Re: [luau] M$ secret code.. (BOOTFLOPPY)

2002-09-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
- Original Message - From: "MonMotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [luau] M$ secret code > I personally have a firewall/network appliance > bootdisk that has most things your average networker would want... It > fit

Re: [luau] redhat 7.3

2002-08-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Alvin Murphy wrote: How do I get to the local mirror to download redhat? The local mirror can be found at ftp.videl.ics.hawaii.edu scott ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau

[luau] interesting post

2002-08-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Thanks to MonMotha, (and Slashdot), I now know that combo DVD burners are on their way. See for yourself, the story posted today at 7:07 pm est at slashdot.org impressive - keeping my gateway safely firewalled and giving me distracting reading material on Sundays (-: thanks for the time. sco

[luau] holes in your microsoft

2002-08-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
Microsoft has released several security bulletins. The first may be of interest since it affects all (current) versions of IE. The second is a samba issue, and the third is an Office Web Components vulnerability. If any of you use IE ever, or any of your customers do, then the first is releva

Re: [luau] PowerPoint Alternative

2002-08-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 07:40, you wrote: > Ideally, I would like to use my Linux notebook during my talk. However, > it may not work (and in all my cases, has not worked) with the projector > provided by the host. (b/f I go further, does anyone know how to solve > this problem?) I have to

Re: [luau] Virus Scan/Checker

2002-08-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Saturday 17 August 2002 08:28, you wrote: > I need a good virus scanner like Innoculate for Linux. Any suggestions. > I just got hammered with a virus and had to wipe out all my data on my > laptop What OS do you need the scanner for? > before I tried to send any emails to anyone. I noticed

Re: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux)

2002-08-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
I see and I understand. Thanks for the time taken to respond. I can justify the expense for the battery now that I understand what I need it for. It really does sound like I need it if I am serious about data integrity in all worse case scenarios. scott

Re: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux)

2002-08-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
>of course hardware raids with > battery backup can work around this with lots of cache and keeping the > disks up to date minus cache). Help me with this one. I built a server with a hardware raid controller. I noticed that Adaptec offers a backup battery module for it, but I don't underst

Re: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux)

2002-08-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
> I'm thinking about using NFS and NIS+ to keep these server accounts in > sync with the Sun Enterprise 450 a few doors down running the SunRay > lab, but I am worried about security between the two rooms. Some genius > used HUBS across a large portion of the campus, so security of NFS and > NIS+

Re: [luau] Procmail - was -video card follow up

2002-08-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 14:30, you wrote: > I gather my mail from my ISP with IMAP wrapped in SSH.  That way all of my > mail is encrypted and my password is not sent in the clear every 10 > minutes. This part took me the longest to get working correctly. This was very very helpful as well. I

Re: [luau] video card follow up

2002-08-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ray, Many thanks to you. This is a big help. I see much more clearly now. scott

[luau] video card follow up

2002-08-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Warren, A little information that may be of use regarding the video card test yesterday: I rebooted the machine and found that it was defaulting to the rhat boot option. I switched it, but before I did I observed that Kudzu identified the "new" video driver. I chose to configure my Xsession

[luau] annoying touch pad

2002-08-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Some time ago I put Mandrake on my ibook. It has been a great relationship save for one annoying issue: my touch pad. I am clumsy and my touchpad is huge. I cannot do anything without accidently hitting the touch pad and sending the cursor to wherever the mouse happens to be. Anyhow, I have

Re: [luau] hawaii political sites

2002-08-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday 12 August 2002 10:04, you wrote: > OK, > > Question for teh web wizards out there. How did you figure this out??? > > > both sites to run on IIS under Win2K. Even the Whilehouse webpage is > running on Linux. > While no web wizard, I can tell you that netcraft.com will tell you

Re: [luau] Needed - Compaq Presario 700 series or ProSavage video

2002-08-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Sunday 11 August 2002 23:56, you wrote: > Should I schedule a time to go to the store and work on the laptop(s)? > I can use my license of PartitionMagic to resize the existing Windows > partition, install, test and un-install if necessary. Would sometime > Tuesday be possible? Anytime that y

