Here is a development/organization project some of you might find interesting.
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FreeDevelopers.net -- A company of free developers, by free developers, for a
free world.
Press release on LinuxToday, October 3, 2000
(Submitted by Tony Stanco of Free Developers)
Please
Does anyone know where I can find hardware specs
for laptop computers that will work with Debian G/L?
By the way, I enjoyed meeting many of you last night.
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Since there seems to be a lot of interest in BSD on the list, I thought
I'd forward this article which I received from ZDNet. (Please note that I
personally do NOT use OpenBSD, this is just the title of the article.)
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Why I use OpenBSD
by Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet News
http
FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
If while pursuing distant dreams
Your bright hopes turn to gray,
Don't wait for reassuring words
Or hands to lead the way.
For seldom will you find a soul
With dreams the same as yours.
Not often will another help you
Pass through untried doors.
If inner forces urge you on
I just read in Tim's report that you were talking about energy
at last week's meeting (I was planning to attend but got called
on a repair job about 18:00 that evening.) Anyway, here is an
article on our energy prospects that just "kicks ass." -Dexter
"Petroleum geologists have known for 50
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
Ju
Here's a reply I received from Jamie. He said I could forward it to
the list. -Dex
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From: linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:43
To: Dexter Graphic
Subject: Re: [EUG-LUG:20] RE: Q: Help with a hard drive
I think what ron was thinking
Oh yeah? I didn't know that. To whom? -Dex
Corel also recently sold off their Linux bidniz.
Cory
Title:
Time to boycott Symantec and Amazon? Patenting
software is like licensing words and phrases -- imagine the nightmare of writing
a letter or news article if you had to apply for permission to use certain word
combinations and then had to pay a fee for every copy of your letter or
Hey, look what I found in the news this morning! -Dex
The GNU GPL and the American Way
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010228/12/the-gnu-gpl
Updated 12:53 PM ET February 28, 2001
by Richard Stallman , founder of the GNU Project
Defenselessness is not the American Way. In the land of
the
Who censored you and why? Would you please send me your censored
post directly so I can see what is going on for myself. -Dexter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
James S. Kaplan
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:05
To: [EMAIL
Great post Carl. It's the most promising sign of intelligent life
I've seen on this list since I got here. Do you mind if I forward
it to some folks I know at eVote who are working on GPLed voting
software? http://www.deliberate.com/eVote/eVote.html -Dexter
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From:
I thought this article was interesting because it gave some
salary/profit numbers for GNU/Linux IT Professionals. -Dex
Cracking Windows
By Fred Aun, March 7, 2001 8:14 AM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/0,12249,2693201,00.html
Now we did it. we talked to people
Thanks Cory, I missed some of the URLs. -Dexter
Here are my notes from the seminar. They may or may
not be completely understandable, but hopefully they
will provide some help for those who couldn't make it.
Cory
I'm on a [probably fractional] T1 here. Any read on how well this
stuff plays on the average Windows box with a 56K baud modem?
Dennis
It takes a really long time to download the first time, and the sound
and images are all broken up. But if you hit replay at the end, it
runs at normal
Here's another one: Ransome Love, CEO of Caldera Systems, agrees
with Mundie that the GPL doesn't make much business sense.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2717264,00.html
You've probably heard about Microsoft Senior VP Craig Mundie's
speech, seen by many as an attack on Open
An article from ZDnet that mentions FreeSoftware use in Eugene.
-Dex
Open Source Code: A Corporate Building Block
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010514/10/open-source-code
Updated 10:55 AM ET May 14, 2001
by Charles Babcock, Interactive Week
It started as a small rebellion - a warning
A wonderful essay on free.
It's long, I know, but there is lots of good stuff in there to make
you laugh and think.
Cheers,
Dexter
http://www.diggers.org/kaliflower/dtf.htm
It's time to stock up on memory chips and cheap computer parts
while we still can. Although without power what good will they be?
