Posts by kc0arf

Hi,

Netscape 7 should still be out there, along with traditional Mozilla.

Running a browser in Classic is not the smooth solution, either.

If you are not able to find Netscape 6/7 or Mozilla, let me know. I have some archives, and might be able to make an arrangement. ICAB is also available... search for icab on the google website.

Christian

Hello,

I am wondering if there is some sort of spam protection, or blacklist configuration, that is eating the emails reaching your friend. I think AOL offers that sort of service... and it could be the cause of the problem. You mentioned that you could reach other people on AOL... so we know that the DNS and other protocol features are working... unless you typed in your friend's account name wrong. Don't assume that a reply has the correct spelling.... people can make mistakes in that setup.

Christian

Hello,

That would be a great place to start... seeing if the HD was full.

Hello,

First, please do not post programming assistance questions in the Linux Tutorials area. That location is for sample codes and how-to articles, not requests.

Second, we do not allow emailing off-group of answers / solutions. Such a practice destroys a community, as the email will help you, yet it will not help the next guy.

And third, members of the community do not do homework for you as a rule. They help correct things, and inspire ideas, but do not do the work for you. They are going to want to see your efforts on the coding. If I were you, I would post it while you still have time.

Christian

Hello Gink,

Pleasure talking to you on the IRC by the way.

Windoze sees hard drives as a C: and a D: and so forth. They can be on the same physical disk (two partitions on the same disk), or can be different disks all together. They are defined, depending on what version of Windows you are using, by the Disk Administrator, or FDISK, or whatever you are running in the meantime.

It might be safe to say that your C: is on your Primary IDE, first partition. Then again, it might not be safe to say that. Best way to find out is to look at the hardware and see what IDE channel (Primary or Secondary) and then the partition number. You need to do this for both C: and D:

Linux references volumes in terms of their IDE channel, and their partition number.

/dev/hda is the IDE primary master
/dev/hdb is the IDE pirmary slave

/dev/hdc is the IDE secondary master
/dev/hdd is the IDE secondary slave

If you are using SCSI,

/dev/sda is the SCSI method.

Partition numbers are defined after the device...

/dev/hda3 is the third disk partition on the primary master.
/dev/hdc2 is the second disk partition on the secondary master.

Note that not all partitions on a hard drive are "data" locations. Some companies, like compaq, put a utility partition on the disk that is transparent to the OS.

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Hi,

I just wonder if instead of electrons and wires, we had pipes and water. Imagine a hydrolic computer. We would have leaks instead of bugs (wait, we do have memory leaks... better think of a different term... drips? But water under pressure doesn't drip... it squirts) so we have squirts instead of bugs, the power supply would be a pump, we wouldn't have to worry about floods and such.

We would not be able to use the hydrolic computer in subzero temperatures. So much for space travel.

Christian

Hi,

I wonder if one might consider Edison's vote ticker machine a computer. He did a number of things before the lightbulb.

Christian

Hello,

Well, she could be searching for another job while at work. Then again, technology cannot solve social problems.

Agree that this is not a programming issue. If she comes back and tells us what OS she is running, I can route it to the proper forum.

Christian

Hello,

Your information is very incomplete. Be sure to look up Atanatsoff at Iowa State University for his computer (Atanatsoff - Berry). Also look at the calculation engines that Blaise Pascal and others developed. And what about the development of Binary counting and addition... they did not come as easily / intuitively as counting on base 10... based on fingers and toes.

But I am also wondering if you copied this from somewhere, because your text mentions a (pictured below). Where is this picture? I wonder if you copied this off of a website somewhere.

Let's see your source.

Christian

Hello,

Very good. Always glad to serve.

Christian

Hello,

I would migrate from IE to another browser -- on both Windoze and Mac. IE on Mac is depreciated, meaning they do not work on it anymore to upgrade the software package.

Alternatives are Firefox, Safari, Opera...

Is there any special reason you have to use IE?

Christian

Hello,

I moved your post to a better location.... this is a Linux question, not a hardware problem.

