Re: Multiple X.org configs, single machine

2008-03-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious what troubles you've run into with XP in VMWare on Linux, as this is how I operate every day and I'd like to know about any gotchas. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: Multiple X.org configs, single machine

2008-03-06 Thread Thomas Charron
\On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious what troubles you've run into with XP in VMWare on Linux, as this is how I operate every day and I'd like to know about any gotchas. I just tried to start up my real Ubuntu partition under VM. The penguin

Re: Multiple X.org configs, single machine

2008-03-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing Linux would be pretty happy, with one exception.. X. You'll have to worry about Ethernet, sound, video, and the VMware tools, I think

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? I am currently working in a place that has a Windows infrastructure (AD, Exchange, etc.), but

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Matt Brodeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:38:25AM -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote: If you absolutely can't touch the AD servers you'll have to look at Samba's Winbind. IIRC, you'll want a separate LDAP server to store the SID-UID mappings,

Re: AD Authentication?

2008-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any serious Unix/Windows integration effort of non-trivial size, I would recommend going through the effort to make sure Unix IDs are consistent across all hosts. If you're working in the single user workstation

Re: SSH tunnel question

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, February 28, 2008 8:27 am, Tom Buskey said: Um, no. Unless you design your VPN to override everything, you have full access to both the VPN subnet and your local network. I do this at home on several of my

Re: VPNs and DNS (was: SSH tunnel question)

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/29/08, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also recently played with (though I haven't deployed) the KDE VPN client (kvpnc). I noticed that this will add DHCP-assigned DNS servers from the OpenVPN server to the /etc/resolv.conf for the duration of the connection (and return

New 'UNG' UNGs Not Gnu platform

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas Charron
Any comments on Microsofts announcement for the UNG platform? Article on slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/27/1425205 Sounds to me like Cygwin. Personally, I'm all for Microsoft trying to make Windows look like Linux under the hood. :-D -- -- Thomas

Re: SSH tunnel question

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I just get lucky here. :-) I go to work every day and I log into my linux computer at home from my linux desktop at work. I use ssh and everything works just fine. My computer at home is on the net on a

Re: New 'UNG' UNGs Not Gnu platform

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any comments on Microsofts announcement for the UNG platform? s/Microsofts announcement/the unsubstantiated rumor based on a blog posting

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) it takes for ever to boot. I have moused around to remove every bit of software that makes sense with the exception of dll files. I.E. I am trying to erase as much stuff as I can with

Re: PDA with barcode reader recommendations?

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Feb 4, 2008 9:54 AM, Peter Dobratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a PDA with the following features?: - built in barcode reader. Needs to read standard retail barcodes (such as those found on a six-pack of beer). A PDA with barcode attachment would work, but no dongles. -

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 28, 2008 10:57 AM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scenario: Need a web application which collects user data that needs to be stored on the user's local hard disk. Which tools can do this? I know that web site based applications are usually prevented from writing to the user's

Re: USB drives and device names

2008-01-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 25, 2008 4:30 PM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Linux a USB connected hard drive appears as a SCSI device. But the naming of the device seems to 'float' based on who-knows-what criteria. The name it chooses is based on the 'first available unused'. I'm assuming that it was stc

Re: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/24/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have posted some info about the situation to Linux Journal, where I am on the advisory panel... http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/olpc-crisis-customer-data-lost Wow. This looks horrible for the entire project. They obviously

Re: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/24/08, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2008, at 16:53, Thomas Charron wrote: I'm kinda speechless. And some of the people lost have already paid for them? Yes, payment is made upon order. If this is true, it might turn out to be extra work for OLPC, but only

Re: Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
Define 'Slower'. What do the profiles look for the guests? Allocated processors, Memory, etc.. On 1/22/08, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a couple of windows guests (SQL Server and IIS) running on a fairly beefy CentOS box (64 bit, dual quad-core, Dell 2950 I think).

Re: Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 22, 2008 10:23 AM, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the good comments so far. Some additional info: Host machine has 9GB RAM, and running Vmware Server. All the windows guests has the vmware tools installed and the windows eye-candy stuff turned off or down Windows

Re: Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 22, 2008 11:06 AM, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/08 11:03 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you providing access to the internal machines? Do they have their own network cards, or going thru VMWare NAT? VMWare NAT is horribly slow and unreliable

Re: gcc linking / libtools / building stuff

2008-01-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 16, 2008 10:38 PM, Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Labitt writes: So I tried to just build it from the command line and this is what I got. So what does all that mean??? The program did compile and link using Dev-C++ (gcc) on windoze. It looks like it can't find

Sun buys MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Charron
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ Comments? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 15, 2008 4:28 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 3:27 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the choice between a cash drawer that runs on a barely- working windows driver or a cash drawer that has an RJ45 in the back so it can take a REST-ful HTTP

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device

Re: Why is sound so complicated?

