Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:04:54PM -0400, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote: > > The origin of the name 'Compaq' was that their first product was > > "compact" (and it was the first relatively compact PC) and the > > Q stands for Qu

Re: how far?

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, David Rysdam wrote: > Hey all, new to the area, new to the list. Welcome to both! :-) > I can't seem to figure out where your meetings are being held. That's okay; half the time, neither can we. ;-) > I see references to NH Comm Tech College, but that school seems t

cdr / cdrom audio qustion

2000-10-11 Thread dsbelile
i installed a SONY 8x4x32 burner this weekend and everything has gone really smooth, i have even burned from it under linux and huhhhugh windows. but i lost audio ( cd playing ) under linux on the /dev/cdrom. dev/cdr see's the audio disk, but i dont want to use my burner for audio. what should i l

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > She wants it to be embedded so that they don't have to deal with something > popping up to play the audio See sig quote. ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "If I had wanted your website to make noise I would have licked my finger | |

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Yeah, yeah, yeah I know ;-P I've thought about converting them to mp3, but the problem there is that the client needs some kind of player external to the browser. She wants it to be embedded so that they don't have to deal with something popping up to play the audio Derek Martin wrote:

Tape backup?

2000-10-11 Thread Ken Ambrose
I need to start to do backups on what will eventually become some 400 GB of data -- I've been thinking of probably going with an AIT HW solution, and was wondering if anyone had had any experiences they'd wish to relate, either good or bad, and suggestions for specific hardware. (And any proponen

Re: nfs woes

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Matt Herbert wrote: > but when I try to mount server:/disk on trusty I get: > > nfs mount: server:/disk: access denied Check the log files on both client and server for clues. Do an "exportfs -r" on the server. Make sure portmap, rpc.mountd, and rpc.nfsd are ru

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > > My wife's web site uses things like embedded .wav's ... I want to do is to > > make it faster. > > find -name "*.wav" | xargs rm -f > > ;-) Hehe... I thought to do something similar, but (assumi

Re: I'm reachable again.

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Lori Hitchcock wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I apologize for dropping out of sight and not responding to e-mails > voicemails etc.. I sustained a serious back injury last Thursday (ruptured > disk). I am currently unable to walk but we have now set up a home office > so I can

Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote: > The origin of the name 'Compaq' was that their first product was > "compact" (and it was the first relatively compact PC) and the > Q stands for Quality, which is what they pride themselves on. Thanks for that little bit of trivia Baya

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > My wife's web site uses things like embedded .wav's ... I want to do is to > make it faster. find -name "*.wav" | xargs rm -f ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. | |

Re: tulip.o

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, dsbelile wrote: > > /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c? > instead of being a wise-ass why dont you see whats going on first ? just I wasn't being a wise ass. You asked where you could get the source. It is there. I don't really know you, and I have no idea whether or not

how far?

2000-10-11 Thread David Rysdam
Hey all, new to the area, new to the list. I can't seem to figure out where your meetings are being held. I see references to NH Comm Tech College, but that school seems to have multiple locations. And the directions on how to get to the meetings that I see in the archive pre-suppose more knowl

Re: tulip.o

2000-10-11 Thread dsbelile
Derek Martin wrote: > Yesterday, dsbelile gleaned this insight: > > > anyone know where i can get the source for tulip.o and not here : > > > > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. > > /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c? > > -- > You know that everytime I try to go where I really

Re: Linux as an emerging EDA platform, or, "Then you win"

2000-10-11 Thread Carl D. Walker
Paul Lussier wrote: > Synopsys and Cadence are by far the 2 leaders. Specman is an up and comer. > They're no where as larges as these other 2, but they're getting a lot of > attention for their product (Verisity) (I can't really give you details, since > I'm not in EDA, and I don't know much ab

I'm reachable again.

