Re: flock and NFS
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jeff Macdonald macfisher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've always been wary of using flock on NFS. Am I being superstitious? The usage scenario I'm thinking of is N nodes trying to acquire a lock on file F that is located on the NFS server. How can I determine if the proper NFS components are in place in order for the programs to function correctly? Thanks all for your replies. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
flock and NFS
Hi all, I've always been wary of using flock on NFS. Am I being superstitious? The usage scenario I'm thinking of is N nodes trying to acquire a lock on file F that is located on the NFS server. How can I determine if the proper NFS components are in place in order for the programs to function correctly? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: video streaming and caching proxies
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: There's one linux implementation of Netflix streaming already. You might check into how that works. My kids don't notice generations losses. So this isn't about what platform it runs on (I run boxee on a mac-mini), its about reducing my bandwidth usage when the kids play the same video over and over. :) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
video streaming and caching proxies
Hi All, My kids love watching the Pink Panther Cartoon via NetFlix Streaming (via TiVo). They watch the same episodes over and over. Unlike Amazon On Demand, Netflix videos are not stored on the TiVo. So I was wondering if a caching proxy server would help/work and keep my bandwidth usage down? If so, I'd like to setup a transparent proxy, would that pose a problem? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Re: Blackduck Software and IP
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:01 AM, paul.co...@verizon.net wrote: Bill said: I'm reading a book about why this destroys shareholder value What is the name of the Book? ditto -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Blackduck Software and IP
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: The company I work for doesn't ship any code. We simply use open source in house to provide services. See SCO v. AutoZone, SCO v. Chrysler. Autozone, at least, is still spending lawyer-dollars on this case, c., what, '03? I haven't looked at the Chrysler case, but it's likely on Groklaw. This is the reason I'm a former GNOME user... um, but that would mean that BlackDuck has copies of everyone propriety code, which it can't. The A,B,C example earlier in this thread is more like what I believe BlackDuck is trying to prevent. But, as I said before, we don't distribute any code. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Blackduck Software and IP
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Paul Moore pcmo...@umich.edu wrote: [1] https://fossbazaar.org/home Wow, very cool. Thanks very much for that link. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Blackduck Software and IP
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote: Jeff Macdonald writes: But, as I said before, we don't distribute any code. You've made this statement twice now, but I myself don't understand how this is relevant to the issue at hand. The common licenses that are being discussed here do not have language in them that reads if you don't distribute code, you're fine I guess this could be ignorance on my part, but it was my understanding that at least with the GPL, one could do whatever they want with the code. But if the code was later distributed, one had to abide by the additional terms of the GPL. because under certain circumstances that's exactly what you have to do -- distribute your code. Now you are confusing me, is it relevant or not? :) Either way I need to do some re-reading. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Blackduck Software and IP
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote: Tom Buskey writes: I think the confusion is over what code refers to. Instead, use binaries and source so there's no ambiguity. I think that this is the best observation in the entire thread. This is what I stumbled over in the original question. Now that I re-read the original question I recognize that my definition of code was different from Jeff's. Ah, yes, sorry about that. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Blackduck Software and IP
Hi all, This isn't strictly Linux related, but a pointy-hair boss here mentioned to a peer of mine the desire to bring these folks in. I'm at a loss why any company would actually need such a service, so I'm wondering if any of you have anyinsight. My view is that since open source software is publicly available, an organization that would claim IP (intellectual property) rights would simply be better off sending cease and desist orders to the author of code. I do understand that wouldn't be as profitable as going after a company with deep pockets. The company I work for doesn't ship any code. We simply use open source in house to provide services. I would also think that once some sort of IP infringement is found, that would make the company more liable until such infringing code is removed/recoded. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
exim question
Hey, I've searched the main exim docs to see if it implements RFC 3463 and I can't find any such reference. I know there are some exim fans here. Does exim not support that RFC? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: python question
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Macdonald wrote: it has been ages since I've played with python. Is there an equivalent way to do this perl command in python with a 3rd party module? $ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/jeff/projects/program/lib All is can find is: $ python setup.py install Jeff: If your purpose is to create a private stash of python modules, rather than installing a new module to the standard location, you can usually do it with an option like: python setup.py install --home=dir assuming that the Python module uses the standard DistUtils installer. See: http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html#SECTION00031 and parent document: http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html for more details and variations. Thanks Ted! -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
python question
it has been ages since I've played with python. Is there an equivalent way to do this perl command in python with a 3rd party module? $ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/jeff/projects/program/lib All is can find is: $ python setup.py install -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Any ZigBee/Bluetooth users?
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Scott Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing some research on low-power embedded wireless technologies. I've found a lot of useful information, but little to nothing on the Real World bandwidth and range of these technologies. If anyone on this list has used ZigBee or Bluetooth in embedded applications, please drop me a line. Although I haven't done embedded stuff, it has always interested me. ZigBee has some very cool features, but the modules are just to expensive for me. Bluetooth modules are just as expensive. However, with bluetooth devices being everywhere now, one should be able to salvage parts from discarded electronics? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Any ZigBee/Bluetooth users?
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 21, 2008, at 08:06, Jeff Macdonald wrote: Bluetooth modules are just as expensive. I've been playing with USB Bluetooth dongles in a quasi-embedded application (x86) that were about $14 in retail packaging. I'm told I can get them raw for about $8 in bulk (I don't need no stinkin' plastic shroud). Wow. Got a URL? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Any ZigBee/Bluetooth users?
