Re: [Eug-lug]Networking question from a novice

2002-10-26 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
I've also got one of these SMC Barcade routers. Here's the spec sheet on the thing (can you tell if its full duplex for this?): ~Beaker --- *** SMC7004ABR Spec Sheet *** Ports: • Four 10Base-T/100BaseTX RJ-45 ports (auto-MDIX/MDI) • One 10Base-T/100BaseTX Broadband WAN port • One DB-9 port for

[Eug-lug]Too Hot (baby)?

2002-10-27 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
I've got a hardware question: how hot is too hot WRT hard drives? The Fujitsu 4 GB UltraSCSI drive I just did an install on is a little loud and seems to run hot, though no errors were experienced during the install. I stuck an digital thermometer on it: 97.1 F. This was with the case open

Re: [Eug-lug]Too Hot (baby)?

2002-10-28 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
I checked - 131F is max disk enclosure temp, so I guess its ok. Its probably the noise that disturbed me - I don't think I'd want this drive in the same room with me on a daily basis! The cooler Mr O referenced looks good, though the addition of two more fans ought REALLY crank up the

Re: [Eug-lug]Debian/Openbsd cancled on account of... security!

2002-10-29 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
Sure to elicit some comment, this came from the Debian weekly news. Ahhrr - good: keep yer damm penguins out of Beastieland j ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

[Eug-lug]Stateful Firewalling minutes + tarball available @ EugLUG site

2002-11-05 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
For those interested, the Stateful Firewalling presentation minutes and tarball are on the Eug-LUG site. The minutes are at meeting minutesspecial events and the tarball is on the misc page. I will be cleaning up the minutes page soon so if there is anything there over a year old that someone

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
date What about setting the time in the BIOS? Will both OS's recognize that properly? --- Dexter Graphic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command you can type at the Linux command line to tell you what time it is (or at least what time the computer thinks it is)? Don't know about Linux,

Re: [Eug-lug]free parts

2002-11-07 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
Mike O wrote: as long as I don't forget I'll be bringing along some older parts to get rid of. Free for the taking. Just a couple socket 7 boards, a slot 1 board and other small parts. Otherwise they will be donated to EFN since I no longer desire to futz with old parts. Cool - I like old part

Re: [Eug-lug]Presentations

2002-11-15 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
want to suggest another topic, whether you'd like to speak on it or not? Didn't we have printing on the menu at one point? How about that? Could be Cups or magicfilter oriented, or just plan vanilla lpf stuff. ~Beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug]Revolution-os DVD - OT? [not]SPAM?

2002-11-18 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Never got an HP phone call, though. Probably after the sixth web request originating from Eugene, OR they realized what was going on and bagged the followup call plan ;^J ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug]Regarding the RH-8.0 Eval CD Packs...

2002-11-18 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I'm just going to bring these things to the presentation and it will be first-come, first-served. They're no big deal really and - as we found in the workshop - they're worthless if your box doesn't support booting from CDROM. ~Beaker ___ Eug-LUG

Re: [Eug-lug]Regarding the RH-8.0 Eval CD Packs...

2002-11-18 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
mike wrote: any legalities to cross regarding duplicating them? Don't think so - its GPL right? Even if there is none-GPL stuff on them, it basically RedHat swag - they _want_ you to have it! ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Eug-lug]Thiz Linux

2002-11-20 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Thiz Linuz Desktop 6.0 http://www.chaintech.thizlinux.com/products/thizlinux60/tld60_main.php Looks like they most are catering to the asian markets (see top-level URL http://www.thizlinux.com ), which might explain why the cheap boxes at Frys come with it preinstalled.

Re: [Eug-lug]IAO, the history machine, and you

2002-11-22 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Some disturbing platitudes. (what exactly is 'truth maintenance'?) http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ I do see one upside to this otherwise gloomy situation: with lots of DARPA $$$ significant progress might be made in the AI field. I do wonder how sucessful goverment snooping of encrypted email would

[Eug-lug]Big brother is a Motor Head!

2002-12-05 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ while checking out the above link I thought I'd see what was on the main DARPA page and found this: http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.htm The cash prize is a cool million (taxpayer?) dollars! ~beaker ___ Eug-LUG

Re: [Eug-lug]Big brother is a Motor Head!

