Re: [plug] graphical remote administration on linux

gillbates wrote: > Is there a way to do graphical remote administration on linux from a > Windows client? Just like windows terminal services. http://www.nomachine.com/ NXServer/NXClient. There's an open source version, and a Windows client. -- 祗園精舎の鐘の声、諸行無常の響きあり。娑羅双樹の花の色、盛者必衰の 理をあらはす。おごれる人も久し

Re: [plug] Mail Server

Hazel Lopez wrote: > BTW, mail server is behind a firewall? Does that matter? Yes, it certainly does. At the very least you must be NATing port 25 at the firewall so that connections from the outside world can reach your mail server. It obviously does no good if the outside world can't see your

Re: [plug] Mail Server

Hazel Lopez wrote: > Hi, > > Just wanted to know how i can make use of the info provided by an entity > like domains.ph . i got a domain name from them and i > wanted to use it by having our own linux mail and web server. We were > able to set up a mail server( for the first tim

Re: [plug] pldt mydsl dhcp on linux?

Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: > pppoe is not required I find that hard to believe if it really is their Plan 999 (that sounds like a bad movie btw ;). The PLDT MyDSL residential plans always use PPPoE from what I know. It's only their business DSL offerings that allow direct use of DHCP, and t

Re: [plug] linux ISO image

Mhac Janapin wrote: > Hi, > make sure that you burn it as an IMAGE rather than as a FILE. Look at the CD you just burned. See what files are on it. If you didn't do as Mhac suggests but the opposite, you'll have the ISO file inside the CD when you look at the CD (you must re-burn then). If you

Re: [plug] Re: Public Domain

renlux wrote: > For example, in the Philippine law, when do copyrighted materials expire > so that it can be available to the public as a "public domain." > Philipine law such as this regarding public domain is my question. Copyright in the Philippines expires depending on the type of copyrighted

Re: [plug] Public Domain

Jeffrey Ian Dy wrote: > Errr, what can i say? lolz. I didn't distort anything. Perhaps you > misunderstood some concepts, or I misjudged my writing abilities. Roflmao. > Relax. I'm not saying that you willfully distorted anything with intent to mislead people, or are lying. Around here most peo

Re: [plug] Public Domain

Michael Tinsay wrote: > As I understand it the GPL is a contract, as with Commercial EULAs, > as you have to "agree" to its terms if you want to use it. Most of us call it > a license, but actually it is an agreement or a "license agreement". > You misunderstand then. The GPL is definitely not

Re: [plug] the quality of open source

Orlando Andico wrote: > most "famous" open-source software clusters in the "above average" area. > But the top rankers are all closed source. Is there any Open Source/Free Software that has the same kind of reliability requirements as these proprietary software that is in the top? Probably none,

Re: [plug] Public Domain

Though I might not be a lawyer myself, I have consulted a few real lawyers about some of these issues, and I have done a fair bit of research about this topic myself, and there's a lot of information here that is either totally wrong or at best distorted. Jeffrey Ian Dy wrote: > Hence, the GPL, a

[plug] Philippine Open Source Conference 2006

Hey folks, it's not finished yet! Because of the terrible weather, the final session which should have been yesterday has been moved to next Tuesday, October 3, 2006. All passes will be honored and all schedules for that day remain unchanged. Once again see the site http://www.philosc.com for

Re: [plug] Philippine Linux Open Source Conference 2006

And in case you guys didn't know already, the conference website is here: http://www.philosc.com See it for more details. Thanks. -- Abusing children is the most horrible crime. Especially abusing them for more political power. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ __

[plug] Philippine Linux Open Source Conference 2006

Well, it's next week already, on Tuesday. Today's the last day for the early registration discount. I'll be doing a bit of a talk on Ruby and on network monitoring systems then. Hope to see you guys there! -- Abusing children is the most horrible crime. Especially abusing them for more politi

Re: [plug] FOSS Forum

Dean Michael Berris wrote: > The spirit of the intended bill is that of closing off the door to any > other software licensed under something that's not considered a FOSS > license. THIS is what is questionable, and the zealotry that comes > along with this motivation is reminiscent of fascist nazi

Re: [plug] how to authenticate when sending mails

Joey S. Eisma wrote: > you can authenticate when downloading mails, how about sending? > Enable SMTP-auth. Since I don't use qmail, I can't help you figuring out how to enable it for your MTA, but other qmail fans here should be able to help you. With Postfix this is easy; I imagine it would be

