February 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Obtaining Web Address
by jack_beaton＠hotmail.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Jon Pennington wrote: > >On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, John P Carroll wrote: > > What is the proper source for a US citizen to obtain a web address? > > What are the limitations and advantages to various suffixes other than > > .com (.net, .org)? > >Contact the ISP that you plan on hosting your domain about this. They >probably >have a preferred registrar. As far as limitations and advantages, there >are no >limitations (except for .gov), but the advantage is proper marketing. > >.com - Commercial Site >.org - Non-Profit Organization >.net - Network Service Providers (ISPs, backbones) >.gov - Government Agency >.edu - Educational Institute I was under the impression that: .com was for multinational corporations .org was for international organisations .net was for international networks .int was for international governing bodies, etc. and so on for top level domains. And then after that everything was split into the .de, .nl, .uk, .us, etc. country domains (no offence if I've missed your country out!). The problem is that InterNic made a botch job of controlling who got what domain, so we've ended up in the mess that we're in. The top level .com, .net, etc. domains are *meant* to be for *international* companies/organisations/institutions, while country specifics go in the country domains. It's a shame that we in the US seem to be assuming the big top-level domains belong to us, e.g. that the .com domain is for *US* commercial organisations, when in fact we should be using the .com.us domain for 'Bubba's Cycle Store' in Smallville, Wyoming, not bubbacycles.com... Just my 0.02. Jack B. -- Jack Beaton jack_beaton(a)hotmail.com ** Linux - feel the power! ** ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] whateverhappenedto BB?
by hattons＠CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hey, what ever happened to Bodo Bauer? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] fortran g77
by fsanta＠arrakis.es 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hi everyone. My father wants to recreate the fortran stuff he coded on an ICL system in the late 70's. We have the source in ascii. We do a g77 'filename' and we get an error. The files read fine too in the text editor. /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld:test: File format not recognised ...etc etc. info gives us 500 plus pages to read, none of which say 'how to compile a fortran program' I know this is not SuSE but just maybe there is someone out there who could help. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Help! - environment variable
by genz1968＠mtu-net.ru 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hello, does anyone understand environment variables? I conpiled a program that transliterates character sets, and I don't understand the following instructions. I did make all These are the rest of the instructions. > After that, please change your working directory to the "./trans120/bin" > directory. There you will find files called "*" for U*IX and "*.bat" > for MS-DOS. This package is being maintained under Linux but has > originally been developed under MS-DOS. OK. I have these. > Please set an enviroment variable TRANS that points to the directory > where all the program sources reside *including* the trailing directory > separator character (e. g. TRANS="/usr/local/lib/trans/") which could > be a link to the actual directory. What is TRANS? And what is this TRANS="usr/local/lib/trans" ? There is no /usr/local/lib/trans directory. And I've never linked a directory. > It makes life much easier and you can create your programmes and > tables completely independend from the source tree. That lost me. > All Character > Encoding Description Files have to reside in the cedf subdir. > If you don't set a variable TRANS "/usr/local/lib/trans" will be > assumed (see file "tab.h", DIR_TRANS). Where do I set environment variables? I did the 'env' command. The manual has little about this. > To test the translator generator, type > > cd "$TRANS"bin > one There is a file 'one' and a file 'one.bat'. Typed 'one'. Did nothing. Thanks George -- My personal website http://www.firstnethou.com/gz/welcome.htm -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] mail
by fgs＠epulse.net 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hi, Having now acquired a permanent connection at work I am only using dial-up from home. However a problem has arrisen and I cannot ell if it is me or them. My connection goes through the NHS net (in the UK) and hence out to the rest of the world. When trying to send smtp mail from work I end up with error message about: ending smtp command then a while later unable to connect to server How do I go about finding how far my connection to server is getting before it is being blocked so that I can speak to whoever maintains that system? I am new to linux (and networks and permanent connections) so have mercy TIA Francesco. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Windows Manager opinion?
by wm25＠hotmail.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

I have decide to go to Gnome since it is more flexible and I like the GTK. More important thing is that I am sick of MS Windows interface and that is why I chose Gnome over KDE. Now I am looking for a windows manger that look nice and not too slow. Currently I am using E but I found it a little bit slow although I have a TNT2 card. It certainly looks great but ... It seems like the only other choices I have will be either Blackbox or Windows Maker. Could you guys give me some opinion over these two? Are they faster? Blackbox certainly looks better but don't know the performance. By the way, I have installed the Nvidia 's Linux driver and I wonder if I should still choose SVGA or Diamond Viper 770 in Yast? Thanks for all your help. WM ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] character set converter in SuSE?
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