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China Says War Games Are Routine
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010605/06/int-china-war-games
Updated: Tue, Jun 05 6:23 AM EDT
BEIJING (AP
Linux forklifts in the data warehouse
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010606/09/linux-forklifts-in
by Evan Leibovitch, Linux
The data center is discovering the benefits of Linux and open
source.
Quietly, in what sometimes seems like stealth mode, Linux
systems have been moving from the front
I'm hoping that some of you will find this interesting. -Dexter
Technology and the corruption of copyright
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2770541,00.html
By Joshua S. Bauchner
Special to ZDNet
June 7, 2001 8:20 AM PT
COMMENTARY--In 2010, the concept of copyright will
I think this whole thing is a great idea, Tim, and I am impressed by
your initiative in doing it, especially on such short notice. I plan
to be there to see what happens. -Dex
I think some of you hardware aficionados will like this! -Dexter
SleekLine mounted under the desk:
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/sleekline/sleek_line_desk.htm
A look under the hood:
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/sleekline/sleek_line-back.htm
Main Sleekline Datasheet:
Here is a link I found which shows the empty case by itself.
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/sleekline/sl_case_plus.htm
You could put in your own motherboard if you wanted, but the
system they've put together using an ASUS motherboard with
built-in graphics, sound, and 10/100 Ethernet
I see your point now, Justin. Thanks for explaining. I guess I shop
more for interesting concepts than for low prices. I see money as a
way of rewarding innovation and compensating people for quality
workmanship. So I always try to buy the very best product available
(if I can afford it.) smile
Perhaps one of you will know someone who is interested in this:
I have a 21 Nokia monitor I would like to sell or trade so that
I can build the slimline U1 system of my dreams. g The monitor
is in excellent condition, has perfect color balance for desktop
publishing or graphic design work, and
Is this what you mean? http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Chassis/SC811-SCA.htm
Do those rack mount brackets on the side come off? The case does not look like
it was designed for use outside of a rack. I was unable to find any stand-alone
U-1 or U-2 cases at the Supermicro site. Although, I'm
Hey guys, I hit the jackpot! Look at all these 1U, 2U,
and even 3U 4U cases. And they all accept full size
drives instead of requiring a special laptop version.
They even come with risers for mounting an expansion
card or two sideways. Now, I just have to make up my
mind which one I like the
http://www.rackmount.com/Rackmt/RM-01-20TEST7.htm
It looks like the flanges are optional attachments
to me.
Yes, I called them and they confirmed that the L brackets
are removable on all of their rackmount cases.
I think this U2 case, which they
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2776342,00.html
Is Microsoft secretly using open source?
By Lee Gomes
The Wall Street Journal Online
June 18, 2001 5:00 AM PT
Microsoft Corp., even while mounting a new campaign against
open-source software, has quietly been using such free
Are you specifically looking for something that fits under the
desk or do you just want a small, unusual case?
I just want something compact and quiet (and preferably black.)
I'll look into these BookPCs you mentioned.
Thanks,
Dexter
Thanks, Tim. I went there and read-up on all the different distributions.
I think I like Progeny-Debian the best. A balance between community-based
idealism and corporate packaging and support. I am planning to order a
copy when their new version come out in July. -Dex
From: [EMAIL
Caldera chief executive Ransom Love says:
We gave the Linux community more than Stallman with his libraries.
Our work helps Linux so much more than a few lines of code.
I am not a greedy capitalist. I am only a businessman. I just do
my job. I'm not quite sure whether you can call this
Where did it say IBM was giving a talk? I was there for about an hour on
Saturday talking to people and looking at demos but no one said anything
about an Open Source presentation by IBM. The sign on the front door did
not mention it, the flyers did not mention it, not even the EUGLUG web
site
In a significant win for open source desktop productivity suites,
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that the U.S. Defense
Information Systems Agency (DISA) would implement up to 25,000
units of its StarOffice 5.2 software.
