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[ILUG] doolin If you're not in Doolin, beg, borrow, or steal your way there before the LBW folk depart. It's far too much fun. Cheers, Waider. Just back. -- [email protected] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. "...we are in fact well and truly doomed. She says that if I leave now, I can probably get a good head start before they realize that I'm gone." - Jamie Zawinski -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file Inn Share's [[email protected]] 22 lines of wisdom included: > > Hi,all: > > Does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my > root directory?or the second biggest ..etc... > > Because I want to find out what is the reason cause my > root all most full. $ find /dir -name \* | xargs du -s | sort -n Smallest files are listed first with the largest at the end. So if you want to get the 5 largest files, pipe through tail. e.g. $ find /dir -name \* | xargs du -s | sort -n | tail -5 -- Philip Reynolds RFC Networks tel: 01 8832063 www.rfc-networks.ie fax: 01 8832041 -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file Philip Reynolds wrote: >>Does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my >>root directory?or the second biggest ..etc... > $ find /dir -name \* | xargs du -s | sort -n You might want to put a '-type f' on that find. Paul. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] converting strings of hex to ascii On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, David Neary wrote: > > Actually the following would be in some way sensible: > > echo -e "`echo "$enc" | sed 's/%\([0-9a-fA-F]\{2,2\}\)/\\\x\1/g'`" > > Why {2,2}? Why not {2}? no idea. the above was something along the lines i was attempting, once i realised it was a straight swap. but i couldnt get awk's gensub to insert the \x for %'s and ='s. anyway, in the end i found something on the internet and adapted it: function decode_url (str, hextab,i,c,c1,c2,len,code) { # hex to dec lookup table hextab ["0"] = 0; hextab ["8"] = 8; hextab ["1"] = 1; hextab ["9"] = 9; hextab ["2"] = 2; hextab ["A"] = 10; hextab ["3"] = 3; hextab ["B"] = 11; hextab ["4"] = 4; hextab ["C"] = 12; hextab ["5"] = 5; hextab ["D"] = 13; hextab ["6"] = 6; hextab ["E"] = 14; hextab ["7"] = 7; hextab ["F"] = 15; decoded = ""; i = 1; len = length (str); while ( i <= len ) { c = substr (str, i, 1); # check for usual start of URI hex encoding chars if ( c == "%" || c == "=" ) { if ( i+2 <= len ) { # valid hex encoding? c1 = toupper(substr(str, i+1, 1)); c2 = toupper(substr(str, i+2, 1)); if ( !(hextab [c1] == "" && hextab [c2] == "") ) { code = 0 + hextab [c1] * 16 + hextab [c2] + 0 c = sprintf ("%c", code) i = i + 2 } } # + is space apparently } else if ( c == "+" ) { c = " " } decoded = decoded c; ++i; } return decoded } > Cheers, > Dave. > PS the late reply is because the footer on the original mail (If > you received this mail in error yadda yadda) got caught in my > spam filter, and ended up in my junkmail directory. he he... might not have been the footer - check my headers. :) regards, -- Paul Jakma [email protected] [email protected] Key ID: 64A2FF6A warning: do not ever send email to [email protected] Fortune: One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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RE: [ILUG] doolin Might just take a trip over there later tomorrow, it is after all only on my backdoor-step... E. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ronan Waide Sent: 27 August 2002 21:19 To: ILUG list Subject: [ILUG] doolin If you're not in Doolin, beg, borrow, or steal your way there before the LBW folk depart. It's far too much fun. Cheers, Waider. Just back. -- [email protected] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. "...we are in fact well and truly doomed. She says that if I leave now, I can probably get a good head start before they realize that I'm gone." - Jamie Zawinski -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected] -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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[ILUG] Using Normal IDE Device with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop Hi, I've got an normal 3.5" CD-RW IDE drive that I'd like to be able to use with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop that I've got. Does anyone know any way to enable this, for example through the use of a special cable for the Modular Bay (where CD-ROM or floppy drive is normally). There is also the possibility of using a docking station, but Dell's docking solution for the Latitude series doesn't seem to allow for the use of an IDE drive, only SCSI... Unless someone knows of a "non-Dell" solution that's compatible. Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Darren. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Using Normal IDE Device with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop Darren Kenny wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an normal 3.5" CD-RW IDE drive that I'd like to be able to use > with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop that I've got. Does anyone know any way > enable this, for example through the use of a special cable for the > Modular Bay (where CD-ROM or floppy drive is normally). There is absolutely no way to use a conventional 3.5" drive with a laptop directly. However, you can get an external firewire or USB cradle and attach it to the laptop like that, and any 3.5" drive will work in that case. Example : http://www.microsense.com/USB_35_combo.asp Regards, Vin -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file Philip Reynolds wrote: > Inn Share's [[email protected]] 22 lines of wisdom included: > > > > Hi,all: > > > > Does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my > > root directory?or the second biggest ..etc... > > > > Because I want to find out what is the reason cause my > > root all most full. > > $ find /dir -name \* | xargs du -s | sort -n > > Smallest files are listed first with the largest at the end. So if > you want to get the 5 largest files, pipe through tail. Adding -r to the sort options, and piping through head instead, might be a better idea. tail needs to read teh whole buffer, head only reads the first n lines. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Marseille, France E-Mail: [email protected] -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Using Normal IDE Device with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:38:00PM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe mentioned: > There is absolutely no way to use a conventional 3.5" drive with a > laptop directly. However, you can get an external firewire or USB > cradle and attach it to the laptop like that, and any 3.5" drive > will work in that case. Ah, they told me that about my A1200. Just got a video box, cut air holes and a hole for the cables, then got an extra-long 2.5" to 3.5" IDE cable, and connected it up. Had to make a few holes in the A1200 case for the IDE cable too. Worked a charm. Until I dropped the disk one day onto concrete. Kate -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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[ILUG] [OT] Dell machine giving me hassle. Ok, Iknow this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane. Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to put it to use, I know it was working pre being stuck in the corner, but when I plugged it in, hit the power nothing happened. I opened her up and had a look and say nothing much. A little orange LED comes on when I plug her in but that's it, after some googling I found some reference to re-seating all the parts, but no change. The problem I'm having is that since the power supply is some Dell specific one, ATX block with what looks like one of the old AT power connectors, I cant figure out weather this is a Mobo prob or a PSU prob. Just to futily try and drag this back OT, I want to install Linux on it when I get it working. If anyone knows what the problem might be give me a shout. Cheers, Peter. -- Peter Aherne, Software Engineer, Motorola Ireland Ltd. Ph: +353 21 4511234 Mobile: +353 87 2246834 -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Using Normal IDE Device with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop John P. Looney wrote: >>There is absolutely no way to use a conventional 3.5" drive with a >>laptop directly. > Ah, they told me that about my A1200. > > Worked a charm. Until I dropped the disk one day onto concrete. Go on. Tell them how long the /first/ one lasted. I vote external firewire if the laptop has the ports for it. Paul. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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FW: [ILUG] Using Normal IDE Device with a Dell Latitude CPx lapto p I vote usb 1.1 as the chances are the cdr drive is not over 8x write and thus fireware is of no real use... but i cant see how you are going to get it working without a cradle. I cant even get my dell laptop dvd drive to work as the connectors are not the same as my cd drive ones.. seems dell cant keep any standards going :-( -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28 August 2002 09:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ILUG] Using Normal IDE Device with a Dell Latitude CPx laptop John P. Looney wrote: >>There is absolutely no way to use a conventional 3.5" drive with a >>laptop directly. > Ah, they told me that about my A1200. > > Worked a charm. Until I dropped the disk one day onto concrete. Go on. Tell them how long the /first/ one lasted. I vote external firewire if the laptop has the ports for it. Paul. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank you. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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RE: [ILUG] [OT] Dell machine giving me hassle. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aherne Peter-pahern02 [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 28 August 2002 09:29 > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: [ILUG] [OT] Dell machine giving me hassle. > > Ok, Iknow this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane. > Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to > put it to use, I know it was working pre being stuck in the > corner, but when I plugged it in, hit the power nothing happened. > I opened her up and had a look and say nothing much. A little orange > LED comes on when I plug her in but that's it, after some googling > I found some reference to re-seating all the parts, but no change. > The problem I'm having is that since the power supply is some Dell > specific one, ATX block with what looks like one of the old AT > power connectors, I cant figure out weather this is a Mobo prob > or a PSU prob. Just to futily try and drag this back OT, I want > to install Linux on it when I get it working. If anyone knows > what the problem might be give me a shout. Here is what you do. Remove all the PCI & ISA/EISA cards. Remove the floppy disk cable from the mobo, the ide cables from the mobo... essentially leaving only a video card... ram and a keyboard plugged in. Turn on the system. If it doesn't POST then, switch it off and remove the video card. Switch it back on ... if your mobo doesn't emit some beeps complaining about lack of video card then. Switch it off. Remove it's ram. Same procedure as above. If you still don't have any kind of mobo beep codes then you can try as a last ditch effort to reseat the cpu... (remembering to never ever ever power up your system without a heatsink & fan). If after reseating the cpu into the mobo... you still get no beep codes, from it with just the cpu inserted into the mobo ie(no pci,*isa cards or and no actual ide or floppy cables connected to the system)... even though you have power... you either have a faulty motherboard or a faulty cpu. Once you get beep codes various permutations of the above should eventually disjunct which device it is, is causing the lack of POST. Power On Self Test. Bod -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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RE: [ILUG] [OT] Dell machine giving me hassle. > > Ok, Iknow this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane. > > Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to > > put it to use, I know it was working pre being stuck in the > > corner, but when I plugged it in, hit the power nothing happened. > > I opened her up and had a look and say nothing much. A little orange > > LED comes on when I plug her in but that's it, after some googling > > I found some reference to re-seating all the parts, but no change. > > The problem I'm having is that since the power supply is some Dell > > specific one, ATX block with what looks like one of the old AT > > power connectors, I cant figure out weather this is a Mobo prob > > or a PSU prob. Just to futily try and drag this back OT, I want > > to install Linux on it when I get it working. If anyone knows > > what the problem might be give me a shout. Ie if you are getting a little orange LED when you plug it in then your PSU is probably working. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] directory merging John P. Looney wrote: > I've two directories, that once upon a time contained the same files. > > Now, they don't. > > Is there a tool to merge the two - create a new directory where if the > files are the same, they aren't changed, if they are different, the one > with the most recent datestamp is used... Just for the record mc has a nice directory comparison function. This is really nice when using the ftp VFS for e.g. Of course if you use something like ftpfs you can use the previously mentioned tools. P�draig. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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[ILUG] PPPD disconnects on me! Hello folks! I'm new to Linux, so here goes... I've been trying to get connected to the outside world through my modem. I've got Debian with kernel 2.4.18. I've got this Win-Modem(yes, I know) and managed to locate a proper driver for it. Minicom is very much able to dial out. But there seems to be a problem with my PPPD installation. When I type 'ppp' in the minicom terminal, all I get (after the initial info of my dynamic IP, etc) is a ~ and then the NO CARRIER signal. Then I looked into calling pppd directly using chat. I used this command: pppd call Provider (where Provider is some script somewhere). It dials, it connects, it sends my username & password, and when connection is established, it gives the SIGHUP signal and exits. This is confirmed when me friend and I tried to connect through a serial port using pppd to connect ttyS0. I ran pppd waiting for a connection, me friend tried connecting and as soon as he did, pppd exited. Some expert help would be greatly appreciated as I'm sick and tired of having to reboot, get into Windoze to hook up to the net and then back to Linux, mounting this drive to get that file, etc. It'd be nice never have to go back to Windoze(except for games, that is). Thanks a million. Carlos -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] converting strings of hex to ascii Paul Jakma wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, David Neary wrote: > > > > Actually the following would be in some way sensible: > > > echo -e "`echo "$enc" | sed 's/%\([0-9a-fA-F]\{2,2\}\)/\\\x\1/g'`" > > > > Why {2,2}? Why not {2}? > > the above was something along the lines i was attempting, once i > realised it was a straight swap. but i couldnt get awk's gensub to > insert the \x for %'s and ='s. Perl's pack() would do the job... > > PS the late reply is because the footer on the original mail (If > > you received this mail in error yadda yadda) got caught in my > > spam filter, and ended up in my junkmail directory. > > might not have been the footer - check my headers. :) Actually, it was worse - a bodycheck showed up a "remove" URL. I need a new spam filter (but I want to be able to process false positives, rather than dump them). Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Marseille, France E-Mail: [email protected] -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file Inn Share wrote: > Hi,all: > > Does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my > root directory?or the second biggest ..etc... > > Because I want to find out what is the reason cause my > root all most full. > > The system is Solaris 8 Sparc. > > Thanks !!! I think everybody has their own version of this, but in case it's useful.. (only tested on Linux): find $* \( -type f -o -type l \) -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -r0 du -b --max-depth 0 | sort -k1n | grep -v "^0" P�draig. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] find the biggest file Inn Share <[email protected]> writes: > Hi,all: > > Does anyone know how to list the biggest file in my > root directory?or the second biggest ..etc... > > Because I want to find out what is the reason cause my > root all most full. find / -xdev -type f -exec du -sk {} \; | sort -rn | head -5 -xdev will stop find recursing into other filesystems. Cheers Tiarnan -- Tiarn�n � Corr�in Consultant / System Administrator CMG Wireless Data Solutions Ltd. Tel.: +353 21 4933200 Fax: +353 21 4933201 -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] converting strings of hex to ascii David Neary wrote: > Padraig Brady wrote: > >>>Paul Jakma wrote: >>> >>>>chars in hex to plain ASCII? >>>> >>>>eg given >>>> http://w%77%77%2Eo%70%74%6F%72%69um.n%65t/remove.html >>>> >>>>is there an easy way to turn it into >>>> >>>> http://www.optorium.net/remove.html >>>>eg, whether by piping through some already available tool, or >>>>programmatically (printf? - but i dont see how.). >>> >>Actually the following would be in some way sensible: >>echo -e "`echo "$enc" | sed 's/%\([0-9a-fA-F]\{2,2\}\)/\\\x\1/g'`" > > > Why {2,2}? Why not {2}? Me being silly, that's all. P�draig. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] [OT] Dell machine giving me hassle. I'm not familiar with Dell Dimension XPS, and, to be honest, not familiar with any brand-name computers. Most of my experience is China motherboards, but I've seen same behavior once. Changing the battery helps that time. It was big round battery with 'Panasonic' on it. Computer starts beeping then we removed battery from MB. It even booted up (well, loosing time and some other things). Just my 2 cents. Misha On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Aherne Peter-pahern02 wrote: > Ok, Iknow this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane. > Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to > put it to use, <snip> -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Newbie seeks advice - Suse 7.2 On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:26:47AM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote: [...] > probably a bit old, 7.3 and 8.0 are out. And I've been told by a SuSE rep that 8.1 will be out in October, for those who are interested. David -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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ALSA (almost) made easy Hi all, I've decided at last to test the ALSA sound drivers. As usual the result is that I've spent much more time repackaging the darn thing than actually testing the functionalities or trying to hear the great sound quality people seem to think it outputs... but hey, some of you will benefit from that, right? ;-) I've got the whole thing working on a Valhalla system, but the packages should easily install or at least recompile on Enigma, Limbo/(null) and maybe others, who knows ;-) Here are quick instructions for those of you that wish to try it out : - Recompile the "alsa-driver" source rpm for your running kernel (you can install the binary package if you're using the i686 2.4.18-10) - Install this "alsa-driver" package - Install the "alsa-libs" package - Install the "alsa-utils" package Now go to this URL and find out what you need to change in your /etc/modules.conf file to replace the default OSS driver loading : http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ (very complete and very good documentation!) Hopefully you'll see that your card *is* supported ;-) Reboot, or remove by hand your current sound modules (you'll probably need to stop many applications to free the sound resource...) "by hand" and insert the new ones. If all is well you've got ALSA working! ("dmesg" to check is a good idea), you now just need to adjust the volume levels with e.g. aumix and alsamixer because everything is muted by default. With "aplay" you can already test files to see if you hear anything. You can also install the XMMS plugin (seems to make my XMMS segfault on exit... hmmm, but maybe it's another plugin) to listen to your good ol' mp3 files... that's it! It really isn't complicated, and has never been from what I see. The only thing I disliked was to have to install from source... but as I can't imagine myself doing that ;-) I've repackaged everything cleanly. Even the /dev entries are included in the rpm package (and *not* created by an ugly %post script, I insist!) and seamlessly integrate into the /etc/makedev.d structure. There are also a few other noticeable differences with the default provided ALSA spec files, for example I've split alsa-lib's development files into an alsa-lib-devel package and included static libraries... there are others of course (oh yes, the kernel version against which the "alsa-driver" package is compiled gets neatly integrated in the rpm release, so does the architecture!). I'm open to any comments or suggestions about these packages! Download : http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/testing/alsa/ Current spec files : http://freshrpms.net/builds/alsa-driver/alsa-driver.spec http://freshrpms.net/builds/alsa-lib/alsa-lib.spec http://freshrpms.net/builds/alsa-utils/alsa-utils.spec (All others, patches etc. : http://freshrpms.net/builds/ ) Matthias PS: As an extra bonus, I've also recompiled xine with alsa support! Simply run "xine -A alsa09" and off you go! It may even support 5.1 and S/PDIF ;-) -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10 Load : 0.57 0.42 0.42, AC on-line, battery charging: 29% (1:55) _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Patch to enable/disable log While I was playing with the past issues, it annoyed me that there was no easy way to make the log stop growing (I don't mean to truncate it, I mean to just freeze it for a while). The following patch adds a new button to the log window, which allows the log to be switched on/off (the button says "Disable" when the log is enabled, and the button disables it, and "Enable" when the log is frozen, and the button enables it again). kre --- main.tcl Wed Aug 21 15:01:48 2002 +++ /usr/local/lib/exmh-2.5/main.tcl Wed Aug 28 17:36:59 2002 @@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ ExmhLogCreate wm withdraw $exmh(logTop) } + if {! $exmh(logWrite)} { + return + } if [info exists exmh(log)] { catch { # $exmh(log) insert end " [bw_delta] " @@ -407,6 +410,9 @@ set exmh(logWindow) 1 Exwin_Toplevel .log "Exmh Log" Log set exmh(logTop) .log + set exmh(logDisableBut) \ + [Widget_AddBut $exmh(logTop).but swap "Disable" ExmhLogToggle] + set exmh(logWrite) 1 Widget_AddBut $exmh(logTop).but trunc "Truncate" ExmhLogTrunc Widget_AddBut $exmh(logTop).but save "Save To File" ExmhLogSave set exmh(logYview) 1 @@ -457,6 +463,12 @@ } msg] { Exmh_Status "Cannot save log: $msg" error } +} +proc ExmhLogToggle {} { + global exmh + + set exmh(logWrite) [expr ! $exmh(logWrite)] + $exmh(logDisableBut) configure -text [lindex {"Enable " Disable} $exmh(logWrite)] } #### Misc _______________________________________________ Exmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-workers
