Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bill Mullen
as if running VLC on said server would allow you to have it connect from there to your source streams, and then make those streams available to clients connecting to it from the WAN. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Booting NOT-Windows

2008-08-20 Thread Bill Mullen
full read/write for NTFS, can't remember if that was a new thing or even if any NTFS support was present at all prior to 9. The same goes for the current Mandriva One LiveCD (2008.1 Spring), full read/write support for NTFS filesystems using ntfs-3g. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075

Re: Network/Phone/Coax supply store

2008-07-15 Thread Bill Mullen
://www.lightyearcable.com They have a slew of products beyond what the website shows, so it's probably best to just give them a call; ask for Bill Tickler. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Favorite distros (was: Re: HP releases AdvFS under GPL-2)

2008-06-25 Thread Bill Mullen
for that DE (i.e. Kontact on the KDE ones, but Evolution Pidgin on the Gnome ones). The main shortcoming of the One CDs, IMHO, is an almost complete lack of games in the live environment; this may or may not matter to you, depending on your audience(s). Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen RLU

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-10 Thread Bill Mullen
on the first boot to any new kernel if a binary module is not found for that kernel. You need to have the kernel-source or kernel-devel (which is just enough of the kernel-source to compile modules) package for that particular kernel installed, of course, but it has worked very nicely for me. YMMV. -- Bill

Re: Filesystem-aware disk imaging

2007-03-27 Thread Bill Mullen
://www.partimage.org/ [2] http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ You might also want to look into Mondo Rescue: http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml I have no first-hand experience with it, sorry. :-/ -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 Buckle down for success, up

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Bill Mullen
signal to analog on their own, before putting it on the wire (or get it directly from the broadcasters in some non-OTA manner, I suppose). It only ensures that OTA stations will no longer be permitted to broadcast such a signal themselves for direct reception by such legacy TV sets. -- Bill Mullen

Urpmi and friends [Was: Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt]

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
exception is urpmc, which is in contrib. A nifty little number, it does a urpmi.update to freshen the cache, determines what a urpmi --auto-select done at that point would want to install, then outputs the changelogs of those RPM packages. In a cron job, a real admin's friend. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
onto the video stream? Though I've never tried it, I strongly suspect that having that happen might also draw a wow or two. Plus, I hate squinting at those little screens on phones, don't you? ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 The right to be heard does

Re: New Login in a nested Window and a month of aggravation...

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
will register a click. The mouse and keyboard are both PS2, but plugging in the USB mouse shows the same symptoms. Distro, Xorg release, video HW on this box? If ATI or NVidia, stock or proprietary X drivers? If the latter, what happens with the former? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU

Re: QuantumBooks Waltham is closed

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Mullen
SoftPro very much. Likewise. I bought my first two Linuxes at the Burlington one - Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 first, and then Mandrake 7.1 not long thereafter. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-26 Thread Bill Mullen
. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDV2007.0/MDK9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: Rackmount shopping

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Mullen
Bill from HUB Networking sent you. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Seperating networks

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Mullen
-chained to the first one and operating in NATed mode (and using its own internal DHCP server) would be a big improvement over this sort of security-by-obscurity scheme, I'd say. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Job postings

2006-09-25 Thread Bill Mullen
a yahoogroups, if it is a New hampshire job, that is. Don't forget to post it to the gnhlug-jobs mailing list, as well. ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: Xinerama?

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Mullen
knowing the full details of the card, I would think that the 'funny' connector is a DVI connector, for connecting to a digital flat panel. Yes, you should be able to use both video cards in one system. Concur, and yes, adapters for DVI=DB-15 are available IIRC. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075

Time flies when you're chasing bugs and LARTing lusers

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Mullen
That's right, it's here again ... Happy SysAdmin Day to everyone in GNHLUG! http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Time flies when you're chasing bugs and LARTing lusers

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:24:25 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:35:53PM -0400, Bill Mullen wrote: That's right, it's here again ... Happy SysAdmin Day to everyone in GNHLUG! http://www.sysadminday.com/ How self-serving :-) (wait for it ...) Now now

