Try the fix that is listed in the support pages of redhat's site.. (not too easy to find, had to bump and grind on Deja for a while..)
The following info can be found at: http://customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql/ xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?p_id=316
Product Description Red Hat Linux 6.0/Intel Problem Description: I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Netscape keeps crashing when I reach a page with java applets in it. I have also notices that some of my applications do not display fonts correctly, what is going on?
Resolution Description: There is a problem in one of the installation RPMS that is causing many systems to not have a complete list of fontpath for X to use.
To see if this is the problem you are facing, please use the command:
chkfontpath --list
You should get output that looks like the following:
I completely agree to this philosophy.. Nature's way of adaptivity to new environments is it's ability to mutate.. People freak out when they see the word "mutation" but it's really the most normal adaption technique nature has..
For instance, over the next 100 years, we are expected to lose our pinky toe.. Why? Cuz to be honest we don't need it.. As we geneticly broke away from the apes, who need all the toes for grabbing on to things, it became less of a need, and therefore, it's slowly being bred out... It will become more and more common until it is the "normal" and 5 toed people are the minority...
This is a very slippery slope, when you start narrowing your gene pool, you invite new strains of harder to fight bacteria and disesase, why the uprise in polio and malaria? The vaccines that we use have made our genes "used" to that strain, so ofcourse nature comes in and spanks us upside the head with stronger strains resistant to what we thought was the "almighty fix"..
We invite disaster by setting standards as to what we expect from nature, and not allowing for natural defenses to try and fix it first.
This is an issue that I 've been pondering for a while now, and I'm glad it has been brought up.
The net started out as most things do, a pure innocent with great potential. You had the wondefully easy exchange of information. The creators never anticipated the almost roman empiresque whoring of an entire medium of information exchange. But this isn't something new to the human race, take the following:
The automobile - Designed for the ease of transportation, but never in the wildest dreams did they
forsee the killing of 16,000+ people a year in drunk driving accidents, or it's use in drive by shootings drug deals, road rage...
CFCs - Designed for easy propellant of liquids such as hair spray, etc.. Didn't see it coming that it would rip the ozone a new round one.
Nuclear Physics - Einstein, one of the greatest men in the world... Created the formula that led to the killing of millions of people in Japan, but also almost unlimited power.
It in the nature of humans to create. Sometimes they DO check themselves to see if what they are doing might have some consequences, but more time then not you can dream up all the side effects of a creation.
The problem with the net is not only is it new, but in all it's smaller subcatagories of usability and new media it allows for RAMPANT disregard of moral and ethical values. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad.
You have to look at it in an individualistic nature. The net doesn't make bad people do bad things, people who are bad do bad things. People see an opportunities to do something new, and the don't question the "Well, is this right?" They just do it. When porn came to the internet, it wasn't the nets fault, it was unregulated, and rightfully so, but people saw a chance to take this new medium that has global reaches and let them do what they want to do. Porn, music piracy, warez.. You name it.. The anarchy like nature of the net is a true test of that philosophy... Will people, left to their own devices, do the right thing.. We would all like to say yes... But really the answer is an unappealing greyish of Yes and No's...
Most people won't steal cars, but those same people have NO issues with stealing software. Why? Because they know that for the most part, they won't get caught, or they are "sticking it to the man".. It doesn't matter what justification you give it, it's just human nature. The roman empire was like that...
Back in the day of the flurishment of the Roman Empire, it may have been a "democracy", but really only in name. The net is like the roman empire, only much much bigger, and moving much much faster, an anarchy that attempts to feign democractic ideals.
I personally love MP3's.. I have 3500 of them. I know that this is the intellectual property of artists, and if they came to my door personally, I would glady give them what they wanted for their songs. But they won't... And I'm left with the option of paying the music-industry, a corporate pimp with no soul to speak of, or just pirating the songs... Well at first I questioned it.. Until I read some articles by artists who songs I had that said they believe in the MP3 movement, they ofcourse need to get paid, but what they are getting taken for from the Music Industry leads them to believe that MP3's will allow artists a better medium to spread their music and culture and ideas, and then from there you can gain more levereage with a label, or just do the label yourself.
If we are going to look at the lack of morals on the net we all have to look at ourselves because we are the ones using the net, looking at the porn, pirating software, downloading the mp3s.....
