[EUG-LUG:1488] Re: Stupid me.

2002-02-06 Thread Mr O
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Thanks Bob. I thought I moved an ISO to the other computer but apparently I didn't have the drive mounted so I just copied it into /mnt/images instead. Now the problem is this: X won't start!! Here's the error: Fatal server error: Could not open defaul font 'fixed' Is

[EUG-LUG:1489] Re: Stupid me.

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Miller
Mr O wrote: Now the problem is this: X won't start!! Here's the error: Fatal server error: Could not open defaul font 'fixed' Fonts should be in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts, most likely. And/or the X font server, xfs, should be running. The full root filesystem might have killed xfs. Have you

[EUG-LUG:1490] Re: Stupid me.

2002-02-06 Thread Mr O
Wow!! I have no doubts about what I've read today. On Slashdot/Linuxtoday/Newsforge there is mention of an article by OSDN about the REAL programmers are the veterans. It's a good read. Thanks again Bob. I tend to forget about rebooting considering I don't really run Windows machines around

[EUG-LUG:1491] Re: Events This Week...

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Crandell
I think we should have a thank you at the bottom of the page for Emerald Park. their web page is www.rrpark.org. Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: ... are on the web site, since Rob is back. http://www.euglug.org/ Thanks, Rob! All hail the Sun King. He sure is a fun king. Rob! Rob!

[EUG-LUG:1492] Re: Events This Week...

2002-02-06 Thread Rob Hudson
I altered the shout outs at the bottom to be more in-line with the now. Since a redesign is likely going to happen on the website, (along with moving it to its own server), if everyone could post what they see as a clean and pretty design they like on another website, I'll try to collate those

[EUG-LUG:1493] Re: unwritable drive?

2002-02-06 Thread Jacob Shaw
A hunch, but have you tarred anything to a device lately? I find that it bites Solaris folks a lot, when they use the incorrect syntax, it silently fills up /dev by tarring to a file called x instead of the device x represents. If df -k says its full, it 99.9% is certain it is. You might also

[EUG-LUG:1494] Web Site Redesign (was: Events This Week...)

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Miller
Rob Hudson wrote: if everyone could post what they see as a clean and pretty design they like on another website, I'll try to collate those and come up with something fresh for EUGLUG. I always thought ArsDigita had a clean, easily-navigated site, and it was my inspiration for kbobsoft.com.

[EUG-LUG:1495] Word Processors Considered Harmful

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Miller
This morning a colleague (I love that word!) forwarded me two fine rants against word processors. http://newsobserver.com/wednesday/business/Story/908438p-906360c.html http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html I don't use 'em, myself. -- Bob Miller Kbob

[EUG-LUG:1496] Re: unwritable drive?

2002-02-06 Thread Larry Price
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mr O wrote: Wierdness happening on my RedHat 7.1 box. Getting an error that I can't write to the drive because there's no room?? Have you tried running fsck? Impossible. Anybody have a clue on this one? I have at minimum hudreds of megs on any given partition except

[EUG-LUG:1497] Re: Word Processors Considered Harmful

2002-02-06 Thread Larry Price
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Bob Miller wrote: This morning a colleague (I love that word!) forwarded me two fine rants against word processors. http://newsobserver.com/wednesday/business/Story/908438p-906360c.html http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html The second article promotes

[EUG-LUG:1498] Re: Web Site Redesign (was: Events This Week...)

2002-02-06 Thread justin bengtson
--- Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Hudson wrote: if everyone could post what they see as a clean and pretty design they like on another website, I'll try to collate those and come up with something fresh for EUGLUG. I always thought ArsDigita had a clean, easily-navigated

[EUG-LUG:1499] RE: Word Processors Considered Harmful

2002-02-06 Thread Dexter Graphic
Great references, Bob! Thanks, I really enjoyed them. Here are two more word-processor related links I found. -Dexter Sam Steingold: No Proprietary Binary Data Formats http://www.podval.org/~sds/data.html Richard Stallman: We can put an end to Word attachments

[EUG-LUG:1500] Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread Dennis Eberl
Been away from Linux since my temper flare up re 9/11. Hope I am forgiven. I forgive you all. Anyway, I'm moving and want to get rid of a lot of Linux books (some with CDs), magazines, license plate frames, little Linux Inside blue gizmos you put on your computer (I gave Stan some last year

[EUG-LUG:1501] Re: Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Beard
Hi Dennis, I've been using OS X now for a few months and loving it. I've been talking with a few different people about trying to start an OS X users group mailing list and have had some ok feed back. We could probably get efn or euglug to host a list if we asked nicely :) Jim On

[EUG-LUG:1502] Re: Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread Dennis Eberl
Hey, count me in. I feel the same way. Will help any way I can. Want to get together for coffee some morning and talk about it. (I can bring my Powerbook.) I live at Broadway Place Apartments on West Broadway between Charnelton and Lincoln. The Bistro downstairs has great coffee, espresso,

[EUG-LUG:1503] Post Script -- Re: Re: Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread Dennis Eberl
P.S. -- Oh, and I have a Power Computing Power Tower Pro 200 MHz PPC I want to install Darwing on. Apparently it can be done. Want to put my SCSI CD-ROM burner and DAT tape drive in that box. I need a way to back up my Powerbook and the little MicronPCl.com that I use for Windows 2000 and ASP

[EUG-LUG:1504] Re: Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread kg7fu
How about donating the stuff to EUGLUG or perhaps efn if you need a tax receipt? Anyone up for irc chat tonight 7pm #linux_eugene on dalnet? - jk -Original Message- From: Dennis Eberl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:23 PM

[EUG-LUG:1505] Re: Web Site Redesign (was: Events This Week...)

