Re: [vox-tech] OT external disk for backup

2005-06-02 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
I agree seagate is the best of the non scsi realm, 5 year warranty is 2 years longer than any other brand. I picked up a 200GB SATA for $100 from tigerdirect they've got this deal right now 300GB ATA $129 after $50 rebate http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo

[vox-tech] Run Zope as service (non-root)

2005-05-31 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
I think I'm missing a concept here. So if I go and add a line to rc.local(is this the right place?) to start up my newly installed zope servers(from source) on boot: 1. How do I make sure they run under the user that installed them (not root or sudoer), a general user. 2. How do I make sure the

Re: [vox-tech] collaborative writing with latex

2005-05-29 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
Along the lines of a collaborative way to edit a document, you could also look at other various options that run off of Zope. Their is a Zope External Editor tool that allows users to spawn their favorite editor through the web. I've used it on windows with both MS word, open office and several

Re: [vox-tech] Installing Linux from within Linux

2005-05-18 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
I realize you can't boot from CD, but what about floppy? Smart Boot Disk let's you boot from CD even on old systems where it's not supported by BIOS(I've done this). http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.or

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
Here's a few things to check, You're on the right track with background services Access them by Start->run->services.msc ,as well as background programs that launch at startup Start->run->msconfig and Start->Programs->Startup Folder http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/SWList.asp Lists most of the win

Re: [vox-tech] Gnome "Failed to Init HAL" - Lost internet, cdrom and usb

2005-05-03 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
off CD install; this won't overwrite user data. Another option is to boot with Knoppix, download the rpms you need to a known place on the harddrive, reboot to partially functional Fedora, and install them. HTH, Jonathan tech_dev(Alex Mandel) wrote: So I was trying to configure a scanner an

[vox-tech] Gnome "Failed to Init HAL" - Lost internet, cdrom and usb

2005-05-03 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
So I was trying to configure a scanner and I used synaptic to install usbmgr. This unistalled hal, gonme-volume-manager, hotplug etc. (Didn't quite realize what I was doing) So I go to boot up the machine to work on it today and I get a "Failed to initialize HAL" with a haywire usb mouse, no e

Re: [vox-tech] vnc terminal only

2005-04-19 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
t line I get a error in log that that xrdb: does not exist xrdb: can't open file home/user/.Xresource Alex Micah Cowan wrote: tech_dev(Alex Mandel) wrote: Well I was hopeful the solution made sense, but not quite. Now instead of a greenish background and a terminal window I can move, I have a grey

Re: [vox-tech] vnc terminal only

2005-04-15 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
Well I was hopeful the solution made sense, but not quite. Now instead of a greenish background and a terminal window I can move, I have a grey background and the terminal window is stuck. Here's what I've got: #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80

[vox-tech] vnc terminal only

2005-04-15 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
I just upgraded Ubunutu (warty to hoary). Eveything went fine except for some graphics related issues, prev fixed by using 16bit color because my graphics card is old and can't handle more. The next possibly related problem is that when I hit my vncsever using tightvnc client in windows I only

[vox-tech] Install Plone on Ubuntu

2005-03-30 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
Recently installed Ubuntu(Warty), and I'm a first timer to most things including apt. Previously only used Rpm based distros(barely). I'm a little confused trying to install plone 2.0.4 or 5(www.plone.org) I tried synaptic and it only lists a very old version (1.0.5). So I looked on plone.org and

Re: [vox-tech] mysql

2005-03-25 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
I've found MySql Administrator and OpenOffice very easy and useful for MySql Admin. Alex Doctorcam wrote: * David Hummel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:08:04AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Do varchars in MySQL need to have the (n) specifier? Yes. If you are going to do

Re: [vox-tech] Looking for recommendation: video capture/TV tuner

2005-02-19 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
The 2nd & 3rd are the same item, ASIN(Amazon #) is the same. 1st one is USB other one is PCI. Looking at the manufacturer website, the only other thing I can find out is that the USB device min. PC specs are higher 733MHZ over 500MHZ pci. Also the USB transfer max is 12M/sec on usb 2.0, but I don'

Re: [vox-tech] tight-vnc, can't ping box from windows

2005-01-27 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
Well -tcpdump wasn't installed and I couldn't find it in the distro (Mandrake 10.0) so I went to download/install and when I ran configure it said I didn't have a C compiler. While I installed those packages I poked more in the GUI control center and found some security settings and viola Allow

Re: [vox-tech] tight-vnc, can't ping box from windows

2005-01-26 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
So I tried tcpdump(or I should say windump) and couldn't figure out how to get it to work. But no matter I ran ethereal which seems to give the same kinds of info. Now the question is what am I looking for, I did notice a checksum error (not that I understand what that means) down at the bottom