Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: SMP and journaling file systems. BSD belives in FFS and doesn't think journaling is the way to go. Yes, but with UFS2 and soft updates one does not need a journaling filesystem. Don't ask me for the details right now, I'd have to look it up again. :) NOTE: I am NOT a kerne

Re: Linux World?

2006-01-14 Thread William D Ricker
> Does anyone know if we are getting a booth this year? Looks like it is time to be requesting .ORG pavillion space. > Last year was a > great time. > Learned a lot... Indeed! > This year I'd love to know early so I can decide whether to ask my boss > to pay my way... (unlikely he'll say

Linux World?

2006-01-14 Thread Brian Chabot
Does anyone know if we are getting a booth this year? Last year was a great time. Learned a lot... (The look on the Fujitsu sales guy's face when I showed him my used and abused Lifebook running Linux was priceless.) This year I'd love to know early so I can decide whether to ask my boss to pay

Re: Two-week alert! Python for 2006 - first meeting January 26

2006-01-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 13, 2006, at 23:51, Paul Lussier wrote: IMO, that series was a lot of fluff and discussion of various design consideration rather than a good old-fashioned meat and potatoes HOWTO type article. More and more of their "technical" articles seem to be like this. Do you get Sysadmin Magazi

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-14 Thread Tom Buskey
Are there any good guides to this?I have an environment with several (6) Solaris 10  boxes w/ NIS and 2 Win XP Pro PCs.  I have DNS only because the PCs don't do NIS for name resolution.Right now, I have Samba for home directories, but I want to do roaming profiles, etc so nothing is on the PC driv

Re: Open Source vs. Closed Source

2006-01-14 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:39:41PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > |... > > |Given that this is a relatively simple program (The original version is > |less than 100 lines of code properly spaced), is there a better,

Re: Open Source vs. Closed Source

2006-01-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Schmidt wrote: |... |Given that this is a relatively simple program (The original version is |less than 100 lines of code properly spaced), is there a better, more |open way to attempt to make money off the application? To be honest, I'm

Open Source vs. Closed Source

2006-01-14 Thread Christopher Schmidt
I write a lot of small programs for my cell phone, in Python. In the past, I've always released these applications as completely open source, since I have relatively few expectations that anyone would have trouble duplicating my effort. However, as time goes on, I'm realizing more and more that th

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-14 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi All, > > I am in the process of replacing a Windows AD Domain controller with > Samba and LDAP. I have another office elsewhere in the world that is > connected via an IPSEC VPN. I want to create a secondary Samba/LDAP > server in that office so that they can authent

Re: Linux RAID reading recommendations?

2006-01-14 Thread Paul Lussier
"hewitt_tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There has been some excellent info on the list recently about Linux > with RAID but I was wondering if anyone had any reading material > recommendations? I noticed that Oreilly has a book entitled "Managing > RAID on Linux". According to the Amazon revie

Re: gnhlug-discuss digest, Vol 1 #1746 - 1 msg

2006-01-14 Thread Todd Littlefield
Hi Mike, Check your InputDevice section for the mouse. Make sure it has a ZAxisMapping. The one from my xorg.conf (formerly XF86Config I think) looks like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option

Re: How to find rpms for various distros?

2006-01-14 Thread Mike
http://rpm.pbone.net/ This one's been invaluable to me. Click on advanced search to restrict the search to interesting distributions. They also permit searching to satisfy file dependencies. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.

Linux RAID reading recommendations?

2006-01-14 Thread hewitt_tech
There has been some excellent info on the list recently about Linux with RAID but I was wondering if anyone had any reading material recommendations? I noticed that Oreilly has a book entitled "Managing RAID on Linux". According to the Amazon reviews though it got slammed because it was ligh

mouse wheel ..

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Medai
I'm having problems getting my mouse wheel to work again. I killed my X-server in the process of changing my monitor (I guess I picked a bad resolution or something), and ended up having to run XF86Config to rebuild and copy it resulting in a semblance of booting Kde again. (Major victory for