Linux Gazette
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January 2005 (#110):
* [1]The Front Page, by Heather Stern
* [2]The Mailbag
* [3]More 2 Cent Tips!
* [4]The Answer Gang
* [5]Bash Shell and Beyond, by Anonymous
* [6]Free as in Freedom: Part One: GNU/Linux, by Adam Engel
* [7]ParallelKnoppix, by Majid Hameed
* [8]A Knight's Tour on OCaml (when a Python fails to digest it), by Kapil
Hari Paranjape
* [9]Preparing For My Interviews Part 2: MySQL and Python, by Mark Nielsen
* [10]Flickr and Perl, by Jimmy O'Regan
* [11]Building a simple del.icio.us clone, by Jimmy O'Regan
* [12]Bash Shell and Beyond Applied, by William Park
* [13]Design Awareness, by Mark Seymour
* [14]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
* [15]The Linux Laundrette
The Front Page
By [16]Heather Stern
Happy Tux holding a plush Tux
Heather is Linux Gazette's Technical Editor and The Answer Gang's Editor
Gal.
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[BIO] Heather got started in computing before she quite got started learning
English. By 8 she was a happy programmer, by 15 the system administrator for
the home... Dad had finally broken down and gotten one of those personal
computers, only to find it needed regular care and feeding like any other
pet. Except it wasn't a Pet: it was one of those brands we find most
everywhere today...
Heather is a hardware agnostic, but has spent more hours as a tech in
Windows related tech support than most people have spent with their
computers. (Got the pin, got the Jacket, got about a zillion T-shirts.) When
she discovered Linux in 1993, it wasn't long before the home systems ran
Linux regardless of what was in use at work.
By 1995 she was training others in using Linux - and in charge of all the
"strange systems" at a (then) 90 million dollar company. Moving onwards,
it's safe to say, Linux has been an excellent companion and breadwinner...
She took over the HTML editing for "The Answer Guy" in issue 28, and has
been slowly improving the preprocessing scripts she uses ever since.
Here's an autobiographical filksong she wrote called [17]The Programmer's
Daughter.
Copyright © 2005, [18]Heather Stern. Released under the [19]Open Publication
license
Published in Issue 110 of Linux Gazette, January 2005
The Mailbag
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* [23]Linux boots from RAMdisk,
* [24]Python conferences in the US and Europe
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Linux boots from RAMdisk,
Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:57:34 -0500
keesan ([25]keesan from cyberspace.org)
ASUS P5A-B motherboard with AMD-K6-2 300MHz cpu. Other people report
assorted linux boot problems with this board and other ASUS boards.
I can boot my version of linux (Basixlinux 2, based on [26]Slackware 7.1, or
Basiclinux 3 with the SW71 kernel but libc5) from a 2-floppy lilo-boot
version that uses RAMdisk, a loadlin-boot RAMdisk version, a loop version,
or SW4.0 zipslack (UMSDOS). But if I try to boot BL2 or BL3 with loadlin
from a hard drive installation, with the kernels compiled for them or with
bare.i Slackware kernel, the boot process stops at the lines:
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea...
Net4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0
(The Basiclinux kernel gets me two lines further along to something about
TCP).
I tried starting with FreeDOS, DR-DOS, and Win98 DOS (since I have three
other computers that will boot linux with loadlin from Win9X DOS but not
always from the others, and one that will boot loop linux from any DOS
except Win9X). I do not have a hard drive version set up to boot with lilo.
Is that likelier to work? I don't want to use lilo as I work in DOS more of
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