[Eug-lug] NoMachine & Hamachi & Truecrypt

2006-10-21 Thread Timothy Bolz
I installed NoMachine and was very impressed. I don't know if any of you have tried it but here's a link which describes what it does. http://www.nomachine.com/documentation/intr-technology.php I've set up a lot of different NoMachine clients now. I was able to login to my server full screen

[Eug-lug] linux video tutorials

2006-03-19 Thread Timothy Bolz
I don't know if anyone ever posted about this but I think it's great idea. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=linux There are quite a few videos on how to do things in Edubuntu Linux. There are some good ones. There are a lot of video's for edubuntu. Dennis the author uses an XP box with De

[Eug-lug] euglug wiki

2005-01-08 Thread Timothy Bolz
I just went to the euglug wiki and it's changed. Is the wiki being used for advertising chinese porn? I don't know if anyone's been going to the site. http://wiki.euglug.org/moin.cgi/ I know I don't read chinese or japanese or korean. Could someone check into this and let us know. Tim

Re: [Eug-lug] program for making a video of your desktop?

2004-12-13 Thread Timothy Bolz
Thank you, I took a look at the link and it looks like it might work. Now I have to download it and actually try it. I liked the links at the bottom. They have a flash one that looks good. Tim > You could do everything through a local vnc session and use vncrec > [http://www.sodan.org/~penny

Re: [Eug-lug] program for making a video of your desktop?

2004-12-13 Thread Timothy Bolz
er I dont know how you do it, but I > did download a nifty video that explains it (basic howto) I think it came > with an encoder or player program (like mplayer). I would be surpised if > this is the easiest way though. > > Jamie > > On Monday 13 December 2004 03:58 am, Chris

[Eug-lug] program for making a video of your desktop?

2004-12-12 Thread Timothy Bolz
I know you can take snapshots of your desktop. But is there a program which does video of movements on the desktop? I hope there is. If not this would be a good program. Tim ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/list

Re: [Eug-lug] Mailing list question

2004-12-12 Thread Timothy Bolz
Thank you, I think this would be good idea for them. I'm going to suggest it to them. Tim On Sunday 12 December 2004 12:55 am, you wrote: > Yahoo hosts groups/lists for free. They are pretty > feature-rich (can hold photos, archives, etc.). I > belong to a couple. > > Jason

Re: [Eug-lug] Mailing list a question of etiquette

2004-12-11 Thread Timothy Bolz
All the mail my wife's gotten has the email in the To: and not the Bcc. I stopped counting at 2 lines which had 10 and there were 7 lines. So 5 per line x7 equal 35 emails. Any suggestions on the questions I asked? Tim On Saturday 11 December 2004 05:28 pm, you wrote: > Walter Freihube he

[Eug-lug] Mailing list question

2004-12-11 Thread Timothy Bolz
My wife's in a couple groups which email us. However the emails normally have everyone's email in the To: or Cc: fields. Bad email etiquette and good for spammers getting e-mails. Plus I don't like to see 10-40 names up there. I would like them to get a mailing list like [EMAIL PROTECTED] has

[Eug-lug] a gdm problem and solution

2004-12-03 Thread Timothy Bolz
I have two monitors hooked up to my system. I use the second on occasion. Well I need the second monitor to try and get another system up and running. Well when I started the computer today gdm wouldn't come up. I just got a blank x screen. I thought it might be gdm messed up so, I tried kd

Re: [Eug-lug] using a 586 as a X terminal box

2004-11-14 Thread Timothy Bolz
Thanks Jamie, On Sunday 14 November 2004 01:31 pm, you wrote: > Heh... I have that same model CD, NEC 4x4 :) I still have it somewhere, but > its not in production right now. Its pretty cool.. under linux you can > change CD's remoteley :) > I like it too. I didn't know you could change CD's remo

[Eug-lug] using a 586 as a X terminal box

2004-11-14 Thread Timothy Bolz
I had a 4x 4 disk CD rom I was looking for the longest time. Well I found it in a computer in a box I stored. It's a 586 with 32 megs of ram, floppy and the CD rom and no hard drive. It has a ethernet card in it. For one of my Linux things to do is to set up a computer as a X terminal. I'

Re: [Eug-lug] To dd or not to dd that is the question.

