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 to get you to send it to me?

 

LOL ! It would be an honour to send it to you, dep ! Unfortunately, it 
currently rests in pieces somewhere in a landfill in Singapore. I 
couldn't use it anymore because the LCD screen completely broke off from 
the keyboard/CPU part after some rough handling in Malaysia where I was 
based.

Regards,
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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 question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?

 And, if so, which flavor of linux?

 I think I should get a wireless enabled laptop, too.

 

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 indestructable. I saw one demonstrated one time where the sales 
rep slid a closed laptop off a desk onto the concrete apron at poolside. He 
did this over and over again during his sales pitch. At the end of the speech 
he dipped it into the pool and opened... it proceded to boot and work 
perfectly. Try that with your run of the mill laptop... ;')

The last I looked, these were still being built, a bit tough to loacate, not 
real cutting edge technology... maybe 1gig p4... and could be bought state 
side for under a couple of grand. Although not sold as being linux 
compatible, there wasn't anything in them that wouldn't work with peguin 
power. :')

Try: http://www.panasonic.com/toughbook

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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 obtain it)?

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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 indestructable. I saw one demonstrated one time where the sales 
rep slid a closed laptop off a desk onto the concrete apron at poolside. He 
did this over and over again during his sales pitch. At the end of the speech 
he dipped it into the pool and opened... it proceded to boot and work 
perfectly. Try that with your run of the mill laptop... ;')

Sounds like just what I need for our Auction application, what we refer to
as the ``Hankproof 2000'' (Hank has a tendency to be hard on equipment :-).

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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 (and where I
could obtain it)?
thanks!

Doesn't that use a fifteen pin connector? I ran the cables for one such 
system quite some time ago, I'll have to look up my notes to see if I 
have recorded the pin-outs.

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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 needed to setup serial console on these beasts (and where I
  could obtain it)?
 
  thanks!
 
 Doesn't that use a fifteen pin connector? I ran the cables for one such
 system quite some time ago, I'll have to look up my notes to see if I
 have recorded the pin-outs.

Its some kind of RJ45 (8 pin, i guess).  There are two ports, one is LOM,
the other is just an ordinary RJ45.

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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 fully ironed out is... Can a Quake client run locally 
on the Quake server machine? I was asked to set it up that way, but it 
appears that you can't run a client on the same machine running the server 
under linux. However, under windows it's not a problem. 

It's slightly embarassing.

Anyway, if anyone has some insight on this, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.


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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 connections for the short term. The 
one area that I haven't fully ironed out is... Can a Quake client run locally 
on the Quake server machine? I was asked to set it up that way, but it 
appears that you can't run a client on the same machine running the server 
under linux. However, under windows it's not a problem. 

It's slightly embarassing.

Anyway, if anyone has some insight on this, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

If it can be done with winodws, you should be able to do it with linux.
Just get the instructions for windows and try to translate them to
Linux ;)

I have a couple of Enemy Territory servers (almost the same game
engine), if you get stuck, just ask me.

Bye!


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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 --- DCS --- 5
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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 --- 7
 6 --- RXD --- 3
 7 --- DCD --- 8
 8 --- DCS --- 5

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?

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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 --- 2
 4 --- Sig GND --- 1
 5 --- Sig GND --- 7
 6 --- RXD --- 3
 7 --- DCD --- 8
 8 --- DCS --- 5

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?

If found that building rj45-db25 adapters for each system then plugging
these together to do the conversion.  This tends to be far less confusing
for me than attempting to figure it out proprietary rf45 to proprietary
rj45, and also leaves me with a couple of general purpose cables for each
proprietary system when I'm done.  I often use the Allentel rj45-dbxxx
adapters for this which go from female rf40 to the DB {9,25}{male,female}
connectors as they're easy to punch in, and I have a library of the color
codes for various hardware applications that makes it a no-brainer to
follow.

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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 work with this stuff.

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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 understand...
 
 Basically this is a LAN setup, no internet connections for the short term.
  The one area that I haven't fully ironed out is... Can a Quake client run
  locally on the Quake server machine? I was asked to set it up that way,
  but it appears that you can't run a client on the same machine running
  the server under linux. However, under windows it's not a problem.
 
 It's slightly embarassing.
 
 Anyway, if anyone has some insight on this, I'd appreciate it.
 
 Thank you in advance.

 If it can be done with winodws, you should be able to do it with linux.
 Just get the instructions for windows and try to translate them to
 Linux ;)

 I have a couple of Enemy Territory servers (almost the same game
 engine), if you get stuck, just ask me.


Found it... had a munged file... It's all running gloriously

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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 
times to get the lom prompt. If you need the documentation for LOM 
port operations, you can look for it on the Internet, or email me. I 
might have it handy.

Regards,
pascal chong
Ted Ozolins wrote:

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 work with this stuff.



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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 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
 times to get the lom prompt. If you need the documentation for LOM
 port operations, you can look for it on the Internet, or email me. I
 might have it handy.

 Regards,
 pascal chong


 Ted Ozolins wrote:

  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 work with this stuff.
 


