Re: Out of office

2006-06-08 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote: Dan Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 06/08/2006 and will not return until 06/12/2006. Uh, o. Could somebody maybe temporarily unsubscribe this guy if his email system is going to SPAM the list

Linux Wireless

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Can anyone recommend a good wireless card for my laptop? It's an IBM A21m running Fedora Core release 3. I'm currently using a Lucent Technologies Orinoco Gold, but it's kinda bent since my laptop fell off the table and landed on edge on the card. I'd like something I can pickup instead of

LinuxWorld Bostom

2006-04-04 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Could someone please pick me up a Fedora Core 5 DVD if they have any tmorrow? I was there today and I was told they won't be getting any disks in until tomorrow. I'll glady pay any postage if needed. The only downside to my dial-up connection is I can't do big downloads. Thanks in advance!

Re: Linux Books and Software

2006-03-05 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Just an update: I'll be bringing all the books and software to the next CentraLUG meeting. After that, I will post a list of what's left for whoever wants it. -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Linux Books and Software

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I am cleaning my office and need to clear out a variety of software and books. I hate throwing this stuff away, so I thought I might pass it on here or at least get ideas where else I might send it. If nothing else, I'm sure the library will take some of it. Software: - Applixware 6.0 Office for

Re: Notebook Network Issues

2006-02-12 Thread Thomas M. Albright
OK, I still don't know what the problem is. The FA510 worked in RedHat 6.2, and 8.0 but just won't work in Fedora Core 3. I downloaded the PCMCIA package update (to a different computer) and used a disk to get it to the notebook. Once I upgrade PCMCIA, I tried again. Still got nothing

Re: Notebook Network Issues

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Ben said: Boot the machine with the card removed. Check the logs and/or dmesg for problems with PCMCIA. 'dmesg | grep -i pcmcia' came back empty So I tried restarting PCMCIA: /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart hutting down PCMCIA services: done. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr [2579]:

Notebook Network Issues

2006-02-07 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I have an old Acer Extensa 368D notebook computer I want to use as my router. I installed Fedora Core 3 and everthing went fine. Or so it seemed ... The network *says* it's running, but I can't get out! The card is a Netgear FA510 Restarting the PCMCIA gives me: Shutting down PCMCIA

Carn1v0re?

2006-01-24 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Fred wrote: What I am really concerned about is some ganster agency using a blanket sniffing technology like Carn1v0re, for instance, to do a broad sweep of packet gathering so they can sift through it later. I just wanna know, why didn't you just say Carnivore? --

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

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: BTW - If a ticket were to be issued based on EZ pass data how would it proved absolutely that the person who owns the EZ pass was the person driving whatever vehicle was going over the speed limit.Perhaps there are more than one dirver, perhaps the

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

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 16:13, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Your car should be your responsibility. If your friend can't drive resposibly, perhaps he shouldn't be driving your car. Same standard for my gun? Well ... yeah. In fact cars kill many more

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

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: That view is simplistic and does not address the more complicated realities, however. KISS Are rental car companies responsible for the speeding violations of those renting? No; note the difference between renting and borrowing. You are paying

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

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 19:12, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Well ... yeah. In fact cars kill many more people each year than guns. So if I leant a pistol to a friend (who was duly licensed) to go shoot at the range and he went and shot up a [insert

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

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, bryan wrote: Under this logic, if someone steals my car, then, since there's no paperwork I'm responsible for what the thief does with it. A police report is paperwork. and if I'm not, then why am I responsible when someone borrows it ? If I create a written

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

2005-10-25 Thread Thomas M. Albright
How about just boycotting Wal*Mart altogether? I haven't been to a Wal*Mart in (I think) 8 years. HP is not the problem. On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Randy Edwards wrote: 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

wireless question

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I have an IBM A21m ThinkPad running Fedora Core 2. I have a Proxim/Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless card It works just grand in windows, but I jucat can't seem to get Linux to see it. My wireless.opts file is: *,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:20:2D:*) INFO= ESSID= MODE= KEY= ;;

