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Realplayer plugin for Mozilla uses 98% CPU!
by N3tw0rkAng31B0y 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

I use Mozilla 1.0 on Debian Woody. I have installed RealPlayer8, and can run realplay fine. However, when I visit a website (such as the Radio 1 site, which is WHY I installed it, having used Windows for a project, I got rather addicted to John Peel's show again ;) ), realplay uses up to 98% of the CPU, meaning I have to kill the process. Typing about:plugins in the address bar gives: <snip> File name: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes <snip> So it seems to be installed OK. Anyone else found this? Anyone had any luck with RealOne (the newer one?) I can't seem to find ANY plugin bundled with it. It's quite irritating. Specially cos my housemate oversaw both install processes... "so it took u about 3 minutes in Windows, and a whole night and it still doesn't work in Linux..." (Nelson from the Simpsons laugh) "...HAAA HAAA!" grrrr. lol Ricardo

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[newsforge daily] January 06, 2003 : Microsoft Belgium's GPL attack refuted in detail
by Keith Watson 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

<http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/1023218> leonbrooks writes "Recently, images from a presentation by Microsoft Belgium were published on the web. The presentation made some startling (for Microsoft) concessions to Open Source, then set about FUDding the GPL into the ground. I whacked together a point-by-point answer to the anti-GPL FUD and here it is." <http://cyberknights.com.au/articles/areas-for-concern.phtml> Keith

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[XPOST] Newsforge: Linux myths that never die
by Keith Watson 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

"- by John Fitzgibbon - As a long-time Microsoft Windows user who recently switched almost exclusively to Linux, I'd like to share a few observations on the transition... " <http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1221251> Keith

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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RF and isdn
by tom potts 05 Jan '03

05 Jan '03

theres a 'dedicated' group www.consume.net and their mailing list will give you more sugestions than you can cope with. isdn - try typing 'isdn4linux' in the saerch box on http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/ but it almost seems to be old technology already! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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wireless PCI cards
by simon 05 Jan '03

05 Jan '03

Hi I'm looking to add a wireless PCI card to my network. Can anyone suggest a good product to buy that will work with SUSE 8.0. Thanks Simon

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RH8 - ISDN
by James Kirkham 04 Jan '03

04 Jan '03

Hello, I am using an ISDN terminal from BT that they provided when I signed up gor their home highway service. It is connected to my pc via USB. I have discovered that this ISDN terminal is based on the ST-5481 chipset, wich when I was using Suse 8.1 was easy enough to configure as I just had to select the generic ST-5481 driver. I have only just started using RH8 and am unable to work out how to get my ISDN working. Obviously I would like to stick with RH8 but with no net connection its going to be hard. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks

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Re: [Alug] Rs-232 and terminal servers
by Ricardo Campos 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

First off: thanks for the replies! Wow! ALUG'ers do it again! :) Second: I'm investigating this problem for a uni project (for my MSc), so I guess the ALUG archives are going into my bibliography! ;) so, umm... these units are *fictional* lol, sorry! :) Third: I kinda thought on scrapping the RS-232 thing, since I'm fairly comfortable with ethernet and TCP/IP, but since these units have rs-232 (and they were duly mentioned by my tutors) I thought "maybe there's a reason ppl still linger with it". My first idea was to have two ipcop (www.ipcop.org) servers(firewalls) at either end of the connection to sort out a vpn over the POTS. Luckily we are dealing with temperature ranges of 5-30, so there's no real safety issue that can't wait the time it takes to dial up! Fourth: 'tis my job to write the programs to handle this, so that's all cool. Well... of to do some planning and decide whether SSH tunnels or a VPN would be better in this case. Thanks! Ricardo

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Rs-232 and terminal servers
by N3tw0rkAng31B0y 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

I'm investigating a solution. Basically I have a unit that must be remotely monitored. The unit itself has an rs-232 connection and ethernet too. However, for the tiny amount of data transfer needed (it sends temperatures), the rs-232 should suffice. I was thinking that I could attach this device to some sort of terminal server and then attach the server to the internet via a free dial-up, or perhaps a 64k leased line (it needs to be constantly monitored). Has anyone done such a thing? If so, any tips as to what to use as a terminal server? I realise this might be old hat to the rest of you, but I have no experience of this! TIA Ricardo

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test drive
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

This may be of interest to some of you: http://testdrive.hp.com/ Jenny. Just back from South Africa :-)

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New member
by celldee＠tiscali.co.uk 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Hi, I've just joined the mailing list. I've worked in the I.T. industry for a number of years as a programmer, designer etc. I'm currently using IBM's Websphere MQ with Java and am very interested in the concept of open source ( why give money to Bill Gates et al if you don't have to ? ) As Linux is the most popular open source OS, I thought it was about time that I learnt something about it. I look forward to participating in the group.

