If you've all been wondering, and I'm sending this blind not knowing
if Bruce or someone else has attempted to notify the world, but...
... the Compaq facility at Spit Brook Road, Nashua, which hosts the
'gnhlug' mailing list, was hit by a power failure this morning. Had I
arrived literally one
Another couple of things to do, Tom:
1.) Open a terminal window and do a 'free' command and see how badly
you're swapping.
When you see those results, you'll want to add memory and/or swap space.
2.) Bring up X, and then run 'xosview'. That may give you a visual
display of how bad things
Bob Sparks asked:
I know that some systems can read these formats, but they
need to thrash it with Microslop Word.
Answer:
Well, not exactly...
You can get a free PDF reader for Linux from Adobe (who are the
folks who own PDF). But, editing a PDF document appears to be the
key question, and
Joshua S. Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
can you, or anyone else reading this, direct me somewhere where I can
begin the task of upgrading to 2.2.19?
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/Changes.html
or /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CHANGES (or thereabouts) in the
2.4 kernel tree.
Note
Peter Cavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have decided I am not going to attend the meeting for the Battle
of the MTAs.
I'm sorry to hear that, as I am planning to attend primarily because I
wanted to hear about the various MTAs and to be able to compare and
contrast them. I work in a
Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Argh! Alas, Tom, it looks like you and I will likely be dialup-dependent:
I guess I knew the writing was on the wall, but still, I had hopes...
The following should NOT be considered an endorsement, but is offered
as a humorous rejoinder,
This was sent to me internally, but cites external/public references;
I'm kind of assuming (as dangerous for me as that is...) that
Macmillan is the Mandrake distribution that Macmillan is marketing (well).
From SuSE...Recent PCData report on retail Linux (x86) kit sales in the US.
Paul Lussier said:
What makes the Alpha systems proprietary, I guess commercial
level would be a more apropos description, is that it has
things like EEPROMs.
Well, I think we're in danger of getting into a semantic battle
here, but I'd like to clarify things a bit. The various
OK, I'll confess - for the last couple of years, I've been using
Windows NT to dial in to my local ISP and get (and manage) my e-mail.
I had a hiccup on the NT system and I've also purchased the SuSE 7.1
Professional kit and I'm getting ready to migrate to Linux full-time.
(I'll worry about
I don't make this stuff up - don't need to - see the URL yourselves !!
They really need to read the RPM manual, and get rid of those antique
8 floppies...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,375113666,00.html
Pie-sized tar balls wash up on Hollywood beach
By SUSANNAH
Peter Cavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
How can this be fixed so that...
The list maintainer has been notified. Please bear in mind that he does
it on a VOLUNTEER basis, and that the list is a guest on the systems
involved. If you look at the bottom of each message, there is a blurb
about
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,375111490,00.html
Cleanup of tar-ball invasion begins on South Broward beaches
sun-sentinel.com
Web-posted: 10:50 a.m. Feb. 20, 2001
Updated at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday
HOLLYWOOD -- A small section of beach on the city?s southside was shut
Bruce McCulley wrote:
FWIW, I've seen different o/s architectures respond differently to
h/w faults, so not crashing under Linux would not prove the h/w is
clean. Incidentally, that raises an interesting question for discussion,
is it better for the o/s to be fault-tolerant and run through
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Vitts says they're back in business this week.
It was widely reported this morning - and I heard a blurb on the news
on WZID(FM) - that apparently they were able to secure some last-minute
funding from an unnamed source that will permit them to stay in
Maddog said:
You have the finest wire in the world between you and the central office,
but if that office is five miles away, forget it.
Well, that's true, in part. In my particular case - and the reason I
have a real low opinion of Veridont [thanks, Jeff - that's a keeper!]
is that I'm
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
I was wondering what needs to be upgraded (recompiled) if I install 2.4 kernel
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/Changes.html
It's also in the kernel tree itself (under Documentation/CHANGES,
I think, but someone who has immediate access to
Sorry if someone already sent this out on the list - sometimes my
mail piles up here and I don't check it in the detail that it deserves.
Anyway, there's an article on the Yahoo News about xDSL which fits
in with the Vitts debacle. I suspect that there will be a river of
debate about this for
Kurth Bemis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
whenever anyone sends me mail from outlook express pine
doesn't display the message. Anyone had similar problems?
I have the same problem here at work where I use exmh and
I am sent an HTML or Word or RTF or documents with Windows-1252
font (or whatever
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20001214/tc/compaq_broadens_partnership_with_turbolinux_2.html
Thursday December 14 03:00 PM EST
Compaq broadens partnership with Turbolinux
By Stephen Shankland; CNET News.com
Turbolinux will be available preinstalled on, or bundled with, some
Tom Rauschenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I recently installed Redhat 6.2 and either it sucks or I did not
install enough stuff, but I'm finding that most things don't compile
because something is missing.
