Posts by alc6379

Ew. You've got AtEase installed. That article isn't going to work.

Your next move should be to wipe out that hard drive and reinstall MacOS on it. It's a pain in the arse to remove AtEase-- Take it from someone who has attempted before. You should jump back on eBay and try to find media for that Mac, or maybe purchase some from here:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/software/

They sell OS 9.1, which would work pretty well on your system. If you've got enough RAM, you could run OS X, but I'd stick with OS 9.1, just to be safe.

When we're talking about servers, like you mentioned, I'd say NO desktop/WM is the best.

If I ever install a desktop, it's TWM, or IonWM. they're minimal, have a very small memory footprint, and they don't get in the way. They just allow you to open an Xterm, basically. The only other time you'll see me installing X on a server is if I want to watch GKrellM give me remote status monitors.

By the way-- why the poll on "What OS" when it's a thread about what Window Manager for servers is best? Or, am I missing something?

I normally use NetBSD to make my firewalls, so I couldn't provide any help with IPTABLES, but I can tell you this: I read an article about the same issue you're describing. I wouldn't worry about it-- the article I read (from IBM, if I'm not mistaken) was theoretical, and there are no practical applications of the technique described currently available. I would focus more on ensuring no one could access your router inappropriately, and that undesired traffic from your LAN was being blocked by your router.

apparently, that's not possible with find. From the NetBSD manpage on find:

NAME
     find - walk a file hierarchy

SYNOPSIS
     find [-H | -L | -P] [-Xdhsx] [-f file] [file ...] expression

DESCRIPTION
     find [b]recursively[/b] descends the directory tree for each file listed, evalu-
     ating an expression (composed of the ``primaries'' and ``operands'' list-
     ed below) in terms of each file in the tree.

Its job is to be recursive. If there are subdirectories there, they're going to get searched. I'm at a loss to suggest another tool to help, though-- the best thing I could suggest is to use a quick shell script, or something:

for i in pattern ; do echo $i ; done

That will list all of the file names that match your pattern. Like, if I put *.gz in as the pattern, I'd get all of the files that have .gz at the end, one per line. This behavior works like the command, but only in the current directory.

Both are great. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo for new users, but Ubuntu works great for advanced users, as well. Both are going to do MySQL and Apache just fine, though.

If you can't get Gentoo install, I'd pick Ubuntu by process of elimination. After you've cut your teeth some with Ubuntu, maybe you'll be tempted to give Gentoo a try yet again.

If you can't boot from disc 1, what errors do you get? How did you burn these discs?

It's possible that you burned the ISO to disc, rather than burning the contents of the ISO to disc. Let us know what you did, and we'll help accordingly.

Excellent job!

I've never used Mandriva before, so I was unaware of their policies on changing things like fstab entries. What ever happened to just "Keep it Simple, Stupid"? /etc/fstab has worked for years, no need to go mucking about with it now, IMHO.

Are you sure the torrent is finished downloading? You have to wait for the files to finish. Usually, your torrent client will say "Uploading", or "Seeding", or something along those lines, once you're finished downloading it.

Please just "bump" your old threads by responding to them. Don't create another thread-- it's possible no one had the answer yet. I'll respond in your other post, and close this one.

If you're in the US, look at Pell Grants and Work/Study. Unless your grades were bad, you should get those. There should be some way of paying for college.

...All else fails, interest on a student loan isn't that bad. Get one, bust your hump in school, and then bust your hump getting a job. You'll have that sucker paid off before you know it if you really buckle down.

Hi dspatola,

Welcome to Daniweb!

I moved your thread to a more appropriate forum-- The Community Introductions Forum is for just that: introducing yourself. Here, you'll get more attention. Good luck! :)

I'll have to study on question number 2, but I can pretty easily answer your second question:

Before you do anything else in Knoppix, type in setterm -blank 0 at the shell prompt. That will stop the screen from blanking out.

My machine doesn't have any issues with freezing up, but that's a pain in the rear to me, too, as I'm not concerned about screen burn-in, and sometimes I leave my desk, but still want to watch if something's still compiling or running.