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Bill Mullen
of the Star Trek Computer, compute the value of pi to the last digit trick? Or of Arthur Dent getting the computer aboard the Heart Of Gold to synth a proper cup of tea - after all, it *did* finish ... eventually. ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug

Re: Video Conversions

2006-06-26 Thread Bill Mullen
I have no way to determine that for certain, but this task appears to be within its stated capabilities. It's a command-line app (set of scripts, actually) with an optional GUI. http://tovid.sourceforge.net/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug

Re: GNHLUG RSS feeds, was Re: GNHLUG.Www - Automated notification of topic changes

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Mullen
seek. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: RFC: Distros for Hosstraders

2006-04-23 Thread Bill Mullen
in: carroll.cac.psu.edu::MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2006.0/i586/ I find I can get access about 80% of the time; it can be hit-or-miss during prime time (early evenings and weekend afternoons), though. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Free web-based email?

2006-04-08 Thread Bill Mullen
/plugin_view.php?id=223 -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Umask?

2006-04-04 Thread Bill Mullen
. Is umask not used in Linux? Has it been deprecated? If so, what was it replaced with? Etc., etc., etc... -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: get-extern-ip-addr.pl

2006-03-18 Thread Bill Mullen
to identify and report on connectivity failures, if one were intending to use it in a cronjob as you describe in yours; it fails silently, which works for my purpose. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Red Hat man pages and escape sequences

2006-02-19 Thread Bill Mullen
inspect them on these systems. I don't recall having seen this sort of thing here, but it's entirely likely that I just haven't pulled up the right man pages yet. :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot

2005-12-30 Thread Bill Mullen
the Root Shell command found (IIRC) on the menu under KNOPPIX, and try to run qtparted from that. Also, I wouldn't background qtparted when you run it, because whatever it may output to the console might be useful info; no point in throwing it away if you don't have to. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

2005-12-21 Thread Bill Mullen
this orientation anytime soon. If you're planning on compiling KDE from source anyway, Gentoo then becomes an excellent option; it makes the process a fairly painless one. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

2005-12-18 Thread Bill Mullen
, BTW. In the interests of further clarity, perhaps it's worth adding that once one is looking at the root prompt, the command to run at said prompt is k3b, and not startx. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: YASP (Yet Another Sendmail Problem)

2005-12-17 Thread Bill Mullen
this command, as root: postfix reload That sure beats fscking around inside sendmail.rc, doesn't it? ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Suggestions for SOHO email service

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Mullen
servers for several users and delivers it to Postfix. If any further details of the setup here would be useful to you, I'd be happy to either post them here, or to mail them to you. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Quick dumb question...

2005-08-12 Thread Bill Mullen
, to be certain to regain the HD space currently in use. HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?

2005-07-22 Thread Bill Mullen
- is coming in at an average of about 55kB/s, with bursts up to around 80kB/s, FWIW. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?

2005-07-22 Thread Bill Mullen
above 12kB/s or so for an individual torrent rarely provides any real increase in that torrent's d/l rate, so there probably isn't much point in going higher than that for any one torrent. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: The Daemon, The GNU, and the Penguin

2005-07-21 Thread Bill Mullen
matter is of a historical nature, this book doesn't suffer from the instantaneous obsolescence that besets so many technical reference materials, and it should be every bit as interesting a read some years down the road as it is now, I'd expect. Good stuff! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Mullen
file for you, which is a real hassle-saver. ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Postfix: phantom hostname.

2005-06-21 Thread Bill Mullen
. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /var/spool/postfix/etc/ host.conf hosts localtime nsswitch.conf resolv.conf services That's the only factor that I can think of, but it's a longshot ... :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Mandriva announces acquisition of main Lycoris assets

2005-06-16 Thread Bill Mullen
to incorporate Connectiva's technology. I guess it's about time I threw together a box to run Cooker on, just to keep an eye on it ... ;) There's a bit more on the acquisition at NewsForge: http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/15/2030250 -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075

Re: Rookit infections: AARRGH!

