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

2006-03-01 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] OR ... why every city council needs at least one geek

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society:

Re: [LUAU] Microsoft's Open Source web site

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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? ;) -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] Blighted Sun

2006-04-18 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Implicit Association Test - MSFT versus Open Source

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. ;) -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS

Re: [LUAU] hawaiiantel internet and e-mail

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] hawaiian tel internet and e-mail

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] hawaiian tel internet and e-mail

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] hawaiian tel internet and e-mail

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Slow internet response with different nameservers

2006-06-01 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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,

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities

2006-06-06 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] MS to EOL Win98 and WinMe - July 11

2006-07-06 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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:

Re: [LUAU] should be have a Hawaii team?

2006-07-11 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] short RHAT?

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] short RHAT?

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

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

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky

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

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Sun releases Java under the GPL

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Besenbruch
Julian Yap wrote: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/ I think it's great that Sun chose the GPL. Really impressive. Oh, my! -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___

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

2006-12-14 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Microsoft: winning the battle, loosing the war

2006-12-31 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] local help with X11

2007-02-23 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] local help with X11

2007-02-23 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] local help with X11

2007-02-23 Thread Peter Besenbruch
The clue was here: That sounds almost painless. Glad you fixed it. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list

Re: [LUAU] Linspire damage control (on the subject of ESR 'leaving' Fedora)

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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: Next Previous Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony Responds ESR obviously has no idea of what he is talking about. There is

Re: [LUAU] Linspire damage control (on the subject of ESR 'leaving' Fedora)

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Watch out, linux...

2007-03-12 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas:

Re: [LUAU] Top 10 Best / Worst Cities For Software Developer Pay

2007-03-20 Thread Peter Besenbruch
Jim Thompson wrote: Well, if thats true, then I apologize. It is. It was clear Stan wasn't happy with the situation either. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___

Re: [LUAU] Vista: thin edge of the wedge

2007-03-20 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Dell releasing pre-installed consumer Linux machines today

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Dell releasing pre-installed consumer Linux machines today

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society:

Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. +

Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

[LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

[LUAU] Any use for a Motherboard

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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? -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org

Re: [LUAU] Any use for a Motherboard

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] so much for OpenBSD

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. :) -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] Re: dangers to (Software) Freedom

2007-08-27 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Re: [buug] nano help!!!!

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Any use for a Motherboard

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS

Re: [LUAU] A Rhyme for Friday

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] Recommended FOSS network backup tool

2007-11-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Notes on the Asus eee PC

2008-01-19 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] CD's Anyone?

2008-02-15 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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? -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is Scott

2008-03-26 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] list moderation

2008-03-29 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS

Re: [LUAU] Linux distros as anime characters

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] yes...was Re: Is this list still alive...

2008-05-11 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Fwd: Bad Random Number Generator

2008-05-14 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] System Build

2008-05-14 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] boring test, do not read

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

[LUAU] Something Linux Related

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Wine 1.0 can be amazing

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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.

Re: [LUAU] Something Linux Related

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] How long should it take to put a system together?

2008-08-14 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Quiet case?

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] problems with RoadRunner?

2010-12-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] problems with RoadRunner?

2010-12-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. --

Re: [LUAU] RR SMTP should resolve with OpenDNS

2010-12-03 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] IP address on Cable

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] TurboPrint - pretty freaking cool

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] TurboPrint - pretty freaking cool

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. ___

Re: [LUAU] WiFi NIC that plays nice with Linux?

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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,

Re: [LUAU] Need a time server in Hawaii

2011-11-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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 ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list

Re: [LUAU] Need a time server in Hawaii

2011-11-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Need help with internet wiring

2011-11-02 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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. ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list

Re: [LUAU] my list presence restoration....?

2011-11-05 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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.

Re: [LUAU] Favorite Linux backup programs?

2012-03-16 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Precise Pangolin is looking good

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Unity follows the bad idea of one UI for all devices

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Unity follows the bad idea of one UI for all devices

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Anyone got suggestions on low latency to the mainland ISP's

2012-08-03 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop

2012-08-31 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] XFCE is fairly cool

2012-08-31 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop

2012-08-31 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Best HawnTel DSL modem?

2014-05-05 Thread Peter Besenbruch
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

Re: [LUAU] Mirror may get shutdown

2018-08-22 Thread Peter Besenbruch
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:52:34 + 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. ___