A number of channels have been problematic off and on all week. Earlier in
the week a Comcast rep told me a magnetic storm/solar activity was an issue
but that only lasted for several days. I do think they are still tuning the
DS roll-out.
On dslreports I found many from other areas where DS has b
ANd I wonder if that's why the weather channel has been freaky these past couple
of days as well, here in my end of the line?
Alan wrote:
Darren Hayes wrote:
I learned that last week Comcast upgraded their Basic Digital TV
service at
the local Eugene (Chad Drive) head-end to support "Digital
Not everyone uses theirs for list activity. I get enough spam on
a daily basis as it is so I'm trying to keep my Gmail as clean
as possible.
--- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Barrett wrote:
> >
>
---
> >
> > Ben Barre
So with all this talk and all this speculation and all this energy why
doesnt someone simply create a Gmail or Hotmail account and reply and
see what its about...
here - send them a nice passport with your resume -
http://spl.haxial.net/nigerian-fraud/passport.jpg
Mark
Bob Miller wrote:
Darren Hayes wrote:
I learned that last week Comcast upgraded their Basic Digital TV service at
the local Eugene (Chad Drive) head-end to support "Digital Simulcast" (DS).
The supposed end-effect is that all Comcast programming on ch 1-99, both
video and audio, is now entirely digital. At least t
I learned that last week Comcast upgraded their Basic Digital TV service at
the local Eugene (Chad Drive) head-end to support "Digital Simulcast" (DS).
The supposed end-effect is that all Comcast programming on ch 1-99, both
video and audio, is now entirely digital. At least this is how it was
comm
Point well taken, Darren -- no offense meant, and I've been laughing along with you :)On 3/9/06, Darren Hayes <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:After reading the firestorm I created with my comment... I wasn't directing
my response at anyone in particular, but from the feedback it sounds that itwas taken
After reading the firestorm I created with my comment... I wasn't directing
my response at anyone in particular, but from the feedback it sounds that it
was taken that way. I was actually attempting to show some amusement
regarding the post. No I am not overly suspicious but I am still laughing. I
> > There are still people without gmail accounts?
Yes, me for one.
> Yes, and if you meet one the approved procedure is:
> avoid prolonged eye contact, don't make sudden movements
> and use a low conversational tone of voice; they spook easily.
H, yes, perhaps that's good advice.
--
Hal P
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:50:10 -0800
From: Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, Horst's /MBR suggestion (I think) got me by my Grub problem, but now as
Well2, have you tried Horst's other tip :-) --quick cleanup with GNU
cfdisk:
"""
My experience is dated, but Windows (win tools) can h
Or, if they're harkening from an aol.com account you can safely ignore them since they are likely blind to your existence =)On 3/9/06,
larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/9/06, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> There are still people without gmail accounts?> =)> -ajbYes, and if you meet one
On 3/9/06, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Barrett wrote:
> > ---
> There are still people without gmail accounts?
> =)
>
> -ajb
Yes, and if you meet one the approved procedure is:
avoid prolonged eye contact, don't make sud
I'm in...
Just took about 4 iterations (about 45 min each) for it to do its'
thing... formatting now crossing fingers...
Thanks guys...
mj
Matthew S. Jarvis
IT Manager
Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs."
www.bikefriday.com
541/687-0487 x140
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Jarvis wrote:
W
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:21:17PM -0800, Alan wrote:
> There are still people without gmail accounts?
> =)
Even I've got two of them at this point..
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
_
Well, Horst's /MBR suggestion (I think) got me by my Grub problem, but
now as I try and do FDISK and create a Primary DOS Partition I seem to
be in an endless "Verifying drive integrity" loop
I said "I think" because when this booted last time I was trying to get
into the BIOS with DEL and
I would scrap installing a outdated unsupported OS (Win98) and
investigate using Crossover Office from http://www.codeweavers.com/ .
I would even try wine before I would install Win98. Good luck with
what ever you do or decide to do.
My $0.02.
