Hi all,
I certainly got a laugh out of this
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage
unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial
nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment
to the commercial growth of prostitution."
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:26:58AM -0700, Darren Hayes wrote:
> Any recommends on hard drive recovery services (local or otherwise)?
>
> 10.2GB AT Quantum Fireball Plus AS went kaput. Customer reported system was
> behaving normally then later heard loud noises emanating from hard drive and
> the
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:43:25PM -0700, Jack Morgan wrote:
> The sad part is that this is true. Gentoo just isn't stable enough as it
> is now to attract corporate contracts. I know that as I worked on one
> contract proposal for a big company that's name sounds like crisco.
I disagree about th
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:15:30PM -0700, Mr O wrote:
> How many are using a UPS on a linux system? What program are you
> using to monitor? I have a Belkin UPS hooked up to my serial
> port but haven't quite found software for it yet. Hoping for a
> little advice before I go about breaking things
Hi all,
I got this from Infoworld. Linus wrote an open letter to Darl McBride.
It runs somewhat in the vein of Linus' writing during his
well-documented "disagreements" with Andy Tannenbaum concerning Linux
vs. Minix.
from: http://infoworld.com/article/03/09/10/HNtorvaldssco_1.html
Enjoy,
Den
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:20:11PM -0700, jamie wrote:
>Hello,This is a WinXP patch
>I hope you would enjoy it.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! DANGER!!! I have it from reliable authorities
that it will reformat your hard drive and install the latest version of
Slackware.
Cheers,
Dennis
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:31:00PM -0700, Mr O wrote:
> So, anyone have experience with installing Redhat on the Promise
> IDE RAID cards? I'm trying to setup a mirrored array on a box
> and during setup you basically choose from the drives as 'hde,
> hdg, or sda'. Already have the Promise driver
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 07:22:38PM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> This guy's accountant recommended this software. This software only runs on SCO.
> This is such a rip, I'm trying to find an alternative.
You might wanna explain to him the situation with IBM, because chances
are, when Big Blue is d
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:02:35PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Before you get too ecstatic about Fry's, do a quick google on "fry's
> electronics customer service".
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=fry%27s+electronics+customer+service
>
> Fry's also treats their employees like shit, even for
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Do you really want someone who is dishonest, clueless, or dangerous in the
> office of the president?
Hell, if I wanted that, I woulda voted for Dumbya.
Cheers,
Dennis
--
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:34:40PM -0700, Mr O wrote:
> 20 hours to finish which part of the install? Plan a hell of a
> lot more time than that to have a system up with 'X'. And, Kbob,
> if Gentoo is for experts then why am I using it? :) I think it's
> just a matter of being a little more brave.
"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind
of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each
other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining"
--Linus Torvalds
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:29:18PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Every time I try to emerge kde-base/kdebase-3.1.2, it
> blows up with many occurrences of this message.
>
> ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /root/.kde
> trying to create local folder: Permission denied
> failed to create /ro
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:51:19PM -0700, Roger wrote:
> >
> > Man, those guys are in so much trouble right now. They filed fraudulent
> > reports with the SEC, they managed to piss off *every* corporation that
> > uses linux when they sent out those letters, and Novell just dropped the
> > mothe
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:53:47PM -0700, Roger wrote:
> Making the rounds.
>
> http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html
Hee, hee! SCO's stock dropped 25% after this announcement. I wonder
how long it's going to be before some investor starts screaming "stock
fraud" becaus
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:12:25AM -0800, john fleming wrote:
> Does anyone know how to setup win4lin in gentoo?
This has been discussed pretty thoroughly on the gentoo-user list and in
the forums. You need to
emerge win4lin sources
and compile and install that kernel. I would recommen
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:06:35PM -0800, admin wrote:
> Compare our President to Goering. I should have expected as much. Well, I'm
> sorry folks, but I SUPPORT Bush. Now keep your liberal crap off themail
> group, and I'll keep my conservative crap off of it, too.
