Re: [eug-lug]SATA Blues

2004-03-05 Thread Ben Barrett
Bing bing, correct! Knoppix is known for good hardware support. How did they manage to do *that*??... and for those of us who are colorblind: I ahve no idea what you're talking about, Joseph ( = Ben On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:33:55 -0800 T. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If you

Re: [eug-lug]Corvallis Clinic

2004-03-04 Thread Ben Barrett
Quite possibly... one week at a time for me, for now ( = Thanks Bob! On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:42:26 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | John Sechrest wrote: | | The Mid-Willamette Valley Linux User's Group will be sponsoring | an installfest/Clinic Saturday 13 March 2004. | | I'm

Re: [eug-lug]Wide Open Magazine

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Barrett
Too bad that the non-professional enthusiast that is part of their self-described target audience won't be able to enjoy redhat after they go to subscriptions-only and drop end users... too bad for *them*, that is! Maybe fedora will be part of their rag? On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:04:40 -0800 Rob

Re: [eug-lug]Latest virus

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Barrett
Yes, I was alerted to this, and tried to do a quick evaluation using strings on the unpacked .zip file. I *think* I see a reference to a german site there, rtog.de or something, although I couldn't get a resolution or whois on that. The end of the .exe refers to all the system DLL's you don't

[eug-lug]Adobe's file stamp on XP DLL's

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Barrett
So I occasionally dual boot back to winders, to keep the beast updated with fresh virus definitions and the like. I was tweaking the software a bit, and as I removed Outlook Express, I ran strings on it (via cygwin) and noticed 4 counts of File written by Adobe PhotoShop 4.0. Two of them are

Re: [eug-lug]Adobe's file stamp on XP DLL's

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Barrett
from. Thanks Jason! On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:22:45 -0800 (PST) Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | --- Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | snip | 4.0. Two of them are | preceeded by JFIF and two by 8BIM. Just curious, | FWIW, JFIF is part of the file signature for JPEG | files on Winders

Re: [eug-lug]recommendation wanted: PCI wireless adapter

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Barrett
There are some PCI-PCMCIA (or PCI-PC Card) bridges that are known to work and be support by linux. No experience with that myself... I tried an old ISA bridging card years ago, but didn't grok what to do, then. Regards, Ben On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:24:20 -0800 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]data munging

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Barrett
As far as I know... On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:24:29 -0800 john fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What's AFAIK stand for? | ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]data munging

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Barrett
From man wtf: wtf - translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you. wtfindex - builds string file indexes for wtf. wtfdump - lists the contents of a wtf database. . The wtf program looks-up the definition of a term. It supports a number of definition sources. In this version they

Re: [eug-lug]TV input cards

2004-02-26 Thread Ben Barrett
Oh yes I forgot to mention, my card and I think many of the tv tuners have a line out cord, which is meant to patch into [the line-in on] an existing sound card. Rob, have you tried KnoppMyth? I have it downloaded, am having troubles burning iso's, and also haven't tried too hard. Oh well ( =

Re: [eug-lug]TV input cards

2004-02-25 Thread Ben Barrett
hop-hog cards are the best, like the early lucent wifi cards. Partly branding, but also simply a good product. Bob, you might be interested in the offerings of http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/ In case you have multiple tuners or external sources, they make some reasonably-priced 4-input cards too

Re: [eug-lug]OT: FW: sig file...

2004-02-25 Thread Ben Barrett
smurfy! On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:45:39 -0800 Cory Petkovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | An amusing sig: | | | My other computer is your IIS server. | | | Cory | ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]portknocking

2004-02-25 Thread Ben Barrett
I was amazed when I first read about it, but it seems the primary benefit of doing this is so that a simple portscan will not reveal a server. Handy for those folks trying to hide from their ISP's fine print... but if this gets popular, I'd bet that ISP's will simply scan traffic for

Re: [eug-lug]TV input cards

2004-02-25 Thread Ben Barrett
For Hauppauge and other BT8x8 (BrookTree, which is now Conexant?) chipset cards, which are well-supported, actual features vary. I think the 848 chipsets are full video in and out with tv tuner; the 878 work with a secondary sound chip, which often has an FM audio tuner. It works well, although

Re: [eug-lug]Not even *nix-related, asm is worthwhile

2004-02-18 Thread Ben Barrett
Agreed. I overlooked menuetos until I finally got mention of the GUI and impressive features. The screenshots are amazing, really impressive stuff going on there! My main concern is the hardware support: http://www.geocities.com/menuethw/byhardware.html But I presume that will only get better.

