Jon Hall wrote:
The owner of the restaurant does not deny that he asked the lady to leave
because she repeatedly showed up and drank only ONE pepsi the whole night.
She does not deny that she often drank only one pepsi the whole night.
She says he should serve something less than a 20 oz
CBI, Inc. still does audits.
They're based in Boston, but I know the (only) tech who does the audits.
He lives in Nashua and accompanied me to the last LUG meeting I was at.
I *know* they could use the business, so feel free to contact them.
http://www.cbi.net
Brian
(I'm back after a DNS snafu)
Well, here's my dilemma:
Neither my business (Datasquire.net) nor my employer is currently making
enough money to really turn a profit. Both companies cater to the Linux
crowd by preference, so I was wonderring if anyone here might know of
good places to advertize.
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Kurth Bemis wrote:
Re: Sat. Connection in Dublin, NH
uesd? why did he switch?
Used, as in I haven't enquired recently. I believe the whole family
still uses it.
The latency is high, but the transfer rate is quite good and stable,
last I heard.
Brian
OK, here's a wierd question from one of my clients...
He's working in a lab environment where he's testing traffic with a few
other people in an isolated environment.
He needs for general users to run a program that makes socket calls
usually reserved for root.
So I had him chmod 4755 the
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote:
NH (Dublin, to be precise)
Alas, I've been unable to find any reasonably-priced high-speed solutions
for Dublin. VITTS had offered service out there, but nobody is, now, that
I can tell. So, suggestions? Satellite? DSL providers with which I'm
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
At about 0925 or so, they went to their financial
reports and the lead story there was about how the German government is
going to Linux and IBM, eschewing Microsoft. The reporter pronounced it
correctly, made reference to the apps providers,
Hey, all!
I've asked a lot of questions here, so I figure I'd add to the
group knowledge for once. G
I recently picked up a Fujitsu P-2046. The thing is beautiful. Tiny,
sufficiently fast, and, more to my purposes, has 802.11b, modem, and
10/100 all built in. But the biggest selling point
Hey all,
I recently began playing with a couple Xyplex MaxServer terminal servers
and found they require a boot image sent to them vie any of several
protocols.
Does anoyon here know of where I can get a bootable image for these
things without paying the extortion that iTouch (current owners of
Thanks for the image. At the moment to test things, I'm trying to tftp
it over, but it looks like it may use a proprietary varient on the tftp
protocol...
The console gives me:
-
Server 172.16.0.103; Bad MOP transfer address.
Server 172.16.0.103;
Hello all, once again.
I'm looking at wireless WAN possibilities
I know some places have (semi-)public 802.11b nets, and that's all
great. But their distribution in the Greater NH area is abysmal.
I'm waiting on approval on a new laptop that has a wireless LAN card
built in and I was
Hey, all -
I'm attempting to write a script to put in cron.weekly that will find
the 25 users who use the most disk space and email them a warning.
My relatively simple question is:
Is there anything in bash that is the equivelent to the old basic
mid/left/right way of cutting down a variable?
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I said:
in other words, given: 1234M /home/USER I want USER so as to then turn
around and email that user. (I already have
way of removing non-user directories in /home).
Woo hoo!
Thanks for all the lightning fast help.
I already had most
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote:
If a *program*, OTOH, requests that a particular program (without path) be
started, the OS has to look *somewhere*. Under Macintosh System, the OS
only searches the System folder automatically. This led to many programs
being copied to the System
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International wrote:
One of my favorites was simply:
-rwxrwxrwx
placed over my heart.
Reminds me for some reason of the line going around in Sept:
# chmod o+x /bin/laden
I liked that so much better than rm -Rf /bin/laden
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote:
What: Heckle Ben while he tries to get a wireless lan working
(with my help, and anyone else who wants to show up with a
laptop)
I may actually be there... I'll probably be a little late and
Hello,
I was wonderring if there was a quick and easy HOWTO for Amanda out
there
I've looked in linuxdoc.org and run basic searches. The only one I
found was the Linux Backup HOWTO which didn't cover any advanced things
or ven really Amanda at all except to say it's out there and beyond
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote:
I was wonderring if there was a quick and easy HOWTO for Amanda out
there
No, but she comes with extensice documentation in the docs/ subdir of
the source.
Been there. That's what I'm complaining about. They are great if I
wanted to modify or
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jack Hodgson wrote:
At 6:02 PM -0500 2/18/02, Tom Buskey wrote:
There are also some groups trying to do community 802.11b networks in
Cambridge and Londonderry, NH. I forgot the web site :-(
I'm really interested in this kind of stuff. If anyone has any
contact info,
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every 6 months!?!?! I'm happy to go two weeks without getting another
coaster in the mail. My dog doesn't even like playing with them any more.
