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

2002-03-25 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I think there are three basic categories with the following being mostly true regarding an organzation's cash flow: 1) For Profit - Generate revenue, use profits to make stockholders happy. 2) Non profit - Generate revenue or at least break even. Profits are used to further

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

2002-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
How did we get on to this? There's also not-for-profit, which are organizations that haven't filed for 503(c)(? tax-exempt) status, but do not try to make a profit year-to-year. I think the LDP does not have tax-exempt status, but is not-for-profit since we haven't filed the paperwork yet. A

Amusing logic

2002-03-25 Thread plussier
Found this in the Greatest Vendor Lies post on /. and thought it quite amusing: Nobody will ever need more than 640K RAM! -- Bill Gates, 1981 Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1996 Nobody will ever need Windows 95. -- logical conclusion -- Seeya, Paul

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

2002-03-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, at 8:58am, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: I think there are three basic categories with the following being mostly true regarding an organzation's cash flow: Could we move this discussion to alt.pointless.semantics please? ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions

Giveaway time for new users

2002-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
I have the author copies for my newly released Red Hat Linux Interactive Training Guide CD-ROM. Works on Windows and Linux, plenty of video, audio, and screen video of me yapping away about Red Hat Linux. There's exam questions at the end of each course to see how well you did, and there's a

Re: Giveaway time for new users

2002-03-25 Thread jbd
Before you give both of them away, I don't suppose you could give a demo/reading at one of our meetings? --Bruce Quoting Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have the author copies for my newly released Red Hat Linux Interactive Training Guide CD-ROM. Works on Windows and Linux, plenty of

Re: Giveaway time for new users

2002-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
I have enough copies to do this at an upcoming meeting. Book contracts aren't as nasty as music contracts ;) -Mark On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you give both of them away, I don't suppose you could give a demo/reading at one of our meetings? --Bruce

Linux Executive Accuses Microsoft

2002-03-25 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Well, only reason I'm really pointing this out is that it hit the headlines on Yahoo! News - in the general section, not just Tech News! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=514u=/ap/20020325/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_antitrust_233 As always

Re: Linux Executive Accuses Microsoft

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Costolo
- --- Bayard Coolidge USG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, only reason I'm really pointing this out is that it hit the headlines on Yahoo! News - in the general section, not just Tech News! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=514u=/ap/20020325

Your Red Hat course

2002-03-25 Thread Paul Courchene
Hello I saw your GNHLUG Post on a RH course Video, and am interested in 1.) obtaining a copy or 2.) being eligible to obtain a copy by lottery. I teach a Core Computer Science course at Rivier College, in Operating Systems and have spent much time talking Linux to newbies there. During the

Installation Advice

2002-03-25 Thread Greg Kettmann
I'm going to install a dual boot drive in my IBM Thinkpad T21. I'll be starting from a fresh drive. I expect to be using Microsoft XP and probably Red Hat 7.2. I assumed I'd install RH 7.2 and LILO first, that way I can keep below the cylinder limit. I assume that XP will not play nice and

RE: Installation Advice

2002-03-25 Thread Mansur, Warren
I assumed I'd install RH 7.2 and LILO first, that way I can keep below the cylinder limit. I assume that XP will not play nice and will try to remove the boot record but I was installing it second, probably on FAT32 to allow sharing of files. If you want LILO or GRUB to be the program

Re: Installation Advice

2002-03-25 Thread David Roberts
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Greg Kettmann stated in their Email: Greg From: Greg Kettmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:48:27 -0500 Greg Subject: Installation Advice Greg Greg I'm going to install a dual boot drive in my IBM Thinkpad T21. Greg I'll be

Re: Installation Advice

2002-03-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, at 1:48pm, Greg Kettmann wrote: I assumed I'd install RH 7.2 and LILO first ... I recommend installing Microsoft OSes first. Not only are Microsoft's installers anti-social in that they tend to assume they can do whatever they want to a system, I have found they

Re: Installation Advice

2002-03-25 Thread Larry Cook
Greg, I'm going to install a dual boot drive in my IBM Thinkpad T21. I'll be starting from a fresh drive. I expect to be using Microsoft XP and probably Red Hat 7.2. I use Grub to dual boot RedHat 7.1 and Win95. I assumed I'd install RH 7.2 and LILO first, that way I can keep below the

gpg plugin for Mozilla

2002-03-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Werner Koch posted this on the GPG users mailing list recently: From: R. Saravanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:50:51 -0700 Enigmail, a GnuPG plugin for Mozilla which has been under development

behavior of find /

2002-03-25 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
This has been puzzling me for weeks. If (as root) I type find / -print |grep somefilename sometimes it takes many minutes, sometimes it completes in seconds and sometimes I get a new shell prompt but I can hear the disk grinding away for many seconds after the command seems to have

Re: behavior of find /

2002-03-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, at 7:52pm, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: This has been puzzling me for weeks. If (as root) I type find / -print |grep somefilename sometimes it takes many minutes, sometimes it completes in seconds ... Sometimes the system has to walk the directory tree on disk, sometimes

RE: behavior of find /

2002-03-25 Thread Mansur, Warren
Many filesystems maintain a notation of the last access time of a filesystem object. Under Unix/Linux, this is called the atime. Directories are generally considered filesystem objects. So, when you walk the directory tree, you touch the atime of every directory. All of those updated

RE: behavior of find /

2002-03-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, at 8:46pm, Mansur, Warren wrote: If we disable the last access time on the machine, will it mess up any applications? Only those that use it. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily

Reminder: Kuhn from the Free Software Foundation comes to UNH.

2002-03-25 Thread Scott Garman
Hi all, This is just a quick reminder that Tuesday, 3/26, Bradley Kuhn from the Free Software Foundation will be giving a presentation at UNH about the history of the GNU project and the philosophy of the free software movement. Bradley will be hanging out for some time after the talk to meet