Re: [brlug-general] HBO now

2017-05-04 Thread Ray
Yes, that show is great! Season 4 just came out! On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > I just finished Season 2! > > > > Dustin Puryear > CEO & Vision Builder > *Direct: 225-304-6402* > Tel: *225-706-8414* <225-706-8414> >

Re: [brlug-general] Does OpenOffice still have a role to play?

2016-10-02 Thread Ray
The great thing about open source is the community can take the source code and move on. OpenOffice -> LibreOffice Mysql -> MariaDB Java -> ??? Yea we really need to get Java away from Oracle. On Sunday, October 2, 2016, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at

Re: [brlug-general] General Linux Discussions

2016-09-29 Thread Ray
don't forget about Diggit's newer. On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Reddit seems to be a good place for sure. Also, there is a brand new > website called Slashdot.. > > > > Dustin Puryear > CEO & Vision Builder > *Direct: 225-304-6402*

Re: [brlug-general] So.. CentOS, RHEL, or SuSE?

2016-09-13 Thread Ray
CentOS for most things. RHEL when the vendor won't support CentOS (mainly Oracle). Debian/Ubuntu when the app isn't packaged/supported on CentOS. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Keith Thorne wrote: > At LIGO, we currently have > Real-time: Gentoo kernel

Re: [brlug-general] Are you using MySQL or.. have you moved to something else?

2016-09-06 Thread Ray
Switching to MariaDB as systems are upgraded from RHEL/Centos 6 to 7. It's a pretty seamless transition. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Tim Fournet wrote: > MariaDB when the application needs MySQL. Otherwise the preference is > postgres > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:31 AM,

Re: [brlug-general] Anybody have a all-in-1 PC that I can hang from a wall?

2016-03-29 Thread Ray
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Karthik Poobal wrote: > Are you serious? Don’t have any of your users collaborating with folks in > China? > > Yeah I have noticed that there is an uptick of spam/infected messages from > China in the last month or so. Google Apps is doing a

Re: [brlug-general] Anybody have a all-in-1 PC that I can hang from a wall?

2016-03-29 Thread Ray
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Mark A. Lappin wrote: > > > That’s not many. We get about 80 an hour. (well not quite but we get a > few dozen per hour). I’ve had to lock down our attachment policies from our > 3rd party filtering the last few weeks. > All we did is block

Re: [brlug-general] testing. hi.

2014-05-22 Thread Ray
Me too!! On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Doyle Van Zandt dvanza...@csssupports.comwrote: I would have replied last night but the cat ate my keyboard. [Note to self. Work on excuses.] Doyle Van Zandt *Creative Support Systems, LLC* 225-324-7045 Mobile 225-275-7709 Preferred

Re: [brlug-general] FW: [Nolug] joke

2014-05-22 Thread Ray
An IPv4 address walked into a bar and said quick gimme a drink! I'm exhausted! On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net wrote: T he bes thin gabou tTCPfl owcontr oljokesi sthatthey knowwhento backo ff…. -- Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net 225-341-5855 Sent

Re: [brlug-general] Professional Data Recovery in BR or NO?

2013-08-09 Thread Ray DeJean
that gets recommended a lot. http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/ -ray Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:34 PM, Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net wrote: Looking for a profession Data Recovery service around BR or NO area. The info is for a student at LSU. Apparently, some very critical

Re: [brlug-general] Professional Data Recovery in BR or NO?

2013-08-09 Thread Ray DeJean
The crash plan back up to other clients is neat. Check out backblaze also. I have 5TB stored with them for $5/month. We even built one of their storage pods at work. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net wrote: Thanks everyone (Except Dustin).

Re: [brlug-general] Digital Ocean

2013-08-09 Thread Ray DeJean
Probably have to move to Russia also. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Jarred White jarredwh...@gmail.com wrote: Sweet tip. Thanks. While we're on the subject I recommend anything in Iceland if you value privacy. I think by now most of us have heard what happened to

Re: [brlug-general] Professional Data Recovery in BR or NO?