Re: [luau] LTSP Hardware Cleanup and Inventory

2002-08-11 Thread R. Scott Belford
This is what we have at the stadium store. I am attaching it as a kspread, a gnumeric, and an html page. The most interesting piece of hardware that may be of no use to the project are these dual head 128mb pci video cards in the apple 8500. They have a pc and an apple video interface, and ea

Re: [luau] LTSP Hardware Cleanup and Inventory

2002-08-11 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have gotten several calls so far. It looks like we will try to do it later on today. I am thinking about going from 1 to 5, or some window thereabout. If you have a preferred window of opportunity, let me know. scott

Re: [luau] Needed - Compaq Presario 700 series or ProSavage video

2002-08-11 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Sunday 11 August 2002 01:08, you wrote: > Does anyone have a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop with Red Hat Linux > 7.3 installed, or willing to install (temporarily?) Red Hat Limbo beta? > I need to do testing of a modified video driver on that laptop chipset, > but I no longer have access to t

Re: [luau] LTSP Hardware Cleanup and Inventory

2002-08-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
> I live near the Pearl Harbor Nimitz gate, so that's pretty close to > Pricebusters. If someone's willing to hand-hold enough for me > to learn to do something useful, I can help evenings and part of > each weekend. For what it's worth, this weekend is just about doing inventory and plugging so

Re: [luau] LTSP Hardware Cleanup and Inventory

2002-08-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
Aloha It may come as no surprise to you that we have a fair amount of equipment to be inventoried and tested for our burgeoning LTSP project. It is located at the Pricebusters Stadium store mentioned so frequently in this thread. I am planning to go by some time this weekend to begin to do th

Re: [luau] LTSP Hardware Cleanup and Inventory

2002-08-05 Thread R. Scott Belford
Brian, I am very confused by your actions. I asked as politely as possible that contacts with Pricebusters go through myself, Dean, or Al. I wrote you a personal note and requested this. You seem to have just ignored my humble request and gone ahead and called. I hope that you have not gone

Re: [luau] Need a volunteer to haul 30 17" monitors to Mid Pacific Institute for LTSP lab project

2002-08-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
oday at > > 1:00pm, then dropping them off at Midpac around 2:30pm. He is then > > taking the 15" monitors at Midpac to Pricebusters for storage. Thanks > > Brian! > > > > We still need to discuss the broken monitor situation with Royal Data, so > > we

Re: [luau] MSWindows

2002-08-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
> The part about Microsoft that I detest is their abusive business > practices that leaves the industry with little choice by destroying > competition. I want competition in the marketplace. I hate Microsoft > for this to such a degree, that I would NEVER take a job that uses > primarily Microsof

Re: [luau] My schedule - how you can help

2002-08-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 01 August 2002 23:31, you wrote: > 2. For those interested in testing / prepping equipment for the LTSP for > schools project, you MUST SIGN IN AND OUT with the manager on duty > (Either Julie, Robert or Jay). Also, we must only use the front entrance > (Main store entrance). How we

Re: [luau] Need a volunteer to haul 30 17" monitors to Mid Pacific Institute for LTSP lab project

2002-08-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
Al, Thanks for taking care of that for us. You and Julie are huge (figuratively, not literally) :-) I will be back next week to help store these neatly or deploy them if needed. Sorry for the latency, I lost my cable modem link for a few days here. Also, my thanks to whoever took the time t

Re: [luau] Non-Profit Group registration

2002-07-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:42, you wrote: > Starting a non-profit org is no big deal, I'll help you do the paper > work. Splendid. Thanks for the offer. > Since > you will be living in Georgia, we need to make sure that the bylaws are > structured so that meeting can be held, and quorum be de

Re: [luau] Non-Profit Group registration

2002-07-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Superior information, Wayne. If no one else in the group wants to, my offer stands to spearhead this. I may want to bounce some things off of you, Wayne, and the rest of you as far as names, etc. go, if that is okay. I am not intimidated by the state and federal hoops and I trust myself to be

Re: [luau] Non-Profit Group registration

2002-07-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Period. End of discussion. I incorporated a business in Georgia years ago that I still file 940s, 941s, my 1120s and state documents whether I do business or not. I will take care of documenting for all of us what we must do. I have a few more years on the island before my wife is relocated,

