Here's how do get linux installed on an old Sony Vaio PCG-505G laptop with its external cdrom plugged into a PCMCIA card.

1. Plug laptop in
2. Insert linux boot cd (e.g Redhat 8)
3. Boot
4. at prompt type:
boot: linux ide2=0x180,0x386

Then treat as normal redhat install.

(Thanks JLP)

Here is the traffic graph for my smoothwall firewall when one 'someone' started using bittorrent:


The upper half shows incomming data and the lower outgoing.

A friend of mine added me to this service:
www.sms.ac

I've got free text messages, and my profile page is here:
http://profiles.sms.ac/sarcx

Here's how I added spammassassin to my MailScanner defences:

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yum install spamassassin
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
...Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: spamassassin 2.63-8.i386]
I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
[deps: perl-Net-DNS 0.45-3.i386]
[deps: perl-Digest-HMAC 1.01-12.noarch]
[deps: perl-Digest-SHA1 2.07-4.i386]
[deps: perl-Time-HiRes 1.55-2.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages
Getting spamassassin-2.63-8.i386.rpm
spamassassin-2.63-8.i386. 100% :=========================: 530 kB 00:05
Getting perl-Net-DNS-0.45-3.i386.rpm
perl-Net-DNS-0.45-3.i386. 100% :=========================: 190 kB 00:01
Getting perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-12.noarch.rpm
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-12. 100% :=========================: 11 kB 00:00
Getting perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-4.i386.rpm
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-4.i 100% :=========================: 19 kB 00:00
Getting perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-2.i386.rpm
perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-2.i3 100% :=========================: 22 kB 00:00
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
perl-Time-HiRes 100 % done 1/5
perl-Digest-SHA1 100 % done 2/5
perl-Digest-HMAC 100 % done 3/5
perl-Net-DNS 100 % done 4/5
spamassassin 100 % done 5/

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The way that yum solves dependencies is great.

As a 'Linux Registered User'



My info:
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