Re: idiocy
An unnamed Administration source, Matthew Carpenter, wrote: % While I am very upset with this move, I would not be inclined to dismiss the % teeth of these allegations. % SCO owns code which was licensed to IBM for use in AIX. % IBM has been sinking HUGE assets and time and mind-share into Linux, % obviously hurting SCO in their big-hitters. So? That doesn't translate into misappropriating trade secrets. % It will probably be tough to prove that IBM has not misappropriated their % personnel such that people who have seen the code for certain Unix libraries % have worked on the betterment of Linux... in a way that violates their % license. Uh, here in America, you have to prove guilt, not innocence. It's up to SCO to prove beyond reasonable doubt that what they allege _did_ happen; it's not up to IBM to prove that SCO's allegations are false. Moreover, SCO's filing carefully avoids *any* discussion of BSD Unix, and it is hardly a secret that ATT and BSD *xen have borrowed heavily from each other over the years. SCO's filing also conveniently ignores the USL v. Cal Berkeley and BSDi lawsuit, and the fact that it was settled in Berkeley's and BSDi's favor. Finally, SCO talks about trade secrets, not about copyrighted code or patented algorithms. SCO has perniciously misstated Unix and Linux history, and the history of their own company. It was Caldera that gave Alan Cox the SMP machine he used to develop SMP support for Linux, for example. % Scoff at the management of SCO for being so incredibly idiotic and childish, % but their lawsuit will no doubt make IBM stand up and take notice. Of course the lawsuit will make IBM notice - if someone filed a frivolous billion dollar lawsuit against me, I'd certainly notice. That said, this has turned into a PR nightmare for SCO, and it ain't over yet. It's only going to get worse. Kurt -- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge!
An unnamed Administration source, Gerry Doris, wrote: % http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/212241 % % % News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge! (Score:5, Funny) % by Newer Guy (520108) on Monday March 10, @06:03PM (#5481084) % % % In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic % merger with SCO unix. The merged company - to be called RAMBO - will be % poised to respond to the challenges of the 21st century Chairman David Boies % said today. We are in the enviable position of controlling both hardware and % software Intellectual property Boies also announced Rambo's decision to sue % Microsoft for the use of the name windows. and it's use for networking. I % came up with the idea of windows networking 30 years ago Boies said. When I % was a kid I opened the window and yelled to my friends that it was time to % play baseball. This involved using a window to spread information to them. In % other words, Windows networking [chuckle, smirk, guffaw, snort] Kurt -- Committee, n.: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: idiocy
begin Kurt Wall's quote: | It's up to | SCO to prove beyond reasonable doubt that what they allege _did_ | happen; it's not up to IBM to prove that SCO's allegations are | false. right, with one proviso: the standard in a civil case is preponderence of the evidence, bot reasonable doubt. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
This might help. http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:16:40 -0800 - Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: Question On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:11:30PM -0600, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie Thanks, actually I was playing with gimp. It has an acquire selection, it gets the whole window. I now can select that which I need. Way Gimp. Now if somebody could tell me how to get screen shots during the installation process to use documentating things like advanced partitioning... Currently I have a digital camera on a tripod behind me with a remote trigger. Getting the color balance right is a bit tricky. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ What's this script do? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out. (Contributed by Frans van der Zande.) ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
Oh boy. What will they do next. I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this debian stuff seems awfully convenient) and now all is fine. rantIt sure is great having all these choices in linux. Makes you wonder why linux hasn't taken over the desktop yet. Seriously, if a vi like editor is good, why really do we need several clones, which really do the same thing. You would think that authors would just keep working to make one vi clone the standard and highly convenient to use so as to attract more users. In actuality, all they are doing is solving the same problem over and over. /rant Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: idiocy
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:47:47AM -0500, dep wrote: begin Kurt Wall's quote: | It's up to | SCO to prove beyond reasonable doubt that what they allege _did_ | happen; it's not up to IBM to prove that SCO's allegations are | false. right, with one proviso: the standard in a civil case is preponderence of the evidence, bot reasonable doubt. The standard in a civil trial in the U.S. is really the amount of money the lawyers can extract from all parties involved. I would modify the ``loser pays'' used in some places in Europe to require the lawyers of the loser to pay, not the people they're representing. Of course would be very difficult to implement in the U.S. where the vast majority of legislators are lawyers, the Democratic party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the ATLA (American Trial Lawyers Association), and here in the state of Washington, the judges routinely throw out citizen initiatives that threaten the power of the policitions. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work.'' (Chairman of Walt Disney Television Telecommunications) ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:43:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Oh boy. What will they do next. I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this debian stuff seems awfully convenient) and now all is fine. rantIt sure is great having all these choices in linux. Makes you wonder why linux hasn't taken over the desktop yet. Seriously, if a vi like editor is good, why really do we need several clones, which really do the same thing. You would think that authors would just keep working to make one vi clone the standard and highly convenient to use so as to attract more users. In actuality, all they are doing is solving the same problem over and over. /rant Vi clones have a long history, and I think that elvis was available long before vim (the first time I would ever even think of using a DOS box was about 1990 when I found elvis and perl that ran on DOS). If there weren't multiple choices, we would still be stuck with elvis. I doubt that the target audience for the Wal-Mart Lindows box would know the difference between vi, elvis, and vim. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.'' ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: This might help. http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. I got reasonable results using the digital camera on a tripod. It's still not perfect, but workable. The draft I'm working on can be seen here: http://support.celestial.com/doc/installsuse81/ This is a bit better than my first try I changed the angle of the screen to be vertical rather than slightly tilted up which minimized the trapezoid effect. The camera was tilted slightly so the shots aren't perfectly framed, but it's probably close enough for government work. One thing I found out very early is that a long exposure is necessary to get the screen image correct. These shots were all made using with a manual setting 1 second exposure at F-11 aperture. I tried various WB (White Balance) settings, ending up on the Olympus 2020 Zoom's AUTO setting. This got the screen pretty well, but the monitor body was a fairly dark reddish brown. I did a rough edit using the gimp on the images, basically cropping out the monitor body, then Image-Colors-Levels-Auto to get them to their current state. Finally I wrote a very simple shell script that processed these edited images with the ImageMagik ``convert'' program to create consistently sized images for the web documentation: for image in images.raw/*.jpg ; do fname=`basename $image` convert -geometry 800x600 $image images/$fname convert -geometry 400x300 $image thumbnails/$fname done Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves. -- Lenny Bruce ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: idiocy
On Saturday 15 March 2003 01:52 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: I would modify the ``loser pays'' used in some places in Europe to require the lawyers of the loser to pay, not the people they're representing. The only problem I see is that unless the lawyer feels the loser will have a lot of capital to loose, they won't want to bother with the case, but it would be a major improvment. Harry G ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:22:13 -0800 - Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: Question On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: This might help. http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. I dont know if it will work on other distros or not. Seems reasonable that the software to capture would have to reside and run on a different machine than the one being installed to. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
Whew. Close call on this one. The man page says that rm comes configured to require a y response to erase anything. I tried this out and this was not true. So, I made an alias: alias rm=rm -i I tried it out and this time I was asked to respond to each file being erased. Image my chagrin, however, when I saw what I had typed. Instead of: rm junk* I had typed: rm junk * What a difference a single space makes! I suspect that rm sould not have removed directories, but, I am not going to experiment to find out now. Joel Yes, the rm stuff is important. I'll have to make sure I alias the rm command to something less damaging. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote: % Oh boy. What will they do next. % % I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new % lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement % for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this debian stuff seems awfully % convenient) and now all is fine. Assuming you like vim, yes. % rantIt sure is great having all these choices in linux. Makes you % wonder why linux hasn't taken over the desktop yet. Seriously, if a vi % like editor is good, why really do we need several clones, which really % do the same thing. You would think that authors would just keep working % to make one vi clone the standard and highly convenient to use so as % to attract more users. In actuality, all they are doing is solving the % same problem over and over. /rant The same reason we have multiple word processors, databases, spreadsheets, and graphics programs for Windows. Kurt -- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: [clippety clip] % I doubt that the target audience for the Wal-Mart Lindows box would know % the difference between vi, elvis, and vim. But they might appreciate vigor. ;-) Kurt -- Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: % On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: % This might help. % http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ % % Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention, you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the RAM disk's /tmp filesystem. You had to move them out of /tmp before rebooting because they would go away, but it was a darn handy feature for taking screenshots for manuals and such. In your case, Bill, you might be able to send the console output to a serial port and take your screenshots that way. Another method is to load the console framebuffer and then do, more or less, # cp /dev/fb0 somefile I don't know what the output format is, but this is a start. Kurt -- A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
