FWD - free UltraSPARC IIi system

2011-11-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
I know nothing about this - just forwarding FWIW. Contact dkressin if interested. [ Yes, that date seems stale but headers indicate the sender's msg got tangled up inside Yahoo's servers until just now.] Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (21:12 EDT) From: Dan Kressin Su

Re: usenet via fairpoint?

2011-10-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
> The one that customers are apparently supposed to use, > www.myfairpoint.net *won't even display on my computer* and hasn't > for years. I don't know if it's actually empty or what ("view > source" shows nothing). Firefox on Linux. Hmmm. When I said this: wget -O - http://www.myfairpoin

Re: usenet via fairpoint?

2011-10-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
Once upon a time you could pay for pretty decent NNTP access via: http://www.giganews.com/ YMMV... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Adobe's (lack of?) support for 64bit Flash

2011-08-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
(Note: I hate Flash but since it's hard to function w/o it...) In our last episode (on 7 June) the word was this: >"One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again": > > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html This week's episode apparently has them supporti

[OT] Broadband availability (was: Browsers)

2011-08-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Holland, MA is roughly only a 90-minute haul from Boston and right > off the Pike, and yet Union, CT is further down in the CT sticks > and they had the cable service. Not much rhyme nor reason to it > up here, either. There's baffling availability patterns in the `burbs as well as out in the

Re: Hotels for Burlington

2011-07-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
> If you can, would you please look up hotels around Burlington VT for > Aug 19-20? Anything within a 25 mi radius. Plattsburgh options are > cheaper, but I'm uncomfortable being reliant on crossing the lake > to get to the race. Still it'd be good to know my options and the > ferry times and

TTY behavior during SSH sessions

2011-07-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Try the -t option to force pty allocation? ...I'm talking about the SSH option, in case it wasn't obvious. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___

Re: Looking to get lucky again with another expect question.

2011-07-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
Try the -t option to force pty allocation? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [OT] Adding recruiters to LinkedIn connection list?

2011-07-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
My initial query was largely rhetorical, though I would have been pleased to learn that there is *any* benefit whatsoever to including a recruiter in your connections list. To the contrary, here is an article that uses the term "pollution" to describe the presence of recruiters (or anyone else w

[OT] Adding recruiters to LinkedIn connection list?

2011-07-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
Over time, several recruiters (none of whom have ever actually found work for me) have asked to be added to my LinkedIn connections list. I have so far not added them because my involvement with them has been superficial and I generally try to mention people on my connections list only if I've ac

FREE - old Motorola analog cellular flip-phone (new-in-box)

2011-07-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
Not sure what this now-ancient phone was doing in the back of a closet or why anybody'd want it (except maybe for curiosity) but I'm offering one new-in-box Motorola analog cellular flip-phone model:F09HLD8416AG with charger, docs & box. It has a Cellular One sticker on it. No idea if it works -

Re: http://linuxbeard.com/

2011-06-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Finally I think to say that "Linux is powered by beards" does not > play well to all the females and beardless youth (of all ages) > who have contributed so much to the project. Yikes! It didn't occur to me that anybody who views that site or the related postings on Reddit : http://www.re

http://linuxbeard.com/

2011-06-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://linuxbeard.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: tcl/TK question

2011-06-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> if [catch {open "|$command |& cat"} input] { Curiosity: why do you pipe it through cat? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman on 20 years of Linux @ LinuxCon Japan 2011

2011-06-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__fALdvvcM0 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: "Do one thing well..." (Flash)

2011-06-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
"One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again": http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: MV.com is shutting down May 1st

2011-04-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
> First I've heard of this. Wasn't a customer but never heard > anything but good about them. Oooops - I forgot that we're all "customers": # traceroute gnhlug.org traceroute to gnhlug.org (199.125.75.42), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 XXX 2 XXX 3 XXX

Re: MV.com is shutting down May 1st

2011-04-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
First I've heard of this. Wasn't a customer but never heard anything but good about them. I can't find any online mentions except these Telgraph pieces: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/business/913626-192/n.h.s-oldest-internet-firm-is-retrenching.html http://granitegeek.org/blog/2011/0

