I was off working for a defense contractor for five years and have been
more or less retired for the last two years. Back when my colleague Bill
Sconce passed away our mutual client contacted me and I now do
occasional work for them. Around 8 years ago I installed a CentOS server
for the
Ted Roche wrote:
On 11/02/2009 10:50 AM, H. Kurth Bemis wrote:
Hi Ted - Any chance there'll be audio or video available for those that
are stuck in the great Canadian north and cannot attend but REALLY
wanted to hear the talk. :]
If not, oh well.
Thanks
~k
LUGcasting is
Ben Scott wrote:
My router saga
.
.
.
I bet you've noticed that this kind of saga has a one step forward two
steps back quality ;^)
And of course you personally have told us that if you were doing this
commercially you wouldn't even
Mark Ordung wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I have a Mac Mini (mid 2009) model. From what I'm reading, that's what you
have and not an earlier model. (refer to http://lowendmac.com)
This model has 2 video ports: 1 mini displayport and 1 mini
Alex Hewitt wrote:
Mark Ordung wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I have a Mac Mini (mid 2009) model. From what I'm reading, that's what you
have and not an earlier model. (refer to http://lowendmac.com)
This model has 2 video ports: 1
Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 10/14/2009 09:07 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
Shawn O'Shea wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net
mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm trying to connect a new Mac Mini to a Barco monitor. The Barco
monitor expects
I'm trying to connect a new Mac Mini to a Barco monitor. The Barco
monitor expects a dual link video source (2048 x 1536 /1536 x 2048) but
the Mini is outputing single link DVI-D. The Mac sees the monitor as
having a resolution of 1280x1024. Apple makes a dual link DVI adapter
but I don't
Shawn O'Shea wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net
mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm trying to connect a new Mac Mini to a Barco monitor. The Barco
monitor expects a dual link video source (2048 x 1536 /1536 x
2048) but
the Mini
Lori Nagel wrote:
I think it is very hard on newbies and
drives people away from using free software. I remember as a newbie,
reading things for hours, trying to look something up, not finding
the information, not even knowing what to ask or how to ask it. I
would read things, not
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
The TCP connection to my FFT server is not performing anywhere near the
link speed. (14%) I've scoured the net (and this list, probably to your
annoyance) looking for ways to optimize the link speed. Having tried most
of them, (including jumbo frames,
Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
My Ubuntu 8.10 system uses EXT3 for the root filesystem and will
automatically fschk the volume every 35 mounts.
I see the question's been answered, but here's some general commentary
Tom Buskey wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com
mailto:kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Hewitt_Tech
hewitt_t...@comcast.net mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
What bugged me about the way Apple sells
Yesterday some friends asked me to accompany them to the Apple store in
Salem to help them purchase a Mac. I had talked to them previously about
some of the advantages of the platform including decent reliability and
in their case the much lower amount of malware targeting the system.
But
I recently was relating on the list how a client was having a problem
with their Linksys BEFSX41 router and the solution was that Linksys
RMA'd the router. They apparently have removed the BEFSX41 model from
their active product list so they sent me a BEFVP41 v2 model. I received
it yesterday,
Ben Scott wrote:
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
Intel's VT-x extensions *MUST* be enabled and supported by BIOS.
I'm not sure why ...
I seem to recall this facet of the design being sold as a security
feature. The scenario given was the
Jerry Feldman wrote:
I guess a couple of more things is what you want to use virtualization
for. On my laptop it is almost purely for demo purposes, although I
initially set it up to run some things that could not be done under
Linux, even through WINE. Initially, I needed RealPlayer for my
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42014
claims that the P7550 supports virtualization which I expect to show up
as vmx in the cpuflags.
I bought a new HP laptop which featured a P7550 processor and expected
to be able to use KVM. Unfortunately, the vmx flag is not
Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
P.S. I think the above advice just echoes the same message on this list
several times in the last couple of years. ;^)
Indeed.
