Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Robert E. Raymond
On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:01 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:21:17 + Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer today and installed Redhat 9. It's currently reminding me why I don't use an RPM

HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Bill Campbell
I'm getting a bit frustrated with HP after recommending that one ouf our customers buy an HP scanner for use with their SuSE 8.2 system. They bought a ScanJet 3670 which is seen by the kernel, but sane doesn't seem to recognize (sane-find-scanner says it might be a scanner, but that's as far as

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:27:40 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a bit frustrated with HP after recommending that one ouf our customers buy an HP scanner for use with their SuSE 8.2 system. The reply I got [ from HP ]that basically said bugger off, we don't support

Re: devfs - interesting news

2003-08-29 Thread Joel Hammer
This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only one maintainer? And, can we avoid its replacement and just go back to the bad old days? I believe lindows came precompiled with devfs, and of course, I wouldn't dream of compiling a lindows kernel without devfs, even if I

Re: where'd gcc go??

2003-08-29 Thread burns
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:13, Net Llama! wrote: Not sure if that's supposed to be a joke or not. Probably. 5 out of 10 The site come sin good now. Probably just malformed html, open tag etc. -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing Network parameters Col 311

2003-08-29 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:44:04 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] domain $DOMAIN search $DOMAIN for as long as I can remember, on every UNIX OS I've run (several), it has always been EITHER domain OR search, but NEVER both. Anyone got current documentation stating differently?

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Federico Voges
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:27:40 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: I'm getting a bit frustrated with HP after recommending that one ouf our customers buy an HP scanner for use with their SuSE 8.2 system. They [big snip] scanners on Linux. My reply was mostly polite, saying that I could see no reason to

Re: Changing Network parameters Col 311

2003-08-29 Thread burns
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:16, Javier Hernandez wrote: Hi all, I am running Openlinux 3.1.1 in my portable. I needed to change the network parameters (static IP, Netmask, gateway). I got a problem with the menu interface to change the network: Preferences-System-Network-Devices so I

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Bill Campbell
Ted, Collins: May I quote you in my correspondance to HP? I just got a reply to my last e-mail saying: ``Although this service is provided as a means of technical support for our customers, we appreciate any feedback about our company's products and services. The e-mail message you sent

Re: devfs - interesting news

2003-08-29 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/28/03 16:33, Joel Hammer wrote: This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only one maintainer? Have you looked at the MAINTAINERS file? Just about everything has only a single maintainer. And, can we avoid its replacement and just go back to the bad old days?

Re: where'd gcc go??

2003-08-29 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/28/03 16:42, burns wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:13, Net Llama! wrote: Not sure if that's supposed to be a joke or not. Probably. 5 out of 10 The site come sin good now. Probably just malformed html, open tag etc. Ya, i noticed. I thought maybe it had something to do with the

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread burns
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 20:01, Bill Campbell wrote: It so happens that I'm typing this an an HP Visualize P-Class running SuSE 8.2 which is standing next to another HP Visualize P550, right beside my HP 4M Plus with duplex attachment. I think that qualifies me as a customer (not to mention the

Re: where'd gcc go??

2003-08-29 Thread burns
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 20:08, Net Llama! wrote: Ya, i noticed. I thought maybe it had something to do with the compromise of the Gnu ftp server a while back. Perhaps... Although some folks don't need any outside help in breaking things. -- burns

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, burns wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 20:01, Bill Campbell wrote: It so happens that I'm typing this an an HP Visualize P-Class running SuSE 8.2 which is standing next to another HP Visualize P550, right beside my HP 4M Plus with duplex attachment. I think that qualifies me

Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2003-08-29 Thread Mail Delivery System
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message has been rejected because it has a potentially

Report to Recipient(s)

2003-08-29 Thread UNMCNOTES02 . UNMC . EDU/Servers/UNEBR%UNIVERSITY_OF_NEBRASKA
Incident Information:- Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender The file mime001.txt (document_all.pif) you received was infected with the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus and was deleted.

Re: devfs - interesting news

2003-08-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only one maintainer? The same way the VM maintainer does, and the IDE maintainer, and the USB maintainer, and... And, can we avoid its replacement and just go back to the bad old days? Heavens, yes. I

Re: where'd gcc go??

