Re: I need a date!

2002-04-19 Thread ccb
I prefer M-x manbash. Or C-h i C-s bash ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread ccb
of the book c) emacs psgml-mode It's not for writing letters to grandma, but for 60+ page things it's a godsend. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from thi

Re: Java resources

2002-03-27 Thread ccb
> > Better answer? Python. > > Better answer to which question ? It's like learning to play Oboe after your already know Flute. Learn Lisp (or Perl or Smalltalk) well and everything else is cake. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. [EMAI

Re: Java resources

2002-03-27 Thread ccb
to land admin jobs at startups and cross over ;-). Then there's that hacker attitude - "there's gotta be something in here that at least a little bit broken..." Oh, yeah the other hot ones are Linux and XML. ccb *

Re: Mystery C question

2002-03-05 Thread ccb
> mystery *mystery ) /* Parameter declaration - no problem */ What do you mean "no problem"??? ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhl

Re: `tar` question

2002-02-25 Thread ccb
c from your NFS-mounted home dir and your passwords come over the wire in the clear. Yuk. Don't keep sensitive stuff on an NFS-mounted directory. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I am Akuta, lead

Re: PostgreSQL Vs. MySQL

2002-02-18 Thread ccb
Got a lot of messages ahead of me and someone may have already posted this. See the analysis done by Tim "GeoCrawler" Perdue: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim2705.php3?page=1 Tim was one of the guys doing the heavy lifting that brought Sourceforge.net into be

Re: write protected Zip disks

2002-02-13 Thread ccb
> Yes. You need a special program, called "ziptool", to do so. > Google for it. And if you already have xforms libs installed there's a GUI program called jazip that can do it too. ccb * To unsubscribe

Re: linux/windows security

2002-02-13 Thread ccb
eleases a year with relatively up-to-date stuff and I can ride herd on the bugs that get in my face. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [

Re: Humorous Neal Stephenson reminiscences...

2002-02-03 Thread ccb
> Buyer: "Stay away from my house, you freak!" I like the section where he likens UNIX to the "Hole Hawg". ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubs

Re: GNOME's future

2002-02-02 Thread ccb
All of this being said (.net, mono, etc.) , I've always been amazed that Linux heads aren't rabid supporters of Sun, Java and EJB. It may not be free, but it is open and above board. ccb * To unsubscribe from this

Re: GNOME's future

2002-02-01 Thread ccb
d it difficult to yank the chain every 9 months. Microsoft has never been on the CORBA bus. Sun was on it and made moves to get off when the introduced Java RMI, the original Java distributed object technology but they were rapidly beaten into submission by a hand

Re: Spam via sourceforge???

2002-02-01 Thread ccb
> That said, I'd hardly be surprised if VA started selling off that > info. OTOH, I haven't received any spam from them (that I know of). > > :) Good thing you smiled when you said that. It would be much easier to harvest at Slashdot ;0. VA has not gone totally to t

Re: Linux on Playstation 2???

2002-01-31 Thread ccb
> FYI http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_717468_6995_1-3133.html Yawn. ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: AOL to buy Red Hat?

2002-01-19 Thread ccb
could be worse. Viacom or Vivendi could be in the bidding.... ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: A fairly simple question.

2002-01-10 Thread ccb
up the disk. Use mke2fs (or whattever) to put filesystems on your new partitions. Manually add the partitions to fstab. ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: x86 Assembly resources

2002-01-08 Thread ccb
Been to linuxassembly.org you evil cross-poster? ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Python follow-up [modadlug]

2002-01-08 Thread ccb
> >>who's Eckel? > >sigh Guess I'll have to add that to the 'Who's Knuth?' blank > >stare I get when I talk about his work. > > Ahh, I know who Knuth is, just never come across the Eckel name > before. OK, I specialize in

Re: C++ package

2001-11-03 Thread ccb
ion of MICO. You can get that at www.mico.org. You'll also find a wealth of goodies if you hop over to sf.net and type "C++" in the search box. ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: GNHLUG 4th Quarter meeting

2001-10-26 Thread ccb
> More details to follow, but this is known. Maddog is our guest speaker. And I was expecting Santa Claus ;-). ccb * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' i

