RE: Laptop for RH

2003-09-24 Thread Tom Curl
Start with what features you need in a Laptop. Is it really "runs RedHat" or is it "runs Linux"? For example, all those adds showing someone sitting on a beach using their laptop. Well we all know that's nonsense the battery goes dead and you can't see the screen, let alone high speed internet c

Re: RH 8.0 Personal: licensing issues

2003-03-20 Thread Tom Curl
Manuel, Others have answered the licensing question. Using a firewall to provide NAT services for multiple users on the local LAN with a dial-up connection is completely practical as long as the users understand that if everybody tries to browse at the same time performance will be very poor. Fo

Re: Anyone succeeded on setting up D-Link DWL-650 wireless card onRedhat 8.0?

2003-03-14 Thread Tom Curl
Gotta be careful here the DWL-650 works great; the DWL-650 + doesn't work at all, they improved it don'tcha know. Actually the new one has an unsupported chipset. On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 20:45, Kris Reilly wrote: > Use the orinoco_cs module, that should work fine for you. > > On Thu, 2003-03-13

Re: MySQL Gui

2003-03-10 Thread Tom Curl
Take a look at squirrelsql Squirrel SQL Client: A Java Front-end A program written in Java can interface with MySQL database using the JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) technology. Squirrel SQL Client is a GUI application written in Java. On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 05:17, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: > Can

Re: Real big problem with RH 8.0

2003-03-10 Thread Tom Curl
This may sound stupid, but what kind of mouse are you using? I went nuts with a Logitech Optical Wheelmouse plugged into the PS/2 port, it seemed to work but caused all sorts of strange problems, e.g., ethernet stopped working, intermittently. I am able to duplicate this problem easily by using a

Re: Black screen during installation of RD 8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Curl
While RedHat clearly has made an admirable effort to produce a consumer ready desktop on the Linux OS, a few areas were shortchanged by the new release. Video and sound installation work well on older, well known system boards and plugin cards. But, some later hardware has been left dangling, so

Re: Evolution download

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Curl
There is an installer at the Xiamien site open an X erminal window and type lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ |sh Tom On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 09:17, Carter, Shaun G wrote: > Does anyone know of a site where evolution can be downloaded where the > dependencies are in the same directory? I would

RE: Wireless lan cards?

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Curl @ Concord
Jim you can have as many cards in as many machines as you want, but you will need a WAP (Wireless Access Point) somewhere on you LAN for them to connect (wirelessly) to. D-Link has some good prices and works well with Linux, I have a DCF-650W in my Sharp Zarus PDA running Linux and another in a T

Re: hypothetical nfs question (newbie)

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Curl
Not a good idea at all Dan, unless you tunnel it through ssh or a VPN. Otherwise you risk a good chance that someone else can mount the volume you are exporting. Tom On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 17:11, daniel wrote: > just a quick hypothetical question: > > as i understand it, nfs allows linux boxes