Re: [vox-tech] bandwidth question - choking http to give more to ssh

2004-07-02 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:54:44AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: Gabe Rosa also did a talk on Linux Traffic Shaping back in March: http://www.lugod.org/presentations/trafficshaping/ That might be useful, as well... I wish the cruddy little router appliances could do this kind of stuff. :)

Re: [vox-tech] bandwidth question - choking http to give more to ssh

2004-07-02 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:11:33AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:55:55AM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote: The WRT54g with enhanced firmware can do full blown QoS. The default firmware does some, but not all that great. That sounds cool. But, uh... isn't that this one

[vox-tech] timidity

2003-10-31 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, has anyone used timidity as a sequencer and have it bind to /dev/sequencer, so that normal midi apps could use it? i've used it as an alsa sequencer, but that requires alsa support in the application. -Gabe ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL

[vox-tech] screen 'deflogin' on debian testing

2003-10-28 Thread Gabriel Rosa
I'm running screen on my debian testing box, and I can't seem to get it to start up with a login shell. what I get is: bash-2.05b$ (PS1 is \s-\v\$) which is what happens even when i have 'deflogin on' in my .screenrc or when i run screen explicitly with the '-l' option. what i want is:

Re: [vox-tech] bochs

2003-10-15 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:09:15PM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: I couldnt get screen shots of bochs running KDE on Windoze box. Any other opensource alternative for my requirement? there is a virtualization project called 'Plex86'. I'm not sure how stable/usable it is, and

Re: [vox-tech] Third NIC question

2003-10-01 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:09:55PM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: Here's a networking question. I have a linux server(AMD Athlon 900) with 2 NICs in it now. It is currently used as a network firewall/NAT server. I have a spare hub(it may even be a switch) laying around, and I am thinking of

Re: [vox-tech] Third NIC question

2003-10-01 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:27:31PM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:16:27PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote: I have something similar, 3 PCI NICs in a p2 450 box. NIC 1 handles the DSL line. NIC 2 handles the internal network. NIC 3 handles the wireless network

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

2003-09-25 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:31:39PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: Is anyone here familiar with .ixi or .ai files? The former seems to be recognized by both file and XV as a variation of the PCX format. Neither XV nor Gimp know how to open it. The latter (.ai) seems to be some kind of PDF

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

2003-09-25 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:36:32PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote: .ai are Adobe Illustrator files. Dia and/or Sketch might have limited .ai support. No idea what .ixi is. Get on irc and ask Marianne :) and a google search later... http://www.icdatamaster.com/i.html -Gabe

Re: [vox-tech] Compile problem...

2003-09-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:53:51AM -0800, Walther The Writer wrote: Thanks Micah, I think you're right. I checked their website again and they're saying to use their latest and unstable version. Problem now is that when I'm trying to fetch a file from CVS repository i.e. C:\cvs-1.11.5

Re: [vox-tech] Compile problem...

2003-09-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:17:55AM -0800, Walther The Writer wrote: That is what I got: C:\cvs-1.11.5 -d =:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co module cvs-1.11.5 checkout: CVSROOT password specification is only valid for cvs-1.11.5 checkout: pserver connection method. cvs-1.11.5

Re: [vox-tech] Compile problem...

2003-09-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:37:17AM -0800, Walther The Writer wrote: Gabe, C:\cvs-1.11.5 -d =:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot opens window open with ??? Walther. Once again, = is not part of the -d syntax. Follow directions and it should work. anyways, this doesn't really appear to

Re: [vox-tech] the answer to all my virus problems

2003-09-20 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:15:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat 20 Sep 03, 6:15 PM, Ken Herron [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: --On Saturday, September 20, 2003 04:24:56 PM -0700 Rod Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. I wonder if there's an easy way to get Postfix to notice

