Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
>
> I know this is weird, but if anybody has a $200 Win 95 machine (needs no
> monitor, keyboard etc.) that you want to get rid of I need it. Its gotta have
> a working (yeah I know) Win 95 on it and a parallel port. Time is of the
> essence. Sorry for two off topic pos
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> I know this is weird, but if anybody has a $200 Win 95 machine (needs no
> monitor, keyboard etc.) that you want to get rid of I need it. Its gotta have
> a working (yeah I know) Win 95 on it and a parallel port. Time is of the
> essence. Sorry fo
At 10:31 PM 5/17/2000 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
ah ha! that is what i need - the export DISPLAY!
can i just put that in my .bashrc file?
>On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> > in win2k i use eudora pro. on freshmeat there are several GUI mail
> > clients for gnome, however none of th
I know this is weird, but if anybody has a $200 Win 95 machine (needs no
monitor, keyboard etc.) that you want to get rid of I need it. Its gotta have
a working (yeah I know) Win 95 on it and a parallel port. Time is of the
essence. Sorry for two off topic posts in one night.
A 486 is OK.
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> in win2k i use eudora pro. on freshmeat there are several GUI mail
> clients for gnome, however none of them support pop3 mail!
Mail in Unix is traditionally handled by an MTA (Mail Transport Agent) at
the system level, and then read using an MUA (Mail
Mahogany looks promising as an email client, there is a link from the Gnome site.
Sean
On Tue, 16 May 2000 19:59:20 -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote:
>greetings to the list,
>
>i saw ben at the hosstrader show in rochester this weekend and he got my
>intrest sparked again in using linux
Well, I've been having a really good time playing with LILO and GRUB and
I've gotten *really* good at smacking ESC because I'm tired of watching the
memory count for the umpteenth time during a reboot. Here's a summary of my
boot adventures:
Box: 3 IDE HDs (hda, hdb, and hdc) and one SCSI
Once upon a time, Kenneth E. Lussier spake thus:
:-)"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
:-)Not all of us are "guru's". I personally consider myself to be fairly
:-)unknowledgable. The greatest lesson that I have ever learned was that
:-)"The only thing that we can know with certainty is that we certainly
We sit on a DS3 here, so I'm making the offer to burn some CDs for you as
time permits. The real problem is that we would have to pull the Alpha
CDs from Hungary, I think, and that could be time consuming. The i386 CDs
are built locally on our machine, so that is much easier.
-- Mike
On 2000-
Hi,
Would it be somehow possible to organize a meeting with Seth Payne in Durham
in the future? I can't attend the Merrimack meeting tomorrow unfortunatelly,
but I am really interested, and I believe this is a very interesting topic.
Ferenc
"Automated?" Did you say "automated?"
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
-- Mike
On 2000-05-17 at 16:09 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> Yep, it's probably a superior package management system, and probably a
> superior distribution overall, but Debian is a PIA to install, in my
> e
On 2000-05-17 at 15:47 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
* * *
> > and autobuild a set of unofficial i386 CD images each morning at 0700 EDT
> >
> > http://debian.bilow.com/debian-cdimage
> > ftp://debian.bilow.com/debian-cdimage
> >
> > -- Mike
> >
>
On 2000-05-17 at 14:40 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> > http://debian.bilow.com/debian-cdimage
> > ftp://debian.bilow.com/debian-cdimage
>
> Is potato now buildable within installing slink first? Aka, with these disk
> images, can I boot and install with no sign of slink?
I would no
Buckeyes in Ohio, Hawkeyes in Iowa ( and Illini in Illinois). George
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> > I currently run mostly dual-boot systems with Mandrake7/Win98... I've
> > also got a DOS/Minix laptop, and a Mandrake7 box running as a
> > server... I've done Slack (3.x I think) on a Winbook, SuSE on a few
> > boxen, and played on FreeBSD.
>
> I can
Perhaps this can be forgiven...
http://www.neaq.org/explore/vtour.proto/penguins.html
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it's broken.
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> maintain any CD images for it. You can get Alpha CD test images from:
>
> http://ftp.fsn.hu/ftp/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/
> ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/
> rsync://ftp.fsn.hu/ftp/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-
I don't know if it does or not, but I can highly recommend using
procmail. Then you can define multiple incoming folders.
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Does your driver's licen
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> There is really no point to installing Debian package management tools on
> Red Hat. First, large sections of the filesystem, such as /usr/bin, are
> considered to be under the exclusive control of the package manager, and
> running two package managers o
We are opening an FTP server to the Internet. The FTP server potentially
will handle multiple simultaneous connections.