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Re: main digest, Vol 1 #527 - 7 msgs
by Paul Wickham 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

The other possibility is that you have to set a jumper on the motherboard to let the bios know that the memory is there. I remember struggling with this years ago, and then noticing just beside the SIMM socket there was a jumper to set the memory size. HTH Paul main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: >Message: 1 >From: "Glen Tyler" <glen.tyler(a)tesco.net> >To: <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> >Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:05:19 -0000 >Subject: [Alug] over-riding BIOS memory detection > >Dear All, >can anyone help/put me straight on this. >I have a i486 machine running Slackware 8.1. As a christmas present I bought >it a 32MB Simm, it currently has 16MB installed (one module). When I >replaced the 16MB with the 32MB the bios still only detects 16MB on boot and >everything runs as before. No matter I thought - I have read somewhere that >Linux will override such settings, but I have been unable to get the kernel >(2.4.18) to do so. >I read the lilo.conf man page which indicated that adding 'append="mem=32M"' >to lilo would do it, but the computer would not boot after adding this. A >further search of the internet produced a sort of How-to doc that lists >three options (but I think is written for RedHat). The first of these is the >same as the lilo.conf recommendation, the second involves giving mem sizes >and start locations in hexadecimals e.g. >append="mem=exactmap mem=0x9f000@0 mem=0x1f00000@100000" and the third is >like the 2nd, but in english.. >append="mem=exactmap mem#=640K@0 mem=31M@1M" >all these end in the same result - failure to boot. I have tried these >messages specifying 16MB as the memory size (incase there really was a >problem with the 32MB size) but the result is the same. >In the mini how-to it is suggested that white space is needed between the >start quotes and the first mem statement - but that doesn't resolve this >problem either. >So - am I correct in assuming that the Linux kernel can use this additional >16MB of memory , and if so how do I let it know its there? > >all the best > >Glen > > >

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over-riding BIOS memory detection
by Glen Tyler 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Dear All, can anyone help/put me straight on this. I have a i486 machine running Slackware 8.1. As a christmas present I bought it a 32MB Simm, it currently has 16MB installed (one module). When I replaced the 16MB with the 32MB the bios still only detects 16MB on boot and everything runs as before. No matter I thought - I have read somewhere that Linux will override such settings, but I have been unable to get the kernel (2.4.18) to do so. I read the lilo.conf man page which indicated that adding 'append="mem=32M"' to lilo would do it, but the computer would not boot after adding this. A further search of the internet produced a sort of How-to doc that lists three options (but I think is written for RedHat). The first of these is the same as the lilo.conf recommendation, the second involves giving mem sizes and start locations in hexadecimals e.g. append="mem=exactmap mem=0x9f000@0 mem=0x1f00000@100000" and the third is like the 2nd, but in english.. append="mem=exactmap mem#=640K@0 mem=31M@1M" all these end in the same result - failure to boot. I have tried these messages specifying 16MB as the memory size (incase there really was a problem with the 32MB size) but the result is the same. In the mini how-to it is suggested that white space is needed between the start quotes and the first mem statement - but that doesn't resolve this problem either. So - am I correct in assuming that the Linux kernel can use this additional 16MB of memory , and if so how do I let it know its there? all the best Glen

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Soundcards
by Matt 29 Dec '02

29 Dec '02

Can anyone recommend a sound card for Linux, which has a fully supported wavetable and midi interface? Cheers, Matt

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webcams
by Syd Hancock 28 Dec '02

28 Dec '02

Has anyone any experience and/or recommendations for webcams to use under linux? I have used Gnomemeeting to receive from Netmeeting but cannot send as there seems to be no linux driver for my webcam. Cheers Syd

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Phoenix Homepage
by Wayne Stallwood 28 Dec '02

28 Dec '02

Ok so I may have a slight hangover, and thus not really firing on all cylinders. But this is driving me mad. I have Phoenix 0.5 installed. it's working really well for me apart from this one annoying problem. Regardless of what I set as the homepage Phoenix always starts by displaying http://www.barnesandnoble.com/. If I click the home button Phoenix will go to my configured homepage. and when starting up you can see it starting to load it in the status bar at the bottom of the window before going to barnesandnoble. I've greped both my .phoenix/ directory and the installation directory for the URL. found nothing. Done a google search and looked theough the Moz docs all to no avail Any ideas anyone before I start downloading the source and looking through that ? Wayne

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A Postfix mystery
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

