Chong Yu Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:16:09 +0800
Bruce Marshall wrote:
Well gee... I guess at 65 and having bought from Sun, I feel
2. times better than you do... :-)
That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their
30's, because you guys soun
"Leon A. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:55:29 -0500
Collins Richey wrote:
The feedback on Linux Today is a mixture of SCO take your [EMAIL PROTECTED] and stuff
it, KDE
will die (the Novel/XIMIAN connection), and bemoaning the loss of European
control of a major linux distro. I
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:38:07 -0600
http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html
This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its
brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS.
If copyrights are not enforced the courts rule
James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:27:17 +1000
Collins Richey wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft
conspiracy to make Linux look bad:
I love it! Will file this away.
Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 9 Oct 2003
16:19:08 -0700
Hasn't it occurred to you that they don't want to sell you
a license
because if their IP claims are proven false... they could
be charged
with fraud?? It's just more smoke and mirrors.
Fraud is a criminal charge. It wo
Ben Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:13:34 -0500
I need to mount a disk partition that has ben formatted in
NWFS-386. Anyone got any idea how do to that?
Be gentle with me since I know absolutely nothing about Novell, except
how to spell it ...
Looking at the partition types in fdisk
Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:45:58 -0400
I am finally making my cheapo lindows box into a honest machine by
installing a backup program. I just mount a drive on another computer,
run find -newer somedate and tar them and zip them. Works OK. I fine
tune what files to tar with
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:27:30 -0600
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:13:12 -0400
dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
that having been said, i have every confidence in the ability of david boies
to do for sco what he did for algore.
Excuse me? I thought the only thing he did for a
Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:49:16 -0500
Squabsy wrote:
I still don't understand why any of the above limits would create a
problem when I'm trying to record a wav file that would be 500k at most.
I would propose a test:
- Create or find a test file of about 1M bytes
- Do th
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:03:39 -0700
Ted Ozolins wrote:
A router would only be used if more than one computer is hooked up to
the cable modem. ( hopefully with some kind of a firewall)
Although I have a linksys 4 port which does make an excellent firewall,
with port for
Brad De Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
I have a RH7.3 box and a WinXP box running Cygwin.
While sitting at the XP box, running Cygwin, I can
make a connection to the RH box using the Cygwin
X-server and run all the normal X stuff. However, I
can not get the sound
dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:37:54 -0400
for a touch of perspective:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes20.html
My last comment on this topic.
I lived in Missouri while Ashcroft was Governor. I met him several
times working with youth in government. While Ashcrof
Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:52:53 -0400
Quoth Alma J Wetzker:
Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500
Net Llama! wrote:
Why would you need to cheat? Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the
RH9 Installer, or do you mean
Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500
Net Llama! wrote:
Why would you need to cheat? Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the
RH9 Installer, or do you mean, reload the box fresh with RH9? If you're
reloading, then you need to backup all of /home and backup /etc/pass
"David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:34:28 -0500
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:21:25 -0500
Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
But I'm dreaming again. If that flagship of New Americanism (Dept. of
Homeland Implosion) can't see it, then likely will few others.
You're sca
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:34:04 -0600
[ snips ]
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:50:49 -0400
Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't help but compare this situation to the
drug industry. We Americans pay more for pharmaceuticals
because we respect copyright l
Darl explains his open letter to the OSS community.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84819,00.html?nlid=PM
My take on it is that he isn't telling us which code is infringing
because he doesn't want it removed. What he wants is a revenue stream
from linux sales. Check it out, straigh
Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 10 Sep 2003
09:53:22 -0700
James McDonald wrote:
Yes, in an ideal world there would be a stable API for everything,
and new versions would not be a big problem. Pigs will fly first.
In the interests of equal time, "the rules" allow breaking
compatibil
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01 Sep 2003 08:53:06 -0400
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:33, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On 30 Aug 2003 21:32:16 -0400
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nothing fishy here. The patents are intellectual property and assets of
the corporation. As such they are the property of the in
Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:10:36 -0700
Ben Duncan wrote:
Ok, did that. I have been testing some more.
This GETS weird. All files GOING thru the Laptops ftpd services
take about 4 seconds EACH regardless of size.
ie. a 20MB file transfered in 4 seconds, a 20K file - 4 sec
Jason Joines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:00:25 -0500
We just got a new CIO at the university where I work. One thing he is
about to do is get rid of all the different mail systems and have one
big combined system for all employees and students. That'll be about
50,000 users.
At
Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:49:26 -0400
Quoth Alma J Wetzker:
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:42:56 -0700
I guess I just don't see how sco can even think of suing
when they have released distros under the gpl. It defies logic!
Not at all.
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:42:56 -0700
Tony Alfrey wrote:
Why, send in your licensing fee to SCO for all the stolen IP stuff
you have in your linux boxen, and I'm sure they'll get right back to
you.
Jeeze (slap to head), why didn't I think of that? I'll get my
checkbook o
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25 Aug 2003 17:05:28 -0400
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:42, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
And they have
also bought SCO licensing that it didn't really look like they need.
When was that and for what?
Right about the same time Micro$oft paid SCO for IP license rights, Sun
also
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24 Aug 2003 20:14:38 -0400
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 16:02, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
My guess is that they are not as involved as we would like to believe.
Much as SCO's blathering is to the benefit of M$, I don't think they are
orchestrating it. Sun is also
Richard Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23 Aug 2003 18:13:13 -0800
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:21, Bill Campbell wrote:
It appears to me that the SCO folks like Darl may be trying to establish a
possible insanity defense if they're ever charged with attempting to
manipulate their stock price. Their mos
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:26:56 -0700
Alma J Wetzker wrote:
If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected. The
virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing. If the OS
doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a w
Ian Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:31:35 -0700
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:41, Keith Antoine wrote:
I can transfer files back
and forth just as I can from a linux booted system.
NO way! Windows files are not executable on Linux, so it is immune to win
viruii, this is one of the r
Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:50:19 -0400
Yes, but what will the jury think?
Joel
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:21:49PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html
That is the $3,000,000,000.00 question. It is a VERY safe bet that SCO
wi
Terence McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:28:46 +0100
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:45:45 -0500
Alma J Wetzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is my understanding that the cdrom drives need to be addressed as scsi > devices.
No. You only need SCSI emulation if you wish to
James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:41:39 +1000
burns wrote:
After a short break, on the 8th day the Lord invented staging
environments. And verily they were wise that used them, even if the
scribes and elders knew not.
What is a staging environment? I haven't heard of it bef
Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:18:19 -0400
This is the WalMart special.
There may be no scsi devices but there are scsi drivers loaded:
lsmod | grep scsi:
ide-scsi7696 1
scsi_mod 53420 5 [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage sd_mod]
ide-mod
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Aug 2003 00:02:26 -0400
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
every executive I have ever met will spit nails about downtime and the
cost to the company until you tell them how much it will cost to fix it.
Then the executive goes away, unti
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17 Aug 2003 23:56:28 -0400
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 18:49, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
see that doesn't happen. What busines apps do we have for linux that
make people want to run linux so that they can use that application?
Office? Spice? Photoshop? What do we h
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:18:15 -0600
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:42:26 -0500
Alma J Wetzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ other stuff snipped - see the thread for details ]
I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher. Most
linux apps just
Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:56:23 -0700
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher. Most linux
apps just aren't up to their windoze counterparts. This is especially
true for personal productivity
I am not sure that regulation or de-regulation is really the problem.
It seems to me to be this strange, hybrid, government solution that is
both and neither. If we want competition, deregulate the WHOLE thing
and allow competition. If we want regulation, stop pretending that the
power compan
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:21:20 -0600
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:57:12 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know a lot of folks who don't want to patch their computers because
some of these patches come with changed EULAs they don't want to
accept.
Unfortun
How about run windows for life?
-- Alma
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16 Aug 2003 04:23:29 -0400
The people that write and launch these programs in the wild should
caught and forced to do something really unpleasant for a very long
time.
___
Linux-users
Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500
Ben Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> emitted these signals:
I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show.
Not a problem and I really liked it.
Another vote for Mosix. My office workstation i
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:03:34 -0700
On 08/08/03 20:38, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:26:25 -0700
On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux
Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight
The story goes that at NASA a management droid was briefing some senior
engineers using a bewildering array of terms and units. The engineers
were obviou
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does
anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so?
I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that
will make the thing fun and last the semester.
-- Alma
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:07:43 -0400
In the September issue of WIRED, Darl McBride in the HOT SEAT says...
WIRED: Give me the summary brief.
McBride: "The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns
the IP rights to it, When you snap off a branch f
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:26:25 -0700
On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does
anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing
so? I am wondering if there is a go
Is there a way to set logon time limits for up to a set number of hours
in an arbitrary time period (like a week)?
The goal is to limit logon time for the kids over a week to cut down on
fighting over the computers on the network. I really don't want to
confine them to a set time period each
ey separated the file service from the name service so they both need to be started... The chkconfig utility is quite nice.
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:33:43 -0500
Alma J Wetzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am testing out
SuSE and I still can't get samba to startup automagically on reboo
This sounds very similar to my setup. I am running SuSE 8.2 pro with a
SMC NAT router. The router is the DHCP server and also holds the DNS
pointer.
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
#
192.168.2.7 awetzker.weg.org awetzker
192.168.2.1 hub router
192.168.2.10 crunch.weg.org crunch
192.168.2.4 alma
Speaking for myself, I liked the fact that I could configure everything
from the GUI either with an app or the web. The configuration tools
left the comments in the config files so that you could edit those
manually. If you edited the config files, you could still use the GUI
tools to configu
Matt, No offense taken. I was just getting a col box on the net (I
mostly do development so the net wasn't critical) and I wanted to share
the dialup connection with other machines on the home network. All the
FAQ's and howto's told me how to setup ipchains. So I went and found
ipchains and
I am looking at an upgrade path from Caldera WS 3.1.1 and have been
playing with SuSE pro 8.2. Is there a graphical utility to switch on or
off applications at boot time? Things like Samba or MySQL? In col
there was webmin, and kde gave me a way through system settings. I
can't find anythi
In reguards to SCO, we have to remember that SUN is paying a good chunk
of SCO's legal fees. The traditional *nix vendors have had some very
profitable niches gutted by Windoze. They are starting to see the same
from linux and M$ has also noticed. I think they are all working to
shut down li
Re: network problem: internet sharing
Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:58:48 -0400
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:25 am, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
Keith,
The modem goes to the linux box through an ethernet card. The linux box
works. The linux box has a second ethernet card t
Keith,
I know I am just the clueless newbie here but before you reinstall XP I
just want to clarify the problem in my head.
The modem goes to the linux box through an ethernet card. The linux box
works. The linux box has a second ethernet card that is connected to
the XP box elsewhere. The
Subject:
Re: DSL Gotcha
Keith Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:17:18 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Raymond Russell:
On 7/20/03 0:03, "Kurt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't have DSL any more but when I did my installer used CAT-5 cable and
put RJ11 c
Keith,
How is your network setup? You have a cable connected to a cable modem.
From there is it ethernet or usb? does it go to a computer (which
one?) or a router? (or maybe a hub?)
The answers may have some bearing on how to setup your machines. I use
a SMC router and my clients all get
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