Re: [Eug-lug] Getting Rid of Magazines Again

2007-07-23 Thread roger
; > Contact me off-list if you are interested in them. If I don't hear > from anyone by Thursday they go in the recycling bin. > > -- > -Regards- > > -Quentin Hartman- > ___ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] Manually blink link lights?

2007-07-05 Thread roger
ci/isa network card. I would also presume the light's port address may differ from card to card, or at least, from isa to pci based cards. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Thu Jul 5 21:18:49 PDT 2007 ___

Re: [Eug-lug] Linutop

2007-05-22 Thread roger
Epia board running linuxbios. ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue May 22 23:14:16 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes

2007-05-22 Thread roger
yed this note concerning Macs, but it does makes sensible sense! ;-) > The hardware nazi, > Mr O. Any fliers promoting your political agenda? ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue May 22 01:25:27 PDT

Re: [Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes

2007-05-21 Thread roger
laptops are notorious of overheating and without using independant BIOS utilities such as i8kutils for controlling the fans, the unit will more then likely over-heat if depending on BIOS fan settings. Also, Dell laptops use to use IBM hard drives until they sold their hard drive business oversea

Re: [Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

2007-05-20 Thread roger
h the risk of heating up my good Seagate main hdd or my other CD-RW devices. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sun May 20 21:12:28 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@

Re: [Eug-lug] Watching wmv files on Ubuntu

2007-05-20 Thread roger
&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=564772#c565148> The Supreme Courts is "making play" out of an issue where people think they can always get something for nothing. And, while they "make play", they're just wasting the hard working folks. -- Roger h

Re: [Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

2007-05-19 Thread roger
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 10:12 -1000, marbux wrote: > On 5/19/07, roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From what I understood for the past 5 years, Maxtor was about the same > > as WD in quality... ie. "You get what you pay for." > > > > I've got

Re: [Eug-lug] Watching wmv files on Ubuntu

2007-05-19 Thread roger
# emerge media-libs/win32codecs (Oops. You're on the more difficult to use Ubuntu! ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sat May 19 10:59:14 PDT 2007 ___ E

Re: [Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

2007-05-19 Thread roger
t 5 years (10,20,40GB). Seems the like the 5-6 year old drives were really good, but then, any drive purchased recently since 4 years ago, just drop like flies (>=120GB). Think it's a multitude of factors including heat, and cheap parts. To include an engineering defect not being abl

Re: [Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

2007-05-18 Thread roger
with keeping the drive cool. (See notes on the web concerning this method.) Other then this, if it's under warranty, WD -- if you're lucky -- will just replace it with another defective drive. Seriously. Remember. Unbacked-up data is lost data! -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/ind

Re: [Eug-lug] MEETING TONIGHT

2007-05-11 Thread roger
st likes your car. :-/ -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri May 11 16:31:27 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] new to ubuntu - touch pad question

2007-05-07 Thread roger
y it yet - I'll have to do that tonight and > see how it goes. > > > - Jason L. Think I encountered a bug with it or something. :-/ Something also with having to run it as root. Although, gsynaptics might give you an idea of what settings you might like to add to your xorg.conf.

Re: [Eug-lug] new to ubuntu - touch pad question

2007-05-06 Thread roger
om (if I can remember correctly). i think I also customized my xorg.conf with some synaptic settings ... probably to use those above mentioned libs. :-/ .. if you need me to send a clip my xorg.conf, just let me know. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F5

Re: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
gt; > Problem solved eh? > > Mr O. > oh WOW! ... You've spelled it out quite well Mr. O! Why didn't I think of this sooner? ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri May 4 22:50:

Re: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
Ubuntu, so close, yet one step away from being complete for novice users. :-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri May 4 18:13:57 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list eu

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
mes without flash? There are some other note worthy .gov sites with kid games using Flash. Don't ask me why I'd spend time playing them... lol. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:52 -0700, Alan wrote: > > roger wrote: > Ubuntu is basically a trouble free install (as easy as a > > Windows install)... only lacking Flash & Video codec issues, for which, > > Mandriva and other distros have already resolved with a s

