[luau] News - No more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standard

2002-07-24 Thread Warren Togami
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25711.html The ISO standards body will take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the JPEG image format as a formal standard if Forgent Networks, a small Texan company, continues to demand royalties on a seventeen-year old patent. The Register has spoken to

[luau] Regarding Red Hat Shows a More Limber Linux

2002-07-24 Thread Warren Togami
Dear Jason Brooks, This is regarding your article Red Hat Shows a More Limber Linux at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,392848,00.asp Thank you for your well written review pointing out the new features of Red Hat Limbo beta. I would like to point out one minor error in your article. Still

[luau] Linux Journal Reader's Poll

2002-07-24 Thread Ho'ala Greevy
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Re: [luau] MPLUG Status Update 7/23/2002

2002-07-24 Thread Ray Strode
4) I am soon talking with Mililani High School about using LTSP to improve their current SunRay thin clients. Sun really screwed up their thin client deployment across the country... they are extremely slow and people have been very unhappy with it. I don't know. When Hamilton library had

RE: [luau] Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS
^_^ Actually he has spent allot of time filling us in on his firewall. Do a search on google for 'MonMotha firewall router'. Or just head to Mplug and read up.. http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/BasicFirewallRouter This is a quick install guide for Linux kernel 2.4.x Netfilter

Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1

2002-07-24 Thread al plant
Warren Togami wrote: - Original Message - From: al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1 I am not familiar with the way Linux downloads and Installs from the mirror site. For this beta you

[luau] Is there a command in Linux like MS's net session?

2002-07-24 Thread Elizabeth Long
I'm looking for anything, Linux command or util program that will give me the same kind of info that MS's net session command offers, which lists the following for all internal connections on network. computer name user name client type - OS opens idle time I use it to keep track of who is

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot of money on the hard drive. Most suns (with the exception of some of the Ultra workstation series) use SCSI hard drives. These are wildly expensive (I just spent $40 on a 4.3GB to play with in my IPX, the IPX isn't even worth that

Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1

2002-07-24 Thread al plant
K3V wrote: Yes Mandrake can, but the receiving PC has to have a certain amount of RAM (I think 64megs) for caching I presume. Thanks, OK: Ram is not a problem. So how do I get the floppy/s to begin the install. I looked at the Mandrake site and see them mentioned, but I couldn't find a

[luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Tim Burgess
Message: 1 From: Dan George [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting. So you can actually run a server at home without being detected by RR. Would like to know more details on that one. The USB-USB networking is available in the lastest 2.4 kernel (2.4.18). You need to build a new kernel with the

Re: [luau] sun fileserver (source for cheaper components)

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Chee
Dot Com Depot Sales Support ___ Work: (408) 738-3895 sunnyvaledepot.com Address: 500-H Lawrence Expressway Sunnyvale, CA Try these guys outI've purchased 10,000rpm scsi-2 drive suitable for pizza box 10's and 20's for around $59/each. If you have a fedex account

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread al plant
Jan Daniel Semrau wrote: Hi, I was wondering, If anybody knows a decent place where I get a cheap ( $100) sun workstations to build a nice and quiet fileserver. My 900Mhz duron is like a starting F-16 and terribly oversized for that task Regards, Dan -

[luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1

2002-07-24 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I have d/l'ed all three ISO images. But now I forgot how to do a chksum/md5. Will anyone be kind enough to give me a quicky help? TIA

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, If I remember correctly Sparc20 uses SCA SCSI drives. Those can be found pretty cheap. Also Ultra1 and Ultra2 use SCA. Dusty Be prepared to spend a little money on the sun, and a lot of money on the hard drive. Most suns (with the exception of some of the Ultra workstation series)

Re: [luau] sun fileserver

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Chee
Yup...sparc 2's and 5's use the old 50pin scsi-1 interfaces... /brian chee University of Hawaii ICS Dept Advanced Network Computing Lab 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311 Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax - Original Message - From: Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Is there a command in Linux like MS's net session?

2002-07-24 Thread Jimen Ching
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Elizabeth Long wrote: computer name user name client type - OS opens idle time I use it to keep track of who is logged into the network on which machines during the day. How about 'w'? --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] Is there a command in Linux like MS's net session?