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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 recommendation.  The 12 PowerBook can be had
for nice price with a DVD burner.  You can run Yellow Dog Linux on it but
after you use OS X I doubt you will want to.  Gento also has a PPC distro
now and there are a few others out there.

OSX does so much out of the box with the Apple software already and when you
add all the Unix applications that you can run its just plain great.

The 15 and 17 PowerBooks are a little steep but they are very nice.  I
currently use a 12 iBook and love it.  I'm saving for a new G5 Tower and a
12 PowerBook.


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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 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 manually.

What you can do is, try to borrow one from your network engineer (or any 
network engineer friends), because you only need it for the initial OS 
install. After that, you just use Exceed to connect to the box via a 
cross-over cable and you can do the configuration, etc. on it. If you 
want, I can see if I can buy one here and send it over to you. But I 
think it may be cheaper (and faster) to order it in the US on Cisco's 
website or eBay, or the neighbourhood computer shop.

pascal chong

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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 manually.

 What you can do is, try to borrow one from your network engineer (or any
 network engineer friends), because you only need it for the initial OS
 install. After that, you just use Exceed to connect to the box via a
 cross-over cable and you can do the configuration, etc. on it. If you
 want, I can see if I can buy one here and send it over to you. But I
 think it may be cheaper (and faster) to order it in the US on Cisco's
 website or eBay, or the neighbourhood computer shop.

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?

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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 download.  
 
 Any recommendations on a method so we can share the inbox for our shared 
 e-mail account?  
 
 I looked at Kmail filtering a copy of every message downloaded into her 
 $HOME/Mail/inbox file but there is only a move to option not a copy to.  


If you can put up with Ximian Evolution mail, their filter rules allow
you to 'Copy To' a specified folder or mailbox, et volia!

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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 and all worked 
 flawlessly - very well built. I'm currently using a 240Z (thanks, dep) 
 which is small and lightweight. Bought it refurbed on eBay for something 
 like $600. It dual-boots XP Pro and RH9. Even the WinModem works.
 
 Dell laptops are good also, but I don't know how they play with Linux.
 

We had about 500 Thinkpads in circulation here in our offices in Ottawa.
They were our staple desktop for consultants-on-the-go. However about
3 years ago we started to have a lot of problems with power supplies and
batteries. Other than that, they were tough and dependable. We still use
a few in the Lab for mobile testing.

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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 indestructable. I saw one demonstrated one time where the sales 
 rep slid a closed laptop off a desk onto the concrete apron at poolside. He 
 did this over and over again during his sales pitch. At the end of the speech 
 he dipped it into the pool and opened... it proceded to boot and work 
 perfectly. Try that with your run of the mill laptop... ;')
 

Yup. A friend of mine who works for the US Army swears that he was at a
Toughbook demo for the military at Fort Bragg, where the Panasonic rep
paused his PowerPoint slide presentation, closed the lid, threw the
laptop out the groundfloor window, where they had a Hummer run over it.
It was then handed back through the same window, where the sales rep
plugged it back into the projector and resumed his presentation where he
left off, hardly breaking stride. The Brigade Commander bought them on
the spot. 

Bring money
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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 just about indestructable. I saw one demonstrated one time where the sales 
rep slid a closed laptop off a desk onto the concrete apron at poolside. He 
did this over and over again during his sales pitch. At the end of the speech 
he dipped it into the pool and opened... it proceded to boot and work 
perfectly. Try that with your run of the mill laptop... ;')

   

Yup. A friend of mine who works for the US Army swears that he was at a
Toughbook demo for the military at Fort Bragg, where the Panasonic rep
paused his PowerPoint slide presentation, closed the lid, threw the
laptop out the groundfloor window, where they had a Hummer run over it.
It was then handed back through the same window, where the sales rep
plugged it back into the projector and resumed his presentation where he
left off, hardly breaking stride. The Brigade Commander bought them on
the spot. 

Bring money
 

Sounds like what we need the Dells we have at work are OK but are on the 
fragile side... seem to be replacing keyboards and busted screen 
surrounds a lot.



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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 you interface with the Cisco cable through the LOM port, you get 
low-level access to the server. By that I mean you can power down, power 
up, get console access to the server. So, you can re-install the 
operating system in command-line mode. However, you cannot get X-Windows 
access, and I am pretty sure that you cannot execute all the console 
commands (such as df -k, etc.).

The cross-over cable should be plugged into the Ethernet port of the 
Netra, and if you know the IP address, and the root password (or have an 
account on the server) you can access the server through Exceed or some 
X terminal application. This is particularly cool with Exceed because it 
looks as if you're on the server itself, and it's pretty easy to 
configure a connection through the wizard. Take note though that on 
hardened Solaris systems, all you get is a single window. In cases such 
as this, you'll probably need to re-install Solaris. However, if you can 
get to the CDE login, everything will look very familiar after that.

There are some uncommon permutations that I haven't covered here, but if 
you'd like, we can communicate offline on this. I tried to get a Netra 
off my company as a bonus for a successful project completion, but they 
didn't agree.

Regards,
pascal chong


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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 

everything boots fine  WTFO?


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