Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
OK, this seems like it should be obvious but I'm not getting anywhere. I work in a corporate environment where the networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP) is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it understands very little about DHCP and nothing at all about Linux, so he's not

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Michael ODonnell wrote: I work in a corporate environment where the networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP) is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it understands very little about DHCP and nothing at all about Linux, so he's not much use. I swapped the

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Michael ODonnell wrote: I work in a corporate environment where the networking infrastructure (particularly the DHCP) is all Windows stuff and the guy in charge of it understands very little about DHCP and nothing at all about Linux, so he's not much use. I swapped the

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Matt Brodeur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:32:46AM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: I did RTFM but can't find anything that tells how to direct the client to inform the server that the lease should expire. Not that I've ever done it, but what about spoofing

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Richard A Sharpe
the command on the window client is from the dos prompt issue the command: ipconfig /release - Original Message - From: Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease On Thu, 3 Jun 2004,

missing Gimp talk...

2004-06-03 Thread axelwill
those of you who were at last month's SLUG meeting probably remember how interested i was in the talk on GIMP to be given at our next meeting... alas, i will be in class that night and be unable(!) to attend. if anyone would care to .mp3 the presentation for me, i would greatly appreciate it.

LOST MY DONGLE

2004-06-03 Thread axelwill
greetings, all, i could use your help... at the last CentraLUG meeting (2004.05.03), i seem to have lost the DONGLE for my PCMCIA nic... if anyone has seen it, please drop me a line. thanks! dave ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Bill Sconce
Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? It can even be proprietary for this need... TIA -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Forcing expiration of DHCP lease

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Richard A Sharpe wrote: the command on the window client is from the dos prompt issue the command: ipconfig /release That is the command to release the IP on the CLIENT. I was talking about removing an issued lease from the DHCP SERVER. And, releasing the IP from the

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:21:01PM -0400, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? It can even be proprietary for this need... Google.com does this, and Google makes search

Re: missing Gimp talk...

2004-06-03 Thread Greg Rundlett
alas, i will be in class that night and be unable(!) to attend. if anyone would care to .mp3 the presentation for me, i would greatly appreciate it. my classroom also has window$ boxen on broadband if anyone can think of a nerdier solution to this unfortunate scheduling conflict As an

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Coutu
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:21, Bill Sconce wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? It can even be proprietary for this need... TIA -Bill I've deployed WebGlimpse for a client's

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
It's been a while since I thought about Glimpse/WebGlimpse but they might be of interest. Once upon a time they were somewhere near http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ but much has changed since they began - they alienated part of their audience when they went from something resembling FOSS to a

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
It's been a while since I thought about Glimpse/WebGlimpse but they might be of interest. Once upon a time they were somewhere near http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ but much has changed since they began - they alienated part of their audience when they went from something resembling FOSS to a

Microsoft patents double-clicking

2004-06-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/040603mspatent/ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=/netahtml/srchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6,727,830.WKU.OS=PN/6,727,830RS=PN/6,727,830 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Microsoft patents double-clicking

2004-06-03 Thread Randy Edwards
Well, now that Microsoft has patented double-clicking and given Amazon's one-click patent*, I might as well throw away my mouse, right? It's a good thing I kept up my commandline skills...no one has a patent on typing, do they?! :-) (* Yes, I know Amazon's patent is related to

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Marc Nozell
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:21, Bill Sconce wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a package which can provide a search capability for a Web site - including searching in PDF and .DOC files? How about namazu? For debian users, use: apt-get install namazu2 I've been using it on my laptop (mostly