author: Pascal Bourguignon

text:
[email] writes:

Once a block has been allocated to a file, it cannot be removed.

You can make a file sparse by moving farther than the EOF and writting
a byte.  Then full blocks between the old EOF and the new byte won't
be allocated and will be read as null.  But once a block is allocated,
even if entirely null, it cannot be removed.

You'd have to create a new file, and copy data.  Not what you want...

You could rotate the accounting file and restart accounting to make it
go to the new file.  See logrotate(8).


author: Andrei Voropaev

subject: Re: Will sparse files help in deleting the initial part of an Accounting file?

text:
On 2005-03-18, [email] <[email]> wrote:
[...]

The editor simply truncated file to size zero and then wrote new
content. So inode stays the same but the size of the file (including
block count) is changed.


author: Becky

subject: DMS Upgrade Question

text:
We are currently on 47.1 DMSII. We're looking to upgrade to 49.1 in the
next month. Is it possible to skip versions and go directly to 49.1, or
will we need to plan to upgrade to 48.1 and then 49.1?


author: Andy Mountford

subject: Re: DMS Upgrade Question

text:
On 22 Jun 2005 12:45:19 -0700, "Becky" <[email]> wrote:

You can go directly from 47.1 to 49.1.

Regards,

Andy


subject: Re: DMS Upgrade Question

text:
Yes, you can skip to release 49.1 directly without need to upgrade to 48.1
, if you need help e-mail me .

mohammed


author: Jason Quinn

subject: Managing your notebooks

text:
I was curious if anybody would be willing to share there strategy for
managing their Mathematica notebook versions.

In my experience, Mathematica notebooks are "fragile" because running
the code is not cleanly separated from using the code. Notebooks
indicate modification after a cell is run even if no changes to the
code were made. In practice, after using a notebook for a while, it's
easy to forget if changes were actually made that you would want to
keep, so when you are prompted to save a notebook, you are left with a
dilemma. Staying safe, you save again and again which leads to a
proliferation of versions.

I am aware you can make cells edit protected but this doesn't solve
the problem. I also know about the "Notebook history" feature, which
seems to be of very limited value. I always end up with so many
"versions" of my notebooks that I forget what the differences between
them are.

I can't help but feel that I'm missing something. I have no problems
managing compiled code or interpreted scripts but notebooks are much
more challenging. Is this something you experience as well. Have you
too noticed extra difficulty managing your mathematica notebooks?

Comments? Suggestions?
Jason


author: David Bailey

subject: Re: Managing your notebooks

text:
On 09/04/2011 12:11, Jason Quinn wrote:
I develop code mostly in package (.m) files. These can be formatted very
much like notebooks (but with a few restrictions) - they can contain
headings, and text cells - all encoded as comments in the .m file on disk.

You can execute cells in a .m file, and obtain output cells, which are
not stored to disk, so the front end does not consider such files to be
modified each time something is executed.

If I really want to save some output, I use a notebook.

I normally back up fairly frequently, and I have a command, outside of
Mathematica that will copy a file to a special location with a unique
index number. Thus, when I need to save a .m file, I simply overwrite
what is there already, safe in the knowledge that I can't do much damage
even in the worst case!

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


author: ADL

subject: Re: Managing your notebooks

text:
On 9 Apr, 13:11, Jason Quinn <[email]> wrote:

For versioning .m files, I easily developed a GET function (similar to
the Get one), which operates like this:

GET[file] looks for any file (in my paths) of the form "file-nnn.m",
where the n are numbers, and loads the one with the highest number.

In this way, while saving my file versions, I simply add a progressive
number to the file and I'm sure to automatically load (or reload) only
the last one. If I am not happy, I delete the last and get
automatically back to the previous.

The same concept may be used to change directory.

ADL


author: Eric Gisin

subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

text:
Aron S. Spencer <[email]> wrote:

$$I just read an article in Inter@ctive Week that tested the
$$registration wizard in Win95.  The hooked up the system to intercept
$$the message and read what was being sent.  Guess What?  It was the
$$same info that the registration asked if it was ok to send.

$$You would think that if a couple of reporters working for a magazine
$$could figure out how to test the registration wizard, someone at
$$Motorola might be able to figure it out.

Obviously, you have no concept of network security.
Every credible report of what Registration Wizard does indicates that
it is a client, not a server. The user has to press the button to send
out the information, Microsoft or some cracker can't send a message
to Windows 95 and request the information from your computer.

Eric Gisin, [email]


author: Christian Ide

subject: Re: If OS2 is such a masterpiece...

text:
Wim Verveen wrote:

Believe me, this is just because of the poor performance of IBMs
WWW-server. If they had used the same server on all plattforms (e.g.
apache), or more realistic benchmarks (applicationserver, database with
DB2, printing) the results would  have been much different.

greetings
Christian


author: Yuri Shtil

subject: How to query DHCP parameters

text:
Hi,

Does anybody know how to query DHCP parameters that the system acquired ?

On Solaris there is a dhcpinfo utility that does it. Is there an
equivalent on Red Hat ?

Yuri.


author: Linux Doctor

subject: Re: How to query DHCP parameters

text:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 at 1:48am, Yuri Shtil <[email]> scribbled:

You're posting to RedHat groups, so here's one that may be specific to
RedHat (or maybe not):

/etc/dhcpc directory (AKA /etc/dhcpcd).  Way more than you need to know in
there.

Neall


author: Mike Barnlund

subject: Re: How to query DHCP parameters

text:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:48:27 GMT, Yuri Shtil <[email]> wrote:

If I understand your question... just type ifconfig. It'll bring up
all the info for eth0, eth1, etc.


author: Villy Kruse

subject: Re: How to query DHCP parameters

text:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:48:27 GMT,
    Yuri Shtil <[email]> wrote:

If the redhat system uses pump, run the command "pump -s".

Villy


author: S C Rigler

subject: Re: How to query DHCP parameters

text:
In article <[email]>, Mike Barnlund wrote:

"ifconfig" doesn't provide all information acquired by dhcp.
Looking at /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth?.info should show all the
config info.

-S


author: Ben

subject: crystal xbox


author: Tim Knight

subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
Hey Ben......

You really stepped on your donniker by posting that to this newsgroup.......

......the shitstorm will hit in about 5 minutes.

CT the Rabid


author: Don Hills

subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
In article <[email]>,
"Ben" <[email]> wrote:

Apology accepted. For what it's worth, we don't accept posts about
pl*yst*ti*ns either.


subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
By the way, Ben......

I have enclosed the URL which will show you a picture of the last idiot who
posted XBOX junk here:

http://poetry.rotten.com/twe/index3.html

CT the Ghoul


author: J. Clarke

subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
Ben wrote:

Ben, since you came back to respond, I'll explain the problem.  The name of
this newsgroup is "comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware".

Note the _third_ group in that name.  "IBM".  That's "Big Blue", "The
Colossus of Armonk", the name Stanley Kubrick shifted one letter to get the
name of the computer of the future, the company whose name for a very long
time was synonymous with "computer", the world's largest computer
manufacturer, International Business Machines.  If it ain't IBM we ain't
interested.   The "PS2" in the name of this newsgroup refers to the IBM
Personal System/2, a series of excellent (until you have disassembled a few
of them you don't realize _how_ excellent) small computers based on the
Intel 8086-Pentium processors and using a unique architecture called the
"Microchannel", which series failed in the market for reasons unrelated to
their performance or quality.

The closest IBM has come to producing a game console was the PC Junior, and
it wasn't all that close.  The #$^%station not an IBM product, and does not
as far as anybody knows use any IBM products in its manufacture.  It is not
interesting to the members of this group.  Neither is any other game
console with the possible exception of the Nintendo Gamecube, which uses an
IBM PowerPC processor, but we seldom see anyone coming here to discuss
those and the PowerPC is only marginally on topic anyway--there were no
PS/2s with the PowerPC, however there were RS/6000 workstations (all of
which use the PowerPC) with Microchannel architecture that could be
considered to be PS/2s by courtesy.  This same courtesy is extended to
those who want to discuss certain models from NCR, Apricot, and a few other
non-IBM brands that used the Microchannel architecture  This attitude may
soften a bit with the next generation #$%^station, which is also going to
use an IBM processor, and possibly the next generation xbox--it is not
clear exactly what IBM's involvement will be with that but there apparently
will be one, but I doubt that (a) it will soften very far or (b) that many
users of the ^%&*station 3 will show up here.

While there may be individual participants in this newsgroup who own game
consoles of one sort or another, they recognize with the rest of us that
this is not the place to discuss game consoles unless they are in some
manner being interfaced to a Personal System/2 or parts from them are being
used to repair a Personal System/2 or a Personal System/2 is intimately
involved in their use in some other manner.

So, it's not merely a matter of xboxes not really being accepted here, it's
a matter of game consoles as a whole not being remotely on topic.


author: Jason Whorton

subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
<SNIP>

The maker of the game console usually says p s 2, whereas IBM is PS/2.  For
a Usenet newsgroup, you can't have a slash in the name, so it throws people
off a little.  The best thing to do is to read a few posts in a group to see
what it is about first.

Hope this helps, and good luck on your search


subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
Ben wrote:

That's OK, you seem like a good guy.  Some of the %^*&station (note--we
don't spell the name here so that google searches for that product will
find as few hits as possible here) types who come here get quite nasty when
they find that they've come to the wrong shop.  But you might not want to
stay too long--the PS/2 addiction is catching and you may find yourself
suddently with a basement full of old computers with no idea how you
managed to accumulate them.


author: Graeme Roberts

subject: Re: crystal xbox

text:
"the PS/2 addiction is catching and you may find yourself  suddently with a
basement full of old computers with no idea how you managed to accumulate
them."

So thats how it happened..... :)

Graeme

"J. Clarke" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
when


author: Will Chapman

subject: Re: What to expect from 2.7

text:
<Gary Stark> carefully considered, then typed:

|| I also remember buying a Sony calculator in Beirut at that time for
|| $1500. I still have it (and it still works). It is in a neat leather
|
| But ...
|
|
| Do you still have a sly drool ?

