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Hi folks |
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I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped |
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up in the easiest method possible |
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1. Flashcards / memory sticks |
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- Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives |
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-- I have to become root -- its easy, but an annoyance - I have looked |
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at automount and that is FAR more problems than im willing to go through |
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(the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like |
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3 pages), so if I could get it set up so that I can just do the mount |
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commands as my user instead of having to su it would be nice |
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2. Energy saver thingy |
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- after about 10 minutes or so of inactivity, the screen shuts |
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off under power saver -- I cant seem to find how to prevent this from |
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happening, and could use some guidance |
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3. I need a good VPN Client with easy gui |
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- right now our school has a VPN set up on the cisco pix that |
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works beautifully with a Microsoft VPN connection on a windows box, I |
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need to be able to access this with my gentoo laptop as well |
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4. I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my |
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switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the |
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driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications |
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program (equivalent to hyperterm ) to use with them to talk to my |
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switches and to my UPS |
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Thanks folks - any pointers and/or suggestions are gladly welcomed |
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TIM |
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Timothy A. Holmes |
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IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher |
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Medina Christian Academy |
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A Higher Standard... |
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Jeremiah 33:3 |
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Jeremiah 29:11 |
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Esther 4:14 |
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