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">TAG members, are there any USB and/or internal DSL modems that <EM>do</EM> have
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Linux drivers?
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-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Apparently not enough of TAG use USB for serial gadgetry, so perhaps you
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can help us out, dear readers!
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">university engineering team</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:52:11 -0700
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<BR>Yogesh Raut (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=yogesh.raut@deeproot.co.in&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%234">yogesh.raut from deeproot.co.in</a>)
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">This request originally arrived as a letter
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to "our HR department." We advised them we aren't a company. They hope that
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our readership at large will have a good idea or two about something specific
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they can contribute to.
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">By the way, before you start groaning about
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Visual Basic not being Linux, check out GNOME Basic at
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<A HREF="http://www.gnome.org/gb"
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>http://www.gnome.org/gb</A> ...
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<P><STRONG>
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Thank you sir, as per your directions we are sending you same letter
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addressed to <EM>linux users</EM> . so please publish it in your mailbag.
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Also if you are having mail ids of some more organisations having projects
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related to drivers, we request you to send them to us, so that we can cntact
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them also.
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</STRONG></P>
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<blockquote>We don't have a list of projects
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related to drivers. But there are thousands of them.
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Answer Gang, is there a list somewhere of Linux driver projects
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these people can contribute to, or nonexistent drivers that need
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to be written?
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-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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To,
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Linux Users,
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<P>
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Subject: about getting sponsorship (technical guidance)
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Respected sir,
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<P>
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We are students from 'College of Engineering, Pandharpur'(India),studing in
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class B.E.Computer Science & Engineering.As we are entering into last year
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of our curriculum, we are looking for Challenging and innovative
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projects.Our project group is consisting of enthusiastic and motivated
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students with good academic record,listed below
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</P>
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<blockQuote><ol>
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<LI>Mr. Yogesh Raut
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<LI>Mr. Ajinkya Chavan
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<LI>Ms. Sujata Silam
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<LI>Ms. Varsha Sartape
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<LI>Mr. Sachin Joshi
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</ol></blockQuote>
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<P>
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Sir, all of us have participated in different Paper Presentation and
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</P>
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<P>
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software contests. We have
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completed following projects-
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</P>
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<blockQuote><ol>
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<LI>'Design,Analysis,Simulation:Slider Crank Mechanism And Inversions'- got
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'FIRST PRIZE' at 'TECHNOGLIMPSE 2001' a state level software project
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contest.Also presented at 'DIPEX 2001' a state level project exhibition.
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written in C++.
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<LI>'OTHELLO'- a computer game presented at 'Insearch 2000', state level
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software contest. Written in C language,involves 'artificial intelligence'.
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<LI>A 'fighter game' which can be simultaneously played on two computers by
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two different users and uses it's own protocol for networking. Written in
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C++.
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<LI>A multimedia application created in Visual Basic.
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<LI>A bankig software project.
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<LI>Some system software projects- assemblers, editors, lexical analyzers &
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parsers. Some graphical s/w as computer games, small images processing s/w.
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</ol></blockQuote>
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<P>
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We have also participated in paper presentation
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Contests and presented following papers
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</P>
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<blockQuote><ol>
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<LI>'Web Technology'- presented at 'Technomillenium 2000'
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<LI>'Data mining and Data-warehousing'- at 'Threshold 2001'
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<LI>'Network Security' presented at National Level
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<LI>'E-commerce' presented at Shree Vision 2001 a National level Paper
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Presentation contest.
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</ol></blockQuote>
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<P>
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As we the Computer Engineering students we are interested in system level
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projects like
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</P>
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<blockQuote><ul>
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<LI>Device Drivers
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<LI>Operating system internals
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</ul></blockQuote>
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<P>
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As Linux is emerging as new leading Operating System of this era, we are
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mostly interested in 'Device Driver' projects in Linux (or Unix).We are
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looking for any such project which we are eager to do.
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</P>
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<P>
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Sir, if you can sponsor us for any such project we will be grateful to you.
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If you are not having any project, you can just sponsor project decided by
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us. We don't expect any financial help from you, but just technical support.
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We assure you that if you give us a single chance, we shall work with our
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full strength and complete it within given period of time with quality
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assurance.
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</P>
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<P>
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We are eagerly waiting for your positive response. If you are affirmative
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to our request, please tell us about further procedure to complete remaining
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formalities. We are ready to personally come to your Company for further
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procedure.
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</P>
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<P><DL><DT>
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our E-mail address is
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<DD><A HREF="mailto:rushtosachin@hotmail.com"
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>rushtosachin@hotmail.com</A>
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</DL></P>
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<P>
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our postal address is:
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</P>
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<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br> Mr. Sachin Suresh Joshi,
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<br> S.V.E.R.I<>s
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<br> College of Engineering
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<br> Gopalpur-Ranjani Road,
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<br> Pandharpur,
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<br> Dist- Solapur.
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<br> State- Maharashtra.