2013-08-09 Thread Ray DeJean
data is on your own machines, no added cost, encrypted transmission, and incremental saves using bittorrent. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ray DeJean rdej...@gmail.com wrote: The crash plan back up to other clients is neat. Check out backblaze also. I have 5TB stored with them for $5

Re: [brlug-general] The perils of subversion

2013-08-08 Thread Ray DeJean
Wow! I take away 3 lessons from this. 1. Be a Russian programmer. 2. Don't be a non-Russian programmer. 3. Make a million dollars a year! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net wrote: Good write up. I remember reading about the arrest in 2009

Re: [brlug-general] Phone service in Baton Rouge

2013-08-01 Thread Ray DeJean
Hunt and NTS have run fiber all over Hammond. We're actually bringing up a fiber circuit from Hammond to Mandeville today. Ray Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote: We have fiber here in Baton Rouge. We use it at our office

Re: [brlug-general] Script is preventing getty

2013-04-19 Thread Ray DeJean
Does Kali have an rc.local? In cases like this I tend to quickly dismiss the new style Linux init systems and just do what has worked in unix for 40 years. Stick it in rc.local, nohup, full path, redirect output, and run in background. nohup /path/to/script.sh /var/log/script.log 21 Maybe

Re: [brlug-general] 2 admin positions open

2013-03-08 Thread Ray DeJean
Appears entry level? I can send it to the CMPS majors here at Southeastern. Can you give ballpark salary? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone. Long time. We have two open positions where I work. Although the title says

Re: [brlug-general] 2 admin positions open

2013-03-08 Thread Ray
How many people are on the list? We split it evenly, right? On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian kart...@poobal.net wrote: So, BRLUG gets the referral right? -- Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net On Mar 8, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Joe Fruchey j...@fruchey.net wrote: I'll

Re: [brlug-general] Why is RPM still a pain in the neck?

2012-08-08 Thread Ray
compile from source before using an unknown repo. And for God's sake, installing with '--nodeps' is NOT the fix to rpm dependency hell. If you do that, it's not rpm's fault. That's like running 'rm -rf /lib' and then complaining that the rm command hosed up your system. ray On Wed, Aug 8

Re: [brlug-general] unsubscribe

2012-07-30 Thread Ray
We're sorry, your request was denied. Please try to enjoy your stay! On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Phamtastic tphamtas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Please remove me from this subscription. I tried to unsubscribe but i was not able to do so. Thanks, Tuyet On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:54

Re: [brlug-general] Hey!

2012-06-08 Thread Ray DeJean
Hey! I forgot to post here. We have two jobs open at Southeastern. One for a sysadmin, one for a DBA. Goto jobs.selu.edu, click unclassified staff and check it out. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote: Yeah, you right. ---

Re: [brlug-general] Free or inexpensive streaming video players for LAMP websites

2011-11-08 Thread Ray
JW Player is also a very popular player... free and open source, with a commercial option as well. http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Roberts gremln...@gmail.com wrote: Vimeo works well if you decide not to do it yourself. With

Re: [brlug-general] iPad bulk transfer

2011-10-14 Thread Ray
where are the docs stored on the iPad? could you use something like dropbox? On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote: Anybody know of a way to bulk transfer docs from the iPad to a PC and vice versa? --- Dustin Puryear Puryear IT, LLC - We see IT

Re: [brlug-general] Eatel wants in Baton Rouge

2011-08-18 Thread Ray
Is ATT not deploying its U-verse fiber network in EBR? They are in Hammond and on the west bank, and other areas around here. So I wonder what happens when Eatel approaches a parish and says we want to run fiber all over your parish, and ATT says nope we already did that. ray On Thu, Aug 18

Re: [brlug-general] SugarCRM consulting.

