> libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.76mdk
> libstdc++3.0-3.0.4-2mdk
> libstdc++2.10-devel-2.96-0.76mdk
> [steven]$
>
> Thanks to anyone who read this message.
Hmmm, well a
which cpp
for me (Mdk 8.1) returns
/usr/bin/cpp
and a
rpm -q -f `which cpp`
tells me the file b
that he doesn't have a clue and just wants to
> bash 8.2. Fine.
Well, OK, but he did apparently like 8.1 a great deal. He's obviously
not simply out to get Mandrake.
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|Camosun Colleg
eviously
been a customer who had used this email address, but who was no longer
a customer. So they reused the email address.
Unfortunately the ex-customer still had at least something on her
machine configured with her former email address, so when *she* got
the virus and it started sending out email
anet. Scottish know-how would be a very
god thing to have.
And English knowhow isn't to be sneezed at either. Newton, Priestley,
John Harrison (inventor of the chronometer), ALAN TURING
As usual, attempting to characterise an entire race/nation falls far
short of the truth...
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of VMWare at work on a system that
migrated from Mdk6.0 to 6.1 to 7.1 to 7.2 all with no difficulty.
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ut it doesn't seem worth it.
It would take maybe an hour to become productive - if that.
Moreover, I just discovered infodock, an IDE built atop of XEmacs by
the good people at BeOpen. Runs a treat on my 8.2 system
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Thus spake Michael Holt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
> p.s. just to stay on topic, VI is the best!!! ;-p
How can a falsehood be on topic? :-)
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it'll be quicker than waiting for someone else to
reply)
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
ng for it (unless
you're using Solaris).
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|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 2
You are going to have a hell of a time being pedantic if you can not
> even spell...
True, but it did leave me open for your salvo...:-)
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|ema
Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> All,
>
>To the developers at Mandrake Kudo's all around.
I hate to be pedantic, but "kudos" is a) singluler b) all lower
case. It's from the Greek.
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hat's the
only way I've found to capture webcasts. Of course, this means the
sound is going through a redundant DAC-ADC process. If you come up
with a smarter way, do let us know.
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|Camosun Colle
Thus spake Tristan Lanfrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Is it possible to use Alsa drivers on FreeBSD ?
> If it's possible please could you tell me how to do that.
Given that ALSA is the Advanced LINUX Sound Architecture I think
you're on your own.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Scien
ifferent places who have
different views on "the rules".
The grammar checkers I've encountered were evidently written by people
who believed this and who also seemed to feel that one should never
write for anyone with a mental age in double figures.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer S
build an SMP system out of cpus
with different clock speeds, but I suspect that putting them on the
same motherboard (certainly *not* a factor in mainframe days) might
well pose almost insuperable difficulties.
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ich, I believe, is the default),
> anyway, it's not a bad idea to disable protocol 1. Most of the clients are
> now 'protocol 2 able' anyway.
If it's a linux client, be sure to get the latest openssh (3.0.2p1)
which fixes a security hole which (IIRC) ignored hosts.allow an
one time low-level formatting
IDE drives was verboten.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|pho
f 15GB and 23GB...
I am baffled.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone:
some kind of warning to
that effect. MandrakeUpdate offers the option of security updates and
included the kernel in the list of available updates.
>
> Or read the Black Magic of Updating piece I wrote for MandrakeSecure:
>
> http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php
I shall do s
OK, the forced reinstall of the distro kernel worked and I can now mount
my CD-ROM.
My questions about the installing of a new kernel rpm remain
though. What should I have done as a post-install? And why wasn't I told?
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ssing something? I'm trying to fit all this in between teaching
classes, so I rarely get more than a few minutes to think about it at
a time, so if I am missing something incredibly obvious, please
someone put me out of my misery and everybody else accept my
apologies...
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PM, which probably7
didn't get installed.
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|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +
ns, but I can't understand how the
install can have failed to establish the need for is9660 (as I did
install from CD after all) and it's been so long since I messed with
kernel configuration etc that I can't remember how to fix the problem
(quickly).
Any suggestions?
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|Deryk Barker,
the reason that was given by the development team
> as to why Zope was dropped from the distro.
Which doesn't explain why it's still in the "Corporate Server 1.0.1"
distro...
