Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?

2006-04-06 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:46:15AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:38 -0400, mike ledoux wrote: Dell FP monitor, right? Ayup... I've seen this failure mode on a bunch of them, mostly 2000FPs and 2001FPs, though also on a couple 1900FPs, where the DVI input goes

Re: GNHLUG Nashua, Thr 16 Mar, Christopher Aillon on NetworkManager

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:06:44PM -0500, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Who  : Christopher Aillon of Red Hat What : NetworkManager Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 16 Mar (*TODAY*) Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for presentation I'm in for dinner and presentation. I use NetworkManager a

Re: Bootable partitions

2006-03-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:15:13AM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it matters, not if you have LILO or GRUB in the MBR. Then what's the point of this flag? Is it merely a legacy thing which used to mean something before (somewhat

Re: change file names

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:10:21AM -0500, Jon maddog Hall wrote: There are probably easier ways, but for a relatively small number of files, and using the bash shell: for a in 1 2 3 4 ... do mv exp1eve$a.txt exp2eve$a.txt done were the periods are replaced by however many digits you

Re: Unkillable processes?

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:35:15PM -0500, Neil Schelly wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 01:58 pm, Dan Coutu wrote: Okay, here's a strange one. On a Red Hat 9 system I've encountered a situation where there are two processes that I cannot kill when using kill -9 (or any other value, for

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:31:22PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: In this scenario, the client will run an OpenVPN client to get into the private network. The OpenVPN server would be easiest to add to the NAT box - that's what I do for my own setup in fact. The reason is that machines on

Re: OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:26:19PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 9, 2006, at 15:56, Thomas Charron wrote: Aye, I've used it before. Cool - any gotchas? As it's only been out a week I haven't had the pleasure yet - thomas.geekpoints++ . But does it do Windows? ;-) I'm

OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Komarinski
All the examples for OpenVPN that I've seen assume that the OpenVPN server is on both the public and private network. That's not what I'm doing as my OpenVPN server is sitting behind my NAT box and has only one interface - that on the private network already. (client) - (Internet) - (NAT box) -

Re: Fonts in Open Office question(s)

2006-01-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:56:35AM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: Summary: I'm editing a document in OO, and the font select box on the tool bar indicates that some of the text is, for example, Arial. But when I click the drop down (or use the context menu) to see font choices, Arial is

Re: Rationale for not releasing drivers as FOSS

2006-01-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:29:08AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 1/9/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, I am still baffled by companies who withold Linux drivers for their HW, my current employer included. However, this article:

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:40:54PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: In other words, he's more than happy to see the IT group sink rather than swim. However, I'd rather do the right thing, just do the work and not waste a bunch of people's time or the company's money with failed (possibly

Re: Multi-boot, partition label conflict

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:39:57AM -0500, Dan Coutu wrote: I'd like to just double check my thinking on a configuration. Here's the setup: An HP Itanium machine comes with RHEL AS 4 factory installed on the internal SCSI disk. It also contains a fiber channel controller card for use in

Re: December MerriLUG meeting [12/15/2005]

2005-12-15 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Who: Ben the-one-and-only Scott What: DNS/BIND, and whatever else enters Ben's mind. Where: Martha's Exchange When: Thursday (that's *this* Thursday), December 15; 6:00 for grub, 7:30 for meeting How: Directions,

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:31:34PM -0500, mike ledoux wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:42:40PM -0500, Jeff Macdonald wrote: On 12/12/05, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Ben Caveat Emptor Scott Oh, if you own a TiVo Series 1, do your homework before dumping your landline

Re: Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:41:18PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort. I'm currently running FC4. I know of the following: VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk I got

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:08:54PM -0500, mike ledoux wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:31:34PM -0500, mike ledoux wrote: Roughly $70 solves the problem forever, just plug the TiVo into your home network: http://www

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Tyson Sawyer wrote: Mark Komarinski wrote: Tivo2Go is really nice too. Along with the HME apps like Galleon. Anyone get that to work with Linux? ...its the only OS in our house. Yes. More recent versions are a lot better to get running even

Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine

2005-12-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort. I'm currently running FC4. I know of the following: VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk qemu: Stuck trying to calculate dependencies Xen: Never used it, but it

Re: MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:25:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm setting up a DHCP server to give out specific ip addresses to certain hosts based on MAC address. However, some machines, usually laptops (one wireless, one wired), have 2 NICs and 2 MAC addresses. Hoever, the

Re: MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:55:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, some machines, usually laptops (one wireless, one wired), have 2 NICs and 2 MAC addresses. Hoever, the machine can only have one host name in DNS. Can I assign the same IP address to multiple MAC addresses?

Re: Ticketing System Suggestions

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:58:30AM -0500, Travis Roy wrote: We've been using Request Tracker for close to a year now, but it's not really working out for us. Can somebody suggest something, here are the requirements. Must be SIMPLE and easy to use. The less complicated the better. Must

Re: URL for network monitor shown at MerriLUG last night?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:30:16AM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: And someone (I missed his name) from Red Hat showed off the Network Monitor tool, a GNOME panel applet with the ability to learn and securely retain multiple wireless settings. I've been using Network Monitor on my laptop for the

Re: Reminder: MerriLUG meeting tonight!

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:26:58AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: As usual, tonight's MerriLUG meeting takes place at Martha's Exchange; 6:00 for those who want food, 7:30 upstairs for discussion. Please RSVP so I can guesstimate a headcount. NOTE: I have not yet been able to verify that we

Re: DirecTV equipment

2005-09-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
Comcast used to have a promotion where if you turned in your DirecTV gear you'd get something like $25 off per month for a year. Call and ask. -Mark On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: Hello.. turns out after my move there's to many trees in the way for DirecTV. This

Re: Quick dumb question...

2005-08-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:18:28PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: How do you change the directory used for TMPDIR system wide? (It's Mandrake 10.0) I ask because the partition used by /tmp (the root filesystem... don't ask. It's an old legacy system) is filling up FAST on an old machine.

Asterisk for POTS users

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
I just dropped a wad ($100) of cash on a new phone with an integrated answering device. I see that more and more people are using Asterisk to set up a PBX, but is anyone using this as a way of acting as an answering machine? (insert rant here about when I pick up the phone, I darn well expect to

Re: Asterisk for POTS users

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:06:25PM -0400, Ed Robbins wrote: Yes I am and while you bring up the subject, I'd be willing to do a talk at a meeting on how I use Asterisk. Cool. In a nutshell I use Asterisk to terminate all of my calls. Both IP and PSTN(POTS) terminated calls, as well as

Re: Stoopid power fail question.

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:33:18PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: We had a power fail today here in Framingham that went longer than my UPS. 1. Is there a way for my pomputer to come back on after the power comes back? Yea - most modern BIOSs have a setting where you can tell the system to

Re: Web based documentation

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:24:36AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: * CVS compatibility - If we're working on a big upgrade for the project that will involve lots of documentation changes, I'd like to be able to write the documentation before hand and deploy it at the same time we deploy the

Re: Fastest Growing Market Segment

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:48:42PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to discuss this with the group: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The trade rags are all stating that Linux as the fastest growing market segment but What I really see is

Re: [HUMOR] End Times

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:56:59AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Brian Chabot writes: If you're polytheist or unitarian-universalist, or maybe just agnostic, please consult /etc/aliases for more options. If you worship at the Unix Temple, you're by definition a polytheist, as their are

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:23:30PM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels. Strangely enough, I think we'd find more use

Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'm looking for some sort of contact management so that family members can easily look up information (birthdates, phone numbers, mailing address, etc.). Being web-based and passing the Mom test would both be plusses, along with some sort of access control so it doesn't get caught by google and

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:40:26PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about a Yahoo account w/ a shared passwd? This information isn't available for search. Of course you'd have an issue with controlling edits/etc.. Yahoo can also be sync'd with a Palm

Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: The other path makes SATA support into Just Another Device Driver. In practice, this means think of SATA as SCSI. You need the right driver or you go nowhere. This is also the same on both doze and nix. For nix, it means

Re: Win4Lin Home Edition

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:48:33PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 16, 2005, at 13:57, Bill Sconce wrote: There is now a new version of Win4Lin which DOES support W2000 and XP. It's a deeper technology than the DOS-emulation approach used for W9X. Just saw it myself today. One nice

Re: rental servers?

