Re: SpinRite (was: FYI)

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Bilow
.) Regardless of the efficacy of SpinRite, Steve Gibson is in way over his head when it comes to security. His habit of being uninformed and making stuff up has burned him more then once. I cannot defend Gibson on security. -- Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-01 Thread Mike Spenard
I would like to learn more about the Bitcoins! Because our president Obama is using a psycho-active ink at the US Treasury! Some sort of anti-capitalism ink-drug that is on all of our monies! Until we all have the Bitcoins, send monies to be cleaned to: Mike Spenard Manchester, NH 03103

Re: From failed drive to hero in many steps

2012-12-11 Thread Mike Bilow
in Java and runs fine under OpenJDK, including in headless mode using headless OpenJDK (for which Debian has package openjdk-6-jre-headless). Although the quasi-documentation could be better, it is here: http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/how_to/configure_a_headless_client -- Mike On 2012-11

Re: drive recovery of dual-boot system

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Bilow
-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick -- Mike On 2012-01-26 00:47, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: I have an internal hard drive that won't boot. The system (Dell Studio Hybrid) also will not boot from CD-ROM (regardless of what I do with the boot sequence, F2, BIOS settings etc

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-06 Thread Mike Lalumiere
You might check out http://www.sweethome3d.com/. It's written in Java and licensed under the GPL. I have not run the program but it looks like what you described. - Mike Lalumiere On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:19:46AM -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread Mike Bilow
recipient from the To or Cc headers, triggering the receiving MTA to handle the message like a Bcc and put less information into the Received header that it prepends. -- Mike On 2011-11-06 11:26, Michael ODonnell wrote: Yah, I had believed that the headers were consulted (rather than merely updated

Re: Representative Seth Cohn

2010-11-03 Thread Mike Bilow
Open source software is all well and good, but if you want to really scare the crap out of people and shake things up in a state legislature, start talking about open source _textbooks_ as well: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/09/open-source-tex/ -- Mike On 2010-11-03 16:44, Seth Cohn

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Bilow
For ARM, CodeSourcery: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/platforms.html They use the GNU tool chain to target EABI (bare metal), uClinux, or GNU/Linux. -- Mike On 2010-08-25 10:58, Tyson Sawyer wrote: An excerpt from an email exchange where I work: A tool I just found out they spent

Re: 64 bit C question

2009-02-17 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:30:00PM -0500, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: Is there some way to to compile a C or C++ program that will output a 64bit hex value correctly? This is what I have so far... [...] printf(long int N = %16x\n, N); // x8 correct printf(long long NN =

Re: GNHLUG in 2008, a retrospective by the numbers

2009-01-06 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:36:58PM +, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: From: Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:47:06 -0500 My question is this: What did his Administrator do to deserve being put in a box, and was he (or she) ever let out? The

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-21 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one machine from F7 - 8 - 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;) Maybe less trouble than you think, the machine I'm

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-21 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:53:22PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8-9 yesterday; some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher version numbers than the same packages in the fc9 repositories, which made things

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-08 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0400, Alan Johnson wrote: device is a Coyote Point E350si Equalizer and the servers are HP Proliant 300 series servers. Turns out, there is a known problem with serial ports on HP servers with ILO that is causing all my problems:

Re: Price/Performance of time

2008-09-30 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:14:40PM -0400, Ric Werme wrote: We used to make comparisons like If the automobile industry had improved at the same rate as computers It's been a long time since that made any sense - a car would travel at Mach 10, seat 1,500, get 500 mpg, and fold up and fit

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:32:43AM -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: Here's the things that Ubuntu gets right, at least on the desktop: [...] - no need for root. There's almost no need to log in as root. You're automatically set up with sudo access and everything goes through that. For a

Re: Fedora

2008-09-18 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:54:27PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: Can one relatively painlessly upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10? The official upgrade path for Fedora is to download disc images for the latest release, burn and boot from disc, and follow the prompts to upgrade. I've read several

Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-20 Thread mike ledoux
Probably more than you wanted to know, but you asked. :) On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:24:32PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: Looking quickly, I can't seem to find amp-hour ratings from car battery makers/sellers. Google finds various third-party claims, but they're all over the map (25 to 100 Ah on

Re: automatic hard linking

2008-07-23 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:48:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort of hard linking of the same file name in a different directory... i.e. ~/foo.txt

Re: automatic hard linking

2008-07-23 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:39:07PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (fscking scalix requires a complete copy of the mail store to extract even a single message for restore, which is nothing if not a massive PITA) Wow