Most consumer gear like LinkSys, D-Link, Belkin, NetGear
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Thursday 17 September 2009 06:17:39 pm H. Kurth Bemis wrote:
Take a look at LogicSupply (logicsupply.com). They have a pretty good
selection of compact systems. Atom based systems too.
I was looking at Intel Core-based architectures and processors
Drew Van Zandt wrote:
That's basically what a Drobo
(http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo.php) is, only they already
considered all of those performance questions for you.
--DTVZ
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly
n...@jenandneil.com mailto:n...@jenandneil.com wrote:
Tyson Sawyer wrote:
Its been at least 10 years since I have actually done a recovery of
this sort. ...back then LILO was king and floppy drives were still in
use. I've been lucky enough to not do much sysadmin work in recent
years.
So...
I have a small home server running a not quite up
Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Tyson Sawyerty...@j3.org wrote:
The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up.
You need to explain that using a lot more words. :)
(e.g., how you back it up, using what software, how often, what you
backup, how
Or at least they've made getting information on Linksys products a lot
harder by completely changing the Linksys web site. I just spent a good
ten minutes tracking down information on the RVL200 (SSL VPN router).
Quite painful and not a good way to sell products or perhaps that's the
idea...
Kenny Lussier wrote:
Hi All,
I have a mandate to install anti-virus and anti-malware software on
all servers. Since all of our servers are Linux, this was further
clarified to mean rootkit detection software. I have looked at
several rootkit detectors, and they all appear to be fairly old.
Kenny Lussier wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Alex Hewitthewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
Kenny, if you have a mandate to install anti-virus/anti-malware does that
mean that whoever mandated this wants to scan all files on the servers for
PC infections? Although these things
Alex Hewitt wrote:
Jarod Wilson wrote:
Alex Hewitt wrote:
Just an update - the system that I was trying to install various 64 bit
Linux distros also wouldn't install Vista 64. Turns out the processor I
was using has some kind of TLB bug (AMD Phenom X4 9600).
Oh
Ben Scott wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
Linux hostname.localdomain 2.6.27.5.117.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 18
12:08:10 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
The i386 indicates the running kernel is for the i386
architecture
I have a copy of Fedora 10 that came inside a Linux Format magazine. I
installed it on a new system with 8 gb of RAM and a quad core AMD CPU.
When I issue the free command I see all 8 gb of RAM. Does that mean that
the distro installed itself as a 64 bit version? If so, is there an easy
way to
Greg Rundlett wrote:
I have a strange situation that has me baffled and I'm hoping somebody
knows what is going on.
I bought a refurbished Dell Studio Hybrid 140G (which has DVI and HDMI
video outputs). I already own a ViewSonic vx2235wm 22 LCD (circa
2006) monitor (which has DVI and VGA
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Monday 13 April 2009 11:14:47 am Greg Rundlett wrote:
I never get anything. No beep, cursor, text, splash, nothing. I turn
the computer on, and the screen remains black as if there is no signal
to it. If I have another computer connected on the VGA port, I
April 1, 2009 -- ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. introduces *Password Recovery
Tambourine http://tambourine.elcomsoft.com*, a supernatural amulet to
recover lost passwords with a 100% guarantee. The new tambourine is
produced with genuine deer skin and requires training supervised by a
qualified Yakutsk
Alex Hewitt wrote:
Dan Jenkins wrote:
Ben Scott wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net
wrote:
Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery
companies have been damaging packages
Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
I'll probably just send the whole thing USPS. I don't know how the USPS
insures but I do know that it's a separate item so maybe it will mean
something.
I rather doubt it will make
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 03/24/2009 10:29 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
The corner mailbox place just called to let me know that Fedex
won't honor my damage claim. They say wasn't packed properly. So
much for using factory supplied cartons. Kind of an expensive way to
find out
Ben Scott wrote:
Hi all,
I've got to upgrade my home desktop distro (Fedora 8 being not
updated anymore) so I thought I'd give Ubuntu 8.10 a try. After
trying the GNOME GUI overload thing for a few days, I once again
decided I Don't Like That, and went back to fvwm. I then proceed to
Dan Jenkins wrote:
Ben Scott wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery
companies have been damaging packages.
