[TriLUG] OT~ish: 2U cases - 14 depth

2007-02-19 Thread David McDowell
Ok, so I'm searching around for a 2U rackmount case that is only 14 deep (I think they list most of these as 13.9 technically *shrugs*) I'm not sure I feel satisfied with the ones I'm seeing on NewEgg. I've also visited servercase.com and rackmountnet.com. I'm not sure I have a preference on PCI

Re: [TriLUG] OT~ish: 2U cases - 14 depth

2007-02-19 Thread David McDowell
?? On 2/19/07, Shane O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 2U Oculan boxes were custom. The 1U Oculan boxes (short depth) were Supermicro. Do you need 2U? IronMountain has a couple that might fit the bill if 1U works. Shane O. On 2/19/07, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I'm

Re: [TriLUG] suse linux limits

2007-02-18 Thread David McDowell
Our company has only 56 people. Just in the last 3 months we have added 2 servers with 1.2TB each and a 16 slot LTO3 autoloader. One is a PE 2950 w/ 16GB ram, 2 x quad core Xeon, running VMware ESX Vi3 and the other runs ESX Ranger Pro and Backup Exec. Prior to this, our largest server storage

Re: [TriLUG] Return of BZFlag?

2007-02-18 Thread David McDowell
I'll vote for Thursdays... one more guitar class this month and then I'm dropping it for a while. :) On 2/16/07, Kevin Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there interest in resuming our nightly rounds of BZFlag? We used to do 21:15 Eastern. -- Kevin -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] job opening at cerient

2007-02-15 Thread David McDowell
would you like a washcloth? ;) ;) ;) No really, I dig the Cerient guys, their heads are in the right place. You will enjoy their evilness. :) On 2/15/07, Cristóbal Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having experienced the Cerient interview process, I'll give you some pointers: * Watch The

Re: [TriLUG] OT: burger joints

2007-02-15 Thread David McDowell
You can't possibly have this thread without mentioning Char Grill!! :) On 2/15/07, Michael Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you mean FatDaddy's? Also a good place. They grind their own beef, AFAIK. On Feb 15, 2007, at 3:11 PM, William Sutton wrote: 2. Fatburger -- TriLUG mailing

Re: [TriLUG] OT: burger joints

2007-02-15 Thread David McDowell
I had Fast Food either on 2600 or 7800 On 2/15/07, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude! Awesome game! Man.. That brings back memories. Atari 2600, anyone? I wonder if mine still works... ~B -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: [TriLUG] Laptop hard drive showdown: Hitachi vs Western Digital

2007-02-13 Thread David McDowell
no matter what drive you get... backup backups backups! ... had to be said. :) On 2/12/07, Tanner Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/12/07, Ed Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's just my opinion. Perhaps you have a really pressing need for the additional 60GB...? Yes, I forgot

Re: Informal TriLUG Lunch? (was Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ)

2007-02-13 Thread David McDowell
yup, I've got awesome bowl-fu ... but I've had to start putting in less, simply b/c I don't need to overeat. :) On 2/12/07, Tanner Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/12/07, Warren Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: crazy fire indeed doth rock never did the gong myself, but the whole

Re: [TriLUG] OT: Microsoft Across America

2007-02-13 Thread David McDowell
*crickets* On 2/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since not everyone here makes their bacon off Linux, I was wondering if anyone else here was going to the Microsoft Across America conference on Thursday in Durham. I'll be there from 8:00am - 12:00pm. Eric -- TriLUG mailing

Re: Informal TriLUG Lunch? (was Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ)

2007-02-12 Thread David McDowell
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Vestal Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:13 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: Informal TriLUG Lunch? (was Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ) Shuddap you Mac/Winders guy, you! ;) David McDowell

Re: Informal TriLUG Lunch? (was Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ)

2007-02-10 Thread David McDowell
I'd vote for Wed 2/28 so you don't have to rush. Crazy Fire is excellent, I dunno what Roy is talking about! :) On 2/9/07, Tanner Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/9/07, Catherine Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, plane tickets are in hand! Right now, the wiki suggests 11:45 on 2/27.

