How do I format a 1.722 floppy?

2002-04-12 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Time for another newbie type question. I want to write tomsrtbt, or muLinux to a floppy. They both use 1.722MB floppies. I thought fdformat could do 1.722, but the man page says no. I am using Red Hat 6.2, but updated. TIA, Bob Sparks Never attribute to malice, that which can be

Meeting announcement - Concord, April 10, 7pm

2002-04-09 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, et. al., Yes, it is time for another Central NH LUG meeting. The topic this time is Linux - Revolutionary OS! As always, Sybase is letting us use their conference room @ 6 Loudon Rd, in beautiful downtown Concord, NH. To get there from Interstate 93: Take exit 14, head east, over

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking that 100Mbit/sec is somewhat slower than even the 16MB/sec that the drive in my laptop can maintain. I'd expect that 'fast' IDE drives in a RAID configuration should be able to do better than that. The price of 1000 base T is down. Even Radio Shack sells

Re: TANSTAAFL (was: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)

2002-03-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
In a message dated 3/21/2 8:50:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everything has a cost. A business, by definition, is out to make a profit. Giving something away for free runs counter to that goal. They must have some plan to cover the cost of their free product or service, and it usually

CentraLUG Concord Wed March 13 7pm

2002-03-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Time to remind you all of the monthly central NH Linux meeting. Second Wednesday of each month, 7 pm, 6 Loudon Road, Concord, NH. The March meeting is about Linux, is it ready for prime time? The meeting is @ the Sybase meeting room, 6 Loudon Road. To get there from Interstate 93:

Question about server prices

2002-02-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, What price should I expect for a dual SCSI port RAID array? Actually, I might as well ask the question behind the question: I am trying to suggest a Linux configuration for a statewide application server. Instead of a 4-6 server NT monster, I would like a 2-3 server Linux option. This

Re: Where to get old machines

2001-12-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My friends and I are about ready to put up a beowulf cluster out of semi-old pentium based machines. We have one small problem.the meachines. With the demise of Electronic Planet (by the Kinkos in Nashua) we can't find a place that sells older computers with

CentraLUG mtg (Concord) Dec 12 moved/cancelled

2001-12-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
The CentraLUG / CNHLUG meeting for December in Concord, NH, is canceled or moved, depending on your point of view. We will all be attending the GNHLUG meeting @ Martha's exchange, right? Same day Dec 12, 6pm (dinner) or 7:30ish pm, (meeting), if things go as in past meetings. Correct me if that's

Meeting Tonite in Concord - Free for All

2001-10-10 Thread Bobnhlinux
It is time again (2nd Wednesday of each month) for the Central NH LUG meeting. This month we are discussing: Linux! How about that! No specific speaker, come and talk geek. As always, To get there from Interstate 93: · Take exit 14, Head east, over the river, on Loudon Road. · Turn

Meeting Tonite! Concord nh 7pm - 10 yr of LINUX

2001-09-12 Thread Bobnhlinux
The subject this month will be: 10 years of Linux! Speakers: Bruce Dawson Greg Kettmann and, of course Jon Maddog Hall My original suggestion (back in June) was for lots of events. Each LUG should have something. The calendar I posted (from Linus' book) was: 1991 Jan 02:

CentraLUG - 2nd Wed. Sep12 - 7 pm. 10 years of Linux!

2001-09-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
Time to remind you all (again) of the monthly CNHLUG meeting. The second Wednesday of each month, remember? The subject this month will be: 10 years of Linux! My original suggestion (back in June) was for lots of events. Each LUG should have something. The calendar I posted (from Linus'

CentraLUG - 2nd Wed. Sep12 - 7 pm. 10 years of Linux!

