Linux Gazette MailBag Issue #12

| #### "Linux Gazette...making Linux just a little more fun!" ## The Mailbag! Write the Gazette at gazette@ssc.com Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:11:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Linux Gazette Issue 11 From: Elliot Lee, sopwith@cuc.edu Nice job, as always! :-) -- Elliot, webmaster@redhat.com (Thanks! --Editor) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:49:21 -0600 (CST) Subject: Search Engine From: "Dan Crowson" dcrowson@cms.cmsc.com Organization: CMS Communications, Inc. Hello: what kind of search engine are you using for the Linux Gazette www server? Is this a linux-based engine? Thanks, Dan (Nope. It just builds on Linux --Editor) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:24:30 -0500 Subject: Comments on Issue #11 From: "R. Frank Louden" flouden@fairfield.home.sweet.net I am always glad to see another issue of LG. Thank you for taking the time to compose it. One comment I'd like to make is the most recent issue (#11) is difficult for me to read on the spiral binding background. For me, the text lies over close enough to the left edge of the page, and it is almost hidden in some parts of the page. I may be one of a dying breed but I choose to use Mosaic and wish others would consider that MS and Netscape do NOT adhere to the HTML specs and are fragmenting the standards. I note that NCSA is working on a new version that will provide support that is not currently found in the version I use. I am at this moment using an unsupported version 2.7b5 (it's kinda buggy) but when it works it allows me to see the background you have used. While whirly-gigs and gewgaws are nice, some of us are still not able to upgrade hardware at the whim of the industry and need to have some consideration from those who sponsor WWW HTML documents. I have accessed pages that are completely illegible (with my old Mosaic) and others (with a more up-to-date browser) that take prohibitively long times to download. There IS something to be said for standards. Thanks again for the Gazette! It is great!!! (There may be more than one problem here. First off, if you are using a mirror site, the problem is my fault. Somehow, when building the tar file for the mirror sites, a gif that was integral to the notebook motif -- it moved the print away from the spiral -- was left out. I am in the process of notifying the mirror site where the missing file can be downloaded. The notebook spiral was put in using "tables" which is an HTML standard. Here at SSC we too believe in following HTML standards. In fact the program that we use to push things to the web checks that the HTML conforms. I have worried that by adding more graphics we might be causing problems with download times. However, we also would like to keep LG looking good, so thought we'd add away and see what kind of comments we get. So far it's tied. One who likes the spiral and yours against. BTW, if you are accessing LG through a mirror site, try the main site and see if it does better for you (http://www.ssc.com/lg). Glad you like LG, I certainly have fun putting it together. --Editor) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 13:32:44 +1100 Subject: http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/lg/issue11/wkndmech.html From: Ken Yap ken@syd.dit.csiro.au Hi, Like your Linux Gazette, but some GIFs on the page are not displaying. Path problem? Thanks, Ken (John Fisk forwarded your mail to me. In building the tar file for the mirror sites some files got left out. I have furnished and updated file. Sorry about that. --Editor) Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 12:09:22 -0700 Subject: XDM Replacement link incorrect From: "Kevin J. Butler" butler@byu.edu Organization: Novell, Inc. In Issue 11 there is an incorrect link. On the page: http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue11/lg_tips11.html#xdm The link currently is: http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue11/alienor.fr/~pierre/index_us.html But should be: http://alienor.fr/~pierre/index_us.html Thanks for a great 'zine! :-) kb (Got it fixed. Thanks for letting me know. --Editor) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:35:04 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: Linux Gazette Issue 11 From: Lialios Dionysios ancient@eexi.gr Hello, this is Dennis from Greece. Well this time I managed to download the whole thing so now I have a full mirror. The only problem is that I didn't get (or I don't have) the searchbtn.gif and the htsearch.cgi that are used for the search engine. Did I make something wrong or should I have something I don't? Thank you in advance. Dennis (No, you did nothing wrong. I was so excited to have the search engine, I forgot that the mirrors wouldn't have the proper data bases. Since these data bases are very big and are for all of the SSC site, we have changed the links for the data base so that it always refers back to the SSC site rather than a relative address pointing to the mirror site. The updated front page file is in the update tar file along with the missing files. Let me know if it works for you. --Editor) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:01:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Request From: ivan.m@ieee.udistrital.edu.co (Ivan Mauricio Montenegro) It's the first time I