From sad at hpuerca.atl.hp.com Thu May 1 10:17:21 1997
From: sad at hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Steve DuChene)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 10:17:21 -0400
Subject: [ale] Linux for Nintendo 64 attachment
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Dave Richie sent me this article out of iX magazine. Pretty cool stuff
considering the 500,000 Xstones rating.
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The HP North American Response Center, Atlanta
X/CDE/Vue/xterminal/graphics support team
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iX: Linux für Nintendo 64
online 
Linux for Nintendo 64
Jürgen Seeger
German
version
As early as Comdex fall 95 Netscape Corp. is said to
have presented a port of their Navigator to the Mips
CPU based Nintendo 64 behind closed doors. Talking to
iX during the 1996 GUUG meeting, SCO's Doug
Michels, too, regarded alliances with Sega or Nintendo
as a "real option", especially as far as the
postitioning of the Network Computer against the wintel
dominance is concerned.
Insiders assume that Netscape's initiative failed
because of a personal animosity between young
entrepreneur Marc Andreessen and the very conservative
Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamaushi. SCO wasn't able to
follow up their plans, for they have to concentrate
their resources to the development of the 64 bit Unix
they have codenamed Gemini.
And, as has happened before, the internet community,
strongly committed to free software, put things to
work, which were not completed in the commercial
field. At the end of last year an Italian programmers'
team got hold of the US version of N64 and a SGI Indy,
including the N64 card. Thus the team ported Linux/Mips
to the play station. Linux/Mips originally had been
initiated by the music company Waldorf (see iX
2/96) and, since the beginning of 1996, has been
ready-to-run on R4x00 CPUs.
The main difficulties, according to the Italians,
were caused by the port of the X Window System to the
N64 I/O hardware. At first they ported the output
routines to the dedicated co-processors. Although
N64-X11 is not yet really stable, legendary 500000
XStones have been reached so far - running on an
ordinary TV set, driven by high frequency signals. Of
course, the quality of the picture is much better, if
an AV cable and a high-quality
monitor are used.
Input media can be either the bundled console (see
photograph above) or a PC keyboard via adapter. The
first solution requires a bit of experience when
entering text, because each character is represented by
a 3 degree angle of the analog stick. Internationally
less frequently used characters like the backslash
were, therefore, not implemented.
Those who buy the optional N64 controller pack, can
even save some data, e. g. personal preferences or WWW
hotlists. The prototyp available at editorial deadline
hasn't yet got a reliable network connection, because
there are still problems between the manually soldered
100 MBit/s Digital 21140 chip and the 93.75 MHz of the
R4300i CPU.
Like the former Mips RISC OS Linux/N64 works in
bi-endian mode and, therefore, can process data of the
two possible byte orders. Yet the kernel version 2.11
based Linux/N64 doesn't use Nintendo's 64 bit address
mode - which is not really a disadvantage, considering
the 4 MBytes of memory available. A further problem:
Nintendo Kyoto headquarter so far has steadfastly
refused to build cards in significant volumes or to
include Linux/N64 in their distribution
channels. Siemens Nixdorf and Silicon Graphics, on the
other hand, have expressed "a lot of interest". "This
project could lead to a new deal in the desktop
market", a speaker of the Munich based company
figured. According to their speaker, Luciano Aprilia,
the Italian developers, are going to make the software
available under the GPL, so it can be used free of
charge.
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© Copyright by Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH & Co KG
Veröffentlichung und Vervielfältigung nur mit
Genehmigung des Verlags Heinz Heise GmbH & Co KG
Letzte Veränderung am 624. März 1997
von js - Kritik, Anregungen & cetera bitte an den iX-Webmaster
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From cory at cc.gatech.edu Thu May 1 11:27:25 1997
From: cory at cc.gatech.edu (Cory T. Echols)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 11:27:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ale] cleaning up after new kernel compile
Message-ID: <ïy,Ôïy,Ðïy_pïy,Øïy,ÌïwÐ0ïwÐ<ïwÐ@ïwÐHïwÐLïy,ô.2>
I just compiled a new Kernel for RedHat 4.1. Naturally, I
cut out a lot of the modules that were installed with the
distribution. After compiling the kernel and doing a "make zdisk"
and booting up, I get a bunch of error messages from insmod, like
this...
insmod: make_EII_client: wrong version or undefined
I get one of these for every module that I didn't
re-install. I have done "make modules" and "make modules_install".
