Re: What do people use to listen to web radio under linux?

2002-06-24 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
>>> Assuming you run i386 Linux. I suspect Bayard, for example, >>> would disagree with you. :-) Well, I'm not a surly curmudgeon, even though I'm retiring Friday, but the fact is that I've long been an advocate of "general-think" - 10 years ago (literally - all during 1992), I was involved i

Re: What do people use to listen to web radio under linux?

2002-06-24 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Well, at the moment, I can't listen to web radio at all, as my dial-up line is way too slow, and I need the bandwidth for real things. There is an interesting article about this in The Register, though: http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25325.html Cheers, Bayard --

HP Drives Next-generation Animation on Linux with Walt Disney Feature Animation

2002-06-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020618/180291_1.html Press Release SOURCE: HP HP Drives Next-generation Animation on Linux with Walt Disney Feature Animation Industry Icons Build on 60-year History PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2002--HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that Walt Dis

We appear to be back online!

2002-06-07 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
We took a site-wide power hit here at Spit Brook this morning, and were out of power for a while, and then took our time bringing things back up, because when the power went down, it "bounced" back on once, then went out again. We use a very conservative approach to bringing the gear back up and

Re: Timezone? - Re: Message Boards

2002-06-05 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> The mail server *zmamail01.zma.compaq.com* IS in Houston TX, Wrong... 'zma' means our facility in Littleton, MA (which DOES connect to Houston, of course). >>> So I guess it COULD be going anywhere. Right. Aforementioned node is a Microsoft Exchange Server

Heard on the Beeb this morning...

2002-06-03 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I took my time coming into work this morning because I was sick yesterday and still wasn't feeling all that great today. S, that afforded me the unusual luxury of listening to the BBC World Service News on WBUR(FM) starting at 0900 EDT. At about 0925 or so, they went to their financial report

Apologies for the hiccup

2002-05-30 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
If any of you were trying to send e-mail to the gnhlug list on zk3.dec.com this morning, and failed, then I apologize. I forgot to warn y'all that they were planning on taking the cluster down this morning for an upgrade, and indeed it took a little longer than expected to get things rolling agai

RE: Party?

2002-05-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pointed us to: http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/?show=northa#73 I won't be able to make "#73" (which is *really* sad, since I'm a ham, and in ham radio lingo, "73" means "Best Wishes"). However, I'm trying to talk a certain someone into #98, which is in Hallendal

KDE 3.0.1 has been announced

2002-05-23 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Just caught this off of Slashdot, and thought folks here might be interested. Note that various volunteers have created RPMs or other appropriate packages for various Linux and UNIX distributions, including Tru64 UNIX, but *NOT* Red Hat. http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.1.html Enjo

Re: Load Balancing

2002-05-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: >>> RH acquiring the DEC^H^H^HCOMPAQ^H^H^H^H^H^HMCLX clustering group :) Ahem... No, Red Hat hired a couple of engineers who used to work for the now moribund Mission Critical Linux, who also happened to work for Compaq's Tru64 UNIX engineering group before that. T

Re: Meeting Tonight

2002-05-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quipped: >>> Any way you think we can get them to change their name to something >>> like: The pThread() No more than we could get Martha's to... :-) BTW, I've been to the Grand Buffet (with Maddog), and I certainly endorse his recommendation. They're cheap, they have b

Re: Trolling for Topics

2002-05-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
tfogal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> well, i use nmh at work, not exmh, but i assume theyre similar? Actually, exmh is a tcl/tk front end for plain old 'mh'. Information is available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/exmh/ and http://www.beedub.com/exmh/ HTH, Bayard -

Re: Request for Software

2002-05-21 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ben Scott mentioned that he couldn't find SuSE's copyright on their web site. It's probably not there, but I'm sure you'll find it on the box and/or the CDs and/or the cardboard folio used to hold the CDs. Be that as it may, I would strongly encourage those that can, to pay real money for SuSE's

Re: SuSE 8.0 KDE 3.0 first look - query about Qt/qtarch

2002-05-09 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I'm not sure what you mean by 'looked at Qt' - in effect, I AM looking at it, since I also run KDE3.0 on my Tru64 UNIX workstation here at work :-). Insofar as the code itself is concerned, I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts to give you a usable answer. I run SuSE 7.1 on my Alpha PC164

Re: Not that this is any surprise...

