[eug-lug]gentoo install problems

2004-03-24 Thread Rob Hudson
I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop last night but my CDROM is flaky... sometimes it can read from it but sometimes it fails. The bad part is when doing something like mke2fs and it fails, then something (bash?) remembers that and doesn't try to spin up the CD again. Kbob pointed out this

Re: [eug-lug]gentoo install problems

2004-03-24 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20040324.1518, Cory Petkovsek said ... What's on the laptop right now? If it is any distribution of linux, just do a bootstrap install over the network. The gentoo install howto will tell you how to. ;) Well, I *used to* have Debian on it. It was in a bad state so I thought I'd try

Re: [eug-lug]CD Burning via IDE/ATAPI

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20040322.1507, Jacob Meuser said ... On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:07:15PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: According to the 2.6.x kernels, using ide-scsi isn't the way to go anymore when burning discs. I've compiled my kernel so the burner is in IDE/ATAPI mode, but can't seem to burn images like

[eug-lug]CD Burning via IDE/ATAPI

2004-03-22 Thread Rob Hudson
According to the 2.6.x kernels, using ide-scsi isn't the way to go anymore when burning discs. I've compiled my kernel so the burner is in IDE/ATAPI mode, but can't seem to burn images like I used to be able to. I can detect my drive ok[1]. But can't record to it for some reason[2]. Has anyone

[eug-lug]clearing out old gnomes

2004-03-08 Thread Rob Hudson
Any gnome users here? Now that Debian has Gnome 2.4 I wanted to give it a try. But apparently I've got old gnome 1.4 stuff and also older gnome 2.4 stuff laying around. I tried rm -rf'ing my ~/.gnome* directories. But when I startx and launch gnome, it still remembers some of my old settings.

Re: [eug-lug]clearing out old gnomes

2004-03-08 Thread Rob Hudson
Yep, I've tried garnome... that's why I have leftover cruft I want to get ride of. I was trying 2.4 before it made it into Debian testing. But now that Debian has it via apt-get, I want to clear the slate and start fresh. In fact, after trying some more, it still brings up my background and

Re: [eug-lug]clearing out old gnomes

2004-03-08 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20040308.1643, Grigsby, Garl said ... Don't forget to wipe out settings from your window manager (.sawfish, .metacity, etc). Yep, I got those too. :) ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

[eug-lug]WAP for sale

2004-03-07 Thread Rob Hudson
I have a Wireless Access Point that I no longer need. It was in use until just a few moments ago and works fine. I'm replacing it with another WAP that has a built-in firewall and network management stuff. Model: DWL-1000AP Type: 802.11b (11Mbps on 2.4 GHz) Asking $25 (OBO). -Rob

Re: [eug-lug]beagle.j procmail recipe

2004-03-03 Thread Rob Hudson
What's bagle.j? On 20040303.1252, Larry Price said ... #bagle.j :0 B * SEVMTDMyLmRsbABz***aGx3YXBpLmRsbAB1 /dev/null remove the *** in the middle of the string ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[eug-lug]Wide Open Magazine

2004-03-02 Thread Rob Hudson
RedHat is starting up a magazine. Due out in March 2004... https://www.redhatmagazine.com/ ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

[eug-lug]recommendation wanted: PCI wireless adapter

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm looking for a PCI based wireless adapter to run on a linux box. Can anyone recommend one that works well under linux? Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

[eug-lug]portknocking

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Hudson
This sounds like security through obscurity, but it's an interesting idea. Execute the correct knock, and a port opens... http://www.portknocking.org/ ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]TV input cards

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Hudson
I got a WinTV 250 card, which supposedly work well, but haven't been able to get it to work. I didn't try all that hard either, yet. It has S-Video inputs. Not sure how audio gets in but I'm guessing via the soundcard. http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr250_datasheet.htm Supposedly there's

Re: [eug-lug]procmail help

2004-02-17 Thread Rob Hudson
Does procmail work from top down? Is the idea that X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\* catches 7 and higher. Then I can put: X-Spam-Level: \*\*\* to catch 3 and higher into a might be spam folder? Thanks, Rob On 20040215.0919, Cooper Stevenson said ... Rob, Here's a working procmail code

Re: [eug-lug]autolearn=yes?