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010625/17/department-of-defense
Microsoft and Oracle's plans for world domination.
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010625/14/new-world
Copyrights and copywrongs
Why Thomas Jefferson would love Napster
By Siva Vaidhyanathan
SPECIAL TO MSNBC.COM
http://www.msnbc.com/news/594462.asp#BODY
NEW YORK, July 3 - The dawn of the 21st century has
illuminated an array of conflicts over the regulation of
information in America:
Dexter,
Gee... if you like df, check out du (disk usage), you will probably like it
too... Im not sure what device add-in program your talking about, possibly
kudzu, its a pnp device install utility, and it can be run at boot time (or
not), or at the command line.
Jamie
Yes, that's
Well, I got it to work. smile The fifth try's the
charm I guess. I'd just kept deleting and retrying.
I'm not sure what I did different this time, but my
newly copied home partition works fine mounted into
a different file system on another computer. Dexter
Without a link to Nader's web site or some other reference
how do we know that this document is even legitimate? The
web is full of false and fabricated stories like this. It
even sound a bit *too* pro-free software/open source to
be believable.
Dexter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
in. Even more good
news: a drive jumpered as cable select will show up as master
on a non-cable select older 40 pin ide cable, so you can swap
a single drive with an older system without having to upgrade
the cable.
I hope you find these links useful.
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IDE Hard Drive Configuration
I couldn't get Evolution to send mail through Prodigy at first either
but after fiddling around with my settings and giving up, the next time
I rebooted it worked.
Here are the settings that worked for me on Prodigy:
In Tools / Mail Settings / Edit Account / Sending Mail, I have SMTP
selected
the opening in the cover
was smaller than the 5.25 drive bay-opening they figured it would
never fit a standard size drive. Such incompetence is inexcusable
for a computer sales/service business. I have to tell that when I
explained all this to Stan he did say sorry and gave me $10 back.
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the money, i wouldn't build computers for
other people. how about you, dexter Graphic? i assume you work for
yourself as a multimedia house or some such? why do you do it? money. and
because you enjoy it (i hope...) i wouldn't be programming if there was
MONEY in the kind of art i do.
My
Ben Barrett wrote:
I personally think this thread should move to another list
altogether!
Why is it that you think a discussion of ethics, freedom,
openness, and enhanced human creativity (the achievement of
real advances in civilization) does not belong on this list?
In my view it is the
Justin Bengtson wrote:
i personally would suggest killing the activism list. it is hardly ever
used. kill the other lists as well. next, i think we should split the
mailing list into two. one may be called Opinions or some such. the
other should just simply be EugLug.
What's so hard about
it while you can.
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What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
...I don't know and I don't care!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Patrick R. Wade
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 15:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:175] Re: Finding
/synopsis.htm
You are welcome to e-mail me privately about this, but I thing we are getting too far
a field for the EUGLUG list.
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What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
...I don't know and I don't care!
Sell Out: Blocking an Open Net
Posted by JonKatz on Tuesday November 27, @10:46AM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/20/1651259
From the corporatism:-peddle-censorship-for-cash dept.
Globalism ought to be a counterforce, democratizing the world
and spreading technological and economic
what she deserves.
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What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
...I don't know and I don't care!
Is there a spell checker for Gnome?
I'm using Mandrake 8.1 but I can't find anything that does spell checking in
my menus.
Dexter
but I don't
have the $1500 to buy one. Using free software is expensive!
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62304
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things up.
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I can't
do, yet, is duplex.
Cheers
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Is it just my ignorance or does Linux not work very well with
anything but a Postscript printer? My HP DeskJet prints using
Ghostscript but it takes about 4 minutes per page (at 300 dpi)
and there is no option
An excellent article one businesses transition to Linux.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm
of Computer Programs
study group would be fun, I think. The only problem is time/money and
my/our debt-slavery to an unethical corporate/political system. sigh
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? Probably not. Please post
the full specs of your laptop so that people more knowledgeable
about this sort of thing can determine if any of the current
versions of GNU/Linux will even be able to install/run on it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
Here is a site that list just about all Linux compatible printers and
drivers along with detailed compatibility and other support documents.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
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What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
...I don't know and I don't care
I have a minivan that will seat 7 fairly comfortably.
