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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 94 08:13:11 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #886
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Linux-Misc Digest #886, Volume #2 Thu, 6 Oct 94 08:13:11 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: How to pronounce Linux?? (David Holland)
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find on my cd-rom doesn't work, but find on dos does (Marty Leisner 25733)
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Re: Split this group! (.help) (Wolfgang Schelongowski)
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Re: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51 (Marty Leisner 25733)
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Re: find on my cd-rom doesn't work, but find on dos does (Marty Leisner 25733)
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Re: Lilo booting last booted OS. (Bruno Van Wilder)
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Re: REQ: MIDI-sequencer for Linux (Leung Leung)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Alex Dumitru)
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Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Cirrus Logic 5428 ! (G. E. Terry)
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Re: where to get the texbook (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Brad Matthew Garcia)
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*** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) (Ian Jackson)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: Re: How to pronounce Linux??
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From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
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Date: 1 Oct 94 14:03:30
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stimpson@panix.com's message of 28 Sep 1994 11:57:51 -0400 said:
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> There is a correct pronunciation and an incorrect pronunciation.
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> The 'I' is short. Linux almost rhymes with 'shucks'. Or, if you prefer
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> 'Lih-nuhks'.
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Wrong. The correct pronunciation can be gotten in .au form from
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Linus's ftp site.
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What you cite is not it.
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--
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- David A. Holland | -- "Do you have a moment?" -- "Yes.
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dholland@husc.harvard.edu | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."
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From: leisner@batman (Marty Leisner 25733)
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Subject: find on my cd-rom doesn't work, but find on dos does
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Reply-To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 14:33:39 GMT
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This is interesting...
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I have Walnut Creeks simtel20 CD...
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It non-rockridge.
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find . on linux just list the files in the current directory and nothing
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more...
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ls -lR recurses down.
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find on Ms-Dos (djgcc find) works fine.
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?????
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--
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marty
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leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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We don't actually do anything new in computing, we just rename the old stuff.
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Grace Murray Hopper, who OOed in 1944
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From: ws@xivic.bo.open.de (Wolfgang Schelongowski)
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Subject: Re: Split this group! (.help)
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 21:45:57 +0100
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In <36md7r$qmq@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>,
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byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
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>In article <36k82v$ccg@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
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>Mr D R Barlow <xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
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>-In article <36j3df$319@crl5.crl.com>,
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>- itz@crl.com (Ian T. Zimmerman) writes:
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>->
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>->Folks, this newsgroup can net ~400 messages a day! That's just TOO
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>->f#!@$#ing MANY! I vote will all my extremities to split.
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>-
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>-Into what? Maybe we could split into
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>-comp.os.linux.help.havereadthefaq
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>-comp.os.linux.help.lazy
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>-comp.os.linux.help.hey-isnt-doom-great
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...
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>-Seriously. What do you suggest?
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...
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> c.o.l.help is for questions, yet all the other
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>groups have a bunch of questions posted into them.
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Worse. Some people post the same article (not: crosspost !) in several
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c.o.l-group...
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>The bottom line is that we're being overwhelmed by loads of information:
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>mostly FAQs, dozens of responses to the same question, and posts in
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>inappropriate places. New groups will not solve the problem because they'll
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>simply provide "new clean cultures for bacteria to grow".
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>The solution in my opinion is three-fold:
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[details bobbitted]
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>This is an instance where information overload is clogging up the ability to
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>transfer relavent information back in forth in a resonable manner.
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>Comments?
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Your implicit assumption and that of most other posters in the preceding
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thread is that such newsgroups must be under the Big7 i.e. comp.*.
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Drop that assumption and create _regional_ groups. There are two
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that I know of, i.e. aus.computers.linux and de.comp.os.linux. I don't
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get the former one except via crosspostings, but I do read the latter
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one.
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de.c.o.l is a German _language_ newsgroup, so the potential audience
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and the number of postings is much smaller than in the Big7, albeit
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growing. As the average number of jerks per million people is sort
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of a global constant, Usenet/Internet access does cost about three
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times as in the USA, and the telephone rates are high and growing
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due to privatization, the absolute number of clueless postings is
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smaller, which has consequences for the group culture.
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So create groups like {uk,sbay,ne,whatever}.comp.os.linux and make these
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regional groups known by whatever legal means. Additional benefit is
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that there is a larger chance that people may reply not only with advice,
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but also by "if you have further questions, phone me on (local call)".
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Due to telephone rates, such an offer from (say) ...gatech.edu or
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...ac.uk would be meaningless for me in .de, and probably vice versa.
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It's quite a different story (for me :-) if the telephone number starts
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with 0049-23...
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Mind the .sig ;-)
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--
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Wolfgang Schelongowski ws@xivic.bo.open.de
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Zusammengefasst: Es geht, jeder weiss wie, nur ich darf es nicht sagen.
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-- hohndel@aib.com (Dirk Hohndel) in de.comp.os.linux ueber Diamond
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From: leisner@batman (Marty Leisner 25733)
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Subject: Re: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51
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Reply-To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:04:43 GMT
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Oz Dror (dror@netcom.com) wrote:
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: But there is at least one problem. Only root can run it. I check permission
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: of dos it seems OK.
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: 9 -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 9079 Oct 3 19:57 /usr/bin/dos
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: when a user type dos no error is printed, but also dos is not entered.
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I'm running pre22.
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I never saw a good discussion on the setuid problems...
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In an xterm window, I can run fine as non-root...
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In a virtual console, it appears I have to be setuid (because I write directly to the
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video card??)
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--
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marty
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leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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I don't make many mistakes, but when I make one, its a beaut
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Fiorello LaGuardia
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From: leisner@batman (Marty Leisner 25733)
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Subject: Re: find on my cd-rom doesn't work, but find on dos does
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Reply-To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:08:19 GMT
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention...
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I ran find under strace...
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I saw a bunch of readdir() for each entry in the CD -- and find treated
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each as a file
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(I just ran find .
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with no arguments in /cdrom)
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Isn't readdir a user library call -- on Linux is a system call?
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Its a number 3...
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--
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marty
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leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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Object techonology is to software what microprocessors are to
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hardware.
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Phillipe Kahn
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From: bvwilder@elis.rug.ac.be (Bruno Van Wilder)
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Subject: Re: Lilo booting last booted OS.
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 08:10:44 GMT
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rutger@arrakis.kub.nl wrote:
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: Hi all,
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: I would like to know if it is possible that Lilo will boot the last booted
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: OS. E.g. if I boot Linux then Lilo will keep on booting linux 'till I select
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: another OS (MS-Dos). I liked this feature in the SLS distribution (0.99.X),
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: but it is gone in the slackware distribution.
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I do not think it is possible yet, but it is a good idea indeed.
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Greetings,
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Bruno Van Wilder
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,aus.computers.linux
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From: h9206508@hkuxa.hku.hk (Leung Leung)
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Subject: Re: REQ: MIDI-sequencer for Linux
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 02:27:24 GMT
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Jay Vaughan (jay@earthlink.net) wrote:
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: In article <36rk9o$90d@dsun10.hmi.de>, drt@dsun10.hmi.de (Tschirley_Rene) says:
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: >
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: >Very important for making my decision is the existance of a
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: >(semi)professional MIDI-sequencer like Sibelius 7 (Acorn Archimedes),
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: >Bars & Pipes (Commodore Amiga) or anything similar to these ones known
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: >on Atari or Apple Macintosh.
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: >
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: Interesting point. Would anyone care to port ROSE to Linux? It's an
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: SGI-based sequencer, available in source code from at
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: ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk:/pub/dream/ROSE.ALPHA.tar.gz and ROSE.sources.tar.gz.
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:
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: I've used it on my Indy, and it's quite a nice package... would be cool
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: to see this running on a Linux box...
