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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: Mon, 17 Oct 94 06:13:19 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #956
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Linux-Misc Digest #956, Volume #2 Mon, 17 Oct 94 06:13:19 EDT
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Contents:
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[Q] Xconfig Spea Mirage V7 P-64 help !!! (Jens Elkner)
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Re: Mosaic Communications NetScape 0.9 beta released (Ron Atkinson)
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Re: Which file to auto-run X programs in? (Kevin Martinez)
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Re: AHA1542CF and 2.1 GB drive (David Fox)
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Re: please repost fix for disk spindown problem (David Fox)
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Re: Copyright Violations Plague the Net (Jeff Kesselman)
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PCMCIA SCSI Support/slackware questions (Vince)
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Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree (jon m)
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Re: Curious: Why is Linux DOOM so much slower than DOS doom (John Iacono)
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Re: More on word processors... svgalib? (John Iacono)
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Re: Frame Maker for Linux! (Shannon Hendrix)
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Help (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware) (Jared Brennan)
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SPEC run on Linux? (Sujat Jamil)
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Re: WP Project --Info and Volunteers WANTED!!! (J.J. Paijmans)
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Re: What is Linux good for? (Steven M. Doyle)
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help setting up pcnfsd? (John Lemon)
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Mosaic Communications NetScape 0.9 beta released (Mike Batchelor)
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From: elkner@sunpool.cs.tu-magdeburg.de (Jens Elkner)
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Subject: [Q] Xconfig Spea Mirage V7 P-64 help !!!
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 02:18:28 GMT
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Hi guys!
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Right now I've installed Slakware 2.01 on my PC (486DX2-66,ASUS SP3G,
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NCR 53c810). I tried to create a Xconfig file with ConfigXF86
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(62 SPEA Mirage V7 2MB, 1 VESA-Generic Modes) on no success.
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When I start X it aborts with the following message:
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--
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XFree86 Version 2.1.1 / X Window System
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(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
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Operating System: Linux
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Configured drivers:
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S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
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mmio_928, s3_generic
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(using VT number 7)
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(--) S3: Unknown S3 chipset: chip_id = 0xc0
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*** None of the configured devices was detected.***
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Fatal server error:
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no screens found
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xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unexpected signal 13
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---
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Does anybody know what I can do about that or is that an Xserver
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problem in generally.
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Thanx in advance,
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Jens.
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From: ron@chaos (Ron Atkinson)
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Subject: Re: Mosaic Communications NetScape 0.9 beta released
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 22:49:50 GMT
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Mike Batchelor (mikebat@babylon4.clark.net) wrote:
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: AND there is no port for Linux or FreeBSD. They have Windows, Mac, IRIX,
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: OSF/1, HP/UX, SunOS, Solaris, AIX - but nothing for any free OS.
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I don't know too much about their company or the people that work there,
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but they post a lot in the alt.winsock newsgroup. People there have asked
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about various things in the program that should be changed or configurable,
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but the authors of NetScape mention about their customers wanting something
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a certain way (money talks ya know). From what I gather it sounds like
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they are writing a lot of it for their clients but they give the program
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out to anyone else. Maybe all their clients run Windows, Mac, SunOS, HP/UX,
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etc... and they have no need for Linux, FreeBSD, etc... This might
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explain why a Linux NetScape doesn't exist yet, but I wouldn't be surprised
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if after the program is done (remember, these are BETA versions, NetScape
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isn't done yet) there might be a Linux port.
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Has anyone every politely asked them if they plan on doing a Linux version,
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or has everyone just complained that one doesnt' exist.
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From: Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net>
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Subject: Re: Which file to auto-run X programs in?
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 06:18:38 GMT
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jayward@cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward) writes:
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> I'm trying to start up some programs (xclock, xbiff, etc.) when X
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>starts, but everything in my .xsession is being ignored. Does fvwm
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>use some other file in my home dir to load from? I've modified the
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>system.fvwmrc in /usr/X11/lib/X11, but that's just for menus, colors,
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>etc. right?
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Try using .xinitrc
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Here's mine:
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===========
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#!/bin/sh
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# This is my Xperim3ntal .xinitrc file
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#
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# Used to start the window manager first but current thinking is to
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# start it last.