2000-10-11 Thread Lori Hitchcock
Hi Everyone, I apologize for dropping out of sight and not responding to e-mails voicemails etc.. I sustained a serious back injury last Thursday (ruptured disk). I am currently unable to walk but we have now set up a home office so I can continue to work while awaiting surgery. Lori Hitchco

Stormix/Debian Question

2000-10-11 Thread elawson
I have a give away CD of Stormix 2000 based on Debian slink which installs very nicely and gives me a good looking desktop, networking, etc. I have the 3 CD set of Debian 2.2 which installs with a poor desktop and requires lots of time, I think, to select and install all the packages of interest.

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote: > > OK, Ken. Which of your books would be money best spent? ;-) Both, of course. Get discounts by buying through http://Apache-Server.Com/> and http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/>. :-) Seriously, the Unleashed book is much more complete, but probably more geared for so

Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Dave hardy
Dave Hardy Systems Manager/DBA Vermont Health Care Administration 89 Main Street Drawer 20 Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 802-828-2914 FAX: 802-828-2949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/00 03:15PM >>> Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: >>> Just out

Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: >>> Just out of curiosity, how the hell does one get "The Q" from Compaq??? The origin of the name 'Compaq' was that their first product was "compact" (and it was the first relatively compact PC) and the Q stands for Quality, which is what they pride thems

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
OK, Ken. Which of your books would be money best spent? ;-) I probably should have defined my objectives a little better. My wife's web site uses things like embedded .wav's (this ugliness is not up for discussion at this point ;-( . The files are large, and this causes the pages to take a lon

nfs woes

2000-10-11 Thread Matt Herbert
Hello all, I'm having a little problem with sharing things the way I want them via NFS. My NFS Server is redhat 6.2 ... Here's what I want: /disk/share1 *(ro,root_squash) /disk/share2 *(rw,root_squash) /disktrusty(rw,no_root_squash) That is what my /etc/exports

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote: > > Does anyone know about content compression with Apache? I've been > reading about it, and it looks like a great way to speed up a > webserver. Bzzt. You'd make up the transmission-time savings by spending cycles for on-the-fly compression. Precompressing your te

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] > Possible loopholes that come to mind are: > > - User's ~/.ssh/ contents exported via NFS > - Snooping passphrases via X11 > - yppasswd data or pop/imap passwords easily sniffed to circumvent ssh Good points. > It is not clear to me whether y

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote: > For the benefit of the list, I was wondering if the admins out there > who have made their LAN's more secure by removing rsh, rlogin (and > possibly telnetd and ftpd) and replacing these with ssh and scp, would > explain what additional steps are needed

Re: Content Compression

2000-10-11 Thread Niall Kavanagh
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > Does anyone know about content compression with Apache? I've been > reading about it, and it looks like a great way to speed up a webserver. > Unfortunately, I can't find anything about serving compressed content > with Apache. I found a great arti

Re: Linux as an emerging EDA platform, or, "Then you win"

2000-10-11 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:29:50 EDT Jeffry Smith said: >Although this is a good question: in the EDA world, how much of the >market do these two hold? Are they considered leaders, such that them >doing Linux will probably bring others to the table? Synopsys and Cadence are by far

Central LUG meetings - starting tonite

2000-10-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, Don't forget tonite's meeting (7pm, 105 Pleasant St., Concord): Steve Olson, Sybase, Concord, NH As always, there are giveaways & freebies! Future meetings (tentative) are: Nov. 8 - High Availability Linux Dec. 13 - How to Turn on a Penguin (boot up process) Jan. 10 - Security Hint

Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > >> There's a short piece on ZDNet today concerning the Q's relationship to > >> the future of Linux. > > > > The Q? You mean the omnipotent beings in STTNG? > > He means Compaq. Threw me for a second, to

Our own Rich Payne

2000-10-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
See: http://www.olinux.com.br/interviews/27/en/ for an interview with Rich on Alpha & Linux. Also see: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/11/1333228&mode=nested for the slashdot discussion jeff Jeffry Smith Tec

Re: Linux as an emerging EDA platform, or, "Then you win"

