On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:34:31PM -0700, larry a price wrote:
So in preparation for taking on a new OS (netbsd)
I've been reading
the docs and trying to make sure I have answered most of my questions
about hw, things like PCMCIA support, and sound etc.
2 things:
Thing the first: Is
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:24:10AM -0700, Justin Bengtson wrote:
i also
asked about sound editing programs and such, but no one has replied (or
knows what i'm talking about, or just plain doesn't use them...)
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/
Pretty sure there's a .deb for snd (As
larry a price wrote:
The other:
What are the main gotchas of switching from linux to bsd?
What habits are going to get me in trouble?
Cultural and technical differences not emphasised in the documentation?
The OpenBSD web site has a FAQ chapter titled Migrating from Linux.
It's only a
It was on /. a couple of hours ago, so you've probably already
seen it. If not, point your browser to:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1275-210-7632187-1.html
The coming open monopoly in software
The article explains, cogently, why World Domination is inevitable.
--
Bob Miller
Well, the RedHat 7.2 ISO's are available to those wanting them and cider
sound good, is it spiked? :-) That's all for now.
Later,
Mr O.
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:05 am, you wrote:
so i figure i'll just stop by mr. o's tonight and nab some red hat cd's.
what kind of beers y'all like?
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:05, Justin Bengtson wrote:
hey, i don't have a usb joystick...
actually, last night i said screw it and installed debian (as sole
OS), but the installation messed up. then i found the freeBSD CD
someone had secreted in my laptop case (while furiously tearing
i still can't find the CD. thanks, tho.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Bigler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:3424] Re: the windoze XP-erience
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:05, Justin Bengtson wrote:
hey, i
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:29, Justin Bengtson wrote:
i still can't find the CD. thanks, tho.
I hope you enjoy Red Hat. Boy, that cider sounds great!
-Original Message-
From: Mark Bigler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:28 AM
To: [EMAIL
As long as the label doesn't say Lite I'll partake of some and/or cider
too. Not everyone is into drinking but you never know once you mention it on
the list.
Me.
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:31 am, you wrote:
yeah, the neighbor had it fermenting for a good month and a half. don't
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:40, Justin Bengtson wrote:
(red hat users, PLEASE don't take offense to this...)
chris showed me red carpet one night. i was highly impressed. i
don't know if i'm going to get over my feeling that red hat is the
AOL of linux, but i'm probably just jaded by my
*BSD is out because it doesn't recognize my hardware (at least freeBSD
didn't). biding my time involves putting XP back on the system because i
can't find my 2K CD either. that's an option i really don't like... my
feeling is that 2K was the best OS micro$quish ever made (not saying
much...)
Justin Bengtson wrote:
the freeBSD CD someone had secreted in my laptop case
furiously tearing apart the house looking for my Progeny CD
i can't find my 2K CD either.
It sounds like you don't need a new distribution, you need to get down
to Staples and buy a CD case. (-:
--
Bob Miller
the life of a bachelor...
-Original Message-
From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:3431] Re: the windoze XP-erience
Justin Bengtson wrote:
the freeBSD CD someone had secreted in my laptop case
Interesting bit of news for ogg-heads, found here:
http://www.vorbis.com/ot/latest.html
Ciaran Anscomb of the BBC (yes, that BBC) has announced that they
are testing scheduled Ogg broadcasts with icecast 2.0. You can tune
into these broadcasts at http://support.bbc.co.uk/oggstreams.shtml.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:31:24AM -0700, Justin Bengtson wrote:
yeah, the neighbor had it fermenting for a good month and a half. don't
question the methods, just drink it... it's pretty bitter, so non-purist
cider drinkers may not like it.
beer? suggestions should be mailed to [EMAIL
Hola folks,
A week or so back Ben and I got to talking about free wireless access
points. I know this is a popular topic these days, but the issue that Ben
and I were discussing was what a local users group could do to promote
something like this.
We were thinking that it could
Can't talk about it yet, but I've got some ideas
in the works that touch on some of of the
wireless net stuff we've discussed in the past.
'Free' isn't really free, and it's important to
make that clear. Someone will end up paying for
it, and the question is who and when and how
much.
