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Keith Keller The fact that there will be many differing replies to this does not...
Spoke with my Rep. about Win2k3 64Bit. 3460
Actually, I run Windows 2003 Server on my desktop since I'm a power user and Chief Information Officer (CIO). I will...
Spoke with my Rep. about Win2k3 64Bit. 3461
Well we want to use the system before any of our compebreastors have a chance. To load up Windows 2003 Server 64...
Spoke with my Rep. about Win2k3 64Bit. 3462
Mike Cox Why? And what would this stunning blow be? Yup, sure you are. Really? Years of experience? Name one "new" OS from microsoft which was...
masquarading with eth0:1
Hello i am trying to share internet between a linux box and a windows xp box. The linux box only has one...
postfix+spambuttbuttin help
Hi everyone, I am having some trouble getting postfix and spambuttbuttin working together. Spambuttbuttin is working...
fragmenting file systems
You could I suppose take a 'brute force' approach also. Clumsy but should work on most...
multisecond hang in getdents Linux 2.4, x86, ext3fs
I'm seeing a strange performance problem on one of our systems. When running a find on one...
Using filters and rules and downloading the msg, and drive space
I've tried this both on Outlook '03 on WinXP and Kmail on Fedora Core 3, and the same thing is happening, so I take it it's platform indipendant...
Linux for File Server
In a message on Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:19:06 +0000 (UTC), wrote : Any distro will work, but you want a 'boring' stable distro. So long as you use...
IMAP folders when the user doesn't have a shell
Pretty small beers by commercial standards. I'll start by saying where we are, then get on to where we want to get to. Right now we have about five users who all access...
Huge linuxext3 fragmentation invarspoolmail using wuimapd seeking filesystem recommendation
several months, our 4000 users have experienced great performance, but over the last three weeks, performance...
FreeBSD vs Linux 3471
That seems an excellent characterization of the sort of "practical" differences that will matter to people. I have coworkers that get...
FreeBSD vs Linux 3472
I'd suggest that you try installing it on some spare box that you have around. If you explore the "FreeBSD way" for a little while, you'll probably find that there are things you like and...
FreeBSD vs Linux 3473
Khaled I am a long time FreeBSD user, and I still use it for a lot of things, but I use linux for a lot of other...
Discrepencies between free and top in reported memory usage
Hello all, I've been google searching for several hours now and haven't found an answer so I decided it was time to post. This is an SMP 2CPU Xeon machine running RedHat...
Lost parbreastion table
I've got a nasty feeling there isn't much I can do about this, but thought I'd post just in case. I have a 200Gb second drive, hdc, formatted as ext3, which holds (held?) 120...
Lost parbreastion table
Bruce Try changing your master boot record (MBR) by hand First, as root dd if=-dev-hdc of=cmbr bs=512 count=1 this places a copy of your MBR...
Setting environment variable used in a startup script
They're not. Those scripts are not usually sourced during your startup sequence for X, and the shells you start in X are not normally login shells, so they wouldn't runetc-profile. You're wrong...
How can I compare ALL mouse settings across distros A signal handling matter
This is a little mystery I'd like to get to the bottom of. I have been using a...
How can I compare ALL mouse settings across distros A signal handling matter 3479
Exactly. Some KVMs emulate the presence of a mouse to the o-s when switched away or over, and some don't. The result of the latter is a driver that loses track of mouse...
How can I compare ALL mouse settings across distros A signal handling matter 3480
On 28 Apr 2005 08:57:28 -0700, SpamHog staggered into the Black Sun and said: The most likely culprit...
How to reconnect an ethernet connection
The LED on the PC's NIC or the link status returned by the Ethernet driver (up-down, 10-100, half-full). There's a utility you can use to look at the link...
updating redhat systems in a secure environment
Hi all, I've got some redhat EL 3 systems in a closed room. Basically, anything that goes in there can't come back out ever. I'm trying to figure out how...
updating redhat systems in a secure environment
Mark Parker For the part you describe: why not put the CD-ROM in the drive, mount it, get root permission, change into the appropriate directory on the CD-ROM, and just run rpm...
uninstall TCL
That should be a red flag to you - if there are all those dependencies, then a) you don't want...
Remote Printer Trouble
Hi, I'm having trouble with a remote printer. The Epson Stylus Color 860 printer is on a Mandrake 9.0 system. I'm trying to print on that printer...