2011-06-06 Thread Ray DeJean
Curious as to why you stopped using it... On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote: We used SugarCRM for about 2 years. It was good stuff. From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Byron Como Sent: Saturday, June

[brlug-general] CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Ray
, there is still no CentOS 6. A lot of the community is migrating to Scientific Linux. Just wondering if any of you have, or are considering making the switch. ray ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net

Re: [brlug-general] (no subject)

2011-05-03 Thread Ray
People like to get *paid*. Show. Me. The. Money! On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Tim Fournet tfour...@tfour.net wrote: like is kind of a strong word there On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote: Haha. Hey, people like to work. :) From:

Re: [brlug-general] (no subject)

2011-05-03 Thread Ray DeJean
on a company card. They were happy to refund the charges, and did so pretty quickly. ray Sent from my iPhone On May 3, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Mark A. Lappin ma...@lmfj.com wrote: I let hostgator do my free domain registration, then wanted to move hosting...nightmare ! Mark A. Lappin, CCNA

Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids?

2011-04-13 Thread Ray DeJean
If that is one of the gen 1 nooks, I have one (and paid a lot more than $104!) and can say it is pretty darn slow even as an e-reader. So yea, probably not good for much else. Ray On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Tim Fournet tfour...@tfour.net wrote: still a rootable device, but not as useful

Re: [brlug-general] Meet somewhere.

2011-04-06 Thread Ray
I was going to remind Brad to bring flowers on his date, haha! :) On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote: Let’s all show up and just stare at Brad and Byron while they talk. You know, all suspicious like. And as the dialog moves between Brad and Byron, we

Re: [brlug-general] Android Programming

2011-03-30 Thread Ray
in the app store, but people are already asking for an Android version haha. So I may be looking at some serious android dev also... The iPhone app is here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/southeastern-louisiana-university/id425165717?mt=8ls=1 ray On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Brad Bendily

Re: [brlug-general] Internet Firewall

2011-03-09 Thread Ray
Agree. Get a cheap $20-$30 router, it'll do the job and you'll recoup the cost in energy savings pretty fast. Or spring for something a little more expensive that'll run Tomato or *wrt. You'll get lots more functionality. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Clay Smith freelancef...@gmail.com

Re: [brlug-general] Linux vs. you: You win

2010-05-05 Thread -ray
-best-practices/ -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX

Re: [brlug-general] (IN)Secure Magazine

2010-04-12 Thread -ray
the screen so you can read in the dark. Right now I just use an old school booklight haha. ray On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Jarred White wrote: Yeah but it does one thing REALLY well... (the kindle, have heard mixed stuff about the Sony reader). What I really want is to not have to carry 3 books

Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

2010-03-12 Thread -ray
Message- From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of -ray Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:07 PM To: general@brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL That is my new answer to every server, database, network, security, application

Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

2010-03-12 Thread -ray
Sorry... it was a joke. :) On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Jarred White wrote: serious or is that a joke? sorry hard to tell through text. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote: Awesome... I had a stack of Linux Journal's from 95-00 for a long time but I think I was a dumb

Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

2010-03-12 Thread -ray
stupid on IRC. Although the best time on IRC was going into a channel and saying My computer is completely unhackable. Then argue with some of the kiddies for a bit... then say Go ahead and try if you want, but I guarantee you can't do it. My IP is 127.0.0.1. ray On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Jarred

Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

2010-03-12 Thread -ray
Of course, back then, we called it Mac OS. On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Brad Bendily wrote: Yeah. Ray is old school. He was using windows 95 in 1987. On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:05 PM, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote: Haha... I will admit to contributing to the death of IRC by blocking the IRC ports

Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

2010-03-11 Thread -ray
exactly know what it means. ray On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Dustin Puryear wrote: Seems to happening at a number of places. I know Amazon pushes it in their cloud solution. --- Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ http://www.puryear-it.com/ Active Directory Integration

