Re: Reading Office Files in Linux...

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Brian Chabot wrote: Anyone know of a program in Linux that can read a password protected M$ Word 2000 file? I have the password, but OO.org tells me it can't do pssworded files... Ditto for Kword... Honestly, I have yet to find anything that works flawlessly other than

Re: Question about wireless support

2005-03-26 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Numberwhun wrote: Hello! I am just curious if anyone here has had any experience with using wireless cards with Linux? I have one of the Linksys pci cards that holds one of the pcmcia wireless (802.11b) cards and was wanting to use it with Fedora Core 3. I've had a

Re: [Fwd: Linux and Open Source in NH Schools]

2004-05-14 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 14:22, Bruce Dawson wrote: I think it is fair to say thinks are moving forward at a very rapid rate and it would be nice if GNHLUG could find a way to facilitate and assist this activity. From my perspective, the lack of organization and coordinated activities, as

Re: Future Meeting? (MythTV)

2004-04-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 18:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it (1) costs money and (2) won't run on Linux. I'll pass. ;-) I'm much more psych'ed about Travis's MythTV project. He's been describing some of the stuff it does (or can do), and I must admit, it sounds very cool. Kinda like

Re: extract all text lines between 2 lines in a file?

2004-04-07 Thread Ben Boulanger
perl -e 'open (JUNK, junk); while (JUNK) { if (/uniqdelimiter/) { if ($value) { $value = 0; } else { $value = 1; } } (print $_) if $value; } }' or.. in a script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $file = $ARGV[0]; my $value = 0; open(FILE, $file); while (FILE) { if (/uniqdelimiter/)

Desktop Linux (fwd)

2004-02-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
I'm guessing this message was supposed to go to the greater new hampshire linux user's list at large. Jenny, the list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a barrel full of people there to help out Anyone have info on lycoris? I'm unfamiliar with it. -- Forwarded message -- Date:

Re: Network/Server monitoring.

2004-02-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Travis Roy wrote: I would like to switch to something linux based. I'm installing Nagios right now on my home server to tinker with it and see how it compairs. I was just wondering what people on the list have tried and what they would suggest I take a look at. Nagios is

Re: Managing Windows NT from Linux

2003-11-10 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Tom Buskey wrote: Install cygwin w/ sshd on the win box. ssh into it and do all the local commands you want. If snmp is installed on the win box, you can get alot out of it with snmpget and snmpwalk. While this is a nice idea, I'm really looking for a way to do the

Re: Call For Help: GNHLUG publicity materials (was: Hoss Traders)

2003-08-24 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 04:24, Jon maddog Hall wrote: GNHLUG has a cute penguin logo of a penguin sitting in front of the outline of the State of New Hampshire, with the silhouette of the Old Man of the Mountain sticking out. It is very nice, but the Old Man is now gone, and the question is

Re: Filesystem overhead

2003-07-28 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I have an image of a data CD in a single file. The actual size of the logical file (as reported by stat, ls, and other tools) is 526,397,440 bytes. However, the du utility says it uses 526,917,632 bytes. That is a difference of

Re: DSL firewall/router solutions?

2003-07-14 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 4 port Wireless. I run it 24X7 with zero problems. The only reason I have ever shut it down was to flash a new firmware or when Comcast changed over the other day, I booted Windows and connected my PC directly. I have the

Re: Hello. Is anyone there?

2003-07-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Derek Martin wrote: Agreed, but perhaps it would be better if mail.gnhlug.org were not listed in any RBLs? Have you attempted to download the list from easynet - the one that listed it? It's rediculously long I seriously wonder if they have an ip in every c block in

Re: Hello. Is anyone there?

2003-07-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately, if your system is blocking mail, it's your problem, regardless of why you made that decision. If you are basing your decision on a third-party information source that is not doing what you want, take it up with that third-party. :)

Re: Hello. Is anyone there?

2003-07-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Bruce Dawson wrote: So, if your system is coopted by a spam worm, then your system is dead as far as these RBLs and internet mail is concerned. Even if you use virus protection. Even if you get rid of the open proxy. You can never get off their lists. That's rediculous

Re: New topic. Need a procmail recipe.