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20040217.0058, Bob Crandell said ... 2) You will notice autolearn=no on the last line. How do I make it say autolearn=yes ? BTW, the score doesn't make any difference here. Look in 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam n.nn(default: 12.0) The score

[eug-lug]procmail help

2004-02-15 Thread Rob Hudson
Hello, As I get inundated with spam, I'm changing my server settings a little so I have less to deal with. I was getting a couple megabytes of spam in my spam folder every 2-3 days. After reading up on Spamassassin, I'd like to do something like the following in procmail: Spam score of 10 or

[eug-lug]Feeding spam to SpamAssassin

2004-01-29 Thread Rob Hudson
I get a lot of these types of emails. I question whether to feed them to spamassassin or not simply b/c they are a random list of words. It would see like it might do more harm than good. Is that a good assumption? Thanks, Rob - Forwarded message from Deana Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[eug-lug]Kernel

2004-01-26 Thread Rob Hudson
Hello EUGLUGers, I don't know what would be the best way to go about this since the options list for kernels are quite long... but I often go through the kernel configuration and wonder if I shouldn't be using certain features. I feel like I know just enough to build my own kernel for my system

Re: [eug-lug]Re: Fedora

2003-12-23 Thread Rob Hudson
Does Fedora Core Yarrow use the 2.6 kernel? If so, it might be the switch from OSS to ALSA. I'm struggling with that myself after I gave 2.6.0 a shot. I have my sound card compiled as modules and loaded but don't have sound. I've yet to tweak the mixer. Just an idea, Rob On 20031222.2004,

Re: [eug-lug]pop3 - imap

2003-12-19 Thread Rob Hudson
Is there a way to set up imap so that it uses a different password than my user password? I'm cautious of sending passwords in plaintext and set up imap on port 993 so it uses SSL. But if I'm logging into Squirrelmail not using https, what's the point? I supposed I should look into compiling

[eug-lug]pop3 - imap

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
I've got teapop set up on my FreeBSD server that handles my mail. I heard good things about IMAP and would like to also install SquirrelMail, which requires an IMAP server. Is there anything special I need to know to move from POP to IMAP? What is a good choice for an IMAP server? Thanks, Rob

Re: [eug-lug]pop3 - imap

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
I think I'll try the UW imap server. I'll have to figure out how to set this up using SSL similar to how I did it for POP, but I see that it has docs on this. Thanks all. -Rob On 20031218.1359, Rob Hudson said ... I've got teapop set up on my FreeBSD server that handles my mail. I heard

[eug-lug]linux 2.6.0 and nvidia drivers

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
I installed Linux 2.6.0 but apparently the module API changed enough that the nvidia driver installer no longer works. I found www.minion.de has patches but haven't quite gotten it to work... it compiled and loaded the module but startx dies on me. So I'm still tweaking... The new build of the

Re: [eug-lug]linux 2.6.0 and nvidia drivers

2003-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031218.1649, Rob Hudson said ... I installed Linux 2.6.0 but apparently the module API changed enough that the nvidia driver installer no longer works. I found www.minion.de has patches but haven't quite gotten it to work... it compiled and loaded the module but startx dies on me. So I'm

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

2003-12-15 Thread Rob Hudson
I've always wanted to know how to do this. It happens a lot here at work that things are named with numbers consecutively. And I often need to do this: cp graphic_1.gif graphic_text_1.gif for each graphic numbered 1 through 20, for example. I know I can do a bash thing on the command line:

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

2003-12-15 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031215.1241, Bob Miller said ... Rob Hudson wrote: But is there a way to do something like this?: for i in [1-20] ; do cp graphic_$1.gif graphic_text_$1.gif ; done It doesn't work but it seems like there should be an easy way to set up a range like that. #!/bin/sh

Re: [eug-lug]journaling filesystems

2003-12-10 Thread Rob Hudson
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[eug-lug]Wanted

2003-12-10 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm looking for a 1GHz or higher (not too much higher) CPU + motherboard if anyone has one they'd like to sell. Let me know, please. Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]Wanted

2003-12-10 Thread Rob Hudson
I thought it would be more, but you're right... I can get a lower end Athlon with motherboard and memory for about $150 at mwave.com. Thanks, Rob On 20031210.1117, jgw said ... You probably already know this, but I'd just pick something up at newegg.com. An Athlon 1.3ghz chip runs about $40.