2002-05-07 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Paul Iadonisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spouted the following and then ducked: >>> I'm sorry, but I'll settle for nothing less than 100% space savings. Ah, yes, space, the final frontier... Bayard --- Bayard R. Coolidge N1HO

RE: We should have such leadership in the US!

2002-05-07 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Andrew W. Gaunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pointed us to the Peruvian legistlator's letter. I wish we did have such leadership in the US, but instead, our fellow citizens have seen fit to elect the likes of this: http://www.theinquirer.net/16040216.htm http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/2002rsrecord/hr256.

Mandrake 8.2 Review on The USA Register

2002-05-06 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24861.html Standard Disclaimer applies - I'm just pointing out the article, and neither I nor my employer necessarily agree with it. Bayard --- Bayard R. Coolidge N1HODISCLAIMER: The op

Re: Tape Backups

2002-05-02 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
To augment Paul Lussier's excellent post, I would hasten to add that you should also take into consideration the ease with which you could perform a partial (1 file) or total (all files) recovery. That, IMNSHO, and I am not a professional sysadmin, is the proof of the pudding, and where the real

Balloon launches at Hosstraders

2002-05-02 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailrelay01.cac.cpqcorp.net by oflume.zk3.dec.com (8.11.6/1.1.22.3/03Mar00-0551AM) id g42D88M15503; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:08:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (zmamail01.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net [161.114.72.101]) by mailrel

Re: Hoss Traders

2002-05-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
>>> Of course, if the system Ben is bringing has a CD burner, >>> we can burn there as well. I can bring my new dual-Athlon system, as it's got a Plextor drive that can do 10X (or is it 12X?) CD burns. Ed - I'll have my quad-band (6/2/440/1270) HT on me as well; I told my boss (who's also a ham

It's official - HP to purchase Compaq

2002-04-30 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/020430/tech_hewlett_lawsuit_1.html AFAIK, and this is subject to change, of course, the merger is to be consummated on Tuesday, 7 May. I do not know if it will immediately affect our mailing list, but my guess is that it will not. However, I'll work with Mark Gelinas to

dump vs. tar

2002-04-30 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Robert Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Could anyone tell me if dump will work on ext3 file systems? From what I read it looks like it won't so I guess tar is what I should use. Bob - >From my professional experience on Tru64, where we use both UFS and our own home-grown logging FS, "AdvF

Re: By the time you read this it may no longer apply

2002-04-26 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I sent a private e-mail to Alex, but now that the issue's been kicked around on the list a bit, I'll submit what I mentioned to him, so that folks can discuss it and turn it into Swiss Cheese. IIRC, when LILO is first installed, it copies (using 'dd') the boot block of the boot disk in question

FYI, SuSE 8.0 *is* shipping

2002-04-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
At last night's MELBA meeting, we were discussing SuSE 8.0 and the other recent distros, and I believe Maddog said he hadn't gotten his yet (or it had just come in?). I ordered mine Friday night over the net, and got an e-mail Monday saying it had been back-ordered. But, when I got home last nigh

Re: AMD vs Intel (was: Hardware Pointers)

2002-04-23 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But I feel better knowing that if my fan dies or my socket cracks, my CPU is likely to survive the ordeal. Which is why Alphas tend to have their heat sinks bolted on to the chip... Years ago, Intel laughed at us and our clunky heat sinks. Then, they created the 60 and

RE: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said, in part: >>> On a side note, speaking of hardware, I'd like to mention a very >>>disturbing experience I had at a computer show in Salem N.H. yesterday Complain to ncshows.com - quickly and thoroughly. They've been known to kick out disreputable vendors, believe it or no

Re: Ghostscript and HP Inkjet printers

2002-04-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> but it *is not making this directory*. You really sure it's supposed to be making that directory at lpd queue start time? ('queue start time' I interpret as being when you give a command under lpc to start the queue). I'm thinking that mebbe it doesn't g

Re: tar failing 'broken pipe'

