[vox-tech] VPN daemon recommendations

2004-09-08 Thread David Siedband
her options. I need to be able to connect from clients on Debian and OS X using nonproprietary clients... Anyone have recommendations for which daemon to use? Links to peep before I dive into this? thx -- David Siedband generation-xml.com ___ vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] dimension 8100 jumper reset

2004-08-25 Thread David Siedband
no, it's an AGP slot. I tried both the gforce4 card I intend to run in it and the gforce2 that was originally in the machine. Same results. I know it worked before all this. Could a bad CMOS battery cause this behavior? -- David Message: 7 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:39:10 -0700 From: Troy A

[vox-tech] dimension 8100 jumper reset

2004-08-24 Thread David Siedband
I have a dell dimension 8100 that I just migrated a bunch of components into, audio and video cards, DVD drive and CD-RW drive. I also temporarily took the RAM out and gave the whole thing a good cleaning with compressed air. When I put it back together it purrs to life, but there's no video

[vox-tech] timing page render/loads

2004-06-22 Thread David Siedband
I'm interested in testing the performance of one of my web applications between some different machines I'm running it on. Zope proxied through Apache with a MySQL backend running on different hosts under Linux and FreeBSD... Some installations have all processes on the same host. Some have

[vox-tech] MySQL 3.x - deleting orphan rows & datetime()

2004-05-07 Thread David Siedband
Greetings, I have two questions - using MySQL 3.x [1] I'm trying to craft an SQL query to delete orphan rows in index tables something like: delete from DocWords left join Docs on Docs.ID = DocWords.DocID where Doc.ID is null Any suggestions how to do this? [2] Is it possible to emulate the

Re: [vox-tech] SQL selecting distinct from multiple index tables (solution)

2004-01-30 Thread David Siedband
ahh, I just got this to work. Here's the query I used (MySQL 3.x) select distinct Organizations.OID , Organizations.Name , Organizations.Acronym from OrgDocs , OrgProjects , Organizations where (OrgDocs.OrgID = Organizations.OID) or (OrgProjects.OrgID = Organizations.OID) still interested in o

[vox-tech] SQL selecting distinct from multiple index tables

2004-01-30 Thread David Siedband
I have two index tables the associate Organizations with documents and projects. I'm trying to write a query that returns all the organizations that are associated with either a project or document. To select distinct organization that are either associated with a Document or a Project, I'm us

[vox-tech] MySQL 3.x subqueries question

2004-01-02 Thread David Siedband
I have two SQL queries that I'm trying to combine using subqueries. These are part of a web app lets people vote on the relative importance of a bunch of hypotheses The one that will be the parent query gets all the hypotheses in a selected category. The query that I'd like to make the subquer

Re: [vox-tech] Tar, MySQL, and cron-ed backups

2003-12-05 Thread David Siedband
Thanks Rob. I did read Marc's entire e-mail though. I was asking to determine why mysqldump wasn't a workable solution in his situation. In my experience it has proved the most effective fix for the problem he is describing. -- Dave Right at the bottom of the email you quoted... >> Somebod

Re: [vox-tech] Tar, MySQL, and cron-ed backups

2003-12-05 Thread David Siedband
Why not just export the the databases with MySQL-dump and back up the exported files instead of the live databases? -- Dave On Dec 5, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Marc Elliot Hall wrote: Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:43:54 -0800 From: Marc Elliot Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Vox-Tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sub

[vox-tech] Kiosk Distro/Desktop/Browser combo

2003-11-12 Thread David Siedband
Any recommendations for browser, desktop, and distro combos for a kiosk set-up? So far I've heard good things about Opera's Kiosk Mode and KDE's as well. I'm thinking Debian for the distro... Other options I should check out? Experiences, recommendations, horror stories, etc? TIA, -- David __

[vox-tech] Kiosk Distro/Desktop/Browser combo

2003-11-12 Thread David Siedband
Any recommendations for browser, desktop, and distro combos for a kiosk set-up? So far I've heard good things about Opera's Kiosk Mode and KDE's as well. I'm thinking Debian for the distro... Other options I should check out? Experiences, recommendations, horror stories, etc? TIA, -- David __

Re: [vox-tech] SQL front-ends for web browsers

2003-10-27 Thread David Siedband
For a more generic prototyping tool have a look at. http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ For a more customized web interface check out Zope Just set up you database adapter, code a few ZSQL queries and some DTML or ZPT templates and you're sorted. HTH -- David On Oct 25, 2003, at 12:00 PM, [E

