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SCO is getting greedy...
by Bill Smith July 22, 2003

July 22, 2003

I got this as part of a mailing list for Information Week. I thought you would find it interesting. It's worth noting that SCO is working on THEIR SAY-SO. It is my personal opinion that any company that cowers and pays SCO just because they are using Linux is foolish. IANAL. It would be very much like some company deciding they wanted to bill you for services they didn't render. Would YOU pay that bill? If you haven't been following this story, SCO is the current owner of the Unix source code. They CLAIM that some of the System V source code made it into the Linux kernel, a claim that has not yet been substantiated. SCO has not (yet) publicly shown their "evidence". To date, the only way to see the source of their claims (no pun intended) is to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Many of the people that have agreed to SCO's requirements aren't technically savvy. Most of the people that WOULD know what they were looking at are either not interested in signing anything (like an NDA), or they just don't think that SCO has a leg to stand on. SCO themselves think that most of the Linux community will laugh in their (SCO's) face. I am proud to say that I am one of the people laughing. ;) ANYWAY, here's the teaser and the link to the article: SCO Group Wants Its Money With Unix System V copyrights in hand, the vendor introduced a plan to charge those who've used Linux as an alternative to Unix for UnixWare licenses. http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eMu10FEZ5Z0V20B4bt0AU -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies." -- Linux Torvalds * TAG! v3.1 *

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Re: [Wlug] Linux Redhat 7.3 Remote Boot Installation.
by Karl Hiramoto July 22, 2003

July 22, 2003

from the mirrors: http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html read the docs: ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/doc the root of the install treee: ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386 The images directory ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Aramico wrote: > Thanks Karl, > > > But, I did not see any images directory here... > Hmm, what a day..!! > > Do you have any other detail information to release it ? > > Thanks. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karl Hiramoto" <karl(a)zoop.org> > To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Linux Redhat 7.3 Remote Boot Installation. > > > > > > under the redhat linux distro images/ directory write the bootdisk.img > > and drvnet.img to a disk. > > > > dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 > > dd if=drvnet.img of=/dev/fd0 > > > > boot the computer with the bootdisk, and insert the network driver > > disk when prompted. > > > > I would suggest installing redhat 9.0 versus 7.3 > > > > > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Aramico wrote: > > > > > Friends, > > > > > > Can you help me that where or how can I create a bootable disk for Linux > Remote Installation ? > > > So, I can do Linux Installation using ftp, nis, or http under tcp/ip. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > Aramico > > > > -- > > > > ¤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 > > http://karl.hiramoto.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 > > > > For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they > like. > > -- Abraham Lincoln > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 http://karl.hiramoto.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 Klingon phaser attack from front!!!!! 100% Damage to life support!!!!

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Possible Linux Sysadmin Job!
by Keller, Tim July 22, 2003

July 22, 2003

Hey, A buddy of mine just dropped me a mail asking me if he knew of anybody looking for linux sysadmin job... Drop me a line and I'll send you in the right direction. Tim.

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Postal Experiements
by Charles R. Anderson July 18, 2003

July 18, 2003

I mentioned this at the BBQ...you might find this funny. http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html -- 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

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RSVP for Party...
by Keller, Tim July 16, 2003

July 16, 2003

Andy, I will be attending the BBQ. Thanks, Tim.

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mozilla can't find my mail
by Gregory Avedissian July 16, 2003

July 16, 2003

My filesystem got crunched, and mozilla stopped seeing all my mail messages and accounts. I tried re-installing (1.3) and it still doesn't see anything. I got this error message - error occurred reading the startup config file line 258 SyntaxError: unterminated long string literal. user_pref("mail.newsrc_root"), "home/avedis/.mozi# HTTP Cookie File I'm not clear on what or where the startup config file is. Is there an easy way to save this? I'm probably going to upgrade from SuSE 7.2 to Debian 3 in about a week, so maybe it doesn't matter. I have backup copies of all my mail files on another drive, and I hope to resurrect those after I re-install everything. Instructions for doing that might be more useful. Thanks. Greg

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Linux programming Job
by Andy Stewart July 15, 2003

July 15, 2003

If interested, please reply directly to Chris Currier and not me or the list. Later, Andy ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Linux programming Job Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:22:57 -0400 From: "Chris" <chris(a)abbottsearch.com> To: <jabr(a)blu.org>, <cclug(a)capecod.net>, <info(a)wemalu.org>, <andystewart(a)attbi.com>, <linux(a)beaver.wpi.edu> Hello, I got your email off GLUE. I am looking for someone for a full time job in NH. Need to have solid Linux experience working with drivers and kernels. Any help is appreciated and a finders fee will be awarded to the individual who puts me in touch with the appropriate person. Chris Currier Principal Abbott Executive Search 603-669-9909 ex 205 603-321-6292 mobile 603-606-5502 fax ------------------------------------------------------- -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Reminder: WLUG BBQ - Wednesday, July 16th - 6 PM
by Andy Stewart July 15, 2003

July 15, 2003

HI Everybody, Don't forget about the annual WLUG BBQ to be held on Wednesday at Doug Waud's house in Shrewsbury. The start time is 6:00 PM. More details and directions can be found on the WLUG website. Come celebrate WLUG's 6th anniversary! See ya there! -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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installation of nVidia TNT2 M64 PCI video card
by Michael Long July 14, 2003

July 14, 2003

Hi, I have just installed the above card along side my existing AGP video card. I rebooting using the AGP card and ran Yast2 (SuSE's configuration tool) in order to configure it. Everything seemed to go well. I then rebooted the system, went into the bios and told it to boot using the PCI video card. The system detected the card. Just as SuSE started to boot the system hung right after displaying *GRUB Loading Stage2*. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be appreciated. The system specs: SuSE 8.2 (clean install as of last week) ABIT KT7/KT7-RAID motherboard 800 mhz AMD Athlon 512mb RAM ATI Rage 128 AGP video (old) nVidia TNT2 M64 PCI video (new) Thanks, Mike

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IPSec -- Thank you!
by Skip Gaede July 11, 2003

July 11, 2003

Hi Mike, I personally want to thank you for taking the time to help me setup an IPSec tunnel using FreeS/WAN. It's nice to know that there are people like you who are willing to invest the time to bring a newbie up to speed. Thanks again, Skip

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