Hi all,
Has anyone set up a Promise FasTrak RAID controller to boot with
grub, or am I stuck with funky ol' lilo?
Cheers,
DennisCustard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal
language.
--Noel Godin
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 01:40, Jacob Meuser wrote:
So, in BSD land there's the notion of a base system, and then you add
packages. This makes basic installs simple. I can install OBSD in about
10 minutes on modern hadrware. Does gentoo do this or do you have to pick
and choose the base
Hi all,
Has anyone set up RAID1 using either the Promise Fastrak or Highpoint
370 RAID controllers on the latest 2.4.x kernels? If so, what sorts of
issues have been involved?
Cheers,
Dennis
Hi all,
Has anyone gotten the OpenOffice network install to work correctly? I
did the 'setup -net' as root and installed in /opt/openoffice. It put
the .sversionrc file in /root, which I copied to the user's home
directory and fixed the permissions. Now, when I try to do the install
of the
Hey all,
I've got a couple of organizations I've been doing some work for
and they want dynamic web site stuff--PHP, MySQL, etc. These
groups both have accounts on EFN, but AFAIK, EFN doesn't have
php. Is there a place I could locate a server to do this-- my DSL
isn't fast or reliable
On 7 Mar 2002 at 16:22, Dexter Graphic wrote:
Is anyone interested in reviewing my ideas (business plan) for
building a free software computer service based on the principles
of participatory economics? Would anyone be interested in having
a meeting to discuss money making business
Hi all,
I've been playing over the long weekend, and if anyone has a good bit of spare time,
you might want to play with Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org).
You compile everything from source, and it has a package system which is something
like a cross between the Free and OpenBSD ports
On 11 Dec 2001 at 5:40, Bob Crandell wrote:
I would have to agree with your conclusion with items 4 5. It's time to
reinstall Windows. ;^)
I guess so. That machine's been running for 1 1/2 years, crashing
once a day. BTW, I now have a machine that has had several
Linux distros running
Hi all,
I'm having a bit of a problem with my LaserJet 5L at work, and am
wondering if anyone might have seen this sort of issue before. The
thing prints fine in Linux, using the LaserJet 4 driver. It used to
print in samba, but no longer. It prints garbage on a Windoze 95
box, using HP's
On Sunday 02 December 2001 16:23, you wrote:
Thanks for the helps but like I says, I'm a RedHat whore because of the
lack of some of those interfaces. I tried using Yast2 for setup of my video
card and it puked on me when I chose a different set of NVIDIA drivers for
my card whether I told it
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
Hi all,
A friend of a friend needs some Perl maintenance work done for ISP-type uses,
and is looking for a contractor (individuals only, no outsourcers). Anyone
interested?
Cheers,
Dennis
Hi all,
Here's an interesting tidbit. I was at a meeting Thursday night. In attendance was
the IT business analyst from EWEB. We got to talking, and I told him I did networks
at the U. He started telling me about the new IT tracking software they were about to
spend $100-$150K on (for a
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 00:35, you wrote:
Ha, couldn't the eugene SAO get a speaker from a company that wasn't
mismanaged to death? Guess they couldn't find a game company that did
anything other than make shelf fodder. I wonder if she will give any
explanation to her part in running
Hi all,
I had to drop a form by Human Resources at the University yesterday. There are 3-4
jobs up on the board for departmental computer support people.
Cheers,
Dennis
--
The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
Hi all,
I've got a shiny new Satellite 3000 that I installed linux on. It doesn't have a PS/2
mouse port, and I hate the stick mouse. No problem-- I popped a logitech USB
trackball on the thing and configured it. Now here's the question-- is there a way
that I can have *both* the stick
Hi all,
I got a new laptop at work-- Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353 w/ Nvidia GeForce2 Go and 256
MB RAM. It's a sweet machine. Only 2 complaints-- APM doesn't work with the Nvidia X
server, and it came preloaded with Winbloze Me. As for the latter problem, I had my
daughter fix it for me
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:51:34PM -0700, Timothy Bolz wrote:
I have one of the ladies at work who is from Mexico and she's into computers.
I was telling her about Miguel de Icaza's from ximian. I said I could get
her a Linux distro. She can read english but she'd prefer spanish. The
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:00:45AM -0700, larry a price wrote:
This is what happens when you let politicians runt the govt.
Apparently the proper palms were greased and that guy wo thinks he's Prez
has ben assured of billg's support in the next election.
And even if it had gone forward
Hi all,
Would anyone happen to know where EFN keeps their mailing list
archives? I need to get a message from one of the Growers Market
mailing lists that accidentally got deleted from my local machine.
Cheers,
Dennis
Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language.
