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Home Networking Annoyances Needed for New Book (fwd)
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 07 May '04

07 May '04

I'm forwarding this message along to the roundtable list, in case any of you would be interested in responding/participating. (Please contact Marsee, and not me, if you want to send in your favourite annoyance...) -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Marsee Henon <marsee(a)oreilly.com> To: gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca Subject: Home Networking Annoyances Needed for New Book Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 15:39:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:leave-usergroup-4264374V@newsletter.oreilly.com> Message-Id: <LYRIS-4264374-17503-2004.05.07-15.40.00--gedetil#muug.mb.ca(a)newsletter.oreilly.com> Dear User Group Leader: Once again, I must say thanks for the great response to our previous calls for annoyances, gripes, and complaints about Excel, and the Internet, and other topics. The email we received was useful and gave our Annoyances books a great head start. As you might guess, we have yet another book in the wings--this one focusing on home networking annoyances. Everything from cabling hassles to setting up a router to wireless access points to fussing with TCP/IP settings to installing a shared printer. Whether you've set up a wired (Ethernet, phoneline, or powerline) or wireless (802.11a, b, or g) network, merely shared a DSL line, or networked a bunch of PCs and Macs, feel free to share the annoyances you've encountered along the way. If you or any members of your group have home networking annoyances you'd like to see solved, email marsee(a)oreilly.com with "Home Networking Annoyances" in the subject line. Please note what hardware, software, and/or service is giving you grief (e.g.: a LinkSys Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch, SMC's EtherPower II network cards, SBC DSL, Windows XP, etc.). As thanks for sharing, we'll make sure to get copies of "Home Networking Annoyances" sent to your group shortly after publication. --Marsee *** An example: The Annoyance: I added a new computer to my network, but it doesn't appear in My Network Places or Network Neighborhood on any of the other computers. The Windows help files tell you to reboot all the other computers on the network in order to see the new computer, but there's got to be a better way! The Fix: There is. Assuming your hardware connections are working, and you've created at least one shared resource on the new computer, you don't have to reboot the rest of the network to see the new computer. Wait twelve minutes. Honest. Could I make that up? Get a cup of coffee, empty the dishwasher, or change all the burned out light bulbs in the house. Then open the network folder again, or press F5 to refresh the display if you didn't close the folder. You should now see the new computer. Why does this happen? The icons in the network folders (My Network Places and Network Neighborhood) are controlled by a service called the Computer Browser Service, which browses the network, peers down the pipes (including the virtual pipes of wireless connections), and checks to see who's on board. In a peer-to-peer network, the computers elect one of their own as a browser master using a complicated scheme that involves a private conversation among the computers (held secretly so you aren't aware of it and can't control or interfere with it). The browser master runs the browser service every twelve minutes, and populates the network folders of all computers on the network with icons representing the computers it finds. ***

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Motherboard and hardware suggestions for servers?
by John Lange 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hello all. I was hoping one of you server types would have a suggestion for a motherboard that would be suitable for use in a server. Up until now I've built all my machines (including servers) using "off-the-shelf" hardware purchased from CBIT and it has worked great for me. I've been doing it this way for a long time and I've never had any significant problems. Now I'm looking to build another box and I'm wondering what a good choice of hardware would be. This box will have at least 1G of RAM and I would like it to have 4 SATA hard drives doing some kind of software RAID. I'd _like_ dual processors but I'm not willing to quadruple the price of the system just to get it which is also the reason why I've never considered purchasing any of the ready made "server" systems from the likes of Dell, Sun, or IBM. I just don't have the budget for it. I'm really interested in opinions from other sever admins as to what you use for your boxes. Thanks. -- John Lange BigHostBox.com (204) 885 0872

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MUUG Meeting, May 11, 7:30PM -- Redundant Firewalls with OpenBSD 3.5
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 04 May '04

04 May '04

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <c78g38$5cr$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Redundant Firewalls with OpenBSD 3.5's CARP and pfsync Shawn Wallbridge will discuss setting up redundant firewalls with CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and pfsync, which are new features of OpenBSD 3.5. He will also discuss other uses for CARP. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Linux and Linksys router WRT54g
by Bill Reid 03 May '04

03 May '04

I tried this out and it is pretty slick. Finally a low end router which has a great CLI interface. Linksys has also put up the source that they used to build the image. I am running the latest Linksys image 2.02.7 http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html Enjoy, Bill

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previous post about converting .torrent to .iso
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

The URL I downloaded was; [mel@p4 FC2-test3-binary-i386]$ btdownloadcurses.py --url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test3-binary-i386.torrent That produced a directory in ~ automatically named "FC2-test3-binary-i386" containing the four .iso files and the MD5SUM. I ran md5sum --check MD5SUM and all was OK bittorrent rocks! ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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stopping bittorrent
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

Once my download is done can I terminate my program even though other bittorrent users may be downloading from me? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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how do I convert a .torrent file to a .iso file
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

I went to fedora.rehat.com to get a CORE test file file. The file I downloaded had the description; Official Fedora Core 2 TEST3 binary iso images for i386 The file has a .torrent extension. How to I make it a .iso extension so I can try burning it to a DVD burner? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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running bittorrent
by Mel Seder 01 May '04

01 May '04

I installed bittorrent without issue and copied the following from my terminal ====================================================================== [root@p4 Download]# rpm -Uvh bittorrent-3.3-0.fdr.2.fc1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package bittorrent-3.3-0.fdr.2.fc1 is already installed [root@p4 Download]# bittorrent bash: bittorrent: command not found [root@p4 Download]# su -l [root@p4 root]# bittorrent -bash: bittorrent: command not found [root@p4 root]# ======================================================================= I did a file search from / for bittorrent using the gui off the Red Hat start menu but found nothing. What do I have to do to run bittorrent? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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IBM AS/400
by Raymond J. Henry 01 May '04

01 May '04

A while ago, I acquired an IBM AS/400 server that had just been taken out of service. The idea was to learn about them, and put it online for kicks. Things have changed. I don't have the time. All I know about it is that it has 16 4-GIG SCSI drives, and was in use up until the time I got it. This is the big-assed one, not the one that looks like an overgrown PC. Taking offers, cash or trades.

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Resizing XP NTFS partitions
by Glen Ditchfield 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

I have a Windows XP machine, and I want to add SuSE 9.0. I want to cut the existing 39GB NTFS partition in half to make room. SuSE's installer tries, but brings up a dialog box saying that due to limitations of the software, the file system can only be shrunk by up to 3584 MB, and advises me to run a disk defragmentation program under Windows to move the used blocks toward the start of the partition. If I use the installer CD in rescue mode and try ntfsresize, it comes up with the same numbers. The Windows XP defragmenter shows the last half of the partition as being free. If I run it repeatedly, it claims to be compacting the same set of files over and over, but SuSE's "3584MB" number doesn't change. Some web searching turns up suggestions that XP's NTFS is different from earlier NTFS. Can ntfsresize really shrink the partition by more than 3584MB? Is Partition Magic my only hope?

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