short-term ISP

2000-10-29 Thread Bob Miller
Anne and I are visiting Eugene for two weeks, Nov. 12-25. We really don't want to be without email for that long. We'll both have our laptops with us (some guy is giving a presentation at the 11/18 meeting about Linux on laptops, I think (-: ), but our laptops have WinModems which don't work

Re: Home networking

2000-10-29 Thread Kent Loobey
For me it's more like not really having an idea about how to begin. I would like to have it so I could execute any program on any system using an X window. I would like to be able to dial out automatically from any computer even though the modem is only connected to one of the computers. I

Re: short-term ISP

2000-10-29 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: Anne and I are visiting Eugene for two weeks, Nov. 12-25. We really don't want to be without email for that long. We'll both have our laptops with us (some guy is giving a presentation at the 11/18 meeting about Linux on laptops, I

Re: last Thursday's meeting October 19,2000

2000-10-29 Thread Bob Miller
Timothy Bolz wrote: Thursday October 19,2000 Seth and Mike and Paul went over to visit with Stan for a while. I asked Seth what they talked about he said they visited some sites on Kline bottles. He said they talked about e-commerce. I wasn't there but it should have been interesting.

Re: Home networking - kent

2000-10-29 Thread Cory Petkovsek
Kent, With two computers, don't bother with NIS, DHCP or bootp. VNC is a remote administration utility, also not needed here. Setup two computers on a private network (192.168.x.x, or 10.x.x.x). At home I have 10.0.0.1 and whatever my laptop happens to be set to. Usually 10.0.0.20. (I