Re: Alex Hewitt, RIP
On 5/6/20 9:46 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > Passing on the sad news that Alex Hewitt died on April 18th. Some of you > may remember Alex as the co-organizer of the Python SIG with the late > Bill Sconce, or for his work at DEC. > > He will be missed. I really only knew Alex through PySIG, but he seemed like a great guy. :( -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: powerschool webscraper?
On 10/30/2014 08:24 AM, David Rysdam wrote: Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: I'd look at Selenium http://www.seleniumhq.org/. I heard about it from our QA guys for automation. It's cool, but not really what I want. I'm not automating this because I care how a particular browser works. I'm automating it because I want it automated. I don't need or even want a GUI. I want to run it as a cron job and email myself a result when there is one. I had this problem with htmlunit too. It wanted to fire up a browser GUI. No, bad tool! I'm pretty sure that you can run Selenium headless. I don't know much about the details, but I know that part of the functional and integration test suite we run at $DayJob is using selenium to test a javascript driven web site, without having to pop up a browser... -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester
On 08/17/2012 07:41 AM, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I remember buying an external 9600 BPS modem for someone from one of the NC Shows. I think I got my first Linux distro from one :) I got my first Linux distro from Jon maddog Hall and DEC when Linus Torvalds came to speak to UNH. :-D Red Hat Linux 2.1. At the time, I was new to this you-nicks thing. I wish I had been smart enough to get it autographed... You mean like this one? :) http://tuininga.org/redhat_2_1_cd.jpg (sitting on my desk, here at work) -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: ssh + svn - pam
On 7/7/11 5:04 PM, Kenny Lussier wrote: What I need to do is make it so that certain users can check in and out, but the server that the repositories resides on needs to be locked down, and these users can't have accounts on it. I was contemplating having local accounts with a shell of /dev/null, but I wanted to ask the group what peoples thoughts on the best practices are for this sort of scenario. This kinda goes against what you've specified (doing it over ssh), but is webdav an option for you? Going that route, I believe it can be set up without requiring user accounts... -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Backup systems?
On 10/20/2010 01:31 PM, Tyson Sawyer wrote: I've been using backup-pc with good results. I started making my own rsync scripts and decided that I had better things to do and backup-pc had already done a better job than I ever would. Seconded. I've been using rsnapshot for backups for quite some time, but backuppc (once set up) has a lot more options to simplify restoration, etc. I've been working on switching over to it myself. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
OSCON
Hey all - I'm heading out to OSCON today and was just curious if anybody else on the list was making it out there? -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?
Bill Sconce wrote: But then the zinger: of COURSE...they only use wireless. And of COURSE...the laptop has a Broadcom Wifi adapter. And of course it doesn't work. My netbook reports having a Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01). It's currently running Ubuntu 10.04, with the proprietary broadcom drives (installed by the handy Hardware Drivers application). I didn't have to do any work to get it going ... just installed the driver and all was seemingly well. This is not intended as a my distro is better than insert other distro - just a data point that it worked fine for me. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MerriLUG or Manchester meets planned? + Twitter
Chip Marshall wrote: So, with that out there, are there people interested in a Manchester meeting who wouldn't be interested in reviving the Nashua group? I'd certainly be interested. I work in Manchester, but live up near the lakes region so going down to Nashua is the wrong direction for me. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?
Bill McGonigle wrote: I'm using OpenDNS with features turned off since DNS has been occasionally unreliable on the residential lines in the area. pimp For those that aren't aware, Dyn now has a free recursive service that does many of the things that the pay OpenDNS service does. And yes, you can deactivate NXDOMAIN hijacking if you are so inclined. :) http://www.dyndns.com/services/dynguide/ In the interest of full disclosure, my $dayjob = Dyn; /pimp -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse. Anyway, suggestions on games that might run on a somewhat more open architecture like, say... Linux? Specific package: Tuxpaint, definitely. My boys (6 and 4) love to play with it. They love that they can come up with their creations and then tell me so I can copy it over to my workstation to use as a background. If you're a Debian/Ubuntu type of person, definitely check out the debian-jr meta package. There's a whole ton of fun/educational things in there. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: landscape architecture software
Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: I wanted to do some modelling of my home landscaping. Anyone know of an application that does this (Linux-compatible of course)? There are many software packages available for Windows, but I can't seem to find any that are linux compatible. I thought to try my hand at using Blender, but I'd really like to use something that is specifically pre-tooled to deal with landscaping. For example the commercial Windows packages have thousands of photorealistic plants and things that you can add to your models. Not sure if this will do everything you want or not, but the SourceForge project of the month is called Sweet Home 3D. http://www.sweethome3d.eu/ -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] Doodle poll for GNHLUG party location
Ben Scott wrote: Who : You! Your fiends! Everybody! What : Party for GNHLUG's 15th Birthday Date : Mon 26 Oct 2009 Time : 6 PM ish to whenever Where: That's the question! We've only had a little discussion and fewer suggestions, so here's a poll to vote on where we should have the party. http://doodle.com/p7c6h6kc9zw7i5mt If you want an option added, mail me and I'll add it! A bit more of a sit down type place, but what about La Carreta's? -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Ruby question
Hey folks - I'm working on a short term project that requires me to use Ruby, so I spent some time with the O'Reilly Learning Ruby book. Now I'm stuck though, and so far my Google-fu has proved inadequate. As I know we have a number of Rubyists on the list, I thought I might try asking here. :) I'm having to make use of the Ruby built in SOAP lib (via SOAP::RPC::Driver), and I should start off by making mention that there is currently no WSDL available for the SOAP interface I'm trying to talk to. The responses to my SOAP calls are hashes, and therein lies the problem. When I make the SOAP call, response = soap_driver.SOAPFunction(args) the response var gets turned into a SOAP::Mapping::Object. If I knew for sure what keys I was going to be getting in return, this would be fine. I could just access each value like: response[key] The problem is that I don't know what keys are going to be returned. And because the returned object doesn't support methods like each, keys, or values I had to put together a hack to get the list of keys. I did it a little something like this: # Filter out methods that are normally part of a mapping object keys = response.methods - SOAP::MAPPING::Object.instance_methods # Filter out setter methods keys = keys.grep(/[^=]$/) Now, at this point I can go through the remaining keys easily enough. The thing is that this seems like an awfully hackish approach. I'm assuming that there's an easier/more elegant way and that I'm just not aware of it because of my newbie position. Can anybody offer a way to put together the keys in a cleaner manner? Note, I do not have the option of setting up WSDL, nor can I use soap4r. Thanks in advance, and let me know if I'm not providing enough information here. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Network/System Monitors
Are there no Zenoss fans around here? I use Nagios myself, but thought Zenoss looked pretty nice and was thinking about giving it a try... -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Network/System Monitors
Tom Buskey wrote: Exposing the historical graphs to users is a good thing: they can see the effect of doubling the number of developers on a system. For historical system information and stats, I personally really like munin. Nice and easy to set up, generates pretty graphs, extremely extensible... http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] GamingSIG Disbanding
Hi all - Well, we gave it a good college try, but after 5-6 months of no attendees at the Gaming SIG, Arc and I have decided to let the project retire. If anybody else wants to pick it up and have a go at it, they're certainly welcome to but as of now there are no more scheduled Gaming SIG meetings. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Reminder: Gaming SIG Tonight!
