tlug: bells and pings

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

* Having run Linux on a laptop I never knew how 
annoying the error beeps could be (I always 
turn the volume off on the laptop). I put 
"set bell-style visible" in .inputrc and 
that worked; no more beeps when working 
in the console. However, the annoying 
beep persists when working in less or 
vim, etc. I put "set noerrorbells" in 
.vimrc, but this did not have the 
desired effect...
any hints would be appreciated. 
btw, I think I have located the source 
of the beep. It seems to be eminating from 
a small black cylinder attached to the 
motherboard. No wires to cut/detach...
This is not removable, I wonder? 
Anybody tried muffling the thing with a 
bit of chewing gum? :) 
This machine is really quite noisy, 
overall. Something is hissing (not 
the hard disk; isa bus, perhaps?) and 
the modem needs to be silenced too...
The hardware volume control of 
the laptop has been saving me 
from these (minor) hassles. 

* Little bit of feedback: Have 
installed Slackware, Laser5 and TL4.0 
on the Aptiva, for comparison purposes. 
Noticed that Laser5 gave me some mojibake 
in the console (didn't stop to configure 
kon) when I ran linuxconf. Handsome 
installation screens; the use of color 
is refreshing. 
TL4.0's man pages were broken; problem 
went away after rebuilding from srpms. 
KDE ran without a hitch (I was afraid 
that this machine, being a 486, wouldn't 
be able to handle something or other). 

* Two Linux boxes and a Mac are now 
pinging each other and ftp is possible 
between them (still working on ip 
masquerading; forgot how I managed 
to get that going last time...). 
Will now look into the mounting and 
copying of directories and files 
from one Linux box to another. NFS? 
or some other ways? 

Thanks. 





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