2001-09-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
Time to remind you all (again) of the monthly CNHLUG meeting. The second Wednesday of each month, remember? The subject this month will be: 10 years of Linux! My original suggestion (back in June) was for lots of events. Each LUG should have something. The calendar I posted (from Linus'

Re: GNHLUG official status (was: maddog interview)

2001-09-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, there is an official GNHLUG. We are a registered nonprofit corporation in the State of NH. We are not an IRS 501(c)3, but we do officially exist. I thought I remembered hearing two things: (1)

Re: maddog interview

2001-09-06 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: Question for the list - LI membership for non-profits is $1/year - should GNHLUG join? We run into the same problem we always have. There is no official GNHLUG; therefore, we cannot be an official member of

CNHLUG toninte: How to Turn on a Penguin

2001-08-08 Thread Bobnhlinux
It is time again (2nd Wednesday of each month) for the Central NH LUG meeting. This month we are discussing: How to turn on a Penguin (the boot up process) As always, To get there from Interstate 93: · Take exit 14, Head east, over the river, on Loudon Road. · Turn right, just over

CNHLUG toninte: How to Turn on a Penguin

2001-08-08 Thread Bobnhlinux
It is time again (2nd Wednesday of each month) for the Central NH LUG meeting. This month we are discussing: How to turn on a Penguin (the boot up process) As always, To get there from Interstate 93: · Take exit 14, Head east, over the river, on Loudon Road. · Turn right, just over

Re: Distro Stats

2001-07-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been asked to make sure that when I use Linux that I use the best, most standards comlient distribution. Most standards compliant is a moving target, on both sides. The LSB (Linux Standard Base) and FHS (File Hierarchy Standard) are both changing slightly,

News from the Mouth front

2001-07-23 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I went to a conference for homeless providers this last week. What does this have to do with Linux? you ask. I took about 90 copies of a paper on using open source for nonprofit human services providers, and my Linux in Business and Government paper. I also handed a couple of the copies

Re: firewall feasibility question

2001-07-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
In a message dated 7/10/01 11:35:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media (cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire wall rules in place). Once it boots have it set up a big RAM disk. Then it

Re: Printing

2001-06-29 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want (for example) the escape sequence to enable duplex printing on my HP 970CSE. I've e-mailed HP, I've spoken with techs, I've begged and pleaded, I've offered to pay honest-to-God MONEY. No dice. *Somewhere* this manual must exist... but I'll be durned if

Fwd: WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT

2001-06-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, This looks like a great opportunity for Linux vendors, consultants, etc. Bob Sparks Linux guru wannabe The New Hampshire Government Finance Officers Association is looking for assistance in developing its Web Site. Can anyone share the name(s) of experienced, capable vendors whom

Newbie question: Files in use

2001-06-25 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, et. al., I know this came up before, but my brain is very fuzzy, it's Monday, other excuses... What is the command sequence (I think it can be done w/ a single command line using pipes) to get the list of files, and the programs using them? TIA, Bob Sparks Linux guru wannabe

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-21 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Following that logic, such an exploit could be accomplished with a JPG viewer or, for that matter, Paint. The PDF document is simply text, graphics, and formatting information, similar to a postscript file. To my knowledge, it doesn't contain any script or code;

Re: ZD on Linux

2001-06-19 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem with my argument is that one can counter with But if I want my audio player/video player/word processor/whatever to support this new feature that my users really want, I have to extend the format. Thankfully, lately I can respond Heard of XML ?.

Fwd: HB 578 Hearing Tomorrow

2001-06-19 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, This is not a public hearing. It could be a chance to pitch Linux to the people who are appointing additional members to the state IT advisory board. Bob Sparks Linux guru wannabe The meeting on HB 578 is a committee of conference meeting, not a public hearing. While there is

ANIVERSARY: 10 years of LINUX

2001-06-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, et. al., I propose a celebration of Linux's 10 year anniversary. While reading Linus' new book: Just for Fun, I realized that the time is upon us already. (The book is a great read, too). 1991 Jan 02: Linus buys new computer. 1991 July 03: First email requesting POSIX standards. 1991

Starband info?

2001-06-05 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I know a couple of you had mentioned using Starband, (If you haven't left due to flamewars). I was wondering if it uses internal PIC(?) boards, or an external box, similar to a cable modem. TIA, Bob Sparks Linux guru wannabe ** To

Re: Marketing GNHLUG (was: Linux at Wal-Mart)

2001-06-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would love to see the GNHLUG business cards come to pass. Those would be about the same size as the paper tags I used. Considering that you can buy business card perforated (sp) sheets at any office supply store and run them through your laser / ink printer, I

Re: Linus on NHPR

2001-05-28 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The operative word there is standard. There are open projects out there, like Ogg Vorbis, but I don't know that they have any real chance at becoming a widely accepted standard over the various proprietary formats. They will become standards if we all use it.

