On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote:
Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user,
and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network,
presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or NI
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote:
On 6/8/2005 at 10:13 Tony Shadwick wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote:
Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local
user,
and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network,
presuming the pptp server
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote:
Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local
user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the
network, presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or
NIS. Add a script to that login that moun
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote:
On 6/7/2005 at 19:09 Tony Shadwick wrote:
I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I
would throw at the list.
Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company,
we'll
say 25 workstations, all running some
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote:
> To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard
> drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk
> about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by
> people saying that fla
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote:
> > If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
> > old computers I have some general tips for you:
> > 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use
> > a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
> > http://www.cfide.co.
Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a
CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old
computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card,
Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on a bit of a ta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Here is a better idea!
Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dum
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed:
> Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much m
* Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1036 04:36]:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
> Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> > > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> > > be used as temporary ro
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Here is a better idea!
> Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
> IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
> Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster.
> Step 3: Ins
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
> the motherboard is fi
Oh... If you don't want to do the dumpster diving then you can get some
good stuff here:
http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_computers.asp?bin_id=world&page=1&Manufacturer_ID=&CPU_ID=&CPU_Speed_ID=&RAM_ID=&HD_Size_ID=&CD_ROM_Flag=&Price=&order_by=price%5Fcurrent%5Fselling%5Fprice+
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> > PCMCIA Ethernet
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
> the motherboard is fine, of c
I just installed 5.3-RC1 on a Panasonic Toughbook (366 MHz PII) last
night and things are working well. I haven't gotten a lot running yet
but don't foresee any problems. The only gotcha is I had to re-compile
the kernel to get my Proxim wireless card working (default kernel
doesn't have Atheros su
Many people run FreeBSD on laptops.
This is the best link to get started:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
I run 5.2.1-RELEASE on an IBM T30. The only outstanding issues for me
are: acpi (I just use apm) and the integrated Cisco Aironet Wireless (it
worked with FreeBSD 4.9/10, but broke
on it several times since I bought a few months ago. My company
plans on buying more from them this year.
--
Chip
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jimi Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Scott Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PRO
ns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)
>
> On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 04:00 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bl
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 04:00 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote:
Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a
site/manufacturer which sold Athlon- and Pentium-based laptops with
Free/OpenBSD and/or Linux pre-insta
On Monday 30 December 2002 03:28, John Bleichert wrote:
> Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a
> site/manufacturer which sold Athlon- and Pentium-based laptops with
> Free/OpenBSD and/or Linux pre-installed. Now that I'm in the market
> I can't find the site to save my lif
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Scott Robbins wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote:
> > Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a
> >
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:28:31PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote:
> Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a
> site/manufacturer which sold Athlon- and Pentium-based laptops with
> Free/OpenBSD and/or Linux pre-installed. Now that I'm in the market
> I can't find the site to
Steve (CK) wrote:
My first thought was an iBook or TiBook running OS X but the prohibitive
cost has me second-guessing that option. Maybe if the new IBM PPC chips
were to be introduced before next fall in the iBook I would take this
option but the speed and cost issue makes me not want to do this
"Steve (CK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings! I am planning on attending law school next fall and would like
> to buy a laptop to bring with me to class to take notes, do research, and
> connect to the local networks. I'm hoping to be able to dual-boot this
> system as Win2k (or XP) and
On Thursday, Nov 7, 2002, at 23:35 US/Pacific, Steve (CK) wrote:
My first thought was an iBook or TiBook running OS X but the
prohibitive
cost has me second-guessing that option. Maybe if the new IBM PPC
chips
were to be introduced before next fall in the iBook I would take this
option but th
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