[EUG-LUG:2559] SOT office

2002-05-06 Thread Ben Huot
SOT office is suppossed to be better than Open Office and Star Office. http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/advantages.shtml Does anyone else used these products? Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EUG-LUG:2560] BIG FILES

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, I'm talking to a guy about a new workstation running Redhat. It might have a striped, mirrored set of drives totaling 320 gigs for capacity and throughput. He does some heavy arithmatic and uses most of this to hold temporary files that could be 5 - 10 gigs in size. The computer he has

[EUG-LUG:2561] RE: BIG FILES

2002-05-06 Thread Grigsby, Garl
Title: RE: [EUG-LUG:2560] BIG FILES Bob, I believe that large file support was added in the 2.4 kernel. Not sure what apps will work with 2 Gb files, but I could copy one from my HP-UX box and try it. Let me know if you want me to try. Garl -Original Message- From: Bob Crandell

[EUG-LUG:2562] Peru bill

2002-05-06 Thread Tim Howe
Have you guys read the letter at www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html ??? I am blown away at the knowledge and savvy of this Peruvian Congressman. Maybe somebody will pop my bubble, but he is single-handedly tearing apart every argument that MS has for proprietary software over free

[EUG-LUG:2563] Re: Peru bill

2002-05-06 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:16:55PM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: Have you guys read the letter at www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that. Even if it wasn't from a Peruvian Congressman (the person obviously has spent some time with free software, and given

[EUG-LUG:2564] Re: How does MandrakeUpdate work?

2002-05-06 Thread Horst
I haven't seen any response so far, and my answer doesn't exactly address the central questions (auto-upgrade/pay-system/or free) But if you like more control over what will happen on your machine a manual upgrade is described in: http://www.mandrakesecure.net Then click a patch: (it

[EUG-LUG:2565] RE: BIG FILES

2002-05-06 Thread Mike O
I know somebody who had that problem. What you need to do is download and compile the 'enterprise' kernel and your problems shalt be solved (after I finish your box first). Mr O --- Grigsby, Garl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, I believe that large file support was added in the 2.4