2002-02-06 Thread Edward Craig
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Bob Miller wrote: I always thought ArsDigita had a clean, easily-navigated site, and it was my inspiration for kbobsoft.com. http://www.arsdigita.com/ http://kbobsoft.com/ But I'm notoriously fashion-challenged. Fashion-challenged is good when

[EUG-LUG:1506] Re: Post Script -- Re: Re: Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Miller
Dennis Eberl wrote: Been meaning to stope over at The Computer Store to check one out and possible electrocute myself by drooling. grin I tried to do that last week. They didn't have them in yet. Apparently at the Macworld announcement, the fine print said, Available end of January. FWIW,

[EUG-LUG:1507] Web site redesign

2002-02-06 Thread Rob Hudson
I think arsdigita.com has potential and would make a good starting point. I've also been a fan of linux.com, but agree with justin about the triple columns. I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few days ago. Not sure about it but have a look...

[EUG-LUG:1508] Re: Web site redesign

2002-02-06 Thread Kahli R. Burke
Rob Hudson wrote: I think arsdigita.com has potential and would make a good starting point. I've also been a fan of linux.com, but agree with justin about the triple columns. I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few days ago. Not sure about it but have a look...

[EUG-LUG:1509] RE: Word Processors Considered Harmful

2002-02-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
Great links! By the way, did anyone send a message to RMS telling him that he should refer to Word as Microsoft/Word ? At 12:19 PM 2/6/02 Dexter Graphic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great references, Bob! Thanks, I really enjoyed them. Here are two more word-processor related links I found.

[EUG-LUG:1510] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: February PLUG Meeting

2002-02-06 Thread David Mandel
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Feb 7, 2002 at Portland State University

[EUG-LUG:1511] Re: Web site redesign

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Miller
Rob Hudson wrote: I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few days ago. Not sure about it but have a look... http://www.euglug.org/new/ I like the subtle lines and boxes. Three things. 1. Overall, I like it. I especially like the light gray, unoutlined boxes.

[EUG-LUG:1512] irc chat

2002-02-06 Thread kg7fu
Join me at 7pm on #linux_eugene on dalnet (irc.dal.net, liberty.nj.us.dal.net, arcor.dl.eu.dal.net, etc). - jk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

[EUG-LUG:1513] Re: Web site redesign

2002-02-06 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20020206.1732, Bob Miller said ... Rob Hudson wrote: I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few days ago. Not sure about it but have a look... http://www.euglug.org/new/ I like the subtle lines and boxes. Three things. 1. Overall, I like it. I

[EUG-LUG:1514] Re: Web site redesign

2002-02-06 Thread justin bengtson
--- Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Hudson wrote: I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few days ago. Not sure about it but have a look... http://www.euglug.org/new/ I like the subtle lines and boxes. it's a good design. but the sidebar on the right

[EUG-LUG:1515] Re: Website

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Beard
I like the new design, my favorite part is the blue screen of death when you click on some links! Jim

[EUG-LUG:1516] Re: Hello. Lots of Linux Stuff TO GO

2002-02-06 Thread Dennis Eberl
Hey, Kappy, email me and let me know how you are doing. Long time no ... Dennis On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 02:56 PM, kg7fu wrote: How about donating the stuff to EUGLUG or perhaps efn if you need a tax receipt? Anyone up for irc chat tonight 7pm #linux_eugene on dalnet? - jk

[EUG-LUG:1517] eugene dsl

2002-02-06 Thread michael white
Maybe this has been discussed before, but I'm thinking about getting dsl and I'm wondering if any of you have any experiences or opinions that you like to share regarding the various local providers? I'm mostly wanting to run some webservers etc. Thanks, Michael White

[EUG-LUG:1518] Re: irc chat

2002-02-06 Thread Dennis Eberl
Hey, Kappy! Do you promise to behave yourself? Dennis P.S. -- Oh, never mind. grin On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 06:02 PM, kg7fu wrote: Join me at 7pm on #linux_eugene on dalnet (irc.dal.net, liberty.nj.us.dal.net, arcor.dl.eu.dal.net, etc). - jk

[EUG-LUG:1519] Re: irc chat

2002-02-06 Thread kg7fu
Me? What planet do you hail from? - jk -Original Message- From: Dennis Eberl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:41 PM Subject: [EUG-LUG:1518] Re: irc chat Hey, Kappy! Do you promise to behave yourself? Dennis P.S. -- Oh,

[EUG-LUG:1520] RE: Web site redesign

2002-02-06 Thread Dexter Graphic
I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few days ago. Not sure about it but have a look... http://www.euglug.org/new/ I like it. What program do you use to write the html? -Dexter