Peterborough broadband

2001-03-20 Thread Bill Freeman
Tom Rauschenbach writes: In looking for Internet connectivity options I've turned up these. Some look pretty expensive, some have other problems. But it's a start... (I'll violate my rule of thumb on this one and include a smiley.) Perhaps an Appropriate Solution would be

Re: More first LAN

2001-03-20 Thread Bill Freeman
Marc Evans writes: Thanks for the correction. I took my color codes from the T568A spec, whereas you quote the T568B spec. Clearly either will work, though the one you quoted is probably more commonly used. - Marc On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dana S. Tellier wrote: Hey, all--

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant. Both Ben and I were referring to the use of SMB as *server* running on a Linux box to server Windows *clients*. To share filesystems between Linux systems, use NFS. Ben, please correct me if I'm mistaken

Re: M$ loses a customer...?

2001-03-20 Thread Derek Doucette
wired says that this is a myth. check it out here http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42502,00.html Derek David Roberts wrote: I thought I was being clever, but your line was clearly much better!!! (Lowers head in humility - realizes now that age has indeed crept up and robbed him

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Karl J. Runge
Ben, On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My biggest beefs with NFS are that failure modes have a tendency to wedge things, and there is no concept of per-user authentication. I was wondering if you have looked into NFS v4 yet? I haven't, but it might have the

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Rousseau
Who is offering the 1256K return speed? I haven't seen that with starband and directv's newest system isn't quite released yet. -mark Marc Evans wrote: It is true two-way satelite (vsat return @ 128k or 1256k optionally). - Marc On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message

Fujitsu DynaMO

2001-03-20 Thread jesse mcdougall
Does anyone know of a successful Fujitsu DynaMO Optical Drive installation on Linux? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ** To

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Rousseau
Has any one on this list used one of broadband routers with these dish solutions? I know I can use a linux box as the router box/firewall but I'm lazy. -mark Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:55:35 EST Marc Evans said: It is true two-way satelite (vsat return

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Evans
Yes, you can use a box like the LinkSys. - Marc On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Mark Rousseau wrote: Has any one on this list used one of broadband routers with these dish solutions? I know I can use a linux box as the router box/firewall but I'm lazy. -mark Paul Lussier wrote: In a message

Configure options in RPM?

2001-03-20 Thread Ken Ambrose
Hiya -- I'm trying to build some stuff from source RPMs, and I don't know how to do configure options, and I don't off-hand see it in the manpage, either. Specifically, I want to do a configure --without-authldap but I have no idea how to do this with a source RPM. Do I actually have to unzip

Re: PHP Question

2001-03-20 Thread ccb
Can anyone shed light as to why no one has even heard of PHP around here? Because you don't have enough of these on your car! www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/31bd.html ccb ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL

Win4Lin 2.0 raffle items for tomorrow's BLU meeting

2001-03-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
Netraverse sent me a box of 10 Win4Lin 2.0 CDs For tomorrow night's meeting. When:March 21, 2001 7:00 p.m. Topic: Linux Soup IV - The Linux Terminal Server Project Presented by Christoph Doerbeck Location: MIT Building 4-370 (Back to our regular room) -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reply to Who's on this list?

2001-03-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: Have you no tact!? Oh, sorry, I forgot this was Ben ;) I have tact. I just choose not to use it. ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net Technologies, Inc. http://www.ntisys.com Voice: (800)905-3049 x18 Fax: (978)499-7839

Re: M$ loses a customer...?

2001-03-20 Thread Dan Jenkins
Derek Doucette wrote: wired says that this is a myth. check it out here http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42502,00.html Well... Not exactly. The article says the German government denies the report. Then it says that some folk think the denial is damage control and the report is

Re: Configure options in RPM?

2001-03-20 Thread Mike McKernan
Ken == Ken Ambrose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:59:23 -0800 (PST) Ken Hiya -- I'm trying to build some stuff from source RPMs, and I Ken don't know how to do configure options, and I don't off-hand Ken see it in the manpage, either. Specifically, I want

Re: NSA Secure Linux

2001-03-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: In Dec. 1999, I went to a SANS conference ... There were a lot of people that had severe reservations about trusting anything that the NSA put out, because they are known for building back doors into systems. Heh heh. I wonder how many of

SMB vs NFS (was: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
I cannot believe I find myself in the position of defending SMB, but despite some very valid criticisms, there is some misinformation here which I just cannot let go unanswered... On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: SMB is inherently buggy and incredibly slow. SMB has higher overhead