How do I get the kernel, (or whatever) to stop looking for these
modules? I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but keep in mind I
am booting from a test kernel on a floppy right now, whereas previously
I was using LILO.
Thanks in advance....
--
Cory T. Echols | I don't need no arms around me.
cory at cc.gatech.edu | I don't need no drugs to calm me.
gt5414c at prism.gatech.edu | I have seen the writing on the wall.
www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/cory| Don't think I need anything at all.
From dread at atlcom.net Thu May 1 11:47:05 1997
From: dread at atlcom.net (Andy)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 11:47:05 -0400
Subject: [ale] quicktime mov's
Message-ID: <9705011552.AA22728@future.atlcom.net.3>
----------
> From: charlie
> To: Ale user group
> Subject: [ale] quicktime mov's
> Date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 12:36 PM
>
>
> Does anyone know if there exists a quicktime movie player for Linux? I
> looked in the apps/video section of ftp.cc.gatech.edu, but it looks like
> just drivers for various video boards. Or are there any developement
libs
> for quicktime movies available?
>
> thanks
> charlie
>
> Charles Hubbard
> Internet: charlie at felix.cc.gatech.edu
> ". . .the pope talks a lot about sex, of which he knows nothing. . ."
> - Robert Anton Wilson
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Download The latest version of Xanim and the indeo library and recompile.
Xanim is not as good as MS Active movie though. You can't enlarge on the
fly
and very limited in fearutes. But it works.
/usr/bin/andy
From newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu Thu May 1 12:27:02 1997
From: newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:27:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ale] quicktime mov's
Message-ID:
Andy was heard to say:
> Download The latest version of Xanim and the indeo library and recompile.
> Xanim is not as good as MS Active movie though. You can't enlarge on the
> fly
> and very limited in fearutes. But it works.
Uh...read the docs...with certain flags you can enlarge on the fly, dither,
preload the video, or load as needed, etc... I could be wrong, but I think
that Xanim can also be used as a widget.
-Dan
--
Dan Newcombe newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu
---=== 1997 Atlanta Linux Showcase June 7 & 8 Atlanta, GA ===---
---=== For more information visit us at http://www.ale.org/showcase ===---
From sad at hpuerca.atl.hp.com Thu May 1 12:58:26 1997
From: sad at hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Steven A. Duchene)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 12:58:26 EDT
Subject: [ale] quicktime mov's
Message-ID: <199705011658.AA094595920@hp.com.5>
Andy Witter replied with the following:
> Download The latest version of Xanim and the indeo library and recompile.
> Xanim is not as good as MS Active movie though. You can't enlarge on the
> fly
> and very limited in fearutes. But it works.
>
> /usr/bin/andy
Yes, you can resize the xanim window on the fly. You have to use the +Sr
command line option. To enable sound you use +Ae There are LOTS of command
line options so you should look at those before you say the features are
limited.
--
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The HP North American Response Center, Atlanta
X/CDE/Vue/xterminal/graphics support team
I am an employee of Hewlett-Packard.
From lfs at eskimo.com Thu May 1 16:23:45 1997
From: lfs at eskimo.com (Andrew Newton)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 13:23:45 -0700
Subject: [ale] Volunteers needed for flyer distribution
Message-ID: <199705011658.AA094595920@hp.com.6>
If you'd like to help out with the Atlanta Linux Showcase effort
but don't know what to do, then now may be your opportunity to get
in on the action.
We need volunteers to help us distribute flyers.
Our first point of focus will be colleges. If you can distribute
flyers on the campus of one of these colleges, let me know.