2000-10-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > In a message dated: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:43:16 EDT > Jeffry Smith said: > > >Here's links to the EE Times article on Synopsys, as well as a company > >called Specman: > > Hee Hee, you make it sound like Specman is some little known company. These > gu

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was hoping you guys would elaborate a bit on the distinction in benefits > > between: > > > > 1) using ssh across the internet > > This is a no-brainer. You should assume that Descartes evil genie is Indeed. I was aski

Re: Linux as an emerging EDA platform, or, "Then you win"

2000-10-11 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:04:03 EDT Benjamin Scott said: >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: >> Hee Hee, you make it sound like Specman is some little known company. > > Hmmm. Isn't any EDA company, by definition, "little known"? ;-) I suppose, if you don't live in that wo

Re: Linux as an emerging EDA platform, or, "Then you win"

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > Hee Hee, you make it sound like Specman is some little known company. Hmmm. Isn't any EDA company, by definition, "little known"? ;-) > We used them quite extensively at LanCity/Bay Networks/Nortel/Nortel > Networks/Arris Interactive :) Shouldn't

Re: Linux as an emerging EDA platform, or, "Then you win"

2000-10-11 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:43:16 EDT Jeffry Smith said: >Here's links to the EE Times article on Synopsys, as well as a company >called Specman: Hee Hee, you make it sound like Specman is some little known company. These guys are making HUGE waves in the EDA world. We used them q

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote: > I was hoping you guys would elaborate a bit on the distinction in benefits > between: > > 1) using ssh across the internet > 2) using ssh inside a firewalled work or home LAN There are a number of advantages. Defense in depth is one.

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was hoping you guys would elaborate a bit on the distinction in benefits > between: > > 1) using ssh across the internet This is a no-brainer. You should assume that Descartes evil genie is out there trying to look at and mess with your packets. Wouldn't y

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Karl J. Runge
I was hoping you guys would elaborate a bit on the distinction in benefits between: 1) using ssh across the internet 2) using ssh inside a firewalled work or home LAN I'm guessing the original post's question (solaris -> rsh -> linux) was for case 2. I'd also be interested in y

Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Derek Martin wrote: >> There's a short piece on ZDNet today concerning the Q's relationship to >> the future of Linux. >> >> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2637950,00.html > > The Q? You mean the omnipotent beings in STTNG? He means Compaq. Threw me for a

Re: tulip.o

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Yesterday, dsbelile gleaned this insight: > > >> anyone know where i can get the source for tulip.o and not here : > >> > >> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. > > /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c? The tulip drivers that came with RH6.2 don't

Re: tulip.o

2000-10-11 Thread dsbelile
Jerry Feldman wrote: > Go to Donald Becker's site.l He is the maintainer. Make sure you get both > tulip.c and pci-scan.c, pci-scan.h and kern_compat.h > http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html > dsbelile wrote: > > dsbelile wrote: > > > > > anyone know where i can get the source for tulip.o and

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
Yesterday, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight: > I'll echo that. With the expiration of the RSA patent and the release of > OpenSSH V2, there is absolutely no reason to support rsh/rlogin in any system, > as far as I am concerned. I'll additionally say that the only use for FTP and > telnet

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
Yesterday, Mark Fearer gleaned this insight: > Hello, all. I checked the mail archives for 'root access', 'rsh root', > and 'root login', but failed to find what I was looking for. > For the purpose of nightly backups, I want to allow a Solaris 2.6 box to > be able to rsh into a PC that is runn

Re: ZDNet story link on the Q

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
Yesterday, Dave hardy gleaned this insight: > There's a short piece on ZDNet today concerning the Q's relationship to the future >of Linux. > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2637950,00.html The Q? You mean the omnipotent beings in STTNG? =8^) -- You know that everytime I

Re: tulip.o

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Martin
Yesterday, dsbelile gleaned this insight: > anyone know where i can get the source for tulip.o and not here : > > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c? -- You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be, It's already where I a