Closing thread. Same post was placed in the Spyware forum.

for i in `cat input.txt`;
do
     rm -f $i
done

...Something like that should do it. Basically, it should count each line as an item, and the $i variable is going to be the name of the file on that line. I added the -f command because I don't want it to ask me "are you sure?" every time, like some distros make bash do. If you're not as brave, then you can omit the -f on the rm command.

You have to get an interview to get the job. I don't know about a lot of areas. But around here. If you don't have atleast one certification you don't get the interview.

Trust me. Christian's advice sticks more in my area than anything. The market's so slim in our area, we've got people with 8 years administration experience going out for entry-level "cable monkey" jobs.

...That was 2 years ago, at least. I'm celebrating my 2nd year with my company. I have no certs, but I've made it all the way to a coach in the technical support division. I'd say that having certs might help push your foot a little further into that door, but they're certainly not going to be what keeps you there. I've met so many "paper" CCNA's, MCSE's and CompTIA certified folks that it makes me sick. What else makes me really sick is that those same people might get more job opportunities than me, simply because "they've got certs".

I have certs, too-- it's just mine have Retsin!

Moving thread.

Community Introductions Forum is only for introducing yourself to the group. Please use the other forums for your questions. Thanks!

Yep. As soon as MS says something's out the door, I don't expect it to be there for much longer.

But, I've just started learning ASP.NET, and I kind of like it. I'm a n00b at web-programming, and my job is throwing me into doing it. So long as I can find the "right" way to do something via VBScript or VB, I'm golden.

This forum welcomes all!

Most people are students because they're looking to become professionals. So, if you're in that boat, by right, you may as well be a professional!

You probably want to check out PPPoE resources, available at
http://www.google.com/linux

There's lots of stuff out there-- are you using a USB modem? You can also try Googling the name of that modem at Google For Linux.

Did you set up Bridged Networking?

You just treat it like it's 2 computers-- do filesharing just like you'd do with any 2 computers.

Haha. Dani's a young-un.

I turned 23 back in September-- MONTHS ago. :p

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Let's show some maturity, gang.

Closing the thread-- do your own work. We're not here to hash out your code for you-- syntax is easy, your assignment was to design the scheduler, not have someone else design it, and have you implement it.

You're welcome to repost this question, provided you show your work. If not, your next post will likely be closed/deleted.

Have a nice day.

Might be here:
http://www.whoopis.com/computer_repair/

I just did a google search using the terms mac service manual

I'm having a tough time deciding. I think all contestants should post pictures in wet tshirts ;)

I'll pass on that. Being we're all a bunch of loser geeks here, I'd hate to know what the shirts were wet with... I'm sure that I've got a couple of shirts I've spilt Jolt cola on, but unfortunately, I wasn't potentially sexy enough to warrant being listed on the poll. :(

I guess people don't think Cookie Monsters are sexy anymore...

I'm really sorry guys. I hate to disappoint, but I took a look at the database and apparently there was a bug in the system, and unfortunately Dave only received one vote ... not 70,000.

You're no fun. You don't buy my explanation that 70,000 people registered, just to vote for Dave? :D

that's problem

If you don't have anything productive to post, please don't.

To djsjbh:

Are we even certain the disc is mounted? Usually, games look for things to be mounted at /dev/cdrom . As root:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If /mnt/cdrom doesn't exist, just fix that by typing

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

as root.

Hello,

Wow. An old thread!

GNOME seems to me to be more speedy, and less extras on it, whereas KDE seems to have more bells and whistles, such as Palm stuff and Games.

I usually install both, and go with GNOME. I think on my next box, however, I will go with KDE, because I want to do more different things with linux. I work with RedHat / Fedora systems.

But for strict performance over VNC, TWM still wins hands down.

Christian

I'm in line with Christian on this one. Maybe I'm just apathetic, but I don't care what WM I'm in. The main criteria I use is "Can I quickly open a terminal in it?" Most of the time, that means I just use the default WM of the distro. Since I'm running Debian quite a bit now, that usually turns out to be Gnome.

To throw in my US$.02 regardng VNC performance, I'm going to have to shoot for ion (http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/), because it uses almost NO resources. I think using top, I calculated that ion was using at most 300KB of RAM on my box, and that's running over a VNC connection. Out of all the WMs I've come across, that one is the best example of my "Can I quickly open a terminal in it?" need.

Good deal!

