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Re: [Wlug] Sharp's Linux PDA

by desdinova＠soupforare.net

On 10 Apr 2002, at 23:04, Mike Long wrote: > I am going through a back log of emails... the Zaurus (from Sharp) > rocks!!! It is a full linux operating system on a hand held device. > The number of apps available to it is growing by the day. It has a > full keyboard (small but usable) and many other nice features. When > you install vnc server on it you can get a really cool window on your > desktop to interact with the device. I've been wondering how difficult/how much code hacking is needed to compile stuff for it. Is there an emulator or something so I can play with it? I'd love to get one, especially if I could get NetHack/Zangband to run on it. ;) James KB1FJQ

April 11, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Sharp's Linux PDA

by Mike Long

I am going through a back log of emails... the Zaurus (from Sharp) rocks!!! It is a full linux operating system on a hand held device. The number of apps available to it is growing by the day. It has a full keyboard (small but usable) and many other nice features. When you install vnc server on it you can get a really cool window on your desktop to interact with the device. On Friday 22 March 2002 16:15, Marc Hughes wrote: > I got to play with one of these at linux world. I saw ssh working over > wireless networking on one of them... definatly linux, definatly cool. > > The interface is QT-Embeded, but you can find way more about it here: > > http://www.sharp-usa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,699,00.html > http://developer.sharpsec.com/ > > -Marc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen C. Daukas [mailto:stephen@daukas.com] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:13 PM > To: wlug(a)wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] Sharp's Linux PDA > > > > > I hear it runs "embedix", some embedded version of Linux... Anyone have > any particulars on this unit, roomers, hearsay, etc.? > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- Michael Long Sr. Database Engineer Phone: 978.729.3534 Email: mlong(a)datalong.com

April 11, 2002

Re: [Wlug] 3D and Laptop

by Scott Venier

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Robert L Krawitz wrote: > Have you succeeded in making it (8K, which is what I have too) > successfully resume from suspend with DRI turned on? If I turn on DRI > (using either XF 4.1 or 4.2), the machine will not successfully resume > from either suspend or hibernate to disk. I'm running SuSE 7.3. > I've got an Inspiron 7k, and in order to make it resume I need to switch to a virtual console (ctrl-alt-F1) before suspending. It works fine then. > Overall, I really like the 8K also. The fit and finish is a bit > subpar, and it's certainly a big, heavy machine, but in general it's > very stable. > I just wish it had better battery life. Scott

April 10, 2002

Re: [Wlug] 3D and Laptop

by Robert L Krawitz

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:42:38 -0400 From: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway(a)wpi.edu> I couldn't be more happy with my Dell Inspiron 8000 that I bought about 11 months ago (before the nVidia chipset was available, unfortunately). They now offer the choice between ATI or nVidia chipsets, and I couldn't speak more highly of Dell both for personal use and the large number we have at work. I'm using the 32MB version of the Rage 128 chipset, and it does DRI as well as I can expect it to, though I don't use it for much gaming beyond TuxRacer. My $0.02. Have you succeeded in making it (8K, which is what I have too) successfully resume from suspend with DRI turned on? If I turn on DRI (using either XF 4.1 or 4.2), the machine will not successfully resume from either suspend or hibernate to disk. I'm running SuSE 7.3. Overall, I really like the 8K also. The fit and finish is a bit subpar, and it's certainly a big, heavy machine, but in general it's very stable. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk(a)alum.mit.edu> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf(a)uunet.uu.net Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton

April 10, 2002

Re: [Wlug] 3D and Laptop

by Brian J. Conway

> Anyone have any recommendations for a linux laptop with 3D hardware > acceleration? I'm not particularly interested in the closed source > nvidia drivers so I'm leaning towards the Radeon 7500. I couldn't be more happy with my Dell Inspiron 8000 that I bought about 11 months ago (before the nVidia chipset was available, unfortunately). They now offer the choice between ATI or nVidia chipsets, and I couldn't speak more highly of Dell both for personal use and the large number we have at work. I'm using the 32MB version of the Rage 128 chipset, and it does DRI as well as I can expect it to, though I don't use it for much gaming beyond TuxRacer. My $0.02. Brian J. Conway bconway(a)wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

April 10, 2002

3D and Laptop

by Dennis Payne

Anyone have any recommendations for a linux laptop with 3D hardware acceleration? I'm not particularly interested in the closed source nvidia drivers so I'm leaning towards the Radeon 7500. Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com

