Re: [techtalk] CD Rippers

2000-11-28 Thread BobTFish
At 01:23 PM 11/28/00, Mandi wrote: >Phil - > >If your cdrom isn't too crappy, cdparanoia is a good ripper. >http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/index.html Yes, except for the occasional SEGFAULT on difficult CDs cdparanoia is great. >bladeenc is a decent encoder. >http://bladeenc.mp3.no/ Bladeenc is n

Re: [techtalk] Gnome question

2000-10-15 Thread BobTFish
ad thing(Tm).. I assume this means you can su to any local user and start xterms on your desktop? /me shudders at the thought.. BobTFish (Going back to hide in a little world where security is important) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Gnome question

2000-10-15 Thread BobTFish
At 13:41 15/10/00, Telsa Gwynne wrote: >On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:46:44AM -0400 or thereabouts, Barbara McMillin >wrote: > > Oftentimes I find myself in Gnome as guest and I want to change to root. > > How is this done on Gnome desktop? Barbara > > o open a terminal (xterm or gnome-terminal)

Re: [techtalk] New RH system

2000-05-29 Thread BobTFish
other things.. It is connected to a 10Mb/s network and has no problem filling the network with packets.. even under heavy load. BobTFish ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] network configuring

2000-05-18 Thread BobTFish
automagically do the right thing with them.. Hope this helps.. Maybe I went for too much theory, but it's good for you ;) BobTFish P.S. If you want to know more about Ethernet I wrote an article about it for Napalm zine recently.. Issue 5. (napalm.firest0rm.org) _

Re: [techtalk] installation failure

2000-05-18 Thread BobTFish
ith if an OS is on that partition, just where the master boot record should go to...) Hope this is clear (ish) and helps BobTFish ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] network speeds...

2000-05-17 Thread BobTFish
Mb/s however the server can transmit to all the boxen it serves at 100Mb/s and *simultaniously* get acknowledgements back from 10 machines at 10Mb/s each.. Ergo, especially if you are using a server based setup then you will see a *huge* increase in throughput even if only some of the p

Re: [techtalk] network speeds...

2000-05-15 Thread BobTFish
30 seconds, 5 mins and 15 mins.. BobTFish ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] A SIGSEGV problem

2000-05-04 Thread bobtfish
u call free on something you haven't malloced then you get a SEGV (Or call free on the data, not the pointer).. Best thing to do (if you always die in the same place) is to throw lots of printfs round the offending code. Then you can see which bit causes the SEGV. Alternativly gdb is your fr

Re: [techtalk] Ether-Address and IP-Address

2000-04-25 Thread bobtfish
address embedded in the doc.. > > Scary eh? Yes it does. However if you have an ethernet card AND a modem then no it doesn't. Thats what makes it scary. BobTFish ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

RE: [techtalk] Ether-Address and IP-Address

2000-04-25 Thread bobtfish
s embedded in the doc.. > > Scary eh? No idea sorry. Just one of the reasons I don't like word. Try doing a search for "microsoft word guid" on google. BobTFish ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Ether-Address and IP-Address

2000-04-13 Thread bobtfish
lieve you can do something similar with a program called arp on windows. However if the machine is through a router then you are stuffed.. (Unless you can get the user to send you an MSWord document as they have the hardware address embedded in the doc.. Scary eh?

Re: [techtalk] apache server on a local net visable to outside

2000-04-11 Thread bobtfish
At 22:26 10/04/00 -0400, Stewart Larsen wrote: >I have a situation. I have a static IP on a DSL. I Have a machine with 2 >NIC's that is running an apache server and a firewall I am masquerading a >local network through this machine. Everything works great. But now, I >want to set up another we

Re: [techtalk] Journaling File Systems...

2000-04-11 Thread bobtfish
At 08:12 11/04/00 -0700, Jeff wrote: >ReiserFS came up on the list yesterday, and I just ordered a 20.5 GB >harddrive. I really *don't* want to fsck the whole darn thing ;). ReiserFS is meant to be *very* fast.. However it has MAJOR crufty VFS layer and the ReiserFS people are still trying to c