Posts by alc6379

While I don't have any direct experience with mimedefang, here is a suggestion:

Use the script command. Just type script filename before running a build. After you've finished the build, then you just hit ^D to logout of script. After that, you've got a full transcript of what happened during that build at filename. If you took a look through that, you may be able to check out Google for Linux for some guidance. If that fails, then you could attach the script output here.

Are you sure you even need to download a vendor driver for the modem?

Since it's a PCI modem, it's probably controllerless, as in a WinModem, right? Check out www.linmodems.org to see if they have a driver for your modem. It could be that your current kernel is missing some module...

sounds like an IRQ conflict, possibly.

Let me ask you this: in your BIOS, is the option for Plug and Play OS disabled? That may be a source of some heartache.

You've provided a good bit of info already. Did the command work before? It could be that a shared lib or something was changed since the last time you used that command.

Does it work as the root user? From the sounds of the error, it seems like the shell is trying to look for fopen. That's kind of odd. What little C programming I know tells me that fopen is a function withing the stdio.h library, not a function. It could be maybe you need to run ldconfig or something. Either that, or the fopen function isn't finding some file or something. Try running alias and see if strings is aliased to some other command, perhaps.

All I know is, don't use cheap memory. This is true regardless of what board you buy. I've just purchased a KT600 board from Gigabyte, and the thing won't boot with the el-cheapo DDR memory I bought. I bought the board to replace another board I had, but I think now it may not have been the motherboard, but instead the memory. At least I might have the base to build two boxes now...

the uplink port used to be included on most hubs. It was there so you could connect two hubs using a straight-through cable. Most companies stopped including them for three reasons:

• crossover cables are easy to get ahold of nowadays
• it saves money to not include the uplink port.
• They want you to buy a bigger hub/switch if you need more ports

Crossover cables are pretty easy to make, and they're also available to purchase at most computer stores, maybe even WalMart. If I needed to connect some hubs together, I'd just get a crossover cable.

What happens when you restart the pc? Do you get a connection then? Do you have another system you can try it out on? I'm assuming that you're running Windows XP, right? What does the ipconfig /all command give you? What do the lights on the cable modem indicate?

There are plenty of things that could be going on with the system. Possibly, it's an ISP issue. Considering the way my ISP is, I like to eliminate everything on my side before calling them up.

try doing a google search for "patch panel pinout"... Maybe that will lead you in the right direction .

Really.....? Where did one say it was linux? Well, when I think of serving I think of security IMHO.

...I don't want to resurrect a flame war or anything, but I just wanted to make a point of clarification, on my behalf-- Big*B*Affleck seemed to lump OpenBSD in with Linux systems. It's just one of my pet peeves to ensure that people know *BSD != Linux.

Call me picky. That's mainly what I meant to get across with that statement. :) I'm more than happy to step aside anyone more knowledgable on a subject comes along. Obviously, WEATHER CHANNEL, you know your stuff. Would you mind posting a link to the materials you mentioned, regarding being ahead in all of those factors you included, if given the proper tools for a less secure system? There's a spot on my bookmarks list that needs filling...

Also, I full well realize "Secure by default" is a marketing ploy. As far as OBSD is concerned, the base OS is all that's audited, right? Out of the box, sure it's secure by default-- isn't it true that the only thing it runs after a default install is OpenSSH? Sure, it's secure, but all you're going to be able to use it for is an SSH server. Using that logic, NetBSD, which has no ports open after an initial install, would be even more secure by default.