2003-07-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Steven W. Orr wrote: I'm running majordomo2 here. I have list A which is only for officials in my town. List B is open to all residents. I'm toying with the idea of requiring all officals who want to be on A to also be on B. The goal is to prevent the A people from getting

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I should be used to it by now but it still irks me when somebody along the line has such a tragically inflated opinion of his own comic genius that he just can't leave well enough alone and pass gems like these along without improving upon them,

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 16:19, Michael O'Donnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure where that came from, but please be informed that I wasn't talking about Karl or anybody else in the GNHLUG, just (I assume) some anonymous meddler up the line... Then I misunderstood, Sorry Michael...

Re: Welcome to Comcast High-Speed Internet!

2003-06-24 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earth to Comcast: Try fscking DHCP! We do use DHCP. The configuration tool automatically goes through and sets up your mail clients and browser under windows.. There's currently no windows equivalent, nor would I run it even if there were...

Re: Detecting root kits?

2003-06-23 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dan Coutu wrote: Any pointers to where I can learn more about the different types of rootkits and how to counter or detect them are also welcome. The chkrootkit package is a quick once over. The best place to look is in /dev, as that's where a lot of rootkits hide their

Re: Detecting root kits?

2003-06-23 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Chris Brenton wrote: If you are wondering just how evil these kits can be, some further reading: http://www.sans.org/resources/idfaq/knark.php Note that knark can render MD5 and other checks useless while its loaded in the kernel. There's far worse than that in the

Re: Amusing feature of Earthlink DSL

2003-06-19 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your EarthLink DSL service includes: [...other stuff deleted...] * Dynamic IP addressing for added security Hmmm, I've never considered DHCP an 'added security' when connecting to an ISP. I suppose it is, but I think for most of us

Re: RH question

2003-06-12 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what's this file for, and what else does it contain? What's the /etc/sysconfig/rhn subdir for, and what's in there (other than the systemid file :) It's the redhat network stuff for doing up2date and the auto-update features. RHN (RedHat

Re: RH question

2003-06-12 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a lot of 7.3 and 8.0 machines none of which this subdir exists on. This is the first 9 machine I've seen, and it was just loaded. I'm pretty sure the guy who installed it doesn't know about RHN, so I'm guessing this is something which

Re: Learning SNMP

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Michael O'Donnell wrote: At some point soon I may be called upon to know more about SNMP than how to spell it, so I'm looking for recommendations for the best books/docs to read to get a good general understanding. Essential SNMP (Oreilly) and Understanding SNMP mibs are

Re: Network speed degredation?

2003-04-01 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Any hints/suggestions/etc., would be greatly appreciated. Have you tried forcing the switch and network cards to 100/Full? Auto Detection often has issues. Ben -- Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-30 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Derek Martin wrote: This doesn't at all address my point, which is that if ATT/Comcast/whoever they are today doesn't see fit to take action against me for violating my TOS, what business is it of AOL? Furthermore and more importantly, as Rob points out, outgoing SMTP is

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-29 Thread Ben Boulanger
On 29 Mar 2003, Scott Garman wrote: I clearly understand the spam problem, but this does not seem to be a reasonable solution to it. I could even see allowing individual AOL users the ability to set brain-dead, highly restrictive anti-spam rules like this, but not making a blanket decision for

[OT]: Default PW on Sun A1000 or PW recovery?

2003-03-24 Thread Ben Boulanger
Anyone know if there is a/what the default password is on the Sun StorEdge A1000 is? Anyone know how to do the equivalent of a password recovery on it? Ben -- Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the

Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And speaking of Cisco and Wireless, /. just posted a story stating that Cisco is about to by Linksys for ~$500M ! And amazingly - my WAP just stopped working... coincidence?! -- A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, mike ledoux wrote: Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by accident, and intended this for another list, but the source

The Gould Academy - linux howto's

2003-02-25 Thread Ben Boulanger
http://network.gouldacademy.org/ The head of the Computer Tech Dept. at Southern Maine Tech sent this over, some great info on here. Ben -- Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Great Article on Open Source/Linux stuff