Re: [eug-lug]How to find out about sf mirrors

2004-02-18 Thread Ben Barrett
I don't know about trojaned... I get this when unpacking it: ...blah-dee-blah... some files in contrib/ gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I use the 'v' option, zxvf,

Re: [eug-lug]Not Linux Related, Assembly Related

2004-02-16 Thread Ben Barrett
I wish I had the numbers handy too, but I bet the solid-state flash memory wins by a longshot on both # of re-writes (I think flash generally handles to the order of 10K rewrites) and also phsyical durability/lifetime; flash is also not vulnerable to magnetic fields per se, although static buildup

Re: [eug-lug]Happy Precedence Day!

2004-02-16 Thread Ben Barrett
A mis-quote of great precedence = ) The last line appears to be John's statement, not BobC's... On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:37:05 -0800 john fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Bob Crandell wrote: | | Yeah. I wouldn't want the blame either. | Um wait a minute ,don't tell me , uh is this a

Re: [eug-lug]autolearn=yes?

2004-02-16 Thread Ben Barrett
I beg to differ, as both are food products; in other words, neither are found as-is in nature (as opposed to raw muscle tissue). Opposite is a risky word. = ) many regards, and the opposite of offense to y'all, Ben On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:10:55 -0800 T. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug] Not Linux-related which is perfectly acceptable

2004-02-15 Thread Ben Barrett
I am almost in the same boat, avoiding floppies like the plague. I use a couple different mini-cd bootable distro's for rescue when needed, however... I would like to say, though, that this group is not exclusive to linux. We're 'officially' (ha!) the Eugene Unix/Gnu Linux User's Group, which

Re: [eug-lug]procmail help

2004-02-15 Thread Ben Barrett
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 09:00:00 -0800 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | X-Spam-Score: | or something like that. | | So I'd have to do something similar to a switch in procmail? | X-Spam-Score: * | X-Spam-Score: ** | X-Spam-Score: *** | .mail/maybespam | | Can procmail do something like

Re: [eug-lug]New MWVLUG Forums

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Barrett
| you in the loop of what he is doing. | | | | Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | % Cool, but: | % | % #1, our list is moderated | % #2, we have a searchable archive | % #3, What?? If you're claiming to be a clearinghouse for job listings | in% Willamette Valley, or even just

Re: [eug-lug]New MWVLUG Forums

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Barrett
It was a fun one, I thought, containing more of the human elements than most LUG talks I've attended. I traveled up with Hal, and he mentioned that you were a factor in him choosing this area = ) ciao, Ben On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:14:05 -0800 John Sechrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |

Re: [eug-lug]New MWVLUG Forums

2004-02-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Cool, but: #1, our list is moderated #2, we have a searchable archive #3, What?? If you're claiming to be a clearinghouse for job listings in Willamette Valley, or even just in Corvallis, I think you have some *serious* competition. And although personal networking is crucial to us all, it

Re: [eug-lug]Navigator install error

2004-02-10 Thread Ben Barrett
Indeed! Is is a web browser or a video game? Screw the news, get it here: http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:46:22 -0800 Darren Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... | You mean Firefox ;-) | | http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5156101.html

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-09 Thread Ben Barrett
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:03:12 -0800 T. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... | The joys of 2.6... That problem goes away. All mice are /dev/input/mice. | And um, why would you ever NOT use a USB mouse? Laptop maybe? | PS/2 KVM(s). However, I agree with wanting any plugged-in mouse to

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-09 Thread Ben Barrett
You mean with only one button? Are you serious? (Are you using this under linux, or OS X?) On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:48:31 -0600 Christopher Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Apple's acrylic | disk mouse is the poster child... | | | | HEY! I love my apple mouse... It is one of the more

Re: [eug-lug]near Eugene DSL questions

2004-02-09 Thread Ben Barrett
I thought qworst's line charge was ~$30/month, then you add on ISP costs. ...and being that the lowest DSL ISP monthlies I've seen were $20/month, I had added up that cable internet is cheaper... but I'm guessing that you're too far our, in pleasant hill, for that... Ben On Mon, 09 Feb 2004

Re: [Re: [eug-lug]near Eugene DSL questions ]

2004-02-09 Thread Ben Barrett
A note on the cisco modems: I think qworst is phasing out the 645's in favor of the 675 model... ymmv, idrkbiwtp... On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:43:53 -0800 Michael White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've got qwest dsl into my house. The modem I have is a cisco but I | forget the model number.