I'm thinking of using them to construct my own Very Large Array to really
take SETI@Home to heart.
I
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
Also, if there's a perl/networking guru, I'm looking to re-write
the trojan to look like it's working, but instead be logging the
intruder's actions, IP, etc. It's a simple backdoor (only about 2.5
pages printed), so I might even be able to
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Worse still, if you do something wrong, you risk discovery and/or further
compromise of the system, including the attacker doing something nasty, like
zeroing your partition table.
True...
But I just want to see something like this scroll past his
Well, I have a box now that will need to be reloaded.
It seems I was a bit too slow on the ball updating my SSH server and we
got rooted.
This is just a headsup that you might want to check out a few things
when you do your security audits...
The rootkit in question runs a generic trojan on
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Robert Burton wrote:
SuSe 7.1 has user-selectable RAM tests as a function of LILO during
bootup.
That would be nice, except that this system (and all the other Linux
boxen here) is RedHat 7.2...
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Bob Marceau wrote:
I have had good luck with
Well, I tried memtest86
Slight problem the system has 3GB of RAM.
From the docs:
Memtest86 does not support more than 2gb of memory. There are a number
of difficult problems with crossing the 2gb boundary that will need to
be fixed to support 2gb+ memory sizes.
So... Right now, I'm
Does anyone know os any Linux software that can test for bad RAM?
I have a machine with odd failures and it looks like it's the RAM, but
I'd like to a) make sure and b) find out which stick the failure is on.
Thanks,
Brian
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier others gave some great advice...
I got the options to save, but it still prints single sided...
What happens when you set lpr-switches manually in your .emacs to
whatever you need to accomplish double-sided printing; e.g.:
That's just it. It isn't
I have an odd question...
I have a printer set to do duplex by default. It is spooling as
sandblaster and prints fine from anything I have tried *except*
xemacs. When I choose prettyprint from the file menu, I get a single
sided printout.
I've already set and unset and tweaked the
On 18 Nov 2001, CmdrRoot wrote:
This is really a longshot but does anyone know how to get root without a
password?
Boot to a floppy rescue disk and edit the /etc/passwd, or if you use
shadow, then etc/shadow (you ARE shadowing passwords, right?)
May I recommend tomsrtbt?
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Randy Edwards wrote:
Now, the way I see it, the problem is two-fold: First, I don't like
the fact that I can't listen to NHPR because I run GNU/Linux. But
secondly, there's the entire concept of broadcasting this in a proprietary
format -- IMHO, Real Audio is only a
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Rich C wrote:
I find this odd. What about Mac users? It seems to me that there is
a large overlap in membership of the group that owns MacIntosh
computers and the group that listens to NPR. Do Mac users have
access to Windows technology to listen to streaming audio? If
http://www.idg.net.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/PrintDoc/0312B91156EB20BACC256AD3008065F9?OpenDocument
Now if we can get more people to try this...
Brian
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Hello,
One of my clients has a mixed network that includes RH7.0, 7.1, Win2k,
and Solaris.
The RH7.0 boxen are becoming unable to automount after a period of time
and the only way we've been able to figure out how to get it working
again is to reboot. And then it only seems to work sometimes.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
What type of errors are you seeing in the logs, both on the client
and the server?
It was my boss talking to the machines... I haven't seen the logs.
Have you tried the obvious:
/etc/init.d/autofs restart
or
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Brian Chabot wrote:
Take a look at www.speakeasy.net
Do they own their own equipment and network, or are they reselling Covad
like the rest of the world is (or seems to)?
They are a Covad reseller. They also used to resell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Time to look into DSL I think...
At one time, they were going to offer static IP addresses for an
extra fee, but I haven't seen anything about that in a while. I
almost considered Verizon DSL, but they don't offer static IP's yet,
either. I
I have an odd question related to network performance...
In general, do most current Linux NIC drivers default to full-duplex or
half-duplex?
I was asked this question at work and I couldn't give a definitive
answer
Thanks,
Brian
I sent an email to Sen. Hillings this evening asking him to please
confirm or deny that he is working on this. I doubt I'll get a
response, but at least I asked.
I'll let everyone here know of any response I get.
Brian
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It's just been really quet.
Shhh... be veeewwwy veeewwwy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.
Brian
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Have I been dropped from the list, is the network swamped, or is
everyone still in shock from last Tuesday?
I haven't been seeing any messages lately.
