We have a InterJet I running in our server room, and are pleased with it. It saves us from the problems with NT (our computer dep. refuses to install anything other than MS products, but they accepted the InterJet, since "you can configure it from MS Internet Explorer"). Whistle was bought by IBM some time ago, and they released the InterJet II afterwards. Our Whistle InterJet I is also running FreeBSD, this is the boot log:
jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 3 23:45:11 PST 2000 jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: dianeh@built1.whistle.com:/usr/prod/ia/freebsd/sys /src/compile/IA jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: CPU: Cyrix 486DX4 (486-class CPU) jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: Origin = "CyrixInstead" DIR=0x361f Stepping=3 Revision=6 jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: avail memory = 14962688 (14612K bytes) jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Whistle Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: Detected version 1 InterJet motherboard jan 19 12:17 Critical:/kernel: Probing for devices on the ISA bus: ... ...
S13. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?
The Novell GroupWise IMAP server would be better named GroupFoolish; it is (according to the designer of IMAP) unusably broken. Among other things, it doesn't include a required content length in its BODY[TEXT] response. Fetchmail works around this problem, but we strongly recommend voting with your dollars for a server that isn't brain-dead. If you stick with code as shoddy as GroupWise seems to be, you will probably pay for it with other problems.
It has saved my butt more than once. Funny, I have used this disc to install primitive operative systems (read: ms) on a pc more than once. The single most used command is:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{sda,hda}
which will wipe out the entire disk including the partition table (don't do this on a disc which contains anything useful!). It makes it possible to install NT4 on a disk larger than 8GB without hassle, and Redhat installers will partition the disc without any nasty questions when the disc is blank. It is also useful when you want to erase a disc "beyond any recognition", ie. when someone else is going to use it.
I have used tomsrtbt to format a disc with fat, copy a win95 cd into it, booted the machine in dos and started the installation. Why? I didn't have a dos driver for the f*ing CD drive connected to a Sound Blaster controller.
I believe there are two approaches to create a word processor which can replace MS word. MS word is so ubiquitous, that we have to deal with files created with it. So you can ether make a word processor which handles word files flawlessly and update the import/export filters whenever ms decides to change the formats, *or* you can make a word processor which is good (better than ms word) and runs under both windows/mac and linux. If you create a unix only word processor, it can not replace ms word, since the "ms people" can't edit your files, and you can't edit the ms files.
.. and if you want the SGML version (and you *want*, because it can import/export in DOCBOOK format), you're looking at a price tag close to $1600 !!!! Wwwhhhhhhhhooooo....
If Alice (who happens to own a large cd collection) register her collection using Bobs MAC and IP address, Bob could listen to all the music that Alice owns. Then Alice could do this again, and again, giving all here friends access to her collection. Alice could automate this, she creates a web site, where you enter your MAC and IP address, and a beam-it account is created on your behalf. To do this Alice needs a big disc, or a lot of CD players in her computer.
Lets take this another step:
Create a distributed registration service (think Napster), where every user has a CD in his/her cd player and a common database of avable CD at the moment. When you want to listen to a particular CD, you register it on beam-it, and receives the challenge. Then you forward the challenge to the machine which has the original CD, and get a response back which you forward to the beam-it server. Viola, you receive your MPEG2-layer3 file, without owning the CD.
The weak spot in the protocol is that you don't want to transfer a lot of data (that's the whole point with beam-it), so you could easily send the data to another machine for validation.
No, it can't be cracked, because the key is much larger than the data the key is protecting (key=uncompressed audio data on cd, data = compressed mp3 audio). This is close to a "one time pad", the only crypto algo proved to be "safe".
While companies are spending millions to solve their Y2K problems, another potential computer glitch is creeping ever closer -- the Dow 10,000 problem. As the Dow Jones industrial average nears 10,000 (it closed Wednesday at 9366.81), some analysts are predicting waves of computer-directed "stop-loss" selling as some older financial software is tricked into thinking the Dow has crashed to 1000. Most of the larger financial firms have fixed their software, but some smaller firms and brokerages probably haven't made all the necessary adjustments, says a Gartner Group analyst, who says the worst-case scenario would be a mistake in the index cascading through an Internet-based or automatic trading system, thus interfering with things like stock index futures.
and the chips are impressive. But the data sheets are very incomplete (the TM3120 data sheet is only 6 pages !!). No pinout, no electrical specifications, no programming info, no absolute maximum ratings, etc. They need an additional 1000 pages of documentation before you actually can design anything with it.
RedHat should release version 6.2. The updates to RedHat 6.1 are huge, and many packages could be upgraded to the latest version:
Kernel 2.2.14 is out by then.
XFree 3.3.6
gcc 2.95
Updated Gnome 1.0.55
Installer fixes
glibc 2.1.3
Full crypto with ssh and gnupg ?
