Re: [LUAU] Seeking On-Island Consultant
Interesting question about reviving LUAU, James. I attended LUAU meetings back when they were held in the Manoa Innovation Center. I remember how things were mostly interesting, but I realize that the way we seek information and collaborate has changed completely. Most of the LUAU list subscribers are probably very good at finding the info they need about new stuff. We tend to be the ones who furnish answers and solutions to our clients, and are used to googling info, supporting our users/clients via remote control, and managing servers that we've never even touched. We don't need the physical meetings as much, and we tend to interact with other Linux users on an international scale, rather than in our own town. Having monthly LUAU meetings could be interesting, but I'm not really sure how many people would show up on a regular basis. We've all become too good at working in the virtual world. :) On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James A Stroble stro...@hawaii.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:23:00 -1000 Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu wrote: They really ought to contact their college support folks. Soest, CBA. Coll of Ed, trop AG, med school, all have their own internal it support. Brian chee As I am sure you are aware, Brian, support for free software is spotty across the UH system. I have tech support people that want to help me use my iWhatever, for teaching! And they are definitely hostile to free software. Your advice is of course correct, this is the first place they should go. But the fact is that most of UH's IT is occupied by people with MSCEs, and that is not only sad, it is positively evil. Where should they go when offical support has been taken over by the enemy? [Side note: is anyone interesting in reviving LUAU? Not on any grand scale, just having meetings once in a while, some resources on-line for the islands, and so forth? Proposals are welcome!] Yours, James Andy Stroble Leeward Community College ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Running Raspberry Pi’s as Thin Clients with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS » uzERP – Business Management for the SME
Hi All! Just wondering : Since you can get good tiny or compact PCs for under $250 that run Linux very well, is there still a compelling need for thin client setups? BTW, Brian, I don't have any links available, but I've seen a LOT of 3d-printed R Pi cases on sites like Shapeway, Ponoko, and Etsy. You might want to try those. Sincerely, -Jeff On 09/21/2014 01:06 PM, Brian Chee wrote: http://www.uzerp.com/blog/running-raspberry-pis-as-thin-clients-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts/ Great article, has anyone found a durable VESA mount raspberry pi case? The one I found was kinda flimsy. Brian chee Sent from my iPad ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] CentOS 7 has arrived!
I've been looking forward to Centos 7 for a while. It's finally here: http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/linux/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ Now I've got to find time to check it out completely. :) ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Heads up on poor or no connectivity to mirror site
Huh. I often use mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu, but I'm also interested in hearing a bit more about the DNS attack. Good Luck, -Jeff On 05/28/2014 09:34 AM, Brian Chee wrote: UH is being hit by a DNS inject attack and things are kinda messed up at the moment. Will keep you posted when things settle down. I'm only able to send email because I'm on WIMax at the moment. /brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Best HawnTel DSL modem?
Hello Everyone! I was hoping to tap the list's wisdom about DSL modems available through Hawaiian Tel. I had liked the way the Pace DSL modems worked (for the most part) but I have had several that decided to become unreliable, requiring resets every few days. Which of the HawnTel DSL modems do you guys prefer for reliability? The modems in question are used as the second/extra internet pipe at a few stores/offices with dynamic IPs. I can install switched PDUs (I've got one in place) that will allow me to power cycle the DSL modems remotely, but I shouldn't have to keep doing that. Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Best HawnTel DSL modem?
Thanks Al and Peter! I'll have to see what's available in the current HawnTel offering... -Jeff On 05/05/2014 04:53 PM, Al Plant wrote: Jeff Mings wrote: Hello Everyone! I was hoping to tap the list's wisdom about DSL modems available through Hawaiian Tel. I had liked the way the Pace DSL modems worked (for the most part) but I have had several that decided to become unreliable, requiring resets every few days. Which of the HawnTel DSL modems do you guys prefer for reliability? The modems in question are used as the second/extra internet pipe at a few stores/offices with dynamic IPs. I can install switched PDUs (I've got one in place) that will allow me to power cycle the DSL modems remotely, but I shouldn't have to keep doing that. Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org I have Westell C99 working for years now. ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Favorite NTP server?
That was fast! You are SO on it, Mr. Chee! :D Since you work with the UH IT dept., I'm not surprised you produced a UH server. Is this particular server _reliably_ deployed? I.e., will it likely be consistently available 5 years from now? There are a lot of devices, like phones, that I need to set a good NTP server on that I might not check for several years. Thanks Brian, -Jeff On 02/20/2014 12:44 PM, Brian Chee wrote: ntp1.hawaii.edu canonical name = ntproundtop.hawaii.edu. Name: ntproundtop.hawaii.edu Address: 128.171.235.62 On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: Hi All! After the new NTP DOS vulnerability, a lot of NTP servers are changing their operation. I have used the navy's atomic clock at tick.mhpcc.hpc.mil for quite some time, but it appears that they may be reducing access to it now. Many of my clients use RoadRunner locally, which doesn't seem to have a publicly-listed NTP server in this area. I could use the pool from CentOS, or even the one from Apple, but I want to make sure I use a server or pool of them that won't be overwhelmed/useless like the Microsoft NTP servers. So far, using 0.us.pool.ntp.org looks like a solid choice for long-term reliability, but nist1-la.ustiming.org yields better ping times, and the NIST has a nice status page at http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/ servers.cgi for checking service. Any better suggestions? Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau- freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Favorite NTP server?
Yes, Brian, the first NTP pool address I listed is from ntp.pool.org, but it may be farther away /slower depending upon which server in the pool answers the query. Al, I always appreciate your suggestions, but I noticed that the NASA NTP server is really not supposed to be publicly available: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer000270 Strangely, the ntp.hawaii.edu server doesn't have a stratum rating, and I know that a few years ago, it oddly jumped forward to the year 2030: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer000453 In terms of ping time and likely long-term reliability, the NIST server in LA is looking like my best option : nist1-la.ustiming.org Sincerely, -Jeff On 02/20/2014 12:52 PM, Brian Chee wrote: Can't answer that, but Alan Whinery is behind it and it's providing NTP for UHM ITS facilities. Have you thought of ntp.pool.org? /brian chee On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: That was fast! You are SO on it, Mr. Chee! :D Since you work with the UH IT dept., I'm not surprised you produced a UH server. Is this particular server _reliably_ deployed? I.e., will it likely be consistently available 5 years from now? There are a lot of devices, like phones, that I need to set a good NTP server on that I might not check for several years. Thanks Brian, -Jeff On 02/20/2014 12:44 PM, Brian Chee wrote: ntp1.hawaii.edu canonical name = ntproundtop.hawaii.edu. Name: ntproundtop.hawaii.edu Address: 128.171.235.62 On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: Hi All! After the new NTP DOS vulnerability, a lot of NTP servers are changing their operation. I have used the navy's atomic clock at tick.mhpcc.hpc.mil for quite some time, but it appears that they may be reducing access to it now. Many of my clients use RoadRunner locally, which doesn't seem to have a publicly-listed NTP server in this area. I could use the pool from CentOS, or even the one from Apple, but I want to make sure I use a server or pool of them that won't be overwhelmed/useless like the Microsoft NTP servers. So far, using 0.us.pool.ntp.org looks like a solid choice for long-term reliability, but nist1-la.ustiming.org yields better ping times, and the NIST has a nice status page at http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/ servers.cgi for checking service. Any better suggestions? Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau- freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau- freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Happy Birthday to Warren Togami
I was actually there to see Warren as he was just breaking into Linux at an early Linux users group meeting at the Manoa Innovation Center. It's great to see how far he's gone. :) Have an excellent Birthday, Warren! -Jeff Mings On 01/24/2014 12:15 PM, Brian Chee wrote: To one of the driving forces behind Fedora, I wish him a happy birthday. Brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] New distro on mirror
Thanks guys! Now I have to make myself try out Raspberry Pi like I've been meaning to for months On 09/04/2013 09:30 AM, Brian Chee wrote: Thanks to Vince for adding the rsync so that we can now all have fresh local raspberry pi at mirror.ancl.hawaii.edi The volunteer group maintaining your local Hawaii Linux mirror site. Sent from my iPad ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Any extended play with the Samsung Chromebook?
Hi Doug! The TSA has been caught stealing items from passengers innumerable times, and they have a history of confiscating property without just cause. However, they are just a fraction of the ways that one can lose a laptop. Losing a $250 laptop is far less troubling than losing one that cost $1500. I would expect that most savvy readers of this list use something like truecrypt to keep their data out of evil hands if they lose a laptop. -Jeff Mings On 04/29/2013 08:18 PM, IslandofOahu Hawaii wrote: Interesting solution but how serious is this threat by TSA to take away laptops/notebooks/pads ? If confiscated, Chromebook didn't overcome that threat. There's always a Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), live Linux CD or thumbdrive from the Software Protection Initiative (SPI), which can be used in conjunction with SkyDrive, Google Docs, etc. http://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/lps-linux-the-publicly-available-air-force-secure-linux-distro/ Doug Cook From: Jeff Mings je...@lava.net To: LUAU luau@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 11:12 AM Subject: [LUAU] Any extended play with the Samsung Chromebook? Hi All! Anybody out there play with the Samsung Chromebook with ChrUbuntu or another good ARM distro? Having a 2.5 lb laptop that only costs $250 and runs fairly quickly sounds really interesting. There's a lot of info about installing and tweaking, but very little about actual _usability_ as far as true speed, any problems with apps that have to be specially baked and other details. The model would likely be the SAMSUNG XE303C12-A01US . I currently use a simple Corei3 laptop that is cheap but surprisingly quick. Having a laptop that is nearly disposable is a good thing, since so many have lost their laptops to theft/confiscation by the TSA, overly playful pooches and all the other ways that laptops can quickly leave the mortal realm. A cheap ARM notebook with good speed and battery life holds lots of appeal... Thanks, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Any extended play with the Samsung Chromebook?
