[TriLUG] OT: Article on Google, Lenoir in Independant

2007-02-18 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
to the tax and infrastructure package, for instance, the deal also included no sales tax on electricity, and no sales tax on goods bought in North Carolina. Nice -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net

Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ

2007-02-07 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
reception would you get if you appeared at the front door of NetApp or Sun and wanted a look around? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU

Re: [TriLUG] Re: [OT] Content/Load Balancing switches

2007-01-11 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Lance A. Brown wrote: Check out the architecture descriptions on ultramonkey.org. ultramonkey is a packaged version of LVS by one of the LVS developers Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map

Re: [TriLUG] [OT] Content/Load Balancing switches

2007-01-09 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Chris Bullock wrote: We are possibly getting ready to start supporting a vendor that can use load balancing. What are the preferred vendors and models for load balancers? How about LVS. (disclaimer - I maintain the LVS HOWTO) Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw

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

2006-12-25 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
corporations? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug

Re: [TriLUG] apm gives wierd values for old battery

2006-12-24 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
to get to 73% charge, when the laptop hibernates. I would expect if the battery had reduced capacity, that it would show say 10% in 30mins. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net

[TriLUG] apm gives wierd values for old battery

2006-12-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
of getting apm and the battery to agree on the charge left, or is this an old battery and not neccessarily being truthful? THanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http

Re: [TriLUG] Adding SCSI Drive Snuffs GRUB

2006-12-19 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
can use the grub floppy for the moment, then run grub-install once you have the machine booted Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU

[TriLUG] backup windows with dd

2006-12-11 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
-- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] backup windows with dd

2006-12-11 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Ian Kilgore wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:09:10AM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: Anyone know why the dd copy of size 6G is not the same size as the 10G partition? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal

Re: [TriLUG] RAID related boot problems

2006-12-03 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
. To start you could set up your root partition on a regular drive and get /usr and your other partitions working on RAID first. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http

Re: [TriLUG] SSHD listen on external interface ONLY

2006-11-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
listens on, #make it the interface of interest my router at home has sshd listening on the address of the NIC on the administrative network. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http

Re: [TriLUG] Using gzip to backup postgres to tape

2006-11-27 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Andrew Perrin wrote: /usr/bin/pg_dump -F t leted | /bin/gzip -c /dev/nst0 assuming pg_dump is just producing a stream, how about /usr/bin/pg_dump -F t leted | /bin/gzip -c | tar -czf /dev/nst0 - Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d

Re: [TriLUG] Using gzip to backup postgres to tape

2006-11-27 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Andrew Perrin wrote: pg_dump actually produces tar output (that's the -F t option). OK. (Just guessing) gzip may not handle tar format. Can you leave off the -F t ? what about /usr/bin/pg_dump leted | tar -czf /dev/nst0 - Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw

Re: [TriLUG] Availability of bzip2 in 20 years?

2006-11-27 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
is guaranteeing that in 20yrs all CDs will have 0 errors in 650M. The original poster is looking for guaranteed survival. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http

Re: [TriLUG] Using gzip to backup postgres to tape

2006-11-27 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
happened with /usr/bin/pg_dump leted | tar -czf /dev/nst0 - Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list

Re: [TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

2006-11-14 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

2006-11-14 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
is a directive for future shells, not an observation of current shells. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] FTP (Again...)

2006-11-14 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the customer's understanding. I don't have any good ideas - here's a suggestion - o does your ftp demon create the files with different owner, permissions, date while it's downloading, than wind up on the file after its been closed? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack

Re: [TriLUG] FTP (Again...)

2006-11-14 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: I don't have any good ideas - here's a suggestion - o does your ftp demon create the files with different owner, permissions, date while it's downloading, than wind up on the file after its been

Re: [TriLUG] Cluster Suggestions / Comparisons

2006-11-06 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
OpenSSI or OpenQRM on the LVS mailing list. - Has anyone used commercial cluster service providers such as the Scyld platform at Penguin Computing? Scyld is HPC Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http

Re: [TriLUG] 2 default routes

2006-11-04 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
want two default routes I seem to remember that you use append, not add Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing

Re: [TriLUG] 2 default routes

2006-11-04 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: if you want two default routes I seem to remember that you use append, not add http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.policy_routing.html#ip_commands not quite so informative http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS

[TriLUG] ntp.pool servers dropping out

2006-11-01 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
, and ntpq shows that I haven't contacted that server for 10days or so). Eventually I have to restart ntpd and get a fresh batch of ntp servers. Is this normal? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator

Re: [TriLUG] Re: ntp.pool servers dropping out

2006-11-01 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
it for servers that aren't rebooted regularly. OK. Nothing to worry about then. I wasn't terribly aware of where the pool came from or that it was basically a bunch of volunteers who could come and go. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net

Re: [TriLUG] Finding the chipset of my Linksys WUSB54G

2006-11-01 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
down the USB chain, use udev (in /sysfs) (if you have it, needs late 2.6 kernel). Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] RE with bash

2006-10-25 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
conveniently avoiding it. yes you're right thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http

[TriLUG] RE with bash

2006-10-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
(or Flash\ Player ) in a bash script? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http

Re: [TriLUG] RE with bash

2006-10-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
-- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ

Re: [TriLUG] RE with bash

2006-10-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, William Sutton wrote: try find . -type d -print0 |xargs -0 cd ? the -print0 and xargs -0 tell what does cd ? do here? (I get a syntax error) Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B

Re: [TriLUG] RE with bash

2006-10-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
-programmatically) $ cd Flash\ Player #works other attempts $ directory=Flash\\ Player #command Player not found $ directory=Flash\\ Player $ echo $directory Flash\ Player $ cd $directory Flash\ Player: no such file or directly Any ideas on doing this programmatically? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T

Re: [TriLUG] RE with bash

2006-10-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: the answer is trivial (RTFM, Q14) http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq-2.html#14 echo directories=$directories gives directories=A|Flash\ Player|foo don't go putting '\' in a filename. Instead stop the shell from doing filename expansion

Re: [TriLUG] Search Engine question

2006-10-15 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
-- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-15 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
and that the server doesn't care who you are. I now find my son doesn't know which server his friends are connecting to, so I've sent him off to find out. Probably his friends are using proprietary clients/protocols and connecting to MSN/AOL or whatever. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North

Re: [TriLUG] Sendmail is spamming

2006-10-13 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
, the MTA does a connect back to the originating MTA with a RCPT command, to see if the sender is known by the MTA. If not, the e-mail is rejected. I believe postfix has this built in. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map

[TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the gaim client seems to be getting messages back from the server - the same prompts I got with the telnet client. I'm stuck. The gaim documention isn't helpful here. Any pointers from here? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Owen Berry wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:29:36AM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: I find that I can only set the server for the protocol Jabber - presumably the servers are fixed for the other protocols. Do you have the option of IRC for the protocol? That should allow

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the protocols require a hole in the firewall? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
and server. Let me go back and see if I'm missing something. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
:-) Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Cristobal Palmer wrote: Try a client that's /only/ for IRC like irssi OK have got it. Or if you want to stick with gaim, https://tarheelcoxn.homelinux.net/gaim_irc.png have got it too. Looks sort of familiar. Will use it as a guideline Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack

Re: [TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

2006-10-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
protocols. thanks for the clue Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman

Re: [TriLUG] OT: DNS not following routes

2006-10-11 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
you have something sensible in the DNS server box (in the window where you tell the machine how to get its IP). Is your firewall stopping DNS requests (can you get name resolution on another machine on the same network)? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d

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

2006-10-10 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
of closing the tray by pushing on it, and the fact that all things with moving parts fail eventually. sounds logical enough. I can't think of a counter argument, with what (little) I know about the mechanism of a cdrom. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack

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

2006-10-10 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
work I'm afraid. Tried it on both cdroms Interestingly they are both scsi cdroms Toshiba XM-5701TA and XM-6201TA. Searches on google for tray problems with Toshiba XM cdroms didn't reveal anything. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal

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

2006-10-09 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

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

2006-10-09 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Brian Henning wrote: I'm no expert, but by all counts, I can say that pushing the tray in a bit (and letting the motor take over) /shouldn't/ damage the drive. That's what I do - just enough push for it to start retracting. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North

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

2006-10-09 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
that they are not engineered to work by pushing in the tray. OK, will keep pushing them in then Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com

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

2006-10-09 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
and I leave the cover off so I can get at it easily - there's no dust bunnies and I give it a whiz around with a shop vac whenever need to change hardware etc. So all the fans/cables are clean. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal

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

2006-10-09 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
model and see how long it takes to die. This is a drop in the bucket compared to what I spend on hard disks. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http

Re: [TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the java, without any change in the behaviour of the target machine. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list

Re: [TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Adam Guthrie wrote: What are they serving the file as? ascii (is this what you mean) I found a machine that displays the java file as text in a firefox page. It has no mention of java in it. I copied the mimeTypes.rdf file

