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Sunday, January
16, 2000
It looks like I survived another Winston Cup
Preview.
This year I was stuck at the Information table,
and although I feel I have a warm and outgoing personality it's
really the last place I want to be be during this event.
This desk should be renamed the complaint desk. We had a few
where is this and I lost this questions, requests for a few pages
for lost children and a few more general questions.
Unfortunately the most traffic we had was from visitors who were
disgruntled because they weren't guaranteed an autograph from
their favorite driver.
Some fans started standing in line well before
midnight last Friday to get a wristband that would allow them
access to one of the Winton Cup superstars. For the most
part the complainers were the ones who did not understand the
system. Each driver gives two hours of his time for this
event and its been determined that he can sign some 400 autographs
in that time, so that's why each driver's section is limited to
400.
Most of the upset people were
"first-timers" who didn't understand the system.
And then when Bobby Labonte didn't make his appearance because he
was sick with the flu there was yet another uprising.
Unfortunately the fact that this event is a
charitable benefit for the local children's hospital doesn't do
much to appease the upset ones.
This aside, from the early reports it looks like
it was another very successful event.
I HEARD A GOOD JOKE ON the local radio
station this week as a follow-up to the news stories on the little
Cuban boy who is either going to stay in the US or is going to be
sent back to Cuba.
"This is the second time in less than
two years that a "little Cuban" has causes a stir in
Washington."
If you need an explanation, send me an email. If you
need a hint, think of Monica and Bill.
SMOKERS ARE GOING TO BE IN for a surprise
when they buy a pack of cigarettes next week. Phillip Morris
and R.J. Reynolds announced last Friday they would be raising
prices by 13 cents a pack. Phillip Morris is taking the increase
on Monday and RJR's increase starts with shipments to wholesalers
on Tuesday. This increase is to pay for the latest FET Tax
increase. Call your Senators and Representative or there will
surely be more to come.
UPDATE: I put this page up earlier on
Sunday, but forgot to change the auto forward. Sorry.
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17, 2000
My company has deemed that today is a
holiday. Actualy, they made this decree a couple of years
ago, keeping steps with the national holidays I
suppose.
Since there was no school on this holiday the kids
had what amounted to be a sleepover last night. Michael, the
next door neighbor, was staying with Andrew and Katie invited her
classmate, Christine, over. Christine brought along her Nintendo
64 game machine and I, probably stupidly, allowed it to be
connected to our big screen television. The excuse was it
only had the three RCA plugs, no adapter like you would use for a
cable TV connection. Now I am sure Andrew will want to test
his Sony Playstation on the 35" TV and I wonder how long I
will be able to avoid giving in. Knowing me, probably not
long. Heck, I have avoided this connection for two years, so
maybe I can convince myself that I have done pretty well.
Katie and Christine had a school assignment to
make brochures for their social studies class. Katie had
chosen to make hers on London and Christine chose Stockholm.
The girls did their research and the writing and I helped by using
Word and the brochure template to make the final product to be
printed on the color desk jet printer.
I WANT TO ONCE AGAIN ATTEMPT a Linux
install. Actually, I want to build a firewall/proxy server
and daynoter Brian
Bilbrey is going to help me long distance by using a chat
window in ICQ. To get
ready for this adventure I am making a clean install of Red
Hat Linux 6.1 and have two NICs installed in Barney.
Barney is a 400 MHz Celeron with a 6 gig hard drive which should
allow me to do anything I would ever want to in Linux.
I chose the custom installation for Linux and
since I have the disk space, heck I installed everything
AND SPEAKING OF DAYNOTES, it looks like
reading our pages is becoming addictive. Over the Christmas
holiday I had a couple of email messages from Jonathan Hassell [jon@hassell.com]
who was building a new machine. We discussed my new IBM
IntelliStation and SCSI several times (I was having some problems
and shared my frustration to the world through these pages).
He built his new system, complete with a successful SCSI
sub-system and has been a happy camper. He's now decided to
start his own journal as of this week:
Just wanted to touch bases with you
and thank you again for your advice on the SCSI system. It's
working great now. I also have started a "Daynotes"-style
journal on my site. It can be found at http://home.carolina.rr.com/hassell
if you'd like to check it out.
Again, thanks for your help.