The FTP server is a private server requiring a username and password.
Yes we are running M$ and SQL Server, but will migrate to UNIX and probably
Oracle before the year is ou
I forgot on emore very important person who did a lot to make it a great
show. Rich Payen wrote the registration database for us to use at the show
to collect all the information, plus a lot of other things that made my job
a little easier.
Now I am done till the final recap.
Thanks again to att
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> Actually, we've had important machines running on potato since November
> without serious problems. Most of the showstoppers have related to the
> non-i386 builds, I think, which we do not use. The first potato test
> cycle has been going really badly, w
Quoting Mike Bilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 2000-05-17 at 15:10 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> and autobuild a set of unofficial i386 CD images each morning at 0700 EDT
> http://debian.bilow.com/debian-cdimage
> ftp://debian.bilow.com/debian-cdimage
Is potato now buildable within ins
Of course I had to forget a very important pair that did a lot, both
contributing an undisclosed amount of money for all the little things and a
lot of time and effort. They would be Josh Flythe and his wife Maria, my
right hand and our official GNHLUG graphic artist.
While I am at it, may I also
Quoting Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> > > I haven't done this in Mandrake, but I do download .debs, run through
> > > alien to make into .rpms, then install on Red Hat. mainly because the
> > > Debian site seems to be one of the best collections of o
> but that's opinion. Personally, I don't like Suse, and LOVE Debian, but
> personally won't recomend it for end users untill they *finally* release
> potato..
What I typically do for newbies is to recommend Storm Linux. Storm's a
nice, easy install of a "slink-plus" version of Debian which
Sigh. Try looking at the site:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/managing/app.directory.html
I did a search on "Lead Assessor", which led me to the SEI Appraisal
Process. Search on that led me to the directory, what the appraisal
process is and how to get on the list of assessors. As in
trained by SEI, a
(from registration database at show)
Where did they come from:
NH: 47 MA: 6 ME: 9 CA: 1 NJ: 2 RI: 1 Unknown: 2
Which Lug are they closest to:
Monadlug: 5 SLUG: 53Merrilug: 7 Central: 3 Unknown: 1
Here are some more semi-final calculations:
Sponsors: Donated
On 2000-05-17 at 15:10 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
* * *
> > So why not just run Debian in the first place? :)
>
> When Potato comes out (i.e. soon). I started with Red Hat, & it
> met my needs for a long time, so I kept running it. Now, it's running
> ou
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:10:39 EDT
> Jeffry Smith said:
>
> >All ready for that spare S/390 in your basement ;-)
>
> Yep, I'll put right next to that space heater, er, PDP 11 :)
>
Which reminds me, since Unix was developed on the P
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> > I haven't done this in Mandrake, but I do download .debs, run through
> > alien to make into .rpms, then install on Red Hat. mainly because the
> > Debian site seems to be one of the best collections of open source
> > software around.
>
> So why not j
In a message dated: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:13:55 EDT
Mike Bilow said:
>On 2000-05-17 at 09:16 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
>
>> I haven't done this in Mandrake, but I do download .debs, run through
>> alien to make into .rpms, then install on Red Hat. mainly because the
>> Debian site seems to be on
There is really no point to installing Debian package management tools on
Red Hat. First, large sections of the filesystem, such as /usr/bin, are
considered to be under the exclusive control of the package manager, and
running two package managers on one system is going to cause collisions.
Sec
On 2000-05-17 at 09:16 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> I haven't done this in Mandrake, but I do download .debs, run through
> alien to make into .rpms, then install on Red Hat. mainly because the
> Debian site seems to be one of the best collections of open source
> software around.
So why not ju
As far as I can tell, the "lead assessor" is the person _within_ the
organization who is responsible for evaluating the organization's CMM
capability. This is like signing your own CPR card.
A CPR card must be signed for a certified instructor, which in my
experience is usually a registered nurs
In a message dated: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:10:39 EDT
Jeffry Smith said:
>All ready for that spare S/390 in your basement ;-)
Yep, I'll put right next to that space heater, er, PDP 11 :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
"I always explain our company via interpretive dance.
I meet lots of
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
>
> Hi, my name is Dave Greenberg.
Greetings and Salutations :)
> How do you get the "Clone" feature to work in GIMP?
As others have pointed out the gimp has a rather "opaque" interface...
