Re: [techtalk] PalmPilot

1999-10-06 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm after PalmPilot backup software for linux. The equivalent of the one > that comes with the PalmPilot and runs on Windows - ie, not JUST backing > up the calender, but also the appointment book, notepads, other databases, > etc etc etc. > Anyone k

Re: [techtalk] Building ADSL - LAN

1999-10-06 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Just This Girl wrote: > (Internet) <-> (Alcatel 1000) <-> (Eth0 <-> Eth1) <~> (Windows) > I am running Slackware 4.0 on the Linux box. I want to be able to run a > web server and a MUSH off of the box, so using private network numbers > is not an option, except possibly betwe

Re: [techtalk] MS Mouse support for RH6

1999-10-07 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Kelli Sheppard wrote: > I have an Intellimouse.. is there anyway I can get it to work in Linux? I'm > running RH6 and I keep reaching for the wheel and it is beginning to drive > me crazy *grin* I'm assuming you're referring to the wheel, since the intellimouse proper is dire

Re: [techtalk] Building ADSL - LAN

1999-10-08 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Just This Girl wrote: > ifconfig eth0 xxx.yyy.zzz.242 > > it automatically inserts this into the route table: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > xxx.yyy.zzz.240 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U

Re: [techtalk] Network cards supported by RH 6.0 & 6.1

1999-10-08 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Deanne wrote: > I'm wondering if there's any chance that I can use my cheapo AOpen NIC > (ALN-101) with RH 6.0 or 6.1. If not, any other suggestions for > inexpensive cards that will work? I need to pick up a hard drive as it is, > and would rather not add to my debts more t

RE: [techtalk] Setting up my Mitsumi 4802TE CDRW under Redhat Linux6.0

1999-10-08 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Norma Armstrong wrote: > way thanks for the reply :) Oh my kernel is 2.2.15. I'm assuming you mean 2.2.12, since .15 isn't out... -- wow, this is kinda nifty. the win98 protocol stack is like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, and it pops right

RE: [techtalk] Setting up my Mitsumi 4802TE CDRW under Redhat Linux6.0

1999-10-09 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Norma Armstrong wrote: > Ooops missed a 5 in there somewhere it's 2.2.5-15. I just checked my CD (I > have to post under Windows). Sorry about the confusion. So many kernels to > keep track of :) Hehe... don't blame ya. FWIW, the -?? is some sort of odd redhat designation. Th

RE: [techtalk] Setting up my Mitsumi 4802TE CDRW under Redhat Linux6.0

1999-10-12 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Beverly Guillermo wrote: > I don't think the latest kernels have full support for USB unless > you're using the development kernels. =) Sorry. About the best you can do in 2.2.x is spotty keyboard and mouse support. -Ian (who has a USB keyboard and mouse on his box) -- w

[techtalk] Re: virtual terminals (fwd)

1999-10-12 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
Crossposting from ISP-Linux list, thought this might be relevant to a recent discussion -Ian > > My highly-modified Redhat setup has 45 virtual consoles. My /etc/inittab > > has this to deploy it all: > > Wow, impressive. I know about the right alt-key trick to access 13 through > 24, but wh

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-12 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Amanda Knox wrote: > > Did you try 'kill pid' or 'kill -9 pid'? 'kill -9' should bring down > > anything. > Why is it '-9' exactly? Are there different kill levels or something? What if > I typed 'Kill -1'? Just curious, and I doubt I would have the know-how to > find that e

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-13 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Ingrid Schupbach wrote: > uh, actually, i guess calling "Gnome" my window manager is incorrect - i > guess Enlightmenment is my window manager, and what the heck do I call > gnome? Strictly speaking, GNOME is a widget set, like Motif/Lesstif and KDE (KDE is the widget set, a

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-13 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Ingrid Schupbach wrote: > I think I've hit on another solution. The Netscape that currently comes > with RH 6.0 is NOT the most recent available. Since upgrading, the > trouble appears to have gone away. Yes, the one that was on the 6.0 CD was horribly broken. I thought yo

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote: > grr... having problems building pine 4.2 on rh6(.0) It's Pine 4.20. 4.2 came out rather some time ago. > i made the modification to pico/osdep/os-lnx.h > (insert #include in between line 35 and 36) Under redhat, are you doing "build slx" ? That always work

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-15 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote: > I thought I covered that? (not to be condescending, just wondering if I am > just on drugs) I was using ./build lnp which is the "correct" build for > RedHat according to comp.mail.pine :o) Could be. they keep changing it, who can keep track?? -- wow, this

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-16 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote: > > Could be. they keep changing it, who can keep track?? > > I noticed... for pine4.10, the pine-ports said build slx. Maybe I was just > going off of the website (linked somewhere from www.washington.edu/pine), > but either way I built using slx... and this v

Re: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-19 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
Re: Motherboards... I have been extremely happy with Asus motherboards. Good quality boards. Also, a friend of mine recently acquired a dual Slot 1 board (and put a pair of Celeron 500 chips on it for under $500 - and it has *4* IDE channels - 2xUDMA-33, and 2xUDMA-66) Re: 10/100 NIC If you'r

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-20 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, jennifer wrote: > I heard that memory prices were going up in the US because companies were > saying that the earthquake in Taiwan cut the supply-- the problem with that > excuse is that Taiwan only supplies the US with 10% of the chips.. Indeed, if that much. However, I

[techtalk] Supply/Demand

1999-10-20 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
After all, a given product service is worth as much (or as little) as you can sucker someone into paying for it/selling it. Ain't capitalism wonderful? -Ian -- wow, this is kinda nifty. the win98 protocol stack is like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, and it pops

