RE: The National DO-NOT-CALL list is ACTIVE!!!

2003-06-27 Thread Travis Roy
AFAICT, today's opening is for customers WEST of the Mississippi, and that us Easterners will have to wait a bit. The website works for anybody, it's just the phone number that doesn't work in the east. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL

RE: The National DO-NOT-CALL list is ACTIVE!!!

2003-06-27 Thread Travis Roy
You can get money from these people... http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/telemarketing/ Buddy of mine got some.. You just have to remember these simple rules.. - Log the Date/Time of the call - Get the -FULL- name of the person calling you, if they're a legit telemarketer they have to by law -

NeXT slab with monitor gotta go

2003-06-19 Thread Travis Roy
I have a NeXT color slab with monitor/keyboard/mouse that's gotta go, I need the room more then the 'puter. It has NeXT Step 3.2 on it, I haven't booted it in ages and I think the install is a bit hosed. Free to whoever wants it.. I live in Manchester, NH.. Work in Salisbury, MA.. You can pick

RE: ISP TOS violations

2003-06-18 Thread Travis Roy
When M1/ATT blocked port 80 during code red everybody moaned and bitched.. They eventually lifted the block but one of my friends didn't get lifted, he still had a blocked port 80, so did everybody on his node.. Well, to make a long story short, he called about it and now he forever has port 80

RE: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Travis Roy
The only document I ever signed was the Continental Cablevision document. Somewhere in my archives I may have email from a VP authorizing an internal network. I could probably use that if Comcast starts playing hardball but it would be more like, our agreement supercedes that, cease and

RE: SCO Thread that will never die (was Re: Maddog at work.)

2003-06-04 Thread Travis Roy
Yeah, I've never quite gotten this either. You declare it as a trade secret, but don't file a patent on it because that would release the trade secret to the public. But without the patent, in theory, you have no protection. So, what good does declaring it a 'trade secret' do you if anyone

RE: BitTorrent

2003-04-04 Thread Travis Roy
I have to agree.. BitTorrent is GREAT. That's how I got my RH9 ISOs and it is very fast. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Macdonald Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BitTorrent Hi, Trying to download

Fwd: aol.com - work around

2003-04-03 Thread Travis Roy
FYI for a workaround Begin forwarded message: From: kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Apr 3, 2003 7:37:46 PM US/Eastern To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: aol.com On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:07, Jon Vincent wrote: Ok, for a workaround to aol blocking dynamic IPs from relaying, just do this (if

RE: Curious ..

2003-03-28 Thread Travis Roy
I've noticed the market get slowly better and better.. All my friends that lost their jobs now have tech jobs.. Same with me. Sure, they don't pay as much, but they're jobs and we all still make okay money. Everybody I know now works for a company that sells a real product or service and not some

RE: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-24 Thread Travis Roy
It's either a version leap (keep the version number close to other Linux dists).. Why would I buy Linux 8 from this RedHat company when I can get Linux 9 from this other company (I know it's wrong, but people looking at a box and know nothing about linux). Or, it's VERY close to April 1st (for

RE: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-24 Thread Travis Roy
Was 8.0 that bad that only another .0 release could fix it? That would be my guess.. Their BlueCurve thing didn't go over to well.. Plus it can't play or encode MP3s out of the box.. not that it's hard to fix, but it was annoying. 8.0 is also EXTREAMLY bloated. There were some things I liked

Re: Koffice under Redhat 8

2003-03-23 Thread Travis Roy
That is odd.. did you check redhat's bugzilla.. Perhaps try the rawhide rpms from rpmfind.net One quesion.. Why Koffice over Abiword and the rest of the gnome stuff.. I found going from MS Word to Abiword to be much easier then going to Koffice.. - Original Message - From: Cole Tuininga

RE: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
- Are you using WEP (Worthless Encryption Protocol, AKA Wireless Equivalent Privacy)? If so, what is the key? Yes, and see above :( Well, if WEP was any good, that would be a problem. Fortunately, however, WEP sucks. Get the right software, and you should be able to crack the key in

RE: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
So rather then just deleting something he's not interested in and keeping his mouth shut we'll have a debate about this on the list that will generate 100x more traffic :) Not that I care, I didn't even listen to the tune. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
I like fudge. FIREWIRE ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