Groklaw to stop publishing

2011-04-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
Hats off to PJ - she's folding up the tent and moving on to other things: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011040916132 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discu

Re: ssh reverse tunnel issue

2011-04-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
Huh? You saw sessions freeze for as long as a *full minute* and after disabling compression you're no longer seeing that problem? Hrmmm Compression can certainly slow things down sometimes but I can't think how even unnecessary triple redundant compression could all by itself block traffic

Re: ssh reverse tunnel issue

2011-04-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
Since the primary complaint is that the connection "freezes" for as long as a minute I'm gonna predict that this will turn out not to be compression-related. Yes, unnecessary/redundant compression can reduce throughput but the effect would be (approx) constant rather than intermittent and I can'

Re: ssh reverse tunnel issue

2011-04-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
- Try increasingly more verbose invocations up to -vvv. - You might modify things to eliminate a hop thus: WestCoast% ssh -X -R :localhost:22 middleMachine` ...and then connect thru the middleMachine thus: EastCoast% ssh -X -p middleMachine ...though if this

Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Went to move it to a different machine, though, and lo! Stopped > dead. Digging deeper, I found that nmap -- which I'm calling > (in large part because it keeps track of vendor MAC associations) > isn't returning MACs. I brought over the executable from machine > A (functioning) to machine B

Re: nproc

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> My first question is, does anyone know how nproc is calculated? > I have seen some issues lately where the limits.conf hard limit > is imposed, but the user hasn't exceeded the number of processes. Don't forget that multithreaded processes (Java, WWW browsers, etc) might bump you up against yo

ARTICLE - Red Hat and the Kernel Kerfluffle

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
A decent writeup about how/why Red Hat changed the way they distribute kernel patches: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8414/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Terminal server? (Kinda.)

2011-03-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
> We're going to have cash registers on-site -- good ol' RS-232 > connections. We're also getting software that can talk to these > computers. > [...] >[Register] <- RS-232-to-USB -> [Wall Wart] <- VPN -> [Home office computer] Trying to read between the lines here: your situation is constrain

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
Escaping from Dependency Hell sometimes involves gymnastics that rival BistroMathics in complexity... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> If you don't want to fish through the repos, you will likely find it in >> /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > Alas, no. apt-get won't even download the package because it thinks >there are unsolved dependencies. You should be able to pull an inventory from any repo mentioned in your /etc/apt/sour

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I'm willing to bet those dependencies are just in the > package control file because those were the libraries the > auto-dependency-generator thing found when the package was built. Probably, but I think it's likely you'll have to invoke dpkg directly so as to be able to beg it to ignore those

Jon Hall interviewed by BBC at Campus Party in Brazil

2011-02-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
The BBC radio show Digital Planet is hosted by (the somewhat fluffy) Gareth Mitchell who interviews our own Jon "mattigg" Hall at around 10:20 in this segment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00d73v1/Digital_Planet_01_02_2011 ___ gnhlug-discus

Re: Computer part recycling [was: New Year's Cleaning]

2011-01-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
After seeing them mentioned on Freecycle many months earlier I contacted an outfit in Dracut this summer to recycle my old TV. On the phone the guy sounded very straightforward and helpful but IIRC they were dealing with some issue at the time (relocating? regulatory?) and it ended up that they

Re: Android printer recommendations

2010-12-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Lower-priced, consumer-grade laser panels use a panel of LEDs to > generate the laser beams, one for each pixel across the page, Ah! I was only thinking of conventional spinning-mirror technology but, yes - now that he mentions it I, too, recall hearing of print engines having one single line

Re: Android printer recommendations

2010-12-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> (Anyone know why laser printers seem to only run at 600 DPI? > Every one I've checked (and I've l looked at dozens of models) > specifies 600 DPI as the native resolution. I'm guessing it's > something inherent in the technology, but don't actually have > any data. There's nothing inherent in

Current compensation conditions

2010-11-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
I might be invited to join a team of developers on what they're calling a "contract" basis (tho it'd actually be a W2 rather than 1099 relationship; hourly, no benefits) and they've asked me to quote a rate. As it's been a while since I've had to dance this dance I wonder what other people ar

