September 2010 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell Power Edge 1850 server
by Ben Mustill-Rose 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Off the top of my head, are you sure that you've used the right drivers? I've had some cards that have installed with a driverpacks.net modded os install, but infact, the driver hasn't always been the best for the device and in some situations it hasn't functioned at all. Failing that, perhaps it would be easier to just stick a pci eth card in there? On 11/09/2010, Stewart Hamling <s.hamling(a)internode.on.net> wrote: > Hello all, > > I cannot get this server to communicate with my home network. > > ipconfig /renew returns a message saying "The operation failed as no adapter > is in a state permissible for this operation". > > The device is flagged as "Working properly". > > > > Some guidance would be much appreciated. > > Thank you in advance, > > Stewart. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins >

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Question
by Greg B. 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi everyone, I am taking a Grad school class in Data Mining and the instructor wants all work done on Unix based machines and of course we know how Jaws and Unix does together. Does anyone have any ideas of a screen reader that would work with Unix? Thanks, Greg B.

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IMac Help
by David Mehler 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hello, Do we have any Mac users on this list? Specifically an IMac running OS 10.x and that's all I know. I know it comes with Voice over, but it's not got sound, not sure why, and not hooking up to the internet. I believe from what little i've gathered that it was hooked up to a dialup connection. I need to get sound, voice over, and internet, and I know nothing about Macs, just pc's. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] data format.
by John G. Heim 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

This is a frequently asked question on linux lists. It usually generates quite a bit of debate because the military doesn't usually tell people what they can do so you can only speculate on what it would take to destroy the data so that even the military can't recover it. Certainly, if you destroy the platter physically by doing something like hitting it with a hammer, that should do it. But most people believe that just wiping the disk a dozen or so times will do it. You can do that with the dd command lie this: Dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda Thats if your disk is a sata drive. For IDE drives, the command would be: Dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/had Those commands write random digits over the entire drive, wiping out the boot sector, partition table, and all data. You would have to do that several times because the read/write heads might not line up exactly right to destroy every single bit if you do it just once. -----Original Message----- .From: "Ibraam Wahib"<ibraam.wahib(a)gmail.com> .Sent: 5/17/10 4:38:19 AM .To: "Blind sysadmins list"<blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> .Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] data format. . .hello friends: .need quick help please, .how can I format a hard disk which can not be recovered forever by any means? )data destroyed( .the hard was have windows format then formatted and now have Linux, I need to delete all partitions and delete any data to be unusable anymore even via military means. .can we do this? .for further information contact me off list. .thanks .ibraam ._______________________________________________ .Blind-sysadmins mailing list .Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org .http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins .

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does anyone know how to share a wireless connection with ethernet on Windows
by Scott Granados 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hi, Is it possible to take a wireless WiFi connection under windows XP Pro and share it with the included ethernet port? Never done this on windows. Any ideas how to set up a nat type thing? Thanks Scott

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