Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Gordon
Halt on all but keyboard works for me on most cheap mobos. Dells usually use a Phoenix bios, IIRC. Or, at least they used to - they might have their own now. The features inside could be very different from machine to machine. Support.dell.com http://support.dell.com/and the Service Tag on

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Gordon
I am a little unclear now - what isn't working? You can not worry about disabling gdm. Disabling the display manager has nothing to do with headless operation. If your default runlevel is 3, prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be run. There is no need to comment the line out from inittab.

Re: [LUAU] Slow internet response with different nameservers

2006-06-02 Thread Tom Gordon
I haven't noticed any latency or downtime with Verizon or HawaiianTel for the last 4 years. The whole time I've been doing local caching. If you suspect your dns is lagging, you can try this too, using dnsmasq. The simplest setup would be to configure dhclient.conf to add 127.0.0.1 to point to

[LUAU] Looking for a few good LAMPs

2005-10-10 Thread Tom Gordon
Hawaii's DOE has opened recruitment for additional computer programmers - most levels. Apply and support your local government! The vacancy announcement with instructions are here: http://www.ehawaiigov.org/dhrd/statejobs/file_dir/205644.HTM Tom Gordon

Re: [LUAU] backup modem daemon?

2005-07-22 Thread Tom Gordon
Jeff Mings wrote: Hi all, I've been looking for a an existing solution that will monitor a network pipe/route, like a roadrunner connection, and dial and set routing firewall settings for a backup modem connection when the first pipe goes down. Of course, I'd like it to restore

Re: [LUAU] CentOS4 Hung on Up2date

2005-07-07 Thread Tom Gordon
Blake Vance wrote: Youch! Older NEC 333 MHz, 192 MB RAM PC had been chugging along with CentOS 4 until I ran up2date. After retrieving all 119 MB of openoffice.org-il8n-1.1.2..., PC hung (mouse/KB nonresponsive). Reboot yielded Press Ctrl-B to select MBA boot method [2 options] (Default

Re: [LUAU] interesting article on Mark Spencer/Digium

2005-06-10 Thread Tom Gordon
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Perhaps you could enlighten us with an informed talk on Linux-based PBX? I imagine that a home/office-based telephone server may have quite a bit of commercial potential. (For example, I always hate to carry a cell phone with an address book, as it may contain

Re: [LUAU] Zire 31 and Evolution

2005-04-26 Thread Tom Gordon
Michael Bishop wrote: I'm currently using Evolution for my email, calendars, contacts and tasks. So far its been great, but I'd really like to be able to take it on the road. A laptop would be just too much to deal with, so I'm turning to a PDA. My research has lead my to the Zire 31, an

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-21 Thread Tom Gordon
Vince Hoang wrote: -Vince Your awesome. Tag - your it. :) Tom

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-21 Thread Tom Gordon
Angela Kahealani wrote: I haven't noticed this happen to anything k12ltsp-related. Although, I have seen it happen for the kernel (new kernel broken) but that is why new kernels aren't set to boot by default. As of current FC3, that policy has been inverted, according to the

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-20 Thread Tom Gordon
Vince Hoang wrote: Keep in mind that the updates are Fedora Core version bumps rather than backports of just the security fix. So if you run automatically update via cron, you risk an increased chance of having something break. I haven't noticed this happen to anything k12ltsp-related.

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-20 Thread Tom Gordon
Vince Hoang wrote: My main point against blind automatic updates is the timing of it. With automatic updates, the administrator will not be around if the updates fail. Imagine the system breaking when the administrator is out sick or on vacation. When manual updates are performed, it gives the

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-19 Thread Tom Gordon
Byron Kapali wrote: Aloha All, Im an new to the K12LTSP revolution but I am very familiar with VNC. I setup a mini K12LTSP lab in my library with thin clients running out of eth1 and my internet connection out of eth0. The problem I am having is that I have to run down to the library to

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP and VNC

2005-03-19 Thread Tom Gordon
Byron Kapali wrote: Mahalo Tom for your reply. Question: How do I tell cron to yum -y upgrade every night? What program do I use to edit the cron? Byron Thankfully it's already set up to do it. but it's not supposed to work unless /var/lock/subsys/yum exists. I guess they did that to