Re: [eug-lug]Navigator install error

2004-02-08 Thread Ben Barrett
Also, the Opera browser also has decent 'masquerading' as Larry describes it. Dirk, it certainly looks like the issue here is with their site, not your system. And just to clarify, since I've been more involved with large webapps -- I have to disagree with Larry here. It'd be nice if you could

Re: [eug-lug]dns gizmo

2004-02-08 Thread Ben Barrett
I fear you might get a mis-signature, so to speak, in this case. Prolly their web load balancer, at best, and a mixed bag or no signature, say, from a firewall or similar. Ben On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:27:51 -0800 john fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Thanx for the code Bob and the tips

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Barrett
You expect them to be linear?? On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:11:43 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | But the date to compare is in the Received: header when the message was | first received by an EFN server. | ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [eug-lug]stop drooling

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Barrett
I got mirrorrim, idcrisis, phrog, phart, flim, and most excitingly, router. Haven't named the mini-itx board yet, any suggestions? I've been thinking of changing things up to represent a collection of animal totems (like phrog), but paint jobs (like Larry's redwing) make things sensical -- except

Re: [eug-lug]dns gizmo

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Barrett
If you had the first part setup as a python script that just outputted the IP, you could tack on |xargs nmap -allMyOptions to the command where you start that from. man xargs, yada yada; this puts the IP at the end of the nmap command, with -allMuOptions being whatever you feel comfortable and

Re: [eug-lug]SUSE

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Barrett
I believe I have a LUG-provided 8.2 box you can have... can check on that tomorrow, will send you contact info off-list. Ben On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:00:38 -0800 Garl Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anybody have a set of SUSE 8.2 and/or 9.0 CDs that I can borrow for | a couple of days?

Re: [eug-lug]stop drooling

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
Maybe a new TV, running as a monitor? Plasma? I'm *guessing* it is big, although I can't see any standard items for size comparison... maybe it is a 14 widescreen for the bedroom? ; I do see AVC5.. on a box on the lower right, is that a clue? congrats, Ben On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:27:33

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
I found these relevant links, I'll let them do the talking: http://www.harshbutfair.org/software/multimice.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/01/4/42560 Another message said, Just create another InputDevice entry in your XF86Config and give it a different identifier.

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
The other, consumer-happy, option is to get a single device that will fit your needs for presentations and as a general mouse. RF is better than IR, since you don't need line-of-sight during your presentations... here's one for ~$14: http://www.softwareandstuff.com/ACC10633.html Also, KBob has a

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
Huh, your post was dated 10:29, although it was the last one to show up in my inbox. Is your clock off, Chris, or is the list's server doing some strange queue ordering, Larry? This has a major effect on people's ability to respond fairly to incentive-based requests like Hal's, as well as

Re: [eug-lug]Slackware install on Averatec Laptop...

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
be), then reboot and install slack as per | usual... | | Jamie | | Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Doesn't that use a via c3 chipset? As I understand it, most modern | binaries will not run on the via c3, since it lacks MMX, 3DNow, and SSE | extensions. I'm not sure that I'm correctly recalling

Re: [eug-lug]Slackware install on Averatec Laptop...

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
:16:43 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ben Barrett wrote: | | I think my mini-itx board is waiting for me at home, hopefully I'll have | it ready to bring to a meeting next week (if the case arrives in time!). | | What do you need the case for? Just plug in an old power supply

Re: [eug-lug]help w/ weird mouse configuration

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Barrett
I think the repeater mode is key here, its been a while though... On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:55:50 -0801 Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | ... | quick google for Linux mouse multiplex suggests using gpm -M. | I forgot how to use gpm with X though. |

Re: [eug-lug]EXTREMISM IN DEFENSE OF LINUX MUST BE CONDEMNED

2004-02-05 Thread Ben Barrett
| Bob | | Ben Barrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | Well said, Bob. May I remind everyone again that we have a separate | activism list. If you think a post should *maybe* go there instead, | post it there and thanks for posting at all! | | I agree with these sentiments, although

Re: [eug-lug]Slackware install on Averatec Laptop...