Re: [plug] hi

John Peter Loh wrote: > Exactly. That's why it's better to have the messages encrypted. But it > will only if every sender has its own key. Authentication at some level > and encryption at the same time. Encryption by itself, even with independent sender keys, does not provide authentication! Eve

Re: [plug] hi

John Peter Loh wrote: > How about encrypting the SMS message too? Encryption is not as important as authentication. Since the tallies are supposed to be public knowledge anyway, it doesn't matter if the message gets intercepted and read. No one will be able to cheat simply by reading the message

Re: [plug] FOSS Forum

Dean Michael Berris wrote: > FOSS has nothing to do with "the sanctity of the public's right to > access public information". ANY government document is _public > information_. Well, if your document happens to be in a format which not everyone can use thanks to the fact that it's in a proprietary

Re: [plug] to be or not to be

Rogelio Serrano wrote: > Almost all of the new software companies in the US seem to be open > source based at least. Does not make sense at all. Google may be open-source based but that doesn't make them an open source company, not by a long shot. They may have clusters of thousands of systems ru

Re: [plug] to be or not to be

Rogelio Serrano wrote: > somebody asked me a question. > > is it better to create an open sourced software company than a closed > source software company? It depends on what you're trying to do. In general, neither mode of software production is "better" than the other. Both are arguably equal

[plug] Philippine Open Source Conference 2006: Early Bird Registration Extended

Philippine Open Source Conference 2006: Early Bird Registration Extended The 20% early bird discount has been extended to September 16, 2006. The conference is on September 26-28 at the EDSA Shangri-La Manila. Please see the conference website at: http://www.philosc.com/ for more information. T

Re: [plug] VPN design from a newbie's point of view

Michael Tinsay wrote: > Based on my experience, Openswan is (a) pretty easy to > configure, and Not as easy as OpenVPN in my experience. > (b) I haven't had the need to patch a > kernel for it, though I'm using a 2.4 kernel with > KLIPS, as I prefer to have an ipsec0 interface. Lucky you that

Re: [plug] VPN design from a newbie's point of view

Jay Hermida wrote: > Hello tech guys! > > Can anyone help me design a simple vpn solution, say I'm connecting a > certain office from MLA to HK, using open source? or any ideas? Depends. If both ends are GNU/Linux based, the simplest way would be to use OpenVPN [1]. Unlike IPsec (OpenS/WAN [2]

Re: [plug] re:firewall/nat

croilan cruz wrote: > all the servers behind the firewall/nat dmz server have private ip so if > port 25 will block users can not send mail. squid acl only the ip on our > network are in acl. does squid something to do with this thats why ip > was beeing block? Since you say that squid is not conf

Re: [plug] re:firewall/nat

croilan cruz wrote: > only port 3128 is open in my firewall/nat. why the ip of these > firewall/nat seen in cbl, rbl site.any one could give an advice thanks... > 3128 is the default Squid port. What do the ACL's on your Squid server look like? If it's wide open, it will definitely find its way

Re: [plug] duplicate /

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > I'm trying to add another ide harddisk to my workstation. It has linux > installed to it. I set it as primary slave. My bios boot was set-up to > boot on the primary master. > My HDD master was fc2 and the slave was fc5. > When I'm trying to boot my system...I g

Re: [plug] Of open standards, open systems and examples...

david t. asuncion, jr. wrote: > Please enlighten me. > > What are open standards? Can you please give me an example of open > standards and why it is open standards and examples of not open > standards and why it isn't open so that I can understand it better? > An open standard is a standard wh

[plug] Invitation to the Philippine Open Source Conference 2006

(I believe that we have received clearance from the Marvin Pascual for this posting) We would like to invite everyone to participate in the Philippine Open Source / Voice and Telephony Technology Conference 2006, to be held on September 26-28, 2006 at the EDSA Shangri-la Manila. There is an early

Re: [plug] extending / directory

van tanabe wrote: > My / directory is going full, Im using LVM and in one volume goup are > divided into 3 logical volumes which are / , /var/log, /home. Is there a > ways to get a free space from my /var/log directory to add in my / > directory? Anyone knows about this It depends on what file

Re: [plug] FOSS general questions

Joey S. Eisma wrote: > a. Unclear intellectual property rights > Aftereffects of SCO FUD. I thought that this had been laid to rest a long time ago. The GPL is a far clearer document than any Microsoft EULA. By the way, I've always disliked that term "intellectual property rights". It gives y

