Postmortem (Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC)

2008-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
Now I have two working displays connected to my PC. My PC's motherboard still has one free PCI slot, which I might use for another video card and 3rd display in the future. I ended up buying 2nd GeForce FX 5200, so now I have two FX 5200 cards, one having AGP interface and the other - PCI interfa

Re: Looking for help or suggestions

2008-03-09 Thread Erez D
i'll be in the area at tuesday evening, so if you like i can give you a visit erez. On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Geoff Shang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > > Where are you located? > > Oops, knew I left something out of my post. > > We're in Hertzelia, almost in

Re: Looking for help or suggestions

2008-03-09 Thread Geoff Shang
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Where are you located? Oops, knew I left something out of my post. We're in Hertzelia, almost in Raanana. Geoff. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the m

Re: Looking for help or suggestions

2008-03-09 Thread Erez D
goeff, in what area in israel do you live ? On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Geoff Shang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I hate to ask for this sort of thing but it sometimes goes with the > territory. > > My wife's PC is a dual boot machine with Debian Syd and Windows XP pro. > due to what

Looking for help or suggestions

2008-03-09 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I hate to ask for this sort of thing but it sometimes goes with the territory. My wife's PC is a dual boot machine with Debian Syd and Windows XP pro. due to what appears to have been a bad IDE cable and some other things I won't go into, it has gotten into a state where Grub can't boot

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 13:02 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > > - I need it to be a PCI card, as the AGP slot is already occupied. > > > However if an AGP card is much better, please let me kn

Re: Centralized Linux Authentication With CentOS

2008-03-09 Thread Ariel Biener
What exactly do you need ? Do you need only login and related issues, like groups, password expiration, and all that is related to user management, or will you also use centralized mount permissions (like you'd use NIS for mount permissions) ? I'd use OpenLdap, with a good open/free lda

Multiple computers instead of multiple displays on one computer

2008-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ This program allows you to connect have multiple systems with a mouse and keyboard on only one of them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at htt

Re: Centralized Linux Authentication With CentOS

2008-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:31:59PM +0200, Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote: > > Those are the main reasons for the decision against NIS. If there is > something better why settle for less? Because each step up in security adds complexity. If all you needed was NIS, then it makes sense to "settle". Geoff

Re: Centralized Linux Authentication With CentOS

2008-03-09 Thread Chaim Keren-Tzion
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't speculate on your security needs, but if it's a safe network, > NIS does a good job. It's security is fine if you don't have really > secure data and limit access to people who are not going to hack it. >

Re: Centralized Linux Authentication With CentOS

2008-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:28:55PM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > I am aware that in the last few months there have been at least two threads > dealing with Centralized Authentication (in December: "NIS vs LDAP" and in > February: "AD Integration/Replacement") However both of those threads had

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > - I need it to be a PCI card, as the AGP slot is already occupied. > > However if an AGP card is much better, please let me know about it as > > well. > > You can also replace your AGP

Centralized Linux Authentication With CentOS

2008-03-09 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I have to set up Centralized Authentication for a couple of data center that will consist of 100+ servers. The servers will all be RHEL or CentOS. No windows machines :-) The solution should also be RHEL, or preferably CentOS based. I have been leaning towards a manual setup of: LDAP + NSS

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > After reading the article in http://www.linux.com/articles/113516 about > this subject and seeing how simple it is to configure X-Window to handle > two displays, I would like to do this in my PC. > > * What is your experience with driving 2-3