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<br> India.
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<br> Pin - 413304
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</font></code></blockquote>
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<P>
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Your's faithfully,
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</P>
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<blockquote><em><font color="#000033"><br> sachin S. Joshi
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<br> [B.E. C.S.E. College of Engg. pandharpur]
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</font></em></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Deleting items in KDE 2.1.1 "Run Command"</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:50:31 -0400
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<BR>Andre Dubuc (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=aajdubuc@webhart.net&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%235">aajdubuc from webhart.net</a>)
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<P>
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The number of items listed in <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</A>'s 2.1.1 "Run Command" is getting
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ridiculous.
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</P>
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<P>
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I'd like to edit this list. I've tried "Clear" but it merely clears the item
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in the box, but retains the list. I've also tried editing "History= . . ." in
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<TT>/home/username/.kde</TT>(2)/share/config/kdesktoprc file. Unfortunately, the list
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remains intact whether I restart kde or not.
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</P>
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<P>
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Will this list eventually seize control of my hd?
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":^gt;"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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</P>
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<P>
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Help!
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<br>TIA, Andre
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<FONT COLOR="navy">GUI and CMOS clock (2 Questions)</FONT></H3>
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Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:43:11 -0000
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<BR>James Rutter (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=james.rutter@ntlworld.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%236">james.rutter from ntlworld.com</a>)
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<P>
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I am new to Linux and am desperate to solve 2 problems. I run a new
|
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Evesham PC with a 1.4GHz Athlon chip, NVIDIA GeForce 2MX graphics card
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with a Taxan crystal vision 680 TCO99-S monitor.
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</P>
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<P>
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When I boot my <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</A> 7.1 installation
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from the floppy, the boot process
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hangs at 'setting up CMOS clock'. I have to hit the restet button, boot
|
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Windows, shut down Windows and restart Linux. I other words, I cannot
|
||
get Linux to boot sucessfully twice in a row. I have to boot WIndows in
|
||
between.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
My second problem is with XFree86 ver4.0.2. The windowing system seems
|
||
to have a mind of its own. Usually when I arrive at the graphical
|
||
login, the scree is offset about 2 inches to the right. If I go into
|
||
Sax2 to configure using Xfine the screen display will 'snap' into place
|
||
when I stick with the 600x800 setting. When I come out of Sax2
|
||
sometimes the setting will be saved. Sometimes the virtual desktop
|
||
space is larger that the actual resolution setting. If I try to
|
||
configure for 1024x768, this does not work at all. On the limited
|
||
occasion I have got an 800x600 screen set up successfully, if I shut
|
||
down and reboot, the same problem reappears even thought I have
|
||
apparantly saved the settings.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
HELP!!??
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
James Rutter
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 6 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="wanted/7"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">poster</FONT></H3>
|
||
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:40:26 +0200
|
||
<BR>Rams Grzegorz (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=grzegram@priv5.onet.pl&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%237">grzegram from priv5.onet.pl</a>)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
I'm a teacher of the computer study and I take care of the school
|
||
laboratory in the Special Secondery School.
|
||
The real name of my school is - <em>Szko<EFBFBD>a Zawodowa Specjalna nr 4 w Nowym
|
||
S<EFBFBD>czu</em>.
|
||
</p><p>
|
||
|
||
My pupils are different than the healthy children so I have to do
|
||
everything what is the best for them.
|
||
Because for some years I have been using Linux (Rh 5.0) in my private
|
||
computer I thought about my pupils.
|
||
So lately I have started to learn them the Linux system at school. Now
|
||
we've got only Linux in our laboratory.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
At the moment I'm looking for some posters or calendars or
|
||
advertisements or others informations about
|
||
Linux. I want put them on the walls in my classroom. I hope that my
|
||
pupils'll be more interested in Linux this way.
|
||
So if you can help me please write how can I get these things which I
|
||
wrote before or how can I buy them.
|
||
Thanks a lot for helping me.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><em><font color="#000033"><br>Rams Grzegorz
|
||
<br>33-300 Nowy Sacz
|
||
<br>ul.Kunegundy 68
|
||
<br>POLAND
|
||
</font></em></blockquote>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Mike Martin]
|
||
Off the top of my head
|
||
Publicity departments of the following
|
||
Linux cos
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br>Red Hat
|
||
<br>SUSE
|
||
<br>Caldera? (sorry - a bit of bias)
|
||
<br>Mandrake
|
||
</font></code></blockquote>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
and Linux friendly cos
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br>HP
|
||
<br>IBM (with their linux promo budget they must have posters to give away)
|
||
</font></code></blockquote>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
and of course it would be worth checkong on debian and linux.com
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<font color="#006600">
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Frank]
|
||
Hi there!
