Linux Gazette 87: The Answer Gang
...making Linux just a little more fun!
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The Answer Gang
By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and...
(meet the Gang) ...
the Editors of Linux Gazette...
and You!
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We have guidelines for asking and answering questions. Linux questions only, please.
We make no guarantees about answers, but you can be anonymous on request.
See also: The Answer Gang's
Knowledge Base
and the LG
Search Engine
Contents:
- ¶: Greetings From Heather Stern
LILO problem whith dual linux boot on seperate drives
- filter out spam and viruses
- The One Remaining (non-Depracated) Use for rsh
Greetings from Heather Stern
Greetings, everyone. It's another day, another penguin over here at
The Answer Gang. I'm sorry there are only three messages this time but
I think you'll find them juicy.
Statistics - there were about 460 messages - and almost none of that was
spam thanks to Dan Wilder's hard work keeping the list on a leash. I'd
say the most common reason to not get an answer or merely get grumped at
instead of seeing a useful answer, would be to combine the twin errors
of using HTML based mail, and not telling us what few things you've
looked up first. We can do much better at translating technese to
English than we can do at translating confused-fuzziness to a technical
question.
You folks had a gazillion good tips out there and I'm digging myself out
from under them right now. [Imagine: a computer workroom filled with
little grey envelopes filled with pennies all gabbing about little Linux
tidbits. It's quite a chatterbox.]
But that's hardly fair. The real reason I'm running late and a few
pennies short is that I've been working really hard on the upcoming
LNX-BBC. It's gonna be this year's membership card for the
Free Software Foundation. I mean, if you're
not a member then perhaps you should be anyway... but this is a definite plus.
It's still a toy for experts though. More on cool toys for "the rest of us" in
upcoming months. There are lots and lots of good projects out there.
[It wasn't all Heather's fault. Our FTP server played a game of
"let's not but pretend we did", accepting Heather's Answer Gang upload but not
storing it. Bad FTP daemon, bad! It also has been dying the past few days,
which Dan has been combating via upgrades and logfile analysis. At one point
logrotate was dying and taking the daemon down with it. -Iron.]
Have fun!
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Published in Issue 87 of Linux Gazette, February 2003