Clayton State
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Atlanta University
UGA
Dekalb College
Southern Tech
Kennesaw State
Emory
Mercer
We ask that you post them on the public bulletin boards and other
appropriate places. If you are a brave soul, you can contact
CS professors and ask them to hand the flyers out to students.
Sometimes the right professor will do that. If you are even
braver, sometimes the right CS professor will let you give a quick
5 minute presentation to a class and hand-out the flyers.
Do what you feel comfortable with, but please do.
If you know any mom-and-pop computer stores that might post the
flyers, that would also be appreciated.
Again, if you are interested respond directly to me...
--
Come for COMDEX, Stay for This message written by:
The Atlanta Linux Showcase Andrew Newton
June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA lfs at eskimo.com
http://www.ale.org/showcase/ alnewton at automatedlogic.com
Linus will be there, will you? http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
From eric at compgen.com Thu May 1 13:45:15 1997
From: eric at compgen.com (Eric Z. Ayers)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:45:15 -0400
Subject: [ale] Volunteers needed for flyer distribution
Message-ID: <199705011745.NAA12483@uxeric.compgen.com.7>
Andy,
I live near Southern Polytechnical Institute (southern tech). I'm not
familiar w/ the campus, but will be willing to distribute.
-Eric.
Andrew Newton writes:
> If you'd like to help out with the Atlanta Linux Showcase effort
> but don't know what to do, then now may be your opportunity to get
> in on the action.
>
> We need volunteers to help us distribute flyers.
>
> Our first point of focus will be colleges. If you can distribute
> flyers on the campus of one of these colleges, let me know.
> Clayton State
> Georgia State
> Georgia Tech
> Atlanta University
> UGA
> Dekalb College
> Southern Tech
> Kennesaw State
> Emory
> Mercer
>
> We ask that you post them on the public bulletin boards and other
> appropriate places. If you are a brave soul, you can contact
> CS professors and ask them to hand the flyers out to students.
> Sometimes the right professor will do that. If you are even
> braver, sometimes the right CS professor will let you give a quick
> 5 minute presentation to a class and hand-out the flyers.
> Do what you feel comfortable with, but please do.
>
> If you know any mom-and-pop computer stores that might post the
> flyers, that would also be appreciated.
>
> Again, if you are interested respond directly to me...
>
> --
> Come for COMDEX, Stay for This message written by:
> The Atlanta Linux Showcase Andrew Newton
> June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA lfs at eskimo.com
> http://www.ale.org/showcase/ alnewton at automatedlogic.com
> Linus will be there, will you? http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
From lfs at eskimo.com Thu May 1 17:28:56 1997
From: lfs at eskimo.com (Andrew Newton)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 14:28:56 -0700
Subject: [ale] Linux users not known for great spelling!
Message-ID: <199705011745.NAA12483@uxeric.compgen.com.8>
Please excuse the misspelling. If you would like to help distribute
fliers - as in pieces of paper announcing the Atlanta Linux Showcase -
please contact me. If you want to help distribute "flyers" - such
as pilots - I'm sure something can be arranged, but while you are at
it if you could airdrop some ALS fliers we would also appreciate it.
--
Come for COMDEX, Stay for This message written by:
The Atlanta Linux Showcase Andrew Newton
June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA lfs at eskimo.com
http://www.ale.org/showcase/ alnewton at automatedlogic.com
Linus will be there, will you? http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
From dhamm at itserve.com Thu May 1 02:51:32 1997
From: dhamm at itserve.com (David Hamm)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 02:51:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ale] Linux users not known for great spelling!
Message-ID: <199705011745.NAA12483@uxeric.compgen.com.9>
Hey I'm gona rip off your signature. OK?
On 01-May-97 Andrew Newton wrote:
>Please excuse the misspelling. If you would like to help distribute
>fliers - as in pieces of paper announcing the Atlanta Linux Showcase -
>please contact me. If you want to help distribute "flyers" - such
>as pilots - I'm sure something can be arranged, but while you are at
>it if you could airdrop some ALS fliers we would also appreciate it.
