I ran a medium sized (2000 nodes/30 sites) Novell/NT/Exchange network for several years.
We had about 10 Macintosh nodes spread out in various places on the WAN. No big problems - they were using the file/print services on Novell/NT and Outlook/Exchange for email. Most Mac people know how to survive in a mixed network just fine.
There is nothing wrong with running Macs in this environment. There is some extra software to load on the Netware box, some extra software to load on the Mac but it runs fine. There is an Novell NDS client that we used over IPX. I would bet there is an IP capable version today.
Macs have been doing TCP/IP for a long time so it's not a big deal. I will say that I was glad when we switched everybody over to IPX (this was about 3 years ago) so that I could stop routing Appletalk across the WAN.
Appletalk is a big broadcaster but so are Novell servers running IPX, print servers with default configurations and million other things.
In my current job we don't support MacOS directly, but we don't mind if they know how to plug in and get a DHCP address (which they do!)
I think too many admins make a big religious thing out it when the reality is that Macs run fine in the IP networks in use today.
Mr. Young I want to buy the following services from RedHat.
1. I want to pay for the right to download updates. I know you have a product that offers this (RHN). But I don't want to pay per machine. Instead I want to pay per download stream. In other words, I'm going to download updates _once_ from RedHat and then distribute those locally. It would be helpful (read - I'd pay more!) if RedHat wrote software to facilitate the local distribution, but it isn't completely necessary.
2. I'd also like to download.iso images of new RedHat Linux releases. Again, I'm going to download this once, burn a CD, and install as needed.
3. As an option, I'd like to have.iso CD's mailed to me as new versions come out. I don't need anything in the envelope except a CD. Perhaps RedHat could partner with Cheapbytes to sell this to me so I can get all of my Linux software needs from one vendor???
Does anybody get 150' indoors at home using 802.11b? Through walls and floors?
The reason I ask is that I just switched from HomeRF (Intel Anypoint/Symphony RangeLan) to 802.11b (Apple Airport/Linksys WPC11)
My indoor line-of-site range with the 802.11b gear is only about 30' at 11Mbs. Might be caused by the el-cheapo Linksys card, I'm not sure. I'm going to try a 3Com card just to try to eliminate that possibility.
The HomeRF gear gave me much better signal quality out to about 150' in every direction (including past my yard). I'm curious why my 802.11b results seem to be so terrible. I've tried turning off every RF source in my house and still see crappy signal quality.
For now, I've got two access points set up and I'm roaming between them but I'd still like to figure this out.
I had forgotten that there was a little secret to making this work.
In the "When connecting to:" field, I actually typed in *.wellsfargo.com, which enables the ADD button. Then I just removed the "*." and the ADD button remains enabled.
I agree with the Konqueror team that we shouldn't be masking our identity unless absolutely necessary because it allows site operators to ignore Konq as a browser choice(and often standards as well) and you never know what is going to break as a result.
On the flip side, sometimes you just want to check your freakin bank balance;)
IMHO as a net admin - I wouldn't have telnetted to the router. You already knew that the router was wide open. A simple email to their admins at that point would have been sufficient.
I picked up your secret email address by sniffing the connection. Since you were only using SSH1 and WEP on your wireless segment, it was an easy crack.
I'll forward the $0.37 check I received from the Spam lord later today via PayPal;)
Using 2.2 and ipchains, this was possible just by loading the ip_masq_pptp module. I know this was included in the standard RH7 setup. The module is also an option in the 2.2.18 stock kernel.
Under iptables/kernel 2.4.0, I didn't load a specific pptp module, but it just works. IPsec tunnel mode also works (All praise the iptables crew)
I agree this is currently a pain in the ass but it's not like you spent a ton on money on iptables and iptables-save will be working sooner or later.
Why not just say thanks?
