Re: [LUAU] s/hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors.hosef.org/g

2006-12-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Vince Hoang wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:39:56AM -1000, Julian Yap wrote: On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 09:08 -1000, Matt Darnell wrote: The ISOs for various releases have squeezed out most of the updates, so Julian is correct, only updates for the Debian and SuSE repositories are

Re: [LUAU] s/hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors.hosef.org/g

2006-12-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: LUAU is HOSEF. HOSEF is LUAU. Who said so? ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau

Re: [LUAU] s/hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors.hosef.org/g

2006-12-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: LUAU is HOSEF. HOSEF is LUAU. Who said so? ___ Actually I don't have any interest nor the capacity to argue one way or another. But I want to make it perfectly clear that I do

Re: [LUAU] the term open source is dead, says Eben Moglen

2006-11-24 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jimen Ching wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Julian Yap wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:25 -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: YOU don't NEED to care. A lot of people don't NEED to care. As long as there are people who do care and are willing to fight for those rights. You'll continue to enjoy the

Re: [LUAU] the term open source is dead, says Eben Moglen

2006-11-21 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: The term Open Source was a marketing campaign, promulgated by Eric Raymond, What's wrong with a marketing campaign? The more the merrier. If I can live comfortably on donations, I wouldn't mind insisting that every piece of software to free, whatever that means. Wayne

Re: [LUAU] QHTB

2006-11-21 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Stan Baptista wrote: IMHO, more than a slim possiblity. F/OSS _itself_ is not particularly a factor. Activity that may qualify under Act 221/215 certainly can include F/OSS. The more important issue is whether the business utilizing these technologies is considered a QHTB as defined by the

Re: [LUAU] further thoughts on Sun using the GPL for Java

2006-11-15 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
There used to be a Honolulu Jave Users Group but I haven't heard any activity for a while. Anyone interested in reactivating it? Wayne ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau

Re: [LUAU] further thoughts on Sun using the GPL for Java

2006-11-15 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
-1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: There used to be a Honolulu Jave Users Group but I haven't heard any activity for a while. Anyone interested in reactivating it? Wayne I was talking about the Hawaii/Honolulu Java User Group: https://hjug.dev.java.net which is part

Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook

2006-11-12 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_Zod_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook Overall I am more that satisfied with Fedora Core 6 on my notebook. Previously I ran and used (not

Re: [LUAU] OpenSource Pizza tonight at UH Manoa

2006-10-17 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Ron Fox wrote: I've only had one response to our Call for Panelists, namely from Wayne (Linux Institute). If anyone else is interested in joining the panel, please let me know today via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call me at 589-5172. If my voicemail answers, please leave a message. Info

Re: [LUAU] Topic for OpenSourcePizza on Tues, 17 Oct 2006

2006-10-14 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Ron Fox wrote: Tuesday, October 17, 5:45pm - 7:30pm with Pizza and networking to follow. UH Manoa Marine Science Building Auditorium, Rm 114. I will try to make it, if I do, I will bring a Solaris 11 (beta) laptop in case anyone may be interested in seeing how far along the Solaris desktop

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities

2006-06-09 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
R. Scott Belford wrote: In the interest in saving future weekends, please know that you can come by McKinley any Saturday to see an Ubuntu installation. Thanks, I didn't know that. Wayne

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities

2006-06-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Since I started this thread, I don't want to leave an impression that I endorse Ubuntu. Actually I don't. Windows killer it is not. Far from it. For the things I am doing and planning to do, SuSE is still the best (and the comparison pool includes Windows XP-Pro). As I mentioned in a

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu

2006-06-03 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
I just installed Ubuntu 6.06 and it was the nicest out-of-the-box install experience I've ever had with Linux - real competition for the folks at Apple. Thanks for the lovely piece of work! (Roller's date: Jun 02 2006, 04:36:43 PM PDT ) I didn't say that, James Gosling did. Of course no one

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu

2006-06-02 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:06 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: I've been running Ubuntu inside Parallels on my Intel-powered Mac Mini for a while now. Seems to hang together nicely. Ubuntu (or, better, kubuntu) seems like a far better choice for a desktop than, say Linspire. Thanks. What I

