Linux-Misc Digest #372, Volume #18 Sun, 27 Dec 98 18:13:10 EST
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Use for a 386SX box.. ("Jay Lee")
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (John Edstrom)
Re: TCP/IP between Linux and Win95 problem... :-( (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: TCP/IP between Linux and Win95 problem... :-( (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: execute a script copied from dos filesystem? (Ernesto Hernández-Novich)
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Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:08:05 GMT
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) mini-HOWTO
AI-Alife mini-HOWTO
Advocacy mini-HOWTO
Apache SSL PHP/FI frontpage mini-HOWTO
Automount mini-HOWTO
Backup with MSDOS mini-HOWTO
Battery Powered mini-HOWTO
Boca mini-HOWTO
BogoMips mini-HOWTO
Bridge mini-HOWTO
Bridge+Firewall mini-HOWTO
Bzip2 mini-HOWTO
Cable Modem mini-HOWTO
Cipe+Masquerading mini-HOWTO
Clock mini-HOWTO
Coffee mini-HOWTO
Colour ls mini-HOWTO
Cyrus IMAP mini-HOWTO
DHCP mini-HOWTO
DPT Hardware RAID mini-HOWTO
Diald mini-HOWTO
Diskless mini-HOWTO
Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO
Fax Server mini-HOWTO
Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO
GIS-GRASS mini-HOWTO
GTEK BBS-550 mini-HOWTO
Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO
IO Port Programming mini-HOWTO
IP Alias mini-HOWTO
IP Masquerade mini-HOWTO
IP Subnetworking mini-HOWTO
ISP Connectivity mini-HOWTO
Install From ZIP mini-HOWTO
Kerneld mini-HOWTO
LBX mini-HOWTO
LILO mini-HOWTO
Large Disk mini-HOWTO
Leased Line mini-HOWTO
Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2 mini-HOWTO
Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO
Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO
Linux+Win95 mini-HOWTO
Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWTO
Mac Terminal mini-HOWTO
Mail Queue mini-HOWTO
Mail2News mini-HOWTO
Man Page mini-HOWTO
Modules mini-HOWTO
Multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO
NCD X Terminal mini-HOWTO
NFS-Root mini-HOWTO
NFS-Root-Client mini-HOWTO
Netrom-Node mini-HOWTO
Netscape+Proxy mini-HOWTO
Netstation mini-HOWTO
News Leafsite mini-HOWTO
Offline Mailing mini-HOWTO
PLIP mini-HOWTO
Partition mini-HOWTO
Partition Rescue mini-HOWTO
Path mini-HOWTO
Pre-installation Checklist mini-HOWTO
Process Accounting mini-HOWTO
Proxy ARP Subnet mini-HOWTO
Public Web Browser mini-HOWTO
Qmail+MH mini-HOWTO
Quota mini-HOWTO
RCS mini-HOWTO
RPM+Slackware mini-HOWTO
RedHat CD mini-HOWTO
Remote Boot mini-HOWTO
Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO
SLIP-PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO
Sendmail Address Rewrite mini-HOWTO
Sendmail+UUCP mini-HOWTO
Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO
Small Memory mini-HOWTO
Software Building mini-HOWTO
Software RAID mini-HOWTO
Soundblaster AWE mini-HOWTO
StarOffice mini-HOWTO
Term Firewall mini-HOWTO
TkRat mini-HOWTO
Token Ring mini-HOWTO
Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO
Update mini-HOWTO
Upgrade mini-HOWTO
VAIO mini-HOWTO
Vesafb mini-HOWTO
VPN mini-HOWTO
Visual Bell mini-HOWTO
Windows Modem Sharing mini-HOWTO
WordPerfect mini-HOWTO
X Big Cursor mini-HOWTO
XFree86-XInside mini-HOWTO
xterm Title mini-HOWTO
ZIP Install mini-HOWTO
ZIP Drive mini-HOWTO
The following HOWTO's are not distributed in all formats because SGML
Tools cannot format their graphics and tables:
The High Availability HOWTO
The Graphics mini-HOWTO
In addition, translations of the HOWTO's are available from
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations and mirrors
worldwide. Translations in the following languages are available:
Chinese (zh) Croatian(hr)
French (fr) German (de)
Hellenic (el) Indonesian (id)
Italian (it) Japanese (jp)
Korean (ko) Polish (pl)
Spanish (es) Slovenian (sl)
Swedish (sv) Turkish (tr)
The HOWTO's are also on the Web, at the Linux Documentation Project's
Home Page, http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP.
