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Re: [Alug] RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #194 - 16 msgs
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

Toby Jaffey <toby(a)earth.li> writes: > In my experience "the masses" want things that work and are willing to > pay for them and are more than willing to give up freedoms to get them. Paying for software and giving up freedoms are not mutually exclusive, IMO. Sadly, many people don't even realise that they have the freedoms which they are invited to surrender for no cost benefit. Education is the only way forwards. Anyone to write a "Why Free?" poster text for LinuxDay? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Unix File sharing
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > a wet paper bag? Is it really better than NFS? if it is I will remove > the NFS from the plan as samba may be used for the nt support. If samba is going to be used anyway and you want per-user sharing, might as well use it, I guess. No sense running more services than needed. I don't know how the performance compares. -- MJR

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RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #194 - 16 msgs
by Earl Brannigan 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

Hi All, Sorry to all and sundry if this has nothing at all to do with the remit of ALUG. Please however spare me the flames. This is the sort of thing that really pisses me off. The reason I switched to Linux in the first place was one thing ... freedom. I'm sick of being held to ransom by the big corporates. But its no suprise. Democracy is a misnomer. Little people don't get heard while the big corporates have more lobbyists than there are MPs MEPs etc to lobby. Since when did a company vote? When did a company campaign for human rights? When did a company die on a battlefield protecting those rights? David you ask what we can do. The only thing one can do is to stick to open, non-copyrighted stuff as far as practical. Boycott those which seek to restrict your choices as both a citizen and a consumer. These things are snuck in very quietly, with cleverly orchestrated lead ups to convince people that these are good things. Thereby "protecting people's intellectual property" (a noble good thing to do) becomes necessary due to the 'high speed, rapidly changing knowledge economy" (something we all are a part of like it or not) but results in restrictions on choice and liberty being introduced by stealth - and nobody notices. For me, I will continue to exercise what I consider to be essential human freedoms - if that puts me in a position 'outside of the law' then so be it. Everyone must be their own master in this. I will support organisations such as Free Software Foundation which is involved in trying to prevent Software and Business Process patents from being enacted creating a complete minefield for anyone considering a software solution. Mostly however I will attempt to stay within the land of the 'free', a growing world. So when someone comes along with a proprietary restricive DVD software for Linux I'll say "No Thanks". If enough people say no thanks then the market (the only thing the Coporates Understand) will become the advocate of the free, supplying a voice to the dissenters. This is why things like National Linux Day are good. Getting people to begin thinking in 'free, open' terms can be like rescuing them from a cult. For me the past few years with GNU/Linux has opened up a whole world that I never realised existed. A rich environment that reciprocates in an almost altruistic manner. For me this is priceless, and the more people that realise this, get involved and make it work the better. When people aren't buying and aren't caring you can bet that the big guys will take note. Eg. Napster.....Sod off Bertelsmann or whatever your name is, You can spend as many millions as you like trying to shut them down, but its already too late... enough have tasted that even if Napster disappears, thousands more are waiting in the wings to step in to the breach. The Snowball to Snowman analogy is true. It takes loads of effort to make a snowman, but you expend 80% in the first few rolls trying to get the snow to gather, but once the ball has enough weight you just have to keep it moving forward, growth will take care of itself. So that's all we need to do, keep this thing moving, keep the debates open, keep raising the issues, keep convincing people that free is good, it's here. Final word has to go to Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." I'm climbing off my soapbox now. Sorry again if this is waffle to you all. Best Regards Earl Message: 14 > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:34:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> > Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > Subject: [Alug] A dark day for freedom > > All, > > For those of you who read slashdot will have seen the reference to the > following article. > > http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/intprop/news/copyri ght.htm#4 > > the way I understand this is that it is now illegal to circumvent copy > protection on media, such as the norwegain student(jon johassan I > think) did last year to the DVD spec. This is a very dark day if I have > understood this right. The big companies are the winners in this case > and it posses a massive threat to linux, under this act, it could be > illegal for us to use DeCSS, and it certainly will be when the DVD > replacement arives. This leaves me with a question, what can we do > about it? our rights are steadily being eroded, the RIP bill etc... yet > these bills are being snuck in very quietly. Can anyone suggest a > course of action to prevent this from continueing? > > Thanks > > D > > __________________________________________________

