Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Casioqv sassed: Dude! [In the voice of John Cusack] You MUST paragraph! Now! [hopefully at least some people will get this reference...] > else. This is a totally anonymous questionnaire. I however do now > have sufficient information for my research and do not need any more > respon

Re: WebCam Suggestions.

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
> Greg Kettmann wrote: > > What options are available for a Linux Webcam (preferably under $50)? In a similar vein, does anyone know of any digital cameras that you can carry around with you which record to some sort of external storage which can be removed and hooked up to a computer for later

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Casioqv
I give you my word that the e-mail addresses and names of the people who responded to my research questions will be totally ignored and passed on to no one. Not the college, my professor, or anyone else. This is a totally anonymous questionnaire. I however do now have sufficient information for my

Re: gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Jerry Kubeck sassed: > My apologies to anyone who couldn't figure out that I was referring to the > GNHLUG.org web stie at: > > http://www.gnhlug.org > > I am using the power vested in my position to order a handcount huh? -- We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond

Re: ignoring "blinking" dialtone

2000-11-15 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 06:13 PM 11/15/2000 -0500, Mjo wrote: i also had this feature oncei think that i told it to not wait for a dial tone and just dial... yesolder ppl on the net.about 65% of all my calls here at usaexpress.net are older ppl on the Internet.some of them think up the

Re: ignoring "blinking" dialtone

2000-11-15 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:59:57PM -0800, Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time to use AT command set stuff: ATX4 and higher (eg. ATX7) pay attention > to dialtone -- ATX3 and lower don't. To make your modem really dumb, but > very compatible, go with ATX1 -- you'll have to plug it in to

Re: ignoring "blinking" dialtone

2000-11-15 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:13:13PM -0500, Mjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, now that my parents need to be on the net through my machine, they need > to be able to dial it when I'm not here. So I'd like the dialer to ignore the > blinking dialtone when I have messages. I want them to be a

Re: ignoring "blinking" dialtone

2000-11-15 Thread Ken Ambrose
Time to use AT command set stuff: ATX4 and higher (eg. ATX7) pay attention to dialtone -- ATX3 and lower don't. To make your modem really dumb, but very compatible, go with ATX1 -- you'll have to plug it in to your modem initialization string, or else you can bring up minicom and do something lik

ignoring "blinking" dialtone

2000-11-15 Thread Mjo
Okay, so thanks to the list I am now using ppp as if nothing ever happened. I am also now ip masquerading for both Ryan and my parents (yes, I'm VERY temporarily living with them till I grad)... I got voice mail 2 years ago because everyone complained that they always got a busy signal when I wa

Re: WebCam Suggestions.

2000-11-15 Thread Joshua Flythe
For a webcam that I run at home our main camera uses a Hauppauge WinTV-GO Model 190 for the video capture board and a Sanyo color CCD camera. I purchased the card at Best Buy almost a year ago, and I had the camera from when I worked at a company that did PC based video surveillance. You can find

Re: WebCam Suggestions.

2000-11-15 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:15:36 EST Bill Freeman said: >The rest is only software. The perl hackers on the list can >probably do it for you in two lines. Well, I can *probably* do in 3 lines, but 4 would be more readable. If you don't mind code that looks like line noise, Kevin

WebCam Suggestions.

2000-11-15 Thread Bill Freeman
Greg Kettmann writes: > In my never ending quest to play with new toys I've decided I want to > install a web cam. In the Windows world that is fairly simple. There > are dozens of USB cameras for less than $50. However, I seem to recall > that Linux doesn't support USB yet. Also, the soft

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Matt Herbert
I would have to agree with Rich. I've used Glade for a couple of small projects, and it is very nice for putting together a UI. Granted, it is not a full IDE, and it only supports GTK+ and GNOME widgets, but it is a quick easy way to get familiar with how things work. Glade will give you a nic

gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Bill Freeman
Jerry Kubeck writes: > My apologies to anyone who couldn't figure out that I was referring to the > GNHLUG.org web stie at: I think that you'll find that the correct spellings for the singular of styes are sty or stye. Oink. ** T

WebCam Suggestions.