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[zzzzteana] Compensation for World's youngest mother http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/08/26/peru.mother.reut/index.html LIMA, Peru (Reuters) -- Lina Medina's parents thought their 5-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumor and when shamans in their remote village in Peru's Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to hospital. Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy. Aged 5 years, seven months and 21 days old when her child was born by Caesarean section in May 1939, Medina made medical history, and is still the youngest known mother in the world. At the time, Peru's government promised aid that never materialized. Six decades on, Medina lives with her husband in a cramped house in a poor, crime-ridden district of the Peruvian capital known as "Little Chicago." Now 68, she keeps herself to herself and has long refused requests to rake up the past. Gerardo, the son she delivered while still a child herself, died in 1979 at the age of 40. But a new book, written by an obstetrician who has been interested in her case, has drawn fresh attention to Medina's story, and raised the prospect that the Peruvian government may belatedly offer her financial and other assistance. "The government condemned them to live in poverty. In any other country, they would be the objects of special care," Jose Sandoval, author of "Mother Aged 5," told Reuters. "We still have time to repair the damage done to her. That's my fundamental objective," he added. 'Totally willing to help' Sandoval has raised Medina's case with the office of first lady Eliane Karp, and has asked the government to grant her a life pension -- something officials say is possible. "We're totally willing to help her," said spokeswoman Marta Castaneda. But Suni Ramos, of the social action department of Karp's office, said that before the government could grant her a pension or any other of the aid it was already planning -- such as kitchen and other household equipment -- it needed to talk to her to discuss what she wanted and needed. It is currently trying to contact Medina and her family. Medina's husband, Raul Jurado, told Reuters his wife remained skeptical. "She got no help (in 1939) that I know about," he said. "She thinks governments never deliver. Maybe today there will be a promise that will never come true." Jurado said his wife, whose story is a medical textbook classic and whose case is confirmed as true by such bodies as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, had turned down Reuters' request for an interview. Medical rarity No one has ever established who was the father of Medina's child, or confirmed she became pregnant after being raped. One of nine children born to country folk in Ticrapo, an Andean village at an altitude of 7,400 feet (2,250 meters) in Peru's poorest province, Medina is believed to be the youngest case of precocious puberty in history, Sandoval said. He said she had her first period at 2 1/2, became pregnant aged 4 years and eight months and that when doctors performed the Caesarean to deliver her baby, they found she already had fully mature sexual organs. Her swelling stomach worried her parents. "They thought it was a tumor," he said. But shamans ruled out village superstitions -- including one in which locals believed a snake grew inside a person until it killed them -- and recommended they take her to hospital in the nearest big town, Pisco. There came the staggering diagnosis that she was pregnant. Her father was jailed temporarily on suspicion of incest -- he was later released for lack of evidence -- and doctors, police and even a film crew set off for her village for preliminary investigations into her case. Sandoval, who based his book on media and other published information, and some interviews with relatives as Medina herself declined to comment, said news of the child mother-to-be drew instant offers of aid, including one worth $5,000 from a U.S. businessman, which was turned down. More offers followed after Medina was transferred to a Lima hospital, where her fully developed 6-pound (2.7 kg) baby was born on May 14, 1939 -- Mother's Day. One offer was worth $1,000 a week, plus expenses, for Medina and her baby to be exhibited at the World's Fair in New York. Another, from a U.S. business that the family accepted in early June 1939, was for the pair to travel to the United States for scientists to study the case. The offer included setting up a fund to ensure their lifelong financial comfort. But within days, the state trumped all previous offers, decreeing that Medina and her baby were in "moral danger," and resolving to set up a special commission to protect them. But Sandoval said: "It abandoned the case after six months ...It did absolutely nothing for them." Happy ending? Though physically mature, Medina -- who Sandoval said was mentally normal and showed no other unusual medical symptoms -- still behaved like a child, preferring to play with her dolls instead of the new baby, who was fed by a wet nurse. Medina stayed in hospital for 11 months, finally returning to her family after it began legal proceedings that led to a Supreme Court ruling allowing her to live with them again. After taunting from schoolmates, Gerardo -- who was named after one of the doctors who attended Medina and became their mentor -- discovered when he was 10 that the woman he had grown up believing to be his sister was in fact his mother. He died in 1979 from a disease that attacks the body's bone marrow, but Sandoval said it was not clear there was any link with his illness and the fact his mother had been so young. Medina married and in 1972 had a second son, 33 years after her first. Her second child now lives in Mexico. She appears to have turned her bizarre story into a taboo subject. "We just want to get on with our lives, that's it," said Jurado, adding he thought "absolutely nothing" of the fact his wife was the world's youngest mother. He said the couple's main concern now, if the government's offer of aid was genuine, was to be granted the value of a property that belonged to Medina and which the then-government expropriated more than two decades ago. That house has now been destroyed and there is a road on the site. He said its value was "more or less $25,000" and settling the property question would conclude a long legal battle to get back a home of their own -- they live now in a modest house, accessed down a dingy alley half blocked by a wooden board, in a tough neighborhood known to locals as a thieves' paradise. "If the government really wants to help...they should give us the value of our property," he said. As for Sandoval, he said he was optimistic that Medina's story, which he has studied since his student days, would turn out well. "I believe there will be a happy ending," he said. "As a result of the war, corporations have now been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." 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[zzzzteana] RE:Pictish Barbara wrote: Pictish pictograms (still undeciphered) ----------------------- I'd be interested in an update on the latest thinking on these things. Particularly the 'swimming elephant' pictogram. There's a book come out recently on the world's undeciphered scripts (including Linear A and Etruscan). Has any list member read it? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Re: That wacky imam --- In forteana@y..., "Martin Adamson" <martin@s...> wrote: > For an alternative, and rather more factually based, rundown on Hamza's > career, including his belief that all non Muslims in Yemen should be murdered > outright: > > http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA7201 And we know how unbiased MEMRI is, don't we.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00. html Rob ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Lincs lizard http://yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=news&aid=481687 2.5ft lizard 'abandoned' at resort Holidaymakers at a seaside resort were stunned to find a 2.5ft lizard sunning itself at a caravan park close to a beach. The savannah monitor lizard was captured at Chapel St Leonards, Lincs, on Sunday by a member of the public before being collected by an RSPCA team. RSPCA officer Justin Stubbs, who took the lizard to a specialist carer, said: "Savannah monitors can give a nasty bite and we certainly wouldn't have wanted one loose in a busy holiday resort for long." Officials believe the animal may have been abandoned by a private owner because it has not been reported missing. Savannah monitor lizards originate in Africa and are carnivorous, eating rats and small rodents. They can grow to 4ft in length. Anyone with information about the lizard can contact the RSPCA in confidence on 08705 555 999. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Hot rock http://yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=news&aid=481620 Close encounter of burnt kind IT came from outer space � or did it? Teenager Siobhan Cowton is convinced the object which struck her as she climbed into the family car at her home in Northallerton is extra-terrestrial. But while her claims are being treated with a certain amount of studied academic scepticism by experts in these matters, the 14-year-old schoolgirl is adamant she was hit on the foot by a meteorite. Siobhan initially thought there was a more prosaic explanation � that the odd-looking stone had been thrown at her by a child,. But on closer inspection, she discovered all was not as it seemed � because it was hot when she picked it up. It hit her on a foot but caused no injury. "I looked at it again and it had a black and grey colour with a shiny bubble surface," she said. After closer inspection by her father Niel, and comparison with pictures on the Internet, Siobhan plans to ask scientists at Durham University to check the object for authenticity. If it is from outer space, Siobhan says she will consider putting it up for auction. She added: "If it isn't worth anything then I suppose I will keep it myself for sentimental value. It is not every day that you are hit by a meteorite." But Dr Ben Horton, a lecturer in physical geography, was the acme of academic caution. "Meteors have features that can be used to establish whether it is a piece of extraterrestrial rock," he said. "They have a very smooth surface but sometimes they have shallow depressions and cavities. If they are hot, they should have a black ash like crust burnt around the edge. "Most are between five and 60 centimetres but five centimetres is the smallest that they usually appear." To establish the provenance of Siobhan's suspected meteorite it would have to be subject to a mineral breakdown but Dr Horton thinks the chances of it being extra-terrestrial are slim. "Around 50,000 a year strike the Earth's surface and, considering the size of the Earth, it is very unlikely to be a meteorite. "However, there is a possibility and there is no reason it couldn't happen," he added. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] 'Lost' penguins found alive Evening Standard - 28 August 2002 [Deft use of Fortean Unit of Measurement in 2nd para - MA] 'Lost' penguins found alive by Charles Miranda A colony of emperor penguins which was thought to have starved to death in Antarctica has been found alive in a "big huddle". The birds were spotted by the crew of a USAF jet returning to base in New Zealand. Researchers had feared that a breakaway iceberg the size of Jamaica had all but wiped out the colony at Cape Crozier on Ross Island. Thousands of chicks are believed to have died as an increase in sea ice made it impossible for the adults to find food. A detailed count is planned in October. Antarctica (New Zealand) chief executive Lou Sanson said: "The penguins were in a big huddle. We can now hope that the emperors have had a successful breeding season over the winter." Some 1,000 pairs of emperors - the largest penguins in the world at 3.3ft tall and 88lb - usually nest at Cape Crozier, 50 miles from the US McMurdo research station. The 200,000-strong Adelie penguin colony, which also nests at the cape, may have lost up to third of its population. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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/home/dude Hi, some time now the following messages were haunting me: automount[11593]: attempting to mount entry /home/dude It just came to my attention, that only freshrpm benefitting hosts showed this up. I grepped through the binaries and found referrences to /home/dude. # grep /home/dude /usr/bin/* Binary file /usr/bin/aaxine matches Binary file /usr/bin/gentoo matches Binary file /usr/bin/gphoto2 matches Binary file /usr/bin/gtkam matches ... I am now relaxed again ;), and pass this info on. Probably Matthias Saou himself is "dude", and some package has hardwired a path in his build directory. It would be nice to find out which and fix it, but I am using too many of the freshrpm suite to narrow it down. Regards, Axel. -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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[zzzzteana] Big cats 'on the increase' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2220922.stm Big cats are on the loose in Britain and breeding their way towards record numbers, a monitoring group has claimed. The British Big Cats Society said it has received more than 800 reports of animals including pumas, black panthers, leopards and so-called Fen tigers over the past 12 months. And while it admits that many sightings are of nothing more exotic than the average moggy, it claims to have "firm evidence" that the majority are real. Society founder Daniel Bamping told BBC News Online he could cope with the critics and doubters, adding: "I was a sceptic, I thought it was in the same realm as the Loch Ness monster. "But it's not, they are really out there." 'Cats with cubs' Mr Bamping said there have been reports of big cats from every corner of the country. Big cat reports Hotspots include Scotland and Gloucestershire January 2002 - Kent man clawed by suspected Lynx November 2001 - farmer reports animals mauled by big cat April 2001 - Lynx captured in north London 1999 - Puma-like cat attacks horse in Wales "This weekend alone I have had sightings from Wales, the Scottish borders, Kent, the West Midlands, Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire," he said. The society claims some of the big cats are breeding with domestic animals. But Mr Bamping said others, particularly lynx and puma, probably exist in sufficient numbers to breed among themselves. "We have had sightings of cats with cubs," he added. 'Trigger camera' The society claims to have evidence proving the cats' existence, including photographs, paw prints, sheep kills and hair samples. But it knows it will have to do even more to convince a sceptical public that it is not spinning them a shaggy cat story. A national "trigger camera" project is planned which, the society hopes, will provide footage to prove the existence of the big cats. Mr Bamping said: "The idea is that the cat will walk past the camera and take a picture of itself." 'Like dogs' The society believes many of the sighting are of pets released into the wild, or their descendants. Its spokesman Danny Nineham said: "In the 1960s and 1970s, people had big cats like leopards as pets and they used to walk them like dogs. "But in 1976 when the Dangerous Wild Animals Act came into force, people released their cats because they did not want to pay for a licence, put them down, or take them to a zoo." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] US Army tests portable translator http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2219079.stm US soldiers on peacekeeping duties in the future could find that a portable translation device will be an essential part of their equipment. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a prototype of a speech translator that was road-tested by US Army chaplains in Croatia. "This project shows how a relatively simple speech-to-speech translation system can be rapidly and successfully constructed using today's tools," said the team from Carnegie Mellon University in a research paper published recently. The research was commissioned by the US Army, which is increasingly finding itself in peace-keeping roles where communication is key. Speaking in tongues "In the Balkans, the Army is not just supposed to conquer somebody," Robert Frederking of Carnegie Mellon University told the BBC programme Go Digital. Translators could be essential for US soldiers "In a peacekeeping situation, you have two guys trying to beat each other up and you are holding them apart. "You can't just shot one of them, you have to figure what is going on and talk to them," he said. The portable translator was developed with a year, using commercially available laptops. The Army did not want to field-test the device in a battlefield situation. So instead the translator was tested by US Army chaplains in Croatia. "The chaplains very often end up having to talk to foreign nationals and typically don't have any translation support," explained Mr Frederking. Slow system For the trials, the chaplains used the translator to speak to Croatians who knew just a smattering of English. The system works by having a speech recogniser that picks up the words in Croatian, turns the speech into text. The written words are then translated into English and read out by a speech synthesizer. "It went reasonably well half the time," said Mr Frederking, though it was slow in translating phrases. The research team admit that the system is not ready to be deployed in the field. But they say their trials showed that a portable translator could be made to work with further research and development. The Audio Voice Translation Guide System project was a joint venture between the US Army, the military manufacturer Lockheed Martin and Carnegie Mellon University. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Receive Phone Calls and Faxes While You're Online! Emerson Switchboard eliminates the need for a second phone line. Order the Switchboard today for $39.95 + shipping and handling. http://us.click.yahoo.com/P2sPyA/o6kEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Worryingly sophisticated bees Ananova:� Brazilian bees keep their own 'insect ranch' Scientists have found a new species of bee that behaves like a farmer by keeping herds of insects. The Amazonian Schwarzula use their own 'insect ranches' to provide food and building materials. The bees nest in holes in trees alongside 200 aphid-like insects from a species called cryptostigma. Cryptostigma feed on tree sap and excrete a sugar solution, which the bees stop them from drowning in, by licking it up and turning it into honey. The insects also produce wax from glands on their backs, which the bees scrape off and use for their nest. Nature reports it is the first time farming behaviour has been discovered in bees. Biologist Joao Camargo, of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, said: "In turn the bees provide the insects with sanitary benefits and protection." Writing in the journal Biotropica, Camargo says the bees might even carry their insect ranches around the forest with them and is planning further research on how they tend to their herd. Studies of the Schwarzula showed the bees seemed to get most of their sugar from the insect farms. Some bees were seen licking human sweat for salt. Story filed: 13:49 Wednesday 28th August 2002 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Super Blue Stuff Pain Relief - On Sale Today for $29.95 + shipping! With Super Blue Stuff you�ll feel the results in just minutes. Relieves arthritis pain, back pain, sore muscles, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/N2sPyA/q6kEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Betamax finally laid to rest Not fortean, but a moment in time all the same... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2220972.stm Betamax video recorders are finally being phased out almost 20 years after losing the battle for dominance of the home video market to VHS. Betamax's manufacturer, Sony, has announced that it will make only 2,000 more machines for the Japanese market. They have not been on sale in the rest of the world since 1998. VHS became the dominant format by the mid-1980s Betamax was launched in 1975, and won many fans who said it was better quality than its VHS rival. Some 2.3 million Betamax machines were sold worldwide in its peak year, 1984, but it soon went downhill as VHS became the format of choice for the film rental industry and in homes. Just 2,800 machines were sold in the 12 months to March 2002. "With digital machines and other new recording formats taking hold in the market, demand has continued to decline and it has become difficult to secure parts," Sony said in a statement. Sony said it would continue to offer repairs and manufacture tapes for the format. The professional Betamax format, Betacam, is still widely used in the television and film industries and will be unaffected. But the recent rise of DVDs seems to have put the final nail in the coffin for Betamax home players. In the 1980s, many video rental chains preferred the VHS format. Betamax lovers became so passionate about the format in the face of competition from VHS that they set up the Betaphile Club in 1988. The picture and sound quality of Beta was superior to VHS, Betaphiles say, although VHS tapes had a longer duration. A total of 18 million Betamax machines were sold around the world, but no new ones will be made after the end of 2002. Sony is now planning to focus its efforts on new digital technologies. See also: ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Kwick Pick Portable Lock Pick - Opens Almost Any Lock! Locked out? Try the Kwick Pick. For $17.95, you can open car doors, desk drawers, padlocks, and much more! Never get locked out again! http://us.click.yahoo.com/O2sPyA/p6kEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[ILUG] Hayes Accura ISDN PCI Does anyone know if this is supported under 2.4.18 kernels or higher? I need to buy an ISDN TA quick, and PC World have these in stock for �65. Thanks, David. David Hamilton Senior Technical Consultant HP Ireland -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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[ILUG] Modem Problems ive just gotton myself a modem (no its not a winmodem, yes im sure) it dials the internet grant using the RedHat PPP Dialer... and i can ping the server i dial into but i cant get any furthur than that server? any ideas? -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [zzzzteana] Re: That wacky imam Martin Adamson wrote:>>And we know how unbiased MEMRI is, don't we.... >> > > Oh, of course, you're right, any information not coming from a source that > fits your pre-conceived world view can simply be dismissed out of hand. > > Martin > For goddess' sake Martin that seems to be exactly what you're doing. You started your reply to Tim's posting of the Guardian article by suggesting that it was factually inaccurate. Did you actually read it or did you just assume that if the Grauniad writes about a Muslim extremist they must be making him out as an all round nice guy? Stewart -- Stewart Smith Scottish Microelectronics Centre, University of Edinburgh. http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~sxs/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Re: Cincinnati Group Wants To Stamp Out Hotel Sex Movies > >> (CNSNews.com) - A pro-family group in Cincinnati that has pressured >> two area hotels to stop showing adult pay-per-view movies has vowed >to >> expand its grass- roots campaign nationwide. > > >Quite right. And while they're at it, they can get that bunch of >religious nuts to stop sneaking their book of hate and intolerence >into the bedside cabinets, you know, that one with all the telephone >humbers in it. > >Oh, and the Gideon Society can take their bibles back as well. > >RobinH > What are you talking about??? That book is where all the best free porn is!! Piece of trivia: the thing is so pithy it floats!! -- Fel http://www.frogstone.net Weird Page: http://my.athenet.net/~felinda/WeirdPage.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Re: [zzzzteana] Save the planet, kill the people the latest - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2240487.stm Friday, 6 September, 2002, 08:53 GMT 09:53 UK Zimbabwe eases GM stance Zimbabwe has dropped objections to accepting genetically modified (GM) grain so that urgently-needed food aid can be delivered, says the UN food agency. The executive director of the World Food Programme, James Morris, said Zimbabwe's decision would send an important message to other countries in the region which have refused food aid because it might contain GM grain. Until now, Zimbabwe had said it would only allow aid workers to distribute ground maize to allay fears that GM grain could be planted. But a Zimbabwean minister says the government has now set up a system of checks to ensure the grain will not enter the eco-system. There have been fears that Southern African nations could lose lucrative export markets in Europe if they cannot certify that their crops are GM-free. Aid Mr Morris announced the policy reversal after talks in Harare with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. "The fact that they have now concluded that they are comfortable in accepting GM crops or commodities will be an important signal to other countries in the region," Mr Morris told journalists. "It will enable us to do our job," he said. Aid workers say up to 13 million people in seven countries in Southern Africa face famine. In Zimbabwe which was once the bread basket of the region, some six million people are estimated to need food aid. The WFP says it already has aid pledges for about half of the 600,000 tonnes of food it intends to bring into Zimbabwe in the next few months. The government blames the shortages solely on drought, but the government's campaign to transfer land from large scale commercial white farmers has worsened the situation, say many donors. Lost markets The GM row has complicated relief efforts across the region. Zambia's president is refusing to overturn his ban on GM food aid, labelling it as 'poison' . Deals to mill GM food before being distributed, so that it could not be planted, have placated fears in Malawi and Mozambique. United States aid officials deny that the food is unsafe, pointing out that Americans eat GM maize every day. The World Health Organisation has certified the grain for human consumption and says it does not constitute a danger to people's health. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Looking for a more powerful website? Try GeoCities for $8.95 per month. Register your domain name (http://your-name.com). More storage! No ads! http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info http://us.click.yahoo.com/aHOo4D/KJoEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Frog Fall at Cheapside Near the end of his *Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds* (1851), Charles Mackay discusses various catch phrases briefly popular in mid-19th-century London. One of them, he observes, "like a mushroom, seems to have sprung up in the night, or, like a frog in Cheapside, to have come down in a sudden shower. One day it was unheard, unknown, uninvented; the next it pervaded London." Was "like a frog in Cheapside" (or something similar) a catch phrase itself, or did Mackay come up with the simile on his own? And to what event or events does it refer? I didn't find anything relevant in Partridge's *A Dictionary of Catch Phrases.* bc ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Looking for a more powerful website? Try GeoCities for $8.95 per month. Register your domain name (http://your-name.com). More storage! No ads! http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info http://us.click.yahoo.com/aHOo4D/KJoEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Re: [zzzzteana] Free Web Hosting? Bill: > I've decided that I ought to put some of my writing samples on-line for > potential employers to mock. And I don't want to pay for it. There are still > a couple dozen places to do this, do any of you have preferences? > Getting your own domain needn't be expensive, looks more professional, and you're not going to suddenly lose your site with little or no notice (yes, I'm still smarting from bastard Geocities). I registered mine through http://www.easyspace.com/ - works out about a pound a week for registration and 30Mb hosting. It's a valuable service, there's no reason not to expect to pay. TimC ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Looking for a more powerful website? Try GeoCities for $8.95 per month. Register your domain name (http://your-name.com). More storage! No ads! http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info http://us.click.yahoo.com/aHOo4D/KJoEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Re: [zzzzteana] FWD (TLCB) Jimmy Carter: The Troubling, New Face of America Of course, everyone knows that Owlman is a work of fuggin` genius J > Hey, I met the wizard bloke from Owlman, who wants to touch me!! > > Dave ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Scissors are a snip for Third World The Times September 06, 2002 Scissors are a snip for Third World From Richard Owen in Rome IT IS one of the unanswered questions of the past year: what happens to the millions of nail scissors confiscated by airport security officials from passengers� hand luggage? Most are thrown away or recycled after being seized as part of security measures since September 11. But an enterprising chaplain is sending them to Catholic missionaries for distribution to Third World hospitals and clinics. In theory travellers who have left nail scissors, nail files, corkscrews or manicure sets from their hand luggage can arrange for them to be returned. In practice many just shrug and leave the scissors by the X-ray scanners. Father Arturo Rossini, chaplain of Malpensa airport in Milan, said that scissors were costly or unavailable in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. He told Corriere della Sera that he had �plucked up the courage� to ask the authorities if he could have the confiscated scissors. With the help of a retired airport policeman, he had packaged 60,000 nail scissors and manicure sets, using the airport chapel as a packing centre. Packages were shipped in aircraft holds to Peru, Brasil, India, Mozambique, Argentina, Zambia and Kenya. �In such countries, what we think of as a personal grooming accessory can be a vital tool.� The idea has been taken up at other Italian airports. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Re: [zzzzteana] Save the planet, kill the people > Zimbabwe has dropped objections to accepting genetically modified (GM) grain > so that urgently-needed food aid can be delivered, says the UN food agency. Yes, confirming what I said in my last message. Ah! I see where the problem lies! You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that Zimbabwe and Zambia are the same country. Martin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Re: [zzzzteana] Save the planet, kill the people Martin: > Yes, confirming what I said in my last message. Ah! I see where the problem > lies! You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that Zimbabwe and > Zambia are the same country. > No, that would be rather silly. There are conflicting reports on whether Zambia is prepared to accept milled GM grain or not - and, from reports from various sources, considerable debate within that country. There's complex issues, not all of which can be dismissed by blaming those nasty environmentalists, which was my original point. TimC ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Hitler-style applicant welcomed by parties The Times September 06, 2002 Hitler-style applicant welcomed by parties By Roger Boyes MANAGERS of Germany�s political parties are having difficulty explaining their enthusiastic reaction to a man who applied for membership with letters cribbed largely from Mein Kampf, Hitler�s personal manifesto. The incident illustrates how indiscriminate parties have become in taking on new members during an election campaign, even when their sentiments bear a suspicious resemblance to those of the F�hrer. �Edmund Stoiber is a thousand times more suited to leading Germany than the present Chancellor,� said one letter sent to the Christian Social Union headquarters in Ingolstadt. �Chancellor Schr�der is doing nothing to stop the flood of foreigners who are spreading around our Fatherland,� said the letter, signed by a certain Rudolph Lewald. The CSU immediately spotted a potential member. �Many thanks for your nice thoughts,� replied the local party manager, who enclosed an application for membership. The letter used chunks of Hitler�s book, which is still banned in Germany. History students have to apply for access to the book in university libraries. �The strongest, the brave and the hardworking will receive the birthright of existence, only those who are born weaklings could regard this as offensive,� the letter-writer said. �So-called humanity is melting like snow in the March sun.� Such phrases were lifted from Mein Kampf, which was written while Hitler was in jail after the failed Munich putsch of 1923. Similar letters, also using the Nazi leader�s words, were sent to the other political parties and drew sympathetic responses. �I read your letter with great interest and pleasure,� the manager of the Christian Democratic Union in Cologne, said. �Great that you want to join us!� enthused the Green Party headquarters. The Free Democrats invited the aspiring party member to a fundraising charity ball at which Hans- Dietrich Genscher, the former Foreign Minister, would be the star guest. The Social Democrats sent a list of rallies to be attended by Gerhard Schr�der, the Chancellor. �I wanted to test how serious parties are about combating right-wing extremism,� said the letter-writer, who was in fact the Cologne novelist Rainer Popp. �I had no idea that they would be so enthusiastic. �For the first few days I expected two men in leather coats from the Special Branch to knock on my door. Instead only the postman called � with packets of election material from zealous political headquarters,� Herr Popp said. �I was stunned that political parties could react in this way � I reckon I would have had the same response if I had signed the letter �Adolf Hitler�.� ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[ILUG] Flat rate is back lads! Hi all, Saw this on the register this morning, http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/26983.html, and they support ISDN dual channel. Whoo Hoo! CW -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] modem problems Quoting Waider ([email protected]): > Niall Sheridan wrote: > | A power cycle will do it. > | Other than that it's chipset specific. > > sure. tried powercycling an internal modem recently? :) > > Waider. This is Rick Moen bait. Thanks. It was delicious. ;-> -- Cheers, "That article and its poster have been cancelled." Rick Moen -- David B. O'Donnel, sysadmin for America Online [email protected] -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs On 0020 +0100 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:53:32PM +0100}, Darragh wrote: > the help that I received today. Then though I tried to build them. I > started by trying the w3 program. I used the following lines which produced > some strange results. Would any one be able to set me straight? > > ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local/src/beta/w3 --exec-prefix=/usr/ > local/src/beta/w3 --with-url=/url/url One thing I _think_ you might be doing slightly wrong is your specification of prefixes. --prefix is the directory to be used as root for _installing_ files. Typically packages use /usr/local as default (so binaries might then go in /usr/local/bin, documentation in /usr/local/doc and so forth). Normally, I find it sufficient to put --prefix=/usr/local, and do not further specify things like --exec-prefix. Maybe you have a special reason for using the prefixes you chose, in which case ignore me! > That worked fine so I moved to the next step. > make > At the bottem of the text I got the following messages: > Cannot open load file: /url/url/url-vars.el > make[1]: *** [custom-load.el] Error 255 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/beta/w3/lisp' > make: *** [w3] Error 2 > > When I got around to trying the url package I had no problems. In saying > that this doesn't necessarily mean that I was doing it right so below are > the commands I used. > ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/url/url --exec-prefix=/url/url I'd make the same remarks about prefixes here. I would use the command ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local To get w3 to compile, I think the with-url flag you should use is --with-url=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (Assuming you compiled/installed url with --prefix=/usr/local Since you appear to have installed url in /url/url, configure w3 with ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local/ --with-url=/url/url/share/emacs/site-lisp A command you would have found useful would have been find / -name 'url-vars.el' -print Which would have told you where the url-vars.el file was installed. A program which is very useful is checkinstall http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ It allows you to install packages from source while still registering them in the package management system of your distro (rpm,deb,tgz). Instead of "make install" type "checkinstall", and a package is put together and installed for you. Makes uninstallation simpler than it might otherwise be. -- Michael Conry Ph.:+353-1-7161987, Web: http://www.acronymchile.com Key fingerprint = 5508 B563 6791 5C84 A947 CB01 997B 3598 09DE 502C -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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RE: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs Hello all, Firstly I'd like to thank all of you for the fast and very helpful feedback that I got to my question today. I have one more question though. I downloaded the w3 and url files from the server at the first try thanks to the help that I received today. Then though I tried to build them. I started by trying the w3 program. I used the following lines which produced some strange results. Would any one be able to set me straight? ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local/src/beta/w3 --exec-prefix=/usr/ local/src/beta/w3 --with-url=/url/url That worked fine so I moved to the next step. make At the bottem of the text I got the following messages: Cannot open load file: /url/url/url-vars.el make[1]: *** [custom-load.el] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/beta/w3/lisp' make: *** [w3] Error 2 When I got around to trying the url package I had no problems. In saying that this doesn't necessarily mean that I was doing it right so below are the commands I used. ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/url/url --exec-prefix=/url/url followed by the commands make and make install. There is no text files which contain help on installing the url package so I'm not completely certain if I've used the right method here. Thanks again Darragh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hunt, Bryan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: OT: RE: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs > > speaking of that IDE (weblogic developer) the open source version called > eclipse is free from eclipse.org If you are doing java development you > need to get this IDE . I've been using it for the last month and it is > absolutly superb. Best thing about it is that rather than using swing > (which is crap) is that they have their own native widget set called swt. > > When you run it on windows it uses windows widgets but when you run it on > linux it uses gtk, you should see it on gnome 2 ! Absolutely stunning ! > > --B > > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin MacCarthy [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 September 2002 16:53 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs > > > This is the best step by step guide to setting up cvs on Redhat.. > > http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0205_yu/yu.html?open > &l=456,t=gr > > It is for a particular IBM ide, but the setup and testing of the server is > the same for any CVS client > > Both The "Using Linux" and "Linux in a nutshell" book by Oreilly have > sections on cvs /rcs , and both books are a must buy for any linux newbie > > > Justin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > > Michael Conry > > Sent: 05 September 2002 16:34 > > To: Darragh > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs > > > > > > On 0020 +0100 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 3:55:16PM +0100}, Darragh wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am very new to Linux and need some help on a utility called > > cvs. As far > > > as I'm aware its a similar protocol to FTP. I need to use it > > to download a > > > program from :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/w3. > > I am looking > > > for information on how to use it. I'll have another look at > > the man pages > > > but I think I have to set it up before I can download anything. > > cvs is really a very different kind of thing to FTP, but the details of > > that statement are left as an exercise to the reader (won't show up my > > own ignorance that way ;-) > > The application you want is cvsclient... > > There is documentation here: > > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/gnu/docs/cvs/cvsclient_toc.html > > > > You might get a quick idea of how it works from here: > > http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot.html > > where he explains how to get cvs gnuplot... > > The commands are: > > > > export > > CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/gnuplot > > cvs login > > cvs -z3 checkout gnuplot > > > > Something similar will probably do the job for you. I'm guessing the > > following MIGHT work... > > > > export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/w3 > > cvs login > > cvs -z3 checkout w3 > > > > m > > -- > > Michael Conry Ph.:+353-1-7161987, Web: http://www.acronymchile.com > > Key fingerprint = 5508 B563 6791 5C84 A947 CB01 997B 3598 09DE 502C > > > > -- > > Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] > > http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription > > information. > > List maintainer: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > -- > Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] > http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. > List maintainer: [email protected] > > -- > Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] > http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. > List maintainer: [email protected] > -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] windows users accessing cvs... Quoting kevin lyda ([email protected]): > anyone here have experience with windows cvs clients accessing a cvs > server *securely*. preferably using ssh of some form (putty or cygwin's > openssh port) and the wincvs client? Here's something I cobbled together: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=9026&group_id=13487 -- Cheers, "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate Rick Moen those who do. And, for the people who like country music, [email protected] denigrate means 'put down'." -- Bob Newhart -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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[ILUG] PCTel modules Hello again. I tried all the suggestions for the PCTel driver and at the end of it, everything still goes smoothly until I type "make" after I get the output from the ./configure. However, there were a couple of things I noticed along the way. After typing * cp configs/kernel-2.4...config .config * make oldconfig * make dep The 2nd to last line I got back said that the modversions.h file was not updated. When I looked at this path to the modversions.h file, it was 281 lines and every line started with a # mark. Is it the case that nothing is read on a line after a # mark (or am I just thinking of another language?) and so should I delete the # at certain places? Also, when I was in the pctel directory and typed "make", I noticed that a different subdirectory is taken to a different modversions.h file. Inside this other file, there's nothing at all. And so I moved the modversions.h file with 281 lines to the empty modversions.h file - and got a different reply after "make". The output after I moved the file over mostly looked like this: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:11:33: linux/modules/adb.ver: No such file or directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:12:37: linux/modules/af_ax25.ver: No such file or directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:13:36: linux/modules/af_ipx.ver: No such file or directory The odd lines being the path and the first half of the other lines are what's written after the # in the modversions.h file. Should there be a file at each of these (one at each of the 281 lines of the file) that I'd have to compile/make? It's taken plenty of elbow grease, but I'm glad it hasn't gone smoothly, it's a good learning experience. Again, any help is appreciated. Thanks, Eric _____________________________________________________________ email services provided by trackbike.com, your source for alleycat and trackbike photos. submissions welcome. _____________________________________________________________ Promote your group and strengthen ties to your members with [email protected] by Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net/?btn=tag -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] PCTel modules On 0020 -0700 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 3:17:36PM -0700}, eric nichols wrote: > Hello again. I tried all the suggestions for the PCTel driver and at > the end of it, everything still goes smoothly until I type "make" > after I get the output from the ./configure. > > However, there were a couple of things I noticed along the way. After typing > * cp configs/kernel-2.4...config .config > * make oldconfig > * make dep > The 2nd to last line I got back said that the modversions.h file was > not updated. When I looked at this path to the modversions.h file, it > was 281 lines and every line started with a # mark. > Is it the case > that nothing is read on a line after a # mark (or am I just thinking > of another language?) and so should I delete the # at certain places? No that is appropriate content for the file. I'm not a C programmer, but I think that these sort of things (#include <blahblah>) are instructions to the compiler processed by a pre-processor in the compile process, and include all sorts of symbols/functions e.g. "#include <math.h>" gives you maths type functions. Since they start with "#" they are ignored in the final compilation. Regarding the rest of the compile process, you need to tell the PCtel software to look in the right place for the kernel headers/source. I recall from your previous mail that there was a flag --with-kernel-includes=/usr/src/linux-2.4 which could be passed to the ./configure script (with the appropriate directory in place of /usr/src/linux-2.4). This might allow you to persuade the code to compile against the correct headers. I think this is the right way to proceed. Alternatively, maybe the steps above regarding "make dep" and so forth should have been performed in the directory where the make process is looking for modversions.h & Co. I don't think it is a good idea keep moving files into the directory as you describe below. First of all you will move modversions.h (which you have done), then you would have to move all those *.ver files, after that, there will almost certainly be a need for further header (*.h) files. This could be quickly done, but is probably bad (those files don't really belong there). For what it's worth I think you are very close to a successful compilation. m > > Also, when I was in the pctel directory and typed "make", I noticed > that a different subdirectory is taken to a different modversions.h > file. Inside this other file, there's nothing at all. And so I moved > the modversions.h file with 281 lines to the empty modversions.h file > - and got a different reply after "make". The output after I moved the > file over mostly looked like this: > /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:11:33: > linux/modules/adb.ver: No such file or directory > /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:12:37: > linux/modules/af_ax25.ver: No such file or directory > /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:13:36: > linux/modules/af_ipx.ver: No such file or directory > > The odd lines being the path and the first half of the other lines are > what's written after the # in the modversions.h file. Should there be > a file at each of these (one at each of the 281 lines of the file) > that I'd have to compile/make? -- Michael Conry Ph.:+353-1-7161987, Web: http://www.acronymchile.com Key fingerprint = 5508 B563 6791 5C84 A947 CB01 997B 3598 09DE 502C -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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[ILUG] semaphores on linux RH7.3 Hi All, I have a question which is a bit tricky and was wondering of anyone has come across this problem before or could point me in the right direction. I am involved in porting a SCO unix application to Linux, and we have encountered a problem with the way semaphores are being handled. The application uses mulitple processes to run application code with the main process known as the bsh which controls all i/o be it screen, or file i/o, syncronisation is handled via semaphores. In certain circumstances the main process and the application child process seem to lock up both waiting for the syncronisation semaphores to change state, I have attached ddd to the processes and it seems that the semaphore code is doing the correct things for syncronisation but the processes stay stuck in the semop() system call. I have also noticed that if I introduce a slight delay between changing semaphore states the problem goes away, but this causes our entire application to run really sloooww !! lol Is there anything weird or different with the standard implemenation of semaphores on modern linux that could cause a semop() to fail to pick up the change in state in a semaphore immediately? Setting sem_flg = IPC_NOWAIT and checking for errno == EAGAIN and recalling semop() if the semop() call fails (-1) also fixes the problem but again system performance goes down the toilet. both the parent controlling process run as the same uid, and the parent creates the semaphores with permissions 0666. Any pointers would be appreciated! Rgds, Colin Nevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: use of base image / delta image for automated recovery from attacks take a look at http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102881,00.asp Andrey mailto:[email protected] BM> Does anyone do this already? Or is this a new concept? Or has this concept BM> been discussed before and abandoned for some reasons that I don't yet know? BM> I use the physical architecture of a basic web application as an example in BM> this post, but this concept could of course be applied to most server BM> systems. It would allow for the hardware-separation of volatile and BM> non-volatile disk images. It would be analogous to performing nightly BM> ghosting operations, only it would be more efficient and involve less (or BM> no) downtime. BM> Thanks for any opinions, BM> Ben
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Re: The absurdities of life. On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:51:54AM -0700, Elias wrote: > So, given the apparent commonality of these occurances, companies appear > to be losing a large amount of money by mailing these tiny checks out. > Why can't they simply credit the account in question on the next bill? > Granted, if an account has been closed there is no such option... I've been waiting for Hettinga to regale us with one of his well-tuned micro-cash-bearer-settlement-geodesic-finance rants. Bob, you are SO disappointing me. -- njl
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Re: The absurdities of life. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 3:25 PM -0400 on 10/8/02, Ned Jackson Lovely wrote: > I've been waiting for Hettinga to regale us with one of his > well-tuned micro-cash-bearer-settlement-geodesic-finance rants. > Bob, you are SO disappointing me. How about if I include it by reference... <http://www.ibuc.com/pdfs/geoecon.pdf> :-). Blue in the face, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.5 iQA/AwUBPaMxL8PxH8jf3ohaEQJOvwCgwLjDfcRLc/15ohgtx/Y7Vvrl/5IAn0iA eEFqCWCvykjwv+8jPA/PpDsf =vNcJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [email protected]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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process music: Mekons http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=entertainmentnews&StoryID=1543345 Working this loose knit fashion is what keeps the Mekons so exciting, Langford said. "When the Mekons was our whole day job, it became a drudgery," he said. " Sometimes we get bogged down and trapped. But we're usually pretty greasy enough to bite our leg off, squirm free and run off."
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Origins of Software Engineering The academic discipline of Software Engineering was launched at a conference sponsored by NATO, at Garmisch, Germany, in October, 1968. Intriguingly, the term Software Engineering was chosen to be deliberately provocative -- why can't software be developed with the same rigor used by other engineering disciplines? The proceedings of this conference are now available online, at: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/old/people/brian.randell/home.formal/NATO/index.html Also, don't miss the pictures of attendees, including many significant contributors to the field of Software Engineering: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/old/people/brian.randell/home.formal/NATO/N1968/inde x.html - Jim
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The Disappearing Alliance http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/printer.jsp?CID=1051-100802B The Disappearing Alliance By Dale Franks 10/08/2002 For over two generations, the countries of Western Europe have been our closest allies. We stood beside each other through the darkest days of the Cold War as partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We celebrated with them over the fall of the Soviet Empire and the liberation of Eastern Europe from the yoke of communism. Tragically, a generation from now, we may be bitter adversaries. Europe has increasingly fallen under the spell of a political ideology that Hudson Institute scholar John Fonte has termed "progressive transnationalism". The key doctrines of this form of post-communist progressivism contain some fairly pernicious ideas. Among these are the deconstruction of nationalism, the promotion of post-nationalist ideas of citizenship (i.e. a "global" citizenry), a redefinition of democracy, and the pooling of national sovereignty into multinational groups such as the United Nations. The European Union, itself a multinational organization built through the pooling of sovereignty by European nations, is post-democratic. While there is a European Parliament, the EU's power resides mainly in the unelected European Commission (EC) and its unelected President, who face few limits to their power. Instead of a limited, consensual form of government, where elected representatives promulgate constitutional laws, the EU has an appointed, oligarchic executive, along with a large attendant bureaucracy, whose orders are not constitutionally limited in any real sense. Moreover, the EU has been unwilling to accept the democratically expressed wishes of the people themselves when those wishes conflict with the results desired by the EU's political elite. Both the EC and the European Court of Justice regularly overturn the national laws of democratically elected EU member governments. This is a step backward in Europe's political development. European criticism of America is on the rise, and the European list of complaints about America is a long and growing one. They dislike the fact that our republican system of government is not based on proportional representation. They hate the fact that our citizens own guns. They despise the fact that we execute murderers. They resent the fact that our economy is so large, and that Americans consume so much. They also resent?and fear - the fact that we have the ability to project American power anywhere in the world. On August 9, 2002, Adrian Hamilton wrote a column in the UK's Independent newspaper, in which he identified the US as a rogue state who should be restrained, perhaps by a European military invasion, followed by a decade or so of occupation. Fortunately, the article is satirical not because it exaggerates the way European progressives view the US, but rather because the impotence of European military power makes the idea of an invasion of the US literally fantastic. At least, for now. Despite the tongue-in-cheek nature of this editorial, however, the fact remains that America is increasingly viewed this way by the European intellectual and political elite. The Europeans actively desire a world where the United Nations keeps in check the activities of sovereign states. Because they have built such a system in Europe, they feel it's valid for the rest of the world. America, however, is the biggest obstacle to such a system. The Europeans cannot understand why America places a higher value on the ethos of national sovereignty and limited, consensual, and constitutional government, than it does on compliance with international "norms." They view all departures from such norms as aberrant. Because the UN member states all have an equal vote in prescribing international norms, they assume that, since the process is ostensibly legitimate, the results must be as well. The trouble with this idea, of course, is that it gives the views of non-democratic, authoritarian states the same weight as those of free, democratic societies. It sanctifies the process, with no regard to the actual results. Thus, they are unable to make any moral distinction between the US refusals to join in a given international effort because we wish to preserve the liberty of our citizens, and similar refusals from Iraq because its dictator wishes to maintain his firm grip on power. Our repeated references to the US Constitution, and our unwillingness to bypass its provisions to comply with international norms, are incomprehensible to them. They assume, therefore, that our refusal is based on arrogance, rather than on a commitment to constitutional rights. None of this bodes well for the future of Euro-American friendship, or cooperation. If the Europeans continue to reject traditional liberalism in favor of the new progressivism, their criticism of the US will rise, while their tolerance of our differences will fall. Obviously, in such a political atmosphere, the opportunities for conflict will inevitably increase. That thought is frightening enough. Even more frightening, however, is the thought that such a conflict might be averted by our own acceptance of the new ideology of transnational progressivism. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [email protected]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Re: The Disappearing Alliance OK, lets break this down into the Kevin Smith worldview taht equate everything with Star Wars... EU is the Republic/empire and we are..what,..the Trade Federation? Stretch this out and it could be seen that the UN is the Jedi, complete with faling powers. Work with me folks...
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Re: The absurdities of life. So, given the apparent commonality of these occurances, companies appear to be losing a large amount of money by mailing these tiny checks out. Why can't they simply credit the account in question on the next bill? Granted, if an account has been closed there is no such option... Elias Christopher Haun wrote: > eheh i'll do yah one better i have a check some place (i just moved or i'd > go scan it in) for $0.01 from Time Warner Cable.
