Re: [vox-tech] robots and mindstorm

2002-06-26 Thread speck
Every search I did turned up the Linux Doc site http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Lego/ Also found this. http://www.battlebricks.com/links.jsp Some day I'll get a mindstorm kit. 'Real Soon Now' -sp On Tue, 25 June 2002, Mark K. Kim wrote No experience, but I thought you might want to know I

[vox-tech] Nice Postfix anti-spam config info

2002-06-26 Thread speck
Greetings, As I finally have my DSL working reliably, I am moving my email back in house (so to speak), I have been looking at the various SMTP daemon's(?) for Linux out there Sendmail, Postfix, QMail Now I know that spam filtering options are available in the common implamentations, but I came

Re: [vox-tech] How X, Gnome, Sawfish, Nautilus relate (Was re: Pardon me, but...)

2002-06-18 Thread speck
More specifically. The Win 3.x defininatly ran on DOS. The Win9x series, including that price gouging excuse for an upgrade WinME, was a GUI on DOS and ran on DOS 7. The whole was a mis-match of 16/32 bit stuff and had horible memory management and it was generally best practise to reload

Re: [vox-tech] [web-dev] Setting website icons?

2002-06-10 Thread speck
This is from a Windows IE perspective but does have the relevant ico graphic file size details. http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml -sp On Mon, 10 June 2002, Matt Roper wrote Those web browsers try to fetch a file called favicon.ico when they first visit a site. If they

Re: [vox-tech] [web-dev] Setting website icons?

2002-06-10 Thread speck
I tried with Mozilla 1.0 and IE55. No icon's Mozilla appears to have added support in release 0.9.6 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.6/#new and here is more info http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp But as MS site's often break on non-MS browser's,

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

2002-03-06 Thread speck
I've been happy with register.com service for several years now. Nice web interface. I do not believe that they have provisions for dynamic IP addresses though. -sp Jay Strauss wrote zoneedit.com is good too. Its supposed to be used for dynamic IP connections, but (obviously) works fine

Re: [vox-tech] ip_masq-quake.o

2002-03-01 Thread speck
The definitive site... well it was. Now it looks like you'll have to do some wading http://www.tsmservices.com/masq/cfm/main.cfm Oh wait, it seems to be here: http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/ IIRC it so that the appropriate connections are made and MASQ'd properly if you are playing Quake,

Re: [vox-tech] Clock drift bad, HULK SMASH!

2002-02-20 Thread speck
There was at one time a bug on one of the IBM desktop systems. When the system went to power save, the clock would slowly lose count over time. This was why I sugested a BIOS flash. It affected the way power was sent to chips on the mother board, which affected cycles performed

[vox-tech] Mail server advice

2002-02-05 Thread speck
All right. It looks like I'm getting a broadband connection again (DSL, it'll be nice to get my fix :) This time I'll have a full DMZ, protected internal network etc. However, I'd like to have a mail server that I can run off a Linux system (this will let me learn more about Linux). I know

Re: [vox-tech] Why not APC? (wasTripp Lite UPS)

2002-01-30 Thread speck
Good for you. A UPS is a nice thing. Why are APC units to be avoided? I have used any number of them in the server closet in the past and I have not encountered any difficulty that I recall. A friend has a nice one that he bought here: http://auction.apcc.com/ a while ago and has served

Re: [vox-tech] windows question (samba related)

2002-01-21 Thread speck
On Sat, 19 January 2002, Ken Bloom wrote: ORIGINAL MESSAGE From: Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] when a win98 machine has 2 users on it, where do the different desktops reside on disk? do different desktops have different file locations? is there a way to specify to

Re: [vox-tech] Chicago?

2002-01-18 Thread speck
On Thu, 17 January 2002, Jay Strauss wrote: I'm still debating the build vs. buy. But I have done some research and think if I build I'll get a Athlon 1500 (fast and cheap). Now I've only got about 85 motherboards to look over. If you are trying to understand computers, nothing helps like a

Re: [vox-tech] Questions about building my own box -relevant

2002-01-17 Thread speck
Ok, Here's the base generalization. You want the most bang for your buck, figure a minimum of 3 years before you can afford to upgrade again. Do not skimp on the motherboard, that often determines the feasibility of later CPU only upgrades. ASUS makes good boards that have long life due to

Re: [vox-tech] DocBook

2002-01-17 Thread speck
All good. The main reason is for writing Linux how-to's for my own amusements. Learning this looks like it'll be useful. The ability to convert the same set of text into a roughly parallel set of documents in txt, rtf, html (one page or menu'd) and pdf s appealling. Mainly in that when I

Re: [vox-tech] Problems with dual boot system (Win 98/RH 7.2)

2002-01-14 Thread speck
On Mon, 14 January 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do have two large HDD (40G for win98 and 30G for RH7.2) and thought that would suffice to keep the two lovebirds away from each other, but I'll try the fdisk /mbr and boot linux with a

Re: [vox-tech] palm questions

2002-01-08 Thread speck
On Tue, 08 January 2002, William Kendrick wrote: I think I recall hearing that PalmOS is open-source, I'm fairly certain this is not true. :^/ which is one of the reasons why there are so many PDAs running it. But I've never attempted to mess around with it. Nope... licensing

Re: [vox-tech] complete serial console success! (was: Re: minicom help)

2002-01-04 Thread speck
Hey, this could go on the lugod faqs page -sp On Fri, 04 January 2002, Henry House wrote: keywords: grub, bootloader, serial ports, console, headless server On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:15:34PM -0800, Henry House wrote: [...] I still can't get grub to display anything to the serial port,

Re: [vox-tech] advice for floppy disks

2002-01-02 Thread speck
I've always liked Maxell's Failing that I tend to use whatever I have laying around. Windows NT boot disk reformatted work ok as well. If you have a LOT of issues, look at your floppy drives. In general I don't have many issue's with floppy disks and when I do it comes in batches. 1/2 the

Re: [vox-tech] disorientating

2002-01-02 Thread speck
Do you have any idea how disorientating it is to see your name, Pete, on vox-tech AND leaf-user? I thought my filters were broken for a few minutes. That evens us up for my sending interesting article links to the list so you can't get work done. ;) -sp ps. Is your wrath legendary because

Re: [vox-tech] disorientating

2002-01-02 Thread speck
On Wed, 02 January 2002, William Kendrick wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:24:31AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you have any idea how disorientating it is to see your name, Pete, on vox-tech AND leaf-user? I thought my filters