Re: [luau] ics412: operating systems

2002-10-24 Thread T. David Burns
At 11:12 PM 10/22/2002 -1000, Ray Strode wrote: I think also that people tend to love the language they used seriously first. Yeah. Maybe it was my good fortune to learn on languages so flakey that no one could love them - first program in raw machine code (not even an assembler on that

Re: [luau] Linux newbie seeks easy transition

2002-10-24 Thread T. David Burns
At 08:12 PM 10/23/2002 -1000, Ho'ala Greevy wrote: Well, the NAT is easy. MonMotha on the list here has a famous script that makes that quite simple. And there is a great quick install guide on the MPLUG wiki http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/BasicFirewallRouter that gives

Re: [luau] nfs and samba

2002-10-24 Thread T. David Burns
At 08:20 PM 10/23/2002 -1000, you wrote: On the *nix side, you can use /etc/fstab to automagically mount samba shares upon boot (I think there was a post with syntax tips re: this a few weeks ago) !? I feel clueless now! I thought I could only mount cifs shares on unix using a utility like

Re: [luau] nfs and samba

2002-10-24 Thread T. David Burns
At 11:10 PM 10/21/2002 -1000, you wrote: I recall the Samba documentation warning about oplocks used in conjunction with something like this. It has something to do with data integrity and Windows performance when using Samba mounted shares, but I don't remember exactly. Do the Google.

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

[luau] kpackage

2002-08-07 Thread T. David Burns
At 03:50 PM 7/28/2002 -1000, Eric Hattemer wrote: kpackage (which I really liked, but Warren had some kind of problem with), mysteriously disappeared in the newest versions of redhat. I just installed 7.3 and I got it. I don't know where to find it on a menu, but you don't need to. If you use

Re: [luau] MSWindows

2002-08-01 Thread T. David Burns
At 02:11 PM 7/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: He had accidentally run, as root, rm -rf /lib/* on his colocated system, hundreds of miles away. Restoring from backup was simply not an option as it would take days just to get there (as I recall he was in canada and the server was in florida). Note

Re: [luau] MSWindows

2002-07-27 Thread T. David Burns
On Saturday 26 January 2002 19:14, someone wrote: Sup guys, I'm a heavy Windows user, and a Linux newbie. Why are open-source gurus so adamant towards Microsoft? 1) Microsoft has done some genuinely arrogant stuff. (netscape java come immediately to mind.) They only really like standards

Re: [luau] MSWindows

2002-07-27 Thread T. David Burns
At 11:51 PM 7/26/2002 -1000, you wrote: One last commentdon't you think it's ironic that the GUI front-end for Linux such as KDE and GNOME (on default settings anyways) have such a strong resemblence to the Windows desktop? We can't hate Microsoft for everything? 1) I wish the

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

[luau] LINUX INSTALLFEST 4

2002-07-15 Thread T. David Burns
I also plan to attend this. Dave Burns At 01:32 AM 7/11/2002 -1000, you wrote: http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/MPLUGInstallFest4 MPLUG Install Help Session Install Fest 4 Date: Friday, July 19th, 2002 Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm Food: Perhaps we will order pizza Location: University of

Re: [luau] Lindows

2002-07-12 Thread T. David Burns
At 07:20 AM 7/9/2002 -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: BTW, against our own conventional wisdom, WalMart seems to be selling quite a few of those Lindows PCs. So much so that Lindows has to hire an outside company to help with services. And hire more lawyers to deal with a lawsuit from Chairman

RE: [luau] Re: RHCE certification

2002-07-12 Thread T. David Burns
At 04:43 PM 7/11/2002 -1000, Dan George wrote: Is that a night class? Yes. I know if it gets cancelled and you know some of the guys who want to take those courses, I know we are rounding up more people from HCC, HU and Heald who got dumped. We have 9 students so far and if we add

Re: [luau] Re: RHCE certification

2002-07-11 Thread T. David Burns
At 06:21 PM 7/9/2002 -1000, you wrote: David How many Cisco or MCSE classes were dumped? NOt sure, I only know about the linux classes because I tried to take them got cancelled. I also took a w2k admin course at kcc, there were 8 students. I am currently signed up for a linux

Re: [luau] Re: RHCE certification

2002-07-08 Thread T. David Burns
At 12:08 PM 7/7/2002 -1000, you wrote: I can hook you up with Joe Bransfield who is also trying to get RHCE programs here in Hawaii. Ive been trying to help him with getting interested people in taking Linux classes here on Oahu. I am interested in classes, though the whole RHCE

[luau] HCC linux course

2002-07-02 Thread T. David Burns
There will be a beginning linux course at HCC July 18 and 23, taught by someone named Greevy (sounds sort of familiar?). I've no idea whether it will be good or not. They had one scheduled in May but it was cancelled for lack of students. Info at