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:
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I cannot play the .mid file in Indy. I got some error message like "Segmentatio
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violation ..." or the prog hangs when I play the file. Which /dev/???? device
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should I use ? /dev/midi ????
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: alexd@system9.unisys.com (Alex Dumitru)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 18:29:32 GMT
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Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote:
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[real question deleted]
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: If you want to go by reported bugs, then it difficult
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: to give a clear answer. As is know in the industry,
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: what maybe a bug to one person is a bug to another.
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: And as "bugs" go, system stability is a far more important
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: factor.
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So, if i think it's a bug, and another person thinks it's a bug, then
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it is definitely a bug??? And if I remember correctly, you lost out
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in that system stability discussion a while back. (yeah. you got out
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of it, by picking on sentence syntax, and word definitions!) Now
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*you* talk about system stability... Jesus... (I can just hear it "What?")
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[stuff about how great Linux is, and the ton of software it runs deleted]
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: FreeBSD is better only in terms of getting the latest
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: versions of applications to run on it.
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You just said praised Linux, and now you say it is
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no good at running the latest apps. Thick or what?
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: In other words, if I want the latest version of Mosaic to run in house,
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: I am forced to used FreeBSD because the latest version
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: of X-windows no longer supports 386bsd release 0.1.
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No. You're not *forced* to run FreeBSD. You can run linux. And 386bsd 0.1
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is not supported for a good reason.
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There's a thought. JMJr running Linux, and posting endless moose droppings
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on the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy... Jesus... ("What?")
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cheers
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alex
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:26:06 GMT
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In article <1994Oct5.081721.2723@tware.com>, Paul Bash <bash@tware.com> wrote:
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>In article <jeffpkCx5y9n.Fs6@netcom.com>,
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>Jeff Kesselman <jeffpk@netcom.com> wrote:
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>
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>>> Funny, Slackware, OS/2 and DOS (all installed on the same disk) don't
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>>> see any problems. I have no other option except skipping the disk
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>>> partition phase of the install.
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>>
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>>I'm honestly not sure on this one, but I seem to recalll there being a
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>>patch bandied about thats needed for this particular controlelr to run
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>>two drives?? (Someone with more experience with Adpatecs feel free to jump
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>>in.)
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>
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>Linux has no problem with this host adapter. I've been running Slackware on
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>it for close to a year now. I've run SVR4, OS/2 and DOS on it for years before
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(lots more deleted)
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Lots of good info, thank you, Paul. If you REALLY want to help out, it
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might not be a bad idea to send that info to Yygdrasil, so future users
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of your card or setup don't have the problem. I got rid of my OS/2 when
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I installed Linux, and i use LILO, so if there IS a problem there I never
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would have seen. I doubt fdisk is th issue, for the reasons you already
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mentioend (the basic fdisk is the same as the one used by everyone else.
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There is a new 'cfdisk' in the Fall94 release, but you can always fall
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back to teh old one...)
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>>By the way, the hoops you have to jump through to 'get rid of that damn
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>>cd-rom' are:
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>> umount /dev/system_cd
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>>And it all goes away.
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>>
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>Oh, don't start getting smug now, Jeff. We were doing so well and now you
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>have to go and make and _effort_ to piss me off. You don't have a clue
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>of what you are talking about here, but you continue to act like you do,
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>inserting foot into mouth in the process. Sad.
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Oh c'mon Pual. Now YOU'RE acting smug. You just made a mistake about the
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Xinit and I let it go by, can't you be as big?
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In case you are interetsed, what happend here was that my fingers cominbed
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umount /system_cd
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with
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umount /dev/sony_cd
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Obviously, either will work as long as /dev/sony_cd is in the mount table.
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(and like me, you are using a sony drive.)
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As a longtime system admin, you DID know THIS, right?? :)
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[God, admin wars. I don't BELIEVE we've sunk this low...]
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'Nuff said?
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>Ok, now that we've got the command straight, have you actually tried this?
