Re: Linux-friendly USB 802.11n

> Their wifi adapter is $54 and expressly calls out compatibility with pretty > much every modern distro and version. I'll save you my rant about retail "economics", but ThinkPenguin sells the same USB adapter on e-Bay for about half the price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Penguin-802-11N-USB-Wifi-

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

> Anyone doing bit coin mining? I've done some in the past, just to toy with it. > Seems like it would favor geeks with high power computers/gaming rigs to > decrypt the codes. I've heard that people are harnessing gpu's to do the > decryption. There's just no sense in mining with CPUs, a

Re: Printer recommendations

> I am in need of a printer and was wondering if the gnlug would have > recommendations. I just replaced a multifunction unit on my home LAN just yesterday, opting for a Samsung CLX-4195FW. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HSJ0I0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8 http://www.newegg.com/Produc

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

> I was just modeling the rooms so I could try out different furniture > arrangements with a little less effort. Are you married? Because if you found a woman that would agree to that without having you grunt the furniture in various positions so she could see what it looks like, you found yo

Re: usenet via fairpoint?

> Fairpoint no longer offers news services or support for news servers. How sad. A continuation of the trend that "the Internet" is something that simply operates on port 80 with a prefix of "www.". . Randy -- Definition: "US foreign aid": When you take money from the poor people of a ri

Re: Without Dennis Ritchie, there would be no Jobs

> After rms's statement on Jobs[1] (which I basically agreed with), I was > a little surprised there wasn't one for Ritchie. Good point. I thought rms gave enough of the appropriate disclaimers about Jobs' death to make his point with the appropriate amount of taste. That ZDNet article obviou

Without Dennis Ritchie, there would be no Jobs

One last comment/article about Dennis Ritchie. With their deaths so close together, the contrast between Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs seems apropos: -- Asking an MSCE to make an unbiased choice about so

Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

OS News is reporting this as unconfirmed: . -- "The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@m

Re: APT/dpkg system within a system (was: Ubuntu... downgrade?)

> Be warned that it would appear APT does not pass it's root directory > setting on to dpkg. Please make sure you file a bug against that with Debian's "reportbug" command/package or via the Debian.org web site . That should be addressed, doubly so wit

Re: Koha - anyone do an install? MySQL question...

> In particular, what goes in 'root' and 'password'?  Am I giving root > privilege to kohadata? Relax a bit. :-) You're not giving root access to the entire server. What this means is the MySQL root (superuser) user. This is required to allow the Koha software to manipulate everything in

Re: Web software for a family web site?

> If you're into genealogy at all, I definitely recommend GeneWeb > (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/) I'm not, but I have a daughter that is so that was definitely a thought. I've looked at , but since my knowledge of genealogy is about nil, I can't make

Web software for a family web site?

I'm debating putting up a family web site. Like most families, ours is scattered geographically and it's hard to keep track of all the aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, etc. A web site for this seems like a no-brainer. And I'm sure some people have written software to accomplish the "norm

Re: Debian resource

> Can any of you Debian users recommend a good reference or startup guide, > or should I just stick with what I've got and continue to learn through > trial-and-error? I'm curious, what version of Debian are you installing -- Sarge/Stable or Etch/Testing? Though Etch is officially in be

LJ on the Suse/Microsoft marriage

FWIW, Linux Journal has a thoughtful Nicholas Petreley article on the Suse/Microsoft marriage at . -- "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." -- Women's Internat

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV

> with an explanation as to which tuners get used in which priority, In the "mythtv-setup" program where you set up the tuners, you can give each tuner a priority (it's called something different) for recording. Myth can be quirky in its handling of multiple tuners when combined with liv

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

> I'd like a back-end server with lots of disk space and maybe 2 or 3 > capture cards that I can stuff somewhere out of site, There are a variety of tuner cards available for Myth now. To me, multiple cards are about mandatory, even if you don't watch much TV. I love the PVR-500 (2 tuners

Re: Tivo vs MythTV (was: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....)

> What's the payback for giving away guide data? It's funny you mention that. Just yesterday I corrected the guide's channel listings for my local cable company. Besides corrections like that, the guide needs to encourage people to code apps to their service, which some Mythers do. Bu

Re: Tivo vs MythTV (was: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....)

