Howdy folks,
I've got a prospect in Warren that needs a programmer to write a bit of
web scraping code for them. A fairly small project, at least to start
out. My schedule is full so I can't take it on. If anybody else here is
interested, let me know and I'll refer him your way.
Rene
FYI, https://labgopher.com/ is a very dangerous website. It scrapes
eBay for server auctions and classifies them by RAM and CPU.
Great for buying old server boxes tho'
On 10/20/2020 10:42 AM, Anthony Carrico wrote:
I'd like to replace an old box (very old, like less than 1G RAM old, one
of
On occasion I've had to edit directories with Emacs to get rid of weird
files. Unicode in the filenames generally, but it's worth a shot in
this case.
% emacs
Use the up/down arrows to move the cursor through the file list, hit 'd'
to mark a file for deletion. Hit 'x' to execute.
Here's my thoughts/rant on backup systems. First of all, you need to
consider which problems you're trying to solve with backups:
* Hardware failure - To deal with simple hardware failure like the
drive itself failing, you just need a copy of the data. The amount
of time between copies
74757677787980818283848586878889909192;
http://www.safeyourpc.com/chrm/01234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162636465666768697071727374757677787980818283848586878889909192
While crashing Chromium, it was speaking through my speakers about
calling some number, etc.
Any thoughts?
--
Re
Personally, I like the free Shortyz android app that downloads 5-7
crosswords daily. Nothing printable, but it's on my tablet & phone for
times of boredom.
On 6/29/2016 7:45 AM, Paul Flint wrote:
Greetings Steven Papas,
Thank you for continuing to print the notice of the Barre Open Systems
I've got a old PCI SCSI card in my parts box you can use.
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/scsi/2940/aha-2940w/
It supports SCSI-3 vs the U320 SCSI-5 connectors so you might need an
adapter cable in the mix.
On 7/9/2014 2:43 PM, Kevin Broderick wrote:
Short version:
Our SCSI
This is the script that I use. It uses mysqlhotcopy to quickly copy the
database (reducing the amount of time the website locks up at 3am) and
then mysqldump to create the nightly backup file. It uses bzip2 to
compress the dump and stores the resulting file in a dated
sub-directory. The
From the article:
The twist here is that the botmasters have customized the malware so
that it simultaneously delivers HTTP requests to some 300 lesser
known, but legitimate, websites, which mixes in with traffic meant
for the command-and-control hub
It sounds like your website is
Hey gang,
Anybody care to recommend a router? We're currently using a Linksys
RV082 for failover between our two ISPs. It's working well but isn't
perfect. We've switch to VOIP and need to setup some quality o' service
rules which it can't handle. It also doesn't report traffic usage
According to the EventBrite site:
*Thanks to overwhelming response from the public, we have nearly
reached our event capacity and have sold out of advanced purchase
tickets.*
*There will be 200 additional tickets available at the gate, and we
will be selling more at the gate as
Reconstructing what happened is always a real bugger, but well worth the
effort because of how much you learn.
At a guess, I'd say it was a vulnerability in Nagios, perhaps this one:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35464/discuss
As for what you need to do to secure a sever against any
Aha, a bit of 'G' confusion. I tried GNU parted, not Gnome parted.
I'll install the Gnome graphical version and give that a shot. I spend
so much time on the command line that I forget to try the graphical tils.
Rene
On 3/16/2011 8:54 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Hmmm. I *do* recall
Hey gang,
Hopefully one of you have played with this. I'm trying to expand an XFS
partition on a raid. I've added the new drives and iscsi correctly
recognizes them. The problem is that XFS was chosen as the file system
which puts me in a catch-22. GNU parted doesn't support XFS and
FYI, PHP/MySQL opening at Small Dog Electronics in Waitsfield:
Qualifications/Requirements:
Minimum of 3 years Experience, BS in Computer Science or Equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
Apple Product experience or service experience strongly preferred. Self
motivated, organized, creative,
Hi Phil,
Session hijacking is one of the topics I'll be covering on Thursday.
Why don't you bring the topic up then and we'll discuss it with the rest
of the group. If you want to present your tool at the end, that would
work well, I doubt I'm going to yak for the whole time allotment.
Actually it's much older than that. Fortran punch cards were 80 chars
wide. Fortran probably picked that limitation up from a previous
language before that. The ASCII displays were 80 chars wide because
that's what the programmers were used to working with already.
Rene
On 9/21/2010
Personally I've been using VMware's Player software. Also free. Very
simple to setup and use to play with different OSs on my desktop. Not
intended for constant server-style running of multiples OSs on a single
box, but great for playing with things. If you want run multiple OSs
Well, my father-in-law could certainly handle it although he usually
deals with motors drives.
http://pioneerdrives.com/
Also, I've been buying my UPS batteries from Gruber Power in AZ, looks
like they've got a deal with someone in White River and they sell
refurb'd Symmetra systems.
Bill status can be tracked here:
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/database/status/status.cfm
Current status of H.516: Read First Time and Referred to the Committee
on *Government Operations
Rene
*
On 1/27/2010 8:13 AM, Paul Flint wrote:
Dear Stan,
Absolute simplest choice is to use a Centrex system, which basically has
you using the Fairpoint switch as your PBX. Each office gets a POTS
line and all the features are managed from Fairpoint's office.
Anybody know of someone who's good with a soldering iron? I've got
a circuit board with some corrosion damage on it that needs some
jumpering and cleanup. I'm don't have a fine enough touch to do it
right and this is not the project to learn it.
http://modularsynthesis.com/electronic/info.htm
Unless you're a programmer or sysadmin, the learning curve isn't worth
it. Go with what you know and get the paper done. The differences
between the various *nix systems to Joe Average user are pretty minor
compared to what you're really trying to accomplish. (i.e. write
papers, read email,
Rion D'Luz wrote:
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Rene Churchill wrote:
Currently there's Onion River Exchange in Montpelier, which is a
time bank instead of a local currency. Members donate their time
to other members in return for services in return. A bit of a
socialist slant in that an hour
Currently there's Onion River Exchange in Montpelier, which is a
time bank instead of a local currency. Members donate their time
to other members in return for services in return. A bit of a
socialist slant in that an hour of garden weeding is valued the
same as an hour of computer consulting,
If you want to seriously use Emacs, it's just about mandatory to use a
keymap editor and swap the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys. Otherwise the
cramps from finger-pretzel positions can get pretty bad.
Way back when (eons ago) that's the way keyboards were originally
setup. Then the IBM AT became
Y'all are probably going to condemn me for not getting into the hacker
spirit, but I use an Airport Express to do this. iTunes to manage my
music library and the audio out on the Express to link into the
auxiliary input on my stereo on the other side of the house. As a
bonus, the Express
*From:* Rene Churchill r...@wherezit.com
*To:* VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU
*Sent:* Thursday, April 9, 2009 9:11:39 PM
*Subject:* Re: Network without passwords
Warner White wrote:
I'm having trouble setting up my network again. Two linux machines
and two
Warner White wrote:
I'm having trouble setting up my network again. Two linux machines and
two Windows machines. It used to be that my wife could print from her XP
machine via the network centered on one of my ubuntu desktops. And I can
get her printing working now if first I try reading one
H. Kurth Bemis wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 16:20 -0400, Kevin Thorley wrote:
I just read this Wired article on Hacker Spaces.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/03/hackerspaces.html
Sounds pretty cool. I had talked to Josh about a similar idea for
teleworkers in the Burlington area, but
While physical location of the hosting is of little relevance to
the hosting customers, it is important to the hosting services
themselves. Microsoft and Google are both buying land to build
data centers in the Columbia River valley up near Portland because
of the availability of cheap,
Mark pointed out this Netgear product to me. It handles dual WAN
connections for load balancing or as a failover option.
http://www.smalldog.com/product/70697
For a bit under $300, frankly it's not worth my time to configure,
learn and test a system like pfSense or ZeroShell. At least from
a
Hey gang,
I'm looking for some pointers/recommendations on how to setup a
router for an office to split/share bandwidth between two sources.
I know enough about networking to keep my internal network up
but I'm getting into deeper waters here.
Here's the scenario. I'm in an office with a
that
Comcast doesn't like the 600' run from the road to the office that
cable installation would require.
