Re: Re: ADMIN: lots of upcoming changes! PLEASE READ

2003-09-22 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:31:04 -0700 Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did he tell you that there are "californians" in California?? That must be the real gottcha. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Squabsy
On 18 Sep 2003 17:54:58 -0400, "burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:44, Net Llama! wrote: > > > > > yes, that's the load at the instant that you ran the command. were you > > attempting to encode a wav when you ran that? if so, then the load > > appears to be fine. you

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread burns
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:33, Squabsy wrote: > Having spent the weekend playing around with it and using TOP to see > what's going on I have come to the conclusion that all the Linux > softwares I have been trying are indeed storing the file up in RAM then > in my swap partition then hanging when

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Squabsy
On 22 Sep 2003 04:57:19 -0400, "burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:33, Squabsy wrote: > > > I believe you are in the UK? Where? I lived there for four years, from > 93-97. > Yes indeed I'm in Sunny :-D Bournemouth on the south coast. For 36 years (I haven't roamed very

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread burns
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:00, Squabsy wrote: > Yes indeed I'm in Sunny :-D Bournemouth on the south coast. For 36 years > (I haven't roamed very far I'm afraid) I lived in Northwood, about 6 miles from Watford. The village is split. Half is in the Hillingdon borough of Greater London. The other hal

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Squabsy
On 22 Sep 2003 06:35:15 -0400, "burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:00, Squabsy wrote: > > Yes indeed I'm in Sunny :-D Bournemouth on the south coast. For 36 years > > (I haven't roamed very far I'm afraid) > > I lived in Northwood, about 6 miles from Watford. The village i

Re: Re: ADMIN: lots of upcoming changes! PLEASE READ

2003-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:55:04 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:31:04 -0700 > Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Did he tell you that there are "californians" in California?? > > That must be the real gottcha. > That's the rel gotcha in Den

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:11:25 +0100 "Squabsy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In terms of RAM I currently have 256mb on 2 128 chips and a 512 swap How > much more ram would you recommend ? > > I seem to remember that someone advised that max swap should be double > your ram. I think the recordings I

Re: Re: ADMIN: lots of upcoming changes! PLEASE READ

2003-09-22 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:55:04 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> professed: > > Did he tell you that there are "californians" in California?? > > That must be the real gottcha. Bigger than you know ;-) Shawn ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

question

2003-09-22 Thread Rick Sivernell
list I have a little problem here, when I download some file, binary or one to build with compile, I have to umount partition and remount. When I try to untar or run a binary, I get permission denied. I do set the proper permissions for the files in question. Any ideas will be appreciated. ch

Re: Re: ADMIN: lots of upcoming changes! PLEASE READ

2003-09-22 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:01:09 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> professed: > That's the rel gotcha in Denver, too . A man and his wife were > complaining about terrible traffic of I470 (the almost-ring freeway > around Denver). "Where did all these people drive before 470 was built?" > An

Re: question

2003-09-22 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 17:30 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote: > list > >I have a little problem here, when I download some file, binary or > one to build with compile, I have to umount partition and remount. > When I try to untar or run a binary, I get permission denied. I do set > the proper pe

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: > In terms of RAM I currently have 256mb on 2 128 chips and a 512 swap How > much more ram would you recommend ? As much as the mobo & your budget can hold. seriously. > I seem to remember that someone advised that max swap should be double > your ram. I think

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: Having spent the weekend playing around with it and using TOP to see what's going on I have come to the conclusion that all the Linux softwares I have been trying are indeed storing the file up in RAM then in my swap partition then hanging when it gets full. The Windows software I u

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
Michael Hipp wrote: I have 256M in this PII-233 box. While the recording was taking place, memory usage stayed at 250M with a small slice of swap being used. It never increased. (I'm running this in the latest version of apt-get kde-redhat, oink, oink). Audacity says it's storing its temporary f

Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread M. Drew Streib
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A followup to my first letter, in which I tried to give SCO Money... "Trying to Give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)" by Drew To recap, about a week and a half ago, I posted a short letter describing some woes in trying to give the Santa Cruz O

Re: question

2003-09-22 Thread Ted Ozolins
Rick Sivernell wrote: list I have a little problem here, when I download some file, binary or one to build with compile, I have to umount partition and remount. When I try to untar or run a binary, I get permission denied. I do set the proper permissions for the files in question. Any ideas wil

programmer humor

2003-09-22 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't remember what the name of this song is, but it's from 'The Sound of Music', IIRC: DO, a loop, a normal loop, Array, a 2-D storage space, Me, recursion, I call myself, Bar, a variable to chase. No, a value meaning not, Yes, a term to foll

Re: programmer humor

2003-09-22 Thread Tom Wilson
I have an uncle that plays in a jug band that does a spoof of this tune. I think it is call Doe Ray Me? and yes it is from the Sound of Music. Thier take: Dos a beer, a mexican beer Ray a guy who buy's me beer Me a guy I buy beer for Far a long from the bar So let's have another beer La la la la

Re: email attack

2003-09-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: >Ignore my other post/query on this. I was so busy deleting the 700 odd >messages that I did not see this info about it... Yesterday I had to go through my incoming mail archives to find and purge all the Windows Worms because they had eaten most of t

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Monday 22 September 2003 08:00 am, M. Drew Streib wrote: > > Sales reps are currently authorized to take your credit card > information and sell you a 'license' over the phone, but are > apparently unable to actually send you a copy of said license. > Oh, no problem. I think that this is the

X-server sounds

2003-09-22 Thread Brad De Vries
I have a RH7.3 box and a WinXP box running Cygwin. While sitting at the XP box, running Cygwin, I can make a connection to the RH box using the Cygwin X-server and run all the normal X stuff. However, I can not get the sound from any X-client applications to come through to the speakers on the XP

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Leon Goldstein
M. Drew Streib wrote inter alia: SCO appears to be willing to sell me an item for which my only knowledge is some non-binding assurances from a sales rep and a line on my credit card bill that says "Linux license". I think this is tied in to the recent German court's fine of 10,000 Euros SCO has

Re: email attack

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Joines
Chris Kassopulo wrote: Greetings, For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which makes for a long download on dialup. Are there any filters that can delete emails at the server that have an exe attached

Configuring Bin-Utils ...