At my age drools tend not to be classified, they seem
to happen spontaneously as one remembers the
'good old days'.....;>)~


author: Geoff Schaller

subject: Re: bBrowser rearranges columns on Use.

text:
Mathias,

Welcome to the club! May your data sets grows strong and healthy! <g>

arrayservers.
standard

Correct. And this is both preferred and logical behaviour. I considered this
a serious shortcomming of the old databrowser. Think about it. A column
object is explicitly related to a field in a server. If the field or server
is withdrawn, it is logical for the columns to be destroyed.

the

But you can have a simple array which holds a caption for a numerical
position. Further, you could create an array of pre-built column objects to
be assigned with each new Use(). Hence, all this can be fully automated.

make

Ahhhh... don't re- Use() the server on the browser, change the data array of
the server via its Use(). Then your columns are preserved because the server
and its structre haven't changed. This is also quite fast. Simply replace
the data array, refresh the browser and your new data will appear. This
presumes the structure remains the same.

Cheers,

Geoff


author: Marek Zgadzaj

subject: Re: bBrowser rearranges columns on Use.

text:
Mathias,

the

If all columns have theirs field's names in the captions than probably your
DBServer does not have the same fields as the database file itself. Check if
the DBserver has been generated from the databse and have all fields
definitions the same as the database fields.

Sometimes, for several column, bBrowser does not set the HyperLabel properly
which normally are taken from the FieldSpec's. Generally the field names as
a caption's are set for fields only for fields which exist in database but
not in DBserver object.

I've noticed that sometimes HyperLabel:Description is empty when this
HyperLabel is taken from the bBrowser:Server. But the same HyperLabel in
separate object of the same DBServer has set all HyperLabel properties as
expected.

I could'nt find the rule but when I set the HyperLabel's explicite than
Caption, Descriptions (for ToolTips) are shown correctly. In my code I use
this:

oColumn := bDataColumn{}...
oColumn:HyperLabel := oServer:FieldSpec( #YourField ):HyperLabel

Do not use oServer:FieldHyperlabel( #YourField) becase this object does not
contain the proper HyperLabel object. I do not know why.

You can take the HyperLabel directly from the FieldSpec object:
oColumn:HyperLabel := <FieldSpec class name>:HyperLabel // class name taken
from your  DBserver source code

At last you can set the HyperLabel object manually.
oColumn:HyperLabel := HyperLabel{...}

make

The above, have been solved by Michael Wittmer and described in SDT 2001/04
magazine pp. 37..39. "Setup persistence in GUI applications". I use
Michael's idea and found it very usefull.

Marek


author: Gary Stark

subject: Re: What to expect from 2.7

text:
Will,

Will Chapman wrote:

Yep.

But do you still have a sly drool ?

Clue: it's Strine - you need to say it aloud a few times ... <g>


author: Guenther Stiewi

subject: Re: Re: What to expect from 2.7

text:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:53:30 +0100, "Will Chapman" <[email]>
wrote:

In every old VO programmer there is a young person thinking "What the f* just
happened? Restart LIFE, breakpoint on method BIRTHDAY".


subject: Re: What to expect from 2.7

text:
<Gary Stark> carefully considered, then typed:

|
| But do you still have a sly drool ?
|
| Clue: it's Strine - you need to say it aloud a few times ... <g>

Gary

Finally got it. In my former incarnation as an organic chemist
we used them all the time; sadly they seem to have vanished
from my collection of artifacts (shame 'cos  I'd like to show
one to son David (currently doing A level maths)


subject: Re: bBrowser rearranges columns on Use.

text: No problem - just re-use the same server object and replace the data array.


subject: OT: Who still has a sly drool? (was What to expect from 2.7)

text:
Will,

Will Chapman wrote:

Cool. :)

I have a friend in Laguna Hills who has a collection of several. I've
personally never owned one.

I've changed the thread subject so that we can more readily see who
fesses up to having one

I'd be willing to bet that you couldn't buy one today for love or money.
How quickly did they become museum pieces?

Maybe your shipwright might still have one lying around?


author: Ed Ratcliffe

subject: Re: Who still has a sly drool? (was What to expect from 2.7)

text:
Gary,

Guilty... <BG>

Still have my first one, but don't have a clue where the one with all the
bells and whistles went, one of my kids probably took it to school to put in
their museum. <G>


subject: Re: bBrowser rearranges columns on Use.

text:
Ok, but you don't have to "fill" the array, you just "Use" it. In any event,
if you are manipulating the array in memory, I doubt it would take much
time. We re-sort arrays with 1000's of rows in fractions of a second.

Geoff

"Mathias Hï¿½kansson" <[email]> wrote in message
news:b8j8h7$acsk4$[email]...
whole


author: Marc Verkade

subject: Re: bBrowser rearranges columns on Use.

text:
Don't you have a code snippet of that mechanism?
Grtz, Marc

"Geoff Schaller" <[email]> schreef in bericht
news:Cjura.6706$[email]...
event,
destroy


subject: Re: bBrowser rearranges columns on Use.

text:
I'm doing a whole session on this at Cttm - can you wait just a few days?
<g>

"Marc Verkade" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...


author: WilsonCPU

subject: getElementById (NS6+) Syntax help needed

text:
There is a file, fframe.js, which Netscape (I believe) wrote to
provide IFRAME-like capabilities for NS4, with cross-browser support
for IE4+. But it doesn't work with NS6+. I'm trying to patch it, just starting,
and run into the following chunk of code, in a routine called fFrame, which is
setting up a scrolling object:

	this.layer = document.getElementById["scroll"+_numScrolls];
	this.layer.style.borderColor = this.borderColor;
	this.isInit = true;
	this.isSetup = true;

where we're creating divs/layers called 'scroll0', 'scroll1' etc.
The problem is it blows up on the second line shown, "this.layer has
no properties", and I have no idea why... I'm guessing the previous
line isn't working as expected, but am not sure... for reference, the
same lines working in IE4+ read (note only the first line has changed):
	this.layer = document.all["scroll"+_numScrolls];
	this.layer.style.borderColor = this.borderColor;
	this.isInit = true;
	this.isSetup = true;

Sorry to be such a newbie, but I'm just starting with getElementById
constructions.

- Mark
([email]; [email])


author: Thomas Mlynarczyk

subject: Re: getElementById (NS6+) Syntax help needed

text:
Also sprach WilsonCPU:

Can you tell me where I can download this or get some more info on it?

That should read
this.layer = document.getElementById("scroll"+_numScrolls);
(normal parentheses, no square brackets)


author: Mark Wilson

text:
Just FYI, I got the last few details worked out
on this floating-frames package, so it now works
on NS4, NS6+ and IE4+. Email me if interested -
it works great! Very sweet if you have to support
NS4 like I do and want to have cross-browser IFRAME-like
capability, including being able to switch the source
file for the frame on the fly. When I have a demo program
ready I'll post the URL.

*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!


text:
Thanks!  Plus (*blush*) I just realized that the ".layer" might be a problem
since NS6+ doesn't use layers! Probably have to change it to ".div" or
something... onward!

http://wp.netscape.com/computing/webbuilding/studio/feature1999v1n3-1.html

or, broken up for clarity:

http://wp.netscape.com
/computing/webbuilding/studio
/feature1999v1n3-1.html

- Mark


author: porterboy

subject: Adding Correlated Variables: What Happens the Spectrum?

text:
Suppose I have a stationary, non-white, zero-mean, Gaussian sequence
u(n) with power spectral density Su(w). If I now construct a sequence
v(n) = u(n)+u(n-1) what will be its psd Sv(w)? If u(n) was white you
would get Sv(w) = 2Su(w). However because u(n) is not white, it may be
that u(n) and u(n-1) are correlated. This non-independence manifests
itself in the cross-covariance Cov(u(n),u(n-1)) = Cov(u(n)) +
Cov(u(n-1)) -  2Cov(u(n)u(n-1)) which I found an earlier post on this
topic. However, I am interested in what happens the spectrum?


author: Rune Allnor

subject: Re: Adding Correlated Variables: What Happens the Spectrum?

text:
[email] (porterboy) wrote in message news:<[email]>...

Randy answered that.

Eh, how?

-----------------------------------------
Some definitions to ease writing:

u0(n) = u(n)
u1(n) = u(n-1)

Um(w) = FT{um(n)},               m = 0,1

where FT{x} is the Fourier Transform of x

Upq(w) = Up(w)*conj(Uq(w)),  p,q = 0,1
-----------------------------------------

I get

U0(w) = U1(w) = D(w),   where D(w) is Dirac's Delta function.
However,

   U01(w)= exp(j\phi)D(w)

for some phase shift \phi that is related to w and the delay n;
I guess

   \phi = 2pi/N

where N is the number of elements in the spectrum.

So what we end up with is that

  Sv(w) =/= 2Su(w).

They certainly are, no matter whether u(n) is white or not:

  r01(k) = E[u(n)u(n-1+k)]
  r00(k) = E[u(n)u(n+k)]

By change of variables one sees that r01(k) = r00(k+1).
More specifically, since u is white,

   r01(k) = D(k-1).

Which, of course, makes perfect sense: The original time series should
be perfectly correlated with a delayed version with itself, at the time
lag corresponding to the delay offset.

Just find the correct expressions (don't take for granted that my
sketches above are correct in every detail!) and squeeze them through
the FT.

Rune


author: Ersi

text:
[email] (porterboy) wrote in message news:<[email]>...

just a quick suggestion: your process is zero-mean, so I am gonna use
the correlation from now instead of the covariance.
You know the spectrum of the original process, so you know its
autocorrelation Ruu. All you now need is the correlation Ruu_1 of
u(n)*u(n-1) in terms of the known autocorrelation Ruu.  In the end,
the unknown expression in our calculation swill be

I=int(u(n)*u(n-1+t)dn, n=-infinity..infinity) where we assume that
u(n) is real (and get rid of the conjugates)

I=int(u(n)*u(n+x)dn, n=-infinity..infinity)=Ruu(x)=Ruu(t-1) (sorry I
am messing around with n and t..).

We also know that FT[Ruu(t)]=Su(w) (the known spectrum of the
process). How about
FT[I]=int(Ruu(t-1)exp(-iwt)dt,
t=-infinity..infinity)=int(Ruu(t-1)exp(-iw(t-1))exp(-iw)d(t-1))=exp(-iw)*S(w)?

I know something is wrong because we end up with a complex spectrum.
But, although my maths are not reliable I believe on general this is
the approach. A comment. For the spectrum to be real, the
autocorrelation function has to be an even function, so apparently I
did something wrong in that calculation there. A second comment is
about the stationarity of the new process. The notion of the spectrum
makes sense only for stationary processes (otherwise you are talking
about expecation values in the spectrum). Is the process u(n)+u(n-1)
stationary? Apparently I am a bit confused...


text:
OK, I had another look at this.

