Re: grub mysteries

2005-01-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Macdonald wrote: However, that's under Linux. When booting however, Grub sees something else. hd3 becomes hd1! hd1 becomes hd2! Changing grub.conf to point to the correct devices doesn't help. I'm only able to boot using a floppy and specifying root, kernel and initrd command by hand. Has anyo

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:44:11AM -0500, Fred wrote: > > The fact is, the average American can't be trusted to manage their > > money. Case in point: the ever-rising credit card debt owed by > > American citizens... > > Hold it right there! What is this "can't be trusted" statement? Can't be > t

grub mysteries

2005-01-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Hi all, So last weekend I decided to convert my Gentoo server to Fedora Core 3. My motivation was that a volume manager, LVM, was used. It should make it easier to add disks in the future. I realize that other distributions have LVM. This was the first time it was 'shoved' in my face during an inst

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
reject -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical q

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread jeff
I know everyone is having a grand old time but it would be good if off topic discussions could be moved elsewhere. I've got enough spam filter tweaking to do as it is. Sure I could add the "OT" filter too It is always tempting to jump into these discussions but there are places (some even

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Randy Edwards
> Unearned Wealth? My point about unearned wealth and the inheritance tax was that the wealth being passed to the heirs is unearned by those heirs -- it should be taxed at a far higher rate. Public opinion polls report that people support the "estate tax" but yet those same polls report pe

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-08 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:48 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:28:32AM -0500, Greg Rundlett wrote: > > Ted Roche wrote: > > > > >is there a Linux Geek <-> NPR correlation?) > > > > +1 > > And I thought I was the only one... > > I listen to NPR whenever I'm in the car

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:52 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > About 4% of Americans have $1M in net worth, only a > > fraction of a percent have $2M. > >This is interesting. In a previous post I noted that if we kept the > estate > tax (the so-called death tax), we could fund social securi

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread James A. Kuzdrall
On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:52 am, Randy Edwards wrote: > > About 4% of Americans have $1M in net worth, only a > > fraction of a percent have $2M. > >This is interesting. In a previous post I noted that if we kept > the estate tax (the so-called death tax), we could fund social > securi

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-08 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:28:32AM -0500, Greg Rundlett wrote: > Ted Roche wrote: > > >is there a Linux Geek <-> NPR correlation?) > > +1 And I thought I was the only one... I listen to NPR whenever I'm in the car. Don't have a radio anywhere else, or I might listen to it more. -- Christopher

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Randy Edwards
> About 4% of Americans have $1M in net worth, only a > fraction of a percent have $2M. This is interesting. In a previous post I noted that if we kept the estate tax (the so-called death tax), we could fund social security out past the end of the century. The estate tax impacts only

Re: New magazine - LinuxFormat

2005-01-08 Thread Randy Edwards
> Linux Journal While I agree with the previous review about SysAdmin mag, LJ IMHO is by far the best of the pure Linux magazines. It seems to do a good job of bridging the newbie/guru breach, and covers a wide enough range of issues to appeal to hobbyist and pro alike. Regards, . Ran

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-08 Thread Greg Rundlett
Ted Roche wrote: is there a Linux Geek <-> NPR correlation?) +1 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Greg Rundlett
Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:59:28AM -0500, Will Johnson wrote: [snip] <> (Why am I getting dragged into this? Why?) I'm getting dragged back into it because I started the whole OT thread ;-) Nice to see a lively discussion. 1. The Social Security system is insurance, n

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-08 Thread Ted Roche
On Jan 7, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Travis Roy wrote: I used to have a TV/FM card in my linux box and recorded shows that way but that machine is long gone now and I've been looking for a way to timeshift from one of the internet feeds. I'm most interested in their weekend lineup (Car Talk, Wait Wait, e

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:58 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: ... > > My problem with this issue is that it's not as clear cut as either side > > would have us believe. Do I believe that I am better equipped to handle > > my own money than the government is? Yes. Are most Linux users (an > > above aver

Save a couple of bucks on a DVD burner

2005-01-08 Thread Brian
Not a bad deal, and the savings are fairly significant! http://www.buy.com/prod/Pioneer_16X_DVD_RW_4X_Double_Layer_Internal_Black_Be zel/q/loc/449/10385548.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailma

Re: [OT] Greater Fools -- was: America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-08 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:51 -0500, James A. Kuzdrall wrote: > Some clarifications: > > > >a) How much money will you set aside for medical care? My wife > > > had a $300K heart valve replacement. I had a $250K operation. Bad > > > luck, to be sure, but it could be yours. > > > > Well, I wou

Re: New magazine - LinuxFormat

2005-01-08 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:06, Bill Sconce wrote: > > but SysAdmin is one of three > > magazines I still subscribe to. > > Huh? THREE? Sounds still a lot. I only subscribe to one, and I'm > considered a dead-tree-hugger. I guess "subsumed" is not quite yet > after all. :) > > ^