Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-21 Thread Michael O'Donnell
I sincerely believe that PGP-signed email messages have a legitimate use. No, I'm serious! I really do. I will probably someday send or receive a message about which (with a straight face) I can say, Yep!! that there was one IMPORTANT message - I sure am glad I had some serious encryption

Nice Prose!

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Courchene
Nice prose! paulc Recently Michael O'Donnell wrote: I sincerely believe that PGP-signed email messages have a legitimate use. No, I'm serious! I really do. I will probably someday send or receive a message about which (with a straight face) I can say, Yep!! that there was one IMPORTANT

Re: KDE/GNOME Customization?

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:40:31 EST Tom Buskey said: I use Sawfish daily on 4 different systems, and I haven't written a lick of lisp. :) I've been using sawfish on Solaris 7, Solaris 8, and Mandrake for over a year. I didn't know there was a .sawfishrc. I've been able to

Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:09:47 EST Michael O'Donnell said: I sincerely believe that PGP-signed email messages have a legitimate use. No, I'm serious! I really do. I will probably someday send or receive a message about which (with a straight face) I can say, Yep!! that there

Re: Network diagram information

2002-02-21 Thread Andrew cr
I have been trying to install linux on my pent 100 for days...i have many machines and this machine is giving me the following message for any linux dist i have tried whether redhat , slackware , debian , etc crc error --system halt when the kernel boots up vmlinuz is when i get this

Re: Network diagram information

2002-02-21 Thread Rich Payne
cyclic redundency check (I think). Are you trying to load from CD-ROM or floppy? Either the hardware you are loading from is bad, the media is bad (unlikely since it seems you've tried many) or you've got a memory problem in the system. Could be bad memory, bad cache etcit's probably

CRC error

2002-02-21 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
CRC = Cyclical Redundancy Check. It's an algorithm to verify whether or not data has been corrupted... and it's implying that something is, indeed, corrupting data. Since it's happening across distributions, I would probably start to suspect your RAM. Try swapping it out/around and see what

Re: KDE/GNOME Customization?

2002-02-21 Thread Robert Anderson
I use Sawfish daily on 4 different systems, and I haven't written a lick of lisp. :) I've been using sawfish on Solaris 7, Solaris 8, and Mandrake for over a year. I didn't know there was a .sawfishrc. I've been able to customize everything through the control center just fine. Okay,

Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread Brian Chabot
Hello, I was wonderring if there was a quick and easy HOWTO for Amanda out there I've looked in linuxdoc.org and run basic searches. The only one I found was the Linux Backup HOWTO which didn't cover any advanced things or ven really Amanda at all except to say it's out there and beyond

Re: Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread Brian Chabot
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote: I was wonderring if there was a quick and easy HOWTO for Amanda out there No, but she comes with extensice documentation in the docs/ subdir of the source. Been there. That's what I'm complaining about. They are great if I wanted to modify or

Re: KDE/GNOME Customization?

2002-02-21 Thread Tom Buskey
You can customize the keys mouse buttons in control center - sawfish - shortcuts. I use middle mouse button on the title to raise/lower, F7 to iconify, etc. I don't use the menus but I bet if you dig into it, there is a way to do it from shortcuts. You can set it to pop the apps menu or

Re: Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread Tom Buskey
I think Sysadmin magazine recently had an article on setting up amanda Brian Chabot said: Hello, I was wonderring if there was a quick and easy HOWTO for Amanda out there I've looked in linuxdoc.org and run basic searches. The only one I found was the Linux Backup HOWTO which didn't

Re: KDE/GNOME Customization?