>
>--
>Come for COMDEX, Stay for This message written by:
>The Atlanta Linux Showcase Andrew Newton
>June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA lfs at eskimo.com
>http://www.ale.org/showcase/ alnewton at automatedlogic.com
>Linus will be there, will you? http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
------ David Hamm - dhamm at itserve.com --------
-- The Atlanta Linux Showcase - June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA --
----------- http://www.ale.org/showcase/ ----------------
From arnold at colorstar.com Thu May 1 14:37:01 1997
From: arnold at colorstar.com (Arnold D. Robbins)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:37:01 -0400
Subject: [ale] als on ale web page
Message-ID: <9705011837.AA09974@colorstar.com.10>
Howcum there's no prominent pointer to the ALS info from the ALE web page?
Thanks,
Arnold
From arnold at colorstar.com Thu May 1 15:05:04 1997
From: arnold at colorstar.com (Arnold D. Robbins)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:05:04 -0400
Subject: [ale] als on ale web page
Message-ID: <9705011905.AA10256@colorstar.com.11>
>Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:11:18 -0400
>From: "Eric Z. Ayers"
>To: arnold at colorstar.com (Arnold D. Robbins)
>Subject: [ale] als on ale web page
>
>I thought that
>
>http://www.ale.org/
>
>had a pretty prominent link. Are you using a text based browser?
>Should we add a text link as well?
I pointed netscape 3.0 at it just today and didn't see anything...
I'll try again.
Arnold
From arnold at colorstar.com Thu May 1 15:07:14 1997
From: arnold at colorstar.com (Arnold D. Robbins)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:07:14 -0400
Subject: [ale] als on ale web page
Message-ID: <9705011907.AA10273@colorstar.com.12>
Duh. It's that flashy thing that I tuned out.
I'm so used to ignoring anything on a web page that flashes at me that I
didn't even bother to really read the text in the box.
"Never mind".
Arnold
From chrish at ifsintl.com Thu May 1 14:27:08 1997
From: chrish at ifsintl.com (Chris Hamilton)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:27:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ale] IP Forwarding
Message-ID: <9705011907.AA10273@colorstar.com.13>
For those of you that I've been in contact with, the
firewall has been going wonderfully. Thanks for your
help. Now, I have another question/challenge for you.
Any of you set up IP forwarding using a machine with
2 ethernet cards? In case you've forgotten the setup
of my network, here is a rough illustration:
[wwwserver/eth0] -> [firewall/eth1]
[firewall/eth0] -> [internet]
I've used TIS' Firewall Toolkit to take assist with
the web/port proxy, however there will be more machines
that will be behind the firewall at a later date. Some
of these machines will belong to Information Systems
staff who we'd like to have full (non-proxy) access to
the 'net. I believe I've compiled my firewall with the
appropriate options (despite the fact that TIS says to
disable IP_FORWARD'ing), but I'm having the damnedest
time with ipfwadm.
Anyone familiar? I've read serveral FAQ's and example
setups, but is doesn't seem that any of them have to
due with basic IP forwarding. Maybe I'm just being
a moron and missing a very obvious key. Oh well,
such is life.
Thanks,
---
Christopher Hamilton Internal System Administrator
chrish at ifsintl.com IFS International, Inc.
From lfs at eskimo.com Thu May 1 20:09:54 1997
From: lfs at eskimo.com (Andrew Newton)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 17:09:54 -0700
Subject: [ale] als on ale web page
Message-ID: <9705011907.AA10273@colorstar.com.14>
Arnold D. Robbins wrote:
>
> Howcum there's no prominent pointer to the ALS info from the ALE web page?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
There's a huge 65k animated GIF on the main page that links to the
Showcase pages.
--
Come for COMDEX, Stay for This message written by:
The Atlanta Linux Showcase Andrew Newton
June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA lfs at eskimo.com
http://www.ale.org/showcase/ alnewton at automatedlogic.com
Linus will be there, will you? http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
From laith at cc.gatech.edu Thu May 1 19:10:07 1997
From: laith at cc.gatech.edu (Laith Elias Haddadin)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 19:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ale] Can't get a .sh script to run
Message-ID: <9705011907.AA10273@colorstar.com.15>
I'm not sure what the problem is, but when i try to run a file test.sh it
bash returns an error bash: test.sh: command not found. I even tried
./test.sh and still nothing. On my Solaris account it works fine. I'm
not sure what's going on in my Linux box. Any ideas?
