RE: [luau] Firewalls

2002-10-29 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:07, Randall Oshita wrote: > >As far as security goes, general rules apply just like any other Linux > >box. Keep all your packages updated at all times, disable all > >unnecessary services, NEVER USE FTP OR TELNET into the box, and > maintain > >a very minimal amount of op

[luau] Audio - Recording of Linus Torvalds Q&A Session

2002-10-28 Thread Warren Togami
Mirror of the OGG file ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mplug/archive/2002/torvalds_geek_cruise/linusq-a.ogg http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-28-011-31-PS "Quite a few of us have recorded the 1 hour session on minidisc, then transferred it to .wav, then .ogg format (Red Hat 8.0 kinda h

RE: [luau] Firewalls

2002-10-28 Thread Warren Togami
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:50, Randall Oshita wrote: > > What would be good (above average) specs for a PC hardware Linux router? > So hardware would be the BIGGEST difference between a "real" and a Linux > router correct? In terms of security can they be considered similar? > Thanks. > > Randall

Re: [luau] MDK 9 & NVIDIA driver installation woes

2002-10-28 Thread Warren Togami
Rodney, what is the brand and model of this Geforce4 video board?

[luau] Re: Disk Space on Videl...

2002-10-28 Thread Warren Togami
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 21:18, Robert Robbins wrote: > Warren, > > I have a few spare hard drives and was wondering what format is > "videl"? > SCSI or IDE? If it is SCSI, I have an extra 9Gb hard drive you can > as my contribution to the Linux project. Videl currently uses IDE and is capable of

Re: [luau] Mandrake PowerPC?

2002-10-27 Thread Warren Togami
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 12:47, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > Does anyone want Debian PowerPC? > > I certainly do. > Debian PowerPC has been added and Mandrake PowerPC removed. Mandrake PowerPC 8.2 ISO's are still available. Please test and let me know if PowerPC apt-get works.

[luau] Mandrake PowerPC?

2002-10-27 Thread Warren Togami
Does anyone use Mandrake PowerPC? If so please let me know soon. Otherwise I am erasing most of the Mandrake PowerPC repository from Videl in order to reclaim some space. Does anyone want Debian PowerPC?

Re: [luau] flash plugins

2002-10-27 Thread Warren Togami
I recommend erasing that plugin and installing Flash 6 beta for Linux. It works far better. http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/special/beta/ - Original Message - From: "Dan George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: [lu

Re: [luau] Postfix

2002-10-26 Thread Warren Togami
Then your SMTP server is either 1) Not receiving mail properly 2) Not delivering mail to a location where the IMAP server reads for your user. What Linux distribution are you using? - Original Message - From: eXt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [luau] Postfix

2002-10-26 Thread Warren Togami
Don't worry, questions are welcome. You ask good questions. The IMAP and POP servers from the "imap" package have no configuration files Oops, that should be "ipop3" instead of "pop3" below. Please try IMAP before you use POP3. It is considerably better when you run your own server. - Or

[luau] Debian apt-get on Videl

2002-10-26 Thread Warren Togami
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/debian/ Debian users, please point your apt-get sources.list within this location for testing. I suspect that this will work as an apt-get source for i386 Linux. Please let me know if it doesn't work.

[luau] News - RealNetworks Open Source "Helix DNA" client

2002-10-25 Thread Warren Togami
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2124389,00.html ZDNet UK: Real Prepares to Unwind Source Code "Thirteen weeks after its surprise announcement that it was releasing parts of its source code into open-source development, RealNetworks will make the first installment of that code available on

Re: [luau] News - Washington State Congressman attempts to outlaw GPL

2002-10-25 Thread Warren Togami
Another follow-up: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/24/1739254.shtml?tid=19 "Congressman Adam Smith's staff contacted Open Source Public Policy advocates around 6:00pm EDT to say they were flooded by calls from reporters about the letter that sparked this thread. Many staffers of the 67 Congre

[luau] News - SuSE's new OpenExchange server

2002-10-25 Thread Warren Togami
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/23/2052234.shtml?tid=30 Newsforge: SuSE targets MS Exchange users with new groupware package By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - It's called Openexchange, and it's aimed squarely at companies that currently use Microsoft Exchange v. 5.5, which Microsoft is about to sto

[luau] News - Mac OS X for Unix GeeksTop Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks

2002-10-25 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html "I recently got a copy of my new book, Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, and as I anxiously await its arrival in bookstores, I have a little time to reflect. So, I'm offering the top ten tips that I gathered while working on the book. These t

