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Help with Mulinux please
by Ruleng＠aol.com 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Hello Steve and others, First I must say that there appears to have developed > some peripheral discussion, under the heading of my original request for > help, that I do not understand, and so I cannot respond to. > I forgot to mention in my original note that I have 16Mb RAM. I became > curious about Unix when I bought a "C/Utilities Toolchest" from MIX software > many years ago. This contains quite a lot of commands that emulate those > found in Unix, such as: cat, chmod, cp, cpio, etc. but run under DOS. A > script was included called "Words" that listed, in four columns, > alphabetically, all the words that occurred in a text file, and the number of > occurrences of each. > It worked well on relatively small files, but when I tried to apply it to the > KIng James Bible I ran out of memory. I wondered if an OS that provided > multi-threading would solve the problem. Does it? And so I began to look at > Unix/Linux. I looked at small distributions because of my hardware > limitations, and muLinux seemed the most attractive. It seems to be kept very > much up-to-date; it uses only from 1-12 1722Kb floppies, ( I do not have a > CDROM drive, but I do have a 5 1/4 in. fdd!), and it can be run from my DOS > hdd. Its originators describe it thus: > 'MuLinux is a full configured minimalistic but mostly complete > application- > centric Linux distribution fitted on a single 1722 Kb floppy with many > pluggable add-ons. Main goals: Linux proselitism, rescue. > Using the only SRV additional disk muLinux transforms in a little NT, > acting also as a Samba file server, print server and WWW gateway, fax server, > cd-rom server, mp3 remote player, combust server , and can be configured and > controlled enterely via browser, using the builtin VGI RCP server the rustic > ("Remote Control Panel").' [All sic] > This seemed quite attractive considering that there were 10 more floppy > add-ons, all close to a downloadable 1.7 Mb, and that a free distribution of > "Storm Linux" with LINUX FORMAT required a pentium processor, 32, preferably > 64, Mb RAM, 300 Mb minimum, 1Gb or more recommended, of hdd space, and a > CD-ROM. > My stumbling block remains as the downloading of the addons to my DOS > hdd, and the conversion of the files onto muLinux-acceptable floppies. I am > up in King's Lynn. Perhaps I should try to get to a meeting! > I have read that when sending notes to groups like alug one should be > brief and concise. I am sorry if I have not done that. > Regards, Norman

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Re: [Alug] Small question
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Andrew J Glover <flexifoil(a)btinternet.com> writes: > Well, it IS a screenshot, I dont think pixel perfect matters much :) That reminds me. http://markj.towers.org.uk/comp/ss.png and it's broken in netscape ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Curious
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Andrew Savory <a.savory(a)btinternet.com> writes: > Heh. I just punt everything through my stereo. I don't think it does my > ears a favour though (or my neighbours, come to think of it). If your soundcard is producing substandard output, surely this just gets you a better rendition of it, not any better quality signal? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Small question
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Andrew J Glover <flexifoil(a)btinternet.com> writes: > import -window root some.jpg png for screenshots, surely? Depends if you have a photo-like backdrop, I guess. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] What have I done wrong now!
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

John Seago <john.seago(a)btinternet.com> writes: > Error Message Unknown Host mail.btinternet.com. > > As it is sending and receiving through btinternet why is it an unknown host? Is that exactly what you've typed and definitely the right host to use? "unknown host" indicates exactly that... it can't find the host you've give it. If it's really right, maybe your ISP is at fault. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Small question
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Steve Kuo <drakioned(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > Anyone know how I'd go about taking a screenshot? Not > in KDE or anything, just plain bash Lots of ways. GIMP has a "Screenshot" menu entry, for example. -- MJR

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Curious
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Well, I was getting some nasty errors on my CDROM recently while trying to play a CD that I knew worked before. XMMS just hung there, while xconsole showed errors about "SeekComplete DriveReady Error". So I rebuilt my kernel with only the drivers I actually use (removing the swsusp patch that makes my machine panic if I try to use it) and that didn't work. I installed ALSA (which debian have now got quite a nice build process for now, I think, although I hacked it about a little bit). The sound quality is absolutely loads better, but it still hung on the "bad" files. I searched around the net a bit, confident that my system was fairly neat and tidy now. Someone mentioned that they see that error when the CD is scratched. I took the CD out, polished it with the "Magic Cloth" I use on my glasses (3 pounds or so from Boots Opticians) and now it works. Ooops. -- MJR

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What have I done wrong now!
by John Seago 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Having had problems with setting up Balsa, I used another user name to set up the KDE mail client, and whilst it will send and receive, It shows me the Error Message Unknown Host mail.btinternet.com. As it is sending and receiving through btinternet why is it an unknown host? John Seago

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Small question
by Steve Kuo 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Anyone know how I'd go about taking a screenshot? Not in KDE or anything, just plain bash ===== --------------- Steve Kuo "How can we claim to be an advanced and civilized society when no other creatures on Earth develops technology to blow themselves up three times over?" ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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Re: [Alug] Some help with Mulinux, please.
by MJ Ray 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Andrew J Glover <flexifoil(a)btinternet.com> writes: > By its name, I would think its an extension of another WM, aewm: > http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/ Correct. Frank Hale translated it to C++, via http://sapphire.sourceforge.net/ and we're still working on tidying up that core. That should be a work-alike of aewm, which I don't find particularly easy to use. I'm maintaining my work as a patch so that I can merge in fixes to aewm++ as they become available. My little fork adds in some features that I miss such as: - right-side grab bar which moves the window like the title bar - raise on move - resize box at bottom right - split minimise and maximise buttons - funky 3d shading effect - removes at least two semantic bugs in button presses I use the included root menu applications, but I've also got apps (goodies, in the terminology of the project) which do such things as virtual desktops, hot keys, autoraise, a "busy watch" pointer when CPU is busy and alt-tab window switching. Other people are working on adding automake/autoconf and writing a decent root menu goodie. Some time, we may get around to adding FreeDesktop wm-spec support so that it'll play nice with GNOME-aware apps. The basic idea is to make the window management system as modular as is practical, so you can choose the right mix of features for you, minimise your memory usage and maximise the speed. Don't like alt-tab? Don't have it! Want different root menus? Fine, just replace the goodies concerned! All this without having a bloated window manager that supports all possibilities. That's the bit which will take some packaging together, preferably with a "control panel" or something that lets you switch features off and on. Anyway, until then, I'll send the patch to whoever wants it. I guess I'll say something on-list when it's packaged. -- MJR

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