But, once you get used to it, it is fast and even intuitive, just
like vi :)
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Derek Martin said:
Derek > From: Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Derek > To: GNHLUG mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Derek > Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
Derek > Subject: message readability
Derek >
Derek >
Derek > For the good of the eyesight
From: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1848/1/
"After months of prerelease code availability, IBM today announced the
general availability of Linux for the S/390 mainframe platform. The
company adds System/390 hardware to its list of supported environments
for Linux, completing a r
Does this list support a digest mode? I'd like to continue reading this list,
but the frequency of posts lately is becoming a problem for me.
Thanks,
-Tom
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|Tom Varga -
For the good of the eyesight of all of our readers, or at the very least a
personal favor to me, I beg you all to please, please insert a blank line
after quoted comments, and between your paragraphs. It makes your
messages much, much easier to read.
Thanks!
--
Derek Martin
System Administrat
OK, so I'm not from the midwest. Go Hawkeyes! Go whoever chooses
anti-UCITA!
jeff
On Wed, 17 May 2000, David Andrew - Sun MDE wrote:
> Jeffry,
>
> Slight correction: It's the OHIO State Buckeyes, and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
> (8-)>
>
> Dave
-
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
> Greetings, all...
>
> I was just surfing around and happenned to come across this
> list... which I'm happy I did... I recognize a couple names here from
> reputation and one from someone I know... Hi, Tom.
>
> I just figured I'd introduce myself...
>
On Wed, 17 May 2000, John Chambers wrote:
>I have several GIMP books, and all seem to be written for someone who
>already knows most of it. I can walk through the examples and see
>lots of huge changes on the screen, but there is rarely any visible
>relation between what I did with the mo
> How do you get the "Clone" feature to work in GIMP? The one in
> PhotoDeluxe (freeware) works great.
I find the GIMP's user interface opaque. You have to read the manual :-)
So I'm not the only one. I've spent (wasted?) a lot of time trying to
le
In a message dated: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:39:33 EDT
"David P. Greenberg" said:
>
>--Well, now I know how Francis Gary Powers felt. I knew I'd get a flamin' but
>boy howdy...
>
>Now that I've effectively pissed everybody off;
I wouldn't say you actually pissed people off. Rather, what you did was
On Wed, 17 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pathalogical Counterexample:
>
> Script started on Wed May 17 00:10:19 2000
> lnux-bos:ccb1 ed nofile
> nofile: No such file or directory
> help
> ?
> g
> ?
> h
> Invalid address
> s
> ?
> exit
> ?
> quit
> ?
> q
> lnux-bos:ccb2 exit
> Script done o
On Tue, 16 May 2000, David P. Greenberg wrote:
>
> --Well, now I know how Francis Gary Powers felt. I knew I'd get a
> flamin' but boy howdy... Now that I've effectively pissed everybody
> off; Hi, my name is Dave Greenberg.
As one of the most billowing of flamers, welcome! I think it's safe
Jeffry,
Slight correction: It's the OHIO State Buckeyes, and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
(8-)>
Dave
>X-Authentication-Warning: martin.mclinux.com: ddm owned process doing
-bs
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:23:38 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Niall Kavanagh writes:
> Someone asked me off the list what a lart was.
I believe that the cannonical (or perhaps just "most popular") visual
image of a LART is a baseball bat with several nails driven through
it.
I haven't seen a LART in this shop, but a co-worker of mine does keep
a "clue st
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Christopher M. Downs wrote:
> how do you make a compile dock app start on the right side of the screen instead of
>executing at the bottom of the screen? thanks chris
>
What is your window manager?
--
Charles Farinella
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Christopher M. Downs wrote:
> how do you make a compile dock app start on the right side of the screen instead of
>executing at the bottom of the screen? thanks chris
>
Groupwise ... nasty mailer. ugh.
I'm assuming you're using windowmaker since you're refering to a dock
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Niall Kavanagh wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> >
> > (What's that? Oh, this isn't alt.sysadmin.recovery? ;-)
> >
>
> Amen brother, when dealing with MS walk softly and carry a big lart.
>
Someone asked me off the list what a lart was.
http:/
how do you make a compile dock app start on the right side of the screen instead of
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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> certain company who's initials we can all guess). Virginia and
> Maryland have passed it (with mods), Iowa (go buckeyes) passed an
> Anti-UCITA bill.
Damn, you mean I have to move to Iowa now? grmphrm Why is it the
farm states are the only ones t
> Have you tried putting the "linear" or "lba32" options in your
> /etc/lilo.conf file?
Yup, my first impulse was to use linear, but also tried lba32. No
luck. Running LILO now I get an error message about /dev/sda not being the
first drive (I'm not home so I don't have access to the text)
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> (What's that? Oh, this isn't alt.sysadmin.recovery? ;-)
>
Amen brother, when dealing with MS walk softly and carry a big lart.