More of these documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch
with Timothy Bynum, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the HOWTO
coordinator, if you are interested in writing one. The file
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX contains guidelines
for writing a HOWTO. He has a Web page that lists current HOWTO
updates and additions at
wallybox.cei.net/~tjbynum/HOWTO/projects.
The Guide Series produced by the Linux Documentation Project is
available from http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP. Please read them if
you are new to Unix and Linux. Here is a list of those available so
far:
* The Linux Documentation Project Manifesto, by Matt Welsh.
* Installation and Getting Started Guide, by Matt Welsh.
* The Linux Kernel, by David Rusling.
* The Network Administrator's Guide, by Olaf Kirch.
* The Linux Programmer's Guide, by Sven Goldt, Sven van der
Meer, Scott Burkett, and Matt Welsh.
* The Linux System Administrator's Guide, Version 0.5, by Lars
Wirzenius.
There is a FAQ for Linux kernel developers at
http://www.tux.org/html/.
To find out about Linux memory management, including performance
tuning, see Rik van Riel's Web page at
http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM.
There is also a FAQ specifically for the Red Hat Linux distribution,
at http://www.best.com/~aturner//RedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html.
2.2 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for Linux stuff?
Two Web pages in particular provide good starting point for general
Linux information: Linux International's Home Page, at
http://www.li.org, and the Linux Online's Linux Home Page at
http://www.linux.org/.
Both of these pages provide links to other sites, information about
general information, distributions, new software, documentation, and
news.
Greg Hankins, [EMAIL PROTECTED], maintains the Linux
Documentation Project Home Page, at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP.
This page refers to all of the HOWTO's and FAQ's, both those which are
available in HTML (WWW) format, and those which aren't.
2.3 What newsgroups are there for Linux?
Comp.os.linux.announce is the moderated announcements group; you
should read this if you intend to use Linux: it contains information
about software updates, new ports, user group meetings, and commercial
products. It is the ONLY newsgroup that may carry commercial postings.
Submissions for that group should be e-mailed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
comp.os.linux.announce, however, is not archived on DejaNews or Alta
Vista. The only archive for the news group seems to be
www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html.
[Axel Boldt]
Also worth reading are the following other groups in the
comp.os.linux.* hierarchy--you may find many common problems too
recent for the documentation but are answered in the newsgroups.
comp.os.linux.advocacy
comp.os.linux.development.apps
comp.os.linux.development.system
comp.os.linux.hardware
comp.os.linux.m68k
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.networking
comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.x
Remember that Linux is POSIX compatible, and most all of the material
in comp.unix.* and comp.windows.x.* groups will be relevant. Apart
from hardware considerations, and some obscure or very technical
low-level issues, you'll find that these groups are good places to
start.
Please read "You still haven't answered my question!" before
posting. Cross posting between different comp.os.linux.* groups is
rarely a good idea.
There may well be Linux groups local to your institution or
area--check there first.
See also "I don't have Usenet access. Where do I get
information?"
Other regional and local newsgroups also exist--you may find the
traffic more manageable there. The French Linux newsgroup is
fr.comp.os.linux. The German one is de.comp.os.linux. In Australia,
try aus.computers.linux. In Croatia there is hr.comp.linux. In Italy,
there is it.comp.linux.
2.4 Where can I get Linux material by FTP?
There are three main archive sites for Linux:
* ftp.funet.fi (Finland) : /pub/OS/Linux
* sunsite.unc.edu (US) : /pub/Linux
* tsx-11.mit.edu (US) : /pub/linux
The best place to get the Linux kernel is
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/. Linus Torvalds uploads
the most recent kernel versions to this site.