Re: Adding a new drive / fstab

2008-07-10 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:50:46AM -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote: In the endless pursuit of upgrading this machine I have added a hard drive to my computer. I have used fdisk to create a linux partition to the whole disk. I made the disk use the ext3 file system. So now for fstab. What is

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

2008-06-19 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:04:37AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like it'd be a step forward... maybe an example would help: Say I'm looking for something called gnhlug, but its URL is http://www.gnhlug.org/ Typing gnhl in the NEW address bar would get me

Re: power meters [ was low power linux PC? ]

2008-04-07 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe this item, http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/; that measures power consumption might have been discussed on the list before but the same folks now offer a more

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:57:02PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: Its been several years (and major kernel versions) since I've played with iostat, but perhaps my statements here will goad someone with more recent experience to inject more accurate truths... * iostat used to not work well on

Re: iostat strangeness

2008-01-15 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:52:21PM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: shotInTheDark Depending on your versions of kernel and app, iostat apparently looks in some combination of these: /etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf No file called sysstat.ioconf anywhere on my system. /proc/diskstats

Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics

2007-11-24 Thread mike miller
Great book. Also check out the magazine MAKE. Mike - Original Message - From: Michael Costolo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 5:59 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics On Nov 23, 2007 10:01

Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics; turns out it's fun, not harmful

2007-11-22 Thread mike miller
the difference between a 90mph and a 91.66mph pitch. Mike Miller - Original Message - From: Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Cc: Geoff Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 5:51 PM Subject: [OT] Simple math considered physics; turns

Re: Lower power portable Linux

2007-11-21 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: A recent review[1] of the Asus Eee PC stated (paraphrased): Power management on Linux sucks. I haven't read the review, but I agree with the statement that power management on Linux sucks. Turning off the CRT was about it. S3

Re: Gimme that old time interface...

2007-11-15 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: The big problem is that some idiot renamed the 'fvwm2' packages to 'fvwm' in FC5 or 6 ... I couldn't even *find* an FVWM (any version) packagein Fedora 5 or 6 (or maybe both; I forget). I think it got removed from the distro,

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-10 Thread mike miller
The problem is that they are local. It's still not available in this part of Goffstown, but cable is so I'm stuck with Comcast. I guess that's not entirely true. I could go back to dial up. Mike Miller - Original Message - From: TARogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-09 Thread mike shlitz
) with regards to their VoIP service as well. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:04:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bayard Coolidge Or be a Comcast customer, unless you're VERY patient. Took 7.5 hours using BitTorrent, average d/l speed purportedly 145 kb/s. Started at 10:21 AM EST

Re: CPU utilization on a dual-core

2007-11-02 Thread mike ledoux
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: Does anyone know how to determine per-CPU utilization on a multi-cpu/core system. It's a 2.4 kernel, and top doesn't break things down per-cpu. Unless I'm running an ancient version of top... Even ancient versions of top can do

Re: Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?

2007-10-22 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:17:07PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: If somebody wants to donate sweet new 1U server with dual 500 GB SATA disks, that's fine too ;-) Not new, and not really all that sweet, but I have a couple of old (PIII-era) 1U servers that I'd be willing to donate to the cause.

Re: List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)

2007-10-18 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:47:19PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 10/17/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally please send email either to the listserv or to the poster you are replying to, but not both. Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list.

Re: List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)

2007-10-18 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:10:41PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 10/18/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list. Au contraire contraire, please do not. Abuse of Reply All causes List Header Cancer! Here's a solution

Re: Admin horror stories

2007-10-12 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:53:32PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 10/10/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you know the ULTRIX distribution tapes will let you install ULTRIX on a DECStation? ULTRIX is amazingly customizable. You have to replace a third of it to make it usable

Re: grub

2007-10-11 Thread mike miller
PM Subject: Re: grub On 10/10/07, mike miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was dual booting winxp and fc6 until the motherboard died. I replaced it, using the same cpu, memory, hard drives and other peripherals. I was pleasantly surprised to see the grub menu when I first booted

Re: grub

2007-10-11 Thread mike miller
no idea why it's working now or if it will still be working tomorrow. Mike Miller - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: Re: grub On 10/10/07, mike miller

grub

2007-10-10 Thread mike miller
were unsuccessful however. The grub.conf file looks normal and I'm not getting any error messages. Any suggestions on which files I should be looking at for errors? Thanks Mike Miller ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: postfix

2007-08-30 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:54:15AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: In fact, we discovered the theoretical possibility of a mail message doing figure-8s between our sendmail/cyrus server and the Exchange server! I used to work at UNH. Imagine hundreds of computers, used by faculty/staff, running

Re: how to rotate a movie?