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 21, 2008, at 08:06, Jeff Macdonald wrote: Bluetooth modules are just as expensive. I've been playing with USB Bluetooth dongles in a quasi-embedded application (x86) that were about $14 in retail packaging. I'm told I can get them raw for about $8 in bulk (I don't need no stinkin' plastic shroud). Wow. Got a URL? Lots of USB Bluetooth dongles can be found in the cheapland.. http://www.emtcompany.com/products/computer-accessories/3creb96b-3com-usb-to-bluetooth-wireless-adapter-dongle.htm Ah, I see where I went wrong. I kept looking at embedded solutions. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: linux hardware inventory program
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another hardware-inventory project is by a Boston Ubuntu-nik - http://dohickey.parsed.net/ I'm not sure how mature 9it is. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks all, I enede up going Ben's route. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
linux hardware inventory program
Hey, Anybody have a favorite program that can dump hardware inventory of a system? I'd like CPU, RAM, Disk, Ethernet, and probably others. http://lhinv.sourceforge.net/ is close, but is messing disk size info on scsci disks. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 17 Jan, Python? Why should I care?
On Jan 16, 2008 8:12 AM, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. !!! If you are not a Regular Attendee (50%), please let me know. !!! attending with eeepc - not a regular attendee. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Cheap Gigabit switch will allow DHCP thru it?
On Dec 29, 2007 12:31 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to add another hdhomerun tunerbox to my myth setup. I have a DHCP server running to give the existing tuner its IP address. Can I add a cheap gigabit switch to add the other tuner? Will the requests for IP address be routed to the server properly? I have a cheap netgear gigabit switch and all the devices do dhcp that are connected on it. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
On Dec 21, 2007 4:54 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 07:53, Bruce Dawson wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution. In this particular case I'm trying to catch an unlink - my hunch is lsof woudn't show anything. How about monitoring the directory containing the file? (/file/you/are/interested instead of /file/you/are/interested/in) I was being unclear - the issue I'm concerned with is that by time lsof fires, the rather atomic unlink operation is gone from the table of which resources are in use. If only files had a FIN_WAIT. ;) hmmm... could FUSE provide what you are looking for? Create a user based filesystem that layers itself over ext3 and intercepts unlinks? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Eee PC hands on?
On Dec 17, 2007 1:43 PM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking about getting an Eee PC but I am concerned about the small size of the screen and keyboard. Has anyone on this list actually tried one and can comment? Is there any place I might be able to try one? I have one. Perhaps some drinks at Martha's would entice me to come to the next meeting there. :) I originally wanted it for my 5 year old twin boys. The screen is to small to play flash games at pbskids.org. :( So currently it is my toy. Work won't let me put it on their network due to some 'security' concerns about non-work owned machines. Can anyone compare the Eee keyboard with that of the XO-1 (OLPC), particularly from the point of view of usability by an adult with average-sized hands? I haven't touched an OLPC, so I can only comment the eee. It is small and cramped. Any scuttlebutt about updates for Eee PC? There's a 8G machine on the way. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Eee PC hands on?
On Dec 17, 2007 3:11 PM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking of this for a few specific jobs: - for my daughter to use while for web surfing and writing away from her desktop. I find myself doing Ctl - in order to get text to fit the screen reasonably. Google reader is bearable on it. I haven't tried the mobile versions of popular web sites yet. - for me and my daughters to use next summer for web surfing and email when I take a trip abroad. It can handle that. Over the holiday's I'm going to move MoneyDance and other personal things to it and see if it's bearable. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Gmail and listid!
listid:(gos-users.thinkgos.com) Latest version has a 'filter messages like this'. I just subscribed to the gOS list and used that feature. Interestingly enough it had this for the filter option pre-filled in the Keywords: listid:(gos-users.thinkgos.com) Is listid new, or was it something I missed? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: OLPC - Nov 12 launch
I haven't seen the Eee yet. It does look pretty neat. The eee is supposedly showing up at Best-Buy this Sunday. But I'm more inclined to use some low-power machines as mini-servers (servlets?) ditto (the everex pc). but I'm looking at the eee for the kids. I have to see how flash games (PBS) work. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)
On 10/17/07, Ben Scott wrote: On 10/17/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally please send email either to the listserv or to the poster you are replying to, but not both. Au contraire, please send messages to both me and the mailing list. Au contraire contraire, please do not. Abuse of Reply All causes List Header Cancer! Couldn't this be solved by the list setting Reply-To: to the list? And yes, I know it considered bad, but currently many email programs don't support a 'Reply To List' function. In mutt, I have to tell it about lists, which of course, just seems lame. In Gmail, Reply To All puts the list in the CC field. Hmmm... if a message has multiple Reply-To's, why not have the MUA reply to all of them? That way a List could add a new Reply-To header without worry about an existing value. I suppose I need to re-read some RFCs. :( -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)
On 10/18/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A million years ago, this list took a vote, and the harmful faction won. I'm really uninterested in repeating the debate unless there is significant evidence a change in opinion has occurred, and AFAICT, no such evidence exists. Yes, I was here for that. I'm just saying that maybe the behaviour you are seeing and disliking is a side effect of not have the list set 'Reply-To:'. Hmmm... if a message has multiple Reply-To's, why not have the MUA reply to all of them? RFC-2822 does allow multiple addresses to be specified in the Reply-To header, so I suppose list software could add to an existing Reply-To, rather than replacing it. But that just makes the whole How to handle list replies picture even muddier, so I'm not sure how that helps. And it still doesn't prevent List Header Cancer. I thought one of the objections to Lists using Reply-To was that Author of the message could set that to some other address and the List software would cause the value to be lost. Having multple Reply-To's means just that, send a response to multiple address. So I'm lost on how that makes things muddier. Hitting a Reply-To All button means Reply to all addresses listed in To, Reply-To, CC, etc. fields. There will always be people who hit that button at the wrong time. But today when responding to this list, I would have to take extra steps to keep the 'cancer' at bay. Anyhow, I don't really care either way. I do find it interesting that after all these years, MUAs and Lists still don't play nice with each other. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Re: Facebook group
On 8/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so where do the Boomers or old Guys go? usenet? :) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Re: Facebook group
On 8/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so where do the Boomers or old Guys go? usnet or irc? :) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
list test - please ignore
are all the right bits in place? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: DNLA streaming?
