RE: [SLUG] Is SATA a viable upgrade for aging Linux workstations?

2004-03-28 Thread Steven Evans
Hey guys, Thus far I've installed 9 160gig Seagate and 4 250gig Western digital harddrives. Thus far, the failure rate on all drives have been quite high. SATA is very fast, but the failure rate has been quite disappointing. 2 western digital 250's have either been unwritable or did not

RE: [SLUG] ISA Server 2000

2003-07-23 Thread Steven Evans
Title: RE: [SLUG] ISA Server 2000 Hey, I am not 100% sure, but I think it is something to do with the authentication of your box to the ISA2k server. I suspect that they have disabled the 'guest' account on the ISA box/domain, therefore stopping you from websurfing. Or they havnt allowed

RE: [SLUG] One for the brains trust.

2002-12-19 Thread Steven Evans
One of 2 things. 1) It could be a line fault or something like that, hence it sounds like a problem with telstra, give them a call and ask them to look into it. 2) Telstra doesnt provide reliable service to world+dog. Move to a more reliable ISP. RequestDSL comes to mind, they have outages once

RE: [SLUG] PPP Multilink 2002

2002-12-08 Thread Steven Evans
Message- From: Steven Evans Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 11:13 AM To: 'Jean-Francois Dive' Cc: SLUG Subject: RE: [SLUG] PPP Multilink 2002 Hi Jean, I've been testing this a couple ways: 1) Download 2 files from 2 seperate sites and add up the kb/s, which always end up less than 5kbs

RE: [SLUG] PPP Multilink 2002

2002-12-05 Thread Steven Evans
or parameters to determine what is going on during the dialin session? For example, a more detailed pppd debug ... command? Cheers, Steve -Original Message- From: David Fitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:50 PM To: Steven Evans Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] PPP

RE: [SLUG] PPP Multilink 2002

2002-12-05 Thread Steven Evans
sessions to 5 different hosts, the send lights would work for both modems, but one would be receiving. That isnt to be expected, is it? Cheers, Steve -Original Message- From: Jean-Francois Dive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 11:05 AM To: Steven Evans Cc: SLUG

[SLUG] PPP Multilink 2002

2002-12-04 Thread Steven Evans
Hey Guys, Am currently trying to setup a multilink connection with a 2.4.19 kernel, pppd 2.4.1, and slackware 7.1. I have 2 56k modems calling an isp with cisco digital access server 5300/5400's answering the call. I call the isp, get the same ip for both modems, but send traffic through one

RE: [SLUG] SpamAssassin

2002-05-29 Thread Steven Evans
Hey guys How does one get spamassasin to work with sendmail? There are docs with Procmail and a pluggin for Qmail, but no mention of sendmail anywhere. Cheers, Steve -Original Message- From: Ralph Seberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 9:50 AM To: Howard

[SLUG] FW: port redirect to internal ftp server from internet

2002-03-17 Thread Steven Evans
Hey guys, got an interesting problem. I have a firewall and a ftp server inside it. What i need to do is somehow allow requests from clients on the web into this internal box using active mode ftp. I can get Passive mode to work, but i would like active mode to work. Cheers, Steve -- SLUG

RE: [SLUG] FW: port redirect to internal ftp server from internet

2002-03-17 Thread Steven Evans
Yes, i agree to some extent, but the user's dont want passive mode. Both boxes are linux boxes with kernel 2.2.19. Cheers, Steve -Original Message- From: Kevin Saenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 18 March 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] FW:

RE: [SLUG] Linux and Telstra ADSL

2002-02-27 Thread Steven Evans
the downloads from gamesarea/wireplay become free after you use up your 3000mb, before that it just adds to your quota. Cheers, Steve -Original Message- From: Richard Ames [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 8:05 AM To: Antony Clarke; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-06 Thread Steven Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samba 2.0.7 patched - File server is PCD, DNS2, WINS and Which patches have you installed? ie did you install a pam patch or something different? dhcp.(will be going over to 2.2.2 soon - some nice things there). yeah, hopefully v3 will come

RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-06 Thread Steven Evans
/bugs are fixed in MYOB Accountants office, maybe? If i had enough time to code a linux-based myob solution, i would think about it ... Cheers, Steve -Original Message- From: Luke McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 4:26 PM To: Steven Evans Cc: '[EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???

2002-01-05 Thread Steven Evans
Could you make the reply to this post public for all of us to see. All the research done on this topic on google comes up with one response: myob has left a bug in their product to stop multiple users (1 is ok, 1 is bad and reduce to crawl) from using linux as the file server of their .prm

[SLUG] ot - ultra scsi 150 controller with ultra 160 drives

2002-01-02 Thread Steven Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey guys I have a ultra 150 controller with a server, and am looking into getting new replacement drives for it. What i would like to know is if a ultra 160 scsi drive (for example, a Seagate Cheetah 73.4GB 10K RPM Ultra 160) will work on this

[SLUG] sms smash questions

2001-12-18 Thread Steven Evans
Title: sms smash questions -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey sluggers, I am trying to make a sms smash solution atm. I have configured it upto the stage where i can get the smash daemon to get a message and dial the telstra service. After the handshake, smash does a kamakazi

RE: [SLUG] Reading CDRW Disks

2001-11-18 Thread Steven Evans
The dye on a cdrw disc is darker than the dye on a normal cdr disc. This is because of how they are able to make them re-writable. The short of it is you get a drive that is capable of reading those disc's and you can use them like a normal cdr. I don't know how drives are nowadays, but a year