Re: [Siglinux] video card recommendations

2006-11-15 Thread Doc Shipley
get ATi-brand cards instead of the OEM "Radeon-chipset" stuff. Some of the OEM cards Saffire are pretty lousy. Doc Jeff Strunk wrote: Nice, I hope OpenGraphics works out. I was looking around, and I noticed that there are no video cards with Intel GPUs. They only make inte

Re: [Siglinux] tuxscreen

2006-02-27 Thread doc
> > > Anyone want a free tuxscreen? > > http://tuxscreen.net/ Sure. How? Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] 5.25" Floppy drives?

2006-01-31 Thread Doc Shipley
Forum Gateway wrote: We do still have one. But like I said, you are required to take other stuff with you. That's the price. Details! What kind of other stuff? Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.o

Re: [Siglinux] 5.25" Floppy drives?

2006-01-28 Thread Doc Shipley
en't gotten Robert's post yet. If you still need a 5.25" drive, email me off-list. I have, ummm, _several_. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] TAY Lab iMacs

2006-01-16 Thread Doc Shipley
deals, I wouldn't do that if they're on loan. Run 'em, use 'em, make accounts available on them, whatever. As long as the terms of UT's agreement concerning the iMacs are being/have been met, IBM won't care what else you do.

Re: [Siglinux] routers and time warner

2005-08-26 Thread Doc Shipley
the $20/mo extra charge, and running "servers" on a residential account is prohibited. As far as I know none of that has changed. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] SIGLinux Lunch Wednesday

2005-02-08 Thread Doc Shipley
uSE rescue environment, to remove the Linux Native and swap partitions, reboot, and install SuSE. Even so, you should *NEVER* do major work on a disk without full backups. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailma

Re: [Siglinux] Reply-to = siglinux@utacm.org vote

2004-09-07 Thread Doc Shipley
s mailing list is all but defunct. You might consider the idea that making posting to it *less* of a pain in the ass could encourage participation. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Reply-to = siglinux@utacm.org vote

2004-09-07 Thread Doc Shipley
ple hell should I have to be subscribed to 2 lists just to discuss the first list? We're still at 6-2 for changing policy, with one abstention. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Reply-to = siglinux@utacm.org vote

2004-09-07 Thread Doc Shipley
behavior. I did get what you were saying. As several other people have said, I consider it treating a peripheral case as a priority. Right now the vote stands at about 5-2 for changing reply-top behavior. Jeff, you reading this? Doc Big Mike Forsberg wrote: I'm saying don't chan

[Fwd: Re: [Siglinux] sshd and the display variable]

2004-09-03 Thread Doc Shipley
Well, that's *two* votes, right there. :^) Doc Original Message Subject: Re: [Siglinux] sshd and the display variable Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:15:17 -0500 From: Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re

Re: [Siglinux] sshd and the display variable

2004-09-03 Thread Doc Shipley
Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:39:10PM -0500, Doc Shipley wrote: And when do we get to fix the damned reply-to? Please delete my address from the To: lines of any replies. Take it up with jstrunk. If he's still controlling the list and is still against the idea, some so

Re: [Siglinux] sshd and the display variable

2004-09-03 Thread Doc Shipley
do we get to fix the damned reply-to? Please delete my address from the To: lines of any replies. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] hda status error drive not ready

2004-08-15 Thread Doc Shipley
damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no check aborted. ...but from here on i am shooting in the dark. You should never run fsck on a filesystem mounted read-write. Boot to single-user mode (or just do "init 1" as root) and run fsck from there. BTW, the "-

Re: [Siglinux] rpm vs. Debian

2004-06-30 Thread Doc Shipley
Groups ahould provide some detailed traffic about running ViaVoice on Debian. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook

2004-06-22 Thread Doc Shipley
Eric Irrgang wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Doc Shipley wrote: William L. Jarrold wrote: ...any idea how to avoid that "Argument list too long" error? I have been meaning to send a separate note about that problem for weeks nowRecent hacks have suggested that something like this