Re: More first LAN

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Evans
Thanks for the correction. I took my color codes from the T568A spec, whereas you quote the T568B spec. Clearly either will work, though the one you quoted is probably more commonly used. - Marc On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dana S. Tellier wrote: Hey, all-- I know this is a picky thing, but

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread ccb
What Paul said. Other SMB bummers: 1. It's stateful more intensely so than NFSv3 or NFSv4 will ever be. 2. It's heavily broadcast mediated. Turn on tcpdump and watch the traffic fly. 3. Browse lists suck. It can take as long as 45 minutes for

Re: PHP Question

2001-03-20 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
As someone who has spent a large amount of time on job sites as of late, I can honestly say that the reason that you can't find what you want is because the search functions of most of these site are terrible. Also, due to the tighter job market, there are fewer jobs being posted to monster, et

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
Recent versions of portmap use tcp_wrappers, so you can use /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to grant or deny access. -Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't sweat the Sun portmapper, Microsoft uses one too - probably under the name endpoint supply service. I can read Sun's portmapper.

M$ loses a customer...?

2001-03-20 Thread David Roberts
Saw something interesting in a news feed at lunch today and was wondering if anyone else had seen it as well. The article stated Germany's foreign office and armed forces have decided to eliminate all US software products (starting with Microsoft) and replace them with German products? It seems

PHP Question

2001-03-20 Thread Tony Lambiris
I was on monster.com today, and I was wondering why there are no PHP job openings. I saw a few for Cold Fusion and ASP, but why no PHP? I would love to get a job coding PHP back-ends, but it looks like I may have to move out west to get a job like that. :) Can anyone shed light as to why no

Re: More first LAN

2001-03-20 Thread Dana S. Tellier
Hey, all-- I know this is a picky thing, but the pinouts-to-colors you've described (to my knowledge) aren't what I've seen to be the standard. Generally, I've seen a straight-through as: 1 white/orange 2 orange 3 white/green 4 blue

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Evans
That is a typo on my part, it should have said 256k. You can get that through starband. Those of you looking for a high-ly skilled dealer, I highly recommend the folks at Northern Systems in Wales MA (800-725-4525). As for the pricing breakdown: $149.00 Basic TV receiver (not required

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Evans
I regularly see 400k real inbound throughput. Latency is usually around 800ms. I do use ssh through it regularly, and find no problems with the latency. If you are a game player though, the latency will be a show-stopper. - Marc On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated:

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:55:37 EST Cole Tuininga said: Why is this, if you don't mind me asking? Personally, I'd much sooner run SMB than NFS - even in an all linux environment. SMB is inherently buggy and incredibly slow. NFS, though buggy, is a much more stable protocol.

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Cole Tuininga
Paul Lussier wrote: N! I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant. Both Ben and I were referring to the use of SMB as *server* running on a Linux box to server Windows *clients*. Why is this, if you don't mind me asking? Personally, I'd much sooner run SMB than NFS - even

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:08:23 EST Hartnett said: Dish Network does offer two way satellite Internet. Is it true 2-way satellite or is it a telco-return? Most of these (Direct PC) used to be satellite downstream feed and a telco return. Kind of defeating the purpose IMO. --

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Thomas Charron
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan) In a message dated: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:08:23 EST Hartnett said: Dish Network does offer two way satellite Internet. Is it true 2-way satellite or is it a telco-return? Most of these (Direct PC) used to

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea what the performance is like? They quote upto 500k downstream connection, but what about latency? Speed is great, but it's the latency that'll kill you. I.e., don't underestmate the bandwidth of a C-5 Galaxy

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Marc Evans
It is true two-way satelite (vsat return @ 128k or 1256k optionally). - Marc On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:08:23 EST Hartnett said: Dish Network does offer two way satellite Internet. Is it true 2-way satellite or is it a telco-return?

Re: ongoing: First Lan

2001-03-20 Thread Karl J. Runge
Hi, On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent versions of portmap use tcp_wrappers, so you can use /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to grant or deny access. This is good, since it makes thing harder. But portmapper is just a port directory lookup for the real

Re: Vitts. (Was Re: ongoing: First Lan)

2001-03-20 Thread Jerry Kubeck
I also checked into the Dish Network internet offering, and as Mark says it is a true two-way connection, but is it expensive $$$, mucho dinero, and our little Dish Network dealer knows next to nothing about it. You have to buy a special Dish and inner hardware to make it work.

Re: M$ loses a customer...?

2001-03-20 Thread David Roberts
I thought I was being clever, but your line was clearly much better!!! (Lowers head in humility - realizes now that age has indeed crept up and robbed him of his poetic wit... ;) dlr On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Brian Chabot said: brian brian On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Roberts wrote: brian brian