Re: [LUAU] EMail Gateway

2005-03-16 Thread Tom Gordon
Randall Oshita wrote: Lets say I want to have an Email gateway to filter incoming and outgoing SPAM and virus (Spamassassin, AmaVis, and some antivirus app) in front of my MS Exchange box; what is needed, what must be configured and what are the configurations? I'm guessing the gateway has

Re: [LUAU] Newbie Installation Question

2005-03-14 Thread Tom Gordon
John Johnson wrote: I have another newbie question. I am trying to write a program that shows the contents of a directory. I am using GD functions to thumbnail images, but would like to also create thumbnails of MOV files dynamically via PHP. A search reveals two different solutions, but both do

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-12 Thread Tom Gordon
Jim Thompson wrote: Theft is theft, even if the thing being stolen was free. Theft isn't theft if it isn't reported to the authorities. Read the link, plenty of people are pissed-off, people who have code in pearpc. Useless comments on a blog? Is this CherryOS's blog? Is there a

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-11 Thread Tom Gordon
Jim Thompson wrote: Recently I had some very, very disturbing news passed onto me regarding what's going on with the product known as CherryOS. I just ignore them and they go away. Attention is what they seek. IIRC, it is only PearPC's place to stake a claim and they haven't asked me for

Re: [LUAU] apache security question

2005-02-08 Thread Tom Gordon
Charles Lockhart wrote: So, we have a script or something that every time you create a directory in that secure directory, the script adds an .htaccess file, and the .htaccess file is used to enforce privacy, requiring a username and password to log in. I'm told that this should be secure

[LUAU] Is this thing on?

2005-01-24 Thread Tom Gordon
I guess we've all talked about everything there is to talk about at the conference. :-) Tom

[LUAU] It was good for me

2005-01-21 Thread Tom Gordon
Thanks to all of those who made the TPOSSCON happen. I enjoyed listening to romblimo and Maddog tell stories. I especially enjoyed the KDE Deployment presentation by the core developer, Aaron Seigo. Aaron started his presentation with such topics as evaluation and planning deployment of any

Re: [LUAU] Re: Linux networking

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Gordon
William H. Jones II wrote: I can access the internet using either OS, but am having problems understand how to implement networking under Linux. It should pretty much be the same across most LInux distros, although BSD is most likely different. My question is this: do I simply need to

Re: [LUAU] Re: Linux networking

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Gordon
DISPLAY=bla xcommand to set the the display for an instance or export DISPLAY=bla to set DISPLAY for the terminal session. You can make a launcher (icon) for just about any command or script you can type in the terminal. Tom Gordon

Re: [LUAU] Re: Installing Mandrake?

2004-09-20 Thread Tom Gordon
last i knew, it didn't work in sp2. did they ever fix that? On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:20:07AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: The instructions on the Mandrake web site don't seem to cover burning CDs from Nero. Anyone here know what I'm doing wrong? btw, for those running XP who just need to

Re: [LUAU] Fedora Core 3 Test 1

2004-07-13 Thread Tom Gordon
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:06, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-July/msg00012.html I think I am getting a little bit dizzy now. Your thoughts? wayne just follow rawhide. i have, since ~rh8 -- Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3

Re: [LUAU] linux for school file web server

2004-06-24 Thread Tom Gordon
/listinfo/luau -- Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 the United States of America

Re: [LUAU] Red Flag Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Tom Gordon
that they would prefer using Fedora Core. Interesting? Hope many of us get the message. wayne I didn't get the message. Probably only 0.771%* of Americans probably could. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_in_the_United_States -- Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 the United States of America

Re: [LUAU] Sat. HOSEF meeting

2004-05-26 Thread Tom Gordon
___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau what kind of card is it? -- Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 the United States of America

Re: [LUAU] Sat. HOSEF meeting

2004-05-26 Thread Tom Gordon
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:09, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: Tom Gordon wrote: what kind of card is it? Netgear MA111, bought at COSTCO. hmm, should be easy enough then being a prism card. -- Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 the United States of America

Re: [LUAU] mod_rewrite

2004-05-24 Thread Tom Gordon
/ * http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html --/snip-- you can also do this with squid/squirm in reverse... it is very very fast, uses virtually no memory, can reread configs after sending -HUP, uses full regex and if you mess it up, it'll still function. -- Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3