[TriLUG] Hardware Question: 2.5 IDE Drive Connection

Hi Folks, I have a piece of equipment that has an internal 2.5 IDE drive (notebook size). It would be very useful to have an LED that shows drive activity, and there is a place on the cabinet for one. Has anyone seen a wiring diagram or a cable sold anywhere that would let me attach an

Re: [TriLUG] OT: burger joints

Jim Wright wrote: Magnus wrote: Grant Shipley wrote: What about 5 guys? +1 Where is 5 guys? I'm always up for trying a new burger...as long as they have the proper fixins...chili, slaw and onions. I'm partial to Pharoahs. There's one being built near Maynard Walnut in Cary. It's next

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

Warren Myers wrote: I'm all for bulwarks of capacity - but squash?!? the palate quakes cukes or carrots - sure... but the squash... not so much WMM I concur. I was upset when they removed white potato shreds from the veggies because these were a very pliable construction material. Not

[TriLUG] Adding SCSI Drive Snuffs GRUB

Hi Folks, I have an Athlon64 system with a single SATA hard drive. It boots Ubuntu Dapper just fine with the default GRUB bootloader. The system also has an LSI Logic 53c895a SCSI host adapter. I recently tried to plug a new SCSI hard disk into this controller, but when I do, the system

Re: [TriLUG] Adding SCSI Drive Snuffs GRUB

T. Bryan wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 18:37, Scott Chilcote wrote: 3. BIOS Hard Drive Boot Priority: I am able to set this in the BIOS. It defaults to the SATA Drive booting first, and the SCSI Drive booting second. I haven't changed it because this seems correct. Try removing

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

Hi Folks, I'd like to rewrite a web application I have that has a user entry form and generates some bar graphs. I used Perl and gnuplot to do this the first time. Managing it was a chore because the jpeg images that gnuplot generated had to be stored on the server. The program had to

[TriLUG] Installing cacert Client Cert in Browser

Hi Folks, I have a client certificate that I made a while back on my CaCert account. It is still valid for several months. When I view it on the CaCert web page and click on the email address in the table, I go to the Installing your Certificate page. It has a prompt that says Click here

Re: [TriLUG] Installing cacert Client Cert in Browser

Brian wrote: Although this isn't really the FLOSS answer that you were looking for, one solution is to go into Firefox on your W2K machine, export the appropriate certificate into a file, and then import that file on your Linux machine. Brian Hi Brian, thanks, that worked. Good enough

Re: [TriLUG] Notebook pad type mice

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just got a Compaq V6133CL notebook computer. It's got its good and bad points, but I needed it fast and Costco will refund my money if it doesn't work with Linux (it appears to, although shakily). Anyway, this particular notebook computer was designed by a dummy

Re: [TriLUG] Slightly OT: CPU Bad?

Hello Brian, I don't know if this is helpful or not, but if you haven't yet looked up the Athlon XP Core technologies your motherboard supports, you will need to make certain that the one you bought is one of the supported varieties. For example, a motherboard that supports the Athlon XP

Re: [TriLUG] What is the best graphical debugger for C++ in linux

Ralph Blach wrote: I am trying to use ddd to debug C++, and have found it not as good in displaying classes as I would like. Are there any better graphical debuggers for linux that do a better job than ddd ? Thanks Chip Hi Chip, What problems are you having displaying classes with DDD? If

Re: [TriLUG] libcurl.so.2 and Mandriva 2006

matt1027 wrote: I tried the urpmi solution but I think it only installs libcurl.so.3, which I actually already had on the system. Still no libcurl.so.2 showing up. I couldn't find curl-7.9.8 but I did find curl-7.10.6-1.src.rpm. Could someone tell me how to make this src.rpm work because

Re: [TriLUG] libcurl.so.2 and Mandriva 2006

matt1027 wrote: I just tried to install an rpm and got an error message that libcurl.so.2 could not be found. ... Can anyone tell me the best course of action here? Do I need curl and/or libcurl? Does the version matter? Do I just download to a directory (which directory?) or do I need to

Re: [TriLUG] What you should know about next week's CACert talk at TriLUG.

