Re: Laptop suggestions
On 10/4/03 23:16, "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So they've fixed it I guess. There was a problem when it first came out. > > My recommendation is an Apple Powerbook - my daugher got one for school and > it's great! We're running X and OpenOffice on it. > I will second the PowerBook recommendation. The 12" PowerBook can be had for nice price with a DVD burner. You can run Yellow Dog Linux on it but after you use OS X I doubt you will want to. Gento also has a PPC distro now and there are a few others out there. OSX does so much out of the box with the Apple software already and when you add all the Unix applications that you can run its just plain great. The 15" and 17" PowerBooks are a little steep but they are very nice. I currently use a 12" iBook and love it. I'm saving for a new G5 Tower and a 12" PowerBook. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.8 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Why all this- Undeliverable Mail
On 9/2/03 11:38, "Harry Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have recieved about 30 of these from the mailing list. Anyone else > getting them? > > Harry G > > > Its due to the SoBig worm. It must be using the lists e-mail on some ones infected machine and the bounces are coming back here. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: transparency - the real thing
On 8/5/03 0:25, "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how > gorgeous the entire OSX UI is. But what really blew me away was the fact > that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this: > > http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Showcase/screen_shots/03.28.CocoaNTerminal.jpg > > That means that every window can be transparent to whatever is behind it. > Not just the (now) cheap hacks that we see with linux terms, where you get > the background image, and nothing else. > > Or maybe someone can prove me wrong. Is there linux functionality that > will give me true transparency? I love OSX, its not as versatile as Linux but it close and looks just can't be beat. The hardware is a little pricey but its worth the money if you can spare it. I'm running OSX 10.2.6 on an iBook and an original iMac and its great. I have Xfree installed on the iBook and I can run all my Linux programs remotely on the iBook. I don't know of any hack for Xfree that will do the same type of transparency. Another cool feature is the dock if you minimize an app to the dock you can still see it running in the dock, minimize a DVD and the movie still runs in the dock icon. I already convinced the wife to get a new G5 tower, I'm going to wait for the next OS X release (Panther) to pick it up. -- Ray Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [OT] welcome back skippy!
I would also like to say welcome back. I have lurked on this list and the old caldera list for years, its nice to hear from you. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DSL Gotcha
On 7/20/03 23:11, "Shawn Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I absolutely agree. I wouldn't expect them to. But to use a false premise > to justify a lie about their ability to give service to a customer is > criminal in my book > > Shawn DSL wont go over fiber it has to copper from end to end unless there is a remote terminal installed in the area. You still need copper from the location to the RT for it to work. At 15000 feet ADSL gets to be unreliable unless the phone lines are in great condition. The local phone company here is pretty good they will try to make it work if they can and they have rolled out remote terminals in many locations. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DSL Gotcha
On 7/20/03 17:29, "Kurt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Raymond Russell: >> On 7/20/03 0:03, "Kurt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I don't have DSL any more but when I did my installer used CAT-5 cable and >> put RJ11 connectors on it, this helped a lot. I was far out from the CO so >> I needed every little bit of help. > > I'm 12,269 feet from the CO. > > Kurt You are far out to but not that bad. I'm just over 15000 feet and keeping a reliable connection was tough. When I first got DSL the best I could do was 384 which got bumped to 768 later. You should have no problems. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: DSL Gotcha
On 7/20/03 0:03, "Kurt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Michael Hipp: >> Hey, list, >>> >>> I learned something interesting about DSL today. I was having lots >>> or intermittency problems with my DSL connection. A call to tech Kurt Wall wrote: >> >> support later, and it was fixed. Immediately. The solution: make >>> the RJ11 cable from the wall jack to the modem as short as possible. >>> The Ethernet cable can be as long as the protocol supports, but the >>> RJ11 cable needs to be very short, or the connection will be unstable. >> >> I've never seen that problem, but it is no doubt due to the RJ11 cable >> being untwisted. The uniform twisting of cat5 and even good old >> telephone house wire gives it an inherent ability to reject noise. Has >> to do with how the e-m fields cut through both conductors identically. > > This is good information. I had no idea, but this is the sort of thing > that, lacking a proper engineering education, is indistinguishable > from magic. Thanks! > >> And it's a good "trick" to remember for the future. > > On its way to the SxS tips... > > Kurt I don¹t have DSL any more but when I did my installer used CAT-5 cable and put RJ11 connectors on it, this helped a lot. I was far out from the CO so I needed every little bit of help. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Moving Domain Registration
