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Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 3861
it has nothing to do with QuickTime, it's all about the strenght of your connection available bandwidth coming out of...
Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 3862
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:30:50 -0600, WWDC Sure, that explains why *every other time* I've used quicktime it's performed like butt compared to other formats. Oh gee, emulation. Wow. I'm sure...
Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 3863
no, it's not an emulator. "Rosetta is a translation process that runs a PowerPC binary on...
Error in root login
Dave Well I am giving the log of today. I am sorry that I can't make much of it, so I am copying the entire log here...
Intel Says: Linux Going NOWHERE ON THE DESKTOP.. 3865
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:54:08 +0000, TravelinMan It wasn't likely in the past because Linux was virtually unknown. But it is starting...
Intel Says: Linux Going NOWHERE ON THE DESKTOP.. 3866
Raggs Enterprises tout Linux's cost, performance benefits Jun. 03, 2005 In contrast to its reputation for being difficult and sometimes expensive to implement, some large enterprises are beginning to see significant cost savings and...
Intel Says: Linux Going NOWHERE ON THE DESKTOP.. 3867
I know that mainframe hardware is popular in industries like credit card transaction processing because it is the only thing that can do it. Unix or VMS systems cannot handle that kind...
bash in chroot: I have no name
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Do you meanetc-pbuttwd? This might be the problem. You might also needetc-shadow, or any other databases listed inetc-nsswitch.conf (copy this, too). When I have set up...
photosmart 7760 driver on PC running RH 7.1
I want to attach a HP PhotoSmart 7760 Photo Printer to a PC running Red Hat 7.1 Linux. I once connected a Canon Bubble Jet...
PNY flash drive on PC running RH 9.1 vs. RH 7.1
I have been trying to get a PNY USB 2.0 FD flash drive to work on two PC's, one of which has RH 7.1 and the other...
RTAI, Realtime Linux
It has been around for several years now. It is fairly popular for embedded control applications (robotics...
xterm in separate consoles 3872
Okay. (But you don't mention just what "low resources" means, leaving anyone who responds to make buttumptions that are almost certain to be...
xterm in separate consoles 3873
You can run an xterm without a window manager, but when you call an X app from it, you won't be able to access the xterm while...
xterm in separate consoles 3874
It depends on how X is started. If you're using xinit, then it starts X, reads shell commands from .xinitrc and executes them. xinit kills X when it hits EOF in .xinitrc. My...
GPL FAQ 3875
Sine Nomine No. Not if you use the GNU interpretation, which for now is the only one that matters unless you want to fight them in...
GPL FAQ 3876
You do not say if the GPL work is all your own or if you use other people's...
GPL FAQ 3877
The above is an buttertion of the opposite of the statements made by myself and others, not...
GPL FAQ 3878
It is completely the opposite of what is being said by myself and others, in the referenced...
GPL FAQ 3879
It mere aggregation does not mean that the two works are separate. It also means that there is no relation between them. That is hardly true here. The one...
using X with dual monitors
Hello All, i am trying to get X working with 2 monitors in fedora core2. I have one monitor working just fine...
using X with dual monitors... 3881
misc question. Sun and said: That shouldn't be happening. What's the wattage on your machine's power supply? Next time, snip it so only the relevant bits are included. snip ITYM "dpms". Speling counts...
using X with dual monitors... 3882
There is certainly *something* significant happening that is not just a simple configuration problem! One thing of note... I once tried very...
Linux : 32 bit only what is the trick
Hi, Linux is 32 bit OS and 32 bit only. I ran across this statement today. Although it also says that there are some...
Linux : 32 bit only what is the trick 3884
But clearly that isn't true. The real trick does not depend on whether a cpu is 8 bits...
Linux : 32 bit only what is the trick 3885
It's just *amazing* the things people did with 8080-8085-Z80 cpu's. In 1989, long after the heyday...
onstream adr 50gb
I just inherited one of these drives and about 50 of the tapes. I can't seem to get the damn thing to work though. I got the osst driver loaded and the...
Wolfpack Trolling
Last few weeks, my killfile has gone into hyperdrive taking out trolls in COLM--15 of 27 posts this a.m. alone. Since...