Look in your RedHat 9 documentation concerning BIND.

You will probably come up with a few files in /etc that define your domain.

Are you going to use Webmin to configure it?

Christian

Hello,

To answer your questions:

1) Linux has a GUI environment called X-Windows that runs with Linux. You can choose to be pure text mode (likely for servers), or GUI for desktops. You can get into the text mode from the graphical one.

2) Linux is similar in the look and feel.... similar like the various flavors of English. Linux is very different from Windoze in the software distrobution category, user philosophies, and virus defenses.

3) Linux can connect to the internet. Dunno if voice with YM works or not. I have streamed audio over the internet, so I know that works.

4) Linux has USB yes.

5) Games are all over the place. If you are looking for the latest WarCraft or big-name games, probably not, but I can play chess on Linux quite well. There is a port of Civilization out there for linux, or you can try emulation. Linux is not intended to be your Atari / Xbox / Gameboy replacement.

6) You can use a CD burner. Depends if the hardware you have is supported or not.

7) I like Fedora and SuSE. Others may like other distrobutions.

8) It is not usually necessary to purchase linux, but you may certainly financially support the authors of the code. You might have to purchase a support contract if you expect to call them and talk to them on your various issues.

Christian

Hello,

Narue strikes me as a very experienced programmer, and she also cuts to the chase on program design. I only hope that she dismisses remarks about her character, and uses her volunteer time here to maintain the high level of excellence her experience offers us.

This thread, however, is about the conino.h file, and it's technical uses. It will not turn into a character debate; and if anyone tries, I'll lock and we will all move on. The moderator staff will also torpedo any new threads that deal with character in public.

Christian

Hello,

Dlegend asked me privately how to do the Fedora / XP installation. He has a 80 GB hard drive, and wants both systems on one hard drive.

There are two ways to do this: Move the partitions with a utility such as Partition Magic, or re-partition the hard drive from scratch, and install from scratch. The goal is to prevent XP from eating the entire 80 GB in one chunk. Either case, you NEED to backup data before you get any desire of moving ahead. What would I do? Re-install XP from scratch and define the partitions there.

Just some notes:

* XP needs to be installed first. If you do Fedora first, and then XP, Microsoft will eat your boot setup, and you will have troubles accessing your Linux side. XP First.

* While setting up XP, there is a place to define your partition size. In this case, make one partition 40 GB, and leave the rest undefined. Or, if you are like me, you make a C: for system, a D: for Applications and an E: for Data. However you do it, define your hard drive so that you have a good chunk available for linux (but undefined as far as XP is concerned).

* If you want a common XP / Linux partion, you can make one. Format it FAT32 though. Non-Windoze operating systems do not like NTFS. Reading modules are available, but I am not aware of certified …

Hello,

In my day, we made something called a "makefile" in order to bind it all together. Do a search on makefiles.... I have not built one in quite some time.

I also believe that when the compiler makes the first pass, and sees the .h file referenced, it simply adds that file's text to the main program. I don't think it makes it into a .o and then links them things together. I thought that the compiler command simply hauled the text into a compiler, and then let the dogs loose.

Do not quote me; it has been some time since school.

Christian

Hello,

I am wondering what Daystar has in mind for your computer. I have purchased 2 DayStar units in the past.... one for my LC to move it from 16 MHZ 68020 to a 40 MHZ 68040, and the second was for my Power Mac 7100 to go from 66 MHz PPC 601 to a 233 MHz 604.

Both units remain functional today. I do not remember what my costs were though here in the US.

Christian

Hello,

You betcha.

Also note that the new Macs from a year or so to current should have Gigabit already onboard.

Enjoy,

Christian

Hello,

This is a large question, and deserves to be answered in parts....

Sorry not sure how to edit my last post. Ok I have been thinking, I am about to give up on windows. It drives me nuts. I was reading online about using Linux Debian to host a web/mail server. I have a few questions before I go and install Linux.