2007-08-30 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:45:53PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: Now, and this is really rusty, I think there's a way to read the JPEG DCT matrix and rotate a JPEG without recompressing, There is, provided the image geometry meets certain sensible parameters that I don't remember off the top

Re: [OT] Re: I've got to get organized.

2007-08-14 Thread mike miller
It was actually All people please to be getting off from street but the accent is correct. Mike - Original Message - From: Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:18 PM Subject: [OT] Re

Re: [OT] Charging UPS batteries outside the UPS

2007-08-09 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:24:40PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 8/8/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've checked the voltage on the battery, and it's less than 2 volts DC. In that case, there is almost certainly at least one internal short in the battery, and no amount of charging

Re: [OT] Charging UPS batteries outside the UPS

2007-08-08 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: Off-topic but still techie question: Does anyone know anything about charging the batteries from a UPS using external equipment (i.e., not the charger built-in to the UPS)? Yes. I've got an APC Smart-UPS 3000 (P/N SU3000RM3U)

Re: Syslog Analyzer

2007-07-18 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:10:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of search to monitor the internet usage of our branch office, I am looking for a manager-friendly syslog analyzer. The [...] Does anyone know a a good, granular syslog analyzer for this purpose? Open Source is always

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:38:47PM -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her

Re: Opinions about LaCie wanted

2007-06-05 Thread mike miller
Just one external hard drive, but based on that episode I would not purchase their products again. Mike Miller - Original Message - From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:51 AM Subject: Opinions about LaCie wanted

Re: [OT] Re: Request: Take Off-Topic Off-List

2007-05-25 Thread mike ledoux
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:37:44AM -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: On 5/25/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed in the below are the personal opinions of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views or policy of GNHLUG. On 5/25/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:15:55PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are also a few dual cores with hyperthreading, Xeon was one product line I noticed had such models. Yeah, I just checked one of our new machines which is a dual dual-core. It reports 4

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of Dell Precision 690 boxes with 4 1Gb DIMMs installed but our RHAT WS3 kernel ... RHEL 3 is pretty old. I think it might be old enough that you need to

Re: I have no words to describe this...

2007-04-04 Thread mike miller
It may not be rap, but geek songs have been around for quite a while and not limited to one coast. The one that I remember best from sometime in the '80s, don't know which coast, is On the Xerox Line. http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/ambar/lyrics/xerox-line Mike Miller - Original

Re: off-topic - What happened to the TV series season?

2007-03-27 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:25:02PM -0400, Jeff Macdonald wrote: I just watched Battlestar Galactica, which turned out to be the last one for the season. The next one won't be till 200 8. Ugh! The networks are giving me less and less reason to watch this stuff when it's aired (or in my case,

Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: [...] I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A); these are questions that would need to be answered for anything like a list charter to be drawn up. ... (and then ignore them later with the proper subject line).

Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]

2007-03-27 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:50:56PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: basically, IMHO, the GNHLUG is low volume enough that it probably would not need to be split into 3 lists, as Maddog suggested, though it would not be difficult to create the 2 additional lists, and use the main discuss list as a

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-26 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:38:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: Lloyd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s solution works: find -type f -name '*out*' | xargs grep -wli zip zip.txt Question: -type f limits to regular file, does the so-called regular file strictly mean plain text files? It does not. regular file

Re: Why we can't record our TV shows (was: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center)

2007-03-26 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:16:05AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: I download each and every show I wish to watch (and I want for nothing I can't get), getting not only high quality recordings, but with commercials already removed. Finding new shows is I'm transition to this solution, but the

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-23 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:47:40AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Sacha Chua (Cc'ed on this e-mail) who's since become a good friend of mine, introduced me to my current PDA/PIM device of choice: The Hipster PDA. When they make a version that includes alarm functionality for repeating events and

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-23 Thread mike ledoux
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:12:04PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 16:33 -0400, quoth Jerry: =Also, doesn't Grep stand for global regular expression print? General Regular Expression Processor Jerry is correct. The name grep comes from the ed command g/regex/p:

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: ...oh crap! I replied to a message that came from a list, but when I was about to click send I see that my reply doesn't go back to where the message came from. Now off to edit the To: field before I can click send. That is a

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:02:40PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: mike ledoux writes: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: ...oh crap! ... That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I recommend switching to a mail reader that doesn't have

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:11:00PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: I'm especially interested in the Sharp Zaurus. I understand that, while it's nominally not sold in the US, it's pretty easy to find vendors importing it, and that the manufacturer support picture is pretty good (for the immediate

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thurs 15 Feb, Linux Saves Windows Server - Bill Gates Delighted!

