[EUG-LUG:356] Re: last Thursday's meeting January 11, 2001

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Crandell
Well, Cory's keyboard is smaller than mine. I guess he doesn't mine cramming his fingers together trying to find those little chicklet keys. Chris' Twiddler2 is a zero handprint. As long as you maintain a firm grip, it won't fall under anything. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/17/2001 8:26:36 PM On Wed,

[EUG-LUG:360] Re: Energy production and the Malthusian dieoff

2001-01-18 Thread Cory Petkovsek
I think a pound of feathers is heavier than both! Which of these three pounds hits the ground first when dropped from the same height, simultaneously, in a vacuum? On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:09:07AM -0800, Bob Crandell wrote: A British Thermal Unit (BTU) is a measurement of the amount of

[EUG-LUG:361] Re: Energy production and the Malthusian dieoff

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Crandell
If this is an automated test, then the one controlled by Slackware will result in all objects hitting the ground simultaneously. The one controlled by Debian will have results that are undefined. ;^) How can 1 pound of one thing be a different weight than 1 pound of something else? [EMAIL

[EUG-LUG:362] Any have cool command line tricks?

2001-01-18 Thread Rob Hudson
Since I (and probably others) learn best from examples, I thought it would be cool if we all could share command line tricks that we've picked up and use often. Tricks with perl, awk, sed, xargs and all the other unix tools with redirects and pipes - the works. I've often written things in perl

[EUG-LUG:363] scratch install

2001-01-18 Thread Darrin Lajoie
Situation: Lets say I want to migrate all users on a Debian slink machine to a new Debian potato machine that's just been setup with identical packages (only a root user and a single user account have been created on the new box). Question: What's the easiest way to get the dozen or so user

[EUG-LUG:365] Re: last Thursday's meeting January 11, 2001

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher Allen
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Cory Petkovsek wrote: but the keys are regular size (width by length). Just not regular height. Cory, I think it would be kinder and more inclusive to say your laptop's keys are alternatively statured. -Chris

[EUG-LUG:366] PostreSQL

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Crandell
GreatBridge sent us a CD with v7.03. We're not interested. Anyone want it? It's full, unabridged for Linux. It has RPMs for Redhat 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0. It includes the source in tar.gz. Let me know and I'll bring it to the meeting tonight. Bob Crandell ComSource Associates, Inc. Your IT

[EUG-LUG:367] Re: PostreSQL

2001-01-18 Thread Sean E. Keener
Bob, YesI would love it. Thanks Sean Bob Crandell wrote: GreatBridge sent us a CD with v7.03. We're not interested. Anyone want it? It's full, unabridged for Linux. It has RPMs for Redhat 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0. It includes the source in tar.gz. Let me know and I'll bring it to the

[EUG-LUG:368] Re: PostreSQL

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Crandell
It will be there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/18/2001 11:07:29 AM Bob, YesI would love it. Thanks Sean Bob Crandell wrote: GreatBridge sent us a CD with v7.03. We're not interested. Anyone want it? It's full, unabridged for Linux. It has RPMs for Redhat 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0. It includes

[EUG-LUG:369] Re: Energy production and the Malthusian dieoff

2001-01-18 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:08:36AM -0800, Bob Crandell wrote: If this is an automated test, then the one controlled by Slackware will result in all objects hitting the ground simultaneously. The one controlled by Debian will have results that are undefined. ;^) How can 1 pound of one thing be

[EUG-LUG:370] Re: Any have cool command line tricks?

2001-01-18 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:15:55AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: Since I (and probably others) learn best from examples, I thought it would be cool if we all could share command line tricks that we've picked up and use often. Tricks with perl, awk, sed, xargs and all the other unix tools with

[EUG-LUG:371] Re: scratch install

2001-01-18 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:51:25AM -0800, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: cut and past the appropriate lines from the password file of one machine to the password file of the other machine. Garl You will also need to migrate their home directories; cd to /home, # tar cf - . | (ssh $OTHERHOST "cd /home

[EUG-LUG:373] Re: debian and reiserfs

2001-01-18 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:10:12PM -0800, Joseph Anthony Griffo wrote: It appears that recompiling the mandrake kernel is an 'impossible' task. If not impossible, it is at the least a very difficult task. It is for this reason that I think it is time to do a debian install. My question before

[EUG-LUG:374] Re: Energy production/Malthusian dieoff, hey LINUX

2001-01-18 Thread Ben Barrett
How can 1 pound of one thing be a different weight than 1 pound of something else? Which of these three pounds hits the ground first when dropped from the same height, simultaneously, in a vacuum? Weight is subjective; we weigh difference amounts when we go from place to place, not just

[EUG-LUG:375] Re: Energy production/Malthusian dieoff, hey LINUX

2001-01-18 Thread Joseph Anthony Griffo
REAL Q: Has _anyone_ gotten a new (homemade) kernel to boot on the standard Mandrake 7.2 install? I have attempted on Mandrake 7.1 to no avail. I think that we get the same 'unable to mount root' error each time. quite annoying! p.s. I looked at the debian/reiserfs install page, and it

[EUG-LUG:376] HELP WANTED: Python programmer

2001-01-18 Thread David Mandel
Tim Grant from Avalon Technology group sent the following posting to me. They are looking for a budding Python programmer. This is a good group of people who are very Open Source oriented. --- Forwarded

[EUG-LUG:377] Re: Energy production/Malthusian dieoff, hey LINUX

2001-01-18 Thread Ralph Zeller
I compiled a kernel for Mandrake 7.1, back when I was using it. As I recall, it compiled without problems. However, the Mandrake patches were incompatible with Win4lin patches, at the time, so I ended up using a plain kernel compiled from sources from kernel.org without reiserfs. This link

[EUG-LUG:378] Re: Energy production and the Malthusian dieoff

2001-01-18 Thread Dexter Graphic
From: Christopher Allen Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 22:40 On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dexter Graphic wrote: of the power now being generated by fossil fuels. In short, the end of oil signals the end of civilization, as we know it." http://www.dieoff.org/synopsis.htm Judging by

[EUG-LUG:379] Debian Install Question

2001-01-18 Thread Dennis Soper
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

[EUG-LUG:381] Re: scratch install

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Miller
Garl R. Grigsby wrote: cut and past the appropriate lines from the password file of one machine to the password file of the other machine. Do the same for /etc/group. And for /etc/shadow, if you're using shadow passwords. -- Kbob [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[EUG-LUG:382] Re: Energy production and the Malthusian dieoff

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher Allen
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dexter Graphic wrote: John McCarthy's wild exuberance seems to depend on the prospects of unlimited nuclear energy through breeder reactors. Let's see how many people would be in favor of PGE setting up one of those here in Eugene. g EWEB was on track in 1969 to build