Sv(w) = (1/N)sum Rv(k) exp(-jwk) where Rv(k) is the autocorrelation of
v.

Now,
Rv(k) = E[(u(n)+u(n+1))(u(n+k)+u(n+1+k)]
      = E[u(n)u(n+k)]
        + E[u(n+1)u(n+1+k)]
        + E[u(n)u(n+1+k)]
        + E[u(n+1)u(n+k)]
      = 2Rv(k) + Rv(k+1) + Rv(k-1) by stationarity

Therefore

Sv(k) = 2Su(w) + Su(w)exp(jw) + Su(w)exp(-jw) by the shift theorem
      = 4Su(w)cos^2(w/2)

---------oOo------------

I'd be interested in getting a more general result than this where,
for example the coloured sequence v(n) is defined by filtering white
noise with a more general filter than  g = [1 1] (which is what is
used above). I'll have a crack at it and post it if I get anywhere.


author: Randy Yates

text:
[email] (porterboy) writes:

Sv(w) = Su(w) * |H(w)|^2, where H(w) is the filter's frequency
response, or in the case of a digital filter, H(w) = H(z), z=e^(jw/Fs).

Note that the distribution does not affect the power spectrum.


text:
Thanks for your input Rune...

I guess I was unclear. When I said u(n) is white, I meant it was
spectrally white and not temporally white. In that case U0(w) = No/2
not D(w).

All this spectral stuff is giving me a headache,  not least because
Matlab have obsoleted psd.m and are now using pwelch.m (this happened
ages ago, but I haven't been on the new version very long), and now my
scale factors are all wrong <end whinge :>.

As Jerry said Sv(w) = Su(w)|F(e^jw)|^2 which is what I wanted of
course. The reason I got confused was that I was considering the
following system:
       ______
u(n) -| f(n) |--(d2)-- v(n)
      `------'
where d2 is a downsampler by 2. In that case Sv(w) is not equal to
Su(w)|F|^2.
I know that

V(z) = 0.5[ U.F(z^0.5) + U.F(-z^0.5) ]

and I was trying to work out Sv(w).

So far I have

Sv(w) = 0.25[ Su(w/2)|F(w/2)|^2 + Su(pi+w/2)|F(pi+w/2)|^2
               + E[U.F(w/2).U*.F*(pi+w/2)]
               + E[U*F*(w/2).U.F(pi+w/2)]]

But I dont know how to deal with the last two terms... YET!


author: Dilip V. Sarwate

text:
"porterboy" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

That's a welcome change from posting questions as you walk out
the door in the evening, confidently expecting the Americans to
have posted the answer by next morning.  We all hope that you
will have posted the answer by the time we come in to work
tomorrow morning...  :-)  :-)


text:
[email] (porterboy) wrote in message news:<[email]>...

Of course. My mistake.

Make sure you let everybody here know, when you find out. From what
I can see, you have stumbled across the reason why everybody are
so concerned with pre-filtering with low pass filters, before
downsampling. If you don't make sure the Nyquist criterion is met
prior to downsampling, bad things happen in the signal.

Rune


text:
"Dilip V. Sarwate" <[email]> wrote in message news:<cftd30$sui$[email]>...

That's what makes USENET so useful, isn't it, "get the job done while
you sleep"...   ;)

Rune


text:
ROTFL!!! yes its true, I can be a real lazy bastard. Well, actually
the answer is obvious, and was posted by Jerry. I was thinking of a
downsampled signal which is why the answer didn't seem obvious
initially.


author: Jerry Avins

text:
porterboy wrote:

No credit where not due. This is my only message so far in this thread.

Jerry


author: Curtis Fennell

subject: Problems with NetAudio on Sparc 5

text:
I'm having problems running NetAudio on a sparc 5.  I have installed
one kernel patch on the sparc to allow the local audio programs to
work (such as the "play" program that comes in /usr/demo/SOUND), but
my NetAudio server on the sparc steadfastidly refuses to play sounds.

Configuration:

Sparc 5 running SunOS 4.1.3_U1
X11R6 (from MIT)
NetAudio server version nas-1.2p1

Symptoms: the audioserver starts fine, but none of the programs that
play sounds to the audioserver will work.  When trying "auplay", for
example, the program just hangs until interrupted.

If anyone has any information on this problem, I'd appreciate any
insight.

Thanks,

Curt Fennell		      Unix System Administrator
email:  [email]          GTE Laboratories, Incorporated
Phone:  (617) 466-2142        40 Sylvan Road
FAX:    (617) 466-2682        Waltham, MA 02254


subject: Re: Problems with NetAudio on Sparc 5

text:
In article <3a7pi2$[email]> [email] (Curtis Fennell) writes:
   I'm having problems running NetAudio on a sparc 5.  I have installed
   one kernel patch on the sparc to allow the local audio programs to
   work (such as the "play" program that comes in /usr/demo/SOUND), but
   my NetAudio server on the sparc steadfastidly refuses to play sounds.

In order to use audio on the Sparc 5 you MUST get some patches from Sun.
Since I am running Solaris 2.x I do not know the SunOS 4.1.3 patch
numbers.

As your rep.


author: Kris Kwilas

subject: IBM ANN: GAMERS GET WARPED THIS CHRISTMAS

text:
PSP PRESS REL:  GAMERS GET WARPED THIS CHRISTMAS

 Eight New OS/2 Warp Games On The Way For Action-Hungry Gamers

      AUSTIN, Texas, December 13, 1995 . . .This month OS/2* Warp
 users can get their hands on eight new, native OS/2 games for a
 mind-blowing 32-bit gaming experience.

      "OS/2 Warp is the strongest gaming platform around and,
 judging by our sales, OS/2 customers are buying games at record
 rates," said Bradley Wardell, president of Stardock Systems, Inc.
 and developer of OS/2 games such as Galactic Civilizations.  "In
 fact, for the past year, users have consistently voted Galactic
 Civilizations into the top five most popular games on the weekly
 Internet Top 100."

      The new games line-up includes the MicroLearn Game Pack
 Volume II** from MSR Development Corporation; SimCity 2000**,
 SimTown** and Widget Workshop** from Maxis; and Galactic
 Civilizations** 2.0 and Avarice** Preview from Stardock Systems.
 Stardock also will release betas of Master of the Empire** and
 Entrepreneur** in December.

      MSR's MicroLearn Game Pack Volume II, a collection of eight
 arcade-style brain teasers on the market since October, has
 already proven to be a hot holiday seller.  "Interest is really
 picking up for the MicroLearn Game Pack," said Dudley Westlake,
 executive vice president, MSR.  "It was the number-two selling
 game at Indelible Blue in November and its overall sales for the
 month were triple those for October."   The game pack challenges
 players to mind-exhausting logic, maze and concentration matches.

      Maxis' popular SimCity 2000, shipping for the OS/2 platform
 this week, puts players in the mayor's office and provides all
 the tools needed to plan, lay out, build and manage a city
 against threats from natural and man-made forces.  The makers of
 SimCity 2000 enhanced the popular SimCity by adding a terrain
 editor, a more intuitive user interface and an underground level
 for creating water pipelines and a subway system.  SimCity 2000
 combines dozens of authentic city features, realistic
 three-dimensional graphics and the kind of engrossing gameplay
 that made the original SimCity so successful.   SimTown brings
 SimCity to an easier level for children who are ages 8-12, while
 Widget Workshop allows kids to play the role of mad scientist in
 a computerized laboratory.  SimTown and Widget Workshop will be
 available later this month.

      Galactic Civilizations 2.0, the sequel to Stardock's
 award-winning space strategy game, comes with improved graphics
 and music, and networking hooks with add-on capabilities so that
 a third player can be added to the game over the Internet.

      "Stardock's Galactic Civilizations 2.0 builds upon the
 proven foundation of OS/2 Warp and the absorbing gameplay of
 Galactic Civilizations 1.0 to set a new standard in
 high-performance strategy gaming," said Kris Kwilas, a student at
 the University of Illinois and avid GalCiv player.   "With an
 advanced artificial intelligence engine, 24-bit graphics, a
 stunning stereo soundtrack, and hooks for gaming over the
 Internet, Galactic Civilizations 2.0 creates an addiction that
 many gamers will find hard to resist."

      Stardock's new Avarice Preview is a virtual reality
 adventure/mystery that uses OS/2's 32-bit memory addressing and
 multithreading to render unprecedented realism as players sleuth
 through their rich uncle's home to discover the secrets of his
 estate.  Master of the Empire, Stardock's planetary conquest
 game, pits players against human or computer controlled empires
 on a quest to conquer the world, city by city.  This beta allows
 players to get involved with the game's development in order to
 help make Master of the Empire a next-generation strategy game.
 Stardock's Entrepreneur mirrors today's business landscape.
 Players start a company, develop products and try to conquer the
 world.  Through business alliances and wars, the fate of the
 corporate world rests in the players' hands.

 Prices and Availability***

 MSR's MicroLearn Game Pack Volume II -- Available now through MSR
 for $64.95.  Call 409-564-1862.

 Maxis' SimCity 2000 -- Available this week through Maxis for $49.95.
 Call 800-526-2947 or 800-52-Maxis.

 Maxis' SimTown and Widget Workshop -- Available in late
 December through Maxis for $39.95 each.
 Call 800-526-2947 or 800-52-Maxis.

 Stardock's Galactic Civilizations 2.0 -- Available this week
 through Stardock for $49.95.  Upgrade from v1.0 is $29.95.
 Call 313-453-0328.

 Stardock's Avarice Preview-- Available this week through
 Stardock for $29.95. Comes with a coupon for Avarice:
 The Complete Saga (the sequel).   Call 313-453-0328.

 Stardock's Master of the Empire beta -- Available this week
 through Stardock for $36.00.  Beta customers receive final
 product free of charge.   Call 313-453-0328.

 Stardock's Entrepreneur beta -- Available this week through
 Stardock for $35.00.  Beta customers receive final product
 free of charge.  Call 313-453-0328.

 OS/2 Warp -- A Top-notch Gaming Platform

      OS/2 Warp, IBM's third-generation 32-bit operating system,
 comes with all necessary equipment for a premiere gaming
 encounter, including first-class audio/video synchronization,
 enhanced memory management and 32-bit preemptive multitasking and
 multithreading capabilities.  OS/2 Warp Connect adds networking
 features which enable increasingly popular Internet multiplayer
 games.