2003-02-21 Thread Ben Boulanger
In business http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822601_tc102.htm -- He who hurries can not walk with dignity. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'

2003-02-21 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote: While it's true that the proprietary architecture vendors such as Sun, DEC, et al, had a large system service capability mentality, I would think that, at least for the Itanium2-based systems, be they desktop or server, it would make sense to

Re: MS threatened by Open Source :)

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/05/HNmsthreat_1.html - The company's revenues would be unfavorably impacted if customers reduce their purchases of new software products or upgrades to existing products because new product offerings are not

Re: shell script question

2003-01-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:38, Erik Price wrote: [erikprice@host:/home/erikprice]$ for i in `ls`; do `which du` -khs $i; done [ ... ] As you can see in the above, I've had to put `which du` in the do section (because for some reason the du command isn't found if I don't specify an absolute

Re: filtering Flash?

2003-01-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a way to avoid auto-loading or filtering Flash embedded within a site? [ ... ] Anyone else experience this, or have any ideas? The newest sysadmin has an article on filtering banner ads. I wonder if, in place of the regex

Re: Hard drive needs low-level format?

2003-01-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:36, Hewitt Tech wrote: What are other people's experiences with these drives? The drive does not overheat AFAIK, but I do notice that the problem is more pronounced at system startup then after the system has been running for a while. It does happen and it's not

Re: How to ping a DHCP server

2003-01-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 15:22, Michael O'Donnell wrote: Is there some easy way I can tell from the commandline whether a DHCP server is alive on my network? Ideally it would be a very short, low impact little probe that would maybe just do (say) a DHCPDISCOVER and then report the results,

Re: Data conversion

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 08:57, Travis Roy wrote: I'm looking to convert something from Excel to CSV and then from CSV to fixed with or Standard Data Format as dBase calls it.. Example: FirstN LastN EMail Travis Roy[EMAIL PROTECTED] JoeBob[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling inbound calls while dialed-up

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:35, Michael O'Donnell wrote: A coworker mentions that he's pretty sure he saw his neighbor taking a call using his peecee while it was dialed up, and he thinks he saw a dialog box come up to indicate the caller-ID data and such, and he's pretty sure that the peecee

Re: Screenshot editing

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sometimes need to edit screenshots to add arrows, circles, notes, and the like. I am currently using GIMP (1.2.3) to do this, but it is very awkward. While GIMP excels at editing bitmap images, it does not do well at adding vector

RE: Data conversion

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:35, Travis Roy wrote: I realize that, but my end solution is a fixed width format. Excel can also do that but I was looking for something a little more automated and easier. It's a lot easier/faster to take an excel/csv file and type convert filename.csv and get a nice

[gnhlug-announce] 1/14 CentraLUG Meeting

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
MRTG WHO: Ben Boulanger Map to West St. Ward House: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?addtohistory=country=USaddress=41+West+St.city=Concordstate=NH Directions to West St. Ward House: 1. Take 93 to Exit 13 (3/Manchester St) 2. Take 3 towards downtown (heading northwest) 3. Look

RE: Data conversion

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
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Re: Screenshot editing

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a rectangle looking tool. Well, I have the Select Rectangle tool, but that's it. What version of GIMP? That's the one! After I got Kevin's message I tried it out... works awesome. I can't believe I didn't know it until

Re: Screenshot editing

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 21:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U... all that does is select a region. Which, I suppose, does technically give me a square on the screen, but it goes away when I select something else. :) Am I missing something here? Okay, obviously, I *am* missing something.

Re: Central LUG Meeting

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:16, Mighty Industries wrote: I just looked at the GNHLUG site and saw that the chapers' page says Central meets the second Tuesday of the month, while the calendar page has it scheduled for the first one for January. Is there a meeting tonight? [I might have to work,

Re: Performance monitoring?

2002-12-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you considered using SNMP already? Yes, but I don't believe it provides me with anything I don't already have. My thought was that it would provide the correlation that I thought you were looking for. If you've got bytes written,

Re: An opening for open source?

