Re: audio/realplayer on sony vaio

2000-11-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
Are other audio programs working? Try xmms. -Mark "Joshua S. Freeman" wrote: Hi folks, I've just successfully installed realplayer on my vaio laptop running storm/debian/potato... however, when I try to play something I get: "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be

Re: firewall on a floppy

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: Sendmail stopped???

2000-12-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
Looks like one of your partitions might be full. Sendmail will start rejecting e-mail if there's nowhere to put it. -Mark Skywizard Access Group wrote: group: I jut got this message in processes (ps -auxw) sendmail rejecting connections on port 25: min free: 100 well I

Re: Abiword 0.7.12

2000-12-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
Jeffry, Any chance that AbiWord will support the DocBook DTD? The LDP and other groups that use DocBook are in real dire need of a WYSIWYM XML/SGML editor. The closest is LyX, and its DocBook support is very limited in it. -Mark Jeffry Smith wrote: For those who attended my talk at

Re: Deadline for RSVP's Holiday 4th Quarter Meeting

2000-12-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'll be attending both. -Mark Jerry Kubeck wrote: Well, it is almost time to celebrate. The GNHLUG meeting is next Tuesday December 12th. We have a great presentation, many faces from the Linux Community joining us, and Santa bearing gifts (I hear he is packing the sleigh now). The

Re: Abiword 0.7.12

2000-12-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:45:07 EST Mark Komarinski said: Jeffry, Any chance that AbiWord will support the DocBook DTD? The LDP and other groups that use DocBook are in real dire need of a WYSIWYM XML/SGML editor. The closest is LyX, and its DocBook

Re: Netscape/Mozilla font improvement

2000-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
There is also the Linux Font Deuglification HOWTO, which covers making Netscape look better, but also the rest of X as well. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html -Mark Benjamin Scott wrote: Hello list, At last night's GNHLUG party/meeting, I had mentioned to a few

Re: wavelan success

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
after suspending a laptop. I ended up writing a script to bring down the network and card services first and then re-starting when coming out of suspend but this seems rather kludgy. BTW, the laptop in question is an IBM 600e. -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell

Re: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)

2000-12-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
With all the conversation about giving presentations to the LUG, I figure it's appropriate to mention the Event-HOWTO. It covers some of the basic presentation techniques. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Event-HOWTO/index.html -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux

Re: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)

2000-12-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
them with the police, 5 day waiting period, etc. Or were you talking about kids being harmed by the *contents*? ;) -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Nostalgia (was: New distribution?)

2001-01-04 Thread Mark Komarinski
out there which hope to eventually allow games requiring DirectX to run under a linux gui? Wine gets D3D/DX support: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/30/1427237mode=thread -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: USB novice question.

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
7) Once that's all done, then you can fire up gphoto. Otherwise, gphoto will complain about not being able to open the port. I've been using a USB mouse, Visor, and the camera with 2.2.18 with great success. -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697

Re: Hardware is Linux aware?

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Komarinski
What else could it be? -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in

Re: Linux for Educators

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: (OT) 'Linux Day III' at Burlington Softpro this Saturday

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Komarinski
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New LDP Author Guide is out

2001-01-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: Netscape wedges up - EAGAIN on socket?

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
:55:58 EST Tom Rauschenbach said: Wait a minute. To what part of your post does that smiley refer ? Seriously. Last time I tried Mozilla it was bloated and slow. Are you really suggesting it's faster than 4.x now ? Significantly! It's far more stable as well. -- Mark Komarinski

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
graphical user interface". See the problem? I might buy a graphic CBT (Computer Based Training) system for sed and awk, but a GUI front-end? -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (c

Re: run on startup question

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
on startup but it doesn't run. Anyone know the problem? It depends on the run level you are in. Check /etc/inittab to see what the default is (if you start up X, it's 2). -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] &qu

Re: Warning Banner?

2001-02-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
at startup, before login begins, and again, at telnet connection, before user login starts? -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Have one day pleasant" -

Re: linuxconf (was: apache question)

2001-02-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
that they occasionally do have their uses. I also believe that linuxconf may be a great thing for novices and neophytes. -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Have one day pleasant" -

Re: Distro War - Was Re: Warning Banner?

