Servers to give away
by Russell Phillips
We have a Dell server and a CD server that we don't use. We've decided
that we need the space more than we need the toys, so we're looking for
new homes for them. Both of them are old, but in working order, and we
have PDF manuals for both.
Dell Server
Dell Poweredge 2200 server. Specs are as follows:
2x Intel Pentium II 233MHz
64MB RAM
4.3GB SCSI hard drive
12/24GB DDS3 tape drive (and some tapes)
It's not a very good spec, but I've run Debian (Sarge) and Ubuntu
(Dapper) on it quite happily, though I never installed a GUI.
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CD Server
Axis StorPoint CD E100. Has seven CD-ROM drives. Plug it into your
network, use your web browser to configure it, and go. Clients can use
SMB, Netware, NFS, AFP or HTTP to access the CD contents.
If you want one/both, get in touch.
Russ
18 years, 2 months
And another prediction comes true
by Dick Turpin
Hi All
Yet another of my predictions has, or may, come true Beryl and Compiz
are set to reunite.
http://news.linux.com/news/07/03/24/1551227.shtml
To be honest there really isn't any clear discernible difference
between the two, mind you I'm not too keen on the proposed name
'Corel' I can see why but people will immediately think of Corel Draw.
--
Dick Turpin
"At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"
18 years, 2 months
Even more frustration...
by Kevanf1
Can anybody give me any pointers on a long, long term problem. I have
a D-Link router/modem with 4 ports at the back (ethernet of course).
I have two PC's currently hooked up to this router (built in switch
too) as well as an X-Box 360 Live downstairs (not mine, my son's).
All have superb web access. but, no matter what I try or have tired
in the past, I cannot get the PC's to talk to each other. I have
tried Linux to Linux PC's and Windows to Windows PC's. I know it is a
setting in the router but I'm buggered if I know what. I did try
replacing the router with a switch just to see if the LAN worked then
(manually assigned IP addresses in that case). It worked a treat
then. But why will it not work with the router?
Any tips will be gratefully received :-)
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18 years, 2 months
Quick Partition Question..
by Carl Struyk
Hi guys - I have a 40GB HDD on my HP TC1100 slate PC and wanted to install
Linux as as I'm sick of fiddling with Live CD's - I flit between 10 of them
and never stick any of them out.
I need to leave 15GB for Windows and wanted to divvy up the remaining 25GB.
I have 512MB RAM so the swap is going to be 1024MB
Would I be OK doing 15GB for the FAT32 shared partition, 1GB for swap, 4GB
for /, 5GB for /home.
I intend to put Gentoo on there to use and understand the (in) famous
package manager which I've heard is top class.
Carl
On 3/22/07, Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/03/07, Alan Pope <alan(a)popey.com> wrote:
>
> > You can joke... I had to for a kernel bug that wasn't logged anywhere..
> and
> > another issue with my dell laptop where the screen corrupted due to
> hardware
> > failure..
> >
> > http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/kernelbug
> > http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/DellInspironXPSGen2Problem
>
> Been there got the tee shirt, my favorite though (Done it here loads
> of times) is having to use Linux to fix/access a Windows box
>
> Now that is funny
>
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> Dick Turpin
> "At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"
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18 years, 2 months
Frustration!!!!
by Kevanf1
Finally I can get back to using one of my Linux boxes...so what
happens? It won't bloody well work. I've got a few different (small)
hard drives for this one particular PC. It's an 800mhz AMD CPU with
something approaching 800mb of RAM. It will run Kubuntu/Ubuntu/Win XP
Pro so I decided to try loading the latest Puppy Linux. I love that
distro :-) But it simply will not boot from the CD. First thought
was maybe it was a bad burn so I did another....nope, still nothing.
I tried one of the CD's in another PC and bingo, it fired up
beautifully so the download is fine. I'm puzzled about this because
other live CD/DVD's work without a hitch. Next step is to try booting
with a boot floppy....
I shall report back later :-) but if it doesn't work in this one I'll
drage another PC out and use that instead. I am not spending loads of
time on it.
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18 years, 2 months
BIOS passwords
by Kevanf1
Anybody know of a utility that can get round a BIOS password? I may
or may not need it yet but just in case. It is legitimate as I've
been given 4 old PC's from a school. But, they are BIOS password
protected. Resetting the jumper may do the job but if it
doesn't.......
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18 years, 2 months
