Re: hp laserjet 1200 series

2003-09-12 Thread Patrick May
These are PostScript capable printers. I run CUPS and have it working just fine. You can download the PPD file from HP on the Linux Printing site on sourceforge. Or you can set it up as a generic Postscript Printer and it will work. Patrick On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, David Schornak wrote: > anyone

RE: Network printer . . . sort of

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick May
For WordPerfect 8 to run, go and grab the libc5-compat RPM from RedHat 6.2 and install it. You will also need to do something ld to get the library recognised. Google around and see if you can find it. I have a doc, but not on this computer. Patrick > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

RE: Best supported optical mouse?

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick May
I have the MX300 and have no problem using it. It is set on a USB port. I wish I could set up the back and forward buttons (the two grey buttons located where the thumb is). Patrick > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Try KDE > Sent: Mo

Re: Laser Printer Suggestions for RH8.0

2003-01-17 Thread Patrick May
I have an HP LaserJet 1200 at home and have been very happy with it. Toner is about $65, but I have yet to replace it. Last 2500 pages. Also have a LaserJet 2200D (Duplex built in) at work (RH 7.2 server pushes jobs out to a 98 box that has the printer attached to it. Ugly, yes. Works, yes.) Bot

RE: printed Red Hat docs

2003-01-07 Thread Patrick May
The last time I checked with Kinko's about doing exactly this, printing manuals, they wanted the normal workstation printing price, about 35 cents per page! I bought a HP LJ1200 for what it would end up costing me for a few manuals. Patrick > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Amanda Backups

2002-07-17 Thread Patrick May
I am on the AMANDA list that another poster mentioned. From what I gather, AMANDA, in the latest beta, can do back-ups to disk (which is what you would want to do in your "proof". What exactly are you trying to back up that needs proving? Across the network, even to SMB clients (Windows) can be d

Re: Backup large files to tape

2002-07-15 Thread Patrick May
Depending on your situation, have you looked at AMANDA? Depending on your tape size and the file size(s) you may need to break up your data into multiple disklist entries to spread them across multiple tapes. I don't believe that AMANDA will span a single disklist entry across multiple tapes. Fo

Re: suggest-a-backup-software

2002-07-03 Thread Patrick May
I do believe that AMANDA will do this for you. It is only bound to actual partitions if you are using dump. Set it to use GNUTar. I am currently backing up a server (where AMANDA is running) with 3 entries: /home (own disk) /var (own disk) /etc (part of a file system) A

Re: SAMBA NetBIOS over TCP/IP

2002-06-07 Thread Patrick May
Chad, Samba ONLY implements NetBIOS over TCP/IP (I have a Samba book that refers to this as "NBT".) NetBIOS itself needs some kind of a transport to carry it over the wire. Samba, uses TCP/IP. I believe that the Out-of-the-box configuration supplied with RedHat will pretty much run without much

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

2002-05-31 Thread Patrick May
Thanks for the info. I kept using -F which doesn't work. I press the space bar so that I can scan for anything funky going on. Patrick On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:23, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 19:28, Patrick May wrote: > > >From this information, you still need to

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

2002-05-30 Thread Patrick May
>From this information, you still need to load the aic7xxx module which is the driver for the 2930 (and many other Adaptec controllers.) As root do "modprobe aic7xxx' and it should detect and make the appropriate entries in /var/log/messages (and dmesg I think will show it.) For this I either run

Re: how do i kill this *)$%(**(#$*& thing???

2002-05-15 Thread Patrick May
Make sure you are not currently in the cd. By that I mean, for example a "normal" RedHat install, somewhere in /mnt/cdrom/. You can always just issue "cd" and it will return you to your home directory. Then "eject". I believe by default this will eject /dev/cdrom (including umounting if needed).

Re: Tape Backup Software

2002-05-13 Thread Patrick May
I can also recommend AMANDA. It can be a little tricky to set up. There is no GUI to set it up. You have 2 config files that you will need to setup. One is the main amanda.conf and the other is your disklist file. The AMANDA users mailing list is very helpful and the help is great. It uses cron t

Re: Anyone actually using Amanda?

2002-01-19 Thread Patrick May
This is one package that you really need to read the docs for to correctly implement. I run it at my office and it took a bit to get going. I learned to restore really quickly though :-) Some of the commands: amdump -Configuration Does the actual backup ambflush When you forge

Re: Clock Synchronizer

2002-01-06 Thread Patrick May
I just created I .bat file with: net time \\server /set /yes Put it in the Startup section of the Start menu. Runs everytime you start Windows. I also add it to the logon script that is run when a user logs in (at the office). Samba (2.0.x) is set as Domain controller and the logon scripts r

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-29 Thread Patrick May
There are issues with WordPerfect 8 on RedHat => 7.0 because libc5 is no longer supported. First, grab the compatability RPM from RedHat 6.2 from your local mirror. I don't remeber the name and seemed to have misplaced it. You can also go to news://cnews.corel.com Subscribe to the group: core

Re: IPC$ with SAMBA

2001-03-11 Thread Patrick May
If it is a dialogue box popping up asking for a password this is "normal." See the link below. Did you log on to your Windows machine? If so, did you use a valid username on the Samba server? If so, did you put in the correct password? Information about IPC$: http://samba.linuxbe.org/en/samba/

Re: Any issues with SCSI external ZIPs???

