Hi Karen,
I have a friend who can use the tablet for illustrating work that he dabbles
with.
Aloha,
Rob
- Original Message
From: Karen Lofstrom klofst...@gmail.com
To: LUAU luau@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org
Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 8:08:50 AM
Subject: [LUAU] Anyone want some
--- Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, apparently wnj (Bill Joy) was the unix hacker who didn't
understand the PC loser-ing problem (PCLSRing), as referenced in
Gabriel's Worse is Better
(http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
):
What sort of performance do you need? I have a working Compaq celeron
box in the garage (500 or 600 Mhz, I think) that your friend can have,
complete with a DVD drive and the win 98 license install CD =-)
Aloha,
Rob
--- HawaiiDakine.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha.
Does anyone know
--- John S. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the HD is intact, you can probably move it to the primary IDE
interface and boot straight off of it.
Thanks Vince!
HD is intact, but the motherboard is kaput. It's an old Athlon and
the system I am attaching it to via external USB drive is
Against my better judgment, Im adding my 2 cents to this on the open
list. Like Vince, I think it probably belongs off the list, but when I
get 40-odd messages over the course of a day or two, and it is
primarily from one or two people, I feel like folks feel that
everyone agrees with one point
This is probably off topic, but how did you come up with the subject
line? Are the firefox settings being used to prevent access to adult
content?
--- R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha All
With each firefox update of our K12LTSP lab at the park in Ewa Beach,
the proxy
Hi there,
You may not know me, I'm a list lurker 99% of the time for the past
many years, and just now wading through the smoldering backlog of mail
from the past week on LUAU and HOSEF / HOSEF managers.
I just wanted to thank you for:
a) trying to keep a level head and calm things down
--- Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug, of course, is a long-standing member of the Unix community.
(And thanks, I didn't know about The Music of Streams.
Here is a large collection of programming e-books.
http://www.programmingebooks.tk/
just in-case anyone is getting the
Considering the reports I have heard about air pollution and other
pollution problems in in China, I think it would be a drop in the
bucket, and worth the trade off. With any luck, they will have some
better methods of handling IC and circuit board waste recycling in the
years to come.
--- Tim
I saw this in one my tech newsletters:
http://news.com.com/The+100+laptop+moves+closer+to+reality/2100-1044_3-5884683.html
They're targetting developing nations, but this could be a real boon
for any students anywhere. They mention a possible commercial version
in the $200-$300 range, which
Interesting article from Newsforge about a Detroit schoolusing
Openoffice
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/05/18/1944227.shtml?tid=130tid=93
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I'm confused it says its launching 5-1-2005 what did they
learn exactly?
--- R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suppose that many of you have been keeping up, when possible, with
the
CherryOS debacle. Well, it appears that the clue stick came down
pretty
hard lately.
Just a wild guess, but check to make sure you have plenty of space in
your partitions.
A few years ago I had a little web and game server that doubled as my
workstation. All of a sudden, it was on its face for no apparent
reason, and it turned out that the partition with the mail spool was
too
Not be critical, since I appreciate having the notifications posted,
but I frequently stop checking my e-mail during the mid afternoon as I
wrap up things for the day. If you put the notices out during
mid-morning, I would be much more likely to get the word in time to try
and tune into the show.
follows.
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From: Robert Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help with dying (dead?) Laserjet 1000
I didn't make it down to the HOSEF giveaway because I was trying to
curb my habit of adopting stray boxen in need of good homes, but
after I checked my e-mail that night, I saw that there were some older
laptops scheduled for liberation as well.
If anybody picked up one that they could spare, I
I wonder if there is a fax list for pawn shops, too?
--- Brian Chee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've actually sent the exact same stuff to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and nothing
was on
the radio this morning
I've also sent this out to every computer shop that I had in my
rolodex and
every
I didn't find out about free kits, but I bought one for $10 or $15
online that fixed the problem. Basically a sticky-back peice of rubber
to replace the worn one in the pickup mechanism of the printer. Super
easy to do, and fixed the problem on my machine as well. Well worth
checking into if you
Actually, I believe they still have offices in Waikiki near Duty Free.
I have a friend who works three, they do game development for Game Boy,
and I'm pretty sure it was Konami that she works for.
--- Virgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They have a presence here in Hawaii but most of their
I would suggest approaching any small- to medium-sized business, as
they may equipment they are replacing. As most will not bother to sell
older equipment, they may find it attractive to hae the donateion as a
tax write-off (assuming you're LUG is a non-profit).
Aloha,
Rob
--- Florian Hines
I'll vote for #6
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please vote for one of the two logos, #5 or #6, by posting to the
Luau
mailing list.
Deadline 27-June-2003, 11:59pm.
http://www.hosef.org/logo.html
Mahalo,
Enrico
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Tux-penguin == better than generic penguin -- it emphasizes the Open
Source ties.
