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<SMALL>...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I></SMALL>
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<STRONG>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and...
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(<a href="../tag/bios.html">meet the Gang</a>) ...
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the Editors of <i>Linux Gazette</i>...
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<br>We have guidelines for <a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/tag/ask-the-gang.html">asking</a> and <a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/tag/members-faq.html">answering</a> questions. Linux questions only, please.
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<br><em><font color="#7F0000">We make <b>no guarantees</b> about answers, but you can be <b>anonymous</b> on request.</font></em>
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<br>See also: The Answer Gang's
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<a href="../tag/kb.html">Knowledge Base</a>
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and the <i>LG</i>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Important: Apache install problem</strong></a>
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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>couple of questions regarding printing on Linux, pls</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>New hard drive</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>Redhat 7.2 upgrade to Redhat 9.1 without booting from a disk</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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Hello everyone and welcome once more to the world of The Answer Gang.
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This is a time of holiday in the United States as it celebrates its
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Independence Day holiady -- nowadays mostly an excuse to go picnicking,
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and enjoy a lot of professional fireworks.
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Let me see, in 1996 it was theoretically possible to declare your
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indendence from Microsoft - but really, desktop Linux still had a long
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way to go. Had PGP even been invented yet? We had spreadsheets all
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over the place, some work on a nice little TeX based word processor --
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interoperability still needed a lot of work. On the flip side, Linux
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was invisibly serving a lot of systems out there, as was
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>, because sysadmins and
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engineers stuck with a problem to solve and folks breathing down their
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necks about it, could sneak in a small pentium and just apologize later,
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knowing the bosses would be just plain unlikely to unplug it after it had
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been running for a month, saving their bacon.
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I'm sorry we're late with the current issue. Life's been a bit hectic
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(is this any surprise?) and a few changes are going on under the hood.
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Not only that but Murphy's Law seems to have it in for me...
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I finally
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had to upgrade that 386 I've been so proud of for years - I tried to
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bribe it with a new power supply, and everything. Finally I brought it
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out of the server closet on a link in my open lab. Some stray keyboard
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call and boom, dead as a doornail. If the keyboard controller chip
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goes, there's just nothing more your can do about the motherboard; take
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its memory and cpu and math-coprocessor and sell them on eBay, and make
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the empty motherboard a downrange missile target. Don't worry, I'm
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still your well known curmudgeonette! It's now on a 486 overdrive chip
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and sounding pretty good.
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I had to move a client system during that window of sanity between "the
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new drop has arrived" and "can we do this over a weekend so DNS can get
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over it's confusion while we're not looking?" Guess when that put it -
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you guessed it, deadline week. Luckily this doesn't happen too often.
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Even more luckily their successful transition to new IP numbers is one
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of the fastest I have ever seen. I need more clients like this one
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I had mentioned that my Star Trek free software user group has been
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doing internet lounges. At least that went well - we had a great time
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at this last one, only toasted two monitors (sigh, this happens to old
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spare monitors occasionally) and people are just in love with
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<a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a>. I can tell you,
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it's not the icons, because nobody reads tooltips, or reads icon labels.
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It's the not having to login, and if anything goes wrong - or they are
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worried about privacy, or basically <em>ANYTHING</em> - they can just
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reboot it. Whee! I do have plans to play with
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<a href="../issue87/sunil.html">Sunil's customization tricks</a> and
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probably nail down some of the real FAQ generators. But overall, I say
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live CD based distros are really nice. Mind you, we did have to have a
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couple of machines that could <em>play</em> CDs to make everyone happy.
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I'd score it as a big win for Linux though.
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The spam that has been leaking through is particularly silly. Some bot
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must think we're a "Gang" in the Hell's Angels sense, because now we're
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getting offers to sell us motorcycle gear. Lemme see, most of us
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already <em>own</em> leather jackets, and the ElfOS guy can't get a
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finer bike to ride. So sorry, guys. Then we have the hits on
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homework, offering us educational discounts... for a special you can
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get this week, if you answer two weeks ago. Hope that class project was
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a TARDiS. <strong>D'oh!</strong>
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I've tried a bit of an experiment this month; the longer Tips that you
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are seeing are the shorter kind of answers that used to fill pages and
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pages of The Answer Guy column. We have some of the small ones stacked
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up, but these looked pretty useful. Of course, TAG is filled with the
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banter you're all used to, but perhaps these are shorter threads than
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you're used to seeing -- things were late enough already
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle"> Have a lot of
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fun this summer!
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<SMALL><CENTER><H6 ALIGN="center">HTML script maintained by
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