RE: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-19 Thread Travis Roy
Most work fine, since it's Prism2 based you probably won't have a problem.. Please keep in mind that the newest orinoco_cs drivers will work with prism2 cards. Another pointer is that you might have problems with the card not turning on (I've seen this with d-link cards) and you have to disable

Re: IBM Thinkpad 600

2003-03-19 Thread Travis Roy
Alright.. I just finished my install on my Thinkpad 600.. This was with RH7.3 Video was autoprobed, always good.. Wireless networking needed one thing added to the modules.conf.. options orinoco_cs ignore_cis_vcc=1 This was to stop something with the voltage from happening.. The d-link cards

RE: IBM Thinkpad 600

2003-03-18 Thread Travis Roy
Hah, I just got one recently.. the little trackpoint thing was broken and I have a new keyboard on the way.. Anyway.. Thinkpads are very linux friendly. The nice thing about the 600 is that it has 3 buttons making X that much better. One thing to remember.. do NOT use lmsensors on a thinkpad

Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'

2003-02-21 Thread Travis Roy
They're just switching to openfirmware.. Apple and Sun have been using it for years. it works, it's easy, it's open, it's customizable. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Intel

Wireless Stuff (Regulation)

2003-02-21 Thread Travis Roy
http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/1135751 The interesting part: Most WISP operators look at the back of a piece of equipment, see the FCC label and say, 'all right, looks good, I'll buy it,' and put it in their network, Anderson said. What many don't realize is that the system, in

Deregulation, DSL Providers and Verizon

2003-02-21 Thread Travis Roy
So on my way home I was listening to NHPR. They had some guy from Verizon talking about that FCC thing the other day about the deregulation and how they didn't have to sell their lines to other ISPS.. Well it turns out that it only applies to NEW infrastructure, not what's there already.. The

Re: CD-Rs?

2003-02-12 Thread Travis Roy
If those are the Memorex ones then I've used them.. The work fine. My favs were the Verbatium ones that Sams used to sell, I have a hard time finding them now adays. On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I just discovered over the weekend that I've run out of CD-R

RE: Adverts (was: Funny Linux animation)

2003-01-30 Thread Travis Roy
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, at 10:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the best way for a site to make money is to sell a real product. ... Slashdot is under the same umbrella company as thinkgeek and they sell cool (but usually overpriced) stuff. Incredible. You assert that the best

RE: CUPS under RH 7.3/8.0

2003-01-30 Thread Travis Roy
I just wanted to add for those of you that have not used CUPS it's GREAT I've been using it since I first found it probably 2 years ago. For those of you that have OSX 10.2, the printing system is CUPS, hold down the option key when you go to add a printer in the print-tool and you can print to

Re: Funny Linux animation

2003-01-29 Thread Travis Roy
What's really funny is next week half the people in the list (including some that thought this flash animation was funny) will be bitching about how much flash sucks and it's a waste of bandwidth. On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 02:15, Bill Mullen wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Karl J. Runge wrote: I

RE: Adverts (was: Funny Linux animation)

2003-01-29 Thread Travis Roy
Having worked for an internet advertising company I can say that if a site goes thru something like double-click, Burstmedia, or whatever is out there now I can tell you the content provider is getting screwed. Things like http://www.httpads.com/ or getting something like PHPAdsNew and dealing

Re: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Roy
This is certainly not authoritative but I've heard that, despite the ruling that ordered the telcos to allow their competitors (CLECs ?) access to their COs, many DSL providers routinely found that access denied or impeded such that they were obliged to waste time and money on hiring

Re: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-23 Thread Travis Roy
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 09:37, Jason Stephenson wrote: Yeah, I agree with Ben. The market is correcting itself. I'm paying $99 a month for SDSL, and I don't even get that high a speed: 144kbps up and down. However, I don't have the onerous restrictions that Verizon and other providers slap on

RE: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
I certainly was aware that Comcast had bought ATT broadband. For some reason I assumed that since ATT owned the ATTBI.COM domain name that customers wouldn't need to change their email addresses. But apparently that's not true. Has anyone heard anything different? Given that we had to

RE: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
There are also hints that they will be raising prices again. Considering that ATT just did this within the last couple of months, it's a bit amazing. Maybe they subscribe (no pun intended) to the What the market will bear school of marketing. Maybe they haven't heard that a lot of high