Rob
--- Taylor Cody L Contractor 502 AOS/PETS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I agree.
-Original Message-
From: Nakashima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:11 PM
To: [EMAIL
Aloha Mr. Belford
My name is Rob Green, and I know of you from the LUAU mailing list
and your work with HOSEF.
I wanted to see if I can ask you for any info you might be able to
point me towards as far as establishing a non-profit organization. We
are trying to re-establish our karate club, and
ARG!
forgot to change the reply-to address. Sorry folks! That was supposed
to go directly to Scott.
vainly clicking browser's back button
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--- Dennis T. Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was interesting that nobody really knows how it works yet, but
it is
working...
--Dennis
I think its is a case of the people at the ground level have a good
grasp on it, and the upper management just taking the techies' word
that it is a Good
--- Casey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, I noticed something else a little interesting in
both bills. They both mentioned that the state
governments would have to avoid acquiring products
that do not comply with open standards for
interoperability or data storage; and avoid
--- Vince Hoang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not sure what you mean by a daemon vs. rc.local. Adding
something to rc.local is a quick hack, but you might want to
add a script to /etc/init.d and offering start/stop services
so things run more cleanly.
-Vince
I didn't have the original
I've also been there more than a few times for hard drives and other
components, and they have been helpful gave me good prices and
service, including giving me a little bit of a price break when I
bought $600 worth of components a month ago to build a new system. I
was really suprised to hear
I checked his site several times, I never found anything referencing
Scott ... was it only in the print edition, or did they change their
mind about what lead story to run this month?
--- Ho'ala Greevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The e-biz cover story for the March 2003 isssue of Hawaii Business
I wonder if anybody on the list has had experience with converting or
duplicating paper records (including text, scannable documents,
photos, images, etc) into a digital format, and how best to manage
search and retrieval.
I have a large group of client records that I am considering either
Hehe, I was going to say, I didn't think Fergusson's took
reservations, and I'm pretty sure they don't have a table for 10!
grin
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Woops - you are right - it is Murphy's.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:36:28AM -1000, Ben Timmerman wrote:
Uh, this is the first time
--- Vince Hoang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A pizza parlor for a future outing would be cool. DB (Dave
Busters) would be fun, but very expensive.
-Vince
Nothing against Fergusson's (I like that place) but for pizza pubs,
Magoo's at Puck's Alley has some parking, decent pizza and other
food,
--- Nakashima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, al plant wrote:
The Hawaii DOE is useless in any case. ( But the new Gov. is
trying to
change it.) We should stick to the private schools like Mid PAC
and
renegades in the State System like Mililani that appreciate the
Open
Doh! sorry about that last one, hit the wrong key
I think there is a tendancy of many folks in the Open Source camp
(myself included) to get a little overzealous in doling out
generalizations, particularly when we're faced with people who don't
understand why we know Open Source is a better
Doh! sorry about that last one, hit the wrong key
I think there is a tendancy of many folks in the Open Source camp
(myself included) to get a little overzealous in doling out
generalizations, particularly when we're faced with people who don't
understand why we know Open Source is a better
I don't know much about Hyperthreading, but do the applications need
to be specially optimized and/or recompiled for you to get
performance increases, or will standard applications see these types
of improvements just due to the CPU alone?
Thanks!
Rob
--- R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Green wrote:
I don't know much about Hyperthreading, but do the applications
need
to be specially optimized and/or recompiled for you to get
performance increases, or will standard applications see these
types
of improvements just due
Are all industry hard drive warrantees now shortened to 1 year? Are
any of the drives carrying longer warrantees?
Aloha,
Rob
--- Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha,
I have 4 80GB western digital drives and I had to replace all 4 of
them
within 9 months of buying them. They all
Keep your chin up, Charles
I find myself deleting nearly everything I start to compose along
these lines because either:
1) I'm afraid it will just fan the flames
2) I figure somebody else is going to say it anyway (which they do,
even if worded differently)
3) I doubt the person will
--- Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Oct/15/tc/tc01a.html
This is the guy that wrote the very uninformed article a few months
ago
saying that the browser war was over, Internet Explorer won, and it
was
a waste of time to try
--- Joe Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wondered that myself, because I know sometimes things come
through as
a double post. Also when you are new to some list, or a strange
one
like a Linux list then you might not acutely know if your message
went
through. My impression is the guy
--- R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. Great suggestion. It should be more general.
Let's generalize. I like how the following rolls of the tongue:
Hawaiian Open Source Technology Foundation
or
Hawaiian Foundation for Open Source Technology
scott
I echo the idea of
--- Eric Hattemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But seriously, does Jaguar actually do anything worthy of giving
it its
own name?