[LUAU] Ubuntu

2006-06-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Ubuntu 6.06 is officially released today. (As I was told, it runs on Niagara better than Solaris.) I tried its beta some time ago but must admit that I was not impressed. Is there anyone locally who has devoted some time in Ubuntu and is willing to show me why you like it? Thanks a whole

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu

2006-06-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Thanx. Please see my private mail. Wayne On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:58 -0700, Julian Yap wrote: --- Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu 6.06 is officially released today. (As I was told, it runs Niagara better than Solaris.) I tried its beta some time ago but must

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu

2006-06-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:58 -0700, Julian Yap wrote: We are in the process of updating the Ubuntu mirror so check here for a local mirror or download via BitTorrent: http://mirrors.hosef.org/ubuntu-cd/releases/6.06/e Looks like all the major isos are there (including AMD64). Will try to give it

Re: [LUAU] Linux Distro (was KnoppMyth)

2006-05-28 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
because I am a member of the Docs group now. What Distro do you use if I may ask? I love hearing of others experiences. Mahalo, Edward On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:15 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Edward Haddock wrote: Aloha, I was wondering why you are avoiding Fedora? Curiosity mostly

[LUAU] $300M Linux Procurement by Taiwan Gov

2006-05-28 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
A friend of mine sent me a news clip which says that the Taiwan gov has mandated a requirement that all government IT purchases now must be certified for Windows/Linux dual boot. Currently Red Hat, Novell/SuSE, and two local Linux companies have passed the certification:

Re: [LUAU] KnoppMyth

2006-05-27 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Peter Besenbruch wrote: I was checking the Debian repositories, and MythTV is available on the Christian Marillat's external repository. You mentioned it was complex? Here is what you get when you use apt to install it: There are external YUM/apt/Yast repositories for installing MythTV in

Re: [LUAU] KnoppMyth

2006-05-27 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Edward Haddock wrote: Aloha, I was wondering why you are avoiding Fedora? Curiosity mostly. In the most recently issue of Linux Journal, Nicholas Petrely also mentioned his displeasure with Fedora. My reason is totally different from his. For me, the main issue is a lack of smooth

[LUAU] KnoppMyth

2006-05-26 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
I decided to give KnoppMyth a spin last night. This is truly amazing, the entire process, including registering with zap2it (to build MySQL database) took less than two hours, and, w/o much effort, I have a TiVo on steroid running. The only thing I needed to do, was to change framebuffer

Re: [LUAU] KnoppMyth

2006-05-26 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Wayne Maeda wrote: Forgive my ignorance but what's the difference between KnoppMyth and MythTV? What would be the reason to choose one over the other? Thanks, Wayne ___ KnoppMyth is a Knoppix distro optimized for MythTV. But it is not a liveCD;

Re: [LUAU] KnoppMyth

2006-05-26 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Wayne Maeda wrote: Thanks, but what's the advantage of one over the other? Or are there any major differences? Is one easier to install? I was thinking of getting into MythTV after reading about the LUAU install fest a few months ago. Wayne The MythTV install fest organized by Matt was

Re: [LUAU] This could be the first tiny step toward replacing MS Office in the DOE

2006-05-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Nakashima wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/16/78380_HNibmodf2_1.html Since the DOE relies heavily on Lotus Notes, this might be a very good thing. --Peter ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list

[LUAU] Linux Co-Op Library

2006-05-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
The librarian at Kaimuki library has gotten back to me indicating that they will be interested in working with me to facilitate a Linux co-op library. My proposal was to donate a small fund (around $1K), with the focus initially on purchasing books and printing hard copy manuals relating to

[LUAU] RedHat to Acquire JBoss

2006-04-10 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Just noticed that RedHat is going to buy JBoss for $420M (?) I am sure Jimmy the god will be able to provide more info. Wayne

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Dude... they're providing their own power. That will make things even worse. If you're going to go all MIPS/watt on us, I'm going to start talking about reconfigurable computing. ___ Will be more than happy to entertain your

Re: [LUAU] FOSS alternatives to proprietary software

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: I usually get asked questions along the lines of 'What's the Open Source alternative to WS FTP LE?' It pains me to see people using these kinds of deprecated shareware products past the 30-day trial period... Like WinZip. So I started a page to list the FOSS alternatives to