Re: [luau] Non-Profit Group registration

2002-07-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday 26 July 2002 01:32, you wrote: > Anyone have information of how I can make MPLUG into a real non-profit > group? I do, Warren. Unless you want to or someone has already responded further down in my inbox, I proposed this and am certainly willing to take care of it. It is no sweat and

Re: [luau] Donating Monitors

2002-07-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday 26 July 2002 00:46, you wrote: > Aloha, > > Sandi and I still have several (approx 25) 15-17" pc monitors that work and > a few that don't if the repair guy can use them for parts. We are ready to > donate them. Sandi wants them donated to a non-profit org so we can write > it off on th

Re: [luau] Hot-Pluggable Hard Disc

2002-07-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
I think that you are referring to the hot-swap ide drive drawers. They are sweet. I use a few in a 3ware ide raid box I built for work. This link below should take you to the offerings from new egg. They make the same thing for scsi drives. NEVER use a hot swappable drive drawer in a scsi r

Re: [luau] Home Networking questions...

2002-07-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
Warren, The folks at Precision Radio have always been good to me. There are others, but these guys are alright. scott On Sunday 21 July 2002 00:43, you wrote: > I want to wire my house with cat5 cable going to RJ45 jacks in several > rooms of my house. Does anyone have any recommendations of

Re: [luau] Linux for Schools Online Meeting 8pm Tonight

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:15, you wrote: > What's the time difference between Hawaii and EST/CDT (Indiana/Chicago)? > I'd like to listen in on this in case I can help you guys out. > > --MonMotha I just got home so this will be of little worth, but we are 6 hours behind the East now, 5 behind

Re: [luau] Techs available

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 18:23, you wrote: > I have some techs that may be available to help with the hardware. > I will talked to them tomarrow. The minimal experience is 3years with > HP, Compaq, Apple (of course A+ on all ) and HP printer, Toshiba,HP and > Compaq laptops. I also have one maste

Re: [luau] Linux POS

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
MonMotha, Stay with me. I look forward to your expertise on this project, and I anticipate us being another credential in your belt when it is all said and done. Thanks for the note, more to come... scott On Thursday 18 July 2002 14:00, you wrote: > I still have a mini-Linux system (I thin

Re: [luau] Linux POS

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
Funny you should ask and how bad of me to respond at the exact moment that I need to be heading to the new store to install the key piece of this paused project. I have been waiting to have an extra POS terminal that I could test on without disabling one of our registers. This has now been ins

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
Red Hat Network. It is a revenue strategy for RedHat that simplifies the end-users' task of keeping his/her system Up2date. When you register, you create a profile of your box. You are then notified as updates relevant to your system's profile become available. For the sysadmin, they don't h

Re: [luau] Requirements of Linux for Schools Projects

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 02:28, you wrote: > DRAFT #1 > This is a list things that I require of schools in order to be eligible for > my services and equipment through MPLUG. > > 1. Linux Training > --- > One faculty/staff member must be trained in the maintenance of Linux. This > incl

Re: [luau] Please Help

2002-07-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 18 July 2002 01:15, you wrote: > Sorry I haven't yet responded to many messages. I have a huge e-mail > backlog right now and too many projects left to do. I am very overworked > here and I could use the community's help with a few things: > > 1) I need more people to help at Friday's

Re: [luau] SparcStation IPX

2002-07-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
to run them on PC monitors (if you can find one > > that can sync that high!). Also, those are pretty old sparcs, but as > > X terminals they MIGHT do. Check the graphics boards in them, most of > > them back at that era were only 256colors at best (like my IPX). > >

Re: [luau] SparcStation IPX

2002-07-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday we had 13 miscellaneous Sparc 2, 5, 10, and a 20 donated to the LTSP project. We can install something on them that would work in a LTS environment, can't we? scott On Tuesday 16 July 2002 22:02, you wrote: > Aloha, > > FreeBSD doesn't support 32-bit sparc hardware (i.e. sun4c and