2004-02-05 Thread Ben Barrett
Doesn't that use a via c3 chipset? As I understand it, most modern binaries will not run on the via c3, since it lacks MMX, 3DNow, and SSE extensions. I'm not sure that I'm correctly recalling the averatech laptop's details I think my mini-itx board is waiting for me at home, hopefully I'll

Re: [eug-lug]You can't say piracy anymore.

2004-02-05 Thread Ben Barrett
There've been more recent postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -it was a covert operation, meant to be run under your radar, Mr. President. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:41:20 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. | I'd've posted this to activism, but I'm apparently the only person | subscribed. I'm

Re: [eug-lug]EXTREMISM IN DEFENSE OF LINUX MUST BE CONDEMNED

2004-02-04 Thread Ben Barrett
Well said, Bob. May I remind everyone again that we have a separate activism list. If you think a post should *maybe* go there instead, post it there and thanks for posting at all! I agree with these sentiments, although the statment, The Linux community is being invaded by zealots,

Re: [eug-lug]a few questions (media PC: via or intel)

2004-02-03 Thread Ben Barrett
;) | | | --- Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | PS - also curious about the on-board crypto functions of the | latest via | chipsets; I've heard they have linux support for that. | Finally: a solid | built-in /dev/random ?? I was tired of training my webcam on | vapor from | dry ice, clouds

Re: [eug-lug]euglug.org ranked # 40 in Google for linux training window

2004-02-03 Thread Ben Barrett
Cool news, but time for some sort of consensus here. I'd like to know if she's running her site for-profit, or what ?? I don't want to see our group become link-mavens for sites that get advert-based funding or otherwise are commercial. Does she know about LUGE, or the other LUG directory? Cool

Re: [eug-lug]Kiosk software ?

2004-02-02 Thread Ben Barrett
That's a great idea, Hal -- makes total sense. Some libraries are making use of LTSP, the linux terminal server project, to handle the re-appropriation of older hardware to become more-useful terminals in schools, libraries, kiosks, etc. You can read more at ltsp.org, and k12ltsp.org ... I'm sure

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Barrett
Many have /etc/profile as well, not to be missed if it is there. Ben On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:24:40 -0800 Jason Van Cleve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Quoth Max Lemieux, on Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:06:16 -0800: | | ~/.bashrc | ~/.bash_profile | | There is also a global file on most installations:

Re: [eug-lug]a few questions (remote Xwindows)

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Barrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ben Barrett wrote: | | 1. I never realized that 'xkill' could pass the appropriate signals | through a remote Xwindows connection, which in my case was | SSH-tunnelled. If anyone has explored this or knows more, I'm very | curious, about the security implications

Re: [eug-lug]a few questions (media PC: via or intel)

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Barrett
that makes quite a bit less noise. | | Brought to you by someone who has both ;) | | Mr O. | | | | --- Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ben Barrett wrote: | | 3. How do you (subjectively) weigh the benefits of a | mini-itx system for a | home entertainment PC, versus a mini-P4

Re: [eug-lug]new SCO DDOS virus

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
. Thanks, Ben On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 03:55:33 + (UTC) horst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In reply to: | | Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:09:32 -0800 | From: Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ... | It is a .zip file, AFAIK. | | | Yup, I used 'strings' to inspect the baby I got, called

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:07:16 -0500 (EST) Bill Essig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anyone get the joke? Ha Ha Ha. That's gross!!! ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
Can also suggest Graybar for cables and networking tools (ends/crimpers, etc), although they claim to be wholesalers, I think they'd happily take your money. I've found them to be more helpful and also cheaper on a lot of things, than Norvac. Graybar and Norvac are both out west 11th, Graybar is

Re: [eug-lug] bootable BSD CD?

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
Dunno, I only found this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-September/003007.html and (woohoo!) this: http://www.freesbie.org/ do I get a cookie? Ben On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:20:33 -0800 Larry Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I heard some rumour of a live

Re: [eug-lug] bootable BSD CD? get your URLs here; URLS here!

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
-bootable-cdrom-openbsd.php http://www.shockley.net/obsd-bootcd.asp http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20031105030127 Not being familiar with BSD's, can someone offer a run-down, and suggest which of these links are *really* valuable? Thanks, Ben On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:10:36 -0800 Ben

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
Yeah, I don't swing that way, either, but that has nothing to do with this list or the bash shell. More specifically, I don't bash those who do swing that way On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:57:53 -0800 Max wrote: | And here I thought you were referring to a Baptist revival meeting... | -Max | |

[eug-lug]a few questions

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
1. I never realized that 'xkill' could pass the appropriate signals through a remote Xwindows connection, which in my case was SSH-tunnelled. If anyone has explored this or knows more, I'm very curious, about the security implications, for instance; what can you tell me? Example: you log your

Re: [eug-lug]new SCO DDOS virus

2004-01-28 Thread Ben Barrett
It is a .zip file, AFAIK. On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:38:00 -0800 nyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:57 am, Nyal wrote: | | Just checked my mail and was also lucky enough to receive a copy. I'm | using Kmail so when I saw the Hi subject I looked at the headers and |

Re: [eug-lug]Laptops?

2004-01-26 Thread Ben Barrett
What model? I was pretty set on the Sony TR2's until I found my Fujitsu P5020D. I think it is a better value, unless you get an iBook = ) Ben PS - The intel 855GM chipset is not terribly-well supported in linux these days, it is of the i810 ilk. The future is bright, but far away -- Intel

Re: [eug-lug]Laptops?

2004-01-26 Thread Ben Barrett
seem to be useless in /. URL's. Anyone got a clue on that? On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:30:39 -0800 Darren Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Timely news on this topic at /. | | http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/01/26/1148256.shtml | | - Original Message - | From: Ben Barrett [EMAIL

Re: [eug-lug]Kernel

2004-01-26 Thread Ben Barrett
I think removing ancient kernel cruft would be a cool talk. Now I *was* going to say, Thanks Rob we needed a volunteer for that; but I suppose that posting this response would make that backfire = ) I'm hoping to do a linux-multimedia presentation soon. Who was I going to share that with,

Re: [eug-lug]SCO

2004-01-26 Thread Ben Barrett
Wow, for free even! That's great, Garl!! On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:36:00 -0500 Grigsby, Garl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When you say v5, I am assuming you mean SCO OpenServer v5. | | 1) get ncftp for OpenServer: | ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/ncftp-3.1.2-VOLS.tar | 2) Install it:

Re: [eug-lug]informaiton on ps -ef

2004-01-22 Thread Ben Barrett
Oh, the crash bit. I have a sure-fire method for that: shutdown -h now ^^^ Too many users try '-r' instead of '-h' there, and if you want your computer (or a friend's) to stay in a _more_stable_ state, try '-h' -- after that, it won't crash until you mess with it again! = ) BennyBoy

Re: [eug-lug]Windows Services for UNIX -- anyone tried this

2004-01-21 Thread Ben Barrett
No. I've used cygwin, exclusively, to meet those needs on a windows platform -- except for some other NFS client I tried once. I am also curious about their services, and have heard a couple good things, albeit second-hand, but am not entirely sure why their code has a chance of doing us any

Re: [eug-lug]Windows Services for UNIX -- anyone tried this

2004-01-21 Thread Ben Barrett
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:55:55 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | well-put response clipped | | I know, that's dogmatic, not pragmatic. But how many chances are | you going to give a repeat offender? | just... one more (chance, or reboot??!)

Re: [eug-lug]knoppmyth

2004-01-18 Thread Ben Barrett
Mr. O, are you using the Nemeniah, or one of the other M-series? Thanks for the heads-up, Bob -- sounds like a good project to help spread mthtv, as I've heard it has been otherwise hard to compile dependencies configure in general... I've been planning on getting a mini-itx system soon, please

[eug-lug]Mass bummer: less love for OSS?

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Barrett
Massachusetts has moved away from their OSS-preferential stance: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/212242mode=thread links in the article summary: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1436258,00.asp (backing down) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/19/2114233 (previous

Re: [eug-lug]Mass bummer: less love for OSS?

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Barrett
Did this take over two hours from the posting time until it came through to others' mailboxen? sheesh... I'm such a whiner! Ben (writing this at around 3:20) On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:14:52 -0800 Some Idjit wrote: | Massachusetts has moved away from their OSS-preferential stance: | |

[eug-lug]zaurus sl-5600 pda on sale

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Barrett
$300 for a new (not refurb, AFAICT) one is a good deal: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B88EDE/102-7022357-8443330 (shipping is free) found via dealnews.com NOT AN ADVERT, just interesting linux-related hadrware market updates. flame on if you must = ) Ben PS - too bad

Re: [eug-lug]SAO: TBP, Date Clarification, Thursday 1/15 (fwd)

2004-01-14 Thread Ben Barrett
And heh, we love things that are free as in beer OR speech. B On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:56:17 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Larry Price wrote: | | Given that | | a. they dropped the $5 gate fee, | b. it's two blocks from efn | c. it's early | | my cunning plan is

[eug-lug] security mtg in Portland: HOWTO ... Security Operations Center

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Barrett
(Attn: Jason Chan and Hal Pomeranz, and other sysadmins and security ppl) Folks, a security group in Portland is having a talk tomorrow, here is the info: | Toby Kohlenberg, Intel, will be speaking on How (and why) to build a | Security Operations Center. With our current elevated threat

[eug-lug]centrino experience, anyone?