Bear in mind that RH 6.2 is getting old - 7.0 has been out for a couple
of months
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, geoff allsup wrote:
I'm running xosview, VMware is up and running Win98, I've dialed up my
ISP to do email, etc, and I notice NET activity in xosview at about the
max rate that my poor little modem can churn.
Ben had some good comments, but I'd like to add one -
Is it
I'm sure most of us are chafing with the cliff-hanger election
results, etc., but today's User Friendly cartoon is quite cute...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20001114
Bayard
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Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'd recommend you stay away from Caldera and TurboLinux...
and while I have no experience with Turbo most of the people
I talked to who did seemed to think it was trash too.
I've had a great experience with TL 6.0 on Intel and a totally
miserable
News Flash!
Microsoft Corporation today announced buying RedHat, Inc. for an
undisclosed sum. To avoid additional monopolization charges, the
new company, to be called "RedMond, Inc.", will be headquartered in
the Cayman Islands. Actually, the islands were also purchased, and
are being
Subject: Worlds Largest Telecommunications Company Selects TurboLinux For
Information Service
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:58:50 -0400
Worlds Largest Telecommunications Company Selects TurboLinux For
Information Service System Platform
NTT Communications Chooses Linux All-In-One Server
I know teacher, I know!! Can I answer, pretty please??
:-)
Bruce McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks:
Just out of curiosity, what is "an 8P partition"?
Is my SWAG that it refers to an 8-CPU chunk of the machine anywhere
close to the truth? And much more interesting, if so does that imply
Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
However responses like the above could well cause her to
hesitate to post to the list at all - this is not "A Good Thing" (TM).
...to which I'd like to add:
In view of the many, many contributions that Lori has made to the
GNHLUG and SLUG in the last
A few months ago, Jim Gettys of our (Compaq's) Palo Alto Research
Center, gave a talk to us (GNHLUG) at Martha's Exchange. I just
stumbled over an e-zine article about that facility, in case any
of you might be curious about it, the home of 'gatekeeper.dec.com'.
This is a test transmission for circuit adjustment purposes.
If you don't care if the GNHLUG mailing list is back up, you
can ignore it. If you do care, you didn't ignore it...
Happy Monday, everybody!
Bayard
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I'm not sure Mark had a chance to send out something, so I thought I'd
gratuitously step on his toes and speak in his place.
We're having a site-wide power shutdown this weekend, and the systems
that normally propagate e-mail and other stuff will be "off the air"
from 5:00 PM EDT today until at
Greg Kettmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
I've a friend trying to dual boot Linux (multiple flavors)
and M$ NT Server. ... is it possible?
I've been dual booting NT Workstation and Linux for years. I don't
have access to a Linux box at work, but start poking around in
/usr/doc for a HOWTO or
Greg Kettmann (sorry about spelling - am offsite today) asked
about the changes needed to support Linux 2.4.0. This is documented in:
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/kaboom/linux/Changes-2.4/changes24.html
This list was updated only 11 days ago, which is nice because there
have been other articles
Ben - thanks for filling in the details; it is S frustrating
not to have a Linux box here at work to look at to check these
details.
One further comment for Kurt and the others in this pickle: It
gets *really* "interesting" if you have more than one PnP ISA
card in your system, as I do
I lost the message that flamed Larry Cook for posting the job openings
at Sybase in Concord, so I don't remember who sent it. Just as well...
I have apologized to Larry offline and attempted to explain the situation.
IMNSHO, we need to work with other *IX interests in the state. There is
Bill Freeman, KE1G, transmitted:
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone has a full time
connection. Many, even, of those who do will not
maintain a full time IRC client connection.
to which I hastily add:
Some of us who do have "full-time connections" at work, can't
punch the firewall
Bob Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
I have heard, but am unable to verify, that software developed
using public tax money would be owned by the public.
This is a VERY complex question, because all too often, the
applications that are frequently developed are done so under
a non-disclosure as
'split' is a POSIX command, I believe, and is therefore available on
POSIX-compliant UNIX systems; we have it on Tru64 UNIX.
'tar' is fairly standard, but I don't know how much GNU has embellished
it to the point of incompatibility. For the last 5-6 years, I have
brought my large files home by
(Sorry to toot our horn here, but this is a nice step for CPQ, finally!)
http://news.stockmaster.com/display_news.asp?doc_id=BW2803BW0099mode=newsticker=CPQ
eLinux Debuts Catalog and Online Store Featuring Compaq
Linux-Compatible Products
BusinessWire
Let me throw my $.02 in FWIW...