[eug-lug]journaling filesystems

2003-12-09 Thread Rob Hudson
The next time I install Linux on my desktop, I plan on using a journaled filesystem. If you all could indulge me, I'd like to hear about what journaled filesystem you're running and how it fares. I'm thinking about ext3 simply b/c it seems like an easy switch from ext2, and looks like it doesn't

Re: [eug-lug]char-major-116

2003-12-09 Thread Rob Hudson
In my /lib/modules/modprobe.conf file I have: alias char-major-116 snd I never understood fully but is this a character device related to sound? -Rob On 20031209.2210, Bob Crandell said ... Hi, What does: Can't locate module char-major-116 Dec 9 14:05:56 mine last message repeated 3

Re: [eug-lug]renaming

2003-12-05 Thread Rob Hudson
There is a perl rename script that allows you to do something like: # ren 's/^_/section/' *.mp3 I keep it in my bin directory. You can name it 'ren', or 'rename', or whatever. I'll attach it. -Rob What is the #rename command to rename all of these files with section_*.mp3, [as in

[eug-lug]kernel weblogs

2003-12-02 Thread Rob Hudson
Kerneltrap is hosting an aggregator for kernel weblogs[1] ala Planet Gnome[2]. [1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1205 [2] http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/planetgnome/ -Rob ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[eug-lug]system rescue CD

2003-12-01 Thread Rob Hudson
It used to be that if you wanted to resize your partition to install Linux alongside Windows, people recommended getting a copy of Partition Magic. This CD includes QTParted, a partition magic clone which can do the same, along with a host of other tools. Anyone ever use it?

Re: [eug-lug]system rescue CD

2003-12-01 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031201.1419, Grigsby, Garl said ... Knoppix includes this utility as well. I have used it once with good results. Yes, I learned this recently as well. Someone pointed out that Knoppix has a slightly older version while the rescue CD keeps more current since the same person is a

[eug-lug]open source applied outside of software

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Hudson
Wired: Open Source Everywhere Software is just the beginning open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource_pr.html

Re: [eug-lug]Does think-python still exist?

2003-11-21 Thread Rob Hudson
http://mailman.efn.org/mailman/listinfo/think_python On 20031121.0239, john fleming said ... -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Does think-python still exist? ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]new disk in old server

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1850, Mr O said ... Um, here I am. You shouldn't have any real trouble booting off your PCI card. As long as the BIOS sees it as a boot device you're in good hands. Linux will just see your drives as /dev/hde or higher. As for booting from SCSI it loads the drivers during the

Re: [eug-lug]The Programmer's Stone

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031115.1840, Patrick R. Wade said ... I mentioned this to several people today who hadn't remembered it: http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/index.html Can you give me the background on this link? I've read about half of the first chapter of the first article and it is

[eug-lug]Gnome2

2003-11-14 Thread Rob Hudson
I switched from Enlightenment to Gnome2.2 with Metacity about a month ago. I like the Gnome2 better at this point simply b/c it integrates better with other apps. But there are 2 things that bother me... 1. I can't set up my own keybindings to launch various programs. Gnome has default

Re: [eug-lug]Gnome2

2003-11-14 Thread Rob Hudson
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:58:38 -0800 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I switched from Enlightenment to Gnome2.2 with Metacity about a month | ago. I like the Gnome2 better at this point simply b/c it integrates | better with other apps. But there are 2 things that bother me... | | 1

[eug-lug]bash tricks

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
There are a few nice bash tricks to search and replace text in files, using find, and a grep script that bolds the searched for words up on this week's ArsTechnica Linux page: http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/2003/linux.ars-2003-2.html ___ EuG-LUG

[eug-lug]new disk in old server

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
Dear EUGLUG, I have a spare 40GB drive I was planning on putting in an old AMD K6-2 500 server. The machine is currently running off of a 6GB drive. I've got 2 of these same machines -- 1 is running my websites, and the other is at home as a test machine. When I put the 40GB drive in there,