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
I don't have any posters right now, but I've learned that most
|
||
companies are very willing to help with material like that, especially
|
||
if they feel they might gain future customers that way.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
I had some very good experiences with <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</A>, which sent me tons of
|
||
materials when I explained that I was active in some user groups and
|
||
was always out of folders. They still send me a professional version of
|
||
every new distibution for free, even though I mostly use Mandrake now.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Given that you're in Europe, just like me, SuSE might be your best
|
||
choice for this anyhow - although <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A>, for instance, might like a
|
||
chance to get a bigger market too <EM>G</EM>
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Just check company's websites for a contact e-mail (I happen to know
|
||
the SuSE-addy: <A HREF="mailto:suse@suse.de"
|
||
>suse@suse.de</A>).
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Hope this helps you!
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
</font>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">We can send you the covers from several Linux Journal magazines over
|
||
the past year. Would you like that?
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">You can preview the images at
|
||
<A HREF="http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/mags.html"
|
||
>http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/mags.html</A> , and click on the links
|
||
for issues 76-91, and tell us which covers you'd like. Also, is your
|
||
mailing address correct?
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">We are also looking for other organizations who may have other
|
||
posters.
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">There is also something called the Linux Image Montage Project.
|
||
I don't have the URL offhand, but they are collecting linux-related
|
||
images and putting them together into a huge penguin image.
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Penguin Computing has some very amusing posters.
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">And there's always some potential to find cool things at ThinkGeek.com
|
||
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 7 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="wanted/8"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">How to configure AutoFS to automount NFS exported volumes</FONT></H3>
|
||
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:04:37 -0600
|
||
<BR>Aaron Bloomfield (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=abloom@novell.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%238">abloom from novell.com</a>)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
I need to set up a RH Linux 7.1 system to automatically mount exported NFS
|
||
filesystems on the fly. I realize the security implications inherint in
|
||
such a request, but require the functionality despite the dangers right
|
||
now. On my Unix boxes I could simply add a line in the auto_master file
|
||
"<TT>/net -hosts -soft,noac</TT>" and set a couple of flags in the nfsconf file
|
||
(<tt>AUTOFS=3D1, NFS_CLIENT=3D1, NFS_SERVER=3D1</tt>) and everything works fine.
|
||
I've tried this on the Linux box without success. Is there something I'm
|
||
missing?
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Thanks in advance,
|
||
Aaron
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 8 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="wanted/9"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">Net bios code</FONT></H3>
|
||
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:50:14 +0530
|
||
<BR>karunakar Reddy BV (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=bvkreddy@eIQnetworks.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%239">bvkreddy from eIQnetworks.com</a>)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
Hai ,
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Can you send the netbios code for interction b/n linux and windows
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
systems .Through this code I want windows system properties(like user
|
||
name, IP,memory like) display on linux system.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
waiting for reply.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Karunakar Reddy B.V
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">A little hard to read, but I think he's asking a different question than
|
||
Samba answers. Does anyone know how to ask a linux server about the peers
|
||
out there which are connected to its shares? If he knew an application
|
||
that does this, then he could read its source...
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Note well, that all MSwin style shares
|
||
involving a Linux box are going to
|
||
be over TCP/IP, not NETBIOS. Even Microsoft doesn't recommend NETBIOS
|
||
anymore - it's a noisy protocol, so it scales horribly.
|
||
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 9 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="wanted/10"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">does anyone know how one can set quotas in linux for a directory rather than home</FONT></H3>
|
||
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:06:36 +0630
|
||
<BR>FRANCO FERNANDES (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=gazette@ssc.com, Joel@HammersHome.com, jerry@samba.org,&cc=franco@lauren.co.in&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20help%20wanted%20%2310">franco from lauren.co.in</a>)
|
||
<BR>gazette (gazette@ssc.com, Joel@HammersHome.com, jerry@samba.org,)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
Hi!
|
||
Does anyone know how we can set quota to some directory for eg
|
||
/info/software
|
||
to limit say 50mb.I went through the man pages but was unsuccessfull in
|
||
setting the same.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Pls help
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Thanks
|
||
Franco.F
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Quotas are usually by userid, aren't they?
|
||
The only thing that I can think of is creating a filesystem image of ext2
|
||
type, and loopback mounting it at that directory. But using quotas
|
||
effectively would make a great article... especially if you have some real
|
||
world examples that get solved. Making enterprise Linux a little more fun?
|
||
:D
|
||
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 10 -->
|
||
<a name="mailbag"></a>
|
||
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
<center><H3><font color="maroon">GENERAL MAIL</font></H3></center>
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
|
||
<!-- BEGIN GENERAL MAIL -->
|
||
|
||
<UL>
|
||
<!-- index_text begins -->
|
||
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/1"
|
||
><strong>suggestion for "A need for Documentation" article</strong></a>
|
||
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/2"
|
||
><strong>Whiptail vs Dialog</strong></a>
|
||
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/3"
|
||
><strong>Linux in Africa</strong></a>
|
||
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/4"
|
||
><strong>Sklyarov case mischaracterized</strong></a>
|
||
<!-- index_text ends -->
|
||
</UL>
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/1"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">suggestion for "A need for Documentation" article</FONT></H3>
|
||
Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:09:25 +0200
|
||
<BR>Eran Levy (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20mailbag%20%231">eranle from netvision.net.il</a>)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
Dear LinuxGazette,
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
I have been reading your article "A need for Documentation". Very
|
||
interesting article.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
I have made a
|
||
<A HREF="http://levy.dyn.dhs.org">Linux documentation website project</A>.