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
xamples of website urls, but just trying to give people to chew on for second before just giving into a patent issue and denying kids the right to view the site on nasa.gov. :-/ (... they are using Flash aren't they??) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerp

Re: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
ga making it easy to build & install vs. buying the product. Cedega complained, Gentoo complied and yanked the cvs build, but keeping the binary package was fine & dandy. Seems simple as pie for me (as long as the wife is making the pie crust). -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/ind

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
ouble free install (as easy as a Windows install)... only lacking Flash & Video codec issues, for which, Mandriva and other distros have already resolved with a simple package install. This is basically a licensing issue Ubuntu ran into and got cold feet. But! there is hope with

Re: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
arry pooper scoopers & a bag around with our kids on a leash. :-/ This means 12+ mos of walking around in poop on the sidewalks. dunno... -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri May 4 12:02:58 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread roger
Well, this didn't wet my appetite too much. :-/ http://dl.tv/ Episode 162: A Little Bit Linux: We've got Ubuntu on the desktop. One of our friends at ExtremeTech.com says Ubuntu Feisty Fawn should be called Crappy Cow! -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerpr

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-03 Thread roger
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:11 -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > roger wrote: > > > My USE Flags are a mile long. ;-) lol > > Here's what mine looked like when I stopped using Gentoo last year. I'm always second guessing due to compile times, and the frequency and non-freq

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-03 Thread roger
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:02 -0700, Mr O wrote: > You like taking 'granite' for granted. That's completely unfair > to the shale and pumice you know. sorry. i like the idea of stoning people for taking things for granted. ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html K

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-02 Thread roger
this, yea, I had the same setup with USE flags omitting gnome (& of course, granite, KDE to avoid having to gag & ack). -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Wed May 2 23:37:21 PDT 2007 __

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-02 Thread roger
just for kicks. http://plf.zarb.org/index.php PLF Ubuntu new maintainers New maintainers for PLF Ubuntu were found, more info once everything is set up again. PLF ubuntu shutting down The PLF Ubuntu project is shutting down, due to lack of time of its maintainers. New volunteers are welcome.

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-02 Thread roger
ut not as collective as Mandrakes PLF mirror. (Now that I recall, PLF also mirrored Ubuntu other-licensed packages for a short while, but it got yanked. Probably due to the close competition of Mandrake & Ubuntu.) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint =

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-02 Thread roger
ui stuff like Mandrake's apps to configure the box for point & click users. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Wed May 2 12:14:12 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-02 Thread roger
untu had something similar to Mandrake's alternate site, matter of fact, using the same site. But it got yanked.) Gentoo is another winner, but being bias here as I run Gentoo too. Still, Gentoo probably isn't even a consideration as it's source based. -- Roger http://www.eskimo

Re: [Eug-lug] Convert MP3 to OMA

2007-04-28 Thread roger
ked six plus months ago, there were several players playing OGG files. (Only reason I bought mine ~2 years ago, it came with a firmware update for playing OGG files. ) So everybody who's hitched looking for a reason for coding rather then going to bed early, here it is! :-) -- Roger http://www.

Re: [Eug-lug] Anyone wanna help us with a database?

2007-04-22 Thread roger
w of. And then I would find a volunteer for working with one of those three databases. Hey. This is a college town. I'm sure somebody needs a good reference for getting ya started. ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Knoppix 5.1.1 -> NTFS 3G?

2007-04-21 Thread roger
as it seemed it usually has more current builds for gparted and ntfs_3g. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sat Apr 21 18:19:49 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing lis

Re: [Eug-lug] Knoppix 5.1.1

2007-04-21 Thread roger
uns. These are really unlikely unless you're a developer these days (or running windows apps ;-). Some may have other opinions. Guess if you have a box with <300MB of ram, you might want >384MB swap. Or, if you're using Suspend2 on a 1GB RAM box. > ___

Re: [Eug-lug] You've got to be crazy when...

