Re: [luau] Redhat 8.0 Japanese Input

2002-10-21 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha, > > Today I met a Japanese user of our new Linux lab. She was very > impressed with the Japanese language support on our workstations, but > she was a bit dissapointed to find she couldn't 'input' Kanji into > Mozilla. You need the f

Re: [luau] nfs and samba

2002-10-21 Thread Warren Togami
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm considering sharing a single filesystem using both nfs and samba. Most of > the discussions I find on the web talk about using samba to re-export a > filesystem > mounted using NFS (and what a bad idea that is). I just want to have an NFS

[luau] Currently mirroring Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Warren Togami
I am in the process of mirroring Debian onto Videl. Their supplied rsync sample script appears to be rather terrible in organizing arch exclusions, so this is taking me some guess work to figure out which parts of the repository are needed. I think Videl has enough space for i386 (Linux) of stabl

Re: [luau] ics412: operating systems

2002-10-21 Thread Eric Hattemer
I didn't mean to imply that any univeristy thinks C is obsolete. I was just exagerating to point out that some universities get people hooked on procedures and C, and others get people hooked on objects and C++/Java. Sometimes I do feel like C is obsolete compared to C++, though. C++ from what I

Re: [luau] ics412: operating systems

2002-10-21 Thread T. David Burns
At 06:42 PM 9/30/2002 -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote: A lot of other universities have taken Java and objects as the greatest new thing ever. They preach these, and consider C to be old and obsolete. This probably has a lot to do with the problem - java is used almost exclusively outside of the

Re: [luau] smb copy question

2002-10-21 Thread Alvin Murphy
Michael Ableyev wrote: Thanks Mike for the rc.auto_mount. I will try this out. As usual, after posting, I found at least part of the problem: Webmin showed me that my home shares (to which I was trying to copy) were read only; so I fixed that; then I logged onto a win machine as a linux user w

Re: [luau] smb copy question

2002-10-21 Thread Michael Ableyev
Alvin Murphy wrote: > I can connect to the other machines by > smbmount, but since this is a laptop, I would like to be able to copy > the files to carry with me. Automount might be a solution for ya. Here's my (sloppy?) setup: attached rc.auto_mount would goto /etc/rc.d, it's the start / stop

Re: [luau] Any Open Source Programmers?

2002-10-21 Thread Don Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What do you use Ruby for? I've been thinking about learning a quick scripting language for those tasks too simple to warrent a full-blown app. Don On Thursday 17 October 2002 16:17, linuxdan wrote: > Im working with Perl, PHP and now Ruby. > I real

Re: [luau] Any Open Source Programmers?

2002-10-21 Thread Don Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > time. You really have to work full time to be able to contribute in any > useful way. I contribute to some projects. But only minor enhancements > and bug fixes. Of course, I have a full time job. Perhaps students who > have more free time to le

Re: [luau] qmail setup on Netscape or mozilla

2002-10-21 Thread Ho'ala Greevy
Al, I'll fwd you my number shortly. Call me tomorrow and I'll help you thru it. Ho'ala al plant said: > > Hi Ho'ala, > > pop3 is running as far as I know. > > The net email works fine. > > I set the Netscape email browser on the box the same way that I set the > sendmail configuration that we

Re: [luau] nfs and samba

2002-10-21 Thread Myles Uyema
Quite fine. Naturally, accessing the same file simultaneously through NFS and Samba may bring up some locking issues, so try not to do that. I find it generally easier to create windows usernames identical to the unix usernames, as it makes user mapping much easier between Unix and Windows.

Re: [luau] talking smack

2002-10-21 Thread Jon Reynolds
Charles, Thanks for the post, now I wish I had not sent what I did. Jon On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 14:31, Ronnie T Livingston wrote: > Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. -Chinese Proverb > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Robert Green wrote: > > > Keep your chin up, Charles > > > > I

[luau] Unix Job

2002-10-21 Thread Rick Chavez
I hope this message doesn't rile anyone. I just can't think of a better place to post it. I'm a Unix System Administrator looking for a job. If anyone has any "inside" leads they're willing to share, please email them directly to me. Thanks, Rick Chavez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] talking smack

2002-10-21 Thread Ronnie T Livingston
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. -Chinese Proverb On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Robert Green wrote: > Keep your chin up, Charles > > I find myself deleting nearly everything I start to compose along > these lines because either: > > 1) I'm afraid it will just fan the flames > >

Re: Please ignore Re: [luau] talking smack

2002-10-21 Thread al plant
Charles Lockhart wrote: > > Please ignore. I don't know what I was thinking. Less than 5 minutes > later I realized it was a waste of bandwidth. My apologies. > > -Charles # You're the man Charles Let's just stick to technical stuff. Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidak

Re: [luau] qmail setup on Netscape or mozilla

2002-10-21 Thread al plant
Ho'ala Greevy wrote: > > howzit al, > > in addition to qmail, what else are you running? qmail-pop3d, the > built-in POP3 server from qmail, might do the trick for you. do you have > that running? > > more info please, > -ho'ala > Hi Ho'ala, pop3 is running as far as I know. The net em