Joel Hammer wrote inter alia: Image my chagrin, however, when I saw what I had typed. Instead of: rm junk* I had typed: rm junk * What a difference a single space makes! I suspect that rm sould not have removed directories, but, I am not going to experiment to find out now. That is why we dactylographically challenged compute(w)rists appreciate GUI. I remember my delight upon installing PC Tools Deluxe on my first DOS computer. I was able to graft and prune my directories without wreaking havoc (again) on my installation. I still fire up my DOS box from time to time and remind myself that there is software, and great software, like PC Tools, pfs Pro Write, and of course, Word Perfect 6.2. -- Leon A. Goldstein Powered by Caldera WS 3.1.1 Linux System LI D850MVL ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: What's after OpenLinux?
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:49:52 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux boxes pretty soon. Principles you know... Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest to OpenLinux in as far as directory locations and system V startup scripts? Well... I've come to the conclusion that gentoo is the next OS for use here at home. It's... self hosting, highly configurable and a ton of fun. What I find most useful of all... nearly 4000 packages are available for it. It'll take a bit of effort to see how it fits into business setting... but it looks very promising. That said, good night all. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 9:00pm up 67 days, 2:34, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.11, 0.09 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
Yes, but at least they give them different names! I heard some guru's complaining that the menus in lindows were labelled generically, eg. web browser instead of netscape. Calling elvis,vi, and vim all vi is really confusing. Joel The same reason we have multiple word processors, databases, spreadsheets, and graphics programs for Windows. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good
An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote: % Yes, but at least they give them different names! I heard some guru's % complaining that the menus in lindows were labelled generically, eg. web % browser instead of netscape. Calling elvis,vi, and vim all vi is really % confusing. Agreed. Slackware install elvis as the default vi but also ships vim xvim (bleah). I've become too accustomed to elvis' peculiarities and care for vim's habit of dropping .viminfo in my home directory without my permission. Grmph. Kurt -- A new dramatist of the absurd Has a voice that will shortly be heard. I learn from my spies He's about to devise An unprintable three-letter word. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: What's after OpenLinux?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:04:00 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:49:52 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux boxes pretty soon. Principles you know... Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest to OpenLinux in as far as directory locations and system V startup scripts? Well... I've come to the conclusion that gentoo is the next OS for use here at home. It's... self hosting, highly configurable and a ton of fun. What I find most useful of all... nearly 4000 packages are available for it. It'll take a bit of effort to see how it fits into business setting... but it looks very promising. That said, good night all. Welcome to the dark side! grin ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Phoenix and Realplayer
Does anyone now how to get realplayer to work with phoenix? I've got RealPlayer8 installed, and it works fine with konqueror (realplay is launched and plays the recording). Phoenix about:plugins shows that it recognizes the realplay plugin - everything looks correct. Everytime I select a realplay recording, I get an error box saying that the item can't be opened, and it looks like it's trying to open it with realplay. Any ideas? -- Collins ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: % On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: % This might help. % http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ % % Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention, you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the RAM disk's /tmp filesystem. You had to move them out of /tmp before rebooting because they would go away, but it was a darn handy feature for taking screenshots for manuals and such. Is that ctrl-d documented somewhere? In your case, Bill, you might be able to send the console output to a serial port and take your screenshots that way. Another method is to load the console framebuffer and then do, more or less, # cp /dev/fb0 somefile I don't know what the output format is, but this is a start. That could be interesting, particularly if (a) it's portable on the versions of Linux I want to document, and (b) the format is something useful. It could require a fair quantity of ramdisk as the JPEG files from my 2.1 megapixel camera required a bit over 25MB before cropping and cleaning up with the gimp. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.'' -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:35:02PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: .. Well, maybe I've been siffing too much glue here, but if you just want screenshots of what you're doing, why don't you just do the install in a vmware box and use xv to grab the shots you want? That's a reasonable approach unless a vmware install would be substantially different somehow than a normal installation. It would also require that I buy vmware which has been low on my round tuit list. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?'' -- Patrick Henry June 9, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Sound Servers on Linux - What the?
