Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-04 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Leon A. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:55:29 -0500 Collins Richey wrote: The feedback on Linux Today is a mixture of SCO take your [EMAIL PROTECTED] and stuff it, KDE will die (the Novel/XIMIAN connection), and bemoaning the loss of European control of a major linux distro. I

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-04 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:16:09 +0800 Bruce Marshall wrote: Well gee... I guess at 65 and having bought from Sun, I feel 2. times better than you do... :-) That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their 30's, because you guys sound

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:38:07 -0600 http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. If copyrights are not enforced the courts rule

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Alma J Wetzker
James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:27:17 +1000 Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad: I love it! Will file this away.

Re: Mounting a Novell Files system partition

2003-10-04 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:13:34 -0500 I need to mount a disk partition that has ben formatted in NWFS-386. Anyone got any idea how do to that? Be gentle with me since I know absolutely nothing about Novell, except how to spell it ... Looking at the partition types in fdisk I

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-29 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:49:16 -0500 Squabsy wrote: I still don't understand why any of the above limits would create a problem when I'm trying to record a wav file that would be 500k at most. I would propose a test: - Create or find a test file of about 1M bytes - Do

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-29 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:27:30 -0600 On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:13:12 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that having been said, i have every confidence in the ability of david boies to do for sco what he did for algore. Excuse me? I thought the only thing he did for

Re: cablemodem and wireless network

2003-09-28 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:03:39 -0700 Ted Ozolins wrote: A router would only be used if more than one computer is hooked up to the cable modem. ( hopefully with some kind of a firewall) Although I have a linksys 4 port which does make an excellent firewall, with port

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Alma J Wetzker
dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:37:54 -0400 for a touch of perspective: http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes20.html My last comment on this topic. I lived in Missouri while Ashcroft was Governor. I met him several times working with youth in government. While Ashcroft

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Alma J Wetzker
David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:34:28 -0500 On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:21:25 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] But I'm dreaming again. If that flagship of New Americanism (Dept. of Homeland Implosion) can't see it, then likely will few others. You're scary.

Re: Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500 Net Llama! wrote: Why would you need to cheat? Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the RH9 Installer, or do you mean, reload the box fresh with RH9? If you're reloading, then you need to backup all of /home and backup

Re: Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

2003-09-18 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:52:53 -0400 Quoth Alma J Wetzker: Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500 Net Llama! wrote: Why would you need to cheat? Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the RH9 Installer, or do you mean, reload the box fresh

Re: A contented linux user

2003-09-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:34:04 -0600 [ snips ] On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:50:49 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT_RANTI can't help but compare this situation to the drug industry. We Americans pay more for pharmaceuticals because we respect

SCO speaks the truth

2003-09-11 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Darl explains his open letter to the OSS community. http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84819,00.html?nlid=PM My take on it is that he isn't telling us which code is infringing because he doesn't want it removed. What he wants is a revenue stream from linux sales. Check it out,

Re: OT Why Microsoft has to go ...

2003-09-01 Thread Alma J Wetzker
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01 Sep 2003 08:53:06 -0400 On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:33, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On 30 Aug 2003 21:32:16 -0400 burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing fishy here. The patents are intellectual property and assets of the corporation. As such they are the property of the

Re: FTp -- WTF ?!?! ..More Info

2003-08-28 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:10:36 -0700 Ben Duncan wrote: Ok, did that. I have been testing some more. This GETS weird. All files GOING thru the Laptops ftpd services take about 4 seconds EACH regardless of size. ie. a 20MB file transfered in 4 seconds, a 20K file - 4

Re: WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister

2003-08-27 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:49:26 -0400 Quoth Alma J Wetzker: Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:42:56 -0700 I guess I just don't see how sco can even think of suing when they have released distros under the gpl. It defies logic! Not at all. SCO's premise

