Re: [LUAU] Job Posting Seeking Cisco Installer

2005-09-16 Thread Dustin Cross
Charles, $25/hr is pretty sad for a knowledgable Cisco field eng. Especially for only two days work. How can anyone afford to live in Hawaii who consults for $25/hr. Most consultants work less than 2000 hours per year and that is why they charge more, and their knowledge. If you make $25/hr

[LUAU] OT: Looking for Windows Admin

2005-06-01 Thread Dustin Cross
for something like this, please have them send me a resume and salary requirements. Mahalo, Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Network Engineer Cryptek - Hawaii 550 Paiea Street, Suite 236 808-779-4077

Re: [LUAU] Multicast Video streaming for the Internet?

2005-02-15 Thread Dustin Cross
been trying to find anything to connect to on Mbone and can't find anything. Is no one using Mbone? Does RR not connect to Mbone? Will broadband users even be able to access my multicast stream if I get it setup? Thanks, Dusty On Tuesday 2005-02-15 10:01, Dustin Cross wrote: Aloha, http

[LUAU] Where to buy memory?

2004-08-22 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Where is a good place to buy memory from on the island? I am looking for 4x 1gb PC3200 for a powermac G5. Mahalo, Dusty

[luau] export current window to another computer?

2004-03-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Does anyone know of a way to export a window from my desktop to the desktop of another computer? An example would be person A is looking at picture in gimp and makes zooms in to a specific area on the picture and then wants person B to see what area he is talking about, so person A send

Re: [luau] export current window to another computer?

2004-03-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Thanks, I was thinking of VNC, but we really only want one specific window, not the whole desktop. Now I am looking at xkeys and xwatchwin. Does anyone have experience with these? Malaho, Dusty Aloha, Does anyone know of a way to export a window from my desktop to the desktop of

Re: [luau] export current window to another computer?

2004-03-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Correct, But I want to do something a little different. I want to send the window I am currently working on to another system so they can see what I am doing. It looks like xwatchwin is what I am looking for. I need to do some testing, but I think I will be able to use it from the local host

Re: [luau] Linux Fibre Channel Server?

2004-02-27 Thread Dustin Cross
/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, 877-284-1934 fax - Original Message - From: Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:39 PM

[luau] Linux Fibre Channel Server?

2004-02-26 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I am trying to find out if it is possible to put a Fibre Channel card in my Linux File Server and start sharing disk space over 2Gb fibre Channel. Does anyone have any knowledge of doing this? Thanks, Dusty

Re: [luau] Linux Fibre Channel Server?

2004-02-26 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I was able to find this: http://www.pavitrasoft.com/mayastor/ Mayastor software is a combination of several kernel driver modules that can convert Linux system into a powerful fibre channel storage system. Linux had proven itself as a powerful Internet server and now it can be a powerful

[luau] Cross Platfom Filesystem?

2004-02-26 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Are there any filesystems that work on Linux, OSX, and Windows? I am thinking that XFS must work on Windows, but I can't find anything for it. I know SGI has CXFS clients for Windows, Linux, and OSX, but I think that is VERY expensive. Basically I have a few external firewire harddrives

Re: [luau] Linux Fibre Channel Server?

2004-02-26 Thread Dustin Cross
and more towards SATA. /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, 877-284-1934 fax - Original Message - From: Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [luau] Linux Fibre Channel Server?

2004-02-26 Thread Dustin Cross
and doesn't require proprietary solutions like FC. /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, 877-284-1934 fax - Original Message - From: Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[luau] Odd X question

2003-11-05 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I have an odd X question. I am looking for an X application like Exceed, but I need one that runs on Solaris. I know we can redirect teh X display to Solaris with normal X. The probem is we have a few unix applications that take over the entire desktop. We are using multi-monitor

Re: [luau] Fedora Test 3

2003-10-13 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Does Fedora use .deb or .rpm for packages. It uses apt-get. Mahalo, Dusty How is Fedora better/different from Red Hat or Mandrake. It looks like Red Hat 9.0 with a different skin. I though it was apt-get functionality for Red Hat. -Matt - Original Message - From:

Re: [luau] Digital Video Editting in Linux

2003-10-10 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Your e-mail is a little vague so I am not sure wht you are trying to do. I think you want to put some Linux editing stuff at Olelo? I am a filmmaker here in Hawaii and a Linux user since late 93. I mostly us M$ based products for my editing and effects. I really like FCP, but I don't

Re: [luau] Re: dual pentium pro

2003-09-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Ming Yu, I think it is just the S370. There isn't much too it, it is a tiny little thing that fits between the CPU and PL-PRO/II. It is soo small that it seems like a part of the PL-PRO/II. If you are in Hawaii I have a couple of these that I am no longer using. You could check them out if

Re: [luau] Re: dual pentium pro

2003-09-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Sorry, I am not ready to get rid of them yet. Mahalo, Dusty Dusty, Thanks for your reply. I am in China. If you are no longer using them, would you like to trade them for some thing? My dual pentium pro machine is still running, and I am going to upgrade it to dual celeron 533 with

Re: [luau] Re: dual pentium pro

2003-09-23 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I think you are correct. When I bought my adapters they offered a PIII version that came with the PL-PRO/II and a seperate smaller adapter that fits in between the PIII and the PL-PRO/II. The Neo S360 is so small I forgot all about it. Dusty Thank you,Dusty. But maybe you have used

[luau] Collaborative Tools on thin clients

2003-09-20 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I have a new job where we are using thin clients (Sun Rays) to replace desktops. We have found solutions for almost everything except several of our users need Netmeeting like functionality. Has anyone had any luck getting ANY of these types of systems working in a thin client

Re: [luau] dual pentium pro

2003-09-20 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Yes, just put faster PIII processors in the PL-PRO/II adapters. The PPro systems run at 66mhz. What I did was convince Powerleap to sell me PL- PRO/II adapters with no processors and then I bought 2x PIII 1.1Ghz processors with 100Mhz bus. The bus is the important part. Basically you

[luau] Computer Geek or Serial Killer

2003-09-16 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, This is a pretty funny little quiz. http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/ Mahalo, Dusty 779-4077

[luau] SANS Question

2003-08-19 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I am trying to find some information about SANS and I can't seem to find what I am looking for. Is it possible to share linux file server space over Fibre Channel? Basically can I put a couple TB of disks in a linux box and a Fibre Channel adapter and then share those disks with other

[luau] Simple Mail List App

2003-06-06 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I am looking for something that will let me send e-mail to one address and 10 people get the message. I don't need any fancy web interface or anything like mailman, just a simple text file I can add addresses to would be great. I tried doing this with Procmail and screwed up bad and

Re: [luau] Simple Mail List App

2003-06-06 Thread Dustin Cross
ALoha, I just realized I can have multiple addresses in my Postfix alises file, just comma seperate them. Dusty how about create an account you will be emailing to, then put the addressed in the .forward. On Friday 06 June 2003 05:39 pm, Dustin Cross wrote: Aloha, I am looking

[luau] Linux Thin Clients

2003-05-28 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I was just wondering what is the least expensive thin client (everything from keyboad to monitor) a company can put together to use with something like LTSP? I have looked around and find NO inexpensive thin clients anywhere and X terminals are crazy expensive. It seems that I can get a

Re: [luau] RAID array drive can swap.????

2003-05-19 Thread Dustin Cross
Brian, I think I donated some of the old ones (for the 1600) to HOSEF. I could be wrong, they might be older. I don't know what the policy is about that, but you should at least look into it. Dusty Ok folks: I've inherited quantity 8 Compaq DL380 (black single handle raid cans) drive

Re: [luau] Scrounging for parts

2003-05-19 Thread Dustin Cross
Ben, Any SCSI cd-drive will work or do you want one that is designed to fit in the pizza box? Dusty -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aloha, Anybody know where I can find a Sun CD drive for a Sparc 20? Mahalos, Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [luau] Linux Desktop Myths Exploded

2003-05-06 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, For a Corporation, their isn't a lot of cost savings in Linux on the Desktop. I am researching this right now for a company and find very little difference in cost. A company with limited tech staff is not going to just download linux and install it on all their desktops. They need and

Re: [luau] Oregon at the whims of the corporate Big Brother...