On 5/23/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After looking at the up and coming 1.8 firmware for the PS3, they will now allow users to stream media via 'DNLA' enabled devices. Any idea exactly what this means directly? Is there a way for say, a MythTV box to be 'DNLA enabled'? Data on the net points to it being some sort of UPnP device which supports HTTP streaming of content. DNLA and Linux searches lead to much talk, but little technical info. :-( I've been following this guys blog: http://www.cybergarage.org/blog/skonnoblog.html He has some libs he's created to interop with this kind of stuff. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: off-topic - What happened to the TV series season?
On 3/27/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:25:02PM -0400, Jeff Macdonald wrote: I just watched Battlestar Galactica, which turned out to be the last one for the season. The next one won't be till 200 8. Ugh! The networks are giving me less and less reason to watch this stuff when it's aired (or in my case, within a week of it's airdate, since I'm a happy TiVo user). I just hope that by 2008 TiVo will figure a way to include the network shows that are available on the internet by then. TiVo has that right now. You can purchase content through Amazon Unbox to watch on your S2 or S3 TiVo, Almost what I want. I'm talking about the free stuff available at the network's websites, not the stuff that one pays for. I am thrilled with Amazon Unboxed. I now have Clifford's Big movie till the end of time :) Gattica is next on my list of movies to buy. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: QuantumBooks Waltham is closed
On 2/27/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Passing on this information because I just recently let everyone know what a good store it was. Got an announcement this morning that the Waltham store of Quantumbooks is closed. The original Kendall Square store remains open. Bummer. I was a huge fan of SoftPro when they were in Burlington, I bought my first computer book there, Rodney Zak's Programming the Z80 when I was maybe 12 years old? I do miss SoftPro very much. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MythTV hw question
On 11/12/06, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:snip Some VGA outs can only get up to 1080i and can't get the throughputof 1080p, especially since I'm asking for nearly 995328000 B/s (unlessI've miscalulated 1920 x 1080 x 4 x 120...Another thing to remember is Myth is moving to using OpenGL Fonts and if I understood things correctly, many TV-Out ports don't support that. -- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MythTV hw question
On 11/12/06, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/12/06, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Some VGA outs can only get up to 1080i and can't get the throughput of 1080p, especially since I'm asking for nearly 995328000 B/s (unless I've miscalulated 1920 x 1080 x 4 x 120... Another thing to remember is Myth is moving to using OpenGL Fonts and if I understood things correctly, many TV-Out ports don't support that.I'm ignoring the TV-Out port; there is NO TV-Out that can output HDTV, so that's ireelevant to this discussion.Useful to someone else, butirrelevant to me.Ah, didn't know that. So because I don't own anything HD yet, do most HDTVs have a VGA port on them? -- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Novell,MS and Xen
Hi,Wasn't one of the reasons given for this deal was for better Linux/Windows interop? Wouldn't Xen on a Intel CPU capable of harware virtualization be enough interop?-- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Novell,MS and Xen
On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original post asked: Wasn't one of the reasons given for this deal was for better Linux/Windows interop? Wouldn't Xen on a Intel CPU capable of harware virtualization be enough interop? And the answer is no.And your answer did in fact make lots of sense. Combine that with Redhat's response (open standards and code provide interop) helped me realized what is really going on here. -- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings
Apologies to Dan as he'll be seeing this message twice. Ted Roche wrote: I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery planSo have you looked at S3 at Amazon? Just do all this stuff over the net. -- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]
On 11/8/06, Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Lussier writes: So, for these 2 systems, can someone give me a rough list of the essential-to-have hardware and the cost analysis?Or you could just buy a pre-built system. http://www.monolithmc.com/Courtesy of Google Ads (note, I haven't actually looked at the website).-- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Sendmail 'Too many connections' problem
On 9/9/06, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please tell me what the incantation is to limit the number ofsimultaneous connections to a particular server?Try SingleThreadDelivery and HostStatusDirectory options. -- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA
Amazon's EC2 service
Background can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/b/002-1671251-4720010?ie=UTF8node=201590011So I'm very rusty on Networking, but would there be a way to have dynamically assigned IPs that this service essentially does for its hosts and have it go through some VPN like network and present a different IP? I'm thinking VPN from these EC2 hosts to some sort of router hosted somewhere else. -- Jeff MacdonaldAyer, MA
Re: Replacement for Yahoo Domains
On 5/11/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zoneedit.com I use these folks to. Works for me. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
LinkStation, CIFS and Fedora Core 5 - how to mount
