Posts by i686-linux

I have seen this as well with auto-negotiation on Dell machines, as well as some PCMCIA NICs. Definetely hardcode the speeds, both on the switch (if possible) and on the actual computer. If 100mb-full doesn't work, then try 100mb-half, etc.

religion -> beef

This is all it took:

On internal machine:
#ssh -R 39:localhost:23 root@dmzmachine

On dmzmachine:
#telnet localhost 39
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

SunOS 5.7

login:

I used telnet for an example, but now I can forward "anything."

What did you do to fix it for her?

Word of advice, if you ever buy a vaio: delete the partitions before you do anything!

I agree! I was unaware of the hidden restore partition. I wonder how long sony has been doing that for? But it is rather ridiculous how they split like that! I had a client who owned a VAIO with 5gb for c:\ and 15gb for d:\. After you install a full Microsoft Windows and Office, Adobe Photoshop, Quickbooks, security patches, and all the other misc software that they needed, it left about a few hundred MB on the c:\ drive. What a waste of the 15gb. And trying to use d:\program files\ is sorta messy, as I'm sure most of us have seen!

Glad this was solved.

Backups are a must. Redundancy is useless without a good, clean backup! :) If you go with Windows, I would recommend an SDLT drive for large ammounts of data. (up to 320gb compressed) For the software, use Veritas Backup Exec for Windows 9. Maybe you can get by with an older DLT drive. I would recommend using Symantec Anticirus Corporate Edition. IMHO it is an excellent AV solution. The client installs right off of the server, and can integrate into Outlook and Lotus Notes. For being able to access the files on the server remotely, I would look into a Cisco PIX firewall. It is an excellent firewall/vpn solution. Everyone else may have a different opinion, but this is what I have seen work the "best."

Until one day

This wasn't in college, but in high school, anything on the network besides windows 98 or 2000 was not allowed. Windows XP was not even allowed! Most of this was due to licensing issues, but the school district felt that any linux or bsd was only going to be used for the purpose of "hacking." This never stopped anyone from bringing in their linux or bsd machine to school to connect to the wireless, or ethernet. The district never had any way of controlling it. They would have to run scans of every node on the network, and then if the tcp stack of one, is like that of a bsd/linux block that MAC address, which is really uneffective, cuz it isn't difficult to buy a new MAC, or alter the tcp-stack. I don't have any resources at hand, but there is lots of documentation and even some software for linux that can. (and I think bsd as well, though I think I have heard that this can be done at the kernel compile level) Colleges are much more liberal than high schools though. As far as ease of use though, set the person up with ifplugd, so that his ethernet link can automatically be detected at plug/drop to run a script. (IE: dhcpcd eth0/dhcpcd -k eth0) Definitely make sure he has samba.

hearts -> desire

Atari -> 2600

Not sure how slackware has binutils 2.15 if gnu doesn't have it.... anyways. Built binutils 2.14 from source, using shared libs, and bam, everything works fine now:

::[brandon@moonshine][~]::ldd `which strings`
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Thank you alc6379 for mentioning 'ldconfig'. It reminded me to check for any shared libs it uses, which led me to seeing it is statically linked, and so on. God it's late, and been a long week. Thanks again!

Thanks for your advice! Unfortunately... it isn't aliased to anything, I run ldconfig at every boot, and every time I install anything, so that was of no help. I did try this though:

::[brandon@moonshine][~]::ldd `which strings`
not a dynamic executable

That is interesting, so I tried:

::[brandon@moonshine][~]::file !$
file `which strings`
/usr/sbin/strings: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped

Aha! It is statically linked! So I tried updating the Slackware package. Seems they provide an update from binutils-2.14.90.0.6 -> binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1. No luck. :(

gone -> with the quickness

Try to use Ad-aware and SpyBot S&D to get rid of this.

I get this error message now when running the command 'strings' on any file. obviously I have the command 'ls' in my $PATH, so that isn't the issue. I haven't made any recent changes to anything except for a GTK upgrade to 2.4.0. 'strings' is obviously not dependant on GTK at all, so this isn't the issue. I noticed this about a week ago, but don't use the command 'strings' day to day so don't know when it actually started happening. Anyone seen this before?

Slackware 9.1
Kernel 2.4.25

If you need anymore info than that, let me know.

Thanks!

power -> drill

Hrm. What OS is this? Were youa ble to get into safe mode?

annoying -> siblings

Is this on a laptop? The track-points (the one that looks like an eraser head) are known to drift at times for no reason. Quite common, quite annoying. No real "fix" for this, just let it do it's thing and it stops tugging after a few seconds.

Thanks, I appreciate your quick response. I have used OpenVPN before, and yes it is a great solution but I was hoping for a simple solution, not quite so heavy as installing a full vpn solution. I was hoping for just some kind of solution using ppp/ssh, ssh tunneling, or something like that. One, for simplicity, two, I don't need full access to resources between the boxes, just one port (10080/udp), and three, the solaris box has no development tools. I suppose I could make a dirty attempt at cross-compiling for Sparc64 on my linux box, but would rather not try that. It leaves too much room for error. Maybe I'm asking too much from too little.

of everlasting nothingness.

What http server are you using? I would recommend a SSI (server-side include) if possible.