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RE: The Disappearing Alliance > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R. A. > Hettinga > Subject: The Disappearing Alliance > > http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/printer.jsp?CID=1051-100802B > > > > The Disappearing Alliance > By Dale Franks 10/08/2002 > Obviously, in such a > political atmosphere, the opportunities for conflict will inevitably > increase. Given current trends, particularly in demographics, such conflict won't be military. Europe wouldn't stand a chance now and things are getting worse in a hurry. They are SOL. Not to mention that when push comes to shove they wouldn't stand united. > > That thought is frightening enough. Even more frightening, however, is the > thought that such a conflict might be averted by our own acceptance of the > new ideology of transnational progressivism. Now that is a scary thought. ]
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Lord of the Ringtones: Arbocks vs. Seelecks I can't believe I actually read a laugh-out-loud funny profile of the *FCC Commissioner* fer crissakes! So the following article comes recommended, a fine explanation of Michael Powell's extraordinary equivocation. On the other hand, I can also agree with Werbach's Werblog entry... Rohit > A Trip to F.C.C. World > > Nicholas Lemann has a piece in the New Yorker this week about FCC > Chairman Michael Powell.� It's one of the first articles I've seen that > captures some of Powell's real personality, and the way he's viewed in > Washington.� Unfortunately, Lemann ends by endorsing conventional > political wisdom.� After describing how Powell isn't really a > fire-breathing ideological conservative, he concludes that, in essence, > Powell favors the inumbent local Bell telephone companies, while a > Democratic FCC would favor new entrants.� I know that's not how Powell > sees the world, and though I disagree with him on many issues, I think > he's right to resist the old dichotomy. > > The telecom collapse should be a humbling experience for anyone who > went through it.� The disaster wasn't the regulators' fault, as some > conservatives argue.� But something clearly went horribly wrong, and > policy-makers should learn from that experience.� Contrary to Lemann's > speculation, the upstart carriers won't be successful in a Gore > administration, because it's too late.� Virtually all of them are dead, > and Wall Street has turned off the capital tap for the foreseeable > future.� Some may survive, but as small players rather than > world-dominators.� > > The battle between CLECs and RBOCs that Lemann so astutely parodies is > old news.� The next important battle in telecom will be between those > who want to stay within the traditional boxes, and those who use > different models entirely.� That's why open broadband networks and open > spectrum are so important.� Whatever the regulatory environment, there > is going to be consolidation in telecom.� Those left out in that > consolidation will face increasing pressure to create new pipes into > the home, or slowly die. The victors in the consolidation game will cut > back on innovation and raise prices, which will create further pressure > for alternatives.� > > Lemann is right that policy-making looks much drier and more ambiguous > on the ground than through the lens of history.� But he's wrong in > thinking that telecom's future will be something like its past. > > Friday, October 04, 2002 > 11:17:11 AM �comments�{0}� ============================================================== http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/021007fa_fact THE CHAIRMAN by NICHOLAS LEMANN He's the other Powell, and no one is sure what he's up to. New Yorker, October 8, 2002 Last year, my middle son, in eighth grade and encountering his first fairly serious American-history course, indignantly reported that the whole subject was incomprehensible. I was shocked. What about Gettysburg and the Declaration of Independence and the Selma-to-Montgomery march? Just look at my textbook, he said, and when I did I saw his point. His class had got up to the eighteen-forties. What I expected was a big beefing up of the roles of Sacagawea and Crispus Attucks, and, in-deed, there was some of that. But the main difference between my son's text and that of my own childhood was that somebody had made the disastrous decision to devote most of it to what had actually happened in American history. There were pages and pages on tariffs and bank charters and reciprocal trade agreements. I skipped ahead, past the Civil War, hoping for easier going, only to encounter currency floats and the regulation of freight rates. Only a few decades into the twentieth century did it become possible to see the federal government's main function as responding to dramatic crises and launching crusades for social justice, instead of attempting to referee competing claims from economic interests. Even now, if one were to reveal what really goes on behind the pretty speeches and the sanctimonious hearings in Washington, what you'd find is thousands of lawyers and lobbyists madly vying for advantage, not so much over the public as over each other: agribusiness versus real estate, banks versus insurance companies, and so on. The arena in which this competition mainly takes place is regulatory agencies and commissions and the congressional committees that supervise them. It's an insider's game, less because the players are secretive than because the public and the press�encouraged by the players, who speak in jargon� can't get themselves interested. One corner of Washington might be called F.C.C. World, for the Federal Communications Commission. F.C.C. World has perhaps five thousand denizens. They work at the commission itself, at the House and Senate commerce committees, and at the Washington offices of the companies that the commission regulates. They read Communications Daily (subscription price: $3,695 a year), and every year around Christmastime they grumblingly attend the Chairman's Dinner, at a Washington hotel, where the high point of the evening is a scripted, supposedly self-deprecating comedy routine by the commission's chairman. Of all the federal agencies and commissions, the F.C.C. is the one that Americans ought to be most interested in; after all, it is involved with a business sector that accounts for about fifteen per cent of the American economy, as well as important aspects of daily life�telephone and television and radio and newspapers and the Internet. And right now F.C.C. World is in, if not a crisis, at least a very soapy lather, because a good portion of what the angry public thinks of as the "corporate scandals" concerns the economic collapse of companies regulated by the F.C.C. Qwest, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Global Crossing, among others, are (or were) part of F.C.C. World. AOL Time Warner is part of F.C.C. World. Jack Grubman, the former Salomon Smith Barney analyst who seems to have succeeded Kenneth Lay, of Enron, as the embodiment of the corporate scandals, is part of F.C.C. World. In the past two years, companies belonging to F.C.C. World have lost trillions of dollars in stock-market valuation, and have collectively served as a dead weight pulling down the entire stock market. This year, an alarmed and acerbic anonymous memorandum about the state of the F.C.C. has been circulating widely within F.C.C. World. It evokes F.C.C. World's feverish mood ("The F.C.C. is fiddling while Rome burns") and suggests why nobody besides residents of F.C.C. World has thought of the commission in connection with the corporate scandals. The sentence I just quoted is followed by this explanation: "The ILECs appear likely to enter all l.d. markets within twelve months, while losing virtually no residential customers to attackers since 1996, and suffering about 10% market share loss in business lines to CLECs." It's a lot easier to think about evil C.E.O.s than to decipher that. Even in good times, F.C.C. World pays obsessive attention to the commission's chairman. In bad times, the attention becomes especially intense; and when the chairman is a celebrity F.C.C. World devotes itself to full-time chairman-watching. The current chairman, Michael Powell, is a celebrity, at least by government-official standards, because he is the only son of Colin Powell, the Secretary of State. Unlike his father, he has a kind of mesmerizing ambiguity, which generates enormous, and at times apoplectically toned, speculation about who he really is and what he's really up to. Powell is young to be the head of a federal agency�he is thirty-nine�and genially charming. Everybody likes him. Before becoming chairman, he was for three years one of the F.C.C.'s five commissioners; not only is he fluent in the F.C.C.'s incomprehensible patois, he has a Clintonesque love of the arcane details of communications policy. He's always saying that he's an "avid moderate." And yet he has a rage-inciting quality. One of his predecessors as chairman, Reed Hundt, quoted in Forbes, compared Powell to Herbert Hoover. Mark Cooper, of the Consumer Federation of America, calls him "radical and extreme." Just as often as he's accused of being a right-wing ideologue, Powell gets accused of being paralytically cautious. "It ain't about singing 'Kum-Ba-Yah' around the campfire," another former chairman, William Kennard, says. "You have to have an answer." One day last spring, Powell, testifying before a Senate subcommittee, delivered an anodyne opening statement, and the subcommittee's chairman, Ernest Hollings, of South Carolina, berated him. "You don't care about these regulations," Hollings said. "You don't care about the law or what Congress sets down. . . . That's the fundamental. That's the misgiving I have of your administration over there. It just is amazing to me. You just pell-mell down the road and seem to not care at all. I think you'd be a wonderful executive vice-president of a chamber of commerce, but not a chairman of a regulatory commission at the government level. Are you happy in your job?" "Extremely," Powell said, with an amiable smile. One cannot understand Powell's maddening effect, at least on Democrats and liberal activists, without understanding not just the stated purpose of the commission he chairs but also its real purpose. The F.C.C. was created by Congress in 1934, but it existed in prototype well before the New Deal, because it performs a function that is one of the classic easy cases for government intervention in the private economy: making sure that broadcasters stick to their assigned spots on the airwaves. Its other original function was preventing American Telephone & Telegraph, the national monopoly phone company, from treating its customers unfairly. Over the decades, as F.C.C. World grew up into a comfortable, well-established place, the F.C.C. segued into the role of industrial supervision�its real purpose. It was supposed to manage the competition among communications companies so that it didn't become too bloody, by artfully deciding who would be allowed to enter what line of business. In addition to looking out for the public's interest, the commission more specifically protected the interests of members of Congress, many of whom regard the media companies in their districts as the single most terrifying category of interest group�you can cross the local bank president and live to tell the tale, but not the local broadcaster. According to an oft-told F.C.C. World anecdote, President Clinton once blocked an attempt to allow television stations to buy daily newspapers in the same city because, he said, if the so-and-so who owned the anti-Clinton Little Rock Democrat-Gazette had owned the leading TV station in Little Rock, too, Clinton would never have become President. F.C.C. World may have been con tentious, but it was settled, too, because all the reasonably powerful players had created secure economic niches for themselves. Then, in the nineteen-eighties, the successful breakup of A.T. & T.�by far the biggest and most important company the commission regulated�deposited a thick additional sediment of self-confidence onto the consciousness of F.C.C. World. A generation ago, for most Americans, there was one local phone company, one long-distance company, and one company that manufactured telephones, which customers were not permitted to own�and they were all the same company. It was illegal to plug any device into a phone line. By the mid-nineteen-nineties, there were a dozen economically viable local phone companies, a handful of national long-distance companies competing to offer customers the lowest price and best service, and stores everywhere selling telephone equipment from many manufacturers�and millions of Americans had a fax machine and a modem operating over the telephone lines. A.T. & T. had argued for years that it was a "natural monopoly," requiring protection from economic competition and total control over its lines. So much for that argument. Over the same period, the F.C.C. had assisted in the birth of cable television and cell phones and the Internet. It was the dream of federal-agency success come true: consumers vastly better served, and the industry much bigger and more prosperous, too. The next big step was supposed to be the Telecommunications Act of 1996, one of those massive, endlessly lobbied-over pieces of legislation which most people outside F.C.C. World probably felt it was safe to ignore. Although the Telecom Act sailed under the rhetorical banner of modernization and deregulation, its essence was a grand interest-group bargain, in which the local phone companies, known to headline writers as "baby Bells" and to F.C.C. World as "arbocks" (the pronounced version of RBOCs, or regional Bell operating companies), would be permitted to offer long-distance service in exchange for letting the long-distance companies and smaller new phone companies use their lines to compete for customers. Consumers would win, because for the first time they would get the benefits of competition in local service while getting even more competition than they already had in long distance. But the politics and economics of the Telecom Act (which was shepherded through Congress by Vice-President Gore) were just as important. Democrats saw the act as helping to reposition them as the technology party�the party that brought the Internet into every home, created hundreds of thousands of jobs in new companies, and, not least, set off an investment boom whose beneficiaries might become the party's new contributor base. Clinton's slogans about the "information superhighway" and "building a bridge to the twenty-first century," which, like all Clinton slogans, artfully sent different messages to different constituencies, were the rhetorical correlates of the Telecom Act, and Gore's cruise to the Presidency was supposed to be powered substantially by the act's success. The F.C.C. had a crucial role in all this. The arbocks are rich, aggressive, politically powerful, and generally Republican (though like all important interest groups they work with both parties); they immediately filed lawsuits, which wound up tying the hands of their new competitors in the local phone market for more than three years. Through rule-making, enforcement, and litigation, the F.C.C., then headed by Reed Hundt, who was Gore's classmate at St. Albans, was supposed to keep the arbocks in their cages, so that not only long-distance companies like A.T. & T. and MCI WorldCom but also a whole category of new companies, "see-lecks" (the pronounced version of CLECs, or competitive local exchange carriers), could emerge. This entailed the regulatory equivalent of hand-to-hand combat: the see-leck is supposed to have access to the arbock's switching equipment, the arbock won't give the seeleck a key to the room where it's kept, so the see-leck asks the F.C.C. to rule that the arbock has to give it the key. Partly because Hundt assured the see-lecks and other new companies that he would protect them, and partly because of the generally booming condition of the economy then, investment capital flooded into the see-lecks�companies with names like Winstar, Covad, and Teligent�and into other telecommunications companies. Even not obviously related technology companies like Cisco Systems benefitted from the telecom boom: demand for their products was supposed to come from the see-lecks and other new players. There would be no conflict between the interests of the new telecom companies and those of consumers; as one of Hundt's former lieutenants told me, "Reed used to joke that my job was to make sure that all prices went down and all stocks went up." The years following the passage of the Telecom Act were the peak of the boom. Wall Street had its blood up, and that meant not just more startups but also more mergers of existing communications companies: Time Warner and AOL decided to throw in together, and A.T. & T. and Comcast, and so on. (Surely, WorldCom and the other telecom bad guys believed that their self-dealing, stock-overselling, and creative accounting would go unnoticed because the market was so undiscriminating.) By the time the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election had been determined, the telecom crash was well under way. Nonetheless, the chairmanship of the F.C.C. remained one of the best jobs, in terms of influence and visibility, available to a career government regulator. Three Republicans emerged as candidates: Powell, who was a commissioner; Harold Furchtgott-Roth, the farthest-to-the-right commissioner; and Patrick Wood, the head of the Texas Public Utility Commission and, as such, a George W. Bush guy. In Texas, however, Wood had crossed the most powerful person in the arbock camp, Edward Whitacre, the C.E.O. of S.B.C. Communications, which is headquartered in San Antonio. This meant that the arbocks didn't want Wood as head of the F.C.C., because he might be too pro-see-leck. (Wood is now the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.) Michael Powell had to signal the arbocks that he wasn't as threatening as Wood, while also signalling the conservative movement that he was only negligibly farther to the left than Furchtgott-Roth. Powell did this deftly. For example, in December of 2000 he appeared before a conservative group called the Progress & Freedom Foundation and gave a very Michael Powell speech�whimsical, intellectual, and free-associative (Biblical history, Joseph Schumpeter, Moore's Law)�that began by making fun of the idea that the F.C.C. should try to keep new telecom companies alive. "In the wake of the 1996 Act, the F.C.C. is often cast as the Grinch who stole Christmas," Powell said. "Like the Whos, down in Who-ville, who feast on Who-pudding and rare Who-roast beast, the communications industry was preparing to feast on the deregulatory fruits it believed would inevitably sprout from the Act's fertile soil. But this feast the F.C.C. Grinch did not like in the least, so it is thought." Thus Powell was indicating that if he became chairman he didn't expect to administer first aid to the see-lecks as part of the job. He was appointed to the chairmanship on the first day of the Bush Administration. Twenty months into the Administration, nearly all the see-lecks are dead or dying; nearly all long-distance companies, not just WorldCom, are in serious trouble; cable companies have lost half their value; satellite companies are staggering. The crash has had an automatically concentrating effect, because as new companies die the existing companies' market share increases, and, if the existing companies are in good shape financially, they have the opportunity to pick up damaged companies at bargain prices. During the Bush Administration, as the financial carnage in communications has worsened, the communications industry has moved in the direction of more concentration. If the Bells wind up protecting their regional monopolies in local phone service, and if they also merge, the country will be on its way to having a national duopoly in local service: Verizon, in the East, and S.B.C., in the West. And these companies could dominate long distance as well, because of the poor health of the long-distance companies. The cable business also seems close to having two dominant national companies, AOL Time Warner and Comcast. Unlike the phone companies, they don't have to share their wiring with other companies and so can more fully control what material they allow to enter people's homes. As part of the complicated bargaining with interest groups that led to the 1996 Telecom Act, the limits on concentration in the radio industry were significantly loosened, and in the past six years the number of radio-station owners in the United States has been cut by twenty-five per cent; today, a large portion of local and national radio news programming is supplied by a single company, Westwood One, a