March 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Humorous signature file...

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > Yeah, I think I know at least one person on the list with this > bumper sticker on his car... > > fsck! :) What a dork! ;) -- Josh Huber

March 30, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Request from academic researcher -- follow up

by Clint Moyer

Wow! I cannot even imagine a better example of misdirection... -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Utpal M. Dholakia Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:01 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Request from academic researcher -- follow up Dear Linux User Group Moderator: I am a faculty member in the Jones school of management at Rice University in Houston, Texas (this may be verified using a Google search with "Paul Dholakia", or "Utpal Dholakia"). We are conducting an academic research project, studying social interactions online, and how communities organized around products or brands are formed, from a sociological perspective. In this regard, LINUX user groups and mailing lists provide a wonderful context to study these sociological issues. We are conducting a survey of members of LINUX user groups/ mailing lists seeking information on different elements of their thoughts, feelings, and motivations of participating in such groups, and the value of the group to them... The survey is available on the web at the following URL: http://www.surveypro.com/cgi-bin/surveypro/run_survey.cgi?id=2444 Of course, this research is strictly academic, and has no commercial links or interests whatsoever. We hope to publish this research in a sociology journal. As a small token of our appreciation for participants' time, and in the spirit of the philosophy underlying the open-source movement, we will donate $500 total to the five favorite organizations/ groups of our participants' choice (we ask the participant's to nominate their favorite groups in the survey). I am writing to seek your help in conducting this research, first through participating, and second, through encouraging your user group members to participate in the research.. This will not take more than ten minutes of your (and their time). Broad participation will increase the validity and generalizability of our findings, making the research more useful. We welcome all help, and look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Paul Dholakia Assistant Professor Rice University http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dholakia _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 29, 2002

Request from academic researcher -- follow up

by Utpal M. Dholakia

Dear Linux User Group Moderator: I am a faculty member in the Jones school of management at Rice University in Houston, Texas (this may be verified using a Google search with "Paul Dholakia", or "Utpal Dholakia"). We are conducting an academic research project, studying social interactions online, and how communities organized around products or brands are formed, from a sociological perspective. In this regard, LINUX user groups and mailing lists provide a wonderful context to study these sociological issues. We are conducting a survey of members of LINUX user groups/ mailing lists seeking information on different elements of their thoughts, feelings, and motivations of participating in such groups, and the value of the group to them... The survey is available on the web at the following URL: http://www.surveypro.com/cgi-bin/surveypro/run_survey.cgi?id=2444 Of course, this research is strictly academic, and has no commercial links or interests whatsoever. We hope to publish this research in a sociology journal. As a small token of our appreciation for participants' time, and in the spirit of the philosophy underlying the open-source movement, we will donate $500 total to the five favorite organizations/ groups of our participants' choice (we ask the participant's to nominate their favorite groups in the survey). I am writing to seek your help in conducting this research, first through participating, and second, through encouraging your user group members to participate in the research.. This will not take more than ten minutes of your (and their time). Broad participation will increase the validity and generalizability of our findings, making the research more useful. We welcome all help, and look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Paul Dholakia Assistant Professor Rice University http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dholakia

March 29, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Humorous signature file...

by Chuck Homic

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:46:01AM -0500, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: > (The first day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck will be the > day they start making vacuum-cleaners) Yeah, I think I know at least one person on the list with this bumper sticker on his car... fsck! :) -Chuck

March 29, 2002

Humorous signature file...

by Stephen C. Daukas

Came across this one in a newsgroup: (The first day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck will be the day they start making vacuum-cleaners) Steve

March 29, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Win4Lin

by Wesley Allen

Skip, That's $80 w/o a windows license. Right? Wes Skip Gaede wrote: >Folks, > >This is not a commercial endorsement. I just installed Win4Lin, the product >that lets you run Windows under Linux, and, for those occasions when you need >Windows, it's very nice. Performance is decent, and there are only a few >enhancements needed: > >1) Max memory supported for Windows is 64 MB >2) Only supports serial, parallel, and virtual NIC (no scanners, USB) >3) No DirectX yet > >They're working on adding those goodies. But I can run Photo-Paint, TurboTax, >some Windows-based Bible software packages, ... all without multibooting. > >At $80.00, that's not a bad price to pay. > >--Skip >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Win4Lin

by Skip Gaede

On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:29 am, you wrote: > On 28 Mar 2002, at 7:31, Skip Gaede wrote: > > Folks, > > <snip> > > Granted, I haven't used wine in quite some time, nor do I use the > windows products you mentioned, but doesn't wine support them? > > Though, I remember wine being not fun to setup, so a "plug-and- > play" win emu product is cool > > James > KB1FJQ I looked into buying Photo-Paint for Linux, and as I recall, they had a munged version of wine for their product. Not only that, they had a different munged version of wine to support their latest version of Corel Office (whatever it's called). This version is being supplied to the government, and they have an agreement with Mandrake as well. The web site is http://www.netraverse.com --Skip

March 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Win4Lin

by desdinova＠soupforare.net

On 28 Mar 2002, at 7:31, Skip Gaede wrote: > Folks, > <snip> Granted, I haven't used wine in quite some time, nor do I use the windows products you mentioned, but doesn't wine support them? Though, I remember wine being not fun to setup, so a "plug-and- play" win emu product is cool James KB1FJQ > At $80.00, that's not a bad price to pay. > > --Skip > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 28, 2002

Win4Lin

by Skip Gaede

Folks, This is not a commercial endorsement. I just installed Win4Lin, the product that lets you run Windows under Linux, and, for those occasions when you need Windows, it's very nice. Performance is decent, and there are only a few enhancements needed: 1) Max memory supported for Windows is 64 MB 2) Only supports serial, parallel, and virtual NIC (no scanners, USB) 3) No DirectX yet They're working on adding those goodies. But I can run Photo-Paint, TurboTax, some Windows-based Bible software packages, ... all without multibooting. At $80.00, that's not a bad price to pay. --Skip

March 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] SCSI error message

by Skip Gaede

On Monday 25 March 2002 11:59 am, Brian J. Conway wrote: > > Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > > Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:08.0 > > Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host > > adapter> found at PCI 0/8/0 Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) Wide > > Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) > > Warning - detected auto-termination Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: > > (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct. Mar 25 > > 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the > > device termination Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) in the Adaptec > > SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: > > (scsi0) during machine bootup. > > This just means the card is set to detect if termination is in place. You > can turn it off you have terminators on all the appropriate ends, but it > doesn't really matter. > > > Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, > > Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES) Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) Illegal > > cable configuration!! Only two Mar 25 09:28:33 pent584 kernel: (scsi0) > > connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time! > > Apparently, you can only use 2 of the 3 connectors on the card (external > 68-pin, internal 50-pin, and and internal 68-pin). I've never run into > that one before, myself. You must choose, but choose... wisely. > > -b > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Note: You can attach a narrow drive to a wide cable with a 68 --> 50 pin adapter. I have a wide drive and a narrow tape device and they are both connected to my wide cable...

March 25, 2002