LinuxWorld Expo

2000-08-17 Thread Bob Miller
I just got home from LinuxWorld Expo in the San Jose Convention Center. Here are some impressions, in no particular order. If it isn't obvious, these are all my personal opinions. It should also be obvious that I'm writing this for a varied audience, and parts of it won't be interesting to

Re: File size limit?

2000-08-17 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Crandell wrote: It seems that I've hit a limit on file size. Do you recall anything related to that when installing the big disks? Two of my runs ended with the wonderfully informative message "System error: Input/output error", after running beautifully for ~12 hours. The output file

Re: Clusters in Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Bob Miller
Garl R. Grigsby wrote: The thread on clusters brought a couple of questions to mind. I just have one question. What do you guys want a cluster for, anyway? -- Kbob [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/

Re: Team EUGLUG?

2000-08-17 Thread Rob Hudson
Bob Miller said these things on 2817.0135: | Garl R. Grigsby wrote: | | What did you do for SGI? | | Worked on the Indy and O2. Wrote two daemons named fam and mediad. | Wrote the MIDI driver for IRIX 6.5 (all platforms). Several projects | that never shipped. Interesting. EFM uses fam

Re: Clusters in Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Bob Crandell
The world's err Eugene's largest calculator. Maybe if it's big enough, fast enough, easy enough to get to, easy enough to work with, maybe it could be rented out to people like my client (in Florence) who is running astrometric calculations and is having problems with files growing larger

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Smith
Er, whatever. PPP=PPP and IPPacket=IPPacket. Only thing is, they want to serve you a banner, and they can't do that if you have a "foreign" dialer. Didn't we all have this discussion awhile ago about free dialup connections? It should be archived. If anybody can come up with a local

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Bob Crandell
I got POP to work for a little while. I gave it up because they don't do attachments (free) and, at the time, I didn't have access to SMTP. Today there are so many choices, why bother? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/17/2000 9:53:39 AM Er, whatever. PPP=PPP and IPPacket=IPPacket. Only thing is,

Re: Clusters in Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Smith
The expression "shits and giggles" comes to mind. Bob Miller wrote: Garl R. Grigsby wrote: The thread on clusters brought a couple of questions to mind. I just have one question. What do you guys want a cluster for, anyway? -- Kbob [EMAIL

Re: Clusters in Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Garl R. Grigsby
Because I have 5 Sparc 10's and nothing to do with them. Michael Smith wrote: The expression "shits and giggles" comes to mind. Bob Miller wrote: Garl R. Grigsby wrote: The thread on clusters brought a couple of questions to mind. I just have one question. What do you guys

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Seth Cohn
I thought you had a beowulf cluster of Seth's brains instead of a "PC-compatible". Doesn't everybody My brains aren't GPLed though. I license them out on as needed basis under a highly restrictive license. If I did GPL them, I'd package them for Debian. Seth

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Smith
That's funnyI've been saying for years that your brain was "forked". Seth Cohn wrote: At 11:59 AM 08/17/2000 -0700, you wrote: Seth Cohn wrote: My brains aren't GPLed though. I license them out on as needed basis under a highly restrictive license. If I did GPL them, I'd package

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Seth Cohn
At 12:37 PM 08/17/2000 -0700, you wrote: That's funnyI've been saying for years that your brain was "forked". That's twisted, not forked. Sometimes my tongue is forked. And you haven't known me for years unless... hmm, mr nsa... Excuse me while I put my aluminum foil headgear back

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Smith
So, does anybody have anything useful to say today? That is, other than picking on Seth??? Besides, aluminum foil doesn't work...only a 3-mm thick sheet of lead can stop the satellites. Seth Cohn wrote: At 12:37 PM 08/17/2000 -0700, you wrote: That's funnyI've been saying for years that

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Seth Cohn
At 12:50 PM 08/17/2000 -0700, you wrote: So, does anybody have anything useful to say today? That is, other than picking on Seth??? BTW, the courts decided for the MPAA on the DeCSS trial. Your shirt is now illegal.

DeCSS was: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Smith
Yeah, sounds like the judge totally missed the point about why DeCSS exists. However, I do agree with him when he said that the authority to decide this is the DMCA (AKA, the law). At any rate, the defendants will appeal and this will end up in a higher court and have national jurisdiction.