      OS/2 Warp also comes with the DIVE (Direct Interface Video
 Extensions) programming tool for developers, giving them direct
 access to the video drivers needed to perform high-speed animated
 graphics critical for action-based games.  IBM recently made
 available the OS/2 Warp Entertainment Toolkit beta with new
 video, audio, joystick and networking enhancements to help OS/2
 developers create even more exciting PC entertainment titles.
 The OS/2 Warp Entertainment Toolkit is expected to be generally
 available in the first quarter of 1996.

                                ###

 *   OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM.
 **  All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of
     their respective companies.
 *** Prices and availability provided by vendors as of release
     date.

Kris

----------------------------------------------------------
Kris Kwilas                                [email]
----------------------------------------------------------
Author of the Highly Unofficial IBM OS/2 Beta FAQ(12/8/95)
Available from http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~kwilas/
----------------------------------------------------------
Brought to you by the letters O and S, and the number 2.


author: ian ward

subject: accessing dlls using a jni in tomcat

text:
Hello,
I have some dlls and a corresponding set of jni classes which are part
of my jar which I want to run as a web server in tomcat. I think that
the jar is in the right place (webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\lib) but I'm not
sure where I need to put the dlls. Up to now, while developing/testing
outside of tomcat I have put the jar and the dlls in the same folder
but that doesn't seem to do it. I may have to set some sort of system
variable like path (which I understand is the java.library.path under
windows (xp)). I have tried this but again no joy.

Strangely, I got the thing working for a while, don't know how (moving
files around etc), but that seems to have been a flash in the pan. I'm
trying to launch the jar from a jsp page, via a useBean action and I
get a 'page can't be displayed' message and tomcat crashes and I have
to restart so I don't get any help.

I'm starting to get to the hair-tearing stage so any help, pointers,
suggestions would be very welcome.
Thanks
Ian


subject: Re: accessing dlls using a jni in tomcat

text:
Thanks for the reply.

I have tried putting them in windows\system32 (but I suppose any folder
will do provided it's quoted in the path). This didn't seem to work but
I'll try again, I haven't always had 100% success with PATH.

So I don't need to worry about what the "working directory" is?

Haven't quite followed your reasoning on relaunching as a service etc.
Anyhow, if I can fix it, then restarting the OS is not very serious -
once it's fixed it's fixed, no?

For the JNI classes, I'm not intending to have them in common so I
suppose it doesn't really matter that I haven't understood your remark
about separate class loaders and failing loads!

Ian


author: Alan Krueger

text:
ian ward wrote:

Just put them somewhere in the Windows PATH.  You'll need to reboot
Windows if you change the PATH environment variable and have Tomcat
launched as a service, since the Service Control Manager doesn't appear
to reload environment variables until it's restarted, which can't (IIRC)
be done without rebooting the entire operating system.

Also, you may want to put the JNI Java classes into Tomcat's common/lib
directory if you want to use these JNI classes in more than one web
application.  Otherwise, they might be loaded using separate class
loaders and any after the first load will fail.


author: Klaus Ahrens

subject: Unresolved overloading

text:
hi haskellians,

while learning haskell, i tried to play with a set impl based on lists
which contains

join :: Eq a => [a] -> [a] -> [a]
join [] m2 = m2
join (x:xs) m2 = join xs (include x m2)

include :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [a]
include x m
  | elem x m  = m
  | otherwise   = x:m

which seems to work unless applied to two empty 'sets':

Main> join [] []
ERROR - Unresolved overloading
*** Type       : Eq a => [a]
*** Expression : join [] []

how to fix that?


author: Lauri Alanko

subject: Re: Unresolved overloading

text:
In article <e00os7$hlh$[email]>,
Klaus Ahrens  <[email]> wrote:

This shouldn't be a problem in practice, as usually you know the type
of at least one of the arguments or the return value. You can give any
of them explicitly. So try (join ([] :: [Int]) []) or
(join [] [] :: [Int]).

Lauri


author: Lukas Mai

subject: Re: Unresolved overloading

text:
Klaus Ahrens <[email]> schrob:

Hmm, it works here:
*Main> join [] []
[]

I'm using ghci (GHC 6.4.1). Hmm, it also works in hugs:
Main> join [] []
[]
Main> :version
-- Hugs Version March 2005

HTH, Lukas


author: Shyamal Prasad

subject: Re: Unresolved overloading

text:
Klaus> hi haskellians, while learning haskell, i tried to play
    Klaus> with a set impl based on lists which contains

    Klaus> join :: Eq a => [a] -> [a] -> [a]
    Klaus> join [] m2 = m2
    Klaus> join (x:xs) m2 = join xs (include x m2)

    Klaus> include :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [a]
    Klaus> include x m
    Klaus>   | elem x m = m
    Klaus>   | otherwise = x:m

    Klaus> which seems to work unless applied to two empty 'sets':

    Main> join [] []
    Klaus> ERROR - Unresolved overloading
    Klaus> *** Type : Eq a => [a] ***
    Klaus> Expression : join [] []

Hmmm...works here with Hugs Version November 2003 and GHCi 6.2.2.

Are you sure you are actually loading the code you included above?:

Cheers!
Shyamal


subject: Re: Unresolved overloading

text:
Shyamal Prasad schrieb:

sorry, i had a november 2002 hugs ...


author: Alexey A. Antonov

subject: Re: HELP: CListControl - Multi-select without control key.

text:
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:59:16 -0700, [email] wrote:

Use Multiple Selection Style (not Extended).


author: Joe Buck

subject: Re: Browser Market Share?

text:
Warren Steel <[email]> writes:

(Off-topic, but this statement should be corrected)

No, it's not an intuition: undercounts are estimated by the Census Bureau
by going out and doing a sample later on to get an estimate of how many
people were missed, using methodology similar to that used by pollsters.
They don't _assume_ undercounts, they _measure_ the undercount.
The proposed adjustments are based on real numerical data (though of
course this data has a sampling error), not intuition.  Any demographer
would tell you that the proposed statistical corrections, combined with
the original census data, would improve the accuracy of the result.  As
these corrections would also clearly benefit one political party and harm
the other, they are unlikely to be applied in the near future.

(Back on topic)

While it's not possible to get the exact number of people using each
broswer, it's possible to count uncachable transactions to get estimates.
Any reliable number has to take into account that the fraction of people
visiting a given site with each browser may be different from the fraction
that visit some other site (to take extreme examples, the home page for
Netscape isn't visited nearly as often by folks with IE).  Pages devoted
to scientific work are going to get a lot more Unix people than pages
devoted to soap operas.  Nevertheless, estimates *are* possible: some
folks in this discussion seem to have an interest in keeping this question
fuzzy, because they might not like the answer.


author: James Baker

subject: Parameters into a query

text:
Hi, i'm pretty new to programming, so feel free to laugh at my
insignificance. :D

At the moment, i'm trying to write a login screen, i've created a data
environment which connects via jet to an access database.

The database consists of two fields; username and password. What i'm trying
to do is get the user to type in their username and password into two
textboxes, and the program then compares what they've written to what's in
the database, if it's there they're let in, if it's not they're not. If you
catch my drift.

I'm trying a route of using an SQL command object to search the database for
what they've written, but i can't for the life of me work out how to pass
the parameter of what they've written to the SQL statement.

Could anybody please give me a hand? It would be gratefully appreciated. :)

James


author: SD

subject: Re: Parameters into a query

text:
James Baker wrote:
I created a recordset and set the filter to what the user types in as
Username. If recordset.count = 1 (I assume username is unique in the db)
then bingo, uve got the user otherwise uve not. IF you have got the user
then read the password field of the recordset and compare passwords.

The problem with the above code is that filters are not case sensitive.
To make the username case sensitive, read the username from the
recordset and compare that too.

Siddharth


subject: Re: Parameters into a query

text:
hi again,

Sorry if this is a stupid question. But how do you set the recordset filter?

Thanks for your help

James


subject: Re: Parameters into a query

text:
James Baker wrote:
recordsetname.filter = "Username = '" & txtUsername & "'"


author: Shanimal Shanahan

subject: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Due to popular demand, I started a new thread to dig more deep into the
subject, and to also prove what
an a-hole that Darren "Margie" Remington is.

As a comeback to the completely legitimate OpenGL benchmarks, simpletons
like Darren deluged the thread with B.S. about Linux beating WinXP in a game
called Quake 3. Nothing like changing the subject guys. I was told that I am
a liar for posting this OpenGL comparison. Someone is in denial, and it
isn't me! Does anyone see a difference between the Graphics Performance
Characterization (GPC) Group, and a hardware news website?

An Overview of the GPC Group
The GPC Group has developed into an umbrella organization for autonomous
project groups that develop new graphics benchmark methods and performance
reporting procedures. The group supports the development of a range of
graphics benchmarks that have a value to the user and vendor communities

Q. Why was the SPECapcSM project group formed?
A. Within SPEC's Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Group there was
a strong belief that it is important to benchmark graphics performance based
on actual applications. Application-level benchmarks exist, but they are not
standardized and they do not cover a wide range of application areas. The
Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) group feels that end
users will benefit from a broad-ranging set of standardized benchmarks for
graphics-intensive applications.

Q. Is it appropriate that vendors drive this effort?
A. Industry vendors have the highest level of interest in developing these
benchmarks, but the development process will stem from interaction with user
groups, publications, application developers and others. There is sometimes
a perception that "vendor-driven" benchmarks are less objective. In fact,
these types of consortium-developed benchmarks are likely to be the most
objective, since there is a natural system of checks and balances due to the
specific market interests of different vendors.

The following article was pointed to as the final and only evidence that
Linux beats Windows in OpenGL applications (of course, it is a game!):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23755.html

When I pointed out that it was rediculous that they would seriously install
WinXP on a FAT drive, not even FAT 32!
I didn't hear anyone complain about the file system that Linux was installed
on, but then I don't claim to be a Linux expert, and never will claim to be.
Even the author of the great benchmark later added the following note to the
above link

Note: A large number of Reg readers have written to ask why the filesystems
Reiser and FAT were used. The reason is simple: for now I'm looking into
real-world situations, not optimized ones. Most XP users will be upgrading,
so that means FAT since NTFS isn't available in the home edition upgrade.
Most if not all recent Linux distros default to ext3 or Reiser, and most new
users will accept the default. The best comparison of I/O performance would
be between ext2 and NTFS, of course; but that's for a separate item which
I'll do in future. --tcg

Personally, I would never upgrade an OS this way. You can upgrade a whole
bunch of problems doing this with any MS OS. It is always better to backup
your data, and format the hard drive when you install any OS. The 'real
world' excuse that the author uses as to why he installed on fat is
laughable! Just because most users will install XP the wrong way, lets use
that as our benchmark. I find it easier to educate people not to buy the
upgrade version, than to recreate their mistakes and publish to the world
how not to do things!