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: If memory serves, I'd queried why you deemed it important that the number of processes on a desktop OS be minimized. At the outset, you want to minimize the number of processes running on a desktop machine so it will boot faster. Beginning version 10.0, SuSE uses parallel

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: Wayne, Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday. We can have a chat/run through of Samba.We can install it on a spare donated machine. My wife is out of town that may give a window to do just that. It's all pretty simple if you stick to the GUI utilities with RedHat

Re: [LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

2006-04-07 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: There has been a lot of recent discussion about what to do with PII machines. Lets build a cluster. (Where can we find the room/power/AC?) You can do a rough and tumble calculation. To match a lowest-powered ( cheapest) Sempron you can find in the market, you will need

[LUAU] New Round of LayOff at Sun

2006-04-07 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
It seems that Sun is beginning a new round of layoffs. This has become so common, no one cares to talk about it any more (unless someone you know happens to be affected). BTW, while Sun's Solaris developers do not seem to care about user-friendliness, a couple of OpenSolaris LiveCDs have

Re: [LUAU] . . . (VMware . . .)

2006-04-05 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Vince Hoang wrote: You can try VMware Server. The product is on my own list of things to try, so I cannot say for certain that it solve the problem the way you want. If the price is not outrageous, I am seriously thinking about putting together a Pacifica system. Virtualization is moving to

Re: [LUAU] . . . (VMware . . .)

2006-04-04 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Since someone mentioned VMWare, I was wondering whether anyone has any info that might lead to a clue on answering the following two questions: 1. I am running WinXP-Pro on SuSE 10.0 with VMWare-Player. Everything is great (!!!) except that every time I print something from Windows, the

Re: [LUAU] . . . (VMware . . .)

2006-04-04 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: Otherwise you're reliant on VMWare 'tools' and whatever services they may or may not provide. In which case, check the VMWare manuals. - Julian For desktops, for obvious reasons, you want as few processes as possible. I was looking for a non-Samba option (see my first

[LUAU] NOV€LL/SuSE

2006-04-04 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
This week's BusinessWeek has a top 20 ranking of the cash position (cash as % of market cap) for the largest 500 companies in the US. Guess who ranks No. 1? NOV€LL At 58% ($1.69B/$2.92B), Nov€ll's cash position is not only at the top but is way above everyone else. Wayne

[LUAU] LNUX

2006-03-31 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Just saw LNUX (VA Software) went up more than 10% this morning. Can't imagine a company whose main business is to provide a platform for developing FOSS software now has a market cap near $300M. Wayne

Re: [LUAU] Fedora's way forward

2006-03-31 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Since many here fun Fedora, I thought I'd point to this thread where Eric Raymond (you know who he is) suggests that Fedora needs some help. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/36702 Its an interesting read, if for no other reason than a community of

[LUAU] City of Dalian

2006-03-27 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Saw a program last night which mentioned that the Chinese gov is planning to spend $2B USD to develop a software park in Dalian. Dalian has been known as the software outsourcing capital of China, especially in providing software and IT services to Japanese companies. Last year, its software

Re: [LUAU] more participation

2006-03-24 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Interrupt routing isn't that difficult, until you have to deal with all the legacy IRQ crap from the days of ISA/EISA buses. then its insane. So, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, SPARC and x86 sans support for ISA are all equivalent in terms of low-weirdness during install of a new

Re: [LUAU] more participation

2006-03-24 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Mighty Blue got knocked down via their Consent Decree, Consent Decree? What consent decree? (I think you have mixed up the IBM case with ATT, Jim.) In the antitrust case against IBM, DOJ was clobbered by David Boies, the lead attorney for IBM--the gov dropped the case

[LUAU] Preemptive Financing

2006-03-20 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Today's (03/20/06) Wall Street Journal has an article about preemptive financing (i.e., investors will shower you with cash before you have a presentable corporative structure even a workable product). The average valuation that venture capital groups are willing to give to a pre-startup has

Re: [LUAU] Preemptive Financing

2006-03-20 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Today's (03/20/06) Wall Street Journal has an article about preemptive financing (i.e., investors will shower you with cash before you have a presentable corporative structure or even a workable product). The average valuation that venture