I'll put whatever the f*ck I
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:45:24PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> I'm all for the freedom to speak
> my mind, and enjoy hearing the results of others doing the same... but
> garsh, have you seen all the "stay home sick when war starts"
> pamphlets?? What's up with that, do people just need an excuse
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:56:48PM -0800, Mr O wrote:
> Has a lot in common with LFS but is not quite LSB compliant.
> That's been discussed in one of the recent newsletters on
> Gentoo's site. I'm not as concerned with LSB though until more
> (commercial style) programs and/or drivers start adver
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:52:51PM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> So Linux is SCO on steroids.
I'd say SCO is Linux on Thunderbird (the wine). It's very slow, slurs
a lot, bounces off of walls, and barfs regularly without warning.
I wonder if this has anything to do with that Xenix code they boug
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:51:15PM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> Is Slackware based on SCO?
Nope. No linux is based on SCO.
Cheers,
Dennis
--
Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices
to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply
ethics to
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:15:04PM -0800, Larry Price wrote:
> So for those who've been looking for a new distro to try we have our first
> batch of UnitedLinux based distributions available, it's SCO Linux 4.0
Just in case you didn't know-- SCO has cooties.
SCO rhymes with "SLOW"; it's no coinc
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:01:18PM -0800, Ben Huot wrote:
> that worked but how do I start X - startx didn't work.
What message do you see on your screen and what do your XFree86 logs
say?
Cheers,
Dennis
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to make now. T
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:38AM -0800, Ben Huot wrote:
> I was wondering if any of you think I would have enough memory to run
> LyX with a lightweight windows manager like fluxbox on a Pentium 200
> with 48 MB RAM - it is maxed out in memory. This is the main program I
> want to use on Linu
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:58:33AM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> How does www.sgi.com/software/sitemgr.html fit into this discussion?
>From the website:
"Site Manager requires IRIX 6.2 or higher and should be configured by a
Webmaster or user who has experience with server configuration."
I gues
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:19:18PM -0800, Linux Rocks! wrote:
> So... I was thinking Id try some html editors for linux. There are a few out
> there, I havent tried many, but I was thinking of trying some. Anyone
> familiar with any? what are some of the features?
I've used quanta, bluefish, an
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:02:46PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> HA! A BS is about worth as much as a certification except a LOT more
> co$tly! I have eight weeks to go and I'm a *certified* bachelor.
> Specializing in BS.
One of the nice things about a degree program is that they teach you
*ho
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:35:38PM -0800, Tim Howe wrote:
> What are people currently using the most to install gentoo? I want to update the
>stuff on my ftp, and I'm not sure what to grap for the Gentoo people... I've gotten
>rid of a lot of stuff nobody used to make room, so if I should hav
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:04:27AM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> vi ?!?
> Ugh! Gag! Puke!
> Real men use pico.
Are you sure you don't mean (ick! gag! puke!) ed?
Cheers,
Dennis
--
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:57:36PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
> You realize this paragraph is written just right so that it is justified
> left and right, without the use of extra spaces to format it so. It's a
> perfect block of text, and reads as if it were done by accident.
What's especially we
Hi all,
I've got a question that maybe someone can help me with. All of a
sudden, one of my gentoo boxes has developed a problem with ssh. I can
only log in to this box as root (*very* bad), but not as *any* normal
user. The message I get in the logfile is "bad password," and I've done
this eno
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 11:40:49AM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> I thought this was interesting because of the Linux technical
> implications. Is it really possible that some group of secret
> government operatives are forcing 1000+ Linux web sites down?