Hey all - just a reminder that the Gaming SIG meets tonight to play Nexuiz. Hope to see some of you there! Here's a repost of the announcement: The next GNHLUG Gaming SIG get-together/LAN party will be on August 7th and will feature the first person shooter, Nexuiz. Decisions on whether to play as teams or free for all will be made that night. Information on Nexuiz: http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ We'll likely be using 2.4.x since that's what the latest versions of the major distributions seem to be shipping. When: August 7th, starting around 6:00 and going until we feel like leaving (often after 11:00). Where: Dynamic Network Services, Inc (aka DynDNS) 1230 Elm Street 5th Floor (ring the doorbell) Manchester, NH What: LAN Party, playing Nexuiz We'll probably order food from somewhere too Who: Geeks and non-geeks, newbies and experts alike -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Gaming SIG: Nexuiz on August 7th
Just to confuse people, we're actually sending out this announcement early. :) Don't get too confused though - this announcement is for *next* Friday (Aug 7), not this coming Friday (Jul 31). The next GNHLUG Gaming SIG get-together/LAN party will be on August 7th and will feature the first person shooter, Nexuiz. Decisions on whether to play as teams or free for all will be made that night. Information on Nexuiz: http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ We'll likely be using 2.4.x since that's what the latest versions of the major distributions seem to be shipping. When: August 7th, starting around 6:00 and going until we feel like leaving (often after 11:00). Where: Dynamic Network Services, Inc (aka DynDNS) 1230 Elm Street 5th Floor (ring the doorbell) Manchester, NH What: LAN Party, playing Nexuiz We'll probably order food from somewhere too Who: Geeks and non-geeks, newbies and experts alike -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] SLUG / Mon March 9th / MySQL Optimization
Beaty McCloud wrote: Hi Robert, I would really like to attend this LUG meeting, but unfortunately it conflicts with another appointment I have scheduled to take care of some tax stuff. Is it possible to get a copy of the slides at least? Sorry that I will miss it! Hi Beaty (and all) - I'm the one doing the presentation. I'll make the slides available on the SLUG website sometime after the talk. I'll post a link when I get a chance. If there's enough interest, I might be talked into doing the presentation again at a different LUG sometime - probably Centralug since that's closest to me. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Thunderbird question
I've been an Evolution mail user for a long time now, but I've just gotten tired of a couple issues I've (repeatedly) had with it and I'm finally switching over to Thunderbird. So far, it does everything I'd like to do and I'm slowly learning the Thunderbird way of doing things. I've run into one problem that I thought maybe somebody here could help with. I have a mail server that serves me for both code-energy.com as well as tuininga.org. In fact, I use a single actual unix account for both. All mail gets stored in a single set of Maildirs. I IMAP in under my co...@code-energy.com account and send stuff out by SMTP AUTHing into my mail server and setting the from address as co...@code-energy.com. Then (at least, under Evolution) I have c...@tuininga.org set up to use that same unix account just for sending ... no IMAP, no POP. I cannot seem to figure out how to do this with Thunderbird. There doesn't seem to be the concept of a mail account to use for sending only, without having an associated IMAP or POP connection. Initially I figured I'd just set up both co...@code-energy.com and c...@tuininga.org to both do IMAP and accept that I was being wasteful with my connections, but Thunderbird actively prevents this. Any ideas? I'd really prefer not to adjust my mail storage setup if possible... Thanks! -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Thunderbird question
Brian Chabot wrote: I think I grok what you're looking for. Indeed you did, because... Edit - Account Settings - [select your IMAP account] - Manage Identities - Add That was *exactly* the button I was looking for! Many thanks Brian! :) -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Linux taking over
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 17:43 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: However, they are calling it Nova? It is one thing for GM to try to sell a car in countries where the name translates to it does not go, but last I checked, Cuba's native tongue was Spanish. The Nova thing is an urban myth. http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp In Spanish, Nova means the explosion of a star, same as it does in English. I took Spanish for 4 years in high school and it seems to me that they are a little off base about the impact of the name. While nova may not mean doesn't go, the phrase No va does. (va, being the el/ella/usted form of the infinitive verb ir meaning to go) Yes, it's probably not the phrase that one would specifically choose to describe a non-functioning vehicle, it's still awfully big fodder for mockery. Imagine a car company in the US marketing a vehicle called the Nogo. I doubt it would get out of that lightly. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 00:11 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: So, we had around 100 of these show up in the log from Sunday on liberty.gnhlug.org, all from the same IP address, all with similar but apparently never the same name pattern: client 192.0.2.42 query (cache) 'aaccmmfwxdlaaabaaafbbfpg/NS/IN' denied: 1 Time(s) client 192.0.2.42 query (cache) 'abbcnefwxdlaaabaaafbkkag/NS/IN' denied: 1 Time(s) client 192.0.2.42 query (cache) 'acdbbbfwxdlaaabaaafbpkeo/NS/IN' denied: 1 Time(s) I'd guess they were either trying to do a quick Kaminsky scan or (less likely) looking for an open resolver. Just my $.02. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 12:41 -0500, jk...@kinz.org wrote: IIRC that effort was shut down by concentrated counter attacks by the spammers. As for the name, all I can recall was it had the word blue in it, I think. I believe Blue Frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog) is what you're speaking of. -- Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Inspiron Mini 9?
