I checked QRZ.COM and K1BO (Kay One Bee Oh) lives in South Carolina.Sometimes
the serifs on the fonts on license plates can play havoc withmy brain, too.
Down here in Florida, folks ask me where "Amateur RadioCounty" is...
73 (Best Wishes) to everyone in GNHLUG for a happy holiday seas
Me, too - I'm using Yahoo! mail. I've seen the same phenomenon occasionally on
another list that I'm
on that uses an entirely different server.
Season's Greetings,
Bayard
From: David Rysdam
To: Kyle Smith ; Greater New Hampshire LUG
Sent: Tuesday, December
Tom Buskey said:
I was at the same UNH with Linus too.
"Me, too"... And still have the autographed CD here in my collection.
I bounced around between SuSE, RedHat, and Debian, and pretty much settled on
openSUSE 11.mumble
for a few years before I finally got tired of all of the driver change
Here's my Meerkat xorg.conf for my HP dv9000z laptop, which has the
nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] (rev a2)
(according to 'lspci'):
snip
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load"glx"
EndSec
ng
> better or more specific than that. Ideas have not
> been forthcoming.
> I know we've got a bunch of people on this list who know
> local
> eateries. What do people suggest?!? Come on,
> let's have a party!!
> :-)
>
> People who have expressed interest incl
And streaming video so that the geographically challenged can participate!
(Luckily, my broadband provider here in WNC doesn't cap aggregate
bandwidth, but shortly I'll be returning to the Comcast dungeon in SoFla).
--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Ben Scott wrote:
> From: Ben Scott
> Subject: Re: [GNHLUG]
Well, I'll be with you in spirit, and will lift a frosty mug that evening
to celebrate. I'm currently spending the summer in Hendersonville, NC,
where we have a second home, and run openSUSE 11.1 on the second hard drive
on my HP dv9000z laptop. I also have a 320GB USB drive with F11, openSUSE 11.2
Took my wife and her Mom out to dinner tonight at the Grove Park Inn,
in Asheville, NC. It's been raining heavily for the past few days, so
driving is a bit dicey, and maneuvering the SUV in the parking lot for
dinner wasn't the most fun. Until I saw a car with "CAR GZ"
Huh? I was tired, been up l
Another thing to look at might be the BIOS version - there may be some
sort of memory and/or I/O address mapping issue therein. I don't know
what the exact mechanics are on that stuff, but OTOH checking the BIOS
version against what the board manufacturer currently has available (and
WHY) might be
Michael, you're not being singled out - I got the same nastygram a month
or two ago down here in South Florida. Apparently they view ANY attempts
to transmit e-mail on Port 25 as spam - the fact that they never bothered
to document to its paying users (like you and me) that they wanted us to
use Po
Many thanks to everyone who's replied so far!
Yes, I was aware that there is a very serious spam issue both
within Comcast and overall on the Internet. I'd been using the Port 25
configuration since I started with Comcast over 5 years ago (after I
got married and moved down here to sunny South Flo
I got a nastygram from Comcast in my normal e-mail inbox this morning,
warning me that I was considered a spammer and/or that I had a security
problem caused by a virus/bot.
The recommended fix apparently is to move my outbound SMTP to Port 587,
which I have now done.
But, considering that I'm ru
Full Disclosure: I'm an HP retiree (who left in June, 2002), and I used to work
with
AdvFS while in the Tru64 UNIX TruCluster Software QC group.
It's interesting and amusing to see that AdvFS is being released under GPL-2.
I'd heard some scuttlebutt/rumors about that at around the time I retired,
One misplaced comma?Oh, my, whatever would Darl McBride think of next?"All your Windows Vista Linux are belong to us", perhaps...--- On Sun, 5/4/08, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Greg,It was a good thing that this was "Humor", and that Microsoft had notgone off the deep end by trying
I've been fighting ndiswrapper problems recently as well.
My laptop is an HP dv9000z (2GHz AMDx2, 2GB memory, two 80GB
drives, GeForce 6150 [I think]) and its wireless card is the infamous
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniPCI (rev.01) which uses the Broadcom
4311 Chipset.
I have GRUB stuffed on my fir
Or be a Comcast customer, unless you're VERY patient.
Took 7.5 hours using BitTorrent, average d/l speed purportedly 145 kb/s.