The ONLY difference between the net, and the larger world is that the net doens't have policemen. The net doesn't have obvious consequences for immoral or unethical actions for the most part, and I doubt it never will, and the only chance we have a moral and ethical net is a fundemental belief change on the part of every human in the world. I don't see that happening. My suggestion is batten down your hatches, and get used to it.
It's at this point that I would suggest we start figuring out who is actually responsible for proofing these applications. This is almost like the IRS sillyness that eventually led to that whole department be supposedly revamped. How many more of these "I invented the wheel" broadband patents are we going to see before someone takes serious action.
Looking at the various content of the different "ANTI" Anti-online sites, and AntiOnline itself, looking up personal information on the people involved, it seems simply - Childish. How old is JP? If he was a underclassmen in High School in 96, it's reasonable to assume he is just starting college or is a senior in High School.. If anything this just leads one to ponder the overall maturity level of JP.. "Attack me and I harrass you.." and then to do something as silly as go up against MSNBC, who, I'm sorry to say, have a whole department of Lawyers.. In a real lawsuit, who do you think would win? It's really just immature and silly.
We here in WI have just recently gotten the promise of the vast wonderful Oz like creation of DSL from a company called Dakota.
Up until I moved recently, I had ISDN, it was a solid 128kb, and I could serve some minor stuff off of it. Then I moved into an apartment that already had an ISDN jack and line.. You would think that Ameritech would easily be able to switch it on and keep me flying.. No, it would take 3 weeks and $113 dollars to come out to have him say, "Yep, that's a jack.." and call someone to flip a switch.
At that point our local ISP was offering DSL and I decided to give it a try. I had to sell my ISDN router in order to pay for the install, and I didn't make much back on it, not to mention that the router was only a few months old.
It was expensive, but that was because 99% of the overhead went back to Dakota. I made arrangements and made sure that my address was in their "Local DSL" area.. They confirmed it and I was set to have it installed..
A month goes by with me checking in and the ISP saying Dakota is still sitting on it, and ofcourse I can't talk to Dakota. They tell me that they had to lower the length of their "Local DSL" area down to 1.4 miles, I was originally at their 2 mile mark. So now I'm in "Extended DSL" range which will take longer. I'm starting to think just getting ISDN would be been the solution.
Another month goes by with screaming now and they finally find that the firmware on the bridges crashes the multi-plexors at the switch.. So now there will be NO extended DSL until they fix the firmware bug, which conservatively speaking they said a few months.
If your in the Milwaukee area and thinking about DSL, if your in the "Extended" range forget it. I've had nothing but a nightmare experience with DSL, and now I'm waiting for a refund, and will never ever recommend anyone go with Dakota again.
I don't blame the local ISP's with the problem of DSL, typically it is the provider of the DSL trying to offer a service that hasn't been tested, and overselling before it's even viable. If this is any indication of how highspeed access is going to come into the US, be prepare for a long long haul.
The following is my response to the Littleton massacre. A horrible event that could of been prevented. But the public system was too blind to see it coming:
I am 22, and since the age of 4 I've been a Geek. All through grade school I was considered a thug because of the people I hung out with people who liked to think, rationalize things, and for that I was an outcast along with them. I developed a horrible temper, and was sent to the principal on a regular basis because I wouldn't take the insults. And this was just 4th and 5th grade.
Then came middle school, I saw the anger I had, which was the same anger my father had, was killing him, and would kill me too if I didn't try and control it. It took months of work on my self to bring myself to a level where the insults and ridicule wouldn't trigger the rage against people who saw me as a freak because I like chemistry, math, computers, and Star Wars.
But this if ofcourse didn't stop anything. In fact, it only made it worse because now I would "take it". In the 7th grade it got to the point where I had to switch schools. My father had divorced my mother and moved to the suburbs. I can't describe the nightmare of that year. In a world where you had to be a jock, or cheerleader in order to not be slammed as a nerd, it was straight out of the movie "Disturbing Behavior". I was supposed to go to the local highschool after that, but I moved back with my mother in the city, where there was at least more people who thought on my same level. I would of rather died then stayed in the suburb where I was. They threaten to take me back, I threatened to run away, never to return, and showed them the bus ticket to prove it.
