Re: More on 'silence of the X'

2000-06-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > I need to keep xdm running, and runnable, but I also want > X to stop listening on port 1029. Twiddling a firewall won't > do; this needs to be done at the origin. Why won't a firewall do? I find general firewalls are sometimes easier, and a

Re: MediaHun does it again...

2000-06-05 Thread Derek Martin
Today, Derek Martin gleaned this insight: > Thank you MediaHun... For those I may have inadvertently confused (and for those who actually care), the receipt of the previous message is your indication that the problem is now fixed. ;) Thanks! [P.S. In case you were wondering what relevance thi

Re: Getting RH 6.1 to auto-insmod aic7xxx

2000-06-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > I did a 'modprobe -c' and noticed two interesting lines: > > alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx > alias scsi_hostadapter off > > The first was added to conf.modules; the second is coming from > I don't know where. $ strings $( which mo

Re: ansi color codes

2000-06-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > Anyone on here familiar with ansi color codes? It has been awhile, but yes... > I'm trying to figure how to bold the background color... AFAIK, you cannot. "Bright Background" colors, in my experience, were always accomplished by flipping a bit on t

MediaHun does it again...

2000-06-05 Thread Derek Martin
Yep, changed my IP address for the 6th time since August, and forgot to provide reverse DNS for my IP address. Not only did they not assign my specified host name, but they didn't give me one AT ALL! Thank you MediaHun... -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.

Parable

2000-06-05 Thread Bill Sconce
http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/hotair.htm A short story - A man piloting a hot air balloon discovers he has wandered off course and is hopelessly lost. He descends to a lower altitude and locates a man down on the ground. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse m

Re: Returned mail: List problems? (FINAL)

2000-06-05 Thread Mark Gelinas
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:41:20PM -0400, MarkG wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:08:33PM -0400, Warren Mansur wrote: > > One probable reason is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an address to a Compaq > > server. So, whenever anyone sends email to this address, regardless of the > > cc's, it goes thro

Re: Returned mail: List problems?

2000-06-05 Thread Mark Gelinas
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:08:33PM -0400, Warren Mansur wrote: > One probable reason is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an address to a Compaq > server. So, whenever anyone sends email to this address, regardless of the > cc's, it goes through compaq. Apparently the gnhlug server tries to send the > e

Re: Returned mail: List problems?

2000-06-05 Thread Warren Mansur
One probable reason is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an address to a Compaq server. So, whenever anyone sends email to this address, regardless of the cc's, it goes through compaq. Apparently the gnhlug server tries to send the email to each of the email addresses in the list, and that particular se

Re: Returned mail: List problems?

2000-06-05 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 01:35 PM 6/5/2000 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: nop i get it too. its annoying ~kurth >Anyone know why every time I reply to this list I get bounced from >compaq.com??? > >AFAIK my SMTP server should be handling the CC's, and not trying to >relay through Compaq/DEC. > >Thoughts? Is this a

Re: Returned mail: List problems?

2000-06-05 Thread Brian Chabot
Anyone know why every time I reply to this list I get bounced from compaq.com??? AFAIK my SMTP server should be handling the CC's, and not trying to relay through Compaq/DEC. Thoughts? Is this a misconfig on my end or at Compaq/DEC? Brian (Bounce message follows) On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Mail

Re: Old Sun server up for grabs

2000-06-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
Well, if you contact Bob Sparks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), he's the one with the contacts for donations to the state of NH. I know they do PCs, don't know about other systems. the suggestion for the gnhlug demo machine isn't bad. If we need a home for one, I may be able to find one ;). jeff On Su

Re: Old Sun server up for grabs

2000-06-05 Thread Brian Chabot
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Thomas Charron wrote: > > Well, I now have an old Sun Sparc10 that I would like to get rid of but I > > can't find that earlier post. > This may be a decent demo box for use by GNHLUG itself, no? If not, I'd be more than happy to find a use for it... if only as another lea

Re: Old Sun server up for grabs

2000-06-05 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting Jamey Poirier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello everyone, > I saw some mail on this list a couple of months back asking for people to > donate old computers. > Well, I now have an old Sun Sparc10 that I would like to get rid of but I > can't find that earlier post. > I would rather donate the s

Old Sun server up for grabs

2000-06-05 Thread Jamey Poirier
Hello everyone, I saw some mail on this list a couple of months back asking for people to donate old computers. Well, I now have an old Sun Sparc10 that I would like to get rid of but I can't find that earlier post. I would rather donate the system to a useful cause if possible, if not I'll jus

Update on Slug Meeting

2000-06-05 Thread Lori Hitchcock
June 12th 7:00 PM @ NHCTC Brian Stevens from Mission Critical Linux will be Presenting on Clustering. Lori Hitchcock Hitchcock Staffing 800-867-9188 ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text

SLUG meeting change

2000-06-05 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Sorry for the late post, but couldn't be helped. I posted last week that the SLUG meeting was the 5th of June. It was changed back to the regular SLUG meeting day of the second Monday of the month. So here is the details one more time. June 12th - SLUG meeting Brian Stevens of Mission Critical L

Re: Microsoft fight with Slashdot

2000-06-05 Thread Bruce McCulley
That's exactly why Micro$oft wants to keep the details of their "proprietary" extension to Kerberos private, they'd rather break interoperability and keep their customers locked in than chance the risk that customers would move if it were easily possible. Slashdot's providing a forum that threate

Re: Microsoft fight with Slashdot

2000-06-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
Standards are another thing. The market leader always wants to eschew standards. IBM used to do this in the mainframe business. Back in the '60s, the standard was ASCII, and IBM used EBCDIC, the standard for databases was network, IBM went hierachial. There were other things also. We see Micro

Re: More on 'silence of the X'

2000-06-05 Thread Karl J. Runge
Ken, On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to keep xdm running, and runnable, but I also want > X to stop listening on port 1029. Twiddling a firewall won't > do; this needs to be done at the origin. Using startx won't > do. lsof shows me X, xconsole,

Re: Microsoft fight with Slashdot

2000-06-05 Thread Warren Mansur
It's the typical Microsoft thing. Take a standard, make it slightly incompatible, and then try to make their incompatible version the new standard. They tried that with Java already (and failed thank goodness). Warren Jerry Feldman wrote: > I am baffled why Microsoft would do this. Interestin

GNOME/Enlightenment/rxvt scrolling

2000-06-05 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
I don't know where the source of this lies, but I suspect it's a GNOME setting. I notice this most in my rxvt windows; I'm not sure if I've seen it with any other applications. Actually, I see that it isn't the case with Netscrape.. When I drag to scroll down, in ye olden daze I could drag belo

More on 'silence of the X'

2000-06-05 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
I need to keep xdm running, and runnable, but I also want X to stop listening on port 1029. Twiddling a firewall won't do; this needs to be done at the origin. Using startx won't do. lsof shows me X, xconsole, xbanner, and xdm all listening on that port, and I need to make them stop. X is, unf