Of the U.S. distributions, Debian GNU/Linux is available at
ftp.debian.org/pub/debian. Red Hat Linux's home site is
ftp.redhat.com, and Linux Slackware's is ftp.cdrom.com.
The contents of these sites is mirrored (copied, usually approximately
daily) by a number of other sites. Please use a site close to you--it
will be faster for you and easier on the network.
* ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/linux/sunsite/ (South Africa)
* ftp.is.co.za/linux/sunsite/ (South Africa)
* ftp.cs.cuhk.hk/pub/Linux/ (Hong Kong)
* ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/Linux/ (Hong Kong)
* ftp.spin.ad.jp/pub/linux/sunsite.unc.edu/ (Japan)
* ftp.nuri.net/pub/Linux/ (Korea)
* ftp.jaring.my/pub/Linux/ (Malaysia)
* ftp.nus.sg/pub/unix/Linux/ (Singapore)
* ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/linux/ (Thailand)
* mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/ (Australia)
* sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux/ (Australia)
* ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/ (Australia)
* ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/sunsite/ (Austria)
* ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/UNIX/linux/ (Czech Republic)
* ftp://sunsite.fri.uni-lj.si/pub/linux/ (Slovenia)
* ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/sunsite/ (Finland)
* ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub/Linux/ (France)
* ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr (France)
* ftp.ibp.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/ (France)
* ftp.loria.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/ (France)
* ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de/pub/linux/sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/os/Linux/Mirror.SunSITE/ (Germany)
* ftp.tu-dresden.de/pub/Linux/sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/MIRROR.sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mirrors/sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/mirror.sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.ba-mannheim.de/pub/linux/mirror.sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/ (Germany)
* ftp.uni-rostock.de/Linux/sunsite/ (Germany)
*
tp.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/systems/linux/MIRROR.sunsite/
(Germany)
* ftp.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/linux/Mirror.sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.rz.uni-ulm.de/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ (Germany)
* ftp.kfki.hu/pub/linux/ (Hungary)
* linux.italnet.it/pub/Linux/ (Italy)
* ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/sunsite/ (Italy)
* giotto.unipd.it/pub/unix/Linux/ (Italy)
* cnuce-arch.cnr.it/pub/Linux/ (Italy)
* ftp.flashnet.it/mirror2/sunsite.unc.edu/ (Italy)
* ftp.nijenrode.nl/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/ (Netherlands)
* ftp.LeidenUniv.nl/pub/linux/sunsite/ (Netherlands)
* ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/linux/sunsite/ (Norway)
* ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/ (Poland)
* ftp.rediris.es/software/os/linux/sunsite/ (Spain)
* sunsite.rediris.es/software/linux/ (Spain)
* ftp.cs.us.es/pub/Linux/sunsite-mirror/ (Spain)
* ftp.etse.urv.es/pub/mirror/linux/ (Spain)
* ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/linux/ (Spain)
* ftp.luna.gui.es/pub/linux.new/ (Spain)
* ftp.switch.ch/mirror/linux/ (Switzerland)
* ftp.metu.edu.tr/pub/linux/sunsite/ (Turkey)
* unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/sunsite/pub/Linux/ (UK)
* ftp.maths.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/
(UK)
* ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/ (UK)
* sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/ (UK)
* ftp.dungeon.com/pub/linux/sunsite-mirror/ (UK)
* ftp.io.org/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ (Canada)
* ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/ (US)
* ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/sunsite/ (US)
* ftp.siriuscc.com/pub/Linux/Sunsite/ (US)
* ftp.engr.uark.edu/pub/linux/sunsite/ (US)
* ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ (US)
* linux.if.usp.br/pub/mirror/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/
(Brazil)
* farofa.ime.usp.br/pub/linux/ (Brazil)
Not all of these mirror all of the other "source" sites, and some
have material not available on the "source" sites.
