is this normal ? (on my debian)

hello LIST ! i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem, but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that. there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ... is this normal or can someone pls help and explain things to me ?

cut & paste using mouse

hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click & drag) is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting. a

does anyone know -

what happened to freshmeat ? tia, mao