Hi All! Anybody out there play with the Samsung Chromebook with ChrUbuntu or another good ARM distro? Having a 2.5 lb laptop that only costs $250 and runs fairly quickly sounds really interesting. There's a lot of info about installing and tweaking, but very little about actual _usability_ as far as true speed, any problems with apps that have to be specially baked and other details. The model would likely be the SAMSUNG XE303C12-A01US . I currently use a simple Corei3 laptop that is cheap but surprisingly quick. Having a laptop that is nearly disposable is a good thing, since so many have lost their laptops to theft/confiscation by the TSA, overly playful pooches and all the other ways that laptops can quickly leave the mortal realm. A cheap ARM notebook with good speed and battery life holds lots of appeal... Thanks, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] just under 1 week countdown to day long power outage
I'm glad Centos 6.4 is already out :D On 03/20/2013 05:25 PM, Brian Chee wrote: So yet another heads up that in the grand construction madness that is UH Manoa, the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics (HIG) is going to be shutdown on March 26th. This affects this group because our mirror server ( mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu) resides in that building on the 3rd floor. So please plan accordingly and pray that no big new shiny distro comes out that day. I'll try to remember to send another reminder the day before the shutdown. /brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] A better flavor of Asterisk and a great little box
Thanks for the suggestions Matt! On 03/08/2013 10:19 AM, Matt Darnell wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: Hi All! Faced with a sudden need to implement PBX alternatives for a few clients with 5 or 6 locations, FreePBX is the way to go. Jeff, Be sure to check out Elastix, http://www.elastix.org/. Like 'PBX in a flash' it bundles FreePBX but it also includes other things like openfire for Instant Messaging. It is trivial to get openfire integrated with Asterisk to provide computer and telephone presence. The fax integration is straight forward as well. It certainly isn't perfect but a great solution for the right business. We install Elastix on Atom boxes that cost about $400, the customer usually has a PRI or analog trunks and we have had much better experiences with Digium cards than external adapters. Use soft phones and startup is very inexpensive. If you want to have some fun (using fun very loosely), put micro elastix, http://uelastix.org/, on a rev B raspberry pi. There is a bug that it only recognizes 256MB of RAM but very cool that you can get it running for less than $55 inclusive. -Matt ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] A better flavor of Asterisk and a great little box
Hi All! I spend a lot of time looking for better solutions for my clients and I'd like to share a couple to save other out there some time. Everyone has heard of Asterisk, the excellent and incredibly versatile communications server, but most think that you still have to configure it through arcane config files that have a very long and steep learning curve. I looked at and tried many interface alternatives, like Asterisk GUI, PBX-in-a-flash, and various others. FreePBX really seems to be the best way to setup an Asterisk box, by a wide margin. It is in very active development, with lots of users and forum info. The front-end organizes the conf files in particular ways and keeps a lot of stuff in MySQL databases, so you won't be able to tweak certain .conf files by hand, but that shouldn't be a problem for most. Bear in mind that Asterisk, as a communications server, is a lot like Apache, the HTTP server we all know. It's extremely powerful, but very empty when you first install it. FreePBX is a little like a content management system like Drupal or WordPress, but for Asterisk instead of Apache. It simplifies a lot of stuff, but, still lets you have all of the options you would have without it. Faced with a sudden need to implement PBX alternatives for a few clients with 5 or 6 locations, FreePBX is the way to go. I also discovered a ridiculously cheap and capable little box for fast Linux deployment: Acer's Veriton N2620G, which is selling for about $280, including shipping, at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103785 It's quite a bit faster than the Atom-based tiny boxes. It comes with Linpus Linux, but I've been installing CentOS on them. You DO need to know the following trick: when installing a distro, you will probably need to pass the i915.modeset=0 or nomodeset kernel parameters when booting from install CD, or you will likely get a confused and flashing display. I've deployed a couple of them and they look like they're going to be great boxes. Good luck, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Never mind...typo
No worries dude - you contribute more than most to OSS and Linux - you have earned a tremendous amount of slack :) On 02/15/2013 10:07 AM, Brian Chee wrote: So it was a missing semicolon in my config file DHCPDARGS=eth0 and I missed the semicolon at the endsorry for the list noise... /brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] 12 hour power outage at UH...Mirror will be down 26 March 2013
Thanks for the heads-up Brian! FWIW, I find the ANCL mirror to be extremely helpful, and use it a LOT for LibreOffice and CentOS and Ubuntu downloads. -Jeff On 02/06/2013 09:57 AM, Brian Chee wrote: In order to accomodate some massive changes to the electrical grid at the University of Hawaii (New ITS building) the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics (where the Linux Mirror resides) will be down all day on March 26, 2013. Please plan accordingly... /brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Lots of boot disks on one USB drive
Hi All! I finally got around to trying one of the tools for setting several distros / CDs / DVDs on one USB drive. MultiBootUSB seems to work fairly well, but has some setup gotchas: http://sourceforge.net/projects/multibootusb/ If you're sick of carrying around 8 different flash drives, try it - once you get it working, it's pretty cool. Here are some things I'd like to pass on: -If you use Ubuntu 12.04 (it's my desktop distro of choice) , you won't be able to install the .DEB file because it needs Gabbas3, which is not in the repositories. You can easily get it from the Launchpad repository with: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3 . -Once you install and run the (mostly) GUI tool, know that you are expected to add one distro to the given USB device at a time. Also, for some reason, it didn't like the auto mount-point. As root, I unmounted the USB drive, mounted it in a subdirectory of /media that I made, and then ran the tool with gbr3 /usr/bin/multibootusb.gambas . -Finally, you will need to tell it to install syslinux on the USB drive and then edit the syslinux.cfg file for everything to work. I added my own set of directives to the beginning of multibootusb/syslinux.cfg : UI /syslinux/vesamenu.c32 default Ubuntu-SecureRemix-12_10-64bit label of distro to start by default PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 200 ONTIMEOUT Ubuntu-SecureRemix-12_10-64bit Finally, after all of that, it works. And it's pretty cool. Good luck, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Asterisk SIP trunk provider?
Hi Guys! If any of you have ever wondered about setting up your own PBX / phone system with Asterisk, try the Asterisk gui package. I used the canned versions for CentOS 6.3 and have been pleasantly surprised at how well it works. You'll still need to know a lot about SIP and various phone network concepts, but it's vastly simpler than handwriting / tweaking several Asterisk config files by hand. It is probably about as complicated as setting up a Talkswitch phone system. Has anyone here tried any of the SIP trunk providers? There are dozens to choose from, but I specifically want a short number of router hops for Honolulu clients. Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Asterisk SIP trunk provider?
Thanks Brian! You're always very helpful! :) No pricing / specifics on the site, but I'll contact them later. -Jeff On 11/06/2012 05:45 PM, Brian Chee wrote: I use Qwest (now century link) for Interop.. Good stuff. Brian chee Sent from my Windows Phone From: Jeff Mings Sent: 11/6/2012 5:19 PM To: LUAU Subject: [LUAU] Asterisk SIP trunk provider? Hi Guys! If any of you have ever wondered about setting up your own PBX / phone system with Asterisk, try the Asterisk gui package. I used the canned versions for CentOS 6.3 and have been pleasantly surprised at how well it works. You'll still need to know a lot about SIP and various phone network concepts, but it's vastly simpler than handwriting / tweaking several Asterisk config files by hand. It is probably about as complicated as setting up a Talkswitch phone system. Has anyone here tried any of the SIP trunk providers? There are dozens to choose from, but I specifically want a short number of router hops for Honolulu clients. Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Your favorite hostable webmail?
Hi guys! I'm wondering if any of you have been using a good webmail server hosted on your own server(s) that you really like. You know, something that users can run in their browsers for full email client functionality. I am interested in deploying this on a Linux server with several vpn tunnels to remote locations. Most users are on Firefox and there's no need to support the myriad weirdnesses of Internet Exploder. Any good or bad experiences out there? Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] The VPN router all the cool kids use?
Thanks for the input, Brian! I used an older Sonicwall at a client's location several years ago, and was thoroughly disgusted by the fact that the number of concurrent devices (nodes) allowed to reach the internet was limited by licensing to 5 or 6 (IIRC). It seemed grotesquely Microsoft-like that a basic function like that required paying out further licensing fees, and I replaced it with another router. I'm glad to see that the TZ units don't have a node limitation. They're remarkably feature-rich devices that seem to have a good reputation in the networking circles. I'll have to dig further into the 1204 page ( ! ) admin manual to see what they can do. Sincerely, -Jeff On 09/15/2012 10:48 PM, Brian Chee wrote: I'm using sonic wall tz series for remote locations, and the nsa205 for the central location. They all include deep packet inspection, ssl-vpn, and some very spanky remote mgmt features. You can take anything in their product line at http://livedemo.sonicwall.com Now that they're dell, twist the arm on your dell rep for discounts. Brian chee On Sep 15, 2012 10:35 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: Hi all! I've been using Linux boxes for VPN connections with OpenVPN for a long time, and haven't deployed a VPN appliance for years. Looking at VPN devices from Cisco/Linksys and Netgear on Newegg, the feedback comments are very bad. Most of the products from WatchGuard are too pricey. I've got a client with about 14 locations with 1 or 2 PCs each, and a central location that they all need to tunnel to. What is everybody using for good VPN boxes these days? Thanks, -Jeff __**_ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.**org LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.orgmailing list http://lists.**freesoftwarehawaii.org/**listinfo.cgi/luau-** freesoftwarehawaii.orghttp://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org On 09/15/2012 10:48 PM, Brian Chee wrote: I'm using sonic wall tz series for remote locations, and the nsa205 for the central location. They all include deep packet inspection, ssl-vpn, and some very spanky remote mgmt features. You can take anything in their product line at http://livedemo.sonicwall.com Now that they're dell, twist the arm on your dell rep for discounts. Brian chee On Sep 15, 2012 10:35 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: Hi all! I've been using Linux boxes for VPN connections with OpenVPN for a long time, and haven't deployed a VPN appliance for years. Looking at VPN devices from Cisco/Linksys and Netgear on Newegg, the feedback comments are very bad. Most of the products from WatchGuard are too pricey. I've got a client with about 14 locations with 1 or 2 PCs each, and a central location that they all need to tunnel to. What is everybody using for good VPN boxes these days? Thanks, -Jeff __**_ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.**org LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.orgmailing list http://lists.**freesoftwarehawaii.org/**listinfo.cgi/luau-** freesoftwarehawaii.orghttp://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] The VPN router all the cool kids use?