Re: [TriLUG] Dell C610 parts

2007-02-09 Thread David McDowell
NFS installs are WONDERFUL things... :) On 2/9/07, Steven Klund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks! Below Tom brought up a topic I can join in with: My C610 has a bad cdrom. Does anyone have one. Last time I installed Debian I had to do so with boot floppy and very lon net

Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ

2007-02-08 Thread David McDowell
It'd be like taking that walk/ride through at Disney where you watch the Imagineers at work creating new animations for Disney films... On 2/7/07, Jim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, if Red Hat was smart, they'd have a fake front on their office building just for visitors, where you

Re: [TriLUG] taxi service

2007-02-08 Thread David McDowell
Wish I could help ya buddy, sorry... :( BUT in case people don't know, he's fortunate that he'll be in the area of 540 without tolls IF they are approved. Here's the handouts for tonight's public meeting at Apex High School:

[TriLUG] OT: unofficial TriCHUG at JAX after the meeting

2007-02-08 Thread David McDowell
Yup, that's right, BEER! Sorry I'm a bit late on the announcement, but TriCHUG will be meeting at JAX again tonight. JAX is located at the corner of Avent Ferry and Gorman St. You can't miss it. I know we had a couple people come last month. JAX is a clean establishment with good food and

Re: [TriLUG] Open NMS

2007-02-07 Thread David McDowell
We are very happy with Nagios. But like Tanner said, Tarus is local! :) On 2/7/07, Magnus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Gill wrote: Has anyone had any experience with Open NMS? Any recommendations pro or con? Yes! Our company is interested in looking at this management system and I

Re: [TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

2007-01-30 Thread David McDowell
I've been lazy at home, so I'm still on the SA pre sa-update. I'm easily getting 50-100 spams into my inbox each day... but also usually 10 hams. I dump all my spam into a spam folder and process that once a week or so. I hardly process ham, I suppose I should improve on that. I've managed to

Re: [TriLUG] On a lighter note maybe semi off-topic

2007-01-30 Thread David McDowell
Why use up more dead tree material? Is there something like Zinio.com that is Linux compatible? (Zinio is only win and mac that I can tell at a quick glance) my $0.02 hippy sense David On 1/29/07, Dave Sorenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been told I have some $ to spend on dead tree

[TriLUG] Re: vmware switch user - linux host

2007-01-29 Thread David McDowell
Old thread... but the solution was simple: Uncheck the box which makes the VM private, then move it, chown it, whatever, then turn it on, presto... only then mark it private again if that's an extra bit of security you desire. :) On 11/20/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks

Re: [TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

2007-01-29 Thread David McDowell
In this thread we've seen some metrics and performance opinions on greylisting... what about the latest spamassassin working with sa-update? On 1/28/07, Cristóbal Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPG doesn't really mean much for people using webmail. Suggestion there? -CMP On 1/28/07,

Re: [TriLUG] Re: vmware switch user - linux host

2007-01-29 Thread David McDowell
believe the /etc/vmware/vm-list-private specifies the userids that are allowed to access the vm. Hacking that file might have fixed the problem (or it may have rendered the vm completely unusable). Israel On 1/29/07, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Old thread... but the solution was simple

[TriLUG] Job Opening - Web Application Developer

2007-01-26 Thread David McDowell
the requirements listed and are seeking an opportunity, please send your cover letter with resume, including salary expectations, to the ATTN: HR at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via fax at 919-465-4308. If CGIRB sees a match between your qualifications and current hiring needs, we will contact you. thanks, David

Re: [TriLUG] Fwd: [linux-elitists] Vista Launch

2007-01-25 Thread David McDowell
although we aren't large we're over 50+ staff and we aren't even considering it... in fact, of $boss and myself... neither of us have even touched a working beta yet (since beta1 wouldn't even install for me at all last year)... XP SP2 is running fine for our desktops. On 1/25/07, Tarus Balog

Re: [TriLUG] Fwd: [linux-elitists] Vista Launch

2007-01-25 Thread David McDowell
but be careful... you want to tread lightly on the console/cli of a VMware ESX server... this is not your ordinary linux and probably shouldn't even be considered linux, although it seems to be RHEL/CentOS like... you should fear it and respect. We are doing server consolidation now. It's