Re: [luau] Postfix

2002-10-25 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:35, eXt wrote: > > I got postfix running I can send e-mails!!! > but i cant recieve none :( > > is postfix smtp/pop server? or just smtp? Postfix, like Sendmail, is only an SMTP server (MTA). You need to run a separate POP3 or IMAP server to download or r

Re: [luau] MonMotha's Firewall

2002-10-25 Thread Warren Togami
account profile in Evolution? My Evolution client works fine with any POP, IMAP or SMTP server when set. Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] News - Washington State Congressman attempts to outlaw GPL

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
distributed under the GNU General Public License. GPL software competes with Microsoft Windows and some of the company's other products. (continued in article) On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:37, Warren Togami wrote: > Oh sure, Washington state doesn't have any special interests opposing > the G

[luau] Tool - Mondo Rescue

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
This tool appears to be a popular Open Source disaster recovery suite for Linux (and Windows FAT32). Anyone tried this? http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ What is Mondo? Mondo is reliable. It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW or NFS partition. In the event of cata

[luau] News - Open Source advocates from Peru and Vietnam

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
Talking with Open Source advocates from Peru and Vietnam http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/23/0049208.shtml?tid=19 Last week, at a conference in Washington, D.C., I listened to a speech by (and had private conversations with) Peruvian Congressman and "Open Source Hero" Edgar Villanueva and an

Re: [luau] ics412: operating systems

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:15, Jimen Ching wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Dustin Cross wrote: > >This got me interested, so I started doing some reading. BeOS is based on > >a microkernel, written in C, everything else in the OS is done via servers > >which were written in C++. > > This makes more s

[luau] News - Richard Stallman - Can you trust your computer?

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
I normally disagree with Richard M. Stallman and think his views are completely unrealistic, but this particular essay is dead right. He warns us about the dangers of Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft's Palladium and the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance (TCPA). Be sure to read the TCPA

[luau] News - Washington State Congressman attempts to outlaw GPL

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
Oh sure, Washington state doesn't have any special interests opposing the GPL. I personally am opposed to proprietary intellectual property from tax-payer funded research, but the unanswered question here is whether GPL or BSD licensing is "more free" and which should be used for government resear

[luau] News - Crash test penguin? Chrysler meets Linux

2002-10-24 Thread Warren Togami
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962661.html DaimlerChrysler has purchased 108 dual-processor Linux workstations from IBM to run car-crash simulations, highlighting the spread of the low-cost "cluster" supercomputer technique beyond the academic domain. (continued in article)

Re: [luau] 15 minute videl send delay

2002-10-23 Thread Warren Togami
hese kinds of problems in accessing any resource on Videl, please e-mail me so I can investigate. Thanks, Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Linux newbie seeks easy transition

2002-10-23 Thread Warren Togami
NAT/firewall box. http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/BasicFirewallRouter More coming tomorrow... Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Linux newbie seeks easy transition

2002-10-23 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 20:12, Ho'ala Greevy wrote: > Eric's right, samba will take care of file/print sharing between all 3 > machines. From what you've described, it sounds like the only additional > hardware you'll need is the DSL "modem." > > As for your financial software and relunctance to ju

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] solicit

2002-10-20 Thread Warren Togami
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 20:52, Randall Oshita wrote: > > Question: > Running VMware or Crossover would still require you to run an instance > of MS windows right (guest OS)? VMWare is a virtual machine that runs x86 compatible operating systems, so yes you need an instance of MS Windows. CrossOve

[luau] News - True Resizing Support on XFree86 4.3

2002-10-20 Thread Warren Togami
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/20/1914253&mode=thread&tid=104 "Great news from our favorite windowing system: [Hewlett-Packard] engineers committed a new extension to XFree86, called RandR. XFree86 4.3 (to be released in late 2002/early 2003), will have the ability to truly resize (not vi

Re: [luau] Proposed list guidelines

2002-10-20 Thread Warren Togami
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 14:27, Jimen Ching wrote: > But it does get very frustrating when some very vocal members start > voicing opinions on the list concerning the direction of the group that > contradicts the goals. Your options then are either to ignore it, which > might result in the group goin

[luau] News - Bruce Perens vs. CompTIA "Software Choice"

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
This article well clarifies Bruce Perens' Sincere Choice initiative, showing how he is opposed to CompTIA's Software Choice that pushes to lock open source out of government in the name of "fairness". http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20021018003 Open source advocate Bruce Perens, who l

Re: [luau] kernel module, /proc filesystem, and mmap

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
http://kernelnewbies.org You may have already tried here, but the Kernel Newbies group has a mailing list and IRC channel that is very friendly to new people working on the kernel. They may have an quick answer for you.

