Re: [techtalk] tftp timing out

2000-06-07 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:58:28PM -0500 or thereabouts, Nicoya Helm wrote: > I think I must be missing something very obvious here. When I try to > do a tftp transfer from another machine to mine (running solaris 8), > the request is timing out, but from what I can see the server is > running

[techtalk] getting in to free software development

2000-06-07 Thread Fan, Laurel
For those of you who want to work on free software but don't know how to get started or where to find the time, you might want to take a look at the recently formed wannabees mailing list, at http://wannabees.sourceforge.net/ ___ techtalk mailing list

[techtalk] two questions

2000-06-07 Thread Bilal Muddassir
my triton chipset based motherboard has an older bios and it supported my new 15gb disk. thats good. it reports the two quantum fireball disks as udma 2 (older) and udma 4 (newer) featured 1. running redhat 6.1 (or any other dist) does linux detect and initialize udma on the disks by default?

Re: [techtalk] tftp timing out

2000-06-07 Thread eito
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:58:28PM -0500, Nicoya Helm wrote: > I think I must be missing something very obvious here. When I try to > do a tftp transfer from another machine to mine (running solaris 8), > the request is timing out, but from what I can see the server is > running correctly on m

[techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Kathy Hargreaves
Hi, Does anyone out there in L.A. know of a Linux-friendly ISP? Thanks, Kathy ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Wade
Well golly, all you really need is a ppp friendly isp, and most everyone is. If suddenly every local la isp disappears, try mindspring or earthlink (oh duh, they're the same now...) Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone out there in L.A. know of a Linux-friendly ISP? > > Thanks, > Kathy

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Erin Clarke
I assume that Kathy meant "Linux-friendly" in terms of support, not connectivity. I'm nowhere near L.A., so I can't help on that issue, but the reply from Robert comes across as a bit sarcastic, which isn't helpful. I thought that clarifying what Kathy meant might be, even if I can't suggest

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Wade
I most certianly was not being sarcastic, I was didn't really know what she was talking about. I'm terribly sorry, however if it came across that way Robert Wade Erin Clarke wrote: > I assume that Kathy meant "Linux-friendly" in terms of support, > not connectivity. > > I'm nowhere near L.A.,

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Erin Clarke
Thanks for clarifying, Robert. I wasn't sure. Its hard to tell with text what tone is intended. I've seen enough snarky replies on mailing lists that I wanted to help clarify. [=^J One thing - at my last place of employ (a non-profit ISP) when I was in tech support, we didn't officially provi

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Wade
There's also the fact that most linux users don't really need support from the place they're buying the service from, every linux book there is tells you how to hook up with ppp, cable, and so on. There's also the LDP HOWTOs which are terriffic (and very comprehensive). There're also things like

RE: [techtalk] Techtalk FAQ

2000-06-07 Thread Fan, Laurel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There is currently no techtalk FAQ. The rough outline exists, but is > really nothing more at this stage than a set of docbook tags and a > couple of headings. Haven't been able to do much on it, since I'm away from my unix machines, and therefore don't have a) cvs, b)

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Julie Meloni
I'm in Northern CA, not Southern CA, but I've never had a problem with Linux -> Earthlink. There's a smidge about Linux connectivity on the Earthlink customer service/help stuff, and there are enough Linux -> Earthlink users that the CNET "Linux Help" message boards are full of "how do I connect

Re: [techtalk] tftp timing out

2000-06-07 Thread Nicoya Helm
> > I think that you should use 'udp' instead of udp6 here. > > > tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd - s /tftpboot Yep, you hit that initial part on the head. Extra eyes always help catch those little, obvious things. :) The other part was that the target file in /tftpb

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
Hi Julie, On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Julie Meloni wrote: > "Erb, Maria" wrote: > > > > hi all, > > > > great list! I'm new but this is the best list I've ever been on. Here's a > > question: I like to code in Allaire's HomeSite b/c of all the nice color > > coded tags (it recognizes php, perl, jav

Re: [techtalk] two questions

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Bilal Muddassir wrote: > my triton chipset based motherboard has an older bios and it supported my > new 15gb disk. thats good. > > it reports the two quantum fireball disks as udma 2 (older) and udma 4 > (newer) featured > > 1. running redhat 6.1 (or any other dist) does

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Sharon Souter wrote: > Not only is this an open source, cross-platform language, but it can > interface to just about any database. In my research, I understand the > newest version of MySQL does in fact support transactions and subselects are > on the list to be incorporated.

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-07 Thread Julie Meloni
> Do you (or anyone else reading this) by chance know of an elisp package > that provides some kind of PHP mode? Another from my "can't vouch for it, but it's there" list... http://www.funq.org/turadg/software/ - julie ++ | Julie Meloni

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Nancy Corbett
Great story, Robert! The funniest part is that she believed that the DNS IPs were confidential information, as if anyone doing an nslookup couldn't see what they were! On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Robert Wade wrote: > There's also the fact that most linux users don't really need support from the > plac

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Julie Meloni wrote: > > Do you (or anyone else reading this) by chance know of an elisp package > > that provides some kind of PHP mode? > > Another from my "can't vouch for it, but it's there" list... > http://www.funq.org/turadg/software/ Thanks for the quick response! I w

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-07 Thread Sharon Souter
Thanks for the info Nils :) You are right, I have a ways to go yet. I have been concentrating on getting down the database features and user authentication. I will delve into sessions after that. As a matter of fact, I have been working on a basic shopping cart this evening. I just got done orde

[techtalk] 3Com OfficeConnect Card?

2000-06-07 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm setting up Red Hat Linux on a computer in my mom's store, and I'm now trying to get networking setup. The problem, it's got a 3Com OfficeConnect Ethernet card (3CSOHO100-TX) and I can't find the driver for this card in the kernel or any reference to it in any howtos. Anyone know if I

Re: [techtalk] 3Com OfficeConnect Card?

2000-06-07 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
It's a 3c95x/vortex based card. We have these in both our windows and linux boxes and they work great with the 3c59x module. I don't think *I* found it listed anywhere either, so we bought them on my assumption that they were 3c59x (hubby wasn't so sure), plugged it in, recompiled with that module

[techtalk] Re: Two questions

2000-06-07 Thread JoAnne Abbott
From: "Bilal Muddassir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:41:01 PKT Subject: [techtalk] two questions my triton chipset based motherboard has an older bios and it supported my new 15gb disk. thats good. it reports the two quantum fireball disks as udma 2 (older)

[techtalk] Compaq Presario 1240

2000-06-07 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, This laptop comes with a touch pad that is recognized in Mandrake 6.1. This is also a dual boot machine w/win98. It has a ps/2 port for an external mouse but if I use a mouse in windows the pad is disabled automatically, in Linux the pad *and* the mouse works simultaneously. Would a

[techtalk] Techtalk FAQ

2000-06-07 Thread jenn
I intended to send this just to Laurel, but: Original Message A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unrouteable mail domain "compaq.com" -- This is a copy of the message,