Re: Experience with UPSes on USB?

2005-04-22 Thread Larry Cook
Ted Roche wrote: I've got a client with a small machine he wants UPS'd, and wondered if anyone had experience with the USB-based interfaces - there's one on sale cheap at Best Buy this week. The one at Best Buy is the APC Backup ES 500 which just has USB, no serial. I bought one a few months ago

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread greg
I've researched this but haven't bought a printer yet.  I don't like the labels because there have been numerous articles suggesting that the glue from the labels can decrease the life of the media, particularly CD's due to their writable layer being fairly close to the surface where a label st

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread David Ecklein
I have a recent Epson Stylus Photo R200 that I bought retail (at CompUSA) for $99. It does a beautiful job on inkjet printable CDRs - which can be had at Sam's - 50 700 Mb Verbatim for about $14. This printer is a best buy, in my opinion - does everything well for the money. It comes with a spec

Re: Experience with UPSes on USB?

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Jenkins
Ted Roche wrote: I've set up a couple of UPSes using DB9 serial ports and the Network UPS Tools (http://www.networkupstools.lrg) pretty successfully. I've got a client with a small machine he wants UPS'd, and wondered if anyone had experience with the USB-based interfaces - there's one on sale

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Larry Cook
I mostly use a sharpee Me too! With 24 colors to choose from, what more do you need! ;-) Larry ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Debian Preseed

2005-04-22 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Does anyone have any experience with debian-installer or the preseed installation method? I'm having some difficulty with the netcfg portion, specifically. For some reason, if I don't preseed the netcfg questions, it will try to configure the network via dhcp. When that fails (no dhcp server in the

Re: Debian Preseed

2005-04-22 Thread Ed Lawson
> Does anyone have any experience with debian-installer some. >Hostname is automatically set to "debian" and the domain > portion is left blank. Why can't you simply type in the hostname and domain you want? Every Debian install I have done has set the default hostname to debian, but you simp

Re: Debian Preseed

2005-04-22 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:24 -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with debian-installer > > some. > > >Hostname is automatically set to "debian" and the domain > > portion is left blank. > > Why can't you simply type in the hostname and domain you want? > > Every Debian in

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Larry Cook wrote: > > I mostly use a sharpee > > Me too! With 24 colors to choose from, what more do you need! ;-) Neat handwriting... :) (My sharpees are so old they're now dullee's..) > > Larry > ___ >

Re: Debian Preseed

2005-04-22 Thread Ed Lawson
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:33:20 -0400 "Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm never prompted for the hostname or domain. I can set them if I put > > in my preseed.txt file, I have never used a preseed.txt file so am ignorant of that. However, if I understand you correctly, you ca

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Randy Edwards
> I got my last batch of DVD's for about $0.60@, mostly because I insist on > Taiyo Yeuden. Being ignorant about DVDs, I'm curious: what is Taiyo Yeuden and why? Regards, . Randy -- While we sit comfortably using our computers, soldiers paid for with our taxes are killing and torturin

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:27, David Ecklein wrote: I have a recent Epson Stylus Photo R200 that I bought retail (at CompUSA) for $99. It does a beautiful job on inkjet printable CDRs - which can be had at Sam's - 50 700 Mb Verbatim for about $14. I'll second that. I got the R300 at Staples for $99

Re: Debian Preseed

2005-04-22 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:56 -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:33:20 -0400 > "Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never used a preseed.txt file so am ignorant of that. > However, if I understand you correctly, you can set hostname and > domain in the pressed.txt f

Re: Experience with UPSes on USB?

2005-04-22 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:12 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > I've set up a couple of UPSes using DB9 serial ports and the Network > UPS Tools (http://www.networkupstools.lrg) pretty successfully. I've > got a client with a small machine he wants UPS'd, and wondered if > anyone had experience with the U

Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]

2005-04-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Drew Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul, >Make dead certain that they don't tell the machine it's a domain > controller on your samba domain, else none of the Linux machines will > be able to authenticate anymore barring plenty of irritating Samba > config-tweaking. I lost WEEKS of

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Ed Lawson
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:55:42 -0400 Jeffrey Creem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have an *EPSON Stylus Photo 960 and it is supported by GIMP-Print. > Hmmm. So just about any inkjet printer will do the job if it can be adjusted for the thickness of the disks? Are the disks attached to someth

Experience with UPSes on USB?

2005-04-22 Thread Ted Roche
I've set up a couple of UPSes using DB9 serial ports and the Network UPS Tools (http://www.networkupstools.lrg) pretty successfully. I've got a client with a small machine he wants UPS'd, and wondered if anyone had experience with the USB-based interfaces - there's one on sale cheap at Best Buy

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Ed Lawson
> Travis Roy wrote: > > > I was thinking about picking up one of those CD Label kit things.. > > > > Does anybody have any recommendations.. any work out better for you > > then others? I have found the glabel application very easy to use and flexible for creating CD labels as well as business

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Creem
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:20 -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote: I decided to abandon labels and go with an inkjet printer that can print directly onto printable CD's/DVD's. What printer was it? And more importantly, does it work with linux? I have an *EPSON Stylus Photo 96

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Jenkins
Jeffrey Creem wrote: Travis Roy wrote: I was thinking about picking up one of those CD Label kit things.. Does anybody have any recommendations.. any work out better for you then others? I would recommend that you don't. There are a pile of people who will swear they never have problems with labels

Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]

2005-04-22 Thread Lara Ullman
FYI to anyone who is in a similar situation (unhappy Outlook users), Meetingmaker's Outlook plugin is working pretty well so far for us. The Outlook users are happy. I'm happy because the complaining has mostly stopped. I've even gotten some enthusiastic reactions. I haven't been a big fan of me

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:20 -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote: > I decided to abandon labels and go with an inkjet printer that can > print directly onto printable CD's/DVD's. What printer was it? And more importantly, does it work with linux? -- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired

Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]

2005-04-22 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Paul, Make dead certain that they don't tell the machine it's a domain controller on your samba domain, else none of the Linux machines will be able to authenticate anymore barring plenty of irritating Samba config-tweaking. I lost WEEKS of work as the [expletive deleted] "Windows EXPERT" fiddl

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Creem
Travis Roy wrote: I was thinking about picking up one of those CD Label kit things.. Does anybody have any recommendations.. any work out better for you then others? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/ma

Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]

2005-04-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're still looking for a trollish name, I'll add sdinet to the > list of nominees. You'd have to be a fan of The Cuckoo's Egg for that > to make any sense. H, that's good. You know, I've only read that book 4 times, but it's been at least 5

[Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-22 Thread Travis Roy
I was thinking about picking up one of those CD Label kit things.. Does anybody have any recommendations.. any work out better for you then others? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnh

Re: Exchange, calendaring and IMAP [ mostly off-topic ]

2005-04-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 21, 2005, at 21:23, Paul Lussier wrote: I guess I'll just let them do whatever it is they need to do. What you're missing is that Microsoft has the middle-management layer of American business nailed. What do middle managers like to do? Have meetings, talk on the phone and give presentat