Specifically regarding embedded Linux systems, we could get
together and discuss it, but given a target audience of public
schools, I am very unclear how such a technology can be
effectively applied to old hardware.
Hmm, I kind of understand the general gist of the idea. Small (fits on a CD,
Several large DNS servers (and their connecting networks) were attacked
recently. You might be seeing the indirect side-affects?
my $0.02,
charles
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:23:38PM -1000, William N Luoma wrote:
And Warren. I began using the 32,34,36 addresses you mentioned,
but thought I
Does anybody think Heald or any of the smaller trade colleges would be
interested in adding Linux and Unix technologies to their curriculum?
Or do you all think public university system is still the best place to invest
'advocacy' energy?
peace,
charles
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Reservations made for the GLUUG Party.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:14:17AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha,
I will be making reservations at Murphys for 10 people.
See you tommorow!
take care,
charles
I'll be there!
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:35:18PM -1000, Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
So are we in agreement to meet this Friday, 6:30PM, at Murphy's?
Reasonable prices, good food, pretty good beer -- http://gomurphys.com
Most if not all street parking in downtown is free after 5:30PM. Good
I'd like to have a copy -- I can host it off my box, no sweat
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:32:03PM -1000, Jeff Zidek wrote:
I recorded Bruce Perens Talk of the Nation Science Friday. I have it as MP3
or CD. Anyone want a copy? If so let me know. I will burn it for free. All
I ask is for a
If I didn't know any better, I'd think that you were a paid saboteur for the
proprietary software industry.
Shape up or take your bullshit off this list.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:47:29PM -1000, LinuxDan wrote:
I love this list. I have gained so much support for my non-profit group so
GLUUG Meeting!
if meetingplace == Irish Pub:
GLUUG = Guinness Loving, Unix Using Geeks
else:
GLUUG = GNU/Linux Unix Users Group
I think that all affected parties should show up so that we can hash out the
recent arguments/discussions on this list. (which i think are caused
Here is a python script I wrote to change user ids for daemons:
#
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os,pwd
from sys import argv
def c_uid(u):
try:
uid = int(u)
os.setuid(uid)
except ValueError:
uid = pwd.getpwnam(u)[2]
That's a personal choice. I think that people who are interested in learning
unix should use the command line first -- if you are just looking for a free
replacement for windows, by all means install gnome/kde.
I'm still a newbie to Linux and learning as much as I can.
My question is,
demon_jr808 wrote:
I am considering purchasing the following laptop and installing Linux on
it:
Toshiba Satellite Pro T2150CDT
486/75mhz
8mb ram
700mb hard drive
Unfortunately, that system you mention would be far too underpowered to
run any graphical environment. 486's and low
What motherboard/cpu combo would you all recommend for a 1U server case?
It's a Boom case, if that matters (it doesn't ;)
take care,
charles
I have 4 80GB western digital drives and I had to replace all 4 of them
within 9 months of buying them. They all failed with data unrecoverable,
about every other month. That sucked. The new drives have been fine and
Western Digital support was very good about rushing me a replacement drive
Happy New Year LUAU
peace,
charles
I am rehabilitating a friend's PC for XMas. I want to install a
newbie-friendly Linux for her to use. Query to List: What is the best Linux
for absolute newbies?
I will be installing the operating system, so ease-of-install is not an
important factor. The main issue is net-connectivity and
I have a Belkin USB to Serial adaptor, and it works great in Linux.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:32:42PM -1000, Jeff Mings wrote:
Hi Gang,
This is a bit off-topic, but others may also find it interesting:
Has anyone tried one of the USB to serial port adapters? I just
purchased a Dell
Oh, and as an off note.. Anyone else here use Gentoo? I have it on one of my
systems and like it quite a bit. I admit that it is a pain to install but
you get a custom compiled system that is very responsive.
I have installed Gentoo over ALL of my NetBSD systems. It gives me the
Where is a good place to get a RedHat 8.0 RPM for Adobe Acrobat Reader?
I got postfix running I can send e-mails!!!
... but i cant recieve none :(
is postfix smtp/pop server? or just smtp?
Postfix is just smtp, unless you are running a mailserver for your
domain, you will need a tool like fetchmail in order to recieve your
pop/imap mail.
I've got the CDMA wireless running on my laptop/notebook
but am a bit confused regarding the PCMCIA card.
Cardctl reports 0x02f8 and 0x03e8 both at irq5
serial_cs catches 2f8 but fails on 3e8
setserial reports /dev/ttyS? as an 'unknown' UART
0x03e8 irq5 so something funny is going on...
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.
Here's my question:
Is there an 'easy' way to enable Japanese/Chinese/Korean
From my limited experience, the only distro with 2.4.19 kernel that
works with GeForce4 card is Xandros (beta 3). Perhaps I should not have
written off Xandros so quickly. I have heard that, for networking with
Windows, Xandros does the best job.
Gentoo and Debian work fine with 2.4.19
This is a senior level computer science course, and none
of the C programming for the projects is very difficult. Shouldn't
comp-sci grads be able to program?
I'll agree with the os stuff is hard argument, but jeez, that's why we
have a class on it.
So, I guess I'm wondering if I'm
All in all, I would have to say that this is the best news I have heard all
week. Thanks Warren
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 11:36:36AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act otherwise known as the
Mickey Mouse Protection Act is going to Supreme court.
Another goofy programmer question, what's the fastest and most accurate
way of getting the current time in milisecs within a program? I've been
calling gettimeofday, but was wondering if there's any better/faster way
of doing it?
I know of ftime() -- but I think that ftime() is deprecated
I Have the Fine Pix A101, which I believe is the same one. Any luck
getting it to work in PC Camera mode under linux?
Brian
What is PC Camera Mode?
CompUSA is having a sale on the Fuji FinePix 1300 -- $99
Here's the tech specs:
1.3 MegaPixels (1.31 million pixels)
1280x960 at 24bits
8MB SmartMedia card included
Lens is equivalent to a 36mm (wide angle)
Flash
1.6 LCD monitor
USB Connector
So far, I am having fun with this camera. It
If anybody is interested -
Date: October 21 - 25th
Cost: $1,800 per person
Students will:
?? Learn to configure a Linux system for a network.
?? Provide common, Internet-standard services with Linux
?? Create heterogeneous networks
?? Secure a Network
?? Back up Recovery
?? Updating
While I am supporting of the idea of gathering to discuss business
ideas over a couple of drinks, I don't think the Elks would be the
ideal place.
Could we instead choose a more 'neutral' establishment? How about an
Irish pub or Anna Bananas?
Aloha,
Charles
I suggest that, one of these
How many use Ruby to set up their website?
I have not used Ruby for web coding, yet. A good Ruby book is 'Programming
Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide' by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt.
What are the pros and cons about Ruby?
The pros:
Ruby is truly object oriented, simple syntax,
I always check signatures, by the way...
Who gave you my public key? It shouldn't be on the keyservers...
In the words of Dr. Strangelove:
Yes, but the... whole point of the doomsday machine... is lost...
if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
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With the Linux for Schools project successfully underway, more and more
educators and non-techies are joining this mailing list. The
self-censorship that MonMotha mentioned would be ideal, and possibly
crucial, to keep these people interested in the Open Source community.
Wouldn't they
(This is for Scott) Name is critically important. A good name will be
very useful in raising funds. I know most of you guys/gals, very
admirably so, don't care much about financial extravaganza. Talk is
easy. But to run an entity, only money can do the walk.
As someone who has 'walked
I bit the bullet and swapped out my Radeon 64MB PCI card with a Nvidia Geforce
2 PCI card.
Let's just say that I am impressed...
The swap was due to poor performance in Windows for Neverwinter nights, and the
near impossibility of compiling XFree sources to get the Radeon to work in dri
mode.
Aloha,
2. No childish name calling - this includes Microsoft bashing. This
type of banter really pollutes the signal to noise ratio of any group.
It scares people. Really. I will elaborate more tomorrow.
I fully agree with all of these points, except for #2. Micro$oft bashing is a
Can anybody recommend ways of improving write to disk performance under
Linux? I've got a system with dual scsi drives attatched via RAID
controller set to level 0 (striping), and am getting what I consider to be
pretty low long term data rates for what should be a high performance
system.
There are free advice doners and there are donees. Most of us are
donees, who, of course, would like to have everything free. Not only we
want our questions answered free, we want to have to have them
immediately. Within the former catogory, there are also causual doners
like many of
http://www.apple.com/xserve/design.html
I can sincerely say that this is the finest 1U server ever.
--
The human brain is like an enormous fish - it is flat and slimy and has gills
through which it can see. - Monty Python
GPG key: http://linefeed.org/~epsas/epsas.asc
fingerprint: 4819 FBE0
I would run `sendmail -q` first. This command might take a while to finish
however...
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:48:41AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
No, I don't work for RR. They appear to be running some type of Microsoft
SMTP server, so they have their own set of problems.
-
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:53:47PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
May I also add that this kind of decisions by Apple just changed my mind
about buying a Mac in the near future. With OS X I thought it would be
worth it to buy one, but I will not monetarily support a company that
panders to this
Did you have more than one entry in your resolv.conf?
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:07:48PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
The nameserver that Videl was resolving off of went down, so the mail queue
on Videl was backed up for the last few days. We have corrected the
situation and mail is now being
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:43:45PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
I have two MacOS X questions...
1. What is the best VNC client available for MacOS X? Does VNC server
work there too?
VNC Server works pretty good even over 11mbps 802.11. The VNC client I use is
VNCThing.
