Re: [techtalk] FastTrak100 rant

2001-04-27 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:00:48 -0700, you wrote: >As the subject implies, this isn't so much a question as a general >frustration rant. > >BEGIN RANT >ARG! > >Promise claims to have all this great linux support for their stuff. But >I've got a FastTrak100 ide RAID card that might as well b

[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #424 - 10 msgs

2001-04-27 Thread Linda MacPhee-Cobb
My laptop sleeps itself too which is more than a bit frustrating. I have 'compaq presario'. I turned off all the bios power savers as well as the two linux power saver demons and put on a screen saver and no more sleep problems. For about 6 months. Then, out of the blue, it started sleeping

[techtalk] RE: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #424 - 10 msgs

2001-04-27 Thread Brian Sweeney
Tami- > I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear in my original post. I loaded > NOTHING onto the TWC machine. THe telnet daemon (or whatever M$ calls > it) was already running. I merely took advantage of an ALREADY > INSTALLED PROGRAM in order to read email as part of my job search (an > activity

[techtalk] Fix for "Can't SCP from behind a firewall"

2001-04-27 Thread Raven, amateur historian
Heya -- Recently, my husband and I experienced problems trying to scp from behind our home firewall to our server (hosted elsewhere). We discovered our firewall was denying the return packets (they were coming in on a privileged port). My husband slightly modified the scp code to allow the

Re: [techtalk] What can cause a computer to turn off on its own?

2001-04-27 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:45:33AM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Here's an interesting hardware question. My computer has this habit of > turning on by itself and turning off by itself, and I'm not sure why. I'm I need an old priest and a young priest. The Power of Christ Compels You! The Power of Chri

Re: [techtalk] Fix for "Can't SCP from behind a firewall"

2001-04-27 Thread marisa mack
Alternatively, i think you can put something like: Host * UsePrivilegedPort No in the config file in your .ssh directory. I could be way off-base, it's still pretty early for me. Marisa On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:30:55AM -0700, damask0 sed: > Heya -- > > Recently, my husband and I experi

Re: [techtalk] Fix for "Can't SCP from behind a firewall"

2001-04-27 Thread Raven, amateur historian
Heya -- Quoth Marisa: > Alternatively, i think you can put something like: > > Host * > UsePrivilegedPort No > > in the config file in your .ssh directory. I could be way off-base, > it's still pretty early for me. I believe that that will cause ssh to use a non-priviliged port (the -P op

Re: [techtalk] What can cause a computer to turn off on its own?

2001-04-27 Thread jennyw
Yeah, that might be the next step ... Actually, the problems have gone away. How? I'm not really sure. I figured the power supply was at fault and replaced it. Unfortunately, the problems returned about half an hour after installing the new PS. However, all day today it hasn't done it, even

[techtalk] Quick HTML/Server Question

2001-04-27 Thread Kath
Can bad HTML confuse the software running on the server and cause errors?Having a discussion with someone.   Now I'm talking raw HTML alone, no wild Perl/PHP/ASP/etc scripts.   - Kath

Re: [techtalk] Quick HTML/Server Question

2001-04-27 Thread Neale Green
Kath,   I can't think of any instance where straight, or "raw" HTML could effect the server it's running on, you are purely specifying output format and file locations, and the only file operations are "opens", rather than "executes", therefore you shouldn't be able to kick of any illicit op