subsidiary of Viacom. In this situation, many Democrats and liberals think, the F.C.C. should be hyperactive�the superhero of government regulation, springing to the rescue of both consumers and the communications industry. It should try to breathe life into the see-lecks and other new companies. It should disallow mergers, maintain ownership limits, and otherwise restrain the forces of concentration. It should use the government's money and muscle to get new technology�especially fast Internet connections�into the homes of people who can't afford it at current market prices. (An analogy that a lot of people in F.C.C. World make is between telecom and the Middle East: the Clinton people blame the bloodshed on the Bush people, because they disengaged when they came into office, and the Bush people blame it on the Clinton people, because they raised too many expectations and stirred too many passions.) But Michael Powell's F.C.C. has not been hyperactive. Powell has been conducting internal policy reviews and reforming the management of the F.C.C. and waiting for the federal courts and the Congress to send him signals. (In mid-September, Powell finally initiated a formal review of the F.C.C.'s limits on media concentration.) This doesn't mean he has been inactive; rather, he has been active in a way that further infuriates his critics�in a manner that smoothly blends the genial and the provocative, he muses about whether the fundamental premises of F.C.C. World really make sense, while giving the impression that he's having the time of his life as chairman. At his first press conference, when he was asked what he was going to do about the "digital divide"�that is, economic inequality in access to the Internet�he said, "You know, I think there is a Mercedes divide. I'd like to have one and I can't afford one." At the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention, in Chicago, Powell, following a troupe of tumblers to the stage, interrupted his walk to the podium to perform a somersault. Not long ago, I went to see Powell in his office at the F.C.C. Until 1998, when the commission moved to a new building in Southwest Washington, near the city's open-air fish market, F.C.C. World was at the western edge of downtown, where everybody would encounter everybody else at a few familiar restaurants and bars. Today, the F.C.C. building looks like the office of a mortgage company in a suburban office park. Even the chairman's suite, though large, is beige, carpeted, and fluorescent. Powell is a bulky man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and walks with a pronounced limp, the result of injuries he suffered in a jeep accident in Germany, in 1987, when he was an Army officer. Because of the accident, he left the Army and went to law school, where he became entranced with conservative ideas about regulation, particularly the idea that the government, rather than trying to correct the flaws of the market before the fact�"prophylactically," as he likes to say�should wait till the flaws manifest themselves and then use antitrust litigation to fix them. He worked briefly at a corporate law firm, and then became a prot�g� of Joel Klein, the head of the antitrust division of the Clinton Justice Department and the man who led the government's legal case against Microsoft. (He was recently appointed chancellor of the New York public-school system.) It testifies to Powell's political skill that he is probably the only high official in the Bush Administration who not only served in the Clinton Administration but also maintains close ties to Bush's nemesis Senator John McCain, of Arizona. One of the things about Powell that annoy people is his enduring love of law school�"It's sort of like a law-school study session over there," one Democratic former commissioner said. As if to confirm the charge, Powell, when I arrived, introduced me to four law students, summer interns at the commission, whom he'd invited to sit in. I began by asking Powell whether he agreed with the founding assumptions of the F.C.C. For example, could private companies have apportioned the airwaves among themselves without the government being involved? "I think we'll never know," Powell said. "I don't think it's an automatically bad idea, the way some people will argue. Land is probably the best analogue. We don't seize all the land in the United States and say, 'The government will issue licenses to use land.' If my neighbor puts a fence one foot onto my property line, there's a whole body of law about what I can do about that, including whether I can tear it down. If a wireless company was interfering with another wireless company, it's a similar proposition. There are scholars who argue�indeed, the famous Ronald Coase treatise that won the Nobel Prize was about this�that spectrum policy is lunacy. The market could work this out, in the kinds of ways that we're accustomed to." Talking to Powell was fun. Unlike most high government officials, he doesn't seem to be invested in appearing dignified or commanding. He slumps in his chair and fiddles with his tie and riffs. He speaks in ironic air quotes. He's like your libertarian friend in college who enjoyed staying up all night asking impertinent rhetorical questions about aspects of life that everybody else takes for granted but that he sees as sentimental or illogical. After a while, I asked him whether he thought his predecessors' excitement about the 1996 Telecommunications Act had been excessive. "I would start with a caveat," Powell said. "Look, I can't fault those judgments in and of themselves, given the time and what people thought. They were not the only ones who were hysterical about the opportunities. But, frankly, I've always been a little bit critical. First of all, anybody who works with the act knows that it doesn't come anywhere close to matching the hyperbole that was associated with it, by the President on down, about the kinds of things it's going to open up. I mean, I don't know what provisions are the information-superhighway provisions, or what provisions are so digitally oriented, or some of the things that were a big part of the theatre of its introduction. When one starts reading the details, one searches, often in vain, for these provisions. But, nonetheless, there was a rising dot-com excitement, and an Internet excitement, and people thought this was historic legislation, and it certainly was. "But. We were sucking helium out of balloons, with the kinds of expectations that were being bandied around, and this is before the economy or the market even gets in trouble. It was a dramatically exaggerated expectation�by the leadership of the commission, by politicians, by the market itself, by companies themselves. It was a gold rush, and led to some very detrimental business decisions, ones that government encouraged by its policies, frankly. Everybody wanted to see numbers go up on the board." Powell began imitating an imagined true believer in the Telecom Act. " 'I want to see ten competitors. Twenty competitors! I want to see thirty-per-cent market share. Fifty-per-cent market share! I want the Bells to bleed! Then we'll know we've succeeded.' " Now Powell returned to being Powell. "I think that expectation was astonishingly unrealistic, in the short term. They wanted to see it while they're there. We were starting to get drunk on the juice we were drinking. And the market was getting drunk on the juice we were drinking. There's no question, we went too soon too fast. Too many companies took on too much debt too fast before the market really had a product, or a business model." How could the Telecom Act have been handled better? "We could have chosen policies that were less hellbent on a single objective, and were slightly more balanced and put more economic discipline in the system," Powell said. "Money chased what seemed like government-promised opportunity. The problem with that is there's a morning after, and we're in it. And the problem is there is no short fix for this problem. This debt is going to take years to bring down to a realistic level. In some ways, for short-term gain, we paid a price in long-term stability." Powell went on to say that it might have turned out differently if there had been a more "reasonable" level of investment. "No, we wouldn't have every home in America with competitive choice yet�but we don't anyway. I don't think it's the remonopolization of telephone service. I don't buy that. The Bells will prosper, but did anybody believe they wouldn't? The part of the story that didn't materialize was that people thought so would MCI WorldCom and Sprint." Other local phone companies, he added, hadn't materialized as viable businesses, either, and they never might. "Everybody's always saying, 'The regulators did this and this and this.' But, candidly, the story's quite the opposite. I think the regulators bent over backward for six years to give them a chance. Conditions don't get that good except once every thirty years, and it didn't happen. So, whatever the reason, we're looking at a WorldCom that's teetering. We're looking at a long-distance business that has had a rapid decline in its revenue base. A.T. & T. is breaking itself up. Sprint has struggled." Could the F.C.C. have done anything to make the long-distance companies stronger? "At the F.C.C.? I think I'll just be blunt. My political answer? Yes, there's all kinds of things we can do at the margin to try to help. But I can't find thirty billion dollars for WorldCom somewhere. I can't mitigate the impacts of an accounting scandal and an S.E.C. investigation. Were I king, it would be wonderful, but I don't have those kinds of levers. I don't know whether anybody does. At some point, companies are expected to run themselves in a way that keeps them from dying." Powell couldn't have made it much clearer that he doesn't think it's his responsibility to do anything about the telecom crash. He has demonstrated his sure political touch by making accommodationist gestures�in August, for example, five months after disbanding the F.C.C.'s Accounting Safeguards Division, Powell announced that he was appointing a committee to study accounting standards in the communications industry. But that shows that Powell is better at riding out the storm than, say, Harvey Pitt, his counterpart at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and does not mean that he plans to try to shore up the telecom industry. I asked Powell if it would bother him if, for most people, only one company provided cable television and only one provided local phone service. "Yes," he said. "It concerns us that there's one of each of those things, but let's not diminish the importance of there being one of each of those things. That still is a nice suite of communications capabilities, even if they aren't direct analogues of each other." Anyway, Powell said, before long the phone companies will be able to provide video service over their lines, and the cable companies will provide data service over their lines, so there will be more choice. "So, yeah, we have this anxiety: we have one of everything. The question is, Does it stay that way?" The concentration of ownership and the concentrated control of information did not appear to trouble Powell, either. He said that people confuse bigness, which brings many benefits, with concentration, which distorts markets. "If this were just economics, it's easy. If you were to say to me, 'Mike, just worry about economic concentration,' we know how to do that�the econometrics of antitrust. I can tell you when a market's too concentrated and prices are going to rise. The problem is other dimensions, like political, ideological, sometimes emotional. Take the question of, if everybody's controlling what you see, the assumption there is that somehow there'll be this viewpoint, a monolithic viewpoint, pushed on you by your media and you won't get diversity. I think that's a possibility. I don't think it's nearly the possibility that's ascribed to it sometimes." Powell explained, "Sometimes when we see very pointed political or parochial programming, it gets attacked as unfair. I see some of the same people who claim they want diversity go crazy when Rush Limbaugh exists. They love diversity, but somehow we should run Howard Stern off the planet. If it has a point of view, then it becomes accused of bias, and then we have policies like"�here his tone went from ironic to sarcastic�"the fairness doctrine, which seems to me like the antithesis of what I thought those people cared about. So when somebody is pointed and opinionated, we do all this stuff in the name of journalistic fairness and integrity or whatever, to make them balance it out." F.C.C. World abounds in theories about Michael Powell. One is that he can't make up his mind about how to address the crisis in the industries he regulates�so he talks (and talks and talks) flamboyantly about the market, in order to buy himself time. Another is that he's carrying water for the arbocks and the big cable companies. Another is that he is planning to run for the Senate from Virginia (or to be appointed Attorney General in a second Bush term), and doesn't want to do anything at the F.C.C. that would diminish his chances. Another is that he's waiting to move until there is more consensus on some course of action, so that he doesn't wind up going first and getting caught in the crossfire between the arbocks and the cable companies and the television networks. (In F.C.C. World, this is known as the Powell Doctrine of Telecom, after Colin Powell's idea that the United States should never commit itself militarily without a clear objective, overwhelming force, and an exit strategy.) And another is that he actually believes what he says, and thinks the telecommunications crash is natural, healthy, and irreversible, and more concentration would be just fine. "This is why elections matter," Reed Hundt, who isn't happy about what has become of his Telecom Act, told me. It's true that the F.C.C.�much more than, say, the war in Afghanistan�is a case in which a Gore Administration would be acting quite differently from the Bush Administration. Consumers might have noticed the difference by now, but there's no question whether communications companies have noticed. The arbocks are doing better against their internal rivals than they would have done if Gore had won. Next election, they'll help the party that helped them. If the Republicans win, policy will tilt further in the arbocks' favor. If they lose, perhaps the arbocks' rivals�the long-distance companies and the telecommunications upstarts�with their friends now in power, will stage a comeback. America's present is not unrecognizably different from America's past.
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[NYT] Korea's Real Rage for Virtual Games http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/09/technology/09KORE.html Broadband's killer application � the one activity that dwarfs all others � is online gaming, which 80 percent of South Koreans under 25 play, according to one recent study. Critics say the burgeoning industry is creating millions of zombified addicts who are turning on and tuning into computer games, and dropping out of school and traditional group activities, becoming uncommunicative and even violent because of the electronic games they play. "Game players don't have normal social relationships anymore," said Kim Hyun Soo, a 36-year-old psychiatrist who is chairman of the Net Addiction Treatment Center, one of many groups that have sprung up to cope with Internet game addiction. "Young people are losing the ability to relate to others, except through games. People who become addicted are prone to violence, even when they are not playing. - Jim
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Re: ActiveBuddy At 12:05 PM 10/4/28 -0400, Stephen D. Williams wrote: >Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2028 12:05:01 -0400 > >I actually thought of this kind of active chat at AOL (in 1996 I think), >bringing up ads based on what was being discussed and other features. For >a while, the VP of dev. (now still CTO I think) was really hot on the idea >and they discussed patenting it. Then they lost interest. Probably a >good thing. [note date: header] Can I borrow your time machine, pretty please? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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[ILUG] connecting at 1200bps in RH7.3 (help!) Hi All, Anyone ever try connecting at 1200bps in Linux? I've got a USR 56K Faxmodem which is meant to connect to another (same) modem and I have to connect at this speed due to the (NT) port settings on the remote side, but the modem handshake always fails at this speed. The modem handshake works at slightly higher speeds (4800bps to ~57600bps) but that is no good for tx/rx'ing data to the remote server as it insists at talking at the speed of treacle/1200bps. Note Minicom fails to handshake at 1200bps, but HyperTerm in Windows worked first time(!?), any ideas? Baud 1200 7 data bits Even Parity I am doing a ATZ3 to reset the modem then I send this init string: AT&F1E1V1Q0X4Y0S32=232&A1&B0&C1&D2&H0&I0&K1&M4&N0&P0&R1&S0&U0&Y1 ... which is most of the defaults. USR said to set S15=128 (disables v.42)) & set S32=98 (disable v.92 & X2) But the S15=128 just makes the handshake lockup instead of just giving up. btw this is a bank's system I am connecting to so reconfiguring their modems may be difficult. Colin. -- Colin Nevin, Software Engineer, Merit Solutions Ltd. (Dublin), 5 Goatstown Cross, Dublin 14. ------------------------------------------ Printed using 100% recycled electrons. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] connecting at 1200bps in RH7.3 (help!) Colin Nevin wrote: > > Hi All, > The modem handshake works at slightly higher speeds (4800bps to > ~57600bps) but that is no good for tx/rx'ing data to the remote server > as it insists at talking at the speed of treacle/1200bps. It sounds like the flow control is set to Xon/Xoff rather than hardware. > Baud 1200 7 data bits Even Parity Unusual - 8 n 1 is more common. > > I am doing a ATZ3 to reset the modem then I send this init string: > > AT&F1E1V1Q0X4Y0S32=232&A1&B0&C1&D2&H0&I0&K1&M4&N0&P0&R1&S0&U0&Y1 I think that the AT command for hardware flow control is &E4 though this may vary from modem to modem. Regards...zzzzcc -- ******************************************** John McCormac * Hack Watch News [email protected] * 22 Viewmount, Voice: +353-51-873640 * Waterford, BBS&Fax: +353-51-850143 * Ireland http://www.hackwatch.com/~kooltek ******************************************** -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAzAYPNsAAAEEAPGTHaNyitUTNAwF8BU6mF5PcbLQXdeuHf3xT6UOL+/Od+z+ ZOCAx8Ka9LJBjuQYw8hlqvTV5kceLlrP2HPqmk7YPOw1fQWlpTJof+ZMCxEVd1Qz TRet2vS/kiRQRYvKOaxoJhqIzUr1g3ovBnIdpKeo4KKULz9XKuxCgZsuLKkVAAUX tCJKb2huIE1jQ29ybWFjIDxqbWNjQGhhY2t3YXRjaC5jb20+tBJqbWNjQGhhY2t3 YXRjaC5jb20= =sTfy -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] cups question [email protected] (Justin Mason) writes: > /dev/fd/0 is STDIN -- filedescriptor 0. Looks like the PS file wants > to know its filename, but it's being read from STDIN, that's my > guess. I don't think so: it should be getting a stream of PS from stdin, but it's not. The printing/spooling system is executing gs but somehow failing to provide it with input. > Try tweaking the scripts to run "gs" with the ps file on > the command line instead of as "-". That might clarify that the later part of the system works, but I suspect the problem is earlier. B -- Brendan Halpin, Dept of Government and Society, Limerick University, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-390476; Room F2-025 x 3147 <mailto:[email protected]> <http://wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie/~brendan> -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Interesting article on free software licences I have translated the article in full - see end of post (I think that I've done a far better job than the Google translation - at least it's readable now - any corrections appreciated). Stuff in {}'s is my (and others) additions to the debate. My apologies if I've paraphrased anybody incorrectly, I will be glad to retract if anyone is miffed. The article makes four main points. 1) Absence of critical clauses. In this case, the idea is that the licence is invalid because it doesn't specify under what country's law the GPL is governed. 2) Specification in English only. That for the end user (as opposed to businesses), the GPL doesn't apply because it's not written in French. 