Hi all! I've been using Linux boxes for VPN connections with OpenVPN for a long time, and haven't deployed a VPN appliance for years. Looking at VPN devices from Cisco/Linksys and Netgear on Newegg, the feedback comments are very bad. Most of the products from WatchGuard are too pricey. I've got a client with about 14 locations with 1 or 2 PCs each, and a central location that they all need to tunnel to. What is everybody using for good VPN boxes these days? Thanks, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates
Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version number and desktop would that be? I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can do _everything_ from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of time to get used to. I really wish the RPM/YUM package family under Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude. Good Luck, -Jeff On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this. I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my boxes run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the menu vanished to an auto select feature. Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either. Tried to update but doesnt finish install. Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I have to upgrade the version? Mahalo... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates
FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is one of the LTS releases. The LTS releases have very long support lives - thru April 2013 for desktop and April 2015 for the server version of 10.04. Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, which is why it's such a big deal. -Jeff On 09/05/2012 10:35 AM, J.K.Roby wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.1 and the updates stopped long ago.The upside is the install functions perfectly. I very much like the clean desktop as opposed to the new 12.04 and am looking at this MATE overlay. Annoying that Ubuntu updates so frequently,and I read something that the Debian folks also give Shuttleworth grief for that. I was offered an update to 11.x ages ago but can't get anything better than a crippled 3G connect out here in the woods.Seems a complete backup up and rebuild is all that is available. I get my ISOs from a friends DSL. Aloha LUAU people. On 09/05/2012 10:25 AM, Jeff Mings wrote: Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version number and desktop would that be? I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can do _everything_ from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of time to get used to. I really wish the RPM/YUM package family under Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude. Good Luck, -Jeff On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this. I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my boxes run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the menu vanished to an auto select feature. Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either. Tried to update but doesnt finish install. Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I have to upgrade the version? Mahalo... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates
I have never tried to convert an existing installation backwards. I strongly recommend moving to the appropriate sub-version of Ubuntu 12.04. That would probably be the desktop 64 bit version. This will probably work as an upgrade, but I would do a clean install. Remember to grab your ISO image from your friendly neighborhood open source site: http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/ As you mentioned, Mate works very well. There is one annoying issue with Mate that I've run into about 2/3 of the times I've used it: If you get the error Unable to start the settings manager 'mate-settings-daemon' you will need to edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop : change the OnlyShowIn line to include MATE; E.g., : [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=GNOME Settings Daemon Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE; NoDisplay=true X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-settings-daemon This problem manifests as funky looking icons, but is easily fixed with the above edit and a restart. Bonne Chance, -Jeff On 09/05/2012 10:50 AM, J.K.Roby wrote: Yes,it is You are using Ubuntu 10.10- the Maverick Meerkat - released in October 2010 and supported until April 2012. Is upgrade available for 10.1 to 10.04 or does it require a rebuild? On 09/05/2012 10:43 AM, Jeff Mings wrote: FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is one of the LTS releases. The LTS releases have very long support lives - thru April 2013 for desktop and April 2015 for the server version of 10.04. Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, which is why it's such a big deal. -Jeff On 09/05/2012 10:35 AM, J.K.Roby wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.1 and the updates stopped long ago.The upside is the install functions perfectly. I very much like the clean desktop as opposed to the new 12.04 and am looking at this MATE overlay. Annoying that Ubuntu updates so frequently,and I read something that the Debian folks also give Shuttleworth grief for that. I was offered an update to 11.x ages ago but can't get anything better than a crippled 3G connect out here in the woods.Seems a complete backup up and rebuild is all that is available. I get my ISOs from a friends DSL. Aloha LUAU people. On 09/05/2012 10:25 AM, Jeff Mings wrote: Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version number and desktop would that be? I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can do _everything_ from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of time to get used to. I really wish the RPM/YUM package family under Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude. Good Luck, -Jeff On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this. I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my boxes run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the menu vanished to an auto select feature. Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either. Tried to update but doesnt finish install. Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I have to upgrade the version? Mahalo... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop
A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop, written to hopefully spare others a lot of wasted time: It was time to upgrade my primary desktop. I prefer Centos for servers and Ubuntu for desktops, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 was just released, suggesting a more refined bundle of Ubuntu. I've already deployed 12.04 on a number of other machines, but my main personal desktop was still using the last Long-Term-Service release, 10.04, with the Gnome 2 desktop. Many of you have seen the newer Unity desktop that is now the default for Ubuntu. It's very pretty and impressive as a potential interface for unifying tablets, phones and PCs, but much of the desktop workflow just isn't suited to getting things done quickly. You can fix Unity's biggest issue, the baffling omission of a regular menu, by using the Gnome Classic Menu Indicator. However, there are a number of other issues with getting work done quickly with Unity, so I decided to try Gnome 3 again. Gnome 3 is remarkably beautiful, fluid and elegant. After a bit of tweaking and familiarization, I decided I could move to the newest version of Gnome. When I last tried it, several months ago on a different distro, it didn't seem as polished. My cautious approval was short-lived. When Remmina, a VNC/RDP client that generally works very well, decided to die, I lost every bit of control of Gnome 3. Remmina is built on GTK (probably the Gnome Tool Kit libraries for Gnome 2) and shouldn't have stopped in such a debilitating fashion. I couldn't reach other desktops, menus or the Gnome 3 dock using the mouse or the keyboard shortcuts. The only graceful exit was to jump to shell (Ctrl-Alt-F4) and kill the user I was logged in as. I tried this twice more, trying to see if I was missing something, but the same thing happened. Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time. I had previously tried regressing to Gnome 2 under other Ubuntu 12.04 and found that the Mate Desktop, a fork of Gnome 2, is the best way to do it. You can install Gnome 2 via the Ubuntu repositories, but certain bits are missing, or just don't work correctly, probably because of conflicts with Unity and its LDM desktop manager. At http://mate-desktop.org/ you'll see that the project has reached version 1.4. It works very well, as you would expect Gnome 2 to behave, and installation is trivial. Gnome 2 is a great mature desktop environment that fosters productivity - RedHat Enterprise Linux comes with it by default with good reason. If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate Desktop and don't waste your time playing with the others. -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop
Looks very lean. I had no idea this WM existed. We're _REALLY_ going to wish we had this sort of choice with Windows, in several months, when our users complain about the funny squares that ate the start menu in Windows 8, and we can't simply switch in the desktop they'd rather have. Vive La Différence! -Jeff On 08/31/2012 01:41 PM, Jason Axelson wrote: Hey Jeff, I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 for the last 6 months or something and I like it. Although I also don't run unity and instead run Awesome Window Manager which is a cool tiling window manager. Jason On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: A reflection on the state of the Linux desktop, written to hopefully spare others a lot of wasted time: It was time to upgrade my primary desktop. I prefer Centos for servers and Ubuntu for desktops, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 was just released, suggesting a more refined bundle of Ubuntu. I've already deployed 12.04 on a number of other machines, but my main personal desktop was still using the last Long-Term-Service release, 10.04, with the Gnome 2 desktop. Many of you have seen the newer Unity desktop that is now the default for Ubuntu. It's very pretty and impressive as a potential interface for unifying tablets, phones and PCs, but much of the desktop workflow just isn't suited to getting things done quickly. You can fix Unity's biggest issue, the baffling omission of a regular menu, by using the Gnome Classic Menu Indicator. However, there are a number of other issues with getting work done quickly with Unity, so I decided to try Gnome 3 again. Gnome 3 is remarkably beautiful, fluid and elegant. After a bit of tweaking and familiarization, I decided I could move to the newest version of Gnome. When I last tried it, several months ago on a different distro, it didn't seem as polished. My cautious approval was short-lived. When Remmina, a VNC/RDP client that generally works very well, decided to die, I lost every bit of control of Gnome 3. Remmina is built on GTK (probably the Gnome Tool Kit libraries for Gnome 2) and shouldn't have stopped in such a debilitating fashion. I couldn't reach other desktops, menus or the Gnome 3 dock using the mouse or the keyboard shortcuts. The only graceful exit was to jump to shell (Ctrl-Alt-F4) and kill the user I was logged in as. I tried this twice more, trying to see if I was missing something, but the same thing happened. Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time. I had previously tried regressing to Gnome 2 under other Ubuntu 12.04 and found that the Mate Desktop, a fork of Gnome 2, is the best way to do it. You can install Gnome 2 via the Ubuntu repositories, but certain bits are missing, or just don't work correctly, probably because of conflicts with Unity and its LDM desktop manager. At http://mate-desktop.org/ you'll see that the project has reached version 1.4. It works very well, as you would expect Gnome 2 to behave, and installation is trivial. Gnome 2 is a great mature desktop environment that fosters productivity - RedHat Enterprise Linux comes with it by default with good reason. If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate Desktop and don't waste your time playing with the others. -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] XFCE is fairly cool
Thanks, Peter It's interesting to hear about everyone's desktop preferences. I really like XFCE too. I experimented with XFCE and LXDE and concluded that XFCE was more robust and mature than LXDE. I currently use XFCE as the desktop for a number of email users. I have a few servers at different locations for a client with a lot of roving managers. They log into their accounts with VNC and get to their email, files, etc., with a fairly low bandwidth overhead. Like a terminal server setup, but much simpler, cheaper and more flexible. XFCE is great for running multiple simultaneous users on a server without requiring much CPU or RAM. -Jeff On 08/31/2012 04:11 PM, Peter Besenbruch wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:17:03 -1000 Jeff Mings je...@lava.net wrote: Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time. If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate Desktop and don't waste your time playing with the others. Thanks for your impressions of Unity and Gnome. I fear Gnome 3 will make Gnome a mere shadow of its former self. The Gnome team's lack of responsiveness reminds me of the XFree86 crew, and Oracle. Here's hoping Mate stays viable. My own path over the years has been different. I was always partial to KDE. I was smart enough to avoid the earliest versions of KDE 4, making the jump to 4.3. I noticed several things: There was less functionality than 3.5 (mostly rectified now). The memory footprint was larger. You could run KDE with 256 meg. of RAM. Now you really need 512. There was lots of stuff running in the background, and things got worse if you ran KDE-PIM. Eventuallly, I found substitutes for the KDE apps I ran. I use the version 3.5 version of KDEaddressbook from Trinity. I switched from Kmail to Claws. I do my calendar stuff with an on-line app that comes with the domain I use, instead of Korganizer. With most of the KDE apps gone, KDE went too. Eventually I settled on XFCE 4.8. I use it on Ubuntu Lucid and Debian Squeeze. With Squeeze, it uses less than 90 meg. on a fresh boot to desktop. It's very flexible, and above all, stable. I also use Remmina to connect to a Vino server, both running under XFCE. Hey, they work. ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Help needed with Omega Zip
Hi Al, I know you're the state's biggest FreeBSD fan, but if I were you, I'd try booting from a good linux distro. You can boot an Ubuntu 12.04 CD, or there's always the good old Knoppix - they're still keeping things up-to-date. I haven't tried anything with a zip drive variant for several years, but I recall Linux support being pretty darn good at the end. Good luck, -Jeff On 06/24/2012 02:02 PM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash drives and floppies show up but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS machine has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont find the hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought these had been transferred years ago but they were only found recently. Any suggestions appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] HOSEF Mirror down?