2004-01-09 Thread Ben Barrett
Howdy folks, Has anyone here done linux or bsd on a centrino chipset? AFAIK I need DriverLoader or ndiswrapper to get wireless working, although I think I'll be dealing with the Atheros wifi chipset, which actually has a chance, and a sourceforge project: MADWIFI. Google is friendly on the

Re: [eug-lug]Can't load kernel modules. Why?

2004-01-09 Thread Ben Barrett
Is this an EXTRAVERSION issue? I know only a little about this, but IIRC if you set the EXTRAVERSION flag when upgrading kernels, it will append the modules directory name with that, so that you can keep module versions separate, which can indeed be important whether you're just upgrading or if

Re: [eug-lug]Microsoft spam...

2004-01-06 Thread Ben Barrett
Email verification by sleazeball spammers, not a security bulletin from Microsoft. -Thor seems to have good answers for Hayes in this thread: http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/focus-ms/2003/08/msg00014.html (or read it also at) http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/ms/2003-q3/0122.html

Re: [eug-lug]PDA not working

2004-01-05 Thread Ben Barrett
Short answer: no. These messages tell you about your scsi disk. sr is generally used instead of sd for removable media, although some of the messages below seem to indicate that /dev/sda might be a removable drive on your system (?)... So if I guess that you have a real scsi bus on your system,

Re: [eug-lug]Security flaws force 2.4.24 Linux kernel upgrade

2004-01-05 Thread Ben Barrett
This privilege-escalation vulnerability affects 2.2 kernels and 2.6 kernels too! Get your patches, if you're edgy about it, before the new rc's come out = ) If you trust all your local users (or anyone who could become a local user!), then you can snooze a little longer... we hope. regards,

Re: [eug-lug]PDA Howto

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Barrett
Dirk, the device should look the same to your computer whether you use the usb cradle or the simpler usb hotsync cable... I haven't much else to offer, sorry = ) Ben PS - oh, yeah: be wary of anything vizor-specific, since you have a sony palmOS device (which is not a Vizor, exactly, but

Re: [eug-lug]chmod syntax

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Barrett
Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:52:55PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: | 'chmod -R o+r targetdir' should work, but you might want to be wary | about proceeding to muck with your OS... heh heh. | So, are you particularly worried about the lost+found directory? | I think

Re: [eug-lug]chmod syntax

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Barrett
'chmod -R o+r targetdir' should work, but you might want to be wary about proceeding to muck with your OS... heh heh. So, are you particularly worried about the lost+found directory? I think it is a place for OS recovery of lost files or inodes... maybe someone can confirm that? BTW, you can also

Re: [eug-lug]getting dumped

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Barrett
In somewhat-related news, I just found this project via freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsnapshot/?branch_id=43437release_id=146249topic_id=19%2C137%2C861 About: rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. It makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and

Re: [eug-lug]grip problem

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Barrett
IIRC, ripped files are .wav, then encoded ones are .mp3 (or .ogg, etc) You can try running grip from the CLI, instead of the GUI, so that you see its stdout and stderr on your command line... that might help. Also make sure grip is running as a user which has permissions to write where you want

Re: [eug-lug]multimedia puzzle...