On 7/9/03 23:28, "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I didn't know comcast was so stable. I was talking to someone yesterday > who was told by comcast that the ip might change without notice on his > next reboot. (He wanted to set up a web server) > > I searched for DynDNS and found a page of clients that you can run to > notify them of changes. Comcast service varies by location, some parts of their service area very unstable while others are extremely stable. My IP has not changed since Comcast took over the @Home service in my area. The only problem is that they frown on servers like Kurt said unless you get the Pro level service. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Latest gentoo news (MAC)
On 6/8/03 19:59, "Jerry McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> They are also working on bringing Portage to the OSX platform. >> >> I tried the Live CD it was ok but it does not setup networking or the X >> server. I wish it were more like Knoppix but its good for first release. >> Yellow Dog is still the best for PPC Linux in my opinion. >> > > Gentoo won't drag Xfree off the portage server, unless you want it. As for > networking, did you happen to visit gentoo.org and follow the associated > install instructions? Works for me... There may even be a mac in my future... > running Gentoo ofcourse. > > Would you care to post your bogomip number off the Mac box running yellowdog? > I'd like to compare it to what I'm gettig off my XP2000+... Actually X is on the CD its simple to configure it but it would have been nice to have it setup right off the bat. I know my way around Linux so it was no problem for me to get the X server and the network up. My Yellow Dog box is lowly 7100/80 I doubt the bogomips are any where near the Athlon XP2000+. Currently the Mac platform has been hampered by Motorola's PowerPC road map. Next month new machines based on IBM's Power4 with Altivec should start shipping. My other two machines are lowly G3 based machines one is a 350 MHz iMac and the other is a 700 MHz iBook. Both of these machines run OSX 10.2.6. I ran the Gentoo Live CD on the iBook with no problems. I don't think Linux will be able to replace OSX on these machines for me, I will leave Linux on the 7100 and my x86 machines. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Latest gentoo news (MAC)
On 6/8/03 13:46, "Collins Richey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not much help to me, since I don't have any MAC gear, but looks > fascinating. > > Gentoo now offers a LiveCD that runs on MAC OSX and utilizes > Mac-on-Linux. > > www.gentoo.org They are also working on bringing Portage to the OSX platform. I tried the Live CD it was ok but it does not setup networking or the X server. I wish it were more like Knoppix but its good for first release. Yellow Dog is still the best for PPC Linux in my opinion. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
OT: Comcast was Re: Apache 1.3
On 6/4/03 16:45, "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You would think that the owner of this network, comcast, would just > disconnect these machines. > Heaven forbid they loose the revenue from those users, I think they are more motivated by the bottom line. At the bare minimum you think they would contact the owners of these machines and have them take care of the problem. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Apache 1.3
On 6/1/03 20:41, "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All these ip's are comcast.net. Comcast has gone entirely with dhcp now, > at least in my area. I thought that was supposed to help prevent this > sort of thing. Anyway, it is still a jungle out there. Good. > > Joel > > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:01:42PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: Some of those worms blast the the same sub net that they are on. With so many Comcast users machines being infected it seems this traffic will never stop. I get constant port 80 hits 24/7, you would think that by now this would have been taken care of. I have Comcast also and my area has been DHCP since Comcast took over and my IP has never changed. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.6 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: VMware 3.2 under SuSE 8.1
On 11/12/02 6:36, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Has anyone gotten VMWare Workstation 3.2 to work under SuSE 8.x, parti- > culary 8.1. I have turned acpi on as suggested, but it crashes when I > try to set up a guest operating system. > > Thanks in advance, > > Keith B. I have it running under 8.0 with no problems. Version 3.1 would not run for me under Suse, 3.2 solved the problem. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.1 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Uploading digital photos
On 10/28/02 18:53, "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may be function of the camera. I just looked at a Nikon Coolpic 4500. The > salesman said that the camera had the option of saving in several formats, > including jpg and tif. > Joel > Most of the current cameras can use several formats. The best quality pictures are taken in the un-compressed tiff format. The pictures take up a lot of space at this setting. For casual pictures the jpeg setting on any decent mega-pixel camera will give you great results. I believe the Nikon you mentioned also does mpeg as well. The one thing all the cameras seem to have in common is that they suck the juice from the batteries at an extremely high rate. Go with rechargeable batteries, some cameras have a rechargeable battery pack built in. I have a Sony Cybershot but I have never tried importing photos from it with Linux but it should work like any other USB storage device. I use my Apple machine to get my photos of the camera so I never got around to trying it with Linux. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2.1 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: alternatives to GroupWise?