On a machine like that, NetBSD is always my first choice. So, I have to applaud you for coming in close with my second choice, FreeBSD.

If you can bump up the RAM even further, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at the speed of that machine. I've got a P233mmx with 256MB SDRAM and 7200RPM SCSI drives running NetBSD 1.6.2 (Haven't updated to 2 yet because it's SO DARN STABLE as is!). That thing runs like a champ-- granted, my XP2500 Barton can smoke it, but it is quite usable for Firefox with few extensions. I go a little leaner on the WM by using ion, but I recommend XFCE or even TWM for people who don't want to invest the time to learn the nuances of ion.

Great job! Let me know how FreeBSD 6 goes. Because I have a bunch of installations based off of FreeBSD 4.8, I tend to still stick back in the 4.x branch. Again, that's just because it's battle-tested, and the only time I've ever been let down by the 4.x branch is by my own stupidity. As a matter of fact, I still keep my FreeBSD 4.6.2 Power Pack CDs that I bought around, because that still runs great on low-spec machines.

To me Catweazle attracts people with his useful advice and a good sense of humour .. so he is the sexiest on this planet ...

But what are the results ?????? DMR = 70000 .. is it some kinda bug or its truely right???

No, the results are right. People came out of the woodwork, nay, I say they bothered to create an account, just to vote for Good old Dave :D

Hmm... looks like DMR is somehow the sexiest...

*whistles*

I voted for Narue, because I'm sure any of the guys on the forum would take offense at me calling them sexy... :p

Have you tried another stick of RAM in the system? You could have had a bad contact, or something, or maybe the RAM was installed incorrectly. If not that, you could be looking at a bad motherboard, or perhaps even a bad powersupply that's putting too much voltage to the RAM.

Another funny spin on this is to take a screen shot of how their desktop currently is, windows and all, and make that the desktop background. Then, minimize all their windows, and revel as they click on the background, thinking those are their real windows!

Net::AIM is likely a module for the Perl programming language. Do you have any knowledge with Perl?

Starbucks, perhaps? Many book stores and coffee shops have free WiFi access. I'd look around for places like that.

(Never been to California, but that would be my first thought)

I think it is their problem. Something that expensive just doesn't tear up in that short amount of time.

I think it's pretty obvious you're not going to change your mind about it, but you have to consider this: You're paying for the design of the unit. You're paying for Intel's chipset. You're paying for an LCD screen, etc.

You have not accepted the well-known fact that computer hardware, no matter how old, how new, will break. Ever heard of MTBF? Mean Time Between Failure? Basically, a manufacturer takes a certain number of components, and they run them for a specified period of time. I'm not sure of the exact formula, but essentially, manufacturers take that number of drives, and they calculate how many failed in that period of time, and they're able to provide a MTBF estimate for manufacturers. Entire consumer goods, like TVs, computers, etc, have an overall MTBF, and manufacturers look at things like that.

Manufacturers realize things break-- that's why they offer Extended Warranties. It's always a Win situation for the Manufacturer, but it's a crap-shoot for the consumer; If I get this and never need it, I've wasted money. But, if I don't have it when I need it, I'm SOL.

I've worked with computers for a number of years, and I've issued my fair share of warranty repairs, as well as redeemed a fair few of my own. I'm not going to disagree with you about how it sucks when a …

Extended warranty is expensive. All it's doing is paying for the problems ahead of time.

Not really. It's statistics. You can look at it with your viewpoint, but I prefer to look at it this way-- take your LCD panel for instance. Those things cost around $300-- if your warranty cost any less than $300, you saved money by opting for that. If you even had one costly repair like that within warranty, you paid

A CD-ROM, on the other hand, might be cheaper just to order a new one from Dell. So, it might not be worth your while. It's all about probability, and whether you think that it's a wise investment.

3-4 years? Mine's not even 1 and a half years old! If I could have got 3 years out of the crap I wouldn't mad. 1600 bucks for something that only lasts barely over a year is not right.

Stuff breaks-- that's why we have warranties. The simple fact is that after the first year, stuff starts breaking. 4 years, 3 years, 2 years, it doesn't matter. If you want to ensure your computer stays working for its 3-4 year "life", it's best to get the extended warranty.

