Request Suggestions for Registration
Title: Request Suggestions for Registration Good afternoon, all. I have been using the free "trial" version of 1&1's service for almost a year now and it's due to expire in about another month. Although I have been very happy with their service and their Home User account is very reasonably priced ( about $5 / month ), I would really like to use this deadline as an opportunity to get the web and mail services setup and running on my home network ( I have a couple older boxes that are just dying to get a new purpose in life ). I have cable broadband with a dynamic IP address. I have seen discussion here in the past about some register companies that play well with this setup and can handle such changes when they occur (probably with a certain window of acceptable outage). I have been reading up on some services that Google has spit out for me, but I know several people on this list have personal experience with similar configs and would appreciate some first-hand info as well. It would need to handle mail routing as well as web requests. Any initial help in this area would be great. I may follow up with some questions on setting up the mail side of the house later, but I'll see how far I can get on my own first.
RE: Wireless protos- 11a 11b 11g ....11x?
I know it has some sales pitch mixed in, but a good first-look reference can be found on the Linksys site: http://www.linksys.com/edu/wirelessstandards.asp -L -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:53 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Wireless protos- 11a 11b 11g 11x? I just got asked what the differences are between the various wireless protoccols and I'm realizing I don't have a good summary available. Does anyone know of a website or document that explains what is special about "11n" (possibly vs 11g)? -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.
It could also be data access time. Not sure what software they're using, but while you're doing your search you're probably tying up web threads, worker threads in a JVM (assuming java-based application server), database connections and cycles on the database machine. By limiting that to 90-day chunks they probably have a pretty good idea of the resources you'll have tied up. If they let people pull unlimited requests, it could have some pretty negative impact on their service. That would not serve that customer well, nor would it look good for all the other people trying to use it and getting poor performance. -L -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:08 PM To: Fred Cc: Bill Mullen; GNHLUG Subject: Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data. Fred wrote: >On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote: > > > >>I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by >>setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last >>90 days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough >>transactions out of the database to keep up with the new transactions >>being added, all while keeping their online storage capacity fairly >>static and predictable. >> >> > >It's not that even -- online, a full 18 months of data is available; I >am only allowed to access it 90 days at a time. The 90-day window can >be >*anywhere* in the total dataset; I just can't pull more than a 90-day >chunk of it at any given time. > ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Unprivileged user shutdown
An idea which comes to mind based on some of the ones already put out: Create a less-privileged account called "reboot" (or whatever) and setup a sudo allowing that ID to run the shutdown. Setup a call that will kick off that sudo as your default shell. Then, put a call to that same sudo as the first command in their profiles for each shell you have installed to ensure if anyone logs in to that account and overrides the default call it will immediately run the shutdown anyway. There are probably weaknesses to this as well (nothing is 100%), so please add on if you think of anything. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Garman Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:33 PM To: GNHLUG Subject: Re: Unprivileged user shutdown On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:11, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > useradd -c "execute reboot" > [...] > > -u 0 > > poweroff > > > There aren't any security problems here? It seems like there could > > be potential issues with having a "second root" account where the > > password was known. I'm not sure where exactly the problem would > > come from, but it just seems like there could be potential issues. > > > You're concerned that somebody might be able to use > the "poweroff" user's credentials to gain other root privileges? I've > not heard of a scenario where this would be a problem. The man page for su shows an option for changing the default shell that is run, "-s". I assume the risk here would be if one of these users were to run "su -s /bin/bash" and use the shutdown account's password to obtain an unrestricted root shell. I've never tried this so I'm not sure if that would work. Perhaps a better solution would be to set up a normal user account (ie, not uid=0) and give this user sudo access to run shutdown? Scott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: OffTopic: Star Wars Trilogy on DVD