Windows can do that to you. I get paid to fix broken Windows, and I love going home to my stable, working, happy, Linux / Mac environment. Linux is a NOS... Network Operating System. It is better to compare Linux with Windows 2003 Server, or Novell, although Linux has a desktop environment.

Any large distrobution of linux... RedHat/Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE should have what you want to do available.

Does Debian come with the software like Apache and Sendmail pre-installed? If not is there a version that does?

Major distros come with the packages available for installation. In the end, it all depends on what you would like to install.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks on how to use or setup Linux for a first-time user?

Come visit us in the Linux forum to find out more. I do not want to re-publish the manuals here. There are a lot of options. Be aware that you will not get this designed and setup overnight. It is best to plan. Give yourself some time to plan.

How would I configure …

Hello,

You might want to consider a Mac Laptop. Less desk space, and can give you the look and feel that you desire.

If you do not like OS X, you can consider YellowDogLinux, which is based on RedHat. It will work just fine on Apple hardware, and it does feel faster.

If you want to work with OS X, 333 Mhz, which is what I have, is about as slow as you want to go.

Christian

Hello,

It just happens to be where people who know something about the topic happen to read. It is more a matter of coincidence. Sometimes several hours can go between question and answer. Your topic is more of the luckier ones.

BTW, welcome to DaniWeb.

I do not know much about Ubuntu. I do know that Redhat / Fedora, with the programming modules installed, work well. When you install, be sure to select the packages, and give yourself a lot of hard drive space to work with. I would suggest 10GB Hard drive or larger for the whole thing.

Is this your first time working with linux? If so, Let us know, and we can suggest partition sizes, and walk you through it. You will learn more than just programming... you will learn engineering.

Christian

Hello,

You posted this code in the wrong forum.... it is not a tutorial. I moved it, and hope that you receive the comments you seek.

Christian

Hello,

I like RedHat / Fedora. It has worked well for me. I found Debian to be beyond user unfriendly. Documentation all over the place, but not organized in any one fashion.

If I were starting out today, I would be with Fedora, and with SuSE in second place.

Christian

Hello,

You are going to need to search for PCI cards that are Gigibit in speed, and work in Macintoshes that operate OS 9. Asante might make some... so may Farallon.

If these computers are really old, and are running with NuBus slots in them, then forget the idea. NuBus cards will not operate fast enough to support Gigabit. Well, the cards will... but the bus will not get the information to the processor in a reasonable time to support it.

Christian

Hello,

It sounds to me that you have Virtual PC installed, and are running an emulator for Windows on your computer... Apple II never had a C: Remember Applesoft Basic? It has a ] Prompt. Integer Basic had the > prompt.

I will need to go home tonight and see if there is an emulator out there that you want to work with.

Christian

Hello,

I am a network administrator by profession, and believe in solid network protection.

For dialup internet connections of temporary length, I encourage a firewall. For high-speed long term connections (cable/dsl) I demand firewall protection, or I walk away from the situation and let them suffer.

Firewall implementation can vary by design; some people prefer to firewall the main router, and let the other machines go naked; others firewall each machine on their own. I implement combination sets, so that I am protected outside of my own network when my laptop travels to other environments.

On the linux servers, I operate IPTABLES. I am considering converting to ShoreWall (I think that is what it is called) when I upgrade from RedHat 9 to Fedora sometime in the future. ShoreWall has a webmin module that should allow for easier configuration, although once I figured out IPTABLES, it is not too hard to modify for different needs.

On Windoze, I have used ZoneAlarm without trouble. For Windoze servers, I have set them up behind hardware and linux-based software firewalls.

And on my beloved Macintosh, I run the internal firewall. The Mac doesn't have any server services running on it, so the internal firewall works just fine for me.

Of course, larger companies with performance considerations will likely pop for a hardware firewall that should be faster than the software ones.

Christian

Hello,

I do not know enough about knoppix to see if it can survive as an installed, high-powered linux on a hard drive with the bells and whistles you would expect.

I work with RedHat, Fedora, and SuSE. All of them had options to install and configure IPTABLES... which was basically a script that called the program and configured it on the fly.

