Wedding picture...

2002-05-20 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
http://www.well.com/~kena/wedding%20pics%20(small)/small-Ken%20and%20Terri%20printing%20vows.jpg Just thought I'd share a picture of the bride and me with all of you; and, no, it's not staged, and, yes, that is Linux on there, just to make this on-topic. (Please excuse the r-e-a-l-l-y long

Hello, world.

2002-03-20 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
A site for those who think we know too many languages. Or something. http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml (And, for those of us who like to live in the past, I found the above link when I was poking 'round for good ol' olvwm, for which he's got (compilable) source for linux; check out

Lindows vs. Windows.

2002-03-18 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I know that most everyone here has likely already read the Slashdot story posted on Friday(?), but this page is filled with some really juicy quotes. Methinks that MS has stubbed their toe, and that Windows(tm) will shortly be a thing of the past: http://www.net2.com/lindows/ -Ken

Re: Lindows vs. Windows.

2002-03-18 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
finally ruled in AMD's favor that numbers (eg. '486) couldn't be trademarked, and thus we were blessed with the Pentium et. al. It'll still be fun to watch their marketing department squirm. -Ken On 18 Mar 2002 at 9:13, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I know that most everyone here has likely already

Re: Question about resolve.conf

2002-03-18 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:21, Steven W. Orr wrote: I have two Linux platforms. The server has two NICs and is the firewall and NAT. The other is on the inside. My question is this: I am *not* running a nameserver since I am a dhcp client. Truth be told, I'd say that that's a great argument

NFS for Windows (was X servers for Windows)

2002-03-18 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 21:52, Tom Buskey wrote: Now if I could find a free NFS client for XP/2k/98 I'd be all set. It's called Samba. ;-) Seriously, though -- I've dealt with a lot of NFS clients for Windows (primarily Sun's PC-NFS (Pro) a/k/a Solstice, but others, as well), and they all

Re: Linux Success And Less

2002-03-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 15:54, Tom Buskey wrote: FWIW, Sun only uses solaris internally. Not entirely true -- just prior to my leaving Cisco, we had a Sun demo for the new Ultra Sparc III platform, and the sales reps gave us a presentation in Star Office's answer for PowerPoint, running on a RH

Re: Linux admin help

2002-03-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
My favorite (and the favorite of others on here, as well, I believe) is the _UNIX System Administration Handbook_, by Evi Nemeth et. al. The second edition (the one I have) is almost strictly Unix, with one (1) mention of Linux, but it was still darn good. The third edition has a Red Hat

3Ware management with home-brew kernel?

2002-03-10 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
While I have no problem with compiling the proprietary 3Ware module into my 2.4 kernel, I was wondering if anyone knows of any way to get the management software (3dmd) to work with the stock kernel code. Call me crazy, but it strikes me that having a RAID that you can't check the status of w/o

Foxtrot followup...

2002-03-10 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
[I don't *believe* anyone posted this particular tidbit, but I wasn't following the Foxtrot thread that closely; please forgive if a repeat.] As all die-hard FoxTrot fans know, mister Amend keeps up his own website, http://homepage.mac.com/billamend/ (so he's a phsicist with a soft spot for

Re: More spam discussion

2002-03-08 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 18:57, Paul Iadonisi wrote: [...] My ISP sysadmin tried to argue that open relays are not the problem, it's abuse of open relays. While there is some truth to that, (and I know I am disagreeing with J. Gilmore [http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175003.html] himself

Re: Linux Rescue Boot CD

2002-03-07 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 23:36, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, at 3:18pm, Brian Chabot wrote: What would you all reccommend for a Linux rescue CD? I tend to either use a Red Hat install CD in rescue mode (boot with rescue at the boot prompt), or the LinuxCare BBC (Bootable

Rackmount server case...

2002-03-05 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
A quick little note of Wow! to pass on: I just bought a 4U rackmount server case for my company. The darn thing can take up to 16 3.5 hard drives, -and- a 5.25 slim-line CD-ROM -and- a 3.5 slim-line floppy drive. It's got really nice design, lots o' fans for your cooling, etc. Of course, it's

Re: Call to NH-ites re: telecom deregulation.

2002-02-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Well... bad news, and some somewhat-less-bad news. First and foremost, the bill did pass, alas. And Charlie Bass voted for it... but John Sununu did not (see below link). It's nice to know that at least one of our representatives is willing to see the light of reason.

Telecom dereg, and I want my (home-brewed) DSL...

