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Searching for motherboards (was trading PIII)
by Stephen C. Daukas 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

I'm broadening the search a bit, and was wondering if anyone can recommend some local hardware shops... By way of repeating my situation, and giving a bit more detail, I have a SECC2 (a.k.a. slot 1) PIII 850 processor that won't run on my motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2 Slot 1 type) because of motherboard rev issues. I am offering a swap for a SECC2 PIII running at 550 or 600. I am also now looking to see if anyone knows of a local source for a motherboard capable of running a Slot 1 PIIIs at 850. This is older technology (Intel no longer make Slot 1), so I need to see what I can find that is already in the distribution channel. I really like Intel boards, so Intel would be my first choice. Anyone know of a local source, Intel or otherwise? Thanks! Steve

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Re: [Wlug] Searching for motherboards (was trading PIII)
by luke macneil 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

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Anyone interested in trading PIII CPU's?
by Stephen C. Daukas 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

So here is the sad and embarrassing story... It began at Christmastime when my father-in-law decided to give me two CPU upgrades and a bunch of memory. To make a very long and sad story shorter, the PIII 850 MHz CPU I got is not compatible with my motherboard (an Intel SE2, specifically 720-series). So, I have a PIII 850 I can't use and was wondering if anyone would like to swap a PIII 550 or 600 MHz for the PIII 850. Yes, you read correctly, I am willing to trade down! If anyone is interested in the details, the following URL will give you all you want to know: http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/se2/se2_proc.htm. You will note the listing of motherboard revisions in the third column of the chart. You will also note that the 600 MHz PIII is the fastest chip my board can support, it not being a 754-series board. Thanks, Steve P.S., don't let Doug know about this... ;-)

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Charter & servers?
by Bill Mills-Curran 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

Does anyone have any experience with Charter cable checking up on services? I have a couple of ssh holes in my firewall, which has not caused any trouble. Now, I'm considering hosting a very low bandwidth web site, but I'm concerned about Charter doing some port scanning and deciding that I'm doing something wrong. More detail... I'm involved with planning a summer camp for the Boy Scouts, and I think that bugzilla would be a great way to help track the myriad of tasks with the multiple volunteers. I'd probably set it up for SSL only. As an alternative, I could just set the few users up with ssh access & teach them how to set up port forwarding, but some of these guys have only MS experience. (Does the windows ssh support port forwarding?) Opinions? TIA, Bill

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(off topic) high speed internet access in shrewsbury
by Baris Hasdemir 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Hi, I apologize for my slightly off topic question. But I need help on this subject. I want to have high speed internet access that I can use with linux without any problems. I mean I don't want to use PPPoE, if possible. I live in Shrewsbury. Unfortunately verizon can not afford 'dsl'izing our telephone line. (strange that my next door qualifies for DSL while we can not) I am thinking of switching my local phone line provider, perhaps another company may provide DSL on my telephone line? Am I correct? Or if verizon cannot do it, none of them can do it? Speaking about the cable choice, 'townisp' of Shrewsbury charges $50 for a month of access with a speed limit of 25-30 KB/sec and a setup charge of $99. and also a download limit of 2GB a month which is a real drawback if you like to test new distributions like myself. I do not think that their offer is attractive, am I wrong? Anyways..., being new in the US I need recommendations on which way to go for high speed internet access. I hope there are some people on this list living in Shrewsbury and do have high speed internet access despite Verizon Company. :) Thank you very much, baris

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One step CD ripping to MP3?
by rb＠millbury.net 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

Here's a question from someone who doesn't do much Linux multimedia (me) but has a friend who wants a solution. Situation: Friend wants an MP3 server for his home network to play his large CD collection. I've been trying out edna (http://edna.sourceforge.net/) to serve/stream MP3s and its a nice simple and satisfactory solution. Works well in that it is basically a webserver that is accessible from any computer on the network. Does multiple streams as well. Problem: Is there an automated way in Linux to place an audio CD-ROM into the tray and have it rip into 256k "CD-quality" MP3s without user intervention? I know about lame as an encoder from .wav to .mp3. Are there any automated solutions available (or creatable) that will allow my friend to buy a new CD, place it in his Linux MP3 server CD tray, have it rip to 256k MP3s without him having to press any keys/buttons, then eject the disk after ripping? I'm not a very good script writer so any help there is also welcomed. Currently, he is using RealJukebox on Win2K to rip to .wav and RazorLame to encode to MP3 since the free version of RJB only encodes to 96k. A two stage process that I *KNOW* Linux could do better all by itself in one! <grin> -- Rob -= rb(a)millbury.net =-

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network questions
by bryon3245＠netzero.com 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

I have a couple of questions. Why would you want a hub over a switch? What firewall under linux would you suggest, what would the best way to set up a firewall-router box with two nic's? Thanks for you'r help -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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reading/writing floppy disk
by Gregory Avedissian 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

I'm a little confused. Do I have to mount and unmount /dev/fd0 every time I want to look at a different floppy disk? Is there a less cumbersome way to do this? Thanks. Greg

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apt-get across multiple computers
by David Lee Ludwig 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

I am currently helping to manage a small network of Linux workstations, each of which runs Debian. Given that each workstation has a good amount of hard disk space on it, I generally keep software installations local. Additionally, most of the software on these machines is managed via Debian's apt system. I'm looking for an easy way to get apt-get functionality across these workstations (all run the same version of Debian.) More specifically, I want a distributed version of "apt-get install". Does anyone know of a pre-built set of scripts/tools that will allow me to do this, or am I going to have to write my own? -- David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.' http://www.oflove.com | That's it." - Linus Torvalds

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ide-scsi
by Gregory Avedissian 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

I got it to work! In case anyone is interested, here's what it looks like on SuSE 7.2 with cdrom as hdb and cdrw as hdc: After messing around with manually editing lilo.conf with no luck, I finally used yast2 LILO configuration to make a boot floppy and got the boot parameters right. /dev/ram hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdb ignore=hdc Or, booting with loadlin, the dos batch file contains: c:\windows\smartdrv/c cd \loadlin loadlin vmlinuz /dev/ram rw initrd=c:\loadlin\initrd root=/dev/hda4 ro hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdc ignore=hdb Below is /etc/lilo.conf Does the reference "BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz" in the append line of the global section mean that I'll boot that image regardless of my menu choices? If anyone sees any glaring errors or anything that will kill my computer, please let me know. I guess I should try it. As far as I can tell, there's no difference between vmlinuz and vmlinuz.suse, but I suppose I could replace on with a different kernel. I'm going to send this message before I try rebooting. Greg # LILO configuration file # Start LILO global Section # If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash, # restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option # restricted. #password=bootpwd #restricted append="BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz /dev/ram hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi ide-cd ignore=hdb ignore=hdc" boot=/dev/fd0 #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. lba32 vga=normal message=/boot/message menu-scheme=Wg:kw:Wg:Wg read-only prompt timeout=80 # End LILO global Section # image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda4 label = linux initrd = /boot/initrd # image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse root = /dev/hda4 label = suse initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional # other = /dev/hda1 label = windows table = /dev/hda # image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86

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