On 10/2/02 14:35, "Douglas J Hunley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I got roped into a project to re-architect the enterprise email system here at > the state. groupwise is the incumbent here, I'm tryuing to pitch sendmail > switch. of course, exchange is also out there, and lotus notes/domino. what > else are people using? named and URLs would be great. thanks > - -- Are they using all of the features of GroupWise? We use GroupWise at work and very few people use it for more than basic e-mail. If they actually use the features in GroupWise then your replacement will need to have collaboration features. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.2 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: QuickTime 5
On 9/10/02 6:41, "Keith Antoine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 01:20 pm, Tim Wunder espoused with vigour: > >> Well, she's just starting the class, so I don't have any examples. As a >> test, I plan on going to >> http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/movies/index.jsp?frompage=nav >> to view move trailers. >> >> Regards, >> Tim > > The best trailers and the most are at apple > http://www.apple.com/trailers/ > > BTW I personally have installed quicktime in both cxoffice and vmware, its > never hung with me yet. Could it be to do with H/W or connection ? Quicktime has the best visual quality of all the streaming video players in my opinion. With QuickTime 6 Apple has done a great job, now if they would just port the player to Linux. The have a Linux server for QuickTime media that¹s free. Since they are pushing OSX as a desktop Unix I don't think they will port any of their software to Linux in the near future. -- Ray Russell Mac OS X 10.1.5 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: installation
On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 02:13 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Wrong answer, Llama. Of course Linux kernels generally and frequently > work on hardware which wasn't around when the distro was made... i386 > software works on p2's and p3's just fine. Let's not choose the easy > way > out. Let's try to help this guy, so he doesn't maintain his bad > attitude, > and so that you don't continue yours. in the Caldera knowledge base there is a warning about the e-Desktop kernel not supporting all the Pentium 4 features. Also the XP NTFS partition(s) are probably causing problems for the installer. The modern video card is also going to cause problems. He might want to try a text install then upgrade the kernel and the X server. Best bet is to get a more recent distro. Raymond Russell ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: installation
On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 08:25 AM, Herb DeLong wrote: > Sorry, I'll try again. > I have a Dell Pentium 4.I've partitioned it with Windows XP as boot > partition. I tried to install COL e-desktop 2.4 with floppies and I got > message it couldn't install on this machine. > I attempted to install using CD at boot time several times. At end of > install when you insert the new diskette for Rescue Disk error window > comes > on: I have to agree with the Llama, I dont think this is going to work unless you can find an updated install disk from the Caldera FTP site. The Kernel in this distro is not going to recognize the Pentium 4 or the chip set on the motherboard. Raymond Russell Apple OS X (10.1.5) ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Comcast: Changing ip's
By not getting his IP properly from the DHCP server he must have caused some problems. Comcast is a horror show in some area's and I think he lives in an area where Comcast is having problems. They probably noticed his IP was not changing which could cause problems if they were going to assign that IP to someone else. On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 04:54 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:44:52AM -0400, Brian Witowski wrote: >> I'm confused as to exactly what they were claiming you did wrong. It >> is not >> uncommon for a broadband provider to prohibit running websites on >> residential accounts. However they usually don't mind a mail server. > ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Comcast: Changing ip's
Comcast only gives out 6 day leases here in CT. They never change my ip when I renew the lease. If you go to http://broadbandreports.com and go to the Comcast forum there are many posts from users in Maryland that are very unhappy with Comcast. On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 07:30 AM, Joel Hammer wrote: > Thanks. I will look into it. > Sigh. One more thing to do! > Joel > >>> LEASETIME=4294967295 >>> RENEWALTIME=259200 >>> REBINDTIME=3758096383 >>> >>> is infinite in the unix world. >>> >>> As a result, dhcpcd, instead of starting and staying a daemon, >>> watching >>> for the server to reassign the number, always exits after getting this >>> lease time, saying that the lease was infinite, and so why bother >>> running. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
