Re: Redhat 7.1?

2001-06-20 Thread Charles Farinella
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote: I'm primarily interested in: - any upgrading issues/gotchas? - for you did it break any (non-Redhat-supplied) apps, scripts, etc. I ran the upgrade on my RH 6.2 installation and it broke my modules and my X installation. Rather than

Re: ZD on Linux

2001-06-20 Thread Cole Tuininga
I've had a couple folks want to know where I got the RA version of the NPR interview with Linus. Here's the link: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20010604.fa.01.ram -- There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? - Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate

RE: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
I'm just learning XML myself, so my details are slim right now, but w/ XSL style sheets you could have a style defined for normal web-browsing, one for printing, and even one for cell-phone browsers. Depending on which style you use to display your XML document it will look exactly as you wish.

One more FUD down

2001-06-20 Thread Jeffry Smith
OK, for those who say you can't make money on Open Source (who were wrong anyway since Cygnus Solutions was profitable), Red Hat has joined the profitability group: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-19-016-20-PS jeff

RE: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Lawrence.Tilly
Very true. I myself have never had a case where what I want to display is EXACTLY the ONLY way I want to display it. I understand the tremendous advantage the PDF[1] format provides when someone already has printed work they want to distribute (it's great for game companies that resell old

Re: Fwd: HB 578 Hearing Tomorrow

2001-06-20 Thread Lowell Bruce McCulley
If anyone on this list attended this meeting please contact me privately. THANKS! --Bruce McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Tux 2.0 blows away Apache, IIS

2001-06-20 Thread Rich Cloutier
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2774242,00.html Of note: at nearly 13,000 transactions/sec, the Tux 2.0 kernel-based web server, coupled with the 2.4.5 kernel was 3 times faster than Apache, and more than twice as fast as IIS 5.0 The 2.0 release is still missing SSL sockets

RE: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I myself have never had a case where what I want to display is EXACTLY the ONLY way I want to display it. Me neither. Read on... Personally, though, I absolutely hate going to a website to find that it works great when I look at it from work

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Rich C
- Original Message - From: Tilly, Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: RE: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux) I'm just learning XML myself, so my details are slim right now, but w/ XSL style sheets

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rich C wrote: 3. Providing content that is guaranteed virus-free (as opposed to transmitting word processor documents.) The security analyst in me feels a need to point out that it would be quite possible for Adobe Acrobat Reader to have a buffer-overflow or similar bug

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Rich C
- Original Message - From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:06 PM Subject: Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux) On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rich C wrote: 3. Providing content that is guaranteed virus-free

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rich C wrote: Following that logic, such an exploit could be accomplished with a JPG viewer or, for that matter, Paint. Very true. Such things *have* happened. In fact, many popular mail programs (including Microsoft Outlook, Netscape Messenger, and Pine) have had

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Thomas Charron
From: Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux) Following that logic, such an exploit could be accomplished with a JPG viewer or, for that matter, Paint. Yep. And there probrably are. The thing with an image viewer or the such is the formats are fairly locked

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Rich C
- Original Message - From: Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux) - Original Message - From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL

Mandrake 7.2 (Used to be:Re: Redhat 7.1?)

2001-06-20 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Well, We, Charlie and I, just took of Caldera 2.4 and replaced it with Mandrake 7.2 on my home machine. What a classy install and distribution. We have also installed the Win4Lin 2.0 eval with Win 98 and MS Office to see what would happen. A couple of problems, but Charlie IS THE MAN!! If

Re: Redhat 7.1?

2001-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Rourke
Karl J. Runge wrote: Anybody using Redhat 7.1? I believe we all decided to skip 7.0 and let it soak until the next release. Is RH 7.1 working better now? I'm primarily interested in: - any upgrading issues/gotchas? It would not install on my Toshiba laptop (whereas 7.0 was

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread Rich Cloutier
- Original Message - From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux) On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rich C wrote: Well if you're surfing the 'net as root in Linux (or any 'NIX,) you deserve

Re: Open Formats (was ZD on Linux)

2001-06-20 Thread John Abreau
Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I never understood PDF. What is so wrong with HTML and embeded images? I have yet to see any real need for PDF's. There is no real benefit to it. PDF essentially grew from Postscript. In the Olde Days, every printer had its own