Freedom from Windows essay contest by DesktopLinux

2002-06-21 Thread jbd
DesktopLinux.com is sponsoring an essay contest for stories about how people have freed themselves from the Microsoft monopoly. (Even if in a small way). Read more about it at http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS3432021257.html Given the number of Windows-bashers in our organization, I thought some o

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

2002-06-18 Thread jbd
Its easier to influence someone you sleep with rather than from across a courtroom (or legislative) bench. Besides, its entertaining watching these companies "unshoot" their feet. Remember Oracle, HP, Compaq, IBM, Sun, ...? I just hope their collective discomfort with open source doesn't kill

Re: Message Boards

2002-06-05 Thread jbd
I think it would be more accurate to say that a wiki is moderated by its community. (Instead of some subset of it community doing the moderating; all members are able to moderate a wiki.) Also, I use TWiki (a wiki implementation) because content can't be erased - it can only be updated; all co

Re: Good Netizenship [was Re: linux BIOS ]

2002-05-14 Thread jbd
The problem with using individual emails as a forum - by the time you manage to create a reply, a dozen other people have said the same thing. Would the news site help this? Does anyone use the news site? (news.gnhlug.org)? Quoting Ben Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Benj

Atime [Was: behavior of find /]

2002-03-26 Thread jbd
Sorry for wading in here, but I have about 5 minutes to spare, ... Some places use the atime field to archive (or remove) files that are unused. I've worked at several shops where they have large "reports" that just accumulate daily, and they manage their disk space using the atime feature - if

Re: Giveaway time for new users

2002-03-25 Thread jbd
Before you give both of them away, I don't suppose you could give a demo/"reading" at one of our meetings? --Bruce Quoting Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have the author copies for my newly released "Red Hat Linux > Interactive Training Guide" CD-ROM. Works on Windows and Linux, > p

Reminder: Quarterly meeting Wed night: IBM and Linux

2002-03-19 Thread jbd
On Wednesday evening (20 March, 2002) at 7pm we will be hearing IBM speak on "What's IBM Doing With Linux" - this is sure to be a good time for you to map out your IT strategy with respect to Linux and one of the major vendors pushing it. Bring your fears, comments, and suggestions! As announc

Re: Paul Lussier's mail is messed up

2002-03-12 Thread jbd
I suspect you're logging in as user 'pll' instead of user 'plussier'. Ergo (I think), you should use sendmail's virtual user table instead of masquerading. (map 'pll' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in virtusertab). And I think there may be another table you should turn on (generics?) and use. If you re

Re: fix-outlook-quoting.pl

2002-03-08 Thread jbd
Excellent idea Kevin! Would you mind putting it in the Downloads section of news.gnhlug.org? Its at http://news.gnhlug.org/downloads.php This can be our "central library" for various scripts and programs written by the group. --Bruce Quoting "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I a

Fwd: RE: any idea what is blacked out in lindows.com response to microsoft's suit?

2002-02-15 Thread jbd
The following is an exchange I had with Michael. At the bottom is the link to the Superior Court documents with some extraordinarily intriguing items blacked out. If anyone knows what was blacked out, or better yet: why, we'd sure like to know! The link, in case you don't want to search is:

Re: GNHLUG Tee Shirt spotted in the Carribean

2002-02-12 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=374 is: Yes. I can confirm that the GNHLUG shirt wearer is our own Ben Smith! By the way - he seemed interested in hosting a "Geek Cruise" if anyone would come. It would probably be next year and sail out of Tortola, BWI. We''re working on the Internet

GNHLUG Tee Shirt spotted in the Carribean

2002-02-12 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=374 is: Can anyone identify who is wearing that GNHLUG tee-shirt? The photo is in the GNHLUG photo gallery at: http://news.gnhlug.org/ modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index By the way - feel free to add photos to that album whenever you spot so

Welcome to VI Care

2002-02-04 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=2 is: This is the initial setup for VI Care. There is not much here right now, but as the good book says: "In the beginning there was darkness". Now, its up to the members to add some light! To do so, just click on "Submit News" at the top of this page.

Re: To Do List

2002-02-01 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=227 is: Yipes! That''s supposed to be: I''ve finally convinced myself that setting DM in /etc/sendmail.cf tells sendmail to masquerade everything - *not* just everything _but_ what''s in the genericstable or the virtusertable. In other words, the DM d

Re: To Do List

2002-02-01 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=227 is: This is just noise - please ignore it. But if you''re really interested, I''ve finally convinced myself that setting DM in /etc/sendmail.cf tells sendmail to masquerade *everything* - just everything _but_ what''s in the genericstable or the vir

Linux/BSD entry level job at Concord Monitor

2002-01-08 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=268 is: Our CentraLUG site has a reference to a Linux/BSD Web admin job at the Concord Monitor. Its an entry-level position - but hey! Its Linux! * To unsubscribe from this list, send m

Re: Monadlug meeting

2002-01-03 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=253 is: Will people be gathering someplace beforehand for dinner or other decompression after a day of work and a week of holiday? * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Bash question...

2002-01-03 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=257 is: I''m assuming the cracker is coming in from the net. What about just running tcpdump against the port he''s coming in through (telnet?) and capture everything? * To unsubscribe f

Re: Monadlug meeting

2002-01-03 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=253 is: I''m going to try to come. Is there anything I can bring? * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body.

Re: Project Management?

2001-12-22 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=228 is: Look at PHPGroupWare. Its designed from the ground-up to be web-based, it has an ACL-based framework, is modular (supporting plug-ins), and a bunch of other things. The only disadvantage is that its still in development and the interfaces chang

To Do List

2001-12-21 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=227 is: Some additional features I want to add to the news site are: * Use the same user name on the mailing list as on the web site. This will probably take some coordination with the mailing list. * If an incoming message has the same o

Re: Welcome to gnhlug

2001-12-21 Thread jbd
At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=220 is: Gak. Urp. Oh no... Those > characters are the result of some bug in PHP that I haven''t been able to isolate (yet). However, I''ve re-implemented the "web to mailing list" logic to take care of things like that. Thanks for pointing out those littl