Re: [luau] LTSP Hardware Cleanup and Inventory

2002-08-10 Thread Carl Tucker
w very little about hardware. I live near the Pearl Harbor Nimitz gate, so that's pretty close to Pricebusters. If someone's willing to hand-hold enough for me to learn to do something useful, I can help evenings and part of each weekend. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Open Source in The Economist

2002-08-05 Thread Carl Tucker
developers keep up the cross-stealing between forks, like we see in the BSD family. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[luau] Apropos of the MSWindows thread

2002-08-03 Thread Carl Tucker
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 -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PRO

Re: [luau] MSWindows

2002-08-02 Thread Carl Tucker
ave. They can have pointy-clicky if they want, just don't make it so I have to have that too. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] HardDisc Partitioning

2002-07-28 Thread Carl Tucker
Win4Lin does tricky stuff in /var, it may need to be bigger, but I think 12G is excessive. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] good work MonMotha!

2002-07-27 Thread Carl Tucker
tters). > > Weird, I know. Yep, that worked. I added some to the Linux page. Is there some accepted protocol to edit the site, like running proposals for new pages, etc. by the list first, or just go at it? -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] good work MonMotha!

2002-07-27 Thread Carl Tucker
aying member of the group? -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] good work MonMotha!

2002-07-27 Thread Carl Tucker
e I want to live afterwards. I know cchono was looking for a Linux person a couple of years ago, but couldn't pay much. I almost took it part-time for free DSL/co-lo. Then it turned out I couldn't get DSL here. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] MSWindows

2002-07-27 Thread Carl Tucker
o, though. Especially avoid the "something's not right, lets restore backups" mentality. Sounds like a MS tech support line. "Just reinstall windows and see if the problem goes away." -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] DSL for Servers (Was configuring router)

2002-07-26 Thread Carl Tucker
a, between Kam and Pearl Harbor Nimitz gate. Lots of people here with money and desire, but no service. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE

2002-07-11 Thread Carl Tucker
th 4.3-RELEASE. I neglected to write down what I did to fix it, but since 4.4-RELEASE, it hasn't come up again, even with clean installs on the same machine. FreeBSD finally gave me the peace of mind to ditch windows. The haphazard Linux release engineering always left me too confused to get

Re: [luau] Changing shells

2002-07-11 Thread Carl Tucker
Or, as previously suggested, remove that command to a separate file, prepend #!/bin/sh to the top, and call that file from the first one. That's a good general solution. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Changing shells

2002-07-11 Thread Carl Tucker
s unmounted. For more info, see /usr/share/doc/faq/index.html , section 7.12 and /usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html , section 3.7 -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE

2002-07-10 Thread Carl Tucker
g what hardware to have on all machines, not a bunch of people running out to CompUSA and plugging in every new gadget that comes out. To each his own, though. That's why there ARE different distros. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE

2002-07-10 Thread Carl Tucker
like an advertisement, but I really am happy with it. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[luau] Where to get...

2002-07-07 Thread Carl Tucker
They said they could order one and charge me for it - basically the same thing as ordering one myself. I'm on Oahu, so that would be best. Anyone got a spare they want to give me? Heh. Worth a try, I guess. -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]