Hi all, This week I got a Buffalo LinkStation Home Server, which is basically a NAS type device that exports a SMB mount point. I have a Fedora Core 3 system which is able to mount the device using smbmount but is unable to write more than 2G to it. At first I thought this was a LinkStation issue but I now suspect it is a FC3 issue. I also have FC5 on a laptop. FC5 doesn't include smbmount. However, I am able to use smbclient to attach to the LinkStation. FC5 uses CIFS as a file system type instead of SMB. I haven't set up any users on the LinkStation, so the proper command should be (as root): # mount -tcifs //data/share /mnt/data -o guest but I get this error: mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) After much trial and error (while I was composing this message) I found the proper command: # mount -tcifs //data/share /mnt/data -o guest,user=guest So this message is now more of a FYI type message as it started out as a HELP! message. :-) PS: I'm partially through a copy using Nautilis (just got passed the 2G limit), so at least the smb client library in gnome doesn't have a 2G limitation and this seems to prove that the LinkStation can handle 2G file sizes. I'll report back on CIFS results. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Looking fior dedicated CentOS 4.x hosting service
you mean the folks that bought a SCO license for their Linux boxes? I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole! On 2/23/06, Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:41:10PM -0500, Jeff Macdonald wrote: I need 2 different providers. I have ServerBeach in mind and I need another provider. Looking for around $99/month and CentOS 4.x. EV1Servers may meet your needs. http://www.ev1servers.net/hosting/value.asp -- Bob -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Looking fior dedicated CentOS 4.x hosting service
Any recommendations? I need 2 different providers. I have ServerBeach in mind and I need another provider. Looking for around $99/month and CentOS 4.x. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Video translation magic
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 2) Those episodes will be on SciFi very soon I find it very interesting that for #1 my notes have exactly what you are trying to accomplish! :-) On 2/5/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
free dns with logging
Hi, Anybody know of such a service? Basically I'd like to log DNS queries for analysis. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?
On 12/13/05, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tivo2Go is really nice too. Along with the HME apps like Galleon. Now if only I could get it to find my SlimServer... ditto I'm working on a side project at home - I call it TiVoCast. The general idea is to marry Buffalo's LinkServer or the newer Gigabit models with a Galleon style system but use Perl instead of Java. In other words, have a stand alone device that can archive show's from your TiVo or use bittorrent to pull stuff off the net and transcode as needed. If anyone wants to help, let me know. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?
On 12/12/05, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Ben Caveat Emptor Scott Oh, if you own a TiVo Series 1, do your homework before dumping your landline -- Jeff Macdonald TiVo Series 1 and Vonage User Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?
On 12/12/05, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:42:40PM -0500, Jeff Macdonald wrote: On 12/12/05, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Ben Caveat Emptor Scott Oh, if you own a TiVo Series 1, do your homework before dumping your landline Roughly $70 solves the problem forever, just plug the TiVo into your home network: http://www.9thtee.com/turbonet.htm I did this before ditching my landline 3+ years back, figuring it'd pay for itself in 2 months. I'm glad I did. I didn't have to buy anything, I just had to change the prefix to dialing. So if one does their homework and doesn't have to buy anything, I'd give them an A+. :-) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
mutt question
Hello, I'm new to mutt. I'm unable to find how to do this simple thing that I can do in Evolution: select a Sent message use it as it was a newly composed message. Evolution called this 'Edit as New'. Any ideas? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Perl include question
On 12/5/05, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use FindBin qw($Bin); use lib $Bin; use myinclude; all of my perl code does basically this, but I stick things in a lib directory: /some/directory/myapp /some/directory/myapp/lib so the use lib line above would turn into use lib $Bin/lib; makes things a little easier to manage. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: mutt question
On 12/5/05, Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip but esce (resend-message binding), which use[s] the current message as a template for a new one, may be just what you're looking for. I need to get some eye glasses. Thanks very much. I scanned the help many times but I missed that. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: To VPN or not to VPN... [was Re: MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP]
On 12/2/05, Paul Lussier wrote: snip Of course, IMO, there's little need for VPNs these days if you set your environment up correctly. Judicious use of SSL, Kerberos, AFS, SSH, and screen should be able to provide you with just about everything you need. Don't forget SSH provides SOCKS support too. That and a little proxy config script for Firefox makes life really easy. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Filesystem full ?!?
On 7/1/05, Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Why on earth am I out of space? The blocksize I used should be good to 16TB...have I forgotten something obvious? The files currently on it are all large (3-6 MB each) and it's only 54% full according to df. What does df -i show? I'm guessing you are out of inodes. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: C or C++?
On 5/27/05, Bill Sconce wrote:
If it were me I'd go with C++. C++ allows better commenting.