2001-02-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
Tony Lambiris wrote: Benjamin Scott wrote: I can't understand why people hate Debian's installer so much. It's very straight-forward, and as long as you know a little about your system (at least the module you use for your ethernet device), Debian will install no problem. What do you

Re: Encryption questions

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
x? In any case, I was wondering if anybody would care to recommend any (C based) GPL'd encryption packages for this use? Any you would recommend against? Oh yeah. Linux rules. -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] &q

Re: Linux over OpenBSD

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Komarinski
binaries and maybe no one would know, but that's really not revoking the old license, that's just violating the GPL. The old code is still out there, and others will continue to work on it under the GPL. -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email

Re: Linux over OpenBSD

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Komarinski
the GPL. Basically, you break the licence, and it's revoked. Not sure I understand that one. I thought that previous versions of software under the GPL remained that way until revoked by court order, or MSAOLTWRIAAMPAA finally mangle the copyright law enough. -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior

Re: [linux-biz] ANIVERSARY: 10 years of LINUX

2001-06-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
plain obnoxious (I like it!) Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have one day pleasant - Babelfish

Re: Configure options in RPM?

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: books on firewalls

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
. I can't read Microsoft's. I generally know when an application is using Sun's RPC infrastructure. Any application written with MFC is likely to use some parts of the COM infrastructure and may not even be aware of it. -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell

Re: Fwd:

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: Linux Standardization (was: inted question)

2001-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
. People who do not care will continue to not care, and happily recompile from source. The only standard Linux must follow is freedom. /SOAPBOX -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have one day pleasant - Babelfish

Re: Linux Standardization (was: inted question)

2001-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
Benjamin Scott wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote: But to spend my time searching for the documentation for packages between /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc (as an example) is not a worthwhile use of my time. Indeed, that is a reason to stick with a particular distribution

Re: NICs

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: inted question

2001-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
different distros at the same time is enlightening. Linux needs some standardization badly. BTW: I think my problem is that I did a workstation install instead of a server install. I'm trying that now. -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email

Re: Mass Installation

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
today. -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have one day pleasant - Babelfish ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CERT Advisory CA-2001-04 (another reason to look towards Linux)

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
most lusers would choose to do that... The brainiacs at Slashdot say that this option is for that cert only. If you get a new cert, it will ask again. -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have one day pleasant

Re: inted question

2001-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: NICs

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
Thomas M. Albright wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote: The FA311 is a piece of junk. I bought that last week and tried to use the driver that came on the diskette. The pre-compiled driver was for 2.2.5, and the original source is apparently for 2.0.36. Couldn't get

Re: kernel 2.4.2 debain question

2001-03-31 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: Can Linux solve this problem?

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: Using PDF forms (was: Can Linux solve this problem?)

2001-04-03 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: [Summary] Re: OFF TOPIC: ATT cable modem lossage

2001-04-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
, probably a relative newbie, said the LanCity cable modems usually fail after about 6 months I mentioned I knew someone (Derek Martin) who'd likely strongly disagree, at least for my vintage of modem ;-) Karl -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228

Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: Netscape Question.

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: What does copyright notice on distro CDs mean?

2001-06-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
Also keep in mind that the GPL is a copyright(left), so you can still copyright something that's released under the GPL. -Mark Alex Hewitt USG wrote: I guess what I was after was the restrictions that would apply to copying a Red Hat CD. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think they're

Re: slashdot

2001-06-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Re: StarOffice batch export

2001-07-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
made up, but you get the idea.) Trying to use the online help for this, or Sun's knowledgebase, is enough to make me need therapy.. :-( -- Mark Komarinski - Senior Systems Engineer - VA Linux Systems (cell) 978-697-2228 (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have one day pleasant - Babelfish

Re: C++ training

2001-07-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
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Slides available

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
Slides from my presentation are available at: http://wayga.net/~markk/presentation/melba072001/ There's also a pointer to the magicpoint presentation software I used to make it. I'll ask and see if the next version includes slide scramble technology ;) -Mark -- Mark Komarinski - Senior

Re: Fwd: MELBA Meeting Wednesday, 25 July, 2001

2001-07-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
all, Short version: Who:Ben Scott Mark Komarinski What: What you need to know about connecting your Linux system to the Internet When: Wednesday, 25 July 2001 17:30/18:00ish (Dinner

Re: Sorta OT, but I'm stuck...