Here is the setup:

I have a Solaris box running the amanda backup server for all of the Solaris and Linux machines. It can backup all of the machines on the private network just fine, but there is one Redhat Linux 7.3 machine that sites outside of the firewall in a DMZ. Punching a hole in the firewall to allow communication is absolutely not an option, so what I need to know is what would be the safest and most reliable way to create a tunnel from the Redhat box in the DMZ to the Solaris box inside? I have thought of using an SSH tunnel, but I don't know how reliable that is, or how to do this properly without creating a backdoor through the firewall. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It depends largely on what you are looking for. New, used? Desktop replacement, or ultra-light? How much money can you afford to dump out. CD-Burning? Wireless? Personally I would recommend Dell laptops, though I'm sure some people in these forums want to hang me for saying that! I bought a three year warranty, and it has been great. I had a bad DVD-ROM, no problem, had a new one shipped out at the end of the second day. I broke one of the battery clips, no worries, they came out on site a couple days later and replaced them. Their customer-support is really incredible. Yes, phone calls do take some time to wait for, but you have to realize that they ARE a huge company. If you are looking for something used, shop around on ebay and see wht kind of a deal you can get. Just make sure that there are NO issues. Dealing with laptop issues is no fun!

Is it XP Home, or Pro?

Me is loaded full of issues, and has problems in a networked environment. If you can, replace that with a copy of XP Pro.

KENNY! -> OH MY GOD!

(I'll let it alone for a while now:))

fall from above

Satan -> Southpark

If you have the Windows XP cd that came with the computer, or one that you bought on your own, then you can boot off of that and run the System Recovery tool and it can reinstall the Windows installation over your existing one, without too much damaga to the system. You won't have to format, but I can't guarantee data loss, blah blah, you know the drill. :)

clever -> EVIL

Right-click on My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management, and from there you should be able to format them.

yet ironically refreshing.

My girlfriend is a bit emotional at times, which is normal, and healthy. She likes to play with photoshop, and has an interest in the things I do on the computer. She finds things like ssh+screen+ncurses, and VNC amazing. Having a girlfriend who is intrigued by technology, but not 100% into is not. I don't think I would like having competition. Plus, can you imagine the things called out in bed?:cheesy:

and bypassing Windows security was matter of pushing the "esc" key. Or even killing a batch file on a kiosk, like at Barnes and Noble! :-D

I can vouch for Access terrible reliability when in heavy use. It works great for small applications, but something like this heavy calls for a full fledged database server. I can't tell you how much pain me and my boss have been through with Access at our clients.

I think a Mozilla section could be useful. People may have issues with the plugins. "I can't get flash to work in X," or "mozilla-plugger is broken with Y." Also, there are so many add-ins for firefox, that there could be a huge discussion about them. Maybe it wouldn't be a big hitter of a forum, but it could very well serve a purpose. I suppose most people who use firefox are *nix users, and are probably pretty familiar with toyng around with things if they aren't using a "default" browser, but as it gains growth, more support will be needed on Linux, Windows, and others. Just my input.

Oh yeah, shameless support for firefox:
w00t!
:cheesy:

Boxers or briefs? Wait, to hell with that one! Do you Yahoo? Bah...nevermind!

Infinity -> Thought

pyramid of power

Well, as far as the partitioning scheme goes, Sony has AFAIK always shipped there computers with a C: and D: drive, so that in the event the OS neeeds to be reinstalled (as with yours) One could do so, without having to format all of their personal files which "should" be stored on the D: drive. I am not sure how "recent" you bought it, but you may be able to go to Best Buy with your receipt, and laptop, and other documentation that you have, and explain that you never received the system recovery disks, but you DO have the product key. (The Windows sticker) If they can't help you, then contact Sony. I think that most (if not all) major manufacturers can provide people with copies of the media, for a charge. I don't know the prices, but I am sure it is significantly less than purchasing a new copy of Windows. In your case, you already have the license, now you just need the media. There is no way to reinstall XP without the disk. No "online" installations or anything. I don't think this is possible with Windows. Once you do obtain the Windows XP media, it would be a smart idea to copy all of your personal filesto the D: drive, if you don't already. Or, maybe you can copy them to DVD and then reformat all 120gb as on big C: drive during the Windows reinstallation. There is the option of doing a Windows recovery …

Goddam stoners always leaving their gas caps behind! :cheesy:

Run Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D, NOW!

, except I shall

What do you use it for? Is your computer a part of a network, or is it a stand-alone machine?

Could you be thinking of sysedit?

I don't know why it wouldn't display the POSTing process, but, you may want to disable iniitial boot memory checking in your BIOS. Not sure what BIOS that mobo uses, but I'm sure you could find it in there somewhere. Try disabling the boot time memory checking and see if that speeds it up.

Are you using cable modem?

What do you mean by disconnect? Do you mean disconnect the cable? IP addresses usually stay the same when using the same DHCP server over and over. The reason for this is, is that unless your MAC address changes, your IP really shouldn't/won't. That is one reason why cable users (though they use DHCP and dynamic IP) have been known to keep the same IP address for a year or more as long as the networking device (or it's MAC address) on the connection doesn't change.

The only thing disappointing about having cable is the issue of blocking and filtering ports. :( I had DSL at 2 other places of residence and loved it (even though it was slower, though not by too much). I was able to do web/email hosting for me and my friends, and now unfortunately, I can't. :( I wish I could get DSL in my area, but I'm about 800 feet from the CO. How crappy is that? I have pleaded with the phone companies in my area several times, but with no luck. Any body know an effective way to picket for DSL access? I have heard that if there is a high enough demand that the phone companies could possibly break down, and setup a new CO. (this of course would have to be beneficial to the, understandably) I guess they have no interest in my area, cuz most people don't care, and just settle for cable.

Did you install any drivers that were provided with the card? Does device manager show any issues with the loaded drivers. (If you did install them) Also, please be more specific when naming a topic in the forums here. A title such as "Windows 2k Serial ATA Issues" would probably be more useful. :)