Other than the Recently part, your experience
Michael Pelletier wrote:
The UPS hub in Nashua seems to be unusually bad, even for UPS.
Check out the site http://www.unitedpackagesmashers.com/
Here's a package of mine from last year:
http://www.aidoann.com/photos/ups/070913-tornbox.jpg
My HP Laserjet 2605dtn was a near miss, too, a
Thomas Charron wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGntIpdpyw
John..
How low have you sunk? :-D
Not only has he not sunk but this time of year if he let everyone on
board who would like to be with
Thomas Charron wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGntIpdpyw
John..
How low have you sunk? :-D
Imagine if they were on a boat and not the beach! ;^)
-Alex
P.S. Gee I guess it was pretty late when
Jon Maddog Hall wrote:
facebook
Jon Maddog Hall
4:03am Feb 1st
Stop! Unix Time
To gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Y2K in the Unix Erawhere will your computer be?
Jon has shared an event with you. To view the event or to reply to the
message, follow this link:
Ben Scott wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote:
I would bet that all of these use the same chip and firmware, so they
should all look the same to the operating system.
There are definitely multiple chips out there. Not all USB/Ethernet
Bruce Dawson wrote:
I quit using Evolution and switched to Thunderbird when Evolution took
more than 28 hours to rifle though my (more than) 1024 .mbox files.
Thunderbird did it within 1 minute - and I got to watch as is progressed
through them.
I don't know why Evolution was taking so long;
jk...@kinz.org wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:32:40AM -0500
From:Apress User Group Liaison newslett...@apress.com
..
Option A:
Beginning Ubuntu LTS Server Administration: From Novice to Professional,
Second Edition and Pro Ubuntu Server Administration for $45
Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2008-12-30 6:02 PM, ord...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/30/08, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Rochetedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable
connector pretty cheap
This book, one of a series of Unleashed books published by SAMS is a
topical work designed to instruct intermediate to advanced users of
RedHat's Fedora distribution of Linux. This edition covers Fedora
version 8 and includes a DVD with the software. It also states that if
the book is
This book is intended to teach an intermediate level programmer who is
already proficient in the C
language to write device drivers for the Linux operating system. The
book covers Linux kernel
2.6-23/24 versions which just happens to be the version I was using with
my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop at the
://192.168.1.1 -j ACCEPT
You might need to do that second method to the nat table instead of
the default table, that's all from memory so the syntax is probably
not quite right.
--DTVZ
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net
mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net
This might not have an easy answer but I want to setup a wireless router
inside an existing LAN. I want to be able to let users connect to the
wireless router but not be able to access systems on the LAN that the
wireless router will be installed on. So the scenario is:
://192.168.1.1 -j ACCEPT
You might need to do that second method to the nat table instead of
the default table, that's all from memory so the syntax is probably
not quite right.
--DTVZ
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net
mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net
Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2008-12-11 4:28 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
LinkSys RV042
The Amazon product page says this thing has built-in DMZ support with
LAN isolation.
That's my extent of knowledge of the product, but it might be a matter
of 'plug it into the DMZ port'.
-Bill
You might
Alex Hewitt wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net
mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
This might not have an easy answer but I want to setup a wireless
router
inside an existing LAN. I want to be able to let users connect
michael miller wrote:
About 2 mo ago I needed to upgrade my wife's laptop computer. I saw an
Acer for just under $400 at Best Buy that looked interesting. I'm not
an Acer fan, but at that price for a 15.5 LCD laptop with an Intel dual
core 2GHz T3200, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HD, DVD DL burner and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good Morning,
I have (my wife) a Win XP machine that is driving me beserk.
