[EUG-LUG:2851] Re: Yahoo!

2001-09-17 Thread Jim Darrough
Yes, it is, and thanks! Regards, Jim At 06:12 PM 9/17/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Hey... Congragulations :) I presume it was a good job that you really wanted? > >Jamie > >On Monday 17 September 2001 05:05 pm, you wrote: > > Hi Guys & Gals. > > > > Just a note to say that I got the OSU job! >

[EUG-LUG:2850] Re: reveling rebels

2001-09-17 Thread mro
Albertson's here I come. Anybody willing to trust my cooking? Think, half a pizza only $1.50 (covers the oven time :-)) Anybody else want to cook too? Of course I don't have too much to do with my boxes so cooking wouldn't be too bad. Alrighty... Later. Mr O On Monday 17 September 2001 08:29

[EUG-LUG:2849] Re: reveling rebels

2001-09-17 Thread mro
Little Ceaser's is now $3.99 and that is only on Tuesdays though. That day is already tied up for me not to mention one of their mediums is barely enough for me. I like the BYOOGL idea. My latest quest has been attempting to get DVD going under Mandrake. For some reason I keep getting errors on

[EUG-LUG:2848] Fwd: Job Opening

2001-09-17 Thread Dennis Soper
And yes, it involves Linux! Cheers, Dennis - Forwarded message from Andre Chinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:47:51 -0700 From: Andre Chinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: School of Journalism IT opening To: deptcomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Errors-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Ag

[EUG-LUG:2847] Re: reveling rebels

2001-09-17 Thread Christopher Allen
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, mro wrote: > that late :-) Anyway, anybody know of some good pizza deals in town? If you don't mind baking your own, Albertson's has large frozen (pre-cooked) pizzas with all the fixin's for a low, low $2.50 each. -Chris

[EUG-LUG:2846] Re: reveling rebels

2001-09-17 Thread Rob Hudson
Anyone on the euglug-gamers list? We should set up a local LAN and play some parsec or something one LUG meeting. Maybe rotate players or something. BYO OpenGL boxes (BYOOGL?) Little Caesars has cheap pizza on Tuesday. It was $2.99 for a medium, but I think it's now $3.99. -Rob > On 2001091

[EUG-LUG:2845] Re: UPS recommendations?

2001-09-17 Thread mro
KBob, I've been merrily happy with my Belkin for the past couple years and it's almost time to replace that. My recommendations are for an APC with AVR. The APC Pro series all include AVR (automatic voltage regulation) which is very beneficial to your investments. Sizes and prices range from on

[EUG-LUG:2844] UPS recommendations?

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Jacob Meuser wrote: > What, no UPS? Good idea. We get way too many power outages out here in the boonies. Any suggestions for a UPS or place to buy same. For now, I want to keep two workstations and the coyote box up for "a few minutes". One workstation has an LCD display that draws 30W. Th

[EUG-LUG:2843] reveling rebels

2001-09-17 Thread mro
Consider the meetings back on at my place. I have no regrets for what I do. As far as I care at this point my roommate can just as soon move out. Bring on the geeks!! Hopefully you all know the routine by now. Things start anytime after 6:30 and last until the sun begins to shine Well not q

[EUG-LUG:2842] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:40:53PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > So, what happens to the data that's in RAM on it's way to the disk when > > the crash happens. Lost I presume? > > Data that hasn't been written to disk is lost, yes. That's true no > matter what filesystem

[EUG-LUG:2841] Re: Yahoo!

2001-09-17 Thread Woody
Congratulations and Best of Luck! Woody Jim Darrough wrote: > > Hi Guys & Gals. > > Just a note to say that I got the OSU job! > > Best Regards, > > Jim Darrough > > > > --- > Outgoing mail i

[EUG-LUG:2840] Re: Yahoo!

2001-09-17 Thread Jamie
Hey... Congragulations :) I presume it was a good job that you really wanted? Jamie On Monday 17 September 2001 05:05 pm, you wrote: > Hi Guys & Gals. > > Just a note to say that I got the OSU job! > > Best Regards, > > Jim Darrough > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Fr

[EUG-LUG:2839] Yahoo!

2001-09-17 Thread Jim Darrough
Hi Guys & Gals. Just a note to say that I got the OSU job! Best Regards, Jim Darrough --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.280 / Virus Database: 147 - Release Date: 9/11/2001

[EUG-LUG:2838] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Jacob Meuser wrote: > So, what happens to the data that's in RAM on it's way to the disk when > the crash happens. Lost I presume? Data that hasn't been written to disk is lost, yes. That's true no matter what filesystem you use. -- Bob Miller K kbobsoft software

[EUG-LUG:2837] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Patrick R. Wade wrote: > Well, all you've really done is trade fsck for journal restore, which > is also time-consuming, but at least is more reliable than fsck. As the original xFS(*) design documents at SGI put it: recovery time proportional to filesystem activity level at th