Tanner Lovelace wrote: * Possibly military ID (can anyone confirm this?) A US Military ID Card qualifies, active duty or dependent. -- Scott C. -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member

Re: [TriLUG] Open Source Propaganda

Mark Freeze wrote: We are trying to answer questions like the one asked by our CEO last week. We had just shown him our new SugarCRM database and he said, That's great! But I can't understand why anyone would write a product like this and then just give it away... Does anyone have any good

Re: [TriLUG] OT: pentium 4 laptop for sale

Hi Jason, If you still have this, I'm interested. Thanks, Scott Jason Tower wrote: i bought this from another trilug member a couple of years ago but never really used it. no brand name that i can find, it's a big heavy sucker but it works fine, seems to be built like a tank. ubuntu

Re: [TriLUG] OT: need a serial port A-B switch

Jason: I have two of them. Both are 2-way, female 25 pin. Free if you want to come to Cary for them. Scott C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Tower wrote: anybody have one of these lying around? you know, the old clunky mechanical switch type. -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Your TriLUG membership information -- DOH!

jonc wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 12:18, John Broome wrote: On 1/13/06, Rick DeNatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here /me thought it had something to do with what Jason said at last nights meeting about cleaning up the membership database. That must have been what was guiding my mouse

[TriLUG] OT: Swap Video Card for HDD?

Hi Folks, I have an extra Jaton 3dForce FX 5700LE-128 video card, and I'm interested in trading it for a reasonably fast hard disk drive, either SATA or SCSI U160 SE/LVD (or better). Details on the video card are here:

[TriLUG] Digital Photos, Thumbnails, and Web Pages

Hi Folks, After taking several pictures at our Thanksgiving event last month, I got requests to send the pictures to some of my relatives. I'm pretty sure they don't want thirty or so 3-megapixel images arriving in their mailboxes. I thought I'd put up a restricted web page with thumbnail

Re: [TriLUG] Unpacking Linux...

Brian McCullough wrote: Would somebody please remind me what a system stalling just after Unpacking Linux... means? It goes through the vmlinuz and initrd.img steps and then stalls here. This is a CD-based boot -- an install disk. LoadLinux starts and presents the boot prompt, just like

Great Meeting - Was: Re: [TriLUG] TriLUG Ubuntu Fall Fund Drive

Hi LUGgers, I'd like to post my hearty thanks to Tanner Lovelace for pushing the effort through to completion so that we could hear Jeff Waugh last evening. I thought it was an outstanding talk, and learned a lot when I wasn't laughing. Thanks! -- Scott C. Tanner Lovelace wrote: Hi

Re: [TriLUG] destroying disk drives

Hi Folks, Well if TriLUG ever needs a means of raising money, this thread sure suggests one. I hadn't realized how much potential for data storage devastation was seething beneath the surface of the generally helpful seeming TriLUG crowd. Here's my idea: TriLUG starts having an annual

Re: [TriLUG] Mt default device

Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: Hi, quick linux question Is there any way to change the default mt device to /dev/nst0? Whenever I use mt to rewind a DLT tape I have to use the -f /dev/nst0 switch, because just mt rewind defaults to /dev/tape which does not exist. Hi Wayne, You can put export

Re: [TriLUG] Questions about tonight's meeting

Jeff The Riffer wrote: For that matter, what's the refreshments situation like? Not sure how much time I'm going to have for dinner... Two recommendations. It's surprising how many new attendees don't follow these... 1. When, during the introductory remarks, they ask the new folks to

Re: [TriLUG] Strange tar problem

Glenn Hennessee wrote: I ran into a strange problem with tar that I did finally fix but exactly what was the problem is still unknown to me. I was using tar to backup up to tape a user's home directory. There is approximately 850MB in the directory including a few files with names that are

Re: [TriLUG] OT: Education

Jon Carnes wrote: I think it clearly shows that those folks who most willing and anxious to work hard don't have time to spend learning old ideas in school. They are too busy inventing their own light bulbs. ... And they have learned the secret that success is built on the shoulders of

Re: [TriLUG] tv tuner cards

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of the best tv tuner card to get for linux? Or by the same token any specific cards to stay away from. I have a few ideas but I thought I would take advantage of the resources we all have available to us and get some ideas from the group. Mike M. There was

Re: [TriLUG] Failed logins

Lisa Boyd wrote: I've been checking my Logwatch files and have noticed some failed logins for root listed under sshd. I assume someone is trying to break into my server, but is this something to seriously worry about? Considering my root password is not a dictionary word ;) Thanks! Lisa B. I

[TriLUG] OT: Looking for Used HP 700 Series Machine

Hi Folks, If someone has an HP 700 Series machine with a 100 MHz CPU or faster that they're looking to unload, please let me know. I need it to have a color graphics adapter and at least 256 MB of RAM. A 4 mm DDS-2 tape drive and CD-ROM reader would also be useful, but are not essential.