2004-09-24 Thread Timothy Bolz
small, simple, and a very > friendly user base. He may also be interested in Lycoris. Got a > customer who was sick enough of Winblows to go it his own route > and has been enjoying it. Loves to overhear people in the store > complain about virii and adware/spyware. > > --- Timoth

[Eug-lug] To dd or not to dd that is the question.

2004-09-24 Thread Timothy Bolz
I have a friend who's on and off again with Linux. He has a dual boot system. He's tried Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo. He likes Mandrake. Well He installed Red Hat Fedora Core 2 and tried to get back into windows and it wouldn't allow him to. Well normally you would run a dos fdis

Re: [Eug-lug] Debian equivalent of rpm -V?

2004-08-24 Thread Timothy Bolz
I think your looking for the comand dpkg. You can do a man dpkg to find out a little more about the command. I use aptitude for Debian It's wonderful. Apt-get install aptitude and try it out. I think you'll be impressed. Tim On Tuesday 24 August 2004 01:55 pm, you wrote: > For various re

[Eug-lug] update on gentoo install

2004-08-14 Thread Timothy Bolz
Well I got the two cd's from the Gentoo website. Did a reinstall same problem. It still want' to go on the intertnet when I emerge -k package_name. I thought if I could get dialup going I could --fetchall everthing that way. Well I downloaded the files it said it needed for wvdial and pppc

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo no network install.

2004-08-09 Thread Timothy Bolz
Jackson On Monday 09 August 2004 09:46 pm, you wrote: > Didn't mean RTFM as much as, "Wow, that manual is surprisingly good." > I took it as the latter. I was surprised too when I open it up in pdf. It's layout is like a book. I've been going throught the web site they have a lot of stuff.

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo no network install.

2004-08-09 Thread Timothy Bolz
Jackson Your right the documentation is good. I think I know what I did wrong. I had a friend download the universal iso from linuxiso.org then for the secondary disk I had him download from the gentoo mirror osu site. I think the portage tree was not sync'd between the two thus causing the

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo no network install.

2004-08-08 Thread Timothy Bolz
> Copy the tar files into /usr/portage/distfiles. Portage always looks > there first. However, if you've done "emerge sync" Portage may still > download newer versions off the 'Net. Nothing you can do to prevent > that. > I did copy the files to /usr/portage/disfiles but I think I did the emerg

[Eug-lug] gentoo no network install.

2004-08-08 Thread Timothy Bolz
Ok, I've heard everyone talk about Gentoo so I thought I try installing it. Well I got the base system loaded. I have the 2nd CD which contains all the tar files. If you don't want emerge to point to the net but point to a cd or hard drive how do you get it to do this. When I emerge -k xfree

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer books (and more) for sale

2004-07-02 Thread Timothy Bolz
Darn A week earlier and I would have been there. :-) Well at least I got to see you before I left. Well I hope the sale goes well. Tim On Friday 02 July 2004 11:24 am, you wrote: > Large collection of computers books for sale... > including lots of O'Reilly and Addison Wesley > > 39 Washingt

[Eug-lug] Meeting place

2004-06-29 Thread Timothy Bolz
Well on friday I was able to check with Janice at the Red Lion she said it wouldn't be possible since the meeting rooms have been full.  I know she would help out if she could. There is plenty of empty buildings for an Install Fest without internet access.  Pick a building call the Realty com

Re: [Eug-lug] re-install grub menu?

2004-06-27 Thread Timothy Bolz
Bob I haven't went thru all my e-mail and I don't know if any one has answered your question. If you have a grub boot disk. You can find your menu list by running this command. find /boot/grub/stage1 To get grub reinstalled. root(hdx,x) # x meaning the harddrive and partion the above gave.

Re: [Eug-lug] about gdm and x windows

2004-05-15 Thread Timothy Bolz
kless workstation eventually. It's one of those things where I can say I've done that. Your diagrams were very helpfull. Thanks Tim On Friday 14 May 2004 12:47 am, you wrote: > Hi. I'll try to answer your questions in a way that makes sense: > > On Thursday 13 May 2

[Eug-lug] about gdm and x windows

2004-05-13 Thread Timothy Bolz
If X is unsafe over the internet is it safe on a trusted network (for instance my couple of computers). Can I get on the internet or is it unsecure. Would I run some iptable scripts to block anything? I want to run gdm and have a chooser on each machine. So I can choose one computer or the