2002-02-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
? Thanks, -Ken - Marc On 28 Feb 2002, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Well... bad news, and some somewhat-less-bad news. First and foremost, the bill did pass, alas. And Charlie Bass voted for it... but John Sununu did not (see below link). It's nice to know that at least one of our

Re: High Speed Leased Line Providers

2002-02-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 22:39, Dan Jenkins wrote: Rob wrote: I heard a rumor that Choice One was going down. After taking over Fairpoint I guess they have been going down hill. I can't tell you that it's true, but I know some people who work for Conversent. Just hearsay though. I've

Re: Linux Based Successes

2002-02-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 11:41, Paul Lussier wrote: That, combined with the fact that MCLX is essentially ceasing to exist as we know it as of 6 March 2000, leads me to wonder if that qualifies as success story :) Oh, my... I'd been wondering what the story was. Well, at least you've got

Call to NH-ites re: telecom deregulation.

2002-02-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hello, all. Just a quick note to say that there's an important vote coming up on a pretty bad bill. Check out the links below. http://www.mv.com/issues/tz.shtml and http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/26/0323229.shtml?tid=103 You'll note that the first is from MV Communications, a long-term NH ISP.

CRC error

2002-02-21 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
CRC = Cyclical Redundancy Check. It's an algorithm to verify whether or not data has been corrupted... and it's implying that something is, indeed, corrupting data. Since it's happening across distributions, I would probably start to suspect your RAM. Try swapping it out/around and see what

8-bit colormaps in XFree86 24/8-bit overlay mode.

2002-02-20 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Howdy, all -- an issue that I've had to deal with from time to time is 8-bit X applications, being exported from other platforms (Solaris and, currently, HP/UX) is that the application comes up... but you can't see diddly. The color scheme is frequently a lovely yellow-on-yellow. Does anyone

Re: [OT] Star Wars: ASCII Edition

2002-02-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Actually, it's been up for years (it was even on Slashdot, once). Rumor has it (had it, at least) that Lucas was amused. It wasn't finished when last I saw it -- is it now? -Ken On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 16:29, John Abreau wrote: Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OMG... Someone

RE: Humor: NT and security

2002-02-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:26, Mansur, Warren wrote: Actually the utility I'm familiar with works just fine with NTFS. Basically, Linux has no problem _changing_ data on NTFS. It's adding or removing data that gets messy. For those that have never seen it, you can download the disk

LVM fun...

2002-02-07 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Okay; I've never (succesfully) created an LVM partition before, but I *believe* I'm doing everything right... and it Just Keeps Bombing. I've done it now on two different kernels, two different controllers, and no go. Here's what I've tried for this go-around: - pvcreate /dev/sda - vgcreate -s

Re: GNOME's future

2002-02-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Here's the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html You need to be more careful of how you read. At no point does Miguel say that. Those are The Register's words. I have to agree 100% with Ben, here: The Register, bless their little Linux-loving souls, are a bit on the

Re: GNOME's future

2002-02-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
(not quite, though, since the MIT/X license isn't nearly as bad as the QPL was for QT). On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Here's the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html You need to be more careful of how you read. At no point does

Re: stupid grep user question (was: Re: GNOME's future

2002-02-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 19:18, Jack Hodgson wrote: Ben Scott wrote: How is $ grep -ir microsoft * | wc -l different from $ grep -irc microsoft * Enquiring minds want to know. Good catch. It isn't. With Linux/Unix, frequently (always?) there's more than one way to skin a cat. While

Re: We need to act fast...

2002-01-23 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
/tunney.html From: Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Remedies for Microsoft antitrust suit. Date: 08 Jan 2002 11:29:43 -0500 Being as it currently appears that no settlement will occur, I felt it in my, and my industry's

Re: Kernel 2.4 debate (was: SCSI Problems)

2002-01-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 08:30, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: Indeed. But this has held true for ages. Go read the 1.x ethernet notes on the 3c501 ethernet card ... Okay, this is starting to get ridiculous, but as far as *that* goes, the 3C501 was shunned

Re: SCSI Problems

2002-01-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 12:09, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Paul Lussier wrote: Adaptec has had a lot of problems, especially with Linux drivers. There was one person maintaining his own drivers for linux, then Adaptec came along and said ... Yet another reason to avoid

Re: ext2 fragmentation (was: A fairly simple question)

2002-01-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Apparently, this has been a bit of an issue. I did some poking around, and, firstly, it appears that good ol' ext(1) filesystem was *very* prone to fragmentation. Then, as this link shows, ext2 came along, and was better, and then got tweaked, to boot: ... Note that it is not so bad as it

Re: RH 7.1 on ThinkPad T21 hanging

2002-01-08 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 17:54, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Now that I'm using my T21 more and more, I'm leaving it on for longer periods of time. Not as long as I'd like, though, since it seems to do a hard hang sometimes. At least twice I've noticed that it happened when xscreensaver was

Mind-numbingly OT (was: Re: trapping script-kiddies (was: Bashquestion...))

