Re: Computer industry woes due to Microsoft?

2001-09-05 Thread Rich Payne
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote: Rich, I think your are incorrect on several accounts. Compaq has trimmed its PC overhead very aggressively where it's margins are relatively good compared to the rest of the industry. I'm sure it has, but yet Dell is still doing better. Saying

Re: Derek Martin's email unreadable?

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Whatever happened to MS/TNEF anyways? When Outlook first became popular, I used to get email in this unreadable format all the time. I used to trash such email regularly. Why don't I see MS/TNEF messages anymore -- did users complain, IT staffers complain, or did Microsoft benevolently decide

Re: Computer industry woes due to Microsoft?

2001-09-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
Looking at EPS numbers, Dell is doing better. However, as prices continue to erode in the PC market, Compaq and HP (together or separately) have considerable diversity in systems. The question of what happens to Tru64 is a big one that probably only Michael and Carly could answer today. I

Re: Computer industry woes due to Microsoft?

2001-09-05 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (I still refuse to call it Tru64. Ghawd, what a stupid name.) It was the first UNIX to ship on a 64 bit architecture and to truly use 64 bit pointers, etc. It would be nice if DEC/Compaq/HP/whoever decides to Open Source any OSes they are

Re: Can someone tell me how to manually stop and start the artsd?

2001-09-05 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Thanks, I was looking for something more gracefuller; something that would recrerate the command line with any switches that it might need. If you know a process' PID you can find its command line (layed out argv-style i.e. NULL terminated tokens) in /proc/$PID/cmdline

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1270732090

2001-09-05 Thread Michael O'Donnell
PDA sculpted from 50lbs of butter. Does not yet run Linux. ** 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: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1270732090

2001-09-05 Thread Brian Chabot
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Michael O'Donnell wrote: PDA sculpted from 50lbs of butter. Does not yet run Linux. Slick. Real slick. Brian (all puns intended.) --- | [EMAIL PROTECTED]Spam me and DIE! | |

Re: Two really dumb questions.

2001-09-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rich Cloutier wrote: I consider Linuxconf to be evil. It is known to write invalid and broken configuration files. I am told even Red Hat is phasing it out. Don't use it to configure Apache, whatever you do'nuff said. Or Sendmail. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

printer config

2001-09-05 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
Hello, I've been having multiple issues with my ISP so I'm not sure this message ever made it to the list. Sorry if it's a duplicate. My new Slackware thinks my printer is a LaserJet (it's a DeskJet) and I can't find where to change it. Anybody got a guess ? TIA TomR

Re: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1270732090

2001-09-05 Thread John Abreau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) writes: PDA sculpted from 50lbs of butter. Does not yet run Linux. On the other hand, I'll bet it runs great on a hot summer day! :-) (It's very runny today, sir ... Oh, I'm sorry sir, the cat ate it!) -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux

Re: Computer industry woes due to Microsoft?

2001-09-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Rich Payne wrote: Now, do I have anything against Tru64, no I think it's an excellent OS, and very stable, but in the buy out HP-UX will be left standing and Tru64 will be dropped. Which is a shame, I think. Digital UNIX is probably one of the best commercial Unixes

Re: Two really dumb questions.

2001-09-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
Benjamin Scott said: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rich Cloutier wrote: I consider Linuxconf to be evil. It is known to write invalid and broken configuration files. I am told even Red Hat is phasing it out. Don't use it to configure Apache, whatever you do'nuff said. Or Sendmail. Or Samba.

Thursday Meeting

2001-09-05 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Hello everyone, Don't forget the meeting this Tursday night Sept 6, 7 pm at the Peterborough Library. Jeff Smith of Mission Critical Linux is giving a presentation on Procmail with a short discussion on use of Fetchmail as well. Jerry --