Re: piercing corporate FW outbound

2004-02-06 Thread Brian H. Chabot
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: If they have a clue, they are not using PPTP, they are using IPSec (MPPE is a joke). I don't think that the contivity switch even supports pptp anymore. I agree. Most M$-centric VPN's I've seen were PPTP though... including the one I'm logged into right now. Personally

Re: piercing corporate FW outbound

2004-02-06 Thread Brian H. Chabot
Michael ODonnell wrote: Crap. I accepted my current job with the understanding that I had a fairly secure home network (protected by [A] a firewall and [B] the total absence of Microsoft products) to which I expected to have access from work via SSH, and I was told "no problem". Two days after I

Re: OpenGL and nVidia question...

2004-01-29 Thread Brian H. Chabot
Brian H. Chabot wrote: [snip] Nevermind. It seems this was a known issue and was fixed in the latest release of the drivers... released... only 72 hours agao... about as long as I've been struggling with this. Grrr. That'll teach me not to keep a close eye on the forums every da

Re: OpenGL and nVidia question...

2004-01-29 Thread Brian H. Chabot
Tom Fogal wrote: oh, just read your glxinfo output, my bad.. oh well, other advice might help someone else =) HTH, -tom Well... as someone else suggested, I tried back-revving the drivers to version 4XXX. Not even going to install. Says it can't find the kernel appropriate binaries... Please

OpenGL and nVidia question...

2004-01-25 Thread Brian H. Chabot
I just switched from the default nv driver to the nvidia commercial one and I'm not too pleased. The framerate on anything using GLX is abyssmal. We're talking 6.2 FPS on glxgears and about one frame per 20 seconds on America's Army or ut2003demo. Perhaps someone here could tell me what I'm d

Virtual Reality on Linux?

2004-01-23 Thread Brian H. Chabot
Ok,so now that I have a new toy for a desktop, runnin Mandrake 9.2 rather nicely, I decided to surf around looking for info on VR. Yeah, I'm a Gibson and Stephenson fan. So as I was looking around I got more and more disheartened. Almost nothing has hapenned in the realm of VR since the mid-19

Speaking of Mandrake, I think I found a broken tool....

2004-01-22 Thread Brian H. Chabot
I think I just found a broken Mandrake tool: drakfont If you use Mandrake, you might want to be careful in using it to install TrueType fonts. I just tried to install a bunch from my collections and... xfs (ergo, X) refused to start after that. I'm currently Not Pleased. For anyone interest

Re: Maybe time for a new distro?

2004-01-22 Thread Brian H. Chabot
brian wrote: Been using Redhat for years (still have my 5.0 installation CD's and diskette from Redhat (am on 9.0 currently)). [snip] My major wants/needs are: Support for my dual-head ATI card Gnome out-of-the-box (preferred) Some degree of mutli-media support ("stereophonic beeps" are usually

Re: Mail, PIMs, CRMs and not Windows :)

2004-01-20 Thread Brian H. Chabot
Paul Lussier wrote: Does anyone know of either a CRM or a PIM package which will run on Mac? It would be *really* cool if it also ran on Linux and/or Windows as well. I've always been fond of web-based applications when you need real cross-platform support. Some that immediately come ti mind are