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[Alug]SCO Unix IP Claim : Well that's the end of that then!
by Keith Watson 29 May '03

29 May '03

Press Release: Novell Challenges SCO Position, Reiterates Support for Linux <http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html> Keith ____________ AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Re: [Alug]New Member Introduction
by Dan Beimborn 29 May '03

29 May '03

> Which part of california? I thought it was always sunny there ;) San Jose. Yes, actually it is sunny there all the time. Sunny enough to burn your skin in 15 minutes, year round. Hooray for that. I find myself not missing that (yet). > Pelting natives with penguins? How about the weather right now? ;) > And have some cold beer! Hmm, though culturally I should be a cold fizzy lager swiller, I tend to like nice pints of bitter served at about 55/60 degrees. My company ordered about 450 1u servers from a company called "Penguin Computing". Each one had a little 4" plush penguin doll in it. At one point, we put at least 400 of them in a large cardboard box and tipped them onto the head of a microsoft partisan in the office. Photos exist, but I can't find mine now! DB

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[Alug]Worth trying locally?
by tom potts 29 May '03

29 May '03

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[Alug]New Member Introduction
by Dan Beimborn 29 May '03

29 May '03

Hi Folks, I'm a recently-relocated Sysadmin/Network Guy/Web Guy/Bottle Washer from California (San Jose) where I worked for a software company that did firewall/HA & Linux appliances in the storage space. I have a lot of background in TCP/IP/network/security/exotic routing on Linux systems, and also had a great time getting linux running inside old arcade cabinets (why not?). I also used to beta test Linux games for id software, but sadly I discontinued that relationship before I could get any copies of Doom 3 for Linux! My wife is a Norfolk girl, and after years of thinking about it, we finally decided to move here (Holt) to take advantage of the sun & heat we missed out on living in cold, dark California. I'm in the hunt for a permanent job (or the right contract position) doing just about anything with Linux, though my specialties are perl/apache/mysql and firewall/security/networking. Sexy CV available to anyone looking! Looking forward to pelting the natives with penguin dolls whenever the chance arrives (you do that here, right? right?) DB

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Re: [Alug]Wine
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 29 May '03

29 May '03

This is funny, I tried to get Wine working last night as I want to run KazaaLite. I dont have much time in the evenings and all I got to work was progman! Need to do some reading. Aside, does anyone know of any P2P clients like Kazaa which run under Linux? Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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[Alug]to hdparm or not to hdparm?
by Keith Watson 29 May '03

29 May '03

Has anyone experimented with this command? Did it speed up your system much? Anyone had any bad experiences? Anyone got any recommendations for parameter settings? Keith ____________ >From the first not a thing is. Hui-neng

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Re: [Alug]Wine
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 29 May '03

29 May '03

This is funny, I tried to get Wine working last night as I want to run KazaaLite. I dont have much time in the evenings and all I got to work was progman! Need to do some reading. Aside, does anyone know of any P2P clients like Kazaa which run under Linux? Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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Fw: Re: [Alug]to hdparm or not to hdparm?
by Steve Fosdick 29 May '03

29 May '03

On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:16:39 +0100 "Keith Watson" <keith.watson(a)kewill.com> wrote: > Had a play with hdparm last night and my experience was the same as > Ian. In fact the settings seemed to be at optimum by default, > everything I tried just slowed things down. I didn't find anything that speeded up the transfer rate as reported by hdparm -t - there was as much variation between any two tests with the same settings as between different settings.

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Re: [Alug]Serial port permissions?
by Edenyard 29 May '03

29 May '03

MJ Ray wrote: > > Did you start a new login after doing that? Changes to /etc/group only > take effect then. Running the id command shows what groups you are in > for any given login. > > Basically, adding yourself to the proper group is the right way to do it. > Thanks for that! I didn't realise that I needed to start a new login. I tried restarting Efax and also X, but obviously didn't go far enough back. Anyway, I've set the port group back as it was and have added myself to its group, as you recommend, and now it's all fine. Cheers, Gerald.

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Re: [Alug]The Mystery of the Stubborn Kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 29 May '03

29 May '03

Dan Hatton wrote: >I wasn't in the IRC discussion, so apologies if I'm going over old ground. >Are you trying to mount your root filesystem from an IDE drive? If so, >please note that kernel-image-2.4.18-686 doesn't have IDE support compiled >in. I've decided to blame that for my inability to run this kernel, and >it could also be to blame for yours. > >kernel-image-2.4.18-bf does have IDE support compiled in, but I can't run >that either, because it's too big for Loadlin. If you're using a >boot-loader other than Loadlin, you might have more luck. Dan - thanks, this was the problem. LILO had no problem with this image. To think i've been building kernel after kernel without having a clue I would need IDE support; time to get a book on basic hardware out of the library perhaps. :-) Ta Jen

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