Ah yes. High school. The most patheticly egotistic and superficial institution I know of. My freshman year was just as bad as 8th grade, only at least here I had a group of fellow geeks to lean on. Nerd, Geek, Dork, you name it I was called it. That was until an honest accident in high-school.
I was mixing two chemicals to study air pressure in a contained blast, for a science project, the teacher knew about it. I forgot that the vent fan wasn't on so it was basicly a big contained box. I blew up the chemical shield that the compound was contained in. In a full class of 40 kids, the room was cleared in 10 seconds. They refused to come back in with me in the room. I was given a suspension, and was told that if anyone wanted a bomb from me, I was to report them immediately.
After this I was never ever bothered again. The people who once thought of me as a freak, thought of me as now a dangerous people who could snap at anytime. They left me alone, and my friends and I who knew that I wouldn't hurt anyone, laughed, and were also saddened that it took an accident and the fear of me the "Crazy bomb making psycho" to finally make the cruelty stop.
My sophmore year I met my wife, online, and she supported my "crazyness" my irrational "curiosity" and now I'm a programmer and system administrator at the midwests largest private ISP.
What the Littleton kids did was horrible. But not surprizing. My hearts go out to the families of the people who died. But we need to look at the social struture of our schools. They can be segregated and twisted environments, which lead to twisted individuals who no longer see the value in life. Individuals who won't control the rage, and have no support system to vent it.
And then you have Littleton.
To those in school who see this situation as their own, you have to take heart. With places like Slashdot, you have a vent. You have a culture that accepts you are on the net. Life gets much better after high-school. Find people who you share the same ideas with, and who you can be creative with. Don't get isolated. Find your kind. They ARE out there. The net makes it much easier for us to find eachother. And when the Jocks the people who find our curiosity dangerous and offensive are 30 years old with beer guts, watching re-runs of "All in the Family" wondering why the NFL hasn't called, you can laugh from your leather chair in your office knowing that for all your suffering, it paid off.
Slashdot Mirror
Try the fix that is listed in the support pages of redhat's site.. (not too easy to find, had to bump and grind on Deja for a while..)
/ xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?p_id=316
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
/ unix-4.6.html#unix
The following info can be found at: http://customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql
Product Description Red Hat Linux 6.0/Intel
Problem Description:
I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Netscape keeps crashing when I reach a page with java applets in it. I have also notices that some of my applications do not display fonts correctly, what is going on?
Resolution Description:
There is a problem in one of the installation RPMS that is causing many systems to not have a complete list of fontpath for X to use.
To see if this is the problem you are facing, please use the command:
chkfontpath --list
You should get output that looks like the following:
Current directories in font path:
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
You should then add the 75dpi scaled font to your path list using the command:
chkfontpath --add
This should fix the problem you are seeing.. However, if problems persist, check the following as well:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.6/relnotes
I completely agree to this philosophy.. Nature's way of adaptivity to new environments is it's ability to mutate.. People freak out when they see the word "mutation" but it's really the most normal adaption technique nature has..
For instance, over the next 100 years, we are expected to lose our pinky toe.. Why? Cuz to be honest we don't need it.. As we geneticly broke away from the apes, who need all the toes for grabbing on to things, it became less of a need, and therefore, it's slowly being bred out... It will become more and more common until it is the "normal" and 5 toed people are the minority...
This is a very slippery slope, when you start narrowing your gene pool, you invite new strains of harder to fight bacteria and disesase, why the uprise in polio and malaria? The vaccines that we use have made our genes "used" to that strain, so ofcourse nature comes in and spanks us upside the head with stronger strains resistant to what we thought was the "almighty fix"..
We invite disaster by setting standards as to what we expect from nature, and not allowing for natural defenses to try and fix it first.
The net started out as most things do, a pure innocent with great potential. You had the wondefully
easy exchange of information. The creators never anticipated the almost roman empiresque whoring
of an entire medium of information exchange. But this isn't something new to the human race, take the
following:
- The automobile - Designed for the ease of transportation, but never in the wildest dreams did they
- CFCs - Designed for easy propellant of liquids such as hair spray, etc.. Didn't see it coming that it would
- Nuclear Physics - Einstein, one of the greatest men in the world... Created the formula that led to the
It in the nature of humans to create. Sometimes they DO check themselves to see if what they are doing mightforsee the killing of 16,000+ people a year in drunk driving accidents, or it's use in drive by shootings
drug deals, road rage...
rip the ozone a new round one.
killing of millions of people in Japan, but also almost unlimited power.
have some consequences, but more time then not you can dream up all the side effects of a creation.