2007-02-08 Thread mike shlitz
Hi Jim, RSVP for two please... Thanks, Mike --- Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who : Lloyd Kvam, Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee LUG What : Linux box protecting the Internet from a Windows server Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 15 February **Next Week** (Galileo's Birthday

*NIX on Itanium

2007-01-30 Thread mike shlitz
a port for IA64, or maybe FC-6 (64bit)? The last time I heard someone say Itanium at a LUG meeting, it was followed by hoots of laughter. Thanks, Mike Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you

Re: PVR-150 (1042, 1045, 1062)?

2007-01-29 Thread mike miller
word on whether or not these are still usable with linux? Mike Miller - Original Message - From: Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:12 AM Subject: Re: PVR-150 (1042, 1045, 1062)? FYI: Rumor has it Hauppauge has been

(OT) Humor...

2007-01-19 Thread mike shlitz
I just picked up this link courtesy of the TriLUG down in NC... http://stupidvideos.com/video/science_technology/Linux_iPhone_Video/ Mike Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from

Yet more OT humor...

2007-01-19 Thread mike shlitz
Here's yet another bit of off the mark Linux-oriented humor: http://mirror1.spikedhumor.com/1209/SwitchLinux.swf Mike TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com

Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-18 Thread mike shlitz
modem w Smart CP (Also has a 7+ GB FAT 32 partition loaded with HP's usual extras.) Mike Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

Re: Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-18 Thread mike miller
I've been having trouble getting FC6 to recognize the Realtek RTL8139 NIC on another motherboard although Ubuntu did. I had some other issues with Ubuntu so I'm trying to get it working with FC6. Let me know how you make out. Mike Miller Mike Miller - Original Message - From: mike

Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-12 Thread mike miller
- Original Message - From: mike miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:20 AM Subject: Re: linux newbie Thanks for everyones help. I've confirmed that the hardware is the Realtek RTL8111/8168B, identified the correct driver

linux newbie

2007-01-08 Thread mike miller
and the simple solution is to buy one that works and plug it in, but I'd kind of like to know what the problem is and how to fix it. Everything else seems to work ok so far. Any suggestions? Thanks Mike Miller ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: Need help with new monitor

2007-01-02 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:26:02PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Lots of good stuff going on. Nothing is working exactly the way I'd like it to. The closest I've gotten is http://steveo.syslang.net/XF86Config-4 which gives me a display of the desired 1440x900 but is for some mysterious

Re: Need help with new monitor

2007-01-02 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:39:36PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Brian sent me what the sync rates are supposed to be, but I'm not sure what I'm doing. The manual calls for 1440x900 in either DVI mode or not (whatever that is). The connector from my puter is the plain old video connector with

Re: SPARC Live CD?

2006-12-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:04:33PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 12/20/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious what you mean by painfully lacking modern command line utilities. What more do you need than various combinations of ... Someone who works in a more heterogeneous

Re: LMV Snapshots

2006-11-16 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:25:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a RHEL4 system (with all updates applied) that is using LVM. Every six hours, I have script that runs and does an LVM snapshot, mounts the snapshot, and rsyncs the data over to another system. I was looking through the

Re: resetting saved lines in an Xterm?

2006-11-15 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:10:05PM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: /usr/bin/reset should do what you want here. Nope - that doesn't clear the scrollback history. It does on every xterm I've ever used. It may not if you are using some funky xterm replacement, or if you have TERM set

Re: Windows look and introductory distros Re: Copy of Kubuntu/Ubuntu?

2006-10-28 Thread mike shlitz
soon on this forum and ask a lot of questions. Mike --- Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While not being able to help with I had a request from a person in Barrington, NH who wants to try Linux for the first time. I was scheduled to be in Portsmouth, NH this morning

Copy of Kubuntu/Ubuntu?

2006-10-27 Thread mike shlitz
living out in MerriLUG - MonadLUG territory now). He asked that the flavor be As similar to 'Windows' as possible... I was going to bring Kubuntu or Ubuntu, but he isn't being picky. If anyone can drop him a copy, I'll give you his address. Thanks, Mike

Fwd: [TriLUG] Ubuntu Studio

2006-10-13 Thread mike shlitz
Hi All, Saw this on the TriLUG list and thought it might be of interest... Mike --- Cory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:02 -0400 From: Cory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: trilug@trilug.org Subject: [TriLUG] Ubuntu Studio Hello my name is Cory. I'd like to announce Ubuntu

Re: UPSes - MinuteMan, others?

