Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread Chong Yu Meng
dep wrote: quoth Chong Yu Meng: | And, yes, IBM batteries suck ! After 1 year, the battery in my | previous Thinkpad (an X240, IIRC) died, and I had to plug my laptop | into a wall socket everytime I needed to boot-up. where is your previous laptop and what, beyond my good wishes, would it take

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 04 October 2003 09:18 am, Joel Hammer wrote: I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road. So, my

OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
Anyone here ever had to admin a Sun Netra? I've recently inherited a few (against my will), and discovered that they don't have the DB25 serial port that i'm accustomed to on other Sun hardware. Anyone know what kind of cable is needed to setup serial console on these beasts (and where I could

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: ... You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that is just about

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
Net Llama! wrote: Anyone here ever had to admin a Sun Netra? I've recently inherited a few (against my will), and discovered that they don't have the DB25 serial port that i'm accustomed to on other Sun hardware. Anyone know what kind of cable is needed to setup serial console on these beasts

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Anyone here ever had to admin a Sun Netra? I've recently inherited a few (against my will), and discovered that they don't have the DB25 serial port that i'm accustomed to on other Sun hardware. Anyone know what kind of cable is

Quake3 Arena??

2003-10-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here running a Quake 3 Arena server? I'm in the process of putting a Linux Quake server together for a local retail establishment and I've got a problem I'm not sure I understand... Basically this is a LAN setup, no internet connections for the short term. The one area that I haven't

Re: Quake3 Arena??

2003-10-05 Thread Federico Voges
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:02:50 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here running a Quake 3 Arena server? I'm in the process of putting a Linux Quake server together for a local retail establishment and I've got a problem I'm not sure I understand... Basically this is a LAN setup, no internet

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
Net Llama! wrote: Its some kind of RJ45 (8 pin, i guess). There are two ports, one is LOM, the other is just an ordinary RJ45. PIN SIGNAL DB25 1 --- DTS --- 4 2 --- DTR ---20 3 --- TXD --- 2 4 --- Sig GND --- 1 5 --- Sig GND --- 7 6 --- RXD --- 3 7 --- DCD --- 8 8 ---

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its some kind of RJ45 (8 pin, i guess). There are two ports, one is LOM, the other is just an ordinary RJ45. PIN SIGNAL DB25 1 --- DTS --- 4 2 --- DTR ---20 3 --- TXD --- 2 4 --- Sig GND --- 1 5 --- Sig GND

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its some kind of RJ45 (8 pin, i guess). There are two ports, one is LOM, the other is just an ordinary RJ45. PIN SIGNAL DB25 1 --- DTS --- 4 2 --- DTR ---20 3 --- TXD ---

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
Net Llama! wrote: OK. But i don't need DB25. I've got a Rocketport which takes RJ45, and the Netra RJ45, which seems to need something other than an ordinary cat5. Do you know if its a crossover, or something custom? I'll have to check on that and get back to you. I know a few people here that

Re: Quake3 Arena??

2003-10-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 05 October 2003 05:15 pm, Federico Voges wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:02:50 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here running a Quake 3 Arena server? I'm in the process of putting a Linux Quake server together for a local retail establishment and I've got a problem I'm not sure I

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Hi Llama ! You can use the typical console cable used for Cisco routers. That's what I used to hook up the office Netra to my office laptop. Plug into the LOM port and plug the other end into your 9-pin serial port. If you are using Windows, open a Hyperterminal window and press Enter several

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
Hi pascal, No cisco routers here (so no console cable). I've got alot of cat5, but that's about all. I get the feeling that I'll need to purchase, or construct some other kind, but i can't figure out which. ugh. i hate sun. On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Hi Llama ! You can use

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread Raymond Russell
On 10/4/03 23:16, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So they've fixed it I guess. There was a problem when it first came out. My recommendation is an Apple Powerbook - my daugher got one for school and it's great! We're running X and OpenOffice on it. I will second the PowerBook

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Net Llama! wrote: Hi pascal, No cisco routers here (so no console cable). I've got alot of cat5, but that's about all. I get the feeling that I'll need to purchase, or construct some other kind, but i can't figure out which. ugh. i hate sun. I know what you mean ! In my recent project, I

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: I know what you mean ! In my recent project, I had 3 different Sun servers requiring 3 different console cables. The Netra console cable is the most easily acquired, because it is the same as the Cisco console cable. The other 2 had to be fabricated

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-05 Thread burns
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:05, Tom Wilson wrote: Hi all My wife and I have an e-mail address that we share for general corresponce with friends and family. She is getting tired of having to have me login under my username so she can see any e-mail that she gets that I happened to

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 15:00, Michael Hipp wrote: Net Llama! wrote: yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually indestructable. My employer gave me a T20 (somewhat older, PIII-700, 512MB RAM), and it is also running RH9 + XFCE4. Here's another vote for ThinkPads. I've owned several

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:34, Jerry McBride wrote: You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that is just about

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-05 Thread James McDonald
burns wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:34, Jerry McBride wrote: You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that is

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Net Llama! wrote: Thanks for the offer, but i'm sure i can find one around here. Hell, Cisco's corporate headquarters are a 10 minute drive from where i work. Can you explain one thing though? Why do i need the Cisco cable for the OS install, but a crossover is good enough afterwards? If

GRUB and ATA RAID

2003-10-05 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Anyone have any experience with the above? I am having problems where after installing Grub on a bootable ATA RAID array (this particular array is a mirrored pair) I get the Grub level 2 boot and then the Grub shell. If I type in: root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1