Security may be a problem, but I feel Mandrake should simply have
warned us - this removal of a pr
Thus spake Charles A Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:47:36 -0800
> Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've just finished installing 8.1 on two machines - both previously
> > running 7.2
> >
> > Although I am plea
home, was first ameliorated
buy the post-instal process there, then came the one at work, and I'm
still in the post-install.
Am I simply howling at the moon?
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It
or can I just swap a few symlinks
> around?
Can't you adjust fstab? Is your boot sector on this SCSI disk, BTW -
you don't say. That would make a difference. Or would it? Hmmm, if it
were the only bootable device, presumably the MB would boot from it.
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simply replaced
security.sh with a script that does nothing. I'm behind a hardware
firewall so I don't think I'm compromising much here.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened
to where to look next, I'd be happy
to hear them.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
o play but not output anything. Can the output be verified in
> > some way?
>
> Then the problem could be a faulty cable, the cable that comes out of the
> CDrom and plugs into the Sound Card. There's no other explanation... hmmm
Said cable could, as in my system, be mis
Thus spake Nelson Bartley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm not sure what the issue is with your setup, however I managed to get my
> seti client running perfectly right out of the tar.gz file.
Me too, ditto the xsetiahome display client.
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ur home system's display
there will amost certainly be problems.
I'm not sure why you'd want to do this.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to.
gured
> itself, you have lost me.
VMWare provides a *complete* virtual environment, including its own
BIOS. So yes, you can configure its boot device to be the CDROM.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canad
are that VMWare provides virutally are very small.
You need to install W98 inside VMWare. Use the configuration wizard to
configure a VM and then boot the VM with an installation medium
(e.g. CD) of W98 in the boot device.
I know it works, because I've done it.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer S
; Obviously, that file does not exist. Can you advise?
When you have all your levels the way you want them, you need to
create that file by:
alsactl store
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be
hose at any moment, type "alsactl
> restore."
Or put this in your conf.modules:
post-install snd-mixer /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has
ands. Nothing
tinny or fuzzy about the sound at all (even on digitised 20-year-old
cassettes).
Have you tried the ALSA drivers?
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened
there is no
> such command, so what am i supposed to use???
If your system doesn't have the make command the install is seriously
incomplete.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to.
; hand, if you use a package like VMware, now that should likely work.
Actually I'm not convinced that it will. VMWare can only support
devices that the host OS (in this case LInux) supports.
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|Camosun College, Victor
Thus spake Tyler Longren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Greg,
>
> I believe you're right. I've heard of people getting IE 5 for Unix to work
> before. I'm not sure if they were using WINE or not though.
Of course it works under VMWare...:-)
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|Deryk Barker, Computer
an SB-live
KSoundrecord works spiffily - in fact I keep filling up my 10GB
partition! (I'm currently digitising old tapes and have already burned
25 CDs with another several to go).
(KSoundrecorder uses either sox or sound-recorder)
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept
t back in 1988
when I started using it)
Nor is completion a new feature in bash; emacs has long had filename
completion and was it the C shell which also did?
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be li
and which Linux doesn't (and is
highly unlikely ever to) support.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
to do the same cheaper, but factor in your time to set it up
and...
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
if you want to boot from a CDROM which is
on a different ID you have to tell the firmware, but I can't remember
how, not having done this in about 5 years.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada|
roduce one when you know that 99% of systems
would not get caught. And 99% of MS systems would...:-)
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|emai
Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[..]
> I've appended a Python script which I wrote a couple of years ago to
> do exactly this and for eactly the same reason. (It also allows for
> uppercasing names and initial capitalising if you wish)
Sorry, I should probably have men
ar with Python, but it does
work.
> 2. Change all tags within htm files () that is, the
> path and file name , to lowerecase. For example, HREF="InfoSys/P_Directory/Index.htm"> to HREF="infosys/p_directory/index.htm">
I can't offhand recall how I did thi
Thus spake Nightwriter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Mike,
> Challenge met NRZI Non Return to Zero.. Here are some links hehe
Isn't it Non Return to Zero *Inverted*?
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Can
the one system was
cooled using water from an ornamental lake (is there one near the
Pentagon itself?). Came winter and the lake froze; the system went
down.
Fortunately the Russians knew nothing of this...