Re: [TriLUG] Deletion of RHCE List

2007-01-25 Thread David McDowell
I'll 2nd that notion :) On 1/25/07, Jason Tower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for this list i'd suggest making sure the html archives remain available, there may be a nugget or two of useful info in there. let google index them as long as the email addresses are obfuscated. jason Matt Frye

Re: [TriLUG] LDAP user password resets

2007-01-19 Thread David McDowell
that, everything worked great. On 1/18/07, Magnus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David McDowell wrote: It works fine for us. Oh? What changed? Last time I talked to you about it, you were being driven mad by it. -- Trying to figure out what to do with big heavy and retired Sun servers in the Raleigh

Re: [TriLUG] LDAP user password resets

2007-01-18 Thread David McDowell
heh, so if I don't get shot for this one... you can just get AD (which is their own smash of LDAP and krb5) and setup your linux applications to auth against it... teee heee (that's what we do here b/c we have to have AD for other things. *runs and hides* It works fine for us. David On

Re: [TriLUG] code for search engine

2007-01-15 Thread David McDowell
I tried lots of possibilities for adding search to our corporate website. For our solution, I went with mnogosearch. http://www.mnogosearch.org and if you want to see it in action, goto http://www.cgirb.com and search for terms like subjects or fees or directions to see how the results appear

Re: [TriLUG] RDU made the Top 10 Tech Cities on CNET

2007-01-09 Thread David McDowell
I'm sick of being called Raleigh-Durham ARG! Fortunately they did correctly name us the Triangle area... but damn, Raleigh and Durham are TWO DIFFERENT CITIES in TWO DIFFERENT COUNTIES!! MSB!! ARG!! :) /rant of a Raleigh native David On 1/5/07, Greg Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We were

Re: [TriLUG] January 2007 meeting announcement: there's a wiki...

2007-01-09 Thread David McDowell
Don't forget the unofficial TriCHUG at Sammy's after the meeting; so join us and have a beer, or not. :D *this is not a TriLUG sanctioned event. http://www.sammysnscu.com David On 1/8/07, Matt Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Mike Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, is the

Re: [TriLUG] January 2007 meeting announcement: there's a wiki...

2007-01-09 Thread David McDowell
arg... spelling is so important: http://www.sammysncsu.com On 1/9/07, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget the unofficial TriCHUG at Sammy's after the meeting; so join us and have a beer, or not. :D *this is not a TriLUG sanctioned event. http://www.sammysnscu.com David

Re: [TriLUG] RDU made the Top 10 Tech Cities on CNET

2007-01-09 Thread David McDowell
agreed, carrboro is ok, it's chapel hill and cary with many noses pointed at the sky ;) On 1/9/07, Paul Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: carrboro is hardly a place of turned up noses. you must be confused and have nawth rawlee to your left.

Re: [TriLUG] HTPC 1280x720 modline help

2007-01-09 Thread David McDowell
wait until you see the modeline for this: http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Samsung_DLP_xorg.conf_sample.txt I have a Samsung 50 DLP and kotte somehow somewhere found the modeline which made that work with the Nvidia card I had... I think the above was used with FC3 at the time? It worked great

Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shoots itsself in the foot (MS Vista)

2007-01-02 Thread David McDowell
Um, yeah... get some up2date Apple hardware and run this: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/ :) On 1/2/07, Greg Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have an employee who *wants* a M$ machine over an Apple? A G3 might be a tad slow these days, perhaps one of the dual core 64 bit iMacs might

Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company, shoots itsself in the foot (MS Vista)

2007-01-01 Thread David McDowell
Google is possibly coming to NC, but look west ... Caldwell County is where I heard they would be coming. Good choice in my opinion, the NC mountains are beautiful! On 1/1/07, Jim Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might wanna increase the resistor to 1 k Ohm. 60 mA is a little fat for a LED.

