Re: ALSA

2004-02-18 Thread Randy Edwards
few people were playing with installing 2.6... So, does anyone know if this happened? Yes, ALSA is in the 2.6 kernel and works fine. Of course, there is a separate option for the PC's speaker, and I believe that's turned off by default. :-( -- Regards, | There can be no effective

Re: Shell redirection is rewinding?!?

2004-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
kclark wrote: makewhatis is a shell script that does all sorts of hokey stuff with shell redirection, like opening its own fds for stderr Yeah - what HE said. FYI, depending on your purposes, it's possible that executing makewhatis via the script program could help you capture the info you

[OFF-TOPIC] Microsoft security (was: multilanguage support ...)

2004-02-18 Thread Dan Jenkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually thought of that. I even went so far as to click the International link on that same page, and picked Korea. Unfortunately, the resulting page was in Korean. (At least, it used ideographs. For all I know, they were Vorlon ideographs.) I guess that makes

Re: ABM Considered Harmful (was: piercing corporate)

2004-02-18 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, at 5:17am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VBScript and WSH are something else. They're basically a system scripting language, just like Perl or Python (and, indeed, you can connect both of those to WSH). The luser has to double click to open the attachment and run the script.

apt-spy

2004-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just a tip to fellow Debian users out there: check out apt-spy - it benchmarks connection speeds from your site to various Debian mirrors (many of which you're unlikely to have heard about) and can find you some truly zippy ones. I've just done a fairly ponderous 'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work

Re: Samba related question.

2004-02-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:23:38AM -0500, Jason wrote: I had to look this up and I was an English major 8). You obviously haven't been paying close attention to this list very long... we have many pedants here, and many pedantic discussions. An overabundance of pedantry, really... ;-) --

Re: Samba related question.

2004-02-18 Thread bscott
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, at 2:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You obviously haven't been paying close attention to this list very long... we have many pedants here, and many pedantic discussions. An overabundance of pedantry, really... ;-) Hey! I resemble that remark! ;-) -- Ben Scott

Re: pedantry (Re: apt-spy)

2004-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
a tad faster than the 150kB/S I'd been seeing from some of the better known mirrors. For what it's worth (which is very little, I'm quite sure), S is the SI abbreviation for the siemens, which is the SI unit for electrical conductance. Presumably you're talking about seconds, which

Re: pedantry (Re: apt-spy)

2004-02-18 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:19:09AM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:22:26AM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: truly zippy ones. I've just done a fairly ponderous 'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work where the throughput for the whole session averaged over 1gB/S, which is Woohoo!

Desktop Linux (fwd)

2004-02-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
I'm guessing this message was supposed to go to the greater new hampshire linux user's list at large. Jenny, the list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a barrel full of people there to help out Anyone have info on lycoris? I'm unfamiliar with it. -- Forwarded message -- Date:

Re: Desktop Linux (fwd)

2004-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've heard that Lycoris has a distro designed by former Microsoft employees. Does anyone know if it looks or operates much like Windows XP? Is there a link available for an eval copy? I don't know much about Lycoris but you could check out www.lycoris.com. One thing they don't make