Re: Linus on NHPR

2001-05-28 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karl J. Runge wrote: What are the legal implications to reverse-engineering their format and making our own clients and servers? Programmers giveth, and the DMCA taketh away. It's illegal. DeCSS was designed for completely legal compatibility reasons,

Re: Concord Meeting Wednesday!!

2001-05-08 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of upcoming meetings, there is a meeting listed for CentraLUG tomorrow (Wed 9 May 2001) in Concord, at Sybase. Is this still on? Yes, there is a meeting. I will get a notice out in the morning. Same time, same place. I am getting some materials together.

Dell Aztech modem under Linux?

2001-05-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I have a Dell 133 Poweredge server, which was configured (trust us) to run with Linux. It has an Aztech 56K internal modem. (Rockwell HCF 56k V90 FaxModem, MDP3858). I am trying to use it with RH6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0smp. What driver do I need? Do I need to use a newer kernel? It is on

Re: Microsoft Declares War on 'Free Software'

2001-05-05 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What ramparts? Remember: we're open! So I'd say: They're on the defensive, let's a-t-t-a-c-k! :-) Actually, there are a lot of analogs between the OSS/Proprietary war and the Minuteman/British war. However, just remember that we (Americans) almost lost

Linux Business Presentations

2001-04-30 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, In my continuing attempts to push Linux past the currents limits, To infinity, beyond..., I am trying to push the benefits, not the name. I am trying to place Linux boxes for PHBs other nontechnical people. I am trying to gather lists of these benefits in PHB language. For instance,

Re: My Firewall Breach. A concern.

2001-04-25 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just not seeing this problem in the Windows space and this is making it sound like running Linux on the Internet is a very risky proposition and certainly a poor choice compared to Windows. What this means is, contrary to the FUD, ***Linux is easier to use

Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-25 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The box isn't really more secure than Linux, its just that there's fewer things to go wrong - and if someone does have an exploit for a firmware bug, its usually fixed with the next powercycle. It would be an equivalent to running something like the Linux Router

Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
In a message dated 4/24/2001 4:48:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg, the best advice that you will get from me and others who frequent this group is to invest in a firewall/router box. I use the LinkSys BEFSR41 which has 4 10/100 ports but there are several

Re: Are LUG's Hurting Linux?

2001-04-23 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be in-your-face-offensive about Linux. Wear penguin clothing and pins, not only to Linux meetings, but to church. I had two people in the Dunkin' Donuts yesterday ask me about Linux, having seen my penguin. My son-in-law was using my car the other month, and

Re: Office Suites discussion [was Re: Am I expecting too much? ]

2001-04-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: coming with Bonobo support in both. Info from the recent GUADEC on GNOME Office: What is Bonobo? I know I've heard the name, but don't remember what it is. From you're context, it sounds like something similar to M$ Windows clipboard. I mention this because,

Municipal Linux (was: Are LUG's Hurting Linux?)

2001-04-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally think LUGs should move on. Each LUG should be adopting a major open-source application and should be having events to review code and documentation and to test how well the application integrates on a number of distros. ccb Excellent idea!

Can Linux solve this problem?

2001-04-02 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, This may be a FAQ. We have some forms, distributed in .pdf format. We would like to fill in the forms with a word processor. Linux has pdf2ps, pdf2dsc, ps2epsi, ps2frag, ps2ascii, but none of these gives me a file which retains the formatting, and is readable by my word processors. I

Re: way to go bob

2001-03-22 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The article says, at one point, ... even the most rabid of Linux advocates - and, boy, do some of them get rabid... Hey, come on, Bob. Have you been telling them about me? ;-) I didn't have to, your reputation precedes you everywhere. Bob Sparks Never

NH state advocacy

2001-03-14 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, A few people asked me how where to make any comments about using Linux to improve the efficiency of NH State government. The hearings are for HB464, HB738. Both deal generally with improving efficiency of state departments. I won't repeat details. If you want to email your comments to

