Re: [expert] funny
:Try :http://www.redhat.com : :Many organizations when they get their domain names get com, :org and net, to prevent others from using too similiar a :name. Check out whitehouse or nasa if you don't believe the :problems not doing so can cause. grin ... i know that, but redhat.org is running a mandrake .-) cu Denis --- Denis Havlik ||| http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik (@ @) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [expert] performance - emacs?
:I played a bit with hdparm utility to tune my HD, and found that :enabling DMA allowed me to boost HD read performance from 4Mb/s to :11.2 Mb/s (as reported by hdparm -t). Now my emacs loads in about 2 :secs, but xemacs still takes forever - looks like I'll have to play :with hdparm some more... Looks more like xemacs would be either asking for too much memory (i.e. your system has to use swap) or starting a lot of lisp code on start to me... D. --- Denis Havlik ||| http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik (@ @) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [expert] funny
: Take a look at this: : : http://www.redhat.org : : ...hehehe, it took me a while to figure out what was going on. :www.redhat.org resolves to 127.0.0.1. CLASSIC! : Hey, you are right on that one! Where does that come from? Certainly not from my "hosts" file... A RH easter egg in a Mandrake. ccc... D. --- Denis Havlik ||| http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik (@ @) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [expert] A script to discover IP?
Thanks for your help, Ramon. I now have a script that emails me only the assigned IP address - took a while to get the parsing right! A couple more questions, if you don't mind: 1. Is there a way to pipe the contents of a file into the subject line when using the "mail" command? I would like the designated IP address to show up as the subject, if possible. 2. I am using "pump" to retrieve my DHCP info, and am doing so on the @HOME network. I have read documentation stating that pump will contact the DHCP server every 3 hours to try to renew the lease - any idea where this gets called from? I would like the script to run every time the lease is renewed. Thanks again for your help, and any more you (or anyone else!) can provide. Tim
[expert] PlayStation Emulator for Linux
Hi, After long time not updated, now SOPE has release ver. 0.03.1 in source code. Anyone interested to try ? goto http://www.emuhq/sope/ I hope with the open source, SOPE will then beating the 'Bleem! for win9x' Luqman Registered User #140544 LiNUX Mandrake
Re: [expert] A script to discover IP?
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Tim Howell wrote: Thanks for your help, Ramon. I now have a script that emails me only the assigned IP address - took a while to get the parsing right! A couple more questions, if you don't mind: 1. Is there a way to pipe the contents of a file into the subject line when using the "mail" command? I would like the designated IP address to show up as the subject, if possible. Well, you can do it even more crudely than the first one. Let us say that you wanted to have a message sent this way: cat somefile | mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the command above, "somefile" will be the text of the message, "subject" (preceded by -s) is the subject of the message, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the intended recipient (victim). Now if the command above is inside a script file, the scriptfile itself can be concatenated from several files. Here is an example file 1 cat somefile | mail -s file 2 this is your IP address that you want to report file 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then them master script would simply have something like this cat file1 file2 file3 scriptfile2 and when scriptfile2 runs, it contains the command cat somefile | mail -s 192.168.97.45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This trick is used extensively in HTML programming to put content into the middle of HTML files. You have basically three files: the HTML headers, the part you want inserted and the HTML footers. They are concatenated together by a script and assembled into a complete HTML file. I your case, you would use the same technique, but the final assembled product is actually executed so the mail message can be sent. Be sure your permissions are right. The use of the redirector might give you problems here, you may want to use something like this: cat bumfile script if the file "script" has been created with correct permissions and is blank 0 bytes, then the script keeps its ownership and permissions. You can then use this to assemble it: cat file1 file2 file3 script This will append the 3 files to the (blank) file, so the permissions and ownerships stays the same. This trick is often used to erase a file but leaving it in existence: cat /dev/null file in which case the "file" keeps its ownerships permissions. This is handy to erase log files because the replaces the contents, whereas appends contents. I am sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but hey, I am getting too old to learn fancy scripting and sometimes the cheap and dirty works just fine. 2. I am using "pump" to retrieve my DHCP info, and am doing so on the @HOME network. I have read documentation stating that pump will contact the DHCP server every 3 hours to try to renew the lease - any idea where this gets called from? I would like the script to run every time the lease is renewed. No idea. But commands can usually be located this way: prompt# which pump /usr/sbin/pump NOTE: the above is ficticious, I have no idea if there is a /usr/sbin/pump. I do not have that program here. Anyway, if "pump" shows up, then see if its a binary or a script and use the method I outlined in my first email to append or prepend something to it. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] funny
Hi Ron, You didn't look did you...:-) www.redhat.org is a Microsoft Frontpage Personal Web Server ad. Pretty low IMHO. Regards Christopher Cox
Re: [expert] funny
Ah. Do I feel foolish. How did they do that!