|
||
Why I hear people say we need documentation,
|
||
there no lots of good documents, etc.? Im trying to advertise my Linux
|
||
documentation project for lots of time, but no one reply me. I think that I
|
||
made a really good work in this documentation website. Im trying to tell
|
||
websites like you, LinuxGazette, to get my documents and give them to the
|
||
Linux community, but I get no reply from that sites. Maybe the need of
|
||
documents isnt so urgent.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Please, check my website.
|
||
I think there are good guides for variety of
|
||
Linux subjects. I think they can help the Linux community in the search for
|
||
good documentation in the net. I will really appreciate your interest in
|
||
my project. Thank you very much.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
--
|
||
Best Regards,
|
||
Eran Levy.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><em><font color="#000033"><br>"This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows reboot..."
|
||
</font></em></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
WebSite: <A HREF="http://levy.dyn.dhs.org"
|
||
>http://levy.dyn.dhs.org</A>
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">I think that you and Matthias
|
||
[the article's author] are talking about two different things,
|
||
although you both support the cause of documentation. You are trying
|
||
to provide a documentation portal for various types of Linux questions.
|
||
Matthias is trying to get program developers to document their own
|
||
projects better. If they do that, it will mean more content to put
|
||
on your site.
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
Hi Mike,
|
||
I really appreciate your reply for my E-mail. All the websites that I sent
|
||
E-mail to them about my Linux project website didnt reply me. I hope that
|
||
all the Linux sites will read the E-mails as you read. Keep up with your
|
||
excellent work! I hope for you and for Linux Gazette the best.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 1 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/2"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">Whiptail vs Dialog</FONT></H3>
|
||
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:44:48 -0500
|
||
<BR>Kent West (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20mailbag%20%232">westk from westek.acu.edu</a>)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
In Issue 69 of the LinuxGazette
|
||
(<A HREF="../issue69/lg_answer69.html#tag/greeting"
|
||
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue69/issue69.html</A>)
|
||
Heather Stern recommends
|
||
using Dialog over Whiptail, implying that Whiptail is brain-damaged. Having
|
||
just started to play with Whiptail (and having never done much scripting,
|
||
and none with Dialog), I was just wondering if she might expound on this a
|
||
bit more. I did a google search and a dogpile search for "whiptail versus
|
||
dialog", and this article was about the only relevant hit I found, so as of
|
||
now Heather's recommendation is all I have to go on.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Thanks!
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Kent
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<font color="#000066">
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
Hi Kent!
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
There are at this point a large handful of variants which branched off from
|
||
Dialog 0.60 or so. The one in the Debian version (0.9a) is actively
|
||
maintained; it had at some time been in the hands of a different linux
|
||
flavor, which I wouldn't know except it was mentioned in the examples.
|
||
I consider whiptail wimpy because its features are not nearly as complete.
|
||
With dialog, I can actually do some very cool things with the <CODE>--and-widget</CODE>
|
||
feature, and the progress-bar gadget can be convinced to work. Essentially
|
||
I see whiptail as having made a pot shot at being dialog-compatible, but
|
||
working from an old revision, and at the time I wrote that article, I was
|
||
fuming about it because it was being strange about screen sizing. my
|
||
annoyance was made greater by the fact I couldn't get rid of the stupid package
|
||
since the debian base expected it for something, even though I had dialog
|
||
installed. I think that's fixed, these days. Anyway, there's a decent
|
||
amount of history at: <A HREF="http://www.AdvancedResearch.org/dialog"
|
||
>http://www.AdvancedResearch.org/dialog</A>
|
||
-- Heather
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
</font>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 2 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/3"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">Linux in Africa</FONT></H3>
|
||
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:17:05 +0300 (EAT)
|
||
<BR>gatheru (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20mailbag%20%233">gatheru from treasury.go.ke</a>)
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
Hi,
|
||
<br>I saw about the above article on linux gazette and I feel
|
||
that it is worthy. Though I'am not experienced in projects of
|
||
that kind, I'am sure I can help in the training. Please if you
|
||
have any comments or suggestions e-mail me.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
reagards
|
||
<br>Kamau Gatheru
|
||
<br><A HREF="mailto:gatheru@treasury.go.ke"
|
||
>gatheru@treasury.go.ke</A>
|
||
</P>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Good luck, Kamau. Let us know if you find anything.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
The article Kamau is referring to is a Mailbag letter at
|
||
<DD><A HREF="../issue67/lg_mail67.html#mailbag%2F2"
|
||
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/lg_mail67.html#mailbag%2F2</A>
|
||
</DL></P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
See also GLUE (Groups of Linux Users Everywhere) at
|
||
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/glue"
|
||
>http://www.linuxjournal.com/glue</A> .
