On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Andrew Hoying wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While going though the busybox options, I saw that you could turn on Minix
> version 2 file system support. I checked and Oxygen currently is using
> version one, and I'd guess the other distributions are as well. Is there any
> advantages t
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Everyone,
> Please take a look at the new proposed format for our DocManager documents.
> I don't want to start modifying the rest of our FAQs until I get some
> feedback on this format. Thanks.
>
> Why does the DocManager...
> http://sourceforge.net/do
grumble... content... grumble... subject... grumble... price of matzoh
balls in china... asleep at the keyboard...
[... discussion of helpfile formats omitted ...]
;)
---
Jeff NewmillerThe .
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Andrew Hoying wrote:
> David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > Andrew Hoying wrote:
[...]
> > Using vfat instead of msdos is another possibility... for longer
> > filenames.
>
> I'm a big proponent of moving to VFat, we'll just have to find a new small
> boot loader.
We do? Why not
On 13 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey, I bought a disk notcher so I could double side my 5-1/4" floppy
> disks. I saved SO much money. ROFL
I saved more than you... I used an exacto knife I already had lying
around. I thought the 3.5" floppy format was a conspiracy by the disk
manufac
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Hilton Travis wrote:
>
> > Are those the 8" floppy disks?
I think the 8" floppy disks never held more than 250KB at most, anyway.
Now where are these floppys with 800M free? And is that 800MB or 800Mb?
-
Anyone have any thoughts on http://www.netlinos.org?
It seems ... thin. Build a website and they will come. Full-page ad in
LJ, but the online press release is dated 6/12/2001, so it is kind of
behind the curve. I could see it becoming a useful site, if it can get
rid of its strong Cyclades co
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Greg Morgan wrote:
[...]
> I just came across some Redhat documentation. It's Appendix A in the
> "Red Hat Linux 7.1: The Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide".
> There's a reference for almost everything. It starts here:
> http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> >> > I've also downloaded the CD's, but it seems that something is wrong
> with
> >> > CD1...
> >> >
> >> > It should boot, but I get nothing.
> >>
> >> Hmm...I just tried booting mine and I get a lilo prompt...
>
> >I have a 1.2 and 2.0(2disks), and
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > I've also downloaded the CD's, but it seems that something is wrong with
> > CD1...
> >
> > It should boot, but I get nothing.
>
> Hmm...I just tried booting mine and I get a lilo prompt...
I have a 1.2 and 2.0(2disks), and the former will bo
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Everyone,
> You may find this article of interest.
>
> Wacky uses for Raid, /dev/ram, and ramfs
> http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July2001/article210.shtml
Interesting bits about ramfs.
RAID seems particularly pointless with ramdisks.
He may find htt
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> One extra thought!
>
> MD5 checksums ARE OK!!!
>
> Bye!
>
>
> p.s. Charles, if you managed to boot it, can you privately send me the boot
> floppy?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Luis.F.Correia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday,
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Mike Sensney wrote:
> At 09:53 AM 06/15/2001 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote
[...]
> >Good point. I'm using the leaf-announce list to post security
> >bullitins. I admit, I haven't done a great job. Do we need a separate
> >list for security announcements, or are you suggesting som
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
[...]
> What most people want - a blackbox that you plug in and turn on and
> forget - it just isn't going to happen:
>
> 1. Too many variables: do you want a VPN? Shell access? Proxy?
> DMZ? Web Cache? Web server? SNMP? Web statistics? Name se
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Scott C. Best, 2001-06-13 23:25 -0700
> > Heyaz. So, I went to the LEAF site today trying to
> >imagine myself as a new LRP user who's going there for the
> >first time.
> > And it strikes me...where's the distro? IMO, front¢er
> >links to
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > We need to be careful here. Silence does not equal assent, and many of the
> > important participants in LEAF have been most notable for their silence on
> > this thread.
>
> I'd like to speak up myself. I would also like to
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, KP [iso-8859-1] Kirchdörfer wrote:
> Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 23:09 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler:
>
> > - Use the ramlog package instead of the log package...this puts the logs on
> > a seperate ramdisk, avoiding the full ramdisk issues, which are the most
> > likely thing t
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Be aware that kernels go with the set of modules compiled with
> > them. There are exceptions to this rule, but the safest bet is to make
> > sure the kernel and modules you use came together.
