January 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

RE: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?

by Martin, Eric

I actually have bought two of those (the Lite-On) and no complaints here. Comes with Nero and PowerDVD. -----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:stoffel@lucent.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:50 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives? Hi all, Does anyone has a recommendatio on a nice quiet CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive? I see that newegg.com has a Lite-On and a Sony for sale today, both under $50 which seems like a steal. Sounds like a good thing since my SCSI CDRW drive is finally biting the bullet and acting flaky. One requirement is that the drive is quiet. I hate those CDROM drives which sound like jet engines on startup and then just click and whir and sound really loud all the time when running. I especially hate it when they spin up and down constantly. I'd rather have it just spin all the time if possible, or at least not spin down quite so quickly. The two I'm looking at are: Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner software which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW) while I'm happy with Linux in the basement. :] John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Jan. 21, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Long File Name Listed.

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:53:47AM -0800, Aramico wrote: > > Friends, > > I have an index.htm with several frames inside. One of the is linked to > http://user:password@url_address. > The problem is, the listed files on my defined url are long file name, So, I > could not view the name complettely. > Its a problem for me, cause, several files has the same name for some firs > characters. > Can I display a full name here. > > > Thanks > > > Aramico Aramico, If you are using Apache for your web server, see the "IndexOptions" directive. It has several options for formatting directory listings. An alternative would be to add an "index.pl" to the directory, and write that perl script to format your directory listing the way you want it. Bill

Jan. 20, 2004

Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?

by John Stoffel

Hi all, Does anyone has a recommendatio on a nice quiet CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive? I see that newegg.com has a Lite-On and a Sony for sale today, both under $50 which seems like a steal. Sounds like a good thing since my SCSI CDRW drive is finally biting the bullet and acting flaky. One requirement is that the drive is quiet. I hate those CDROM drives which sound like jet engines on startup and then just click and whir and sound really loud all the time when running. I especially hate it when they spin up and down constantly. I'd rather have it just spin all the time if possible, or at least not spin down quite so quickly. The two I'm looking at are: Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner software which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW) while I'm happy with Linux in the basement. :] John

Jan. 20, 2004

Long File Name Listed.

by Aramico

Friends, I have an index.htm with several frames inside. One of the is linked to http://user:password@url_address. The problem is, the listed files on my defined url are long file name, So, I could not view the name complettely. Its a problem for me, cause, several files has the same name for some firs characters. Can I display a full name here. Thanks Aramico

Jan. 20, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Charles R. Anderson

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:15:39PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > > > If you don't mind building some code, then get SMTPClient: > > http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/distrib/smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz > > A couple of other options are nullmailer and ssmtp. Of course, there is the good-old standby, sendmail, which comes practically preconfigured for this kind of use on Red Hat, just edit: /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Remove the "dnl" comment characters from the beginning of this line, and set it to your smart relay host: define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.myprovider.com') Make sure you have the sendmail-cf package installed, then restart sendmail: service sendmail restart The .cf files will be rebuilt automagically. Oh, one more thing, make sure DAEMON=yes in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, or this will fail to work (this is a change from earlier RH releases, where it might have been a good idea to set DAEMON=no). This will run the daemon ONLY as a local server (on 127.0.0.1) for the sole purpose of submissions by MUAs.

Jan. 20, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Chuck Homic

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:16:55PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an > SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it > possible? If you don't mind building some code, then get SMTPClient: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/distrib/smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz Then apply my patch (attached). Then you can put a line like this in your .muttrc: set sendmail="/path/to/smtpclient -Smy.smtp.server.org -H -fbill(a)mills-curran.net" That's the technology that brings you this message here. -Chuck

Jan. 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > If you don't mind building some code, then get SMTPClient: > http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/distrib/smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz A couple of other options are nullmailer and ssmtp. nullmailer: This is nullmailer, a sendmail/qmail/etc replacement MTA for hosts which relay to a fixed set of smart relays. It is designed to be simple to configure, secure, and easily extendable. ssmtp: A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration. -- Josh Huber

Jan. 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Gregory Boyce

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:16, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an > SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it > possible? http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq.html#SMTP "You can't. Mutt is a MUA (Mail User Agent), not a MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Other email programs include MTA functionality but the Mutt way is to use the proper tool for each task, instead of making a giant program that does everything. In short, it's not Mutt's job to get the mail to a remote SMTP server." After I quick search, I came across this though: http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/520550/msmtp.html It's an SMTP plugin for mutt. Not sure how well it works, but it might help you out. Greg

Jan. 19, 2004

mutt & SMTP

by Bill Mills-Curran

I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it possible? TIA, Bill

Jan. 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mkinitrd

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:08:46AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > Question: Do I need to boot to the single-processor kernel in order > > to make a valid initrd image for a single-processor boot? I would > > hope that I can, but the man page is not specific about it. (I want > > to avoid the extra boot cycles.) > > Mo, you can make an initrd for any installed kernel without booting to > it. > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9.img 2.4.20-28.9 > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9smp.img 2.4.20-28.9smp > > Additionally, installing a Red Hat kernel package automatically does > the mkinitrd and grub.conf steps for you, so you only need to manually > run the commands above if you want a special kernel module loaded > before / is mounted, or if you have a custom compiled kernel. > > See also /sbin/installkernel. > Charles, Worked fine. Thanks. I needed to generate a new initrd to support a fibre HBA -- my machine is connected to a Clariion disk array with Qlogic HBA's. Bill

Jan. 18, 2004