[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk digest, Vol 1 #918 - 9 msgs
Christine Hayes
kivrin at sonic.net
Mon Jan 13 15:19:14 EST 2003
Got it, sorry been very hectic here.
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> 1. ipmasquerade (Ronnie)
> 2. Re: Made RAID Mistake? (Kelly Martin)
> 3. Preaching to the choir (Andrew)
> 4. Re: Preaching to the choir (Andrea Landaker)
> 5. Re: Made RAID Mistake? (Andrew)
> 6. Re: Made RAID Mistake? (Malcolm Tredinnick)
> 7. Re: Preaching to the choir--OT response (Emma Jane Hogbin)
> 8. Re: Made RAID Mistake? (Kelly Martin)
> 9. Re: Preaching to the choir (Mary)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Ronnie" <ronnie.oien at c2i.net>
> To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:48:57 +0100
> Subject: [Techtalk] ipmasquerade
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> Hi=20
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> Have a little trouble with my ipmasquerade, it seems I cannot run winmx =
> on my windows machines which is connected through the masquerade. Or =
> maybe this sit in the firewall.... Anyway - I've been reading a little =
> about it, and it seems I need an extra package to run this through the =
> connection via the redhat 8.0. Anyone know where to get this package, =
> and what is it called? Can there be somewhere else the problem is? I'm a =
> bit green on this Linux thing, so if somebody can help it would be =
> grately appreciated!
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> Ronnie
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:29:49 -0600
> From: Kelly Martin <kmartin at pyrzqxgl.org>
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Made RAID Mistake?
>
> Brenda Bell wrote:
>
>>More info... I've been able to determine that the ATA1200A has the
>>HPT370 chip and there's substantial evidence on the web that it should
>>work. Based on what I've found so far, it sounds like I need to do this:
>>
>>Install the card and hook up the two drives. Don't create the array.
>>Install Mandrake.
>>Rebuild the kernel to include the ataraid driver (static, not module).
>>Power down, load the Adaptec Bios and create my mirror using the copy
>>option (e.g., keeps data on primary and makes mirror on secondary).
>>
>>Does this sound right? Or have I misunderstood something? Or is there
>>an easier way?
>
>
> I can't say I'm thrilled to hear that you're struggling with Highpoint;
> I've never heard anything good about their RAID cards them. That said,
> the general approach with hardware RAID is to keep the OS in the dark
> about the fact that you're using a RAID array. The hard part is getting
> the OS loaded with the appropriate driver for the RAID card. Once you
> have that done, the rest is easy, as the RAID array will just look like
> a single hard drive to the OS from then out. The software RAID tools
> (mdtools and so on) are NOT used with hardware RAID.
>
> Caveat: all of my RAID experience is with SCSI RAID.
>
> Kelly
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> Message: 3
> From: Andrew <showork at adelphia.net>
> Reply-To: pop.knbnme.adelphia.net at linuxchix.org
> Organization: ShoWork
> To: Techtalk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:19:21 -0500
> Subject: [Techtalk] Preaching to the choir
>
> Hi ALl,
>
> Maybe some here would be inteersted. New York Times Article on computing and
> "girls'.
> You need to go through a free sign-process
>
> Where the Girls Aren't
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/edlife/12STABINE.html?todaysheadlines
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> Andrew
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> Message: 4
> From: Andrea Landaker <qirien at icecavern.net>
> To: Techtalk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Preaching to the choir
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:53:33 -0700
>
>
>> Maybe some here would be inteersted. New York Times Article on computing
>>and "girls'.
>> You need to go through a free sign-process
>
>
> Bleh, one of the reasons I think there's not more young women interested in
> computers is articles like this! C'mon, who wants to hear things like,
> "[Girls] just don't understand how they work." Is that encouraging? No!
> Let's make articles like these a little more positive -- more women are in
> computer science now than there were 10 years ago.
>
> At least the article did give some positive examples, and I think it's great
> that schools are trying different approaches to interest a wider variety of
> people in computer science. There are definitely better ways to teach it
> than the generic lecture-and-assignment.
>
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