Re: [eug-lug]new disk in old server

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1047, Ben Barrett said ... It depends on your hardware, AFAIK, and then is up to the kernel, as to how the drives get assigned during boot. Just dealt with some boot seqence issues on SATA drives here at work, and the fix was to pass boot prompt parameters to force an ordering

[eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
At work, I leave an SSH session open to my server and run Mutt off the server. Recently, our worksite acquired a firewall that closes inactive sessions after 15 minutes. So if I don't get mail for 15 minutes and don't use the terminal, it drops me. What I'd like to do is update my .muttrc file

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1424, Bob Miller said ... In a more serious vein, I have the same problem at TiVo, so I wrote this script, which I called printloop. #!/bin/sh while sleep 60 do echo -ne '\1' done When it runs, I see: ne \1 Show up on the screen. Server is

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1518, Rob Hudson said ... I tried using the escaped character insert mode in Vim. And it works! Thanks kbob. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1352, Patrick R. Wade said ... What are you using for the SSH client? You may be able to set it to send keepalives. I had a problem like you describe telecommuting from the Growers' Market to efn, and it went away when i set 2-minute keepalives in PuTTY. I'm using just

Re: [eug-lug]FAH info

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031106.1115, Bob Miller said ... Jacob Meuser wrote: I see there have been 61 'folders' for 668, pretty impressive. Maybe there'd be more new members if euglug's FAH efforts were more blatant on the website? Excellent idea! (BTW, the euglug webmaster position is still open.

Re: [eug-lug]Red Hat, Blue Hat, Old Hat, New Hat?

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Hudson
Ars just wrote about it... http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html They like it. On 20031106.1247, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said ... So, is the New Hat* any good? -Beaker *Fedora Project distro -- [ SiMpLe MaChInEs ] -- gopher://beaker.mdns.org or (via proxy)

Re: [eug-lug]Red Hat, Blue Hat, Old Hat, New Hat?

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Hudson
Linux Weekly News did too: http://lwn.net/Articles/55082/ On 20031106.1247, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said ... So, is the New Hat* any good? -Beaker *Fedora Project distro -- [ SiMpLe MaChInEs ] -- gopher://beaker.mdns.org or (via proxy)

[eug-lug]NPTL

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Hudson
Anyone used the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) for Linux? http://lwn.net/Articles/10710/ ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]Free Monitor

2003-11-02 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031101.2023, Maximillian Von Schwanekamp said ... Having done this free stuff posting before, it occured to me that it might be of some use to the community to provide a sort of Humane Society for computer equipment... But entirely free, or close to that. Could make an active effort

Re: [eug-lug]Wiki software?

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Hudson
For the super simple, try kwiki (kwiki.org). You can install it from CPAN (CGI::Kwiki). -Rob On 20031023.2113, jgw said ... Maybe it's late, maybe it's the beer, but I'm interested in playing with some Wiki software, and can't seem to locate THE Wiki software to use. I'm running FreeBSD

Re: [eug-lug]Resetting ownership

2003-10-16 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031016.1306, Bob Miller said ... It isn't keeping the ownership of the source. Can someone come up with a quick and dirty way of reading /etc/passwd and assiging the original permissions to /home/$USER ? Please? perl -F: -nae 'print find $F[5] -exec chown $F[2]:$F[3]\{}\\;\\n if

Re: [eug-lug]Computer books for sale - any interest?

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Hudson
Post a list! I love computer books. :) On 20031015.1539, Jason said ... Hey list, In interest of reducing clutter, I'm looking to offload some of my extra computer books. I'd rather not go the ebay route w/ shipping, etc., so I figured I'd see if there was interest on the list. I'll

Re: [eug-lug]Whoa!

2003-09-20 Thread Rob Hudson
Great job, Beaker. I see some nice creative differences than the original. Looks good. :) On 20030919.2239, Garl Grigsby said ... Looks like somebody has been busy. (see http://www.euglug.org ) I like the new look. So who do I congratulate? Garl

Re: [eug-lug]This is too funny!