Re: [TriLUG] Webalizer error

2006-12-28 Thread David McDowell
This can happen in the course of normal log rotation... for example, if you just have a heavy day or 2 of web traffic your logs will be larger... if you are getting this constantly, rotate the logs more often as suggested. If your traffic is going to go back down to a normal rate, the logs will

Re: [TriLUG] Webalizer error

2006-12-28 Thread David McDowell
oh right, forgot about those too... On 12/28/06, Kevin Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy Vestal wrote: I'm getting the following error from my cron for Webalizer. I thought I had fixed it but it doesn't appear so: /etc/cron.daily/00webalizer: Error: Skipping oversized log record I've

Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shootsitsself in the foot (MS Vista)

2006-12-27 Thread David McDowell
I run http://www.turnpike420.net on LAMP and I think that http://www.turnpike420.net is awesome, and it's awesome b/c http://www.turnpike420.net runs LAMP and I created http://www.turnpike420.net with that idea in mind. I mean, should I add one more just for good measure? I don't want any

Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shootsitsselfin the foot (MS Vista)

2006-12-27 Thread David McDowell
really play the stick? (Nice picture of a stick, btw.) - Original Message - From: David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:48 am Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shootsitsself in the foot (MS Vista) To: Triangle Linux Users

Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OScompany shootsitsselfin the foot (MS Vista)

2006-12-27 Thread David McDowell
-606-1772 http://www.Neuse.Net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David McDowell Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:48 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS

Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS companyshootsitsselfin the foot (MS Vista)

2006-12-27 Thread David McDowell
forbid if someone ever found out I like the Grateful Dead. Regards, Jim Jim Ray, President Neuse River Networks tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772 http://www.Neuse.Net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David McDowell Sent: Wednesday

Re: [TriLUG] FOSS tape backup software?

2006-12-24 Thread David McDowell
disk - disk makes for super fast backup... then go disk - tape from there ...?? :p On 12/24/06, Magnus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Faulkner wrote: Magnus, look at rdiff-backup. It works pretty well, we use it at Broadwick to backup 400GB. Thanks but from what I can see that is just

[TriLUG] stuff for sale - some are OT (monitor and music gear)

2006-12-24 Thread David McDowell
For the on topic item: 1. Hitachi CM812U 21 CRT 0.22mm dot pitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'm running that now with XP, and I believe I saw even higher resolution on here when it was plugged into a dual G5 about 1.5 years ago, dunno what Hz though). VGA connector (fairly long cable). Just about

Re: Re: [TriLUG] Web App with Bar Graph - What to Use?

2006-12-12 Thread David McDowell
another PHP option, we use jpgraph for creating dynamic images based on web form input and database data, currently we plot server room temperature and humidity from out network connected device, output format we choose is png. On 12/12/06, Brian Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a big fan of

Re: [TriLUG] LDAP vs AD vs NT domains vs eDirectory vs RHEL directoryserver

2006-12-11 Thread David McDowell
Also, FYI, w2k3 R2 also has some additional features that work well with *nix environments as I understand it. We don't have the R2 release here, but if you are buying today, that's what you get. Even without that we are doing AD auth with our Apache web apps and have just completed doing

Re: [TriLUG] LDAP vs AD vs NT domains vs eDirectory vs RHELdirectoryserver

2006-12-11 Thread David McDowell
seem to always work. This is my fault but we did not map the admin account correctly so there are no domain admins for that domain, you have to log in locally to do any admin stuff. Hope that adds a little to the feed back I get. - Original Message From: David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED

[TriLUG] Nagios plugin check_http segmentation fault - potential for buffer overflow?

2006-11-22 Thread David McDowell
I am running nagios-2.5-1.el4.rf version from DAG repo on CentOS 4.4. I ran across this only b/c I forgot to setup my good username and password in my /etc/nagios/resources.cfg file for this plugin to use. Scenario 2 is a result of that *oops* if you fake the oops on the command line and is the

Re: [TriLUG] Samba Configuration Problem

2006-11-22 Thread David McDowell
tried security = user in [global] ? also, writeable = yes in [frames] just initial thoughts, I'm not a smb expert! :) David On 11/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I am having trouble setting up what should be a simple samba setup. I am using samba version

[TriLUG] Re: Nagios plugin check_http segmentation fault - potential for buffer overflow?