Glad your SCSI system is working fine. I
think I have mine going pretty much the way I want it. At least
all of my SCSI devices now work and I am NOT going to mess with
it anymore.
This daynote thing can get
addictive. You'll find yourself saying, "I've got to
find something to write today," but in the end, remember,
there's no crime in no posting for a day. We all do it,
except for maybe Bob Thompson,
who suffers terrible abuse when he skips just one day.
The one thing I would
suggest is to name your pages, let's assume we're talking weekly
pages here, something like 01172000.htm and then have the page
current.htm auto forward to the current page. I have
adopted this guideline, which hopefully makes searches of the
archive easier. At a minimum it helps to avoid broken
links.
Welcome to this addictive
practice. Heck, it keeps us off the streets.
As for your NICs, why
don't you try to either search D-Link's web site or drop them an
email. I would bet they have Linux drivers. I had a
similar problem with some no name NICs I wanted to use with Linux
and one email to the vendor told me the cards were using
the Realtek 8139(A)'s
chipset and I was able to select the Realtek 8139 from within
Linux with no problem. Maybe something like this would
work for you as well. Red Hat 6.1 had the 8139 listed as
one of its internal drivers.
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18, 2000
Brian Bilbrey and I got together via ICQ
chat last night to attempt my installation of Linux. I want to
build a Linux firewall/proxy server between my local LAN and the
internet and he volunteered his services via the daynotes
pages.
But before I get off into our success or lack thereof, I want
to say something about ICQ. It had been a long time since I had
attempted any chat using chat software. Most of my chats I've had
recently have been via sending emails to someone, but this ICQ
thing works pretty well. Both Brian and I could see what each
other was typing/saying and we typed it, finger fumbles and all.
The last time I had seen any chat was back in the days of my GT
Power bulletin board and then CompuServe before that In short, I
Thought it was pretty cool and if you're interested, check out ICQ
here.
Now back to the Linux install. I had sent Brian a couple of
emails on what I wanted to accomplish with the Linux system and
included a list of the computers on my network and what their lot
in life was. Before I knew it he fired back an email, including a
drawing on how my new network should be arranged...or at least an
idea for me to ponder.
Around 7:30 PM I got a message from Brian that he was home and
ready to get me going.
I had done a clean install in the afternoon and had told Linux
to install everything. This process took forever, but I wanted to
have everything that Brian would need. Also, during the afternoon
I had been poking around on the RedHat
website and saw a message where someone reported that RedHat 6.1
was not reporting all of the memory they had in their machine.
This made me think. I vaguely remember seeing a screen that said I
was low on memory during the install process and that Linux was
going to write my partition information to the disk right away. I
clicked OK right away and didn't pay it any more attention. Then I
saw the message on the RedHat site and the resolution was to add
the following statement to the lilo.conf file: append="mem=64M"
I followed this instruction and didn't see any change, but
remembered I needed to mention this to Brian when we got started.
When Brian and I got together I told him about the memory
problem, which he thought was weird. He also suggested the append
statement in lilo.conf. When we did this, on reboot the
system locked. When I reported the lock, he asked me if I had made
a boot disk at installation. I, with massive amounts of egg of my
face, reported that I had not.
No problem, I would get to make one when I reinstalled Linux.
For this installation I chose custom versus one of the pre-defined
setup routines and after some discussion about disk partitions, I
set the install into motion. This was going to take the better
part of an hour, so I allowed Brian to escape, plus I had to put
the kids to bed. They were already getting an extra half-hour out
of me as it was.
The new install finished and we encountered the same problem at
boot. Linux locked. I was going to do another install and this
time I selected the pre-defined server package. I let the install
run through the night and yes, I checked on it this morning before
heading off to the office.
As the install began, Brian and I had a discussion about
hardware and different varieties of Linux. I am trying to install
RedHat 6.1 and he is a fan of Mandrake. He thinks I might be
having some hardware problems. Hey, everything is new in this
system.
Anyway, I am considering getting a copy of Mandrake since
that's Brian's favorite and he has so graciously offered to help
me out. When I went to Barney this morning and the install had
finished, of course I rebooted. I held my breath as the system
came up fine.
The first thing I did was check connectivity. I first pinged my
LANMODEM successfully and then tried the outside world with a ping
to IBM.com and then pair.com. We were rocking.