Novell is an intresting system to say the least, and your miniunm specs to run 6.0 are crazy (256 megs of ram MININUM! any less and it will run slower than windows XP on a 486 )

You need to have a copy of dos to boot from to install it :)

...Yeah, but think about it. Novell's targets for Netware 6 are people who really need the power Novell puts out. I mean, I've been told that Formula One racers use Novell to monitor their cars! Since anything can be represented as a leaf in an NDS tree, they can use Netware to poll sensors all throughout the car, in real time. That's not a use most people would encounter, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Also, most people don't realize that Netware is a Network Operating System. The question about Netware being able to "go online" is a great example. You can put a Netware 5.x/6.x server on the internet, and I think there's a TCP/IP stack available for some earlier versions (correct me if I'm wrong), but to my knowledge there's not a web browser or any other client application available for Netware. But, once it's on the internet, it can certainly make an excellent web/FTP/database/file/whatever server you'd want it to be. Unlike Microsoft's current server offerings, you can't really use Netware as a daily desktop, ie, mail, web, word processing, etc.

...That's what I'm aware of, at least.

I've never seen one, but here's a suggestion:

Buy a WAP, or whatever the wireless equivalent to a hub is. You could use a Linux box to make a dialup connection, and then you could have the other machines use the Linux box as a gateway.

...And the Linux box needn't be wireless, either-- many people have issues getting wireless cards working under Linux, but you can solve that issue, too-- get a WAP that has a wired Ethernet port. They shouldn't be too hard to find, as I know most wireless routers have 4 ports or so.

Wow... but can I ask how much that costs? I don't mean anything by this, but do you really, really need all that speed?

My Comcast connection is approx 3Mbps. I know two 3Mbps connections does not really equal 6Mbps, but it's still really fast. Are you doing some kind of mission critical work in addition to having a desire to stream music and download headers at the same time? Personally, I've never noticed that much of a slowdown while performing those tasks simultaneously...

As far as usage of the word 'shaft,' here's the dictionary definition:

MerriamWebster Online
Main Entry: shaft
1 : to fit with a shaft
2 : to treat unfairly or harshly

There ya go! You won't see me use any profanity ever...100% guarantee of that.

"to treat unfairly or harshly"

Without going into too many specifics... think about it. Getting a shaft... I'm sure this post will be moderated out (as it probably should be), but if you were to get a "shaft" somewhere or somehow, how might that be considered a bad, harsh, or unfair thing by most? Merriam Webster chose that definition because it defines the term without really giving a nod to the sexual/obscene nature of the colloquialism.

Try resetting your BIOS defaults and clearing your NVRAM. Depending on the model of motherboard, you will probably have to hit the <DELETE> key to get into the BIOS. Also, there should be a jumper on your motherboard that clears your BIOS settings. On mine, it's labelled JP1. Check your system's documentations to see if you have the option to do this.

tried safe mode? you may need to reinstall your graphics drivers. What OS are you running? For XP, hold the <F8> key at startup. If that doesn't work, try the <CTRL> key, as it works in earlier versions of Windows.

Just go into Device manager once you're there, and then delete any Display Adapters that are there. Then, just reinstall your video drivers, and see if that doesn't help.

...not to mention that the use of the word "shaft" in this regard is probably a violation of the board's terms of service regarding profanity...

The more the merrier!

I've got a nice Python script I could post, provided I could find it... I'd be happy to post it, once I dig it up. That's assuming you decided to allow scripts in this forum!

get 2 USB ethernet adapters and a crossover cable.

Then, each system will have an ethernet connection to the other, and you would just treat the systems as if they were on a network. You could share data, and an internet connection using this method.

but switches are better than hubs right? so, i'll probably be using switches... i'll run through the manual, (if i can find it) and try some things... thnx ...

Switches do the same thing as hubs, basically. The difference is that switches are faster. Hubs utilize a single "bus", if you will, and all traffic runs on the same line to get to any host on the hub. Switches, however, have the capability to create direct logical circuits between two communicating machines, so other network activity doesn't interfere so much.

If all you ever do is swap files every now and then between machines, a 10/100 hub will do. But, if you're constantly serving files, or if you're planning a LAN party, you'd benefit from having a switch, as it would decrease latency and eliminate network packet collisions.

would you believe that most ordinary people who uses computers don't even know how to use the MS-DOS shell? then, how would you expect them to use *nix? I always wanted to install linux on my pc, but my brothers/sisters/parents wont be able to use them. since they use it only for surfing, chatting, and word processing.