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
I think SVLUG policy was mentioned by Gary Sublett, who later quit the list in protest because he was completely offended by commercial posts. On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:50, Elayne Man wrote: > Let's learn by example & experience. I remember Warren mentioning that > the Silicon Valley Linux Users

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
Scott Belford is currently drafting a proposal for list policy. We will post it to the list and request for comments. On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:07, Neal & Gay Timon wrote: > Can we get some sort of policy on asking for someone to help you for money? > I have some suggestions ( I know I wasn't aske

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 13:16, Jimen Ching wrote: > On 18 Oct 2002, Warren Togami wrote: > >Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you. > > Could you put me on your blacklist as well? And I'll do the same for you > on mine. Thanks. > Al

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
ertain lists for opening their mail servers or > accidentally opening them to relay. > > -Eric Hattemer > > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: > .. > > not. While pattern matching is subject to occasional errors, blacklists > > and Vipul's Razo

Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
Cool, I've just been informed that they have two SunFire 480's dedicated for Spam Assassin, and they are currently thinking about implementation based upon the "UC Irvine" design. I'm not sure what this design is, but will investigate.

Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Ray Strode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking > > > Yeah i read about that in the paper this morning. I'm curious tho, > 1) spamassassin is pretty pr

[luau] Macromedia Flash 6 beta for Linux released

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flashplayer_beta.htm I am happy to report that the crash problems over X displays seems to be fixed in this version of the plugin. Finally LTSP clients should finally be able to use Flash. It should be noted that this is the first time a beta

[luau] News - UH ITS dept evaluating Spam blocking

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
University of Hawaii ITS department is looking for spam blocking solutions, this article specifically mentions that they are looking at Spam Assassin among other tools. I just got off the phone with someone in the ITS department and will soon be assisting in implementation. Here's hoping that the

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 03:18, Joe Linux wrote: > It seems to me, you should be the last person worried about being > personally affected by SPAM. > Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you.

[luau] News - (MS) Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/17/2338209&mode=thread&tid=109 "Bloomberg is running this Microsoft vs. Linux article as a top story on the Bloomberg system. Not so notable for what it says about Linux, but rather for the fact that the financial community is starting to actually get open

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:50, Dustin Cross wrote: > Warren, > > This was supposed to say "it SHOULDN'T be considered a problem". > > I use postfix and squirrelmail for everything. I have tried some of the > spam filters and they get a little more than half of it, but they also get > mail that isn

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:07, Dustin Cross wrote: > > A user asking for help with open source, no matter if they are a home user > or an individual looking to pay someone to help them set up their business > with open source is not SPAM. > > Someone that advertises for their new opensource friendl

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:28, al plant wrote: > At last a reasonable voice. I believe the person was only asking for > help too. > > By the way there are some people on this list who send two or three mail > postings each time they make a comment. I don't think it is intentional > or spam. In fact

Re: [luau] Graphic art design

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 06:10, Robert Green wrote: > > Perhaps we could have a volunteer who could gently steer newbies or > mild violations in the proper direction without getting too harsh on > them? Or a Luau List Ettiquette article that can be gently worded and > sent to offending parties? Tot

[luau] Policy Discussion

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 09:51, R. Scott Belford wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:34 am, Neal & Gay Timon wrote: > > > > > I was also considering asking about hiring someone to help me (you students > > must still be hungry and need money). That isn't my idea of spam, but it > > may not be so

[luau] Tool - checkinstall

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
checkinstall is neat tool that monitors changes made to your system when you type "make install", and puts those installed files into a RPM, DEB or Slackware package for easy de-installation and re-installation later. Awesome! http://checkinstall.izto.org/ A lot of people has asked me how can th

[luau] News - Mozilla 1.2b (beta) Released

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
Mozilla 1.2b (beta) Released. Keep in mind that this _is_ a beta, so it is expected to be less stable than Mozilla 1.0.1. (1.1 generally isn't stable either.) You can download it for almost every platform from our local mirror: ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mozilla/mozilla1.2b/ Release No

Re: [luau] Advertiser open source article

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 23:03, kilauea wrote: > The Honolulu Advertiser ran an article on open source today (yesterday), > cool ... > > http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Oct/15/tc/tc01a.html This is the guy that wrote the very uninformed article a few months ago saying that the browser