Re: canonical pathnames

2001-10-20 Thread ccb
full path. If it's not, lop the terminal file name "/foo" off the path, cd, use /bin/pwd and paste the terminal file name back onto the result. We use /bin/pwd because the pwd built-in in most shells are easily fooled by symlinks. ccb

Re: no keyboard/mouse

2001-10-18 Thread ccb
It may be necessary to go into the BIOS and tell it to not wait for the keyboard to be OK before booting. ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line

Re: Anti-terrorism bill is out of control

2001-10-01 Thread ccb
OK, tell me again - why do American constitutional protections extend to people from outside the country who have allowed their visas to expire? ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text

Re: Pan Am

2001-09-25 Thread ccb
Time to buy shares in BKS? ccb ** 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: Home again, and a glimpse of the future

2001-09-20 Thread ccb
In a conversation with ground control, one of the flight attendants on the first flight into the WTC indicated that a hijacker had cut the throat of a passenger in first class. All it would take is a simple demo like that on each flight to keep everyone in line. ccb

Re: Be a blood donor

2001-09-11 Thread ccb
All phone lines into local Red Cross offices are busy. ccb ** 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: Political activism for Linux users/advocates

2001-09-09 Thread ccb
-sample based musical instruments (a fair number of synthesizers and drum machines). I can see Akai, Roland, Tascam, Fostex, Yamaha, Creative Labs (Ensoniq), Kurzweil and maybe even Philips out pounding the pavement to have themselves excluded from

Re: IBM Open Source.

2001-08-08 Thread ccb
e can reverse engineer the drivers to devices no longer supported by their manufacturers? That's just the ones that I could get to without thinking hard. ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Roswell

2001-08-02 Thread ccb
> Following those lines, Microsoft should name their XP release "Chernobyl." Along those lines, did anybody else notice that XP is "Xi" "Rho"? ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: C++ training

2001-07-16 Thread ccb
Sean asks: > Can anyone recommend any places to get C++ training? > Not a quick five days and your out, but something in depth, and located > in the south eastern part of NH. Is Tyngsboro too far? BU Metro probably has courses. NEU ha them as well but we're talking Burlington

Re: MICROSOFT TO SCHOOLS: GIVE US YOUR LUNCH MONEY!

2001-07-12 Thread ccb
Hey - maybe we should contact the Linux Fund about doing a special fundraiser for schools hard hit by BSA gestapo tactics ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body

Re: Got Hacked - ATT Suspended Broadband Service (Was "New To List...")

2001-07-01 Thread ccb
Install 7.1. It comes with lokkit - an easy tool for configuring IPCHAINS. It looks like RedHat's figured out that the distribution is a big time target. Use your chains and get an appliance. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northea

Re: PCI soundcards revisited

2001-06-28 Thread ccb
PC2000XLlarge.jpg. It sits in a rig that looks like this: memecycle.com/~ccb/studio.jpg (Look, Ma, no Computer!) As a bonus it's a mondo pad controller and is a 4-part multi-timbral sampler. It was either that or endless hours being a programmer and not being a musician. The Yamaha RS700

Re: sound cards

2001-06-27 Thread ccb
Delta for audio mastering after Ardour is further along. Join the ALSA lists... ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 [EMAIL P

Re: NFS question

2001-06-14 Thread ccb
from here. You can't get there from here. Better go the long way 'round. ccb ** 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: NFS question

2001-06-14 Thread ccb
ne. It requires a block service daemon to be running on the block server machine. It doesn't allow access to that machine's devices other than the block device served by the block daemon. NBD is most like Sun's "Network Disk&qu

Re: NFS question

2001-06-13 Thread ccb
ms are ignored). Where to next? ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.valin

Re: [linux-biz] ANIVERSARY: 10 years of LINUX

2001-06-12 Thread ccb
I think we should time a worldwide Linux 10th anniversary party to coincide with the release of WindowsXP. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513

Re: Multiple webservers under NAT

2001-06-07 Thread ccb
t. If he needs multiple IP addrs he needs a new ISP. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS Questions Stallman

2001-06-07 Thread ccb
L libraries without giving away your source. You merely have to provide linkable .o files. It's not like this stuff was dreampt up yesterday - we've been living with the GPL for close to 20 years. Remember - the GPL is here to protect *you* from having commercial interests poaching on your

