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I have seen many questions over the years that I have been coming here, regarding T1’s. DSL, SONET, DACS’s and other telecom equipment. Since I am bored at work and need to do something to exercise my brain I thought I would make this FAQ (that will hopefully get stickied :) ) To address some...

Well I am new to the SFF area of PC's and need some advise. While I cant really afford a complete PC upgrade right now, I would like to convert my Antec Full tower case to a SFF. Currently I am using an Abit Nforce2 board with an AMD XP220 proc, Geforce 4200 graphics card and a dvdrom/burner...

Im trying to develop a simple script that will help keep my WAP and WWW sites in sync. A little background first: My WWW site uses Gallery for a picture gallery and can accept emails from picture phones. The email gets stripped of the headers and the image attachments are saved and then added...

Does anyone know of resources available to detect what browser someone is using. For example: If i had a website foo.com if someone running IE were to access it, it would simply display normal HTMl or whatever. If someone via a WAP device were to access it it would "redirect" to a XHTML page...

I am trying to setup an environment where compiling is possible. This is a work machine running Solaris, and of course doesnt have gcc, automake, autoconf installed so compiling is not possible. I dont have root access, but our sysadmin basicaly said if you are going to compile software to...

I picked up an old Dell Poweredge 4200 today and it comes with a 6 disk array built into chassis, hot swappable drives, redundant power supplys the whole works. Now I am going to be running redhat on this server (if that matters) and had a question about RAID 5. The drives in the array...

i am in need of some software that will enable the automation of scheduled events. i.e at 11am i want to launch a particular application, followed by click on different icons withing that application. Does anyone know of "Macro Recorder" that will enable the recording of mouse movements...

I havent played my xbox in several months. Seeing it collectting dust makes me sad :( It needs a new home. (And I have bills to pay) This has been a very rock solid xbox. I have in the past loaded GentooX without any problems as well as Kromwell bios. Here are the stats. 2 Xbox...

Can you use a DB created on a Microsoft SQL Server and move it to a mySQL server running linux? They have less then 10 clients connecting to the DB and currently the SQL engine is running on one of the desktops and I am trying to move this company to a server/client organization as opposed to...

I have been working with computers and networking for almost 12 years, and have been doing sidework for it for nearly 5 years. I was in the telecom industry for 5 years as well installing/troubleshooting sonet rings, DS1/DS3 circuit and end use CPE. The telecom industry took a big crash and as...

I have come into possesion of an old P2-233 PC. I am thinking about using Linux for an OS and am curious how stripped down you can make the kernel/OS. I would want it to boot as fast (as fast as an old P1 can boot) as possbile and boot to window manager. Also which window manager is the faster?

I am selling the original koolance case. Fully functional. It has been in use for about a year, so its a little dusty, and the power led on the cooling/fan unit doesnt work. But other than that everything works great. $100 shipped. Shoot me a PM if interested. I will post pictures...

Im looking for a software router solution. I need to be able to route between multiple lan's via OSPF as well as share an Internet connection. Does anyone know if coyote linux or clarkconnect support these functions? (I know they both support ICS, but not sure about OSPF) If not do you have...

There are four seperate LAN's each has a 2003 box acting as a router (using OSPF) to talk to the othe LANS. There is a proxy that each of the four LANS must use in order to access the internet. In order for all computers within a LAN to access the internet, the router (supposedly ) needs to...

Okay, i dont really mean that but i did get your attention! I have been using linux on and off for over 4 or 5 years. Im not the worst at it, but then again I am not the best. I have seriously been thinking about switching to linux as my main os. The reason I havent? Well let me list em...

I just picked up a second monitor and am currently running an old GENOA generic 4mb PCI card (yes 4mb). My primary monitor is running on a Geforce 4 Ti4200 which has 3 outputs. CRT / TV / LCD Could i buy an LCD- > CRT (not sure what the actualy adapter is called) and use the LCD output to...

I'm about to take the test for the CCNA Module 1. (I am taking all 4 at a community college, so each quarter is a new module) This module is just full of lots of information that I can't see a netwrok tech ever using. Ligh relection/refraction, whatever. Has anyone here taken this test...

I'm running RH9 and have apt package installed. I am trying to install kdelibs so I use apt-get install kdelibs except I keep getting this error kdelibs: Depends: libjasper-1.700.so.1 but is not installable E: broken package I thought apt-get was supposed to resolv dependency's...

I know there is X10 enabled stuff, but I was wondering what other companies out there make home automation equipment similiar to X10? Id be interested in what other people here have done with there homes as well.

I am trying to setup syslogd to send its message over to my windows box (I am running kiwi syslog daemon) I have read that man page and some links on google. Is it required that you name the hosts your sending your syslog to "loghost"? And if so, is it possible to point the IP of the linux box...

I recently was able to borrow a 2514 from a friend of mine, and am using it to practice for CCNA. I upgraded the software to 12.1.6 IP/FW. I am trying to get it to function as a NAT box (start simple) but am having a royal pain. I can ping my internal LAN (eth1) but externally i cannot ping...

I am looking for 2 AUI->10BaseT converters that will work with a cisco 2514. PM please if you have any

Before I run out and cough up $$ for new ram I thought I would run this problem by the experts (that would be you). I think my RAM may have failed but I'm not sure. First off ABIT NF7-S Corsair XMMS 2x256MB Dual Channel AMD XP 1800 @ 2GHZ Ive been running this config for about a year...

Does anyone know of software that allows you to remote push updates for sofware accross a network. I have a network of 20 or so computers that I am getting tired of runnign windows/virus updates on each one. Id like to setup a server that holds all of these updates and then automagically push's...

Well I thought I would just throw this stuff away, but there may be someone here who needs it. All prices are negotiable, and since I doubt I'll get any trade offers for this stuff, lets just keep it to $$$ only. :) FIC AZ11 Mobo Picture Very similiar to the KT133 boards, except I think...

I'm sure this question has been asked before, and I did try to do a search on this but search is disabled. Im thinking on switching usenet servers and was wondering what you guys would suggest. Currently I am with easynews and do like it a lot, except your limited to as to how much you can...

Okay after fighting with Browser election crap for an hour I have finally gotten samba to be the master browser on my network. The wierd thing is I have TWO listings for my samba server (Im useing SLAPPY as an example servernmae) Slappy (Localhost) which when double-clicked on states that...

I am putting together a server for a client of mine, and I have convinced them (finally) to invest in a backup method. I have an old Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 tape drive that we are going to use with 5 tapes, one for each day of the week. I have used Veritas backup before and frankly thats just to...

This isnt %100 networking related but, does anyone know of software that will run under windows that allows you to monitor the health of your webserver? I have an apache webserver (on a seperate machine) that I don't have a monitor/keyboard mouse for and I would like to have a app to keep an...

I'm looking for software that can map out your network. I've used the hand held fluke to do this, but that is not available to me anymore and I would like to have this installed on my PC. Any recomendations?

A few friends of mine had an Idea of setting up a VPN between all of our computers, to enable us to easily share files/mp3's etc amongst ourselves. We would control who had access to it, what they can do etc. I know how to setup a basic VPN server with Win2k3 server, but is it possible to"Map"...