>
> I always suspected the
On Tue, 22 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> George Metz wrote:
>
> > That's a lot of wordplay in there. I think that Oxygen/2 should actually
> > be Oxygen System/2, but that's just me. =)
>
> I thought "/2" was copyrighted by IBM :-(
>
> > I personally like Oxygen: Ozone Edition for the next
On Tue, 8 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> I've managed to get the lrp/ directory and Makefile near completion.
> It relies on some shell scripts contained in the same directory. My
> goal is (after compiling source):
I have visions of a cloud saying *and a miracle occurs* and then we
proceed
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Charles Steinkuehler, 2001-05-03 13:22 -0500
> > > It might be a good idea to gather together on a weekend sometime. We
> > > could call it a Silicon Valley LEAF Developers Group (SVLDG) meeting.
> > > We need a place that is accessible by public transporta
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ewald Wasscher wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> > What I had in mind was to do the same thing, but with patched sources
> > - and thus then create a package at the same time.
> >
> I would like to keep the lrp-specific things as seperate as possible
> from the or
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jack Coates wrote:
> Satellite, Frame Relay, and ISDN -- ridiculously expensive. I can
> justify about $100 a month for >=128 Kbps. I did think about sharing
> with the neighbors for a few minutes, but I don't really need to add
> bill collection and technical support to my l
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Ray added/updated the ping FAQs in DocManager sec07. Please review them if
> you have time.
> https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=13751
I seem to recall something like:
Ping type 4: Ping returns immediately with "Destination (host|net) is
unreachab
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, George Metz wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
>
> > Jack Coates, 2001-04-21 16:08 -0700
> > >I just hunted through my module archives and I've never built it as a
> > >module...
> > >
> > >I also did a google search, but the only ones I turned up in reasonable
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 18:03 -0700
> >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > > This still doesn't explain why Debian is
> > > trying to do the following for their boot floppies.
> > >
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0102/msg00435.html
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 17:26 -0700
> >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > > I thought this might be a good way to write protect hard drives
> > > and flash disks.
> >
> >Perhaps... or it may actually be _too_ restrictive, since you simply
>
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-20 16:30 -0700
> >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> >
> > > David Douthitt, 2001-04-20 16:25 -0500
> > > >I like the long name idea, using VFAT. The only thing is, VFAT adds
> > > >FAT to the kernel (pun intended :-) Jus
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> David Douthitt, 2001-04-20 16:25 -0500
> >I like the long name idea, using VFAT. The only thing is, VFAT adds
> >FAT to the kernel (pun intended :-) Just how big is this thing?
>
> Would someone explain to me why we shouldn't use cramfs? I believe it wo
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, George Metz wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > Not a bad idea; however, there are a few things that come to mind:
> >
> > * How do you create a VFAT diskette under Windows? Some may laugh; I
> > for one am not sure how
>
> Beats me. I think it's
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Eric Wolzak wrote:
> Hello all Unix guru's
> I got myself a problem
> I need for a weblet a function that first check if teststring is already
> inserted in a file, if not it will be inserted. This to prevent that
> reloading will cause repeated insertions.
>
> due to co
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, jim mcdonagh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does oxygen or one of the other variants of leaf support PPPoA with a Linux
> supported dsl card?
AFAIK, there are no "Linux supported dsl cards". Alcatel released a
driver for their USB dsl modem recently, but it requires kernel 2.4. I
th
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-10 21:28 -0700
> >Having the mime-type in place, apparently Netscape now recognizes that an
> >lrp file is binary even without specifying the type in the URL.
>
> Jeff,
> That's what I got too. I added the following helper appl
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-10 16:26 -0700
> >On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > > I'm working on the second part of this FAQ. Netscape has similar
> > > problems with ftp downloads. I was unable to get the ;i switch to work
> > > on .lrp files in o
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Ray Olszewski, 2001-04-10 20:57 -0700
> > This really should be a FAQ answer.
> >
> >Netscape exhibits this problem because Netscape is polite and follows the
> >html standards. So if a Web server says a file is text, trusting old
> >Netscape believes it
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> This really should be a FAQ answer.
What a gaping hole. I could have sworn it was on lrp.c0wz.com, but I
cannot find it.
> The Web server tells the browser what type of file a download is. For
> our purposes here, the important types are text and bi
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
[...]
> What do you all think about NOT getting package names from the name of
> the package file?
>
> For example:
>
> foo.lrp
>
> ...could have its real name being...