2003-05-05 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I don't see MS making a Linux distro, but they could very well come out with a BSD based OS. That way they can have as much proprietary stuff as they want. Dusty I really think they will come out with a MS Linux (have thought this for years). They will have to eventually, just like

[luau] Linux Accounting Software

2003-04-30 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Thought I would let people know about a Linux accounting software solution I found. It is not open-source, but it sounds good. AppgenĀ® MyBooks Professional MyBooks Professional is the ideal financial platform for any upwardly mobile small business because it is a true high-end package

Re: [luau] What does Everyone think of ACT221?

2003-04-25 Thread Dustin Cross
Good words Scott! Our state needs to attract new business. Some companies are abusing 221 and that needs to be stoped, but we shouldn't change 221. The Tax office has changed what businesses need to do to use 221, specifically addressing the abuses to date. The problems I see with 221 is that

[luau] Gentoo emerge vs Debian apt-get

2003-03-31 Thread Dustin Cross
#apt-get -u upgrade #emerge -e world Who has used both and which do people prefer for keeping a server up-to- date for security patches and such. I have never used either of these distros, but I am thinking of using one for the upgrade of my server from SuSE 7.3. I want something easy to keep

Re: [luau] Gentoo emerge vs Debian apt-get

2003-03-31 Thread Dustin Cross
Red Carpet sounds nice, but I need something that works with Sun Sparc hardware. Dusty I personally find red carpet to be of good use for keeping my distro updated. Red Carpet is made by Ximian the same company that makes Evolution, an Outlook styled email, calendar, notebook, etc program.

Re: [luau] Gentoo emerge vs Debian apt-get

2003-03-31 Thread Dustin Cross
Looks like their April Fools joke got out a day early! I am begining to think Debian is the right choice, but I am still interested in Gentoo. I am starting to test them both. Dusty Dustin Cross wrote: #apt-get -u upgrade #emerge -e world Things have changed and gentoo is moving

[luau] Best Linux Server?

2003-03-25 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, What is the best distro choice for a simple web/webmail server. My SuSE 7.3 Sparc Ultra II server has been great for over two years, but I am starting to worry that I don't have any routine back-ups or disk mirroring. If anything happened to this server Sandi would be very unhappy. I am

[luau] Best Linux Server?

2003-03-25 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, What is the best distro choice for a simple web/webmail server. My SuSE 7.3 Sparc Ultra II server has been great for over two years, but I am starting to worry that I don't have any routine back-ups or disk mirroring. If anything happened to this server Sandi would be very unhappy. I am

Re: [luau] users meet

2003-02-23 Thread Dustin Cross
OH YEA, Lets go have some fun! How about Karaoke? Dusty On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:24:38PM -1000, Vince Hoang wrote: Apologies in advance to the non-Oahu members. Given the recent threads (both high and low quality), I am wondering if the list members would be interested in a little get

Re: [luau] Moderation--of all kinds

2003-02-22 Thread Dustin Cross
Tom, Please don't leave the list! These types of e-mail should not be allowed, but I don't think we want a moderator, so this will happen. Everyone should ignore it and send a personal e-mail to the offender asking them politely to NEVER do that again. All of the conflicts on this list revolve

RE: [luau] Moderation--of all kinds

2003-02-22 Thread Dustin Cross
Dan, Please take your ANTI-LUAU/ANTI-HOSEF crap somewhere else!! Dusty I love this list. I have gained so much support for my non-profit group so keep up the good work :o

RE: [luau] Moderation--of all kinds

2003-02-22 Thread Dustin Cross
I apologise to the list for that, I ment to send that to Dan only. Dusty