Nice! 6 hops away... How did I miss this mirror before? Thanks, -Jeff Mings On 06/13/2012 11:21 AM, Brian Chee wrote: Might want to think about moving to the new mirror at mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu Brian Chee Sent from my iPad On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Camron W. Foxcw...@us.fujitsu.com wrote: Alle, I can no longer access mirrors.hosef.org from inside the UH network (coming from 128.171.73.73, since June 2 it appears). Pings and traceroute fails: root@rb11: [1008/8]# ping mirrors.hosef.org PING mirrors.hosef.org (128.171.104.136) 56(84) bytes of data. --- mirrors.hosef.org ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2000ms root@rb11: [1009/9]# traceroute mirrors.hosef.org traceroute to mirrors.hosef.org (128.171.104.136), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 ccb-431 (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) 0.487 ms 0.469 ms 0.543 ms 2 fdt (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) 0.182 ms 0.257 ms 0.329 ms 3 128.171.73.65 (128.171.73.65) 1.147 ms 1.268 ms 1.352 ms 4 vl-200-te-1-1-bb1-its-hurp4900.uhnet.net (166.122.228.237) 1.118 ms 1.237 ms 1.227 ms 5 vl-244-gi-2-10-ml4900-1.uhnet.net (205.166.205.225) 2.840 ms 2.967 ms 3.137 ms 6 vl-1113-te-5-8-melody720.uhnet.net (166.122.228.50) 7.698 ms 7.685 ms 7.690 ms 7 vl-669-te-8-2-keller720.uhnet.net (128.171.213.4) 7.070 ms 7.007 ms 7.035 ms 8 * * * SNIP 30 * * * root@rb11: [1010/10]# Is the mirror down? Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail:cw...@us.fujitsu.com Phone:(808) 934-4102 Cell:(808) 937-5026 ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Colocation or plain old hosting
Al and Julian, thanks for your comments. I'm thinking the Rackspace virtual server is the way to go here. Thanks, -Jeff On 06/02/2012 04:08 PM, Julian Yap wrote: It sounds like a virtual server is the only real option for you. For your needs, a local host who hosts things physically locally would always be more expensive. Hawaii just has higher fixed costs such as energy, property and bandwidth costs. Are you willing to pay a local premium for the same product? Even if you host a small box locally and don't need a full 1U a unit of space, dedicated power, network cross connect need to be assigned to you. You would need to also be in the data center security system, billing system, support system. You may as well buy a 2nd IP address from your home ISP and host your EeeBox from your home. So given all the base fixed cost disadvantages of a local hosting firm (hosting physically in Hawaii) the overheads need to be factored in. So as with other local businesses competing against the might of the Internet you're paying for other factors such as convenience, local access, etc... If the premium features aren't worth it, then a virtual server from mainland hosting company X is for you. - Julian On Jun 2, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Mingsje...@lava.net wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply Laurence! Yes, I'm running several sites via conventional web hosting. A few of my sites were originally hosted by Cedant, which was a very competent company. Cedant was then bought by aplus, which was then bought by Deluxe for Business, which seems to be clueless about a great number of things. Out of frustration with hosting companies, I'm thinking of just setting up my own box. Rackspace's virtual boxes are insanely cheap and offer reliably good performance. Assuming I don't find anything better locally, I'll probably provision a Rackspace virtual server. Thanks, -Jeff On 06/02/2012 09:11 AM, Laurence Laforga wrote: Hi Jeff, I haven't run into any local co-location companies that sell less than a 1U rack space. I think it would make more economical sense to sign up for a web hosting account. Good luck! Laurence -Original Message- From: luau-boun...@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org [mailto:luau-boun...@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Mings Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:01 PM To: LUAU Subject: [LUAU] Really simple colocation Hi Guys! I am frustrated with hosting companies not offering quite what I want, or changing ownership and then features, or suffering from strangely slow MySQL servers. I'm wondering if there is a very very basic colocation option in town that will give me an IP address on a pipe with low down-time, and UPS-backed power for me to plug a small box into. I don't need loads of monthly bandwidth or even a whole U in a rack. I just want to run a basic Drupal site for a local company that doesn't get huge amounts of site traffic. Something as simple as an Asus EeeBox is all I need. (No, really, just a 2 GB RAM Atom box running Linux is more than enough). Has anyone found a good local company that does this for a low monthly rate? Thanks for reading this and giving it some consideration, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Really simple colocation
Hi Guys! I am frustrated with hosting companies not offering quite what I want, or changing ownership and then features, or suffering from strangely slow MySQL servers. I'm wondering if there is a very very basic colocation option in town that will give me an IP address on a pipe with low down-time, and UPS-backed power for me to plug a small box into. I don't need loads of monthly bandwidth or even a whole U in a rack. I just want to run a basic Drupal site for a local company that doesn't get huge amounts of site traffic. Something as simple as an Asus EeeBox is all I need. (No, really, just a 2 GB RAM Atom box running Linux is more than enough). Has anyone found a good local company that does this for a low monthly rate? Thanks for reading this and giving it some consideration, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Precise Pangolin is looking good
Hi all! Ubuntu's latest long-term-support release, 12.04, is only in beta 1, but it seems to be very polished already. I tried the previous alpha, and had install problems. I'll probably even use it for a production box, unless I find any problems. As many others have said, the ClassicMenu Indicator package tames the Unity madness by bringing back the application menu. Without this one addon, I wouldn't be able to stand the Unity UI. Aloha, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Unity follows the bad idea of one UI for all devices
Hi Guys! Getting back the gnome-2-ish look for Ubuntu 12.04 is really easy: $ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback My laptop and desktop run Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) and Gnome 2 allows me to be very productive. However, I wanted to see if another box, that will primarily be running Zoneminder, would be tolerable with Unity. With the addition of ClassicMenu Indicator, Unity UI is usable. Canonical went to Unity to have a single UI for desktops, tablets and phones. This is a terrible idea, as demonstrated by the horrible windows mobile/CE PDAs and phones, and by the manner in which Apple used IOS for small devices and Mac OSX for computers. Even Microsoft developed Metro for their new phones (but have foolishly tried to slap it onto their Windoze8 desktops). Unity has driven many people to Mint Linux or CentOS. If Ubuntu offered another official derivative ( http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/derivatives ) using Gnome 2, I would expect it to eclipse all of the other versions. Gnome 3 is absolutely beautiful, but is a regression from a productivity standpoint. Aloha, -Jeff On 03/20/2012 07:47 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Julian Yapjulian_...@yahoo.com wrote: I've been a long time desktop Linux user but the recent Gnome3 and Unity has soured my hopes of the future. I encountered my Linux desktop crisis with the transition to KDE4. Running Debian Lenny helped put it off for a while. With Squeeze the issue was the use of the not quite ready for prime time KDE4.4 and the ruination of the KDEPIM packages. Thus began a transition to Ubuntu Lucid or Mint Isadora with XFCE. A similarly equipped Debian runs faster and requires less RAM than either Ubuntu or Mint, though. snip ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Unity follows the bad idea of one UI for all devices
Interesting comments. I noticed an irritating anomaly in XFCE behavior under Ubuntu 10.04. I was unable to copy something from the desktop and then paste it into a sub folder using Thunar, the default file manager. When I opened the desktop in Thunar and copied from there, the operation worked. I haven't had the time to look into this problem, but it's on a machine serving as a sort-of-remote-desktop machine for a few users to run Thunderbird from whatever location they're at. I like the small memory / cpu footprint of XFCE. Any idea of a suitable resolution? Aloha, -Jeff On 03/20/2012 09:42 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote: snip XFCE 4.8 from PPA has several advantages over version 4.6 available in Debian: The panel moves to the side of the screen more gracefully. The launcher interface has improved. It does a better job with transparency. In short, XFCE is first rate. Let's hope it stays that way. ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Unity follows the bad idea of one UI for all devices
Excellent suggestion! I'll try the updated PPA later. Aloha, -Jeff On 03/20/2012 10:36 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote: snip Thunar got better in version 4.8, but I still don't use it. I use PCmanFM. With both XFCE 4.6 and 4.8 I could not duplicate the problem. I created a folder in Thunar off of the desktop. Dragging some other file to the desktop folder within Thunar worked. Dragging the file directly from the desktop into the new folder I created in Thunar worked. I then did the same using a VNC connection to another machine (which also ran XFCE). It ran as expected. Ubuntu uses version XFCE 4.6 by default. The distributions running 4.6 were Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Lucid. If XFCE acts flakey, what some people do is delete the content of the ~/.cache/sessions directory. That helped me in one instance. If you want to try 4.8, you can add this to your sources.list file: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexx2000/xfce/ubuntu lucid main ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Thread on merits of package backups
I sorta do that now... E.g., for a box that is primarily a file server I periodically make backups of /etc and then frequent backups of the clients' data. Hard drives don't fail that often. The biggest need for backups/restoration is when a client deletes/damages/edits one or more files and needs to get the right data back. -Jeff Mings On 11/27/2011 09:17 PM, Brian Chee wrote: So here is a snip from a Linux reference, what I'd like to ask is how well folks think this will actually work? Being able to backup as small amount of info possible is a very good thing... *APT: Backup and restore your software* *Hopefully you're already backing up your documents in case of a crash, but did you know that there's no need to back up your whole system? Because of the way that Linux stores all its programs inside a package manager, it's a cinch to create a list of all the packages you have installed, then feed that back into your package manager when you want to restore your system. To do this, use the dpkg command to save your selections to a backup file, then read them back in at a later date. Note that you must performapt-get dselect-upgrade after setting your selections to make the changes happen.* *dpkg --get-selections backup_file dpkg --set-selections backup_file apt-get dselect-upgrade* What do you folks think? Will this get 100% of the system info, or just the packages and now you have to backup the configs separately.normally I backup the whole system, but that's very space intensive. Brian Chee Sent from my iPad ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] VNC for Mac OSx Lion?
Hi Brian! There is a new project called Chicken, that is based off of the abandoned Chicken of The VNC, that hasn't been update for about 6 years. Chicken works fairly well, and, more importantly, is active. Find it on sourceforge. Jollysfastvnc is probably the best VNC client, but is a pay app. Aloha, -Jeff On 09/21/2011 01:54 PM, Brian Chee wrote: Has anyone found a decent VNC client for OSx Lion yet? I'm hoping to avoid having to blow $50 on RealVNC and was hoping someone has found a decent free version. /brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Apache DoS vulnerability
Once again, thanks for the heads-up, Julian. :) On 08/24/2011 10:08 AM, Julian Yap wrote: Here is an article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/devastating_apache_vuln/ Try running the proof of concept here: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51714 I ran it on some CentOS 5 and 6 (running httpd-2.2.15-5.el6.centos.x86_64) servers which reported no issues. It may be the default way that RHEL/CentOS has the network set up or perhaps does not enable the modules required. I suspect some distributions may be vulnerable with their default set up. - Julian ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] FYI...firewall upgrade time
Just wanted to say that I really appreciate having the HOSEF mirrors - makes keeping up with Ubuntu and CentOS much easier. Your efforts are appreciated, Brian. Aloha On 06/16/2011 11:15 AM, Brian Chee wrote: So while this doesn't technically affect the HOSEF server, I thought I'd give you folks a warning that my lab firewall(s) and SSL-VPN(s) are getting upgraded today around 4pm HST...so while it shouldn't affect HOSEF, it might considering the massive arp table changes during this upgrade. So you might want to consider NOT doing any big upgrades off it at this time period. /brian chee ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] WiFi NIC that plays nice with Linux? - Thanks for responses
Hi All! Thanks for the recommendations! Now I've got more research to do. :) Aloha, -Jeff On 05/24/2011 12:26 PM, Peter Besenbruch wrote: If you don't need N, the Zonet 2500P is a good one that is both cheap, and that works with weak signals. It's basically plug and play. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833130111Tpk=zonet%20zew2500p ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] WiFi NIC that plays nice with Linux?