2003-08-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 20:08, Net Llama! wrote: Ya, i noticed. I thought maybe it had something to do with the compromise of the Gnu ftp server a while back. Perhaps... Although some folks don't need any outside help in breaking things. I resemble that remark... --

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Bill Campbell asked: That said, can anybody recommend current scanners that are well supported under Linux? My current need is for a pretty vanilla flat bed scanner, but we will also need ones with automatic document feeders. Take a look at the Epson 1650/1660 or 2400/2450 scanners. The SANE

Re: Changing Network parameters Col 311

2003-08-29 Thread Myles Green
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:49, David A. Bandel wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:44:04 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] domain $DOMAIN search $DOMAIN for as long as I can remember, on every UNIX OS I've run (several), it has always been EITHER domain OR search, but

[OT] SCO T-Shirt

2003-08-29 Thread Kurt Wall
http://members.shaw.ca/sparepix/tshirt.jpg -- Entropy isn't what it used to be. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Enscript question: Making page colored

2003-08-29 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone know a way to make enscript produce output with the entire page colored, not just the text background? Enscript will take raw postscript. Is there a way to make postscript make the whole page a particular color? Thanks, Joel ___

Sending SCO Execs to Jail

2003-08-29 Thread Kurt Wall
I filed a complaint against SCO with the Pennsylvania Attorney General. Here's their reply: http://www.kurtwerks.com/bcp_letter.html Anyone heard of response to such complainst? Kurt -- I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me

Re: Changing Network parameters Col 311

2003-08-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth David A. Bandel: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:44:04 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] domain $DOMAIN search $DOMAIN for as long as I can remember, on every UNIX OS I've run (several), it has always been EITHER domain OR search, but NEVER both. Anyone got current

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:23:34 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The P-Class (dual PIII 1GHZ) machine is prone to random lockups where the only way to get control is via the power switch. I haven't worried much about that though since it's main use is as my desktop mule and test

Re: Enscript question: Making page colored

2003-08-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: Does anyone know a way to make enscript produce output with the entire page colored, not just the text background? Add \shade{val} to the top of the document, where val is a decimal value between 0 and 1. Then, invoke enscript as $ enscript -e\\ foo -o foo.ps That gives

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Ted Ozolins
Bill Campbell wrote: Ted, Collins: May I quote you in my correspondance to HP? Yes you may. You can also tell them that at one time The only printers and scanners I used to recomend were HP. I've run into problems with HP scanners that will-not-work under Linux no matter how many chicken feet

Re: Sending SCO Execs to Jail

2003-08-29 Thread burns
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:43, Kurt Wall wrote: I filed a complaint against SCO with the Pennsylvania Attorney General. Here's their reply: http://www.kurtwerks.com/bcp_letter.html Good for you. Now if every Linux user in America, corporate and personal, were to make such a complaint to the

Kudos

2003-08-29 Thread burns
A couple of days ago, my ISP instituted a blackhole of (read = refused to accept) traffic from this list. This was based upon an arbitrary listing issued by a vigilante group in the Netherlands. Their rationale was that the SxS listserver uses DHCP, and many rogue spam servers also employ DHCP.

Re: Kudos

2003-08-29 Thread Myles Green
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:29, burns wrote: A couple of days ago, my ISP instituted a blackhole of (read = refused to accept) traffic from this list. This was based upon an arbitrary listing issued by a vigilante group in the Netherlands. Their rationale was that the SxS listserver uses DHCP,

Re: Kudos

2003-08-29 Thread burns
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 00:45, Myles Green wrote: ack! I hope not the same one I use? No. It was Istop.com, a small regional DSL provider (re-selling surplus Bell bandwidth) and who was supposed to be Linux-friendly. -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:20:34 -0400 Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:01 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:21:17 + Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer

Re: devfs - interesting news

2003-08-29 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:50:19 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Joel Hammer: This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only one maintainer? The same way the VM maintainer does, and the IDE maintainer, and the USB maintainer, and... And, can we

nscd

2003-08-29 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Is there really any benefit to running nscd (name service cache daemon)? The system running it is a firewall that does name lookup in the world, but not for so many users. To me it seems unnecessary. Any opinions? -- ++···+ · Roger

Re: Apache setup help [SOLVED]

2003-08-29 Thread Tom Condon
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:13, Kurt Wall carved in granite: Directory /web/site.burps/htdocs Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory Do be sure to restart Apache. Also have a look at the server logs.

Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Robert E. Raymond
On Friday 29 August 2003 02:38 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:20:34 -0400 Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:01 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:21:17 + Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:50:44 -0400 Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried kportage? I have. Again, not enough like Windows Update in the Ease of Use department... A little button running 'emerge -Uu system' and 'emerge -Uu world'? The only problem is that new config

French Sobig emails

2003-08-29 Thread Shawn Tayler
Hi Guys, Has anyone on the list been getting supposed bounced emails from an MS MUA that contain the Sobig virus the past 24hrs? Shawn ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: [OT] SCO T-Shirt

2003-08-29 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:13:57 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://members.shaw.ca/sparepix/tshirt.jpg Kurt Are you bragging or complaining g? cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /(

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Bill Davidson
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:27:40 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, can anybody recommend current scanners that are well supported under Linux? My current need is for a pretty vanilla flat bed scanner, but we will also need ones with automatic document feeders. Check the

