Re: Improved pager for man pages

2003-08-14 Thread ronnie gauthier
A here document, END_HERE this and more blah but only just text \,$,` need to be escaped vars are interpolated END_HERE note: the END_HERE to terminate the here doc must be alone on the line and no leading white space and no statement terminator(;) is used. You might use this to include the

Re: Logon time limits

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Jackson
Attached is a little script I hacked to track my son's time in front of his tube. It only counts time where there is mouse or keyboard activity (I hacked an old script I had written for RSI prevention). I ssh into his system and fire it up. On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:51:28 -0400 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL

Re: Toshiba 2010 Install Help

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
BTW, google is you friend: http://www.sequent.org/linux/baron-toshiba.htm On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Shane Broomhall (CCI Aust) wrote: Hi All, I have a new Toshiba 2010 Laptop, it has a USB Foppy and It can see USB CDRom when Windows XP is running. That is great for Windows but I want to put

Re: Samba with no passwords

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:06:22 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/5/2003 2:08 PM, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:58:27 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/5/2003 11:52 AM, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: On

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-14 Thread edjlb
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 05:53 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: In mozilla, does any one hear the pops? http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html Nope. Yep. -- Ed Jabbour ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System Drag - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread burns
Solved! Things improved when i ripped cannaserver out by the roots, but the real big culprit appears to be Konqueror. I'm running 3.0.5a -4. I don't know if it's just how it was installed in my system, or if this is typical of that version, but it is a huge cpu hog. I now use Mozilla - I'm not

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Hey Alma- There are Beowolf (Supercomputer) clusters, which require special programming to solve complex calculations, etc Work bits are handed off to members of the cluster and the resulting data is returned to the Master computer(s) of the cluster) There are distributed computational

odd email. Maybe OT, but not sure.

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Has anyone been getting an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where your.domain is your domain)? It has text like this: Hello there, I would like to inform you about important information regarding your email address. This email address will be expiring. Please read attachment for details. --- Best

Toshiba 2010 Install Help

2003-08-14 Thread Shane Broomhall (CCI Aust)
Title: Toshiba 2010 Install Help Hi All, I have a new Toshiba 2010 Laptop, it has a USB Foppy and It can see USB CDRom when Windows XP is running. That is great for Windows but I want to put Linux on it. I have had problems with getting it to boot from the USB Floppy, even though the bios

Re: OT google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003, Net Llama! wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight One of the first programs I wrote in FORTRAN calculated that. That was in 1966 on a Bendix G-20 :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP:

699 - 1399

2003-08-14 Thread Matt . Carpenter
This was sent to me by a friend at work... - Forwarded by Matt Carpenter/IT/Alticor on 08/06/2003 04:36 PM - attachment: sco.jpg___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

and now: quota

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Morse
man repquota is not explaining all the columns. An example. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# repquota / *** Report for user quotas on device /dev/sda2 Block grace time: 24:00; Inode grace time: 00:00 Block limitsFile limits Userusedsofthard

Scanning for DHCP servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Anyone know of a good tool to scan the LAN for DHCP servers and report any good ones found? Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Procmail rule

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
First of all, does it make a difference? Secondly, you'd probably just do a sed filter like this: :0fw * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/' I might be smoking crack and forgot something (or a simpler way to do this) but I'm sure it will be found out if so. Hey,

Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Slackware 8.1, I had printing (lpr/lprng) using a Canon BJC-210 working nicely. I did the upgrade to 9.0 and now I can not get it to work no matter how or what I do. I then decided to setup printing on another machine with a clean install of Slackware 9.0 and still no joy. If I send a jop

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for the scan. These ports I expected to be open, except for 1024 (kdm). I just wonder why ShieldsUp didn't detect these ports. It looks like I was inviting the world to log onto my X server. I have never found anyone doing this. It is password protected. I have to conclude that ShieldsUp

