[luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/01/130259.shtml?tid=45 - By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - This article concentrates on describing a basic Mandrake 9.0 installation and setup from a new user's viewpoint, using nothing but default settings all the way through. I've also tossed in a few notes on how Mandrake 9.0 differs from Mandrake 8.2 and other previous Mandrake releases. (continued in article)
[luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
Hi, Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or FreeBSD? Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043
Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
I have a Delta brand drive that works...it's old though...a 4x4x24 Rodney - Original Message - From: "al plant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD > > Hi, > > Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or > FreeBSD? > > Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com > Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. > Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 > Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043 > ___ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2002-September/subject.html and look for the threads "cd burner" I got a lot of great responses last month to nearly the exact same question (I did not inquire about freebsd.) It turned out that as long as the burner was made to the atapi or ide compliant, it was okay. Warren and MonMotha made the following statements, Warren's first and MonMotha's second. > Well the thing about the ATAPI (IDE) burners and SCSI burners is that > they are generally standardized in such a way that in most cases you > don't need additional drivers in order to use them. I think the > individual burning programs are "aware" of many individual models and > their capabilities, but Linux doesn't have or need this information > because you select the burning options manually when using mkisofs. > > In other words, I *think* any ATAPI burner will work in Linux just > because they are standardized, kind of like you can use any hard drive > or CD-ROM without additional drivers. Somebody please correct me if I'm > wrong. > For the most part this is true, and it often even extends to USB (and possibly firewire) external burners. The only burners I've seen that isn't standardized are some HP burners (both SCSI and USB, but not IDE it looks like). However, Linux has drivers to support them at the kernel level as well. cdrecord also has support I do believe.scott
Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:52 pm, al plant wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or > FreeBSD? > I have a TDK that works in every distro I've tried, but most any of the newer ATA drives should work. I have heard of people having problems with Sony, but no first-hand knowledge of that Good luck Cliff
Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
I have an HP something-or-other that works fine. I didn't think brand mattered with CD burners and Linux. They all use the same generic SCSI drivers so I thought. Don On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Cliff Brown wrote: > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:52 pm, al plant wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or > > FreeBSD? > > > I have a TDK that works in every distro I've tried, but most any of the newer > ATA drives should work. I have heard of people having problems with Sony, > but no first-hand knowledge of that > > Good luck > Cliff > ___ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
Re: [luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users
I think both Mandrake and Red Hat are moving too fast and trying to do too many things. While this is EXACTLY what is needed in order to catch up with Windows, traces of sloppiness (i.e., bugs) can be found in quite a few places. (Even Windows 3.0 had better quality control than most of the Linux distros.) What's the first thing we would do after we installed Microsoft Windows (98, 2K, XP)? Go to Microsoft web site and download and install all the patches and service packs. Why should we expect things could be different with the freely downloaded Linux ISO's? Customization (of "standard" Linux distros to suit our needs and likings) and collection of user experiences will be the next critical step in order to expand the Linux universe (so that we can get UH to offer Linux courses). I have been thinking about putting together an "almost state of the art" PC and placing it at our State Bar office to bring the awareness to our bar membership of a possible Linux office solution, which, at least potentially, should offer the lure of better security and better cost-effectiveness. (Cost is a very important factor here. Our parent firm in Houston pays about $110K for new hires, here, the best starting salary I heard is $72.5K.) Before I do that, I would like to put that Linux office machine in a semi-publicly accessible place such as Midpac (Warren? Tom?) so that many would-be consultants can kick its tires before offering their services to at least the bar members. I will be out of town most of October. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Warren Togami wrote: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/01/130259.shtml?tid=45 - By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - This article concentrates on describing a basic Mandrake 9.0 installation and setup from a new user's viewpoint, using nothing but default settings all the way through. I've also tossed in a few notes on how Mandrake 9.0 differs from Mandrake 8.2 and other previous Mandrake releases. (continued in article) ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users
This past weekend I put together a new PC from MWave. HD and CR-RW (Samsung 40x12x40 for $29.99--knock on wood!!!) were purchased from our friend CompUSA. This will be the system that I will be using. SKU Qty. Item Unit Price Ext. Price A14269 SKY HAWK SH-300A8H 300W ALUMINUM (PENTIUM 4 READY) UL & FCC POWER SUPPLY FOR ATX CASES Detail Specs $30.00 $30.00 Q296-14-A02599-TEST GIGABYTE GA-7VAXP Motherboard Specs BUNDLE W/ COOLING FAN & (AMD ATHLON XP 1800+; MWAVE 512MB NON-ECC PC2700(333Mhz); ASSEMBLE/TEST BUNDLE) $331.11 $331.11 A14306 SKY HAWK AL-4350-BL (BLUE) ALUMINUM MID TOWER (PENTIUM 4 READY) NO POWER SUPPLY 4x5.25" 2x3.5" 1x3.5"(hidden) W/ FRONT I/O CONNECTOR Detail Specs $48.00 $48.00 A17600 MSI GEFORCE4 (MS-8866-010) G4-440T AGP MX-440 64MB 4XAGP DDR W/TV OUT Detail Specs $79.00 $79.00 Sub Total $488.11
[luau] Linux Scholarship Challenge
Over 500 universities from 64 countries will compete in the 2002 Linux Scholarship Challenge in Taipei. This challenge is sponsored by IBM. http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php?NID=5409&FIRSTHIT=1
[luau] Slow routing
Hi all, I havent posted to the list in a long while.. have been relocating and busy in general. Now (I think) I'm back for a while. ...And already I have questions to ask. Is anyone aware of any bandwidth throtling enabled by default in Mandrake 9.0? Perhaps thats not the cause of my slowdowns, so I should describe my little setup.. perhaps someone will see a problem and make me aware of it :) Have a desktop and a laptop with 1 nic each connected to a 10Mbit hub, cable modem is also plugged into the same hub. Mandrake running on the desktop (just had to see whats it like) and Slackware on the laptop. Now, having only 1 ip provided by the cable company and not wanting to run a separate machine for a router, I have both of them acting as routers. I have a little script (same on both machines: "cable on / cable off") that when needed simply assigns a local ip to eth0:1 and gets the external ip from the modem, then sets up the iptables rules as needed and sends an update to dyndns.org. Then when I want to boot the desktop to windows to play some game the script releases the ip and I type "cable on" on the laptop to assume the same role. Now everything would be fine, but... when the laptop is acting as the router I get 8mbps downstream and 700kbps up (yes, Optimum Online is that fast!) on both machines (actually I only see about 5mbps down on the desktop but i think thats because the hub can't handle more), and when the desktop is doing the routing, I still get the same speed on the desktop but the laptop only sees 600/600kpbs of it. Any ideas?
Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
Yes Hi Val and Sony. I have two DVD and CDRWs that work great and I believe they run at $59 each at CompUSA. Check out last Sundays ad. Dan - Original Message - From: "al plant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD > > Hi, > > Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or > FreeBSD? > > Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com > Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. > Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 > Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043 > ___ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD
al plant wrote: Hi, Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or FreeBSD? Just about anything should work, at least in the IDE and SCSI departments, but I'm a big fan of Plextors. They're expensive, but very nice burners. Usually, it comes down to a choice of buying a cheap burner but having it be picky about the media, or getting a nice burner that costs a bit more but beign able to reliably burn just about anything you throw in the tray (that's burnable of course :). My little 16x10x40 PlexWriter is really nice. I can basically ignore those little burning speed ratings and throw $FREE_MEDIA_AFTER_REBATE_OF_THE_MONTH in the tray and have it pop out a CD that plays in almost anything. --MonMotha pgp1ICJaXhyHY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [luau] Help Needed with Comp USA
al plant wrote: I purchased a Smart and Friendly CDRom Burner and a three year warranty. (The manufacturer isnt in business any longer). A 1 year manufacturers and a 2 year Comp USA warranty for a special price purchased on sale that day. I have a copy of the sales slip. When I took the CDRom back because it has never worked under Win 98 or Unix/Linux. The burner is Scsi and is detected and the drivers load etc. under all three O/S, but the door won't open and a test cd will not be found. Al, I had a burner from Smart & Friendly before. I think S&F didn't go out of business for no reason. My burner started doing approximately the same thing... ...just before I got rid of it. Another words, it's definitely not a software issue, you're looking at a defect. :(
[luau] Open Source for Business Demo Day
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group in cooperation with Ala Moana CompUSA invites you to... Open Source for Business Demo Day Linux and Open Source Solutions for Businesses Sunday, October 6th, 2002 9:00am - 5:00pm Location: CompUSA Training department 604 Ala Moana, Honolulu, HI 96813 Cost: FREE There will be two classrooms with hands on Linux desktop software, server software, and security demonstrations and several members from MPLUG to answer your questions. We will also have Windows and Macs to show how Linux can cost effectively integrate a cross-platform network. Day Schedule: 9:00am Presentation: Back Office Linux Servers 9:45am Q&A 11:00am Presentation: Desktop Linux & Productivity Applications 11:45am Q&A 12:15pm Lunch Break 1:00pm Presentation: Enterprise Linux 1:45pm Q&A 3:00pm Presentation: Linux Enterprise Security 3:45pm Q&A Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions. Thanks, Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group http://www.mplug.org
Re: [luau] Help Needed with Comp USA
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:57, Michael Ableyev wrote: > > When I took the CDRom back because it has never worked under Win 98 or > > Unix/Linux. The burner is Scsi and is detected and the drivers load etc. > > under all three O/S, but the door won't open and a test cd will not be > > found. > WTF... if you buy the CompUSA extended warranty the trade-in should be "no questions asked". That's what the sales people always said to me when they asked if I wanted the extended coverage. I wonder if that changed.