Re: [vox-tech] graphics card suggestion for 1920x1200

2003-06-03 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:04:08PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: people with bleeding edge radeons can still use the cards, even with DRI support, using the firegl drivers, which are closed source ATI drivers. this means the 9700 too. I used the firegl drivers with my 9700 pro. They just

Re: [vox-tech] Zaurus wireless compactflash card

2003-05-29 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:25:26PM -0700, Foo Lim wrote: There is no way to test it without setting up one's own access point, is there? You can get a few (2+) nodes together using ad-hoc mode. Or just find a public hotspot to test it out with. -Gabe

Re: [vox-tech] debian questions - packages under testing / unstable

2003-03-26 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:00:02PM -0800, Ted Deppner wrote: I plan on waiting until a complete upgrade is available, ie when sid is released. You're going to be waiting a long time. IIRC, sid is the code name for all unstable. If you're waiting for sarge to be released... I still think

Re: [vox-tech] malloc() is ... old school?

2003-03-19 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:08:13PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i've heard this from two people now. some students are being taught they should stay clear of malloc() and instead use calloc() because calloc() is the old school way of getting memory dynamically. they're taught that

Re: [vox-tech] radeon 9700 pro problems

2003-02-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
I have a 9700 Pro working with Debian unstable. I converted the .rpm to .deb using alien and installed. then I used the firegl config app to generate a config file and it just fired right up. it does feel (no benchmarks) slower than my gf4 4400 (which I currently have back in my machine), both

Re: [vox-tech] Mozilla and quitting

2003-01-07 Thread Gabriel Rosa
If Moz is using GTK, you can hover your mouse over a menu item, hit the shortcut you want for it, and it'll bind. IIRC, it's the standard procedure for GTK. -Gabe On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:40:44AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Ok, I've gotten used to a kind of dumb thing in Konqueror. Ctrl-Q

Re: [vox-tech] Mozilla and quitting

2003-01-07 Thread Gabriel Rosa
Try Galeon :) It's more lightweight, has niftier features and uses GTK. The rendering engine is great, but I can't understand why people actually use the mozilla browser. -Gabe On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:53:31AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:49:52AM -0800, Gabriel

Re: [vox-tech] subdomain problem

2003-01-06 Thread Gabriel Rosa
Should be trivial if you are running your own DNS for the domain. Just have his.mydomain.net resolve to his IP. The downside here is that if your machine goes down, so does his domain resolution (unless of course you have secondary DNS you can control). If you're using whatever company for

Re: [vox-tech] buying a laptop

2002-11-27 Thread Gabriel Rosa
Dell had redhat going on their systems as an option for a while. I'm not sure if they still do that. Either way, Dell laptops seems to work pretty nicely for dual boot (although I personally dislike them because they weight a ton and feel like cheap plastic). I suspect your best bet is to get a

[vox-tech] beginning latex

2002-11-27 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, can anyone recommend a good latex tutorial or book? I've never really done any work with it, but I'll be writing a paper in the next couple of weeks that needs to be formated for print. thanks, -Gabe ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex

2002-11-27 Thread Gabriel Rosa
LyX seems a little unstable to me. The control widgets behave somewhat strangely and the window doesn't handle resizing properly. I'm not sure I can trust it to not crash on me mid-brilliant-thought :) Besides, it doesn't have vi key bindings. -Gabe On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:21:51PM -0800,

Re: [vox-tech] Dia Visio

2002-10-27 Thread Gabriel Rosa
Dia comes with a couple of input plugins. The first that comes to mind is DXF. Perhaps you could use that as a common format? -Gabe On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:06:21PM -0800, Alan H. Lake wrote: Does anyone know of software that will convert from VISIO format to Dia format?

Re: [vox-tech] test - please delete

2002-07-14 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Dick Ely using JPS-SMTP POP wrote: test ignore using jps-smtp please read http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech/ This is lugod's technical discussion forum. All Linux and computer related technical questions and discussions go here... -Gabe

Re: [vox-tech] Limiting user processes?

