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2004-05-26 Thread Larry Colen
lot easier to sort out their mail (and get rid of spam) if this were done. Larry -- Get your kicks on 8.124038 Larry Colen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.red4est.com/lrc

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2004-05-26 Thread Larry Colen
lot easier to sort out their mail (and get rid of spam) if this were done. Larry -- Get your kicks on 8.124038 Larry Colen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

LILO vs. GRUB on debian install

2004-01-30 Thread Larry Colen
I'm doing a debian (3.0r2) install on a system at work. To my surprise it didn't seem to give the opportunity to use grub as the bootloader, thought it did have a screen on the hazards of lilo. Did I miss something? -- I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to

LILO vs. GRUB on debian install

2004-01-30 Thread Larry Colen
I'm doing a debian (3.0r2) install on a system at work. To my surprise it didn't seem to give the opportunity to use grub as the bootloader, thought it did have a screen on the hazards of lilo. Did I miss something? -- I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Colen
Been to busy with work, didn't see this. I've been using fvwm for years. Now I'm running fvwm2. It has some features I really like and haven't seen easily in other desktops. Also the last time I tried another desktop it was so freaking slow, I couldn't stand it. Since I've been going through UI l

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Colen
Been to busy with work, didn't see this. I've been using fvwm for years. Now I'm running fvwm2. It has some features I really like and haven't seen easily in other desktops. Also the last time I tried another desktop it was so freaking slow, I couldn't stand it. Since I've been going through UI l

Re: Replacing Stolen laptop - Sony quality

2003-06-26 Thread Larry Colen
It's funny. I've gotten several emails either extolling the virtues of Sony laptops, or warning me away from them as they are horrible, unreliable, evil machines. Is it a case that Sony outsources their machines, some model lines are well built and others are crap? I've got a PCG fx-190k that seem

Re: Replacing Stolen laptop - Sony quality

2003-06-26 Thread Larry Colen
It's funny. I've gotten several emails either extolling the virtues of Sony laptops, or warning me away from them as they are horrible, unreliable, evil machines. Is it a case that Sony outsources their machines, some model lines are well built and others are crap? I've got a PCG fx-190k that seem

Re: Replacing Stolen laptop

2003-06-24 Thread Larry Colen
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:05:06AM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > Was there anything else stolen? It seems like the hike in premimums over > a 25 dollar laptop is going to outweigh the value of getting a new laptop, > to me. New camcorder various accessories for the camcorder Two cameras several l

Re: Replacing Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:05:06AM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > Was there anything else stolen? It seems like the hike in premimums over > a 25 dollar laptop is going to outweigh the value of getting a new laptop, > to me. New camcorder various accessories for the camcorder Two cameras several l

Re: Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
If you've got these features implemented, it wouldn't take much to turn it into something "general purpose" that: Woke up sniffed/characterized the network Checked against a table to see if it was a known network. If it's not a known network, it would send a message to a server saying: This is wh

Re: [svlug] Replacing Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:38:29PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > Reccomendations? Units to avoid? > > What price range? I suspect that'll be a very important factor... It's kind of hard to get a straight answer out of them on that issue. They want me to show that the unit is comprable i

Replacing Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
Good news, it looks like homeowners insurance will buy me a "comparable" laptop to replacey my Gateway Liberty. I hope that they don't require my new one to be a 486. :) What I would be looking for is a small notebook, the Liberty was about 8 1/2 x 11 that runs well on Linux. Insurance would want

Re: Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
If you've got these features implemented, it wouldn't take much to turn it into something "general purpose" that: Woke up sniffed/characterized the network Checked against a table to see if it was a known network. If it's not a known network, it would send a message to a server saying: This is wh

Re: [svlug] Replacing Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:38:29PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > Reccomendations? Units to avoid? > > What price range? I suspect that'll be a very important factor... It's kind of hard to get a straight answer out of them on that issue. They want me to show that the unit is comprable i

Replacing Stolen laptop

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Colen
Good news, it looks like homeowners insurance will buy me a "comparable" laptop to replacey my Gateway Liberty. I hope that they don't require my new one to be a 486. :) What I would be looking for is a small notebook, the Liberty was about 8 1/2 x 11 that runs well on Linux. Insurance would want

Stolen laptop

2003-06-22 Thread Larry Colen
My house was burglarized the other day. One of the things they got was my old Gateway Liberty Laptop. It's a 486-100, running debian. Computer name is "short". (my personal laptop was unsigned, which went well with .int. subnet at work). I doubt that the people who got it will be able to do anythi

Stolen laptop

2003-06-22 Thread Larry Colen
My house was burglarized the other day. One of the things they got was my old Gateway Liberty Laptop. It's a 486-100, running debian. Computer name is "short". (my personal laptop was unsigned, which went well with .int. subnet at work). I doubt that the people who got it will be able to do anythi

Re: Getting wifi to work on my vaio with Debian

2003-04-29 Thread Larry Colen
Last night I returned the ConnectGear card (I think it was a we320, it used the realtek rtl 1080 chipset) and bought an ambicom wl100-pc/pci card. It was $90, but it was the only other card at Central that claimed to work with Linux. There were a couple others that might have. I plugged it in and

Getting wifi to work on my vaio with Debian

2003-04-28 Thread Larry Colen
I've tried to RTFM, but all the howtos I've found either assume that I know something I don't, or are step by step recipies for a different system (step 1, download the RPMs), or are out of date. What are the basic steps for getting a pcmcia wireless card to work on a debian laptop? Find out wha

Realtek rtl-8180

2003-04-26 Thread Larry Colen
Central computer has pcmcia wifi 802.11b cards for $40 which claim to work with Linux. When I went to install it, the drivers were compiled for the Redhat kernels. Th card is a ConnectGear We320 which uses the realtek rtl-8180 chipset. A bit of searching found this page: http://www.realtek.com.t

Re: Switching from static IP to DHCP

2003-03-20 Thread Larry Colen
I've been wrestling with the same problem. It would work on static addresses, but if I tried the dhcp entry in /etc/network/interfaces eth0 would come up, but without an ipaddress. I finally looked at /var/log/syslog and it said to make sure that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in the

Re: Switching from static IP to DHCP

2003-03-20 Thread Larry Colen
I've been wrestling with the same problem. It would work on static addresses, but if I tried the dhcp entry in /etc/network/interfaces eth0 would come up, but without an ipaddress. I finally looked at /var/log/syslog and it said to make sure that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in the

/etc/network/interfaces

2002-12-13 Thread Larry Colen
I've been having a devil of a time trying to get /etc/network/interfaces working with mapping. The manpage theoretically shows how to set it up, but says that it needs a script in order to work. I can't find any documentation on what the script is supposed to do, or how to make it do it. -- I'v

/etc/network/interfaces

2002-12-13 Thread Larry Colen
I've been having a devil of a time trying to get /etc/network/interfaces working with mapping. The manpage theoretically shows how to set it up, but says that it needs a script in order to work. I can't find any documentation on what the script is supposed to do, or how to make it do it. -- I'v

Re: running debian on a laptop - Sony Vaio

2002-11-05 Thread Larry Colen
I had been running Redhat 7.1 on my Vaio PCG-fx190 for nearly a year (I've been running redhat since it was the base to caldera preview 1) and when I replaced the noisy harddrive I tried installing Debian. There was a weird problem where it would not boot all of the way, but would just hang, this

Re: running debian on a laptop - Sony Vaio

2002-11-05 Thread Larry Colen
I had been running Redhat 7.1 on my Vaio PCG-fx190 for nearly a year (I've been running redhat since it was the base to caldera preview 1) and when I replaced the noisy harddrive I tried installing Debian. There was a weird problem where it would not boot all of the way, but would just hang, this