[luau] Linux Video to Television

2003-02-21 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Does anyone know of a video card or other inexpensive solution where I can use a television as the only monitor for a computer running Linux. I want to be able to see everything starting with the bios on the television and be able to run it through my VCR so I can record an entire install

RE: [luau] our economy

2003-02-21 Thread Dustin Cross
I don't think I can buy into the a few guys control everything reason for low salaries. I think it has more to do with the people that stay in Hawaii. The best and the brightest of Hawaii tend to LEAVE the island as soon as they can and they don't come back for years if ever. This has been

Re: [luau] Think Tech Hawaii and Linux

2003-02-20 Thread Dustin Cross
Don, VERY WELL STATED and GOOD JOB! Dusty P.S. - We support Open Source, Linux is just one part of that. There is also BSD, Apache, GCC, Xfree86, Open Office, etc. I think you guys are misunderstanding the mission of ThinktechHawaii. We are not for or against any tech nor do we take a

Re: [luau] Verizon DSL

2003-02-19 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Don't know anything about this promotion, but I use a Verizon DSL line to Flex and have been very happy. Roadrunner is MUCH faster and a little cheaper than what I pay, but Flex doesn't care that I have my own mail and web server and Flex is NEVER down. If you don't need to run any

Re: [luau] Verizon DSL

2003-02-19 Thread Dustin Cross
Correct. I pay both Flex and Verizon and it ends up being more than the $39.59, I think I pay $65 per month, but I like being able to LEGALLY run my own servers with fear of ports being blocked or getting a letter saying that it is against the AUP. And I pay much less than the Roadrunner

Re: [luau] Check out this dice.com position: NT007B655E

2003-02-19 Thread Dustin Cross
OOPS! Sandi ment to send this to Vince. Dusty I found this great opportunity at Dice, and thought it might be helpful in your job search. http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch? op=1002dockey=xml/0/d/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a position that CSC has had advertised

Re: [luau] Verizon DSL

2003-02-19 Thread Dustin Cross
I was a contractor at Bell Atlantic building out thier DSL a few years back. The choke point was at the CO (central office). Basically all of the DSL lines from your area terminate there and that system is connected to the main office and then to the internet. At Bell Atlantic the connection

RE: [luau] Friday night IRC meeting, Linux for Hawaii schools

2003-02-13 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Is your organization a secret? Nothing has ever been mentioned on this list (the only open source technology forum I know of in Hawaii) about your organization, until now. It is great that you have done this work and are supporting open source in Hawaii, but is sounds like you are being

Re: [luau] HOSEF meeting tuesday?

2003-02-11 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I'll be at Pricebusters tonight with my camera. See you there. Mahalo, Dusty Aloha, What will be going on at the meeting on tuesday? I would like to bring my camera down and start getting some video footage for a series I want to do on open source in Hawaii. Who will be there

[luau] HOSEF meeting tuesday?

2003-02-09 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, What will be going on at the meeting on tuesday? I would like to bring my camera down and start getting some video footage for a series I want to do on open source in Hawaii. Who will be there for me to interview or who would like to be there to talk about opensource in Hawaii. Ho'ala -

[luau] ACM/SIGGRAPH MEETING TODAY

2003-01-30 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, This is a reminder that the local chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the ACM special interest group on computer graphics (SIGGRAPH) is having a meeting today, Thursday, January 30th, 6:30 pm Hawaii Institute of Geophysics (HIG) building Room 110 UH Manoa Campus

Re: [luau] Learning Linux on an Old Version?

