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  1. Re:Speaking of Bare-Metal recovery... on Unix Backup And Recovery · · Score: 1
    See if you have a program called rescuept on your linux machine, it's in newer versions of util-linux. If you don't, get it from the author's site.

    It searches sector-by-sector to find the locations of partitions. You can usually feed the output back into sfdisk to recreate them.

    It works good, saved my butt :-)

  2. Gathering info on Drivers Wanted · · Score: 1

    There's a utility at sysinternals.com or somewhere similar that will let you watch what's going over a serial port in Windows. That would let you see how the control the device. I imagine you're one of a few people that would like to use the box under linux so you may not have much luck.

  3. Re:Think about this on The Internet-Have We Reached A Turning Point? · · Score: 1

    At least a few of them must have made it since we did gain our independence.

  4. Think about this on The Internet-Have We Reached A Turning Point? · · Score: 2
    If the people that had started the American Revolution had done the things they did against the British government today in an effort to start over, they would either be against the wall with a blindfold on or rotting in prison.

    Lots of groups do agree (I'm not a member of any, no need for any goverment visits at my house) and they are either persecuted by the government or investigated and imprisioned.

  5. Some basic checks on What Are Common Password Checks? · · Score: 3

    The easiest ones are

    • username != password
    • password doesn't contain username (eliminates pw of username1)
    • not contained in dictionary
    • length of at least 6 or 8 or whatever you're comfortable with
  6. Re:Linux or IOS? whats better for smaller companie on Cisco Eclipses Microsoft As 'Most Valuable Company' · · Score: 1

    I love my Sangoma cards. I've got three of them in service now. It takes me longer to get a closed-box router out of the packaging and connected than it does to get a Sangoma based Linux machine going.

  7. Re:MCA is the problem on Linux On A RISC Box? · · Score: 1
    glycerine has been shut off for a year or two. it's data has moved to http://dgmicro.com/mca/

  8. Re:IBM PPC+MCA on Linux On A RISC Box? · · Score: 1
    Yes, it will be fairly difficult. The docs on the system are nearly non-existant. Also, the MCA bus on these machines is orders of magnitude more complex than on the pc. On a ps/2 you can just poke at a range of 8 io ports to control the bus. On the rs6k's the bus controller shows up on the PPC cpu bus and operates similar to a PCi bus controller on newer machines. You can have up to 4 independant mca busses plus the cpu bus and a video bus.

    That said, I'm working on it now :-)

  9. Disappointment on Red Hat Drops Linux Expo 2000 · · Score: 2

    I was holding out for this one because I wanted to go to a show put on by people that were important to Linux, not IDG that got into it for the money. My friends and I drove to the show in 98 from Iowa, ended up destroying my car, but loved it. I went back in 99 and got it in my budget for this year. I'll feel dirty going to a show put on by the people that domain-squatted linuxexpo.com.

  10. This will save lots of time! on Verisign to Purchase Network Solutions · · Score: 3

    Now I can deal with one large, slow, incompetent company instead of two! Imagine the productivity improvements!

  11. switch to... on Handling 1,000,000 Hits a Day? · · Score: 1

    AOLserver if you're not many apache-specific things. php4 allegedly works with it.

  12. Re:I would like to add this thought on Interview: Steve Wozniak Unbound · · Score: 1

    And being bunched off with other quiet people would help introverts in what way? There's a happy medium between introversion and extroversion. You may as well home school if you don't want to be around more outgoing people.

  13. Re:referrals to RISC ? on Interview: Steve Wozniak Unbound · · Score: 1

    The difference between RISC/CISC isn't so much how many different instructions you have, but what the instructions do. x86 has instructions that will byte copy a string to another location. ppc chips have copy a byte. You loop yourself. Also, all the instructions are fixed lenghts (usually 32 bits on current processors). Instruction lengths can range from single bytes to 4 bytes or more on CISC, making prefetching difficult.

  14. Re:Education tech: the problem isn't the software on Interview: Steve Wozniak Unbound · · Score: 1

    you're neglecting a large part of what teachers do in a classroom - facilitating social interaction. if you were unfortunate enough in school to copy things from the chalkboard all day, you would thing computers could replace teachers.
    good teachers can do sooo much more than you could ever hope to accomplish with a few dozen computers.

  15. Re:William H. Gates III on FSF Seeks Nominations for 2nd Free Software Award · · Score: 1

    You are Gerald Holmes and I claim my copy of space cadet (not free but worth the money!)
    :-)

  16. If you're not decided or don't know... on Vote for Open-Source Representative on ISC · · Score: 1

    I would say vote for David Sugar. He's done a lot with Linux Telephony and actually has code in that field available (http://www.tycho.com)
    djweis