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 22:44 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: I rather like the AAO, but if I were getting a netbook today, I'd probably go with a Lenovo IdeaPad S10. I just received mine this week (after having ordered it in early December). So far, thumbs up. Ubuntu installed without a problem and the restricted broadcom driver had the wireless working in minutes. Keyboard is ok - it's my first netbook so I'm still trying to get used to the smaller keyboard. I got the default battery offering (not sure what's available for alternatives) and battery life seems a *little* low, but not horrible. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: a call for collos
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 14:02 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 2008-12-01 4:43 PM, Arc Riley wrote: If you don't need in-person, I've found ServerBeach to be quite awesome. They provide the hardware, 2TB/mo transfer, I can give you a discount coupon code if you're interested (10% IIRC) Have you had any power issues with them? Every couple months my VOIP DID provider sends me an e-mail saying power is out at ServerBeach again and the phones will start working when it comes back on. I had some issues over the summer with one server I have in their Virginia data center. I believe the problems have since been fixed. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Ubuntu
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:06 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 11:42 -0400, Arc Riley wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, now. Why Ubuntu vs straight Debian? Ubuntu has worked at making the average-user experience easier, is that it? That's exactly right. That, and new releases every six months vs. maybe every few years. I believe the current goal for Debian is a release every 18 months or so. Rumor mill has it that the next release (code named lenny) is to come out in December. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Audio cable help
Hey all - While I was sitting around this weekend, I was starting to look into finally playing around a bit with setting up my MythTV box. I have a box all put together ... now I just have to figure out what I'm doing. :) I need to get two cables before I get going in earnest - a DVI to HDMI cable (already have one on order), and then I need to figure out how to run the audio. I have an ok (I think) audio card - it's a SB Audigy SE. I've got a pretty decent stereo (Yamaha RX-V1700 http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/productdetail.html?CNTID=451764 which I got new, for $500 off list price ... yum). The real question is ... how to hook the two of them together? :) I'm a bit of a neophyte wrt audio connectivity, so I'm kinda not sure what I'm doing here. I'm assuming that I should be trying to run from the digital audio out on the sound card, to one of the digital audio inputs on the stereo, but which? And do I need a special cable? Thanks in advance for any/all input - hope folks are having a great holiday weekend! -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Debian Sudoku
This just got posted on our internal jabber server - thought folks here might be amused by it. http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: New GNHLUG SIG
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0400, Arc Riley wrote: As a side note, please stop using the word gay to refer to something you don't like, it's offensive. I'd like to second this. It's offensive and unnecessary. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: New GNHLUG SIG
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, yeah, I can see how that could be non-PC. If I'd have called Support SIG stupid, I'd have offended people with low IQ. If I'd called it dumb, I'd have offended those who couldn't talk. If I called it gay - you're right - I could offend the homosexuals. Sorry. I guess I should also appologize, in advance, to all the Hindus on the list for using the phrase Holy cow in my other message. Wow - I didn't realize there were actually people this ignorant around. Are you actually going to tell me that you think equating an entire subset of the population, several of whom I would imagine belong to this mailing list, as bad is acceptable? There's a huge difference between calling somebody stupid (an intentional, direct, and targeted insult) and equating people who are gay with being bad, or negative. I would have thought that being a participant in a community that promotes openness and inclusion would cause one to be less exclusionary. :/ -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: automatic hard linking
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:48 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort of hard linking of the same file name in a different directory... i.e. Check out rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) which uses a combo of hard linking, some perl, and everybody's favorite backup tool - rsync. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek
Just another tool that does something similar to sshguard - denyhosts. (http://denyhosts.sf.net/) It's pretty configurable and can actually be used to monitor other services as well if you're willing to do a little bit of regex work. I have to admit that since I've moved sshd away from port 22, I've not felt the need to run it anymore. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: howto determine processor characteristics from cli
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:44 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote: I've got a Dell Optiplex 745 that I'm trying to figure out if it is worth adding more memory to it. I'd like to find out what processor/speed/cache it has. Is there a simple way to get this? I would imagine it is all contained in the kernel startup log? dmesg | grep (something) ? Or is there a different way? cat /proc/cpuinfo This, and other helpful tips, can be found at: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:17 -0400, Scott Garman wrote: I recently posted this on my blog, but figured that if there was anyone I knew who could come up with a better solution, it would be someone on this list... Why not just give known devices a static IP out of the dhcp pool? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:56 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: Except: - The client acts like a browser, in that it fetches CSS and JavaScript files as well as the primary page, and the User-Agent seems to be MSIE 7: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) This *could* be explained by wanting to be able to display a thumbnail version of the website. Just a thought. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Comcast!?!?
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:52 -0500, Tony Lambiris wrote: Can anyone recommend a good broadband provider in the Manchester area? Im with Comcast right now, refuse to go to Verizon due to their company practices, curious if anyone out there is using something else? I've worked with Worldpath Internet several times before, and I use them for my home DSL connection. I can't say enough good things about dealing with these folks. http://www.worldpath.net/ -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Facebook group
Just for the heck of it, I created a GNHLUG group on Facebook for anybody who cares to join. It's marked as open so anybody can join it. I know return you to your regularly scheduled Saturday morning activities. -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: A question about rsync
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 21:59 -0400, Dan Jenkins wrote: Depends on the (numerous) options to rsync. Typically (someone correct me if I'm wrong), rsync uses the size and date/time on the file and a checksum. This can be modified to ignore times and force all files to be checksummed. I believe (again, someone correct me if *I'm* wrong) that it only uses a checksum if -c is specified. On another note, if you're using rsync to make backups, cannot more highly recommend using rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 18:33 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 6/25/07, Henry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to BUoD ... this appears not to have made it out. I always liked PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer). *laugh* I've always heard PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard). -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:52 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: So one has to ask. What's the point? :-) ZFS? :) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:14 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: On 06/21/2007 10:02 AM, Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:52 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: So one has to ask. What's the point? :-) ZFS? :) http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/ Right - but because FUSE lives in userland, my understanding is that the performance is somewhere around 50% of what you'd see on Solaris. On top of which (at least, from my meager understanding of it) you're still going to have to go through the Linux's VFS layer which is going to reduce the usefulness of ZFS significantly wrt data integrity. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?
