Re: [Eug-lug] list messages...

2005-07-19 Thread Allen C Brown
larry price said the following on 07/19/2005 12:55 AM: On 7/18/05, Allen C Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Miller said the following on 07/18/2005 01:50 PM: Allen C Brown wrote: No pictures from this year yet. And the Tadpole is new, so no pictures until I update the site.

Re: [Eug-lug] list messages...

2005-07-18 Thread Allen C Brown
Bob Miller said the following on 07/18/2005 01:50 PM: Allen C Brown wrote: No pictures from this year yet. And the Tadpole is new, so no pictures until I update the site. But if you were there you would have seen a Tux riding on each of his front legs. I saw the Tuxen, but didn't know

Re: [Eug-lug] list messages...

2005-07-18 Thread Allen C Brown
Bob Miller said the following on 07/16/2005 05:52 PM: Mr O wrote: As for kinetics, has KBob created a contraption that's of geeky interest? I love human locomotion. No, I was a spectator. John Sechrest and Shannon Dealy of the Corvallis LUG had contraptions there though. I also had one, F

Re: [Eug-lug] Moving sucks....

2005-06-30 Thread Allen C Brown
Jamie said the following on 06/30/2005 10:57 AM: So... anyone interested in helping move... Ive moved one small van load today, and the heat is killing me... what would be a good reward for helping me move ? pizza and beer? misc computer parts? oh, and anyone that cant make it, but wants to..

Re: [Eug-lug] %*!@&$ laptop power plug!

2005-06-30 Thread Allen C Brown
Jamie said the following on 06/29/2005 08:35 PM: So... ive been trying to find a decent plug for my laptop, I dont want to have to spend $59+s/h to get another powersupply just because the plug (to the laptop) is buggered. Ive replaced the plug with the proper size connector (part from radio sh

Re: [Eug-lug] computers forsale....

2005-06-29 Thread Allen C Brown
Bob Miller said the following on 06/29/2005 07:51 AM: T. Joseph CARTER wrote: Sure he can, he just has to under-clock his computer down to 2.1ghz as win98 has a cpu freq limit. Bahahahahaha! *ahem* Signed int, I take it? Does that explain why Intel can't build a chip today faster then 4

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-29 Thread Allen C Brown
T. Joseph CARTER said the following on 06/29/2005 02:48 AM: On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:14:56PM -0700, Allen C Brown wrote: I believe ATI released their specs. NVidia didn't. It has little to do with how good the proprietary driver is. They stopped doing so, however. Are you saying

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-28 Thread Allen C Brown
TECTED] It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. --- Sir Winston Churchill Allen C Brown wrote: The NVidia specs were never released, even after it was clearly obsolete. Given a choice I will always buy from manufacturers who release specs so that an open source driver can

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-28 Thread Allen C Brown
T. Joseph CARTER said the following on 06/27/2005 03:49 PM: On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:09:57PM -0700, Allen C Brown wrote: I had an Nvidia TNT. Never worked well under Linux. Its a doorstop now. After that experience I won't buy Nvidia. You realize that's like saying the &#

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-27 Thread Allen C Brown
I had an Nvidia TNT. Never worked well under Linux. Its a doorstop now. After that experience I won't buy Nvidia. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never underestimate the animo

Re: [Eug-lug] cron and output

2005-06-27 Thread Allen C Brown
Rob Hudson said the following on 06/24/2005 10:19 AM: Neil Parker wrote: Rob Hudson wrote, How does one disable the output of certain cron jobs? I have some backup scripts running and other things and don't need to see all of that stuff in an email. Can I silently discard the output of th

Re: [Eug-lug] Open source opportunity

2005-06-16 Thread Allen C Brown
Bob Miller said the following on 06/16/2005 03:21 PM: Allen C Brown wrote: I know that GCC provides Coldfire compilation. But Agilent is unlikely to go this route without knowing they can get support. Any suggestions? Support is likely to consist of expert advice. It may include

