Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 09:02:41 am Ron Johnson wrote: And the 1933 /King Kong/, the BW /Secret Garden/ (which my 8yo daughter likes), and the live action Disney movies from the late 50s thru mid 70s like /The Shaggy Dog/, /Flubber/, /The World's Strongest Man/, /Escape

Re: new logo on debian.org

1999-08-08 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: John C. Ellingboe wrote: I'm with you also. The chick connected us with Linux but the new logo doesnt do anything for me at all. John C. Ellingboe don't you never see a Genius going out from it's lantern ? like Aladin's story -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: new logo on debian.org

1999-07-26 Thread John C. Ellingboe
John Foster wrote: andreas pÄlsson wrote: I saw the new logo on www.debian.org and I'm curious.. Exactly what is it supposed to symbolize? I don't have much of an artistic mind, but to me it looks like a pigs tail. I do not care for it either.

Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-06-10 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, Have you looked into Freeside at http://www.sisd.com/freeside. Its is for ISP admin/billing and may provide what you want. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: libpam-ldap will allow password change. The rest have to be done manually (or through some

Re: Bigbrother question

1999-06-07 Thread John C. Ellingboe
to go to the bb-dnld area and get version 1.2a since it is much improved from the 1.08 that is in the .deb file. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I have installed the Bigbrother deb, but after having spent hourrs trying to figure this out I give up and ask

Re: Monitoring remote server

1999-06-06 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hey Christian, Big Brother 1.08 isn't unstable at all. Go to http://maclawran.ca/bb-dnld and get the latest tar ball (1.09b or c). It has many nice features and runs very well. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, we have recently gotten our web server set

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread John C. Ellingboe
I notice that dselect has offix-clipboard and there used to be a xclipboard, but dselect doesent find it in stablr now. I haven't used either one so I can't comment on how well they work. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.netbegin: vcard fn: John C. Ellingboe - KE4BPW

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread John C. Ellingboe
with color printing??? The VAX is a Digital/Compaq computer and the forerunner to the Alpha systems. The VAX computer can print color just as good as any other system using the same printer. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Michael Stenner wrote: On Tue, 4 May 1999, John C. Ellingboe wrote: Michael Stenner wrote: I disagree that the cpu would need a fan - I used to run a very old P60 (a REALLY hot chip) without a fan (fan kept breaking...) and it was toasty but caused no problems. If you choose a cpu

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread John C. Ellingboe
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Re: Problem with taper

1999-04-21 Thread John C. Ellingboe
and start taper with the -T (tape dev) option. You will have to resetup your preferences. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.netbegin: vcard fn: John C. Ellingboe - KE4BPW n: Ellingboe - KE4BPW;John C. org:The Guntersville Computer Center email

Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
of the M$ stuff on its own disk so it could never access my Linux disks in any way. You have been warned... John C. Ellingboe Person, Roderick wrote: Hey All, Recently, I added a new drive to my system as the slave 2nd drive. Therefore, I made my old drive a Win95 drive so the family could

Re: ip-up question

1999-02-22 Thread John C. Ellingboe
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help Leafnode again

1999-02-10 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Thanks to Frank and Dave for setting me straight on the /etc/host.allow entries, I thought I had Leafnode working properly. I was using leafnode version 1.4-10 and have now upgraded to version 1.6.2-2. I can access leafnode from netscape on the workstation, but it can't find the group

Need help with Leafnode/Netscape

1999-02-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
/usr/sbin/leafnode, and also entries in /etc/hosts.allow that was added by the leafnode install. Any help/suggestions are appreciated. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.netbegin: vcard fn: John Ellingboe n: Ellingboe;John org:The Guntersville Conputer

Need help with Leafnode/Netscape

1999-02-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
/usr/sbin/leafnode, and also entries in /etc/hosts.allow that was added by the leafnode install. Any help/suggestions are appreciated. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.netbegin: vcard fn: John Ellingboe n: Ellingboe;John org:The Guntersville Conputer

Re: Need help with Leafnode/Netscape

1999-02-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
found them. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net Frankie wrote: Dave Swegen wrote: You could try going into /etc/hosts.allow and changing the hostnames for leafnode so that they use numeric values instead (ie change 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1'). HTH Cheers Dave

[off topic] Video 7 video board

1999-02-01 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, Does anyone have an idea were to find the switch/jumper setup on an old video seven 8 bit board. John C. Ellingboe

Re: plog

1999-01-15 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Jim Foltz wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm

Re: Winmodem?

