Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-03 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: > Ok, once again, I'm annopyed by a dist. Highly annoyed. As you and others here may recall, I've been a Mandriva user for a while now. I caught a lot of flak for using a distro with so much overhead (it was the first distro to require a whopping 64mb of RAM and a 586 p

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-03 Thread aluminumsulfate
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500 From: "Thomas Charron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So which guru is going to tell me which flavor magical pixie dust to sprinkle where, whilst I waste my time trying to find the solution myself. Thomas Guru? Maybe not. But pixie dust? That I mi

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-03 Thread Thomas Charron
  Ok, once again, I'm annopyed by a dist.  Highly annoyed.  emerge kde-meta isn't working for shit.  It gets to kopete, which INSISTS on also emerging qt3, which is fine by me, BUT..  kdelibs is linked against fugging qt4, and when kopete tries to emerge, it dies saying it can't run against qt3 whe

Re: CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Johnson
Thomas Charron writes: > Aye, the Intel Core 2 Duo's have 'Advanced Intel Speedstep' capabilities. > The clock can be dynamically modified by multipliers, I believe up to 8 > different speeds. I'll give you more info as I investigate it, as the > kernel I built last night I enabled for it. > >

Eudora going Open Source, to use Mozilla platform

2006-11-03 Thread Larry Cook
I was trying to convince a Windows friend to switch to Thunderbird, but he decided to upgrade to the new version of Eudora. I was looking at the new Eudora features and found this press release: http://www.eudora.com/press/2006/eudora-mozilla_final_10.11.06.html Larry ___

Re: Streaming media

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 11/03/2006 01:07 PM, Travis Roy wrote: > Okay, this should be easier, I think I'm doing something wrong. > > I'm trying to setup an internal streaming music server in our office. > > I want it to take the MP3s from the server and then users can connect > to that server via XMMS/WinAmp/iTunes and

Re: Streaming media

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/06, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want it to take the MP3s from the server and then users can connect to that server via XMMS/WinAmp/iTunes and listen to tunes. Why not just use NFS/Samba/whatever and share the files that way? Why does it have to be "streaming"? -- Ben _

Re: Streaming media

2006-11-03 Thread kenta
I've used Apache::MP3 when i was looking into this for that band I am such a big fan of. Of course due to bandwidth limitations from my host I never bothered to try it out for general consumption. I still had the entry in my httpd.conf under my virtual host (locally, not on the main server).

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-03 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/2/06, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes KDE will take awhile, a few hours or so. One benchmark I've done:  Not too bad on mine, took me like an hour max. Compile X on 266Mhz: 8+ hours  X took about maybee a half an hour, but that included download times. Yes compiling will take time,

Re: CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Thomas Charron
  Aye, the Intel Core 2 Duo's have 'Advanced Intel Speedstep' capabilities.  The clock can be dynamically modified by multipliers, I believe up to 8 different speeds.  I'll give you more info as I investigate it, as the kernel I built last night I enabled for it.   ThomasOn 11/3/06, Paul Lussier <[

Re: Streaming media

2006-11-03 Thread Ed Robbins
Check out gnump3d. After going through the same iteration that you are going through, I found it to be exactly what I needed/wanted and it took literally two minutes to get up and running. Ed Travis Roy wrote: Okay, this should be easier, I think I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to set

Streaming media

2006-11-03 Thread Travis Roy
Okay, this should be easier, I think I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to setup an internal streaming music server in our office. I want it to take the MP3s from the server and then users can connect to that server via XMMS/WinAmp/iTunes and listen to tunes. I would like to have differen

Re: CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Shawn K. O'Shea
On 11/3/06, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone here encountered such a beast?I'd centure to say this is the cpuspeed/cpufreq facility. As far as I know, many distros have this already and load the appropriate modules is one is available for the CPU (well, ok, at least some of the Fe

And we were just beginning to like SLED -- Re: Microsoft to sell Suse Linux?

2006-11-03 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 17:27:39 -0500 "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also can't help but think, a la Fark and Admiral Ackbar, that > "It's a trap!". If you look at the history of Microsoft, every > business "partner" they've ever had has gotten stolen from, ripped > off, and screwed ove

Re: CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/06, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone here encountered such a beast? Sure. They've been standard issue on laptops for years. The Intel brand name is "SpeedStep"; for AMD it is "PowerNow. A Google for "Linux SpeedStep PowerNow" appears to be promising. Modern proce

Re: CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Chip Marshall
On November 03, 2006, Paul Lussier sent me the following: > Has anyone here encountered such a beast? > > I ran into a discussion on another mailing list, and that was the > first I had heard about CPUs with variable speed clocks. Does anyone > know how you muck with these under Linux? I would g

CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Paul Lussier
Has anyone here encountered such a beast? I ran into a discussion on another mailing list, and that was the first I had heard about CPUs with variable speed clocks. Does anyone know how you muck with these under Linux? I would guess that there's some kernel parameter you can toggle to (en|dis)a

Re: Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad - MS Genuine Dis-Advantage =p

2006-11-03 Thread Joseph
Hello Ben, Actually I don't think that your assessment is far off. In light of historic events, patent cooperation sounds like a euphemism for impending lawsuit. Whenever lawyers posture in coordination with a patent system that is painfully broken we should expect very dangerous developments.

Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support

2006-11-03 Thread jimmy Pierre
>  (Alternatively, Microsoft can just keep asking Novell for more and more money for their patent cooperation, thus turning SuSE Linuxlicense fees into a revenue stream.  But I think they prefer thedirect approach.)Could that scenario  really happen or am I to naive, or Novell also is? Cheers,J

Re: Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/06, jimmy Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Alternatively, Microsoft can just keep asking Novell for more and more money for their patent cooperation, thus turning SuSE Linux license fees into a revenue stream. But I think they prefer the direct approach.) Could that scenario really

Re: Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/06, jimmy Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-02MSNovellPR.mspx "As part of this agreement, Microsoft will provide a covenant not to assert its patent rights against customers who have purchased SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or other c

Re: Microsoft to sell Suse Linux?

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Ordung
Yah, Citrix is still in business... but just imagine what their business would be like if Microsoft hadn't strong-armed the core of Windows Terminal Services out of them, and the only solution for Windows remote access was Citrix or some other product. I'd still put them in the "stolen from"

Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support

2006-11-03 Thread jimmy Pierre
Greetings,http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-02MSNovellPR.mspx http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1196How does that sound? Seems that  Xen has let GPL down? If anybody could clarify. Cheers,Jimmy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing li

Re: Microsoft to sell Suse Linux?

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the only exception is Citrix. Of course, licensing fees make Metaframe more expensive then individual systems, but Citrix is still around. Yah, Citrix is still in business... but just imagine what their business would be like if Micros

Re: Microsoft to sell Suse Linux?

2006-11-03 Thread Tom Buskey
On 11/2/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I also can't help but think, a la Fark and Admiral Ackbar, that "It's a trap!". If you look at the history of Microsoft, every business "partner" they've ever had has gotten stolen from, ripped off, and screwed over. I don't know why this would

Re: Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

2006-11-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
Paul Lussier wrote: You can switch back and forth between any number of clients As one who's only really used 3 different e-mail clients over a 12-15+ year period, how often do others here switch mail clients? And why? I find it annoying to switch mail clients since they all have wildly d