(I'm currently using iptables for a low end firewall and am looking forward to replacing some checkpoint fw-1 as soon as the user space stuff is a little more mature)
On Linux, using KDE2 will give you the ability to view Japanese in Konqueror and other apps. To get typing ability, you need kinput2 and whole bunch of other stuff. Kondara MNU/Linux is an good distribution if you want English and Japanese support out of the box. TurboLinux and RedHat both have Japanese versions but I don't recommend these unless you can read Japanese pretty well already.
Win2K is the best platform right now for multilingual support (particularly) Japanese. I hate to say it - especially since Win2K blue screened on me today at work (all I did was stick a CD in the drive!) But if you can deal with a blue-screen here or there it works.
BeOS also works extremely well.
On Win9x and NT 4, get the Microsoft Input Method . This will let you enter Japanese into just about anyplace where you're using HTML. Works for IE/Netscape, Outlook Express, FrontPage, etc...
I've never tried using Japanese on BSD, but for what it's worth, there is a pretty lively BSD community in Japan. I have yet to meet a Linux person in Japan.
Suggestion for you if you happen to live in the USA - find a Korean grocery store in you area and see if they rent tapes of Japanese tv. Immerse yourself in the wonders of Japanese television for a few days.
You don't need crap in the hardware/firmware to encrypt data on a disk drive.
You can do this today if you really want to.
Why more things more complicated than they have to be. I want drives to be just a generic place to store crap. I don't want my drive "knowing" anything about my data except how to find a given cylinder/sector/head and how to cache the data in and out.
I have a Duron 700 as my main desktop at home now and it absolutely rocks. The price I paid for an A7V mobo/chip/128MB was so low I still can't believe it (around $280 including tax - about 2 months ago)
I had never bought anything but Intel until this year. I have 2 servers, 2 desktops, and a laptop at home and the other 4 systems are all Intel, but if I have to replace them you better believe I'm going to buy AMD.
I installed 2.4.0-prerelease a couple of hours ago on my RH7 desktop box and it's running fairly well with a wide range of hardware. This is the first dev kernel I've tried for a while (2-3mos) and it's went in with only 1 minor hitch (had to switch from UHCI back to USB-UCHI)
Asus A7V mobo
Duron 700Mhz
Nvidia TNT video w/16MB
Sony CD/RW.
SBLive
2 WD drives, one on ATA/100, one on ATA/66,
USB Keyboard
USB mouse
USB Webcam
USB joystick
Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
BT848 TV card
3C905B network card
All of this was working fine on the RH 2.2.16 kernel as well, but 2.4 seems to run more smoothly on a heavily loaded system!
The only thing that I don't have running is my USB wireless NIC (Intel Anypoint) - I hope someday they get USB and that driver working together. That NIC and a journaling FS in Torvald's kernel are the only things I didn't get for christmas.
He's talking about the second
Mindcraft test in which Microsoft and RedHat both tuned their respective setups and PCWeek supervised. It was a fair test.
You appear to be talking about the first
Mindcraft test, which was completely flawed and worthless.
In an interview in the December
2000 issue of Linux Magazine, Linus Torvalds said that he had trouble
believing the results of the second test for a little while before he realized
that it was an opportunity to improve Linux.
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I ran a medium sized (2000 nodes/30 sites) Novell/NT/Exchange network for several years.
We had about 10 Macintosh nodes spread out in various places on the WAN. No big problems - they were using the file/print services on Novell/NT and Outlook/Exchange for email. Most Mac people know how to survive in a mixed network just fine.
There is nothing wrong with running Macs in this environment. There is some extra software to load on the Netware box, some extra software to load on the Mac but it runs fine. There is an Novell NDS client that we used over IPX. I would bet there is an IP capable version today.
Macs have been doing TCP/IP for a long time so it's not a big deal. I will say that I was glad when we switched everybody over to IPX (this was about 3 years ago) so that I could stop routing Appletalk across the WAN.
Appletalk is a big broadcaster but so are Novell servers running IPX, print servers with default configurations and million other things.