2002-12-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
The course description says that its navigable by a (4x4?)pickup truck, but the vehicle must operate autonomously and - I think - without pit-stops for refueling, etc. The fuel with the highest energy density thats readily available is diesel AFAIK. Any publicly available signals are allowed,

Re: [Eug-lug]Big brother is a Motor Head!

2002-12-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Beaker (aka Jeff W) wrote: The course description says that its navigable by a (4x4?)pickup truck, but the vehicle must operate autonomously and - I think - without pit-stops for refueling, etc. The fuel with the highest energy density thats readily available is diesel AFAIK. Any publicly

Re: [Eug-lug]Big brother is a Motor Head!

2002-12-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Bob Crandell wrote: Looks like the hardware costs are getting periously close to sky high. Too bad. It would a lot of fun. Well, sponsors are allowed - know any deep pockets ? ~beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug]OT - The Spam Song

2002-12-10 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Anyone hear Wayne Brady sing his SPAM Song (sung to the tune of War by Edwin Starr, c.1970) on the Wayne Brady show? Pretty funny stuff. ~Beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]Dan's text based computer system

2002-12-15 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Here are the facts: Dan does not want to use a graphical user interface (GUI) to relate to his computer (that means no windows, icons, mice, or pointers). snip He has a philosophical/political preference for free (as in speech) software and would rather not continue using Windows 95 and its

Re: [Eug-lug]Dan's text based computer system

2002-12-15 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
: *Reality Check!* I'd like to apologize for the harsh tone of my earlier post. I'm sure Dan deserves a hand with with breaking the Windows habit as much as anybody. What can I say - all this rain is starting to get to me... -beaker ___ Eug-LUG

[Eug-lug]Eug-LUG News Calendar

2002-12-31 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Both these events/issues have been noted/added on the www.euglug.org site. Looking forward to this Saturday's presentation! - Beaker Title: Regular Expressions Presenter: Seth Cohn Time: Saturday, January 4th, 1:00 to 3:00 PM Place: EFN World HQ, 43 W. Broadway --- This

Re: [Eug-lug]First January Presentation

2003-01-04 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
The next EUGLUG presentation is THIS Saturday. Be there, DAMN! I completely spaced this (inhaling too much sawdust I guess). I so wanted to go too as I'm trying to learn more advanced (g)awk sed techniques. Oh well... Could someone forward the minutes for posting on euglug.org ? -Beaker

[Eug-lug]ISO unusal graph/chart program

2003-01-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I'm looking for a program - preferably OS of course - that can generate a circular bar chart (basically it looks like a pie chart but each slice is actually a bar radiating out from the center). Ideally, the program would accept simple ASCII data files as input. Something that can run in a

[Eug-lug]Re: ISO unusal graph/chart program

2003-01-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I don't know what OS means.. Sorry - Open Source. Figured since it was a LUG list and all... Anyways, the nearest looking thing I've found is something called a 'wind rose chart', typically used map wind data. The GDChart package does look like it could be tweaked, but given my novice

Re: [Eug-lug]Is there anybody besides me who doesn't smoke pot!

2003-01-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I'm beginning to wonder if this whole movement is, for the most part, just a drug-induced mass-hallucination. Dexter Graphic | | V V DEAGoon Have we been infiltrated? ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug]Resurrecting Gopherspace

2003-01-07 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Recently freeshell.org resurrected their gopherspace (gopher://gopher.freeshell.org) with the idea that not only would it help slow the protocol's demise, gopher's uniformity and starkness make it unappealing to the various commercial interests that some feel have monopolized the http

Re: [Eug-lug]Resurrecting Gopherspace

2003-01-07 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
.. There's no reason why you can't map a hierarchical gopher-like structure to a web site using little or no HTML and Apache's intrinsic directory listings. Or even using anonymous ftp for that matter. I agree - there is no point in having/maintaining separate file trees. I _do_ think being

Re: [Eug-lug]keyserver breakage

2003-01-10 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Joseph Carter wrote: I advocated use of wwwkeys.pgp.net before.. I find I must now retract that recommendation now given that I have discovered the HKP corruption bug. WTF is the HKP corruption bug? If you have a key, say .. Are you sure this is a bug? Here's what the gpg manpage (on netbsd)

Re: [Eug-lug]keyserver breakage

2003-01-13 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
For those BSD folks who want/need to use ldap-authentication: http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html This has been ported to [Free|Net]BSD ; don't know about OpenBSD. I'm not sure we really need this for just checking keyservers. Alternately, one could just use pgp5 which I think uses ldap as

Re: [Eug-lug]Idea for ELUG mascot...