Re: [plug] unexpectedly, dapper is slow

Michael Tinsay wrote: > Booting takes around 5 minutes where I was expecting > around less than a minute. It is taking 1 minute for > the kernel to load, initialize and do whatever it does > at bootup. Then around 2.5 minutes at the "Loading > Hardware Drivers" stage. And then it spends another

Re: [plug] open source bill

Cocoy wrote: > its not about making software a free commodity. thats called "Free > Software" a different animal all together. Open source doesn't just > mean access to the source code. That is of course patently untrue. Free Software speaks about Freedom not price. Isipin mong Kalayaan at hindi

Re: [plug] accessing LAN station from the internet

Jacques wrote: > Question: > 1.) Is this possible? > Yes, although it will take a lot of trickery. See below for the details. If there are more overlapping services it may quickly become impossible, but as it is web and mail service are doable. > 2.) what are the system configuration involve

Re: [plug] what makes a distro a server?

Joey S. Eisma wrote: > ive been wondering, what makes a distro a server? sometimes i overheard > people saying, "pang desktop lang yang distro na yan".. isnt it like i > can simply pick up that "pang desktop.. " and then install server > components (squid, q-mail, apache, what have you...) then it'

Re: [plug] open source bill

Rogelio Serrano wrote: > > No way. Not for me. Not you then. No one is forcing *you*. > a bunch of geeks lining up for the camera trying to look like sleek > politicans is a nightmare. i would rather that we sit in our rooms > and data mine the whole damn country! Again, nobody asked you to d

Re: [plug] help

rexonf wrote: > There is FUSE support for NTFS. Actually what you're looking for is Captive [1]. I've used it. It works is all I can say for it, but it's abominably slow in my experience for copying large files to an NTFS volume. [1] http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ -- We are he

Re: [plug] webchat vs mIRC[Scanned]

Peri Paulo S. Maligaya wrote: > Now, how can i restrict this thing (mIRC) if my users is located in the > other place or even outside the phils? is it still possible? Of course, you cannot restrict mIRC usage if people are not inside a network that you control, or if you do not have the power to e

Re: [plug] webchat vs mIRC

Peri Paulo S. Maligaya wrote: > Hello PLUG! > > Tanong ko lang kung possible ba na i-disabled ang paggamit ng mIRC or > Xchat kapag meron na akong existing web based chat (CGI:IRC)? papano? > > Ang gusto kasi mangyari eh sa web lahat ng chat at nde papasok ng mIRC > or Xchat.. possible ba yun? F

Re: [plug] OSS for transfering cassette audio to my computer...

Alexander Santiago wrote: > Have old cassette tapes and want to transfer those audio to my computer, > what OS Software may I use? This is harder to do properly than most people realize. Most soundcards' audio inputs tend to suck badly, and introduce noise and other artifacts, and that's also a p

Re: [plug] VPN Solution

Jun Salen wrote: > I just want to know what are the requirement to > implement VPN. Any other suggestion for other > technology? What I want is to connect small remote > office to main office. What type of connection do I > need? E1, DSL or Dial-up? Short answer: no minimum. I've successfully run

Re: [plug] RHEL or CENTOS on Clustering

Leo Alvyn 'Vynnie' Cruz wrote: > 1. Is it legal to buy 1 licensed copy of RHEL and install them into > multiple servers? To be precise, you don't buy a "licensed copy". You already get that by default if you somehow received your copy in compliance with the GPL, *even if you didn't get it directl

Re: [plug] Dual Core or Dual Processor?

Henry Ortega wrote: > For a web/mail server which is better? > > Dual Processors (3.2GHz each) > or > Dual Core Processor (2.8GHz) > > Let us assume both are priced the same, which would you pick? Web and mail servers are generally I/O bound creatures. Web servers only become CPU-bound when you

Re: [plug] ip forwarding issue

Gabriel H. Mercado wrote: > Incidentally, the windows error reads "ping request could not find host > www.yahoo.com . Please check the name and try > again.", which has changed from "unknown host" probably due to some > repairs i've tried to do. The error messages have not ch

Re: [plug] displaying japanese characters in linux

chrys dela rosa wrote: > i was disappointed when i saw garbage when i was > supposed to see japanese characters. i had checked > language support for japanese and chinese when i > installed redhat 9. > > does anyone have an idea why this is happening. i hope > someone can help me out. Note that t