SOLUTION Remote Printer Trouble
Of all things, I found a solution in a SAMBA related FAQ. My cupsd.conf was already as suggested below, but the...
A question about default routes. 3487
I've got to ask. Why? There has always been a significant number of people trapped this way, especially when ppp-2.3.6 started barfing if a pre-existing default route existed (the...
A question about default routes. 3488
I'm surprised they haven't heard complaints and bug reports about it. The reason I put it that way is to get around the use of the word 'gateway'. Virtually every installation program I've seen seems...
A question about default routes. 3489
The authorized person is the one who's dialing in. But a ppp link that has been set up doesn't check credentials on the packets that are going over the wire. If a company...
A question about default routes. 3490
This is sorta drifting into the security field, but yeah, it happens all to often unless management has seen the light and put the necessary policies in place. I'm at...
A question about default routes. 3491
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Phillips snip snip snip If you think about what a "default route" means, then the solution is a...
Burning a DVD in the USA, to be played in Europe
I want to burn a DVD in a Linux PC in the US, and then send the DVD to Europe so that it can be played...
Frustrated trying to install missing functions
Last summer I purchased a new computer running Lindows 4.5 which is based on linux. Unfortunately, the...
Where to put Linux, Windows, Swaps, data, and Applicaitons on 2disk system
Hello, I have a dual Opepteron with 1 SATA 80 gig drive and 1 IDE 160 gig drive in it. I will set it up as a dual-boot Suse...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3495
Alan Connor Lopez Hernandez" choice to This trend has already been happening in Asia and Central-South America. In some countries such as Japan, Linux...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3496
Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez Well, look at it from their perspective: management has promised, hold our breath and hope to...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3497
imo wrote (in part): I really do not see that, e.g., Windows XP is more user friendly and more efficient than current releases of Linux. I...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3498
imo I'm not entirely sure what you are saying.. but: Longhorn isn't going to kill anything. For those that want a smoother Unix experience...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3499
Snip... Another drooling microsmurf, looking for a free Doze clone. They can FOAD. From we have in part: Microsoft unveiled NGSCB, formerly codenamed Palladium, in 2002, and published...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3500
I was under the impression that the point of it was that the Longhorn 'filing system' would...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3501
I can agree that it may look pretty cool. The notion that it will "certainly" reduce the learning curve, erm, don't think so. I'd buy that having some scheme for visualizing the...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3502
Christopher Browne You never know how people react to things. Many, many years ago my then partner and I...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3503
Come off it man. Since when do you personally have to have seen something to believe that it is real life? You're making a nonsensical objection - the interface...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3504
Peter T. Breuer in the you the right Sorry...Microsoft "Bob" flopped. It certainly was an interesting product, but people apparently didn't find it useful. Back...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3505
Yes, I knew you'd try that line! Every 3D space has a 2D perspective projection (on...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3506
No it does not. It persents you with pictoral clues, yes. But they have nothing...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3507
Yes they do. Ask one of the cognitive psychologists near you. You are trying to conflate objective reality...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3508
In what way does a "perpective shaped angled window" or a set of "rotating movie screens" represent something that "closely models real life"?!?!?!? The things being suggested are not ones that...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3509
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Only a small subset of the drawing operations are accelerated...
When Longhorn release, Linux got end. 3510
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:26:15 -0300, Hernán Freschi OK, I admit to being a bit...
How To: Mounting a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to SUSE Linux
After much twiddling, I finally figured out how to get an external USB 2.0 Hard Drive to mount...
Tired of supporting friends' computers Migrate them to GNULinux 3512
Heather Locklearjet Pupils 'do worse with computers' Robert Booth Monday March 21, 2005 The Guardian Academics will...
Tired of supporting friends' computers Migrate them to GNULinux 3513
ray What annoys me is that our local education authority, since moving to PCs from Archimedes networks, have time and again stated that they'll be...
Tired of supporting friends' computers Migrate them to GNULinux 3514
On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:44:20 -0600, ray Great in theory, terrible in practice. I have 3 kids in college and every single one of them, 3 different Universities BTW, have been...
Tired of supporting friends' computers Migrate them to GNULinux 3515
On Saturday 30 April 2005 22:44 Heather Locklearjet If the school (I take it that this is an American School, btw?) insists that Windows software...
