[luau] Regarding Friday's InstallFest

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
If you have time, please burn and bring extra sets of Red Hat, Mandrake and other distributions. I don't have time to burn much. Thanks, Warren

Re: [luau] Linux for Schools Online Meeting 8pm Tonight

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:15, you wrote: > What's the time difference between Hawaii and EST/CDT (Indiana/Chicago)? > I'd like to listen in on this in case I can help you guys out. > > --MonMotha I just got home so this will be of little worth, but we are 6 hours behind the East now, 5 behind

Re: [luau] Techs available

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 18:23, you wrote: > I have some techs that may be available to help with the hardware. > I will talked to them tomarrow. The minimal experience is 3years with > HP, Compaq, Apple (of course A+ on all ) and HP printer, Toshiba,HP and > Compaq laptops. I also have one maste

Re: [luau] Linux POS

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
MonMotha, Stay with me. I look forward to your expertise on this project, and I anticipate us being another credential in your belt when it is all said and done. Thanks for the note, more to come... scott On Thursday 18 July 2002 14:00, you wrote: > I still have a mini-Linux system (I thin

Re: [luau] Walmart and Linux

2002-07-18 Thread kilauea
I want to thank Alvin for posting this. I have been thinking about getting a faster machine and even though I am a relative old timer to Linux (1.2.13), I don't want to order a machine that causes me to pull my hair out (it is thin enough already). This is wonderful! It may not be the cheapest box

[luau] Improving Chinese Font Display in RH 7.3

2002-07-18 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Excellent article. Just in case you know someone who may be interested: http://home.kimo.com.tw/firefly_z.tw/setfont/

[luau] Walmart and Linux

2002-07-18 Thread Alvin Murphy
Walmart is now offering machines with Mandrake 8.2 installed, for $389 I think. Check it out. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2315

Re: [luau] Linux for Schools Online Meeting 8pm Tonight

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Crap. Somebody msged me and I accidentally clicked 'No' on the accept window. Whoever that was please msg me again.

Re: [luau] Linux for Schools Online Meeting 8pm Tonight

2002-07-18 Thread MonMotha
What's the time difference between Hawaii and EST/CDT (Indiana/Chicago)? I'd like to listen in on this in case I can help you guys out. --MonMotha Warren Togami wrote: Some people are having trouble installing AIM, so we are postponing until 8:30pm. Msg me in order to join the chat session.

Re: [luau] Linux for Schools Online Meeting 8pm Tonight

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Some people are having trouble installing AIM, so we are postponing until 8:30pm. Msg me in order to join the chat session. - Original Message - From: "Warren Togami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: [luau] Linux for Schools

[luau] Friday's InstallFest

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/MPLUGInstallFest4 Date: Friday, July 19th, 2002 Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm Food: Perhaps we will order pizza Location: University of Hawaii Bilger 319 Please read the URL for more information.

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread Dan George
On Thursday 18 July 2002 08:32, you wrote: > Warren- > > What is RHN? > > ___ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau RHN -Red Hat Network. Redhats own team of techs and network administrators who

[luau] Techs available

2002-07-18 Thread Dan George
I have some techs that may be available to help with the hardware. I will talked to them tomarrow. The minimal experience is 3years with HP, Compaq, Apple (of course A+ on all ) and HP printer, Toshiba,HP and Compaq laptops. I also have one master tech MCP. Two Cisco certified also hardware

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread Dan George
On Thursday 18 July 2002 01:37, you wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Warren Togami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:15 AM > Subject: [luau] Please Help > > > 1) I need more people to help at Friday's InstallFest at the University.

Re: [luau] Command to mount OSX on freebsd

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Jon Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: [luau] Command to mount OSX on freebsd > I am going crazy trying to figure this out. Does anyone know the command to > mount an OSX filesystem on freebsd?

Re: [luau] New school LTSP project

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "T. David Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [luau] New school LTSP project > > I'm still not too clear on what software is loaded/available on the > clients. Web browser, office type setup? Sof

[luau] Linux for Schools Online Meeting 8pm Tonight

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Thursday, July 18th 8:00pm Message me at "Laven2" If you wish to discuss Linux and LTSP for schools please contact me at Laven2 on AIM before 8:00pm for the AIM chat meeting. Message me directly in order to be invited. If you haven't use AIM before, it is easy to use. Recent Linux distributions

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread MonMotha
Wayne Bow wrote: Aloha, When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\ prompt, and the directory listing shows COMMAND.COM and a couple of other hidden/archive/read-only files. Sounds to me like "format C: /s" was typed. If that is true then the data may be recoverable. "format

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread Jimen Ching
Hi all LTSP contributors, I have a few comments about this project. But first, let me say that it is great to see that this project is moving forward so fast. No matter what kind of road blocks might come up, I think this project should continue because the local schools and students will benefi

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread Wayne Bow
Hey again, Careful reading of the page shows that it is uesless on Windows 95 and above. http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/step/1,,139+24365+9953,00.html tells me that you should contact the manufacturer of the hard drive in question and ask them if they have an undelete utility that will help. D

