[nlug] Re: Malayalam Film Actress Nayanthara's BOOOOBBBBBBBSSSSS

2009-11-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:53:06AM -0800, nirmala wrote: Spam deleted. I am not sure how this managed to make it to the list; spammer registered at 2:52 am today and posting status is set to Moderated and no alert went out for moderation required for

[nlug] Re: Malayalam Film Actress Nayanthara's BOOOOBBBBBBBSSSSS

2009-11-12 Thread ./aal
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: Some moderator must be a big fan of BBBBS priceless :D -- -- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many

[nlug] Not exactly a 'command of the day...'

2009-11-12 Thread Jim Peterson
Hi guys, I ran across something useful this morning in fixing a kiosk-type system. This is a machine that I spec'd to be an always-on, Firefox-is-the-only-thing-you-can-run desktop for our library to use as a card catalog system. The problem was that this morning when I booted it, Firefox opened

[nlug] Re: Not exactly a 'command of the day...'

2009-11-12 Thread Don Delp
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I ran across something useful this morning in fixing a kiosk-type system. This is a machine that I spec'd to be an always-on, Firefox-is-the-only-thing-you-can-run desktop for our library to use as a

[nlug] Re: Google Voice Invites

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Interesting. I didn't know you could do that (use the web app from the iPhone to initiate the call-me, call-you rigmarole.) Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Arafat Mohamed amoha...@gmail.com wrote: Correction. It's not an app. I just bookmarked the google voice site on the iphone

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:09:01PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: Does anyone know of a way to make VMWare (or other VM software) run a Virtual Machine off a physical hard drive or partition rather than from a VM Image? In regards to the 'any other vm software'.. I think you can use kvm now

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
VMware can use a physical disk, just create a virtual disk image, and pick the physical disk. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 13:29, Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe pmigne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:09:01PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: Does anyone know of a way to make VMWare (or other

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I know that older versions of VMware server would let you do that, but they removed that ability in more recent versions. You can user vmware's free converter to convert an OS off a physical drive into an image file, though. I've done this a few times to do P2V conversions. I even used it to

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
To give more detail, I think what you're asking about is what VMware calls raw device mappings. You can do this under certain conditions on ESX and ESXi but you cannot do this on VMware Server. Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: I know that

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Thanks everyone, Yes, what I am looking at doing is buying a new computer with OS installed and then, before ever booting it, put in a blank HD and install linux. Then use VM software of some kind to boot off the original HD with that other OS. What would be ideal would be to do what I did on

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Why don't you just keep doing that? Is the new laptop not a Mac? Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks everyone, Yes, what I am looking at doing is buying a new computer with OS installed and then, before ever booting it, put in a blank

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
new machine is not a laptop and is not a mac. It will probably be a fairly heavily loaded i7 machine with several(*) TB of disk space. I want to run it as a server / workstation where I can run multiple VMs to support things like DB [Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL], Web [apache IIS],

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
So why not just install vmware server and have lots of different images for your various systems? Why would you need raw disk access? If you wanted to multi-boot, you could always install a different OS on a different drive and boot into that if you wanted that OS exclusively. Chris On Thu,

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: So why not just install vmware server and have lots of different images for your various systems? Why would you need raw disk access? If you wanted to multi-boot, you could always install a different OS on a

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you could always just leave that drive alone and install your other OS's on other drives. Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chris McQuistion

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Howard White
Chris McQuistion wrote: Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you could always just leave that drive alone and install your other OS's on other drives. Chris Mainly because I was hoping to not have to install Window7 from scratch. Oh well... Andy

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I did it with the beta version of Windows 7 and Ubuntu, I believe. No problems at all, just installed Windows first and Ubuntu second. Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Chris McQuistion wrote: Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you

[nlug] Re: google wave

2009-11-12 Thread sabujp
Any invites left? Please send me one. http://i.imgur.com/zVn91.jpg On Nov 8, 7:22 am, Robert Simpson codge...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the invitation. Bob Simpson MRHelpDesk DIDS IT Group --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Howard White wrote: Has anyone had the pleasure of creating a dual boot Windows 7 / linux system with Grub as the boot loader?? At phreakNIC, we had multiple people create dual boots with Vista and no problems at all. Have the fine folks in Redmond continued to play nice or not? I've

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Kent Perrier
Not sure how well your vendor OEM windows install will work inside of a VM. IIRC, Dell OEM windows will not boot if it can't find the Dell BIOS. Under VMware it will most certainly not find the Dell BIOS. If its just the generic

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Has anyone had the pleasure of creating a dual boot Windows 7 / linux system with Grub as the boot loader?? Yes, it worked fine for me. I have Ubuntu 9.10 and win7 dual booting with no problems. -- Greg Donald

[nlug] Bought a motorhome...

2009-11-12 Thread Ken Barber
... and I'm throwing away all the precious junk that I just couldn't bear to throw away Way Back When. All of it still works: Intel 815 mobo with 1 GHz P3 Celeron proc + some RAM (looks like it's 512 MB worth) a couple of 230-250 w. ATX power supplies Old 250 w. AT power supply Texas

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread ./aal
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Has anyone had the pleasure of creating a dual boot Windows 7 / linux system with Grub as the boot loader?? Yes, it worked fine for me.  I have Ubuntu

[nlug] Ubuntu 9.10 video woes

2009-11-12 Thread John F. Eldredge
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop a couple of days ago. Looking at the list of installed packages, it appears to have installed almost every X server under the sun, including the xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package, which looks like it should be the right one for my hardware. However,

[nlug] Re: Ubuntu 9.10 video woes

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Schultheiss
John F. Eldredge wrote: I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop a couple of days ago. Looking at the list of installed packages, it appears to have installed almost every X server under the sun, including the xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package, which looks like it should be the right