Re: Multiple webservers under NAT

2001-06-07 Thread ccb
ty. Insert 10c for the next level of detail. VA can come up and do this for you. So can any number of independents (Dawson..) that read this list daily. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300

Re: Linux over OpenBSD

2001-05-30 Thread ccb
particular bit of code is freed, it can't be unfreed without a court decision indicating that it infringes somebody else's property rights. This would indicate that it wasn't yours to license in the first place... ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems E

Re: Linux at Wal-Mart

2001-05-30 Thread ccb
s/cluefull/curious/g ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.valinux.com

Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-24 Thread ccb
ase I think it's a no-brainer. Learn firewalling in a place where AT&T isn't breathing down your neck. While I was writing somebody at db.desicom.de tried to tickle my nameserver and was dutifully repulsed. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr.

Re: A story and (request for) some advice.

2001-04-24 Thread ccb
lthough at the moment it > isn't looking too good. > Bad risk IMHO, especially when $150 will keep you a LOT cleaner. FWIW - I'm an architect, too. ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-24 Thread ccb
Linux box for a while and it was a great learning experience but I'd rather spend the time with my kids than being a second-rate Cliff Stoll. ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text

Re: Are LUG's Hurting Linux?

2001-04-04 Thread ccb
and to test how well the application integrates on a number of distros. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 [

Re: PHP Question

2001-03-20 Thread ccb
> Can anyone shed light as to why no one has even heard of PHP around > here? Because you don't have enough of these on your car! www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/31bd.html ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, s

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread ccb
erally know when an application is using Sun's RPC infrastructure. Any application written with MFC is likely to use some parts of the COM infrastructure and may not even be aware of it. Choosing SMB to avoid the portmapper is like choosing to eat cheese to avoid the choleste

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-19 Thread ccb
kes windows work hard and you know what that will get you Samba is your friend. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513

Re: Mass Installation

2001-03-15 Thread ccb
> I just saw this for the first time: http://systemimager.org This is an excellent tool for maintaining large beowulf clusters. It's author, Brian Finley, is a VA Linux guy. ccb

Re: OCR for Linux?

2001-02-16 Thread ccb
Search for OCR on Freshmeat.net there are a number of projects listed. None of them slick. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803

Re: Warning Banner?

2001-02-12 Thread ccb
If you're using getty-ps or one of the others, it can be done in the gettydefs file. ccb -- ** 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: Reminder: Nashua Meeting *TONIGHT*

2001-01-23 Thread ccb
> Since only 5 people responded, I'm not bothering to make reservations. I'll > be there around 18:00 or so, so just show up and join me for dinner if you > care to. Maybe it'll be a little easier to sort out the tab ;-) ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr.

Re: 4th Quarter DInner deadline

2000-12-05 Thread ccb
I'll be there! ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX-4U [EMAIL PROT

Re: Suggestions (was: Re: Name tags (was: Re: What ...))

2000-10-31 Thread ccb
DCL X VI Three Heads of the Beast ccb (boo!) -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513

check out

2000-10-27 Thread ccb
whois microsoft ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX-4U [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Meeting suggestions .....

2000-10-27 Thread ccb
> Name tags anyone ... Beam-a-thon. A scheduled part of the meeting for introductions and the exchange of palm-addr-book records or small scraps of paper. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall

Re: What to do with a DS10 Alpha

2000-10-20 Thread ccb
eir systems to require a keyboard at boot time, unless that's now Compaq ships their RM PC's ;-). Can DS10's do IPMI? Can they be gang managed a-la VACM? (vacm.sourceforge.net) ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail

Re: KSCLUG

2000-10-04 Thread ccb
> Gee, why do I feel like I am beating a dead horse? How many times do > I have to say that OpenBSD requires less time to secure, due to the > fact they set up their system _properly_. Perhaps you'd make a good contributor to Bastille... ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr.

Re: Package Distribution

2000-08-29 Thread ccb
2: Software Administration ;-) ^ 3. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LIN

Re: ABit BP6

2000-08-14 Thread ccb
you perhaps using after-market 370-to-Slot1 adapters? ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 8

Re: ABC News article on Linux and Bugs..

