Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread John Kramer
> > I have seen patchcords with a 3inch length stripped near the jack, and > working on 10MBps. I have seen a patch panel, with the ENTIRE panel > patched with 2' lengths of wire, nicely bundled and routed, though of > course they had no twists with respect to each other any longer. And this

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
At 03:19 PM 7/25/2000 -0600, Art Sackett wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:43:00PM -0300, Gerard MacNeil wrote: > > I have read that you must ensure that the wires in the cat5 must be > twisted all the way to the termination points to ensure reliabilty. Except in unusually electromagnetically noisy

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread John Kramer
> > I have seen patchcords with a 3inch length stripped near the jack, and > working on 10MBps. I have seen a patch panel, with the ENTIRE panel > patched with 2' lengths of wire, nicely bundled and routed, though of > course they had no twists with respect to each other any longer. And this

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
At 03:19 PM 7/25/2000 -0600, Art Sackett wrote: >On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:43:00PM -0300, Gerard MacNeil wrote: > > > > I have read that you must ensure that the wires in the cat5 must be > > twisted all the way to the termination points to ensure reliabilty. > >Except in unusually electromagneti

Re: Video Server....??

2000-07-25 Thread Donald Szeto
Hi! Our school uses fiber optic backbones with Fast Ethernet segments and the Video Support Team had optimized the clips for better streaming without consuming much bandwidth. Sometimes, students do not need to play the video themselves, they can watch the movie from the projector :). Anyway,

Re: fiber - cat5 - wireless

2000-07-25 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:23:36PM -0300, Helber wrote: > What is the best way to conect two points at about 350 m away? That's too far for CAT5. If you can lay fibre between the two locations, I'd do that since it will give you the opportunity to have GigaBit Ethernet in the future... something w

fiber - cat5 - wireless

2000-07-25 Thread Helber
What is the best way to conect two points at about 350 m away? When I say best I´m talking about $ and performance. thanks. -Mensagem Original- De: R K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Enviada em: Terça-feira, 25 de Julho de 2000 10:14 Assunto: Re: fiber > Generally y

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread R K
Generally you just use fiber on your backbone or high traffic areas and cat5 the rest of the network. Fiber is expensive, fragile and requires skilled personnel to install correctly. I remember sitting for almost an hour once watching this guy carefully strip, clean and polish a section of fib

Re: Video Server....??

2000-07-25 Thread Donald Szeto
Hi! Our school uses fiber optic backbones with Fast Ethernet segments and the Video Support Team had optimized the clips for better streaming without consuming much bandwidth. Sometimes, students do not need to play the video themselves, they can watch the movie from the projector :). An

Re: fiber - cat5 - wireless

2000-07-25 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:23:36PM -0300, Helber wrote: > What is the best way to conect two points at about 350 m away? That's too far for CAT5. If you can lay fibre between the two locations, I'd do that since it will give you the opportunity to have GigaBit Ethernet in the future... something

fiber - cat5 - wireless

2000-07-25 Thread Helber
What is the best way to conect two points at about 350 m away? When I say best I´m talking about $ and performance. thanks. -Mensagem Original- De: R K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviada em: Terça-feira, 25 de Julho de 2000 10:14 Assunto: Re: f

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Art Sackett
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:43:00PM -0300, Gerard MacNeil wrote: > > I have read that you must ensure that the wires in the cat5 must be > twisted all the way to the termination points to ensure reliabilty. Except in unusually electromagnetically noisy environments, I've not found any real support

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread R K
Generally you just use fiber on your backbone or high traffic areas and cat5 the rest of the network. Fiber is expensive, fragile and requires skilled personnel to install correctly. I remember sitting for almost an hour once watching this guy carefully strip, clean and polish a section of fi

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Gerard MacNeil
On Tue, 25 Jul 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now > instead of old style standard cat5 cable? > I see lots of fiber equipment out there but 100mbps is 100mbps right? > Is fiber economical when you get into over 100mbps situations? >

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread dave brookshire
Gigabit Ethernet and ATM are big reasons. Plus, you'll see a lot of fibre being used for storage array networks, etc... -db On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:29:48PM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now > instead of old style standard ca

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:02:24AM -0400, B.C.J.O wrote: > and into the user homedirectory, as it should be. =) And secondly, given > the lockless operation, they are much much more reliable on large > mailcluster setups where you throw the spools/homedirs into Network Attached > Storage like that

fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now instead of old style standard cat5 cable? I see lots of fiber equipment out there but 100mbps is 100mbps right? Is fiber economical when you get into over 100mbps situations? thanks.