If that's all they're doing, they can definitely do all of that in Linux. There's a wider selection of browsers, good chat clients, and there are a few good word processors.

If you don't want to install Linux, you can still run it-- there's always KNOPPIX. It's a bootable CD containing a complete Linux system. From there, you can do anything you can do with an installed Linux system.

Thank you for your suggestion, but to do a network installation I must boot from CD or floppy, and I can't boot from these devices: I can only boot from internal HD (primary or secondary IDE) or USB HD.

Do you have a USB CD-ROM drive, or a USB floppy? I'd look into getting one of tthose. Or better yet, if the laptop has a FAT32 partition on it, you could possibly copy all of the install files over to the Windows partition. Then, you could use a DOS-based bootloader like loadlin to load a Linux kernel from DOS or Win98/95. Also, if you could get loadlin working, you could then load the files from the network. But, what OS are you running right now on the system?

You know, it's cool that the Mac is 20... But was the 20th Anniversary Mac supposed to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Apple, or the 20th Anniversary of the Mac? That thing came out some time ago...

Never thought I'd find myself using TechTV for anything, ever, but lookie here:

TechTV Mac Tip: Networking OS X and Windows

Hope this helps!

I love dual monitors.

I don't program much, and I don't do much graphics editing. But, I do multitask, a LOT. I can have a web page maximized in one screen, and then I can have serveral terminals and other programs in the other screen. If you angle your monitors properly, it's not that bad to have to look left and right all the time.

So, IMHO, if you do lots of stuff, and you crave desktop space like me, dual monitors is one way of attaining more desktop space.

I can add a little bit to the situation.

In just about all Linux filesystems, writes are held momentarily for other data to be added to it. I forget what the actual term is, but basically, there's a buffer that contains the file to be written to disk. It waits a little while for any more data to be written with it, and then it writes all of the data to disk in one go. Basically, Linux prevents fragmentation by already writing a file to disk all at once, so it's already defragmented on the disk.

UFS2, baby!

That's the closest thing I could say. I primarily run FreeBSD 5.2 on my machine, running UFS2, which has journalling. But, on my Linux machines, I run ext3.

that is so Windows...

Just kidding. That works great, but you can squeeze even more compression out of it if you use tar with bzip2 compression:

tar -cvjf files.tar.bz2 my_files/

Zip might get about 2x compression, but I've seen bzip2 get anywhere from 2x to 5x compression. If space is a concern, then I'd check it out.

Where is this going, with the security side of things?

For one, OpenBSD isn't Linux-- it's just another Free OS. The reason it's called "secure by default" is because when you install it, it's got every port closed on it with the exception of port 22, SSH, which is audited for security holes, and can, for all intensive purposes, be considered secure in itself.

But, for logging, it's always sufficed for me. Nearly every network service has the ability to log events like successful/failed logon attempts and access violations. If it doesn't have that function, you'd be silly, IMHO, to use it. My personal opinion has always been that a newbie shouldn't run a server on the internet without fully knowing the implications of doing so. Sure, you can configure any system to be insecure, so "secure by default" is just a baseline, so to speak, that you can be assured of when installing that system.

I would, however, have to agree on the access control lists side. General rwxrwxrwx UNIX permissions can be a little cumbersome. I'm not up to speed on some commercial UNIX implementations, but I do believe that many of them now have support for ACLs in them. There are projects in the works to incorporate ACL support in Linux, and all of the BSDs, if I'm not mistaken. There are some ways around this, NIS, for example, where you can put groups within groups, thus giving you finer and easier control over …

What OS are you running?

If you're in X Windows under Linux, just select the text you want to copy. Then, just hit the middle mouse button, and X will paste the text you selected, wherever you want it to be.