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#
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################################################################################
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################################################################################
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#
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# start console window (in background)
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#
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################################################################################
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xconsole -geometry =650x100+115+1 -font fixed -fg blue &
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################################################################################
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#
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# wait for console window to start up so it catches messages from
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# the stuff below
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#
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################################################################################
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sleep 2
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################################################################################
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#
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# Set various settings: no screensaver, fix backspace, merge Xdefaults
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#
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################################################################################
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xset s off
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xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = 0x04"
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xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
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xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults
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xsetroot -solid SteelBlue
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################################################################################
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#
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# start up clients (notice the "&")
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#
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################################################################################
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exec /usr/bin/X11/color_xterm -rev -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 10x20 -geom 80x24+1+13
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0 -title mariko &
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# exec /usr/local/bin/plan &
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exec color_xterm -rev -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 9x15bold -fg blue &
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################################################################################
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#
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# start up the window manager last with no "&"
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# Terminating the window manager finishes Xwindows
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#
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################################################################################
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fvwm
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--
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========================================================================
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Kevin Martinez Fear the Government that fears your Scanner!
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lps@rahul.net I owe all my success to Roly Poly Fish Heads!
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========================================================================
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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: AHA1542CF and 2.1 GB drive
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 15:29:38 GMT
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In article <37pumc$2m6@ag.oro.net> smj@smudge.oro.net (Scott Jennings) writes:
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] Joern Rennecke (amylaar@meolyon.hanse.de) wrote:
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] : dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror) writes:
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]
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] : >Driver Segate ST12400N (2.1GB)
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]
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] : >I am unable to get beyond the 1 GB boundary. If I try to
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] : >partition above the 1 GB boundary I get an error about mismatch
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] : >of physical and logical. I have disabled the BIOS support for
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] : >extended mapping for > 1GB. I was told by the manufacturer that
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] : >this option is only for DOS, and for a unix driver I should
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] : >disable it.
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]
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] : The linux driver takes the remapping for granted. So you better enable it.
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] : I have an 1542cf too and use it to access a 1.7 GB Micropolis drive, and
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] : it runs fine this way.
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]
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] runs just fine here with mapping *disabled* too. (2.1GB)
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] (but lilo does want one partition below 1GB to boot from)
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Here is my take on the situation. There are three factors:
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1. The Adaptec BIOS "extended mapping for > 1GB" option
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2. The Linux fdisk-1.5b (slackware 2.0.1) "DOS compatibility" option.
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3. Whether the fdisk error message you are getting matter
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Currently I have the extended mapping enabled, I ran fdisk with DOS
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compatibility disabled (NOT the default) and I get a few
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inconsequential error messages from fdisk. With fdisk DOS
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compatibility enabled I got a few more messages from fdisk, but they
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were reporting a situation where my parititions overlapped. You
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*will* get a message any time a partition begins or ends past cylinder
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1024, but it is most important that the numbers in the "Begin" and
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"Start" columns are the same.
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I may be wrong about whether extended mapping is enabled, and I can't
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check it because it would mean rebooting. But the idea is the
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important thing - there is no setup which doesn't produce misleading
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error messages and there is at least one and possibly two setups that
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work anyway, one with extended mapping enabled and one with it
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disabled.
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--
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David Fox xoF divaD
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NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: please repost fix for disk spindown problem
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 15:37:53 GMT
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One thing you have to do is comment out the line that prints
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"Unexpected HD interrupt" in ~linux/kernel/blk_drv/hd.c.
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--
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David Fox xoF divaD
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NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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Crossposted-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc,misc.legal,gnu.misc.discuss
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Copyright Violations Plague the Net
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 07:11:38 GMT
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In article <37svh0$rlr@knot.queensu.ca>,
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Hutsel Barry E <3beh5@qlink.queensu.ca> wrote:
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>Binesh Bannerjee (binesh@panix.com) wrote:
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>
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>: And noone has yet told me any tangible
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>: way that Paramount is getting hurt... I've heard "potential loss"
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>: I've heard "it's not the writers final draft" etc. etc, but no real
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>: way that Paramounts wallet is hurting... Certainly not per EACH
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>: copy that is made (cause I've heard about the 1% of the population
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>: who reads the script and says "I ain't paying to see that", which
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>: if Paramount counts that, they should bring libel suits against
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>: every reviewer also... Unless people tell me that reviewers all
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>: have to be registered with Paramount before they do a review.)
