[luau] Instructions (Learning?)

2002-05-29 Thread Ralph Miranda
I'm getting a big blast out of learning from you people. Any recommendations for learning? What books do you recommend? Where do I start? Right now I have 2 jobs and still learn on the side... whenever I can, I read or study. My ultimate goal would be to learn how to program and

Re: [luau] (Secure) NFS alternatives and centralized authentication?

2002-05-29 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, You could check out: OpenAFS - http://www.openafs.org/ or Global File System - http://www.sistina.com/products_gfs.htm $ The guy that started this project in college has stoped using the GPL and started his own company. OpenGFS (http://www.opengfs.org) took the GPL code and has

[luau] FYI: DOD donated PC's

2002-05-29 Thread Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS
Here is a couple of things I have learned about getting the military to donate computers for educational use. Allot of the times a custodian will want to remove the hard drives before giving out machines. I can't say this isn't the fastest and safest thing to do, but there are other ways. If

Re: [luau] (Secure) NFS alternatives and centralized authentication?

2002-05-29 Thread Ray Strode
I'm looking to implement part of a Linux based lab where I can either dynamically mount each user's home directory when they log in (this is against a Novell 5 server) or I could possibly mount the whole homes tree, but that wouldn't work very well (see earlier comment about a local

Re: [luau] RELEASE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.05

2002-05-29 Thread Julio Gutierrez
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:49, Ray Strode wrote: So far I have downloaded Acrobat Reader v. 5.05 for my Linux... I have yet to find that puppy in my system... sheeessh.. I did slocate adobe and received the following: I believe it's called acroread or something like that. Not sure tho,

Re: [luau] (slocate) - RELEASE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.05

2002-05-29 Thread Eric Hattemer
Always keep in mind that slocate does not search your filesystem for files. Instead, it searches a database it creates and updates on some schedule. If you just installed acrobat, you can't expect it to be in the slocate database. Try either find / keyword, or update the slocate database. You

Re: [luau] Clogged Linksys router

2002-05-29 Thread whenever
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:51 pm, you wrote: I took telnet off my machine (paranoa I guess). I don't have a serial port but I'll try to telnet (once I get it installed). I wonder if the You should take in.telnetd off the system, not telnet client :)