Re: [LUAU] Preemptive Financing

2006-03-20 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: You know what they say about the after-effects of incorporating (injesting) beans, Wayne. The beans is indeed a great tool to do office automation with OpenOffice.org. The more I look at it, the more I like it. Sooner or later, the crossplatformed-beans-based OOo is going

Re: [LUAU] Pics and news about the mythtv build

2006-03-17 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jon Reynolds wrote: Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: The output quality on the 350 is very good for SDTV, but beware: With the 350 it will be difficult or impossible to get BIOS/bootup messages and to play back any video not captured by the 350 (or in standard SD MPEG-2). This means no HD

Re: [LUAU] Pics and news about the mythtv build

2006-03-17 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jon Reynolds wrote: I hope the weather in Hawaii is treating you better than the weather here in Alaska. :) Jon Now I remember who you are (plse excuse me for the age thing). Regarding my comment: We need to share our knowledge/experience. This is the only way we can survive on the

Re: [LUAU] Pics and news about the mythtv build

2006-03-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
It appears that there's a lot of interest in MythTV, which is spilling over to Linux. Does any one have any thoughts/comments re Hauppauge 250 vs 350? Thanx. Wayne Jon Reynolds wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: VIA has several processors, including the C3. The current max clock speed is

Re: [LUAU] Pics and news about the mythtv build

2006-03-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Eric Hattemer wrote: Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: It appears that there's a lot of interest in MythTV, which is spilling over to Linux. Does any one have any thoughts/comments re Hauppauge 250 vs 350? Thanx. Wayne You'd do really well to ask the mythtv-users list from http

Re: [LUAU] Seeking volunteers for public service FOSS web development

2006-03-12 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Clifton Royston wrote: I remember some people on this list were working on setting up some FOSS demo projects with the Judiciary. This is IMHO even more worthwhile, because it would be helping kids stay out of detention and have a chance to get their lives back together. Let's

Re: [LUAU] Seeking volunteers for public service FOSS web development

2006-03-12 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
My previous message was intended to be a private mail, but for some very stupid reason, I profusely apologize, it was sent to the LUAU list. The call for LUAU perusers and/or other volunteers to develop a web system as part of ACLU's Juvenile Justice Project is a very worthy one. Very

Re: [LUAU] Windows Vista will be an improvement in security and stability...

2006-03-06 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
JFor those who may have an inclination to move to Vista, I strongly suggest considering SuSE 10.x. I know, I know, this breaches one of the most sacred Commandments in Linux (Thou Shalt not talk about distros, in addition to Thou Shalt not talk about KDE/GNOME). A few months ago, I had a

Re: [LUAU] Free Niagara Server (60-day trial)

2006-03-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
someone to pick it up [for free]. The comments are more interesting (to me) then the offer. I'm surprised they let those stand. Michael On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: A friend of mind sent me this news about a free Niagara server (in Japanese) and asked if anyone

Re: [LUAU] Free Niagara Server (60-day trial)

2006-03-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:19 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: A friend of mind sent me this news about a free Niagara server (in Japanese) and asked if anyone has (or knows anyone who has) any experience: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathanja?entry

Re: [LUAU] Free Niagara Server (60-day trial)

2006-03-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Kanotix should be Kanotic Linux.

[LUAU] Free Niagara Server (60-day trial)

2006-02-28 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
A friend of mind sent me this news about a free Niagara server (in Japanese) and asked if anyone has (or knows anyone who has) any experience: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathanja?entry=free_server_v2_0_honest Wayne

[LUAU] MythTV Thanks

2006-02-27 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
I can't remember many of the names, but during the early days of LUAU, its membership comprised quite a few UNIX (Solaris) administrators from our local military bases who didn't want to see their names published (thus the name Linux/Unix Anonymous). In 1996, the activity moved to MIC. At

[LUAU] Practical Considerations for China Gold Rushers

2006-02-23 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
I have noticed that Alexander Baldwin is betting very big on the Honolulu-Shanghai trade opportunities in their next round of business growth plan. Can't blame them, as China's foreign cash reserve is expected to grow to $1 trillion by the end of this year. A couple of weeks ago, one of