You can find more information here:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/05/2247207&tid=95&tid=187&tid=4

Sure, it's a Slashdot thread, but it's bound to be pretty informative regarding Level3 and Cogent. It's possible you're being affected by this...

Why contact a lawyer? Did you buy the extended warranty?

Not playing Devil's Advocate, but that's why they offer warranties. Your screen died, and their CD-ROM is busted. Those are 2 unrelated components-- how is that a defect, or a design flaw? If they'd have bought the warranty, I'm sure that a drive would have been shipped your way, no problem. Cheap hardware, sure, maybe, but that's how they get such low prices, I'll bet.

Lesson of the day: Buy the extended warranty on things like laptops. 75% of hardware failures occur in that 3-4 year period of ownership, or something like that-- that's why they offer them!

Running the drives in a RAID on the same IDE channel might hurt things, actually. If you wanted to do that approach, you'd want them on independant channels, preferably an IDE RAID card.

Truth be told, I've seen benchmarks that indicate RAID 0 is not really that big of a performance booster for desktop usage. For that 1-3% increase in read/write speed you're getting, you're putting your self in a data loss position, because if one drive fails, you lose the data on both the drives with a RAID 0.

Personally, I just run with 2 drives. I install Windows on one drive, and keep all my applications on it. Then, I store all of my data on another drive. My Documents and other types of files I keep where they'd normally be, but I back them up monthly to my second hard drive. (It's just more convenient to leave those documents there for me). If hard drive performance is really an issue for you, consider picking up some Western Digital Raptors, or something fast like that, for your system drive. If you're doing something like video/music editing, where you read or write a lot to your data drive, I'd do the same for it.

...that's kind of a heavy-handed approach. No offense, but wouldn't it be better just to figure out what you need too install?

I'd just go with Debian. You can get all you would have gotten with Ubuntu or Mepis. But, with Debian, you'd be building up, rather than slimming down, so you can save a good bit of time and disk space. 1GB hard drives can fill up REALLY quickly if you install a "modern" distro, even if you tried to pick-and-choose what you installed on there.

If your drive is making ugly noises like that, it's probably bad, hate to tell you. That's the only reason why I didn't respond, initially-- it sounded so funky, I was unwilling to accept that there was something in any OS that would make something like that occur, and not in another OS.

Ok. Sounds good. Why are you using a Crossover cable, though, with this modem? Most DSL modems use a standard straight-through cable.

But, aside from that, you should pick a more recent distribution. FreeBSD is a Unix, but it's comparable to any Linux distribution you'd run across. The best thing for you to do right now is do a Google for Linux search using the term PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) if you do that, it should point you in the right direction. For more specific information pertaining to your distro, you could try searching "SuSE 8.0" + "PPPoE"

as i m new to scripting i dont know much about it
so pz help me

Just figure out what commands you want to use, in the order you need them run, and put them in a text file. There, you have your script.

I'm not trying to be rude, but that's all there is to it. Now, it's up to you to figure out what commands are needed. You didn't tell what you needed the script to do-- just write down step-by-step what you want to accomplish, and you'll have already hashed out what your script is going to look like.

You could probably swing Vista with that. I have a suspicion, though, that the Video card will be the bottleneck on the system, more than likely.

If at all else, give it a shot. You'll probably be ok with that, though, since it is the current mid-range offering from ATI on portable systems.

That's kind of a vague question. Exactly what are you having trouble with?

I don't advise using an older distro like SuSE 8.0. It's bound to have security issues. Pick something like Slackware 10.2, or Debian 3.1, even, that is up to date, and have security fixes that might put you in a safer position. I've run Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD and NetBSD on a system with specifications very similar to yours, and they've all run swimmingly.

Let us know what exactly you need help with, and we can probably point you in the right direction. "How do I make this work on the machine" is pretty vague.

It will probably reset it-- you know, the same thing as turning the power on and off quickly.

Like any programming Forums, this is a homework assignment, so the rules apply here.

Please show your work, what you have done so far, and we'll help troubleshoot what you've started on. It's imminently possible-- just keep in mind that all you do with scripts is start commands that already exist. That should be the only hint you need.

double post. Closing thread.

Please continue discussion here:
http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread32349.html

I would check for a CMOS jumper on the system. Pull that, it will reset things, and then re-do the config yourself, saving changes. That might resolve things.