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 10:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet you anything they're in some contract with MS and will have to pay the subscription rates anyway even if they dump MS. They did this of course to get a lower yearly rate on the subscription. Also, it's what everybody that works on

Re: Running Home-based mail server, but ISP blocks port 25?

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way to specify a port address in DNS? How else would you let the world know your mail server isn't where is should be? I use zoneedit to host my records (http://www.zoneedit.com). They have port redirection as a freebie

RE: scp to directory w/o execute permissions

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Boulanger
This may be a time when you might actually want to consider running SSH chrooted. You could simply restrict what binaries are in the chrooted directory. http://www.ssh.com/support/faq/secureshellserver/qa_191_687.html On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:08, Charles Farinella wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002

Re: Follow up to tonights meeting

2002-12-10 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, on behalf of nobody in particular, I would like to thank Mike Spenard and Travis Roy for putting on a very interesting and informative (if somewhat under-attended) presentation on wireless stuff. I learned a couple useful tips.

Re: sortof OT firewalls

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 22:46, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: I've met some who is a windows user with a cable modem. Can anyone recommend any defensive software she can use ? Open source is obviously preffered, Thanks TomR ZoneAlarm is a fairly decent firewall program for windows. It seemed one

Up for swap, VA 1220 or MB+CPUs alone

2002-12-07 Thread Ben Boulanger
Hey everyone, A friend of mine was able to pick up a VA Linux 1220 relatively cheaply from a friend. She wants a nice desktop box and asked me what she thought she could do. The 1U 1220 isn't really a good desktop box, but the hardware's good. I was hoping someone out there would be

Re: Upcoming 12/10 meeting

2002-12-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we get a when-and-where on that? I'm interested in attending. The http://www.centralug.org site says the next meeting is 12 November, so I presume it is out-of-date. You might want to post the meeting details to the [EMAIL

12/10 CentraLUG Meeting

2002-12-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
Hello everyone, Our next meeting will be: WHEN: TUESDAY, December 10, 2002 at 7:00(ish) PM WHERE: West St. Ward House 41 West St. Concord, NH WHAT: 802.11 Wireless Antenna information Manchester Wireless WHO: Mike Spenard Travis Roy presenting Map to West St. Ward House:

[gnhlug-announce] 12/10 CentraLUG Meeting

2002-12-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
Hello everyone, Our next meeting will be: WHEN: TUESDAY, December 10, 2002 at 7:00(ish) PM WHERE: West St. Ward House 41 West St. Concord, NH WHAT: 802.11 Wireless Antenna information Manchester Wireless WHO: Mike Spenard Travis Roy presenting Map to West St. Ward House:

Re: Red Hat 8.0 Help please

2002-11-24 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 23:37, R. Nighthawk wrote: Im a super linux newbie and id like some help, i just got redhat 8.0 and i have an nvidia geforce4 ti 4600, but i cant get out of 800x600 mode, can someone help please? As a quickie, have you tried hitting control-alt-+/- ? That's the default

Re: [gnhlug-announce] My apologies...

2002-11-21 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby resign as Chairman of MELBA in embarrassement (and boy do I hope you'll accept this resignation :) Is there anyone who thinks we should actually accept this? -- You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the

Re: Symbios SCSI issues

2002-11-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote: Have you checked the settings in whatever interface the card's BIOS has (equivalent to Adaptec's CTRL-A at boot)? On many cards it's possible to manually adjust the auto-termination feature and SCAM (SCSI ID auto-selection), both of which

Re: Symbios SCSI issues

2002-11-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote: However a quick Google turned up this page: http://www.bellmicro.com/fibrechannel/newasp/lsi_hba/downloads/sym22802.pdf ...which seems to indicate that this card ONLY does auto-termination. Now here's a dumb question, have you enabled the

Re: RH update

2002-11-17 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 15:33, Chris wrote: Well, I tried startx after I did ctrl-alt-f1, but an X session was already running (the login screen), so that didn't help, but I believe I have another idea to Right... that would make sense! :) oops.. sorry for the bad advice. You probably want to

Re: Symbios SCSI issues

2002-11-17 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Details, please. :) What leads you to believe termination is the problem (entirely possible, but it could also be something else)? Do you get an error message? If so, what is it? Does the system hang? If so, when (at boot, when you