You might also have webmin at your disposal, and be able to setup SonicWall within that utility. I am thinking for my next upgrade of my main central server of going with the SonicWall defined within webmin.

DO NOT run WINE and a Windows firewall. Your core OS is Linux. You cannot expect a emulation to run in the right place of the operating system. Now, if you had a VM setup, then you could run a firewall within it, but no, not to cover the whole ball of wax.

Christian

Hello,

I would stay with the Macs. Aside from my personal loyalty to the brand, the arguement may be made that cross-platform diversity is a great idea. Let's say that a virus is brought into the lab, and it wipes out the entire Windows community. You at least have a lab of Macs there that others may use, and the internet may be used, and so forth.

Plus, you are at great risk of alienating your instructor, and she is the "customer" in this case, correct?

OS X will feel different than OS 9 to the lab, but it will work just fine... if not even better.

Now, if you price cost out the PC's, there will be in initial lower cost to get started, but the support costs... license upgrades, antivirus protection, server licenses, downtime... they will factor into the overall cost, and you should see the PC's be more expensive down the long run.

As long as you are out there thinking of things, and you mention that you are not die-hard Microsoft, you might consider a Linux server that will run Samba for your Windows people, and netatalk (or Samba too!) for your Mac people, and really cut down on licensing support costs. With VNC, you can remote manage a lot of the machines too!

Let us know if you want to go DEEP on getting this going. WOuld like to help. And if I miss on this thread, please message …

Hello,

While you are at it, you might want to consider doing that with Microsoft Office service packs too. And you can get the Office toolkit thingy and make your own MST files.

Christian

Hello,

When looking for software packages to work with, I demand cross-platform capability. Take a look at Photoshop, or Ragtime, or Adobe Acrobat, or Open Office. Mac Version. Windoze Version. Linux Version.

For things like Online calendaring and email, I look at web-driven programs such as eGroupware, a suite of email, calendaring, addressbooking, and other features all running in a web browser. If I need databasing, it will be MySQL.

I refuse to work with OS limited companies, such as Linksys, unless the customer demands it. I will then smile and do my thing. But when I have the choice, and the purchasing decisions are on my desk, I go with the ones that will work with other platforms.

Christian

Hello,

You either have a hardware failure or a software failure.

Look at the configuration screens on the access point, and see if the network is still defined based on how you set it up. See if someone hacked you by tapping into your network. See if the WEP security has changed.

Look at your adapter. Do you see any blinking lights like you used to?

I am assuming you are using Windoze. Is the device active and proper in the device manager? Are the protocols properly setup?

I personally do not like the Linksys equipment. They are RF noisy (meaning they transmit signals that should not) that interfere with my radio stuff. I have Buffalo Technologies access points, and a variety of adapter cards for my Mac and Linux laptops.

Christian

Hello,

It is possible to have an IDE RAID... defined through software. Both Windoze and Linux will allow you to do it, and I bet that Mac OS X will too (I do not have a Mac OS X to test it on, but the stuff is there).

You can have the two drives (the 160 GB, and the 80 gig) Mirror (RAID 1) each other, as long as the partition on the 160 GB is made equal to the partion size of the 80 GB. Be sure to research out the exact sizes.

It is possible to do what you are suggesting. I have seen it done... but I would suggest that you have different IDE controllers involved for max performance, and that you do not have the other half of the 160 being very busy... or you will loose performance. Perhaps have the back half of the drive used for backups.

Christian

Hello,

Apple's article says that it should handle 4 terabytes.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25557

The thing though is that the partions become very unmanagable. If something goes wrong, how do you backup such a large volume?

I like to see multiple partitions on big disks, just to break them up, and keep them managable. I like making 3 partitions on my systems: 1 for the system files, a second for the applications, and a third for all the data. Then, I backup the data partitions, and go about my day.

Christian

Hello,

It is possible that the drive wasn't unmounted properly on the previous computer. After you hit the verify button in Apple's Utility, did it enable the Repair button? If not, you will need something stronger than Disk Utility, such as Norton's or Disk Warrior. I am not a big fan of Norton anymore.... might want to look for other options.

