Re: Serial admin console program

2008-09-24 Thread Frank DiPrete
Chip Marshall wrote: On September 23, 2008, Frank DiPrete sent me the following: Term servers are the best technology that 1992 has to offer. They still exist for a reason and this is it :D Also, most server grade x86 systems can be configured for serial BIOS access, and a 48 serial

Re: Serial admin console program (minicom)

2008-09-24 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cheap-N-nasty Here (IIRC) is how I turn a machine into a serial-port server: stty 115200 raw /dev/ttyS1 socket -l -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS1 21 ...after which anybody who telnets to port on that

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-09-24 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chip Marshall wrote: On September 23, 2008, Frank DiPrete sent me the following: Term servers are the best technology that 1992 has to offer. They still exist for a reason and this is it :D Also, most server

LAN/WAN fault simulation

2008-09-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
We may want to characterize some client/server systems and applications (destined to be geographically distant from each other) in the face of various LAN/WAN faults/conditions like dropped/duplicate packets and varyious end-to-end throughput rates, so I'm wondering if anybody here has a pointer

Re: LAN/WAN fault simulation

2008-09-24 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We may want to characterize some client/server systems and applications (destined to be geographically distant from each other) in the face of various LAN/WAN faults/conditions like dropped/duplicate packets and

Re: Android Phone - anyone got one yet?

2008-09-24 Thread Python
In spite of that empty coverage map, t-mobile has worked OK for me. My son (then in FL) was determined to drag his parents into the 21st century and put us on his family plan. The empty coverage map would have driven me to a different carrier had I been making the purchase decision. Here in

Re: LAN/WAN fault simulation

2008-09-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
It sounds like you are looking for a network impairment generator. Sounds like a perfect description of ComCast... ;- If you are looking for F/OSS running on Linux, then take a look at NISTNet ( http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/nistnet/). It is beta, and has been for a very long time, but it

Re: Android Phone - anyone got one yet?

2008-09-24 Thread Šarūnas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Python wrote: In spite of that empty coverage map, t-mobile has worked OK for me. My son (then in FL) was determined to drag his parents into the 21st century and put us on his family plan. The empty coverage map would have driven me to a

Re: Android Phone - anyone got one yet?

2008-09-24 Thread Python
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 11:21 -0400, Šarūnas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Python wrote: In spite of that empty coverage map, t-mobile has worked OK for me. My son (then in FL) was determined to drag his parents into the 21st century and put us on his family plan.

Regain root control of Zenwalk system...

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Hewitt
I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a Zenwalk install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I don't have the root password. I am able to easily pull the hard drive and mount it as a USB external drive to my Ubuntu system. I can see the passwd and shadow files and

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-09-24 Thread Shawn O'Shea
I am using a lantronix 48 port term server also (not a kvm) Back in my days of managing my Sun boxes, we had a Lantronix and I hated it. My experience with them is *years* old though. I'm partial to the Cyclades (now Avocent) myself. Formerly had the TS2000, now Avocent pushes the ACS48.

Re: LAN/WAN fault simulation

2008-09-24 Thread Shawn O'Shea
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We may want to characterize some client/server systems and applications (destined to be geographically distant from each other) in the face of various LAN/WAN faults/conditions like dropped/duplicate packets and

Re: Regain root control of Zenwalk system...

2008-09-24 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a Zenwalk install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I don't have the root password. I am able to easily pull the hard drive and mount it as a USB

Re: Regain root control of Zenwalk system...

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:09 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a Zenwalk install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I

Re: Regain root control of Zenwalk system...

2008-09-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
You say you were able to mount that system's disk on another system? In that case I think it might also have been possible accomplish it thus: chroot rootMountPointHere passwd root ...at which point the passwd utility would have allowed you to enter a new password and updated all the

Re: Android Phone - anyone got one yet?

2008-09-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:55, Python wrote: Maybe I should contact t-mobile to see if they want to hire me to roam the state placing calls and asking if you can hear me - like the old verizon commercials. Just write an Android app that reads the radio signal strength and GPS coords and