>but the question is..with 2way satellite web service on
>the horizon now,what type modems will they require. From what I've
seen so
>far it looks like usb. What are the odds one of these will work in
Linux?
For the one I've seen, exactly zilch. Nada, fugedaboudit. Reading the
fine print reveals
>> listen <010:atm1.7530>
>> listen <010:atm120.7080>
[...]
>> How I can extract of the second column since ':' to '.'
>> example:
>> <010:atm1.7530> atm1
>> <010:atm120.7080> atm120
>
>cat datafilename | gawk -F: '{ print $2 }' | gawk -F. '{ print $1 }'
> outfile
>
or
$ cut -f 2 -d : datafile|
OK, I know this is a long shot, but has anyone gotten *ANYTHING* to
talk to a Sony DSC-S70? I'm running LM7.2, and I can't find anything
which ships with it or on the net that will retrieve the pictures.
It's connected via a USB port, not a regular serial, and I do have
the USB drivers starting o
OK, here are some history lessons. I know this is pretty far afield
of the bash question, but seems like a good place to bring it up.
These first ones are about Unix, which predates GNU and Linux.
Remember, Unix came from the telephone company, not a computer
company.
This is long and very
>> http://www.d.kth.se/~d96-jja/bash/bashtut.html#history
>> Basically it's the GNU replacement for sh.
>> > Does anyone know where bash came from?
>Origenally there was the bourne shell in unix, when linus needed a
shell
>he revived it,improved it and called it the bourne again shell or
bash
>!!
>I'm a bit stuck with the tar commands. I would like to tar the
entire
>path: /usr/share/apps
>
>Can some one help?
This will create a compressed archive with relative path which is
restricted to apps/files
$ cd /usr/share
$ tar czf apps.tgz apps/
This will create a compressed archive but hav
Yes, mine have been, but if it gets rid of the dual posts then I
supposed it's OK.
>Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time,
like
>up to 24 hours?
>What I tell you. It's monster. How do you kill this? What did that
>character say in Lost in Space? KILL, something or other, DESTROY!
Do you mean IDAK? Instant Destroyer And Killer
Well, I've seen a lot of "because the other guy is bad" stuff. And I've
seen a lot of "I want my computer more stable" stuff. But neither of
those really address the reasons I've been fooling with Linux for years.
And none of my reasons may be meaningful to you. The context in which I
run Linux i
>Can it be done or will I need to make a dos boot disc?
>
>I have only Linux on here, no dos or windows.
That's pretty much determined by the MoBo manufacturer. We're talking
about hard core down in nuts and bolts hardware here. Way, way, way
before any OS gets involved in the picture. You'll jus
KA7ZNZ
Michael
>Here a Ham, there a Ham, everywhere a Ham Ham : )
>
>KC4KSC
>
>
>
>On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Vic wrote:
>> Hey are you a ham? I am
>> N0VED
>>
>> 73
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote:
>> > Mark,
>> >
>> > Very good comment! With 100+ messages a day from [newbie] and
[expe
>When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary
>server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting.
>
>My question is:
>
>Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my
>Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically
>> Side note here on PMFIREWALL
>>
>> I installed it day before yesterday, ran the script. Was very easy -
mostly
>> I accepted defaults. Then I ran a scan on my system. Much to my
surprise,
>> I was wide open on ALL my udp ports... Reran the setup looking for
what may
They may not be ope
>> After I hit the shut down button, Mandrake begins
>> a shut down sequence. And the machine actually beeps stating that
it's
>> shutting down but immediately after it shuts down, it auto reboots
itself.
This is a hardware problem, particularly with a lot of older machines.
You've got APM enabl
LinuxCAD claims to be a Visio replacement. I've asked them about file
compatibility, etc. and they claim to be a "full featured" replacement.
I don't know if that's for Visio 2000 or Visio 5.0. Frankly, I've never
tried it out just because that's low on my priority list. The third
party ER tools w
Does anyone know if a Microsoft IntelliMouse Trackball's
wheel switch acts as a middle button?
Thx,
MB
Is anybody else having trouble sending emails to persons using
AOL? I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 after two months with
very little trouble.Emails sent to AOL addresses get returned
with the following message:
"
This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain.
I'm sorry to h
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> I personally went a
> little farther and bought a shareware package called
> Moneydance <http://moneydance.net/>.
So, of the people who use Moneydance, how is it?
Fantastic, not bad, or wouldn't buy it again?
MB
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Linux is
>i m new linux user too
>i dont know why all mails came to me .