Wolfpack Trolling 3888
Snip... Yes--my local provider went to Supernews from inhouse service a few months ago, largely IIRC to let somebody else worry with the spewbots and such. ISTR Seth...
Wolfpack Trolling 3889
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article My secondary ISP end off their own news server and went to Supernews several years ago for that very reason - and not having to put up with...
HCI is everything
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:15:45 -0500, news Apple made the attempt with the Apple IIGS. Some of the work they did there made it's way into the Mac system software and...
CLI: Command History
CLI="Command Line Interface" One of the most useful features of a modern shell like bash (although it did 'borrow' this feature from...
Putting my HD In a new machine
In a message on Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:08:55 -0400, wrote : Is it a SCSI or IDE or SATA disk? If IDE, you should just be...
How does new kernel version system work
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article Second digit odd is testing. CURRENTLY 2.5.x is dead, and the 2.7.x tree hasn't been started AND MAY...
problems with stack management for large runs on beowulf cluster using intel fortran compiler 8.1.024
I am trying to compile a large code on Beowulf cluster using the intel fortran compiler 8.1.024 and I am experiencing a problem with stack size management since when...
Linux + Thunderbird + Korean input
Update... solved! Thanks for that 'hangul2' insight, Daewon. I downloaded imhangul-0.9.11 from Compile and install went smoothly. The following works: GTKIMMODULE=hangul2 firefox GTKIMMODULE=hangul2 thunderbird And...
CLI: Aliases
CLI = Command Line Interface Aliases are short strings that can be used in lieu of longer commands and short scripts that you use often: alias ls='ls...
micro solution backpack cdwriter hell
i've got an external backpack cd-writer. it connects via usb and parallel port. i'm having a hell of a time...
micro solution backpack cdwriter hell 3898
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:50:03 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and said: You didn't mention what (if anything) you've...
micro solution backpack cdwriter hell 3899
Dances With Crows firstly, thank you for replying. it seems as though lately. all we're getting in here is a bunch of...
micro solution backpack cdwriter hell 3900
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:00:44 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and said...
micro solution backpack cdwriter hell 3901
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:17:28 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and...
A bug no clue what causes this
Hello, I was playing with pivotroot(8) chroot(1) in the last couple of days, and I found an abnormal behavior regarding the fd redirection in the...
CLI: pushdpopddirs
Alan Connor ... snip ... All this points up the need for a port of 4dos 4nt to Linux-Unix. Rex Conn and jpsoft will do it if there is a sufficient demand (it is commercial...
fsck'ing an NTFS file system
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:19:04 -0700, sid Based on the extent of the damage...
download swf video
Christian Christmann That means that Firefox doesn't have the Flash player installed. Go to the...
Using Libsx to rotate text
I am trying to use the simple X library to draw some simulated graphical displays, and i think i've run into a...
PATH 3907
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Noah Roberts For su(1), the path is set according to a number of factors First...
PATH 3908
Peter T. Breuer *You* may think you don't have a problem, but unless you speak that particular asian language or understand the issues with...
PATH 3909
I probably didn't state that quite right. He probably knows (intellectually) that you don't care. Japanese...
PATH 3910
He's likely english. A non-native speaker would take more care to write something that makes sense. And a person who can write (in whatever language) would...
Laptop advice 3911
On 06-15-2005 11:30 AM, Noah Roberts I don't think the laptops have any to do with 64bit computing unless you will be running high volume data...
Laptop advice 3912
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner I'm also looking into buying a Linux box, and starting with a...
XF86ConfigDrivers
Hey all, I'm returning to RedHat (partially) after a long stint with Windows, and I'm trying...
XF86ConfigDrivers 3914
On 21 Jun 2005 06:35:45 -0700, synex staggered into the Black Sun and said: easy, but it's considered good manners to include some context from previous articles when you...
XF86ConfigDrivers 3915
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:26:22 +0000, Grant Edwards Very true. I would go so far...
DAAPD make fails on install
Hi I am very new to Linux and am trying to upgrade the version of daapd that I have on a seperate linux box which I use as a...
SynchronizationConcurrency establishing critical sections
Is there a way for a Linux (and in general any POSIX compliant)thread to define a critical section such that once a thread enters the critical section, it will not...