Re: Ideas for Mail and Calendaring for 50,000 Users

2003-08-27 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Jason Joines [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:00:25 -0500 We just got a new CIO at the university where I work. One thing he is about to do is get rid of all the different mail systems and have one big combined system for all employees and students. That'll be about 50,000 users. At

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-26 Thread Alma J Wetzker
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25 Aug 2003 17:05:28 -0400 On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:42, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote: And they have also bought SCO licensing that it didn't really look like they need. When was that and for what? Right about the same time Micro$oft paid SCO for IP license rights, Sun also

Re: WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister

2003-08-26 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:42:56 -0700 Tony Alfrey wrote: Why, send in your licensing fee to SCO for all the stolen IP stuff you have in your linux boxen, and I'm sure they'll get right back to you. grin Jeeze (slap to head), why didn't I think of that? I'll get my

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-25 Thread Alma J Wetzker
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Aug 2003 20:14:38 -0400 On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 16:02, Alma J Wetzker wrote: My guess is that they are not as involved as we would like to believe. Much as SCO's blathering is to the benefit of M$, I don't think they are orchestrating it. Sun is also a backer of SCO

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-24 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:26:56 -0700 Alma J Wetzker wrote: If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected. The virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing. If the OS doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a windoze targetted

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-24 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Richard Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Aug 2003 18:13:13 -0800 On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:21, Bill Campbell wrote: snip It appears to me that the SCO folks like Darl may be trying to establish a possible insanity defense if they're ever charged with attempting to manipulate their stock price. Their

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Ian Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:31:35 -0700 On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:41, Keith Antoine wrote: snip I can transfer files back and forth just as I can from a linux booted system. snip NO way! Windows files are not executable on Linux, so it is immune to win viruii, this is one

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-22 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:50:19 -0400 Yes, but what will the jury think? Joel On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:21:49PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html That is the $3,000,000,000.00 question. It is a VERY safe bet that SCO

Re: acixxx problem compiling new kernel 2.4.20

2003-08-19 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:18:19 -0400 This is the WalMart special. There may be no scsi devices but there are scsi drivers loaded: lsmod | grep scsi: ide-scsi7696 1 scsi_mod 53420 5 [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage sd_mod] ide-mod

Re: What is a staging environment?

2003-08-19 Thread Alma J Wetzker
James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:41:39 +1000 burns wrote: After a short break, on the 8th day the Lord invented staging environments. And verily they were wise that used them, even if the scribes and elders knew not. What is a staging environment? I haven't heard of it

Re: acixxx problem compiling new kernel 2.4.20

2003-08-19 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Terence McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:28:46 +0100 On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:45:45 -0500 Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that the cdrom drives need to be addressed as scsi devices. No. You only need SCSI emulation if you wish to use a CD writer

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-18 Thread Alma J Wetzker
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17 Aug 2003 23:56:28 -0400 On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 18:49, Alma J Wetzker wrote: see that doesn't happen. What busines apps do we have for linux that make people want to run linux so that they can use that application? Office? Spice? Photoshop? What do we have

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-18 Thread Alma J Wetzker
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18 Aug 2003 00:02:26 -0400 On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, Alma J Wetzker wrote: every executive I have ever met will spit nails about downtime and the cost to the company until you tell them how much it will cost to fix it. Then the executive goes away, until next time

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:18:15 -0600 On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:42:26 -0500 Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ other stuff snipped - see the thread for details ] I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher. Most linux apps just aren't up

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-16 Thread Alma J Wetzker
How about run windows for life? -- Alma burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16 Aug 2003 04:23:29 -0400 The people that write and launch these programs in the wild should caught and forced to do something really unpleasant for a very long time. ___ Linux-users

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-16 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:21:20 -0600 On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:57:12 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know a lot of folks who don't want to patch their computers because some of these patches come with changed EULAs they don't want to accept.

Re: OT northeast power outage

2003-08-16 Thread Alma J Wetzker
I am not sure that regulation or de-regulation is really the problem. It seems to me to be this strange, hybrid, government solution that is both and neither. If we want competition, deregulate the WHOLE thing and allow competition. If we want regulation, stop pretending that the power

Re: SCO scares me...