Hi All! I'm re-deploying a very plain Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, that used run WinXP, as a Lucid Lynx box. It's to be used as a training laptop - employees use it to read training material, watch instructional videos, etc. and Ubuntu has worked out very nicely for this on another laptop - very low maintenance. This laptop has a built-in 10/100 ethernet NIC, and I was wondering if anyone has a strong recommendation for one of the USB WiFi NICs for a modern Linux. I.e., there are several listed on NewEgg that _should_ work, but I'm interested in real-world experience. Also, there are several very tiny USB stubby NICs that are so small that they can be left in. These would seem to have very limited antenna strength. Anyone tried one of those and tested coverage and signal strength? Thanks in advance, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] TurboPrint - pretty freaking cool
Hello All! I just discovered a commercial Linux package called TurboPrint. I have to share my experience. I bought a new Epson Stylus Photo R2880. This is a very nice printer, but I wasted hours and hours trying to get color management to work. Gutenprint is a very cool system, but it wasn't close enough to what I get from my camera and from GIMP under Lucid Lynx. I have been using Linux as my primary OS for at least 11 years, and I know my way around. I tried different color profiles, every imaginable setting, etc., and it still wasn't right. I tried printing from my iMac, and from WinXP in a VM, but nothing really came close. I read about TurboPrint in a Linux forum for Epson users, and tried it. It's very polished, and using the AdobeRGB1998 color profile, I got the closest match so far. I'm very impressed. It costs 30 Euro for a single PC license. I was actually considering purchasing Adobe Lightroom to solve my color management problem, so 30 Euro isn't bad at all. I just wish I knew about this several days ago. If you guys come across anything really cool or interesting, please let the list know - we can all use new info. Aloha, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] RR SMTP should resolve with OpenDNS
That doesn't seem right... I am using the OpenDNS servers (just double-checked resolv.conf to make sure), and I get: PING smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com (71.74.56.22) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (71.74.56.22): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=128 ms I'm using RR in the McCully area, but for a non-RR host, that shouldn't matter... Oddly, the traceroute for what should be a Hawaii-based server dies after going through RR's Cali tbone. Aloha, -Jeff On 12/02/2010 09:45 PM, Dwight Victor (Gmail) wrote: Yeah, I'm not having trouble resolving anything as I have my own caching DNS server with Google's DNS as my primary nameservers. My issue is that my RoadRunner email is hosed. Even with OpenDNS' servers I can't resolve smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com...something is royally screwed. -bash-3.00# dig @208.67.222.222 smtp-server.hawaii.rr.com ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] problems with RoadRunner?
Perhaps you might try OpenDNS. You still have to deal with problems with other RR servers of course: http://www.opendns.com/ I like how they list the main servers at the bottom of the front page: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Aloha, -Jeff On 12/02/2010 09:17 PM, Peter Besenbruch wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:57:32 -1000 Dwight Victor (Gmail)dwight.vic...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, Seems like RoadRunner is having some issues; anybody know what's up? Can't resolve any of their hostnames; even using Google or RoadRunner's own DNS servers. Their customer service line is busy and their web chat thing showed a queue of over 200 users. Still got connectivity, just no RoadRunner hosted services (i.e., mail, DNS, etc.). It was constant problems with Road Runner that send me over to Lavanet. At least most Linux users know how to point to different DNS servers. ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] traceroute missing on Ubuntu 8*
Aloha Al! I have been switching many of my boxen to Ubuntu, with the servers running the long term edition of 8. In addition to using apt-get, you can just browse through all of the available / installed repository apps using aptitude from the console. Yes, I still do a lot of work using SSH, and aptitude is great for looking through the available choices for adding an FTP server, or picking from the versions of a certain type of service that are available with a few keystrokes. Good luck, -Jeff Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I have to test networks with this HP Mini running Ububtu 8*. So I need traceroute. The normal Linux or FreeBSD command is the same. I searched and found many complaints about this with Ubuntu. That it is missing. Doesnt work from (root) sudo or usr. Acn anyone help me to install this utility and the rest that are needed for Network trouble shooting. Can I use aptget like Debian to install missing utilities. Is there away to load a full bash or tcsh shell on this box? So far the only thing I havent got running is the way to use a remote wireless connection like at Starbucks and my network printer I think needs a prrintcap file like I learned to do way back the day. Mahalo.. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Who's building system units?
Building boxes is so commoditized that the time to assemble and the risk potential of fixing issues with multiple points of responsibility hasn't been worth it for a long time. I've been buying dirt-cheap Dell boxes for my windows-using clients for a long time; they work well, driver and tracking support on the Dell site is good, and their reliability record has been excellent. I recently bought a shuttle k-4500 for about $230 from Newegg (it's not there anymore) and dropped Kubuntu onto it for use as a client's home server; except for an optical drive, the box had everything I needed for a simple server. I just added a 2nd NIC and had a complete compact server for less than $300. Buying the barebones version and adding cpu, RAM, drive, would not have been worth the effort. The cost of parts for self-assembly often turns out to be more than buying a cheap complete box. KDE 4.1 is very pretty and available in a new Kubuntu remix on the Ubuntu site. Putting that on the cheap Shuttle box might be a winner for your friend. Aloha, -Jeff Mings P.s. The more I use Ubuntu / Kubuntu, the more I am impressed by it. I still find odd things, like not having an xinetd installed by default, but I'm really finding more and more to like about the distro. Karen Lofstrom wrote: My old Zen teacher's computer is a battered hand-me-down (approximately seven years old) on its last legs. The CD drive has failed and the HD is making unpleasant noises. He may need a new computer soon. I could assemble one from parts, but it might be too expensive to buy all the parts retail and have them shipped here. If you're going all new (rather than just upgrading a few failing parts) I gather that it's *usually* cheaper to buy from someone who gets the parts wholesale. So, who here in Honolulu is building PCs now? Who's reliable? I should add that all he does with the computer is: use Word and Outlook (bleaagh), listen to an Internet classical music station, and watch the Democracy Now vlog. He's 91 and is still confused by computers. He doesn't need a gamer's computer. -- Karen Lofstrom ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Who's building system units?
Odd... Most Dells I buy use plain vanilla ATX power supplies, like you used to find at CompUSA. The really compact Dells use a different kind of power supply - I don't recall part specification; they're just too small for a normal PS to fit in. I'm not a Dell fanboy by any means, but they have made buying and maintaining boxes easy for me, and their stuff is relatively cheap. Aloha, -Jeff Mings Karen Lofstrom wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Mings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been buying dirt-cheap Dell boxes for my windows-using clients for a long time; they work well, driver and tracking support on the Dell site is good, and their reliability record has been excellent. Yabbut ... Dell doesn't use standard parts. They use their own proprietary parts which cost the earth to replace. I discovered this when an acquaintance asked me to replace the power supply in his Dell. Only a proprietary component would work, and it had to be ordered from Dell at an insane markup over off-the-shelf power supplies. I would never buy a Dell. -- Karen Lofstrom ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
[LUAU] Wine 1.0 can be amazing
Hello All! I used Wine 7 or 8 years ago to run a minor business app that was the one thing my workstation running Linux couldn't do. Wine was very limited, and just didn't play well with very many Windoze apps. I recently experimented with Wine 1.0 under Ubuntu 8.04. I was utterly amazed at running World of Warcraft perfectly and at a stunning speed under an older P4 with a mediocre AGP card. Everything works. Even the sound is flawless. There are quite a few other apps listed in the Wine DB. It's really come a long way. Aloha, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] FYI - how far Linux has come
Thanks for the feedback, David! Ubuntu just seems to be getting more and more ridiculously easy. Good info like this is what this list should be all about. Aloha, -Jeff Mings David Kiwerski wrote: I have a Toshiba X205-9800 laptop that I bought about 3 months ago that includes the NVidia 8700 video card, Intel HDA audio and Intel a/g/n wireless. The first distro to correctly identify and properly install all three sets of drivers was Ubuntu 8.04. I'm now using KIWI 8.04, as it includes all the restricted drivers and decoders for playing DVD's, etc. (it's based on Ubuntu 8.04). I don't really feel I need the fingerprint scanner of the extra functions on the touchpad, but I'll try a later version in a few months. A far cry from 10 years ago when I first started, and had to fight just to get an install finished!! Dave ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org
[LUAU] non-distro firewall recommendations?
Hello all, For a long time, I used a fairly simple bash script, MonMotha's firewall, to manage the firewall functionality for several Linux servers. It was ridiculously easy to administer and setup. It's still running on a few of my servers. I needed more functionality, and started using Shorewall, which is a solid solution. However, I was never able to get SIP / RTP forwarding to work with Shorewall, although it works with the simpler MonMotha script. MonMotha, who used to subscribe to this list until some sort of disagreement, has stopped updating his excellent script. Is there a good up-to-date firewall solution like MonMotha's? It is _really_ easy to configure, and make work. The only thing missing is the ability to deny packets from certain hosts. The MonMotha script was supposed to do this, but the office girls were still able to suck away the bandwidth and their productivity at myspace.com, forever21.com, etc. Shorewall unequivocally blocks the crap sites. I also need to accomodate Gizmo and the SIP / RTP functionality of the Talkswitch mini-PBXes. The servers are primarily Fedora Core (8,7,6) boxes that primarily serve OpenVPN, Samba, HTTP and DHCP. Suggestions? Thanks, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org
Re: [LUAU] non-distro firewall recommendations?