--
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News, articles, and resources for web professionals and developers:
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"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
>
> --Well, now I know how Francis Gary Powers felt. I knew I'd get a flamin' but
> boy howdy...
> Now that I've effectively pissed everybody off; Hi, my name is Dave Greenberg.
> You realise of course that it's all in good fun, and an attempt at
> learning something.
I didn't miss your point. Lead Assessors do the assessment and pass
to SEI. the "certification" is like my CPR certification - I'm not,
I have a card saying I've taken the class and passed the test.
Difference? Practically, none. Legally, considerable, as the AHA
can't be held liable if I do
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> > I was just surfing around and happenned to come across this
> > list... which I'm happy I did... I recognize a couple names here from
> > reputation and one from someone I know... Hi, Tom.
>
> Oh dear.. The fuzzball arrives.. :-)
Hey, you have
The Merrimack (MerriLug) meeting is Thursday night 7 pm at Martha's
Exchange, 185 Main St., Nashua, NH.
We are being treated to a presentation by teh SuSE team on teh new SuSE 6.4
as well as a presetnation on Linux-HA.
Here is the release sent to me by SuSE
This was just sent to me by Seth Payn
I'm only sending this to change the bombing subject, ok, that and to ask if anyone is running KDE2 and is it worth loading?
-joe
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> I gather from reading the posts on this list that most of
> you guys are pretty much computer heavyweights. I'm not. Although I'm a bit of a
> guru to my immediate circle of friends, I'm still the guy who (after countless
> tries) could not install Star Office, has appoplectic seisures at the th
Once upon a time, Mike Bilow spake thus:
:-)The subject line is not funny.
Gee Whiz.
:-)Why do you want to run Linux? Do you have a goal?
Yes. My primary goal is to learn as much about computers in general as
possible. I'm interested in Mac as well. Eventually, I suppose I'd like to
network multi
The subject line is not funny.
Why do you want to run Linux? Do you have a goal?
Why would you expect to be able to run Debian packages in Mandrake?
Debian has the "alien" tool that allows RPM packages to be installed on
Debian, but these usually require a fair amount of manual help.
You nee
--Well, now I know how Francis Gary Powers felt. I knew I'd get a flamin' but
boy howdy...
Now that I've effectively pissed everybody off; Hi, my name is Dave Greenberg.
You realise of course that it's all in good fun, and an attempt at
learning something. I gather from reading the posts on this
I think you missed my point. That web page states explicitly:
Please be aware of the following issues regarding this list.
* The SEI does not certify companies at maturity levels.
* The SEI does not confirm the accuracy of the maturity levels
reported by the Lead Assessors or
You should be very interested to learn about UCITA:
http://www.cptech.org/ecom/ucita/
http://www.badsoftware.com/
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/UCITA_UCC2B/2131_fight_ucita_stallman_paper.html
-- Mike
On 2000-05-16 at 16:03 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> I'm not a lawyer eith
From: joseph e. arruda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: thanks...
> Don't worry, I've dealt with greedy, and what you are asking for ain't
> it. When I get requests like "Well hey, we;re a bunch of former NT guys
> and we have decided to switch to Linux and s
> I was just surfing around and happenned to come across this
> list... which I'm happy I did... I recognize a couple names here from
> reputation and one from someone I know... Hi, Tom.
Oh dear.. The fuzzball arrives.. :-)
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, David P. Greenberg wrote:
> Once upon a time, Mike Bilow spake thus:
> :-)Why do you want to run Linux? Do you have a goal?
> Yes. My primary goal is to learn as much about computers in general as
> possible. I'm interested in Mac as well. Eventually, I suppose I'd like to
>
In a message dated: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:15:08 EDT
Jeffry Smith said:
>Benjamin Scott wrote:
>>
>> The other big difference in software engineering is the high coupling.
>> Anyone who has ever had to maintain a non-trivial computer system knows that
>> even the simplest of changes can cause hu
In a message dated: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:37:01 EDT
Kurth Bemis said:
> I installed redhat 6.0 nand then installed helix gnome. everything is
> working ok - kind of.
>
> problem 1
> in win2k i use eudora pro. on freshmeat there are several GUI mail clients
> for gnome, however none of them suppo
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> i am using netscape to send this message - and so far everything is ok...i can use my
> old eudora mailboxes etc.one small problem that i can't seem to fix. Its hard to
> see the smaller text on my monitor - like the mailbox names and such. how can
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