Re: [brlug-general] FW: [Nolug] sysadmin sjob, experience with WinZip preferred

2010-03-10 Thread -ray
When you get there, lead the migration to 7zip, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in license fees, which should get you promoted to CIO. Then, remember whose idea it was. ray On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Brad Bendily wrote: i've applied. I'm a shoe-in, i have plenty of experience

Re: [brlug-general] Internet Human Bill of Rights

2010-03-08 Thread -ray
. Do not punish US companies cause you don't have the balls to stand up to China yourself. ray On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Ryan McCain wrote: Here's a good writeup on this http://www.bu.edu/rbarnett/Original.htm -Original Message- From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun

Re: [brlug-general] Open Source SPAM filtering

2010-03-04 Thread -ray
it. Depending on your mail volume of course. We ended up going with a commercial appliance (IronPort). ray On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Shannon Roddy wrote: Roaringpenguin.com GUI-fied open source packages (or debian based appliance) for a not-so-bad price with good support and feeds for rules

Re: [brlug-general] Internet Human Bill of Rights

2010-03-04 Thread -ray
you say overlords, did you mean our Chinese overlords? :) ray On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Ryan McCain wrote: The majority of what our overlords do is unlawful. Positive law isn't legit if it violates the Constitution. Ryan McCain Northrop Grumman Corporation Email: ryan.mcc...@la.gov Phone

Re: [brlug-general] Internet Human Bill of Rights

2010-03-04 Thread -ray
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Enumerated_powers How does deciding who a company can trade with *NOT* fall under regulating commerce with foreign nations? ray On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Ryan McCain wrote: The Constitution enumerates all the powers of the government

Re: [brlug-general] FW: [LUGOJ] [Fwd: Help save MySQL; Sign the petition]

2010-01-04 Thread -ray
Monty leading the charge, I don't think it would be impossible to do. ray On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Dustin Puryear wrote: Maybe you guys know.. -Original Message- From: Dustin Puryear Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:50 AM To: lu...@lugoj.org Subject: RE: [LUGOJ] [Fwd: Help save MySQL

Re: [brlug-general] The market has rejected Linux desktops. Getover it.

2009-11-24 Thread -ray
we'll also be migrating the Netware servers to Linux. ray On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Keith Stokes wrote: We have around 120 servers in our data center. It's probably half-and- half for me. If it can be run on Linux, it is. The front end of the application runs on Windows and is served via TS

[brlug-general] The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it.

2009-11-23 Thread -ray
The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=3372tag=nl.e102 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

Re: [brlug-general] Sun OpenSSO (Web SSO) and uPortal

2009-09-21 Thread -ray
We looked at uPortal circa 2003, but it was still a little rough around the edges back then. I'm sure it's matured a great deal by now! Are you allowed to mention which University you're working with? ray On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Dustin Puryear wrote: Hey guys- We're about to kick off a big

Re: [brlug-general] Merge PDFs?

2009-09-18 Thread -ray
, then ps2pdf. I've used ps2pdf before, but getting pdf2ps to do anything with a real pdf has not always worked for me haha. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

Re: [brlug-general] unfortunately true...

2009-08-06 Thread -ray
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Brad Bendily wrote: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/supported_features.png Haha very true... Adobe blows. I would think RedHat, Novell, and Canonical should have enough clout by now to sit down with Adobe and say let's fix this. ray

Re: [brlug-general] .NET programmer

2009-06-18 Thread -ray
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Dustin Puryear wrote: I suck okay! too much info ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net

Re: [brlug-general] network service segregation

2009-05-08 Thread -ray
Yes it makes sense. You vod app needs to support setting the source interface, or source address. Look and see if it has that option. For instance, the ping command supports this with the -I option. ray On Thu, 7 May 2009, mat branyon wrote: currently, i am getting a lot of crossover

Re: [brlug-general] network service segregation

2009-05-08 Thread -ray
on the system, you may see packets coming out of the wrong interface. When the kernel has two routes on different interfaces but to the same place, it just picks one. I seem to remember it make pick the lowest numbered interface, or perhaps the lowest IP address. ray On Fri, 8 May 2009, mat

Re: [brlug-general] The demise of Charter?