[expert] remove
remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] My URL is : www.megabitwest.net "take my advice and have a good day whatever side of bed or grass you woke up on."
Re: [expert] funny
it's not just in Linux that it resolves to 127.0.0.1, I tried it in MSIE5. Christopher Cox wrote: Ah. Do I feel foolish. How did they do that!
[expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
Why does http://www.redhat.org resolve to 127.0.0.1? I'm using Windurs 98 with IE. Seve
[expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card.
It does not exist. You can find a beta version of a driver (Vortex chipset driver) at www.opensound.com. At this time it only supports playback and it costs $10 (not much if you want to support opensound IMHO) unless you want to keep restarting the evaluation version. But the playback is quite good. -sen Hi all, In need to install sound module. I'm using Dell Dimension XpS R400 which came with Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card, PCI. I have no idea what sound module suitable for it and where to get it. I tried to recompile the kernel and gone through the sound module list in menuconfig. There are several sound module with montego name associated, would someone tell me which one is suitable for my case. There aren't suitable where can I get it. Thanks in advance. Rgds, Nixien
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check and it is not owned by RedHat at all. Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and wanted to play a joke on everyone else. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sevatio Octavio Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost? Why does http://www.redhat.org resolve to 127.0.0.1? I'm using Windurs 98 with IE. Seve
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
:Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check :and it is not owned by RedHat at all. :Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and :wanted to play a joke on everyone else. This is the best practical joke I have seen in the long time... I was not avare that one can put "private" IP - addresses in "public" DNS. Actually the fact that 127.0.0.1 address gets resolved over "public" DNS at all sounds completely weird to me. I have always thought all the internet infrastructure ignores non-routable IP-addreses. Denis
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
At 01:16 AM 11/14/99 +0100, Denis Havlik wrote: :Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check :and it is not owned by RedHat at all. :Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and :wanted to play a joke on everyone else. This is the best practical joke I have seen in the long time... I was not avare that one can put "private" IP - addresses in "public" DNS. Actually the fact that 127.0.0.1 address gets resolved over "public" DNS at all sounds completely weird to me. I have always thought all the internet infrastructure ignores non-routable IP-addreses. That's at the routing level, yes. As far as I am aware, no-one does any real sanity checking on the content of "A" records returned by a forward lookup.
Re: [expert] funny
:Try :http://www.redhat.com : :Many organizations when they get their domain names get com, :org and net, to prevent others from using too similiar a :name. Check out whitehouse or nasa if you don't believe the :problems not doing so can cause. grin ... i know that, but redhat.org is running a mandrake .-) Hehehe... oh yeah? Try accessing that site from a FreeBSD or Solaris box. It resolves to 127.0.0.1, which is the "loopback" interface. That URL always points back to your own machine. --Derek
Re: [expert] funny
Hi Ron, You didn't look did you...:-) www.redhat.org is a Microsoft Frontpage Personal Web Server ad. Pretty low IMHO. Regards Christopher Cox Hahahaha this is hilarious. Now we know who's actually running Mandrake and who's running that "other" O.S. Christopher, SHAME on you... :) --Derek
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. Oops, I wasn't thinking before when I said someone submitted it to Internic with that address. They just configured their bind server that way. I guess it's time for a cup of coffee... --Derek
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
I was not avare that one can put "private" IP - addresses in "public" DNS. Actually the fact that 127.0.0.1 address gets resolved over "public" DNS at all sounds completely weird to me. I have always thought all the internet infrastructure ignores non-routable IP-addreses. You're not sending any routed packets to 127.0.0.1. All you're doing is sending a request to a DNS server that says, "Hey, what IP address does the name www.redhat.org resolve to?" Since the owner of "redhat.org" configured "www.redhat.org" to resolve to the loopback address, you get a response to your DNS question that says "www.redhat.org resolves to the following IP address: 127.0.0.1". Then, your web browser tries to connect to that IP. If you're running a web server, you see the output. No packets are ever "routed" to that IP address. I own a domain... I might have one of the hostnames resolve to 192.168.0.1. That would have some very interesting results on certain networks. --Derek
RE: [expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card.