[vox-tech] jetDirect Samba Config

2003-09-29 Thread David Siedband
I'm setting up an hp2100 with a jetDirect card. I need to spool this print queue on a RedHat 8 machine so that some DOS apps can capture a printer port. I used printconf-tui to set up the printer as unix LPD print queue. I can print postscript test pages just fine, but other machines can't prin

Re: [vox-tech] .ixi and .ai files

2003-09-26 Thread David Siedband
* ".IXI" (data only, so tiny). (Technical details: This binary format is exactly the same as the binary format used within the "alEf" hunk in the ".PNG" file format. This is because the same code is used to write it.) from http://aleph1.sourceforge.net/ peace -- David On Thursday, September 2

[vox-tech] Re: vox-tech digest, Vol 1 #878 - 4 msgs

2003-09-14 Thread David Siedband
Hi Dave, Looks like you got the info you needed for the Debian install. As far as a BSD, If you like the Slackware ground-up approach to building a system I would recommend checking out FreeBSD. One of the things I really like about Debian is how apt-get handles all the dependencies for you.

[vox-tech] Re: GIMP, best desktop or X/Windows server to use

2003-09-05 Thread David Siedband
You should check out enlightenment. It's a tight window manager and you can use it in a hybrid setup with KDE or Gnome if you're so inclined... -- David On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:07:32PM -0700, Marc Hasbrouck wrote: >I'm wondering what GUI's or desktops or window managers GIMP works with. >

[vox-tech] OT: External Sys Admin/Storage Admin

2003-08-30 Thread David Siedband
Thought this might interest some people on this list. -- David Subject: External Sys Admin/Storage Admin Participants Needed Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:56:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Usability Labs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Usability Labs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usability Labs

[vox-tech] printer config: hp2100 on Red Hat 8 + samba

2003-08-14 Thread David Siedband
I'm moving a printer (hp2100M) from a RH5 server to one running RH8, to be shared over samba with some windows boxes. The workstations see the printer, but when they print to it, I get pages of gibberish (text and characters). I copied the config from /etc/printcap on the RH5 box to /etc/prin

[vox-tech] smbmount - inheriting owner and group attributes

2003-08-07 Thread David Siedband
I'm smbmounting shares from one RedHat(5.0) box to another(8.0). I would like to preserve the owner and group attributes from the box that is exporting the shares. The relevant lines from /etc/fstab all look like this: //oxygen/pyDes /mnt/pyDes smbfs credentials=/home/osiris/

[vox-tech] python: slicing extensions from file names

2003-07-29 Thread David Siedband
I'd like to find a way to slice the extension off of a file name in python. That is, I'd like to slice everything after the first period in the file name. I'm renaming the files based on another algorythm, but I need to keep the extension the same. I looked at the slice( ) function, but it see

[vox-tech] Zope (DTML) - sequence or int handling

2003-06-23 Thread David Siedband
I have a DTML page where users can choose location(s) to link to a hypothesis. So there's an HTML multiple selection field. I have code that calls SQL to insert multiple selections and code that calls the SQL insert for a single entry. My question is how do get Zope to differentiate between

[vox-tech] ethernet card setup

2003-06-22 Thread David Siedband
I'm installing an ethernet card in machine running Debian (woody) here's the output from #lspci -v 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-on Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev20) Subsystem: Kingston Technologies: Unknown device f002 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ

[vox-tech] springBox source code

2003-06-20 Thread David Siedband
Remember the presentation from Alex and Nile at dLoo Does anyone have the source code or deb package of springBox? dLoo took it down from their site as they are between versions... thanks -- David ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [vox-tech] simple web-based file management/sharing system?

2003-02-01 Thread David Siedband
Zope is great for this sort of thing. There are two add-ons that are very close to what you're describing: CMF and NuxeoCPS. There some sites out there that offer free Zope hosting for noncommercial projects, which might be a good way to take Zope for a test-drive. I've heard it described as

[vox-tech] Zope Tools for Content Management

2003-01-23 Thread David Siedband
Anyone out there used Zope for collaborative content management? I am setting up a portal for researchers in an environmental planning process, and I'm interested to hear people's thoughts on some of the different CMF add ons that are out there. So far I've been playing with Plone and NuxeoCP

Re: [vox-tech] Mac OS X on intel?

2003-01-15 Thread David Siedband
As much as I consider myself an advocate of open source, I bought a mac last year, because it allows me be more effective in my work and thus justify the higher cost. As a web developer I use Dreamweaver, because it les me work more efficently than any open source web editor out there. With O

Re: [vox-tech] Mac OS X on intel?

2003-01-15 Thread David Siedband
There is a GNU-Darwin x86 distro. Not quite OS X, though. http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=install-x86 From what I hear, all of the good binaries are architecture specific. -- Dave Ryan wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to put OS X on an Intel PC? -ryan