2005-05-09 Thread Bill Mullen
efficient way to block these IPs, I'd expect. -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: x2x

2005-04-21 Thread Bill Mullen
to it about a year ago, so it might still work with current versions. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]

2005-04-21 Thread Bill Mullen
... Fishnet, perhaps? It looks alluring at first glance, but a closer inspection reveals that it is primarily comprised of holes ... ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: sendmail SMARTHOST

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Mullen
. It appears that they are giving out a different set of nameserver IPs via DHCP these days, and those servers only work sporadically; the IP addresses that they had been using up until recently still work fine, at least for the time being (and have better response time, to boot). :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU

Re: Well, goshdarn it (Access-4-Free)

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Mullen
extolled their virtues in several places (including here) in the past. I guess I'll be doing without a backup ISP entirely ... :( -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: Gmail Invites

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Mullen
accounts you've got a hundred gigs of storage. Add in the gmailfs and you can ditch your hard drive and boot off of Gmail. Let them worry about backup. :) And yet another monitor gets coated with droplets of beverage ... LOL! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075

Re: BB/Forum software suggestions

2005-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
, and sections can be made visible only to certain groups. We do this on this site, to separate the public discussion area from the area reserved for staff members only. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Mullen
; after all, quality control has never been the long suit over there ... ;-) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Semi-OT: Fixing my Windows MBR

2005-02-27 Thread Bill Mullen
the saved MBR located in the /boot dir (usually named boot.0300), and Travis had mentioned earlier that he had already blown away his linux partitions. I use the MDK rescue system often, but I've never tried to reinstall a Win MBR with it on a system not also containing Mandrake. -- Bill Mullen RLU

Re: internet radio

2005-02-26 Thread Bill Mullen
that will interact nicely with Windowmaker too. I use Streamtuner, which calls XMMS to do the playing. http://freshmeat.net/projects/streamtuner/ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: Any dialup ISP's besides EarthLink support LINUX

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Mullen
usepeerdns from /etc/ppp/options. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Debian flamewar

2005-02-11 Thread Bill Mullen
for identifying exactly which -devel RPM(s) can provide that file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ urpmf xrender.pc libxorg-x11-devel:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc libxfree86-devel:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug

Re: Debian flamewar

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Mullen
package management system, portage, is just a joy to work with, IMHO. As for the RPM-based distros, I think Mandrake's urpm* tools are superb. Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

RE: Play wav files from serial input

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Mullen
... or so I gather from the folks (the lamers?) that will even admit to using that sort of thing. *cough* ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Remote Debian install?

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Mullen
the RH-created MBR with one created from Debian); 11. Reboot once more, ssh in again, and take it from there. I hope I haven't left anything out ... who knows, it just might work! ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

2004-11-20 Thread Bill Mullen
for a statewide bank in Concord. We had the same policy then for the account history data that we made available to the tellers over the online system - current statement period plus the last two, that's it; everything beyond that was archived. Disk packs aren't cheap. :) -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075

Re: Migration from Windows to Linux

2004-10-27 Thread Bill Mullen
/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-roadmap.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6705 http://www.kbst.bund.de/Anlage304428/Migration_Guide.pdf HTH! -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Mullen
be a wash. On the off chance that the technique works, I delete these pseudo-spams outright, rather than using them as fodder for sa-learn; hopefully, this tactic circumvents their authors' intent. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: VoIP and Asterisk

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Mullen
to accommodate the analog lines, and IIUIC, asterisk is designed to interoperate well with itself in exactly this fashion. See sections 2.3.2 and 2.3.3, respectively, in: http://www.digium.com/handbook-draft.pdf -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-27 Thread Bill Mullen
and whatever else is popular on Wintendo boxes these days; 3) That if they are monitoring BT traffic at all, it seems that they are not inclined (ATM) to be draconian in their attitude towards it. That's just based on my limited experience, though; hope it helps some. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075

Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Mullen
, they nip all of that unwanted behavior in the bud; it just happens to impact your (non-standard) arrangement as collateral damage. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people

Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)

