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Brian Chee wrote:
> If UH is ordered to shutdown, my plan is to shutdown the Linux mirror site to
> avoid damage from power issues.
>
> Brian Chee
Hang in there, Brian, and everyone else.
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On Mon, 05 May 2014 08:56:24 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Hello Everyone!
I was hoping to tap the list's wisdom about DSL modems available
through Hawaiian Tel. I had liked the way the Pace DSL modems worked
(for the most part) but I have had several that decided to
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:17:03 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time.
If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate
Desktop and don't waste your time playing with the others.
Thanks for your impressions of Unity and Gnome. I
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:19:25 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Thanks, Peter
It's interesting to hear about everyone's desktop preferences. I
really like XFCE too. I experimented with XFCE and LXDE and concluded
that XFCE was more robust and mature than LXDE.
Yes, it's a neat
When KDE made the jump from 3 to 4 it annoyed me because I used
Konsole (which was awesome) as my primary terminal which was then
replaced by a crappy bare bones KDE 4 Konsole... I eventually
switched to just running Gnome terminal.
Konsole was wonderful. I agree.
The problem is that
I vaguely remember that Tony Q. and the folks at LavaNET used to do this,
but is that gone now that the lavanet folks are gone? Is there any ISP's
left that actually optimize their networks? UH can get to SF within 50ms,
does anyone get those kinds of numbers on an ISP?
It's about double that
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
Julian Yap julian_...@yahoo.com wrote:
I've been a long time desktop Linux user but the recent Gnome3 and Unity has
soured my hopes of the future.
I encountered my Linux desktop crisis with the transition to KDE4. Running
Debian Lenny helped put it off
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:45:43 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Getting back the gnome-2-ish look for Ubuntu 12.04 is really easy:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
I have one computer running Ubuntu with XFCE (from a PPA) installed. I use it a
lot. It was a netbook from
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:56:33 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Interesting comments.
I noticed an irritating anomaly in XFCE behavior under Ubuntu
10.04. I was unable to copy something from the desktop and then paste
it into a sub folder using Thunar, the default file
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:43:00 -1000
Jason Axelson bostonvaul...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been looking into backup programs for home and work and right now
I am thinking of using tarsnap personally and experimenting with bup
http://www.tarsnap.com/
https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
So what are
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:31:56 -1000
Ben Timmerman bentn...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not expecting this to get posted/disseminated to the list...except
to the movers and shakers who decide who can and cannot be a list member.
Well, it did. If you get this, it means you are still signed up.
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:58:43 -1000
Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote:
Anybody on the list have the name of a local time server I can use to
set a FreeBSD machine that tends to drift.
tick.mhpcc.hpc.mil
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:58:43 -1000
Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote:
Anybody on the list have the name of a local time server I can use to
set a FreeBSD machine that tends to drift.
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:14:23 -1000
Peter Besenbruch pe...@besenbruch.info wrote:
tick.mhpcc.hpc.mil
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:40:46 -1000
Karen Lofstrom klofst...@gmail.com wrote:
Since this list is a bit active today ...
Supergeeks does jobs like that, at least, they did with me.
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On Tue, 24 May 2011 11:38:47 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
This laptop has a built-in 10/100 ethernet NIC, and I was wondering
if anyone has a strong recommendation for one of the USB WiFi NICs for a
modern Linux. I.e., there are several listed on NewEgg that _should_
work,
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:34:15 -1000
Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote:
Hello All!
I just discovered a commercial Linux package called TurboPrint. I
have to share my experience.
I have been using Turboprint for years. It was the only driver available for my
Canon Printers. In the last
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:55:52 -0800
David Kiwerski wp2...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Has anyone tried the Kodak printers with Linux?
Turboprint doesn't support them. Kodak has a pretty bad reputation in the Linux
community.
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I am trying to help a guy with a Windows 7 box. He has netflix on this
cable too so it may have a fixed IP.
If not fixed, then the same for extended periods.
He gets attacked a lot with viruses and other weirdness even with Norton
on the box.
I always am suspicious of anti-virus
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:56:25 -0800 (PST)
Julian Yap julian_...@yahoo.com wrote:
I use Google Public DNS at home:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
The Hawaii.rr.com DNS servers are really bad and don't honor TTL's.
They just have very long caching and it varies depending on the DNS
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:57:32 -1000
Dwight Victor (Gmail) dwight.vic...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
Seems like RoadRunner is having some issues; anybody know what's up?