[Eug-lug] Open source opportunity

2005-06-16 Thread Allen C Brown
I have stumbled across an opportunity to move my employer more in the direction of open source. The need: * compiler for Coldfire processors * support for above I know that GCC provides Coldfire compilation. But Agilent is unlikely to go this route without knowing they can get support. Any su

Re: [Eug-lug] Editing insanity

2005-06-06 Thread Allen C Brown
ong Custer, 1876, a few weeks before being massacred by a large body of Indians at Little Big Horn Quoth Allen C Brown, on Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:14:19 -0700: A guy here at work created a file in vim on an NFS mounted filesystem. The first line was #!/bin/bash As long as that line was there

[Eug-lug] Editing insanity

2005-06-06 Thread Allen C Brown
A guy here at work created a file in vim on an NFS mounted filesystem. The first line was #!/bin/bash As long as that line was there the script failed with : bad interpreter: No such file or directory I pulled it up in emacs, figuring that any control chars would be visible. Nothing. After

Re: [Eug-lug] Canon ImageClass getting CUPS configured (writing a .ppd?)

2005-05-31 Thread Allen C Brown
larry price said the following on 05/29/2005 11:18 PM: On my semi regular trip to Costco I spotted this Canon Multifunction copy/scan/print machine for USD 169.99 after checking that I could bring it back if it was not compatible I figured "hey, what have I got to lose", since it has most of the

Re: [Eug-lug] OC folly, dino-torch explained

2005-05-24 Thread Allen C Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. ---Albert Einstein Allen C Brown wrote: Max Lemieux said the following on 05/24/2005 01:39 PM: Sounds like I should bring it to the clinic Thursday and let the w

Re: [Eug-lug] OC folly

2005-05-24 Thread Allen C Brown
Max Lemieux said the following on 05/24/2005 01:39 PM: Sounds like I should bring it to the clinic Thursday and let the wolves at it, if I haven't got it by then - agreed, reseating all HW that can be pulled should be the next step. :) Please let us know the results you get. Jason, I'll be br

Re: [Eug-lug] ASUS motherboards --anyone experience/opinion ?

2005-05-16 Thread Allen C Brown
[cut] As for Allen's last statement there... I resemble that statement. A few hundred extra Mhz never hurt anybody :-) That's all, Mr O. P.S. Motherboard chipsets are a whole other issue that can be expounded upon if requested. The reason Shannon recommended the overclocking sites was to ensure the

Re: [Eug-lug] Brute Force Hacking Attempts

2005-05-12 Thread Allen C Brown
larry price said the following on 05/11/2005 07:25 PM: On 5/11/05, Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cut] Any other advice? Change keys and passwords, revoke any certificates for which the key was available on the machine. Check the rest of your network. use mtree or or something similar to co

Re: [Eug-lug] Today's Firefox Tip

2005-05-09 Thread Allen C Brown
Actually, all these control commands make it unusable for me. My finger macros are programmed for emacs. Fortunately in Mozilla I can remap most of them to Alt-. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: [Eug-lug] meeting this week?

2005-04-20 Thread Allen C Brown
T. Joseph CARTER said the following on 04/20/2005 01:13 PM: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:39:02AM -0700, Allen C Brown wrote: Sounds like Jeff bought a *project*. All houses are projects. But some come with a majority of the parts you need included. Some don't. I hope yours has most... B

Re: [Eug-lug] meeting this week?

2005-04-20 Thread Allen C Brown
Sounds like Jeff bought a *project*. All houses are projects. But some come with a majority of the parts you need included. Some don't. I hope yours has most... BTW, I dropped 2 outlets to every wall in my garage. And I *love* it. (Doesn't hurt to have some in the ceiling as well.) Garages shou

Re: [Eug-lug] help reading a NTFS damaged hard drive

2005-04-14 Thread Allen C Brown
As Jim says, you should make an image of the drive before doing anything else. I haven't tried this but I think you can get a full disk image with dd from Linux. Do you have a disk big enough to create a file the size of your boot drive? dd bs=1MB in=/dev/sda of=somefilebigenough You could then wr