2.5 I don't have FTP access. Where do I get Linux?
The easiest thing is probably to find a friend with FTP access. If
there is a Linux user's group near you, they may be able to help.
If you have a reasonably good email connection, you could try the
FTP-by-mail servers at [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux is also available via traditional mail on CD-ROM. The file
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO, and the
file sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Distribution-HOWTO
contain information on these distributions.
2.6 I don't have Usenet access. Where do I get information?
A digest of comp.os.linux.announce is available by mailing the word
"subscribe" (without the quotes) as the body of a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribing to this
list is a good idea, as it carries important information and
documentation about Linux.
Please remember to use the *-request addresses for your subscribe and
unsubscribe messages; mail to the other address is posted to the news
group.
2.7 What mailing lists are there?
The Linux developers now mainly use the Majordomo server at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send a message with the word
"lists" (without the quotes) in the body to get a list of lists
there. Add a line with the word, "help," to get the standard
Majordomo help file that lists instructions for subscribing and
unsubscribing to the lists.
Most of the lists are used by Linux developers to talk about technical
issues and future developments. These are not intended for new users'
questions.
There is a linux-newbie list where, "no question is too stupid."
Unfortunately, it seems that few experienced users read that list, and
it has very low volume.
2.8 Are the newsgroups archived anywhere?
The Usenet Linux news groups are archived at
http://www.dejanews.com, http://www.reference.com, and
http://altavista.digital.com
Sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/linux-announce.archive contains
archives of comp.os.linux.announce. These are mirrored from
src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet, which also archives comp.os.linux,
comp.os.linux.development.apps, and comp.os.linux.development.system.
There is an `easy to access' archive of comp.os.linux.announce on the
World Wide Web at
http://www.leo.org/archiv/linux/archiv/ann_index.html which
supports searching and browsing.
2.9 Where can I find out about Linux and the Millennium (Y2K) bug?
The Debian/GNU Linux people have a statement on their Web site at
http://www.debian.org Another place you can find Y2K information
is http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxy2k.html.
Essentially, Linux uses libraries that store dates as 32-bit integers,
which count the seconds since 1970. This counter will not overflow
until the year 2038, by which time the library programmers will
(hopefully) have upgraded the system software to store dates as 64-bit
integers.
This, of course, does not mean that applications are not susceptible
to the millennium bug, if they do not use the standard library
routines.
The Free Software Foundation has a Web page about Y2K issues in GNU
software at http://www.fsf.org/software/year2000.html
There is also a Usenet newsgroup, comp.software.year-2000, for general
discussion of Y2K issues.
3. Where can I find out about security related issues?
Look at http://www.rootshell.com, which has information about
security problems and software.
4. Compatibility with other operating systems.
4.1 Can Linux share my disk with DOS? OS/2? 386BSD? Win95?
Yes. Linux uses the standard MS-DOS partitioning scheme, so it can
share your disk with other operating systems. Note, however, that many
other operating systems may not be exactly compatible. DOS's FDISK.EXE
and FORMAT.EXE, for example, can overwrite data in a Linux partition,
because they sometimes incorrectly use partition data from the
partition's boot sector rather than the partition table.
In order to prevent programs from doing this, it is a good idea to
zero out--under Linux--the start of a partition you created, before
you use MS-DOS--or whatever--to format it. Type:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXY bs=512 count=1
where hdXY is the relevant partition; e.g., /dev/hda1 for the first
partition of the first (IDE) disk.
Linux can read and write the files on your DOS and OS/2 FAT partitions
and floppies using either the DOS file system type built into the
kernel or mtools. There is kernel support for the VFAT file system
used by Windows 9x and Windows NT.
There is reportedly a GPL'd OS/2 device driver that will read and
write Linux ext2 partitions.
For information about FAT32 partition support, see
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html.
See, "What software does Linux support?" for details and
status of the emulators for DOS, MS Windows, and System V programs.
See also, "Can Linux access Amiga file systems?", "Can
Linux access Macintosh file systems?", "Can Linux access BSD,
SysV, etc., UFS?", and "Can Linux access SMB file systems?"
