RE: [vox-tech] POP3 email

2002-04-12 Thread Martyn R Whittaker
I'm pleased to say that my IPOPD is now working - I don't know what I did - but it's working. Thanks again. Martyn R. Whittaker p. +1 530 756 2867 f. +1 253 498 9591 m. +1 916 813 7061 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller S

RE: [vox-tech] POP3 email

2002-04-12 Thread Martyn R Whittaker
Thank you for the feedback. I don't think that the SMTP server is the problem as I am referring it to my DSL providers SMTP server. This works for all my other email accounts - and anyway in the Outlook test for my Linux IPOPD account it successfully connects to the SMTP server. I have also bee

Re: [vox-tech] Re: [vox-tech]Talks, mentoring, etc... was Touble(sic) with Printer Set-up (long)

2002-04-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Stephen M. Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > {snipage} > > someone please put me out of my misery and do a talk about cups and > > lprng at lugod!! > > > > pete > > Maybe we could even have a group mentoring project? Something like an > online email class or over irc even. Where we have a cou

Re: [vox-tech] Massive network collisions

2002-04-12 Thread Doug Huckaba
Appologies for the very late posts... apperently balsa hasn't been sending the e-mail queue... On 16:00 31/03 Doug Huckaba wrote: > I had this problem. it has to do with the NIC settings, check to make > sure both are running at 10mb half-duplex. On mine my laptop nic was set > to 100mb full d

[vox-tech] Re: [vox-tech]Talks, mentoring, etc... was Touble(sic) with PrinterSet-up (long)

2002-04-12 Thread Stephen M. Helms
{snipage} > someone please put me out of my misery and do a talk about cups and > lprng at lugod!! > > pete Pete, I think you bring up a very good point! There are quite a few talks that we could do that would help out people in general and even computer professionals. I am wondering what othe

Re: [vox-tech] Massive network collisions

2002-04-12 Thread Doug Huckaba
I had this problem. it has to do with the NIC settings, check to make sure both are running at 10mb half-duplex. On mine my laptop nic was set to 100mb full duplex and server was set to 100mb half both going through a 100mb hub. I believe that hub's are always half duplex. (switches can go to

Re: [vox-tech] Massive network collisions

2002-04-12 Thread Doug Huckaba
On 16:26 31/03 Bill Broadley wrote: > > Inbetween them I've got a 10 Megabit hub. > > Netgear? > > Netgear has an ugly failure mode where as the voltage of the > power cube drops you get higher collision rates, up to and including > where the hub is useless because zero packets get through and t

Re: [vox-tech] Touble with Printer Set-up (long)

2002-04-12 Thread Rod Roark
I recently installed Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/) on my home desktop -- really cool! It comes with cups by default. I had no previous experience with it, but it turns out all you have to do is run the daemon (cupsd or something similar) and then point your web browser to http://local

Re: [vox-tech] Touble with Printer Set-up (long)

2002-04-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
a few more words: replace my 3rd test with: echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0 echo "^L" > /dev/lp0 the last line should be control-l. that sends a form feed to the printer to eject the page. i'm not sure this should print a page on 100% of all printers. it will definitely print on a standard lin

Re: [vox-tech] Touble with Printer Set-up (long)

2002-04-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
jim, i have to admit, i don't know as much about printers as i ought to. all the ones i've set up just seem "to work" as long as the parallel port "works". a couple of comments: > 9.) At this point they claim you can just use printtool or printconf, > or use the CUPS web-based interface to f

Re: [vox-tech] POP3 email

2002-04-12 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Martyn R Whittaker wrote: > Thanks for the advice on sending files to my Web server. That’s working > fine. > > I am now trying to access email. Ipopd is running on my server – i.e. I > can send myself email (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and when I type >   > telnet localhost pop

Re: [vox-tech] Slack on a laptop

2002-04-12 Thread Tom
Quickie response before I go to bed... On Thursday 11 April 2002 03:36, you wrote: > Furthermore, the modern linux seemed to be a hog compared to what it was a > few years ago for such a system as this laptop (although it does support > more hardware and is better designed, I put Slackware 8 on