How so?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mda]$ gcc -Wall -o hello foo.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mda]$ cat foo.c
#include stdio.h
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf(hello world\n);
// std beginner program
return(0);
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mda]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk
--host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mda]$ ./hello
hello world
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Re: AOL access from Linux
On 5/13/05, Bill McGonigle wrote: If cost isn't her primary driver maybe she can get a $30 DSL line - then linux is supereasy - AOL is, what $23 a month now? or, courteous of GMail: :) Verizon extends FiOS in West Central Florida Telecom Paper (subscription) - 41 minutes ago - Verizon customers in Beach Park and Land O Lakes, West Central ... [gmail displayed that ad (among others) for this thread] -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Broadcast flag news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4290315.stm In short: The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges it has crossed the line with an anti-piracy tag which stops programmes being copied. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
nfs and tcpdump/ethereal
Hi, Anybody have experience with these? Here is what I'm puzzled about: 1) rsize=32768,wsize=32768, but ethereal only shows 8K packets 2) having set it to use TCP, then back to UDP, the dump shows TCP include/linux/nfsd/const.h shows 32 x 1024 for NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE. What is everyone using for GEther? udp or tcp? (seems there's conflicting data out there). -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: mail archives
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:57:55 -0500 (EST), Benjamin Scott wrote: snip If you want to volunteer a reliable server, with reliable power, with available reliable bandwidth and a static IP address, all dedicated to GNHLUG, open to people you may not know, and also create and supervise a process where people can somehow be evaluated and approved for access, and also take over general management of it all, then I'm sure something can be arranged That's a bit harsh, but I'm trying to demonstrate that the problems are many, and generally not technical in nature. :-( So why not use gmane.org? It seems to provide what people are looking for. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:44:52 -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: snip A way around this might be a poll that put the archive idea to a vote, then go with the majority. Then put that in the charter so we can end these debates by pointing at the charter. I'd like the archive. However, would gmane be a better alternative? http://www.gmane.org/ -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: grub mysteries
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:07:24 -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: Grub can be told to map drives to different locations, essentially fooling the OS into seeing the drives as having a different letter in the BIOS. It could be that you have some of that going on in a menu.lst or grub.conf file. I'll wager that it may have been added automagically by the install software of either Fedora or Gentoo. Actually, I just figured this out. The Adaptec card has a 'boot device' option. I didn't realize what this was because the BIOS post is so vague. I had inadvertently set the master drive on ide3 to be a boot drive. The Adaptec BIOS then presents this as the first drive on the controller. Grub just uses the BIOS, so that is what it saw. I had to reboot the card without any drives (trying to reset it using the BIOS failed), then with drives on the first channel, then the drive on the 2nd channel. It all works now! Your 'map drives to different locations' got me thinking in the right direction. Thanks. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
grub mysteries
Hi all, So last weekend I decided to convert my Gentoo server to Fedora Core 3. My motivation was that a volume manager, LVM, was used. It should make it easier to add disks in the future. I realize that other distributions have LVM. This was the first time it was 'shoved' in my face during an install. Now here's my hardware setup - including a new drive and a new IDE controller. This system is a PIII 500 whose IDE controllers may do 66MHz, more likely 33MHz. I've been buying drives over the years and adding them. old controller IDE0 - hda (20G) IDE1 - hdc new controller (Adaptec ASH-1233) IDE2 - hde (160G), hdf (251G) IDE3 - hdg (8G) Grub of course sees hd0-hd4. Some other details: hda - windows drive (hd0) hde - ext3 /old_home and swap (hd1) hdf - /home (LV) new empty drive (hd2) hdg - ext3 /boot and / (LV) (hd3) However, that's under Linux. When booting however, Grub sees something else. hd3 becomes hd1! hd1 becomes hd2! Changing grub.conf to point to the correct devices doesn't help. I'm only able to boot using a floppy and specifying root, kernel and initrd command by hand. Has anyone else seen this? This is not a PCI bus ordering thing where ide=reverse would fix things. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
PDFs and text selection
Hi, Do any of the gnome based tools support text select. Acroreader 5 does, but I was hoping something that's native to Fedora would support it to. I just want to be able to copy and past some text. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
For those following Sender based authentication - a question
Anybody agree with the following statement? The HELO domain represents the mail provider used by the author of the message and thus is more closely related to the author than any other header within the message. This is from the CSV doc to the FTC. Is is just mean, or does this seem to ignore multiple hops? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:18:20 -0500, Dan Jenkins wrote: I was a bit too quick on the reply, the HELO in the mail header is from the first mail server which accepts the message. Subsequent hops don't change the initial HELO. I must re-read the RFCs. I was not under the impression this was so. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: apt and RH EL ES3
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:19:33 -0400, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a decent sources.list file for apt which will work for a RH ES3 system? I use up2date as it supports APT and YUM repositories. I should say the up2date that Whitebox provides (Whitebox is a RHEL 3.X clone). Also, whose this 'dag' guy? I've been warned that his packages could really mess up my system. Dag maintains a lot of rpms that are not part of RHEL. See http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/. I've been using his and freshrpms http://freshrpms.net/ repositories. At times when the rpm is available at RH up2date seems to get stuck. Commenting out the 3rd party repository lines in the sources file seems to clear things up. My line for dag: yum dag http://apt.sw.be/fedora/1/en/$ARCH/dag I don't have freshrpms handy at the moment (my home system uses it). -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Forwarding unwilling network programs (was: Evolution and Exchange ...)
sweet -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Evolution and Exchange - a Global Catalog Server question
Try this: echo your_logon_name ALL=(root) PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr//bin/ssh /etc/sudoers then launch SSH via: sudo ssh -L 389:host:389 Little easier than mucking with iptables and less parts to break. Turns out that Exchange's Global Address List uses a different port, 3268! So no root access is needed! I found this out be doing a strace on the evolution-exchange-storage process. So for the complete solution for those who have the Exchange server and OWA setup for for some reason the Global Address list is not also available, but you have ssh access to your net, here is the solution: 1) In Evolution set the Global Catalog server name to local host 2) use -L 3268:GAS:3268, where GAS is your Global Access Server (most likely your AD server) Thanks all for the help. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Evolution and Exchange - a Global Catalog Server question
Ok, as Paul requested, some better details (I'll try my best, I'm at work now): OWA is enabled and I can see calanders, public folders, etc. That part works just fine. The part that doesn't work fine is the Global Catalog Server stuff that Evolution can use for address completion. I don't believe this uses OWA. When specifying an Exchange server connection for the account there is a box for providing the address of the Global Catalog Server (GCS). There is not a input box were one can set the port like you can when a Directory Server is used. So I just added a :port# to the end of the server address. So here are the steps I took: I ssh to work and specify port forwarding like so: ssh -L 1389:ad.work.com:389 ssh-host.work.com I set the server for GCS to localhost:1389 I click on the Global Address List and type a name. Nothing. I tried composing a message and typing someones name at work. No auto-completion. So I'm assuming that Evolution doesn't support the port hack I did. So I'm making the assumption that the GCS uses LDAP. That may be a bad assumption. Anybody know? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Evolution and Exchange - a Global Catalog Server question
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:03:15 -0400, Whelan, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if you did -L389:host:389 and point your connector to localhost for the GC that might work for you. ssh won't allow ports below 1024 to be redirected. So the next question is how do I specifiy that with IP tables / Netfilter? I'm running FC2. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Evolution and Exchange - a Global Catalog Server question
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:39:38 -0400, Whelan, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i lo -s 127.0.0.1/32 --dport 1389 -j DNAT --to 127.0.0.1:389 Should this be reversed? ie dport 389 and too 127:0.0.1:1389? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Evolution and Exchange - a Global Catalog Server question
I just realized that I can access work's Exchange server with Evolution and the Exchange Connector using Fedora Core 2 (connector is at Dag's site). Everything works great, but the Global Catalog Server. Seems that doesn't use WebDav but LDAP. I also have ssh access to work, so I can redirect local ports on my local box to the AD server at work. I've tried appending the port number using :1389 for the server (ie localhost:1389) and having ssh direct that to 389 to the AD server. That didn't work. Does anybody have idea's besides opening up a port for AD? Anybody use PPTP with Linux? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Forcing sendmail to use HELO (vs. EHLO)?
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:00:23 -0400, Scott Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any sendmail gurus know how to force sendmail to use the HELO method for all outgoing mail instead of EHLO? Look for this line in sendmail.cf: Mesmtp, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuXa, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP ... remove the 'a' from the F parameter: F=mDFMuXa to F=mDFMuX I have pcap traces on each side of the connection during a bounce if anyone is curious enough to want them. It looks like Exchange just kills the connection in the middle of the message body transfer and generates a bounce instead. This doesn't make sense. If Exchange stopped the transaction then sendmail would be generating the bounce, not exchange. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Forcing sendmail to use HELO (vs. EHLO)?
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:15:52 -0400, Scott Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:08, Derek Martin wrote: I appreciate the offer, but honestly there are so many details of our network configuration and Exchange server setup that I'd rather not go into. But to answer your question, the bounce is a 550 5.7.1 error: Your message To: Joe User Subject: Blah blah blah Sent:Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:47:35 -0400 did not reach the following recipient(s): Joe User on Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:47:36 -0400 You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For assistance, contact your system administrator. my.sendmail.server #5.7.1 SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Requested action not taken: message refused The mails are coming from Bugzilla, and sometimes they make it to the recipients, and sometimes they don't. I'm not the Exchange admin, and he's tried enabling all sorts of relay permissions for my sendmail box, and that hasn't gotten us anywhere. Seems like a content filter in Exchange is causing rejections. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: RedHat/Other Support?
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:28:44 -0400, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I finally get up2date working without their help and then I find out that they've dropped support for 1394 devices, which this customer uses for backup. You have to load the kernel-unsupported package to get the 1394 module and at that point Redhat won't talk to you about it either. See Arjan van de Ve's recent reply to a thread labeled 'the fate of firewire' on the Fedora Users list. Seems he's willing to help. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Making a Windows disk a file on Linux
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:40:15 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Or... if it's a relatively small disk, you could just take an image of the disk (or partition), itself, using dd or even cat (eg. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=image_of_c_drive.img), and then mount it thusly: mount -t vfat -o loop image_of_c_drive.img /foo You could read and write it, then, That is my thinking to. Seems to me that would preserve the file system the best. but you'd also pay the penalty of having the image file include all the empty space on the partition. That is why I was asking about compressing stuff. There is a file system call squashFS that compresses filesystems. I just noticed that last night. I don't know if 2.6 kernels have it, but that might be an option. The other option for getting rid of extra space is shrinking the partition. I haven't played with those tools, but I'd imagine parted or a similar tool on a Knoppix CD is reliable. Have you folks had good luck shrinking partitions? Just another option... And I like it. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:24:07 -0400, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I was reading about DSL out of 'remote terminals'. I guess they can put a DSLAM in the neighborhood boxes that fiber optics land at. I believe that the 3Mbps doesn't work with the remote terminals. Got any URLs? I was wonder what that was all about. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Searching for content within tags using Google
Is there a way to do such things? Basically I'd like to look for a non html tag: migratus location=fooo / It is a tag I add to my birding entries and I was wondering if I can find such entries using google. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Want to reverse engineer Yahoo's multiple photo upload
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 21:27:11 -0400, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Macdonald wrote: Anybody have an alternative that isn't shareware? Yes, Apache (http://www.apache.org/) can be configured as a proxy server and could log/store just about anything you want. Actually, Charles is really nice. Turns out all the mulple file upload does is multiple posts! Duh! -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Verizon offering 3Mbps
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/53311 -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Want to reverse engineer Yahoo's multiple photo upload
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:38:23 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Aug 30, 2004, at 15:19, Jeff Macdonald wrote: That's how I'd do it - I've had good luck with Charles: http://www.xk72.com/charles/download.html Anybody have an alternative that isn't shareware? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Re: Bookstores [Was: Re: Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]]
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:17:48 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Michael Costolo wrote: If the only costs I were paying were some marketing, royalties and trivial distribution fees, I HAVE to imagine that lifetime savings (for me, at least) would be in the thousands. Yet if there was a 'pay-per-view' model the savings would be much less if any. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
pcmcia vs pccard vs cardbus
Hi, I know that pccard is the same is pcmcia (easier for consumers). What is cardbus? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:38:18 -0400, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Jon maddog Hall wrote: When I was last at the SoftPro in Waltham (last fall maybe?) Also off-topic, but how is SoftPro doing? Since they've moved I've been there maybe once. Before that it was at least every other month. I had been shopping at their Burlington store since I was a kid (my first book was on the Zilog Z80) with a 8 year absence while I went to college and lived in Long Island. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [OT] Gmail..
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:35:25 -0400, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:05:29 -0400, Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * no 'mark all read' - something I do for mailing lists when I'm behind Actually, just use 'Select all Unread' and drop down to 'Mark as Read'. *shrug* Just wanted to make note of that.. ;-) Does that work across pages? I have my setting to display 100 message threads, but sometimes I have hunderds of unread messages (Fedora Users List for example). Using just select All doesn't work for mor then the messages on the current screen. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Encrypted file systems was Re: Email security (was: Gmail..)
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:00:02 -0400, Paul Iadonisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Apart from my own servers, which will in the not-so-distant future use encrypted filesystems Last week I was reading some computer mag (it was very good, can't recall the name, but it wasn't a Ziff publication) and they were doing a motherboard bakeoff. One of them had IDE ports that supported encryption. I thought, wow, that's cool. Anybody every use such a beast? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Email security
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:34:59 -0400, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Iadonisi wrote: This all reminds me that I never followed through on something I mentioned a while ago on this list, for which I apologize. I was going to put together a description of my current mail setup using sendmail, cyrus-imapd, mysql with SMTP AUTH, TLS and other stuff. Problem is, it's a moving target, as I'm always tweaking it. Maybe I'll put something together in a feeble attempt to steer this discussion back to something Linux related ;-). I, for one, would be interested in hearing about your configuration. Even a rough snapshot of a moving target. I've done various bits myself, but always look to learn more, especially from someone's experiences. Has anyone tried Hushmail? That is a system that seems to provide end to end encryption and the data is encypted on their end too. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Redhat ES 2.x and pam.d/system-auth changes after an update
Hi, I was hoping that there are other RHES 2.x users on the list. I have a box at rackspace that has RHES 2.x. I run up2date myself. I ran up2date and noticed that the pam.d/system-auth that was in the rpm was saved with .rpmnew. Looking at the difference I see that $ISA has been added to most paths. So, anyone know if there is any danger in using the new config file? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Gigabit ethernet cards question
Can these cards step down to 100/10 speeds? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
gmail invitation available to first person who asks
I've run out of friends! :) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: gmail invitation available to first person who asks
Gone! On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:56:44 -0400, Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run out of friends! :) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: philosophical question about gmail
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:14:38 -0400, Bill Sconce wrote: This is going to hurt. I'm going to have to admit ignorance, not just of the usual sort, but in this case near-total ignorance. What is gmail? I've replied to 2 folks about this, so here it is for the list. gmail is google's web based mail system that offers 1 GIG of free space. It display ads based on content in your email. The ads are normal non-intrusive ads that google made popular. Since this service is in beta only existing users can invite others. Gmail gave me up to 12 invitations to hand out over time, I had one left so I offered it to the group. But I have to add, where have you folks been? :) Gmail was talked about a lot in the press! Just google for gmail! -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Fwd: philosophical question about gmail
and another -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:38:47 -0400 Subject: Re: philosophical question about gmail To: Kevin D. Clark On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:00:38 -0400, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So, I'm just bringing the issue up. Even a individual could use the content from the list for their own personal gain, couldn't they? I suppose. I've even learned things from this list that I've probably used to do my job better. But that's different than enriching some third party company like Google, even if it is Google's mantra to do no harm. I haven't read Google's user agreement exhaustively, but I assume that it has the standard this agreement is subject to change at any time at our whim, right? So could the agreements for Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. snip Another way to look at it is this, should I be penalized for using a system that provides more storage which uses the content to help pay for a free service? You *could* use a service with less storage that didn't scan incoming mail. But as a third party, I had no choice in the matter -- because you (apparently) subscribed to the GNHLUG now my mails are being scanned by Gmail... Or ignored by a spam filter from some other providers. The ads are mostly relevant to the content whereas other providers ads add no value. I'm pretty sure all mail is scanned in some way. Google is probably the only one besides spam/virus authors making money from it. Some one, be it a company or an individual, is going to 'profit' in some way from content on a mailing list. I don't think that's bad. Someone profits from my viewing habits on TV. Someone profits from my browsing habits on the web. I understand that you can choose who does in most of these cases by not watching or surfing to certain places. However I'd be surprised if mailing lists start to ban subscribers from certain email addresses. I wonder if google is thinking of honoring a 'dont-scan-me' header, perhaps they can use the don't archive header too. If you are truly concerned about this I'm willing to have gmail delete all messages from you. I'd rather not, but if it bothers you enough I will. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Fwd: philosophical question about gmail
