Re: Related to thread: which UNIX to use, but offtopic

2002-05-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:55 AM 5/30/02 +0530, Sridhar J wrote: >Hi > >Something offtopic, but one question, what is a hardware modem and what is a >software modem? A "hardware modem" uses a standard modem chipset to implement the modem functionality (encoding the computer's digital signal in an analog signal sui

Subject: Hardware Modem

2002-05-29 Thread pericles
Sridhar wrote: > Something offtopic, but one question, what is a hardware > modem and what is a software modem? More experienced Linux users will have better answers, but let me try to answer. Older modems connected to i286, i386, i486, etc., and older machines, via an RS-232 serial interface. T

Related to thread: which UNIX to use, but offtopic

2002-05-29 Thread Sridhar J
Hi Something offtopic, but one question, what is a hardware modem and what is a software modem? Regards Sridhar -Original Message- From: Raider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:29 AM To: David Benfell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: which UNIX to use (was: Re

Re: Shutdown / Halt Problem - Bad EIP Value

2002-05-29 Thread David Stroupe
Brent Eckhout wrote: > I'm not sure if I can capture the console messages as the system is shutting > down. I tried killing klogd process and restarting with -f (file) option to > see if the messages could be written to a file. However, it looks file > system is closed and the klogd is shut

Re: Shutdown / Halt Problem - Bad EIP Value

2002-05-29 Thread Brent Eckhout
I'm not sure if I can capture the console messages as the system is shutting down. I tried killing klogd process and restarting with -f (file) option to see if the messages could be written to a file. However, it looks file system is closed and the klogd is shut down before the system execute

Re: Open Office - printing

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Bilbrey
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 16:21, Dan Bentson-Royal wrote: > I feel foolish - I am trying to print from OpenOffice and started > reading the built-in help. The very Ffirst thing I am told to do is > "Click the New Printer button." and I absolutely cannot find that. /path/to/OpenOffice.org1.0/spadmi

Open Office - printing

2002-05-29 Thread Dan Bentson-Royal
I feel foolish - I am trying to print from OpenOffice and started reading the built-in help. The very Ffirst thing I am told to do is "Click the New Printer button." and I absolutely cannot find that. There is a printer icon in a toolbar, but it is for printing directly to the default printer

Re: which UNIX to use (was: Re: which distribution to use?)

2002-05-29 Thread Raider
Well... keep it simple: BSD is on the traditional side of Unix. Linux... is on the "cool" side. The kernel, which has nothing to do with the home user and rather with the server admin, is better. But Linux is catching on. The driver database and the app list, which has everything to do with th

Init process and threads

2002-05-29 Thread jorgefm
Hi ! I have a little question about creating linux threads inside the process init. Is there some limitation in the clone() function when the parent id is 1? I was trying the 'pthread_create()' call in the init process code but it nevers returns. The same code in a child process, in the same modu