The problem with the net is not only is it new, but in all it's smaller subcatagories of usability and new media
it allows for RAMPANT disregard of moral and ethical values. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad.
You have to look at it in an individualistic nature. The net doesn't make bad people do bad things, people who
are bad do bad things. People see an opportunities to do something new, and the don't question the "Well, is this right?"
They just do it. When porn came to the internet, it wasn't the nets fault, it was unregulated, and rightfully
so, but people saw a chance to take this new medium that has global reaches and let them do what they want to do.
Porn, music piracy, warez.. You name it.. The anarchy like nature of the net is a true test of that philosophy...
Will people, left to their own devices, do the right thing.. We would all like to say yes... But really the answer is
an unappealing greyish of Yes and No's...
Most people won't steal cars, but those same people have NO issues with stealing software. Why? Because they know
that for the most part, they won't get caught, or they are "sticking it to the man".. It doesn't matter what justification you
give it, it's just human nature. The roman empire was like that...
Back in the day of the flurishment of the Roman Empire, it may have been a "democracy", but really only in name.
The net is like the roman empire, only much much bigger, and moving much much faster, an anarchy that attempts
to feign democractic ideals.
I personally love MP3's.. I have 3500 of them. I know that this is the intellectual property of artists, and if they came
to my door personally, I would glady give them what they wanted for their songs. But they won't... And I'm left with
the option of paying the music-industry, a corporate pimp with no soul to speak of, or just pirating the songs... Well
at first I questioned it.. Until I read some articles by artists who songs I had that said they believe in the MP3
movement, they ofcourse need to get paid, but what they are getting taken for from the Music Industry leads them to
believe that MP3's will allow artists a better medium to spread their music and culture and ideas, and then from
there you can gain more levereage with a label, or just do the label yourself.
If we are going to look at the lack of morals on the net we all have to look at ourselves because we are the ones using
the net, looking at the porn, pirating software, downloading the mp3s.....
The ONLY difference between the net, and the larger world is that the net doens't have policemen. The net doesn't
have obvious consequences for immoral or unethical actions for the most part, and I doubt it never will, and the
only chance we have a moral and ethical net is a fundemental belief change on the part of every human in the world.
I don't see that happening. My suggestion is batten down your hatches, and get used to it.
It's at this point that I would suggest we start figuring out who is actually responsible for proofing these applications. This is almost like the IRS sillyness that eventually led to that whole department be supposedly revamped. How many more of these "I invented the wheel" broadband patents are we going to see before someone takes serious action.
Looking at the various content of the different "ANTI" Anti-online sites, and AntiOnline itself,
looking up personal information on the people involved, it seems simply - Childish. How old is JP? If he was a underclassmen in High School in 96, it's reasonable to assume he is just starting college or is a senior in High School.. If anything this just leads one to ponder the overall
maturity level of JP.. "Attack me and I harrass you.." and then to do something as silly as go up against MSNBC, who, I'm sorry to say, have a whole department of Lawyers.. In a real lawsuit, who do you think would win? It's really just immature and silly.
We here in WI have just recently gotten the promise of the vast wonderful Oz like creation of DSL from a company called Dakota.
Up until I moved recently, I had ISDN, it was a solid 128kb, and I could serve some minor stuff off of it. Then I moved into an apartment that already had an ISDN jack and line.. You would think that Ameritech would easily be able to switch it on and keep me flying.. No, it would take 3 weeks and $113 dollars to come out to have him say, "Yep, that's a jack.." and call someone to flip a switch.
At that point our local ISP was offering DSL and I decided to give it a try. I had to sell my ISDN router in order to pay for the install, and I didn't make much back on it, not to mention that the router was only a few months old.
It was expensive, but that was because 99% of the overhead went back to Dakota. I made arrangements and made sure that my address was in their "Local DSL" area.. They confirmed it and I was set to have it installed..