> Those of you here who are already using MythTV, how do you find it > works in day-to-day usage? Brilliantly. I have a back end on Debian Etch/Testing with 3 tuners (a PVR-350 and a PVR-500) and while the IVTV drivers aren't the most stable, I have very, very little problem with the syste

Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

Not to make fun of a serious situation -- maybe it's just one too many shots of Jägermeister tonight -- but I can't help but to comment: > True, and part of the due diligence that should be performed in selecting > commercial vendors is their stability and responsibility regarding support

Rant: My recent laptop purchase: Windows revisited...

So I recently bought a new laptop. I don't really need one so I bought a cheap Acer model. The laptop came with WinXP Home edition. I have to confess, I don't use Windows on a daily or even weekly basis. I'm lucky that way. :-) In fact, I've avoided XP almost totally. Sure, I've played wi

Re: SWAPON, DUDE!

> but noticing that Kjel mentioned it was a desktop machine, some of those > (particularly the older ones) max out at 2 GB, so you can't "add more RAM" > without "adding another motherboard". (LOL) Tomorrow the UPS guy will drop off a new laptop tomorrow and I will quickly max it out for

Re: "more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

> It if can be cut'n'pasted, it's not secure. True, but at some point we have to trust it to a human. With that said, the objective for mail programs should be to get it securely from the sender's desktop to the receiver's desktop. Regards, . Randy -- Fast fact: 20% of the human race

Re: "more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

> This article may be of interest: Very! What I loved was this part: > Echoworx, a closely held Toronto company, launched its new Secure Mail > service in January. The service is sold through Internet service providers, > including AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp

Re: Unix horror stories

> It's interesting that most of these horror stories are older. I don't see > many that mention Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, (newer) Solaris, > etc. Are system less error prone? Are sysadmins and users making fewer > errors? Are people not sharing thier stories? A great series of ques

[OT] Re: Malware "best practices"

> China is definitely the one to watch, because they are the ones with the > *real* power -- economic power over the US. The US may "talk big", but > will quickly roll over and whimper like a puppy whenever China seriously > threatens to flex its muscle. Who's "fault" is that? The above se

Re: Video Conversions

> Most of them are encoded with MS-MPEG4v2/Nandub. > What I want to do is convert them to burn them to a DVD. One popular GNU/Linux tool to do video conversions is Tovid . It'll handle that just fine, in either GUI or commandline modes. Once conve

Re: Speed of Java (was: Linux on old laptop in two stages)

> could you build a distro of linux that has native java support? While it'd certainly take some serious work, I can't think of any technical reason why you couldn't -- and that would probably put the speed issue to bed once and for all. And of course, that possibility was likely one of

Re: OLPC ($100 "laptop") FAQ

> But, if you'll allow me to be selfish for a moment, one thing I like about > the OLPC project is how much can be done with it in countries the the USA. I agree. Myself, I think the project's real potential is in "first" and "second" world countries. Frankly, as Ben stated, I think it'

Re: OLPC ($100 "laptop") FAQ

> >Or would the country's money be better spent buying the cheapest > > books possible (which could be produced in-country) and the difference > > invested in an electrical infrastructure? > Since the difference would be zero dollars (it would actually cost MORE > to provide the same texts

Re: OLPC ($100 "laptop") FAQ

An interesting thread. My background is in education and educational technology. In general I'm supportive of educational technology but am experienced enough and enough of a realist to have seen too much EdTech hype and countless dollars wasted. In reading the posted FAQ I was amazed a

Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

> Some would argue that the market should decide the rates > we pay for Internet connectivity, and that regulating ISPs will only > stifle innovation[1]. Okay, now you've done gone and provoked a rant out of me. :-) First, the idea of "regulating" the ISPs is an obvious smear. What "re

Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

> I see ... and you intend to enforce this on Chinese ISPs how? Obviously it can't be done. But that Chinese telecomm company isn't running copper to my house. What can be done, again, is to make US ISPs function as neutral common carriers. That's relatively easy to do -- it just takes

Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

> All you can do is connect to some other guy's network and hope for the > best. The idea that the Internet is this utopian cyberspace where > everybody is equal is a myth, and always has been. Your observations about the Internet are dead-on, and should be remembered. But I would disagre

Re: Question about rdesktop

> At work I run linux but I have to get my damn email via winbloze. They > have a wim machine I can get to from linux by using rdesktop. I hope they pay you well. ;-) Here's a thought: Can you run VNC on the Windows machine and access it from GNU/Linux that way? You could then do a regu

[OT] Internet Network Neutrality and NH

As someone who sees distinct political realities in the free software world, the issue of Internet net neutrality may be of concern to many of the readers of this list. If you're interested in the topic, the web site has some good information on it, along

Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL))

> Having recently finished with school myself, I can tell you first hand > that many computer courses are focused around usage of certain > applications rather than a more general understanding of concepts. Just for the record, when I said "computer science" this is exactly what I was refer

Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL))

> So I'm thinking that maybe successful acceptance of OpenOffice.org requires > us getting it into the school systems. I agree completely. And a complicating factor is that many computer "teachers" aren't really teaching computer sci or generic computing concepts, but instead they're teach

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

> So what the distinguishing characteristics between you and > (presumably) me, and members of "the government"? Income? Class? I'd have to agree with Jeff. There's no doubt that I and/or we have something in common with the people at the town hall and the typical bureaucrat in Concord

Re: Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

> The following password fits those requirements: > Passw0rd! But seriously, that's a fairly decent password. It'll require a cracker to use brute force techniques to break it, which is really about the optimal goal. The real problem with that password is: > I've seen that one

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

> Happens I know the newly-hired IT director for a new library in the > New England area... any pointers to info on libraries using Linux thin > clients etc. I can pass along to them? A worthwhile resource for them would be and its low-quantity mailing list at

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

> I believe it is important to understand that the definition of what > constitutes theft in a dictionary is totally irrelevant and just [...] Ed, Ed, Ed. Stop thinking like a lawyer. :-) You know the point of a legal debate in a mailing list is not about logic or even the law, it's abo

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

> Since you bring it up: I also feel that law-breaking is a poor first > choice for effecting change, Quite true, and there's that whole numbers thing... > and that a thief is still a thief, even if he steals from another thief. (Fighting back the urge to drag out this OT thread and giv

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

While Ben's observations were on the money, I would disagree with one point: > You don't have to like this, but you do have to accept it (at least > until/unless you can get the law changed). Of course you don't have to accept it! Breaking the law is a time-honored way of changing the

Re: Pre-deployment security (Tripwire, etc.)

> I did some work with Tripwire and alternatives a few years ago, > although I haven't touched it recently. Anyone want to toss out > alternatives/suggestions/best practices/etc? The first thought that comes to mind is, is it overkill? Really necessary? To do tripwire or aids "right" i

Re: A rant about ZendPlatform

(Forgive me for stating the obvious. :-) > Well, folks, I'm peeved. For a $1000 product, I expected *much* better > than what I saw. I was shocked at all the stuff it added to my system, and > fuming at the fact I had to undo all of their crap by hand. Isn't that the reason most of us are

Re: PHP Templates and/or Web Frameworks

> > take a look at Xaraya (www.xaraya.com) :) > Wow. That looks pretty extensive. I'll dig into it. It is a really slick framework -- the guys behind it are quite experienced and it has sort of an "old school" free software mentality to the project (he says wildly generalizing). FWIW, t

Re: Custom Distro

I didn't catch the full thread of this, and am not sure what the requirements are; but has Morphix been mentioned? IMHO, it has an interesting approach that's a bit unique and different from the "script the install" routines of some distros. Regards, . Randy __

Re: Help for moving off of Linux to NT is available!

> Actually, on a slightly more serious note, this Microsoft ad copy makes the > same mistake some of their print ads do. I quote: "Overall, more software > revenue is generated on Microsoft Windows operating system than any other > operating environment" I noted something similar when I

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

> From what I have been able to gather, it seems that GNOME is big in the > USA, but over in Europe it looks like KDE rules the desktop, [...] I've found that to be generally true too. Myself, I loved reading Linus' rant

Re: Now I've seen everything (OT-humor)...

> "Microsoft is auctioning off invitations to the private beta release of > the forthcoming client on eBay's auction site..." What was PT Barnum's line? Or should I be thinking of the Marquis de Sade? :-) -- Fast fact: Today's average American worker works 160 hours longer per year th

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

> > I have been choosing SuSE because I like KDE. The desktop makes > > sense to me, and it runs all my business applications without a fuss. > Didn't SuSE recently decide to switch to GNOME as the default desktop > (although continuing to package KDE RPMs and such)? That's what I was

Re: Debian flamewar (was: Can I bother you with another Linux question?)