Folks I have mandrake 9.0 on a Via main board /etc/modules.conf has alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio in it and I can play mp3 using the default xmms install fine My problem is I can't put a music cd in and play it. I have tried playing cd's in xine, grip, kscd, xmms etc. and they all play the cd but no sound comes out. Can anyone point me in the right direction... Is it something to do with the soundservers or a device the players can't find? Thanks James McDonald ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
CONSIDER IT
FROM:Mr.UKA KALU, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT ECO BANK PLC OF NIGERIA. I am Mr. Uka Kalu, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of ECO BANK PLC LAGOS NIGERIA BRANCH. With due respect and regard, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us. During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on October 31st 1997 in a auto crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank since 1996 without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation. A close investigation revealed that the deceased has no existing relation as next of kin. The said amount is U.S $13million, I want you to collaborate with me to put a claim on this money as the next of kin of the deceased account holder, Mr Duckson Fritz.I and my colleague will present you as the next of kin. Meanwhile all arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to your designated foreign bank account has been putin place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us in this risk free and highly confidential transaction. On your reply, we shall discuss the sharing ratio for each party to this transaction. Please feel free to contact me immediately via mail for further directive and or clarification on this transaction. I look forward to a mutual beneficial business relationship with you. Best wishes, UKA KALU Note: You can as well reply me through this email address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ http://www.latinmail.com. Gratuito, latino y en español. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:14:00PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention, you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the RAM disk's /tmp filesystem. You had to move them out of /tmp before rebooting because they would go away, but it was a darn handy feature for taking screenshots for manuals and such. Is that ctrl-d documented somewhere? No. In your case, Bill, you might be able to send the console output to a serial port and take your screenshots that way. Another method is to load the console framebuffer and then do, more or less, # cp /dev/fb0 somefile I don't know what the output format is, but this is a start. That could be interesting, particularly if (a) it's portable on the versions of Linux I want to document, and (b) the format is something useful. It could require a fair quantity of ramdisk as the JPEG files from my 2.1 megapixel camera required a bit over 25MB before cropping and cleaning up with the gimp. It should be portable, provided the Linux you have has framebuffer support and the machines have reasonable, VESA-compliant graphics adapters. Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
A gentoo nugget...
I was just getting ready to go to bed and I remembered that I forgot... :') I stumbled onto two really, really nice compiler tools today. One is named CCACHE and the other is DISTCC. The first one (ccache) caches object files of previous compiler runs and feeds them back if the current compiler run can use a cached object. I've just tried it on a couple of compile runs with xfree86. It shaved off about 10 minutes... The only catch is, the cache takes up a lot of room... The advantage is, back to back compiles of source code can be GREATLY speededup by using it. Now it won't be so painful to try different ./configure tweaks of those large source code projects. The second one (DISTCC) is a really niffty project, one that will take a bit of time for me to implement... distcc is a distributed compiler. In reality it's a frontend to all the compilers you allow it to use. You can compile a single project across several computers on a network... This my, friends, is going to be the cats meow! Parallel processing with a useful purpose. If anyone is interested, I'll post the url's tomorrow. Cheers and goodnight. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 10:21pm up 67 days, 3:55, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