2002-01-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Read _The Cuckoo's Egg_ by Clifford Stoll. I think I will after I catch up on the list I already have... G For fun, also check out Mr. Stoll's other endeavor, listed on Slashdot some time ago: http://www.kleinbottle.com/ (Check the FAQ for proof: Q: Who's behind Acme Klein Bottle? A:

3Ware Escalade RAID controllers.

2001-12-31 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hey, Ben: you can feel better, now. 3ware is pleased to announce that due to overwhelming customer feedback, it will continue full support, development and production for it's [sic] popular Escalade products. They are still discontinuing the 6xxx line, but the 7000 series should be in full

Evolution 1.0 impressions.

2001-12-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hi, all. Just some stuff I thought I'd share, as I don't recall seeing any mention of it. I've been using (or attempting to use) Evolution, on and off, for just over a year now. A year ago, you were lucky if it got past the splash screen. Now? It's gotten good. Granted, the GUI-hating

Re: Evolution 1.0 impressions.

2001-12-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 13:47, Randy Edwards wrote: I agree that Evolution has come a long way. It's getting good and it fills a nice niche for those people who feel they can't live without OutLook. However, I was surprised to see that 1.0 didn't support IMAPS. To me, that killed it

Re: Evolution 1.0 impressions.

2001-12-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
using libnss instead of OpenSSL or some such mess. On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:33:27PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 13:47, Randy Edwards wrote: I agree that Evolution has come a long way. It's getting good and it fills a nice niche for those people who feel

Volume.

2001-07-07 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Color me confused. Just upgraded to 2.4.6 (this may be a superfluous detail), and finally got all my stuff working again. Fired up XMMS, and now, no matter where the volume indicator is, it's the same. 0% to 100%, no difference. What'd I do? I mean, how am I supposed to live if I can't crank

Guess what day it is? (Okay -- *almost*)

2001-04-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
(This is my annual contribution to frivolity...) -- cut here --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick J. LoPresti) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (News system) Subject: The True Path (long) Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT Path:

Cisco Enterprise Print Solution (was Mass Installation)

2001-03-17 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: Kickstart is widely used at Cisco -- most all of the print servers are installed with it, and I believe the Linux desktop rollout now uses it, as well, though I left before that got finalized. So *some* large corporations really are Linux friendly!

Re: HP Direct Jet

2001-03-17 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Carl Walker wrote: This is a very good point that I missed in the last email; If you have access to one of these JetDirect cards and wish to see if it's new enough to support lpd connections, just telnet to it. If you can connect (to the normal telnet port, 23), the

Re: Mass Installation

2001-03-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: Right, so we just need more people running Linux on desktops in large corporations :) Kickstart is widely used at Cisco -- most all of the print servers are installed with it, and I believe the Linux desktop rollout now uses it, as well, though I left

Re: NSA Secure Linux

2001-03-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
You may claim to not be trolling, and a comparison to the sendmail flamewar is all well and good... but this list is about Linux, which makes sendmail vs. MTA a viable topic, but trolling about BSD... not. And your comments are especially wrong when you don't, obviously, understand what SE Linux

Re: X11 Forwarding via Multiple Conections

2001-03-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I have no problem forwarding X exports with OpenSSH... BUT you have to make sure that forwarding is enabled in your /etc/ssh/ssh_config (or, I believe, same file in .ssh in your homedir). Thusly: # Be paranoid by default Host * ForwardAgent yes # This was set to no originally,

Re: Netscape Mail NT - Linux migration question

2001-03-02 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
No conversion required. Your settings (any file ending .js) won't convert, but the mail files themselves will just have to be renamed (eg. instead of Inbox.* to Inbox. The summary files will rebuild themselves. Your folders will also take some tweaking, but, thankfully, Netscape stores all the

Gnome Terminal...