Thanx,
-Laith Elias Haddadin
From dread at atlcom.net Thu May 1 23:28:09 1997
From: dread at atlcom.net (Andy)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 23:28:09 -0400
Subject: [ale] "X" Server for Windows
Message-ID: <33695F49.44F67000@atlcom.net.16>
Andrew Newton wrote:
>
> Dan Mount wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a type of server for a Win95 or Win NT box that will let me
> > run an app on that windows box, but send the display to my linux box?
>
> I think Citrix and NTrique have something like this.
>
> --
> Come for COMDEX, Stay for This message written by:
> The Atlanta Linux Showcase Andrew Newton
> June 7 & 8 - Atlanta, GA lfs at eskimo.com
> http://www.ale.org/showcase/ alnewton at automatedlogic.com
> Linus will be there, will you? http://www.eskimo.com/~lfs
You might want to look into a package for win95 called Reflections
is should do the job. I don't remeber the rest of the info but it has
an Xserver for win95. Or you may try ftp.dn.net and goto the cica
directory and under net-utils they have a freeware X-server for win95.
/usr/bin/andy
From shokri at tm.net.my Thu May 1 23:28:32 1997
From: shokri at tm.net.my (Mohamad Shokri bin Abdul Ghani)
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 11:28:32 +0800
Subject: [ale] Work from Home
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970502032832.0069b024@mail.tm.net.my.17>
Hai guys,
Now the traffic in KL become worst. I spend about 1 1/2 hours in the
morning and 1 hour in the evening to comute to the office. I'm thinking if
this time and petrol money I can save and doing work at home, it will be
better. Does any have an idea what type of work that I can do at home to
earn the living. I am an engineer experienced in telecommunication and
computer networking. Any idea to share, please drop me a line..
bye..
From nomad at orci.com Fri May 2 00:25:01 1997
From: nomad at orci.com (nomad)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 22:25:01 -0600
Subject: [ale] memory
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970502032832.0069b024@mail.tm.net.my.18>
What's the command line (in lilo) to allow access to more than
64Meg of Memory. I have 128Meg now. What do I put in my lilo.conf
to let it be seen?
Robert
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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System Engineer For Hire. \_ Real friends help you move bodies.
Email:
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DISCLAIMER:
These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else.
perl -e 'print
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
From byron at cc.gatech.edu Fri May 2 08:46:19 1997
From: byron at cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 08:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ale] memory
Message-ID: <199705021246.IAA30009@gemini.cc.gatech.edu.19>
>
> What's the command line (in lilo) to allow access to more than
> 64Meg of Memory. I have 128Meg now.
Must be nice.
LILO> linux mem=128M
> What do I put in my lilo.conf
> to let it be seen?
append="mem=128M"
Hope this helps,
BAJ
From nomad at orci.com Fri May 2 09:15:22 1997
From: nomad at orci.com (nomad)
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 07:15:22 -0600
Subject: [ale] memory
Message-ID: <199705021246.IAA30009@gemini.cc.gatech.edu.20>
Byron A Jeff wrote:
>
> >
> > What's the command line (in lilo) to allow access to more than
> > 64Meg of Memory. I have 128Meg now.
>
> Must be nice.
>
> LILO> linux mem=128M
>
> > What do I put in my lilo.conf
> > to let it be seen?
>
> append="mem=128M"
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> BAJ
I'll tell you real soon... If anyone can get wabi/wine and the
dos emu to run duke/comanche/redneck-Rampage, please tell me.
That's when windows leaves this machine....
Robert
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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System Engineer For Hire. \_ Real friends help you move bodies.
Email:
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DISCLAIMER:
These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else.
perl -e 'print
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'