OT - Electron microscope Images of a broken CPU

2010-11-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
Some guy with an electron microscope shows what his borken Intel P-III Coppermine CPU chip looked like after he ripped it from the carrier: http://www.sciencystuff.com/?p=24 Fascinating, and different from most of the glossy PR promo images I've seen as provided by the manufacturers. _

Linux dives in the New England Aquarium tank

2010-11-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
Happened this evening: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/377051-video-linus-torvalds-dives-tonight-qif-i-dont-come-ba ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: FREE - perfboard

2010-10-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> On the slim chance that anybody wants the 7 pieces of perfboard >> that I just dredged out of an old box, I'll offer them here. >> Five of them are actually old S-100 board format (approx 12" >> x 5") with card-edge connectors and two are approx 8" x 15". >> >Can they have thru-hole component

FREE - perfboard

2010-10-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
On the slim chance that anybody wants the 7 pieces of perfboard that I just dredged out of an old box, I'll offer them here. Five of them are actually old S-100 board format (approx 12" x 5") with card-edge connectors and two are approx 8" x 15". ___

Re: [OT] Rally crash space/afterparty in DC next weekend

2010-10-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
Already have a room booked (driving down Fri) but may attend that party, if only out of curiosity - thx for the pointer! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Dual boot (GRUB config for Linux and Windows)

2010-10-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm composing this while down in GA dealing w/some family stuff so I haven't been following the discussion too closely but I wonder: Did you try that GRUB config file I provided? It's derived from systems that I've worked with that are rigged the same as the one you described and utilizes the "m

Re: Dual boot (GRUB config for Linux and Windows)

2010-10-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ooops! I cleverly reintroduced that "chainloaded" typo, fixed here... >Assuming you still have Linux on the first drive and Windows on >the second, I'd try replacing your GRUB config file with this: # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You ha

Re: Dual boot (GRUB config for Linux and Windows)

2010-10-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
Assuming you still have Linux on the first drive and Windows on the second, I'd try replacing your GRUB config file with this: # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are rela

Re: Free eWaste collection event, Mall of NH, 23 Oct

2010-09-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
> The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics (opening a Manchester > store October 9th) will also be hosting a free eWaste collection > event on the 23rd of October. Dang! I have a TV carcass that I'd like to bring to them but I'll be in FLA on the 23rd. Anybody planning to go who'd care to grab

Broadcom to (finally!) make their wireless drivers FOSS?

2010-09-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just got wind of this via osnews.com: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
I wrote: > Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to > wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? ...and got these responses: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html Sounded very appealing to me (partly because it'd serve as

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
>http://centerclick.org/temp/lcd.tgz > >the part you want is lcdraw.c > >it'll take commands from cmdline and do all basic operations to the >parallel port. Thanks. It compiled without apparent errors and I'll take it for a test drive tomorrow. ___ g

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
> One possibility might be pyparallel. Thanks. Forgive me for appearing stoopid; the Installation instructions on that page say, "Extract files from the archive, open a shell/console in that directory and let Distutils do the rest", which sounds very nice but I'm not sure what archive they're r

Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like parport_pc) via ioctls rather than poking around directly in I/O or memory space at hardcoded add

Re: PySIG report for 26 August 2010

2010-08-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Bruce Labitt showed us code and demonstrated a slick use of a > generator function: creation with simulation of kinematics of a > synthesized set of moving targets. All done, including an animated > color display, in Python code which fit in a single editor window. > (His simulation showed six

Re: Boot/console question.

2010-08-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> I've always managed to work past this, but I'm damn curious to >> know if it can be avoided entirely, e.g., if one of the "vga=ask" >> options might help out, or somesuch. > > The initscripts of modern distros all seem to reset the video mode > and/or font during boot. I suspect it's somethin

Re: Boot/console question.