2009-01-29 Thread -ray
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Will Hill wrote: Saw this and remembered the company being mentioned here years back. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D960DDN80.htm As a Charter customer, excuse me while I go get a tissue to mourn this loss. ray

Re: [brlug-general] looking for SNMP info

2009-01-14 Thread -ray
We use cacti too. Have you set it up to catch snmp traps? ray On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Adam Melancon wrote: I use Cacti for all my SNMP monitoring. It works great! http://cacti.net/ Adam Melancon On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote: I am an SNMP newbie

Re: [brlug-general] Running a network on 12V

2008-09-12 Thread -ray
damn hot on my roof... ray On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: If the root cause of your power failure is generally going to be a hurricane (I'm assuming here), isn't solar a possibly bad choice? You would have several days of no real sun. Now, wind power may be the way to go here

Re: [brlug-general] Running a network on 12V

2008-09-11 Thread -ray
. It would charge the battery enough during the day to run the cable/dsl modem and linksys router all night. It would be practical, and a neat experiment in solar energy (which is something i've wanted to do). Anyone think it could be done for around $100? If so, send us some links! ray

Re: [brlug-general] gustav power outage

2008-09-08 Thread -ray
would think 8kw should run your a/c, fridge, and a few lights. I'm no electrician though! If your stove and hot water heater are natural gas, then you'd be set! ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http

Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time.

2008-08-29 Thread -ray
-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support

Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time.

2008-08-29 Thread -ray
Then let's do a new poll: Do you think we should have an online poll function on the website? 1) Yes 2) No -ray On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: Maybe we should have an online poll function on the website. :) -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear

[brlug-general] New Poll

2008-08-29 Thread -ray
Who else is on page 143, section 12, of executing your company's DR plan? ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM

Re: [brlug-general] New Poll

2008-08-29 Thread -ray
it was 3 years ago. ray On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: Even via mobile if it comes down to that.�� I have multiple phones with multiple operators, so I'm not completely in the dark with my iPhuck

Re: [brlug-general] New Poll

2008-08-29 Thread -ray
calls and couldn't handle the load. It was a lot easier to sneak through a low bandwidth txt message than setup and maintain a full-fledged voice channel. That is just pure conjecture on my part though. I could be totally wrong. :) ray On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: I do

Re: [brlug-general] Colos?

2008-08-27 Thread -ray
services, so I'm not sure if they'd be willing to colo. I guess you could ask! ray On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Brad Bendily wrote: we have one, it's called SLU. But that's for a state entity. Other than that, i'm not sure. I-55 might be able to offer something, but last I heard they had all

Re: [brlug-general] email list management

2008-08-22 Thread -ray
. Majordomo makes you install an add-on package, Majorcool to get a web interface. Haha... you can download majordomo as a compressed uuencoded file on their site! I'd stick with mailman for a new install. http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ ray On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, michael dolan wrote: I've got

Re: [brlug-general] sendmail restrictions

2008-08-18 Thread -ray
in the Sendmail config guide already. It goes over the relay FEATURES. http://www.sendmail.org/documentation/configurationReadme ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

Re: [brlug-general] Who's in charge of this group? - Inter group meeting BerkeleyTIP-Global August 2 Saturday

2008-08-05 Thread -ray
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: I'm in charge. Huh? I thought we decided this was a democracy, and your power was strictly ceremonial? ray ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [brlug-general] Slow NFS on GigE

2008-04-04 Thread -ray
suck hard when it comes to performance (even Linux). Apparently Sun, and surprisingly Netapp, are the only ones that got it right haha. ray On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Shannon Roddy wrote: Find an NFS tuning guide... google. Most things like block size, etc. are tunable for NFS, and it may just

[brlug-general] Job in BR...

2008-04-01 Thread -ray
PROTECTED] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support

Re: [brlug-general] is google really spamming?