|
||
-- Mike
|
||
</P>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 3 -->
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="mailbag/4"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">Sklyarov case mischaracterized</FONT></H3>
|
||
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:54:04 -0700
|
||
<BR>Bryan Henderson (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20mailbag%20%234">bryanh from giraffe-data.com </a>)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
There is a bit of common misinformation about the Dmitry Sklyarov
|
||
DMCA case in the October News Bytes.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
It says, "Companies are using [DMCA] to ... jail a foreign programmer
|
||
for writing (in his home country) a program that is legal in his home
|
||
country."
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Sklyarov was arrested on suspicion of distributing that program in the
|
||
United States, not for writing it.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
The most strenuous supporters of DMCA do not claim it should outlaw
|
||
writing of software when done outside the US.
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
--
|
||
Bryan Henderson
|
||
</P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Mike]
|
||
According to the EFF FAQ at
|
||
<A HREF="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/us_v_sklyarov_faq.html#ProsecutionQuestions"
|
||
>http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/us_v_sklyarov_faq.html#ProsecutionQuestions</A>
|
||
the charges are both that he "trafficked" in the device and "aided and
|
||
abetted" his company in doing so. We don't know how the prosecutor will
|
||
word his case, but he could claim that writing code is "aiding and abetting".
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
He could. But since he hasn't yet, it's really putting words in his
|
||
mouth to say that Sklyarov was arrested for writing a program. -Bryan
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Mike]
|
||
No more misleading than to say, as you did,
|
||
"Sklyarov was arrested on suspicion of distributing that program
|
||
in the United States." When did he distribute it?
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
Better to say he was arrested for trafficking. But even if he argues that
|
||
writing the program alone was aiding and abetting its importation into
|
||
the US, it's misleading to say he was jailed for writing a program.
|
||
That's like saying that a person who shot someone to death was jailed
|
||
for discharging a firearm.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Mike]
|
||
So we agree that he was not arrested for selling/soliciting/giving away
|
||
the program during this trip. So when did he distribute it? The US
|
||
jurisdictional claim rests on the web site, so they would have to show
|
||
he was somehow involved with it, or that by his association with the
|
||
company he was indirectly involved. His only role seems to be writing
|
||
the program. Thus, why I say he was arrested "for" writing it.
|
||
I just don't like the overemphasis on distribution/trafficking in
|
||
some accounts, because it suggests Dmitry had more involvement in
|
||
that end of things than we have reason to believe.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Dmitry was in the US to give a talk at a conference, not to sell a
|
||
program.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
Right. The other common misconception of the case is that Sklyarov
|
||
was arrested for something he did on his trip to the US. Again, the
|
||
authorities have made no such claim.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Heather]
|
||
I can read this two different ways. Either you are being sarcastic when
|
||
you say "Right" and you are declaring the statement that he was here to
|
||
speak at a conference, to be a misconception... which if so, has at least
|
||
some fallacy to it, as he <EM>was</EM> definitely here to present at a conference.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Or, you are agreeing that he was arrested for something he didn't do in the
|
||
US, which means that your disagreement with our point of view is merely that
|
||
you believe they had the right (perhaps the duty) to snap him up like that,
|
||
and we don't.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
By the way the analogy would be closer to saying that the designer of a
|
||
certain variety of bullet shells was being held on charges that bullets
|
||
are used to murder people, never minding that they are also used to hunt
|
||
dangerous vermin and for food gathering in rural areas, including the rural
|
||
areas of other countries where one really does have to hunt for food, and
|
||
in areas where gun-toting is legally mandated.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Dmitry didn't "murder" anyone's eBook. (Hmm, he might have dissected several,
|
||
but it is likely provable that he had Rights to the copies in question.)
|
||
It's still as illegal as ever to clone a readable book, e- or otherwise,
|
||
without having been granted the right-to-copy. It's legal to own hammers
|
||
but not to smash unconsenting people's windows with them. I recommend that
|
||
you read the Copyright act in better detail:
|
||
<A HREF="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17"
|
||
>http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17</A> There are a
|
||
number of rights <EM>explicitly</EM> granted to libraries, which may not be
|
||
implementable if the DMCA is allowed its broadest scope. That, I'd say,
|
||
is a bug.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Mike]
|
||
The DMCA's supporters would like to see it applied worldwide in any
|
||
way they can. This can be by claiming US jurisdiction or by getting
|
||
it written into international treaties and other countries' laws.
|
||
California has a "long-arm" law under which it claims jurisdiction for
|
||
any web site which is accessible to a Californian, whether or not the
|
||
site is located in California. This concept will continue to be pushed
|
||
and pushed.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
Granted, the Department of Justice did not go that far in
|
||
the Sklyarov case. It merely claimed that because ElcomSoft had a web
|
||
site in the US selling the product, that was enough for US jurisdiction.
|
||
Of course ElcomSoft had already shut down the site voluntarily at Adobe's
|
||
"request" before this brou-ha-ha happened, and there's no allegation that
|
||
Dmitry was personally involved in that site or that he is an officer or
|
||
marketing directory for ElcomSoft rather than just a programmer.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
So, the DMCA supporters may reluctantly accept that it cannot be applied
|
||
outside the US, but that doesn't make them stop trying to extend its
|
||
reach.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
I haven't seen this. Statements I've seen by supporters indicate they
|
||
want it applied the same way a country's laws traditionally are
|
||
applied vis a vis other countries. I don't see anything new or
|
||
anything unique to the US. But maybe I haven't been reading radical
|
||
enough web pages.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
Sure, Adobe would like there to be an international law applying to
|
||
every human being. But that wish is a long way from an actual present
|
||
claim against Sklyarov, and such a claim reported in <EM>LG</EM> is the basis
|
||
of my original letter.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Heather]
|
||
I don't know whether to apply quite that level of slippery slope ... a
|
||
law to every human being ... to Adobe themselves. But I don't feel any
|
||
qualms about applying it to the people who wrote and voted for the DMCA
|
||
itself. I believe that what the DMCA supporters want is to be able to
|
||
sell and restrict every piece of data that might flow past them, until
|
||
they are more wealthy than the Ferengi clan who has the exclusive
|
||
concession on Q-tips(tm) cotton swabs.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
The present claim may be unfounded;
|
||
I personally believe it to be worse than that since I think Adobe is biting
|
||
the hand that would feed them Russian customers. But I think the <EM>precedent</EM>
|
||
that speakers can be picked up and singled out for their corporate entities'
|
||
infractions, to be a quite terrifying one. You see, I don't honestly
|
||
believe that someone has a plane-bomb with my photograph taped to its nose,
|
||
or that I am any more likely to be in a building that gets toasted by
|
||
terrorism, than I am to merely get run over by a car when walking to the
|
||
supermarket, or struck by lightning the next time I go hiking, or win the
|
||
local Lotto. But I <EM>do</EM> expect to speak at events, and someday for those
|
||
events to be in other countries, who may have even weirder laws, be more
|
||
abitrary about making them, or have worse treatment of accused people. If
|
||
I end up in a situation where such a country has half a case, I no longer
|
||
expect the US to be able to protect me much ... because they've already
|
||
burned us in that regard. Alan Cox won't be at ALS -- because he's refusing
|
||
to travel here while this sort of nonsense is considered or even claimed to
|
||
be the law of our land. This has been called the "chilling effect" in
|
||
literature that follows censorship cases.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
I'm not a lawyer, I'm a frightened human being, and I wrote my own opinion.
|
||
If you don't like it, tough. It's my free speech and our free press...
|
||
and I'd very much like to keep it that way. If that means speaking up for
|
||
the freedom <EM>to speak</EM> as well as the freedom to say particular things -
|
||
I'll do it.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
Actually, ElcomSoft hired a company located in the US to collect the
|
||
money. I think the web site in question was that company's. However,
|
||
the company also has offices, employees, etc. on US soil. That's
|
||
not insignificant.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Heather]
|
||
It makes it even worse. If EIcomSoft's US partner is the offender, it's
|
||
their top brass that should be standing in court. If EIcomSoft themselves
|
||
are the offenders, it's their export agents who should be standing there --
|
||
but in no case the programmer, because the code's legal and even REQUIRED
|
||
elsewhere, and reverse engineering itself, by fair means but not foul, is
|
||
(for the moment at least) legal here.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
There's also precedent that "Code is Speech, and to be protected as such."
|
||
As for whether sanity will prevail, only time will tell.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Mike]
|
||
I guess we're just going around in circles now, and the thing to do is
|
||
wait until the case is presented and see what the lawyers say then...
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
What we're really down to is the issue of what Sklyarov did vs what he
|
||
is accused of. I don't even pretend to know the detailed facts of the
|
||
case, so I won't argue whether he distributed, trafficked, aided, or
|
||
abetted. I don't know. And you know what? The FBI and US attorney
|
||
don't either. It takes a trial to answer questions like that.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<P><STRONG>
|
||
I just think when one says "was jailed for..." in this pre-sentence
|
||
context, one is talking about what the person's accused of, not what
|
||
he did. I don't think Sklyarov is accused of writing a program. But
|
||
I think there are people, including LG readers, who believe that the
|
||
FBI would also arrest a person who wrote a copyright-busting program
|
||
even if it never entered the US. And that isn't true.
|
||
</STRONG></P>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Heather]
|
||
'Tis a fact he wrote a program. 'Tis unknown if <EM>it</EM> entered here;
|
||
or if it did, that it did anything they can claim as directly damaging;
|
||
but probable that it was published in the proceedings of his conference.