2007-04-21 Thread roger
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 17:32 -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > roger wrote: > > > You take the time to write an entire o/s in Assembly. :-) > > Um, prior to Unix, all O/Ses were written in assembly. OS/360, > RSX-11, RT-11, VAX VMS, and dozens of others. > > That still

Re: [Eug-lug] You've got to be crazy when...

2007-04-21 Thread roger
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 17:32 -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > roger wrote: > > > You take the time to write an entire o/s in Assembly. :-) > > Um, prior to Unix, all O/Ses were written in assembly. OS/360, > RSX-11, RT-11, VAX VMS, and dozens of others. > > That still

Re: [Eug-lug] Knoppix 5.1.1

2007-04-20 Thread roger
NOPPIX DVD, and they seem to all avoid publishing a DVD image. I think it's only available by Bittorrent. :-/ -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri Apr 20 14:57:56 PDT 2007 __

Re: [Eug-lug] Knoppix 5.1.1

2007-04-20 Thread roger
____ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri Apr 20 14:52:48 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] You've got to be crazy when...

2007-04-20 Thread roger
You take the time to write an entire o/s in Assembly. :-) http://www.hermann-uwe.de/ http://www.menuetos.net/ -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri Apr 20 13:14:21 PDT 2007

Re: [Eug-lug] Anyone wanna help us with a database?

2007-04-20 Thread roger
too's Portage. Nor does a proposed ebuidld or any mention appear in any bug reports. I do very little work with databases these days, but just thought I'd put in my two cents. Why Ebase? Are there compatibility reasons? -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 89

[Eug-lug] Flash Part Tools (for working with LinuxBios)

2007-04-12 Thread roger
ly be acquiring a the Enhanced Willem Programmer from mcumall.com -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Thu Apr 12 00:45:10 PDT 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: [Eug-lug] thursday meeting, etc

2007-04-10 Thread roger
he meeting. > Jim K > ___ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue Apr 10 11:49:11 PDT 2007

Re: [Eug-lug] Oh yeah, did anyone notice that debian etch was released today

2007-04-09 Thread roger
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 03:25 -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: > B. The answer to a Jeopardy question? Did I win? :-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Mon Apr 9 12:26:58 PDT 2

Re: [Eug-lug] Oh yeah, did anyone notice that debian etch was released today

2007-04-08 Thread roger
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 22:09 -0700, Mr O wrote: > Drumroll please > > No, because it's Debian. What is "Debian"? -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sun

Re: [Eug-lug] Sudoers question

2007-04-03 Thread roger
as sudo. > > If I include both that line and the "martin ALL = (ALL) ALL" line, I am > able to run all commands without a password. > > roger wrote: > > Include the following within your /etc/sudoers and replace "roger" & > > "localhos

Re: [Eug-lug] Sudoers question

2007-04-02 Thread roger
Include the following within your /etc/sudoers and replace "roger" & "localhost2" for your own environment. roger localhost2 = NOPASSWD: /bin/nice, /usr/bin/nice, /sbin/losetup, /bin/mount, /bin/umount Should be able to run the above commands just like any other user al

Re: [Eug-lug] Armament needed - OT

2007-04-02 Thread roger
response of my coworker was... "Can they be rabid?" > > Well, if they weren't before... > > Kept wondering, was it the same one, over and over again, digging the ride? > ___ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] Looks like Dell is going to start pre-installing Linux

2007-03-01 Thread roger
I'm seeing my posts within my main Inbox folder (ie. /var/log/mail/roger), however, Evolution seems to be deleting these into /dev/null for some reason. So, I only see a *blimp* on my radar if I'm lucky because I'm having Evolution automatically filter. Risky, but I get too much

Re: [Eug-lug] Looks like Dell is going to start pre-installing Linux

2007-02-27 Thread roger
ached the list apparently. :-/ ) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue Feb 27 13:26:04 PST 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman

Re: [Eug-lug] Looks like Dell is going to start pre-installing Linux

2007-02-26 Thread roger
c=us&l=en&s=gen Let me know when they start using Linux Bios. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Mon Feb 26 19:24:19 PST 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list

