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New SCO "fan" club
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 2 Comments

On 08 Aug 2003 19:59:38 GMT, TCS <The.Central.Scrutinizer@p.o.b.o.x.com> wrote: < snip > How do you know they haven't? The timing of all this is...suspicious. -- Tukla, Squeaker of Chew Toys

Linux uptime in msec
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On 11 Aug 2003 23:04:21 -0700, rasayani <vividh@hotmail.com> wrote: You cannot get microsec granularity with a 100 Hz clock tick. See Documentation/rtc.txt in kernel sources for more precise...

Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 9 Comments

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:07:13 +0200, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote: Michael, I wasn't replying to you. I meant my response for the person who commented about using MS to post...

Need help with ELF program segment question
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I'm trying to create executables with custom program segments. Specifically, I'm trying to make it possible to have an application running under CMU Common Lisp that comes in a single file. There...

[OT] Brother Linux, Wins are infected by a virus
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On 12 Aug 2003 10:54:11 -0700, james <jamescplus@hotmail.com> wrote: :-) Hell, Wins are infected with *Wins* !! Alan

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 13 August 2003 GNUbies: Joshua Birnbaum on TCP/IP
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

<blockquote from="official GNUbies announcement" edit-level="only two header lines removed"> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Gnubies this...

Linux newbie question
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 9 Comments

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 John Winters wrote: YEP. Learnt it. Thanks. V.

Dual-Boot RedHat 8 Partition Size
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 4 Comments

In article <bgoplc$aec$4@zippy.local>, Paul Black <news@saturnine.org.uk> wrote: Yes, it's primarily a BIOS restriction. Once the BIOS interface spec was upgraded the other programs involved...

Leak in pthread_create() -> pthead_cancel()
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 7 Comments

In article <3c4d10ba.0308110928.3eadb152@posting.google.com>, Nick Albion <nick.albion@sde.eu.sony.com> wrote: % I want to be able to create-use-cancel threads & should therefore % should not have...

Suggestion for CDR/W software for RH 7.2.
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 5 Comments

AverageJoe wrote: Really? I use k3b exclusively and it's doing a very good job for me. Ransom

Red Hat 8.0 install says I don't have enough space?
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Do a " Workstation" install, which needs about 2.6GB for root. Customize by omitting KDE if you wish; that just means that a KDE game (or other KDE app) won't run. Combined with 100MB for /boot and...

commercial shell account recommendation
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 1 Comments

"HDJ" <hdj8532@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:41b5841d.0308120524.473c1b91@posting.google.com... www.linode.com - started using them a month ago & I'm very impressed. gtoomey

Earn $500 to $700 per Week Downloading FREE Software 1UfL
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

We know it sounds TOO good to BE true, but it’s REAL! Our International Technology firm will pay you hard cash each time FREE software is downloaded. Best of all you will only have to download ONE...

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 August 2003 Lisp NYC: ROBOCUP and Lisp Outreach Planning
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

On Sunday 2 August 2003, at the Free Software Workshop in the Three Jewels, Kenny Tilton gave a fine but too short introduction to Lisp, using CMUCL in ILISP under Emacs on Debian GNU/Linux. Since...

Logging in an init.d script
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Jürgen Leeb wrote: "daemon" is not a binary executable. It is a bash function defined in /etc/init.d/functions, which gets sourced in to this script via the line: # Source function library. ....

creating a small iso image from a CD (never mind!)
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I wrote: Let me be the first to point out that this was a particularly dumb mistake: I'd missed that one number was in kilobytes, the other in bytes. Using sectors=0-146477 (=292954/2) gets the...

good motherboard w/ many IDE controllers
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 5 Comments

"Gregory Toomey" <NOSPAM@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:<bh5gv3$tusq2$1@ID-202028.news.uni-berlin.de>... Yes, I want lots of disk space. I want a system that has the best cost/GB ratio, while...

creating a small iso image from a CD
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

How do you get the iso image of a CD without copying all the unused data space? If you use readcd or dd, you always get an iso image of about 650MB, even if the CD contains less than a MB. While you...

Trashed partition table
Posted on August 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I've destroyed the partition table on /dev/hda on a dual-boot machine and am unable to access /home & /opt, which were on that drive, and the Windows OS plus data files which are on the VFAT...

TuxCds.com
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I didn't really know where to post this but I wanted to maybe warn others. I placed order number 11856 on 6/23/2003 with www.tuxcds.com and have not received the cd's. I have sent emails to...