RE: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
It continues to amaze me how short people's memories are. It was not long ago at all that an Internet feed of the speed you get from a cable ISP would cost you thousands of dollars per month. Not that I am in any way defending the ATT/Comcast monopoly; I just don't understand how

RE: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
Ah yes, but why, after a pile of telecommunications companies went bankrupt laying thousands of miles of buried fibre-optics cables are we still talking about dial-up connections? What *does* it cost to deliver high speed? For that matter, I think copper/fibre is passé. It should be

RE: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
I never said it was cheap ... [ then, later on in the same paragraph ] ... Cable Internet should be dirt cheap for them to provide ... Which is it? Cheap to get started from SCRATCH.. ATT already has a HUGE setup already in place reselling T's and having peers so they didn't even have

RE: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
Providing two-way packet-switched unicast data services is a *completely different* scenario. It isn't. Or, it is... but the same head end does both, over the same coax. So it doesn't matter. Exactly! They needed to redo the cable plant to offer just one of the three services they

RE: High Speed Internet costs (was: Email hosting)

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The exsiting ISP, be it Vitts, MV, Joe Blow local ISP, they should already have ISP backbone equipment in place for their dialups. Just because a business is already in possession of something doesn't mean you can call it free.

RE: Email hosting (was: ATTBI/Comcast rant)

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Roy
Look, Verizon may be a bunch of incompetent morons (they are), but the fact that it takes them a month to provision a line doesn't mean everyone goes out of business. It's take years for DSL to reach general availability; an additional month isn't going to make a difference. That's

Re: filtering Flash?

2003-01-20 Thread Travis Roy
I'm fed up with Flash. I resent it when somebody hijacks my computer by executing something on it that I can't control, and that's precisely what MacroMedia had in mind when they made it possible for somebody to create some irritating Flash thingy that refuses to allow me to stop it. I

RE: filtering Flash?

2003-01-20 Thread Travis Roy
What I don't get is why the developers of Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror, etc. don't add the kind of filtering for Java, Javascript, Flash, or any/all plugins on a per site basis ala the cookie managers in each. In Pheonix and Mozilla if you go to the prefs, then Advanced under JavaScript you

Re: Hard drive needs low-level format?

2003-01-20 Thread Travis Roy
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:19, Hewitt Tech wrote: That's why I mirrored the disk and replaced it but I have a very uneasy feeling about the durability of the drive. I'm quite unimpressed with having to do this with an ostensibly new technology ATA drive. I wouldn't worry to much, just re-format

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-20 Thread Travis Roy
Was this a college course? My experience and second-hand knowledge (which obviously is not all-inclusive by any means) is that Intro to Unix courses at colleges don't involve installs. And IMO, nor should they. Installations are appropriate for intro sysadmin courses, but the average user

RE: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-19 Thread Travis Roy
Learning how to install from scratch? Learning how to install software packages from source or from rpm/deb/tgz packages? Yup. Included is dpkg, apt, kdevelop, gcc 2.95 *and* 3.2, and enough devel packages to compile any apps you'd be likely to attempt in an intro class. Using that

RE: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-19 Thread Travis Roy
I was under the impression that we were discussing its use in an Intro to Unix course; I wouldn't expect the installation from scratch of a Linux distro to be a part of that course. I would think that the basic *nix system structure and philosophy, some common shell commands, how to use

RE: Blade based systems

2003-01-14 Thread Travis Roy
1) Pros and Cons? Is there anything I need to know regarding blade style servers in general? Backplane breaks and you're screwed.. That would be my only concern. Not enough space for some 1U rack mounted servers? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

RE: [Centralug] 1/14 Centralug Meeting POSTPONED

2003-01-13 Thread Travis Roy
I've come down with some stomach bug all you'd have to do is get the key from me. Oh yah, and catch that stomach bug NO THANKS ;-) j/k, hope you get better soon. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone heard of an open source tool to read ISO images?