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:05:23 + Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: Ted, Collins: May I quote you in my correspondance to HP? Yes you may. You can also tell them that at one time The only printers and scanners I used to recomend were HP. I've run into

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:05:23 + Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: Ted, Collins: May I quote you in my correspondance to HP? Yes you may. You can also tell them that at one time The only printers and scanners I used to recomend were HP. I've run into

Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:33:13 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:50:44 -0400 Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried kportage? I have. Again, not enough like Windows Update in the Ease of Use department... A little button

Re: Kudos

2003-08-29 Thread Collins Richey
On 29 Aug 2003 00:29:16 -0400 burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of days ago, my ISP instituted a blackhole of (read = refused to accept) traffic from this list. This was based upon an arbitrary listing issued by a vigilante group in the Netherlands. Their rationale was that the SxS

Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Tim Wunder
On 8/29/2003 9:45 AM, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:33:13 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:50:44 -0400 Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried kportage? I have. Again, not enough like Windows Update

Updated Step

2003-08-29 Thread Nobody
Douglas Hunley has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/spamassassin.html to incorporate the following: Updated to include the now required DB_File module ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: ASSISTANCE

2003-08-29 Thread James McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Greetings,I am Bennard William VAYE {A Liberian}who has just gotten off My Father with the help of PresidentTaylor. Yours Truly, Bennard William VAYE ( In Distress) ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

2003-08-29 Thread Robert E. Raymond
On Friday 29 August 2003 10:46 am, Tim Wunder wrote: Hey! I sure hope you don't mean that all RH-users are unsophisticated users... FWIW apt for rpm and synaptic provide nice GUI front-ends to RPM... http://freshrpms.net/apt/ Regards, Tim Oh, there's definitely plenty of sophisticated

Re: French Sobig emails

2003-08-29 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:32:58 -0700 Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the short list, ask who hasn't. I've been getting lots. BTW, they all come from M$ MUAs. David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder:

Updated Step

2003-08-29 Thread Nobody
Doug Hunley has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/spamassassin.html to incorporate the following: Updated to adjust the \'perl Makefile.pl\' command to deal with 2.6x+ of SA ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Slow printing on RHL 9

2003-08-29 Thread Tim Wunder
I'm conducting an experiment with a willing subject at work. I've installed RHL 9 and he's using it in his day to day activity. One of his activities involves logging onto an online 3PL site (Third Party Logistics) and printing a 2 page bar coded shipping document. RHL 9 is configured to use

Re: Slow printing on RHL 9

2003-08-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: I'm conducting an experiment with a willing subject at work. I've installed RHL 9 and he's using it in his day to day activity. One of his activities involves logging onto an online 3PL site (Third Party Logistics) and printing a 2 page bar coded shipping

Re: HP scanners on Linux.

2003-08-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
I'm coming in late to this party but I, also, would like to add my vote for Epson. After using an HP 4C for several years, it went TU and HP's only response was that they were sorry and I would have to buy a new one. After surveying the market and checking SANE supported devices:

Re: Slow printing on RHL 9

2003-08-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
Tim, I'm still exploring the mysteries of CUPS, myself, so this may be of little help, but the first thing I would check would be your choice of printer driver. When you install a new printer under CUPS, your presented with a choice of drivers. The CUPS people actual provide a few, the GIMP

Re: Slow printing on RHL 9

2003-08-29 Thread Tim Wunder
On 8/29/2003 4:28 PM, someone claiming to be Mike Reinehr wrote: Tim, I'm still exploring the mysteries of CUPS, myself, so this may be of little help, but the first thing I would check would be your choice of printer driver. When you install a new printer under CUPS, your presented with a

Re: Slow printing on RHL 9

2003-08-29 Thread Tim Wunder
On 8/29/2003 4:26 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: I'm conducting an experiment with a willing subject at work. I've installed RHL 9 and he's using it in his day to day activity. One of his activities involves logging onto an online 3PL site

Re: Kudos

2003-08-29 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 burns shocked and awed us all by speaking: listing issued by a vigilante group in the Netherlands. Their rationale was that the SxS listserver uses DHCP, and many rogue spam servers also employ DHCP. What utter BS - that's like banning the use of

Re: French Sobig emails

2003-08-29 Thread Keith Antoine
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:32 pm, Shawn Tayler wrote: Hi Guys, Has anyone on the list been getting supposed bounced emails from an MS MUA that contain the Sobig virus the past 24hrs? Shawn Yes I did, via this list g. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland

Re: Kudos

2003-08-29 Thread Tom Marinis
Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 burns shocked and awed us all by speaking: listing issued by a vigilante group in the Netherlands. Their rationale was that the SxS listserver uses DHCP, and many rogue spam servers also employ DHCP. What utter BS - that's like