Re: [vox-tech] X over lan is nice, but a pain starting up.

2002-04-04 Thread Ryan
On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:35 pm, you wrote: > I now have a seecion script for gdm which runs: > > exec /usr/bin/ssh -CAnq remote /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession IceWM > > Which works fine. It also doesn't frighten my mom or brother away with a > command line. ;-) > > This setup would make a nifty demo, s

Re: [vox-tech] X over lan is nice, but a pain starting up.

2002-04-04 Thread Ryan
I now have a seecion script for gdm which runs: exec /usr/bin/ssh -CAnq remote /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession IceWM Which works fine. It also doesn't frighten my mom or brother away with a command line. ;-) This setup would make a nifty demo, someone could bring in an old 486/586 and set it up as a du

Re: [vox-tech] X over lan is nice, but a pain starting up.

2002-04-04 Thread msimons
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:01:49AM -0800, Ryan wrote: > Well, I've managed to setup an old pentium box as an x termnial, and I like > it very much. Tunneled over a compressed ssh connection, the lag is hardly > noticable. If you are on a LAN, just disable the compression and things should be

Re: [vox-tech] looking for Debian support

2002-04-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i've actually been to arcata. it's awfully pretty! the drive up there is excellent motorcycle road. :) pete begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:21:48PM -0800, nbs wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:02:27AM -0800, tfarnall wrote: > > > Regarding the im

Re: [vox-tech] looking for Debian support

2002-04-04 Thread msimons
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:21:48PM -0800, nbs wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:02:27AM -0800, tfarnall wrote: > > Regarding the immediate help I need, it is for someone to walk me through > > the debian install via telephone. > > An over-the-telephone attempt may prove to be frustrating, but i

Re: [vox-tech] Effective home disk backup systems

2002-04-04 Thread ME
Have used lots of various kinds of storage systems. I backup multiple SCSI enabled Hardware based RAID-5 Dell PowerVault 160+Gb arrays, and have found the DLT drives to be the most robust pieces of equipment for backup. Those DAT drives are too tempermental, and require head cleaning far too of

Re: [vox-tech] Loud fan, only on Linux

2002-04-04 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Rod Roark wrote: > What sort of fan? Power supply? CPU? Case? Let's see... ::klink klink...:: As far as I can tell without opening up the beast, it's the power supply. When I boot into Windows, it seems it doesn't power down completely but simply slows down. FYI, the sys

Re: [vox-tech] Loud fan, only on Linux

2002-04-04 Thread Rod Roark
What sort of fan? Power supply? CPU? Case? Check to see if your kernel is built with: Power Management Support Advanced Power Management BIOS support Make CPU Idle calls when idle -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Thursday 04 April 2002 12:53, Mark K. Kim wrote: > Keywo

[vox-tech] Loud fan, only on Linux

2002-04-04 Thread Mark K. Kim
Keywords: loud fan, acpi I recently installed Mandrake on a work computer. It's working great, except its fan is really loud. So what's the big deal, right? -- well, the fan powers down if I go into Windows. The fan turns on when I power up the computer -- if I go into Linux, it stays on, but

[vox-tech] X over lan is nice, but a pain starting up.

2002-04-04 Thread Ryan
Well, I've managed to setup an old pentium box as an x termnial, and I like it very much. Tunneled over a compressed ssh connection, the lag is hardly noticable. I can get a remote window manager by going in to gdm and seleting failsafe xterm then running 'ssh -Cf foo blackbox' but this is anno

Re: [vox-tech] How badly screwed am I?

2002-04-04 Thread Richard S. Crawford
No, not yet. But I've just initiated a stealth campaign to convince my wife that we really need one (since I'm currently unemployed, my wife is the one who makes that sort of monetary decision). On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 08:11, Cam Ellison wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >

Re: [vox-tech] How badly screwed am I?

2002-04-04 Thread Cam Ellison
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > In the meantime, I rebooted the computer and ran BIOS. I poked around, but > > didn't change a darn thing. Nothing. Not a single character. But I went > > ahead and saved