Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread jdunham
On 20 Mar 2004 at 9:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote: > > > > If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic > > at times, the best hub is a switch! You are likely to have > > less bandwidth wasting collisions during high

Re: Adding a KVM, what should I be aware of?

2003-03-27 Thread jdunham
On 27 Mar 2003 at 1:22, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: > i have never been able to successfully keep the mouse working using > freebsd and Belkin KVM's. The mouse works at first when you start up > the mouse daemon but if you switch KVM consoles to another box and then > switch back the mouse is all

Belkin UPS installation confusion

2003-02-27 Thread jdunham
I have a 400MHz IBM Intellistation E-Pro (FreeBSD 4.6) running on a Belkin Home Office UPS (F6H659-SER), with the control cable plugged into the first serial port. When I installed FreeBSD I had it install upsd, thinking that would allow FreeBSD to shut down properly if the power went away. Si

Re: Languages

2003-02-08 Thread jdunham
Teithant Bill Moran: > André Ramos wrote: > > > > Go for portuguese english and french or german! > > My goodness but we're all a bunch of smartasses ... > > I think the most important are C, perl, and php. > > Although I've always wanted to learn Swahili. I'm working on Quenya, Sindarin and Khûz

Re: 5.25" Floppy

2003-02-07 Thread jdunham
On 7 Feb 2003 at 11:06, northern snowfall wrote: > Yeh, according to FreeBSD's /sys/isa/fd.c and /sys/sys/fdcio.h 360k 1.2M > 720k are the only ones supported. This, in particular, is a Mitsumi D509V3 which > is a 1.2M. The fact that it's a Mitscrewme worries me. I've seen a lot of trouble wi

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread jdunham
On 7 Feb 2003 at 10:02, David Rio wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to > > spend. > > Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the > hardware, but for me there is

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread jdunham
On 22 Jan 2003 at 16:32, Bill Moran wrote: > David Bear wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: > > > >>I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy > >>system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my > >>crapp