Don't forget tonite's Central LUG meeting

2001-03-14 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Time to remind you all of the monthly CNHLUG meeting. The second Wednesday of each month, remember? This one is some tips about security, with Paul Lussier a cast of Thou..., uh hund..., well, others. To get there from Interstate 93: · Take exit 14, Head east, over the river, on

books on firewalls

2001-03-12 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, What is the best book on firewalls? Please keep the flame wars on brown, not toast. Those other people do know the proper way to unsuscribe. The timing indicates that they ar trying to give you a message. BTW, how many people are on this list? A couple of years ago, it was maybe 400.

Linux advocacy opportunity in Concord NH

2001-03-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I know this is short notice, but I just found out about this today. Tomorrow (morning?) there is a hearing about efficient state government, by the NH House of Representatives committee on Executive departments and Administration. Jeff Smith and I were lobbuing with the chairman of the

(non-Linux) web page monitors?

2001-03-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, This may have a non-Linux answer, but here goes. I want to monitor some web pages for changes, and be notified when a specified page changes. Are there any notification services on the web, or packages I can add to my Linux box, to email beep, etc. when the page has been updated? Of

Re: My last eamil

2001-02-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
Actually, for those of us who paid attention, the headers for Martha Joe's [Monadlug] email were set to: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: A HREF=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please use reply, not reply-all. That's why we

Re: [Monadlug] Thursday night

2001-02-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
Martha Joe, Our March meeting for the Central LUG (Concord) will be on security. The main speaker is Paul Lussier from Mission Critical Linux, plus some other gurus. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tripwire, and especially Scotty. Pretty much anything on the security and/ or networking front

Re: Another comment on M$ at Salon

2001-02-20 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Life, liberty and the pursuit of free software Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company completely lost its mind? No, just their ethics; that happened many decades ago. Bob Sparks Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained

Re: (no subject)

2001-01-09 Thread Bobnhlinux
6 Loudon Road is a large (6 story?) brick building on the banks of the Merrimack River in beautiful downtown Concord, NH. People who watched "Laugh In" don't have to ask about that reference. It used to say "Christian Life Insurance" or some such on the side. Now it just says 6 Loudon. You can

Re: Linux for Educators

2001-01-03 Thread Bobnhlinux
Maybe he meant that their current IT people didn't know more Linux than the students, and the current IT people didn't want to learn anything new. It does eat up a lot of time re-re-learning M$, and that doesn't leave much time to learn Linux, or anything else. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He said

Re: 4th Quarter GNHLUG meeting

2000-12-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
Jerry, I'll be there for the dinner meeting on the 12th. Don't know yet if my wife will come. Bob Sparks Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity. Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be explained by lack of information.

Re: Debian comments

2000-11-13 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's one of the really nice things about RPM. You can grab the SRPM and unpack it in one easy motion. You can then examine the spec file to see what This is one of the things where RPM seems to fall short. I can "install" a source package, as SRPM, but it

Re: What do *YOU* think of the LUG meetings? (was: Is this us?)

2000-11-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lussier) writes: In a message dated: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:44:20 GMT someone spoke thusly: These are my impressions and in no way should be construed as 'flaming' or worse. The Keene group seems to be active and aiming for new users. The Nashua group seems to be

Re: Jobs postings?

2000-11-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
Jeff, Definitely point them to the jobs list, but many of the, ah, discussants, here have mentioned job announcements here are OK, iff short not repeated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the deal. I've been contacted by someone who is looking to start a new company, and is looking for

Re: What do you want to hear about? Emacs tips and tricks

2000-11-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would also like to hear something on LINUX security (for Newbies). I understand that we have some experts in this area who write to this list. If I am going to put my LINUX box on the net I don't want to be having to wipe the drive and reinstall every

Re: [nnhlug] wal-mart the next linux mall?

2000-11-03 Thread Bobnhlinux
This shows another piece of my ignorance. If you load LILO in the boot record of the partition, does that mean that the MBR is left as the M$ MBR? In other words, does it only boot to the partition marked active? Or, can you still multi-boot? I always avoided this, because I couldn't find out

Re: Help me push Linux

2000-10-16 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Thanks so much for all your ideas. They are helping me with things I didn't remember, and with things I was out of date on. As a part of this, updating my booklet "Linux for Government and Business", I am looking for current data on how many processors Linux can run on for each platform.