2010-08-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've sometimes been able to work past video-related problems during startup by mentioning "nomodeset" on the kernel command line. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: First ManchLUG Meeting

2010-08-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
> For next month, I'd like to get a but more structure in place, Diet and exercise... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

2010-08-17 Thread Michael ODonnell
At least on my Debian box there's a "logkeys" package available that might serve if you can maybe find a way to tail its output in an on-screen window during your presentation. Here's a fragment of example output it captured while I was composing this email with vi as launched from exmh: 2010-

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> smart enough to look at who owns the associated socket, it should > work. Packets don't have owners, true, but a packet without a > socket is rather like the sound of one hand clapping... Yah, I had just been imagining the packet in the abstract, in flight, where such info isn't available. B

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
Interesting question. There's no notion of UID associated with an IP packet so once it's in transit it's not straightforward to know who "owns" it, unless maybe the network code happens to be executing (synchronously) on behalf of the restricted user (outbound only?) or maybe if the packet can

Re: Persistent connection to named pipe

2010-07-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> Interestingly, I'd played around with FIFOs some time ago, and >> there's a fine way to cheat: "tail -f". > >D'oh!!! It might be coming back to me now, why I didn't use the "tail -f" trick Way Back When; although it appears to work as expected with a FIFO on a CentOS5.4 box I have yet to see

Re: Persistent connection to named pipe

2010-07-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ken wrote: > Well... interesting. I wonder why cat acts that way. IIRC a read() of the FIFO when all data have been consumed and the writer has closed his end yields -1 with errno EAGAIN and most apps just call it quits at that point. > Interestingly, I'd played around with FIFOs some time ag

Persistent connection to named pipe

2010-07-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
Some years back I created a little FIFO-reader utility that can be used to relay data via a named pipe (FIFO) such that it keeps the output end of the FIFO open despite multiple opens/closes of the input end by one or more writers. This is necessary because the naive approach only works once, as

Re: Open Source in Russia ... lock-in

2010-07-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
> The devil will be in the details of the agreement, but > for the most point this seems like an agreement to make > some Russian bureaucrat "feel good". Maybe it's retaliation for that spy-ring currently in the news... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing lis

Re: [OT] movie trailer - .Net vs Java

2010-06-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I'm not particularly a fan of Java but this is still funny: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70 [...] > First time I've tried a YouTube video and gotten "please register". > Ouch. Didn't know they'd done that. Dang! I guess I didn't notice because I was already signed in for

[OT] movie trailer - .Net vs Java

2010-06-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm not particularly a fan of Java but this is still funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

screen blanking (was: Recommendations...)

2010-06-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Blanking can be a builtin function of your desktop, a separate screensaver app or maybe even your X server. Try connecting via SSH while the screen is blanked and use ps to see what's running to get an idea of likely suspects. Also, have a look in your X config file (probably /etc/X11/xorg.conf

PAE, i686 vs. x86_64 (was: Recommendations)

2010-06-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> 32-bit apps run fine in a 64-bit Linux OS, and in many cases better > since the OS can manage memory a bit more efficiently. The downside > is that you need to install the required 32-bit libraries too. > So far, I have not seen a 32-bit application that could not run on > a 64-bit Linux OS.

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Processes can potentially indirectly access more than 4 GiB of RAM > by using memory windowing/bank swapping/etc. This would be similar > to "Expanded Memory" from the days of the 8086. Reserve some > range of process-addressable memory. A special library/system > call exchanges that block o

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
> The Linux 32-bit kernel supports PAE (the extension that allows > access to more than 3GB RAM). Actually, PAE is an MMU feature providing an additional 4 bits of physical address to be specified in the page table entries; this allows the kernel to rig the page tables such that they can addre

Re: SCO loses, Novell wins finally

2010-06-11 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Hopefully someone soon will put a stake through their heart, cut > their head off, fill their mouth with garlic, put silver coins > on their eyes, then burn them, cover them in holy water, and dump > the ashes into a volcano. What about H-bombs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu

[OT] - toughestDeveloperPuzzleEver(2)

2010-06-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2 I started noodling with the second one but haven't ever looked at the first, yet: http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/begin/ I'm at level 7 out of 100 and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever make it to level 8. Quite a few people have

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Does anyone know of a site that catalogs or compares Wiki software? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wikis ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Howto: Repackage a library with only the routines of interest?

