Re: SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Burns MacDonald
be playing the MS proxy role. -- Burns MacDonald Ottawa Canada ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Burns MacDonald
scripts. As I recall Saint used to be a good tool and was available for Linux, but I don't see an open-source version on their website any more - it's all commercial licensing. http://www.saintcorporation.com/products/saint_engine.html -- Burns MacDonald Ottawa Canada

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

Re: XFS has been officially merged

2002-09-29 Thread Burns MacDonald
Andrew spake: For the rest of you XFS filesystem fans, Linus has merged XFS into the kernel. quote Linus has just merged the XFS filesystem into his BitKeeper tree; it will thus show up in the 2.5.36 kernel. XFS is a high-performance, journaling filesystem from SGI; it now becomes the

Re: unitedlinux news conference

2002-09-29 Thread Burns MacDonald
Douglas spreken: you are correct. SuSEconfig is the culprit. and with the 8.0, there is no more monolithic config file. 8.1 (released in upcoming Oct) will be evern less monolithic config and damn near 100$ FHS/LSB compliant I use Suse 8.0 Pro and have been pleasantly suprised by how far YAST

Re: more on unitedlinux

2002-05-31 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Friday 31 May 2002 06:55, dep wrote: first, did you know that your machine is telling the world that it is july 26? Ooops, brand new install of SuSE 8.0 Pro two days ago - forgot to set date. Thanks. second, rms has weighed in:

Re: Fwd: Re: [SLE] OT : Unified Linux

2002-05-31 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Friday 31 May 2002 07:26, Harry G wrote: Yes, we are not talking about replacing the normal distribution but rather our business product SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. UnitedLinux, at least in its first incarnation, will be based on the next version of SLES which will be enhanced and

Re: anybody care to guess?

2002-05-30 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 22:04, dep wrote: joint announcement thursday from suse, turbo, caldera, and conectiva: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=77 *everybody* is being *really* tight-lipped. guesses? I'm surprised at SuSE's participation. They have a huge

Re: Skippy's project OT

2002-05-30 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 21:58, David A. Bandel wrote: ... But to compare either of them to MySQL is blasphemy to someone who knows about SQL servers and what they are/do. The operative word is ACID, and MySQL isn't. MySQL is a fancy filesystem. It lacks atomicity, referential integrity

Re: more on unitedlinux

2002-05-30 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Thursday 30 May 2002 16:19, Net Llama! wrote: As he put it i hope that the engineering is far better than the contents of this paper. Criptography... shit! The format and layout looks suspiciously like a Caldera white papaer - Kurt, do you agree? Their licensing stance sounds rather

Re: unitedlinux: it gets weirder

2002-05-30 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Thursday 30 May 2002 19:15, dep wrote: begin Tim Wunder's quote: | no, in fact they went out of their way to say that a desktop | distro *may not* carry the unitedlinux brand. | | Hmmm...OK, I obviously read it wrong. I just read it again and it | appears that you're right.

Re: XFS

2002-04-30 Thread Burns MacDonald
Llama uttered: A common misconception is that JFS is based on IBM's AIX filesystem. But in reality, its based on OS/2's filesystem, which makes it a lot less impressive (IMO). FWIW, I don't find AIX as particularly impressive either. A lot of the drivers are only half-cooked and/or flaky;

Re: PPoE Setup

2002-03-23 Thread Burns MacDonald
Yep, I use it. I use David Skolls' PPOE from Roaring Penguin. It works quite well. We had a small issue locally where we had to kick the modem everynow and then, but that was because of the Bell Nexxia network. The readme, etc that comes with the download is pretty concise and helpful. You may