2002-06-27 Thread Gabriel Rosa
What you want is 'ulimit'. try running 'ulimit -a' or man ulimit? -Gabe On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ryan wrote: I want to limit some of the accounts on my system to only be able to run X number of processes, and reserve a percentage of CPU cycles for root if possible, does anyone know how to do

Re: [vox-tech] Limiting user processes?

2002-06-27 Thread Gabriel Rosa
is 0 unless an invalid option or argument is supplied, or an error occurs while set­ ting a new limit. On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Gabriel Rosa wrote: What you want is 'ulimit'. try running 'ulimit -a' or man ulimit? ___ vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] debian virtual install

2002-06-24 Thread Gabriel Rosa
From a quick read, this looks like an application server (ie, all nodes do is get an exported display, and the bin runs on a central server). What I want is NFS root (there's a howto on it, but my question was more on how to get the base OS installed), since I want to have each diskless machine

Re: [vox-tech] debian virtual install

2002-06-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Rick Moen wrote: I may be missing something important, here (long day, up late), but wouldn't this be a perfect situation to use chroot? Ya, that would work but not 100% the way I want it. With a chrooted envr, I'd need to pull the base system from a mirror, unpack,

Re: [vox-tech] gtk question - gtk notebook page creation from acallback

2002-05-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i'd like to add a page to a gtk notebook from a menuitem activation. here's what i have (much snippage): [snip] so when someone clicks view sprites, it calls back viewSpritesItemCallback. what i'd like to do is call:

Re: [vox-tech] gtk question - gtk notebook page creation from acallback

2002-05-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: doesn't that _basically_ amount to making all the widgets global? No, because you can obfusc^Wprotect your widgets with a class interface :) What it ammount to is saying (within maybe your iface constructor): widget-callback(function, this);

Re: [vox-tech] gtk question - gtk notebook page creation from acallback

2002-05-23 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Mark K. Kim wrote: He'd pay people $2.46 for every line of elegant GUI code they produced ;) You messed up the joke by using the wrong dollar amount. It's $2.56 -- 2^8 pennies. :P oops, finger slippage :) Actually, Knuth would code in CWeb and document the

Re: SEVEN HOURS! was Re: [vox-tech] Is mozilla going to finishcompiling sometime this week?

2002-05-22 Thread Gabriel Rosa
My builds usually take 70-90mins on a PII-450/512mb ram. Of course, I build only the browser, and I turn off debugging and a bunch of stuff... -Gabe On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ryan wrote: It's finaly done, after seven hours of making my computer slow and warming my CPU.

Re: [vox-tech] New Distrobutions Virus Alert + humor

2002-04-30 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, ME wrote: You, welcome to level 6 You, welcome to level 7 You, welcome to level 8 ... Oh! You read this far? You must be as bored as I was when I wrote this! -ME ;-) Pete, I thought you were supposed to moderate out the junk posts. or at least the obviously

Re: [vox-tech] Demo machine sound card...

2002-04-28 Thread Gabriel Rosa
I can donate a vibra 16C to the cause. It's supposedly 100% SB16 compatible. -Gabe On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: suggestion: next time the machine gets wiped, toss the card. sound cards are so cheap and easy to get working that it's insane to wrestle this piece of garbage.

Re: [vox-tech] Lugod Demo Computer Hardware Details

2002-04-24 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wednesday, April 24th, I accidentally deleted this line. The speakers and Voodoo 5 are both at my office. There is a standing offer to sell the Voodoo 5 to any club member for $50. Considering the 64mb ATI 7500's DVI/etc are $66 would think the Voodoo 5 would benefit the club more by

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

2002-04-02 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Richard S. Crawford wrote: CPU IS UNWORKABLE OR HAS CHANGED -- Please rescan now (It's a dual-processor system) I pressed F1 and was able to finish booting just fine. The computer runs both win2k and Linux without any change in performance from before, and there is no

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

2002-04-02 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Richard S. Crawford wrote: Ah, I see an entry for only one CPU. Crud. How do I fix this? More specifically, who do I take my little computer to to get it fixed? You can bring it to me and I'll fix it. Of course, then as payment I will keep it ;) -Gabe

Re: [vox-tech] how to verify email is read

2002-03-31 Thread Gabriel Rosa
This sounds like he's trying to write an email virus to me. I'm not sure where linux fits in. -Gabe On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: bulk mail, MS outlook, javascript, html email, MS express, hotmail accounts... i think you may have missed that left turn at albuquerque...