Re: System Drag - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 17:38, burns wrote: but the real big culprit appears to be Konqueror. I'm running 3.0.5a -4. Must be other factors too, I use Konqueror 3.0.5a-4 for file manager and sometime ftp and web client. Runs fine. Right now with Evolution, Mozilla, Konqueror, Emacs, Konsole and

Procmail rule

2003-08-14 Thread Swapana Ghosh
Hi Though it is really a silly qs but as i have not written the procmail rules yet - so asking because i want to patch it to the production server. Some mails are coming to our mail inbox like [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] when it is coming to inbox it is showing as full sting as

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Alma J Wetzker wrote: Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700 On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] emitted these signals: I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. Not a problem and I really liked it. Another vote for Mosix. My

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-14 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:34, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Klaus-Peter Schrage: Right now, I can't tell you if there is any sound at all on my computer - last night I have been to a ZZTop concert in Hannover, standing 10 yards in front of the stage, and my ears are still ringing ... Klaus

Re: transparency - the real thing

2003-08-14 Thread Raymond Russell
On 8/5/03 0:25, Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how gorgeous the entire OSX UI is. But what really blew me away was the fact that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this:

SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
SCO Gets First Licensee For Unix Intellectual Property Software License The unnamed Fortune 500 company is apparently the first to sign up for a SCO Unix intellectual property software license under a program started just last week.

Stopping and deleting a print queue in cups

2003-08-14 Thread Harry Giles
I messed up, and need to delete a rather large file in queue for a printer. What is the command for doing this when using cups? TIA Harry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: M$

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McKinlay wrote: snip | On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:04, Collins Richey wrote: | |Got this in a signature on another group. | |ROTFLMAO! | | |How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb ? | |Answer :

Re: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSourceCommitment

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I still gotta believe this is partly Novell working to get inroads into the OSS community. It could be a win-win... or it could just mean that Ximian gets spun off again... Hopefully NOT in such a way as Ximian could turn around, get bought and then make our lives miserable with FUD galore...

Re: transparency - the real thing

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
Actually, Redhat's KDE is one of the least annoying, although they're all bloated suckage. On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Not surprising since you use Red Hat. I wouldn't use RH's KDE either :) On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:22:31 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and

Re: SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Marinis
Matthew Carpenter wrote: SCO Gets First Licensee For Unix Intellectual Property Software License The unnamed Fortune 500 company is apparently the first to sign up for a SCO Unix intellectual property software license under a program started just last week.

Re: ssh key pairs

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/11/03 16:16, Keith Morse wrote: Got a situation that driving me slightly batty. I cannot get a ssh key pairs to work in a particular situation. local host remote host either : rh 7.2

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: I got a Failed result from this test because my machine responded to a ping request. I think I'll leave this in place. Are these guys serious? From a windoze persepective, sure. But its really just a toy. I wouldn't trust my network to that site.

For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread James McDonald
Um, I have been trying to lighten the load on my PIII 600MHz w/ 512MB RAM. So for starters I went back from KDM to XDM. From kwrite to nedit From OpenOffice 1.0.3 to OpenOffice 1.1 and From Mozilla to Thunderbird and Firebird But the best improvement came from moving from KDE to XFCE and finally

Re: LinuxWorld 2003!

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/05/03 18:05, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:44 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got back from a full day at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. This was my 3rd LW, and in my opinion, this was the best of the bunch. I arrived a half hour before the floor opened at

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
You can run nmap against your windows boxes to check out their ports. Joel On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:36:17PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:25:44 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That port is blocked, so I won't worry about updating anytime too soon.

