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Memory issues
by Michael Long 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Is there a way to reserve a block of memory when starting realaudio. I have noticed that when my system is running out of free memory the audio quality goes to sh*t as the open application fight over resources. Mike total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 24760 236908 0 5472 6712 -/+ buffers/cache: 12576 249092 Swap: 136512 0 136512 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 159788 101880 0 6396 73424 -/+ buffers/cache: 79968 181700 Swap: 136512 0 136512 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 93128 168540 0 6632 73600 -/+ buffers/cache: 12896 248772 Swap: 136512 0 136512

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Player Question
by gwlt＠ma.ultranet.com 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Newbie looking for quick suggestions. In search of a good media player that operates in Linux and can play either (preferably) RealMedia, or (sadly) WindowsMedia formats. Any suggestions? Sorry for this ultrasimplistic question. Colin

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Free Kylix Seminar
by Al Reinhart 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

FYI: Free Borland Kylix Seminar In appreciation of your support and enthusiasm for Kylix(TM) we are now pleased to offer our Kylix seminars completely free! Register Now by calling 1-800-255-4388 or visit our web site: http://www.borland.com/events/seminars/kylix Pre-registration is required as seating is limited. Each seminar attendee will receive a $50 coupon good towards the purchase of any Kylix product. For the seminar agenda and schedule, or to register to attend, go to: http://www.borland.com/events/seminars/kylix ------------------------------------------ Al Reinhart Delphi Developers Group of Greater Boston Web Site: www.DisCom.com/Delphi Phone: (508)869-6417

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Re: [Wlug] old PCs
by Jeffry Smith 13 Feb '01

13 Feb '01

Bill Mills-Curran said: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Leon Do wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:04:16 -0500 > > From: Leon Do <leondo(a)lucent.com> > > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > Subject: [Wlug] old PCs > > > > I need some suggestion of what I can do with my 5 old PCs(133MH,16MB or > > 32M RAM , 859MB Disk). > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Leon Do > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > Leon, > > I'm glad you asked... > > <start charity opportunity message> :-) > > You may have read in a recent Boston Globe about Sudanese teenagers > who are being hosted by an organization in the US. (Forgive this and > future vagueness -- my wife has more accurate info.) These are kids > who have grown up without home or family, roaming in groups of kids > around Africa. > > To make a long story short, some of these kids are here in MA and are > in homes, some of which do not have computers. These kids need some > computers to do their homework. > > Clearly, these kids are NOT techno-geeks, so Linux is probably not a > good thing for them to start with. (I hate windows too, but these > kids need something that is "standard" for school work.) Actually, I suspect setting up the system with SO5.2, with everything preloaded, would work as well as anything else, and would not be subject to corruption that Win95/98 has (i.e. user can't kill critical files, without root access). Also not subject to Windows Registry bit-rot. And not require licensing fees (remember, that Windows / Office is NOT free, and I always encourage paying of licensing fees, following of copyright, etc). Another item is that NH currently has a program that takes old computers, has the prisoners at Concord rebuild them into Linux servers, and donates them to charities for servers / workstations. Contact is bobnhlinux(a)aol.com (Bob Sparks). jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux smith(a)missioncriticallinux.com phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: YA- abbrev. [Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to Yet Another, following the precedent set by Unix yacc(1) (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler). See YABA.

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Installees for installfest...
by Keller, Tim 08 Feb '01

08 Feb '01

Hey Everybody, If your planning on being an "Installer" could you send me an email letting me know so I can have an accurate count (and so I can print you a nifty name tag) Thanks, Tim.

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attaching processes
by Brad Noyes 06 Feb '01

06 Feb '01

Hi, I was trying to find a way to attach a process to the shell's job list with no luck. I wanted to be able to bring a running process into the foreground of a shell session that didn't start the process. The closet command that i could find was the disown command for bash, which does the opposite of what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a bash (or any other shell) command that will let you bring a processes into the foreground of a shell, which is not the original parent of the process? Thanks, --Brad

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WLUG mail server crash
by Frank Sweetser 06 Feb '01

06 Feb '01

Hello all - Over the weekend, the machine that serves as the WLUG mail had a major hard drive crash. As a result, the working copy of the WLUG mailing list is now a fine black powder floating around the inside of the hard drive case. While the list has been restored from a backup copy, this has caused a few changes: - since it was a slightly older copy, a few people who have unsubscribed may be back on, and vice versa. you can go to http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug to fix this. - all preferences and passwords have been reset. same page as above to fix this. - the URLs have changed slightly - the .cgi portion has been removed (Rob - can you fix this on the WLUG web page, please?) Other than that, everything should be back to normal. Please feel free to email me if you have any problems, questions, etc. -- Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 14 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking... -- Larry Wall in <199710291922.LAA07101(a)wall.org>