2003-01-20 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I have to disagree with everyone here. There is nothing wrong with using an old version of Linux to learn. The problem you will have with an old version of linux is hardware support. You have to use old hardware. Once you get past that it depends on how much you already know. If you

Re: [luau] My Current Linux Needs

2003-01-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, If you really want/need to run Linux on old hardware and it is mainly for learning, I would suggest using one of the small Linux distributions, like Monkey Linux. I used to use Monkey and it was great. It is very old, hasn't been updated since 1997, but it works, it doesn't require much

Re: [luau] My Current Linux Needs

2003-01-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Something I forgot to mention. You will need to use SmallX on this laptop. Monkey Linux comes with it (it used to be called tinyX, but they changed the name to smallX). SmallX is designed to run on systems with 4mb of ram. If you try the slackware install in the 4mb laptop how-to then you can

Re: [luau] Solaris Questions for Mililani High School

2003-01-08 Thread Dustin Cross
Warren, I might be able to help out on Thur with the Sun stuff. I have serial cables and even have the straight through RJ45 cable with 9 and 25 pin adapters. I have never used Solaris 9, but in past versions, the default PATH is read from /etc and the file for the shell you are using.

Re: [luau] Western DIgital Drives

2003-01-02 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I have 4 80GB western digital drives and I had to replace all 4 of them within 9 months of buying them. They all failed with data unrecoverable, about every other month. That sucked. The new drives have been fine and Western Digital support was very good about rushing me a replacement

Re: [luau] dhcp-146-41

2002-12-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Wayne, You do not have a permenant hostname. The IP address has a permenant hostname in DNS. You have a temporary IP address that is almost never changed. Would you please go read about IP addresses, dhcp, and DNS so that you can speak inteligbly on the subject and stop trying to make

Re: [luau] dhcp-146-41

2002-12-24 Thread Dustin Cross
uh, that was supposed to be nothing into something :) make something into nothing.

Re: [luau] dhcp-146-41

2002-12-23 Thread Dustin Cross
Wayne, Road Runner has always assigned hostnames to all of their DHCP clients and so does every other ISP that uses DHCP that I know of. This is standard practice and is how they track the systems on their network. You can override this functionality, but it sounds like your problem is with a

Re: [luau] dhcp-146-41

2002-12-23 Thread Dustin Cross
that it is my right that is being breached, my computer that is being invaded. Of course, I have to 'warn you that I am now speaking as a politician. Dustin Cross wrote: Wayne, Road Runner has always assigned hostnames to all of their DHCP clients and so does every other ISP that uses DHCP that I know

Re: [luau] stupid sockets question

2002-12-11 Thread Dustin Cross
Charles, I would do a port scan to see if you can see the port from outside, and look at firewall and tcpwrappers. Dusty I'm brain dumping here: I've got a Redhat 7.2 machine that I just set up. I've got an app running on it that's listening on port 8000, but it's refusing all external

Re: [luau] Shameless promotion of company + Brief mention of LUAU

2002-12-11 Thread Dustin Cross
Cool, congrats. Dusty Aloha, This column was published in today's edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Computer savings for design-build company by Erika Engle http://starbulletin.com/columnist/column.php?id=1957col_id=7 Mahalo, Ho'ala

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Why not use SCP, that is the built in file transfer utility of SSH. It seems that if dreamweaver is using SSH to transfer files they should have an interface for SCP like most GUI SSH tools. FTP is bad Dusty

Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

2002-12-09 Thread Dustin Cross
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] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box? Aloha, Why

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, OpenBSD doesn't have a problem with multi-processors, it doesn't support them. On most smp systems it will just ignore the extra processors. I haven't had any problems with OpenBSD and memory, but the most I have ever had in an OpenBSD system was 512MB X works just fine in OpenBSD and I

Re: [luau] Interesting question I found...

