Re: How to "ping" a DHCP server

2003-01-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 15:22, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > Is there some easy way I can tell from the > commandline whether a DHCP server is alive on > my network? Ideally it would be a very short, > low impact little probe that would maybe just do > (say) a DHCPDISCOVER and then report the results,

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:13:02 -0500 (EST) Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry, perhaps one good solution for you is to burn yourself a few > copies of the single-CD Knoppix distro. Current ISO is available at: > > ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-01-EN.iso

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > It would be nice if I could get Northeastern to do something like use > > dual boot. But, I only teach 1 course per quarter. But, my suggestions > > to NEU were pretty much on the same line. > > > Anothe

How to "ping" a DHCP server

2003-01-18 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Is there some easy way I can tell from the commandline whether a DHCP server is alive on my network? Ideally it would be a very short, low impact little probe that would maybe just do (say) a DHCPDISCOVER and then report the results, preferably including the time it took to do it. TIA _

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Buskey
There are some versions of linux that install on top of a DOS file system. To run them, you shutdown to DOS then run a BAT file. I've played with them a bit on older hardware and they felt like regular linux with X, etc. I don't know how well they'd work on top of NT or XP. There are the fl

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread keyser_soze
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote: > It would be nice if I could get Northeastern to do something like use > dual boot. But, I only teach 1 course per quarter. But, my suggestions > to NEU were pretty much on the same line. Another alternative is to set up clones that boot up over the net

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
At 11:38 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:16:13 -0500 Jefferson Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to add that I am attending Daniel Webster College here > in Nashua, NH, and they use Linux for any of their *nix classes. I > took the Unix Administr

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:16:13 -0500 Jefferson Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to add that I am attending Daniel Webster College here > in Nashua, NH, and they use Linux for any of their *nix classes. I > took the Unix Administration class and the computers had Red Hat > install

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
At 11:01 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:19:48 -0800 (PST) Vince McHugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry, > >I took several Unix\Linux classes at the Manchester > Technical college in New Hampshire. It would be nice if I could get Northeastern to do something

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:19:48 -0800 (PST) Vince McHugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry, > >I took several Unix\Linux classes at the Manchester > Technical college in New Hampshire. It would be nice if I could get Northeastern to do something like use dual boot. But, I only teach 1 course p

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Vince McHugh
Jerry, I took several Unix\Linux classes at the Manchester Technical college in New Hampshire. The way that they kept hardware cost down was to use removeable hard drives. So the lab had X amount of PCs but 4 or more different hard drives for each. The hard drives were labeled A thru D or G. Th

Re: Printing on thick paper

2003-01-18 Thread Jack Hodgson
I believe that card stock is often known as "110 lb" -- Jack I recently purchased a Samsung ML 1430 laser printer which seems to handle fairly heavy paper. I printed out some sheet music for my daughter and seem to recall that the paper was "68 lb". It certainly was thick. I did notice that ther

Re: cygwin

2003-01-18 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Erik Price wrote: > Does anyone on this list use Cygwin when they are using Windows? I use > Win2k at work and was hoping to get that Linux feel with this program. > Any advice or comments? I use it all the time to do XDMCP logins on local Linux boxes from Windows boxes, a