There are said to be NTFS drivers under development, which should
support compression as a standard feature.
4.2 How do I access files on my DOS partition or floppy?
Use the DOS file system, type, for example:
$ mkdir /dos
$ mount -t msdos -o conv=text,umask=022,uid=100,gid=100 /dev/hda3 /dos
If it's a floppy, don't forget to umount it before ejecting it!
You can use the conv=text/binary/auto, umask=nnn, uid=nnn, and gid=nnn
options to control the automatic line-ending conversion, permissions
and ownerships of the files in the DOS file system as they appear
under Linux. If you mount your DOS file system by putting it in your
/etc/fstab, you can record the options (comma-separated) there,
instead of defaults.
Alternatively, you can use mtools, available in both binary and source
form on the FTP sites. ("Where can I get Linux material by
FTP?")
A kernel patch (known as the fd-patches) is available which allows
floppies with nonstandard numbers of tracks and/or sectors to be used;
this patch is included in the 1.1 alpha testing kernel series.
4.3 Does Linux support compressed ext2 file systems?
As of recently, it does. Information about them is located at
http://www.netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr/.
There is also a Web site for the e2compr patches The code is still
experimental and consists of patches for the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. For
more information about the project, including the latest patches, and
the address of the mailing list, look up the URL at
http://debs.fuller.edu/e2compr/.
[Roderich Schupp]
Zlibc is a program that allows existing applications to read
compressed (GNU gzip'ed) files as if they were not compressed. Look on
sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/libs/. The author is Alain Knuff.
There is also a compressing block device driver, "DouBle," by
Jean-Marc Verbavatz, which can provide on-the-fly disk compression in
the kernel. The source-only distribution is located at sunsite.unc.edu
in the directory /pub/Linux/patches/diskdrives/. This driver
compresses inodes and directory information as well as files, so any
corruption of the file system is likely to be serious.
There is also a package called tcx (Transparently Compressed
Executables), which allows you to keep infrequently compressed
executables compressed and only uncompress them temporarily when in
use. It is located on sunsite.unc.edu in the directory
/pub/Linux/utils/compress/.
4.4 Can I use my Stacked/DBLSPC/etc. DOS drive?
Until recently, not very easily. You can access DOS 6.X volumes from
the DOS emulator ("What software does Linux support?"), but
it's harder than accessing a normal DOS volume via the DOS kernel
option, a module, or mtools.
There is a recently added package, dmsdos, that reads and writes
compressed file systems like DoubleSpace/DriveSpace in MS-DOS 6.x and
Win95, as well as Stacker versions 3 and 4. It is a loadable kernel
module. Look at
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/.
4.5 Can I access OS/2 HPFS partitions from Linux?
Yes, but Linux access to HPFS partitions is read-only. HPFS file
system access is available as an option when compiling the kernel or
as a module. See the Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt file in the
kernel source distribution. ("How do I upgrade/recompile my
kernel?") Then you can mount HPFS partition, using, for example:
$ mkdir /hpfs
$ mount -t hpfs /dev/hda5 /hpfs
4.6 Can Linux access Amiga file systems?
--
Robert Kiesling
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jay Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Use for a 386SX box..
Date: 27 Dec 1998 22:14:54 GMT
Sure can, manner of fact, with 14mb of Ram it could be really useful. I
have old 386 boxes with 4mb of ram that I have made use of. And linux is
the OS to use on them. Try installing Red Hat or something to it. X11 may
be a little hard on the poor little chip but give it a try. At the very
least you could just use the non graphic interface and get ncftp and lynx.
Not very pretty but pretty powerful :)
Jay
ishwar rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>Just got a 386SX (14 Mb RAM) machine. Can it be used fruitfully?
>
>Wish list is:
> - ppp/telnet/ftp from home to ISP/School?
>
>Thanks for your time.
>- ishwar rattan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Edstrom)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 27 Dec 1998 22:15:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
>> The ini files could easily be edited and tampered with by the
>> inexperienced and mistakes could be made. Security was also an issue.