Re: [luau] New school LTSP project

2002-07-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
Great to hear from you about this, Wade. I have not hear back from Pastor AhSing about accepting the numerous stations Warren and crew have prepared, so WNA would be a great start. As Warren could confirm, MidPac has gotten chock full of computers. Strangely enough, the project is starting

Re: [luau] BusinessWeek

2002-07-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Saturday 13 July 2002 13:55, you wrote: I just got mine with that Oracle ad. Very nice. scott > Just got my copy of BusinessWeek today. On the backcover, there are two > big bold letters saying "Unbreakable Linux"! > > I suggest that we all get a copy. Alternatively, I suggest that > whe

Re: [luau] a generic system

2002-07-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
I would go to newgg.com and buy the black evercase with a 300w ps for 42, asus's tusi-m mboard for 68, a p3 for $122, 256mb ram for 50, cd and floppy for 40, and a maxtor drive for whatever size you want. With shipping you will spend less than $500 and you never leave your house. The board has

Re: [luau] Review - Excellent Value Laptop for Linux

2002-07-09 Thread R. Scott Belford
Amazing. I just bought two of these for work (the 999 model from Compusa), but I love them so much I already decided to keep one. Extremely well made laptops. I thought from looking at all the hardware within that it would have linux support (realtek nic chipset, via mboard chipset). I am th

[luau] product positioning

2002-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
Note the three OS's featured in the workstations for business category. Follow the link to see the ratios of machines featured with these os's. scott http://thenew.hp.com/country/us/eng/prodserv/desktops_workstations.html

Re: [luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop

2002-07-06 Thread R. Scott Belford
It is at the office, but I am pretty darn sure that this is the pcmcia nic that I have used successfully with 7.2. I believe that it uses the tulip.o module. I had tried to make this or another netgear card work with 6.2 and 7.0,but it did not. I echo the advice to try a newer distro of rhat.

Re: [luau] burn-in tests

2002-07-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
MonMotha and Warren, Thanks for the tips. I'll give the array a workover with your suggestions. scott > while true ; do htparm -tT /dev/hdX ; done :) > > though that won't exercise it's seek ability > > so fiddle with something like (psuedocode follows): > for each element foo in 1- do >

[luau] burn-in tests

2002-07-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
Does anyone know of a particularly good linux burn-in application for disk drives? scott

[luau] remote access: vpn or ssh

2002-07-01 Thread R. Scott Belford
For remote access, is setting up a VPN inherently more secure than establishing a SSH session? Is either connection easier to sniff? Somewhat related, haven't I seen some discussion on the list about limiting access based on the MAC address? Does this offer the complete peace of mind that i

Re: [luau] Underclocking

2002-07-01 Thread R. Scott Belford
> > *Via C3 - says it needs a fan, but apparently they were designed to be > used with a heatsink only This is an intriguing chip that I came across a few weeks ago in my search to build the coolest possible POS box. I like it very much and will be testing it alongside of a few celerons. Maybe

Re: [luau] Open source for Mac OS X?

2002-06-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
Rob, When I am looking for software that osx does not already have, I often find it here. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ I have not been ambitious enough to try, but I believe that you can run an awful of of *bsd binaries on this platform, many of which were developed in an open sourc

Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR

2002-06-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
Eric, MonMotha, and Warren- to you each I say thanks for the thoughtful insight. Hopefully the reg ecc ddr ram that this tyan dual athlon mboard uses will be cheaper when I need more. Until then I feel like that I will be most comfortable with the 2gb of swap with the option to add more. Our

Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR

2002-06-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
> > You must use two 2GB swap partitions in this case. > > Why not Red Hat 7.3? That is very interesting. Will the kernel use the two 2GB partitions effciently? I won't do the install until later, so I can still do this. Very interesting. We are not using 7.3 with this server because Dean says

Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR

2002-06-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
For what it is worth, none of the wise suggestions below or in earlier phases of this post resolved the problem. Two controllers and three motherboards later, the mbr is on the raid array where it belongs. It was a mess getting here. Sometimes when something is not working the way it should, it

Re: [luau] KDE3 and Rhat 7.3

2002-06-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
ubject: Re: [luau] KDE3 and Rhat 7.3 > An alternative is to use the "adduser" command instead of useradd. It > will prompt you step by step for your new user's information; A lot easier > than useradd. It isn't a gui way, but it is just as simple. > > -Daniel >

[luau] KDE3 and Rhat 7.3

2002-06-18 Thread R. Scott Belford
I'm having some difficulty with the user manager. All of the words are replaced by ---. I was used to using userconf and linuxconf to add users... I know, I know, man useradd. Is there a gui way to add users w/ RHat 7.3?

