I've been on a Western Digital trip for several years now and have no
reason to change. I've used several professionally over the past decade,
and own three of them personally (bought within the last three years) at
last count. They are running 24/7, and I've never had so much as a squeak
At 06:20 AM 7/10/02, you wrote:
Western Digital drives are by far the worst you can get. Officially, the
company
only supports Windows and Solaris, so if you choose any other OS (like
GNU/Linux) you're on your own. WD drives lack some vital CRC circuitry,
and they
don't comply fully with the
MandrakeSoft?
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ...
Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206.
Want to buy your Pack
Gerald,
At 07:40 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
So what you're saying is that the hosts file is used only by the local
machine, right?
Correct!
And is NOT used by bind, right?
Correct!
Oh dear ...
Usually the resolv.conf on Linux would have a line
order hosts bind.
Which means look at hosts
Michael,
At 09:38 AM 1/4/02 -0600, you wrote:
Who fulfills DNS requests for local machines if not anoka? I've been told
that bind doesn't look at /etc/hosts, which brought my world crashing down.
Now what? :-)
Thanks for your patience with me, I'm sure we're nearly at the bottom of
this.
Gerald,
At 10:53 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
There's no point in a local machine going up to my ISP's nameserver to
find
name/address mappings for another machine on my computer is there? DNS for
the local LAN has to be handled by a NS that has authority for my LAN. Who
else could that
Yes, it's their autoresponder.
When they come back from lunch and check their mail they'll have egg on
face ... ;-)
j.
At 06:50 PM 1/4/02 +0100, you wrote:
As an answer to my shoutcast question I got a response from Desired
Design saying thank you for contacting Desired Design.
? :)
Remember. You aren't paranoid if the world really is out to get you.
Grant
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ...
Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ...
Julian Opificius
Here's another ...
1. 10
2. 46
3. M
4. ADSL 640/256
5. 5
As an aside, I'm truly impressed that people happily helped this lad out by
replying, rather than telling him to take it elsewhere. Just goes to show
what a great community is built around Linux and FSF.
Yeah, I know, what a kiss-@$$
At 11:17 PM 1/3/02 +0200, you wrote:
As an aside, I'm truly impressed that people happily helped this lad out
by replying,
I'm sure others, like myself, replied by private mail. But what surprised
me was how *old* we are on average! Nothing like the teenage linux geek
stereotype.
Yes,
Is there some willing chap who can help me configure named.conf?
julian.
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Hi Ed,
This is what I sent to Ric Tibbets privately. He bravely offered to help.
As I said to to him, I have configured a DNS server before - bind, on NT,
but it was long enough ago that although I undertand the concepts of DNS
well enough, I've forgotten some of the basic terms, and the linux
Ed,
I understand the /etc/hosts file. But I thought named was the guy that
shared the info in /etc/hosts with client machines making dns requests. Do
i have it wrong?
Second, what is resolv.conf all about? I noticed with surprise that I have
one with the correct ISP DNS servers already in
I'm getting blazing speeds - almost conversational , but I'm in the US.
Where are you, the Philippines?
Most likely a problem with your ISP.
julian.
===
At 09:31 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
hi,
am i the only one experiencing delay? i began noticing yesterday
Ed,
At 11:28 PM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
On Thursday 03 January 2002 10:51 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
Ed,
I understand the /etc/hosts file. But I thought named was the guy that
shared the info in /etc/hosts with client machines making dns requests. Do
i have it wrong? YES
Sorry
-0500, you wrote:
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:34 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
If I understand that what you're asking for is for multiple users to be
able to mount and unmount CD-ROMS, then you must change user to
users
in fstab.
See man mount.
using users will allow any user
How did you install Linux in the first place if not by CD ROM?
julian.
=
At 02:10 PM 1/1/02 -0800, you wrote:
Pls help!
I mounted my cdrom using mount /mnt/cdrom then
i went to the directory using cd /mnt/cdrom when i command ls
no directories or files found
/1/02 -0800, you wrote:
ok i install Linux by CD i know that im just asking that I cannot mount the
cdrom when im inside the Linux Systems already (KDE and Gnome)
I dont want to reinstall again so what will I do so i will not re-Install
again
Thanks
Respectfully
AOL
www.aolsystems.com
Julian
If I understand that what you're asking for is for multiple users to be
able to mount and unmount CD-ROMS, then you must change user to users
in fstab.
See man mount.
julian.
At 01:30 PM 1/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 11:49 am, chris huston wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem
Hear hear !!!
Enthusiastically seconded!
j.
=
At 05:37 PM 12/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
As long as we're sending salutations..in this case to Civilme for all of his
time and efforts spent on this list, I think Sridhar should be honored as
well.
No question for me this
I have the non-optical Logitech cordless wheel mouse running, and I suspect
there's little difference in the PS2 interface side of things. The set-up
screen in the installer was real squirrelly, but it works without a problem.
j.
At 11:00 AM 12/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
Cheers Brian.
I did reboot Win98, and my Redhat shares came back.
I rebooted to Mandrake, rebooted Win98, but no luck.
I suspect I may have a network configuration error. When I run smbclient on
the Mandrake box thus:-
smbclient //anoka/distro -U julian
I get
can't determine network mask for
Hi guys
I'm stacking my new LM server with 512Meg of RAM (not to mention 80Gigs of
HD). How much swap space should I set up?
