Help me out of wireless hell

2002-08-26 Thread Paul Iadonisi
*sigh* I've avoided getting any wireless hardware for various reasons. Now I'm in a situation where my life is much easier if I dive in. Well, I'm part way there. I've at least got a wireless card that works with the access point (whatever it is) that I need it to. But having a piece of

MELBA wed

2002-08-26 Thread Erik Price
Is there in fact a MELBA meeting on Wednesday night? I understand that there was something last week but then there was some talk of another meeting this week? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread bscott
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, at 12:09am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Below is a snippet from an ethereal dump. Any ideas? Shutdown everything. Place system on an isolated network. Start packet sniffer (no filter). Start any services Apache depends on (e.g., a local DNS resolver). Start Apache. Sen

Re: OT: Interesting Site

2002-08-26 Thread bscott
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, at 7:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found this site today and have been going through it since: > > http://www.empowermentzone.com/ Oh my God! It's full of hyperlinks! ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the

Re: Cable modems

2002-08-26 Thread bscott
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, at 8:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering what are the latest features I should look for and what > brands/models other people are using successfully, or more importantly > unsucessfully to connect to attbi. DOCSIS (Data Over Cable System Interface Specification

Re: File server

2002-08-26 Thread bscott
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, at 2:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any suggestions as to what projects or vendors I might read up on? Given the multi-terabyte size requirement, you might want to look into some "Big Name Vendors" like Red Hat or IBM. They have the resources to have tested this already.

Re: File server

2002-08-26 Thread bscott
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, at 3:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... while LVM and the ext2 resize tool requires the filesystem > be offline. FYI, ext2 can be grown while online using a kernel patch. You need to take it offline to shrink it. Same story for ResierFS, except no patching needed othe

Re: web browser protocols (specifically telnet)

2002-08-26 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > Except that telnet://server isn't a mime type, it's a URL, which is > different. Mime types are used for handling attachements, URLs are > for protocols. I'm aware of that... the poi

OT: Interesting Site

2002-08-26 Thread numberwhun
I found this site today and have been going through it since: http://www.empowermentzone.com/ There is so much information on here, it is going to take quite a while to go through. I hope everyone finds it as interesting as I do. Regards, Jeff Kirkland

Re: File server

2002-08-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
Just finished building one, actually a few of them. Started with a base of the IBM xSeries (360). Got it loaded with their RAID controllers, and also got the expansion chassis for the drives. The cost wasn't that high, but we get educational pricing from IBM. We also buy a LOT of stuff from th

Mailing List upgrade

2002-08-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
At some point tonight (probably after 9pm), I'll be updating mailman to 2.0.13. This is to close some security holes and (hopefully) fix some bugs. Note that this new release does NOT include the virtual domain fixes. The upgrade entails turning off all the mail software (even sendmail) while the

Re: File server

2002-08-26 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:29:49 EDT "Andrew W. Gaunt" said: >I'm in the very preliminary stages of looking into the >possibilty of replacing a proprietary file server we have >that is rather expensive and difficult to work with. Are you replacing a NAS system? >Without going into

File server

2002-08-26 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I'm in the very preliminary stages of looking into the possibilty of replacing a proprietary file server we have that is rather expensive and difficult to work with. Without going into too much detail, its replacement must be able to deliver data via NFS and SMB. Samba is just fine for the latte

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread Bill Mullen
Ken Ambrose wrote: > I'm sorry -- I wasn't explicit enough. The "boxen" I upgraded -were- > the servers. The clients are many, and varied, but seem to all > experience the same issue. Note that of the clients from whom I've > heard complaints, all are behind NAT boxes, though I don't quite see

Re: web browser protocols (specifically telnet)

2002-08-26 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:59:51 EDT "Derek D. Martin" said: >When I try this in Mozilla 1.0, it tells me that telnet is not a >registered protocol. It may well be that (at least the linux version >of) mozilla does not support this. I get the same result with Galeon, which is mozi

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: =>Howdy, all. I just upgraded my boxen to RH 7.3, and suddenly my webmail =>(SquirrelMail) is taking three minutes just to bring up the login page. I =>double-checked my httpd.conf file, and HostnameLookups is set to off, so I =>don't -think- it's a rever

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: > Howdy, all. I just upgraded my boxen to RH 7.3, and suddenly my webmail > (SquirrelMail) is taking three minutes just to bring up the login page. I > double-checked my httpd.conf file, and HostnameLookups is set to off, so I > don't -think- it's a revers

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread Ken Ambrose
I'm sorry -- I wasn't explicit enough. The "boxen" I upgraded -were- the servers. The clients are many, and varied, but seem to all experience the same issue. Note that of the clients from whom I've heard complaints, all are behind NAT boxes, though I don't quite see how that would correlate. (

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread Erik Price
On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 03:09 AM, Ken Ambrose wrote: > Howdy, all. I just upgraded my boxen to RH 7.3, and suddenly my webmail > (SquirrelMail) is taking three minutes just to bring up the login > page. I > double-checked my httpd.conf file, and HostnameLookups is set to off, > so I