April 10, 2002

REMINDER: Upcoming WLUG meeting

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting which will be held this coming Thursday, April 11th, at 7 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA. At this meeting, WLUG member Tim Keller will describe to us a problem he had with Linux and how he chose to modify his copy of the Linux kernel to add a new signal to solve the problem. This talk will cover some kernel internals and programming. A more detailed abstract can be found on the WLUG website. There will be a raffle as well. Addison Wesley sent me a copy of a book entitled "Embedded Linux - Hardware, Software, and Interfacing" which I'll give to the lucky raffle winner. There is no cost to be in the raffle. I'd also like to entertain a discussion regarding content for future meetings. Here are some thoughts which I had: a) bakeoff between VMware, Win4Lin, and Bochs b) KDE3 c) representative from FSF to discuss GPL and free software d) Maddog e) SuSE 8.0 Please think about this and bring your thoughts to the meeting. If you're bashful or unable to attend the meeting, send them to me via e-mail. Afterwards, we'll make our ever popular pilgrimage to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer, good Linux talk, bashing of evil empires, and the like. We always have a great time so if you've never joined us after a meeting, now would be a good time to start! See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

April 9, 2002

Re: Wlug digest, Vol 1 #292 - 2 msgs

by JRame17173＠aol.com

Please be advised, my e-mail address has changed. It is now rame620(a)charter.net. Thanks, Jim

April 9, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux and NTFS on XP

by Michael Frysinger

ntfs read support is in the kernel ... as for write support it exists but i have never used it. i use ntfs read support all the time w/out a prob -mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <jfmurphy(a)charter.net> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 18:50 Subject: [Wlug] Linux and NTFS on XP > In Linux dual boot systems you can mount the Win98 side drive to read > and write using vfat. Question, if you run Win2000 or XP with a NTFS > type file system can you still access the drives from the Linux side. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 9, 2002

Linux and NTFS on XP

by John

In Linux dual boot systems you can mount the Win98 side drive to read and write using vfat. Question, if you run Win2000 or XP with a NTFS type file system can you still access the drives from the Linux side.

April 8, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > Hah... too bad in my industry, incompetence is pretty common. And > the more incompetent, the more likely you are to be promoted. So > the most incompetent ones are the ones I can't afford to ignore. ;) "The opinions of expressed are not the opinions of my employer" =) But yeah, I can see what you mean. :) -- Josh Huber

April 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Chuck Homic

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:01:11PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > Yeah, I guess I look at it a different way -- if they're too > incompetent to hit "reply" in their email client, I probably don't > want to talk to them anyway... Hah... too bad in my industry, incompetence is pretty common. And the more incompetent, the more likely you are to be promoted. So the most incompetent ones are the ones I can't afford to ignore. ;) > With TMDA you can use the tmda-pending utility to show a list of > messages which are unconfirmed. Some people seem to like having cron > send them a daily list of messages in the unconfirmed list. (or, > perhaps a list of new messages in the pending directory...) That's a good point. If I don't want to make people reply to confirmation messages, I could simply run a whitelist by default, /dev/null all the blacklisted items, and inspect the "purgatory" spool once a week or so to update both lists. -Chuck

April 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > TMDA looks interesting, but despite all the propaganda for > whitelist-only, I really don't want to risk losing a contact because > someone didn't understand, or bother to reply to the autogenerated > response. Yeah, I guess I look at it a different way -- if they're too incompetent to hit "reply" in their email client, I probably don't want to talk to them anyway... > As it is now, my junk is routed to a junk spool that I check on a > somewhat-weekly basis, just to make sure I didn't accidentally junk > a message from a potential customer, or other business contact > that's just lame enough to send a spam-looking message from his > Yahoo account. (Yeah, it happens!!) With TMDA you can use the tmda-pending utility to show a list of messages which are unconfirmed. Some people seem to like having cron send them a daily list of messages in the unconfirmed list. (or, perhaps a list of new messages in the pending directory...) So, it's not like you never get the chance to see the message. You can look in the list and say, oh...release that message for me. (etc.) > Spamassassin looks cool, but I don't admin the machine where my mail > is processed, so it may be a while before I can set that up. ;) > (It's actually a Redhat 5.1 system that hasn't been touched since > Redhat 5.1 was brand new. We've only installed security upgrades.) Yeah, I haven't tried it, but I've also heard good things about spamassassin. ttyl, -- Josh Huber

April 6, 2002

Redundant Mail....

by wlug＠beakerware.net

I couldn't think of a better way of phrasing it. I'm running Courier for incoming SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and webmail. The mail itself is stored using Maildirs in user's home directory. Short of running something like rsync between my primary box and backup, is their any good way of getting redundancy into the picture here? I already have the backup box setup as a relay in case the primary goes down, but that doesn't make the mail any closer to the user.... -mike

April 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Chuck Homic

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:01:21PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > > Anyway, is anyone using (or know of) a freely-queriable RBL? > > Although it's fun to upgrade the keyword filter, it would be easier > > if I only had to do it for exceptions. > > Hmm, dunno about a RBL, but TMDA is really cool...perhaps you should > check it out? > > http://tmda.sf.net/ TMDA looks interesting, but despite all the propaganda for whitelist-only, I really don't want to risk losing a contact because someone didn't understand, or bother to reply to the autogenerated response. As it is now, my junk is routed to a junk spool that I check on a somewhat-weekly basis, just to make sure I didn't accidentally junk a message from a potential customer, or other business contact that's just lame enough to send a spam-looking message from his Yahoo account. (Yeah, it happens!!) Spamassassin looks cool, but I don't admin the machine where my mail is processed, so it may be a while before I can set that up. ;) (It's actually a Redhat 5.1 system that hasn't been touched since Redhat 5.1 was brand new. We've only installed security upgrades.) But I did find mention of ordb.org on the spamassassin web site, which has solved my immediate problem. ;) > > BTW, for the curious, my daily haul of junk mail varies from 20 to > > 40 messages. Can anyone beat that? > > Hmm, that's about what I get. Lately I've been getting a lot of > chinese spam with unreadable subject/body, which is interesting. Korean, for me. Odd. -Chuck

April 5, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Problems dropping telnet sessions

by doug waud

Hi all Josh Huber wrote: > > "Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > > > Try ipchains -L too, since you might have an ipchains based firewall. > > I doubt it, since he's running 2.4.10... > > Of course, it's possible, but I doubt SuSE would ship a firewall setup > with 2.4.x, and use the compatibility module for ipchains... I have SuSE 7.2 and I get a response to ipchains -L but not to iptables -L :-) (uname -r gives 2.4.4-4GB) SuSE supplies two firewalls, a personal one (a quickie, basically just masquerading) and "SuSE firewall". The latter is configured via a file /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config which has this line Note: For 2.4 kernels, you need to have ipchains support enabled. in the comments section. So Chuck's instincts seem well-based. In SuSE's defense, this is back at 2.4.4 kernel which, I gather, was not quite ready for prime time even with the ipchains modules. Also SuSe does not claim to hand-hold for firewall stuff; you have to pay extra for that >-) doug PS My spell-checker thinks "firewall" might be "fireball" :-)

April 5, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > Anyway, is anyone using (or know of) a freely-queriable RBL? > Although it's fun to upgrade the keyword filter, it would be easier > if I only had to do it for exceptions. Hmm, dunno about a RBL, but TMDA is really cool...perhaps you should check it out? http://tmda.sf.net/ > BTW, for the curious, my daily haul of junk mail varies from 20 to > 40 messages. Can anyone beat that? Hmm, that's about what I get. Lately I've been getting a lot of chinese spam with unreadable subject/body, which is interesting. ttyl, -- Josh Huber

April 5, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Problems dropping telnet sessions

by Josh Huber

"Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > Try ipchains -L too, since you might have an ipchains based firewall. I doubt it, since he's running 2.4.10... Of course, it's possible, but I doubt SuSE would ship a firewall setup with 2.4.x, and use the compatibility module for ipchains... > Maybe the TCP timers are different on Linux? They are in > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp*. Perhaps... I would think the firewall would only timeout connections which are being masq'd and run through connection tracking...and in that case, I thought the default timeout was pretty high. try iptables -t nat -L to see what's going on there. -- Josh Huber