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth James McDonald: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:53:45 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: In mozilla, does any one hear the pops? http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html Nope. Really strange, a lot of variation yes/no. Apparently even some

LDAP is dead

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I have something funky going on with my OpenLDAP server. This is running on a SLOX box (no, this is not s Dr. Seuss computer, it's SuSE's OpenExchange server). I start the daemon using /etc/init.d/ldap start, it starts ok, the process is listed in ps ax but I cannot get anything listening on

Re: and now: quota

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Keith Morse: [snippage] What is the second column telling me? first plus is over user limit? the second (-) is the group? Consider the second column shorthand for columns 3-10. + in the first column says kgmorse has exceed block limits

Re: ssh key pairs

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On 08/11/03 16:16, Keith Morse wrote: Did you try RSA or RSA1 key pairs instead? I've seen a few weird scenarios where DSA just didn't work. Barring that, you could always start sshd in debug mode on the remote end and see what it thinks is

Re: LinuxWorld 2003!

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
John 'maddog' Hall. On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: I want to know who Santa Clause is in the preceding pix.. On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:05:59 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:44 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got back

Re: SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Burns MacDonald: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:23, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: The unnamed Fortune 500 company is apparently the first to sign up for a SCO Unix intellectual property software license under a program started just last week. I

sco's lastest blathering

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wilson
LMFAO. Found the link on /. I don't even know what to say about this one because it is so far fetched. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 --Tom Wilson ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
I tried this web site. I log just about all activity on my firewall, and although I got a stealth result for all my ports except 0 from this web site, I cannot find any attempts to attach to a large number of my ports in my logs, including 80, which is open, as is port 113. Both were marked

Re: OT google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:31, Net Llama! wrote: http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Sounds like something straight out of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or should be. -- Burns MacDonald Ottawa Canada ___ Linux-users mailing list

Linux Training Manuals, Bradfordlearning.com ??

2003-08-14 Thread Shane Broomhall \(CCI Aust\)
Title: Linux Training Manuals, Bradfordlearning.com ?? HI All, I am looking to try and find some decent Linux courseware so that I will be able to run Linux intro courses for Windows admins. I have found a company called Bradford Learning, their stuff looks ok,

Re: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Wall wrote: | http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html | | A desktop license is only $199; single CPU servers are $699. | After October 15th, prices go up, so act now! Fucking bastards. | | Kurt They'll get theirs the same time I send in

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700 On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] emitted these signals: I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. Not a problem and I really liked it. Another vote for Mosix. My office workstation is

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Grewell
Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq or Nautilus for such (they're a look but don't touch browser)? Any recommendations appreciated, Make sure you've got the latest Konqueror before giving up on it. I've got 3.1.2 on my office PC and it both reads and writes just fine to anything

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Matthew Carpenter: IIRC, it's 135, the RPC port. It exploits a vulnerability on TCP port 135, used by DCOM RPC services. You should also block TCP ports 138, 445, 593, and UDP port 69 (TFTP).

Re: System Drag

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 burns wrote: | I'm running Redhat 8.0 on AMD Athalon 1800 with 256MB of DDRAM, running | to the internet through a Netgear router and a DSL modem. I run no | outside services - this is purely a desktop system. However, as I intend | to play with it

RE: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 18:10, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer It's a three step process. Worm your way into their hearts. Offer a trim for less than a fin. Teach music in their school. Ah! A veritable packet of puns!! g -- burns

Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile doc

2003-08-14 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:43:25 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: performed all required upgrades of ancilliary software. Might try http://linuxbooks.pananix.com/kernel2.6.html for my stab at 2.6 gotcha documentation. I've got

Re: For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 05:52:49 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:39:48 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:36:13 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xfce4 rc2 is pretty fabulous. They have a script that

Re: Improved pager for man pages

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Opps. Already found a bug. I forgot that a 0 byte file is generated with man -t $1 junk$$ if the man page doesn't exist, so -s has to be used. Like so: #!/bin/bash man -t $1 /tmp/junk$$ [ -s /tmp/junk$$ ] || { rm /tmp/junk$$ exit } ps2pdf /tmp/junk$$ /tmp/$1 rm

Re: sco's lastest blathering

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Marinis
Tom Wilson wrote: LMFAO. Found the link on /. I don't even know what to say about this one because it is so far fetched. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 --Tom Wilson What do you mean, far fetched? Eric Raymond always stated that a direct attack against the GPL was inevitable. When

Re: OT google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Alma J Wetzker: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT) http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight The story goes that at NASA a management droid was briefing some senior engineers using a bewildering array of terms and units.