Thanks for the suggestions, Jim, but I am looking for a solution that will run on an existing distro. Pfsense and monowall appear to be bootable distros. Right now, Arno's firewall script looks very promising, and I plan to test this after hours. Aloha, -Jeff Mings Jim Thompson wrote: On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Jeff Mings wrote: Suggestions? pfSense or m0n0wall. ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org
[LUAU] More Notes on the Asus eee PC
Hello All! I have the exact same model as Jim - the black was worth the wait. There are a number of shortcoming in the Xandros distro, but my biggest gripe is not a Xandros problem per se, but rather that a great deal of drive space is taken up by the recovery files, and is structured in such a way that removing unwanted apps doesn't free up any space. However, one of my reasons for purchasing it was to evaluate it for a client that might use it for a simple and inexpensive browsing / training PC. I needed to keep it relatively stock for the sake of simplicity. But overall, the Xandros distro works with very few issues or complaints Like Peter, I added an 8GB SDHC card. Also, I carry my data between various machines on an 8GB USB drive. I may never have to worry about running out of storage space on the eee - by the time that's an issue, I will have a 32 GB USB drive. The tiny keyboard takes time to get used to, but I can touch-type surprisingly well with it at this point. I've been able to use both WEP and WPA. Oddly, the eee doesn't do a good job of discerning a WPA-secured WAP / hotspot - you have to select WPA instead of WEP. because running office apps is the very definition of getting things done, eh? For a lot of people, being able to read and write office app formats is very important. I'm one of them - I use OpenOffice for all manner of exchanging data with my clients and the world at large. OpenOffice is wonderful - I use it on Linux, Mac, and sometimes Windows - I've never bought any kind of M$ Office for my own use, thanks to OpenOffice. OpenOffice opens faster on the eee PC than on a new Dell Core 2 Duo I compared it with. -The combination of a speedy Linux and a solid state drive make for a delightfully quick experience with a 900 Mhz Celeron. Very refreshing after seeing several of my clients complain about the speed of Vista on very speedy hardware. there is no 'drive'. repeat, there is no *drive*. There is 4GB (or 2GB in the 'Surf' models, or 8GB in the newest member of the lineup) of flash soldered to the board Most nerds would argue that the SSD is just what it stands for - a solid state drive. The fact that there is no spinning platter or removable component doesn't change the fact that it is a drive. Aloha, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] Notes on the Asus eee PC
Many years ago, members of this list used to discuss actual Linux details rather than more generic organizational matters. A return to that sort of activity would be good. In that spirit, my notes on the Asus eee PC after using it for several weeks: -The default distro, Xandros, is set up in such a way as to make it ridiculously easy to use for a non-linux user, out of the box. That said, the full desktop mode, a lean KDE, is also very well put together; files are launched with the appropriate application from Firefox or the file manager, WiFi works remarkably well, and it doesn't require much tweaking to start being very productive with OpenOffice immediately. -The combination of a speedy Linux and a solid state drive make for a delightfully quick experience with a 900 Mhz Celeron. Very refreshing after seeing several of my clients complain about the speed of Vista on very speedy hardware. -This is not the sweet spot. With a 2 lb. weight and a 800x480 screen, it's very light and compact. I think that the best mix will end up being a slightly larger case with 1024 x 768 screen and a slightly larger battery with a weight of about 3 lb. Aloha, -Jeff Mings ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] Nokia 770 questions
Hello Jim! Thanks for the response. I appreciate your generous offer to let me borrow one, but I shouldn't have to impose upon you so much. I'm mostly interested in hearing from you about your experiences with the GPE PIM apps that look very promising for doing PDA-ish stuff. I'd like to know if the GPE apps are stable, and if you've been able to import contacts and schedule info. Also, have you tried the optional BASH shell? Aloha, -Jeff Jim Thompson wrote: Yep. Wanna borrow one for a day or two? Jim On Oct 22, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Jeff Mings wrote: Hello all, I've been considering getting a Nokia 770 internet tablet for quite some time after seeing the newer firmware and the development for it. Surf to: http://planet.maemo.org/ to get an idea of the activity there. I specifically want to use it more as a PDA to track / sync schedules and contact info than as a cool tablet that can also run all of the Linux apps I depend on. Has anyone on this list used the Nokia 770 with the newer firmware? Aloha, -Jeff ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] Nokia 770 review?
Hello all, I've been considering getting a Nokia 770 internet tablet for quite some time after seeing the newer firmware and the development for it. Surf to: http://planet.maemo.org/ to get an idea of the activity there. I specifically want to use it more as a PDA to track / sync schedules and contact info than as a cool tablet that can also run all of the Linux apps I depend on. Has anyone on this list used the Nokia 770 with the newer firmware? Aloha, -Jeff
[LUAU] RR DNS servers changing
Hello friends of Linux, As they did a few years ago, Roadrunner is changing their DNS numbers without telling anyone. Please alert your users of the following from the RR network status page: DNS Changes on October 25, 2005 Road Runner will be renumbering their DNS servers. To our customers with Residential Road Runner Services if you are manually configuring the DNS server IP addresses, please be advised you will need to make changes to allow DNS servers to be propagated dynamically to avoid a service interruption. To our customers with Road Runner Commercial Services, to avoid a service interruption please verify that your DNS IP addresses are updated to the following addresses: Primary DNS: 66.75.160.15 Secondary DNS: 66.75.160.16 -Jeff Mings
[LUAU] backup modem daemon?
Hi all, I've been looking for a an existing solution that will monitor a network pipe/route, like a roadrunner connection, and dial and set routing firewall settings for a backup modem connection when the first pipe goes down. Of course, I'd like it to restore original routing when the pipe is retored. I could kludge together something with wvdial and diald, but was hoping to find an existing solution. This is for a fedore core 3 box. Has anyone seen a package/script / daemon that will do this? Thanks, -Jeff
[LUAU] Did you call?
If you enjoy your iPod, your VHS player, your Tivo, and a whole slew of other products and conveniences that rely on fair use, or the freedom to use your purchased content in the manner you prefer, you _have_ to call your legislators and demand they oppose the Induce Act. It's coming up for a crucial vote tomorrow. go to: http://www.savebetamax.org/eff/ and do your part to stop evil laws from screwing up your life. Do it now, or your might forget later. Thanks, -Jeff
Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic
Thanks for the suggestion. What I'd really like to be able to do is just switch out backup hard drives once a month. The goal is simple data redundancy, not hardware fail-over. I'm planning on colocating a server, and I was hoping I could just umount /dev/whichever , unlock a drive tray, and reverse the process for a different drive. It just sounds too easy, though. -Jeff MonMotha wrote: Before you go trying this, make sure the SATA drivers in Linux support hot swapping. Just because the hardware supports it doesn't mean the software does (I can practically guarantee you windows will BSOD unless you tell it in advance you're going to hotswap it's drive). This is mostly useful on RAID arrays though. See the raidhotadd and raidhotremove (or is it raidhotdel?) commands. --MonMotha
Re: [LUAU] Does this shock you?
While there are viruses and spyware listed, a number of these are legitimate programs. I recognized many of these background tasks and checked my favorite task list at http://answersthatwork.com/ . E.g., ctfmon.exe is an ordinary part of Microsoft Office XP and Windows XP – it activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office XP Language Bar. LSASS is usually the Local Security Authentication Server, unless a virus has replaced it. Windoze OSes are frustratingly difficult to keep free of viri, especially if you run Outlook or Internet Exploder. However, when educating others about its problems, we have to be careful to remain objective. Thank You. R. Scott Belford wrote: I have been meaning to email LUAU and our announce list for some time to make sure that we all knew the recent news about HOSEF. We have a permanent home at UH thanks to many unthanked people, and luau and monmotha have a permanent home with HOSEF. We have set up a lab this year at Kuhio Elementary, we had a booth at the eSchool conference, and we have donated a lab to the Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii in Ewa Beach where we refurbish the computers that are later donated to other organizations. We just put a Mandrake Box at the Makiki Community Library. There is so much news, and I will share it soon. For now, I want to shock you, if I can. There are two computer labs at the BGCH. The downstairs one, a windows lab, was donated by the Case Foundation and was supported for the first few years. Upstairs is our 15 station Linux thin client lab. We have also donated two stand-alone Mandrake boxes now in heavy use by MGMT. The downstairs windows lab has fallen in disrepair. No windows updates and no IE patches have made this lab an unsurfable nightmare on some computers. It is no longer even possible to run Windows Update on the ones that I have tried. It is not the staff's fault, support is now handled by the company of one the members of the BOD. A quick look at the Task Manager and some time googling has revealed the following on just *one* computer. CTFMON.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/spyware.familykeylog.html FF.EXE http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.rirc.html WSup.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.huntbar.html WToolsA.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.huntbar.html msbb.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.ncase.html wupdater.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.polybot.html CMESys.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/dialer.iedisco.html WKufind.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.gaobot.ee.html VPTray.exe proof that norton is uninstalled mspmspsv.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.gaobot.ee.html WToolsS.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.huntbar.html regsvc.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.irc.cloner.html lsass.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.b.worm.html csrss.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dalbug.worm.html smss.exe http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dalbug.worm.html If you are still wondering if Linux can replace Windows on the Desktop, I can assure that it can, it has, it does, and in cases like this, it must. I'll be documenting this in a case study, but for now I had to share this horror with someone else. --scott ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic
SATA drives are supposed to be hot-swappable, but I've never actually tried this. Has anyone here tried this with Linux and then run fsck or other tests to check for integrity? Thanks, -Jeff
[luau] The lowdown on SCO
Just ran across a new site that reveals The Truth about SCO! Surf to http://spunky.reallysucks.com/ Best viewed with satirical sunglasses. -Jeff
Re: [luau] IIIMF in Fedora
IIMF looks _very_ cool. I often type Japanese in my email and setting up Japanese as an alternative language has always been a major pain. I am very interested in seeing how IIIMF turns out. -Jeff Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: One of the most attractive features of Fedora/Red Hat, as far as our Islands are concerned, is its aggressive attempt to make an OS that bridges the barrier between Western and Eastern languages. Red Hat 8 was the first OS that's based on unicode (UTF-8). Now FC2 is bravely adopting the new Intranet/Internet Input Method Framework (IIIMF), which is the next generation Input Method Framework set to replace the legacy X Window System Input Method (XIM) used by existing Input Methods such as chinput, xcin, kinput2, etc. See: http://www.apac.redhat.com/iiimftest/testing-guide/ch-testcase.html Most in this forum probably will not be able to appreciate the significance of this development. But it won't hurt to be aware of what's going on. wayne ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] Bizarre request
If you can't burn a Knoppix disk, perhaps you should just use a simple bootable floppy distro like Tom's Root and Boot at http://www.toms.net/rb/ -Jeff Karen Lofstrom wrote: I've gotten in WAY over my head in an attempt to cobble together a working system unit out of bits and pieces. Combining 5-year-old and new components is tricky :( This would be fine if it were for me, but it's not -- it's for some poor neighbors who have contributed some money and time towards my efforts. So I feel that I owe them a working system. The only way I can see to do it, now, is to give them the Linux box that my brother gave me. It's an old AT-form-factor PII computer that was no longer worth upgrading. As soon as I get a job -- if I ever get a job -- I can assemble my own Linux box. And make do with just my recently upgraded Windoze box until then. Of course it would be nice to just hand them a Linux box, but I don't think they could handle it (the parents have eighth-grade educations). Plus they want to go online with AOL, play popular games, etc. So I've got to figure out a way to remove the SUSE OS and reformat the HD to Windoze. I'm stuck. Windoze fdisk won't remove Linux partitions, and an attempt at Linux fdisk from the command line, as root, failed. I can't get the system to remove itself! I faced a problem like this a few years ago, but I was able to back out with a Red Hat installation diskette. I don't have it now; I gave my whole Red Hat set to a poor Chinese student. So what CAN I do to wipe the system clean? I have a SUSE boot disk but it just reverts to the regular HD boot. I know that removing Linux and installing MS is heresy. Revile me if you must, but help me revamp my Linux box so I can give it away.