2007-11-20 Thread Thomas Charron
On Nov 20, 2007 11:55 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Why are there so many ways to make Apple Pie? One. I'm sorry, this was an essay question. :-D 2) Groups aways believe they can 'do it better'. And they're almost always wrong

Re: Why is sound so complicated?

2007-11-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Nov 17, 2007 6:58 PM, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be obvious, but not to me. Why does sound seem to be so complicated on Linux? Is anyone able to give me an idea why it seems so chaotic? I believe in free choice, but this seems overkill and more of a major headache. Two

Re: CPU utilization on a dual-core

2007-11-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/2/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to determine per-CPU utilization on a multi-cpu/core system. It's a 2.4 kernel, and top doesn't break things down per-cpu. Unless I'm running an ancient version of top... Also, how can you tell (without opening the box)

[OT] Keene Pumpkin Festival..

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Charron
I meant to ask earlier, did anyone end up going to the keene pumpkin festival like two weeks ago? https://kilomonkeys.com/1022071003.jpg -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/18/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2007, at 22:47, Greg Rundlett wrote: Due to the patent system, the world is limited to basically two large consumer products companies that sell coffee. Why? because canisters come in round or square shapes (triangular being

Slashdot.org auctions..

2007-10-18 Thread Thomas Charron
Nice auction on ebay. :-D http://cgi.ebay.com/Low-Slashdot-UID_W0QQitemZ110181186985QQihZ001QQcategoryZ193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Or even better, http://cgi.ebay.com/Your-Name-Slashdot-Dot-Org_W0QQitemZ110181165502QQihZ001QQcategoryZ11153QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Re: Desperate for deb docs

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/16/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked. And I mean really looked. I need help. I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build .deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy. I need to understand the intricasies

Re: Desperate for deb docs

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/16/07, Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build .deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy. I need to understand the intricasies of how to write control files (e.g., control, preinst,

MySQL backups

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Charron
Has anyone had experience with using CA backup solutions backing up CVS and MySQL data repositories? It really concerns me that our Sysadmins are planning to do this, as they don't want to take down the MySQL or CVS servers while they do a backup. MySQL file locking, and the integrity of

Re: MySQL backups

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had experience with using CA backup solutions backing up CVS and MySQL data repositories? CA as in ARCServe? Ewww. Horrible software. Run, do not walk, away from that crap

Re: MySQL backups

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/15/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: Has anyone had experience with using CA backup solutions backing up CVS and MySQL data repositories? There are ways (different ones, of course) to do hot backups of MySQL while it is online, but they vary with the data

Re: MySQL backups

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open file agents do *nothing* to address problems due to files on disk being in an inconsistent state when the backup runs. With MS Excel or whatever, this isn't an issue. Not so

Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....

2007-10-12 Thread Thomas Charron
So, now that http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141 is out there.. What are peoples thoughts on the patent in question? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htmSect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1r=1l=50f=Gd=PALLs1=5072412.PN.OS=PN/5072412RS=PN/5072412

Re: Linux routing fun

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to setup an apache proxy server on about 100 IP's, where any one of those IP's can accept an http proxy connection from a remote user. I got a simple apache proxy setup, and it can accept connections on one of several IP's (I've setup

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Flaherty, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to set up an HA mysql cluster. The database serves as a backend to a set of webservers (HW loadbalanced). The DB has light load, but when it breaks the site breaks, so I can't really get away with it as a single point of

Re: Linux routing fun

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/9/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, all the outbound connections seem to originate from the lowest numbered IP on the /28 subnet. Right. Unless a program takes explicit action to bind its socket to a particular IP address,

Re: Linux routing fun

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/9/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +apr_socket_bind(*newsock, conf-bind_addr) != APR_SUCCESS) { Right, I did RTFS. But it looks like that is done in the context of a worker. For example

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:12 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: What about multimaster replication? Multi Master made me feel a bit icky. Auto-increment offsets the same logshipping stuff others have had problems with. A MySQL slave has a

