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(...) They may have a few bugs to work out... I was in the middle of typing out a message to someone last night and Hotmail (without warning) suddenly decided to send my mail before I was done! Gremlins at work. Thomas (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Hotmail account with new stuff
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(...) Hate it. Requires Javascript. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey, Anyone else out there that uses a hotmail account? What do you think about the new interface? -Shiri (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Lego Mindstorms (and me) at IBM's "barcode" party tomorrow
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Hey people in the Boston area: IBM's developerWorks is having a "barCode" party at Jillian's tomorrow night. The main attraction is Miguel de Icaza (of GNOME fame), but there's also gonna be Lego Mindstorms there to play with and look at. (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) It seems slightly better, but still ain't whatcha might call "robust". (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) i've heard good things about clemson (no details, just sits in my mind as a good thing) (...) our problem is that the 3000 that are already in the enterprise network are splitting up into different groups (yikes, ever split a tree in 4? ew) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) yah, that fits my experience with their install - you say that the 6.2 isn't any better? I havn't tried it yet... (...) nod - I ran into that trying to upgrade 6.0 to 6.1 in place, and failing misrably... ended up going a full install. (yay (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) Hrmmm.... I'm sitting in on the directory services committee in my organization (utk.edu) and we just heard the eDirectory show from Novell today. They're supposed to be setting up a conference call between us and people at Clemson. Maybe we (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) ha ha :P earth days... hey man, we had a IBM Model 95 running netware 3.2 (don't ask, legacy sucks) that was up for over 500 earth days... but y2k finished that one for us (actually, we unplugged it from the network at midnight, since we had (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) 100s of Mercury days or 100s of Earth days? --Todd (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) barring the groupwise servers, our main file servers (9 of them that users "touch") have been upgraded in place, and for some reason... they didn't like it. when DS is requested to be opened, it takes like 3.5 mins (weird) we haven't had time (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) I think that they have in fact removed a few things from the 6.1 installl disk (it's a pretty tight squeeze), but it shouldn't have been anything remotely mainstream. In my (humble, of course) opinion, the 6.1/6.2 installer is terribly broken. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) jazz) (...) That's strange. Servers on our internal network were extremely long-lived in the 4.x days, even with 10000's of objects in the tree. (Well, the non-Groupwise servers, anyway.) What conditions do you think lead to your servers going (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) soon to be netware 5. we're upgrading. All our servers are at 4.2 (or 4.11, same thing, different support packs) we're busy trying to merge the current enterprise of 3000 (with groupwise and zenworks/winstall/NAL and all that jazz) into a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) hey now, sometimes they live longer than a week... we have one that's been up 100s of days... (it's one we don't do much to) :) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm willing to bet that she's admin over a NetWare 5 site. NetWare 4 was far more stable. I sometimes wonder why we even let 5.0 out the door (not that I had any control over that!) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) not sure yet (only tried it today, after burning a CD at work), and the first thing I get asked after the bootloader is "please insert your driver disk". It doesn't matter which mode I choose (graphical, text, or expert), it doesn't say what (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) Curious -- why won't 6.1 install? (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) shop (...) yah, she has 3000 users, I have 200 - she has to reboot her servers at least once a week (if they don't crash before that) while my servers average uptime of about 200 days, at heavy load... and that's only cause then I take them (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) heheh. that's almost the exact situation we have here. 486/25 running RH6.0 (6.1 won't install, didn't have time to get it to yet), compared to PIII/500 running win95... I can't say the linux is faster, at least not in X :P At work, however, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) heh, we have enough holy wars at home... I'm a novell admin at a enterprise shop (gwu.edu) and he's a linux admin at a small shop (giccs.georgetown.edu) it's pretty weird.. but we try not to fight about it :) We do have a lot of people try and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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(...) Heehee -- all he needs is a 486 for Linux. :) Linux on a 25 MHz. 80486 will blow the socks off a 700 MHz. Pentium III running Win95. :) (j/k) --Todd (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed
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(...) They've finally hooked up drag&drop for bookmarks -- that was the main blocker for me. But it still doesn't have SSL, so you need to keep something around for that for now at least. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed
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(...) I've been thinking about trying some other browser (sorry netscape, cronning killall netscape every night is getting annoying). Are the snapshots good enough for reasonable use? :) Dan (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed
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(...) Just Wait For Mozilla. No, really, I mean it. I've been using the nightly builds for a while now, and it's getting really good. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) Pssh. Details are good. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed
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(...) I have to agree with that!. In my experience, it's been quite stable, and its rendering engine is excellent, but it's got The Most Heinous Memory Leak (even up through the most recent release from two weeks ago) and its font support and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) well, there's two issues here. First, you can use gnome WITH fvwm - since gnome is not a window manager. Fvwm 2.2.x (the current stable version) has support for gnome, it's not complete yet - most things will work just fine though. The next (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed
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Well, RH 6.1 is running, knows I have two celerons, etc, etc. Vmware 2.0 is installed. So far I have Win2k Pro installed, planning on putting Win2k Server and both NT4 Workstation and Server on as well. Need some more ram and it looks like I missed (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) debate==good. :) Let's say I wanted to ditch Gnome and try out fvwm -- but with the option to switch back to Gnome if it didn't work out -- what would I type? My biggest beef with Gnome is that it has *terrible* keyboard support. I'm forced to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) I'm partial to Window Maker, myself. (...) Well, it's got a few fixes, and I think eventually it will be better. But in this case, the license is really important -- regular SSH is only available for noncommercial use freely -- if you use it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) yah, that's what I did - fvwm is way cooler than E or KDE, but that's another debate :) (...) is there any other difference between OpenSSH and the "regular" ssh? other than one being GNUed? :) Dan (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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(...) Interesting: cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$'|wc -l 1447 cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i '^[yuiophjklnm]*$'|wc -l 187 (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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(...) Just for fun, here are a couple one-liners which spit out a list of words that can type typed on a single hand using a QWERTY keyboard... Left hand: cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' Right hand: cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) Ok. Screw that and edit your ~/.xsession file. (You may not have one yet...) It should say something like: exec startkde Or, if you're using ssh-agent (which is pretty cool): exec ssh-agent startkde (...) I highly recommend OpenSSH: (URL). (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) Hmmmm, crap. That isn't working. Either one. I installed switchdesk and I select KDE but no matter what I always get Gnome and Enlightenment. I also tried doing the above as root - same thing. :( Oh well, I'll keep trying. Gotta get sshd (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) I really like Red Hat, largely because they're extremely good about putting out quick security fixes. (Debian is really good at this too.) And they're generally a well put-together, solid system. I'm running Mandrake on my desktop right now, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) Hrmmm... (...) Yeah, I hadn't ever installed RH (and Mandrake won't install here) on a dual processor system, so I didn't get to see it pick. My buddies and I are looking to colocate a custom box we're going to build at a local ISP. Mainly (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) I assume it comes with several precompiled since it gave me choices including i386, i586, i686, with both single processor and SMP. I know it is booting an i686 SMP kernel now. (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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(...) The package is called 'switchdesk'. You can also change the system-wide default by doing this (as root): echo KDE > /etc/sysconfig/desktop or echo GNOME > /etc/sysconfig/desktop (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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