2001-03-02 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
In Gnome Terminal, I can left-click over a link (eg. www.gnome.org), and have it bring up Netscape... unfortunately, Netscape's been giving me grief, lately, and Konqueror's just been getting better, so I'd prefer to have it bring up Konqueror, but I can't see how. I tried changing the MIME

Re: Why FTP must die in two words

2001-03-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek Martin wrote: If you can name one thing that FTP gets you that can't be accomplished another way, just as conveniently, I'll buy into the line that FTP has it's place. Directory listings is about the only thing I can

Re: Why FTP must die in two words

2001-03-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, DaveN wrote: Just to way in on the silliness side... I prefer ZModem No, no, YModem-G! Better CPS rates because you're not using error correction on an already reliable link! ;-) Sorry -- I'm with DaveN, here --

Re: Thursday night

2001-03-01 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hmmm... Dinner from Harlow's, huh? Sure -- actually, make that two; my gf'll probably be along, as well. Is there a[n e-]menu? I eat there fairly frequently, but don't recall what they've got... Thanks, -Ken On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jerry Kubeck wrote: The March meeting is Thursday night at

Re: Help: Dying machine?

2001-02-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Brian Chabot wrote: I can not telnet to any port or ssh from the LAN. I managed to talnet (I know... cleartext passwords. I didn't set this up) from outside and no matter what command I give it I get: bash: fork: Resource temperarily unavailable Unless I'm mistaken,

Re: Argh! Speaking of NFS...

2001-02-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:19:18AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: For reasons I *totally* don't understand, I'm having some trouble mounting one particular box: First, carefully check the logs on BOTH the client AND the server. There may

Argh! Speaking of NFS...

2001-02-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
For reasons I *totally* don't understand, I'm having some trouble mounting one particular box: - Most machines mount it fine. - Two machines, in particular (one a Mandrake 7.2, the other a RH 6.2) fail, with permission denied. - As a sanity check, and for the hell of it, I changed the IP on

Stale NFS handles...

2001-02-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
It's sad, but true: I know how to get rid of a stale NFS handle on Solaris... but not Linux (short of a reboot, of course). Any pointers? Thanks, -Ken ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following

Re: djbdns and why BIND sucks flame

2001-02-23 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Peter Cavender wrote: It sounds like some supposed Linux supporters, rather than being flag carriers for new and better software, are merely geriatric Unix sysadmins who want to ride on the coattails of the movement, and refuse to aquaint themselves with new software,

Re: Go quickly, this is real

2001-02-23 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:35:38 EST Paul Lussier said: http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp Firstly, this looks to be more of a bug in MS' site than anything else -- no matter what you put in after the @, it

Re: RedHat 7.0 and aic7xxx

2001-02-19 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I seem to recall having this problem; if memory serves, termination is the right route, but the thing to be *sure* of is that auto-termination is turned off on the card. Terminate it whatever way you want it to be, but avoid the auto-termination option. Good luck! -Ken On Mon, 19 Feb 2001,

Re: pine 4.33 and maildirs

2001-02-18 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote: Having a bit of trouble with pine 4.33 and the mail dir patch from qmail.org. This is a bit embarrassing - but i can't get the patches to apply to the file(s). Maybe i'm having an off day..but its just not working. The patch is at

Mounting DOS stuff for non-root writing...

2001-02-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hi, all; I've got a user at my job who's trying to do something that I *know* has an answer... but I can't seem to find it. Specifically, he's running Linux on his notebook, and wants to write to his DOS partition (okay, VFAT). I've got it mounted, and all is happy, but non-root users don't

Re: Mounting DOS stuff for non-root writing...

2001-02-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote: You want to look at several options. (Hint: "man mount" :-) I *did* -- honest! mount's manpage is, well, less than explicit with regards to the application thereof; I even looked for a "mount" howto, and failed, and did a man on fstab, to boot.

Re: Mounting DOS stuff for non-root writing...

2001-02-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
EST "Ken D'Ambrosio" said: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote: You want to look at several options. (Hint: "man mount" :-) I *did* -- honest! mount's manpage is, well, less than explicit with regards to the application thereof; I even looked for a "

Re: Calendars/Schedules/Etc.

2001-02-13 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Derek Martin wrote: Today, Niall Kavanagh gleaned this insight: Cars kill millions of people every year. Fortunately we don't HAVE TO use them. While you have a valid point, there IS a difference. The vast majority of people who use these wonderful on-line

Re: Calendars/Schedules/Etc.

2001-02-12 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: This isn't the sort of thing that I would ever consider outsourcing. People keep too much in their pilots these days, and I wouldn't want to see them accidentially throwing confidential contacts, etc. up to some website that I didn't control. It

Re: Debian and LSB

2001-02-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: You just described Slackware. There is no package manager, everything is done from source (unless they have changed that). As for your other comments, I will leave the flamewars to the people with strong opinions (since everyone knows that I am

Kernel won't compile... am I doing something dumb?