2003-08-29 Thread Rob Hudson
I just got one of those too in gaim. :) On 20030828.2243, Linux Rocks! said ... So, Im running gaim (instant messanger), I like it for many reasons, one of which is that it works with many services (including Microsofts MSN Messanger) I get this instant message: (22:24:27) [EMAIL

[eug-lug]spontaneous reboot

2003-08-23 Thread Rob Hudson
Anyone have any ideas on this one? I've got debian on my laptop. It installed a 2.2.20 kernel. I wanted to upgrade to the latest 2.4.21 kernel. I installed it via apt-get. Set up lilo and ran /sbin/lilo. Now when I try to boot into that kernel, it goes thru this iteration ad infinitum...

Re: [eug-lug]spontaneous reboot

2003-08-23 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030823.0852, Rob Hudson said ... Anyone have any ideas on this one? I've got debian on my laptop. It installed a 2.2.20 kernel. I wanted to upgrade to the latest 2.4.21 kernel. I installed it via apt-get. Set up lilo and ran /sbin/lilo. Now when I try to boot into that kernel

Re: [eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-19 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030819.1140, Cory Petkovsek said ... _ALL_ that is necessary is making sure this line is in the sshd_config on the server: X11Forwarding yes For a production server, is this something you'd want to be careful about? Does forwarding X11 open any security concerns?

Re: [eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-18 Thread Rob Hudson
So, since my laptop is pretty slow by today's standards (P233), is it possible to use the laptop as a terminal and use my workstation as the real computer behind the scenes? I think the trick would be the necessary network drivers to at least connect to my workstation. -Rob

Re: [eug-lug]emac question

2003-08-17 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030816.1554, Timothy Bolz said ... I've been looking through some python code and it looks as easy. It's very readable and you can follow the logic. I should have looked into it earlier. There's a python mailing list... http://mailman.efn.org/mailman/listinfo/think_python Hey Larry,

Re: [eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-17 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030815.1617, Bob Miller said ... Rob Hudson wrote: Does anyone have tips on SSHing and launching X apps on the remote machine and have them appear on the local machine? Even if I connect with ssh -X, I can't seems to get it to work. Make sure you have X11Forwarding yes

[eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-15 Thread Rob Hudson
Does anyone have tips on SSHing and launching X apps on the remote machine and have them appear on the local machine? Even if I connect with ssh -X, I can't seems to get it to work. Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-15 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030815.1646, Bob Miller said ... localhost$ ssh -X remotehost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: x remotehost$ xterm I think at that point I got an error about something with the remote host not allowing a connection? I'll try again tonight on my

Re: [eug-lug]ssh with X

2003-08-15 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030815.1751, Ben Barrett said ... I assume you're connecting from another 'nix boxen? When I run an Xwindows service on my winbloze craptop, and connect to my local workstation, I have to export DISPLAY=192.168.42.42:0.0 in the command shell, where 42.42 is the LAN address of the

[eug-lug]un apt-get

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Hudson
Is there a way to tell apt-get to remove all packages from a particular source? I added the Gnome2.2 backport for woody to my sources, and now a lot of stuff is broken (esp evolution). I can't compile firebird anymore due to a pango compile error. So I want to back out to where I was. Thanks,

Re: [eug-lug]mailing lists

2003-08-04 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030801.1209, Bob Miller said ... IMHO, @euglug.org is the domain to use for mailing lists. It's the one that makes the most sense, because EUGLUG is a nonprofit organization, not an ISP or company. And EUGLUG is separate from EFN/OPN (though that isn't always obvious (-: ). But

Re: [eug-lug]Eclipse oss's answer to .net?

2003-08-04 Thread Rob Hudson
I loaded it up once. I wasn't too impressed, but I've really never used a big development environment. For simple PHP scripts, there isn't much need. The screenshots I've seen makes me think it's much larger than just web apps. The big idea around eclipse is it's plugin architecture. There

Re: [eug-lug]attachments in webmail

2003-08-02 Thread Rob Hudson
I've never set it up, but I've heard good things about SquirrelMail. Michelle (BSD Goddess) Brownsworth has set this up many times, I believe. -Rob On 20030801.1704, Bob Miller said ... Several of you have set up webmail systems. Do any of them handle attachment well? A friend of mine is

Re: [eug-lug]computers/laptops forsale...