2002-04-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
OK, let me see if I've got it right... >>> tar -cvf home2.tar home 'home' is a directory with about 40MB worth of stuff in it, right? I was thinking that if it was really huge (hundreds of MB or more) then there might be a bug in the compression routines called by tar. BUT, you're getting a sim

tar failing 'broken pipe'

2002-04-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Charlie said he's getting 'these errors'... Ummm, can you post the commands you're issuing, and tell us what directory you're issuing the command relative to the files/directories you're trying to tar up? What I used to do a lot here at work was to collect various files off the net, including/e

console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Is there any way to get access to the console through the serial port? I have another system that does this for VMS and T64U systems (anyone remember VCS?) Well, when you're on an Alpha system, you always have console access available

Re: Linux, Windows(tm), taxes - and privacy. A personal narrative (long)

2002-04-16 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> So far Codeweaver's works great. There are some minor flaws and bugs. http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24653.html is a review of Codeweaver, posted at 10:11 EST (?!?) this morning... b. * To unsub

PATH (was total newbie)

2002-04-16 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Michael Bovee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kicked over an interesting anthill when he passed along his problem and we discovered it was the $PATH variable settings that were causing his heartburn. However, I'd like to point out a couple of things from the ensuing discussion. First, as I think Derek menti

Ghostscript and HP Inkjet printers

2002-04-12 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The problem is that the new version of Ghostscript includes a driver for the newer ijs and not hpijs. Close... I'm working on the same issue, but with SuSE 7.3, as I bought an HP 940C recently. Take a look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet/

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Just to put the matter to rest, now that we've chewed on it all afternoon. I stated what I did earlier for a reason, and left out a lot of historical detail and other technical information, because I've been-there-done-that. In a nutshell, shared scsi (i.e., multiple initiators on a parallel SCS

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
>Take a PC & install a minimal Linux or *BSD on it. >Install multiple IDE disks. >Run software RAID on it >Install a SCSI card in it. > >Now, connect via SCSI to another machine (that doesn't have IDE) & use >it as an external RAID system. Well, as others have pointed out, using Target Mode is t

Re: Internet Shutdown

2002-04-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>No, this thing has been going around for about a week now. I've >>>gotten 3 or 4 copies. All it takes is changing the From: header on >>>your outgoing mail. Someone did this and then sent it to gnhlug, >>>probably from within zk3 :) >>>(Bayard? ;) Not guilty,

Re: Can't boot scsi timeout (Success!)

2002-03-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Charlie Farinella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reports: >>> I installed RH 6.2, then ran the 7.2 upgrade, and lo and behold, it works! Cowabunga dude - that's way cool!! Now, could you do us a favor, and look at your boot messages in /var/log and tell us what Linux kernel you have, what SCSI driver was

Re.: Can't boot scsi timeout

2002-03-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Charles Farinella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> This is a kernel issue? If it is what I experienced (i.e., if it's NOT a SCSI bus termination or other hardware issue), then yes, it would be a kernel issue. You have to look beyond what version of what distribution you're using and look at the a

Re.: Can't boot scsi timeout

2002-03-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Charles Farinella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (a.k.a. the veteran newbie :-) wrote; >>> I get the following: >>> scsi: aborting command due to time out : pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id4, I'm going to take a big SWAG and wonder aloud if you have a (Plextor) CDRW drive out there at SCSI ID4. I had the sa

"Linux Executive Accuses Microsoft"

2002-03-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Well, only reason I'm really pointing this out is that it hit the headlines on Yahoo! News - in the general section, not just Tech News! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20020325/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_antitrust_233 As always, this

Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!

2002-03-21 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
It just hit Slashdot about an hour ago... http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/21/1511225.shtml?tid=98 I like their title: "Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services"... * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Laptop help

2002-03-19 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> emitted: Changing your procmail recipe's match line to * ^TOgnhlug@.*zk3.dec.com will solve this problem nicely. :-) I don't know procmail's configuration semantics, but I would *beg*/*plead* that whatever recipe you use, that it point simply to '[EMAIL PR

Re: Lindows vs. Windows.

