Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, at 3:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just issued a wireless card at work ... I want this thing to work under Linux. Any ideas? The iwconfig(8) command lets you fiddle with the wireless parameters. It is part of the wireless-tools package on my Red Hat 7.3 system,

Re: Michael Jennings - A guy that loves Microsoft

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 8:12am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm It's long, illuminating, and thought-provoking. One almost can't believe that it's all true. It should be understood that the article in

Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:43:30 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ask your network dudes: - Are they using 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, or Something Else(TM). I'm pretty sure the card you describe is 11b only, but let's be sure. 11b. - What is the SSID? Don't know, they

RE: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
- Are you using WEP (Worthless Encryption Protocol, AKA Wireless Equivalent Privacy)? If so, what is the key? Yes, and see above :( Well, if WEP was any good, that would be a problem. Fortunately, however, WEP sucks. Get the right software, and you should be able to crack the key in

Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:24:25 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really depends on the version of WEP.. Cisco has WEP with some of it's own stuff and that makes it work rather well ... Yah, basically, Cisco has an

Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And speaking of Cisco and Wireless, /. just posted a story stating that Cisco is about to by Linksys for ~$500M ! And amazingly - my WAP just stopped working... coincidence?! -- A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Casey
Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by accident, and intended this for another list, but the source address and OT subject tag make that hard to

RE: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
So rather then just deleting something he's not interested in and keeping his mouth shut we'll have a debate about this on the list that will generate 100x more traffic :) Not that I care, I didn't even listen to the tune. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Since it's an abuse to inflict one's non-Linux-related views on this captive audience (gathered here because we value this channel's blessedly high *LINUX-RELATED* S/N ratio) and since there are eleventy-bazillion other channels (email lists, blogs, barrooms, etc) where war-talk *is* welcome,

Re: OT: GNU (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Linowes
How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they something?! Isn't it more correct to call it GNU/Linux, or is that a religous discussion too? :) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 2:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an asx file, but the asf file contained within is playable with xine (and probably with mplayer), though you might need the win32 codecs available at the mplayer site. And for those of us who don't have all that crap on our PCs,

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 2:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an asx file, but the asf file contained within is playable with xine (and probably with mplayer), though you might need the win32 codecs available at the mplayer

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:07:56 EST mike ledoux said: Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by accident, and intended this for

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:47:30PM -0500, Paul Iadonisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARNING: You may love it, or you may hate it. I'm just sick of Clear Channel's monopoly and want to spread the access to this song and let people judge for themselves, instead of

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, mike ledoux wrote: Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by accident, and intended this for another list, but the source

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Erik Price
Paul Iadonisi wrote: WARNING: You may love it, or you may hate it. I'm just sick of Clear Channel's monopoly and want to spread the access to this song and let people judge for themselves, instead of allowing the media mogul's to act as faulty filters for our

[OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators

2003-03-20 Thread Erik Price
Yeah, this is totally offtopic of Linux but I know there are some helpful hackers on this list and was wondering if anyone wouldn't mind letting me know if there is a mental trick to working out the results of bitwise comparison operators. Do you really have to convert the number to binary and

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:51:34 EST mike ledoux said: Look at my history. Off topic posts piss me off, as they defeat my filters and waste my time. So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 3:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly disagree with the please don't do it again statement. We need to hear both sides to this so since it is off topic do as you please. Can we please *NOT* get into a political debate on this list? The only thing less productive

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 4:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly disagree with the please don't do it again statement. We need to hear both sides to this so since it is off topic do as you please. Off topic posts are, by their very nature, inappropriate, and don't belong here. I

RE: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
I like fudge. FIREWIRE ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? If Mike did this, he would have missed out on Eric Price's [OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators thread, which I think is sufficiently interesting to be discussed on this mailing list. Regards, --kevin --

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Erik Price
Kevin D. Clark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? If Mike did this, he would have missed out on Eric Price's [OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators thread, which I think is sufficiently interesting to be discussed on this mailing

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Randy Edwards
As for making sure to hear all sides of anything, listening to senseless propiganda like this song doesn't usually help with that. This is part of the reason I make sure to get at least half of my news from sources outside of the US. This is one topic that amazes me -- the narrow range of US