2005-02-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:01:06PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: It's also different from a colo/rental which is usually monthly plus some minimum term. One could unethically take advantage of a money-back-guarantee on such a thing but I'm not looking for that kind of solution. I

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:34:01PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:45:31AM -0500, Bob Bell wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:15:46AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: #!/bin/sh # NEVER start shell scripts as #!/bin/bash -- it can lead to strange # and unintended

Re: Mailman setup

2005-01-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:38:35AM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote: Whenever the exim -q runs from cron, I get something like the following: 2005-01-24 08:53:01 1Cs7ew-0005Tf-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of

Re: [OT] How to get calling number when CallerID reports unknown

2005-01-14 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:19:20PM -0500, Larry Cook wrote: I did get a reply off list that an unlisted number might show as Unknown. I suspect that the person that called has an unlisted cell phone. So maybe that's it. I've seen this happen with my cell phone calling a landline, but

Re: Play wav files from serial input

2005-01-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:16:56PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: Jeff Kinz writes: ... Any PII from 200-600 MHz will rip a CD at about 1:1 music time to rip time ratio. If you have a large (25+ years collection) it will take 'forever' to convert it. On the other hand, any recent

Re: Sound card recommendations?

2005-01-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:54:29PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: Hello world! My sound card (an old Ensoniq ES1370) blew the other day, so I'm looking for a new card. Can anyone make a recommendation for a good sound card these days? ALSA has a vendor matrix of what they support.

Re: Looking for a good portable linux system

2004-12-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:57:52AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:29:37AM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: No. This can't be a dedicated-task system. Also, the app uses things like cron and sendmail to exchange survey data with a satellite - which unfortunately needs to be

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Fred wrote: Another negative is that it is in Massachusetts, and on top of the low salary you get to pay in mass taxes that of which you receive no material benefit from (unless you live in Mass, in which case you have my sympathies. :-)). If

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:42:27AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: And that's upstate NY. It's worse in NYC. Actually, I believe the state tax is 7%; it's only 8.25% in NYC. Sales tax varies per county. It's a state base of 4.25%, then something tacked on by the county. Schenectady

Re: Wireless *switch*?

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:25:59AM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote: Hi all - I have a sort of random question for you. I currently have a wireless router at home for use for my laptop and any guests that come over. However, what I'd really like to do is to have the router act more like a plain

Re: Migration from Windows to Linux

2004-10-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:32:14AM -0400, John Abreau wrote: As for bookmark management, I could imagine using LDAP or WebDAV to implement that, but I really don't see it fitting into the IMAP spec. Netscape had roaming profiles that would work with LDAP and WebDAV. I used it myself for a

Re: Alternatives to rpmfind.net

2004-10-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:14:11PM -0400, Matt Brodeur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:50:22AM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: Any recommendations for RPM repositories? That depends on what type of RPM-based system you're using. For

Re: The First Linux Distro?

2004-10-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:48:46AM -0700, Whelan, Paul wrote: Hi, I was reading on http://www.topologilinux.com (in their About page under the FAQ section question regarding Is topologilinux based on any other big distro) where they say that it's based on Slackware the First and still the

BIOS updates still matter

2004-08-31 Thread Mark Komarinski
So I got myself a new IBM X40 from work a few weeks ago and under Linux suspend and resume would cause the display to just plain freak. The various HOWTOs suggested that it was a result of ACPI not working properly, so I turned ACPI off and turned APM on. No change. Or rather, instead of a