2002-03-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said (as his Humble Opinion): >>> Of course I never considered SCO to be a "major" UNIXen company >>> even though they used to ship more licenses than anybody else. I had the same impression during the timeframe that Compaq bought out Digital; I was working for Digital at th

Re: Please remove all 'mediaone.net' addresses

2002-03-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Karl J. Runge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> Could also do a s/mediaone.net/attbi.com/ in the list file. >>> This is the change that AT&T Broadband Internet (attbi) did. NO!! There was NOT necessarily a 1:1 change made - there were some username conflicts whereby the former mediaone.net custom

Re: What's the best way to optimize lithium-ion battery life?

2002-03-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
FYI - I suggested to Alex privately that he might consider doing several deep-cycle discharges and recharges. However, this might not work for Lithium-Ion batteries the way they used to for some early Ni-Cd batteries that we use in the two-way radio market. Paul Lussier asked: >>> They are recy

Nore on spam

2002-03-13 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said: >>> I had an interesting thought today, but it's a real strange one Knew I smelt something burning... :-) >>> So back to the idea. When "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wants to >>> deliver something to me, why can't the MTA hit the MX for mail.com >>> and VRFY tha

Re: More spam discussion

2002-03-12 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Tom Buskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, among other things: >>> Combine that with procmail & you can filter lots of it to a spam folder. >>> Add ifile & it will watch how you refile messages in exmh/MH and will >>> learn how you do it. Then much of the spam will be refiled by ifile >>> into you

Paul Lussier's mail is messed up

2002-03-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
For those of you like Ed Robbins (and myself), trying to reply to Paul Lussier's e-mails, please be advised that his proper e-mail address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For whatever reason (although it's an interesting and amusing bug for us to collaborate on using the list :-), it's shipping his e-mai

Re: More spam discussion

2002-03-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I certainly understand Paul's frustrations, and his admission that it's an emotional issue is probably the epitome of understatement. I don't run an ISP - I'm basically an end-user, and it's just incredible how bad it is. In fact, it's an amusing irony that I am now running exmh 2.5 (thanks to P

HTML Code

2002-03-06 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"R. Sean Hartnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Can anyone tell me the HTML code to insert that would cause a >>> link when selected it would open up in a new browser? Left angle bracket a href="http://server.domain.type/filename.html"; right angle bracket target="_blank" right angle bracket

Linux Rescue Boot CD

2002-03-06 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> What would you all reccommend for a Linux rescue CD? I use SuSE's first CD, as appropriate for the architecture I'm running on. I have had the need to use it several times on Intel and Alpha boxes, and found them to be very handy when booting an orp

Re: BIOS entry for Quantex CPU?

2002-03-05 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> I don't even know WHAT O'Brien's Law is. O'Brien's Law states that Murphy Was An Optimist... :-) Cheers, Bayard * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the te

Re: BIOS entry for Quantex CPU?

2002-03-05 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> after all HOW MUCH DAMAGE can you do to a machine >>> even before the BIOS is fully loaded >>> and the hard drives are accessed? I'm going to "respond" simply by quoting my famous 5th cousin: "No comment and don't quote me on that..." IOW, beware of Murph

Re: collocation service

2002-02-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
This may be slight OT, but if you want to know what might happen if the colo vendor runs out of capacity and doesn't speak up: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2002/FCC-02-61A1.html The bigger they are, the harder they fall... Bayard

Compaq inks deal for large Linux Alpha-based clusters

2002-02-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
http://www.it-director.com/article_pf.php?id=2625 ..."Not surprisingly the commercial opportunity has not gone unnoticed. Compaq recently made a deal which included an equity investment in Unlimited Scale, of St. Paul, Minnesota to enhance its high end Linux offerings. Unlimited Scale's product

Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-20 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Aside from the enhanced colorizing of reply text, what else has >>> changed since exmh 2.4? I pulled the sources directly from Brent's site, since I was building from scratch on Compaq Tru64 UNIX here. And, yeah, I was going to append the stuff from

Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-20 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ben wrote: >>> At least the people using Outlook send *some* readable text because Paul wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) > > owFdUr1rFEEUz11I4cGdBLQRxVd5CnfrJkgkZ+IHEiGFVQ7Ecm737e3D+Thm3t7d be

Re: Satelite systems

2002-02-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Paul Lussier said: >>> how to get Verizon or AT&T to get off their collective behinds Frankly, I think getting Verizon to do anything will be extremely difficult. They are losing billions of dollars per year, according to their public statements, and my SWAG is they're not going to be intereste