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread Wayne Bow
Aloha, > >When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\ prompt, and > >the directory listing shows COMMAND.COM and a couple of other > >hidden/archive/read-only files. > > > Sounds to me like "format C: /s" was typed. If that is true then the data may be recoverable. "format c: /s" for

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread MonMotha
Ray Strode wrote: When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\ prompt, and the directory listing shows COMMAND.COM and a couple of other hidden/archive/read-only files. Sounds to me like "format C: /s" was typed. Don't know how to help tho, sorry. If I'm not mistaken , unless the

Re: [luau] Linux POS

2002-07-18 Thread MonMotha
I still have a mini-Linux system (I think it's currently about 12MB without kernel) that I can work on. I just redid my system though so it might take me a little while to get the kinks worked out (though I can always chroot back into my old slackware install). --MonMotha Vikram Khurana wrot

Re: [luau] Japanese Translation of a webpage.

2002-07-18 Thread Ray Strode
Is there a utility that will translate an entry webpage automatically for Japanese speakers? http://babelfish.altavista.com It's not perfect though. --Ray

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread Ray Strode
When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\ prompt, and the directory listing shows COMMAND.COM and a couple of other hidden/archive/read-only files. Sounds to me like "format C: /s" was typed. Don't know how to help tho, sorry. If I'm not mistaken , unless the /q options is used

Re: [luau] New school LTSP project

2002-07-18 Thread T. David Burns
At 02:11 AM 7/18/2002 -1000, you wrote: MessageWe can give you machines usable as thin clients, but you would need to buy several things yourself. I'm still not too clear on what software is loaded/available on the clients. Web browser, office type setup? With all that fine print I can see

Re: [luau] Linux POS

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
Funny you should ask and how bad of me to respond at the exact moment that I need to be heading to the new store to install the key piece of this paused project. I have been waiting to have an extra POS terminal that I could test on without disabling one of our registers. This has now been ins

[luau] Linux POS

2002-07-18 Thread Vikram Khurana
Hi, I'm a LINUX newbie & joined this list last week. Reading thro the archives I read about the LINUX POS terminal project undertaken by Scott at Pricebusters. Not finding any posts in the last month on it, just wanted to know how it was progressing. Admittedly I didn't understand even half of w

[luau] Japanese Translation of a webpage.

2002-07-18 Thread al plant
Hi GURUS: Is there a utility that will translate an entry webpage automatically for Japanese speakers? Or does anyone on this list want to quote doing a Japanese translation of an english webpage? You can email me directly or give me a call. Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com P

[luau] (no subject)

2002-07-18 Thread Vikram Khurana
Hi, I'm a LINUX newbie & joined this list last week. Reading thro the archives I read about the LINUX POS terminal project undertaken by Scott at Pricebusters. Not finding any posts in the last month on it, just wanted to know how it was progressing. Admittedly I didn't understand even half of w

[luau] Command to mount OSX on freebsd

2002-07-18 Thread Jon Reynolds
I am going crazy trying to figure this out. Does anyone know the command to mount an OSX filesystem on freebsd? I have tried mount -t smbfs //Samaba file Server/ServerFiles /osx I know I have spaces in the server name and have tried to put it in quotes and have used the backslash \ to denote spaces

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread Robert Green
He's not interested in changing his OS, he's interested in getting back the data from the machine that his ex-employees wiped. Thanks for the suggestion, though. --- al plant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just converted a crashed Win 98 to Red hat 7.2 Linux with Open > Office. > Try that it

Re: [luau] Meetings

2002-07-18 Thread al plant
karibdis wrote: > > Greetings all, I was just wondering, someone mentioned yesterday > about the MPLUG meetings. I am aware of the install fest comming up, > and unfortunately will not be able to attend due to work, but was > wondering, when and where are these "meetings"? Does the time an

[luau] Meetings

2002-07-18 Thread karibdis
Greetings all, I was just wondering, someone mentioned yesterday about the MPLUG meetings. I am aware of the install fest comming up, and unfortunately will not be able to attend due to work, but was wondering, when and where are these "meetings"? Does the time and location get posted to

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread al plant
Robert Green wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I am trying to fix a system for a friend. It is (was) a windows 98 > machine, and his ex-employee either dragged the whole drive into the > trash can, or did a recursive delete from the command line -- I don't > know which one it was. > > When you start the

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread Jan Daniel Semrau
Allright, Installfest! I want to join. Although you huys start early 10 AM? I will drop in after that as I have class from 8-10 dan Warren Togami wrote: >Sorry I haven't yet responded to many messages. I have a huge e-mail >backlog right now and too many projects left to do. I am very

[luau] PIII rackmounts

2002-07-18 Thread Tim Burgess
Hi all, I'm sorry if this 'for sale' post offends anyone. I'm new to the list and have some rackmount servers for sale and looking back at the joining email there was no mailing list policy do's or don'ts. I figure these are the type of boxes that folks on the list would be interested in, so here