Started at 10:21 AM EST, and finished just a few minutes ago. D/L
behaviour was very bursty, stalling for several minutes at a time and
then cranking at over 900kb/sec. I'm
Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool?
md
Being able to run my entire ham shack (2 multi-band transceivers,
one of which is ~12-15 years old but does have a computer interface)
including the antenna rotor, during a contest using voice, morse cod
>>> Did it actually have two physical disks, or just one disk split into two
>>> partitions?
Two Physical Disks, both 5400RPM 80GB SATA
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30C0 ctl 0x30B6 bmdma 0x3090 irq 201
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30B8 ctl 0x30B2 bmdma 0x3098 irq 201
>>> Either way, it would
I've been around Linux a while, but my experience with laptops is minimal.
I bought a laptop recently with two SATA hardrives. The major OEM
that made the laptop very generously made the second drive "D:",
and the BIOS does NOT support booting off of the second hard drive, only off of
the first d
No, that's not what I was referring to as nonsensical - I do understand
the legal issues around DVD thoroughly, as much as I detest them.
What I was referring to was the quagmire of interdependencies in some
packages that make it difficult/impractical to update to new versions
conveniently. (I hav
*SUCCESS*
My apologies to the list for my whining under this topic and under the
ESR/Fedora thread about DVD problems, but I'm happy to report that
after some relatively simply finagling (although not without considerable
intrepidation), I managed to build and install an x86_64 rpm of libdvdcss
us
Nigel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in part:
Besides this, I find it quite valuable to be able to download
and install something in a short enough timeframe that I havn't
already forgotten what I intended to do with it. :-)
I must say that I rather agree with that sentiment. I don't kno
Hi, Eamon -
I'm running SuSE 10.2 on a laptop, but I use KDE instead of Gnome, so
I'm not familiar with that particular problem. That said, I've had that
general kind of problem before, and it's not pretty.
The first, simplest thing you could do (but hold off for a moment while
I explain what els
Well, I can think of at least one amateur radio application that comes to
mind, antenna modelling. And, of course, that's not limited to _amateur_
radio, but I'm sure the professionals might already be using "professional
workstations" from Sun, HP, IBM, or whomever, running a licensed UNIX
variant
For me, the focus of the problem is why Sun, which is supposedly
64-bit savvy (discounting their late[r] arrival in the 64-bit market than
my alma mater DEC), hasn't released a Java plugin to which I can
create a symlink from, in the case of my SuSE 10.2 system,
/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins. I haven'
Thanks for the info, Brian.
BTW, I haven't experienced any problems with either Flash or Acroread.
I'm running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa | grep acro
acroread-7.0.9-2.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-7.0.69.0-1.1
flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release
and
/usr/lib64/browser-plug
I've had similar problems, but with SuSE 10.2 on an AMD X2 -based
laptop with Firefox "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US;
rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre" .
There appears to be no workable solution, as yet, for the lack
of a 64-bit Java plugin. Whil
I haven't got a clue as to what Solstice is, but Bill Sconce's response
infers that it's got something remotely to do with Linux, therefore there
must be appropriate Linux/Linus-certified beverages available. Kernel
debug cannot be properly performed otherwise...
And, it's down at Martha's, so muc
Ben Scott sent out an announcement this morning
commemmorating the 12th anniversary of GNHLUG.
My congratulations to you all for continuing to build
a strong organization that can be envied by other LUGs
around the world.