[LUAU] Re: ROK Linux Plan LUAU Co-op Library

2006-02-20 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
A few years ago, the ROK gov budgeted over $100M USD to try to boost their entertainment industry. Now the Korean soup operas are so proliferating ( so addictively popular) that the Taiwan government a couple of months ago was considering banning Korean soup operas during the prime time (and,

[LUAU] Re: Computer books for trade? Perl, PostNuke

2006-02-18 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
For some reason I am unable to receive LUAU mail, but I would suggest going one step further by forming a local Linux/Unix co-op library. I am also interested in finding enough people to share the costs of printing out pdf pages of manuals. Wayne

[LUAU] SuSE Demo

2006-02-17 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
In the next week or so, we will be installing a Novell SuSE (10.0) desktop demo at the Hawaii State Bar Association (1132 Bishop, Suite 906). This system will include a slightly customized OpenOffice.org 2.0, and a VMWare player with a WinXP Pro image (along with WordPerfect and Microsoft

Re: [LUAU] Am I going to TPOSSCON - If not why?

2006-02-06 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Clifton Royston wrote: I also hope you bring back John Terpstra's seminar next year, as I'm still kicking myself for passing it up. Just my $0.02c. Am still kicking my own 8th for not attending it. Wayne

Re: [LUAU] Is Google going to create its own Linux distro?

2006-02-06 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Redhat introduces its Desktop product in mid 2004. http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/04/11/06/1831257.shtml? tid=111tid=116 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5205117.html https://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/compare/client/#tableD Novel (SUSE) has one too. I

[LUAU] TPOSCONN 2006

2006-01-13 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
*Ron Fox* rfox at hosef.org mailto:hosef-managers%40lists.hosef.org?Subject=%5BHOSEF-managers%5D%20Moving%20from%20the%20HCC%20to%20Planet%20PTCIn-Reply-To=43C76AC9.6060200%40hosef.org/on Thu Jan 12 23:31:56 HST 2006 wrote: --- /Scott, As one who attended the entire conference

Re: [LUAU] Re: Hosef

2005-11-11 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Julian Yap wrote: Wayne, Teaching Python on the other hand gives you shell scripting skills, web development skills, application development skills, etc... Sorry our posts must have crossed each other. Next to StarBasic, Python is probably the most intuitive language and the easiest to

Re: [LUAU] Re: Hosef

2005-11-10 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Tim Newsham wrote: I always thought that python should be taught to young students (elementary, high school, first year college or non-cs college interested in programming). Its fairly clean and easy to learn and use without having a deep understanding of programming. I showed my wife, who

Re: [LUAU] Re: StarBasic (Was: Hosef)

2005-11-10 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
StarBasic Just in case anyone is interested, you can download a copy of the user manual (in pdf) below: http://www.eiu.edu/~itshelp/software/staroffice8/StarOffice_Basic_Guide_en-US.PDF Or if you prefer an on-line tutorial: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0439 For more advanced

Re: [LUAU] The VC Squeeze, Desktop Linux and Hawaii's future

2005-11-10 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Just some ideas, a bit more bomb throwing @ 4am. As someone who is looking at his career/life from a rearview mirror, I probably should keep my mouth shut. But we used to represent an out-of-state VC, and it was equally frustrating for us to try to find good candidates

Re: [LUAU] Re: StarBasic (Was: Hosef)

2005-11-10 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
R. Scott Belford wrote: Thanks for the info and resources, Wayne. This is helpful. I know that in my Business Undergraduate, the process of building spreadsheets for decision analysis was very akin to programming. This made quite an impression on me; I'll work a bit harder to have our

Re: [LUAU] The VC Squeeze, Desktop Linux and Hawaii's future

2005-11-10 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: yes, this kind of communication and cultural exchange is vital (and from what I can tell after 16 months on island, mostly lacking.) In the 70's, the best place to do technobusiness discussions is one of the bars just outside of MIT, or one of MIT's libraries (unlike our