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Hudson
BTW, I've got one of these working now in a laptop. I can't get WEP working so far, but I haven't tried very hard either. -Rob On 20030731.1836, Linux Rocks! said ... well... I will need to keep atleast one card for whatever laptop I cant get, but they are proxim rangelan-ds, w/internal

[eug-lug]mailing lists

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Hudson
Hello, I would like there to be a Python mailing list. I could set one up on euglug.org with mailman, but I know there are lists we (EUGLUG) use not on that server. There was also a zoneverte python list but when I tried to send a message there last nothing came through. My question to those

Re: [eug-lug]mailing lists

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Hudson
PS: The current list of lists on euglug.org can be found here: http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo I'm not sure if any are being used at the moment. -Rob On 20030801.0953, Rob Hudson said ... Hello, I would like there to be a Python mailing list. I could set one up on euglug.org

[eug-lug]Fwd: August 2003

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Hudson
SAO brewpub meetings with wireless connectivity (and beer!)? - Forwarded message from Wild Duck Brewsletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Wild Duck Brewsletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:52:50 -0700 To: Wild Duck Brewsletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: August 2003 *** WILD

Re: [eug-lug]mailing lists

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030801.1833, Bob Crandell said ... Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:11:47AM -0700, Larry Price wrote: And Rob, since you are the interested one... Does this mean it will be a list with one person on it? Rob will get to ask and answer his own

Re: [eug-lug]mailing lists

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Hudson
I saw his name go by on the sign up, so he's already there. :) On 20030801.1631, Jim K said ... As far as the python list. I will let Chris Meyers, if it is okay with people. He is again teaching programming for fun uaing python. The summer class is more an introductory class. A lot of

Re: [eug-lug]Mozilla colorizing text?

2003-07-28 Thread Rob Hudson
I've never seen that. Which version of Mozilla? THe only thing I can think of is to traverse to your mozilla directory and cd into defaults/pref/. Find unix.js and open it up. In there you've got some font preferences you can play with. See if freetype2 is enabled: // TrueType

Re: [eug-lug]Programmatically resizing a window

2003-07-23 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030723.2119, Roger said ... Around Wed,Jul 23 2003, at 06:46, Bob Miller, wrote: I want my Mozilla windows to be exactly 792x572, and every now and then I accidentally catch a window by its grow bar and change its size. Then it's a slow, error-prone process to resize it back to

Re: [eug-lug]Programmatically resizing a window

2003-07-23 Thread Rob Hudson
Another fun mozilla trick is to type this... about:config into the address bar. In most modern mozillas this allows you to adjust all the preferences on the fly. I don't think they're saved, but it lets you experiment. -Rob On 20030723.2234, Bob Miller said ... Rob Hudson wrote: Type

[eug-lug]proxim rangelan 8430

2003-07-22 Thread Rob Hudson
Finally got the card to work. Used: pcmcia-cs wlan-ng (http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/) It's using the prism2_cs driver. I haven't yet been able to get WEP working. I still need to play with that a bit. Hopefully it's possible but 40-bit (the max this card can do, I think) isn't much

Re: [eug-lug]grub

2003-07-18 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030717.1630, Bob Miller said ... Rob Hudson wrote: I'm building a new kernel on the laptop running redhat 9. I've never used grub before. There is a /boot/grub/grub.conf file which I edited. Is there anything else I ahve to do similar to /sbin/lilo? If your system already uses

Re: [eug-lug]grub

2003-07-18 Thread Rob Hudson
So, since RedHat9 uses ext3, initrd probably has the ext3 module in it so it can load the kernel? On 20030718.1110, Cory Petkovsek said ... On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:47:31AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: Rob wrote: It dies when it tries to mount root. I wasn't sure what that

Re: [eug-lug]grub

2003-07-18 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030718.1047, Bob Miller said ... To enable initrd, set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD in your kernel config. Go to the Block Devices page and enable RAM disk support and Initial RAM disk (initrd) support. Would that be these two? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y

Re: [eug-lug]grub

2003-07-18 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030718.1125, Rob Hudson said ... On 20030718.1047, Bob Miller said ... To enable initrd, set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD in your kernel config. Go to the Block Devices page and enable RAM disk support and Initial RAM disk (initrd) support. Would that be these two

[eug-lug]hardware

2003-07-17 Thread Rob Hudson
Recently I installed RedHat 9 on my laptop. I haven't been able to get the wireless network card working. (Jamie, any tips?) During the process I came up with a few questions... How can I make the Gnome desktop run a little faster on my aging Pentium 233 laptop? Or would KDE run any better?

