Re: gmail/roadrunnergripes

Joe Barr wrote:

>Road Runner does not care.  Their business model requires that they
>provide insufficient email servers to do the job.  It is their choke
>point these days.  Like AOL used to oversell the number of accounts --
>purposely -- they had the POPs to support, Road Runner does today with
>email. 
>
>It costs less money to provide fewer resources, and that means more
>profit, and they are very comfortable handling the chronic background
>noise of email complaints.
>
>Joe
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 11:20, Jim Parkhurst wrote:
>  
>
>>And I will presume that for each problem, you have called and notified RR? Or
>>do you just complain here when it is convenient?
>>
>>Bill Eastman wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>email that works...for example I missed yet more mail on the
>>>unreliable Road Runner email (this message from you that I'm replying
>>>to).

Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

Tracey wrote:

> This is especially for those who haven't made it to a meeting lately 
> or don't
> regularly go to our website. We are having an installfest.
>
> When: July 10, 2004  <at>  12:00 p.m.
> Where: Texas Department of Transportation
> 200 East Riverside Drive
> Building 200, Room 1.A.1 Austin, TX 78704
>
> Bring: PC, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse
> Minimum System Requirements: 486 PC or better
> Memory: 128 MG RAM
> Hard drive space4 Gig free (disk partitioning can be done at install time)
>
> To do before install: If you're planning a dual-boot on Windows, do 
> scandisk
> and defrag on your Windows installation before coming. (If you have 
> something
> crazy like 4 or more Windows partitions, the install may not work. Our 
> time
> per person is limited, please consider one on one help instead of an
> installfest).
>
> Distros we plan on having available:
> Mandrake, Fedora, RedHat, Debian
>
> Anyone who wants to volunteer their time to guide the installs, please 
> speak

Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

> Has anyone considered including a stage 3 Gentoo install which doesnt 
> require compiling?

I can bring Suse  9.1 on CD.

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Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 02:40:54 -0500, ss0 <ss0@...> wrote:
> 
> Tracey wrote:
> 
> > This is especially for those who haven't made it to a meeting lately
> > or don't
> > regularly go to our website. We are having an installfest.
> >
> > When: July 10, 2004  <at>  12:00 p.m.
> > Where: Texas Department of Transportation
> > 200 East Riverside Drive
> > Building 200, Room 1.A.1 Austin, TX 78704
> >
> > Bring: PC, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse
> > Minimum System Requirements: 486 PC or better
> > Memory: 128 MG RAM
> > Hard drive space4 Gig free (disk partitioning can be done at install time)
> >
> > To do before install: If you're planning a dual-boot on Windows, do
> > scandisk
> > and defrag on your Windows installation before coming. (If you have
> > something
> > crazy like 4 or more Windows partitions, the install may not work. Our
> > time
> > per person is limited, please consider one on one help instead of an
> > installfest).
> >
> > Distros we plan on having available:
> > Mandrake, Fedora, RedHat, Debian
> >

distros for installfest

I thought Fedora was taking the place of RedHat.  The only RedHat I
know still exist is the Enterprise version.  Are we planning to have
the last RedHat?  Are we planning Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2 or
both?

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Re: msnbot beating up my website, anyone else?

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:56:46AM -0500, Bob Pendleton wrote:
> my sites there have been enough hits from those bots to read each page 3
> times. On another one it looks like they are reading each page more than
> 10 times. Anyone know anything about this?

What are the client requests? Are they GET or HEAD? what are the web
server response codes? Are they 200 or are they 304?

Greg Hewgill
http://hewgill.com

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Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

Bill Eastman wrote:

>>Has anyone considered including a stage 3 Gentoo install which doesnt
>>require compiling?
>>    
>>
>
>Does a stage 3 Gentoo Install have a simple gui  install, such as the
>other distros do, that automatically formats the hard disk and
>automatically configures a dual boot if it is what the person wants? 
>I wouldn't recommend a Gentoo Install to a newbie.
>
>  
>

I find it interesting how often I see people actively trying to distance 
themselves from having to know how things actually work, as well as the 
assumption that command line automatically == hard.  Maybe some people 
new to GNU/Linux would like to know how to format a hard disk without a 
gui point and click. Most of the people I have met at install fests 
didn't require bells and whistles as long as someone is there to hold 
the proverbial hand throughout the process and the end result had 
aforementioned bells and whistles.
I am probably out of touch with what is required to bring new users into 
the community these days.

I heartily approve of the choice of Debian at least. It was the one I 
started with and will always hold a special place in my heart for its 
solid package management and wonderful philosophy. (make sure synaptic 
is on the list of must have packages if your going to give them point 

Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

I know the answer but is there connectivity?  has anyone checked for a 
wireless hotspot close enough to bridge in through a laptop or 
something.  I like to be able to google when installing on funky hardware.

Pluse we could upgrade some of the quicker installs after they are finished.

If no one knows, I guess I will go on a war walk to see.  Mebby this 
weekend.

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>Has anyone considered including a stage 3 Gentoo install which doesnt 
>>require compiling?
> 
> 
> I can bring Suse  9.1 on CD.
> 

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Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

Bill Eastman wrote:
>
> 
> Does a stage 3 Gentoo Install have a simple gui  install, such as the
> other distros do, that automatically formats the hard disk and
> automatically configures a dual boot if it is what the person wants? 
> I wouldn't recommend a Gentoo Install to a newbie.
> 

You know better than that.  But that is why I would suggest Gentoo to a 
newbie.  They might actually learn something about computers and 
operating systems instead of clicking and drooling like SuSe allows.

Can you play games while installing SuSe?

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Re: Reminder: Installfest July 10, 2004 <at> 12 p.m.

The only connectivity available to ALG at TXDOT is connectivity that
we bring ourselves, such as cellphone or as you said, free wireless
that we bridge in.

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:47:49 -0500, Michael H. Collins
<mhtexcollins@...> wrote:
> 
> I know the answer but is there connectivity?  has anyone checked for a
> wireless hotspot close enough to bridge in through a laptop or
> something.  I like to be able to google when installing on funky hardware.
> 
> Pluse we could upgrade some of the quicker installs after they are finished.
> 
> If no one knows, I guess I will go on a war walk to see.  Mebby this
> weekend.
> 
> 
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> >>Has anyone considered including a stage 3 Gentoo install which doesnt
> >>require compiling?
> >
> >
> > I can bring Suse  9.1 on CD.
> >
> 
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> 
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