Some things came up during the Installfest that I thought deserved comment: 1. It was suggested that for future Installfests, it should be advised that people bring Ethernet switches rather than just hubs. I think Scot Jenkins was having trouble helping someone because of a lot of collisions on the network were slowing down his downloads (though it occurs to me that maybe a bad cable or card was the real culprit..) At any rate, there have been similar problems in the past, so it would be advisable to get good hardware whenever possible, rather than using the buggy box that's been sitting in the closet for years. I know my apartment network could last an afternoon without its switch, so I'll have to remember this in the future (even a kind soul or two with Linux-powered Ethernet bridge boxes would be good) 2. I overheard Munir mention something about "SSH in a box" (or something similar) -- apparently a way to SSH from most any computer. Anyway, I've been looking for something like that. Does such a thing really exist, or was I just imagining things? ;-) 3. Late in the day, it sounded like someone had the (mis)fortune to be using a Serial ATA controller with some real SATA drives. I was under the impression that Linux would be able to talk to most any SATA controllers (I thought I heard that they generally look like ordinary IDE controllers, but maybe I'm mistaken). Did that person have any luck getting their system working? -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Did ya hear? They took the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ word gullible out of the \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) dictionary! [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030719/c2dff1a0/attachment.pgp