Re: ADSL Installation Headaches

2002-07-07 Thread Price Technology
More information please. You fail to tell us what OS this 486 is running, what your current configuration is and so on. I'll take a stab at an answer anyway; The ISP is using proprietary software to allow your box to connect which has minimum system requirements. It probably requires more t

Re: Returning to RedHat

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
Go ahead and poke holes, I need the ventilation. Actually, if that's the most vicious reply I get, I'll be tickled. Joebewan On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:06 pm, Jon Doe wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:28:16 -0500 > > Price Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: How to set hostname ?

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
I had the same problem with my Dell Laptop. My ISDN router was assigning (or my laptop was homesteading) a hostname just like the ones you're getting. I was told everything from "check /this/file/here" (fill in the blank) to "it must be your router". My router configuration has been examined

Re: Returning to RedHat

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
Are they returns or first time migrations ?? I consider RedHat to be the defacto standard Linux distribution. More people have heard of RedHat than any other. That's the reason I chose RedHat in the beginning and the reason I'm sticking with it. I've had others try to convince me to follow o

Re: NIC configure

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
I don't feel so bad now. It seems I'm not the only one who missed that aspect of your original email. This speaks against snipping text from an email, you loose track of exactly what it's about. Joebewan On Saturday 06 July 2002 03:13 pm, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Bre

Re: LinModems

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
l never see it or hear from it again. Joebewan On Saturday 06 July 2002 01:23 pm, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote: > I've used a PCTel and Lucent based ones without problems. > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Price Technology wrote: > > Is anybody using winmodems under Linux? If so, give me a

Re: Small company office setup - Windows clients, redhat server - Long post

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
You're right, my bad. It seems the sinility has set in once again. Joebewan ] On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:55 pm, Anthony Abby wrote: > should be /winnt/profiles/ > > Anthony > > > I can answer the question about user profiles when converting a > > workstation > > from standalone to domain logo

Re: Small company office setup - Windows clients, redhat server - Long post

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
I can answer the question about user profiles when converting a workstation from standalone to domain logon as I've done quite a bit of winders networking. When a user logs on the first time, winders will create a profile and a set of "home" directories. They're all located under /winnt/ in

LinModems

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
Is anybody using winmodems under Linux? If so, give me a thumbnail sketch of your experience. I looked at some LinModem stuff a while back but was left the distinct impression that such was not yet mature. Feedback on this as well please. Thanks in advance. Joebewan -- Valhalla -- Linux

Re: NIC configure

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
>From my notes, taken while reading Linux Complete Reference 4e: cat /proc/devices to see a list of devices cat /proc/interruptsto see a list of interrupts cat /proc/ioports to see a list of IO addresses cat /proc/net/dev to see a list of network devices isapnp can be used

Re: ssh question

2002-07-04 Thread Price Technology
The RedHat Customization Guide, contained in the RedHat Documentation gives a pretty detailed explanation of using SSH. If I remember correctly, you can do exactly what you want. Joebewan On Thursday 04 July 2002 08:57 am, Wesley Murphy wrote: > There is a way, or there should be, to enable

Re: samba problem (I THINK)

2002-07-03 Thread Price Technology
This isn't a Samba or Linux issue, it's a winders issue. Nonetheless: I've always found it better to remove the machine from the domain and log into it as a standalone, then configure for the new domain. And I don't use wizards. Joebewan On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:33 pm, Tyler Durdin wr

Re: ethernet adapters

2002-07-02 Thread Price Technology
Try 3com, I've had good luck with them. Don't have any numbers handy though. I recently bought one from Surplus Computers pretty reasonable. Check them out at: http://www.softwareandstuff.com/ Good luck Joebewan On Monday 01 July 2002 11:54 pm, a a wrote: > I want to purchase ethernet a

Re: Producing Video under Linux

2002-07-02 Thread Price Technology
some reviews: > > http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ > > HTH > > Matthew > > Price Technology wrote: > > I have a customer who wants to produce his own 15 to 30 minute videos on > > computer. I'd like to set this one up with Valhalla rather than an ms > > produ

Re: SCSI Cards ?!?!?

2002-07-02 Thread Price Technology
I try not to be hard core about anything other than my belief in God and his word, but when it comes to SCSI cards, I'm an Adaptec man myself. Joebewan On Tuesday 02 July 2002 07:23 am, Darryl Harvey wrote: > I am using an Initio 9100UW and it is giving me nothing but grief. > > > bash-2.05a#

Producing Video under Linux

2002-07-01 Thread Price Technology
I have a customer who wants to produce his own 15 to 30 minute videos on computer. I'd like to set this one up with Valhalla rather than an ms product. Anybody on the list got any experience with such ??? I need advise as to hardware to begin with. After which we'll look at different softwa

Re: update kernel, no X, and slow nautilus

2002-07-01 Thread Price Technology
I don't use Nautilus, I'm using KDE rather than Gnome, but Package Manager is incredibly slow and somewhat buggy. If installing from CD, I have to "open folder" before the installation of the last chosen package will begin. Joebewan On Sunday 30 June 2002 04:10 am, Jay Daniels wrote: > I th

Elitism was: Just a note

2002-07-01 Thread Price Technology
I too have noted the same air, though not on this list as I just got here. I hate to see someone leave this or any other list on account of it though. There will be "snobs" wherever you go simply because the group is formed out of the human race. (appologies to any aliens listening in) I've

Re: burning a redhat distro

2002-07-01 Thread Price Technology
My Valhalla CD's were burned for me by a friend with much bandwidth. He used Nero, but I'm not sure which version. I've had no problems with mine. Joebewan On Monday 01 July 2002 06:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this mailing list. So, sorry to write out of the thread.

Re: Reformat

2002-07-01 Thread Price Technology
If I'm not mistaken, wipe is IBM specific, and it's not actually a low level format, though many drive manufacturers are calling it that, it's a zero fill utility which writes zeroes to the entire drive. The debug script I sent along in an earlier email does the same thing except it only write

Re: Uninstallation help

2002-06-30 Thread Price Technology
There's a DEBUG script I use under dos to zero fill the Master Boot Record on the hard drive. Let me include it here: Script is not case sensitive. Caps are used for readability only. Type in the commands just as you see them, including spaces. Note the blank line just before the G command. Li