2008-02-28 Thread -ray
on the botnet. The other machines would then try to decode the captcha and send the info back to the original machine. It said they were decoding about 1 in 5. Surprised Google hasn't fixed this yet... ray On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: Maybe they have a script that can email

Re: [brlug-general] cheapest used Cisco IOS capable device? Do Ineed one?

2008-02-08 Thread -ray
Also agree on the 2600's. It's one of the most common smaller routers you'll see in the real world. The 2600 will help with routing, but doesn't the CCNA exam also cover a good bit of switching? What are ya'll doing to study for the switching? ray On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Adam Melancon wrote

Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts

2008-02-05 Thread -ray
is quite aggravating. I've run into similar problems with vmstat/iostat output being different between Linux kernels and other Unices. Unfortunately i haven't found a -P flag for vmstat. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean

Re: [brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

2008-02-01 Thread -ray
/general_brlug.net ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r

Re: [brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

2008-01-30 Thread -ray
troll... oh wait, wrong list :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX

Re: [brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

2008-01-29 Thread -ray
by filtering their connection? ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration

Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P

2008-01-18 Thread -ray
goes over. He doesn't want to get stuck with a huge bill one month, so would rather have a fixed bill each month. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

Re: [brlug-general] Two directories, one inode?

2008-01-15 Thread -ray
W0398506 4096 Dec 18 05:30 /home/stu/09/Z/W0398506 4358377 drwx-x 3 W0398506 W0398506 4096 Dec 18 05:30 /home/Students/Z/W0398506 ray On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: Any ideas how this is possible? # ll -d -i /home/virtfs/abc/home/abc /home/abc 132759554 drwx--x--x 22 abc abc 2048

Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P

2008-01-15 Thread -ray
to be the first to say ok we lied, you really can't have all 7mbps all the time. By traffic shaping, they affect a small, but vocal minority. As that minority grows, things will have to change. Maybe one day we'll see the prices/speeds that other coutries get. ray On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Petri

Re: [brlug-general] crontabs vs /etc/cron.[daily, hourly, *] vs. /etc/cron.d/

2008-01-08 Thread -ray
of manageability and flexibility. If writing a new policy, I would probably go with /etc/cron.d. ray On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: So what do you do when you need to run a job as a non-root user? Do you just modify /etc/crontab? -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton

Re: [brlug-general] Anyone seen this?

2008-01-07 Thread -ray
cheap... might be worth getting one to play with... ray On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Shannon Roddy wrote: http://www.yoggie.com/ Gatekeeper Pico Pro Submitted by webmaster on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 10:08. Extending corporate- level security to traveling laptops Gatekeeper Pico Pro extends the same level

[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

2007-11-28 Thread -ray
with the public key, you need the private key to decrypt it. The certificate is useless without the private key. ray On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, John Hebert wrote: Er, are you keeping your SSL private key files on your server? Shouldn't those be on an encrypted thumb drive and locked away in a safe? For SSL

[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

2007-11-28 Thread -ray
of the protection techniques we've been discussing might be feasible. Otherwise they're probably just obfuscation. ray On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Tim Fournet wrote: Actually, you only need the private key when _starting_ apache. After it's started, it's loaded in memory and you can take your key offline. Some

[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

2007-11-28 Thread -ray
better to assume the worst than hope for the best. :) ray

[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

2007-11-27 Thread -ray
installing SSL on a new box pretty easy. They're all gonna expire on the same day, so that's a good reminder too. :) ray On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote: So, a little issue I see a lot is that SSL cert files seem to go everywhere. I may see some under /var/shared/ssl/certs/, some

[brlug-general] mythtv box

2007-11-20 Thread -ray
is becoming less and less. So don't buy the PVR350... get a card with decent TV Out. ray On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, c.a. weisheit wrote: I was using a card I already had around the house. You get what you pay for. if you have a better tuner card for $13 please post the link for the rest of us. I

