Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good truly random number generator. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Now all we need to be able to do is

Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide with a rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Quin
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:21:37AM + or thereabouts, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good truly random number generator. Or take the approach that SGI came up with - point a camera at a lava lamp or two. -- Mike Quin, Unix

RE: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide with a rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good truly random number generator. Or take the approach that SGI came up with - point a camera at a lava lamp or two. or what about building a chip with a few hundred gates about 0.01 microns apart - let those little quantums

[Scottish] ADSL router with no-nat configuration

2003-03-21 Thread Tam McLaughlin
Hi, I am having problems setting up a solwise SAR110 adsl router with a no-nat configuration and wonder if anyone here has set up an adsl router with a similar config. I simply want to connect the router to our smoothwall and have been allocated an address range of 4 ip addresses. The problem

Re: [Scottish] FW: VPN

2003-03-21 Thread ray
Hi Keith; I've never setup a VPN before but am I right in thinking that all that's needed is the right software and two static ip addresses With a 'nix box at each end that's about it. It gets a little more complicated if one of the gateways is MS or Cisco. Most Linux distros will include

Re: [Scottish] FW: VPN

2003-03-21 Thread Miah Gregory
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith Stenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never setup a VPN before but am I right in thinking that all that’s needed is the right software and two static ip addresses. As has been noted previously, only one static ip address is necessary. Two is a

Re: [Scottish] FW: VPN

2003-03-21 Thread Colin McKinnon
ray wrote: Hi Keith; I've never setup a VPN before but am I right in thinking that all that's needed is the right software and two static ip addresses With a 'nix box at each end that's about it. It gets a little more complicated if one of the gateways is MS or Cisco. Most Linux distros

Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anybody know about solaris?

2003-03-21 Thread Allan Bruce
- Original Message - From: Colin McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anybody know about solaris? Allan Bruce wrote: I am hoping to run Netscape on Sun2 but view it on Sun1s desktop (a VNC desktop). The

RE: [Scottish] Looong Cat5 Cable

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Cameron
Since the forums are not particularly active I'll try here. Can anyone planning to be at next Thursday's meeting help me out? I need a 60 metre cat5 cable, and retail prices scare me. I'm willing to pay any necessary costs (plus tip). If you can help, can you post an estimated cost? I seem to

Re: [Scottish] ADSL router with no-nat configuration

2003-03-21 Thread Tam McLaughlin
I called the suppliers/manufacturers of the router who told me that I need 3 useable IP addresses for this particular router to work in a no-nat configuration. So looks like I would never have got it working with the info the ISP gave me. Hopefully they will increate my address range. On

[Scottish] VPN

2003-03-21 Thread Keith Stenson
Hi everyone, I've never setup a VPN before but am I right in thinking that all that’s needed is the right software and two static ip addresses. I'm trying to help out a small community group set one up and they have received quotes for 11,000 upwards, although I never set a VPN up I always

Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anybody know about solaris?

2003-03-21 Thread Allan Bruce
- Original Message - From: Colin McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anybody know about solaris? Allan Bruce wrote: I am hoping to run Netscape on Sun2 but view it on Sun1s desktop (a VNC desktop). The

Re: [Scottish] Looong Cat5 Cable

2003-03-21 Thread ray
On Friday 21 March 2003 14:36, Philip Ward wrote: Can anyone planning to be at next Thursday's meeting help me out? I need a 60 metre cat5 cable, and retail prices scare me. If you just want alength of PVC solid core Cat5e/Cat6 with a booted RJ45 at each end it will cost you a pint of IPA. If

[Scottish] tarring

2003-03-21 Thread Allan Bruce
How on earth do I tar a directory up to a tarfile? I looked at the man page and it aint working - my head is mush today. That teaches me to go out drinking on a work night!! Thanks Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Scottish] tarring

2003-03-21 Thread Miah Gregory
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Allan Bruce wrote: How on earth do I tar a directory up to a tarfile? I looked at the man page and it aint working - my head is mush today. That teaches me to go out drinking on a work night!! tar -cf tarfile.tar directory -- Miah Gregory

Re: [Scottish] tarring

2003-03-21 Thread ray
tar -cvf foo.tar foo_dir -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] tarring

2003-03-21 Thread David Irvine
You may want to tar -cvpf foo.tar path/to/directory/ where c creates an empty tar v tells you what its doing p preserves permissions f creates a file you can also pipe it into stuff for example tar -cvpf - /var |gzip|ssh hth David On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:40, Allan Whiteford wrote: On

Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Thomas Figg
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Mike Quin wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:21:37AM + or thereabouts, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good truly random number generator. Or take the approach that SGI came up with - point a camera at a