Title: Message But that's the director's cut. When George made Greedo fire first it was one of the worse edits ever made to a movie from a technical point-of-view and weakened the "scoundrel" aspect of Solo as a character (he's not a nice guy in the beginning of the films and SHOULD shoot someone from under the table). I've enjoyed all his other revisions in the original trilogy, but that one edit ranks right up there with editing the guns out of the cops hands in ET...to lame for me to ignore. And I've been told that George has gone on record saying the "revisions" are his true vision of the films and he will not allow the original ones to be released on DVD. -L -Original Message-From: Bruce Blodgett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:44 AMTo: Tilly, Lawrence; 'GNHLUG List'Subject: OffTopic: Star Wars Trilogy on DVD
RE: Bookstores [Was: Re: Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]]
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Michael Costolo > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:12 AM > And electronics, computers in particular, have changed > dramatically in just the last decade. A book can be picked > up and read by anyone, at any time. Try and find a working 5 > 1/4" disk drive. Or an old tape drive that used the > audio-style casettes (a-la the TRS-80). Or a punch card > reader. Or, for that matter, a laser-disk player. Hey! I have a Laser Disk player. And until they release the original version of the first Star Wars trilogy on DVD (never) I'm going to keep it in working order as long as I can. :-) As for ebooks, I think they have their place. One of my favorite presents to receive is a nice hard-back book and my wife takes time to track them down for me when she can. I love to see them on my shelf and I greatly enjoy the feel of sitting down to read one. However, I also recently got a Palm T3 with a nice chunk of memory. After loading all the important software ( Tetris, Asteroids, etc ) I sought out a number of ebooks. I have often had meetings, conference calls, waits at a service shop, etc where I can pull up the tiny handheld and reread Hitchhiker's Guide, LoTR, Foundation, etc. I don't have to worry about taking one of my large books around, loosing it, damaging it, etc. It's ready for a quick break. I also have Thinking in Java and a number of other reference works on it which have their place as well. It (nor any other electronic media) will ever replace my love of a "real" book, but for the niche it does fill I'm thankful. To keep slightly on-topic, I do wish it was a Linux-based hand-held...but at least it's not micro-Windoze!! ;-) -Lawrence ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Large HD, old BIOS
Do you have a small, otherwise unused HD you could install just as your boot device? If not, I'm sure someone around here has an old 850MB or such sitting in their surplus. Put your boot stuff on that and then let the distro of choice recognize the big drive for fileserving. Alternatively, you could get a cheap CDROM and setup a boot-from-CD config. Just a couple suggestions to keep the board, etc you are trying to use. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Tuininga Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:08 AM To: GNHLUG List Subject: Re: Large HD, old BIOS On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:37, Dan Jenkins wrote: > > The distro is reading the drive specs directly from the drive. It > doesn't need the BIOS. > The BIOS can't interpret the drive size properly. Since you have the > newest BIOS, > there's not much you can do about the BIOS. However, the boot loader may > be able > to work around the problem. Which boot loader are you using: LILO, GRUB, > other? I've tried both. I've attempted to install Debian woody (using the bf24 install set, but doesn't actually see the entire drive) and Mandrake 10.0 community edition, both of which seem to want to use lilo. I've tried using a little known distro called Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org), RH 9, and Fedora Core 2 - all of which seem to want to use GRUB. Figuring that I needed the boot loader (and probably kernel) in a lower region of the hard drive, I made sure to create a /boot partition at the beginning. Didn't seem to help > Sometimes you can pass the drive parameters to the boot loader and get > it to boot that > way. How is it failing? With lilo, it seems to just hang. I get LI and then nothing. The system is hung. With grub, I get various and sundry errors. It claims to "be loading" and then it'll give me a (inconsistent) numeric error code. -- A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head. Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: MELBA Quarterly meeting announcement / advertising
Greg, If you could setup your camera / tripod so it just targets the general area you'll be talking & doing the demo and have someone hit "record" that would probably be enough to make those of us unable to attend at all pretty happy. To be honest, the discussion itself will probably be interesting enough even if the video is a bit dark / grainy / whatever. Especially if it results in some good Q&A after as well. Thanks again, and when the whole thing is over we'll figure out the easiest way for sharing the info. Good luck tomorrow night!!! -L -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MELBA Quarterly meeting announcement / advertising If nobody else chimes in, I'll bring my digital video camera and tripod... but will be unable to operate it due to the fact that I'm presenting. Disclaimer: I don't have video lights, and can't vouch for how well it would capture low-light or on-screen images. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: greetings from Kansas City, MO
The real question for Chris should be how's the commute and taxes in KC... ;-) -Lawrence -Original Message- Subject: Re: greetings from Kansas City, MO On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:43:43 -0500 cdowns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys this is Chris Downs from NH ( haha remember me ? skillsoft - > nashua ) anyway I moved to Kansas City Missouri a year ago and just > wanted to give a shout out and say hello and see how things are doing. > > Take care all. > > Sincerely, > Christopher M Downs Hi, Chris - Almost missed your message. (I was deleting a bunch of the latest Linux^H^H^H^H^H er, taxation, discussion.) And there it was. Is there life after New Hampshire? Are you doing Linux stuff out there in Kansas City? -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: The ultimate Linux installation... ;^)
I think a quote of the first couple sentences sums it up pretty well...you'll have to decide if that's enough of a tease to fire up a browser. "Let's face it: any script kiddie with a pair of pliers can put Red Hat on a Compaq, his mom's toaster, or even the family dog. But nothing earns you geek points like installing Linux on a dead badger." -L -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Me Linux installation... ;^) On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:04:38PM -0400, Hewitt Tech wrote: > http://www.strangehorizons.com/index.pl?Contents=/2004/20040405/badger.s html A sentence or two about what we'll find at that link would be great... Might save us from having to fire up a browser only to discover that we've absolutely no interest whatever in what's there. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: MELBA Quarterly meeting announcement / advertising
Unfortunately my wife is probably going to be out-of-town that day and I don't think bringing our 1-year old to the meeting would add much to the ability of everyone to pay attention to Greg. :-) I am VERY interested in this talk, however. I would first like to ask Greg if he objects to having the discussion video taped. Greg?? If not, I would next ask if there is anyone going already that may be able to record it for me (and some of the other people who can't attend but are interested)? If you have your own recorder that would be great, but if not I could probably coordinate to lend my camera & tripod (just a wee bit nervous about the risk of accidental damage, of course). -Lawrence -Original Message- What : GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) 2.0 Who : Greg Rundlett Date : Wed 28 Apr 2004 Time : Presentation at 7:30 PM (dinner starts around 6 PM) Place: Martha's Exchange, Nashua, NH ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Can this be protected? - several examples
After reading all the suggestions (awesome feedback, btw!!) I decided on an approach which is paranoid (my preferred outlook) as well as supporting people with be-only email accounts such as hotmail. This was also the method I chose rather than just encoding the mailto link because any encoding that will be usable by a browser will still be translated by a smart bot. For now, I have replaced my email address on my pages with a combination text and graphic, where the graphic is a gif of the @ sign. Such as: memydomain.com. I know this is still easily "translated" by humans that are scanning and entering, but since the scope of the site is pretty small and I'm not pushing to get it registered high up on search engines, I'm not too worried about a human spam-collector randomly wandering across it. This will also allow people to manually email me until I get the second part in place. As soon as I have a little bandwidth I'm also going to setup a form linked from the email address. Since I don't want to put a mailto in the handling of this either, I'll probably just write the submissions to a flatfile and run a little script each night to pull the info out of it and email it to me. Thanks again for the suggestions!! -L ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Can this be protected?