All the emails come to everybody on the list. That's so everyone
can see both the questions and the answers.
>Given that there are different major groupings of linux
distributions
>(Red Hat, Debian, ), and that different release versions are not
directly
>comparible (like RH 6.1 vs. LM 7.0 which I understand to be basically
>comparible--using the same kernel revision, similar versions of major
>c
>Given that there are different major groupings of linux
distributions
>(Red Hat, Debian, ), and that different release versions are not
directly
>comparible (like RH 6.1 vs. LM 7.0 which I understand to be basically
>comparible--using the same kernel revision, similar versions of major
>c
Brian Livingston's column in InfoWorld has a rather frightening
revelation about ICANN, the body which ultimately controls many internet
domain names, is making changes to how they do business. For the details
see
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/24/000724oplivingston.xml
He gives t
>looking for the Kingston KNE110TX nic, and I did not see it,
>I read on RedHat or something that it simply takes a tulip driver,
I have had both the KNE100TX and the KNE110TX work with Mandrake. I
never had to do anything beyond the ordinary install, but some people
have had trouble.
Michael
Hey! Let's get real here. He's a guy offering to do a few friends a
favor, not a vendor going into the CD business. A dozen people take him
up on the offer and we all get a warm fuzzy about how tight the Linux
community is. 1200 people take him up on the offer and it will go away.
>:A quick look
===
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound alsa
alias eth0 tulip
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Linux is like a wigwam...
No windows, no gates.
Apache inside.
Check out the man pages for smbmount and smbmnt. This pair should do
what you want.
>I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux
box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server
>networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA.
>any time you type in the word you use to sign up for this message group
or to sign
>off. You get filtered, so we cannot tell someone how to get out of
here
>nor discuss any of the useful subjects like filtering.
We're talking about two different filtering mechanisms here. The
mandrake filter p
This "filtering" isn't done by Mandrake, but by someone's site who is
subscribed to the list. I've gotten a couple back from the same site
myself, related to some oddball word they considered "forbidden". Just
blow them off as paranoid. They're free to run their site any way they
feel.
I think th
>Does anyone know what IRQ is usually assigned to COM3? Thanks
Com1 and Com3 are traditionally IRQ4.
Com2 and Com4 are traditionally IRQ3.
(Don't ask me why the 3's didn't go together and the 4's didn't go
together. I've always thought that was stupid.)
>> > If your system dosn't get shutdown properly and some errors occur
on the
>> > harddrive, linux puts the files there which have been damaged.
To understand the lost+found folder you need to understand a little of
how Unix handles the filesystems. (OK, GNU/Linux, but that's
hairsplitting for t
>I downloaded the 7.02 ISO file to disk. I then tried copying the file
to a
>CD. The CD recording software (called just!Data) on my PC seems to
have
>just copied the .iso file onto the CD - there is no directory structure
or
>anything. Should the recording software have taken care of that, or I
a
use "ipconfig /all"
>Well that would work in win98, but I'm running win2k pro. and winipcfg
>doesn't work..
>What you want to find is an Xterminal application for Win32 like micro
>xterm or something (or like the aforementioned Exceed). Using one of
>these applications to log into a Unix machine running an X server, you
One minor nit. In the X world, the "server" is the program which
performs the draw
>Would you mind translating this into english?
>
>Dreja Julag wrote:
>
>> If you do beowulf, you usually need i386, right? cheap hardware --
fast
>> performance
Beowulf is an ancient English language epic... no wait, wrong list.
Beowulf is a Linux clustering technology. My observation was that
>I saw a screenshot on the mandrake site that had the linux operating
system
>running with a window open running windows.
This was probably VMWare. Check out www.vmware.com
>I need this because I have one
>of the only cable modems in the dang country that you have to force to
dial
>(it sends thr
>For a newbie: What is the most correct way to shutdown and restart
linux?
The easiest way is to login, or become, root and issue the shutdown
command. The su command will give you root access.
$ shutdown -h now
will bring the system down.
$ shutdown -r now
will reboot the system.
Some sys
>rant on
[...]
>until the Linux community gets this web browser "crap" resolved, to me,
>Linux ain't worth the CD it is shipped on.
[...]
>rant off
I hate to say it (again), but this is absolutely correct. To gain
widespread acceptance any Linux distribution *MUST* have a good browser,
a good e
>Has anyone installed qmail on Mandrake 7? If so, do you know of any
how-tos
>or whatever? I'd like to intall from rpm if possible.