Re: [luau] Graphic art design

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 20:20, Jimen Ching wrote: > > >We should discuss possibilities for commercial posting policies in order to > >avoid this kind of thing in the future. > > The term 'commercial' implies commerce. Edward was simply asking for > help. I hope your policies are able to different

[luau] News - UK police test Linux desktops

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135986 Part of the trial involves migrating existing police applications to Linux and making use of open source software. West Yorkshire Police has 3,500 desktops and estimates a possible saving of £1m per annum on full rollout. Paul Friday, head of IS for West Yorkshi

[luau] News - Impressions of SuSE 8.1

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=254 by Dennis E. Powell A new SuSE is always interesting in the way that life-threatening sports are interesting. It might seem to be going along just fine, but in an instant disaster can strike. So it was with the usual warines

Re: [luau] Logos Shirt design

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
Dan, could you please edit your Outlook Express settings to post Plain Text rather than HTML mail? Thanks. As for the logo, I'm in favor of the official Linux Mascot, Tux the penguin. http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ - Original Message - From: linuxdan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [luau] Logos Shirt design

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
Dan, could you please edit your Outlook Express settings to post Plain Text rather than HTML mail? Thanks. As for the logo, I'm in favor of the official Linux Mascot, Tux the penguin. http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ - Original Message - From: linuxdan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [luau] Graphic art design

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "linuxdan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [luau] Graphic art design > Warren > I believe it was Grant who gave Edward the list for help but as > Grant doesnt understand LUAUs Spam po

[luau] Tool - scponly

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/ I haven't tried this yet, but scponly looks to be a tool that allows you to easily give SCP, SFTP or rsync via SSH access to users without giving them shell access. It looks like it can also chroot their filesystem access, meaning they can access only their hom

[luau] News - Red Hat fights the DMCA

2002-10-16 Thread Warren Togami
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/16/1546251.shtml?tid=4 By John Lettice - -The Register - Red Hat has struck a small blow against the DMCA, by publishing a security patch which can only be explained fully to people who are not within U.S. jurisdiction. The company's position here seems to be no

Re: [luau] Graphic art design

2002-10-15 Thread Warren Togami
According to my records, you subscribe to the list and immediately posted your commercial solicitation THREE TIMES as well as spamming me directly with this same message. Did you send this message to everyone else in the list archives too? I do not appreciate this type of behavior. - Origina

[luau] News - CNET - A Mortal Microsoft (part 1 of 4)

2002-10-15 Thread Warren Togami
Check out the diagrams and pie graphs on the bottom half of this article. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-14-011-26-NW-BZ-MS (from LinuxToday) [Editor's Note: This article is the first part of a four-part series CNET News has launched this week entitled "A Mortal Microsoft". Wh

Re: [luau] Gub'ment accepting public input on DMCA

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
I am a bit concerned that they mainly want to know what specific "exclusions" to the DMCA should be made. Some people on Newsforge and Slashdot said that it may not be productive for our side to create specific exclusions to the DMCA, because that would weaken our argument that the DMCA is overbro

[luau] News - Oracle - The Importance of Being Linux

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/02-nov/o62dba.html The Importance of Being Linux By Ken Jacobs Oracle's advances for Linux increase its viability and applicability. Oracle has long been a strong advocate for Linux-although I always hasten to add that "long" is a somewhat relative term in the w

[luau] News - Promoting OSS in Canadian government

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/specials/business/story.html?id={ C50BA30E-BE66-48CB-B32C-609F488F49BC} A piece of the action Governments the world over spend billions on Microsoft products and other proprietary software. Open source advocates contend their wares are cheaper and better.

Re: [luau] non-profit incorporation

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [luau] non-profit incorporation > > The Hawaii Education Foundation for Open Source Technology > > > Wordy but perhaps appropriately prestigious. I

[luau] RH8.0 graphical RPM management

2002-10-13 Thread Warren Togami
What he wants is apt-get and Synaptic. http://apt.freshrpms.net Download apt for Red Hat 8.0. After it is installed, type: apt-get update (This downloads the list of packages.) apt-get install synaptic(This installs synaptic.) Synaptic is a GUI frontend tool for apt tha

[luau] News - Lessig's Thoughts On Eldred v. Ashcroft Arguments

2002-10-13 Thread Warren Togami
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/1636205&mode=thread&tid=99 "Lawrence Lessig has updated his blog giving his thoughts on how the oral arguments for Eldred vs. Ashcroft went before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. He discusses the goals and methods he used in framing his arguments to c