2003-01-09 Thread Travis Roy
I just ran across a tool called undisker at www.undisker.com that is supposed to be able to read from a .iso image file. Normally you would use a CD burner to burn the image to a CD but this tool allows you to read the contents of the .iso file. You can extract one or more files from the .iso

Re: Handling inbound calls while dialed-up

2003-01-08 Thread Travis Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) writes: Can somebody supply (or point to) an explanation of the mechanics that make it possible for a dialed-up peecee to receive notification of inbound calls? My understanding is that the trick here is for the modem (or whatever) to recognize

Re: Handling inbound calls while dialed-up

2003-01-08 Thread Travis Roy
AFAIK, a normal POTS line is not capable of this. DSL and cable modems very well could be, especially if he has a digital phone system running over his cable as from ATT cable. the digital cable/phone/interenet over cable all run over different parts of the spectrum. You can almost think of

Re: Data conversion

2003-01-08 Thread Travis Roy
I did. Travis Roy wrote: You must of missed the from a command line. part.. I need to do this from a prompt. But Open/StarOffice are X apps. Even if they have a command line converion program to compile OpenOffice would require Xlibs to compile (that are not installed

RE: Data conversion

2003-01-08 Thread Travis Roy
Putting data out in a formatted setup is easy once you know the max length of the record. I understand that you want to figure out the max length of each entry in each field and then add one - you can do this one of two ways. Read the entire thing into memory (does not scale for large

Moving Files (Again)

2003-01-07 Thread Travis Roy
Okay, so I'm mirroring Mame.dk for the roms to shove into my mame box (http://scootz.net/~travis/gallery/arcadecab) Now, it uses some php script or something to randomize stuff to basically make it a pain in the ass.. Here's an example: [travis@scootz cur]$ ls stellcas.zip [travis@scootz cur]$

Re: Moving Files (Again)

2003-01-07 Thread Travis Roy
I forget if you are one of the ones who considers spaces stange characters, but that general method breaks with filenames with spaces. I general find that instead of: When did I say that spaces were strange? Or were you talking to somebody else.. Anyway, none of the files that I am moving

Re: GPG? What is this?

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Roy
Why doesn't it look like GPG? What does GPG look like? They more typical GPG/PGP sig looks like this: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQA+E2E6/TBScWXa5IgRAuTrAJ97X850CVvq05FSq4Q0OUBsDoZ/vACWJ0jK

Re: Spaces in file names (was: Hardware music players)

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Roy
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, at 11:33am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'm the only guy on the list who *likes* spaces in my music file names. ;-) Spaces in file names are EVIL :) No, shell scripts that don't quote their arguments are evil. ;-) Threads that don't die that should have 3

Help! (Frontpage Database Extensions?)

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Roy
My boss just asked me to install Frontpage Database Extensions I can't find anything about it on the linux side of Frontpage. Frontpage Extensions is already installed on the box, is there anyway I can use MySQL or something? Just to see what I'm dealing with: Me: is this what you're talking

Re: Help! (Frontpage Database Extensions?)

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Roy
He doesn't know what it is, but he knows he needs it? Of course! What's even worse is that the programmer doesn't know what it is either. Probably just using some generic thing that comes with front page. Guy is probably getting more then me too. I've offered to re-do the pages with PHP and

Re: Hardware music players (was: Moving files)

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Roy
I obviously said some stuff wrong.. Let me clear it up. In a message dated: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:59:20 EST Travis Roy said: In a message dated: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:34:22 EST Mark Komarinski said: I'm not *that* anal about my music. I just want to hear it. but if you've got

GPG? What is this?

2003-01-03 Thread Travis Roy
Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE What's that Key fingerprint, with all the earlier talk about GPG I'm curious.. It doesn't look like GPG ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Linux Telephone Systems?

2003-01-03 Thread Travis Roy
I'd like to have the ability to have the incoming calls use callerid data to display customers information when they call. Just a webpage that gets updated ever 3 mins or somthing, depending on call volume. This should be possible, I know somebody that hacked some CallerID stuff into his

Re: mail-archive.com dropping some GNHLUG lists?

2002-12-31 Thread Travis Roy
Until yesterday I got 5 hits when I searched for gnhlug in the list of lists at mail-archive.com: http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php?hunt=gnhlug ...but today I see only 3. Anybody know anything about that? Is there a definitive GNHLUG archive? Is it at gnhlug.org? I've always

RE: GPG testing...

2002-12-30 Thread Travis Roy
This was EXACTLY my point as to why GPG/PGP for signing email is currently flawed the way it works now. Case in point: This discussion originated as a discussion about using digital signatures to counter spam. Since digital signatures, on today's Internet, are relatively uncommon, they

RE: GPG testing...