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I'm not an expert, but I think the short answer is they can't! In smp systems everything is shared, so there is no way to tell one cpu to use this memory and the other to use that memory. Even in the Sun E10K, which is designed to be divided up into multiple systems (called domains) like

[luau] OpenSource PSA

2002-12-04 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I have been thinking about doing some public service announcments and short educational tv shows on open source. They would air on Olelo and with a goal of getting them on OC16 and beyond. Would anyone on the list be interested in being interviewed about projects they are working on, how

Re: [luau] Sparc 20 upgrade time

2002-12-03 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, It depends on what you do with the box. I think OpenBSD is the best OS for older Sun boxes, but that is just me. You can always open the case and plug in a SCSI cd-rom and do your install with the CD hanging out. Just set it to SCSI ID 6. OpenBSD recomends downloading their boot floppy

[luau] Sun Microsystems Intel 386dx25

2002-12-03 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Helping Scott go through the Sun hardware that has been donated and we came across a Sun Microsystem i386/250. It is pretty cool. I knew Sun made PCs for a little while, but I have never actually seen one. Has anyone here ever used one? It sounds like only SunOS 4.0.2 is the only OS

Re: [luau] OSEF status?

2002-11-30 Thread Dustin Cross
Scott, I can help with the Sparcs. I think I will be filming this tuesday, but maybe next? Dusty Also, moving forward, I am going to try to create more opportunities for us to deploy computers. Starting this Tuesday, I am going to be at the lab we have set up at Pricebuster's Stadium

Re: [luau] Packet Loss

2002-11-28 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Can you provide a little more info about your situation? What is your config, what have you tried, where is the problem? Dusty I was searching the web to try to track down possible causes for my packet loss issues over the last 3 weeks. I have little to no hope my ISP will figure

RE: [luau] non-profit incorporation status

2002-11-07 Thread Dustin Cross
Honolulu, HI 96817 Phone: (808) 371-3571 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dustin Cross Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [luau] non-profit incorporation status Aloha

Re: [luau] non-profit incorporation status

2002-11-06 Thread Dustin Cross
off for them in short order. Ronald Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Dustin Cross wrote: Aloha, How far along are we on the non-profit stuff? Sandi and I have about 20 15- 19 working monitors to donate, but we need the tax write off. Will we have non-profit status before

Re: [luau] non-profit incorporation status

2002-11-06 Thread Dustin Cross
can come up with a lot more than just monitors, especially if you have interest in a thin-client environment. scott - Original Message - From: Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [luau] non-profit

Re: [luau] ics412: operating systems

2002-10-24 Thread Dustin Cross
reading through news groups, it sounds like BeOS does use STL and RTTI, but BeOS libraries don't use exceptions, instead they use the mechanism of returning error values on calls like it is done in UNIX Dusty On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Dustin Cross wrote: BeOS was written in C++ and it was one

[luau] Now this is cable managment!

2002-10-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Check out these data centers and how organized they are. And someone once complained about my cabling! http://www.sandust.org/sandust/pics/rack_small.jpg http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27488.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27684.html

Re: [luau] News - Washington State Congressman attempts to outlaw GPL

2002-10-24 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I would have to vote for GPL. Why should someone be able to take something paid for with my tax dollars and use it for their own gain without having to give something back? But in reality either would be a good start. I think ALL unclass gov't developed software should be GPL or BSD

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I think SPAM is pretty obvious. Someone sending e-mail about joining thier porn site or send them $50 for their get rich quick program, that is SPAM. A user asking for help with open source, no matter if they are a home user or an individual looking to pay someone to help them set up

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Warren, This was supposed to say it SHOULDN'T be considered a problem. I use postfix and squirrelmail for everything. I have tried some of the spam filters and they get a little more than half of it, but they also get mail that isn't SPAM some times, so I just deal with it and delete! For a

[luau] non-profit incorporation status

2002-10-14 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, How far along are we on the non-profit stuff? Sandi and I have about 20 15- 19 working monitors to donate, but we need the tax write off. Will we have non-profit status before the end of the year or is there somewhere else we can donate the monitors to for this group and get the tax

[luau] WIN4LIN Terminal Server

2002-09-05 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Has any tried the WIN4LIN Terminal Server? It sounds pretty good. Sandi and I use WIN4LIN desktop all the time and it is great. Thanks, Dusty