A nice stable distro to use while we watch the trouble with RH 7.0 (because of brand new kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0) and everyone asks for RH 7.1:-). Redhat would get a lot of free marketing, and users will be hunting for something stable, while they are staring at their "upgraded" blue screens.
Because libc need dates before 1970, e.g. birthdays etc (remember this is libc, not the kernel). The date returned from get_cmos_time() is always after 1970, hence unsigned long. In the next millennium this code can be changed to:
year += 2000;
which also wraps. This shows that all date handling algos will wrap unless they are using saturating logic, and how silly this patent is. Someone should patent wrapping integers.
I forgot to mention that this only applies to the brain dead Intel 386 architecture, which uses a Motorola MC146818A clock chip or equivalent which returns the year as a two digits.
The module has been tested by a diverse group for some months now, with no reports of meltdowns, so it's probably safe to include in the 2.2 source tree. It was included in the 2.3 tree in version 2.3.17.
I can say from observation that UDF use, in the form of DirectCD written CDRs, has become very widespread across businesses. Having at least read-only support in the Linux kernel would be a definite plus.
Unfortunately, write support will have to wait, as the write support in this driver doesn't work with CDR/CDRWs yet.
Do you really want to keep a 70 year old technology, with mediocre performance, when you can get faster speed, instant connection time (1.5 sec), caller ID, and a spare line for incoming calls for nearly the same price ? What is your point ?
Sure, I would love to have an ASDL connection, but that is not an option where I live. And sure, ISDN is not revolutionary in performance, but it is significantly better at nearly the same price. The choice between an ordinary telephone line and an ISDN connection is a nobrainer.
Linux users are high tech users, and they install ISDN at home in many European countries. The cost of installing and using ISDN is low here in Norway, and in Europe in general. Installing ISDN is difficult on linux in general and especially on RedHat. Make a quick search for ISDN on a dejanews, on the norwegian linux news group (no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse) to get the point. I got 3200 matches on ISDN and 900 on ethernet since jan 1 1999. Now people are recommending Suse when ISDN problems pops up. If RedHat spent a few engineering weeks on ISDN support the RedHat goodwill rice dramatically in my eyes.
Install vmware on the wintendo machine, and install linux on the virutal machine. Add an option to migrate the linux installation to run native when you are penguinified....
I wish someone would release a "Purple Red Hat" distro from any country in the free world (ie. not Russia, Iran, USA, China...) which was the latest RedHat with all the crypto stuff (SSH, PGP/GPG, etc). They could even contribute a few dollars to RedHat for each CD sold too keep everyone happy.
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S13. How can I use fetchmail with Novell GroupWise?
The Novell GroupWise IMAP server would be better named GroupFoolish; it is (according to the designer of IMAP) unusably broken. Among other things, it doesn't include a required content length in its BODY[TEXT] response. Fetchmail works around this problem, but we strongly recommend voting with your dollars for a server that isn't brain-dead. If you stick with code as shoddy as GroupWise seems to be, you will probably pay for it with other problems.
Do we need Groupwise on linux ??
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{sda,hda}
which will wipe out the entire disk including the partition table (don't do this on a disc which contains anything useful!). It makes it possible to install NT4 on a disk larger than 8GB without hassle, and Redhat installers will partition the disc without any nasty questions when the disc is blank. It is also useful when you want to erase a disc "beyond any recognition", ie. when someone else is going to use it.
I have used tomsrtbt to format a disc with fat, copy a win95 cd into it, booted the machine in dos and started the installation. Why? I didn't have a dos driver for the f*ing CD drive connected to a Sound Blaster controller.
http://www.toms.net/rb/
YES !! I want tomsrtbt ++ on a credit card size cd now !!!!
Don't leave home without it.
All the good stuff is stable in RH6.2beta right now, please keep it that way !!
Bandwidth.
Framemaker kicks ass :-)
If Alice (who happens to own a large cd collection) register her collection using Bobs MAC and IP address, Bob could listen to all the music that Alice owns. Then Alice could do this again, and again, giving all here friends access to her collection. Alice could automate this, she creates a web site, where you enter your MAC and IP address, and a beam-it account is created on your behalf. To do this Alice needs a big disc, or a lot of CD players in her computer.
Lets take this another step:
Create a distributed registration service (think Napster), where every user has a CD in his/her cd player and a common database of avable CD at the moment. When you want to listen to a particular CD, you register it on beam-it, and receives the challenge. Then you forward the challenge to the machine which has the original CD, and get a response back which you forward to the beam-it server. Viola, you receive your MPEG2-layer3 file, without owning the CD.
The weak spot in the protocol is that you don't want to transfer a lot of data (that's the whole point with beam-it), so you could easily send the data to another machine for validation.
QED
No, it can't be cracked, because the key is much larger than the data the key is protecting (key=uncompressed audio data on cd, data = compressed mp3 audio). This is close to a "one time pad", the only crypto algo proved to be "safe".