2003-01-15 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Ralph Zeller wrote: This would have been a great mascot for ELUG, with a Northwest theme, too bad it's already taken: http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/pics/lars.gif I was think'in of dressing Tux /or Beastie up like Jerry Garcia to better reflect the Eugene experience. -Beaker

Re: [Eug-lug]Unusual num-pad behavior

2003-01-15 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
No dice. Neither key-combos work on my home workstation, either... Is there a file where I might find out what's up? Or three, more likely... ahh, precious linux, precocious linux. I'm not getting it to work either. I assumed it's because my X server is 4.1.0 (RedHat 7.2). Has anyone seen this

Re: [Eug-lug]quick commands with text

2003-02-01 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Ben Huot wrote: select GNU textutils commands attached These were the only ones I could find that would be useful for me as a writer. snip What?!? - 'rev' isn't useful to a writer? 8^J -beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Eug-lug]Re: free archive!

2003-02-04 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Carter wrote: | | We do have a chatter list - it's called activism. | Speaking of the activism list - could someone send me the signup link off-list? I went looking for it shortly after that graphic Dexter thread and couldn't find it. -

[Eug-lug]Re: Naked on the Net

2003-02-04 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Barrett wrote: | Something more important (for those of us who think we care), seriously, | is how can we gain/retain/regain privacy *without* significantly | impacting our familiar routines and operations?? One thing's for certain: the more

[Eug-lug]Re: nobody's shell

2003-02-07 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |1) Talking about nobody -- what should be his/her shell ? | My distro decided on /bin/sh whereas some system accounts are assigned | | I think it depends on what nobody's doing by default, or what you do and | don't want nobody to be able to do

Re: [Eug-lug]X w/ 48 mb ram

2003-02-13 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
If you have a mixed hardware environment (such as mac, pc, sun, ...) and all the computers must run the same OS, then linux is probably your only answer. And if you want the OS to be consistent across that mixed hardware, then Debian and NetBSD are likely the only choice. Ben - FWIW, I run

Re: [Eug-lug]local LTSP endeavors? (was X w/ 48 mb ram...)

2003-02-13 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Ben Barrett wrote: PS - Anyone else want to volunteer to help with local LTSP endeavors? I'd be up for it in a few weeks. I was planning on helping out at Pleasant Hill but I had an appendectomy about two weeks ago and am still feeling it. Sounds like Ken got several helping hands; maybe next

Re: [Eug-lug]UnitedLinux cds in.

2003-02-18 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
$ since I know he just loooves SCO. Huh? What? Did someone just take my ${name-in-vain}? Don't SCOwl Bob. (sorry, had to say it) ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]UnitedLinux cds in.

2003-02-20 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Jacob Meuser wrote: I thought it was because they acquired the rights to the original Bell Labs UNIX - http://www.sco.com/scosource/ Yes, thats it. Here's some excerpts from an internetnews.com article last month: Ref: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1573491 The crux of the

[Eug-lug]Sendmail help/hack needed

2003-02-20 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Does anyone know how I might go about enabling incoming mail via sendmail directly to my box, assuming it has a valid, world-readable address? I've always just used either fetchmail or similar, but I've got valid name now and thought it would be nice to just have it send directly, assuming its

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-02 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
That still asks, how to enforce. 802.1x can use MAC based authentication. That would require the customer to supply the MAC address before they can use it. But the whole point is moot since they don't really care who uses it, they just need/want to know how many are using. Couldn't you just

Re: [Eug-lug]snip banter

2003-03-04 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
[Tim Bolz] used to write up minutes for the weekly clinics and posted them to the list back when it was at Stan's Linux Training Center on 7th. Those were highly regarded emails! Yes, they were. I loved reading them when I was out of area. Maybe one of us should do the same for Tim's benefit.