posted to the list for all to enjoy. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin D. Clark Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:00:38 -0400 Subject: Re: philosophical question about gmail To: Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [private reply, since you replied to me privately] Jeff Macdonald writes: On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:41:07 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Some of the members of this list have not signed Gmail's user agreement (let's call this Group A). Others have (let's these people Group B). It takes some amount of effort to belong to this group. Why should the efforts of Group A be available to Gmail (in the form of raw data, marketing data, and potential advertising revenues) simply because Group B decided to sign Gmail's user agreement? Kevin, do you mean that since Group A are not gmail users and Group B are, that Group A's content is included in gmail's data since by virtue of communicating on the list that happens? Yes. Does Group A have to approve every email providers terms and conditions? Well, this issue hasn't really cropped up until now, because I can't recall a single email provider in the past whose mantra was to scan incoming emails for content and provide ads/generate revenue from that. So, I'm just bringing the issue up. Even a individual could use the content from the list for their own personal gain, couldn't they? I suppose. I've even learned things from this list that I've probably used to do my job better. But that's different than enriching some third party company like Google, even if it is Google's mantra to do no harm. I haven't read Google's user agreement exhaustively, but I assume that it has the standard this agreement is subject to change at any time at our whim, right? It takes some amount of effort to belong to this group. Which group are you referring to here? Both. Just wondering. I haven't made up my mind yet about Gmail. Another way to look at it is this, should I be penalized for using a system that provides more storage which uses the content to help pay for a free service? You *could* use a service with less storage that didn't scan incoming mail. But as a third party, I had no choice in the matter -- because you (apparently) subscribed to the GNHLUG now my mails are being scanned by Gmail... I realize your question is not directed at me and I think your asking a great question. PS - Gmail puts addresses in the On blah blah wrote line when replying and I've removed said address because I recall someone get's very cranky about that That reminds me that I need to munge my .emacs file to do this for me automagically...I did this months ago and somehow lost the change when I got a new job. Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Fwd: philosophical question about gmail
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:07:22 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: snip I suspect that at least one of us has missed a point; I was only worried that if (say) you were a gmail user and the gmail folks felt free to append an ad to end of all your outbound emails then anything you posted to the GNHLUG list would contain an ad, thereby shoving that ad into all our faces even though the rest of us were NOT gmail users and had not consented to view those ads. The gmail folks would benefit because their ads would be in front of a whole set of eyeballs (I've heard that's how the ad geeks think of us) without us getting anything in return. Only gmail users see the ad. For instance, for this thread I see ads for email marketing off to the far right. snip BTW, where's the Linux connection in all of this? maybe this thread oughta be taking place on a different GNHLUG channel... philosophical questions outside the scope of Linux but related to tech seem fine to me for gnhlug. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
GFS and SANs
Hi, And now for something Linux related. Earlier this year Redhat released GFS as GPL'd stuff. I understand that GFS is a distributed file system with redundancy and all that. What I don't understand is what is meant by SAN. I believe it stands for Storage Area Network. In some documentation I've read it seems that a SAN is a box with disks and high speed connectors to those disks. In some cases it seems to be a collection of machines on a common high speed network that have disks that look like a single entity. Come someone help explain what GFS is and what is meant by SAN? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Trouble at RHAT?
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:02:23 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: CFO resigns abruptly: http://www.itworld.com/Tech/4535/040615redhatcfo/ It might not mean anything, but given the timing (three days before RHAT is to announce 2005 fiscal first quarter results) one might at least be excused for wondering... I like this part: Feng, who doesn't own any Red Hat stock and has not done any banking business with the company, is recommending her sales force to use the dip in Red Hat shares as a buying opportunity, she said. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Report on Red Hat World Tour, Boston
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:06, Dan Coutu wrote: snip One of the most interesting tidbits I learned from the evening is of a project called White Box Enterprise Linux which provides a set of binaries built from the RHEL sources that is available without the Red Hat annual service fees. You can learn more about them from their website (and can download the CD iso images too!) at: http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ I'm just downloaded this. I'm curious if any one else on the list has played with this yet. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: where does +detail come from?
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:02, Derek Martin wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:55:20AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: =Does anyone have any more specific information than that? AFAIK it's not a thingy that was slipped in. It really is a standard part of the email addressing scheme. It's possible to disable it but why would you? No, I'm pretty sure that's not true. IIRC RFC 822 (and its bastard step-cousins) only say that what is on the left side of the '@' is up to the individual implementation. I'm also pretty sure that some other MTAs (either postfix and/or qmail) use a '-' instead of a '+' to implement this feature, making it at least non-standard in practice. As usual, I'm too lazy to look up the details, so this is all from memory which is known to have bad transistors. Therefore I disclaim all waranties implied or otherwise, and all that jazz... ;-) My Bat book says support was added in sendmail 8.7. I've always thought it was a sendmail specific thing. It is most annoying when sign up forms don't allow + as I use it as a way to tag my address with a vendor's name (ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Palm). If mail comes from somewhere besides the vendor - well, then you know he sold your address. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