Re: [luau] Beta of small system image for POS terminal ready

2002-06-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Saturday 15 June 2002 22:04, you wrote: > Ever get a chance at this? If not, I almost have it ready with an > inittab and startup scripts (in other words, a full system basically) > that should be able to boot without modification. > > Not quite ready yet though... I did not get the chance to

Re: [luau] Re: 1st batch of USAF Dell computers

2002-06-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 08:22 AM, Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS wrote: Scott or Warren, Is it possible to make another run to base for computers Thursday? If not Thursday how about early Friday morning? This group is the lower end machines in the back room and the SUN machines. Thanks, Co

Re: [luau] Beta of small system image for POS terminal ready

2002-06-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew. Right now my mouth is very full. I expect to swallow sometime today, and this very important first step towards the Open Sourcing of Pricebusters will begin. I will also endeavor to setup a linuxserver with demo POS data that can be accessed remotel

Re: [luau] Customizable SSH Client

2002-06-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
www.vandyke.com has the secure crt and secure fx applications that I have been quite pleased with. scott On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 08:58 PM, S Chouinard wrote: Hi LUAU I do a great deal of file uploading. I need a full-featured, customizable SSH client that is good for file transfers, a

Re: [luau] Beta of small system image for POS terminal ready

2002-05-31 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 07:22 PM, MonMotha wrote: Has anyone tried this? I have no easy way to test it, so if someone could at least play with it to let me know if it is even capable of booting (with an added inittab), I'd be greatful. I will. Give me some time this weekend and I can g

Re: [luau] COMPUTERS FOR LEARNING (CFL)

2002-05-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
The USAF and in particular Staff Sergeant Brent Rofoli have done more for us than words can explain. These dedicated Dell's are PII 400 machines with varying amounts of RAM, the least being 64mb. They have a future as servers in our implementation of the LTSP. They came with mice, keyboards, spe

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 02:27 PM, Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS wrote: We will have about 20 various machines ready by Thursday. We did get the green light after I sent the link to Computers For Learning. Mr AhSing will have to sign for the computers before we can release them. We are pick

Re: [luau] Linux POS/Cash Register Terminal Image

2002-05-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
The server is in charge of the registers. They log in and out of the server solely on the criteria of what register they are. Counterpoint is in charge of the cashiers and the drawers. You guys are quite perceptive about the subtleties between the two. The program is very well designed to a

Re: [luau] Linux POS/Cash Register Terminal Image

2002-05-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 05:20 PM, Ray Strode wrote: We were thinking about putting a unique DSA private key (without a passphrase) onto each flash disk. That would be the unique identifier for each cash register, using DSA private/public authentication for the login into an SSH account on

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
> > Soo, if we can find a rep from any nonprofit organization to sign for the > equipment I think we can do this. I think we could legally give the > equipment to a private school but if the main custodian doesn't agree I > can't argue. Is LUAU an official non profit org? Instead of getting each

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:45, you wrote: > Anther clause states: > "(c) Each agency shall, to the extent permitted by law and where > appropriate, identify educationally useful Federal equipment that it no > longer needs and transfer it to a school or nonprofit organization by:" > > Soo, if we can

Re: [luau] Linux POS/Cash Register Terminal Image

2002-05-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 06:26 PM, MonMotha wrote: I've quoted my earlier post, but I'm making progress on this image. My target so far has been a 16MB image, but I can go lower (or higher). Some of these questions were fairly well answered by Warren, but I'm curious if there is any other