On 3 Jul 2001, at 13:16, Michael Smith wrote:
http://www.onzin.com/fun/new/m/mp3communism.jpg
That's the best reason I've seen yet for downloading mp3s. A
100Mbit internet connection + CD-burner = the destruction of world
capitalism.
If it was only so easy
Cheers,
Dennis
Custard pies
So, what happened?
Cheers,
Dennis
Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language.
--Noel Godin
On 12 Jun 2001, at 18:30, Timothy Bolz wrote:
Question: If you write your own code using the GNU C compiler, does
that make subsequent code GNU? My understanding; it wouldn't if you
wrote the code, but I may be wrong.
It depends on the licenses of the particular libraries (GPL or LGPL)
On 5 Jun 2001, at 17:04, Edward Craig wrote:
I can't see the harm.
I don't know that Microsoft will appreciate rabid Linux partisans
underfoot, and hey, we might have backsliders who'll find XP just what
they need.
I dunno-- that Office XP box would be a mighty expensive
doorstop
On 30 May 2001, at 11:19, Bob Crandell wrote:
Go to the START button. Go to FIND or SEARCH Go to FILES FOLDERS
Make sure the find box is searching the C drive. Type in: SULFNBK.EXE
I got this at work, and had a problem, as WindowMaker doesn't
have a START button. I also couldn't find a C:
On 24 May 2001, at 5:05, Dragon Singer wrote:
Hi LUGger's,
Wayne Sequoia here. I've looked at the SuSe site and would like to
DL
SuSe 7.1. Where can I find the Iso images of the files I need to DL,
and which files do I need to DL? Thanks in advance for any help that
is rendered.
On 18 May 2001, at 8:30, Bob Miller wrote:
I quote:
Sendmail is configured to run in local queue mode, it can send
mail but not receive (you must add the -bd option in rc.conf to
enable it). As OpenBSD's webpage puts it:
Three years without a remote hole in the default
On 10 May 2001, at 0:06, Randolph Fritz wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:45:20PM -0700, Dexter Graphic wrote:
Here's another one: Ransome Love, CEO of Caldera Systems, agrees
with Mundie that the GPL doesn't make much business sense.
Ransome Love just canned Nicolas Peterley. I wonder if
Hi all,
I want to be able to run X apps through ssh on my workstation at work from my box at
home. This works fine within the U of O network. But when I try to run them at home,
I get:
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for emma
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
On 27 Apr 2001, at 20:59, Dragon Singer wrote:
Wayne and Sequoia from the Illinois chapter of Eug-LUG (ROFLMAO), and
I have
a question to put to the group about my wife's HP722c printer. Is
there any way possible to get it working under Linux?
Check out:
On 22 Apr 2001, at 16:01, kg7fu wrote:
Just an informal poll.
Do you use any sort of power saving scheme, from apmd to bios and/or
screen savers, etc., on any servers?
If so, what have you learned to avoid or implement to make them work
effectively?
If not, why?
My servers all
On 26 Mar 2001, at 12:24, Ron LeVine wrote:
http://www.sans.org/y2k/lion.htm
This is why you should keep up on your security patches (and not
run bind, unless you *really* need to).
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel
Hi all,
Check out these links about Linux in the schools in Oregon.
http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/
http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/
Now, we have a way to stamp out Perl illiteracy!
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
On 18 Mar 2001, at 11:31, Tim wrote:
Planning to install this machine with Linux. Just got the
response from support at Compaq that this model is not
Linux-comaptible.
Anything else I can do to make my machine run with Linux?
You can try. The onboard hardware (video, sound, and modem)
Hi all,
As I'm getting tired of replacing cheap sound cards on a regular
basis. Can someone recommend a *reliable* card with onboard
midi (no Ensoniq 1371) that is reasonably priced and works well
with either Alsa drivers or the kernel drivers, and is PCI-based?
Ability to work with Windoze
Hi all,
I went to Staples to pick up a ream of paper today, and guess what
they had-- the FreeBSD 4.2 boxed set, 10 CDs and the book, for
$49.95. I'm pretty used to seeing Linux at these sorts of stores,
but BSD!?!?!?
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal
On 25 Feb 2001, at 16:35, Ben Barrett wrote:
I guess what I was asking was that if one allowed write-permission via
samba, on a [COMPLETE] linux filesystem, and this was compromised on a
windows client, wouldn't that [COMPLETELY] compromise the linux box?
No. Samba is an *additional* layer
On 25 Feb 2001, at 9:47, James S. Kaplan wrote:
IMHO nfs is for LARGE systems, such as greedy corporate or loony
university systems, and those gals can afford $$ for windoze nfs
clients.
I have a linux box that I need to mount its file system regularly from
my linux workstation. I use
Hi all,
Just got word that they're trying to pass UCITA here in Oregon.