[LUAU] GNU/Solaris: OpenSolaris + Debian

2005-11-08 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
A few months ago I participated in a heated discussion about combining the OpenSolaris kernel with the Debian distribution system (thus, the name GNU/Solaris). The general understanding was (according to my own interpretation anyway), this is a great idea and there should be no compatibility

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

2005-11-03 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Matt Darnell wrote: Aloha, We have a box with over 500,000 files in a direcotry. If I try 'rm m*' I get an error, something like 'too many arguments' I think someone else in this situation had a method of switching to another shell, bash is default. All the files start with mgetty. I would

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

2005-11-03 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: or cut down on the amount of globbing that the shell does in any one pass. If all the files end in a number, (and the numbers are well-distributed) #!/bin/bash i=0 while [ $i -le 9 ] do echo mgetty*$i | xargs rm -f i=$[$i+1] done Didn't realize you already answered the

Re: [LUAU] RE: How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

2005-11-03 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: You're going to be hitting 'y' for a long time. Lets say you can get 10/second, thats 50,000 seconds, or the better part of 12 hours. I will always use the rm command with ultimate care, especially when removing a large number of files. Typically I use the mv command (to

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

2005-11-03 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Eric Hattemer wrote: Ok, I wonder if I'm the only one who immediately read this as what I thought it should have been, then didn't get the criticism. The typo should have read for i in m*; do rm $i; done; -Eric Hattemer You're exactly right. Wayne

Re: [LUAU] RE: How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

2005-11-03 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Per Eric's comment, the correct command should be: for i in m*; do mv $i ~/dump; done Sorry for the inattention. Wayne

[LUAU] Is Dell Doomed?

2005-11-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Yes! (IMNSHO) On the surface, the Oct. 31 news out of Round Rock, Tex., is bad . . . Look beyond the surface, and the long-term situation at the world's largest PC maker may be even worse.

[LUAU] Yum Repositories (Was: Appletalk)

2005-10-26 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Angela Kahealani wrote: I've used yup, yum and apt-get with Redhat / Fedora Core / Yellow Dog, apt-get with Debian, and finally emerge with Gentoo... they're all great tools... but they can only work as well as the repositories they feed from, and the Fedora Core EXTRAS split into two

Re: [LUAU] someone start a HI company to do this

2005-10-21 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Bully Soares wrote: Jim, Mahalo for the info. I got in touch with Dave Muchow, (Pres/CEO) of SkyBuilt and although they're not building for private homeowners or individuals (not yet anyway) He was very helpful with the info that he's given

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-18 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: snip Looks like it is definitely going to be a very interesting talk. On the oil issue, the biggest parameter is actually China. I read somewhere that China's oil consumption, in both absolute terms (~ 6 million barrels a day) and rate of increase (~ 10% per year), is

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-17 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
R. Scott Belford wrote: I don't think that you are making sense. This is the title that Jim has chosen for his presentation. Are you saying that this is *not* his title, [let's not get too personal]? --scott I don't think Jim would mind a little tease. But thanks for your concern. Jim's

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Angela Kahealani wrote: so, what's YOUR experience with OS? Very negative (note the minus one ranking that I gave)--I will try to discuss that in separate threads. That's why I am asking whether anyone here has a different experience. I would very much like to hear it. I compared

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Angela Kahealani wrote: snip Jim ( I am sure yourself too) has a wide spectrum of knowledge. Any discussion here can be a potential subject of his not-yet-titled Pizza talk. As I mentioned, I had very high expectations for Sun and Solaris_10/OpenSolaris. But after a while Sun really

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
IMHO, only morons or government agencies will buy new SPARCs. I was referring to systems with less than 16-node.

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
R. Scott Belford wrote: From the original posting in this thread, the title can be found: Peak Oil, FOSS, Hawaii You That's exactly what I meant, not-yet-titled. BTW 16-node should be 16-way. Oops.

