Re: [Dotgnu-sc] E-mail blackout over

[Barry Fitzgerald]

FYI - got GNU/Linux working on the network today.  Funky Red Hat 7.3...

        -Barry


On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:48:08PM -0400, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>       Just a status update.  Over the past week, I have been
> migrating my files to a new PC that I just bought and off of my mother's
> PC.  She is moving to Arizona, so my time has been split between helping
> her out and trying to get the new PC up and running.  Anyway, now I'm
> living in the world of GigaHerz - pretty fast...
> 
> Anyway, I still have to run MS Windows for work (our citrix server has
> been modified and will only work remotely on a MS Windows box.  I did
> not pay Microsoft for this copy - it was supplied by my work because we
> have old win98 licenses that are not being used and, really, they're the
> reason why I have to run it anyway.  But, besides that - I'd have to run
> it temporarily anyway.  I just got GNU/Linux on this system the other
> night and I've had some trouble with it.  First, it was a corrupted LILO
> boot record.  Second, it was bad symbols and other Red Hat 7.3
> funkyness.  Next, it was my new 3c905c NIC not being recognized by the
> Red Hat kernel.  (I'd used GNU/Linux with a 3c905c NIC in a prior work
> environment - so I know they used to work.)  I'm working on that - I'm
> going to try to build the 3com driver...
> 
> Concurrently, I couldn't telnet into sdf because they were having one of
> their periodic outages.  The other day, I got access to sdf back, and
> now I'm in gnu.org with cygwin (I got my ssh keys into the cygwin
> environ).
> 
> Anyway - three cheers for the rightful return of our domain. :)
> 
> Second, I'm still not getting any mail from the lists.
> 
> Third, Tim Rue needs a major attitude adjustment.  His attacks are
> foolish and he has not even once in the course of this "discussion" (I
> caught up in the archives) truly responded to an actual message.  
> 
> I also have a sneaking suspicion that Tim Rue is Martin Coxall - from
> something he said in a message.  He attacked Norbert without having been
> attacked and then stated that Norbert could not get him in his "next
> incarnation".  This strikes me as very similar to something that Coxall
> said to us with our last altercation and Coxall is not too low to stoop
> to using false identification in his attacks.
> 
> I will do what I can.
> 
>       -Barry
> 
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