"Darren" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

"Darren" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Right on the Win XP box it clearly states 'Built on NT...'. If that isn't
true, or if you don't beleive it try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/inst
allnew.asp
NTFS: The NT file system (NTFS) is used with the Windows NT, Windows 2000,
and Windows XP operating systems. NTFS provides enhanced reliability,
stability, and security, and supports large hard disks of up to 2 terabytes
(TB).

http://computers.lycos.com/software/xp3.asp
The default file system for the Home edition of Windows XP is NTFS,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306559
NTFS File System
An advanced file system that provides performance, security, reliability,
and advanced features that are not found in any version of FAT. For example,
NTFS guarantees volume consistency by using standard transaction logging and
recovery techniques. If a system fails, NTFS uses its log file and
checkpoint information to restore the consistency of the file system. In
Windows 2000 and Windows XP, NTFS also provides advanced features such as
file and folder permissions, encryption, disk quotas, and compression.

It is obvious that the following 6 'real world OpenGL application'
benchmarks are a good barometer of OpenGL performance. I agree when they
say:

"The Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) group feels that end
users will benefit from a broad-ranging set of standardized benchmarks for
graphics-intensive applications. "

This is the best that I could find. It was pointed out that you could look
at these results and find some very positive signs for Linux. The IBM
workstatiosn for example. IBM was the smartest of the submitters, they
submitted the same hardware with several OS's, and on many of the tests,
Linux beat Windows.

If Compaq or Dell could get better scores out of Linux also, I have no idea
why they don't try it. I do know that it is in their best interest to submit
the fastest systems that they can configure. I know that Compaq has a very
active Linux group, and I would encourage them to submit their fastest
workstation running Red Hats latest and greatest.

There is no voodoo here, and I have no connection to MS. These are 6 real
benchmarks and I looked at both the performance only, and price/performance
results. For each test, I noted the top 3 scores. That is a possibility of
36 top 3 results. Windows takes 33, and Linux takes 3 of the top scores of
submitted by the vendors.

I'm not lying, but if you were paying attention, you will agree that Margie
Remington is a moron.; When he is not bragging about how much he makes, he
is making attempts at changing the subject. For example

This was his direct response to my post concerning benchmark graphics
performance based on actual applications.
Nothing about games, I am talking real world applications!

to recap:
As of Jan 18th 2002 the winners are:

Medal count, totals include performance only and
price/performance scores

OS________Gold_____Silver_____Bronze____Total medals
Windows____5_______4__________6_________33
Linux______1_______2__________0_________3

Look on the bright side, linux advocates, you took 4th place in Mechanical
CAD (MedMCAD-01) which is impressive for such a sorry
group of OS's that Linux is.

The facts show that this is just another market that
Windows DOMINATES!

special thanks to the price/performance results:

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/procdrs-perf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Pro/Designer (ProCDRS-03) Results Summary (by performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1-4 Windows
#5 Linux

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/medmcad-perf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Mechanical CAD (MedMCAD-01) Results Summary (by performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1-3 Windows
#4 Linux
#5 Windows

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/light-perf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Lightscape (Light-04) Results Summary (by performance)
top 10 scores are from OS:
#1-8 WINDOWS
#9 Linux
#10 Windows

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/dx-perf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Data Explorer (DX-06) Results Summary (by performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1-5 WINDOWS

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/drv-perf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Design Review (DRV-07) Results Summary (by performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1-4 Windows
#5 Linux

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/awadvs-perf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-04) Results Summary (by performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1-4 Windows
#5 Linux

Of 12 possible 'pewrformance only' first place finishes, Winodws takes 11.
Congratulations to Linux for taking one first place, I'm very impressed.
Nice job on 5 fifth place finishes!

For more info:
http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/procdrs-priceperf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Pro/Designer (ProCDRS-03) Report Summary (by price/performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1 Windows
#2 Linux
#3-4 Windows
#5 Linux

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/medmcad-priceperf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Mechanical CAD (MedMCAD-01) Report Summary (by price/performance)
top 5 scores are from OS:
#1 Windows
#2 Linux
#3-4 Windows
#5 Linux

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/light-priceperf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Lightscape (Light-04) Report Summary (by price/performance)
#1-4 Windows
#5 Linux

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/dx-priceperf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Data Explorer (DX-06) Report Summary (by price/performance)
#1-4 WINDOWS
#5 Linux

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/drv-priceperf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Design Review (DRV-07) Report Summary (by price/performance)
#1 LINUX
#2-5 Windows

http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/awadvs-priceperf.html
SPEC OpenGL Performance Characterization Project
Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-04) Report Summary (by price/performance)
#1-4 WINDOWS
#5 Linux


author: GreyCloud

subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/inst
Doesn't look all that good of a report, if not pure FUD.


author: Darren

subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
I feel so loved. :)

The problem with EVERY one of your posts, Shanimal (aka Mildred)
Shanahan, is that you misrepresented WHAT the numbers meant. I never said
the benchmarks were rigged or false. What I said was that your
presentation using them was FALSE. You're the liar and you used some
fairly obscure stats to support a false claim.

I also pointed out, that in the real world, Linux was performing better
with OpenGL than MS-WindowsXP. Real facts for the real user to get a real
feel of how things stack up against each other. An apples to apples
comparison, as any proper OS comparison is done.

And even in those benchmarks you kept spouting off about - on the same
hardware, Linux got better results that MS-Windows.

That's it. End of story.

I've noticed that in the time that I've taken up
following COLA again, you have said nothing that could
be construed as being the least bit constructive with
regards to "Linux Advocacy".

I used to be negative like that too - only I was 10 years-old at the
time, and have since 'grown-up'.

Darren
--No job is too small for dynamite


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
In the real world Darren, people aren't playing games, but kids are. In the
real world, grownups are trying to get some work done on applications like:

Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-04)

Design Review (DRV-07)

Data Explorer (DX-06)

Lightscape (Light-04)

Mechanical CAD (MedMCAD-01)

Pro/Designer (ProCDRS-03)

Now go back to playing Quake and sucking your thumb, Margie!


author: Peter Köhlmann

subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

< lots of moronic stuff >

You are really an idiot. Instead of answering in the threads and
countering the claims you post your bullshit again.
If there is someone in this NG who is even dumber than SubZero, it is
for sure you. You have no point, and a brick is more intelligent than
you are.

Peter


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
"Darren" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

My represenetation of the benchmarks is clear and easy to understand.

33-3

And no supporting numbers that show Linux beating Windows?

But the top scores for performance were windows. 6 out of 6!

ditto


author: Christopher Lansdown

subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:46:13 -0500, Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

So, how many copies of these have been sold versus how many copies of
Quake III were sold?

And why was it that ATI "adjusted" their driver for quake III, and not
for any of these applications?

Why is Quake III the first 3D benchmark that you see on any hardware site
reviewing 3D cards?

And which industry is bigger, the computer games industry or the computer
modeling industry?

Because we all know that for every consumer of content, there are 50-100
people making it.  Yeah, that's it.

Of course, this entire thread is fairly dumb as the margins involved are
very small and probably within the margin of error of the test involved
(Assuming any sort of decent testing).

The tests initially referred to don't prove anything particularly
interesting, but your posts sure prove how dumb you are.

Or do you honestly mean to say that had the results come out the other
way you'd still be saying that quake III was irrelevant compared to some
3D author-ware?

-Chris


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
"Peter Kï¿½hlmann" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

And windows still takes 33 out of 36 top OpenGL scores, and you still have
no comeback, except games!

LOSER


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

< lots of his typical clueless crap >
You should start to provide some proof for you inane claims.

Peter


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
In article <egA38.51400$[email]>, "Shanimal
Shanahan" <[email]> wrote:

You just don't know how to read, do you?

Those benchmark results have NOTHING to do with comparing one OS to
another. You are quoting them OUT OF CONTEXT. PERIOD.

YOU ARE AN IDIOT, if you don't understand the need to have identical
hardware when making an OS comparison.

Using those benchmarks you did supply, show that when Linux and MS-Windows
were put on the SAME hardware platform, Linux outperformed MS-Windows.
You have no adequate data to accurately create any further conclusions.

And that is that.
quote


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
"Christopher Lansdown" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Why don't you tell us?

Idiot, this ISN'T about QUAKE! Avoid the subject much?

Because you are juvenile, you hang out at game sites all day, avoiding the
real world

The modeling industry

And Linuz still loses handily

Your posts are a clinic on avoiding the subject, and changing the subject to
games.

I will leave the gaming to you Linsux kids to argue about. In the real
world. Windows rules, Linux sucks!


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
THose benchmarks prove that for 11 out of 12 tests, windows scored the
highest score.

Take those facts for what they are worth!

"Darren" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

Moron, this is about OpenGL performance. Games stress these things much
more than your "so all important" apps

Read above. Although you probably will not understand

Sure. And earth is flat. You know nothing, little boy. Run back to mama,
milk is ready

If you rig the tests accordingly, sure.

Nope. The subject has never changed. The subject is OpenGL performace.
Which is badly needed by games.

No. In the real world, neither linux nor windows suck. *You* suck

Peter


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

Yeah, right Billy-Butt-Crust.  SGI and Linux has windoze bent over and
sticking the pork to them.


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Shanimal Shanahan wrote:

I do. They are worth absolutely nothing. Compare apples with oranges, and
you've got the equivalent of these "tests". Bring some tests were
computers with *same* hardware and not radically different are compared.
Then we can talk.

Peter


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
Peter Kï¿½hlmann wrote:

He doens't realize that the military uses simulations the same as games do.
So its just not the games only.  He's still young and wet behind the ears.


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
"GreyCloud" <[email]> wrote in message
news:vZj38.18827$[email]...
In
site
the
computer
50-100
are
subject
some

Sure, and all you can find to support this claim is a lame Quake3 benchmark
where the author admits he installed XP on the wrong file system!

Still Windows 33 Linux 3


subject: Re: OS OpenGL Olympics 2002 cont.

text:
"Peter Kï¿½hlmann" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
A Linux based server can be run by an idiot and usually is.

If you would just check those links, you will see that computers with *same*
hardware and not radically different are compared. Linux still loses on just
about every test (11/12)!

Windows 33 Linsux 3


author: fish

subject: confirm bugs ?

text:
Does anyone else have problems with Procedural
textures or Hypervoxels ?