Re: Satelite systems

2002-02-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> Geosynchronous orbit is roughly 22,000 miles straight up. >>> Your request has to go 22,000 miles into space, turn around >>> and go 22,000 miles... Actually, it's more like 22,400 miles straight up from the _equator_. The slant range from our neck

Re: Throughput of DSL Internet

2002-02-18 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> I'm much more concerned about whether my provider will be around >>> next year. I don't expect AT&T to disappear any time soon. Not >>> nearly so sure about Covad and its resellers. Bear in mind that some of us wish we had a DSL to compare to...

Looks like the comments to DOJ helped!

2002-02-07 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
http://www.newsforge.com/ has a brief article pointing to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23976.html Apparently the comments were 15,000 to 7,500 against the proposed settlement! Bayard * To unsubscribe from this list, s

Mr. Gates vs. The Patriots

2002-02-04 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
See today's User Friendly cartoon at http://www.userfriendly.org/static/ for today, until they move it into its permanent URL. Bayard * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug'

Possible minor interruptions to the list early Monday morning

2002-02-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I've been informed that our cluster will be upgraded early Monday morning to bring in some patches. It will be a rolling upgrade, so it is unlikely that list users will even notice, as one or more nodes of the cluster will be up at all times to serve your e-mail. However, if something does go thu

Re: Need to convert Latex to F*&@!$g Word format

2002-02-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Roger H. Goun" said: >>> I searched Google for "convert latex word" and got some likely-looking hits. Yeah, but were any of them at hoaxbusters.ciac.org? :-) Trust me, Steve, we're probably just as frustrated as you are. I'm trying to figure out how to build Abiword for Tru64 UNIX here... (My

RE: Re: More interruptions to the mailing list

2002-01-31 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ben said: >>> but you guys in ZK3 are great. Thanks, Ben. I took the liberty of passing your comments along to our sysadmin, who is a friend of mine. BTW, there may be interruptions in the early morning hours sometime in the next week or two when he installs a patch kit. I don't know exactly

New version of "PREDICT" - satellite tracking software - for Linux

2002-01-31 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Caught this on the ARRL Web Page at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/01/30/2/?nc=1#Latest The latest Linux version (2.1.5) is available for free downloads (yeah, it's GPL'd, etc., etc.) from: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html "PREDICT is a multi-user satellite tracking and orbital pred

KDE and Gnome

2002-01-31 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked about how to create a Gnome user, explaining that he's a KDE user. Well, to be facetious, you demonstrate Gnome to him/her, and explain all of its features and attributes, including the ability to use Enlightenment to change the decoration scheme, etc.

More interruptions to the mailing list

2002-01-31 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Evidently, we took a power hit in just our lab here late yesterday afternoon, and it took out the 'zk3.dec.com' production cluster, and hence our beloved mailing list. Things are operational now, but the electricians will be coming in today to investigate, so it's possible that the cluster may go

MotifZone: Open Motif 2.2 Released - Major Upgrade!

2002-01-30 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
(Just got this off an internal mailing list, but it was sent out publically) Hi all, We've just posted binaries and source for Open Motif 2.2 to the MotifZone!(www.motifzone.net) Open Motif 2.2 is a major update to Motif that includes 10 new widgets and universal tooltips (thanks to Rick Scott

Domain "slug.org" in turmoil

2002-01-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Bear in mind that it's entirely possible that, if it really did expire, that it's been snatched up by another 'SLUG' in the country (or world). There is a Southeast Linux Users' Group down in Florida, I believe, that could be salivating over it. IF you do get it back, OR if you migrate to anothe

Power outage last Saturday

2002-01-28 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Good Morning, everybody! Evidently the site here took a power hit on Saturday afternoon, so if your traffic to the GNHLUG list "disappeared", or got thrown back in your face, please accept our humblest apologies on behalf of our electricity vendor :-). I did get e-mail from our admins this morn

Re: More on AMD Athlon/AGP stability issue

2002-01-24 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
The article at: http://lwn.net/2002/0124/a/athlon-agp-problem.php3 seems to have the most concise information. I certainly understand how Steve Orr feels, though. These are pretty arcane issues - I can get the overall gist of it only because I remember some cache coherency issues that were arou

Re: AOL to buy Red Hat?