Re: wireless question

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Thomas M. Albright wrote: I have an IBM A21m ThinkPad running Fedora Core 2. I have a Proxim/Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless card It works just grand in windows, but I jucat can't seem to get Linux to see it. Found the problem. It's an 8420-WD, which is unsupported

Wireless Card for Sale

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I have an Orinoco Gold 802.11b PC-Card (Manufacturer Part # 8420-WD) I found out the hard way that it is not linux compatible. I'd like to get $45 for it. Or trade for an linux-compatible one. :) -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed,

Re: inetd help

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 20:46, TARogue wrote: Jun 1 19:09:38 gore inetd[467]: pid 21168: exit status 1 That means one of the processes inetd launched exited with a bad status. In this case, inetd is process # 467 and the process that caused the

Computer Upgrade Question

2005-04-21 Thread Thomas M. Albright
OK, I bought a new computer. However, rather than redownload/reinstall/reconfigure everything I just moved in my old harddrive. here's where it grows curiouser and curiouser. Th new computer has a SATA harddrive I want to keep for data storage, etc. It's currently the primary hard drive at

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Mark Komarinski wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Fred wrote: Another negative is that it is in Massachusetts, and on top of the low salary you get to pay in mass taxes that of which you receive no material benefit from (unless you live in Mass,

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas M. Albright
One quick follow-up: do you mean Upstate NY (W. of Albany) or Downstate (E. of Albany, not the City)? Having grown up in Rochester, NY, I get a bit uppity hearing people from Eastern NY saying they're Upstate just beacause they don't live in the City. Yeah, I'm biased. -- TARogue (Linux user

Re: Why Intuit should have an Open Source version of QuickBooks...

2004-11-10 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/05/HNsmboffice_1.html So why should Intuit have an Open Source version of QuickBooks? Because Microsoft is doing it? I think he means a Linux version. Closed source would be fine if it ran natively.

Re: Bookstores [Was: Re: Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]]

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Ted Roche wrote: snip We live in interesting times! Isn't that a Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times. -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. -Madame De Stael, writer

Re: GNHLUG Nashua meeting, next Wed., May 26, Marthas

2004-05-21 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Rob Lembree wrote: What: Introduction to Fedora Who: Justin Seiferth Where: Martha's Exchange, Nashua, NH, second floor Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 Time: Presentation at 7:30 PM; dinner starts around 6:00 PM Justin Seiferth will present an introduction

Re: Problem

2004-04-21 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Travis Roy wrote: Mark Komarinski wrote: I'm not sure if this is MA wide (I forget what other towns did) but my town has scantron-ish forms that you may remember from the SAT. Get the paper ballot, fill in the ovals with a marker, run it through the scanner on the

Re: Meeting times and locations (was: How 'bout them Linux ...)

2004-02-04 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, at 9:20am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The location and/or time of the meeting can be a detriment. That's why you'll never see me at Martha's. Elaborate, please. Is it the geographical locale, the general atmosphere, or the

Re: Laptop Speakewr Problem

2004-02-04 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, at 9:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why, but I no longer havce sound on my laptop in Linux. I started typing up an elaborate message about investigating sound hardware, but then it occurred to me that it might

Re: Laptop Speakewr Problem

2004-02-04 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, at 9:39am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started typing up an elaborate message about investigating sound hardware, but then it occurred to me that it might be something a lot simpler. Run aumix. Are any of your levels

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jon maddog Hall wrote: What do you look for in GNHLUG? Advice and assistance with linux. (Like fixing the sound on my laptop.) What brings you to a meeting? Either a good topic or a good speaker. (Like fixing the sound on my laptop.) What drives you away from a

Laptop Speakewr Problem

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I'm not sure why, but I no longer havce sound on my laptop in Linux. I used to have sound. I still have sound when I boot into XP. The only lines relevent in /var/log/messages (that I find) are: kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:05.0 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0 kernel: PCI:

Laptop Speakewr Problem

2004-01-24 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I'm not sure why, but I no longer havce sound on my laptop in Linux. I used to have sound. I still have sound when I boot into XP. The only lines relevent in /var/log/messages (that I find) are: kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:05.0 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0 kernel: PCI:

mplayer help

2004-01-15 Thread Thomas M. Albright
mplayer works fine for me from the command line, but when I try using the GUI version, (gmplayer,) which is part of the mplayer installation, I get an error: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Any tips of how I can make this work? Thanks! Tom -- TARogue

adm and address blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I find amusing that the adm account on this machine has a mailbox full of spam. Amusing tho it may be, how can I stop it from happening? Additionally, i've been getting attacked from ipt.aol.com. They own the address range from 172.128.0.0 - 172.211.255.255 What would be the netmask to block a

RE: adm and address blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Travis Roy wrote: I find amusing that the adm account on this machine has a mailbox full of spam. Amusing tho it may be, how can I stop it from happening? You can use some kind of spam blocking software. Anything from spamassassin to a white-list style. What if I

ogg2mp3?

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Is there such an app? I'm going on a road-trip and I have an mp3 player. Unfortunately, all of my ripped music is in .ogg format. Is there a better way than re-ripping everything? Thanks! -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) We shall never conquer Ireland while the Bards are there.

Re: Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software

2003-07-14 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Perhaps Walmart will sue SCO into oblivion and clear up the mess being made. They've got the financial resources to do it. Excpet that WalMart is a worse monster than SCO. SCO sues individual companies. WalMart sued the state of Vermont when

Re: Audio CD Creating

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 28 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Tue, 27 May 2003 20:53:20 EDT Thomas M. Albright said: Can anyone tell me of a good program that i can give a list of files to and it will make a music cd out of? Are the .ogg files individual songs, or are they small

Re: Audio CD Creating

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Wed, 28 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use GUI tools for this sort of thing, and it seemed that was desired, so I didn't respond to the OP. But, if command-line tools will do, the general form will be something like this: CLI is just fine. ogg123 -d wav -f song1.wav

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-30 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Derek Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:26:11PM -0500, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Last time I checked, Comcast's business rate is more than twice their residential rate yet still suffers from the same no server

Benson, NH, and open source (fwd)

2002-12-09 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Here's a thought ... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:56:29 -0500 (EST) From: David R. Dick To: Thomas M. Albright Subject: Benson, NH, and open source Now that Benson is talking about the state's computer systems (27 different ones) and the need to integrate

Update Hell

2002-10-28 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I just updated the kernel on my (Red Hat 6.2) laptop. The only kernel packages needing updating were kernel, kernel-pcmcia-cs, and kernel-utils. I did them, rewrote lilo, reran lilo, then rebooted. Now pcmcia won't start. Argh! Can anyone help? This is what is being reported when I try to start

Re: Update Hell

2002-10-28 Thread Thomas M. Albright
I need to make a few points, I guess. kernel-2.2.22 may be an old kernel, but 2.2.22-6.2.2 is the latest patched version of the kernel. If not for the local exploit, I'd happily still be running 2.2.19-6.2.16 I never have, and God willing, I never will, build a kernel. If there is no rpm,

Re: Update Hell

2002-10-28 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please post the output of the following commands: rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.2.19-6.2.16 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-6.2.16 kernel-2.2.22-6.2.2 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.22-6.2.2 kernel-utils-2.2.22-6.2.2 uname -a Linux

Re: bash question

2002-09-23 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:37:40 EDT Thomas M. Albright said: If the due date is greater than today, it outputs the message Due in x days. If the due date is less than today I get a message saying You are -x days past due. How

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-19 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, mike ledoux wrote: I'm curious; just how do you identify if a system is Debian or Red Hat? I've yet to find a reliable method. cat /etc/redhat-release. if it doesn't work, you're not using redhat. :) -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) When you have an efficient

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-18 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On 17 Aug 2002, Paul Iadonisi wrote: snip Add to that the fact that Red Hat's latest beta, Limbo2 ... snip I tried to go look at, maybe download, the new beta but all I got were empty directories. I don't suppose you have some .iso's or maybe even actual cd's we (actually I) could borrow?