Re: [plug] Internet Sharing question

Alvin A. Delagon wrote: > Thanks for the heads up! We've been eyeing the WiFi solution ever since. > In this case what are the equipments that we will be needing and what > nice brand? We will be needing a WiFi router and two WiFiLan cards, am I > correct? Yes, that is correct. I've been using a

Re: [plug] Internet Sharing question

Alvin A. Delagon wrote: > I have a networking question. Our home will get wired soon by a DSL > service. There will be two computers that will use it, the first one and > the one that is nearest to the terminal is my linux box and the other is > my brother's PC from his home right across the street

Re: [plug] ur technical opinion...

Tata Dano wrote: > Mga Igan, > > broadband router vs. linux as a routersa tingin nyo ano ang mas > pinaka effective in terms of performance (security, firewall among others)? > > Kelangan ko lang ang expert opinion at argumentong ito in depending my > linux box. There was a very long thread

Re: [plug] Backup /var/spool/mail + cron job

jepoy wrote: > I just check the logs and it seems to be working properly. tnx for all > the help, i'll be reading more on these. does it mean that cronjobs > running on /etc/cron.hourly,cron.daily and the like works also the same > as creating a cronjob let say run evry hour ? can i put the script

Re: [plug] Backup /var/spool/mail + cron job

jepoy wrote: > follow up question, im doing a backup script with help of crond. if i > edit my root crontab will it affect my other cronjobs ? like for an > example my clamav updates every hour. > ill be using the root to run my backup cron jobs. when i check my crontab > [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]#

Re: [plug] Backup /var/spool/mail

jepoy wrote: > hi guys, > i just want to ask if its ok to backup /var/spool/mail without stopping > mail services. Im doing a backup solution wherein i would like to backup > the mails every midnight.Do i need stop mail services before backup or > its not an issue ? That depends on what kind of ma

Re: [plug] how to view mail logs

Joven Castillo wrote: > Just want to ask what command can I view mail logs. > Currently what I see on server is "maillog" "maillog.0.gz" and > "maillog.1.gz" and so forth. They're plain text files, like most files in the system. Unlike some other OSes you may have used, on GNU/Linux and other Uni

Re: [plug] RHEL 4 installer

Michael Calizo wrote: > its not wat I wanted.. kasi clone yan e.. Im looking for an "ORIG" RHEL4. > There is no difference, functionality-wise. Please. The only real difference between CentOS and the "original" Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is the branding, which is absolutely meaningless if what

Re: [plug] "service" command options (for red-hat based distros)

Calen Martin D. Legaspi wrote: > For those on Red Hat based distros: What are the various command > options for the "service" command? I tried looking for a man page or > info page for "service" but found none. I did a "--help" but it only > returned usage but not details. The 'service' comman

Re: [plug] winModem in my R50e Thinkpad works!

AC Perdon wrote: > Hi Guys! > > Just want to share that I have made my winmodem work in my Thinkpad R50e > OS Ubuntu 5.10 but it only run to 14.4 kbps because i just had the free > version, there is the full version from Linuxant that will run 56 kbps > for about $20. Its easy just visit $20 is v

Re: [plug] cd-rom with FAT error?

Japril Cudilla wrote: > guys I know this is just a newbie question, little help lang sana. any > idea what this error is all about? a cd-rom with FAT error? Hardware > failure ba ito? BTW, this is extracted from a /var/log/messages file. Are you trying to mount your CD-ROM as a FAT or VFAT filesys

[plug] Proposal: plug-advocacy mailing list

I think many people are by now irritated by all of this non-technical advocacy discussion on the main PLUG list, which has been billed as a strictly technical forum. I think it would be prudent, in maintaining the focus of the mailing list on technical matters, to create a new mailing list specifi

Re: [plug] linux virus... is this true?