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote:
After upgrading my system to RH 7.1.93 (Roswell), for misc. reasons, I
needed to u/g my kernel for other reasons. Now, again, I'm unable to log
in in multi-user mode. Nothing seems to crop up in /var/log/messages, and
I don't (seem to) get any
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
PDA sculpted from 50lbs of butter. Does not yet run Linux.
Slick. Real slick.
Brian (all puns intended.)
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I recently recieved an odd request...
I need to find a way to mass-upgrade about 30 machines on a LAN that all
run RedHat 7.0 or 7.1, but may have different hardware.
I know this can be scripted through rsh/ssh and up2date with a root/sudo
login... but... my client also needs to be able to
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Greg Kettmann wrote:
Red Hat supports Kick Start files. With this method you basically answer
all the questions up front, in the kickstart (.ks) file. It's fairly simple
to script in some RPM's as well if you'd like. I would think that this
might work well for you.
I
Well, after some DNS issues, I finally got around to re-subbing.
Just thought I'd say hello to everyone.
Brian
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OK, this is a little complicated
I have a client who needs to get X11 forwarding from a SunOS box
*through* a Linux (RH7) box, then via ssh to his home system on the
internet.
It used to work with the old Linux box (the one that was Fubar'd a
couple weeks ago...). Client would ssh to the
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote:
An earlier message indicated that identd may be at fault
Yup.
PS: Keep in mind that attack could just as easily be accidental
(like a heart attack) or malicious (like a DoS attack). You
won't know until you've chased the problem down.
I believe it
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote:
hrm i had something like this once...when i first started.i can't
remember what i did tho.a reboot comes to mind
Already did. Had to use the candy red button.
Brian
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Andrew G. Bacchi wrote:
There can be any number of possibilities, none of which are good. I
have seen similar events happening when a drive is about to fail. I
might also expect the mother board or one of its components. I would
prepare a new machine ASAP.
I got a
One of my clients has an old mail server / name server / dhcp server
/ gateway that is REALLY acting up. This is a RedHat 6.0 machine
running kernel 2.2.5-15.
I moved the mail responsibility to a new box, and now the old one is not
responding to much of anything.
I can not telnet to any port
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
A beautiful link, and totally relevant - courtesy of Microsoft Product
Support Services.
Not exactly
http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp
Translated we get:
Login as: www.microsoft.com
Password: item=q209354
for the
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Rather than only a choice between
custom and default, they should provide some "Default Types" to choose
between.
A couple years ago I came up with an idea that I thought was a good way
to do this:
When the installer starts, it should ask you what
Well the current status is that I *think* the mail is fixed, but I'm not
too sure about the ISDN dial-on-demand
I'll check the logs in the morning to see what is happenning over night.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
You want your system to be the primary MX for your domain.
Ok, time to delurk again...
I have a clent who recently hosed their mail server... which is why they
called me, as their usual admin is in Germany for a few weeks
Here's the setup as far as I've gotten: Linux-Mandrake 7.2 is installed
on a PII300/256MB RAM/20GB HDD. NetGear XM128 ISDN
Thanks to all who helped look for a job for me. I just accepted an
offer from Universal Data Systems in Haverhill, MA. I started on
thursday and I really love the work and the pay rate... and the
people
Now bact to your regularly scheduled program
Brian
Well, I felt weak and actually bought a copy of Mandrake Linux 7.2 at,
of all places, Walmart.
I'm sort of impressed. The install is as smooth as 7.0, but with
slightly better autodetect of the hardware. What REALLY impressed me is
actually the initial boot IT'S GRAPHICAL!
You know when
I am a mead brewer myself, though it has been a while due to not having
gotten around to cleaning my carbouy afer my last move (eew.).
At the moment it is soaking and will hopefully be full of bubbling honey
water.
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Carl Helmers wrote:
Anyone for a homebrew tasting? Or
Almost exactly a year after PSInet bought out TIAC and laid the entire
company off, many of the former TIAC employees who found jobs at Ziplink
are facing the same type of situation yet again.
http://biz.yahoo.com/n/Z/ZIPL.html
Most of us have learned our lesson and are looking around already.
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Suzanne Hillman wrote:
I need a computer-to-brain download mechanism. That would be cool.
Direct Neural Interface. It's a concept that's been used in Cyberpunk
style fiction since the early 80's.
