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September 2005 (#118):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]Linux Analog to Digital Converter, by David Chong and Philip Chong
     * [5]Microprocessor Simulator on Linux, by Hrvoje Deak, Jonathan Magtalas
       and Matt Edwards
     * [6]New Use for Old Hardware: A Network Copier, by Edgar Howell
     * [7]Using The QEMU Emulator, My Thoughts And Experiences, by Michael Huff
     * [8]Digital Television, by Peter Knaggs
     * [9]Snort Inline Part II, by Pete Savage
     * [10]Senryu and Haiku, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [11]Digital Speed Controller using RTAI/Linux, by Sreejith N
     * [12]Using Linux to Create a Audio CD Library, by John Weatherwax
     * [13]HelpDex, by Shane Collinge
     * [14]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [15]The Linux Launderette

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     * [19]Hello kid ..etc
     * [20]Problems with tcsh scripting
     * [21]PyGtk Deprecation error
     * [22]Disappearing USB printer
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Hello kid ..etc

   Sat, 14 May 2005 12:32:23 +0100
   Philip O Brien ([23]philip.obrien from gmail.com)

     A pal of Jimmy's writes him personally - here's just the techie part... --
     Heather

   so every thing is up in the air.. but heh thats life... As Douglas Adams
   said "I love deadlines.. I love the wooshing noise they make as they fly
   by". 

   If you could get me an answer on that by any means necissary I would be
   grateful. 

   Forgive any mistooks as I only stopped drinking abot 6 hours ago... 

   So how you been keeping..... 

     [Jimmy] Not too bad. Much better if my PC'd stop crashing every time I try
     to send an email.

   One quick question before before we get into all that lot though.... 

   I need help with grub / booting a linux kernel.. I will describe it to you..
   
    1. Grub boot loader.
    2. Fedora Core 3 with 2.6 Kernel installed.
    3. 1 IDE 250 Gig hdd. / is on hda2 and is 10gigs.
    4. /home is on hda4 and is 230 ish gigs.
    5. Both are ext3 partitions.
    6. I am trying to boot another kernel.
    7. Its the NASA enhanced loopback kernel (2.4)
    8. It either panics or stalls stating it cannot open an initial console.
    9. The server is a dell one with no agp, P4 2.6, 512mb paired ram and pci
       mach64 gfx.
   10. Help :-) I need it for my forensics workstation. I need to mount entire
       disks on /dev/loop

                See attached [24]philip_obrien.grub.conf.txt

     [Jimmy] First off, I've never had to mess with grub before, and I'm only
     guessing here, but I'd say the problem is that you're trying to run an
     older kernel version from the same partition as a newer version. Sure,
     modules from the different versions will live happily together, but do you
     have a version of modprobe for both 2.4 and 2.6? Does your modules.conf
     have settings for 2.6 that don't work for 2.4?

     If you want, I can forward this to the Answer Gang, where you're much more
     likely to get a knowledgeable answer, that is, if you don't mind seeing
     your question published.

   Now back to the happy stuff.... 

     And that, dear readers, brings us to you. Anyone interested in taking a
     shot at the question, submit your note to [25]The Answer Gang in however
     long or short a fashion you'd like. -- Heather
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Problems with tcsh scripting