[techtalk] CD-RW

1999-11-09 Thread JLG
hey folks, I hate to ask such a general question, but I am looking to by an IDE CD writer/rewriter and all the ones mentioned on the Hardware Compatiblity HOWTO are kind of outdated, and hard to find for sale. I am leaning towards a Ricoh, Phillips or maybe an HP ,hoping to spend downwards of $2

[techtalk] /dev/dsp problem

2000-02-12 Thread JLG
I've finally gotten around to setting up sound on my laptop but i've hit a little problem. After rebuilding kernel( 2.2.1) & MAKEDEV'ing audio i was a psyched girl when cd's played fine. After confirming that a standard audio cd worked, I popped in a CDR with some MP3's on it-fired up mpg123

Re: [techtalk] /dev/dsp problem

2000-02-13 Thread JLG
Thanks to everyone for the advice, looks like I have to set some time aside and try to figure out what I did wrong. On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen & a few other wonderful people wrote: > Either you don't have permissions to write to /dev/dsp, or you don't > have sound installed properly. n

[techtalk] many home networking questions

2000-04-25 Thread JLG
I recently got a cable modem installed in my apartment, and now I have to make this sharable amongst my computers and my boyfriends. The modem is connected to a machine running FreeBSD 4. I'm using '@home' and I am able to connect just lovely using dhcp. I have an additional NIC that is detected

[techtalk] mailman help

2000-08-09 Thread JLG
A project I'm working on requires me to set up some mailing lists and I decided to go with Mailman. The CGI's are working great, but I am having some problems with the mail end of things. A user can sign up for lists, they are sent their confirmation. When they reply to their confirmation it d

Re: [techtalk] mailman help

2000-08-09 Thread JLG
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Aaron Malone wrote: Thanks for the swift reply! > Have you looked at the mail logs on the server where mailman is installed > to see what's happening to this mail? That would be the first place I'd > look, to see if the mail is actually being delivered correctly. here's

[techtalk] sendmail/Mailman Lag

2000-08-10 Thread JLG
.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03242; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:42:01 -0400 Received: from gundam.x.com (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) by gundam.x.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03220 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:39:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09

Re: [techtalk] sendmail/Mailman Lag

2000-08-10 Thread JLG
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, JLG wrote: I think I've figuered out thatMailman is using cron to send out its messages. How can I make the job run more frequently? in /home/mailman/cron there are the following files: checkdbs crontab.in gate_news mailpasswds nightly_gzip paths.py paths.pyc qr

Re: [techtalk] RESOLVED!!sendmail/Mailman Lag

2000-08-10 Thread JLG
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, JLG wrote: Hey Folks, I think I just solved my own problem...sorry that last message was so incoherant but i was trying to dash it off quickly so the other sysadmin wouldn't catch me :) ! (new job!) Jen > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, JLG wrote: > > I think I&#

[techtalk] Open AOL server?

2000-08-29 Thread JLG
Is there a free/open implementation of AOL's Instant Messanging Server? I think it uses their own protocol called TIK/TOC. I've searched freshmeat and linuxberg and was able to find a transparent AIM to IRC gateway (aimirc) but nothing that was pure AIM. Just thought I'd inquire because I hav

[techtalk] samba question

2000-08-31 Thread JLG
I've got a samba server and need to give full rwx privs to all the admins at my job. I tried setting: admin users= admin1's username, admin2's username, admin3's username in [global] but it did not have the desired effect. I had seen this done in one of the example scripts that samba comes with

Re: [techtalk] Open AOL server?

2000-08-31 Thread JLG
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, moira wrote: I was looking for a server not a client. I'm a huge fan of gaim, and everyine here at my office seems to like IM, but we don't want to rely on AOL's servers, additionally we'd like the privacy of one on our internal network. > haven't used it but my boy seems to

Re: [techtalk] laptop on linux

2000-10-18 Thread JLG
My Umax Actionbook has run Debian, NetBSD and now FreeBSD happily. Additionally I have a Fuji Lifebook 635 running Debian that has been problem free. (no small feat considering the cd-rom and floppy live in the docking station) And to round out my own *nix laptop experiences I'll give a heart

[techtalk] linux vpn/routing

2001-05-01 Thread JLG
I have two clusters of web servers that I need to set up a VPN between. Each server has 2 nics: eth0 has a public address eth1 has a private address,192.168.x.x Here's a (crummy) illustration 192.168.1.170 eth1 -WWWSERVER1- eth0 AAA.BBB.CCC.170 (public)

Re: [techtalk] linux vpn/routing

2001-05-01 Thread JLG
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Neale Green wrote: Neale, Thanks for the quick reply, yes there are plans for a firewall. This is my first Linux VPN though and at first I went full throttle into FreesWan and things didn't quite work so I am stepping back and approaching this in these steps: 1. Nothing wil

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread JLG
Did you build everything yourself, or apt-get apache-ssl? Is the user your web server runs as (www-data on my Progeny box) able to write to the error.log specified in yout httpd.conf? Been down this road and trying to help, Jen On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote: > On Monday 21 May

Re: [techtalk] Raid 1+0

2001-05-21 Thread JLG
I've set up a few 1+0 on some db servers, but I've used my scsi controller's bios to create the actual raid, simply making a raid 1 then a 0 on top of it (or was it the other way around?) did the trick. Installing Linux was the same as installing it on a single disk. Jen On Mon, 21 May 2001,

Re: [techtalk] yellow dog linux

2001-05-26 Thread JLG
I'm not sure about yellowdog's distro but mac/linux dual boot can definetely be done. I was a total virgin to linux on a mac before i bought my titanium, and I thought osx was a little limiting. Additionally I didn't want to lose the functionality of the dvd player (can't get this to work with