tlug: Re: bells and pings

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

Thanks for all the helpful hints (and chuckles). 
I was finally able to remove the screw with the 
computer intact and only a few cuts and bruises 
to myself. 
The combination of oiling, tapping with a hammer 
and heating the thing with a lighter (don't have 
a torch - lucky the screw is away from the boards) 
paid off in the end. 

re diagnosing a ppp connection, a lot of people 
recommend pppload. haven't tried it myself yet, 
however. 

re Real Audio: 
a few weeks back someone mentioned that he 
couldn't get the Real Player 5.0 going with glibc2 
distributions. I just installed G2 on my laptop 
(TL4.0). It turns out that you can
get the Linux Real Player G2 from www.download.com 
(it's apparently not possible to find it at 
real.com). When you install the rpm on the glibc2 
distribution, you may get an error message telling 
you that "libNoVersion.so.1" is necessary. Forcing 
the rpm installation with --nodeps works. 
I somehow ended up without a presets.rnx file, 
however, meaning no preset channels. I just used 
the presets.rnx that came with a Mac Real Player 
setup and it worked. 


Tony Laszlo
Jiyugaoka, Tokyo



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