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-05 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I hope this will clarify how it works and answer Josheph's e-mail about homepna. It works very well. You get dsl speeds nothing super fast. But if there are a lot of guest on it will slow down due to the bottleneck at the dsl going out. I got between 450-600 in the guest rooms. You

Re: [Eug-lug]cron and mandb

2003-03-05 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Rob Hudson wrote: Every morning when I come to my workstation at work (Debian testing), my CPU is maxed out at 100%. If I look at top, I see mandb is taking up 100% CPU. Looking at my process tree shows this: snip Anyone have an idea of what's going on and how I can fix it? from

Re: [Eug-lug]Oregon Open Source Bill Introduced

2003-03-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A news entry regarding HB 2892 has been added on http://www.euglug.org - -Beaker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[Eug-lug]SCO sues IBM over Shared Libraries (hooks)

2003-03-07 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
This story has been /.ed. The actual complaint can be read at http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html -beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]new images available

2003-03-08 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Bob Crandell wrote: It's old and slow. What's to be impressed? Why, the gesture of course. For all those future EUGLUG CD roastings, thanks! ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]new images available

2003-03-09 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
It's my box but EFN's bandwidth, so the login, scheduler, however we end up setting things up will need to download only late at night when the line is not in use. (NB. there's at least one network backup to work around as well) Making an ISO from an existing CD doesn't take too long, so its just

[Eug-lug]Tech Brewpub Time/Date/Location?

2003-03-12 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I've been meaning to go to one of these for some time - could someone send me the specifics? TIA, -beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]tonight clinic

2003-04-01 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Which SVDP outlet is the 'computer' location (like the GW Coburg location). Its on West Broadway, a couple blocks west of Garfield (a warehouse district). -Beaker ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug][Fwd: [laneopensource] HB 2892 - history in the making]

2003-04-02 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
This might be interesting to hear -Beaker Original Message From: - Wed Apr 02 13:27:13 2003 From: Ken Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [laneopensource] HB 2892 - history in the making Oregon's House Bill 2892, a piece of legislation that I wrote, will be heard at 8:30 am

Re: [Eug-lug]HB2892 Update

2003-04-02 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Cooper Stevenson wrote: Finally, I am told that the Business Software alliance _will_ be testifying in opposition of this bill. If some of you could do some research on the BSA and send me links of articles outlining their practices, motivation and case history I would be very great full. This

Re: [Eug-lug]HB2892 Update

2003-04-02 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Finally, I am told that the Business Software alliance _will_ be testifying in opposition of this bill. Here's another telling link: http://www.howtotell.com/ww/script/bsa.asp I think perhaps BSA is a puppet organization of M$ -Beaker ___ Eug-LUG

Re: [Eug-lug]HB2892: Consideration For Mabrey's Muslix Bill

2003-04-04 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Fortunately, Mabrey's Muslix is actually _very_ well known and backed heavily by IBM, Hewlette Packard, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and many others in the breakfast cereal industry. Further, Mabrey's Muslix, powers the fifth largest prison system in the world! M...Mabrey's.

[eug-lug]Regarding Off-Topic Stuff

2003-06-03 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Just thought I'd remind everyone that EUGLUG's Blog* is available for posting off-topic material: http://euglug.net/blogs * don't forget to enable cookies. -Beaker ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[eug-lug]euglug.org :: Message Board

2003-06-10 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I'm following the following posts from our Message Board so that they might get actually responded to (yes, we have a msg board; its at http://www.euglug.org/board.phtml ). --- message 1 --- Subject: Mandrake 9 and XP pro delay prob Posted by: Sean on 3-Jun-03 at 10:26 pm setup... Cable

[eug-lug]Bill's Mug Shot

2003-09-29 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/gatesmug1.html Of course you already knew he was no good j - Beaker ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

[eug-lug]Herding list info updated

2003-10-19 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Kind of surprised no one said anything about the Herding list link being broken. Anyways, up-to-date info (for obtaining more info) has been added and the dead link removed: http://www.euglug.org/list.phtml -Beaker ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL