CC swiper / Cash machine

2003-10-15 Thread Keith Pitcher
Anyone ever used FreeBSD to talk to a CC swipe machine and / or a cash machine? I've seen a number of devices that you can plug into PCs that talk via serial, so it might be a no brainer. However if anyone has any real world experience with a good product that would be helpful. Basically I'm

redirect everything to socks5

2003-03-10 Thread Keith Pitcher
Living in rural slow connection land, I've been playing around with satellite Internet. The problem is the company only has Win drivers. (Linux driver is in the works, but no plans to open source it, will be released as a binary - the bastards) Anyhow, to get the download speed of the satellite

CDR performance

2002-07-11 Thread Keith Pitcher
Just thought I'd report that using cdrecord on a netserver 5 with SCSI2 bus, I can do 8 CDs at 4 speed, 7 at 6 speed and 4 or 5 at 8 speed. It will start fine with 8, but after a few seconds I get bus errors and a few new coasters pop out. I've tried staggering startup a few seconds, but the

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Keith Pitcher
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and scripts of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not necessary to have a multi-cd tool when you can roll your own with your own behavior. Dave. This

Multi CDR burn

2002-07-08 Thread Keith Pitcher
I hate to bother the list, but after lots of searching I haven't found this out - maybe I missed something obvious : I have 8 scsi CDRs in a netserver 5 case, need to burn a number of CDs. I haven't seen anything in the ports that will do multi CDRs. So does anyone know of a program. On the