2010-06-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
> ar d to delete modules? > ar x to extract Gaack! You guys have been saying "library" right along and my distracted brain kept translating that to "object" ie. a monolith. But you're right, of course - if he's linking against an ar archive he should be able to pick it apart using ar. And if

Re: Howto: Repackage a library with only the routines of interest?

2010-06-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
While doing the reverse of what you're asking (ie. combining multiple objects into a single object with mutual references resolved) is common, the information necessary to uncombine them is generally lost in the process, so your best bet would (as others have said) probably be to modify the build

Re: OpenCV any Users on List?

2010-05-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
> wrote: >> OpenCV appears to require a good C++ background, >> which I don't have now. ... Any advice? > > Tell your employer you need some C++ training in order to do your > job effectively. > > Or if you're afraid they'll terminate you and hire someone else, > seek learning on your own time an

Re: network monitoring of firewalled/NAT'd systems

2010-05-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
I wrote: >We want to monitor (from a central server at HQ) the health and >performance status of multiple machines [mostly Windows >-( ] at >each of multiple customer sites despite them being NAT'd/firewalled. ...and then mentioned a bunch of features we're dreaming about. A more specific quest

Re: [OT] CableInside possible spam/scam?

2010-05-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Is this the one where they execute a man-in-the-middle attack on the economy? Hello, Kindest warm greetings and felicitations; you have not previously been knowing me but I was the personal assistant of Ben Bernanke and I need your help in extracting a large sum of money from the Broadband St

Re: CableInside possible spam/scam? (was: Purchase order # CII0675)

2010-05-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
What fun! Let us know what you find out. And you're apparently not the first: http://radialmonster.com/blog/archives/2009/07/06/332/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-di

network monitoring of firewalled/NAT'd systems

2010-05-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
We want to monitor (from a central server at HQ) the health and performance status of multiple machines [mostly Windows >-( ] at each of multiple customer sites despite them being NAT'd/firewalled. We assume all the remote systems will be able to initiate outbound connections through whatever pro

[OT] programming jargon

2010-05-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
OT but likely amusing to many on this channel: http://www.globalnerdy.com/2010/05/09/new-programming-jargon/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: YAC linking Problem

2010-05-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
Try running your compile command with -v so it announces what it's doing and then use readelf & grep to verify that the symbol in question is defined/resolved in the objects you expect. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org htt

pages won't load when Firefox AdBlock/NoScript active (was:Looking to Hire...)

2010-05-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ben wrote: > Here's a direct link to the content of the job listing: > >http://www2.autoliv.com/appl_alv/hr_pers/jobpostingus.nsf/lookupjobsid/9EEDD6F9A59CC2338625771400725466 Ah. I was thinking of mentioning that same URL but thought part of might be session-specific glop. > The page seems

Re: [Job] Looking to Hire: Embedded Software Engineer

2010-05-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Synopsis of Position, for official description, please use this link: (grumble) yet another site that, like YouTube, seems to be unwilling to load if Firefox's AdBlock extension is active even though I don't see any actual ads on it... In any case, no need to apologize - such postings are com

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
An update, FWIW: I created an entry (4265) in the CentOS bug database for that NFS problem and they pushed back saying I needed to reproduce it with the latest bits instead of the slightly (6 mo) stale stuff we're using. Fair enough; unfortunately, I was able to do so and need to update them with

[semi-OT] OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

2010-04-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I have my GPS on all the time, even when I don't need directions. I just have a humble little unhacked Mio C320 but was pleased to discover an unexpected benefit while driving some twisty Appalachian mountain roads at night in the fog. I usually have it rigged HUD-style (more or less the view

Re: [OT] - April 21, 2010 = Centenial of Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemen's death

2010-04-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
> If he were alive today, I am sure he would use Linux. It's more likely that he'd be screaming and clawing desperately at the lid of his coffin. ;-> Clemens was good friends with Nikola Tesla, also admirable. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhl

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> One thing I don't like about your setup is that you have 2 different >> machines serving NFS directories to each other. > > Explain, please. The motivation in our situation (at least > historically) is that although all our machines potentially need > access to the entire collection of files

Re: [OT] Postal services (was: better Internet)