[luau] Great palm desktop
Sometimes you run across a great Linux app that you wish someone else had told you about long before. Jpilot is an excellent way to use your Palm OS PDA. I use RH9, and tried using the included KPilot and conduits for Evolution, but they were incomplete. Jpilot has all of the functionality of the simple Palm desktop, and is very easy to install and use. Just make sure that you have a symbolic link from pilot to your palm interface (e.g., ttyUSB1) and all you have to do is install the RPM. I only boot into windoze for my girlfriend, so finding an excellent Palm app for Linux is a very good thing. Go now to http://jpilot.org/index.html . -Jeff
Re: [luau] Linux Gaming Today
Hi All, Just FYI, there is a group of guys trying to organize local gamers so that LAN parties and similar events can be announced and marketed. Their site is at http://hawaiigamingheadquarters.com/ . I spoke to Earl, who runs the site, and he seems like a nice guy - fairly positive about Linux as a gaming platform, but gamers don't really care - whatever runs their game most easily or with the highest frame rate. I stopped by McKinley to see what Michael had put together, and ran into a number of Windoze gamers running mostly first person shooters. I'm sure that those guys would love to play with Linux gamers - as long as everything works correctly. Another note - I purchased NeverWinter Nights for Linux from Tux Games several months ago simply to support Linux gaming. I finally installed it yesterday, and I'm pleased to say it runs beautifully. Another great game for Linux. -Jeff Dwight wrote: Michael, I wish I had known about this earlier...I would have volunteered to setup a QuakeII server, or an UnrealTournament server, or a Half-Life server...oh well. Anyways, next time, more advance notice would be appreciated. Dwight...
Re: [luau] Finally working again... At HCC nonetheless.
Congratulations, Deven, It's very good to be employed, even if it's not quite what you want to be doing. Hang in there, -Jeff Mings Deven Phillips wrote: Hello All, Well, I finally got a job!!! Here I am at my desk writing you guys this e-mail with a real job for the first time in 6 months. Hopefully I'll now be able to get back to what's important in life . . . LINUX!!! Hope to see you all soon.
Re: [luau] Earthlink vs RoadRunner cable
Hi Warren, I selected Earthlink over regular RoadRunner because the terms of service didn't forbid using the connection with more than one computer, and were free from various other onerous restrictions that Oceanic's TOS included. The service was installed, billed, and setup through Oceanic - I perceive it to be identical to RoadRunner. I also have use of Earthlink's dial-up access points when I travel, which is a nice extra. I have a linux box running dhcp on the RoadRunner NIC that shares the link with my other PCs. Effortless to set up. A ping test just yielded an average of 12ms to Videl. -Jeff Warren Togami wrote: Does anyone have Earthlink cable internet from Oceanic instead of RoadRunner? How has your service been?
Re: [luau] Hello Again!!!
Welcome Back Deven! Hope you're still making movies with Linux and doing other cool stuff with the penguin! -Jeff Mings Deven Phillips wrote: Hello all, I have finally returned to the group after a long sojourn. I've been a away too long, so if someone wouldn't mind sending me an e-mail (off-list) to get me a little up to speed as to what is going on I would appreciate it!!! Thanks!! Deven Phillips Sair GNU/Linux Certified Instructor ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] ext3 fsck question
I've noticed that fsck.ext2 and fsck.ext3 are identical - try checking them with the cmp command if you're really bored. I've fixed messed up ext3 volumes with e2fsck -cfv a few times - I don't believe that you really have to worry about the journal. Good luck, -Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: file system was munged so tried to run fsck.ext3 it kept reverting to fsck.ext2 there is an option of specifying the journal file, but where the heck is it hidden? filesystem lable as ext3 in fstab is correct -t
Re: [luau] a little script question
The easiest way is probably a couple of scripts. If your current script is callvv.run, then you could probably write something like: !#/bin/bash su - root -c callvv.run in another file with the necessary permissions, e.g. rootvv . Then, when you run rootvv, it would prompt for pass and start callvv.run. -Jeff Alvin Murphy wrote: I have written a small bash script which starts one of my programs (ViaVoice); in order for it to run properly, I have to be in supervisor mode, i.e. run su and password ; my question: is there any way to write that into the script itself? Thanks
Re: [luau] R.H. 8.0 notebook install question
I've always used the fairly generic 1024 x 768 laptop display selection for these situations - never had a problem there. -Jeff F. Hines wrote: Ok im in the middle of installing RH8.0 on a Dell 200N Notebook Everything is fine no problems (yet), im in the middle of doing the Monitor Config, and here is where my question is ... What do I chose for my monitor ? It's currently unprobed Do I need to use the Dell 1024X Laptop Display Panel ? Or another ? It doesn't give the Horizontal or Vertical Sync's in the Dell docs, just that it's a TFT XGA with a maximum resolution of 1024x768, Refresh rate of 60hz viewing angles of +-40deg. Horizontal and +20deg/-40deg vertical Response times, height and weight etc etc. I just wanna make sure I don't fry the display ..dont think the warranty or the accidental coverage will cover that. Lol Flo ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] Bye Bye
Dean, It's been a pleasure knowing and working with you. My best wishes go with the two of you and I hope to see you again some day. Take care, -Jeff dean wrote: I would like to thank all of you that participate--silently or otherwise--for contributing to our island's Open Source advocation. I will be going to Central America tomorrow, and shall not be participating within this community as often as I'd like. I will, however, bring our Open Source software with me to share with any and everyone possible. It has been a pleasure to learn from and with all of you; I hope that you continue in earnest. I'll be gone for 6 months to 5 years, so until then, ALOHA dean
Re: [luau] Injury
Ouch! Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery! Dan George wrote: I havent contributed to much lately and plan to give some information on using the latest D-Link 22mbps wireless under Linux as soon as I complete the configuration. I was struck by a car while walking toward downtown crossing Beretania at Alakea. I have a tibea fracture in my left knee area and had surgery the day of the accident which was on the 2nd. Im laid up and unable to bend my knee to sit at my desk so Im laying on the sofa with this wireless laptop running both W2K and RH8. Dan George ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] ALSA Nvidia Drivers on Red Hat 8.0
I've installed ALSA for RH 8.0 on my Dell Laptop - the regular drivers were fairly dysfunctional with that finicky sound chip. I believe I just grabbed the packages from freshrpms.net, which also had a nice tutorial as well - it was pretty easy. -Jeff W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Has anyone ever installed ALSA Nvidia Drivers in Red Hat 8.0? ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] Creative DVD-Rom and Ogle
With all due respect to a Linux guru who knows much more than I, the problem is probably due to DMA being turned off by default. On my first RH 8.0 machine, I was frustrated with the very same problem for several hours until I found instructions for turning on DVD DMA on freshrpms.net at http://freshrpms.net/docs/dvd/ . Warren has placed the same info on his RH 8.0 tricks page on the MPLUG wiki. Good luck, -Jeff MonMotha wrote: The problem is probably that your DVD drive is stuck in PIO mode. I know RedHat's kernel has the only enable DMA on disks option set, so DMA won't get enabled on ATAPI devices. I know there's a kernel option to work around this, or you can use hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX. However this may not work if you are using SCSI emulation (why? is this also a burner?) --MonMotha
Re: [luau] Creative DVD-Rom and Ogle - Oops
Errr... Yes you did - I should refrain from skimming over other people's email when terribly sleep deprived. ;) -Jeff MonMotha wrote: Isn't that what I said? :) There's an option in the kernel to only enable DMA for hard drives, but not removable media. RedHat turned this on in their kernel for stability reasons (it causes problems in very rare circumstances, mostly older systems). Basically there's a bunch of ways around it to enable DMA again on your DVD drive; pick any of them and run with it. --MonMotha
Re: [luau] best 404 page ever?
You're right. There is no greater 404 page than this. -Jeff Ho'ala Greevy wrote: thought some of you mind enjoy this. http://homokaasu.org/404.html -ho'ala ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] X keys
Deanmeister, are you referring to the Ctrl-Alt- (minus on keypad) and Ctrl-Alt-(plus on keypad) sequences? -Jeff On Tuesday 05 November 2002 03:43 pm, you wrote: On Monday 04 November 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: 2. The new generations of Linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, Xandros 1.0, etc.) now allow changes in screen resolution to be made on the fly. (BTW, I would like to point out that this feature has been available in our Corel Linux--the predecesor of Xandros--for ages, but was available in other distros only recently.) I remember reading it somewhere, but how do you change screen resolution it's something+?? dean
Re: [luau] Linux newbie seeks easy transition
If you have the original install software for MYM, there's a good chance that you can run it under Linux using Wine. I have run a few windoze apps flawlessly under Wine, and the earlier simpler stuff (no activex, directx or ODBC dependencies) seem to run with fewer complications. -Jeff On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:43 pm, you wrote: What program is your financial stuff in? Old old. Managing Your Money, circa 1994.
Re: [luau] vnc for UNIX/Linux?
I use TridiaVNC a LOT to control Windoze PCs from my Linux boxen, and it's faster than plain VNC. Also, there is now a new project called RealVNC, I believe. I have used it to control other Linux boxen, but prefer to use SSH and various CLI tools rather than the TWM based X environment that TridiaVNC gives you. -Jeff On Thursday 10 October 2002 02:15 pm, you wrote: I've seen vnc used to view and control a Windows machine, but I've never seen anything like that for UNIX/Linux. Is the same functionality there? Anybody here ever use it? Thanks, -Charles ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] Red Hat 8.0 release Monday
Warren, thanks again for all of the time you put into making Linux work much better in Hawaii. Do you feel that there's any validity to Bero's claim at http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-develm=103293985032408 that RH 8.0 is crippling KDE? I haven't been able to find any references to specific objections or details. -Jeff Warren Togami wrote: Sometime Monday (not exactly sure when) the 8.0 directory on mirrors worldwide will open for download. Red Hat 8.0 presents a significant upgrade in desktop Linux from Red Hat 7.3, even better than Mandrake 9.0 in some ways.
Re: [luau] Mandrake 9 and Presario 711
This may be of help: One of the less understood samba settings is the map to guest parameter. If you want to truly make a share public, you will want to set it browseable, and you will want to use map to guest = bad user so that a user with no password in /etc/passwd or /etc/smb/smbpasswd will be able to access that share. Of course, this should ONLY be used for zero security situations. -Jeff Alvin Murphy wrote: Having problems with Mdk 9 and hoping for some help. Installed very smoothly on my Presario 711, seems to be overheating a little less than RH 7.3, sound works, found my smb printer, etc.. But, very strange, in RH 7.3 I can easily copy files from other linux box or either win machine using smb://hostname; this does not work so well in Mandrake and when it does, i.e. shows me the other shares, the drop down no longer has copy to only copy (to clipboard) and when I try to past to my home directory it asks for pass words, none of which work.