Re: Recycled computers

2000-10-16 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, The project that Jeff mentioned is my (or the LUGs) "Free Computers for Nonprofits" project. It is not a NH State project. I am also talking to the Governor's school project. There is a chance to get Linux on those machines as well, but decision making at the state level is slow, very

Help me push Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I have another chance to advocate Linux. They asked for a "one page list of pros cons for Linux". The only con I may put in is: "Many managers are still not comfortable with Linux". OK, I should add: "Some applications still not on Linux desktops". What other comments would you all

Central LUG meetings - starting tonite

2000-10-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Don't forget tonite's meeting (7pm, 105 Pleasant St., Concord): Steve Olson, Sybase, Concord, NH As always, there are giveaways freebies! Future meetings (tentative) are: Nov. 8 - High Availability Linux Dec. 13 - How to Turn on a Penguin (boot up process) Jan. 10 - Security

Central NH LUG - October 11 - Sybase

2000-10-06 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, The next CentraLUG/CNHLUG meeting is next Wednesday, Oct.11. Same place, Same time. From the flyer: 7 pm, October 11 105 Pleasant St., Concord, NH Steve Olson, Sybase, Concord, NH To get there from Interstate 93: · Take exit 14, Head West, away from the river, on Centre Street. ·

Question on multiple eth interfaces

2000-09-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, There's this Linux box with eth0 and eth1, a firewall. They have both FTP and apache running on it also. (I know, I know. We're trying to get a second box for them as a server.) How do we (can we) get one set of services on the eth0 (Internet) side, and another on the eth1 (LAN) side?

Re: Nashua GNHLUG Chapter Meeting tomorrow night

2000-09-21 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Time: 17:00 Place: Martha's Exchange, 2nd floor. Is that 17:00, or 7pm? Bob Sparks Not to use Linux is a professional decision. Not to consider Linux is an unprofessional decision. ** To

Re: What would this do to our LUGS and the Open Source Community?

2000-09-15 Thread Bobnhlinux
Lori, Did you check this out? Bills in congress will start with either a H (house of Rep.), or S (Senate). There are HR, SR, etc. but I don't know of any nnnP designation. SR602 provides for congressional review of IRS rules. HR602 establishes long term care insurance for federal employees.

Don't forget the central meeting tomorrow nite, Wed, @ Concord

2000-09-12 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Don't forget the central LUG meting @ Concord, NH, 7pm. The topic is backup and restore. The speaker is Ron Ginger, Director of operations, Spectrum Telecorp. In case you didn't see it before, The location is 105 Pleasant St., the same place it was last time. To get there from

Re: Two Questions (NT Server) and (Linux Numbers).

2000-09-12 Thread Bobnhlinux
I found another bit of information on selling Linux to the enterprise. It is an article A http://advogato.org/article/167.html "Presenting Open Source to the Enterprise - Rules of Engagement" by "Mechanix". I personally try to sell TCO, rather than initial license savings. Altho the lack of

Re: Two Questions (NT Server) and (Linux Numbers).

2000-09-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
Greg, I looked around, and finally found an article where they actually checked on reliability of web servers. This was done in Germany, using the 100 most heavily used German web servers. I got the reference from Linux Today, April 10, 2000. The original article was in C't online zine, part of

Central NH LUG meeting - Sep 13, 7pm

2000-09-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, The next Central NH meeting is in Concord, on Sept. 13, @ 7pm (19:00). The speaker is Ron Ginger, Director of operations, Spectrum Telecorp. The topic is the AMANDA back up system, with the usual QA. The location is 105 Pleasant St., the same place it was last time. To get there from

Re: Package Distribution

2000-09-06 Thread Bobnhlinux
Charles, Is that one the web? Or, do I have to buy a POSIX book to see it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EEE Std 1387.2-1995? IEEE Standard for Information Technology Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX ) System Administration Part 2: Software Administration Thanks, Bob Sparks Never

This is election season. Push Linux!