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camo
all
the books, was 134.5 baud. I seem to recall this speed was used by the
comms version of the IBM Selectric typewriter, which was used as a
mainframe console. (I suspect they were aiming for 135 - or maybe 150,
which was another standard rate - and missed).
Happy days
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|Deryk Barker, Compu
age, rather that every machine would have an
*equivalent*. The first version of FORTRAN (IBM704) had a number of
machine specific features.
COBOL and LISP both date from around 1959.
> Personally I love Assembler.
I believe help is available...:-)
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80's on how to program in RPG. The
> funny thing was, that even though we were using terminals, we still
> had punch-card emulators and had to have everything in EXACTLY the
> right column and the right "card." Talk about annoying! :-)
Well RPG, like COBOL and FORTRAN (and many
he program
then spent a few minutes running it. Must have been great fun...
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
program I ever wrote, 1968 Fortan for an IBM
7090)
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +
> mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
> card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern
> moterhboards.
Those old fridge-sized drives we used on mainframes in the Good Old
Days (tm) also had controllers which were in cabinets larger than th
ore than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than
> $2,500.
>
> Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?
I have lying on a shelf a 137MB drive that cost me around $1500 in
1990.
And I remember 100MB drive which cost $30,000 - mind you this was in
the 70s.
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|Deryk Barker, Comp
the thinking has been done for them.
How true. For a well-reasoned counterblast to the all-pervasive GUI,
Neil Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line" is an
excellent read.
One small analogy he makes: a car would be much easier to drive using
a GUI. But a *lot* m
king lab
assignments which ran away. ulimit did actually control this.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
r they won't be able to run *anything* - bash (and other shells)
fork a new process for each command.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to.
and/or
educational use. Well worth it IMHO.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 37
/etc/fstab
The easiest way is probably to use linuxconf, go to File systems, then
Access local drive, click on the device in the list and the opup
tabbed window contains a tab Dos options, in which you can specify a
default user id and a default group id to be used when the partition
is moun
rrect, intended behavior on HP-UX?
Not to mention the question of quota. Can anyone "give" you a massive
file and chew up all your remaining quota?
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listene
rly wrong; does anybody know
> why it happens?
I don't think it's wrong. How would you like to have a user write a
setuid script and then make you the owner?
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victo
arts reading only when things go wrong!
>
> That's me too. Have resolved also my problems with your hint :
> set X graphics to 16 bit
Has anyone tried it with the updated win-toppage (0.92?) which
allegedly does 24-bit colour? I installed it and when I type toppage
-e I simply
c1MB
supporting 200 users. Compare to today's Unices Multics was a resource
miser.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
& 7 were in "outer
darkness" without even access to the system libraries.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
bowed out of the computer
business in 1971.
>
> The operative word is "loved" =)
Well there are still a couple of sites running it, but you don't stop
loving something just 'cos it's dead...
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be underst
ot in the early 60s it wasn't. Multics went live in 1969 and Unix
wasn't begun until bell Labs pulled out of the project, later that
year IIRC.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listene
Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is a close
> second . . .
Sorry folks, but Multics was the perfect OS. All others are
imitations.
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stalls
telnet but not telnetd. it is there but is easy not to install.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
would like them to run under winblows.
Probably not. When I tried installed umm, Adaptec whatever-it's-called
it said it couldn't find a known CD writer. I have a Yamaha SCSI
CDRW. Mind you I don't know how old a copy of the Adaptec software
this was.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Scien
on of one of the
standard DLLs? VBRUN300.DLL appears with virtually every package you
install.
And, according to an article about this very issue in the late
lamented Byte, MS doesn't even use version numbers in its libraries
properly, sometimes chaging the code but not the number, sometimes
v
Thus spake Michael Holt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I believe it's just semantics (IMHO).
Given that the word "semantics" relates to *meaning* I fail to see how
anything can be "just" semantics.
(Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves)
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science De
indoze-based ones; I can understand omeone
not taking to it.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|ph
ord doc it choked too, but that was a much older
> version.
I've been happily using Applixware for some 18 months. It's imported
Word-7 Excel-7, Lotus 123 and even a 120+ overhead Powerpoint 7
presentation.
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understo
s?
I noticed a similar thing. Actually on my home machine, which I'd
previously configured to have the user listed, they vanished. On my
office machine, which I hadn't configured this way, they appeared. All
except for one. Me.
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