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Art Sackett
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:43:00PM -0300, Gerard MacNeil wrote: > > I have read that you must ensure that the wires in the cat5 must be > twisted all the way to the termination points to ensure reliabilty. Except in unusually electromagnetically noisy environments, I've not found any real suppor

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Gerard MacNeil
On Tue, 25 Jul 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now > instead of old style standard cat5 cable? > I see lots of fiber equipment out there but 100mbps is 100mbps right? > Is fiber economical when you get into over 100mbps situations? >

Re: fiber

2000-07-25 Thread dave brookshire
Gigabit Ethernet and ATM are big reasons. Plus, you'll see a lot of fibre being used for storage array networks, etc... -db On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:29:48PM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now > instead of old style standard c

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:02:24AM -0400, B.C.J.O wrote: > and into the user homedirectory, as it should be. =) And secondly, given > the lockless operation, they are much much more reliable on large > mailcluster setups where you throw the spools/homedirs into Network Attached > Storage like tha

fiber

2000-07-25 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now instead of old style standard cat5 cable? I see lots of fiber equipment out there but 100mbps is 100mbps right? Is fiber economical when you get into over 100mbps situations? thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: hardware scsi raid recommendation

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin Blackham
I absolutely love the Mylex controllers. The AccelleRAID 150 has a 33MHz i960 and is available in one channel w/ 4meg cache for about $400. I'd suggest that for a small 2-drive RAID. Linux support is native, DAC960 driver. On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:49:50AM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > I'm t

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread B.C.J.O
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > Hello, > > > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I > > can > could you please tell me why? > because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything > else because it supports maildir, well.. i don

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread B.C.J.O
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Marcin Jakubowski wrote: > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can > user imap and pop now, this configurations is very good but there is one > problem. > > Pine can use INBOX as a ~/Maildir but when I create subdirectory in > Nets

Re: e-commerce

2000-07-25 Thread Joe Stewart
Give AgoraCGI a try. http://www.agoracgi.com. Extended from commerce.cgi which itself was based on Web_Store. Joe On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:02:33PM -0300, Helber wrote: > Does anyone know a "good" free e-commerce program? > or > a good solution to implement a virtual store? > > Thank you in a

Re: hardware scsi raid recommendation

2000-07-25 Thread Moragues Ramón, Antonio
Hi, I run an HP NetServer with Debian 2.2, 2 SCSI drives attached to a HP NetRAID-S1i (RAID 1 mode) with very good result, the HP NetRAID card use an AMI MegaRAID chipset, and this chipset is supported by the kernel "megaraid.c" . On Tue, 25 Jul 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > I'm trying to build

hardware scsi raid recommendation

2000-07-25 Thread Allen Ahoffman
I'm trying to build a system with hardware SCSI raid, any suggestions welcome. Its a simple system with 2 drives.

Re: hardware scsi raid recommendation

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin Blackham
I absolutely love the Mylex controllers. The AccelleRAID 150 has a 33MHz i960 and is available in one channel w/ 4meg cache for about $400. I'd suggest that for a small 2-drive RAID. Linux support is native, DAC960 driver. On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:49:50AM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > I'm

pam + apache

2000-07-25 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Hello, I have potato with apache and pam authentication module: ii apache 1.3.9-13.1 Versatile, high-performance HTTP server ii apache-common 1.3.9-13.1 Support files for all Apache webservers ii apache-doc 1.3.9-13.1 Apache webserver docs ii libapache-mod-a 0

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread B.C.J.O
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > Hello, > > > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can > could you please tell me why? > because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything > else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't q

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread B.C.J.O
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Marcin Jakubowski wrote: > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can > user imap and pop now, this configurations is very good but there is one > problem. > > Pine can use INBOX as a ~/Maildir but when I create subdirectory in > Net

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Jakubowski
Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > Hello, > > > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I > > can > could you please tell me why? > because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything > else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't quite follow that

Re: e-commerce

2000-07-25 Thread Joe Stewart
Give AgoraCGI a try. http://www.agoracgi.com. Extended from commerce.cgi which itself was based on Web_Store. Joe On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:02:33PM -0300, Helber wrote: > Does anyone know a "good" free e-commerce program? > or > a good solution to implement a virtual store? > > Thank you in

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can could you please tell me why? because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't quite follow that argumentation, and can't see any benefits

Re: hardware scsi raid recommendation

2000-07-25 Thread Moragues Ramón, Antonio
Hi, I run an HP NetServer with Debian 2.2, 2 SCSI drives attached to a HP NetRAID-S1i (RAID 1 mode) with very good result, the HP NetRAID card use an AMI MegaRAID chipset, and this chipset is supported by the kernel "megaraid.c" . On Tue, 25 Jul 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > I'm trying to buil

hardware scsi raid recommendation

2000-07-25 Thread Allen Ahoffman
I'm trying to build a system with hardware SCSI raid, any suggestions welcome. Its a simple system with 2 drives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pam + apache

2000-07-25 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Hello, I have potato with apache and pam authentication module: ii apache 1.3.9-13.1 Versatile, high-performance HTTP server ii apache-common 1.3.9-13.1 Support files for all Apache webservers ii apache-doc 1.3.9-13.1 Apache webserver docs ii libapache-mod-a

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Jakubowski
Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > Hello, > > > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can > could you please tell me why? > because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything > else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't quite follow that > a

Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Jakubowski
Hello I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can user imap and pop now, this configurations is very good but there is one problem. Pine can use INBOX as a ~/Maildir but when I create subdirectory in Netscape, Pine can not see this, and pine folde

Re: Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, > I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can could you please tell me why? because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't quite follow that argumentation, and can't see any benefits

Pine & Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Jakubowski
Hello I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can user imap and pop now, this configurations is very good but there is one problem. Pine can use INBOX as a ~/Maildir but when I create subdirectory in Netscape, Pine can not see this, and pine fold