Can't resolve any of their hostnames; even using Google or
RoadRunner's own DNS servers. Their customer service line is
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:45:22 -1000
Dwight Victor (Gmail) dwight.vic...@gmail.com wrote:
Even with OpenDNS' servers I can't resolve
smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com...something is royally screwed.
Give it time; it will come back eventually. If it's down more than 12
hours, I would demand a credit.
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Replace the case fans? If that doesn't work, replace the case? (I
don't think the problem is the power supply or the CPU, but it's hard
to tell.) If I replace the case, should I order something fancy from
Acoustic PC, or get something from a local seller? If local seller,
any recommendations
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 20:07:31 Karen Lofstrom wrote:
How long would
it take an experienced assembler to put a system unit together from
scratch, using parts that he/she hadn't previously used? (Part of my
time was spent reading manuals.) 45 minutes? An hour?
I'd say 2 hours, 2.5 with
On Friday 04 July 2008 09:07:23 Dave Burns wrote:
I just got messages that I got kicked off the list, so I am testing to
see if this bounces. There is probably a more apropriate way to find
out, but I am being lazy. Sorry, but it's not like this list gets much
traffic any more, but I don't
I thought I would put in something Linux related. I installed OpenSuse on a
Virtualbox machine. It was a network install. It took hours. Part of the
problem was that Suse's servers have the bad habit of dying. At least it was
easy to recover.
I installed KDE4. I was pleasantly surprised; this
I recently experimented with Wine 1.0 under Ubuntu 8.04. I was
utterly amazed at running World of Warcraft perfectly and at a stunning
speed under an older P4 with a mediocre AGP card. Everything works.
Even the sound is flawless. There are quite a few other apps listed in
the Wine DB.
So not with KDE4 they've 'cleaned it up' so a lot of the reasons I used it
in the first place are gone. They've taken out all the 'Advanced'
features. I may as well be using Gnome-Terminal.
KDE4 has gotten a little more Gnomish, and that's not a good thing. I'm
hoping much of that
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 13:07:47 David Kiwerski wrote:
Interesting - I just upgraded my Mepis on this machine with an ssh/ssl
update. Is the update no good?
Debian usually announces the updates several days after actually posting them.
If you use Synaptic, it's easy to check the changelog of
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 19:06:38 kahrytan wrote:
Does any one know where one can get nice and elegant computer cases on
Oahu? But not those over priced stuff like the Antec cases.
I'm not sure what the big box stores like Circuit City and Best Buy offer, but
I tend to buy locally at
On Sunday 11 May 2008 12:51:27 Jim Roby wrote:
Great,so Grub is located in the MBR but refers to it's menu list inside
the default partition.?
Ubuantu is listed as the default,but it also list two other iterations
of the same OS,one seems like a diagnostic and the other a memory check
Which led to some wallpapers:
http://www.jkhp.it/OS-tan/desktops.htm
I sent this to my daughter, who is the only kid running Linux at Maryknoll.
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On Saturday 29 March 2008 16:43:04 Vince Hoang wrote:
I want HOSEF
content back on hosef-managers, but it is the personal attacks that
triggered my [extreme] reaction.
I'm glad you did what you did. It was getting very ugly.
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On Wednesday 26 March 2008 18:57:07 Dave Burns wrote:
This answer is pretty vague. Vince and I have both asked similar
questions on the list, which were also dismissed.
Such questions get answered when an organization wants to work together. The
level of conflict I have seen here means there
On Thursday 14 February 2008 15:54:54 Matt Darnell wrote:
I was looking through some of them and the oldest one I saw was an AOL
5.0CD.
Does it run under Wine?
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On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:51:18 Ron Fox wrote:
RE: the ASUS Eee PC, I've been thinking about buying one to use as a PDA,
somewhat larger than my recently deceased Zaurus SL-5000D but a lot more
functional.
I have one, as well, and find it a wonderful machine. It does a wonderfull job
On Thursday 01 November 2007 21:20:11 Julian Yap wrote:
Normally I use command line tools to do network backups. eg.
rsync, mysqldump
It works but it's time for a dedicated tool to remove the
thought cycles. Also tools can have pretty graphs.
Does anyone have any FOSS network backup tools
On Friday 26 October 2007 12:27:41 R. Scott Belford wrote:
The Boys and Girls Club
In Ewa Beach. 2-5
Hi Scott,
I'm not sure what help you need, but I would like to come.
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Dave Burns wrote:
Maybe I should go in the opposite order - I
can log in over the serial connection when it is still booted runlevel
5 and has a monitor attached, can't I?
You can, but you can also use a remote desktop connection.