In my current job we don't support MacOS directly, but we don't mind if they know how to plug in and get a DHCP address (which they do!)
I think too many admins make a big religious thing out it when the reality is that Macs run fine in the IP networks in use today.
Sorry I should have been more clear about #2.
I want to buy access to a high bandwidth priority server for paying customers.
Mr. Young I want to buy the following services from RedHat.
.iso images of new RedHat Linux releases. Again, I'm going to download this once, burn a CD, and install as needed.
.iso CD's mailed to me as new versions come out. I don't need anything in the envelope except a CD. Perhaps RedHat could partner with Cheapbytes to sell this to me so I can get all of my Linux software needs from one vendor???
1. I want to pay for the right to download updates. I know you have a product that offers this (RHN). But I don't want to pay per machine. Instead I want to pay per download stream. In other words, I'm going to download updates _once_ from RedHat and then distribute those locally. It would be helpful (read - I'd pay more!) if RedHat wrote software to facilitate the local distribution, but it isn't completely necessary.
2. I'd also like to download
3. As an option, I'd like to have
How soon can I buy this from RedHat?
Does anybody get 150' indoors at home using 802.11b? Through walls and floors?
The reason I ask is that I just switched from HomeRF (Intel Anypoint/Symphony RangeLan) to 802.11b (Apple Airport/Linksys WPC11)
My indoor line-of-site range with the 802.11b gear is only about 30' at 11Mbs. Might be caused by the el-cheapo Linksys card, I'm not sure. I'm going to try a 3Com card just to try to eliminate that possibility.
The HomeRF gear gave me much better signal quality out to about 150' in every direction (including past my yard). I'm curious why my 802.11b results seem to be so terrible. I've tried turning off every RF source in my house and still see crappy signal quality.
For now, I've got two access points set up and I'm roaming between them but I'd still like to figure this out.
No doofus. You have to defend a TRADEMARK.
You DO NOT LOSE a copyright or patent because you don't defend them. You might lose some money but you don't lose your rights.
I see this confused so often online I just had to speak up.
I double checked just now and there isn't any solid API documentation that I could see.
I just bought a VAIO SR laptop (Japanese version) that has Bluetooth. It must be one of these pre-standard type deals.
The laptop is pretty sweet anyway so I don't mind as much.
His job is also to make recommendations to the boss when he might be able to save the company money, time, or problems.
I had forgotten that there was a little secret to making this work.
;)
In the "When connecting to:" field, I actually typed in *.wellsfargo.com, which enables the ADD button. Then I just removed the "*." and the ADD button remains enabled.
I agree with the Konqueror team that we shouldn't be masking our identity unless absolutely necessary because it allows site operators to ignore Konq as a browser choice(and often standards as well) and you never know what is going to break as a result.
On the flip side, sometimes you just want to check your freakin bank balance
Set up you user agent in Konqueror (can be found in the KDE control panel under web browsing) as follows:
When connecting to: wellsfargo.com
Send user agent string: Pick any of the Netscape4, IE4 or IE5 options.
Enjoy!
This message posted from Wolverine/KDE2.1
IMHO as a net admin - I wouldn't have telnetted to the router. You already knew that the router was wide open. A simple email to their admins at that point would have been sufficient.
Luxury.
I'm the one who sold your email address.
;)
I picked up your secret email address by sniffing the connection. Since you were only using SSH1 and WEP on your wireless segment, it was an easy crack.
I'll forward the $0.37 check I received from the Spam lord later today via PayPal
What's up with that? I could compile qt and KDE2 from scratch in a day. And installing binaries takes about 10 minutes (including download time)
;)
Or maybe I'm missing the whole point of the story
Rivest mentions that the Sarah Flannery "new encryption discovered by Irish teenager" never panned out.
Can anybody provide a link to more details?
You should have paid more attention during Geography and World History. They speak Portugese in Brazil.