We do have a page specifically for clients that are compliant to our protocol. The UNIX specific client page is: http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/unix.html I asked our client certification guy what he would recommend for OpenWRT and he suggested the inadyn client. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Search Engine software
Hey all, Thought I'd ask around to see what software folks are using these days for providing searches on their websites. The site (in my particular case) that needs the search is an engineering company with a decent sized parts list and lots of industry lingo. They need the engine to be able to do matching based on phonetic matches (soundex or similar is good enough) but they also need to be able to have the search engine understand searching for different word tenses (not just substring searches) For instance, when searching on the term connector, the software should be able to figure out that connection is also a match. The other thing is that they want is to be able to customize the search results in a very particular manner. That is, for any of the search results that are for a product page, they want the result to include a thumbnail picture of the part. It's definitely fine if this bit of functionality requires some coding on my part. For a long time, it seemed the the answer was ht://Dig (http://www.htdig.org). In fact, the main page still seems like it covers everything I want (not sure if that last bit is possible or not though) but it seems like it is no longer actively developed? The last (beta) release was in 2004. I gave it a try anyway and while it largely seemed like the old ht://Dig that I used to know and love, it seems awfully slow. There's only about 300-400 pages to index and the indexing seemed to take a long time (30 minutes plus) and the searches seemed rather slow as well (10-15 seconds). This is all on what I would consider pretty reasonable hardware under non-existent load. I played briefly with mnoGoSearch (http://www.mnogosearch.org). It seemed alright, though I couldn't seem to get it to do anything but exact searches. (Probably just needed to play with it more). In any case, I thought I'd turn to the list to see what recent experiences folks have had with search engines. Thanks! -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
SPDIF support
Hi all - Tax return time has hit, and one of the things I'm looking at doing is finally replacing my computer speakers. I'm wondering if SPDIF is the way to go or not. I have a Soundblaster Audigy (lspci reports: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)) that has an optical SPDIF output, but I can't seem to find any good resources as to whether this will be supported under Linux or not. Anybody with experience on this? Also, I'd welcome any discussion as to whether SPDIF is even worth it in the first place. Thanks! -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Portable audio player
Hey folks - I've been starting to go to the gym quasi-regularly, so I think it may finally be time to break down and get a portable audio player. Looking for any suggestions... My requirements are: * Inexpensive * Linux compatible * Inexpensive * mp3 playback (ogg would be nice, but not required) * Inexpensive * Has a standard 1/8 headphone jack (are there any that don't?) * Inexpensive I don't need something huge - a GB or so would be plenty. Thoughts? Thanks in advance! -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Web software for a family web site?
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:04 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: (1) What other types of family functions do you think a family web site should have? (2) What specific free software web apps would you recommend? If you're into genealogy at all, I definitely recommend GeneWeb (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/) It runs as a stand alone daemon, and requires ocaml to compile, but I have yet to meet a better or more full fledged genealogy package. My own can be viewed at http://tuininga.org:2317/tuininga if anybody is interested. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
SIP Provider suggestions?
Hi all - I'm looking to finally take the plunge into Asterisk (probably using AsteriskNow - http://www.asterisknow.org). In any case, I was remembering the great presentation on Asterisk at the Slug a while ago and remembered there was a recommendation to check out Telesip (http://www.telesip.com). I gave them a look, but I have to say that I was completely put off by their website. There were broken/missing/inconsistent links all over the place, Lorem Ipsum placeholder text, etc. It didn't give me the warm fuzzies to say the least. That said, I'm wondering if anybody out there has any recommendations for decent SIP providers? I'm not interested in somebody like Vonage, simply because you have to go through extra hoops (and, if I understand correctly, pay extra money) to get your username/password so you can plug it into Asterisk. Ideally, I'd like a company that is Asterisk friendly (as Telesip is purported to be - the Slug presenter told us how he had a tech on the line for about 6 hours getting help to configure his Asterisk setup). Ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks! -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Webmail suggestions
Hey folks, I was wondering if y'all would be willing to weigh in on web based email clients. I'm looking to set one up for my virtually hosted clients. Requirements: Must be able to auth against a MySQL database Must be able to compartmentalize virtual hosts Must be able to handle (Courier) IMAP-SSL Must be able to handle sending messages through a SMTP server that requires TLS auth Must be compatible with Exim Must be able to prevent users from changing their from address. Nice, but not required: Addressbook that can be shared within a virtualhost Interface that can be used with text based browsers I've played with squirrelmail before, and IIRC it will fill all my requirements, but I'd be interested to hear opinions and/or experiences regarding other packages. Thanks! -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] PySIG in two weeks
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:04 -0500, Bill Sconce wrote: Because November is special we'll meet on the FIFTH Thursday, the 30th. We'll have a presentation on Epydoc. Bill - looks like I won't have a laptop to bring along. Any chance I might be able to borrow yours during the presentation? All I would need would be a web browser, a couple terminals to ssh with, and a net connection. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:29 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: And on that note, can anyone recommend a decent set of DNS servers to point at instead of using Comcast's? plug The company I work for (DynDNS) offers a pretty high quality recursive DNS service for $29.95/year. Here's a link to our features page: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/recursivedns/features.html /plug -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:25 -0500, kenta wrote: That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast? I've used Worldpath (http://www.worldpath.com) for home DSL for several years now and couldn't be happier. The service has been reliable, the rare occasions where I've needed to talk to a tech have been pleasant with knowledgeable (and local) individuals. I get about 4.2Mb down and about 768Kb up. I get that and a static IP for about $50/month. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
SIP phone suggestions
Hey all - I'm finally foraying into the world of Asterisk. I have a box to dedicate to it, I have Trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org/) downloaded and ready to install ... now I just need some phones. I was wondering if folks could suggest (or at least relay experiences) on phones? I'm looking for one fairly nice office phone. Something multi-line capable (which I still don't really get - shouldn't that be inherent?) with a decent speaker phone. Then I'm also looking for a couple of wireless ones (I already have a WAP). Any advice, etc is gratefully accepted. Thanks in advance. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: SIP phone suggestions
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:20 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: Please Please try try not not to to have have gnhlug-discuss gnhlug-discuss on on both both the the To: To: and and Cc: Cc: lines lines in in your your headers headers since since that that results results in in duplicate duplicate messages messages to to the the list list. Thanks! Thanks! That was my fault - my original message had the reply-to set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (without mail.). I think that confused a lot of address books. Mea culpa. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Spam and mailing lists
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 00:09 -0400, Jason Stephenson wrote: Exim ... It's my preferred MTA. Every MTA is somebody's preferred MTA. ;-) True. I will enumerate the reasons that I like Exim: 1. It is not Sendmail. 2. It is very powerful. 3. It is what I know. [At least, I'm honest.] In continuation of this tradition, my views and experiences pretty much mirror Jason's. So while I may not be adding a lot to the reasoning, I'd at least add my vote towards exim for all the same reasons. I don't have the time to offer to set exim up, but I'd certainly be willing to help with debugging the config afterwards. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Hosstraders Fall 2006 - Mission Accomplished
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:05 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: In a similar vein, it has been established that Subaru is the official vehicle of either GNHLUG, Hosstraders, or both. I own one, so does Mike Ledoux, so does Ted Roche, and Matt and Heather Brodeur own two. Meanwhile, Forresters were crawling around Hosstraders like ants at a picnic. Two more here. :) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.code-energy.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Google hosting FOSS projects?