And I think it would be fun to ride up with a bunch
of people--sort of a rolling EUGLUG meeting! grin
I'll be at LL market at 16:20. It seems prudent to
leave at 16:40, though, so we have plenty of time to
get there. I believe in obeying
Would you please post the text of this article, the site will not let me
in to read it. -Dex
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Larry Price
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 08:09
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:1066] slightly OT: security and turnaround
Two cents from a novice: GNU doesn't tell me anything meaningful.
What other operation system needs to differentiate between kernel or
OS and the whole system?
With DOS/Window, Microsoft owns/controls both the kernel and the
rest of the OS so there is no product distinction necessary.
How do
for ourselves (also known as love.)
Here's a link to some essays and books written by John David
Garcia on maximizing creativity. http://www.see.org/pubs.htm
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Freely you have received, freely give.
Jesus, as recorded in the Urantia papers.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Bob Miller wrote:
Rob Hudson wrote:
He's using this card, which can support up to 4 monitors...
http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g200_mms/home.cfm
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
Actually, Matrox' page says the card can support 16 monitors, which
is even
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
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
.)
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Freely you have received, freely give.
Jesus, as recorded in the Urantia papers.
House Passes Computer Security Bill
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020207/D7HHE8G00.html
02/07/2002 3:32 PM EST
By D. IAN HOPPER
The House voted Thursday to provide $800 million in grants over
the next five years to colleges and research groups to protect
the nation's computers
Gnome to be based on .NET - de Icaza
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html
I stopped by the IRS office at 300 Country Club Road, Suite 260,
today and picked up a free CD with all the forms and publications
needed by small business owners to prepare and file their taxes.
They're all just PDF files.
-Dex
But the Vanguard tax forms use something with a MIME type of
application/vnd.fdf which is the Adobe Form Data Format. Mozilla
doesn't know what to do with them. (It suggests opening them with
acroread, but that doesn't work.)
Mystery.
The IRS/SBA CD I have says you need Acrobat 4.0 Fill in
This is pretty amazing
-Dex
Hi Guys this is
amazing.I do not know who wrote this HTML code.Asoka Liyanage.
About Salon's Free Software Project
http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/index.html
This Web site is a work in progress.
In the Web's early days, site builders would hastily plaster
the phrase Under Construction on their home pages as their
projects fell further and further behind schedule. The
Google Programmer Creates Buzz
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020304/D7I1BQP80.html
Be sure to check out the two art links at the bottom of the article.
-Dex
Subject: UO Faculty Recruitment Colloquium, 3/7/02
Formalizing Reuse in Open, Collaborative Systems
Joseph Kiniry
California Institute of Technology
ABSTRACT
The construction of correct complex software is about more than one's
choice of language, process, or methodology; issues of
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 activities or should
we just discuss it on the mailing
From: The Mandrake Team
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 19:47
Subject: Linux-Mandrake Community Newsletter - Mandrake Linux Future
FLASH: The Future of Mandrake Linux.
Today we are on the verge of releasing Mandrake Linux 8.2. This latest
version of our flagship product introduces many new
Dexter, can you make it tomorrow night?
Yes, I'll be there, 18:00 right?
Can you bring your tape?
Sure, It's Larry Lessig The New New Old War form Linux World, August 2001.
TV - does Emerald park have one, or should we bring one?
I don't really want to lug in our 25
Mandrake 8.2 is out. It looks to be a 3 CD download, but I can't log onto a
ISO download site to check.
Jim K
Read the official announcement here:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/82announce.php
Discover the new features:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/82.php3
Place your order today at
Would anyone like to get together for dinner and Mexican beer tonight
around 17:00 at Tio Pepe (1041 River Road) before going over to Emerald
Park to watch Linux/free software videos? I think it would be great fun!
