This is actually a true story and the account of the investigation makes it even better...

 

This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter.

 

Quote:SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County 

Dear Mr. DeVries:

 

It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:

 

Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond.

 

A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity.

 

A review of the Department's files shows that no permits have been issued. Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.

 

The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the stream channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 2006.

 

Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff.

 

Failure to comply with this request or any further unauthorized activity on the site may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action..

 

We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter. Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.

 

Sincerely,

David L. Price

District Representative and Water Management Division.

Quote:Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County 

Dear Mr. Price,

 

Your certified letter dated 12/17/02 has been handed to me to respond to. I am the legal landowner but not the Contractor at 2088 Dagget Lane, Trout Run, Pennsylvania.

 

A couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natures building materials "debris." I would like to challenge your department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.

 

As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity.

 

My first dam question to you is:

(1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers, or

(2) do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request?

 

If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, through the Freedom of Information Act, I request completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits that have been issued. Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.

 

I have several concerns. My first concern is, aren't the beavers entitled to legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said representation -- so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer. The Department's dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event, causing flooding, is proof that this is a natural occurrence, which the Department is required to protect. In other words, we should leave the Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling their dam names.

 

If you want the stream "restored" to a dam free-flow condition please contact the beavers -- but if you are going to arrest them, they obviously did not pay any attention to your dam letter, they being unable to read English.

 

In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond Beavers have a right to build their unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream. They have more dam rights than I do to live and enjoy Spring Pond. If the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection lives up to its name, it should protect the natural resources (Beavers) and the environment (Beavers' Dams).

 

So, as far as the beavers and I are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more elevated enforcement action right now. Why wait until 1/31/2006? The Spring Pond Beavers may be under the dam ice then and there will be no way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them then.

 

In conclusion, I would like to bring your attention to a real environmental quality, health, problem in the area. It is the bears! Bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the beavers alone.

 

If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your step! The bears are not careful where they dump!

 

Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office.

 

THANK YOU.

RYAN DEVRIES & THE DAM BEAVERS

if you register with Novell, then the nvidia drivers will be automagically added to yast download sources, however if you don't register with novell then you need to do the following:-

 

 

start up yast by

 

* click on Computer/More applications/System/yast

 

now that you are in the yast tool (enter the root password when prompted)

 

* click on 'Software' and then 'Installation Source', then click on 'Add'

 

add the following to the dialog box

 

Quote:Protocol: FTPServer Name: : download.nvidia.com

Directory on Server: novell

Quote:anyweb@linux-j5hr:~> uname -r2.6.16.21-0.8-smp

Quote:x11-video-nvidia

Quote:nvidia-gfx-kmp-

Quote:NVIDIA / proprietary driver "nvidia" 

* OpenGL acceleration does not work well with Composite being active. This option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf should be disabled if it had been enabled before. Note: Xgl supports Composite anyway, even if it is disabled in xorg.conf. FBO's can be used with this driver instead of pbuffers for XVideo acceleration. Enable this by changing

DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer" to

DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. (The Desktop Effects tool sets this option by default.)

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Quote:The release of Fedora

Well I got a Sony DSC-W30 a few weeks ago and I knew most sony's will be seen as like sd? drives in linux. So using 2.6.15 I plug it in and it sees the camera just not the card.

 

So how did i fix it.. well i looked at the kernel changelog and found its supported in 2.6.17 so if you have issues with getting the camera to work in linux.. run 2.6.17 and you should be good to go

 

Hi all.

I'm fairly new to this, so would appreciate any advice or help that anyone has to offer.

 

Right, my setup is as follows...

I'm running a dual-boot setup, with windows on a SATA raid array (Nvidia motherboard controller), and SUSE 10.1 on a SCSI disc (Adaptec PCI card controller), plus an IDE disk in NTFS that windows uses as an extra storage/scratch disk. On the other channel of the MOBO's IDE controller are a DVD drive and a CD rewriter.

 

And my problem are these...

 

part 1.

I can't access either windows disk, from root, or as a standard user. I can see them in both, but I'm always told that I don't have permission.

 

part 2.

When I use GNOME, the cd drives automount. When I use KDE not only does neither drive automount, I can't even do it manually! CD in drive, check. Lights on front of drive, and wires in the back, check. Hippy types the magic words into the superuser console, superuser console gives Hippy the finger, laughing as it does so.

 

part 3.

Not really as major as the 1st two, but when I try to start Firefox as a normal user, the eggtimer icon and the loading bar appear in the bottom panel, as if all were normal and firefox were about to start. It is, as it turns out, a lie. When the eggtimer dissappears, so does the bar from the bottom panel. Nothing further happens. Runs fine as root, just not as a normal user.

 

I've had a look in previous posts on here and searched for the answers out in the ether, but have just confused myself.

Thanks for any help that's forthcoming.

I've got a new hardware card,whit drivers.

The linux distro doesn't recognize the new card.

The driver is 1440K

 

A have to make a new install (CentOS / Fedora), how doe i make a driver

disk under windows? (i don't have linux yet :(

 

Thanks.

Hi Stalwarts of Linux,

I stumbled across this forum today, liked it, so joined it. it looks like Simple , Serious Pros are here. I am Using Linux RHLE4 alongwith Win-XP (Dual boot). It was a failure on first time but second time it was Installed. The following are my problems.

(1) My KDE desktop environment doesn't get started, it says not enough disk space or failed to write..., Whereas Sufficient space is there as well as I operate as root and have all 'r', 'w', and 'x' permissions granted.

 

(2) In GNOME Desktop environment unable to Log-In as any user other than root. But in Console mode able to Log-In as both root and any user. Reason given for inability to Log-In in GNOME Desktop is "unable to write to file as not having authorization", in this case why is it able to Log-In in Console mode?.

 

(3) How can we Transfer folders and files between Windows and Linux Partitions without using Floppies and CD-Writers? That is a Direct Transfer from within the Hard disk from one Partition to Another? It is a different issue whether those files are of which type.

 

Thanx

(BTW -The Title Editing is not possible in this forum)

I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 and I'm probably missing something obvious. I have added a user (call it user 2) and want this user to be part of my group so we can share common interest work files. I have:

 

home/odyssey

and

home/user2

 

so it appears to me that user2 is not in my group. No?

 

When user2 signs in, they cannot see the folder on my desktop that we both need to be able to access and I want it to show on the desktop of user2. Try as I might I cannot "re-assign" user2 to my group.

 

Ubuntu is the only distro I have tried to do anything with, so groups maybe are not something that is common to all distros?

 

 

What should I do? TIA

I've been using screen + irssi for a while now (ssh from work to home :)), but in the last weeks I have had to deal with some power outages. So I have been wondering a couple of things

 

1. how do I start screen and irssi as a certain user on boot.

 

2. how do I configure that the pc starts back up when the poser returns (prolly A bios option but don't wanna reboot it (great uptime now :P))

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