1999-01-01 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Winmodems and windows printers only work with M$ windoze. The drivers are proprietary and written only for m$ stuff. John Brent Hueth wrote: I've just installed the base Debian system, and haven't been able to get my modem to respond so I can install the rest. I found a description of the

Re: Running seperate eth0 ppp0 networks

1998-12-16 Thread John C. Ellingboe
fine for access to either route. John C. Ellingboe Your default route should stay on your ethernet. I think there are ip.up and ip.down scripts that are executed automatically by ppp. Add the above line to ip.up and a similar line with delete instead of add to ip.down. Untested. I'm

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread John C. Ellingboe
The only lead I had to a location for slink 1440 floppy images gives an error now. Maybe someone else will come up with a URL. I'm afraid you will probably need someone with more in-depth knowledge than me to solve the problem. John Mark Weston wrote: On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C

Adaptec aha1740 errors

1998-11-24 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, I have a Dell EISA server box with a Adaptec AHA1740 controller that has been working well for some time now. Lately I get messages on the console aha1740[xx]_mbxout wait! ,the xx is a random number, but the system seems to be functioning properly. Is this something that I should be

Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

1998-10-22 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and Magicfilter/Gs will convert it and send it to the printer. John Mark Wagnon wrote: I've

Re: Another Dewbie question

1998-10-01 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Ed Cogburn wrote: John Watts wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to do a stealth installation of Debian 2.0.34 on an old P75 system at work and am having some problems. '2.0.34' refers to the version of the Linux *kernel* being used, not the Debian distribution. The most

Re: modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hey Joshua, You may have a winmodem version if it's an internal plug and pray card. There is no support for winmodems in Linux. If you are not sure run pnpdump and it will tell you if it is. John Joshua Wilson wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time

Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, I am trying to setup Diald on my Debian Linux system. The system dials my provider and connects up but refuses to do pap authentication. The pon/poff works properly and does do pap authentication. I used the same dial script used with pon as suggested in the diald example documentation.

Re: Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello Thanks Jens. That did the trick. Diald is working perfect now. John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread John C. Ellingboe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, making more computing resources available, without encumbrances of commercial software. snip 486 linux garbage can computer (in part to show what can be done). Should be fine for the job. snip I

Re: Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread John C. Ellingboe
James Brown (Ender/Gcc) wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but after a reboot the screen flashs from text to graphics mode, and back. I think it might be XDM, as X Windows doesnt load... Any suggestions on how I can stop this? I dont want to format my H/D, and I cant

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
I have been getting the same thing but from every mailing list I'm on. And it's going around for the second time now. John Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:59:05 -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? It is not

Secure credit card transactions

1998-06-24 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, Sometime ago there was a thread on the list about secure credit card transaction software. I have searched the archives and may have not reconized the subject. Could the person/s that pointed the requester in the right directions to find the required software packages please repost your

Questions - nic ident and stuff

1998-06-18 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello to the list, Hopefully someone on the list will be able to identify a couple of network cards I have and recomend what drivers to use for them. 1. Novell Inc. ISA card (designed by Novel manufactured by Microdyne) major chip is DP83905AVQB AT/LANTIC ( 3COM 905 )

Re: printing

1998-05-19 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hi, I went ahead and installed magicfilter and it got the printer going. I kinda figured that if I got things working in text mode first I might have less problems later but it turned out just the opposite. Thanks all, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Printing

1998-05-18 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hi, I am using Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a 486-DX40 (Cyrix). The FTP Linux installation is about two weeks old. Originally I could print to lp using the generic printer in printcap, but got the classic stair step effect on my HP LaserJet 5L. After editing my printcap file and adding the filter

Edit

1998-05-15 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hi, While installing packages with DSELECT I have apparently purged the default debian editor. Could somewone tell me what the default system editor is so I can replace it. TIA John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
. It is the Beowulf project that connects many small Linux PCs into a parallel computing environment. http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/ John C. Ellingboe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SNIP Hello to the list I must stand by the Pine package maintainer on this issue. The maintainer should not be expected to put himself in a bad legal position for anyone just so they can have a convenient

Xwindows

1998-04-08 Thread John C. Ellingboe
output necessary on request. Also where and what file/s do I get to install a stable version of Netscape with this version of Debian. Thanks in advance for any help. John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re:Xwindows

1998-04-08 Thread John C. Ellingboe
several tries to get them right. Also so much of the how-tos are slanted toward Slackware and Redhat and are just enough different from Debian to cause some confusion. Any other suggestions will be appreciated. John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: .ps or .pdf editing app

1998-04-03 Thread John C. Ellingboe
this many times on the VAX with Xwindows and surprised my friends with less capable windowing systems by providing them with a file they could edit. John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running just an X-server

1998-03-06 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Also try Reflection by WRQ. I have found it to be very good in the past. Go to http://www.wrq.com and ask for an evaluation copy. John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two X-clients for Win. You will find them at 1) www.microimages.com This is a free Win95/NT server. I like it very