Re: [luau] Aloha all / Hat 7.3 / Drake 8.2

2002-05-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
We should not expect that there will always be people like Warren, Scott, and other gurus in this board who will do nothing but answering our questions for FREE. Very kind, Wayne, but I think I tend to be more of a question asker than answerer. I lag far behind the true gurus of this group,

Re: [luau] Aloha all / Hat 7.3 / Drake 8.2

2002-05-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Edward, You are more man than most. Mandrake and Red Hat have come a long way since the versions you have . So has Turbolinux, and I imagine you have an earlier version of Caldera there with you. These are all the versions where I started piddling with Linux. I loved to and still love to

Re: [luau] The open-sourcing of PriceBusters

2002-05-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Warren and Ray, Thanks for today's tips. I will bring a server with the POS program to the installfest for piddling if there is time. When I get done with my other priorities today, (review, etc), I could set up access to the POS program here at the house through ssh. It might make it easier to

Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR

2002-05-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Chris Kloiber of Red Hat Enterprise Support gave another suggestion (attached). I was thinking the same thing although I thought you tried this already. I can SSH into the box and transfer the GRUB to the MBR of your SCSI array if you want. Thanks a ton, Warren. I am going to piddle with it th

Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
e install CD, enter rescue mode, figure out what device your raid array is called, check your fstab, check your /etc/grub.conf, and make sure it all works out ok. -Eric Hattemer - Original Message - From: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[luau] bootable raid and the MBR

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have been getting spanked by something throughout the day that Adaptec and Tyan tech. support have bounced to each other. I have built this aforementioned server with 2gb ram on Tyan's Tiger mboard with the MPX chipset for dual athlons. The drive setup of choice is a raid5 scsi array contro

Re: [luau] do 2gb ram need swap space?

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 05:43 PM, Warren Togami wrote: Here's Chris Kloiber of Red Hat Enterprise Support's answer to Scott's question. I think highly of Chris so I personally would follow his advice. I would say that for your personal machine 2GB swap is enough with 2GB RAM. (you will l

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
Once we have some hardware, I am in favor of trying to help any school's computer club or any other group. I am in favor of contributing computers to churches, community groups, elderly groups, anyone to whom we can spread our enthusiasm for Linux. We need the hardware, though. If it does no

Re: [luau] The open-sourcing of PriceBusters

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
- Original Message - From: "Ray Strode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [luau] The open-sourcing of PriceBusters > Hi Scott. > I was kind of confused by what Warren was saying and so I relooked over > the specification and foun

[luau] do 2gb ram need swap space?

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
I am building a dual athlon, scsi raid-based server with 2gb ram.  Does anyone know if Redhat (7.3) still wants twice my ram in swap space?  This seems like a waste for 2gb in ram.  Is it, or will the kernel efficiently utilize 4gb of disk swap space?   scott

[luau] Does 2gb ram need swap space

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
I am building a dual athlon, scsi raid-based server with 2gb ram.  Does anyone know if Redhat (7.3) still wants twice my ram in swap space?  This seems like a waste for 2gb in ram.  Is it, or will the kernel efficiently utilize 4gb of disk swap space?   scott        

Re: [luau] The open-sourcing of PriceBusters

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
A bandwidth side note. Our stores access the server through DSL. Right now we pay for the 768/128 bandwidth option through verizon. The dsl modems are routed to my frame, and the clients are given static ip's. The one issue that could arise, for instance, using tftp for the root image is that t

[luau] The open-sourcing of Pricebusters

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
Having recently inherited a mess here at Pricebusters, I have made it my goal to open source this organization and let it serve as an example and as a knowledge resource for our community in hopes that some of you will be inspired to devote your energies to helping our struggling small busin

Re: [luau] NEWS: Sherwin-Williams to use Linux Cash Registers

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ray, many thanks for this chewy chunk of knowledge. Per Warren's request I am going to re-post my overview in another, more specific thread, and I'll respond there. scott - Original Message - From: "Ray Strode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:3

[luau] Mission for luau-with intent

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have called Charlie Ahsing, the Pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, and I have left a message for him at his home and at the Church. After work I will just drive by there if we have not spoken. EVEN BETTER.. Taylor Cody has made a huge first move for us. Through the Air Force, we appear to