Dexter
: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:2058] Re: Movie night and beer!
Sounds good to me
Sure why not. Tio Pepe at 5pm.
Seth
The man with the movie...
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wrote:
Would anyone like to get together for dinner
in spirit
by dedicating my own life to the liberation and empowerment of humanity.
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What, ESR and Larry Augustin didn't do anything for you? (-:
No, I guess not, now that I think about it, at least not much.
Something that struck me while watching the film was how all these
big shots [...] could not figure out how to make progress in their
field (computer and software
7 PM Thursday Apr 4, 2002
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Center
Room 294/296
Wiki Wiki
by Ward Cunningham
Is
Does anyone have a copy of Mandrake 8.2 which I
could copy or install on my computer tonight?
Dexter
Dan, this might solve your laptop problems. Take a look at Wolf
below, also tiny Linux: http://tiny.seul.org/en/ -Dexter
From http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2102lang=en
Question:
I have a problem, and I've been asking for help for a while and
nobody could come up with a
what about picoBSD
http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/
I tried two variants of pico: router and dialup (because it has the help
files) but neither of them would boot on any of three machines I tried
(an old Pentium 166, a Pentium II 333, and a Pentium III 850) they just
started to load the os
I encountered the following instructions on how to install updates to
my Mandrake system but it wouldn't work when I tried it. Does anyone
know if you have to be on some payment system to get these updates
to work? I searched all over their web site trying to find out but I
could not find
of the Mandrake Linux Security Team to
verify the GPG
signature of each RPM.
If you use MandrakeUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG
signature is performed
automatically for you.
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Dexter Graphic wrote:
I encountered the following instructions on how
is the only reason to do anything.
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Never be afraid to follow truth, beauty, and goodness
wherever they may lead you. www.UniversalFamilyLove.net
I just don't understand why the video card and system works well with 7.1,
but freaks out with 8.2. My video card is so old, I have no idea what it
is, really.
Try using the version 3 Xserver instead of version 4; it's an option during
X setup. You can also change it using the system
Is anyone here interested in writing a Windows install
program for mouse pointer schemes from a CD? I'm not
into this but I have a customer who is asking for it.
Dexter
James, did you ever get X working? -Dexter
My Mandrake 8.2 system recently stopped booting. After
a couple of days of fiddling with it, I gave up and just
reinstalled the system from CD. This didn't actually fix
the problem but created others which somehow resulted in
a solution. But I'm still curious what actually happened.
I would
Thanks for your analysis, Jamie. Below are some clarifications and more
questions.
My guess is your original boot block had an issue (not being properly
linked?) and the fsck ran by the boot process probably re-linked to an
alternate boot block
What causes a boot block to become unlinked?
: My guess is your original boot block had an issue (not being properly
: linked?) and the fsck ran by the boot process probably re-linked to an
: alternate boot block
:
: What causes a boot block to become unlinked? And wouldn't one of the
: many filesystem checks I ran manually have
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horst
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:00
Subject: [EUG-LUG:3266] Re: Dexter's boot troubles
Dexter,
Let me start by saying that I DO enjoy and appreciate your detailed
problem descriptions --and sometimes success report, i.e. how you got the
CD
I found this article comparing firewall solutions helpful. -Dexter
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=2424/uni1014152480113/0202i.htm
MAYBE you have different partitions, each of them having their
own lost+found
The lost+found in my other partition is empty also.
software if we want to set our fellows free and save the planet
from further environmental destruction. Universal Family Love will be
the new kernel of the Revolution OS. Let the greedy try to hack that!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Linux Rocks
be overcome
by the power of good: personal honesty, integrity, and
creativity. I will stay and fight for the working people
of this country and every other against the injustice,
lies, and brutality of capitalism (legalized plunder.)
So help me God,
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