At the risk of getting more on topic (*grin*), did anybody catch yesterdays slashdot story about Google hosting F/OSS projects? What do folks think about this? Has anybody tried it out? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Looking for Open Source in Education resources.
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 12:45 -0400, Ray Cote wrote: Hi Folks. I've had a group of educators who are putting together a school technology plan ask me to provide them with links to some of this Open Source software that's out there. Seen recently scrolling by on Freshmeat: Open Admin for Schools http://richtech.ca/openadmin/ -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 09:30 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday afternoon was blown all to hell because of this puzzle. Me too. I suspect the productivity of many GNHLUGers has plummeted in the past 24 hours. Cole, you're an EVIL MAN!!! ;-) Damn straight! I figured I shouldn't be the only one suffering through it. ;) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:45 -0400, Karl wrote: Could one of you smart guys give me a hint for 10? What could a black screen signify but blank? Use the source Luke... that is, the html source. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 17:46 -0400, Karl wrote: Thanks, that got me up to 17. Stuck again. It's the 17th number of a certain sequence. You need to find the eighteenth. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com/) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:43 -0400, Larry Cook wrote: I was dropping my daughter off at Camp Invention this morning and saw a minivan with a license plate of 3KID-OS. I must be slacking off in the geek department as I've never heard of this OS before. ;-) The sad thing is that it took me a couple readings and a minute or two in order to figure what what else this could *possibly* mean. 8) Completely off topic, except for the fact that it is geekily fun... Try this out: http://n.nfshost.com/ How far can you make it? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:17 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: I think I'm just stupid... I can't seem to figure out 4 :( It's case sensitive, if that helps. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:04 -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: Anyone else get to 20? I'm guessing that's the end. Fun game though. Actually, the fun/torture doesn't end until 30. 8) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: OT: email service - gmail
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally fed up with adelphia email service. They have enough space but limit the inbox to 1000 messages even though there is still 90% free space available. Does anyone have an available gmail invitations or would recommend yahoo or hotmail email? Somebody else has already sent you an invite, so I won't duplicate that. My own experience is that yahoo is horrible - lots of false positives on spam, communication problems with their SMTP servers, etc. I have no experience with hotmail. That said, considering that gmail keeps archives of all messages, I'd put some thought into how comfortable you are with having somebody else keep a copy of your email. Personally, I only ever use my gmail account for public mailing lists I'm on. Just my $.02. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Security Mailing Lists/RSS?
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:23 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: What sources do GNHLUG members to be alerted to security issues with Linux and FOSS? I subscribe to Bugtraq and Focus on Linux mailing lists at Security Focus. (http://www.securityfocus.com/) I also tend to sign up for announcements of new versions of critical software, either through the -announce mailing list for the software (if it exists) or by signing up for notice of new releases on freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Last nights MerriLUG meeting, 15-June-2006
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:24 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Jim came presented the iPaq a few years ago to the Nashua group for a quarterly. I remember it being well attended, but not overwhelmingly so. Certainly nothing like when Linus presented at UNH back in '94! There was standing room only in a large UNH lecture hall. People were even sitting on the steps for that one :) And waiting in a very long line to have Linus sign their RedHat 2.1 CDs (which I still have). 8) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:35 -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: If we desire the Internet to reflect some of our American attitudes of free speech and to have a semi-Bill of Rights flavor, we *can* make it that way. We do have a (semi-functional) political/legal system and can mandate that ISPs function as utilitarian common carriers. I see ... and you intend to enforce this on Chinese ISPs how? My point is that not only does the Internet not exist, it's not American either. 8) It is the concept of a bunch of networks connected together ... and not only within the US. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:59 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: I hate this sort of reasoning - it's the same defeatist attitude that leads people to justify buying an SUV instead of an efficient vehicle when gas-saving is under discussion. I understand how you would interpret it this way, but I definitely do not perceive my viewpoint as defeatist at all. My point is more that the viewpoint you hold is that your way is the right way to run the Internet. As we've established the Internet doesn't actually exist, we need to look at this as trying to assign policy to a very wide range of networks. I would argue that trying to create a blanket policy to such a diversity is folly. Different networks have different needs. The policies of some of these networks are governed by the cultural biases of the country/group/whatever that own and run them (much like ourselves). If we want to turn this discussion more towards we should mandate this neutrality for all US networks then! I would still disagree. For one thing, it's a bit difficult to constitute what are American networks or not. If a network is in Canada, but run by an American company can we mandate this? What if *part* of a network is in the US and part not? And what of specialty providers? I know one company that specializes in setting up networks for optimizing video transmissions. They allow their customers to connect to external resources, of course, but they give preference to their own video traffic because that's the service they're selling. Should we now tell them that they are no longer allowed to practice that business model? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Auto mounting usb device on linux server