Failing that, you may need to re-format and restore from backup.

Christian

Hello,

Kezz is right... you need to have the picture stored on some internet site, and post the link (address) of where the picture is stored. iPhoto is a local photo management utility.

Christian

Hello,

The books and directions told you to backup your data first. Not knowing what you did in your upgrade, I can only guess that you formatted the drive during the installation, and lost it all.

Your data should have survived the transition from 9 to 9.2 unless you did format and make a clean install. If you chose clean install, I believe it does format the drive.

OS 9 and Mac OS X are two very different operating systems. Data is stored in different locations, and programs look in different locations to find it.

You can find Palm Desktop for OS X, and sync the data properly. All the palm data will go into your OS X user profile, and sync as before.

If you didn't backup your data, it is very possible that it is gone.

I am sorry to disappoint you. But you now know about the real importance of backing up your data. If you would like some help on learning how to do this, let us know.

Christian

Hello,

What you have there is a G4 Tower computer that ran at 400 Mhz, with some expansion options. It is not the newest / fastest beast on the market, but for a good used price, it will make someone a nice home computer, or in the office for moderate tasks.

What do you plan on doing with the machine? If you need the fastest, newest, bang-for-buck, this model will not do it for you. Latest Macs are dual processor, 2 GHz units... much faster than this one. If you are doing digitial video / photo imaging, or running Quark / Indesign / Ragtime, you will probably want to look for something faster / newer.

If you are looking for college student type things, home use, non-time-critical things, it will be a nice computer, and serve you for a few years. It is faster than mine at home, and it looks like a nice machine.

I would deck it out with 512 MB of RAM, and put a CD/DVD burner in it though.

Christian

Hello,

Really depends on what OS your end users are working with on their computers. Windows 2003 Server, for example, has a shutdown command, that you can place a timer on and, work with. I don't think it has a place for a message, as interactive logins are not common on servers, unless you are running Terminal Services / Citrix. If you are running those applications, then you can message others using management tools contained within.

Looking at the problem from a network administration viewpoint, however, I do not like the idea of someone in another room just triggering a shutdown on me. I could be on a call supporting a customer, or I could be in a meeting and unable to save my data. Then again, you may have to decide to "amputate" that one user for the benifit of the greater good. If this becomes habit, you have other problems!

There is also a way to use the shutdown command across a network

shutdown /i

from a 2003 Server will give you a dialog box where you can add computers, give the users a warning of what you are up to. You would not be able to script this.

There is also

shutdown /r /m \\computername /t seconds /f {force shutdown, no warning}

If I were you, I would consider a remote control tool, such as VNC, that you can remotely trigger the service, and then login to the computer …

Hello,

You may want to do a search on World Clock. With my ham radio activities, I need something like this too. But I chose to track one down for my Palm Pilot instead, as I see desktop space as a premium.

Christian

Hello,

Music is very important to what I do, as it sets the mood, and lets others in the house (fiancee) know what my mood is, and what I am up to. It can also muffle out certain curse words that I may aim at the beastie!

Musical tastes differ though with what I am doing. If it is playing chess, I love to hear Weird Al Yankovic. If drawing a mechanical / architectural drawing, I enjoy Enya or Yanni. If doing web work, I prefer 70's to 90's such as Journey, Boston, Def Leppard. If web surfing, I prefer talk radio, and as it is in the evenings, Mike Reagon or Shortwave, or I will fire up my ham radio and listen to a net. And if my fiancee walks in, and I need a break, I put in some Air Supply or Chicago, and dance a slow song or two with her.

Unfortunately, my computer is a bit older (333 MHz Macintosh Laptop G3), so I notice playing mp3's hitting my system a little bit. I usually run the audio though a small amplifier, and a good old CD player.

And on special days, I get the albums out, and do the Boston Pops playing movie themes.