2006-11-22 Thread David McDowell
oh, I forgot my nagios-plugins package version: nagios-plugins-1.4.4-1.el4.rf from same DAG repo on CentOS 4.4 :) On 11/22/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running nagios-2.5-1.el4.rf version from DAG repo on CentOS 4.4. I ran across this only b/c I forgot to setup my good

Re: [TriLUG] Nagios plugin check_http segmentation fault - potential for buffer overflow?

2006-11-22 Thread David McDowell
OK, so there is an issue there. How about the other part then, why would it return green OK to nagios? :) thanks ian, you rock! David On 11/22/06, Ian Kilgore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:01:00PM -0500, Ian Kilgore wrote: while (j len - 2) { I know, I know, I'm

Re: [TriLUG] Nagios plugin check_http segmentation fault - potential for buffer overflow?

2006-11-22 Thread David McDowell
well ian says: I thought it should do 'UNKNOWN' for any exit code that is not 0, 1, or 2 (segfault is 139) so I say, why isn't nagios looking for that and throwing a yellow or red warning if a plugin throws segfault? mmm, curious. :) David On 11/22/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED

[TriLUG] Samba PDF Printing - bringing together past threads with a Solution!

2006-11-14 Thread David McDowell
Alright!! Yeah!! I have some great news!! I can officially put the Samba PDF thing to rest, at least for me. Now (in my W2K3 AD environment) I have the ability to setup a Linux based Samba PDF printer which will output the PDF to the users home folder that is on a w2k3 file server. AND - the

Re: [TriLUG] PAM question(s)

2006-11-07 Thread David McDowell
if you can install gcc on 2003 R2 and compile and run bash? That might open some doors for alternatives. I haven't tried this... On 11/2/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this what you want? http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Apache_ADS_AuthLDAP.txt David On 11/2/06, Paul

Re: [TriLUG] PAM question(s)

2006-11-06 Thread David McDowell
gcc on 2003 R2 and compile and run bash? That might open some doors for alternatives. I haven't tried this... On 11/2/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this what you want? http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Apache_ADS_AuthLDAP.txt David On 11/2/06, Paul G. Szabady [EMAIL

Re: [TriLUG] Freenode?

2006-11-02 Thread David McDowell
I still oppose it. ;) any other ircnet can get DDOS too... On 11/2/06, William Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of us are on; Nivex made the observation that the US servers seem to be unavailable. Try one of the European ones... I seem to have been on and fairly undisturbed on

Re: [TriLUG] Freenode?

2006-11-02 Thread David McDowell
oops, I mean to add, or any other problem that can happen with computers... sterling is refusing connections at the moment too... :( On 11/2/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still oppose it. ;) any other ircnet can get DDOS too... On 11/2/06, William Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [TriLUG] PAM question(s)

2006-11-02 Thread David McDowell
Is this what you want? http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Apache_ADS_AuthLDAP.txt David On 11/2/06, Paul G. Szabady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Is it at all possible to authenticate users via http/.htaccess using their Windows AD (native mode) domain accounts without a local user

Re: hijack: [TriLUG] PAM question(s)

2006-11-02 Thread David McDowell
openLDAP + kerberos ... definitely ... (which I believe is the way the TriLUG cluster works?) On 11/2/06, Alan Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it at all possible to authenticate users via http/.htaccess using their Windows AD (native mode) domain accounts without a local user account?

Re: [TriLUG] RSS Feedreader - Protected site

2006-10-18 Thread David McDowell
can you setup an rss url as such: http://www.example.com/myrssfeed.xml?uid=foo,pwd=bar the GET method of the form should be able to pull those from the URL... but boy is that secure... :) ^^^ all just a guess... have fun On 10/18/06, Matt Pusateri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, October

Re: Re: [TriLUG] 1440x900 resolution in Dapper

2006-10-17 Thread David McDowell
This stuff seems no more strange I think than what Kevin helped me figure out with my Samsung 50 DLP as a 16x9 VGA monitor... which of course says its VGA resolution was only 1024x768, well, we showed it who's boss!! BZflag ROCKS on there!! Here's the important bits we added to my xorg.conf and