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>
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Yes. It works GREAT! Maybe my system is blessed, but WITh it mounted I
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get all the extra stuff, with the associated delays for CD-ROm based
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searches before it decides it can't find it. Without it mounted, it just
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doesn't find all this stuff, and searches much faster. I use both modes
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dependign on what i am trying to accomplish.
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>It doesn't just "all goes away". Jesus, haven't you read this thread yet? More
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Sure, I've read it alot. But I haven't actually heard one person before
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you say that when they unmounetd the drive they still had a problem.
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All the stuff I've read has had to do with situations with the drive
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mounted. (If anyone out there DOES have experiences different then
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mine when they umoutn the drive PLEASE share them!)
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>install from the CD-ROM, you _still_ have symbolic links all over the file
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>system that point at directories under /system_cd.
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Right, but they don't point to anything and don't do anything. No che
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problema. At least thats how MY system acts...
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>You can't just remove the
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>CD-ROM without removing all the links that point to it. Those links, most
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>likely, have to be replaced by the CD-ROM files they are pointing to else you
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>don't have a clean install. You might get away with running without the
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>CD-ROM for awhile, but that's like saying you can walk down the middle of
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>the freeway at 5pm and not get hit by a car.
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Funny, my freeway has been empty and trouble free for 3 weeks of hard
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midnight and weekend development now. Are you just speculating Paul, or
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do you have any hard info to back this up? My experience says very
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different from your speculation...
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>I ask you again, have you actually tried this? For more than a couple of
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>days? While exercising all those neat packages you installed?
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Yes, see above.
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>Since
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>you've commented elsewhere that you are quite happily running from the
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>CD-ROM without installing everything on your PC, I doubt it.
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Wrong, try READING my posts. I am happily runnign with the stuff I NEED
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installed. I occasionalyl inster the CD-ROm to try out a NEW package
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before installign it. Thats about it. My LILO doesn't even automaticly
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moun the cd-rom.
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>
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>Here's an extreme, but highly plausible, illustration of the problem: what
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>if I want to access the QRZ Ham Radio CD-ROM but can't because the system
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>needs the Yggdrasil CD-ROM mounted to run properly? Well, I guess I just
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>can't, right? Sounds like a classic Catch-22. Sure, I could buy a second
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>CD-ROM drive just for this application, but then my $35 "Plug and Play" has
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>become a $335 "Plug and PAY" system. Yggdrasil just got a whole lot more
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>expensive.
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Huh? Thsi seems tangential to reality at best, Paul, but maybe I'm just
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not following you. YOU'RE the one who claims the CD-ROM must stay
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installed, not me.
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>
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>comments around as if you do, you're just making yourself look silly.
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Comments like these invite hoof in mouth desiese, my friend... Ithink
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you've been staring in the mirror a bit too long...
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>
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>Like I said, you need to do some homework. Here's your first lesson: get a
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>300MB+ disk and, using the control panel, install everything from the CD-ROM
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>onto your disk. Now issue the following commands:
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I have a 300+ Mb disk. WHY should I wan to install all this crap when
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what I have works great?
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>
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> cd /
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> umount /system_cd
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> find / -type l -ls | grep system_cd
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>
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>You should see more than a couple /system_cd symbolic links scroll by on your
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>screen. At least they do for me as that's how _I_ discovered the problem in the
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>first place.
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>Try to access one of those files via the symbolic link.
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>BINGO! It fails, doesn't it? Is a light coming on somewhere, Jeff?
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Yes, a light just came on that you are lookign at something TOTALLY
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different from what we are talkign about. You just decided you WANT to
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try to access stuff you havent installed, with the CD-ROM unmounted.
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If you find a system that can do this PLEASE let me know. Myself, i
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instaleld everything i want to use on my HD on my HD, and mount my CD-ROm
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only when I want to see something that I didn't put on my HD. When i
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DON'T want to do that, i remove the CD-ROM and the linksc ause me zero
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hassle.
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What are you asking for, the ESP operating system???