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:07:43 -0400 In the September issue of WIRED, Darl McBride in the HOT SEAT says... WIRED: Give me the summary brief. McBride: The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns the IP rights to it, When you snap off a branch

How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. -- Alma

Re: OT google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT) http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight The story goes that at NASA a management droid was briefing some senior engineers using a bewildering array of terms and units. The engineers were

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:03:34 -0700 On 08/08/03 20:38, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:26:25 -0700 On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700 On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] emitted these signals: I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. Not a problem and I really liked it. Another vote for Mosix. My office workstation is

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-10 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:26:25 -0700 On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other

Logon time limits

2003-08-08 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Is there a way to set logon time limits for up to a set number of hours in an arbitrary time period (like a week)? The goal is to limit logon time for the kids over a week to cut down on fighting over the computers on the network. I really don't want to confine them to a set time period

Re: Unknown host error message when trying to ping Internet

2003-08-01 Thread Alma J Wetzker
This sounds very similar to my setup. I am running SuSE 8.2 pro with a SMC NAT router. The router is the DHCP server and also holds the DNS pointer. /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # 192.168.2.7 awetzker.weg.org awetzker 192.168.2.1 hub router 192.168.2.10 crunch.weg.org crunch 192.168.2.4

Re: Samba doesn't start on SuSE 8.2

2003-08-01 Thread Alma J Wetzker
service from the name service so they both need to be started... The chkconfig utility is quite nice. On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:33:43 -0500 Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am testing out SuSE and I still can't get samba to startup automagically on reboot. (Something about xinetd that I

What was it about eD 2.4?

2003-07-31 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Speaking for myself, I liked the fact that I could configure everything from the GUI either with an app or the web. The configuration tools left the comments in the config files so that you could edit those manually. If you edited the config files, you could still use the GUI tools to

Re: network problem: internet sharing

2003-07-23 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Matt, No offense taken. I was just getting a col box on the net (I mostly do development so the net wasn't critical) and I wanted to share the dialup connection with other machines on the home network. All the FAQ's and howto's told me how to setup ipchains. So I went and found ipchains and

Re: network problem: internet sharing

2003-07-22 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Re: network problem: internet sharing Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:58:48 -0400 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:25 am, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Keith, The modem goes to the linux box through an ethernet card. The linux box works. The linux box has a second ethernet card

Re: [OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????

2003-07-22 Thread Alma J Wetzker
In reguards to SCO, we have to remember that SUN is paying a good chunk of SCO's legal fees. The traditional *nix vendors have had some very profitable niches gutted by Windoze. They are starting to see the same from linux and M$ has also noticed. I think they are all working to shut down

Process select for SuSE 8.2

2003-07-22 Thread Alma J Wetzker
I am looking at an upgrade path from Caldera WS 3.1.1 and have been playing with SuSE pro 8.2. Is there a graphical utility to switch on or off applications at boot time? Things like Samba or MySQL? In col there was webmin, and kde gave me a way through system settings. I can't find

Re: DSL Gotcha

2003-07-21 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Subject: Re: DSL Gotcha Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:17:18 -0700 (PDT) On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Raymond Russell: On 7/20/03 0:03, Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have DSL any more but when I did my installer used CAT-5 cable and put RJ11

Re: network problem: internet sharing

2003-07-21 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Keith, I know I am just the clueless newbie here but before you reinstall XP I just want to clarify the problem in my head. The modem goes to the linux box through an ethernet card. The linux box works. The linux box has a second ethernet card that is connected to the XP box elsewhere. The

Re: XP to XP

2003-07-20 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Keith, How is your network setup? You have a cable connected to a cable modem. From there is it ethernet or usb? does it go to a computer (which one?) or a router? (or maybe a hub?) The answers may have some bearing on how to setup your machines. I use a SMC router and my clients all get