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Kevin Mitnick speaking at Marlboro Softpro tonight...

by Keller, Tim

A buddy of mine just let me know that Kevin Mitnick will be speaking at Softpro books in Marlboro @6:30pm. Thought you might find that tidbit a bit interesting... Tim.

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Brian J. Conway

> Does WLUG have a pedant klaxon? We need something with a rotating light, Please, no. If we did, anyone that used it would most certainly start ranting about "GNU/Linux", and then we would have to kill them. -b

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Chuck Homic

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:37:09AM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:51AM -0500, Keith Wright wrote: > kwright> It predates RedHat by about five years. > > There is no such company as RedHat. It is Red Hat, Inc., or > just Red Hat. Does WLUG have a pedant klaxon? We need something with a rotating light, and a strobe, that goes "Wooooo, woooo! Pedant alert!" I mean we could only use it at meetings, but I could imagine it on the mailing list, or maybe someone could make a little java applet, or something. -Chuck

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] uptime celibration

by Karl Hiramoto

I bet the hax0rs 0wn3rs of the box keep it up and running just fine :) On 6 Nov 2002, Michael Kingsbury wrote: > Wish I had a way of proving it for you guys, but we had a MS SQL 7.0 > server running NT 4.0 that was up for approx 2 years at my last job. > Our NT admin was wary about rebooting it due to the fact he never > touched it since he started working there less than two years ago and > never had to administer much on it.... > > (Not that I like MS products much better than anything else, but there > are exceptions to the rule.) > > -mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Freedom: http://www.technojihad.com/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] uptime celibration

by Bill Smith

On 06 Nov 2002 23:39:05 -0500 Michael Kingsbury <mike(a)beakerware.net> wrote: MK> Wish I had a way of proving it for you guys, but we had a MS SQL 7.0 MK> server running NT 4.0 that was up for approx 2 years at my last job. MK> MK> Our NT admin was wary about rebooting it due to the fact he never MK> touched it since he started working there less than two years ago MK> and never had to administer much on it.... MK> MK> (Not that I like MS products much better than anything else, but MK> there are exceptions to the rule.) ...and I'm sure you've all heard about the Novell server at the University of North Carolina that was found behind a wall after four years (that's 1460 days, give-or-take), right? if you haven't, there's a link to the story here: http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012 you have to admit, that's pretty admirable for a box that got sealed behind drywall.... <g> can't imagine what it did for ventilation... naturally, i am not foolish enough to consider Novell over a *nix box, but i just had to say that before certain people thought otherwise. <gd&r> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com He who spins a web of trickery must expect to end up caught. * TAG! v3.1 *

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:51AM -0500, Keith Wright wrote: kwright> It predates RedHat by about five years. There is no such company as RedHat. It is Red Hat, Inc., or just Red Hat. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] x86 emulation/vmare clone

by Keith Wright

> From: "Steve Freitag" <stevef(a)ma.ultranet.com> > > Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also want > to check out Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ > > "Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows." Well that's in quotes, so it's just a character string, but lest somebody mistake it for an assertion... Cygwin was developed by Cygnus Support, a company that was founded (at least in part) by John Gilmore of EFF fame. It predates RedHat by about five years. The made money selling support services for GNU software (hence the name cyGNUs). In addition to Cygwin, they did some work on gcc, and hosted the guile project for a while (Guile is GNU Scheme). They were bought by RedHat shortly after the RedHat IPO had them rolling in cash. I don't mean to get too pedantic, but next someone will be telling me that Microsoft developed DOS, and I'll have to really rant. Typing http://www.cygnus.com/ just takes you to RedHat, but http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/cygnus_1999/redhat-cygnus111599.html gives RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and SUNNYVALE, CA---November 15, 1999---Red Hat®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the market leader in open source solutions, and privately-held Cygnus Solutions, today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement, whereby Red Hat will acquire Cygnus in a transaction valued at $674 million based on Red Hat's Friday, November 12 closing price. About Cygnus Solutions ----- ------ --------- Cygnus Solutions, a leader in open source software and an innovating force in Internet software infrastructure, offers software development platforms based on an open source model. Cygnus development tools cover more than 125 host-target combinations for embedded microprocessors and are supported by one of the most experienced teams of engineers delivering custom-engineering services and developer support to top companies worldwide. Founded in 1989, Cygnus pioneered the commercialization of open source software. About Red Hat, Inc. ----- --- --- --- Founded in 1994, Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT) is the market leader in open source operating system (OS) software, services and information.

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] uptime celibration

by Michael Kingsbury

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:43, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > > #uptime > 1:39pm up 100 days, 34 min, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 1.05, > > > Eat that Micro$oft :) > Wish I had a way of proving it for you guys, but we had a MS SQL 7.0 server running NT 4.0 that was up for approx 2 years at my last job. Our NT admin was wary about rebooting it due to the fact he never touched it since he started working there less than two years ago and never had to administer much on it.... (Not that I like MS products much better than anything else, but there are exceptions to the rule.) -mike

Nov. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] gnome desktop menus?

by Baris Hasdemir

hi, did you try $ gmenu and # gmenu best wishes, baris On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:04:38 -0500 (EST) Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally > wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking > around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. > There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to > add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I > suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ > directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help > figure out the right way to do this. > > My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus > for my family. They are not about to use the command line. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > TIA, > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

Nov. 6, 2002

gnome desktop menus?

by Bill Mills-Curran

I've installed RedHat 8.0 on my system, and I've decided to finally wean myself from fvwm2 and use the default setup. I've been poking around trying to figure out how to add entries to the panel menus. There doesn't seem to be a gui interface to do it. (There is a gui to add stuff to the desktop and to the panel, but not the menus.) I suspect that the secret handshake is contained in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ directories, but I haven't found the secret decoder ring to help figure out the right way to do this. My main motivation is to add some favorite applications to the menus for my family. They are not about to use the command line. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA, Bill

Nov. 6, 2002