It's not possible. The qmail license requires distribution in source
code format only. No precompiled binaries are allowed. (Unless it
changed recently.)
If you
Does anyone know of a *REASONABLY* priced 10/100 ISA Ethernet card? I
can find Intel and 3COM cards for about $150, but that's outrageous when
I can get a cheap switch for almost the same price.
Thanks,
Michael
>So I can install linux along with windows without
>destroying my data on the FAT32 partitions?
Yes, this does work. I've tried it once with 7.0
successfully. I allowed DiskDrake to resize an 8 GB
partition down to 2 GB. I don't know if I'd try it
without a good backup, though.
MB
Anyone know how to get xdm to blank the login prompt like a screen
saver?
I noticed that 7.0 has xfree86 3.3.6, which has support for Intel i810.
The xfree86 site claims that i810 support is disabled by default because
it requires a special kernel module.
Is that module supplied in the 2.2.14 kernel in 7.0 and is i810 support
enabled out of the box or not? Does anyone
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
Richard Stallman -- Boycott Amazon!.url
>Recently I installed a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and also a
Quantum
>Fireball Plus KA 18.1 GB hard drive (connected to the Promise Ultra66).
A
>couple weeks later, I installed an HP CD Writer Plus 9100i. After
>installing this hardware, my Windows NT Explorer no longer refreshes
the
>disket
>Of course, some company had to go and break that rule... That's right,
>there are now LinModems as well. Do yourself a favor and avoid them.
>There are better things for a CPU to be doing than the work of a $.50
>part on a modem.
I'm not so sure this a good long term strategy. I agree that usi
>Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that
>the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how
insert ^^NOT^^
>many people are willing to shoot the messenger. I'm not going to say
>that there aren't some first class butt he
>O.K. now the next step in the process. As most of you know, I have been
>setting up a network here at work using linux as my server. Samba to
let
>the window box's talk to the server. No I would like to add internal
>e-mail
When you go about setting things up you need to decide if you want
*ONL
>Take a hint. The filter is there for a reason. If you've got a
>complaint about it, take it up with HR. IS doesn't make the rules, it
>follows them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that
the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how
m
>If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory
>upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate
it.
>I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg
>chips (though I would like to buy 256 if I could find an affordable
>source).
>> But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or
even?
>>
>According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even.
I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero
isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The
>> But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or
even?
>>
>According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even.
I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero
isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The
>> But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or
even?
>>
>According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even.
I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero
isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The
>> But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or
even?
>>
>According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even.
I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero
isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The
on the browser and HTML mail reader.
It may be open source or it may not, but I'm confident it will be the
one who can make a profit.
MB
P.S. If you *REALLY* give a damn about Linux on the desktop, stop giving
the poor newbies such a hard time about the HTML tags in their email.
Get over it,
>Wow, they taught us CPM in trade school, kind of reminded me of
>DOS, it had a C compiler to build the executables and such.
You mean somebody taught you an OS?! The military taught us digital
theory on circuts built with individual transistors in TO3 cans, but
there wasn't any concept of "th
>>
>> Is it free? Can I get RPMs of it somewhere? If not, I'll pass
thanks.
>>
>I believe Sybase *is* free (for now... later versions MAY
>cost money.) Check out the following UR --
>http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/linux/index.html
This directly from the web page above. Download
e tried
> to type "sh" before the filename and am told "cannot execute binary file".
That's right. The shell is looking for a list of shell commands.
Michael
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I wrote:
>Some of this is beginning to change. The guys at http://www.ucLinux.com
>have developed a small module for industrial control which runs a Linux
>kernel. Some pictures of it are mirrored on our machine at
> http://www.ind-info.com/ucLinux .
Sorry, that's http://www.ind-info.com/ucsimm
>Linux can handle many of your needs, but because it is really just
breaking
>into other mainstream areas outside of the server market, some areas
need a
>lot of development. Industrial applications such as you're doing,
PLC's,
>process controls, and SCADA systems are some of the areas where very
>Does anyone know of a good online SQL tutorial for a db novice
regarding
>linux specifically? Should I be looking toward MySQL or is there
another
>Linux SQL package that is worth investing time in? Thanks for any
direction.