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:44:59 EST Tom Buskey said: You can customize the keys mouse buttons in control center - sawfish - shortcuts. I use middle mouse button on the title to raise/lower, F7 to iconify, etc. I don't use the menus but I bet if you dig into it, there is a way

Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-21 Thread Michael O'Donnell
I sincerely believe that PGP-signed email messages have a legitimate use. No, I'm serious! I really do. I will probably someday send or receive a message about which (with a straight face) I can say, Yep!! that there was one IMPORTANT message - I sure am glad I had some serious

Re: Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread Rich Payne
I for one, think this would be an excellent topic for a meeting. Amanda is one of the things that's been on my list to learn for quite a while now. Now, seeing as you seem fairly well versed in it Paul. --rdp On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Thu, 21 Feb

Re: Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:15:29 EST Rich Payne said: I for one, think this would be an excellent topic for a meeting. Amanda is one of the things that's been on my list to learn for quite a while now. Now, seeing as you seem fairly well versed in it Paul. Yeah, Rob

Re: Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread rdp
That would be excellent. --rdp On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:15:29 EST Rich Payne said: I for one, think this would be an excellent topic for a meeting. Amanda is one of the things that's been on my list to learn for quite a while

MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Short version: Where: Martha's Exchange, 2nd floor What: Heckle Ben while he tries to get a wireless lan working (with my help, and anyone else who wants to show up with a laptop) Why:This

Re: MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
Maybe I will. I just got a Compaq WL110 (orinoco). Been having a discussion on the discuss list. On 21 Feb 2002 at 15:23, Paul Lussier wrote: Short version: Where: Martha's Exchange, 2nd floor What: Heckle Ben while he tries to get a wireless lan working

backup DNS

2002-02-21 Thread Rich Payne
Anyone out there willing to be a backup DNS server for monadlug.org ? I need to get away from the current one ASAP and thought I'd see if we had any volunteers before coming up with some $$. thanks, --rdp -- Rich Payne http://talisman.mv.com

Re: MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-21 Thread Jack Hodgson
At 3:23 PM -0500 2/21/02, Paul Lussier wrote: Short version: Where: Martha's Exchange, 2nd floor What: Heckle Ben while he tries to get a wireless lan working Although I'm located up here in the Seacoast Area, this meeting sounds intriguing. Can you be a bit

Re: MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote: Although I'm located up here in the Seacoast Area, this meeting sounds intriguing. Can you be a bit more detailed on WHERE? Nashua? Address? 185 Main Street Nashua, NH http://www.gnhlug.org/marthas_directions.html Also, coming from due East

Re: MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-21 Thread bryan
1a. stay left when going over the bridge. B.. On Thursday 21 February 2002 04:04 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote: Although I'm located up here in the Seacoast Area, this meeting sounds intriguing. Can you be a bit more detailed on WHERE? Nashua? Address? 185

Re: MELBA meeting next Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, 19:00ish

2002-02-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
Martha's Exchange is a restaurant on Main St. in downtown Nashua. Very easy to get to from Rt. 3. There is usually plenty of on-street parking, but the parking garage at the Bus station is less than a block away, and is very cheap. On 21 Feb 2002 at 15:41, Jack Hodgson wrote: At 3:23 PM

Re: backup DNS

2002-02-21 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Hi Rich, You might want to look into some free secondary DNS services like www.granitecanyon.com. If not, I'll do what I can for you here from my home network. FYI, Kenny Rich Payne wrote: Anyone out there willing to be a backup DNS server for monadlug.org ? I need to get away from the

Re: backup DNS

2002-02-21 Thread rdp
I've used mydyndns.org for a few other things as for backup services they want $20 for life (and they're NFP, volunteer run), but I figured for a LUG site there would be someone out there, and several people have stepped up. thanks, --rdp On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi

Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-21 Thread Michael O'Donnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] forged: I changed my mind; I take back everything I just said. GPG is useless and everyone who uses it are a bunch of kneebiting jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the $%@! hits the fan... My point has never been that forgery is impossible, so your forgery

Web gateway (was: Interesting Newbie...)

2002-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bruce Dawson wrote: The web site was created so that people who are more comfortable with the web than with mailing lists can participate in the group - an attempt to open a channel to a wider audience for promoting Linux in New Hampshire. Your difficulty with the web

GUI vs CLI (was: Interesting Newbie...)

2002-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bruce Dawson wrote: But to be honest with you, I believe the biggest problem ex-M$ users have with Linux is Linux's command line heritage. I disagree. In my not-so-humble opinion, I think the whole GUI vs CLI argument is a red herring. Choice of user interface style