I issued the route command and then ifconfig to see my routing
table and network configuration. May not have known what I was
looking at, but it brought some useful (to someone, probably)
information up on the screen. I then issued the free command and
yep, it still reports just 16 megs of memory. I added the
statement to lilo.conf and rebooted with the same 16 meg result. I
think I saw in the RedHat help page that you need to run lilo
after to make this change. I didn't do this. I will then send
Brian another email with today's results, but it was now time to
head to the office, show I shutdown the barney and headed to the
office.
I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet and pickup a mandrake
package today and install it before attempting to contact Brian
again. The
Mandrake I got was 6.1 and was published by McMillan. At
least now we know we are going to be talking about the same
package.
When I got home this afternoon I did yet another clean install,
this time using the Mandrake package. The install went
flawlessly, except I am going to have some trouble configuring the
video for my Intel CA810 board, which has some kind of weird Intel
video package built into the board.
However, I noticed that this Mandrake package also only
recognized 16 megs of memory. The board is reporting the 64
megs on the bios screen at boot, so I have no idea what is going
on.
And here was the death sentence. I added the
append="mem=64" statement to the lilo.conf in Mandrake
and issued the lilo command and Mandrake locked up just like the
RedHat install had done last night. Therefore, as I am
writing this I am doing yet another clean Linux install. The
lockup screen looked very familiar, so I guess it is locking up at
the same point. Maybe the video is using some of the RAM and
when I tell Linux it has 64 and then it goes out and can't find 64
it barfs?
Upon reading a little closer in the RedHat knowledge base I see
I have gotten ahead of myself in forcing the memory statement into
the lilo. The steps that should be performed are:
- At the LILO prompt issue this command linux mem=32M
- After the machine boots issue the free command to see if
Linux is now recognizing all 64 Megs
- Then add the append statement to the lilo.conf
I was able to test the above method as I was preparing this
message and my new Linux install was finishing up. At the
reboot I saw the prompt LILO boot: and quickly typed in linux mem=64M
[enter} and guess what, yep, the black screen of death
again. Fortunately since nothing that been written to lilo I
was able to reboot and did not have to reinstall the whole damn
thing yet another time.
I am going to have to post this problem on the Linux users
group and maybe the Intel knowledge base to see if anyone there
has any suggestions.
MY TRIP TO THE OFFICE WAS going to take a little longer
than usual today as the dusting of snow the weatherman promised
last night turned out to be more like four to six inches. This
gives the kids an extended holiday. In fact, knowing the schools
around here, they'll probably be out of school most of the week.
The temperatures are supposed to remain around freezing, which
means that what little snow that melts in the daytime will turn
into ice overnight and make the roads too slick for the buses in
our city/county school system too dangerous for early morning
travel. It's going to be a long week for Suzy.
When it snows here, the scenery at the back of our house is
worth of a winterland post card. There is a small creek that
make a turn at our property and with its banks covered with snow,
makes quite the winter photo. Our friends to the north
should remember that we don't get much snow, so when the white
stuff falls, it's quite the thrill. It's nothing to go a
couple of winters and get only a dusting of snow. Here are
couple of shots of the Tucker Winter Wonderland:
MINNESOTA HAS NOTHING ON North Carolina. Jesse
Ventura started it an now longtime wrestler (or should we say
actor here) Rick Flair says he wants to run for Governor in North
Carolina. I think Rick was the one known as the Nature Boy
back in the old wrestling days. Is there a wrestler for all
50 states?
I THINK I MAY HAVE MENTIONED last week that
I posted a plea for help from the BellSouth reps who normally read
and respond in the bellsouth.net.support.adsl usenet
group. My think was that at least I might get to talk with
someone who actually knew what he/she was talking about. I
was correct. The order takers on the phone haven't been much
help. If you deviate from the name, rank and serial number
questions they've been trained to ask, you're in trouble.
I was able to converse via email with Andrew
Parris, who in turn provided some very useful information.
Well, maybe I shouldn't be so complimentary. I was
information that I did not want to hear. It turns out that
sub-station box BellSouth has near my home is a hindrance rather
than a useful piece of equipment as I had hoped. Here's the
bad news from Andrew:
Unfortunately, it would appear that
both of your lines are routed through a SLC/DLC.