DOW 10K PROBLEM LOOMS LARGE
While companies are spending millions to solve their Y2K problems, another potential computer glitch is creeping ever closer -- the Dow 10,000 problem. As the Dow Jones industrial average nears 10,000 (it closed Wednesday at 9366.81), some analysts are predicting waves of computer-directed "stop-loss" selling as some older financial software is tricked into thinking the Dow has crashed to 1000. Most of the larger financial firms have fixed their software, but some smaller firms and brokerages probably haven't made all the necessary adjustments, says a Gartner Group analyst, who says the worst-case scenario would be a mistake in the index cascading through an Internet-based or automatic trading system, thus interfering with things like stock index futures.
(Investor's Business Daily 4 February 1999)
The zinc bucket was a revolution ... carrying water in wooden buckets was a pain because the bucket was so heavy !!!
So the answer to your question depends on your point of view (and your age) ....
http://www2adm.transmeta.com/crusoe/download/pdf/T M3120_DataSheet_1-18-00.pdf
and
http://www2adm.transmeta.com/crusoe/download/pdf/T M5400_DataSheet_1-18-00.pdf
and the chips are impressive. But the data sheets are very incomplete (the TM3120 data sheet is only 6 pages !!). No pinout, no electrical specifications, no programming info, no absolute maximum ratings, etc. They need an additional 1000 pages of documentation before you actually can design anything with it.
Kernel 2.2.14 is out by then.
XFree 3.3.6
gcc 2.95
Updated Gnome 1.0.55
Installer fixes
glibc 2.1.3
Full crypto with ssh and gnupg ?
A nice stable distro to use while we watch the trouble with RH 7.0 (because of brand new kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0) and everyone asks for RH 7.1 :-). Redhat would get a lot of free marketing, and users will be hunting for something stable, while they are staring at their "upgraded" blue screens.
Have fun !
year += 2000;
which also wraps. This shows that all date handling algos will wrap unless they are using saturating logic, and how silly this patent is. Someone should patent wrapping integers.
Err, nice try, but the variable is unsigned long which rolls over in 2106. Do the math.
I forgot to mention that this only applies to the brain dead Intel 386 architecture, which uses a Motorola MC146818A clock chip or equivalent which returns the year as a two digits.
I found this code in linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
/* removed code to read the hardware clock */
unsigned long get_cmos_time(void)
{
if ((year += 1900) < 1970)
year += 100;
return mktime(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec);
}
The code reads the CMOS (hardware battery) clock, and adjusts the year if the CMOS clock returns a year before 1970. This works nice until 2070.
The comments in the file can indicate that this code was added by Alan Modra in 1994.
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From: Dave Boynton, dboynton@worldnet.att.net
Subject: UDF filesystem patch for 2.2.12
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:08:43 GMT
I've made a new UDF filesystem patch for kernel 2.2.12. You can get it at: http://trylinux.com/projects/udf /udf-latest.tar.gz (about 70k)
The module has been tested by a diverse group for some months now, with no reports of meltdowns, so it's probably safe to include in the 2.2 source tree. It was included in the 2.3 tree in version 2.3.17.
I can say from observation that UDF use, in the form of DirectCD written CDRs, has become very widespread across businesses. Having at least read-only support in the Linux kernel would be a definite plus.
Unfortunately, write support will have to wait, as the write support in this driver doesn't work with CDR/CDRWs yet.
Dave Boynton
dave@trylinux.com
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Looks like UDF will be supported in 2.4.
Sure, I would love to have an ASDL connection, but that is not an option where I live. And sure, ISDN is not revolutionary in performance, but it is significantly better at nearly the same price. The choice between an ordinary telephone line and an ISDN connection is a nobrainer.
Just my 1 kr
Linux users are high tech users, and they install ISDN at home in many European countries. The cost of installing and using ISDN is low here in Norway, and in Europe in general. Installing ISDN is difficult on linux in general and especially on RedHat. Make a quick search for ISDN on a dejanews, on the norwegian linux news group (no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse) to get the point. I got 3200 matches on ISDN and 900 on ethernet since jan 1 1999. Now people are recommending Suse when ISDN problems pops up. If RedHat spent a few engineering weeks on ISDN support the RedHat goodwill rice dramatically in my eyes.
Install vmware on the wintendo machine, and install linux on the virutal machine. Add an option to migrate the linux installation to run native when you are penguinified ....
Not that I whuld use such crap ....
I wish someone would release a "Purple Red Hat" distro from any country in the free world (ie. not Russia, Iran, USA, China ...) which was the latest RedHat with all the crypto stuff (SSH, PGP/GPG, etc). They could even contribute a few dollars to RedHat for each CD sold too keep everyone happy.
djbfft is located here
Sinectonalysis has a few libraries for linux. I have no experience with them though ...
For FFT there is fftw and djbfft