First, the rule of thumb for swap space in most UNIX systems that
I've run into (which, compared to some of the folks on this list,
ain't many at all!) has been 2X-3X memory size. However, for the
past 18 months, I've been running my dual 333MHz PII system with
Niall Kavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] danced to the tune of:
One point I never see mentioned:
Microsoft vulnerabilirties are just that -- Microsoft's.
One of Microsoft's vulnerabilities is the quality (or lack
thereof) of their product. They recently released SP6a for
Windows NT 4.0, which is a
Suzanne Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] listed some e-mail
addresses for ABC News.
Cool, but how do we know they didn't
ln -s /var/spool/mail/comments /dev/null
ln -s /var/spool/mail/content /dev/null
ln -s /var/spool/mail/suggestions /dev/null
:-)
Thanks, Suzanne, for posting them. Maybe I'll
TiK
TicToc tictoc-list at aol.net - September 25th 1998, 14:05 EST
TiK is a pure TCL/Tk implementation of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It has most of
the features the native Win32
and Mac clients have, plus some extras. It includes a graphical buddy list display,
full font support,
I think that one of the more interesting indicators about
the alleged popularity of (tex)info is its endorsement and
embracement by the major commercial UNIX vendors -- NOT!!
(Can anyone name a major commercial UNIX distribution that
uses [tex]info by default?)
Around here, the man pages are
Ben Scott said:
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have HTML
Well, we (Tru64 UNIX) also provide all the documentation online,
so that you can use Netscape to look at the man pages as well as
the regular books, in HTML.
But, my point is that, to my admittedly limited knowledge, none of
the major
Having built a few hundred kernels over the past 6-7 years, perhaps
I can offer a few tips. (Sounds like it would be a good Chapter meeting
topic, however!).
One way of working around the module directory problem would be to
rename the currently working directory temporarily, just before doing
The psychologists are going to have fun with BillG's ongoing
denials of reality:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2614/tc/korea_microsoft_dc_2.html
ednesday June 14 9:56 AM ET
Gates Denies Morale Problems at Microsoft
By Andrew Browne
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -
Bruce McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, in part:
with DoJ favoring an appeal directly to the Supreme Court, so I'd infer that it's
a possibility.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2607/ts/microsoft_leadall_dc_13.html
U.S. to Go Directly to High Court in Microsoft Case
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Looks like there's a DNS problem with "compaq.com" - please be patient,
as the problem is being worked in Houston. I'm not sure to what extent
the mail from the list will be affected, since it's sent out from the
zk3.dec.com domain, but our external mail routers are in the 'compaq.com'
domain.
"Taylor, Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
Will Bill be taking his house with him?
Well, on the serious side, MS has already said that they're not going.
But, on the whimsical side, I find it interesting that BC offered to
take them in - I would have thought that they'd have some environmental
FWIW, I am having the same problem under Netscape 4.72 as compiled
for Tru64 UNIX as Randy did.
So, it's not just the Linux/Netscape (and GNU had nothing to do
with that, BTW), and may well affect any of their other Unix-based
compilations. Anyone try it on SPARC or SGI or HP ?
Bayard
Well, I guess Rich Payne is too busy or too modest to post this, so
I will:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1926082.html?tag=st.ne.1002.lthd.1003-200-1926082
Hopefully, the increased demand will lower the prices somewhat and
keep fueling the demand. I think this move on API's part will be
"Karl J. Runge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I got that radio.org.lv page to render properly by selecting
one of the "Central European" charsets, but I can't reproduce it!!
Well, I still can't because it's written (according to Randy's post) in
character set "windows-1257". The
Ken Gosier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This rumor was floating around a little while ago. slashdot
carried a story where MS denied any such attempt:
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/18/1338254.shtml
Maybe that's because they couldn't figure out how to make it work...
:-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said
some Congress-being who has no love for M$ also griped in session
today about it... yay!
To which Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied
I caught that on the evening news; a Congressman sort of dismissing
virus issue by saying that the person should ask Bill
I'm hearing unofficial rumblings that one of the copycats tells
you that some amount of money is being credited to your credit
card for something that you ordered and that you need to open
the attachment to verify the information.
Over and above the damage initially caused by the amorous VBS
"jim t.p. ryan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think there are many people in the Linux/Unix community,
or any community for that matter that can match what he has done.
You're right - his total disregard for business ethics, and his
absolute dominance in any activity he's ever involved
I hate to "lift the corporate skirts", but there were posters on
the doors coming in this morning warning us about it.
We got nailed by a different VBS script attack a couple of weeks
ago. I can be smug and say that it didn't affect my AlphaStation 250
running Tru64 UNIX, but it makes me feel
Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, there's a setting in Outlook (don't know if it's on in default)
to automatically run VB in an e-mail (or at least there used to be, MS
may have wised up removed it).
