Re: Cost of ISV product

2002-09-24 Thread Jason W. Strnad
Scott Courtney wrote: What kind of ninny takes a single number from a lab-queen test and uses it to build the pricing model for their business? At least two of my previous employers. Of course one is no longer a going concern, and the other is presently on the ropes. Of course neither of

Re: H50 sandbox - followup questions

2002-09-09 Thread Jason W. Strnad
I second that. I earned several grey hairs working out how to keep a certain unamed online service providers ppp-like tunnels both up and useful over a big MPLS backbone. The results of such tunneling is *very* sensitive to *common* (and otherwise harmless) network issues. -jasons Alan Cox

Re: current Linux distribution

2002-09-04 Thread Jason W. Strnad
Partition Magic and it's and programs of it's ilk can resize NTFS filesystems and make room for a linux install. I would suggest an easier route, however would be to add a HDD to that system and install linux onto the new drive. This will allow you to use the BIOS or new LILO/GRUB bootloader

Re: current Linux distribution

2002-09-03 Thread Jason W. Strnad
I don't know about removing an entire package set, but I have, installed via FTP from dir structure that didn't contain all of the i18n files for KDE (among other 'missing/useless to me' files). That installation was successful. You might find similar success. -jasons Shimon Lebowitz wrote:

Re: current Linux distribution

2002-09-03 Thread Jason W. Strnad
And if you really can't bring yourself to install a linux instance to dual boot, (I understand it is sometimes a PITA), I'd suggest again you consider using cygwin. Cygwin will allow you to use, among other things, wget and md5sum, tools which windows doesn't offer much competition for in my

Re: current Linux distribution

2002-09-02 Thread Jason W. Strnad
I would suggest you install cygwin, and run wget and check the packages with md5. You will need cygwin anyway if you mean to run hercules on your win98 box, and wget/md5sum will provide you the best solution. If you don't plan on using herc on your win98 box it might be worth it to setup cygwin

Re: Stupid idea?

2002-08-30 Thread Jason W. Strnad
It is important to note, however, that SuSE's YaST product is NOT GPL and has different re-distribution terms. -jasons Post, Mark K wrote: To answer the other questions you raised, you are free to redistribute anything that is covered by the GPL, or similar license that meets the OSI