Michael Miller
On 3/9/06, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL
fdisk /mbr will do the trick for the hard disk. If I remember right the
thinkpad 600 has a floppy disk. You might open up the case and check
the model and manufacturer of the hard disk, it may be in its own
compartment. If the fdisk /mbr doesn't work go to the disk
manufacturers site and look
Ben Barrett wrote:
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There are still p
larry price wrote:
> It does seem kind of funky that there is no information associated
> with the job offering.
C'mon guys. It's a recruiter. If a recruiter says "ABC Data needs a
sysadmin" you call your friend at ABC Data directly and the recruiter
doesn't get paid. Maybe never even knows t
Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> When trying to boot the Win98 install CD, I get this message and a
> frozen machine:
>
> GRUB Loading stage1.5.
>
> BRUB loading, please wait
> Error 17
The Ubuntu/Grub MBR is still there. You need to use the MSDOS FDISK
switch that installs a new MBR.
Sorry, I do
Joseph,
Hmm. That isn't good. Although I checked when I was over tyhere a few
minutes ago. There is a stop almost right across the street that says
it is serviced by routes 40 and 51. It isn't a full stop, just the pull
the wire to get off kind though. That would approx a 50 yard walk
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:18:26AM -0800, Darren Hayes wrote:
> The headhunter posting this search for tech help needs some tech training
> along with an updated spell checker. If reading email as 'text only' (not
> HTML mail) there is no email address 'below' unless this particular
> headhunter wa
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 06:49:53PM +, Jeff Newton wrote:
> Well, I did a DOUBLE CHECK here, just after I sent my last to the list - He
> can take the Number #52 IRVING bus and will GO RIGHT TO THE FRONT DOOR!...
> Because, I had to get off at 2nd and Chambers, next to the mission, I only
> h
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:26:56AM -0800, Edward Craig wrote:
> Do note the nearest bus stop, my imperfect memory tells me it's on
> Second St, not Blair as Joseph was thinking.
Irrelivant, Second and Blair is still guaranteed to be the most
unmistakable landmark in the area, so it still works as
Edward Craig wrote:
Email any of us with a gmail account offlist, for that matter...
I don't use GMail for this list, but i too can send invites.
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
an
Email any of us with a gmail account offlist, for that matter...
On 3/9/06, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Woot! If anyone else wants a gmail invite, dare I say, email me off-list.
> We'll see how much spam I get :)
>
>
> On 3/9/06, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Excelle
Woot! If anyone else wants a gmail invite, dare I say, email me off-list. We'll see how much spam I get :)On 3/9/06,
Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Excellent.. I just scored "BoogieWoogieLinuxBoy" as an email addy... ;)
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Excellent.. I just scored "BoogieWoogieLinuxBoy" as an email addy... ;)
Matthew S. Jarvis
IT Manager
Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs."
www.bikefriday.com
541/687-0487 x140
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Barrett wrote:
---
Ben
Well, I did a DOUBLE CHECK here, just after I sent my last to the list - He can
take the Number #52 IRVING bus and will GO RIGHT TO THE FRONT DOOR!... Because,
I had to get off at 2nd and Chambers, next to the mission, I only had to walk to
the fire station from there. So, this bus will take him
Well, you gotta cross either Secomd or Blair, but effectively you're correct.
On 3/9/06, Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually Mike, I think he can take the 51 barger bus right to the front door?
> I
> went that route a couple of weeks ago to Eugene Fire Station two for an
> appointme
Heh, I've prolly done a list no-no, but have sent a gmail invite to this list so anyone can try it :)First one to it wins a gmail account. You can sign up for gmail without an invite using a cellphone fwiw.
On 3/9/06, Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...Maybe someone who is actually int
Actually Mike, I think he can take the 51 barger bus right to the front door? I
went that route a couple of weeks ago to Eugene Fire Station two for an
appointment and the bus went right in front of the place - if I'm recalling from
memory correctly, here.
-- Jeff
Mike Cherba wrote:
I will d
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Once you create your account, Ben Barre
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Barrett
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:21 AM
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Part Time Linux System Administrator Position
>
> Why do you think it is a h
222 Polk Street
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=222+Polk+Eugene,+OR+97401&ll=44.057245,-123.112621&spn=0.020448,0.053988&t=h
http://tinyurl.com/gnrbr
Basically it's in the little industrial area west of Blair, on second.
