Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Dan Lund
Everyone knows voting just adds to the problem. *grins evilly and runs also* Thanks, Dan Lund On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Jason Spatafore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I take it everybody is voting for Nader this year for *real change*? *runs out of room as arrows fly by*

Re: INSTALL FEST Today UAT 10:00 - 16:00 = Watch http://live.yahoo.com/obnosis

2008-06-29 Thread Josh Nalli
On Saturday 28 June 2008 10:41:57 am der.hans wrote: Am 28. Jun, 2008 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so: Can't make it over to UAT today?  You can watch the fun (from afar) via http://live.yahoo.com/obnosis today! Cool. Great idea Lisa! I can see a couple of faces I recognize as well as a

Re: INSTALL FEST Today UAT 10:00 - 16:00 = Watch http://live.yahoo.com/obnosis

2008-06-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Yes, we had about 26 people show up through the day.   12 problems were brought. Various people showed up to contribute distros (old and new) to the collection including X0 which the OLPC is built upon for the collections. We fixed or lively discussed the following items: a) Gentoo: Vmware

June INSTALL FEST Member Thanks

2008-06-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
I would like to send out a special thanks to everyone who contributed their hard earned experience and knowledge for the INSTALL FEST! This is just a few people (I am terrible with names)! Fred Mazur who brought his telecommunications expertise and helped carry. Alan Dayley [consultpros.com]

firefox as a file manager

2008-06-29 Thread mike havens
is there nan add-on or something to turn ff into a file manager? I had to use explorer to move a folder to another location. This is why I am so taken to kongueror because it works well as either a browser or a manager. the mozzilla team needs to coloberate with the konqueror team if it

Re: firefox as a file manager

2008-06-29 Thread Michael March
I've use FireFly from time to time.. but it doesn't work under FF 3.X yet. is there nan add-on or something to turn ff into a file manager? I had to use explorer to move a folder to another location. This is why I am so taken to kongueror because it works well as either a browser or a

Re: firefox as a file manager

2008-06-29 Thread Michael March
I've used FireFly from time to time.. but it doesn't work under FF 3.X yet. is there nan add-on or something to turn ff into a file manager? I had to use explorer to move a folder to another location. This is why I am so taken to kongueror because it works well as either a browser or a

Re: firefox as a file manager

2008-06-29 Thread mike havens
is that an add on? On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michael March [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used FireFly from time to time.. but it doesn't work under FF 3.X yet. is there nan add-on or something to turn ff into a file manager? I had to use explorer to move a folder to another location.

Re: firefox as a file manager

2008-06-29 Thread Michael March
Yup.. is that an add on? On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michael March [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used FireFly from time to time.. but it doesn't work under FF 3.X yet. is there nan add-on or something to turn ff into a file manager? I had to use explorer to move a folder to

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: Who can even say what really happened on 9/11, the corruption is soo deep and complete? I've encountered many people who say that 9/11 was executed by everything from the NY Firefighters, to the secret service. I've discovered that some people simply prefer to believe in

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Dan Lund
ahhh from a thousand miles it looks so different, and when your face first into it, it looks different also. Suffice to say none of us know truth behind it all, and so the mind invents something to fill the gap. Thanks, Dan Lund On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]

changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
Just had occasion to look at my /etc/mtab and the file system names had changed from /dev/sda* to /dev/sdb*. My /etc/fstab still shows /dev/sda*. This may have happened when I recently used gparted to create 3 new partitions (which I have yet to designate labels or mount points for). What

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Fritz
Charles Jones wrote: Charles, would you care to comment on the following? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods If this is really true, it's quite disturbing. Is this just made up Internet gibberish? As James Bamford summarizes in his book Body of Secrets

Re: June INSTALL FEST Member Thanks

2008-06-29 Thread Josh Nalli
On Sunday 29 June 2008 10:46:26 am Lisa Kachold wrote: I would like to send out a special thanks to everyone who contributed their hard earned experience and knowledge for the INSTALL FEST! This is just a few people (I am terrible with names)! Fred Mazur who brought his telecommunications

Re: changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread James Mcphee
What you're talking about is exactly why Ubuntu and some other distos went with UUID's instead of paths in /etc/fstab. Does your distro support those? # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # /dev/sdb1

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Fritz wrote: Charles Jones wrote: Charles, would you care to comment on the following? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods If this is really true, it's quite disturbing. Is this just made up Internet gibberish? As James Bamford summarizes in his book Body of

Re: changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Robert Holtzman wrote: Just had occasion to look at my /etc/mtab and the file system names had changed from /dev/sda* to /dev/sdb*. My /etc/fstab still shows /dev/sda*. This may have happened when I recently used gparted to create 3 new partitions (which I have yet to designate labels or

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Garfias
On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Charles Jones wrote: I've encountered many people who say that 9/11 was executed by everything from the NY Firefighters, to the secret service. I've discovered that some people simply prefer to believe in conspiracy. FYI I was living in DC at the time of

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Garfias
Operation Northwoods was the only good thing McNamara did while SecDef: He stopped it. On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Fritz wrote: Charles Jones wrote: Charles, would you care to comment on the following? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods If this is really true,

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Charles Jones wrote: I've encountered many people who say that 9/11 was executed by everything from the NY Firefighters, to the secret service. I've discovered that some people simply prefer to

Re: June INSTALL FEST Member Thanks

2008-06-29 Thread der.hans
Am 29. Jun, 2008 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so: moin moin Lisa, I would like to send out a special thanks to everyone who contributed their hard earned experience and knowledge for the INSTALL FEST! And thanks to you for stepping up to handle the InstallFest. Double thanks for doing a great job

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Dan Lund
It's my guess that ultimately no one wants to ever admit that a lot of organizations within the government had their eyes closed at the same time, causing a perfect storm. Again, a guess since I'm not even going to start to say I know what happened since I wasn't a part of any of it. The way our

USB DSL Connections and/or Fedora 9 Wireless Setup

2008-06-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Yes!  I do know what you are referring to! 1) ADSL USB modem Networking   You have an external ADSL modem (from cox) for a single computer connected only via USB,  I don't know anyone who has this working; the windows version driver setups the stack and networking!  But this link might be