[luau] nfs and samba

2002-10-21 Thread burnst001
I'm considering sharing a single filesystem using both nfs and samba. Most of the discussions I find on the web talk about using samba to re-export a filesystem mounted using NFS (and what a bad idea that is). I just want to have an NFS daemon for serving unix clients and a smbd for serving window

Re: [luau] talking smack

2002-10-21 Thread Robert Green
Keep your chin up, Charles I find myself deleting nearly everything I start to compose along these lines because either: 1) I'm afraid it will just fan the flames 2) I figure somebody else is going to say it anyway (which they do, even if worded differently) 3) I doubt the person will respo

Re: [luau] Proposed list guidelines

2002-10-21 Thread Jon Reynolds
Just my thoughts on this. When I first started getting into mailing lists I violated every code of netiqette and got flamed like Johnny Torch on the Fantastic Four because of it. I think if a list policy had been in place it would have avoided this discussion as Edward could have s

Re: [luau] Good Guy/Bad Buy

2002-10-21 Thread Jimen Ching
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Autumn wrote: >>From: Joe Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Jimen is on my "good guy" list. > >Common sense and the adage "Least said, soonest mended." tell me I should >keep quiet on this one, however, I think I have a worthy question: How >is this one line post/comment *not* th

Re: [luau] qmail setup on Netscape or mozilla

2002-10-21 Thread Ho'ala Greevy
howzit al, in addition to qmail, what else are you running? qmail-pop3d, the built-in POP3 server from qmail, might do the trick for you. do you have that running? more info please, -ho'ala al plant said: > > Hi, > > I have qmail on a server and want to bring up accounts on Unix boxes > und

Re: [luau] solicit

2002-10-21 Thread Charles Lockhart
In regards to Win4Lin, I started using it a short while ago, and it has given me the benefit of being compatible with coworkers running Windows exclusively (being able to work with their Word/Excel documents without trouble) while not having to maintain a Windows machine/partition. I also noti

[luau] qmail setup on Netscape or mozilla

2002-10-21 Thread al plant
Hi, I have qmail on a server and want to bring up accounts on Unix boxes under Netscape or Mozilla. It works fine as a net based mail client on any box, but we can't get it to come up on either Mozilla or Netscape. Any help appreciated. Thanks Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidaki

Please ignore Re: [luau] talking smack

2002-10-21 Thread Charles Lockhart
Please ignore. I don't know what I was thinking. Less than 5 minutes later I realized it was a waste of bandwidth. My apologies. -Charles -- Charles Lockhart Embedded Software Engineer NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility http://irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] (808)956-7635

[luau] talking smack

2002-10-21 Thread Charles Lockhart
It's been my unfortunate personal experience and overall observation that criticizing people on this list for making negative or disparaging personal remarks about others just leads them to make negative and disparaging personal remarks about you, both publicly on the list and privately via ema

Re: [luau] Good Guy/Bad Buy

2002-10-21 Thread Cliff Brown
R. Scott Belford wrote: This is now a very tired subject for me. I could be speaking for others. The quote from this poster to whom you have responded is very appropriate: "Least said, soonest mended." It is advice worth following. I have proposed that we don't address personal issues with

Re: [luau] Good Guy/Bad Buy

2002-10-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
This is now a very tired subject for me. I could be speaking for others. The quote from this poster to whom you have responded is very appropriate: "Least said, soonest mended." It is advice worth following. I have proposed that we don't address personal issues with other members. You seem

Re: [luau] Proposed list guidelines

2002-10-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
Joe Linux wrote: R. Scott Belford wrote: I tried to address this with the following: "Responding to other members on the list to address personal issues is generally discouraged. This is a gathering. If you have an issue with a person at a gathering, you don't disrespect the peace of the

Re: [luau] solicit

2002-10-21 Thread Joe Linux
Perhaps you would be willing to earn a few extra bucks, and actually help Neal set it up. Ronald Willis wrote I have worked in several different business environments where the "proprietary software" was the only limitation to a productive network of computers. . . . . Some examples of h

Re: [luau] solicit

2002-10-21 Thread Joe Linux
My opinion is that native software is always best. I had a Macintosh that actually had a complete PC card included and booted the Mac OS and Windows simultaneously. However it wasn't really satisfactory as the Windows system was still under control of the Macintosh operating system. As such

Re: [luau] Good Guy/Bad Buy

2002-10-21 Thread Joe Linux
It's not trolling, because I happen to like Jimen and it certainly shouldn't be considered "trolling" to express admiration for another member of the group, particularly in the context of what has been going on, and what was said previously.  Even the proposed policy language contained a passage

Re: [luau] Proposed list guidelines

2002-10-21 Thread Joe Linux
R. Scott Belford wrote: I tried to address this with the following: "Responding to other members on the list to address personal issues is generally discouraged. This is a gathering. If you have an issue with a person at a gathering, you don't disrespect the peace of the others by publiciz

Re: [luau] solicit

2002-10-21 Thread Ronald Willis
Greetings, > I have a peer to peer windows network at my dental office. It seems to > gradually operate slower and slower unless I shut the system down and > reboot. Have you considered optimizing your "peer to peer" network for starters. The proprietary dental software I use mandates a Windo