Re: [TriLUG] Search Engine question

2006-10-16 Thread David McDowell
I use mnogosearch for my company's website search feature. http://www.cgirb.com and try it if you like, use terms like map or subject or forms... anyway, being on that list there seem to be a number of people attempting to use it to harvest a full Internet text search for themselves. I think the

Re: [TriLUG] Search Engine question

2006-10-16 Thread David McDowell
oh come on... their working with Echelon... :P On 10/16/06, Eric H Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 U... I'll have to agree that this is an urban legend. I think they have better things to do than to try to hack into the millions of

Re: [TriLUG] cdrom: does pushing the tray in damage them?

2006-10-09 Thread David McDowell
To get your drive closed, power down the machine, unplug power to the drive and you should be able to gently push it all the way closed. Maybe by being unplugged it may also reset it's dumb bit which keeps re-opening. Worth a shot I suppose. It's just the same as when the machine is powered off

Re: [TriLUG] Jack/ALSA overruns

2006-09-27 Thread David McDowell
Roy... are those chans on irc.freenode.net? David McD PS, I got Terry to setup my jazz bass, much smoother now. :D On 9/26/06, Roy Vestal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best place I've found is Planet CCRMA mailing list. http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma

[TriLUG] unable to connect to login/dargo @ trilug

2006-09-22 Thread David McDowell
$ ssh login.trilug.org ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Are we dead or has something else gone nuts? thanks, David -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member

Re: [TriLUG] unable to connect to login/dargo @ trilug

2006-09-22 Thread David McDowell
the steering committee. (sorry couldn't resist hey! it's friday!) Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, David McDowell wrote: $ ssh login.trilug.org ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Are we dead or has something else gone nuts? My connection died

Re: [TriLUG] unable to connect to login/dargo @ trilug

2006-09-22 Thread David McDowell
This particular issue has been happening on and off lately. Any ideas as to what is causing it? Just curious, thanks. :) On 9/22/06, Matt Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, David McDowell wrote: $ ssh login.trilug.org ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed

Re: [TriLUG] how to contact SC?

2006-09-21 Thread David McDowell
I too believe there should be NO roadblocks between membership and the Steering Committee. On 9/21/06, Matt Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, what you're saying is that if anyone wants to reach the Steering Committee, they have to rely on someone randomly checking the moderation

Re: [TriLUG] iTunes

2006-09-19 Thread David McDowell
OGG and FLAC are not supported by iPod that I'm aware? If OGG was, I'd bet Kevin O. would have one by now. On 9/18/06, Stephen Roller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iPods can play mp3s. I highly recommend using banshee (banshee-project.org). As long as it's not one of those brand new

Re: Yet another way to filter TriLUG mail (was: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Job Opportunity)

2006-09-13 Thread David McDowell
I would be disappointed if emails with topic OT: were automatically dropped by mailman. Are you suggesting we have the option to opt-out of emails with that string in the topic if we are so inclined to modify our mailman settings? I personally won't make the change, but I guess someone might.

Re: [TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

2006-08-30 Thread David McDowell
All other linux related channels I stay connected to are on freenode (or other channels for linux stuff that I pop in and out of), I don't connect to any other irc networks and prefer the simplicity of staying on one network. Although I wouldn't want to have to connect to multiple networks

Re: [TriLUG] Playing with RT Tracker

2006-08-30 Thread David McDowell
want the RT RPMs for CentOS 4.x ?? :) http://campus.fct.unl.pt/paulomatos/rt/repository/3.4.x/ I found that site some time ago... :) now I did have some connectivity issues with it, and also had to use up2date/yum to get some of the perl RPMs installed from the dag repo, but otherwise, this

Re: [TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

2006-08-30 Thread David McDowell
someone earlier in the thread said #debian moved off of freenode... so... insert troll here just b/c the deb crowd did it doesn't mean we should remove troll here :D On 8/30/06, Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm... no knickers twisted

Re: [TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

2006-08-30 Thread David McDowell
how do they know you are IRC'ing... all they can detect is an SSH session. On 8/30/06, Dave Sorenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's just say that running IRC is written out on paper as forbidden and blocked. Jabber is unknown right now so there is feigns dumb lookI didn't know/feigns dumb look

[TriLUG] spamassassin user_prefs not working?