I have just replaced Exim with Postfix. There are a few things not yet working as I want them but there is also one oddity. Whenever the system sends an internal mail to root, which is then re-directed to me as a user, it tries to send the same email to a number of non-existant users: <"$h_subject:contains"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "$h_subject:contains" <endif(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "endif" <"fax stats"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "fax stats" <then(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "then" <if(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "if" <elif(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "elif" <finish(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "finish" <"facsimile received"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "facsimile received" <error_message(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "error_message" <"facsimile not received"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "facsimile not received" <save(a)machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "save" These users are obviously rubbish but I have no idea where it is finding this stuff. This problem does not occur with emails to or from the internet. Some ideas as to where to look would be appreciated. Barry Samuels

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Hidden Knowledge
by Keith Watson 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

I've just been having a tidy up of my ALUG Main mail folder. There's a long list of submissions I've kept because they contained info. that I thought might be useful. It then occurred to me that all this info. is already in the mailing list archives anyway. Could we make some sort of search facility available for the archives? or is it better to download the consolidated list and search it locally? If so what's the best way? Keith ____________ BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Kernel Config for Dialup Clients
by Keith Watson 25 Dec '02

25 Dec '02

I'm having a number of silly little problems with my Debian install when setting up the PPP dial up connections. I won't go into detail because I don't think they are the main issue. Trouble is that I've rebuilt the kernel to match my hardware config. In the process I've taken out a lot of the server side networking support as I only intend to use the system as a dialup client. So apart from async PPP support and iptables (firewall) what is the minimum kernel config and services required for a dialup client only system? Oh! and Happy Christmas (Seasons Greeting for the PC minded :o) ) and a Happy New Year, Keith ____________ COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Moving directories to a new partition
by Ian Douglas 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

The Linux partition on my triple boot Windows/Linux PC has gradually been filling up over the past few months and is now 98% full with just 40MB remaining. I have therefore had a clear out on my Windows partition to create some free space and have been able to create two new small partitions which I can now use with Linux to ease some of the strain. My current setup is: /dev/hda1 Windows /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda5 /boot /dev/hda7 / I would like to change this to: /dev/hda1 Windows /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda5 /boot /dev/hda7 /usr /dev/hda12 / /dev/hda13 /home I have formatted these two new partitions and moved /home from hda7 to hda13 ok and deleted it from hda7. I now want to move everything else apart from the /usr directory from hda7 to hda12. What is the best way to tell Linux to move everything except this one directory from one partition to another (hda12 is a lot smaller than hda7 and is not big enough to hold /usr even temporarily)? Ian.

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Re[2]: [Alug] I thought adding extra functionality to my mail system would be easy
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

xs(a)kittenz.org wrote: > > What doesn't work is if I try to send an email from machine2 (Postfix) > out to the internet via machine1 (Exim). Is that likely to be a problem > with the setup on machine2 or machine1? > > it is hard to say. where does this error come from?

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: Welcome to the "main" mailing list (Digest mode)
by B.E.D.Ellis-00＠student.lboro.ac.uk 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Greetings Penguin Worshippers, Just signed up for your group since I've decided to have another go at getting into linux. I failed a couple of years back after giving up on getting my network card working w/ Red Hat 7.1. I even had 2 linux gurus come in and try and get it working with no success. I am a student placement working as an OSS Engineer at BTexact in Ipswich, Suffolk. I've always been a big programmer/hacker/code monkey and wisked away many an hour making some useless application or another. I'm getting fed up with doing windows programming and wanting to try something different... And so my long journey towards a new faith, "linux", begins. Under the true gods... a Penguin and a Goat. So, to start off. What distros are used by most of you, since I don't wanna start using a distro I can't get help for. Plus, I don't know which Distro would be best suited for a homeuser/developer/gamer. The only two distros I've really had a look at are Debian and Red Hat. One, because a mate of mine used it, and the other simply because I hear the name Red Hat all the time (Never knew if thats a good thing or a bad thing...) Anywayz, I'll leave you to digest, Ben aka DragonWolf

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I thought adding extra functionality to my mail system would be easy
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

I have a small home network of just two machines. Machine1 runs Debian Testing with Exim and Procmail. Machine2 is running Mandrake 9 with Postfix. I have just spent about two half-days trying to set things up so that I can send mail from one machine to another. After having spent hours searching for information on both my own machine and on the Internet I have to admit defeat. When I try to send mail from a user on either machine to a user on the other I get the following message: 'Host lookup did not complete' /etc/hosts.conf on both machines: order hosts,bind multi on /etc/hosts on machine1: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 machine1.mynetwork machine1 192.168.1.2 machine2.mynetwork machine2 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts Surely it can't be this difficult? I should add that a lot of the information I have read might just as well have been written in Swahili for all the sense it made. After a very, very, very frustrating 24 hours I can appreciate why some people would give up on Linux and go back to Windows. Am I missing an important bit of software? Barry Samuels Professional Defeatist

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