I tied up a telemarketer one time for about 10 minutes when they called during supper. I have a high pitched voice for a man, so when they asked for "Mr. L," I handed the phone to my 1 1/2 year old son who was just learning to talk. My wife and I nearly wet our pants watching our son talk on the phone to this telemarkter. Needless to say, we had a very entertaining dinner.
Sorry, but I don't think that would work. I think for the PPoE software to work properly, the modem would have to be directly connected to the Mac.
I am currently using a D-Link DI-604 on my cable modem service with 3 Win9x boxes, Powerbook w/Mac 9 and OSX, my Win2k laptop from work and various other OS and hardware combinations that I feel like playing with. I just swapped over to all cable service after DSL for a year. I loved the DSL service, but I spent six months fighting BellSouth on the billing for the modem (IT WAS FREE, SO DON'T BILL ME FOR IT). Anyway, when I changed service this week, I changed one setting on the D-Link, and everything was fine once again. I now have one of the D-Links installed at my in-laws house after giving them my ethernet DSL modem, even though they have only one machine. They like it a lot better than having their old DSL modem locally attached (via USB, yuck).
In regards to the parent, sometimes these questions seem trivial to us, but we had to learn from somewhere. Maybe slashdot should have a section for newbies and FAQ's like this, but we shouldn't nail the person asking the question to the wall. Just my $.02 worth.
You know, I never tried that when I was running a Netware shop. We very rarely had to do any NDS maintenance due to time (other than my assistant changing the time AFTER he was told not to). Usually, if the time on the server was fast, I would wait until I had to do maintenance and take the server down, reset the dos clock, and reboot. Worked every time for me (the clock was never more than 5 minutes fast anyway...took longer than that to do a full ram count and initialize the raid array). Thanks for the tip about declaring a new epoch. I'll try to remember that if I need it in the future.
I forgot to mention, that's the first thing I did whenever I would setup or work on a 5.x server...comment out the dang java crap from Autoexec.ncf. Unfortunately, the M$ guys I worked with couldn't comprehend the fact that you installed network apps to the server from a workstation, and you administered a server (or servers) from a workstation using the tools provided and wanted it loaded in case I wasn't around. I tried the console (Console 1 if I remember correctly..it's been a couple of years since I've touched NetWare) on a brand new, top of the line server from Dell, I was setting up one time...dual processor, plenty of ram, and it was so slow I couldn't stand it. Five minutes later, the java engine was disabled as I said above, and the server was rebooting.
As you can probably tell, I agree with you that putting the GUI on the server was a big mistake on Novell's part.
Sorry, but I installed and administered every version NetWare from 3.11 through 5.1 (that means 3.11, 3.12, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, 4.02, 4.1, 4.11, 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1, I went to an all M$ shop before 6 was released) at my shop and clients', and I never really had any problems with NDS that I didn't cause. I agree that for a 1 server shop that NDS is probably overkill, but when you are administering multiple servers (my last NetWare shop had 5 NetWare and 4 NT boxes), you realize how well written NDS is compared to AD.
Granted, NDS had problems early on, which is why you should wait a while before upgrading to the newest OS version. I usually wait at least a year on an M$ product for Service Pack 1. Even so, I would still prefer to administer a NW 4.0 box as opposed to the Win2K boxes I have at my current job or any 3.x Netware boxes. I will agree with you on one point, Novell has shafted their customers and business partners on more than one occasion. I had a friend who lost his Novell Gold parntership (when he owned his own business) because of Novell wanting him to start all over again with his training when 4.x was introduced, instead of a single course/test (if I remember the story correctly--he is now a consultant for M$).
As far as calling me a liar goes, that's your problem not mine...as I recall, Slashdot is a forum for discussion. You may not like my posting(s), but you don't have to take it or make it personal either. I'm not making any assumptions on your part in regards to if you've actually worked with any of the Novell products, so please don't assume that because you don't like what I say that I haven't worked with it myself. For example, I am all for Linux and other alternative OS's, but I really haven't worked with a *nix based OS since I worked on a couple of OLD RS6000's running AIX (back around '96). Therefore, if someone here makes a negative statement about *nix, I don't assume that they don't know what they are talking about or call them a liar.
Dear God, please don't set the server clock back. If you do, NDS will be barking, yelling, crying, whining for a very long time. I know. I had a guy helping me when I ran a large NetWare shop, and he did this once. Took a while to clean up his mess.
Chris, this story is at least a week old...I know because I submitted it either last Fri. or on Monday. So, flame on, I've got Karma to burn.