I do wish to point out that the early meetings were
called by Bob Curry, KC
I read the CBS5 article after my last posting, and the situationis far more complex than I care to contemplate - a true tragedy.While I understand Ben's comments about the ReiserFS code beingsupported somehow/somewhere, and there are a lot of good peopleout there who are competent enough to pull it
Yes, and to clarify my earlier posting, I fully subscribe to theinnocent-until-proven-guilty premise.Unfortunately, it does, in all probability, mean that Hans will be verypreoccupied with all this for some time to come. As pointed out in otherfora, this means that progress on the Reiser4 filesyste
Guess I better reinstall with ext3 until ext4 is ready.Apologies in advance if there's too much HTML - I'm trying to do a cut-n-pastebetween the web page and Yahoo! Mail...http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/11/hans_reiser_arrested_in_missing_woman_case/ReiserFS creator arrested over missing womanSu
It might also be interesting to demonstrate Linux in theham radio environment, running stuff like kpsk (for PSK31),and so forth.Remember, that many of the hams there don't need to be taughthow to read their e-mail, or be shown a "new" way to access it(except perhaps using WinLink2000 and AirMail, t
*sigh* Kids nowadays... And to think I was toggling in RIM loaderson an '8 before most of them were born...-bChristopher Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did someone just say they did something in Windows 3.1?! Nah, it must have been my imagination ;-)-chris
Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make
What version of wine are you running? If it's the one that shipped with SuSE 9.3, or even SuSE 10.0, it's wa out of date. Best bet may be to visit the winehq website, look for the latest release and check carefully for pre-compiled binaries. Often/usually, one of the SuSE staffers makes an
If I were still up in the GNH area, I'd offer to come over and help youout. But, I suspect your best bet would be to find a local amateur("ham") radio club and see if they have some folks who could help youtriangulate the source. It can get into a real can of worms - twootherwise innocent stations
Well, I've been running SuSE for a long time, since about 7.3 or so,so I'm a bit apprehensive about mixing packages between distributionsunless I'm REALLY sure about what's going to be put where."xdiif/mgdiff for rel4" is a bit confusing to me - what's "rel4" ? If you'rereferring to a Fedora releas
#x27;t support anything but Windews. Ironically, Garmin uses Apache to run the web site that dispenses new bits to customers and another Open Source/GNU application (forget off the top of my head) to sign up for their mailing list. C'est la vie... Happy New Year from sunny Florida, Bayard Coo
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly posted a pointer to Richard Callahan's
rebuttal to all of the criticism levelled at him.
I guess I'll have to readjust my browser to cope with Callahan's
inability to use the key on his keyboard - I saw two
massively long lines - even though the message to whic
AFAICT, today's opening is for customers WEST of the Mississippi, and that
us Easterners will have to wait a bit.
BUT, it should be borne in mind that the FCC's Form 475, available at:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html
What's been lost in the hoopla is the fact that the TCPA is still in forc
Ben wisely suggested the following to poor Charlie:
1. Immediately shut down the system
2. Remove disks
3. Install disks as "secondary disks" in another, known-good system
4. Copy any important data off (or copy everything, if you want to
do forensic analysis later)
5. Wipe disks clean
6.
I just took a quick look at my last boot log.
OK, I'm on SuSE 8.0, and am running 2.4.20, but I rather suspect that
maybe things are close enough...
Right BEFORE the '<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed'
message, I see "<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly'
and right AFTER the 'F
Mark Ebaugh wrote:
>>> What am I missing here?
A couple of Alpha systems to do the dirty work... Although my work
experience was steeped in Alphas, it wouldn't surprise me if there were
now some other 64 bit architectures out there that could also do this
transfer for you seamlessly, but it might
>>> This also implies they reboot their Windows 2000 servers every 9 to
12 *days*!
Probably so they can install the latest security patches - they are
running IIS5.0
with them, after all...
Bayard (ducking)
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>>> Hmm, interesting. Riddled? By riddled with bugs, I would assume
>>> you mean unusable? I only ask because I've been using 1.2.1 for a
>>> while now with no problems to speak of. What kind of bugs are
>>> you referring to?
I was running 1.2.1 (or was it 1.2.3?) on SuSE 7.3 on a dual P-II SMP
sys
>>> Mozilla 1.3 was *just* released, and they're talking about a RHL 9.0
>>> release next week. Even Red Hat has a longer lead time than that
for a release.
Yeah, and it's not exactly to their credit that their lead time is so long.
I just checked the Mozilla site (since I don't trust my persona
>>> I'm running debian and did just install the unixodbc and myodbc
packages.
I don't run Debian, so I'm taking a real SWAG here, but would doing an
'ldconfig',
to reset the loader's view of the system libraries, help here?
Bayard
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Ben Scott reports:
>>> It appears that RHL 9.0 has leaked in Malaysia.
...
>>> New/updated:
...
>>> - Mozilla 1.2
I hope that that's a typo on somebody's part, because Mozilla 1.3 was
just released
and it fixed a LOT of serious bugs that were seen in 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2,
and 1.2.3.
I'm not intere
What excites me about Linux?
- Multiple possible solutions for the same problem.
I am in the midst of some legal work, and the lawyer e-mailed the
parties a document
with a .wpd document. I first threw it at StarOffice 5.2, and it gagged.
Nothing with a '.wpd'
suffix was in the menu, and I di
More collateral damage from the SCO legal action against IBM. I
happen to be a SuSE customer, so I was rather interested in this:
http://linux.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=817
This article was referenced by Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/10/212241.shtml?tid=143&tid=106
Bayard
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