Re: [TriLUG] OT: Looking for Used HP 700 Series Machine

Hi Jason, Just to clarify, the 700 Series HPPA systems are the Workstations, which started with numbers in the 700 range (715/100, 725/100, 735/125) but more recently start with J - J2240, J5000, and J6000 for example. The 800 Series are the server systems, which required a different

Re: [TriLUG] iwlist scanning

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: I've lost the post which mentioned this but someone suggested iwlist eth0 scanning which here gives eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported I've got an orinoco gold b, 2.6.12 kernel and I'm connected by wifi when I ran this command.

Re: [TriLUG] LVM conversion?

Hugh Crissman wrote: I have been reading about LVM the last few days and decided I want to convert my workstation to use LVM. The problem is, how do I do this without destroying my current config? I have setup LVM on a fresh install before but not on a working system. Is it even possible?

Re: [TriLUG] Good PC Parts shop in Raleigh area?

Tom Eisenmenger wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good PC parts shop in the Raleigh area? I'm familiar with Intrex but am wondering if there is a place with better selection and/or price in the area? Thanks, and I still plan on meeting a bunch of you Thursday evening... Tom For the

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Build A Kernel (tangential)

Jonathan Mills wrote: And by the way, the kernel build process has been greatly simplified under the 2.6 kernels. This is all you need to do: 1) cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever you're kernel source is) 2) make mrproper (may or may not be necessary, depending on circumstances) 3) make xconfig

Re: [TriLUG] Available Locally?

John Broome wrote: I'm pretty sure stay online doesn't have a storefront operation anymore. Wow, their store at Greenwood Commons in Durham closed! What a shame. They saved my tucas several times when I was working in RTP, and needed some esoteric adaptor or cable in order to rescussitate some

Re: [TriLUG] lost root password

Christopher L Merrill wrote: Ok...so I'm an idiot! Flame away : I configured a CentOS box in our test lab a few months ago and got pulled off onto other tasks...now I can't remember the root password. The machine has not been used in the interim. I have physical access to the machine, is there a

[TriLUG] OT: Free Hardware (analog) - Stereo Receiver, no FM

Hi Folks, I have a 1980's MCS Stereo Receiver to give away. The FM band stopped working recently but it works well otherwise. It's rated 45 watts/channel and has a phono preamp. It won't be mistaken for new but looks decent. Here's a photo:

Re: [TriLUG] SCSI Devices in RedHat-like environments

Brian, I can confirm that in general, the support for SCSI under Redhat is good. I have two RH9 systems with different SCSI controllers and both are fully functional for tape drives, disks, scanner, and CD-RW. It seems contradictory that dmesg reported recognizing the tape drive and assigning

[TriLUG] Interested in SATA HD Timings

Hi Folks, While I realize that hdparm -t is not a perfect test of hard drive performance, I'm interested in seeing what people are getting for SATA drives as compared to other IDE and SCSI drives. I'm currently using an IDE Ultra ATA/100 7500 RPM hard drive, and two SCSI Ultra 160 10,000 RPM

Re: [TriLUG] gps solution (Moving further OT)

Tanner Lovelace wrote: Look into Viking. It will let you overlay tracks on both aerial and topo maps downloaded from the net. You'll probably also need GPSBabel (I think that's the right name) to download the tracks from your GPSr to the linux box. If I recall correctly, Viking loads the

[TriLUG] OT - Looking for 4 mm DAT Drive (DDS2)

Hi Folks, The 4mm DDS2 DAT tape drive in my HP-UX system has started making mylar backed confetti. It laughed at my attempt to clean it with swabs and alcohol. Does anyone have a 4mm DDS2 tape drive they're willing to part with, or know where I can find one? The tapes say 4mm DATA TAPE 120M

[TriLUG] OT: Clueless Phishing (humor)

Hi Folks, This attempt at phishing on my Yahoo email account gets my award for all time most clueless effort. I'm having trouble believing it isn't a gag. It looks identical in yahoo to how it copies here, including the wrapped URL. De?ra? Y?oha?o! Mem?eb?r, We mu?ts? c?eh?ck t?tah? y?ruo?