2002-12-29 Thread Travis Roy
You should probably ask what is meant by that before you rush to such conclusions... In two messages in this thread you seem in quite a hurry to bash PGP... The key servers are not a security risk to PGP users or broken in any serious sense (that I'm aware of). However most of them do

RE: GPG testing...

2002-12-28 Thread Travis Roy
Isn't one of the points of GPG to validate that the person you're talking to is really who they say they are? GPG allows me to do that, by signing my e-mails. If it's not signed, then it's not from me. I used pgp for a while and I actually found it more of a hassle explaining to people

RE: GPG testing...

2002-12-28 Thread Travis Roy
-0500 Received: from mkomarinski by shaft with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18SSd9-00019J-00; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:52:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:52:43 -0500 From: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GPG testing

Re: Red hat 8.0

2002-12-24 Thread Travis Roy
I don't mean to start a flame, but I am curious if others find Red Hat 8.0 desktop a little too cute. I can understand why it is nice for people just moving to Linux from Windows, but the default desktop has a feel to it that seems a little too cute and keeps one at a distance from the meat

Re: DSL Provider of Choice

2002-12-24 Thread Travis Roy
I just wanted to add to what was said by saying that not all DSL providers are Linux friendly I wonder just how legal this is.. I know some places are like that. There's a lot of stuff that spreads around that isn't true. I'm sure Ben B. can correct me on this if I'm wrong but for the longest

RE: DSL Provider of Choice

2002-12-24 Thread Travis Roy
Another promising, if somewhat immature (in terms of infrastructure), technology is fixed wireless [5]. ISP puts a tower on a hill. You hang a wok on your wall. Been there, done that.. Wok's don't work well for antennas because they're to deep

Re: ISO Ripping

2002-12-23 Thread Travis Roy
*I* can use dd. Or mkisofs, or any other command line. However, this is for people that are Windows users. A lot of my users rip IOS images off of CD's and put them out on an FTP site. I'm trying to make it easier for them by setting up a system where thay can put in a CD, rip the ISO, and

RE: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Travis Roy
the mua needs to be able to leave pop messages on the server E. I agree, I use IMAP now, but I used to use pop.. Why would you ever leave messages on the server if you're using pop mail, unless of course you're doing so to get it in another location.. But then you use IMAP

RE: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Travis Roy
Why does the browser need to be tied to the email program? because of the amount of rich-format mail i receive. bopping between application windows sucketh excessively imho. But there are rich-format email clients out there that are not tied into the browser.. Outlook, Outlook Express,

RE: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Travis Roy
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:08:06PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does the browser need to be tied to the email program? because of the amount of rich-format mail i receive. bopping between application windows sucketh excessively imho.

RE: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Travis Roy
If not, I've found on nice trick when swapping MUAs is to use an IMAP server as a go-between, if both MUAs support IMAP. That is, copy the messages from the old MUA to the IMAP server, and then copy them from the IMAP server to local storage with the new MUA. It has worked pretty

RE: scp to directory w/o execute permissions

2002-12-11 Thread Travis Roy
Sorry Charlie. =8^) (Remember those old StarKist ads?) I should have known. And yes I remember those ads very well, thanks. :-) I don't, you guys must be old ;) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RH, a wireless network, Linksys and an IBM ThinkPad

2002-12-10 Thread Travis Roy
Hello, I'm in the process of connecting my IBM ThinkPad 390X laptop running RH 7.2 to a Linksys wireless network. Is anyone aware of a brand of wireless PCMCIA that I can use and that is an easy install? I'm new to networking with Linux and would appreciate any assistance. You should come

Re: securing pop3 transactions

2002-12-10 Thread Travis Roy
Free (as in beer) SSH clients are available for pretty much every major platform (and many minor ones) at this point. So to email clients that support POP3S and IMAPS :) OpenSSH works for Linux, Unix, and MacOS X. For Windows, check out Putty. Not to mention mindterm, a java SSH client

Re: securing pop3 transactions

2002-12-10 Thread Travis Roy
Well, yes, but the selection of clients that support POP/IMAP-over-SSL is much smaller than the selection of clients that do not. What ones don't? Every recent version of Outlook and Outlook express does, Eudora does, along with OSX's Mail client, Evolution, Mutt, Balsa, Mozilla, The Bat,