>>
>> The registry file size can be up to 40MB and it was made complex on
>> purpose.
>
> Security through obscurity. Microsoft obviously thinks its users are too
> stupid to be given the opportunity to muck it up. Problem is, a
> corrupted INI file can be fixed or rebuilt by someone with a little
> basic knowledge. A corrupted registry file threatens the very integrity
> of your system and is very difficult to repair without significant loss.
>
Reliability is a red herring, not the real issue at all. People will
buy Windows no matter how bad it is because they have to; they no
longer have any options. The key to understanding the registry is to
understand who's purposes the registry was meant to serve. Why does
everyone jump to the conclusion that the registry was designed to
serve the purposes of the user?
Judge it by another set of criteria. Suppose, just hypothetically, of
course, that you wanted to take control of all of the computers in the
world. Learning what software was on 90% of the desktops in the world
would be a big help in that direction.
One way to do that would be to first concentrate complete and intimate
knowledge of, and control over, all software installed on each
computer into one easy to carry package. Something very much like the
registry, say.
The second step would be to encourage or, better yet, force, each
computer to connect to a server that would communicate with that
single file. Something like an embedded browser that calls the hive
at 3am when nobody is up, or a mandatory software
registration/activation procedure very much like what MS has planned
for the brave new world of Windows 2000, say.
Just imagine what that kind of power could do in the wrong hands!
Users would be furious if they knew I was doing that sort of thing.
So, if I were doing something like that, would I want to store the
data in a simple, distributed, human-readable format where any Tom,
Dick or Mary could see what I was up to? No way, I'd want to be able
to read from and write to that file without anyone noticing my
activities. The more opaque the better.
We sure are lucky that MS is run by such upstanding souls like Gates
and Balmer who clutch the best interests of the user close to their
hearts as a sacred trust and would never ever abuse their positions of
power. Right?
(PS, I've been tinkering with a screenplay based on this and similar
interpretations of recent developments in computer software design and
marketing. I haven't decided if it should be a comedy or a tragedy.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP between Linux and Win95 problem... :-(
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.axp,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:58:34 GMT
Travis Kelley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: check your network cable itself..how fast is your linux box...I'm assuming that it
: is fast enough to handle the packets...also make sure that you have irq and base
: address settings right on both cards
Also, make sure the W95 box is fast enough to handle the packets. Sheesh!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP between Linux and Win95 problem... :-(
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.axp,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:58:34 GMT
Raymond Dobbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hint:
:
: Never use 0 anywhere in a machine's assigned IP address
:
: 0 is reserved to indicate a NETWORK WIDE broadcast. Use a 1 -254 =
: instead. 255 is a no-no too...
Actually, it's never use 0 in the host address portion of an IP address. That
is, 192.168.0.1 (with a netmask of 255.255.255.0), but 192.168.1.0 (with the
same netmask) is NOT OK. The latter form is used to reference the network.
Also, having the host address portion of the IP address set to all 1s is the
common way to indicate a network wide broadcast. Using the above example,
192.168.0.255 would be the broadcast address for the 192.168.0 network.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ernesto Hernández-Novich)
Subject: Re: execute a script copied from dos filesystem?
Date: 27 Dec 1998 14:38:18 GMT
Ed Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Paul Lew wrote:
: >
: > I had copied a linux script into a dos partition for a cdrom when
: > in winnt; then I copied the script fo linux when in linux mode. The
: > problem is when I tried to execute the script I get a "no such file
: > or directory found". The "attributes" of the file was set to be
: > executable by all and updated only by the user (root).
It probably has CR-LF line terminator, coming from DOS :-)
You have to clean that up.
Another thing that could be wrong is the shell specifier. The first line
of the script usually is "#!/path/to/some/interpreter". Make sure that
interpreter exists and is at that path.
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Ernesto Hernández-Novich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #9945705
Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker running Linux 2.0.35
One thing is to be the most popular, and another is to be the best.
Unix: Live free or die!
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