Re: Microsoft moving to Canada?

2000-06-02 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:00:15 EDT Derek Martin said: >On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > >> As I lay in bed half-asleep listening to the >> BBC just now I caught the end of a report about >> how British Columbia is rumored to be in secret >> negotiations with M$ to ma

Re: Microsoft moving to Canada?

2000-06-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Warren Mansur wrote: > Or maybe Microsoft could fall off the face of the earth . . . That would be great too!! But I think embargos would be more fun... :) > > Let them go, and we can enforce embargos against them when they do... -- Derek Martin System Administrator Miss

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, Paul Lussier and Derek Martin are the most > > knowledgable about servers on this list. > >Shh! Shh! Even though I agree that they're so bright they've gotta wear > shades, you don't want to give 'em a swelled head! :-)

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Kurth - > > As far as I'm concerned, Paul Lussier and Derek Martin are the most > knowledgable about servers on this list. Please do exactly as they > suggest ;-). I hear Dell makes really great rackmount systems... ;) Just kidding. We've u

Re: Microsoft moving to Canada?

2000-06-02 Thread Warren Mansur
Or maybe Microsoft could fall off the face of the earth . . . Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > > > > As I lay in bed half-asleep listening to the > > BBC just now I caught the end of a report about > > how British Columbia is rumored to be in secret > > nego

Re: NFS "submount" question

2000-06-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: > > I haven't tried it, but can't you just export the subdirectory seperately, > > and mount it seperately, and have everything work? > >Nope, that was one of the first things I tried. Mount would error on the > client saying that the server said per

Re: Microsoft moving to Canada?

2000-06-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > As I lay in bed half-asleep listening to the > BBC just now I caught the end of a report about > how British Columbia is rumored to be in secret > negotiations with M$ to maybe relocate their > headquarters 100 miles north and switch to > being a

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:16:26 PDT Kurth Bemis said: >At 03:11 PM 6/2/2000 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >whats that wink for!! Paul suggested none other than VA Linux. maybe >i'll gibe you guys a call and discuss options. :-) That was his point :) ccb works for them

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Warren Mansur
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Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Randy Edwards
> As far as I'm concerned, Paul Lussier and Derek Martin are the most > knowledgable about servers on this list. Shh! Shh! Even though I agree that they're so bright they've gotta wear shades, you don't want to give 'em a swelled head! :-) -- Regards, | Does my signature block look out-of

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 03:11 PM 6/2/2000 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats that wink for!! Paul suggested none other than VA Linux. maybe i'll gibe you guys a call and discuss options. :-) >Hi Kurth - > >As far as I'm concerned, Paul Lussier and Derek Martin are the most >knowledgable about servers on

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread ccb
Hi Kurth - As far as I'm concerned, Paul Lussier and Derek Martin are the most knowledgable about servers on this list. Please do exactly as they suggest ;-). ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suit

Re: Applixware offer...

2000-06-02 Thread Jeffry Smith
Actually, I have seen documents that had features only in Office 97 (OK, 1 non-VB, one VB - although that's a good reason not to use it). However, if everyone would use TeX formats, the problem would be solved (or agree on the parsing / display of RTF formats). On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier w

hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread Kurth Bemis
from what i gather hardware talk on this list is bad. however this isn't just hardwareits *nix also. as most of you know i'm the administrator for usaexpress.net. we're looking to expand from our 1 server that does everything to 2 and possibly more later this year. I'm going to build th

Re: Microsoft moving to Canada?

2000-06-02 Thread Bill Sconce
>From BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/business/newsid_774000/774063.stm As the US software giant Microsoft waits to hear whether an American judge will order its break-up, it has been revealed that the company is being encouraged to relocate its operations to neighbouring Canada

Re: Applixware offer...

2000-06-02 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 12:13:01 EDT Jeffry Smith said: >Well, I use both. Me too. In general, Applixware seems to do a much better job of importing MS Word files than SO does (5.0 is *much* better than the beta!) >Disadvantages: doesn't write to MS formats (reads from them, w

Re: Applixware offer...

2000-06-02 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Todd, I have used neither todate, however my justification to myself and others is...even though it may not be pure Open Source, and yes, they charge for it, I opted for the Applix offer for one basic reason. They are supporting LUGS and especially us. They gave us 4 boxed sets for the Linux Busi

Re: Applixware offer...

2000-06-02 Thread Jeffry Smith
Well, I use both. Big advantage of Applix: You can start everything separately, and it starts each new document (word, spreadsheet, presentation) in it's own window, so you can move it around. It feels more "unixy" - lots of little programs doing something well vs the monolithic MS approach tha

Re: Applixware offer...

2000-06-02 Thread Todd Littlefield
Hello, I must admit I am tempted by the Applixware offer. However, I already have StarOffice which I didn't have to pay for... I don't normally do anything that can't be done with plain ASCII/HTML. The possible exception is opening attachments from others who don't know the power of th

Re: Network Time Protocal

2000-06-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
I don't understand the questrion. Do you want to time sync on time servers, do you want to set up a time server for an internal network, or do you want to write a program that implements the protocol. Most commonly, you probably just want to run the ntp (or xntp) daemon. Depending on your dist

Re: Network Time Protocal

2000-06-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
csmith writes: > How does one implement Network Time Protocal ? Read RFC1305 and start coding? (-: You may wish to look here as well for implementations that already exist: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ It wouldn't surprise me if somebody had transmorgified this into one of t

Webster's Windows95 Definition

2000-06-02 Thread Taylor, Chris
Today is just one of those days. - Chris --- Windows95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. *

Network Time Protocal

2000-06-02 Thread csmith
How does one implement Network Time Protocal ? ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ***

Re: NFS "submount" question

2000-06-02 Thread Randy Edwards
> I haven't tried it, but can't you just export the subdirectory seperately, > and mount it seperately, and have everything work? Nope, that was one of the first things I tried. Mount would error on the client saying that the server said permission denied. -- Regards, | Do you like browsin

Re: NFS "submount" question

2000-06-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin writes: > I haven't tried it, but can't you just export the subdirectory seperately, > and mount it seperately, and have everything work? My understanding is "no". --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a d

Microsoft moving to Canada?

2000-06-02 Thread Michael O'Donnell
As I lay in bed half-asleep listening to the BBC just now I caught the end of a report about how British Columbia is rumored to be in secret negotiations with M$ to maybe relocate their headquarters 100 miles north and switch to being a Canadian rather than US corporation in an attempt to evade t