Hey all - I'm hoping somebody might be able to point out a suggestion or solution for the following. What I have is a Debian (sarge) server, and a couple of usb storage devices. What I want to do is to find a way that when I plug in one of the storage devices, that the server will automagically mount the device. Extra points if I can also kick off a script once the drive is mounted. I tried the usbmount package, but it doesn't seem to work at all. All of the /media/usb* directories have been created, but nothing gets mounted when I plug in the device. I should also mention that I don't know for sure which usb slot the storage device will be plugged into, nor can I guarantee that it will be the only usb device plugged in. Currently, when I plug in my 256MB pen drive, I see the following in the logs: == daemon.log == May 9 21:50:42 localhost udev[3507]: creating device node '/dev/sdb' == messages == May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: Vendor: Model: USB DISK 12X Rev: PMAP May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 487424 512-byte hdwr sectors (250 MB) May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming Write Enabled May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 == syslog == May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: Vendor: Model: USB DISK 12X Rev: PMAP May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 487424 512-byte hdwr sectors (250 MB) May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming Write Enabled May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 9 21:50:42 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 4 May 9 21:50:42 localhost udev[3507]: creating device node '/dev/sdb' == messages == May 9 21:50:43 localhost scsi.agent[3491]: sd_mod: loaded sucessfully (for disk) May 9 21:50:43 localhost usb.agent[3466]: usb-storage: already loaded == syslog == May 9 21:50:43 localhost scsi.agent[3491]: sd_mod: loaded sucessfully (for disk) May 9 21:50:43 localhost usb.agent[3466]: usb-storage: already loaded == daemon.log == May 9 21:50:44 localhost udev[3554]: creating device node '/dev/sdb1' == syslog == May 9 21:50:44 localhost udev[3554]: creating device node '/dev/sdb1' Anybody have any suggestions? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com/) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: GNHLUG RSS feeds, was Re: GNHLUG.Www - Automated notification of topic changes
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:39 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: 2003 and 2004, iirc: http://www.tedroche.com/papers.php What sort of aspects would you (or any others, please) be interested in? For some of us, that question is its own answer in a sense. Part of what I'd like to know is Why should I be interested in RSS, and what aspects are there? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: RFC: Distros for Hosstraders
Just a thought, but considering that this is a bit of a geekfest, what about a couple of firewall type distros? Two that I know of off the top of my head: IPCop: http://ipcop.org/ (Linux based, web front end) m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ (FreeBSD based, web front end. Note, those are zeroes in the name, not ohs) I'm not sure if you'll have time to download m0n0wall .. it's a full 5.7MB download for the iso. ;) The ipcop iso is a little bigger, though still not *huge* at about 41MB. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com/) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Meeting Report - Seacoast - Python - 10 Apr
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 12:05 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
Hi all,
My thanks again to Rob Anderson for last night's SLUG (Seacoast LUG)
for a very educational meeting on Python (along with occasional brief
side trips for COBOL, LISP, Pascal, and other stuff). I also
expressed my annoyance with Rob, because I'm too {lazy, busy,
stubborn} to learn another language right now, and after a brief
introduction, Python looks very interesting to me.
*snip*
Welcome to the wide world of Python. Warning: many of those who enter
find that they really prefer not to leave. ;)
Advocacy aside, python can be a really interesting language to work
with. And for those that have the interest, don't forget our GNHLUG
associated group, the PySIG.
Important points:
o) Meets in Manchester on the fourth Thursday of every month
o) Spearheaded by our own Bill Sconce
o) website at http://www.pysig.org/
o) Anybody and everybody with an interest in Python is welcome
o) (usually low volume) mailing list at
http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/python-talk
--
Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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DNS migration and folks that don't play nice
Preface - The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of services from the older server to the newer server. Of course, one of the issues that's come up is DNS. This led to the following snippet: On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:04 -0400, wrote: Well, there's at least one easy workaround for that, aside from the obvious (shorten TTL ahead of time, to force fast propagation). Unfortunately, shortening the TTL doesn't work for clients (like AOL) that cache/maintain their own DNS. I was curious - how do folks in general deal with this? While AOL can certainly constitute a large number of users, my inclination is to say hell with 'em. If they can't conform to proper netiquette, why should I be bending over backwards to support them? I was just curious to get other folks' take on this quasi-philosophical point. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DNS migration and folks that don't play nice
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:27 -0400, John Abreau wrote: Cole Tuininga wrote: I wasn't aware that AOL was screwing this up as well. Last I was aware, AOL cached DNS entries for a minimum of two weeks, no matter what the TTL. However, I don't see anything that can be done about their blatant disregard for the way DNS is designed to work. Saying the hell with 'em is probably your only realistic option. Well, some folks take the approach that they will try to make sure services remain forwarding for at least two weeks, to accommodate this. As I try to remember to set TTL's to a low value for a while before making changes, I usually say to hell with 'em and only support the forwarding for a little longer than the TTL allows fo -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Seacoast LUG - Meeting tonight at UNH - Intro to Python
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:50 -0400, Greg Rundlett wrote: Spread the word, and see you at UNH in Dartmouth! s/Dartmouth/Durham/ ? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?
Well, I finally got around to installing the Wintendo side of the system last night and guess what? DVI works just fine there. I'm thinking more and more that this might be a Twinview issue. The Windows system (well, the Nvidia app that came with the drivers) recognized not only that I had two outputs on the video card, but also that I had both of them hooked up. It automatically set Twinview for clone mode. Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to give setting up clone mode manually a try this weekend. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?