Re: [luau] IBM to buy PricewaterhouseCooper

2002-07-30 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, PricewaterhouseCooper Consulting is completly seperate from the finance side of PwC. PwC Consulting is just a HUGE computer consulting company. So I dought there will be any big push from this for financial softaware on Linux. Dusty Since IBM is betting so heavily on Linux, and since

Re: [luau] Low-cost Linux server or co-location (Configuring Router)

2002-07-26 Thread Dustin Cross
I agree, that was way out of line! Dusty I think you are out of line, Al... He's not saying anything that you haven't said in the past, and he was mentioned in other folks' posts. Cliff ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
Yea, this is Oceanic's top commercial account. They allow servers and even do DNS is you need it. Dusty Dusty That is actually fairly cheap for that level of service. Do you know if they allow any commercial use, like web servers? (Why else would they give 5 static IP's...)

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
I know. What I was trying to say is, a T-1 is 1.544Mb and no one refers to it as 192KB. All data communication outside the somputer is done in bits per sec. Dusty 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

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
. $199 is too much. I pay like $55 for my DSL (768/128) with 1 static IP and flex doesn't care what I do with it so long as it's legal. I never worry about my mail server and I don't complain that Sandi has over 1GB of mail on it. Dusty Dustin Cross wrote: Aloha, I just set-up a business

Re: [luau] Re: Configuring Router

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
speeds. I don't know how accurate it is,but I can average 1.8Mbs in Windows2k and 2.5Mbs in Mandrake 8.2(I once hit 2.9Mbs). I swore I read that our Hawaii RR is capped at 2Mbs. Anyone have a more accurate way to test? On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 04:58, MonMotha wrote: Dustin Cross wrote: DOH

Re: [luau] DSL vs. Cable (was: Configuring Router)

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
and the bandwidth both? Aloha, Rob --- Dustin Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mon I am not complaining about the cost. But for me as a power user that is too much. I run my own mail server so I don't have to deal with other peoples limits or call and complain when their server goes down. I

Re: [luau] Sun Stuff

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
X works just fine with 8-bit color. Things in the background just use the unused colors instead of the colors it should. I used to help this by limiting my window manager settings to only a couple shades of grey. I wouldn't say they are unusable. Have you set one up to see how it looks? I had

[luau] Donating Monitors

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, Sandi and I still have several (approx 25) 15-17 pc monitors that work and a few that don't if the repair guy can use them for parts. We are ready to donate them. Sandi wants them donated to a non-profit org so we can write it off on the taxes. I don't think LUAU or MPLUG counts. Do we

Re: [luau] DSL for Servers (Was configuring router)

2002-07-25 Thread Dustin Cross
I forget, what is bronze level? 768/128? Dusty Falcon I`o will be happy to provide DSL with as many static IPs as you require. Bronze level is 54.95 for including Verizon charges (37.95 to Verizon for the local loop 17.00 to Falcon I`o for the Internet access). This also includes access

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] 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 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] Home Networking questions...

2002-07-21 Thread Dustin Cross
Warren, Home Depot is where I get all my cable and wall plugs and stuff like that. They have crimp tools and I think testers (I own crimp tools and borrowed a tester). I recently wired up an office with 8 RJ-45 outlets, 8 RJ-11, and 8 Coax. Cat5e and RG6. It cost just under $400. Graybar

[luau] Fwd: Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.

2002-07-17 Thread Dustin Cross
If anyone is looking for a good tech job in this not so good economy, you might want to look into this booming technology sector! The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one

Re: [luau] SparcStation IPX

2002-07-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Just about any old scsi cd-rom will work in there. Just open the case, plug in the cdrom to one of the scsi ribbon cables boot cdrom, do your install, remove teh cd-rom, close teh case and your done. or you could simple dd one of the boot.net floppies to your swap partition and boot off that

Re: [luau] SparcStation IPX

2002-07-16 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/) is great on old sun hardware. Solaris is real slow on an IPX and old versions of Solaris don't come with all the great tools we are used to with Linux. If you were in Hawaii I could let you borrow Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6, or 2.7, I don't think 2.8 dropped

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