2000-11-15 Thread Greg Kettmann
In my never ending quest to play with new toys I've decided I want to install a web cam. In the Windows world that is fairly simple. There are dozens of USB cameras for less than $50. However, I seem to recall that Linux doesn't support USB yet. Also, the software is all for Windows. What opt

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 15 Nov, Peter Cavender wrote: > My > advice is find an editor you like, and learn Make! > > > There ares several GPL'd IDES I have heard of, but I don't recall any by name. > Personally, I use emacs and make with several open terminal windows, but there are in fact several IDE's availabl

gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Jerry Kubeck
My apologies to anyone who couldn't figure out that I was referring to the GNHLUG.org web stie at: http://www.gnhlug.org I am using the power vested in my position to order a handcount Jerry - Jerry Kubeck Customer Support

Re: gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>> P.S. It'd be easier for us to find your WWW page >>if you'd mention a URL... > >I'll give you a hint...look in the subject line :) Duh, hey! Well, looky there! (blush) Funny thing: I had trouble with my ballot, too... ***

Mandrake to be BIG!

2000-11-15 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
OK, so we have had the discussions about why RedHat is insecure and Debian is more secure by default, yada yada yada, but Mandrake is about to become the most secure distro yet. In case anyone missed the /. interview with Jon Lasser and Jay Beale, read it at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/1

Re: gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Rich Payne
I'll give you a hint...look in the subject line :) --rdp On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > > >Well, since the cat is out of the bag, we have an announcement. > > > >Appropriate Solutions, Inc has taken over the server duties, > >temporarily for now, of the gnhlug website. We

Re: gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>Well, since the cat is out of the bag, we have an announcement. > >Appropriate Solutions, Inc has taken over the server duties, >temporarily for now, of the gnhlug website. We were trying >to iron out any problems before any announcements. Um, what? I wasn't aware there WAS a cat, or even a

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Cavender
RE: Codewarrior / CodeFusion / emacs / make Hi- When I started programming under Linux 2 years ago after 14 years on the Macintosh, I was thrilled that Metrowerks ported their CodeWarrior IDE to Linux, because it is the most popular IDE on the Mac and is awesome there. I was dissapointed, to

gnhlug.org

2000-11-15 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Well, since the cat is out of the bag, we have an announcement. Appropriate Solutions, Inc has taken over the server duties, temporarily for now, of the gnhlug website. We were trying to iron out any problems before any announcements. My thanks to our new webmaster Charlie Farinella, our web des

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Rich Payne sassed: > > If you're into C, you can try Glade which is the GNOME gui > designer. Though I'd say it's important that you take a look through the > GTK/Gnome docs to undertand it. I'm sure KDE has a similar thing > (Kdevelop?). > > Also, Borland/Inprise/Borland are going t

Fwd: Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Ken Ambrose sassed: > > Just out of curiosity, if you're a member of the Portland Linux User > > Group, what made you decide to ask here, where you are completely > > unknown, and where your message wasn't really appropriate? I don't > > think it is very suprising that many here thoug

Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Ken Ambrose
> >I have been in the portland linux users group for 4 years and am a active > >linux user and developer. Check the e-mail archives at pdxlinux.org. > >I've been posting from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Just out of curiosity, if you're a member of the Portland Linux User > Group, what made you decide t

RE: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Rich Payne
If you're into C, you can try Glade which is the GNOME gui designer. Though I'd say it's important that you take a look through the GTK/Gnome docs to undertand it. I'm sure KDE has a similar thing (Kdevelop?). Also, Borland/Inprise/Borland are going to releae Kylix (I've heard) to the GNOME foun

RE: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Lawrence.Tilly
I guess from several of the replies I might have been thinking of something a little different. At home & work I am happy doing my *nix programming in c/c++ using vi (he says, quickly ducking the objects thrown by any members of the emacs-jihad). I'm teaching myself java the same way...vi and co

Fwd: Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Jerry Kubeck
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:16:12 -0500 >To: Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Jerry Kubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >I have no opinion on this, but being from Oregon originally, the Clackamas >CC is the Clackamas Community

Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
"Derek D. Martin" wrote: > > That frood Casioqv sassed: > > > Have you been diagnosed with paranoia? > > Yes. I'm a sysadmin. We're paranoid by nature. heh heh heh he gives *ME* a run for the money when it comes to paranoia. It's a jod-hazard. > I find your response rather insulting and

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
While I am also an Emacs person, there is also kdevelop. I have not tested it. Here is the URL. http://www.kdevelop.org/ Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org ** To unsubsc

Re: Just tried Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Ken Ambrose sassed: > Brian Chabot wrote: > > > You know when you boot a *nix, how you get to watch all the nifty > > notices scroll past, but miss some and end up looking them up in > > /var/log? Well, miss no more... you can use a mouse to scroll back > > through them. > > FYI, yo