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(I';m sorry, but this is a VERY silly point and TOTALLy tangential to the
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issue of whether links on your HD that point to an unmounted CD-ROm are
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detrimental.)
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>
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>If the links are there, then you don't have a CD-ROM-less install.
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:: sigh:: see all the above. ONCE more, what you have is a partial
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install of wehatever you wanted on the HD with access to the rest with
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just a mount offo f the cd. This is exactly what I wanted. if its not
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what you wanted, then you obviously bought the wrong disc. if you feel
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this was falsely advertised, then CALL them and complain!
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>You have an accident waiting to happen. It doesn't matter if you are a power
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HOW? You've made this assertion many times but have yet to point out 1
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harm from these links. Pleas explain or drop the point.
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>programs are going to blow up and the target Yggdrasil user you defined
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>earlier isn't going to have a clue as to what is happening.
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Again, nothign random lows up on my system. ALL the files neede for the
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stuff I installed on the HD are on the HD. ALL the files forstuff on the
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CD are on the CD. Nothign blows up becuase either:
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a) The program is on the HD, and so are its files
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or
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b) The program is still on the CD alogn with its files, and thus CANNOT
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be accessed unless said CD is mounted.
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Where's the beef? I honestly think you are inferring problems from a lack
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of understanding as to how the system works.
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>
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>installs the system. I've personally been through the 2 page Fall 94 errata
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>5 or 6 times (each time I've had to re-install the CD-ROM to try and get a
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>clean system). I hope I never see it again. If Yggdrasil intends a CD-ROM-less
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>installation option, they have to test it, dammit! It doesn't look like they
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>did and that's sloppy.
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It sounds to me like you have a specific hardware problem. Obviously it
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is difficult to test a Linuyx distribution on all hardware supported. I
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ha a specific hardware problem (the sony cd bug). I called them and
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within a week they had the patch available. Did you call them with your
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problem?
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>
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>Slackware doesn't have these kind of problems (although it has had _some_
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>problems).
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No, it has other problems as evidenced by help messages. Just because
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Slackware runs better on your aprticualr hardware does nto contitute a
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full QA test, my friend.
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>(From My Personal Experience), the great majority of users will find it
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>satisfying much longer than they would the Yggdrasil CD-ROM.
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And from my personal experiuence, the yygdrasil is a delight, and the
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company is VERY responsive to problems. Shows you how much individual
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personal experience differs, huh???
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>
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>Thus, we come full circle to my original comments that you jumped on several
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>posts ago thereby fueling this fire. Yggdrasil is "cute" but it isn't for
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>serious use. Jan experienced some of the same problems I did and asked if a
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>better Linux CD exists. Without going into 20,000 words (like I've had to with
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>you) I told him what I thought. Do you see what I mean now, Jeff? I hope so,
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>but I kind of doubt it.
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I think, perhapse, that was indeed what you intended and i commend you.
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I aslo think your heat on thsi issue and your general assumption
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(repeated over and over in this discussion) that your persdonal
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experience was a generally applicable one. Plus your frustration over
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soem issues leading you to not fully explore others, such as the CD-ROM
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links issue, got the best of you and slanted your post badly.
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"I must confess, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the
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rest..."
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Paul Simon, The Boxer
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Words to consider carefully whenever you find yourself taking your own
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opinions too seriously.
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>You just couldn't resist getting that last little dig in, eh? That's beneath
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>you, Jeff ;-)
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>
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Lets just agree to stop taking offense at anything the other believs shall
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we, and stick to points? I really thin kwe've ehausted this issue,
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anyway.
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Jeff Kesselman
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:32:53 GMT
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Correct me if I am wrong, but this sounds like summer94, yes?
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I ask because the install changed a GREAT dall in Fall94. i had some
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misgivings abotu the sumemr version myself. The fall version acts more
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liek my old SCO installer in that it installs a base 10 meg system and
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then its up to you. They still provide the X based installer if you want
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it, but X doesnt install on the HD automatically. They also provide a
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simpel command line install_component command that lets you install
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things major package at a time.