2004-05-10 Thread Bill Mullen
... other than that their mail now goes out successfully, of course. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 If I call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does the dog have? Five? No, four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg. - A. Lincoln

Re: On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-22 Thread Bill Mullen
is rented, there is a double-whammy awaiting you - if you were renting in MA, a portion of your rent would be deductible on your MA income tax; residents of other states who work in MA are not allowed to partake of this modicum of relief. :( -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-22 Thread Bill Mullen
back, unlike most MA residents. As someone who has lived in both states (for several years each) while working in MA, this blanket statement varies greatly from my experience. Care to expand a bit on the reasoning behind this conclusion, Travis? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU

Re: Server/mail/naming setup theory

2004-04-18 Thread Bill Mullen
postmap /etc/postfix/transport and postfix reload to enable them. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Re: Server/mail/naming setup theory

2004-04-13 Thread Bill Mullen
accomplish this, but we'll need to know more about your firewall system(/device) to know which one will work best. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem

Re: Server/mail/naming setup theory

2004-04-13 Thread Bill Mullen
, not inbound, and when you set your ISP's server as the relay host, it ceases to be a problem. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. -- J. A. Dever

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Bill Mullen
can fill out to send you their message; this would enable you to avoid making the address itself visible (or otherwise available) at all. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half

Re: p2p, anonymity and security

2004-03-11 Thread Bill Mullen
, and Snort for intrusion detection/logging. As for your offer, I'd take it, but I have no transportation (I'm in North Andover, MA, a stone's throw from 495). If that's not a problem for you, send me an e-mail and we'll set a mutually-convenient date and time. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL

Re: dialup to MSN with Linux?

2004-02-08 Thread Bill Mullen
! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: named madness

2004-01-31 Thread Bill Mullen
when named tries to restart xstatic.org? Just a WAG, but perhaps the lack of a trailing dot in line 11 (the 2nd NS definition line - nic.cent.net) of xstatichost.txt? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own

Re: Maybe time for a new distro?

2004-01-22 Thread Bill Mullen
=2tid=82tid=94 -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Maybe time for a new distro?

2004-01-22 Thread Bill Mullen
. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. -- J. A. Dever ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Comcast to raise prices again?

2003-11-22 Thread Bill Mullen
on (or after) that date for it to take effect. No upstream b/w changes. FWIW ... WMNBM. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. -- J. A. Dever

Re: Domain Registrar?

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Mullen
and biz TLDs. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' -- Dave Barry

Re: OT: Help decoding SPAMMER's encoding of my contact info

2003-10-26 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Michael ODonnell wrote: The encoded string is: MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8 It's base64. The decoded string is: 106420/[EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows

Re: Is there no depth to which MickeySoft won't sink?

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: As Sylvester might say, They'e desspicable! ... ;) Ummm, now that I think of it, that was Daffy Duck, wasn't it? Oops. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot

Latest wrinkle in the Verisign saga

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
the culling of some information, said Smith. They're getting a sense of what domain names are mistyped, and perhaps this can be used by a domain name sales company. In addition, Overture is a pay for click search engine, with questionable affiliates. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA

Is there no depth to which MickeySoft won't sink?

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
Xbox Live-enabled games appear to automatically connect to Microsoft servers, identifying the machine running the game, without the need for an Xbox Live account. = As Sylvester might say, They'e desspicable! ... ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1

Re: adm and address blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Mullen
172.192.0.0/12 172.192.0.0-172.207.288.255 172.208.0.0/14 172.208.0.0-172.211.255.255 HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU # 270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need

ATTENTION: Netgear router users

2003-09-04 Thread Bill Mullen
also help by distributing knowledge of this flaw elsewhere, in discussion forums, newsgroups, chatrooms etc. If you know of anybody who uses a netgear router product you may consider mentioning the flaw. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion

Re: in the MX record??

