189 lines
7.9 KiB
HTML
189 lines
7.9 KiB
HTML
<!--startcut ======================================================= -->
|
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
|
|
<html>
|
|
<head>
|
|
<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="lgazmail v1.4F.m">
|
|
<TITLE>Linux Gazette 76: The Answer Gang</TITLE>
|
|
</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000"
|
|
LINK="#3366FF" VLINK="#A000A0">
|
|
<!--endcut ========================================================= -->
|
|
<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"
|
|
><H1 align="center"><IMG ALT="LINUX GAZETTE" SRC="../gx/../gx/lglogo.jpg"
|
|
WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="124" border="0"></H1></A>
|
|
<P>
|
|
<!--startcut ======================================================= -->
|
|
<CENTER>
|
|
<!-- *** BEGIN navbar *** -->
|
|
<!-- *** END navbar *** -->
|
|
</CENTER>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<!--endcut ========================================================= -->
|
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
|
<!-- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -->
|
|
<center>
|
|
<H1><A NAME="answer">
|
|
<img src="../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif" alt="(?)"
|
|
border="0" align="middle">
|
|
<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
|
|
<img src="../gx/dennis/bbubble.gif" alt="(!)"
|
|
border="0" align="middle">
|
|
</A></H1>
|
|
<BR>
|
|
<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and...
|
|
(<a href="tag/bios.html">meet the Gang</a>) ...
|
|
the Editors of Linux Gazette...
|
|
|
|
and You!
|
|
<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
|
|
The Answer Gang
|
|
for possible publication
|
|
(but read the <a href="tag/ask-the-gang.html">guidelines</a> first)
|
|
</H4>
|
|
</center>
|
|
<!-- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -->
|
|
<p><hr><p>
|
|
<H3>Contents:</H3>
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
|
|
><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
|
|
|
|
<DL>
|
|
<!-- index_text begins -->
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/1.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>We send their spam to the Luxury Bitbucket</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>Setup of ipchains when using ftp</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>Can't get all my True Type fonts to get recognized</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>USB mouse goes missing</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>booting multiple linux distributions</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>ext3 filesystemcheck?</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>Soyo Shutdown</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
></a>How do I use a 250 zip with linux mandrake 7.2 --or--
|
|
<dd><A HREF="tag/8.html"
|
|
><strong>Reading Iomega 250Mb Zip Cartridges/Media</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
></a>socket doubt --or--
|
|
<dd><A HREF="tag/9.html"
|
|
><strong>How Do You Detect if a Server Closed a TCP Connection</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/10.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>Hard Disk: BadCRC errors from dma_intr on bootup...</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/11.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>FTP Server</strong></a>
|
|
<dt><A HREF="tag/12.html"
|
|
><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
|
|
alt="(?)" border="0"
|
|
><strong>setting nameservers from the command line</strong></a>
|
|
<!-- index_text ends -->
|
|
</DL>
|
|
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
|
<A NAME="tag/greeting"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A>
|
|
<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
|
|
height="50" width="60" alt="(¶) " border="0"
|
|
>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
|
|
<!-- begin hgreeting -->
|
|
<p>Hey everybody and welcome once more to The Answer Gang. It's gotten a
|
|
little crowded in our little weekender pub here -- one querent offered
|
|
us some cake though, and I'm sure we'll enjoy it...
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
The statistics: We now have 60 members in The Gang. Less than 10
|
|
people received no answer whatsoever (and this can be attributed to things
|
|
like no subject, or no clear problem description). Spam is down immensely
|
|
since Dan went and made some of the dead trout into a Rube Goldberg machine,
|
|
reducing the mails that flew by me to somewhere around 500.
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
The dumb thing of the month: Some mailers not only turn stuff into HTML, but
|
|
they smush all the spaces out of it themselves, and then put the results in
|
|
quoted-printable. Glork. Much to my amazement that person got some answers
|
|
though I can't tell if they helped him. But it certainly didn't get pubbed;
|
|
I couldn't read it to tell if it was juicy...
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
But the real Rant Of The Month has to go to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">The
|
|
GNU Project</a> for making it sexy to stop shipping man pages !?! Sadly this
|
|
isn't news. But definitely sadly, there are so many different places around
|
|
that helpful data <em>might</em> be ... and probably isn't, since many packages
|
|
pick one and don't have the others ... that we're gonna need a "<tt>wtfm</tt>"
|
|
command. An rtfm command that <em>works</em> would have to depend on it.
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
That stands for "Where's The Friendly Manual?"
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
Particularly egregious since distros now have to figure out their own way to
|
|
cook up replacesments, so when some cheerful soul pipes in "Oh just check the
|
|
man pages" ... the user can actually find one ... sigh ... Debian has a
|
|
standard undocumented.7 man page, which can be summarized:
|
|
</p><blockquote>
|
|
Yes, we know there's no man page. It's already been filed as
|
|
a bug, thus you see this. If you'd like to write one for this
|
|
app and submit it we sure would appreciate it.
|
|
</blockquote><p>
|
|
Don't even get me <em>started</em> about distros that tell you that you can't
|
|
get any help at all unless your webserver is working.
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
Phooey! I'm not going to let it ruin my weekend. I'm going to a filk
|
|
conference, as I do a couple of times a year. This particular one is
|
|
<a href="http://www.consonance.org/">Consonance</a> in the Silicon Valley
|
|
area. There will be bunches of computer songs there and I plan to be up
|
|
late singing a few of them. Regular readers already know about my
|
|
<a href="../issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt"
|
|
>autobiographical filk song</a> but I've written one about my
|
|
laptop, and a couple about Linux'ing, too. I'm not the really prolific
|
|
one though. My friend Steve Savitsky has enough to fill at least a couple
|
|
of CDs... and heck, that's just his computer songs
|
|
<img src="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" height="24" width="20" alt=":)">
|
|
</p><p>
|
|
Have a great month everyone. I know I will!
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<!-- end hgreeting -->
|
|
<P> <hr> </p>
|
|
<!-- *** BEGIN copyright *** -->
|
|
<H5 align="center">This page edited and maintained by the Editors
|
|
of <I>Linux Gazette</I>
|
|
<a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
|
|
>Copyright ©</a> 2002
|
|
<BR>Published in issue 76 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> March 2002</H5>
|
|
<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML script maintained by
|
|
<A HREF="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather Stern</a> of
|
|
Starshine Technical Services,
|
|
<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A>
|
|
</H6>
|
|
<!-- *** END copyright *** -->
|
|
<P>
|
|
<!--startcut ======================================================= -->
|
|
<CENTER>
|
|
<!-- *** BEGIN navbar *** -->
|
|
<!-- *** END navbar *** -->
|
|
</CENTER>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<!--endcut ========================================================= -->
|
|
<!--startcut ======================================================= -->
|
|
</BODY></HTML>
|
|
<!--endcut ========================================================= -->
|