Re: [TriLUG] Transferring audio cassettes to CDs with Linux

Another useful source of information for sound card evaluations is here: http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/compare/ And to think I upgraded my Athlon system from an Ensoniq AudioPCI to an SBLive Value 5.1... I guess I can put the old card back in if I do any more recordings to CDR. --

Re: [TriLUG] OT: Opinion Poll: Database design

Brian Henning wrote: Howdy Folks, Just wondering what people's opinions are on the following topic: a) One table with copious fields -vs- b) Multiple tables with fewer fields each, linked somehow ex: a) One table with 30 fields containing all possible customer data (name, 2 addresses, 4 phone

Re: [TriLUG] Sprint DSL

Greg Brown wrote: Does anyone use Sprint DSL? Do they block any ports? Is the service good? Greg I've had it for over two years as well. I'm generally happy with it. I have a brief interruption in service (in Cary) every couple of months. It typically lasts less than 20 minutes. One thing

[TriLUG] The Sham is Over, we Can All Go Home Now

Hi Folks, Our cover has been blown. Again! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/17/adti_linux_fud/ After looking at the advance on the report, I was seriously questioning my motives for installing GCC for the first time, on my Atari ST back in 1986... Fortunately, I got better :-) Enjoy! --

Re: [TriLUG] ethernet print server

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linksys devices have a built in print server I believe. I like the axis print server. It has 2 lpt, 1 serial port and has logical printers that you can send control characters to and have the same printer operate under about 5 different names with different control

Re: [TriLUG] RH9 tape device?

Hi Wayne, From my RH9 system's dmesg output: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 DC390: 0 adapters found DC395x (TRM-S1040) SCSI driver 1.41, 2002-06-21 DC395x: Used settings: AdapterID=07, Speed=0(20.0MHz), DevMode=0x57 DC395x: AdaptMode=0x0f, Tags=4(16), DelayReset=1s DC395 : Connectors:

Re: [TriLUG] filesync App

Hi Jason, Sorry if you've already thought of this, but if you share the windows drive partition(s), you can use SAMBA and tar, cp, or whatever you like to back them up to your Linux system. -- Scott C. Jason Browne wrote: Hey Luggies, Anyone know of a good Opensource app to sync b/t a

Re: [TriLUG] Vector graphics tool for Linux?

Steven Hilton wrote: I was wondering if anyone on the list has used the various vector graphics tools for Linux? Hi Steven, This is more of an aside, because it doesn't address all of your interests. But have you considered xfig? This is a drawing drafting tool that comes with many distros

Re: [TriLUG] Linux / Solaris Position (OT Alert)

Magnus Hedemark wrote: I think there is a pendulum that is swinging. In the last decade, the pendulum was on the side of the IT worker. We could command high salaries and unusual job perks. A few years back the pendulum went quickly in the other direction, favoring employers. Conditions

[TriLUG] Slightly OT: Are there Really Quiet Computer Case Fans?

Hi Folks, My job has me working within a six feet of a dual Xeon server. It has at least five noisy fans, and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. I'm considering a ways to quiet this box, and one of them is to buy some fans that claim to be quiet to replace the current ones. I have no idea how

Re: [TriLUG] OT: non-sense spam

Mike Mueller wrote: Anybody getting non-sense spam? I've been getting similar spam at EarthLink, but only the subject line is scrambled: Subject: fogging portend indochina millenium gigantic Subject: picky imprecate fluorite occupation Subject: dragon cabbage quit latus Subject:

[TriLUG] Redhat's Success Under New Model

Hi Folks, I'm wondering if Redhat has factored the marketing value of their highly popular, if under-purchased workstation product into their new business model. There may not be enough people actually paying for the boxed set, but they've gotten a lot of word-of-mouth advertising from the

[TriLUG] File Size Wierdness in Copy from HP-UX to Linux

Hi Folks, I ran into an odd problem this weekend when recursively copying a large directory from an HP-UX system to a Linux system. I'm using scp (ssh) to perform the copy. The directory I'm copying appears to be two very different sizes. When I type du -s -k dir on the HP-UX system, I get

Re: [TriLUG] DSL modems

Hi Daniel, Interex sells them. http://www.intrex.com/parts/ModModem.asp -- Scott C. Daniel Monjar wrote: I think the storm that passed through North Raleigh Friday afternoon might have blown out my DSL modem. Is there anywhere around Raleigh-Durham that sells them? -- Daniel Monjar

Re: [TriLUG] Linux compatible USB Flash Drives

Jeremy Portzer wrote: Really, they all should work fine with Linux. These USB flash drives are one of the few devices, even the off-brand ones, that specify Linux compatibility on the package. I haven't ever seen one that doesn't work, or doesn't specify Linux compatibility, which is pretty