Chris - I appreciate the input, but I'm actually already running the proprietary drivers. You're right in that they do tend to work a lot better than the open source nv driver, so long as one doesn't mind tainting the kernel with non-GPL modules. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:38 -0400, mike ledoux wrote: Dell FP monitor, right? Ayup... I've seen this failure mode on a bunch of them, mostly 2000FPs and 2001FPs, though also on a couple 1900FPs, where the DVI input goes dead but the monitor works fine on the analog inputs. Keep in mind, the DVI input isn't dead. It just won't work in anything but text mode. In about 3/4 of the cases I saw, the problem was accompanied by a high-pitched whine from the display while the DVI input is working, followed shortly by the DVI input going dead again. Hmmm - I haven't noticed this. I'm really hoping this isn't the case since the monitor is brand-spanking-new. In 100% of the cases I saw, the analog circuit failed not long after, usually within a month or so. Yikes! If you have access to a system with a known working DVI output, I would suggest testing the monitor there just to verify that the problem is in the monitor and not the video hardware. Unfortunately, I do not. I do, however, have the hardware warranty... -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:54 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: Has it ever worked in graphical mode? Your card may be a dual-head display with the primary one being the analog and the second being digital. I've got a user who has this and text mode is duplicated on both displays, then have different displays once X starts. You might just have a messed up X configuration. Hmmm - interesting point. Having never even been in the presence of a dual headed system, I hadn't thought of this. I would imagine that the card is dual-head capable - it has one DVI and one VGA port. I haven't mucked with the X server conf except to set up the proprietary nvidia driver ... how would one go about checking this? If it's the case, my ideal setup would be that the exact same things would be pushed out both the DVI and VGA (at least for the time being) - how do I do that? 8) This is an entirely new area for me. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:43 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: The more I think about it, the more I think all this may not help. The fact that the card stays hosed over a warm reboot implies the card's internal hardware state is really fscked up. It might even be faulty hardware -- have you tested this with *ahem* other OSes? Not yet, although I did notice a new bit to the odd behavior last night. Namely, during the boot up (while in text mode) the DVI connection seems to work (almost all the time) now. However, once gdm starts up, the monitor goes away. At the same time, if I have the regular vga cable hooked up and switch to viewing the input from that, it works *all* the time. Does this help give anybody any ideas? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVI monitor won't wake up?
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:39 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/4/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to a good tax return this year, I finally have my first new system in about 4 years. (Some would say that's a bad tax return. (Better to keep your money and earn interest on it.) But this isn't gnhlug-accounting, so... ;-) ) *grin* Yeah - I've heard that argument before, and I'd go along with it except for one thing ... I probably would have spent it. 8) Did/does tapping the [NUM LOCK] key toggle the corresponding LED on and off? I'll have to check tonight. What about the magic SysRq keys? Does [ALT]+[SysRq]+[S] (sync) cause disk activity and a log entry, for example. (Note that magic SysRq is a kernel compile option and a sysctl runtime option, so it may not be enabled on your system.) These tests will tell you how dead (or not) the console is. Hmmm - this is new to me. I've heard the term before, but never knew what it was. Is there any easy way to see if it's enabled in my kernel ... remotely? 8) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: Up on dslreports forums some people are claiming that other ISP complained to Comcast that C. customers where dragging down the other ISP DNS severs since so many were using them. They speculated that would be a reason to block or redirect some DNS traffic. Am I misunderstanding? Other providers are upset because folks outside their network are using their DNS servers? If this is such a problem, it begs the question, Why don't they just filter out requests that don't come from their own customers? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Bluetooth Serial port?
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:50 -0500, Brian Chabot wrote: I got my new BT dongle running easy enough... it pairs fine with my BT GPS... ...The BT Serial port monitor sees the data... ...but anyone know how I can figure out which /dev/ it's using? I'm at a loss. (This is on a fully up to date Mandriva 2006 install) Any clues? dmesg is silent... so is /var/log/messages. They just tell me the dongle is a HID and the modules loaded OK. You could also try using lsof... -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: In Linux, no one can hear you Wine
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:37 -0500, Lawrence Tilly wrote: I have so far tried two different games ( Master of Orion II and Pharaoh ) with the same results. I'm able to run the installation of the DOS game, and in the case of Pharaoh where it has music playing during installation that sounds fine. As soon as I try running either game though, they appear to play fine but absolutely no sound effects or music comes thru. The opening movies and cut sceens are as silent as in-game activity. Suggestion - for older DOS based games, try dosbox instead of Wine. (http://dosbox.sf.net) I've had much better luck with that, and there's less overhead. Of course, that doesn't help much with Windows games. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast and mail header errors?
Guys - unfortunately, I think you're barking up the wrong proverbial tree. I think I understand this problem, but if my answer here is incorrect, I'm sure that somebody will say so. 8) The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote system. This is a function of the network stack within the kernel - not a system call. Hence, this is not something that can be controlled at the application level. Just my $.02. -- The memory management on the power pc chip is something that should be shown to small children when they've been especially bad. -Linus Torvalds Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Comcast and mail header errors?