[luau] News - Blender released as GPL

2002-10-13 Thread Warren Togami
Blender is a powerful 3D design and rendering tool, now released as fully Open Source Software under the GPL license. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/1754204&mode=thread&tid=117 "Today, Sunday oct 13, 2002, we've launched the Blender sources as GNU GPL to the Internet. Blender has beco

Re: [LinuxBusinessHawaii] Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-13 Thread Warren Togami
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 15:45, Jimen Ching wrote: > > I am curious. What do you and Warren believe is the goal of these > efforts? It seems like both of your are stuck on this 'compete on merits' > issue. It is hard for me to believe the _government_ cares about such > things. I hope this issue

Re: [LinuxBusinessHawaii] Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-13 Thread Warren Togami
ould prefer open source to closed code even if it is technically > inferior, not that it is! OSS that is superior to proprietary solutions does exist, unfortunately we lack one powerful factor here: marketing. =( I see the California OSS legislation as one thing: publicity. We wont win, but we

Re: [LinuxBusinessHawaii] Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-12 Thread Warren Togami
economy. Don't get me wrong, I LIKE the idea of everyone using Open Source Software. I just don't think this is a realistic way of reaching that goal at least in the USA. However... this is a good publicity stunt... and we will get a lot more attention because of it. Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Help with Red Hat install of rwCdRom

2002-10-12 Thread Warren Togami
3 at 05:11, Warren Togami wrote: > Can someone please help this person? For some weird reason, I never received the original mail, but reading this I presume that he is having a problem where to put the extra kernel options for boot up? > > They all,talk about hd?=ide-scsi, but don't t

Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-10 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 20:58, Jimen Ching wrote: > >I disallowed Scott from demonstrating his POS terminal? I did no such > >thing. > > Sorry. When I asked Scott whether he finished his POS terminal > presentation, he said no and he was preparing to shutdown the POS server. > Since the presentati

Re: [luau] vnc for UNIX/Linux?

2002-10-10 Thread Warren Togami
All recent versions of Red Hat and Mandrake include packages for VNC servers and clients. In my experience the "tight" encoding works best for most internet links, while hextile is great for LAN connections. I personally am not positive about RealVNC and TridiavVNC, and the VNC version at AT&T is

Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-10 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 00:16, Jimen Ching wrote: > As Ron said in an earlier post, people don't choose software on merit, > they choose software out of fear. The only way people will learn to use > any new software is if the software is placed in front of them. Perhaps > if you let Scott Belford d

Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-09 Thread Warren Togami
Further reading on this topic: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/2351215&mode=thread&tid=23 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/2040246&mode=thread&tid=19

Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-09 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 23:05, Jimen Ching wrote: > > > >I disagree, if we advocated for the banning of proprietary software, we > >would be hypocrites to be advocates of free "choice". > > I doubt those people are against free choice. Having choice and having > source code are orthogonal. The pro

Re: [luau] Red Hat 8.0 Tips & Tricks v1.0.0

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 23:12, Ben Beeson wrote: > So Warren, > > What's your take on RH 8.0??? I may wait until I finish a class I'm > now > taking before I upgrade so I don't lose my term papers, but in any case, is > it a "go" now, or should we wait for 8.1??? > > Thanks, > > Ben Red

Re: [luau] OpenSourceAdvocates

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 23:40, ronal wrote: > >From the State WUG...I wonder if Hawaii could...? > > > Open-source software advocates will unfurl a legislative proposal next > week to prohibit the state of California from buying software from > Microsoft or any other company that doesn't open its s

[luau] IBM - Introduction to Netfilter/iptables

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/security/library/s-netip/?t=gr,lnxw02=LinuxFirewall Configuring firewalls for Linux (kernel 2.4.x) using netfilter/iptables Mugdha Vairagade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Independent Developer September 2002 The netfilter/iptables is the IP packet filtering system that

[luau] Linux Gaming - Transgaming WineX v2.2 released

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
Transgaming WineX is a fork of Wine specific to implement DirectX and other features needed for playing the latest Windows games within Linux. Many games already work very well, with more game support always improving. You can download the source code which is free for non-commercial use, but it

[luau] Red Hat 8.0 Tips & Tricks v1.0.0

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
n to use OSS sound output, if the user opts to stick with OSS rather than use ALSA. If you know something that would be useful to add but don't want to learn Wiki syntax, please e-mail me and I will add it for you. Thanks, Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group http://www.mplug.org