Re: iBook cd rom ? (was Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook)

2004-06-22 Thread Doc Shipley
William L. Jarrold wrote: Thanks Doc. It is about time I groked xargs. And thanks for the pointer to that book. Finding the time and $$ to buy it are another difficult task. Meantime, can anyone out there tell me how to address the cdrom drive on an ibook. E.g. I want to do somethign like

Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook

2004-06-21 Thread Doc Shipley
pretty explicit about what I am to do. man xargs /bin/ls * | xargs -J % cp -rp % destdir Should do about what you want. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] the correct way to handle the fsck problem

2004-06-04 Thread Doc Shipley
Doc Shipley wrote: You really don't want to turn off fsck. Especially if it's a production box. Second easiest way is to build an initrd image that loads the IEEE1394 and SCSI drivers as the kernel boots. mkinitrd allows specifying modules for inclusion. Easiest way

[Siglinux] the correct way to handle the fsck problem

2004-06-04 Thread Doc Shipley
ay will be to statically link the needed drivers into the kernel, rather than building them as modules. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] upgrading proceedures

2003-12-10 Thread Doc
of corruption down the road, that's a sure way to check. -- Doc Shipley MDR Consulting, Inc. Austin, Texas ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Viet Dinh recording

2003-10-30 Thread Doc Shipley
Patrick Lang wrote: Here it is, feel free to pass it around. http://austin.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9239&group=webcast What the fuck is this doing on a technical mailing list? Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Siglinux] stopping fork bombs in linux

2003-10-17 Thread Doc Shipley
ernel. That's pretty heavy hitting, a module, to do something that can (and should) happen in userland. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Soundcard problems

2003-09-15 Thread Doc Shipley
ers. They are free, and source is supplied. I've been using them with my TB card for a long time, and the sound is *really* good. However, they are *not* RMS-sertified, so they will "taint" your kernel. ;^) Doc ___ Siglinux mail

Re: [Siglinux] un-kerberosing a RH 7.3 system

2003-08-25 Thread Doc
Mark wrote: I need to unkerberos a RH 7.3 system. Is there an easy way to do this for someone with only a large amount of negative free time? As long as Kerberos was set up with RH tools, "authconfig" should let you revert to local authenticat

Re: [Siglinux] Linux Users and Groups

2003-07-29 Thread Doc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what all the groups listed in /etc/groups mean? I tried googling for it, but none of the links give me specific information. I was just wondering if anyone knows or if they have a link they found somewhere that details it all. First, if you really

Re: [Siglinux] debian w. 2 nics

2003-06-18 Thread Doc Shipley
nd not by choice. Even Pine is less-than-trivial in this regard. And, the underlying thought on this side of the question is simple. Iget mail from SIGLinux mailing list. Not from Victor Pelt. I wish to address my replies to SGLinux mailing list.

Re: [Siglinux] debian w. 2 nics

2003-06-18 Thread Doc Shipley
ng assumptions like that is completely invalid? I'd seriously like to know how you arrived at the conclusion that "everyone's mailer" has those features. What was your sample set? Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Siglinux] debian w. 2 nics

2003-06-18 Thread Doc Shipley
on this list drive me nutz sometimes. It's not *that* hard to turn off HTML. Doc [0] Austin, we need to at least know what NICs you're using, and what "services" you need to make available. For starters, /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are

Re: [Siglinux] ext3

2003-06-14 Thread Doc
Austin R. Longino wrote: so it depends if i use auto in my /etc/fstab it will do auto but if i use ext3 it uses ext3. the problem is that if i do a cold reboot it goes the the pains of manual fsck "man tune2fs" Set the max mount count and max time between checks t

Re: [Siglinux] kernel panic?

2003-06-01 Thread Doc
converters are going to end up being like SCA-wide adapters. A drawer full won't be too many. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Oh yea, and another thing (not network related)!