2. Is there a
Aloha,
I have access to a full pass for the WWW2002 Conference. There are caveats:
- This is a full pass, not just a pass for the Plenary or Exhibition, this
includes the Tutorial/Workshops and Refereed Paper Tracks. Please, please,
please do not take this pass and only attend the Plenary.
Interesting Forensics.
http://www.lucidic.net/whitepapers/sholcroft-4.1-2002.html
--
The human brain is like an enormous fish - it is flat and slimy and has gills
through which it can see. - Monty Python
GPG key: http://linefeed.org/~epsas/epsas.asc
fingerprint: 4819 FBE0 5BE3 83FE E788 1AA4
Woohoo - looks like some of our local companies are seriously dain-bramaged.
Check out the depravity at:
http://www.kimosnetwork.com/
You were warned,
Charles Paul
--
The human brain is like an enormous fish - it is flat and slimy and has gills
through which it can see. - Monty Python
GPG
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:00:50PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
Konqueror seems to load the page just fine, so this page seems to reject
Mozilla and Netscape user agents BY NAME.
Do you think this guy is worth a little scolding?
Actually, I do. Super Geeks is marketing KimosList.Com as
Maybe, maybe not. Who knows?
I went in to meet the President of the company last year to talk about work on
KimosList.Com - After I showed up he turned our 'meeting' into an interview for
some MCSE service-monkey position he was trying to fill. Not the suavest move.
They are not rocket
Linux-Geeks,
I will be a staff volunteer at the WWW 2002 Conference on May 7-11 at the
Sheraton Waikiki. Next week on Monday will be the staff orientation. My
question to LUAU is:
Should I try to get a few passes to the Plenary Sessions for LUAU?
Aloha,
Charles Esteban Paul
--
The human
Whoa... that seems a little harsh, eh?
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:07:04PM -1000, Joe Linux wrote:
My message to the Hawaii BBB.
The Supergeeks web site flies the BBB logo but they seem more like
Microgeeks to me. They are very poor businessmen as they have a web
site that refuses to
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:50:24PM -1000, Ronald Willis wrote:
Count me in Charles.
No problem Willis. I can't make any guarantees, but I will try and get some
passes for you all. (The passes costs $350 per day!)
Aloha,
Charles
--
The human brain is like an enormous fish - it is flat and
Eeek! I meant Ron, not Willis - (This is similar to myself being called,
Paul)
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:22:40PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:50:24PM -1000, Ronald Willis wrote:
Count me in Charles.
No problem Willis. I can't make any guarantees, but I will
http://www.hawaiianharddrive.com/newsletter/hhdnights.cfm
Sounds like a tech mixer, anyone else going?
--
The human brain is like an enormous fish - it is flat and slimy and has gills
through which it can see. - Monty Python
GPG key: http://linefeed.org/~epsas/epsas.asc
fingerprint: 4819 FBE0
You might have to remind them about the T-Shirt. I donated around $120 last
year and got squat.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:17:41PM -1000, Jeff Mings wrote:
I just joined the EFF and noticed that the lowest annual fee is $25, which is
pretty darn cheap. I joined at the $65 rate, so I'll get
Any good Open Source data modeling and management tools with similar
functionality to MS SQL Enterprise Manager? My presentation is currently
lacking some decent GUI tools and screenshots. I don't want to scare them
with command line stuff just yet. ;)
The only GUI I have ever used with an
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:37:29PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
http://staff.pisoftware.com/bmarshal/publications/system_auth/sage-au/system
_auth.html
Charles Esteban found this short and useful guide that explains basic
authentication with openldap. LDAP is very useful for centralizing
Now if we could only get it to work...
It is working now - the problem we are having has to do with
PHPGroupware setup.
A hypothetical: if the single box used to centralize logins and
passwords goes down, do the clients lose access to the servers and one
another in the network
Aloha,
Browsing through Monster.Com this afternoon I saw a couple of postings from the
UH ITS Department. Apparently, they need Database/Web developers.
Does anybody have experience with this department? Is UH a stickler about
IT/Programming staff having Bachelor's degrees? (if it is, I'll
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May 2nd is International SysOp Appreciation Day.
This is the day to show your gratitude to the hard working SysOp who makes the
+IT in your organization run smoothly. You can show your respect by giving
+candy, flowers, small gifts or even a simple GPG-signed Thank You email.
Take care,
Well, according to the Bugtraq list, this is an ancient bug that was reported
in 1989.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:56:20AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
I did not think *bsd distros had such holes. How long does it usually
take the team to patch them?
scott
Take a look at this comp.unix.admin posting:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=checklist+security+setuid+-linux+group:alt.securityhl=enscoring=rselm=1991May14.101450.830%40convex.comrnum=1
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:25:00AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
Hold on. This defies all that I
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