Re: Free WiFI at Panera Bread on Amherst St, Nashua

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:23:01PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: I haven't actually been to an Internet cafe in the west, but here in Korea if you go to one of the thousands of PC ?? on any street corner, you don't need to provide any information. Is this different at hard-wired cafes

Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]

2004-08-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Jon maddog Hall wrote: Yesterday in the SoftPRO bookstore I saw a book on Asterisk, and for those of you who are not familiar with it, it is an Open Source project to replace the PBX (think Centrex) services for a company. Maddog's presentation

HDTV tuner cards

2004-08-04 Thread Mark Komarinski
Not sure if this was already on the mailing list or not... At the last MELBALUG meeting, there was discussion of purchasing HDTV tuner cards before Jan 1, 2005 due to the broadcast flag being enforced after that date. There was supposed to be a recommendation for cards and web sites to buy them

Re: DVD movie player in Linux

2004-07-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:53:40AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Here's my vote for Ogle and VLC: both have come a long way, and do a fine job. For that matter, I heartily recommend VLC for most all video playback; it's gotten really nice as of late. VLC is also ported to Windows - it's not

Re: Search list archives?

2004-06-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:29:19AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: Please forgive this seemingly stupid question, but I'm not up to speed on MailMan. Is there a way to search the GNHLUG mailing list archive online or do I have to d/l the 26MB file and grep it? Gentle whacks with a

Re: Search list archives?

2004-06-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:38:12AM -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: BTW, I have two invites left if anyone wants an account. E-mail me off-list. That was quick (as I figured). The two invites have been sent. -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the ro flag. In other words, no writing allowed. 8) There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. You should be able to do

Re: Gigabit Ethernet cards?

2004-06-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:56:40AM -0400, Mansur, Warren wrote: It uses the e1000 driver which just came with Redhat. Don't know if it's GPL or what. Since about 2.4.20(?), the e1000 driver has been included in the kernel and is GPL'd. -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Gigabit Ethernet cards?

2004-06-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:57:38AM -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:44:03AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: I've had decent luck with a couple different e1000 based cards, but they've mostly been integrated with the motherboard. In any case, the 2.4 e1000 driver has

Re: GPL for images?

2004-06-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:59:00AM -0400, Mansur, Warren wrote: Hi all, I searched on google in an attempt to find a GPL for images, but was mostly unsuccessful. Does anyone know of a GNU general public license for images, photographs, icons, and so on? Basically, I want anyone to be able

Re: Posix threads in RHAT9

2004-05-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:41:50PM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: I don't yet feel like I know know where things stand, but FYI I've heard (since my OP) that there was (is?) apparently enough trouble caused by the NPTL (eg, to the threading infrastructure of various Java packages) that it

Re: Samba and XP Question

2004-05-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:06:56AM -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:42:55 -0400 Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. You have to give a username and password at login time. By default, that is what is sent to Samba. If it doesn't work, then you're prompted

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

2004-05-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:47:42AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: This isn't about Comcast blocking port 25 to prevent you from running a server.. Recently my parents (that use Comcast) can no longer connect to port 25 of my server.. one that is legit, has correct reverse and MX records. Has

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

2004-05-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: Brian wrote: Why don't they just use Comcasts provided SMTP server? What is the real benefit of having them send through your server? It's always been setup that way.. And I think the comcast server requires some kind of auth,

Re: How can I add files to default FC1 install?

2004-05-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:20:44PM -0400, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: You can probably do this several different ways. Here's one: What we've done for various RH and the like dists is modifiy the KS.CFG (or whatever it may be named) to call some external scripts. KS.CFG is a config file

How can I add files to default FC1 install?

