[Eug-lug]Debian GDM and a "startx enlightenment -- :1" questions

2002-10-23 Thread Timothy Bolz
I've been running GDM ,but the problem I have is it doesn't list all the windowmanagers which I have. It only list GNOME and KDE and Debian. I was thinking I added the other window managers after installing GDM and this might be the problem. I have enlightenment, windowmaker, icewm and a cou

RE: [Eug-lug]Internet Access..

2002-10-23 Thread Linux Rocks
Thats a pretty good distance from me, and I dont think we'd be able to do line of sight for a wireless bridge :( but it might be fun to experiment! Jamie At 04:56 PM 10/22/02 -0700, you wrote: >Chase Village apartments... Conveniently located near the bikepath for those >of you 'bikenetting'. >

[Eug-lug]wireless...

2002-10-23 Thread Linux Rocks
I just heard back from vayanet... they have an $80/month wireless plan that is about like dsl speeds, but there is a $600 setup fee! I cant afford that right now. They may get back to me if they can figure out a creative way around the $600/mo. Its still a bit spendy at $80/month, but would be wort

Re: [Eug-lug]Poll data

2002-10-23 Thread P Casper
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 15:52, Bob Miller wrote: > As I've mentioned, after last Saturday's presentation (Thanks, > Cory/Neil/Larry/Mike/me!), I polled the attendees on what other > topics they'd like to see. Here are the lists we came up with, > and the people who could present them. > > Newbie To

[Eug-lug]onlamp.com

2002-10-23 Thread Cory Petkovsek
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Re: [Eug-lug]Poll data

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Miller wrote: > Advanced Topics > -- > > After we listed a bunch of topics, I asked each person to rank > his four favorites. Then we (a) counted the votes each topic > got, and (b) averaged the rankings. So a high number of votes > is good, and a low ranking is good. > >

[Eug-lug]Poll data

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Miller
As I've mentioned, after last Saturday's presentation (Thanks, Cory/Neil/Larry/Mike/me!), I polled the attendees on what other topics they'd like to see. Here are the lists we came up with, and the people who could present them. Newbie Topics -- -- Kernel Compilation - mro

[Eug-lug]Who knows MySQL? Who knows PHP?

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Miller
After last Saturday's presentation at EFN, we had a poll of topics people would like to see. A talk on MySQL and/or PHP was overwhelmingly the most popular choice. But nobody in the room felt qualified to talk on either subject. If you're confident with MySQL or PHP, and you've always wanted to

Re: [Eug-lug]Newbie tar, cp and tape questions

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Miller
Robert Albano wrote: > I want to create an archive on disk then write a copy of it to tape. Can > I do the following? >tar -cf backup1.tar /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 >cp backup1.tar /dev/st0 Yes. The tape will not have the blocksize tar expects, so to read the tape later, you'll have to use the

Re: [Eug-lug]D status on ps -ax output

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Miller
Dave Wyatt wrote: > I have several processes with a D status listed on the > ps -ax output. This means "uninterruptible sleep > (usually IO)" according to man. "Uninterruptible" means that it won't respond to signals. (The kill command sends a signal.) You're probably looking at a kernel or d

[Eug-lug]Newbie tar, cp and tape questions

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Albano
I have some newbie questions about tar and cp in relation to tape drives on RedHat 7.1 I want to create an archive on disk then write a copy of it to tape. Can I do the following? tar -cf backup1.tar /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 cp backup1.tar /dev/st0 If I do repeated cp commands each with a differ

RE: [Eug-lug]On your rights on your computer

2002-10-23 Thread Master O Planets
Thank you for keeping me informed, palladium is a wolf in sheep's clothing for sure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:eug-lug-admin@;efn.org]On Behalf Of Edward Craig Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Eug-lug]On you