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

2005-10-15 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
This is for Jim- As I posted here a couple of months or so ago, I was soliciting volunteering comrades to explore Sun's OpenSolaris. I have found out that, not only here, but everywhere else I asked, no one was interested. I remember you did predict this outcome. But me stubborn. So far,

[LUAU] Novell in China

2005-10-01 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
At the beginning of this year (2005), Novell's market penetration in China was essentially zero. Now it is the No. 1 Linux provider there. China has a handful of Linux-based companies, such as Turbo Linux, Red Flag, Asiaux, etc. All of them are very small (less than 200 employees). Most of

[LUAU] RedHat/Fedora

2005-09-29 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Mid of the night and finally got a chance to browse the web. Suddenly, a news alert: Red Hat shares up 25% (thus pushing its market cap to ~$3.5B, I believe). I am sure everyone remembers this: Not too long ago, Red Hat was facing the reality of the Internet/Linux bubble and decided to

[LUAU] Motorola E680i Linux-Based PDA Phone

2005-09-26 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Saw this today (sorry in Chinese): http://taiwan.cnet.com/computer/mobile/reviews/0,268543,20101615,00.htm Looks, feels, and plays awfully nice. Will try to get one when I get back (due to warranty concerns). Wonder whether I can use it as a FreeNX client (via a USB-ethernet bridge)?

Re: [LUAU] Slingbox @ CompUSA

2005-09-23 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: C) Build a MythTV box. Record what you want, when you want, compress at will. Actually MythTV may be the best option, all things considered. (When are you going to give your MTV demo?) Wayne

Re: [LUAU] Slingbox @ CompUSA

2005-09-22 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Tim Newsham wrote: Interesting product. Unfortunately my wee little uplink from verizon just wouldn't cut it. This is something I am very much interested in finding out. 768kbs may not be as bad as we think (depends on the compression I suppose). There is another option called ORB, which

Re: [LUAU] Slingbox @ CompUSA

2005-09-22 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: DTV (like HDTV without the H) has to be supported by any new TeeVee 13 and all other receivers (such as VCRs, DV Ds, etc.) by 2007. HDTV (by which I mean at least 720p) is a different animal, of course. The first two solutions below will decode 480p, but getting a

[LUAU] VMWare on Fedora Core 4

2005-09-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
This past weekend I spent some time playing with VMWare 5 (an evaluation copy) on FC4. Everything (AFAIK) worked out of the box-except bridged networking. But it didn't take long the get this nuisance fixed. On a plain vanilla machine (Athlon64 2800+ w/ 1GB DDR), I really couldn't notice

Re: [LUAU] on-topic, finally!

2005-09-19 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Brian Chee wrote: The PODS project . . . now going to a Mini-ITX motherboard to create embedded systems with no moving parts. Interesting info. The mini-itx always fascinates me. Recently, VIA has begun selling its C7- and C7-M series CPUs, each of which comprises an x86 processor and an

[LUAU] S. Korea Postal Service Moves to Linux Desktops, Nationwide

2005-08-31 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Korea Post to Adopt Linux Korea Post, Korea's postal service agency, Wednesday announced it will begin adopting the free, open-source operating system known as Linux to its desktop computers nationwide on Thursday, replacing the Windows operating system produced by U.S. software giant

Re: [LUAU] S. Korea Postal Service Moves to Linux Desktops, Nationwide

2005-08-31 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Oops, I inadvertently hit the submit key before I finished typing. It appears that the Korea Postal Service Agency will be using the so-called Buyeo Linux developed by KIPA (Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency). I probably posted this before. Last year, KIPA announced that it has budgeted

Re: [LUAU] Photos and News from Linuxworld

2005-08-16 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
R. Scott Belford wrote: I am uploading photos from Linuxworld to the HOSEF site. Highlights include photos of various Chinese Linux Desktops as well as pictures of the esteemed Warren Togami doing a presentation at the Red Hat booth. Enjoy http://www.hosef.org/gallery/lwsf05 --scott

Re: [LUAU] CJK in FC4

2005-08-11 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Jim Thompson wrote: Don't know Japanese? McKinley has an English-centric Japanese language program. After 30 dollars and 30 hours, you may become itchy to try to sell Fedora machines in Japan.) This sounds cool. Where do I find out more? jim Oops, I was hoping no one would notice this

Re: [LUAU] CJK in FC4

2005-08-11 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
There is an even more ambitious project which just saw its curtain lifted today: http://opendesktop.org.tw/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3 (in traditional Chinese) This project is being co-led by Mr. Firefly who single-handedly created the more than one hundred thousand or so of the glyphs of

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