2004-05-06 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'm building a custom Fedora Core 1 kickstart DVD and I have a number of custom packages I want to add to the default install (k3b and apt-get). I imagine it's not as easy as adding the RPMs to /Fedora/RPMS, so what do I need to do to get this to work? -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Copying CDs

2004-04-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:09:39AM -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote: I've got a bootable CD with an ISO9660 filesystem on it. (Its a Debian distribution). Does anyone know how I can copy the whole CD as an ISO filesystem file? The man page for mkisofs doesn't seem to cover the subject of copying

Re: Problem (was: Re: need help with tool requirement)

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:07:44AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: What approach would provide sufficient assurance that the code does not contain any Easter eggs or trap doors to allow future egg-laying? That's a tough question, but any solution that doesn't include a non-corruptible

Re: Problem

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: That was kind of my point. How do you know those things are not flawed in some way, or fixed? How do you know if it counted your vote correctly? Forget about new fangled computers, I'm talking about exsisting systems. What if

Re: portable digital music players

2004-04-08 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:45:16AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: OH, more on this.. I ran into this: http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware A list of players that support OGG.. I have the Neuros. It's nice, but currently out of stock. The backpack design is really nice as you can have a 128M

Re: Examination of a Linux Gui, w/color commentary

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:34:58PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: In an Ironic side twist, coincidental to one of the recently active threads in gnhlug-discuss, ESR is examining the issues he encountered whilst attempting to configure a printer using the CUPS GUI config tool. AFAIK, CUPS has no GUI

Re: Examination of a Linux Gui, w/color commentary

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:04:30AM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: In an Ironic side twist, coincidental to one of the recently active threads in gnhlug-discuss, ESR is examining the issues he encountered whilst attempting to configure a printer using the CUPS GUI config tool. Wow,

Re: Examination of a Linux Gui, w/color commentary

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:53:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However his idea that the whole thing should just discover your network and list for you only the available options is tad bit off as well. Why is making networks easier to use a bad idea? Because it's impractical.

Re: Examination of a Linux Gui, w/color commentary

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:47:23AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:58:45AM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:34:58PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: In an Ironic side twist, coincidental to one of the recently active threads in gnhlug-discuss, ESR

Re: Examination of a Linux Gui, w/color commentary

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:12:15PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:32:04AM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:47:23AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: He is correct about the difficulty his Aunt Tilly would have trying to use the existing printer over

Re: Desktop Linux (fwd)

2004-02-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:10:45PM -0500, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: It may be a failure for the home desktop now, but, to embrace and extend another's famous quote, Linux [on the desktop] is inevitable. I had a whole rant prepared where I was going to argue that Linux will have a real hard

Re: Interesting comments on SCO lawsuits

2004-02-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:15:45AM -0500, Hewitt Tech wrote: This story claims that ATT disclaimed ownership of derivative UNIX code and SCO's lawsuits may fall apart... http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/unix/story/0,10801,90205,00.html groklaw.net is a great source of SCO/IBM

Re: MyDoom (was: Test)

2004-02-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:33:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available. On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, at 11:04pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the MyDoom worm/virus? Yup. It is

Re: MyDoom (was: Test)

2004-02-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:34:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, at 10:52am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is worth pointing out that, like most such malware, the MyDoom worm forges the From address. SPF would prevent a lot of this from happening, strangely enough.

Re: OT: Voting results in NH

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:29:33AM -0500, brian wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:20, Greg Rundlett wrote: However, (and I'm really not looking for flames) I can't for the life of me understand why people still would vote for George Bush / Republican after 9/11 And that's what makes this

Re: OT: Voting results in NH

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:13:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, at 1:39pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:57, Mark Komarinski wrote: George Bush = Hitler Max Cleland = Bin Laden There. Thread's over. Haha... Invoking

Re: OpenSource IMAP eMail server

2004-01-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:13:42PM -0500, Stephen Ingham wrote: I had an interview with a company who is planning to replace their MS-Exchange email system with an Open Source IMAP email system. The name of which sounded something like citrix. I know Citrix is not an email system. Does

Re: Breakfast with a presidential candidate

2004-01-06 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:38:38AM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 22:07, Mark Komarinski wrote: Copyright extension overhaul, more money to PTO to do real research on upcoming patents, remove patents on software, and repeal that stupid DMCA. Excellent ideas. But he's

Re: Breakfast with a presidential candidate

2004-01-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:13:15PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: So, with all that out of the way, I was wondering what the Linux/OSS community would like for him to hear? What are the issues we have that a president can solve? As a high level idea, a sane IP policy would be really nice.

Re: Comcast to raise prices again?

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:26:50PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: I just called Comcast to get a list of their a la carte pricing for channels. There's a lot of good TV out there, but I don't feel like paying $75 for 100 channels if I only care about 30 (or less) of them. Silly me. Got

Re: Mozilla.org - An Open Source possibility?

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:32:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying that this is the only way, but it certainly seems like *a* way. Comments? I've always seen that FOSS sites assume you already know what the product is and can do. FAQs usually never contain the question

Re: Comcast to raise prices again?

2003-11-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:07:03PM -0500, Scott Garman wrote: Check out the following Union Leader story. Note that they require you to accept cookies and request your age and zip code before viewing their articles (but you don't need to create an account per se):

Re: [Gnhlug-jobs] Linux Sysadmin

2003-11-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:04:07PM -0500, Travis Roy wrote: This position is for a one-person systems administration team Just remember there is no ' I ' in T E A M. Then you spell it TIEM I just say that there's an M and an E. -Mark pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fedora ?

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:15:52AM -0400, Sharpe, Richard wrote: Hi Has anyone tried Red Hat's Fedora ? and where did you download it from the Red Hat site seems to always be busy and not accepting connections and I don't seem to find it on the mirrors, or it could be my bad eye sight.

Re: Courier imap (ssl)

2003-10-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:56:53PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:58:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Does courier always use maildir? I've been using mbox and if I didn't have to convert it would be handy. Yes, it does. Whether or not there's a way

Re: FTP securing

2003-10-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:07:30AM -0400, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: There is more to this problem then I stated originally, but I will come clean now. The patches are only available to customers who are on support contracts. The problem that we ran into was that using anonymous FTP allowed

Re: apt-get errors

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:49:50AM -0400, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, Has anyone seen this before? I get this error whenever I try to run apt-get, no matter which action I give it (install, check, -f missing, etc.). brodie2:/home/klussier# apt-get -f install Reading Package

procmail-fu needed

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
I've got a Debian box with spamassassin, qmail, and procmail installed (leave the politics of qmail out of the discussion for now). I want to set up procmail so that mail gets delivered to ~/Maildir by default for all users. This would imply that the /etc/procmailrc has something like the

Re: procmail-fu needed

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:01:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Mark == Mark Komarinski wrote: Mark If I have this as my ~/.procmailrc file, this works fine. Mark But if I set this up as /etc/procmailrc, the delivered files Mark are owned by root

MA considering using Linux

2003-09-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=528ncid=528e=2u=/ap/20030926/ap_on_hi_te/massachusetts_microsoft Or via tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/osc5 -Mark pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Osirusoft blacklists the world

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:33:33PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: If you still think RBLs are a good idea, here's one example of why they're not... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238mode=threadtid=111tid=126 RBLs are good as part of an overall method of blocking spam, but

Re: Microsoft using Linux

2003-08-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:40:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, at 9:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Netcraft monitoring Web site has revealed Microsoft's London Internet Data Centre depends heavily on Linux for delivering data ... Note only that, but Microsoft

Re: NFS 2GB filesize limitation?

2003-08-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:19:15AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [First -- thanks to Mike for the Debian rsync script. Running as we speak.] I've got a file that's just a hair over 2 GB in size on my main server. From the server, when I append to it (eg. echo file), it works fine. From

Re: Mouse swapping on a laptop

2003-08-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:21:07PM -0400, Dan Coutu wrote: Bill Freeman wrote: Derek Martin writes: While again, I didn't spend much time on it, the problem with using a PS/2 mouse seems to be that Linux sees that and the internal mouse device as the same logical device (/dev/psaux),

Re: ogg2mp3?

2003-07-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:11:19PM -0400, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Is there such an app? I'm going on a road-trip and I have an mp3 player. Unfortunately, all of my ripped music is in .ogg format. Is there a better way than re-ripping everything? Thanks! Buy a neuros? Real answer:

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