|
||
I <EM>think</EM> that if he is accused of something they manage to make stick,
|
||
it will be quite a slippery slope, the top point being, he wrote the
|
||
program, because they know he won't wriggle out of that one. As for what
|
||
the FBI would or would not do, I don't think am <EM>ad hominem</EM> argument on
|
||
their behalf is any more appropriate here than "I have kids and a wife,
|
||
can I go home now?" would be a good defense for Dmitry in court, and I don't
|
||
believe that you know what the FBI would or would not do, anyway. I do
|
||
believe that you trust them with your rights, further than I trust them with
|
||
mine.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
The damage has already been done. I think it will take some very brave judges.
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 4 -->
|
||
<a name="gaz"></a>
|
||
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
<center><H3><font color="maroon">GAZETTE MATTERS</font></H3></center>
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
|
||
<!-- BEGIN GAZETTE MATTERS -->
|
||
|
||
<UL>
|
||
<!-- index_text begins -->
|
||
<li><A HREF="#gaz/1"
|
||
><strong>PDA user request</strong></a>
|
||
<li><A HREF="#gaz/2"
|
||
><strong>LG Mirrors page renovation</strong></a>
|
||
<!-- index_text ends -->
|
||
</UL>
|
||
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
||
<P> <A NAME="gaz/1"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
||
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
<FONT COLOR="navy">PDA user request</FONT></H3>
|
||
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 09:05:01 -0700
|
||
<BR>Pat Parson (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2072%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%231">rndgui57 from directvinternet.com</a>)
|
||
<BR> (gazette@ssc.com)
|
||
|
||
<P>
|
||
Hi,
|
||
</P>
|
||
<P>
|
||
I know this my be a little much, but seeing as how palmtops are so abundant
|
||
these days. I was thinking how great it would be ig Linux Gazzette newest
|
||
issue was available at the same web page monthly so it could be synched as
|
||
as Avantgo (www.avantgo.com) channel.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">There is a link <A HREF="../current"
|
||
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/current</A> that points to the
|
||
current issue. This was originally requested by somebody with a
|
||
palmtop, because he said it made it easier to download the latest issue
|
||
to his palmtop. Does this do what you want?
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">You can also go to
|
||
<STRONG>http://MY.FAVORITE.LG.MIRROR.com/current</STRONG> and get the
|
||
same thing.
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Yes, thank you.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">I don't want to favor one brand of palmtops
|
||
or one commercial channel site over another. (Is Avantgo commercial?)
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Also, not trying to be
|
||
bothersome but if everything but the links to the articles was removed it
|
||
would better. But if that is too much could you please at least remove this
|
||
section from the bottom:
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br> TWDT 1 (gzipped text file)
|
||
<br> TWDT 2 (HTML file)
|
||
</font></code></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
are files containing the entire issue: one in text format, one in HTML. They
|
||
are provided strictly as a way to save the contents as one file for later
|
||
printing in the format of your choice; there is no guarantee of working
|
||
links in the HTML version.
|
||
It would remove about 1Mb from the size or my download when I download the
|
||
page everything 1 link deep (I only have 16 Mb RAM) also if you were to do
|
||
that it would make a good Avantgo channel if they will carry it and possibly
|
||
get some other readers. Thanks.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">We get many requests from readers to offer LG in different formats, make
|
||
the TWDT files better, remove the TWDT files, etc. We can't please
|
||
everybody. What we have is a compromise that has evolved over the
|
||
years. I'm not happy with the TWDT files either--it means any time I
|
||
make a correction I have to change the same thing in three files--but
|
||
there is so much reader demand for them that we cannot drop them.
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Perhaps you can arrange with a mirror to offer a customized version of
|
||
LG optimized for palmtop reading. The mirror could make a script that
|
||
downloads the files and removes the TWDT versions, or replaces them with
|
||
small files that explain that the larger files are available only on
|
||
normal mirrors.
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Some of the mirrors seem not to be functioning.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">The mirrors page is way out of date. We're moving the entries into a
|
||
database to make updating easier ... but the project isn't done quite yet.
|
||
[Update 31-Oct-2001: But it is done now. See the next message.] -- Mike</font>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
I just thought it would be nice to be able to keep up a little
|
||
better (information overload you know).
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Thanks for all your suggestions. When readers show enough interest in the
|
||
Gazette to suggest improvements, it makes us feel like our work is worthwhile.
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Yes I forgot avantgo is commercial.
|
||
It is free to use personally, but they charge for providing content (I
|
||
think). They used to allow users to share custom channels but not currently.
|
||
Plus they support mainly WindowsCE.
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Would you like to be our palmtop researcher? We could put a section on
|
||
the Mirrors page about LG resources for PDA users. That way it wouldn't
|
||
matter if they were commercial, because the Mirrors page is supposed to list
|
||
everything. What we'd need would be solutions for a variety of palmtops.
