Re: DSL and Linux

Verizon supplied us with a new westell modem (not sure of the model) but 
it turns out we have static Ip's so all that needed to be done was give 
ipcop the ip,gateway,mask,etc.. and we were up in no time. I would recommend
ipcop to anyone needing an easy to set up router/firewall. The installation
is simple and once its in place its rock solid. Its basically a stripped down
linux distro with a web interface for management. 

Darian Schramm
darian <at> slackworks.com

At Sat, 29 May 2004 00:59:57 -0400,
A. Davis wrote:
> 
> I dont have any experience using IPCop as a firewall, but Im curious if 
> youre using the Verizon supplied Westell 2200 modem.  It does NAT and 
> DHCP on its own.  If you havent disabled its NAT you may be running into 
> conflicts between it an IPCop.  Anyway, I run the 2200 model supplied by 
> verizon and its NAT is a fine firewall for me, after receiving it I quit 
> using Slackware and Shorewall as my firewall box and just use it now.  
> Sorry for the lack of insight, just throwing out an idea...  Sometimes 
> two DHCP/NAT devices have trouble working together, especially if the 
> modem is passing an internal IP to the box running IPCop. 
> 
> -- 
> -Allen
> allen <at> guyforget.net
> http://guyforget.net
> http://furthurnet.org
> 
> 

OpenOffice.Org on the go.

I was looking at Iomega's site and saw this:

http://www.iomega-activedisk.com/servlet/moonshine/goto?page_url=/ 
titles/title_detail.jsp&title_id=153&referrer=com_openoffice111303

This is a free download of OpenOffice.Org 1.1 from Iomega that will run  
directly off an iomega zip disk using Active disk  
(http://www.iomega-activedisk.com/landing.jsp).

Looks like it could be kinda cool.

Mike.

[Caolan McNamara] Re: OpenOffice.org compatibility issues, part 1

Interesting reading regarding OpenOffice.org problems with importing
Microsoft file formats.  Part 1 of 2.

From: Caolan McNamara <caolanm <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org compatibility issues
Date: 2004-06-10 11:25:00 GMT

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:16:50PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was talking in #openoffice.org on irc.freenode.org and someone
> mentioned to email you regarding a question I was having.
> 
> <dcbw> kro: email caolanm <at> redhat.com and ask him to explain, he's the Word
>     filter maintainer for OOo
> 
> I am trying to advocate OpenOffice.org to Microsoft Office users.  One
> of the big issues for migration is compatibility problems with
> OpenOffice.org importing Microsoft Office documents.  I'm under the
> impression that the reason that this is difficult is that Microsoft
> purposely makes it as hard as possible for OpenOffice.org to be
> compatible.  However, I'm having problems finding links to

[Caolan McNamara] Re: OpenOffice.org compatibility issues, part 2

Part 2 of 2.

From: Caolan McNamara <caolanm <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org compatibility issues
Date: 2004-06-11 07:01:56 GMT

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:08:17PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
> Thank you _very_ much for your detailed response.  Would you mind if I
> forwarded this email to some other people in my Department?  

Sure, go ahead.

> Also, in terms of Microsoft making things difficult or not difficult,
> is there not some sort of specification of the MS Office file formats
> that could be published that would make things a great deal easier to
> deal with compatibility issues?

Yes, the July 1998 MSDN cd set (cd 2) included the office 97 binary format
specification, this was on the microsoft MSDN website for a year or so as well.
The format is a backwards compatable one, i.e. office 2000 opens in office 97
so the current format is essentially the same as the 97, except with
extensions. There were some ommissions from the format, some cases of bugs

Saturday ... July 3rd

I am thinking that I am going to go down to the Moose on saturday, July 
3rd ... Say around 2 o'clock and hang out for a while. Work with some 
zope zites, play tetrinet, whatever.

Its just been too long since there has been anything resembling a 
meeting. If anyone wants to come down and gab about Free software, 
speech, creative common's, linux, hurd, Free software on windows/Mac 
... whatever, i'll be there till at least 3. I'll hang around longer if 
people show up by then, all night if there is an interest in discussing 
stuff. 

I'm not even sure who is in town right now, But I would like to discuss 
strategies with the group for the coming school year that we can use to 
promote Free Software around town at some point before the fall 
semester starts.

Mike.

Re: Saturday ... July 3rd

 "Michael" == Michael Bond <mbond <at> the-forgotten.org> writes:

  Michael> I am thinking that I am going to go down to the Moose on
  Michael> saturday, July 3rd ... Say around 2 o'clock and hang out
  Michael> for a while. Work with some zope zites, play tetrinet,
  Michael> whatever.

I’m sorry, I will be out of town this weekend although I’m free next
weekend. I hope others who are around make it to the Moose and please
post minutes of the discussion :)

Thanks, Mike, again sorry I can’t be there.
--

-- 
  David D. Smith
A man without doubt is a monster.

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Mike, 

I plan to meet you there and introduce myself. 

I'm looking forward to talking and sharing opinions and insights. 

David Williams

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Re: Saturday ... July 3rd

Michael Bond wrote:

> I'm not even sure who is in town right now, But I would like to 
> discuss strategies with the group for the coming school year that we 
> can use to promote Free Software around town at some point before the 
> fall semester starts.

Thanks for taking the initiative on this, I'll do my best to attend.  
I'm not 100% sure I can make it on the 3rd, but anytime next week after 
the 6th should be good for me.

Re: Saturday ... July 3rd

Arrgh... I may be *lucky* to get out of work by 4. More likely closer to
5. :( I'll try, but I'm better off sending my regrets now.

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:56, Michael Bond wrote:
> I am thinking that I am going to go down to the Moose on saturday, July 
> 3rd ... Say around 2 o'clock and hang out for a while. Work with some 
> zope zites, play tetrinet, whatever.
> 
> Its just been too long since there has been anything resembling a 
> meeting. If anyone wants to come down and gab about Free software, 
> speech, creative common's, linux, hurd, Free software on windows/Mac 
> ... whatever, i'll be there till at least 3. I'll hang around longer if 
> people show up by then, all night if there is an interest in discussing 
> stuff. 
> 
> I'm not even sure who is in town right now, But I would like to discuss 
> strategies with the group for the coming school year that we can use to 
> promote Free Software around town at some point before the fall 
> semester starts.
> 
> Mike.