A month goes by with me checking in and the ISP saying Dakota is still sitting on it, and ofcourse I can't talk to Dakota. They tell me that they had to lower the length of their "Local DSL" area down to 1.4 miles, I was originally at their 2 mile mark. So now I'm in "Extended DSL" range which will take longer. I'm starting to think just getting ISDN would be been the solution.
Another month goes by with screaming now and they finally find that the firmware on the bridges crashes the multi-plexors at the switch.. So now there will be NO extended DSL until they fix the firmware bug, which conservatively speaking they said a few months.
If your in the Milwaukee area and thinking about DSL, if your in the "Extended" range forget it. I've had nothing but a nightmare experience with DSL, and now I'm waiting for a refund, and will never ever recommend anyone go with Dakota again.
I don't blame the local ISP's with the problem of DSL, typically it is the provider of the DSL trying to offer a service that hasn't been tested, and overselling before it's even viable. If this is any indication of how highspeed access is going to come into the US, be prepare for a long long haul.
The following is my response to the Littleton massacre. A horrible event that could of been prevented. But the public system was too blind to see it coming:
I am 22, and since the age of 4 I've been a Geek. All through grade school I was considered a thug because of the people I hung out with people who
liked to think, rationalize things, and for that I was an outcast along with them. I developed a horrible temper, and was sent to the principal on
a regular basis because I wouldn't take the insults. And this was just 4th and 5th grade.
Then came middle school, I saw the anger I had, which was the same anger my father had, was killing him, and would kill me too if I didn't
try and control it. It took months of work on my self to bring myself to a level where the insults and ridicule wouldn't trigger the rage against people who saw me as a freak because I like chemistry, math, computers, and Star Wars.
But this if ofcourse didn't stop anything. In fact, it only made it worse because now I would "take it". In the 7th grade it got to the point
where I had to switch schools. My father had divorced my mother and moved to the suburbs. I can't describe the nightmare of that year.
In a world where you had to be a jock, or cheerleader in order to not be slammed as a nerd, it was straight out of the movie "Disturbing Behavior". I was supposed to go to the local highschool after that, but I moved back with my mother in the city, where there was at least
more people who thought on my same level. I would of rather died then stayed in the suburb where I was. They threaten to take me back, I threatened
to run away, never to return, and showed them the bus ticket to prove it.
Ah yes. High school. The most patheticly egotistic and superficial institution I know of. My freshman year was just as bad as 8th grade, only at least here I had a group of fellow geeks to lean on. Nerd, Geek, Dork, you name it I was called it. That was until an honest accident in high-school.
I was mixing two chemicals to study air pressure in a contained blast, for a science project, the teacher knew about it. I forgot that the vent fan wasn't on so it was basicly a big contained
box. I blew up the chemical shield that the compound was contained in. In a full class of 40 kids, the room was cleared in 10 seconds. They refused to come back in with me in the room. I was given a suspension, and was told that if anyone wanted a bomb from me, I was to report them immediately.
After this I was never ever bothered again. The people who once thought of me as a freak, thought of me as now a dangerous people who could snap
at anytime. They left me alone, and my friends and I who knew that I wouldn't hurt anyone, laughed, and were also saddened that it took an accident and the fear of me the "Crazy bomb making psycho" to finally make the cruelty stop.
My sophmore year I met my wife, online, and she supported my "crazyness" my irrational "curiosity" and now I'm a programmer and system administrator
at the midwests largest private ISP.
What the Littleton kids did was horrible. But not surprizing. My hearts go out to the families of the people who died. But we need to look at the
social struture of our schools. They can be segregated and twisted environments, which lead to twisted individuals who no longer see the value in life. Individuals who won't control the rage, and have no support system to vent it.
And then you have Littleton.
To those in school who see this situation as their own, you have to take heart. With places like Slashdot, you have a vent. You have a culture that accepts you are on the net. Life gets much better
after high-school. Find people who you share the
same ideas with, and who you can be creative with.
Don't get isolated. Find your kind. They ARE out there. The net makes it much easier for us to find eachother. And when the Jocks the people who find our curiosity dangerous and offensive are 30 years old with beer guts, watching re-runs of "All in the Family" wondering why the NFL hasn't called, you can laugh from your leather chair in your office knowing that for all your suffering, it paid off.