2002-02-15 Thread Mark Komarinski
You do need to have +x on all directories leading up to the directory that Apache wants access to. You don't need +r on /home/foo, for example, but you do need +x. And make sure you have +rx on /home/foo/www or /home/foo/public_html or whatever. The security implication is that any +r

Re: MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'm there. I have my IBM thinkpad and Lucent Orinoco card. I also have an SMC2632W which apparently works under Linux. I'll bring it with me so we can confirm if it works. If anyone wants it (after making sure it works) drop me an e-mail. -Mark On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:23:52PM -0500, Paul

Re: `tar` question

2002-02-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
You might be better off using dump. It does work over ssh (and rsh) and goes right to the tape drive of the remote machine. You have to setup RSA keys (I think) for ssh between the two hosts, but I used it a few years ago to back up all the servers to a central tape drive nightly. If you

Re: Debian kernel / PCMCIA stuff for Wednesday meeting

2002-02-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
Pardon if this message looks strange. I've just loaded Ximian and am testing Evolution. IIRC, when you install Debian, you get kernel of the day which does not automagically upgrade with apt-get or dselect, so you have to manually upgrade the kernel. Also means that if you want to have a

Re: Increase your Linux Wireless LAN

2002-03-01 Thread Mark Komarinski
I found the article from Robert Cringley regarding how he used a pair of binoculars and some 802.11 gear to get Internet at his house: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html He has a followup article two weeks later where he answers FAQs from the article

Re: Sun's unreal Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
'course, IBM learned their lesson and are playing nice now. Nice being relative to a multi-billion dollar company. -Mark On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 15:39, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, at 3:21pm, Paul Iadonisi wrote: IBM, on the other hand, is taking the intelligent position: Observe

Re: XINE with sound?

2002-03-06 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 08:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Anyone have XINE working with sound? Sound in general works on my system, but when I play an mpeg clip under XINE, I get no sound, and I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. Any words of wisdom? Yes. Get mplayer

Re: Linux Rescue Boot CD

2002-03-06 Thread Mark Komarinski
Linuxcare has a credit-card-sized rescue CD that was pretty good. Used it a few times to boot machines for testing, fortunately never needed it to actually rescue a system. http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl -Mark On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 15:18, Brian Chabot wrote: Ok, I have a (seemingly)

Re: PHP security flamewar (was: Apache codered looming???)

2002-03-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
. It made for fun. I do remember doing it with CGI.pm, but it was more for convenience than any other reason. -Mark On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: 07 Mar 2002 11:03:59 EST Mark Komarinski said: Nope. You can have variables pre-set when the script

Re: Linux admin help

2002-03-11 Thread Mark Komarinski
Just be sure you don't confuse it with my book with the same name (and same publisher). My book is about 5 years old. BTW, I've got a computer-based-training CD coming out RSN that focuses on RH and runs under both Linux and Windows. It's called Complete Red Hat Training Course. Plenty of

Re: linux on a lattitude

2002-03-11 Thread Mark Komarinski
You can check the Linux on Laptops web site: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I mentioned this to people at the last meeting without sending the URL (whoops!). As far as if a Latitude works, there appears to be a couple dozen entries for specific Latitude models. And I'd recommend RH, with Ximian

Re: NIS help

2002-03-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
Untested, at least on RH 7.2, but I've used something similar before: Edit /etc/sysconfig/network, which should have lines that look like this: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=yourmachinename (whatever that is) and add a line at the end: NISDOMAIN=lds If you take a look at /etc/init.d/ypbind, you'll

Nore on spam

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
I had an interesting thought today, but it's a real strange one, so follow along: Most spam shows up with bad headers like the From: line saying [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is there any way for an MTA to reverse-VRFY a sending account before allowing the communication to continue? I know a lot of mail

Thinking of firewire?

2002-03-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
So I got bored enough to do some testing with external drives. SCSI is a bit expensive, USB is slow, and Firewire is still in progress. Firewire is the best choice of [USB, USB2, Firewire] as FW has a top speed of 400MB/s, and drivers are included with the more recent 2.4 releases. USB tops

Re: Thinking of firewire?

2002-03-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
-Mark On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:19:57PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: 23 Mar 2002 16:27:54 EST Mark Komarinski said: In the end, FW is a pretty nice way to expand the storage of your system without requiring a reboot (if you already have the drivers), not have to pay

Re: Thinking of firewire?

