[luau] Old C++ Libraries

2003-03-04 Thread Brian Chee
Hi folks: I'm trying to get the linux version of the APC power chute to install, but I need libstdc++.so.2.8 and Mandrake is currently on version 5so far I've tried some of the archives but egcs...wouldn't install on mandrake 9 and I've only been able to find it in rpm format so far. Anyone go

Re: [luau] Re: no answers from roadrunner dns

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:16:40PM -1000, Ray Strode wrote: > This is incorrect. Normally (when Recursion Desired bit is not > set), if a server doesn't know the answer, then it will provide > suggestions for servers that are more likely to know the > answer. The idea is, the client can then ask th

Re: [luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread Ray Strode
For a small company and the right software, you might be able to get away with running a firewall on a 386. Note that for most 386's you are constrained to the ISA bus, which means 8 MHz and 16bits ~= 16Mbytes per second theorhetical maximum throughput. In practice you are going to get con

Re: [luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:52:56AM -1000, whenever wrote: > We are going to get the Checkpoint package, they said it > should be on at least SunFire 280R, so we had the vendor > ordering a 280R. Did you consider the Nokia/Checkpoint boxes? They run on IPSO, a modified version of Free

Re: [luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread Warren Togami
Randall Oshita wrote: Can Mandrake's Corporate Edition Firewall compete with Sonicwall SOHO3 or even the PROS or the Watch Guards or Cisco? Lets say the Linux box has the better hardware (1Ghz cpu 1G RAM etc..- overkill but for this example) Does the throughput depend on the software or the hardw

Re: [luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread whenever
> Yes. I think it depends mostly on the skill set of the > administrator and the budget available. Do not forget to > consider Checkpoint and Netscreen. We are going to get the Checkpoint package, they said it should be on at least SunFire 280R, so we had the vendor ordering a 280R. We also hav

Re: [luau] Re: no answers from roadrunner dns

2003-03-04 Thread Ray Strode
I cannot explain why dig says things are OK while your own resolver does not. I haven't looked into this at all (don't really have time right now...maybe over the weekend), so I don't know the answer either, but my guesses are the obvious ones: either Road Runner's dns doesn't cache, or the

Re: [luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:06:36PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: > Can Mandrake's Corporate Edition Firewall compete with > Sonicwall SOHO3 or even the PROS or the Watch Guards or Cisco? Yes. I think it depends mostly on the skill set of the administrator and the budget available. Do not forget to

Re: [luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread cpaul
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:06:36PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: > Can Mandrake's Corporate Edition Firewall compete with Sonicwall SOHO3 > or even the PROS or the Watch Guards or Cisco? Lets say the Linux box > has the better hardware (1Ghz cpu 1G RAM etc..- overkill but for this > example) You ca

Re: [luau] Re: no answers from roadrunner dns

2003-03-04 Thread cpaul
Several large DNS servers (and their connecting networks) were attacked recently. You might be seeing the indirect side-affects? my $0.02, charles On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:23:38PM -1000, William N Luoma wrote: > And Warren. I began using the 32,34,36 addresses you mentioned, > but thought I w

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread cpaul
> One thing I know is that the Debian/KDE installation I had on my 166 was > not something I would like students using for a class on word processing or > spreadsheets. It was way too slw. To me, if you sacrifice some > funtionality in order to gain speed and responsiveness it would be a g

[luau] Firewall

2003-03-04 Thread Randall Oshita
Can Mandrake's Corporate Edition Firewall compete with Sonicwall SOHO3 or even the PROS or the Watch Guards or Cisco? Lets say the Linux box has the better hardware (1Ghz cpu 1G RAM etc..- overkill but for this example) Does the throughput depend on the software or the hardware? Anyone know the thr

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread cpaul
> Specifically regarding embedded Linux systems, we could get > together and discuss it, but given a target audience of public > schools, I am very unclear how such a technology can be > effectively applied to old hardware. Hmm, I kind of understand the general gist of the idea. Small (fits on a

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:23:58PM -1000, Luis aka Rigpa wrote: > Embedded linux was designed for resource challenged computers > > old pentium 166s are resource challenged computers. > Applications written for embedded linux tend to be streamlined > and efficient so as to run properly on these res

Re: [luau] LVM

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:07:17PM -1000, Eric Jeschke wrote: > 2) I know it is possible to run LVM over RAID, or RAID over LVM (talking >about Linux's software RAID here). The former seems to make more >sense to me, but is there a good reason to do the latter? Hmm. If you decide to use t

Re: [luau] Re: no answers from roadrunner dns

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:23:38PM -1000, William N Luoma wrote: > It also seems like the rr nameservers aren't doing any > recursion even tho i set the RD bit on my query and the reply > has the RA (recursion availble) buit set. I cannot explain why dig says things are OK while your own resolver

Re: [luau] sendmail question

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:10:54PM -1000, Ho'ala Greevy wrote: > On a private, non-routed network, is there a way to create > some sort of hosts entry for a domain name that sendmail will > acknowledge? OK. RFC1918. > For example, say I wanted sendmail to send all mail destined > for @somemail.co

[luau] sendmail question

2003-03-04 Thread Ho'ala Greevy
hi folks, On a private, non-routed network, is there a way to create some sort of hosts entry for a domain name that sendmail will acknowledge? For example, say I wanted sendmail to send all mail destined for @somemail.com to a private IP of 192.168.1.254. Is there a way to do this in sendmail?

[luau] Re: no answers from roadrunner dns

2003-03-04 Thread William N Luoma
+The TTL for news.google.com is set to 5 minutes. However, google +sets the TTL for their nameservers to be 4 days, but RR's +configuration limits the max TTL to 24 hours. From my vantage +point, the DNS server does cache the results. What are you seeing +that I am not? > Here's a trace from dns1.

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:23 pm, Luis aka Rigpa wrote: > > Is there a website that has more details on HOSEF? Mabe I can do some > reading up before attending the meeting this saturday. That way I could be > more in-tune with the direction you guys are headding. > www.hosef.org is our work-in

[luau] good report

2003-03-04 Thread Taylor Cody L Contractor 502 AOS/PETS
I have some good news regarding Linux jobs. I just indirectly got my friend a Linux/Win2k job in Las Vegas. They are looking to fill quite a few more position at the same location. I did a search for Linux on their job site and it came back with 67 matches. The company is SAIC, im sure most of

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread Luis aka Rigpa
Specifically regarding embedded Linux systems, we could get together and discuss it, but given a target audience of public schools, I am very unclear how such a technology can be effectively applied to old hardware. I put forth the idea of embedded linux on old computers as a random brainstormi

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:13:04AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This sounds pretty good (using embedded linux on older > computers). Knoppix (or even other bootcd-hosted distros like > Simply GNUStep) will run on these computers as-is, given > there is a functioning CDROM and a modicum of ins

Re: [luau] learning the hardware end

2003-03-04 Thread cpaul
> I've been thinking (oh no! everybody run! he's been thinking again!!!), > if you guys get the 1500 166's, would an embedded version of Linux be the > way to go on those? I had a 166 (died two weeks ago) and it was painfully > slow running Debian. That's where the thought of using embedded