Title: Can this be protected? I am putting up some web sites, primarily for personal use. Some parts of the site require a user to login and so I have no problem with posting semi-private info in there. However, on the "front page" I want to provide my email address so that visitors that do not already know the login info can drop me a line to request it (giving me the chance to be sure I know who is getting it). Now, I've heard of bots similar to what search engines use that crawl the web and scour for email addresses on web sites. It sounds very reasonable of a tactic and if it doesn't actually happen now I'm sure it will very soon. I have also heard suggestions on how to present your email so people can decipher it but automated systems wouldn't recognize it as an address ( such as writing: "lawrence AT foo.com" vs. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ). Normally this is fine except for two things: 1. Some friends and family members are a little less technically inclined than others and may not figure out how to translate that without an obvious and distracting explanation. 2. I would really like to simplify things (for those same members) by using the mailto: tag, but I don't know if the actual HTML code including the mailto would be scanned by spam-crawlers and defeat the whole thing. I really doubt that I'm not the only one on the list with this concern and I hope some of you have some creative ideas on avoiding this. I can honestly and proudly say that my personal email accounts (not counting my spam-magnet hotmail account I use for website registrations) get absolutely NO spam in them to date and I really don't want to mess that up. advTHANKSance!!! -Lawrence
RE: The lack of need for Caps-Lock (was laptop keyboard replacement)
I think the reason many techies hate the capslock key can be summed up in three letters: A O L I never had anything against in until the cyclic floods of new AOL users showed up (for example, every December when another wave of people got their first computer). It only takes a few messages TYPED IN REALLY OBNOXIOUS CAPS MODE to cause hatred to be directed as much at the innocent key as the service and newbie themselves. <.02> -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The lack of need for Caps-Lock (was laptop keyboard replacement) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:46:12AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > If you want to use your caps lock key, use it. Myself and other > people think that it is a useless key. True enough. But I'm surprised by how much some techies seem to view that key with disdain or even unadulterated hate... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Comclutz Broadband...
I don't know if it's been specifically said, but for anyone not familiar with them, m0.net is a (spam) service. Although some of their messages may be "legit", they're still spam. Their website even advertises themselves as the "premier provider" of "online direct marketing campaigns". It's been a resident of my junk mail filter for a while. :-) -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Comclutz Broadband... On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:54:28 -0400 Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps, but I consistently receive mail from several companies > (Target and Palm, IIRC) that I believe is legit, sent from a m0.net > address. Bob, You could be right. However, my wife occasionally gets messages purporting to be from eBay which is definitely a scam. The web sites they reference in this email is also an m0.net website. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: RE: destroying data
Yep, we were still using punch cards in the KY's. I *HATED* those!! When you want to destroy the card it was the strongest material known to man. But when you were trying to tear it out of the book to use it seemed to rip any place a punch hole came within 3mm of an edge. It's amazing how good you get cutting masking tape into itty-bitty little pieces. Uuuggghhh!! What did you do in the AF, Richard? I was airborne communications on the E4B out of Offutt, NE. -Lawrence "US Air Force: The next great game from Milton Bradley for ages 18 and up." Quote on a baseball cap I bought while touring a Navy carrier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: destroying data You are all so high tech! When I was in the Air Force we took a match to the punched cards used to synchronize all the crypto equipment. Paper is so much easier to destroy... but probably less fun. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: destroying data
In the AF we had some hi-tec 10MB drives (1999 taxes paying for 1980s technology on a 1970s aircraft) that had a failure habit. One of our "cleansing" steps was to break open the case, pull out the platters, drop them on the pavement and grind them with our boots for a minimum of 60 seconds per side. Then we smashed them into oblivion w/ one of those $5000 hammers. It actually proved very therapeutic as well as enhancing security. :-) -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Jon maddog Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: destroying data A friend of mine who used to work for one of our government agencies told me how they got rid of old disks. They took the disks apart, ground the platters down to dustthen burned the dust. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux(R) International email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Welcome to Comcast High-Speed Internet!
Actually, I would get a kick out of it if the "instructions" posted on June 30th just pointed you to a site where you can purchase Windows. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Willard Flagg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:08 PM To: gnhlug Subject: Welcome to Comcast High-Speed Internet! Don't know if anybody else caught this but after comcast left a recorded instruction message with one of my kids (big help that was!) I decided to look at their web page. Looks as though they intend to support LINUX in some way or another after June 30. -wf We do not currently offer an automated configuration tool for the Linux operating system. Please visit this page on June 30, 2003 for manual instructions on how to configure your email client and homepage. http://online.comcast.net/connect/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement
As an aside to this, it's interesting how some cable ISPs are configured differently than others. I was on attbi for a little over a year, and with them I had to actually "register" each of my PCs that I wanted to be on the system, and they only allowed me to keep two on record at a time. This was a PIA because at the time I did not use a router and was simply swapping the cat5 between boxes. I had my home desktop, my work laptop and my wife's work laptop that we wanted to have easy access. Additionally, when my sister-in-law visited she would like to hook her laptop up sometimes. I got them to allow a third MAC to be listed on a permanent basis without a charge (they normally wanted extra $ for this!), but I think I was just very lucky at couldn't get any others. For the last year or so I've been w/ metrocast and until just last month I was still without a router. However, their system doesn't give a darn what machine I hook up to the modem. I have swapped the cat5 between five different machines without any issues more than the occasional need to cycle power on the cable modem. Usually I've been able to just swap the network cable and give it a couple minutes to "sync up" with the new computer. When I did finally hook up a router box there were no issues at all. It reminds me of how the cable service I had about 10 years ago in Nebraska made you rent their converter boxes ( $5/month ). I didn't have any premium channels, and never use PPV, but it was "required for service". When I hooked directly up to my VCR I was still able to get all the basic channels I had contracted for, but I could not remove the converter box from my account since they had determined it was mandatory for them to be able to ensure service. It just torques me off when a company (phone, ISP, cable, whatever) charges or limits access for no real technical reason, simply because they want to get a few extra $ / month out of us. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Tom Buskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement Greg Kettmann wrote: > I kind of liked the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" method, which someone > mentioned so kind of wish I'd just kept quiet, but I'm sure they're very > aware of all the routers out there. I would assume that their all a > dead givaway based on their MAC addresses. > Most cable firewall routers let you set the external mac. Set it to be the same as the PC you signed up with and you never have to tell che cable company what you did. With most Linux (& BSD) systems you can set the MAC address that's used. I signed up with my wife's PC with a 3com card. My firewall is a Sun with the same MAC address. There are ways to detect a NAT'd subnet (discussed on Slashdot awhile ago). OpenBSD has already been patched to defeat it for the paranoid amongst us. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Bandwidth Bog down ?
What about using the Router's DMZ port? If it's the same Linksys I just picked up last week then one port (#4?) can be set to DMZ and have direct exposure to your cable / DSL service. Since you do not gain any of the protection of the Linksys firewall, perhaps it is a faster connection. If the only thing you run on that port is a hardened web server (including local software firewall, etc) and provide no other direct access to your network, then the risk should be acceptable and the performance may increase. I would like to ask, however, if you were running the Apache server *BEFORE* you got the router and if so how it performed. I am planning on adding a local web server to my network in the near future as well and was talking to a friend about this that's already doing it. He pointed out that due to the fact that outbound cable connections are a lot slower than incoming. His personal web server responsiveness was acceptable for personal use, but far from what you get browsing "real" sites. Of course, DSL may be a whole different animal for serving outgoing requests. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Bill Mullen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:50 AM To: GNHLUG Discussion List Subject: Re: Bandwidth Bog down ? On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, jim wrote: > Hi all! > Before I ask my question, Im very new to Linux (6 months). Im > running MDK 9.1, and through brute force and ignorance have managed to > get an Apache server up and running, Using PostNUke. I'm connecting > with a Verizon DSL > (1.5/128K) going into a Linksys router. For some reason the speed just bogs > down when accessing my site. It will take several minutes just to load some > icon graphics. It has done this before, and it seemed that cycling the > power on the router fixed it. Although now it doesn't seem to fix it > anymore. Any ideas on where I should start to troubleshoot this? I've done > the google searches and can't seem to find anything. Your help is greatly > appreciated. > > The sites addy is http://www.edensplace.com:1515 (Verizon blocks port > 80) You can always just ditch the router and hook the Mandrake box up to the DSL modem directly; just throw another NIC in there (Realtek-based ones can be had for about $10), and hook the router to that to serve any other machines you may have. You can set up the connection, the sharing, and the firewall pretty easily by using the Mandrake Control Center. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Funny Linux animation
How do you capture one of these for personal archiving? I've bookmarked a couple that I get a kick out of, but I'm afraid the site will eventually pull them for reasons of space, updates, etc or if the site itself vanishes into oblivion. I didn't realize you could save a Flash animation off of a site like you could wav or mpg files. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:10 PM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Funny Linux animation In a message dated: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:37:23 EST Bruce Dawson said: >I'm wondering if those things can be downloaded to someone's laptop and >could >share them with us at tonight's meeting? (Since we don't have a 'net >connection at Martha's). Okay, I've got them and will have them tonight :) -- Seeya, Paul -- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Newsgroup server
The server suggested by Paul below does not carry any *binaries groups. This is the same problem I'm having with my ISP (metrocast) and is what is going to drive me to setting up leafnode (or something similar) late this spring. Does anybody have any experience with a news server that carries those at a reasonably low cost? -Lawrence -Original Message- On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > News.CIS.DFN.DE news server. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Win4lin Performance (was: another windoze emulator)
Thanks to you both for the first-hand info, Jason & Ben!! I'm pretty confident StarCraft is at least as resource and DX intensive as anything I currently play, so I guess I'll look more into Wine than win4lin. -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Jason Stephenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Win4lin Performance (was: another windoze emulator) Yes, I had Star Craft working on my laptop with Wine and RH 7.2. I haven't tried it since upgrading to RH 8.0. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Win4lin Performance (was: another windoze emulator)
Mandatory Tangent Post: Anyone w/ direct experience using win4lin to run W9x games? I'm not too interested in the latest & greatest shooters. I'm mostly a strategy/rts/city-builder addict (and many of the ones I like are 1+ years old), so I don't care if it can throw 3 billion frames / second. However, I do like smooth graphics under those games, and a responsive interface is critical. Games are one of the main reasons I keep a "Wintendo" installation of W98 on my machine. As example, some of the ones keeping me mostly distracted are MechCommander, Pharaoh, Star Fleet Command & Stronghold -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: another windoze emulator Technically it is, but it is limited to running a single copy of Windows 9x. (Of course, some of us may not consider Windows 9x and operating system). Win4Lin does a pretty decent job by allowing the user to run a complete copy of Windows9x. One advantage of this over WINE (and CrossoverOffice) is that virtually every Windoz program can run with very few exceptions. Another advantage of this over VMWare (other than cost) is that the Windows file system is simply a subdirectory in your Linux native file system. Performance is better than VMWare (although VMWare is the better product). Jon Hall wrote: > Win4Lin is not a virtual machine.you cannot run another operating > system on top of it the way you can with VMware. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
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RE: Ripping OGG files (was Re: can't mount cdrom)
My argument (for everything it's worth) would be that albums that really need to "flow" should just be kept in a separate directory or play-list. I agree that if I'm listening to the Wall I don't want to have the songs randomized or intermixed with another artist. But at the same time I don't think it's a good idea to stream the entire album into one file. Otherwise you're randomly playing your individual tracks and suddenly jump into "Dark Side" (as one file) and that's all you hear for the next hour before selecting the next song in your collection. Along similar lines though, there are cases where two songs on an album really should remain in sequence, and joining them to be viewed as a single track I think is a Good Thing. I can think of a number of examples on albums by Floyd, Queensryche and Judas Priest just out of my collection, and I'm sure there's many more. In a case like that I'd join the songs to eliminate the chance of splitting. But for a full "theme" album I'd just put it in it's own directory as individual songs so you can still access one or two "stand alones" from the album if you want. Lawrence -Original Message- From: Randy Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:25 AM > I see one. Occasionally, you run across albums such as Pink Floyd's > The Wall where, I believe, there are separate tracks, but the music > doesn't necessarily stop between tracks. Or the flow of the album just demands that the next track on the album be played. Single tracks are fine for the vast majority of songs and I have xmms randomize them; this typically works well and gives a nice variety. But there's quite a few albums where the tracks should be played as they were on the album. (Who'd of thunk it that some bands would nail that "album thing" and not just see it as a way of pricing music more expensively.) Since you mentioned Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon is one such album -- it just isn't "normal" to go from a track on that album and to have xmms randomize in The Offspring or something else as the next track. There's a couple of spots on Dark Side of the Moon where one could cut to something different, but the work is best played in its entirety. Thanks to all that responded; I'll play around with cat and see how that works. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: [gnhlug-announce] My apologies...
