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On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:27:59 +0000, Bock Eurgh. Win98 :-( Linux is available free, C++ capability comes with gcc and emacs-xemacs (included with most distros), most distros will happily...
Single key halt andor reboot
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article My firewall is similar (ex laptop of some kind...
look, recognise & select vs CLI
On comp.os.linux.misc, in Here's a very simple example, a function (which is like a script) that you put in your .bashrc, (don't include the dashed lines) then run: source .bashrc...
Really simple newbie question about dual booting
So this is the setup: One computer, 2 ATA hard drives, one CD-DVD burner, no floppy, WinXP Pro installed. Computer is...
Really simple newbie question about dual booting... 7102
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:01:09 -0800, blerer Caveat: I am not running Windows XP. (I have some w2k and nt4, though.) Build a grub bootable...
Really simple newbie question about dual booting... 7103
Ok, Mr. Yossairan-Catch 22 :): here's an interim progress (or lack thereof) report. Yesterday night I attempted to defeat the Catch 22: I installed Fedora with grub in the Fedora parbreastion (that...
official way to halt linux
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 16:11, Douglas O'Neal stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: Still on that old Mandrake 9.2 here, albeit with a vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel. From...
How to selectivey route messages
I currently have my dialup connection to my ISP as a gateway. I would like to...
How to selectivey route messages 7106
Are you talking about outgoing or incoming packets? The restriction against you running a server is for incoming packets...
How to selectivey route messages 7107
Robert M. Riches Jr. That is a very illuminating question. I infer I can send anything I like out any port I like with Verizon. They would not know if I were a server or...
How to selectivey route messages 7108
I think you're pretty much in sync with my understanding except for maybe one or...
How to selectivey route messages 7109
Robert M. Riches Jr. I am not sure about that. If it goes out eth1, will not the receiving MTA look up the source IP address and compare it with the DNS for...
How to selectivey route messages 7110
It is true that there are some snobbish domains out there that refuse to accept email except...
How to selectivey route messages 7111
Michael Heiming This link was interesting. It did make me download all 151 pages of "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO", but his two pages are a bit confusing, mainly in the syntax. Every line...
How to selectivey route messages 7112
Michael Heiming snip He says do this only once. Does he mean only once forever (I believe he does), or once each boot time. I.e., itetc-iproute2-rttables generated dynamically from somewhere else, or it...
what is umask
Lew Pitcher Not exactly. IIRC, the GE system was a 635 runnoning GECOS-2 (later GECOS-3...
Missingdevdsp using udev
Hi Working with a fresh install of Debian Etch here and having some difficulty getting sound to work. I have the following modules loaded : sndemu10k1synth 8576 0 sndemuxsynth 40960 1 sndemu10k1synth...
Missingdevdsp using udev
ynotssor nanak:-dev# .-MAKEDEV -v sound create mixer c 14 0 root:audio 0660 create mixer1 c 14 16 root...
more money
READ FOLLOWUPS POST FOLLOWUP DISCUSSION FORUM FAQ Posted by David on Dec, 07, at 11:30 AM. A LEGAL WAY...
How to FORCIBLY unmount a busy FILESYSTEM
Snip... Generally even this probably isn't going to suit you since mostly they go into a deep sleep...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7118
Daveman750 Apple's decision to use the FreeBSD code base had less to do with it's technical merits1 and more to do with the...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD Approved: maybe
Somewhat true, I guess. FreeBSD is quite popular for Web servers or so I have heard. FreeBSD systems, in my experience, are just about as flexible. Depends on what system...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7120
On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:34:13 -0600, Ed Heagle staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yep, and there...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7121
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 23:42:21 +0100, Michael Heiming staggered into the Black Sun and said: Lessee... the docs said "create a...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7122
Simple: Being able to see the source code is only an important personal, as opposed to collective, freedom, for...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7123
what's wrong with compiling? i like it, it's very intoxicating i was able to grasp the concept of exporting CFLAGS && CXXFLAGS variables and running (.-autogen.sh) && .-configure && make && su(do) make...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7124
Michael Heiming Only ignorants laugh at ignorants. Wise people try to enlighten them. This troll-calling...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7125
In some ways, yes. Gnome and KDE are both much more logical than Windows explorer. More...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7126
Near-complete binary and point-and-click installation tool compatibility between all recent versions so that...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7127
imotgm Admittedly, none, but that's not the point. The point is that because of universal binary compatibility described in my previous post, this is not an issue. Whoever makes the program packages it once...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7128
George Ellison I apologize because in fact you're right. I forgot about this example when I posted. However...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7129
Very interesting, thank you for the information. I guess what I really dislike is a certain aspect of the Linux *philosophy*, not a...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD Obscurity, linux
Debian's not a bad distro. I'd go with Ubuntu or the etch net install though, unless you've got 14 beer coasters...