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for confirming what I dimly remember. Joel On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:52:56PM -0600, Andrew Mathews wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: As I recall, with redhat( 7.2 ?), out of the box, there was a big warning in printcap to make no changes in the printcap file, since it was generated fresh

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Be careful. Some of the more advanced printing programs like to overwrite your manual printcap file from time to time. Redhat would do that, as I recall. Joel On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:31:08AM +, Ted Ozolins wrote: Shawn Tayler wrote: I ran into a similar problem with my LJ4100. It

Cron idiosyncrasy

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Opera, when run on a remote X client, often hangs this thang called motifwrapper, which then consumes 99% of the CPU. This annoys all three users on this box. I think it has to do with flash, and it was supposed to have been fixed but it ain't in my hands so anyway: Running top | grep

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/13/03 15:45, Joel Hammer wrote: Thanks for the scan. These ports I expected to be open, except for 1024 (kdm). I just wonder why ShieldsUp didn't detect these ports. It looks like I was inviting the world to log onto my X server. I have never found anyone doing this. It is password

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for the scan. I turned off kdm. I will upgrade my firewall when my wife gets off aol. These results are about what I expected. I am surprised that the ShieldsUp web site told me these ports (113, 80, 84) were stealth when they are open. I may have missed some attempts to scan ports because

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
67/tcp closed dhcpserver 68/tcp closed dhcpclient 80/tcp openhttp 84/tcp openctf 113/tcpopenauth 1024/tcp openkdm 1025/tcp closed NFS-or-IIS . . . . Perhaps your upstream provider is providing you with services of closing

Re: Stopping and deleting a print queue in cups

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
lprm ? On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Harry Giles wrote: I messed up, and need to delete a rather large file in queue for a printer. What is the command for doing this when using cups? TIA Harry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OTTrip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:15:12 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth Joel Hammer: C'est moi. Actually, the picture was badly composed. I should have piled up all three of the lobsters that I ate. Yes, this was excessive, but, c'est la vie. 3 lobsters are no more excessive than

Re: Stopping and deleting a print queue in cups

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
When this happens with lprng, I usually have to kill the printer daemon to finally stop the job. Joel On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:34:54AM -0400, Harry Giles wrote: Sorry. I didn't know that one worked for cups. Thank you! Harry On Wed August 13 2003 10:26 am, Net Llama! wrote: lprm ?

OT google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: SCO Gets First Licensee For Unix Intellectual Property Software License The unnamed Fortune 500 company is apparently the first to sign up for a SCO Unix intellectual property software license under a program started just last week.

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Gary Wilson
--- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? Unfortunately, I'm looking for something comparable to 'Network Neighborhood' or 'My Network Places'. Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq or Nautilus for such (they're a look but

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Have you looked into your printing logs? This is usually a filter problem. Joel On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:14:28PM +, Ted Ozolins wrote: On Slackware 8.1, I had printing (lpr/lprng) using a Canon BJC-210 working nicely. I did the upgrade to 9.0 and now I can not get it to work no matter

Old SCO Also Donated Code to Linux

2003-08-14 Thread C M Reinehr
Wouldn't it be a hoot if it's determined that the Old SCO, i.e., pre-Caldera SCO, is the party that donated the questionable code to the Linux kernel! Groklaw, Monday, August 11, 2003, Old SCO Also Donated Code to Linux http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/11.html cmr -- Registered Linux

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn Tayler
I ran into a similar problem with my LJ4100. It appears that the APSfilter install must overwrite the filter conf file when running. I simply cleared the printcap and reran /usr/share/apsfilter/setup. Reentered the information and all was well again. Shawn On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:14:28+