SLC's will prevent our FastAccess
from functioning properly. While we can not effect changes to
your phone lines, you may wish to contact BellSouth Telephone
for further information. Please be aware however, that the SLC
may be required on your lines for proper voice transmission and
that there may be nothing BellSouth Telephone can do about this
situation.
For more information on SLCs (also
called DLCs), please visit the following web site:
http://www.teledotcom.com/423/news/tdc423na_dlc.html
Let me know if you need anything
further!
Maybe you can get BellSouth on the stick in
upgrading their equipment.
It's nice to finally know what's been holding
BellSouth back. And on another note, after reading in the
adsl support group I wonder if ADSL is all it's cracked up to
be. There seem to be a lot of problems in South Florida and
I hope the same kind of system is not eventually installed in
Winston-Salem.
I'VE HAD SEVERAL EMAILS today on the
subject of Andrew and the snow. Bob and Barbara Thompson
were happy that we got some snow and Andrew got to use his new
snowboard (and he was quite cool on it I might add, but I was not
quick enough with the camera).
Early this morning from Barbara [barbara@ttgnet.com]:
Hey, Andrew got his
wish. How was the snowboarding.
And on the same subject from Bob [thompson@ttgnet.com]:
Well,
Andrew gets his snowboard, and 6" of snow shows up. Can't
get much better than that
And
later in the afternoon from Bob [thompson@ttgnet.com]::
Well,
the snow looks like it'll be around for at least another day,
and we have more on the way according to the Weather Channel.
Looks like Andrew may have a chance to actually get tired of
playing in the snow.
I
think he likes the snow, but since he falls on the snowboard
quite often I don't think he like the cold. When I arrived
at the top of the hill this afternoon his cheeks were very rosy
and he soon headed inside. But, all the while, he was one
very happy camper. His smile was beaming.
.
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19, 2000
It looks like one of my problems with Linux has
been solved.
I reported in detail yesterday the problem I was
having with both RedHat and Mandrake not seeing all of the memory
in my system. I have 64 megs of memory in the intended Linux
system and both operating systems would only see 16 megs.
Not good.
The system is one I built with a Intel CA810A
system board, 400 MHz Celeron processor and 64 Meg of
memory. The system board has built in video and this
ultimately is what was giving me the problem.
I have other motherboards that take their memory
from the system memory as well, but in each of those cases there
was a spot in the bios to select the amount of video memory.
I didn't see that opportunity in the CA810A bios. I am
sure I just missed it.
Bob Thompson read my post from yesterday and
emailed with the suggestion the video was taking 1 meg away from
the system memory. I would have thought (notice I avoided
the word assume) the AGP video would have used more than 1 meg.
Since I had tried this procedure with 64 megs, I
was a little skeptical to issue the command at boot:
LILO boot: linux mem=63M[enter]
After the failure at 64 megs I was able to reboot
without reinstalling, so I figured 'what the hell', I don't have much
to lose and by now I am becoming quite proficient at installing
Linux. It's just time consuming.
The system accepted this change quite nicely and
booted. To be honest I was shocked. Therefore, I moved
to the next step and edited the lilo.conf to add the statement append="mem=63M",
saved the file and issued the lilo command. It was now time
to reboot and hold my breath. If the system failed here it
meant a new install. Hey, the system booted and now shows 63
megs of memory. I was a happy camper, although I must admit
I was a little anxious while the system was booting after the
change to the lilo.conf
Now I need to get my video card configured to make
the Linux X system happy. I skipped that process in the last
install.
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20, 2000
Linux booted again with no problems, so I am going
to declare the memory issue was my problem.
NOW THIS IS JUST EXACTLY what I needed to
hear. I can't get ADSL because of BellSouth's poor infrastructure
planning and now at least one is saying the merger
of America On Line and Time Warner may spell the end of Road
Runner. T-W is saying that I should be able to get Road
Runner service this spring.
YOU'VE HEARD MORE THAN once about the dangers
of cell phones. Do they cause brain cancer with the
transmitter held to your head for extended periods? Or is
the real danger from people like me talking while driving down the
road? I must confess that I have become involved in more
than one cell phone conversation while driving and zoned
out. To cover their butts in a legal action, cell phone
service providers spend quite a bit of their energy telling you
how to use your phone and reminding you not to be talking on the
phone while driving. Not many of us pay very close attention
to that advice.