2001-01-22 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I don't usually have problems, but this one just seems silly: # make bzImage gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from scripts/split-include.c:26:

Re: Kernel won't compile... am I doing something dumb?

2001-01-22 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
braindead that way? I had tarred my whole install over to a Reiserfs partition, but I wouldn't've thought that that would have made a whit's worth of difference; I mean, links come over with a tar, no? *Ken is very puzzled* -Ken --rdp On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I don't

Re: losa IDE drives @ 2.4

2001-01-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: From what I read, the 2.4 kernel supports up to 10 IDE drives. I just bought a new machine with only one IDE chain. My old machine had two. Does anyone know of an add-in board that supports a bunch if IDE chains ? It's gotta exist, else why

Re: LILO Dual Boot

2001-01-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, VIncce McHugh wrote: I am looking for tips and recommendations on setting it up. I know Linux will run on it I tested it on a similar laptop. I will need to do 2 partitions, a 2 gig for LINUX and a 4 gig for Windows (either ME or 2K). Windows 2000 (akin to NT) could

Re: Hardware is Linux aware?

2001-01-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Nope, 'tain't possible. (Well, okay, it's within the realm of something that someone could do, but it's 99.99% improbable.) It *could* be: - He thought he removed the primary hard drive, but really removed the secondary. - He re-formatted, re-partitioned, and even installed '98, and

Re: kbgndwm

2001-01-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: Anybody know what kbgndwm is ? I see it in the output of top all the time. Ack. I went and wrote this spiffy, long e-mail, and I was even mostly right, but then I actually went and looked where I should've gone, first:

autofs/Mandrake 7.2 problem...

2001-01-09 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I'm totally stumped, here: 1) If I try to kick off autofs by hand (automount --timeout 60 /home file /etc/auto.home), I get back: Jan 9 10:30:43 orion automount[11170]: starting automounter version 4.0.0, path = /home, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.home Jan 9 10:30:43 orion

Re: Viewing ASF files under linux

2001-01-09 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Actually, NetShow for Linux *was* released as beta, lo, many moons back. (Un?)fortunately, that's one MS product that I guess will never see the light of day. Microsoft used to even have a link to it that stuck around for a good year after the files themselves were removed. Yup -- freshmeat

Virtual interface?

2001-01-08 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I seemed to recall that one could "multinet" an interface, eg: ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 ifconfig eth0:1 2.3.4.5 When I try this, though, I'm informed, SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device Which would make sense if "ifconfig eth0:1" didn't return: eth0:1Link

Re: 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Every now and then, you can get some enjoyable irony in the computer business. From Thursday's Linux Weekly News (www.lwn.net/bigpage.php3): "The next kernel release should be 2.4.0. Don't expect it to come out tomorrow, though." Linus sure fooled them! He released it the _same_ day. ;-)

While we're talking Sendmail...

2001-01-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I've whipped up a Perl script that parses an incoming e-mail, stripping off the Postscript, converting it to a PDF, and then attaching it to an e-mail that it then sends back to the original sender. However, I can't get Sendmail to run the script (via /etc/aliases). Here's what happens: "

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Odds are good that you just had someone try to use a buffer overflow explooit on your machine. What services do you have open? Did your security log show anything exciting? I'm sure others on here would know more than I about figuring out a) What happened, and b) if you've actually been

Re: New distribution?

2000-12-30 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Well... Slackware is the oldest extant distribution. It's really kinda nifty -- brings you back to the "old days" of Linux, though I admit I haven't used it since 3.3 or 3.4. I used to be a huge Slackware fan, but, slowly, came about to the dark side of package managers (Slackware's "packages"

Re: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)

2000-12-21 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Anyone here hear of courier (www.courier-mta.org)? It looks pretty nifty, and I was playing around with it some last night; seems to address some of qmail's shortcomings, and also has the kitchen sink when it comes to adaptability (IMAP, POP, web front-end, etc.). While I certainly grant that

Looking to hire Jr. admin/pc person...