She decided that a new printer was in order and I would (obviously)
take care of the rest of that idea...
How would you check the functionality of a USB Bus / Controller?
May we assume that
Ben Scott wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ed lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running a live Linux CD results in a indication the HD is dead...
maybe hosed partition table.
Be warned that if the hardware is faulty, simply powering it up may
be doing additional damage.
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:08 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
I'm curious. Got time to
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:17 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
Greetings,
As some of you noticed, the GNHLUG Internet server experienced an
extended outage recently. We were down starting the morning of Thr 23
Oct, and are now back up as of Mon 10 Oct. A number of factors
contributed to both the
I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a Zenwalk
install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I don't have
the root password. I am able to easily pull the hard drive and mount it
as a USB external drive to my Ubuntu system. I can see the passwd and
shadow files and
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:09 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Alex Hewitt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a
Zenwalk
install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 07:39 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote:
I am not getting a response while trying to lookup alpine-usa.com
Trying to figure out if the problem is my dns server, comcast network,
or alpine.
I'm running bind 9.5
Can you guys get to alpine-usa.com ?
I've had suggestions from at least two colleagues that we may be the
victims of peer to peer throttling. I'm going back to the Nashua site
later today and I'm going to replace a small internal router that used
to replace a failed router Monday. I don't believe the internal router
has
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 11:30 -0400, Hewitt_Tech wrote:
Mark Greene wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have clients with an interesting network problem. One location in
Bedford New Hampshire using
I have clients with an interesting network problem. One location in
Bedford New Hampshire using a fractionated T1 has routinely been
transmitting studies to an office in Nashua New Hampshire. There have
been no problems with this for at least 18 months. However recently
(about a week ago), the
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:36 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
I have clients with an interesting network problem. One location in
Bedford New Hampshire using a fractionated T1 has routinely been
transmitting studies to an office in Nashua New Hampshire. There have
been no problems
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:05 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I'll spend more time learning how to use OpenVPN...
If you've got experience configuring other VPNs, you'll probably
find OpenVPN is really easy. I've got
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 09:17 -0400, Bill Freeman wrote:
... I've not really been
interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the
hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I
was glad to see this.
On the other hand, I've had the only
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:25 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gerry Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay ...
I thought with Cisco, the IOS (firmware) license wasn't
transferable, so even if you bought used hardware, you still had to
buy
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:55 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought with Cisco, the IOS (firmware) license wasn't
transferable, so even if you bought used hardware, you still had to
buy an IOS license from Cisco?
Really
I recently saw a problem with an APC brand SUA750 UPS. The unit had a
replace battery LED which was lit up. I replaced the unit but when I
got around to plugging the unit in again the replace battery LED
wasn't lit anymore and the unit seems to be working ok. This unit is
just over a year old.
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 10:20 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
I recently saw a problem with an APC brand SUA750 UPS. The unit had a
replace battery LED which was lit up. I replaced the unit but when I
got around to plugging the unit in again the replace battery LED
wasn't lit anymore and the unit
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:11 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
On 6/17/08, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which basically says - the indicator doesn't necessarily mean the
battery is bad. It has some kind of timer which turns the LED on
theoretically one to two months before the battery
One of my clients is adopting Open Office and finds that they need
training. Is there anyone locally (Southern New Hampshire) that provides
that kind of training?
-Alex
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On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:40 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:02 -0400, kenta wrote:
I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an
e-mail in which he said:
Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to
support across different
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read
and write to for the WinXP machines that I have to live with and with
linux.
Ah, then
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read
and write to for the WinXP machines
I have 5 new in the box Dell PRX docking stations. Apparently these are
used with a number of Latitude/Inspiron models. On the bottom of the
docking stations the model is listed as PRX 7345U. The docking stations
come with a Power brick PA-9.
-Alex
P.S. I live in Manchester for anyone that wants
All spoken for (and gone).
