Re: [GNHLUG] TONIGHT: CentraLUG, NHTI Library, David Berube, Scaling MySQL

2009-11-02 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 10:33 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group (http://www.centralug.org) meets on the first Monday of the month at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, Room 146. This month, we're meeting tonight, November 2nd at 7 PM. David

Re: diagnosing network speed bottlenecks

2009-09-30 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Seriously now. Comcast provides nothing but stellar service. Let's not be hard on them or suspect them of incorrectly representing their service offerings. Greg, it's obviously your Ethernet cables. I bet they're no name. I suggest you give the Denon AK-DL1's

Re: Linux as a NAS performance questions

2009-09-17 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:59 -0400, Alan Johnson wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly n...@jenandneil.com wrote: I'm looking to build a small Shuttle barebone machine into a NAS running Linux. The intent of the machine is to be a networked PC

Re: free sunfire box

2009-09-02 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
I can't see a Sun box go homeless. :] I'll take it. ~k On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 14:46 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote: Sun Fire V880 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: free sunfire box

2009-09-02 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Locks are no challenge for the amateur locksmith. :] ~k On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 15:25 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: A key from another v880 (or probably any other sun box) will work. If you are serious about removing the drives, the door is just plastic. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Mark E.

Re: Can't eject CD/DVD after warm reboot?

2009-08-27 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 11:54 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: Most of our HP systems (all recent models like xw8600 and z800) refuse to eject their optical media when the drive button is pushed after a warm reboot following a rescue/install session booted from that drive. Other systems (eg.

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:30 -0400, Chip Marshall wrote: On August 21, 2009, Tom Buskey sent me the following: Personally, I'd take a well tuned Nagios for alerts and something else for tracking historical data on graphs. I use swatch with multitail to watch logfiles on multiple systems.

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-20 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Have you looked at Zabbix? http://zabbix.com I found Zabbix much more flexible and feature rich then Nagios. ~k On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:49 -0400, Kenny Lussier wrote: Hi All, We are currently using Nagios for monitoring systems and some network gear. However, we have found that it is a

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:57 -0400, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: This is a somewhat desperate request... OK, not desperate, but I would like to resolve this... Most of my work these days is on my linux workstation doing large scale simulations. In addition to straining my brain

Re: OpenSSH vulnerability?

2009-07-08 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 21:18 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: The best I can find is just the obvious rumor stuff at: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6742 Anyone here have any more information? This *might* be an indication of what it's about:

Re: WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

2009-07-07 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 10:36 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: I have two early WRT54G systems that work really nice. One acts as both router to the Internet and AP for access to my internal

[OT] Unix plate on /.

2009-05-17 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Just saw this on /. Apologies if it's a repost. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/1858237art_pos=3 ~k ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: iptables out of memory?

2009-01-23 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
This is something I haven't seen mention of; While it might seem logical to block SPAM sources at the network level, I would feel that you could be blocking legitimate mail/users at the same time. Many SPAM sources are mis-configured mail servers and botnets. While using iptables seems like a

Re: Bots don't honor 301 :(

2009-01-10 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
What about a perl (or python, ruby etc) script that will tail your error_log, watching for multiple 404's coming from the same IP within a given timeframe. If the IP is tripping too many 404's for things that don't exist, add them to the DROP chain. I solved a similar problem using iptables rate

Linux on a potato?

2008-12-10 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Pretty amusing.. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Laptop HD repair/recovery question

2008-11-17 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Ditto on the DriveSavers. Here's a quick story... A long time ago (~6 years) I responded to an urgent page from a customer who owned a few video stores in the area (Springfield, VT). I arrived at the head store, introduced myself to the manager and then asked Can you take me to your server?

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-15 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
I guess I'll throw my two cents in... While a non-standard unit (no OS, etc) is out of process, I would imagine that Microsoft's OEM licensing Agreement forces the OEM to sell a percentage of units with the latest Microsoft bloatware, and I'd imagine that percentage or term to be somewhere around

Looking for mini-itx rackmount cases...

2008-09-01 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Has anyone seen mini-itx or other SBC cases that would hold two or maybe three systems in 1u or 2u? Even a blade-like configuration would OK, though higher density then I really need at this point. Also thinking about power consumption with this project. Should I be looking at DC only gear

Re: (OT) Laptop Repair

2008-08-21 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
If you are handy with a screwdriver and plastic butterknife and observe static safety, you can replace it yourself in a few minutes. You can easily find the a replacement LCD replacement on eBay or another vendor. My experiences have been that the replacement will cost anywhere from $120 to

Re: (OT) Laptop Repair

2008-08-21 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
There's this site out there, and my google-fu isn't what it should be this early in the morning :^), but I have used a site that listed most models of major brands and provided step by step instructions for replacing the LCDs. Maybe someone else knows of the site, or is a GoogleMaster. ~k

Re: (OT) Laptop Repair

2008-08-21 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Here's the site. I found it about 30 seconds after sending. http://repair4laptop.org/notebook_lcd_display.html Upon closer review they have a lot of information, but not for EVERY laptop, but a lot of them. Most of the time the manfs use the same old tricks with each model, so you might be

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 17 Jul, Open Source Advocacy - Want to Help?

2008-07-16 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Will anyone be recording this event? Audio or Video..I will be at H.O.P.E. tomorrow, but would really like to hear the presentation. Thanks. ~k Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Who : Mark Boyajian, IT Consultant, Simple Solutions What : Open Source Advocacy - Want to Help? Where: Martha's Exchange

Best device for use with OpenWRT/DD-WRT/etc?

2008-07-09 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
Greetings to the list - First, a little background; I'm evaluating the replacement of several point-to-point and frame ports and replacing the frame port in each location with Business grade broadband (DSL and cable), and using OpenVPN to connect each remote location back to company

Re: Redhat 5 Cluster suite

2008-07-07 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
As for keeping httpd and vsftpd running, have you looked at DJB's daemon tools? http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html ~k Kenny Lussier wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like linux-ha + mon. wonderful in it's