Linux in German parliament

2002-02-10 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
For months, there has been a heated debate going on about introducing Linux as the core OS for about 5000 pc's in German parliament (Bundestag). The offspring of the debate was a campaign initiated by a group of MP's and IT professionells: http://www.bundestux.de/english.html which was

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:29:04 -0800 (PST) Will changing the 5 to 1 in this line of initab get me to boot up into single user run mode? id:5:initdefault: = At the boot prompt type: linux 1 or linux single Mike -- Laws for the liberal education of youth,

Test

2002-02-10 Thread Ted Ozolins
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Re: XFree86

2002-02-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:24:12 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled informatively: Truth be told, i haven't seen any real performance or feature benefit going from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 on that 1 box. I will note that i did see a significant improvement going from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0 on my

Re: HELP!! (fixed - not solved)

2002-02-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:49:45 -0600 daddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: OK this is what I did. Booted up into single user mode Reset the passwords for the users Rebooted in the previously broken system Logged in as if nothing had happened. So I have cured the symptom but still

Re: smaba 2.2.2 and winXP Home solved

2002-02-10 Thread Chang[linuxism]
problem solved. I forgot to reply. It's the veto files = /.*/ line in smb.conf Thanks for the link. I now got another place to check for problems. Next lesson is trying to upgrade the Xfree86 in workstation 3.1 to 4.2.0 It could be fun... Joel Hammer wrote: There have been lots of issues

Re: HELP!! (fixed - not solved)

2002-02-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 08:23:49 -0500 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: You may want to check your system for a rootdisk folder. Mike === OOOPS! I meant rootkit Mike -- Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people,

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Still thinking more about this gift. It costs MS about 50 cents to make a cd. So, XP + Office as donations will give MS about $500 dollars in tax write offs for one dollar in actual cost. Meanwhile, somebody else will have to cough up $1000 to buy a computer and run the network wiring in the

Re: xfce panel [ WAS Re: XFree86]

2002-02-10 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:27:26 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know that its possible to natively hide the xfce panel. You can minimize it though, but i'm not sure that's what you had in mind. --- Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonnie Been running

Re: xfce panel [ WAS Re: XFree86]

2002-02-10 Thread Collins
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:55:56 -0600 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:27:26 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know that its possible to natively hide the xfce panel. You can minimize it though, but i'm not sure that's what you had in mind.

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-10 Thread Jean Sagi
El Dom 10 Feb 2002 15:16, escribió: On Saturday 09 February 2002 08:36 pm, Jean Sagi warbled: Does anyone know where to get the kernel sources on the Mandrake 8.1 cd's? I would be a matter of looking at each cd under kernel. However at this yep! site

Re: Linux in German parliament

2002-02-10 Thread Lee
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: For months, there has been a heated debate going on about introducing Linux as the core OS for about 5000 pc's in German parliament (Bundestag). The offspring of the debate was a campaign initiated by a group of MP's and IT professionells:

freecell

2002-02-10 Thread Net Llama
Greetings, Does anyone know of a very good FreeCell game? I've tried Ace of Penguins and XFreecell, and neither is really up to snuff. As much as I hate to admit it, the MS version seems to be the gold standard to which the others are not comparing. -Lonni =

Re: freecell

2002-02-10 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:19:03 -0800 (PST) begin Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Greetings, Does anyone know of a very good FreeCell game? I've tried Ace of Penguins and XFreecell, and neither is really up to snuff. As much as I hate to admit it, the MS version seems to be the

Re: freecell

2002-02-10 Thread rplummer
Have to agree on that one.Pysol is probably the best solitaire collection around.. even the windows version is great. Ray On 10 Feb 2002, at 17:14, David A. Bandel wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:19:03 -0800 (PST) begin Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Greetings, Does

Re: freecell

2002-02-10 Thread Net Llama
--- David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:19:03 -0800 (PST) begin Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Greetings, Does anyone know of a very good FreeCell game? I've tried Ace of Penguins and XFreecell, and neither is really up to snuff. As much as I

RE: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-10 Thread zohar
I think the main point for needing windows is its ease of use but needs fast hardware. This is not understood by the people because nowadays hardware is not as much costly as it was before. If someone could give the CDs of the customized version of Linux that also includes office suite

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Still thinking about this gift. Someone mentioned giving out free linux cd's with staroffice. Sounds good until your think about who is going to be teaching the underpriviledged to use this software. Americans? The US Peace Corp? What does an American know about computers except MS ? I think Bill

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-10 Thread Collins
[ snip ] On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:17:06 +0530 zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the main point for needing windows is its ease of use but needs fast hardware. This is not understood by the people because nowadays hardware is not as much costly as it was before. If someone could give the

Fwd: Server Error

2002-02-10 Thread burns
Anyone know what this is caused by? It is on a system which we are using to host a VPN tunnel. Just a guess, But I am assuming that there is a software error in the VPN kernel module that is causing memory block errors and dumping. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Server

7 copies of nscd?

2002-02-10 Thread Michael Hipp
Is it normal to have 7 copies of nscd (name service cache daemon) running at all times? ps -aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND [snip] nscd 791 0.0 0.3 11952 956 ?S18:57 0:00 nscd nscd 792 0.0 0.3 11952 956 ?S

Oops...i did it again!

2002-02-10 Thread Net Llama
OK, now i think i'm a hazard to myself. A couple weeks back i somehow managed to fubar the runlevel 5 startup on my Redhat box (after upgrading XFree86 to 4.2.0). Today, i somehow managed to do the same on my Caldera box. It tries to go to runlevel5, and bombs immediately with the error id 'x'

OT Ping

2002-02-10 Thread Ian
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Re: OT Ping

2002-02-10 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 11 February 2002 12:17 am, Ian warbled: Errm! Pong, and checkmate ? -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage