Yep, a general rule of thumb I learned at college was that if you accessed a
byte of data from memory, and it took one second, it would take over a week
to do the same from disk!!
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From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 03,
From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever
type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be
reasonably easy to write a short shell script to spawn an infinite number of
windows, record the count somewhere, and when (if) it crashes, you can go
From Unix, it's just a case of putting an ampersand after the command to
move it to the background. I have not tried it for Linux.
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From: padlocke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:06 AM
Subject: [newbie] background
Just perhaps stating the obvious, but don't you have to tell Linux to pick
up receiving calls, as the normal setup is to dial out?
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From: Bill Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 4:30 PM
Subject: [newbie] Win95 modem
What timestamp are you referring to? The timestamps tend to be affected by
your mail server, as well as your own clock. For example, people here are
very impressed that I'm often at work until 1 or 2 in the morning, it's only
when I tell them that the email service I use is US based that they
You can also turn off the ability to receive an echo of your own posts,
check the instructions on the linux mandrake page.
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From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Macmillan
The olny thing I can suggest is to take a look at where the backup is going,
and see if a similar priviledges problem is occuring. It may not be anywhere
on the SO directory structure, or your own directory structure. (Perhaps
/tmp or /temp for example).
Try running StarOffice from Root, backup
Re: Cache size. Basically, the more the better. For an example, price up the
intel Xeon chips, you'll find a 256K cache Xeon is about a tenth of a 1Mb
Xeon. You will see a performance increase, but you may then hit other
bottlenecks, like your main memory speed, and the IDE interface to your hard
it a go!
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From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Install problems...]
WOW...your desktop ( tower ) PC supports a LAPTOP IDE interface
I am impressed.
Jaguar
"Simon Norris&qu
I would also add to the other coments here that cheap is not good. I have a
friend here who swears by the prices of PCChips boards, and then swears at
them when he comes to set them up!!!
My personal recommendation is ABIT, they work very well, and don't use
jumpers. The setup is virtually
Been there, done that!!
I had fun with this after a crashed install, because I couldn't remove the
partition, and couldn't get back in to use Linux fdisk!! I didn't have a
rescue disk either. Fdisk on Windows can see the Linux extended partition,
as an extended partition seems to be the same
The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux
doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66
(I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may
have to go back through the mailing list archives to get some more info,
sh is the common execution syntax used to execute a shell script, not a C
program. Shell scripts are text based programs similar to DOS batch files,
which accounts for your 'cannot execute binary file' message.
The syntax Mike has provided here allow all users to execute all programs
including
Ksh?
Simon Norris wrote:
I don't remember it on the install, what would be the easiest way of
adding
it as a post-install task? Is it RPM'ed for example?
I suppose the obvious thing for me to do would be to simply try and change
my shell to pdksh, and see if it works?
Simon Norris wrote
I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to
pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux machine. Which
shell should I use to get the best response from Korn shell scripts?
The numbers you are seeing is the progress of a ext2 type format, the
numbers reference the location on the disk of the superblock copies that are
made during an ext2 format, one for each cylinder group. If my maths seves
me right, it is saying that it has finished a 2 Gig partition format
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?
Simon Norris wrote:
I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to
pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux
Your best bet for old games from the arcade is MAME, it's well worth the
look. Head over to http://xmame.retrogames.com
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From: Guillermo Belli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] linux games, and when
http://torresoft.netmegs.com/
This is an online SQL tutorial that takes you through the SQL language. It
is not Linux specific, but then again, hardly any SQL is, it's the program
using SQL that is platform dependant. The only platform specifics for SQL
were relating to Microsoft products, they
Rather than spend a fortune buying books, head over to;
http://www.informit.com/
They currently have in their range three Linux books, which you can read
online, completely free. Go through them and see what you think. They also
do have lots of other books for all sorts of computer related
It's actually Outlook Express 5, the one that's attached to IE 5, rather
than Office.
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From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] (OT) -- About HTML
What version of Outlook are you using? I
And I forgot to mention, it's open to the rest of the world, not just US
like the red hat signup!!