2003-02-24 Thread Doc
affiliated yadda yadda yadda. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Installfest, March 1st

2003-02-11 Thread Doc
; caldera openlinux then I wouldn't suggest it. Maybe a few knoppix CDs would be > > nice to give the people who are interested, but not sure if they want a full > > install. Must have missed the original. SCO sets? As in UnixWare? Nothing to do wit

Re: [Siglinux] Re: setuid

2003-02-10 Thread Doc
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Spencer Ogden wrote: > Seems like a good solution, I will give it a try. > > If Linux does not honor the setuid bit, then how come there are perl man > pages about how to write safe setuid scripts in perl? like perldoc > perlsec. Perl != Linux.

Re: [Siglinux] setuid

2003-02-09 Thread Doc
it. Is there something different with > perl since the interpreter is in there somewhere? Linux rightly refuses to honor the setuid bit on a shell script. As far as I know, there's no way to get around that by setting permissions. Doc

Re: [Siglinux] Txt-Based WWW with Javascript

2002-11-07 Thread Doc
to run full-screen. No window manager, no xterms, no nothing but a browser. It's raw, but it works. Slowly. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] generate md5 password hashes

2002-11-01 Thread Doc
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Doc wrote: > I don't know if it handles the salt the same way that /usr/bin/passwd > does, but "grub-md5-crypt" generates md5 password hashes for grub. I just realized that RH ks-config - the GUI Kickstart config tool - generates md5 passwords

Re: [Siglinux] generate md5 password hashes

2002-10-31 Thread Doc
x27;t give the same has as in /etc/shadow. Thanks. I don't know if it handles the salt the same way that /usr/bin/passwd does, but "grub-md5-crypt" generates md5 password hashes for grub. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Siglinux] Network interface wait

2002-10-09 Thread Doc
he same; otherwise you may need to turn pcmcia off in your default runlevel. If that's RL 3, then there's be a file in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d named Spcmcia. Make it gone. If chkconfig is installed: chkconfig pcmcia off Otherwise, just rm it by hand. Doc

Re: [Siglinux] Reading Email for multiple locations

2002-10-08 Thread Doc
provision for gettig me in, and I read mail by SSH into home & Pine. This also neatly solves the problem af managing/archiving mail *sent*. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Jobs lost if lpr invocation occurs too rapidly

2002-10-03 Thread Doc Shipley
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Robert Giles wrote: > Howdy folks - another quick question. I seem to lose jobs when I print > items in quick succession, ie: > > "a2ps test1.txt; a2ps test2.txt; a2ps test3.txt" Tack "; lpq" on the end an

Re: [Siglinux] USB Burner

2002-08-26 Thread Doc
ader and a writer simultaneously, that is. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Dual boot system with two harddrives

2002-08-26 Thread Doc Shipley
sidered /dev/hda to be the "first" drive, not /dev/sda. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] Weird HD Problem

2002-08-11 Thread Doc
so mention that I've seen this before. A drive that had been incorrectly imaged with Ghost had an MBR on sector 0, on MBR image in sector 1, and the partition table was on sector 2! The amazing thing was that NT booted as if everything was OK. Linux fdisk showed the symptoms you de

Re: [Siglinux] Weird HD Problem

2002-08-11 Thread Doc
/dev/hdX being /dev/hda or /dev/sdb, for example... If you do that and you're still getting "ghost" partitions, it's not the drive. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: Fwd: Re: [Siglinux] Ack!

2002-07-31 Thread Doc
stem functions and environment are generated, how the parts of the Linux build tools (make, gcc, autoconf, etc) interoperate, and a lot of other invisible stuff. As an efficient way to install a custom Linux, not a great idea. I think gentoo is probably a better

Re: [Siglinux] Ack!