Re: sco's lastest blathering

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wilson
On Thursday 14 August 2003 05:34 pm, Tom Marinis's voice rose above the ones in my head and stated: Tom Wilson wrote: LMFAO. Found the link on /. I don't even know what to say about this one because it is so far fetched. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 --Tom Wilson What

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Configure LISA and use KDE's Konqueror. I'm using Stock SuSE and loving it. The only thing I'd like more is the ability to mount the SMB:// connection so my non-kde software can use it as part of the OS. I use smbmount for that one (although linneighborhood would do this nicely) On Tue, 12

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bill Campbell: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003, Michael Fakaro wrote: My old OKI printer finally died and I went looking for a new one and found a Samsung ML1750 c/w Linux drivers in the box. Brought it home and it was printing great in 5 minutes drivers installed no problem. I just felt it

Re: Toshiba 2010 Install Help

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Shane Broomhall (CCI Aust): Hi All, I have a new Toshiba 2010 Laptop, it has a USB Foppy and It can see USB CDRom when Windows XP is running. That is great for Windows but I want to put Linux on it. I have had problems with getting it to boot from the USB Floppy, even though the bios

Re: OTTrip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
C'est moi. Actually, the picture was badly composed. I should have piled up all three of the lobsters that I ate. Yes, this was excessive, but, c'est la vie. Joel On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:22:00PM -0600, Andrew Mathews wrote:c -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Hammer

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Grewell
Dumb question here ... Are you guys talking about Mosix http://www.mosix.org/ or openMosix http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ ? Michael OpenMosix. Mosix switched to a non-OSS license some time ago, so OpenMosix was developed using the last free version.

OTTrip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
BTW, if you are hot and bored (Our ac is out right now here in Maryland), and have a cable connection, you might enjoy seeing a few pictures of Maine. We just got back from Maine after a weeks vacation there. The weather was lousy, just overcast. I posted some pictures for the family on my home

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Michael Fakaro wrote inter alia: Brought it home and it was printing great in 5 minutes drivers installed no problem. I just felt it was important to mention because of Samsungs support of Linux. I know many printers run under Linux but at least these guys go the extra step, this is a really

Re: sco's lastest blathering

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Tom Marinis: Province of Ontario, State of New York, Columbia, Maine, Detroit, Buffalo, all without power... No lights, no computer, No traffic lamps, no airports, no trains, no restaurants, and more importantly, NO Air Conditioning :) [ Probably a power generator being

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Ted Ozolins
Bill Campbell wrote: LexMark provided Linux support several years ago when I bought a Z53. Unfortunately LexMark also makes it difficult to use non-LexMark ink. Bill It also seems that Lexmark isn't as Linux friendly as they once professed. I belive that Lexmark is sueing an after-market

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Leon A. Goldstein: Michael Fakaro wrote inter alia: Brought it home and it was printing great in 5 minutes drivers installed no problem. I just felt it was important to mention because of Samsungs support of Linux. I know many printers run under Linux but at least these guys

Re: OTTrip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: C'est moi. Actually, the picture was badly composed. I should have piled up all three of the lobsters that I ate. Yes, this was excessive, but, c'est la vie. 3 lobsters are no more excessive than 1/2 a chocolate cake or a liter of single malt scotch whiskey. Kurt -- Death

SSH DOS?

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I am monitoring SSH from an OpenNMS box and two of my systems, both SuSE8.2pro boxen, are registering outages on SSH. Normally I'd blame either the network or the NMS system (little puny box can hardly keep up) but sure enough, they were indeed DOS'd. The TCP connection was established and

Re: OTTrip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Hammer wrote: | opps. | hammershome.com | Joel | snip And who's the lucky one partaking of the lobster at http://hammershome.com/MaineVac/slides/dscn1799.htm ? - -- Andrew Mathews -

Re: Scanning for DHCP servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: Anyone know of a good tool to scan the LAN for DHCP servers and report any good ones found? Not quite sure I understand what you're asking for. What do you mean by any good ones found? Kurt -- Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. --

Go SCO!

