Linux-Misc Digest #619, Volume #24 Sat, 27 May 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: What web server? (Bob Tennent)
Re: What web server? (Leejay Wu)
Re: what happened to www.linux.com (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: ZIP 100/250 drives w/linux (Colin Holywel)
Re: Freewwweb slow ? (David Turley)
Problems with VIA686 sound-chipset (ALSA) and Red Hat 6.2 (Marc Geerlings)
2 Questions (One for Oracle People) ("GailWeber")
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany (Rod
Smith)
Re: hardlink-problem (Paul Kimoto)
Re: What web server? ("Patrick")
Help with choosing a GUI Development tool (Tony O'Brien)
Re: kernel 2.4.0-test1 == lightening? (Andreas Kretschmer)
Re: democracy? (Jim Richardson)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Mark Bratcher)
Re: msie 5 for unix on linux (Mark Bratcher)
FTP Server with wu-ftpd (Sylvain Bouchard)
Re: Problems with VIA686 sound-chipset (ALSA) and Red Hat 6.2 (Duane)
Re: ASP and Apache (Andreas Kretschmer)
Re: Linux books (Mark Bratcher)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Richard Steiner)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Richard Steiner)
Re: democracy? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Help with choosing a GUI Development tool (Mark Bratcher)
Re: WYSIWYG web page maker called Top Page (Steve Kayner)
Sound Blaster Live Resource busy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UPS from Compaq on linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.pc,microsoft.public.inetserver.iis,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: What web server?
Date: 27 May 2000 18:56:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 28 May 2000 02:50:40 +0800, James wrote:
>
>Your few words wake me up and solve my question. This is really amazing and
>surprising, Hotmail is using Apache and FreeBSD. I always suppose they should
>use MS technology and MS IIS.
>
This may be because you think hotmail is one of MS's "innovations".
In fact, like all of MS's "innovations" (except maybe "Bob"), it
was bought (or stolen). They tried to port the system to MS products
and it was a disaster. They haven't tried again.
Bob T.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: What web server?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:10:09 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 28-May-100 Re: What web
server? by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Your few words wake me up and solve my question. This is really
> amazing and surprising, Hotmail is using Apache and FreeBSD. I
> always suppose they should use MS technology and MS IIS.
MS did not start Hotmail; they bought it. Too much of a bother to
rewrite and restart the whole site, one might suspect.
--
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: what happened to www.linux.com
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:21:28 GMT
On Wed, 24 May 2000 01:03:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>what happened to www.linux.com? it has disappeared...
Looks fine on this end. Here's the report I get from nslookup;
blackdeath@blackdeath:~ > nslookup www.linux.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: linux.com
Address: 198.186.203.55
Aliases: www.linux.com
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: Colin Holywel <holywellcolin*REMOVE-TO-REPLY*@graffiti.net>
Subject: Re: ZIP 100/250 drives w/linux
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:21:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lindoze 2000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how reliable are those zip drives? I just got an Iomega zip 250. how
> well they work with linux? any hardware requirements? any special
> adjustments? I have the internal IDE/ATAPI drive which was autodetected
> by the BIOS in my W*nd*ws NT machine. my linux machine is completly
> wintel free. the motherboard is made by VIA with no intel parts at all.
> the processor is an AMD K6-2 500MHz.
>
They work great. In fact, on my system the parport ZIpDrive works better in Linux than
it does in Windows...and iomega doesn't even make the linux driver for it!
It doesn't need any special configuring. The driver for it comes with Linux Mandrake
(I don't know about others), and you simply load the driver, then mount the drive! it
is
easy.
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:24:55 -0400
On 27 May 2000 12:51:30 -0400, Jim Kalb apparently wrote:
> Also, I'm a Linux newbie and just set up freewwweb with wvdial and
> Netscape. Two issues:
>
> 1. The thing times out and disconnects after 180 seconds, so there's
> not time to read a webpage of any length, and
>
> 2. When I input username and password to do mail Netscape suddenly
> disappears.
>
> Any suggestions?
You get what you pay for.