2002-07-30 Thread Doc
OK. If you're feeling better now, you want to tell us what the problem is? If autodetection is your primary criterion, RH is probably what you want. Anything else can be fiddled, but you gotta describe it coherently. Doc On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Alexander Boulgakov wrote: &

Re: [Siglinux] Notebook drive adapter

2002-07-30 Thread Doc
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Spencer Ogden wrote: > Does anyone have an adapter to connect a 2.5" laptop drive to a regular ATA cable >and power? Logic Approach, at 2500 S Lamar [1], usually has them for around $15. [1] Yes, they moved. Just south of the old location.

Re: [Siglinux] need help (just a dns entry)

2002-07-13 Thread Doc
Patrick, CC'ed to the list so you don't get 100 replies doc@george:~$ host irc.ev1.net irc.ev1.net A 207.218.245.77 HTH Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] rms msg and spiderhouse

2002-05-21 Thread Doc
l True Believers Must Always Say GNU/Linux The Purple KoolAid is GOOD For You Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] libs for Winbond chips

2002-05-09 Thread Doc
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Spencer Ogden wrote: > Does any one know of libraries to read from WinBond hardware monitoring chips? > The interface is pretty simple, I just couldn't find anything to do it for > me. Have you looked at lm-sensors? They support some of the WinBond chips

Re: [Siglinux] FS postings

2002-04-19 Thread Doc
! Wait. URL? Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] FS postings

2002-04-19 Thread Doc
Wow. End rant. Didn't mean to start one. I like the occasional add. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] installing gcc binaries

2002-04-13 Thread Doc
ckages or pointers to them on ftp://ftp.kernel.org Can't remember which subdirectory and too lazy to look. :^) Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux

Re: [Siglinux] my 2c on the name change

2002-04-11 Thread Doc
a whining baby. > He needs to recognize the sad fact that some of the greatest > contributions to science and technology go unrecognized. Emotional crap. Richard Stallman's work and his contributions are recognised worldwide.

Re: [Siglinux] all things SIGLinux RMS and the DMCA/SSCA

2002-04-11 Thread Doc
as it's a group decision. I adamantly oppose the Stallmanites' tactics in trying to force the issue. I think it's blackmail, and it has greatly lessened the considerable respect I had for Richard M. Stallman. Doc ___ Siglinux mailin

Re: [Siglinux] [rms@gnu.org: Re: Austin, TX week of Apr. 24th]

2002-04-10 Thread Doc
don't really remember anybody being in favor of that. I stated last week that I would not unsubscribe if SIGLinux decided to change its name. At that time I never considered that this list might be organized such that any single member can make that sort of decision. Doc __

Re: [Siglinux] logging kernel messages

2002-04-01 Thread Doc Shipley
. And if OBSD started it, I think I wouldn't be tempted to dump Linux for it. And I use *BSD quite a bit. My unproven personal observation is that FAT32 over ~12G is unstable under any OS. Doc ___ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Siglinux] logging kernel messages

2002-04-01 Thread Doc
te is a cron job, so you might need to have cron run it more often. If you have access to Partition Magic, it'll most likely fix the FAT32 partition. I haven't thried the newer Linux dosfstools, but they're probably worth a look. Doc _

[Siglinux] [alg] Austin Road Runner Policy Changes (fwd)

2002-03-27 Thread Doc
R city. Aren't we special. Doc -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:58:17 -0600 From: Mark D. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [alg] Austin Road Runner Policy Changes I realize this is slig

Re: [Siglinux] SIGLinux to SigFree to SIGLinux once again

2002-03-19 Thread Doc
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Doug McLaren wrote: > > RMS has done some great things for software -- don't get me wrong. > But he's got more than his share of kookness going on too. Dude! After 3-or-so years, we've finally agreed on

Re: [Siglinux] Samba as a PDC for windows network

2002-01-31 Thread Doc
es, etc etc?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Snippets of my relevant smb.conf file are pasted. Yes, sort of. Any user given a samba "account" must have a valid system _account_. Not a valid system _login_. Doc ___ Sig