Christian

Hello,

I like the idea of placing that infomation on removable media, such as a CD-ROM or a DVD. I would make a second disk, and store that information in another location, in the event of a fire, or misplacement.

As long as you are running as the root/administrator of the computer, you cannot lock down the file system, aside from some encryption schemes that are beyond the scope of what you are trying to do. If you had a server, you could make a private share for that information, and then unmount that sharepoint when not in use, but that is not very practical.

Christian

Hello,

OpenOffice will also allow you to directly export to .pdf format. You will not have options to control the export to the degree that Acrobat Writer will allow (such as picture quality, including fonts or not), but it will make generic PDF files just fine.

And it is free.

Christian

Hello,

I would go into the Disk Management (part of compuer management), and take a look to see if the new drive is formatted, or if you need to do a security function (take ownership, re-assign rights) to the drive's existing information.

You may need to partition the drive, and then format it. I suggest that you do not do quick formats, and that you use ntfs.

Christian

Hello,

The question may be if you, or the person that setup linux on your computer, chose to install the C++ environment for you. The selections when setting up linux may be referred to as Development Libraries or Development Tools. You might need to go and add them to your linux environment.

Christian

Hello,

What OS are you working with? I am wondering if the USB devices on the computer need a driver update. Might even be BIOS related.

I would go to the laptop manufacturer's website, and look there for driver updates.

Christian

Hello,

It sounds to me that there is a DNS problem on the computer. A quick way to check that is to go to a working computer, and ping the address of a site you are trying to reach (ping www.daniweb.com). Then, find out the IP numbers (lets say 12.22.13.12) Go back to the mac, and in the browser window, type in the IP numbers. IF the site comes up, you have a DNS problem.

Check in the Network Properties tab of your computer to ensure it is properly setup, and that the DNS servers are correctly listed.

Christian

Hello,

Thank you for your patience. I was out ill, and unable to think.

First, Apple Macintosh is not the same as Apple II. The two computers are vastly different, separated by years of technology and systems revisions. The Apple II was based on a 6502 processor that was 8 bit, and the fastest speeds were around 2.5 MHz in the Apple IIgs. The early Macs were based on Motorola's 68000 chip, and today's Macs are Motorola / IBM PPC technology. DIfferent chips mean different program versions. IN order for anything of an Apple II era to work on a Mac, you will need a software emulator, and I think there are some on the market. Emulation = Translation however, so some programs will not work period.

You can download any file you want off the internet; the Mac will not stop you. The better question revolves around what you can do with that download. You can install Acrobat Reader, and open any .pdf files that you find. You can purchase MS Office, or install Open Office (Warning -- that is a Darwin / X program right now, so will not feature the look and feel of Mac OS X) and open up .doc and .xls and .ppt files.

There are shareware programs out there to play music .mp3 files with, there are shareware or inexpensive graphics programs out there (MacAmp, GIMP) and some freeware applications for Desktop publishing (Ragtime). It would be better to know …

Hello,

Alex is correct, although if pico is properly defined in the Unix path, you need to just type in "pico filename.c" or "pico filename.cpp" and away you go.

Pico is actually part of software that came from the UNiversity of Washington, and is the chosen editor for the PINE program. Pine is a smooth text based email reader program.

If pico isn't available, look at emacs. There is another one out there called joe. The default UNIX/Linux editor is vi, and well, vi is a challenge in her own right.

Christian

Hello,

You should be able to clone it with Ghost. Just make sure that the image partition is smaller than the destination partition.

Christian

Hello,

I like Novell, but it has irked me in several ways

-- Can still get a OS2 / WARP free client, but have to pay for a Macintosh
-- Groupwise postoffices can be a bear to work with
++ Becoming more like Linux with how it does things, core OS
++ Lots of nice web tools to manage the server
++ New developments in printing and volume pools and sorts
++ Able to offer Native Macintosh and Unix/Linux access w/o client

I also like Novell's simple IPX protocol to uploading/downloading GHOST images of computers. Works well, and is simple. Can make a floppy disk network enabler quite easily.

Christian