PF puzzlements.

2008-03-18 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I've got "The Book of PF" on order. Meanwhile I will continue to fumble through on my own. I work at a boarding school. Freetime Internet access is a carrot we use to encourage accademic performance. Most free time use is java games and social networking sites. I am trying to set up a syst

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-11 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I don't have a nice thing to say about compaq. They were odd, drivers were hard to find, they would deliberately do things to force propriatary solutions: E.g. In the '486 days they would use a different pin-out on their simms. Compaq memory wouldn't work in anything else. Non-compaq memory

Inexpensive networking.

2008-02-06 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Part of my job description is to come as close as possible to doing everything with no resources. (My entire IT budget for this year is $6K. That includes internet connectivity, all repairs, all infra-structure costs, and all core software. About $100/computer) THIS year I have about 4K for s

Sysadmin vacancy Edmonton area, AB

2008-02-04 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I've told my boss that I'm not renewing my contract. The Job: 20 hours per week as the entire IT department for the school. Optional half time teaching position. (Must have teaching certificate) Optional average 5 hours per week Outdoor Program Instructor. The computers: 3

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-01 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:17:47PM -0500, Paul D. Ouderkirk wrote: Probably your best bet to cover these requirements would be some old school Compaq Proliant with 2 or 4-way Pentium Pro CPUs. You can find them clocked around 200MHz. You can get them on eBay cheaply,

Re: Squid.conf deleting host... Resolved.

2008-01-31 Thread Sherwood Botsford
packets going through it. I'm not clear why dropped packets would affect files from partiular hosts, but until I can reestablish the problem I consider this one closed. Sherwood Botsford wrote: I'm stumped. I was in the process of upgrading squid to 3.0 stable to see if this would d

Re: [squid-users] Squid.conf deleting host...

2008-01-30 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I'm stumped. I was in the process of upgrading squid to 3.0 stable to see if this would deal with a bunch of other issues. I've managed to make squid non-operational. Normally this would be material for the squid list. And I've had it posted there for several days, with no useful results.