[luau] Open Source in The Economist

2002-08-04 Thread aeg-inc
http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID= 1251254 Respected British financial mag on open source, recently (check out goofy graphic of penguin and cigar-suit guy arm in arm). >From article: Rumours of open-source software's demise are exaggerated WHEN the hordes of volun

[luau] UCITA update (old laws don't die, they are overturned)

2002-08-04 Thread aeg-inc
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947182.html A controversial initiative to standardize U.S. state laws on software licensing faces a crucial vote this week, as battle-weary consumer advocates and tech companies pin their hopes on a legal gathering in Arizona.

Re: [luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread MonMotha
Ray Strode wrote: Um, cp? Won't that blow away your device node and make a file named /dev/fd0 containing the data in network.img? no. Heh, I never knew you could do that. Learn something new every day... --MonMotha

Re: [luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread Ray Strode
> Um, cp? > > Won't that blow away your device node and make a file named /dev/fd0 > containing the data in network.img? no. > If anything, I'd think youd need "cat network.img > /dev/fd0" or "dd > if=network.img of=/dev/fd0" Those methods will work, too. > Or am I wrong? Yes, in part. --Ray

Re: [luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread MonMotha
Um, cp? Won't that blow away your device node and make a file named /dev/fd0 containing the data in network.img? If anything, I'd think youd need "cat network.img > /dev/fd0" or "dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0" Or am I wrong? --MonMotha Ray Strode wrote: I'll be glad to try Mandrake 9.0 b

Re: [luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread al plant
Ray Strode wrote: > > > I'll be glad to try Mandrake 9.0 but I need the instructions as to how > > to download the floppy from the source either the Luau Mirror or the > > MAndrake site. Where do I find the floppy image to download? > > Download the appropriate image (network.img if you want to i

Re: [luau] Need a volunteer to haul 30 17" monitors to Mid Pacific Institute for LTSP lab project

2002-08-04 Thread al plant
"R. Scott Belford" wrote: > > Brian, (or anyone) > > I am the contact for this project at Pricebusters. To make this as easy on > the management staff as possible, please do not call them to make > arrangements to go by there. You might confuse someone. Please talk to me > about your plans and

[luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Al brought up an interesting issue. Suppose I have made a network install floppy, how do I go from there?

Re: [luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread Ray Strode
> I'll be glad to try Mandrake 9.0 but I need the instructions as to how > to download the floppy from the source either the Luau Mirror or the > MAndrake site. Where do I find the floppy image to download? Download the appropriate image (network.img if you want to install off network, cdrom.img

[luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta 2

2002-08-04 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
One of the main differences between MDK 8.2 and 9.0 is KDE. Under MDK 8.2, I have to use IceWM b/c KDE (both 2.2.2 and 3.0.2) is not stable/snappy enough for business work. Under 9.0 beta2, KDE performs very satisfactorily. There is something worthy of noticing. KDE (3.0) behaves much better

Re: [luau] Need a volunteer to haul 30 17" monitors to Mid Pacific Institute for LTSP lab project

2002-08-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
Brian, (or anyone) I am the contact for this project at Pricebusters. To make this as easy on the management staff as possible, please do not call them to make arrangements to go by there. You might confuse someone. Please talk to me about your plans and I will meet you or get Dean or possib

Re: [luau] Installing R-W CDrom

2002-08-04 Thread al plant
"W. Wayne Liauh" wrote: > > I bought a CDRW last October and I couldn't get it to work under either > Win98 or Win2K. I downloaded the driver from the manufacturer. But it > still doesn't work. > > "Ironically," I have no problems with either Mandrake 8.2 or Red Hat > 7.3. And that was one of

Re: [luau] Need a volunteer to haul 30 17" monitors to MidPacific Institute for LTSP lab project

2002-08-04 Thread al plant
Brian Low wrote: > > Aloha all, >Just an update to this. I was able to pick up the 17" monitors (thanks to > Jeff and his staff :)) However, we ran into some time delay and I was not > able to take off from the Air Force Base until 4:00PM. This pushed my > timeframe to pick up the 15" mon

Re: [luau] Apropos of the MSWindows thread

2002-08-04 Thread Jimen Ching
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Carl Tucker wrote: >An interesting column in DamonNews relating to the discussion that >was just going on. Aimed at BSD, but applicable to *nix in general. >Desktops: why bother? >Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200208/dadvocate.html Perhaps I misse