>
> fooBecomesALongNameBeforeYouKnowItanditsUNSTOPPABLE
>
> :-) Seriously t
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Jack Coates wrote:
> Every time I've tried to learn C or C++ the instructor or author lays
> out all the basics of the language and I do fine. We do a few example
> programs like helloworld.c and add/subtract calculators, and I do fine.
> Then the excersises jump into geometry
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> I'm surprised no one is understanding this complaint; I think I
> understand it perfectly. It has occurred to me also.
Some good points are made below, but the temporary copy still seems
unnecessary.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Apr
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, S.C.Best wrote:
> Jeff:
> Sorry you don't agree.
Well, I am too. I feel like one of us is operating under some
misconceptions about how lrpkg or tar works. By continuing this thread, I
hope to grok your concern, or perhaps you will find your concerns were not
justifie
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Scott C. Best wrote:
>
> Actually I like .lrp as well, though my complaint
> with it is different. I find it difficult to extract files
> from a .lrp without potentially overwriting important system
> binaries on the development box.
I don't grok this. I have never ha
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > > What gives? Also, what's the difference between no options and -g?
> >
> > information about line number positions in the source code
> >
> > > After all, what get
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> What is the difference between:
>
> gcc -s...stripping a binary, yes?
yes
> gcc -g...adding debugging symbols, yes?
debugging symbols means source code line number information
> strip ...removing debugging symbols, yes?
..
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> > The
> > technique I'm using to run LRP off a HDD root partition is to acutally run
> > the LRP startup scripts in a chrooted environment, creating a root
> > environment that is then simply mounted at the next boot (l
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Matthew Schalit wrote:
> George Metz wrote:
> >
>
> > (Lets face it gang, ain't no UNIX browser out there
> > that matches up to IE5, no matter how much I want Mozilla to succeed)
>
>
> IE5 is p@@p.
Hmm. A few too many proprietary features, but remarkably stable for me.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Jack Coates wrote:
>
> > This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if so, why?
> > Caching one hunk of system RAM in another is not sensible.
>
> Why not? As I understand HP-UX, "swap" involves swapping files to
> buffers in memory (fi
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-25 18:39 -0800
> >On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-25 15:14 -0800
[...]
> > > >---
> >
> > > >sed -e "/INSERT IN
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-25 15:14 -0800
> >On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> >The g indicates multiple substitutions within the selected lines. My
> >mistake wsa in the line selection. I simplified things while testing
> >the command, and forgot
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-25 12:35 -0800
[...]
> >I am still concerned about the loss of author attribution information.
> >The "stories" table uses the "aid" variable.
>
> Since users can create content, don't you have to worry about the uid
> variab
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-23 23:39 -0800
>
> >... omits all user(name?) data?
>
> Jeff,
> Correct, all of the users data is stripped. There is no user data in the
> initial table supplied by phpWebSite.
Okay.
> >... hardcoded "leaf" vs $DB?
>
> It w
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jack Coates wrote:
> Just thinking here, generally a bad idea... I've been reading the
> Postfix list lately, on which Linux is dissed for a couple of reasons:
>
> a) asynchronous flushing in ext2fs causes lost mail
>
> This is a good reason to diss, and I've been avoiding
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Mike Noyes, 2001-03-22 07:29 -0800
> >As soon as I figure out the correct sed syntax for stripping admin and
> >user passwords from our MySQL database, I'll make backups of our website
> >public.
>
> Everyone,
> Here is a rough draft of a function I wrote
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-03-22 14:24 -0500
> >Well, how about putting the links in the description; or even better,
> >how about instead of the link displaying as
> >"Embedded Linux Consortium"
> >and pointing to the phpwebsite redirect crud, the link could
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Steven Peck wrote:
> I think the new image should remain hard to spell. :)
>
> Kilamanjaro?
Kilimanjaro was the predecessor to Materhorn.
> Maybe change the series name completly
> Sea - because install is such a breeze
> Plastic - because it can recycle old hardware
> Al
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > "Plagiarize... don't let it evade your eyes..." :)
>
> Is this a slight misquote of Tom Lehrer's "Lobachevsky" (Don't let other's
> work evade your eyes...), or some other reference?
My old boss, R.G. Spears, used this phrase. I don't know w
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Paul Batozech wrote:
> Steven Peck wrote:
[...]
> > Worse than slaughtering HTML, different. With HTML you say BOLD or ITALICS
> > or CENTER, etc. With Docbook you don't. You say words
> > and the DTD when fed through Openjade with determine HOW the emphasis is
> > handl
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