Follow up to tonights meeting

2002-12-10 Thread Travis Roy
Here's the links I said I would get you Driver set up for orinoco_cs driver to put the card into monitor mode (this will work for Prism2 cards as well) http://www.wardriving.info/live/print.php?sid=8 Mikes site if you would like to buy an antenna or pre-modified d-link card:

Re: Ripping OGG files (was Re: can't mount cdrom)

2002-12-09 Thread Travis Roy
I see one. Occasionally, you run across albums such as Pink Floyd's The Wall where, I believe, there are separate tracks, but the music doesn't necessarily stop between tracks. It doesn't when you rip them either. It's the player that causes the gap in them with time it takes to load the

Upcoming 12/10 meeting

2002-12-06 Thread Travis Roy
Hello, just wanted to go over the meeting a bit. Mike is going to talk about antenna design and theory, how WiFi basically works and the type of things you can expect when you try to set up a wireless network. I'll be going into the fun stuff ;) Basics on Manchester Wireless, how it currently

RE: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

2002-12-06 Thread Travis Roy
Lastly, even a Linux box with some design flaws is more secure than a comparable Windows box. ;-) What, like having it default to having it auto login as root? That's a HUGE security issue and one of the main reasons windows viruses work so well since they have total control of the system.

RE: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

2002-12-05 Thread Travis Roy
They have been doing this for a while.. Few things about it.. They use mini-ITX motherboard, I recently got one, they're neat, you can see what people have done with them at mini-itx.com. They also come with Lindows, something I'm not to thrilled about.. They had some tweaked version of WINE and

RE: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4

2002-11-22 Thread Travis Roy
When openoffice saves as .doc, you won't have all that hidden data in the file. I bet abiword does this too. If it's not in the native format, it won't get saved. I hope any lawyer I word with a) doesn't give out electronic copies of its files and b) doesn't use word. Open/StarOffice

Tech Brew in Manchester tonight

2002-11-21 Thread Travis Roy
Thought some of you might be interested: http://www.nh.com/ftp/techbrew/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Should a scanned image under Linux and Windows look similiar?

2002-11-21 Thread Travis Roy
http://www.totalnetnh.net/~lamb/scan_windows.jpg http://www.totalnetnh.net/~lamb/scan_linux.jpg Well, the look the same except the linux one has NO red in it. it's like it got filtered out some how. Is it a 3 pass color scanner? ___ gnhlug-discuss

RE: RH update

2002-11-16 Thread Travis Roy
Hahaha, that's what you get for using a .0 release of RH ;) Have you booted into just text mode and tried doing an up2date to see if there's any new packages.. That's what I'd start with. I had a problem like that with 7.0 (but it wasn't with X it was with something else) Once you get that all

RE: RH update

2002-11-16 Thread Travis Roy
it's OSX 10.2) -Original Message- From: Ben Boulanger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 6:42 PM To: Chris Cc: Travis Roy; 'gnhlug Group' Subject: Re: RH update Hey Chris, Don't pay attention to Travis's laugh - he runs windows. What

Manchester Wireless ON-LINE!

2002-11-14 Thread Travis Roy
Just an FYI, and for the people that came to the last meeting.. http://signull.com/manchwireless/ Or http://www.manchesterwireless.org (waiting for DNS to do it's thing, probably work tomorrow) Stay tuned for our presentation on WiFi :) ___

RE: Freedom Downtime [was: Kevin Mitnick speaking at Marlboro Softpro tonight... (fwd)]

2002-11-13 Thread Travis Roy
Okay, here's my little 2600 rant :) 2600 used to be a good magazine, but now all they are is a political front that is a bit to extreme for me. The magazine and the radio show they have used to be all about hacking, messing around with stuff, and just general fun with computer and electronics.

RE: running Linux at work with Windows apps

2002-11-08 Thread Travis Roy
How well do they work.. Sure they can work and suck, but are they just as good as they would be on a windows box.. Also what video card and xserver are you running? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin;mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Ben Boulanger

RE: Centralug Meeting Nov. 12

2002-11-02 Thread Travis Roy
Hey, just an FYI. I'll be attending with a buddy of mine, Mike Spenard. If you have any questions about WiFi stuff (specifically antenna questions) then feel free to ask. Perhaps we can get him to do a presentation on WiFi security and stuff like that at some point :) Mike is owner and operator

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