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
with Charlie. He's a great guy. -Original Message----- From: R. Scott Belford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project - Original Message - From: "Stockton, Wade" &l

Re: [luau] NEWS: Sherwin-Williams to use Linux Cash Registers

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 08:51 PM, Warren Togami wrote: Please post the specifications of the current setup, so that we can think of equivalent pieces with a pure Linux solution. I wrote what I thought was a painfully specific description of the setup a few posts down. The key word is th

Re: [luau] NEWS: Sherwin-Williams to use Linux Cash Registers

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 08:27 PM, MonMotha wrote: I actually have some of this hardware that I can use to test things on (a pole display on serial and a keyboard/barcode scanner wedge). However, I'm not really a UI programmer, but I can get the basic OS base down for you fairly quickly s

Re: [luau] NEWS: Sherwin-Williams to use Linux Cash Registers

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 06:19 PM, Warren Togami wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:20, MonMotha wrote: Yes, but SCO != Linux :) Because SCO was/is a x86 Unix, most SCO binaries run with little or no modification on Linux when you have the right libraries and Unix compatibility kernel modu

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
- Original Message - From: "Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:17 PM Subject: RE: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project > Could you guys use some Dell boxes, PII/233's? Those would be very useful. Very. scott

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
is a group of volunteers building > the computer room this week. Not sure how to proceed from here, but > maybe you can get in touch with Charlie. He's a great guy. > > -Original Message- > From: R. Scott Belford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 23,

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
- Original Message - From: "Stockton, Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:33 AM Subject: RE: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project > I know that Trinity Christian school in Kailua is looking to set up a > computer lab. I know the folks there a

Re: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project

2002-05-23 Thread R. Scott Belford
A little while ago some of this was discussed on the list, and it is clear that there are a lot of us willing to pitch in and do something for the schools. Warren has arranged for a place to store hardware while it is combed through. I have not had any success sucking any hardware from the fe

Re: [luau] Job Opportunity

2002-05-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
Mark, Thanks for the information and good luck to you in one of the nation's finest cities. I hope that some of the list members find your offer attractive. I'm married to the Army (nurse wife), so no mobility for me. Good meeting you. I wish you and your ambitious employer immense fortune and

Re: [luau] HDD-less Linux

2002-05-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have an interest, but I have had to wait for school to end to take on the project. In short, I have about 50, soon to be 70, point of sale win98 workstations running Vandyke's CRT to telnet to a linux server hosting the POS (in this industry the acronym is for point of sale, not the often ap

Re: [luau] RELEASE: Opera 6.0 for Linux

2002-05-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
on iPaqs for example). Hope this helps. --MonMotha Eric Jeschke wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2002, R. Scott Belford wrote: | I have always loved Opera. Why is it so much faster than all other | browsers? Is it design brilliance, or design choice? Does anyone | know? I wish they all loaded page

Re: [luau] a network with limited circuits

2002-05-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
If you have to use a generator, using some ups that regulates the voltage and cleans the sine wave would probably be in your best interest. I do not know of a generator with a conditioned feed. I don't know a lot, though. You will want a generator capable of delivering more power than you ne

Re: [luau] Verizon DSL

2002-05-15 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have not used Verizon as my ISP. I think they are less money than my current deal with Flex. I must say, though, that I have been getting what I pay for from flex.com for two years straight. touchwood I don't have those fantastic download rates that road runner can occasionally offer, but

Re: [luau] RELEASE: Opera 6.0 for Linux

2002-05-15 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have always loved Opera. Why is it so much faster than all other browsers? Is it design brilliance, or design choice? Does anyone know? I wish they all loaded pages as fast. scott

RE: [luau] Speaking of Apple...

2002-05-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
It is very interesting that the drives are not scsi. Pretty bold decision. scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [luau] Speaking of Apple... http://www.

Re: [Fwd: Re: [luau] WordPerfect for Linux]

2002-05-09 Thread R. Scott Belford
advantage.  Your condescending and uninformed comments admonishing Warren to refrain from his insights are inappropriate at best.  You will find a wealth of assistance here if you take the time to learn who your allies are.  Please keep the tone more civil in future posts. Sincerely, R. Scott Belford

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