On Monday 21 November 2005 12:57, Ben Scott wrote: > The Debian creed is "Debian is God's Chosen Distribution.  Debian is > Perfect.  All Glory to Debian!" That's correct. Just bow and make the triangle thing pointing to your head and chest before you leave. :-) > After all, Debian is *pe

Re: [semi-OT] - (somewhat) Free VoIP provider

> I've been seeing some mentions lately of cheap VoIP/Asterisk service, > so I thought I'd put in my $.02--quite literally. > > NuFone http://www.nufone.net provides SIP and IAX2 (with protocol > failover) PSTN access for a flat rate of $0.02 per minute for [...] You've been waiting all da

Re: was Re: Alternative to k3b? now: DVD write is too slow

> Should I just attempt to reinstall k3b ? I would. Under GNU/Linux, it *shouldn't* lose packages or file or have a lot of other issues that are common in the Windows world. But it occasionally does have those issues. When something "weird" like that goes on, my preference is to delete

Re: was Re: Alternative to k3b? now: DVD write is too slow

> Or is there something that you get from doing the grep that dpkg -L > doesn't do? The grep on the entire *.list set of files of /var/lib/dpkg/info would let me search everything, but the -L switch is directly analogous using less on a single *.list file. The main reason I stick to usi

Re: was Re: Alternative to k3b? now: DVD write is too slow

> OK, since it is a separate program, how do I find it on my system? I tried > using "find". How do you make the search case insensitive? For find, the "-iname" switch ignores case: "find / -iname k3bsetup -print" should do it. Debian puts k3bsetup in /usr/bin, which is logical. The p

Re: Upper Valley Computer Industry Association meeting "Linux does Windows"

On Monday 07 November 2005 14:40, Ted Roche wrote: > Searching for other computer-related groups in NH, I happened upon > this one, and thought a cross-posted announcement of their upcoming > meeting would be appropriate. Note that the times are AM! [...] > 7:30 > Registration, networking, an

Re: Alternative to k3b? or why is everything soooooo slow?

> So to the questions: Is there a better program to use for this > purpose? Is there something that I can do to get k3b to work better? > I'm not too swift at the CLI, but am willing to try about anything here... I'm guessing that you'll have the same results with xroast or gcombust or so

Re: SSH configuration summary

> (though, it's probably important to note that there are *no* business > type users of this system. Everyone is either highly technical, or > willing to learn :) So in laymen's terms, what you're really saying is that you work just a little this side of heaven... :-) Regards, . Randy

Re: 64-bit RPM/APT based systems - Worth it?

I've been doing a good bit of research into AMD 64 as I'm getting close to building a Myth-TV system. I'll use Debian's AMD64 arch; right now it's still not officially released, but it's been around since before the last release of Debian and will officially be "stable" with the next release

Re: [OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th

Since I started this, I've been biting my tongue to avoid adding to this thread. But my willpower just caved. :-) >> just as you can challenge a radar device on its calibration. > Have you ever tried that? I have. It doesn't work very well. While not radars, this article

Re: [OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th

> I agree, I am not quite sure what all the huff about the HP printers is > about though. I'm not familiar with the group organizing the protest, but I get the impression their primary objective is to try to get the RFID issue into the public's mind. Regards, . Randy -- US citizens ja

Re: [OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th

> Is RFID for inventory really that big of a deal? Yes. The problem is that there are no restrictions in how the chips will be used. For example, Gillette uses RFID in its razor packages. Gillette, in conjunction with retailers, has come up with store shelves which snap a photo of any

[OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th

On Nov. 5th there's going to be a protest at the Bedford Wal-Mart, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, against HP's printers being sold with RFID chips. For more information: . Regards, . Randy -- Why do geeks get Halloween and Christmas confused? Because 31 oct = 25 dec. _

Re: static IP configuration problem

> Tried that, but to no avail. Here's a thought based on one oddity I have observed. If you change the /etc/network/interfaces definitions, sometimes, when you do an "ifdown ethX" the interface won't actually be taken all the way down -- if you do an "ifconfig" you will still see the dev

Re: PCI wireless NICs

This is just a FWIW follow-up to a query I previously posted about wireless NICs. The model I wound up going with was the Foxconn WLL-3500 (you can find it at www.newegg.com or many other vendors). This NIC is surprisingly small and it uses an external antenna with a magnetic base on abo

Re: KMail stupid question

> I like KMail's seperation of identity and email accounts -- the only It really is a great feature. > problem is that I keep forgetting to change identity to to match the > account I'm in. Is there a way to configure KMail so that each account has > is own default identity? Considering I h

PCI wireless NICs

The last time I checked, the G version of the wireless "standard" did not have any GNU/Linux support. Could someone recommend any PCI wireless NICs that have good Linux support? I strongly prefer something that has free drivers, as I want to avoid semi-supported and binary drivers such

Re: Java on Debian (wow that was easy!)