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I like this much better then the old 4-install-choices system they sued
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to have and feel it works alot smoother (I don't use X either ;) )
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If you have any interest in it, since this is free-ware, you coudl borrow
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a friends and have a look at it. On the other hand, if you are happy
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with your Slackware, why switch?
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Jeff Kesselman
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From: gterry@gate.net (G. E. Terry)
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Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic 5428 !
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 09:55:27 GMT
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Liu Chen (lchen@prang.ee.nus.sg) wrote:
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: Dragon Ball Z (h9210494@hkuxa.hku.hk) wrote:
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: -> My computer is using Cirrus Logic 5428 Display Card!
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: -> Anyone out there knows how to set the "Xconfig" file in Linux in order to execute Xwindows successfully?
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Here are the relevant lines of my Xconfig for CL-GD5428.
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#
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RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
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#
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# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
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# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
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# command (or a combination of both methods)
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#
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
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FontPAth "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
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#
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# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
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# received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
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# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
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#
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# NoTrapSignals
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# **********************************************************************
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# Input devices
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# **********************************************************************
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#
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# Enable this to use the XQUEUE driver for keyboard and mouse handling
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# under System V. This may go away in the future.
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#
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# Note - If you use XQUEUE, you must comment out the keyboard and
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# mouse definitions.
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#
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#
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# Keyboard and various keyboard-related parameters
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#
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Keyboard
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# AutoRepeat 500 5
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ServerNumLock
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# Xleds 1 2 3
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# DontZap
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#
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# To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
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# RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:
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#
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# LeftAlt Meta
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# RightAlt ModeShift
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# RightCtl Compose
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# ScrollLock ModeLock
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#
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# Mouse definition and related parameters
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#
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# Logitech "/dev/tty00"
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# BaudRate 9600
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# SampleRate 150
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microsoft "/dev/mouse"
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BaudRate 1200
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Emulate3Buttons
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# **********************************************************************
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# Graphics drivers
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# **********************************************************************
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#
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# For boards with a programmable clock generator, you use a line like:
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#
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# Clocks "icd2061a"
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# Then the Modes line may contain any mode the Monitor section has
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#
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vga256
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videoram 1024
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#-------------------------------------------------------------
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# Video Card Definition
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# Video Card ID 22
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# Video Card Name: Cirrus 5426 (e.g. Diamond SpeedStar Pro)
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# 0
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# Contributed By: Chris Metcalf <metcalf@lcs.mit.edu>
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# Last Change: 7-22-93
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Clocks 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01
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Modes "640x480" "640x480" "800x600" "800x600" "800x600" "1024x768i" "1024x768i"
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#-------------------------------------------------------------
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# Monitor Definition
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# Monitor ID 1
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# Monitor Name: VESA-Generic Modes - TRY THESE FIRST!!!
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# Contributed By: David Wexelblat <dwex@goblin.org]
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# Last Change: 03-03-94
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ModeDB
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"640x480" 25 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
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"640x480" 31 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520
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"800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
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"800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
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"800x600" 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666
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"1024x768i" 44 1024 1040 1216 1264 768 768 778 819 Interlace
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"1024x768i" 45 1024 1040 1216 1264 768 768 778 819 Interlace
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------------------------------
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From: nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
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Subject: Re: where to get the texbook
|
|
Date: 5 Oct 1994 18:57:03 GMT
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|
The book from O'Reilley is good for configuring Tex, but it doesn't
|
|
cover hardly _any_ issues in using TeX (like how to do left and
|
|
right justification)
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-nate
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--
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Nate Sammons <nate@vis.colostate.edu>
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System Administrator - CSU Computer Visualization Laboratory
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------------------------------
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From: garcia@ece.cmu.edu (Brad Matthew Garcia)
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|
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
|
|
Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 11:37:54 GMT
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In article <36vcaa$2fj@tequesta.gate.net>, gterry@gate.net (G. E. Terry) writes:
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|> RYAN Colin Patrick (ryan@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:
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|> : While responding to an add inteh local paper for a $99 486 upgrade it came
|
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|> : to light that this upgrade was a quote "486/66 Mhz" which was a "faster chip and less expensive than the i486DX2-66". This propted my query on what the hell
|
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|> : this chip was and the response was AMD. I was not aware of this chip. I was
|
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|> : under the impression that all the 66's 75's 100's etc (non-Pentium) were
|
|
|> : overclocked 33 Mhz chips. Does a 'real' 66 Mhz chip exist? If so (and I dont'
|
|
|> : think so" do traditional mother boards ( ie that could handle a DX2) support
|
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|> : this chip. And Finally, if this is true is it compatble and reliable.