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Elizabeth Long wrote: I'm looking for anything, Linux command or util program that will give me the same kind of info that MS's net session command offers, which lists the following for all internal connections on network. computer name user name client type - OS opens idle time w (yes, just

Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1

2002-07-24 Thread Ray Strode
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I have d/l'ed all three ISO images. But now I forgot how to do a chksum/md5. Will anyone be kind enough to give me a quicky help? TIA md5sum filename.iso --Ray

[luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1

2002-07-24 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Thanks Ray. B/c it took so long to go through the chksum process (I forgot this is a holy 700+ MB ISO image file), I thought I was doing something wrong. :-)

[luau] Dual monitors

2002-07-24 Thread Julio Gutierrez
can anyone tell me how or where to find resources to set up a RH 7.3 system to use two monitors and 2 different videocards? TIA Julio

Re: [luau] Samba Course at HCC

2002-07-24 Thread Dan George
Can I can get a 10 minute one on one question and answer session or buy you lunch or dinner along with the class. Kind of joking because I know your busy, but Im am fairly new at this and the questions are probably more general in setting up my network at home. On Tuesday 23 July 2002 21:28,

Re: [luau] Dual monitors

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Julio Gutierrez wrote: can anyone tell me how or where to find resources to set up a RH 7.3 system to use two monitors and 2 different videocards? TIA Julio You'll want to look up Xinerama. It's a set of extensions to X11 to support multi-head configurations. You'll also want a Xinerama

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Dan George
I dont know if anyone here on a RR cable modem has ever had their packet sampled by RR. They check how much traffic your receiving and when they figure your setting up a server at home they do two things: 1. Contact you for an explaination. The fact your downloading a lot of graphics files

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Dan George wrote: I dont know if anyone here on a RR cable modem has ever had their packet sampled by RR. They check how much traffic your receiving and when they figure your setting up a server at home they do two things: 1. Contact you for an explaination. The fact your downloading a lot

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Dan George wrote: Im all ears If anyone wants suggestions on hiding a NAT LAN I can give some. It's possible to make it pretty darn difficult to detect. --MonMotha A wiki would probably be more appropriate, with Warren's permission. --MonMotha

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Dustin Cross
I switched to DSL so I wouldn't have to deal with this stuff. Sandi and I run our our mail and web server for personal use and it would suck to have RR shut us down and not get e-mail until I got a new provider! Dusty I dont know if anyone here on a RR cable modem has ever had their packet

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Ben Beeson
Just for grins, here is an example of a small town that got it right! The Ruby Ranch Co-op at:http://www.rric.net not only beat the telcos at their own game, they show others how to do it. Enjoy, Ben Here's an idea though, and this might actually be possible since you guys

Re: [luau] Security Question

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
It certainly can. Any compromise of one account (security bug in mozilla) will only gain the attacker access to the oen account. The attacker will have to then elevate privilages to the superuser to do anything with the other user's files (which may contain important/sensative information).

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Ray Strode
Dan George wrote: I dont know if anyone here on a RR cable modem has ever had their packet sampled by RR. They check how much traffic your receiving and when they figure your setting up a server at home they do two things: 1. Contact you for an explaination. The fact your downloading a lot

[luau] Security Question

2002-07-24 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Basically, any steps you take to separate privilages are useful. --MonMoth Thanks for the validation! As we all know, there are no perfect locks. The purpose of a lock (or security for computer systems) is simply to make it a little bit more difficult for someone to break in. But most of

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: Ray Strode [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router 1. Contact you for an explaination. The fact your downloading a lot of graphics files doesnt cut it anymore because they

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: MonMotha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router There's a reason they prohibit servers. I dunno what you guys are capped at out there, but I hear it's even higher than what

Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1

2002-07-24 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0 beta1 K3V wrote: Yes Mandrake can, but the receiving PC has to have a certain amount of RAM (I think 64megs) for caching I presume.

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Dustin Cross
DOH! I hate it when people do this! Data communications are always done in bits! A T-1 is 1.544 Mbits/sec not ~193KBytes/sec right? Dusty My rates are more between 300KB/sec through 600KB/sec, but I am not complaining. That is still considerably faster than T1, with a 5% price tag per

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I just set-up a business account with RR and we are getting ~3.7Mb down ~1Mb up. The installer said the system was capped at 4Mb. That costs $199 per month and comes with 5 static IPs and we can have servers. An OC-12 is 622Mb per sec. An OC-3 is 155Mb/sec. When I was at Level3

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-24 Thread MonMotha
Dustin Cross wrote: DOH! I hate it when people do this! Data communications are always done in bits! A T-1 is 1.544 Mbits/sec not ~193KBytes/sec right? Dusty A T-1 is 1.544 Mbit/sec. 1.500Mbit/sec is 192 kByte/sec See