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Marc Geerlings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with VIA686 sound-chipset (ALSA) and Red Hat 6.2
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:21:46 GMT
Hello,
Recently I've installed Red Hat 6.2 on my laptop:
Compaq presario 1200 model 109
Everything went fine, except the sound.
First I tried sndconfig,
sndconfig does find the good chipset: VIA Technologies| VT82C686_5
but the soundcard never worked, the error is 'device is busy'
This I tried on kernel 2.2.12-20 and 2.2.14-6.1.1
After that I tried Alsa,
I used Alsa 0.5.7 and kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1
This gives an error when I try:
modprobe snd-card-via686a
The given error(s):
/lib/modules/2.2.14-6.1.1/misc/snd-pcm.o: unresolved symbol __cmpdi2
snd: Device or resource busy
snd-pcm: No such file or directory
This is the way I intalled Alsa:
I did a configure,make,make install on the driver,lib and utils packages
with drivers I used ./configure --with-cards=via686a
I did a ./snddevices in the driver directory
My modules.conf looks like this
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Any help would be welcome:
regards,
M.Geerlings
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "GailWeber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 Questions (One for Oracle People)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:42:49 -0500
Scenario: I am contemplating buying an iMac, partitioning the drive in half,
wiping the second half, and laying linux (for mac) on that half.
Question #1: Since Oracle will run on linux, can I install on my linux
partition, or are they (Oracle) talking linux chip set (does that even
exist)?
Question #2: I've been using Solaris 2.6/7 (not on a mac), how badly am I
going to hose myself, trying to use Solaris UNIX constructs in a linux
environment?
If anybody can answer one or both, please email me at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<(NOTE: spammers will find their IP addresses mysteriously remapped if they
abuse this email address. Have a nice day)>
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:54:19 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8gougs$r0e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Karlsson) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>>> Warning, ugly html below (stop posting html please...)!
>>
>> And if you could post with line breaks at 72, that's make yours more
>> readable as well.
>
> Why not use a newsreader that can break the line at col 72 (or whatever
> column you want).
Because not everybody has access to such tools. Sure, they're common
today, but not universal. 80-column displays and non-wrapping software
are particularly common is less-developed parts of the world, which
often use donated equipment. For that reason, it's the accepted
standard to break lines at something less than 80 columns. To quote
from the news.misc/news.answers FAQ:
: In preparing an article, be aware that other people's machines are
: not the same as yours. The following is a list of things to keep
: in mind:
: * Keep your lines under 80 characters, and under 72 if possible (so that
: the lines won't get longer than 80 when people include them when
: responding to your postings). Most editors have a fill or format mode
: that will do this for you automatically. Make sure that it
: actually puts ("hard") newline characters into the file, rather
: than just wrapping the displayed lines on your screen.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: hardlink-problem
Date: 27 May 2000 16:00:09 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Jansen wrote:
> suppose hardlinking a File A to another file B :
> ln A B
>
> So if you change B with _appending_ something like :
> echo "more stuff" >> B
> your file A now has the same information than B.
> But:
> If you _edit_ B - with emacs for example - this
> operation will _overwrite_ B, and so file A does
> not change at all.
>
> So here comes my question:
> How can I edit B or A, so that both files now have
> the new information?
This happens in emacs because of backing up. There are variables that are
supposed to change the emacs behavior; see the info node called "Backup
Copying" (but titled "Copying vs. Renaming").
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.pc,microsoft.public.inetserver.iis,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: What web server?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 03:56:14 +0800
as you may not notice that hotmail was belonging to hotmail company, i think
you people are too young, microsoft just bought the hotmail from them.
Jordan Dimitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Your few words wake me up and solve my question. This is really amazing
and
> > surprising, Hotmail is using Apache and FreeBSD. I always suppose they
should
> > use MS technology and MS IIS.
> >
> > Million thanks,
> > JC
>
> You should probably take a look at http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/ and
> especially http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/hotmail.html. Actually
> Kirch's paper says it all. http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/
> --
> ============
> Jordan
> http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~jordan/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony O'Brien)
Subject: Help with choosing a GUI Development tool
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 20:06:47 GMT
Hi ,
I am a recent 'return-ee' to Linux after many years developing windows
applications in C/C++ and VB.