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Rich Payne
There's also the Cygnus GnuPro toolkit that include the Insight debugger and SourceNavigator. I'm not so sure it's a complete integrated IDE like you might be used to, but it might be something to look at. --rdp On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Derek D. Martin wrote: > That frood Bourdon, Bruce sassed:

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Bourdon, Bruce sassed: Well there's a product called CodeWarrior I believe; you see adds for it sometimes on Slashdot and other sites. But I think pretty much everyone just uses emacs/xemacs, GNU make, gdb, and either RCS or CVS for code revision control. Emacs allows you to do your

Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography

2000-11-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
That frood Casioqv sassed: > Have you been diagnosed with paranoia? Yes. I'm a sysadmin. We're paranoid by nature. > I have been in the portland linux users group for 4 years and am a active > linux user and developer. Check the e-mail archives at pdxlinux.org. > I've been posting from [EMAI

Re: Debian comments

2000-11-15 Thread John Abreau
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Derek D. Martin wrote: > I have to agree with Ben here actually. Using a software package > manager to manage source code just seems awfully silly to me. I'm > inclined to think the only reason those features exist is for RedHat > to automate rebuilding a package to make it

Re: Just tried Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>FYI, you *can* scroll through them: . True, though that buffered info is unfortunately lost when you switch among Virtual console windows (as with Alt-Fn) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the followi

Re: Just tried Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Ken Ambrose
Brian Chabot wrote: > You know when you boot a *nix, how you get to watch all the nifty > notices scroll past, but miss some and end up looking them up in > /var/log? Well, miss no more... you can use a mouse to scroll back > through them. FYI, you *can* scroll through them: . Works for all Li

Re: Just tried Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Si Chung
I recall hearing that the WalMart resell is a different (pre-release or eval) version of Mandrake 7.2 than what you may find at say ".com". Can anyone else confirm? Otherwise, thanks for the quick review, Brian. Si Brian Chabot wrote: > > Well, I felt weak and actually bought a copy of Mandra

Just tried Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Well, I felt weak and actually bought a copy of Mandrake Linux 7.2 at, of all places, Walmart. I'm sort of impressed. The install is as smooth as 7.0, but with slightly better autodetect of the hardware. What REALLY impressed me is actually the initial boot IT'S GRAPHICAL! You know when yo

[Fwd: IDE for Linux?]

2000-11-15 Thread Anderw G. Bacchi
Ok, I failed to send this to the group, so here it is. "Anderw G. Bacchi" wrote: > I heard that Borland was writing C++ Builder for Linux. I have used it on > Windows, but not for Linux. It is expensive, and if you can find a Edu > discount, it would be worth it. You may also like to look int

Re: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've really come to like IDEs', and I'm not thrilled about the idea of going > back to the command line and seperate tools. Any thoughts (good or bad)? Get Emacs, or (even better IMHO), XEmacs. Learn how to use the "M-x compile" command. Learn how to use DDD or els

RE: IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Lawrence.Tilly
If anyone is replying back to Bruce on this, please include the list...I too would be very interested in opinions on this. -Larry -Original Message- From: Bourdon, Bruce [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:17 PM To: '[EMAIL

IDE for Linux?

2000-11-15 Thread Bourdon, Bruce
First off, thanks to all who responded to my questions yesterday (boot-fails and login problem). All is working well now. I'm hoping to jump right in and start doing some c/c++ programming for Linux, I've purchased "Beginning Linux Programming" and more. I've heard of several tools, gnu cpp etc.

RE: kppp

2000-11-15 Thread Bourdon, Bruce
First a disclaimer: I'm running on just a couple of hours sleep and not currently at location with Linux box - so details are foggy (i'm cc'ing this to the list in hopes someone will remember the utiliy's name). Don't know if this pertains to your situation, but FYI: I have two seperate comm pat

RE: Managing source packages (was: Debian comments)

2000-11-15 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
-Original Message- From: Paul Lussier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:43 PM To: Benjamin Scott Cc: Greater NH Linux Users' Group Subject:Re: Managing source packages (was: Debian comments)

Fwd: KSCLUG stuff

2000-11-15 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Here is the latest news from the Keene State Lug. >Hi! > >We did our nominations today for next semester lug >officials and I'm very happy with the outcome. > >Wendy and I have been trying to swing Derek Doucette into the >lead role, and it looks like that will happen. He was the more >experience