Re: [eug-lug]hardware

2003-07-17 Thread Rob Hudson
... On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:54:43 -0700 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Recently I installed RedHat 9 on my laptop. I haven't been able to | get the wireless network card working. (Jamie, any tips?) During the | process I came up with a few questions

[eug-lug]grub

2003-07-17 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm building a new kernel on the laptop running redhat 9. I've never used grub before. There is a /boot/grub/grub.conf file which I edited. Is there anything else I ahve to do similar to /sbin/lilo? Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL

[eug-lug]Fwd: Re: proxim rangelan

2003-07-14 Thread Rob Hudson
Hudson Subject: Re: proxim rangelan Rob Hudson wrote: I decided it was time to install Linux on our laptop. Did you find anything on the wireless NICs we both purchased? I sold mine to Jamie long ago. I think he got it working on his laptop. -- Bob Miller Kbob

[eug-lug]Fwd: [PLUG] We might get OSCON here next year, with your help

2003-07-11 Thread Rob Hudson
- Forwarded message from Wil Cooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Wil Cooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11 Jul 2003 10:34:26 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PLUG] We might get

Re: [eug-lug]Happiness is a working Nvidia video card

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20030710.1036, Bob Miller said ... When the SGI Visual Workstation released in 1999, we had a demo made by a group at an Italian university (sorry, can't remember the name) where they took a bunch of still photos of the ruins of a Roman city, scanned them, stitched them together and

[eug-lug]Neal Stephenson and Eugene, Oregon

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Hudson
Slashdot... Todd Garrison describes in detail how he solved the cryptographic puzzle promoting Neal Stephenson's forthcoming book Quicksilver, and the reward for his effort. Stephenson himself calls Garrison's story 'remarkable' because Garrison was completely unfamiliar with the system of writing

[eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Hudson
What's a good JDK to install on Linux? I think there are different varieties (Sun's JDK, IBM's Kaffe?, etc.) I was looking at installing NewsMonster, a mozilla based blog reader, but it requires a JDK. http://newsmonster.org/ Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Hudson
? Thanks, Rob On 20030625.1239, Cory Petkovsek said ... On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:39:56AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: What's a good JDK to install on Linux? I think there are different varieties (Sun's JDK, IBM's Kaffe?, etc.) I was looking at installing NewsMonster, a mozilla based blog

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Hudson
I've done that. If I check Help-About plugins it doesn't show up there. Should it? On 20030625.1636, Ralph Zeller said ... put a link in your mozilla plug-in directory, something like: cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

[eug-lug]printers for sale

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Hudson
I've got two printers for sale. 1) Canon BJ-200e bubble jet BW. 2) Canon BJC-600 bubble jet color. Both work. They connect via parallel port. Make an offer if you want 'em. Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]sign up soon / Python for Fun Syllabus

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm signed up. LCC has a nice new online registration system. On 20030619.1745, Horst said ... All -- those of you interested in Chris Meyers' class should sign up very sn. Should you have any questions feel free to contact Chris by email or by phone (see below) - Horst

[eug-lug]groaner

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Hudson
Bad geek joke... If a tree falls in an application, and nobody is around to hear it, is it logged? ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]python2exe

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Hudson
Speaking of wxWindows. Here's an interesting project: http://wxmozilla.sourceforge.net/ About: wxMozilla is a project underway to develop a wxWindows component for embedding the Mozilla browser into any wxWindows application. The wxMozilla classes will utilize minimal, if any, platform dependant

[eug-lug]python2exe

2003-06-19 Thread Rob Hudson
I ran into this today and thought it was interesting... http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ There's also a perl2exe. http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm Anyone ever play with these? ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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