I'm on Comcast, and their Terms of Service (ToS) actually states that if you run a webserver (or any server for that matter), they reserve the right to cut off your service. I think that's pretty standard amongst cable ISPs, too.

Unless you want to start using DSL, I'd advise against running a web server on your home cable connection.

Or, you could go to a site like Pricewatch or Froogle[/b] and type in "MicroATX". They should come up with some responses, I'd imagine.

Just an FYI: It's not really advisable to post your IP address in a web forum-- you're inviting people to break into your system.

As such, I did a port scan of that IP address, out of curiosity. Apparently, your ISP filters out port 137...

You might have just done a bad install. It happens sometimes, and it could be due to a bad burn on your CD.

What I recommend is to redownload the Mandrake images, reburn them, and then reinstall. If you've just installed your new system, the only thing you'll have lost is the time it took to do the first install.

You may not be able to get that much from a 2600+.

They only released it in the Thoroughbred core. From what I've read, that particular core isn't very good for overclocking.

I suggest checking out www.tomshardware.com . They seemed to have some info somewhere on their site about it.

I dunno... my 512k's pretty old... of course, mine's "pimped out"-- it's got a FAT ;) external 20MB hard drive!

I dig this style :)

Dani - Don't touch a thing! Its sexxxy! :-)

Wow, I'm so impressed. Really! Usually I hate your TTF changes, but wow this is nice!

Yeah, it just looked funky when I first logged back on. Now it looks spiffy!

I'm probably out in left field here, but could you do some type of shell scripting here? Could you have some type of file on the floppy, say it's called noboot.txt. The first time the floppy boots, it does its needed tasks, and then creates noboot.txt. Then, the next time it boots, the script will check if there's a noboot.txt file there. If there's one there, it skips to the next boot sector.

I have no idea how to do this, though. My father in law does a lot with Multi-boot scenarios by copying various boot sectors. Maybe you could use a lilo boot disk. Just boot the floppy, do the tasks, and have a script that reruns lilo with a different lilo.conf, one which will only boot the CD-ROM device.

Just some ideas... hopefully they'll get some gears turning...

hah.... just as soon as I reopened this thread, it looks great...

GOOD JOB! :D

Hrm... I don't know if I like it too much...

Is there some way to change the look of it? I'm not to fond of the avatar and the username taking up such a large portion of the post. It's just more space where information could be crammed in, IMHO.

I'm not a web developer or anything, I'm more like an armchair graphic artist...

Look for a "touch" command that will work on NTFS. I know it exists.

But, the important thing is, which way is he wanting to change it? Is he trying to make it look like the file hadn't been accessed later than a specific date, or does he just want to make the date different from what it is?

If this were my machine, here's what I'd do:

Primary Master: 80GB Maxtor
Primary Slave: DVD-ROM
Secondary Master: Plextor 16x10x40

Then, if you have a RAID controller, I'd run the two 20GB drives in a RAID 1 configuration. I have a few reasons for this. First, I'm deathly scared of running RAID 0. I've lost too much data to even be concerned with the performance gains that can be realised with RAID 0. If you use RAID 1, you will have only 20GB of space, but you will have data redundancy in case something goes awry. My other reason for suggesting this is so you can get the 20GB drive off of the CD-RW's IDE channel, thus eliminating the possibility of too much traffic on the channel during a burn.

I'd partition out the 80 GB drive, putting all of the system files and partitions on a single partition. Then, I'd make a smaller partition to keep the data you work day-to-day on. I'd use the 20GB RAID 1 array to store my more important data that I might have. In my case, it'd be CD iso images and system backups. In your case, who knows what might go on there?

Yeah, seriously...

I'm just sorry to hear that you took such a financial hit, though. Way to be a martyr! ;)

Would it be possible to install another OS on the box though, like Windows XP, or (gasp!) Linux, even?

