Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/21/2009 03:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:02 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost. The Vista laptop allows

Re: libraw1394 struct layouts, i386 vs. x86_64, Firewire

2009-01-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Jarod Wilson wrote: [...] which firewire is this? The (really crappy) old ieee1394 stack, or the newer firewire stack? RHEL5.2 shipped w/the newer one as a still somewhat immature tech preview. 5.3 will be much improved (but no clue if its improved in any way that would help you out).

Re: Postfix/Exim sender address rewriting (was: Postfix ... ComCast port 587)

2009-01-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-21 1:06 PM, Ben Scott wrote: The scenario here (for me, and the OP) is rewriting email addresses, not masquerading as a different host.:) Righto, and certainly you can do that with address rewriting, but why not setup the MUA properly in the first place? I understand your edge

Re: Postfix/Exim sender address rewriting (was: Postfix ... ComCast port 587)

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 2009-01-21 1:06 PM, Ben Scott wrote: The scenario here (for me, and the OP) is rewriting email addresses, not masquerading as a different host.:) Righto, and certainly you can do that with address rewriting,

[GNHLUG] PySIG for January 2009 tonight

2009-01-22 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 22 January 2009 Building a Python 3.0 Extension, presented by Arc Riley Kent's Korner: Context Managers and the with'statement

Re: Postfix/Exim sender address rewriting (was: Postfix ... ComCast port 587)

2009-01-22 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:06 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: At least one person is confused here (me); possibly everybody. :-) The scenario here (for me, and I believe the OP) is rewriting email addresses, not masquerading as a different host. Two have people suggested a config directive for

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: 2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the laptop after running the Windows restore. I've seen the Dell sign in the window at Staples, but didn't

Re: Postfix/Exim sender address rewriting (was: Postfix ... ComCast port 587)

2009-01-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-21 1:06 PM, Ben Scott wrote: So, what I want to do is tell my MTA to rewritebscott and some variants todragonh...@gmail.com. My MTA can keep on using blackfire.local.bscott for its hostname, but I want it to modify the reverse-path. OK, at work now, so I can check my

Re: libraw1394 struct layouts, i386 vs. x86_64

2009-01-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-07 3:36 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: RHEL5.2 shipped w/the newer one as a still somewhat immature tech preview. 5.3 will be much improved (but no clue if its improved in any way that would help you out). The old stack... can die in a fire. Oh, wow, that's good news. A few years ago I

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2009-01-22 Thread Lloyd Kvam
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Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/22/2009 12:55 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: 2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the laptop after running the Windows restore. I've

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a good resolution. Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a good resolution. Can the

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a good resolution. Can the

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:55 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: 2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the laptop after running the Windows restore.

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/22/2009 03:58 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: Yes they do have units you can try. Most systems work OK with Linux and when Steph and I were shopping around, the main issue was the laptops with numeric keypads - the keypads did not work in our quick fiddling. I assume that could be remedied with a

in-store Laptop testing (was Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu)

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system? The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: If you buy a Dell, I *strongly* recommend the Gold Tech Support package ... If you buy Gold Tech Support, what do you get if you buy a laptop with Windows installed and install another OS,, like Fedora or Ubuntu. I've

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: The HP laptop that was too slow did OK in casual store browsing. However, once Steph started trying to do some real work on the laptop, the screen scrolling was just too slow. That's almost certainly due to video drivers.

iptables out of memory?

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Johnson
I'm using a simple `iptables -A INPUT -s $ipa -j DROP` in a script to block known spammers that show up in my mail log. I created a seperate script to purge out some older offenders but I broke it (now fixed) and at about 123K blocked IPAs, I get iptables: Memory allocation problem messages until

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system? The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is to is to open up the iso, copy in the

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-22 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a good resolution. Excellent point. Somebody could do custom spin in Fedora-land with revisor, or... heck, I

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-01-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-22 5:19 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: and at about 123K blocked IPA I bet with some clever scripting you could find many 'evil' netblocks in those addrs such that you could get your list, say, in half. Bonus if you can cross-reference with the IP's of legit mails you've received. Or use

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:20 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system? The simple answer is yes. What you would

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Let's do the important thing first: Is there a way to specify multiple IPAs on a single rule? Generally speaking, this sort of thing is done by aggregation of individual nodes into netblocks. You may have to knock out

Re: Postfix/Exim sender address rewriting (was: Postfix ... ComCast port 587)

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: Righto, and certainly you can do that with address rewriting, but why not setup the MUA properly in the first place? For traditional Unix systems, the MUA is not responsible for building the email address. That's

Ethernet NICs w/ USB host attach?

2009-01-22 Thread Ben Scott
Anyone got any recommendations for Ethernet interfaces which connect to the host PC via USB, and work well with Linux? Looking for 100 megabit capability and currently-for-sale. I'm eying this guy: Sabrent USB-G1000

Re: Ethernet NICs w/ USB host attach?

2009-01-22 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone got any recommendations for Ethernet interfaces which connect to the host PC via USB, and work well with Linux? Looking for 100 megabit capability and currently-for-sale. I have a cheapo startech-branded moschip