Re: [luau] non-profit incorporation

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:13, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > I see a common theme here of education, but wouldn't it be better to > > name the > > non-profit to something slightly more general, so that in the future we > > can use > > it for helping other non-school related entities? Libraries, Youth

[luau] News - W3C Patent Board Recommends Royalty-Free Policy

2002-10-07 Thread Warren Togami
Bruce Perens continues the good fight, protecting Open Source Software's rights to implement W3C standards. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/1159206&mode=thread&tid=95 Bruce Perens writes "A year ago, the World Wide Web Consortium proposed a policy to allow royalty-generating patents t

[luau] Demo day today

2002-10-06 Thread Warren Togami
If people get this message before Demo Day, please bring any burned distributions you may already have (Mandrake 9, Red Hat 8, etc.). I forgot to ask the group earlier. Thanks, Warren

[luau] News - Judge In RIAA Test Case Calls DMCA Unclear

2002-10-05 Thread Warren Togami
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/2337242&mode=thread&tid=123 "BBC News has an interesting article about how the judge has chided Congress for being inept and unclear. There are repercussions for both sides; primarily that the initial verdict will take far, far longer."

[luau] News - Newsforge 'Replacing Microsoft Exchange with a Linux Based solution'

2002-10-04 Thread Warren Togami
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/03/2216217.shtml?tid=30 - By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - One of the big reasons cited to continue running Windows on corporate servers despite Linux's greater security and reliability (and lower cost) is a need for Microsoft Exchange, not only for email but also

Re: [luau] Demo

2002-10-04 Thread Warren Togami
Dan, What time can we arrive at CompUSA to begin setup? I'd like to have setup begin earlier... perhaps 4pm if possible. Please let me know what time will work. Also could you please set your Outlook Express to post in plain text rather than HTML. You can do so easily by adding [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [luau] New Asian Input Method Project

2002-10-04 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 18:37, linuxdan wrote: > > moment, IIIM Server is known to run on UNIX flavored OSs and Windows. > > (continued in link) > > Im wondering if this was included in the package Redhat was sending me by > Monday which includes Redhat Advanced Server. I already have Domino's > pr

[luau] Guide - Oracle 9i on Red Hat Linux

2002-10-04 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml Elayne found this handy URL that explains how to install Oracle 9i on Red Hat Linux 7.x and Advanced Server 2.1.

Re: [luau] Redhat8.0 CD's...

2002-10-04 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 08:26, Robert Robbins wrote: > For anyone in the Honolulu area, I have the set of 5 CD's of the newest > release of Redhat, Redhat8.0, I can and will burn CD's for anyone that > is interested. I will need to charge $5 for the cost of CD's, labels and > cases. > Please be awa

Re: [luau] Nightly user killoff

2002-10-04 Thread Warren Togami
Dean, please fix your mail client, your "From" address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], which isn't a valid domain name.

[luau] New Asian Input Method Project

2002-10-03 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/ I was just informed by a Red Hat engineer that they have 3 people working on this new Asian Input Method project to replace the current XIM system that anyone that uses Asian input (Chinese, Japanese or Korean) in Unix can tell you is terribly inconvenien

Re: [luau] Demo progress report

2002-10-03 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 21:20, linuxdan wrote: > > I will be bringing the shirts down Saturday night. Please get one size small if possible, the rest I think will be fine XL. > > I just received a voicemail from Chris Gillespie at RedHat and he > wished us luck Sunday. Said they would be more sup

Re: [luau] Help Needed with Comp USA

2002-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:57, Michael Ableyev wrote: > > When I took the CDRom back because it has never worked under Win 98 or > > Unix/Linux. The burner is Scsi and is detected and the drivers load etc. > > under all three O/S, but the door won't open and a test cd will not be > > found. > WTF.

[luau] Open Source for Business Demo Day

2002-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
m Q&A 3:00pm Presentation: Linux Enterprise Security 3:45pm Q&A Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions. Thanks, Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group http://www.mplug.org

[luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users

2002-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/01/130259.shtml?tid=45 - By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - This article concentrates on describing a basic Mandrake 9.0 installation and setup from a new user's viewpoint, using nothing but default settings all the way through. I've also tossed in a few notes on how M

Re: [luau] Overheating with Presario and RH 7.3

2002-10-01 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 21:51, Alvin Murphy wrote: > Warren, sorry, somehow I deleted your message. You are quite right about > the problem as I learned at several websites. I have not been brave > enough yet to apply the patch and recompile the kernel; perhaps at some > future installfest. I am n

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