There might be some sort of lobby day on March 6. I'll post more
info as I get it.
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
On 17 Feb 2001, at 10:28, jfk321 wrote:
Are we a 501(C)(3) organiozation? If not perhaps a government demo
day woould be an interesting idea. When we can show linux to state and
federal legislators.
Hell, all we have to do is point them at the state of Oregon's web
site-- runs on Apache.
Hi all,
This is strictly a Novell/NT network, but if you're interested, it's a 20
hr/wk job with excellent benefits. I also know the folx involved, so if
you're interested give me a heads-up.
Cheers,
Dennis
- Forwarded message follows-
ORSA will be posting a 0.5 FTE
On 4 Feb 2001, at 20:40, Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
Now to my questions. Recently I have acquired several Sun Sparc
(32)
machines (IPXs, 5s, 10s) and am looking to put a OS on them that is
1) Free/Inexpensive, 2) Fairly easy to install, 3) is fairly
complete. I have looked through the
On 2 Feb 2001, at 17:40, Ben Barrett wrote:
My friend just installed debian potato on his box, and everything
seemed fine (video, soundcard) until we got to networking :((
ifconfig and the routing tables are set up, it seems, but
damned if we can get dhclient to broadcast requests to
LOL!
Cheers,
Dennis
--- Forwarded message follows ---
Company, Like President, Indiscreet; Should Get Same Killer
Deal, Says Ballmer
Redmond, Wash. (SatireWire.com) _ Only hours after
President Clinton struck a deal to avoid prosecution by
admitting he lied in court about Monica
Hi all,
I've finally decided to throw Debian on a box to check it out. Do I
really need to make _all_ those floppy images to do an ftp install,
or is there a better way, like a mini iso image that can get me
where I can ftp the rest of the stuff? I could download and burn the
distribution
Hi all,
Anyone interested in a part-time job?
Cheers,
Dennis
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CATE has the following position open. If interested or any
questions, please contact Joyce Nims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by email or at 6-6467.
Dan Smellow, EC Cares
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On 15 Jan 2001, at 18:49, Mike Smith wrote:
Yes, It runs Windows ME very nicely.
Sure, but after my poor experience with being able to even contact
a tech support person, let alone diagnose the problem, I won't
purchase their products for use on the network I administer,
regardless of OS.
On 9 Jan 2001, at 21:27, Ben Barrett wrote:
coming to some imminent upgrades; don't know much hardware...
can I mix sizes of chips? ie 128mb existing + 256mb new?
both non-ecc, pc100; I dunno the motherboard exactly
but its a k62-350. where do I find out this sort of
thing??
It'll work,
On 17 Dec 2000, at 0:24, Druss the Mighty wrote:
Anyone have any oppinions/experience with this?
http://www.bp6.com/BP62%20copy1.jpg
My box at work has a BP-6 with 2 Celeron-366s and runs SuSE
6.4. I was under the impression that you couldn't put more than 2
Celerons on a board, though.
On 8 Dec 2000, at 11:15, Edward Craig wrote:
Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taxi (I need an income)
Judging from what's been hitting my firewall lately, clipper.net is in
dire need of a network engineer.
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
Hi all,
I built my daughter a FreeBSD box as requested, for her birthday.
Used 4.1.1. This thing is a Pentium 133, 64MB RAM, with a funky
old Trio 64 S3 video card with 2MB onboard; it's positively snappy
running Gnome and Netscape. Plus, the ports collection and the
BSD CVS stuff is way
On 3 Nov 2000, at 10:16, Michal Young wrote:
Sorry for continuing an off-topic thread, but I'm confused about this
message and require enlightenment. (Now! Just do it!)
Captain Beefheart and his Magical Band were a 60's/70's group, and
definitely not a cover group. Albums like "Trout
Hi all,
On Oct 26, I ordered a piece of hardware from Computer-x-Press,
over in Springfield. As they aren't doing will-call anymore, I had
them ship it across town. According to UPS tracking, it was
shipped at 8:30 pm on the 26th. For some reason, it went to
someplace in Illinois, and sat
On 25 Oct 2000, at 8:10, Harald Sundt wrote:
I am a laptop user, and my "network" is the internet...I know that as
a client (not root) I am in essence a user on a network in which my
box is both clent and host.
Now as a client of the Internet "network" and my own little loopback
Network,
Hi all,
Anyone used eDirectory for Linux? I installed it on a box today and
it seems way cool, but I need some generalized help on the
subject, and I can't seem to find any documentation.