[vox-tech] familiar review

2002-03-15 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, so I got my ipaq 2 days ago (a gift from Marianne) and after a night of not sleeping, and a day of being extremely impressed with Familiar 0.5.1, I thought I'd share a bit. First of all, getting Familiar installed on the Ipaq was a piece of cake. I followed the instructions on the

Re: [vox-tech] familiar review

2002-03-15 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, nbs wrote: Yeah - I heard that Agenda had been adopted/ported for Linux-on-iPAQ, at least as an alternative. Did you need to install FLTK, too, or were the binaries statically-linked to it. Yes, there are the Agenda PIM utilities, plus some other PIM things, most

[vox-tech] postgresql - mysql?

2002-02-13 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, anyone know of a converter to get postgresql scripts into a mysql-friendly format? I found some to go from postgresql-mysql, but i need the other way around. Just thought i'd ask before i messed with the converter :) thanks, -Gabe ___

Re: [vox-tech] postgresql - mysql?

2002-02-13 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Gabriel Rosa wrote: I found some to go from postgresql-mysql, but i need the other way around. err, sorry to reply to self, but i really meant: mysql-postgresql :) -Gabe ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[vox-tech] mutt mailbox sorting

2002-01-31 Thread Gabriel Rosa
Hey all, looking thru man muttrc, I notice that mutt allows you to move messages to different mailboxes after they're read. Is there a way to make it pre-sort messages to different mailboxes? For example, I'd like to receive all vox-tech mail to one mailbox, all linux-kernel to another, and

Re: [vox-tech] mutt mailbox sorting

2002-01-31 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: you just described the basic, most fundamental use of procmail. :) Ya, I think my best bet is picking up some procmail. What I'm concerned about is that if i get a bizillion messages a day, procmail will run a bizillion times a day. I wanted a

Re: [p@dirac.org: Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my ownbox]

2002-01-17 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ajay wrote: * Richard Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020116 21:13], about :mentioned sending to him. This is, in my opinion, a very serious breach :of standard internet protocol. Please go ahead and read laws on email privacy. They all basically say 'you have none,'

Re: building Mozilla (was RE: [vox-tech] stable web browser?!?)

2002-01-16 Thread Gabriel Rosa
here's mine -- # sh # Build configuration script # # See http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html for build instructions. # # Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options). ac_add_options --disable-xprint ac_add_options --disable-logging ac_add_options --disable-mailnews ac_add_options

Re: [vox-tech] stable web browser?!?

2002-01-15 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Holland, Matt wrote: Hey all, After spending the last hour killing and restarting Netscape, then Mozilla, I find myself longing for a stable web browser. Does such an animal exist? If so, I'd like to know about it. Even a version of Netscape or Mozilla that seems to

Re: [vox-tech] Easy Remote X Termnial?

2002-01-13 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Ryan wrote: He likes to play flash and javascript games, and I was concerned that the pentium 120 would make that unplesent, but It probaly wouldn't be too much better over ethernet, I've used VNC over ethernet before, and it's a bit of a pain, but perhaps that's just an

Re: [vox-tech] newbie

2002-01-12 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: kevin, is this a crossover cable? my understanding is that if you connect two NICs together, one (some? all?) of the lines need to cross over to a different position. my understanding is that the two signal pairs need to reverse, so they match

Re: [vox-tech] es1371 and why I love open source

2001-12-15 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Henry House wrote: Great story, Gabe! Do you mind if I add this to the testimonial page on the LUGOD website? No, go ahead and post it. Just fix the typos ;) -Gabe ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Re: junkbuster. whoa. i'm a convert.