2010-04-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Be federal law, anyone competing with the USPS must charge 3x what > their charging, no exceptions. I can't find anything on the Intertubes to support that assertion and it has a very Snopes-worthy whiff about it. Can you substantiate? ___ gnhlug-

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Are systems A, B, and C all using the same RPM versions for NFS > and RPC? Yes. All systems start out running bit-for-bit identical system images (currently based on CentOS5.4) and only differ in which of our apps and configs are loaded. ___ gnhlug

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
Kevin Clark wrote: > One thing that I've done to help me understand what is going on > is to rigorously go through each packet (sent and received) and > verify that what got sent is the same as what got received Do you mean that you're working with two capture files generated on the machines at

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-03 Thread Michael ODonnell
> One thing I don't like about your setup is that you have 2 different > machines serving NFS directories to each other. Explain, please. The motivation in our situation (at least historically) is that although all our machines potentially need access to the entire collection of files used by o

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Where/how are you running Wireshark? I would suggest running it > on the NFS client, on the NFS server, and on a third computer > monitoring the link. I'm capturing dumps of Enet traffic on the client and server boxes at a remote customer site thus: dumpcap -i eth0 -w /tmp/`hostname`.pcap

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
> The client isn't seeing the replies? Blame the router, blame > the router! Heh. I'd love to, and I just acquired a brand new switch to use as an experimental replacement for the one currently deployed. I'll be ecstatic if that fixes thing, though I'm not optimistic. I don't really trust my

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I don't suppose things are breaking at about the same time > all of the machines renew their DHCP leases, are they? Each has a statically assigned address - no DHCP in play. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
Oops. I wrote: >So, if I'm reading these tea leaves properly it's as >if that lost the ability to recognize the reply to that request. [?!] ...but meant to say, "[...]it's as if that client lost the ability[...]" >But, then, how could it be that all 3 machines seem to get into this >state at

NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've run out of clues (EBRAINTOOSMALL) trying to solve an NFS puzzle and could use some help getting unstuck. Analysis is awkward because the customers in question are trying to make what use they can of the machines even as these problems are ocurring around them, so reboots and other dramatic a

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

2010-03-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
> And, no, it's unnecessary to open the server to everyone. There are > a number of host or cookie based means to limit who can connect. Right, I didn't mean that you needed to operate without authentication, just that if you leave the server's default 'nolisten tcp' behavior in effect you'll n

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

2010-03-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
> It's still overkill to force X11 through the encrypted pipe. My understanding of X leads me to believe that as long as your clients can authenticate themselves to the server (and you've rigged your server such that it's willing to talk to anybody, local or remote, who can open a socket to it)

Re: Really old /proc weirdness?

2010-03-11 Thread Michael ODonnell
> your /proc weirdness, if triviata of that detail is significant to > your system reproduction, I'd probably break down, blow away the > (non-boot) files on the new server, tar everything over from the > old one, and re-ip/re-hostname. If exact (warts and all) reproduction of the existing syste

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
In finest NIH form we could deal with the scrubber/patrol terminology question by inventing a new acronym. How about "GRIDLEBYRF" for Gratuitous Reads Intended to Detect Latent Errors Before You're Royally Fscked ? FWIW, back around 2003 I wrote such logic for an early release of MD on Red Hat

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
I executed commands as they would have been during the cron.weekly run and I can now see why our simple monitor script would conclude the RAID had a problem based on the resultant contents of /proc/mdstat. During the "check" operation the RAID state is described as "clean, resyncing" by mdadm an

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ruh-rohhh >/var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing >RAID array md0 >/var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing >RAID array md3 >/var/log/messages.1: Feb 14 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing >RAID arra

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody else running CentOS5.x (or RHAT equiv?) care to share the results from this command: grep -i sync /var/log/* | fgrep -i raid It looks like the RAIDs on at least seven of our (mostly stock) CentOS5.4 systems are routinely getting broken and going through a resync operation on a weekl

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
> From the horse's mouth: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405919#41 I think I posted that same link (the incorrect Beatles quote looks familiar) when this thread was last active and IIRC we agreed that although it was somewhat comforting that the author believed there was no

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