It really depends on how much you know about SQL. If you don't kno
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Shannon M. Johnston wrote:
> Does anybody know what the grep command do?
grep = Global Regular Expression Processor
$ grep dog filename
will spew out every line in filename which contains
the string "dog"
Read through the docs for grep and egrep, then get
the O'Rielly
Axalon,
You and Steve wrote:
>> If you expected no bumps when we went from Redhat(c)+, to Redhat(c)
>> compatible, I really don't know what to tell you. It is going to be
bumpy,
>> but no one will get bruised, promise..
>
>I've been here since 5.3, using every release in between. 6.1 is the
>a
> what you put in your ~/.forward file? I've tried several variations, including
> this one given in procmail's manpage:
>
> "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
>
> And it does not work.
Try removing the exec so it looks like
"|/usr/bin/procmail"
just in case your sendmail is configured to deny exec.
Has anyone tried, successfully or unsuccessfully,
to install Mandrake 6.1 on an Intel 810 motherboard?
Does any Xserver support that chipset yet?
Thanks,
Michael
>All of the settings I have refer to plain text, so my question is, does
>Outlook have a mind of it's own, as most Microsoft products do? Does it
>inherit the format from the post I am replying to?
Yes. Under
tools
options
send
There is a check box second from the bottom about reply
>
> The one thing I would ask is, the 128M swap limit comment is taken from the
> Linux Mandrake manual for version 6.0. Does this mean that I have bought a
> product whose documentation is already out of date??
>
Yes. Things change so fast in the Linux world that the documentation can
be out o
ut I can't remember the
specifics. Other hardware architectures don't have the problem.
MB
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Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
nally done
shell scripts of different types. Copy some of them to your home directory
and start hacking away. Look at the O'Rielly Nutshell books, too.
MB
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Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
e hardware
known as the "physical link layer" and that part is working fine. Remember,
you can see packets on the other machine. And never plug together two tees
to get a junction with three connections. (At least not if you need it to
be reliable!)
MB
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Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
ine and does not corrupt the regular Win98
>installation.
Can Win98 (or WinNT) inside the vm access anything on the Linux partition,
or is it locked in? Alternately, can the Linux OS run samba and let the
windows vm mount the samba share?
MB
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a boxed set, show your support.
And if you're not, then that's OK. Take what you need and help out the next
guy when you can. But please contribute *something*.
MB
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Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
ompany might be. If they are
anything like the one here, just tell them you have a Windows 95 computer,
let them set it up, then look at how it's configured after the person
leaves. Don't even get into the Linux discussion with them.
MB
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Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
ut having an NT box
handy. The jury is still out to lunch for us about how useful it will be on
a daily basis, but I'm reasonably encouraged by his success so far.
MB
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Michael R. Batchelor
Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
yone?
If it's really a "traditional" modem, then you're all set. In fact, if you
can disable the PnP and manually set the IRQ you probably have a
"traditional" modem rather than a dysfunctional one.
MB
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Michael R. Batchelor
Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
up your neighbor's furniture won't
make your furniture look any better."
Or in street vernacular, "You want to beat Bill Gates? Then quit worrying
about Bill Gates, build a better product, and start worrying about your
customers."
Michael
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t. Then tackle samba
permissions.
MB
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Michael R. Batchelor
Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
etup
arguments and such are all just as applicable for Linux as they are for
dos/windows. KDE happens to be a very popular (and pretty good) system
that's a little hard to get working if you don't know what you're doing.
The Mandrake distribution is RedHat with KDE already configured and set up.
MB
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Michael R. Batchelor
Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
you're used to in
DOS/Windows environment is in there somewhere, it's just in a different
place; and it might look a little funny at first.
And by all means, ASK!!! What they told you in grade school is still true.
The only stupid question is the one you don't ask.
MB
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Michael R. Batchelor
Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
ht want to consider, and I don't know enough about the
mp3 player, is to skip trying to run the whole kde package and just spawn
the interface necessary to run the sounds.
MB
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Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
ot;
echo ""
echo ""
/usr/bin/w
==
Thanks again,
MB
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man pages for reboot and ctrlaltdel, but didn't see an
obvious way to disable the default behavior. It seems the only choices are
a hard reboot or a soft reboot, but no choice to disable rebooting? What am
I missing?
Michael
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At 02:39 PM 2/13/99 +0100, you wrote:
>The only thing I can say is to
> avoid at all costs this kind of hardware.
I understand, but I'd like some recommendations about PCMCIA modems which
are know to work well with Linux.
Michael
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Anyone got any surefire PCMCIA modem advise?
I want to put Mandrake on a laptop, but the modem in it now is one of those
winmodems things. Works fine under W95 but forget anything else.
Michael
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Michael
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UNIX boxes.
Michael
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