2002-03-24 Thread Mark Komarinski
ideas about how to speed up this unit? It's usable as is for what I want it for, but faster would be nicer. I suppose I could buy a Firewire PCMCIA card (they make those, don't they?) and the Firewire cable for the drive. -- Mark Polhamus Mark Komarinski wrote: So I got bored

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

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

Giveaway time for new users

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

Re: Giveaway time for new users

2002-03-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
Quoting Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have the author copies for my newly released Red Hat Linux Interactive Training Guide CD-ROM. Works on Windows and Linux, plenty of video, audio, and screen video of me yapping away about Red Hat Linux. There's exam questions at the end of each

Re: RPM talk to tomorrow -- need volunteers

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'll bring my laptop and cards. I have a spare 802.11b card, so if you want to test out your laptop with a wireless network, bring it along. -Mark On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, at 12:18pm, Paul Iadonisi wrote: Sorry for the short

Re: RAID Problems

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
If it's a hardware RAID, you just use the RAID firmware to create logical(?) drives out of the array. Once that's done, RH or distro-of-choice will load in the drivers and let you access each logical drive just like an IDE or SCSI drive - partition, format and away you go. IIRC, there's a limit

Re: Java resources

2002-03-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'm reading through Learn Java in 21 days that I picked up at Softpro. That was two months ago, and I'm on day 12. There's a lot of good information in there, but does assume you know a bit about coding and all. I've been doing all the examples on my RH 7.2 laptop without any problems, and

Re: VNC server used for the RPM presentation last night

2002-03-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
Are the slides online somewhere, or can you provide the MagicPoint source for the presentation? -Mark On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:14, Paul Iadonisi wrote: As requested, here's the information on the VNC server I was using last night for the RPM presentation. It's put out by HeXoNet Support

Re: external cdrw recommendation...

2002-03-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
USB 2.0 support is only in the 2.5 kernel. There may be a backport, but you'd then have to roll your own kernel. I have a Philips USB 1.x external CD-RW. USB 1.x supports a write speed of only 4x. Cost me about $150 6 months ago. IF you can't get the drivers working, you can pick up a PCMCIA

Re: Internet Shutdown

2002-03-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
Great! Can you e-mail me when they're done? On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 16:56, Jerry Feldman wrote: No, all the ISP engineers are going to unplug all their wires, modems, routers, and thoroughly clean them to make sure there are no loose bits. When the net comes back up, performance should be

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:06, Derek D. Martin wrote: If you want to test it from inside your network, you can use an open proxy on someone else's network. If you don't know of any (I don't), then try surfing to it with anonymizer.com. I can't test it easily here, but I believe that will

Exim user authentication

2002-04-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
Okay, I'm banging my head against the wall, so time to look for help. I've got exim running on a debian (unstable) box and I want to set up user authentication so I can send mail if I'm outside the local network. I uncommented the lines in /etc/exim/exim.conf and restarted. I created

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 12:07, Tom Buskey wrote: SCSI is *much* faster then ethernet. I also don't want the traffic to go across the net. If you set both boxes up with its own Ethernet card and just run a crossover cable between the two, you can get full duplex 100Mbit. Should be fast enough

Re: SpeedStep and Linux

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Komarinski
My IBM T20 does the same, and every now and then I look to see if there's been any change in how speedstep is implemented. According to AC, it's the hardware that controls the speedstep: http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Oct/0208.html Maybe each hardware vendor has their own driver

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
OO is much better than 5.2. OO doesn't want to take over the desktop like 5.2 did. That's the biggest thing. On the down side, there is some functionality missing, most notably the database access and much of the clipart. I don't need either, so it doesn't bother me. Even used it to whip up

Re: Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 10:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09 Apr 2002 09:45:45 -0400 Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about DocBook. You're not missing much! It's a nice idea (if you live in TheoryLand :) but it's just way too complicated for lazy people

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 13:08, Derek D. Martin wrote: My experience with DocBook is that the only people who *want* to use it are people who enjoy writing documentation, and they're all crazy anyway... ;-) Last I checked (not very recent, but I believe still accurate -- correct me please if

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:15, Derek D. Martin wrote: There are a few newer GUI apps for editing DB, but no real WYSIWYG apps, as...well...DB was never meant to be WYSIWYG. Like? Morphon XML Editor (www.morphon.com) XMLmind XML Editor (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/) Neither falls under

