[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 48, Issue 19

George Pope gpope at pcmagic.net
Fri May 25 01:25:30 PDT 2007


Peter

I gratefully accept your very kind invitation to a CABAL meeting at 
Redwood Shores on Sat May 26th at 4pm.

George Pope

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>    1. Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th. (Peter Knaggs)
>    2. Re: Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th. (Daniel Gimpelevich)
>    3. Re: Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th. (Peter Knaggs)
>    4. Re: Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th. (Rick Moen)
>    5. Booting mutiple distro's (John Andrews)
>    6. Re: Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th. (Rick Moen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:23:16 -0700
> From: "Peter Knaggs" <peter.knaggs at gmail.com>
> Subject: [conspire] Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th.
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID:
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> Hi All,
>
>    For this coming Saturday 26th May, and
>    for Saturday 9th June, I'd like to offer to host
>    the CABAL meeting at my home. My address is:
>
>       2607 Hastings Shore Lane,
>       Redwood Shores, CA94065.
>       Phone is: 650 592 2856.
>
>    As this is a condo, capacity will unfortunately
>    be limited to six guests, and probably two desktop machines,
>    mainly due to table surface and seating limitations.
>
>    Please RSVP by email if you plan to attend,
>    and I can send you a confirmation and detailed
>    driving directions.
>
>    There will be internet access (ADSL via raw bandwidth).
>    Parking is somewhat limited, due to construction, so
>    please consider that if you plan to bring a desktop machine.
>    In addition, access is via a flight of stairs.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 03:59:47 -0700
> From: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th.
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID:
> 	<pan.2007.05.25.10.59.45.748329 at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
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> On Thu, 24 May 2007 23:23:16 -0700, Peter Knaggs wrote:
>
>   
>>    For this coming Saturday 26th May, and
>>    for Saturday 9th June, I'd like to offer to host
>>    the CABAL meeting at my home.
>>     
>
> Same bat-time, same bat-channel? Be careful what you ask for, you just
> might get it. Count me in for the 9th, and tentatively also for the 26th,
> which I'll know for sure within the next 24 hours.
>
> In 1988, Marine World Africa USA repeatedly said they were moving "after
> 18 years in Redwood City" from the site Oracle now occupies. When did
> addresses in the immediate vicinity begin to say "Redwood Shores" instead?
> I know that maps labeled the area "Redwood Shores" even in the 70's, but
> as far as I had seen, "Redwood City" was what addresses always said.
> According to the http://usps.com/zip4 web form, they still do.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:58:17 -0700
> From: "Peter Knaggs" <peter.knaggs at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th.
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID:
> 	<1851b6c80705250758w49d6ed21t9b44998e0410ce37 at mail.gmail.com>
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> On 5/25/07, Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 24 May 2007 23:23:16 -0700, Peter Knaggs wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>    For this coming Saturday 26th May, and
>>>    for Saturday 9th June, I'd like to offer to host
>>>    the CABAL meeting at my home.
>>>       
>> Same bat-time, same bat-channel?
>>     
>
> Yep, sorry I forgot to include the start-end time: 4PM to 11:59PM.
>
> The Caltrain station in San Carlos is the nearest, I could arrange to pickup
> from there a bit beforehand, if you let me know if you're coming that way.
>
>   
>> as far as I had seen, "Redwood City" was what addresses always said.
>> According to the http://usps.com/zip4 web form, they still do.
>>     
>
> Ahh, true. The best exit to use from the freeway is called
>  "Redwood Shores Parkway", so I guess that might be why.
> But officially, I should have written the address as "Redwood City".
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:36:37 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th.
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID: <20070525173636.GA27023 at linuxmafia.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Quoting Peter Knaggs (peter.knaggs at gmail.com):
>
>   
>>    For this coming Saturday 26th May, and
>>    for Saturday 9th June, I'd like to offer to host
>>    the CABAL meeting at my home. My address is:
>>
>>       2607 Hastings Shore Lane,
>>       Redwood Shores, CA94065.
>>       Phone is: 650 592 2856.
>>     
>
> Thank you Peter!  I've altered the 26 May and 9 June entries on the
> CABAL main page, http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/, including a mailto
> hyperlink for the mandatory RSVP, and a wearning about limited
> attendance.
>
> For people's information, in general from US-101, you exit eastbound on 
> Redwood Shores Parkway, go just over a mile to turn right (south) on 
> Hastings Shore Lane, and go just over a block (past the Shoreline Drive
> intersection) to Peter's house.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:54:44 -0700
> From: John Andrews <jla1000 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [conspire] Booting mutiple distro's
> To: Conspire @linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID: <200705251054.44997.jla1000 at comcast.net>
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>
> I have
> Hda-Windows
> Hdb1-Pclinuxos
> Hdb3-Mepis6.5
>
> It took me severals days to get the grub menu written right. The 2 Linux could 
> boot from grub floppy. But  the Windows never booted since I erased the 
> original Hdb set-up.Now the grub menu looks right and starts the different 
> distro's correctly except (Windows), but it wont finish booting Hdb1 because 
> it doesn't like the scanning of Hdb3 when it trys to boot up and quits.
> 	I scanned Hdb3 from a live cd. Hdb3 is unmounted , telinit 1 run level ,and 
> it says that  Hdb3  is "clean". Also Hdb1 is "clean". Why won't Pclinux boot 
> right. I did hard crash Hdb3 (i think) at least once.
>   I also have a question about the boot flag when you partition using Gparted. 
> Hda1 is flagged boot and Hdb1is too. Is that right? Also I flagged Hdb3 when 
> I created it. That switched the flag off of Hdb1. So I removed it from Hdb3 
> and put it back on Hdb1. Maybe that corrupted Hdb3 but why would 
> e2fsck -c /dev/hdb3  say "clean".  What about windows not booting? I don't 
> understand the whole mbr/grub thing with the hda drive.
> 	
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:24:05 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Invite: CABAL meeting Sat May 26th.
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID: <20070525182405.GB27023 at linuxmafia.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):
>
>   
>> In 1988, Marine World Africa USA repeatedly said they were moving "after
>> 18 years in Redwood City" from the site Oracle now occupies. When did
>> addresses in the immediate vicinity begin to say "Redwood Shores" instead?
>> I know that maps labeled the area "Redwood Shores" even in the 70's, but
>> as far as I had seen, "Redwood City" was what addresses always said.
>> According to the http://usps.com/zip4 web form, they still do.
>>     
>
> Redwood Shores _is_ the portion of the baylands within the municipality 
> of Redwood City.  It's separated by a branch of Belmont Slough from
> Foster City to the north.
>
> Redwood Shores is still referred to by a separate name for reasons of
> history, road topology, and psychology:  Because Redwood City didn't
> annex the baylands at all until 1959, and because there was almost
> nothing out there until development following Marine World / Africa
> USA's departure in 1986, saying "we're in Redwood City" to people would
> suggest the _main_, historical part of the city (incorporated 1868),
> quite a ways off to the southwest.  Also, because Redwood Shores is a
> bit north of the main part of town (Redwood Shores adjoins Belmont,
> mostly) and because of the obstacle posed by the freeway, the only road
> paths between the two lobes of the city run north through San Carlos.
> I.e., if Harbor Road were a through route eastbound instead of
> dead-ending at US-101, Redwood Shores would be better integrated into
> its town.
>
> (I see that Marine World, now in Vallejo, has morphed into "Six Flags
> Discovery Kingdom"  Man, what a business boondoggle it's been.)
>
>
>
>
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