Wilson John D. Barbon wrote: > > Many are saying that Linux does not an antivirus, but with the reality > that viruses do exist for Linux, does a linux desktop needs an antivirus? No. While it is true that viruses do exist for GNU/Linux, the way the system works reduces the ability of any virus

Re: [plug] SMS Gateway Maximizing Kannel

Roger Filomeno wrote: > excuse my being noob about licenses, which foss license will "force" > other interopting system to the same license scheme. eg: webservice > using kannel will force the webservice to have bsd license too (sample > lang to ofcourse). This is not possible to do using a copyri

Re: [plug] Linux' Best and Worst

Wilson John D. Barbon wrote: > As for OpenOffice, I am not thinking of making it EXACTLY like MSOffice. > Some have even said that openoffice is better because it has some > features that MS does'nt have. But at least OpenOffice should be > compatible to MS, that I can open and edit files without d

Re: [plug] Re: deny regular users to change dir except thieir home

Iris Lames wrote: > Now, my main focus for them not to sniff the database or for them to end > up fighting is to deny my users to change dir except thier home. If this is the case, won't a umask 077 in /etc/profile and a default home directory ownership of 700 do the trick? Since they're ordinary

Re: [plug] Internet Gaming running Linux

Enrico Tan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can Linux be used in Internet cafe? That depends on what you want the Internet cafe to be able to do. If you want people to surf the web, chat, and edit documents (OpenOffice should do fine), then you're all set. If you want to do more than that, read on. >

Re: [plug] Advice on ML350 Server

[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus wrote: > 2. SCSI HD - do i need to buy a separate RAID Controller ? ( dont have > experience on this one) i believe linux support software based RAID > Controller. > I'll be using RAID1, since i only have 2 disk. RAID 0+1 if you can get it. At least that way you get all the

Re: [plug] Wilson Ng "Cross Country Code" is at it again

Orlando Andico wrote: > In General (TM) reacting to this kind of stuff directly sucks. Much like > Globe's sour-graping over Smart's 3G announcements, you sound like > you're whiny and on the defensive. Unless he's actually made some statements that are categorically false and misleading. If what

Re: [plug] Advice on ML350 Server

[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus wrote: > 1. SCSI Drives (2x18.2) > LVM or Manual Partition ? Partitioning a scsi the same as ide ? Do i > need extra drivers for this? > In my experience, LVM is almost an absolute necessity for most enterprise servers, as is a file system that can be resized without unmount

Re: [plug] Re: PLUG Digest, Vol 10, Issue 54

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Linux ba talaga yon? :) To rephrase: how can one actually know if a > distro is truly GNU/Linux (sounds like a trick question, but honestly I > want to know. Feel free to be philosophical in your response :) > If it uses the Linux kernel and makes use of the GNU tool

Re: [plug] [perl again] how to un-escape escaped Unicode sequences

Orlando Andico wrote: > 繁體中文 Pronounced something like fan-ti-zhong-wen in Mandarin, I think. Roughly goes 'complex', 'object', 'China', 'writing'. I think it means traditional Chinese writing, i.e. the complicated Chinese script that is still in use in places like Taiwan and by the Japanese in

Re: [plug] getting a copy of outgoing mail

Rogelio Serrano wrote: > Why not just anounce that company emails are being copied and just tell > them to start encrypting their emails? > Email in clear at your own risk. > Probably its good company practice to encrypt emails. For a sufficiently paranoid company, encrypted email can be stopped a

Re: [plug] Re: mail redundant

croilan cruz wrote: > > sir, > > pwede po bang mag e setup ang mail server for redundancy?possible ba > ito?any hint? Here's a hint: http://web.archive.org/web/20040402002325/uni.x-si.org/hamail.html (It's a Wayback machine link because it appears the original site has vanished. It seems to be

Re: [plug] Linux Fax Server

Richard Jason R. Raquepo wrote: > What is the best and easiest to install/configure linux fax server that > is available and open sourced? We have had success using hylafax [1]. It's reasonably easy to install and configure. [1] http://www.hylafax.org/ -- While there is a lower class, I am in

Re: [plug] smtp/pop proxy query

tikz chat wrote: > Good evening everyone, > > can anyone suggest/recommend a pop/smtp proxy ? any ideas are welcome. > thanks. For POP3, there's Perdition: http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/ I don't know why you'd need a proxy for SMTP though, when a full-blown SMTP server that uses the

Re: [plug] Squid Caching proxy server

Froilan Romualdo wrote: > I notice kasi na ang bagal mag-boot ng Fedora Core 4 at Ubuntu (latest > release) sa server na ito. What can you recommend na free Linux > distribution? > And why should it bother you that it boots so slowly? How often should you be rebooting the server? It's a matter

Re: [plug] deny regular users to change dir except thieir home

Sherwin Daganato wrote: > Precisely, this will not stop a user from typing :e /etc/passwd in his/her vi > session. :-) > Which is why an admin taking this approach must again be very careful in what commands she allows restricted users. -- While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there i