Can anyone suggest a graphical GUI development environment with the following
properties...
(1) Along the lines of "Glade" in the sense that you are in a GRAPHICAL IDE,
you place the controls, err sorry , the *widgets*...on the window and have
access to a "properties" window where you can adjust sizes, actions, etc.
I am having a bit of trouble with Glade only because there seesm to be ALOT of
dependencies at specific levels and I seem to be spending an inordinant amount
of time searching, downloading and installing dependant packages (then getting
errors which essentially translate to "this new package is on conflict with
this other package already installed, and oh by the way you need this older
packages to satisfy this whole 'nother completely different thing..." and I
don't know whether I need this 'different thing' or not!?!?!?
so, I'd also like ..
(2) it can be commercial, but it's CD comes with *everything* I need to get
going and I don't have to go around now collecting the right revs of GTK or
whatever which leads me down another complicated install path that I'm not *at
all sure* I'm doing the right way. (The problem here is that after installing
many different packages, libraries, whatevers, *and then it don't work*----how
do I figure out which "part" is still not installed/configured right??? the
error messages are usually quite cryptic)
(3) I'd like it to operate in the "C" language and not C++, only so that I
don't have another learning curve to go up to add whatever additional
functions, routines, algorithms, etc.... that my app will need to do something
useful beyond the GUI I've built.
thanks for any help or suggestions!
regards,
tob
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From: Andreas Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.0-test1 == lightening?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:05:51 +0200
Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hiya-
> I compiled and am running kernel 2.4.0-test1. This is subjective, I
> haven't done any benchmarking, but overall it seems to make my system a
> lot peppier.
> Anyone else agree?
sorry, I come from germany, and my english is not verry good.
Does "peppier" means faster? I hope ;-)
I have a AMD ATHLON 700 with 256 MByte of RAM, and I use a SuSE Linux
with Kernel 2.2.14.
I will wait until a Distri (preferred SuSE) with new Kernel is
available, but I'm verry interesting, how the new Kernel work.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Andreas Kretschmer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 02:41:32 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 May 2000 01:34:41 +0200,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Salvador Peralta wrote:
>>>
>>> let's remember that the United States is not now, nor has it ever been a
>>> democracy.
>>
>> Yes it is. It's a representative democracy. The people do rule, through
>> their elected officials (in theory, at least).
>
>Isn't ignorance bliss? The only thing that counts in America is money.
>Your politics are incredibly corrupt. Of course so is the politics of most
>1st world countries. The third world is worse for sure. But the USA should
>set an example and it fails woefully. It appears that in the USA you can
>fool most of the people most of the time. Very sad.
>
>With regard to the earlier comment, in a previous post, about the average person
>being stupid, this is unfortunately true. They aren't born stupid but develop the
>trait through crap educational systems and a life where thinking does them no
>good at all. Who benefits from this. Institutional religion and big business.
>Hmm, that desribes the USA perfectly.
If money were all that mattered, we'd be reelecting President Perot again...
or rather his handpicked successor.
Power matters, money is one manifestation of power, but far from the only one.
however, your point re: corruption is pretty spot on at the national politics
level for sure.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:05:21 -0400
Davorin Mestric wrote:
>
> your hate for microsoft makes you blind to the truth. windows api is
> very stable since win95, not to mention that even going from win16 to win32
> was not that bad as you probably think it was.
>
> compare this to KDE or Gnome development, which is very unstable at this
> point.
The beauty of Linux is, however, that you have a _choice_. You don't
like the fact that KDE or Gnome development environments are new and not
stabilized yet? Then use Motif, or Qt (which allows you to write for
Windows or X-Windows). Don't like a particular desktop program manager?
Use a different one.
Which brings us back to the point of the stated subject: some freedom
choice. And I'm so glad I can choose between Windows versus Linux.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: msie 5 for unix on linux
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:11:30 -0400
Bob Tennent wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2000 06:30:05 GMT, h8te wrote:
> >i know there is msie 5 for unix, but does any one know if i can use it in
> >linux , i dont think im the only one who has found msie 5 for unix on the
> >microsoft site, am i?
