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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and the Gang,
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the Editors of Linux Gazette...
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and You!
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<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a>
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<p><em><font color="#990000">There is no guarantee</font></em>
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that your questions here will <b>ever</b> be answered.
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<em><font color="#990000">Readers at confidential sites</font></em>
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must provide permission to publish. However,
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<em><font color="#990000">you can be published anonymously</font></em>
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- just let us know!
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<p>TAG <a href="tag/bios.html">Member bios</a>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/1.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>clock setting</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>device drivers</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>fine-grained delay in shell scripts</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Serial Programming on an i486 in Linux</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Shut down when turn computer off</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>slib installation</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>SuSE 7.1 installation CD not recognized</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Installing tulip.o in 6.2</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Just wondering</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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Hi everyone and welcome! This month I hope you like the threads I've
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selected for you, nice, juicy, full of meat...
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Hmm, I wasn't expecting to make that sound like the turkey dinner I had
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last week. Oh well! I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, and of course we
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all wish you the best for the winter season too.
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Now on to the nitpicking
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=";)"
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By a <em>HUGE</em> margin the Peeve of the Month is poor use of the
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subject line. It so happens that we had really high traffic on our
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administrative list -- something to do with the
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<a href="../tag/members-faq.html">new FAQ</a> and knowledge
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base getting posted, everybody give a big hand to Ben and Chris!
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-- but, we actually got more
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slices of mail with useless subjects, totalling about a fifth of
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the overall mail for the month.
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What do I mean? Well, I'll put it the same way Ben does. You have
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only 40 characters (in most mailers). Don't waste them on things like
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"Help me" (why else would you be mailing us? Hoping to frame our most
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creative flames?) and "Linux problem" (good, you have the OS we know
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best) or even, cheerful though it makes us, "Hi <em>Gazette</em>"
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(yep, that's us, you reached the right place).
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Even worse is people who have no subject at all. Now it's true that with
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so many helpful souls in the Gang a lot more of the questions get answered
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nowadays. But, my statistics show that about two-thirds of the messages
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with no subject were utterly ignored. Not even a worn out match starting
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a flame. Nada, zip, zilch. So you really hurt your chances of getting
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anything more than a lump of coal in your stocking by not having a real
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subject on your questions for The Answer Gang.
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</p><p>
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So, the trick is, make sure your subject contains at least one noun or
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verb that relates directly to the question. "SuSE install" or "wheelmouse
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woes" or something, so we can guess if that message is something we know
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about, so we can leap into the fray.
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</p><p>
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Okay, now what can I say about Linux? Well, let's see. It'd
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be a great x-mas present to see that 2.4 kernel stabilize now that 2.5 is
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properly set up. (I'd go for "peace on earth" but it seems to be making
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a nasty hole in the stocking, darn it.) I already lost my bet that it'd be
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2.4.14 that would win. What I really want is one of those 21" studio LCDs
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but, I'm broke this season, so I'll probably have to make "21 inch diagonal"
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my New Year's Resolution. <brickbats appear from offstage> hey!
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watch it! You trying to break my old monitor? That's it for now. Whatever
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you do this season don't forget to <em>Make Linux A Little More Fun</em>.
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Jim and I will be at the annual Large Installation System Administrators
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conference in San Diego, the first week of December.
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<a href="http://www.usenix.org/">USENIX</a> always has a great seminar track,
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plus a lot of the developers we've gotten to know personally are regulars.
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If you can afford it, I highly recommend going. If you are going, perhaps
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we'll see you there.
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Failing that, see you next year...
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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 73 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> December 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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