-Alex
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:01 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
I have 5 new in the box Dell PRX docking stations. Apparently these are
used with a number of Latitude/Inspiron models. On the bottom of the
docking stations the model is listed as PRX 7345U. The docking
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:37 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
There are a few notebook drive enclosures on the market that work off
the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside. You have to be
careful in the selection of the 2.5 inch drives that you put in the
enclosures to have very
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:14 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:37 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
There are a few notebook drive enclosures on the market that work off
the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside. You have to be
careful in the selection of the 2.5
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:53 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe this item,
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/; that measures power
consumption might have been discussed on the list before but the same
folks now offer a more
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:41 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Mar 19, 2008, at 15:36, Ben Scott wrote:
You're obviously not installing all your security updates, then.
Both the 2.4 and 2.6 Debian kernels have had security advisories
posted within the past two years.
Hey, it's possible
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:48 -0400, Warren Luebkeman wrote:
Nah, we are not vulnerable to that exploit. We do keep tabs on important
security issues when they come up. We plan to retire that server pretty
soon, although I may leave it running behind the firewall, just to see how
long it
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 13:50 -0400, Warren Luebkeman wrote:
I am curious how common it is for peoples servers to go extremely long
periods of time without crashing/reboot. Our server, running Debian Sarge,
which serves our email/web/backups/dns/etc has been running 733 days (two
years)
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:32 -0500, amc wrote:
I did noticed that some of the kernel crashed message had something
about ndiswrapper which I am using at the time due to how badly
Broadcom works on my laptop.
- Original Message -
From: amc
To:
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:18 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS
apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not
the result of an actively evil intent.
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called
Microsoft Write.
Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with
Windows 3.x
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called
Microsoft Write.
Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with
Windows 3.x
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:20 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 2:43 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These arguments never go anywhere.
It takes two to tango. ;-) If you don't like the lame, quibbling
arguments, don't participate in them. Nobody's making you hit
Just after I turned on my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop this morning the update
manager informed me of a fix for the vmsplice exploit. The description:
The vmsplice_to_pipe function in Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.24.1
does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which
allows local
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 08:52 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
I recently upgraded Dad's computer and have his old one to repurpose.
It's a seven- or eight-year-old box, so it's no screamer but if you had
a use for an older machine (second office machine, little LAMP server,
etc.) this could fill the
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 08:11 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 10, 2008 9:36 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if 64 bit is immune.
I don't understand the details of the code, but I see some
hard-coded values and a lot of assembler. Many exploits depend on
things like buffer
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 12:21 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:16 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
(I agree with Ben, but am adding a little commentary.)
On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!)
The only way to
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:18 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 9:24 AM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:09 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 10:35 AM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get a LTO-4 drive from Dell for $3200. 400 GB native
(uncompressed) capacity. Tapes are around $110 ($0.275/GB).
Um I LTO4 is supposed todo 800GB
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:00 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:16 -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote:
Well, the problem with disk to disk in general is that the space is
finite.
I think a second problem with backing up to disk is that it's generally
on-site and vulnerable to fires
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 09:32 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 8:24 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TiddlyWiki
Which requires endlessly clicking Allow to save changes (at least
five times just now -- I gave up after that), or remembering the
decision to turn off the
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:52 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008 12:12 AM, H. K. Bemis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am I missing why a db is out of the question?
It sounds like Alex is intending to distribute a self-hosted package
which runs entirely on the user's computer. HTTP might
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 local hard disk but I would prefer that any user
data be kept local to
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:19 -0500, Alex Hewitt wrote:
The program is just a program that keeps track of diet data. So the
person would be recording their weight and the date it was taken. As
such it really doesn't need anything as complicated as a database. A
simple text file would do
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 5:05 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I take the TiddlyWiki approach, the data will be on their system in
the form of a web page which they will be modifying. Under those
circumstances they own the whole
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 5:05 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I take the TiddlyWiki approach, the data will be on their system in
the form of a web page which they will be modifying. Under those
circumstances they own the whole
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