>
> AFAIK, it's for Solaris on Sun machines. MS would never provide
> application support to any operating system that competes with
> its monopoly. BTW I've tried IE on Solaris: it's even more of
> a pig than Netscape.
>
Not surprising, since IE and Outlook are already pigs on Windows.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Sylvain Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP Server with wu-ftpd
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:19:15 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to run a ftp server with wu-ftpd ?
I have an entry for it in /etc/inetd.conf and in /etc/services. But
when I type "ftp" on the prompt it says "Connection refused". It does
not even ask me for a login and password.
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with VIA686 sound-chipset (ALSA) and Red Hat 6.2
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 13:45:43 -0700
Marc Geerlings wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Recently I've installed Red Hat 6.2 on my laptop:
> Compaq presario 1200 model 109
>
> Everything went fine, except the sound.
>
> First I tried sndconfig,
> sndconfig does find the good chipset: VIA Technologies| VT82C686_5
> but the soundcard never worked, the error is 'device is busy'
> This I tried on kernel 2.2.12-20 and 2.2.14-6.1.1
>
> After that I tried Alsa,
> I used Alsa 0.5.7 and kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1
>
> This gives an error when I try:
> modprobe snd-card-via686a
> The given error(s):
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-6.1.1/misc/snd-pcm.o: unresolved symbol __cmpdi2
> snd: Device or resource busy
> snd-pcm: No such file or directory
>
> This is the way I intalled Alsa:
> I did a configure,make,make install on the driver,lib and utils packages
> with drivers I used ./configure --with-cards=via686a
> I did a ./snddevices in the driver directory
> My modules.conf looks like this
>
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> Any help would be welcome:
I don't really understand the conf.modules file, but mine looks like
this and works ok (FWIW - Redhat 6.1 and Epox EP-7KXA motherboard):
alias sound snd-card-via686a
alias char-major-14 snd
alias snd-minor-oss-0 snd-mixer
alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-4 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-5 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
With this, my sound driver is automatically loaded, but not snd-pcm-oss.
So that one I load in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
# load ALSA OSS sound modules
if grep -s -q "^alias sound " /etc/conf.modules ; then
echo "Loading OSS sound module"
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
amixer set Master 50% unmute
amixer set CD 100% unmute
fi
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Andreas Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASP and Apache
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 23:12:27 +0200
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[HTML deletet]
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> Does anyone know how to get ASP to work on an apache server under Debian
> ?
> <br>
> <p>Thanks
> <br>Nick
> <br> </html>
1. this is Usenet: please no HTML
2. ASP is used on Microsoft IIS
3. AFAIK: the new version of apache can handle ASP-syntax
please visit the apache homepage for information.
btw.: sorry about my english ;-), I come from germany.
Andreas
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux books
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:16:52 -0400
John Hong wrote:
>
> Most of the books I have seen are mainly for the
> beginner/intermediate types who want to install and config Linux. I was
> wondering if there were any that go beyond that, say,
> intermediate/advanced that go into the use of Linux and other stuff like
> that.
I don't know what distro you're using, but one of my favorite books is
"RedHat Linux Secrets". It goes into moderate detail in alot of areas.
Some of it is beginner, but it gets about as in-depth as it can for
being a single volume that covers most aspects of using Linux. It
covers, for example, setting up IP Masquerading, setting up a modem
server, using Linux to run a business, etc. It also covers installation,
a little Perl, a little TCL/TK, etc.
Just my two-pence.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:17:52 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
spake unto us, saying:
>Cvs is free, fairly painless, works cross-platform and gives you
>a nice consolidated area to back up even if your working/testing
>space is distributed. I'd recommend it for your 20000 lines of code
>even if the kernel never goes that route.
Thanks, but I'm afraid cvs doesn't run on OS2200. :-)
I'd use the same tools we use for the application I support if I had
need for a real change control facility.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:24:48 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Personally, I use source control for practically everything I do. If for
>no other reason, because when I'm finished a set of changes, I can
>compare them to the previous version and make sure I didn't leave in any
>debugging code, etc.
