Re: OT Would anyone Like to respond /OT

2002-03-28 Thread M.W.Chang
Until now, I still don't know the appropriate definition for the word ethics. SO you didn't see my short paragraphy attempting to define it. And it's a pain to talk about ethics in programming. :) Rick Sivernell wrote: Thanks for your response, interesting thought's here.

VPN's with Netgear or Linksys.

2002-03-28 Thread Wil McGilvery
I have a Freeswan VPN server set up at work. Remote access has been straight forward because most people have not used routers at home. This is now changing and I am wondering what product I could recommend for people to use at home. I don't wish to offer a software solution because I do not

Big hardware problems at linuxix.2y.net...

2002-03-28 Thread Zoran
*** I have been experiencing one problem after the other since day before yesterday and it seems it is starting to settle down only now... :-(( Sorry to anybody for any problems this might have generated, like bounced mail and such... :-( Cheers, Zoran. -- If you find me, please return me to my

Re: Swap Optimization

2002-03-28 Thread Jason Joines
On Thursday 28 March 2002 10:37 am, Myles Green wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:18:42 -0600 Jason Joines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which would result in better performance? 1. Swap on partition 1 of ATA 100 drive on ATA 133 controller with OS on partition 2 of same drive. 2.

Re: Swap Optimization

2002-03-28 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, You can get some ideas from one of the HD How-to's (www.linuxdoc.org). IIRC it was hard disk partitioning HowTo. On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:39:40 -0600, Jason Joines wrote: Mainly I was just curious as to whether the fact that the drive was

Re: Swap Optimization

2002-03-28 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, You can get some ideas from one of the HD How-to's (www.linuxdoc.org). IIRC it was hard disk partitioning HowTo. On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:39:40 -0600, Jason Joines wrote: Mainly I was just curious as to whether the fact that the drive was

Re: Swap Optimization

2002-03-28 Thread Net Llama
--- Jason Joines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mainly I was just curious as to whether the fact that the drive was on a separate contorller would override the fact that it is a slower ATA-33 drive. I do have that many drives requiring that many controllers. The motherboard has 2

Re: VPN's with Netgear or Linksys.

2002-03-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:29:44 -0500 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Freeswan VPN server set up at work. Remote access has been straight forward because most people have not used routers at home. This is now changing and I am wondering what product I could recommend for people

Re: Swap Optimization

2002-03-28 Thread Mike Andrew
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 03:59, Net Llama wrote: There's always a possibility that your swap partition may never be used at all, depending on these other factors. Realistically, if you're this concerned about disk performance, you should be using SCSI hardware, not IDE. I echo both your

Re: VPN's with Netgear or Linksys.

2002-03-28 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:31:12 -0500 begin Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:27:07 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- FreeS/WAN is still the answer. You can't do it without software. Might as well use the best. I