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread Don Brown
Speaking of a tast list specifically and better collaboration broadly, has the possibility of setting up a site like phpGroupware been raised? It has most basic functions for groups to work together and is relatively easy to write custom modules. Regarding postnuke, I must say it sounds perfect f

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
Red Hat Network. It is a revenue strategy for RedHat that simplifies the end-users' task of keeping his/her system Up2date. When you register, you create a profile of your box. You are then notified as updates relevant to your system's profile become available. For the sysadmin, they don't h

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread Ronald Willis
I have been far to busy to make it to the meetings in recent history and I work during the majority of the hours that are scheduled for the installfest and etc. But can, and want to help. Is it possible someone can post a detailed list of what is needed and or a contact number of someone other th

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 02:28, you wrote: > DRAFT #1 > This is a list things that I require of schools in order to be eligible for > my services and equipment through MPLUG. > > 1. Linux Training > --- > One faculty/staff member must be trained in the maintenance of Linux. This > incl

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread Dean Fujioka
Red Hat Network W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Warren- What is RHN? ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau

Re: [luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread Dean Fujioka
Symantec used to have a norton utilities program on the bootable dos diskettes that would undelete, unformat, etc. it does cost a few $$ though , and most likely will *not* restore your entire file system, but if you know what you are looking for to recover, it may be an option. dean Robert

[luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE

2002-07-18 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Does anyone care to differ from or comment on the following opinion? Are they true (vis-a-vis Red Hat)? "There are some reasons why Mandake would be more useful than Redhat on an existing Windows network, and they are: 1)LDAP-enabled samba RPMs are available for Mandrake 8.2, and may be in

[luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Warren- What is RHN?

[luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

2002-07-18 Thread Robert Green
Hi Folks, I am trying to fix a system for a friend. It is (was) a windows 98 machine, and his ex-employee either dragged the whole drive into the trash can, or did a recursive delete from the command line -- I don't know which one it was. When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\ pro

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 01:15, you wrote: > Sorry I haven't yet responded to many messages. I have a huge e-mail > backlog right now and too many projects left to do. I am very overworked > here and I could use the community's help with a few things: > > 1) I need more people to help at Friday's

[luau] Interview - Kernel Hacker Robert Love

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=336 KernelTrap's first interview was with Robert Love in October of 2001. Since that time, his kernel preemption patch has been merged into the 2.5 development kernel and he's continued to be active on the Linux kernel development scene. He recently agreed to spea

[luau] News - Wall Street's Secret Affair With Linux

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Wall Street's Secret Affair With Linux http://cin.earthweb.com/article/1,3555,10493_1408471,00.html July 16, 2002: Wall Street's big brokerage houses, always on the lookout for new technology that might give them an edge over the competition, are turning to Linux in a big way. Few in this tight-li

Re: [luau] mplug web overhaul

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:15 AM Subject: [luau] mplug web overhaul > PostNuke, PostNuke, PostNuke. > > I'm in Taiwan right now, yet managing > www.asialanguage.com and www.leprogres.org is totally > simple. For

[luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
DRAFT #1 This is a list things that I require of schools in order to be eligible for my services and equipment through MPLUG. 1. Linux Training --- One faculty/staff member must be trained in the maintenance of Linux. This includes maintaing user accounts, backups, troubleshooting bas

[luau] mplug web overhaul

2002-07-18 Thread aeg-inc
PostNuke, PostNuke, PostNuke. I'm in Taiwan right now, yet managing www.asialanguage.com and www.leprogres.org is totally simple. For a genius like you, Warren, it should be complete simplicity. I've been running it for about 7 mos now, so I can offer whatever I've learned, and a dodos skill

Re: [luau] New school LTSP project

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
MessageWe can give you machines usable as thin clients, but you would need to buy several things yourself. 1. Server - roughly $800 Minimal requirements - Single Athlon with 512MB ECC RAM in order to handle 5 LTSP stations. Make sure the motherboard has large upgradability with RAM so you can eas

[luau] News - Forbes - Red Hat Lives In Microsoft's Crosshair

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Forbes - Red Hat Lives In Microsoft's Crosshair http://www.forbes.com/2002/07/16/0716redhat.html So, how does a moneylosing $80 million (fiscal 2002 sales) company like Red Hat compete against one of the most powerful companies in the world? It helps immeasurably that Red Hat has friends in high

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Warren Togami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:15 AM Subject: [luau] Please Help > > 1) I need more people to help at Friday's InstallFest at the University. I > think there are more new people coming than usual

[luau] News - Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.0.1

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Local mirror of OpenOffice 1.0.1 is here: ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/openoffice/1.0.1/ - Original Message - From: "Sander Vesik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; ; ; ; Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:57 AM Subject: [announce] Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 I am glad to announce the

[luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Togami
Sorry I haven't yet responded to many messages. I have a huge e-mail backlog right now and too many projects left to do. I am very overworked here and I could use the community's help with a few things: 1) I need more people to help at Friday's InstallFest at the University. I think there are m