3) Arbitary licence change. The point here is that (under French law) the author can change the terms of the licence arbitarily. This is because any granting of rights by an author must be clearly delimited in terms of how long, where, to whom, dates and times. In the absence of such limitations, the original author has the right to change his software back to closed on a whim. { David Neary makes the point that the copyright holder automatically retains the right to change the licence. Scott replies it simply requires authorisation from all *copyright holders* That's not my understanding. French law allows a GPL type licence *_on condition_* that the specific conditions of the granting of such rights are clear - if they are not, there is nothing to stop the original author taking back "his work". The lawyers see this (correctly IMHO) as a weakness in the GPL). } 4) Hidden defects. Roughly, this clause means that the author(s) is/are liable for any defects if the consumer is not an IT engineer, so if Linux blows up and data is lost, then the authors are liable. { Ciaran Johnson says that M$oft and others have similar clauses - the point here is that they are *_all_* invalid - just that this one affects the GPL also. Niall O'Broinn makes the point that it is not a sale, but rather a service/leasing arrangement and that's why it doesn't come under this point. I would suggest that the whole thrust of this article has been to see software "sales" (even if no money changes hands) as governed very much by consumer law (in France anyway). Rick Moen makes the point that it is not a sale but rather a granting of rights which are not default. See the bit about even the granting of rights by an author having to be explicitly specified - under French law. The fact that two IP lawyers in France think that the GPL is covered as a sale make me feel that there is a de facto sale and a de facto contract. } 5) Roughly. There may be other reasons under French law why the GPL may be invalid. ----- Whole Article. ----------- Freedom(a) is worth more than these imperfect licences. Specialised lawyers look at the GPL. Lawyer Cyril Rojinsky (duly appointed to the court) and the jurist Vincent Grynbaum, both specialised in the area of intellectual property examine the "free" licences and in particular the GPL. They have published their study in the review "Proprietes intellectuelles (Intellectual property)[1]" and their conclusion is grim. Their approach is interesting. The problem for them is not to know whether freedom is valid under French law (for them the question is a moot point) but rather they asked themselves about the form and the content of the text of free licences, and in particular the GPL. The problem is not free programmes, but rather the licence contracts of free programmes. Absence of critical clauses. The authors tell us that first of all, the reference to "copyright" is not legally sufficient in the framework of international contracts (which is the case of licence contracts for programmes developed and spread via the Internet). The idea of copyright can basically include differences from one country to another. This is why, under international contracts, it is necessary to specify to which laws one is referring (French law, American &c.). The authors only found three public licences which were correctly formulated on this point: QPL, IBM Public Licence and the Mozilla Public Licence). Specification in the English language. Next, the authors remind us that (at least in France), no clause in a contract may be contrary to French law [2]. However, it turns out that a licence such as the GPL is contrary to French law in several respects. Firstly, it is written in English and the FSF doesn't officially approve translations. The "Toubon law" obliges this sort of contract to be written in French, including for businesses since the notion of "user" applies not only to consumers, but also to businesses, professionals &c. Contacted by the editors of LinuxFrench, lawyer Cyril Rojinsky declared that, as far as business is concerned, the "Toubon law" is probably doomed to change since it is in contradiction of European directives on the subject, but whatever about that, the problem is still valid for individuals, and while waiting for it (French law) to change, French companies have to deal with it, since it is the law of the land. A programme under the GPL can suddenly change licence. Another problem, much more serious, is that according to French law, the author of a free programme can, at any time, invoke the invalidity of the licence for this software by simply changing the licence. In effect, the law of intellectual property stipulates that the granting of rights by the author is subordinate to the condition that each of these granted rights be the object of a distinct clause in the granting act (i.e. the licence) and that the granting of any such rights be delimited with respect to its scope and its grantees, and also with respect to its location (i.e. where such rights may be excersised) and duration of any such grants. [3] This is not the case of the GPL nor of other free licences. Briefly, this means that in France, or elsewhere if the author is French, that which is under the GPL could revert to proprietary from one day to the next. The problem of the guarantee "hidden defects". An other very serious flaw is that of the guarantee. The GPL licences and others show that the software is delivered "without guarantee". You are going to immediately reply that commercical programmes carry the same clause in their licence contracts, and this is correct. However, whatever is written in a licence contract, one cannot free oneself from the "guarantee from hidden defects", since it is imposed in the Civil Code. This concept is poorly understood by the layman, it protects the buyer (whoever it may be, individual or business, since it specifies the Civil Code and not consumer protection law) against hidden defects, deliberate or made in good faith by the seller. For example, if one buys a pair of socks in a sale, and the shop has a notice specifying that "Sale items are neither refunded nor exchanged", and on arriving home you notice that one of the socks has a hole in it, several scenarios are possible. You could have checked the socks before purchase: the flaw is deemed "obvious" and you can sing for your money. You couldn't check the socks (they were packaged for example), and in this case, despite the notice "neither refund nor exchange", you may invoke "hidden defect" and have them changed or obtain a refund, it's up to you. Personally, I have already invoked in shops the "hidden defect" clause and it always worked well (shopkeepers are always very cooperative if you quote a couple of words of the Civil Code). The concept of hidden defect is rather wide, it is necessary that you hadn't the possibility of discovering the defect before buying the product and then (according to the Civil Code) that you wouldn't have bought it at that price if you had known about the defect. The third case which is much rarer , is if you are able to show that the vendor had knowledge of the defect (hidden), but didn't inform you. In this case, not only does he have to reimburse the product, but all expenses incurred by the sale (metro tickets to go to the shop, the fuse which blew when you plugged it in &c.) This idea of "hidden defect" applies to all products, including programmes. This was made abundantly clear by the authorities (and the courts) surrounding Y2K. This is particularly inconvenient for free programmes, since a site which offers a Linux distro for download is supposed to provide a guarantee against hidden flaws. LinuxFrench asked Cyril ROJINSKY if in the case of a free programme, one could speak about a "hidden" defect since the source code was available, he replied "Actually, concerning the guarantee, the question of obvious defect will arise. This analyis will be different depending on whether the person who downloads the distribution is an IT professional or not". OpenSource has this advantage over the proprietary programme: it protects the distributor against a guarantee of hidden defect insofar as the buy is an IT person. But, for distribution to the public at large, the problem remains the same. Roughly Speaking. Lawyer Cyril ROJINSKY said it himself, this study is far from being exhaustive and many other areas could be explored. During this interview, we asked ourselves, for example, about the fragility of the GPL clause which forbids linking source code under the GPL with proprietary code. In effect, the laws of intellectual property give the right to the user to modify a programme with the intention of permitting interoperability with another programme. If for that, I need to link with a proprietary library (communication protocol, device driver) I may consider as "null and void" this clause of the GPL. The conclusion of this study is a wake up call for the community. "Freedom" merits more than these shoddy licences, which should be modified before court cases over them proliferate and put at risk the undeniable originality of this effort. --------------------------- [1] Une publication de l'Institut de recherche en propri�t� intellectuelle, No4 Juillet 2002 [2] Une telle clause de contrat qui est oppos�e � ce que dit la Loi fran�aise est qualifi�e en terme juridique de � clause r�put�e non-�crite �, c'est-�-dire qu'on fait comme si cette clause n'�tait pas �crite dans le contrat. C'est pour cela par exemple que vous pouvez signer un bail pour un appartement qui stipule que les enfants sont interdits dans l'immeuble, et envisager sans inqui�tude d'avoir quand m�me un enfant, en effet le code civil stipule que le devoir d'un locataire d'un appartement doit se comporter en � bon p�re de famille � [3] Article L131-3 ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! 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Re: [ILUG] Modem question Quoting Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) ([email protected]): > Is there any reliable way to calculate your connection speed if you don't > trust what the modem reports? Do a wget of a file of known length, in a script that runs "date" before and after (or equivalent). Be aware that speed between you and your upstream link is one thing; speed through countless congested routers to a faraway location may be quite another. Remember that hardware-level compression is a factor. (The file you wget will probably be precompressed.) In the area of the slightly more exotic, be aware that different traffic may have higher priority and thus more available bandwidth at various points in the transit to/from you -- and that some traffic may go via different paths coming vs. going. Be aware that raw bulk transfer speed may not be the only thing that matters: Depending on what you're doing, the modem's connection latency might matter, and this differs widely between modems. (It matters more for interactive sessions, e.g., ssh remote logins, where each keystroke is echoed from remote.) -- Cheers, "Send a policeman, and have it arrested." Rick Moen -- Otto von Bismarck, when asked what he [email protected] would do if the British Army landed. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] mini-itx On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, John Moylan wrote: > Hmm, speaking of cheap machines etc, has anyone tried this sort of > thing: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/humidor64/ ? or more importantly > has anyone had any positive/negative experiences with the Via mini-itx > boards/via c3 processors. My laptop has a Via C3 processor. I use Debian with a self-compiled 2.4.19 kernel, and have had absolutely no problems with the chip at all (quite the opposite, in fact). I had to compile for "686" in order for 3D acceleration to work (the kernel has an option specifically for the Via C3), but I assume that was a kernel problem rather than a hardware problem. Trevor Johnston -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: [ILUG] Interesting article on free software licences Quoting Paul Linehan ([email protected]): > The point here is that (under French law) the author can change the > terms of the licence arbitarily. This is because any granting of > rights by an author must be clearly delimited in terms of how long, > where, to whom, dates and times. The GPL and similar licences are explicitly permanent grants of rights attached to an instance of his work. (The other stuff mentioned concerns contract law, e.g., the required element of privity, etc.) > In the absence of such limitations, the original author has the right > to change his software back to closed on a whim. No, the author has the right to issue _additional_ instances under a different licence, such as a proprietary ("closed" [sic]) licence. > Rick Moen makes the point that it is not a sale but rather a granting > of rights which are not default. > > See the bit about even the granting of rights by an author having to > be explicitly specified - under French law. The analysis, here and elsewhere, concerns contract law. This isn't contract law. This isn't the first time copyright attorneys have stumbled on this subject. I'm sure it won't be the last. -- Cheers, "The front line of defense against such sophisticated Rick Moen viruses is a continually evolving computer operating [email protected] system that attracts the efforts of eager software developers." -- Bill Gates -- Irish Linux Users' Group: [email protected] http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: [email protected]
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Re: RedHat 8.0 and his own freetype Matthias Haase wrote: > The bytecode-interpreter *is* disabled on RH8, defined at line 3 in > the Specfile of the SRPM. Right you are. The SRPM includes a patch to enable it, but then the specfile defaults to not applying that patch. I saw the former but missed the later. Egad, what a convoluted maze. Sorry for the misinformation! _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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KVim 6.1.141 Any one out their have any RPMs for the new KVim that was just released that'd be suitable for RH7.3? The website ( http://freehackers.org/kvim/screenshots.html ) mentions some experimental RPMs for Suse/COnnectiva/Slackware but none for Mandrake... -- \m/ -- ...in 29 days - The Odyssey begins... www.symphonyx.com [email protected] - ICQ: 1934853 JID: [email protected] _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: mplayer not working for me Laurent Papier wrote: >On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:24:06 +0200 >Matthias Saou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>Once upon a time, Roi wrote : >> >> >> >>>mplayer works with dga (if i am root) and works with x11 >>>and always worked with sdl (but not now with redhat 8) >>>now it gives black screen window and play the music of the movie. >>> >>> >>Strange, because as I said in an earlier post, it works for me. Maybe >>you're missing the SDL_image or something? :-/ >> >> > >It also works nicely for me. > >Laurent > > [roi@roi roi]$ rpm -qa | grep -i sdl SDL_image-devel-1.2.2-3 xmame-SDL-0.60.1-fr2 SDL_mixer-1.2.4-5 SDL-1.2.4-5 SDL-devel-1.2.4-5 SDL_mixer-devel-1.2.4-5 SDL_net-1.2.4-3 SDL_net-devel-1.2.4-3 SDL_image-1.2.2-3 Seems I got all packages I need. It worked on redhat 7.3 I did upgrade not reinstall so packages shouldn't make a problem. Roi _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Zoot apt/openssh & new DVD playing doc On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:36:13PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Two new things today : > > 1) I've had to install a Red Hat Linux 6.2 server because of an old > proprietary IVR software that doesn't work on newer releases :-( So > I've recompiled both the latest apt and openssh packages for it, and > they are now available with a complete "os, updates & freshrpms" apt > repository at apt.freshrpms.net, for those who might be interested. Oh, neat. I have similiar thing in my hands, though it might be migratable if I had the time to try. I've been using another 6.x repository though. http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt Anyone tried (dist-)upgrade from 6.x to 7? Theoretically it should drop in some -compat's (notably libc) and upgrade the rest and after a reboot and maybe a new kernel (and grub, but I have long before put those to v6's :) run just fine. Haven't had a spare machine to try it on myself, though. _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: RedHat 8.0 and his own freetype Matthias Haase wrote: > The recompile of the SPRM failed for me with: > #---- > RPM build errors: > File not found by glob: > /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.2-root/usr/lib/libttf.so.* > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.2-root/usr/lib/libttf.so Weird. I had no problems at all rebuilding from the SRPM with specfile modified to enable the bytecode interpreter. The "check-files" test warns that "/usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4" was not included in any package, but other then that, it's all perfectly clean. _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Nessus? On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:05:21PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > I've put up a new Red Hat Linux 8.0 build of nessus here : > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/testing/nessus/ > > It's 100% untested, although the build should be ok. The new menu was > added, but some configuration files may be better with new or different > defaults. > > Feedback is very welcome! It works very nice, would you consider upgrading it to 1.2.6 released only a few hours after your build? Thanks! On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:49:11PM +0200, Renaud Deraison wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the availability of Nessus 1.2.6, which should > be one of the last versions of Nessus 1.2.x (hopefully), as I will soon > open a new unstable tree and start to break things again :) > > What is new in Nessus 1.2.6, in comparison to 1.2.5 : > > * changes by Michael Slifcak (Michael.Slifcak at guardent.com) > + Added Bugtraq cross reference in the plugins > + Added support for BID in nessusd (this has yet to be done on > the client side) > > * changes by Axel Nennker (Axel.Nennker at t-systems.com) > + fixed the xml and html outputs > + fixed array issues in a couple of plugins > > * changes by Michel Arboi (arboi at bigfoot.com) > + find_service now detects services protected by TCP wrappers > or ACL > + find_service detects gnuserv > + ptyexecvp() replaced by nessus_popen() (*) > > * changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at cvs.nessus.org) > + Fixed a bug which may make nasl interpret backquoted strings > (\n and \r) received from the network (problem noted by Pavel > Kankovsky) > + nmap_wrapper.nes calls _exit() instead of exit() (*) > + Solved the lack of bpf's on Free/Open/NetBSD and MacOSX by > sharing _one_ among all the Nessus processes. As a result, > Nessus's ping is much more effective on these platforms > + bugfix in plug_set_key() which would eventually make some > scripts take too long when writing in the KB > + Plugins of family ACT_SETTINGS are run *after* plugins of > family ACT_SCANNERS > + replaced the implementation of md5 which was used when > OpenSSL is disabled by the one from RSA (the old one would > not work on a big-endian host) > + Fixed plugins build issues on MacOS X > + The nessus client compiles and links against GTK+-2.0. Of > course, it will be horrible and unstable, as the GTK team > does not care about backward compatibility > > (*) These two modifications solve the problems of nmap hanging under FreeBSD > > > > Special thanks go to Michael Slifcak, whose work on Nessus during the > last months have been truly appreciated even if they have not always > been as underlined as they should have been. Michael, thanks again ! > > > AVAILABILITY: > > Nessus 1.2.6 is available at http://www.nessus.org/posix.html -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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xine cannot play DVDs - "liba52: a52_block error" Since libdvdcss-1.2.0, I have been unable to play DVDs using ogle, xine, vlc, or mplayer. They all show a scrambled picture with (VERY) choppy audio. When I run xine I see tons of these in the console: liba52: a52_block error liba52: a52_block error liba52: a52_block error liba52: a52_block error audio_out: inserting 5859 0-frames to fill a gap of 10989 pts metronom: audio jump liba52: a52_block error Has anyone seen this before and know how to fix it? Or should I file a bug report? Thanks for your help. - Jon -- [email protected] Administrator, tgpsolutions http://www.tgpsolutions.com _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Ack, apt-get still failing for me, stumped. [RH8] I posted about this last week, and I'm still stumped. apt-get is just not working for me, and I can't figure out what the problem is. I've tried removing the apt rpms, making sure to remove any traces left behind (/etc/apt /var/state/apt /var/cache/apt), and still, I get "couldn't find package xmms-mp3" when running "apt-get install