Well, that sounds like an architectural design issue to me, so IMNSHO,
it should be
Well, it's a real long shot, but I checked my Oracle 7 Installation
Guide for Digital UNIX (YES, I know!!... Relax!!) and they mention
a character mode installation method:
./orainst -c
Whether this syntax/switch still exists in Oracle 8(i) and on the
Linux version of it is subject to
25toon.jpg
Generally (and users of other Unices can comment), the 'man'
command actually reads in the raw man page info, (which, in
the old days was written in nroff format), and processes it
and spits out the stuff you see in your xterm window. Note
that in a lot of cases, this may include ANSI characters
Niall Kavanagh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded an article that said, in part:
Most of these systems are UNIX-based.
The UNIX-based duplication systems used in manufacturing are impervious
Ayuh - using 'dd' tends to work nicely that way !!
Bayard
http://kernelnotes.org/
has links up the whazooo to what's relevant these days...
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Sorry if folks have seen this before on the list - haven't
had time to look for a duplicate listing, but thought you
all might get a laugh out of this.
http://www.angelfire.com/pe/penguindance/
Bayard
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On the other hand, if you want to use your computer, don't
access the site. It hogs the CPU and nothing else works.
Well, I suspect that results may vary depending on architecture,
operating system and memory. I had no problems running a 266MHz
EV4 Alpha with 96 MB of memory running Tru64
I believe that the free Adobe Acrobat Reader's print menu gives you
a choice of which PostScript level (1, 2, or 3) for output, and
whether to send it to a file or to a printer. At least it does on
the Acrobat V4.0 flavor that they build for Compaq Tru64 UNIX, and
I believe that it works in the
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2462002,00.html
Donnie Barnes, one of the original Red Hat people, and who visited
GNHLUG about 16-17 months ago (before it got really cold that winter,
but he was still turning blue!), was the originator of this show,
and the one who has
Tim Burke wrote:
Thanks, that was it. Sure enough, the Microsoft PS/2 mouse
wouldn't work but a Logitech worked fine.
I guess thats par for the course ;-)
Well, I think it's probably due to the fact that any Microsoft
mouse will be afraid of a Linux 'cat' command.
(Yeah, I know --
There are drivers for the Qlogic FC board in the Linux 2.3.4x kernels
AFAIK. Unfortunately, I don't happen to know which specific Qlogic
models are supported by them, but if someone's got the time to grab
the kernel tree, burst it open and look, then we'd know. Otherwise,
I can do it at home
Matt Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a CO in Nashua on West Pearl St.
(I honestly don't know where that is)
Smack in the middle of downtown, within a block or two
of Martha's !
Matt quoted MediaOne's response, which in part said:
One of the major factors that determines the
Niall Kavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everybody at my current (but soon to be old) company is a
"senior consultant/analyst"
Well, so much for a meaningless strata.
Here, the old DEC had titles like:
{hardware|software|manufacturing|...} Engineer I
{hardware|software|manufacturing|...}
Kurth Bemis [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
what is up the foo this and foo that? i see it everywhere.
It is a late 20th century adaptation of a World War I-era
expression "fubar", which meant (in polite vernacular)
"fouled up beyond all recognition". It's pronounced 'foo-bar'.
Modern (1960+)
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It does lend itself to all sorts of amusing slogan and graphics ideas :)
How about Tux in Revolutionary War regalia :)
Hmmm - John Stark's famous war cry comes to mind: Live Free Or Die
brc
To echo what Paul said, I also have the feeling that Adobe's support
for Display PostScript [TM] is, uh, fairly soft at this point, since
they came out with Acrobat. I know that the upper management here had
to jump through hoops a few years ago to license the DPS technology
just so that we
I apologize if I overreacted based on some information about
problems with WinPrinters 18-24 months ago. Since then, there
has been a lot of hard work done by several people to make them
work properly. The canonical list of what works, fully or partially
appears to be:
Bob Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
This reminds me: Does anyone know whether a Palm Pilot, or similar
handheld, can listen to a microphone?
Check out http://athome.compaq.com
click on handhelds - Aero 2130
Description says it has an integrated microphone.
Bayard
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON !!
The 800 series is a "Win Printer" and can't be used under
Linux nor Windows NT. The 812 is a particularly insidious
example !
I don't have the URL handy that documents all this, but
I'll try to find it later today.
Bayard
I was thinking more of the folks who might be fairly content,
but start seeing lots of job postings on the list and start
thinking the grass might be greener on the other side.
Get serious... Anyone who is thinking of moving on will certainly
find a position, regardless of the medium. The
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