2000-08-02 Thread ccb
This is a situation where the community needs to voice it's opinions in an open forum and develop a community-wide consensus on what was wrong with this guy's reporting. I reckon Slashdot is as good as any place to do that. If Slashdot gives you the hives, try the talkbacks at LinuxT

Re: partitioning

2000-08-02 Thread ccb
128M swap 128M /usr (remainder)/usr/local (remainder) On systems with small memory I normally go with smaller swaps. On systems with a single disk I don't bother to cut anything other than / and swap. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Lin

Re: What ed. systems use Linux?

2000-07-24 Thread ccb
Bell Atalantic Massachusetts recently awarded a grant of $25,000 to assists several western Massachusetts high schools in teaching Linux to teachers and students. The program is being administered through Greenfield Community College. ccv -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux S

Re: Presentation Problems.

2000-07-14 Thread ccb
r conflict between the NIC and the modem. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX

Re: Celeron

2000-07-13 Thread ccb
> The Celeron 300A overclocked so well because it had no L2 cache. I think it was B. Scott that set this straight - the 300 had no L2 cache... ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following t

Re: Celeron

2000-07-13 Thread ccb
The Celeron 300A overclocked so well because it had no L2 cache. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513

Re: Celeron

2000-07-13 Thread ccb
ns great at 133 Mhz. We never had a VAX that fast and we timeshared 40 developers on VT100's ;-). ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 0

Re: Email on Linux

2000-07-12 Thread ccb
ddm sez: > I've been meaning to look into mutt, and I have 2 questions: > > 1) Does it support IMAP? > > 2) Does it support encrypted sessions (SSL, SSH, whatever)? Hi Derek - I'm using fetchmail-ssl to fetch from an IMAP server via SSL and reading my mail out of

Re: Password Testing

2000-06-29 Thread ccb
Another technique for dealing with this may well be to weaken password security, run crack over the password file and inform your clients how quickly you were able to use free software and a cheap PC to guess the passwords. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems

ESR & the Mac Hackers

2000-06-29 Thread ccb
Hi All - ESR spent 6 hours discussing open source software with the attendees of the MacHack conference. Here's an interesting summary. http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05994 ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Eng

Re: Free software in business (was maddog speaks)

2000-06-28 Thread ccb
mies of open source service contract companies that rapidly implement and give away anything reasonably mundane. So to answer Jim's original questions - both Sendmail and Apache were originally done by government funded educational and research institutions. As were lots and lots of other part

Re: Congratualtions to Mission Critical Linux!

2000-06-27 Thread ccb
> Hey! It's coming!!! Just you wait until we have matter replicators... $ uumt that!thing!there . ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Bu

Re: root access (aka power consumption)

2000-06-27 Thread ccb
bstevens sed: > I tried to turn it back on the next morning it went up in smoke. > So much for trying to help them save money! I remember that. In the first two weeks we had a rash of transformer replacements in the tubes. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux S

Re: Congratualtions to Mission Critical Linux!

2000-06-27 Thread ccb
Kenny Lussier asks: > OK, so. We're giving away our software, so when is VA going to start > giving away their hardware ;-) As soon as the hardware is downloadable over the net ;-). ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer,

Congratualtions to Mission Critical Linux!

2000-06-26 Thread ccb
They've moved onto major high ground by open sourcing their clustering technology! http://linuxpr.com/releases/2081.html Way to go, guys! ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd.,

Re: billing system (the final damm word)

2000-06-26 Thread ccb
Hi Kurth - If you're serious about this, please set it up on SourceForge - www.sourceforge.net. You'll get a much larger community and you won't have to sweat the issues of serving your own project. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems S

Re: root access

2000-06-22 Thread ccb
questions about reloading his box. OY! Somebody pass me the bucket ;-) ;-). ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 61

Re: Wrong Disk Partitioning

2000-06-21 Thread ccb
check your LBA settings. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX-4U [EMAIL

Re: Net etiquette

2000-06-21 Thread ccb
Benjamin Scott said: > statement. For some reason, people seemed to assume an IP packet would never > go wrong. For those people, there's SPAK: freeport.xenos.net/~xenon/software/spak ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Syste

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-20 Thread ccb
why every statement has a ; at the end except the ones that come before the END keyword. I've seen 4-year grads who had never gotten beyond how pointers work in C simply for the lack of semester course in Scheme. Check it out: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~matthias/TLS ccb -- Charles C. Ben

Re: Advanced Web Page Questions.