> I was not aware of java-package. That's one of the growing pleasant problems of Debian -- there's so many packages I'm continually discovering "must-have" stuff and wondering, "Why didn't I know about this before?" :-) > Using java-package (as is illustrated in the referenced HOWTO link)

Re: Java on Debian (wow that was easy!)

> ...I just got Java installed on Debian. It's not really hard. With the current Stable/Sarge release (or later), all one has to do is to download Sun's (or some other) JVM. The Debian package "java-package" will then make a nice *.deb out of Sun's Java install. It's as easy as doing s

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

> How would I go about moving those services to my local machine > (offering email accounts to family too) with the least amount of > hassle and worry? The exact answer is easy -- just set up the services on your home IP address and switch your DNS (at whoever has your domain's DNS) to poin

Re: [Pedantic RANT] Re: [HUMOR] End Times

> He wasn't exactly a "Nazi-supporter" but rather a member of the Hitler > Youth because it was illegal *not* be a member of that organization if > you were a "youth". Do you have a reference for the law making membership in the Hitler Youth mandatory? Myself, I don't put much validity in

Re: [OT] GoDaddy feedback

> If you really want to get the message across go to their website and > then find Bob Parsons Weblog, leave it as a comment that way you'll be > sure it goes to the top dog @ GoDaddy. I did find his e-mail address on their web site somewhere ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and sent him a copy. I

[OT] GoDaddy feedback

Forgive me for venting, but I know a lot of folks use GoDaddy to manage their domains. I just renewed some domains today and was less than impressed (understatement=ON) at the customer experience. So I wrote the below e-mail to them. I doubt it'll have any impact, but it felt good writi

Re: [OT] Re: Computer fatalities

Since this is wandering way off-topic and I could easily reply in-depth about the issue, this will be my last post on this topic to the list. MC> Then, er, how do you explain MSNBC keeping Imus? I think there's a big difference between a radio shock jock who the majority of Americans do

[OT] Re: Computer fatalities

> Rememeber, on tee-vee, nothing is more important than ratings. Try telling that to Phil Donahue, who had the highest rated show on MSNBC just before MSNBC abruptly cancelled his show because it feared the show wouldn't go along with the Bush administration's pro-war line. It's not unus

Re: Why I hate MS

> You're thinking about this the wrong way. Certifications are for > middle managers. That's probably the best and most accurate explanation of the certification process and logic that I've see anywhere. Kudos! Regards, . Randy -- Ever wonder why half of NYC residents, the majority o

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

Thanks for the details Bill. I'm definitely going to try some of those the next time I purchase blank DVDs. Recently I went through an ordeal of buying some Staples store brand DVD-Rs and I had about a 1 in 4 failure rate burning on two different DVDs. I felt like a fool (not my first t

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

> I got my last batch of DVD's for about $0.60@, mostly because I insist on > Taiyo Yeuden. Being ignorant about DVDs, I'm curious: what is Taiyo Yeuden and why? Regards, . Randy -- While we sit comfortably using our computers, soldiers paid for with our taxes are killing and torturin

Re: Walmart-Xandors

> I was just curious, so I checked Walmart's web site. They had > the same system with Windows XP Home ($298), Linspire ($298), > Xandros ($200) and no operating system ($248). I guess I'd go with Xandros. (LOL) Regards, . Randy -- "Americans went to their deaths in Iraq thinking that

Re: Walmart-Xandors

> Has anyone have any experience with, or comment about the Microtel > Xandros Linux computers offered by Walmart. I've known a few people that have purchased them. (These were with Mandrake or Lindows; I haven't used/seen Xandros.) When I ripped a couple apart, I wasn't really impresse

Re: Power consumption (was: free to good home, 19" CRT)

> Compared to the cost of a few hundred bucks for a nice new panel display, > that doesn't exactly blow me away. Of course, there are other > factors in a panel, including physical space savings and waste heat [...] Your and Paul's analysis of the costs of the monitor are spot-on -- it's

Re: [OT] You lose a little piece of your soul when you run Windows :-(

> Really? Anybody have a pointer that confirms this? I don't have a confirmation on that -- that info was just what was mentioned in the article (not that our media would ever make such an error... :-). Regards, . Randy -- Fast fact: 80% of US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) chicken inspe