--
http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained
Do you know what y
I will do so. thanks for reminding me!
-Mike
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:26 -0800, Edward Craig wrote:
> Do note the nearest bus stop, my imperfect memory tells me it's on
> Second St, not Blair as Joseph was thinking.
>
> On 3/9/06, Mike Cherba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do note the nearest bus stop, my imperfect memory tells me it's on
Second St, not Blair as Joseph was thinking.
On 3/9/06, Mike Cherba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph,
> From blair, walk north toward 2nd street. turn left on Second. Once
> you cross polk, the building is to your left
It does seem kind of funky that there is no information associated
with the job offering. There are occasionally reasons for discretion
when conducting a search for sensitive personnel (and a sysadmin is
in that category) but the appropriate way to deal with that is to
network and find trustworthy
Why do you think it is a head-hunter?Due to the minor technical oddities you notes, I believe this posting did come from HR -- not to badmouth HR, but I think they have their own special skills and I try not to harass them about things I might geek out on... sound reasonable? I'm replying three ti
Joseph,
From blair, walk north toward 2nd street. turn left on Second. Once
you cross polk, the building is to your left. I'll see if I can make up
a better set of directons after I visit at lunch today.
-Mike
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 02:22 -0800, T. Joseph
Yeah, spell-checking is not a high priority for this list's purposes I'll agree :)In a town or small enough city such as Eugene, or the one I grew up in, I've seen lots and lots of job postings which don't "kiss and tell". Is there something wrong with being discreet?
Do we have some inherent righ
Yes, I did. I mean, it wasn't me, but I'm pretty sure it was as such :))What's the big deal folks? Are you all really so surprised to be able to find a technical detail about the job posting incorrect when you pick it apart? I'll go ahead and suggest that at least 25% of ALL email has such error
My experience is dated, but Windows (win tools) can have difficulties
erasing partitions of other OSes --use cfdisk from a Knoppix CD instead.
Now to your grub part --it sits in the 'MasterBootRecord' . On Win98 the
command
fdisk /MBR
restores the win boot loader. I am not sure how/where/if t
horst wrote:
/bin/sh makes it a shell script, not a bash script.
Good point. :)
I don't understand your cat vs. echo discussion?
I was just pointing out that instead of my cat line as shown, I used an
"echo $i" just to see what the script would find and it was finding what
I wanted. I
Well, you asked for comments.
/bin/sh makes it a shell script, not a bash script.
The 1-line version (commands seperated by ; ) comes handy if you need to
get several commands into one line, e.g. for
- creating an alias
- repeating an operation by stepping through bash history
- cron jobs
I know this is contrary to what we all want, but...
Converting my IBM Thinkpad 600x to Windows to replace a crappy old
generic p.o.s.
It had Ubuntu on it but I'm trying to install Win98 to run our
application, just like the old one.
The Win98 install, Setup, Format and FDISK all fail to wan
The headhunter posting this search for tech help needs some tech training
along with an updated spell checker. If reading email as 'text only' (not
HTML mail) there is no email address 'below' unless this particular
headhunter was wanting people to send the resumes to the list address in the
footer
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:23:38AM -0800, T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 02:23:38 -0800
> From: "T. Joseph CARTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Part Time Linux System Administrator Position
>
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:17:21PM -0800, Linux User wrote:
> We are a local Eugene software company and would like to hire a part time
> system administrator with Linux experience. While the position is part time
> currently we would like to extend the position to a fulltime status for the
> righ
I'll be unavailable until sometime between 7-8pm, but would certainly not
object to dinner after the meeting if it's not early and convenient enough
for me to just show up there.
This may sound strange, but the verbal directions aren't actually helping
me picture how to get there. =) A couple of
We are a local Eugene software company and would like to hire a part time system administrator with Linux experience. While the position is part time currently we would like to extend the position to a fulltime status for the right candidate. Please send your resume to the following email address
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