Re: [techtalk] ISA / PCI

1999-10-27 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:06:52 +0200 (CEST), Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: >I don't have any idea of doin' it from software. If you decide to open the >box you'll see the card slots on the motherboard. >PCI slots are shorter tha ISA ones. So if you have both, you'll see two >different types of slo

Re: [techtalk] iGeek

1999-11-23 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:28:47 -0500, Y. wrote: >I'm not sure if someone if someone has posted about this before. But I >wondered what ppl's thoughts were about the iGeek computer from BeComputing. I like the penguin case. -- wow, this is kinda nifty. the Win98 protocol stack is like a chinese pu

Re: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-24 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 01:53:47 +0100, T. E. Pickering wrote: >> 1. In relation to the discussion before about the swap directory and >> Netscape and StarOffice. Note here that we're talking about what are probably the two most abusive applications for unix, resource-wise. We were contemplat

Re: [techtalk] Alternatives to Star Office/MS Office

1999-11-24 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:10:07 -0500, Caitlyn Martin wrote: >Well... there are other alternatives you can look at. The newest option >(due out 1q2000) will be Corel WordPerfect Suite 2000. There's also >Applixware. Applixware is absolutely horrid. The key here is compatibility with M$ file forma

Re: [techtalk] identd and irc servers

1999-11-28 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On 28 Nov 1999 18:25:51 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Most of the irc servers try to resolve the client identd. Some >of them do not even allow a connection. How can I fix this problem? >Where is identd invoked from? Are there any security issues with it? identd is run from inetd. Actually,

[techtalk] KVM Switchen?

1999-11-29 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
Do any of y'all have any recommendations for KVM matrix switches? I'm currently looking at products from NTI and Raritan, wondering if anyone has had good/bad experiences with them, or any other manufacturers you'd recommend. I'm primarily looking for the ability to control Sun boxes, as well as

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-30 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:37:33 -0500, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: >Please, folks... plain text, OK? Every mail client can read and generate it, and >nobody has to truggle that way. Standards? We don't need no steenking standards! Hey, they wrote RFC822 for a *reason* -Ian -- wow, this is kinda n

[techtalk] Code Snippit - Nifty.

1999-12-09 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
Completely benign, with fun output. Ouch at the obfuscation. Courtesy of my kid brother. -Ian #include int main(int t,int _,char *a) {return!0 wow, this is kinda nifty. the Win98 protocol stack is like a chinese puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, and it pops right off.

Re: [techtalk] Code Snippit - Nifty.

1999-12-09 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:50:39 +, Chris J/#6 wrote: *points* GEEK! :) -- wow, this is kinda nifty. the Win98 protocol stack is like a chinese puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, and it pops right off. -Seen on EFNet

Re: Need Modem Recommendation

2000-03-15 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Janice Lee wrote: > I bought a 3com/US Robotics external for about $100 from Buy.com. It was > a little more than I wanted to spend too, but it works great and I'm glad > I got it. The USR modems are well worth the extra cost for the peace of mind you get from them. A tip h

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Darren, > Unfortunately, you did not succesfully compile firewalling into your > kernel. What sys are you using? Perhaps with a little more info we can > give a lot of help. Please post kernel, distro, etc... Ho, hum, I'm bored this morning, I

Re: ipchains

2000-03-19 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
hackerwhacker will give you a detailed ascan without forking over cash. You just have to do the basic scan, first. -Ian -- wow, this is kinda nifty. the win98 protocol stack is like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, and it pops right off --Seen

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

2000-03-23 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Lisa Dickson wrote: > Trying to learn more about shell scripts. Examples would be of great > benefit as would site recommendations. Any tips are appreciated. My newest ipchains script gets a little more involved in scripting, if you want to check it out, firewall.langistix

Re: [techtalk] mp3 car player & cd changer unilink cabling

2000-05-01 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, TeknoDragon wrote: > ethernet > probably the simplest way to transfer to a home computer > appletalk would be the best option for its automation > are there any appletalk (AFS) clients for windoze? > will n

Re: [techtalk] Linux Barcode Scanner & Printer

2000-06-01 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Magni Onsoien wrote: > > there's no difference whether you type in the numbers with the keyboard or > > read them with the scanner. Those are the easiest, since there are no drivers involved :). The keyboard variety are very easy to integrate with a web-based form. As a sid

Re: [techtalk] Linux Barcode Scanner & Printer

2000-06-01 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On 1 Jun 2000, Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > could probably just use a laser printer, but my mom would prefer the kind > that prints just one label at a time so she's not wasting labels because > only a couple of packages came in that day. Any suggestions? You could use a laser with label sheets, or

Re: [techtalk] Servlets vs. PHP

2000-07-23 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:29:53 -0400 (EDT), Becky L. Norum wrote: >someone can point me to a reference comparing PHP to JSP/servlets, or has >a personal preference s/he would like to share. I'm trying to get a If you need to run servlets, why not save yourself all that trouble and build PHP as a

[techtalk] DNS revisited, DHCP-style.

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
Speaking of things DNS, does anyone know the key in DHCP for a WINS server? I'm serving up DHCP from Solaris, and I can set things like DNSserv, NISserv, etc, but the one thing I can't find is the name of the key to set a WINS server. I expect if I ask someone at microsoft, they'll tell me to us

Re: [techtalk] Linux Email Clients

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
If you're looking for something outlook-alike, Ximian (The Software Company Formerly Known As Helix Code) has an early release of their Evolution product which is designed to look and feel like outlook. -Ian -- "The French language, which the French used to learn very well, did not exist for

Re: [techtalk] A+ Certification

2001-02-02 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 04:23:20 -0600, Mary P. Wood wrote: >wrong, but I've heard that it's supposed to say to the world, >"Hey, I can fix PCs!" while many of the questions deal with But do you *want* the world to know that? As a friend of mine put it: "I got my first 'hi, I'm so-and-so, X's frie