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From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Items of interest
As an exponent of the Oracle
I have had the exact same problem, unfortunately to
this day I have not got a satisfactory conclusion, even from Mandrake Tech
support. I have loaded Red Hat first time onto the same machine, with no
problems, if you want to get into Linux quickly.
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From:
Depends on where you go, I have seen a CD and license (green patterned
thingy) of Windows NT workstation for £40 GBP at a computer fair, about the
same price as my Mandrake package!!
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From: Rendus Maiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 17,
Just a quick query, not really suited to this group, but necessary just the
same.
I have been using Outlook for some time now, and have had no problems
sending plain text. Unfortunately, I have just sent a post to this group,
and got a courteous comment directly to me asking for me to drop my
.
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From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (OT) -- About HTML
Just a quick query, not really suited to this group, but necessary just the
same.
I have been using Outlook for some time now
As an educated guess, I would say not, for the following reasons. LILO can
be installed in the MBR, or the Linux root partition. When it is the MBR, it
is your 'root installer', for want of better words. So it is loaded first.
If you then select another OS, it goes off and does that.
If you have
Please excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't Linux-Mandrake=Red Hat Linux +
KDE+Pentium enhancements?? I thought that was the biggest selling point of
Mandrake?
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From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:30 PM
Subject: Re:
master I can only
set
it to primary slave. I don't know if that would have an effect on it.
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From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux
I think someone else has already
Not sure if this is what you're after, but here goes. Devices on a floppy
drive connector are numbered 0 and 1 (or a and b for windows) by their
physical connection to the lead. If you can see the ribbon cable, it has a
twist in it. Devices mounted after this twist are device 0, devices mounted
Actually, Mandrake brings up a similar memory of knights and dragons for me,
perhaps we had a similarly warped education!!
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From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] panoramix must change
Something along the lines of;
!/bin/bash -u
At the beginning of the script? The idea is to change the shell of the
script currently running to be bash, and when the script terminates, control
returns to sh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL
I think someone else has already mentioned the solution. It refers to the
BIOS disk types being set to large or normal, when it should be LBA. I saw
the same problem, and the solution worked for me.
And for the other chap who said that they are LO's not 10's, they looked
suspicously like 10's
As I also run a Maxtor drive, with this 'Maxblast' utility, can I suggest
that you ignore it, and just use it as a normal drive? Maxblast didn't do
anything for my setup, so subsequent builds I have just ignored it. I think
the only time you would need it is to low level format the drive, but how
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted backspace to use as a backspacing delete
key?? If there's nothing to delete, it will go 'beep'. Oh, and it usually
doesn't cope with linefeeds, a backspace while the cursor is on the left
hand side of the screen doesn't (usually) work like Windows, and move to the
Someone disagree with this, because this is specifically a Unix command, but
give it a go anyway, it might work under Linux;
stty erase backspace key
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From: lalala lalala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:27 PM
Subject:
Unfortunately it's not the removal that I have a problem with. During clean
installs of Mandrake, I cannot get the installer to create a boot disk or
LILO, yet in Red Hat I can create both. My first theory was to get the boot
floppy from Red Hat, and use it to get into Mandrake, then use 'that
I too would also be interested as to why LinuxConf is a security risk. I
don't actually intend to make a direct connection out, I'm relying on Win98
SE to make my internet connection, but if LinuxConf has other risks, I'd
like to know about them.
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From: bay56 [EMAIL
I'll give you $30 for it.
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From: Bob Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Chix
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
--I bought this stupid OS because the guy at the computer store said I
could
Don't rely on Nero for .iso images, my experience
is that Nero doesn't like them.
I would recommend CDrWin as the best .iso burner
for Windows, the evaluation is limited to 1 speed but it is free.
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From:
Bart Meijer
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
And to further your pursuit, check out www.98lite.net . They offer a utility
that trims win98 to realistic, even Linux proportions.
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From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Wanted
Just a quick note for you. A bare Windows 95 machine, with Office 97 but
without all the sounds, assistants, etc, can fit in a 200Meg drive with room
left over. I should know, I have a dodgy laptop with a 200 meg hard drive,
and they fit!! That leaves 400Meg for your documents. Win98 will add
Ok, time to break out those stylish jackets with large buckles and
wraparound sleeves!!!