Anyway, as I said in my post, as a former NetWare admin/engineer, I am glad that Novell is looking this direction and will hopefully give M$ some competition again, especially since NDS 10 years ago is far better than Active Directory right now. If only they will get rid of that Java console that runs on the server (like a server needs a gui), they will be much better off.
I had a guy who was supposed to be my assistant (who somehow later got promoted to manager--couldn't even spell network, much less know how to work on one), who decided to oc a Pentium 133 to around 200 or so and GIVE IT TO ONE OF THE OWNERS OF THE COMPANY AS HIS DESKTOP. Well, just before it was to get installed, I popped the cover and fixed the problem, since we had enough problems with Windows and all the accounting apps the users had to run. I later left that company, and the last I heard, the oc'er had been let go. Just couldn't do the job. Personally, I agree with another post, I've used Intel, AMD and Cyrix, and by far Intel was/is a more stable chip for all the business uses I have run into. However, I am considering an AMD for my son's computer...I figure Reader Rabbit will run on an AMD as well as an Intel, just gotta get the cash.
Obviously you have never worked in government. When the person in charge of ALL NETWORKING HARDWARE AND CABLE PLANT says that something is not allowed, very few state agencies have the ability to go over his/her head and purchase the equipment, especially when this person reviews and approves/denies any requests for the equipment. Believe me, I have been bucking the system for years, and usually I get to say, "Told you so," but it takes time and unfortunately wastes taxpayers money.
I have to agree. I work for the Insurance Board for the state of Alabama, and I have personally worked with the WAN/LAN support people. They are very set in their ways in Alabama as well (ie.: we were forced to buy 10BaseT ethernet equipment because the WAN folks said that nobody can purchase anything that runs faster than 16mb Token Ring). I hope they do pull this off and can overcome some of these difficulties, since I would love to see Alabama quit wasting money on Microsoft products when other products will do. However, I also believe that the agencies should be able to decide what tools meets their needs best. This is not official, just my personal $.02 worth.
I have seen a few white boxes (years ago) that came with OS/2 as an option. I personally have run OS/2 on more than one white box solution, although finding drivers was a bit tricky.
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I work for state government, and we still use OS/2 is places where connectivity to the 3270 is important. I know some agencies that are still using OS/2 1.x and 2.x as PC3270 gateways. There are days that I see my OS/2 software in storage at home and wish that things had turned out differently. IBM killed the product, especially when they allowed Windoze compatiblity. Who's going to buy a compatible os for twice the money as the os it's compatible with?
I work in an all MS Shop (SQL Admin, been hinting I want Oracle for a while). Anyway, I went to a VB 6 class recently to learn a little programming (been all hardware/os/network support for years). We were running NT Server 4 in the class. Three other people besides the instructor. On day 4 of 5, one of the two Cobolers (sp?) was still asking how to log on--CRTL-ALT-DEL prompt was ON THE FRICKIN' SCREEN! I'm sitting there beating my head against my monitor. At least I got a nice book out of the class. Because of that, I've learned more about VB from groups.google.com than I did from the class.
Please don't flamebait me because I use M$ products...I have to put food on the table and keep my wife in her new SUV somehow, and the linux and unix markets in my area are nonexistent! Something about Microsoft is the way to go (wish I could convince some folks to migrate back to Netware at least).
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I still like using the router though...less software to have to worry with on the desktop.
I am currently using a D-Link DI-604 on my cable modem service with 3 Win9x boxes, Powerbook w/Mac 9 and OSX, my Win2k laptop from work and various other OS and hardware combinations that I feel like playing with. I just swapped over to all cable service after DSL for a year. I loved the DSL service, but I spent six months fighting BellSouth on the billing for the modem (IT WAS FREE, SO DON'T BILL ME FOR IT). Anyway, when I changed service this week, I changed one setting on the D-Link, and everything was fine once again. I now have one of the D-Links installed at my in-laws house after giving them my ethernet DSL modem, even though they have only one machine. They like it a lot better than having their old DSL modem locally attached (via USB, yuck).
In regards to the parent, sometimes these questions seem trivial to us, but we had to learn from somewhere. Maybe slashdot should have a section for newbies and FAQ's like this, but we shouldn't nail the person asking the question to the wall. Just my $.02 worth.
As you can probably tell, I agree with you that putting the GUI on the server was a big mistake on Novell's part.
