Re: dd on Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I would think you could use dd (either from linux or cygwin utils under windows) to copy drives of the same geometry. With drives of different geometries you will most likely have more difficulty. I won't say it's not possible, but, I would guess that would be more steps involved and not having

Re: Article

2002-08-01 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Maybe we should call it: G/linl - Gnu/linux is not linux. That should clear up all the confusion ;) -Andy Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: As I was parusing Kero5hin, I came accross a great article. It is a public apology to the Linux world for getting RMS on the GNU/Linux kick. Funny

Re: Shell scripting moron

2002-07-17 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Optionally, you can write it like this for some shells (ksh, bash). The arithmetic is done in the same shell. ie. it is not invoking an external expr for each iteration of the loop. count=1 while [ $count -lt 284 ] do (( count=count+1 )) echo $count done -Andy Chad R. Henry wrote:

Re: Missing pictures on web site

2002-07-16 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Perhaps they're in a netscape or squid cache somewhere? Bruce Dawson wrote: Sigh. I appear to have accidently deleted the pictures of the March meeting (the pictures that were on the gallery section of the web site http://news.gnhlug.org/) And we appear to have re-used the floppies they were

Re: dinner

2002-07-10 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I wonder what would happen if you all brought in your own pepsi and brown bag dinner. Then ask the management to warm the dinner in the microwave and bring out the dinnerware, including cups of ice to pour your pepsi in. -Andy Why don't we all just eat at the place in question? Those who want

Web hosting recommendations

2002-07-09 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
A friend of mine has a web site for his business which is presently hosted by geocities. It's a simple HTML only web site with a lot of JPEG images (I maintain it for him). We'd like to find a better web host with more available space and no ads or other such nonsense. I've looked around a bit

Re: Anyone using Mahogany?

2002-06-18 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
That would be very cool.. Porter, Mark wrote: Sounds like a good place to run an X-Box, converted to Linux! -Original Message- From: Andrew W. Gaunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone using Mahogany? Does

Re: Home schooling and linux

2002-05-21 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
You could make it really fun for him and suggest learning linux on the Sony PS/2 (which of course does others things 13 year old boys enjoy). I believe the linux kit comes out real soon now, like tomorrow. $200 for PS/2 + $200 for linux kit = Cool machine for $400. Mark Glassberg wrote: My

Re: Apple exposed as an agent of Satan

2002-04-23 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I think it would be best to leave religious dicussion out of the context of this list unless of course we want to discuss vi vs. emacs. ;-) -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text

Re: Sparc Linux distro

2002-04-16 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
My sparc-20 is running debian. Works great. I had some trouble last year with pppd and dual CPU's so I pared it down to one CPU. Now that I've got a cable modem maybe I'll try putting it back. Hm... home$ uname -a Linux home 2.2.17 #8 SMP Fri Feb 9 12:54:41 EST 2001 sparc unknown home$

Re: Web application

2002-04-10 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Perhaps something like this: htdocs _| / \ || Public Private (No authentication)(Authenticate users at) | (this level with .htaccess)

Re: Broken software (was Re: RH7.2 install)

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I'm looking for a light weight web server that I can run on port 81 of my linux box (Sparc Debian) at home and expose it to the Internet. I've got apache running on 80 which is what I use on the home network. I block that port with the firewall 'cause I don't want it exposed the unwashed

Web Server

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Karl J. Runge wrote: Is it safe to say you do not want to run a 2nd instance of apache (with a trimmed down config)? I.e. instead of just providing external service on port 81, you also want to play around with new different webservers? Yeah, I tried a trimmed down version of apache and

Re: Web Server

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Very cool, I will give that a try One web server, many webs -Andrew Gaunt Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 11:31, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: I wonder, is there a way to tell apache to use a different document root depending on the port? That would be cool way for sorting

Re: Web Server

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Any except this one perhaps? Syntax error on line 270 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Listen cannot occur within VirtualHost section Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 11:31, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: I wonder, is there a way to tell apache to use a different document root depending

Re: Web Server

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
No go, doesn't like the Listen directive in a virtual host container. Oh well, if it was easy we all be out of work. Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 12:30, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Any except this one perhaps? Syntax error on line 270 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Listen cannot

Re: Web Server

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Got it, there is a solution. The reason it was not starting before was because the log files could not be created. Amazing what actually reading the error.logs will reveal. This works: #Port 80 Listen 192.168.168.3:80 # internal web, outside access blocked with ipchains rules Listen

Re: Web Server

2002-03-29 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Got it, there is a solution. The reason it was not starting before was because the log files could not be created. Amazing what actually reading the error.logs will reveal. This works: #Port 80 Listen 192.168.168.3:80 # internal web, outside access blocked

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: Lindows vs. Windows.