George Zeigler <genz1968(a)mtu-net.ru> writes: > recode has no GUI :-( Doing a GUI for `recode' might be a major undertaking, given the number of possibilities and options... However, I'm starting to ponder the possibility, now that I reasonably learned Python, and intend to start studying GTK/pygtk more seriously in a few weeks. `recode' could surely be a good exercise, given I've practically no experience in GUI writing... I wonder and guess. The interface would be that if `recode' is called without any arguments, then it would launch the GUI? Maybe not the most efficient way to do it (as the GUI has to be a separate program), but probably the simplest, as I definitely want to keep `recode' unchanged, as a name for the batch program. Of course, do not hold your breath waiting for a GUI! :-) > I received a cyrillic text which I can't figure out the character set. > It's not KOI8 or CP1251. And recode does not guess. Automatically guessing character sets is surely not an easy challenge, especially when the character set has little redundancy, which is the usual case for narrow (8-bit) charsets. And resorting to recognise the natural language of the text is yet another whole level of difficulty. I'm definitely not competent enough for tackling any of these problems. One can never be sure, as users sometimes contribute surprising resources! > -k does not seem to apply to me. It might still be your best bet. You have to learn to use it. Of course, if the charset you are trying to identify is unknown to `recode', it has no chance of finding it. Experience with other users taught me that, usually, the charset is there, and `recode' might find it, if you hint it enough. > The documentation is intense, and after skimming through it, I'm still > not sure how the command lines work. Was the small tutorial chapter written, for the version you are using? It might help. About the "intensity" of the documentation, you understand that making it more "fluid" would also require making it much longer, and it is not short already. And there are many new features planned for the next releases, which will require documentation as well. Sigh! > I just want to convert from one character set to another. Say from > ISO-8859-5 to KOI-8 . I think "recode cyrillic..GOST_19768-74 old.rtf" > is correct. recode doesn't seem to create a new file, for instance > "recode cyrillic..GOST_19768-74 old.rtf new.rtf" is what I would like, > so as not to overwrite the file. But this did not work. The short tutorial explains how to do this with examples, and the full documentation also says it more formally. Just use: recode cyrillic..GOST_19768-74 <old.rtf >new.rtf Notice that charset names, before and after `..', may be abbreviated, as long as you do not introduce ambiguities. You may use only lower case if you want, and omit non alpha-numerics. Try some, `recode' will tell you if you made them too short. `recode' calls can often be written tersely. > The list of character sets and their aliasis makes for tough reading. > [...] Table format with a list of the character sets with alias in a > columns next to them would make for easier reading. This would be at the expense of some vertical space in the manual, but it might be worth it, yes. Thanks for your suggestions. Let me write again to you when I'll revisit your ideas for real work, yet probably not soon... -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] XFCE (stupid) QUESTION
by elinux＠subdimension.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hi, you can do "startxfce" or you can run "xfce_setup" so it will set it up as you default wm and the just run "startx" Erik -------------------------------------- FREE ANONYMOUS EMAIL! Sign up now. http://www.subdimension.com/freemail -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Network problem proxy server
by chris.reeves＠iname.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

MindBender wrote: > > Ok ... > what work is I can ping my SuSE box and do telnet on > it > Maybe is a router that I want admeting the router will > allow me to do telnet and ftp and web from my other > computer... to any other compute on the net, that is > ok with me....But so far when I try from the the other > computer to telnet a compute on the net it said that > the host is unknow... Right, what you want is IP masquerading then. You'll probably have to do some reading for this one, the most relevent texts being the ipchains and ip-masquerading HOWTOs. These should explain everything you need to do. Of course, if you have any problems, just give us a shout... that's what we're here for ;-) > Ps: I did edit my conf.modules but I still have to > setup my Ethernet card after boot time... Was the card set up in YaST? You should check to see if things are set up correctly in rc.config also. Interesting parts of rc.config include: NETCONFIG="_0" IPADDR_0="192.168.0.1" NETDEV_0="eth0" IFCONFIG_0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 up" not necessarily with those values though. What do you mean by set up anyway? Do you mean setting up IP addresses, etc. (for which the above is relevant), or actually getting the module to load? Tell us what you have to type in to 'set it up' and we'll see if we tell you where it's meant to go... Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Obtaining Web Address
by jpcarroll＠juno.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

What is the proper source for a US citizen to obtain a web address? What are the limitations and advantages to various suffixes other than .com (.net, .org)? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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