Actually, wasn't 2.0 the last stable version of Windows? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gnhlug-announce] My apologies... I fully agree with the punishment. Everyone makes mistakes, but the punishment must fit the crime. But I believe Paul should know, that if he doesn't accept his punishment, we will hunt him down and force him to use Windows 2.0 until he does. :) > > > Paul's misconduct is indeed a serious matter; > his resignation is hereby accepted. > > Since punishment must fit the crime, we must > devise something truly heinous; some fate so > awful that we can barely contemplate it. > > Done. Paul is hereby sentenced to... > > >REINSTATEMENT! > > > BwaaAAHH! HAHAHAHAHAHA > > > . > > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: log-reader
Try this: tail -f someapp.log -Original Message- From: Price, Erik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: log-reader Folks, I seem to recall that there is a way to interactively read logfiles (as they are being generated) from the command line, but I completely forget what utility that is. A quick reminder, anyone? (Right now I'm just "less"ing the files after the expected error is generated.) (on Gentoo Linux) Erik ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: running Linux at work with Windows apps
This might or might not answer your question, in a non-direct way at least: I dabbled in Windoze game programming a number of years ago (purely hobby) and back before DirectX was called DirectX it was the "Win32 Game API". Basically if your game was going to be compatible with DOS-only or Win 3.x compatible then you couldn't use any of the Win32 stuff (technically you were using a Win16 API). If you were writing for Win95-only then you used Win32, which of course wasn't 100% 32-only, but let's not question Microsoft. The Win32 has stuck with it going forward as the underlying architecture terminology. I really thought going into W2K / XP however, the Win32 had been changed (since W2K is more WinNT based, right?). Anyone: Please feel free to correct - as I said it was hobby level only and I haven't looked much into Win-coding for a number of years. -Lawrence Tilly -Original Message- From: Price, Erik [mailto:eprice@;ptc.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: running Linux at work with Windows apps > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bscott@;ntisys.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:39 PM > To: Greater NH Linux User Group > Subject: Re: running Linux at work with Windows apps > > > Just FYI, the best term is probably "Win32". That is what Microsoft > officially calls it, and what most third-party developers use as well. Why the "32"? Not so much "what does 32" stand for, but was there a non-arbitrary reason for appending it to the abbreviation "Win" to refer to software making use of their APIs? Erik ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: [OT] How much is a domain worth?
That depends on who is *really* interested. Do as much research as you can. Ask the guy making the inquiry to give you some information on his company, including the name of any parent company. If he doesn't think that's important let him know that you've had the domain for years and who you sell it to is VERY important to you. Then, take that info and figure out a price. If it's a small team of six college students hacking out a Quake world-builder in their free time, then you may be limited to three figures. If you trace it back up to Sun turning out a new Java studio then your options are a bit more significant. Of course, if it is a small team that just can't go more than $1000 and you have some emotional bond to the name, then nothing says you must sell it. Just be warned that if they have deep enough pockets but can't get it by paying, they may try to take it thru legal battles. We've all read those stories... -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Jeff Macdonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:12 PM To: GNHLUG List Subject: [OT] How much is a domain worth? Hi, Someone sent me an email offering money for my domain. They at first offered $200, now they say 'name your price'. What's a reasonable price for a domain name? This is just my personal site, so it isn't critical. But at the same time I've had this domain for years ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