It's easy to do that using a file comparison utility. :-)
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
"SHUT THAT BLOODY BAZOUKI OFF!" - Monty Python
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:21:57 -0400
Francis Van Aeken wrote:
>
> Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> > CNN is conducting a poll whether MS should be split up and if yes into how
> > many parts. Please take a minute to vote for a good cause.
>
> > -> http://cnnfn.com/poll/microsoft_breakup.html
>
> The results of these MS breakup polls (consistently 2/3 against) raise some
> interesting questions about the implementation of democracy (in this case in
> the USA).
Technically, we in the USA live in a Republic, not a democracy. In a
republic, the issues are entrusted to elected officials. If we don't
like what they do, we (in theory) vote in different ones. (Not all quite
that simple, but sort of...)
> Why is it that the opinion of the man in the street doesn't matter (because
> they're stupid, stupid! (?)) and why is it that one single person (the judge)
> is to make the decision? Shouldn't there be at least a panel or a jury?
Hate to say it, and I'll probably get flamed, but most people's
knowledge of current events is based solely upon the gunk they get from
the TV. Are they stupid? Maybe not. Are they misinformed? Most likely.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with choosing a GUI Development tool
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:25:24 -0400
Tony O'Brien wrote:
>
> Hi ,
>
> I am a recent 'return-ee' to Linux after many years developing windows
> applications in C/C++ and VB.
>
> Can anyone suggest a graphical GUI development environment
[snip]
Before long Corel will be out with Delphi and C++Builder for Linux. It
should be a kickin' product, hopefully. I've used these tools on Windows
and they're great (my opinion, of course).
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Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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Subject: Re: WYSIWYG web page maker called Top Page
From: Steve Kayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:38:07 +0112
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Spawn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IBM is porting WYSIAWYG web app called Top Page. Here is the url:
> http://www.jp.ibm.com/esbu/E/toppage/index2.html
Warning: This is a beta and was extremely unstable on my rig. Very
little of it works correctly.
Steve.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound Blaster Live Resource busy
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:30:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2000 03:30:04 GMT, Jeremy wrote:
> >I have recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 for the first time. I am a
> >newbie to the OS. It detects my card (sound blaster live), but when i test
> >i get nothing. Also need help mounting cd rom. Mounted it, can't use it!
> >Help me please!
>
> You may try running sndconfig to get your sound card setup correctly that's
> if sndconfig comes with your distro.
>
> To mount a CDROM I su to root and do:
>
> [sjlen@zero-pps /etc]$ su
> Password:
> [root@zero-pps /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> [root@zero-pps /etc]# cd /mnt/cdrom
> [root@zero-pps cdrom]# ls
> COPYING README README.1ST RPM-PGP-KEY RedHat TRANS.TBL doc dosutils
> images oreilly
> [root@zero-pps cdrom]#
>
> I then type exit so that I'm back as a normal user again, and go to the
> directory /mnt/cdrom where I'll find the root directory of the cdrom.
> It doesn't matter what directory you're in when you mount the cdrom but
> when unmounting make sure that you're working directory isn't one of
> the directories on the cdrom (in any of your windows or sessions),
> otherwise you get a device busy message.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> %HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
>
> web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
>
> or http://start.at/zero-pps
>
> 1:17pm up 1 day, 21:22, 4 users, load average: 1.06, 1.16, 1.08
I can relate to the troubles with the Sound Blaster Live. I have been setting
up a multi-boot system with Windows 98, NT and Linux Mandrake 7.0. The SBL
works in Windows, however in Linux I get the error message
"/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/misc/emulokl.o:init_module:Device or resource
busy" when trying to configure the SBL. I have tried using both sndconfig and
Lothar to configure and get the same result. Lothar has all values (IRQ, etc)
set to -1 and they cannot be changed. If anyone has any suggestions they
would be greatly appreciated.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.overig
Subject: Re: UPS from Compaq on linux
Date: 27 May 2000 10:50:22 -0000
In nl.comp.os.linux.overig Erik Jan van Westen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> omhoog of omlaag trekken tot echte volledige seriele comm. At
> random programma's proberen zal niet gauw tot resultaat leiden,
soms wel hoor. verkeerd bitje naar beneden en de UPS doet een shutdown.
oeps, weg uptime :-)
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