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
On 11 Oct 2000, at 13:36, Stephen A. Brenner wrote:
My Linux system (SUSE) hard drive is too frequently coming up with
errors that I need to run fsck on. I'm figuring it has reached the end
of its useful lifespan. Is there an easy way to put a new drive in,
copy from one system to the other,
Hi all,
I've got an old P133 that I'm building for my daughter-- she's 12 and
wants FreeBSD, so I'm quite the proud papa. Anyone got a P200
CPU that I could put in the box. The board will use Intel (the
manufacturer says MMX will work with the newest BIOS, but that
might be questionable),
On 25 Sep 2000, at 18:11, Seth Cohn wrote:
FreeBSD? That's the devil's work, I tell you. You read the source
code backwards and bad things happen. (grin) That cute little
'daemon'? She's 12, she should be oohing over Tux, the roly poly
penguin
The daemon fits her better g.
First
On 19 Sep 2000, at 20:27, Bob Miller wrote:
Has anyone fiddled around with LDAP and/or e-Directory for Linux?
If so, can you give me a lowdown on the subject.
Depends on what you want to know.
Well, I've been reading about LDAP and am wondering if it might
work for Windoze
Hi all,
Has anyone fiddled around with LDAP and/or e-Directory for Linux?
If so, can you give me a lowdown on the subject.
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
Hi all,
I use Windowmaker and fiddle with Gnome some. Anyway, I
installed Helix Gnome on my box at work and it keeps trying to
start IceWM. Anyone know what file to look at to turn this off?
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
On 24 Jun 2000, at 16:58, Gregor Diseth wrote:
I wouldn't search out the local computer stores for Linux support
except for Stan. One well known store will not sell AMD processors or
motherboards, for very short-sighted and illogical reasons.
I went to Staples a while back to pick up a USB
On 16 Jun 2000, at 22:27, Robert M. Solovay wrote:
It's recommended that I gather certain information first. The part
that's difficult for me is the make and model of the video card and
the amount of video ram. Well I know the make [it's Matrox Millenium]
but I don't know the model or the
On 30 May 2000, at 15:18, Edward Craig wrote:
This is an "early warning" notification of the OSU auction and is
intentionally short; more information will be posted Thursday evening.
There will be an auction this weekend, Saturday, June 3, at OSU at
13th and "A" Street in Corvallis,
On 21 May 2000, at 19:31, John Metzger wrote:
I have a Amd k6 450 chip, 160 ram, Asus Mother board, creative labs
3d blaster banshee video card, zip drive and a sylvania monitor. Does
this help?
Either will work fine. I don't know about Mandrake, but SuSE ships
with Glide for that card.
Hi all,
A friend of mine who works at a local nonprofit needs some advice
about setting up a Samba server on a box that is using RAID (0 or
5, he's undecided). Anyone done this?
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
On 24 Apr 2000, at 17:42, Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
I have just setup a soft-raid box. I downloaded the Software
Raid-howto, carefully followed the directions, and everything went
very smoothly. This is not a real high performance box, P200
overdrive, 128 Ram, 4 1GB SCSI HDD, Raid 5, BUT it
On 8 Apr 00, at 8:26, Michael Smith wrote:
Help Wanted Help Wanted: COMPUTER TRAINERS To fill immediate part-time
position(s) for our seminar,
workshop contract training program.
attn: BIS, Lane Community College, 1059
Willamette
On 31 Mar 00, at 9:23, Nyal wrote:
I've got another newbie question I hope someone can help me with.
What I'm trying to do is to mount a floppy disk. When I've tried, I
gotten many different responses including: can't find /dev/fd0, only
root can do that, something about having "too many"
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0800, Carl W. Price wrote:
It is getting close to the time when I do my semi-annual update of the Mid
Willamette Valley LUG web pages. I was thinking of adding a section reviewing
the various Linux distributions. If any of you would like to write a
Hi all,
I got a working SPARCstation 2 donated from LCC to my work.
Anyone got any good suggestions about what I should do with it?
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 05:19:35PM -0800, Ralph Zeller wrote:
I agree with Seth, that whoever gives his time and talent will be
rewarded with others' attention. Even the complete newbies have
something to offer; they are (or ought to be) more sympathetic to other
new users.
If someone
Hi all,
I was going to show up at the Demo Day with my box, but it's my
partner's birthday and I had already promised to take her up to the
snow. But enough of that.
I downloaded IBM's first beta of Toppage for "Linux" today. I say
for "Linux," because, as of now, it runs under WINE (you
f I wanted the genuine Win2K
disk-- for free.
He said it looked pretty cool and he liked it real well, at least, until
he started installing apps and actually trying to run them.
Seems like he got tired of looking at the pretty blue screen
Cheers,
Dennis
Dennis Soper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ano
On 15 Dec 99, at 22:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thought you might find this interesting. Microsoft is looking for a few
good ( linux ) men.
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13564.html
I'm sorry, Billy Borg, but I don't think I'll be turning to the dark side
anytime soon.
Cheers,
Dennis
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