2000-12-20 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
for temporary, possibly permanent, position. General PC-based admin stuff (both Windows and Linux) in a Linux/HPUX server infrastructure. Some ordering, Office/Windows installs, etc. If anyone's interested, or knows someone who might be, please let me know! The job is for a small, but

Re: Linus says Red Hat Linux 7.0 [compiler] is trouble

2000-12-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I think it would be fairer to say that Linus' main complaint (as well as that on large chunks of the kernel list, as well as the gcc team, as summarized in the LWN of some two or three weeks ago) was with the release of gcc 2.96, and not RH 7.x itself. I mean, he's the man who's been using Linux

Re: pine

2000-12-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Yes -- the default for some versions of Outlook (to my utter disbelief) is RTF -- Rich Text Format, a way to do enhanced text, somewhat akin to HTML. And, well, the only mail tool on the planet of which I'm aware that plays well with RTF is Outlook. So: e-mail the person who sent you the Outlook

Re: [nnhlug] Driver help needed.

2000-12-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote: ah..lexmark - are you sure that its not a "win printer" Hmmm. Whatever it is, it doesn't look easy. For more info on your printer, check out http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=59360 One of the links on that page,

lpr: connect: Connection refused (I've fallen, and I can't get up!)

2000-12-13 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I swapped some servers around after the GNHLUG meeting last night, and walked in (of course) to all sorts of strange interdependencies that cropped up... and I've patched everything together, EXCEPT, of all things, printing. Under both stock lpr and LPRng, I get: lpr: connect: Connection

Re: lpr: connect: Connection refused ...

2000-12-13 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: If the printers are attached to an HP JetDirect box: Telnet to the IP address of the print server, and post the output of the "/" command. Add'l datapoint before I post the output: it seems that the queues (all of 'em!) get hung up on the last

Answer!(?) Re: lpr: connect: Connection refused ...

2000-12-13 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
, and that no more jobs from root are in queue, and has wasted more paper in the past 10 minutes than he had in the past 12 hours.) On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: If the printers are attached to an HP JetDirect box: Telnet

Re: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable ...

2000-12-12 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
lp0: using parport0 (polling). This indicates the parallel port driver is using polled, as opposed to interrupt-driven, operation. IRQ auto-detection can go wrong with horrible results, so polled is the default. See above for how to change to interrupt-driven mode. Polling the

Re: we need an extension cord

2000-12-12 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I've got a whole bunch (six) of 5' (I think) power strips that, in direct violation of OSHA regs, could be daisy-chained... I may not be around until about 6:30, though -- will that be okay? -Ken On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Charlie Farinella wrote: Jerry just called from his car phone to ask if

RE: (Off-topic Humor) GNUs also build houses!

2000-12-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hmmm -- looks like he got the hint; the bottom of the page (underneath the book's scanned image) is now mysteriously... blank. Speaking of Gnus, though, I seem to recall some show on PBS that had 'em in abundance, though my memory could be fooling me. -Ken On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: oscillating sound at boot up

2000-12-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Well, you don't mention which notebook, so I can't speak definitively, but my notebook does the same thing -- it's a feedback problem with the sound card. To quote from the OSS sound driver folk: "Also if you get a high pitched whininig sound, then simply type ossmix mic 0 to turn off the mic

NIS, Linux, and HPUX.

2000-12-11 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I'm having beaucoup trouble getting HPUX to automount using Linux's auto.master/auto.home combo -- has anyone else had any luck? If so, would you mind e-mailing me your config files? Otherwise, I'm just gonna do it statically, which will work (we don't have that many HPUX boxen), but it

Well, it's that time of the year...

2000-12-07 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
/* And so here's a little C program that's been floating around forever. For those not conversant with how to compile the program, paste it into a file (assuming your mail client hasn't wrapped the lines; if it has, save to a file and strip out the mail header with a non-word-wrap text editor;

Re: X Windows emulator for windows with ssh support

2000-10-03 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Since I Just Don't Use Windows, I can't comment on this, but you might give it a try, as the price is right: http://cyberlynk.tucows.com/preview/1124.html On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, mike ledoux wrote: Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:15:31 -0400 (EDT) From: mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Suzanne

Re: Experience out there?

2000-09-29 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Bill Freeman wrote: A coworker has a Sony Vaio, and I'm going to help him set it WADR, saying he has a Vaio is akin to saying he has an "IBM": there are a /lot/ of different Vaio computers out there, ranging from desktops to subnotebooks (like the one I'm typing on).

E-mail, carnivore, CL, etc. (Was: LUGS and OSS community)

2000-09-17 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Derek Martin wrote: This is a discussion list, and these types of issues, while not directly related to Linux, are of interest to Linux users and potentially impacting ALL of us, so I for one don't think this discussion is misplaced on this list. Particularly when