[brlug-general] mythtv box

2007-11-20 Thread -ray
-ray/CD collection stored on my media server, granted this is enough, just the ability to pick a movie from the menu without having to hunt the disk down is great. I'm in the same boat. I gave up on MythTV/SageTV/BeyondTV/etc. Maybe i'm getting old. Tinkering with the hardware/software is fun

[brlug-general] mythtv box

2007-11-20 Thread -ray
I justify the money I give to the bad guys with all the music and movies i illegally download for free. So I do my part sticking it to 'da man'. I sleep better at night, and plus i get free stuff. Heh. Seriously, we all give some money to the bad guys. ray On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, willhill

[brlug-general] tape drive issues

2007-10-13 Thread -ray
thing more fun than troubleshooting SCSI problems, is troubleshooting SCSI tape problems haha. ray On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: Hey all, I'm having some issues with a Benchmark DLT1 tape drive. What's happening is that a daily backup of about 20 GB is taking about 9 hours

[brlug-general] FastCGI on IIS?

2007-10-12 Thread -ray
He's a master of it. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX

[brlug-general] Active Directory Mandated at LSU

2007-10-02 Thread -ray
a look at the network. Of course it goes both ways. I'll often get the phone call. Hey is it getting hot over there yet? haha... ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

[brlug-general] PostPath

2007-10-01 Thread -ray
father. Any comment from the Exchange admins? ray On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Tim Fournet wrote: We're using Zimbra over here, and hosting over 1000 users and about a dozen companies on it. We had some growing pains with the older versions, but nowadays it's smooth as silk. The big benefit

[brlug-general] Ubuntu..

2007-09-27 Thread -ray
Some people don't like top posting. Most clients are smart enough to do threads, so top posting isn't too much of an issue. I use pine, which is dumb and doesn't do threads. I'm easy though, so top-posting doesn't bother me. Most times dumb and easy are a good combination. ray On Thu

[brlug-general] Blocking port 25 does not cure spam problems.

2007-09-24 Thread -ray
to give up. Obviously Will draws his line a little farther back than mine. But ya know, that's fine with me. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

[brlug-general] OT: SCO loses to IBM (fwd)

2007-09-19 Thread -ray
Pretty interesting... i actually read the original article from 2003 the other day. This guy predicted SCO would win. Now he says ok ok, i was totally wrong. Haha. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean

[brlug-general] Internal network trouble

2007-08-25 Thread -ray
to. If it's your local network, check your routing table (netstat -rn) to see whats there. But Fernando is right, restarting your network should bring the route back. ray =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http

[brlug-general] A new Exchange replacement?

2007-08-02 Thread -ray
Never tried it... know someone that was doing an eval though. I'll ask him how it went. I think i remember PostPath requiring Active Directory though? ray On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote: I'm not familiar with PostPath: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/96670/96670

[brlug-general] Login server?

2007-07-10 Thread -ray
accounts (/etc/passwd and smbpasswd), then get your Windows users logging in using their linux credentials. After that, then try to add the LDAP piece. ray On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote: What Kevin said. Kevin Kreamer wrote: Joe Fruchey wrote: I meant that I wanted Windows

[brlug-general] splunk

2007-06-13 Thread -ray
Eh, access control is overrated anyway. The information WANTS to be free!! On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote: Yeah. Not to mention that there IS NO ACCESS CONTROL with the free one. You need the commercial version for that.. well, almost. What we do is firewall Splunk off and then

[brlug-general] Script help

2007-05-30 Thread -ray
. rename on ubuntu is a link to prename, which is a version written in perl. Not sure if they use the same syntax. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer

[brlug-general] Computer Analyst I position at LSU

2007-05-30 Thread -ray
and 3) there are people at the same position who are already above the range so will not even bother enquiring about the position. HR wants *some* response to their advertisement. Normally you can just call the HR dept and find out what the range is. ray On Wed, 30 May 2007, Andrew

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