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goku ball z wrote:
Hi all,
I have this problem. I am running suse linux 10.0 Enterprise. I was
able to install nano-2.0.6 and as root I am able to use it.
This is where my problem starts. When I exit root and try to use nano,
I get this error message.
nano: Command not found.
but when I
R. Scott Belford wrote:
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
I have a spare Asus ATX motherboard, with an Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 and
2 gig of RAM. Could Luau, or Hosef use this?
It should be known that the current HOSEF demonstration and imaging box
is using this motherboard donated by Peter. The case
Jim Thompson wrote:
Man, I'm giggling now. The people in the coffee shop must think I'm
insane.
Not to change the subject, or anything, but what coffee shop do you like
on Oahu? Which has good Internet access and good coffee? I rather like a
coffee shop in Kaimuki, next to 1st Hawaiian
Julian Yap wrote:
SELinux is enabled by default (targeted policy) in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Fedora.
And it's amazing how much better Fedora runs when you turn them off. :)
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R. Scott Belford wrote:
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
R. Scott Belford wrote:
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
I have a spare Asus ATX motherboard, with an Intel Core 2 Duo 6400
and 2 gig of RAM. Could Luau, or Hosef use this?
I'll repost this, as I have not had any follow-through with this.
Scott did
I have a spare Asus ATX motherboard, with an Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 and 2
gig of RAM. Could Luau, or Hosef use this?
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Julian Yap wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:38 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
Fedora's desktop is a lot prettier, though. If
they would only use APT for RPM, I would be quite satisfied. ;)
Would this work? :P
$ yum info apt
Unfortunately, they don't seem to emphasize it. Does APT even work
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 22:22 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
Unfortunately, they don't seem to emphasize it. Does APT even work with
the official repositories?
Julian Yap wrote:
apt == yum
deb == rpm
$ sudo yum install apt
...
Installed: apt.i386 0:0.5.15lorg3.2-10.fc7
$ sudo apt-get update
I made a mistake the other day by purchasing a motherboard with a brand
new chipset (released in June). It is a Biostar TForce TF7025-M2. It is
a socket AM2 board with an Nvidia 630a chipset, and integrated Nvidia
7025 graphics. It cames with Realtek NIC and some generic, built in sound.
I
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for
Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going
strong for two years.
Jim Thompson wrote:
512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not.
I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my
Are you questioning whether people would actually buy Linux
pre-installed? Or whether people would actually buy a Dell
laptop which is hardware support for Linux by Dell?
No, I'm asking whether anyone here is actually planning to buy one.
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Julian Yap wrote:
Ars Technica reports that the Windows tax is approximately $50:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
Greater than $50, when you factor in the cost of something more than
Vista Home Basic. So, not bad.
+
Julian Yap wrote:
Here's the blog report:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/24/15994.aspx
There's a video with interviews with the Dell Linux team but it
comes down really slow. I've mirrored it here:
http://hosef.org/media/video/dell_linux_20070524.ogg
So, is anyone actually
Jim Thompson wrote:
Well, if thats true, then I apologize.
It is. It was clear Stan wasn't happy with the situation either.
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Jim Thompson wrote:
http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html
Do you not like Microsoft, or something? ;) Seriously, you probably are
preaching to the choir here.
I bailed from Windows when XP started keying their copy protection to
the specific machine it was installed on. Sure, there were
Jim Thompson wrote:
FreeBSD is preparing to eat the LAMP stack and belch out the 'L'.
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html
Good for them. They should have done this several years ago.
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Jim Thompson wrote:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1threadID=30518messageID=567648start=-1
Eric Raymond's boot to Red Hat's head
TalkBack 7 of 11:
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Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony Responds
ESR obviously has no idea of what he is talking about. There is
hey man, I run debian too, but I don't make claims that its the one
true distro. Its right for me, and yes, I agree that its easy to
install and maintain, but I've also had apt fsck my system to the point
of not booting while upgrading 'testing'.
I think I could screw up pretty much
Jim Thompson wrote:
I've got a well-used (but new to me) Dell Optiplex SX280 here.
I've loaded Kubuntu 6.10 on it, and run apt-get ... to upgrade the
packages to 'as good as it gets'.
I can't get X11 to run any bigger than 1600x1200, though I have a Dell
2405FPW attached via DVI.
If
wants to look, the requisite files are here:
http://www.netgate.com/~jim/xorg.conf
http://www.netgate.com/~jim/Xorg.0.log
On Feb 23, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
Do you have the 915resolution package installed? I also read that
others have had problems going from Dapper to Edgy
The clue was here:
That sounds almost painless. Glad you fixed it.