2000-08-23 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I just finished "lobbying" last nite at a Milford Republican state candidates event. Every candidate who talked about lowering taxes, I pitched Linux to. OK, not everyone is as enthusiastic (blatant) as I am, but the state government could save millions of dollars every year. That is

off topic: open source legal question

2000-08-16 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I have heard, but am unable to verify, that software developed using public tax money would be owned by the public. I don't know if this is urban legend, or fact. Who can I ask? Where can I look? I have been told that Franklin Pierce Law Center, here in Concord, NH is one of the leading

Reminder: Central LUG meeting, tonite, Aug 16, 7pm

2000-08-16 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Tonite's meeting is at 105 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH of course. This is the "main building", which was built in 1842 as the NH Asylum for the insane. It is now used as an administrative building. It is the large brick building with a big porch, at the top of the hill, inside "State

Central LUG meeting, Wednesday Aug 16, 7pm

2000-08-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
There will be a meeting of the Central NH Linux User's Group, in Concord New Hampshire, 105 Pleasant Street, @ 7pm. 105 Pleasant is State Office Park South, Main building, the big brick building at the top of the hill. The meeting will officially start at 7pm. I will be there from about 5:30.

Re: partitioning

2000-08-04 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Rauschenbach) writes: This cracked me up. Last night I finished cutting my 10 gig drive into 12 partitions! I've been a "Unix person" for about 20 years... I have been trying to resist the urge to add too many partitions as well. I have zapped myself with winding up

Is there something week after next?

2000-08-02 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I have the Central NH LUG meeting in Concord, for Wednesday, Aug 16, @ 7pm. I thought I saw a message about some event, that people would be gone that week. Is this correct, or was that a different month? In any case, who would be showing up for a meeting two weeks from tonite? Bob

Re: OK, What am I doing wrong

2000-08-01 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you need to do is make a link to your script in the /etc/smrsh/ directory. Thanks to all. It now works. I just put the script in /etc/smrsh. If there is a reason why that should be a link, instead, let me know. Even (or maybe especially), if it is a "good

Re: Looking for a free computer.

2000-07-31 Thread Bobnhlinux
Steve, Where is your friend located? The 250 computers mentioned, are at the seacoast. I run a project out of Concord. We are also trying to coordinate with other groups around the state. Bob Sparks PS. What is 16YO? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a discussion here recently concerning

OK, What am I doing wrong

2000-07-31 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I am trying to execute a PERL program based on email. I changed /etc/aliases, to add an alias: emailupdate: "|/home/bsparks/emaildb/emaildb.pl" I tried it both with, w/out a space after the pipe |. After trying: echo "try this" | mail emailupdate I get a mail message saying: sh:

Re: 250 linux computers for the poor

2000-07-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True, but will it help them to get a job??? Probably not. I'd say go with Windows. Sincerely, Jim Ryan Jim, I work with three disadvantaged populations; homeless people, mentally ill people, and people in/just getting out of prison. My standard spiel to them is:

Re: 250 linux computers for the poor

2000-07-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Herb Moyer of Multimedia Systems in Exeter has 250 compaq computers 486's and early pentiums that he will be donating to Rockinham Community Action Program to help the disadvantaged get online. I would like to take this opportunity to remind people of

FWD: Question about a library, post hacker

2000-07-19 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I had a question from someone who had been hacked. They said: we have a process that is running - /usr/lib/lib-gblo.1.3.so that is taking up some massive CPU cycles. Do you know anything about this file? Does it exist on any of your systems? I can't find any reference to it.

What ed. systems use Linux?

2000-07-19 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, In my never ending quest to promote Linux in NH, (look Bob, there's another windmill), I am trying to convince education type people that linux is catching on in the world. I know of the Mexican K-12 project, have heard of similar movements in other countries. Does anyone have any actual

Re: ownership and other web stuff :-)

2000-07-14 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, In a similar vein, I had asked about access to web pages, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a problem with access to /home/httpd/html. Since apache runs as user nobody, I thought adding the group nobody to user "joeuser" would work. I think a

Re: AOL Instant Messenger for Linux?