Too bad it would be so potentially dangerous... (Would *you* want
anything
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill Freeman wrote:
I'm tempted to tell him to avoid the touch pad mice ones. Today that
seems to leave the force joystick nub between the "G" and "H" keys (I
believe). But I have no first hand experience with those. My
daughter doesn't like them, claiming, among
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, T. Warfield wrote:
Code: 83 7b 30 00 0f 85 f7 00 00 00 8a 43 77 84 c0 0f 84 ec 00 00
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
not syncing -- does this mean the HD is not syncing ? I have tried another
distro as well and it froze
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
Apparently there still are people out there who tell time using the
calendar of Lord Dimwit Flathead!
Okay, I don't get it. Someone want to explain the joke to me?
Read the Principia Discordia! g
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
Thanks for your report, I'm sure folks (myself included) find your
notes useful.
However, myself I am not much interested in how the installations go
(after a bit of sweat one can get most stuff working, that's the Linux/Unix
way), but rather how
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
Thanks for your report, I'm sure folks (myself included) find your
notes useful.
However, myself I am not much interested in how the installations go
(after a bit of sweat one can get most stuff working, that's the Linux/Unix
way), but rather how
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
My laptop has a generic S3 Virge/MX that doesn't work with generic S3
Virge/MX drivers... Mandrake 7.1 (not 7.0), and sax under SuSE both
correctly identified it but still loaded generic svga drivers, so
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
As I tried to point out, this was not targeted at Brian directly, but more
generically to the whole community. It was also more rhetorical, I am not
looking for people to answer those questions, nor am I looking to judge
people.
No offense taken.
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
If you think Linux needs more work in a specific area, what are you doing
about?
I'm learning all I can at the moment... Programming is not my specialty,
but I am trying to teach myself perl bash scripting right now, with
C/C++ later... Right now
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
You might ask, why doesn't Linux have a "trash can" feature like Windows?
Well, it could, it would be a simple shell script wrapper around 'rm'.
KDE does have a trashcan feature... just like Windows and Macintosh.
But consider that Unix in general was
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
Now that's funny, but probably only if you've read it ;) Great book, Snow
Crash is next on my list.
I just finished it. Honestly? I found it somewhat adolescent. It did
have it's moments, though.
I personally prefer Gibson's Neuromancer et al. -
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
The classified machines are generally protected by alarms, combination
locks, badge magnetic strip readers, and 4-digit PIN electric locks
(yes, all four - and you thought your procedures were a PITA?). The
classified and unclassified nets are
I might be able to help... I used to be a senior support tech at TIAC
till PSI bought them out and laid us off...
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
I've lived with the classic "sendmail hangs for 3 minutes at boot" for long
enough. I've read the FAQs. I've searched the net. The
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
Well, I now have an old Sun Sparc10 that I would like to get rid of but I
can't find that earlier post.
This may be a decent demo box for use by GNHLUG itself, no?
If not, I'd be more than happy to find a use for it... if only as
another
Anyone know why every time I reply to this list I get bounced from
compaq.com???
AFAIK my SMTP server should be handling the CC's, and not trying to
relay through Compaq/DEC.
Thoughts? Is this a misconfig on my end or at Compaq/DEC?
Brian (Bounce message follows)
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000,
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
Well, the bind message is about three times more data then you gave me
initially.. :-)
It helps to be sober AND at the console. Parties are not the best
places for troubleshooting. g Besides, last time, a certain fellow
admin of this box was
Well, I have run into a bit of a bind here.
We have one IP on an SDSL line, and we're using NAT on the DSL Router
(Flowpoint 2200).
Everything is working great until we decided to set up a second web
server (rather than yet another virtual host on the already heavily
burdened one).
Other
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Rich Payne wrote:
Yes, you can do that, but not in the way you want to. What you want is two
seperate machine with internal IPs and depending on which URL is used it
is
routed to the correct machine. I don't know of any way to do that. You
could setup both machine with
If anyone goes there this weekend, please bring an extra linux CD for
the guy selling the computers there... I just realized that all my
extras are already out on (permenant) loan... and this guy's systems are
great low-end linux boxen.
I'll probably be hanging around this morning pricing
On Thu, 18 May 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
Where's the Globe Plaza?
I tried responding to this before, but it seems there was some mail
server problem...
It's on Main St. in Nashua just south of the Down Town area, right by
the Dunkin Donuts that isn't on the corner of Canal Main.
Coming
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
I was just surfing around and happenned to come across this
list... which I'm happy I did... I recognize a couple names here from
reputation and one from someone I know... Hi, Tom.
Oh dear.. The fuzzball arrives.. :-)
Hey, you have more
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
I know this is weird, but if anybody has a $200 Win 95 machine (needs no
monitor, keyboard etc.) that you want to get rid of I need it. Its gotta have
a working (yeah I know) Win 95 on it and a parallel port. Time is of the
essence. Sorry for
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