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>
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>The fact remains that under the copyright legislation Paramont does not
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>have to prove any loss. The original poster of the scipt violated the
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>law and any subsequent posters (whether or not they were the ones who
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>stole the script) are also in violation. Paramont's loss is irrelevant.
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>
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>However, if you do want to consider loss (say for example if Paramont was
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>to sue the poster of the script in tort), the amount of loss would only
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>be relevant to the amount of damages awarded. All Paramont would have to
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>prove to be awarded judgment would be some loss. All it would have to
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>prove is that one person who might have purchased the script or bought a
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>ticket to the movie did not do so because of the unauthorized
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>publication. AND, I think even YOU would have to agree that this would
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>be an easy thing for Paramont to do (I dare say that it might be the law
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>that Paramont would only have to prove potential loss, but I'm not
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>certain on that point and therefore do not assert it here).
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We just had a very nice summary of Copyright law posted over in the FRp
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situation (with cites, very authoratative.) It turns out that all
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Paramount has to prove is potential future loss, even in a market not yet
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opened. So, they can EASILY claim taht your illegal video tape copy is
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an impact on their eventual video-tape sales of this move, when and if
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they decide to release it.
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** FLAME ON
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This is ALL besides the point, however. Noone has to debate why ripping
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off a candy bvar is illegal, it is obvious. Similarly infringing a
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copyright- the right ot control how copies are made-- is an equally
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obvious thing. The only time the issue of specific damage comes up in an
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argument is from people who have a need to somehow justify their illegal
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activities.
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Frankly, I have more respect for the hardened criminal, who at least is
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genreally willign to ADMIT that he's antisocial, and doesnt care abotu
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other people.
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** FLAME OFF
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From: vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (Vince)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: PCMCIA SCSI Support/slackware questions
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 03:05:00 -0400
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Does Linux currently support PCMCIA SCSI Controllers? If so,
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which ones? and also, what's the best distribution for Linux and how
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much space does it take for the complete distribution. Any help would
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be apprecaited. Thanks in advance.
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P.S. How do I join the linux mailing lists and which lists are available?
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Cheers,
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Vince
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E-mail:
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vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu,\|/ Sys Adm - CircleStar Technologies,Inc.
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root@berkeley.circlestar.com,(o o) San Francisco, California USA
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_________________________oOO__(_)__OOo_____________________________
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| There are many forms of science but only physics is the quantum |
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| leap of the 21st Century. |
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\_________________________________________________________________/
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uPoy@physics.ucla.edu UCLA Physics
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Los Angeles, California USA
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GUS Digest Adminstrator
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Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The ultimate in soundcard technology
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree
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From: icqo409@iupui.edu (jon m)
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Date: 11 Oct 94 01:09:21 -0500
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In article <372tg0$1ai@huron.eel.ufl.edu>,
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Alexandra Griffin <acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu> wrote:
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> Well, you mentioned NextStep-- on second thought, something
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>similar to the wonderful NeXT Workspace Manager application would be
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>delightful to have. For those who have never seen it, this program
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well, don't wait, gfm (with the GREAT distribution) is VERY nice
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for the time being. shucks, i'd get all of GREAT if i had
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the space!
