Re: New magazine - LinuxFormat

2005-01-09 Thread Numberwhun
Benjamin Scott wrote: The dead-tree mags I currently subscribe to are: Linux Journal - Still *the* Linux magazine. Maximum PC - I still follow the "PC enthusiast" world, even if I don't have the time to play there much anymore. Plus it's entertaining. Consumer Reports - Best "real life" publ

Re: Samba madness

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Jenkins
Drew Van Zandt wrote: I'm having trouble getting a printer working network-wise at my in-law's house. Here's the skinny: printer appears when I browse from an XP (Pro) system When I try to connect, first the system asks if I trust the printer driver on the host system... I say yes. A moment la

Samba madness

2005-01-09 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Howdy all, I'm having trouble getting a printer working network-wise at my in-law's house. Here's the skinny: installed CUPS installed SAMBA (OK it was already installed, I use the filesharing) SAMBA configured to use CUPS, restarted printer added in CUPS admin, with recommended driver. (HP La

Re: Sound card recommendations?

2005-01-09 Thread Randy Edwards
> Obviously, it has to work with Linux and ALSA. I would like to buy a > card from a company which is Linux-friendly. This is something that puzzles me (as I just went through some quick research to buy a motherboard and wound up making a poor choice): why isn't there a decent index of L

Re: FC3 and video...

2005-01-09 Thread Randy Edwards
> Yah, I just did this, too. If nothing else, it will make my annual > practice of watching Debian fail miserably less intrusive. :-) I know you want to kill the not-so-free-economy thread, but inciting a blasphemous flame war isn't the way to do it. :-) -- Computers make it easier t

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:45:39 -0500, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is all fine and good, but let me also add that the reson I want to do it > via the internet feed is > because I want to do it from my server at work. > > Working in a data center on the 3rd floor of a concrete buildin

Re: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Hi, The current "Off Topic" discussion was started by an observation that the US economy is not considered as "free" as others, nor as "free" as what it had been. I (for one) felt that this was a reasonable topic for a list about "free and open source software", and one where we sometimes discuss

[OT] Thank you for Off-Topic [OT] Header

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Jenkins
Thank you - to whomever added the [OT] header to the recent thread. It makes it very easy to just discard the entire discussion. :-) (And, for that matter, this off-topic "thank you.") (No disrespect intended to those involved in said discussion. I just get more than enough of this sort of material

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-09 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 18:19 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > Unearned Wealth? > >My point about unearned wealth and the inheritance tax was that the wealth > being passed to the heirs is unearned by those heirs -- it should be taxed at > a far higher rate. Why? > Public opinion polls rep

RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread Bill Freeman
Ben, I'm in favor of such a rule. I would, however, like to hear your bread recipes. Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mail

Fedora Legacy

2005-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Creem
I am sure most people know about this already but since I just recently figured it out I thought it was worth a post. I have a Redhat 9 box I still run (family pictures, etc) that I really do not want to take the time to upgrade to fedora or something new. The fedora legacy project provides a y

Re: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Creem
- Original Message - From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:54 PM Subject: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...) I hereby submit the following Request For Comment to

Sound card recommendations?

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
Hello world! My sound card (an old Ensoniq ES1370) blew the other day, so I'm looking for a new card. Can anyone make a recommendation for a good sound card these days? My requirements are simple: I listen to music while hacking. I play video games. I want GAIM to make little noises when s

Re: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
This is a reply to a message in a different thread ("Linux Cafe") which, although it was posted before this thread, is very relevant to this thread. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, at 5:19pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have no problem with topic-oriented groups at all. However, with all > the topic grou

game server ..

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Medai
Hey there .. Is anyone out there on this list/group running a Call of Duty: UO server? If so, I could really use some assistance. Tinkering with my new box and trying to run a part-time COD:UO server for some games for friends. But I keep running into a "scripting error on line 37" when I r

Re: Knoppix and Gnome.

2005-01-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:36:41 -0500 (EST) Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't help with the rest, but as far as Win4Lin goes, NeTraverse has > switched to providing a generic binary kernel based on pristine sources plus > their own MKI patchkit. The theory is that this should work wi

Re: New magazine - LinuxFormat

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, at 2:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'll put a plug in for SysAdmin Magazine. While not dedicated to linux, >> it basically is and has more hardcore content than others I've seen. >> But it's focused on the sysadmin - you'll never find an article about >> managing your che

Re: grub mysteries

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, at 12:02am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, that's under Linux. When booting however, Grub sees something > else. hd3 becomes hd1! hd1 becomes hd2! I realize your question has already been answered, but it might be helpful (or at least interesting) to know the "why" behin

Re: Knoppix and Gnome.

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... I'm hoping to get Win4Lin runnig on it. Can't help with the rest, but as far as Win4Lin goes, NeTraverse has switched to providing a generic binary kernel based on pristine sources plus their own MKI patchkit. The theory is that this

Re: FC3 and video...

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, at 7:59am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded from FC2 to FC3. Bad idea. I've had endless problems with > getting the ieee1394 and related modules to work, and also I am no longer > able to play DVDs through Xine. FWIW/FYI: FireWire under FC3 "just worked" for me, but

Re: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread paul.cour1
Hello I agree (Make political discussion someplace else!). I often look for the word Linux in these extensive posts of psycho-social rhetoric. Some times I wonder if these folks that persist in screwing up the list with their off-the-wall dissertations aren't really seeking psychotherapy rather

Re: [OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-09 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sunday 09 January 2005 01:42, Derek Martin wrote: > In principle, I agree with you -- people should make their own choices, and I agree with you here... > live with the consequences of them. In practice, the world doesn't work > that way anymore. ...but I think it's worth pointing o

Re: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I hate to agree, but I must. While political discussion that's obviously strongly related to Linux seems fine to me (e.g. DMCA and similar), the lengthy and frequent posts that are obviously not at all Linux related have gotten quite irritating. If you start one of these threads with someone, TAK

RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

2005-01-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
Well, once again, someone decided to barge onto the list, post some random political diatribe that had nothing to do with Linux, and it spun into a 30+ message thread that had nothing to do with Linux, and indeed, little to do with anything other then general complaining. The long, obscure te

Re: grub mysteries

2005-01-09 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:07:24 -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Grub can be told to map drives to different locations, essentially > fooling the OS into seeing the drives as having a different "letter" in > the BIOS. It could be that you have some of that going on in a menu.lst > or grub.conf file. I

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-09 Thread Ted Roche
On Jan 9, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Travis Roy wrote: This is all fine and good, but let me also add that the reson I want to do it via the internet feed is because I want to do it from my server at work. Working in a data center on the 3rd floor of a concrete building filled with electronic equipmen

Linux-related job postings - Hopkinton NH School District

2005-01-09 Thread Ted Roche
The Concord Monitor had two job postings today for the Hopkinton School District - does that mean everyone quit? - one for a Network Administrator and a second for the Director of Technology. I don't seem to find the links on the cmonitor.com web site, but would be glad to provide more info off

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-01-09 Thread Travis Roy
This is all fine and good, but let me also add that the reson I want to do it via the internet feed is because I want to do it from my server at work. Working in a data center on the 3rd floor of a concrete building filled with electronic equipment, you can imagine, radio reception is just not