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Are there any articles you might like to write about Linux and palmtops?
|
||
Or any 2-Cent Tips you can provide on reading LG on your palmtop?
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">What exactly are these "channels"? Are they just a set of links to the
|
||
articles in the current issue?
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">LG has an RSS file now.
|
||
<A HREF="../lg.rss">http://www.linuxgazette.com/lg.rss</A>.
|
||
This was originally created at
|
||
<A HREF="http://www.linuxfocus.org/">Linux Focus'</A> request so we can
|
||
share current article links. (We put LF's links in
|
||
<A HREF="lg_bytes72.html#links">News Bytes</A>.) Any site may parse this
|
||
file and use it to generate links to the current LG articles on their
|
||
web page.
|
||
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<P>
|
||
Are there any linux apps that keep you up to date on html content (ie
|
||
channel subscriptions).
|
||
</P>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">There are programs that moniter a list of webpages and let you know whether
|
||
any have changed. I haven't used any of them. Look in your distribution.
|
||
You can also write a program in Python to do this, using the urllib
|
||
module.
|
||
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
[Faber]
|
||
You mean like plucker (<A HREF="http://plkr.org"
|
||
>http://plkr.org</A>) ?
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">I think you'll want to take a look at Sitescooper (<A HREF="http://www.sitescooper.org"
|
||
>http://www.sitescooper.org</A>)
|
||
- while it's rather Palm specific, I think it uses Plucker under the hood.
|
||
Of course it's source available and already knows a whole bunch of PDA formats
|
||
so it can almost certainly be tweaked to other handhelds and PDA-doc formats.
|
||
<EM>Linux Gazette</EM> is there already, item 135 in their list last I looked
|
||
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
|
||
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
|
||
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
||
<p>
|
||
One last thought on the original matter, if the html file TWDT 2 (HTML file)
|
||
provided at the bottom of the page was named
|
||
<A HREF="../current/current.html"
|
||
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/current/current.html</A> that would work also.
|
||
</p>
|
||
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE><font color="$000066">Starting with this issue, I have made
|
||
<STRONG>TWDT.html</STRONG> a symlink to <STRONG>issue##.html</STRONG>.
|
||
Give yourself a bookmark of
|
||
<A HREF="TWDT.html">http://www.linuxgazette.com/current/TWDT.html</A>.
|
||
-- Mike
|
||
</font>
|
||
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">If anyone wants to do a mirror of LG that is dedicated to keeping it in
|
||
formats friendly for handhelds -- provide the results on a publicly
|
||
accessible site, and we'll gladly add you to the mirrors database.
|
||
</font></blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote><font color="#000066">The license that the <EM>Linux Gazette</EM> is under certainly allows for this sort
|
||
of transformation. Other sites might give you more of a complaint, but we
|
||
sure won't!
|
||
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
||
|
||
<!-- end 1 -->
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<FONT COLOR="navy">LG Mirrors page renovation</FONT></H3>
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Wed Oct 31 23:24:13 PST 2001
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<BR>Mike Orr (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=Mirrors%20page%20renovations">LG Editor</a>)
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<P> The LG <A HREF="../mirrors.html">mirrors page</A> has been revamped.
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25 new sites have been added, and the HTML has
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been regularized. All the entries are now in a database, making Your Editor's
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task easier.
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<P> This project originally started in February, with me cutting-and-pasting
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the data into a text file in mail-header format. This was taking forever, so I
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got Dan Wilder to write me an awk script. This saved 90% of the typing,
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although I still had to make lots of manual changes due to the irregularities
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in the original HTML document (created many moons ago, and added to over time).
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I wrote a small Python program to load the mail-header file into MySQL, then
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used mysqldump/mysql to make further changes.
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<P> The HTML is generated by a Python script and a Cheetah
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(<A HREF="http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/">http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/</A>)
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template.
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<P> I plan to write an article about all this, but first I want to write a
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routine to verify the links and delete the ones that are persistently down. In
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the meantime, the program listing and template are on my web site <A
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HREF="http://iron.cx/cheetah/lgmirrors/">http://iron.cx/cheetah/index.html#lgmirrors</A>
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(temporary link).
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<P> Thanks to all the mirrors for their patience, especially those like
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<A HREF="http://www.gazette.linux.ru.net/">http://www.gazette.linux.ru.net/</A>
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(Russian translation),
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<A HREF="http://linux.osso.org.co/">http://linux.osso.org.co/</A>,
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etc. that submitted their links several times during the transition.
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<P> All mirrors, please check your entry and let me know if it's incorrect.
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<H5 align="center">This page edited and maintained by the Editors
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of <I>Linux Gazette</I>
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<a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 2001
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<BR>Published in issue 72 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> November 2001</H5>
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<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML script maintained by
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<A HREF="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather Stern</a> of
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A>
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