hear about Linux Gazette, I'd want to have all the issues, but at the FTP addresses that appear on www.ssc.com have the horrible message "Login Error". What could I do? Thanks! Ivan Mauricio Montenegro IEEE Student Branch, Vice-Chairperson Distrital University, "Francisco Jos de Caldas", Bogota, Colombia (Not sure why you are having a problem. I can tell that others are able to download from that address without problem. Are you using your browser to point to that address or logging on with anonymous ftp? I would suggest using a ftp mirror site that is closer to you. Unfortunately, Linux Gazette does not have a mirror site in South America at this time. There is one in Mexico which is somewhat closer to you than Seattle. At any rate if you go to the Mirror Site page (http://www.ssc.com/lg/mirrors.html) in Linux Gazette, and use the links there to go to one of the ftp sites (ours or one of the mirrors), you shouldn't be asked for a login. (I never have been and that's why I am a little confused by the message you are getting.) Let me know if you continue to have problems, and thanks for writing. --Editor) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 21:21:59 -0500 Subject: Great new look From: "Alan L. Waller" alwaller@shore.intercom.net Classy !!! Al (Thanks! Glad you like it. --Editor) Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 11:03:26 -0800 Subject: Thank you From: Innocent Bystander innocent@dopey.4dcomm.com Thank you very, very much for providing LG to people such as I, who haven't become Unix gods yet. After reading my first issue, I am now a dedicated reader. What can *I* do to assist LG? Innocent Bystander, innocent@dopey.4dcomm.com San Diego, CA (Send us your favorite tips and tricks. We love new contributors. Other than that tell all your friends about us and promote Linux where ever you are. --Editor) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:08:08 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Great Writing To: "Lowe, Jimmy, D MSGT LGMPD" LOWEJ@SSG.GUNTER.AF.MIL From: "John M. Fisk" fiskjm@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Hello Jimmy! Thanks so much for taking the time to write! I appreciate it. I honestly can't take the credit for this -- the kind folks at SSC (and the Linux Journal) offered to take over the management of the LG when its administrative upkeep just got to be too much. Marjorie Richardson is its capable new Editor. I've taken the liberty of cc'ing a copy of this to her -- definitely deserves a pat on the back. Thanks again and Best Wishes, John --------------------------- On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Lowe, Jimmy, D MSGT LGMPD wrote: > Hello John, > > I just wanted to say how glad I am to see the LG is being carried on > in such a fine manner -- during the summer I began to worry a small but > inspiring story was coming to an end. I think your writing is very > entertaining and informative! I really appreciate your work and that of > all the others in the Linux community and others (e.g. FSF). > > I hope to give back to this wonderful community of dedicated > hobbiest/computer wizards once I get a little more up-to-speed. > > Hope you and your family are well, > > Jim Lowe, Montgomery AL (I think John was being a little modest on this one. Jim was obviously glad to see John's new Weekend Mechanic column in Linux Gazette. I certainly was. Thanks a lot John. --Editor) Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 11:30:32 -0500 Subject: Bravo! From: "J.M. Paden" jmpaden@mnsinc.com "The Whole Damn Thing" is most appreciated. Thanks for the response to your readers requests. Regards, (You're welcome. We do aim to please. --Editor.) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 13:41:36 -0800 Subject: Link to other Linux pages From: "J. Hunter Heinlen" dracus@third-wave.com Greetings.... I've gone through your title page for the Linux Gazette, and could not find a link to other Linux pages. Please put a link to page with links to other, commonly used Linux pages just below the Mirror sites link, and ask those that you give links for to provide links to you. This will make finding information much easier. Thank you for your time. (I'm not sure which are the commonly used Linux pages you'd like to have a link for on the LG front page. I have added a link to SSC's Linux Resources page at http://www.ssc.com/linux/. Why don't you look at that page and see if it has the links you are wanting. Let me know what you think. Thanks for writing. --Editor) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:59:14 -0500br Subject: LG width From: Gerr gerr@lag.cts.du.edu Hi there. Just a suggestion about the page (which looks ... wow ... compared to before). If you could, however, try to keep it inside of one page wide, it would be wonderful. I find myself having to use the arrows to see what's on the end of lines on the right hand side of the page.. -- gerr@weaveworld (Thank you for writing. I didn't realize it was running over. I use a rather large window for viewing it myself. The problem seems to be a combination of the spiral and the width of the text inside the <PRE> tags. Not sure what can be done, but we'll look into it. --Editor) ##### This page written and maintained by the Editor of Linux Gazette, gazette@ssc.com Copyright © 1996 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.