2006-08-23 Thread David McDowell
I seem to be missing something and I'm not understanding what so I was hoping another keen eye might catch it for me. At the below tripaste link, there is a copy of the full header of an email I keep getting. At the very bottom of that tripaste is the blacklist_from excerpt from my

[TriLUG] Re: spamassassin user_prefs not working?

2006-08-23 Thread David McDowell
sorry, I should have added I'm on CentOS 4.3 On 8/23/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be missing something and I'm not understanding what so I was hoping another keen eye might catch it for me. At the below tripaste link, there is a copy of the full header of an email I

Re: [TriLUG] Re: spamassassin user_prefs not working?

2006-08-23 Thread David McDowell
heh, so actually having the comma was the problem... Thanks Lance! :) On 8/23/06, Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Your syntax on the blacklist_from is wrong. From the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf web page: Multiple addresses per line, separated by spaces, is OK. Multiple

Re: [TriLUG] Yahoo videos

2006-08-16 Thread David McDowell
have you tried VLC Player? On 8/16/06, Christopher Blackmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried to view the yahoo music videos under linux? Is there something special I need to do to get it working? When I clicked on the video, it came up with an error saying that Yahoo Music Videos

Re: [TriLUG] MacBook discoloration?

2006-08-15 Thread David McDowell
the black has 80GB vs 60Gb for the harddrive, otherwise, it is identical cpu, etc. etc. On 8/15/06, Cristobal Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, no. My dad just bought one, and was told explicitly that there was a premium for getting it in black. Exact same internals: different color,

Re: [TriLUG] OT: stuff for sale

2006-08-10 Thread David McDowell
for nothing!! Help me clear my condo! Thanks! :) David On 8/9/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: haha! ya, the bathroom renovation is over, with a new, cooler, anti-sleep flooring... anyway, since the pieces I removed were just over 5 years old, the bathroom sink, vanity and toilet

[TriLUG] SMB PDF printing - mixed results, examples to compare

2006-08-10 Thread David McDowell
I'm having some strange results with my SMB PDF prints and wanted to share them for comments/suggestions. I have 2 examples, one was created by Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro on my XP workstation, and the other was printed to the Linux based SMB PDF printer (on CentOS 4) from Word on my XP workstation.

Re: [TriLUG] SMB PDF printing - mixed results, examples to compare

2006-08-10 Thread David McDowell
than twice the size of smb_pdf.pdf. Have you checked the content of the postscript file before it is converted to pdf? Josh On 8/10/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some strange results with my SMB PDF prints and wanted to share them for comments/suggestions. I have 2

Re: [TriLUG] Excellent meeting, and a question

2006-08-10 Thread David McDowell
. :) -- David McDowell http://www.turnpike420.net On 8/10/06, Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many Kudos to our esteemed presenters Jason and Ian for an excellent presentation on a really exciting project. (Can you tell I use Nagios every day?) A member of the peanut gallery (Thank you David

Re: [TriLUG] Question regarding samba 3.0.23a

2006-08-08 Thread David McDowell
master browser issues? On 8/8/06, John-David Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, problem with the FC3 because we lost two drives, so I will not be able to test that. The FC5 smb.conf file looks ok after a testparm though. Very odd I cannot hit it though from an XP machine.

[TriLUG] OT: stuff for sale

2006-08-08 Thread David McDowell
, David McDowell -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/

Re: [TriLUG] Is it worth it?

2006-08-07 Thread David McDowell
Wow, that thing is at least 7 years old... I had one for 5 years, sold it for the cost of the brand new set of ink I had just put in it, then bought HP Photosmart 7960 and it works great. Unfortunately that experience is with XP and OSX... not with Linux. On 8/6/06, Rick DeNatale [EMAIL

Re: [TriLUG] How was your week?