[TriLUG] installation of openoffice

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
figure out how to tell it not to install again. Any ideas? thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list

Re: [TriLUG] installation of openoffice

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
buttons to get through the install as fast as I can. I don't remember anything about multi-user, but it could have been in there. I'll go back to the original tar.gz and try again. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map

Re: [TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Adam Guthrie wrote: Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Adam Guthrie wrote: What are they serving the file as? ascii (is this what you mean) I was actually asking what the MIME type in the HTTP header was. You can find it using a tool like this one: http

[TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

2006-09-27 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

2006-09-27 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: I'd really like the java code just to appear in a firefox window as text. Anyone know how to do this? I tried `cat`. That didn't work. I can only use gedit so far. It opens it's own window. (I got the machine unhung by changing always ask to true

Re: [TriLUG] Verizon.net hates me

2006-09-25 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the dhcp call. Everyone said that wasn't technically possible. Eventually I found the right person, who just read me the instructions - he said that verizon had people reconfigure their modems all the time. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net

Re: [TriLUG] Verizon.net hates me

2006-09-25 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
to know you're unhappy about it. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org

Re: [TriLUG] setting up cups

2006-09-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
(only found one of two). man client.conf doesn't tell me how to get the client to browse. Anywhere else I should look? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http

Re: [TriLUG] setting up cups

2006-09-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Daniel Sterling wrote: Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: It's mostly my own stuff. I built from source files So you're doing Linux From Scratch? or are you using an underlying distro? There was an underlying distro about 10yrs back, SLS, but I don't think it matters much anymore

[TriLUG] setting up cups

2006-09-21 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug

Re: [TriLUG] file formats

2006-09-14 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
on fuse http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ which they claim has no problems writing. (AFAIK this is not the ntfs in the kernel). I use one of the programs that allows ext3 to be mounted rw in windows, but I just use it occassionally and I've never written video files to it. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B

Re: [TriLUG] autofs directory within a directory

2006-09-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
, but autofs won't let you do this, so you go to the top directory and do ln -s nfs/snow snow Note: once you have autofs started, you can't list any files in / The process hangs, I don't know why or what the cure is. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net

Re: [TriLUG] Linux NTFS network shares

2006-09-06 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
, and they helped a lot, but still having only one screen on the windows box and having to use the mouse all the time to get anywhere on the windows box drove me nuts. The windows box didn't seem to mind having all the files with unix carriage control. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw

Re: [TriLUG] Linux NTFS network shares

2006-09-06 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
is physically on, and which machine needs to rw. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http

Re: [TriLUG] WAY OT: Technical Book Resources

2006-09-05 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
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Re: [TriLUG] OT: setting hostname on Nintendo DS box

2006-09-04 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
. interesting Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] dd limit on disks?

2006-09-04 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
fine. Weird Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug

Re: [TriLUG] dd limit on disks?

2006-09-03 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
after read errors, e.g. bad sectors, and pad the output to match the input block size. OK. At the error spot I've filled the disk with zeroes so this should give a reasonable img if there's a problem at this spot. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d

[TriLUG] OT: setting hostname on Nintendo DS box

2006-09-03 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
. The Nintendo search engine at nintendo.com gives no hits for machinename/hostname NintendoDS. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU

[TriLUG] dd limit on disks?

2006-09-02 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
-- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ

Re: [TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
RJ11 connectors on whatever I use between the dual-jack and the house phone, the filter and the fax, and the fax and the work phone. isn't your DSL modem RJ45 on one side and RJ11 on the other? Keep all your phone/fax on the RJ11 side and your ethernet on the RJ45 side Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T

[TriLUG] compiling java code with gij, running as binfmt code

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
$./HelloWorld.class and get -bash: ./HelloWorld.class: cannot execute binary file. Any ideas? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com

Re: [TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
pair and the 3rd female a straight through. (I got mine at RadioShack). Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing

Re: [TriLUG] compiling java code with gij, running as binfmt code

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Owen Berry wrote: I've never used it before, but it looks like what you want to run is gij HelloWorld after you've compiled your code. ah. thanks. that's it. So is there a gnu version of javac? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack

Re: [TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
male at both ends), put the male end of the extension cord back into the plate .. That's what I'm currently using (although they're *very* old) and made the Covad guy's eyebrows toboggan over his skull. sounds pretty normal to me :-) Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina

Re: [TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
terminates in a male plug. Put that into the straight-through female on the splitter block. The other two female ports will be line 1 and line 2 (both coming out on the center pair of wires). Ignore the male connector on the splitter block Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina

Re: [TriLUG] compiling java code with gij, running as binfmt code

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
usefull. I did try gcj last night and it's missing things too. I didn't know what to make of the just-ahead compiler and the just-intime compiler. A compiler is a compiler, right? Now I see that byte code has to be compiled too. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack

Re: [TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

2006-08-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: The flat wire (http://www.weisd.com/store2/PHI75-900B.jpg) already bringing the wallplate's connectivity out is gonna have to do. Yes, male RJ11 on the available bitter end. or you could put

[TriLUG] smbfs mounting samba exports to linux box

2006-08-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
if I can export files from it to the linux box which doesn't have samba installed (I can get one at home tonight). Do I need samba as well as the smbfs module to mount exports from a samba box, or is the mount failing for other reasons? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North

Re: [TriLUG] smbfs mounting samba exports to linux box

2006-08-28 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
to share, you shouldn't need samba-server. the client is just smbfs mounting, not sharing. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU

Re: [TriLUG] Routing...once again.

2006-08-08 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
IP:port over one network, while sending all the rest to a default gw. http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.3-Tier.html#3-tier_route_setup Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http

Re: [TriLUG] it's all 9's !

2006-08-08 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0 # umount /mnt otherwise stick the harddisk on another machine and fsck it etc to see if it's OK. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml

Re: [TriLUG] Is it Really Dead?

2006-08-07 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
battery was flat and then putting sensible entries and then it would boot (until you powered it down again). Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com

Re: [TriLUG] Is it Really Dead?

2006-08-06 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
this cycling. Ideas? Anyone need an anchor for a two man fishing boat? Thinkpads have similar bizarre symptoms when their CMOS battery dies. Batteries Plus had mine. They're about the size of a quarter. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net

Re: [TriLUG] **Free ** - Pentium 75Mhz

2006-08-02 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
a much smaller machine than that - a 386 (no math coprocessor), possibly only 33MHz. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux

Re: [TriLUG] **Free ** - Pentium 75Mhz

2006-08-02 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
and seeing the same speil there and a description of the hardware and linux setup. My firewall/router/squid/dhcp/samba server at home is a 75MHz machine with 2 ISA 10Mbps NICs, 1 100Mbps PIC NIC and 32M memory connected to my DSL box. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack

Re: [TriLUG] **Free ** - Pentium 75Mhz

2006-08-02 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: Do you have a link or better yet a link to the distro? I setup my first linux box on a machine with a 32M (M, not G) harddisk back in 1994. I used a live CD (most of your file system is on the CD and /home/user and /etc are on the harddisk

Re: [TriLUG] **Free ** - Pentium 75Mhz

2006-08-02 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
evening and would run them overnight. It was just amazing - I would have megabytes of files waiting for me when I woke up next morning. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml

[TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

2006-07-25 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
I just found out the IPSec works with ipv4 (I last played with ipv6 about 8yrs ago and dropped it when I realised I could only talk to myself with ipv6). IPSec seems to handle the encryption that WEP and WPA are doing. Why isn't IPSec used instead of WEP and WPA? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack

Re: [TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

2006-07-25 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
WEP and IPSec you have to enter a key and I can't imagine that setup would be much different for Joe and Jane Public. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http

Re: [TriLUG] ISCSI SAN

2006-07-23 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
that they don't have anything with AoE. I can't imagine why they don't. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] Wireless Cards

2006-07-19 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Brian McCullough wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:53:09AM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Brian McCullough wrote: I have a 600E and use an Orinico Gold Am I just blind, or is that sold under another name? ( D-Link, Netgear, Linksys? ) mine's b

Re: [TriLUG] Wireless Cards

2006-07-19 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: Am I just blind, or is that sold under another name? ( D-Link, Netgear, Linksys? ) sorry forgot to answer the qeustion. No. The ones I have say Agere (the name of the original manufacturer). There are many different chip sets out there. Some

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

2006-07-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
of the ethernet card). You may not be able to move the install from one machine to another even if you know the file. Hell I can't install Windows on one machine and move the disk to another without getting NTLDR not found. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d

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

2006-07-12 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
to post the specs for the program and offer $560 for someone to write a GPL'ed version? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux

Re: [TriLUG] Local source for Thinkpad battery?

2006-07-01 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ

Re: [TriLUG] OT: shuttle launch need C-Band digital satellite downlink

2006-06-30 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the Russian's learned about living in space from Mir. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http

Re: [TriLUG] OT: shuttle launch need C-Band digital satellite downlink

2006-06-29 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
the launch site. I assume it was water vapour. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list: http

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