I think I heard somewhere that beyond about 128Meg or so of RAM, matching
swap to RAM results in reduced performance.
Thanks,
julian.
Want to buy your Pack
The machine will be combined workstation (nothing really intenstive) and
Samba server for three Win98/2000 stations - low usage.
Should I match swap space to RAM, then?
j.
===
At 05:15 PM 12/23/01 +1100, you wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:30:12 -0600, Julian Opificius [EMAIL
be a bear. There has been a lot of mail about it lately, check the
archives as well.
Ric
PS: Glad to hear you got it installed running! Ya just gotta watch those
prompts options. If ya miss the wrong one, pfft! yer toast. :)
Julian Opificius wrote:
Hi Ric,
PS: Julian; You're good sport
it
/dev/hdb. Is this reasonable thinking?
j.
At 04:28 PM 12/21/01 -0900, you wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 13:42, Julian Opificius wrote:
Can anyone tell me the standard places to put files?
Specifically :-
On a multi-user workstation I would obvious use /home/accountname
Now you did it ... answered a question, and set up another ;-)
What is /usr/local used for?
j.
At 05:07 PM 12/21/01 -0900, you wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:37, Julian Opificius wrote:
Thanks for the input, Civileme.
Where would I put the public access directory
The links provided exactly the information I was looking for.
Thanks.
j.
==
At 07:45 PM 12/21/01 -0900, you wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:18, Julian Opificius wrote:
Now you did it ... answered a question, and set up another ;-)
What is /usr/local used for?
/usr
, you wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:37, Julian Opificius wrote:
Thanks for the input, Civileme.
Where would I put the public access directory? Under /home, say
/home/public, or is there some other traditional place?
If I do this, presumably I could put /home on a separate /dev/hda'n
Hi Ric,
PS: Julian; You're good sport. You'll do OK with this stuff! :)
Cheers Ric - you too :-)
b.t.w. In the past hour or so I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. I
was a lot more studious of options, and managed to get the installer accept
the partitions I'd created in System
Redmond.
If you don't have any patience for us NEWBIES, then don't waste your
precious time writing arrogant and spiteful retorts to those of us on this
NEWBIE list who have, if not more knowledge and experience, then certainly
a lot more humility and civility than you appear to have.
Julian
Dang it, why do I rise to the bait this ol' curmudgeon keeps tossing? ;-)
At 06:46 PM 12/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:07, you wrote:
Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about
each others' intelligence, shall we?
OK I agree, but why
Jeez, what's with all this heavy artillery. I didn't say it was junk. I
offered the installer wasn't well written.
You came at me with guns a'blazin, Ric!
I've been in this business a long time, and I don't appreciate judgemental
crap about lame options, not R'ing TFM, etc.
I actually do have
At 02:43 PM 12/20/01 +1100, Sridhar wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan
In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure products
than England's cricket team is able to withstand the bowling
of Australia's bowlers.
-- John Leyden, MS firewall is holier than the
Trying to reinstall Mandrake 8.1.
For some reason the CD ROM doesn't identify CDs 2 or 3. They are readable
on my other computers under MS Windows.
Any clues, anyone, please?
Julian.
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machine
off.)
hope this helps,
Randy Kramer
Julian Opificius wrote:
Just to offer a contrasting and virtually worthless opinion here ...
I'm not sure about the slicker install or souped up. I lost Windows
installs on two of my machines (Win98 and Win2000) because Mandrake 8.1's
installer
stress that the above is fictitious, but I think
it exemplifies what I want.
My actual requirement is simply to make various directories VISIBLE to my
wife and I, but INVISIBLE to our kids, while NOT having to put it all into
user directory trees.
Thank you for your help.
Julian Opificius
Thanks very much for taking the trouble to write, Dave.
Yes, I understand what [homes] does, and I am using it for private
directory structures.
The problems with [homes] are that :-
1) It defines a directory mapping (and browse visibility) on a user basis,
not a group basis, and gives the
kids).
Thanks in advance.
Julian Opificius.
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/*.bat/. If the case-sensitive
parameter is false, Samba will veto files regard to case.
Hopefully, this command can help you solve your problem. Good luck...
Dexter
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Julian Opificius wrote:
I've pored over man on the Samba web-site, and yes, you remember
correctly
:
This probabally isn't what you want, but if you end a SMB share name with
a '$' it will not show up in browse lists but will still be accessable
(assuming you have rights to the share and the underlying files of course.)
-Original Message-
From: Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
,
Dexter
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Julian Opificius wrote:
Just like browseable = no, right?
No, I want the share to show up or not show up as a function of it's
accessibility by the current login - i.e. login-dependant, rather than
definition-dependant.
Thanks all the same.
Julian
box or the Windows
box, and which way are you trying to connect?
Julian.
At 11:05 PM 12/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:55:41 -0600
Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to
ponder:
Hi there,
i've got a question about something
I too am a System Commander fan, (have been for years) and tried to use it
to boot Mandrake 8.1 along with Win98 and Win2000. I had the MS OSs loaded
first, however, and tried to load Mandrake afterwards. The results were
disastrous: I lost both MS installations as Mandrakes's installer
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