Using 2.2 and ipchains, this was possible just by loading the ip_masq_pptp module. I know this was included in the standard RH7 setup. The module is also an option in the 2.2.18 stock kernel.
Under iptables/kernel 2.4.0, I didn't load a specific pptp module, but it just works. IPsec tunnel mode also works (All praise the iptables crew)
My Nokia box is running BSDi
I agree this is currently a pain in the ass but it's not like you spent a ton on money on iptables and iptables-save will be working sooner or later.
Why not just say thanks?
(I'm currently using iptables for a low end firewall and am looking forward to replacing some checkpoint fw-1 as soon as the user space stuff is a little more mature)
On Linux, using KDE2 will give you the ability to view Japanese in Konqueror and other apps. To get typing ability, you need kinput2 and whole bunch of other stuff. Kondara MNU/Linux is an good distribution if you want English and Japanese support out of the box. TurboLinux and RedHat both have Japanese versions but I don't recommend these unless you can read Japanese pretty well already.
Win2K is the best platform right now for multilingual support (particularly) Japanese. I hate to say it - especially since Win2K blue screened on me today at work (all I did was stick a CD in the drive!) But if you can deal with a blue-screen here or there it works.
BeOS also works extremely well.
On Win9x and NT 4, get the Microsoft Input Method . This will let you enter Japanese into just about anyplace where you're using HTML. Works for IE/Netscape, Outlook Express, FrontPage, etc...
I've never tried using Japanese on BSD, but for what it's worth, there is a pretty lively BSD community in Japan. I have yet to meet a Linux person in Japan.
Suggestion for you if you happen to live in the USA - find a Korean grocery store in you area and see if they rent tapes of Japanese tv. Immerse yourself in the wonders of Japanese television for a few days.
Good luck!
You don't need crap in the hardware/firmware to encrypt data on a disk drive.
You can do this today if you really want to.
Why more things more complicated than they have to be. I want drives to be just a generic place to store crap. I don't want my drive "knowing" anything about my data except how to find a given cylinder/sector/head and how to cache the data in and out.
I have a Duron 700 as my main desktop at home now and it absolutely rocks. The price I paid for an A7V mobo/chip/128MB was so low I still can't believe it (around $280 including tax - about 2 months ago)
I had never bought anything but Intel until this year. I have 2 servers, 2 desktops, and a laptop at home and the other 4 systems are all Intel, but if I have to replace them you better believe I'm going to buy AMD.
I agree. At the companies I've worked for, the CTO was always a technical visionary for the hardware/software/marketing/customer support groups.
CIO has always just been the lead for the IT group.
I installed 2.4.0-prerelease a couple of hours ago on my RH7 desktop box and it's running fairly well with a wide range of hardware. This is the first dev kernel I've tried for a while (2-3mos) and it's went in with only 1 minor hitch (had to switch from UHCI back to USB-UCHI)
Asus A7V mobo
Duron 700Mhz
Nvidia TNT video w/16MB
Sony CD/RW.
SBLive
2 WD drives, one on ATA/100, one on ATA/66,
USB Keyboard
USB mouse
USB Webcam
USB joystick
Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
BT848 TV card
3C905B network card
All of this was working fine on the RH 2.2.16 kernel as well, but 2.4 seems to run more smoothly on a heavily loaded system!
The only thing that I don't have running is my USB wireless NIC (Intel Anypoint) - I hope someday they get USB and that driver working together. That NIC and a journaling FS in Torvald's kernel are the only things I didn't get for christmas.
Actually you're both sort of right.
He's talking about the second Mindcraft test in which Microsoft and RedHat both tuned their respective setups and PCWeek supervised. It was a fair test.
You appear to be talking about the first Mindcraft test, which was completely flawed and worthless.
In an interview in the December 2000 issue of Linux Magazine, Linus Torvalds said that he had trouble believing the results of the second test for a little while before he realized that it was an opportunity to improve Linux.