If you don't have permission to access the server, ask your ISP why? -sen nixien writes: Hi Sen and all Thank you for taking time replying my email. Having read your email, I tried to browse www.opensound.com, unfortunately, I don't have permission to access the server. Do you why or where else I can get the same thing. ? Thanks again Sen. Appreciate any suggestions. Rgds, Nixien -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of S. Newhouse Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 3:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card. It does not exist. You can find a beta version of a driver (Vortex chipset driver) at www.opensound.com. At this time it only supports playback and it costs $10 (not much if you want to support opensound IMHO) unless you want to keep restarting the evaluation version. But the playback is quite good. -sen Hi all, In need to install sound module. I'm using Dell Dimension XpS R400 which came with Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card, PCI. I have no idea what sound module suitable for it and where to get it. I tried to recompile the kernel and gone through the sound module list in menuconfig. There are several sound module with montego name associated, would someone tell me which one is suitable for my case. There aren't suitable where can I get it. Thanks in advance. Rgds, Nixien
[expert] VNC Server
I am using VNC Server on my Linux box. Till yesterday I was able to use VNC Viewer on my WIn95 machine. Now, all I get is a semi refreshed screen and it hangs. The Xclient file on my X11 dir is looking for etc/sysconfig/desktop file. I don't seem to have that file. Can anyone tell me what it contains, and if it is not critical can some email me the file. I assume that the absence of this file is the cause of my problem. I am using KDE on LM 6.0 with 2.2.9-27. Thanks Sridhar
Re: [expert] lp0 - no such device
Hi guys, As suggested I included modprobe to my rc.local and it worked. I am now wondering how it worked without these lines, before. Thanks Sridhar - Original Message - From: Derek Simkowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [expert] lp0 - no such device Well, I now found that my lp.o module is not being loaded at boot time. How do I make lp to load at boot time? Is the printer turned on and hooked up at boot??? Also, try typing "ntsysv" and make sure lpd is started at boot time. --Derek
[expert] Re: Mozilla/Netscape 5.0
Hi Ben, I thought I would share my answer to your messages with the Mandrake crowd and see what they make of it. Here it goes. Bear in mind that Mozilla is not Netscape 5.0. I am not sure if they share much if any code at all. I suspect that Netscape 5.0 will have SOME of Mozilla's work on it. The goals are totally different. Mozilla's goal is to have a slim, fast, efficient, standards compliant browser/email/news/java platform with a good set of API's for applications that want to hook into their code. This is the end result of the Open-Source/GPL crew that is working on it. Netscape/AOL's goal is a Browser that features shopping sites, channel bars (for advertising and shopping), and all sorts of bells, whistles and plug ins. For instance, things like Netscape Radio with its advertising, the built in MP3 decoder with sites that will SELL you the MP3 music, and all sorts of active content for businesses to put stuff on your screen, yours speakers and your brain. The difference will be about 2 MB vs 23 MB size. Make no mistake, Netscape 5.0 is NOT Mozilla. What begs the question is to what extent are the two camps committed to each other. I doubt that Netscape/AOL has any interest in the Mozilla project other than it can save them from paying to develop future Netscape versions or functionality. I think that AOL's vision is to have the core functionality of their future browsers be the Mozilla engine. For us Linux users, I seriously doubt that we are interested much in the additional 21 MB of code designed to promote the interests of advertising and marketing companies. The squabbles between AOL and the Mozilla project are rooted on this. You will hear a lot of protests that my words are off-base or not true, but every one of those voices has vested interest in masking the truth. Opera, with its price tag of about $40 can afford to develop a browser that is free of all the marketing stuff, which is why so far it fits on a floppy. While its not open source, and fully commercial, it is a stand-alone product that does not depend on free give away. Both Netscape and Microsoft give their browsers away for free. When did this all start? Answer: When the browsers became a gateway for advertising. Like "search buttons" that lead to advertising sites. Or lead to search engines that prioritize and order the search results based on the amount of money they are paid for. Or bookmarks that are predefined for you and is nothing but a listing of advertisers. Or for the Netcenter page showing on the email page when no message is selected, etc. etc. ad-nauseam. As both Mozilla, now at milestone 10, and Netscape 5.0 approach release date, you will see a lot of this come to a head. You will see either a bloated Mozilla, or a Netscape 5.0 that takes over their coding and embelishes it, or the two camps split and Mozilla becomes a force of its own. Then they lose the AOL money and who knows what happens next. My take on it is that ALL of us will be losers on this whole fiasco. Stay tuned, we will see this all work out by year's end most likely. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] VNC Server
The Xclient file on my X11 dir is looking for etc/sysconfig/desktop file. I don't seem to have that file. Can anyone tell me what it contains, and if it is not critical can some email me the file. I consider this a bug in Mandrake, but I am too lazy to report it. It is a "missing" file, but an unimportant one. First, this missing file has nothing to do with your VNC problem. Next, if the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop contains the word "GNOME", and you have Gnome installed, then that will be your default desktop environment. If it says "KDE", and you have KDE installed, that will be your default desktop environment. If that file does not exist, and you have both KDE and GNOME, it will default to KDE (bah!). If you do not have KDE or GNOME installed, and that file does not exist, it tries to run AnotherLevel. If that fails, it tries FVWM2. See the file /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients for the exact script I'm talking about. Regarding the VNC problem, try restarting your Windows box...? --Derek