It seems I'm the only one so far.

grtz,

Fish
http://www.toonafish.nl


author: Brizon

subject: Re: confirm bugs ?

text:
have you got something "alien" installed? a procedural plugin, I know
there's a few out there that include themselves directly with the other
procedurals (rather than as a shader)


author: Glenn Pechacek

subject: Re: confirm bugs ?

text:
I added noise to diffuse and ran some of the Hypervoxels demo scenes ok.  On
a PC.

Also Newtek had warnings that the b patch was only for version 7.5.

Glenn

"fish" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...


subject: Re: confirm bugs ?

text:
Oh, another thought.  On my install I have to answer yes to alot of
overwrite questions on .p files which where read-only's.  Maybe you said no
to all and the new .p's where not installed.

Just a though
Glenn

"fish" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...


subject: Re: confirm bugs ?

text:
very weird, I remember saying yes to all when the installer asked
me to overwrite plugins. And I checked the date of them, almost
all say modified :3/4/03
I just upgraded my NVidia driver, thought it might have someting
to do with it. But nothing changed.

I'll try a fresh upgrade.

Fish
http://www.toonafish.nl

Glenn Pechacek wrote:


subject: Re: confirm bugs ?

text:
well, if it helps, I've backed up my 7.5 install, installed 7.5b, said yes
to the one request to overwrite a file (something for the spreadsheet I
think) that was readonly, installed without problems, now going through
stuff trying different things, so far its not crashed (yet) surface
thickness btw is pretty cool :)) still hunting down other new stuff though,
so yet to see how they pan out. So far so good, here's hoping it continues
otherwise I'll have to remove it until this job im doing is done


subject: Re: confirm bugs ?

text:
screw that, just started having problems almost as soon as I posted that
message with a few plugins, and some stuff from Hades, will have to try
again later down the line, not risking it further, not yet anyway

:(((


author: Vern Pellerin

subject: F4 SP3 + New cockpits?

text:
Where can I get the BEST new cockpits for SP3?  Ones that don't just have a
2D pit, but also corresponding 3D cockpits???

Anyone know?

F4 really rocks now.  Coop multiplayer campaigns are cool as hell, but I want
to fly new planes and I use the 3D cockpits as much as 2D for my screenshots.


author: Twilson

subject: Re: F4 SP3 + New cockpits?

text:
Anyone know why after installing SP2 or SP3 you can no longer use the mouse to
change colors of the HUD by clicking on the contrast button?


author: Toad

subject: Re: F4 SP3 + New cockpits?

text:
"Twilson" <[email]> wrote in message
news:ae0lfv$2ukqi$[email]...
mouse to

Maybe because the real F4 only uses green so it just changes the contrast
level?


author: Froglips

subject: Re: F4 SP3 + New cockpits?

text:
Keyboard shortcuts still work.  Contrast button changes the contrast (duh:)
as we strove for realism in the pit.


author: Ronin

subject: How to react to Money Scam Spam...

text:
I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
took ten minutes and cost .80ï¿½. Please report all future money spammers
to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.

Ronin


author: [redacted]

subject: Misdirected bounces and spam filtering

text:
Hello,

We are having the following problem, which I imagine affects a lot of
people:
All machines in this setup are Sendmail 8.13.7.
We have several servers that are the MX record for many domains. These
machines only do spam filtering with Spamassassin, virus filtering with
Clam, and then forward filtered messages to a large internal server.
They do this by the Smarthost parameter in sendmail.cf.

The problem is that we are not able to bounce messages during the smtp
transaction, but are having to reject them when the internal large
server gets the messages. This, of course, is causing us all sorts of
trouble. We are getting blocked by many ISPs and our spam filters are
doing more work than they should.

All of our user accounts are virtual.
How can our spam filters know which users are valid and which ones are
not, and then forward filtered messages to the internal server?

Any ideas or direction will be greatly appreciated.

Arie Kachler


author: Michael Heiming

subject: Re: Misdirected bounces and spam filtering

text:
In comp.mail.sendmail [email]:

That's a real problem and is likely to never get you out of
spammer lists. Rejecting as soon as possible should be your goal.

Greylisting still works pretty good, I'd look into it. IMHO we
could get rid of spam if running adaptive teergrubing on just
enough valid MTAs.

AFAIK Ldap routing could be used to accomplish a receiver verify,
if one of your internal server can provide the info via ldap
(many can):

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/ldap_routing.html

Good luck


text:
[email] wrote:

This last came up here just last week.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_frm/thread/ab0594d7715d94aa/43201eef96fe73ef


author: Paul Truscott

subject: Flashing Etherstreamer on PC Server 500.

text:
Howdy,

I downloaded a Flash for the EtherStreamer on my PC Server 500, but
haveing read the README, I'm now unsure as to whether to apply it or
not. How easy will it be to back out, if it screws things up?

I'm assuming that I should reboot from the Reference Disk first and
save my current Config and then boot from the Flash disk, is this
correct?

The file I am talking about is here at;

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4GLKB8 and the
file is called strflash.exe (the readme is strflash.txt).

I'm considering doing this as my TCP/IP activity (such as FTP and
TELNET) has been really shakey since I got the system using the
adapter. FTP frequently hangs, and my TN3270 sessions are on one
minute and off the next. Rebooting the machine seems to settle things
down for a little while and then we're back to square one.

I also disabled the Token Ring Adapter (as we don't have a Token Ring
it was always spitting the dummy when we booted the machine), but now
I get a weird message "NET3051: IBMLAN.INI or the command line has an
incorrect value for WRKNETS." I was having the intermittent issue with
TCP/IP before this anyway, though!

Hope you can shed some light on this, and thanks in advance.

Paul Truscott.


author: Unal Z

subject: Re: Flashing Etherstreamer on PC Server 500.

text:
The worst that can happen is a power breakdown while the update is being
applied, but this takes less than a minute. Disconnect from network for any
case.

I applied it without saving the config, there will be no changes to it
anyway. You boot with the flash disk and follow the instructions, it will be
flashed only if it can be flashed.

Check also the soft settings, managed by the driver.


text:
I Flashed the Etherstreamer only to find that it was at the latest
level anyway, although the Lanstreamer wasn't.

I'm going around in circles here, so was hoping someone can point me
in the right direction.

I have two physical network adapters in the box. In Slot 3, I have an
IBM Etherstreamer 32 Network Adapter (this is currently  connected to
my Hub). In Slot 4, I have an IBM Lanstreamer MC32 Adapter (this is a
Token-Ring Adapter, and is not connected to any network).

I am running OS/2 Warp 4. In MPTS, when I select Configure, I have the
option of Configuring several IBM Adapters and various protocols.

I had chosen; IBM LANStreamer 16/32 MVA Adapter (IBMMPC.OS2), with 3
protocols; IBM IEEE 802.2, IBM NETBIOS, and IBM TCP/IP.

In my P390 Config, I have E20 and E21 defined as 3088 with A(LCS3172)
and E40 as a 3088 with 9(LAN3172).

Sometimes, although not at all today, I have been able to log on to
TSO and have a fully active session. Today, my emulator can initially
display the Logo, but as soon as I try to logon, I get a connection
timeout. This is regardless of which emulator I use. Signing on from
the emulator on the P390 works fine.

This setup worked fine when it was connected via Token Ring, however
that was several years ago, and no one has any recollection of who set
it up, or how for that matter.

Any and all advice welcome.

Regards,

Paul Truscott

"Unal Z" <_@unalz-at-mail333-dot-com> wrote in message news:<3edb9c61$0$20720$[email]>...


author: Uli Link

text:
First I would remove the instance of the IBMMPC.OS2 controlling the
LANStreamer in slot4.
If you need the DLC protocol (808.2) for reaching your P390 add this
protocol to Etherstreamer in slot3.

Look into C:\IBMCOM\lantran.log. Bet the LANStreamer barks about problems
with opening the ring.

---
Uli


text:
I'd physically remove it. Leaving it there causes unneeded drivers to be
loaded, and you have to bind it to a protocol.

Are you using all three? I'd leave only those I really use. But all this
depends on what network you drive or work in.

Perhaps you'll need to clean up your config.sys as well.


text:
Looking through the list of Network Adapter's that are avail to
configure in MPTS, I only have the following that seem remotely
appropriate (and none really look like what I'm expecting to see);

IBM Compatible Token Ring Network Adapter (IBMTOK.OS)<= Don't think so
IBM LAN Adapter for Ethernet (IBMENI.OS2) <= Don't think so either
IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet (IBMENII.OS2) <= Ditto
IBM LANStreamer 16/32 MCA Adapter (IBMMPC.OS2) <= Selected with
misgivings, as I thought this was the Token Ring adapter
IBM Streamer Family Adapter (IBMMPC.OS2) <= Is this the IBM
Etherstreamer 32 Network Adapter?

How come I can use some functions of IP, if I have selected the wrong
adapter?

Also, in the event that I choose to remove the LANStreamer Adapter
physically from the box, do I reboot from the Reference Diskette and
remove it from my configuration first before pulling the card? Must I
remove the 8FA2.ADF file from the Reference Diskette too? I suspect
that the sequence is, Edit the Config, Save the Config, Remove the
card and reboot (having already removed the reference to the card from
MPTS and subsequently, my CONFIG.SYS).

Thank you for your time and assistance by the way!

Cheers,

Paul Truscott.

"Uli Link" <[email]> wrote in message news:<bbif5a$qj9$06$[email]>...


text:
Hi,

Thanks for the feedback, I have just posted a few more questions to
Uli on the same topic and have a few more queries if you don't mind.

As per the other post, I suspect that the sequence to remove the
LANStreamer is, Edit the Config, Save the Config, Remove the card and
reboot (having already removed the reference to the card from MPTS and
subsequently, my CONFIG.SYS). This would leave me with just the
Etherstreamer, reducing the chances of cocking it up (but I'm sure I
can still manage that!)

In answer to your question as to whether I need all those Protocol's
(This came up on the P-390 list as well), Once I configure the correct
Adapter with MPTS (Which is the Correct Adpater to choose in MPTS for
the IBM Etherstreamer 32 Network Adpater by the way?), I have been
told to only use 802.2 for accessing the OS/390 system (I'm trying to
set this up so we can use 3270 sessions across the LAN). I would also
like to be able to access SMB Network Share's to gain access to more
Drive Space, so I am assuming I need NETBIOS, and eventually I would
like to have the OS/390 system configured with TCP/IP so we can use
FTP to xfer files to and from it (a preferred way of moving data to
and fro over the 4mm/3480 method). I assumed that I had selected the
correct protocols. Please correct me if I am mistaken.