2006-08-10 Thread Mike Medai
was having difficulties maintaining a nominal value (in a calibration laboratory) and we needed a nice stable line voltage. Tripp Lite also makes these: http://www.tripplite.com/products/conditioners/index.cfm Hth .. Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: GNHLUG SLUG - Wiki - 8 May

2006-04-30 Thread mike shlitz
Willy said... Welcome ta Woostuh! Mike --- David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been on the list for a few years now and wouldn't dream of heckling Ben or anyone else here; way in awe of you guys. I've been running Linux since RH 6.1 but what I know can fit on the business end

Re: GNHLUG Nashua, Thr 20 Apr, Eric Eldred explains the CC copyright alternative

2006-04-19 Thread mike shlitz
Hi, If we need to RSVP for Martha's tomorrow, I figure four people in my group. Mike --- Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:45:34AM -0500, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Who : Eric Eldred What : Creative Commons copyright alternative Where: Martha's Exchange

Re: Visit LTSP.ORG booth at LinuxWorld...

2006-04-08 Thread mike shlitz
Hi, You might want to take a look at this site as well: http://www.resara.com/ They are located in Keene, NH and offer a terminal server - thin client solution, based in Linux. --- hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One booth that had an interesting project on display was the Linux

Re: Red Hat man pages and escape sequences

2006-02-20 Thread Mike
Ben == Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:27:35 -0500 snip -- Ben 7-bit characters were good enough to go to the moon Scott Actually, six bit characters were good enough to go to the moon. ___ gnhlug-discuss

Out of scan range

2006-01-24 Thread mike shlitz
. Thanks, Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Out of scan range

2006-01-24 Thread mike shlitz
Thanks Ben! Mission accomplished! Mike --- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/06, mike shlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue I have, is that the monitor I have available here is older, and when RH boots, I get the msg. Out of Scan Range. That typically means

mouse wheel ..

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Medai
something to do with a mouse .. plus the original XF86Config where I selected the mouse previously. Any ideas on how I can fix this? I've looked through my manuals/books but haven't been able to glean a solution. Thanks. -- Mike ICQ # 264636151 When shopping for an eyeball-scanning security

Re: How to find rpms for various distros?

2006-01-14 Thread Mike
http://rpm.pbone.net/ This one's been invaluable to me. Click on advanced search to restrict the search to interesting distributions. They also permit searching to satisfy file dependencies. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

OT: commute to Keene

2006-01-12 Thread mike shlitz
Hi, Sorry for the off-topic post. I was wondering if anyone from the list commutes the 101 corridor to Keene? If so, I'd be interested in carpooling even occasionally. I live just west of Milford. Thanks, Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-09 Thread mike shlitz
--- Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 00:08, Ben Scott wrote: Some general commentary... ... I was once told that NT on the Alpha was fairly limited in it's support for 64-bit operation, and didn't even properly support the large memory model. I think it was

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-09 Thread mike shlitz
of $40K when new! At any rate, I'd be open to suggestions as to what I can do to enhance my Alpha experience. Mike __ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-31 Thread Mike Medai
.) L8R, Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Help me avoid Exchange

2005-12-29 Thread mike shlitz
FOSS alternatives avilable out there? Mike __ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT] Grand Unified Theory of Computer Suckage (fnord)

2005-12-28 Thread Mike
There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors. C. A. R. Hoare

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

2005-12-15 Thread mike shlitz
Hi, Planning on attending this evening if all goes well... Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Tux magazine ..

2005-06-17 Thread Mike Medai
Stumbled across this somehow or another .. price is right, and it just might be right for others that are lurking (ahem .. carefully reading to glean information) this list and like me trying hard to become familiar with this great OS: http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ Mike

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-20 Thread Mike Medai
slower than when copying the .wav files. But, that then also means that I somehow set up Lame or CDparanoia to work somewhat? Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-20 Thread Mike Medai
group? Yes, I doublechecked that I was in the disk group also and still can't access the cd via konqueror. Just for grins I restarted my KDE session to see if that might be required, but that didn't change anything either. Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
and I cannot perform tasks that I had been previously. Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
installation .. even from that user I was not able access the CD via Konqueror. I had hoped that the default setup for this second user might have worked and given me a clue about my problem. Boy, I really botched this up good. sigh Mike ___ gnhlug

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
IS odd is that with those permissions, he wasn't able to access the CD via konqueror. Mike, I /now/ suspect that your KDE Sound settings to be at fault here. Your system seems to prefer /dev/sr0, which is odd in my experience, but should work fine. However, your KDE settings, IIRC, were set

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
!! That is another project that is coming to be happening later this year, I hope.) Mike ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

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