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Re: [Wlug] Charter experiences? -was:Comcast experiences ?

by Baris Hasdemir

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 03:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i was talking with a guy who claimed comcast provided great cable service in > worcester and was basically way better than anything dsl could offer (i use > speakeasy myself and love it). seeing as how he is a non-computer person, i > took his opinion with a large grain of salt ... > > it did get me wondering though as ive never used comcast in worcester myself, > just in holden (and it sucked a lot), how have other people got along with > comcast here ? looking for the standard fare, speeds/tech support/response > times/etc... > -mike > I did not like Charter's service very much when I switched to it from Verizon DSL. Charter charges ~10 dollars more than Verizon DSL including a rent for cable modem but they gave us 2Mbits (I Think they're now giving 3Mbits) Besides the higher bandwidth, most of the time especially in the evenings I experienced latencies, if it's the right word to use. For example, I click on an ordinary link, wait for sometime and *then* it finally starts loading which is fast, of course. So I got back to Verizon again. I have 1.5Mbits and I'm fine enough. Regarding the customer support, all I can say is they did not refund anything when I canceled my subscription in 20 days. Neither the installation fee(although I had to do it myself, since there was no working version of windows) nor usage fee. baris

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Andy Stewart

On Sunday 16 May 2004 3:06 am, Mike Frysinger wrote: > err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) > -mike > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Charter is great in Chelmsford. Err, replace every occurrence of 'charter' with 'comcast'. :-) -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Mike Frysinger

err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) -mike

May 16, 2004

Comcast experiences ?

by Mike Frysinger

i was talking with a guy who claimed comcast provided great cable service in worcester and was basically way better than anything dsl could offer (i use speakeasy myself and love it). seeing as how he is a non-computer person, i took his opinion with a large grain of salt ... it did get me wondering though as ive never used comcast in worcester myself, just in holden (and it sucked a lot), how have other people got along with comcast here ? looking for the standard fare, speeds/tech support/response times/etc... -mike

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] SuSE 9.1

by mike＠beakerware.net

> 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an "ifup eth0" > or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup > eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you > see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. While I'm not 100% familiar with SuSE, does your network interface appear if you do an 'ifconfig -a' before an ifup is issued? I think its a SuSE thing, not a 2.6 thing your seeing, maybe because SuSE doesn't load the network card module until an 'ifup' is done? -mike

May 16, 2004

SuSE 9.1

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, I've received my copy of SuSE 9.1 and I've gotten it installed on my laptop. Here are my thoughts so far. 0) SuSE 9.1 comes on 2 double-sided DVDs and 5 CDs. There are 64 and 32-bit versions, so one must used the proper side of the DVD. 1) It took 2 hours to upgrade from SuSE 9.0 to SuSE 9.1 on my 1 GHz Sony Vaio laptop using the DVD. That seemed long to me. 2) It uses the 2.6.4 kernel. One new feature of that kernel caused me some temporary grief since I didn't understand what it was doing. The "subfs" filesystem type is used for removeable media. The user doesn't need to mount any CD or floppy, just put in the medium and reference it with "ls /media/ floppy" or whatever. The operating system figures out that the medium isn't mounted, mounts it, carries out your wish, and then unmounts it. Sometimes, I find this a bit annoying, but perhaps I'm just not yet used to it. 3) The ACPI power management on my laptop now actually works! Well, it works for the root user, anyway (kpowersave). I actually got about 45 minutes on a battery (instead of 10). The PCMCIA wireless card really suck the life out of the battery when used! I'm diving into the code to figure out why kpowersave won't work for J-random-user. There's probably some executable that needs setuid root or some such. I suspect I can be more agressive about power saving to get close to 60 minutes out of it. 4) I said "bye-bye" to the ide-scsi module, especially after reading some notes about Linus' opinion of that module and the author of cdrecord. Things work fine without it. 5) Sound works great after one simple command. 6) I got wireless, grub, the printer, the hard wired network, and even (I think) the onboard modem working very easily. I've never had the onboard modem working previously. 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an "ifup eth0" or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. 8) SuSE 9.1 comes with KDE 3.2.1, with which I haven't yet played. Thunderstorm coming....singing of for now....... -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Marc Hughes

Quoting "Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU>: > If a client is not participating in the domain, then the client will > login to the local system using its local account database. If the > client wishes to later connect to the samba server, they will need to > authenticate to the server. The user can type their domain > credentials when mapping the network drive. If the user's local > account credentials are the same as the domain credentials for that > user, then the user will not have to authenticate manually. The > client system will use the cached credentials from when the user > logged in locally. > Excellent, that's exactly what I want. > vsftpd. Very secure and fast. Little to no maintenance. Snifty. Thanks for the fast reply. -Marc

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Dwight A. Ernest

Marc Hughes wrote: > What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients > at a time) and low-maintenance? The only real choice these days for an FTP server, regardless of how often it's used, is vsftpd. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ -- 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.

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:27:13AM -0400, Marc Hughes wrote: > If I set up samba to be a domain controller. Can clients not participating in > the domain still log in? If a client is not participating in the domain, then the client will login to the local system using its local account database. If the client wishes to later connect to the samba server, they will need to authenticate to the server. The user can type their domain credentials when mapping the network drive. If the user's local account credentials are the same as the domain credentials for that user, then the user will not have to authenticate manually. The client system will use the cached credentials from when the user logged in locally. > What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients > at a time) and low-maintenance? vsftpd. Very secure and fast. Little to no maintenance.

May 13, 2004

Ftp & Samba questions

by Marc Hughes

Here's 2 quick questions. If I set up samba to be a domain controller. Can clients not participating in the domain still log in? What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients at a time) and low-maintenance? -Marc

May 13, 2004