2006-08-06 Thread David McDowell
woah, what about the kitchen sink? (suck you gotta deal with all that) On 8/5/06, WA Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two weks ago I had a lightning strike. Lightning hit the TV antenna, came down the pole, blew the cover to a breaker box into the yard. Then it jumped to the telephone protector

Re: Re: [TriLUG] I see an exchange server in my future

2006-08-06 Thread David McDowell
There are some battles you have to choose to fight. I faced the same issue 3 years ago exactly at my current job. They had offsite hosted POP3 to Outlook PST files on their local machines. The previous admin (a 100% non Linux person) had pointed them on the path to Exchange. I knew I could

Re: [TriLUG] TCO - Linux, UNIX, and MS

2006-08-01 Thread David McDowell
We are a mixed environment and find benefit from running Microsoft AD for single sign-on, Exchange and for some 3rd party software packages which require Microsoft AD for user/group sync and MSSQL for their database. However, we also leverage Linux for web services, SMB PDF, systems monitoring

Re: [TriLUG] wildcards in /etc/aliases

2006-07-28 Thread David McDowell
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2004-01/1944.html Cheers, Tanner On 7/27/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may switch to the - then... and use my local procmail to filter the ones with the + if I can accomplish writing the regex correctly... LOL! :) thanks, David

Re: [TriLUG] AMD vs. Intel

2006-07-28 Thread David McDowell
I've never strayed to AMD... all my home systems (x86) are Intel... save one... my very first PC bought in 1997 is an AMD 166 still running my firewall today. On 7/28/06, Greg Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was not long ago at all, just last year, that the prevailing opinion of those on

Re: [TriLUG] wildcards in /etc/aliases

2006-07-27 Thread David McDowell
I may switch to the - then... and use my local procmail to filter the ones with the + if I can accomplish writing the regex correctly... LOL! :) thanks, David McD On 7/27/06, Tanner Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you have more than

Re: [TriLUG] wildcards in /etc/aliases

2006-07-26 Thread David McDowell
can you have more than 1 delimiter field? I setup + so far... and as you mentioned, i have run across a few sites that don't allow + in the email address field... so ya, thanks. :) On 7/26/06, Tanner Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/06, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woo-hoo

Re: [TriLUG] Xen networking

2006-07-24 Thread David McDowell
, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which distro are you working with? If you are curious about Xen with FC5, I have jwberninger to thank for a thorough beginners guide to Xen: http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Xen.txt David, great page you posted, I now have a new project! How many

Re: [TriLUG] Xen networking

2006-07-19 Thread David McDowell
Which distro are you working with? If you are curious about Xen with FC5, I have jwberninger to thank for a thorough beginners guide to Xen: http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Xen.txt All the networking seems really straight-forward to me. I'd like to note though, depending on your number of

Re: [TriLUG] machine comparing... possibly OT

2006-07-14 Thread David McDowell
way you go, good luck. Kevin David McDowell wrote: Your virtual machine idea is a keen one... though I don't yet have the resources for doing such... I will before the year is out. My only problem is location... it has a 9pin serial connection to the physical system it monitors... sounds like

Re: [TriLUG] machine comparing... possibly OT

2006-07-13 Thread David McDowell
/12/06, Kevin Flanagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at a Virtual Machine solution? You could snapshot it every now and then, if the hardware fails, just bring the new virtual machine up on a new server. David McDowell wrote: Let me elaborate... I have a WinXP system (yup

[TriLUG] machine comparing... possibly OT

2006-07-12 Thread David McDowell
Let me elaborate... I have a WinXP system (yup, this might be the OT part) which has software on it that interfaces with our keycard system. This software is ours, we own it. However, when you install the software, somewhere, someplace there is a Reference Code created (a different one each

Re: [TriLUG] machine comparing... possibly OT

2006-07-12 Thread David McDowell
a impulsive This isn't fair standpoint, but is probably illegal. Why not focus on finding that FOSS alternative? That'll hurt them a lot more than trying to crack their software. -CMP On 7/12/06, David McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me elaborate... I have a WinXP system (yup, this might be the OT

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