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RE: reply to monitor request Wlug digest, Vol 1 #639 - 3 msgs
by Walter F. Doyle 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Hi: How does $15 sound. Call Jeff at 508-831-7455 on Monday we have about 30 monitors to choose from!! Walter Doyle -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:01 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Wlug digest, Vol 1 #639 - 3 msgs Send Wlug mailing list submissions to wlug(a)mail.wlug.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org You can reach the person managing the list at wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Linux job opportunity (Andy Stewart) 2. Hard drive crashed! (Andy Stewart) 3. Wanted: Used monitor (Andy Stewart) --__--__-- Message: 1 charset="us-ascii" From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> Organization: Worcester Linux Users' Group To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:35:31 -0400 Subject: [Wlug] Linux job opportunity Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org HI Everybody, Here is a job opportunity that was recently sent to me. If interested, please don't reply to the list or to me, but to the recruiter named below. Helene Fitch Friedlander HR Representative * (978) 461-7148 Fax (978) 461-3720 * helene.fitch(a)stratus.com S T R A T U S T E C H N O L O G I E S Code 03-076 & 03-075 Job Title Software Engineer III (Linux) Occupation Software Engineering Location Maynard, MA Description Will participate as a member of a small team of engineers working on the development and support of a Fault Tolerant version of Linux that runs on Stratus' Fault Tolerant IA32 HW. The work will be focused on 1) participating in the ongoing new development efforts to keep current with the latest versions Linux, 2) port our FT Linux to the latest Stratus HW platforms, 3)the productionization of our FT Linux SW and 4) providing support to Stratus' existing Technology Partners (i.e. - bugs fixes). The areas that we have made and continue to make modifications in Linux include providing for SCSI and PCI hot-plug support (including surprise removal of devices), overall hardening of a select set of Linux device drivers to adapt them for Stratus' Fault Tolerant environment and making Linux work with Stratus' FT Hardware. Experience 6+ years of Software development experience with at least 2+ years in Linux/Unix software development, including systems level Linux development. Ability to switch gears quickly and work on multiple problems simultaneously, Strong communication skills essential. Ability to work well within a team environment required. Must have Linux kernel development and/or device driver development. Experience in Linux SCSI a major plus. BSCS/BSEE or equivalent experience -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org --__--__-- Message: 2 charset="us-ascii" From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> Organization: Worcester Linux Users' Group To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:28:18 -0400 Subject: [Wlug] Hard drive crashed! Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org HI everybody, I've been out of touch all week due to a catastrophic hard drive failure. My hard drive is only 1.5 years old and its an IBM Ultrastar 18 GB SCSI drive with a 5 year warranty. IBM/Hitachi will be getting it back assuming it fails their diags, which I have to run as a prerequisite to getting an RMA. Naturally, they are DOS based diags. They have incredibly fussy rules about packing the drive for shipment, lest one voids one's warranty (say that three times fast). Believe it or not, it died while I was doing the tape backup!! I lost about 1 weeks worth of Quicken transactions and the photos from my sister's wedding (which I can recover from CDs previously burned for other family members). I got lucky. The moral of the story is: Make sure you do your backups! This is the 2nd hard drive that I've lost in the last 12 months (the first one was over 5 years old). Or, just run most of your machines as LTSP clients and don't worry about disks..... :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org --__--__-- Message: 3 charset="us-ascii" From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> Organization: Worcester Linux Users' Group To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:54:55 -0400 Subject: [Wlug] Wanted: Used monitor Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Hi everybody, I'm looking for a used monitor as a spare for my basement lab bench: 14" or 15" Multi sync Capable of at least 1024x768 at 72 Hz (or better) Relatively good cosmetic condition Excellent working condition Cheap(!) If you have something which might interest me, contact me directly and we can negotiate. Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug End of Wlug Digest_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Upcoming meeting: Wed, Sept. 10th, 7:00 PM
by Andy Stewart 08 Jan '00

08 Jan '00

HI everybody, Our next meeting shall be held in Kinnicutt Hall on the WPI campus on Wednesday, September 10th, at 7:00 PM. Note that this location is not the same as last month. This is the room that we generally use for our meetings. At this meeting, the topic will be "An Introduction to Linux for Newcomers", and the intended audience is people who do not know much (if anything) about Linux, but do have experience with computers and perhaps Windows. I'll prepare some slides and discuss the following topics (and perhaps more): o What is Linux? o Origins of Linux o Software licensing o Computer requirements (memory, disk space, etc) o How to obtain a copy of Linux o How to "test drive" Linux without messing up my computer o More... o Q/A session during the meeting and afterwards o Demo of a single CD version of Linux which won't modify your existing files on the C: drive o Giveaway: copies of a single CD version of Linux (probably Knoppix and/or Suse Live Eval - can somebody help me burn a few copies?) Bring your friends - let's see if we can get them to at least "kick the tires" on Linux. After the meeting, we'll adjourn to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. See ya there! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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2 admin questions.
by Bill Mills-Curran 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

OS: Red Hat 9 Q1: sendmail... I have my sendmail configured to masquerade my outgoing email with my cable ISP's domain (charter.net) However, I have not found out how to convert my local username to the username I have at my ISP. Any ideas? BTW, I've configured Pine just fine for this. I'd just like take the extra step and have sendmail take care of all mailer utilities. Q2: CUPS... What's the best/right way to upgrade from LPRng to CUPS? I understand that HP printers work better under CUPS. True or False? TIA, Bill

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