-Eric Hattemer
I don't keep up on Macs that much (I was told if we went to OSX on my
wife's G3 it would be slow as cold molasses), but I do recall reading
in the
This seems like a reasonable idea. The vendor can submit the info,
and notify the list, and after a certain number of people rate it, it
gets the yeah or nay.
--- MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about a K5 like system for these kinds of things. People post
their
opportunity to a
Doh! Didn't mean to send that to the whole list
--- Robert Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha Wayne,
My wife keeps talking about wanting to join the Elks; if its not
too
nosy, can you tell me what the ballpark cost is for membership
Perhaps the best idea would be to have a separate list centered
around the Linux for Schools project, particularly for the non-geek
types?
--- Jimen Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will not support efforts to water down geek culture for the sake
of
--- Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:19, Gary Sublett wrote:
Frankly, I am more troubled by the lack of trimming and off topic
threads than the unsubstantiated controversial comments.
Thank you for your polite suggestion. I will need to look into
that
This is a handy resource, but I don't suppose there is any way to add
a search function, is there?
--- Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please remember that the list is archived on the Mailman web based
interface. Every LUAU post since November 1998 is there currently,
and
we will
I'd be interested in getting this info, too - I have an ailing big
boy monitor that has a fussy power supply (it only comes on when it
feels like it, and I have to sit there cycling the power off and on a
random number of times until it feels cooperative and comes online).
--- Warren Togami
Hi Folks,
I am trying to fix a system for a friend. It is (was) a windows 98
machine, and his ex-employee either dragged the whole drive into the
trash can, or did a recursive delete from the command line -- I don't
know which one it was.
When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\
He's not interested in changing his OS, he's interested in getting
back the data from the machine that his ex-employees wiped. Thanks
for the suggestion, though.
--- al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just converted a crashed Win 98 to Red hat 7.2 Linux with Open
Office.
Try that it will
It was posted on the old list ... we all thought you were here and
just lurking =-P
- Rob
--- Mike Ballon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To those that don't know me Aloha, to those that do how come nobody
told me
about the new list :P
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With respect to the subject Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE, I am
actually in a very serious mode (definitely not in an experimental
mode). I am very interested in a Linux distro that can
legitimately
replace Windows for business desktops.
I have all the four FreeBSD 4.6 CDs, but there
Your idea of just leaving the cover off is less efficient than a
well-designed case with good air flow via a case fan, unless you're
going to use a room fan to blow into the open case (or other method
to increase the air flow across the components).
Cooling (heat transfer) is a function of the
Yeah, I'd never do it that way, I am always short of outlets. I keep
the cases closed up and save the desk fan for pointing at ME! g
I've noticed the interference when I realized I can't keep em on my
desk itself or it scrambles the monitor display.
--- MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be
Thinkgeek has a fancy cooling fin type setup at:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a94.shtml
that looks like it provides a ton of heat exchange. It may not allow
you to completely eliminate the fan (although its possible) but
certainly you might be able to get by withg something a lot
--- W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with a fancy heat sink is that (I used to teach heat
transfer in college), when the fins collect dust, the heat transfer
efficiency will be compromised substantially. The fancier the fins
are
designed, the more substantial the
No, thinkgeek was the only place I had heard of the Zalman. I guess
you'd have to call around.
Alternate idea: Peltier cooler ... I think several of the electronics
surplus/supply places have them. Maybe allelectonics.com still has
those. No moving parts, but the downside would be that it might
--- MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Dell doesn't have a flash available, you might want to call them
up
and ask them if they could make one. They seem to have changed
their
policy on proprietary RAM (though not proprietary PSUs yet...).
--MonMotha
Speaking of proprietary PSU's,
--- MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used UML before to isolate services. Ever tried breaking out
of a
chroot jail? This is even better. Ever tried breaking a system
where
the only thing available is a readonly root filesystem with a
single
daemon and a few required utils?
Time for:
As far as we know, this machine never had Windows installed on it
bored shrug grin
- Rob
--- Rodney Kanno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you find the actual link?
Whoops...here's the link
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html
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Aloha,
Rob
--- Toky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Along time ago someone posted here some URLs of some companies that
were
providing free DNS servers I forgot all the other info on the post,
the
thing is that
If nothing else, we could set up thin clients or other machines to
add to local projects which already have Linx and/or sysadmins
available --
wasn't there one or two of the list members who was working with
setting up linux machines for local schools?
If nothing else, even if we don't set up a
Two questions for ye of great technical savvy
1) RE: USB hubs - is USB really a bus in the electical sense of the
word, as in does it really matter what kind of hub I use to expand
it, and can they be daisy-chained to create additional hubs if
needed?
I only have 2 ports on the machine I'm
Two questions for ye of great technical savvy
1) RE: USB hubs - is USB really a bus in the electrical sense of
the word, as in does it really matter what kind of hub I use to
expand it, and can they be daisy-chained to create additional hubs if
needed?
I only have 2 ports on the machine I'm
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