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Jim Thompson wrote:
Microsoft's recent OEM licensing changes are making for new linux
installs: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36635
OK, but I've had my share of trouble on Linux installs, too. That said,
I have never purchased a copy of XP, and those computers that came with
Julian Yap wrote:
I think we only have Suse and Debian update repositories from what I can
tell. Vince, correct me if I'm wrong.
The Suse updates are here:
http://mirrors.hosef.org/suse/i386/update/10.0/
What distribution do you use?
I use Debian. Is the Debian repository the full
Julian Yap wrote:
http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/
I think it's great that Sun chose the GPL. Really impressive.
Oh, my!
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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
The link doesn't work.
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The link doesn't work.
Try this one instead:
http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_%22Zod%22_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook
I went to the site and did a search for Fedora. I got a laptop from
rCubed with Fedora 5 installed. All buttons work, and so does
hibernation. Networking is
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:05 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
Question: You're a Fortune 1000 company... you want to deploy some
linux, but you require rock-solid support from a company
with real assets and a real reputation. Your choices are:
Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu), Sun (Ubuntu), Novel or
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:05 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
Question: You're a Fortune 1000 company... you want to deploy some
linux, but you require rock-solid support from a company
with real assets and a real reputation. Your choices are:
Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu
Tim Newsham wrote:
Ok, this is just silly. If you ban windows machines from the internet
you'd just get a bunch of linux and osx botnets... Botnets run on
windows because they are the majority population, not because they are
inherently easier to write botnets for.
Linux has some
Jim Thompson wrote:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
Or is the landscape already salted with Fedora-fans?
No, I'm not a Fedora fan. I tend to use Debian.
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First, Windows ME by some definitions can't be rooted, since it only has
one user.
Think of it as a feature, not a bug. ;)
Second, any worms that might do any sort of automatic rooting almost
certainly do NOT apply to the dos-based versions of windows. From
sarc.com about blaster worm:
You've just proved the validity of his analogy. Now compute the cost of
installing your own codec versus buying a package with the codec
installed. Be sure to include the value of your time. You
definitely have to drive a lot further when you do it yourself.
apt-get install w32codecs
David Imai wrote:
On Ubuntu and Mepis systems I was getting slow internet response
using Roadrunner. The name resolution seemed to take nearly a minute.
I tried changing the default nameservers and that made a difference.
It was faster with the lava.net, hawaiiantel.net and flex.com
nameservers,
David Imai wrote:
I forgot to mention that the connection works fine out of the box.
The setup is only to get an e-mail account and space on the web
server.
I suspect a call to tech support would do the same thing. Given the
record of such software in the past, I would hesitate to use
Wayne Maeda wrote:
On Friday 12 May 2006 09:16 pm, David Imai wrote:
I forgot to mention that the connection works fine out of the box. The
setup is only to get an e-mail account and space on the web server.
Can't use their web space to store your ebay pictures though. Something's
wrong
On Saturday 13 May 2006 08:02 am, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
Sounds like they are demanding a referer (sic). If everyone viewing your
pictures would use Firefox with the RefControl extension, and set it to
spoof the referer to hawaiiantel.com, you would have no problems ;). You
might want
David Imai wrote:
I recently signed up for DSL service and found that the setup CD only
works under Windows. The solution is to visit mac.hawaiiantel.net and
sign up for an account there. It works with any operating system.
This should also work for anyone who had a verizon account and can't
Jim Thompson wrote:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
I took the test for laughs and showed up as having a strong automatic
preference for Open Source compared to Microsoft.
They just told me that I had no session. ;)
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R. Scott Belford wrote:
https://sgddemo.sun.com/
Welcome to the Sun Secure Global Desktop demonstration server
... well, it was the demonstration server until it got mentioned on
Slashdot - now it's only demonstrating how we didn't size it with this
sort of load in mind.
Yes, Slashdot had
Matt Darnell wrote:
It looks legit.
Here is an example post:
Dear Microsoft:
Are you saying that the poster thinks Microsoft has a credibility
problem? ;)
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Clifton Royston wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:15:31PM -1000, Julian Yap wrote:
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127
Slashdotted and offline at the moment.
It's back up now. CentOS is right; you can't make this stuff up.
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The consumer market is trained to demand something brand new and flashy.
See also the 'disappointment' to Apple's recent announcement. The
Windows market demands new features and therefore new code and therefore
the accompanying new security holes/risks.
Linux on the other hand follows a
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