Re: Linux Stickers

2007-10-06 Thread Thomas Charron
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/linux?CMP=KNC-G-EN-TCHovchn=GGLovcpn=Geeks+Tech+and+Gaming+Basicovcrn=sr2EN1go47097sb5749pi14ai956+Linux+decalovtac=PPCSR=sr2EN1go47097sb5749pi14ai956 ? On 10/7/07, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good source for various Linux

Re: XEN - unbind/bind a PCI device

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/25/07, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to test some examples in a Xen course. All has gone well so far, but my very last example is to unbind a PCI device (in this case, the sound card) from its driver, and bind it to the PCI backend so that it can be used by one of the

Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/24/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick followup. Ben wrote: Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links. VNC is a common choice for X stuff. ...and I want to confirm that VNC is indeed able to push the bits efficiently enough that Thunderbird is now

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/24/07, Seth Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, and they even have a familiar name as CTO: http://www.koolu.com/content/blogcategory/16/249/ Or, you can get a Koolu for $300. It has both Ubuntu and OLPC on it. see http://www.koolu.com/ Reading this line: As Linus would say, World

Re: Linux RAID management utilities?

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/24/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mdadm seems to have the proper verbs, but needs something to feed it nouns. Aren't the nouns you'd use for mdadm defined in mdadm.conf? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

2007-09-22 Thread Thomas Charron
http://www.bitpim.org/ is a good place to start. Thomas On 9/22/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007 at 12:56 -0400, quoth Travis Roy: =What is the carrier? I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load this thing up with music. I

Tomcat Daemon staring blankly at me...

2007-09-17 Thread Thomas Charron
Quick question for anyone who's administered Tomcat in the past. From system startup, it takes Tomcat like 3 minutes to actually be listening on any interface. Example: Sep 17, 2007 1:35:34 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile

Re: Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

2007-09-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/13/07, Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm, my experience fetching channels was nothing like that, on both a 0.20.2 test system and an svn trunk system. Are you sure that was from fetch channel listings from source and not perhaps scan for channels? Scanning for channels won't

SSL certs/keys and Apache

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone ever use a passphrase protected private key with apache, and found a way to provide the passkey safely to apache without requiring the passphrase be typed in each time the private key is used? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: SSL certs/keys and Apache

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone ever use a passphrase protected private key with apache, and found a way to provide the passkey safely to apache without requiring the passphrase be typed in each time the private key

Re: Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

2007-09-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/5/07, kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Frank DiPrete wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 00:08 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you plan to upgrade your girlfriend? ...Or were you referring to the MythTV suite? ;) girfriend 2.0 jokes abound ;) I tried apt-get but

Re: Woot! OOXML nogo!

2007-09-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/4/07, Shawn K. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble getting that page to load. However I've also been following the OOXML saga at the ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog. Here's the most recent post about the vote:

Re: Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas Charron
Worked fine for Mythbuntu. did an apt-get upgrade and got the latest Myth, and it knew all about the new scheduled. Just provided my user information. On 9/3/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just checking in to find out if anyone has switched their MythTV setups over to Schedules

Re: As a world traveler this would be my greatest nightmare....

2007-08-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 8/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...particularly for those ATMs that swallow your card, instead of just scanning it by hand... http://mrayyan.vox.com/library/post/atm-crashes-everytime-i-use-my-debit-card.html Fortunately I do not have to use

[OT] Unique Apple iPhone tool

2007-08-03 Thread Thomas Charron
This cracked me up. I wonder how much they spent on packaging this up.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithmuth/996826671/in/set-72157601192063020/ -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: MySQL v. PostgreSQL, continued, was: Microsoft Access - two questions

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/31/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:54 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm gonna have to start putting a Please read and consider my entire message before replying notice at the top of all my posts... But that

[OT] Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...)

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On 8/2/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see quite a few possibilities: You forgot one.. The bridge was running an early beta of Windows.. -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: [OT] Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...)

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On 8/2/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bridge was running an early beta of Windows.. Now, now, let's be reasonable. It could have been a general release version of Windows. ;-) In the 1940's? :-) -- -- Thomas

Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...)

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/31/07, Ray Cote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:54 PM -0400 7/31/07, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 01:14:40 pm Ben Scott wrote: The twin for the Tacoma Narrows bridge is not that far down the road, in Deer Isle Maine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Isle,_Maine Someone

Re: scp over existing ssh tunnels?