BRIAN BILBREY AND I WORKED on barney a
little again last night, this time attempting to get the video
system set up for Linux. The problem is the Intel onboard
video is not listed in the typical Linux configurations, so we we
were attempting to build the drivers from scratch using the
xf86config utility. Brian coached me through the process
using ICQ and had to endure my finger fumbling and Linux novice
stupidity. I must have screwed something up along the way,
because we did not have any success. We tried a couple of
different things to no avail and finally came to the conclusion
that we might be better off with a supported video card.
I took a quick look at the boot bios on the CA810A
board and didn't readily see a way to disable the onboard
video. Maybe you can disable the onboard video when you put
the board in configuration mode, but that means moving a jumper on
the board, which means taking the case apart. What a pain.
I then hit the web and searched for +intel +ca810
+Linux and came up with this
support page which gives you the step by step instructions for
setting up this board with Linux, including the memory issue I
tackled the last couple of days. It also details the steps
necessary to bring the 810 video chipset online. I have downloaded
the files this page refers to and the next time Brian and I
get together maybe we'll be able to get the video going. I
first attempted to ftp to Intel, but my anonymous password was
rejected, so I used one of my win 9x boxes and downloaded the
files to a floppy and will have to move them to a junk file on
barney.
With Brian's patience I think I am actually
learning something about Linux. Thanks Brian. Can't
tell you how long I might retain it, though.
There is one good thing about the chat sessions. I
have captured them and if I want to publish a page later on how I
did this or that I should be able to go in and clean these files
up some and have the info needed. My memory or my change log
would never do in this instance!
IT'S RATHER EARLY IN THE MORNING and
with the way its snowing outside it looks like the kids won't be
going to school again today. This time they're calling for
up to 6 inches of the white stuff. I still have to go to
work. Bummer. But, we do like to eat and play with
computers.
We may not be able to tune into the local
television station tomorrow to check on school closings.
Suzy said they mentioned on WXII,
the local NBC affiliate and the station located in Winston-Salem,
that they were in negotiations with Time Warner cable and their
signal may be taken off the cable if some agreement was not
reached. Ain't big business great.
* * * * *
It looks like my Winter Wonderland photo struck
home with at least one reader. J.H. Ricketson [culam@neteze.com]
says the photo reminded him of scenes from his youth.
Thanks ever so
much for the (for me) extremely nostalgic pix of your snowfall.
When I was a tad (< 5 years) I lived in rural western N Y
State, and had a creek (pronounced “crik”) very much like
yours in our backyard. Probably
the greatest toy a kid could have, all 4 seasons. The price was
right, too! I envy you your crik. Treasure it.
Don’t expect
your boy to get tired of snow. It is a never-ending wonder, with
limitless possibilities. That is, until you have to get out and
work in it. Then it is a pure PITA, as you have experienced.
I always thought that was a scenic shot when
we suffered through winter precipitation, whether it be ice or
snow. Glad you enjoyed it. The weather forecasters
are indicating we may a chance to enjoy more. Ugh.
And you're Right, Andrew is still enjoying
the snow. We went out to eat last night and as we were
heading home he wanted to know if he could go back and play in
the snow some more. The answer was no. At that point
it was a school night.
And Jon Hassell offered his insights on my Linux
problems Jonathan Hassell [jon@hassell.com].
I looked at your
problem in the Red Hat manual.
Where in the lilo.conf file are you putting the append
statement? In the
example in the “Getting Started” guide, they say to make it
the first line in the file.
It may solve your lockup problem; I don’t know.
We, too, have
the wonderful wintry mix, although scraping the ice off the car
was less than enjoyable. :-)
Good luck.
As you may have read in Wednesday’s
notes, my lockup problem was coming from telling Linux the
incorrect amount of memory.
I am now ready to move to the next step.
Are you using Linux to run a proxy server on your cable
modem?
They are calling for more snow here,
this time supposedly coming from your way, which is where we get
our bad weather from.
I hope the forecasters are incorrect.