|
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|>
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|
|> This is just an clock doubled 33. I would say it might have been an error
|
|
|> in the ad. I have one of these chips. The story I read was that Advanced
|
|
|> Micro Devices bought the masks for the 80286 from Intel a few years back.
|
|
|> They decide to try to test the copywrite & patent laws by cloning the
|
|
|> 386 & 486 chips. Well they were very successful and Intel sued. In the
|
|
|> following trial, Intel LOST. I hear it was due to the naming system that
|
|
|> they used. It made the chips generic in the eyes of the court. That is why
|
|
|> there is no 80586, and we have the Pentium.
|
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|>
|
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|> As far as reliability, the AMD 486DX2/66 is an exact duplicate of Intel's
|
|
|> chip, or so I read in PC Magazine. And at an average of 100 to 150 dollars
|
|
|> less than Intel, I am a buyer!
|
|
|
|
I heard that AMD's version is more reliable than Intel's, and that many
|
|
people have overclocked it to 80 MHz with no problems. There was even
|
|
a rumor going around that AMD would start to sell them as 486DX2-80's.
|
|
If you see an AMD 486DX2-80 system for sale, I guess the rumor is true.
|
|
--
|
|
Brad M. Garcia Carnegie Mellon University
|
|
____/ ____/ ____/ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
|
|
__/ / __/ "The only Engineering department in the world where
|
|
_____/ _____/ _____/ the secretaries have the most powerful computers."
|
|
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|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
|
|
Subject: *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07)
|
|
Date: 5 Oct 1994 04:05:23 -0600
|
|
|
|
Please do not post questions to comp.os.linux.misc - read on for details of
|
|
which groups you should read and post to.
|
|
|
|
Please do not crosspost anything between different groups of the comp.os.linux
|
|
hierarchy. See Matt Welsh's introduction to the hierarchy, posted weekly.
|
|
|
|
If you have a question about Linux you should get and read the Linux Frequently
|
|
Asked Questions with Answers list from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs, or
|
|
from another Linux FTP site. It is also posted periodically to c.o.l.announce.
|
|
|
|
In particular, read the question `You still haven't answered my question!'
|
|
The FAQ will refer you to the Linux HOWTOs (more detailed descriptions of
|
|
particular topics) found in the HOWTO directory in the same place.
|
|
|
|
Then you should consider posting to comp.os.linux.help - not
|
|
comp.os.linux.misc.
|
|
|
|
Note that X Windows related questions should go to comp.windows.x.i386unix, and
|
|
that non-Linux-specific Unix questions should go to comp.unix.questions.
|
|
Please read the FAQs for these groups before posting - look on rtfm.mit.edu in
|
|
/pub/usenet/news.answers/Intel-Unix-X-faq and .../unix-faq.
|
|
|
|
Only if you have a posting that is not more appropriate for one of the other
|
|
Linux groups - ie it is not a question, not about the future development of
|
|
Linux, not an announcement or bug report and not about system administration -
|
|
should you post to comp.os.linux.misc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments on this posting are welcomed - please email me !
|
|
--
|
|
Ian Jackson <ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu> (urgent email: iwj10@phx.cam.ac.uk)
|
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2 Lexington Close, Cambridge, CB4 3LS, England; phone: +44 223 64238
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