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Re: [Alug] Unix File sharing
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

>If you are using any win98 (or MS machines that use encrypted password >authentication), be sure to read the documents that come with samba, I >got caught out by this 'feature' a few months ago ;).. Check out all the help I got on it last month from the alug in the archives - lots of troubleshooting there. (Not that I got it working,but that doesn't mean anything!!!). Good weekend, all, I'm off to the Lakes to see the folks. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] networking probs
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > I've edited it to show "eth0" in place of dummy0 now. Can I do it like > that? (I'll find out!) That's a good start, I think. > I think I can officially say I am bewildered now. Don't worry. You've just not got your eth0 driver around just yet. Getting warmer, though. > Using ifconfig to try and bring up eth0 shows > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x300 > Anyone? OK, the io address in that ne options line is wrong, then. At least, the card doesn't answer to 0x300. You can either try to find out what it should be (Did it work in the old OS? Did you note its settings down?), or play around a bit until it works. 0x280, 290, 2a0, 2b0, ... ... 0x330. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] networking probs
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

Hello All. Thanks for the help. >What does ifconfig -a show? shows "dummy0" and loopback. ># /etc/network/interfaces This not only shows the lo but iface dummy0 inet static...then all the correct IP info I want for the real thing. >So to add a new interface you would add a line to this file like: >iface eth0 inet <hostname-or-ip> I've edited it to show "eth0" in place of dummy0 now. Can I do it like that? (I'll find out!) /modules.conf show many protocols to be loaded for ppp and suchlike, but no mention of eth0. It does have "options ne iox300 irq=10" I've edited in "alias eth0 ne" now just before the above line.. The card is a D-Link DE-220P, which uses the ne driver. (PnP) ifconfig -a still shows dummy0. I think I can officially say I am bewildered now. Using ifconfig to try and bring up eth0 shows eth0: unknown interface: No such device ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x300 Anyone? Jen.

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Re: [Alug] networking probs
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > >dummy0? Shouldn't that go out on a real device instead? eth0 for me, > >normally. > Ah. I think I'm getting warm. I assumed "dummy0" was the name Debian gave > to eth0. (First time debian user after Red hat). No, eth0 is a kernel thing. dummy0 is the dummy interface. Your routing table is trying to route over dummy0 when it needs to be over eth0. What does ifconfig -a show? Now I can't remember where this is set up. /etc/networking or similar, I suspect. > I have also been looking for /conf.modules and don't have such a file. ITYM /etc/modules.conf... that other name was deprecated some time ago. -- MJR

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Re: Some good news was Re: [Alug] National Linux Day
by MJ Ray 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Great stuff. As you've suspected and have probably seen from the other list, the disclaimer is totally legally insecure, so we probably ought to come up with our own for the day. Anyone any good with boilerplate legal stuff like this? Anyone know of something we can crib without problems? -- MJR

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modems........ again!
by Christopher Brown 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Ok, I followed the advice and bought a linux modem from scan.......now how do I get suse to recognise it? I have tried yast1+2 with no success, I have been to the suse sight and followed their advice and still no joy...Yast keeps saying turn the modem on! (its on a pci card) please help before I give up and reboot to 98!!!

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Re: [Alug] networking probs
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

>dummy0? Shouldn't that go out on a real device instead? eth0 for me, >normally. Ah. I think I'm getting warm. I assumed "dummy0" was the name Debian gave to eth0. (First time debian user after Red hat). tcpdump is showing (as I just sent to Chris:) "When I ping, pinging my own IP shows echo request and reply using the loopback, but pinging the windows IP shows only an echo request, using dummy0. " I have also been looking for /conf.modules and don't have such a file. I need to look more closely here I think! Thanks. Do post any hints! Jenny.

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