I've personally amassed a decent collection of older Macs. I love these little boxes-- I can still make them do all kinds of things, as old as they are! I'm curious if there's anyone else here that loves the older Macs, or maybe just still uses them. Here is my arsenal:

Power Mac 8600/250 (Rodan)
PPC 604e 250mhz chip
4GB SCSI drive
252MB RAM
Running OS 8.6 w/Speed Doubler
sometimes I get the unction to run Debian Linux, too!
USB card add-in

Power Mac 8500/120 (Mothra)
Upgraded G3 300mhz chip w/512k cache
252MB RAM
2x4GB SCSI drive
4 port USB card
Running OS X.2 through XPostFacto

Powerbook 5300c (Horatio)
100mhz PPC 603 chip
32MB RAM
6GB laptop ATA drive
PCMCIA 10BaseT NIC
OS 8.6 w/ Speed doubler

Mac IIci (Martin)
Upgraded 68040 40mhz Presto chip
48MB RAM
2GB SCSI drive
external CD-ROM
external 650MB Magneto Optical drive
external Syquest 44/88MB drive
NuBus 10BaseT NIC
Runs System 7.1, eventually going to run Debian m68k Linux!

These are the machines I have set up right now. In addition to these, I've got other IIci's sitting around, a bunch of all-in-one LC 5xx series boxen, some Mac Classics, a Mac 512k, an SE/30 and an SE. All of them run great, too! Of all the ones I own, I'm most proud of the IIci …

You could set the date/time back on the machine, and then access the file, thus giving it an earlier file date...

That's kind of a ghetto solution, but it may work.

Since you bought the machine used, you may want to consider just going out and purchasing an OS X installer CD. Basically, I'd just wipe the machine out, and just put a new, fresh system install on it so you don't "inherit" the previous owner's issues that they may have had.

Also, it's not really advisable to post details about subverting system passwords on a board like this. Even though you motives for doing it may be pure, the techniques for doing it can also be used to gain unauthorized access to other machines.

That's even a good test for you to try. Download Mozilla Firebird, (available from www.mozilla.org) install it, and then connect to AOL. Once you get connected, minimize your AOL window. Then, open up Firebird and go to eBay. If it runs just fine under Firebird, then we'll at least know that it's not a problem with the modem, but it's a problem with the AOL or Internet Explorer software.

You may have to download a program like HiJackThis and pull that out of your registry. Most likely, what happened is that some popup had malicious code in it. That code was able to edit your browser settings and add in the web page to your history.

HiJackThis can be found through a Google search. Once you've run it, post the results here, or in a security forum, and maybe one of us can tell what the offending registry entry is. While you're at it, type the domain name of the "bad" website into a Google search. Most likely, someone else has run into your problem and has figured out the solution to it.

One final note: If possible, run Windows Update and get your system up to date on security patches. While it won't neccesarily fix your problem, it may prevent it from happening again.

try encrypt passwords = no in your smb.conf and restart samba.

does that make a difference? Also, is your XP username solo? I've had a lot of trouble accessing Samba shares as a different user than what my current XP username is...

redhat 9 will only take up maybe 1-2 gigs of space for a full install. if your second hd is completely clear and there is no partitions on it the when you pop in the cd and reboot the computer. (first make sure you bios is set to boot from the cdrom) and then the install will tell you what to do. redhat is very nOObie freindly so you shouldnt have any problems installing it. and it even will set up the partitions for you i believe all you have to do is accept them and they will be done the way redhat has said for them to be. and for a nOObie i would recommend either you try redhat9 which you have, mandrake, or suse they are the easiest to install. hope this helps :)

edit: no you will need more then 700 mb to get redhat up and running. if you do a full install which i recommend for you or when it askes in the redhat install chose the desktop install this will give you what you want. and it will take 1-2 gigs. :)

I wouldn't let RedHat do the auto partitioning. Last time I ran Anaconda (the Red Hat installer), it wanted to erase everything on my drive and use the entire space to install itself. I'd recommend using Disk Druid, which is included in the Red Hat installer. You can customize how much disk space you want your Red Hat installation to use.

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