Symbios SCSI issues

2002-11-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
Hey all, I've got a Symbios 22802 card that I'm having some issues with. I'm trying to swap it into a box in place of an adaptec 2940UW. The docs on the symbios card say that it handles termination by autosensing the need for it, but I can't seem to get it to work. I don't have a

RE: RH update

2002-11-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Travis Roy wrote: And I run windows for the following reasons: My USB CF/SM reader only kinda works in linux (the CF side works, the SM ... wish it would output the stuff in mpeg. The human mind's ability to rationalize never ceases to amaze me! :-) Ben --

Re: [Centralug] Really great CentraLUG meeting last night!

2002-11-13 Thread Ben Boulanger
On 13 Nov 2002, Bruce Dawson wrote: I'd like to thank Ben for setting up a really great meeting last night. I won't speak about my talk on X10, but Travis Co were really good; providing lots of useful info on antenna and 802.11b, and even giving a demo! Thanks Ben, and thank you to all who

Re:running Linux at work with Windows apps

2002-11-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Tom Buskey wrote: Some people have also had success with Crossover Office. As I understand, it won't work with every windows app. Do they have a trial version? As of right now, I'm running both crossover office + plugin and transgaming's stuff. I'm running Warcraft

RE: running Linux at work with Windows apps

2002-11-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Travis Roy wrote: How well do they work.. Sure they can work and suck, but are they just as good as they would be on a windows box.. Also what video card and xserver are you running? Geforce 3 ti200, using the opengl drivers from NVidia, I'm using Xfree86, on an AMD Athlon

Re: running Linux at work with Windows apps

2002-11-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:55, Derek Martin wrote: I'd say you have it backwards... Unix users expect their stuff to work. Microsoft users expect their software to be buggy and crash. They think computers are SUPPOSED to crash... Maybe you're on to something here. Maybe this is the problem

Reminder: Centralug Meeting Nov. 12

2002-11-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
---Reminder--- Come one, come all! Learn how to turn on and off your lights from work while connected to your home linux machine and scare your family. Schedule those sprinklers to come on when the neighbor walks their dog in your yard! (Content subject to change as I have no idea what Bruce

Centralug Meeting Nov. 12

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Boulanger
Come one, come all! Learn how to turn on and off your lights from work while connected to your home linux machine and scare your family. Schedule those sprinklers to come on when the neighbor walks their dog in your yard! (Content subject to change as I have no idea what Bruce will be showing

Re: cheap video card desired

2002-10-21 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:52, Erik Price wrote: 32(24)-bit, does 1152 x 864 at 19 inches) would be great. Since I'm a bonehead when it comes to PC hardware -- a casualty of growing up in a house of Apples -- can anyone provide a recommendation? And if you know of a store that sells them

OT: Infosec gets a mascot

2002-10-16 Thread Ben Boulanger
Dewie the Turtle http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/infosecurity/index.html -- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Windows Games under Linux

2002-10-13 Thread Ben Boulanger
I got a link last week about a company who was tweaking wine specifically to run some games. The only reason I still have windows at all is for things like WarCraft III. If there's anyone else like me, they'll be thrilled by this one. I just got WarCraft III working under linux and will be

Re: old EISA gear

2002-10-12 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 14:43, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I have a bag of random EISA boards (including enough gear to setup a 4-system 10base2 [thinwire] Enet) that I'd hate to see go to waste. Does anybody care about such stuff anymore? The college I went to, Southern Maine Technical College

Re: RH 8.0 Question

2002-10-08 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Does anyone have an opinion on KDE in RH 8? I may end up switching... That's what I'm running. I think it's very nicely done.. I even finally got my fiancee to switch from XP to linux due to her seeing KDE on my box. Ben -- Keep your broken

Re: Audio CD Playing

2002-10-07 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Ed Robitaille wrote: I am running SuSe 7.3 on a dual boot system with Windows 95 (gotta keep the other half happy). I updated some software and can no longer play audio cd's either using the console or in X. The cd player will flash like its playing, I can here audio when