2001-12-14 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: it would be a bit more convenient to do it with opera, however. opera has a pretty advanced cookie system right now with all the features you'd expect like blocking/allowing cookies on a per-site basis. and lots more. Mozilla also has a pretty

Re: [vox-tech] deb mirror

2001-12-13 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Matt Roper wrote: If you're only running three machines and a lot of the packages that they use are the same, maybe you should look at the apt-proxy package. I've never used this package, but it's my understanding that you have all of your computers point at one machine

Re: [vox-tech] muttrc

2001-12-11 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: mbox-hook =linux-kernel.in =linux-kernel do you *really* have that much free time on your hands?!? ;-) well, the reason I'm taking up mutt is because I'm on the kernel-dev list, and I don't think pine would be able to handle it :) actually,

Re: [vox-tech] muttrc

2001-12-11 Thread Gabriel Rosa
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: never heard of kernel-dev. if it's a stream, it sure ain't no linux-kernel! :) whatever, I've been using debian too long ;) ya, linux-kernel is picking up now. but i still find it to be a good read. besides, the coolness factor of getting email

[vox-tech] Creative Dxr2 card

2001-07-10 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, anyone have any experience getting a creative dxr2 dvd decoder card working under Linux? -Gabe

[vox-tech] wtf?

2001-05-26 Thread Gabriel Rosa
ok, now i've seen it all... not only do i hear hissing thru my speakers but... they're picking up radio... yes. i turned my computer on tonight and heard really soft music. i put the speakers up to my ear and heard bad 80's pop. i think i'll try that other soundcard now... -Gabe

[vox-tech] portsentry

2001-05-05 Thread Gabriel Rosa
is there a way to tell portsentry to only examine/bind to 1 interface? I know you can exclude ip ranges, but as with ipchains, i'd like to not bother too much with my localnet. -Gabe

[vox-tech] UPS

2001-04-29 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, how trivial is it to set up an apc ups under linux? I read the howto, and it seems fairly straight forward, but the howto goes into a lot of detail about building cables and switches and many fancy things. Don't apc's come with cables? (at least the smart ones) I'm a little worried

[vox-tech] noise problems

2001-04-25 Thread Gabriel Rosa
ok, this sucks... if i turn up my mixer all the way up, and then turn my speakers about halfway up... i can hear hissy beeps when the mouse move...(and a lot of hissing) yes... I think it's time to buy a new soundcard... recommendations? -Gabe

[vox-tech] one card, one irq, one fate... coming soon to a desktopnear you!

2001-04-20 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, question: why does my sound blaster awe 64 pnp function properly on irq 5, but chops off any sound sample after the first second or so on irq's 7 and 9? question2: why do I get so much static on the line output? Does anyone get this? thanks -Gabe

[vox-tech] rpm build

2001-04-15 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, i've been trying to build some rpms from source. I have everything in place (sources, spec file), but when i tell it: # rpm -bb package.spec rpm just gives me its standard usage message and quits. anyone know what i'm doing wrong? this is using the rpm 4.0 straight from the rh 7

[vox-tech] Fortran 90/95

2001-04-05 Thread Gabriel Rosa
Hey all, is there a free Fortran 90/95 compiler for Unix? thanks -Gabe

[vox-tech] Voodoo 3 3500tv under XFree86 4.01

2001-03-22 Thread Gabriel Rosa
hey all, I just got myself a Voodoo 3 3500tv, and I'm having issues getting the 3d part to work under XFree86 4.01 under a 2.2.18 kernel. I have not re-built Mesa with Glide support, so that may be the key, but I'm having issues finding the glide source, for one. I'm also not really fully