[OT] You lose a little piece of your soul when you run Windows :-(

Okay, this obviously isn't GNU/Linux related, but it's a story to make the heart go pitter-patter. Here's the nutshell version: College student buys XP at an academic discount, realizes he has to reformat his hard drive to install it, so he decides to sell it -- unopened -- on eBay. Micro

Re: BB/Forum software suggestions

> FWIW, I tried hacking up Postnuke when I had been using PHP for about > three months, and found its coding (at least for the sections I was > trying to modify) to be kludgy in the extreme. The original reason for PostNuke (it was a fork of PHP-Nuke) was PHP-Nuke's spaghetti code. Since i

Re: BB/Forum software suggestions

> I'm working on creating a bit of a web based family portal/community > center and one of the pieces I'm looking at is a forum or bulletin board > type service. I run a number of PostNuke (and despite the .com, it's free GPLed software) sites and know that literal

Re: High memory kernel support

> My problem is that some of the drivers I need aren't keeping up with the > kernel releases, like the NVIDIA drivers, for instance. The driver issue in 2.6 has impacted me, though in the other direction. 2.6 includes some new mouse drivers and I've had issues with those in oldish touchpad

Review sought: Point & Click Linux!

Has anyone read the book "Point & Click Linux!"? If so, could you give me a quick review and if it's appropriate as a Linux intro for your typical clueless Windows user? I've looked online, but the info I've found is the typical PR-type cheerleading which smacks suspiciously like it came

Re: DVD Burning

Any preference for commandline or GUI? For the latter, I'd suggest giving "k3b" a try. It's a KDE program that is among the most complete and polished of this type of program. For DivX to mpeg/DVD conversion, look at tovid . Tovid is

Re: Debian flamewar (was: OpenOffice doc...)

> > How was it hard? You follow the links, visit the mirrors, and download > > it. > I believe that's wrong. In the Bad Old Days, Debian didn't provide > ISO images. Perhaps that's why they were called the bad *old* days? > Perhaps a long-time debian user here can confirm that this is

OT/humor - Help steal some of Saddam's money!

Today I found a bunch of these "401 scam" spam messages in my mailbox. I thought the gimmick the sleazeball came up with to con people was pretty ingenious. Obviously the scammer had watched the movie "Three Kings". :-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Important Messa

Re: firewalling scripts

> Any recommendations for firewalling scripts? (Debian package > preferred) ... You didn't say whether it's for a server or a workstation. If a workstation, try firestarter. If a server, give gShield a try . While it's not packaged for Debian

Re: mail archives

> - Publicly accessible/searchable archives = GOOD > - Harvestable email addrs = BAD Agreed. But wouldn't putting the archives in some password-protected directory with some publicly-available password suffice to hide the e-mail addresses yet still have them easily available? And tha

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

> Just tell a friend and don't buy anymore. It's all you can do. :-) I disagree. True, word of mouth is great, but a pointed letter to HP/Compaq would definitely be in order. Regards, . Randy -- "This [the Bush regime] is the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200

New magazine - Free Software Magazine

To go along with the new magazine thread, LXer is reporting the first issue of Free Software Magazine is out in both print and electronic formats. More information at: Regards, . Randy -- "It's done differently in El Salvador.

Re: Ask GNHLUG

> I have a laptop serving as firewall/router. The problem is that when I > shut the lid on the laptop, it goes to sleep and I can't connect to the > internet. How do I get it to stay awake when I shut the lid? What type of laptop is it? A lot of laptops have settings to control such things

Re: Linux-related job postings - Hopkinton NH School District

> Has any thought been given to using K12 LTSP? I was very impressed > with it at a conference in Dec. Very slick stuff. I agree. But just to annoy Ben :-), there's a Debian-based rival to K12LTSP which is in wide use in Europe (and other places). SkoleLinux

Re: cron job verification

> What is the best way to receive verification or otherwise check on > whether or not the job ran and if it ran to completion properly? Debian's cron jobs should e-mail you the output of the job. As per "man cron": "cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking

Re: Linux-related job postings - Hopkinton NH School District

> Has anyone contacted the state DOE and explained the security issues > involved here and why this is a very bad thing so that perhaps they > might pressure the testing contractor to use a more secure system. I know a couple of the DOE's tech consultants and I'll be amazed if someone could

Re: Linux-related job postings - Hopkinton NH School District

> I've seen a parallel situation elsewhere and it was because they had > one guy who was doing both jobs and was totally burned out and > threatened to quit for two years running if they didn't hire a second > person, and then finally quit, so they decided to hire a second person. This is v

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