Granted, NDS had problems early on, which is why you should wait a while before upgrading to the newest OS version. I usually wait at least a year on an M$ product for Service Pack 1. Even so, I would still prefer to administer a NW 4.0 box as opposed to the Win2K boxes I have at my current job or any 3.x Netware boxes. I will agree with you on one point, Novell has shafted their customers and business partners on more than one occasion. I had a friend who lost his Novell Gold parntership (when he owned his own business) because of Novell wanting him to start all over again with his training when 4.x was introduced, instead of a single course/test (if I remember the story correctly--he is now a consultant for M$).
As far as calling me a liar goes, that's your problem not mine...as I recall, Slashdot is a forum for discussion. You may not like my posting(s), but you don't have to take it or make it personal either. I'm not making any assumptions on your part in regards to if you've actually worked with any of the Novell products, so please don't assume that because you don't like what I say that I haven't worked with it myself. For example, I am all for Linux and other alternative OS's, but I really haven't worked with a *nix based OS since I worked on a couple of OLD RS6000's running AIX (back around '96). Therefore, if someone here makes a negative statement about *nix, I don't assume that they don't know what they are talking about or call them a liar.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Anyway, as I said in my post, as a former NetWare admin/engineer, I am glad that Novell is looking this direction and will hopefully give M$ some competition again, especially since NDS 10 years ago is far better than Active Directory right now. If only they will get rid of that Java console that runs on the server (like a server needs a gui), they will be much better off.
That's my rant for the day.
I had a guy who was supposed to be my assistant (who somehow later got promoted to manager--couldn't even spell network, much less know how to work on one), who decided to oc a Pentium 133 to around 200 or so and GIVE IT TO ONE OF THE OWNERS OF THE COMPANY AS HIS DESKTOP. Well, just before it was to get installed, I popped the cover and fixed the problem, since we had enough problems with Windows and all the accounting apps the users had to run. I later left that company, and the last I heard, the oc'er had been let go. Just couldn't do the job. Personally, I agree with another post, I've used Intel, AMD and Cyrix, and by far Intel was/is a more stable chip for all the business uses I have run into. However, I am considering an AMD for my son's computer...I figure Reader Rabbit will run on an AMD as well as an Intel, just gotta get the cash.
Obviously you have never worked in government. When the person in charge of ALL NETWORKING HARDWARE AND CABLE PLANT says that something is not allowed, very few state agencies have the ability to go over his/her head and purchase the equipment, especially when this person reviews and approves/denies any requests for the equipment. Believe me, I have been bucking the system for years, and usually I get to say, "Told you so," but it takes time and unfortunately wastes taxpayers money.
I have to agree. I work for the Insurance Board for the state of Alabama, and I have personally worked with the WAN/LAN support people. They are very set in their ways in Alabama as well (ie.: we were forced to buy 10BaseT ethernet equipment because the WAN folks said that nobody can purchase anything that runs faster than 16mb Token Ring). I hope they do pull this off and can overcome some of these difficulties, since I would love to see Alabama quit wasting money on Microsoft products when other products will do. However, I also believe that the agencies should be able to decide what tools meets their needs best. This is not official, just my personal $.02 worth.
gi...Yogi! I know it's flamebait, but I finally saw the commercial for the first time the other day.
I have seen a few white boxes (years ago) that came with OS/2 as an option. I personally have run OS/2 on more than one white box solution, although finding drivers was a bit tricky.
I work for state government, and we still use OS/2 is places where connectivity to the 3270 is important. I know some agencies that are still using OS/2 1.x and 2.x as PC3270 gateways. There are days that I see my OS/2 software in storage at home and wish that things had turned out differently. IBM killed the product, especially when they allowed Windoze compatiblity. Who's going to buy a compatible os for twice the money as the os it's compatible with?
I think the first question from the /. crowd will have to do with a Beowolf cluster of these things.
I work in an all MS Shop (SQL Admin, been hinting I want Oracle for a while). Anyway, I went to a VB 6 class recently to learn a little programming (been all hardware/os/network support for years). We were running NT Server 4 in the class. Three other people besides the instructor. On day 4 of 5, one of the two Cobolers (sp?) was still asking how to log on--CRTL-ALT-DEL prompt was ON THE FRICKIN' SCREEN! I'm sitting there beating my head against my monitor. At least I got a nice book out of the class. Because of that, I've learned more about VB from groups.google.com than I did from the class.
Please don't flamebait me because I use M$ products...I have to put food on the table and keep my wife in her new SUV somehow, and the linux and unix markets in my area are nonexistent! Something about Microsoft is the way to go (wish I could convince some folks to migrate back to Netware at least).