Re: DNS question

2002-10-02 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm drawing a blank here. For a slave DNS server, what should the resolve.conf file look like? Should the 'nameserver' line point to itself or to the master server? On a slave nameserver, you want to point at yourself - generally for

Zoneedit autoupdate

2002-10-02 Thread Ben Boulanger
Howdy, After finding zoneedit's dynamic updating, I decided to write a perl script to auto update the records I host there whenever my IP address changes. The problem I had is that I use a linksys router to do NAT and give me wireless. So, after some noodling on it, I came up with

Re: Red Hat 8.0 is 'official'

2002-09-30 Thread Ben Boulanger
Very fast (520kB/s) mirror for me: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/mirror/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/8.0/en/iso/i386 Ben On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Red Hat officially announced the general release of Red Hat Linux 8.0 today. More info:

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - run fetchmail on system A, which will redirect the query to system B. - have system B intercept that query and pass it on to the proper pop server on the net - take the mail off the server using B, but pass it back to

Re: Web-based address book

2002-09-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tom Buskey wrote: There are a few LDAP to web packages out there. You definitely want LDAP for this kind of thing. FWIW I've used Netscape's system (back when Netscape was its own company). It worked well but I imagine there are free systems that are just as good.

Re: smallest pingable device

2002-09-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote: Thanks - that's the sort of thing I had in mind - anybody know of something smaller/cheaper/simpler? This is something I've been interested in throwing together for awhile: http://wearables.stanford.edu/hardware.html#pc -- To put the world in

Re: SSH v2 sans password prompting...

2002-09-04 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 10:14, Ken Ambrose wrote: How do I get logged in to a remote host, via ssh, w/o password prompting, a la the rhosts file? I can do it with SSH v1, but v2 seems to give me some problems. I've plugged the public key into the authorized_keys file, but no dice. Any

Re: Ethernet question

2002-08-27 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 100baseT4 100baseTx 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD T4 is a HP ethernet thing that uses 4 pairs instead of 2... It can run over cat3 or cat4 (this from someone I work with here). The Tx is the same as just T... It doesn't

Re: Monitor question

2002-08-27 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, David Roberts wrote: Anyone out there know: 1. if I can get it to work or if I should say No thanks. 2. what parameters I'll need for the xconfig routine so I don't blow it up ;) You should be able to re-run Xconfigurator in text mode to make it redetect your

Re: Three-minute timeout during surfing?

2002-08-26 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: Howdy, all. I just upgraded my boxen to RH 7.3, and suddenly my webmail (SquirrelMail) is taking three minutes just to bring up the login page. I double-checked my httpd.conf file, and HostnameLookups is set to off, so I don't -think- it's a

Somewhat OT: Information Wave bans RIAA

2002-08-19 Thread Ben Boulanger
http://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php IWT Bans RIAA From Accessing Its Network August 19, 2002 Information Wave Technologies has announced it will actively deny the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from accessing the contents of its network. Earlier this year,

OT: Mailing list members sued for disparaging comments

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Boulanger
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/04/aquatic_plants/ An aquatic plant mailing list had a discussion about a vendor of aquatic plants and now that vendor is sueing list members that gave their (negative) opinion of that dealer. ___

Re: Rack Mount Servers

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but at MCL all our servers were PCs running Linux, and we had serial consoles on every one of them. We could easily reboot and get the lilo prompt, boot single user, etc. Worked just fine. Oh, and the terminal server even supported ssh :)

Re: Elitism considered harmful (was: Debian flamewar)

2002-08-10 Thread Ben Boulanger
Yeah, that was supposed to go directly to Ben... ;) On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 23:33, Ben Boulanger wrote: Rather than dilute this thread worse, I thought I'd send you a personal email on this letting you know that I completely agree with your statements here. This was the heart of my objection

Re: Elitism considered harmful (was: Debian flamewar)

2002-08-09 Thread Ben Boulanger
Rather than dilute this thread worse, I thought I'd send you a personal email on this letting you know that I completely agree with your statements here. This was the heart of my objection to the microsoft security issue and here it is again, not even one week later. I'm glad I'm not the only