2002-01-23 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I'm thinking of using them to construct my own Very Large Array H... CDs ARE shiny, but is that really RF-reflecting metal in them? If so, it would be interesting to build a dish sort of like the new observatory in Hawaii (forgot the name, saw it on the Discovery

SCSI Problems

2002-01-15 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Well, FWIW, I built a 2.2.21-pre2 kernel, and was unable to boot it with the Plextor SCSI CDRW drive on the bus. The P2L97DS/Adaptec BIOS does see it, and depending on whether I enable LUNs in the Adaptec BIOS, I get slightly differing results. However, I also noticed that the Adaptec driver is

Re: SCSI Problems

2002-01-14 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Have you tried a kernel that works? I have seen similar weird problems >>> trying to install 2.4-based distros at home, which promptly disappeared >>> when I switched back to 2.2. No, I'd long since upgraded my entire infrastructure to support 2.4,

Re: SCSI Problems

2002-01-14 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
This discussion is interesting to me, because I've used an Asus P2L97-DS motherboard for about 4 years now, which has the AIC7880(?) chip onboard. (2940UW equivalent). I've had my share of termination problems, etc., but for the most part, it's been pretty stable and useful. I'm even running fai

RE: Frank on hot new technologies

2002-01-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted: Waba Java Wiki Tcl "That's a book you can chant in bars. Can't say it five times fast, no more beers for you." Wow, it's Friday _already_? Kewl... -b. * To unsubscribe from this list, send

ext2 fragmentation (was: A fairly simple question)

2002-01-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Does anyone know of any unbiased and current analysis of this issue? Well, no, and to be honest, my opinions are quite biased. The MS-DOS filesystem design flaws, with respect to fragmentation, are well-known and understood. (O)VMS's filesystem su

Re: SPAM??

2002-01-10 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I've forwarded the offending message to Mark Gelinas, so give him a little while to look into it for us, and work the issue with our sys admins here. Your patience is appreciated. Bayard --- Bayard R. Coolidge N1HODISC

Re: x86 Assembly resources

2002-01-09 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Derek Martin said his interest in x86 Assembly is academic. Well, OK, I can sort of understand that, particularly if you might be thinking of tinkering in the embedded market, or doing some esoteric real-time stuff. However, I'd strongly encourage looking more at what might be coming up in Itan

VA Linux Changes Name to VA Software Corp.

2001-12-05 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011205/tc/tech_valinux_dc_1.html Wednesday December 5 4:29 PM ET VA Linux Changes Name to VA Software Corp. FREMONT, Calif. (Reuters) - VA Linux (news - web sites) Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX - news), once a hardware, software and services company that has

Re: Vendor defaults (was: Aliases) (was: Compression under ...)

2001-11-27 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ben said : >>> I am reminded of websites who use graphics instead of text. >>> Most people think there is nothing wrong with that. >>> Because they can see. >>> Blind people regard the situation rather differently. And, at the risk of a slight digression, web sites that assume that users have S

Re: Alias files

2001-11-26 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
I've been following most of the discussion on this, and although I happen to use "alias ls='ls -aF'" as part of my .profile under ksh here at work, I also hasten to point out that it's about the only alias that I do use. Yes, it's possible to concoct (or copy) huge long lists of aliases from othe

fix for umount bug in 2.4.15

2001-11-26 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> A quick question. Does anybody know if patch-2.4.16-pre1 fixes that umount bug in 2.4.15? Yes - there is a 2.4.16-pre1 patch out as well as the same patch for 2.5.0 (called 2.5.1-pre1). I haven't personally tempted fate by trying to verify

RE: more ls command

2001-11-15 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Michael Bovee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Is this common for different groups to add their own shorthands, >>> and then not include them in the manpages? You might want to do an 'alias ll' (or a just plain 'alias') from your shell prompt to see what aliases might have been helpfully created

RE: And now for a rant...

