Back to Newsletters KEYWORDS=mount, cdrom, dvd, netscape, 7, review, DAVROM CONSULTING Newsletter - Issue # 20 - Dated: Mon Aug 18 14:20:33 EST 2003 From the desk of David Clark Welcome to issue 20 going to 544 readers. The war on spam continues and I have loaded the later version of SpamAssassin (2.55) so now instead of getting my 19 spams a day, they sit in spam folders awaiting my previewing and subsequent deleting. The increase in spam seems to be affecting everyone as everywhere I look these days, there are articles and the latest 'bit of software' to block these useless e-mails. Support lately has been a mixed bag of SCO, SnapGear and Linux servers with the odd Windows and anti-virus software issues thrown in. SCO Forum is under way as this newsletter reaches you and it is held in Las Vegas these days, but my fond memories of SCO Forum take me back to the great times I had with my colleagues on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz. I will condense any points of interest from SCO Forum in the next newsletter. I would like to thank the reader for their time in reading this newsletter. David.M.Clark UNIX Quote Pronounciation of Linux - lin-ux: - lin (like the word tin) - ux (like mux) Netscape 7 Messenger review In newsletter 6 I covered my use of Netscape Messenger under Netscape 6.x as my e-mail reader and choice of browser. What I did find at the time is its slowness forced me back into using the Netscape 4.7x range. Coming from using the UNIX mail reader, "mail", at the UNIX command line for the past 16 years, I wanted my nice GUI e-mail versions to offer me the same features and ease of implementation. Well now with a slightly faster desktop I converted over to Netscape 7 some months ago and I am enjoying using some of the nicer features of this e-mail reader (and browser). Another indentical twin of Netscape 7 is Mozilla and given they are developed by the same people, Mozilla is an excellent choice as well. I ran Mozilla for a few weeks and then switched back to Netscape 7 - no mods necessary. We use the Windows version here as well for e-mail and Internet browsing and it works well interfacing with POP and IMAP. Some nice features over the traditional 4.7x version is the ability to learn e-mail addresses based on your sending and receiving (much the same as Kmail does) - when you start to type in an e-mail address not only does it look in your address book but it looks in the learned books as well. I found the transferring of e-mails from the Inbox to folders a lot smoother and it stores them in my favourite e-mail format, UNIX e-mail text (I have a heap of scripts that go through the folders etc so having this compatibility is mandatory for me). The browser 'appears' to load lot quicker when browsing sites. There is some write-up that the free versions of Netscape won't be developed any further but this is a non-issue as Mozilla works the same. To date under UNIX/Linux I have used and tested, and can recommend: Netscape 7.x, 4.7x Mozilla Kmail Evolution All of these work well with POP and IMAP servers running Sendmail, PostFix, MMDF and SCOoffice Mail. Please let me know if you have a favourite e-mail reader. News notes SnapGear have released the SnapGear Lite2 and the Lite2+ - these are now shipped in place of the Lite and Lite+ - Internal upgrades to components. SCO announces the OpenServer Kernel Personality for Unixware 7.1.3. This allows traditional OpenServer applications to continue running on Unixware 7.1.3 servers. Red Hat will join the ObjectWeb consortium and continue its close relationship with Apache to further develop enterprise technologies to deliver robust web based solutions. Tech Tip Mounting CDs on SCO and Linux systems. For the most part mounting CDs onto your SCO or Linux system requires no arguments, just a simple command like: mount -r /dev/cd0 /cdrom or mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom The "-r" tells the system the media is read-only (don't use this if you wish to burn an image onto a writable CD). The /dev name is the name the system uses to access the CD drive and the /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom is a directory that must exist and is used to "plug" the CD into the filesystem structure. There are times where options may be needed so here are a few that may help: mount -r -olower /dev/cd0 /mnt # SCO - lowercase names mount -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom -t iso9660 # Specify the CD format mount -r /dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 -t iso9660 # as above - on second CD mount -r -oHS,lower /dev/cd0 /mnt # SCO - High Sierra format Back to Newsletters 
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