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More Windope Hypocrisy From Flatcake
butttroturfing idiot flatfish+++ wrote on behalf of micoshaft: Windope nutsacks love to pick on Internet Exploder for all kinds of reasons, most of them viri because they know that the...
DIY: Encrypted Root Filesystem and Swap using Device Mapper
I have been working on a new project using Slackware as the basis. This project enables using encrypted parbreastions using the device-mapper facility. Device-mapper is built into the 2.6.x kernel and adds...
dmesg and segmentation fault
ARM platform (running in a telnet - not the console): # uname -a Linux (none) 2.4.21-rmk1-crus1.4.3 #4 Mon Jul 17 11:57:01 MDT 2006 armv4l unknown # .-wgcrash Segmentation fault # dmesg Jul 17 11:57:01...
OT Defeating Trolls and Spammers was: Will this work
So now we have another "Tim" posting from individual.net. Using the same newsreader. From the other "Tim": quote And he's using different email domains for each alias. Sure did...
Information about "Alan Connor" Was: Defeating Trolls and Spammer work
An amazing number of people have. Try this google search string: bigfoot Web Results 1 - 100 of about 14,200,000 for bigfoot More than 14 million hits. Hmmmmmm..... And...
More Proof of The COLA Gang Double Standard
Post a pro-linux article and you are accepted. Post a negative Linux article and you are labeled a troll. Here we have a *person* posting from news.sunsite.dk which is kind...
More Proof of Flatfish+++ Windope butttroturfer Double Standard
butttroturfing flatfish+++ cubicle monster wrote on behalf of micoshaft: Post a useful linux article and you are accepted as a genuine hero. Post a Windope article after accepting money...
how to backspace in vi 2550
It is one of the major Linux idiocies, but not one that will be solved soon. emacs way way back in the dark ages of computing...
how to backspace in vi 2551
It has *nothing* to do with Linux. And your following "history" is a fascinating bit of imagination, but virtually...
how to backspace in vi 2552
No. It uses ^H for help. That is the problem. That meant that emacs users fought the use of ^H for...
how to backspace in vi 2553
That's as clear as mud. Originally the VT100 had *no* key at all labeled "Delete" or "Backspace". Other keyboards typically...
how to backspace in vi 2554
OK, lets try again. No, It (Emacs) uses ^H for help. That (Emacs uses ^H for help) is the problem. That (Emacs uses ^H for help) meant that emacs...
how to backspace in vi 2555
Self-contradiction is not explication. You should have said: Yes! You are right about Emacs, but please note...
how to backspace in vi 2556
Self contradiction? Where? That is clearer? Ok, if you say so. Actually I learned to use a computer on an old IBM 1620, flicking switches on...
how to backspace in vi 2557
Unfortuneately not. Various programs have various demands as to what character will act as a backspace. Some programs have ^H hard wired in. If they do not see a ^H they will...
how to backspace in vi
He seems to be missing a "not". Code point 8 (^H) in ASCII is backspace, but off course, when you do remote echoing then...
how to backspace in vi 2559
vim behaves differently depending on the value of ARGV0. If you call it as "-usr-bin-vim", it behaves one way...
What will play a vob format
First off, I am not a video person. I barely watch enough movies to remember that the shiny side of the disk goes down. My school district wants to rip their DVDs (school made...
the best Linux 2561
Michael Why does every new linux user have only heard of Redhat before? :S Speaking of my...
the best Linux 2562
I think in the context of "free" software, popularity is market share. If peope aren't using it, then it can't be...
the best Linux 2563
Michael Black Sorry, but "market share" has a very specific definition that deals with SALES. Trying to redefine terms to fit your needs is inappropriate and damages your credibility...
the best Linux 2564
Yugo Had? How has it changed? As much as you want it to change, it has not. It is possible to give away any product. As a promotion, a...
the best Linux 2565
Whether the combination of people doing bulk installations from single purchases combines with the number of people who wind up with "coasters" of distros they...
the best Linux 2566
Yugo How can you trust a statistic company that does not know the difference between "market share" and "browsing...
Strange behaviour of active flag
Pindleskin staggered into the Black Sun and said: Seems a little weird; FHS and general custom strongly suggestsopt is for binary-only packages, not "general data". But you can do what you like...
Doubt resizing ext3 parbreastion
Hi, I had the following parbreastions in my harddisk: dev-hda1 reiserfs (for REDHAT) 30Gdev...
lmsensors on GA8GE667Pro
Hi, I'm trying to configure lm-sensors for my GA-8GE667Pro. At this time I have problems for the voltage...
My experiece installing Ubuntu Lunix
Background: Although I prefer WindowsXP as a Desktop OS, I've got a complex setup, and it frequently poos the...