April 5, 2002

RE: [Wlug] next meeting

by Keller, Tim

Yup, actually I'm doing a presentation on writing a system call for the linux kernel. Speaking of which, I need to get back to working on my presentation... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Venier [mailto:scott@scooter.cx] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:23 AM To: 'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org' Subject: RE: [Wlug] next meeting Any chance we have a topic yet? Scott On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Keller, Tim wrote: > Yup, at last check the 11th is still on! > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Goblaskas, Dana [mailto:goblaskasd@grafton.k12.ma.us] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:18 AM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] next meeting > > > Hello, > > I just wanted to check if the meeting for April 11th is > still on. I have a few students in a computer science > independent study who are interested in attending. If the > meeting is still going to take place 4/11 at 7:00pm, please > e-mail me back and let me know. > > Thank you! > > Dana > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 5, 2002

RE: [Wlug] next meeting

by Scott Venier

Any chance we have a topic yet? Scott On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Keller, Tim wrote: > Yup, at last check the 11th is still on! > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Goblaskas, Dana [mailto:goblaskasd@grafton.k12.ma.us] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:18 AM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] next meeting > > > Hello, > > I just wanted to check if the meeting for April 11th is > still on. I have a few students in a computer science > independent study who are interested in attending. If the > meeting is still going to take place 4/11 at 7:00pm, please > e-mail me back and let me know. > > Thank you! > > Dana > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 5, 2002

RE: [Wlug] next meeting

by Keller, Tim

Yup, at last check the 11th is still on! Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Goblaskas, Dana [mailto:goblaskasd@grafton.k12.ma.us] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:18 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] next meeting Hello, I just wanted to check if the meeting for April 11th is still on. I have a few students in a computer science independent study who are interested in attending. If the meeting is still going to take place 4/11 at 7:00pm, please e-mail me back and let me know. Thank you! Dana _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 5, 2002

next meeting

by Goblaskas, Dana

Hello, I just wanted to check if the meeting for April 11th is still on. I have a few students in a computer science independent study who are interested in attending. If the meeting is still going to take place 4/11 at 7:00pm, please e-mail me back and let me know. Thank you! Dana

April 5, 2002

RE: [Wlug] CPU & Bad NFS Question

by Marc Hughes

Also, forgot to mention it ... any ideas on how to make this not happen in the first place? -Marc -----Original Message----- From: Marc Hughes Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:11 PM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] CPU & Bad NFS Question So yesterday I had an nfs mount go bad (thought it would be a great idea to just use nfs for a few minutes to do some file comparisons across machines) .. And since then the CPU utilizaion on the machine has been pegged out. The machine still is very responsive. When the mount went bad ... I couldn't do anything with any process that was using anything on that volume. I tried a bunch of stuff, but eventually just shut down NFS (so the processes got an I/O error and died) and did an "umount -f" on that volume. Any ideas on how to make this better? -Marc CPU0 states: 14.0% user, 85.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle CPU1 states: 50.0% user, 50.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 1048088K av, 1023836K used, 24252K free, 0K shrd, 45404K buff Swap: 1052248K av, 148K used, 1052100K free 763964K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 20099 hughesm 16 0 940 940 696 3 R 2.6 0.0 0:00 top 20074 root 2 0 1716 1704 1188 2 S 0.3 0.1 0:00 sshd 1 root 0 0 484 484 408 3 S 0.0 0.0 2:31 init 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 0:18 kflushd 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 9:22 kupdate 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 9:00 kswapd _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 4, 2002

CPU & Bad NFS Question

by Marc Hughes

So yesterday I had an nfs mount go bad (thought it would be a great idea to just use nfs for a few minutes to do some file comparisons across machines) .. And since then the CPU utilizaion on the machine has been pegged out. The machine still is very responsive. When the mount went bad ... I couldn't do anything with any process that was using anything on that volume. I tried a bunch of stuff, but eventually just shut down NFS (so the processes got an I/O error and died) and did an "umount -f" on that volume. Any ideas on how to make this better? -Marc CPU0 states: 14.0% user, 85.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle CPU1 states: 50.0% user, 50.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 1048088K av, 1023836K used, 24252K free, 0K shrd, 45404K buff Swap: 1052248K av, 148K used, 1052100K free 763964K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 20099 hughesm 16 0 940 940 696 3 R 2.6 0.0 0:00 top 20074 root 2 0 1716 1704 1188 2 S 0.3 0.1 0:00 sshd 1 root 0 0 484 484 408 3 S 0.0 0.0 2:31 init 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 0:18 kflushd 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 9:22 kupdate 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 9:00 kswapd

April 4, 2002

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by eyou321

April 4, 2002