Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Ben Beeson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dusty, Right now it will be a 'smart terminal' on my home LAN. I have another box with some good toys on it, and soemtimes more than one of us wants on it... In the future it may turn into a file server of some sort, or a firewall + rout

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Ben Beeson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruse, You are the first person I've seen on the list that admitted to using Aurora. I'm curious how much trouble it was to install it and how complete the distro is. Please let me know what you think. BTW, does it come with ssh? Thanks

Re: [luau] Installing Fonts in Red Hat 8.0

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Strode
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: While we are at it (i.e., discussion about fonts), I seem to vaguely remember that there was a font installation tool in Red Hat 7.3 (through KDE, I believe). But now I don't seem to be able to find it in 8.0. Does anyone know how to do that in Red Hat 8.0? I think you

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:14:38PM -1000, Bruce Howard wrote: > I originally installed OpenBSD but switched to the Aurora > linux distribution upon discovering OpenBSD's lack of proper > multiprocessor support for Sparc 20. OpenBSD has issues with multiple processors and large amounts of memory. O

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:27:55AM -1000, Ben Beeson wrote: > Since I am needing ssh because I have disabled a bunch of > stuff on my other boxes, I am needing to make the switch. (The > partial RH 6.1 does not have ssh, and it is too much trouble > to cross -compile.) I think I would /dev/null a

[luau] Interesting question I found...

2002-12-04 Thread Charles Lockhart
Sorry, I read this off of a different list. Nobody seemed to be replying there, so I'm assuming they don't know. Has anybody here know if this kind of thing is possible? It sounds interesting, though not sure what the application would be. *** begin excerpt from other email *** Sorry for be

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, OpenBSD doesn't have a problem with multi-processors, it doesn't support them. On most smp systems it will just ignore the extra processors. I haven't had any problems with OpenBSD and memory, but the most I have ever had in an OpenBSD system was 512MB X works just fine in OpenBSD and I

Re: [luau] Interesting question I found...

2002-12-04 Thread Brandon Jasper
The easiest way to do this is probably using Vmware ESX server and simply use two virtual machines with the processor assigned to each. The problem is the ESX server is EXPENSIVE... The type where they don't list a price, just give you a contact number. I use the GSX server on some of my systems

Re: [luau] Interesting question I found...

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I'm not an expert, but I think the short answer is they can't! In smp systems everything is shared, so there is no way to tell one cpu to use this memory and the other to use that memory. Even in the Sun E10K, which is designed to be divided up into multiple systems (called domains) like

Re: [luau] Mozilla 1.2.1 released

2002-12-04 Thread DeanFujioka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 December 2002 07:03 pm, Ray Strode wrote: > > freetype is a libary that can open font files (truetype, opentype, and > other lesser formats) and convert fonts from their > resolution-independent mathematical representations (as stored in

Re: [luau] HOSEF Status

2002-12-04 Thread DeanFujioka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 December 2002 05:11 pm, R. Scott Belford wrote: > I propose that we have a Chief Officer, an Information Officer, and a > Technical Officer. Please suggest otherwise. The Trilug site is not > available now, but, I liked their arrangemen

[luau] OpenSource PSA

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I have been thinking about doing some public service announcments and short educational tv shows on open source. They would air on Olelo and with a goal of getting them on OC16 and beyond. Would anyone on the list be interested in being interviewed about projects they are working on, how

[luau] Running a script

2002-12-04 Thread Miguel
I downloaded an "E-mail Server" software for linux called eXtremail, i've installed it but i cant get it to start (the daemon) the instructions say to type "smtpd start" in the command prompt but it gives me this error "bash: smtpd: command not found" ive tried going in to the directory in wich

[luau] another interesting thing I found on another list

2002-12-04 Thread Charles Lockhart
Sorry, if I'm breeching protocol with crossover, please flame me privately. This article: http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20021202S0052 was causing a bit of anger and disgust on another list, and I could pretty much see why. This guy has 15 years of working experience with vxWorks, none wit

RE: [luau] Running a script

2002-12-04 Thread DOUGS
Title: RE: [luau] Running a script > I downloaded an "E-mail Server" software for linux called > eXtremail, i've > installed it but i cant get it to start (the daemon) the > instructions say to > type "smtpd start" in the command prompt but it gives me this error > "bash: smtpd: command n