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/30/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I could just scp it directly, but that opens up another connection. The goal is to re-use the existing connection. In my config file, I have: host * ControlMaster yes ControlPath /tmp/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%p This allows me to

IPCop vs pfSense, was ((OT) FOSS Virus Scan?

2007-07-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/19/07, Gary Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: (OT) Does anyone use FOSS Virus Scan? Add me to the list of ClamAV fans. I use ClamAV as part of the CopFilter add-on to the IPCOP distribution on a firewall. Since I've installed it I went from 2-3 hits a day from Norton

Re: UDP, TCP, and NAT (was...)

2007-07-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/13/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... UDP is by DEFINITION connectionless, and TCP is by DEFINITION connection oriented! Um... I just wrote exactly that. (See the first sentence of the paragraph you just quoted.) Am I

Re: Rebuilding RHEL3 libc.so from source

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/13/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/13/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This strikes me as rather unlikely, but: I wonder if strip(1) is being built-in to the RPM packaging process, and thus leaving you with unstripped binaries under BUILD, but stripped binaries

Re: UDP, TCP, and NAT (was...)

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/13/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every dynamic NAT implementation I've ever used, ever, did this. Heck, Linux 2.0 could do it, so long as you didn't want a firewall, too. Can you find me any dynamic NAT implementation which

Re: UDP, TCP, and NAT (was Thomas is a doodoo head)

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/13/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By your own statement, explain then why NAT routers need to do 'funny things' with very basic UDP based services, like DNS. They don't. I have never had to do application-layer inspection with DNS. Nor NTP. Fire up WireShark

Re: UDP, TCP, and NAT (was...)

2007-07-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/13/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/13/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that's the case, however, PAT can often cause UDP based protocols to break, as opposed to TCP protocols, where doing PAT is much easier. The thing you seem to be missing

Re: Trixbox w/ DNS SRV records?

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/12/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody here implemented name to extension mapping with Trixbox, SIP, and DNS SRV records? The idea is somebody places a SIP call to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and it looks up the DNS SRV record, finds that my SIP server can be reached at

Re: OpenVPN TCP vs UDP

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/12/07, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw the various discussions of OpenVPN TCP vs. UDP on the list, and in particular saw some people saying TCP over TCP is bad, avoid unless necessary and others saying That's only under rare

Re: OpenVPN TCP vs UDP

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Every NAT implementation I've used in the past five years has supported NAT of UDP. What the heck are you using, Linux 2.0? :) The main advantage I find with TCP is that in most IWF

Re: OpenVPN TCP vs UDP

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UDP is not bidirectional by nature. I'm not really sure what you think that proves. IP is connectionless, too. But most application protocols *are* bidirectional by nature, including just

Re: Destroying a hard drive

2007-07-11 Thread Thomas Charron
I don't recall the name of the company, but there is a data destruction company which will pick up your hard drive and shred it in front of you in their truck. :-) On 7/11/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the most efficient way to destroy the data on a hard drive before

Re: [OT] Looking for ancient boot media

2007-07-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/11/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have come across ancient TRS-80 Model III with dual 180K 5.25 floppy drives. But we lack boot media. Does anyone here have one they'd be willing to copy (assuming you have the means to do so) or part with ? Didn't they boot from ROM?

Re: Xeon 64-bit?

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a bunch of fairly high-end servers, all with dual dual-core Xeon processors. Xeon's are supposed to be 64-bit processors, but they are all running i386 kernels. I want to download the appropriate Debian distribution for

Re: Xeon 64-bit?

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/9/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Linux Those links aren't really clear as to answer the question, tho. ;-) -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Xeon 64-bit?

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/9/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As others have said, you want the amd64 version. The kernels are unified now, so the same kernel will work on an amd64 or em64t system. Same as all other applications. They unified the em64 and amd64 *kernel*? Last I'd checked, they use

Re: Xeon 64-bit?

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] They unified the em64 and amd64 *kernel*? Last I'd checked, they use the amd64 distributions, but there where different kernel optimizations between amd64 and em64 kernel options. It may

Re: Xeon 64-bit?

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/9/07, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find the use of 'amd64' for package arch in debian/ubuntu/derivatives... well, dumb and confusing for end-users who don't know any better (as evidenced by the existence of this thread). I presume Debian jumped on building 64-bit packages for

Re: Petition against OOXML

2007-07-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/8/07, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of us in the US, ANSI [2] is the organization you'll want to contact. [1] http://www.noooxml.org/delegations Interesting... did anyone else notice that this site doesn't display the same in IE or Firefox? As a matter-of-fact, it

Re: cpp replaced by m4?