Re: [luau] First Hawaiian Bank fixed their website
Warren Togami wrote: Their redone site uses broken browser detection that redirects the user to either a welcomeie.asp or welcomenetscape.asp page. Both display a blank page in Konqueror 3.0.3. Can someone help me figure out why? The bank seems responsive to fix requests but I need solid technical reasoning before asking them again. I removed my IE spoofing from Konqueror 2.2.1 and now, after entering name and password, it brain-freezes at the Please Wait While We Process your Request screen. Before the redo, this version of Konqueror worked well with the FHB site using IE spoofing, although Mozilla didn't. -Jeff
Re: [luau] Apache
I know that RH 7.2 keeps web pages in /var/www/html - try that. Of course, index.html is the default page to load first. -Jeff On Wednesday 25 September 2002 02:05 pm, you wrote: This might sound like a dumb question, but... how do i publish webpages to my apache-server on my linux box? i know were the /root for the webpages is, i've made simple pages and saved them there, but when i point my browser to Localhost/filename nothing happens, it says document not found. i know Apache is running. i have to log as root to save docs in the htdocs folder of apache...(that doesnt make sense...) it wont work under root or my user account... please help me... i really want to use Linux for my website, but i cant seem to get it working...
Re: [luau] Multiple E-Mail Accounts in KMail
Yes. I'm writing this with KMail. Go to Settings Configure Kmail Network to create additional identities. -Jeff On Wednesday 25 September 2002 02:44 pm, you wrote: One of the main advantages of Mozilla Mail is that it is easy to set up true multiple e-mail accounts. Does anyone know whether KMail allows multiple mail accounts?
Re: [luau] Capturing Postscript from Open Office
Ben, I do this all the time - I use the steps you mentioned, but I haven't had to set up a special printer driver. The printer is listed as generic printer, but does have postscript-associated settings in its properties. After checking the Print To File box, I just select postscript as the file type, and save the file with a .ps extension. It's so easy, that I have to wonder if there's a deeper configuration problem with your system that is blocking your success. Good luck, -Jeff Ben Beeson wrote: Aloha, I need to save an open office file in .ps format and I can't figure out how to do it. It seems like I should be able to print to file using a post script printer driver, but I can't figure out how to do that with in Linux. Any ideas? Thanks, Ben
Re: [luau] Digital Camera with Linux
I've been using jphoto with my kodak DX-3900 and love the speed and simplicity. It's much simpler to plug the USB cable into the camera and run jphoto than it is to remove the compact flash card, place it in an adapter and mount it as a device. Very quick and easy. -Jeff On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Does anyone have, or know anyone who has, experience in operating a digital camera with Linux (e.g., downloading images, connecting smartcard/compact flash adaptors, editting images, etc.)?
Re: [luau] NeverWinter Nights - was Nvidia X Server
I ordered the Linux version of NWN several weeks ago and am still waiting... My personal estimate for completion is still 4 - 8 weeks. I'll drop you an email when I get it installed - there are probably others on the list who are waiting to give it a test drive. -Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody is interested, I am running a Linux NeverWinter Nights server. High-fantasy, dress-up online gaming yeah!
Re: [luau] 2 Bash Questions
Hi Matt, Can't you just redirect the output into a file with something like: make [your options go here] outputfile.txt ? You probably want the very powerful and dangerous rm combo: rm -rf /directory-I-want-to-annihilate. -Jeff Matt Darnell wrote: Aloha all, 1. I am having trouble compiling a program. After I type make I get lots of errors. Is there a way to pipe the output to a file that I can send the manufacturer; insted of having to retype it? 2. Can you make the rmdir delete the entire tree, like the deltree command will do in DOS? Even when I give this option: --ignore-fail-on-non-empty ignore each failure that is solely because the directory is non-empty it won't delete the entire contents. I have to start up X and delete the folder using a file explorer. For any other people new to Linux I found this great site that translates commands back and forth between DOS and BASH. The address is: http://www.ss64.demon.co.uk/index.html -Matt ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] School needs a Network PPTP server
Do you just need a Linux implementation of PPTP like poptop at http://www.poptop.org/ ? I have avoided PPTP in favor IPSEC because there are readily available cracks for PPTP, such as a tool produced by lopht, if I recall correctly. -Jeff Brian Low wrote: Aloha all, I have been working with DOE and Voyager- A Public Charter School. DOE is requiring the school to setup a client to Server VPN with the DOE network. They currently have a DSL link into the school. They would be using the DSL for the VPN (PPTP)connection. I was wondering if there is a VPN Server for outgoing traffic from the internal network that can route between the VPN side of the network and the internet. I do have a specific IP which is where the PPTP must connect to. Any help would be great. Thanks, Brian Brian Low Security X 1515 Nuuanu Ave. #555 Honolulu, HI 96817 Phone: (808) 371-3571 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
[luau] Linux games
Actually, WineX works surprisingly well - I have used it to play DiabloII. I haven't had time to try the latest build, which should allow me to play Black and White. I'm still enjoying Unreal Tournament and a surprisingly good new game, Cube. I've still got to get around to trying out the TribesII copy I just bought from Tuxgames. Gaming under Linux has more potential than many realize and needs the Linux community's financial support. -Jeff ryuhei yokokawa wrote: if you want to play CS maybe you should try wine x from transgaming. (just a note)
Re: [luau] Linux games
Yes, I purchased 3 licenses of UT just for use on Linux boxen - if it didn't run natively, I wouldn't like it so much. MonMotha, I must respectfully remind you that the subscription I paid for is one of the few things that encourages developers who need financial incentives to work on Linux software. Also, there are several things that require WineX, and won't run on Wine alone. -Jeff MonMotha wrote: Jeff Mings wrote: Actually, WineX works surprisingly well - I have used it to play DiabloII. I haven't had time to try the latest build, which should allow me to play Black and White. I'm still enjoying Unreal Tournament and a surprisingly good new game, Cube. I've still got to get around to trying out the TribesII copy I just bought from Tuxgames. Gaming under Linux has more potential than many realize and needs the Linux community's financial support. You know UT has a native port...has had since it came out. The port was supported by Loki for a while, but wasn't even made by them. It was an in house port. Also, Half-Life (and therefore CS) can be run in normal WINE. No need to give the OSS moochers at transgaming your money.
Re: [luau] sorry off topic but important - CS port
The default port is 27015. I can't give details, because I've never really played CS, since no Linux client was ever developed, despite the deployment of an excellent Linux server. -Jeff ryuhei yokokawa wrote: does anyone by chance know which port the counter strike server uses? its for something important sorry its off the topic
Re: [luau] Font Suggestions
I think you might find ttmkfdir useful. It's like mkfontdir for truetype fonts. I have used an older version, and I don't know how well it's being maintained. It's now available at http://freshmeat.net/redir/ttmkfdir/10789/url_tgz/ttmkfdir.tar.gz . Hope this helps, -Jeff Mings MonMotha wrote: I'm looking for a couple things regarding fonts to make my life easier when reading text (which is of course very frequent) in X: An easy way (scripted) to set up truetype fonts. I've got CDs full of truetype fonts for windows. My X server has truetype support and I have Xft loaded, but setting up XftConfig and fonts.dir seem unautomated? mkfontdir won't set up fonts.dir for me. A bunch of fonts (postscript, truetype, anything that XFree86 can read with no addons, other than truetype). One of the main things I'm looking for is a good monospace font with linedraw chars. I've got plenty of Times clones :) Any suggestions are appricieated. --MonMotha ___ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] video card woes... Or opportunity?
Look at the bright side. You now have the excuse to buy a new video card. You can get an older Nvidia Geforce2 for less than $50 at a lot of places (e.g., http://www.computergate.com/products/item.cfm?prodcd=AVGEMX4003 ) that will likely outperform your voodoo3. Also, Nvidia has _excellent_ driver support for Linux, which is why it's easy for Linux to run a game faster than WindozeXP on the same computer/hardware. -Jeff On Wednesday 31 July 2002 08:22 am, you wrote: Greetings, I am having some problems with my video card. It is, or more appropriately was a 3dfx voodoo3. I guess due to the extreme heat yesterday, it had a melt-down. It only displays every other letter when I try and access it directly. I recompiled my kernel to use the framebuffer device, and it was a temporary console fix. Obviously, I need a new vid card, my question was, should I recompile the kernel to include support for the vid card I want to switch to, and then simply turn on kudzu, power down, and reboot, (using Rh 7.3)? My X interface is screwed period. However, that is not really a big deal, as I am pretty cl savy, Any help would be much appreciated before I lose it entirely. I am not really that surprised, the card is over two years old. Procrastination is the root of ingenuity... -- A furore Normanorum libera Nos 0 Domine!
Re: [luau] Warren's schedule - monitor info
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 10:54 am, you wrote: [snip] * Broken monitors must be transported and given to the monitor repair guy. Scott or Dean do you have this guy's address, phone number or e-mail? If this is Royal Data, they're at 524-2270 - on the East side of the Pali, opposite from Nuuanu, below what I think is Pacific Heights. Their store looks like a converted house. Last time I was there, I had a 21 monitor with what I thought was a fixable problem. When the cost of the part needed turned out to be too high, the tech made me a deal; instead of charging me for the estimate/inspection fee, he took the monitor in trade for its parts. They've probably fixed half a dozen monitors for me over the past several years. -Jeff
Re: [luau] Central Pacific Bank web browsers
Hi Warren, It seems as though we went over this several weeks ago. I am using Mozilla on RH 7.2 to access the cpbi site, and have done so for quite some time with a business checking account. I haven't had problems, but they do give the following message: In order to maintain the highest possible security and compatibility, the browser you are currently using should be upgraded. Please refer to the Help pages for more information. -Jeff Warren Togami wrote: Is anyone a Central Pacific Bank customer and use their online banking to check balances? My friend seemed unable to login to their site using Mozilla in Red Hat 7.3, but Opera spoofing the MSIE 5.0 useragent seems able to login fine. Can anyone test Mozilla, Galeon and Konqueror with CPBI.com online banking? http://cpbi.com/ BTW, First Hawaiian Bank has called me recently. They are soon moving their site codebase to be similar to the BankWest online banking site, which works with Mozilla but not Konqueror. They have expressed concern about accessibility, so I suspect I will be able to convince them to support Konqueror, Galeon and other compliant browsers. If you know of any other local site with some useful service that rejects visitors based upon browser user agents, please let the list know so we can investigate.
