Re: new member looking forward

2005-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, at 5:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If anyone has a clue as to why I would be having "permission denied" even > while logged in as root would be helpful. It had occurred to me while > trying to install my video card modules manually. I've seen kernel modules return all man

Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point I > can buy a SATA motherboard "blind" and not worry? Or do we still have a > way to go yet? As I understand it, when it comes to SATA, there are two paths. One p

Re: Debian flamewar (plus general ranting)

2005-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 7:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> And the fact that BSD ports downloads, configures, builds, and installs >> all the specified components *from source* leads BSD bigots into thinking >> that the BSD ports packagers must be doing a much better job then Red Hat >> or Debian

Re: Debian flamewar

2005-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 7:35am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yum works like a charm when everything is up to date in the repositories. > It's next to useless otherwise. FWIW, one of the points I've been trying to make in all of this ranting is that no package manager -- apt-get, yum, rpm, dpkg, ur

Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 21, 2005, at 17:31, Fred wrote: Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point I can buy a SATA motherboard "blind" and not worry? No. I did that and I'm spending lots of time digging through Google tonight. The disk (Segate) works fine in PATA emulation mode but,

Re: Debian flamewar (was: OpenOffice doc...)

2005-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
[I have re-arranged the order of subthreads for editorial purposes.] On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 9:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If I have 3 packages, A, B, and C ... > > Similarly, most packages don't rely on more packages. Irrelevant. The issue isn't that I expect most packages to depend o

Re: new member looking forward

2005-02-21 Thread Fred
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 17:22 -0500, James Orman wrote: > Hello, > I live in Nashua and was wondering when the next meetings will happen? > Other than that I have Fedora Core 1 running and am still configuring > the rest of the hardware. If anyone has a clue as to why I would be > having "permi

Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-21 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:33 -0500, Bob Bell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > No, I'm not. If my server has a new mass storage controller that > > isn't recognized by the 2.4 kernel, but is recognized by the 2.6 > > controller, then d

new member looking forward

2005-02-21 Thread James Orman
Hello, I live in Nashua and was wondering when the next meetings will happen? Other than that I have Fedora Core 1 running and am still configuring the rest of the hardware. If anyone has a clue as to why I would be having "permission denied" even while logged in as root would be helpful. I

Re: Linux fan from Manchester seeks advice

2005-02-21 Thread Larry Cook
Hi Jim, Welcome to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nhjobslist.com/ I agree with Paul. Get on the NHJobsList email list ASAP. Also look through their archive, since I'm sure some of those jobs are still open. And you'll also be able to learn which companies use *nix. what kind of

Re: Linux fan from Manchester seeks advice

2005-02-21 Thread paul.cour1
Hello I am happy that you got to meet some GNHLUG members at Linux World. I am sure they were pleased to chat with you, as well. As an aside, I would like to see you post your Resume on the NHJobsList ... I would like to see more reference to Linux on this under-utilized resource. Popularity of

Re: Linux fan from Manchester seeks advice

2005-02-21 Thread Casey Callendrello
Believe it or not, a good place to look is the Boston craigslist. There are a good amount of people looking for the experience you profess. http://boston.craigslist.org/ --Casey Callendrello Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:03:46 -0500 From: Jim Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Jim Sheldon <[EMAIL

Linux fan from Manchester seeks advice

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Sheldon
Greetings all, My name is Jim Sheldon, I'm 24, I live in Manchester, this is my first post. I found out about the GNHLUG at Linux World when I met two gentlemen at the GNHLUG booth on Thursday. I am very interested in meeting other Linux enthusiasts in New Hampshire. I was going to make this po