[EUG-LUG:2836] Re: lost root password

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:48:16AM -0700, Timothy Bolz wrote: > I found a site I bookmarked it tells you how to do it. > http://cities.lk.net/lost_password.htm > > Tim > Thanks, but, well, that's what I did, more or less. A quote from the page: "If all these advices doesn't help try any crac

[EUG-LUG:2835] Re: Mutt

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:29AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: > Does mutt have to be specifically compiled with pop and imap support in > order to use it for me everyday mail? Only if you want to have mutt retrieve your mail for you with both pop and imap servers. (I think its somewhat experimental

[EUG-LUG:2834] Re: Softdep was [ Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk]

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:19:37AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: > Wow, really? That's a little frightening about the soft updates. I > just started using softdep on all my partitions. Is this not a good > idea for a workstation? I did notice that my source tree expanded a bit > faster... How recent

[EUG-LUG:2833] Re: lost root password

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:39:58AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > Well... It worked... (-: Yeah, but no root password doesn't sit well with me. > > You could've done > > # chroot /target passwd root > Makes sense. > > not even > > # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib pa

[EUG-LUG:2832] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:23:16AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > ffs with softupdate is really fast and reliable, but not truly > > journaling. > > Does ffs+softupdate require an fsck after a crash? > Yeah, but unless you were doing a lot of deleteing/copying/creating etc

[EUG-LUG:2831] Re: Softdep was [ Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk]

2001-09-17 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:19:37AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: > >Wow, really? That's a little frightening about the soft updates. I >just started using softdep on all my partitions. Is this not a good >idea for a workstation? I did notice that my source tree expanded a bit >faster... How recently

[EUG-LUG:2830] Re: lost root password

2001-09-17 Thread Timothy Bolz
I found a site I bookmarked it tells you how to do it. http://cities.lk.net/lost_password.htm Tim On Monday 17 September 2001 05:21, you wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what's the recommended method of recovering > root's password on Debian once you forget what it is? > > I booted rescue/ramd

[EUG-LUG:2829] Mutt

2001-09-17 Thread Tim Howe
Does mutt have to be specifically compiled with pop and imap support in order to use it for me everyday mail? I was under the impression that mutt could be used for all your mail by setting up sendmail correctly and using fetchmail or something like that. However, I see a package called mutt-1.3

[EUG-LUG:2828] Softdep was [ Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk]

2001-09-17 Thread Tim Howe
Wow, really? That's a little frightening about the soft updates. I just started using softdep on all my partitions. Is this not a good idea for a workstation? I did notice that my source tree expanded a bit faster... How recently did you experience these problems wityh soft updates? TimH >

[EUG-LUG:2827] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:23:16AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > >Jacob Meuser wrote: > >> ffs with softupdate is really fast and reliable, but not truly >> journaling. > >Does ffs+softupdate require an fsck after a crash? > Yes; the fsck is less demanding than before, however. One problem i have

[EUG-LUG:2826] Re: lost root password

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Jacob Meuser wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what's the recommended method of recovering > root's password on Debian once you forget what it is? > > I booted rescue/ramdisk0 from floppies and deleted root's password > from /etc/shadow, rebooted and logged in as root (I didn't give > a password,

[EUG-LUG:2825] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Jacob Meuser wrote: > ffs with softupdate is really fast and reliable, but not truly > journaling. Does ffs+softupdate require an fsck after a crash? Not having to fsck is the defining feature of a journaling filesystem, IMHO. -- Bob Miller K kbobsoft software con

[EUG-LUG:2824] Re: My New Toy

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Patrick R. Wade wrote: > I think i've finally made the breakthru! My BIOS is uses ACPI, rather than > vanilla APM, so i'm digging up the drivers now; we'll see if it works... Another progress report: at Thursday's meeting I was trying to get poweroff working on my laptop with either 2.4.9 or 2.2

[EUG-LUG:2823] Re: dual boot / Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Miller
Kent Loobey wrote: > Hmm, after poking around for awhile I think I am actually using LILO. In > /etc/lilo.conf I have a number of OS options listed which I can select from > during boot. So how do I go about changing the default OS? Put in a line above the image=... lines that says default=

[EUG-LUG:2822] lost root password

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
Just out of curiosity, what's the recommended method of recovering root's password on Debian once you forget what it is? I booted rescue/ramdisk0 from floppies and deleted root's password from /etc/shadow, rebooted and logged in as root (I didn't give a password, it just gave me root). Surely th

[EUG-LUG:2821] Re: 3c905b under potato

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 10:10:08PM -0700, Julia Coolman wrote: > > I have no idea where I went wrong here. Both 3c905b cards work fine in my > win2k box, so the hardware ain't at fault here. Is pump -i ethN not the > syntax I want? Perhaps also worth adding--taking the second NIC out > doesn't re

[EUG-LUG:2820] Re: debian reiserfs, xfs, ext3 bootdisk

2001-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 04:20:47PM -0700, Timothy Bolz wrote: > I have the reiserfs and xfs .bin files I downloaded how do I get them to > floppy. I know it's something like > dd if=/download/name_of_file.bin of=/fd0 Looks right, as long as /fd0 is really /dev/fd0 (as in a symlink) > is this