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/2/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:34:45 -0400 (EDT) Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got that part. What I want to know is if anyone else has satisfied a need for a more featureful preprocessor in their C code, whether it be via use of m4 or

Re: cpp replaced by m4?

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/3/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, Jul 3rd 2007 at 09:52 -0400, quoth Thomas Charron: =On 7/2/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:34:45 -0400 (EDT) = Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = I got that part. What I want to know

Re: [gnhlug-jobs] [NH Jobs List] Job: Network/Database Administrator - Manchester

2007-06-29 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/29/07, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does their ignorance of file formats constiture them as being a goof? Can you explain the difference between the EFA and the MSCI EAFE ? If not, does that make you a goof? Just because someone is ignorant of something is not a

Re: VPN recommendations?

2007-06-29 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/29/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 28, 2007, at 15:45, Ted Roche wrote: I just replaced my DD-WRT box with a pfSense (FreeBSD/m0n0wall- derived) box last night to accomplish a similar task. I've installed several for commercial accounts. It even does hot failover.

Re: VPN recommendations?

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/28/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A client of mine, Windows-centric,computer-phobic (or at least not -friendly) just wants to be able to access his office network from his home, whatever magick that requires. The office is on DSL, static IP, simple network router/firewall, NAT,

Re: VPN recommendations?

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/28/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linksys actually sells a VERY nice VPN router which handles both NATing *AND* active intrusion detection. It also has the horsepower to actually route gigabit ethernet AND have VPN connections, PLUS it can actually serve as a 4 port lvl 2

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/25/07, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 18:33 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 6/25/07, Henry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to BUoD ... this appears not to have made it out. I always liked PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer). *laugh* I've always

Re: Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:01:46 -0400 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 21, 2007, at 16:38, Paul Lussier wrote: I don't think they want a drive, they want something like a battery-backed cache

Re: Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 22 Jun 2007 11:21:40 -0400, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael ODonnell writes: You could programmatically force a flush after every write, but if you're willing to do that then there's probably a lot better approaches than this one... There are better solutions than this,

Re: Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/22/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worst case, you can open using O_DIRECT, which specifies direct read/right access. The only limitation really is the reads/writes need to be aligned to the block size of the device. Better would be to tell the OS it's OK to cache it,

Re: Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/22/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was taking about using it with a flash device. If you utilize O_DIRECT, your write will occur directly to the device, in this case, written to flash. (sigh) I have to get back to work, so one last try: You're confused about

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/07, Shawn K. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without going on my typical rant about Solaris/x86 ... Okay, I'm curious, and this list has been starved for *nix-related discussion lately. What's your typical rant? :-) An easy one to

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/21/07, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:52 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: So one has to ask. What's the point? :-) ZFS? :) ZFS is nice, yes. But does it offer a large enough benefit to justify a shift to an entirely different operating system

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/21/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An easy one to target is the fact that every few years, Sun decides to phase out Solaris x86, then rekindle it once again. They tried to phase out Solaris 9. Solaris 10 was actively developed on AMD chips. Solaris 11 is being actively

Re: Stupid server semantic argument (was: Non Linux but network tech question)

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/21/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, at 13:05, Thomas Charron wrote: No, it isn't. It isn't a client either. It's a 'collaborative' application, where there isn't a client or a server, just peers which send data to each other. Are we talking about

Re: Stupid server semantic argument (was: Non Linux but network tech question)

2007-06-20 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess to take any ambiguity or semantics out of it, Comcast does not want you to do the following: run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your

MythTV takes a HUGE hit.

2007-06-20 Thread Thomas Charron
http://labs.zap2it.com/ztvws/ztvws_login/1,1059,TMS01-1,00.html For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the future of Zap2it Labs was at risk because of certain

Re: Non Linux but network tech question

2007-06-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/19/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 17, 2007, at 21:05, Ben Scott wrote: For about the brazilianth time, it's not about listening on a particular port, it's about acting as server rather than a consumer. I'm really getting tired of listening to this particular straw

Re: ADMIN - http://mail.gnhlug.org/ b0rken?

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/10/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When my browser asks for anything from http://mail.gnhlug.org/ all I get is this: Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.

Re: Opinions about LaCie wanted

2007-06-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/5/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody here ever done enough business with LaCie that you have a well-founded opinion about the company or their storage products? Recently, there where GPL complaints against them as they claimed many of their products where propietary,

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