Once again, Thank you all for your time and assistance.

Regards,

Paul Truscott.

"Unal Z" <_@unalz-at-mail333-dot-com> wrote in message news:<3edcccca$0$19188$[email]>...


text:
...

Your assumptions are right. Both entries are the IDENTICAL driver.
The Streamer Family Adapter entry works for both cards.

Correct it to the right values through the TCP/IP configuration applet.
Here activate/deactivate TCP/IP for every logical lanadapter.
In TCP/IP you can configure lan0 through lan7. Which physical NIC is lan0 is
configured in MPTS.
In your scenario the Etherstreamer or more correct the TCP/IP protocol bound
to the Etherstreamer should become lan0.

You should leave the ADF on reference disk, as long as there is enough space
available.

You cannot a remove a physically present card from configuration.
Remove it, the next boot your machine asks you for configuration. Say Yes to
the suggested Automatic Configuration.

---
Uli


text:
Uli Link has already answered that. But first, you need to remove it from
the OS/2 configuration, or but later. I can hardly remember the exact steps,
so I'd better not say something wrong now, that shoud be somewhere in the
LAN Server configuration. Check your config.sys, or post the related
sections here, after you've removed the board from OS/2, a total
auto-cleanup is not always the case.

Start one by one: add first only those you currently need and use, you can
add new protocols later.

A better diagnose requires more information about the network - topology,
primary domain controller, workstations, their OS etc. Give first the facts,
then describe the current problems and only then ask for the solution.


text:
steps,

Thanks UZ, totally forgot about IBM LAN Server/Requester
It's configured through \IBMLAN\ibmlan.ini
Look for references of "net0, net1, net2 ..."
Bindings are defined at top the file and then used as a list for "wrknets="
and "srvnets=" or likely.

I'm quite sure the machine will come up after some errors, even with errors
in "ibmlan.ini" as long it's not using HPFS386.

---
Uli


subject: Silly Argument (was POSIX standards via FTP)

text:
From:  [email]

The argument about altered standards is just plain silly.  Given a
monetary incentive, I can have the whole standard rekeyed.  Given
the OCR equipment I have in my office, I can scan the whole document
at fairly low cost.

What I want I timely access to the latest draft standards.  It would
be nice if this was cheaper than NALPS, but my main motivation is
*timely*.  If I suddenly need a draft of POSIX.7, or an old draft of
POSIX.2, it would be nice to get it at FTP speeds.

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 62


author: Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages

subject: Re: Silly Argument (was POSIX standards via FTP)

text:
From:  [email] (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages)

In article <[email]> [email] writes:

.,   The argument about altered standards is just plain silly.  Given a
   monetary incentive, I can have the whole standard rekeyed.  Given
   the OCR equipment I have in my office, I can scan the whole document
   at fairly low cost.

And if you do those things, and it is an X3 document they have
reserved the right to sue you. Such a threat already stopped one such
effort.

I agree that having standards online would be desireable; the logjam
is not technical, it is economic/political/legal.


text:
[This was sent to std-unix-request for some reason, instead of std-unix,
but it looks like a posting to me.  -mod]

From:  [email]

In article <[email]>, [email] writes:

Subscribing to a group's mailings gets them to my desk with 0 keystrokes
and no network traffic, many times before I even know a new draft
has been finished.  That seems quick and painless (except for the $$).

Granted, subscribing to the full mailings of ALL groups amounts to a
substantial amount of paper and costs about $1,000 per year.
Subscribing ONLY to drafts, instead of the full mailings, is quite
a bit less, particularly if only one or two groups are of interest.
Considering the nature of the material being copied, I, for one, am
convinced that the charges are "cost recovery" only.  (Of course, if
I see an IPO for NAPS I might be convinced otherwise :-) )

In my opinion, however, compared to the cost of attending the meetings
and participating in the process, the mailing subscription is a bargain.
Many companies who contribute staff to the standards development process
assume an annual cost of at least $15,000 per year per person for
meeting time and travel.  If the person actually does WORK in addition
to attending the meetings, the real cost is probably 3 to 4 time that
amount, even discounting lost opportunity costs and other things important
to managers and accountants.

Although I can personally see both sides of the argument, examining the
costs of participating in one or more working groups adds a perspective
that is otherwise lost.

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 71


author: Anwar Mohammed

subject: OCR Software

text:
I know of HSD's OCR servant, but are there any other OCR
software packages available for the NeXT?  Any shareware,
free, or PD implementations?

Thanks,
anwar


author: Allen B

subject: Re: OCR Software

text:
In article <[email]> [email] (Anwar Mohammed) writes:

I've used OCR Servant a few times.  It's OK, but I find the
inability to recognize things scanned at too >high< a
resolution a real drag.  What good do the high res line art
capabilities of our >HSD< scanner do us?

I've been looking for free OCR software for quite a while
and haven't found any.  Let me know what you come up with.

ab


author: Dave Griffiths

subject: Re: OCR Software

text:
In article <[email]> [email] (Anwar Mohammed) writes:

I'm working on one. It'll be cheap, but not free. If anyone has any
features they'd like to see in it, drop me a line.

Dave Griffiths


author: David W. Peter

subject: Re: OCR Software

text:
In article <[email]> [email]
(Allen B) writes:

The high resolution (up to 2400 dpi) capabilities of your HSD scanner
are specificaly designed for capturing line art images, logos and
drawings without the "jaggies" that are captured by most  ordinary
300 dpi scanners. This is a big win for designers or artists that use
a program such as Adobe Streamline to acurately convert scanned
images for use in programs like Illustrator. Or for individuals that
want to scan an icon or logo and accurately reproduce it the first
time through, without having to go through the tedious chore of
editing pixels.

As far as I know, there are no OCR programs that accept image data
over 400 dpi; it just isn't practical based on the way most OCR
products work. Here's why:

Most OCR products work best when converting characters between 8 and
36 points. If a character is too small or too large the OCR engine
simply can't recognize it, at least with today's technology.  Images
scanned at resolutions higher than 400 dpi result in characters that
are to big in most cases. The higher the resolution, the larger the
character when  viewed  by the OCR engine during conversion.

Another problem is file size. A single sheet of paper (letter size)
scanned at 300 dpi, at a depth of one bit per pixel (line art), is 1
megabyte in size.The same size image scanned at 600 dpi is 4.2
megabytes, and at 2400 dpi it's 67 megabytes. That's alot of data! If
you started today, NeXTstep 486 would be shipping before the OCR
engine could finish processing the image!


subject: Re: OCR Software

text:
In article <[email]> [email] (David W.
Peter) writes:

True.  My point exactly.  If text were captured at a higher
resolution, the figures would be less likely to be
botched by aliasing.  You mention autotracing (I think
that's what you were talking about), which is a very
similar problem to OCR.  What's good for the goose is good
for the, well, >goose<.

But I don't think we have any argument on that point.  More
data is better in this case and would improve recognition
except...

But you could run a smart prepocessing filter pass over
the image (a median filter followed by a box with good
thresholding for starters) that would reduce the amount
of data to a manageable level and make the scan more
accurate.

The preprocessing would take a while, but it's linear
with image size and wouldn't go up as the complexity of the
recognized figures did.  I could live with that.

I'm sure you could dream up better filters and make some of
the parameters user selectable.  I think it'd make things
better, and I'm willing to experiment to see if I'm right.
Are you?  We paid you for your hardware and software, I'd
rather let you guys do it for us. :-)

Allen B (Graphics weenie and occasional complainer)


author: Kelly Thompson

subject: Re: OCR Software

text:
In article <[email]> [email] writes:

[various stuff about why 2400 dpi is needed on scan]

So why can't you throw away the data that isn't needed. On a 600
dpi scan, couldn't every other pixel be ignored, or interpolated
with the pixel beside it? While we're at it, is it difficult to
make the software recognize, say 2 bit grey-scale, and just turn
a dark pixel black, and a light grey pixel white. I know there is
other software designed to do these manipulations, but on the
NeXT everything comes in 2 bit greyscale, so it's kind of a pain
sometimes. (I have OCR Servant and lots of places where I want to
just blast a bitmap to OCR, I have to go to another program to
convert it to B&W first).

Again, these files are often produced somewhere else. There's
compression so they aren't too huge.

Kelly Thompson


subject: Re: OCR Software

text:
In article <[email]> [email]
(Kelly Thompson) writes:

That's basically what I suggested in my follow up as well.

No, it isn't, and it's crap that OCR Servant doesn't do it
already.  Count me in as complaining about that too!

That doesn't really apply here.  The concern is over the
amount of image data presented to the OCR process, and
compression doesn't change that.  The OCR software needs
to look at the image as pixels and compression (in
general) doesn't change the number of pixels, only their
representation.

Removing the density and image depth limitations of OCR
Servant would make it a much more useful service.  That's
uncontestable.  It would require less knowledge on the
part of the user, make the interface smoother, and might
even increase functionality.  Very NeXT things to do.

These changes >are< possible.  That's certain in my mind,
because I have a hack front-end program that does these
things.  (PBMPLUS would do most of it.)

The question then is: Is HSD going to fix it?

Allen B (Putting his mouth where his money is)


author: Keith Basil

subject: 14.4 SupraFAXmodem support?

text:
I recently purchased the Supra 14.4K FAXmodem and now I'm looking
	for Fax support.  I recall a few posts about 2-3 months ago about
	some company that has software for around $100 that will drive this
	modem.  I am running NS2.2 and the modem has the new 1.2J roms with
	caller ID and other features.

	Earlier I post a message regarding the setup of ttys and modems,
	and got good info on the problems that can arise.  I'll post a
	recap that includes: getting rz/sz to work right with tip, high
	speed modems and flow control and fax drivers, if the interest
	is high enough.

	Again, please Email me information on where I can get Fax driver
	support for the Supra14.4 Faxmodem..

	[email]

	Thanks!


author: Ed Cheung

subject: Re: How could I monitor my power-meter?

text:
Jack Edin wrote:

My homebrew approach:

http://www.edcheung.com/automa/power.htm

A clamp-on current meter into my breaker panel.


author: Eric Jones

subject: Re: How could I monitor my power-meter?

text:
Does anyone know how closely you can estimate residential power consumption with
just a current measurement?

Ed Cheung wrote:


author: Jack Edin

subject: Re: How could I monitor my power-meter?

text:
Way to go, Ed!