Re: [plug] deny regular users to change dir except thieir home

Orlando Andico wrote: > but to what point? the users still need access to the other directories > for e.g. their common daily jobs (e.g. starting the most basic of > processes requires reading /etc/ld.so.cache) > Remember, it's the shell doing this restricting. Other processes inside the path ca

Re: [plug] Re: ACM-ICPC 2006 World Finals to use open source

Orlando Andico wrote: > it's that "64 bits of mantissa" which will bite your ass in the end. of > what use is an exponent of 4932 when there are lots of zeroes there? The exponent is a side issue. The 19 digit accuracy is what's generally more useful. Eleven bits is a lot in numerical analysis, a

Re: [plug] deny regular users to change dir except thieir home

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Happy Holidays to All! > How can I trap a regular user only to his home dir and NOT able to go to > other vital directories such as /, /etc, /usr, /var, and so on? A simple way would be to turn their shell into a restricted shell by changing their shell to /bin/rbash.

Re: [plug] Re: ACM-ICPC 2006 World Finals to use open source

Orlando Andico wrote: > if i may ask a potentially stupid question. > > what is the use of "long double?" arguably, people who need numbers that > large would be using GMP or PARI. AFAIK, on an x86 machine, a long double would be the ten-byte, 80-bit representation of floating point numbers that

Re: [plug] Re: OffTopic: Exchange Server 2003 Tutorial

Kutch Villasor wrote: > I know!! > > Ng babakasakali lang. Because me I have no Idea with this window$ server > thing. It was just given to my task list. Being and IT is not just > locking your self to a specific OS. And it is part of the work where you > can get for me living You should have

Re: [plug] Enterprise solutions: RHEL or SUSE

Michael Tinsay wrote: > Ain't this against the GPL? No. If your support contract expired, you didn't receive the binary updates from them, and because they didn't provide you with a copy of any binary updates, nothing obliges them to make the source available to you, or to anyone else who isn't a

Re: [plug] A problem with the Syslog service

Marvin T. Pascual wrote: > After that, I created a volume group for /dev/sda5 named as VolGroup00 and > inside that VG, I created 3 logical volumes as follows: > > LogVol00 with a capacity of 4096MB > LogVol01 with a capacity of 2048MB > LogVol02 with a capacity of 1024MB > Why not name the logi

Re: [plug] RHEL reseller in PH

Mark Achanzar wrote: > good things in life are FREE... > i'd go for http://www.centos.org/ :) or better yet, Fedora. Whether they are "better" depends on what you're trying to do. The bulk of what you pay for in a Red Hat license is the support contract that goes along with it, and well, any serio

Re: [plug] webcam in linux

Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > Well, I was able to use Genius Netcam Express V2 (something like that) on > Linux. I've had success using this model as well, using the the spca5xx driver, though I haven't used it for serious applications on GNU/Linux just yet. -- While there is a lower class, I am i

Re: [plug] Open Source != freeware

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, this is a major peeve of mine, although not to worry, I don't take > offense. > Freeware is not the same as Free Software. For more in this vein, the FSF has actually set up a whole page of words and terminology it would be better off to avoid [1]. Some of it ma

Re: [plug] The "linux-advanced" list suggestion

Dominique Cimafranca wrote: > By the way, I don't think it's true that no one is reading or answering > questions on PLUG-Newbies. I have threads from the past two months > archived on Gmail and from a quick scan, it looks like there's a fairly > good response rate overall. The only problem is, m

Re: VNC over SSH (was Re: [plug] help)

Sherwin Daganato wrote: > Search the web for these keywords: vnc ssh port forwarding > > Basically, what you need to do is: > o setup vnc server in your office worskation > o setup ssh server in your office server > o open a terminal in your home pc and issue > ssh -NT -L 5800:priv_vnc_srv_at_wo

Re: [plug] help

Richard Jason R. Raquepo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is there an implementation or something similar on reverse VNC. I mean > right now you VNC(client) a PC running vnc server , but i need the > reverse, the vnc server will initiate the connection. I am asking this > because the PC to be access w

Re: [plug] Xine Cant Play my DVD

Mhac Janapin wrote: > I have a stock Slack10.2 install. I'm using Xine. > I can play some DVDs but there are some that I can't. > It's major complain was that It can't play the data (or something) > because I might not have the "rights" to play that OR that the disc is > not in the drive. > The DVD

Re: [plug] Apache problem: Premature end of script headers

Michael Tinsay wrote: > Other jpgs in other folders load without problems. > The only difference is that these particular jpg files > are under a folder under the cgi-bin directory. > > Is there a particular setup/config thing with Apache > that could cause this? Well, obviously! The default co

Re: [plug] Help with my thinkpad modem?

Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > ah, good idea. > yes, the r50e has the ac'97 modem too. > but the r50e doesn't have a serial port. :( > > maybe the original poster can try usb modems or pccard modems. Neither did my iSeries 1200, which frustrated me to no end. USB modems that actually work with GN

Re: [plug] Help with my thinkpad modem?

Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > i'd try all the most recent linux livecds. And I wouldn't hold out a great deal of hope for success. Prior to my present laptop, I owned an IBM ThinkPad iSeries 1200, and I never, ever got its internal modem to work on GNU/Linux. If the grandparent's laptop is anyth

Re: [plug] x86-64 not recommended?

Andy Sy wrote: > c) need the precision for mathematical calculations > Need the precision for mathematical calculations? The last time I checked, double precision IEEE-754 numbers are 64 bits wide, and every PC FPU since the 8087 math coprocessor has been internally doing floating point operatio

Re: solid state HDDs -- was [plug] cisco 3640 vs. linux zebra router

Pong wrote: > that's the "can the linux guy scale?" thread. In this case however, it seems the answer is less clear-cut. It seems that you would wind up hiring third-party engineers to do maintenance on high-end dedicated routers anyway, and such specialized engineers come with all sorts of certi

Re: [plug] compaq proliant 6000/8000 series + linux suggestions

jan gestre wrote: > our company has two white elephant compaq proliant 8000/6000 servers, > previous OS was NT4.0, installing win2003 will be a problem because the > smartstart cd ( sets up partitioning, raid configuration) that comes > along with the equipment doesn't have menu for win2003, i chec

Re: [plug] USB CD-RW

Alexander Santiago wrote: > Good day po!!! > > is there a way to make a USB CD-RW in LInux? > That depends on the model of CD-RW that you're using. Some are supported, others may not be. We've had success using an external HP USB CD-RW using the specialized USB low-level driver written for it,

Re: [plug] modems

JM Ibanez wrote: > Not very old, but if you can find a(n older) US Robotics Sportster (or > in that line, just make sure it's not USB), I've heard they serve > pretty well. Maybe you mean USR Courier modems. The USR Sportster line is far more problematic. -- True compassion is more than throwin

Re: [plug] core dumped -- /usr/bin/ymessenger

Forget about the official ymessenger. Even if you can get it to work, it's all but useless, because it then shows all of your contacts always offline. Which is why I use Gaim on GNU/Linux. -- True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in

Re: [plug] good partitioning practice

Eduardo Tongson wrote: > Yes LVM is a cool Linux feature and very useful for storage solutions but > volume management generally sucks if you don't have a clue and stems from > being comfortable with it or not. Volume management is different across the > unixes, at least i'm sure symlinking is stan

Re: [plug] good partitioning practice

June G. Gonzales wrote: > Hi, > > What should I observe when partitioning a HD? > > What are the correct sizes for each partition? > > Is there a certain percentage that I should a lot for a specific partition > on HD of XX Gig. > > For example I have a 20 Gig HD. Three letters: LVM. If your

Re: [plug] qmail roaming users

Next time, wrap long lines in your mail. Linux Win wrote: > Hi! im using qmail as smtp. im having problems on my roaming users as > you need first to define the ip address of the roaming user on the > tcp.smtp before he canuse our mail server as SMTP. Is there a way to > bypass this rule without u

Re: [plug] For the oldbies

Kelsey Hartigan Go wrote: > Much later -- 1998 Really? I remember receiving PLUG mail from an IPhil server when I first subscribed in late 1996 to early 1997, around the time of the transition from the 1.2 Linux kernel series to 2.0. I was in third year college then. -- Your national greatness

Re: [plug] RE: PLUG Digest, Vol 6, Issue 56

Alwin S. Espiritu wrote: > Hi guys!!! I just wana ask ow can I get the active users in mrtg, what is > the exact ifref= ?. thanks guys! What "active users"? Do you mean the active users on a RAS device such as a Cisco AS5300? The active users on a GNU/Linux or other *nix system? Or something el

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