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Routers - they connect traffic between devices that have different IP ranges Switches - they connect traffic between devices and have independent connections between each device Hubs - they connect traffic between devices through one shared connection (meaning their transfers may be slower...

I've still got a system with a Radeon 7000 VIVO in it, that card started out life in a system with a 440GX chipset (BX's bigger brother) but it would not be stable. Something with the card disagreed with that system. I've now got the card in a system with a KT133a chipset and I do not upgrade...

I really do hope VIA sees the light and implements fixed AGP & PCI with the KT400a, otherwise I'm buying my first non-VIA board in a long time.

Taking two slots is about the only way they could get that amount of hot air out of the case that easily. It makes too much sence not to do. It isn't for everyone, but no product is for everyone. I'd think one of these would run very nicely inside a small case since the heat goes outside...

Yeah most firewire drives are just firewire-ata converters, if you look hard enough you might be able to find just the electronics without a case that does this. There isn't enough of a market for a HD manufacturer to make HDs that are natively firewire. If a business is doing video editing and...

I'm still learning, and this is some stuff that I don't see mentioned very often PC speaker beep annoying you? look here or here. Change your bash prompt by reading the Bash Prompt HOWTO. Change the MOTD or text displayed at login by editing /etc/motd Use free to see your memory useage, use...

at 65 Mbit/sec you might be hitting the limit of the NIC. A lot of 100 Mbit NICs run out of steam at that point, including my Netgear FA311s :| You might want to back off on the 20 threads as that'll fragment the files that you are downloading horribly, like 2-3 should be good

RedHat and Debian have SSH installed and running by default on any installation, I'd guess that Gentoo might be one of the few that doesn't have SSH installed by default. Any time i've installed SSH from a package it started up and configured the daemon for me, really not that much to do.

With internet connection sharing you are making your computer a router, so if you have internet hooked to computer A that acts as a router, and you have computer B hooked to computer A you have to have computer A on when you want internet on compter B if the computers are at opposite ends of...

As a desktop OS and to test some speciaty network cards, I had many headaches with both, probably just my linux teething & the network cards have a reputation of being very picky, I'll give RH a second chance Ahh, words i needed to hear. Most of the *nix gurus i've been around play around with...

So at my old job (Scalable Computing Lab with DOE) we made fun of people that ran RedHat, to me linux is supposed to be command line and minimalistic, wich doesn't sound all that much like RedHat (but that's my opinion) I'll play around with the new RPM a bit on a current install, move my...

OpenBSD & Slack may still be under heavy development, and may be developing some spiffy things, but their install base isn't that impressive. Thats more what i was getting at

*BSD doesn't seem to be demanded from the want ads that I am looking at, oddly enough since i would consider it a more server worthy solution than linux, expecially FreeBSD bah, heck. i'll add open & free to the poll

the short: To be a more marketable employee what *nix should i learn? the long: So I'm looking for a new job, I've got a bit of time to do this and I am taking the time to learn some new stuff. I'm good at breaking linux (misconfiging network, bad kernel compiles) but that won't go far in the...

broadcast = 192.168.1.255 for broadcast take the IP addy, and replace the last section with 255 there is a reason for it, a site with documentation is illuding me at the moment