[vox-tech] why does HAL hate me

2006-09-20 Thread Paul
change all "deny" to "allow". This probably misses the point but try understanding the HAL config file(s). If you have HAL installed take a look at /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf - pure gibberish 3 Ask somebody who knows what they're doing. Somebody - Anybody - HELP paul

[vox-tech] Using dial-up as backup for DSL

2005-12-23 Thread Paul
not both. Any thoughts, ideas, urls ... Am I even asking the right question? Thanks Paul ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] When RAM goes bad...

2005-03-06 Thread Paul
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: What a horror story! If it IS the mother board, maybe I'll get myself that dual Opteron I've been thinking about for the past year or so. (useless but possibly entertaining attempt at humor) I can tell from here the mother board is bad and you'll need the dual Opteron. Co

Re: [vox-tech] What address to put my gateway/router

2004-11-30 Thread Paul
address do you guys normally put your router? Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech Mine is on .254 but that's because I already had a .1 machine. What you need is either a two sided or

[vox-tech] which kind of dvd disk

2004-11-28 Thread Paul
I finally bought a dvd drive, now I have to buy disks. Is their any significant difference between -R and +R disks. (Also -RW and +RW) or should I buy what's on sale. The websites I've visited don't seem to lean one way or the other. Thanks Paul

[vox-tech] rant and questions about LDAP

2004-11-28 Thread Paul
I want to run openldap on my home server. Actually, I just want to centralize all of our address books and ldap looked like the best way to do it. It was easy to install (apt-get install several things), then I tried to configure it. Whoever designed the slapd.conf file was some combination of ev

[vox-tech] my keyboard quit working

2004-09-06 Thread Paul
. The problem started after I did my latest apt-get upgrade. It was intermittant for a while, now the kb seems to be permenantly dead in debian All this makes me think that my problem is buried somewhere in X or KDE. Any ideas how should I go about troubleshooting this problem Thanks

Re: [vox-tech] eth0 troubles

2004-08-12 Thread Paul
Can Joe fix the problem and save the world. Wait for the next exciting installment:-) Paul ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Stupid floppy/zip label question

2004-07-22 Thread Paul
ith disk labels is that "permanent" glue dries up after about 10 or 15 years and falls off and the removable glue stays flexible and sticky for 20+ years (just checked the label on one of my Dysan 8" disks :-). Paul ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] open webmail

2004-06-22 Thread Paul
. can anyone point me to an up to date list of lists and maybe a blacklists for dummies kind of tutorial Thanks, Paul ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning a drive?

2004-06-21 Thread Paul
ng I decided I didn't want to move a few years of cruft over to my new disk after all. So plan b is to start with a fresh install and move the data and config file I need. I think I'll try a knoppix hard disk install. Thanks for all your help, you people a

Re: [vox-tech] Cloning a drive?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul
te: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Paul wrote: I need to move my desktop from a (full) 10G drive to a (spare) 20G drive. The ideal results would be copy everything over, then run lilo on the new drive, then it would boot up looking just like the old one. Nah... it doesn't work like that... unfort

[vox-tech] Cloning a drive?

2004-06-19 Thread Paul
a little vague, so I thought I would ask the experts. Has anybody done this? Is it easy - not to hard - increadibly difficult - don't even think about it? How do I do it - or better yet - a site with almost idiot proof instructions. What are the things that can go wrong? Thanks,

Re: [vox-tech] UPS and auto battery

2004-03-02 Thread Paul
Check out HSC Electronic Supply. They sometimes have surplus sealed wetcell batteries that have been removed from emergency lights as part of routine maintainence. I've bought some in the past and have had good luck. They're in the yellow pages (online and off) On Tuesday 02 March 2004 15:13,

Re: [vox-tech] UPS and auto battery

2004-03-02 Thread Paul
changes DC to AC) cooling also may not be up to running more than a half an hour or so and could also shutdown, overheat or do something spectacular or unfriendly. Paul (not an EE) On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:07, Rod Roark wrote: > I have had an APC Back-UPS 500 for a few years and it lo

[vox-tech] Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (a little murphy's law/engineeringhumor)

2002-07-12 Thread Paul Barnhart
I found this bit of humor while looking up some history on Telstar 1 (the first communications satellite). http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/SSHP/sshp_akin.html Jul 11 was the 40th aniversary of the launch of Telstar and the first trans-atlantic TV broadcast via satellite. _

Re: [vox-tech] IDS alert

2002-07-12 Thread Paul
greetings from adsl-209-233-98-66.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net. I have a static IP from pacbell DSL and that is the name that pacbell has attached to it. The scrm referres to sacramento. The other choices are snfc (san francisco), lsan (los angeles), sndg (san diego). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On

[vox-tech] too lazy to look it up

2002-06-25 Thread Paul Barnhart
Is there some utility that will return the hardware address(MAC) of every ethernet card on a network. Thanks paul ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] setting up 2 ethernet cards

2002-06-21 Thread Paul Barnhart
Ryan wrote: >On Friday 21 June 2002 12:11 am, Paul Barnhart wrote: > >>I'm setting up a new "always on" box (DSL router/firewall, webserver, >>mailserver, fileserver, X10 controller, weather station monitor, etc) >>and I want to use 2 identical pci eth

[vox-tech] setting up 2 ethernet cards

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Barnhart
nd I don't know how or where to specify that. Any suggestions? The way I did it with the old box was to use one pci card and one isa card alias eth0 ne2k-pci alias eth1 ne 0x280 This is still plan b but it would use up my only ISA slot. Thanks Paul ___

Re: [vox-tech] Can I do this?

2002-03-06 Thread Paul Barnhart
s it possible? > Yes, but. I have most of my mail comming straight into an old tan box in the corner (686 200, 32M 1.2G) but I have my own domain and have setup MX records (and all that other stuff ) on one of the free DNS servers out there. The learning curve for setting up your own server