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
SCO's McBride: IT World Backs SCO In Its Fight With IBM Darl McBride, CEO of The SCO Group, said today he thinks that the silent majority is on SCO's side. http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84006,00.html?nlid=PM GIVE ME A BREAK! It's so nice that we've finally found the spokesperson

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That port is blocked, so I won't worry about updating anytime too soon. Joel On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:33:30PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: On 08/12/03 14:28, Joel Hammer wrote: Just how does this this thing spread? I have a couple of windows boxes behind my linux firewall. I have

RE: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Kurt Wall wrote: Look carefully at this picture of the Microsoft booth at LinuxWorld and you'll see that the Masked Penguin struck again... http://people.debian.org/~misha/lwce03/dscn0009.jpg Kurt When I scroll to the right place I see the I'll Be Your Server poster, and I assume that is

Re: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth burns: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 18:10, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer It's a three step process. Worm your way into their hearts. Offer a trim for less than a fin. Teach music in their school.

Re: sco's lastest blathering

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Marinis
Tom Wilson wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2003 05:34 pm, Tom Marinis's voice rose above the ones in my head and stated: Tom Wilson wrote: LMFAO. Found the link on /. I don't even know what to say about this one because it is so far fetched. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 --Tom Wilson

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I don't think I'm safe... I know :) By the way. Those were some great pix! It was nice to meet someone from the list face-to-face. Maybe I'll run into you at some event and I'll recognize that Hammerguy! On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:41:21 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh well, I

OT Why not fire these guys?

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Here we go again. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49575-2003Aug12?language=printer If IS people hired by businesses and govt got fired for these screwups, they might not use MS. I strongly doubt that any IS people will be fired because of this. (What does the MVA care about customer

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
These worms are so benign it's pathetic. If only the Windows world realized just how much peril they could be in! So far we've only really had worms that self-propagate and then did some token act to prove that they weren't gay. But how many CodeRed and NIMDA machines could have had a format

RE: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
burns wrote: That's entirely possible, I couldn't comment. BTW, Tom, just how *do* you get fish to sing in a hair salon? Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer It's a three step process. Worm your way into their hearts. Offer a trim for less than a fin. Teach music in their school. In

Re: For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:12, Kurt Wall wrote: snip For my money, the lost feechurs and eye canddy are a fair trade for better performance. I lost a feechur once. I left some food out near the printer... it seems they like breadcrumbs. I checked in an hour and there it was blinking at me with

Re: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 18:10, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer It's a three step process. Worm your way into their hearts. Offer a trim for less than a fin. Teach music in their school. Ah! A veritable packet of puns!! g

Re: SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Oh really? Is that why they anonymously licensed SCO's crap earlier this year to a large sum? On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: SCO Gets First Licensee For Unix Intellectual Property Software License

Re: Scanning for DHCP servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
OpenNMS does this... http://www.opennms.org On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:50:30 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a good tool to scan the LAN for DHCP servers and report any good ones found? Thanks, Michael ___

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Good. At least I'm not the only one who did it. SCO knows all sorts of information about my company (we were partners), so it wouldn't be beyond their sinister selves to retaliate (even defending against meritless lawsuits takes money). At least if they're too bogged down, they may never get

Re: Linux Training Manuals, Bradfordlearning.com ??

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
http://www.linux.org/lessons/ On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:30:49 +1000 Shane Broomhall (CCI Aust) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All, I am looking to try and find some decent Linux courseware so that I will be able to run Linux intro courses for Windows admins. I have found a company called

SCO scares me...

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
In the September issue of WIRED, Darl McBride in the HOT SEAT says... WIRED: Give me the summary brief. McBride: The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns the IP rights to it, When you snap off a branch from the Unix tree and try to graft it onto the Linux tree,

Re: For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:12, Kurt Wall wrote: snip For my money, the lost feechurs and eye canddy are a fair trade for better performance. I lost a feechur once. I left some food out near the printer... it seems they like breadcrumbs. I checked in an hour and there it

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