I just
Jim Beard wrote:
We were thinking that it could be cool to provide a distro on a CD thats
all set up to act as a dchp server for any 802.11 card that happens to be
nearby. We could try to bundle a few different monitoring and logging tools
with a pretty stable distro that had modules
Strange but true:
I just had a knock on the door. It was someone
selling stuff. He said Do you use any beef,
chicken, pork, etc here? Yes, you got it, he
was selling _meat_ door to door. Talk about cold
calling! Driving a refridgerated truck, he
clearly was doing this for a living.
Sorry,
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
snip removed=jim beard's wifi access distro idea
I'll riff on your idea. I would like to see a package with the
self-describing name, Debian Appliance Kit. It would be an easy way
to build a debian-based subset distro for Linux appliances. Use the
This used to happen back home all the time... It was always stolen
meat.
TimH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Seth Cohn
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:3438] Unlikely Door to Door
You should have told him,
Why should I buy from you when I can just download from freshmeat.net,
for free?
http://www.efn.org/~laprice( Community, Cooperation, Consensus
http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes
http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but
'Free' isn't really free, and it's important to
make that clear. Someone will end up paying for
it, and the question is who and when and how
much.
Sure, there's deffinatly no such thing as a free lunch, or bandwidth i
guess, but by 'free' I meant free to the end user. The random roving
--- Jim Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'Free' isn't really free, and it's important
to
make that clear. Someone will end up paying
for
it, and the question is who and when and how
much.
Sure, there's deffinatly no such thing as a
free lunch, or bandwidth i
guess, but by 'free' I
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:45:07PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
Jim Beard wrote:
We were thinking that it could be cool to provide a distro on a CD thats
all set up to act as a dchp server for any 802.11 card that happens to be
nearby. We could try to bundle a few different monitoring
Seth Cohn wrote:
I was discussing this today with KBob, in fact,
and trying to figure out a good way to
track/charge, since so many spoofing/sharing
possiblities arise.
I'm really interested how Starbucks plans on
doing this, among others who plan on selling
access. I'm still mulling it
Euglug participates in the Oregon Country Fair under the auspices
of the Doors of Expression (formerly Communications) booth in the
Community Village.
The Community Village general meetings are scheduled for the
second Wednesday of the month in November (on the 14th) and monthly
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:36:16PM -0700, larry a price wrote:
you could start with the 'compact' installation set, the problem (if
you think it's a problem) is that you are dealing with a field of vastly
varying Hardware platforms and needs. It might pay off to set up some sort of
Seth wrote:
Oh I understand. That was why I mentioned it.
The problem (as we've run into before in
discussions here on the list) is that the
infrastructure costs are pretty high, and I truly
wonder if a 'free' service can be done long term,
or in any organized fashion.
Are the infrastructure
I would like to point out consume.net, which has guided a lot of my
inspiration on the subject. I agree with many points made, and esp.
with the attitude of trying all ideas on for size to help eliminate the
rumples in the carpet, so to speak. My idea (I hope to share my
connection by 2002,
I'd like to note for the record that even though it's unenforced, it
REALLY DOES make a difference if you're trying to make a difference.
Beyond making a difference, you're more likely to be allocated a pass
if you show up!! Beyond getting a pass, the meetings are a great way to
get to know
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 16:27, Seth Cohn wrote:
Strange but true:
I just had a knock on the door. It was someone
selling stuff. He said Do you use any beef,
chicken, pork, etc here? Yes, you got it, he
was selling _meat_ door to door. Talk about cold
calling! Driving a refridgerated
Hi all,
It appears Micro$loth has banned non-IE (specifically Opera,
Mozill, and Konqueror) from msn.com, saying that the browsers
won't render the site properly. Of course, if you download the page
in another browser and save it, it works fine, and lets you navigate
the site. If you tell
Description at:
http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/i386/index.html
No ISOs for awhile yet, but, with a bit of work, you can install using
ftp.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:13:46PM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote:
The
bandwidth allocation problem is one of the least familiar to me --
anyone have any ideas or good links?
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=altq.conf
altq lets you control the bandwidth per interface
--
[EMAIL
Getting rid of some older computer parts during our move. Free to
anyone who wants them. (It's mostly junk, sorry :)
33.6 Cardinal internal modem
33.6 Hayes internal modem
270 MB Quantum IDE hard drive
261 MB Seagate IDE hard drive
130 MB Maxtor IDE hard drive
4x TEAC CD-Rom drive
Canon
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