April 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Re: High-speed access questions

by John Stoffel

Bob> I went with Charter because it was quick and easy, and we were Bob> going to get cable TV from them anyhow. I don't think there are Bob> any other cable options in my area (Grafton). It's fine, but I do Bob> miss the 3M/256K that Cox had in Phoenix. Charter just dropped my bill by $10/month for the next three months to raise my data rate to 2M/256k? Not sure about the second number, I just know I tend to get over 200kb/s on debian package downloads now, which is a nice upgrade from 70-80kb/s I used to get. I'm in Boylston.

April 2, 2004

RE: [Wlug] question

by Martin, Eric

Whereis is a good commmand for that. Do whereis netscape Or whereis netscapex (with your version number. Finds binary, man stuff, etc for files..check man whereis for more info Eric -----Original Message----- From: Charles R. Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:53 AM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] question On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:21:32PM -0400, John Sawyer wrote: > not sure if ive asked this, but i am unsure of how to uninstall > something taht i have compiled in, such as gaim, through a .tar.gz > ext... i also want to uninstall netscape, i downloaded the newest ver > but it gives me crap about somethingapp being in the dir already, any > ideas? You usually have to just find all the files and delete them. When you install stuff by compiling tar.gz yourself, there is usually no package management for easy uninstallation. Netscape probably installed to /usr/local/netscape* or something like that. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 2, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Re: High-speed access questions

by Josh Huber

Bob George <mailings02(a)ttlexceeded.com> writes: > I went with Charter because it was quick and easy, and we were going > to get cable TV from them anyhow. I don't think there are any other > cable options in my area (Grafton). It's fine, but I do miss the > 3M/256K that Cox had in Phoenix. Yeah, I guess RCN is only available in the Boston area? I've got a 5M/800K connection...which is...pretty nice :) -- Josh Huber

April 2, 2004

Re: High-speed access questions

by Bob George

Dwight A. Ernest wrote: > [...] > Too bad RCN doesn't offer cable anywhere near Worcester. I went with Charter because it was quick and easy, and we were going to get cable TV from them anyhow. I don't think there are any other cable options in my area (Grafton). It's fine, but I do miss the 3M/256K that Cox had in Phoenix. > (I used to be the Director of Internet Implementation, among other > things, for RCN. They laid me off 10/31/03.) Ow, sorry to hear that. Things're improving I guess, but still not "rosy." - Bob

April 2, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Re: Good HowTo

by Josh Huber

Bob George <mailings02(a)ttlexceeded.com> writes: > Ah, OK. Like I said, "I don't know qmail!" :) > > So it's tcpwrappers with ability to redirect to other hosts as well, eh? It's more like a replacement for inetd which (DJB claims) does not suck. -- Josh Huber

April 2, 2004

Re: Good HowTo

by Bob George

Chuck Homic wrote: > [...] > I hate to be Mr. Obvious, but... tcpserver is how qmail listens on the > network. tcpserver waits on port 25 and spawns qmail-smtpd when a > connection is made. Ah, OK. Like I said, "I don't know qmail!" :) So it's tcpwrappers with ability to redirect to other hosts as well, eh? - Bob

April 2, 2004

ACM Installfest reminder

by Ryan Caron

The ACM is having an Installfest this Sunday in Higgins Lab 116 from 3 to 7 PM. If you have any questions please feel free to email me or the officers list at acm(a)wpi.edu Sincerely, Ryan Caron ACM Secretary

April 2, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Re: High-speed access questions

by Dwight A. Ernest

Josh Huber wrote: > Bob George <mailings02(a)ttlexceeded.com> writes: > It was pretty amusing when the RCN guys came to install my cable > line. One of them seemed to have some knowledge about Linux, even! > The laptop I had for testing the line was a old powerbook running > Debian, in console mode no less. The guy tried to run some kind of > netconfig utility, which of course wasn't there, but he did check the > hardware address with ifconfig and test the connection with ping. > > I used to have speakeasy, and I really miss having several static > ips, and quality tech support. (also, the connection was rock solid > for a year). > > I was pretty apprehensive about moving to a cable provider (my CO is > crippled), but I went with RCN. Much to my surprise, the connection > has been up for some 6 months without a single (known) outage. They > let you pay them for a static IP address even. (and, when you pay for > a static IP they disable all inbound/outbound port filtering) > Too bad RCN doesn't offer cable anywhere near Worcester. (I used to be the Director of Internet Implementation, among other things, for RCN. They laid me off 10/31/03.) -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

April 2, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Re: Good HowTo

by Chuck Homic

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:16:31AM -0500, Bob George wrote: > tcpserver looks interesting, but I don't understand how you envision > using it. I hate to be Mr. Obvious, but... tcpserver is how qmail listens on the network. tcpserver waits on port 25 and spawns qmail-smtpd when a connection is made. -Chuck

April 2, 2004

64 bit architechture

by David Goss

Greetings all; Sorry i've not been able to attend the meetings in a while... still trying to get past some health problems... can any one tell me which kernel version would be suitable for a machine with 64 bit architechture? thanx in advance dave goss assimulation is futile

April 2, 2004