Linuxers January 2004

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RE: Why do Viruses not infect GNU/Linux PCs?

by Parul.Mathur

------ Rishi Gangoly <rishi(a)theargoncompany.com> wrote on Thu, 29 Jan 2004 -------- > I wanted to trigger a conversation here on why Viruses infect Windows PCs and > not GNU/Linux systems, Hi Rishi, Your post reminds me of an article I read on Slashdot last year. Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact? ============================================ An article at The Register, authored by Scott Granneman of SecurityFocus, examines the conventional wisdom that if Linux or Mac OS X were as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33226.html Mr. Granneman bluntly says this is wrong, then proceeds to detail the fundamental differences between those OS's and Windows which make Windows an easy and inviting target for virus-writers, as opposed to the Unix-based platforms.

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RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?

by linuxdev

> You mis understood. I was not comparing IE with Mozilla. About time I put and end to the misunderstandings of my ideas too !! I perfectly understood what u said. You weren't comparing mozilla with IE. I was. The crib as you said is the pre-loader which doesn't exist for linux. Or m'be it does now, I read bout some gnome-systray based app. that does that. I forget the name. > I consider Mozilla's performance far superior to Mozilla. uh-huh. I will put forth a few(repeated) ideas to be shot down by u guys (hear ye Philip with single l) * how bout a generalized preloader that loads the most used shared libraries for (plug ur fav soft here ) before X starts up. Evolution does it when u open it the first time. Why not do it before that ?? Please for god's sake note that I don't mean the glibc or libc libs for that matter. I'm talking about the libs like say gnutls, libnss, libvorbis etc etc. which are not loaded by default. * advantage ? Snap opening times for our dear ol' mozilla, gaim, mplayer, xmms etc etc. * kde already does it. but the catch ? only for kde apps. So not useful. And please please don't even start about how fast mozilla-firebird opens on ur system. It's been discussed to death on /. on how much it is *not* fast while *opening* on a linux box. urs persistently, C P.S: sorry for the looong mail. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] parsing configuration files using C

by linuxdev

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:19:10PM +0530, Krishna Dagli wrote: > I am looking for a library which will give me the value of a variable existing in a plain text configuration file. >The format of the configuration file will be <variable name> = <value> if u find xml format for ur config file good enough then there's libxml that should suit ur task. C Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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introducing myself

by Shiv Kumaar,91-22-28906693, 9820320927 (mobile)

Hi all, I am Shiv Kumar from Mumbai. After hearing so much abt linux, I had the opportunity to use this OS for the first time at the World Social Forum's Media Centre recently. I am no techie though I am interested in alternatives to proprietory software. Am joining this mailing list so that I can learn more abt linux. rgds shiv kumar

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spurious errr

by Satish Alwani

I keep getting this error for spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. i even recompiled without apic support I am using a7n8x-x mobo which is based on nforce

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Re:[ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot the upgraded kernel

by Vishwanath V

Hi Nachiketa, Well i guess u're using ext3 fs , have u compiled the module into the kernel or is it a loadable module ? If its a loadable module then u need to preload ext3 by creating initrd file :) Hope it solves u're problem :D Happy Hacking, Visu. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com

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Unable to boot the upgraded kernel

by Nachiketa Sadhu

Hi, I have fedora core 1 on my computer, recently I updated the kernel from 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp to 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlsmp through yum from redhat update site. After the update I am not able to boot the new kernel. The older kernel boots without any problem. The machine gives a kernel panic, with the last few lines of the display as follows: Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices Creating root device mkrootdev: label / not found Mounting root filesystem mount: error 2 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I have a Intel 865GBF Motherboard with Pentium 4 2.6HT processor 2Gb DDR SD RAM and a 120 MB SATA drive ST3120026AS and PATA ST380011A hard disks. I boot from the sata drive /dev/sda Please give me some pointers to look into to rectify the problem. Please also indicate if more information is required to diagnose the problem. Thanks for your help sadhu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] parsing configuration files using C

by Amish Mehta

Hi Abhir, Just a suggestions. In the time you searched, posted e-mail, replied to replies, you could have written the reader/parser library yourself. And may be released it under GPL and earned yourself a fame. :-) Amish. P.S. Just for a good cause. Abhir Joshi wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:13:44PM +0530, Krishna wrote: > >> Just a thought then why not to use xml and libxml2. > >That would mean writing the configuration files in XML which is not >what I want. It would also entail slightly more effort to create the >configuration file using emacs.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] parsing configuration files using C

by Abhir Joshi

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:13:44PM +0530, Krishna wrote: > Just a thought then why not to use xml and libxml2. That would mean writing the configuration files in XML which is not what I want. It would also entail slightly more effort to create the configuration file using emacs. -- Abhir Joshi http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/

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parsing configuration files using C

by Abhir Joshi

Is there a C/C++ library available to parse a configuration file and get the value of different variables specified therein? I know about gnome-config. Maybe there is something similar for Qt. But I wanted to know if there was any other independent library. -- Abhir Joshi http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/

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