Re: [TriLUG] argument list too long

Hi Mike, There are a number of ways to handle this, depending on what you're trying to do. As mentioned, xargs is the primary solution. You can also use echo to list the files: echo * And find: find . -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -l {} \; You can replace ls -l in this command line with

[TriLUG] Mozilla Collapsing Threads (low topicality)

Hi Folks, I recently grabbed Mozilla 1.4 to check out its spam (i.e. junk) mail filtering capabilities. In doing so, I discovered that something I use frequently has changed. Any time I view mail or news in mozilla, the threads initially appear expanded. I have to collapse them in order to

Re: [TriLUG] Donations for Eagle Scout Project

provide a charity org. receipt. Scott Chilcote, 380-0585 Ian Meyer wrote: I am currently a Life Scout in my troop and am trying to come up with a service project, and was wondering what your (everyone's) opinions were on this: Set up as many computers as possible, running linux, to give to poor

Re: [TriLUG] No books for SuSE

Hi Mike, For what it's worth... I was at Book Warehouse at the Triangle Factory Shops (or whatever they're calling it now) and saw books for SUSE 7 versions on their clearance table for a buck each. I believe they also had some on their regular shelf ($6 to $20). None of these will be up

Re: [TriLUG] Postfix queue question

Hi Wade, Someone asked RedHat this question here: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-postfix-FAQ/book1.html They chose to answer it rather literally: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-postfix-FAQ/x169.html Time to set up a cron job? ;-) Scott C. H. Wade

Re: [TriLUG] Sprint/Earthlink DSL with router.

Hi Mike, I have it working with BellSouth, a SpeedStream 5263 modem, and an SMC Barricade router. I'm willing to help if you think this configuration is close enough. Scott C. Mike Norwood wrote: Does anyone have DSL with Sprint/Earthlink using their 645M modem, and have it working properly

Re: [TriLUG] linuux mouse kvm problems

Hi Brian, I'm not sure what specific problem you're seeing with the Belkin KVM switch, but if it's the problem where the mouse behaves erratically every 2nd time you switch back to XFree86 there are two fixes: 1. Stop using imps/2 for mouse wheel support, and go back to PS/2. This is in the

[TriLUG] Font Server (xfs) Question

Hi Folks, I'm trying to add a new font path to the font paths that xfs uses that's under my home directory. I know this is a nonstandard location for fonts, but I don't see why it isn't working. I'm using Redhat 7.2. I'm adding the font path as root using chkfontpath. When I look in

[TriLUG] Feedback Request - Redhat 8.0 Stability

Hi Folks, Before I start updating my three fairly trustworthy installations of Redhat 7.2, I was wondering if anyone could provide feedback on how stable and reliable 8.0 has been. Is there anything that will need immediate updating? Any annoying problems? I've been using Ximian Gnome and

[TriLUG] Wierd Network Problem - Clues Appreciated

Hi Folks, One of the systems on my LAN started dropping packets really bad when I tried communicating with machines out on the internet. Pinging sites like yahoo and ibiblio would return 3 out of 7, 2 out of 10, etc. and TCP connections (email, web) just timed out. I tried two other

Re: [TriLUG] GCC and ASM

Hi Bryan, I took a stab at this in Perl a few years ago, but I was going the opposite direction (MASM to gas). Most of it's fairly straightforward, but there was a lot of complexity on the Intel side when it came to handling some of the more obscure addressing modes and varieties of file

Re: [TriLUG] thanks, Red Hat!

Greg Brown wrote: Way to fight the DMCA, Red Hat! http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-158.html If you haven't read Slashdot this morning this is the Red Hat article that's causing such a stir with the DMCA. Look at the bottom of the page under References. Greg I was rather

Re: [TriLUG] Re: KVM recommedations

Hi Jerry, Based on my experience it's the cable that's at fault when there's ghosting on the display. I've tried a handful of different cables on KVM switches (and just plain monitor switches) in the last couple of years, and I find that the higher quality cables definitely make a

Re: [TriLUG] Ugh...What did I miss in my kernel?

Hi Roy, AOLMe2! Me2!/AOL I'd like to know too if you find out. I've been through the same iterations lately, but I moved up to the latest patch-it-yourself Win4Lin kernel (using kernel.org's 2.4.19). The biggest pain was getting my external USB mouse to work again. I'm 99% certain that