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>-- alex
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jon
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--
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jon madison
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oit consultant in training
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"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe
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in God." -anonymous, from a fortune program on one of my accounts. :)
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From: john@s96144.u96.stevens-tech.edu (John Iacono)
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Subject: Re: Curious: Why is Linux DOOM so much slower than DOS doom
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 04:07:02 GMT
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Guess who? (someone@s96120.u96.stevens-tech.edu) wrote:
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: Jeff Kesselman (jeffpk@netcom.com) wrote:
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: : In article <36ujf0$hvn@hacgate2.hac.com>, Ken Sorensen <ksore@atr-14> wrote:
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: : >Thomas Gschwind (tom@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
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: : >: Sujat Jamil (sujat@shasta.ee.umn.edu) wrote:
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: : >: : I'd really like to know why does Linux DOOM run significantly slower
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: : >: : on Linux than it does on DOS for the same machine. Is it because it
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: : >: : has to go through multiple layers of X and Linux? I've also played it
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: : >: : on a SGI workstation, where it is reasonably fast. Of course, the
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: : >: : machine also had a 150 MHz MIPS processor. Is there any way to
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: : >: : make doom run faster on Linux besides getting a faster machine?
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: One thing I've noticed--
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: It runs a HELUVA lot faster in XFree3.1 than it did in previous versions...
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Same here. Runs VERY slow until up fire up 3.1 and then it is comparable to
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dos.
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From: john@s96144.u96.stevens-tech.edu (John Iacono)
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Subject: Re: More on word processors... svgalib?
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 04:12:21 GMT
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Guess who? (someone@s96120.u96.stevens-tech.edu) wrote:
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: Just as a general question to all, how hard would it be to write a wysiwyg
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: word processor to use the svgalib instead of x? And can apps that use
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: svgalib be run remotely?
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=======HUGE SIG DELETED============
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One problem I see is that SVGAlib programs must be suid.
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From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
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Subject: Re: Frame Maker for Linux!
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 01:59:42 GMT
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mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:
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>That is not a floating license. It is locked to a single machine. The
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>retail price for the rest of us for such a version is $1000. Many sites,
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>our included, refuse to buy non-floating licenses. And most people cannot
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>get a heafty educational discount.
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We are an OEM so we can get good prices. Other times I think we can
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end up paying more than we should. Go figure.
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>> and at school we used to run the single on
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>>multiple machines all the time. No idea why.
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>That should not be possible. ANd in any case, it would be illegal to do
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>so (according to the license wording).
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#1) Don't bet on it being impossible. I know we found at least 5 major
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packages that had a hard time enforcing user limits.
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#2) Are you talking about those license that begin "By breaking this seal"?
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Last time I heard, shrink-wrap licenses were only valid in about 3
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states, illegal or void in the rest.
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>>floating licenses are a ripoff. I know people with more than one
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>>machine at home and it's stupid for them to not be able to log into
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>>either of them and run a program.
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>You have it backwards. A floating license will allow you to run it anywhere.
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No, I didn't have it backwards. I mean that people who cannot afford a
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floating license are forced to use only one of their machines and that
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makes no sense. If I buy another Linux box I would have to purchase
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another copy of /rdb and another copy of Motif to be legal. Sorry but I
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think that stinks. I can understand if it's for a company that will have
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many users but for me... if one machine is busy why should I have to wait?
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>Your cheap, $1000 node-locked version will NOT allow you to run it on
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>anything but a single machine or a single display on a single machine.
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And that sucks. I want to see UNIX software at the pricing level I can
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get for Windows software. Yesterday at CompUSA I could walk out with
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7 major business packages for under $200.
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Of course, I get by without them but I like some PC/Mac software out there
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and would love to see some cool games for UNIX.
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--
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csh
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shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux... that's it for the moment
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: brennan@metronet.com (Jared Brennan)
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Subject: Help (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware)
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 17:47:43 GMT
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silver.e@nudge.io.org (Eric Silver) writes:
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>2.) xmodem downloading adds a few hundred bytes to .joerc
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> and other xmodem file transfers.
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This is an xmodem problem that has existed as long as xmodem.
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The xmodem protocol does not include any information about the
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actual length of the file, and the blocks are fixed length, so
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the entire last block is stored, even if only one byte is used.
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>8.) No instructions in the manual on HOW to make Xwindows run from
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> hda1 without having the /system_cd mounted.
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This is in the errata, which you said you have.
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>9.) The networking component is mentioned in your install manual
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> (pg. 24) but is not available in the install_component list
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> nor is it mentioned in the errata file, nor does it install
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> properly from the Xwindows.
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Also in the errata.