xmms-mp3". Any clues? Here's a log of a fresh try: root@canarsie:/tmp # rpm -e apt apt-devel root@canarsie:/tmp # rm -rf /etc/apt /var/cache/apt /var/state/apt root@canarsie:/tmp # rpm -ivh apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm apt-devel-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm warning: apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:apt ########################################### [ 50%] 2:apt-devel ########################################### [100%] root@canarsie:/tmp # apt-get update Ign http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386 release Get:1 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os pkglist [1276kB] Get:2 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os release [108B] Get:3 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates pkglist [14B] Get:4 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates release [113B] Get:5 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist [57.1kB] Get:6 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms release [125B] Get:7 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os srclist [152kB] Get:8 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates srclist [14B] Get:9 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms srclist [14.4kB] Fetched 1500kB in 11s (125kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done root@canarsie:/tmp # apt-get install xmms-mp3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package xmms-mp3 root@canarsie:/tmp # apt-cache search xmms root@canarsie:/tmp # Beats me.. -SteveK -- Steve Kann - Chief Engineer - 520 8th Ave #2300 NY 10018 - (212) 533-1775 HorizonLive.com - collaborate . interact . learn "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed Linux." _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: RH 8 no DMA for DVD drive On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:28, Matthias Saou wrote: > I've never heard of any CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive having problems with DMA... > although there probably is since Red Hat decided to default disabling it a > few releases back :-/ Heh. I get to see bad CDROM problems all the time. Mostly when vendors buy crap cables to try to save $0.02/each, but there are chipsets and drives with known DMA issues as well. > Normally, even if you try to enable DMA and your device doesn't support it, > it simply don't be able to make the change, and that's it. The problem IIRC > is with crappy hardware that is supposed to support DMA but doesn't work as > expected when it's enabled... maybe Chris could confirm this? ;-) Usually if you enable DMA on a CDROM that can't handle it gracefully you won't be able to read data off it relably, and that's about it. No end_of_the_world problems, and easily fixed. > I guess I'll settle for the /dev/dvd link change as described and putting > the DMA tip in the %description :-) My biggest beef with automatically setting /dev/dvd is that I always seem to have a CD-Burner and a DVD drive (or DVD burner) in the same box, and I usually have the DVD as the second drive /dev/cdrom1 in "kudzu-speak". I agree that the %description is the best place for the tip. Unless someone can come up with a way to probe CD/DVD drives to divulge their largest supported media size without loading ide-scsi or having that media currently in the drive. -- Chris Kloiber _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: RH 8 no DMA for DVD drive On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 04:48, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:28:51 +0200 > > Matthias Saou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > # I've never heard of any CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive having problems with > > # DMA... although there probably is since Red Hat decided to default > > # disabling it a few releases back :-/ > > > > When I worked as a PC repair tech for a Computer store chain, I did > > run across quite a few DVD drives that would lock up if DMA was > > enabled. It's more of a chipset/drive problem than a Drive by itself. > > And my IBM Intellistation would lock up instantly .. now this is actually > quite funny .. if DMA was enabled for the CD-ROM *and* you tried to access > a CD with Joliet extensions. Otherwise it worked just fine with DMA > enabled :) Odd. Did I certify that one? What's the 7-digit IBM model number, and which version of Red Hat were you running? -- Chris Kloiber _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Zoot apt/openssh & new DVD playing doc On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:36, Matthias Saou wrote: > Hi there, > > Two new things today : > > 1) I've had to install a Red Hat Linux 6.2 server because of an old > proprietary IVR software that doesn't work on newer releases :-( So I've > recompiled both the latest apt and openssh packages for it, and they are > now available with a complete "os, updates & freshrpms" apt repository at > apt.freshrpms.net, for those who might be interested. Gack. Did you try 7.3 with the compat-glibc first? Or does it require an antique kernel? -- Chris Kloiber _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: RedHat 8.0 and his own freetype On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:05:53 -0700 Ben Liblit <[email protected]> wrote: > > RPM build errors: > > File not found by glob: > > /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.2-root/usr/lib/libttf.so.* > > File not found: /var/tmp/freetype-2.1.2-root/usr/lib/libttf.so > > Weird. I had no problems at all rebuilding from the SRPM with specfile > modified to enable the bytecode interpreter. The "check-files" test > warns that "/usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4" was not included in any > package, but other then that, it's all perfectly clean. Hi, Ben, it seems, the RH freetype package should be repacked, see for this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74415 Please, can you atach and send your sucessfully rebuild of the RH freetype rpm with the bytecode enabled to me? -- Regards from Germany Matthias _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: RedHat 8.0 and his own freetype I wrote: > [The bytecode interpreter] may improve non-antialiased rendering, but > only at the expense of making a mess of antialiased rendering. Then again, perhaps the particular font I'm using just has bad bytecodes. That font is "QuickType II", grabbed off my Windows partition, where it was installed by I-have-no-idea-which-application. Anybody else experimenting with bytecode-enabled freetype, presumably with different fonts? Do you find the same bad antialiased rendering that I found, or do other fonts work well? _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Zoot apt/openssh & new DVD playing doc Once upon a time, Chris wrote : > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:36, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Two new things today : > > > > 1) I've had to install a Red Hat Linux 6.2 server because of an old > > proprietary IVR software that doesn't work on newer releases :-( So > > I've recompiled both the latest apt and openssh packages for it, and > > they are now available with a complete "os, updates & freshrpms" apt > > repository at apt.freshrpms.net, for those who might be interested. > > Gack. Did you try 7.3 with the compat-glibc first? Or does it require an > antique kernel? It requires a 2.2 kernel, plus antique just-about-everything :-/ Real crap! Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10acpi Load : 0.00 0.03 0.00 _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: RedHat 8.0 and his own freetype On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:15:07 -0700 Ben Liblit <[email protected]> wrote: > Ick. Perhaps this is why Red Hat turned the bytecode interpreter off. > It may improve non-antialiased rendering, but only at the expense of > making a mess of antialiased rendering. > > This may come down to a matter of personal aesthetics, but for my part, > I'm going back to Red Hat's standard packages with the bytecode > interpreter turned *off*. Yes, confirmed, but for my part, I'm using mostly non-antialiased fonts and they are true ugly without the bytecode interpreter enabled. Remember my stupid request about your RPM ;-) -- Regards from Germany Matthias _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Apt repository authentication: it's time Hi. Brian Fahrlander <[email protected]> wrote: > What's it take to ensure we're covered against this kind of > childish/moronic/Microsoft-era problems? Well, I am checking the packet signatures while building the apt-tree. Not very pretty, not very fast, but it works. Nonetheless: did anyone ever play with this: http://distro.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2002-August/000653.html -- R! _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Apt repository authentication: it's time Once upon a time, Brian wrote : > OK, it's now time to work out the PGP securing of apt repository > traffic. I've never gotten anything but "sitename.whatever will not > be authenticated" until running Redhat 8.0 when I get something > about having "No Key" for various files. I don't think gpg signing my repositories will help anything, as it will just ensure that my passphrase was typed to confirm the md5 signatures of all pgklists and srclists. Basically, you'll then just be sure that it's me who generated the files, and this will of course prevent automating the process of updating the apt repository when Red Hat updates show up. In Red Hat Linux 8.0 though, the warnings about "No Key" appear until you import the right gpg public keys directly with rpm, for example : rpm --import /usr/share/doc/apt-0.5.4cnc7/RPM-GPG-KEY (this will import my key, which is used to sign all freshrpms.net packages) Hopefully it is possible to the tell rpm to install *only* packages who verify against an imported gpg key? This for me would be the optimal way to ensure integrity with the way things curently work. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10acpi Load : 0.14 0.18 0.17 _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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Re: Apt repository authentication: it's time On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:03:11 +0200, Matthias Saou <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think gpg signing my repositories will help anything, as it will > just ensure that my passphrase was typed to confirm the md5 signatures of > all pgklists and srclists. Basically, you'll then just be sure that it's me > who generated the files, and this will of course prevent automating the > process of updating the apt repository when Red Hat updates show up. Isn't there a packager-key that's concealed inside the rpm? Things have changed a bit since I used to work with'em, but I thought there was some internal number that must be compared to be correct (or, presumably, return an error.) > In Red Hat Linux 8.0 though, the warnings about "No Key" appear until you > import the right gpg public keys directly with rpm, for example : > rpm --import /usr/share/doc/apt-0.5.4cnc7/RPM-GPG-KEY > (this will import my key, which is used to sign all freshrpms.net packages) Hey, cool; wether it protects me or not, I feel better about it. > Hopefully it is possible to the tell rpm to install *only* packages who > verify against an imported gpg key? This for me would be the optimal way to > ensure integrity with the way things curently work. Yeah, surely there's a flag for that; there is, for everything else, aye? :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Fahrl�nder Linux Zealot, Conservative, and Technomad Evansville, IN My Voyage: http://www.CounterMoon.com ICQ 5119262 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ angegangen, Schlange-H�ften, sein es ganz r�ber jetzt. B�gel innen fest, weil es eine lange, s�sse Fahrt ist. _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
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[zzzzteana] Plumstead Panther - Pictures! Looks and sounds a hell of a lot like Clare's cat, Violence... A tall tail or is it a prowling panther? http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/weird/display.var.633939.Bizarre+London.0.html Security cameras at the Gardiner house filmed the cat The Plumstead panther has been spotted just yards from the scene of a sighting made three weeks ago but this time it was caught on camera. Steve Gardiner, 41, claims to have spotted the large cat in his garden in Upton Road, Plumstead, in the sixth reported sighting in Woolwich and Bexley in just four weeks. Mr Gardiner told News Shopper he watched the big cat as it walked alongside the house at about 7.15am, on Wednesday, September 25, while his security cameras captured it on film. The father-of-four described the black cat as about 3ft long and two-and-a-half-foot high, with a large body. He said: "It prowled past the patio doors moving with all the mannerisms of a hunter. "It looked at me calmly before moving on." The bricklayer told how his work colleagues let him know News Shopper had been following the big cat story so he decided to call our offices with news of the sighting. His wife, Karen, 41, later checked the tape which had captured grainy images of the large cat prowling through their garden. She said: "I feel sorry for it not living in its natural habitat I'd hate for it to get hurt." Mr Gardiner told how he is convinced of the cat's existence saying how their usually quiet 18-year-old dog barks at "nothing" in the garden but barked that morning. He warned: "I don't think these cats are dangerous but, if cornered, they might jump you." Sightings of the large black cat are being reported all over the Plumstead Common and Shooters Hill as well at the Bexley area. If you have seen the big cat, call News Shopper on 01689 885712. 12:27 Tuesday 8th October 2002 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] A Billy for the septics http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2310209.stm Tuesday, 8 October, 2002, 13:53 GMT 14:53 UK Quiz: Know your Cockney Rhyming Slang? Cockney Rhyming Slang is alive and well with new terms being invented all the time, according to the new Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang being published this week. But do you know a Raquel Welch (belch) from a Billie Piper (windscreen wiper)? ... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[zzzzteana] Punch bags filled with incontinence pads http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/weird/display.var.633932.Bizarre+London.0.html An investigation has been launched after punch bags on sale in Greenwich were found to be stuffed with incontinence pads and bandages. Trading standards officers, working for Greenwich Council, were alerted to the situation after a Bryan punch bag, purchased in Argos, in Charlton Road, Charlton, was found to be full of bandages. Also stuffed inside the piece of sporting equipment was a letter from a woman in Fife stating how she felt quite disgusted' about the bag and asking for the filling to be tested. The unfortunate shopper had bought his first bag, at Argos, in Lewisham High Street, but had returned it because on investigation of a leak he was horrified to discover it was filled with incontinence pads. So far, officers have purchased two of the punch bags, only to find they contain incontinence pads and strips of shredded duvet. Cabinet member for public services Councillor Angela Cornforth said: "This is one of the strangest stories I have every heard. "Our officers are in the process of investigating and will no doubt discover why the bags contain such unusual contents." 12:18 Tuesday 8th October 2002 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Re: The GOv gets tough on Net Users.....er Pirates.. On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Adam L. Beberg wrote: --]And yet STILL noone is out there creating _public domain_ content. Is there --]even one person out there can can even begin to talk without being a --]complete hypocrite? And no the "open source" people cant talk either, the --]GPL aint even close. I know I cant talk. All my music is in the Public Domain. There are others. http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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Re: The GOv gets tough on Net Users.....er Pirates.. > If the creator didnt say you could have it without paying, it's theft, so > simple, hell that's even in all the major holy books. Wow, I've got a great idea! I'll hire a skywriter to write "you can't look at this without paying," then lock up everybody who looked at it and didn't pay! It can't fail -- Jesus is on my side! http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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Re: The case for spam Lucas Gonze: >Senders should vary the recipient list to include non-targets, like party >officials, and to exclude targets enough to give them plausible >deniability. Which means the sender has a list of who the true targets are, and who the fake targets are, and scripts for mixing these. On the receiving side, my email client distinguishes between messages that are read, and messages that are not. I like to mark or save messages that are particularly interresting or important to me. And even if I make a point to delete "suspicious material" immediately upon reading it, even THAT might leave an interesting kind of trace on my machine. Sorry, but I don't buy the argument that spam protects people who want to distribute or see material the government disapproves. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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Re: The case for spam Russell Turpin wrote: > On the receiving side, > my email client distinguishes between messages > that are read, and messages that are not. I like > to mark or save messages that are particularly > interresting or important to me. And even if I > make a point to delete "suspicious material" > immediately upon reading it, even THAT might > leave an interesting kind of trace on my machine. You choose to have your email client do that. You don't have to. Short of Palladium, you can do whatever you want with bytes you hold, including reading messages and erasing the traces. I'll buy a chocolate sundae for anyone who can show otherwise. An attacker might be able to verify that you *have* read a message (e.g. by seeing that you saved and edited a copy) but not that you *haven't*. If your email client was compromised you could put a packet sniffer on the line before downloading mail. If an attacker installed a packet sniffer sniffer, you could run it in a spoofing VM. The only exception to the rule that your machine belongs to you is -- maybe -- Palladium. - Lucas http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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Re: "Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch...."(was Re: My brain hurts) --- begin forwarded text Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:39:34 -0400 To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[email protected]> From: Somebody Subject: Re: "Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch...."(was Re: My brain hurts) And then there was the one from Prairie Home Companion: Q. Why is a viola larger than a violin? A. It just looks that way because a violin player's head is bigger. >--- begin forwarded text > > >Status: RO >Delivered-To: [email protected] >From: "Joseph S. Barrera III" <[email protected]> >Organization: Rose Garden Funeral of Sores >User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.0 [-1214711651] >To: Flatware or Road Kill? <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: "Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch...."(was Re: My brain hurts) >Sender: [email protected] >Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:17:40 -0700 > >There are so many good musician jokes. > >A couple of my favorites: > >Q. What's the difference between a viola and a violin? >A. A viola burns longer. > >Q. What's the definition of a minor second? >A. Two oboes playing in unison. > >- Joe > > >http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork > >--- end forwarded text > > >-- >----------------- >R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [email protected]> >The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> >44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA >"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, >[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to >experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -- --- end forwarded text -- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [email protected]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." --George Carlin http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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