Depends on if their sysads keep up their
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:35:15PM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> Thanks, Dan and Joseph, for explaining. I mistakenly
> assumed that 10 days was enough time to get a Linux
> mail system up and running. And from some of Dan's
> comments on the activism list, I thought he'd given
> up all hope of
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 03:48:35AM -0800, James wrote:
> I've put together a system on a shoestring budget. I have an 8 gig drive
> master, and a 4 gig slave. I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 in October and was
> able to get in running back then, but was not able to get XWindows
> running. I've since
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:30:54PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> > Yeah, but I saw the first one at the movies, and then again on DVD. It
> > loses a lot transferring to a TV screen, and my stereo sounds *way*
> > better than a movie sound system.
>
> OTOH, the theater doesn't have a pause or rever
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:49:54AM -0800, Mike O wrote:
> I doubt there is any loss of quality when viewing the
> DVD. It just depends on your screen and DVD deck. Get
> yourself a nice 16:9 HDTV with a decent progressive
> scan DVD player and you'll not ever complain about the
> picture. As far a
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:03:04AM -0800, Edward Craig wrote:
> I think I'll procrastinate for a few more years, and watch the
> whole thing someday in sequence Lord of the Rings, break for lunch, Two
> Towers, break for dinner, Return of the King, bed. More likely, sanity
> will kick in and
Hi all,
Check out
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/12/santa_linux.html
Sounds like The Bill and Monkey Boy might be getting put on the naughty
list.
Cheers,
Dennis
--
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:21:52PM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> Does anyone have experience running an HP DeskJet off
> a network printserver device from a Linux workstation?
>
> I'm wondering if it works and how well. What brand of
> print server would you recommend? Does it need to be
> an
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:12:33PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote:
>
> 1) Install the libc-5 package from the third disk of Mandrake 8.1 or
> from the Cooker archive. The libc-5.3.12-36mdk from the Cooker
> archive seems to work.
> 2) Install ld.so package from an old Mandrake version. You can try
>
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 06:12:44PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> > Is there a speed advantage? I know there's a filesystem advantage
> > for it if your computer crashes or loses power.
>
> I don't think there's any significant performance change. Not that
> I've been able to notice.
I was readin
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:33:01PM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> Do you know if there is anyone locally that supports Great Plains Accounting?
>
> Will it run with a Linux server?
Nope, but Appgen works great.
Cheers,
Dennis
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:34:05PM -0700, Edward Craig wrote:
> Well, Larry did mention he'd found the mailman admindb pages a
> little user-hostile when accessed through lynx. I, of course, pooh-poohed
> that notion, no proble here, nosirree, not a chance.
> Looks as though I managed
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:56:50AM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> I was one of those people that worked on that backup. It took a couple of trips to
> figure out how TapeWare worked. I'm pretty sure I could get the timed backup to
> work in 1 or 2 more trips out there.
>
> The problem is TapeWar
Hi all,
A friend of mine is doing some remodelling at a business in Blachly. They have a Red
Hat 6.1 box with an HP Surestore tape drive on it. They can't get the software
(TapeWare) to perform automatic backups, but it does do manual backups. I have three
boxen on my bench at home, a full-
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 05:01:04PM -0700, Linux Rocks! wrote:
> Hey... I just put up a web page about a couple of my deabeat customers... You
> might find it interesting... you might also have some stories to add... If
> you've done computer consulting, youve run into all sorts of folks... you
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:11:42AM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
> However, due to a little known process called reincarnation, it's bck.
I've got a better one I could post. "The Bill" sent me a form letter; i.e., SPAM.
The subject is "Trustworthy Computing"
Dennis
(who fixed postfix, B
ignore me
Hi all,
Thought this might be of some interest.
Cheers,
Dennis
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Hi all,
I thought someone might be interested in this.
Cheers,
Dennis
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Hi all,
It's not necessarily a Linux job, but it's a job, nonetheless.
Cheers,
Dennis
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On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 11:01:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Some of you mentioned there's a Fry's off of some exit of I-5.
> What exit? How far north of Eugene is that?
I recently built a coupla machines for work with components I bought from a place in
Bellevue called computerstop (w
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