Thanks,
Rene
Rene Churchill wrote:
So, any suggestions on how to setup a firewall/router that will send the
traffic from the desktops out over the cable modem while letting
Well, I've been using emacs for over 20 years. It's got a steep
learning curve, but for those of us that started using computers before
mice and are touch typists, it's very fast.
Because it was written before computer mice were developed, there are
keystoke versions of every command.
Paul Flint wrote:
1. The Famous Dos Unix Carriage Return Line Feed Conflict (FDUCKFC)
Of course, to make things really interesting, you need to throw some
Macs into the mix. Unix variants use newlines to end lines.
Dos/Windows uses newline and carriage return. Mac editors just use
carriage
Don't forget to pick up Esperanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
David Hardy wrote:
Oh my. I must learn Sanskrit now. A handy base for all the
Indo-European languages. Maybe some Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, too.
One never knows when THAT will come in handy.
Cheers!
Old Farmer
Alvin ONeal wrote:
https://svn.twdp.hobby-site.org directs to my subversion repo
https://twdp.hobby-site.org redirects to http
other requests issue some sort of not-found error
Note, each https site MUST have it's own IP address because the SSL
negotiations happens before the domain name is
Here's an appeal to the collective sysadmin knowledge on the list.
I've been getting bombarded with spam recently from a particular
source. (15 of the bloody things during my lunch break alone.)
Hawking a wide range of things, the URLs in each of the spams
look something like this:
Here's an appeal to the collective sysadmin knowledge on the list.
I've been getting bombarded with spam recently from a particular
source. (15 of the bloody things during my lunch break alone.)
Hawking a wide range of things, the URLs in each of the spams
look something like this:
Paul Flint wrote:
It sounds more like there's general discontent with state money going
towards business-focused organizations
Are you suggesting that VAGUE members are not business focused? The
difference here is vtSTA is about Microsoft based systems and VAGUE is not.
Um, no. VtSDA is
Paul Flint wrote:
Right now I am currently in a petulant frothing rage not about vendor
qualification but about the situation in State hiring. E.G.
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081017/NEWS02/810170360/1003/NEWS02
The DPS IT support person who is the star of this
I use Mozy (http://www.mozy.com) for my home PC and my wife's Mac.
No *nix support unfortunately. $4.95/month
Jungle Disk is an interface to the Amazon S3 storage service,
so you're paying by the GB. http://www.jungledisk.com/
Haven't tried it though.
iBackup
, right? Anything I
can do to mitigate the affects of mistakes is something I want to do.
With that said, I know little about tuning linux/apache, and since most
of Signals stuff works well, I haven't spent a lot of time learning
about this stuff.
sue
- Original Message -
From: Rene
Sue, Phil,
We need to see some snippets of the access_log and error_log
logfiles to have a shot at figuring this out.
As for the config options you've got, those are pretty good for the
vast majority of servers out there.
MaxRequestsPerChild is there to prevent memory leaks. Since Apache
http://www.amistreet.com is a site that I buy music from.
They scale the prices on music depending on how often it
has been downloaded. Songs start out free and max out
at $0.99/track, $8.89/album. So while you can't find
the big names on their service, it's a neat way to find
lesser know
I'm still using /bin/csh for most of my scripts. I know I
should change, but that's what 20 years of habit will get ya.
Anyhow, when I run into this same problem between command line
and crontab environments, it usually boils down to a difference
in environment variables. The crontab is run
, I found
it.
Thanks, Tom
On Sat February 23 2008 8:50 pm, Rene Churchill wrote:
http://www.switch-e.org/
Tom Kastner
33 Upper Hollow Rd.
Stowe, VT 05672
802-253-4792
Well, what I do is use Apache's config file to set up multiple
directories and servers on my development machine. Each
server is listening on a different port and provides a different
purpose. One is for bug fixing, one is for long-term development,
one for pre-release checking, etc.
From the
One question, which power main to your house did you wind the
the coils around? Typically there are three wires coming into
a house, two of the three phases of AC running down the street
and a ground wire. You get 120V by going from one of the two
power lines to ground, 220V by bridging between
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