Linux Vs. FreeBSD 7131
Michael Heiming *Strictly speaking,* nothing. However, if we look at things from the end user's perspective instead of from the technical perspective, and again, the context...
DVD & kernel version
I have encountered the strange problem. I have garbage on the screen (square patches) when I play DVD which played good on older kernel. I used RH9 with 2.4.26 kernel and Xine and movie DVD...
USB not being buttigned IRQ on Toshiba Satallite
On a toshiba satalite laptop, live distros work fine, but SuSE 10.0 will only start after the install with acpi=off (similar experience with latest Mandrake). During the install...
Grub, lilo and root parbreastion on EFI GPT disk on i686
Dear all, I got 3 disks emulated from a areca sata raid controler : -dev-sda : 10 Go -dev-sdb : 10 Go -dev-sdc : 2.5 To dev-sdc is a disk with a EFI GPT kind...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7135
That was very interesting as an idea. Indeed, if you take the list of all descriptions of irrationals (use alphabetic-dictionary ordering), then you can construct...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7136
Will that get them all? What comes after "3" and which one is that? That...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7137
This is an economic or ergonomic theory of the universe? It seems anti-anthropomrphic - i.e. if it were 1 then theorists wouldn't be needed. I recall the bounded states...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7138
Of course they do! I feel like the argument is going in circles! READ THE UNDERLINED...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7139
No - that's completely false. You are referring to some particular version of set theory and logic as though it were "mathematics". There are many such, all...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7140
Peter T. Breuer This wasn't your objection earlier; your objection earlier was that there wasn't enough time to enumerate all the possibilities. That indicates you don't know what cardinality means, because cardinality has nothing...
fastest way to print a lot of pdf files 7141
No - I pointed to the situation where new pdf's were being made quicker than they could be counted. That's TOO...
checking to see if a CD is in the drive Sender: Linux
You can do this with Perl or C. C is probably your best bet. Perl example only shows opening-closing...
SCSI device listing in Linux 2.6
On 8 Dec 2005 16:12:13 -0800, googler staggered into the Black Sun and said: Hm. That one's not...
CD Burning problem
I wonder if anyone can help me here. I am running Red Hat Linux 9. I had a CDRW drive in my PC but upgraded it to a DVD writer (an NEC 4550A drive...
what does uptime's load average mean
Aragorn I do not think it is a percentage. IIRC, it is the number of entries in...
resize a bad patch out of a parbreastion
I have a parbreastion with a problem history and a strategy (to resize the bad portion out of the parbreastion). I'd like to...
resize a bad patch out of a parbreastion 7147
NoName Just how hot is it supposed to be inside the box? And how much can a...
resize a bad patch out of a parbreastion 7148
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:50:05 -0500, Jean-David Beyer run 'smartctl -a' on the...
resize a bad patch out of a parbreastion 7149
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:55:56 -0500, Jean-David Beyer I got 2 seagate from different series.. I noted there was a slight increase in the temperature that those hard disk could...
resize a bad patch out of a parbreastion 7150
NoName More than 10 degrees above what? Well, if Maxtor drives (both SCSI and IDE) are a guide, you should not go above 55°C, and I would start to be concerned if it got...
resize a bad patch out of a parbreastion 7151
Jules wrote (in part): I do not have a statistically valid sample, but in my...
Help! Proliferation of applications! 7152
Snip... Rare IMO is buried so many pages deep I have to use a search to find it. And it's not 4000 calls to sprintf; it's string handling calls...
Help! Proliferation of applications! 7153
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:11:57 +0000, Gordon I've used Pan for Usenet for the...
Bash3.1 released
Introduction ============ The first public release of bash-3.1 is now available with the URLs ftp:--ftp.cwru.edu...