2002-03-18 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
It seems that SUN maybe the first major UNIXen company whose business will be significantly curtailed by the emergence of Linux. I thought SCO already grabbed that title. -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to

Re: NIS help

2002-03-12 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Hope this helps We do this as part of our kickstart postinstall. # YPBIND cp /etc/yp.conf /etc/yp.conf-dist echo domain athena broadcast /etc/yp.conf chkconfig --level 345 ypbind on Also, on my system quantum@com:sysconfig/ cat /etc/issue Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel

Re: Sun's unreal Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I agree. In my $.02 opinion, what made Microsoft great is that at one time they were more open than anyone else at the time. Their stuff was easier to work with... remember all the ugly copy protection schemes vendors used to prevent people from making copies of the software they shelled out

Re: Linux and e-commerce

2002-02-19 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
You may want to ask these guys... They are local (ie. NH/Mass) and I believe they're doing it themselves.. I spoke with Dan in Kingston NH who has some kind of affiliation. They have some cool stuff too! -Andy http://shop.panther-electronics.com/cgi-bin/PantherComputer Dan Coutu wrote: Now

HPUX break in

2002-01-03 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
A fellow I work with inherited an HPUX machine and of course, nobody knows the root password. Does anyone know of a 'break in' procedure he can try? -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: HPUX break in

2002-01-03 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Everyone, Thanks for the suggestions, he has sucessfully broken into the machine. -Andy On Thursday 03 January 2002 07:53, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: A fellow I work with inherited an HPUX machine and of course, nobody knows the root password. Does anyone know of a 'break in' procedure he

Re: HPUX break in

2002-01-03 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
He didn't elaborate, just that he found it using google's news group search. Michael O'Donnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Thanks for the suggestions, he has sucessfully "broken" into the machine. What was the

Re: Distro Stats

2001-07-24 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
We have sort of decided to use RH (x86) for serveral reasons. They are not ordered by priority. 1) It is a major distribution and it appears that it will be around for a while. 2) One can buy support for it if needed (we're not doing this yet). 3) There appears to be a lot of vendor support

Re: Distro Stats

2001-07-24 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I wish I could take credit for that bit of wit, but, it was just another typographical monkey+typewriter phenomenon. Michael O'Donnell wrote: Andrew Gaunt wrote: We have sort of decided to use RH (x86) for serveral reasons. I don't think I've ever heard it put quite that way...

WinModem Linux Dial-up PPP server

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I want to set up a dial-up PPP server using linux. I've done this many times before and have set of config files for mgetty and ppp that work. I'm having some trouble with with a new install using a winmodem (I've always used real hardware based modems in the past). I've got a PC with a

Re: WinModem Linux Dial-up PPP server

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
All, Thanks to everyone for your various input and discussion regarding my winmodem dilemma. Actually, it wasn't a major problem as I do have a 'real' hardware modem that works quite well and can use that if the winmodem doesn't work out. I did want to experience the winmodem myself and test

Re: NO MUTHAS!!

2001-02-13 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
"Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International" wrote: As the time gets closer, I will be looking for volunteers to staff the booth, create some demos, etc. and we will have a planning meeting. I would like to have this planning meeting Wednesday, March 14th at a location

Re: output of uname -m on various architectures

2000-03-28 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
This covers the sparcs Linux on sparc Ultra-1 $ uname -m sparc64 $ uname -a Linux mvcdr.mv.lucent.com 2.2.12-42 #1 Fri Nov 12 13:03:33 EST 1999 sparc64 unknown Linux on Sparc-20 $ uname -m sparc $ uname -a Linux mvmon.mv.lucent.com 2.0.35 #1 Wed Dec 30 10:35:47 EST 1998 sparc unknown --

Re: Wheel Mouse

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Thanks everyone for the 'wheel mouse' replies. the right combination for my machine was: Section "Pointer" #Protocol"PS/2" #Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2" Protocol"imps/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Buttons 5 ZAxisMapping 4 5 # Emulate3Buttons