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 15:46, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, at 2:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're not missing much! It's a nice idea (if you live in TheoryLand :) but it's just way too complicated for lazy people to bother with! Hey! Them's fighting words! The real

Re: Documentation (was Re: OpenOffice)

2002-04-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:46, Derek D. Martin wrote: Derek's issue here is that he hates writing documentation. No amount of technology is going to change that. :-) Actually I don't really mind writing documentation, though I certainly don't love it. The real problem is that I have no

Re: Web application

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
If you created www.foo.com/secure that was password-protected, the password/username gets passed back and forth for each page underneath it (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#basiccaveat) The referenced page mentions this as a caveat for basic auth, but probably is true no matter what

Re: Sometimes, activism works...

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
Here's a nasty Yahoo link that talks about Gateway(!) getting into the fray: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyncid=70e=2cid=70u=/cn/20020410/tc_cn/gateway_croons_for_copying_tunes Good quotes: [CD Burner is] one of top five reasons why people buy PCs today Gateway supports your right

Re: Drawing tools similar to Dia/Visio?

2002-04-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
I used to use tkined for at least looking at how the network is laid out. It's a network admin console that uses tk and snmp, can scan subnets, gives nice displays of machines, snmp traps, etc. On the down side, last I used it (maybe 18 months ago) the icons were very outdated (the PC icon was

Re: New Question

2002-04-17 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 14:51, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Most of that I can figure out on my own. The only problem I really have is with the dates. I know 'date +%x` will output the current date as mm/dd/. `date +%j` will give me the day of the year (eg.: today is 107). Using that format

Re: tar failing 'broken pipe'

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 14:56, Charles Farinella wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote: Que? I didn't really understand from your sketchy description what you're trying to accomplish or what troubles you're seeing, but in common practice there are no limits on the size of

Re: tar failing 'broken pipe'

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 15:16, Charles Farinella wrote: On 18 Apr 2002, Mark Komarinski wrote: If I read this right, that's a 40GB tar file you're trying to make? Oops! 40MB. Could there be a quota or ulimit issue? Running quota and/or ulimit will tell you if there's anything set. My

Re: Memory types (was: Hardware Pointers)

2002-04-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just remember that DDR333 is double the actual clock speed (166MHz) Are they using Intel floating point precision to compute that? According my math, 166 * 2 = 332 :) That's integer math. IIRC the actual clock speed is 166.66

Re: Desktop skewed

2002-04-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:29:04PM -0400, R. Sean Hartnett wrote: She knows about the two main desktops, KDE and Gnome, and Gnome is the one that has caught her attention, for whatever reasons. I told her about Helix Gnome, but she prefers not to deal with that, and would prefer the source of

Re: ODBC vs unixODBC

2002-04-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:15:08PM -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: On 29 Apr 2002, at 7:05pm, Cole Tuininga wrote: ... what is the difference between ODBC and unixODBC? It has been awhile, and my memory is rather fuzzy at this point, but I believe there is more than one implementation of

Re: Not that this is any surprise...

2002-05-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, using Gnumeric just removing the 2 blank sheets from this file reduced the size of the file by over 1k. Further, saving it as an XML file further reduced it to 2.7k! That's slightly more than 1/6 the original size, that's what,

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Komarinski
I heartily recommend spamassassin. It used a variety of weightings to see if the mail you have is spam. For example, if the mail is listed in Razor, it's worth 2 points, and if it came from a site listed in one of the RBLs, it's worth a few points, and so on. You can configure the weighting as

Re: Samba Windows Virii

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:25:47 EDT mike ledoux said: I'm facing some pressure here of the 'if this was an NT server, this wouldn't be a problem' variety, so I'm really hoping that there is a known solution for this

Re: HP ships Debian pre-installed on their Blade servers

2002-05-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: 23 May 2002 11:09:07 EDT Kenneth E. Lussier said: It's about time, too. Even Linux Companies like Penguin, Angstrom Micro, and formerly VA, didn't ship Debian. It was all Red Hat. That's not entirely true. VA

Re: Look before you post (was: 2nd Quarter GNHLUG Meeting)

2002-06-12 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:10:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, folks. Once again. Please do not blindly hit Reply or Reply to All or any other function that replies to a message without checking the resulting message headers. The above message went to the gnhlug-announce

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