2000-12-20 Thread Patrick May
I have one and have had zero problems. It's a little slower than I would like (but I think that is something unrelated to the ZIP drive.) Remember, stock DOS ZIP disks are sda4 (sub a where appropriate). I repartitioned by provided disk for ext2 with no problems. I haven't seen any problems wi

Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?

2000-11-29 Thread Patrick May
You could always use AOL's AIM client for Linux. I don't use it, but I have version 1.1.14 installed on my system. I might still have an RPM around here. I didn't have to set up anything for AIM to work through my firewall (RH 6.1). But I don't know as far as any advanced features go. The chat

Re: kde2 and rh6.2

2000-11-09 Thread Patrick May
Another way to install them (they way I did) is download them into their own directory. I grabbed all the files in the directory at linux-easy.com, then issued: rpm -Uvh *.i38.rpm or something close to that as I didn't want to install the source RPM. This was upgrading a KDE installat

Re: Setting up a firewall on PBI Enhanced DSL

2000-08-22 Thread Patrick May
I assume you are looking at something along the lines of: DSL Bridge -> Router/Firewall -> Private LAN -> DMZ with servers I think this would be a little more complicated. You would need to make sure the NIC on the DSL line is setup to listen for all of your IP

Re: Setting up a firewall on PBI Enhanced DSL

2000-08-21 Thread Patrick May
I use PBI but on the cheap plan with PPPoE. My setup is: ADSL Bridge (Westell WireSpeed) | | eth0 Firewall/Router eth1 | | Local Area Network 192.168.1.0/24 You ca

Sandisk PC Card Reader

2000-03-26 Thread Patrick May
I just picked up a Kodak DC215Zoom yesterday and a Sandisk PC Card attachment to read the compact flash cards on a laptop. Everything is working just fine. I do get some errors when I put the card back in. Is there anything special I should do when inserting/removing the card? When I insert it I

Re: tuning ink usage by HP printers

2000-03-26 Thread Patrick May
I have a 697C and use the gs option: -dDepletion=2 This is mentioned in the Driver Description of the printtool command which I used to set up my printer. Hope that helps. Patrick On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~ wrote: > Hi, > > I have a HP692C printer which uses too much ink whi

QT-2.1.0 beta3 RPM

2000-03-23 Thread Patrick May
This might be a little OT here, but does anyone have any idea where such a monster could be found? If you have it, know where it is, etc. I'm sure much praise will be bestowed upon you by the users of licq 0.80. It came out yesterday and is built against the latest version of QT-2 and the latest R

Re: Red Hat 6.1 or 5.1

2000-03-04 Thread Patrick May
I used the server set up at work, and I'm not really happy with it. Where I work (small electrical contractor) nobody has used a server before and they won't use the Samba box I set up so usage is low (me only) so /var is HUGE for what I need and most is wasted space while /usr and /home are gaspi

Re: Way OT: best cell phone

2000-02-24 Thread Patrick May
Depending if they are available in your area you could look into NexTel. I have an i1000plus (though I do miss the games from my Nokia 5190). NexTel is really pushing them (lot's of ads) into the Tech area. I've received a couple of mailers and seen ads in PC Week. The Business Network Direct

Re: Misc hardware questions

2000-01-02 Thread Patrick May
I do believe that AcceleratedX is required. I have seen this card listed with a system on either VALinux or Penguin Computing in a dual headed system. Maybe XFree86 4 will support dual headed display, but I don't know. Patrick On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > This tweaked my interest

Re: Your Web Site

1999-11-26 Thread Patrick May
Anybody look run Netcraft on their server? Its "running Netscape-Enterprise/2.01 on DIGITAL UNIX." http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.fox.com I wander what is like to not be able to read use your web site from your own equipment? Patrick Th On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Vidiot wrote: > >> Who is

SCSI Adapter Recommendation

1999-11-21 Thread Patrick May
I am looking to purchase a SCSI adapter. First I will use it for scanning (UMAX Astra 610S DB25 interface) and in the future Zip drive, and who knows what after that (probably not hard drives...well not very soon so the Ultra and Ultra Wide are not necessary). I've seen an Adaptec 2906 (PCI, DB25