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:12 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/23/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote system. man bind(2) Right - this is for *listening* sockets. Sending an email out requires the server to make a connection to a remote server - it doesn't use that same socket. From man 2 bind (emphasis mine): bind gives the socket sockfd the LOCAL ADDRESS my_addr. Again though, this is for setting up *listening* sockets. Not to connect to *remote* socket. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: help sought with playing video (Valles Marineris)
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote: I get audio, but all I see for video is a black window. I'm using mplayer, because this seems to work better than totem. My own personal experience has been that I have the best luck of all with the player xine. It's been a while since I've played with rpm systems so I can't tell you if it's easily installed or not - sorry. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Dia and pdf
Hey all, Anybody know an easy way to save Dia files as pdf's? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Last night's MonadLUG meeting
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:51 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: Guy Pardoe, MonadLUG coordinator, announced that Tim Lind will be presenting on Asterisk at their next meeting, April 13th. Speaking of Asterisk - has anybody heard from Mike Thomas about providing his setup instructions and notes (from the slug Asterisk meeting) on the slug site? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: SLUG meeting tonight at 7pm Topic: Asterisk PBX
Wow - I have to say that IMHO, that was a great meeting on a very interesting topic. I knew that Asterisk was supposed to be pretty versatile, but I had no idea to what extent that was true. Many thanks to Mike and everybody who put the meeting together. Oh - and many thanks for the advanced warning this month - that was a great help! -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Argh - setting timezone from command line in FC
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:51 -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote: Indeed, I have run tzselect, and... it has no effect. As root? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Video translation magic
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:38 -0500, Jeff Macdonald wrote: ffmpeg -i Dr.Who.\(2005\)1×01.Rose.WS.\(X\)SVCD.mpeg -target ntsc-dvd -r 29.97 -aspect 4:3 Dr.Who.\(2005\)1×01.Rose.WS.DVD.mpeg So I gave this a try and it worked great except for one problem. During playback the audio and video are very out of sync. Is a factor of the encoding process when I converted to mpeg? Or is it a factor of the decoding process when I'm playing it back? While I'm at it, here's another question. The original files are in PAL format so the aspect ratio is a little off. Is there a way to keep the aspect ratio and just have the black bars effect? -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Video translation magic
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:42 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: You'd still use the video out of the Hauppage but the CPU would handle decoding. Considering the server is a P3 550, I don't know as though that would be the best option... 8) -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Video translation magic
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:38 -0500, Jeff Macdonald wrote: 1) I have them converted for my TiVo ffmpeg -i Dr.Who.\(2005\)1×01.Rose.WS.\(X\)SVCD.mpeg -target ntsc-dvd -r 29.97 -aspect 4:3 Dr.Who.\(2005\)1×01.Rose.WS.DVD.mpeg In this scenario, are the fps and aspect telling ffmpeg that the source file is in that format? Or that you *want* the target to be in that format? 2) Those episodes will be on SciFi very soon Oh yeah, I'm *very* aware of this - it is the sole reason I'm getting a real cable package again. 8) /me is very excited. -- Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Video translation magic
Hey all - Per some suggestions on this group (and the BLU list), I decided to take a little of my holiday gift money and purchase a Hauppauge MediaMVP (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html) to attach to my TV, with the idea of taking some of the video files on my home fileserver (Ok, my Doctor Who videos) and being able to watch them on the TV. I got the box, and since I didn't want to have to run a Windows machine just to power the box, I set up the mvpmc project (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main) on the fileserver (which is incidentally running Debian Sarge). It works great - the Hauppage box boots off an image from the fileserver that it retrieves via bootp, and then nfs mounts the remote filesystem. Nice. Here's the problem. The Hauppage box itself only supports mpeg1/2 encoded videos and I've got a variety of formats ranging from vob's, to mov's, to asf's, wmv's, and avi's. I've tried looking at (and playing with) ffmpeg and transcode, and I just don't understand this stuff well enough to figure out how to translate the files to the proper formatting. I was wondering if some kind soul out there knew the magic commands to take a given file and translate it to mpeg1/2? Many many thanks in advance to anybody who can help... -- The memory management on the power pc chip is something that should be shown to small children when they've been especially bad. -Linus Torvalds Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Worldpath DSL
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 20:43 -0500, Lawrence Tilly wrote: When the tech first hooked us up I asked if he would have to come back out when we go w/ the static IPs, and he said no...so I didn't think to inquire further at that time. I really wish I did now since he was very helpful and fothcoming w/ info. Sorry to chime in so late - holidays have been busy. 8) In any case, I live in Farmington and have Worldpath for my residential DSL. When I got the original basic service, I had a dynamic IP address and the DSL modem would NAT me - meaning that whatever system I had hooked up to the service would get a so-called fake IP address (usually in the low 10.0.0.x range). I switched to a single static IP address and they did not have to come out to make any changes. They did the configuration from their end, and just gave me the network settings to use. Twas a piece of cake. With regards to the port 80 management on the modem, I don't remember checking it before I got the static IP, but I'm pretty sure that port 80 has been open straight through to my IP since. Keep in mind that unless you're going with a business line, running a server is technically prohibited. Like with most reasonable companies (as few as there may be), I doubt they're likely to yell at you unless you go overboard. I've run an ssh server ever since I got the service and nobody seems to mind. As far as the service itself, I've been extremely happy. In the past 3+ years of the service, I've never had a problem (that wasn't caused by me anyway *grin*). In fact, quite the opposite. I've found that my bandwidth has steadily *increased* through the years. When I first signed up, I was getting a max of about 80kB down and 30kB up. I now bax out at around 424kB down and 100kB up, with no increase in the price of service. Yes, that's a capital B. Not too shabby for living in the boonies. As far as dealing with the folks at Worldpath, I couldn't be happier. Their techs that have come to the house are always polite, nice, knowledgeable and helpful. And the few times that I've needed to email their tech support have been consistently helpful. I've had particularly good luck dealing with an individual named Lance Shaw (hi Lance, if you're reading!). He has been extremely helpful and responsive. All in all, I definitely give Worldpath an A+. -- The memory management on the power pc chip is something that should be shown to small children when they've been especially bad. -Linus Torvalds Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Ruminations on an SSH attack
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 09:04 -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: I've started running something called DenyHosts. If I get N failed logins from an IP address, it gets added to /etc/hosts.deny and my sshd never sees that IP again. It's worth checking out. All automated w/ email alerts, expiration of IPs (or not), number of failures, etc. I have to put in another vote for this. DenyHosts (http://denyhosts.sf.net) has decreased my log sizes significantly. Thankfully, it seems as though the scripts that most script kiddies are using seem to stop trying after they get failed connections due to being put in hosts.deny. -- I have one plan for linux. World Domination. -Linus Torvalds Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Threads and TCP/IP
I've been out of network programming for a while here and was having a random musing that I thought somebody here might be able to answer. Let's say you have a tcp/ip socket in a given multi-threaded program. And let's further say that you have one thread specifically for reading, and one thread specifically for writing. Is it legitimate to have the two threads doing their respective operation on the socket simultaneously? In other words, can you simultaneously read and write a tcp/ip socket? Or would the threads need to do some locking themselves to make sure this doesn't happen? This isn't a I'm trying to... question, I have no practical example or reason for asking. Just good old fashioned geek curiostiy. 8) -- Maybe I'll be able to get a job when I graduate... -Linus Torvalds Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Threads and TCP/IP
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 18:18 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: Yes, one could say 'What about at the same time', but there really isn't such a thing.. ;-) Even on an SMP machine? Just please, for the love of god, dont have multiple threads trying to WRITE to the socket at the same time. Oh, it'll work.. But the data won't look pretty unless the data packets are REALLY small. *heh* Yeah - I know better than to try that. 8) -- The memory management on the power pc chip is something that should be shown to small children when they've been especially bad. -Linus Torvalds Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
