zip speak??

[Patrick Turnage]

Hello.
I think if you really wanted to use your zipspeak you could take any 9x
system or visit 
http://www.bootdisks.com
and grab the 98 SE boot disk
and change to the drive and then run the 
loadlin command you can boot zipspeak.
When my laptop had to have the hard disk repaired and I did not have any
other computers I used a slimmed down version of zipslack added with
speakup support,  and fit it on a zip disk and used my external iomega zip
drive.. and I had ppp, aol im, emacs, lynx, mpg123, telnet ftp blabla...
If you are going to go slackware I would select a ap d e n 
I would leave out y because it is just games
then I would uninstall a lot of packages that are installed such as the cd
player, jpeg viewers etc.. it has been a long time since I ran slackware..
removepkg package I believe, or pkgtool.tty I heard from a friend that
pkgtool.tty was removed but I have not run slackware in a long while. 
I believe if  you have the disk space debian or redhat is a little better,
but if you are low on disk space slackware is the easiest in my opinion to
customize.. due to the method that the packages are managed.
Forgive me if any of this is incorrect.. Its early..
I am running 2.4.18 is there anything worth upgrading to in the 2.5.x
kernels? The virtual machine I run Linux in doesn't seem to work with my
sound card and I really have no need for it to.. So I know about alsa, but
is there any other reason? Is it faster, more stable? I want to do traffic
shaping on my dsl line, but I have no idea where to start. I want only to
filter the ability of users who are using my apache to suck up all my
upload bandwidth on  the line. I do not want to limit my own outbound
traffic just the speed that apache will send it.. I found the throttling
modules for apache but they do not seem to do what I want them to do. What
about the ip_traf module? Will that do this. See I only have 256 kbps or
25.6 k up on my dsl and I only want to allow 10K to  apache after that I
want apache to stop serving web pages. It is basically the only public
service I'm running, sure I have pop3 and all that open but only for my
personal access. Is what I want to do possible?  
One more thing, I want to be able to get speak freely working behind my
netfilter nat, I have the commands for ipchains but what ports do I forward
to allow people to for example type in my ip address and have that
forwarded to say 10.0.0.4/24 or maybe a variable like IP$ that I can define
in a script for times when I'm at a specific machine and want to use speak
freely..

thanks for all the help
Patrick



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