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From: Leonard W. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] STOP
STOP, In the name of love
before you
'Fraid so, the machines are state of the art (in the late 80's!!), passive
back plane board. Basically the entire PC sits on a single ISA board, and
you have a blank ISA backplane connecting all other card to it. Put it this
way, I have got an ISA video card!!!
And if you're wondering why I
Considering Superdisks don't use floppy connectors, they're in fact IDE
devices, this designation seems perfectly logical.
Now the problem I have is not being able to make a boot disk during install
through the superdisk, as you can't type any commands to mount the device
during install!!! I
File Xfer Program??? Or FTP to everyone else? The Igloo statement below sort
of gave it away!!
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From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] fxp
Ralph | byte-runner | wrote:
does anyone
I have downloaded the OAS 407 from Oracle for the Linux platform, and am now
having trouble getting it on to CD. My burner is on a Windows machine, so I
am using Winzip to uncompress and ungzip the files, and have hit a problem.
In the MAN3 directory, there are files that have '::' in the
Thanks to my fruitless exploits in getting my unidentifiable NIC's to work,
I am now in the market to purchase some new NIC's. Can anyone recommend any
10baseT ISA NIC's that are reasonably easy to set up in Linux, IE not
Windows specific? Oh, and cheap must be the prime consideration. I'll be
If your BIOS supports CD booting, then it can be done, and is very easy. If
not, then there is a program on the CD that you can run after you boot into
DOS/Windows, the only problem is I'm at work at the moment and I haven't got
the info for where this program is. It's listed in the install
06, 1999 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] what is?
Simon Norris wrote:
Please bear in mind that this is a Unix reply, but it should hold true for
Linux.
In some spots, yes. In others, you're letting filesystem issues cloud
your suggestions.
The only reason for splitting partitions into /usr
Even NT on it's own won't necessarily guarantee dual processor working, it
all depends on the software. Games would probably not use dual processors,
whereas graphics packages, the most common area for multiple CPU's, would.
Since you're on a Linux board, I would add that Linux or any Unix
My lot in life is working with Unix and DOS based systems at the same time,
and this sort of problem is extremely common. Some text editors are noticed
for their ability to tag on control characters, my particularly nasty one is
^M for carriage returns. If you hit one of these control characters
(BTW, thanks for all the answers regarding pronunciation, I think I'll call
it 'Fish')
I am trying to install V6.0 of Mandrake Linux, and have hit a problem. I go
through the install, and it works fine, I can select all the packages, etc.
I wait half an hour for it to install, and get to the
As a small tip seeing as you're also from this
small island in the middle of nowhere (!), take a look at the back issues of
either PC Pro, PC Direct, or Computer Shopper. One had Staroffice actually on
the coverdisc about four months ago, you should still be able to get a back
issue. Five
The way I see it is Mandrake will be unable to say that it uses the Red Hat
distribution, so the prestige of being based on Red Hat will be lost, even
though it's still called Linux-Mandrake. It won't necessarily affect us, it
will affect prospective Mandrake buyers when the name Red Hat is
Another common problem that gives this message is timeout. Tell me, do you
use an FTP program, or do you use a web browser? The reason is, if you use a
web browser, often the settings are too low for popular sites. At least with
FTP programs you can increase the timeout. My personal
I have been aware of Linux for some time now, and am deciding to take the
plunge. I just have one question to ask. How do you pronounce Linux? With an
"I", as in Lin-ux, or a "y", as in lie-nux?
They did say that this is a realm for newbies!! ;-)
ways while I was at that site...the HD manuf.
stated that LOW LEVEL format is not a good thing to do anymore on these
newest
HD's.
FYI
Jaguar
"Simon Norris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Been there, done that!!
I had fun with this after a crashed install, because I couldn't remove the
par
Couple of suggestions;
1. Someone else has tried a similar working method, with no success. I
believe Linux cannot detect the 'hot swap' of the floppy and the CD-ROM? And
the hardware config at boot seems to be a subset of what's really there,
usually consisting of the most common basic
Linux version already arrived in the UK PC Plus, it's the one with the milk
bottles on the front (those who can see it will know what I mean!!). It is
an old version though.
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From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 04,
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