Re: [luau] Running a script

2002-12-04 Thread Ben Beeson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel, > "bash: smtpd: command not found" The message means the shell can't find the executable in the list of directories stored in the $PATH variable. (See your .bash_profile and /etc/profile for example...) Type "echo $PATH" at the

Re: [luau] another interesting thing I found on another list

2002-12-04 Thread Thomas David Burns
> seen available on the net before. My thinking was that if he had > 15 > years worth of experience with Linux these things would have been > just > as easy. If he had 15 years experience with Linux, it would be named after *him*, not Linus!-) reDiculous Dave

Re: [luau] another interesting thing I found on another list

2002-12-04 Thread Charles Lockhart
Oh yeah, missed that point by a bit. Of course, as a programmer guy, he could be talking man years, yeah, that's what I meant, yeah, 15 man years, he puts in 80 hour weeks. Right. -Charles If he had 15 years experience with Linux, it would be named after *him*, not Linus!-) reDiculous Da

Re: [luau] OpenSource PSA

2002-12-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
Dustin Cross wrote: Great initiative, Dusty. I am definitely interested. scott Aloha, I have been thinking about doing some public service announcments and short educational tv shows on open source. They would air on Olelo and with a goal of getting them on OC16 and beyond. Would anyone on

Re: [luau] Mozilla 1.2.1 released

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Strode
Thanks for the excellent detailed response... I'm not trying to be nit-picky, but are both these rasterization? Converting files to pixels and blurring rough edges don't seem like the same thing. Is the term used for both? I've seen "rasterize fonts" options on printer setups (don't remember

Re: [luau] HOSEF Status

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Strode
I propose that we have a Chief Officer, an Information Officer, and a Technical Officer. Please suggest otherwise. The Trilug site is not available now, but, I liked their arrangement as well. I propose that Warren Togami be the first CO for the rest of this year and next, that Jimen Ching b

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Bob
server RARP boot image on server boot net It's been years, but I muddled through this at one time If you can't find a CDROM locally, let me know. I may have one in the edebris pile... please reply my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address for best response -tongaloa aka Bob Ben Beeson wrote: install? W

Re: [luau] Running a script

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Strode
Miguel wrote: I downloaded an "E-mail Server" software for linux called eXtremail, i've installed it but i cant get it to start (the daemon) the instructions say to type "smtpd start" in the command prompt but it gives me this error "bash: smtpd: command not found" ive tried going in to the di

Re: [luau] another interesting thing I found on another list

2002-12-04 Thread MonMotha
Charles Lockhart wrote: Sorry, if I'm breeching protocol with crossover, please flame me privately. This article: http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20021202S0052 was causing a bit of anger and disgust on another list, and I could pretty much see why. This guy has 15 years of working experien

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Hattemer
This all can be quite painful. After sucessfully doing this once, it took me several hours a few months later to get it set up again. Then NFS ate my filesystem. But if you need help with this, I can get back to you over the weekend or so. I have way too much homework to explain this all. But

Re: [luau] another interesting thing I found on another list

2002-12-04 Thread Jimen Ching
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Charles Lockhart wrote: >was causing a bit of anger and disgust on another list, and I could >pretty much see why. This guy has 15 years of working experience with >vxWorks, none with embedded Linux, or even with Linux in general as far >as I could tell. I have two comments th

Re: [luau] HOSEF Status

2002-12-04 Thread Jimen Ching
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, R. Scott Belford wrote: >I propose that we have a Chief Officer, an Information Officer, and a >Technical Officer. Please suggest otherwise. The Trilug site is not >available now, but, I liked their arrangement as well. I propose that >Warren Togami be the first CO for the re

Re: [luau] HOSEF Status

2002-12-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
- Original Message - From: "Jimen Ching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [luau] HOSEF Status > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, R. Scott Belford wrote: > >I propose that we have a Chief Officer, an Information Officer, and a > >Techni

Re: [luau] HOSEF Status

2002-12-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
- Original Message - From: "Ray Strode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [luau] HOSEF Status > > I propose that we have a Chief Officer, an Information Officer, and a > > Technical Officer. Please suggest otherwise. The

Re: [luau] Interesting question I found...

2002-12-04 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I really don't have any respect for those self-proclaimed "technical" people who insist that they must use pentium this and itanium that. To me, they are nothing more than a bunch of ignorant anti-tech idiots.