2001-11-14 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: >>> Why can't there be some standard way of discovering release >>> information from the various distributions? You point out an interesting example of the old expression "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from". FWIW, I a

Re: Package paradigms (was: apt-get)

2001-11-08 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Sorry, but I need to make this a 'hit-n-run', as I'm pretty busy today. But, for those of you so equipped, take a look at the way Xemacs does this. There are some semi-automatic hooks, which can be adjusted by the user, to go out to several well-known places on the Internet to obtain updates of

RE: CERT Advisory - lpd vulnerabilities

2001-11-06 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
>>> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-30.html "Compaq has not been able to reproduce the problems identified in this advisory for TRU64 UNIX. We will continue testing and address the LPD issues if a problem is discovered and provide patches as necessary." Looks like a lot of code review wo

RE: GNHLUG list to be down this weekend

2001-10-26 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mumbled: >>> What, no UPSes up there? ;) Sure, we've got UPS coming in everyday in their big, brown trucks... b. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in

GNHLUG list to be down this weekend

2001-10-26 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
There is a planned shutdown for electrical maintenance this weekennd here at Compaq/Spit Brook/Nashua, and the power will be off on Saturday. We've been instructed to shutdown and power off all of our computer eeuquipment. The cluster should be back on sometime Sunday. Sorry for the invoco

(Re: How do I track down an IP)...

2001-10-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Soprrry for the extra message - had some problems using mailx from an Xterm window and fumble fingered some stuff. If you can't find what you need in the man pages, etc., try any decent EMT textbook :-). Cheers, B. ** To unsubscribe

Re: How do I track down an IP address from an NFS procid?

2001-10-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Which still leaves me wondering, however: >>> is there either a way to track down who's hammering a server >>> and/or to throttle what they're doing? Come around from the back, find the ligaments at about 10 and 2 o'clock, bring the forefingers just bey

Re: How do I track down an IP address from an NFS procid?

2001-10-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Which still leaves me wondering, however: >>> is there either a way to track down who's hammering a server >>> and/or to throttle what they're doing? Come around from the back, find the ligaments at about 10 and 2 o'clock, bring the forefingers just beyo

Re: Focus of GNHLUG Mail List

2001-10-03 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"Paul Courchene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Now, I wonder if anyone out there is at all interested in discussing >>> the nuances of Linux, the Operating System. Even "off key" >>> discussion related to Linux "applications" would be of interest. Ayuh, that sounds like a nifty idea! >>> Perh

Re: 2.4.10 rocks :-)

2001-10-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
An update to the earlier exchange about 2.4.10 and VM, etc.: http://lwn.net/daily/ac-2.4.10-ac2.php3 Looks like Alan Cox is getting (very) busy with 2.4.10 now. I notice that his change log for -ac1 mentions not only merging with Linus' 2.4.10 tree, but dropping a lot of VM changes. So, if thos

Re: 2.4.10 rocks :-)

2001-10-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> enquired: >>> Does anyone know if this fixes "all" the major issues >>> with the 2.4 VM, of just "some" of them http://lwn.net/2001/0927/a/2.4.10.php3 http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.3/0009.html http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/l

Trolling for centralug web content

2001-10-01 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Sounds like a good idea, assuming that Codemeta can hack the extra bandwidth (which is greatly appreciated, BTW!). Thanks, Bruce Bayard ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body*

Re: "Invisible Guns" (was NH Senator calls for encryption backdoors )

2001-09-27 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
"a.w.gaunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested: >>> For example, those who don't carry-on their own firearms can be >>> provided with a 'courtesy' gun airline for the duration of the flight. Mom: Gee, Johnny, how was your flight? Little Johnny: Oh, it was great, Mom - I had a real blast!! (I'm kind

RE: 2.2 -> 2.4 HOWTO?

2001-09-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Is there a good HOWTO out there that will talk about what needs >>> to be done to accomplish this? http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/Changes.html This particular copy may be getting stale. When you crack open the linux-2.4.10.tar.{bz2|gz} file,

Re: Hosstraders - the twice-yearly Ham Fest

2001-09-21 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>> Can anybody tell me about this event with regards to folks who >>> have absolutely zero knowledge about Ham? Well, actually, the Hosstraders is a fairly large ham radio flea market, so it's not necessarily the best venue to learn how to get a ham rad

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