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21, 2000
The work on the Linux box is progressing
slowly. I downloaded the files for the i810 video from the
Intel web site and have copied them to my Linux box. I was
able to unpack the RPM file with no problem, but the second instruction
included issuing the make command. For some reason my
Mandrake installation does not include the make utility or at
least I can not find it and naturally the install process bogs
down there.
I have pestered Brian Bilbrey with this query.
In fact, Brain and i are going to try to get together tomorrow
afternoon in another ICQ chat to continue the work on the Linux
box, so I have sent his this question in advance. I the mean
time, I installed a clean copy of Linux last night so we could
start from scratch.
And while I was preparing this post I got a
message back from Brian that I need to do a development
install. To which I wrote back....I
guess that means going back to the drawing board.
urgh. Hey, I'm getting lots of practice at installing
Linux. Didn't say I was getting good at it, just lots of
practice.
Brian is on the west coast, so we have set our
meeting time up for 3 PM (my time). This accomplishes a
couple of things. 1. Katie, Andrew and my self will be
attending the Duke vs. Wake Forest basketball game, which starts
at noon and 2. Since Brian is on the other coast and three hours
behind, establishes a reasonable hour of the day for him. He
does have another life you know.
After I mentioned our local television
station the other day I got this very interesting email from Perigee Tech Support
[support@perigee.net].
Be sure the notice the date at the bottom of the radar screen.
Y2K Bug hits your local station.
Thought you might enjoy
this http://www.wxii.com/lrgradar.htm
I wonder it they had a Y2M bug or never set their
clock?
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22, 2000
I think I may have finally gotten my video working
on the Linux box.
The big problem it turns out was when I installed
the custom version I had not instructed Linux to load the
"make" command. Brian Bilbrey was kind enough to
let me know that I needed to do a development install, so I did a
fresh install and included everything on the the list that even
looked like it wanted to have the word development in its title
somewhere.
After that I went back through the install of the
Inetl i810 video driver and its rpm seemed very happy to have the
make command and finished its job nicely.
My first test wasn't so successful. The
instruction was to try the new video at 16 bpp (bits per pixel I
think) by issuing this command: startx -- -bpp16. This
failed several times with an error 111. I then noticed that
you could start X by telling where your config file was, so I
tried this command: startx -- -xf86confign
/etc/X11/XF86Config and to my amazement the video came
up.
I then exited the X system and came back by just
issuing the command startx and I was once again able to flip
through the different size screens.
Then came the real test. I issued the reboot
command to see if it would come back. It was.
Therefore, I suppose I am declaring this install of the i810
server has finally been completed.
We're now ready to move to the next
phase.
I'll let Brian be the driver here.
It looks like the war between Daytona Beach and
Charlotte may be heating up again. I remember when I
worked at NASCAR there were some tough times between Bruton Smith
and the Charlotte Motor Speedway crowd and Bill France's NASCAR
crowd.
It's my personal opinion that Jim Hunter (now
president at Darlington) smoothed the ruffled feathers and the two
camps have been getting along nicely for quite some time
now. That is, until the last couple of years when both
France and Smith have been on track buying rampages. I
believe France's ISC currently has the lead in number of tracks
owned.
Bruton has been disappointed the last several
years when the Winston Cup schedule has been accounced and his
Texas Motor Speedway didn't receive a second Winston Cup date.
And last week some new fireworks started.
Smith, addressing a group of motorsports writers, said NASCAR had
become greedy. And NASCAR didn't allow Smith's comments to
roll off the cuff.
Brian France fired back a salvo of his own in yesterday's
Winston-Salem Journal.
Not quite the Hatfield and McCoys, but if you're
into racing, it;s interesting to watch
Brian Bilbrey got my email early this morning that
I had the video working, so he sent me this message, urging me to
show off my success to the world:
And it is working????
then post a screen shot.
Show off a little.
grab the whole screen by using
import sshot01.jpg from
the command prompt then use the cross hairs to select box
corners.
wait, and it will come back to the
command line - Oh, do that as steve (or tucker, or whatever,
just not as root)then ftp into barney from whichever box you
publish from, log in as the user who did the screenshot, ls
should show you the file, then get the screen shot, and publish
it.
I didn't have a much success with FTP, actually I
tried it from a dos prompt and it timed out, so I just copied the
file to a floppy and brought 'er to the web machine. Here
the screen shot:
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