2003-08-19 Thread Bill Mullen
system has a valid hostname that one can retrieve by doing a reverse lookup on the IP address, then use that in the MX record - if not, use any A record name that points to that IP address. CNAMEs should not be used in MX records. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK

Re: Mouse swapping on a laptop

2003-08-02 Thread Bill Mullen
encountered in the XF86Config-4 file. When traveling (without the mouse), you would start X from a console rather than from a display manager, with a command line like: startx -- -layout layout2 HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Giving money and power

Re: Perl help

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Mullen
print %.2f\n % 0.567 0.57 print %.2f\n % 0.565 0.56 It's kind of a kludge, but perhaps adding some very small value such as 0.1 just prior to the rounding will get the result you want? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e 'print sprintf( %.2f\n, 0.56501 )' 0.57 -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software

2003-07-14 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Sharpe, Richard wrote: Good for SuSE!! http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/14/HNwalmartsuse_1.html Good for Mandrake!! :) http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003070202226NWDPHW -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0

RE: Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software

2003-07-14 Thread Bill Mullen
in the HP contract can only help them in that regard. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Re: DSL firewall/router solutions?

2003-07-14 Thread Bill Mullen
, and you can ssh in to it and play with the config files directly when you have a particularly tricky hoop that needs jumping through. :) Just don't define any routes via gateways that don't exist. ;-) Well, with the possible exception of that one ... ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Mullen
only for myself, but hoping I'm not alone. AOL What Ben said. :) /AOL -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Re: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Mullen
They have pages on Samba as a PDC and Add a Win PC to the domain, which may be useful in this case. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

Re: ISP TOS violations (was: web mail)

2003-06-17 Thread Bill Mullen
whether they want to or not, and the WebForward that I have set up through ZoneEdit means that when they type mail.domain.com into their browser, they get directed to https://domain.com/webmail/src/login.php; ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0

Re: A call for recomendations and helpful some advice

2003-03-26 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 21:00, Cole Tuininga wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:56, Bill Mullen wrote: I realize that you've already written off Mandrake as one of your possible choices (though I can't really see why, as you can do just as minimal an install in expert mode with Mandrake

Re: A call for recomendations and helpful some advice

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Mullen
I'd mention that the Mandrake tool urpmi does just what you're looking for - updating unlimited machines without cost or need to register with anyone - and is both easy to use and easy to automate. It has all but eliminated dependency hell for most Mandrakers. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA

Re: For the newbies (book question)

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Mullen
/acf.shtml ;) -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Recognizing touch tones

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Mullen
modems, and while significantly more challenging to set up, is also more versatile - but is probably overkill for your situation, unless you expect to be handling many simultaneous calls. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe

Re: Funny Linux animation

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Mullen
. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 8.2 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Mullen
read-only to prevent any accidents. That's another thing I like about Knoppix - while it auto-detects the existing partitions on the machine and (in KDE) provides icons on the desktop with which to mount them all, the default mounting method is read-only. Nice touch. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL

RE: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Mullen
? Learning how to install software packages from source or from rpm/deb/tgz packages? Yup. Included is dpkg, apt, kdevelop, gcc 2.95 *and* 3.2, and enough devel packages to compile any apps you'd be likely to attempt in an intro class. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

RE: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Mullen
, and one can save from there either to the floppy, to a local HD drive (if mounted correctly), or to any storage available to the student elsewhere on the network (samba, nfs, ftp, ssh/sftp, all included). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 8.2 In the beginning

Re: Newsgroup server

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Mullen
, then check out Leafnode and use the News.CIS.DFN.DE news server. For a good explanation of how to install and configure leafnode, see: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garryknight/linux/leafnode.html -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 8.2 In the beginning

Re: OT: ATTBI cable modem replacements

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Mullen
a 10BaseT card on my Mandrake 8.1 box; while the 3Com does USB also, I can't speak to whether or not it works in USB mode with Linux. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 8.2 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been

RE: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Bill Mullen
clients do. When my users check their mail from someone else's system, all of their stored mail folders and messages are available, not just the new arrivals. IMAP rules. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 8.2 The power of accurate observation is commonly called

Re: pipe/redirect dumb question

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Mullen
is for using a /file/ as the input for the app (it reads the file into the app's STDIN). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 8.2 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw

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