Re: [Eug-lug] xorg.conf makes me want to hurt people

2007-01-29 Thread roger
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 08:22 -0800, Mr O wrote: > Dell has a similar base and I've seen a similar design on Acer. > Sadly they are much different. Your LG has a better warranty. > Sceptre well, I won't go there. Interesting. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.h

Re: [Eug-lug] xorg.conf makes me want to hurt people

2007-01-29 Thread roger
the monitors. ie. The similarity of the base of the unit. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Mon Jan 29 00:39:09 PST 2007 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] xorg.conf makes me want to hurt people

2007-01-29 Thread roger
ietary ATI drivers (or anything ify). Much like the other popular distros. Mandrake and Gentoo seem to provide users a much easier route for installing proprietary code. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D6

Re: [Eug-lug] xorg.conf makes me want to hurt people

2007-01-28 Thread roger
d OpenSuse. Ubunto, great for newbies who don't know jack-cr*p. Opensuse, like Ubunto, but still had problems playing online sound & video files and other things such as Macromedia/Adobe Flash. :-/ Mandrake/Mandriva, things work right out of the box almost usually. My preference is Gent

Re: [Eug-lug] Mythtv && Comcast Digital TV Tuning

2006-12-04 Thread roger
antime, just noticed a post to Pvrusb2 mailing list about the later models having a TX blaster to change channels on cable boxes via lircd. As to whether it works or not, is still a toss-up imo. Haven't researched it yet. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A

Re: [Eug-lug] Mythtv && Comcast Digital TV Tuning

2006-12-02 Thread roger
up on this to see if any of you tried anything recently. > Ben Sorry for the chicken scratch as I'm kind of frustrated with the digital service. Got no real gripes about any else about Comcast. :-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.ht

Re: [Eug-lug] Mythtv && Comcast Digital TV Tuning

2006-12-02 Thread roger
n the meantime I'd like to pick up a better card at some > point. Something with at least hardware encoding or decoding > support. > > --- roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any success stories with "Mythtv && Comcast Digital TV Tuning" >

[Eug-lug] Mythtv && Comcast Digital TV Tuning

2006-11-30 Thread roger
Any success stories with "Mythtv && Comcast Digital TV Tuning" for this area yet? -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Thu Nov 30 10:19:20 PST 2006

Re: [Eug-lug] New Flash 9 Beta is out

2006-11-22 Thread roger
just for Flash to lockup everything. I'll bet the bug is as simple as all of us using gcc-4 while Macromedia/Adobe are still compiling against gcc-3! -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Wed Nov 22 12:15:06

Re: [Eug-lug] 2600 Meeting Friday October 6th location TBA

2006-09-26 Thread roger
y maybe 30% of the public is sober. ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Tue Sep 26 02:03:20 PDT 2006 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.

Re: [Eug-lug] Thursday's meeting

2006-09-21 Thread roger
gt; --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0638-0, 09/19/2006 > Tested on: 9/20/2006 4:13:57 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > ___ EUGLUG mailing

Re: [Eug-lug] 1/2 table at SAO High Tech After Hours

2006-09-14 Thread roger
formation about this prjoect -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Wed Sep 13 21:00:01 PDT 2006 ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] wireless card recommendations?

2006-09-10 Thread roger
coveralls from a laundry place for not much more than $10. That be all, Mr O. Can you tell I never did take a liking to insulation?  ;-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D6

Re: [Eug-lug] thursday meeting!

2004-06-02 Thread Roger
Around Wed,Jun 02 2004, at 05:36, Bob Miller, wrote: >Kenneth Silverman wrote: > >> hi you guys! i think it'd be good if we figure out when and where our >> meeting is going to take place. > >Yes, it would. Roger (or anyone else who's at OPN), what's

[Eug-lug] Thursday Clinic

2004-05-27 Thread Roger
OPN doesn't have their connection back yet. Meeting tonight will probably be without internet. -- Roger --- ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglu