Re: Debain over Redhat

2004-03-19 Thread donw
I'm joining the thread a bit late, but...whatthehell. On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:34:19AM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: The vendor will advocate Redhat, but Debian is the only linux I have used so that would be my choice. I will be supporting the box and os, they will support the app. That's

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread donw
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:14:30PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:11:10AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: The Chevy Cavaliers of around 2001-2002 were the other way, and hyper sensitive. I've seen the ABS come on at 5kph at the end of a stop, completely removing any braking

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-11 Thread donw
Where could one find a stockpile of this paleolithic hardware? -- Don Werve [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-06 Thread donw
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:51:43PM -0800, Mike White wrote: SecureCRT[1] is the shiznit. It's also $99 a pop. Bit expensive for an SSH client. -- Don Werve [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork!

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread donw
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:03:03PM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. snip Interesting. I had lots of

Could someone boot the spamming asshat? (nt)

2003-12-15 Thread donw
(Yes, killfiles and all, but still...) -- Don Werve [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Using procmail to auto-file messages.

2003-11-17 Thread donw
I've got a mail account on one of my servers which is accessed by a few individuals. Messages in this account are broken up by month; therefore, messages for each month live in their own folder. Is there a way I can rig up a .procmailrc, such that it will auto-file messages into the appropros

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-14 Thread donw
with the brains to move themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder will do quite well. -- Don Werve donw AT agentsix DOT net Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-14 Thread donw
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the upside, those with the brains to move themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder will do quite well. I don't think they will do so well with the number of

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-14 Thread donw
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:13:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: 2. If drop-out rates increased exponentially, they'd hit 100% very soon. Rather, say ignorance rates are increasing at an alarming rate. Good point. -- Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-14 Thread donw
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:38:22AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..and, learn to say no way!. An honest _No!_ up front, earns you respect for your spine and integrity. Everything else, you can learn. I'll drink to that; I've done independent small-time contracting before, and I'll likely be

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-13 Thread donw
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:04:57PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:36:29AM -0800, Tom wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:35:39PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: I have mixed feelings. One the one hand, I read about China's opium wars in the 1800s, and see a failed

Re: Toy Story List

2003-03-31 Thread donw
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:30:33AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 06:35:42PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Toy Story 2 ... Invader Zim? Please, no. All the systems on my network are named after Zim characters, and I don't feel like having to play Who's on First. with

Re: Toy Story List

2003-03-31 Thread donw
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:59:46AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Potatoe? No! Its Potato. Potato! potato!! Sounds like a Harley. -- Don Werve [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! -- To

Re: [OT] Sacramento broadband ???

2003-03-27 Thread donw
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:09:45PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: Anybody reading this live in Sacramento, CA? My son is moving there from Chicago. He's hooked on good cablemodem service from attbi. What is available in Sacramento? Comcast (formerly ATTBI) is available, as is both

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread donw
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:26:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Late last month. I think he posted twice out of a few dozen times that he demonstrated he had a clue. I think his brain's signal to noise ratio is too low for him to even be owning a computer. s/owning a computer/commanding

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-24 Thread donw
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:32:19PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: 1) Rules. Make sure you have very simple, very precise, and very well enforced rules. There should be no more than a dozen primary points (backed up with sub-rules of course) because otherwise people won't remember them. And you

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread donw
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:06:12AM -0800, Larry wrote: I must say, however, that compared to a number of other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to get installed and configured. I suspect the poor fellow was ready to tear his hair out (assuming he had some hair). On the other

Vim and Japanese.

2003-03-18 Thread donw
Is there any support for Japanese input (using canna/kinput) in newer versions of Vim? I'm currently using JVim, but it'd be nice to have something that is a bit more modern (with certain features like syntax hilighting). -- Don Werve [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-17 Thread donw
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:08:04AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Terminal Servers, not the workstations, take up more than the typical amount of RAM. Remember, you are now running multiple users on this one box and even with the efficiency of memory object sharing you can quickly get into

Re: LAPTOPS

2003-03-10 Thread donw
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:32:36PM -0400, james leclair wrote: Hello, you guys have been very helpful in the past so heres another one for yus! I'm about to take the plunge and pick up a laptop. My first laptop in a number of years. So, what, if any, suggestions comments or what have you

Re: Netgear MA311 Wireless PCI Works

2003-02-28 Thread donw
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:13:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I tried adding iface wlan0 inet static and the known addresses in /etc/network/interfaces but still must make the manual entries. Move the scripts that set up your wireless configuration (ssid, etc.) before the networking

Re: US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread donw
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:22:05PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: I've recently bought a US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem. I realized the last part (winmodem) just a few days ago. How do I install it in Woody? You don't; if this has changed (with respect to USR winmodems), I'd like to know. -- Don

Re: US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread donw
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:13:40PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I've recently bought a US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem. I realized the last part (winmodem) just a few days ago. How do I install it in Woody? Currently I'm using Woody, unstable/testing and kernel 2.4.20. YES These

Re: Japanese input

2003-02-26 Thread donw
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:52:41AM +0100, Robert Ewald wrote: How to enter japanes into kde application. I understand that qt applications have an xim option, but I have not found any documentation for that option, so I am a bit lost. Maybe someone here has some suggestions. kinput2 --

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread donw
My apologies for making this a list-wide post, but I'd prefer to be corrected if I'm wrong. On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: OK, due to a download problem with a couple of the large CD iso files, I am trying the bootbf2.4.iso Andrew Bloch net install. When I get to

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-18 Thread donw
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:51:42PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: After less than a week with Debian, I'm simply astounded at the power of the apt pkg managment system. I'm in the middle of compiling KDE3.1 and when I come up with a missing part, apt-cache search, apt-get install and BAM I'm in

Re: Windowmaker question

2003-02-13 Thread donw
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:37:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Windowmaker question. When you launch a program (say xterm) you get the program window and an icon. How do I get windowmaker to not display the extra icon? I know that you can have the clip auto attract them and

xlock+apm suspend -- how?

2003-02-11 Thread donw
Short version: I'm trying to get xlock to automatically launch whenever my machine (a laptop) goes into suspend mode. Slightly longer version: I've been using a symlink in /etc/apm/suspend.d (to a script in /etc/apm/scripts.d) to handle the starting and stopping of xlock;

Re: Mixed platform network

2003-02-10 Thread donw
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: Right now, when I run totally under a Windows XP Professional environment, I have a Dell notebook which is the internet gateway, and connected by a crossover cable, I have a Dell desktop sharing that connection. Thus they can

Re: Debian on Macintosh

2003-02-07 Thread donw
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:28:40PM +1100, David Pastern wrote: Can't help you much there (gimme a break i'm use exchange and it doesn't do the so and so said...so i'm being lazy for editing this post since i post few messages to the lists these days)...i work for Apple as a tier 1 tech, so i

Framebuffer logo.

2003-02-07 Thread donw
Is there any way to *completely disable* the logo when using a framebuffered console, other than just hacking kernel to tell it not to show a logo (which works)? I didn't see anything along the lines of a useful pragma for telling Linux to boot sans logo. I'm not looking for a way to *replace*

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread donw
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:18:42PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: I feel sorry for their families, kinda hard to feel sorry for astronauts. As for bravery, no I don't think they are brave either. Why not? There's always a chance that the shuttle will blow up at some point (Challenger and

Nullmailer problems.

2003-01-24 Thread donw
I've been using nullmailer for quite some time with nary a hitch, but it looks like it's just sort-of stopped relaying messages; apparently this happened a few weeks ago, and I never noticed it as I usually end up using my work email address for everything. Whenever I try to flush the queue by