2003-12-27 Thread Ben Barrett
I can suggest ncftp for a very good CLI FTP client. AVI is a wrapper, AFAIK, for a wide variety of stuff. Even for divx, there are multiple versions. There are some alternative media players for 'bloze on sites such as cnet's download.com ... best wishes for a media-filled new year! cheers,

Re: [eug-lug]Re: Fedora

2003-12-23 Thread Ben Barrett
Dirk, I remember you were interested in playing CD's -- and wondering if this box has done it before? If it is a new one, or especially a self-built one, you might want to make sure the audio cable is connected between the internal CD drive and the sound card... that is, *if* you want to play

Re: [eug-lug]/var problems

2003-12-22 Thread Ben Barrett
You could have a circular mail route, that keeps trying to succeed and filling up /var/spool/mail... in general, if this is not currently a live server, you might want to /etc/init.d/network stop to shut down network connections while you fix this. If all else fails, try taking the machine into

Re: [eug-lug]/var problems

2003-12-22 Thread Ben Barrett
Bob, is this a better technique than using 'lsof' in general? ciao, Ben PS - lsof is 'ls' for the system's open files. It is in my /usr/sbin/ on redhat 9... I think I remember it *not* being a stock utility before. On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:49:54 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |

Re: [eug-lug] [msurkan@windows.microsoft.com: RE: Fwd: posting to Linux mail list]

2003-12-19 Thread Ben Barrett
I disagree. I think this is a fabulous move on their part, and even though it makes me feel uncomfortable (in our usual linux zealousness) although I am surprised it is taking them this long to catch on... I mean, we *all* come from communities, which survive by feedback loops in those

Re: [eug-lug]Window! sigh...

2003-12-17 Thread Ben Barrett
Jamie, have you tried getting the files using Opera? It has some GUI-available options that can make the browser claim to be IE -- it works good enough for some sites. best of luck, Ben On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:31:57 -0500 Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So, I got this laptop, I want to

Re: [eug-lug]Larry in the news!

2003-12-17 Thread Ben Barrett
Post divx to list... 8* On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:37:41 -0800 T. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If I can get it, I'll try to capture it off the TiVo and bring it | to a clinic or something. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]bash command line - loop over a range

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Barrett
Huh; for me, 5 == 'S' and 2 == 'Z' now, back to my '5. = ) BTW, anyone know if the 2.6 kernel code has gotten HTML-ized into the penguin logo yet? I forget where that 'project' is located... (I just found that chkrootkit has a similar logo, very nice although it does not seem to use

Re: [eug-lug]another crack

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Barrett
It's looking a little crazy out there on the front lines. I can't imagine the ensuing madness upon finding out that one's site was compromised over a month ago. There are no secrets comes to mind... Ah well, it seems they're responding as best they can. On another topic, I'm listening to the

Re: [eug-lug]bash command line - loop over a range

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Barrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: | PS - 5/2, 2/5: are you reading mail on a non-pixel [ie, element-based] | LCD? | | No, CRT. I'm thinking that reading was not what I was doing. | | Cory | | -- | Cory Petkovsek

Re: [eug-lug]SCO DDoS

2003-12-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Bob, the caida analysis repeated refers to a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against SCO, but many other parts, and groklaw, refer to a DoS attack. It was my understanding that SYN flood attacks are generally not distributed attacks, although I'm certain they *could* be coordinated...

[eug-lug]power fluctuations

2003-12-12 Thread Ben Barrett
We're getting some power fluctuations here at work, by the river roughly across from the UO. Anyone else? Ben ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]SCO DDoS

2003-12-12 Thread Ben Barrett
SYN cookies (the protective fix) since '99? Some other date? Ben On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:21:41 -0800 Brad Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Yes, but there have been patches out for routers/firewalls/TCP stacks | for AGES that make it much less of a problem. |

[eug-lug]whack: jack and phlack (sound and security projects)

2003-12-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Fun projects I found over dinner: 1. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ what is jack? JACK is a low-latency audio server, written for POSIX conformant operating systems such as GNU/Linux and Apple's OS X. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them

Re: [eug-lug] I am getting SP***M - I apologize,...

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Barrett
Jamie, please note that Hal is a newcomer to our list and the Eugene area, while Harald is a separate person... forgive me if you've always called Harald Hal for short. Regards to Hal and Harald, Ben On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:52:21 -0500 Linux Rocks ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hal, |

Re: [eug-lug] I am getting SP***M - I apologize,...

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Barrett
| | On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:40 am, Ben Barrett wrote: | : Jamie, please note that Hal is a newcomer to our list and the Eugene | area,: while Harald is a separate person... forgive me if you've always | called: Harald Hal for short. | : | : Regards to Hal and Harald, | : | :Ben

Re: [eug-lug]Miserable Failure

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Barrett
Doesn't anyone use AskJeeves any more? Now *there* is some real AI. Ben On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:30:46 -0800 Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | john fleming wrote: | | How do we know that this isn't evidence that the web has reached an | AI saturation point becuase of all the spider

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