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I had the same problems with the install and /system_cd, but figured
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them out before finding the errata. It wasn't that bad.
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Jared
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Jared J. Brennan brennan@metronet.com
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From: sujat@shasta.ee.umn.edu (Sujat Jamil)
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Subject: SPEC run on Linux?
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 02:08:09 GMT
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Does anyone know if anyone has run SPEC on Linux boxes? If so, what
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were the numbers like?
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It'd be very interesting to compare SPEC numbers on high-end x86
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machines running Linux with that of lower end workstations.
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Sujat
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Sujat Jamil | Electrical Engineering
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sujat@everest.ee.umn.edu | University of Minnesota
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PhD Student->Comp Arch & Parallel Proc|200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: WP Project --Info and Volunteers WANTED!!!
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 08:49:43 GMT
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In article <37scs1$nnl@nyx10.cs.du.edu> czito@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Cory Zito) writes:
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>
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>After following the discussions on WYSIWYG Word Processing I have decided
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>that its time to get together a development group to create such a beast.
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>
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>Right now I am looking for input on exactly what people are looking for
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>in a WYSIWYG WP, People who want to help out with the project, and other
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>things that people feel pertain to the project.
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>
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...
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Whatever you do... make sure that the "bread-text" is an ASCII-file.
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Take Ventura Publisher as an example: the text is in plain ASCII with
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markups. Bells and whistles were coded in 'parallel-files', but even
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these were in ASCII. If you had to travel, use a terminal or whatever,
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you could continue writing in the text-file and worry about the
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lay-out later. Also the Ventura-files were easily emailed, with or
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without the 'parallel-files'.
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Now if the Ventura markup-style could be exchanged for the LaTeX markups,
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you would have the best of both worlds.
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Paai.
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(BTW, as a reviewer for a computermagazine I've more or less seen
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everything that could be seen on the PC...
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From: wcreator@kaiwan.com (Steven M. Doyle)
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Subject: Re: What is Linux good for?
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 23:54:28 -0700
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In <SA073.469.2E9B3748@getty.onu.edu> SA073@getty.onu.edu (Daniel Woodard) writes:
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> I found this group today. How well does it do multitasking? Does it run
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>under Windows or DOS?
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Enlightenment is a good thing... :)
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Linux is a complete operating system, like Dos or OS/2, and unlike Windows. It
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does not run under dos or Windows or OS/2, but it can coexist with them, and
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programs are available or under development which will allow one to run
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Dos/Windows programs.
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Linux is a Unix variant, so if you are not versed in command-line interfaces,
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be ready for a challenge.
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Linux is not only multi-tasking, it is multi-user.
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I hope I covered the bases for you :)
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--
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| Steven Doyle, AKA World Creator | #include <std_disclaimer> |
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| Sysop, NETDimension (818)592-6279 | For information on Artificial Worlds |
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| wcreator@kaiwan.com | send email to wcreator@kaiwan.com for |
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| wcreator@axposf.pa.dec.com | an information package. |
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: john@ozlinkbbs.ozlink.brisnet.org.au (John Lemon)
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Subject: help setting up pcnfsd?
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 05:33:53 GMT
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I am tring to get pcnfsd running under slackware 2.0.0 with linux
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1.1.51. Can someone tell me what is needed in it's config files(?)
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or where to look that shows how? (the version in slackware 1.2 worked
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fine, but this version is newer/bigger and requires a config file?)
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john
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From: mikebat@babylon4.clark.net (Mike Batchelor)
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Subject: Mosaic Communications NetScape 0.9 beta released
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 09:53:53 -0400
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AND there is no port for Linux or FreeBSD. They have Windows, Mac, IRIX,
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OSF/1, HP/UX, SunOS, Solaris, AIX - but nothing for any free OS.
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(If you don't know, NetScape is the new WWW browser produced by the folks
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who left NCSA to start up a new company with the founder of SGI).
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Connect to http://www.mcom.com/, find the feedback form, and give them a
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piece of your mind. I find it really disappointing that they have chosen to
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ignore a huge part of the user base that has made their new product
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possible. Call 'em on it.
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<set sopabox mode off>
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M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net
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