An article over at Linux Today has the story on the first advertisement Microsoft has released where they acknowledge the Linux Operating System. Although it was released in Germany, it is still a big break through for the Linux Community. World domination is right on schedule!
I’ve been compiling my kernel for a week and a half now and still have yet to get my Voodoo working since installing a new motherboard. I know I know, I’m suppose to be a hardware genius. However, I don’t know if it is a matter of the kernel or something else that I am over looking. When I start Quake, I get the following error: **************************************** ...no hardware acceleration found... If this is in error, add "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1" to the command line. **************************************** At this point I am totally open to suggestions.
In UNIX environment, the following combination of perl and find will serch for a particular file and replace the occurence of a particular string with another string in that file. This will also work for multiple files and directories. The find command finds the file and the perl script replaces old string with the new one. perl -pi -e 's/old string/new string' `find . -name "file name"`
The Scoop
Tired of all the windows users having all the fun? Well, Speak Freely is your answer.
Let’s Get Going
Speak Freely is very simple to install if you are using Debian Linux. apt-get install speak-freely If you are using one of the other distributions then head over to their site and download the rpm and install it. Be sure to grab the latest version since it comes with the TK front end.
Getting through the firewall
If you happen to have a Linux firewall, then you will need to issue the following command. The following command only works if you are using ipchains:
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 2074 2075 -c udp 2075
The Benefits
During using SpeakFreely I have found it to be clearer than any other program I have used (yes any). Another great benefit of it is the encryption over the wire it offers, as well as the different levels of compression it supports. If you have any troubles then post a comment, I am sure someone or myself will get back to you with an answer.
If you are like me, sometimes you need to actually print a man page for a certain command. Linux has a lot of built in documentation but sometimes it can be a little hard to get at. Use the following command to print out an online man page.
cd /usr/share/man/ and run zcat man.1.gz | groff -mandoc – > man.ps
lpr man.ps
Be sure that you have the package named “groff” installed. The location of your actuall man pages may be different as well. The above path is normally used in Debian Linux.
Updated 10/11/00
The following update was sent in by Steve Limkemann
“……a slightly easier, and more portable, way to print man pages is to use the command “man -t someManPage | lpr” without the quotes.”