2000-06-20 Thread ccb
appreciate any assistance. > > Thank You, GGK The technology may be widely deployed but it's still in it's infancy. Every programming technology from the last 40 years is being re-checked for suitability in this environment. WebCOBOL anyone? ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr.

Re: Users Group in the Virginia / Capitol Area?

2000-06-18 Thread ccb
NoVALUG. Try novalug.tux.org. Talk to Greg Pryzby - [EMAIL PROTECTED] He'll connect you to the right people. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast R

Re: How do you.....

2000-06-16 Thread ccb
Kludge for stderr redirect under csh: % (proc > /dev/tty) >& /dev/null See Also: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot. Anyone writing csh scripts for production use should be dismissed. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems System

Access to IA-64 Itanium Systems

2000-06-15 Thread ccb
Hi All - I mentioned at the central LUG meeting last night that SourceForge was providing access to Intel IA-64 systems. Here's more info for those of you that are interested. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer,

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-13 Thread ccb
> On the other hand CCB, you guys are using those damn intel motherboards in > your desktops, and they suck (though the machines seem to handle them > sucking rather well, compared to Dells and other machines I've used with > the same shitty motherboard). Please beat the appropr

Re: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-13 Thread ccb
sktop machine now comes with a keyboard that has no Windows keys and a groovy VA logo mousepad. To get T-shirts you have to buy from the local sales team... > 5. Local SEs should be required to visit their customers at least > once a month and take them out for a beer ;) Mayb

Re: MAC addresses

2000-06-08 Thread ccb
Here's a start... http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/ ccb ** 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: hrm - new server for usaexpress.net

2000-06-02 Thread ccb
Hi Kurth - As far as I'm concerned, Paul Lussier and Derek Martin are the most knowledgable about servers on this list. Please do exactly as they suggest ;-). ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Ma

Re: Help! (and a new question)

2000-05-18 Thread ccb
ing larger than a 520Meg HDD and > therefore cannot read the RedHat installation CD. My goal is to make it > into a router with RedHat. Currently I have copies of RedHat 5.2 and 6.0. Does it have an ethernet card? NFS installs are much easier than floppy installs... ccb --

Re: Software engineering (was: Plea for help)

2000-05-16 Thread ccb
which for over a decade I considered the single most important book to my development as a programmer. ccb [we don't make the software, we make the software better] -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd.

Re: gnome help

2000-05-16 Thread ccb
eally old: I use MH. > problem 2 > ben said something about running the xserver as root. i have always > run it as a user. if i was to run x as root and then connect to > it. how would i do that? anyone know what i'm talking about? man xauth scratch head ccb -- Charles

Re: LILO question

2000-05-16 Thread ccb
Sounds like a job for "linear". Check the lilo.conf man page for more info. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145

Re: Microsoft and error msgs (was: Plea for help ...)

2000-05-16 Thread ccb
q lnux-bos:ccb2 exit Script done on Wed May 17 00:11:38 2000 ;-). ccb ** 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: Plea for help: The detriment of using Microsoft products

2000-05-16 Thread ccb
y. Now back to your regularly scheduled anti-MS thrash fest... ccb (shaman, retired) -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617

Re: NIS alternatives

2000-05-10 Thread ccb
> Derek Martin wrote: > > [thoughtful posting mostly deleted] > > > > My only other question is when the hell is someone gonna fix NIS so that > > it doesn't SUCK? Sun fixed NIS so that it didn't suck. They called in NIS+ ;-). Perhaps it sucks worse...

Re: Gratuitous Microsoft Bashing (was: let's torture and killviruswriters)

2000-05-05 Thread ccb
me all > they knew what to do was hire lawyers instead of beating him in > business, same with Netscape, hiding behind the justice department. > Whiners. Al Capone was a marketing genius, too. But when Steve Balmer comes in and says "give us you technology fo nuthin or we break you

Re: let's torture and kill virus writers

2000-05-05 Thread ccb
legence in this case. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems Systems Engineer, 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 US Northeast Region Burlington, MA 01803-4145 +1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX-4U [EMAIL

Re: LinuxWorld Expo next week..

2000-01-28 Thread ccb
> Out of curiosity, anyway looking to go down next week? I'm taking the MetroLiner down on Monday night and coming back on Thursday night. Y'all come by and see us. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Bu

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