2003-09-22 Thread Ben Duncan
Anyone know how to get the bin-utils configure script to do alternate targets? I want to make the current version for elf and coff, and SuSe's objdump/objcat is compiled ONLY for elf-i386. Thanks .. -- Ben Duncan Phone (601)-355-2574 Fax (601)-355-2573 Cell (601)-946-1220

Re: email attack

2003-09-22 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:39, Jason Joines wrote: > Chris Kassopulo wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. > > Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which > > makes for a long download on dialup. Are there any

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:00, M. Drew Streib wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A followup to my first letter, in which I tried to give SCO Money... > > "Trying to Give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)" > by Drew Wow, thats quite an ordeal. I'd love to hear how this

Re: email attack

2003-09-22 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:39, Jason Joines wrote: > Chris Kassopulo wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. > > Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which > > makes for a long download on dialup. Are there any

Re: email attack

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Joines
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:39, Jason Joines wrote: Chris Kassopulo wrote: Greetings, For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which makes for a long download on dialup. Are ther

Re: email attack

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Joines
Shawn L Johnston wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:39, Jason Joines wrote: Chris Kassopulo wrote: Greetings, For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which makes for a long download on dialup. Are there

Re: Re: ADMIN: lots of upcoming changes! PLEASE READ

2003-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 05:53:38 -0700 Shawn Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:01:09 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > professed: > > > That's the rel gotcha in Denver, too . A man and his wife were > > complaining about terrible traffic of I470 (the almost-ring fre

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Harry Giles
On Mon September 22 2003 12:24 pm, Leon Goldstein wrote: > You might as well spend your money one one of those magnetic things you > clamp around your fuel line to improve your mileage. You mean it won't work? Dang! Harry ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:00 am, M. Drew Streib wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A followup to my first letter, in which I tried to give SCO Money... > ---snip--- > Here's the kicker. > > Sales reps are currently authorized to take your credit card information > a

Re: Re: ADMIN: lots of upcoming changes! PLEASE READ

2003-09-22 Thread Bob Hemus
Shawn Tayler wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:01:09 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> professed: That's the rel gotcha in Denver, too . A man and his wife were complaining about terrible traffic of I470 (the almost-ring freeway around Denver). "Where did all these people drive before 470 was

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Monday 22 September 2003 01:36 pm, Harry Giles wrote: > On Mon September 22 2003 12:24 pm, Leon Goldstein wrote: > > You might as well spend your money one one of those magnetic things > > you clamp around your fuel line to improve your mileage. > > You mean it won't work? Dang! They work in T

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:00:30 -0400 "M. Drew Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Sales reps are currently authorized to take your credit card information > and sell you a 'license' over the phone, but are apparently unable to > actually send y

Re: X-server sounds

2003-09-22 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Brad De Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:08:56 -0700 (PDT) I have a RH7.3 box and a WinXP box running Cygwin. While sitting at the XP box, running Cygwin, I can make a connection to the RH box using the Cygwin X-server and run all the normal X stuff. However, I can not get the sound

Re: question

2003-09-22 Thread James McDonald
Rick Sivernell wrote: list I have a little problem here, when I download some file, binary or one to build with compile, I have to umount partition and remount. When I try to untar or run a binary, I get permission denied. I do set the proper permissions for the files in question. Any ideas wil

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: ... or is there a Linux program that writes straight to disk ? I've been working this afternoon with the 'sox' package from http://sox.sourceforge.net/. It comes with a utility called 'rec' that is about the simplest recorder ever. It's a CLI tool, give it a command like ... $ r

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Allan Rabenau
Dear sir: I have in my posession a very nice bridge, in good shape. I will gladly sell you a license to charge tolls on this bridge if you will but supply me with your credit card number. An opportunity such as this should not be missed! (Legal disclaimer: None of the above is true; it is

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Hipp
Allan Rabenau wrote: Dear sir: I have in my posession a very nice bridge, in good shape. I will gladly sell you a license to charge tolls on this bridge if you will but supply me with your credit card number. An opportunity such as this should not be missed! Lemme guess, the bridge is in

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: > Allan Rabenau wrote: > > >Dear sir: > > I have in my posession a very nice bridge, in good shape. I will > >gladly sell you a license to charge tolls on this bridge if you will but > >supply me with your credit card number. An opportunity such as this > >should not be m

Re: Configuring Bin-Utils ...

2003-09-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: > Anyone know how to get the bin-utils configure script to do > alternate targets? I want to make the current version for elf and coff, > and SuSe's objdump/objcat is compiled ONLY for elf-i386. configure --target= Replace with the canonical name for the target you want. For ex

Re: Trying to give SCO Money, Part II: Success (sort of)

2003-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:43:33 -0400 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Michael Hipp: > > Allan Rabenau wrote: > > > > >Dear sir: > > > I have in my posession a very nice bridge, in good shape. I will > > >gladly sell you a license to charge tolls on this bridge if you will but > > >su