Can't mount CD's or DVD's
The system: Dual Core Athlon 4Gig Mem. OS Opensuse 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13-15.12-smp x8664 I've got 2 DVD drives. A cheap IDE DVD burner that lists as "DC DQ60" under...
Can't mount CD's or DVD's
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:10:55 -0700, Patrick For the DVD burner: ejectdev-hdb ejectdev-dvdram ejectdev-cdrom ejectdev-dvd The first...
file pointers in gdb
The Natural Philosopher staggered into the Black Sun and said: Your libc != glibc. But a little more digging with gdb and...
ancient kernels 2574
Reading it without first getting my hands on a copy would be quite challenging. The libraries I...
ancient kernels 2575
Keep in mind that Linux was in effect well developed, given that it was no period of defining the kernel (unlike Windows where it took Microsoft...
ancient kernels 2576
Thanks to Michael Black for his many comments and suggestions. If I choose to disagree with some (but not all) of his remarks, it doesn't mean that I don't appreciate them. Thanks, I'll keep...
Network connection diagnostics
On 18 Sep 2006 23:05:50 -0700, "Marco A. Cruz Quevedo" ifconfig -a shows interfaces (NICs or "adapters"), including their IP if they have one. route -n shows...
lmsensors on GA8GE667Pro
I have no experience with your particular board; but there are a few obvious points and some general ideas that might help a little. First, this sort...
My experiece installing Ubuntu Lunix 2579
Followup: Day 2. --------------------- - Last night, I spent a few hours playing with my "new toy". Installating applications was a very...
My experiece installing Ubuntu Lunix 2580
Creds: 1 wrote on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:39:13 GMT What? XP is a perfect system -- until Vista comes along. Your timing is off. Creds: 1.1 ?!? Windows cannot be "on break"; it's...
very large ramdisk setup problems
I'm using Red Hat Enterprise 4, with a 2.6.12 kernel. I'm trying to set up a very large RAM disk -- 2 GB, out of 8...
Mounting cdrs a bust
On 24 Sep 2006 23:46:51 GMT, Unruh staggered into the Black Sun and said: Interesting; the ATA: device naming spec doesn't always work properly IME. It's usually better-easier...
Mondo Rescue, missingdev,proc,sys 2583
will After spending all my weekend playing with parbreastions, commands, bootloaders and DDS4 tapes I've come to...
Mondo Rescue, missingdev,proc,sys 2584
Ok, here it is, it's incredibly simple. 1) boot with a live or recovery CD. 2) make a...
Mondo Rescue, missingdev,proc,sys 2585
Again, I admit this is not especially neat, and people can make theoretical arguments as to whether...
Mondo Rescue, missingdev,proc,sys 2586
Black Sun and said: Only 1.5G? That's not a lot of data. google:--"unix backup and recovery" for a partial...
file pointers in gdb
I'm writing some code that does a lot of moving around and manipulating stuff inside files. I...
Creating & tracking invoices for products
Greetings. I work for a small non-profit organization, part of whose activity includes publishing literature and audio-video discs, and...
Final Theory Of Everything V5.0
It is possible to use martingale probability theory to beat some games of chance. In a...
Vim on really old Laptop Slackware 2590
Unfortunately much of this is babbling-- ie many words with very little data. What does your laptop have on it? Does it have a network card? Does it have a...
Vim on really old Laptop Slackware 2591
As you have discovered, using floppies and installing an extremely old version of Slackware is not...
rand vs. random 2592
Amadeus W. M. For any serious statistical work and-or large series Monte Carlo experiments you may want...
rand vs. random 2593
No, it was an exageration. Except most users running any program whichusesdev-random will be blocked. He should know what he is doing. He almost never...
rand vs. random 2594
No, it is not just their fault. It is also the fault of the writer of thedev-urandom man page, which unjustifiably casts doubt ondev-urandom. Also, anyone who...
How can I make mysqld find the table 'mysql.host' on Fedora Core 4
I'm trying to get mysql working on Fedora Core 4. Actually trying to start the program mysqld...
Dualboot install on PC with XP recovery parbreastion
wrote in comp.os.linux.misc: Possibly, but I don't know definitely if there is anything to differentiate the recovery parbreastion to grub. However...
sound problem
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:24:06 -0400, John-Paul Stewart That is correct. I have an onboard intel, a pci sound blaster, a bttv card for...
flash drive mount and write permission
When I want to mount the floppy drivedev-fd0 on my ancient (RH 7.1) system, I just execute mountmnt-floppy and it does it, even if I do so without...
mencoder and mplayer woes
dear mencoder- and mplayer- experts: I want to archive my DVDs, and put the physical media into my basement. So I want to rip them to my hard drive in a way that...