2000-07-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I read recently about someone who had put together an AIM compatible *server*. Since this would be perfect for customer service, I am trying to find the reference. Anybody have this one? I

Re: Central Linux meeting, Wed, July 12 - firewalls

2000-07-10 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I have only gotten two "yes" responses to Wednesday nite's meeting. If I don't get a lot more than that during the day today, I will have to cancel the meeting. We have to find a less expensive place to meet. Is that the problem with tonite's meeting? Or, is it also a matter of timing,

Re: permissions on /home/httpd

2000-07-10 Thread Bobnhlinux
In a message dated 6/27/00 4:23:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a problem with access to /home/httpd/html. Since apache runs as user nobody, I thought adding the group nobody to user "joeuser" would work. I think a better

No Central meeting this week

2000-07-10 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Due to almost nobody deciding that they will show up, I will have to cancel this months central meeting. Almost everybody must be on vacation, because some technical questions I put out to the group, remain unanswered as well. This is a rare occurrence. Until next month, Bob Sparks

Re: Why Linux?

2000-07-06 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Support: Linux has the most comprehensive documentation of any operating system available, commercial or free. The documentation is available on-line, and with each Linux

Central Linux meeting, Wed, July 12 - firewalls

2000-07-06 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, The Central Linux meeting on firewalls, will be held at the Centennial Inn, 96 Pleasant St., Concord, NH. This is a change in the location, not the subject. This should be a discussion of: I want to do this. Does a Linux firewall do this easily? If I want to do these things, what

Re: Why Linux? (long)

2000-07-05 Thread Bobnhlinux
Greg, Do you have my booklet(?) called: "Linux in Business Government"? It is a blatantly "Why use Linux" piece, although dated at this point. I am including it as an attachment. (Only to Greg. Anyone else should email me about it.) Let me know what you think. Any comments would be greatly

Re: Memory ?? How much is relaily being used

2000-07-05 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when checking my machines with top and free -t -o I have noticed that some of them are using all but about 4 or 4 megs of the available memory ( 256 available) even when the cpu cycles are at 97 to 99 % idle and all but one of the system processes are

Re: Free software in business (was maddog speaks)

2000-06-29 Thread Bobnhlinux
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote: Maybe I'm just too much of a capitalist, but I see so many people get paid for doing nothing, it's a shame to not see somebody compensated for good work. Maybe you aren't enough of a capitalist. Capital involves more than just money. It is

Re: maddog speaks

2000-06-29 Thread Bobnhlinux
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Much as I respect Maddog, and his opinions, I think he is wrong on this one. You could not possibly respect me or my opinions, or else you might have read the article and found out that the

permissions on /home/httpd

2000-06-27 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, We have a problem with access to /home/httpd/html. Since apache runs as user nobody, I thought adding the group nobody to user "joeuser" would work. Surprise! All of the directories under /home/httpd are owned by user root, group root. Changing /home/httpd/html to be owned by group

July 12, Central NH Linux meeting: firewalls

2000-06-26 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, The July meeting of the Central NH Linux meeting is on firewalls. This will be a group discussion, or panel. It will be held the same place the June meeting was, the Concord Holiday Inn. Same time: 7pm (1900 hours geek/military). The same no host dinner before hand (each pays their own

Re: root access (aka power consumption)

2000-06-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It sounded kinda high to me too, but I was just reading off the spec sheet. It claimed to be 6A/3A, 115V/225V. So I just assumed the numbers were respective to each other, but maybe that's not the case. Those specs are usually the maximum that the power

Re: Printing from RH6.1 to a W95 printer

2000-06-22 Thread Bobnhlinux
Ken, I do this every day on my Linux boxes, using Red Hat 6.x. I merely set up a printer, in my case the default printer, using the RH / Gnome control panel - printer tool. I told the printer set up tool that the HP4000 is connected by SMB, the host name of the printer server, the share name of

Call for participation - Setting up nonprofit Firewalls

2000-06-21 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, This involves a few different aspects. 1) I have suggested to a couple of Linux vendors, that helping to set up the firewalls for the "free computers for nonprofits" project, could generate good press for these vendors, for the LUGs, and for Linux in general. 2) I am sending

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