Leave it to somebody from NASA to get it right!

You say you can detect a 5-watt change. This is exactly what I need.

When i turn on a lamp, I want to see an increased draw. If I don't I'll turn
it on again. After X retries I'll give up and report a fault condition for
the lamp in question.

Thank you very much,

Jack
:)

"Ed Cheung" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...


author: Jack Ak

subject: Re: How could I monitor my power-meter?

text:
Residential power consumption is measured in Kilowatt hours.
A current measurement alone won't give you Kilowatt hours.
The instantaneous current values will vary significantly from
time to time over the meter reading schedule.

The problem this presents is analogous to measuring the current
drawn by a flashlight bulb and estimating how long batteries will last
in intermittent use.

"Eric Jones" <[email]> wrote in message news:[email]...


author: Darin Wayrynen

subject: 6509 not recognized ip packets for new interfaces

text:
I'm a bit baffled by this one:

We have a 6509 Switch, with dual MSFC2's running IOS code acting as
an aggreatator for our colocation customers.

We are setting up the ports like we would a router so that each port
is set up with an ip subnet of the customer attached to it with one of
the subnets ips being the gw for the customer attached to that port.

We just about filled up the first 48 port fast ethernet blade (44 or
so customers) when we found that adding ips to one of the ports and no
shutdown-ing it didn't bring the port up from an ip perspective.

Show interface shows the port and line protocol being up and every
trick I know from the server level and show int level shows the
packets going to and fro, but I can't ping the new ports ip from the
server attached to the port (and vice versa), and packets from the
server attached to the port are not routed.

Arps are forward to the server and the server acknowledges them, and
the router adds them to the arp table, but still no packets are
routed.  No pingy wingy.

After spending 4+ hours trying to bring up a new server a ago and a
Lucent TNT box a few weeks ago I gave up, waited for a maintenance
window and rebooted the switch (goodbye 56+ weeks of uptime) and walla
- all the interfaces worked.

I tried to bring up a new server yesterday and had the same problem,
packet counts go up on the interface but from an IP perspective
nothing is attached to the port.  It was the middle of the day and
rebooting (and unplanned outage) was not an option, but I felt I could
chance pulling out a line card and re-adding it.  That worked - the
switch could once again route the packets.

Does anyone know why this would happen and if so how I can fix it?

I'd like to fill this 6509 up with line cards and use them all, but I
can't do that if I have to reboot the switch every time I add a new
customer.

==============================================================================
My show version:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) c6sup1_rp Software (c6sup1_rp-PSV-M), Version 12.1(8b)E9, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Sun 17-Feb-02 13:09 by eaarmas
Image text-base: 0x60020950, data-base: 0x612DC000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(3)XE, RELEASE SOFTWARE
BOOTFLASH: MSFC Software (C6MSFC-BOOT-M), Version 12.1(8b)E9, EARLY DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)

phoenix.deru.net uptime is 2 weeks, 6 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on (SP by power-on)
System restarted at 06:49:33 GMT Fri Nov 15 2002
System image file is "sup-bootflash:c6sup11-psv-mz.121-8b.E9.bin"

cisco Catalyst 6000 (R5000) processor with 114688K/16384K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID SAD041501L3
R5000 CPU at 200Mhz, Implementation 35, Rev 2.1, 512KB L2 Cache
Last reset from power-on
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
Bridging software.
1 Virtual Ethernet/IEEE 802.3  interface(s)
96 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
4 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
381K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
4096K bytes of packet SRAM memory.

16384K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
Configuration register is 0x102

==============================================================================
code:

phoenix.deru.net#dir
Directory of slot0:/

    1  -rw-     1749612   Mar 04 2002 03:01:06  c6msfc-boot-mz.121-8b.E9.bin
    2  -rw-    12741076   Mar 04 2002 03:05:20  c6sup11-psv-mz.121-8b.E9.bin

16384000 bytes total (1893056 bytes free)

==============================================================================

phoenix.deru.net#show memory
                Head    Total(b)     Used(b)     Free(b)   Lowest(b)  Largest(b)
Processor   6180F960    92210848    34277932    57932916    56210112    57167424
      I/O    7000000    16777224     3169368    13607856    13607856    13607804
      PCI   4B000000     4194324     2996316     1198008     1198008     1191612

Darin


author: Philip D'Ath

subject: Re: 6509 not recognized ip packets for new interfaces

text:
I would trying having a play with the different caching methods.

    For example, if cef is on, trying turning it off and then back on again.
Try turning route-cache off and back on again.

    I would also try something like "debug icmp" on the port, and see if the
port is seeing the traffic.
"Darin Wayrynen" <[email]> wrote in message
news:EyGH9.36923$[email]...
============================================================================
==
DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
============================================================================
==
c6msfc-boot-mz.121-8b.E9.bin
c6sup11-psv-mz.121-8b.E9.bin
============================================================================
==
Largest(b)
57167424
13607804
1191612


author: Gaya

text:
"Philip D'Ath" <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...

I had a similar problem with a 6509. i.e when I introduced a new
customer or change the users VLAN, L3 functionality fails for the said
PC. However arp caches and cam tales had correct mappings.

what I did was reset the MLS process in MSFC and changed the flow
masks in supII back and forth to re-instate L3 functionality, forcing
the switch to purge MLS cache entries.

check the following if ping fails.

on MSFC:
sh ip cef <destination IP> det
sh ip arp <destination IP>

on sup:
sh mls ent cef ip <destination IP/mask>
sh mls ent cef ip <destination IP/mask> adj
sh cam <destination MAC>


author: Paul J. Lucas

subject: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
I've been using JDK 1.6.0_11 and occasionally, when
FileSystemView.getSystemDisplayName() is called, it just hangs.  Below is an
excerpt of a thread-dump.  Any ideas?

- Paul

"Thread-7" prio=6 tid=0x010e4c00 nid=0xdb0 waiting on condition
[0x29a8e000..0x29a8fb14]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
 at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
 - parking to wait for  <0x05d63708> (a java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync)
 at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(Unknown Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(Unknown
Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.doAcquireSharedInterruptibly(Unknown
Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireSharedInterruptibly(Unknown
Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileSystemPath(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.composePathForCsidl(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getDrives(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.isFileSystemRoot(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.isFileSystemRoot(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.isFileSystemRoot(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.getSystemDisplayName(Unknown Source)


author: Roedy Green

subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:51:38 -0800, "Paul J. Lucas"
<[email]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

by any chance is the file in question in use by some other process,
e.g. a background indexer?


author: Owen Jacobson

subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
On 2009-02-24 22:51:38 -0500, "Paul J. Lucas" <[email]> said:

[snip]

While the Javadocs for FileSystemView are mute on the subject, given
FileSystemView's close relationship with JFileChooser I'd be leery of
manipulating them on any thread but the Swing EDT.

[un-snip]
[snip again]

Interesting thing here. FutureTask.get is a blocking method which will
return whatever the task evaluates to, when the task completes. It
looks like, for one reason or another, the Windows integration
necessary to look up the file's display name executes some COM code in
a background task (presumably on its own thread, or in a JVM-owned
thread pool) which is never completing. A thread dump may tell you more
(send whatever the Windows analogue of SIGQUIT is to the JVM and it'll
dump thread stacks and lock info to stderr).

Wild-ass guess, but maybe you have a COM object installed on your
system that integrates with the Windows shell that's flakey? Explorer
extensions/integrations, for example.

-o


author: Albert

subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
Paul J. Lucas a ï¿½crit :

you should see:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6741890


subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
Roedy Green wrote:

I don't know for certain, but probably not.  The same process does have another
thread that indexes files, however; but the odds are very low that a given file
would just so happen to be being indexed at the exact moment
getSystemDisplayName() is called.

- Paul


subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
Owen Jacobson wrote:

Here's more from the thread dump.

- Paul

"Swing-Shell" daemon prio=6 tid=0x2b8e1c00 nid=0xa20 waiting on condition
[0x2c90f000..0x2c90fc94]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
 at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
 - parking to wait for  <0x05abe3c0> (a
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject)
 at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(Unknown Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.await(Unknown
Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue.take(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.getTask(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker$3.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

"Swing-Shell" daemon prio=6 tid=0x2b8e1000 nid=0x9f4 waiting on condition
[0x2c70f000..0x2c70fd14]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
 at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
 - parking to wait for  <0x05abef18> (a java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync)
 at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(Unknown Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(Unknown
Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.doAcquireSharedInterruptibly(Unknown
Source)
 at
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireSharedInterruptibly(Unknown
Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileSystemPath(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.composePathForCsidl(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getDesktop(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getDesktop(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$1.call(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$1.call(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker$3.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


author: Mark Space

subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
Albert wrote:

"Priority Low."  Nice.

OTOH the Sun employ who has been assigned to this bug appears to be
asking for code to reproduce this issue.  If you think you have some
code that you could trim down, Paul, and add it to the bug notes, it
might help Sun fix this.


subject: Re: Hang in getSystemDisplayName()

text:
Mark Space wrote:

The problem has never happened to me personally: it's happened to a tester of
ours.  It only happens occasionally, presumably because certain things have to
be aligned just right for the deadlock to happen.  But the bug description seems
to point right at why the deadlock happens.  The Sun engineer should be able to
fix the deadlock just by inspection.

It's not clear to me why the Sun implementation needs a separate thread to
invoke COM stuff.  It's my understanding that you can use COM functions on any
thread.

Anyway, I've just written by own trivial native Win32 COM code to get a file's
display name myself; so I'll use that rather than the Sun code.

- Paul


author: [redacted]

subject: Re: STREAMS module loading, info HELP

text:
"The Magic Garden Explained" has an excellant chapter on streams modules and
drivers, and is still in print. I have the ISBN number at home, if you email
me back a response. Also can be found at the larger Border's stores under
Advanced computing.

Tom Roehr
[email]

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  "Dave Hammer" <[email]> wrote:

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author: Larry Blair

subject: Why aren't my floats passing as doubles?

text:
I'm using Sun's ANSI C compiler on a SS2 under SunOS 4.1.1.  The total project
consists of perhaps 1000 C files.  My problem is occurring with a small group
of these files.

What's happening is that in some of the files, for no apparent reason, if
there is a formal parameter of "float" the generated code is looking for a
4-byte float to be passed in.  Since all floats are actually passed as
doubles, occupying two registers, this is causing an argument mismatch.  The
symptoms look like the files were compiled with an option flag asking for
floats to be passed as singles, but there is no such flag.

Does anyone know what can be causing this?